#Fanfic Talk

[abyssalshriek]

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[galaxyspeaking]

Do you think that Viktor’s fangs are coated in some sort of venom to keep his prey somewhat subdued/not feeling the whole pain of a neck puncture wound? Or is Jayce just a freak

Hi anon! So his fangs aren't coated in anything. While he possesses some kind of persuasive tone to keep his victims relaxed before biting them, the reason they immediately panic when he does is because pain sends a spike of adrenaline through their bodies.

To answer your question, here's a snippet of Jayce's pov for the exact moment Vitkor bites him. So. Yes. He is just a freak lmao

[mouseonamoose]

The fic I'm working on right now has as its POV character an absolute gremlin of a young woman, a real piece of work, just such a weirdo in every way, and I love her with all my heart.

[ladyriot]

Thanks for the tag @clintbeifong

I watch enough Ellen Brock to already know the answer I was going to get.

The only thing that surprises me is by how slim a margin.

Tags: @release-the-sheep @thescullyphile @doomsday-dj @indelibleevidence

What type of writer are you?

Tagged by @mistresslrigtar 😊

I am actually laughing because never in my life would I ever describe myself as intuitive or a pantser, but I guess when you write with minimal outlining and a whole lot of ~vibes~ this is what you get 😂

I don't know who to tag 😬😬 @daemosdaen have you done it? Maybe @waythroughtheice too if you're up for it.

[desired-misery]

Okay, but now consider Leon teasing Chris about a month later after being stabbed.

First, Leon tries to show up to the BSAA headquarters with a gift or something, but security flips out because Leon is wearing a heart monitor under his suit (lol, that's very suspicious to security for understandable reasons).

Chris, absolutely amazed and baffled that Leon is healthy enough to roam around. And then realizing that no, Leon isn't retired. He is just on leave, he is expected to go back to work in a few months.

Leon then making a joke about "why are you surprised? Do you not have a custom-made set of organs waiting for transplants for situations like this?"

And one of Chris' new team members thinking Leon is being serious. Leon thinks that is hilarious, but meanwhile Chris and Piers are looking at each other like "very funny, but seriously how the FUCK did they fix you??? You had a knife in your HEART???!"

Leon, way too seriously: "You think the government would let me get out of work that easily?"

But everyone thinking Leon is being deadpan.

[185northgower]

The 🫐 and 🫃under the "Knock Him Up November" post?? M'am should we be expecting something?? 😉😉

👀👀👀

He called his mother, who told him to go to the pharmacy if he didn’t feel better soon. He slowly started feeling better, and by evening he had almost forgotten about the nausea he’d felt that morning.

By the next morning however, it had returned. Nace went to the pharmacy, and came back with tablets that seemed to help. Until it came back again the following morning.

When he called his mother again she got quiet for a moment before passing him to his father.

What followed may have been one of the most embarrassing phone calls of his life.

This sounds like there’ll be plot in this but in reality it’s baaaaasically just some pwp 🥰🥰

This was supposed to be out on the (checks date and cringes) 27th of October (as part of our (@madrabit BoJance kinktober) buuut that ship (pun intended) has sailed so… it’ll be out whenever we finally get on with it 😬😬

I could be convinced to share another snip of this or some other fics tho, if anyone is interested

[yummygender]

I love it when writers on reader x Loki fanfics with the relationship already there, makes Y/N essentially wearing the pants in the relationship.

A Y/N that’ll protect Loki no matter what.

A Y/N that is the definition of ‘Hel hath no fury like a woman scorned’.

A Y/N that even LOKI can get scared of sometimes.

Love it.

It’s my bread and butter of fanfics.

You put in a scene of a deranged Y/N flailing around and cussing at Thanos while Loki is holding her back.

��Easssyyy Love, h-he didn’t meant it…”

“LIKE HEL HE DID!!!!”

Love that.

I need that shit.

[creamupuffuu]

Petitions for writers to start putting their TW's in the hastags instead of just the fic. I'm so tired of seeing non-con, stepcest, and dark! fanfics on my feed, they piss me tf off and make me uncomfortable 😭 especially when I have these specific tags blocked. Blocking creators is even starting to get annoying 💀 I block one author to avoid this and another one pops up-

[ladyriot]

What are some au’s or prompts that you’d love to read for rizzles but have no desire to write.

I love an AU. I am honestly impressed by so many of them.

I've said this before, but I'll say it again. Maura needs to be a judge in an AU. She literally said she wanted to be a judge that one time (and maybe I just also want to see some version of lawyer!Jane. I deserve it).

When it comes to rizzles in different professions, I think we also deserve to see Maura as a mechanic over and over and again. As femme as ever, too. Oil-stained high femme? I'm totally normal about that one.

I love different meeting AUs in general. Let them meet in all the contexts.

I'll probably never get around to this one (it's not a priority), but I have something in mind where they meet for the first time at the blood cottage.

Other prompts?

Pulling up my rizzles fics I'll never write list (y'all have free reign with any of these btw)

An exes-to-lovers rizzles fic where they break up over Hoyt stuff (you know the brand of Jane martyrdom) that gets complicated when that first copycat comes up and Jane feels the need to protect her.

A fic that takes place at Frankie's wedding. Jane and Maura have major friction because things went awry in Paris.

A(nother) post-Paris fic where Maura does the processing she meant to do in Paris alone in Boston in front of the Rizzolis (minus Jane) — avoids the Rizzolis, stops writing her book, brings strangers home, etc.

Just... cults...

Something about how MEAN Jane is to Maura when Maura gets her kidney out, although Maura has definitely sat through Jane being much worse when injured.

After Maura sees Jane's ring and breaks down, she has a little self-destructive fling with Frankie that comes to a striking halt with serious fallout when Jane sends the ring back and Maura suddenly can't fathom whatever it is she's doing with Frankie anymore.

[cautiouslyyyoptimistic]

While I do like a good shen bros fic in theory, I've also noticed that woobified characterizations of shen yuan tend to flock to those types of stories. Which leads to a very common scene were shen yuan will say something like "so sorry my brother is abusing you, but you must understand that he had a hard childhood😔😔" To luo binghe. Like, no. Even if it was a shen yuan pidw native au, I have trouble imagining he would be like that. I wouldn't say he would have the perfect reaction and response to the luo binghe situation but I don't think he would be like that. Just not my cup of tea personally, sorry.

Scenes like that always remind me of that one scene in the children's book series/tv show series of unfortunate events where an adult tells the beaudelaire children "its complicated. I know Sir can be prickly, but you have to understand, he had a very bad childhood."

To which klaus, one of the children, replies with "I understand. I'm having a very terrible childhood right now."

[one-fic-at-fennecs]

Bringin’ this here from Twitter to let everyone know I’m a Yumeship person

Someone asked if there were any yumes with nonhuman f/os and I took out one of many-

Also yea I hc that Flumpty’s Aromantic, mainly because I physically cannot imagine any universe where he would date

Does that contradict my Deviled fanfic? A little.. but I have good lore to that! Am I gonna say it now? No-

[galaxyspeaking]

Okay off topic question about your lovely vampire au, can Viktor do any sort of entrancement/hypnosis as a vampire? I’ve seen it on and off in media and am curious about it.

When is that EVER off topic anon! I would yap about this fic to anyone who would listen!!

The way I pictured him and tried to describe it in the story is kind of... he doesn't consciously subjugate, but his appearance and demeanor fascinates. It's kind of like. Staring at those pictures of black holes. You get sucked in (pun unintended), if that makes sense?

I was trying to do something fun for Viktor's vampirism like: he absolutely can walk in the sun, it's just that HE feels like he's constantly in the shade. He barely sees anything (kind of like bats?) and relies on sounds more than scents to guide himself because I liked the image of that, especially when Jayce is such a solar character. idk I was having a moment in my doc!!

[mouseonamoose]

I've been tinkering with attributes for a therapist who would fit into the Disco Elysium world. I can't imagine that anyone else would find this interesting, but I'm having a lot of fun with it.

In case anyone is interested, I've put them under the break. Suggestions and comments are welcomed.

Mirror: You can reflect back to another what you see in them, and you can shape an environment by doing so. Too much, and you’ll disappear into the other’s experience; too little, and you will be domineering or distant.

Academe: You’re well-educated, and there’s a diploma on the wall to prove it. Too much, and you won’t recognize the differences between theory and actuality; too little, and you won’t be able to make sense of what’s happening.

Practicum: You’ve got experience; you’re a trained professional. Too much, and you’ll become jaded; too little, and you’ll make mistakes.

Anima: Your wants, urges, and other drives, both physical and psychological. It is in closest contact with your electrochemical systems, which otherwise would be cut off from you. Too much, and you’ll be driven by desires you barely understand; too little, and you’ll struggle to meet your basic physiological needs.

Charm: You can get people to like you. You can make them feel comfortable, safe, and maybe other things, too. Too much, and you’ll come across as inauthentic; too little, and you’ll be off-putting. 

Élan vital: The will to live; Hope, which is many-clawed and unyielding. Too much will make you delusional; too little will make you liable to despair.

Guile: This world doesn’t grant authority to the likes of you, so you have found other ways to enforce your boundaries and get what you want. Too much, and others will find you untrustworthy, underhanded; too little, and you will be an easy target.

Other-Light: There are shadowy things, but not the kind that any flashlight can illuminate. Too much, and you’ll become one of those shadows; too little, and you’ll fail to see world’s true depths.

Other-World: Dreams are your domain; inhabit them at your own risk. Too much, and you’ll lose yourself in another’s inner world; too little, and you’ll never get to leave your own mind.

Conformity: It is safe, in the crowd. It is good to fit in. Too much, and you’ll be unnoticeable; too little, and you’ll be a laughingstock.

Style: Fashion is the sphere of self-presentation, individualization, and group identification. Too much makes you shallow; too little, and you won’t be able to present yourself successfully or understand others’ self-presentations.

Bon ton: Etiquette, manners, and comfort with class. Too much, and you’re a snob; too little, and you’re a rube.

Paperasserie: You can abide by it, you can ignore it, or you can cut through it. Regardless your methods, surviving within a bureaucracy requires knowing how to manage the red tape. Too much, and you’ll become a bureaucrat yourself; too little, and you won’t get anywhere.

Lockbox: Don’t worry about this one. Just leave it alone.

[desired-misery]

Currently considering what Chris thinks about religion/death/souls now that I've decided that Leon is firmly atheist (out of hatred and anger), and Piers thinks he is agnostic but realizes that no, actually he has no idea anymore.

In a world with zombies, how fucked up does people's ideas of death/eternal damnation/salvation/morality/souls get?

To be thematic with Chris' characterization, Chris is probably not very religious but believes in some rough concept of God and Heaven and Hell. But conceptually... what does he think of people who turn into BOWs? Have their souls moved on already? Or are they trapped, waiting for someone to 'free' them?

Chris seems like the type to NOT want to think about those complications. Just that when good people die, they can be happy in the afterlife and see the people who passed on before them. Maybe he doesn't so much believe in a hell, but some days he wishes he does because surely some people deserve to suffer for longer than they did on earth. (Chris generally doesn't struggle with the idea of his own morality because Chris firmly believes in what he is doing for much of his life-- religious/moral crisis seems to be a post RE8 thing for Chris).

Leon gave up on religion and god. He sees too much hatred, too much anger, too much violence to want to believe that there is a higher power that started this all, that holds people accountable. It is wishful thinking to believe that bad people get what's coming to them and that good people get what the earn. And besides, if there was heaven and hell? Leon knows he's not going anywhere pleasant. (Leon gets extremely skeptical/critical of religion during his depression/alcoholism era around Vendetta time period. He has killed too many people, almost died too many times. He really really fucking hopes death is nothing at all so he can finally have some fucking rest).

Piers is complicated. He is young, but not that young. I'm making his mother very religious. Piers strayed from religion in the army, finally let her know that he doesn't believe when he was living on his own. She is disappointed (and constantly trying to coax him back, out of love because she wants him to be saved), but for a while Piers doesn't think he is religious anymore... except he is. Just non-denominational. He realizes that he wants to believe that the people he knows will be there in heaven. Especially his fellow soldiers that die in combat-- that there is something peaceful waiting for them on the other side. (Talking to Leon when they all think Leon is on death's door made Piers realize just how firmly he still believes in some concept of an afterlife, especially because of how bothered and upset he gets when Leon insists there is nothing but the end of his own existence waiting for him if Leon bleeds out). Not to mention, Piers desperately wishing that if there is a heaven after all, that he is there waiting for his mom when she passes so that she won't be distraught when she gets there.