#I have no title yet but I'm working on it

[sauronduilarchive]

HELP

This is so true because

I have this one ongoing fic (not posted yet) and its titled "beyond the long river shall i sanctify the golden depths of your admirable flame" and it has a poetic meaning as it translates to: I, Thranduil, shall cleanse/purify the golden depths of your [Sauron's] ëalar

Thranduil's name holds two meanings for me: "vigorous (tharan) spring (duil)" which is the canon one and another from that theory or speculation that his name came from the Great River Anduin "to go beyond/across (thar)" and "long river (anduil)"

But that won't make sense since he was born during the First Age, though I still like the idea and its connection so I included it in the title.

Mairon, on the other hand means "the admirable" while Sauron means "the abhorred" so I thought that it would make sense that Thranduil is referring to Mairon's admirable golden ëalar even if he's still addressing Sauron.

But then it's a one-shot fic I planned and written 2 years ago with over 30k words because I have no self control

And recently, I'm working on a serious fic split into two parts, full of worldbuilding, spanning from the end of the War of the Ring to Dagor Dagorath. It is not an AU, but a futuristic fic as Tolkien intended his works to be some sort of pre-historic mythology. Book 1 will tackle how evil prevailed even after Sauron's defeat since the song Melkor weaved during Ainulindalë became part of the creation of Eä until the end of the world.

And do you know what it is titled?

Reach

fanfic titles be like “we have not touched the stars (nor are we forgiven)” and then you look at the tags & the first one is “anal fisting”

[john-laurens]

The South Carolina Historical Society puts on an annual winter lecture series, and the theme this year is "Untold Stories of the American Revolution." The first lecture of the series will be "Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh" presented by John G. McCurdy on February 11, 2025. This lecture speaks right to my special interests, and I'm sure many of you would be interested in attending the lecture too. You can register for this lecture and other lectures in the series here (both in-person and livestream options available). Other lectures in the series include "The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary Carolina," "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom," and "Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence." It's certainly a great lineup of topics and speakers this year!

Surprisingly, I had never heard of John McCurdy or his works prior to this lecture announcement. It appears that his lecture will be based on his recent book of the same name. I've just started reading the book myself and have been enjoying it so far. It is interesting and refreshing to see a discussion of queer history so specifically framed in the context of the American Revolution. John McCurdy previously talked about this book at the Museum of the American Revolution, and you can watch that presentation here. He has a few other publications, including a book titled Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States. I've picked this one up as well but haven't had the chance to read it yet. I'm certainly excited to have found some new books that discuss sexuality and gender in late 18th century America.

[gloomybadger4life]

2025 Writing goals master post.

ATLA fics:

Ongoing:

- For every sunrise:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61478299/chapters/157160176

My current longfic project. Trying new things with Sokkla.

Planned and not yet published. (Titles may change)

- Azula, Jasmine, and Dragons: Azula's journey from taking in an orphaned girl, to becoming the best momzula she can. With the help of friends, old and new.

- From the soil we blossom: Katara and Zuko's journey, from friends to lovers.

- Rebuilding the air nation: A grave misunderstanding has Azula thinking her fate is sealed. Aang tries his best to work with her despite her apprehension. (azulaang endgame)

- Steel under the southern lights: Mai's diplomatic duties take her to the southern water tribe. A chance encounter during her throwing practice leads her to meet a shy and sweet warrior. (oc by @wingchunwaterbender )

LoK fics:

Planned. (Titles may change)

- The road to you was never straight: Korra and Asami fall in love. Street racer / Gearhead AU. It will get nerdy and technical.

- The pact of duty: Kya, Lin, and Izumi had a promise, once their duties to the world are done, they will meet and give things a chance.

..........

Tag time!

@chaosmagetwin @ziezii @stardust948 @krista-kritical @local-enby @wingchunwaterbender @rizzless-trans-guy @fairielux @hikaruthestar @unstableomni @soyunmago

Pls note I'm open to requests.

I also have some fics planned in spanish.

[kasaru-chan]

So about my older Maxley! Fake dating AU...

So I'm all finished with the first draft of the first chapter and currently editing it while working on the second.

If possible I would like to have a beta look it over for grammatical mistakes, and tone inconsistencies. (Also to just listen to my mad ramblings about where I want this fic to go if that makes sense)

Here's the summary:

Bradley Uppercrust the 3rd is well on his way to success. At 27 he is all lined up to take over his dad's business, marry a beautiful woman and live his supposed happily ever after.

But one night of weakness and a well timed photograph at a gay club threatens to undo everything he's worked for and get him permanently kicked out of the cushy lifestyle he's grown accustomed.

Rather than hide away, his publicist suggests leaning in. To play the part of a gay male in a starcrossed romance helplessly forced to be straight by his homophobic father and in turn get the public on his side.

But who on earth could play the Romeo to his tragic Juliet. Certainly not the up and coming pro skater that Bradley was rivals with in college... right?

[dollya-robinprotector]

Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky~

Inspired from This post of @just-dol-headshots and this ask from @hakusins. Don't worry I'm still aiming for your ass Haku-Dean :) References and something under the cut

We all have to agree Bully Robin should have some softer and caring sides. When there's only them two and no one else is around to judge, he can let loose and slip back into that kinda of "Original Robin" we know and I love. I mean, that's what JDOLH made that got me into these swap messes from the beginning jsjkhskjhd you knowww the HUG!!

Reference: Barbie Girl (Aqua) and this cute ecchi Clamp Chobit piece

All in all I'm a pink bietch and Dollya won't be losing her V-card anytime soon that I can promise so hang in there okay mr.Bully.

edit: OMG THIS IS MY 1000TH POST TTOTT)) JKSDJLASKJKDLA

SELF-INDULGENT HERE WE GO

[austin-friars]

'Ophelia' Wip

[yujeong]

Me being totally normal: I can surely figure out what page he's at if I stare at it for too long

Also me, staring at it for too long: Wait...is he reading....the foreword...? I can't believe it took me this long to realize Vegas is reading the first page here. It might not even be the foreword, it might be info about the author, it's so funny. But don't worry, the good news is that he's actually reading the book in this scene:

which, of course, you can make the claim that beforehand, he was not in a good mental state (Vegas? not being mentally well? No fucking way right?) so he was trying to distract himself from whatever the fuck the whole thing he's doing at the safehouse is, but after him and Pete talk and bond and all of that good stuff, his mind can focus and actually read the damn book. Sidenote Because I'm a bit insane and very committed in finding things to obsess over with my hyperfixations, I estimated the possible percentage of the book he might be currently at, then went to the appropriate page and found this line there: "He felt very gay and light-headed, and quite forty years younger, as he walked to the door."

I swear to God, it was there, and I laughed so hard they must have heard me over in Thailand.

[sentientcave]

Mood board for my latest project. Little bit of it below the cut.

You eat the lunch you packed and pull off your sweater, the noon sun warming you up enough to not need it, at least for the moment. You putt along to a new spot and try fishing again, this time catching three good sized fish. Surprising, considering the time of day, but sometimes you get lucky. You're thinking about heading back home when you spot a flash of white under the water.

You grab your camera, determined to be ready. And then a grey shape launches out of the water and into your boat, nearly capsizing it. The white orca sluices through the water next to your boat a moment later, regarding you disdainfully with one bloodshot eye. He flicks his tail as he dives again, soaking you and your passenger.

Your seal friend makes himself comfortable at the prow of the boat, entirely too pleased with himself.

"You're on thin ice, mister!" You tell him, turning back the way you'd come. Thanks to him you missed your photo and nearly went for a swim in deep water. You're pretty sure he couldn't help you out of that situation even if he wanted to, especially with a hunter swimming just below. You certainly don't want four inch teeth biting you in half.

Of course, you don't want to see your friend get eaten in front of you either. You know its the way of the ocean, but he's your little buddy.

The white orca cuts across your path again. You stop your engine, heart hammering, and grab your camera. He disappears into the depths for a moment, and then jumps a little ways away. If you didn’t know better, you’d say he was showing off. You get several quick snaps that you know will be gorgeous— Water droplets catching the sun, his ghostly white body stark against the backdrop of the dark ocean. You grin at the seal, and yelp when something thumps the bottom of your boat, rocking it harshly.

Then the white orca (he needs a name, so you land on Ghost) surfaces next to you, terrifyingly close, and spits water at the seal.

“Holy shit,” you breathe, adjusting your lens for the close contact, camera shutter clicking away as you shoot pictures. Ghost eyes you, and then spits water a second time. The seal looks deeply offended, but not concerned, even with his hunter bobbing in the water a few feet away. “Aren’t you a pretty boy.”

He is pretty. A juvenile, maybe, now that you see him up close— He’s a bit small for an orca, but he’s all alone out here, no pod to speak of, and a juvenile wouldn’t survive on it’s own. As if he can hear your compliment, he creaks at you.

The seal barks back. He seems offended by Ghost’s presence. Understandable, since Ghost was trying to eat him earlier. You get a few funny snaps of the two of them regarding each other over the rim of the boat, having a conversation that you have no way of understanding. You feel a bit insane. A bit like you’re going to wake up laying in the bottom of your boat any minute, and this will all be a funny dream.

[luins]

another snippet hehe (because this is all i've been able to think about all day)

By the time Eddie comes home, Buck has somewhat recovered. Well, not really. The heavy pit in his stomach is still very much present, but he’s able to push it aside for the moment when he notices the headlights of Eddie’s truck flash through the windows. 

He’s already holding his bag when Eddie steps through the front door. He smiles at Buck, that blinding happy smile that shows off his sharp canines, but it quickly falters when he realises what Buck is doing. 

“You’re heading out?” he asks, sounding… almost sad. As if Buck wasn’t feeling bad enough already. 

“Yeah, sorry. I’m ah- Not feeling too hot,” Buck says. It’s not really a lie. His skin feels like it was put on wrong and dinner is sitting heavy in his stomach. 

Eddie’s expression shifts from sad to worried. “You are looking a little pale.” He steps forward, reaching out his hand, which Buck tracks with wide eyes, wondering what is happening. He almost flinches when Eddie puts the pack of it against his forehead. The crease between his brows flattens out a little. “Doesn’t seem like you have a fever, though.” 

Buck doesn’t answer. The only thing he is capable of is stare dumbly with his heart pounding wildly in his chest. Eddie doesn’t seem to mind. He gives him a comforting smile and then moves his hand to the side of Buck’s neck, gently stroking the sensitive skin there with his thumb. Buck feels like he’s about to pass out. Maybe he does have a fever. This seems a little like a fever dream. 

“You could stay,” Eddie says. His hand is still on Buck’s neck. He hesitates for a moment, like he’s gathering courage to say his next words. “Let me take care of you.” 

Once again, Buck feels off-kilter, but for an entirely different reason. 

“Nah, it’s fine. I just need a good night’s sleep and I won’t get that on your couch,” he manages to say with an awkward laugh. 

Eddie furrows his brow again. “I wouldn’t make you sleep on the couch, Buck.” There’s a rosy blush to his cheeks again. 

Now it’s Buck’s turn to furrow his brow. He really does feel sick now as he brings himself to ask, “How would your boyfriend feel about that?” 

Eddie, to his credit, looks just as confused as Buck is feeling right now. He pulls away his hand, Buck once again tracks the movement, and lets it fall uselessly to his side. “I- what? I don’t know. How would my boyfriend feel about that?”

He’s looking at Buck like he knows the answer.

[lauronk]

can i make a fic about jellyfish just as long as a fic about plants?

well i'm sure as shit gonna try

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[shiroselia]

I think it says everything you need to know about me as a title maker and writer that my favourite title I've done for Squirrel Punt so far is "Pry Your Heart Open With A Knife"

[perpetualexistence]

*looks at how 307 words in the first sea monster post has transformed into 1288 words in the one-shot when I've just hit the halfway mark plot-wise and am still on the first draft*

...Yeah, I think choosing to make the other ones AU posts was the correct decision.

[sleepinglionhearts]

Man, just saw a post about it, but renewed my frustration over work nonsense yesterday

Being like, oh, cool! It's disability pride month! We get to switch the displays in the store! I wanna make a really cool display right up front!!

Getting a cart to go start selecting books from our wide array of children's books, picture books, YA novels, adult fiction, nonfiction, etc that I know feature disabled characters and people and that I've seen sitting on the shelves for a while, our previous book buyer was always suuuuuper vocal about finding books w disabled characters, after all, representation just MATTERED SO MUCH to her,

And then being absolutely dumbfounded when we BARELY HAVE ANYTHING outside of characters w ADHD/Autism. MAYBE anxiety. PERHAPS a character has cancer. THE FAINTEST SUGGESTION of a wheelchair in one book. Huntington's? Question mark? In another? Conditions resulting in disfigurement/amputation? The concept could possibly exist in this book, uhh.. maybe...... anything else? Ha! Not on these shelves I fucking guess?!

Like.... we have a ton of books w queer rep! Different body types! Different skin tones! Teach your toddler about social justice! Transgender characters! Nonbinary characters! The alphabet but we're making it gay! At least one book, I think, with asexual characters! But no, we don't have our self-empowerment books anymore or the little guide to sexuality and disability, we have Buddhist monk advice for anxious people, but nooooo we DON'T have that cool book that talked about disability activism anymore, and definitely not in time for July!

I know she and I were at odds before she left, and I know my specifically putting "National month of..." prompts up on my desk calendar after she expressed it was "so difficult to find out what each month is the month of!" probably really irritated her, but I'm like. Appalled that she hadn't been ordering to restock for disability pride month since she always made such a big deal about having books like that in the store.

[hyperpotamianarch]

All right. So, I had another PJO character essay in relation to my Bianca fic baking on my mind ever since the last one, so I guess I'll do it. This time, I wish to talk about King Minos.

King Minos is pretty much a straight-forward character: he's dead, he wants to come back to life through killing his bitter enemy. Sure, he'll scheme and backstab to achieve this goal, but this is pretty much his only motive. Well, aside from his weird sense of ownership over the Labyrinth.

His way to achieve his goal initially is manipulating Nico into trading a life for a life, then hijacking the process and reviving himself. Technically we don't know if he always intended to sell him to the Titan army, as that could be a last resort due to Nico losing his motivation for even attempting the trade.

In our alternative universe, though, he has the problem that Nico's motive is too fragile to begin with, as his sister is still alive even if he isn't aware of it. It's plausible that Minos is aware that Bianca is alive as a judge of the Underworld, in addition to the fact she's in "his" Labyrinth. Which leads us to the questions: why Nico? And could Minos potentially want to manipulate Bianca instead in this AU?

Well, Nico and Bianca certainly share parentage, which might be relevant. While we're told that trading a life for a life is possible, we're not told that it's possible for everyone. It's not impossible that it's essentially a special request from Hades ("you cannot offer your father a soul that will come to him eventually regardless. Besides, he is not keen on hastening his own son's death", roughly retranslated because I don't have the English version). At the very least, Hades needs to approve of the exchange - to a degree, as Minos still thinks he can cheat and be ressurrected himself. If that's th reason Minos stuck up with Nico then supposedly Bianca will fit him just as well.

But of coursse, that's not the case, is it. Nico has a couple of other parameters that make him more susceptible to manipulation: he's younger and he has someone he wants to ressurrect. We also don't know what Bianca's powers are, and it's not impossible that Nico, King of Ghosts, is actually more powerful than her - which jus makes him a better cunduit for Minos' ressurrection, if true. But we don't know anything about power levels and their relevance, and regarding Nico's young age and drive to attempt the trade - well, Bianca's amnesiac in my story. If Minos would succeeed in convincing her that Nico is dead, he could possibly drive her to doing what he wants... maybe. We really don't know if Bianca would've done such a thing to Nico. Maybe so, maybe not. And I kind of get to decide. But to be honest, Nico is already a step closer than her, so he'll be Minos' first choice.

So, what I think would happen is Minos will do his best to keep Bianca away from Nico. And since I need someone to direct Bianca somehow, I just might give this role to Minos. We'll see about that.

There are quite a few things further down the line that make it problematic, though. I don't know, for example, how Minos might be able to avoid Having Nico summon his sister. In addition, without the Iris-net messages... How would Annabeth and Percy (and Grover and Tyson) react to meeting Nico? Would they still attempt to convince him to give up on ressurrecting Bianca? Would they have a chance of success without being able to talk to Bianca herself?

I also have a slight problem with Minos I wish to address. Namely, the fact that after all that, after literally selling his boss' child to the Titans, he's still a judge in the Underworld! Guys, he literally supported a rebellion/the other side of a war. And he's kept as a judge? People like that are generally thrown to Tartarus and given appropriate punishment in accordance to their sin. Why in Hades would they let this guy stay a judge?

(I do have a weird excuse about how there might be two Minos spirits, one that is his immortal side from Zeus who gets to judge people and one who is actually a mortal ghost that didn't cross the Styx due to not having a coin and is now a restless dead watching over the Maze. However, that is a crack theory and makes as much sense as the theory I just invented about Kronos causing the regeneration of monsters by being cut to pieces in Tartarus: both are uncontradictable by canon, but neither is likely to be true.)

Thank you for reading, and have a good day!

[beneathsilverstars]

was thinking about a wip fic i started reading recently and went "ooh i can't wait for the next update i wonder how much longer it'll beee" and then realized that i have been. ignoring my ao3 emails for several months bc i'm annoyed that i can't instantly recognize the fic author/titles yet (which is a self-fulfilling prophecy). so it could'vE ALREADY UPDATED!! and i can't even go check bc i don't remember the author/title -_-