#I'm trying to write more and wanted to participate in WIP games as a method for achieving that

[captain-danwilds]

Completed Works

Last Updated 8/10/24

One Step Forward: Tumblr AO3 Winter exchange fic 2020 based off the prompt: “Andrew and Aaron talking and solving their problems”

I’ve been waiting so long (to feel like home) Tumblr AO3  RBB 2021 with the marvelous @mareofthesky  Her Artwork  Hospital AU, Travel Nurse!Neil, Physical Therapist!Andrew

Run Little Rabbit Poetry written in Sep 2020.

Too Broken for a Fox: Bullet Point Fic about Janie Smalls My obsession with minor characters reasserts itself. Follows Janie's recovery through AFTG timeline. Would take me very little to tempt me to turn this into a longer story or write prompts

[sunshine-in-a-bottle]

hi suds!!! can i ask what's up with untitled document number 4 and punz has a knife??

Lays down. Hi Lo. Did you know that I have So Many WIPS actually for my Dragon Age Dream au. It's so fucking bad I am actively drowning in ideas. That specific untitled document is supposed to be his chess game with Techno and they're going to TALK and have FEELINGS and BE FRIENDS and I struggled a bit to get a feel for Techno in this universe and what being him would Mean here, and I'm getting a clearer picture, but there were other parts of the au that needed to be written, so I decided to hold off on it before finishing. Plus writing Philza’s chapters helps a lot with worldbuilding on his end.

"Ah, cmon, Phil, now you're not even trying anymore." Dream perked up, slipping out the door and into the Skyhold gardens. He'd been here only twice since they had settled, but each time looked far cleaner than the last. It was thrilling, having progress be so visible. Tangible.  He let himself twirl, disguising it as observing his surroundings, before approaching the area where his Commander and Knight Enchanter sat. "I'm getting a little worn out, Techno; we've been playing for hours." "It's only been four games, Philza. I think you just don't want to lose again." "That's not it-" Philza groaned, before spotting Dream watching from a pillar. "Dream! You're here. You know how to play chess, right?" Dream eyed the chessboard. The pieces were incredibly fancy, gilded on a marble board. Techno's personal set? "I've played before." "Excellent. I've got some things to take care of in the kitchens today, so why don't you take over for me?" Philza was already out of his chair before Dream could answer, walking past to clap him on the shoulder.

THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING DON'T LOOK AT ME.

also.

PUNZ HAS A KNIFE IS THE COMMUNICATION KNIFE AU. I've been trying very hard to take all the pieces and Sif's help and suggestions and turn it into something that makes sense and I am trying Very Hard and Things Happen Sometimes and-

Punz has a knife. Punz has a lot of knives of course, for a lot of different reasons, but this one is particularly special. A short, gaudy thing, with a textured blue handle so he can always get a good grip on it. It’s kept in beautiful condition, with its blade sharp and sheathe easy to slide in and out of. There are no nicks on the blade, ensuring that each cut is neat and clean, and that any damage done will never be more than what Punz intends. On its handle, carefully engraved in gold, is the word ‘Communication.’ It is always kept close, whether on Punz’s hip or their toolbar, but its use has grown less frequent over time. Its existence holds a single purpose: to carve out boundaries when Sam’s self restraint cannot. If the word ‘no’ is not something that Sam will adhere to, then a blade in his shoulder will have to do. The language of violence is universal, after all. Rational, sane people might argue that a knife is not the best way to communicate boundaries in a relationship. However, none of the participating parties are rational or sane, so this opinion is irrelevant. Punz has taken risks by using lesser methods in the past, and he was done with taking risks; not when the cost was for Dream to pay. So he has a knife instead, and while that might not be for everyone, it's worked pretty well for them so far.

I feel so fucking scatterbrained just thinking about all the word I still have left to do I'm not going to lie, BUT WE WILL PRESEVERE

[amysnotdeadyet]

2023 in review

Just the fannish creations, thanks. I don't want to think too hard about how fucking weird and stressful the year was outside of that. XD

I found some old 00Q art hiding on my hard drive and posted it in Feb.

I wrote a short Inception ficlet for @ladyprydian in April to try to jumpstart my muses. It didn't work.

I binge-wrote a whole-ass Sandman fic with (gasp!) fade-to-black porn in it in May.

July brought the Stony games! I was much less prolific than last year, but I managed a few things, starting with 3 little drabbles about perception.

I did a giftfic for the games! It starts in media res and I, being a troll, titled it In Pornia Res because yeah, this one's just pure porn against a background of worldbuilding.

I posted a longstanding WIP that was 100% self-indulgent trash, with Tony and Steve getting Bucky as their new sugar baby and treating him them right. Absolutely just the fluffiest of trash, but 66K of it!

I posted another longstanding WIP that's really pre-slash (I KNOW so weird) but involves catboy Tony, catboy Bucky, and a puppy Steve who's gonna get both (after the fic anyway).

My last little Stony Games fill was 8-bit pixel porn, because of course it was.

Later in August I did the "write what you want to see" thing and banged out (heh) a very kinky Stranger Things fic with Steve/Eddie and a leather bar. Somehow, it's still extremely fluffy.

I drew! Fanart! With pens and shit! Also Steve/Eddie.

And then I made pixel art of them, because why not.

Another Steddie fic, this time a modern AU with 'lost touch' feelings and also banging the rockstar in his hotel room.

And finally, my MTH2021 fic is posting a year late, and will continue on into the new year. It's all done and edited, I just like the daily posting method for getting drip-fed dopamine and also sitting there posting 29 chapters at once is no bueno.

You can find all of this stuff here, so I'm not link-stuffing the post: https://archiveofourown.org/users/swtalmnd/works

What's Coming in 2024 (besides my blorbos)

I have a few more Stuckony WIPs waiting in the wings, including my MTH 2022 fic, which I hope to finish in time to actually participate in 2024.

I have at least 1 novel coming out and maybe 2? I didn't publish ANY original fiction last year (gah), but I finished 1 draft (the sequel to Hive) and am plodding along on 2 more (Julian 4 and something new). I am so slow these days, tho, gah. I have no idea how some people put out multiple books a year, year after year.

I've got a few more Eeveeon arts to share, which I always forget to do on Tumbls.

I might actually open commissions next year (for art, I don't enjoy fic commissions).

I'm gonna a Stuckony Valentine thing, so you'll get at least one short fic from me in Feb.

I'm hoping something new will sweep me into its fandomy arms, because while I do love my current blorbos (MCU & Stranger Things), neither one is really doing the full fixation dance in my brain and that's sad. OTOH I'd like to finish my MCU WIPs before that spark fully dies ahahaha haha ha.

As far as art goes, I'm keeping up my Patreon sketch cards and not a ton else, but my new-new meds are helping me Get Shit Done, so I'm really hoping that I can get back into larger-than-a-playing-card artwork, both fannish and non.

I'm still gonna do more of my 8-bit bullshit, though.

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

16, 30, and 75??

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

Okay, so I have the final chapter of Gravity Well vibrating in my head and the entire rest of The Stars screaming at me to fucking get on with it already, but I also have a Mummy AU that I talked about before, and then a very little mostly visual idea I chatted about with one of my mutuals where Anakin is MENA and Padme is Mongolian. In a more interesting timeline....

There's also a little seed of an idea for a one-shot sequel to Sweater Weather where Din and Grogu meets Luke's family and that would end with Din half-joking about taking Luke to Mandalore, but I don't know if anything will come of that. Guess we'll see when actual sweater weather swings around my neck of the woods again.

30. Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until it’s all polished?

I used to post WIPs and they weren't all that edited either, but I had a few formative experiences that made me go the "don't post until polished" route. One was readers at FFN getting fuck-off angry that I took down a Transformers WIP because I was going to rewrite and polish the story. I never posted it back up. I'm so mad I didn't because now the only copies I have left of that fic are oooooooooold word docs and text files, and they're incomplete. Another was just... the sheer number of abandoned WIPs because I didn't plot well and wrote myself into walls. It was really discouraging and I got used to expecting myself to fail whenever I started a longfic. Then I really got into the habit of participating in NaNo every year, and the NaNo method of writing balls to the wall, like you're running out of time, until you hit the end of Nov. 30th. really changed the game for me. Like, oh, I should just writewritewrite until I reach the end, and now I have all this time to go back and see what I can cut out, what I can add, what I can do to put out a finished product.

I think the finest exampe and experience I had with that method was The Storm. It was originally a lot shorter because I was in such a hurry to finish this story that wouldn't leave my ass alone and I really wanted to get the fic out there while the dinluke ship and fandom were starting to take off, but when I was going over what I wrote, I realized that the story was missing time and I needed to create more time for these characters to sit in their heads, listening to the rain and to each other, and to get to know each other better. So I wrote in enough scenes to add a new chapter and create a story with a much better tempo and pace, and that story gave me a massive fic series for the ship. What the fuck.

75. What scene in [Fanfic Name] took the longest to write? What was difficult about it? 

Umm.... not sure which fic we're talking about here. But like, just assume that either all the scenes in the chapter after the story's climax or all the scenes in the last chapter of a story take the longest to write. They always do. Coming down from the high of a story's climax (lol) or tying up every loose thread that needs tying up to finish a story is just insanely hard to do. I'm trying to wrap up Gravity Well right now AND I AM STRUGGLING. I've also been working tons of overtime while living in an environment where I can't ever relax, so it's a struggle and a fight to write everything down and feel satisfied.

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