#Is It Fortune or Is It Woe

[imberlae]

[fizzytoo]

THIS MANHWA OOOH THESE BITCHES ARE TESTING ME FR

[angstandhappiness]

Cute

TROPE: "I transmigrated as a Villainess in a novel but I acted differently and now the Male leads are in love with me?!"

MANHWAS:

• When the Villainess Is In Love

• This Villainess Wants a Divorce!

• The Villainess is a Marionette

• Empress? Empress!

• For Better or For Worse

• The Villainous Violet

[bearinarockingchair]

gift giving

The inside of my head when trying to decide what to give someone and have short deadline

[zanahoriabaila]

ch111-112: *whimper* ahhhh, please communicaaate.... “what would a gentleman...” Oh... OOHHHHH... MY MAN WENT OFFF!!! “Desperation” *whoop!* God, I love how the faces are drawn, how they convey the understanding in Dillon at this moment. I CAN’T GET HOW WONDERFULLY WHOLESOME THIS STORY IS. Also, it’s freaking hilarius, all he says is like the other side of the coin from the previous iteration. Both fools indeed.

[i3love0yandere0male0leads]

I forgot I will also right for the webtoon, "Is it fortune or is it woe"

[xitsensunmoon]

Secret Skeleton for @sanchensky

I was trying to go for the classic cozy autumn vibe for this one<3

Wonderful designs and au belong to @pure-plum (@weal-and-woe)

[needanaccount2readarcaneposts]

hear me out

[beck-nightengale]

I'm happy to report that I was able to successfully recover Esme's cute headband + hairfeathers from the vanilla game for the Women of Enderal replacer I use.

Plus some of my additional custom tweaks so I could make her look how I want her to.

This mod has the original hairband and hairfeathers that I thought looked just as good for her. The kind I'm using has physics, which I love.

[exitvelocities]

2024 fic year in review

total number of completed stories: 12 published on ao3, including approximately 30 fic meme fills. total word count: 82,698 including collab fic, about 56K if i get half credit for those. all time high for me! fandoms written in: mysterious lotus casebook, oh no! here comes trouble, fangs of fortune, chihayafuru

looking back, did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected? i wrote wayyyyy more than expected, considering i didn't plan on falling into an active fandom again so fast after my last one faded out.

what’s your own favorite story of the year? god idk. i'm in a weird place with my writing rn and idk if it's growing pains or exhaustion. maybe i see you and i reach? it's closer to what i expect from myself at least. there are a couple fic meme fills i like too, like the ones where dfs speedruns yzm to detox llh. there are two versions, one where he dies in the process and one where he survives. i like the sword dance dihua fill too.

did you take any writing risks this year? i did the cdrama gotcha 4 gaza even and also yuletide! i did pretty well for the first one, where i wrote more fic than expected, and i last minute finished the latter. i got some really nice gifts for yuletide too!

do you have any fanfic goals for the new year? just not giving up and trying to finish my wips. maybe write a full fic for fof, but idkat. the only idea i really have is zyc + bai jiu grief fic and i don't have a solid form for it yet.

best story of the year? mmm. truly unsure. maybe another way to tell the truth?

most popular story of the year? can't read my poker face by quite a lot, followed by my mlc fic meme dump due to frequency of update, probably. excluding those, the most popular standalone fic is i'm a fox and you're a burrow.

story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: probably i see you and i reach, it got sort of lost in the beautiful sweep of dhx fics.

most fun story to write: writing is suffering for me, lol. fic meme is often the most fun for me because i get to write just the interesting bit of something without having to plot it all out or making a lot of decisions i guess?

story with the single sexiest moment: i wrote so much porn this year, especially for me LOL. can't read my poker face is probably the it, and i'm partial to the offscreen morning sex actually, which is probably weird. otherwise for non-collab fic, i think i'll stay underneath is nice. for fic meme, i like the hair-pulling one i wrote bc of a gifset, hahahah.

most sweet story: there's always a lot more of these with me, and hmmm. i'm a fox and you're a burrow maybe!

“holy crap, that’s wrong, even for you!” story: i’m pretty boring on this front. maybe the fic meme fill where i killed dfs?

story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: hmmm idk this is always sort of moving target for me, and i'm generally a soft creature who writes soft things. i don't think i had any big earth shaking revelations anywhere.

most unintentionally telling story: i think i'm always telling on myself when i'm writing tbh. in terms of what sort of spicy things i like, probably can't read my poker face even though i only get half credit? otherwise i think my preferences are generally pretty obvious.

hardest story to write: i have a hard time with everything but i think the most difficult to write fic this year was definitely my yuletide fic. it's not for any of my current fandoms so i had to do a lot of canon review and i'm also just feeling kind of burnt out. it's really hard to write when you don't want to but i had to bc deadline.

biggest disappointment: probably also my yuletide fic, lol. but i was reminded that i'm a longtime writer with a baseline leve of competence so even doing not well, i generally don't actually write bady. so!

biggest surprise: writing for multiple fandoms at once! yuletide fic will probably be surprising once it's revealed idk.

fic written in 2024:

everything grows stronger in the light, mysterious lotus casebook, E dihua modern rv au birthday fic. originally started as a “things you said at the kitchen table” fic meme fill.

i’ll stay underneath, mysterious lotus casebook, E dihua postcanon married domesticity.

another way to tell the truth, mysterious lotus casebook, G fluffy dihua amnesia arc science experiment. with beautiful art by @tiny-breadcrumbs!!!!

can’t cut the root, mysterious lotus casebook, T my fic meme dump, but i’ll post the individual tumblr links below as well. the ao3 versions are cleaned up a bit.

i’m a fox and you’re a burrow, mysterious lotus casebook, T the dihua wedding fic. i commissioned some gorgeous art from @tiny-breadcrumbs for it as well!

laws of physics lose their way, oh no! here comes trouble, G post-canon yiyong wakes up fic, wherein guangyan has a lot on his mind.

can’t read my poker face, mysterious lotus casebook, E fluffy modern dihua actor au cowritten with @la-muerta.

i see you and i reach, mysterious lotus casebook, T dihua street racing au written for @dihuaexchange. comes with an edit and a mix.

river crossing, mysterious lotus casebook, T second collab with @la-muerta, post-canon dark llh fic. in progress.

flowering orchards, salty sea things, mysterious lotus casebook, T mlcweek24 short fic catchall

a tiny windchime, fangs of fortune, T fic meme dump for fof

since i could not hide my love, chihayafuru, G shinobu, chihaya, and the path to being queen

[cherchersketch]

The whole ~misunderstanding~ of their relationship felt like it dragged a bit too long, but also maybe that was the whole point of the plot. In the end, I still really loved their whole tsun x tsun dynamic.

For Better or for Worse

Kind of sad that there weren't any side stories to really showcase their fully established relationship, but what little we had was super cute ;w;

[imberlae]

[smallearthboundfindings]

(Headcanon post)

By the way, I'm a day late because tired, but this International Ace Day, we stan our aroace prince ignoring every single girl.

How he's so popular and seems to mind none of them.

Inspirational.

[housedellamort]

My magic pirate, Elias "Rook" Laidir

Lord of Fortune, Romancing Lucanis, Spellblade, and No. 1 Solas Hater

[medi-bee]

draw your character in your current outfit challenge or whatever

[zanahoriabaila]

Ch85: "You'll mess with info about my relationship out of pettiness and say it's only slanting things towards positive outcomes? Fine, reverse UNO."

Ch88-92: SERVE CUNT, THE SAGA. SERVE CUNT WITH STICK. SERVE CUNT WITH GUN. SERVE CUNT WITH FISTS. SERVE CUNT WITH WORDS.

Ch93: "My lady did an exquisite mic drop and I just realized I'm totally a wife-man"

Ch99: "and the second. And third" *puddle*

Ch106: I love communication. Also, I suspected, both things, but I love the twist.

Ch109: Remember class: the first step of an apology, is to say what you are apologizing for. Clearly. Pleeease.

Ch110: God, I love how earnest the whole cast is. Also \o/

Oh, nooo, I have to wait for the rest -_-