#Recursive fic

[delimeful]

What if wibar Virgil got sick? Nothing major, just something that would pass in a day or two.

What would he do? What would the others do?

there's actually a recursive fic exploring this! :)

Deathworlder Down by LadyoftheWoods!

[whimsicalmeerkat]

"Moon Gave Me Permission" this week?

Make Me Write | The Moon Gave Me Permission by @dear-massacre

Stiles stirs, blinking awake slowly.

“You were watching me sleep again,” he accuses.

“Is that a problem?”

Stiles blinks a couple of more times before his head to meet Derek’s eyes. It takes a moment before he speaks.

“Is it weird if I say I like it? That’s weird, right?”

Derek smiles. “Baby, that might be the least weird thing about you.”

“Asshole,” Stiles says, flapping a hand at him.

They sit silently. Derek can tell Stiles is working up to saying something. He decides to let him come to whatever his conclusion will be on his own.

“It makes me feel safe,” Stiles says quietly. “I know it’s weird, but knowing you’re here, watching me, makes me feel like nothing bad can get to me.”

“You know I’ll tear apart anyone who hurts you,” Derek says.

He leaves out the fact that it wouldn’t have to be physical hurt. He’s just waiting for the moment Scott decides his precious moral high ground means he needs to cut Stiles off.

[remidyal]

A treat!

For once, this isn't a link to my own writing! @tangerineblasttheintern wrote a fanfic of the Poison/Bane/Malignancy trilogy that's a character study focused on Penelope talking to a palimpsest-trapped Adaine as a sort of Penelope character study! It's really, really, really good and if you enjoyed those stories I highly recommend it.

@burn-towns-get-money tagging you since the original story was your prompt and you may particularly like this.

[10moonymhrivertam]

❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?

💕 What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?

Y'know what, I think I do actually have a standing answer to this! Although now I don't know whether to be concerned or not cuz it's an old line XD But I posted an unfinished (as in, bracketed author's notes still in the text kind of unfinished) fic specifically so as not to lose the line, so I shall slap it in here.

Ah. Turns out it works best as a set of lines, but it was still the first thing that popped into my head, so here goes:

CW: Non-Graphic Animal Death

Carlos was counting the lab mice, suspicious that the bonsai they lived next to may have picked up some carnivorous tendencies. [...] Carlos lost count of his mice. His hands hovered over the cage, frozen. What had Cecil just said? Miss Frizzle? Aunt Valerie ? It refused to process. Carlos turned away from the cage to grab his phone, missing as the bonsai unfurled a branch and snagged a mouse by its tail and dragged it, shrieking, into its thick leaves.

END CW

💕 What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?

Oh, gosh, there are a few contenders. I could say the first one I remembered making, because I got to hand it to Mary Pope Osbourne before I knew giving authors fic was Bad. And I really don't remember much about the contents of it, just that it was handwritten and I did a little cover for it.

Of my modern fic, I think I'll pick two, due to them being the fics I've shown the most commitment to.

Face to Unfamiliar Face, recursive fic of @tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors's Love and Other Fairy Tales. I think about it a lot because I'd like to do more work on it. Alas, every time I go into it thinking that this time I will post it to AO3, I start sketching out major structural edits and get scared of the workload and let the poor thing keep languishing. I should just carry it over directly and then redux it later, just for the purpose of archiving it. Maybe I'll do that today. (Thank you in advance if so, Willow 💜)

And The Princess's Son (Ba, Ba), a Witcher fic where Jaskier is Renfri's kid. It haunts me constantly. I think as-posted, it's finished and satisfying from a reader's perspective, but from my Author's Vision it's unfinished, so the haunting continues. Alas, the redux keeps stalling out in the first few chapters. And then I don't want to just skip forward to get it started with because I feel like I can better build up the Lilit stuff so it's not such a Deus Ex Machina, even if I don't think I've changed all that much about the mechanics of her whole Thing. 😭

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

I think solidly in the middle as a reader? I know I lightly avoid 'modern AU' tags in AtLA and Witcher and stuff, but not strenuously. I like plenty of Sanders Sides fic where they're proper people and not just figments in the mindscape. But I think I also prefer to read when it's not super rooted in canon, either? Fleshed out side characters and Everybody Lives, Nobody Dies for the win, baby!!!

Now as a writer...

One of my provided filter-able tags is canon divergence XD I still like to keep things pretty rooted in canon, though. I like having a scaffolding to build around. Going too far into original territory tends to make everything feel a little too wobbly.

I think the most original I get is smashing together fandoms that don't necessarily make sense based on tiny details. (Or details that aren't there. Ben Wishaw and Colin Morgan are just. Connected in my brain for some reason and so I have Once And Future...Spy?!)

[phoenixiancrystallist]

I've been on the other end, where I was the one rewriting someone else's fic. But I didn't post it, and I never will, because that feels enormously disrespectful. I wrote them for my own satisfaction, or as practice, or because I didn't like the way a character was portrayed and wanted to fix it. To then turn around and post exactly the same fic but with my "fixes" smacks of plagiarism to me, whether or not it technically falls into the standard definition of plagiarism.

If the other person was writing Nonny's story from a different characters POV, that would be one thing. But rewriting the exact same story and changing nothing? That's rude at best, imo.

This is more of a question for the fanfic author community at large. Recently I had someone tell me they were writing a fic based on my fic. I was obviously flattered by it. But when their fic was posted, it was basically a re-write of exactly what I'd written. And that made me feel uncomfortable, because my story was a very specific AU. I know in fandom/fanfic anything goes and people are free to do what they want. Who am I to say 'no you can't write this'? I brushed it off and let it go. But it just got me internally asking: what are some rules of decorum around fics inspired by other fics? Can I as an author say it made me uncomfortable? If author A is writing something based on author B's work, is it expected for author A to tell author B about it? I welcome any other discussion on this topic that I didn't cover in my questions because I'm curious to see what others think! Thanks!

I'm not going to lie to you, anon, this one can be a bit of a minefield.

There's a tradition? (if that's the right word) in fandom of asking permission before writing a work inspired by someone else's fanwork.

While we don't do this with the creators of canon, we also don't share a community with the creators of canon. In fandom spaces, everyone knows everyone to a certain degree. This might be less true now that fandom has exploded in popularity in recent years, but even so.

I personally love when someone writes something inspired by my work, and I've written a few fics inspired by others too. It's part of that community sharing that I value so much in fandom.

But the minefield comes in when the original fan author feels like the "inspired by" fic is a little too close to their own.

Emotions can be fraught in online spaces where tone is hard to convey over text and there tends to be an assumption of the worst motives and interpretations rather than the best.

You're definitely well within your rights to feel uncomfortable about what that other person wrote. I'm not going to tell you that your emotions are wrong or unfounded. In fact, I'd likely feel the same way if I were in your place.

What you do about that feeling is your own decision to make. Do you just sit on it and hope it goes away? Do you reach out to that other author and say something about it? Do you just vent to a friend and get it out that way?

Folks who have had similar experiences, share what happened if you're willing. From either A or B's perspective.

[v-thinks-on]

“I know you’re following me.” Tom Riddle stopped in his tracks and the footsteps behind him belatedly fell silent.

He turned. Skulking along the wall was what at first glance appeared to be an ordinary pageboy with a smooth face and short, dark hair that was badly in need of taming. However, Tom slowly registered that it was in fact a woman of his own age, but with the hardened eyes of one who has seen battle. It was just the two of them in the long, dark corridor in one of the far reaches of the manor—he had taken the back way for a reason.

“What is it you want, then?” Tom demanded with some impatience and the slightest glint of something more dangerous.

To his surprise, she did not break his gaze. Instead, she raised her head in proud defiance and stepped away from the wall, into the middle of the hall, as though to confront him—as though she thought she was something more than a mere servant in a precarious disguise.

(Read More on AO3)

[improvapocalyps]

You have 90 minutes to complete. (original poem: r.a.)

In participation of the MCYT Recursive Exchange 2024 hosted by @mcytrecursive!

Inspired by know that all my love will be your breath (i will save you when your lights go out)

[text under cut]

1. Have you ever been in love? (Please circle your answer.) a. It's me and him b. Our hearts beat in sync c. Our lives intertwined

2. Do you understand what you’ve done? (Please circle your answer.) a. I couldn't do anything b. I lost my balance c. I doomed us both

3. It's been god knows how long since you felt phantom hands on your neck and there is no one in sight. If you were soul-bound to him and both of you died at the same time then why are you still waiting in the void? Please answer clearly, in full sentences. (Not a correct answer：I just wanted to see him one more time).

4. Define two (2)： Fate | The feeling of his forehead against yours Curse | The moment you realise he isn't linked to you anymore

5. True or False： i. It was your fault. ii. You wish you had met him under different circumstances. iii. You can’t regret a single moment that you had him. iv. You would do it all over again if you could. v. It ended long before either of you said anything.

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sketch cover thing for imgur link:

[itsphantasmagoria]

I KNOW I said the last one was the last Recursion fan art, but @drarrymyheart commissioned me to do the quantum entanglement scene and I came out of hiding to do it because LOOK AT THEM 😭😭😭

based on the fic Recursion by @tessacrowley ❤️

[pixie-of-south]

“It’s a crush. It’ll pass.”

The anger on Harry’s face intensifies with outrage. “Don’t fucking tell me how I feel! If you just don’t want me in the way I want you, then say so.

One of favorite type of drarry

[salemoleander]

Brainfog // A webweave based on waiting for the fog to lift by Odaigahara

MCYT Recursive Exchange 2024 // sources under readmore

What is a webweave?

Previous art: Third Life | Void Falling | Attempt 33 | Martyn | Limited Life | Nightingale Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | singing songs to the secrets behind my eye | A Hundred Things We Had Not Dreamed Of | Solving Counting Sheep

Setpiece Clouds / @snailspng ◆ You're Home Free... Plaque / Jenny Holzer via @killyridols ◆ The Invader / Eva Funderburgh ◆ i walk in long loping circles poem / @erstwhilesparrow ◆ Connubial / Stephen Dunn ◆ Eight of Swords / Sarah Kipin via @thecollectibles ◆ Cat Island / Matt Schu via @nevver ◆ Detail from The Annunciation / Fra Angelico via @santoschristos ◆ I don't know why I'm wearing this button / Busy Beaver Button Museum via @skunkstripe ◆ Compass Ring / @snailspng ◆ Never Found Sign / @albatross-the-pen-chewer ◆ Occupation Helper Murderer / @screenshotsofdespair ◆ "Like it's my fault..." textpost / @mumblesplash ◆ Ethereal / Whitney Barkman ◆ Mountain Landscape / Caspar David Friedrich via @artschoolglasses

[inanewmoon]

Art by Beedok! 💙💙💙

Today, not something Ranma related (I know, a bit weird, knowing my recent obsession). Last year, I wrote Shadow Girl of Mars, a crossover between The Martian and Naruto (Dreaming of Sunshine). Today, I have a cool commission from @beedokart to share with you, as well as some bonus content I just posted under the series. You can read the story here:

I considered it complete already, but the new bonus content now includes a few extra little scenes, some reactions from people back on Earth, and a list of Shikako's hoard.

[last-hourglass]

FIRST // NEXT

recursive: characterized by recurrence or repetition.

interlude: an intervening period of time; a pause between the acts of a play.

With every reset, the lightning gets a little colder, the stars a little more distant, and Michelangelo's voice a little more tinged with despair.

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Recursive Interlude: a companion comic for my Future Mikey time loop fic

[whimsicalmeerkat]

moon gave me permission recursive murder husbands for WIP Wednesday, please!

The Moon Gave Me Permission by @dear-massacre

Stiles looks nervous now, which won’t do. Derek knows he hasn’t entirely hidden his disgust with Stiles’ so-called ‘best friend’. He hasn’t really tried. He also knows he can’t do anything about it. Not yet. Stiles isn’t ready for that right now, but he will be. Derek has some ideas for moving that along. That’s a plan for another time, though.

Derek leans down and kisses Stiles. He keeps it slow, syrupy and sweet. Stiles is still waking up. When he pulls back, he props himself up on his elbow. With his other hand he reaches out and touches the necklace.

“We need to talk about this, baby,” he says.

[definitelynotshouting]

quick question- are grian and pearl siblings in hunger au? trying to write a hunger au fic and i would feel quite silly if i made a reference to it and it turns out they weren’t related. sorry if you answered this somewhere else i was digging for awhile in the au tag but couldnt reach the end!

OKAY SO THE ANSWER IS A BIT NUANCED FOR THIS ONE

Technically, Grian and Pearl were Spawned in rather than born, so they arent actually related. That being said, culturally speaking since being born is INCREDIBLY rare as opposed to being Spawned in, i think its fairly common and accepted practice to just go "yeag thats my sibling" about people you're incredibly close to sometimes. This ofc doesnt even BEGIN to get into the entire concept of play on an universal level, and how often people will i think claim siblinghood for one server only to completely disavow it in another. Which is... not very helpful as far as answers go, when you get down to it 😅😅😅

I think for Pearl and Grian, they dont really call each other siblings, but their relationship is very consistently sibling-like, which i think actually holds more weight in-universe than just arbitrarily calling themselves family would. So... yes and no??? Not related, probably wouldnt directly call each other siblings, but i think they both have the silent understanding that they are very much each other's chosen family, if that makes sense!!

[dewitty1]

Carey ‘W’Recs Wednesday(｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ presents: Recursion

Tessa Crowley (tessacrowley) @tessacrowley

Chapters: 24/24 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: Underage Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy & Severus Snape Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy, Albus Dumbledore, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson, Sirius Black, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Physics, Philosophy, Unspeakable Draco Malfoy, Slytherin Harry Potter, Character Study, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Self-Worth Issues, Suicidal Thoughts, Child Abuse, Classic Rock, Animagus, Soulmates, age difference?, in the sense that one of them is an adult trapped in their own adolescent body, it IS a time travel fic

Summary:

A process is recursive when it defines or contains itself; e.g., the Fibonacci sequence, which determines the next number as the sum of the previous two. But not all recursive processes are mathematical. Recursion can happen in a temporal context when, for instance, the powerful magical force that is true love drags you back in time so it can create itself, endangering the fate of the Wizarding World—not to mention the very fabric of space and time—along the way.

(੭ˊ͈ ꒵ˋ͈)੭*⁺˚. * ･ ｡ﾟ☆

Excerpt:

Impatiently, Draco explains, “I’m allowed to speak while I’m inside the Department.”

“Yeah, I figured out that much,” Potter says. He clears his throat. “I just… I haven’t heard… your voice. In a while.”

“Yes,” Draco hisses, “because we haven’t spoken at all in twenty years, which bring me back nicely to my original question: what in Merlin’s name are you doing?”

“I,” Potter answers, then doesn’t finish.

“If you’re stalking me again,” Draco says, folding his arms over his chest, “I’m just going to file a restraining order.”

“I’m not stalking you,” Potter answers defensively. “I just… I’m just flummoxed by you!”

“Flummoxed? What the hell about me is so flummoxing?”

“Everything!” Potter snaps. He gestures to Draco’s clothes. “You’re wearing Muggle athletic wear for a start—”

“It’s Lululemon! I can’t bloody well do yoga in my fucking Unspeakable robes, can I?”

“Since when have you done yoga?” Potter continues, as if it’s an extension of his original point. “I can’t imagine it’s particularly en vogue within pureblood circles!”

“Actually, yoga was pioneered by Indian wizards over two thousand years ago—”

“And you’re eating Muggle takeout and drinking Starbucks—”

“I didn’t have time to cook last night!” Draco cries, a little defensive. “And Ellie at the Starbucks down the street makes a better London Fog than I ever could—”

“—and listening to fucking AC/DC on your iPhone,” Potter concludes, gesturing to the little white earbud strings still dangling down his chest. “People can change, Malfoy, but generally not this much!”

“And how, precisely, the fuck does it matter to you?” Draco barks. “Why the sudden interest? So I like curry and classic rock now, in what way is that any of your business?”

Potter opens his mouth, but doesn’t seem to have an answer. His too-green eyes flicker down to Draco’s Lululemon leggings, and now that they’re facing each other, Draco realizes—

Is Potter staring at his leggings, or at his legs?

Several things in Draco’s head rearrange themselves. Is that why Potter’s been harassing him these past few days?

“I guess it’s not,” Potter answers eventually, recovering as well as he can from a silence that had gone on just a hair too long. He looks up at meets Draco’s eyes.

Draco wants to say, Aren’t you married? The question is dangling right at the edge of his tongue; he can practically taste it.

Eventually, though, he swallows it back down. He’s gotten something wrong. There’s no way that Harry Fucking Potter of all people, heteronormative savior of all the Wizarding World, has been checking out his ass in yoga pants.

“Glad we’ve gotten that settled, then,” he says airily. “Potter, please try to relax. My Starbucks-drinking, Led Zeppelin-listening ways are not part of some grand plot to destroy the world.”

“I,” Potter says, looking a little embarrassed, “I didn’t think they were.”

“Wonderful. Then feel free to stop following me around.”

“I wasn’t—” Potter gives up the sentence halfway through saying it. He shakes his head. “See you around, Malfoy.”

꒰˘̩̩̩⌣˘̩̩̩๑꒱♡

[quicktimeeventfull]

with the shift away from strictly defined fandom terms, i feel there's been some confusion about the difference between plain inspiration and remixes/recursive fic. ao3 sorts these under the blanket term of 'inspired work', but they're distinct forms of fic and require completely different etiquette.

ime most people want to create a welcoming, collaborative fandom community. the majority of missteps i've seen around inspired works have come more from a lack of awareness of fandom etiquette than actual malice. my aim here isn't to provide rules but rather to put names to some common types of fic-about-fic and the standard etiquette associated with them. anyway, with all that being said, here are the definitions: inspiration: this isn't a fandom term and doesn't mean anything specific. there's no hard and fast rule for when you should credit an inspired work or communicate with an author before posting it -- a good rule of thumb is that if it's quite close, it's at least worth adding a shout-out in your notes.

however: remixes and recursive fics do describe specific things, so the rules are a little more cut. the defining feature of both is that they use the original fic as source material. as such, you need to be much more thoughtful about how you proceed with them. remix: remixes re-imagine an existing fic in some way. some common examples are: fics rewritten from an alternate POV, roleswaps or fics that use the same premise but alter the outcome or progression of events.

recursive fic: these are stories that use an existing fic as canon jumping-off point for their own. two common examples are: sequels, prequels, missing scenes fics remixes and recursive fics ALWAYS have to be clearly and explicitly credited. i have literally never met any author in any fandom who would be okay with an uncredited remix or recursive fic. there's some fandom-by-fandom variation in regards to whether or not one should ask the original author for permission before writing them, but it's usually good to assume they'd want to be asked. there's a lot of nuance in fandoms that have a culture of gifting remixes or recursive fics as surprises, but tbh it's just not that popular anymore so 'ask first' is a good default position. anyway!! i think recursive fics and remixes are a really lovely part of fanfic culture. often they come from a place of love, enthusiasm and a desire to connect. i would never want to see them disappear. but if you're not clearly communicating that they are remixes/recursive fics (and checking in with the author to make sure they're wanted) they come across as disrespectful at best and plagarism at worst.