#ac pacrim au

[vrieseasees]

One Piece Pacific Rim AU.... anyone?

looottsss of ideas below the cut...

Luffy - Completely disregarded his grandfather's wish for him to join the marines and flew right through jaeger academy like he was meant to punch kaiju. Has this ability to win most peoples hearts, which helps with the fact that plenty of pilots can drift well with him.

Zoro - Struggled for a while to match with a pilot and almost lost his chance to become a ranger when his projected partner dropped out suddenly. Zoro doesnt drift well with most pilots but despite this Luffy insta-clocked him as his true co-pilot when they met (and he was right and theyve been inseparable since).

Nami - the chief LOCCENT officer who oversees jaeger missions from the Shatterdome. One time, her troubled past came back to bite her but Luffy and Zoro helped her out of it. Shes been protective of them since and does everything in her power to ensure they get home safe.

Usopp - a jaeger tech weapons specialist who did his best doing jaeger engineer work for good ol' Merry as well. Always has ideas for improving the j-tech they use and implement. Incredibly grateful he can do his part, but nice and safe in the shatterdome.

Franky - came on board towards the end of Going Merry's life. He's the jaeger engineer responsible for the Thousand Sunny and does well with its upkeep and upgrades. (Allowing Usopp to focus on being a weapons specialist).

Chopper - doctor for their medical team as well as a kaiju science enthusiast and frequently visits the k-science lab when he's free. He has been working and researching kaiju biology and how humans, minks, and fishmen may benefit from the kaiju remains.

Brook - a retired jaeger pilot who went on to teach at the jaeger academy as a kwoon fightmaster. He's quite adept at playing ranger match-maker and was the one to ensure one of their best, Zoro, could match with someone. Has moved up in ranks since.

Jinbe - Hails from and is also a retired jaeger pilot from Fishman nation. He does a lot of work with fishmen-human relations, which has gotten a bit easier after a common enemy invaded their world. Due to all his leadership and his prominent role in the war on kaiju, he was promoted to marshal to lead their shatterdome.

Robin - a private investigator and information dealer of sorts who slipped into a consultant role for their shatterdome. She has many connections and is well versed in the kaiju black market world as well--which is how Chopper found her.

Sanji - the ranger who matched but dropped out last second on Zoro. He fled due to his biological family finding him and trying to bring him home. He went full-time as sous chef at the Baratie with his adoptive father Zeff. The Baratie is still a restaurant that goes out to sea, but has to dock more frequently since kaiju became a problem.

[reiverreturns]

right my darlings, im getting to the point where i need a kick up the ass to make any headway on getting my writing discipline back. since i keep flitting between three ideas and not progressing any, please tell me what i should write to break my funk. the pressure will mould me.

i am in no way shape or form gauging interest because these will all eventually get written, i just need some goddamn accountability to kickstart the engine again after [redacted] months off.

[alethiometry]

fanfic trope tier list, tagged by @milfeivor !!

i really don't read a lot of fics anymore but the ones that always stand out the most to me are the ones i've put in S-tier, with tiers A-C being based on how open-minded i personally am towards these tropes if it's not written by an author i already like. because honestly if i like your writing i'll probably read whatever the hell you post even if it's a trope i normally wouldn't gravitate toward.

except abo lol i can't take that shit seriously

anyway i'm tagging @thychesters @ellrond @doomcountry and uhhh whoever else whants to do this!

[lambergeier]

present for everyone who just showed up bc of my ace attorney masterworks. it's another snippet from the pacrim au prequel in progress. it has kristoph :)

Phoenix and Kristoph’s Thursday night poker game (weekly, with allowances for international conference calls and Kaiju attacks) takes place in an unused office high in the Dome, overlooking the catwalks and the Jaegers’ great bowed heads. They show up in their civvies, except when they don’t, and play for the same six twenty-dollar-bills handed back and forth over the last three and a half years, except when they don’t. Phoenix tenderly nurses a single beer over the course of the night because if he drinks anything more than that Miles will start stumbling into walls. Phoenix hasn’t had a cocktail since he was 26. He hopes dark and stormies miss him as much as he misses them.

“It’s exactly as we said this afternoon, honored Flight Commander,” Kristoph says, eyes down, cutting the deck with a slick smile. He’s fresh out of the shower, cleaned and pressed and lightly steamed. Phoenix, conversely, smells like a refinery fire. “Klavier experienced a serious heartbreak recently. A temporary hiccup in our drift stability. Nothing to worry about.”

“Oh, please,” Phoenix says, leaning carefully back in his chair. The aches of the day are beginning to compound—Miles’ fatigue plus Phoenix’s failing back times a brewing headache that could be either of them. “Don’t embarrass yourself. I used to drift with Miles. You think we never dealt with some heightened emotion in the drift?”

Kristoph raises a pale eyebrow. He says, “Surely you're not referring to—”

Phoenix laughs “Yeah, yeah, c’mon you rat bitch, hit me—”

“—The time you conspired to send his adopted father and former commanding officer to die in prison?”

“Where I hope he fucking rots,” Phoenix says sweetly and grins. “Deal the cards, Ranger Has-Been.”

[rendevok]

Do you have favorite nrmt fics? Or just any aa fics

Ooo! Yes! I’ve recently been compiling a list of the ones that I just couldn’t get out of my head, so without further ado~

Here are fics that are pure nrmt goodness:

a seat at the table by parchmints - 7yg, Phoenix officially adopts Trucy, and nrmts finally taco bout it sort of maybe ;3

Butterfly kisses by royalmess - canon compliant and “SO MANY KISSES I DIED” <- actual note from my list

if you leave the light on by angstinspace - 7yg, confessions, and my favoritest thing :^)

rough around the edges by Samioli - [screaming from a megaphone] MILES LIKES THE STUBBLE

the bookstore at the corner of 14th and fen by kbots - bookshop/flowershop au, SOOOOO cute and slice of lifey

Chicago Noël by canolacrush - you ever wanted a baker/mafia au? Well now you do! Takes place in 1950’s Chicago, SO delightful to read, good character variety, holiday vibes, and honestly i will be reading this annually

And it’s not a rec list from me without those tasty tasty casefics! These focus on nrmt too of course:

Dating for a Turnabout by Mikomikono - fake dating, murder mystery but they’re being gay as hell the whole time and it’s AWESOME

Investigations of the Heart by poodlepunk - Miles being tortured and down bad, need i say more?

Thrown Through a Loop by savitarandsigh - time loop au, tied to a case! Very cute and fun hehe :3

Turnabout Feelings by ssygir - 7yg, set in Paris, and Very Ace Attorney iykwim, a very satisfying casefic

Turnabout Sole by Collaberal Damage - bodyswap au, SO FUNNY AND CUTE and on top of that, the case is really well done imo!

Aaaaaand basically the rest so far are klapollo so if you’re into that:

can i go where you go by parchmints - klapollo getaway fic , fake dating, they melt my heart and make me want to flip a table

In Better Light by cosmogyral & sunsmasher - klapollo Pacrim au with a side of nrmt as well, SO WELL DONE, do yourself a favor and read this

singing my life with his words by angstinspace - klapollo soulmate au, the premise is so original and god, i wept. Cannot recommend any higher than literally mailing you my tears

wherever you stray, i follow by parchmints - klapollo royal/fantasy au, as magical, romantic, actiony, and adventurous as a fairy tale ought to be!

I’m actually quite behind on my fic reading list, so this is where I’m at so far. I’ve definitely got plenty of in-progress fics that i follow & enjoy that will probably make it to this list eventually, so ask me again some time for more!

[rorykurago]

So I'm watching "Mech Cadets"

because I'm still a giant dork for Pacific Rim and this looked like good PR-esque content.

Friends...

it is PR fanon. Animated. Only mild AU.

Like... There's genre fiction, then there's this. Let's count:

Jaegers Ro-bos fRoM sPaCe that have to bond with a pilot so there are two (2) minds controlling the body? Check

main Jaeger Robo is blue and yellow with a glowy heart? Check

J-Tech Mech tech department? Check

Neon/steel/grimy urban aesthetic? check

Marshal and Old Guard Pilot are old buddies? check

Angry Ace Pilot who is child of a Marshal? Check

Angry Ace Pilot who tops the class but still doesn't get the recognition they think they deserve? Check

Angry Ace Pilot mad the wash-out gets to go around the system and still gets a Jaeger Robo? check

Kwoon? Check

Drivesuits? Check

Pilot duels in the kwoon with hanbos? check

everybody wearing Air Force-style dress blues or flight bags? check

Cadet Academy in the middle of a desert nowhere? Check (technically that's a 'Training Day' X-over, but I'm counting it)

Cadet Academy is a giant metal tower full of shiny lights in the middle of nowhere? check

enemy are bony insect critters from another dimension world? check

enemy critter bleed bright blue? Check

chief scientist is Newtlieb? check

chief scientist misappropriates resources to sell/militarise kaiju sky-ju biology? check

...which goes very badly? CHECK

Big Scary Skyju is a threat physically bigger than and with features unlike anything seen in decades of war? check

the threat is Coming From Inside The House? check

Mech-Tech maintenance crew rivalry? check

drivesuit pain feedback that disables the pilot? check

Jaeger with a busted arm? check

Pilot with a busted arm? Check

Girl Ace Pilot and Boy Ace Pilot sitting side by side on a gantry leaning on each other to look into the glowy heart of a Jaeger-Mech? CHECK

More to follow lmao

Don't get me wrong, this is great (occasionally terrible) content and I'm immensely enjoying revisiting Jaegerland. But, like, .... I'm on ep FOUR and there's already so much crossover. Nobody is going to convince me PacRim had nothing to do with this. The Mech Cadet comics were released from 2017. Come on. Come ON.

[ot3]

what are some ace attorney fics you like with good characterization?

i myself have written exactly one (1) ace attorney fic which as you can imagine has characterization i am personally fond of

everything catie and emma write is top tier and their pacrim au is definitely like my favorite narumitsu dynamic Of All Time which is really impressive because it takes a deft hand to write an AU where the stakes are so very different from canon but the characterization still rings so true

vol's and grace's fics also have characterization im into

this fic gets a little bit Much at times with some scenes but i reeaaaallly like what op does with pretty much the whole cast, but particularly trucy and edgeworth

turnabout toast an OG a GOAT as mentioned earlier

there are definitely more good fics/writers out there im sure but that's what ive got for you off the top of my head

[providing-leverage]

The two aces Pacific Rim au still does not really have a plot beyond the typical plot of a PacRim fic (sparring, drifting, killing monsters together, falling in love along the way) but despite that I wrote a thousand words of it tonight.

[fruityumbrella]

helloooo b-team has intrigued me... also if u wanna talk about your pacrim au 👁👃👁👂 i'm listening

i love a modern au bc i can be more informal and silly, and i love a fake dating au bc literally nothing matters when the premise is so stupid. for b-team, i really let sanji's dramatic flair run wild and let him be So Much, as seen below. the nonverbal convo between nami and usopp is so special to me<3

“Oi,” a voice says from above where he’s now splayed on the floor in abject misery. A foot knocks against his side when he doesn’t respond. “You dead?” He opens his eyes to get the most effect out of his scowl. “You wish. Don’t touch me with your rancid boots. Don’t walk around my house in your rancid boots! Zoro!”  The barbarian’s already stomped over to the couch. Sanji’s life is so difficult and plagued by horrors large and small. Now settled in the armchair with a cool glass of iced tea in her hand, Nami exchanges glances with Usopp, the two of them holding a quick conversation without the others. She furrows her brow, he widens his eyes. She tilts her head, he arches an eyebrow. She purses her lips, he stares back dead on. Eventually, he shrugs again. This time, it’s a your problem now gesture that Sanji is all too familiar with. Usopp makes it a lot around him.

god my pacrim au. it is 500 words long and has been gathering dust for months bc i need to rewatch pacrim, but it would also be a real slowburner and i dont have the patience for that. it starts with luffy being out of commission bc ace died while they were piloting a jaeger (which ace was only in bc zoro was out of commission from losing his eye, cue plague of guilt) which leaves zoro very reluctantly partnering with sanji.

[blazingstar24]

Thranto PacRim AU Notes #4: The Force, Third Sight, and Drifting

Wanted to drop a bit of lore and world building before the next arc! I’ve talked about the role of the sky-walkers before but it’s time to go into more detail. However, first I gotta explain how the Unknown Regions and Lesser Space differ.

Canonically and in this AU, sky-walkers help navigate. But now also they are the Ascendancy’s equivalent of Breach calculators. The key difference of Lesser Space and the Unknown Regions is the frequency of kaiju attacks and appearances. For some yet unknown reason, the amount of kaiju sightings and attacks happen the further out into the Unknown Regions one goes. While it ranges in severity of kaiju, it makes space travel increasing dangerous. Thus, a navigator must drift with a preserved Kaiju brain to connect to the hive mind and anticipate hot zones, and potential appearances. (The brains are kept in the stasis pods (look an explanation for why they have them on the ships!) and also get harvested from any recent kaiju run ins)

Normally drifting is a two way street. However, the force protects the individual during a drift, the individual can choose to let the other in or block one out entirely. But sky-walkers eventually lose their third sight and this makes them vulnerable to losing themselves to the kaiju’s control. When a navigator starts losing third sight, they slowly get phased out of patrols and moved to more safer travel routes until eventually they fully lose their abilities. Sky-walkers are not allowed to become Jaeger pilots after their navigator career. They’ve seen too much and there is fear they could “contaminate” their co-pilot’s mind.

Truthfully, it is because drifting could reverse the fading process. There’s more to it but that’s for later plot beats, but I’ll let y’all know, oh yeah Borika’s working on something big (u bet ur ass them Kivu siblings r rulebreakers and she fucking became a Jaeger pilot)

Now that I’ve dropped the lore, here’s some fun tidbits on how Thrawn interacts with navigators (mainly Che’ri)

Same as canon, Thrawn is very kind towards the navigators. Che’ri often got nightmares from what she saw in the drifts and sometimes when she was too scared to bother Thalias, she would find Thrawn (insomniac) on the bridge. The only other people who could understand what she goes through is a Jaeger pilot but most don’t want to talk to the navigators. But Thrawn would sit with Che’ri and let her talk if she wanted to or just sit and stare into the stars. Che’ri also liked to draw out her feelings sometimes so Thrawn carried a marker and a slip of paper on him at all times for her.

He’s totally snuck Che’ri into the cockpit of his and Samakro’s Jaeger. (Very off-limits) She designed a small decal for it and Thrawn got it put on without Samakro knowing, but when he found out, he totally didn’t cry about it. The decal? (Idk yet but I’ll take suggestions!)

Off-screen stuff in the Ascendancy happening during Thrawn’s exile: Che’ri will eventually lose her third sight and in what was meant to be her final navigation, usually a well charted chill route, a kaiju attack happened. Everyone thought she would lose control of the drift but she didn’t, in fact her warning of the impending attack, FIVE MINUTES before it came, saved her whole ship. Everyone called it a miracle, one final burst of her powers. Che’ri attributed it to the man who taught her how to fly. In the drift with a kaiju, it is vital to remember who you are. She did almost surrender to it. But then she remembered she was more than just a navigator. She was Che’ri, soon to be Sacher, daughter of Ufsa’mak’ro and Mitth’ali’astov. She was Che’ri, the girl who was going to become an ace pilot.

[ageofzero]

WIP ask game

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Here I am, working hard on the last zine art piece I have in my tasklist, and then my dear friend who’s supposed to be working on one fic tags me for this and also quotes me at the same time. XDD

I knew you were gonna do it, Sanity, but lmao.

To also quote me, BOLD to assume that I have a dedicated WIP folder. Does anyone have a dedicated WIP folder, that they put files in and then move elsewhere once they’ve finished it?????? I sort things by file type, and my art files by year, so I have a whole host of abandoned pieces, wips, completed stuff, and it’s all mixed together. And also in like eight different places because I’m a gremlin.

So, for art:

Ever After AU

Paralyzer

Christian and Cedric for chase

Room where it happened animatic thumbs

Apollo phone wp

pacrim Shiro

omen SPN au

You ever get moody about a silly AU idea

Sleepy water cave

Yourplayersaidwhat tags

Frisk ukagaka

Verse commission

A Yuffie just because

The lil skykid princeling

Ignis is the best banuk

Herlock ukagaka

And for writing:

Ace!Cloud thing from like 6~8 years ago

Aeris vs the Turks

Child of Light

Banuk Ignis meets some Galahds

The Arduous Task of Living (working title)

Mamma Mia! But FFXV

Masquerade

FFXV Omens (SPN AU)

A Primer of the World

Susato Mikotoba - a bolt of lightning

I’m sure I have more floating around, not counting my big slow idling project of a Pokémon Silver Nuzlocke comic, and various ongoing or dead RP threads, and anything further back than this decade, and whatever actual WIPs are in my sketchbooks (because I have a personal project going on with one sketchbook but I haven’t scanned anything yet). 

And I am definitely not tagging as many people as I have wips, bc I am not tagging anyone. If you wanna do it, then you should feel free! I don’t have the spoons to do tagging hahaha

[reiverreturns]

us 🤝 gratuitously talking about our wips instead of actually working on them

i NEED to know about this ac/pacrim nonsense 👀

it's a hard life in the trenches (doing nothing productive whatsoever)

EHEHEHE okay so my nonsense file is basically all @alethiometry's fault and is more or less a dumping ground for assassin's creed PacRim AU stuff that i write odds and sods for when i don't feel like writing anything serious. it's mostly hytham/jacob frye where hytham is an ex-ranger who designs jaeger weaponry and jacob is an active ranger alongside evie. idk i think they'd have SUCH good chemistry and i know in my heart i'm right on that one. i have zero intention of ever making a real publishable story out of the stuff in there but i have lots and lots of little bits! it's very much ignoring quality, just having fun stuff.

anyway for context i've pulled a bit where jacob gets injured before the big mission to close the breach. furious and upset that he'll be sidelined, he ends up running his mouth to the press about how the world governments and their wall building plans are all stupid as hell and hytham sneaks him out into a hong kong hotel to screw some sense into him before marshal aya can find jacob and beat his ass six ways to sunday. i'm also dropping a cut in because it's a chonky bit!

send me a title from my wip list and i'll post a snippet and some thoughts

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“Where will you go when this is all over?” Hytham asks.

Jacob turns, attention turns sharp, but Hytham isn't looking at him. He’s leaning against the edge of the window, arm resting across the top of the frame, eyes locked on a lonely hulking mass fuzzed in the heavy, sodden mist of the bay. A Jaeger on reconnaissance and repair. Odin’s Sight, if Jacob remembers the assignments. He can’t think of anything more pointless than checking the walls now.

You pilot a Jaeger for long enough, you come to understand that Rangers come in two flavours. The first are the sort who fight for an after. Eivor and Vili, with their dream of a patch of land and animals aplenty in the far flung reaches of Norway. Connor being reunited with his family back home. The second kind of Ranger fights against. ‘After’ isn’t exactly a worry when you're trying to wrestle a Kaiju’s lower mandible from the rest of its jaw. ‘After’ doesn’t mean anything if the chances are you’ll end up going down with your Jaeger. 

Before today Jacob had always considered himself firmly in camp two. Even now, with his Jaeger miles away, he can feel the mechanical click and whirr of the gears in his wrist as he sits up on the bed, pneumatic pressure falling when he adjusts his bad leg. It’s raining and the machinery aches. Evie's running through her tests with Henry. She's worried about him. His mind is hers and hers is his; no start and no end, a complex knot of flesh and metal that cannot be divorced. Jacob's future is a blue-tinged meld of past and present. It does not - can not - exist without Evie or Rook Empire in it.

But that had been then. Hytham turns, sighing, and the realisation hits Jacob like a bullet to the chest.

Jacob might die. He might live to see the whole world fall. He might be crushed beneath a warm body like he was half an hour ago, panting into Hytham's mouth, sweat-slick and needy for more time. But he also might live. There might be an ‘after’ after all.

More silence. Jacob wishes he had Hytham’s comfort in it. Maybe the roar of blood in his ears wouldn’t feel so intrusive.

“I hadn’t thought of it,” Jacob eventually says in a voice that doesn’t sound like his own, hands absently gripping the sheets, mind scrambling and overshot to somewhere far, far away. “I could go back to London, I suppose. Would be nice to go somewhere where I could pretend the world didn’t completely go to shit. But it’s…” He looks at the condensation on the windows, mouth dry. “I don’t think there will be a place for me when I go back.” 

Stupid thing to say. London’s a big fucking city. It still is, despite the attacks and riots and civil unrest that has destabilised its boroughs over the years. Hytham tilts his head thoughtfully.

“There will be no Rangers anymore,” he says, and Jacob nods.

[chancellorxofxtrash]

Pacrim-geats is something I remain 👀for

Both you and @rosemirmir asked about this hahaha

Soooo trying to not spoil things but some things I can say

unlike my Revice PacRim AU which basically placed the AU into the timeline of the show post-canon, this one is a complete AU

it's OT4 bc I'm Me

at the start of the story Ace is already a pilot. Michinaga currently isn't one. Keiwa and Neon are new recruits

Michinaga and Tooru were partners. as I said, Michinaga isn't currently piloting. you can guess how that went

those burn scars that happen when a pilot is forced to pilot a Jaeger alone, the suit leaving imprints on the skin? yeah. they gonna show up.

hm? Ace? what about Ace? don't worry about Ace. he is fine. honest.

[bornforastorm]

WIP Game Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

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Thanks for the tag beloved friend @majorbaby!!  you make me feel better about the insane number of WIPs I have.

list below, with a little what's-what because I name things really minimally:

tagging: @boasamishipper @ireallyamabear @ anybody else who would like to!!

1. 1917 (to love and be loved is to be changed) 2. aliens (hudson makes it, alien 3 doesn’t happen, ripley/hicks/hudson and their daughter newt) 3. andor 4 (everybody lives au, love as rebellion, nemik/skeen) 4. goldfinch (boris comes to ny with theo at the end) 5. JB (james bond/felix leiter, oh no my friend is too important to me) 6. JB 2 (bond/leiter, my friend has low self esteem over his disability and i love him so much) 7. llewyn (inside llewyn davis, my bf was great but then he jumped off a bridge) 8. mash 3 (hawktrap trapper goes to maine/hawkeye loves his hometown) 9. mfu (man from uncle tv napoleon/illya duh) 10. MI1a (making ethan’s sad apartment less sad thru friendship) 11. mum (the mummy 2017 nick is sick af and it’s getting worse) 12. mum 2 (nick gets totally subsumed by the monster) 13. mummer 3 (the mummy 2017 nick-vail back story) 14. nice guys (there are no second acts in american lives) 15. perry 3 (strickson new years 1930) 16. perry 4 (ham and perry hook up and perry immediately regrets it) 17. perry 4.5 (ham clocks pete as in love with perry, post s2) 18. perry 7 (post swim back to shore, perry brings pete back to his place) 19. perry 8 (perry finds pete in the blackmail pictures) 20. perry 9 (that fuckin bridge) 21. pm 3 (terry + fireworks = a bad new years) 22. pm 4B (sequel to my retirement fic) 23. pm 5 (marlowe gets the shit kicked out of him) 24. pm 6 (marlowe runs after terry after the end of TLG) 25. pm 7 (marlowe and terry are dating but neither of them know it) 26. pm 8 (marlowe goes to find terry in acapulco) 27. pm 9 (terry goes to marlowe right away after finding sylvia) 28. pm 10 (marlowe bumps into terry in NYC) 29. pm 11 howard (terry lacks an inherent self) 30. pm 12 (terry calls marlowe after being shot) 31. pm 14 (modern au) 32. pm 15 (marlowe gets the shit kicked out of him 2) 33. pm 16 sylvia (marlowe attends a dinner party at the lennox’s) 34. pm BEB (the Black-Eyed Blonde but with a more acceptable ending to me) 35. pMsG (a marlowe-steve grayce encounter + terry of course) 36. PRU (pacrim uprising, nate and hermann are the same type of guy) 37. R-A (reanimator) 38. SH (doyle holmes, watson and moran become weird friends during the hiatus) 39. stare wares (kylo does force crimes against poe post-TFA) 40. stare wares 2 (poe’s x-wing crashes very bad) 41. terror (miracles on the ice) 42. TL (some terry lennox perspective) 43. TLB 2 (david survives and is a feral weirdo for a while) 44. TLB 3 (the lost boys, david/michael + david and his dad, sortof a sequel my david-as-ace merrill fic) 45. WSS 2 (riff and tony go to coney island)

[lambergeier]

TRAGICALLY ao3 doesn't seem to allow guest comments at the moment so if thought I'd swing by on the tumblrs instead to tell you that I really ADORE Forty years in the wilderness and I've read it maybe six times over the past few months? I love the vibe and the relationship dynamics and Phoenix's inner voice everything. STUNNING stuff. And now I see there's a giant Pacific Rim au as well? My other love! 💙💙I can't wait to read it this weekend.

thank you so much, that's so sweet of you to say!! and to find me on tumblr and everything! i hope you do like the pacrim au, i do still consider that mine and my wife's true ace attorney opus lol

if you'd like an ao3 invite code so you don't have to keep dealing with the guest restrictions, let me know! i've got like eight lying around. if anyone else reading this wants one, i'm also happy to distribute

[angst-in-space]

december ‘22 writing progress (and yearly wrap-up)

december progress:

words written: 11k

most words written in a day: 1023

least words written in a day: 22

yearly total: 264.4k

projects worked on:

- ya sci-fi book revisions - adult fantasy book first draft - sylvix pacrim au - twiyor fic - matchablossom fic - 7yg zine piece - edited/posted renga fic ch 1 - editing sylvix dreamscape fic ch 9 - altea rising ch 19

works published in december:

"are we going somewhere” chapter 1 - (sk8, renga)

december goals:

- work on ya sci-fi book revisions - work more on adult fantasy wip - start editing ch 9 of dreamscape fic - work on twiyor fic - work on matchablossom fic - work on sylvix pacrim au - work more on 7yg zine fic - perhaps work a bit more on altea rising or red skies if i have time - start on renga fic ch 3-4 edits if i have even more time??

january goals:

- work on ya sci-fi book revisions - maybe work more on adult fantasy wip? - finish editing (maybe post) ch 9 of sylvix dreamscape fic - work on 7ygz fic - work on [redacted] zine fic - finish writing ch 19 of altea rising...haha - apply to YA novel excerpt contest - work on sylvix pacrim au, matchablossom fic, and/or twiyor fic if i have time

notes:

so... i didn’t do so hot in terms of word count in december, but i’ll give myself a pass because i wrote so much in november lol. and, even though i didn’t write quite as many words as i’d hoped, i did work on quite a lot of projects even if i was only making a tiny bit of progress on each, so YAY!!

i am trying to really shift my focus towards book revisions so i think most of my efforts are going to go towards that in january. 

however, as always i am unable to detach myself from fic entirely lol... i have two zine pieces i need to work on (both of which i’m very excited about!). aaaand maybe i will eat my words but... i think i’m going to attempt to finish writing ch 19 of altea rising, which i’ve been trying to get back into lately. it’s just been weighing on me that it’s been 4(??!!) years since i’ve updated it and i’ve had a couple people ask whether it’ll be completed, so i do wanna put a bit more effort towards that (esp bc it’s only gonna be 20 chapters total so I AM ALMOST THERE - then ofc i need to edit/post all the unpublished chapters but uhhh that’s a problem for future me!). it’s also that i’ve felt a bit burned out on all my other fic projects lately, so i’m hoping having like One Thing to focus on will help me a bit.

2022 wrap up:

total words written: 264.4k most words written in a month: 50k (november) least words written in a month: 11k (december)

works completed and/or posted:

- dawn goes down to day / sk8, matchablossom - we’re so disarming, darling / spy x family, twiyor - throw away the key / ace attorney, klapollo - you’re a dream (i’m never waking up) chs 6-8 / fe3h, sylvix - are we going somewhere ch 1 / sk8, renga

other wips: - ya sci-fi book - adult fantasy book - you’re a dream ch 9-10 edits - matchablossom bedsharing fic - twiyor practice kissing fic - are we going somewhere ch 2 edits - sylvix pacific rim au - altea rising ch 19

2022 goals: - write every day - write at least 200k words - finish a couple more drafts of my ya sci-fi book - finish sylvix dreamscape fic - maybe start writing sylvix pacrim au?? - edit/post renga fic - finish wenzhou modern au - continue writing wenzhou post-canon fic - finish matchablossom bedsharing fic - work on altea rising and/or red skies if i have time? - start planning my second novel??

notes:

...okay wow i’m actually kinda (pleasantly) shocked that i completed most of my 2022 goals so YAAY!!! 

2022 was a big year for me especially for my original writing! it’s kinda mind-blowing looking back on this time last year, when i had only just finished a first draft of my YA sci-fi book. since then it’s gone through several more drafts and got me into two mentorships - something i could not even have imagined a year ago. i honestly felt pretty bleak about it at the beginning of the year, so it’s exciting to see how far it’s come since then, and is hopefully promising of where it will go in the future. :’) i also not only outlined a whole other book but also wrote about the first 20k words of a first draft, so that’s super exciting!!

i didn’t write quite as much fic in 2022 as i have in previous years, but i still made progress on a bunch of projects—in particular, i’m super glad i finished sylvix dreamscape fic and also started posting the renga fic, since those were two things that took me a very long time haha. excited to edit/post the remaining chapters of those in 2023!! plus i have a lot of other fics in the works that i am super excited about!

there are a number of fic projects i kinda let fall by the wayside this past year - namely my two wenzhou wips and my unfinished klance multichaps... but i do hope to get back to those sometime in 2023, i miss them a lot! plus i’ve been trying to focus on finishing more wips and not starting as many new things so we’ll see how that goes lol. 

here’s to more writing fun in 2023!!! 🎉

2023 goals:

- write every day - write at least 200k words - finish more drafts of my ya sci-fi book - send ya sci-fi book to betas - start querying ya sci-fi book...? haha? that’s a big maybe - make progress on adult fantasy book (possibly try to finish a first draft at least?) - outline another book - finish editing/posting sylvix dreamscape fic - finish editing/posting renga fic - finish writing altea rising and maybe start posting the unpublished chapters - start working on red skies again - work on sylvix pacrim au (maybe at least finish a first draft of it if i’m feeling super ambitious) - work on at least one of my wenzhou fics - finish at least a draft of matchablossom bedsharing fic - keep working on twiyor practice kissing fic, maybe finish a first draft? - a huge maybe but perhaps start sylvix 50s/spy au if i have time/energy