#aini nufire fics

[enigma-the-mysterious]

[demonic chanting] DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

Also, may I recommend @aini-nufire 's Musketeer Dragon Riders series in the meantime? :D

I really wanna write a Temeraire-esque au for the bbc musketeers where everything is the same except they're historically accurate dragon riders, but then I remember that's basically the entire plot of my og story and I'm like. Hm...

[whumptober]

Completionists of 2023 - 3/4

Jaelijn | @jaelijn | Jaelijn on AO3

quietlyimplode | @quietlyimplode | quietlyimplode on AO3

@adzeisval | adzeisval on AO3

Callaei | @callaeidae3

Jungledragon | Jungledragon on AO3

Wishfulthinking1979 | @musewrangler | Wishfulthinking1979 on AO3 | AO3 Series

@blubfishblue | blubfishblue on AO3

RD Eternity | @rd-eternity | rd_eternity on AO3

Honmyo SeaGull | @honmyoseagull | Honmyo_Seagull on AO3

Priya | @viridimessorem | viridimessorem on AO3

@aria0fgold

Brievel | @brievel | Brievel on AO3

N | @sadisticallysmirking | sadisticallysmirking on AO3

Veldeia | @veldeia | Veldeia on AO3

bec | @here-be-booker | here_be_bec on AO3

Autobot2001 | @autobot2001 | Autobot2001 on AO3

GieRo | @gierosajie-art

Cyberwhumper | @cyberwhumper

@bumblingdragon

Bubblebee10230 | @tarlettuce10230 | Bubblebee10230 on AO3

crematosis | @crematosis | crematosis on AO3

whumpypepsigal | @whumpypepsigal

StellarCoachman | @stellarcoachman | StellarCoachman on AO3

E | @e7y1

Dizarys | @dizaryswrites | Dizarys on AO3

Jada | @actress4him | actress4Him on AO3

sasuga-whump | @sasuga-whump

Sheepish | @samtheacesheep | sheepishwitch on AO3

@idunnothiseither | tired_but_hopeful on AO3

@seven-stars-in-his-palm | gravitron on AO3

@crimsonlyinglilly | CrimsonLyingLilly on AO3

@half-milke & @light-illuzions | Half_Milk on AO3 & Light_Illuzions on AO3

Cora | Stormwriter on AO3

@bloodyfeverdreams | messedupstargazer on AO3

ChemistryNerd & BlackDragon12 | ChemistryNerd on AO3 & BlackDragon12 on AO3

Kaesa | @kaesaaurelia | Kaesa on AO3

bowsie22 | @bowsie22 | bowsie22 on AO3

Gale | @galewritesfanfiction | Huntress8611 on AO3

@aini-nufire | Aini_NuFire on AO3

Felix/Wiatt | @callmesummon | callmesummon on AO3

Rory | @ethereal-catharsis | ethereal_catharsis on AO3

@ensignsenna | Senna_B on AO3

Rime | @going-to-the-sun | RimeThyme on AO3 | AO3 Fic

LizzyDizzyYo | @lizzyverydizzyyo / @lizzydizzyyo | LizzyDizzyYo on AO3 | Tumblr Masterpost

Lucifer | @crypticidentity | crypticidentity on AO3

@omgiamwish

Mj-iza-writer | @mj-iza-writer

Mati | @whump-my-dear-watson

Ace | @aceofwhump

@veryrealimagination | CelticGHardy on AO3

[Completionist Post 1] [Completionist Post 2] [Completionist Post 4]

[lady-wallace]

Whumptober 2023 Masterpost

It's time for the official 2023 @whumptober masterpost!

Fandom and characters as well as the prompts used, are tagged for each day with links to both Ao3 and Tumblr

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Day 1: Safety Net | Swooning | 'How many fingers am I holding up?' Buddy Daddies (Kazuki) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 2: Thermometer | Delirium | 'They don't care about you.' Buddy Daddies (Rei) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 3: Solitary Confinement Shadow and Bone (Nikolai) Art Collab with @aini-nufire (Read Fic)

Day 4: Cattle Prod | Shock | alt prompt 15: Reluctant Whumper Jujitsu Kaisen (Gojo & Getou) Ao3

Day 5: Debris | Pinned Down | "It's broken" Hellsing (Integra) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 6: Recording | Made to Watch | 'It should have been me' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Narancia & Fugo) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 7: Radio Silence | 'Can you hear me?' Hellsing (Alucard) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 8: Outnumbered Jujitsu Kaisen (Gojo) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 9: Polaroid | Mistaken Identity JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Abbacchio) Ao3 | Tumblr Part 1/2 (Pt2 on Day 18)

Day 10: Broken Phone | Stranded | 'You said you'd never leave' Buddy Daddies (Kazuki) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 11: Captivity | 'No one will find you' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5-Vampire Hunter AU (Giorno) Ao3 | Tumblr Part 1/2 (Pt2 on Day 27)

Day 12: Red | alt prompt 8: Hunting JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5- Vampire Hunter AU (Bucciarati) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 13: Cold Compress | Infection | 'I don't feel so good' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5- Hearts of Gold Verse (Luciano Abbacchio) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 14: Water Inhalation | 'Just hold on' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Giorno) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 15: Makeshift Bandages | Suppressed Suffering | 'I'm Fine' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5- Hearts of Gold Verse (Bucciarati) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 16: Gurney | Flatline | 'Don't go where I can't follow' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Giorno) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 17: Collar | Touch Aversion | 'Leave me alone' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Fugo) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 18: Tortured for Info | 'Hit them harder' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Bucciarati) Ao3 | Tumblr Pt 2/2 (Pt1 on Day 9)

Day 19: Floral Bouquet | Psychological | 'I'm not as stupid as you think I am' Jujutsu Kaisen (Gojo) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 20: Blanket | Found Family | 'You'll regret touching them' Buddy Daddies (Rei & Kazuki) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 21: Vows | Restraints | 'Don't Move' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 4 (Josuke & Jotaro) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 22: Glass Shard | Vehicular Accident | 'Watch Out!' Jujutsu Kaisen (Gojo & Utahime) Art Collab with @waffles-in-winter (Read Fic)

Day 23: (alt prompt 7. 'Examination') JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Giorno) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 24: Goodbye Note | Neglect | 'I thought they were with you' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Narancia) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 25: Buried Alive | 'They're not breathing!' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5- Vampire Hunter AU (Abbacchio) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 26: Seeing Double | Working to Exhaustion | 'You look awful' Jujutsu Kaisen (Gojo) Ao3 | Tumblr (Collab with @waffles-in-winter)

Day 27: Scars | 'Let me see' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5- Vampire Hunter AU (Giorno) Ao3 | Tumblr Pt 2/2 (Pt1 on Day 11) Art by @waffles-in-winter

Day 28: Bloody Knife | Sacrifice | 'You'll have to go through me' Hellsing (Alucard) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 29: Scented Candle | Troubled Past Resurfacing | 'What happened to me?' Buddy Daddies (Rei) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 30: Borrowed Clothing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Everyone) Ao3 | Tumblr

Day 31: Setbacks | 'Take it Easy' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pt 5 (Bucciarati) Ao3 | Tumblr

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[29-pieces]

Part 4/10 art throwback - Uriel and his spirit animal, a leopard. Fanart for an AU Supernatural series by @aini-nufire, featuring angels with fighting spirit animals instead of wings! 

Episode 4 of Apocalypse Wars: The Mole.  Zachariah’s forces make a move to wipe out the rebel garrison. (featuring some awesome Cas whump, which I always love! Spoiler: Uriel is an assbutt.) 

Read here on AO3

Part 1: Cas and panther Part 2: Gabriel and eagle  Part 3: Lilith and hydra

[lemissingmask]

Doodles based on chapters 3-6 of an awesome fic by @aini-nufire - these do not come even close to doing the story itself justice, so if you haven't read it (or even if you have), please go read! (https://archiveofourown.org/works/31563695)

[oh-three]

11, 12, 23 and 36 for the writers ask game 😯

11.  Books and/or authors who influenced you the most.

The Ahsoka novel is an inspiration for a certain fic in the Guard series, that fic being a bit of a continuation of the last scene.

But for the most part, I've been influenced by a lot of the things I've read. So many books and authors (both fanfiction and published), all of their writing styles have influenced my own and given me ideas for my own writing. I simply can't really choose any single one.

12.  Describe your perfect writing space.

My perfect writing space is somewhere dark and quiet (other than my own river water ambience and music) where I won't get interrupted for hours.

Usually, it's my own room, but there were a couple classrooms at school that did it for me as well. Shame I won't be going back there (the school year starts this Monday, actually, so that's a weird feeling that my brothers will be gone all the time and I won't be till I get a job).

Back on topic, the darkness and near-silence keep me focused (I still get distracted- what else am I gonna do with ADHD- but I can more easily re-center my attention on my writing in this environment) a lot more than any other place can.

23.  Favourite author.

Published? Either James Dashner, Suzanne Collins, or Erin Hunter.

Fanfiction? Off the top of my head, @aini-nufire is definitely one of them. I follow so many that I can't even think of all my favorites. 😂

36.  Last sentence you wrote.

"...What is it?" He asks after about thirty seconds of those present just staring at him.

(this one's from the Guard series, inspiration on the opening of one of the next fics just hit right before my shower last night)

[procrastinatorproject]

Fic writer review, thank you to @thelaithlyworm  for the tag <3

how many works do you have on AO3?

Ten? Oh no, it’s actualy 12 now!

what’s your total AO3 word count?

86,468

how many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Grand total of 1: Star Trek: Picard - although my latest offering might branch a bit into other Trek as well.

what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

“Passengers”

“And a Barrel of Gagh”

“CMO’s Log”

“Preparations”

“Game Night”

Which is actually kinda interesting. I wrote Passengers, Preparations, and Game Night while the fandom was still a lot more active (especially in the Aramis in Space corner), so that makes sense. The CMO’s log has had chapters added every few months, giving it probably the most exposure of any of my fics. Barrel of Gagh, though? I think I’m gonna attribute that to Thimblerig turning it into a truly, TRULY brilliant piece of podfic. Also the fact that it’s whump involving a character played by Santiago Cabrera. ‘tis A Thing..... :D

do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I really try to! I love talking with people in the comments and just... thanking the people who found the time and energy to leave comments. But especially in the last few months I have gotten very bad at keeping up with the comments and now there’s about two dozen that I have neglected to reply to for a painfully long time 🙈

But I will get there! Because I love that kind of interaction!

what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

So far, none of them have had angsty endings. Angsty middles, yes, but not endings. I’m just a sucker for everyone being happy in the end. Or at least on the way to being better, and supported and cared for on that way.

do you write crossovers? if so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I haven’t yet, but I’m definitely not opposed. One of the threads of my 200k unpublishable whump scenes takes place in a continuity that has existed in my daydreams for... I wanna say six years at the very least, probably longer. It’s mostly straight-up Star Trek, but with the twist that it involves the Wraith, the telepathic, hive-minded alien race from Stargate: Atlantis that suck the life force out of you with their hands? Or, well, at least a variation thereof.

I once typed up the world building for that particular setting and it took me three hours to try and make it all make sense. So it’s... involved. But not necessarily “crazy”. And I’m not sure I’m ever actually going to publish any of the stories I have set in it (not least because that would envolve finishing any of them and bringing them into a form that is interesting to read for anyone but me...)

have you ever received hate on a fic?

Nope.

do you write smut? if so what kind?

Hm, not yet. I do enjoy reading smut, but only under very specific circumstances. I think I may eventually try my hand at smut, but the inner prude is still very strong. Writing about Rios and Xyr making out (which, honestly, was really tame, all things considered) made me melt in a puddle of blushing embarrassment, so full-on smut is probably beyond me at the moment. One day!

have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of. Though litigating that in a fandom like ours would be... tricky. ST:Pic is way too small to steal stories outright. But similar or the same ideas pop up all the time. And it’s a complete coincidence. Reading the book that recently came out and that has a kinda similar setting to a lot of my stories (pre-season 1, early in Rios’s history as captain of Sirena, dealing with original characters, holo shenanigans, friendship with Raffi, etc.), I was struck by just how many elements, both scenes or story beats and little details, were similar to things that have cropped up in my writing. And it is entirely coincidental, because I am beyond certain that the author doesn’t read fanfic. Just... for legal reasons. Not to mention I wrote a bunch of the things I saw parallels to while the book was already in production, and some of them are only in my drafts.

So there is a ton of convergent evolution going on in this particular section of the fandom, and trying to litigate who came up with certain plot ideas or character beats when would be a sysiphean disaster. Some things are clear and whenever I use any of them I give credit where I can, but people will have very similar ideas. It just happens. So no, I haven’t had either a full-on story or “an idea” stolen, and I might change my tune if it ever does happen, but so far, I’m trying to practice equanimity, so I’ll be better at it should I ever need it.

have you ever had a fic translated?

Sadly no. My dad keeps complaining that all my fic is in English so he can’t read any of it, but honestly? I’m kinda glad for this very convenient excuse. Maybe if I ever feel like I want to practice my interpreting skills, I will give translating the stories into German a shot. We’ll see. Otherwise, if anyone feels inspired: Have at it! Just let me know, okay?

have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not quite. I have a draft of off-the-cuff worldbuilding that I wrote on Discord with @curator-on-ao3 and that I would love to turn into an actual short fic (letters from a conference on holo-ethics), but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

what’s your all time favorite ship?

I don’t really do shipping.

what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I WILL NEVER ACCEPT DEFEAT!!!! One day, I will write the next installment of Star Trek: La Sirena! I have so many ideas for that continuity and those characters. I’m not going to abandon them!

what are your writing strengths?

Hmmmmm. Probably detailed worldbuilding? Ask me something about, say, a technological or cultural aspect of Star Trek and chances are, I have thought about it in the past or will come up with three different sets of intricate lore within half an hour. (Things like... the architecture of San Francisco, or Will there still be taxi drivers? or the treaty between IKEA Intergalactic and the Borg Collective, or the Universal Translator, or Emergency Services or Why There Are Very Few Ambulances On Earth Anymore etceterah etceterah...)

I’m also good at slapping together off-the-cuff plot ideas (if, say, you need an explanation for how Seven and Agnes ended up stranded on a desert island, I could probably give you three different scenarios pretty quickly. Just don’t ask me to make them poignant or actually write them.

I’m also very, very good at beginnings.

what are your writing weaknesses?

Everything that isn’t a beginning. Especially endings, or rather: finishing something, but also just... keeping momentum.

I think my dialogue is somewhat samey and not distinct enough between characters. (Also my witty banter is... let’s just say it doesn’t come to me naturally...)

And I also struggle with keeping things brief and to the point. I can write you 30k of whump covering a span of three hours, but fitting a whole story in the same space? Much more difficult!

I have also avoided writing full-on action so far, but where it has crept in it has always been a struggle and been workshopped a lot with the indefatigable beta.

Otherwise, I don’t know. My self-perception is always a little warped, so I’m not sure what other people would say my weaknesses are.

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Oof. Well. I have used Spanish sentences in my fic and done the thing where they’re translated in the end note, but I’ve mostly done it sparingly. I’ve also done the ‘“What do you want?” he said in Spanish.’ It’s tricky. But I will likely keep doing it in some instances, even if it’s a bit annoying.

(It also really helps to have a native speaker of Spanish as a beta, even if it’s Spanish from a different region than you’re character.)

Speaking of regional: I’m also torn about the whole “phonetically writing out accents” issue. Some people love it, some people hate it, I’m really unsure because I’m not a native speaker of English, so I’m not even sure I’m consistent in my narrative voice’s regional quirks. So far, I’ve mostly gone with describing that an accent is happening, and only writing out when phrasing actually differs from standard English. Like Ian (Scottish) saying “dinnae” but not writing “I” as “ah” as you’d see on, say, Scottish twitter.

Though it can be a very useful tool if, for instance, you want to indicate a characters accent getting stronger as they get tired or upset. 🧐

Anyway, I don’t think there is one right or wrong answer here and everyones milage will vary.

what was the first fandom you wrote for?

Published? ST:PIC

Actually first? Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Pretty much simultaneously, though I did write more for LotR. On graph paper, mind, with my fountain pen turned upside down so I could write smaller. I still have folders worth of those stories that I urgently need to digitize before they fade and I lose them forever...

what’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I’m going to quote @thelaithlyworm here: I Love All My Children Equally! I honestly couldn’t say. They are different and I love them for different reasons but I love them all.

Thank you for the tag! ❤ I’ve kinda lost track of who all has done this already or has already been tagged, so feel free to ignore me! But I tink I’m tagging @curator-on-ao3, @aini-nufire, @29-pieces, @flowers-creativity, @highfunctioningflailgirl, @cristobalrios and @the-goofball. And anyone else whom I forgot or who feels inspired to do this!

[angelfishofthelord]

I wrote this post about fix-it fics where the boys are actually there for Cas in all the times he suffered alone in show and then @bluejaybug and @alphamano asked for the list so here you go! I divided them up by seasons; most of them are all one-shots or episode codas but there are a couple of longer ones.

Season 5:

We Will Work With Each Other, We Will Work Side by Side by @maychorian: post 5x13 the boys look after Cas

The Sleeping Safety Squad by @inkandpaperqwerty: during 5x13 Sam looks after Cas when he suffers from time travel complications

Season 6:

Not Quickly Broken by @littlehollyleaf : post 6x22 where the boys help save Cas

Season 7:

Silent and Still by @wallmakerrelict: Dean talks to Cas before leaving him in 7x17

Perspective by @purplearrowzandleather: the boys actually visit Cas in the hospital

Good Things Do Happen by @darkestsight: the boys forgive Cas like family

Season 8:

Breakdown Lanes by @dustlines: Dean helps Cas deal with his suicidal thoughts

Bound to Follow You Down by @littlehollyleaf : Dean and Sam figure out what was going on with Naomi and help Cas

Home by shinigami_yumi: someone (Sam) is nice to Cas when he comes back post 8x22

Season 9:

Always Welcome by @endlessnepenthe: Cas is safe and warm in the Bunker for his first human night

The Loss of Healing by @a-rose-with-a-thorn: the boys find Cas and take him home

Season 10:

This Time by @aini-nufire: the boys find Cas dying from the stolen grace

Season 11:

Consequences by @fromcenotaphy: Cas doesn't go to the angels and instead Sam finds him and takes care of him.

Traumatized by dragonwriter24cmf: the boys talk to Cas about his tv binge-watching and ptsd

Netflix Novacaine by @catalogercas: 11x06 coda where Dean talks to Cas about what Metatron said

Live and Let Die by @aini-nufire: Sam talks to Cas about the self-worth issues that led to Cas saying yes to Lucifer

Season 12:

Living Arrangements by @fromcenotaphy: early s12 where Dean makes sure Cas knows he's family

Everything by @castielsdisciple: the boys realize how their deal in 12x09 would have affected Cas

Season 13:

The Last Star of Mo(u)rning by @lies-unfurl: Cas tells Dean about Naomi and the angels

Everything Ends by @aini-nufire: post 13x19 the boys help Cas deal with what he found out in Heaven

Wenn Die Engel Fallen by @29-pieces: Sam checks on Cas after the confrontation with his apocalypse - world self

Season 15:

this room is wrong by @castielsdisciple: post 15x03 Sam goes to find Cas

Stitches (hold together) by lynx357: post 15x03 Cas gets taken care of by the Wayward Sisters and Jody

Out in the Open by @paclipas-blog: post 15x03 Dean gets his head out of his ass

If you know of any more good fix-it fics feel free to add onto the list! Especially for s10~ that stolen grace situation is sorely lacking in fix-its. Also thank you to all you beautiful writers for giving us what the show never did

[sternenblumen]

Fanfic writing tag

Thank you for the tag, @privateerstudies!

Side note: Usually, my writing stuff goes on @flowers-creativity!

how many works do you have on AO3?

 23

what’s your total AO3 word count?

135676 (woah!)

how many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Four (on AO3) - Stranger Things, The Musketeers, Leverage, Stardew Valley

what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Normalcy and Safety Small Things The One Bed Job Whumptober 2019 - The Musketeers Bad Luck

do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Aaaaah, I’m very ashamed and embarrassed because a lot of (most of?) the time I don’t, because of social anxiety and stuff 🥺. I try to! I should maybe go through the unanswered ones and answer them with a blanket “Thank you” so I can answer any new ones without feeling guilty and bad about not answering the old ones?

what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I actually think I have no angsty endings?! Plenty of angst in between but I try finishing on a positive or hopeful note.

do you write crossovers? if so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I don’t have any crossovers so far.

have you ever received hate on a fic?

No. Well, there was one time where I took some passive-aggressive negative comment as referring to Bad Luck and was very insecure about it ... But nothing openly hateful.

do you write smut? if so what kind?

I don’t write smut.

have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

have you ever had a fic translated?

No. (afaik) (Back in the day when I wrote German Elfquest fanfic, I sometimes translated a drabble myself.)

have you ever co-written a fic before?

No.

what’s your all time favorite ship?

I don’t really do all that much shipping ... I’m very fond of the Leverage OT3, Stoncy and Constagnan, afhgsfvd.

what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Theoretically, I always wanted to finish the challenges I’ve taken part in where I didn’t do all the prompts (Whumptober & Co.) but yeah, I don’t think that’s happening (see: Whumptober 2021 is right around the corner, and I haven’t finished 2019 and 2020 ...).

what are your writing strengths?

Uhm. People say I’m good at writing the characters true to themselves? I’m not bad at whump/injuries and action and at banter, I guess. And I have a pretty “clean”, straightforward style.

what are your writing weaknesses?

Plotting (I’m the ultimate pantser) and research ^^’.

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I’m very insecure on how to format/embed it ... Also, please ask native speakers if it’s a language you don’t speak yourself!

what was the first fandom you wrote for?

On AO3? Stranger Things. Of all times? Elfquest

what’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Do you ask people who their favourite child is, too XD? That’s haaaaard! Okay, one that I really felt I had to write was Four Long Years (because discord in friendships is hard and there’s never only one side to a story).

Tagging @29-pieces, @aini-nufire, @gremlinbehaviour, @little-ligi and @lady-wallace if you haven’t done it yet (and feel inclined to do so) - also anyone else who sees this and wants to do it!

[playing-with-inks]

Song in Your Presence

Gift fic for @gemennair-rb! Hope you enjoy! Thank you for recommending the Silmarillion to me this past year. It has certainly become one of my all time favorites. Also, thank you @aini-nufire for beta reading!

Song in Your Presence

“Look, Maitimo! Found another good one!”

Fingon had been fond of nautilus seashells since he was a child. He loved them all, and cherished even the broken ones he discovered. While silently listening to his younger cousin's enthusiasm over collecting them, Maedhros often participated in helping Fingon find his new treasures. After their steps left happy footprints upon the soft white sands one morning, Fingon even brought the shells with them on their trip to the Two Trees.

It was a rare time when countless blue butterflies came for a visit to soak their wings under the lights of the Two Trees before their next collective migration. The air had become an ether sea during this hour, as a chorus of blue wings rejoiced in their light kissed flight.

Deeply stirred by the sublime beauty of the moment, Fingon took out his harp and composed a new song for the Two Trees and the visiting winged creatures playing among the mingling lights. Like a single chord drawn out of two separate strings, Fingon wove two themes of Time into his music. His new song enveloped the independent rhythms of the ephemeral butterflies and the ageless light of the Two Trees inside one poet’s dream—commanding them to become interdependent with one another amidst his song. And free as the infinitely many waves harmonizing within one ocean, all the lights and the butterflies moved and sang with him like a contrapuntal polyphony within one unifying musical dimension.

(Continue reading in the link below!)

Song in Your Presence

[lady-wallace]

Whumptober Day 3: Solitary Confinement

My @whumptober post today is part of a collab with @aini-nufire ! I did a couple illustrations for her Shadow and Bone fanfic today. Go check it out (and her others) if you enjoy Nikolai whump ^_^

READ THE FIC HERE

[29-pieces]

Art throwback, part 8 of 10: Hael and butterflies. Traditional art, stippled micron pen (that’s aaaaaaall tiny dots, baby!) 

I love that in @aini-nufire‘s Supernatural AU series, Hael was actually one of the GOOD GUYS, and in fact a really sweet character. In the AU canon, she’s one of the healer angels, evident by her gentle butterflies rather than one of the fighting spirit animals. Read it here on AO3!

Episode 8: Profound Bond.  An attempt to kill the Devil has deadly consequences for the Winchesters and Castiel.

Part 1: Cas and panther Part 2: Gabriel and eagle Part 3: Lilith and hydra Part 4: Uriel and leopard Part 5: Lucifer and dragon Part 6: Balthazar and fox  Part 7: Muriel and osprey

[enigma-the-mysterious]

For your end-of-year writing meme: 1, 14, 25

1. Favorite fic you wrote this year

I answered this here

14. A fic you didn’t expect to write

The Porthos whump-fest that is my prompt fill for the Day 7 Whumptober theme Support/Carrying. I had planned on writing something else for this day but oh well.

25. A fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

Oh, there are many, many such fics, how am I expected to choose only one?

There's @happydaygirlfanfiction 's amazing Musketeers/Old Guard crossover Forever is our Today

@talvenhenki 's bittersweet Man on the Bridge/Shielding a Candle in The Winds of Change

@dropdeadjack 's hilarious laugh-fest Just for Once in Your Life, Aramis, Don't Smash

@smhalltheurlsaretaken 's Cris Rios angst/whump-fest Comme Un Fils

@aini-nufire ‘s entire Musketeer Dragon Rider Series

And many, many more that my little brain cannot remember right now!

[flowers-creativity]

I managed to write something!

I sat down this afternoon and just started, without plotting, without anything, and about an hour later, I had just about 1k words and the first finished Whumptober fic. So I still can do it, yay 🎉!

Here’s a little snippet:

Athos sighed and let his head sink back against the wall behind him carefully. He cast his mind back to try and figure out how he had ended up in this situation. There had been a mission, he remembered, just d'Artagnan and him while Aramis and Porthos had stayed behind at the Garrison and hopefully were staying out of trouble. Instead, trouble had found Athos, obviously.

(Tagging my dear homebound bards: @aini-nufire, @29-pieces, @lady-wallace, @procrastinatorproject, @lonelyislanddaydreamer, @smhalltheurlsaretaken, @regionalpancake)

[helianthus21]

Heli’s Fix-It Rec List

So a while ago I was asking for some fix-its for the Casifer storyline and got some amazing recs. And because they were all so good for my bitter heart, I decided to compile a list of spn fix-it recs by the season. The hashtags give info about whether the fic is gen or has a ship (which would be Destiel bc. you know me) and what issue the fic is trying to resolve or fix, as well as other things that I thought should be mentioned.

Here we go:

Season 8

A Room Of One’s Own by NorthernSparrow All Dean wants is a little privacy. Cas doesn't understand.

#destiel #explicit #post-s6 guilt #closure for godstiel

Season 9

Human Perspective by skydark Post 8x23 AU.  After the fall Dean realizes he's not trying teach Castiel to be human for purely selfless reasons; he hopes to gain something from it, too.

#destiel #human!Cas #endgame angel!cas #trueforms #team free heaven

There Are Many Things by imogenbynight In which Dean and Castiel learn, through trial and error, how to be together.

#destiel #9x03 #human!cas

My heart is beating from me by Enochian Things (Salr323) After Rexford, Castiel tries to live a normal life and Dean tries to let him go...  But nothing’s ever that easy.(Canon divergent from s9e06 “Heaven Can’t Wait”)

#destiel #human!cas #Daphne Allen #suicidal thoughts

Forgotten by NorthernSparrow Sam and Dean are working a case in Wyoming, but are distracted by news of a dangerous angel called "Castiel" who they can't remember ever having heard of before. The name seems a little bit familiar, but neither of the boys is sure why.

#gen fic #team free will #amnesia #human!cas #you will cry ur eyes out #i’m not kidding

Flight by NorthernSparrow Sequel to Forgotten. A/U from mid season 9. Castiel is human and wounded, and Dean and Sam need to get his grace back - and his wings. Things do not go as intended and Cas faces a difficult road. 

#destiel #team free will #wing fic #suicidal thoughts #Sam/OFC #you will sob

Season 10

Playing With Fire by aini-nufire When Charlie unearths the Book of the Damned, she draws the attention of the notorious Styne family, who will stop at nothing to get it back. And even with the help of an angel and a phoenix, the Winchesters might have bitten off more than they can chew…

#gen fic #Charlie lives

The Forever Crown by whichstiel Charlie's back on earth after being dead for over a year. As she investigates her mysterious resurrection, something lurks near her old Michigan stomping grounds.

#Charlie lives #Charlie/Gilda

The Most Important Thing by NorthernSparrow Jimmy Novak remembers nothing of the last six years. Reunited with his troubled daughter Claire, he's struggling to raise her on his own. The most important thing is to make Claire happy. But why does he keep having these dreams of wings, and of two men in a black car? (Canon-divergent from S10E11, when we first met Claire again and Dean was still struggling with the Mark of Cain. Takes places several months later).

#destiel #amnesia #team free will #Cas & Claire

Season 11

What is Hidden, What is Seen by ExpatGirl The Darkness has descended, and Castiel must make a choice. What, in reality, is the nature of Free Will, and where does love end and self-effacement begin? And why didn't Castiel know about the Mark of Cain and its relation to The Darkness in the first place? This began as a one-shot called "The Hanged Man" and has turned into...something else.

#destiel #s11 rewrite #Charlie lives #Hannah lives #Cas deserved better #trueform

Pieces by Castiel_For_King Castiel switched places with the Devil to give the world one last chance.  Almost a year after taking his place in the cage, Sam and Dean finally manage to get him out.  Unfortunately, some pieces got left behind.

#post-casifer #trauma recovery #wing fic #team free will #temporary amnesia

There’s An Angel In These Woods by Castiel_For_King "It had hurt, Dean remembered.  It had hurt deeply whenever he would snap out of worry or raise his voice in frustration and Cas would shrink away from him with fear flashing in his eyes and move instinctively towards Sam – where he felt safe, away from the threat, away from Dean.  It was that – seeing Cas looking at him like he was the dangerous thing that made his wings tremble and spread – which had been the driving force behind Dean’s quest to temper his ingrained reflexes and make an effort to act less like…well, a hunter.  Because he’d only just recently learned that it made Cas feel like prey.  Even if the angel didn’t understand what it was that he was feeling."

#destiel #post-casifer #trauma recovery #wing fic #team free will #Jesse/Cesar

Favorite Son by aini-nufire Coda to 11x18: Amara's plan to get God's attention works.Now with follow-up chapter after 11x20

#post-casifer #gen fic #team free will #Chuck & Cas

We Band of Brothers by LadyWallace S11 AU—Amara must be defeated, but Sam and Dean can’t do it alone, thus some unexpected help arrives in the newly resurrected archangels. But figuring out how to save Cas and Lucifer from Amara and creating a trap that will hold her might be too much to handle. Will they survive the final fight, or will the world fall into Darkness? Gen-No Slash

#gen fic #casifer #team free will #angel brothers

Three Angels Walk Into A Bar by 29-pieces Lucifer can't take on Amara by himself. Michael is useless, but there's another archangel that he might turn to - one who is none too happy about his big brother parading around in Castiel's body. Oh, or that whole thing where Cas is being tortured instead of left alone. Even if they beat Amara, how are they supposed to rescue Cas when the Devil holds all the cards? S11 AU

#gen fic #casifer #team free will #angel brothers

Season 12

The Choice by aini-nufire Post 12x19 “The Future” - It takes them a year to find Cas.

#brain washing #gen fic #team free will

The Sum Of My Regrets by procasdeanating “A quick trip to the past, that’s all. Look Cas, I know we can’t do anything about all the innocent people getting into the crossfire of our battles, but this I can do. Let me rescue this child and give Lily Sunder back her life. What can possibly go wrong?” In which Dean Winchester travels through time, learns a thing or two about best laid plans and falls in love with an angel – all over again.

#destiel #minor character undeath #cas in a female vessel #Lily Sunder

[procrastinatorproject]

First Line Tag Game

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line, then tag 10 of your favorite authors! 

Thanks so much to @aini-nufire​ for tagging me! I do not have your self-restraint at all (and am also a very slow writer with a very small back-catalogue), so I’m going to put in some teasers of things I’m working on at the moment.

Okay, let’s see.

1. Passengers: “Absolutely not!” 

2. Game Night: The cool semi-darkness of ship’s night seemed to amplify the ambient hum of the warp drive as it reverberated around the empty corridors

3. Preparations: Cris finished typing in the sequence and hit ‘Execute’.

4. A Night at the Opera: “I’m fine, really, there’s no need for this!” 

5. Corset of Thorns: She had gotten her MD at the almost-record-breaking age of 18 years and 3 months (curse you, Balamurali Ambati!). 

6. IKEA Intergalactic: Sasha yawned heartily and put down her hammer.

7. And a Barrel of Gagh: “ The first thing Cris noticed when he woke up was the hum of a badly calibrated impulse engine reverberating painfully through his head.”

8. CMO’s Log: This one is tricky since it’s essentially a collection of entirely dialogue-based short stories, though they all open with a version of: [Automated audio transcript, file EMH-23990916-3.]

And thus we reach the end of my tragically puny catalogue of published fic. Let me see if I can find some other interesting things floating around my various projects.

9. Star Trek: La Sirena, ep. 2 (follow-up to Passengers): A persistent chime called him out of his stupor.

10. Mornings in Mess Hall (Interlude between Passengers and ep. 2): Sophie read through her abstract for the third time, her frown deepening with every sentence.

11. Another interlude, a short scene between Emmet, Emil, and Ayame, one of the passengers, set after episode 2: The metallic clang of clashing bat’leths echoed through the small room, accompanied by the sound of scuffling feet and the occasional strained grunt.

12. As of yet unnamed Raffi whump that is growing to epic proportions: “Wow, you look like shit!”

13. Cosmic Detours (a collection of short Enoch-centric stories): Dear Xyr, I hope this message finds you well and you’re enjoying your well-earned holiday.

14. The very first Sirena-centric story I ever wrote, first serious story I wrote in almost 10 years, and first bit of my own writing I shared with someone in at least 15: Alex half supported half dragged the delirious captain towards the docking ring. (This is actually the incident that Emmet cryptically alludes to in the latest chapter of the the CMO’s Log)

15. Latest post on Mapping La Sirena: I realized today that although I’ve had the screenshots for a couple of months now, I never actually sat down to stitch together and upload the set plans and design images from the Picard Season 1 Blu-Ray featurette Set Me Up.

I think I’m gonna stop here XD Do I notice any patterns? Hmmm.... I like to start on dialogue, though apparently I don’t open as many stories with it as I thought (a good number of scenes and chapters open on dialogue, though). And my opening sentences are a lot shorter than I would have feared. The Mapping post gives you an idea of how long a sentence of mine would commonly be :D

Do I have a favourite one? I like a lot of them, though I find it extremely hard to separate my feelings about the sentences themselves from the feelings about the fics. If I have to choose, I’m probably gonna go with 5, Corset of Thornes. I really like that funny little aside there and am still very happy I did enough research to be able to make that joke.

I have completely lost track of who has already done this, so if I’m tagging you even though you already posted one of these, I read yours, I enjoyed it quite a bit, and then I forgot again because my brain is a horrible sieve at the moment. So absolutely no pressure, but if this is something you might enjoy, go for it! @regionalpancake​, @thelaithlyworm​, @jazzfic​, @spinifex-ao3​, @highfunctioningflailgirl​, @notajoinerofthings​ and whoever else might feel inspired! (I probably forgot a bunch of important people, but again: sieve.)