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s0fter-sin · 5 months ago

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kneeling is a broad term for what ghost does with price

surrendering is slightly more accurate but even that doesn’t hope to touch the sheer desperation in the way he clutches at him; his body bowed low at his feet, his legs latched around one of his, hugging it so tightly to his chest his arms shake as he digs his face into his thigh

it’s only here that he can finally give in to the screaming; to the distant voice he strangles into silence every day of his life. the one who begs him to make himself as small as possible; do everything he can to hide from the ever encroaching demons growling and salivating at his heels

it’s only here, in the dark of price’s barracks, hidden by a bed at his back and a wall to his front, that he finally lets himself stop running; only between solid combat boots and worn fatigues does he let himself tremble and admit to the choking fear

he’d break open price’s chest if he could; crawl past his gushing viscera and curl up under his ribs, hidden in the warm dark

ghost clawed his way out of the grave with broken nails and gritted teeth but he wouldn’t mind being buried again if it meant being cradled in the safety of price’s insides. his warm blood and soft lungs would blanket him, mask the stench of his rotten flesh until he could even convince himself that, maybe, he too was still alive

he shifts, unnerved by his own longing, and price runs his hand over the crown of his mask the same way he’d card it through his hair until he settles once more

he grounds him over the long hours it takes for his white-knuckled grip to relax into a loose hold; for his face to stop grinding into the meat of his thigh and simply rest in his lap, his bracketing legs the only thing holding his lax body up as he floats, untethered by fear

#who up babygirling they ghost #ghost rejecting all vulnerability until he physically can’t suppress it any more #so he does the only thing he can #he goes to his captain #the one person who can make him feel small and protected #i nearly made this ghoap bc i know its more popular but i just write ghost so different when hes with price #he has a different kind of vulnerability with his than he does with soap at least in my canon #price gives him a different sense of safety; not only that hes watching his six but so much so that ghost doesnt need to be on guard at all #nothing will get past price #hes too stalwart; an unbroken pillar of strength #theres history there that he just doesnt have with soap #priceghost just hits different #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #we’re a team. ghost team #priceghost #ghostprice #ghost cod #simon ghost riley #price cod #john price #captain john price #cod fic #cod mw2 #cod mwii #cod modern warfare #save post

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obihoebikenobi · 3 months ago

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obihoebikenobi's poolverine fics

Was not expecting to get into a new hyperfixation this year, but alas. The sum of my 50K in poolverine fics I've written over the past three months.

no one's touched me there in a damn hot minute 4.7K, E

Logan's healing factor makes it hard to reach orgasm, Wade doesn't mind a challenge.

a loaded gun, can't contain this anymore (i'm all yours, i've got no control) 6.3K, E

Logan's claws won't come out, so Wade fucks them out of him.

you're too sweet for me 4.8K, E

Wade makes good on Logan's request to be fucked to sleep.

have a body, feel the groove (cyber system overload) 8.1K, E

Running series: claw problems

2/? parts, ongoing, 10.6K words

written on these walls are the colors that i can't change 4.2K, M

Logan cuts his hands open when his claws won't come out. Wade walks in on it.

a loaded gun, can't contain this anymore (i'm all yours, i've got no control) 6.3K, E

Logan's claws won't come out, so Wade fucks them out of him.

Running series: to gain true love, one must first lose their wolvirginity, i don't make the rules

5/? parts, ongoing, 23.6K words

i wanna hold your hand (and colossal dick, eventually)

One pull-out couch, two bitches, vomiting, and the works.

a little bit more than hand holding

Wade loses his wolvirginity.

lesser of two evils, right?

Logan gets migraines, but also gets a massage, and an orgasm. It's a lot.

holding hands (gone sexual)

Logan explores his feelings with Wade, makes waffles for Wade, gets fucked by Wade, falls in love...with Wade.

and they were boyfriends (and roomates)

Wade takes a mid love-confession job, Logan drinks about it. Cue angst. Subsequently, boyfriendship.

Please be mindful of the tags on ao3 :)

#poolverine #poolverine fic rec #no better motivation for writing than a fandom that's less than six months old and a billion ideas that only I have to write myself #fanfiction #deadclaws #deadpool and wolverine #deadpool #wolverine #logan howlett #wade wilson #wade x logan #fanfic #ao3

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a-neru-neru · 1 month ago

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corvus thoughts. and im still on this fic series. apologies for so much stuff at once

#with the most recent fic maybe the sketch can be something that they get to have eventaully #i only realized after finishing corvus was also supposed to have armor and more hand-like talons #and is probably slightly more humanoid #but the idea of kasati and six being able to sleep next to him like this pushed me towards basically a slightly strange giant cat #kasati nuon #night lords #i assume he can alter his form at will to some degree so maybe this would work too idk. im much better in general at more fantasy oriented #creature designs #so this was a bit easier

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miraculouslbcnreactions · 25 days ago

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The fandom can't make up its mind on what's supposed to be a joke and what's supposed to be serious because the show can't either half the time. It's a tonally disjointed mess that wants to have absurd over-the-top humor as well as a plot and moments of drama, romance, and angst that demand you see the characters as people and feel for what they're going through. Except you can't do that without also treating the dumb bullshit in a somewhat grounded way. Like, you're still dealing with the same characters. You can't just go "Oh, that? Let's ignore that!" the moment it's no longer convenient to you. You've opened this can of worms and now you have to sleep in it. So, every character flip-flops between two different versions of themselves depending on what the writers need in any particular scene.

This is not to say surreal humor can't be used right alongside characters you're supposed to empathize with, Teen Titans (not Go) did that and it worked. It's just that the absurdity can only come from the setting (Mad Mod, Mother Mae-Eye, pretty much anything Control Freak is in) or from designated joke characters (Date With Destiny). Teen Titans never had the main characters acting in clearly absurd ways as the butt of a joke unless those characters were brainwashed somehow, because the writers knew that would ruin any of the more grounded moments they wanted to write. The writers of Miraculous missed the memo on that one.

I don't disagree. A perfect example is Derision where the show takes all of the bad jokes about Marinette's crush and decides to take them seriously as if you can possible take them seriously without making Marinette come across as unhinged and dangerous. You can't, which brings us to the topic at hand: how do you even begin to understand these characters when the show is constantly making character-breaking choices?

My approach - and the approach I recommend others take if they're going to keep watching the show - is to focus on the characters' cores and reject anything canon does to violate those cores. I don't argue for this stance because I love the characters so much that I only want the good things to count. I take this stance because, if you don't, then the characters fall apart. There is no way to make them work as fully realized characters while embracing every choice canon has made. Miraculous has massive characterization issues that go well beyond the humor.

For example, Adrien has multiple moments of terrible behavior that are played in a serious manner such as the moment in the episode Frozer where he tries to start a fight with Ladybug in the middle of an akuma attack because she wouldn't accept a rose from him earlier:

Setup

Ladybug: I can't accept this rose from you. I told you already. I'm in love with someone else. Cat Noir: I know, M'lady. But if he weren't here, would things be different between us? Ladybug: Well, you know, I can't even begin to imagine him not being here. I'm sorry, Cat Noir. I really gotta get going, and you better do the same. (Swings her yo-yo to head back home; Cat Noir is sad, looking downwards, with one petal of the rose falling.)

Payoff

Ladyice: Cat Noir. We need to set up a trap for whoever turned the city into a giant ice rink. (throws yo-yo) Icecat: (bitterly) My feline instincts prefer to track and observe before I attack. You go your way, I'll go mine. Ladyice: Please don't tell me you're mad at me about the rose. Icecat: There may be a certain chill now between us. Ladyice: I get it, but we should really focus on saving Paris right now. Icecat: We don't always have to do everything together, after all. It's not like we're a couple. (skates away)

There's no way to argue this off as a bad joke. While Adrien has every right to feel hurt, those feelings don't excuse him acting like a pouting child in the middle of an akuma fight. It doesn't excuse him acting like this at any point! Ladybug is not a villain for telling him no. She wasn't even mean about it!

I clearly fully agree that Adrien looks awful and selfish here, but I'd still argue that it's not something that should be used to define Adrien's character if your goal is to tell the "ideal" version of Miraculous. "Ideal" being the version that canon seems to be going for based on the overall picture we can sort of make out if we back way, way, way up and look at the extremely abstract picture canon is clumsily painting.

Unless canon is going to do something monumentally stupid, Adrien is Marinette's endgame romantic interest. It's also clear that there is no plan to cut him from the team. He's going to be Chat Noir for the rest of his life or at least well into his adulthood. This means that he is supposed to be a good hero who deserves his miraculous just like he's supposed to be a charming and cute romantic lead. These are the two things I keep in mind when trying to shift through canon to figure out what writing choices I should fully embrace and what writing choices I have to either ignore or treat as true flaws that get an actual character arc. In my book, either approach is fine because most of the characters are deeply flawed at this point and you can't give them all arcs without bloating the story to nonsense levels.

My goal with this approach is never to say, "oh, that moment shouldn't count in terms of how people feel about the character." It's more, "that moment goes so hard against who this character is very clearly supposed to be that I can't take it into account if I want to tell the kind of story that Miraculous is trying (and clearly failing) to tell."

As an example, let's list off Adrien's worst behaviors. The things that make him look terrible:

He sucks at communicating his needs and feelings, leading to multiple moments where he gets mad at Ladybug for things she's totally unaware of

He has quit or considered quitting without warning multiple times and only one of those was because of something he did "wrong" (NYC Special)

He puts his feelings before the safety of Paris on multiple occasions, even going so far to purposely miss akuma fights to see what happens

He is incredibly pushy about his crush, often ignoring Ladybug's feelings on the topic by continuing to bring it up even after she asked him to stop

There have been multiple instances where he almost cataclysmed multiple people in a fit of anger

His love for Ladynette isn't strong enough to let him break free of things like akumas and nightmare dust even when he's looking her in the eyes making him a pretty crappy romantic lead

People will argue that some of this behavior makes sense for his character because of the abuse that canon has technically introduced, but that the writers seem blissfully unaware of. I don't disagree with that argument, but that doesn't change the fact that none of this is acceptable behavior for a hero and Adrien is a hero who keeps doing these things. A sad backstory doesn't give you the right to behave poorly without consequences.

At the same time, if I fully embrace these elements of canon, what I get is an Adrien salt fic where he loses his miraculous for good while Marinette finds her real true love or even just a non-salty fic where Adrien leaves for his own meatal health and gets replaced by someone who can handle being a hero right now. Canon's not writing either of those, so the only way to engage with these flaws while enjoying canon or aiming for the same end goals as canon is to say, "I guess this doesn't count" or "I guess I need to tone this way down and work through it via a character arc" or even "I guess that was just a bad joke maybe?"

That is the essence of what I mean when I call myself a writing salt, character sugar blog. It comes from looking at canon and seeing that there's simply no way to embrace the worst moments and the best at the same time. We're not dealing with a coherent plot and/or complex characters. We're dealing with a nonsense plot that will warp the characters to bizarre shapes to make random ideas work even if those idea go wildly against canon's end goals.

As an example, Glaciator and Frozer should not exist in the same universe or, at the very least, something should explain why Chat Noir randomly changed his stance on Ladybug's crush from acceptance to pushiness. As is, the pieces don't fit together. The behavior is too contradictory. Remember, this is how Glaciator ends:

Perhaps Ladybug will love me someday. I mean, like, I love her. I have to believe. In the meantime, her friendship is the best gift of all.

Where did this version of Adrien go? Why did he regress in Frozer? There's no in-universe reason. It happened because the writers weren't ready to let the love square date or grow close, but they also wanted the love square to cause drama, so Adrien ends up looking terrible just like Marinette ends up looking terrible when it's her turn to cause love square drama. Her terribleness takes a different flavor so it can be hard to realize that this is a systemic issue, but that's what it is. It's deeply frustrating, but it also clearly stems from cheap writing and not quality characterization.

This is also why my stance is that canon as a whole only supports my Doyalistic core-character analysis style of approach. The writing is too poor quality to do Watsonian analysis where you embrace the full picture and try to put it all together. The closest I'll get to Watsonian analysis is pointing out how much the writing botches a Watsonian take by showing you all the way the writing contradicts itself, twisting into a nonsense pretzel of frustration where the payoffs never satisfy! (See the season four rant for an example or anything where I talked about Chloe's supposed damnation arc.)

There are even characters where canon is such a total mess that you can Doyalistically argue for two separate takes! Gabriel is a perfect example. He is all over the place and his ending was so poorly handled that you can make strong arguments for writing him as a cold-hearted villain or a sympathetic villain without the end result feeling like it spits in the face of canon because both takes maintain his one core element: villain.

That's the big thing I keep in mind when I look at the characters and the lore and the plots and try to come up with versions that the average fan would like. I don't think that there's one true version of any of these things, but I do feel comfortable saying that there are versions that will very clearly only appeal to people who are salty about a specific thing that canon did poorly. That's not who I want to appeal to in my adaptions, so while I'm not going to argue that those takes have no backing in canon, I will argue that those takes are not supported by canon as a whole. Embracing them requires you to take the worst parts of canon at face value while ignoring what canon is clearly trying to do with the overall story.

I get the appeal of that, but it's not fun for me because that approach feels like rolling around in the mud with the pigs. I don't want to sink to canon's level! I want to have fun! That's why I talk about how to make canon into its best self, not its worst self. If you want its worst self, just go watch the actual show. I will be shocked it if disappoints you.

#anon ask #ml writing critical #ml writing salt #pandaofsecrets #character core #Once again none of this is meant to excuse any specific actions as “not that bad”#This is just me explaining how I approach the characters #I know there are fics out there that try to be sugar while embracing some of the bad parts of canon and that rarely works for me #To address these issues correctly you basically have to rewrite canon with the goal of properly setting up and addressing a specific issue #You can't just jump into canon as-is and fix anything in a truly satisfying way because canon is such a disaster #Lila and Alya is a perfect example #Alya's writing in Lila's episodes goes so hard against who Alya is supposed to be that you have to completely rework Lila and/or her lies #Which is why my list of favorite Lila takedowns is so short #Even the ones that are kind to Alya have her painfully gullible because of how badly written the Lila stuff was #You can't have Alya smart and clever while including all the things she's canonically done in the Lila plot and I hate it #Season five at least temporarily killed the fun of writing for this fandom for me #I hope to get it back so I can finish my in progress stuff because I really do love these characters #Canon just makes it so hard to have fun these days #The stuff I've heard about season six is just depressing #I hope my love for the characters and ideas comes through on this blog in addition to my frustration #I wouldn't be here if I just hated everything about the show #Canon is so beyond saving that I can't even read a lot of non-salty fanfic these days #The stuff that tries to embrace the later seasons while also giving happy endings just depresses me because it never works.#I can only read early canon stuff AUS and reboots #Only way I can enjoy the fandom is to treat canon as a popular but horrible fanfic that a bunch of the fandom is embracing for some reason

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sam-loves-seb · 19 days ago

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i'm not the way i was -- chapter 10

Ian hesitates, his pen spinning between his fingers. "What if it doesn't work?" "What if it does?" Mickey sighs through his nose and lays his hand palm up on the table. Ian places his own hand on top of it, holding on tight. "If you want your life to change, you gotta take the final leap, man," Mickey says softly. "But I'll take it with you, and if we gotta find a parachute or some shit on the way down, then we will." Ian sighs. "You make it sound so easy." "'Cause you've already done the hard part."

[ read the rest | start from the beginning ]

#oh hey new chapter just dropped #only six months later it's fine #i'm fine #anyway #have some more s6 boys maybe #i'm not the way i was #intwiw #my gallavich fic #my shameless fic #gallavich #shameless

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mechazushi · 7 months ago

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Kafka Hibino

Kafka Hibino.... with visible salt and pepper side burns.

Kafka Hibino.... wearing glasses and has salt and pepper side burns.

Kafka HIbino.... in that black turtleneck and a dark brown leather jacket and also wearing glasses and has salt and pepper side burns.

Kafka Hibino.... wearing that outfit and is an Animal Biology Professor in an College Au.

Kafka Hibino..... asking out Hoshina who is an Advanced Mathematics Professor working at the same college, to have an after-work drink with him.

Slightly DRUNK Kafka Hibino... becoming very forward with an also slightly drunk Hoshina

Slightly Drunk Hoshina... immediately matching Kafka's freak tenfold and Kafka is very much fine with this.

#My Brain: Ohhh! What if we also make it a Yakuza AU and Kafka has tattoos and is an-#Me: *Slaps my brain and watches it jiggle like a domed jello cake* NO! No no no no no NO!!!#Me: *To my brain* YOU HAVE SIX FANFICS TO FINISH!#THREE Kn8 FICS : TWO OF WHICH ARE NOW MULTI-CHAPTERED!#TWO RONTOTO FICS: ONE OF WHICH YOU HAVE STARTED!#AND A MDUD FIC THAT YOU STARTED AND HAVE HAD THE ENDING PLANNED OUT FOR OVER TWO MONTHS NOW #THAT YOU HAVEN'T WRITTEN IT BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE PATIENT ENOUGH TO FIGURE OUT THE MIDDLE!#My Brain: *sobs* Bu-But *Sniffs* I wanna write about Isao being a Yakuza Director General...#Me: . . .#Me: *Puts Brain in an industrial juicer in an attempt to make it behave*#with that out of the way #Professor Kafka (Trying) to act like a sorta beast-like dom Seme archetype toward Hoshina ( it kinda works)#Only for Hoshina to Unleash The Crazy #And Kafka just switches gears and (happily) accepts his new position as the bottom.#If I make it through the ones above #I MIGHT; MIGHT! make a short story about Ex-yakuza Professor Kafka and his budding relationship with fellow professor Hoshina #really just the idea of Suped Up Kafka and some of his Kaiju feats-#being translated to a more normal version of Kafka and just chalking up some insane shit to Yakuza training and adrenaline #like he' still goofy and shit- just recontextualized into a crouching dumbass/ hidden BADASS.#is what's fueling the desire to keep this in my backlogs for a later date #LEGIT: I ALREADY have a scene (In my head) where he flips a VAN onto its side #But then BRUSHES OFF A HEAD WOUND THREE MINUTES LATER #AND LATER GETS STABBED AND IS MORE OR LESS FINE #TWO WHOLE SCENES WHERE HES SURROUNDED BY- LIKE- TEN GUYS! KNOCKS ALL ASSES FLAT!!!!#WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME??!?!?!?!?!!?#kaiju no. 8 #kafka hibino #soshiro hoshina #kafhoshi #kn8

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veerbles · 11 months ago

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very curious about public opinion

honestly we all know post ck kaz is putting his whole back into making the council's lives miserable until they stop slavery. but what about the 1/13 of them that is uhhhh maybe like his friend or something (don't ask him to admit this out loud. he won't)

#six of crows #grishaverse #kaz brekker #wylan van eck #most fics I read either completely ignored wylan being a councilman or kind of downplayed how many options are available #now that kaz has a direct connection to the government #like kaz could pull wylan into his plans OR sneakily read all his reports to gather intel OR completely ignore the fact they know each othe #= sacrificing a very good source so wylan won't have to commit crimes #and like all kaz actions the last option is only reasonable because everything considerate kaz does also has a second agenda #like yeah not asking wylan to commit treason is nice but Also if he doesn't commit treason he won't lose his seat in the council #which allows him to keep helping the cause from the legal side and also keeps the door open for kaz to use this connection in the future #BUT ALSO. kaz/wylan scheming is too good to pass on yknow?? just them doing business in the living room while jesper begs for attention #help me make up my mind ty 😘#kaz & wylan

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she-posts-nerdy-stuff · 20 days ago

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The One Where the Crows play Poker - She_posts_nerdy_stuff - Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo [Archive of Our Own]

Pushing my Crows-as-Friends fic again ;)

Summary:

S1e18 of Friends, 'the one with all the poker', but with the Crows instead! You don't need to have seen the show to enjoy this, it's just a quick fun modernish au of happier Crows playing cards together and being silly. Also, Matthias and Nina using their competitiveness to flirt :)

Characters moved around a little bit but for the loose casting aim we have: Kaz as Monica Inej as Chandler Jesper as Joey Wylan as Phoebe Nina as Rachel Matthias as Ross

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kintsugiris · 9 days ago

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guys. what if. what if kaz and mizu met.

that would be the end to the world as we know it and??? i need to see this.

#kaz i nurture my grudges brekker and feed them the finest meat brekker and i have no interest in being happy only satisfied mizu??#THE DRAMA???? HELLO #also. nina and akemi. women who get want they want.#fic writers and artists 🤲🏼 please make the magic happen.#and Please tag me if you do write anything #kaz brekker #six of crows #kazzle dazzle #kaz six of crows #kaz dirtyhands brekker #soc #crooked kingdom #mizu blue eye samurai #bes #mizu #blue eye samurai

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camellcat · 1 month ago

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that one s2 spuffy fic based off the song scotty doesn't know... I miss u.... come back 2 me </3

#I was listening to my “trashy pop punk rock” playlist over the weekend and I was reminded of that fic lol #it's silly how fun of a read I was having #nah no it's not it's a hilarious fic I was enjoying it the absolutely correct amount #the fic is called angel doesn't know by my_barbaric_yawp btw #it's great only six chapters and unfinished but hey still worth it #spuffy #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer

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baejax-the-great · 3 months ago

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Hello, new follower here 🌟 I was wondering if you have an idea of what the final chapter count for Broken Oaths will be? Whats your writing process like? Do you already have an outline of how you want the story to go? Love your work 💕

I've had the basic outline for the final chapter written since the start. This fic, when I started writing, was meant to be like two chapters. So the final chapter is... the original second chapter. 🤡 I have scenes written that will need to be changed now due to the 70k words I wrote between then and now, but the basic order of events remains unchanged.

I also just realized I read your question wrong and you asked about chapter count. Given that my original estimate was two chapters and we are now on chapter 16, uh, I truly cannot say with any certainty. But I'm guessing 20. Probably fewer than 34. We are definitely in the latter half of this fic.

Usually I have things planned out a little better than this. I write scenes as they come to me, often the dialogue first and then the rest of it, make descriptive chapter headings (the last one was 'Arguments and Horses', though one of the arguments is going to take place next chapter now. Par for the course with this fic 😔), and then figure out how to get from point A to B to C. I conceptualize these points both as events in the story AND where the characters need to be emotionally for the events to have the correct impact.

Sometimes the path I've outlined is too short for pacing reasons, so I have to go back to brainstorming. Sometimes I didn't get them emotionally where I thought they would be when I outlined, and the characters make different choices (honestly was planning on having them bone in chapter 15 but Achilles was absolutely not feeling it). That's when things can start to get a bit chaotic.

Oaths has been chaotic from the start. Let's hope I stick the landing (and that I do it in fewer than 34 chapters)! And thank you!

these are the headings I have in my doc for Oaths. As you can see at the start, I truly didn't know this was going to be multiple chapters and didn't bother with an outline.

Here's Water in the Dawn for comparison:

Maybe they don't seem all that different, but I had a much firmer idea in WitD of where I was going from the start.

#when I post a chapter I tend to have around 5k unpublished words written in the doc #think I have 7k right now but a lot of those are gonna be cut scenes #I jump around from section to section as ideas come to me #but given that I publish as I go usually I'm limited to only a few sections at a time #ignore that I've been stuck on a section from witd for six months or whatever #just because I knew where I was going didn't mean I anticipated all the potholes #the other miserable part of my process #is I start a fic by writing 2k words in a day #and then that tapers down over time #until it's like 100 words in a session #and then I delete half of those

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