#and the 5000+ word I wrote

[ohno-the-sun]

Oooo scene from chapter of fic I finally finished

Link to the first chapter here

And since they asked @enyter

[ohbo-ohno]

hello, happy october eve everyone!

just wanted to let you guys know that all 30 of my kinktober prompts are queued up for the month & i'll be cross-posting them on my ao3. they'll post at 7 a.m. my time (central time zone in america) everyday. fair warning - some of them are definitely better than others lmao, and most of them vary pretty drastically in terms of consent. cw's are listed before the drabble, so there shouldn't be any confusion there

each drabble is anywhere from 500 to 5,000 words and almost all of them are ghost x soap. hope you guys enjoy!!!

i'm using this prompt list and i'll be uploading the first chapter of my serial killer ghoap x reader au on the 31st in place of the free day

as always, let me know if something extra needs to be added to the tags before the fic! i was a little unsure of how to tag certain things without spoiling the drabble and some of them get pretty intense imo, so if i missed something send me a message or an ask and i'll fix it asap :)

all that said - happy reading! i hope you guys like what i've got for the month <3

[desertfangs]

Leave Your Mark [AO3]

Armand/Daniel, Armand/Lestat, Lestat/Daniel 5,260 words - sort of explicit vampire smut idk

Armand returns home to Trinity Gate and sees the very large mark left on Daniel's neck by Lestat. He insists Lestat demonstrate his technique. This is a sequel to The City Never Sleeps, requested by @apoptoses. I hope it doesn't disappoint.

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Daniel stood and came over to him, grabbing his arm. “I’m glad you’re back.” He kissed him, his lips searing hot from a recent kill. The kiss was tentative, testing, but Armand kissed him back fiercely, melting into his mouth. He held Daniel’s shoulders until they broke apart, and then he gently smoothed Daniel’s warm cheek with the backs of his fingers. 

“I’d suggest you get a room but I do enjoy a show,” Lestat said, watching them from the sofa. 

Armand scowled at him. Daniel laughed. Armand shot him an admonishing look for encouraging him. And then he spotted the bruise. 

It was deep purple with specks of brown and yellow on the side of Daniel’s neck, flowering against his pale skin. He stared at it, that same uneasiness from earlier squirming through his middle once more. He’d left many such marks on Daniel in the past, particularly when he was mortal and his skin bruised easily. 

Daniel saw him staring and his hand went reflexively to the bruise, touching it as if to test if it was still there.Armand’s gaze moved from the mark, now half-covered by Daniel’s long, delicate fingers, to his face. A little heat had crept into his cheeks and he looked abashed. 

“We were just having fun,” Daniel said. 

“Is that all it was? Hmph,” Lestat said. “And here I thought I rocked your world.” 

Armand glared at him. “I told you to keep him out of trouble.” 

Lestat’s smirk widened. “I’ve done exactly that. He’s in one piece, isn’t he? I may have turned his legs to jelly, but he’s still standing.” 

Armand snarled. 

Daniel looked from Lestat to Armand and rolled his eyes. “Yeah, well, I’m not some pet you paid Lestat to walk, and I can make own decisions about who gets to suck on my neck.” His tone was harsh enough that Armand felt the admonishment like a slap. Lestat, too, looked faintly surprised, but also amused, which irritated Armand, which was of course his aim. Probably the same reason he’d given Daniel a hickey in the first place. 

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[laugtherhyena]

Finally past this "bump" on the chapter 21 writing road or whatever you wanna call it

[djedsspence]

One of my favourite political history stories: did you know England being knocked out of the 1970 World Cup is sometimes given as a reason for Labour's loss in that year's election?

I first heard about this when I was researching for my paper on England Women's Football in the 1970s the year before last and I can't find the source where I learned this anywhere, so take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt and not as confirmed historical research because it's a little more of a party trick story.

There's a myth that Labour won a landslide in 1966 because of the World Cup victory – not true, as that election happened well before the finals. There is certainly a good case that this win caused an increase in good feelings and potentially even a more profound love for the game (that's where my research brought me in – there are some arguments that this helped push the women's game more into public consciousness, although people disagree on that. But that's a different topic entirely!).

In 1970, Labour, the party in power, called a snap election for June 18th. Wikipedia says this was to get people to the polls before decimalisation and to surprise the Tories who'd been expecting an October election. By coincidence (or is it?), the knockouts for the 1970 World Cup were set to happen at the same time.

England had, to say the least, a bit of a disasterclass in the tournament. Several of the key players from 1966 were in the 1970 squad, and ambitions and moods were high (to the point where the manager, Alf Ramsey, got a real reputation as a xenophobe). Other non-match issues included captain Bobby Moore's arrest, also a story for another time but a serious incident where PM Wilson had to get involved, certainly not endearing the English to an international audience.

A tough game against Brazil (two time former champions) saw England come second in the groups. Their quarter final opponents? West Germany, in a repeat of the 1966 final. Due to a bout of food poisoning, England were playing their second choice goalkeeper, and the game ended 3-2 to West Germany after extra time. (One more story for another time: West Germany went on to play Italy in the semi finals in a game known as 'The Game of the Century'; West Germany came 3rd in the World Cup with Italy runner-up to Brazil in the final.)

England were knocked out of the tournament on the 14th of June, just four days before polling day. Labour lost 75 seats and the Tories became the ruling party. Is this correlation or causation? Up for debate, but as the Guardian article I linked at the top suggests, it's definitely worth consideration.

[lost-at-534]

Welcome back to 'i just zoned out of reality for a non-disclosed amount of time'

Am I not hungry or have my bodily urges shut off because I detached from the mortal plain?

Answers in half an hour when my body wakes back up.

[nostalgia-tblr]

regretting convincing myself another multi-chapter was "a good idea" and "fun," stuck worrying about the need to update it and the need to finish it in a reasonable timeframe.

[dapurinthos]

how attack of the clones is going in this fic, so far, going up the scale from 'this is fine' to 'this is fine (actually everything is on fire)':

lene kostana: the chillest. furthest from the action, has no idea what happened on coruscant, observing the red honeycomb zone. left padawan with jocasta nu to supervise. beginning to have a bad feeling about this. darth sidious: lightly alert for anything that could be a threat to his plans. has an ace up his sleeve that's going to cause problems for everyone except himself. kal skirata: apparently here, instead of being content with being passed a message. bribeable with snacks for his boys. may have been told 'i don't know. sit on him?' when asking 'how am i supposed to keep a jetii from doing something?' obi-wan kenobi: rumpled and confused. was sat upon by several of kal's boys (null-class arc troopers) so he wouldn't go to geonosis. did not get any uj cake. constant receptor of the 'i'm watching you' gesture from kal. anakin skywalker: has killed only three sand people! congratulations, anakin! you are the only one being fixed! qui-gon jinn: woken up from coma by anakin using the force like it's his livejournal c. 2002. without using a cut. has no idea what's been going on for the last decade. politely baffled. jocasta nu: is going to hunt darth tyranus for sport on eriadu. they allow that sort of thing there. darth tyranus: regretting several key life choices, most recently deciding to mind-probe araithana. currently dealing with 1) being shown how he dies, 2) being forcibly reminded of That Murder, 3) thinking his current guest-hostage also has visions. araithana pallopides: nebulous hostage, claimed as guest. moved all the moveable furniture in darth tyranus's geonosian tower by 3cm to the left and back. also regretting darth tyranus's life choices. unknowingly repeating sifo-dyas's exact last words before That Murder. and prom the geonosis accord meeting is tomorrow!

i'm going to go back to writing between the ice crypt trip and introducing anakin skywalker to pre-republic plays with a droid chorus, which concludes with:

The Chorus continues as a harried Knight Kenobi arrives and is promptly bullied into playing the Indrexu to Skywalker’s Xim, my Oziaf, and Aayla’s Xer, much to Master Windu’s sly amusement. By the end of our recitation, Aayla has decided that Xer is now haunting the play by heckling the patricidal Xim through mispronouncing his name on purpose, there’s an audience of nearly two dozen people, Master Windu has vanished back to his duties, and Betsy has never missed a line.

betsy (the chorus) is a b1 commander droid confiscated after the battle of naboo. betsy does not have a preferred gender other than 'it', has been reprogrammed by the temple's research and development department, and is now subject to many experiments to see how capable of learning it is.

[karliahs]

nice that brain backburners other needs while hyperfixation.exe is running but oh boy when they all come back at once ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

[silvermizuki]

Baby writer ballin’ rn 

[nancywheeeler]

well the first 2 of 5 parts i outlined for this fic just clocked in at 20k so i guess look out for a 50k one-shot in the very near future

[jmflowers]

Pleaseeeeee, for the three sentences fics: Delphine whispering to Cosima in French! Thank you 😊

“Je te connais,” Delphine whispers, her breath hot where it ghosts across Cosima’s ear, her hands wandering around her waist to rest on the counter behind Cosima’s back, “Je vais toujours, ma femme.” (I know you. I always will, my wife.)

“Mhm,” Cosima hums, intoxicated by the invasion of Delphine’s perfume, her own hands finding their way to the collar of Delphine’s lab coat, “You’re hot, too.”

Delphine chuckles, nudging closer, kissing gently at the soft slope of Cosima’s neck, “Oui, c’est exactement ce que j’ai dit.” (Yes, that’s exactly what I said.)

[chicgeekgirl89]

*screams in frustrated fanfic writer*

[oikasugayama]

heyy!!! oh my god i don't want to be annoying or anything but i just can't get the akutagawa fic out of my mind-- 😭😭

so recently, i re-read it - for the fourth time (⁠・⁠_⁠・⁠;⁠) - and i wanted to ask a question about the conversation that takes place at the dinner with the akutagawa siblings and some other PM members, especifically the one where gin says that we wouldnt recognize akutagawa if we saw him truly drunk

soooo- i was wondering if we'll ever get to find out how he is when he gets drunk fr, and I also just wanted to know how the fic was going in general

I hope you're taking care of yourself, resting and taking breaks when writing, have a great day!!(⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠³⁠˘⁠)⁠♥

( and sorry for any mistakes english isn't my first language (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠;⁠) )

OMG four times????? you're insane and incredible and i'm so happy to have someone who likes what i made this much. im honored <333

I didn't have a plan of putting super drunk akutagawa in the fic in the future but hey, maybe i will now just for you ;)

i had a really shitty day at work but i wrote a few hundred words of a date scene yesterday, and i'm just now sitting down to write some more today! I'm excited about where the fic is going even though it's a bit troublesome weaving some of these plot threads together

also your english seems flawless to me, i wish i was that good at an extra language ;-;

[anotherpapercut]

what you guys don't want to read my 9 paragraph, 1500 word response to an ask?

[epersonae]

ehehehehe time for fic writer asks! R, Z, AN, AP, BC, BV, and then BW, BX, and BY for carlita <3

GIRL THIS IS SO MANY

Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

fuck titles, all my homies hate titles, etc etc. I don't think I've ever come up with a title first, but I can't say never for sure, so: sometimes during, often after. occasionally it'll be a significant line from the story itself, sometimes it'll be the classic thing of looking for a song lyric (and sometimes that means you are pitching me TMG lyrics), and once I just ended up with the dumbest description and couldn't think of anything else. (Looking thru the first page of my recent works, I swear there's one of every possible methodology, and actually I think Commit to the Bit I had the title either before or very early during the writing!)

Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

Carlita help (ie, for the benefit of all the broken hearts) - I say this both as a writer and about the story itself, the whole process has been a kind of extended madness, and also it's just a very odd piece altogether imho.

If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

we were talking about this on the phone yesterday! there is a scene in the next chapter of for the benefit of all the broken hearts that I would actually make good art. I also think there's some good visuals in the boss battle scene of The Reckoning Arrives that would be fun to have as art. (oooh, or Lucretia sitting at Taako's bedside after?) Oh, and Ed and Stede in the auxiliary closet in nice either way.

What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

I just read the second chapter of Respawn and it's very good. This AU gets something about Stede that I really appreciate, and Izzy's intro is fucking hilarious.

Of the characters you write for, which is your favorite? Has that choice been swayed at all by your followers/readers’ reactions to certain ones?

Is it possible????? that the unnamed wife (aka carlita) of for the benefit of all the broken hearts???? has supplanted my other faves??? Which is tricky because she is more or less an OC, so I don't know if that counts.

Honestly, even though it's been ages, it might still be Lucretia, if only because I am fairly evenly split in my enjoyment of writing both Ed POV and Stede POV.

I don't think? reader reactions comes into it much, except maybe specifically your obsession with Carlita lol.

You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?

THIS IS A FASCINATING QUESTION THAT I HAVE ACTUALLY THOUGHT ABOUT. (I'm not digging it up now but I wrote a long rumination about that in re that collaborative Choose Your Own Adventure project, and trying to recognize writers I know.) Here's what I would say is particular to my unbetaed work: punctuation pokemon (gotta catch em all!), excessive parentheticals, "and then", and "is verbing". (I cautiously tag @gaypiratebrainrot who is by now exceedingly familiar with all my writing tics)

Thematically? idk. I'm pretty sure it's there, but I often don't notice those things until someone else points them out.

These three were requests about for the benefit of all the broken hearts specifically:

What scene in [Fanfic Name] took the longest to write? What was difficult about it? 

I don't know about the longest, but I'm pretty sure this most recent chapter (13) took the most drafts and the most reworking and rethinking.

There's so much going on, and all of the characters are finally "on deck" as it were, which means there's both a ton of conflicting emotions and motivations to keep track of AND "I am bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns" AND there's important action that takes place entirely off-page, and deliberately so, which meant I was resisting the need to write what that was because it was going to be throwaway writing, but it turns out I had to in order to make it work. The bit where Mary and Ed first meet backstage I probably ended up with four drafts altogether, including once where I threw out a huge chunk and just rewrote from scratch.

(oh plus I had a real life experience that necessitated a handful of little setting tweaks)

All of which is fair, because it's a big turning point and needs to be both surprising AND make sense in context. Which means I also had to go back to earlier points in the story and adjust in order to get some sense of foreshadowing, or at least plausibility. So thank you for pitching me on the idea for what turned out to the most difficult thing I've ever written in my entire goddamn life, I guess.

Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of [Fanfic Name]? 

I had this idea for something where Mary and Carlita would be painting together, maybe in the style of Jackson Pollack? (this may have been based on one of your pitches) And I can see it in my mind's eye but it just didn't work in context at all!

Do you have a favorite scene you’ve written from [Fanfic Name] story/chapter? 

I have two favorites, and one of them is the painting scene that I did write. I love the tension and the physicality of it. The other is in chapter 17, so a few chapters from now (YOU know the one), and I'm not going to spoil it but I like it a LOT.

[fic author asks]