#and the time between my periods have been getting progressively shorter so i have like 2 periods a month

[acid-ixx]

Hiii, I have read all your work and it is very good :D!! I've read it several times and never get bored.

Can I ask about something? I'm curious about the characteristics or signs of yandere appearing in Tim. Will he be the last family member to become a yandere? Sorry I asked like this because I feel like he's not getting enough attention in drabbles, questions from other readers, or anything else. So I'm curious.

I hope you understand my question. Because English is not my first language.

— masterlist !

don't mind me using the tags here, i want to clarify a lot of things.

hi anon!! don't worry about your english, i understand perfectly and it's also not my first language too hehe. and to all the others who have asked about tim's (or any other characters') appearance in the series: fear not, nobody is getting ignored at all, i intend for everyone to have their designated events/moments that trigger yandere characteristics for the reader for each chapter. it's my plan to make them each as unique as possible with their intentions, motives and goals, not just them being simply "obsessed" with you, so i'm trying my best to add depth to the story.

that means the entire series will stretch out quite a lot (i already have outlined multiple arcs, flashbacks, and all the characters' individual traits and significance). it's not just going to be ten chapters, i want to remind others that there's more lore to just the neglect, your mother's dark past, and characters that haven't even been introduced to the plot yet, so if you guys prefer one-shots or something shorter, then the series is not for you folks, sorry 😭

as for tim, he is quite literally my favorite character (surprise!), so of course he's going to get special treatment. he's not going to be the last to become yandere, but his spiral to becoming a yandere takes quite a lot of time since compared to others, it's him who spends the least amount of moments with you. even in the non-neglected au i wrote, what triggered his obsession was mere curiousity.

though just because there're lesser events with him, doesn't mean there will be none. he certainly plays a major role in the "wild goose chase arc where the family tries to negotiate (kidnap) you whilst you try to escape to multiple cities/end up in a completely different country". he may not express his love for the reader well, but he most definitely knows the most about you.

oh! and the traits that he does have as a yandere looks tame when you compare it to others, but it's also because it manifests through his personal dialogue (as i reckon he's keeps most of his thoughts about you to himself most of the time (gatekeeper archetype) and he's the character with the most internal dialogue/thoughts too). he's the worst stalker you could have, the one who you should look out for the most with just how much he knows about you in such a short period of time. tim's intelligence and detective skills knows no bounds, and he won't stop exhausting himself until the very knowledge of what the blood pumping under your skin feels like and the exact temperature of your body— is extracted and stored into the terabytes of data he has into his personal batcave.

and spoiler alert: he's also the one who uncovers your mother's past and alongside bruce, what had happened between the period of time when you were dragged out of the closet and the other time in elementary when you were nearly kidnapped, which completely leads to another arc wherein it's where their obsession drives off to a completely different plane of existence, exalting vengeance on the people who tormented you; but tim's pettiness is just on a whole nother level.

and i have to stop here before i (excitedly) spoil the entire series' plot LMAO. my answer to this is a bit more casual to the other asks, so i hope it doesn't irritate anyone.

so thank you for asking this! i also have a question for you people too:

how is the current progression of the plot? i get that it isn't even 10% finished and some moments feel slow, but i try to be as immersive as possible to the readers. so for those who have read the entire thing, what do you want me to possibly add, or does anyone have other clarifications? can anyone tolerate a fanfic that can possibly lead to more than 250k words??? 😭

[sanguine-squid]

i need a hysterectomy i need a hysterectomy i need a hysterecto

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Hi!

I've recently finished my first draft and I'm ready to get to work on the second.

My autism makes it hard to use those "tips and tricks" people usually have, so I thought about working out a step by step for myself instead, but I have no clue where to start?

Hope you can help or point me in the right direction, as I'm at my wits end.

I don't have any grand secrets, unfortunately. I've attempted to read many, many books on editing, trying to discover the secret that I appear to be missing, but none of them really helps. Note the big changes first, they say. Fix the little things after.

But when everything seems like it's a mess, I don't know how to distinguish between big fixes and small ones. In the end, everything needs to be fixed, and I just have to slog through. However, there are some things that work for me, as frustratingly slow as they can be:

First make sure you're ready to edit.

Sometimes you have to trunk that book for a lot longer than you think. You have to give your brain a long enough break from it in order for new ideas to be formed. Put it away, as long as you can, and give your brain a break. Coming to your story fresh is the best way to start.

This doesn't sound like it works, and believe me, the temptation to dive right back into the book after a week or so is high, but give yourself decent break. Read some books, watch some movies. Shake up those weary creative drives in your brain for up to a month or more before you take another crack at it.

(If you're not tackling a large product, you can wait for a shorter period of time, probably. The longer the book or novel, the more of a rest you should have. If you're writing a fanfic chapter by chapter, the temptation to post immediately is high. Don't do it! Let it rest for a couple of days before reviewing it. You'll thank yourself later.)

Have an outline.

If you didn't start with an outline while drafting, laying out your plot where you can see it will really help you figure out what threads need strengthening. My favorite technique is flashcards and sticky notes that have a short summary of the chapter or scene. Both can be easily rearranged, removed, or shuffled about.

If you have a multiple POVs, color-coding your chapters can help you lay out how much progress each character has made and what areas of the story might need shoring up.

Another thing that can be of help is reworking character sheets or notes. I've been struggling with a particular character who I adore, but who's motivation I've been having trouble nailing. For this draft, I've been able to figure out what the thorn in their side was and write a much stronger story for them as a result.

Slog through from the beginning.

Yes, some people can dive right into those problem areas. Boo to those people, I say. Boo. For me, the only thing that works is to start from the beginning and work through each chapter at a time. Yes, this does involve getting stuck on how to fix things. There is a lot of dramatic lying on floors and pestering my completely bewildered cat when I hit a wall.

But starting at the beginning allows me to see where I need to slot in elements I only started to figure out later in the book. It allows me to weave in foreshadowing and pick up subplots at the right places, rather than throwing them in when I think of them. This method may mean you'll have redraft a few times, and yes, I have to start from the beginning each time. But it does work, even if it takes time.

Just don't ask how many drafts I've done of this damn book I'm working on.

[luckystarchild]

I *do* keep my fanfic back-ups on discord. Actually it's where I write them too, so here's my process, it should be a good starting point at least.

Step 1: I write directly into discord. This is because discord is always in my pocket. However, there is a character limit, and it usually saves in progess posts for long periods of time. But if you don't hit enter there's always a chance the latest post will glitch. Honostly, character limit means you can't lose too much.

Step 2: I copy and paste it into notepad. This is because I want complete control over the formatting and want it compatible with *everything.* I make my chapters around 600 "lines" long which is shorter than yours so you may need to do some extra testing for step 3. If you have a lot of italics you'll want to pretend to edit the post and copy from that mode. It puts asterisks around your italics so they don't just disappear into the aether. (I put them back in in AO3).

Step 3: I upload the notepad to a condensed channel with only the chapters. Discord has a data limit for sharing files. I don't know what word processor you usually use, so you'll probably need to experiment with that. However, most of them can only be opened if the receiver has a copy of the same processor. Notepads open in discord (though with shitty formatting) and are downloadable by everyone. If you don't mind not having italics.

My step 4 is making it pretty for AO3.

I appreciate hearing about your process!

But there has been a miscommunication. When I said I was thinking of creating a Discord server for Lucky Child, my intention was NOT to host the story on Discord itself, nor use the platform as some kind of word processing alternative/a backup server for the text of the fanfic. The Discord server would function as a distribution center (providing download links to chapters as e-reader or txt files) and a chat/community center in the event Tumblr became unsafe and/or the AO3 servers went down and the comments section went with it.

Respectfully, I want to caution you against using Discord as your main writing program or as a backup server for your works. You should ideally be saving offline copies of your work that aren't hosted in the cloud on servers outside your control. If AO3 and Discord went down simultaneously, it sounds as though you'd lose all of your work. Unless you're saving those notepad files somewhere, you're putting the longevity of your body of work at risk. Any works in-progress that you haven't yet manually copied over to a notepad file are also at risk.

(Additionally, and at the risk of sounding pedantic, if you are using Discord as your primary word processor, you're not really "backing up" your work via Discord. That's your primary copy. It sounds like your backup is actually AO3, and potentially those notepad files if you're saving them offline.)

In the end, I'm trying to find a way to get Lucky Child to readers without relying on a single distribution platform (which at this time is AO3). Trusting your data to someone else's servers puts you at the exact risk I'm trying to avoid: censorship. Goggle Docs has been caught altering user's content or locking them out of their own content, and I can see a world where Discord follows suit and starts monitoring the content shared between users. I would avoid hosting the text of Lucky Child itself on the server to lessen chances of the story getting flagged.

If the system works for you, that's great, and thanks again for showing me your process! But it's not really relevant to my goals for LC and its distribution at this time.

[genericpuff]

Winter is Coming - Rekindled schedule adjustment and plans for next year!

So it's that time of year now when conventions, markets, and expos for next year are rolling out their submission periods. So far I've gotten accepted to attend the Atlantic Entertainment Expo again (both venues so two shows), MiraCon, and I'm gonna be attending not one, not two, but THREE tattoo expos ! Which is definitely a lot, but I'm excited, it's gonna be good publicity and good money :' ) I'm also gonna be applying to HalCon, Geekquinox, and Animaritimes again, I didn't get in on HalCon this year and didn't find out about Geekquinox until submissions were done (and I only got in on Animaritimes at the last minute when they were looking for people to fill in) but if I do get into any (or all) of those, I'll have to play the fun game of "make sure none of these events land on the same weekend" LMAO

All that's to say, it's gonna be busy next year! (and all of those are the ones I actually decided to apply to, there are ones I did this past year that I'm not planning on doing again because they just didn't turn out to be as good as I had hoped). Thankfully, none of this is starting up until spring, so I'm gonna enjoy the winter off and get to work on new stuff to sell. I'm really eager to get through the rest of [AFTERBIRTH], it's still got quite some time until it's done but my plan is to pitch Thread of Fate to publishers once [AFTERBIRTH] is finished - and if it's not able to get in with those publishers, then I'm gonna pursue other means in getting it published, either digitally or traditionally. Time Gate is a series I've been working on for well over a decade of my life, and it's not something I want to keep throwing to the wolves of free-to-read platforms like WT. As much as I love being able to offer it for free, I want it to be taken more seriously than being just another free to read comic and that starts with me and how I choose to distribute it.

Right now working on all these things is sort of limiting due to the fact that I'm stuck on my iPad, but I'm making it work as best I can and I'm hoping to have the new PC setup going by the end of the year running with a new tablet (currently shopping around between an XP-pen and Huion, I don't want to get a Kamvas 22 Plus again if it's gonna shit the bed in 2 years like this one did, apparently this is a common problem from what I've seen :/)

So yeah, with all that in mind, I'm planning on adjusting Rekindled's update schedule. While I did initially want to offer a poll for y'all to choose between "shorter updates once a week" and "full updates once every 2 weeks", frankly I'm erring more towards the "every two weeks" one because it'll give me more actual time and room to work on everything else. Not to mention (and I'm sure you've all noticed by now) that I have a very specific way that I structure many of these episodes so making them shorter would sort of ruin that rhythm. I don't want to be sacrificing the comic's quality, pacing, or narrative progression for a schedule adjustment.

This isn't going to be an immediate change, I'm thinking of doing this sometime in December so that y'all can have a decent amount of heads up before the switch. I know it's gonna be a little painful to go to a slower release schedule but ultimately I think it's the best way to go so that I can balance all of the projects I have going on without sacrificing quality. Rekindled may be a free to read non-profit project, but I still hold myself to high standards and I want to do my best to deliver on those standards !

Thank you all so much for your patience and support. It seriously blows me away to see all of the wonderful comments, asks, and support for what I do here every day. I'm gonna do my best as well to respond to asks in my inbox as they come in, but please just know I get a LOT of them on a regular basis, it's sort of a Hydra situation where I respond to 1 or 2 and then get 4 more LOL That said, rest assured that I do read and appreciate each and every one of them <3 That also includes essay posts about LO, with LO returning in November I'll surely have more stuff to say about it so I'm gonna try and keep up as best I can :' )

On a final note, we're coming up to the one year anniversary of when I started posting actual episodes of Rekindled!! I'm so excited for this, I can't believe it's been a year!! And I have so much awesome stuff planned for the story that we're gonna see throughout the next year, I can't wait! Thanks so much for being a part of this project with me, I couldn't have asked for a better audience <3

(P.S. everything I have lined up for next year is lining up with the dry period for FF XIV between Endwalker and Dawntrail so I won't have distractions until the summer LMAOO)

[regular-lord-reckoner]

it has been a looooooong week, one of those where it feels like it's an entire month long

for starters, sometime last week i had a really busy day and finally stopped to take a shower because i'd been doing so much and was sweating all over the place and turns out...we didn't have any hot water !!

unfortunately the closet under the stairs where the water heater tank is at was where i put a bunch of stuff i pulled out of the laundry room until we could sort through it so i had to move all of that stuff AGAIN just to get to the tank but i was able to reset it and since then we've had hot water (albeit for shorter periods of time)

we had a plumber come out today anyway because of a leak with the ac unit line that he found last time he was here fixing a leak in my mom's shower so i told him about the water heater thing also.

he came out once before when this happened and was able to patch it, but we knew even then it was probably on its way out and he said he's been replacing a lot of those lately because they're getting to that point (i wanna say the one that's in there now is the one we had when we first moved in so....makes sense and my dad did say before he died that it was on its way out).

that'll probably be something for after the first of the year, just fingers crossed we're able to have enough hot water until then

the second thing is that on sunday our refrigerator started leaking !!

at first it was just a little bit, so little in fact i thought it was just from the doggo's water bowl that had gotten kicked by accident but it quickly progressed to the point where we started having to put towels down and even then it's like....every two hours they end up completely drenched and it's time to swap them out for new ones

that's been a big part of what my week has been, gathering up a bunch of sopping wet towels and throwing them in the wash and keeping the cycle going

even with that for the past two nights by the time my mom and i get up in the morning there's still a trail of water seeping out from beyond that (last night i put three right at the source and another one just beyond that and they were all completely soaked)

fortunately an appliance guy came out (same guy who fixed the dryer not too long ago) and he said he thinks it was from the water filter

i know it's probably been like...a year or more since i mentioned that it needed to be changed but we never got around to it and he showed me on the filter he pulled out where it was worn down and between that and the higher water pressure from the last time the plumber was here i think that may have been the issue

after the plumber finally left i ran to lowes and got another filter to replace the old one. i got it installed and so far so good, there doesn't appear to be any more leaking so fingers crossed that was indeed the issue and it's not something more serious !!

oh also, when he was pulling the fridge out we realized there's a bunch of broken glass back there so i got in there and tried to sweep as much of it up as i could and then mopped up all the water that was there as well

we're going to keep the fridge pulled out from the wall for a day and i've got a box fan running back there to try to help it from getting any more moldy than what it already is but just....jesus christ what a shit show

not to mention, too that i'm pretty sure we've got mold upstairs and downstairs at this point just as is. some of it's probably from that leaky ac line but i think there's also some especially in my room from where the doors i have that go outside don't close all the way because i can definitely see it on the outside part just above the door so like....that's neat

i've mentioned it several times and it's still one of our top priorities as far as getting things around here fixed but we kinda need everything else to stop breaking for one goddamn second so that we can actually address that !! that would be awesome

oh and i'm also pretty sure there's something wrong with the wiring upstairs. that's an issue i'm not sure when we'll get to or if something notable has to happen first but just based on a few things i've noticed it wouldn't surprise me

also the other day i heard a really loud sound coming from the attic, it sounded a lot like my bathroom fan but on steroids and at first i thought it was the upstairs ac unit and was like jesus christ, that's all we need right now but turns out it was just the attic fan ??

mom said something about how we're supposed to go up there and turn it on and off depending on the season, i think but as far as i know it's just....been on this entire time so we turned it off for now and she's going to text my uncle who does hvac and see what he says about it but that was pretty odd

all of this to say.....i am exhausted !!

like i know this is an older house and we should be grateful we haven't had a bunch of issues up until this point, but now it's almost like they're all coming to a head right now and it's just a lot trying to keep up with what needs to be fixed now and what's breaking next and just....yeah

(not to mention i'm also just kinda getting sick of my work days revolving around waiting for repair people....)

but !! hopefully sooner rather than later we can get all of this taken care of and definitely take care of the mold thing before it gets any worse and maybe then my mom and i can both relax a little

speaking of her and relaxing, actually, she's apparently going to be meeting up with one of her gentlemen callers as i've started referring to them as

he's actually flying in next week from california and she's not really ready to bring him here and didn't want to thrust that on me (which i appreciate), so they're going to get a hotel room and spend the weekend together and then he'll fly back on monday

i maaaaaay go out and meet them somewhere at some point. maybe.

it's just kinda hard still to wrap my head around her being with someone who isn't my dad and while i do want her to be happy and this guy seems like a nice guy (he kinda reminds me of my dad a little bit...) it's just....a lot. especially so soon, so....we'll see how that goes.

on the bright side, i get the place to myself for a little bit so i guess that'll be nice (even though i'm honestly going to be a little worried about her the whole time until she gets back but i'm going to try to power through it)

despite all of the !!!!!! lately, i do have a bit of good news to end this on !!

i've officially applied to graduate school to see about getting my masters in library science so that i can become a librarian !!

my application has been sent off and i've already got one of my letters of recommendation done (i asked both of my managers if they would send one and surprisingly the one i didn't think liked me all that much actually wrote me a really sweet one and already sent it in) so we're just waiting on the other one but i already talked to someone on the phone today who gave me an overview of the program and what tuition would be and what my classes would be like (they're all online!) and all of that so i think this is really happening !!

it should hopefully only take me 18 months to complete and it seems like my classes will probably being either around 7 or 9 pm when i get done with work so i'm gonna be a busy little bee for a while, but knowing it's only 18 months should help get me through it and then before we know it i'll be a librarian :D

i'm honestly really excited about this, i know libraries are going to be on the chopping block here soon but i just feel like this is the right thing for me right now. wish i had done it sooner, but i'm trying to trust the timing of everything

hell, we have enough books in this house alone that i could probably start my own little library if they become a thing of the past so having that skill set might be applied there, but i would really like to actually get into an established one before anything happens to them and start serving the community that way

so yeah, that's what's been going on with me !!

it's been.....a lot, but i'm trying to stay positive about it all and look forward to what's coming in the future !

admittedly, though, i am very glad this week is finally over, especially today.

as soon as the first repair guy left the phone starting ringing and first it was someone calling about this one thing from a court case my dad was part of (i think it was one of those asbestos cases) and unfortunately before they can give us any settlements from that they need everyone who would be receiving some money to fill out all this paperwork and while my mom and i did ours a long time ago we haven't been able to get any of my siblings or nieces to do theirs so they left a message today saying it's going to go before the judge and i guess we'll see what happens with that. i'd imagine if they still intend to split it up amongst all of us that it won't be that much, but you never know and it would be nice to just get a random check every so often so fingers crossed that works out but i only mention that to say that as that message was being left the phone started ringing again and it was someone from the university i applied to calling to go over everything with me so i had to stop cleaning up broken glass and water mess to talk to them

(i actually got a spam call beeping in during that phone call so i ignored it but still just...by the time i got off that phone call i said out loud, "i just need one more goddamn thing to overstimulate me right now, just one more thing !!!" ...fortunately i got to have a few minutes there where nothing happened and i got to finish my cleaning before getting back to work so that was nice)

a few minutes later the plumber shows up to start doing his repairs and he was here for a few hours working on that so between all of that plus running out to lowe's and changing the water filter myself plus thursday just generally being a busy day for me as is (it's also the day i give our doggo a bath and wash his bedding), on top of non-stop towel washing and drying all week i am....worn out

it took me a few days to do my application because i had to wait on my transcript from ksu (which fortunately didn't take too long) but i had to finish it last night because my browser would have timed out my progress and i would have had to start all over again so yesterday as soon as i got done with work i had to type up a 500 word essay about why i wanted to apply for this program and why i think i'd be a good candidate and how my professional experience has helped with that, etc., etc.

so yeah, it's been....a long one and i hope to god nothing else breaks over the weekend so i can just....relax. :P

tomorrow i think i'm going to get up early, take the trash to the dump and then see about getting my oil changed since it's about that time (i also keep hearing a voice in my head saying i need to get my tires rotated so i should probably do that as well).

after that i'm going to do a little more christmas shopping (i'm actually doing surprisingly well this year, normally by this time i'm shaking, sweating and throwing up trying to figure out what to get everyone and if it'll get here on time by the time i finally make up my mind), i'm going to get some groceries and then probably pick up some food because fuck having to cook after all of that and then i'm going to come home and turn my brain off for the rest of the weekend (hopefully) :3

i hope if you're reading this that you're doing well and taking care of yourself and i hope everyone has a nice, relaxing weekend up ahead (or as relaxing as possible) <3

[sailormoonandme]

Mamoru is NOT useless in the Anime Part Tri: Power & Worth

Last time we compared Anime and Manga Mamoru's power levels in order to dissect the idea that anime Mamoru, in being less powerful than Usagi is unworthy of being her romantic partner.

However, there was a lot more I wanted to unpack from this particular idea the 'Mamoru is useless' brigade are prone to pushing. Specifically on the very notion of linking power to worthiness.

Power Creep

This is one of my shorter points but, its seems rather insane to suggest that Mamoru needs to be of a minimal power level to be worthy of Usagi.

Usagi in both versions is at least functionally the most powerful entity in the known universe. Even if we go arc by arc, she is almost always the most powerful person on the good guys team. The time period before she obtained the Silver Crystal was only time when the gap in power between herself and the other Senshi was in any way close, and even then it depended on who you were talking about. Mercury was clearly weaker than Usagi, her attack was a glorified smokescreen. Was she unworthy of Usagi's friendship? Were Makoto and Rei the MOST worthy of Usagi's friendship because they were the most powerful Senshi?

Did they all become progressively less worthy of her time and affection as Usagi steadily grew ever more powerful across the series? In Crystal Tokyo, when Usagi could transform the barren frozen Earth into a glittering utopia, did she have 0 friends because she was now just THAT powerful?

Was Star Serious Laser just so powerful that it meant Seiya ranked highest of all for Usagi's affections? After all, I do not see anyone arguing that Seiya was not powerful enough to be worthy of Usagi's love...almost like there is a double standard in play...

And how demeaning of Neo-Queen Serenity, who was so powerful she could terraform a lifeless planet Earth into a glittering utopia, to allow the now incalculably weaker King Endymion to have sex with her and thereby conceive Chibi-Usa.

Or...does this work by you simply have to be of a minimal power level and then you can be worthy of Usagi no matter how powerful she gets?

Please enlighten me fellow Moonies?

Power DOES NOT = Worthiness

Finally...isnt it just plain old reductive to equate power with worthiness?

Sailor moon is a super hero at the end of the day, so let's look at examples from other superhero fiction. In fact, lets look at the most famous example within the genre.

Superman is by far and away the most famous (though not necesarilly popular) of all superheroes across the globe. Superman can fly, has super streangth, super speed, enhanced durability, heat vision, x-ray vision and sometimes can freeze stuff with his breath. And whilst the exact degree of all of those abilities has varied (originally he was stronger than ten men, later he could pull multiple planets at the same time) he has always been mindbogglingly more powerful than even the most elite of human athletes.

And who has he frequently been paired up with from the past 85 years?

Oh, that's right. A human woman, Lois Lane. She might be extraordinary in her own way, but she isn't going to be bench-pressing a tank anytime soon.

Ah, but there are those who reject the most famous superhero couple in pop culture for that very reason, arguing that Superman should instead be with someone who is powerful in their own right like he is. Someone like, say, Wonder Woman?

The problem here being that...well...Wonder Woman is almost always weaker than Superman. By a WIDE margin. At the end of the day, she is incredibly strong but her strength has limits whilst Superman's are in fact dependant upon circumstances. If he absorbes enough yellow sunlight he is functionally limitless in how powerful he can become. So...is Wonder Woman unworthy of Superman too?

Regardless, let's instead turn our attentions to something more comparable to Sailor Moon.

In Dragon Ball Z the Goku and Vegeta and Gohan can annihilate whole Solar Systems but Mary human women, falling for them because of their strong, wilful and aggressive personalities.

In Yu Yu Hakusho, written by Naoko Takeuchi's husband, the main character is a demonic prince basically and falls for a normal human.

How about all the boxers, MMA fighters, wrestlers and action movie stars who marry people who are not in those kinds of professions, people who are physically weaker than them?

All of them unworthy too?

Power DOES NOT = Worthiness, regardless of gender

Ah, but these are all where the man is more powerful. But...if we argue that the situation is different in the reverse...isn't that just a classic (say it with me folks) double standard?

Are we to seriously entertain the rather backwards argument that a man is not worthy of a woman's affection if they are weaker than her?

If so let's look at some other examples.

She Hulk has dated normal humans Wyatt Wingfoot and John Jameson.

Carol Danvers has the power of a star and has fallen in love with War Machinw, who is a man with high tech armour nowhere close to that power level.

Jean Grey has been more powerful than her lovers Cyclops and Wolverine since even before she became the Phoenix, a cosmic entity so powerful it consumes stars for energy.

Wonder Woman has the power of the Greek Gods and her frequent lover, and in her original canon husband, was a regular human soldier.

In Cutey Honey F, the magical girl reboot of the classic 70s anime that helped inspire Sailor Moon, Honey can annihilate and create anything she can want. She is in love with a demonic prince, but ultimately marries a normal man and private eye who always had her back despite being put of this depth with the threats they faced.

And what about all the women in real life who have married, or remained married to men with disabilities? Men who by any metric are physically weaker than their wives? For example, all the women that married or remained married to soldiers who were horribly injured during either World War? Or, any of the wives of Stephen Hawkins, with even his first wife aware of his illness.

All of which is to say...maybe Mamo is worthy of Usagi's love regardless of him being less powerful than her.

Conclusion

Mamoru in the anime...

Is.

Not.

Useless.

Please.

For.

The.

Love.

Of.

<insert whatever/whomever you worship here>.

Fucking.

Stop.

Claiming.

He.

Is.

[fountainpenguin]

Recent 'Fic Progress 'n Stuff

I'm in a very busy period of my life right now, so updates may become sporadic, but here's some news I have for now!

Fandoms discussed: MCYT, Total Drama, WordGirl, Fairly OddParents

MCYT - Typically updates Tuesdays

- Aiming to post something for the Pixels Imperfect series on Tuesday, but don't be alarmed if it doesn't happen.

-> I'm in this weird zone where my chapter for Herobrine's Guide to the Between Dimension is complete except for the map I'm almost done with, but I'm having some artist block getting the map where I want it, so... I might hold off a bit until I'm happy with it. It's not bad, but I'm struggling with clean-up and labels.

-> Really good progress on my next Dog's Life chapter. In a weird zone of hesitating over whether I'm going too far with X or Y. Needs more attention, but I'm really happy with what I have so far. Very exciting! I did some doodles that I'll post under the cut :)

-> High likelihood of skipping this next Tuesday of posting, which gives time to let Collector's Fee sink in anyway (Plus I did a double update for Dog's Life at the start of August for its anniversary and that was probably too much for me), but we should be back the week after :)

- Herobrine's Guide will go on hiatus after Chapter 14 (the next chapter to post is Chapter 11) because that's where the buffer runs out. At that point, we've finished all world lore (except the Hels stuff that goes in the Additional Info final chapter). That's where we enter the bestiary, and they're huge chapters I want to ensure are consistent all the way through. So... I need to finish all the bestiary chapters before posting the first one :'D. A lot of work is done, but a lot still left to do!

-> Since I've been posting Herobrine's Guide during Dog's Life's intermission, we just won't have Tuesday updates for a bit. I think I'll switch to finishing The Candles We Light (and Should Regret) & Top 10 Hanahaki Life Hacks (#8 Will Shock You), which I started during Guess the Author.

-> Comparatively, they're shorter projects and it would be nice to finish them instead of leaving them hanging. That should work well, but we may have a period of no Tuesday updates during this adjustment period.

- Dog's Life is still on soft hiatus through to January or February 2025. It's between Sessions 2 and 3 right now and that hasn't changed. At this time, it posts once a month (although as mentioned, there may be a slight delay in the next chapter, but we had a double update on August 1st, so no surprise :))

-> When Dog's Life resumes, it will most likely be once every two weeks instead of every week. I really enjoyed posting weekly, but I have to admit it's A Lot. I was able to do that when hyperfixating on it as the only fandom I was posting consistently for, but I'd like to roll it back for 2025. Considering I post chapters above 10k words, I think it's fair; weekly updates was a lot. Final decision will be made when we actually reach 2025!

- We know Grian's working on Life Series Season 6 and that he said it would be a while. When that drops, I expect to do liveblogs and maybe one-shots depending on inspiration.

Total Drama - Currently updates Wednesdays and Saturdays

Life of a Loser is getting close to its end! Once it's done, we'll switch to posting one TD 'fic a week (probably) until they're all posted. Leaning towards posting on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Subject to change.

You can subscribe to the Riddle's Drama AO3 series if you want those emails. If you are only subscribed to Life of a Loser but you want to continue seeing more of my TD work, now is a good time to subscribe to the series, as basically everything from here is one-shots.

Reminder: I wrote these works between 2013 and 2016. I'm moving them to AO3 for archive purposes. You can leave comments or send me Asks if you want to chat about these works or their worldbuilding, but my knowledge of the show ends after Ridonculous Race; I didn't watch Total Dramarama and I don't know anything that came after it.

My Total Drama works will continue posting for the rest of 2024 and into 2025. I don't anticipate writing more works for this series, although if I had infinite time, I'd be interested in finishing the ones I started and left unfinished (because Leonard, my beloved).

WordGirl - On hiatus

Still on hiatus for now! Was hoping I'd be able to post more for it before the end of 2024, but that was pushed back by a very busy summer, which led to me not getting the Frayed Knots buffer where I wanted, and Frayed Knots has priority.

These works are not discontinued (I've been working on Factor It In since 2018 and I'm not dropping it now, lol). They're just on break, because I'd prefer leaving them on break and returning with a buffer over random updates.

I do have some one-shot drafts I've been sitting on, and I might clean and post those, but my attention's pretty divided between IRL, MCYT 'fics, and FOP right now, so this isn't super likely.

Factor It In has a serious vibe, as it's a realistic exploration of superhero life and biology, and there's also, like... no death or serious injury in it. I'm currently interested in things that are either wackier or angstier, but I look forward to coming back to it when I'm ready to be serious again. I genuinely like these 'fics a lot, including my WIPs, but it's an exciting time for FOP fandom right now and I want to enjoy it :)

If you want updates for my WordGirl 'fics, you can subscribe to Heroes' Journey or 28 Million Degrees. And you can always send me Asks if you want to!

Fairly OddParents - AO3 updates on Fridays, plus I've been posting on the blog any day of the week

- New cover arts for Frayed Knots and Origin of the Pixies are done! Their new announcement posts will go up soon, as I wanted to get all the 130 arc covers done first (for reverse tag scrolling purposes).

I did these two first and I think they're my favorites <3 These will replace their existing covers in their respective 'fics, and these are the posts that will be linked to when discussing these projects (Ex: I need to clean my FOP 'fics page and these will go there).

Reblogs always appreciated for cover / announcement posts, but no pressure! These are messy 'fics and not to everyone's tastes.

- I've committed to the name City Lights AU for my New Wish works. I'm REALLY excited for the "arranged marriage & not in love but we're going along with it anyway because this is what we do as upper class kids" trope I've set myself up with... for reasons...

- The AU guide is complete and will be posted after I finish Hadley's full sideblog profile, as I want her to be linked on it.

- I... emotionally cannot post Hadley's profile until I clean the freakin' blog, because I HATE what the update years ago did to bullet points, so I'll see if I can make some time for the sideblog. I have to go back and change them all to indents with dashes, like I've been doing in my posts over here... and I still have to fix all the broken masterpost links (which broke during the same Tumblr update from years ago). Gonna be a pain, but...... :'D The things we do for love.

- I went through my drafts and it looks like I do have some lore and reference posts that can be cleaned and posted for the sideblog, which would be nice; I have more to work with than I thought.

I can also do things like post the Fairy School Schedule on the sideblog instead of on a Google Doc. Up until now, it was relying on the doc for color coding (for ease of reading), but now we have color-coded posts, so it can go on the blog directly. - Also ?? it turns out I never actually compiled my multiple posts on Fairy aging into a single post, and thus the detailed info never made it on the sideblog. -> I compiled an age chapter for today's "So, You're Studying the Cloudlands..." update (i.e. I'd had the development charts there as placeholders since the start, but I really wanted actual info too) and that will become a sideblog post in the future.

- Somewhere in the depths of my literal 2,400 drafts on main blog is some sideblog stuff that I saved as drafts here instead of there, and one day... I will find it. But we'll talk about that again after my A New Wish liveblog is done.

I'm also going to change the sideblog's mentions of Riddleverse Classic to Cloudlands AU, now that it has a real name. Just... finally coming back and power washing everything before I risk posting anything new that attracts new eyes while the blog is messy, haha.

Technically the term Riddleverse 'fics covers all my AUs, so some mentions will stay (like things that say "contains Riddleverse spoilers"). However, this should make things more clear.

I had a lot of self-censorship internalization and general nerves when I was working on the sideblog back in the day, but I'm a lot more "cringe and free and I'm gonna make it everyone's problem" now than I was a few years ago, so it'll be nice to move on from those memories and learn to enjoy the blog again.

- I also feel happier with my art and writing styles now compared to where I was in recent years. Looking forward to blowing the dust off and polishing stuff nicely! I'm not going to try to keep future profile arts consistent with the old arts, so it'll be what it'll be.

Heavily leaning towards redesigning my adult Chloe, as I was never that attached to her, and I want to slightly tweak my Timmy and Cosmo to better fit my current art style. Debating whether to add Anti-Wanda's scars. Also need to do a scar ref for H.P. since he has a huge one on his cheek I rarely draw because I always seem to draw him facing the other way, sdklj... Someday...

- I had a lot of IRL stuff happen in recent years that was similar to things happening in my FOP 'fics and I wasn't able to truly enjoy them for a while. A New Wish brought back a lot of my excitement for the series and I feel like I'm healing a lot in regards to being able to enjoy FOP :)

I'm excited to share the arc guide and start outlining 'fics.

- As previously mentioned, I've cleaned the 130 Prompts summaries page so it's up to date with 2024 plans. Also, I've finished all the arc guides and made a new cover image for the project!

- I'd like to kick off Arc 3 of the Prompts with a piece about Dale shortly after "Nectar of the Odds" - "#96 - You Deserve It." The piece after that will loop back to the "Am I adopted?" drama Poof went through in Arc 2, and it'll be fun! I'm really excited :)

- Frayed Knots is high priority, but it's also a massive project requiring lots of brain power, so it'll be nice to sprinkle lighter one-shots in between.

- Great progress on Frayed Knots! Things are really coming together. Might post one chapter soon, but the next few need more attention. Still hoping to build a proper buffer, but it's a slow process.

-> I... think I'm going to take the plunge and commit to dropdown chapter warnings for Origin and Knots, the way I do for my MCYT multi-chapters :'D Will this be exhausting and require a lot of rereading? Yeah, but it makes me feel less self-conscious (and it helps me quickly check each chapter to confirm I know what's in it). So... That'll be going on in the background, but expect it to take a while. It will not be fast.

-> Next chapter gets a standalone E-rated version, like we did for "Cageflight" back in the day. As previously stated, Frayed Knots maintains it's T and/or mild M rating despite now being classified as Not Rated; E-rated content will always be posted separately. And this one's pretty intense, so prepare emotionally before reading.

/whispers loudly - It's the big "raised in a culture where sex is done for ceremony" vs. "longing for passion and ready to ask for it" clash we've been waiting for... I finally am happy with my blocks for this scene. Just pulling it all together. It feels SO FUN to finally write the ceremonial bits of their culture as a proper ceremony explored onscreen. It's always been hypothetical... sdfljksdflkj...

This chapter is called "House of Cards." The standalone will be titled the same, and these are the AO3 series that will get the email notification:

Rainbow Train -> Not in the 130 Prompts

Red Train -> Suggestive / explicit

Orange Train -> High fantasy (Deep-dive into Anti-Fairy culture)

Subscribe or ignore at your preference, but there's your heads up. And obligatory reminder that this is a 'fic about a protagonist who has hypersexuality and we explore that more now that he's an adult than in the earlier chapters when he was younger.

Anti-Cosmo being hypersexual, bipolar, pan, AND ace, AND carrying trauma from a past life, and VERY confused about attraction, you will always be famous to me <3

As we know, Origin of the Pixies is all the way up to the war chapters, so it's on hiatus until Knots catches up. From there, we'll alternate between H.P. and Anti-Cosmo POVs through the war! Very exciting.

Knots still has to get Anti-Cosmo through his first meeting with Cosmo (who still has to hit Wanda with his car in line with "Cosmonopoly"), then through godparenting schooling & into a high rank in Anti-Fairy World (in line with his appearance in the truce flashback of "Balance of Flour"), but we're getting close!!

Also as previously stated, I might get around to posting some sensual / sexual stuff for FOP that I wrote as character studies and warm-ups back in the day, but...

I cannot emphasize enough that these delve into really heavy topics like consent violations, setting up a plot about being underage and desperate that will later crash and burn, and sexual trauma, and they're not necessarily sexy or fun to read, so just... [obligatory I Write Trauma & Morally Gray Characters In 'Fics For The Show About Trauma & Morally Gray Characters reminder].

But I do think there's really interesting stuff in here in terms of character studies and I wouldn't mind having them available, if for no other reason than because I've lost them multiple times and would enjoy having a place to find them.

-> Those all go in Red Train and Rainbow Train. Again, subscribe or ignore at your preference. They are not part of the 130 Prompts (which are strictly G and T works).

-> These are certainly not necessary reads in order to "keep up with what's happening" to the characters. Anything you need to know for their plot arcs is in their G and T stories. This is just bonus stuff for people who're interested in... The Horrors.

That's all I have to say for now! Thanks for reading!

Doodles for the upcoming Dog's Life Chapter 41 and/or 42 depending on where I cut it

Mild spoilers depending on how good you are at deciphering these out of context:

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WIPs Status Update

I am fairly confident no one cares what I am up to, but I haven't done one of these in ages so I figured I should.

In Progress Fanfic

Outlaws of the Whispering Woods

This fic is on temporary hiatus because I'm working on finishing it as part of the @wipbigbang. Participation in that event means I can't update that fic again until the posting period starts on September 8th BUT that once that posting period begins, I should have both art for the new chapter as well as regular updates through November until the fic is done which should be exciting. 

That said, there is still like 60k ish to go in that story so if it looks like I'm not going to be able to get it all done in time, I might swap it out for the Chipped Glimmer fic which has also been languishing in WIP hell because it's shorter and easier for me to get done on time. I'd prefer to use the event as a kick in the pants to finish OotWW, though, so we'll see.

Prince Glowyn the Fourth

This fic is 100% complete at last, I just have one chapter left to post and will be doing that sometime within the next week.

Going There

Just about four years after I started it, Going There is finally done as well! (Literally just finished it today!) "Done" in this case means I finally rewrote the back end and filled in the missing connecty bits I never wrote the first time so everything's written, it's just going to take me an unknown quantity of time to edit and post each of the chapters. But less time than rewriting it all took so I expect those last few updates to come fairly regularly once I get them started.

Coming Home

I have always said that I wanted to wait to continue this fic until Going There was done so now that I have finally finished it, the sequel can get my attention more regularly again. That said, with everything going on with the WIP Bang, posting the rest of Going There, running the Big Bang and posting my own Bang fic (plus, like, all the other IRL stuff i have to do this summer), I really don't anticipate getting it updated anytime before the fall at the earliest and even then who knows.

Also, because this is my last in-progress canon fic I'm not in a huge rush to get it out there, I'd rather take my time with it, so I'm fine with that timeline. It'll get updated when it gets updated.

Area First Ones

In my head, this is episodic and while i have five chapters written, I have some things I want to add in between so it's not as simple as just cleaning and posting those. So basically, this one will be one of those fics I update when I update here and there with no set timeline other than my whims.

Coming Soon!

My Big Bang fic is called Horse Girl Everyone and it's the long awaited Riding School AU! 

That one is going to be longgggg and basically never-ending and episodic (seriously, we're over 50k words and while Catradora have been circling each other for chapters Glimmer and Bow literally only just met and you KNOW how I feel about Glimbow). I was hoping to write enough in advance that I could do some kind of regular update schedule at the start but because I'm also running the Bang and having some annoying medical stuff going on, I think that's not happening.

I've written a ton in advance, don't get me wrong, I just don't see myself having time to revise it all and post weekly with everything else going on. But we'll see!

Anything else?

Well, yeah, lots of stuff but it's not fandom related so I can't tell you about it. ;-) Though maaaaybe I might have the chance for some of you to help me beta some of my original stuff in the near future if you're willing so keep an eye out for that.

I'm trying to have less things in progress at once so, though I have other fanfic projects in various states of completion, I'm purposely not going to even think about posting any other multi-chaps until GT and OotWW are done. 

One shots and shorts? Yeah, I'll be throwing those up randomly as the mood strikes, you know how I roll. I'm eyeing up the Domaystic 2024 prompts to see which ones call to me right now.

So I have other stuff planned for later but I'm not even going to tease it because we'll see how everything shakes out.

This year has actually been absolutely horrible health wise but weirdly productive writing wise so it's been a mixed bag but at least nice to get some stuff done!

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Over the editing period, I will make detailed timestamped comments with explanations. Every day, I will make a new document copied from the previous one to track my progress. Once I'm done, I will send through a final copy that the client can download and edit freely, and accept the final payment. I am available for further advice and questions after this final payment at no additional cost.

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All fics are 18+ ONLY unless otherwise noted

SERIES

*at least three parts or chapters

Combat Baby - Dean Winchester x Jo Harvelle

Summary: Dean’s sweet, but Jo likes him nasty

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, canon divergent, rough sex, dirty talk, brief name-calling, exhibitionism, role play, squirting

Words: IN PROGRESS

If We Make It Through December - Dean Winchester x Donna Hanscum

Summary: Donna is horrified to learn that the boys have never had a proper Christmas, so she invites them to her house for the holiday.

Warnings/tags: canon/divergent, there was no rebar, 18+ ONLY, fluff, light angst, domesticity, holiday celebrations

Words: IN PROGRESS

The Mud On Your Boots - Dean Winchester x Donna Hanscum

Summary: Dean and Donna finally give in.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, canon divergent, dirty talk, fluff, consent is sexy, period sex, fisting, blood as lube, shower sex

Words: IN PROGRESS

Temporary Scars - Dean Winchester x Donna Hanscum x Benny Lafitte

Warnings: 18+ ONLY, angst, Donna has intimacy issues, Dean’s the sweetest, self-sabotage, sort of established relationship, Benny’s swoony as fuck, Dean’s in love, tags on each part

Word: IN PROGRESS

Where Is My Shiny Gun? -  Dean Winchester x Donna Hanscum (voyeur Sam Winchester)

Summary: Sam finds himself in a quandary when he realizes he has feelings for Donna by way of the obvious mutual attraction between her and Dean.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, canon divergent, Sam is kinky, Dean is adorable, so is Donna, Dean likes to give Donna massages, Sam directing while masturbating, brief spanking + breast slapping, brief knife play - no blood

Word Count: 7785

ONE-SHOTS

*one and done, usually 2k or more

Bad Girls Underneath -  Ruby 2.0 x Dean Winchester x Jo Harvelle

Summary: Ruby and Jojo get hit by sex pollen, again, but this time, they need Dean's help.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, magical dick/male gaze bullshit, probably too much commentary and emotional complication, why am I like this, I’m sorry, sometimes I can’t help myself, fisting, brief choking

Words: 2,600

Cactus - Dean Winchester x Meg Masters x Castiel

Summary: Post-battle, exhausted and wanting, Dean and Meg and Cas take care of each other.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, rimming, choking, dreamlike sex, Dean’s always hungry

Words: 3,200

Moving Furniture - Steve!Cas x Meg Masters 2.0

Summary: She’s been gone for a year – sacrificed herself to save Sam and her unicorn – but Cas still dreams about her.

Warnings/tags: non-explicit dream sex, fluff, shmoop, there’s a dog

Words: 2K

Summary: During a pit stop for gas and snacks, Meg promises to keep an eye on Emmanuel while Dean does his shopping.

Warnings/tags: mature, Meg shenanigans, coming while clothed

Smokestack Lighting - Sam Winchester x Rowena Macleod

Summary: It’s been a long time coming, and the dam finally breaks.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, height difference, sex magic

Words: 2200

FLASHFIC

*random ideas, prompts, challenges, usually less than 1k

Because You’re Worth It - Sam Winchester x Rowena Macleod

Prompt: Sam Winchester ends up with his hair cut shorter than it has ever been.

Warnings/tags: crack-ish, mature, fluff, Dean being insensitive about Sam’s glorious mane, Rowena saving the day

Words: 790

Being Human - Castiel + Dean Winchester

Summary: Cas gives Dean a break.

Tags: Dean and Cas being Dean and Cas.

Words: 555

Carrion - Ruby 2.0 x Sam Winchester

Summary: While Sam sleeps, Ruby plays.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, dark contemplation, somnophilia

Words: 340

Celibacy, Interrupted - Jody Mills x Sam Winchester

SPN Kink Bingo Square Filled: Facials

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, blow job, sam has no refractory period bc this is fic

Word Count: 570

Fifth Base - Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Rowena MacLeod

Prompt: surly, scruffy Dean — maybe trying to get back to business after a wild night? But the aches and panties in his pocket keep distracting him?

Tags: snarky, hungover Dean

Words: 470

Foxholes - Annie Hawkins x Bobby Singer/Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester

Summary: Annie recalls time spent with each man and what their facial hair told her about them.

Warnings/tags: mature language and references to sexual activity

Words: 340

If You Don’t, Dear, Confess - Sam Winchester x Rowena Macleod

Prompt: Sam has dream about being seduced by Rowena in the bunker that gets interrupted/woken by Dean?

Warnings/tags: mature

Words: 620

I’ll Keep Them Still - Dean Winchester x Jo Harvelle

Summary: Dean remembers promises and pictures in his mind. And he remembers her.

Warnings/tags: mature, songfic, angst, dream/afterlife sequences, purple prose, I’m sorry

Words: 1K

It’s Not Delivery - Sam Winchester x Rowena Macleod, Castiel x Meg (mentioned), Dean Winchester x adult female actresses in costume (in his head)

Summary: Sam wants to play D&D, Castiel is confused, Rowena is Rowena, and Dean is drunk and amused.

Notes: disappointed Sam, comforting Rowena, mischievous Meg, Dean likes porn, and pizza, and whiskey, one F-bomb

Words: 435

I Know All Your Graces - Donna Hanscum x female reader, mentions of Dean Winchester x Donna + reader

Prompt: Donna x fem!reader with the line “that sounded a lot better in my head” please?

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, fisting, breast play

Words: 600

Magic Sex & French Fries - Jo Harvelle x Ruby 2.0

Prompt: Great Big Lesbian prompt: SPN, Jo and Ruby II have to have sex to save the world. Or something. Sex pollen? I don’t care. 😘

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, sex pollen, fisting, confuzzled boys

Words: 1K

Meanwhile… - Sam Winchester x Jody Mills

Prompt: I don’t even remember your rules, but listen Sam and Jody hooked up while Dean was banging the porn star.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY

Words: 500

Not Fade Away - Emmanuel!Cas x Meg Masters

Summary: During a pit stop for gas and snacks, Meg promises to keep an eye on Emmanuel while Dean does his shopping.

Warnings/tags: mature, Meg shenanigans, coming while clothed

Words: 350

On Your Six - AU Dean Winchester + his 11yo daughter

Prompt: Write something fluffy with NO smut or angst! So sickeningly sweet that our teeth fall out 🤪😘

Tags: Dean is basically my dad lol

Words: 480

The Prerogative To Have A Little Fun - Donna x Jody, Donna x Jody x Sam + Dean (kinda)

Prompt: Donna’s visiting Jody for the weekend and the boys swing by on their home from a hunt. Dean mows the lawn, Sam fixes a leaky showerhead, Dean makes dinner, and they both do the dishes. Meanwhile, the ladies sit back and enjoy the domestic display. Really, really enjoy. In fact, once the boys drive off to head home, they decide to help each other work out their frustrations. 😉

Warnings/tags: mature, men doing manly things, inspired by Shania Twain’s song “Man! I Feel Like A Woman”, voyeurism

Words: 1K

Reciprocus - weechesters then bigchesters, John  Winchester, female character

Prompt: “I wasn’t supposed to have favorites.”

Notes: angst

Words: 950

Samwena - Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Rowena Macleod, and a very fluffy puppy

Prompt: I want some snarky Rowena and petulant Sam and just fuck me up however you see fit.

Tags: 1st person Dean POV

Words: 780

Soft Cell - Dean Winchester + teenaged female character

Prompt: Dean x reader dancing in the bunker

Tags: one F-bomb

Words: 720

Till The Clock Struck On The Twelve - Jo Harvelle x Ruby 2.0

Summary: Jo and Ruby hit the town. Ruby dons a necktie and insists on being called Daddy for the night.

Warnings/tags: mature, purple prose, male gaze forbidden, Daddy Kink

Words: 325

Virtues - Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Rowena Macleod, Castiel

Prompt(s): 1) "Have you ever licked a lamppost in winter?" 2) "Oh, what a beautiful bloodbath." "Don't forget the glitter!" 3) "Patience is a virtue." "Not right now, it isn’t!"

Warnings/Tags: couple of f-bombs, weechesters

Words: 970

We Shall Go Until We Die - Bela Talbot

Summary: A letter to Sam and Dean.

Tags: I liked Bela.

Words: 225

Whiskey, Leather, and Lace - Arthur Ketch x female reader

Summary: She doesn’t love him.

Warnings: 18+ ONLY, bondage, panty gag, orgasm control

Words: 400

You Want It, You’re Wanted - Sam Winchester x Gabriel

Summary: Mutual gratification is the name of the game.

Warnings/tags: mature, Wartenberg wheel, tiny bit of blood

Words: 320

[eneiryu]

down in the valley where the suns getting low was so good i loved it! that last scene where theo and liam run into each other at scott’s house was so vivid and perfect i could see it happening clearly in my head (and all of your fics are so easy to picture cause of the way you write they’re perfect) and i had to put my phone down and scream when i read it it was the perfect ending and perfect story. it was so sad and well written and i immediately read both sequels right after.

i love that you had Quentin in this fic as well it really makes the teen wolf multiverse so complete and the fact that liam kills him to protect theo was something i’ve been wanting to read forever lol (having one of them deal with quentin to protect the other)

i also read your ask about the s5 au and that is also one of my favorites it was so good and i looked forward to every chapter each week.

for the s6 potential continuation, maybe it could start with any of the storylines (ghost riders, anukite, or monroe). maybe the anukite was brought by something the dread doctors did and it could happen after a time skip so a fast forward to 6b except liam has this version of theo on his side? or maybe time skip s6 all together and make s6 take plave over a shorter time period so a potential continuation would just pick up with the pack hunting monroe and scott building his relations with other packs with this version of theo who isn’t really learning to be a good person and hasn’t changed all that much, he’s just shifted his goal from wanting a pack to just wanting to be with liam. i think that could be really interesting because liam still is very much a good person and an alpha in training and he doesn’t justify killing people but theo especially this version probably doesn’t care (especially if it meant choosing between liam and some hunter) and that seems like something that would change things a lot and be easily exploited by someone like monroe.

Thank you! I’m so glad I finally got down in the valley out. It was a story I wanted to write for a long time, but frankly struggled to write for a really long time—I think because I was so desperate to get it right—and I’m pretty darn happy with how it turned out. Glad folks seem to be enjoying.

And ha, yes: I think Quentin’s demise, even in a canon divergent AU, was something a lot of people have been wanting for a long time. 😂

On the S6 AU, I almost hesitate to admit this because—and I’m warning everyone now—it will be at least six months before anything even approaching an S6 AU is ready, but: I have the first and second scenes, and am starting to get the shape of the thing. It will involve a canon divergent take on S6A, partially because I am really taken with the idea of a Theo v. Douglas showdown, and also potentially how to give Kira a more prominent role? Another reader (I believe it was @equallyloyalandlethal , unless this is @equallyloyalandlethal ) reminded me that canonically, there’s a connection between Kira and the Wild Hunt, and I think that could be really fun to play with, especially in the context of Theo’s and Kira’s relationship (lack of skinwalker prison notwithstanding). So, we are making like, millimeters of progress towards potentially having an outline, which for me is the first step to writing a story.

Anyway! So glad you enjoyed down in the valley, I remain flattered as ever that there is such interest in a potential S6 continuation, and thanks for the ask. 😊

[coopers-kitchen]

Stretchmarks tell you a lot about a pig.

With a fat pig who's skin is relatively smooth or has pale stretchmarks, you know he's either naturally big or his weight gain has been more gradual. With a willing pig, that means he thinks he'd taste best fatter, and he's spent years devoting his life to that purpose.

With vivid stretchmarks, you know immediately that the weight gain has been over a much shorter period of time - a few months. Those marks are like badges of honour, almost - proof of their desire and dedication. After all, why else would a boy intentionally fatten up if he didn't want to end up on the menu? However, that lack of dedication can be a double edged sword. In my experience, a fair few stretchmarked pigs have changed their mind once the reality of the situation sinks in. Now, if I have my eye on such a pig, I take the right precautions to make sure nothing comes between me and my meal.

This pig caught my eye a while back. He's been following my page, watching my cooking videos, and I've watched his own progress. He's been on a crash fattening diet, where the goal is to get as fat as possible, as fast as possible. I've watched him eating butter like chocolate bars as he talked about his meat, how fat and juicy he was going to be, how good he'd taste. I even gave him treats - a whole birthday cake to celebrate his 21st, which he ate in one sitting, on his hands and knees and without cutlery.

Still, I could sense the unease. He refused to meet up with me or tell me how to find him, even though I told him repeatedly he was ready to eat. Those stretchmarks can easily mean a pig is going to lose his nerve.

Well, one day I got lucky - I just happened to see this pig at his college while I was hunting, sipping a goddamn diet coke. Well, I knew he didn't need an education - he deserved to be cooked and eaten. Luckily, I always have the means to knock out a pig on me, and it was too easy to inject him with a little something to knock him out. Just carrying him to my truck, I could tell he was going to be some prime pork. I got him back to my house and caged him, and when he woke up I explained that, really, it's for the best. He deserves to be eaten, to have his hard work acknowledged, and I was going to help him understand - by the time he was ready to spitroast he'd be nothing but a torso, eager to finally be used for his true purpose.

I cut off my appetisers and his left calf at the same time, and I let him watch as I cooked - and ate - both, carefully explaining the process and, of course, praising his flavour. His right calf I ate like a turkey leg, telling him I knew this is what he wanted, even if he wouldn't admit it. I could see the curious, even awed glances turn into open mouth staring.

When I took his thigh, I offered him a choice - he could stay in the cage or enjoy the relative freedom of my basement. He chose the latter, and soon he was sitting on the couch eating burgers made from his own meat, a happy smile when he realised how this was exactly what he deserved, just like I said - after all, why else would he taste so good?

Within a matter of weeks he was nothing but a torso, ready to spitroast, but he got cold feet - or would have, if I hadn't already eaten them. He tried to struggle, but at that point what can any pig do but accept his fate? I filled him with a peach, plum, blackberry, and longpork stuffing, reassuring him with each fistful that he was finally becoming the meal he knew he was - and he knew I deserved. The same went for the plum glaze - I praised the texture of his pork, the perfect marbling, made sure he knew how hungry I was for him. He struggled and squealed when he saw the spit, but how far can you go in that situation? Still, I strapped him down nice and tight as I impaled him, making sure he was still alive and breathing as he shuddered, opened wide, and watched the spit emerge from his throat. He looked scared, sure, but I could see excitement, too, even pride.

Soon he was on the spit, turning over the coals, moaning in pain and squealing in delight despite himself as I made sure the glaze was just right. I told him how hungry he was making me, how good he smelled, even made sure he watch as I sneaked a taste, chewing up a forkful of his pork. I was almost hoping he'd realize how much he wanted this but, well, it doesn't really matter at that point - even the best surgeon would just grab a plate.

I served him with an apple in his mouth and we all went back for second, third, even fourth plates of that tender, juicy pork. His reluctance did nothing to affect the meat quality - we ate until we were loosening our belts, chewing the meat off his ribs, eating his legs like drumsticks, and there was enough left that I had leftovers to last me a week. Here's a tip, chefs - if a pig has stretchmarks, do whatever it takes to take away their options. Their place is on your plate, and you know best.

250 pounds of pot gut

[joeabdelsater3]

Time revision and reflection 1

Seeing that three weeks have already passed since the start of the semester, I would like to document what I think of my progress so far and how I will go forward. According to my Gantt chart, my planning folder was to be completed by the 28th of May, and that has been accomplished as my document got reviewed and signed off. As for the blockout phase and basic camera setup, it was supposed to be done by the 2nd of June but that has been unfortunately pushed further on the timeline due to unforeseen challenges.

I found doing the blockouts for my separate scenes straightaway a bit difficult. I did not take into account the possibility that I might need to do some more brainstorming or concepting to define what I exactly wanted to have in each of the shots. That's why, after having my project signed off, I ended up having to spend the first two weeks taking my time defining my project further and finding an appropriate methodology to illustrate my vision for it. This could have been done in a shorter time period, but being someone who overthinks a lot and feels uneasy committing to spontaneous decisions, I found it challenging and kept going back and forth through the many options I could choose from. This also meant that the first lighting task I had set up to finish by the 6th of June also had to be postponed.

As for the grass, water, trees, and VFX, I figured that it would not make much sense to start working on them while I still don't have any blockout, landscape, prop, and asset elements in my environments. For example, creating the grass depends on the landscapes to be created, and determining the type of shading and texturing that I will do will need to be assorted with the style of the objects in the scene as well. The choice between dynamic water simulations/particle systems or water materials and shaders also relies greatly on the needs that I will have after setting up my scenes... Does the water interact with other assets? Do I need to make it stagnant or with waves/ripples? Will it have a deep blue sea colour, or a light blue colour resembling fresh water?

Since VFX and trees would be considered secondary elements, it also doesn't make sense for me to spend a lot of time on them in the beginning. Furthermore, seeing that my focus is on creating specific types of game-ready assets and constructing an overall frame for them, I do not necessarily need to make the trees and VFX myself. If I feel short on time, I can always make use of foliage asset packs and ready-made VFX that are available on the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

I think in the future I will try to trust my creative instincs more when trying to make choices, as overthinking will only slow me down and hinder my progression through the project. From now on, I will make sure to take my time in the early stages while I am still figuring out things before I kick off and commit to anything else. That means other tasks might also get delayed, but I will try to minimise the consequences as much as possible without letting panic slow me down further.

[frelsy]

In love

So, remember the guy-best-friend? the one I had previously referred to as Adam? Yeah, him. I am in love with him. And he is the first gut I have felt for so far. So, let me rewind and tell you the story. In June, we were supposed to go on a trip and that got cancelled last moment, because we were sleep deprived. So, we ended up sleeping in his bed, and we cuddled. For the first time. It was around 5 in the morning, and he woke me up asking me, ‘Frelsy, can I hug you?’ I said yes, in a way that I am still half asleep. But anyway, we did hug, and that led to cuddling, and I hella enjoyed it. Remember when I said I was indeed sexually attracted to him? It was proven that day. Anyway, we didn’t do anything since then because we were still in the best friends’ zone. Then the trip happened, where I got jealous, and I realized maybe I am not entirely in the friend zone with him. There was always an unspoken spark between the two of us, and somewhere I regretted not doing anything about it. I knew that I will forever regret not taking a step. But I also didn’t want to be the first one taking a step.

Now, to the end of August, a second time we ended up sleeping together in the same bed, and the same thing was repeated. Morning, 5 am, he asked me the same question and I hugged him back and we cuddled, and we cuddled well. To an extent that I asked him “Are we not cuddling more than allowed?” to which he hugged me tighter and said, “I heard best friends can, so chill”. That morning, I had to get back to my apartment, so he also came over. And I knew that I wanted something to happen. So, when in my apartment, in the middle of work I pretended that I was sleepy, so that I could snuggle beside him in the bed. And I did. And he took me in his arms again, and we lay there, cuddling, our lips progressively getting closer to each other. When my lips were touching his cheek, I commented, “Your cheeks are really soft.” (His cheeks are seriously really soft.) And then he quickly landed a peck on my lips. All this while, I thought our first kiss is going to send shivers down my body, like his cuddle did, but surprisingly nothing happened. I pretended to be a little shy, but I kissed him back, and we made out for what seemed to be an eternity. One thing led to another, and we had amazing chemistry. That day we didn’t go beyond making out and hand stuff. He had to go back home that day given his friend was visiting, and we decided the day after we will continue this. And as planned, he came over the day after and I had the most intimate sex in a long time. But that very day, a common friend, a very close common friend, the third member of the trio, the one who had warned us earlier about the intimacy, the one who stands to lose two good friends if things become awkward between us, decided to surprise us by coming over to the city, and in my apartment. We tried to be covert, but he knew everything. He confronted Adam about it the 2 days later and we decided to bury this. But, during this visit, we slipped a few times and since then that has been the case. We have slipped, we made a pact, then we broke it again and so on.

The most significant change came when he was away on a trip, and he texted me from there saying the cozy mountains reminded him of me and that he wanted to restart things. By then, our common friend had left, and we had one week’s time that we had completely to each other. We were to not have any flatmates or any friends in town for that week and we could do whatever we wanted. That week comes. We get together. We do it multiple times that day. It was the best. We went on a date also in this space. Now, I had expected that that week is going to be our week. We stay together, we behave like a couple, having no one in the city to even see us. But I was wrong. The next day we didn’t meet and then we kept sporadically meeting. And then, I got my period, so our week became even shorter.

Then came a day of mandatory volunteering in office. Since the schedule was different, we got free early. I thought we could go shopping, but he had planned to go play cricket, so we just went back home. That day, since I was still on my period, we couldn’t do anything, but I helped him and he was in no mood to even hug once he was done. I felt so very used. I tried, really hard, to cuddle with him, to tease him, to wrestle him. But he was just over it. That felt so bad, that I left. And he didn’t even try to stop me. I still haven’t told him all of this. I told him that I was embarrassed at my behavior, and I left. And he let me go. He went to play cricket after that and we didn’t talk until the next day. I was in horrible mood the entire time.

We later bridged our gaps. I was kinda sorta seeing someone in this while and I was not feeling any chemistry with him. So, I had to break it off. I ended up meeting Adam in the evening, and I told him how dry things were and that I was feeling guilty of breaking things off with him. In this exchange, we, Adam and I, ended up hugging. It was very platonic till it wasn’t, and we kissed, again. And it was still all fine, until I was in mood one day, and I was supposed to leave for my hometown soon, I thought let me call him over. So, I did. And he said no. and this no hit hard. At this point I had confessed my feelings to him, and he was strict on his no. At this point, I was begging him, and he couldn’t get over his barriers. This broke me so much. What started from a simple cheeky booty call, became a 3-hour episode of tears and inconsolable crying.

This has led me to believe that this guy today is probably over me, and I am a fool who is in love with him. It is true when they say he fell first, but she fell harder. Because he did fall first, but he picked himself up as soon as he did. But I followed him into the ditch, and I am now fanatically looking for the roped to pull myself up.

Now, practically speaking, I will not be happy in life if I married him. I will be miserable given he is not my ideal husband. Not from thought process, not from living preferences, upbringing, etc., nothing. The things he excels at are chemistry, body type and personality type. He is reckless about money. He wants to not go abroad. He is not as ambitious as I would like my partner to be. Once the romance fades away, I know life has the possibility to really be a struggle if married to him. Knowing all of this, I don’t know why I cannot get over it. I need to, I have to, maybe time will do its work.

[haircut-journey]

Continuing towards shorter hair

Recently, as i was brushing my hair, a peculiar thought crossed my mind: 'It's getting a bit too long again...' To my former very-long-haired self, this would surely have sounded absurd... But i genuinely meant it. I guess it's just another example of how my perspective has shifted since i embarked on this journey to shorter hair. What used to be 'short' is now officially 'too long' for me. 🤭

Over the past 2-3 years, my haircut journey has seen several significant steps (small to some, major to me!), where i've snipped off 3-4 inches each time. However, it's not just these steps forward that hold significance; it's also what happens in between. For someone like me, it's crucial to experience and adapt to each new, shorter length for an extended period, allowing it to become my new 'normal', before i'm able to progress further.

It had been precisely 12 weeks since my last 'major' haircut, and i noticed my hair was slowly inching its way down again (which, if i were aiming for longer locks, might have been thrilling!). So, i took action and planned a trim. Strangely, i found myself having some mixed feelings about it these past few weeks – occasional doubts about going shorter. However, as the haircut day approached, those doubts magically vanished. Initially planning to take off about 1-1.5 inches (bringing it back to the length it was 12 weeks ago), i spontaneously decided on 3 inches instead. 😅 A bit more than planned, but it felt right. Perhaps a subconscious nudge to ensure i'm staying true to my commitment of gradually going shorter – and to keep myself accountable... 😏

So now, once again, my hair is shorter than it has ever been. 🤩 Just like after my previous haircut, i'm kinda surprised by how good it feels. The determination to keep this journey going, pushing towards even shorter lengths, has never felt stronger. It's as if the shorter my hair gets, the more resolute i become about going even shorter in the future. 🫣😊✨