#and this little snippet can just be a gen character thing :)

[astromechs]

ok, super rough draft writing, but this is the first section of what is shaping up to be a long and unhinged oneshot that i might not publish for two business years at this rate, so i'll give a preview for what i'm unofficially calling wip saturday:

When the end comes, it’s peaceful. Warm.

As it draws closer, the oncoming blast works to drown out everything but that. Somewhere in the distance, he can still pick up the sounds of blaster fire, the roars of X-wings overhead — the heartbeat of the only life he could’ve chosen — but they fade more and more with each passing second.

It’s more than what someone like him, a man with no chance for absolution, deserves. Cassian knows this.

He’s fundamentally exhausted enough to take it, though.

That might be his worst crime of all, is his last thought, one that fades well before his eyes close. Before, in the last moments of his life, he lets himself know only the sound of Jyn’s breathing in his ear and the pounding of her heart that he can feel in his own chest. Before, in the last moments of his life, he’s present with simply what he can hold, no more, no less.

Before, in the last moments of his life, he understands, for the first time in any memory he can access, what it means to be content — and he allows himself to be.

It’s a good death — but nothing that’s good is ever meant to last.

There’s no point in giving space to the flash of emotion that sparks in him when his eyes open again, a mixture of anger and a whole collection of other things that Cassian won’t take the time to identify; he pushes it all down as he’s pushed so much in favor of what’s more immediate, more important. That, for now, is trying to regain his bearings. The warmth is gone, and before he even lifts his head, he knows that he’s alone.

Which isn’t unusual, for a person who’s spent his life this way, and most of that time had been by choice, but when the realization hits him now, it’s a cold knife to the gut. If he’s alone, then where’s Jyn? If he’s been spared, somehow, then why him, especially when he would never ask to be? Why not her, or Bodhi, or Baze, or Chirrut? Why not Melshi, Pao, Sefla, Tonc, or any of the other men who’d followed him to Scarif? Why not —

Shaking his head, he pushes himself to his feet and begins to walk.

The path in front of him, appearing in advance of each step, is illuminated by a dark blue light — the only light in what is, for all intents and purposes, a void. This all isn’t like anything he’s ever seen before, and it makes him uneasy; so does the fact that when he reaches for his side, he finds nothing, no blaster or any other kind of weapon at all. Still, he presses on, keeps his eyes sharp and his senses engaged. There’s no other choice.

Apart from the echo of his own footsteps, from the sound of his own breathing, there’s only silence in the void. It’s the kind of silence he knows better than to trust, like the seconds just before a grenade explodes. His shoulders stiffen, his whole body tenses, ready for whatever will inevitably come his way.

There’s only silence in the void — until there isn’t.

Something begins to whisper in his ear, a vague, unintelligible impression of a voice. With a sharp intake of breath, he turns equally sharply on his heel, scanning all angles of his periphery for a potential source, but he doesn’t see any at all; as far as he can tell, the sound seems to be coming from the void itself. He stills, reaching for his hip where a holster usually is, before, again, remembering.

One whisper turns to a chorus, coalescing, then, into one voice that’s achingly familiar, speaking one word that’s achingly clear:

Kassa.

A figure appears before him, impossibly, out of nowhere — small, oh so small, with wide, earnest, innocent eyes looking up at him. Kerri, just as he’d left her on Kenari, all those years ago.

It’s as if an invisible hand has grabbed him and seized him by the throat, for the way he loses his breath; his chest tightens, squeezes. Completely outside of his control, tears sting in his eyes, and he feels one escape, falling onto his face.

(He’d given up trying to find her, hadn’t he? When the cause had become everything, because it’d had to. Even so, though, even over all that time, guilt had remained his lone constant companion; it surges in him now, too intensely to be cast aside, but it’s as intrinsic a part of him as any organ or limb.)

Cassian doesn’t dare move; something at the back of his mind, faint and nearly drowned out, but still noticeable enough, reminds him of the likely realities — that no matter how this is happening, it has to be some kind of a trap, and he would be stupid to lower his guard in any way. When he has nothing else, there’s only his own judgment to fall back on.

But the girl — his sister — brightens with the smile that stretches on her face, just as she’d always once had. She takes the distance that remains between them at a run, just as she’d always once had, yells, “Kassa!” just before she collides with him.

The force of the impact nearly takes him off his feet, and for one delirious second, when time seems like something completely outside of the moment, an impulse to laugh nearly bubbles up through his chest — but he catches himself, remaining silent and still. She’s warm, though, tucked against him with her arms wrapped around his middle; she’s warm like she’s real, like he isn’t alone.

It’s warmth that seeps into him, in spite of himself, loosening the grip on his throat and the tightness in his chest, even if he remains still.

Kerri doesn’t, though (she never had); before long, she draws back, bouncing on her feet. Two tiny hands find one of his, gripping it tightly, warm and real.

“Kassa, come!” Her voice is as insistent as the tug on his hand. “You have to come!”

He should, every instinct he has knows that he should, but he makes no move to break away — not from this. Instead, as she begins to walk, he follows, ensuring that this connection, warm and real, isn’t broken, at least for a little longer. The path continues to expand with their steps, stretching into the void beyond what he can see, what he can comprehend, but still, he keeps in step.

In a place where time seems to have no meaning, there’s no sense of how long they spend winding this impossible path — minutes, hours, maybe days. Eventually, though, it comes to an end, in the form of a bright, blinding white light.

The grip on his hand squeezes before releasing, and Kerri turns her head, smiling; then, just as quickly, she’s gone.

There’s no time for his brain to catch up and make sense of any of this. Not when the void whispers to him again, in a way he feels more than hears, strange but somehow familiar, just seconds before the light overtakes him:

You will live. You have to now.

[fushiglow]

Hi glo! I saw your reblog(s) about the fics that you can’t wait to write and was wondering if you could tell us a little bit more about what you have in store? I am very excited about the prospect of getting more Over the Threshold, but I’m also interested to know what else you’ve got planned 🩷

Oh dear, anon, I was waiting until I finished ski fic to answer this because you're opening a real can of worms here! I'll link any snippets of WIPs I've posted where available. Remember, you asked, because I am about to go 👏 off 👏

So, for Over the Threshold, obviously I've got chapter 14 coming up! I'd really like to finish the fic this year, but it gains more and more weight as I develop it and progress becomes slower every time I update. Let's see how it goes!

Alongside the main fic, I've got a smutty but sad oneshot with the affectionate working title of "Sad Wank Suguru" coming up before the next chapter, and quite a few little updates to From the Cutting Room Floor, too! There are also one or two more accompanying oneshots to come later in the story. (Plus a 73 Questions "video" for Satoru, and threshold!SatoSugu reading mailman AU that I've been working on for a while, but I don't know if they'll make the cut.)

Aside from that, the next big thing on the list is the second instalment in Star Wars AU (a series-to-be that now has many more parts than I originally planned), which I really want to post on Star Wars Day but... That's a month away at this point. Wish me luck with finishing it in time. I'm so excited by this story!

I'm also writing a second K-pop AU (where they're both idols!) that I am really really excited about. It's shorter than Over the Threshold, but presents a real challenge in terms of narrative style that means I need to write it all before posting the first chapter — which is not how I usually do things! I've been working on this for coming up a year now, but this fic is still a while off. It's probably not a good idea to really sink my teeth into it until I finish the first K-pop AU lmao...

I'm also working on a few non-SatoSugu pieces at the moment — a fun GojoHime K-pop oneshot (you don't want to know how many K-pop AUs I've got), a very soft and sexy SaShiSu oneshot, and an angsty SatoShoko-ish oneshot — and they all make for a really nice change of piece when writing the same characters/dynamic gets a little stale. Other than those, there's more SatoSugu in the form of:

Love Spiral part two ft. angst

Another music AU, this time of the classical variety!

A little Gojo glow up fic

A daddy Satoru counterpart to mommy Suguru

Oxbridge AU! Oxbridge AU!

A canon compliant long-ish fic exploring "reluctant sub Suguru"

Swimming AU!

An alpha/alpha fic with a rugby setting and some heavy worldbuilding

And also some gen fics I've got planned:

A spooky oneshot about baby Suguru developing his technique

A moody fix-it exploring "rōnin" Suguru and Yuta's tense relationship in the wake of JJK 0

Some more instalments to the In His Shadow series

And a whole bunch of other stuff that I haven't developed enough to justify calling them proper WIPs, plus some fics that I don't feel comfortable talking about just yet. I hate that, even with that said, this post is so lengthy! Someone save me from my own ideas!

But seriously, I'm actually a bit overwhelmed by my WIPs recently so, if there's anything here that you're particularly interested in seeing (aside from Over the Threshold, obviously), please do let me know in a comment! That goes for anyone reading this!

Thanks for the question, anon, and I do hope it hasn't made you want to run a mile ♥

[kookaburra1701]

WIP Wednesday - Aristeia

I've been tagged by @saltymaplesyrup so this week I will tag @gilgamish, @dirty-bosmer, and @thana-topsy! I bring another snippet of Aristeia, which I have actually been working on lately. Borgakh has made it to Dushnikh Yal, where she is interacting with other children around her own age for the first time ever.

Fandom: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Rating: T (blood and violence) Category: gen Genre(s): Adventure, Homer retelling Main characters: Borgakh the Steel Heart, the Orcs of Mor Khazgur

Summary: Borgakh is a dutiful daughter of Mor Khazgur, an orc stronghold in a remote corner of the Reach that has existed since the Merethic era. Expected to someday become the shield-wife of a distant chieftain, Borgakh tries to uphold the Code of Malacath as best she can. But when her father, the chief of their stronghold, goes missing while on a quest for vengeance, the suitors that show up to vie for his place cause no end of trouble and threaten the strength of Mor Khazgur. Borgakh soon finds herself traveling far from home across the Druadach Mountains to find her father.

The fic so far is here on AO3.

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“What else are you celebrating?” Borgakh asked, folding her arms on the side of the washtub, curiosity finally getting the better of her.

Lash’s comb paused mid-stroke. The other girl looked at Borgakh, for a moment caught in in the awkward stooped position she had assumed while combing out her hair. Finally she answered, “What do you mean?” and reached for the tin of oil again.

“Your mother said Dushnikh Yal had many things to celebrate recently, not just my arrival…”

Lash frowned as she worked another dram of the oil into the locks in her hand and attacked a knot at the end of her hair with the comb once more. “Mother thinks everything is a reason to celebrate. Hearth-Mother is to have another child.”

Borgakh grinned. “That’s good news, then!”

Lash snorted. “Yes, if it’s finally another daughter. Having two sons to vie for leadership is enough for a stronghold. Three is too many. No matter the outcome I'll end up mourning two brothers along with my father.”

Borgakh had not thought of it that way. “My mother tells me I have a sister who was married to a stronghold in Jehanna, but I do not remember meeting her. Now Mor Khazgur just has myself and Olur, my older brother.”

“And they let you leave? Their only daughter?” Lash had worked through the knot and was now furiously raking the comb through her untangled hair. It gleamed blue-black in the afternoon light that spilled through the bath-house roof vents.

“They couldn’t very well say no to Malacath himself!” Borgakh laughed. “Besides, Malacath would not give me this task just for me to fail.”

“So he really made you an Abbas?” for the first time, Lash stopped what she was doing and looked over her shoulder at Borgakh. “What was it like?”

“To tell the truth, it was...frightening. Everyone was staring at me.”

Lash smiled. “You’re so young—I bet it was a shock to everyone, even your Wise Woman!”

Borgakh was a little indignant. “I am old enough to travel and hunt alone! In a few years I can receive marriage offers!”

“Enjoy it while it lasts,” Lash let out a bitter laugh. “That’s the other thing my mother is happy about: father has accepted an offer of marriage from Clan Tumnosh.”

“Really?” Borgakh exclaimed. “That’s so exciting! When will you be joining them?”

Lash shrugged. “I don’t know. Their Chief is getting old, and one of his sons will replace him soon. Or maybe someone else from the clan. But the Hunt-Wife and Shield-Wife came to see me work the forge, and test my knowledge of mining. They were nice enough, I suppose. Mother said I could wait until they have a new chief, since I still have so much to learn from her.”

Nodding as sagely as she could manage while keeping soap from running into her eyes, Borgakh said, “That’s good that you liked the other Wives. After all,” she imitated Sharamph when she was about to recite a bit of Orc wisdom or old saying, and threw back her head in to stare imperiously down her nose at Lash, “Chiefs come and go, but you’ll be stuck with your sisters—hey!” A sopping wet sponge had just struck her square in the face, and she spluttered as she cleared the water from her nose.

“Are you planning on skipping past being a Wife and becoming a Wise Woman first? You'll need to get more wrinkles!” Dissolving into a fit of giggles, Lash was wholly unable to dodge Borgakh’s answering splash from the tub. The water fight escalated from there until the floor of the bath-house was swimming with soapy water and someone finally banged on the door while a gruff male voice yelled that it was time to let someone else wash up.

[big-cheesy-productions]

SXSG SPOILERS

Okay, I finished Shadow's story. And I have thoughts. Mainly:

More thoughts below:

Overall, I enjoyed it. I think as a way to catch everyone up on Shadow's story and who he is as a character, it did great. It was heavy on exposition, but it's assuming most people haven't played SAB-Heroes-STH '05. Fair enough.

It just felt short. I just wish the cutscenes were longer, and I wish there was more Maria and Gerald and Shadow. The interactions we got with Maria were very similar to what we got in Dark Beginnings. It felt more like a refresher rather than a much awaited closure, but I'll take the closure we got and the reestablishment of Shadow's character.

I think I just would have liked if the story had a few more cutscenes dealing with Shadow, Maria, and Gerald's relationships rather than them trying to figure out what was going on and Maria repeating things said in Dark Beginnings. But that's just me.

I think Dark Beginnings was so amazing and it set my expectations very high, set a specific tone, and had threads that Gens wasn't planning on continuing. I think Gens also set up threads that it dropped too though, like, you know, the whole "maybe I can save them from their fate" thing that got mentioned, forgotten, and mentioned again that was only otherwise minimally discussed in the little snippets of conversation in the over world.

Why was Big there and those two robots? There weren't any other characters relevant to Shadow that could be there? Like Abraham? Or, hell, toss Silver in since he wasn't in the original.

Gameplay wise, it was super fun. It felt very clean. I like the direction Frontiers has set for future gameplay. I think it was a little easy, but maybe that's just because I'm an adult and just played a bunch of old games that have old game jank lol.

Would have loved to see more Rouge and Omega, but I'm glad they're setting up for Team Dark to return in future installments. I'll fucking take that.

I've said it already, but the use of Radical Highway and the symbolism of it was probably my favorite part. I don't know why they had Frontiers level though??? Like, why not one from HIS GAME? Instead of one from a game he's not even in??? Odd choice. Maybe they could have done one of the flashback ARK levels? That could have given us some juicy cutscenes.

Also just want to appreciate the fact that the first time Shadow defeated Black Doom it was as Super Shadow. This time is was all Shadow, no emeralds required.

I also like the confirmation that Shadow was not meant to be a weapon originally. I don't think that's always been super clear. Doom wanted a warrior of course, but Gerald going insane was the nail in the coffin. I would have liked to see more of Shadow's feelings towards Gerald on that, though I did like when Shadow first sees Gerald up close he backs away, and almost looks a bit frightened, until he realizes this is Gerald from before the ARK incident.

I think they could have added a bit more. I think that's my overall opinion. Hopefully DLC will add a smidge more? Maybe?

I really did enjoy it. I just wanted to jot down all of my thoughts!

Edit: I don't want this to read as super critical! I think I had very specific expectations for it and I'd like to replay it without those expectations now. I really think it's great overall!

Anyway, SEGA, remaster SAB2, Heroes, STH '05, and Sonic '06 and my life is yours.

[blueikeproductions]

An update on the Transformers CyberWorld situation.

Without a shadow of a doubt, it’s the next cartoon as a new copyright notice on Hasbro’s part includes animated series.

So we’re moving on from EarthSpark. A well intentioned successor to Rescue Bots aimed older that … just didn’t stick the landing for many reasons (no Nightshade being Enby isn’t one of them, but among certain groups it didn’t exactly help either…).

So what can we expect going forward.

Honestly I think we’re in the middle of a shift, creatively.

Cyberverse & EarthSpark clung to a lot of IDW centric ideas about how the Autobots are shady & the Decepticons are the actual heroes.

Skybound and TFONE are to be returning to traditional Heroic Autobots and Evil Decepticons. Starscream & Shockwave are absolutely psychotic, Soundwave is more professional in an ends justify the means capacity, and Skybound Optimus being praised for a much needed return to the strong enough to be gentle vs the introverted millenial/Gen Z kid most stuff lately has cast him in. And just by official trailers and snippets alone, ONE’s fixed a huge problem with the cast system thing started by Aligned, by making future Autobots into the oppressed miners and from what we can tell, the future Decepticons being among those who either benefited from the system or joined Starscream’s splinter faction, a faction that likely has no benefits to Cybertron as a whole.

It does feel like there’s a bit of course correcting to go with a more traditional route most casuals expect. Even a recent toyetic promo for ONE where the actors play with the toys with some football players, among them is the one who calls himself Megatron, & the players express mild skepticism on an origin story, when they all know Optimus & Megatron are mortal enemies so why bother having them be friends previously or some such. I can always appreciate when a studio expresses self awareness and happily pokes fun at itself.

It also feels like they’ve realized they’ve both overexposed certain characters and also realized certain characters don’t work.

I think RotB and Skybound’s willingness to kill off Bumblebee shows even Hasbro might be sick of him now. His absence so far in early CyberWorld leaks seem to point in this direction too. A recent promotion and opening animation with Squad Busters doesn’t have Bee, but instead uses Elita. It also keeps Megatron and the Decepticons as the villains.

I don’t think Bee is going away, since he’s a major component of TFONE, Reactivate (whenever that sucker comes out), and that separate racing (?) game thing, but outside of EarthSpark, it does feels like they’re trying to move away from him a little. Cyberverse also sticks out as it’s pretty clear the writers wanted nothing to do with Bee after S1, but Hasbro marketing and rebranding made Bumblebee a huge focus, confusing matters, as despite the rebranding, Bee’s role had greatly diminished. (Like realistically, it should’ve been Bumblebee leading the Autobots during the Quint occupation, not Hot Rod if Hasbro was that insistent about it.)

Elita is also an interesting change. For years, Hasbro seemed content to ignore her (and her squad) in favor of Arcee, with Hasbro & IDW trying to beef up female presence with “OCs” Windblade & Pyra Magna among others to little fanfare. Indeed, Windy appears to be benched in favor of Elita-One who has gotten more attention post Netflix WFC (that god awful show did one thing right and it was bring back a Female Autobot people actually like to complement Arcee).

I stand by the series still has a villain problem, and EarthSpark didn’t help by trying to make the Decepticons sympathetic moody Autobots, but also not properly taking advantage of Mandroid, Croft and (so far) the Quintessons. This has been an issue for the bulk of IDW, Cyberverse, & RotB as well, by either omitting Megatron, trying to redeem Megatron into a good guy and/or his replacements not being up to snuff/killed off too quickly. Scourge & Mandroid were steps in the right direction but alas. The Quintessons are also a step in the right direction but Hasbro seems semi hesitant to do much with them, despite their increased presence. (I’m leaning towards it being most toys related to them don’t sell, which is what will make a future Void Rivals toy line interesting…)

So now we’re at CyberWorld.

The lack of Bee in favor of Mirage due to his popularity from RotB seems telling among the Autobots, though we don’t have Elita so far in this series curiously.

All we have to go on Decepticon wise is Galvatron, Scorponok, and Sky-Byte, but that’s still a pretty big change up.

While they still have relevance in TFONE, Screamer & The Waves’ roles in EarthSpark are mostly minor, with Starscream as the standout (in a bad fan fic kind of way). Skybound mostly has ignored Megatron, slowly building up to him in stuff like Cobra Commander, with Starscream getting the crap beaten out of him, and as of the recent issue, Shockwave’s fate isn’t looking too good, leaving Soundwave. It does feel like Hasbro is willing to experiment more outside of Screamer & The Waves, given their absence this far in CyberWorld. Galvatron is also a surprise, given the “Let’s make Megatron an Antihero!” phase started in IDW, that carried over to stuff like Prime Wars, WFC, CV & ES.

I feel like using Galvatron is an attempt to both move away from Megatron for a bit, but to also still technically use him (as a villain) as usually Galvatron IS Megatron. Scorponok, at least in comics and the Headmasters anime, is typically a main villain, but how that works here we don’t know yet. He’s either G1 Marvel Scorponok or BW Scorponok, there’s very little inbetween.

So I think what we have is a big change that is going back to basics like Skybound did, but is willing to still experiment with other characters to add variety. Plus let’s be honest, having multiple Megatron toys from three different things with little visual difference is a sign of stagnation. Shaking it up with Galvatron is an improvement post TFONE.

[dcfanfictioncatalogue]

barbara gordon JAN 2024 fic awards

another installment of "fic awards," where I comb through every fic posted/updated in a character tag for a specific month and find my favorites! there were more this month for babs than there were in december which made me really happy :) hope you enjoy!

-> Currently Updating <-

Hot Chocolate and Fruitcake, by HermesDay. 2.9k, G, dickbabs focus, 1/2. my summary: babs, through moments where she realizes she may be asexual. my notes: I loved the pacing of this -- babs' internal struggles coming to terms with her asexuality, the missteps she makes along the way. dick being incredibly respectful without even knowing what's going on. the cliffhanger made me yell a little, but I cannot wait to see how it's going to resolve!

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Homecoming as Labyrinthian, by cabezas_de_vaca. 22.1k, T, gen, 7/12. my summary: babs comes home from college, determined not to get back in the game after giving up batgirl. of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. my notes: I know I already put this one on december's list, so check there for more concrete thoughts, but it updated again in january, which means on this list it goes! it would have been amiss to not recommend it again.

-> Whump & Angst <-

Interrupting Bat, by partybarge. 1k, G, gen. my summary: babs yells at bruce about his treatment of cass. my notes: aurgh... every time I think about batgirl 2000 I start sobbing and this is why!! bruce and babs, cass and bruce, babs and cass... everyone's messy relationships are on display here. this fic says so much in barely 1,000 words and I'm obsessed.

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Grave Promises, by PsycholoGeek. 3k, G, gen. my summary: after jason's death, babs builds a safehouse for children in crime alley. my notes: there are ever so many stories about batfam members making safe spaces for kids in crime alley, but something about babs doing it just hits different. because she can't do all of the things she's used to doing, but she does everything she can anyway. and she does it through interaction with the community, instead of violence.

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-> Action & Plot <-

objects in a mirror, by clytemnestras. 2.7k, T, gen. my summary: four vignettes about the girls of the batfam. my notes: LOVE this!! one of these vignettes is babs pov, and helena's also contains quite a lot of babs and her and helena's relationship, so I figured it belonged on this list. I absolutely adored the way babs was written here and

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Oracle: rise and fall, by chick_with_wifi. 4.4k, T, gen. my summary: a look at babs through time, and her relationship with the title of oracle. my notes: this fic ends up tracking her emotions in response to canon events over the years in linear order, which, honestly, if you don't know anything about babs, this is an excellent rundown.

-> Fluff & Humor <-

we'll all be here forever (you're gonna go far), by theragingstorm. 2.4k, G, dickbabs focus. my summary: a little futurefic about bruce finally retiring and giving the mantle to cass, told through a gentle moment of dick and babs talking to each other about the future. my notes: this falls into this category under fluff, but it's bittersweet, and I love that. the casual inside jokes, the relief these two find with each other -- it's something I find tremendously endearing.

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they see me rollin', by ELLIDIOTT. 3.7k, T, gen. my summary: a fluffy little fic about babs and her wheelchair, in stories of her and the batfam. my notes: cute!! like this is genuinely just sweet pure fluff and I love the way both babs' relationship with her physical body and also the members of the batfam are showcased in snippets over time.

send me an ask for fic rec lists ++ to find a fic lost to the sands of time

[zannolin]

7, 9, 33, 36, 39?

7. How do you choose which POV to write from?

usually i pick who would be the most interesting, but also make the most sense for the story i'm telling. if there's certain information that needs to be conveyed and one character doesn't know it, i'm probably not going to write from their pov. if that makes sense. sometimes it just happens where i'm like "this would be better from an outsider pov" which is how harm's way ended up from jonathan's pov, and how north of desire wound up from caspian's. sometimes a character just takes over and i'm like oh okay so we're doing this now, which is how daniel ended up pov for objects in motion. it varies but usually i want the most interesting pov and the one that makes the most sense in the long run.

9. Do you comment on stories you read?

i try my best to comment on every fic i read if i enjoyed it even a little bit. i am a frequent clicker outer; if i'm not enjoying i will just leave, but if i make it to the end i think it deserves a comment to let the author know i enjoyed. comments can really brighten someone's day, as i know firsthand, so i try to let authors know they're appreciated.

33. Do you want to be published some day?

technically i already am. i mean it's an academic research paper. but that's a thing. idk i'm sending some poems and stuff to litmags and maybe a short story would be cool but i'm not really hoping to be a published career novelist someday. i think i'd be bad at it i don't want to talk to anyone or do book tours i just want to post and be done. the only yapping i like to do about my writing is on tumblr or in ao3 comment replies and authors these days seem to Have to be all over social media self-promoting and shit.

36. How do you write kissing scenes?

let me just say this now. I HATE WRITING KISSING SCENES. i need to go back to writing gen only because writing kisses is the WORST and i HATE IT and i'm just going "what the fuck is even going on" the entire time i try to do it. it makes no sense to me where is the appeal. blech.

that being said i do not talk about tongues. at all. if i can help it. i have discovered the more you talk about the kiss itself and the mechanics of it the weirder and grosser it feels so it's like, let's focus on maybe one specific sensory thing if there's a bite or something involved, but spend most of it talking about the Emotions not the body parts because nothing turns me off of a fic faster than tongues and shit.

39. Share a snippet from a WIP

yeah okay here's something from the peterfic

The first fight isn’t even meant to be a fight. Peter hardly realizes what’s happening—one moment some bloke’s said something crass about Susan, and Peter, forgetting he’s not a king or an authority or even a man anymore, commands him to take it back. He doesn’t, and the next moment they’re on the ground in a great scuffle. There’s blood in Peter’s mouth, coating the backs of his teeth, and this—this is familiar. This is something he knows.

he's crazy and i love him

get to know your fic writer!

[unityrain24]

You Lost the Game!

Well… You can’t win the game if you break a rule, can you? That'd just be– cheating!

Loki makes a deal with the Grandmaster to let him, Sigyn, Thor, Val, and Ari leave Sakaar. Unlucky for him, Thor cheats at his game, which means loki has to be left behind.

this is an for @cosmic0artist's find me series, which is so so good. The latest chapter had me gnawing at the bars of my enclosure (per usual). While we were talking about it, i was very inspired and wrote a little piece of a snippet at some of the ideas the chapter had thrust into my mind, and then they were inspired by that and added onto mine, and then it kept going back and forth until it was long enough we put it in a google doc and it was a Real Thing.

i've never done something like this before but it was so so so much fun and so cool T^T

tags:

Fandoms: Thor (Movies)

Archive Warnings: rape/noncon

Rating: mature

Category: m/f, m/m, gen

Relationships: Loki/Sigyn, Loki & Thor (Marvel), En Dwi Gast | Grandmaster/Loki

Characters: Sigyn (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), En Dwi Gast | Grandmaster, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Original Character(s)

Additional Tags: Bad Ending, Extremely Dubious Consent, Rape/Non-con Elements, Non-Explicit, loki's really going through it in this one lads

[magisolsmiles]

TOA Anniversary Munday

(TY for the template Neffi!)

Celebrating TOA and the people who contribute to make our group what it is.

Repost, don't reblog. Only fill in what you feel comfortable sharing!

Happy anniversary, TOA! Here's to many more years spent together.

Name: Queen

Pronouns: She/Her

Birthday (no year): October 18th

Where are you from? What is your time zone? Netherlands, CEST

How long is your roleplay experience? Uhhh about 10 years now I'd say?

How were you introduced to roleplaying as a whole? Gamefaqs had a thread where you could create your own Fire Emblem Fates character. I joined out of curiosity when i was like 13 or so and things just kinds went from there.

How were you introduced to TOA? Rosie, my online big sis, sometimes shared snippets of her experiences with me. I got curious and the rest is history.

Do you have any pets? I have an elderly doggy named Beef :)

What is your favorite time of year and why? (Season, holiday, general period) Winter, definitely. I'm a cold over heat kinda girlie and I like the early nights and cold weather. Perfect for soup!

What is your IRL occupation? IT support service worker and Maid Cafe waitress during the weekends.

Some interests and things you like/enjoy? I'm big into cooking, gardening and cleaning.

What non-Fire Emblem games do you play? Final Fantasy, Genshin Impact, Persona, Danganronpa, Pokemon, Tales of, Uchikoshi games, just to name a few. Also big into Otomes and BL games.

Favorite Pokemon type & Pokemon: Fairy! Favorite is probably Sylveon and Vivillon.

Tell us some funfacts and trivia about yourself! - I am an auntie to 3 adorable little nephews. Love babysitting them :) - Truly I am a girly girly girl. I love pink and cute things and all that goodness. Always have firmly believed that femininity is strength and anyone who disagreed with me has been ground to dust under my heels :) - I used to have a YT channel where I uploaded my own vocaloid covers. I stopped though because I lost interest and the videos gained little traction.

How did you get into Fire Emblem? *Deep sigh* Ike x Marth Yaoi during the Smash Bros Brawl days.... This was before I knew anything about either character and just thought they looked cute together.

What Fire Emblem games have you played? All of them except for Gen 2 of Genealogy (glitches killed that run) as well as Thracia. I'll get to them someday...

First & Favorite Fire Emblem games: My First game was Shadow Dragon. My favorite is a tie between Sacred Stones and Three Houses

List your 5 favorite Fire Emblem characters across the series! Ashe, Ewan, Nils, Nina, Dimitri

Who was the first character ever to make you go “ooh I like this one in particular” and why? Can be any context and reason! Wolf. This was because I was still young and just entered my "started liking boys that weren't squeaky clean" phase.

Any Fire Emblem crushes? 😳 Dimitri.. If you know me you know I'm down horrendous. Sorry kwdjwkdj. Chrom and Xander are also hot.

If you’ve played (or are familiar with) the following games, who was your first S support? Who would you S support nowadays? - Awakening: Chrom forever and always. - Fates: Tsubaki was my first. Nowadays its Xander, Jakob or Shigure. - Three Houses: Dimitri. Its always Dimitri. If I play BL and I don't choose Dimitri I have been killed and replaced. - Engage: Diamant was my first! I also really liked Kagetsu and Amber.

Favorite Fire Emblem class? Dancer!

If you were a Fire Emblem character, what would be your class and stats? Would you be playable? I'd be the cleric that needs to be babied at first but gives cracked heals later on. High magic/speed/resistance, low Strength/Defense.

If you were a Three Houses character, what would be your affiliation? (Black Eagles, Blue Lions, Golden Deer, Church of Seiros, Those Who Slither in the Dark, unaffiliated civilian, other - for example Almyran) Blue Lions baybeeeeeeee

If you were an Officers Academy student, what would be your boons, banes and potential budding talent? Boons: Faith Reason Authority - Banes: Axes, Brawling, Heavy Armor

If you were an Engage character, which nation would you originate from? (Firene, the Kingdom of Abundance; Brodia, the Kingdom of Might; Elusia, the Kingdom of Knowledge; Solm, the Queendom of Freedom; Lythos, the holy land of the Divine Dragon; Gradlon, the desolate land of the Fell Dragon) Wherever Kagetsu's from.

How do you pronounce TOA? 🤔(separate letters, to-ah, other?) To-ah.

Current TOA muses: Ewan, Nils, Byleth M

Past TOA muses? Uhhh from the top of my head: Saleh, Rolf, Nina, Takumi, Male Corrin.

Who was your first TOA muse? If you no longer have them, can you see yourself picking them up again? Ewan was my first! I don't think I'll be dropping him for a long time as he's just become so special to me :)

Do you believe you have a type of character you gravitate towards writing? Characters that put up a front of being easygoing or simple, but have a lot of inner troubles they hide from others. Those that like to make others happy.

Do you have characters or types of characters you don’t think you can handle writing, but wish you could? Very masculine types. Manly Men or Muscle Himbos are characters I greatly enjoy but just don't like to write.

What kind of scenes, situations etc do you believe you enjoy writing the most? I like writing scenes where characters bond with each other, either over an earnest heart to heart or silly shenanigans.

Do you have any scenario in mind for your muse(s) that gets you thinking “man I hope I get to write this one day”? I would love to write a scene where the mask just fully crumbles and the entire truth is revealed about my muses deepest feelings. Also for Byleth specifically I'd love to write post timeskip scenes where he's in touch with his emotions and takes on the role of Archbishop.

Favorite TOA-related memories? A specific one was Andrei's turnaround on Ewan during the halloween candy game. It was one of the first major bonds Ewan would end up developing.

Present or past tense? I Try to say I'm past tense mostly but sometimes I jumble things up a little.

Normal size text, small text, no preference? I've started trying small text recently, but I'd say I have no real preference.

Got any potential muse delusions to share? 😉 Nope! I think I'm set for now. There is one character that, If the opportunity ever arises I'd want to get but not right now.

[burningfudge]

think you can give us a sneak-peak of what ms marvel fanfic is looking like? no problem if you don't

These are little snippets of what I've written so far. It's very rough, and I don't know if it'll make the final draft.

Kamala found it incredibly draining resenting her mom for being a difficult person to deal with but also empathizing with the fact that she is the way she is because of all the unfair trauma she's experienced, so she couldn't even blame her, and then she would go through cycles for being angry and invalidating herself, and constantly trying to be understanding but never being understood.

She loved her mother more than anything, but it was just difficult sometimes.

Kamala and Muneeba's relationship was probably my favorite one in the show just because it was so realistic. I used to argue with my mother a lot when I was Kamala's age, but now I'm 23, and I understand her much better and I've realized that my mom was right about many things. Not that I would ever tell her that, lol. It was very funny seeing people's reactions towards Muneeba when the show was releasing because it was very clear to see who was South Asian, or even from African/Asian backgrounds, and who was not.

The show even says something along the lines of "mothers and daughters, the eternal struggle" and I think that's very true from a South Asian perspective. Never Have I Ever also focused on Devi and her mother's, Nalini, struggles, and I related to that a lot.

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Kamala didn't think she would ever truly understand the pain that her great-grandfather went through from leaving everything he'd ever known—his entire livelihood—for a better life and knowing that he would never be able to return. And then, to a lesser extent, her parents did the same thing. Her great-grandfather and grandmother left India for Pakistan, and her parents left Pakistan for America. Twice Migrated, Once Displaced. It was the bravest thing she knew.

While I’m writing, I’ve realized the Ms Marvel fic is becoming more personal than I realized because much of my family's history mirrors Kamala's but from the Indian/Hindu side. What drew me to Kamala in the first place was because she was a second-gen South Asian immigrant, and while that's not exactly me, it's close enough.

While Ms Marvel is a goofy and fun character, I think I'm going to focus more on culture, community, identity, mother/daughter relationships, immigration, intergenerational trauma, displacement, and the Partition of India in the fic.

[darkfireumbreon]

Can we talk about Magma’s (Dr. Stone anime) redemption? Cause I recently rewatched those season 1 episodes and I realized how well done it is. Like, it’s not huge, rather subtle in it’s entirety which comes off as out of nowhere to some but is perfect for him in my opinion. Yes he was an ass, power hungry and pretty ruthless, however, that was during a time where all he knew was get girls and power. He’s a big buff guy in a small village where physical power is authority. So it’s no surprise that he gets taken down by team science, which changes everything. Very suddenly the goal, their world, is bigger than they ever could have imagined, which I think massively humbled Magma. There are bigger threats out there (Hyoga, Tsukasa). We can see with Hyoga’s attack that Magma does care about the safety of the village. He willingly fights alongside Senku and the others to defend the village, even if he was reckless and charged in himself. He never put up a fuss after losing the tournament and just integrates into the kingdom of science rather silently, which is where the subtle part of his redemption comes into play. We as viewers don’t see anything from Magma other than snippets of him enjoying some of the new inventions or helping out labor wise, leading up to the cave exploration where he is selected as the 3rd party member alongside Senku and Chrome. And yet still he doesn’t put up much of a fuss. Of course he’s a little pouty as he’s now on a team with the guy who stole the position of chief from him and the guy who beat him in a fight by setting him on fire and pushing him into the river, but it’s little more than an annoyed huff. Of course the trip itself is where most of the redemption comes forth, as we learn of Magma’s assumption that the “smart twigs” control the big brawny people. Senku of course proves otherwise, that the two types work together to cover weaknesses, emphasizing why they need him on this journey. But the part I particularly want to highlight is when Magma saves Senku by pushing him out of the way only for Senku to try to save him. Chrome assumes Magma was trying to attack Senku and really, just about everyone had been saying similar before they had even left, assuming that Magma would take the opportunity to kill Senku. And it’s the look that they highlight on Magma, while he’s hanging in Senku’s grasp just before he starts spouting the act that fits all those assumptions. He knows what people think of him, he knows how he acted, and I think he genuinely wanted to change all of it. He puts on the act that everyone expects from him, “admitting” that he was going to attack them in hopes that Senku would just let him go and save himself, which I’m sure Senku saw right through.

Looking back on it all, it is blatantly apparent just how much Magma had changed in such short time, mostly due to his worldview completely changing, probably a little bit due to humility from losing the tournament, but also, as is said, because he has seen the great things science can make and he wants to see more. He wants to be a part of it, and that is huge for a guy who had such extremely selfish goals when we first met him. This is highlighted when Kohaku’s father mentions that he had never seen Magma help out before, and now he’s willingly offering his strength to help out wherever he can. Of course let’s not also forget that Magma keeps the promise to Gen to get them all back safe and on time in order to celebrate Senku’s birthday, something he never would have cared about had he not changed.

I’m sure there’s some out there who think Magma shouldn’t have been redeemed or that his redemption came out of nowhere (he was planning on letting Ruri die so he could have the seat of chief to himself). But I would argue that it was perfectly done. Nothing over the top, he didn’t need a whole arc, it was just enough. And I think he became a very successful character who values his strength in a way that helps others rather than just for his own gain. At his core he is still someone who likes to show off his strength, but to go from someone who thought the only way to do that was by taking over the whole village and becoming chief to someone who shows off his strength by helping improve the village is massive character growth.

And now he’s a big competitive himbo with a willingness to learn, which I find very enjoyable.

[navigatorsghost]

Snippet time! This has been knocking around in my drafts for ages and I'm not getting any further with it, so I thought I'd toss it here as it is and see if I get any more inspiration as a result. You know those fics where the Akatsuki members get turned into cats and some poor character gets stuck with them? This is, like, the inversion of that trope. Gen, crack-treated-seriously, rated T for canon-typical violence (Hidan sacrificing someone).

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Kakuzu was counting his money, like a normal bounty hunter on a normal day, when he was interrupted by a sudden outbreak of screaming.

The collection office agent, a short man with a rabbity face and nervous eyes, visibly twitched. Kakuzu, having caught the name Jashin-sama being loudly declaimed in the midst of the chaos outside, sighed but didn't stop the flick of notes between his fingers. Whatever problems his partner was causing could wait.

By the time he got out of the collection office, the screaming had stopped. Kakuzu looked up and down the street, scanning for the inevitable bloodstains.

The collection office stood on one side of a wide, shallow roadway that at its other side sloped down to meet the little river that meandered through this quaint village. Under normal circumstances the water ran clear and greenish-blue, shadowed by the flowering trees that overhung it, picture-pretty. On this occasion, a broad streak of crimson was feathering slowly downstream from the heart-pierced corpse in civilian clothes that had fallen half-in, half-out of the river. Jashin's mark had been swept in vivid, violent arcs and lines across the ancient cobblestones, and kneeling by the body was Hidan, his scythe lying at his side.

He held a battered cardboard box in the crook of his arm, balancing it on his raised knee, and was reaching into it with his other hand.

Kakuzu shunshinned over, stopping almost on top of him. "Hidan," he demanded, in tones deliberately weighted with disapproval. There was no possible way he wasn't going to disapprove, after all, no matter what Hidan's explanation. Easiest to get a head start.

Hidan jumped gratifyingly, but glared up at him and clutched the box tighter. "Oi, back off, Kakuzu! You'll scare them!"

"Scare what?"

Hidan carefully tilted the box, just enough to show Kakuzu the contents.

Kakuzu stared.

"Kittens?"

"This piece of shit," Hidan waved his free hand at the corpse, "was about to drown them when I caught him! You think I should've just stood there?!"

"Why not? I'd have thought your kami would approve of drowning kittens."

Hidan spluttered like an outraged tea kettle. "What? No! Shows how much you ever listen to a word I say... Jashinism only allows killing animals for food, or as offerings which is spiritually the same thing anyway. The scriptures are completely clear about that, animals can't understand suffering the way humans can so it's immoral to inflict it on them without necessity. And nobody needs to drown a kitten!" He held the box protectively to his chest.

From inside it, there came a pathetic-sounding squeak.

Kakuzu sighed. "Fine. You saved the kittens. Now find somewhere to get rid of them and come on. We need to leave."

"How do you think I'm going to do that in five minutes, Kakuzu?! I'm bringing them with me. I'll let them go somewhere safe when they're a bit bigger and can look after themselves-"

"Hidan, are you listening to yourself? You're a missing-nin. You can't keep pets on the road - how many even are there?"

Hidan looked in the box again. "Not sure, they're wiggling a lot... quite a few? Uh..." He reached into the box. "Ow! Don't scratch me, Jashindammit, I'm trying to do you a favour here... um..." He looked up at Kakuzu. "Twelve? I think."

Kakuzu pressed his fingers to his temple under his hitai-ate, feeling a headache starting to develop. "Twelve. Twelve kittens. One dozen."

"Give or take... yes."

"Fine. Do whatever you like. But if they annoy me," Kakuzu stared hard at his partner, "I'll eat them."

"Kakuzu!"

"What? You just said your religion permits killing animals for meat."

"Yes, but - but how much meat do you think there is on a kitten?! You'd just be doing it out of spite!" Hidan's eyes were wide with horror. "Every time I think you can't get any worse-!"

"I could say the same about you. Now shut up and move before I drown you." He turned away.

"He shouldn't say things like that," he heard Hidan mutter behind him, apparently to the kittens. "It's blasphemy against Jashin-sama, him pretending like he can kill me... ugh, come on, then, I guess. I'm sorry you're going to have to put up with his grumpy heathen ass but I promise I won't let him eat you, okay?"

Kakuzu sighed again. The next few weeks bid fair to be even more irritating than usual.

[sml8180]

Before They Were...

Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

What do you like best about this fic?

What did you learn from writing this fic?

(I absolutely love the worldbuilding you've done for Reginald's past! You can easily see where the prequel leads up to who they are now. And your Phoenix? I can't wait to see what else you've got planned! /gen)

Before They Were...

I'm so glad you like what I've done with both of these characters!

Reginald's past has been a lot of fun to flesh out. We're given little bits and pieces in the games, but I love that it's mostly left to interpretation.

As for Phoenix, I'm excited to show what I've got in mind! Once I untangle a few things and get myself out of the corner I accidentally wrote myself into with Ash and Shadow-

I'm glad I was able to keep the two consistent enough that the events of their pasts easily connect to the people they are now!

Answers are under the cut, because this got long.

Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

A couple, actually! Sort of.

For Reginald:

I have a draft called Field Sign, which would've covered some of Reginald's past with the Agency (this is where I first played with the idea of the Agency having their own sort of internal sign language, an idea which has since stuck around in my other works). I initially introduced the language in a short flash-back at the start, to when Reginald was going through a final test of sorts before being activated as a Field Agent.

I didn't go too far into Reginald's past in this one, just snippets that revolved around his use of Field Sign. The story went on to show him a bit older, after his incident (which I didn't go into in this version), after being reevaluated for Field Work, and finding out he was no longer considered fit for the position. This was when he was given the option to become a Handler (it was suggested to him, rather than him mostly coming to the conclusion on his own).

After all that, he encounters Phoenix for the first time, when they're a Cadet and he's simply observing. Then he's assigned as their Handler, and finally meets them in person, after they're brought in from Death Engine. Phoenix is using Field Sign as their primary method of communication, and not all of the Medical folks understand them. Reginald needs them to slow down at first, then shows that he knows Field Sign (rusty as he may be at this point), and he stays with Phoenix to translate for the Medical folks.

There's another version of sorts, Changes, that goes more into a different version of Reginald's incident. It actually starts immediately after the explosion (in this version, he's still conscious for a bit after, until he's rescued).

In this one, I go more into how he got his prosthetic arm (he only lost his arm in this version, while he dealt with nerve damage in his leg), and that Roxana (then a fairly new addition to the Agency) had designed it. That was pretty much where that version stopped, though (I couldn't figure out how I wanted things to play out from there).

I don't really have any alternate versions of Phoenix's chapter! I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do with them from the start, so there isn't anything else drafted for their past! Just pieces in my notebook that haven't come to light just yet.

What do you like best about this fic?

There's honestly a lot I like about this one! If I had to pick just one thing, though, I think it'd be Damien.

I wanted Reginald to have a (somewhat) similar relationship with his Handler to what he has with Phoenix. Damien was a father-figure of sorts to Reginald, as Reginald is to Phoenix.

Having Damien pop up not just in Reginald's chapter, but in Phoenix's was a decision made on the fly. I wanted older, more experienced Agents to be the ones interviewing new potential Agents, and in doing a bit of math, figured Damien would fit nicely, and I'm so glad I did that.

What did you learn from writing this fic?

I learned quite a few things!

For Reginald's chapter:

I learned about different methods of information/audio recording! Magnetic Wire Recording specifically is what's referenced in the first section. (Fun fact, the first commercially available magnetic recorder was made in Springfield, MA, only about an hour and a half from my hometown).

I also learned about the history of distance communication (things like walkie-talkies), to come up with the headset that Reginald used in the Field. I didn't want to just have him with the earpiece we get in the game, technology wouldn't have been quite there yet back in the 1940s (given, the game takes some liberties with technology, so I did as well, I still wanted things to feel reasonably grounded). So, a bulkier bit of tech, which requires a connected source of power, was what I came up with, and the set Reginald used was born!

For Phoenix's chapter:

Even though a lot of the specifics didn't make it in, I did learn about the history of Spy Fiction, mostly so I could ensure that it would make sense for Phoenix to have been exposed to it for a decent amount of time, enough for them to be somewhat influenced by those stories.

Another thing I learned (though didn't make it into the story), was that the free fall at the end of Rising Phoenix (assuming one story at Zoraxis Defense is 14 ft) would take roughly 5.28 seconds.

[rriavian]

ooooo this ask game has a lot of good ones. How about:

🐌 What is one of your smallest writing goals?

👾 Do you have any "bad" writing habits you want to break?

💥Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're most excited to write? Share a snippet or tell us about it!

🐌 What is one of your smallest writing goals?

My aim is to finish a few smaller projects in the first six months of this year. I’ve got some prompts in my inbox that I’m finishing fics for (all smaller stories) and I'd like to keep to a goal of regularly filling prompts this year.

I’ve also got another Corintheus ficlet I want to finish, and Cursed is a shorter piece. So a rough goal is the get those two out for February and then do the rest in whatever time they need :)

 👾 Do you have any "bad" writing habits you want to break?

I think my bad habits are the other sides of my good habits, if that makes sense? The billions of ideas I’m always having can mean that unless I catch that wave when it happens, it feels like I’ve not done anything with that thought and just stalled instead. My own brain can quickly swamp me, and that can make me then struggle to finish. So I’m trying to pace myself better and be less stressed about ‘right now immediately’.

I also tend to write a little chaotically. Prose out of order, leaving rough sentences/ideas as place holders, but this doesn’t always work for longer projects. It can leave some tricky bits to clean up at the end. I can dip back in and be like aha! I know exactly what this needs, but it can also trip me up and stall me.

I’ve got a relatively flexible style, I’ve taken some different approaches in different fandoms and/or fics. Though Baiting the Trap and its specific tone/style was very much something I’d already practised in another series. Just not as explicit and not quite as poetic (the Corinthian’s POV naturally seems to be very lyrical, though not in the same way as Dream's). 

To keep flexibility I like to shake things up and do something completely new to keep myself from losing an edge and getting lazy. Not that I think I am a lazy writer, but I have ways to make sure I’m taking the same care and thought every time. Prompts from other people really help with this as I love considering new angles and tropes.

When something is hard/new I think we go more carefully, and are forced to be more novel, and I really really like improving my skills by doing that. It’s helped me write some of my favourite work.

💥Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're most excited to write? Share a snippet or tell us about it!

There are two secret Corintheus fics I wrote alongside those for Corintheus week that need a last edit before posting but I’m being very quiet about what they are :) should be a nice surprise! I’m also very proud of my Corintheus ‘divorce au’ that I still need do some work on before I post. I think the one I’m most excited about is probably role reversal au because when finished it’s going to be the longest fic I’ve yet posted that’s not split into a series. It'll also be the longest fic I’ve written in years.

It’s quite ambitious, and will probably have a sequel. I’ve planned the second arc out because I had to split the original fic in two. There’s lots of threads as well as other relationship dynamics and subplots. It’s about Dream and the Corinthian of course, but also very much about how they interact with other characters. Death shows up quite a lot, but I would say that Lucienne and Gault are the other really major characters in the fic.

I’m also branching out into other parings/writing some more gen fics. And, as an honourable mention, what was intended as the last two parts of Baiting the Trap have both been written for over a year and every single day I just want to share where it’s going. Unfortunately there’s at least two more in the middle, which I’m also excited about, but when I get to it I’m going to feel so relieved. 

Oh! And the Corintheus seduction au! Goodness I’m excited about everything aren’t I? Though I guess that sums me up! Thank you so much for your questions I hope you enjoyed my answers :)

[autisticburnham]

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

I was tagged by @lostyesterday ! (Actually they tagged my main, but the vast majority of these are Trek based, so I'm posting over here) So the thing about me is that all of these "WIPs" are either general concepts that I have not started on or fics that I started years ago and haven't touched since, but maybe this game will reawaken something.

Discovery:

Braiding hair + Alice

Comfort after Kwejian

Wedding customs

Ikhu Zhen

Angry letters

Grudge/I-Chaya

"Angel is a term of endearment?"

Labyrinths Guide was Book

Disabled Reno gen fic

Voyager:

B7 Dr B'Elanna

Need to Work on Communication/Need to Work on Everything

Voy/ds9 crossover

Doctor Who

Twelveclara bodyswap

River/Clara/Me (as in the character called Me, not a self insert)

Community, which are just named after the ships

Trobed

Jeffdean

And two Yugioh 5Ds fics I forgot were even in there

Where the Heart Is

Morningshipping get together

I don't know who all writes fics, but if you see this and want to do it, you can say I tagged you

[dafpork]

hi im huckdraw disguised as an anom and i gotta say SNAGGLEPUSS IN THE ACTOR AU⁉️⁉️⁉️

i cant stop thinking about it so i gotta give it a shot bc the curiosity is killing meeee, what role he had in that version of the au? :"0

SO SNEAKY… INCOGNITO… HELLO YOUUUUU!! HE WAS INDEED!! SOOOO…

okay I’M SURE YOU’VE SEEN THIS ALREADY but linking this just in case since so much of this talk revolves around the context here. ADMITTEDLY Snagglepuss’ role is pretty small, and i’m just going off of poor memory and snippets of conversation since i deleted all of my old writings like a dummy :’) but for awhile i was entertaining the idea of other cartoon characters from other studios making cameos and popping up, VERY WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT-ESQUE. i’m not sure how much i still want to obey that, BUUUUT Snaggy was one of the first i thought of

in Gen 1 (and Gen 2) of the au, he was sort of like a father figure to Daffy in particular? or maybe an uncle figure? Porky and Daffy are on the outs, Daffy’s distancing himself from Porky because he feels he is responsible for Porky no longer being relevant and it manifests in this weird self loathing yadda yadda. but iirc Daffy goes to a bar at some point to blow off some steam, is in a visibly bad mood, and Snaggy is there for.. some.. reason and ends up talking with him since he can sense Daffy needs someone to talk to. this is what i had said about it back then

IT’S KIND OF OVERT AND SILLY, but Snagglepuss sort of ends up being like this de facto couples counselor LOL. Snagglepuss is obviously gay. like. yeah. Yeah. and 🦆 and 🐖 are not out (not even to each other, glass closets i know), they can’t afford to be in mid-century Hollywood, too much of a risk with their status. but i think Snagglepuss senses that there is something there and that Daffy clearly needs a Likeminded Individual to talk to this about. also letting 2020 me speak for myself:

SO THAT’S IT FOR GEN 1 REALLY, i didn’t really carve too deep into it but he’s a kindly little authority figure to help give Daffy some direction

AND THEN COMES GEN 2. i remember this a little more clearly since it’s more recent. this is a part of the Vegas au. Porky is not having any of it, is cranky and aloof, goes to bed early and Daffy is left to entertain himself. which is actually quite easy to do in a huge casino. but he’s frazzled at Porky’s lack of cooperation and doesn’t really feel in the mood for partying, but he doesn’t want to be with Porky, either, so he just kind of wanders around aimlessly

and who does he discover but Snagglepuss, who happens to work some of the slots. Snaggy recognizes him, realizes something is bugging him, and they talk things out while seeing a show. Daffy doesn’t want to spill the beans and is uncooperative but eventually loosens up, talking about how he’s trying to do a good turn for Porky and bring him out vacationing and how he’s frustrated that Porky isn’t reciprocating his advances etc etc. Snaggy gives him advice and does his thing. Daffy doesn’t really feel Better as he eventually goes back to his and Porky’s room, but he at least was able to get what he needed off his chest

the next morning, PORKY is up early, unable to sleep and brooding for similar reasons. he does the same of doing a bit of an aimless walk around the casino, blending in with the crowd of people who have been up all night gambling. he spots Snagglepuss who flags him down and is like “i was wondering where you were i saw Daffy last night we had a great talk :)” and this chafes Porky the wrong way, he’s like “great he’s talking about me behind his back” and is just all sorts of distrustful (which is the crux of the whole trip, they had a big falling out and didn’t speak for a few years until Daffy suddenly visits him at random and forces him to take a trip out to Vegas to have fun and mend their relationship. good intentions. horrible execution, Porky is flustered and angry and feels held hostage but they eventually work it out. BUT ANYWAY) and so he takes off in a huff, decides he’s gonna pack his bags and hitchhike home, confront Daffy as he does so, etc. Snagglepuss is clearly confused at why Porky is being so grumpy and avoidant but lets it go and that’s all we see of him LOL

SO A MINOR ROLE BUT A CUTE ONE! it was just an idea that occurred for shits and giggles and actually managed to stick around. this isn’t really a direction i’m taking the au in as it stands now, but it’s fun to think about