#atla continuation verse au

[quotidianish]

TF2 x ATLA AU :3

Lore, close ups, and doodles underneath !

Scout, Pauling, and Ludwig are the main three- scout, who’s an (admittedly shitty) airbender but not the avatar, who ran away after his father left. Once spotted by fire nation soldiers, he is presumed to be the avatar- and scout basks in the glory of his false identity. Pauling- a studious, too serious for her own good, non-bender, who’s Medic’s student. She’s of the southern water tribe, treating medic like her paternal figure after the disappearance of her aunt. Medic is (unbeknownst to pauling and scout) a blood bender who was exiled for his practices. He doesn’t seem to care for anyone or anything, also being very jovial and cheery.

All Pauling and Scout know is that Ludwig was exiled from the northern water tribe then fled to the south for an undisclosed reason. Pauling never bothered to pry and the Scout was too intimidated to. Here the avatar cycle has indeed been broken. It’s up to a group of nine ragtag men and one mousy girl to defeat Gray Mann.

And the main three villains are soldier, demo, and sniper who're all fire nation folk. Sort of the team rocket; never truly competent enough to cause real damage, that or their hearts truly aren’t in it.

Soldier's a fire bender who specializes in jet propulsion and was kicked out of the army. He thinks if he steals back the avatar, they'll let him back in. A weapon since childhood, once a bully, always a bully, or so he’s heard.Character arc being the realization the fire nation army isn't worth fighting for. Surprisingly, he is very good with spirits, opposite to his best friend, Tavish, who despises them.

Demo’s just trying to impress his mum and be a good friend to the Soldier. People pleasing tendencies, that's his character arc. He's supposedly a non bender who's mighty good with swords; but underneath his inconspicuous-ish eye patch holds a combustion bending tattoo. Only Jane knows this. Well-versed in calligraphy.

Sniper is a 26 year old yuyan archer who was discharged for failing a mission while he was young. He joined the other two with the same goal as the Soldier. His yuyan archer tattoo still remains. He's a non bender with excellent aim, who grew up on the rural outskirts of the fire nation. His character arc is something about not adhering to expectations and learning who he's fighting for; a combination of the demoman and the soldier’s lessons.

Spy's a crusty airbender constantly sporting a mask to hide his tattoos, and knife. Nobody has a clue where he's from and he takes orders from whoever pays him best. His airbending tricks are so subtle, the public believes him to be a crafty nonbender. Usually said tricks are only invisibility and voice alteration. While not assassinating political figures he traverses the spirit world looking for his wife, a fellow air nomad, avoiding physical aging in brief sprints of time. He returns on a well paid mission to kill the “avatar,” which was presumably the scout. Little does he know, that weird whiteboy is just some lame airbender. Who’s also his son. His bad.

Engineers the metalbender; an art perfected by his ancestors and passed down in whispers to him. I haven't developed him much. He teaches the Scout what he knows while obscuring information on how he got that metal arm. Him and the Pyro have a shared love of blacksmithing. From an explosion, he thinks..

Pyro's a spirit probably. Nobody knows what he is. Where he’s from? Pyro. What’s his gender? Pyro. Guy who sets things on fire. Presumably human judging by his questionable use of what looks to be fire bending. And also the Spy's companion! They met in the spirit world. He and the Soldier form a close bond quite quickly thanks to their good graces with spirits (to Tavish’s immense dismay).

Heavy's an earth bender who continues to win in underground fights. Residing in ba sing se with his three sisters and elderly mother, scout pauling and medic meet him in an earth bender championship. Despite what his appearance suggests, his patience is unmatched, which is his greatest strength. He has near -perfect seismic sense. He and the Medic get on quite well, and after the fire lord has been struck down, form a duo in the ring, earning even more won championships.

[triscribe]

WIP Tag Game

Tagged by @crystalshard, which may prove to be a miscalculation, 'cause boy-howdy do I have a lot of works in progress...

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! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

/cracks knuckles

Star Wars: -Fulcrum & Family, the new Tano & Twins re-write -Dreamwalkers Luke and Leia -History Reversed with sequel trilogy Ahsoka, Luke, Ezra and students dropped back in the Clone Wars -Birds Fly sequel Can We Start Over, Bly's pov -Something Big is Happening (Misc/Understudies crossover) -Clone Wars Cass (DC/Batman crossover)

Marvel -The Big One (5+1 Spidey saves Morgan, Pepper meets Doc Strange, Another Chance conclusion with Wanda) -Kids Club, post-Civil War kidnapping fixit -MCU Miles Morales, title tbd -Spider Assassins AU, multi-continuity-combination -X-Fire, Laura/Wolverine, Gabby/Honeybadger, and Rachel/Phoenix -Heroes of Tomorrow re-write with way more kids from different superhero groups/families

DC -Pantheon AU -the revised Alf-verse (22 Bat-grandkids and counting) -Rotten Luck re-vamp (Young Justice season one Team in the Justice League Unlimited universe) -Continuations: The Batman "seasons six and seven" if I ever get around to re-writing the early stuff (my very first fan fic ever, I've improved a lot since those high school days) -Teen Titans meet Robin's horde of younger siblings (original cartoon) -Battorian AU (Diana is human, Clark's a demigod, Bruce came from another planet) -Mandalorian/Star Wars AU (Mando Alfred adopts orphaned Bruce. This is the Way.)

HP -Pair of Potters sequel, year two for Heather, official year one for Harry, the beginning of a long headache for Dumbledore -Founder Foundlings, reincarnation fic -Cheers to the Wish, more Guardian Ghosts Lily and James -Philosopher's Mirror, canon-divergence of the unintended resurrection variety -the third effing chapter of Muggle is as Muggle Does -Thief!Harry AU, my all-out middle finger to the Author Who Shall Not Be Named

Transformers -Terratron AU (Bee meets Dragonfly, Elita makes Artemis, Bee and Fly stumble across Megatron and Rion, Prowl and Beats, Beats finds Jazz, accidental babysitter Serrate, Hornet and her big race, etc etc) -Hard Facts and Simple Truths, humanformers AU -TFAnimated swapped 'verse, with Elita Prime and her team of spacebridge technicians: Arcee, Ironhide, Wasp, and Jazz -G1 sparkling-Starlane AU -TFPrime crossover with Hot Wheels: Battle Force Five

Atla -follow-up to A Small Condition, aka the "Monk Gyatso goes into the iceberg with Aang and Zuko assumes *he* is the Avatar" AU -continuation of Ursa leaving royal life and stumbling across a dying dragon who entrusts her with a baby and two unhatched eggs -Avatar!Yue learns airbending from Aang's grandkids and that whole big mess of world-altering changes

My Hero Academia -Doubles AU (finishing Brand New Day and getting a move on with Double Take as a canon re-write with Pro Hero Shimura Tenko) -continuation for Great Beasts of the Mountain -third chapter of Instinct, my first A/B/O attempt -more next generation fluff, the Archive and Guardian saga

Misc -Sea Beast fic where Crow gets injured, suffers total amnesia, the doctor who patches him up sends for Jacob, and there's a very awkward dance between them and Maisie and Blue as the old man slowly gets his memories back -The Faceless Wolf, a mildly (make that incredibly) ambitious Game of Thrones canon-divergence attempt -Jamie Reagan and the Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day, a Blue Bloods whump idea I've had rattling around for a while -Milo and Claggor Survived AU from LoL Arcane -Grandboss Gibbs, a bittersweet NCIS fic that would, in my opinion, have been a better end to the series than trying to go on without the main character of the show -Storm Hawks past-and-present-collide idea with some previous generation OCs -Edge Chronicles TWIG GETS TO MEET HIS MOTHER DAGNABIT -may as well throw in what will be my second self-published book, Trials of Youth, because the current draft is definitely a work in progress

Aaand we'll call that good. Now to see if I get any nibbles...

(I know the game says tag a person for each WIP but I don't think I've got that many writing acquaintances on here, so instead I've got one person per fandom grouping)

@wafflesrisa @eirianerisdar @jinxquickfoot @theredscreech @resamille @tarisilmarwen @icarussmicarus @gallusrostromegalus

[tuzesdays]

Into the y/n verse! a small bit of writing for @bunmuffin, @sleepykas, and @cacaocheri because the server has been loving the ATLA au. here you go <3

Some Things Stay The Same

There wasn't a set moment when Viper decided they would be hanging around three firebenders for the rest of their life. Originally they had thought it would be a one-off thing - they were off on their own safety searching, after all, and Viper definitely had nothing to contribute to the safety of some fires.

Every day they stayed, it was always 'just a few more days'. A few more days, until they hit the next city. A few more days, until they can forget the spike of fear at seeing their own handiwork. A few more, because Charlie asked them to stay. A few more, because Kori shared a favorite food and they can't stomach leaving immediately after.

'A few more days' became a thought that happened less and less. The road isn't noisy with their new group, but it's certainly less empty. They hunt for four now. They hum along with a song instead of starting one to stave off the night.

They mindfully turn away from an unlit campfire until after Rity touches it.

It's an easy peace that Viper isn't used to in the slightest. Too many times they've had their only possessions ripped from them, endured the frantic, angry fight to get them back.

Charlie doesn't steal from them, despite how close they sit during the night. Neither does Kori or Security, despite Rity's clear hunger and Kori's occasional glance at the soft bit of fluff peeking out of their bag.

In exchange, trust comes slow and sure.

That's around the time they meet a 'rebel faction'.

It's a bunch of kids, which Viper isn't enthusiastic about. The leader invites them - specifically Viper - to wander their encampment, see how they do things. Some of the traps are clever, and saying as much earns them a few smiles from otherwise weary children. These kids have a certain amount of stubborn anger against the Fire Nation that Viper can't help but relate to: after all, they've all been hungry during the war. But what becomes plainly obvious the longer they stay is that they're kids.

And kids, unfortunately, have a habit of ignoring the shades between black and white.

"Those three you came in with," the scrawney, barely-fifteen leader says to them after their tour, "They seem nice, but… have you ever looked at their eyes?"

Viper considers him. He's trying to sound understanding but falling just short - speaking to them as if they're a clueless child gets their hackles up before the subject matter has a chance to click. But click it does.

Viper's seen the traps. They've spent time witnessing the anger. These kids, as much as they are kids, are dangerous.

"Plenty of people have gold eyes," they tell him, feigning attention to the small bit of clay they had been dancing around their palm. "The war has been going for a hundred years. Plenty of Earth Kingdom mothers were taken advantage of. Plenty of Fire Nation deserters saw what they were doing was wrong. Eye color doesn't say as much as you think it does."

"And what about wanted posters?"

They still.

"What?"

"Sorry you had to find out like this, but…" he pulls out a sheet of paper, rain-stained and worn. "Some of us thought your friend looked familiar. One of our people still in town gave me this."

The face that stares at Viper through parchment and time is familiar. Short, shorn hair. A Fire Nation uniform - high ranking. Dull eyes fixed on the middle distance. He looks even more tired than he does now, but they figured Rity's habit of pushing himself to the edge of ruin was something he's had for a long while.

"This is for a deserter guard for the missing princess to the Fire Nation." The kids says. "Rumor is that he kidnapped her. Lots of talk about why, but you wanna know what I think? I think-" he continues without pause- "that he took her on Ozai's orders. So that even if there's an attack on the palace, the royal line would still have a way to continue the war until all of us are dead and gone."

… Yeah, this is a child.

"Ignoring that that would be the stupidest plan imaginable from a man who claims to be a better war strategist than his father," they glare him down. "My friends have been nothing but kind to everyone we've met. They eat with me. They starve with me. The only fires that I ever see from them is the tiny spark that starts up our campfires. Your plans and traps are clever, but you can't make up the lack of awareness with those - they're people, not some shadow agents sent specifically to take you down." Viper snorts. "Hate to break it to you kid, but you’re not that special."

He drops the friendly act and tries to match them. "They’re Fire Nation. They’re all Fire Nation, from the capital city itself - one of your friends has killed hundreds of Earth Kingdom fighters. Freedom fighters, like us! You can't forgive them for that."

They need to gather their people and leave. Now. "Forgiveness doesn't have anything to do with it. He's repenting the only way he can without dying."

"Then maybe he should."

A switch gets flipped in the back of their mind.

Enemy.

Well, they've always been a firm believer in the lesson a fist to the face can give people. Now - for a demonstration.

VVVVV

Kori comes to them later that night, long after everyone's had the chance to get bandaged and fed from the meagre supplies they managed to forage for earlier in the week. Too tired to hunt. Viper glances at him in greeting, shifts slightly in invitation. He sits next to them, leaning into their side.

"… Thank you. For staying."

They smile and nudge their shoulder into his. "Can't get rid of me yet. Fun as 'freedom fighting' might be, those idiots have a lot of big ideas and not enough sense." They snort. "Gonna have to do a lot better than that to convince me."

"Is that why you started fighting them?"

"Nah. I punched the leaders nose in because he insulted Rity."

A sputter from across the campsite. Charlie starts laughing. Security sits up straighter and gapes at them in surprise. "You what?"

"Those assholes took one look at your eyes and didn't wanna see anything else." Viper scoffs. "Far as I'm concerned, they needed a lesson in looking out for actual threats."

"And THAT'S why you fought them!?"

"No, I fought them because they shit-talked you to my face, I swear I already said this."

In the corner of their eye, Viper sees Kori lose a measure of tension in his shoulders as he looks at them.

Even as Rity scolds them for starting fights in his name, that alone makes it worth every bruise.

[vickyvicarious]

7 and 32 for the fanfic author ask game!

7. What’s the fic you most want to continue (unfinished or no)?

There are actually three that come to mind for this, one of which I never even started writing. However, that one's really more a daydream since I have no real intentions to ever start it.

I have a series of short oneshots (called Secrets) for Natsume Yuujinchou that operate under the AU premise of 'what if Natsume Reiko survived and Natsume Takashi was sent to live with her?' I've always really enjoyed the premise and there is definitely a lot more good stuff I could get to with it. Plus, it's been left off in the middle of a two-parter so there is a very unfinished feel to that piece alone, nevermind the whole thing. Going back to it would require me to reread/catch up on the whole manga to refresh on details and get back into the feel of it. This is something I want to do in theory but have been putting off for about a decade at this point.

I'd like to add more to my OUAT/ATLA fusion verse. It's just a couple oneshots in that verse at the moment but there's much more of it complete in my head.

I've got plenty of other unfinished fics that I still like the idea of and vaguely want to come back to, as well as some that haven't been posted at all and I'd quite like to get to a point where I could. There's some that I had sequel ideas for as well, but those don't really niggle at me the same way.

32. Who’s the one character who shines without you even trying?

This is an interesting question. I'm not sure how to interpret 'shines' - as in, is standout to an audience? to me? is easy for me to write? I guess the latter is easiest to quantify. I feel pretty comfortable writing Phoenix Wright and based on responses I've gotten, others often think so too. Admittedly I do often write him in the midst of more ensemble pieces where there's not so much one main star. Oh, and I suppose it always felt easy for me to write in Rob Wilkins' voice in my alternate character POV series for the 1-800-WHERE-R-U books, and the way I wrote him definitely went over well with that audience.

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fanfic author ask meme

[divinecomedyproductions]

RWBY Saints of Remnant Notes: Arthur Gray(Watts); Mad Scientist, Unethical Businessman, and Conniving Rat

Part of The Emperor-Verse

Now this follows up my AU Jacques Schnee and SDC and my AU Adam Taurus, which focuses on their common foe, Dr. Arthur Gray aka Arthur Watts.

I honestly loved Arthur regardless of my gripes with the FNDM's appraisal of him, his design, personality, his color palette, and weapons(neat pistol and rings) hit all the right notes for me and I do feel he along the rest of WTCH didn't really meet their full potential from what I've seen, Cinder and Hazel I have more unorthodox ideas for.

But for Arthur? I feel like the 'Mad Scientist' thing wasn't explored enough, and back when this was a V3 reboot, I had Arthur manipulating Jacques into hating the Faunus(framing the White Fang for his wife's death) but now with the hard reboot and remember Arthur's motivation in canon got my noggin jogging

What if instead of the SDC being the corrupt big business, Arthur had his own mega corporation that was part of the corrupt North instead, and part of something even more sinister?

Thus, I came up with his AU Counterpart, Dr. Arthur Gray, genius roboticist, biologist, and CEO of GigaWatts Incorporated and The Grand Master of the Northern Rite of the mysterious Freemason-Like fraternal organization The Lumen Society ran by Grand Mistress, Professor Salem.

Basically, GWI has taken over most of Atlas in the sense of supplying companies with tech, their own high tech products ranging from domestic, law enforcement, security, and even medicine.

Even Atlas Council and top brass of Atlas military are hiring Arthur to develop their military tech. Despite James Ironwood's protests and continuous vouching for Dr. Polendina instead, who he is supporting in his own department.

Not to mention, the factories are known for unethical labor practices towards faunus, which gives Arthur brownie points for the anti-faunus sentiment in the North, along with countless of corporate CEOs vying to make deals with him and his seemingly wondrous technology.

And with the link to my AU Jacques Schnee link, this corporate machine is crushing smaller companies, SDC among them, under its grey steel boot

Basically, GigaWatts Incorporated is like OCP from Robocop

And even then that itself is nothing for the more unholy role it has for The Lumen Society, or its true name...

The satanic cult known as The Brotherhood Grimm. Whom Arthur's role is developing technology and occult research as they plot to resurrect The Black Empire that nearly destroyed the world in Ragnarok thousands of years ago with Salem as its Black Empress

But we'll get to that later

Arthur is currently tasked to recover an ancient ritual to “transcend” humans and Faunus into “The Grimmborne” or as Arthur calls “The Objective Man”(a reference to CS Lewis's That Hideous Strength)

And with Cinder infiltrating Beacon Academy as a teacher, Arthur finds a team he believe are suitable for experimentation. Though there is complications I will get to later.

He's the same as his Canon!Counterpart in many ways, snobbish, arrogant, passive aggressive(which I intend to show in the pissing contests he gets in with Jacques) but among some things, some which I will leave out for another post, he represents hyper-rationality, pragmatism and luciferian mind and the modern obsession to rationalize everything and destroy anything that can't.

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits." - GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908)

You see, Dr. Gray hates personal and subjective feelings and certain emotions and the concept of the supernatural. He sees them as icky and disgusting things that sully intelligent and rational minds and their judgement of intelligence and "worthiness" instead of basing such things such as statistics, logistics, scientific method and what else he deems to be "real information", and he absolutely despises the concept of The Stoyteller and The Author Allfather as "Ancient Superstition" and he honestly hates both humans and faunus saying "both are subjective animals" which the Grimmborne aka "The Objective Man" shall replace.

He basically uses anti-faunus sentiment in the North to "keep the monkeys fighting each other" while he uses his tech and company as a means to get The Brotherhood's tentacles in The North

And when it comes to Jacques Schnee. There's very bitter history between the two, and Arthur may had some involvement with Mrs. Schnee's death. But Jack has no evidence. And even if he did, the majority councilmen and upper-class North are so corrupt Arthur is pretty much untouchable.

Now his allusion, he has two which is why I changed his last name.

His primary allusion is James Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes novels, but his secondary allusion is The Rat King from The Nutcracker and rat, mousetraps, and mazes are recurring theme with him and his aesthetic along some steampunk. Cuz rats have grey fur and grey is Arthur’s primary color.

It’s also to note he is something of a connoisseur of wine and cheese.

But combining James Moriarty and The Rat King, Arthur also alludes Professor Ratigan of the children's novels The Great Mouse Detective which was also adapted into a Disney Movie(and one of my favorites), and like him, he hates being called a rat among other things, but I'll save that for the story.

and tidbits of Weston from CS Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy(Out of The Silent Planet, and Perelandra) and CA Rotwang from Metropolis but that will come later when I introduce his 'daughter' Maria Gray(which those who know the movie can guess who she is)

Now for his semblance, I call it "electrified malice" which he can channel his repressed disgust, resentment, rage, hate, distain, and while lotta suppressed emotions into lethal green electric energy which he can direct either everywhere from his body like a live wire or from his hands ala Sith Lightning(I mean he is like Palpatine in a way)

The problem is, once he focuses in either spot and his emotions are intense enough, he becomes drunk with his malice which in turn takes him a while to stop, which will cost him dearly in the long run.

You'll see.

[moldygreenblue]

Regarding the WIP names you posted, "Can I Have ONE Normal Idea" sounds very intriguing to me ;)

@gellavonhamster, you picked the most wild of all wips from the list:

“Nice work, lad.” The way ‘lad’ was drawn out made Duke uncomfortable. There’s a radio crackle, and then a long sigh of relief.

“But it’s time to end this little masquerade,” continued the voice. No longer it sounds like the friendly, concern, baritone man from before. It sounds like nothing, as well a bit tired. It’s like the man on the radio had forgotten how his real voice sounded like. “And masquerade is a word which Lemony Snicket —the real Lemony Snicket that is— would probably define as, ‘A lie someone can fall for with either little or no amount of force.’”

“I say using a code phrase is contradictory to that.”

The man ‘tsks’ several times. “Was that phrase ever spoken when you volunteer your assistance for justice regarding the death of a sweet young child?”

Duke didn’t answer. All he does was grip the radio tighter in his hands. The entire room began to shake violently.

“A human being, even one that is genetically modified in a laboratory, is like any other animal,” continued the man. “If it wants something enough, it will do anything at all. You, young man, wanted to do good in this watery-hellhole. You volunteered yourself in a task of self-righteous justice. All I did was gave you a push in the right direction.”

Another violent shake. Duke stood firm where he stands.

“Considering everything, I owe you a little honesty. The name is Hangfire.”

so. context: this wip is from an asoue/atwq and bioshock fusion-crossover fic i was working on awhile back. in it, most of the snicket-verse characters take the place of bioshock characters; only two bioshock characters are in the au.

bioshock is a first person shooter with horror/sci-fi survival elements video game series. in the first two installments, it's about an underwater city known as rapture that gets torn due to a civil war that started on new years. by the time of the games, rapture is well on its way to being ruined and dead for good.

in the first game, you play as jack, a young man whose plane crash into the ocean and ends up entering rapture, where he must survive the horrors with the help of the man name atlas, the leader of one side of the civil war mention before, over the radio. atlas has a wife and child and he asks jack to help save them, but they get kill, and long story short atlas gets jack to go kill one andrew ryan, the ruler of rapture, and the leader of the other side.

at a very pivotal moment, which this fragment wip is inspired by, jack learns a few things. the most important things related to the snippet:

a. atlas isn't real. atlas is instead the disguise of frank fontaine, a rival to andrew ryan who faked his death in order to take control of rapture.

b. jack is a hidden agent for frank fontaine, with the phrase 'would you kindly' getting jack to do as told without question.

the fusion-crossover snippet here has:

armstrong feint/hangfire in the role of frank fontaine/the fake lemony snicket. the real lemony snicket is alive and around in rapture in his own story that is loosely inspired by the second game.

duke, an original character, is in the role of jack. duke is a bit more talkative (a hell lot more actually; jack is your typical silent protag), and well, let's say duke has beef with hangfire after this.

i'm sorry for the delay respond; i had trouble trying to figure out WHICH part of the wip to select because only fragments of the fic is actually written; most of it is just summaries of events and lore/world building to blend the snicket-verse elements with the world of bioshock. so i put it off and did other stuff (re: the widdershins and olivia friendship post on my side blog). picked this because while major spoilers, it's the best of the snippets i do have written.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (4-10 Jun 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🙂 i've been having a horrible time pulling myself together (deadratz) - steddie, 74K - angsty getting together fic

🥰 Red Queen to Overwatch (BootsnBlossoms, Kryptaria) - excellent 00Q AU - Bond moves in across the hall from freelance tech genius Q but Q think his oldest brother Mycroft might be a problem…

😊👂‍ Rotten To The Core (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #8) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - back at it again with Emily & Flo in this cozy mystery series

🥰 A Man of Good Fortune (softestpunk) - 43K, Dreamling regency omegaverse AU - absolutely delightful, warm and fluffy; great worldbuilding

😊 Baby, You're the End of June (Oh_i_swear & thiccbuckybarnes, author; britbrit99, artist) - 155K, stucky no powers omegaverse mpreg - quite enjoyable, loved the very slow burn - great embroidery art!

🥰👂‍ We Could Be So Good (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - imma just quote TJ Alexander's review bc they're a great writer and better than me with words: "It's late 1950s New York City, and two reporters for a liberal pinko newspaper are falling in love with each other. Nick and Andy are exquisite. The vibes are immaculate. And for those of us who are wary of reading about queer historicals because we’ve all read That Type of Story Where Things End Terribly: this is not that. And thank fuck." Cat continues her incredible streak of 'low angst, mostly vibes' which I absolutely adore.

😍 Paper Things (saltandanchor) - 73K, Inception Pretty Woman AU - the PW is really just the initial set up for this incredible fic, loved loved loved it even tho I know nothing about inception except that JGL & TH had insane chemistry [this fic was begun 10.5 years ago and the author recently finished it after an 8 yr hiatus!!!! so never give up hope!]

💖💖 +108K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

(Baby, Baby) Can't You Hear My Heart Beat? (E_Greer) - Ted Lasso: Keeley/Roy/Jamie, 37K - my fave tag for this story: "author's shameless adoration of cranky older partners"

your blood is my territory (saltandanchor) - Shameless (US): Ian/Mickey, 10K - canon-divergent (i think) AU where Ian dances in a club and Mickey won't look at him - I don't think I watched Shameless past s3 but this felt very true to their characters

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Hot Ones - LL COOL J - this was possibly my fave Hot Ones ever

Hot Ones - Jenna Ortega

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - June 5: Simple Seriousness

Into It - While Writers Strike, Special Effects Artists Try To Unionize

Vibe Check - Welcome to Club Renaissance

Culture Gabfest Plus - The Spider-Verse Proliferates

⭐99% Invisible #539 - Courtroom Sketch

The Waves Plus - Finding Love Without Romance

⭐Sidedoor - Recording the World

⭐Outward Plus - Pride Special: Is “I Do” Best for You?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Fairy Castle

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Temple of Pythons

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Frozen Dead Guy

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tabor Opera House

Re: Dracula - Bonus 3: Antisemitism and the Gothic

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Seventh-Inning Stretch

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Alive: 2007 (Live) [Daft Punk] {2007}

Random Access Memories [Daft Punk] {2013}

Presenting The Prodigy

Nitzer Ebb

Sister Machine Gun

Electronic Radio • 2000s

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Radio • Party

Sneaker Pimps Radio • Chill

My Mix #5 [Duran Duran, ELO, etc]

The Age Of Pleasure [Janelle Monáe] {2023} - I just put this album on repeat all day long from 7:30 to 17:30

Save Ferris

Tomorrow Never Comes [Rancid] {2023}

Rancid

[onmywaytofanfic]

Muta x Reina - Chapter 2 - Cracks

Okay...so here it is this short chapter for Muta and Reina. Again Reina having multiple ships and me diving into the AU verse head first. So here is some Reina and Muta continuing what was left before. Also I will clean my tags and like properly tag teh different AUs cuz..chaos.

WARMINGS: Mentions of suicide attempt

WORDS: 3176

Reina sat in the bed, scared, fragile and over all closer to lose her temper and her coolness. It was a hard week, she had been going to all her therapy session, she had also gone to those group chats and even joined the book-club. She had started to get of her shell, as much as she could. Every day closer to seen Muta, seemed to strangle her.

-Gen…Gen…Dr. Yamanaka – she ran towards him

-What’s the matter Reina?

-Can you like cancel the visit? – He was talking with another nurse, looked at her and nodded gently

-Just give me a minute – then he returned his vision and focus on her – Listen Reina

-I can’t do it

-Well, I think you can, and not just that…But I truly think that you need it. He has agreed and you can spend a whole afternoon with someone from the outside, don’t you say that you miss it? If you want to go back there, you need to get used first to what you are going to encounter there, and the first steps, not just for you but for everyone here…Is re-meeting familiar faces. I’m sure you will be okay. You seemed so eager to see him? What’s the problem now?

-I…- a small buzzing filled her ears, her hive anxious – I just…I …

-Reina… tomorrow you will have a great day.

The doctor left and she just started to go back to her room. She did not go to the book-club that evening and decided to do something with her little gift. Her stupid, little gift. She still remembers it clearly, the pain that it meant to him and everyone. It was a very lovely event, a small party to celebrate that Shino and Kagura were back from their honeymoon. At some point a knife left the table and it fell to the floor, near to her foot. She just stood there silently, looking at the knife. Shibi was too and Muta’s father, Atlas. She wanted to scream of happiness, to jump around and rush to Muta’s home and cut…cut a lot. Her hive had given up, it did not try to protect her from the knife. She smiled and, in a flash, she left their garden. The next thing, she decided to look for something sharp. However, it did not cut her.

-You …. dammed you – howled her. A small flock of insects was trying to make her stop from hurting herself. The next thing she remember was Shibi and Atlas breaking in Muta’s bedroom. They tried to make her stand up, but she was a mess of tears. She grabbed the knife once more, but Shibi just needed to grab her wrist firme. Her hive was in danger, their host was the danger. Both have talked many times about it since the day they agreed to Takeo’s proposal. It could be a good choice, she was out of that environment, they would leave the compound, not many Aburames and for that extend people who lived there, seemed to like the duo. They thought they could help her, and her hive to not fall into such places. But it was late. She was broken in so many tiny and minute pieces that nobody seemed to find them anywhere.

-I think it is the only choice…. - muttered Shibi to his younger brother. He nodded. It was time to seek help, outside their nest. She could not be helped by the hive anymore. That was her faint last memory. Apparently Muta was also there, and Torune, Fuu, Shino and Katsura…Everyone seemed to help her pack her things, they said that Katsura helped Muta to clean her. But she couldn’t remember anything… except that when she rushed to Muta’s home to do it…she broke a small pot that he had at the entrance. A silly pot with a small cactus on it, it had the formed of a beetle. She had been going to pottery classes there and she thought that it was time to give something to him, after all he had only gave to her.

-This is stupid – muttered holding the small pot -This is just…-she let the tears flow. She held it tightly, afraid of break it, letting it on the top of her table scared, overwhelmed… She couldn’t face him, not now nor ever. Curled in her bed she fell asleep crying, drinking her salty tears and making a whole mess. She did not want to see him, and yet she was craving his arms around her body, the security that the sweet buzzing of his hive made just for her. She never replied to that chant, her body numb every time he hugged with that tenderness in his heart. Numb, unconscious, unaware of what she was losing by no hugging back, by no closing her eyes and let that subtle rhythm take her pain out of her. She grabbed the sheet of her bed while dreaming of that embrace and wondering how she could have back everything that she spit on it.

She wanted her life back, but she did not know where she left it.

Time fly by and the day of the visit arrived with blazing sun that let the small garden of the ward blind everyone with its colours. They reflect in the tiny room where Reina kept looking at the hand mirror shaking, her hair a mess and her face completely swallowed of all the tears that every day she shed. – A mess…- muttered, they left her there a huge mess and she kept being one. She was mediocre at best. Hiding in the bathroom tried to wash off everything with cold water out of her face, tried her hardest to tame her mane and kept pushing tears back. There was no use, no form to solve what she had become. She gave up, once more, and sat on the floor. The clock kept running and so was Muta back at his home…

He woke up earlier than usual and started to prepare breakfast in a merry mood. His father looked at his energetic son finishing some short of pastries and looked confused. Muta still had troubles adapting to his new limb, and he clearly limp while moving around the kitchen.

-Good morning father – smiled the young sprout. Atlas just gave him a snort and sat on the stools of the counter.

-You go today to see her, don’t you? – his son nodded and kept packaging the pastries in a small blue box. He made biscuits with different shapes and flavour, butter, chocolate, and some with handmade strawberry jam.

-Are you sure of this…. Muta – his father started to pour some hot water into a glass and drink it directly. His son just looked at his sides and nodded once more. Atlas had tried his best to make his son go back into the…” circle” of singles of the village. Looking for a wife for his only son and someone at least stable.

-Muta…you do not need to pity her

-I don’t pity her. I know she is doing alright. She is…progressing. The doctors said so – Atlas sighted and smashed the counter making it shake

-Muta

-Father. I know what I am doing. 

-She just said that but as things are she could just not choose you once she is…fine

-I don’t care. – The young lad looked severe at his father – I don’t care father. I… I just want to see her smile and I don’t mind, care or… I just want to be close to her, just believe me her smile is worthy.

-Is it? Is it worthy for you to lose your time as you do chase some lunatic?

-She is not crazy

-For fuck’s sake she tried to kill herself!

-And you and uncle knew that she was ill and did nothing

-So, did you.

-I tried father! – Shouted – I really tried… - Muta held back his tears – I really tried and only we know how much we tried – mentioned his hive too – We tried father. Everything that came to mind, every single chance that I got I took it. But she was broken, she was shattered. The council let that happen.

-The council had nothing to do with this

-You, old farts, knew what that man was doing right in front of your noses! You all knew and did nothing.

-It is not that easy. Nobody has the right to get into a home’s quarrels.

-Yet the council interferes when sees it fitting, don’t they? Everyone hated them here; you guys saw him selling her daughter as a chance to get rid of those two venoms and yet you have the nerve to say that you did everything you could? She was sold and you saw it as a solution. You, all of you, could have solve this way sooner, and yet you kept it brushing it under the carpet as nothing was happening. She could have died.

-Her hive

-Her hive? What are you going to say, uh? That it protected her. I clearly remember the mess that she was in, she abandoned any substance to feed her body that’s what kept the…knife…out of her…not the hive…- Muta tried to not break in front of his father, once more; bitter memories of the mess that he encountered. Her mind completely gone, into another dimension, place, universe where she was trying to not suffer. Her rigor cadaveric make her look as if she was already dead, but the small warmth that escape her lips kept him secure that life was still beating inside her.

-I have things to do – sentence the conversation the young lad. He finished packaging the small box and took his things with himself. Cursing upon the pain that his lost limb was giving to him. He left the compound and marched towards the ward, where Reina was held. The closer he got, the faster his breath seemed to run out. He was on time, too much in time. They left him waiting until the clock run enough for him to come in.

-Are you ready? – The soft voice startled Reina, Chokako one of the doctor’s there, knocked on her door. She kept trying her hardest to comb her hair the best she could. She really should take a little bit of more care upon her image; it only came to her mind that she should do that when she decided to see Muta. She found that her hair was a mess of knots and tangles, the doctor came by and tried to help her detangled some of it – We do not have much time Reina…try to do a braid it would camouflage it a little bit – Reina sighted. “How you do one of those?” she had never had her hair as long as at that moment. She tried her best twisted her hair trying to make it and it ended up with even a messier hair than before. Another knock on the door, she should be on the hallway now waiting for her visit. She looked at her huge messy braid, her heart racing ashamed of been seen like that. She took the small pot and crunch her hands on it, keeping it firm in her grip. She looked at the small hand mirror, a mess, not what she was expecting to show him; proof that she was better, healthier and lively; instead, her hair was a mess that she was really trying to hide it, she needed to wear those pyjamas however, she put her finest one. She gulped and looked at the doors of the hallway, patients were already greeting their visitors. Among the multitude she saw him, his tall figure towering the rest of patients and visitors. She raised her hand and wave timidly; he waved back and approached her; he had a small box with him and tried to not show his limping as much as possible. He got closer to her and smile, a painful card dangling in his cloths read “Visitor”. She wished that instead of him visiting her it was more of a…date thing. Maybe going shopping, or to have some snacks in a cafeteria…she craved being out there.

-Hi

-Hi – then silence. Reina was trembling, she looked at her feet trying to find something to say.

-I like your braid – said with a small smile Muta and ventured to get near her to touch it

-I…I don’t think so

-What?

-The braid….is a mess I…tried but I couldn’t, and it was already too late, and you were here, and…

-Hey, hey, hey … he got closer – Don’t worry…I like it, really – he let hiss hand rest on her shoulder, he raised his eyebrows and let his smile get wider; she did not flinch nor stepped back. His rosy cheeks were shining to her with such intensity and warmth that he felt a slight headache, as if he was getting some fever.

-What do you want to do? – asked the gal thrilling by the fact that he could rest his hand closer to her without her jumping or fearing him. She looked everywhere, full of doubts, what was she supposed to do?

-Garden… -she finally looked at his face, she was glowing – Let’s go to the garden. It is not as big as the compounds nor as your father’s garden- Muta smiled, his branch oversaw the area secure where the bugs roamed free, his home, or better said his father’s; was at the entrance so the family could check who goes in and out. The lad nodded and followed her to the garden. She suddenly, hold his hand and guide him towards the north area, there some trees stood tall and provide shadow from the heat. She shrugged – Would you like to…sit, here? We …- her hand detangled her fingers out of him and returned to her messy braid she kept playing with it. Muta laid his back towards the tree and let himself go down, he sat with his prothesis completely stretched out. She sat in front of him, closer with her legs folded. He let the box near him, she trembled.

-Would you like me to fix your hair?

-Eh?

-I can fixed it…if you want to -she got closer to him and showed him her back. She got closer sitting between his legs; he took the tied of and started to caress her hair with his fingers. In complete silence he started to detangle her hair with his own fingers, trying to be as smooth and gentle as the knots let him. Sometimes she let a small cry and he apologised, she just smiled back. It felt like heaven. His hive started to sing for her, a gentle buzzing. Some started to move towards his fingers trying to find solace in her hair. She looked at them dancing in front of her – Sorry – muttered the man, ashamed that he couldn’t fully control them, although he did not want too either. She raised her hand and let the bugs dance in the palm of her hand – Hi…- muttered to his bugs. He smiled and kept working on her hair.

-Those are Ma, Me, Mi and Mo – said

-Nice to meet you – Reina let them run free around her fingers, he suddenly felt some unfamiliar steps near his nose. – It is Emerald – said in a whisper – Hi…- greet the gal. She looked at him – I have made some friends here…- He gently caress her scalp while detangling her hair and hearing her. She let her hand touch the grass. Among the bushes some insect seemed to receive the order and started to approach them. Muta looked curious, it was an orchid mantis, with bright pink colours. The insect went to Reina’s hand and there it kind of sat calmly, she let it on Muta’s thigh, and it started to crawl towards his torso -Hi… - he looked at the insect curious – Apparently, she is from the compounds.

-Really? – she nodded

-But… She does not know how she ended here.

- I’ll take her back -ventured Muta before she finished

-Thank you… - Reina looked back at his kikaichu dancing and get them closer to her face. One of them ventured to give her a small kiss in her lips. She let a smirk and kissed the insect back; it did not expect that reaction from her and started to dance almost as if it was drunk around them. Muta looked curious at his insect and called them to his palm, the bug started to tap on his palm confessing what just happened and he laughed, a pure laugh. He kept working on her hair, letting some “brushed” strands of her hair lay in front of her. She kept getting closer to him, needing his buzzing near her, the small chant that his bugs were doing grew louder every time she tried to get closer to him. He started to pick up some notes, some of her notes; something that he had never heard of. It was a blessing. Her song was small and timid, like the small flattering of the wings of a butterfly. He sounded like the roar of a hoard of bees making the sweetest of treats. Half of her hair was already prepared. He ventured to touch her shoulders to get her closer to his torso, she let finally her back rest on his torso.

-Now I can’t work properly – tittered. She separated herself from him, but he kept her closer. Half of her hair completely brushed off was on her right side, her left side need to keep working. He let the hair there – Don’t worry I can do it.

-But…does it bother you?

-It doesn’t – he was thrilled to have her so close to him, and the redness of her cheek confirmed that she also wanted to be closer to him too. 

-How are things going?

-Do you mean…

-Yeah, your father…uncle…cousins everyone, are they okay?

-Hmm

-I…

-Don’t say anything

-Please Muta, apologise for me

-They know that already, Reina. You do not need to send apologies to them…nor me in every letter that you write.

-But…

-Stop Reina – he touched her shoulders and faced her

-You do not need to feel sorry for anything

-But I …I made a huge mess. I treat you and them horrible. Your family just welcomed me greatly and I just mess things out a lot.

-Reina… please stop with that already – He touched both of her shoulders and smile at her

-Really…we are just glad that you are better – She felt her heart twitch and her blood froze in her veins. She got closer to him and cuddle in his torso, he did not know what to do. He felt his heart race furiously, he just wanted to hug her tightly to his chest, close his eyes and forget where they were, what had happened everything…just inhale her sweet aroma and care for her. He just wanted to protect her, from herself.

[capriciouswrites]

Good day. I just read watch the ripples change their size and wanted to know if there's a continuation to it? How do they talk about their bond? How/do they end up together? What happens next? I am so enamored by this idea of soulmates. So unique. And I love how you wrote it.

OKAY SO

wait, hold on, here's the link for anyone who wants to read/refresh before dealing with my rambling: watch the ripples change their size

Then the rest under a cut b/c fic spoilers.

Okay so! There is not a continuation to it -- originally it was going to be the start of a much longer work, but tbh I am not so great at the long works and it felt 'complete enough' to be a stand alone for fictober. I don't have any intention of writing more in this verse at the moment, but lord knows I've been bit by inspiration at weirder times -- and I was thinking about doing another month of daily fics this month...(Can't be October tho because I'm traveling).

But that's not what you're asking about, so!

Wait, shit, okay first thank you so much for the ask! I really appreciate it and super appreciate the compliments. I love soulmate aus and I love coming up with weird ones and ATLA had just so many soulmate possibilities that I went a little nuts.

Now, to answer your actual questions: at first they don't -- as of the timeline of the fic they haven't actually spoken about it. They both know, and they both know the other knows -- but I think for each of them there's a small belief that maybe, maybe, maybe it's a different water/fire bender. (Neither of them actually thinks this, but they're both young and have doubts). So they don't actually talk about it, they just make sure the other one knows how to handle if someone tries to use the other's powers against them.

And then they go to face Azula, because that's still the path they're on. Only -- and gosh I have like three different ways the Azula fight could go and you know what, here are some options:

Azula sends lightning at Katara, but Zuko doesn't lunge between them -- and Katara redirects it at Azula with one hand and directs a shit ton of water with the other -- and Azula is still twitching from electric shock long enough to get her chained down.

Zuko recognizes that Azula is going to send lighting at Katara and blood bends her so she can't, and then they chain her down.

Azula sends lighting at Katara -- and it doesn't hurt her. Which shocks Azula long enough for Zuko to win the battle and get her chained down.

Some combination of those three options.

Anyways, they win without anyone needing a ton of healing (which kind of makes me sad tbh I love the sacrificial scar, but needs must), and then not thinking about it Zuko takes Katara's hand and they stand there victorious and it's a moment, okay. They have a moment.

They still haven't talked about it tho, because of course they haven't.

But then Aang comes back, and is all "we can be together!" and Katara is just like "oh but I have a soulmate? and it's not you? it's a firebender?" and that's the first time she's actually said it and, well, Aang loves her and wants her to be happy, and so the fact that she says that and then has a panic attack about the fact that she said it means he's more concerned with making sure she's okay then being hurt. And then they talk it out and he's just like "yeah of course it's Zuko" and she's all "it might be!" and he's just like 'bitch please' (except not really b/c it's Aang and that's definitely more Toph).

And then Katara is all 'doubt' and "well he's going to be the firelord so he can't marry me anyways" and that's just her insecurity talking, but Aang thinks maybe Zuko has said something -- so he rushes off to tell Zuko not to be an idiot and he has to accept his soulmate and he's telling Zuko this in front of a bunch of his new advisors who are all heart eyes and THE NEW FIRELORD HAS A SOULMATE THIS IS V. AUSPICIOUS YES THE BEST NEWS EXCELLENT AND SHE'S A BENDER PERFECT and the pr people and ambassadors are crying in gratitude b/c honestly this is like perfect press and is going to make stepping back their, oh you know, crazy conquesting thing a little more reasonable.

And so they get married without having actually talked about it, but it's fine b/c they actually do really like each other, and then they get to have a sups awkward talk that's all "check yes if you like me" and "if I said I liked you would you say you liked me I'm just kidding unless..." on their wedding night and it's v. sweet.

And once they really accept each other into their hearts they do get full access to each other's powers plus some, and holy shit are they stupid powerful.

The end.

Thanks for the ask!

[reaper-bloodmoon]

(Mechanic!Soliel AU) Bea And Her/Their Baby Brother, Solar

WARNING: SOME INFO MAY BE TRIGGERING UNDER THE CUT AS THERE IS PARALLELS TO HUMAN PREGNANCIES AND COMPLICATIONS MENTIONED

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The Mechanic!Soliel AU is a branch of the TSAMS Continuity-verse and is a combination of a role swap and a Baby Solar AU, along with some other elements sprinkled in.

Mechanic!Soliel, who goes by Bea like in the nickname "SunnyBeam", is placed in Solar's role as the family mechanic and the one who suffered at the hands of Moonrise a.k.a. Solar's Original Moon/New Moon in this universe.

The reason Solar's a baby is because instead of Moonrise leaving his Killcode behind in Sunset(Solar's Original Sun), it was a quote "inner child" coding. Moonrise didn't even check which code he left behind until Sunset brought to his attention that she/they found out there was a literal baby AI in their body.

It should be noted Bea was created by Sunset because Sunset wanted a child, so she made Bea in their free time.

Anyway, even though Sunset was rightfully angry at Moonrise for leaving behind a baby AI coding in her, they still got attached to the baby AI coding that would soon become Solar. Since Sunset's fem in this universe, I had the whole idea that since the Creator's a flaming asshole, he decided it would be a great idea to outfit Sunset(and Moonrise initially since he still shared a body with Sunset at that point) with the ability to pretty much have animatronic babies and give them bodies via eating scrap metal. Though he obviously didn't give them the right build to actually hold the child once it was completed since he was rushed to complete Sunset and Moonrise by Fazbear still.

The unfortunate consequences of this though was that once Sunset finished internally building Solar in their body and once Solar's AI was secured inside of it, Sunset had started rapidly degrading in their health. Sunset had made the choice to trust Bea with performing the animatronic equivalent of a c-section on her. Bea had begged and tried to find another way, but Sunset had told them that they'd rather Solar get to live than die along with her.

Bea had reluctantly gone through with it after Sunset gave her a forehead kiss and said that they'd always love her, even if they died during it all. Unfortunately, Sunset would pass during/a little bit after the c-section was performed, which left Bea with immense amounts of grief and guilt. Bea still took care of Solar the best she could, even after Moonrise found out about Sunset's passing and what happened fully. He would go on to blame and abuse Bea for it and even if he tried blaming Solar or going after Solar, Bea would always fight against him, even if it ended in a cracked ray or two.

Bea would go through the motions of meeting Lunar pre-being blown up by Eclipse, who would definitely be confused about Solar being a baby, especially since Moon told him that Bea's dimension was one that harbored a Nice Eclipse. In reality it's just a tiny baby Solar who was called Solar since the beginning.

Times and events pass and eventually Bea makes her home in the main dimension of this AU with Solar strapped to her back.

A bunch of other main events happen, though Bea's the one to meet Jigsaw(Ruin) initially instead of Atlas(New Moon at the time) and somehow ends up on cordial terms with them despite them still running off to who knows where.

Meanwhile back in Bea's old dimension, Moonrise found a hidden copy of Sunset's memories. Moonrise then decided they would pull a Canon Ruin and bring Sunset back via designing and building a body for the memories to occupy.

After this, Moonrise stupidly decides to add a sliver of his KillCode into this new Sunset so that they would still be related in some way.

Once the new Sunset wakes up, they're greeted by Moonrise standing over them. They ask where Bea and Solar are, with Moonrise going silent before telling the new Sunset that Bea and Solar went missing.

For awhile the new Sunset believes Moonrise on them just going missing, but then it reaches her through word of mouth thanks to Monty that Bea ran away with Solar because she was afraid Moonrise was gonna go too far when hurting her and kill them, leaving Solar defenseless. The new Sunset still has maternal feelings towards Bea and Solar despite being their own person and still considers Bea and Solar her children as well....

So with that in mind, the new Sunset, thanks to the KillCode inside of her heightening her rage and murderous revenge thoughts, went through with slaughtering Moonrise. This is when the new Sunset decided to go by a new name, that being SunBurn.

SunBurn managed to get into Moonrise's computer and finds out where Bea and Solar ended up, so she decides to go off to the main dimension. It should be noted they forgot to rinse themself off, so they were still covered in Moonrise's oil.

When she arrived, they were greeted by the sight of Bea at the computer with Solar playing with Dazzle nearby. Bea was immediately defensive until SunBurn spoke up. I'm gonna put the exchange below.

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SunBurn: SunnyBeam, Solar, I missed you so much!

Bea: ...M-Mom? You're....

SunBurn: Alive? Well...sort of. I have all the memories, I still have those maternal feelings for you and Solar...I still see you as my children, and you always will be....

Bea: approaches SunBurn I-I just can't believe you're...w-who's oil is that?

SunBurn: Oh...right, I forgot to wash myself off, haha! Let's just say Moonie won't try and hurt you ever again!

Bea: ...Y-You....y-you killed him...?

SunBurn: It was to protect you and Solar both! When I learned what he'd been doing that had caused you to run away with Solar, I just knew I couldn't risk him deciding to go after you to kill you for running away from him! I promise I would never hurt you or Solar, I only wish to protect you both!

Bea: I-I....y-you were never the type to...kill someone, Mom...

SunBurn: Well....Moonie put a sliver of his KillCode inside of me, so now I have violent urges when I'm feeling protective and angry over you getting hurt, from what I understand of it.

Bea: ....

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So Bea's understandably freaked out while Solar latches onto SunBurn, managing to recognize her as his Mama. Bea has to get used to SunBurn's urge to murder to protect her and Solar, and it does take awhile until it happens. Eventually she's able to call SunBurn their mom with a more genuine tone rather than an unsure tone of voice.

Oh and about Jigsaw(Ruin), he's still busted up in this AU and gets together with SunBurn. Tall murder lady x Ugly little british twink /aff because why not add it lmao.

[shadowsong26fic]

Coming Attractions!

First Monday of the month, so here we are!

As usual, we’ll do an Open Question Night--while my askbox is always open, tonight I’ll be keeping an eye on it if anyone has questions. Anything about any fandom/original project I’ve written about here or posted to AO3 is fair game. I do take prompts, but no guarantees on how quickly I’ll fill them.

All right, here we go!

Star Wars Fic:

I’ve basically only been writing my Year of the OTP fills at the moment. I’m also doing some betaing/podficcing for SWBB, as well as pitching in on the mod side, but not a lot of writing. Hopefully once the event is over I’ll get back to Precipice!verse (which I refuse to let die) and other projects in that fandom, but we’ll see how it goes.

Castlevania Fic:

I swear I haven’t forgotten Incinctus (or the one other plot idea I had, but I want to put more of Incinctus up before I start working on it). I just...yeah, nothing’s really happened this month, lol. Maybe in May...although I do have a lot of family/personal stuff coming up so IDK how much time I’ll have. Work at least should be somewhat calmer now?

BSG Fic:

I really am working on The Other Battlestar in the background of everything else, I swear, lol. Still no official posting/start date, but maybe?? soon?? I hope anyway.

Also been doing Year of the OTP for this one. I’m really proud of the one I came out with this month--it’s an AU that’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and I like some of what I managed to pull off with mirroring bits of language/etc. (May or may not continue this AU; there’s some Interesting things that could go on. This...is probably going to make me sound like a terrible person, but they obviously won’t succeed Completely because that makes for a much less interesting story, lol. But those 4-ish months between this bit and the eventual attack, plus the ways the aftermath would be different, could be a Lot of fun. I did have a few ideas here and there, but nothing like a coherent Story yet.)

Also! Galactica Big Bang is coming along! The amazing fracktastic designed some icons, and I’m putting a banner together/finalizing the FAQ/rules/etc. I’ll probably do a kickoff post sometime this month. Like...what’s normal for this type of event, lol. Six weeks before the signups open? A month? Two? (Technically I missed the window on two, since I’m opening signups on July 1...)

...I also need to actually design the signup forms, whoops...::adds to to-do list::

Original Fic:

Still doing OTP fills; I’m having a lot of fun with it. I did write one thing that was not a fill for a challenge on rainbowfic; might or might not do that again this month, I haven’t looked at the May prompts for Year of the OTP, but they could line up with this month’s RF challenge...

(I also might be going back to the Bridgerton/Regency AU for Lux that I put together a couple years back for a challenge. This is because I saw Les Mis on Saturday and I swear that actually does make sense in context XD

Other Projects:

Nothing concrete in the pipeline at the moment...one of my roommates has gotten back into AtLA again (not sure if that had happened by April’s Coming Attractions post and I’m too lazy to check lol) so a few of the things I poke at in that fandom are floating around. No concrete work on anything at this point, but we’ll see how it goes.

...I think that’s everything! Like I said at the beginning, Open Question Night, etc. What’s on your mind?

[pennyprotector]

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No drama or hate.

Open to shipping if there's chemistry. I see Penny as more ace, and want to explore more friendships / found family / sisterhood / platonic things. If anything happens, it will only be from chemistry and organically and not from ship bias. Also, I don't ship Nuts n' Dolts, writings with Ruby are platonic and BFFs.

Also want to highlight FRIENDships! Found family! Sisterhood! & other great dynamics like mentor/mentee, rivals, coworkers, etc.

Sporadic activity. RPing is a hobby, so let's keep this enjoyable for all around. I won't bug you for rp activity, don't bug me. We all have irls - or cat videos - that take up much of our time.

btw I haven't seen all of RWBY IceQueendom, so my portrayal will be based more on RWBY v1-9.

I also have a Weiss rp mainblog @ weissqween !

About Penny.

Name: Penny "P.E.N.N.Y" Polendina Age: 18-21 Gender: female Sexuality: ace/demi/hetero Occupation: student/academy employee/protector of mantle Height: 5'5 Penny is an android created by her father, Pietro Polendina, when he somehow gave her a part of his own Aura to grant her a soul. She appeared at Beacon & Vale for a period of time, and later becomes the official protector of Mantle where she eliminates Grimm that invade the city.

There's more that happens in V8 but we don't talk about that.

Verses / Canon-Divergent.

Beacon. Anything volumes 1-3.

Student Days. Penny as a transfer student at Beacon Academy, or Atlas Academy.

Atlas. Anything Post Fall of Beacon or volumes 7/8.

Winter Maiden. Penny gets the winter maiden powers and the story continues.

Warm Hugs. Penny as a Real Girl.

Ever After. Volume 9. Penny in the Ever After.

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A basic chronology of the canon divergence in A Far Green Country:

Sozin's Comet: Azula is defeated at the last Agni Kai and left chained to the grate for hours. The combination of thermal shock and her continuing to erupt in bursts of fires induces a very high fever and Iroh, who arrives 12 hours later, finds her at a literal point of near death.

She spends the next three days in a healing room, treated by others, with aid from more than one waterbender who at the time are frightened lest the Fire Lord's sister die at their watch when the victory is newly won and very much in that unreal state.

When Azula is recovered and physically stable, Zuko tells the physician at the mental hospital, after escorting her over on the fourth day from the Agni Kai "Take Azula out," and gives him a detachment of five Kyoshi warriors who all were trained in Chi-blocking.

On the fourth day, and in this culture as per East Asian cultures IRL, four and death are connected, one of the Kyoshi Warriors is delayed (in her view quite mercifully in retrospect as they were very uneasy about the circumstances and did not sign up to be part of an execution, let alone what thy were seeing unfolded) for thirty minutes by a patient who had a violent episode, and she helped ensure the situation was resolved peacefully.

Then there's a vicious explosion from Azula's cell and they arrive to find the cell with an exploded wall, blackened footprints, the one guard from the facility on duty on the floor with third degree burns on his chest and arms, the chains melted, burnt scraps of the straitjacket and then a boat fires itself off, literally, with Azula's firebending working in that same jet propulsion.

It takes people three days to work up the courage to tell the Fire Lord that his hand-picked doctor was seeking to murder his sister on his orders, and by then Azula is long gone and there's no idea of her fate, where she was, or what happened to her.

They had no way to know that twenty-nine hours after her escape, Azula washed up in the derelict ruins of her boat after withstanding two storms almost dead and with infections in her arms and legs on Karakorum Island, in the wake of one of the storms that sent her ship, which she was too close to death to steer any longer, crashing onto the shore Dracula-style.

For the Fire Nation and the other Three Nations it's a rather damned big detail that this was 'oversight' and it inflicts lasting damage and a deep sting on the ability to trust Fire Lord Zuko's negotiations for peace, or anyone from the Royal Family. It's mostly Aang himself with input from the Fire Sages who does the actual negotiating for the Fire Lord and forces the other nations to consider if not Zuko, then who?

Ozai is absolutely not allowed to retake his throne and Iroh would not be acceptable to the Earth Kingdom after his 'liberation' of Ba Sing Se and his casually devastating both Earth Kingdom subjects and his own people as the collateral damage.

The fear of a military putsch and a junta of generals replacing Zuko also motivates the signing of the formal treaty.....and the fate of the vanished princess and the belief long before the formal declaration that she died a horrific death escaping a brutal execution that even the not so squeamish people of the Earth Kingdom balk at as more savage than they believe Royals deserve creates a major crisis that never fully stops.

The ensuing investigation also sees the tenuous prospect that the Kyoshi Warriors might have become a Fire Nation Dai Li replacing the older Eyes and Ears rudely aborted and a major diplomatic crisis between the Fire Nation and the Kyoshi Warriors, who resent being used as assassins for someone who had not even stood trial and had done them less direct harm than Fire Lord Zuko himself. Aang expected to leave the Fire Nation not long after the victory with the assurance that the Royal Family's bloody cycle was halted....and then he finds out the hard way that it not only didn't halt but it took a dangerous new path and he ends up staying in the Caldera with the rest of the Gaang for a half-year keeping the peace.

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An excerpt from the latest chapter of Resurrections

“You have no idea how convenient this would have been when we were traveling around the world-”

“Yeah, it’s really great!” Beaming with excitement, Mori nodded. “Bluespace stuff is, like, the foundation of a lot of our space-era technology, we wouldn’t have FTL-”

“FTL?

“Faster than light,” Officer Wright said, waving her prosthetic arm around rather enthusiastically  as she looked at Sokka - the geneticist knew she loved technology talk about as much as he did. “It’s a big deal, right? Makes traveling through space actually practical, rather than taking thousands of years like it would with a conventional engine.”

And it can do lots of other stuff-

Dropping the plastic plate she’d been waving around annoyedly, Toph shrugged. “I don’t know if I like the sound of that.”

“You’d hate it, everyone does at first.” The very mention of a bluespace jump was enough to make Farris wince, though Mori herself wasn’t too bothered - she had grown up on the Great Nomad Fleet, after all, but other people weren’t always as used to proper space travel. “It feels wrong-”

“Like you’re not supposed to be there?”

Yeah… that’s about right…

I guess they would know, since they came through that weird portal… and I would assume that’s somewhat similar…

Officer Green laughed dryly. “You know, there was some very vocal opposition from various religious groups when bluespace technology was first developed. Not that that meant much.”

Even after a few moments of awkward silence, no one actually responded - Mori was pretty sure that the mention of religion had brought back memories of the Cult of Nar-Sie. She had read about a lot of old religions, including Christianity and the fringe isolationist sects that some of her own people were part of, but most of those were insignificant in the modern day. What was significant was either scientific, or spiritual in all the wrong ways, and personally the geneticist was fine with that.

She was less fine with the fact that no one was talking anymore, though. Time in the brig was nice for self-reflection, but self-reflection wasn’t what Mori was after right now - she had had plenty of that. Not being able to distract herself with talking was almost as bad as being directly asked uncomfortable questions.

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This in so many ways is how the therapy she goes to in the Continuation-verse worked out for her. Her therapist taught her that she was not wrong to feel anger and rage, to resent that the Gaang came close to killing her a bunch of times, and in particular that she was allowed to despise and resent the way her family chose to treat her and then blamed her for internalizing it.

After a decade she's gained perspective on those issues that she wouldn't have had at 14, and ends up for a while getting along with the Gaang more than with anyone in her family except Iroh, Ikem, and Kiyi, to greater and lesser degrees. It also helps that in this AU the Gaang don't adopt instant 'in case of Azula grab hostility ball and squeeze it until it bleeds' approaches.

In fanfic after fanfic, we find opposing the Gaang and Zuko’s glorious regime being treated as a mental health issue which can be fixed by therapy and mental institutions, because only people who are mentally ill would ever oppose Zuko and the Gaang. This sounds an awful like the rhetoric of authoritarian governments which would declare their opponents “mentally ill” and institutionalize them for “treatment”…

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Alright, time for a series of posts about Runeterra Licensed AUs, with ratings of course, in case people want to do a Into The Spider-Verse style fic.

First of, to explain, we have 4 kinds of AUs here:

RUNETERRA AUs: Those are Actual alt timelines that could be happening in Runeterra proper had things been a smidge different (Example, the AU where Pilltover and Zaun were never divided and it was but one city)

PAST AUs: Those are AUs that happened in the main continuity and are now not a thing anymore (Example, the Ruined Skins of Champions from when they were under the Ruined King control during the Ruined King Event)

IMPOSSIBLE AUs: Completely removed from the main continuity AUs, usually set in their own universe (Example, the Star Guardian skinline where Jinx is a Magical Girl in high school).

IRL AUs: AUs set in modern day earth, usually without any fantasy or sci-fi elements (Example, the KDA skins where a couple champions are in a K-Pop group).

We start with Caitlyn Licensed AUs.

Resistance Leader Caitlyn. Runeterra AU. This is an AU where SPOILERS FOR ARCANE S2 Viktor snapped and managed to convert the rest of Runeterra to machinery under his own iron fist. The few still Human members of the resistence try to survive in the now blighted world of industry and cogs, and Caitlyn is their leader, always blaming herself for not having stopped Viktor while she could.

We do not have a Vi Skin in this event, but it might be implied that she didn't survive the Glorious Revolution, hence Caitlyn blaming herself.

4/5 for the angst and her being Atlas with the world on her shoulders.

Impossible AU. Western AU Caitlyn with her being the new Sherif in Town. Pretty self explanatory. Vi lacks a corrective skin here too, but we can work it as a outlaw/Sherif enemies to Friends to Lovers scenario that can lead to either one dying or one leaving their life for the other's.

3/5.

Impossible AU. Lara Croft Caitlyn. If you want this to work, you need to play her as OG Lara Croft as in a British aristocratic psychopath who plunders historical artifacts for fun and profits because she is bored and has nothing better to do. This is a complete 180 with Caitlyn's main personality of course but hey, it's in character for the character she's cosplaying as. No Vi Skin but you could recreate that old Ship from years ago and do a Wonder Woman Vi X Lara Croft Caitlyn here.

5/5 in aesthetic and girlboss attitude otherwise 2/5.

Half Impossible Half IRL AU: Soviet Sniper Caitlyn. This one does have a Vi Skin believe it or not with Vi as a black ops operative on the opposing side.

5/5 for Communism.

IRL AU: Yes bot Cait and Vi are American cops here.

0/5.

Predator AU, IMPOSSIBILE AU. No Vi Skin, she's literally a predator.

4/5 for aesthetic.

Impossible AU, Evil Spirit AU, Caitlyn as a Evil Spirit.

Can't remember who was her girlfriend here.

3/5.

Time Cop AU, Runeterra AU (kinda), Caitlyn as a Time Cop. This is the AU where Ekko has a Boyfriend he has doctor who themed time heists with.

1/5 for being gay and homophobic for trying to stop them.

Wreck It Ralph AU, Cait is the Protagonist of a FPS sniper game (Vi is the protagonist of a platformer in the same AU).

3/5.

(I'm out of image space, but the only 3 remaining AUs are the Gilded AU (The one where Cait is a political figure and Vi is her bodyguard in a Zaun that was never ruined by Pilltover's greed), the BNHA AU (The one where she's class president in a very homoerotic rivalry with local mean girl Corinna Veraza), and the AU where everyone goes to the Beach for an episode as filler. Both Gilded and BNHA AU have been discussed on this very blog before).