#bc maybe it'll give me motivation to finish them :)

[kzdigiarc]

✍️ Fic authors self rec!

When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to other writers you know. Let's spread some self-love! 💛

ahhh thank u maya for sending me this!! <3

unfortunately, i don't have 5 fics posted here yet 😭but i'll do 2 drabbles that i've posted & 3 wips :p (& i'll give a little snippet of each) MDNI bc some are... suggestive

✦ desire | ot8 vampire!atz fic {snippet of ch.2}

“we apologize for having you wait so long, there were some… issues about sleeping arrangements but whenever you’re ready i’d be more than happy to show you to one of the guest rooms.” yunho says politely with his hands clasped behind his back. the whole ordeal feels like customer service and i have to stifle a laugh at the overly formal way they both speak. seonghwa glances at him out his periphery but just as quickly looks back to me and offers me a polite smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. why he's being so odd is beyond me, seeing as he was the one to bring me here and insist on me staying in the first place. his behavior causes me to hesitate, slowly closing my book and tucking it underneath my arm. yunho still stands with a gentle smile on his face but by the way his eyes flick over to seonghwa, i can tell he can sense my hesitation. i look between the two once more before huffing and pushing to my feet, running my hands over the wrinkles in my skirt. neither of the men wait for me to say anything, yunho turns to hold open the door and seonghwa bows in my direction before maneuvering out the door. i quirk a brow at the space seonghwa left before following yunho out into the hall.

✦ goosebumps | bf!yunho smut drabble {completed!}

“you okay, baby? you haven't said anything about the movie for the past 15 minutes now.” he asked, feigning concern. 

you just let out a meek hum of approval, not even really hearing what he said. yunho smirked though you couldn't see it. he let his hands trail up your thighs, playing with the ends of your (his) t-shirt. you took in a shaky breath when you felt his lips close to your ear. 

“what’s got you so quiet, kitten?” he whispered, lips now trailing down to your neck, leaving the softest kisses in their wake. 

“nothing.” you said way too fast, your voice unstable. you felt the chuckle that reverberated in his chest as his hands were now underneath the shirt you were wearing. he was only lightly touching your skin but you felt like everywhere he touched was leaving sparks of heat. how this man got you so needy for him so fast was beyond you. your eyes fluttered shut as he started to press actual kisses to your neck and shoulders, lightly sucking on the area near your ear. 

✦ untitled bbfs!yungi smut drabble {WIP; unedited}

a few minutes later, yunho heard the sounds of soft snoring coming from behind him and turned, the sight nearly causing his heart to crawl straight out his chest. there you and mingi were, sleeping so soundly on his bed. you cuddling with his pillow. yunho had to hold back from cooing out loud as he watched mingi’s head rise and fall with the movement of your breathing, the other man’s mouth hung open as he snored. in truth, the scene was nothing new. yunho had an entire folder on his phone filled with pictures of you and mingi napping together. if you came over while yunho was out teaching a dance class, it was almost guaranteed he’d come back home to see the two of you huddled up under blankets on the couch with an anime long forgotten on the TV. but never once had he seen it happen right in his own bedroom, on his own bed. it sent a tingly warmth through his chest as he thought about how nice it’d be to come home to this everyday. his two favorite people in the entire world, finding comfort in his space. 

✦ movie night | bff!junhui smut drabble {WIP; unedited}

even though it's not a created album, the hidden album highlighted in blue text underneath your other albums catches his attention. jun imagines what you could possibly have put in there and snorts a laugh to himself. it's probably embarrassing pictures you have of yourself or the boys, or maybe inappropriate memes. he figures he's got nothing to lose and clicks the album. of course, it's locked but he knows you well enough and he's smart so figuring out the password takes him barely 2 seconds. his suspicions are confirmed as he scrolls up through the album and sees a multitude of pictures you've taken of the other boys. but as he scrolls further the pictures change… now he's looking at pictures of you, some taken in your mirror with your ambience lighting set on purple or red, some taken while you're in bed, and they're nothing scandalous maybe a little suggestive but really why do you even hide these? none of them are even that bad… junhui stops in his tracks, thumb hovering over your phone. the photos he's looking at now can't be you. there's no way. his sweet, quiet, funny, inexperienced best friend cannot possibly have taken these pictures. but as he presses one to enlargen it, he sees that it most definitely is you. you half-naked, sitting up on your knees with a pillow stuffed in between the space created by your legs and the mattress. the hem of the large tee you're wearing is in your mouth as you display the sexy set of black lace underneath. jun feels like he might die. he swipes. the next photo isn't any better. in fact, it's much worse and as he continues swiping he has an inkling that the rest of the album is like this too. raunchy, lewd photos of you in your bed or bathroom. some your tits are fully on display, some you're only in a large tee, some you're only in lingerie. and all of them make his head spin and blood rush straight to his cock. 

✦ sharing is caring | poly, bfs!gyuhao smut drabble {WIP; unedited}

“uhm… yeah i’m fine… just thinking.” you said, nerves getting to you and making you opt out of saying what was really on your mind. you knew it was silly to still be nervous around the two of them but you couldn’t help it. you could feel the energy in the tiny kitchen of your guys’ apartment shift as the tension only grew with the prolonged silence. the two knew you well enough to pick up on not only the nervous lilt in your voice but also your body language. the way you were shifting your weight, avoiding eye contact, and picking at your clothes all clear indicators that there was definitely more than you were actually saying. 

“___, you can tell us whatever’s on your mind,” you looked up at minghao as he spoke gently to you. “when have we ever judged you?” he asked, head tilting slightly. you looked away again, drawing in a dramatic breath and looking up towards the ceiling. damn him and his extremely convincing eyes.

“i was… i was thinking about the last time we were all together.” you rushed out still staring up at the ceiling, refusing to look at either of them as you finally confessed to the thoughts plaguing you. 

minghao knew exactly what you were talking about. he did the moment he picked up on how nervous you were, he just wanted you to admit it. mingyu, on the other hand, was still trying to decipher what you were (not) saying.“...what about it?”, mingyu piped up, expression resembling a confused puppy with the way his head was still tilted. he was trying to recall the last time you were all together… oh. you and minghao saw the realization hit him as his eyes flicked between the both of you. hao smirked amusedly before looking back at you. you finally made eye contact with him, bottom lip caught between your teeth.

★ note: this drabble is actually for @angelwonie (in response to an ask she sent a while ago) I PROMISE I'LL GET TO IT BAEFIE 😭

[magicalmischel]

WIP TAG GAME 🌿

rules: make a new post with 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 or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips

thanks for tagging me @regulusrules ! 💖

I have a lot of wips too 😂 most of these are for BBC Merlin, a few are for classic who. I hope I don't forget anything, I keep a list but I haven't updated it in like a year 😂

BBC MERLIN WIPS

The Crystal Hunters; 45k

a canon era time travel fic with merthur and morgwen, set during the Great Purge. There's lots of plot, magic, crystals, old castles and running.

Layers of Dusk; 17k

a darker fic where Arthur dies and so Merlin tries his hand at necromancy

Give Me Your Hand, I'll Give You Mine; 1300 words

canon era, merthur, magical injuries caused by the great purge and a magic reveal.

"the medieval roommates valentine fic" (untitled); 2500 words

merlin is forced to stay in arthur's chambers 24/7 bc of plot. Not sure if I'll ever finish this one tbh

Rhythm of Love; ??k

glastonbury festival fic where arthur returns + musician!merlin. I have no idea how many years ago I started this, definitely pre-2018 though. Idek if I still have the draft somewhere ;-;

Suddenly Flames Everywhere; 77k

;-; i think abt this fic every day and try to work on it at least once a week ;-; i wanted to post it for acbb 2023 but i ran out of time, and then once the deadline was gone, so was most of my motivation 😂 it's a merthur enemies to lovers dragon!merlin soulmate canon au that I care about very very much. pls ask me abt it if you want maybe it'll kick me into working on it more 😂

The Light of Knowledge; ?????k

oof this is an old one. started it way back in 2014 and I'm honestly not sure if I still have the draft saved somewhere. All I remember is a big maze, lots of bad poems that I wrote in like the 9th grade and merthur 😂

Falling into Empty Space (??); 400 words lmao

basically a s1!merlin vs s5!merlin epic fight with time travel to 1x08 bc obviously killing kid!mordred is wrong, right? Right??

"ghost!merlin canon au fic" (untitled); 9k

exactly what it says in the title. damn i need to return to this ;-;

"cat!merlin fic" (untitled), 1000 words

canon era, merthur, magic reveal. Merlin transforms himself into a cat bc of course that is the absolute best way to get arthur to accept magic. it only makes sense in his head lmao

Burn Us Away (But Keep Me in Your Heart); 11.8k

canon soulmate au with a LOT of angst and a magic reveal

"the bird!merlin fic"; 1000 words

first written for merlin bingo 2021 but I never finished it ;-;

No Doubt in My Mind Where You Belong; 12k

a canon era trans!merlin fic with established relationship merthur

"cuddle fic" (untitled); 1300 words

written for fluffalooza 2023 but never finished ;-;

"one bed fic" (untitled); 1900 words

also written for fluffalooza but never finished bc it felt too ridiculous/cracky/ooc, but it might be worth reworking

"the weird tarot crack fic" (untitled); 2.8k

written for tarot fest 2023 but abandoned bc i came up with a better idea for the fest. I remember it was very cracky, I might return to it. Canon era merthur.

i might be forgetting some tbh, I've written a lot of drabbles that I later wanted to expand but never did ;-;

CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO WIPS

"jamie/10 + 11 fic" (untitled); 3.5k

the 10th doctor visits all his companions before regenerating into 11 including jamie <3

"twojamie war games "make it worse" fic" (untitled); 849 words

this is theoretically a fix-it but also i make it much worse first lmao, and i'm not sure yet how it ends either, so is it really a fix-it??

ok and I think that's it!! ;-; i did write a little something for each of the titles but hopefully not too much so if anyone sees this and wants to know more feel free to dm me

i'm not gonna tag 18 people though that's way too many 😂 I'll tag @insane-ohwhyfandoms (good luck) @lair-of-the-dragon @lesbianlefay @invisibility-superiority @queerofthedagger @wolfiery @haventacluewhatimdoing and @twojamie-o-clock <3

absolutely no pressure to do this though of course! 💖

[ardenrabbit]

your work is all so amazing!! do you have any advice for writers who maybe want to start writing longer fanfictions?

Ahh!! Fhhfkf thank you!!! ;^; I don't know how useful or coherent my advice might be, but here's what's helped me in the past:

1. Know what kind of writer you are. If you work better by starting with a structured outline, do that, but make sure to actually start WRITING the scenes after that lol. If you get more momentum by diving in and just seeing where the story goes, do that, but make sure you have a DIRECTION to go in. A healthy balance of planning and discover-as-you-go is the most fun in my experience. (I usually start by improvising and having fun with a concept and then gradually cornering myself into planning lol. By then, planning isn't a chore; it's just satisfying to see everything fall together.)

2. Don't force an idea to be a long fic if it doesn't need to be. If you feel like your concept would be better served by a short fic, do it justice by not stretching it into a shape it doesn't need.

3. If your concept is bigger and does need a long fic format, make sure you know what threads you're weaving together. Write an actual list of themes, subplots, and character arcs and keep track of them, and figure out how you want to pace them in relation to one another.

4. Have resources prepped! Name banks for minor characters; notes/links to articles on the time period/environment/culture you're writing about; pictures that inspire you; songs that hype you up for your story or the characters... Mostly, if you don't like doing research, START LIKING IT. Find joy in researching the symptoms of hypovolemic shock and the native flora of Northern China. Look up multiple sources for each little topic. (I just keep a messy list of links and notes in the bottom of my docs lol)

5. If you get stuck or bored, revisit the source material. Watching/reading the original story can remind you why you got so excited to write fic about it and refresh your ideas.

6. If you're bored while writing a scene, it's probably boring to read. Don't turn writing into a chore. Think about what needs to happen in a scene and why it matters, find what you care about in it, and follow that. If it starts feeling like you don't need a scene and that you were just using it to fill in time, cut it.

7. My favorite thing: don't be afraid to write out of order. Write little blurbs or pieces of dialogue for chapters way ahead, if you have something in mind! Give yourself a goal to catch up to. It'll help you get the big picture of your whole fic and then fill in the scenes you need to get there.

8. Don't let people tell you what to write!! This goes both ways: if people say "it should've gone like [thing you don't wanna do]," tell them to shush and write their own shit. If they say "it would be so cool if [thing you were already planning] happened," do it anyway! You don't have to change just for the element of surprise. Don't twist the story out of place just because someone guessed your awesome idea. Everyone will be happier for it.

9. Don't settle for your first draft if it doesn't feel right. If you're working on a scene and it doesn't fulfill what you need, restart it from as many angles as necessary until you're happy. Seriously, building off a scene you don't like will make you feel dissatisfied and poison everything to follow.

10. Talk about your fic with people who hype you up about it. If you're not used to writing long stories, do what you need to keep you motivated and EXCITED about it. If asking someone to beta read helps you, do it! (I almost never ask for beta readers bc I'm a control freak, but honestly they can be so helpful.)

11. The forbidden tip: if you lose interest halfway through, it's okay to drop it. Do what makes you happy. You don't owe anyone anything and you're doing this for free. Try to finish it though lol, it's so satisfying to see a work complete. Do it for the dopamine at the end.

Disclaimer: I write long fics 1) because I like to soak in them and savor them and 2) because I don't know how to shut up and write short ones lol. I deeply admire people with the skill to just say what they need to say and wrap up a story neatly.

Also, I don't follow my own advice. Plenty of my scenes have fluff that I could have cut but didn't because Mark Twain is dead and can't tell me what to do lmao

I hope this had something helpful in it 😅 Good luck! 💖💖💖

[imogenlefay]

So, I read this book... Daisy Jones & The Six

so, i've been thinking about doing a thing, and maybe someone finds it interesting, or maybe it's just for me to order my thoughts and i'll get bored to it before march, but we'll see. basically, for the last two years i've been keeping track of the books i read (or audiobooks i listen to) bc i felt like i'm not reading enough (except for fanfiction). and while i'm far behind people who actually read a lot, and woefully behind how much i used to read when i was a teen, i'm actually pretty happy with the progress. made it to 34 in 2022 and 40 in 2023, and hope to get more done this year. 2024 is starting off strong, just finished my first book of the year, and usually when i do that, i have thoughts. so what's the point of blogs if not to put that out there, so it stops haunting my head? or maybe even get someone else's thoughts on things? so i decided to blog about the books i read (unless i forget or don't feel like it), starting with general feelings and then going into spoilery feelings. so, yeah, this is what this is going to be. let's go.

Summary: a look back on fictional rockband The Six rising to fame, where they meet It Girl Daisy Jones, leading to the collab of a century, until the band breaks apart after one show in Chicago. Told completely in interview snippets.

General Feelings: say what you want, it's a fast read, and it's fun. the style of writing with everything being interview snippets, aka the band members' and friends' memories, works really well, especially the parts where one person remembers things, and the next person directly contradicting their memory. it's a quick way to give you everyone's point of view, and sowing the seeds of miscommunication and conflict. the story is easy to follow, and it's also easy to feel for most of the protagonists. the characters are likable enough, and their conflicts are mostly realistic. the final show in chicago and the general fall out unfortunately fall kind of flat for me. like... this is it? it's not much of a bang, tbh... which maybe sums up my feelings about the whole thing. it's a fun ride, but at the end, it's like "huh, guess that was it?" it is fun, but it's just not very deep, i guess. although the way they describe the songwriting process and the songs that result from it really was cool to read. another fun fact, i totally forgot there's a show until i googled the book cover. and since i was reading and caught myself wanting to check out the songs, only to remember they're not real... well, that might be enough motivation to check out the show. Recommendation: yes, i'm doing that before the actual feelings part cause i can't discuss those without spoilers. so, if anybody cares, rec first. Daisy Jones & the Six is a casual read. like, vacation book. for the beach, for train rides, for flights. it's fun to breeze through, but i doubt it'll really grip most people. so yeah, not a must read, but can be fun, light reading.

Spoilery feelings:

(consider yourself warned)

there are a few things that really didn't work for me.

i never really got into the whole daisy/billy thing. like, his instant antipathy, the weird rivalry, and then her oh so deep love for him, and at the end, him finally kinda sorta loving her but loving his wife more... maybe that's part of the format. both of them looking back at it from the future, where it's just not that present anymore. but it didn't ring that true.

my biggest problem was probably drug use and how it was handled. it just felt so trivial and meaningless. like sure, for both billy and daisy it's supposedly the central struggle, but it just fell so flat for me. i know part of that is that early december i read Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, which (in germany) is a famous non-fiction account describing the fall into heavy drug use of an extremely young girl (starting at 12, i think), and it's the bleakest thing i've ever read, with the girl herself describing how she fell into heavier and heavier drugs, paid for by prostitution. so it's dark, and it's heavy, and compared to that the drug use in Daisy Jones feels almost offensive in how little weight it has. the comparison is super unfair, i know, i'm primed and biased, sure. but after that, the book may say a million times "oh yeah, that was a bad time for daisy", but it just doesn't ring true.

i'm not sure if the identity of the interviewer is supposed to come off as a twist? like, sure, i didn't see it coming, but it didn't really have an impact, either.

lacking impact is probably my final point. while the book, especially with the format of the interviews, is really good at painting the conflicts within the group, i didn't feel like these paid off in a significant manner. like, eddie's whole growing resentment never went anywhere except being a red herring. the show in chicaco wasn't that special in the end, was it? nothing happened at the show himself. just, the band broke at many different places at once, but they barely impacted each other. billy's struggle with addiction toppling over, daisy having a breakdown and camila helping her through it, pete getting married, the karen/graham thing exploding... like, you could see them coming, but the resolution all at once felt kinda random. like, it didn't feel like there's this big bang setting off all the dominos (yeah, mixing metaphors, i know), but more like "oh yeah, that's all happening now, i guess". sure, there isn't always a big bang, but i feel like they teased one, and then there was nothing. so i guess the end feels a bit anticlimactic, like it just fizzled out.

it was still fun to read, but more like meaningless fun, i guess. definitely preferred "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", which was super fun. interesting writing style, but story is a bit shallow. okay, now i talked enough about a book i kinda sorta liked but wasn't super impressed by. anyone else thoughts about it? did you read it? did you watch the show? do you or did you have feelings about it? seriously would love to hear them!

[wikiangela]

WIP Wednesday

never posted for wip wednesday before but I figured if I post a little excerpt, maybe it'll give me some motivation to finish this chapter bc the last few have been difficult lol sneak peak for "for a holiday" (buddie fake dating wip)

“Dad.” Chris says finally, while they’re packing the day before their plane to El Paso. “Are you and Buck fighting?”

“Why are you asking?” Eddie answers with a question, folding Chris' clothes and putting them in the suitcase, while desperately trying to come up with some answer that won’t freak his son out. He doesn’t like lying to him, but he also doesn’t want to worry him. Everything will be fine. Besides, it’s not like they’re actually fighting, they’re good… except for this weird tension now that Christopher of course picks up on. “You talked to him yesterday, didn’t you?” Eddie knows they talked, but he wasn’t there, so he has no idea what Buck actually told him.

“Yeah. He said he’s not coming with us, because he’s spending Christmas with aunt Maddie.” and here’s another new development, Chris is actually referring to Maddie as his aunt now. “But why?” he frowns.

“What do you mean why?” Eddie tries to laugh. “Why do we spend it in Texas? To be with family.”

“But Buck is our family.” Chris argues.

“Of course he is.” he says softly. “But he’s been spending all of the holidays with us for the past year. Now he wants to be with his sister.” he adds, hoping he sounds convincing. It’s not like it’s not true, it’s just not the reason.

“So why can’t we go with him. like on Thanksgiving? You’re fighting, right?” he asks, and Eddie sighs heavily. 

“I swear, we’re not fighting. We’re fine, don’t worry.” he adds with a smile at Chris’ skeptical look, that looks so similar to Eddie’s, it’s almost like looking in the mirror. “Buck’s always gonna be our family, it doesn't matter if we’re separated for just one holiday.” 

“I don’t like it.” he pouts.

“Me neither.” Eddie whispers. He’s not sure if Christopher hears it, but he does give him a very concerned look. He’s not asking any more questions, though. That’s good, because Eddie doesn’t think he could handle it. He already feels like he’s seconds away from completely crumbling.

[minzart]

💀Idia shroud

Idia really wants that skin but is out of money, so yuu got an idea and luckily there is a racing competition happening on the island

Gender neutral Yuu

Idia's bike is called Cerberus bc I said so

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Vroom Vroom

"Shit" idia murmurs to himself

"Got a bad roll?" Yuu comented from the bed, ever since the gremlin kicked the door to his room, screamed something about overblots, and demanded potion lessons, the two of them have developed a unique kind of... friendship? You could call it friendship, not sure, didn't ask and now it's too awkward to do so.

"I can't roll, that's the problem" Idia sulks at his chair "money's out, spend every bit on yesterday banner getting that cute cat skin for Princess Minya. And now, out of fucking nowhere! The surprise banner is offering a limited version of Clipsa's hell form"

"Aren't you rich tho? Ask your parents, they sure give you a lot of money"

"They only refill it every month or so, and I really need the rest for Ortho's upgrades.... I could delay them for a bit...."

Yuu face light up, they start to tipe furiously on their phone while Idia contemplates on his decision

"AH HA!" Yuu shouts waking idia from his thoughts

"W-what?! Found something?"

"You have a bike right?"

"Yeah, so what ?"

"You could compete on the racing that's happening on the island today!"

"W-!"

"The prize is 20 000 madol~" they shake their phone in his face "which makes... 50 pulls I think"

Idia eyes shine, with that much he could get that skin! But... "w-what about p-people... there sure would be so many people all of themlookatmeandshoutingandscreamingandcreeringthersamobgottabetherethelocalistoofavoraveltothemohgodsohshiti-"

"You'll go with a helmet!" They hold idia's pulse, stopping him from eating more nails.

"...Eh?"

"nobody will know it's you! It'll be ok then right?"

"A... helmet... yeah... YEAH THEN NOBODY WILL SEE ME!" He press a button on his side "Ortho get Cerberus ready, gotta race to win"

"Not gonna lie, you are kinda of badass when motivated"

"S-shut up normie " idia makes his way to the pile of clothes on the floor and murmurs "where did I put it"

"Wait... YOU ALREADY HAVE GEAR?!"

"I have a goddam bike did you really think I wouldn't have this shit? who do you think tested it? Now get out!"

Yuu eyes shine with excitement, that idea was a shot on the dark, but great seven if it wasn't a great shot.

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Idia's out of his room after some time, wearing a black leather outfit with blue details, on the back of his jacket, three dog's skulls with blue flames eyes are stamped, with a black helmet in hands the visor having a filter to make sure no one saw his face

"It's been a long time since you wore those big brother!" Ortho coments happily, he seems very excited to finally see his brother out with a friend without his own little pushes "soooo you guys are going to town?"

"Yep!"

"Unfortunately" idia sings in annoyance "did you registered us ortho?"

"Yes! We were so lucky! The subscriptions stopped five seconds ago! The race starts in 10 minutes from now"

"C'mon let's go, faster we go, faster it's finished" Idia takes the lead guiding them to Cerberus

"put this" he handles a helmet to Yuu "now hop on we're losing seconds"

"I-I get to go?!"

"... gods give me patience, yes, you get to go, now hop on" idia puts his helmet hiding his hair, and lighting up the details on it, "those must be for his hair to breath or someting" yuu ponders while putting their own

The second yuu is on the bike, Idia accelerates

"HOLLY SHIT THIS THING IS FAST!"

"Hehehe" idia grins

They got to town in a matter of seconds, Yuu had to sit for a bit, legs shaking from the adrenalin "dude that was amazing! I swear we were gona fall at so many turns BUT YOU DID IT HOLLY SEVEN"

"Hm" idia muses at yuu's excitement

There were... less people than he expected, maybe it's a casual race, or they didn't know how to market it right, anyway, the less, the better, it's not like they got a chance anyway, Cerberus is on it's best performance since VDC, the money is already his, he can almost fell the trill of pulling for that skin

As expected some RSA mobs were there, dumbasses couldn't even stay quiet for a moment, and he could fell some savanaclaws ready to pick a fight, who knows, at the start of this race he may be the last one standing that could race and win by default, that would be faster than three rounds by the island.

At a quick glance he saw one of the competitors hiding something on the sleeves, and another is trying to sabotage the others without being caught, things never are easy are they? He should have brought Ortho... but he wasn't gonna back down now, besides he can just send a quick text and his brother would be there in a minute watching over him.

"I'll need you to control the shield" he murmurs

"What?"

"I put a shield sistem just in case, you're gonna pay attention to our surroundings and activate it when needed, it has a low durability and consumes too much battery, that's why you gotta be precise, got it?"

"Am I allowed to go with you?"

"This is a race with partners air head, you're the one to show me that but youself didn't knew, you really are bad at details"

"Hey! I at least got a solution to your problem, you are very welcome. Hmph"

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5 competitors in the end, with the other 3 being: 1 desclacificated for cheating, and 2 beat up.

"At your places!"

Yuu fidgets with the shields controller

"ready!"

The bikers start the engines

"Set!"

Idia grins inside his helmet, just like anime, he can fell the palpable tension and rivalry of the opponents, this is gonna be fun

"GO!"

Leting a curtain of dirt behind, they got third place on the first round, Yuu didn't expected so many of the remaining candidates to fire their magic at them, one almost hit their face when they were too slow to activate the shield, Idia's eyes never got out of the course, managing the bike easily on the curves, using short cuts he learned on the first round and dodging any idiot on the road.

Second place on second round, just pass one more and use turbo, just pass, it's everything that he needs to do. The shield broke, they are neck a neck, the other's partner was gonna fire magic at his head, it was gonna hit, he couldn't dodge and if he slowed down they would win, he could just hope that wouldn't be a great impact-

A helmet hit the guy's face "KEEP GOING!" Yuu shouts on his back, that's right... he's not alone.

They win the race, he could see the skin on his loging screen already

"Great seven that was intense" Yuu lays on the ground trying to calm down "that guy was targetting you goddam head! IS THIS ALLOWED???"

"If noone sees, but we got the money, I'll call ortho to give you a ride"

"Awww can't I go back with you?"

"You threw the damn helmet out, I'm not risking being arrested by your crazy ideas"

"Crazy idea that gave you the win!"

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Author NOTES:

This one is referent from the beginning of idia's and yuu friendship (X)

This one is for the coments that made me write this, thank you so much for the serotonin (X)

Art (X)

Yes the title is Vroom Vroom bc I have the most great ideas to titles

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[dolliedarlin]

happy tuesday!! how are you? are you feeling better? what have you been up to?

i have school today so i’m currently finishing up my first class of the day and then working on my homework, and then going to my next classes. this week is feeling like it’s going to be productive- which i am looking forward to. i’ve been having a difficult time staying on top of things lately so getting back on track feels pretty nice.

i’ve had a pretty good weekend, i hung out with a friend on saturday and then went up north and came back home by sunday night. i had a couple appointments on monday and i’m waiting to here back on the one.

thank you for the recommendations you gave me! i’ve actually watched summer wars, but it’s been so long i can’t remember the plot so i’m about to watch it again lol. but i look forward to watching them!!

im excited about this so i’m sure you’ll be too but i’m currently on my third book of the week already! it felt so good to be able to start reading again! i’ve also started playing my guitar again and collected some new CDs for my cd collection :))

i hope you’ve been doing well and i can’t wait to hear back from you :))

with love <3

liv

haha! happy tuesday indeed! i've gotten quite a lot better but i still have a really annoying cough - at least it's not covid!

awww~ you're always such a busy bee, i'm proud of you, dollface! keep it up, you're doing such a good job -^7^- and i'm happy that at least one of us had a fun weekend but i'm ready to make that up by pushing through the rest of this week and finally getting to enjoy a weekend out of bed and without a fever :D

you're very welcome and i loved Summer Wars! I thought it was a Studio Ghibli film at first but i was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't. i haven't watched it in a long while either, i just remember it giving me the feels and the thrills - i may watch it soon too! this weekend maybe? ;)

oh my goodness! that's amazing! you're really motivating me to get back into reading books again, i miss feeling the pages between my fingers and just getting to cosy up with a yummy snack and my imagination running wild! it's the best feeling~ oh! and the guitar! and the cd collection! you're on a roll! that's so wonderful to hear XD i'm so happy for you! i bet you feel amazing - as you should, you're doing such a great job; your body and mind will thank you for it

other than the continuous throat-y cough, i'm doing quite well with my recovery. i'm just instantly back into the stress of things though, my course is pretty fast paced and i also have a formative essay due on thursday. i know i can get an extension bc i was sick but i'd rather get it over and done with, and besides, since it's formative, it won't add to my final grade, it's just for practice. but all this research on the manus and the comparative adaptations of it's skeletal function across species; the significance and all the clinical examinations and procedures that follow that...i'm ready to fall asleep until friday where i won't have to worry about it anymore >~< but i know that this is not the time to be cowardly, even though it won't be my best essay, i'll still try my hardest to get it done satisfactorily and on time!

one good thing coming up though, is my well-being week! it's an entire week where no new content is posted and we can do whatever we want, it happens every 6 weeks on my course and is supposed to help students with their well-being and mental health, hence the name~ granted i'll be doing catch up for the work i missed when i was sick atop the things i fell behind on even before getting sick but i'm just happy to be able to do things at my pace and finally get into the rhythm of things again!

so some good and bad news from me but it'll all be over soon! i'm just happy to know that you're doing better!

all my love,

dollie x

[jamesniall]

How long did it take you to write "but first we'll live" and how long do you think it'll take you to write the one you're currently writing right now? I'm curious because I love your writing and I want to get into writing myself so I wanna get an idea :)

gOd “but first we’ll live” was A Struggle, it’s the one i’ve struggled with the most out of all my fics, i started with it almost 2 years ago, but abandoned it like halfway through so it was just sitting there in my drafts for an entire year, so without counting that year i’d say it took me about six months tbh, it was the one that took me the most time, bc it was such a hard fic to write and idk why, maybe bc i was never 100% sure about the ending, and i had all of the boys in every scene to focus on and sometimes i wrote 2k of ot5 interaction and then read it over again and realized it was useless to the plot so i deleted it all again, it was SO HARD to write that one honestly ;-; im proud i finished it, but at the end i think i finished just to have peace of mind rather than bc i actually figured out how i wanted the entire plot to end so im still kind of frustrated about that one.....

im rambling lmao im so sorry!!! it didn’t use to take me that long to write fic tho, the oneshots usually take me a day, maybe a weekend if there’s a proper plot, i wrote some in about 3-4 hours and there were others that took me 3 days, it totally depends on my motivation/inspiration and at what time of the day i write lmao, if i can write in the middle of the night everything flows better for me. tho it’s always different, like, for “everything stays but it still changes” it took me about a month bc i wanted to do proper research about christmas traditions in ireland and i wanted to get it right, so when there’s research to be done it always always takes me more than a week at least.

and about the peter pan narry au im currently working on, well...let’s say it will take me another week at least to finish it, i think (i hope), it’s been going well, i’ve got 2k that i wrote in about 4 hours the night after i watched the movie (bc i have never seen it before), and those 2k have like, the basic scenes i want to write, i still need to read it over and add details to make it flow better, but being completely honest the last time i opened the doc was on the first week of january i think, bc i’ve been having a rough time with life lately, and i start uni tomorrow so i wont work on it again until next weekend, which is when i think i’ll have it proper finished.....i ramble too much im really really sorry omg....to give you a proper answer, this new fic has so far taken me about a week, if you sum up the days i spent on it when i got the prompt, and i hope to work on it this week too before uni gets hectic again, so i’d give it a guess of 2 weeks total for this one! 

when it comes to things like these, when i had to actually watch the movie, or when i have to take days on proper research (like with “let me put you back together), it always takes me longer than a couple hours and it’s mostly bc i feel insecure about whether it is accurate or real enough, i doubt myself way too much and that makes it harder but also makes the feeling after posting them so much better, more worth it, i guess, i love writing, and im sad i dont do it as often as i used to, but it’s something i always enjoy and i hope you do too!!! writing is great, absolutely amazing, even if sometimes it takes longer than you expected, it’s always sooo very worth it at the end, tbh not even just at the end, sometimes you write a lil paragraph that makes u feel proud or you finally figure out the scene you felt was missing. it’s a wonderful process and i LOVE it all