#been living rent free in my head for months

[crackinthecup]

AO3 Wrapped

Tagged by the very lovely and very talented @queerofthedagger—thank you so much <3

Total words published at end of year: 43k

Fandoms: Silmarillion and Elden Ring

Top 3 ships: I have only written for one ship this past year oops—Angbang

Top 5 tags:

Character Study

Relationship Study

Suicidal Thoughts

Abusive Relationships

Unreliable Narrator

Top 3 fics by wordcount:

Moments (Angbang; 9,166 words; rated E)

Know Thyself (Angbang; 7,724 words; rated E)

Not Quite a God (Elden Ring: Miquella & St Trina; 7,531 words; rated T)

Highest everything (raw kudos, hits, comments):

Hits: The part that hurts the most (1,834)

Kudos: Moments (98)

Comments: Know Thyself (19)

New things I tried:

I wrote a fic for a video game for the first time—Elden Ring. I love the game to bits, have sunk many many hours into it, have platinumed it, and it was really fun to engage with it in such a different way, through fic-writing. I went into it completely underestimating the amount of research I'd have to do. More than I'd usually do for a Tolkien/Silm fic, if I'm honest. It just really made me appreciate the scale of the lore in this game. It also made me realise I very much have a character type, i.e., people who drive themselves on and on and on chasing some ambition, becoming blinded and corrupted in the process.

Fic I spent the least time on:

Wait for You, I think. It was my shortest this past year, around 2k, and also materialised as a stream-of-consciousness kind of thing that bled all over the page in one sitting.

Favourite thing(s) I read:

I will have to keep this short, I'm afraid, as I don't really seek out fic these days. What I read is by my wondrous and inspiring friends, and here is my favourite of the year from each of them:

hunger by @sauron-kraut: a sumptuously vivid Mairon/Thuringwethil fic—a pairing that honestly doesn't do much for me EXCEPT that this fic is so delicious and is packed so full of fascinating characterisation that it now lives rent-free in my head.

anyone else by @tarmairons: this is a Will/James ficcy in the Dark Rise fandom and oh me oh my it is a hot knife plunged through the chest it is cold and clammy mist clinging to skin it is hot and tender and unnerving and on the right side of heartbreaking.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST Limerence by @elevenelvenswords: friend, your Angbang is a mind-fuck in the best possible way. This sucked me in and made me breathless and made me yearn and made me feel sharp, painful things AND some lines like "I’m scared" are still rattling about in my mind months after reading.

Writing goals for 2025:

Hmm. I have fallen into a depressive slump sadly and feel deeply uniniterested in... pretty much everything, at present. I don't have any writing goals right now—I'm not sure how much or if I'll be writing going forward. We will see.

Tagging @elevenelvenswords and @sauron-kraut if you would like to give this a go and haven't been tagged already!

[elderyautjavegeta]

"Not a lot to pin our hopes on..."

-One Piece Film: RED (2022)

[b1ttersweet-dreams]

ok ive decided - fuck it, v4v be upon ye this is my blog i do whatever i want around here additional v2 (& a bit of v1) sketches under cut bc well. favorite character

[stinglesswasp]

Fanart of all that's said in the low light by headlocket

This fic will make you cry the most cathartic tears ever. Be sure to also check out the epilogue, in lieu of the bells 🥹🧡🧡

[milanosbitch]

mods are asleep quick! post miss fitzjames!! (or *side eye* mrs. crozier)

[fell-e]

'Cause my love is mine, all mine

I love mine, mine, mine

Nothing in the world belongs to me

But my love mine, all mine

Nothing in the world is mine for free

But my love mine, all mine, all mine

[bushflannelsart]

Fuck it, DE bush pilot AU.

I have so many thoughts

Jamrock is a small northern, subarctic/high boreal community in the province of Revachol. Martinaise is the nearby port. I'm thinking like, Northern Quebec/Hudson Bay-adjacent vibes.

Anyways, the 41st is Jamrock's small police outpost. Some of the other officers have other jobs or community positions. Harry is an officer, but also part-time school teacher. He's trying his best, but the social and economic struggles of the remote community weigh heavy on him, and he struggles.

Kim is a pilot who found himself semi-forcibly transferred to Jamrock. Still figuring out the scenario that landed him there. I can't decide if he's like, discharged from the military or something. Maybe he tried becoming a fighter pilot, but his eyesight is too poor, so he ends up taking a remote pilot posting. At the moment, he mainly ferries people, supplies, and mail. Also, one of the local teachers/police officers keeps trying to talk to him for some reason.

I just think Kim deserves to be a pilot. And because I have personal experience with bush planes, I say he gets to be a bush pilot. I think it's actually quite fitting. Bush pilots are a special breed that I think fits Kim's secret speed freak nature.

[iridescentoracle]

i am so obsessed with how like. taken as read the ot3 are at this point. like on the one hand it feels like they've been building up to this for ages but on the other hand it kind of feels like i blinked and we skipped right past some Major Turning Point where everything got spelled out and we're just already in firmly Established Relationship-land. obviously tarvek is too well-protected for anyone to assassinate openly, look how angry his boyfriend and girlfriend are at the idea of anyone threatening him. at this point i'm half-convinced agatha's just going to refer to her boyfriends in passing to someone else and no one's even going to comment on it until van finds out twenty pages later and immediately starts making everyone pay up

[atomivaras]

Eepy,,

[applecidersstuff]

Yes, yes, Bianca is the older sister character, and no one can argue with that, but can I tell you who I see as thee eldest daughter character?

Clarrise La Rue.

Clarrise who was ares cabin counselor since she was 12-14 and was the eldest child of ares at that point.

Clarrise who tried her best at keeping her cabin intact while her brothers didn’t give a shit about her, her feelings and wellbeing.

Clarrise who went on a quest to please her father, but none of her brothers went with her and her father said that he would prefer they went on the quest instead of her.

Clarrise who desperately tries to keep Chris alive and at the border of sanity because he was the only person to actually care about her.

Clarrise who has exactly three people close to her.

Clarrise who looses two of them to war and her own pride.

Clarrise who’s so hostile that the only reason she’s friends with Beckendorf and Silena is Silena’s stubbornness.

Clarrise who hates Percy not because she dislikes him, but because she envies his relationship with his father.

Clarrise who has no relationship with her mother, and when she visits her in TTC is the first time she does it in years.

Clarrise who hates her father for neglecting her in favor of her brothers, but desperately tries to get his attention and praise at the same time.

Clarrise who’s forced to raise her siblings instead of her father and still getting nothing for it.

Clarrise who’s only childhood dream is to break free and leave camp behind, just to keep going back even after getting into college because she can’t live without those responsibilities even if she hates them.

[wingsofhcpe]

Aramis: trust me, I know what I'm doing

Athos, 0.2 seconds away from a stroke: NOT EVEN GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE DOING

[bambiswhitespots]

Me hearing the slightest mention of any of my obsessions

[zeawesomeness]

Imagine a fanfic where Future Leo has been living with present turtles for a good while, but some mystic shenanigans happen, and he's reverted back to the same age as present Leo. So, now you got two Leo's but also not really.

[lagomorphlady]

WIP 🐍✨

[6ey6ish]

farcille is THE "strongest x healer" ship. they are so interchangeable too that it hurts. only they know of each other's vulnerabilities. only they know how to pick each other up.

[takemetomyfragiledreams]

@knightnightwrite tagged me in WIP Wednesday and I have finally checked back into the time stream on an actual Wednesday to do it

Tagging @wickedsmille @yobirinn @knightnightwrite

(yeah that's right I'm tagging you back what're you gonna do about it)

and anyone who wants to join!

This is a fic that I will be posting once searching faces is done, called stay young, in which Talon!Tim meets Jason before he's Robin:

There is a boy living in the theater. Talon watches him come in, low and slinking like one of the stray cats that occasionally visit.

Animals generally don't like Talon that much. Dogs bark and growl, while cats tend to eye him from a distance. Rats scurry away on sight and birds often mistake him for a statue when he stands still for too long before taking to flight with great offense.

Humans don't like Talon either. His face often sends people screaming if his mannerisms don't first. He learned a long time ago that it's better to not be seen at all.

The boy doesn't seem to mean any harm. He's not hiding drugs and no one else comes in after him. He makes a nest backstage and hunkers down for the night. Talon leaves him be, fully expecting him to be gone the next day.

He's not.