#can't fucking believe this fic will be the longest i've written in this fandom so far

[azrielgreen]

hi az! i loved the new chapter, i couldn’t believe we got an update so soon! i have to ask: for the next chapter, is the twist going to have anything to do with any triggers not listed in the warning wall? i truly have no idea what to expect, and while i LOVE being surprised i would greatly appreciate if there’s any triggers to be wary of that hasn’t been listed yet for the fic (if it’s not too spoiler-y to share, of course!) 💜

Hi! Thanks so much, I really wanted it to be out before Christmas as a little gift for everyone! The finale chapter of Part Two will be THOROUGHLY content warned as always and I'll be using spoiler drop downs too, but no, there are no triggers NOT listed in the Warning Wall, which was also updated a few months ago. If anyone has any specific Q's about this or the triggers etc... please feel free to message me! This is The Event TM we've been building towards and it's going to be absolutely brutal so while I wouldn't ever want to spoil anything, I will be very thoroughly warning people too ~Az🖤🌈✨

P.S - I'd recommend maybe just scanning through the Warning Wall again as a refresher

[bropunzeling]

If you're up for some random-ass questions, here are some questions for the new year!

what fic were you proudest of this year?

what fic are you most surprised you wrote?

favorite old (to you) ship this year

favorite new (to you) ship this year

favorite old (to you) ship you picked up again this year

favorite old man (old man being a state of mind not gender) ship (maybe you ship a younger version of them but they're Old Men now)

ships/characters you're excited about in 2024

fics/plot bunnies you're excited about working on in 2024

give a random prediction of any kind - about your own writing, about your fandom's fic trends, about canonical developments in your fandom

share a random thought about fics you've written, characters you're thinking about, writing in general, etc

Feel free to pass on if you'd like, or not! Happy new year!

thank you anon! what a great excuse to ignore the work computer. also consider this a blanket "steal these prompts" from me for whoever is so moved bc i don't want to tag everyone

what fic were you proudest of this year? i might have to say only fools rush in aka marriage bets! it certainly is the longest one i've written and had the longest gestational period. plus i wrote a lot of it while incredibly busy (tho maybe that helped?). im still happy i managed to hit the balance between ridiculous premise and genuine feeling that i was aiming for, and that i managed to figure out and feel comfortable in a new pov.

what fic are you most surprised you wrote? linger. if you told me a year ago i was gonna write 65k of omegaverse i simply would not have believed you! it wasn't a trope i ever thought i would write! and yet here we are. lmao.

favorite old (to you) ship this year? i mean. viva la ratfiction. someday we may run out of steam but not this year by golly!

favorite new (to you) ship this year? the amount brady/quinn clawed its way into my brain this year cannot be overstated. maybe i was exploring last year but this year is when it really got me in a fucking chokehold. the pining! the friends to lovers of it all!!!!! exquisite. honorable mention to matthew/sasha. those two ARE in love.

favorite old (to you) ship you picked up again this year? earlier this fall i started a rewatch of miss fisher's murder mysteries and god. jack and phryne. they are EVERYTHING. someday i really will write fic for them.

favorite old man (state of mind) ship? gotta be honest first thing that came to mind was band of brothers winters/nixon. we'll go to chicago. i'll take you there.

ships/characters you're excited about in 2024? hmm brady/quinn, obvi. the general state of brady tkachuk and how i'd like to give him a midlife crisis and by midlife i mean when he's 29. jamie and trevor are BACK baby, and i wanna make trevor sad and making poor choices for 50k before he finally gets to get kissed. has someone written timmy stu and mo seider as summer boyfriends yet? bc i still like that.

fics/plot bunnies you're excited about working on in 2024? i think i have tentatively figured out my next long matthew/leon project (which i can't start until the new year) but i don't want to say quite yet in case i scare it off but! that. it WILL be a true slow burn which will be fun. also ballet quinn i WOULD like to put more than 2k in your gdoc. hopefully at some point soon inspiration will hit again/i'll feel less dull and burnt out

give a random prediction of any kind - about your own writing, about fandom trends, about canonical developments in your fandom: the kraken will sign yamo to a longer contract. i will start a project thinking it will be nice and short and then watch it double, like bread dough rising.

share a random thought about fics you've written, characters you're thinking about, writing in general: did you know the more you write the better you get? even though there’s plenty of areas where i want to improve and become a stronger, more thoughtful developer of sentences/plots/et cetera, i can really see my growth from month to month or year to year and that's neat!!! i'm slowly getting better!!!

[green-riot]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. spread the self-love ❤

This has been chilling in my inbox since August. Whoops. I've done this ask a couple of times, and I think I'll switch things up by listing my five favorite HashiMada fics I've written so far:

My Favorite Mistake (link)

Rated E. Modern AU, exes to lovers.

This is just. The best fic I've ever written for any fandom. Sometimes I reread it and can't believe it was actually written by me.

2. The Face of Regret (link)

Rated E. Modern AU, Madara gets Hashirama's face tattooed over his left tiddy. Because, you know, canon.

I like writing comedies, and this is the single funniest thing I've ever written. They're just so fucking stupid 😭

Also, a very sweet reader, nphl, translated the fic into Russian, which makes me so happy. Link here.

3. Then sigh not so, but let them go (link)

Rated E. HashiMada/TobiMito Canon divergent fic in which Hashirama and Mito are betrothed but in love with different people.

This is the longest fic I've ever written (46k words), and I plan to return to it once I get some irl things wrapped up.

4. Under My Skin (link)

Rated E. Canonverse. Fuck or die AU.

I just like the desperation in this one.

5. Unison Sign (link)

Rated E. Canonverse. HashiMada not being able to separate fighting from fucking.

As in the previous one, I like how desperate they are to fuck one another in this one. I'm not the best at writing fight scenes, but I think I did okay this time.

[lannisterdaddyissues]

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

And

X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

For the ask meme <333

omg aww @lauwrite1225 @fleurdufeu ty all for the asks!!! also @faeratil bold of you to assume you can retract your challenge just like that, watch me do all of them anyway

A: Ships/platonic pairings that you currently like a lot ok so thanks to @potatoesforsamoo i am simping on main for steven stone and flannery from pokemon which is such an obscure ship but she writes amazing fic for them!! i also love twiyor from spy x family rn! as for platonic pairings i'm obsessed with literally everyone in major. the father-son relationships in that show are EVERYTHING and i love the friendship dynamics so much. in my head i've written over 1 million words of meta about them

B: A pairing that you initially didn't consider, but someone changed your mind franky/nightfall from spy x family... i was a yuri/nightfall shipper for a while bc i thought it would be comedic and hilarious but i saw some art of franky and fiona and honestly it would be the FUNNIEST thing if he had a crush on her. they would be like fix-it felix and sergeant calhoun from wreck-it ralph if they were a couple i think. and i love it

C: A ship you have never liked and probably never will sheith i guess?? i'm trying to think of ships from fandoms im actively in but not sure. anyway yeah whenever i see sheith i'm like ew. not even bc of their familial dynamic, like i don't care who ppl ship or anything go ahead and ship them all you like i just cant see them together. it makes my blood boil for no reason at all. it might be bc i ship klance or smth idk i'm gross

D: A pairing you wish you liked but just can't i guess all the thomas ships in downton abbey but i just don't Like thomas that much and im not very interested in his subplots sorry... it seems like everyone who stans thomas is having a genuinely good time tho and i wish i could be one of them bc im starved for good fic in the dabbey fandom :(

E: Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what? how easily you forget all the memes i made for tlk lmao... as for my current fandom i made this thread summarizing the entire plot of major through memes bc watching the anime made me so mentally ill. if u actually click on the second link tho don't read the tags i beg you... i thirstposted in there and it was bad

F: What's the longest you've ever been in a fandom? i've been in the fullmetal alchemist fandom for going on 8 years now and it's been pretty good. after that i was in the man from uncle fandom for 3 years or so

G: Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? gee it was so long ago but i believe the first ships i ever actually shipped were like kimron and drakkgo from kim possible. the first ship i actually consumed content for was either shirogane and ichigo from tokyo mew mew or yullen from d-gray man i think. if we're talking actual brainrot otps tho then it was stony jdkfsjskfds

H: What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff? oh anime 100%! i watch so much anime its a wonder i haven't magically turned into an anime character already

I: Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why? h*zbin h*tel bc the fandom was toxic as fuck and the show is actually so, so evil...

J: Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr duh it's the gay pirate show and the vampire book club... i'm not in them but they ARE all over tumblr so i have to think about them obviously

K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc? JOE GIBSON MAJOR JOE GIBSON MAJOR JOE GIBSON MAJOR!!!!!! I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH WHAT AN INCREDIBLE CHARACTER HE IS!!! MY BRAIN IS SO ROTTED FROM THINKING ABOUT HIM ALL THE TIME OK YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE MEANS TO ME NONE OF YOU KNOW HIM LIKE I DO

L: Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves ugh... ok aethelwold WAS admittedly really funny sometimes. i hated him but he made me laugh and sometimes i miss the levity he brought to a scene with just his overall existence

M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend alice from major!!! she's just so cute and i think we would get along super well i love her <3

N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom content, content, and more content. the major fandom is a barren wasteland i hate it here

O: Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of? the first song to come on was if u seek amy by britney spears... idk why but it reminds me of junior from major bc i think he would have the trashiest white girl taste in music i just know he would be belting out an impeccable falsetto in his fancy jag while bumping his hand on the steering wheel. i know it

P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas) courtesy of ro i am still thinking about a major au where gibson adopts goro and raises him and junior together with momoko after shigeharu's death to atone for his mistakes. i just want gibson to be a father figure is that so wrong

Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why there are a lot of them so i can't really give one answer but like i said, the h*zbin h*tel fandom is so toxic i will never go back

R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom? GIBSON AND GORO ARE SO IMPORTANT TO ME!!!! despite their history there was never any lingering hostility or anything between them. they respected each other so much and took so much inspiration from one another and grew as people because of it. like gibson had been so arrogant and almost selfish in his debut eps but he transformed thanks to goro's influence and became such a humble and selfless person like even when he was dying he never put himself first. it was all about keeping his promise to goro, and making up for lost time with junior, and upholding the pride of his country, even if it meant putting his life on the line to do so. and in the last arc of season 5 we saw how he touched the hearts of fans all around the world with his resolve and i think it's so so beautiful

S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged) major au where no one dies and everyone is happy that's my personal headcanon right there. bc if shigeharu had lived i actually think he and gibson had such potential for a rivals to besties dynamic like it was all there. in my heart shigeharu lived and he and gibson became reluctant carpool buddies during the little league arc. i just really wish they had been friends that's it. nothing else to see here

T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? toshi is so in love with goro it's not even up for debate he is in LOVE with goro!!!! also i think goro and alice dated for a little bit. i just need it to be true

U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites roy mustang from fma/b, jaime lannister from game of thrones, and joe gibson from major. they're all war criminals (only emotionally in gibson's case) who are traumatized by the sins of their pasts but later redeemed themselves through their actions thanks to an excellently-written character development arc (in the case of jaime, this was all erased at the last minute. thank you d&d for your service)

V: Which character do you relate to most? KAORU MY BELOVED!!! i too am a spaz who loves sports but can't be normal if her life depended on it and i for one would LOVE to be goro's girlfriend so if she would just hand him over please <3

W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom i hate breakup+makeup/divorce+get back together aus i just can't stand the relationship drama smh

X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom slow burn mutual pining gets me every time its so basic. but if we are being oddly specific here then it's when a character who's the last person you would imagine to be competent in this type of situation is actually terrifyingly competent and you are So Confused and a little turned on right now like who is this and what have they done with [insert character here]

Y: What are your secondhand fandoms? succession, yuri on ice, she-ra reboot, attack on titan, mdzs and tgcf, and riverdale

Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! uhhhhhh i guess with the new pjo adaptation i'm a bit concerned with alleged racism in fandom spaces now?? so many people are up in arms about annabeth's casting like "you're racist if you don't support this casting!!" like it's not that we don't support it? i love that annabeth will be black in the show! it's great! but... in the books and the movie... she is still... a white character... and maybe... it's not so bad... if people PREFER the books and the movie... so they continue to think of annabeth as a white character as a result... like, it's not erasing black annabeth at all! it's just they will continue to think of annabeth as white bc it's the annabeth they know and love! either way, the character is still annabeth! same source material and everything! anyway that's it, people will probably come after me for this but i just wanted to say it :/

[sehnsuchts-trunken]

Hey Mary, what is your favourite fic you've ever written?<3

ohhhhh this is such an interesting question and tbh, I can't really answer it. the thing is that I've written.... a shit ton of them. and I can't remember them all. but I'll tell you some of my favourites!

okay, so up there definitely has to be Dragon Sickness, because it's one of the only angsty oneshots I've ever written, plus one of the longest, and it's also one of the only ones that - spoiler - doesn't have a happy ending. But despite all that it shows so much hope and so much love and I feel like I wrote it pretty fucking well.

next (this is in no way ranked btw) I do believe I just have to add the I Am Light, I Am Power oneshot, because it pretty much defined this certain type of love I now hold very dear to my heart. The writing isn't the best, but it's certainly not bad, plus there's a second part (which there isn't for anything else I've ever written).

also I feel like Take A Bath has to go on here, simply because it's in such a different style. some of the "plot", which barely exists, makes me cringe every time, but the writing alone I really do love. additionally the person I have in mind as the reader looks really really hot (it's the first time I fucked with perspectives too and wrote something from the character's pov instead of the reader's)

and last but not least, this isn't really fanfic, but then again it is. I wrote it for this amazing piece of music and I'm still incredibly proud of it.

there are absolutely more wonderful fanfics on my blog if I do say so myself, I write for a hell ton of fandoms, and most of those drabbles are pretty okay too, but I do believe that these I've just listed are my favourites, perhaps because they're oneshots, idk. but have fun checking out my blog, I'm sure you'll find some other fancy pieces of writing there as well

[nottheleastbrave]

I cannot let you get swamped with data analysis (!) on a Sunday (!!), so: 1 (for JatP), 10, 12, 15 and 27 (for JatP again), please? I realise this is a lot but you asked for procrastination. ♥️

Lolll I can't even get the packages to load properly, it's a mess.

What do you like most about participating in [fandom]?

Okay believe it or not JatP is the first fandom I've really participated in??? Despite being in fandom for a...very long time, I have usually just been a fandom appreciator who doesn't talk to anyone. So actually talking to people has been my favorite part! Y'all are the best and I love you!!! Also I just really love how f*cked up we all still are by this ghost show lol.

10. What’s a fanwork that made you cry?

Going throwback a little bit (and fuck JRK obviously) but the entire boy with a scar series really fucks me up, but particularly no place like home where Harry is raised at Hogwarts. I tear up at multiple parts of that fic. Also Contact, which makes me cry about El Hopper.

12. What’s a fanwork that changed how you view canon?

Oooooh we'll take the world (one step at a time) by the lovely @tangledstarlight because it really crystalized my feelings about protective Luke Patterson!!!

15. What three fanworks are you the proudest of making?

So I have...not made that many fan works, and my answer to this changes daily, but right now it's: 1. I've got gold stars plastered all over my forehead because it's the longest thing I've ever written and I like how I fit the JatP characters into the dynamics of Stars Hollow (and as a side quest got to try to redeem my son Jess Mariano), 2. They Just Don't Have Any Proof because writing something involving the Psych characters really feels like destiny, and 3. A couple of words lit up on a screen because I finally got to make Luke cover Hey Julie by Fountains of Wayne, which was a goal of mine for a long time.

27. What do you love about the fanworks in [fandom]?

EVERYTHING I LOVE JATP. But I especially love when fanworks manage to balance the found family and the Juke of it all. Because yes Juke is insanely in love but also they care so much about their friends, it's something they have in common!

Thank you for the procrastination it was sorely needed! Ily!!!!!

[thesedangers]

ao3 year in review 2021 !

thank you to both @nvr-lft and @chevalric for the tags, ily both and can't wait to see what happens this year!

stories posted: 12 (all hrpf)

!!!!!!!!! i still can't believe that i wrote /twelve stories/ and posted them all online for real people to read with their real eyeballs. i haven't written fic or even participated in fandom in earnest for a few years, and getting back into a community (especially filled with so many lovely people for REAL) was a huge highlight of my 2021. i hadn't even been lurking on twitter for a few days before i had the idea for keep a little fire, and after posting chapter 1 (after much hand-wringing and nervousness) the response was SO LOVELY. i have met so many wonderful people through hrpf and i just. i fucking love u all don't make me cry

word count: 193,758

do not speak to me of the million words in my drafts

(but oh my GOD i haven't written this much in so long, i'm mired in edits for Real Life Fiction Writing and it felt (still feels) so damn good to stretch my writing muscles and actually allow people to read it!! feedback means the world to me and being able to get some this year just has been so good)

most kudos: must-see landmarks !! this fic reminds me of being on vacation and is also the first of many kev/carter stories that started and still continue to rattle around in my head. this was the first Longer "real life" story i attempted to write (that didn't live in an alternate universe), and it was so fun to do a little fluffy getting-together story with a lil bit of smut. writing this one gave me the confidence to write third eye, which was a huge leap for me and a big undertaking in general.

longest story: it's still not done yet but keep a little fire!! we have two more chapters to go before the "prologue" to the volantes universe is complete, and i still love the story with everything inside of me. it's almost like a safe space where i feel comfortable and calm writing, i feel like i understand the characters and the plot pretty intrinsically. i've talked about it a little on twitter before, but i started writing kalf before i started the process of getting diagnosed with adhd, and i definitely dumped a lot of those feelings onto kalf travis. allowing him to work through those thoughts and feelings helped me a /lot/, and i love kalf for that (and a lot of other reasons!).

shortest story: i actually didn't know what this one would be without checking, because i've written a couple really short stories this year. (another thing i'm proud of!! i tend to want to write long ass fiction and learning how to pack emotion and exposition into 2-3k has been SUPER fun and i'm looking forward to doing more of that this year.) BUT the winner for shortest story is running from/towards, which i wrote in an hour and a half right after nolan got traded to vgk. it still hurts tbh

personal favorites: i've already talked about why kalf is special to me personally, but another one that i fucking love is my other wip (smudge boy/obscurent fic/unnicknamed au/etc). i started out last year despising worldbuilding and the work that goes into it, and i ended the year more excited about worldbuilding than i've ever been. writing kalf, obscurent fic, and both fics in the lifeline universe (another one that i am so proud of, and for the very first challenge i ever participated in!) helped me learn to love the process of worldbuilding and creating new rules or magic systems. this gave me the push to begin completely revamping the world that my original novel's set in, something that i didn't even know needed to happen until i started writing rpf and creating AUs. i just have a lot of feelings about this

also shoutout to halloween fic because i'm still proud of making it sufficiently weird/creepy/unsettling/unresolved !

2022 goals/expectations/etc: finish kalf! finish obscurent fic! maybe even start/post the kalf sequel (?) or at least figure out what i'm doing with it. FINISH AND POST PIRATE FIC! continue to write smaller/shorter stories, learning how to make things satisfying and interesting while using Less Words. i would love to finish a collaborative fic as I am not the best at sharing creative control; tessel and i have some fun stuff cooking and i would love to push myself to finish something like that! writing is good but writing with friends is DOUBLE GOOD

one of my biggest goals is to learn how to balance writing rpf with writing my original stuff; this year was definitely rpf heavy and i need to... not necessarily hold back from rpf, but carve out time for other writing as well. sometimes i feel guilty about spending so much time on rpf when i have *other* things to do also, so breaking out of that mindset is definitely a 2022 goal.

all in all i just want to keep writing! i also want to keep reading what everyone else writes, because we have a damn fucking good group of people in fandom and i love seeing what your absolutely gigantic brains create <3

i don't follow many people on here yet so if you're seeing this and haven't done it yet, do it and tag me so i can see!!