#currently brainstorming a long fic 👀

[thiriumstains]

hi y’all sorry i died 🫶🫶 my service is rlly spotty rn bc i’m like. rv-ing everywhere lol. rest assured i am still thinking about dbh and hankcon tee hee . and fic writing perhaps

[crazy-ache]

Writing Fanfic Tag Game

Thanks for the tag @bonecarversbestie, this is so fun!

Describe your writing process from idea to posting/publishing

I usually think of an idea, brainstorm for a bit, plot out some thoughts, and then attempt writing. For the multichapter fics, I've learned my lesson and I try to outline chapters before committing to posting. But I usually write the chapter, edit, then post. For oneshots, I may be a bit more reckless and dive into writing before I finish outlining the idea.

Are you a plotter or a pantser?

A bit of both. My plotting is usually one very vague sentence and then I'll pants the rest.

What do you listen to when you are writing?

I cannot write without music. I need the song to match the vibes of my chapter. And then I'll usually listen to it on repeat - like it's my theme song. I occasionally will listen to an album as well to match my writing environment. Right now my current vibes are the album "The Dichotomy" by David Kushner.

What’s your drink of choice(while writing)?

Coffee, water, wine, Ollipops? Haha. Could be anything, depends on time of day.

Promote yourself! What’s your favorite thing you’ve written?

This is a hard one. I'm going to say the most fun I've had writing (where the chapters just FLEW by naturally on the keyboard) was Animal Instincts. Long live Cat!Elain lol.

Share a fic of yours that you think is underrated/deserves more love.

I have put so much effort and actual brain power into ACOWAR (Elucien's Version) that I'll gladly promote it again LOL.

Do you have any advice for new writers?

I would say 1) Remember writing fanfiction should be fun not like a chore. So just lean in, let go of the judge on your shoulder, and let the words flow. 2) Find someone to talk to your fics about! Being able to discuss my ideas, my roadblocks, and have someone fangirl/cheer me on (and vice versa) has been so valuable to my writing experience this year.

What is a writing style/technique that others do really well that you'd like to get better at?

I would like to get better at action scenes - I do feel not so great when I have to write those haha.

Is there a character you were surprised you enjoyed writing as much as you did?

Eris and Rhysand. Both have been a lot of fun to write for different reasons. I like leaning into Rhysand's intimidating power. I like leaning into Eris' mask of cruelty. I also have a plan to explore some Nesta/Cassian soon so I am very excited for that 👀

Tagging some of my wonderful writer friends (no pressure of course):

@sad-scarred-sassy, @starsreminisce, @clarafae, @fortheloveofbanksy, @clockwork-ashes

[beesays]

Hot for teacher for the ask game!

🥰😍😘 welcome to my Ted talk!

Favorite scene:

Oh! Probably in Ch. 3 when Rhys finds Feyre in her classroom and they chat about the rumors going around. It’s so funny and vulnerable at the same time and honestly the group chat brainstorm was such a blast. Maybe I’ll release the unused rumors at some point hahaha

Favorite chapter:

Chapter 4 currently has my heart. It wasn’t a date…👀

Hardest scene to write:

I’m gonna be honest, it was the smut 😅 I just got so in my head about it and I was nervous because it was my first Feysand smut and it took me a long time to get out of my own head. It’s still not my favorite but now that it’s out there I feel a lot better about future scenes!

Favorite character to write:

Probably Feyre. She’s just so lost and vulnerable and in need of love and reassurance and I love her.

Favorite dynamic to write:

So far it’s been Azriel and his undying annoyance over being dragged into the whole mess. He secretly loves it, don’t worry.

Why I chose the title:

It started as a joke and just sorta stuck haha! What can I say, Rhys is Hot for Teacher…

Fun fact about the fic:

The story about Rhys being a sneak and unwrapping his solstice presents in Ch.4 is a true story via Mr. Bee’s childhood. (I’ll let you imagine how gifts get hidden in our household these days because of it 🤣)

[elixirfromthestars]

hello my flower!! 💌 oof, packing. i'm sending some mental support and help, let's get that donee 🏃🏻‍♀️🫶🏻 you don't need to answer all of them, i just couldn't decide which one i'd rather ask 🖤✨

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year

13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year

14. a fic you didn't expect to write

19. any new fics to start next year

My beloved!!! 🥹🩷 Thank you, I really need it 🫶🏼 And I also need a break, so I will gladly answer all of them 😌💖

My responses got a little wordy so I’ll add a cut oops 😅🩷

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year

How can I choose?? 😅 I would say scene wise I love how I was able to incorporate a lot of thriller elements into my Athlete!Bucky fic, so a lot of the spookier scenes in that one I was really proud of and have helped me with my murder mystery fic too, so that’s a bonus!! 🫶🏼

As for lines, I have two, one for fluff and one for angst. For fluff, I loved writing the wedding line in Boulevard Confessions and for angst I really liked the line that spoke about Bucky mending himself back together with what broke you in Crossroads. Both of those lines made me feel the emotions as if I were just the reader not the writer, so I think that's why they're my favorite!! 🫶🏼

Boulevard Confessions: (made me all giddy)

His tone takes a more serious turn when he replies, “It’ll be hard to have a wedding without the bride there.”

Crossroads: (broke my heart)

How could you accept that what tore you to pieces mended Bucky back together?

13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year

As someone who is usually listening to something when I write, this is so hard to pinpoint because a lot of times what I do is listen to ambience. For example, for Crossroads I listened to rain sounds in a city while I wrote it and recently while writing my Vigilante!Bucky murder mystery I listen to spooky carnival ambience. But then like when I wrote A Night of Frights & Delights, I listened to a 80s summer of fear playlist, and currently as I am working on my Lumberjack!Bucky holiday rom-com I made it its own playlist (that I will share eventually 🤭🩵), but if you want an idea of the vibe of the fic Matthew Ifield’s cover of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas plays a very important part of the story 👀✨

My Biker!Bucky also has his own playlist 😌🌷🩷, but I haven’t shared it yet because if I did I would spoil some plot points 👀✨

14. a fic you didn't expect to write

Usual (my Biker Bucky!!) Shocking right!!! 🫢 It's because honestly, I didn’t think I was going to come back to writing fanfiction since I had a lot going on in my life, but then Biker!Bucky would not let go of me, living rent free in my head, he was begging to be written, so I wrote it!! And I was so pleasantly surprised to see how many people loved it, and that just spiraled into me wanting to revive all my wips to share them with everyone 🥹🩷🩷

19. any new fics to start next year

My beloved, absolutely too many, so where do I start? 😂💖 I can give you a whole list 📋 and sincerely anyone is free to ask me about them because it honestly helps me brainstorm them so much!! 🫶🏼

Biker!Bucky of course (I have many wips planned for the Tulip series) some that also involve angst…🫢)

FBI!Agent Reader x Vigilante!Bucky (a murder mystery fic, I promise it’s coming!!)

Bingo Requests (I have many to finish 😅, one of them literally turned into a rom-com fake dating with Bucky so some of them are taking longer because they’re ending up really long 😅)

FBI!Bucky x FBI!Reader (undercover mutual pining idiots in love)

Soulmate AU w/Bucky

Modern Royalty/College AU w/Bucky (a two parter)

Hockey Player/College AU Bucky

Husband!Lumberjack Bucky

Cowboy!Bucky

Professional Racer Bucky x Street Racer Reader

Surfer!Bucky x Reader (a two parter)

Duke!Bucky x Lady!Reader (how their love story started)

tfatws!Bucky x Neighbor!Reader

And probably many more I can remember 👀 As to the order they will be posted in…I don’t know 😅

Sorry for writing so much, I got too carried away as usual!! 😭🩷 I hope I was able to answer the questions well enough!! 🥺

end of the year fanfic asks ✨

[therentyoupay]

If your weird asks are still open can you do 11 and 20? ❤️

from this askbox meme!

11. what do you have for breakfast on an average day?

i hyperfixate on my meals 😂 in that i have one (1) preferred meal for days on end and that's what i will eat for each breakfast and lunch until i get sick of it (dinner is different every day though because i love cooking). my breakfast meals are currently cycling this month through one of the three following options:

two pieces of toast with one avocado mixed with the juice of one lime, salt, tajín, pepper, and red chilli pepper flakes, topped with two fried eggs

two chopped mini cucumbers, one diced roma tomato, one avocado, rice vinegar, avocado oil, salt and pepper, and ritz crackers with red roasted pepper hummus

vanilla high-protein greek yogurt with granola, raw cashews, honey, and blueberries

for each of these, a cup of decaf or (if I MUST 👀) half-caff coffee!!

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?

even though i don't recommend google docs as a safe place for creative works any longer (womp womp), it is the preferred location for mtyk simply because @callimara and i do SO much asynch writing and editing, and we need to be able to add art, gifs, etc. directly into the document!!

for all my other fics, i use a paid version of scrivener! i have used it for YEARS and, to me, it is worth it. i use it for all my "current"/"recent" WIPs (i.e., < 5 years since the last update), including at the center, frosted sea glass (which is now finished), snow globe, technical difficulties, that one night, etc.

my older fics that i haven't worked on for a long long time (monstrosity, break the ice series), i wrote entirely on LibreOffice, which was called OpenOffice at the time/back in the day! OpenOffice had predictive text before it was a mainstream thing, and i loved it so much more than the Word Office suite, which i didn't always have access to unless i was a student at the time.

the above info is in regard to PRIMARY writing, editing, storage, organization, etc. however, in addition to all of this, literally since as early as 2009 when i got my very first iPhone 😂 (an ancient relic), i have also always jotted down notes/brainstorming/whole scenes in my phone's Notes app! i then transfer them to the "main" doc and vice-versa; if i'm going on a trip and i wont' bring my laptop, I'll copy/paste my scrivener WIP chapter into notes, and read/write as i go along in my notes, until i can merge them again.

i used to be a big notebook girlie! i still have all of them in my home office. 🥹 but nowadays, i live and die by scrivener and Notes 😂

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK NONNY 💕💕💕💕

[eusuntgratie]

Fic writer asks

1, 2, 6, 27, 29 👀😅

🤩😘

the last sentence you wrote

“Kiss him,” she says, and he slides to his knees at Alex’s feet like he can’t help it. 

2. a character whose POV you’re currently exploring

maria's in the malexa morning after fic and alex's in the lost decade one. i think michael's comes more easily to me so its interesting exploring the other two.

6. the word that appears the most in your current draft (wordcounter.net can tell you)

looks was the word that appeared the most in the malexa morning after draft (so many pretty people = lots of looking, i guess)

27. your favorite part of the writing process

the very beginning or near the beginning when you first shift from an idea to getting some words on the page when it just works/flows and you know you'll be able to execute what you had in your head. it doesn't always work like that but i love when it does. also getting into a groove where i can write for a long stretch. and also brainstorming/spitballing ideas with friends <3

29. how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

answered here but basically, it's usually not!

more fic writer asks

[maaxverstappen]

I’ve been asking ppl cus im nosy. What’s your writing process like if any? Do u have a preferred place or time. Preferred device. Do u write rough drafts then edit or is it much more considered. How do u decide that an idea is worth fleshing out or pursuing if it looks like it’s plotty. Pls yap at length if u so wish — wiz

i love this question!! and would love to know other answers so if you want to reblog them i shall be on the lookout 👀.

i answered partly here so will just like build on that!!

the process is that i’ll have an idea and depending on how large it is write out some sort of outline. my preference for all planning in life is on paper so i have a little journal that ill write out some ideas in. kind of brainstorm / mind map style of just jotting down random ideas that come to mind.

however, with longer fics like my current post-as-i-go wip i have to do it digital bc so much changes and it’s too long (see pics in previous ask). that one i actually started planning in my notes app on a plane bc the idea had to come out of me someway and i was really excited about it. i then transferred it to a google doc and added onto my chapter per chapter outline (1st pic in previous ask). i felt like that was a bit overwhelming for understanding the overall plot so then i went and made a simple overview of the key plot points per chapter (the 2nd pic in previous ask) just so i felt like i had a better understanding of the goal per chapter.

now when i sit down to write a chapter ill get both the detailed notes and the main plot points and just write whatever i feel like in order to get to the goal of the chapter.

for shorter one shot fics i’ll either have no full outline or a one page idea list kind of thing. for instance, for worth the trouble i knew that it would start and end in the present time and then everything in between would be a flashback, but i didn’t know the flashbacks would be non chronological until i was writing it. same for the chewing gum aspect that ends up being quite an important part of the symbolism and that almost weaves the parts together, that wasn’t a *thing* until i was almost finished with the rough draft and i then went to add it in to previous scenes.

for my long fic i have to be a bit more calculated with the hidden messages/foreshadowing as i can’t go back and edit published chapters lmao so that is a little more thought out + i keep track of loose ends to tie together at some point.

editing is a bit of a harder one. for my long fic my overal editing is per chapter, but i do tend to go back and edit per section too. like right now I’m writing a texting scene and first i wrote the plain texting dialogue, then i went back to add the bits in between from characters’ pov. then i’ll read over it fully and edit where needed. finally when the whole chapter is done ill read over it and edit again, but at that point it’s mainly grammar and punctuation.

my main writing issues i’ve noticed so far is that i tend to switch tenses without realising so that’s something i look out for when editing. i also am always worried they don’t *do* enough so i like to think “hmm what action can i add in here to make them more human” when editing.

so far only worth the trouble has been beta read, the rest i do myself. if I’m stuck i will talk through a lot of it with my partner who will give me some ideas and just like help lmao (she’s also the one that beta read wtt!). but she’s not in the f1 fandom so it’s a little hard to have her beta read for characterisation and specific plot points so i do that myself. like when she beta read wtt she gave a few points of feedback that weren’t too relevant bc the average f1 fic reader would understand (like the significance of spa21, there is no need to explain it).

I’m a baby fic writer so a lot of my process will be redefined and refined as i go I’m sure.

as for deciding what to write, it’s really whatever captures my attention. the prompt for help me hold onto you is one i really liked and a trope i love reading myself. i was also ready to challenge myself to a longer plot fic and i was really excited about the idea so i just went for it! my main consideration is really just how excited i am for it.

i will say that i am currently really struggling with perfectionism / imposter syndrome. I’m having a hard time getting the words onto paper bc it feels like it’ll never be as good as my favourite authors anyway so what’s the point. (which is now also impacting the way i read fics bc it makes me sad that ill never write anything as good as what I’m reading lol)

i generally write on my laptop! in a google doc with grammarly activated and the word count on screen (which pisses me off bc i have to turn it back on after every refresh). i wrote my latest crafty!oscar on my phone (bc i was too excited to wait till i got to my laptop) but wouldn’t ever do that for anything much longer or plot-ier than that.

i fear this has gotten very long. i know u said yap away but …. i perhaps have yapped too close to the sun.

[eleanorfenyxwrites]

SOLDER POET KING 👀 if you want to talk about it. Idk if you want specific questions or anything. How's it going.

But also. If you want multiple. My eyebrows went up so fast they tried to escape my face when I read "Nielan Brokeback Mountain AU"

Hi Woob!

I would LOVE to talk about Soldier, Poet, King and the Brokeback Mountain AU!!

SPK first:

It's going surprisingly well considering how long it's been since I posted 😂! I've been working verrrry slowly on the next chapter - for most of that time I've had a very vague, general idea of how I want the story to go from here but fairly early on I hit a stumbling block with the specifics of actually getting it to go there. But I've very recently figured it out!! Shower thoughts to the rescue!! So now that I have the concrete idea I just need to write it, which as we all know is also at least half the battle. That being said, there's just shy of 5k words of the next chapter written already, and I'll probably end up doing at least another few thousand before the chapter's done and ready to post. And also, while I'm not going to actually commit to a chapter count because I still don't actually know for sure exactly how much story we have left before the end, I would like to get it done in under 20, which would mean at most 6 more chapters (or 5 that are currently not written at all)? And honestly it'll probably be fewer than that considering how much I try to cram in each chapter and how close we actually are to the climax of everything I wanted to do with this story.

And now the Brokeback Mountain AU, my beloved! Ugh I (mentally) fucking roll around in this fic like a pig in mud so often it's a little embarrassing, but actually sitting down to plot/write it? I keep ending up writing the OPCU instead for the Cowboy Vibes since they're much less depressing (which is why the OPCU exists in the first place) 😅

In case you've missed the few bits I've shared for it before, I've tentatively titled it 'I Wish I Could Quit You', which I've realized since doing is a quote I've slightly misremembered, so I might end up changing it to the actual quote - or I might just leave it! I like the way it flows as it is.

I haven't posted anything new for the AU in a while so I hope you'll accept this very short little bit of brainstorming I had in my notes app a while back about who Nie Mingjue (he's Ennis Del Mar in this AU) would marry and why:

"Nie Mingjue is already engaged to Wen Qing when he meets Xichen. They met as children thanks to their parents and they've kept in contact, bonding a little over the shared experience of being orphans raising their brothers. They're both too practical and busy to wonder if their mutual respect is affection or not so they've gotten themselves engaged recently, and by the time they marry that autumn he comes down off the mountain, they have (separately) talked themselves into thinking it's romantic love."

And as a thank you gift for asking, some brand new thoughts (well I've thought them before but haven't written them until now) about how I think their arc will continue!

I think Wen Qing sees Nie Mingjue's loneliness and anger, knows exactly where a lot of it comes from (though of course not all of it), but she still doesn't really know how to help. She's good at fixing him up when he comes home with the occasional injury from working such hard jobs, she's good at rubbing the tension out of his aching muscles at the ends of long, gruelling days, but something in her doesn't know how to be emotionally vulnerable enough to let him be vulnerable in return. They don't talk about his feelings, or hers. They have two daughters, and it doesn't do anything to fix either of their issues, it only makes them worse. By the time Xichen comes to visit and she sees her husband kissing this old 'buddy' of his with a desperate passion he's never once had for her, she's almost relieved, under all the hurt and disgust and anger. She stays with him because she doesn't know what else to do, but she knows him now and it taints everything, it makes her feel stupid and foolish and useless and her pride just won't allow this to go on for much longer. They fight more and more and more, and she finally leaves him when she can force herself to face the fact that it'll just have to be her and their girls against the world, and maybe that'll be better than being trapped in a tiny apartment with this enormous man who loves in a way she can't understand. Whatever this is, she can't fix it - she never could. As much as it hurts, and as furious as his issue makes her every time he lies to her to keep fucking his 'friend', she accepts the inevitable and files for divorce without telling him what she knows. Nie Mingjue never misses a single child support payment or his turn to take one or both of the girls, even when she knows he's broke or busy with his seasonal work.

[pastafossa]

Hey Pasta I’m just curious- what do your parents/sibs think about TRT? Like do they realize you’ve created this massive thing? That you legit have your own fan base?

Ps: saw these at work and thought of you:)

So what they all know: they know about TRT, that it's a Daredevil fic, that it has a following, and that it's got a romance, and that Mondays are DO NOT BOTHER PASTA DAY FOR IT IS EDITING HELL. After that there are varying levels of awareness.

Dad, large grumpy bearded man who does not read fic: says 'typical' that TRT is longer than War and Peace ("You've always been wordy, but at least it sounds more interesting than Tolstoy, or Moby Dick. God, I hated that book"), is somewhat confused about what tumblr is and how it works but is supportive of fanbase, says things like "Oh, well that's cool!" (Legitimate, not sarcastic) when I mention people liking it or some vague fic element, will sometimes talk characterizations and history of canon characters with me since he liked DD comics when he was younger, refers to TRT as 'your Daredevil magnum opus. At least it's not drugs.'

Mother, reads fanfic now that I've introduced AO3 to her: knows secret future details of TRT and has helped me brainstorm, knows TRT is big, was a beta reader for the scene with Fitz because she loved Agents of Shield, thinks I should find a way to make TRT into an original novel so I can share the adventures with wider world, wanted to read it but I mumbled about explicit smut and she declared "I was reading trashy romance novels before you were born" and while I haven't linked her to it I suspect she may have wandered over and found it and read it because she occasionally threatens me with 'this part better end happy because I know where you sleep'.

Sis, fellow fanfic writer, fellow ADHDer: does not read my fic but is supportive despite DD not being her current fandom, we follow each other on tumblr and reblog each other's shitposts so she sees my stuff, sometimes brainstorms TRT with me and I brainstorm her stuff with her, rolls her eyes at word length mentions but also says "don't be a coward" when I wonder if I should split the fic before we hit 1 mill words.

Long distance sis knows: I have a massive DD fic, people love it, agreeds with dad, 'At least it's not drugs.' Tells me if I get a poodle she can make it look like a penguin since sje is a dog groomer.

PENGUINOSSSSS OMG I NEED THEM. 👀

[lea-andres]

Fun fact about Thunderbolt, she and the other Eggbosses (a mobian Eggman hired to work for him) all have cybernetic enhancements, and while it helps them, it also works as a fail safe!

You see, Eggman can do something to the machinery to make the user totally unable to move or speak while still living. He threatens this by showing the group an ex lackey affected by this, and locking him up in a soundless black room. Now, that’s pretty horrifying, and I’m just imaging Thunderbolt failing one too many times for his taste, and activating it on her.

This completely destroys Thunderbolt. She did everything right, right?!? Why would her one and only do this to her?!?!

Cue Starline snooping around the area, and finding a completely frozen chinchilla being used as an end table. Surely he wouldn’t mind being taken away from here, right…?

👀👀👀 I LOVE THAT!!! She's a fucking end table, poor Thunderbolt. Plus I imagine Starline would find her cybernetics intriguing. And her current state as an end table a waste of her skills...

I love that. Izzy and I were brainstorming HARD last night, and we came up with the opposite!

So, Starline got buried in all that rubble and died in the comics, right? So, in my lore (YES! I'm jamming them into my lore now!) After everyone was gone, Thunderbolt showed up and got him out of the wreckage. Starline was dying (not dead yet, but he was close! Thunderbolt probably had to resuscitate him with her electric abilities a couple times), and a lot of his body had been destroyed... So he needed to be rebuilt. I haven't decided what all happened yet. I'm thinking he lost an eye (love an excuse for a robo eye), his gauntlet got built into his new left arm (so that's just... His hand now.), And of course some internal organs had to get replaced. Plus maybe she gave him some spurs, since he doesn't have any natural ones.

He had a LONG recovery (which is how I'm getting away with "but your fics are 6 years later! Where were they all this time?" 😂), where he had to go through a lot of physical therapy. And of course they plotted revenge on Eggman together the entire time.😈(still deciding what Eggy did to Thunderbolt. Something horrible I'm sure.)

Main thing I've fallen in love with in my head is they're just so in love with how evil and conniving the other is. So, they plotted to betray each other once they took down Eggman, because DUH! Classic villain move. OF COURSE they'd stab each other in the back to take the glory for themselves. But when the time came to do it... They couldn't. And finding out the other had planned the same thing? That was the final straw. These two evil dummies are gonna be confessing their love after just having pointed weapons at each other. 😂😂😂

...That they then use to stage a giant fake break up to lure Sonic and Tails into a trap, because any normal person would break up with their SO when they found out they were going to kill them once they accomplished their goal. 😂😂😂 C'mon, THOSE two being dramatic as all hell and pretending to be utterly broken hearted? I need that energy in my life. The exchange I pitched to Izzy:

"I'll have a gallon of ice cream and grungy sweatpants!" "I'll find the least waterproof mascara in existence and scatter tissues EVERYWHERE!" (Either one could say either thing, LOL)

Sorry I rambled for so long, but I love these two. This is your fault, LOL. YOU DID THIS TO ME- 😂😂😂

[draphrawrites]

PUBLISHED FICS IN PROGRESS

Fic Updates!

This is a more thorough update of all my published WIPs and their current statuses! Updated July 23rd, 2024! 😊

✨Split between my SFW and NSFW accounts ✨ 

🔹 SFW 🔹

180 Degrees (Dabihawks, time travel)

Chapters published: 5

Update planned: Updated 05/28/24

A Matter of Perspective (DabiHawks, modern magic)

Chapters published: 2

Update planned: On backburner for the moment but not discontinued!

A Pirate’s Life for Me (Pirate AU series)

Fics published: 3 (two sfw, one nsfw)

Update planned: on the back burner for the moment, but have another 3/9 fics either done or mostly done in this series! They’re just not in order 😅

A World Apart (TouKei, Little Mermaid AU)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: on the back burner right now, but possibly in the Fall since I have part of the next chapter written!

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better (Kacchako, intern rivalry)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: on back burner for now, but not discontinued

Everybody LoVs Me (MiruDabiHawks, crack)

Chapters published: 2

Update planned: have final chapter partially written, on back burner for now

hit and run (Dabihawks, injury+forced proximity)

Chapters published: 2

Update planned: updated 04/21/2024

Last Ones Standing (MiruDabiHawks, PacRim series)

Fics published: 1

Update planned: next fic is partially written (about 2-3k)

Lines Crossed (Dabi rescues Bakugou when kidnapping goes sideways AU)

Chapters published: 50

Update planned: Updated 07/23/2024

Project Trigger (Dabihawks, cyberfantasy AU)

Chapters published: 3

Update planned: Updated 03/16/2024

Sanctuary (Dabi saves Eri AU)

Chapters published: 10

Update planned: Updated 07/10/2024

Slow Burn (Firefigter!Touya & Hero!Hawks AU)

Chapters published: 7

Update planned: Updated 06/11/2024

Ten Years Gone (Dabihawks, amnesia & childhood friends)

Chapters published: 2

Update planned: Next chapter started, just need time to brainstorm

Time and Again (MiruDabi, post timeloop)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: On backburner for the moment but not discontinued

The Murder of Touya Todoroki (Dabi/Makoto, mystery)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: chapter 2 completed, awaiting editing

This is our “get along” shirt (TouKei, pining and intern rivalry)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: Have about 2k of the next chapter finished 👀

Unstoppable Force, Meet Immovable Object ( Dabi & Natsuo, accidental road trip)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: Have the entire next chapter outlined, just need time to write it

When the wolf is at your door (invite him to dinner) (Dabihawks, role reversal & fake dating)

Chapters published: 6

Update planned: updated 05/21/23

Yeet Cute (Dabihawks Actor AU)

Chapters published: 2

Update planned: updated 11/05/2023

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🔸 NSFW 🔸

A Pirate’s Word (Part of the pirate series)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: On the back burner for now, but not discontinued 🏴‍☠️

a hero and a villain walk into a bar (MiruDabi accidental pregnancy)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: have the first chunk written from Miruko's POV, just need to start on Dabi's

Compromised (Dabihawks, Virgin Dabi, Honeypot Hawks)

Chapters published: 7

Update planned: updated August 10th!

In For A Penny (Dabihawks, 5+1 bottom Dabi)

Chapters published: 3

Update planned: Next chapter is outlined!

it’s me, hi (Dabihawks, bodyswap)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: soonish?

loving you is a losing game (Dabihawks, angst set before the war arc)

Chapters published: 1

Update planned: End of the year! I wish it was sooner, but it’s a long chapter and involves a LOT of emotions.

That’s all for now! This list does not include other WIPs that are currently unpublished (of which I have several 😂), just the published WIPs so you guys can know when-ish to expect updates! All of these are subject to change, as life happens and hobbies suffer for it. 

That said, thank you all for your support! Hope this helps 😊💖

[mi6-cafe]

He Died... Or Did He👀? December

So with November over, we suppose that the events and plot of the new movie are no longer a mystery to the vast, vast majority of the fandom.

🎶How do we live, how do we breathe...

Yes, you got it in one. Fix-its are the answer!

This month we’d like to encourage you to create fix-its for NTTD or, in fact, for any other Bond movie.

Have fun! Go wild! Tag whatever you create with #mi6cafechallenge (actually, you better at the cafe because sometimes Tumblr is evil)

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!

Festive Fanworks Fiesta!

December is also the month when we are running the event newly called Festive Fanworks Fiesta AKA FFF AKA Anon Prompt Gift Exchange (formerly).

What it entails? Read all about it.

Yes, you can expect a veritable flood of fics and art to your dasboard every Sunday. 😁

Saturday Cafe: Dec 4th & 11th

Come join us in the fandom Slack as we write, draw, sprint, plot, brainstorm, cheerlead, and generally have a good time trying to get things done together.

If you’d like an invite to the Slack, go ahead and message @castillon02 or @christinefromsherwood or @spiritofcamelot!

The Eastern Hemisphere Readalong, December 12th, 9AM UTC

Come one, come all to our readalongs, which will be hosted by @christinefromsherwood​ and @soufflegirl91​ on Discord in the #readalong voice and text channels!

We’ll be reading any and all the fics you bring to us. The only condition is that they have to be shorter than 2.5k and at least one of the people present has to be able to read them without blushing.

And also: everyone awake, half-awake or insomniac is welcome.

Long Fic Readalong: Saturdays at 9pm EST

Join us in the Discord while we read a longer fic. This is a fun chance to enjoy the fun of a weekly installment without the pain of Fleming’s writing, and we’d love to see you there. We are currently reading "Highland Christmas" by Ato. Lurkers are welcome.

Weekly events:

WIP Wednesday: You can post an excerpt of your WIP on our post or make your own post and mention the @mi6-cafe. Either way it’s a fun way to show people what you’re working on, Bond fandom or otherwise.

Supportive Sunday: Our rec post day! If you’ve enjoyed a fancreation that you’d love to share, create a post with a link and why you love it, then mention the @mi6-cafe so we can reblog.

Want to host your own event in the Discord or elsewhere? Let us know about it so we can add it to the calendars!

Calendars

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[into-crazy]

Hey there Des☺️💜 So, I saw your answer of the WIP game and now I'm curious. Would you mind telling me about some of your pieces?🥺 Only if you like, of course. How about "make waves", "honey bear", "White Opal Eyes" and "short girl problems". Haha, the last one sounds too relatable😅🤭 I'm thinking of you and sending you soooo much love. Please take good care of yourself💜💜💜

Oh my gosh HIIII SUE😄💖💖💖 How are you doing darling? I hope that you are doing well🥺😌💕

Ah jeez, you sure picked some interesting titles. Man have I got some things to say about those ones😅

So "make waves" is a ledger!joker x female reader fic. It's a bit of a soft smut involving J and the reader in the bath tub together ~wink wink~ aha

I haven't gotten that far into it so I really don't have anything worth sharing just yet so I'm gonna leave it at that.

Now "honey bear" is a Patrick Verona x reader fic that I have been brainstorming but never actually got around to writing. It's currently the first and only idea that I have for Patrick. I don't know where I was quite going with it, and I don't know if I'll get around to writing it out. But I'll never say never.

Below is basically all I've got with it:

Cold and rainy weather had swept into the valley this weekend.

A bear that loves her honey. And every part of Patrick was filled with the sweet, golden rich substance.

Alright now "White Opal Eyes" was a Eddie Brock x Female Reader series that I was working on about three years ago. Yeah.. I know.. And it's sat completely untouched in my files for that long too!! I only ever got up to four parts with it. But around the time I was writing that fourth part, I got more interested and invested in other characters/fandoms. Eventually, I just stopped writing it and I haven't went back to continue writing it. Anyways, it was a super cutesy series and I had a lot of fun writing it. Occasionally I still go back to read it over, so that I can reminisce on what the days were like at the time I was writing it. As for the writing itself, it's very.. bad😅 I'll say that my writing has definitely improved a lot since then. Nevertheless, I'm holding onto it for sentimental purposes.

Here is a little snippet from Part 4:

You had seen a news article on a strange sighting in the city. There were a few other claims and even news casts on it. Stories of a creature made of a dark substance feeding on bodies before disappearing into the night. You brought it up with Eddie, "Have you heard about the sightings in the city?"

"On what?" He asked curiously.

"The black, substance-like one that eats the residents of the city."

Eddie catches a cough in his throat.

She's heard of us.

"Oh that one," he continued, "yeah I've read about it, it made quite the story back at the news station."

"It's pretty crazy, do you believe it?" You asked.

"I-I'm not too sure," he pauses, "Although I'd like to find out more about it."

You're such a liar. No one likes a liar, Eddie.

"Do you believe it?" He looked at you, eyes wide with curiosity.

"I haven't figured it out yet, I've been reading up on it."

Eddie was little nervous now that you read about the symbiote. And he was even more uneasy because Venom was even more pushy on wanting to reveal itself to you. But it read Eddie's mind, and respected his wishes to stay hidden. In time.

As for "short girl problems🥺" I'd say it's pretty self explanatory. But I will say that they are a little more personal, and I've based them off of my own experiences. Although I'd think that a lot of other's can relate to them. I don't want to give too much of the details about it away and I am not completely certain with which character I want to write it for. I will say that I am leaning towards a certain clown with long, greasy green locks and messy greasepaint👀👀

THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN!!💖💖💖 I really appreciate you and this ask😌🥰

[btwxsixesandsevens]

For the fic writer's meta asks: 2, 4 👀, 9, 17?

Oh wow? Someone asked me a question! this is great, this is...whew, ok.

#2: What I'm looking forward to in my current project:

I'm deep into a whole saga for Sarah and Bucky. Right now, I'm really looking forward to getting to write the two of them in Wakanda. There's something special about taking your partner to your "home town". And there's something special about a woman who doesn't travel going somewhere as different as Wakanda. My Sarah is a real homebody, so she's gonna have an adventure!

#4 A Paragraph I'm proud of:

Bucky misses Sarah’s hair. In the morning, she comes down with it wrapped in a beautiful length of silk that she calls a rag. At night, he knows when she wants his company because she leaves it down when they sit on the couch and snuggle. If she puts her hair up in her rag and he kisses her, she teases him, telling him it is too late for that kind of nonsense. Her hair smells like coconut and some synthetic spice. He wants to bring her the oil the women in Birnin Zana use, melon seed oil and Marula and Baobab. He wants to bring her fabric from there too, wrap her in the reds and yellows of the Dora Milaje, or see her dark skin against the woven blues of the Border Tribe. He wants her to know how gorgeous she is. He wants to lay with her on that deep blue cloth and show her with his whole body. The skin of her hip feels like home.

I tried to weave together Sarah's cultural practice/bodily experience around her hair and hair tying (which is Black AF) -- her non-verbal cues -- with his observation of those cues. He doesn't understand (why can't they have sex after she's tied up her hair?), but he can read what she's telling him. That contrasting with his desire -- also non-verbal -- to tell her how he feels in a way that feels genuine to him, which is wrapped up with his Wakandan experience. This then ties back later when Bucky does give Sarah the fabric and she -- non-verbally -- understands what he's trying to say with the gift.

The whole para says exactly what I want said with all of the senses.

Plus it centers on a cultural practice that most white writers don't get. I write for Black women and I always want them to feel seen in my fiction. i want them to read my stuff and nod their heads and say "oh shit, I/my mom/my 2nd cousin, does that!" Nothing makes me happier than seeing that in other ppl's work.

#9: Drabble or LongFic, Panster or Plotter

Hmmm. For me a drabble is a perfect 100 words. no more. It is a tight piece of prose that punches you in the throat. They are incredibly hard and i love doing them. i drabble as part of my character exploration, but I don't usually pub them.

I see ppl on here using "drabble" for any short (less than 1k words) form. by that metric, i'm pure long form. If I get under 2k words on a piece it is for a very specific reason and I had to work hard to do it.

I used to be a panster -- outlines were for the weak. Now, b/c i'm trying to keep track of canon beats and the direction the fanfic is going in general, I do plot. Usually in one long hour of frantic brainstorming.

#17: What would surprise my readers?

Um...that i don't actually find writing that hard? right now, anyway. (famous last words). i know a lot of writers struggle to find words. I got words. I struggle to find THE POINT of all those words. Writing is easy. giving a damn about what I wrote, that's hard.

that while i've written lots of novel-length treatments of things, i don't want to publish a novel.

that i deliberately pace/balance my talky vs. action. vs. smut chapters. it isn't random.

that peaches are my favorite fruit.

[choerrypuffs]

the poll is now closed! thank you so so so much to all who took the time to vote, i truly appreciate all the feedback 💗💗💗

epilogues for the current 00 line couples ended up being the top choice, but i haven’t let go of my desire of wanting to write other scenes from the pjo/hoo books so i will be incorporating certain scenes into the epilogues 👀👀👀

many of you guys wanted me to expand the series to the rest of the dreamies as well, but as i started brainstorming, i realized i was starting to spiral onto long fic territory with just the epilogues alone so i knew expanding the series was going to mean 10-20k fics again and i am too brain dead to do that 💀 however, that’s not to say i may not change my mind in the future!! i can’t seem to let demigods die 😩

choose your own adventure: demigods !

hi, my loves!! if you’d like, please fill out this form for me 💕💕💕

i’m trying to decide on what i would like to do next with my demigods series and i would greatly appreciate some feedback!