#do i wanna finish the rewrite that only needs 1k more words

[short-and-ugly]

urge to write with no idea where to fucking start why do i have so many words????

[angst-in-space]

december '23 writing progress (and yearly wrap-up!)

december progress:

words written: 19.4k

most words written in a day: 1.8k

least words written in a day: 0

yearly total: 187.2k

projects worked on:

ya sci-fi book rewrites

misc notes

works published in december:

none

december goals [i did not complete a single one of these LOLOLOL]:

write ~1k a day (except on holidays)

write like 100ish words of other projects a day (fics, planning projects, etc.)

write about 33k total (to meet my yearly wc goal of 200k)

finish…..ya sci-fi book rewrites… please….

finish editing ch 10 of sylvix dreamscape (idk if i’ll be able to post it by end of the month/year but… maybe lol)

finish edit letter for friend

january goals:

sigh. finish ya sci-fi book rewrites. please. please i'm so fuckin tired.

start working on line edits?

work on query package

errrrm maybe send out like. one query. just for funsies.

edit sylvix dreamscape fic ch 10

WRITE FANFIC!! HAVE FUN GODDAMMIT

finish edit letter for friend

maybe work on outlining adult sci-fi wip again

notes:

well uhhh uhhh i did not meet a single one of my december goals. so that's....not great! i had really hoped to finish my ya sci-fi book rewrites by end of the year but alas, i still have 9 chapters left *sob* (i thought i only had 7 but recently realized i need to add two more chapters. cool. cool cool cool coolcoolcool.) but it's fine!! it's fine!!! i rewrote about 14k of my book in december and i'm finally entering the final arc so AAAAA. IT'S HAPPENING.

that is still gonna be my main priority for january (rewriting my book, that is). i'm hoping i will FINALLY finish but then again i've said that for like the last six months so we'll see lmfao. and if i DO finish rewrites, hoping i can delve into line edits woooo!!!

i'm hoping to also start doing a bit of querying prep this month (*screams internally*) by which i mean i just wanna at least start refining my query package—i technically have one already that i used to apply to mentorships and whatnot, but it's badly outdated now so uhh need to fix that! i had told myself i'd start querying by end of this month (even if it's just like, sending out One Query for the heck of it). not feeling like that's very likely but... who knows!

but also....i've been so burnt out on my book lately, i really just wanna write at least SOME fanfic this month. i want to write things for fun again, i miss it. :(

2023 wrap up:

total words written: 187.2k most words written in a month: 25k (november) least words written in a month: 9k (october)

works published/updated:

"are we going somewhere" ch. 2

"you're a dream, i'm never waking up" ch. 9

"altea rising" ch. 15

other wips:

ya sci-fi book rewrites

adult fantasy book

sylvix pacific rim au

mathablossom bedsharing fic

red skies ch. 8

altea rising (editing ch. 16 and writing ch. 19)

planning sapphic princess/pirate book

planning adult sci-fi space western dads book

kazurei post-canon fic

2023 goals:

write every day

write at least 200k words

finish more drafts of my ya sci-fi book

send ya sci-fi book to betas

start querying ya sci-fi book

make progress on adult fantasy book (possibly try to finish a first draft)

outline another book

finish editing/posting sylvix dreamscape fic

finish editing/posting renga fic

finish writing altea rising and maybe start posting the unpublished chapters

start working on red skies again

work on sylvix pacrim au

work on at least one of my wenzhou fics

finish at least a draft of matchablossom bedsharing fic

keep working on twiyor practice kissing fic, maybe finish a first draft?

a huge maybe but perhaps start sylvix 50s/spy au if i have time/energy

notes:

*scratches head* well uhhh damn i did not really...do anything i wanted to get done this year.... LMFAO. and even the few things i checked off are things i like barely worked on/started. so, ouch 😅

in my defense... i did not foresee how much work i'd have to do with my book revisions this year. at the beginning of the year i thought i was going into line edits—but around april i realized i needed to do a full rewrite. so i essentially had to start over, and rewrote *checks notes* roughly 83k of it so!! as you can imagine...that was rather time consuming and i did not have much time to work on anything else.

but... i'm trying to look on the bright side: the reason i started over is because of how much i've learned about writing from my mentors and my critique group etc. and looking at my draft from last year vs. this year, i can see a huge improvement! there is still a lot of work to do on this book—but i do feel like in 2023, i fell more in love with the story and characters than ever before (like to the point where i essentially have brain rot for my own ocs... LOL). and i feel like after 2.5 years of hard work, i am starting to see the "real book" starting to emerge from the chaotic mess it was before. so, that's very exciting!!

which brings me to: i'm hoping to maybe....MAYBE...dip my feet into the querying trenches in 2024. i had kinda hoped to do this by end of 2023 but...once again i grossly overestimated how ready my book was at the beginning of the year lololol. but i do feel like once i finish this big rewrite, i'll have less structural/overarching things to fix and more scene-level and line-level edits which (fingers crossed) hopefully will not be quite as involved as, yaknow, rewriting my entire book word by word! SOOO i may be sorta sending out the occasional query as i work on line edit-y stuff (esp bc querying is so slow nowadays haha) so yeahhh haha *sweats profusely*

there are a few other original projects i hope to make progress on this year. firstly, i'd love to continue working on my first draft of my adult fantasy arctic monster wip (maybe...finish a draft? i kinda doubt it but maybe!!). i also hope to keep working on planning a couple other projects, including planning sapphic princess/pirate wip and space western dads wip—both of which i'm very excited about. :)

AAAAND I WANT TO WRITE FIC AGAIN!!!! i really neglected my fic writing in 2023 and i miss it terribly. 😭 i have a lot of wips i want to continue/finish—but i think main priorities will be editing/publishing the last chapter of sylvix dreamscape fic, trying to finish posting at least one of my other ongoing multichapter fics, working more on sylvix pacrim au, aaaand... finishing a draft of one of my other wips perhaps? i don't know, i'm trying to be gentler with myself since i think i had too many specific goals for 2023 and could not meet any of them haha. sooo re: fic writing the general goal is "just have fun and see what happens."

here is to more progress in 2024!!!! 🥳

2024 goals:

finish ya sci-fi book rewrites/edits

work on query package

send out at least one query

start a writing blog/newsletter

continue first draft of arctic monster wip

finish outlining space western dads outline (and start a draft?? maybe?)

continue planning sapphic princess/pirate book

post last chapter of sylvix dreamscape fic

update one of my other ongoing multichapter fics

work on other misc. fic and JUST HAVE A GOOD FUN TIME!!!!

[bobbymckenzie]

If you’re doing a slowburn Bobby route, do you think the speech he held for Mc on day 22 would’ve been different? By that I mean would he have mentioned them not getting together until now and him liking for so long, something like that?

oh yeah definitely!!! i think he’d spend more time talking about how lucky he was to catch her eye, and how long he’d been wanting to be with her. i actually got my friends to send me screenshots of the speech at the recoupling so i could try to rewrite it!

[disclaimer, im rewriting the whole thing bc it’s so bland if ur on a slowburn route. bobby should’ve given mc more than that !!! also thank you @nuggobby​ love u queen ur the absolute best!]

[as always, using my mc sabrina] [roughly 1k words]

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His phone pinged, finally, but it wasn’t like he didn’t know he was up next. He was the last guy to recouple. And he was losing it.

“Looks like I’m going last, guys,” he chuckled nervously, garnering a few scattered laughs, but he could tell no one’s heart was in it.

Everyone, him included, were on the edge of their seats. He took a deep, but shaky breath to steady himself, eyes closed. He exhaled, opening his eyes, a resolve that surprised him burning in his chest, igniting as soon as he locked eyes with Sabrina. 

“This... is honestly one of the easiest decisions I’ve made since I’ve been in the Villa. I think any time I’m with her things get a lot easier for me,” he said, mirroring the soft smile that slowly lit up her face. “I can definitely laugh easier, since she can go toe to toe with my banter, which is hard to do.” A few people laughed, the atmosphere lightening, despite the heavy decision he had to make.

“I...” he trailed off, still staring at her –– only her. Everything he was saying was for her ears only and the rest of the islanders were just lucky spectators. “I’ve got to be honest, it’s hard for me to even tell you how I feel about her, because I’m losing my train of thought just looking at her. I mean, she’s beautiful!”

She pouted and mouthed “awe” at him, making a heart shape with her hands.

“I spent a lot of time wishing I was with her, and that we’d have a chance to try this thing out properly. And now that I’m here, right now, doing it... it doesn’t feel real?” He blew air out of his cheeks, running a hand over his locs.

“I’m kind of bricking it because it’s like my brain is convincing me this is just a dream, and that I’ll wake up any second now. Somebody wanna pinch me?” He joked, before making a spectacle of pinching himself on the ass and making a face.

Sabrina cackled from across the fire pit, clapping with glee at his stupid joke. It gave him the last push he needed to cross the finish line.

“Y’know, I love being her friend but... I think I’ll love being able to kiss her and hold her even more, if she’ll let me,” he watched her expression, searching her face for the consent he desperately wanted.

Despite his chat with her, and the rumors floating around the villa that got back to him about Sabrina wanting to couple up with him, he still couldn’t believe it – not that he didn’t want to, but he couldn’t believe his dream girl reciprocated his affections. He was used to pining and being let down easily, not actually getting the girl.

She rolled her lips, trying to hold back a smile. She gave a soft nod, a moment shared between them that belonged to no one else. Nothing stood in their way – except for Bobby’s ramblings.

Before he realized what he was doing, his legs were moving, and he was jogging across the fire pit to where she stood on the lawn. He held his hand out, a silent plead for her to go along with his bit (she grabbed it eagerly, hand fitting into his like a perfect match), before dropping down to one knee.

The girls gasped, and he could hear Gary teasing him from afar, but he couldn’t focus on anything but the goofy grin on her face.

He knew the camera crew was eating it up, but he didn’t do it for publicity. He wanted to remember that moment forever, and he couldn’t do it from standing across the fire pit. He cursed himself internally for already being clingy, but he couldn’t help it. He was enamored with everything about her. And he’d waited long enough to be hers.

“I heard a guy in Casa Amor did this and it didn’t work, so I’m holding out hope that you’ll let me down easy if it’s too cheesy – ha! that rhymed,” he laughed, squeezing her hand.

She gripped back, and used her free hand to pinch his cheek between her thumb and pointer finger. “You’re so cute,” she mouthed.

“Will you couple up with me, the class clown of the villa? I promise I’ll try my hardest to make you laugh every day, no matter how embarrassing it –”

Wordlessly, she yanked his arm up, forcing him to his feet, and wrapped her other arm around his neck, pulling him into a searing kiss – their first.

She tasted better than he ever could’ve predicted. Her lips were softer than in the kiss he’d daydreamed about. It was like kissing a cloud. A marshmallow. A flaky pastry, even. And she smelled just as good.

Just as he parted his lips, nearly forgetting the world around him, she pulled back, pressing her forehead against his.

“You’re my clown, now,” she giggled, breathless, pecking his lips again before stepping back, hands still intertwined.

It was a cliche moment for cheering, but the Villa had already erupted into a chorus of whoops and claps, their excitement reverberating throughout the night. Everyone in the villa loved Bobby and Sabrina for the same reasons, and had been secretly rooting for them, a fact that they didn’t know til it was nearly too late. A phone pinged, cutting through their excitement.

Gary picked up the phone next to him and read it, his guffaw cutting through the silence. “You know you have to do it the proper way now, mate? We have to reset because you did it wrong,” Gary said, grinning, waving his phone. “You got a warning.”

“Well damn, I guess I messed that up,” he laughed, rubbing his thumb across her hand.

“No, that was perfect,” she leaned in to give him a soft peck. “The kiss, the speech, you... I’m so glad you picked me, Bobby.”

“You gonna pick me again?” She teased, tapping his nose with the pad of her finger.

“If I could choose any day of my life so far for my own Groundhog Day movie, it’d be today, no contest. I’d choose you every time,” he said, lip quirked up at the side, in a shy half smile that made her heart flutter.

And it was even better hearing him say how he much he wanted her the second time around.

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[charmandhex]

Tagged by the delightful @steampunkscarecrow thank you, Scare!

Ao3 name: charmandhex

Fandoms: The Adventure Zone, specifically Balance but maybe I’ll branch out at some point

Number of fics: 40 okay wow I wonder if I can name them all...

Okay, I got to 39. The lesson: there is always another Lucretia fic I have forgotten. Seriously, I’ve got like 8.

1. Fic you spent the most time on: Party of Four, hands down. My WIP canon divergent AU featuring lots of Angus is both my longest fic and easily the most research-intensive

2. Fic you spent the least time on: Hm, kind of a tossup? Most likely either:

Soliloquy - a fic about Lucretia’s year alone, one where I sat down at my laptop and wrote for three or four hours straight until it was done

Neck and Neck at the Finish Line - Hurloane, just a dash angsty (takes place at the moment of turning into dryads, features the Raven Queen)

Ready, Set, Go - also Hurloane, I guess I just write fast for our resident battlewagons racers. This one is about Sloane persuading Hurley to start battlewagon racing and features both of them flirting and flustering the other. 

3. Longest fic: Coming in at 169(nice)k currently, that would be Party of Four. I initially thought it would be 60k, tops.

4. Shortest fic: on ao3, that would be Choices You Made - my Merle-centric fic, about Merle’s immediate refusal to give up memories of his kids in Wonderland

Outside ao3, most of my writing on tumblr is around 1k or under, as are the individual chapters in The Bonds Between Us, which features a bunch of short standalone oneshots- Blupjeans, Taakitz, Hurloane, Angus, Magnus and Lucretia friendship

5. Most hits: Party of Four

6. Most kudos: Party of Four

7. Most comment threads: Party of Four - have you noticed the trend yet? Some of it is being one of my oldest fics, some of it is number is chapters

8. Fave fic you wrote: oh now that’s a hard one. Hm. I’m gonna stick to ones I haven’t talked about already to make this marginally easier.

Apogee is a personal favorite because it was such a challenging one, and I’m pleased with how it turned out. It’s Taako and Lucretia post-canon and was one of the times Taako surprised me even as I was writing him.

Anniversary is one of the first times I felt like I’d actually written something worthwhile. Like all my one word title fics, it’s on the angsty side, this one probably more than most. It’s about Magnus and Julia and their relationship, focused on one day out of the year - their anniversary. Possibly the first time I made people cry too.

And because I wanna talk about it: At Death Do We Start. This one was originally a oneshot for Day 1 of the 2019 Taakitz week, only it rapidly overshadowed the rest of my plans and took on a life of its own. It’s inspired by really two things in particular: 1) a kind of old fairytale type frame wherein the hero would have to go on some kind of impossible quest to be granted permission to marry their one true love and 2) that one very specific part of the movie the Corpse Bride where the religious figure character tells Emily that she can’t be married to Victor because death has already parted them. Spin those two together and you get another of my most ambitious projects - Taakitz, action and adventure, a whole boatload of characters, me elaborately planning out fights - I rolled all of them and home brewed for one of them in particular. I’ve been doing a lot of setup and a lot of work, and I’m so excited to see what everyone’s reactions will be when we get there.

9. Fic you want to rewrite/expand on:

There are a couple, probably. Razed was my first fic, about Lucretia in Wonderland, and it’d be interesting to see how much I’ve improved. Press A to Start and Recollection were both the starts of projects that kind of fell by the way side due to lack of time. Recollection in particular is one I would love to get back to.

10. Share a bit of your WIP or share a story idea that you’re planning:

Mmmmmmmmmm I have two but I’ll go with Po4 because I haven’t actually yet written anything for the next chapter of At Death Do We Start, just planned. This takes place during Lunar Interlude III: Rest and Relaxation.

           Angus might be a full time Seeker getting information to the Reclaimers when he’s on the moon base. But, well, there are still mysteries to be solved the world over. And Angus isn’t always on the moon base.

           Angus peers around the corner of the small stone outcropping concealing him. No one in sight. Now he just needs to make his move-

           “Hey, Ango!” Magnus’s booming voice sounds, loud to the point of echoing, and completely blowing Angus’s cover.

           Angus jumps, in the moment more startled cat than competent detective, and spins to see one Magnus Burnsides standing before him, his face painted with a dog’s nose and a spot around one eye, balloon string in one hand, and cotton candy in the other.

           In Neverwinter. Not on the moon base.

           “What are you doing here, sir?” Angus hisses, attempting to grab Magnus’s hand and tug the unmoving Magnus behind the outcropping as well. Suffice it to say, Angus doesn’t pass that strength check. Not that it would do much good; the space is fine to conceal a still fairly small boy of ten but nowhere near enough to conceal the moon base’s resident brick shithouse.

           “Uh, going to the zoo? Just like you?” Magnus takes a bite of cotton candy.

           “Yes, but-”

           Angus is interrupted by a pop as Taako, armed with a souvenir cup shaped like the head of a griffin, Blinks back into the Prime Material Plane next to them. “Fancy seeing you here, Agnes,” Taako says, too casually, before taking a long, pointed sip from his souvenir cup, the sort of that’s loud and noisy and sucking up more air than beverage.

           “You’re here t-”

           “Finally!”

           Angus’s question is interrupted by yet another familiar voice as Merle, indignant expression on his face, waddles up to them.

           They’re definitely not fitting behind the outcropping now.

Tagging: @everqueen12 @windywords123 @terezis @raychleadele @capitalnineteen and anyone else who wants to play

[mareyshelley]

Since we’re 20 days into August, how about 1-20 of the writers ask meme?!?!?!?! #imtheworst 😄

This is madness, let’s do it.

1. Favourite place to write.Anywhere I can get comfy and either put my feet up or curl up with a blanket.

2. Favourite part of writing.All. Of. It. I love having an idea and being able to bring that to life.

3. Least favourite part of writing.I don’t really have a part I don’t like. It can be frustrating if a scene isn’t working, but then I work around it and it’s fun again.

4. Do you have writing habits or rituals?Not really? I do like playing some music, usually something with the right lyrics or sound/feel for what I’m writing. So I’ll stick on a playlist to write, but that’s about it.

5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most.It depends on the kind of story I want to write. I think every book/author I’ve read and enjoyed rubs off on me, but then some influence me more if I want to write something in that vein. Poe’s one of my favourite writers, but he only tends to influence my Victorian/Edwardian and more Gothic stories. He influenced The Image of Her more than anything.

6. Favourite character you ever created.I have a bunch for original works, but my favourite OCs from a fic are Azrael and Pruflas from this Lucifer series. I like Herz too but he’s a dick, so.

7. Favourite author.Edgar Allan Poe. That’s why my URL’s Mary Shelley. Recently I’ve been reading Erin Morgenstern and Brandon Sanderson, if you want more recent (and living) authors.

8. Favourite trope to write.The Monster Within. It’s my favourite of all the Gothic Tropes™ and I use it a lot. It’s like Jekyll and Hyde or Frankenstein and the creature.It’s the idea of, instead of the monster being an outside threat (as in regular horror) the monster is our own creation, something that comes from within us. In The Image of Her, Belle thinks the threat might come from the creepy old house itself, or the servants who’re never around, or the ghost boy, or her Byronic husband, but Surprise! Turns out she was the scary thing all along. In Lovelier Colours is a bit more obvious. It’s told from the POV of vampires who literally kill people. But are they really monsters? When you get a character’s POV, if it’s done right, you get to know them as a person. Is this old-fashioned, love-sick fool really a monster? (Yes, he kills people.) But is he really when he went to such lengths to save the woman he loves? (Yes.)Echoing Hearts is more subtle, but it still has this. Belle has a darkness of her own that speaks to her and tells her to do awful things. She’s literally hanging out with the Darkest Dark One to Ever Dark, Wish!Rumple, but he isn’t telling her to do anything bad. All of that comes from within Belle herself.Anyway, it’s my favourite trope and you’ll never stop me from talking about it or writing it.

9. Least favourite trope to write.I don’t really have an answer for this. If I don’t like a trope, I don’t write it.

10. Pick a writer to co-write a book with and tell us what you’d write about.I Choose You. It’d probably have some Beauty and the Beast element and be historical, maybe with a hint of fantasy. I’m thinking Edwardian. With magic. The main guy has to have a scar. There’s no reason for that. I just want it. That’s the setting and one (1) character. That’s all you’re getting. I can’t do all the work.

11. Describe your writing process from scratch to finish.I get an idea. I start writing the idea. I make notes on where I want the characters and plot to go, as I’m still writing the idea. I make a Table and plot out the idea as I’m writing it. I finish writing part of the idea, and I make you read it, and then I reread the idea. Then the idea is done. That’s it. I write it from start to finish. Sometimes I’ll have an idea for future scenes, or I’ll suddenly get an idea for a bit of dialogue or narrative for an upcoming part, but I never write out a full chapter until the one before it is finished. It’s easier to write stuff in order so I know where the characters and relationships are.

12. How do you deal with self-doubts?I don’t. I let it build up and try to ignore it until I can’t anymore and end up dying inside.

13. How do you deal with writers block?I don’t really get it. If I’m unsure of what to write next for a story, I just move to a different WIP and that usually helps. But I never just… can’t write anything at all.

14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book?I don’t do a lot of research for fantasy stories, but if I’m writing a period piece, then that’s when I’ll do the most research. And I’ll research stuff I don’t even need to research. I get distracted doing that and 84% of what I learn doesn’t even get used in the story.

15. Where does your inspiration come from?I wish I knew. Inspiration comes when I’m not looking for it. It can come from reading something else, or even writing something else. It could come from listening to a particularly good song, or when I’m forcing myself to come up with an idea because gdi I will write a Mermaid AU if it kills me. The inspiration for those ideas comes when I just start asking questions. What kinda setting do I want? If it’s a fanfic, which version of Rumple do I want to upset this time? Etc.

16. Where do you take your motivation from?I guess my motivation just comes from the fact that I love writing. I love literature. I read all the time. I study it. I always want to write, even when I’m tired or feel Not Good. Loving it is all the motivation I need.

17. On average, how much writing do you get done in a day?There isn’t really an average. It depends on my current WIPs, my mood, how busy that day is, the scene I have to write. On a good day I can do maybe 1k words, or just a few hundred on a bad day. As long as I’ve done something, I’m happy.

18. What’s your revision or rewriting process like?I put the old thing that I wanna revise/rewrite/kill in a 2x1 table, then I read through that as I rewrite it. So the old piece and the new piece are next to one another, and I can copy and paste from the old piece if there’s anything I wanna keep. Or, I straight up delete everything, cry, and start again.

19. First line of a WIP you’re working on.

He would have to marry soon.

That’s the first line of a WIP I’ve been working on for months. I’m determined to finish it, I just need time.

20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on.

“How do we finalise this deal?” Belle asked, determined not to back out now no matter how stunned her certainty made him. “Should we sign somewhere?”

“No, no,” he said, finally making his decision. He curled his hand around her neck and a warmth spread across her chest. “There are better ways of finalising a deal such as this,” he added, all mirth and merriment replaced with a deep, gravelly tone. “One thing all marriages need to make them binding.”

Belle stared up at him, her cheeks flushing hot, and stepped closer. 

“What?” she asked breathlessly.

“This.” Rumplestiltskin pulled her to him, holding her against his chest, and kissed her.

That’s from the same WIP. It’s all just the first draft, so it’s unedited.

[whaechan]

do you have any markhyuck fic recs?

Heyo! I’m so sorry it took me so long to get to this, but I went through most of the nct fics I’ve read so far and picked out all the markhyuck fics that I really enjoyed. I’ll list them down for you, w a summary, word count etc. Hope you’ll enjoy reading these! c: (I’ll mark my favourite ones with a ♡ )

Sunny Afternoon - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 8,1k

mark didn’t mind summer, he really, really didn’t. in fact it might even be one of his favorite seasons, but working his summer away in an ice cream parlour wasn’t really his definition of a good time.that is until one day a boy, who glowed like the summer sun, stumbled into the shop.

♡ A Little Extraordinary - Markhyuck (+ sidehsips) - Wordcount: 118k

it’s not exactly normal to have a strange boy climbing through your bedroom window in the dead of night. it’s even more unusual to have this become a regular occurrence.

mark tries his best to take it all in his stride but it all get’s decidedly difficult when a growing crush and a murky backstory keep trying to trip him up.

Summer Dreams - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 15,7k

The purpose of having a summer holiday was to stay up late and sleep in as late as possible. It was not there to be used as an excuse to get dragged along to Seoul with one’s parents to make them look good for a business deal that would greatly help the family company, and yet, this was the situation that Donghyuck found himself in.

♡  Pandorica - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 40k

“Huh,” Mark huffs, pursing his lips. “What can I do to change your mind?”

“Kiss me again,” Donghyuck says, leaning down again. “Consider it your makeup test.”

Courage, Dear Heart - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 5,6k

Mark takes Donghyuck home with him to Vancouver to meet his parents and to propose. It’s all sunshine and rainbows, except they aren’t actually together.

Today, too, the policeman sits (by the busker’s empty pitch) - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 15k

Seoul Police Officer Mark Lee is reassigned to a quiet town, population ~1k. Which is, of course, where he meets the most troublesome (read: annoying) repeat offender of his entire career: street violinist Lee Donghyuck.

Alternatively: Mark is a cop, but who exactly is pursuing who is anyone’s guess.

The Sound of Birds - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 1,8k

Mark wakes up (like he does every morning) to the sound of the obnoxious ringtone he’s set for Donghyuck. He doesn’t know why he expects today to be any different.

♡  Creature of Habit - Markhyuck, Markno - Wordcount: 18,4k

If Jeno was the angel on Mark’s shoulder, then Donghyuck was the devil, and Mark wanted to do something that felt wrong, even just once.

♡  I look for myself within you - Markhyuck, Markmin/Jaemark(?)  - Wordcount: 52,5k

Donghyuck cared about nothing, and Mark cared a little too much about everything.

Baby you’re brighter than the sun - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 6,2k

Where Donghyuck starts to get cute notes and gifts from an unknown person

Leaf the plants alone! - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 4k

Your eyes are warm, your skin is sun-kissed and all I want to do is drown in your honey golden locks but your cat is an absolute jerk!

♡  Hopeless hearts just passing through (I was made for loving you) - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 70,7k

Donghyuck’s mother was the demon looming over his shoulder. She painted his life with harsh greys, desolate blues and destructive reds. So when she pushes him to a cage with Mark, he knows there’s no escape but he also knows he wants to love the man he married. So he tries.

He succeeds.(It was never hard anyway)

♡  Retrouvaille - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 12k

The universe made sure they met over and over again.

That AU where Mark and Donghyuck meet in high school and later all over the world until the red-haired boy finally stopped running.

The weekend, or whatever - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 8,8k

Donghyuck snorts. “And I’m the extra one.”

“I guess you’re rubbing off on me,” Mark shrugs and sets off quietly.

The nohyuck two hit wonder (series) - Markhyuck, Hyuckno/Jehyuck(?) - Wordcount: 13k & 14k

Jeno has returned to Daegu after years of staying away. Mark and Donghyuck are pleased but Jeno isn’t here to stay.

He’s running out of time. Fast.

♡  The Johntenhyuck family chronicles (series) - Johnten, side Markhyuck - Wordcount: 8,8k

A fic where Johnten live together with Johnny’s little brother, Donghyuck, who’s kind of like their son

Set my heart high (like a volleyball) - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 19,1k

Mark and Donghyuck belong to rival high schools and they hate each other’s guts — they’re not even subtle about this statement. They think the universe must be playing a joke on them when they end up in the same university auditioning for the same volleyball team.

♡  In Bloom - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 2,7k

Lately, whenever Mark’s with Donghyuck, he’s had to worry about the flowers in his cheeks. There’s something about Donghyuck that makes them blossom, spreading across his face, turning his cheeks into meadows.

Make Me Over - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 7,3k

“As far as summer jobs went, working part time at the mall’s Sephora wasn’t the worst.”

In which Donghyuck falls hard for the boy in a muscle tee who walks into his Sephora not knowing the difference between a pan of blush and a palette of eyeshadow.

Wanna be Startin’ Sometin’ - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 10,1k

“Mark wasn’t lost. He wasn’t. He was merely temporary disoriented, if that. He’d find his way back on the trail in no time, and back to the campsite in half that.”

or, the fic where Hyuck’s a park ranger, and Mark’s never left the city

♡  Rewrite the Stars - Markhyuck, side Renmin - Wordcount: 54,5k

Donghyuck’s got a crush. He’s the perfect boy– he’s cute, he’s polite, he cooks. Donghyuck’s friends even like him. The catch? He’s a robot.

You’re my open road - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 4k

“Can I paint your nails?”

Spinning it faster is not always the best choice - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 8,1k

When Donghyuck first meets Mark, the boy has his hand stuck in a washing machine. Thirty minutes later, he falls in love.

The Search for Everyting - Markhyuck, Noren - Wordcount: 43,7k

Mark Lee is on his last year of high school, and he is going on a road trip with his best friend Jeno before they graduate. The thing is, they have to bring Jeno’s boyfriend Renjun, and they also encounter a stowaway who really should be anywhere but under the cabinet of a small sink in the back of their van.

This is a story of summer, long road trips, unwashed bodies, broken hearts, stupid mistakes, young love and growing up. Come join four boys as they journey on a search for everything.

One of Us - Markhyuck (+ side ships) - Wordcount: 18,1k

Donghyuck’s new flatmate Mark doesn’t seem any different from expected. He’s nice and polite, and pretty darn cute too. All of that changed when Mark returned home one night with a bloody shirt and a gun in his hand.

Drills and Flowers - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 6,5k

Donghyuck works in a flower shop. Mark works in the mechanic’s opposite the street. One day he came in and crushed Donghyuck’s flowers. Donghyuck tells him to go fuck himself. Mark says he would rather fuck him.

End of the World - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 6,9k

Mark wonders who will love him until the end of the world. Then enters Lee Donghyuck, a person who doesn’t believe in it.

Or alternatively, Mark is heartbroken after Jaemin leaves him for his best friend. Donghyuck becomes the only person he can rely on.

♡  Frostbite - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 4,4k

According to Renjun, Donghyuck just needed a push in the right direction. Donghyuck didn’t think he meant down a hill, racing Mark to the finish line on a sled.

♡  Out of Your Mind - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 7,1k

Mark just wants to be a regular teenager. Or as regular as an eighteen-year-old sharing his body with a demon can get. And unfortunately for him, Donghyuck loves making things complicated.

♡  Spring Break (All Your Bones) - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 7k

Donghyuck is for Saturday mornings after sleepovers Mark would never admit he enjoys and summer afternoons sitting on sun warmed sidewalks with sugary ice cream melting in their mouths and down their fingers. Donghyuck is his childhood and adolescence, and Mark spends spring break getting reacquainted.

Of All The Bad Ideas - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 10,3k

Donghyuck has been pining after Mark Lee since the first year of high school, and now they’re four years deep and Donghyuck’s feelings are still hurtling towards imminent heartbreak. He’s always been an impulsive decision maker, but he should have thought a bit harder on this one.

One by One (series) - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 14,3k

Mark and Donghyuck work their way through first love, from awkward kissing lessons to long night drives through sleeping neighborhoods. (AKA the Markhyuck Making Out series)

Simple as ABC, there’s only you and me - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 10,7k

0 mile. 6000 miles. 10 miles. 0 mile.

No matter how far or near Donghyuck is, Mark decided a long time ago to love that boy and never let him go.

Fall of a Thousand - Markhyuck - Wordcount: 14,6k

Growing up, Mark has only ever known of one constant in his life, Donghyuck.

Whether that’s meant to be a good or bad thing however, is a decision resting on fate itself.

And here are a few fics with other ships that I came across while looking around that I really liked

Words in Your Hands - Markno, Hyuckmin(?) - Wordcount: 10k

Mark is sure that Jeno is interested in Renjun so he ignores all his attempts at flirting. He really wishes Jeno would just stop; it’s not good for his heart.

♡ Love (That’s All There Is To It) (series) - Norenminhyuck - Wordcount: part 1, 4,4k

Most people don’t get it.

(Donghyuck has three boyfriends and he’s totally content, regardless of what people think)

♡  We look for stranger things (’cause that’s just who we are) (series) - No ships, just the dreamies - Wordcount: part 1, 7,9k

Just a bunch of strange teenagers finding home in one another.

Have a cup of cheer - Hyuckmin(?) - Wordcount: 3,1k

Jaemin goes on a romantic Christmas non-date with Donghyuck.

And some shameless selfadvertising

Surprise Kiss - Markhyuck - Wordcount; 800

Wherein Mark decides to just take a leap of faith towards the amazing being that is Donghyuck.

aka mark gets an idea on how to shut donghyuck up when he starts rambling again

And that’s all I have so far! This literally took me around.. four hours to do oh my god :))))) So I hope you guys like these fics otl ;;

If any of the links aren’t right or whatever please hmu so I can fix it, thanks!