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snowdice · 4 months ago

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Folds in Paper: Book 2 (Chapter 1: Reprieve) [Folds in Time Universe]

Fandom: Sander Sides

Relationships: Janus/Patton, Remus & Roman, Logan/Virgil, Roman & Patton & Logan

Characters: Janus, Patton, Emile, Remus, Roman, Logan, Virgil, Remy

Summary: Janus is trying. After spending months trapped in time with his enemy turned... something else, Janus is trying to find meaning in a world where he or anyone else could rewrite history with one simple mistake.

During his leave from the Time Preservation Initiative, the time distortions that have been causing disastrous ripples in time have not gone anywhere. His partner's past is more mysterious than ever and old and new alliances are shifting. Can Janus figure out what is going wrong with time before that time is up?

The problem with time travel… you never how long you have before the clock strikes 12.

Chapter Summary:

Things are harder, better, but harder.

Notes: Time travel AU, mystery, enemies to lovers, alcohol, sexual innuendo, character with depression, character with ptsd

This is a fic I’ve been writing on study breaks that you have probably all already seen at this point. I’ve slightly edited it for wording and grammar, but not for content from my previous posts. Feel free to send in asks to direct it because I’m not 100% sure where this is going and you can help decide if you feel so inclined! You can see the process I went through to build this at this link.

I also have a playlist on youtube (because Spotify didn’t have one of the songs I wanted).

This is Book 2, Check out Book 1 and the other part of this series here.

“What’s this?” Janus asked when a giant bowl was set on the coffee table in front of him.

“We’re eating on the couch tonight,” Emile said cheerfully.

Janus raised an eyebrow and switched off the tablet he’d been using. “Why?” he asked, setting the device aside.

Emile shrugged and set a second huge bowl down next to Janus’s. “For fun,” Emile said. He turned back towards the kitchen and Janus leaned forward to look in the bowl. It was spaghetti with some sort of creamy sauce and a few different vegetables mixed in along with some shrimp.

“I made green tea too,” Emile said, coming back into the room with two mugs.

“Thanks,” Janus said, taking one of the mugs with a small smile.

“What were you doing?” Emile asked as he took a seat beside Janus. He nodded at the deactivated screen now sitting on the end table.

“Just playing some puzzle games,” Janus said.

“That sounds fun,” Emile said with a smile.

“Head doctor said they might be a good thing to do to pass the time when I told him to fuck off after suggesting reading.”

Emile sighed. “Dr. Figueroa is my colleague. You could try to be polite.”

“I thought I was supposed to be my authentic self in therapy,” Janus replied.

Emile just huffed and rolled his eyes. Janus couldn’t help but smile as he picked up his mug of green tea.

The last few months had been…different. In a lot of ways, Janus’s life had become harder than it had been before. It had been easy to do nothing but eat pre-prepared meals, go to work, and pass out in his empty house every day. It wasn’t good for him. He’d known it even then, but it had been easy. This was not.

Emile had offered, insisted really, that Janus move into his house for a bit just to get back on his feet. He’d taken time off of the TPI which would have been given to him anyway since he’d spent so long trapped in the past. He’d had to give a report of what had happened, and he’d mentioned Patton, but he hadn’t mentioned everything. They’d offered him a shrink when he’d asked.

Janus had told Emile he needed to tell him something about why he’d been distant, so he wouldn’t end up chickening out, but he’d asked for a bit of time to figure out what to say. He’d finally worked up the courage to talk about it with Dr. Figueroa two weeks ago. Much like with Patton, it was easier to talk to someone who hadn’t been involved in Janus’s mistake, but it still wasn’t easy.

He was running up on the deadline he’d given Emile for having that talk. It had to happen soon, and they both knew it, but Emile was just patiently waiting for him to suck it up. It felt… wrong to use his kindness without him knowing the truth, but it was also nice to get to spend time with his brother. He didn’t even dare to hope that he’d still have the chance once he told him.

He was moving back into his own house in less than a week. He’d tell him then so if Emile ended up kicking him out of his life, he wouldn’t have to kick him out of his home too.

For now though, everything was fine. Harder, more complicated, and in threat of imploding at any moment, but fine. Fine wasn’t something he’d really felt in a long time. Or at least, fine while in his own time wasn’t something he’d felt in a long time. There’d been a few moments with Patton sitting next to the fire outside the hole in the ground they’d slept in for those few months where the man would turn to look at him and he’d felt fine. Yet, Patton had been right. Those moments were unsustainable with how Janus was actually feeling deep down.

“This is good,” Janus said, after taking a couple of bites of the pasta in front of him.

“Well, I always was the only one in the house that could cook,” Emile said, and that was true. “It was either learn to fend for myself or eat a cheeseburger for every meal.”

“Hey, I had a good burger seasoning.”

“Not for every meal, Janus.”

“Meat, dairy, bread. What more could you want?”

“Vegetables, Janus.”

“You could have put pickles on them!”

“I don’t like pickles.”

“That sounds like your problem, not mine,” Janus argued.

Emile shook his head, turning his eyes to the ceiling. “How have you been surviving on your own?”

“Well, I mean,” Janus said. “Badly.”

“Right…” Emile said. He leaned over to bump their shoulders together. Janus flashed him a smile.

“Speaking of,” said Janus. “Could you physically force me to pack tonight? I meant to do it today and instead I ended up playing puzzles games.”

Emile chucked. “Sure, I’ll help you after dinner.”

“You don’t have to help me,” said Janus. “Just make me do it.”

“Maybe I want to help,” said Emile.

“Oh, yes, packing. The most entertaining of Thursday night activities.”

Emile hummed and then glanced at him. “Remember when you helped me pack for college?” he asked.

“Mmm, I do,” Janus replied.

“I was so stressed about going somewhere new,” Emile said, “that I avoided packing for weeks. Every time Mom would ask me how packing was going, I’d tell her it was going fine but in reality, I hadn’t even started. You came home two days before I had to leave because you were going to help me move into my dorm. It’s like you could sense no packing had been done the moment you stepped through the front door.”

“You were doing your ‘hiding the broken horse statue from mom’ shuffle,” Janus said with a smirk.

“Well, you walked me straight to my room and we packed everything up in those two days,” Emile said. “You made it so much easier.”

“Yeah, because I hovered over you until you did it and did half of it for you,” Janus snorted.

“It wasn’t just that,” Emile said. “You also found the music streaming station run by the university and put that on and talked about what your freshman year was like. You also had tips on what things I should and shouldn’t pack when moving into the dorm.”

“You still took all of the cartoon character stuffed animals despite my advice.”

“I thought there’d be more space on the bed,” Emile frowned.

Janus snorted.

“But anyway, just having someone else around made me happier. It wasn’t just about the workload being halved either. You being there made me feel less lonely and reminded me I’d always have someone to come back to.”

Janus internally winced. He was sure Emile hadn’t meant to make him feel guilty in any way. In fact, he probably was trying to do the opposite, but him saying that just reminded Janus that it hadn’t been true. Janus had abandoned him for literal years and hadn’t been someone he could always come back to.

The last few months, Emile had proven himself to be at least close to who he was before Janus had messed with time. There were a couple of differences here and there, and Janus could not be sure if they were from him changing time or from him avoiding his brother for the past three years and him naturally changing. Most memories they shared that Janus cautiously brought up or Emile mentioned on his own were consistent with what Janus remembered, but he hadn’t pushed too hard or dug too deep. It just made him feel more guilty about avoiding the man for so long.

It made him want to ignore the man more, because it seemed every choice Janus ever made only hurt him.

…

Well, perhaps not the college radio station when helping an anxious 18-year-old pack up his childhood bedroom.

He should probably tell Emile that his words made him feel guilty because that was obviously not the intention and he’d want to know. He should probably apologize properly for leaving him alone for three years without an explanation. He should probably provide an explanation for those three years.

He should probably go see the head doctor again soon.

(He should probably stop calling Emile’s colleague who was in the same field as him a head doctor derogatorily in his head.)

For now, he just glanced at Emile. “You’re trying to bully me into letting you help pack with logic, aren’t you?”

“I am,” Emile confirmed without remorse.

“Fine,” Janus sighed, “but only if you let me do the dishes for you.”

Emile took a long moment to consider the offer. “You drive a hard bargain,” he said, “but okay.”

“And no doing anything sneaky like getting bags ready for me on your own while I’m doing it or the deal is off,” Janus said.

“You always think of all possible loopholes, Janus,” Emile sighed.

There was a long silence.

“Agree, you prick,” said Janus.

“No promises,” Emile replied cheekily with laughter in his eyes, and things were good for a moment more.

#sanders sides #janus sanders #emile piccani #patton sanders #mociet #time travel #character with depression #character with ptsd #character with anxiety #folds in time universe #folds in paper #adriana writes

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trentcrimminallybeautiful · 8 months ago

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20 Questions For Fic Writers

Tagged by @rngaredead :)

For simplicity's sake I'm going to go with just my biDEMONium/trentcrimminallybeautiful ao3 and not try to combine it with my thesorrowoflizards one (why do i have more than one? because i was, among other things, an idiot who didn't know how pseuds worked next question) even though that would probably double some of these numbers lkfjgh

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Again, just on this account? 171 (some of those are oneshot compilations though)

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

661,851 for now

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Ted Lasso, The Mysterious Benedict Society, The House on the Cerulean Sea, House MD, Death by Dying, Instinct, King Falls AM. Also, sort of Gravity Falls. Mostly those first two though, tbh. This one I think I will include other fandoms I've written and posted for on other accounts because it's fun and less about math. So also Shadowhunters, The Librarians, The Mentalist, The Dresden Files (TV), Roswell New Mexico, The Sandman, Star Trek, Professor Layton, Sanders Sides, Miraculous Ladybug, and sort of The Legend of Zelda. Also see, for unposted or posted a very long time ago and no longer something I would willingly share, Supernatural, Dirk Gently (both 2016 and 2010), Doctor Who, Warehouse 13, SurrealEstate, Person of Interest, Haven, Leverage, Bones. Psych, and probably more

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Ted Lasso Kisses Trent Crimm On The Mouth (Trent/Ted - 1,157 kudos)

semaphore (Trent/Ted; Trent & Colin - 997 kudos)

off the handle (Trent/Ted - 736 kudos)

linger (Trent/Ted - 709 kudos)

a preacher, a bikini, and a kiss or two (Trent/Ted; Diamond Dogs - 673 kudos)

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to but I always get really busy/tired and then it's been so long it feels like it would be weird if I did. Plus, sometimes my answers by nature of the comments can get repetitive and then even though I'm being sincere I feel insincere which sucks. However, if a comment has a direct question or something I actually have like, something unique to say about, I'm much more likely to respond sooner rather than later/never. I appreciate every single comment soooo much though literally my motivation to get through the day like 80 percent of the time

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I'm going to stick with Ted Lasso fics here since I have so many fics posted and this is my Ted Lasso sideblog and say... well, most of the time I have a bittersweet ending and then some sort of hopeful epilogue (such as with ink sunset and make a mess of you) but I guess betrayal's sting / absolution's balm or something to get off my chest may qualify?

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Uhhh, honestly, most of them are happy endings. I think trick & treat and matters of the heart end on particularly high notes?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not in this fandom! Yet

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Oh, yeah, baby. So much. Not sure what "kind" means in this context. It sure is explicit smut. I have tended almost exclusively towards hot transgender sex the last few years because. yknow. hi. but somehow I don't think that's the intention in the question.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I do, but I haven't posted a lot. Only one on this account (a Gravity Falls x The Mysterious Benedict Society crossover that started as a joke because of a shared actress) although I had an interesting Shadowhunters x The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess fusion on my other account. I've written some pretty weird WIPs, though. And I've got some posts about Ted Lasso crossover/AUs, like a Sarah Jane Adventures AU, a Pushing Daisies AU, a Stardust AU... You can find that kind of thing in this tag on my blog.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes. Not in this fandom, though, as far as I'm aware.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Again, not in this fandom, though.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not really.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

Oh, man, I don't know if I can decide. Magnus/Alec (TV version only I'll die on this hill) will always hold a special place in my heart, but I've got other "obsessed with this when I was a kid" ships and also recency bias/current hyperfixation means Trent/Ted screams as an immediate answer, and so on and so forth. I'm bad at picking favorites. Overall, I'd probably say one of those two, or both.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Sticking to Ted Lasso again (I have. so many MBS WIPs. god.) I'd say lost sight of (who you are) (lost motivation, want to finish, fuck!!) or sweeter than heaven (hotter than hell) (got mad at it), or!! oh!!! ink sunset (stuck) and possibly the next installment of matters of the heart. Yeah, I have a problem

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I'm pretty good at being funny and also at eloquent but perhaps a little too verbose metaphors. I love me an elaborate metaphor

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

It's hard for me to focus and get what I have in my head out sometimes, even when I really want to. Whether it's being unable to organize or just my brain flat-out refusing to cooperate and do anything. Also, I'm way too like. easily discouraged with lack of feedback, and even a little negative feedback can kind of ruin my week and make me never wanna go back to that story ever again.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I just realized. The questions seemed familiar but I wasn't sure why and now I know, now that I've gotten to this question. I have done this game before and I remember bc of this question. I was confused bc it was under a different name, I think the questions were in a different order, and it was sometimes slightly differently worded but nope! This is the same one! Weird Anyway, just for this particular question, I'm going to copy-paste my old answer because I'm lazy. I’m extremely bad at linguistics in general, so if I must include someone talking in another language in my fic, I think I’d tend to cheat and do italics or some other indication that this is ‘in another language’ (ie “Where are you going?” she asked in Russian), but that’s admittedly a lazy approach. But I also think it’s probably better than butchering it with an auto-translator? Also, when people just include the translation in the end notes, even with a link (although that makes it marginally better) it breaks the flow of the story and makes it hard to read. Making an effort to at least match grammar is good (which I would do if it was for longer than a single scene, probably) but I think the best solution is when people know what they’re doing and like, have an actual translation with a little html code so you can click on it and it reveals what it means? Or if you’re clever, revealing what it means using context around it, but that has its own limitations. So that both like, uses the actual language and doesn’t break up the flow. It balances accessibility, flow, and respect for the other language in question well. But you’ve got to both know what you’re doing with the language (either asking someone/hiring someone/knowing the language yourself) and the html (although there are guides for that you’d have to spend time figuring it out + know it exists in the first place to look). And this is fanfiction, something we ultimately do for free in our spare time, so the lazy approach, I think, can be understandable. Maybe not in every context, but it’s not worth stressing a lot over in a few random lines or anything, you know? It is really cool when people do know a language well enough to include it properly in a fic, though, it can say a lot about a character or dynamic; and their background(s) and like. it’s neat :)

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Ever? Doctor Who. And I don't remember the order, but after that I know I wrote some stuff about Star Trek (mostly TNG but I believe also TOS), Supernatural, A:LTA, Marvel, WTNV, and the Stanley Parable? I think I first posted either Supernatural or WTNV

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

I have no idea. Some of my top ones (for Ted Lasso again) would be matters of the heart and trick & treat I suppose?

Tagging: whoever wants to do this man, I probably tagged everyone I'd normally tag last time so if you see this and you wanna do it, go ahead and tag me and do it!

#tag games #tag game #gertspeak

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agerefandom · 1 year ago

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Fanfiction Masterpost

In the current absence of AO3, may I remind everyone that my fanfictions are accessible on tumblr? ;p

If you'd like a full list of my writing, including both headcanons and fanfictions, my story page is accessible on desktop but I think some mobile users may have trouble accessing it! So here's a mobile-friendly version of my fanfictions.

Animaniacs Yakko To The Rescue: big brother!Yakko with regressor!reader

Avatar:The Last Airbender Flourishing in Sunlight: cg!Zuko and regressor!Katara, post-canon

Be More Chill Safety In Numbers: regressor!Rich, worried Jeremy

Boku No Hero Academia Sound and Silence: domestic regressor!Aizawa and cg!HizashiSomething Wrong: regressor!Katsuki gets cornered by Izuku and doesn’t react well (heavy fic) Class Outing: Izuku regresses while at the mall with Class 1A

Calvin and Hobbes Old Friends: regressor!Calvin with Hobbes

Critical Role (C2) Books and Pigments: regressor!Jester and regressor!Caleb playdate Picking Up The Pieces: struggling regressor!Caleb and helpful Caduceus Through Anything: regressor!Beau and Jester, doing Yasha’s hair

Death Note Restrained: Classification!AU with regressor!Light struggling in confinement

Doctor Who The TARDIS Playroom: regressor!Thirteenth Doctor and an unexpected Graham

Good Omens Evenings Of Eternity: regressor!Crowley, cg!Aziraphale (chapter two) Mornings and Knights: sequel to the above story

Harry Potter What Family Is: regressor!reader and their cgs, Remus and Sirius Golden Slumbers: regressor!reader, big brother!Harry Potter, and cg!Fred Weasley (cglre terminology)

Hazbin Hotel Angels At The Window: regressor!Reader and caregivers!Vaggie and Charlie

Hetalia Bedtime Tears: Human AU, regressor!Italy with cg!Japan&Germany

Homestuck Cupcakes and Moms: regressor!Dave and his mom Roxy >Dirk: Regress: self-indulgent Dirk regression Big Brother, Little Brother: regressor!Dave and regressor!Dirk, regressing together for the first time, cg!Roxy and John. Simple Days: minific with regressor!June and cg!Rose

The Magnus Archives Song of the Hive: regressor!Jane Prentiss horror story

Marvel Quiet Days: cg!Natasha and regressor!reader drabble Kitchen Friends: regressor!reader (he/him) and cg!Bucky/Steve

Les Miserables Calling You Home: regressor!Enjolras and caregiver!Grantaire

Minecraft It Takes A Village: regressor!reader in a minecraft world, ft. cg!villagers and curious enderman

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Natasha is Young: regressor!Natasha and cg!Helene

Night In The Woods Shapes and Friends: regressor!Mae with Gregg and Angus

Ouran High School Host Club To Weather The Storm: Tamaki finds out that Haruhi regresses (cglre terminology) Taking Care of Mori: regressor!Mori and cg!Hunny, ft. observant!Haruhi Fancy Tuna and Frantic Texts: regressor!Haruhi, cgs Tamaki and Kyoya (cglre terminology)

Pinky and the Brain The Joy of Theatre: Pinky puts on a play, Brain indulges him All The Great Men: Brain is having a hard day: Pinky does his best to help Yakko To The Rescue: regressor!reader and their big brother Yakko

Phantom of the Opera Forever More: regressor!Erik and cg!Christine, established dynamic

Resident Evil VIII Only Heaven I’ll Be Sent To: regressor!reader (she/her) and cg!Dimitrescu (cglre terminology)

Sanders Sides Just Plane Overwhelmed: regressor!Virgil and cg!Patton on a stressful plane ride The Playtime Solution: regressor!Logan needs a break, cg!Patton To The Moon And Back: regressor!Logan, cg!Roman

Steven Universe Safe and Sound: regressor!Steven tries to stop regressing, cg!Crystal Gems (also rewritten here with transfem Steven going by Stephanie) system/REGRESS.Steven: a rewrite of the Spinel fight, the rejeuvenator works on Steven and Amethyst is the one who has to collect all her regressed friends

Twilight Cold Palms, Warm Words: regressor!reader with cg!Alice and Jasper Sugar Sweet: baby-regressor!reader with established cg!Alice and Jasper The Doctor’s Office: regressor!reader with cg!Carlisle Home Sweet Home: Carlisle and Esme as parents, the other Cullens as regressors with varied age ranges Baby Steps: regressor!Bella with caregiver!Charlie (cw depression)

Undertale A Story For Sans: regressor!Sans is exhausted, and Papyrus is worried Sweet Pea and Papyrus: cg!Papyrus and a regressor!reader who’s had a bad day

#masterpost #agere fanfiction #long post #my writing #fandom agere #misc fandoms #links

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foreststarflaime · 4 months ago

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Greetings I am Star o/ (or Forest, or Foreststar) I am just here to have fun and scream into the ether about the stuff I like. Sometimes I may go a bit without posting anything tho bc words do not always work for me

Also I like dragons, swords, stars, pretty much anything fantasy and nature, etc. I adore stories of any kind! I’m studying classics and linguistics so I talk a lot about that, and my favorite hobby is swinging swords at my friends (HEMA—historical european martial arts, I mainly do longsword)

Tags for my stuff for organization:

Star’s Dragon Sanctuary now open! Feel free to ask us about any of your dragon-related needs or curiosities! (The link refuses to work but that’s the name of the tag)

Star rambles — my stuff, me yapping

Star essays — the long essay analysis posts I sometimes do — star gushes for the more poetic ones

My writing — stuff I write, mostly fanfics but there’s some original stuff in there too — Ao3

My ocs — I don’t post about em much here but I have many! Feel free to ask about them. In particular there is Foreststar

I also have a ff7 dragons au now!

Ask game prompts — love doing these, as well as any other tag game stuff! Ask game for responses and asks for general asks in case I accidentally buried yours in reblogs

Other tag stuff under the cut

Middle earth — tolkien stuff, my first and eternal hyperfixation

Loki — any version of him really. But my fav is the Agent of Asgard version from marvel comics. I will never shut up about Loki I love him whenever he appears in anything

Ff7 — final fantasy 7

Armory — hehehe pictures of various weapons but mainly swords :) used to be just under swords so you can also look there

Dragons — I am and always have been obsessed

Stars — this and the two above it are my 3 favorite things ever

Classics — greek and roman stuff

Linguistics — cool language stuff

Random stuff — stuff I couldn’t otherwise categorize

Nature — cool pictures

Castles — I use this tag very loosely, should probably change it to architecture but eh

Dw — doctor who

Mi — mission impossible

Technoblade, philza minecraft

Pokemon

Gf — gravity falls

Stray gods

Hades — the game

Flight rising — dragons :) my favorite

Nimona — this movie healed my soul

Epic — the musical

Hlvrai — half life vr but the ai is self aware, by wayneradiotv

Bg3 — Baldur’s Gate 3

Genloss — generation loss (same stuff, changed the tag)

Tiny glade — my stuff under #my glades

Merlin — the bbc show

Fma — fullmetal alchemist (brotherhood ofc)

Pb — the princess bride

Rdr — red dead redemption

Uu — unstable universe/unstable smp

Lifesteal — lifesteal smp

Totg — twilight of the gods

Es — elder scrolls, mainly skyrim

Wtnv — welcome to night vale

Mp100 — mob psycho 100

Tdp — the dragon prince

Temeraire

Frozen, Tangled (esp the series), Mulan, etc

Pnf — phineas and ferb

Sky cotl — children of the light, gorgeous mobile game

Wtnv — welcome to night vale

Poto — phantom of the opera

Parkour civ (formerly tagged as Parkour civilization) — what the hell why am I here why is this stupid series so good wtf

Pvp civ — pvp civilization

Aaa — agatha all along

gomens — good omens (NOT neil gaiman)

Sanders sides

Gw — the gilded wolves (currently reading)

Mtp — moriarty the patriot (currently watching)

Genloss — Generation Loss

Jrwi — mainly riptide

I probably did not catch all of these. More will come as I think of them unless I get lazy

#intro #figured it was about time I made one of these #idk

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thatonelesbianfander · 10 months ago

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The Ghost and the Reaper Chapter 6

Fandom// Sanders Sides

TW// Death mention, Suicide mention, Crying, Yelling, Punching, Swearing, Fire, Screaming,

Word count// 2730

Description// Janus is one of the many grim reapers whose job it is to reap the souls of the dead and help them ascend to the afterlife. After one assignment, the spirit they reaped, a 23-year-old nonbinary person named Remus, refused to ascend. Now, Janus is stuck with them following it around wherever they go.

Characters// Remus Sanders, Roman Sanders, Janus Sanders

Pairings// None

AUs// Found/chosen family Creativitwins & C!Thomas, human!sides, they/them Remus, it/they Janus, he/she Roman

Masterpost // Previous // Next

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Remus woke up on the couch, rubbing the tears that had formed in their eye away. Janus stood in front of them, a concerned expression on its face.

”Remus!” Janus said, Remus sitting up, “Are you okay? You were crying in your sleep when I came to check on you.”

”Yeah, I’m fine. I just had a dream about my death,” Remus said, rubbing their hands against their face.

”Well, do you want to talk about what happened yesterday?” Janus asked, “You were really upset when you came home.”

”It’s nothing… It was just my sibling… I don’t really wanna talk about it…” Remus said.

”Okay, I won’t push it then,” Janus said. Remus smiled.

”Well, what’s on the dock for today?” Remus asked.

”Well, I have a few spirits to reap, and I’m also going to need to make a pit stop at the graveyard today since some spirits are having trouble ascending again,” Janus replied.

”Well, let’s go do the reaping first, and get that out of the way, then,” Remus suggested.

”Alright, then,” Janus said, grabbing their scythe off the table. Remus frowned, sitting back down on the couch. Janus looked over to Remus, confused.

”Remus?” Janus asked, Remus looking over to Janus, “Aren’t you coming along?”

”You want me to come along?” Remus asked.

”Yeah, why wouldn’t I?” Janus asked.

”I thought you wouldn’t since I would only annoy you and slow you down…” Remus said, looking down.

”Well, yeah, you are kind of annoying, but that’s what makes the job fun. Without you, it’s kind of just boring,” Janus replied. Remus smiled.

”Now, come on. Let’s get this over with so we can get back here and relax,” Janus said. Remus jumped over the back of the couch, walking over to Janus. The two faded out of view, reappearing in a hospital room. Two people laid on beds on opposite sides of the room, both being treated by doctors. Janus wiped its scythe at the first person, the spirit sitting up from their body. Janus then swiped his scythe at the other person, the spirit also sitting up. The two spirits locked eyes, getting up and running to each other.

”George!” the one spirit said.

”Mary!” the other replied.

”Okay you two, break it up real quick,” Janus said. The two spirits turned towards Janus, George standing in a defensive stance in front of Mary.

”Who are you?” George asked.

”My name’s Janus. I’ll be your grim reaper for your ascension to the afterlife. Now, do you mind telling me your names,” Janus said, pulling up a screen.

”Oh, umm. George and Mary Stanford,” Mary said.

”Stanford… Ah, here you are! It looks like you two don’t have any ongoing tasks, so if you’ll just stand still, I’ll-” Janus started before being cut off.

”Who’s that?” George asked, pointing towards Remus.

”Oh, that’s Remus,” Janus said, smiling at Remus. Remus smiled back.

”They look weird. Why do they look like that? Fucking freak-” George started before being cut off by Janus socking him in the face. George stumbled back, Janus glaring at him.

”Don’t ever say that about them ever again,” Janus said, glaring at George. Remus hid their face in their hands, their face a little red with blush.

”Why you-” George started before being cut off by Janus swiping their scythe at him. George burst into flames, screaming in pain as he burned away.

”George!” Mary exclaimed. She turned to Janus, angry.

”You bring him back now, you fucking bastard!” Mary said, running at Janus. She threw a punch at Janus but missed as Janus side stepped away. They swiped their scythe at Mary, Mary bursting into flames and screaming as well.

”Woah, you didn’t have to do that!” Remus said.

”They were going to hell anyway. They were abusive parents and rude to everyone they met,” Janus replied.

”No, I mean… You didn’t have to punch that guy in the face for insulting me,” Remus responded.

”Hey, you’d probably do it for me. It’s only fair that I do it for you,” Janus said, retracting their scythe. All of a sudden Janus got a call on their screen. Remus floated over to Janus, looking over Janus’s shoulder as Janus answered the call.

”Who is it?” Remus asked.

”My manager. He wants to meet me,” Janus said.

”Ughhhhhhh,” Remus replied.

”You don’t have to come if you don’t want to,” Janus said.

”Nah, I’d be bored waiting for you. Let’s go,” Remus replied. Janus nodded, swiping its screen away. The two faded out of view together, going to the manager’s office.

They reappeared in the manager’s office, Remus going over to the corner and grabbing a notepad and pencil. Janus sat down in front of the manager’s desk.

”Sir?” Janus asked. The manager turned around in his chair, seeing Janus in front of him.

”Oh! Janus!” the manager said.

”You called me?” Janus asked.

”Yes, yes. I need to talk with you real quick, but first, tea or coffee?” Manager asked.

”Oh, um, I guess I’ll just take some green tea today,” Janus replied.

”Alright, then,” Manager replied, pouring some tea into a mug. He gave the mug to Janus.

”Sorry, I only have mugs right now,” Manager said.

”That’s alright,” Janus replied, “So, what did you want to talk to me about?”

”Well, it’s nothing about how your doing your job right now, you are right on quota,” Manager replied, sitting down in his chair, “It’s actually about the Antichrist.”

”The Antichrist? I thought that was just a myth,” Janus responded, confused.

”So did I, but the radar is saying that they are close to emerging and that they’re going to emerge in your district, so you can see how that’s a problem,” Manager said.

”Yeah… I mean, isn’t the Antichrist the only one who’s able to kill us?” Janus replied.

”Exactly, and if they emerge it could spell disaster for us,” Manager said.

”So, what do we do now?” Janus asked.

”Well, first of all. I need you to keep up the rules in your district. For example, I know you’ve been letting your little friend visit their family,” Manager replied.

”Oh, yeah, cool. Just talk about me like I’m not here,” Remus said sarcastically.

”Shut the fuck up,” Manager said, glaring at Remus.

”Okay, in my defense, they snuck out without me knowing the first few times,” Janus replied.

”Okay, just throw me under the fucking bus,” Remus said, Janus glaring at them as well.

”Okay, but anyway. The last time you let your friend visit their family, they interrupted a death,” Manager said.

”You what?!” Janus said, turning to Remus.

”What?” Remus replied.

”You see, your friend here interrupted their sibling’s death. That day their father was supposed to go out on a date and their sibling was supposed to call their father, leave a voicemail that would go unanswered, and stab himself while he was away. But instead of that happening, your friend here decided it would be a good idea to make it so that their father would see the voicemail and get back to the house to stop him,” Manager said.

”So?” Janus asked.

”So, because of the timeline crack, the Antichrist is able to rise. There have already been many other timeline cracks in the past, but I guess this one pushed it off the edge. So, to combat this, I need you to enforce the rules in your district more. That means no more family visits for your friend, no interacting with the living, and no interacting with things in the surrounding area. Got it?” Manager replied.

”Got it,” Janus said.

”Good. We cannot have this Antichrist rising. One more crack, it’s over. You’re free to go now,” Manager said. Janus nodded, standing up. It walked over to Remus, Remus ripping their drawings out of the notepad.

”Let’s go now,” Janus said.

”Can we go back to the apartment real quick… I need to talk to you about something…” Remus whispered to Janus. Janus nodded. The two faded out of view, Manager going back to his work.

Remus and Janus reappeared in the apartment, Remus floating over to the couch. They patted the seat next to them, Janus nodding and walking over to the couch. They sat down next to Remus.

”So, what’s up?” Janus asked.

”Nothing, it’s just…” Remus said.

”Yeah?” Janus replied.

”You don’t think I’m evil right?” Remus asked.

”No? Where’s this coming from?” Janus asked, confused.

”Well, during my childhood I was always hated for my ideas. People thought they were morbid and weird and they called me the Antichrist because of it,” Remus said.

”Remus. I doubt you’re the Antichrist,” Janus said.

”I know, I’m just…” Remus said, before trailing off.

”Yeah?” Janus asked. Remus took a deep breath.

”Ever since my childhood I was scared of proving them right… It was my biggest fear at the time… Being the Antichrist… It’s one of the reasons why me and Roman had that fight the day I died… He was getting fed up of me constantly being next to him and being clingy, since he was the only person in my childhood I could really talk about my ideas with without the fear of being judged…” Remus said.

”Hm…” Janus replied.

”Janus… What if all those people years ago were right? What if I’m actually the Antichrist? I mean, your manager said so himself, the Antichrist is on the rise and they’re the only one who can kill reapers like you… What if I’m actually the Antichrist, and I end up hurting you, or worse…” Remus asked, their breathing picking up.

”Hey, calm down. I doubt you’re the Antichrist. I mean, sure, you did make a timeline crack, and sure that’s bad, but I doubt you would be the Antichrist,” Janus replied.

”It’s possible though… I mean, there were a lot of weird things in my life that didn’t really make logical sense… Like for example, I was able to barely survive driving myself off a cliff, and it took longer for me to die… What if-” Remus started.

”Alright, you’re reading into that too much. There’s probably some other reason for you not dying on impact then. Calm down, deep breaths,” Janus said. Remus took a few deep breaths, looking over to Janus.

”Better?” Janus asked. Remus nodded.

”Okay, good. Now, do you want to explain why you interrupted your sibling’s death?” Janus asked.

”I mean, she’s my sibling… Did you really expect me to stand around and let him kill himself?” Remus asked.

”How did you even do it?” Janus asked.

”Oh, I knocked over this guy’s drink, guy called for a waiter, waiter rushed out, and I got the waiter to take a certain path that would go past my father’s table and get the waiter to knock his phone off the table. From there, the waiter gives him his phone back, he sees the notification for the voicemail and listens to it, and then he rushes back home,” Remus said.

”Didn’t I tell you not to mess with anything in their surrounding area?” Janus asked, smiling.

”In my defense, I technically didn’t interact with it. The guy had the drink on the edge of the table already, I just gave it a small nudge,” Remus said. Janus laughed, Remus smiling at them.

”Alright, then. Well, let’s get to the graveyard. I need to help those spirits ascend,” Janus said, standing up. It lent a hand out to Remus, Remus grabbing it and standing up. The two faded out of view together, talking and laughing.

The two reappeared in the graveyard, laughing with each other.

”Alright, alright, you win,” Janus said.

”Hah! I’m the best!” Remus replied.

”Oh, shut it. Anyways, I’m going to go meet with these spirits. Do you want to come or are you just going to hang back?” Janus asked.

”I’ll just hang back for now. You go do your job,” Remus replied. Janus nodded, walking off. Janus looked around the graveyard, seeing a few spirits hanging around a group of graves. Janus walked over to the spirits, the spirits talking amongst themselves.

”So, what should be the first thing we do once we get to the afterlife?” the one spirit asked.

”Hm… I don’t know. I was thinking of reuniting with my family. What about you, Grace?” the other spirit asked.

”I was thinking about picking up a hobby like art, or something,” Grace replied.

”Well, I was probably going to join a band, and create music,” the first spirit responded.

”Hey, you three are the spirits who called me here, right?” Janus interrupted.

”Oh, reaper guy! Yeah! My name’s Grace and that’s my friend Issac and my brother Danny,” Grace replied.

”Last names?” Janus asked, pulling up its screen.

”Oh, me and Danny’s last name is Richards, and Issac’s is Spencer,” Grace replied.

”Richards…” Janus said, scrolling through the list of names, “Ah, here! And what seems to be the problem?”

”Well, we all have this same task but no matter how many times we perform it, it won’t go away,” Issac responded.

”And what is this task?” Janus asked.

”Um, it’s the ‘visit a place on your bucket list’ task. We all went to the Eiffel Tower together since that was a big dream of ours, but it won’t go away on our lists,” Danny said.

”Oh, yeah. That task is weird, and won’t complete. I’m pretty sure it’s a glitch in the system. We’ve tried to get it fixed before but to no avail,” Janus explained.

”So, what do we do now?” Grace asked.

”Oh, I can just force an ascension,” Janus replied. It took out its scythe, swiping their screen away.

”Everyone stand together,” Janus said. The three stood hand in hand, facing Janus.

”Now, you’ll just feel a slight tickle, but nothing major. Have a nice time in the afterlife,” Janus said. The three nodded, Janus swiping their scythe at the three. The three disappeared, Janus retracing its scythe. Meanwhile, over with Remus, Remus hovered around their grave, watching as their sibling played a game on her phone.

”Almost! Yes! I won! Did you see that, Remus?” Roman said, looking over to Remus’s grave, smiling. Remus smiled at their sibling. Roman sighed.

”I wish you were here right now… Life’s been so difficult without you…” Roman said, frowning. Remus frowned, standing next to Roman. Tears started to form in Roman’s eyes, Roman looking down.

”I miss you so much… I honestly wish I killed myself yesterday… It hurts so much being without you… I miss your daily visits… I miss when you would talk to me about your ideas, without a care in the world… I’m so sorry I said I hated it… I need it more than ever now… Isn’t that crazy… How one can forget how much something means to them until it’s too late…” Roman said, tears falling down his face. Remus crouched down to Roman’s level, frowning while looking at their sibling. Roman took a deep breath.

”If you’re here right now… I just want to say… I love you… I’m sorry for not being a better sibling…” Roman said, tears falling down her face. Remus frowned, reaching their hand out before pulling it back. Remus closed their eyes, debating whether or not to do it.

”FUCK IT!” Remus shouted, putting their hand on Roman’s shoulder. Roman’s eyes widened as he looked over to Remus. Remus took a deep breath.

”I love you too, Roman… I’m sorry for having to leave you and Pa like this… I regret it every day… Just promise to stay strong for me please…” Remus said.

”Remus…?” Roman asked. Remus opened their eyes, seeing Roman staring directly at them.

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lilmiaswritingcommissions · 6 months ago

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Fanfiction Writing Commissions

You can find my Writing Commissions page here, and examples of my writing on my AO3.

That is where I list my general rules, which all still apply to my fanfic commissions.

So, general stuff, if you commission a fanfiction from me I will write it, share it with you for final edits, and then publish it on my AO3. If you have an AO3 account I can gift you the work as well if you’d like through AO3’s ‘gift’ system. The work will be publicly available to anyone on AO3. The idea is that you aren’t paying me for the fanfiction, you’re paying me to write it and post it, which means I’m not making money off of the fanfiction, just the writing.

Thank you legal loopholes.

My prices for fanfiction are the same as my base prices on my Writing Commissions page. If you are interested in commissioning me message me here on tumblr! I take payment through Paypal and Venmo.

If you are specifically interested in a self-insert or OC insert in a 'The Gamer AU' (as in your character follows video game rules/logic while everyone else is bound to the rules of their universe), I have the specific characters sheets to have prepared (or partially prepared) here!

Information I need to do your commission listed here.

Now the list of fandoms I will write for (including crossovers between any of the fandoms)! Fandoms below the cut!

3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series

Afterlife SMP

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)

Batman - All Media Types

Danny Phantom

DCU

Deadpool - All Media Types

Doctor Who (9th Doctor Throught 11th Doctor)

Dream SMP

Dream Team RPF

Empires SMP

Fantasy SMP

Harry Potter

Hermitcraft SMP (Seasons 8 - 10)

Icebound (Legends of Avantris)

Marvel

Merlin (TV)

Miraculous Ladybug

New Life SMP

Once Upon a Witchlight (Legends of Avantris)

Origins SMP

Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types

Pirates SMP

QSMP

Rats SMP

Sanders Sides

Shazam! | Captain Marvel

Sherlock (TV)

Slimecicle Cinematic Universe

SMP Earth

SOS SMP

Spider-Man - All Media Types

Superman - All Media Types

Supernatural (TV 2005)

The Flash (TV 2014)

The Hobbit - All Media Types

The Witcher (TV)

Ultraman: Rising (2024)

Uprooted (Legends of Avantris)

ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

#writing comms open #writing commissions open #writing commissions #fanfic commissions

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audioaujom · 1 year ago

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Writing Masterlist !!

Welcome to my blog ((: Hello~! I’m Aud :D! I’m a psychology major and long-term dungeon master who loves to write in my free time. The stuff I’m willing to post here right now is pretty much all fanfiction, but I’ve got a lot of other projects stored up that may eventually see the light of day if anyone’s interested. My DnD stuff is gonna start appearing on a separate blog!! Hooray! If you're curious or interested you can find all of that fun stuff over at @audndio. It's chaos over there.

I’ll try to keep this masterlist well updated with both the fandoms I’m actively writing for and what fics are on my profile (as well as hints of what’s to come). I love horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and action/adventure, and actually wrote a handful of decently popular r/nosleep stories a few years ago. It's good to finally be posting again ((:

My asks and dms are open for chatting or also requests for any fic that consists of oneshots/writes. I do not write smut of any kind and tend to stay away from romance in general, but I don’t mind cute romantic fluff or heavy relationship-related angst if it comes down to it. I mostly write whump lmao I’m amenable to most things, so just ask if you’ve got something in mind!

All my posts are tagged with relevant AU information, the characters involved, and angst/fluff/whump/etc, or with asks/updates/scheduling so you can filter for what you're looking for. I do my best to keep things organized, which is why everything is color-coded as well (AUs are purple, oneshots are pink, ao3 is orange, asks are yellow, fandoms are green, and the blue is for me).

If you'd rather read or chat somewhere else, find me on ao3 here.

Full AUs: Life is Strange AU (multichapter fic, YT/Twitch, slow updates) CollegeHumor Powers AU (multichapter fic, CH/Dim20, completed) (You're Not) A Living Thing With Feelings (multichapter fic, sasi, completed) CollegeHumor Tangled AU (multichapter fic, CH/Dim20, updates biweekly Sundays) If I Make It Through Tonight (multichapter fic, sasi, updates biweekly Tuesdays) Oneshot/Writes Collections: Corpse Party (YT/Twitch, updates fridays) Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (ranboo/slimecicle, updates saturdays) Stardew Valley Oneshots (sdv, updates biweekly mondays) TV Episode AUs (YT/Twitch)

Fandoms I Write For (in no particular order): Various YouTubers and Twitch Streamers (Ranboo, Slimecicle, Tommyinnit, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, etc/related) CollegeHumor (DropoutTV and Dimension20 included) Stardew Valley Supernatural Corpse Party Bungou Stray Dogs OTV Sanders Sides My Babysitter's a Vampire Mystic Messenger Doctor Who Resident Evil Hades Lab Rats Kickin' It Austin and Ally (and more to come!)

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hearts-thru-time-and-space · 1 year ago

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#sanders sides doctor who au #fanfic #que's questions #writerscommunity #writing #writers on tumblr #writers and poets

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hungerun · 1 year ago

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i wanna explain/slap down some descs of my diff verses and aus, so. uh. yeah! * heiress au : after a failed escape attempt by her father, mamiko fujioka grows up residing on the maw, instead of the mainlands. under the lady’s care, she is raised as the ship’s heiress: it’s something the girl has been prepared for her entire life, but.

whether her mother is ready to hand over the torch, is another thing completely. plus, mamiko has been slowly uncovering more and more about the maw, about what really goes on there, and, well. * dbd au : in the 1920s, tragedy struck in tsuruoka, japan. an orphanage, housing many children under the care of a headmistress, was the site of a brutal massacre. one night, under the dark of the new moon, many children were killed in their beds, and the building set ablaze. there were no survivors, and the headmistress, nor her body, were ever found.

ninety-eight years later, two runaway kids stumble upon the remnants of the burned down building, hidden deep in the woods. as the night was stormy, rain coming down in blinding sheets, they decided to take shelter in the building and wait for the storm to pass. these children were never seen again. six, been taken by the entity, is now a participant in something known as ‘the trials’ in the entity’s realm. there, she has to fight tooth and nail to survive, escaping killers the best she can while repairing generators and make it out alive. again and again shes forced to take part, but, determined as ever, she knows that, one day, she’ll escape these games for good.

* twdg au : a resident of a group home prior to the appearance of walkers, six and her best friend, mono, remained there with other kids and social workers when the world fell apart. they were safe there, all things considered, until a group of raiders happened upon their hideaway. due to the actions of the raiders, a horde washed over the group home, as a result, six was bitten. thankfully, it was discovered that six was immune to the bite -- at least, partially. she keeps ahold of herself, though at times she falls into fits of insatiable hunger, much like a walker. despite this, mono stays by her side: after all, they are best friends. the two of them now travel together searching for a place to call home.

* bioshock au : katsumi fujioka, (stage name, ‘the lady of the sea’) was a socialite in rapture, working closely with sander cohen, being a long time friend, and student of his, she worked in his nightclubs as a performer – and she was considered the best of the best. however, like most of the city, she slowly developed an addiction to adam, using it to keep herself beautiful and to upkeep her talents, refusing to give up the spotlight no matter the cost. despite knowing, at least in part, the horrors that awaited a child within those orphanage walls, her growing need for adam eventually led her to trade her young daughter, mamiko fujioka, for a steady supply of the stuff she craved. the girl was quickly placed in the little sister program, and eventually became one of the children rescued by a rebelled dr. tenebraum, who managed to mostly reverse the procedure. but, something went wrong with mamiko.

while yes, it reversed any physical effects, and stopped any adam production from occurring; mamiko’s body couldn’t seem to understand the loss. because of this, she suffers fits of hunger where her body attempts to replace the adam that it no longer creates, causing massive cravings. since then mamiko has been living within tenebraum’s safehouse along with the other rescued children, as the doctor tries to find something to rid her of her unfortunate complication. and, where they stay, holed up; she, along with a handful of the other children, act as scouts of sorts for the safehouse. taking a numbered nickname as they go out to look for supplies to help sustain the group, helping rescue more children still trapped within the program, etc etc.

* lady of the maw au : after braving the horrors of the maw and defeating the lady, consuming her power, six finds herself over -whelmed with the memories that wash over her, revealing the truth of the maw, her family, and all the horrors that come with it. exhausted from everything that she faced, from the fact that her father tried so hard to save her from this fate and failed, six no longer has the fight left in her to turn her back on what seems to be the only path left. instead of forging on, creating her own fate, she takes over as the ruler of the maw.

#* && OOC #* && SELF /// MIRROR ( SIX . )#i just think she. in all forms. is very neat :] asdfghjkl #child abuse tw #child death tw #drug mention tw #(bc the talk of adam which is a fictional drug obviously lmao)#long post tw

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sometimes-love-is-enough · 1 year ago

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So! Re: director's commentary shsksjsj. Melliferous is literally like always on my mind and it's just shsksjsks so good. Bls whatever crumb you're willing to give us about the fic, I will very much enjoy. Plus!! The Thomas and Virgil buried alive fic!!!! So good! I am kissing you on the forehead for that one so ye. Whenever you're up for it I am basically vibrating for the director's commentary for those.

Here's some odd thoughts on both of them, just for you!

melliferous

So one of the things I'm really careful and insistent about in my writing is POV. You might have noticed it. I'm meticulous about this, both in reading and writing: the point of view of the narration has to be both consistent and recognizable. If it's from Virgil's POV, then that must be distinguishable from anyone else's, and we aren't getting insight into another character's head or thoughts as long as we remain with Virgil, and so on. Usually I stick with one character the whole way through (Virgil in Chessboxing, Thomas in Pick A Side, the OC in the Inception AU) or I switch POV from chapter to chapter (Eucatastrophe with its rotation through the full cast, Syzygy goes back and forth between Thomas and Janus).

Melliferous is the anomaly here, because it doesn't have a defined narrator or point of view. It's an omniscient narrator, which I usually shy away from on principle, but I did this on purpose. I wanted the whole story to have a kind of drowsy, dreamy feel of unreality to it, and narrowing things down to a single narrator would have taken away from that. It couldn't be Thomas (my go-to when I'm writing ensemble cast stories like this) because Thomas is dead and not there. It couldn't be any one of the Sides, because that would be elevating them to protagonist, and Melliferous is, at its core, about the group.

So instead you get a narrator reminiscent of folk tales and fairy tales, who knows more about the world than you do, patiently tells you what you need to know, and speaks with pretty words and a kind of knowing resignation, because they know exactly how it's going to end before it's even started. It's the only way this story could be told, I think.

A lot about Melliferous was carefully calculated to be disorientating and strange. It's not a normal Sanders Sides fic, and I knew that going in. Things like: the story opening on a conjunction and in medias res, never explaining exactly how the Sides are alive when Thomas isn't, never explicitly saying 'Hades is a Bee, Seph is a butterfly, also Seph is Persephone' - leaving that all up to implication, albeit very obvious implication - and of course the fact that the strangeness of everything is barely questioned by the people inhabiting the story. The TSS canon universe should not be one that supports concepts such as Greek Gods And Bee Hell without question, but I never wanted that to be in question, just like I wanted everyone to be as in-character as I could manage the whole time.

I feel like that's what makes good surrealism. The familiar tempered with the wholly absurd, in a way that it takes you a minute to go 'wait, why am I just accepting it?' - melliferous is definitely one of my more successful wanders into that sort of storytelling.

lying in a box with a lid on it

This fic was born out of a very specific set of thoughts I had, which I will now roughly try to recreate, in order:

there are a certain bunch of fic tropes that I really enjoy, involving characters being put into Situations, often much to their distress. however, I only really see these specific tropes in certain types of fandoms, like Marvel and the Witcher, occasionally Doctor Who.

Whenever I do see them in Sanders Sides fics, it's usually in the context of an AU (not always my thing) or in the context of Canon-ish Imagination Adventures (again, not always my thing)

I don't think I've ever seen a canonverse fic wielding the Buried Alive trope, have I?

(related thought from a completely different train, arriving almost simulstaneously at the station with the last one) the only way you could get Virgil to discuss his problems with Thomas is if you locked them both in a box and kept them there for hours.

hey wait a second

I like writing unique stories, stuff you couldn't find anywhere else. And there was just something really novel to the idea of Thomas and Virgil getting trapped somewhere together in his brain that I liked the idea of. It felt fresh and interesting, and also something that hopefully would stay a oneshot instead of turning into a multi-chapter epic.

Virgil and Thomas's dynamic is one of the more fascinating ones to me, because of the coexistence between 'we are friends and i love you' and 'you are literally my anxiety and as much as i love you, you occasionally hurt me as a part of your existence'. Someone in the comments of this fic described it as the Hedgehog's Dillemma, and fuck, that's exactly it, isn't it? Shoving them into an enclosed space ratchets the mental health issues up to a million, because they hurt each other. But it also makes them talk it out, because they don't want to be hurting each other.

Was this fic also just an excuse to force them to cuddle? Maaaaybe. Maybe that was my secondary motivation. That happens to be a favorite trope of mine, too.

#melliferous #lying in a box #asks #director's commentary #thank you for the question >:) i love rambling about creative processes

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hungerun-a · 2 years ago

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i wanna explain/slap down some descs of my diff verses and aus, so. uh. yeah!

* heiress au : after a failed escape attempt by her father, mamiko fujioka grows up residing on the maw, instead of the mainlands. under the lady’s care, she is raised as the ship’s heiress: it’s something the girl has been prepared for her entire life, but. whether her mother is ready to hand over the torch, is another thing completely. plus, mamiko has been slowly uncovering more and more about the maw, about what really goes on there, and, well.

* dbd au : in the 1920s, tragedy struck in tsuruoka, japan. an orphanage, housing many children under the care of a headmistress, was the site of a brutal massacre. one night, under the dark of the new moon, many children were killed in their beds, and the building set ablaze. there were no survivors, and the headmistress, nor her body, were ever found. ninety-eight years later, two runaway kids stumble upon the remnants of the burned down building, hidden deep in the woods. as the night was stormy, rain coming down in blinding sheets, they decided to take shelter in the building and wait for the storm to pass. these children were never seen again. six, been taken by the entity, is now a participant in something known as ‘the trials’ in the entity’s realm. there, she has to fight tooth and nail to survive, escaping killers the best she can while repairing generators and make it out alive. again and again shes forced to take part, but, determined as ever, she knows that, one day, she’ll escape these games for good.

thankfully, it was discovered that six was immune to the bite -- at least, partially. she keeps ahold of herself, though at times she falls into fits of insatiable hunger, much like a walker. despite this, mono stays by her side: after all, they are best friends. the two of them now travel together searching for a place to call home.

the girl was quickly placed in the little sister program, and eventually became one of the children rescued by a rebelled dr. tenebraum, who managed to mostly reverse the procedure. but, something went wrong with mamiko in particular. while yes, it reversed any physical effects, and stopped any adam production from occurring; mamiko’s body couldn’t seem to understand the loss. because of this, she suffers fits of hunger where her body attempts to replace the adam that it no longer creates, causing massive cravings.

since then mamiko has been living within tenebraum’s safehouse along with the other rescued children, as the doctor tries to find something to rid her of her unfortunate complication. where they stay, holed up; she, along with a handful of the other children, act as scouts of sorts for the safehouse. taking a numbered nickname as they go out to look for supplies to help sustain the group, helping rescue more children still trapped within the program, etc etc.

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