#eureka fic

[satashiiwrites]

Home Found, Chapter Seventeen

it’s been a while. Blame the holidays.

Title: Home Found, Chapter 17

Fandom: Eureka tv

Pairing: Jack Carter/Nathan Stark, other canon pairings make appearances

Summary: A moment of clarity at the time of his death leads Nathan to make some changes when he’s give a second chance and awakens on the day he first met Jack.

Tags/warnings: sex. Canon-typical violence.  Fix-it. First time.  Get-together.  Time travel. Science shenanigans. Pod fic welcome

Jack calls out sick. 

Six weeks earlier than he had in the original timeline. 

Nathan prays that it’s just a random fluke. He hadn’t exactly paid attention to Jack’s vacation and sick leave at this point previously. However, Nathan doesn’t consider himself lucky. 

He’s not lucky, and his day has gone to hell in a handbasket. 

Read Chapter Seventeen here on AO3

[lgbtlunaverse]

There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

[amoremagnificentbastard]

You know, still being awake at quarter to four in the morning isn't so bad when I have an epiphany and not only glue two pieces of my fic together but also think of a very poetic way to say "Astarion took Diana's damn top off and that was very sexy of him."

[oldfangirl81]

"Why are there rainbow popsicles in your freezer?"

"Because it is June."

"And?"

"Pride Month."

"You're straight."

"Who said that lie?"

"You never said different."

"And you shouldn't assume straight is the default sexuality."

[protect-namine]

thinking out loud for fic writing purposes. this is not about canon. or maybe it is? idk. but this is mainly for fic, so I'm more hand-waivy with the canonicity of details.

so how does diving and the 12 hour rule work? if lu guang stays past 12 hours, he permanently lives in that body and can't dive anymore. that's the current assumption, right?

okay so now. hypothetically, let's say there are three timelines: A, B, C. let's say lu guang dives from timeline A -> B then from B -> C. let's assume that he hops between parallel/multiple timelines and doesn't loop within the same timeline.

can I safely assume that as long as the 12h isn't up, he's free to hop in any timeline within those 12h, without requiring a death transfer of abilities? e.g. is it possible to dive within a dive? recursive diving? diveception?

if you dive into someone's body, do you have access to their ability? I think cheng xiaoshi technically "experienced" the twins' abilities but didn't know what was going on at the time, and didn't "use" it himself. if you know how to use the ability though, could you use it for yourself? so for example, if lu guang, who knows how to dive because of the death transfer and has dived before, possessed cheng xiaoshi, could he use cheng xiaoshi's dive abilities and dive as cheng xiaoshi? my head is spinning just thinking this

let's say lu guang goes from B -> C. 12h pass so he's stuck there, but cheng xiaoshi dies and transfers the ability so lu guang can dive again. if he goes to the first 12h of his dive in timeline B, and then tries to "exit" the dive by clapping out, which timeline would he end up in? A or C? that is, I guess the question is which "version" of him does the dive ability respond to...? his body in timeline B, which was diving from timeline A? or the lu guang who's diving from timeline C? when you dive, your body disappears, so...

when lu guang hops between timelines, does he erase ("overwrite") the lu guang that's local to the timeline he hops into after 12h? does the lu guang of that timeline "die" or does he "merge" with the lu guang of the other timeline? is there a meaningful difference? the only difference would be in memories, I suppose, but memories shape identity...

the last two aren't really questions, but just some concepts I've been thinking about. again, this is for fic purposes, so this isn't any statement about canon or anything.

the concept of photographs as a snapshot of spacetime. but in particular, if parallel timelines exist (which liu xiao believes to be true), then are photographs considered like connecting points between timelines? if you in timeline A took a picture of the sunset while you're in the basketball court during university, and the you in timeline B did the same during highschool, and the circumstances between those two nodes are similar (same people are in the court, same time and place). would those two pictures act like portals to each other's timelines?

the purpose of the high five as an anchor to the current timeline, so the diver can enter and exit within their home timeline instead of hopping in parallel ones. this is not necessarily true in canon, as we see cheng xiaoshi clap himself into surveillance footage all the time and not worry about parallel timelines. but again, this is for fic, so it's (hand waves) whatever. or maybe... the camera itself serves as an anchor? hmmmmm

[iwannascreameurekaa]

POOKS I WAS READING VALGRACE ON AO3 AND GOT SO HAPPY WHEN I SAW THAT YOU COMMENTED IDK

I haunt every valgrace fic you will find me everywhere I fear

[eurekq]

I think I've seen more posts hating on laios/kabru (in a weirdly personal manner?) than the actual ship itself on my dash. Are you guys okay out there the ao3 numbers can't hurt you... what did you expect from mainstream anime fans...

[illegiblehandwriting1]

I thought I was done torturing Sky after this almost 10k chapter but here I am. Planning for my totk fic. And finding so many new ways to put him in pain. I blame you /lh

ehehehehehe >:3

it's SO FUN THO. i think it's absolutely hilarious how much sky fans like torturing him. there is a Trend here

you're very welcome my dude :D

(also, 10k??? oop???? 👀 👀 👀 👀)

[wondrouswendy]

Forget to Remember, Chapter 12 Fandom: Alan Wake (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Fictional Alex Casey/Alan Wake, Alex Casey/Alan Wake, Alan Wake & Barry Wheeler, Alan Wake & Alice Wake Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Canon Compliant, Canon Retelling, POV First Person, Romance, Horror, Angst, Drama, Humor, Friendship, Character Study, Self-Discovery, Hurt/Comfort, Memory Loss, Miscommunication, Canon-Typical Violence, Slow Burn, Established Relationship, Alan Wake Has 99 Problems and Dramatic Irony Is #1 Series: Part 2 of Kill Your Darlings Summary: The trip to Bright Falls was supposed to be a relaxing vacation, a chance to get out from under the collapsed remains of my writing career and to reconnect with my wife. But it was just another part of the spiral. The longest fall into dark depths. I landed into the arms of the person I least expected, the hero I had forgotten.

While waiting for another nighttime rendez-vous with the kidnapper, Alan decides to turn on the radio to pass the time with a distraction. Unfortunately for him, Pat Maine of KBF-FM has other plans for the day's radio show. The topic? Soulmates.

[luv-again]

everything is so connected in this fic, not only just 'it makes sense chronologically' but also bc one thing led to another. each step brought them here. shadow and amy were meant to meet at cryptic castle one way or another. for a reason

[mariyekos]

One day I want to write an AU where Dante and Vergil were actually born a few hundred/thousand years pre-story, which is something Dante tries to hide while Vergil doesn't. I have 2 main ideas for it- DMC1/3 Fusion AU and DMC4 AU. These got long, so I'm putting them under the cut!

In the DMC1 AU, it'd be sort of like a combination of the anime, DMC3, and what you see in DMC1. Dante'd look like he's in his late 20s for this one. He and Lady would meet because they've both been hired for the same job, then encounter each other on some odd jobs before they end up working together on a big one. Maybe Arkham killed Kalina Ann when Lady was a teenager, but didn't manage to enact the rest of his plans right away so Lady's been chasing him for a decade, hunting demons in hopes of finding a lead. Dante meanwhile just likes the human world, so he goes from place to place hunting demons until it gets too suspicious he's not aging and he has to leave. This AU'd have branching paths at the big job they take take together: the Temen-ni-gru or Mallet Island. In both cases Dante and Vergil haven't spoken for a while. Vergil's gone silent for years or even a decade or two in the past, but he'll have a bad feeling about this particular silence (for good reason).

The main difference between the two would be who Arkham allies with. In both cases, Lady isn't aware of how old Dante is, or just *who* he is until partway through. She knows he's part demon, but with the way he acts she assumes he's actually in his late twenties and the kid of a demon that was probably fairly powerful, but unknown. But the truth would come out partway through, which...would maybe change things, maybe not. It would be a shock regardless.

Back to the branches though, in Mallet you could go with the plot where Arkham is trying to revive Mundus, so Dante intervenes. This one would have a Nelo Angelo bit (making Dante feel terrible because he'd just allowed Mundus to do whatever he wanted with Vergil for who knows how long, all because he hadn't bofhered to check up on his unusually silent brother). I might have a sort of B-plot involving Lady, Arkham, and Trish to accompany the Dante, Mundus, and Vergil angle.

With the Temen-ni-gru, it would be your classic Arkham+Vergil relationship, but with a much older Vergil he wouldn't be tricked by Arkham this time. Arkham would think he has Vergil in the palm of his hand until he clearly doesn't and Vergil deals a fatal blow as soon as Arkham pulls off his betrayal. I think Lady would be pissed Vergil stole her kill, but ultimately have to back down for the Dante vs Vergil fight because with that many extra years under their belts, she'd be no match. Seeing them would be an interesting contrast though, because Vergil so clearly clings to the past (he'd be in a more Renaissance style than Dante) while Dante's all about the present and human world. This one...I think would be harder to resolve than the other one, because I'm not sure how Dante would convince someone so set in his ways (again, hundreds of years old at a minimum) to change, but it could be fun to play with.

As for the DMC4 AU, this one would be a case where Nero is still a teenager, and Dante's really surprised because oh boy, who in the *world* managed to convince Vergil to sleep with them when he'd been so uptight for centuries? And Dante's excited to have a family member and can't help but mess with them.

I think in this one it might also be fun if Fortuna was aware that Sparda had children because then you'd have a case where people potentially worship said children, whether or not they realize it's Dante. Maybe Vergil ruled Fortuna for a little while after Sparda left and that meant people knew he existed. Dante hadn't been aware he'd apparently come back, but Nero's proof enough so he's really going to have to have a talk with Vergil the next time he returns from his travels. I'm not set on whether the people of Fortuna would know that Sparda had twins, or if they'd just know about Vergil and thus be in denial that Dante could possibly be the son of Sparda because he's *so* different. In either case eventually people (or at least Nero and Kyrie) would have to reconcile Dante with the figure they'd been worshipping and that would be hard (and for Dante, hilarious). I think in this one I might make Lady part of a bloodline that has fought alongside Sparda since he split the Human and Demon worlds, sort of like the Castlevania series with Alucard and the Belmonts, while Trish would be someone Dante recruited a few decades to centuries ago (importantly, she's younger than him).

In this one I think part of the driving force would be that Dante wants humanity to be able to protect itself/prove its worth, or for Nero to protect them/prove his worth, because if they/Nero don't then Dante's worried Vergil might instead deem humanity a scourge and do something bad.

The plot of DMC4 revolves around humans using demons to fuel their own power, and in this case I think Dante will have found out about what Fortuna was doing too late to erase what they've done, so it's a case where humans need to prove that there are more good humans than bad humans so Vergil doesn't slam down the hammer. Dante can encourage them in the right direction, but he can't carry them the whole way. If he does then Vergil will deem his interference proof of humanity's weakness and do...Dante isn't totally sure what, but he doesn't like how Vergil's been the past few decades and he's increasingly been feeling like Vergil might decide he's had enough of the human world and side with the members of the demon world Dante *knows* have been slipping through the border to speak to Vergil. And while Dante doesn't think he'd *lose* to Vergil, the battle would lead to immense destruction and would weaken them enough that Dante's fairly sure Mundus or some other demon would take advantage of the chance to invade the human world while they're in no state to defend it.

...Anyway! That's two/three ideas for first that I will...maybe get to, one day, once I finish the million other fic ideas I have. I just really like the concept of "totally goofy guy is actually super old" or "frustratingly unserious guy is actually one of the guys you grew up worshipping, somehow." I think there's a lot of room for fun there.

[wisteriagoesvroom]

apologies if you've said this already and i missed it but... does the title for "in theory i should despise you" come from somewhere? i swear to god i can HEAR IT in my head in a particular kind of theatrical/grandiose tone of voice but i've googled and can't find it as a lyric or line from a movie or anything and it's driving me nuts. am i just hallucinating a false sense memory?

i have not said it already, and thank you for asking!

there’s a longer version of how i zigzagged my way to this title (probably boring), but. i DID remember the VERY FIRST ask i got about my throwaway headcanon:

(original post here)

DESPISES in big air quotes made me chuckle. and that’s really what gave me impetus to explore the whole idea in the first place.

so, anon from that ask. THANK YOU!!!!

[oldfangirl81]

"So, uh, Babe, you'll need to do the shopping at the Safeway on 4th street from now on."

"Did you try to fight the self checkout machine again?"

"Maybe."

"Why do you continue to try using them when it always ends in tears?"

"You get none of the ice cream now."

[adiraofthetals]

You know when you're desperate for fics in your fandom when you go to FanFiction.net.

[courtneydeservesbetter]

Been rewatching random episodes of tdi/tda whenever there’s a lull cuz I’ve been catching up with ‘laptop work’ now that the power is back on and having Duncan be a cheater was the most hypocritical decision they could have made him do and while I disagree with it (OBVIOUSLY) it is a very interesting choice. And we as a fandom should definitely talk about that aspect of his character more!

Now I’m not necessarily rewatching the whole show- I might start to though cuz I’m getting that itch again, but I’m only watching an episode here and there so I could be forgetting something. But him cheating is such an interesting thing about his character, not only because Duncan was down bad for Courtney to a SEVERE degree, but also because he was SO PROUD of the fact that he was ‘straight with people’. Yes he was a bully and an asshole, but that was like one of his moral codes in the early seasons- he didnt lie to his friends about major shit. And yeah this is definitely a flawed moral code, and he definitely has lied to and tricked people throughout the series, but it’s almost like he genuinely thought that being a liar was the worst thing you could be. He says it multiple times in season one (when they’re all mad at Heather for manipulating Lindsay, when they voted Trent off for kissing Heather, ext) and he literally tells Leshawna in tda that he ‘never messes with liars’… And then just a season later he cheats on Courtney and lies about it till someone else tells her instead. He’s become what he thought was the worst thing a person could be, a liar. And yet the writers as far as I can remember, never address that!

[ourunsungheroes42344]

New Multifandom Fanfiction

My submission for the Cult of Chaos Discord April Challenge: If I could make myself love you, I would.

All 5 sections are standalone scenes that answer the prompt, they do not connect other than that and therefore you do not have to be familiar with all 5 fandoms to read.

The Witcher (TV) - Jaskier/Geralt

Castle - Kevin Ryan/Jenny O Malley & Kevin Ryan/Javier Esposito (implied)

Charmed (1998 TV) - Chris Halliwell/Leo Wyatt (Father/Son, not romantic)

Eureka - Zane Donovan/Jo Lupo (past) & Jo Lupo/Jack Carter (implied)

Harry Potter - Tom Riddle/Harry Potter