#familial reconcilliation

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how well written and complex of a character Mae is? For the first 4 episodes, she just seems like a regular Sith/Dark Sider who hates the Jedi and wants to kill them, with hints that the Jedi may have wronged her in the past. However, in episodes 5 and 7, it becomes clear that her loyalty and motivations revolve around her family. When she thought her entire family had died, she set off to avenge their deaths, but when she saw that Osha was alive, she immediately abandoned that quest and betrays her master to try to reunite with her sister who she tried to shoot her on sight. But then, she gets trapped in the forest with Qimir and all she wants is to escape with Osha. However, when she realizes that the Jedi have outright lied to Osha about their family's death, she swaps places with her in an extremely desperate and risky attempt to get Qimir to un-brainwash her and tell her the truth so they have a chance at reconcilliation. Then, when they meet back on Brendok, Mae tries to tell Osha what happened, but when she sees that Osha is still brainwashed, she sets an elaborate trap to get Sol to confess to his crimes so that Osha will finally believe her. And when she does, she snaps and kills Sol and Mae is right by her side to help her accept what happens and to comfort her when she feels guilty about killing Sol. Then, when they realize that they can't escape together, Mae sacrifices her memories of everything, including her sister, the person who she loves the most and around whom her life revolves, in order to spare her from the Jedi. And if that isn't amazingly deep and complex characterization for a secondary antagonist, let alone a Star Wars character, I don't know what is.

[gingiesworld]

Family is Forever

Wanda Maximoff x GN! Reader

Warnings: Angst. Fluff. Amab! Reader. Smut.

18+ MINORS DNI

Wanda Maximoff and Y/N Y/L/N are divorcees, both are trying their best to co-parent the twins while the two work. Wanda works part time at Harkness Cafè so she is able to be home in time for the twins while Y/N works for Stark Industries, full time.

The two had drifted apart as Y/N spent a lot of time at work on a ground breaking project. The love never went away that the two shared, although they never really had the time for each other. So they settled on divorce as Y/N moved out, moving in with their best friend until they found their own apartment, leaving Wanda with the home they had built together.

Both working amiccably in raising the two boys, although Wanda had her doubts, Y/N never let the twins down. Always attending their games or competitions, cheering them on in the crowd before celebrating by treating them to their favourite restaurant.

But as time goes on and Y/N gets a transfer out of New Jersey, will Wanda and Y/N be able to work things out.

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Epilogue

AN: This is another small story idea I do have, sort of like a reconcilliation fic without any cheating or loss of love. I will be posting the first chapter after Kinktober is over.

[tanoraqui]

an important addendum is that… okay so, Finrod was a very friendly king to his people, by which I mean when he did the classic imperious, “come in, sit down—don’t worry about your bags, [secretary] will take them”, it was actually more often, “don’t worry about your bags—[secretary], can you take them?” and it was an implied order but the question was still genuine, and genuinely implied even when it wasn’t stated. If, say, Edrahil was really busy with something else in the moment (join me in the ‘Edrahil was Finrod’s secretary’ headcanon!), it was fine, he could get the bags later or find someone else to do it. He trusted his people to manage themselves, and never sought to inconvenience them beyond reason.

But it was an implied order given and question asked with the underlying assumption that if Edrahil was standing there, it meant he was ready to jump to whatever his king asked of him. That the answer to “can you do this?” would always be “yes”, for the respect, loyalty, and dare-I-say love that Finrod’s people bore him.

That’s the exact tone in which Finrod says, “I’m sure Curufin can help you with that!”, with regards to redesigning—with community input and general consent!—the most hellish series of intersections and roundabouts in Tirion; then turns to Curufin and says, “You were just telling me that you were looking for a new project. How about turning your hand to roadwork?”

At some point, climbing slimily out of a sewer he’s been volunteered to scour of giant, potentially Dark-infected rats, Celegorm growls a demand to know how much longer this is going to go on.

Finrod, sitting comfortably on a nearby park bench, here to meet him for lunch, says warmly, “I told you, until the End of Days! Or, about ten years is fair, I think.” (The length of time that the Fëanorians took refuge in Nargothrond, ere they all but usurped its king.)

#finrod's mean girl act here has been permanently imprinted into my brain i hope you know that op #he's so mean but so kind#he is going to kill them with kindness :) #absolutely the definitive finrod and c&c post re-embodiment take

@tobermoriansass re: you tags on this post: I'm SO glad it stuck with you, because, non-humbly, it IS so good. Finrod has all of public opinion on his side; he is the hero that history remembers, and Celegorm and Curufin are the villains. People who see him being kind and welcoming to them will think him even better for it, and them so much worse if they still respond with bitter anger or betrayal. People who realize he's rubbing their noses in it will think they deserve the punishment and Finrod, tbh, deserves the fun, and if the Fëanorions can't accept some mild public submission and humiliation, that just shows they're still as terribly prideful as ever. If they can prove themselves humble to the latter and equally amiable to the former, it genuinely WILL help them enormously - so now they're also obliged to be grateful to Finrod, adding debt of gratitude to their preexisting debt of repentance (several times over, what with the multiple kinslayings of his kind and dear allies). Win win win for Finrod, lose lose lose for Curufin and Celegorm, except also win for them, which makes the losing even more bitter. They’re not supposed to be bitter about it because they’re supposed to be Reformed(TM).

[kenandeliza]

COMIC IDEAS MASTERLIST: ALWAYS UPDATING

For the about me section: here is the post

Ideas that have not been made into comics so far.... (a reminder for KD to actually draw them instead of being a lazy bum)

Fawcett citizens think that marvel has bad eyesight because he squints a lot, Marvel is confused. When they put on glasses on him, his dot eyes opens. This confuses marvel and the citizens even more (explanation: he does his out of instinct from seeing his dad with squinty eyes) based on mutual's post

Reconcilliation: Mary and Billy vs Kit and Freddy

Guardian Angel

Billy in an electric chair

Bio dad bruce wayne

Silly caller

Crutches

Freddy Freeman Meets Freddy Fazbear

Freddy accidentally made a gang

A comic about Captain Marvel being oblivious about the women who's flirting with him, this caused Junior to talk out of his ass "He's still mourning you idiots!", this made people believe that the wife has passwed away and captain marvel hasn't moved on yet, this can lead to a misunderstanding with Black Canary with counseling marvel [Marvel is talking about his mom and how he misses her but BC thought he was talking about his wife]. Mary proceeds to slap Jr because of his impulsiveness

What If the suspendium didn't happen? :The Marvel Family grows up normally, starts with young child reading a book to a grandpa

Billy gets cancelled

Captain Marvel snoring like a dad and Billy snoring (honk mimimimi) based on this post

Mary teaching Billy about Table Manners before meeting her adoptive mother

Mary being invited on the Wayne Gala, Billy and Freddy shenanigans ensued (they thought the wayne kid is hitting on their sister)

Mary Blackmailing Marvel to wear a tiger onesie

Young Justice meets CMJ

Crack comic: Billy Boasting over Superman because he got to join the army as Captain Marvel once but Supes didnt just because of an eye exam failure

Kid Eternity's Birthday

[Needs polish] A scenario after Batman adopted Billy, Billy told Freddy and Mary about it, Freddy has a flashback where he got adopted by rich parents and the snobby high school experience back in Captain Marvel Jr , probably ends with Junior confronting Batman to not send Billy to a hoity toity rich private school

The Marvel Family and how they handle publicity

Freddy picking up Billy's swearing habits "Holey Moley" (continues where the publicity comic ends)

Billy and his Caprisun

Billy and Freddy had a fall out but everyone else interpreted it as Junior undergoing teenage rebellion and proceeded to give the captain parenting advices [Pre Teen Parent Billy]

Post suspendium Billy in the modern DC world shenanigans (1950s boy meets 2000s)

Fawcett Toon Headcanon

Celebrity AU : Billy would post a banger song by accident online (not with his real name of course) and would later monetize it

Movie billy meets Golden Age Comic Billy/Movie Freddy meets Golden Age comic Freddy

The many hairstyles of Freddy Freeman

What if Bruce Wayne is Captain Marvel

The crooks that the Marvel Family caught discuss about how they got caught

Big Brother Billy Batson

Courtney x Billy Batson scenario

Fawcett city newsboys

Billy adopts a baby

A supersons Oneshot Comic

Premise: Jon and Damian wanted to see the new Fredbear's pizzeria Movie but the clerk said they're too young to enter. With Jon being 10 and Damian not looking like his age (13).

many shenanigans ensued as they attempt to enter the movie theatre before a new villain who can bring horror movie characters to life appears!

Can the two save the theatre when they're facing against slashers, Chainsaw killers, and a Horror-knockoff of Superman?!

A livewire vs Captain Marvel Comic

Connor had a nightmare where Jon had a zoomer haircut when he grows up

[p2ii]

rereading the astro boy 03 manga I feel like in a weird, roundabout way. dying was the best thing to happen to daichi.

like as fucked up as it is, it was the wake up call for his dad that lead to his reconcilliation, acceptance and advocacy for his (now robotic) son. and their arc ties up really nicely as the other half of "what could happen"/"what could have been" narrative parallel between them and atom/Tenma.

but also the detail that it's through association with Tenma (being 'reborn' by his hand) that atom is his brother.

is so fascinating.

in a way, atlas finds another family, finds community, though through the shared oppression of robotkind. while he does come into himself and carve a bit of freedom into his highly controlled and isolated life by joining his gang, it's through letting go of his humanity that he has the power and personal agency to truly feel free from his father.

[ahamkara-apologist]

Okay I kinda get being dissapointed at how they rushed the Sov sibling reconcilliation with just one conversation after drawing it out for months but y'all...this really isn't the end-all-be-all of Crow's character arc, nor is it necessarily out of line for him. His biggest weakness is that he's a bleeding heart who lets people walk all over him- remember how he decided not to get revenge on Spider despite Spider very literally keeping him as a slave? Or how he killed a psion because he was too empathetic to a hive guardian? As much as I love him, and as much as his love is a terrifying force when weilded correctly, he's soft and weak. He always has been. He was bound to forgive Mara eventually, esp. since they have a psychic twin bond going on.

I think y'all are also forgetting the fact that Mara has had quite a bit of character development over the past year or so and has very notably been more open about her emotions and better about keeping herself out of Crow's life- because she got bitchslapped by the reality of what she'd done to him in Season of the Lost and then got shaken to the core by her confrontation with the Witness in Witch Queen. She hasn't been 'defanged', she realized that the way she was acting qualified her to be a Disciple (aka the worst of the worst, the enemy she'd been hellbent on fighting this whole time) and that in tandem with Crow's rejection upset her deeply enough for her to change her behavior, which hasn't been as apparent until now. Idk how y'all can forgive how Uldren Sov slaughtered hundreds of Awoken citizens and wreaked havoc on the Reef but is changed as Crow without also acknowledging the fact that Mara herself changed as well. It's not as dramatic of a difference because it happened more gradually and without intervention from a Taken Ahamkara and the Traveller, but its still there and is the most apparent its ever been right now. It wouldn't surprise me if the reason why Crow is forgiving her now- apart from the fact that he's a softie and discounting potential Riven bullshit- is because she's proven she's changed by both keeping her distance and being more emotionally open with him, as well as open about how she knows she fucked up. That's the second thing Uldren wanted other than her approval, after all.

Also, it's been like, 2 years of Crow being pissed at Mara and avoiding her, so them starting to make up now is kinda necessary even if it feels a bit rushed. I personally would have loved to see more snark and nettling from Crow's end, bc I love conflict and sibling angst, but it really isn't out of character nor is it throwing away Crow's character arc. It would have if Mara hadn't changed, but she has. And while I myself love storylines where victims don't need to forgive their abusers and can exert their wrath upon them as they wish, the fact of the matter is that how such a situation needs to be dealt with varies immensely on a person-to-person basis, which the writing team has already proven they're capable of understanding. Just look at Calus's and Caiatl's relationship! That ended with no reconcilliation because Calus simply refused to change, while Mara has spent the past year trying to get Crow to feel comfortable with her as an equal in conversations and open up to him more and trying to break her habit of watching him like a hawk- aka, acting like an actual sister rather than the pseudo-mother figure she'd picked up from Osanna. Ofc Crow the softie is going to respond to that, esp. since he's got a psychic connection to her via Awoken Twin Magic and seems to have been walking Uldren's memories as of late. He just genuinely is really fucking bad at holding a grudge.

(And while its easy to go 'oh the writing is lazy and rushed', I also think its kinda sus that Riven specifically talks about the human wish to reconnect with family right after the Sov sibling talk happens. It wouldn't surprise me if she picked up on Mara's desire to reconnect with her brother and pushed Crow towards forgiving her. It seems like she's been trying to pull Uldren's memories to the forefront everytime she talks with him and that could be a big factor as to why he's been reflecting on them a lot recently)

[a-sunset-outside-my-window]

fic rec friday

It Runs in the Family

by Trex_patronus on Ao3

“You’re in sodding Azkaban, stupid. What’s so bloody funny about that?” The laughter slowly died, either from the realization of where he was, or from the lack of a patronus as the aurors left. “Regs? What are you doing here?” ---------- In which Regulus' plan to keep sane in Azkaban is ruined by the arrival of a cellmate.

So we all know the meme where Barty meets Sirius in Azkaban and basically tells him 'We all know you didn't do it, btw' right? So this fic sort of has that vibe, but with Regulus instead! I really like this one, (and all the follow up fics) so so much. Definitely a must read if you are into exponentially fluffier fics and reconcilliation.

favourite tropes included are:

Black brother shenanigans

Growing toghether

Fixing what is broken

Sibling bonding

Hurt (so much hurt) and comfort

Redemption!!!!

Talking about your feelings is a (somewhat) healthy manner

As always, leave lots of love and kudos to the author and have an amazing rest of the week <3

[saccharinescorpion]

Sorry OP, feel free to ignore this ask but I need more context. I watched a playthrough of the dlcs, and I'm now checking the wiki, and the reactions to your post really confuse me. Why are people talking about Carmine as if she's this awful person. People are talking about Carmine like she is constantly bullying and belittling her brother??? When she actually goes out of her way to try to not make him feel bad??? Which is really hard because Kieran has a lot of insecurities and it leads him to assume people want the worst for him???

Am I missing something? Is there a secret subtext of "Carmine is actually really mean to her brother behind our back and that's why he's Like That" I missed or are people just making stuff up?

lol, i think you've understood more than most people who've played the game

now, to be fair to those people: Carmine REALLY does have an attitude problem, as well as a terrible temper lol (but that's what makes her so entertaining!... in my opinion) and since Kieran is the character she interacts with the most that's who has to bear the worst of her bad traits, especially when he pushes back at her. in addition, Carmine is the older sibling, so i think we have a natural instinct to side with or at least feel sympathetic towards Kieran since we see him as the "weaker" party in the dynamic. their designs and animation only reinforce this- Carmine is tall and has a lot of aggressive body language and poses. meanwhile, Kieran is introduced peeking out from behind his sister, like he's literally hiding behind her. he's short, hides under his hair, has a lot of more drawn-in body language, he's a scrunky scrimblo wimbo meow meow wet little so on and so on

so, for the record, i think it is by at least some design that we are meant to "root" for Kieran, but i think that also ignores a lot of more subtle writing- "subtle," i say, but in my opinion, it's pretty obvious, lmao. Pokemon is a series for children. but yeah, the big one is that after time it becomes really apparent that a lot of Carmine's attitude is born out of deeper things- she's harsh and kind of controling towards Kieran in a misguided display of her protectiveness towards him, her hostility towards visitors to Kitakami is born of a worry of tourists turning their home into some sort of attraction

this is dipping into headcanon territory, but i think it's also a little subtextual that Carmine's overblown pride is her trying to overcompensate for what she inteprets as being looked down on or mocked. my big thing for this is the fact that Kieran speaks with a "Kitakami dialect" (based on real Japanese dialects associated with rural areas) but Carmine doesn't. (supposedly there's some random dialogue where she talks about this but i haven't seen it myself yet) since Carmine has been at the (ritzy, attended by a lot of students from important families) Academy longer than Kieran, i've always interpreted this as her trying to intentionally not be the kid from the sticks that talks in an "uncool" way

(incidentally i looked up 'Kieran dialect' and found someone else talking about this https://twitter.com/PokeSuutamie/status/1698625784775430234)

and finally- this may just me speaking from experience- but i always thought that a lot of Carmine and Kieran's issues clearly are really heightened by the fact they're teenagers? lol? puberty dials all your emotions up to 110% and smashes all delicacy with a sledgehammer. Carmine is TRYING to help Kieran but all of her feelings are constantly at a boil. and meanwhile, as you said, Kieran's self-esteem issues constantly lead him to project on other people and assume that everyone's mocking him or looking down at him, and i think that makes people forget that he has problems with being overdramatic and lashing out too (THIS IS NOT ME SAYING KIERAN IS A BAD CHARACTER DON'T YELL AT ME)

and for the record, as much as i love Carmine, i think that GF really dropped the ball on her reconcilliation with Kieran and her overall role in Indigo Disk, which may also be a factor in players being less sympathtic to her, but i already spent way too long on this and talking about my mixed feelings on Indigo Disk will probably double this post's length lol

in short, while i have some mixed feelings on Scarlet/Violet's overall story, i definitely can't say the character writing is bad. i think they're really making an effort to think about why each character acts the way they do and what they're actually thinking/trying to do. so i think we players should, in turn, approach them with the nuance they deserve

[starbage]

do you have any non-textual headcanons surrounding the residents of the Complex or the World of Grief/Reconcilliation?

this has been sitting in my asks for a long while. i wrote an answer around when you sent it, anon, but then didn't publish it because i thought it was really uninteresting. I don't want to delete it from my drafts so i'm just going to publish it now.

i have never been good at the whole "headcanons for something you made" kind of thing. If I think of something like that I generally tend to include it in the actual text, or it is otherwise hard for me to think of it as "head"canon, because again, i made it. But let’s see.

Chapter 2

One of the bench girlfriends has a good relationship with her family, the other does not.

i think smoking girl & tv head man could be friends.

Implied in text, but The Landlord used to have another name.

The person in the dark room is dealing with heartbreak.

N. Perfect had a mystery he was trying to solve before arriving at The Complex and that event is what led him to being trapped there in the first place. I think it was something of a very personal nature, such as a missing person. I never hashed out the details as they were unimportant.

Chapter 3

Morgan has a design, we just don't get to see it in the game. I may rectify this in the future. (single time-based edit: i am currently working on rectifying it)

the books in Morgan's room are supposed to reference Eyelet & Godet's story separate from the events of the game. Just as a cute thing.

The girl standing north of the flower shop is Mercury's older sister. This is implied in their names & some of her item-specific dialogue but I've yet to see anyone actually point it out. My friends have made cute HCs of other characters being related but none of that is confirmed.

the blue haired girl in the cemetery is talking to her older brother.

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

Per Aspera Ad Astra Update!

It's time for a reconcilliation and a family reunion!

[tgd-sideblog]

thinking about Chris coming back from Texas and Eddie desperately wants to keep him happy and not give him any reason to think things would be better with his grandparents and Christopher taking advantage of this with some teenage brattiness. Like Eddie wouldn't completely let go of the reins and let Christopher do anything overtly harmful, but he's being a lot laxer than he otherwise would have about treats/staying up/making last minute arrangements with friends etc. Eddie is fun parent overcompensating and even when he tries to scold, it doesn't take much more than Chris sulking and pointedly texting his grandparents (not about the issue just letting Eddie see he's doing it) and Eddie is caving in.

And Buck is seeing this behaviour and he gets it, he was also being super over enthusiastically "look how much fun stuff we can do now you're back in LA" when Christopher first returned, but he knows this isn't what Eddie's parenting style is and it isn't doing Christopher favours in the long run to let him get away with this much. Plus, Eddie remembers growing up with overly strict parenting and so assumes a kid's dream parent is one that lets them get away with anything but Buck has been the kid whose parent lets them get away with all sorts of bad behavior as long as it didn't lead to him requiring medical attention or cause a public embarrassment and knows from Maddie as a sister and Bobby as a leader that sometimes enforcing the rules is a needed form of care.

The thing is that while they've been semi co-parenting for years, Buck has been in a fun parent role or if he has been strict it has been about following Eddie's rules as the primary parent - Buck's authority is in supporting role, not the one making the decisions. But he's growing increasily uneasy dealing with Christopher's acting out because the Eddie before all this would not have tolerated this and Eddie was always a good parent if not to his own perfect standards. So Buck finds himself in the position of wanting to be the disciplinarian parent for Christopher's and Eddie's sakes.

Will Christopher even accept Buck as an authority figure who can set rules & discipline or just dimiss him because Buck isn't his real parent, just a family friend with an over-inflated idea of his importance to them? And though Buck has advised and offered suggestions to Eddie's parenting, he's never gone so far as to outright challenge it and he couldn't blame Eddie if his reaction was pissed off or offended.

Will Eddie back Buck up as his co-parent if Buck says "actually no, you know you shouldn't be doing this" in response to Christopher's announcing he's planned another last minute sleepover which means Buck and Eddie have to cancel their plans (Eddie is keen to demonstrate that Christopher is his priority but Christopher is old enough to have consideration for others, if not Eddie and Buck than the other kids/parents who could be inconvenienced by Chris promising a sleepover he doesn't know he can deliver on), or will Eddie overrule him and make clear that Buck's role in their family does not extend so far?

Plus Buck is not fully immune to the lurking threat of Texas - he's more sure than Eddie that Christopher is mainly using it because he's realised the power it has rather than actually wanting it, but what if Buck is wrong and ruins this tentative peace and reconcilliation?

Can Buck be sure enough of his place with the Diaz family and assessment of their current unhealthy dynamic to step up and play bad cop if putting himself in opposition to them is the way to steer them back to stabler ground? Is he prepared to risk it for them if he's not?

[wizisbored]

11 and 12 for the fic ask game!

11 - Are there any tropes that you particularly enjoy writing?

the thing about that is i have a general obliviousness and lack of pattern recognition that means i have no idea what is or isnt a trope. im aware of things i like to include in my writing, no idea if theyre tropes. is 'teenage girl and guy who is not qualified to be her guardian have a fucked up dynamic' a trope?? whos to say. not me. i sure do like writing it tho.

12 - Are there any clichés or tropes that you actively avoid in your fics?

ok i think i know what a cliche is at least. i try to avoid forgiveness/reconcilliation (particularly of family) being some Moral Good - particularly in firstborn, it was a point that lydia will never forgive her dad and she should not have to. and a big one is avoiding having characters heal from things (physially or mentally) too fast or too completely, because that really fuckin annoys me. thats what the entirety of bitb2 is about, in 3 different ways. the first fic had a happy ending, but lydias TBI, poor mental health, and strained relationship with her father dont all neatly get fixed within the last chapter. they get better, but its not all solved

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

I actually feel bad for Charles. Harry has f*cked up several times, Charles empathises with him and in Harry's brain that means the media was bad to report on things. I didn't use to take the rumours about Charles' worries over Harry's mh but now realize he must have been walking on eggshells for a while. A parents first job is to love their children so i'm not suprised we're still in the 'much loved family but reconcilliation is far off' era. And Charles/BP is going to have keep finding other ways to show he is putting the monarchy/country/william first.

Oh, I have immense sympathy for Charles because this is every parents’ nightmare and neither he nor Camilla are temperamentally equipped to deal with this. And Will was way too young.

[hauntedmoonchaos]

J7 Entwining Red and Green

I am running an event from 1st February 2023 to 28th February. (Will accept late submissions or this inspired me after the event was over submissions tho)

You can write fics, do fanart, fanedits that includes gifs, videos and pictures, make playlists or moodboards tag your posts #J723 so I can find them.

You can combine prompts, do one piece or several pieces.

Prompts

How far Janeway is willing to go for Seven.

Naomi or another member of the crew playing match maker.

The bond and trust that exist between the two

An Au of the creators choosing

How Icheb sees their relationship

J and/or 7 encounter alternate versions of themselves (then fall for them, gain insight about their version, etc.)

And you know damn well, For you, I would ruin mysel, A million little times (lyric prompt)

Triad pairing Seven/Janeway/ whoever you pick

Green and Red

Borg

Klingons

Silver

Home

Fever

Holodeck

Forehead Kisses.

Movie Night

One word turns into a war, Why is it the smallest things that tear us down?, My world's nothing when you're gone, I'm out here without a shield, can't go back now (lyric prompt)

Fun

Obsession is a dangerous game but it is one you wanted to play

Janeway/Seven dealing with BQ (make of this prompt what you will)

Dressing Up

Meeting each other families (okay Seven only has an Aunt but still)

Fairytale AU or a Holodeck program about a Fairytale

Favourite J7 moment from an episode

Creativity

Art

Does it ever drive you crazy, Just how fast the night changes? (Lyric Prompt)

Brainstorming

Untouched by The Veronica

Show and Tell

Maquis

Dancing

Singing

A Play's the Thing!

Competitive Sports

Snow

Beach

Rock-climbing

Battle of Wits/Other Language/Other Intelligence-based shenanigans

Victorian AU

Crossover with other shows (if i do this one i am gonna do doctor who)

Historical AU

Nurturing

Cooking/Food

Mind Meld/Communicating via the mind/telepathic communication

Birthday/Anniversary/Other Celebration

Earth

Journaling/Logs/Epistolary

Role-reversal (like Seven as the Captain and Janeway as the ex-drone, or Janeway/Seven as Maquis leader)

Reconcilliation

Mirror Universe

Meeting Future or Past Self

Amnesia fic

Body Swap

Star gazing

Braiding each other's hair

From all the things that we are, Are not saying, Can we see beyond the scars, And make it to the dawn? (Lyric Prompt)

Memories

Shape shifting or animal transformation

One Bed trope

Time loop

Plants/Growing

Huddling for Warmth trope

Lowered Inhibitions

Bookshop owner/plantshop owner

Quest

Waking up next to each other

Q vs 7 (over Janeway) or Alternatively BQ vs Janeway (over Seven)

[limpfisted]

when cazador said “what is a family but monsters you are obligated to love”

and karlach said “a gift from mummy. i am never. EVER going back.”

and when shadowheart said “this is proof she loves me. she wants to protect me.” and tav could say “that sounds like abuse.”

and when lae’zel tells you she wants to be purified, and when she can’t be—something must have been sabotaged, she must bow and confess to a queen that then tries to kill her as you [smile and wave.]

and when wyll said “the joy of reconcilliation, the anxiety and pull of [my father’s] great expectations.”

and when you can perception check lae’zel and she says there is now a lack in her, a sadness in her, and the star, her home, seems so much emptier than they were before.

and when astarion says “what cazador did was wrong because he did it TO ME.”

and when wyll says to astarion they are different because “i chose this. i chose my pact.”

and when halsin says there are more variations in the world than we know about.

and when origin wyll can only say “of course i will go and save my father.” not because he loves him, bc the narration says his father haunts his bitter dreams—but because “he is my flesh and blood.”

[wipbigbang]

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The Untamed/MDZS (Part 2)

#167

Title: Fixation

Pairing/Characters: poly Jiang Cheng/Jin Ling/Lan Xichen is the endgame ship and those characters/relationships are the focus (also contains some Jin Ling/Lan Jingyi and (past) Lan Xichen/Jin Guangyao)

Rating Explicit | E

Warnings/Tags: Non-con/Rape, incest, dubcon, unhealthy/toxic relationship dynamics, suicidal thoughts

One of the main ships is uncle/nephew incest. Also, to clarify, the full on non-con is backstory and off-screen, but the on-screen relationships are not at all healthy and a character has a panic attack about the past trauma triggered by on-screen dub-con elements and communication of his needs in bed being ignored/steamrolled, and there is discussion of his past trauma and also just dub-con elements going in all directions both intentional and not.

The suicidal thoughts are brief and not dwelled on.

Other, more general tags include: proxyfucking, messy polyamory, abandonment issues, panic attacks/ptsd, angst, smut, angst with a happy ending, characters forgiving each other for things they probably shouldn't, age gaps, obsession/possessiveness.

Summary: After a three year incestuous relationship, Jin Ling's uncle abruptly abandons him out of guilt and 'for his own good'. He spends the next decade trying to pick up the pieces of his heart and move on, with little success. He has just started to form a more healthy relationship with Lan Xichen - whom he'd gone to for mutual proxyfucking when Jiang Cheng first left him - when Jiang Cheng suddenly shows up in his life again. Jin Ling has missed him, and does want him back, but it's going to be on his own terms, this time. Unfortunately, 'his own terms' becomes entitlement and punishment and taking things too far with disastrous consequences for all three of them.

#170

Title: Love in bloom

Pairing/Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén/Niè Míngjué

Rating Teen | T

Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply

Angst with a happy ending, pining, emotional hurt/comfort, past homeless Wei Wuxian, single parent Wei Wuxian, Toddler A-Yuan, modern au, wei wuxian's life adapted into modern times is still a warning all of it's own lol, cynophobia, Jiang Cheng is not the best in this but it'll end hopeful for reconcilliation, in general Jian family critical but doesn't focus on it much.

Summary: Lan Wangji has a quiet but full life, he has his brother and their flower shop, his friends, and his rabbits. He doesn't feel like anything is missing, until a beautiful man and his adorable son move in next door above the Nie's tattoo shop.

A story about learning how best to care for someone through their troubles while you're pining hard enough to fill a forest.

#172

Title: Platonic Romances, Emotional Affaires, and Other Remedies

Pairing/Characters: Wen Qing/Qin Su | Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian | Lan Wangji & Qin Su | Wei Wuxian & Wen Qing

Rating Mature | M

Warnings/Tags: Chooses not to use Warnings

Canonical CWs such as implied past incestuous relationship, past MCD, Angst with a Happy Ending, Misunderstandings, Hurt/Comfort, etc.

Summary: After Wei Wuxian’s death, life for Lan Wangji takes a dramatic turn. The same can be said for Qin Su when she discovers her lover of the time is in fact her half brother. She escapes him, pregnant. She runs into Hanguang-jun who helps her out maybe more than she asked for. Years later, Wei Wuxian returns and it’s not to what he expected considering his best friend is now at the will of JGY and his other is married and has a family and his other best friend is a fierce corpse under JGY’s control.

Wen Qing, a fierce corpse, is given few options but she has to fulfill his demands in order to protect her younger brother. But how challenging could that be when the request is only to retrieve his run-away wife?

#173

Title: Show & Tell

Pairing/Characters: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji/Jiang Cheng, Lan Wangji/Nie Huaisang

Rating Explicit | E

Warnings/Tags: Underage

Voyeurism (technically nonconsensual but lwj finds it hot later), Exhibitionism, lan wangji has a vulva, Bottom Lan Wangji, Top Wei Wuxian, Top Jiang Cheng, Top Nie Huaisang

Summary: Wei Wuxian spies on Lan Wangji and finds out that he has a pussy. It's surprisingly easy to convince him to show it to the other guys. Authors Note: This is an MDZS canon fic, not a The Untamed fic. The author wanted this clarified.

#175

Title: Til Death Do Us Part

Pairing/Characters: poly Jin Ling/Jiang Cheng/Jin Guangyao

Rating Explicit | E

Warnings/Tags: Non-con/Rape, incest, suicidal ideation

Other general tags include: time travel fix it, canon divergence, everyone (you care about) lives, wedding fic, wedding sex, secret (incest) wedding, threesome, smut, angst, angst with a happy ending

Notes on the rape tag: I'm tagging it this for two reasons. One is that two of the characters have experienced violent rape in the past, and while it *probably* won't come up in any explicit detail in this fic but it very much does in the series as a whole and may be referenced. The second reason is that while it doesn't happen on-screen in this installment of the series, one of the main conflicts of this series has been Jin Ling's deception of Jiang Cheng while they are in a relationship, causing them to breakup at the end of the last (already published) fic when Jiang Cheng discovers that he'd intentionally withheld information about himself to keep Jiang Cheng from finding out that their relationship is incestuous because he does not want him to reject him for this reason as the Jiang Cheng in Jin Ling's timeline had (temporarily). Jin Ling and Jiang Cheng getting back together in this installment involves Jiang Cheng forgiving him for rape by deception and while it's not explicitly spelled out as that I think it deserves a warning. Jin Ling's actions aren't *intentionally* malicious, they're driven by fear, loneliness and selfishness, but he sure does know he's doing a bad thing and rationalizes it away until Jiang Cheng is very, very obviously and badly hurt by it.

Summary: This fic is the 5th installment of a series (first 4 are already published here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2835754) in which a 40yo, very powerful Jin Ling time travels to the past to prevent some terrible things. Something goes wrong, he arrives years later than he meant to and gets stranded, and decides to build a life for himself and fix what he still can.

He keeps his identity a secret, joins the Jiang sect, and enters into an incestuous relationship with Jiang Cheng, his uncle, who in this world is younger than him and has absolutely no idea they're related, as Jin Ling himself has not yet been born.

He does his best to keep his loved ones from befalling the same fates as before, to varying levels of success, and spends years living this new life.

In the last installment Jin Ling convinces Jiang Cheng and Jin Guangyao to marry to keep the latter safe. Jiang Cheng discovers who Jin Ling actually is and breaks off their relationship, kicking him out, telling him he needs space to decide if he even wants to speak to him again. Jin Ling leaves, and Jiang Cheng decides to go through with the marriage to Jin Guangyao anyway.

This last installment is focused on the romantic relationship developing between Jiang Cheng and Jin Guangyao as they plan their wedding, and Jiang Cheng's lingering/Jin Guangyao's budding feelings for Jin Ling, who is trying to find a way back to his original timeline, since he is no longer wanted in this one.

#176

Title: Trials and Tribulations

Pairing/Characters: Wei Ying (Wei Wuxian) / Lan Zhan (Lan Wangji)

Rating Mature | M

Warnings/Tags: Graphic Violence, Abuse, Physical Abuse , Mental Abuse , Dubious Consent (both parties) , miscarriage

Descriptions of abuse , miscarriage , omegaverse , mpreg , heats , medical treatment

Summary: When Lan Wangji volunteers to take part in a new scientifc trial, a sign of his familys faith in the recent partnership with Jiang Solutions, the last thing he expects is to be paired with his old classmate Wei Wuxian. Lan Wangji can't help but hope he'll finally be able to overcome his own stoney alpha exterior, and form some sort of connection with Wei Wuxian. Only to have the hope shattered when Wei Wuxian tells him they're obviously a placebo group. While the drug is desgined to help form pack bonds without the antiquated mating bite or a blood relation, they're too valued as family members to risk if something goes wrong. Without it, Lan Wangji fears his attempts will be as doomed as when they were younger. With a little encouragement from his brother, Lan Wangji decides to use their weekly hour meeting to try to connect with Wei Wuxian. But the more they meet, the more something seems off. Wei Wuxian seems to be far from the carefree boy Lan Wangji knew, instead almost coming off a skittish. As bruises and realizations grow, these two have a long way to go before they can find a happy ending.