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[argylemnwrites]

WIP Abandoned No More Tag List Clean Up

Alright, thought I'd be back posting in November, but election results in my country left me not wanting to write about anything political or related to reproductive choices/family planning. But, now that the sting has faded to a dull ache of inevitability, I figure I might as well dive back in.

Given that it has been years since I posted, I figure a tag list clean up is warranted. Apologies, this seems like my most recent list, but I could be very mistaken. As usual, this will be opt in. If I don't hear from you by December 3rd, I will take you off my tag list(s). A like means "leave me where I am."

All Choices: @forallthatitsworth @mom2000aggie @kingliam2019 @lovingchoices14

TRR/TRH: @motorcitymademadame @iplaydrake @princessleac1 @twinkleallnight @marshmallowsandfire

@axwalker @sirbeepsalot @iaminlovewithtrr @marshmallowsaremyfavorite @hedgehogs-dilemmas

Drake x MC: @rubiwalker @walkerdrakewalker @petiteboheme @mskaneko

ICWAM: @sunnyxdazed

FoF: @burnsoslow @monstercyclops

OH:  @mskaneko

Bryce x MC: empty

ROD: @burnsoslow @mskaneko @brightpinkpeppercorn

Logan x MC: @iplaydrake

Colt x MC: empty

RCD: empty

Seth x MC: empty

MOTY: empty

Levi x MC: empty

Blades: @marshmallowsandfire

Mal x MC: @brightpinkpeppercorn

TF series: empty

James x MC: empty

TWC: @burnsoslow @agentnatesewell

Nate x f!detective: empty

Mind Blind: @burnsoslow

Grayson x f!button: empty

[icejinlov3r]

Me: Alright. Got all my chores done today. Took a shower. Ate food. Now I can sit down and write without any worries *proceeds to write three paragraphs*

Internet: *goes out*

Me: MOTHERFU-

Edit: And now the power is out too. Awesome 😑

[quadrantadvisor]

Any Sport in a Storm has always felt kind of tonally weird to me? It does what it does incredibly well, but the thing that it does is defang Hunter as any sort of threatening presence to the main cast. But now that I've realized that season 2b's episodes were the first ones made after most of season 3 was cut, it makes a ton of sense that they had to speedrun Hunter's redemption arc, and Any Sport in a Storm is super important to making that arc believable. Honestly, they did a great job, it's just funny to me that Hunter's fandom personality was SO much more angsty before that episode came out.

And considering Hunter's redemption arc in the context of a longer show, I bet you that the Hollow Mind equivalent was originally part of the season finale. I don't think it would be the LAST episode, because the escalation and action for the whole cast isn't there. But it makes SO MUCH SENSE as the first episode of a two part finale, where we deal with the horible ramifications in the follow up. (It's also possible that there wouldn't have been a "trapped in the Emperor's mind" episode originally, and this was also just an expedient way to help Hunter learn the truth, but given the set up of Understanding Willow and how much great stuff they do with the idea, I'd like to think it was always there.)

[uniquethingtastemaker]

I love how I work on like 3 fanfics at the same time because I have ADHD and constantly need different stimulation or whatever.

So, I have a third fanfic for Vil!

Body Swap!!

That’s basically it, but throw in my own twist because I like putting Vil in his place. It’ll take place during the beginning of VDC.

@solxamber actually solved my problem with their Idol post. I had this body swap idea for awhile, but I didn’t know how to make Vil leave MC alone to… basically ease his reputation into something better. Then the Idol idea came up and I was like “this is perfect!”

I commented on the post and thought “oh! I should tag them for helping me.” I looked at who posted it and freaked out, because @solxamber is amazing and such a good writer. So @solxamber thank you for unintentionally solving my problem. I appreciate it and love your work lol

So the Vil fans are really getting a lot of solid content in these next few days

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

i'm so tired but at least there's cuppa (tea)

[semperintrepida]

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence

Borrowing this from @katiedingo 's entry in the thread.

I can't share the last line I wrote for my primary WIP ("Irredeemable") because it contains a massive spoiler, but I can share the last line from my other, super-secret WIP:

She is beautiful, and she will be the death of me.

I'm not going to tag folks individually, but if you follow me and you're a writer and want to play along, please do! (And tag me when you post—I'd love to see what you're up to.)

[hana-bobo-finch]

PAGE 35, GIVE IT UP FOR PAGE—

[kitkatt0430]

Cisco getting to be powerful in this Year of the OTP fic, as he deserves.

Barry - My hero. *bats eyes*

Cisco - *bashful* Any time.

That's not at all how the actual scene plays out but at the same time it kind of is. lol

Epilogue time! :D

[bleue-flora]

wait ur making a fic?

Well yes? Many. At the moment, I actually have three in writing/posting progress:

Musical Chairs

Good Cop ‘Bad’ Cop

Misery Loves an Idiot

And I would like to actually add a chapter 2 to B is for Betrayal, so I’ve been writing that.

In addition I’ve been working on the Sweet Dreams series I started over a year ago (crazy to believe…) which includes:

Only the Best Dreams Come True - which is basically everyone who’s in the prison gets to experience one of Dream’s nightmares.

Dreamchaser - the sequel to Dreamcatcher

Dream a Little Dream of Me - the big finale for Sweet Dreams series

[isan0rt]

Hey crazy thought but maybe Kairi wouldn’t seem like such a ‘wasted character’ if this fandom would quit taking everything of narrative and thematic significance about her and assigning it to Riku constantly all the time.

(The evaluation of the ways in which Kairi and Riku are important and vital foils for each other got kind of long so it’s under a read more; to be clear, I love Riku so much, and it makes me super mad to see his narrative also being undermined by this trend, this is not a hate post.)

Kairi and Riku serve opposing but complementary purposes in the narrative. Kairi represents light, but she also represents the stagnation of the light. Many characters who are associated with just light are also associated with stagnation and a resistance to change. Hoder and Eraqus are particularly extreme examples, but Aqua exemplifies this as well. They want a predictable world where things stay as they ‘should’ be and they are threatened by changes to the status quo. Eraqus in particular refuses to change anything about himself for 60 years, only taking on students at the last minute because he’s running out of time. Kairi, like Eraqus and Hoder and Aqua, stands as the bold, sharp light that casts others into shadow.

However, the other side of “resistance to change” means that Kairi represents restoration. She is able to restore Sora in KH1, pull them home in KH2, and hold Sora back from death itself in KH3, because her power is one of restoration. She holds so tightly to their old way of being that she can stop death itself in the interest of not changing too drastically. But she is unable to move forward on her own, because she fears change too much. She wants to chase after the boys when they keep leaving her behind…but she isn’t able to keep up, because what she actually wants is for them not to run at all. 

She wants to go home, and restore their previous status quo. This desire is consistent in her for the entire series; this is also why she is unable to let go of her childhood crush for Sora, even though he’s obviously not the person she wants him to be anymore. For Sora, Kairi is the rock, she is the home that will always be there, he feels that she is the secure dock he can always return to after the storm. He relies on her not changing, which reinforces her fear of change. Lea is similar, and they can bond in KH3 over both their mutual desires to restore a prior, idealized status quo where their friends were reliably there and not at risk of disappearing on them or running away from them or changing.

Riku on the other hand embodies transformation. He represents change to the status quo, growth and development and a new way to be. Too much change is as much of a problem as too little; Kairi in KH1 sees Riku wants change, and it scares her, and he does in fact go too far. At the same time, she’s the catalyst for Riku’s desire to change their circumstances. Kairi’s arrival at the islands in the meteor shower incites Riku to dream of going to the outside world. This too is a tension that creates an anxiety in Kairi - in a way, she can see herself as to blame for Riku’s desire to change. But Riku was always going to change, because that’s who he is. He is radical change, the change that cuts away restrictive dogma so that the world can advance. Riku drives Sora to also want to grow and change, to excel and challenge himself. Sora wants to be like Riku, whose strength and internal drive he admires.

Ultimately Kairi and Riku are in BALANCE with each other. Ironically, while Kairi is themed as ‘the sea,’ her narrative purpose is to be steady as the earth. Riku’s name is ‘the earth,’ but he is changing and dangerous as the sea. They are one another’s reflections in the narrative. Kairi’s arc is about learning to let go and move forward, even though it scares her. Riku’s entire arc is about finding balance, not throwing away the comfort of the past, that inoculates him from falling too far the way Baldr and Xehanort do. Riku can drive Kairi to join them by giving her a Keyblade too. Kairi can pull Riku back from fleeing from them by seeing him even under Ansem’s face. He is able to be in contrast with Kairi in a healthy way, in a way that honors her fears while also refusing stagnation. They have to work TOGETHER to find Sora, because they are one another’s narrative and thematic opposites. Kairi is too stagnant on her own, and Riku too volatile. Sora is the healthy middle between them, the center-point that can bind the light and the dark TOGETHER for one purpose. 

Kairi is narratively and thematically important to Kingdom Hearts. She represents something, and trying to take the things that reinforce her narrative importance to the story (her representation of the light, her narrative purpose of ‘disruption’ in her arrival via the meteor shower, her position as the one who grounds Sora in opposition to Riku’s position as the one who drives Sora to push himself and achieve more) not only undermines her story, it undermines Riku’s.

[mell0bee]

yall really liked this scene last wip wednesday so here have another little bit of it

edit: heres the link :]

[billowingangel]

writing smut for the first time in years and it's....straight 😱

[adylote]

Yaaaay, cooking another fic!

What can I say, I haven't written enough Umbra's fic tu fullfil my fangirlism. And my mind is running fast with a few Space Daddy's ideas right now! Sorry Ordis :(

Idk when I will post it on Ao3 but I'm sure it will have +3 chapters. So wait for the fic tittle —not just the first chap name! Because it will be too literal, haha.

Edit: so, this is basically my headcanon timeline (in spanish) from my series "Smiles of Juran". Waoh. I'm sick, haha.

[atropinenightshade]

i finally decided to Sophospost today, but it's a funny thing where Rafal hated the labor unions, especially in the capital, but only gave in to them because they were starting to get all "eat the rich" and to threaten the peace. It's a forgotten "stain" on Rafal's posthumous imperial reputation, but one that won't hesitate to resurface.

On the other hand, Sophos supports labor rights, unions, and workers' strikes. It's probably why some of his friends are children of prominent labor leaders.

[starseaweed]

Continuation of this— Okay, if I do write a submas in Paldea fic, what trainer would you want to see taking the place of the player character/Arven, Penny, and Nemona's friend? More info about each under the cut!

Juliana & Florian: A pair of Paldean siblings who were homeschooled until their mother thought they were old enough to attend Naranja/Uvas Academy. Juliana's partner is Floragato while Florian's is Quaquaval. Florian is two years older than Juliana and in the same class as Nemona! He attends Uvas Academy while his sister goes to Naranja Academy (both are run by Clavell, of course. They differ by age group and study subjects, for the most part! No, I have no idea how the main story works if both Scarlet/Violet happen in one universe. But this isn't about the main story!)

Juliana is just begining to date Arven while her brother cheers her on from the side lines! I was debating between having Juliana/Nemona or Juliana/Arven, I settled with the latter since they're closer in age and attend more classes together.

Reader/YN: Typical reader insert, though they'll likely have a bit of spice to them rather than being the stereotype shy Y/N-chan. Their partner is Skeledirge, and they only recently came to Paldea, likely just for the education. If I end up writing a reader insert, there will be future polls deciding things like what their pronouns are, what their home region is, what school do they go to, what the rest of their team consists of, and etc!

The fic will also have a heavier focus on the reader's pov and bonding with the Unovan dragons— Platonically, because this is not a submas/reader fic. There might be pairings with other students, though!

Original Character: To-be-named. She will likely be based off my own experiences playing Pokémon— I started with Moon, so she'll have moved from Alola and be an official Alolan champion. She's a wild spirit who's Naranja dorm is overflowing with Pokémon. Frequently, she hosts picnics in Area Zero despite the laws against it and entering the area in general. She also he gets along splendidly with Nemona because of their shared passion for battling, but finds most people in Paldea to be frustratingly weak— *cough* Geeta *cough cough*. However, she does meet her match in Blueberry academy.

A large amount of the DLCs plot was altered because she was extremely forward with Kieran, insisting he date her immediately if she won against him in battle. (Which she did.)

If I end up writing her, she might critique in-game problems like the inability of most Pokémon to keep up with Koraidon/Miraidon, and otherwise break the fourth wall.

[dr-reids-fidget-toy]

Animorphs play??

3 acts?

- fill in this part later I guess.

the whole time the ellimist is there on the side. Sometimes he’s reading a book, sometimes he’s moving pieces on a board game, etc etc. He pays attention at specific points.

Tobias gets his morphing power back. Hork-bajir valley is started. End of act 1.

Last scene before epilogue:

Rachel, switching between narrating and speaking to the ellimist:

There is a spotlight on her. The rest of the stage is dark, except for a soft light on the ellimist.

[you know the quote.]

I wondered if-

The spotlight goes out, cutting her off. Silence. Darkness. The light on the ellimist dims but doesn’t go out.

Epilogue.

idk what to do about the weird thing with “the One” at the end