#fic: Crazy Train

[endless-oc-creations]

💕Oc Pride Challenge 2024 💕 Day Two: Gay

Make something for an oc that identifies as gay!

"Friends don't look at each other the way we do."

Benjamin Hopper x Steve Harrington

💕 Everything Taglist: @bravelittleflower @sunlitscribe​​​ @eddysocs @raith-way​​

@waterloou @decennia​​ @hiddenqveendom @aaronhotchstuff

@foxesandmagic @nejires-hado  @asirensrage  @lucys-chen

@arrthurpendragon @daughter-of-melpomene @thatmagickjuju @ginevrastilinski 

@oneirataxia-girl @ginger-grimm💕

[clar2aa]

I NEED more atj fics as dave, tangerine, or james potter PLSPSLPLS

[bonicedemandarina]

My piece for the @infinitytrainbigbang !!!!

I really missed drawing my guy Ryan, also I wanted to do that thing where there's like a comic or something going on in the frame(?) Of the drawing bc I saw it on pinterest once and thought it looked cool

[mechazushi]

Kafka Hibino

Kafka Hibino.... with visible salt and pepper side burns.

Kafka Hibino.... wearing glasses and has salt and pepper side burns.

Kafka HIbino.... in that black turtleneck and a dark brown leather jacket and also wearing glasses and has salt and pepper side burns.

Kafka Hibino.... wearing that outfit and is an Animal Biology Professor in an College Au.

Kafka Hibino..... asking out Hoshina who is an Advanced Mathematics Professor working at the same college, to have an after-work drink with him.

Slightly DRUNK Kafka Hibino... becoming very forward with an also slightly drunk Hoshina

Slightly Drunk Hoshina... immediately matching Kafka's freak tenfold and Kafka is very much fine with this.

[moldy-flowers]

Sakura is so crazy cause like what do you MEAN you created an antidote for a poison that was developed over thirty (30!) Years in eight (8!!!) Hours.

Its so disrespectful honestly that was Sasoris life work and in what, like a few hours she just destroyed it? What the fuck Sakura.

[my-world-my-stories]

.... You know the funny thing about being both an artist and a (recent) writer?

If you are to ever, hypothetically, imagine what your fic would look like as an actual book, nothing can stop you from, say, make up illustrations for the pages and even a cover for it. The sole thing that can inder you is your imagination and motivation....

But it is quite a fun thought to consider....

[astralmarionette]

todays thoughts: atsugawa sickfic abt their relationship with food insecurity and how akutagawa couldnt eat just anything due to his illness (lungs but i also believe he'd have an extremely sensitive stomach + foods he absolutely could not eat because they were so horrible to him) and so he wiuld often just not eat whereas atsushi grew up eating anything as long as it didnt look too bad (if he could take off the visible mold it was fine to him) and them slowly unlearning these habits that are detrimental to their health (aku's unintentional self starvation and atsu subconsciously international self sabotage)

[rebellionbeach]

read tears of grief again...they weren't lying about the tears man

[wizardnuke]

the thing about caleb is that he is arrogant. the thing about essek is that he is arrogant but also very proud,

[endless-oc-creations]

OC HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE ╰┈➤ Day three: Merch/Memorabilia

A vinyl that includes songs from the first "book" An 80s Mixtape.

Hey! Are you a fan of the infamous Stranger Things Oc fanfic series, that is totally finished... , An 80s Mixtape?! Did you enjoy the songs that were in Benjamin's treasured walkman as you read? Well your in luck! Now releasing the first out of five vinyl series paying homage to the legendary adevtures of Benjamin Hopper! Pick up yours today!

Inspo

💕 Everything Taglist: @bravelittleflower @sunlitscribe​​​ @eddysocs @raith-way​​

@waterloou @decennia​​ @hiddenqveendom @aaronhotchstuff

@foxesandmagic @nejires-hado  @asirensrage 

@arrthurpendragon @daughter-of-melpomene @thatmagickjuju @ginevrastilinski 

@oneirataxia-girl @ginger-grimm💕

[dishesoap]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

[ahundredtimesover]

Hi, Mimiiii❤️ Not to rush you or anything, but when will IWYTS Chapter 7 be outttttttttt

Hmm let’s see if I can offer a little valentine’s gift! ☺️ Pls pray that today’s crazy ass Melbourne weather didn’t ruin me and I’ll have energy tomorrow 🙃🙃 no promises! But def in the next few days.

[emiliemaria]

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[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

it's really funny rereading the early chapters of s-class heroine because ailette calls tesilid all sorts of names and it's such a far cry from her round 17 attitude

[cuz-reasons]

Summary: Once the rush of his initial return has died down, Ingo introduces everyone to the team he met in Hisui.

And finally, Day 30: New Friends!

I'm a little in shock that I managed to do the whole month, but I'm glad I did! This was a blast!

[egipci]

re: your flash-fic 'tutorial' (lol), I'm curious: what was "the sentence" that sparked your last few fics? (your choice)

do they normally survive until the final draft?

hello dear friend <3 so I would say a lot of the time "the sentence" ends up being the first or last sentence of a story, but sometimes it goes somewhere in the middle, especially in a longer piece, in which case I'm kinda stuck until I find another sentence to go first. A lot of the time for a flash I need both the first and the last sentence before I even start writing, so I have a general sense of the sound of the story. And I really try to make sure it survives, but it doesn't always happen, in which case it lives somewhere in my drafts until I write a new story for it (if I actually remember, but the good ones tend to stick around!)

So like, for "Vertigo," I'd already had the first sentence playing around in my mind for a long time, and I actually lifted it from a Mary POV fic I was working on (that sentence is sort of a madlib of a first sentence I really like from a Kathryn Davis short story-- which is a great way to come up with "sentences"). And then a final sentence came to me, which according to my gdoc history is

"But then you turned your head up to the sky, so I looked up, and it was huge and black, super-infinite."

I really really wanted the last word to be "super-infinite." I was very much in a John Donne mood (cf. fleas and mysterious bitey things in this story and in "Chorus"). I played around with all variations of "the sky was black and it was super-infinite," and "it was black and super-infinite," and "it was huge and black and super-infinite," "black, super-infinite" etc. for probably way too long. There was a weird discordant thing going on where I didn't necessarily want to write this story in first person, but that last line demanded it. And then by the time I'd finished the bulk of the story that line had to go, in part because of logical/practical concerns, e.g. how are they looking at each other if they sky is black? but also because it didn't sound right. First-person can very easily veer on excessively sentimental, and a fic context is doubly perilous because we know how the characters talk (not that 1st person fic has to sound like a monologue off the show or anything, but you know). And so it was cut, but having it as scaffolding was really helpful for me to figure out that I wanted that stargazing moment and the feeling of smallness that comes with that, which (hopefully) is more subtly translated in "to feel us so small again..."

For "Chorus" the "sentence" was also the first sentence, which had been floating around in a j/d draft since like, May 2022. It was initially "we hung from the rafters" (which now that I think about it could have worked, "We hang from the rafters and we watch," but I guess I liked the rhythm of those first four sentences more: "We watch from the rafters. It’s dusk. He’s in love. We send him home."

For "Miles Ahead" the sentence was that opening fragment and the last line as a unit. "What I was trying to tell you---" came first and I played around with it for a while until I got "is I’ll take you anywhere," and then all the stuff in the middle (the interruption/flashback) came in after. Needless to say, many many hours were spent agonizing over "I'll take you anywhere" vs. "I'd take you anywhere," but I liked the tense-trickery of the first one more.

For this (older) flash, the sentence was the (incredibly baroque lol) final phrase that had been on my mind for a while -- "quiet for little Sammy sleeping, then vigil for little Sammy gone"-- and the whole story is basically written to get to it.

In "Dubuque" (which started off as a flash) the sentence was the first sentence: "In the space of three hours that no-good son of a bitch Lee Webb had Dean swaying on his feet," but the reason the story ended up going further was this bit in the middle: "fingertips over strong muscle loving him and loving the weight of him. Loving his danger. His masculinity," which felt excessive to throw in in a flash.

But like, sometimes the sentence is not a sentence and just more of a story structure I want to play with. This story from earlier this year stalled for a couple of days after I nailed the opening until I remembered Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl," so that inspired the structure there. This birthday story has no stand-out "sentence," I just liked the rhythm of "Dad said and Dean said and Sam said," etc. (Though just now I'm noticing the sentence is basically the whole story!)