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regenderate-fic · 3 years ago

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WIP Ask Game

Tagged by: @fab-wolf-in-the-gloom

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

okay so my wip folder is disorganized in that it has both wips and things i've already published so i'm just going to post the names of the folders and files of stuff i'm not done writing. if i don't say what's in a folder just assume it's individual chapters of a longer work

Folders:

after all

fake dating au

fanzine 3.0 - contains my piece for the third thirteen fanzine (uh you can't ask me about this one though it's a secret. also technically not a wip because i sent it in but it's not published yet)

mitski i will moments - contains all the quiet nights you bear (which is a wip) and and still i will live here (which is complete and posted)

rose stays au - contains single document titled "lost doctor"

Slayer?

Documents:

Alternate Meeting

angel in yaz's head

antigone translation (uh. for some reason that's in this folder?)

miafic!

oh you know

pandemonium (this is the beginnings of what is now all the quiet nights you bear, so it's not really an active wip so much as "something i cannibalized to incorporate my hyperspecific rose headcanons and also more yaz")

poetry to stay inside with (this one isn't fic. i also use this folder for poetry)

rose and yaz meet (i think this is the precursor to someone else, in this vast, empty universe, from before i got too deep into the full brain rot. the doc for someone else is titled "god. i'm going full deranged." but yeah this one also isn't so much an active wip as a thing i repurposed in another fic)

social media au

tardis

troublemakers

Untitled document (i have no clue why this is in here. it contains solely an image of a youtube comment that says "Hope this doesn't awaken anything in me.")

Yasmin Khan, Vampire Slayer

i also have one (1) original fiction piece that's not in this folder because it's on scrivener but it's called vesta

i think most of these are included on my wip post somewhere but <3 here they are please ask me about them

ahh not tagging as many people as i have wips but i AM tagging @timelostdoctor @picnokinesis @emptypockets-ao3 @fictionpenned @jolivira (if you're interested in posting about fic) @chaoticalienb (if you have time/energy/interest for fic) @manicpoetic andddddd anyone whose url i've forgotten <3 or anyone else who wants to do it. and obviously no pressure to the people i did tag, please feel free to ignore. also i have no clue how many of the people i just tagged are mutuals but <3 we're on discord together so we're mutuals in my heart

#my wips #ask game #tag game #thank youuuuu esther #not fic

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magmatickobaian · 4 years ago

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Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Tagged by: @x-rainflame-x and @elricsyao

Oh good God... I have so many god damn WIPs you literally have no idea. This is going to take a second so you better buckle the fuck up.

In Progress

Devils in the Details

Sirius

Semi-In Progress

High Strangeness

A Pro's Log

Blinded Hemispheres

Kaleidoscope

The ship of Theseus is helmed by angels (absolute fucking lmao of me to claim this is "semi in progress" but whatever)

Incision

Desperate Deduction

Wrath is a Virtue

The Great Below

Throe it Off

Shot through the heart, and you're to blame

Haven't Touched

*breathes in*

Ghosts in the Parlor

Self-Indevilgence

A Thousand Pictures Drawn From One Word

Incompatible

Seeking Order in Chaos

The Invisible Seam

Brotherly Love

Defect

The Thing on the Doorstep

Wall of Sound

Exchange Program

Notes from Somewhere

Nothing to Lose

Self-Deprecation

Crossing a Line

Rebound

Ring 4 Errors

Camera Lucida

Paranormal Hyperactivity

Where There's Smoke

Blueshift

Sitting Alone On A Bench With You

Sublimation

Sunlight, Plastic, Metal, Air

Foreign Exchange Program [ed. Note: not the same as "Exchange Program"]

Will Work For Potions

Warm

Xanadu

A Shadow Over Resembool

Beginning of the End

Helping Hands

In Passing

Missing Pieces

My Brother's Keeper

The Sum of Its Parts

The Worst Tattoo Idea

Living In Infamy

Green Earth

Bit Rot

Liminal

Apology Accepted

Problem Child

Memory Leak

Cadence

Midwinter's Nightmare

Parallelism

After the Fire

dad zero attempts to control his gremlin son

Closer to the Heart

You're All Under Arrest

Real Talk

Friends in High Places

Raqia

Unholy Matrimony

She

Carry Over

Out of Mind

Google En Passant

Precious

Bart's Day Out

Rico's Day Out

Spirals

Angel's Repose

The Unconquered Sun [this one slaps I forgot about it]

Catharsis

Chronicity

Circuit Breaker

Dead, Not Buried

Eldritch

Please Report This To Your Nearest Supervisor

Tainted Blood

An Expansive Problem

Genesis

Lost in Translation

Face To Bloodshed

Plants

Void Pointers

Viscosity

Belly of the Beast

Lex Talionis

Dead Like Me AU

Life Unmade

Inertia

193X

Right Hand of the Father

Monologue

Vampires!

Alternating Current

Bioelectricity

Bleeding Heart

End of File

Off Kilter

Sound And Fury Drowns My Heart

Under Masks

The Blame Game

Any Other Name

The Mind's Eye

Burning Bridges

Shards of a Mirror

A Hivemind Divine

The Eternal Shade

...Sorry

A Winter's Ascent

A Failure

Alter Ego

Broken Wings

Descent Into Madness [ed. Note also known as this list]

Evaporation

Illiteral Writing

Metamorphosis

Mile In Another's Shoes

Return To Sender [no relation to rain's fic i swear]

Upside Down

Walk Like Them Until They Walk Like You

So the next time you're feeling bad about having too many WIPs, just look on the bright side... you could be me...

I'm ending this by anticlimactically tagging one person: @liathgray

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wolveswithhats · 6 years ago

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writing wip game

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you or interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

The titles weren’t interesting so I vainly just posted some excerpts from a grab bag of more recent stuff. If I did everything it’d honestly probably go on for pages. I have a lot of unfinished stuff (pretty much...exclusively unfinished stuff dfjkdjfkg). Like a decade’s worth.

Tagged by @ackbang. TY TY, MY DUDE. If you see this and you’re a writer, consider yourself tagged. Like for real. Only not tagging because I can’t remember who writes fanfic and who doesn’t.

Looooooong post below.

ling ling the goblin king (ling + lan fan, fma)

"lan fan did it," the prince says, and for a moment she feels a flare of anger and betrayal over his deception. 'it wasn't me, i didn't do this. i didn't kill anyone.' but the prince is bending at the waist, low enough that that his tail of hair brushes the dirt, and she realizes his lie is for her benefit. "thank you, m'lady. i owe you my life."

her mouth feels dry, face hot from exertion and the burning gaze of her older peers. "d-don't do that," she stutters, and she's not sure if she's referring to the lie or the bow.

"you dare give me orders?" but there's no heat in his voice, eyes crinkling with humor as he rises to his full height. she has no idea how he can look so amused with a hole in his shoulder, covered in the blood of a man he just killed. he grins lopsided, teeth crooked and painted red. the sight is altogether ghoulish.

limb choppy choppy (lan fan + greed + ling, fma, part of the revival au)

And Greed is stilling his struggles, catching his wandering hand in his own, running comforting circles with his thumb over Ling's blood-smeared cheek. “Hey, you little pissant, this is nothing, piddly kids table shit. Remember that time that one Central soldier tried to gut us? Right down the middle, like splitting a sausage. Goddamn crimson tide. I thought we'd never get the blood out of that coat. Now that was an injury.”

“T-they took my arm.”

“Yeah, and who needs one of those anyway? Gonna get you all sorted, get you one of those shiny metal ones, like your girl Lan Fan here. Guess the adjustment period takes a bit, a year or three, but bet we could expedite the process with proper motivation. I'm thinking sandwiches.”

He laughs, or something approaching as much, a soggy intake of air. She's struck with an unexpected wave of jealousy, that it's Greed that's offering reassurance and intimate personal jokes. A former homunculus, a former demon, a watery imitation of a man. Creature comforts from the creature. It should be me, she thinks, though she has nothing to offer beyond promises of protection, and even those feel like falsehoods after all that has happened here. Comforting platitudes are beyond her. What could I ever say to make this better?

lets get lit fam (greedling + ed, fma)

wobbly-legged, too uncoordinated to walk. almost stumbles into a line of trash cans at the mouth of the alley, but ed hooks his elbow and steers him away. "what the hell were you thinking? we're supposed to be keeping a low profile."

it's not an accusation he's fully equipped to grapple, not when he's still so bleary from sleep—and some other pleasant, dizzying sensation he thinks might be inebriation. he's never woken up drunk before. he's never been drunk before period. "what'd i do?"

"not you, ling. you would have gone straight for the food menu, not the liquor list. i'm talking to the dipshit you share a mental occupancy with. greed, what the hell?"

"was just a few drinks," ling slurs, but it's not his words, or his voice, and wow he's never been so aware of his own tongue before.

solid citizen (ling + greed, fma)

"geez, kid, you're certainly in a mood." so he was reading his thoughts, just fantastic. he look he gives him is withering, but greed pats his shoulder, almost condescendingly, pitying for sure.

"you're plenty fine, kid. i'll give you the ears, but you're top shelf in the looks department otherwise. if you were ugly, i'd tell you straight up. i don't lie. this here," he points to his own face. "is ugly. nothing like my old human face."

it's a bated response, he knows, and he doesn't really feel like playing, but greed did make a passing effort to make him feel better. "human face?"

he beams, dreamily, which is an impressively soft expression to pull off a mouthful of razors, and ling is suddenly reminded of the mythology of the man fawning over his own reflection. surely greed can't be that vain? "yeah i was a real stunner. fucking gorgeous." or maybe he could, apparently, what did ling know anyway.

wreckage (vincent, re-l, ergo proxy)

When she makes it back to the Rabbit, chest burning and damp with exertion, Vincent has already stripped Pino of her overalls and laid her across the table. Cooling fluids draining, frayed wiring spooling out of her gashed torso, sprawled like a tiny metal Tityos. Her left arm is snapped off and dangling at the elbow, her eyes glassy – glass, literal glass – staring at the ceiling. Broken doll parts. Just another disassembled AutoReiv, but this isn't like that at all, because Pino isn't just another AutoReiv. She's like Iggy--

It's almost too much for Re-l to take. Hand over her mouth, breathing sharp through her fingers in short repetitions. Tries to steel herself, to be calm and assertive, because one of them has to be, and Vincent-- Vincent was awkward and mousy and sensitive, Vincent who spilled his cereal and tripped over his own feet and housed an ancient being of unspeakable power in his lanky boy-frame. But his god-strength was of no use here, drowned under the weak, simpering, overpowering grief for something that was no more human than he was.

do NOT worry about meryl (vash + wolfwood + milly, trigun)

milly caught the hurt. naive, for sure, but shrewd. "oh, we'd never think that of you, mr. vash. it's just our job as representatives of the bernadelli insurance society to mitigate any and all damages from the humanoid typhoon, even the rumored ones."

wolfwood: "bernadelli employing a little insurance of their own, eh?"

milly nods. "if we had to pay out claims on every false report of mr. vash's wrongdoings, we'd go belly up in no time!"

caught up on the word 'wrongdoing', growls, "you make it sound like i'm doing any of this on purpose."

"it's just sensible. your name has a lot of weight, vash."

grumbles: "yeah, i'm aware."

"and that's why meryl was so insistent on following up on this one, even knowing it wasn't really you. so many people drag your name through the mud, and it just doesn't seem fair at all."

his name had long since been dragged, strangled and shot, left to rot under a flock of buzzards circling its carcass in the heat. There was no saving it. still, the intent was kind, if not bewildering. "you...were trying to protect my reputation?"

milly looks at him like he's insane for thinking otherwise. "well, yeah. we've come to think of you as a friend, mr. vash, and that's what friends do.”

baby scrub (locke + rachel, ff6)

offers his hand and a single word: "lock."

her faces scrunches distastefully at his uncouth greeting, but she's not sure what else she was expecting from a dirty street boy. "lock?"

"with an e," he adds, as if that clarifies anything.

"that can't be real. you just made that up."

"all names are made up," huffs locke-with-an-e, looking impatient with her slow uptake on this odd world of his. "and i never said it was real, but it's all you're going to get."

spike bday (spike + dawn, btvs)

“if I show you something, you need to promise not to say anything. not to the watcher, or your sister. not to anyone, right?”

even through her tears, she nods, curious. spike's always good for skirting just outside the limits of good taste.

“I'm serious. spool your intestines out your nose, string 'em up like christmas garland. I mean it.”

“colorful threats of bodily dismemberment, I get it.”

hands her a faded yellow tintype. a young man, twenty-five or thirty maybe, a riot of disheveled curls, glasses, frumpy suit. not an unattractive man, but a timid one, uncertainty written into the slanted bow of his shoulders. he had the weedy air of someone who spent a lot of time duct taped to flag poles, or whatever the victorian equivalent would be. did it count as a twirly if you were dunked into a chamber pot?

a rebellious counterpoint in wrinkled tweed to the hard, starched lines of victorian decorum – interesting, but not very relevant. and a little disappointing, if she was being totally honest. spike's anecdotes usually had more flash and gore. “I don't get it.”

he's exasperated, fingers twitching like he's ready to snatch it away, and he tucks his hands under his arms in an awkward self hug. she takes in the hard set of his jaw and the...flush of his cheeks? god, she didn't even know vampires could blush. it had to take some serious breaking of undead physiology to ping that level of embarrassment, and something beyond that even to flap the unflappable spike. he hisses impatiently. “would you just—look at the face.”

and she does, tilting the little photo to and fro in the dim of the crypt. unassuming man-hermione with hair that cannot be tamed. sharp cheekbones and dark heavy brows under the rims of his glasses and suddenly she sees it—him—the angular planes of his face coming into sharp relief, like a camera finding its focus. “oh. oh my god! this is you. holy crap, spike. you look....”

“normal,” he finishes for her, and something in her stomach swoops and clenches, stones in a pond. “mundane.”

“i was going to say like a megawatt dorklord, but we can use your word instead.” she wipes her nose on the back of her hand. he snorts, amused and embarrassed.

“i was a poet.”

she tried to envision anything beyond smutty limericks carved onto the wall of a bathroom stall.

“were you ever published?”

“i was a shitty poet,” he amends, grimacing.

boston au (spike + dawn, btvs)

bodily kicking a dumpster, sending it careening into the street with a rusty scream of metal. a hydrant follows suit, ripped from the sidewalk. caps off his tantrum with a boot to the side of Angel's GTX, but even the size-10 crater marring the passenger door of the angelmobile did little to ease his frustration.

“better?” dawn asks, when he drops bodily into the driver's seat with an aching sigh, anger dissipating. she looks so tiny and forlorn, knees drawn to her chest, picking at a cigarette burn in the upholstery. two years ago she'd have been a ripe treat, poor little lost lamb. now the idea twists his gut, her sorrow palpable, proprietary, under his skin and in his veins.

“no,” he grunts, staring out impassively at the aftermath of his outburst. water spurting from the sidewalk, skip spilling out into the road. half a dozen cars along the block chirping in a chorus of wailing alarms. and angel in the foyer, something vaguely resembling pity etched across his massive cavebrow. fucking wanker.

...

“we go back to sunnydale then. try again. badger the scoobies until they agree to help. we'll figure this out.”

“i don't want to.” quietly. barely a whisper.

“to figure it out?”

“to go back.”

“dawn...”

“there's nothing there. they're not going to help because i'm nothing. it's an ongoing memorial to my own non-existence. can we not go back? can we just keep driving?”

“where?”

“I don't care. away.”

thinks about leaving sunnydale. thinks about what he's leaving behind. shitty memories, regrets, lost love. he has a small collection of personal effects; records, first edition books, family heirlooms that cannot be replaced, a hundred years of mementos of his whirlwind romance with dru. wonders if he can ring up clem, ask him to send a care package once they get to wherever they're going. looks at dawn in her clearance-rack pajamas, realizes she has lost everything. she has no belongings, no family, no remnants left as evidence she even had a family. nothing but him and her, here, in this moment.

it's just stuff. it's surprisingly easy to let go.

he drives.

taco hell (spike + dawn, btvs, part of the boston / unravel au)

Right where her window was supposed to be, a swirling doorway of light ringed in licking green flame, spilling out into....a fast food restaurant?

"I think it's Taco Bell," Dawn said, pinching a tissue to her--aw hell--bleeding finger. He took inventory of the spell books around her, the scrying bowl, and the ashy pentagram burnt into 70s shag weave of her bedroom carpet. So much for their security deposit.

"You opened a hell dimension to Taco Bell?"

She craned her head to squint at the pimply teenager manning the register, oblivious to his cross-dimension spectators. "I think it's just a regular Taco Bell. I don't see any dragons or shrimp people or anything."

"Not all alternate universes have shrimp people."

"I know that. You know, it actually looks like the one downtown, across from the KFC? On Kellner? Unless the Kellner Street Taco Bell is a Taco Hell. I've been reading up about liminal spaces, where the fabric between realities is weakened. Maybe it's a hot spot, and all the employees are actually like, octopus centaurs. How would we know? Not like I'm going to crawl over the counter to check, you know?"

"Well, now's your chance to ask Squiddly Diddly here what he's got going on downstairs." Slack-jawed employee finally cottoned on to the door to another universe in the restaurant lobby. Dawn awkwardly waves. Poc Ock waves back, bewildered, before the portal collapses in on itself in a burst of white light.

"It stopped bleeding." she holds up her finger.

(I don’t think anyone would, but as a precaution: please don’t reblog these to the Herald. They’re sloppy and incomplete and mixed in with a bunch of other fandoms so it’d just be really weird. THANK)

#some of these are ok #most if not all of them will never be finished #i have a ton more?#i just didn't want to go TOO buck wild with it #i already feel like this is way too much lfgklfg #wolves writes

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bluesrrgents · 7 years ago

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Hi dear!! So sorry to bother you (again because i've asked you for fic recs before and they WERE amazing so im back aha) but would hav any good jerejean fic recs?? Ive become kinda obsessed with them

hii you’re never a bother!! sorry this took so long i lost my list of jerejean fics that i’ve read r i p zoe! they’re all under the cut and * means i haven’t read it yet, and please make sure to look at the warnings if you have any triggers!! have fun reading:)

thanks again to everyone who offered me some more recs :)

*hair dye by profslupin

Renee convinces Jean to let her dye his hair. The rest is exactly what you’d expect. (2k)

*mirrors by profslupin

The Trojans help Jean learn to look in the mirror and see himself instead of his scars

“Jean had a complicated relationship with his appearance. It wasn’t that he was insecure about his flaws, necessarily, but rather that they reminded him of his time in the Nest. Of his time with him.” (2.6k)

*watermarked by fairietailed

He hops into the kitchen on one foot, catching his mother before she carries the bowl of peas she’s holding into the dining room.

“Jeremy?” Her eyebrows pull together in concern at the look on his face. “What is it?”

“I don’t know,” he says, sticking out his foot. “I think it’s my soul mate?”

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In which bruises and scars from your soulmate appear on your skin, and Jeremy’s skin is a myriad of colored stains. (4.6k)

*and i wanna come home to you. by redhoods

He’s so absorbed in staring at the way the sleeves are pulled up around his wrists that he doesn’t realize the team has filed out to the locker rooms until Jeremy crouches into his line of sight, “Everything alright?”

No, he thinks desperately, you’re too much.

“Sure,” he says eventually, standing up and walking away.

this is actually two parts, so it’s about 6k total

*the smell of honey by lilaliacs

Martha’s was a cozy little coffee shop that always smelled of honey, lilacs and something that couldn’t be described as anything less than home.And that’s what it was to Jeremy, who had spent his childhood sat on a stool at the tiny bar, coloring in the patterns of the menus, or watching his mother creating the most beautiful cakes and pastries that he had ever seen.

The place was filled with good memories and everyone who came in could sense the atmosphere of peace that seemed to fill the soft light falling in through lacy curtains at any time of day. In fact, multiple patrons had stated that they came in for exactly this, for a break from their everyday stress, to just grab a coffee and absorb whatever magic the smell of Martha’s cakes emitted and it was something Jeremy’s mother was very proud of.It was also something Jeremy was very proud of, and the reason for him to put his all in making the customers’ time there worthwhile.He never thought that one day, doing that would be a challenge.

(AU in which everything is the same only that Jeremy isnt captain of the trojans but works in his mom’s coffeeshop instead) (11k)

*eyes wide open by jaylocked

Jean blinked. Blinked again. Was sure he didn’t recognize the man on his doorstep, with his bright eyes and enormous grin and wavy blonde hair. Waited for him to explain himself with a simple raised eyebrow.

“Hi!” the man finally chirped. The sound was happiness channeled into a single word, and Jean wasn’t sure how he didn’t hate him already.

(based on the prompt from tumblr: “hi sorry I live below you and I hear your dog running around and barking all the time and– no no it’s fine I was just wondering if I could pet it?” au) (13k)

*i’ll come crashing by exyfexyfoxes

Hades/Persephone in the modern world where Jean runs an underground club that herds the souls of the dead. It’s a place where even gods die if they stay too long, regardless of how many pomegranate seeds they eat. Jean wants out. Jeremy wants in. Everybody wants them far away from each other. (19k)

*je reviens by laarusthefirst

‘Moreau is a rain cloud,’ Alvarez muttered, annoyed and bruised, watching Jean stalk ahead to the changing rooms. ‘He’s the human embodiment of a headache. He is the opposite of a Trojan.’‘Fucking good though, isn’t he?’ grinned Connor, jogging past.‘Can’t we all just be nice?’ Jeremy asked. (20k)

*this ink is still drying by ghostqueen

You can’t control who you want and you can’t control who hurts you

Jeremy was staring at Jean’s arms, tracing the bright swirls and splotches of ink that made up his sleeves with his eyes. His sleeves had been months of work and they still weren’t quite complete, he was still figuring out how to finish them. The first tattoo on his arms had been eight months ago, his first tattoo had been long before that. (26k)

*thick skin, an elastic heart by badacts

Jean sleeps around and learns how to make friends rather than alliances. Jeremy falls in love and can’t stop fucking up. (26k)

*ask the messenger by metis_ink

Jeremy Knox and the soulmate.

Guest starring: Exy, a transfer student, generalized anxiety, older sisters, drunk lesbians, bread, cake, a shed, the beach, the absence of Hennessy, Star Wars, Renee Walker, self-taught smooth talking, gratuitous French, No. 1 Trojans fan Kevin Day, relationship drama, general drama, the power of Friendship, questions, answers, team spirit!, and, of course, romance. (32k)

he could taste the stars by subtlehysteria

Jean is still adjusting to being a Trojan, Jeremy tries to help Jean open up to his new team. (47k)

*shield for a heart by neilskey

“It’s your choice, but you’re rotting away in here, Jean and no matter what she says, you can’t live in Abby’s spare bedroom forever. Time to start fighting again.”

Kevin’s hard and commanding tone was no surprise. The softness had been beaten out of him around the same time as Jean.

“What if I don’t want to anymore?”

Maybe it was because he had been half hidden in shadows-Jean had kept the shades drawn, but light still seeped in the cracks- but Jean thought he had seen something akin to understanding paint Kevin’s cool expression.“He’s gone. You survived. Play or don’t, it’s up to you, but you need to get out of this fucking house.”//Jean’s first year at USC. Jeremy falls hard, Jean comes around eventually. (55k)

*a little illumination by lazarusthefirst

Jean’s a lonely firefighter, and Jeremy teaches kindergarten. Everyone learns something about themselves. (56k)

*shooting for the stars, desperately reaching for something in the dark by cryptidkidprem

“He just won’t be back in black.”

A look at Jean’s first year with the Trojans, and his slightly rocky path to recovery. (146k)

WIPs:

*these streets by profslupin

alternate title: Jean and Jeremy’s Guide to an Epic Cross Country Road Trip

After one of Alvarez’s pranks leaves the boys stranded in South Carolina after a game, they decide to take the long route home. (1.6k, chapters 1/?)

*under the sun by knox_moreau

Jean Moreau is an exy player, not a writer. At least that’s what he thinks. His newfound therapist, however, has other ideas. Seeing as Jean refuses to talk to her in his hour-long therapy sessions, Ms. Dawson suggests perhaps writing down whatever he’s keeping inside. Jean can’t possibly see how he’s expected to write when he has nothing to write about. Then comes Jeremy Knox, in all his brightness and magnitude. Maybe, Jean thinks, he has something to write about. (7.2k, ch. 5/?)

*daffodils & gardenias by profslupin (any and all works by meg sponsored by this blog)

Jeremy Knox is the owner of a tattoo parlor when Jean Moreau opens up a flower shop next door. Jeremy gets a crush, but thankfully Laila and Alvarez are there to play matchmaker, with the help of Renee. (14k, ch. 9/?)\

*leaving marks by blackcatiiix

In a world where your soulmate’s injuries appear as bruises on your skin, Jeremy is… struggling. And that’s even before he meets Jean Moreau. (46k, ch. 12/?)

*marrow without bone by exyfexyfoxes

Onscreen Jeremy didn’t hesitate, displaying an eagerness that translated well across television. “Yeah, I spoke to Jean earlier this week. He’s definitely done for the year but he’ll be back in the fall.”Then, impeccably, a twitch at the corner of his mouth. “He just won’t be back in black.“Jean’s eyes narrowed.

(The season hasn’t even started yet and Jeremy already wants to cut their newest player from the team. Making the switch from Raven to Trojan isn’t quite what Jean thought it would be.) (68k, ch. 18/20)

#ask #tfc fic #tfc fic rec #fic #fic rec #aftg fic #aftg fic rec #tfc #aftg #the foxhole court #all for the game #jeremy knox #jean moreau #jerejean #tfc fanfic #aftg fanfic #zoe.txt

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randomdestielfangirl · 8 years ago

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Writing advice - A compilation

To my post, I got so many lovely replies that I want to compile them all for other people -

@floralmotif

I generally keep writing to get through writing woes. I just saw @thevioletcaptain‘s reblog on this and I’d say it’s spot on. I’ve only seen theirs so far, but I’m sure others will have great responses too.

To add from my experience:

If you have ideas but don’t know what order to write them or are just experiencing a block: Get a bunch of index cards, write down everything you can think of. It could be dialogue, a cool fight scene, a character description, some prose you want included, anything. Then look at everything you have and start seeing if you can find an order to your ideas. If you find an order, look through again and see what works with what you’ve found. Take out the cards that don’t work and bundle them for later use. You may find you have more than one set of cards that’s got ideas attached, decide which one to focus on and file away the others for now. When you find some sort of order, fill in the blanks.

Arrange the cards however you think fits an interesting narrative that invokes emotion. If you want to experiment, move them around, fill in further blanks. You’ll probably start to see patterns and relationships emerge between the cards, use those to flesh out what’s missing, maybe rewrite some cards to fit that pattern, or maybe the patterns need changing or you find some things don’t fit. That’s fine, that’s what this process is for.

I use this for writing scripts all the time. I’ve done it for game dialogue, shorts, comics and currently a tv pilot. It works well in my experience and it lets you flesh out ideas visually without completely destroying them. I’ve found many a story this way and I usually keep several bundles of stories in my purse at once.

@mystic-majestic

I get stuck a lot with my writing, too. The best I can do is write. Write what you want and get a friend to beta it for you, so that there’s a fresh pair of eyes looking at your work. You’ll only ever be critical of what you do, and the more you stare at it the worse it seems to get. In reality, it’s probably not even that bad.

So even if you only write 100 words a day or maybe even in a week, just keep going. The motivation to write will hit you again only if you persist.

@spoopernaptime

knowing what bad writing is how you know you’re good :3

but nah i’m just gonna hop in and say part of being a creative is hating your own work. you’re always putting pressure on yourself to be better. it’s part of being an artist - and honestly, anyone who makes any sort of art can call themselves an artist. there’s no god of writing out there bestowing eternal damnation on your work; neither are there blessings of paradise upon the writers you read and consider good.

what i like to do is just throw any sense of my own mind out the window and just write something. i might be the first person in the history of the internet to write an SPN/Pingu crossover - for a prompt about vegetables. if you’re worried about your pacing and storytelling, try small odd exercises like that. focus on a specific something - a certain feeling, a joke, a single line, maybe something bizarre that’s only funny to you - and break it down. why is it funny? what is this line responding to? why is this specific emotion important? nail down the essence of that scene - and then, don’t even think about writing. imagine someone else is telling you this story at a party. what would they say? try reading things out loud to yourself. try summarizing what you want to write to yourself. honestly, my recommendation for a rut and hating everything is to just - throw a bouncy ball at a wall and see what happens, if you know what i mean. your creativity - the part that makes you write - will always be there. if you let it rot, it’ll just bubble up into some weird sick stew. so you do need to keep writing. flex a bit, stretch out your muscles, and try to find some kind of flow you can follow.

also? read. read, read, read. read something you loved when you were a kid and find the flaws. read a writer you don’t even like just to see what you don’t like about it. read a writer you love and break their work down to the nitty gritty.

i ain’t even one to talk; i’m currently terrified of my two big wips :) but hey, it’s a journey.

@frompersiawithlove

When I used to write fics for another fandom (where I was one of the only people writing - so, extra pressure!) I used to get like this and taking a break helped. When you get back you could also experiment to get the juices flowing, e.g., 2nd person

@osirisjones

Neil Gaiman on tumblr has had some pretty good advice lately that I'll point your way:

http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/157621265711/hello-mr-gaiman-how-old-

and the follow-up post

neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/157630575556/you-say-to-finish-thingsbut-i-cant-even-start

I also want to thank @malicezero and @osirisjones for their advice and support!

#writing advice #thank you all #these are so amazing #I'm going to try it all!

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