#i hope u all enjoy the unfinished outline

[wait-still-rendering]

here is the original outline of The Strange Case of Kairi Uchida (which probably needs another title at this point). It is unfinished, but I wager it would have been like 50+ chapters long if I did finish writing it out lol. :) Enjoy what may never be.

@kessielrg @coffeetime88

Terminus

OUTLINE

The Strange Case of Kairi Uchida

1: Autumn - Strange occurrences are happening to Kairi so she goes off in search of answers and is now missing.

2: Downpour - Sora attempts to gather as many clues as possible that are related to Kairi’s disappearance.

3: Wayfaring Streets - With the help of Riku and Selphie, Sora heads for Radiant Garden to look for Kairi.

4: Catacombs of the Mind - Kairi attempts to piece together what is happening to her. The girl from the mirror guides her to Hollow Bastion’s castle which leads to a shocking discovery. 

5: Terminus - Kairi has a choice to make and it isn’t an easy one. Sora and co find Kairi, but both parties are torn away from each other at the last moment. The shadowy monsters from before appear within the castle which triggers a lost memory for Sora, Riku, and Kairi.

6: The Mirrors of Time: As Sora and co explore the castle and its various traps, they come across a room full of mirrors and learn about an urban legend—the Heartless. 

7: Astray - Kairi and Xion attempt to find a way back to Sora and co, but instead stumble upon a library that Kairi distinctly remembers visiting. The only problem is Radiant Garden and Hollow Bastion were separated before Kairi’s birth. They find a new ally in Roxas.

8: Murky Waters - Stuck in the room of mirrors, Sora, Riku, and Selphie must find a pathway through the mirrors. 

9: Torch - It's a race against time to find the exit before the castle is overridden by Heartless. Kairi attempts to find a way to communicate this sentiment to her friends on the other side (Sora, Riku, Selphie.)

10: Bindings of the Undercity - Both groups fight their way out of the castle, but with no way back to Hollow Bastion’s entrance. They soon stumble upon a ghost train. The party is split on whether or not to get on or try to find a way back to Radiant Garden. In the end, Kairi boards the train leading to the rest of the other members to also get on. The train leads them to what they soon learn is the Underworld.

11: Tidal Waves - As they have no choice but to move forward, tensions rise. Kairi finally learns why strange things have been happening to her.

12: Storm - A fight breaks out within the group which leads to an accidental teleportation.

13: Clockwork - The gang finds themselves out at sea in an unfamiliar airship. It isn't until they land that they find out they have traveled into a foreign reality.

14: Shards - The flickering starts up again for Kairi who now knows the flickerings are memories of different lifetimes.

15: Childhood Pathways - The gang comes across a photo album filled with memories from different lifetimes. Endings. They have a choice to make. 

16: The Door to Oblivion - Heartless appear once more. Kairi sees flashes of the Keyblade Graveyard. 

17: Celestial Affairs - They land in Scala ad Caelum, a bustling city full of spirits from all times. Five houses rule over them—Bear, Snake, Unicorn, Fox, Leopard.

18: Walls of the Silver Palace - The group splits up in order to investigate the five houses. When they uncover a new discovery, they must either prepare for war or find another reality to jump to. 

19: Paradigm Madness - Fearing the uprising, everyone flees Scala ad Caelum and finds themselves in unfamiliar territory once again. It isn’t until they gather their barings that they realize they are centuries back in another reality in a place called Gaia. Selphie remembers scraps of another lifetime in Balamb Garden. 

20: Breaching Threads - As the gang travels through Gaia (FF9), they attempt to find their footing. They soon come across a familiar face. Roxas grapples with the unhappy memories he has of his past life.

Characters

Kairi Uchida

Selphie Tilmitt

Riku Miyano

Sora Irino

Xion Hikari

Roxas Uchiyama

Don't trust blindly. 

Sora was never one to wake up early. His thin blankets lay on the ground as they always did no matter how many times he attempted to wrap himself up in them at night. Destiny Islands was hotter than the blazing sun on its worst days and mildly chilly on its best days. 

It should have been indicative to him that something was not quite right when he looked at the time and saw the red numbers spread out. 

5:02 in the morning.

Tangles of clothes were strewn across Sora’s bedroom floor. When he awoke at exactly 5:02 that morning, he let out a string of curses as he stumbled over the combined mess of dirty laundry and a half-read book aptly placed near his bedside. 

Most days Sora wouldn't dream of getting out of bed at such an ungodly hour, but it was as if an unknown entity forced him out of his slumber.

He looked toward the calendar. November 3rd. Kairi would be home soon. A smile found its way to his lips. 

Perhaps Sora should have realized there was something horribly, horribly wrong, but Sora did not have that epiphany because he had no reason to believe anything was wrong. The quiet of early morning almost made Sora crawl back into bed, but when he caught sight of a streak of white, his weariness dissipated. It was snowing.

It was snowing on Destiny Islands.

He snapped a quick picture before sending it into the group chat so Riku and Kairi could see.

Hours from now, Sora would be on a train heading for Radiant Garden with Riku and Selphie in tow.

Kairi’s hands trailed alongside the smooth spine of one of the more ornate books within the castle’s library.

[n0bluev]

Somehow, im inspired to write that 'revision fic'. === (EDIT : u can skip but heres another snippet for u (3 separate bits that fit together nicely, actually haha) cuz hihi. THE AU: As i said, its a failed "3"rd regression context, where yjh is now in his "4"th round. The last memory he has of kdj is him dying, and to make things worse "In this round, that guy doesn't exist." is a thing, so yjh freaks out a bit but hes totally normal about this whole ordeal & the fact that he doesnt even remembers kdj's face now. Wdym! Hes fiiiiiine!

sorry lol back to the actual post : (,hope u enjoyed that little treat tho^^)) ===

!!THAT [Somehow, im inspired to write [...]] HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE!!. I always like. do an outline for the overall story and vibe, then flesh out the start or something and cook up a little 500 (probably unsatisfying) words for fun kind of as a bonus. Keep it mostly for my private enjoyment and move on before the story comes to life. And that's okay... Yes, it would be cooler to actually write the AU ideas i get in novel or comic form instead of having them stay at just the 'sketch' & 'idea/brainstorm' phase before i get another idea and leave them to dust up in the pile,,

But yeah, its okay.

In the few years since ive started getting ideas for more elaborate aus/fics, ive noticed that my ideas improved with time. (no shit, i know, but it makes me happy! i grew up!!! i can see it.) My planning methods are better too. So all of that unfinished or abandoned stuff is not at all useless work in my eyes. And who knows, maybe one day i'll bring them back.

--> as a plus, all my fandom brainrot experiences even get transferred into my OC stuff, and frl whenever i read my notes these days (or listen to my voice memos lol) and im just like "HOW DID I THINK OF THIS WOW" or "WHEN DID I PUT THIS LIKE THIS? IT WORKS!" (not to brag or anything but my oc lore goes hard ☝️)

BUT. NOW THIS IS UNEXPECTED.

I DID NO PLANNING. I just started writing for orv and its. Lowkey, good ???? Dont get me wrong i only have 1.5k right now and there are clear holes i have to fill and stuff but... CLEAR HOLES! CLEAR HOLES. Sure Im used to being like "something of the sort should go there..." BUT THIS TIME ITS "THIS SHOULD GO THERE, ILL WRITE IT LATER BUT THE IMAGE IS IN MY MIND, CLEAR AS WATER, AND ONCE I START PUTTING IT ON THE PAGE ISTG THOSE WORDS WILL STREAM OUT OF MY FINGERS AS IF IT WAS A NORMAL OCCURENCE FOR ME" ,,- !??? Yo!

Anyways. Point is that somehow theres interesting stuff going on in my gg doc and the more i write the more i know where i want to go, so that's cool, i feel all powerfull for once

idk if that ease is going to stay once im done with the first scenes (ughh!!! theres so much potential!!!!!!!!) but hopefully yes. either way ill probably post it so im not baiting yall with a "um actually im writing smt rn --- *never shares with the class*" --- either 1) things go well and i write a "real fic" (!? wtf that wasnt my plan!) --- or 2) i only post the finished version of what i have now (expect around 5k? (i have no idea actually)) and we wait together to see if i pick up the idea again haha. (i do wish to write it tho! im not a 'writer' writer but i want to be one, u get me?)

! thank u see u byebye

[campbyler]

u don’t have to reply to this but no i definitely meant no harm, or even to tell you guys to hurry up or anything like that. i should’ve used a tone indicator maybe, it was 100% lighthearted lol. i come off a little wrong/rough/serious etc etc through text sometimes (i’m really not good with words + my first language isn’t english + i’m very autistic) but i will apologize since my ask clearly upset you, it was just my weird way of saying that i hope nothing like that happens and i’m really excited to see whats coming. sorry again

i completely understand it was lighthearted and not intentionally harmful! i am autistic as well and very sensitive to tone but it was not the tone or wording that was upsetting — it was moreso the subject of the ask. i get wanting reassurance that we aren’t going to abandon this fic and leave it unfinished, but it comes at the expense of putting pressure on us to get an update out. again, we completely 100% know that wasn’t your intention at all, but when we are already feeling pressure over a chapter being late, it just adds to it. i hope that makes sense.

we are so glad you love the fic and are invested in the story and seeing it to its end, and i want to be super clear that we are as well! it’s why we are posting every day, we’re answering asks, we’re trying to give content like the timeline to hold you over while we all wait for the next update. if we are radio silent, that’s when i’d start to be a little worried — but we’d sooner post our entire outline than leave everyone wondering how acswy ends!

no hard feelings :) i hope you enjoy ch06 when it drops this week!

[stark-at-heart]

Untitled, a Love Story

AKA the Steve and Tony origin story prequel to "Worlds Apart" A/N: I don't have many followers here, and of the followers I have I imagine only a handful are actually still active here, and likely an even smaller percentage would be interested in this post. This is great, genuinely. It's been a long while since I've really written any fanfiction. I had oodles of both time and inspiration as a university student. Now as a Proper Adult with a regular nine to five in STEM that tends to drain all my brainpower, I feel my time get segmented out into impossibly small pieces. I can only designate so much to every hobby. I have no idea how anyone with children ever manages to do anything at all. Anyway, I've had this particular story living in my head rent free for over a decade now. Several years ago I outlined the entire thing. While I, so far, have a wordcount of 52k or so, I estimate I have another 150k to go, if I keep the same wordcount-to-scene-number ratio that I have so far. I've no desire to post this on AO3 until it is done and also beta read. But by the same token, it's difficult to work on something (incredibly slowly, for years) while sharing it with no one. :( So I give it to you, tumblr. Unfinished, unpolished. Maybe someone will read what is there so far and enjoy it. Maybe not. But at least I've popped a bit of it out into the universe. I'll post it in chunks. Here's the first piece.

February, 1990

Tony Stark had a certain approach-avoidance conflict going on with the mansion on Long Island that she had always called home. On the one hand, it was a beautiful mansion on Long Island and she had always called it home and it was filled with all the technology she could ever possibly want to play with down in the basement which she had affectionately dubbed her “lab”. On the other hand, her parents lived there and frequently wanted to interact with her while she was there. Said interactions often consisted of long conversations about her various failings. If her mother was deciding to get on her back it was that she wasn’t nurturing her musical talents, or following along with everything she had learned through years and years of forced cotillion, or attempting to find herself a “nice young man”. If it was her father, it could be any of the above with the added fun bonus of not doing well enough in school, not doing enough for the family company, causing embarrassments by having the audacity to occasionally go to parties while at university, dressing too little like “a proper young lady” (her mom complained about that, too)—really, with her father, the list could go on and on and on and on.

To avoid the unpleasantness of going home for MIT’s reading week, at least for a blissful few hours, while also getting the benefits of going home for MIT’s reading week, Tony had decided that the element of surprise was the best route. She hadn’t told them she was coming. There was no way either of her parents had kept track of when her school was or wasn’t on break, outside of the major holidays that they would expect her back home for (to schmooze at the various company holiday parties they always threw, of course). So when she drove up to the mansion on Long Island, Tony had hope that her plan would work, at least for the afternoon. She briefly entertained the idea of bringing a microwave and a mini fridge and seeing how long she could hide in her basement lab before they noticed she was there, but quickly dismissed the idea. It might be worth it to avoid her father, but it would also break her mother’s heart, and Tony tried not to be cruel.

Selfish, sure. Smartass, always. Bitchy, of course. But never cruel.

The taxi dropped her off in front of the house’s large, u-shaped drive-up paved with dark red brick. She got out, grabbing her duffel bag out of the trunk, way overpaid on her fare, and carefully tip-toed to the door. The doors were oak, and massive, as befitted the great red brick facade with fancy white columns that one would indeed expect on an American Colonial. She reached in her pocket for her keys. Swore. She dropped her navy blue duffel, stuffed full, and entirely haphazardly, with clothes and various loose nuts and bolts, and rummaged through it. Swore again.

She was not going to ring the doorbell. That would defeat the purpose of arriving quietly, as a surprise, so that she could steal into the lab for a precious few uninterrupted hours before the inevitable “rag on Tony” show began. Huffing, Tony picked her duffel bag back up and slung it over her shoulder before slinking around to the back garden. She had to vault over the small iron garden fence to get there since the gate was locked, but once she made it over she headed in a bee line to the kitchen door. This door was a door she could safely knock on and know that her parents weren’t ever going to be the ones to answer it.

She’d barely removed her hand from the door knocker when the small white door was flung open, revealing the only person Tony ever really wanted to see at the mansion.

“Jarvis!” she exclaimed as the tall, lanky older man smiled down at her.

“Why Miss Stark,” Jarvis said in that lovely, light English accent of his that Tony always found comforting. “What a pleasant surprise.” Tony snorted.

“As if you don’t have the MIT academic calendar stuck on the fridge,” she said, walking into the kitchen through the open door as Jarvis stepped politely to the side. As he closed the door behind him, Tony glanced over to said fridge which, sure enough, had the calendar attached via magnet. Today was circled with a big red marker.

“Well, I simply can’t surprise Ana with extra plates at the table at the last minute, can I?” Jarvis spoke, as if he didn’t do that with regularity what with her father always bringing around business partners unexpectedly.

“Of course not,” Tony agreed diplomatically. She shifted her duffel bag onto her other shoulder. “Hey Jay, I was hoping to get some work done in the lab for a bit. Got a big government contract for some research I’ve been doing into nanotech, miniaturization and all that. So… I was never here?”

“What’s that? I think I may have heard something. Ah, it must have been the wind. Silly me,” Jarvis said with another conspiratorial smile before simply walking away and leaving her to her own devices. Tony grinned fondly, then raced on tip-toes down to her basement retreat. She had a contract with the US Air Force to work on.

It was a relief when she shut the door to the basement behind her and beheld her hidden oasis. MIT had plenty of tools, but her father had tools he’d made himself—tools that Tony could use right about now, as she was trying to take microchips down to the nanometer level. Miniaturization—it was the way of the future all right. Fortunately, her father rarely came down to the makeshift lab. He had plenty of labs, after all, at his actual company, and he usually spent his time there, away from the mansion. Unless he knew Tony was home and could be pestered, she assumed, since he was there often enough for that specific purpose.

Tony didn’t waste any time, knowing there was only so long she would get away with hiding down there. She gathered the materials and tools that she needed, headed to a bench, and went to work, blasting AC/DC out of the boombox in the corner. At some point, she made coffee from the banged up little coffee maker by the futon. She switched to working off the futon, then back to the bench, then to the futon again. She had no idea how much time had passed when she heard a creak on the stairs.

Internally, she sighed and braced herself. She’d been hoping for longer. She could have been down there for hours or days, she was still hoping for more time to herself, more time to work on her tech without critique. Inevitably her father was going to walk down those stairs and criticize her attire (combat boots, artfully ripped, high waisted jean shorts that had cost way more than the unripped ones, an AC/DC tank top that, all right fine, was looking a little worse for wear, and hair that was held up in a disaster of waves that could maybe be called a ponytail). When he was done with that, he’d start nit-picking her tech. If she was particularly unlucky, he’d move on from that to her (lack of) character.

“Hey, Howard, sorry to interrupt, but—” Tony looked up—and woah, yeah, that was definitely not her father. Coming down the stairs was a man who could have passed for one of Michelangelo’s sculptures. His body was human perfection personified. He had bright blue eyes and golden hair. He also bore a striking resemblance to someone, but Tony couldn’t put her finger on it. Some lesser known Hollywood star, maybe? Her father hadn’t ever given up that studio, after all. 

Whoever he was, he was drop dead gorgeous. And in her basement. And they were alone. And despite how many fantastic filthy fantasies filled Tony’s mind in those fractions of seconds, Tony was not keen on living them out—because she was alone in a basement with a man who was three times her size and as far as she knew only Jarvis (and maybe Ana) was home, and like hell he’d be any use in a fight against this dude. She grabbed the nearest dangerous thing to her hand—a blowtorch. She pointed it at him with one hand and shut her boombox off with the other. She might need Jarvis to hear her scream. He could at least call 911, if nothing else.

“Stay there,” she warned him. He blinked, looking at her in confusion.

“Oh, you must be Tony,” the 6’2” Adonis said with a kind smile. “I’m Steve.”

“Oh, well, gee, now I know your name that makes the fact that you’re intruding in my house all fine. Shall I break out the tea and biscuits?” Tony asked sarcastically. “The fuck are you doing here? How did you get in?”

“I—your father didn’t tell you?” Steve asked.

“You have two minutes to live, fill it with words,” Tony warned, brandishing the blowtorch.

“I thought Howard would have told you. I—” Tony turned on the blowtorch. Steve put up his hands in a gesture of surrender. Tony would have been glad, except she was fairly certain the giant of a man was humoring her. Even Tony wasn’t entirely clear on how she’d take down the behemoth with a blowtorch alone. “—woah! Take it easy! I’m Steve Rogers! Your father’s putting me up for a while.”

“Dad doesn’t take charity cases,” Tony said. Her mother did, but that was entirely another story, and he hadn’t said Maria had been putting him up. “Who. Are. You?”

“We knew each other back in the day,” Steve said. “We were in the army together. Well, I guess, strictly speaking Howard wasn’t in the army, he was in the Strategic Scientific Reserve only, but—”

“Ok, soldier, I’m supposed to believe a guy who can’t be more than a couple of years older than me worked with my father in the second world war? Uh-uh. Try again,” Tony snapped. This whole conversation was ridiculous. Who did he think he was trying to fool?

“Look, I know how it sounds,” Steve said, his tone placating. “But I really don’t have a better explanation. I—my plane went down. I was on the ice for years and when your father found me—well, I was still alive. His team revived me.”

My plane went down.

“Oh, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me, you think you’re goddamn Captain America?” Tony complained. Why was this her life? Why did the 6’2” blonde Adonis have to be completely off his rocker? And why did he have to be in her basement? “Ok, I am calling the cops and they will take you back to whatever loony bin you escaped from.”

“If you had the ability to call the cops, I believe you would have already done so,” Steve pointed out. He came down the stairs the rest of the way, and stood aside. “But I won’t stop you from it, if you feel that threatened, ma’am.”

“Oh yeah, I’m really going to fall for that one,” Tony said. After all, her only means of exit was past the potential psychopath/serial killer/rapist. The man gave her a look. Tony didn’t like that look. There was all kinds of exasperation in that look, the kind of exasperation she usually only got from parents or teachers or Rhodey.

“Ok, how about we try this, ma’am,” Steve said, and the ma’am felt so condescending to Tony she could spit. “I’ll walk back up the stairs. You feel free to follow behind. And from there, you can get to a phone.”

Tony wasn’t sure she liked this scenario, mainly because the psycho was suggesting it. Here in the lab, she had plenty of frightening tools at her disposal, and heavy things she could hurl at him. She had steel desks in between herself and him. If she went upstairs, there would be nothing but open hardwood floor—a much better playing field for him.

“You feel free to go upstairs,” Tony said, brandishing the blowtorch in his direction. “Get out.”

“All right,” Steve said, raising his hands again, his palms open and visible. “All right. I’ll go up. But Tony, honest to God, I know it sounds crazy, but it’s the truth, and I’d never hurt you. You’re Howard’s daughter. It wasn’t my intention to scare you.” He sounded very sincere. Too sincere. It raised Tony’s hackles and freaked her out more than anything else. She narrowed her eyes.

“Out!” Tony ordered. She hurled a screwdriver at him. He blocked it expertly with his forearm, to her surprise, and started to head up the stairs just as the door opened.

“Ah!” said her father, appearing at the top of the stairs to the basement, “I thought I heard voices. What are you doing down here, Steve?” He peered into the lab, suddenly noticing Tony. His eyes narrowed. “Tony, what are you doing down here? Why aren’t you at school?” His tone was dangerous. It expected all sorts of things. Have you been kicked out, Tony? What are you hiding from, Tony? What mischief are you up to in my lab, Tony? (Never mind that he never used this lab.) Tony had just about had it with today.

“It’s reading week. And I was working on a nanotech development for the US Air Force when this bumbling escapee from the psych ward wandered down here,” Tony said.

“Tony, turn the blowtorch off,” Howard said sharply. Tony realized that it was still on and that she had been gesturing a tad wildly. She, for once, complied with her father’s wishes and set the instrument down. “This is Captain Steven Rogers, Tony, so I’d like you to go against your nature and show a bit of respect.” Tony felt a hot prickle of irritation at the insult.

“Well maybe I would have if I’d had any idea someone else was living here, but what the hell am I supposed to think when some random dude shows up in the lab claiming to be Captain America? And what the hell, Dad, why didn’t you tell me you successfully rose someone from unplanned cryosleep?” Because, really, if she ever wanted to hear from her father, it would have been to hear that Captain America had been miraculously revived.

And really—holy shit, Captain America had been miraculously revived from unplanned cryosleep. And he was in her basement. And she’d tried to fend him off with a blowtorch. And thrown a screwdriver at him. Well, as far as first impressions went, she’d definitely done worse.

“I did. I called you on three separate occasions and left messages on your machine. You never returned my calls,” Howard said, looking on her with disapproval. That was nothing new. What was new was frowny face over there giving her a nearly identical look, and that she would not stand for. She scowled right back at both of them.

“Maybe if you had left something more substantial in those messages than ‘call me’, I would have,” Tony argued. Howard just sighed.

“It is polite to return calls regardless of the reasons made for making them, Tony,” he said. Tony hated that he was right, hated that Captain fucking America was looking at her with the same damn expression her father always had, hated that this was how she’d met a childhood hero—by feeling threatened, then doing the threatening, then being scolded into next week by her father. God, she could use a drink. Or something stronger. And she’d only been home—she glanced at her watch—four hours.

Well, at least that was longer than the previous record of five minutes.

She looked up at the man who was apparently actually Captain America. Had weirder things happened? Tony didn’t think so. Well, maybe the creation of Captain America himself was weirder, arguably. But Tony had certainly never experienced something weirder. He was like a bona fide time traveller. A gorgeous, 6’2”, blonde, chiseled Adonis who time travelled.

These thoughts would be more pleasant and more interesting if her father weren’t still in the room and glaring at her. And if the Captain didn’t look clearly like he already completely disapproved of all of her.

“Steve, we’re just about to start dinner in a few minutes, if you’d like to follow me,” Howard said pleasantly. He gave Tony a once over over his shoulder as he turned to go. “Clean up first, Tony. And for God’s sake, put on something made for a woman.” Ah, there it was—the attire jab. That it hadn’t been the first words out of his mouth was a change. Personally, she thought what she was wearing was perfectly feminine. She was female, therefore her clothes were feminine. That was how it worked, right? And her bracelet, ever present, was as feminine as feminine could be, with its delicate silver chain and all the little charms around the edge. Fuming at the utter injustice of her plight, Tony emerged from the basement and went straight to her room. She would change. Oh, she would change all right.

[kidflashimpulse]

imma keep it real with you chief: nothing about Bart and Jaime's dynamic has ever read as romantic to me, on either side, but if Bart having a crush on Jaime (either present or past tense) isn't the main thing going on in your high school fic then i'll for sure read it anyway because i like your stuff a lot :) (also the fact it's apparently on the darker side despite being a no powers AU has me intrigued. murder mystery or something?? interested to find out)

and i totally understand that! just like how characterisation can ultimately be up to interpretation it’s the same with relationships and i can’t say i don’t see where ur coming from, i think a lot of their S2 interactions has been occasionally misconstrued with romantic undertones when they very much could be interpreted as just not (for all sorts of reasons both super obvious as well as not)

infamous age gap at the time (being the obvious one) aside, a literal alien invasion and earth-dooming prophecy is practically a constant in the backdrop of their friendship, so there really is a lot to consider when interpreting their interactions (like multiple takes i’ve read about ppl finding bart incredibly underhanded (totally fair and agreed) in the friendship). I do think though that the genuine aspect of their friendship did rapidly develop early on in the season even with bart’s underhandedness, just like that rlly interesting ask/masterpost on kidcooper02 blog about their friendship outlined (great read btw highly reccomend if ppl haven’t yet lol), ultimately it comes down to their friendship not being as black and white/clear cut as people might like it to be.

Multiple things can be true at the same time. Jaime had been missing his best friend at the time, was somewhat of an outcast as a newcomer on the Team and was thrust into the world of heroes/villains, I think it’s understandable that he would latch on to a good friendship with Bart just as much as even with all his hidden intentions, Bart, essentially a fish out of temporal water, would too.

So whilst i HC bart having had a crush on jaime at some point, it’s not because i necessarily interpret their dynamic as romantic throughout the season(s), it’s more out of potential because of plot circumstances and characterisation where i just don’t think it would be far fetched for it to occur.

Sorry for the unasked for essay lol but i felt like it wouldn’t hurt to explain my thought process a bit because i’m sure others share the same perspective as u and i do think it’s an interesting topic to think about too in general. Bart is my favorite all time character but Jaime is very dear to me too so I just think it’s such a cool topic ultimately :)

Also you are so sweet and thank you for sharing this with me <3 i’m not gonna lie, with every chapter or story i come up with i do always worry whether ppl will enjoy it or not, but i won’t know if i don’t try and also what some enjoy, others won’t and vice versa. That’s just a fact. But I have a lot of fun putting all this together and reading about others interpretations is also always such a highlight

It’s not an “in your face” type of dark, it’s more along the lines of the type of dark that i directly interpret from/on par with the show (ig what tv tropes calls fridge horror lol). Personally i love those type of settings so i’m really excited to share it and i do hope u will enjoy it :) i would be very much interested in hearing ur thoughts on it after i do post it :D

It’s still in its drafting stages and unfinished, so it might be a while. But hopefully sooner rather than later lol

[marinamakes]

Game Dev Blog October 8th 2023

October 8th 2023-

I have awoken once more. The days go by as blurs of house-chores, dreams, and work. I'm concerned that doing such similar work from day to day is bad for motivation, it reminds me of my latest unfinished project, "Frogs vs. Ghosts". I will no longer speak its name. It cannot be good for me, or development.

This is the GIF I last posted on Twitter on the 5th.

Moving on from all that, recently I've found myself worried about the future. How will this work out? I've understood for some time I'd have to work a day job in the future, but I'm still for some reason worried. No matter what, I need to ensure that I don't stop development, on this game or in general.

Maybe I should start posting this blog to Reddit or Lexaloffle, and update it instead of using this text file? I'll look for a blog site for a little bit before beginning work. I'll ask Twitter. But maybe I should make art so people actually see it?

Finished in 5 minutes! Well, outlining took about 30 seconds too, but yeah, this is sufficient.

Alright, slow day only about an hour of work, but I spent the last hour finding a good blog spot. I've settled on Tumblr. I want this blog to be relatively on the down-low, so this is good. I want my blog to be easy to make, so this is good. And I'm familiar with social-media platforms, so this is great. I guess this will be my first post??

Should I introduce myself?? Idk...' I'm Marina makes and I make games using Pico-8. I founded the "Pico-View" zine, and have released several games. This is to be my secret blog space. If you recognize me from anywhere be sure to shoot me a text! This month I plan to finish a Halloween release and an article or two. Enjoy!

That seems good. Time to get back to work!

While making the bullets, I giggled with excitement as I was having fun. I notice in the process of creating my games I worry a lot over whether they are fun or not. I think I should cast aside such worries, except when using them to enhance game-play.

My last game, "Robuilder" was severely lacking in several aspects, the most apparent to me was the rushed home-menu and meta-game. I'll explain what the game was... It was a falling-block puzzle game where the goal was to connect arrows on blocks, but the falling of the blocks was completely in your control. Essentially it's a building game where you connect arrows. On top this there were four packs of blocks available... As I was saying the most lacking aspect was the home-menu and meta-game. Each 'game' consists of three rounds. This has no rhyme or reason. On top of this the way you change packs of blocks was unintuitive. Here's a gif...

Overall I want to avoid this with this game by implementing a home menu as soon as the first level is being tested. I'm about to head to bed. Here's progress...

Need to add a muzzle flash on the player and ghost. So sleepy... Hope you guys enjoy this blog! If u do then reassure me in dms or replies or something??

[spilledkauffie]

Hey, first of all, I want to say that your HCs are great! They are such a wonderful inspiration to keep working on my fanfics. That's what I wanted to ask you about. I've read a few of your fics (and again they're awesome), so Im seeking for advise. How do you end your stories? I always stop my stories about like three chapters before the end, I've a bunch of almost finished stories lying around. Ik the ending in theory, but then theres a blockage. Thanks if u anwser, i hope asking was okay <3

Hey there! Thank you so much for reading!  My answer is a bit long, sorry, so it’s under the cut. It’s totally okay that you asked, no worries!! I hope this was helpful and best of luck on your future writings!

✧ Chaptered fic series: For starters, let me say that I, myself, have unfinished works that I wanted to finish, but haven’t and that’s just how it goes for me sometimes.

With series, it’s a good call to in some way plan out where you’re going with it, so you don’t get 7 chapters in and then ask yourself “where was I going with this?” (that is literally me to myself with every series) Small chapter outlines are great, by small I mean a note that says “character does this / goes here-” or “smut chapter” just so you can quickly jog your memory— this really helps with the end chapter, because it forces you to know how you intend to end it in advance, before diving into the opening.

 IF THAT ISN’T YOUR THING, that’s fine, there are other ways. I’ve found a lot of help from re-reading the prior chapters, seems simple, but sometimes it inspires me to keep going with it and think of new things. Making HCs (specifically about the character within the series plot) sometimes helps me, it keeps me thinking about the character and how they’d behave in different situations which can then become the inspiration for the ending. 

Thinking about the genre surrounding your ending is also helpful. Do you want it to be an angsty / sad / fluffy / smutty / complex ending? When you determine the genre you can begin to ask yourself questions about the genre that will help build structure.

↳ Angst: do my character leave each other?Are they taken apart or does one decide to leave? Does one of them die? Does one get with someone else, leaving the other with a broken heart? 

↳ Fluff: Do they get married? Do they have kids? Do they live together? Are they finally safe and can enjoy domestic life? etc. Asking these questions can really help spark a great ending.

YES, LET’S TALK ABOUT BLOCKAGE! First, give yourself credit for having written the majority of a chaptered series, that takes a lot, so round of applause for you first! Okay, now, I find that I get a little worn out on writing the same series, sometimes, this can be as simple as taking a break from it and coming back to it. Other times, I’m just not there for it. Try and remember what inspired you to start the series, maybe a song, a movie, a scene, fanart? Re-listening/watching things that remind you of said character can spark the motivate you’ve lost. 

If I may, let me add on that taking a break can be for more than a few days, don’t feel pressured to always be writing, or continuing the same thing, it’s okay to distance yourself from the series or writing in general to give your mind some recovery time— you got this!

✧ Writing the ending IN GENERAL:

 For me personally, I typically write the beginning and the end first. So I can know where it’s starting and see where it’s ending, this also allows things such as foreshadowing to be easier to include, because you (the author) know what’s coming and can drop little hints that won’t be known by the reader until the end and hint to the end. 

Endings are typically where things all come together, so thinking about open ended things that have been throughout is good, because you can bring it all together nicely. 

↳ say a character once said they always wanted to go somewhere, having them finally go there in the end is a satisfying ending because a “wish fulfillment” has happened, even if it was mentioned once and a long time ago, it brings it nicely together.

Short and sweet dialogue can be an ending. Say you don’t want it to be a secure ending, that’s cool! Maybe your characters have just come out of something (an event / fight / escaped etc.), sayings like: “we’ve got a long way to go,” / “but at least we’ve got each other,” totally counts as an ending, even thought it’s fairly open still. OR if you want a totally closed ending: “This is everything I ever wanted,” / “I couldn’t be happier than right here,” are all affirmative endings, anything that sounds similar to “it doesn’t get better than this” implies that it won’t so this is where the story ends.

Happily ever after *record scratch,* okay maybe don’t word it like that, BUT description can also be a good ending. Describing the scene can be a conclusion, (e.g. Star Wars- we pan to the binary sunset). I love description, so I think it’s a fantastic way to end things.

Double check it, always. I’ve been guilty of just adding the ending to a story I’m stuck on and posting it, but found it’s a really good idea to give it one more read, you might like what you’ve written, but upon a reread found there’s more to add, a different way to phrase things, etc.

✧ Oneshots: 

I find that these are my favourites (aside from HCs) because there’s no pressure to keep it open ended or closed! With series writers can become very used to leaving / creating an open ending for the next chapter and the next to constantly fit into that the idea of a true finale ending is often absent from the creative thought process, so it just feels a bit unfamiliar when you come to the final ending. 

Oneshots, however, are great because you can kind of leave it however you want! It can be an open ending if you want or a closed ending, either way it’s a sweet story with an ending (obviously) that can be expounded upon or left alone.

[aloesarchives]

im sorry to hear abt ur situation! take it easy and don’t feel bad for not being able to write or post as much. that being said, do u think u could squeeze in a fluffy gaolang x fem!reader scenario where the reader is an artist and likes to use him as reference for practice? tysm!

Sure thing, Anon! Sorry if it's not as much as I usually write but I hope you enjoy.

Warning: Narrator(aka me) swearing

Having artists block is goddamn terrible. It's been like this for a month and you couldn't take it anymore. No matter how hard you tried to get inspiration, it either was an unfinished project or it wasn't enough to satisfy your artistic nature. The thing about you is you're a well-known artist that does digital but mostly traditional art. You always carry around a sketchbook where ever you go when the thought of drawing comes to mind. Besides doing commissions, you could draw something of your own free will without it looking like a bad art restoration project.

 But once you’re you know once you start drawing, you'll finish at least 3 art projects in a span of 3-4days. Now you just need something to get you going, but what should it be?

While you're sitting on the couch with your sketchbook in hand and chewing your pencil/pen, the clicking of the door snapped you out of the whirlpool of thoughts.

Gaolang's home from work

Upon announcing his return, Gaolang makes his way to the living room. Placing down your stuff on the table, you greeted your beloved with a kiss while taking his blazer to be stem later.

“How's work, Gao?”

“The same as usually, nothing too eventful.”

You nod your head and went to grab your stuff from the table. While walking back, the most random but inspirational epiphany came to your mind. Why not use Gaolang as one of your projects? You always used him as a reference and he doesn't mind it as long it wasn't time consuming. You used old videos of Gaolang’s fights for reference for most of your art work and one note you can make out was that he was beautiful in them. Then again, why wouldn��t he be beautiful? Anyway, your brain went into ultra instinct mode and straight started planning out the art piece. You practically spaced out so hard that Gaolang has been calling out your name for the past minute or so. Once your brain calmed down, you were faced directly with the Thai God of War and his chest.

“(Y/N), is everything okay?”

You looked up to make eye contact towards him with soft eyes.

“Yeah, I’m fine Gao...”

He raised an eyebrow at your answer indicating that he know there’s more behind your behavior. You sigh as you were there was no point in getting pass him.

“Umm, Gaolang, if it possible if I come watch you train tomorrow? I promise I won’t get in the way of your training since one of your boxing matches is coming up soon.”

Gaolang was going to ask why but after seeing the way your hand grasp your sketchbook, he put two and two together and understood what you were going to say to him. He nods his head before going into your shared bedroom to shower and change into more comfortable clothes.

As the next day rolls in, you’re sitting on a wall bench while watching Gaolang practice and train. Although his primary martial art is boxing, he still does Muay Thai training as it would be foolish to forget it. While sketching, you would occasionally stop yourself and watch his movements and strikes. It was almost mesmerizing to see, from fluid clean kicks to the firm precise strikes. It was beautiful. It was also the way Gaolang’s sweat marbled his muscles and the clear focus in his eyes was something for sore eyes. Besides getting sidetrack, you admitted from time and time again that Muay Thai is a gorgeous Martial Art and sport. After all, being the Thai God of War’s girlfriend made you appreciate the art even more. 

By the time he was finished, you already had the sketch completed. Now, it just needs color and the outlining. It took some time but it was worth it, it was finally down. It wasn’t bad either too. You drew Gaolang in one of Muay Thai’s traditional poses and in the background was a roaring tiger that was surrounded by wisps of fire. It was a pretty awesome the more you looked at it. Not a lot of bright colors but the wisps of the flames are an eye catcher. You’ll probably hang it somewhere around the apartment since it looked nice. You asked Gaolang for his opinion, and he said it looks good while kissing your forehead to look at the painting. In return, you hugged his side, slightly snuggling him. 

As you stayed like that with Gaolang, you can for sure know your artist block was gone(for now) as other ideas start to spur up in your creative brain. Most of them involved you and Gaolang together. Those heavenly depictions/mythical peaked your interest, along with the domestic ones as well.

Maybe one about your wedding in the near future but that’s on you to decide

[majorxmaggiexboy]

author interview tag!

tagged by la joie de ma vie, @f-ro-g

Name: ostensibly it’s Maggie but also Major but also whatever anyone feels like calling me as long as it’s not deliberately mean or something.

Fandom(s): as far as the ones i actually try/intend to make some content for, we’ve got BBC’s The Musketeers, BBC’s Merlin, AMC’s TURN: Washington’s Spies, The Grinning Man (Musical), Hadestown (Musical) Lazytown, probably Legend of Zelda if things keep going the way they are, uhhhh...I used to write for Ranger’s Apprentice, and am likely to do so again. I also have a Marvel (Mostly Bucky tbh) blog that was pretty active for a while before infinity war crushed my dre- OH RIGHT also How to Train Your Dragon. and a bunch of others that are just. dormant atm. pretty much anything i’ve ever enjoyed, ive got at least one fic for it. why did i forget to say Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, this is an outrage.

Where you post: 😂😂😂 when i make it that far, it’s usually on here? i have an ao3 but always get intimidated by the tagging system.

Most popular oneshot: oh god it was probably one of my Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time fics actually. Nothing recent, as i’ve not posted anything in forever

Most popular multichapter fic: i had a somewhat popular Ranger’s Apprentice story back in the day! I don’t recall if it was my most popular, or if that would’ve been one of my Musketeer fics, but the Ranger’s Apprentice one was one of my earliest fics and i remember being so surprised to be getting a lot of comments and consistent readers/engagement on.

Favorite story you’ve written so far: as far as Original Fiction, i’m still pretty attached to my unfinished saga that started out as a Short Story Writing Exercise and turned into about 18 separate stories within the same universe. Having recently looked back over the outlines for that one, it needs a lot of work and there are plot aspects that didn’t age super well, but i’m fond of the characters, settings, and premise and still think it could be salvageable.

as far as fanfic tho...i’ll have to actually finish and post some before deciding :3

Fic you were nervous to post: pretty much everything from 2014 onward has been accompanied by absolute terror immediately upon hitting ‘post’

How you choose your titles: ngl it’s usually either, think of a story and then find a song or song title/lyric that fits, or hear a song and go “Oh, i like that for a title” and make a story to suit. for fanfic, anyway. for my original fic...i don’t really know how past!me came up with the titles, and i haven’t made any new stories in quite some time. I think we just picked stuff we thought sounded cool and then found a way to tie it to the story. Except the ones that were like “This is an adaptation of The Grasshopper and the Ant. It’s called Grasshopper”

Do you outline?: obsessively.

Complete: i’ve never finished a story in my life negl

In progress:  so many. i’ve got 42 drafts on my Main blog alone

Coming soon/not yet started:  SO MANY.

Do you accept prompts?: YEPPERS, usually on my specific fandom sideblogs.

Upcoming work that you’re most excited about: probably The Manner of Things, which is a magic au of The Grinning Man. And then also A Moment to be Real, which is a Grinning Man au based entirely on one single scene in Treasure Planet. im also excited for all the Floydmadge shmoop i hope to write soon.

tagging the following people: idk who all this would be relevant for so, apologies if i tag u and it’s non-applicable! also if it is applicable and you’re not tagged, go for pls! @samayla, @midnight-reader-morning-sleeper ,@the-walking-pie

[myherorambles]

hi sof! i hope im not bothering you 🙈🙈 so turns out i like writing, and one thing i wanna try doing is “(name)xreader” content, like you!! the only thing i wanna ask you is if knowing how the story goes and how it’ll end ruin the experience for the writer? bc ngl writing for others is fun but im also writing for me too? idk if thats a bad mindset or,,? sorry if this is weird/you cant relate 🤡 i just want to live my dream where noya-senpai actually notices me yknow?? 🥺💓 ily & stay safe! 🤙🏾

YAY GLAD UR WRITING SOME X READERS 🤩🦑 we love that,,

sometimes once i plan out a fic and outline all that’s gonna happen i end up getting bored and no longer want to write it so i just write something else that i do want to write. it doesn’t happen all the time and usually if i know how i want the fic to end, i think it’s fun to write how we get to that ending!

but yes it’ll def be normal for u to no longer want to write a fic for whatever reason, be it lost inspo motivation excitement etc. its a normal feeling! u can either push thru it or keep it as an unfinished wip and move onto something u want to write :)

i have lots of wips that will never be finished or see the light of day ahdjsk but i also have lots of fics ive enjoyed writing and sharing. so dont worry too much!! just write what u enjoy!!💞

[velkynkarma]

Get to Know the Author

@bosstoaster has been tagging me all night :P

1. How did you come up with your username and what does it mean?

I’ve had the name ‘Karma’ for about 17 years now? I don’t even remember where it came from. The ‘Velkyn’ got added a little over 10 years ago when I decided I wanted to get back into fic writing. But I was still in that phase where you think you’re supposed to ‘grow out’ of fandoms and writing fanfiction, so I didn’t want any of my friends to know I was doing it. I was embarrassed. It was silly. I picked a different handle, VelkynKarma, which actually means ‘hidden Karma.’ Later I just liked the name and also got over my embarrassment for fic writing and just started using it everywhere.

2. Which fanfic of yours has the most feedback? (bookmarks/subscriptions/hits/kudos).

No matter what statistic you look at, Routine Maintenance wins across the board by a large margin. Parasite Knight only has 1 less subscription, though, so I guess it’s a fair contender on subs.

3. What is your AO3 profile icon, and why did you choose it?

Same as my tumblr icon, it’s one of my OC’s, Morrigu Lovel. He is a little smartass and I love him.

4. Do you have any regular/favourite commenters?

Oh for sure, there’s a few lovely readers that come back every time and always have something to say. I love you guys :) And a few others that don’t comment on every chapter or every work, but the comments they leave are always phenomenal and make my day.

5. Is there a fanfic that you keep going back to read again and again?

Depends on my mood, and I don’t necessarily read the entire fic, just the paragraphs/scenes/chapters that really stick out to me. But yeah, I’ve got some favorites I return to a lot.

6. How many stories are you subscribed to? How many do you have bookmarked?

Oh geez. This one’s hard to say since I watch stuff on AO3 and FF.net. A lot? I think a lot of those fics are dead now though.

7. Which AU do you find yourself writing the most?

Mmmm I don’t really have a tendency to stick to any particular series or AU for very long? I guess in terms of general themes I’ve done zombie AU’s the most, between Age of Heroes for Young Justice and Road Trip to End Times for Voltron...something about zombie apocalypse scenarios just fascinates me, especially since it can be done so many different ways.

8. How many people are subscribed and bookmarked to you in total? (you can view this on the stats page)

252 user subs, 444 work subs, 2039 bookmarks. I didn’t even know that until now, huh

9. Is there something you’d like to write about but are afraid of people judging you for it? (Feeling brave? If so, share it!)

There’s some character interactions that are such hot-button topics in the VLD fandom I’m cautious about approaching them because I don’t want to deal with people complaining or begging for things to get escalated. Like, I love Keith and Lance’s interactions in canon, but don’t have much fic centered around them because ship lashback is real.

10. Is there anything you would like to be better at? Writing certain scenes or genres, replying to comments, updating better, etc.

Short fic. What is brevity even? I can’t do zines or commissions because I can’t figure out how to manage a damn word count.

11. Do you write rarepairs or popular ships more often?

Nope! I don’t write any ships at all. I just write platonic interaction. Though I guess I wouldn’t be adverse to a platonic ‘rarepair’ as long as I liked the characters’ interaction potential.

12. How many stories have you posted on AO3 to this day (finished and unfinished)?

So far, 25. 23 of those are Voltron, 1 is Young Justice, and 1 is Supernatural (experimenting with cross-posting on both of those last two, some fandoms are just hard to break into or not on certain sites).

13. How many stories do you have saved in/with your writing program?

Oh boy. In progress? I wanna say 3. Notes? A lot, lot more.

14. Do you write down story ideas, or just keep them in your head?

I jot down notes! Or email myself ideas if I’m at work/out and about. Or speak them into a little portable digital tape recorder I keep next to my bed, if it’s the middle of the night and I have an idea, but lack dexterity to type.

15. Have you ever co-authored a story?

Not in a long, looong time.

16. How did you discover AO3?

Through TVTropes. Every time I finished a new series I’d swing by to read tropes pages and see if there were any decent fic recs. At first they all went to Fanfiction.net or livejournal but, over time, this ‘Archive’ thing kept showing up. I made an account to lurk or subscribe to things but didn’t actually start posting to it until at least a year later.

17. Do you consider yourself to be a popular or famous author in your fandom(s) on AO3?

Moderately well known in the platonic corner of it probably assuming people know bosstoaster and I are not actually the same person lol but probably not well known outside of that. Once upon a time I was a Big Name in the One Piece fandom, but after the timeskip I fell out of the fandom and lost my pirate king throne. That’s okay, it was fun while it lasted.

18. Do you have a nickname or fandom name for your readers?

No but you all are too kind

19. Was there an author who inspired or encouraged you to write?

In terms of ‘official’ authors, Brandon Sanderson is everything I ever aspire to be as a writer, and I take a lot of inspiration from that. For fic? My buddy BlackFriar was super helpful during the Young Justice era. More recently in the VLD fandom, @maychorian was big for just...getting me to stay in the fandom at all? One of her fics got me hooked and I stuck around, and then felt compelled to write, instead of just drifting off to the next interesting thing. And the Think Tank ( @bosstoaster @butteredonions @ashinan @mumblefox ) have all been huge for getting me to keep writing, between writing sprints and interesting discussions and a lot of encouragement, so that’s been huge for me this past year.

20. What writing advice would you give to a beginning author?

At the risk of sounding like that one video...just do it. It’s scary to put yourself out there, but just do it. You learn by doing. You also learn by absorbing new things around you, so read a lot and try new stuff; you never know when something completely random or a personal experience might actually add a lot to your story. And finally, write for you, first. Write the stories you want to see. Writing for comments/bookmarks/reblogs only goes so far. It means your motivation is reliant solely on people liking your work, which means you start writing for other people and not for yourself...and if reception is lackluster, it can kill your ability to finish a project, which hurts your practice at follow-through. It’s a slippery slope and starts to make the whole thing a lot less fun and a lot more of a chore. Write things you want to read, and if you feel like sharing them after, other people might like them too, but it’s important that you like it, first.

21. Do you plot out your stories, or do you just figure it out as you go?

Has to be plotted completely. If I try to wing it I meander or get hung up on trying to keep track of details. Turns into total garbage.

22. Have you ever gotten a bad comment on a story? If so, what did you do?

A few times, sure. Happens to everyone. Most often, it’s people begging, demanding, or insinuating that my platonic fics should include a ship, especially if the fic focuses on the interactions of two specific characters. Those are very frustrating because I’m always upfront about the fic being friendship only, and there are usually a million other ship fics already out there. Leave my platonic fic alone! I usually ignore the comments, or just politely remind people it’s friendship only and will remain that way. In one bewildering instance in a different fandom I had somebody who had been thoroughly enjoying the fic up until the climactic battle, whereupon they were furious at how it was resolved, and took great pains to tell me just what they thought. That one stung. I had to sit on it for a few days before I worked up the nerve to respond, and chatted with a few friends over it too. In the end I realized that it was more comparable to a fan really enjoying a canon work but being mad about a sudden twist that just didn’t seem right to them. It happens. I thanked them for reading, explained that I disagreed with their comments but did hear them, and thanked them for their time. Best I could do.

23. Is there a certain type of scene that you have a hard time writing? (action, smut, etc..)

I am straight-up incapable of romance, period. Even so far as to slide into ‘fake’ romance (I once got prompted for fake marriage/dating and literally couldn’t envision how to do it? It’s just so foreign to me). Or flirting. I can’t even identify flirting IRL. Basically anything in that general area of writing is completely out of my league. I can write intense scenes that are intimate in non-romantic, non-sexual ways, but those are really difficult for me to do too and I’m constantly second-guessing myself in case it’s maybe too much.

24. What story(s) are you working on now?

If I told you I’d have to kill you. But no, srsly, I don’t like to share ideas in progress until it’s almost done, just in case. Sometimes I share and then immediately lose interest, but I’ve already raised peoples’ hopes, and that’s just a dick move.

25. Do you plan your next project(s) before you finish your current ongoing story(s)?

I’ll have outlines, or sometimes need to plan around prompts. I don’t usually do series, so I never really need to plan too far ahead though. Sometimes if I’m plotting a crossover/AU I’ll obtain the source material and read/watch/play it to start gathering notes for that fic while working on a different fic, so that by the time I’m done writing the current story, the AU’s skeleton is plotted out and I have a place to slot in all the characters.

26. Do you have a daily writing goal set for yourself?

No. I’ve gotten better habits since working with the Think Tank but I still tend to be more of a ‘burst’ writer (no activity for days or weeks, and then suddenly word vomiting 100K in a month).

27. Do you think you’ve improved as a writer since you first started?

By a HUGE margin

28. What is your favorite story that you’ve written?

Oooh, that’s a toss-up between Phantasmagoria and Prince of Memory. The former because I love writing horror and it’s an idea I’d wanted to tackle for a while. The latter because it was a personal writing challenge to myself that I honestly wasn’t sure was going to go over all that well, but the response was stunning, and I was quietly surprised.

29. What is your least favorite story that you’ve written?

Caged Bird, from a different fandom. I make it a personal rule to never delete stories that I’ve posted, but ooh man, I wanted to get rid of this one really bad. I was happy when LJ gutted it. I actually don’t have any real dislike for any of my Voltron stuff.

30. Where do you see yourself (as a writer) in 5 years?

Still writing because I’d die if I stopped. Like a shark. But with writing.

31. What is the easiest thing about writing?

That flash of inspiration, when you get an idea and suddenly it’s building itself almost too fast for you to keep up. Dialogue. Action sequences.

32. What is the hardest thing about writing?

Getting started. Titles. Editing. Research. Any particularly emotional moment.

33. Why do you write?

Because fandoms are fun but I have so many questions after. “What if X happened? What if Y was a factor? Why not Z?” I try to hunt down answers to these questions in fandoms and if the fic isn’t already written, I write it. Also to challenge myself to do things that haven’t been done in the fandom yet, or to tackle things I haven’t tried yet.

I think everyone’s been tagged already so...feel free to play if you want, I guess!

[emeraldwaves]

Current Projects

List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on: writing, art, gifsets, whatever.

I was tagged by @brynne-lagaao sorry it took so long to do!!

SOOOO LOL I will only post writing here on my writing blog and ooooo boy do I have a lot of WIPS. I’ll only post things I’ve actually started working on, cause if I post all my IDEAS it’ll be a hot mess LOL.

Unfinished Multichapters (my shame)

Cacophony (Mikorei, K Project) My music AU for Mikorei where they play in a band together and Munakata becomes their new pianist after the death of Totsuka. I have the next chapter started and I want to finish it. I just struggled with this fic a lot. Eventually I will finish.

Dance with Me (It Won’t Kill Ya) (Kacchako, BHNA) My dance AU for Kacchako. I really love this fic, Ochako is giving Bakugou dance lessons and it’s like a college AU. I kind of got a lil discouraged writing this so I decided to pause it, but I will be writing it again. I started the next chapter and It’s completely outlined.

Immortal Hearts (Multi-Pair, (mainly Itsumei, Miyumei and Miyusawa), Daiya no Ace) - DAMN this is my true shame. My Vampire AU from Daiya no Ace. Honestly, I kinda fell out of the DnA fandom and it’s why I stopped, but I LOVE this fic and I do plan on going back to it when I get hit with the inspiration. I DO work on the latest chapter every now and again.

Lasting Regrets (Mikorei, K Project) A high school AU featureing Mikorei/Mikototsu angst. I am working on for @munakatareishi I love the idea so so much, but it’s a big project, so it takes me a while to plan and write chapters!! 

To The Skies (Kacchako, BHNA) I just started this fic! @miraimisu sent me this amazing request and my mind went crazy XD. It’s a steampunk AU for Kacchako...the beginning is kind of Anastasia-esque? I really love the world this is going to take place in, and this is going to be my main focus for a little bit :)

Started WIPS

The Lighthouses Keeper (Sheith, Voltron) I’ve been dying to write Sheith forever and I was hit with this idea where Keith is a lighthouse keeper and Shiro was the previous one and he helps Keith learn etc.

Untitled Kacchako Proposal fic (Kacchako, BHNA) so the lovely @silverwings104 sent me an AWESOME request about Bakugou proposing. I am currently halfway done with it, I just wanna make sure that everything stays in character!

Untitled Mikorei Neighbor fic (Mikorei, K Project). I’m working on this for Mikorei week, where Mikoto is a new neighbor that moves in next to Munakata and has to borrow his shower XP.

Soulmate AU (Viktuuri, Yuri on Ice) A reincarnation Soulmate AU where Viktor keeps meeting Yuuri in different lives.

I think these are all my projects currently! I have a lot of other ideas...I count about 15 I haven’t even mentioned XD But these are the ones I’ve started and keep working on sporadically! XD I hope you guys enjoyed this meme LOL

I’ll Tag @theweakestthing @its-love-u-asshole @darksylvir @youaremynewdream @missgine @silverwings104 @kacchanswife @miraimisu @rayraywrites