#i can't write rst

[actual-changeling]

i love all the UST to RST arcadia fics but i look at them and see the most uncomfortable situation ever.

mulder is having fun playing house and it's kinda cute, but scully? if we go with this being their first case back on the x files (and i'll always go with that) they have solved exactly none of their issues.

the "you're making this personal" is a month old at MOST, and scully probably has to struggle with the thought that the only reason mulder is her 'full-time' partner again is because diana ditched him.

(which is funny in a dark and painful way)

after weeks upon weeks of mulder basically being a rude stranger that no longer trusts her—someone she can no longer rely on—he just, what, expects her to bounce back and pretend none of it ever happened? 'cause that's what they usually do?

but this was not usual. this was mulder taking his love confession and twisting it into a knife to repeatedly stab her with. "your science saved me and made me a whole person" yeah great! love that. would be a shame to use it against her a few weeks/months later.

"your science is wrong" after she more or less repeated his speech and the strong implication that he no longer abides by what he told her.

"you've given me no reason here [not to trust diana]" after she did what she always does—giving him the facts. if i start talking about the "you're making this personal" line we will be here for an hour so i won't. we all know it's there and what kinda damage it did.

all that and more. refusing to trust her. ditching her. walking away from her. and, knowing them, they did not come together and talk it out.

so we have scully stuck undercover as his wife in a freaky murderous suburban community and mulder is getting his ya yas out doing what he does.

he touches her and she immediately shrugs him off, steps away from him, and she looks at him with raised hands and a glare that says "back off". early season 5 scully would be having the time of her life but by now she very much hates it.

whenever mulder initiates something personal, she plays along just enough to keep them as a team going but is visibly uncomfortable. we know what it looks like when she's happy and relaxed in his presence and this ain't it.

and these are from the BEGINNING of the episode. it doesn't get any better. it's work and she is treating it as such, she won't risk a case because of her own emotional situation.

mulder is. trying to get them back on track. i can give him that much. but as we see in monday and agua mala, he is STILL keeping shit from her (not giving her an explanation in monday, for example) and comfortable ditching her.

personally, i don't think arcadia is the turning point in their relationship that a lot of fics write it as. doing so is perfectly fine, don't get me wrong, i love reading them.

i just don't see any major progress between one son and arcadia that indicates they actually talked about some shit. playing house with mulder is about the last thing scully wants to do at that point, and yet she does it without complaint.

arcadia, to me, is mostly about two things: mulder being forced to acknowledge that they can't just ignore it & he screwed up and scully (very very slowly) beginning to rediscover how to be comfortable around mulder again. i don't think his frequent jokes are particularly helpful, they don't lighten the mood, they make it worse, if anything.

somewhere between arcadia and alpha, and then alpha and trevor, they readjust, and while cc never showed us (bc he is a fucking coward) i am 100% certain they actually managed to talk.

in trevor, there is none of the tension we see in arcadia. they're comfortable joking and flirting as usual, he does his lovesick puppy impression when she talks about spontaneous human combustion. they're them again.

not perfectly so, that takes them longer with the whole biogenesis thing disrupting their balance again, but we have the baseball date and that episode in general (thank u david for ur service).

anyway this got away from me, but my point is that scully should be allowed to need longer to trust mulder again after how horribly he treated her. she's allowed to hold a grudge and be upset, angry, sad, whatever she wants.

let that woman scream a little, she desperately needs it.

[starswallowingsea]

I am not holding my breath for the new rst event. Theyve gotten such bad writing since the start of the new era and I'm just. I will be pleasantly surprised if we have a Kanata and Midori heart to heart conversation because Kanata is just so detached from all of his juniors that he can't even have a conversation with them. Submarine (in theory) should have addressed this and yet! And yet.

[michael6618]

Thank God the pain News Network is on top of everything. The article below was taken from the pain News Network. Let them know that you appreciate them.

Reach out to them with your own story that you have had with the DEA.

I am a widower before that my wife had what was called rst reflex sympathetic dystrophy caused by primary injury which had the calf still the size of an Oakland and the foot size of an elephant and was very very painful.

After 2 months for finally accepted into the pain clinic at UCSF. You must remember this is before the DEA and their little bean counters who had no knowledge of what pain control was interfering in a position patient relationship.

Must have no idea what it takes to have pain control specialist in front of your name well after you get through with your residency you can choose a specialty and go for a couple of three four years more then if you want to have pain control specialists you go another two years that's almost 1:30 of your lifetime.

A while back when the DEA was being aggressive you had hospice people trying to relieve pain caused by terminal cancer these people rat end of life for crying out loud and the DEA said you're harming them they might die. Say what? No they're controlling their pain until the end of life.

Now you have over aggressive bureaucrats in the DEA going into a doctor's office who are trained to treat pain.

Doctors are so afraid to treat me now that it's almost as if the DEA wants to torture patients.

Go to any hospital you wish to go to except in the south Florida Louisiana Alabama Texas stay out of those hospitals they're worthless.

But go to some of the other hospitals they got what's called the hospitals a hospitalist is a person who is hired to run the hospital she is a physician she has a staff of doctors that she consults with that there's a pain protocol it's put into place what is your pain level between what it attend our doctor is innate well let's see if we can't get you something for pain it is a measured dose it is in the hospital.

Now take that same patience who has been discharge from the hospital Chris had a successful outcome with the pain medication. Good luck doctors are scared to death of three little initials DEA.

You better hope to God that your loved one does not have extreme pain problems that are going to require drug intervention. They will suffer and there's not one damn thing you can do.

Oh your wife has debilitating pain problem that is not allowing her to lead an independent life? Good luck.

Your grandmother is in hospice for end of life suffering from debilitating pain of cancer? And the DEA stepped in and said you're killing her. No they are controlling her pain with a team of experts and oncology, gerontology and pain control along with nurses who are trained in skilled with the aging population of end of life.

It takes a lot of courage to be a hospice of nurse. A d e a agent would last 2 minutes as a hospice nurse.

So what can be done? First of all put pressure on the DEA. Write letters and then write some more letters. Burn up the internet with emails.

Connect with your congressman if they won't help then primary him out or her out of office simple as that if they won't help you then gets a lot of office and find someone who will.

If you are an attorney or an attorney attached to a law firm and have skills and assisting doctors to take back their legal right to treat their patients as they were trained to do as a pain control specialist then by all means new pro bono work.

If someone dies while the DEA took away medication that was assisting this person and has suspended the doctor's license then sue for negligent homicide or practicing medicine without a license. In other words you become the defacto pain control specialist of the DEA knowing the patient better than the physician test.

Make it so painful they scream in pain make it so painful they turned away from this.

Why is this important? Because one of these days you may or may not be hit what's the pain so excruciating you would rather die because that pain will drive you completely insane. And for sure one of these days you will end up in hospice maybe not with incurable cancer maybe with some other painful malady that requires the intervention of a pain control specialist, a gerontologist a hospice nurse.

Be proactive do not let the DEA subvert your care.

Pain News Network

Second Patient Dies After DEA’s Suspension of Doctor’s License

A second chronic pain patient has died as a result of the DEA’s suspension of a California doctor’s license to prescribe opioids and other controlled substances. 42-year Jessica Fujimaki died Saturday, December 10th at her home in Arizona, apparently due to complications caused by opioid withdrawal.

Jessica lived with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), arachnoiditis, stenosis and other chronic conditions that cause severe, intractable pain and left her bedridden. In the past year, she found relief through injections of the opioid hydromorphone every two hours, which allowed her to walk, have some quality of life, and take care of her husband and two children.

That came crashing to an end in early November, when she learned from her pain specialist, Dr. David Bockoff, that his license to prescribe opioids and other controlled substances had been suspended by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“She was frightened, because she knew what was going to happen to her if she didn’t have that medication,” said Tad Fujimaki. “There’s no way she could live without it.”

The Fujimakis were unable to find another doctor in Arizona willing to treat Jessica, and her health steadily deteriorated as opioid withdrawal set in. In desperation, they made two trips to Mexico to purchase oral opioids there, but were uncertain of the quality of medications they received.

JESSICA FUJIMAKI

A last-minute prescription for injectable hydromorphone from an out-of-state doctor failed to stop her cascading health problems. Her exact cause of death has yet to be determined, pending an autopsy.

Had the treatment that Jessica received from Dr. Bockoff continued, Tad believes his wife would still be alive today. He blames the DEA for her death.

“Absolutely. DEA, government, all of them. If they didn’t stop the medication, if Jessica was still getting medication from Dr. Bockoff, this would have never happened,” he told PNN.

Like many patients with EDS, Jessica wasn’t diagnosed with the genetic connective tissue disease until well into adulthood. In 2020, when the Fujimakis lived in Hawaii, she had an epidural steroid injection for leg pain that made her condition far worse. Seeking better treatment, the family moved to the mainland.

“The one mistake we made was to move to Arizona,” said Tad, explaining they could find no doctors to treat Jessica near their Phoenix home.

“Because she was too complicated a patient. They knew they can’t prescribe hydromorphone,” he said. “If we knew the state of Arizona was an anti-opioid state, then we probably wouldn’t have moved from Hawaii to Arizona. We’d have picked a different state.”

Like many other “opioid refugees” on high doses, Jessica searched for doctors out-of-state, eventually finding Bockoff, who has practiced medicine for over 50 years in California without any record of disciplinary action or complaints.

“I have no comment. A very unfortunate tragedy,” Bockoff replied in an email when asked about Jessica’s death.

THE FUJIMAKI FAMILY

Another Bockoff patient who lived with intractable pain ran out of medication and died one week after the license suspension. Danny Elliott and his wife Gretchen were so distraught over his inability to find another doctor and get opioid treatment that they committed suicide in their Georgia home.

‘Imminent Danger to Public Health’

Why the DEA suspended Bockoff’s license is still not entirely clear. DEA agents searched his office in September, 2021 and confiscated the medical records of 240 patients, which they later returned.

Although a DEA notice of the suspension – signed by DEA administrator Anne Milgram -- states that Bockoff posed “an imminent danger to the public health,” his license was not suspended until 14 months after the initial search, when he was accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act when treating five patients.

Those allegations primarily deal with improper record-keeping and prescribing high doses of opioids that could potentially be diverted or abused. But there is no indication that any harm was caused to the five patients while under Dr. Bockoff’s care, or that they sold or abused the opioids he prescribed.

While Bockoff appeals his suspension, 11 of his patients have hired a lawyer and tried – unsuccessfully so far -- to sign on as intervenors, so they could participate in DEA hearings on the case. One of them was Jessica Fujimaki.

“With the suspension of Dr. Bockoffs license, I am left without care again. It took over a year to find the protocol that work for me and allowed me to have some quality of life,” Jessica wrote in a statement to the DEA.

“I was very fortunate to find Dr. David Bockoff, who accepted me as his patient and has been able to treat me in accordance with the treatment protocol that works for me. This treatment protocol changed my life and gave me hope,” she wrote. “I am able to walk most days unless I am in a huge flare. Without Dr. Bockoff's care and prescribed medication, I would be bedbound, unable to walk, unable to function, and certainly unable to care for my children.”

A DEA Administrative Law Judge declined to let Jessica and the other patients participate in a pretrial conference on November 28, but has not officially rejected or approved their motion to intervene in future hearings. The patients are considering other legal avenues.

Whatever happens, it’s not likely to happen in time to prevent future tragedies. Under DEA rules, doctors have 30 days to appeal their license suspensions. Legal experts say the process can then take months or years to resolve – too long for patients like Jessica and Danny Elliott, who suffered needlessly and didn’t have time to wait.

[baronessblixen]

Hi ! Today is my birthday, and i'm in self isolation :/ I really love your fics. Could you write a birthday fic ? Maybe UST to RST ?

Happy birthday, anon! Sorry you have to spend it in self-isolation. I hope you will have a lovely day anyway ❤ I have written several birthday fics in the past and I’ll link them here: Birthday Surprises, You did this for me?, Birthday Cake

Tagging @today-in-fic

Here’s a ficlet for you! 

The knock on his door startles Mulder out of his lazy stupor. A glance at his watch tells him it’s 12.01 a.m. He rubs his eyes as he makes his way over to the door, wondering if his TV was on too loud again. Last week, Mrs. Heller took him aside and let him know in no uncertain terms that if she had to listen to another woman’s fake orgasm through the wall, she would call the police.

“I will turn the TV down, I promise,” he says as he opens the door, but is surprised to see his partner standing there instead of his neighbor. “Scully? Is everything okay?”

“Happy birthday,” she says, a soft, shy smile on her lips. She holds out her hands, presenting him with a pink cupcake liner full of sunflower seeds and a crooked birthday candle.

“It’s not my-“

“It’s after midnight,” Scully says, lifting an eyebrow. The sight, as well as her sweet gesture, makes him smile.

“Come on in.” Mulder touches her back to lead her inside his apartment. “You could have waited until morning, you know. What if I’d been asleep?”

She throws him a look as she takes off her shoes. So she’s planning on staying. He watches her, trying to catch up with her mindset. Part of him thinks he must be dreaming.

“I know you, Mulder,” she replies easily and walks into the living room. He sees her glance at his TV screen, at the now paused sex scene. She just chuckles and sits down on his couch. “Is that another one those videos that aren’t yours? I wonder who put it in your VCR. Must be a conspiracy.”

“Very funny,” he mumbles, quickly turning it off. She’s still smiling when he sits down next to her. “So, Scully, why exactly are you here?”

“It’s your birthday.” She points at the sunflower seeds and the candle.

“It would have still been my birthday eight hours from now.”

“I couldn’t sleep,” she admits after a moment. “I was thinking of something you said to me once.” She avoids his eyes.

“I say so many things, Scully,” he nudges.

“You do,” she says, looking at him. “But this was about your birthday. You said that after your sister was gone… that you stayed awake all night, thinking that if you didn’t sleep, your birthday wouldn’t happen and you wouldn’t be reminded that she wasn’t there.”

He stares at the cupcake liner again. After Samantha, he stopped celebrating his birthday. It wasn’t always a choice; the first year after his sister’s disappearance, his parents forgot. After that, he decided it didn’t matter anymore. His birthday was just another day, another reminder that Samantha was no longer with them.

“I wanted you to have a happy memory.” Her voice is so soft that Mulder barely catches it.

“Thank you, Scully,” he whispers and then reaches for her, hugging her tightly and burrowing his face in her neck. She’s cool there, the cold, crisp autumn air still clinging to her. He breathes in deep until he just smells her underneath.

“I have an actual gift for you,” she says, running her fingers through his hair. “It hasn’t arrived yet. I only ordered it a few days ago.”

This is enough of a gift for him, he thinks. What else does he need?

“Don’t need anything else.” His words disappear into her skin.

“Oh, you need this,” she says with a chuckle.

“What is it?”

“You’ll have to wait and see. Why don’t you blow out your candle and make a wish?”

Reluctantly, he untangles himself from her. Her cheeks are red, look like they’ve been pinched. They have nothing on her half opened lips, though, beckoning to him.

“Mulder?” she says, drawing his attention away from her mouth. Well, she tries to, anyway. “Make a wish.”

There’s only one thing he wants tonight. He feels greedy for wanting it, for even thinking it, but he closes his eyes and blows out the candle.

“I hope it comes true,” Scully says and he turns to her.

“I hope so, too.” He takes her hand into his. “It’s my birthday, right?” She nods. “So if my wish were this…” Slowly, to give her enough time to stop him, to complain, he leans closer to her. She doesn’t move away. Instead, she moves towards him, meeting him halfway. Her lips against his feel like a promise. He feels like a new man; happy birthday, indeed.

“Was this your wish?” Scully murmurs against his mouth.

“Part of it,” he says, teasing her bottom lip. “It was a little less PG than this.”

“Hmm, then maybe we should move this party elsewhere. I know you have a bedroom, Mulder.”

“I do.” He kisses her again, needing to taste more of her. He’s never been patient and with her so close to him, with him being allowed to do this, no one can stop him. “But we have to be quiet,” he says, thinking of Mrs. Heller. The memory of his 70-year-old neighbor makes him cringe and his cock shrivel in fear.

“Why?” Scully, to his greatest joy, is as impatient as he is, her hand wandering under his shirt, brushing the waistband of his jeans and making him shiver.

“My neighbor,” he says in between kisses, trying to steer them towards his bedroom, “said if she hears another fake orgasm through my wall, she will call the police.”

“Oh Mulder,” Scully says, laughing against him. “I doubt anything she'll hear tonight will be fake.”

“Let’s go celebrate my birthday.”

They aren’t quiet.

[ardentaislinn]

Yuletide Letter 2021

Hi! I am also ardentaislinn on AO3. Thank you so much for volunteering to write one of my chosen fandoms! I really can’t wait to see what you come up with. Most importantly, I hope you have fun writing whichever of my fandoms it is. Any suggestions I make here are optional.

Here you’ll find:

My general likes

My DNWs

And prompts for the following fandoms:

반도 | Peninsula (2020) (aka Train to Busan 2) - Jung Seok, Min Jung, Joon Yi, Yoo Jin

Free Guy (2021) - Millie Rusk, Walter “Keys” McKeys

Automatic (1995) - J269, Nora Rochester

Zombie Detective | 좀비탐정 - Kim Moo Young/Kang Min Ho, Gong Sun Ji

You Can't Sit With Us - Sunmi (Music Video) - Any (Girl Gang Leader, Girl Gang Member with Slicked Back Hair, Girl Gang Member with Pink Machine Gun, Worldbuilding)

My Likes:

I like getting together fics most of all. I love almost every kind of romance trope (fake dating, slow burn, enemies/rivals-to-lovers, “unrequited” pining (that is really requited), marriage of convenience/arranged marriage, bed sharing, trapped together, etc.) Also, casefic, epistolary fic, consent, forbidden pleasures, beta heroes, found families, masquerades, military kink, physical imperfections, ladies being badass and female relationships (whether romantic or friendship), relationships that build tension before exploding, first kisses, equal relationships, competence, communication, U/RST, positive endings.

You may notice from the below that my ships mostly involve sweet and occasionally broken men being secretly head over heels for badass ladies, (and usually not feeling worthy). So that dynamic is strongly encouraged.

I also like smut, but it certainly isn’t a necessity. For smut, I’m (sadly) fairly vanilla. But I like light bondage, cunnilingus, shower sex, and accidental/consensual voyeurism, (Particularly guys taking matters into their own hands when they think they can’t be with their lady, and the woman stumbling across him mid-act. Possibly my favourite kink ever? Writer’s choice whether the woman joins in or gets embarrassed)

Happy endings (or at least hopeful endings) are preferred. Like, super, super preferred. I don’t mind angst at all, but it kinda has to be on the way out of the darkness by the end.

I have noticed that this year I've requested fics with interesting crossover potential - particularly with regards to Korean zombie canons. It was a total accident - I'm usually neither here nor there on crossovers - but I'm totally down this year if it inspires you!

Dislikes/DNWs:

Miserable endings. Death of requested characters. Baby/Pregnancy fic. Humiliation. Drug use/drug mentions/addiction. Self harm/abuse. Non-con/rape. Heavy kink. A/B/O. M-Preg. Incest. Bestiality, animal harm etc. Underage sexual content. 1st person POV (unless for epistolary). Not big on high school AUs or Rock band AUs. Unbalanced power dynamics in ships without acknowledging/exploring that.

A quick note on the Korean names - I’m fine with however you choose to transliterate them. Hyphen/no hyphen, slight differences in romanisation, etc. Just do what you are comfortable with and I’ll adjust no problem. No need to add the honourifics, though

I think that’s it?

And so, to the fandoms, in no particular order:

반도 | Peninsula (2020) (aka Train to Busan 2)

Jung Seok, Min Jung, Joon Yi, Yoo Jin

While maybe objectively not as good a film as the first one, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Given that it was essentially a cross between Escape From New York and Mad Max, what isn’t to love? I loved the expansion of the world and the clever uses of zombies in the chase scenes. And I loved that the message was that being logical and self-sacrificing isn’t always the right choice - sometimes you should be driven by heart and empathy. And I really liked the idea that anything can mean happiness when you love and are loved in return - particularly in regards to Joon Yi, but also Jung Seok (and his found family?).

I would love if Jung Seok and Min Jung got together. I do think it would be a bit emotionally messy - they both have baggage (and likely PTSD), but that could be interesting to explore.

What would interest me the most in this fandom is post-movie fics. But if you wanna do a canon divergent/au thing, I’d be cool with that, too.

Some prompts:

Joon Yi struggles a lot more than her sister to readjust to a “normal” life

In order to stay together after being rescued, Jung Seok and Min Jung have to pretend to be married

After four long years of loneliness, Min Jung just wants to be touched

Jung Seok isn’t surprised to find himself in love with Min Jung - and wanting to be a father to her girls - but is he good enough for them? He’s left them behind once - can he forgive himself? Can Min Jung?

The zombie plague escapes from Korea - and Jung Seok, Min Jung, and her girls are the closest thing to experts on how to fight back and contain it that the authorities have. Will their nightmare never be over? Or is this a chance to end it once and for all?

With Min Jung in hospital while her leg heals, Jung Seok suddenly finds himself a surrogate father to two very unruly girls.

Jung Seok and Min Jung end up writing letters to each other - maybe after Jung Seok is drafted into the zombie-fighting army. (Or maybe Min Jung is the one who is drafted and he looks after the girls?) I imagine it might be awkward at first but both of them could grow to love it.

A bit of Worldbuilding? We've seen a bit of what the world is like outside of Korea, but maybe an expansion of that elsewhere through the eyes of one of these characters.

Their first X together as a family? (Christmas, Chuseok, etc) Is it melancholy or filled with relief? Or both?

The family team up with the characters from Zombie Detective or You Can't Sit With Us and aren't quite sure what to make of them.

I'm happy if you want to write a story featuring/focusing on just the adults or just the kids!

Free Guy (2021)

Millie Rusk, Walter “Keys” McKeys

This movie was so much fun! I thought I'd enjoy it before going into it, but I liked it even more than expected. I liked that it tried to have a message about treating people (even fictional ones) better. And that your fate isn't written. But it didn't take itself too seriously. I was highly entertained.

Given that I'm trash for stories where men pine for women who (they think) are too good for them, I clearly shipped Millie and Keys together. I was really surprised but happy with how they resolved things between her and Guy. Ultimately, I'd love more of the getting together part of this ship but also post- and pre-canon would be good, too!

Prompts:

What happens during/after the kiss? Do they go straight to bed or do they have some lingering things to clear up first?

What kind of adventures do they get up to together inside the game? Or a different game they didn't create?

Does the memory of Millie kissing Guy (twice!) cause some lingering jealousy for Keys?

How does Millie feel about Keys' porno cop look IRL?

What did their first meeting look like? And how were the early days of their friendship?

Millie and Keys must use their software development/gaming skills to save the (real?) world.

What happens if some of the AIs from the game somehow get downloaded into the real world like coma patients or experimental robots? What kind of chaos ensues? If Antwan finds out he'll try to use it to his advantage, so how do they stop him?

An AU in which Millie didn't watch the video or didn't figure out what it meant?

Millie and Keys try to play wingman for Guy.

Given that a lot of this canon happens online - feel free to use chat logs or other formats to tell a story!

Automatic (1995)

J269, Nora Rochester

This movie is pretty obscure and hard to find, so here's a link on YouTube!

I love cyborg movies. I love almost-innocent heroes that need to learn how to Person, and the heroines that see them as more human than they are. Despite the obviously low budget of this movie, it’s one of my absolute favourite versions of this trope.

I’m most interested in post-canon fic for this, but I’d really be so thrilled to read anything! I’m fairly certain there’s no fic at all for this movie.

Prompts:

What happens after the movie ends? The two are now on the run. How do they survive? What do they learn about the world and each other? Are there other cyborgs out there? Are they being hunted? This is an opportunity to explore further world-building, too!

How does Nora deal with learning what she did about herself at the end of the movie? (Trying not to spoil it!) She’s probably pretty traumatised and maybe kind of angry about everything that happened.

Did they meet before the movie starts, but one or both had their memories wiped?

What’s their first time like?

J269 learning how to be a person and everything that entails. What kind of mistakes does he make that almost give the game away? What does he like and dislike about being “human”?

J269 dealing with Feelings for the first time and not knowing what to do with them. Nora wants him to make a move but he doesn’t quite Get It.

If they are on the run...bed sharing. Huddling for warmth. U/RST. Fake-relationship. Trope-y goodness.

Zombie Detective | 좀비탐정

Kim Moo Young | Kang Min Ho, Gong Sun Ji

Admittedly I wasn't sure what to make of this show at first. It's a horror comedy, and those two elements don't always mesh perfectly. But I ended up really liking it! It's silly at times but that's part of the fun.

The thing I liked most was actually the clever way they explained how he could be a zombie but also a functional person. Basically someone with special powers but also kinda dead? Amazing. If you want to do a bit of world building around this element I'd be cool with that, too. But also, around how being a zombie and being in a relationship works.

I like that he's a mixture of confidence and feeling unworthy. I feel like his line at the end "How can anyone date a zombie?" is something that he kinda believes and kinda doesn't. I like that! And I like that she's spunky and brave and has her own strengths to match his.

Prompts:

What happens when Moo Young meets another zombie like him? Is it evil? Is it a pretty girl? Is it an evil, pretty girl? Is Sun Ji jealous?

There are zombies in this world, so are there vampires? Werewolves? Ghosts? Gumihos? Do Moo Young and Sun Ji fight with them or team up with them? Or does Sun Ji become a supernatural creature herself?

Casefic! Maybe the murder at the end is more complicated than it first appears? Or maybe one of their friends goes missing?

Fake relationship? Bed sharing? Other tropey goodness?

What happens right after they meet again at the Halloween party? How do they get together from there?

Can Moo Young even get it up? Being dead and all. Does he have to find other ways to please Sun Ji?

I know I said no pregnancy/baby fic and usually that's true...but in this case I'm weirdly fascinated by the idea of Sun Ji getting pregnant by a zombie and whatever half-dead superpowered baby might result. Consider it world building? And whatever emotional consequences it might have for the characters. Happiness? Certainly. Nerves? Probably. Horror? Potentially…

I assume that they make at least some of their money by finding missing people (dead or alive) with Moo Young's special sense of smell. This could be funny or poignant, depending, but maybe they also get in trouble with the law? How do they explain...everything?

Can Moo Young ever really be human again? What if Sun Ji decides she doesn't want him to be?

You Can't Sit With Us - Sunmi (Music Video)

Any (Girl Gang Leader, Girl Gang Member with Slicked Back Hair, Girl Gang Member with Pink Machine Gun, Worldbuilding)

Link to the music video!

This music video is extremely up my alley. Mostly the part when cute girls in cute clothes start killing the crap out of zombies! It's very my jam.

So I'd love an expansion on that idea! I'm undecided on whether the zombie outbreak has been happening for a while and the women were just shocked to find them invading a safe oasis, or whether the zombies are a new threat. Either way is fine for me!

While I'm not really married to a romance in this canon, if it inspires you I'd prefer f/f or f/f/f, but background m/f is fine too if you want to keep the girls as friends! I don’t have any headcanons on names for these characters, but if possible please don’t name them after the actresses (eg Sunmi).

Prompts:

Origin story! How did the girls meet? How did they get their skills and weapon cache? Were they a gang of assassins before the zombie outbreak or did they learn after the fact? Were they enemies or friends first?

What happens after the video? It looks like the leader and her zombie boyfriend are about to get arrested. How do her friends get her out of that mess? (Both the arrest and the boyfriend?)

What kind of adventures do they have together in the apocalypse? How do they keep their clothes looking cute and their hair perfect? (This can be a little tongue in cheek if you’d like!) Are they the Cher Horowitzs of the apocalypse?

Crossover with one of my other zombie requests! Do the family from Peninsula meet the girls on their travels? Do the girls try to kill Moo Young from Zombie Detective and then bond with Sun Ji? You can even make the girls villains or antagonists if you like!

This definitely had a mix of retro vibes - flip phones and video stores, etc, with the song itself and the apartment more 80s - was this set in an alternate universe? A simulation? A video game? Or did they create this world themselves as a nostalgic refuge?

The girls have a rival gang that's a bit T-birds to their pink ladies. Maybe also an all-girl gang? Do they compete for kills? Reluctantly help each other? Kiss each other? Try to kill each other? All of the above?

There's a From Dusk Til Dawn reference in there. Are there also vampires around? Does one of the girls become a vampire or a zombie and her friends have to help her?

An arranged marriage situation? Idk, it's the apocalypse, go wild!

What do celebrations look like in this world? Holidays, weddings, etc?

How did the world get to where we see it in the video? I’d be down for an unusual format for this one - letters/reports/diaries/other in-universe documents.

Thank you so much! I'm sure I'll enjoy whatever you write but I hope this letter holds some useful inspiration for you!

[gerec]

1, 14, 25!

1. favorite fic you wrote this year

And still he cried, and still the world pursues - It has to be this Greek Mythology AU (my take on the tale of Medusa but with Erik as the Gorgon). It's one of the very rare fics of mine that came fully formed into my head, and every sentence was relatively easy and pain free to write!!!.

14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

Legacy of Sin - This whole entire verse came from a Kink Meme Fest prompt that grabbed me by the jugular and just WOULD..NOT..LET..GO. I cannot believe how much fun it's been to write poor omega!Erik and all this terrible, taboo, dirtybadpornz lmao.

25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

The Edge of What Doesn’t End by populuxe (Cherik)

When a mysterious object appears on the moon, Moira MacTaggert calls in two experts with very specific mutations to investigate.

Unfortunately for everyone involved, after years of breaking up and getting back together again, those two experts have finally broken up for good—and they’re the last people in the world who should be stuck together on a spaceship.

I don't want to ruin this by giving anything away but it is a MUST READ if you love that push/pull dynamic between Charles and Erik where they can't be together but can't stay apart. Also, there's a trip into space and love confessions in the face of danger and so much UST/RST it blew me away!

fanfic end of the year asks

[baronessblixen]

Hellooo ! I think i'm the one who sent you the message you missed. It was a prompt but i can't remember which one: Mulder touching Scully's nose or Mulder claiming that he gives the best backrubs (ust to rst). Would you be interested ? :)

Hi, sorry for the late reply, I didn’t see it!! 

I AM interested! Please let me know which prompt you’d want to read more and I’d love to write it. They’re both super cute! (I cannot promise the second one would actually turn into smut territory).

I hope you see this, anon!