#i dont know which fic in this verse this chapter will fall into yet but its probably not going to be in golden girl

[xawkward-ariesx]

It has been her reality since she stood beside the wound between universes and chose the stars over the life she'd been born to. 

Unknown chapter, Golden Series.

[stormwarnings]

fic writer interview

i was tagged by @lemurious thank you :D

name: im stormwarnings on tumblr/ao3

fandoms: all for the game, tolkien (silm and lotr), and got dragged back into supernatural kicking and screaming

where you post: mostly ao3, but i put stuff thats less polished on tumblr too

most popular one-shot: doubt thou the stars be fire, my aftg fall exchange fic! its not my best, but i guess people like it which makes me happy

most popular multi-chap: black, the night that ends at last which was actually the first fic i ever wrote. i think its alright - i think my writing has definitely improved a lot since i started it in april. im glad people like it though, and its a wip but itll get finished someday :)

favorite story youve written so far: either my silm ‘fix-it’ bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh or my legolas/gimli orpheus and eurydice retelling we raise our cups

fic you were nervous to post: probably black, the night that ends at last because it deals with things pretty close to my heart, and also - first fic ever lmao

how do you choose your titles: music? random phrases that float into my head? a line of poetry thats just chilling? absolutely no clue its random

do you outline: lmao sometimes not frequently tho, id definitely benefit from doing so and maybe id have less wips but then again im bad at finishing stuff so probably not

complete: im not gonna leave any of my stories incomplete - ill finish them eventually. rn 19/23 fics on my ao3 are finished

in progress: ahaha ive got 4 fics according to ao3 that are incomplete - black (aftg longfic), see your face wasn’t quite as i remember (lotr era eldritchyness and sibling vibes), bone of my bone (silm fix it), and people like us (silm modern au with crime families). once i finish bone of my bone, i intend to add more stories to the 'verse (like the dawn) including ones centered around characters, and a chapter fic centered around the line of elu thingol and doriath. plus, ive still got a few more characters to go in my eldritch peredhil series, whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it

coming soon/not started yet: my aftg rbb fic, which im super excited tho slightly stymied by! plus my tss fic, which is almost done, but after that i intend to update some of my wips. im also writing a genderbent spn au bc im gay and love girls and terrifying angels

prompts: sure go wild i enjoy writing short things for other people when i can muster the productivity

upcoming work youre most excited about: the dang supernatural fic how did i get here i swore id never go back - but also seriously hyped to write more of my silm fix it whenever i manage to get around to it

i tag: uhh i dont actually know who hasnt been tagged? @thatfeanorian, @withfantasticgarlands, @xirinofarvada, and anyone else who wants to

[shoheiakagi]

21 QUESTIONS

tagged by @beckyshtar, ty!

RULES: Answer 21 questions and then tag 21 people you want to get to know better.

i don’t actually know 21 people to tag so i’m just gonna tag the few people i talk to over here: @yumidarkheart,  @aka-no-o,  @cat-the-spade, @redloveashes, and @anewmourning

1. HEIGHT: somewhere between 5′3-5′4 (im short, i know)

2. ZODIAC: taurus

3. LAST MOVIE I SAW: a rewatch of mor and two prince of tennis movies

4. FAVORITE MUSICIAN: uhh ariana grande, i guess? i mean i dont like all of her songs and sometimes she annoys me but she really is talented. i also like bts even tho i haven’t listened to all of their songs (i’m basic, i know) OH AND GORILLAZ

5. FAVORITE AUTHOR: n/a

6. FAVORITE FANFICTION:  i don’t have a fave but:

i really like shouhei’s chapter in this one reader x character fic since this is how i envision my favorite part time thug to act when he’s trying to woo someone

this is a really lovely homra centric one shot that manages to give a good enough screentime to all members. also, the characterization here is really good

idk about you guys, but i love the idea of dark!homra, in which they’re just as bad, if not worse, than the gangs they target. even tho its not complete and it features a ship im not fond of, this fic is definitely my fave k fic. i love how detailed the characters (even the minor ones) were, how certain characters (eric) are actually pretty terrifying and sadistic, how the members pretty much lead a double life to keep their identities hidden, how even the least violent members (totsuka and anna) are just as dark, and how unlike canon, they’re def not a found family trope or a group of friends. the members only interact with each other during meetings and missions. really, if dark!homra (and saru/mi) is your jam, then read this fic!! it’s totally worth it.

another saru/mi one shot that features some drunk homra members. the humor and dialogues here are a+, and who wouldn’t want to read a fic where some dumbass homra members spend their saturday nights drunk af in their local mcdonalds?

a saru/mi fic thats set in an idol verse. im pretty sure unlike idol k, this fic is set up in an au where it’s similar to the kpop/jpop industry. so we have solo artists yata & fushimi plus boy groups consisting of homra & s4 abc boys + kamamoto. a really fun fic and i mentioned before how even tho hes not the main character here, this fic has the best characterization for shouhei imo.

7. FAVORITE MOVIE: i really enjoyed moonlight

8. FAVORITE ANIME: mm i don’t think i have any fave. i mean i guess prince of tennis would’ve qualified at one point but idrc about it anymore. if there was an anime just based on homra and ALL of its core members, then that def would be my fave

9. PLAY ANY INSTRUMENTS?:  nope

10. RANDOM FACT: i have three exams this tuesday but i haven’t studied yet even tho its sunday and i have work on monday im so screwed

11. LUCKY NUMBER: uhh 3? or maybe 5

12. DO YOU GET ASKS?:  sometimes. usually w/e i reblog an ask meme

13. FAVORITE FANDOM(S): don’t have any but i’ll admit that the k fandom is the only fandom i actually make shitposts, incorrect posts, and a few headcanons for along with edits

14. FAVORITE SONG:  don’t have one. if i really like a song, i have a bad habit of replaying it over and over again to the point where i get tired of the song

15. WHAT ARE YOU WEARING: pjs

16. HAIR COLOR: black

17. EYE COLOR: black

18. FAVORITE FOOD: you can never go wrong with a good burger

19. HOBBIES: daydreaming, listening to music, wasting time online

20. FAVORITE WEATHER: when its warm and sunny w/o being super hot (spring) or if its cloudy and slightly chilly (fall)

21. FAVORITE SUPERHERO(S): donna troy/wondergirl/troia, starfire, nightwing, wonder woman, batman, stephanie brown/spoiler/batgirl, etc. im pretty much a dc girl.

[therightprometheanfire]

A Soundtrack For Your WIP

@dont-offend-the-bees tagged me in this the other day and I am for once getting something I was tagged in done in a sensible amount of time!! The shock!! The astonishment!! Thank you for the tag, lovely, this was fun! :)

As for other people to tag, I’m tagging @lavellington, @farah-adrienne-black, and @elijahwoodnot! Do it if you feel like it/have time/what have ye.

A snippet of your work in progress

The theme song for your WIP

The theme song for your protagonist

The theme song for your antagonist

The theme song for your protagonist’s love interest (if they have one)

The theme song for the main pairing of your WIP

The theme song for the opening chapter (if it’s a long fic)

Song for the current chapter/page (if it’s a long fic)

Any other songs you’d like to mention and why:

For this tag, I’m doing the much discussed Priestverse that @princessparadoxical and I have going! Answers + links under the cut.

SOME NOTES ABOUT THE VERSE FIRST

So this verse is essentially a giant roadtrip AU we started I think literally the day Alan Tudyk was announced as being cast for Mr. Priest where Todd, Farah, Amanda, Ken, and Vogel bust their folk out of Blackwing. They then split off into teams and start fleeing across the country from Mr. Priest and Friedkin, who are pursuing them in an effort to drag the subjects back to Blackwing. Priest and Friedkin develop a laser focus on Todd and Dirk because they keep evading them and it becomes a matter of personal pride for them.

When I say over the course of this post “the verse proper” or “the fic proper”, that’s because we envision the bulk of the verse as being that long road trip and then there’ll be stories afterwards, so “the verse/fic proper” means “the road trip”.

A snippet of your work

(this is in the middle of a chunk where Todd comes down with the flu not too long before they get together while they’re on the road which pushes at his inhibitions at physical contact from most folk and his hangups about experiencing it even when he wants to)

When Todd wakes up, he feels not really better, but his head feels a little clearer. He recognizes this at the same time he recognizes that his face is resting against Dirk’s collarbone. His hand is drifting up and down Todd’s arm, chin tucked on top of his head. Todd thinks about pressing closer. Then something occurs to him and he blinks, leaning back.

“Oh no,” he mumbles.

“What?” Dirk moves next to him. “What’s wrong?”

“I shouldn’t be…” he sits up quickly, intending to rise to his feet. It would probably be better if he didn’t get very abruptly dizzy, his vision getting a little foggy. “Oh god.”

“Whoa, don’t do that.” Dirk immediately steadies him. Todd blinks and sees his concerned face. He’s got a little bit of bedhead. It’s cute. “What is it, do you feel worse?”

“No, I can’t… I can’t be…” Todd blinks hazily. “I’ll get you sick.”

Dirk’s anxious face immediately lapses into eyerolling and maybe a little annoyance. “Oh, for the love of god, Todd.”

“Don’t-“

“Don’t don’t me, just sit back down.”

“But-“

Dirk gives him a severe look. “Todd. It is too late and you are too sick to worry about cross contamination.”

“I don’t wanna-“

Dirk leans over to the nightstand and grabs a small Gatorade bottle. “Hush, you’re going to overexert yourself and then I’m going to be cross.”

Maybe Dirk’ll let him at least put a little space between the two of them. It’d kill Todd, a little bit, he thinks, but maybe Dirk would fare better. “Can I just-“

“Probably not. Now drink this, and stay still. Your fever’s a little better but I’m still getting a new cloth for your forehead.” Dirk peels the cloth off gently. “And yes, you do need one, on account of the fact that the black plague has returned, and it has set its sights on its first victim.”

Todd grumbles but he settles back into the bed, drinking from the Gatorade bottle. It does manage to make his throat, which has ripped into flames, feel a little better, at least. Dirk returns with a cool cloth. His forehead feels a little better almost immediately.

“You’re really good at this,” Todd mumbles.

“Yes, well. Took a lot of trial and error. I mostly figured out how to take care of myself when I was sick by myself when I was sick.”

“You’re still good at it. S’nice.”

Dirk smiles a little fondly at him as he takes the Gatorade bottle from him and tosses it off the bed. Todd’s a little confused until he realizes he finished it. “I seem to recall one currently very ill individual telling me once upon a time that I was surprisingly incapable.”

“They sound like they’d probably be regretting that statement right about now.” Todd yawns wide. “You’re very capable. Sort of. You still eat like a child.” He’s starting to feel drifty and sleepy again. He motions for Dirk. “If you’re gonna insist on me getting you sick, then come back here.” He sneezes. Dirk grabs a tissue box as he settles back next to him. “Jesus, you’re so prepared.”

Dirk’s face does something funny as Todd blows his nose. “I… may have panicked a little bit at the pharmacy and… overloaded. On the bright side, we are very ready for a disease based apocalypse.”

the theme song of your WIP

ahhhhh fuck. We have so many songs accumulated for titles for chapters/stories in this verse it’s wild. The name of the entire verse (the proper name, not Priestverse as shorthand) is “but i will love you constantly (there’s precious little else to me)” from Hot Gates by Mumford & Sons, and that song is a little more bitter about the other person in the relationship than the verse is when it comes to the two of them. Probably The Deepest of Sighs, The Frankest Shadows by Gang of Youths, a song that Hannah introduced me to (“I will stand in the darkness and laugh with my heel on its throat” is a very Priestverse line), and I think there’s a lot of When You Were Young by The Killers in there (“we’re burning down the highway skyline/on the back of a hurricane that started turning when you were young” is also a very Priestverse line). Honestly, the thing is so huge at this point that I don’t know if there’s one song that can fit the whole span of it.

the theme song of your protagonist

almost the entirety of this verse proper is just Dirk and Todd rattling around the country and getting closer in a succession of cars and a variety of motel rooms, so to pick one of them out as a particular protagonist is hard, but it’s from Todd’s POV. Again, this verse is vast, and Todd undergoes significant character development throughout the course of it. The guy gets better at handling and processing and expressing his feelings and it’s this whole rocky kinda road, so finding one song for him is tricky. But Kamikaze by Walk the Moon is probably a decent shot, as well as Warning Call by CHVRCHES and The Cave by Mumford & Sons.

the theme song of your antagonist

the two main antagonists are Friedkin and Priest. Wilson is ostensibly the chief villain, but I’m not sure we ever actually see her in the verse, now that I think about it. She sets Priest and Friedkin on the two of them and I don’t think we really see her, she’s just pulling the strings. I don’t know if the lyrics fit super accurately, but reading this question, the very first thing I thought of for Priest was the cover of Bad Moon Rising by Mourning Ritual, cause it’s real slow and menacing. As for Friedkin, I’m not 100% sure (something scary but also kinda manic) but seeing as it only says antagonist singular and not plural, I’m grabbing that and running with it cause I got Priest down.

the theme song for your protagonist’s love interest (if they have one)

fuck me, I’m not sure. Dirk is a bundle of insecurities, self doubt, and self loathing (although it manifests differently to Todd’s self loathing, something I’m actually intending to touch on in a bit for the verse I’m working on in a couple days), but also a bundle of extreme determination and love. He also goes through significant character development over the course of the work (better grasping his self worth as well as better conveying his emotions similarly to how Todd does). Grah, this would be so much easier if I picked a smaller verse. I think The Last of the Real Ones by Fall Out Boy is a pretty Dirk song for this verse, and that’s probably the closest off the top of my head, but I’m sure there’s loads more.

the theme song of the main pairing of your WIP

actually two rise to mind for this, and one of them makes sense and the other doesn’t entirely. The first is Everlasting Light by The Black Keys, which is a song about love and relying on each other, which fits. The second song is Old College Try by The Mountain Goats, which as anyone who follows me knows is one of my all time favorite songs in the history of music, but is also about a couple facing the end of their marriage but resolving to face it together. However, seeing as in the song it is not depicted as specifically the end of their marriage but the end of the two of them, a lot of the lyrics are pretty fitting (“I will walk down to the end with you/if you will come all the way down with me” is pretty damn Priestverse), so I’m counting it.

the theme song for the opening chapter if it’s a long WIP

The way Hannah and I are currently discussing structuring this verse is not as a story with a boatload of chapters, but a series on AO3 with a boatload of stories, some of which may have chapters. We have a prologue-y kinda story set for the verse, but seeing as it has not yet been written (or even mapped out very much), I’m gonna go with the first chapter of the first story of the verse proper, which opens with Todd, Farah, Amanda, Ken, and Vogel busting into Blackwing to break out their people. The song I’ve been thinking about a lot is, predictably, Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy.

the theme song for the current chapter/page (if it’s a long fic)

I’m actually working on a few different chunks of the fic right now, from Todd’s first pararibulitis attack in front of Dirk to the two of them discussing feelings on a park bench not too long after they actually get together to the two of them wandering through an IKEA closer to the end of the fic. I’m gonna pick out C’mon by Panic! at the Disco and Fun. for that last one, which is not a perfect fit, but the lyric “with everything falling down around me/I’d like to believe in all the possibilities” is integral to the whole theme of that chapter/story/whatever it ends up being and really towards their state of mind towards the end of the fic.

any other songs you’d like to mention and why

This is what my word program currently looks like. The first bit tab there is a doc where I type out all the chunks of all our various verses as I work on them. The third tab is what I sent Hannah a few weeks ago that was all the chunks of the Priestverse organized as you may be able to guess chronologically. The fourth tab is the actual rough draft doc for the entire verse, where I’m putting everything in chronologically and separating the story chunks out as I’m thinking they’re going to have to be published, to be sent to Hannah once it’s in a sizable/coherent state. In the fourth tab I have a list of lyrics/quotes to be used as chapter or story titles, and it goes on two full pages. This sounds like I’m being irritable or bitchy, but honestly, I’m so fucking excited to share this with y’all, so it’s me being thorough and not cranky.

(the tab that’s open now is where I’m typing all this out so I don’t lose it if tumblr glitches out and the second tab is a separate fic I’m working on that’s essentially an amnesia fic set in a pocket dimension where you can absolutely tell that I loved Waiting for Godot in high school)

So there’s a lot of songs and a lot of them as you may have guessed by now are Mumford & Sons. But the ones I would personally throw in there (that haven’t already been mentioned) are:

-Coloring Outside the Lines by MisterWives because there is a lot of angst in this verse, but there’s also a lot of light and joy, and I think this fits the silver lining of the verse nicely

-Roll Away Your Stone by Mumford & Sons, almost entirely because I picture the whole “stars, hide your fires/these are my desires” part of the song as being Dirk’s feelings about being his own person with himself and with Todd

-Bury It by CHVRCHES ft. Hayley Williams and I can’t state all the ways this song is applicable at this current time but trust me it is

-Press Restart by Walk the Moon because the lyrics “I am not the subject/I am the experiment/I am mad scientist/invent my way out of this” has always felt very Dirk to me and I think I actually mentioned in one of the two layouts for this verse I have with Hannah that I think Dirk eventually gets a “I am not the subject/I am the experiment” tattoo at one point.

I’m gonna end with those because I could go on for a while. Hannah and I are pushing hard to get this thing done in the next few months so we can show it to y’all, and I can’t wait till you get to see it! Hannah, any thoughts?

[timelordthirteen]

Popular Fic - OUAT Edition

Tagged by the lovely @thatravenclawbitch, @emospritelet, and @thescholarlystrumpet 

What are your five most popular works by kudos? (in descending order)

1. Bragging Rights Kudos: 290 Rumbelle non-magical AU: Based on this prompt from Tumblr: After having sex Mr. Gold excuses himself to the restroom. When he's out of the room Belle quickly calls Ruby & raves on about how fantastic Mr. Gold is in bed. Belle does not realize that Gold is hearing the whole conversation. It started as a one-shot but because of the efforts of a delightful Anon, who is one of my favorite unknown people ever, and a few others, it is now multiple chapters of the smutty shenanigans and relationship development of two awkward idiots.

2. Working Out Kudos: 281 Rumbelle non-magical AU: Mr. Gold, hopelessly in love with Belle French, the town librarian, overhears a conversation between her Ruby about the appeal of well muscled, beefy men. Misinterpreting that this is Belle's type of man, he joins the local gym to work out. Rather unsuccessfully. AKA The Rumbelle Gym fic. AKA the silly idea that could. I am forever surprised by how much love this fic got, but also completely delighted. It’s now part of a series only because I have received so many asks and prompts that spawned tons of ficlets that it all had to have a home. Working Out is the primary fic, but Intervals is the sometimes naughty collection of all the other stuff. I really do plan to finish this thing this year. I swear it.

3. Upon Reflection Kudos: 245 Rumbelle non-magical AU: Boss!Gold and assistant!Belle go on a business trip, only to find that there is only one room and they have to share a bed. With mirrors on the ceiling. Written for a-monthly-rumbelling, I shoved some of my favorite tropes into this including bed sharing and mutual pining, and along the way I made mirror sex a pretty entertaining thing to write. It’s multi chapter but you can jump in anywhere since it’s just a lot of smut and dorks being in love.

4. As My Lady Commands Kudos: 158 Rumbelle EF AU: After Rumplestiltskin accidentally slays a dragon, he is rewarded with knighthood. But with war on the horizon and the Dark One under the control of their enemy, an attempt on her life forces Princess Belle to flee her kingdom with only the reluctant knight Sir Rumplestiltskin to protect her. It’s slated to be about 25 chapters in total, slow burn, plotty, magical AU fic that only a few people cared about it. It was probably silly of me to dive into such a thing being, at the time, basically unknown in this fandom. It probably has so many comments and kudos because it’s 12 chapters. I do plan to finish it someday, but there’s no motivation right now and I’m not sure anyone would care if I did. Which is sad because I think it’s my best world building, the plot is pretty good, and I have a planned sequel that I think is even better. At some point it will fall off the list into oblivion.

5. For Rent Kudos: 152 Rumbelle non-magical AU: Librarian Belle finds out she has to leave her apartment immediately, and is desperate to find a new place to live. Mr. Gold arrives at the library at the right time and not only provides some comfort to a distraught Miss French, but solves her accommodations problem as well. Of course he has a slight ulterior motive, his crush on the lovely librarian, who is about to be his neighbor and tenant. I have no idea why this is so popular. I guess because it’s cute and fluffy and mostly harmless? There’s probably two or three chapters left of it unless I get more prompts.

What are your five least popular works by kudos? (in ascending order)

1. And the Heart is Hard to Translate Kudos: 8 Snowing and Gremma, canon compliant (at the time) one-shot. This was my first ever OUAT fic, written immediately after Snow Falls aired and posted back on LJ. I ported it to AO3 with it’s original posting date, which is likely why it has virtually no kudos or attention.

2. I’m Not Going Anywhere Kudos: 12 Swanfire written for the angsty prompt fic meme. AU where Neal lives and is present before, during, and after the Dark Swan arc. Emma has a nightmare and Neal is there to comfort her. This is something I wished had happened. Probably so few kudos because it’s Swanfire? IDK.

3. Something to Talk About Kudos: 18 Rumbelle crack. beastlycheese requested: I would really like you to write me a story where.. Rumple goes after the real authors and when he gets the worms that call themselves, oh I dont know... Andrew and Edward say. He turns them into gargoyles (no need to change their faces) and sticks them on the wall above the bed in the dark castle Goldstiltskin and Belle then enjoy many happy ever afters. I cannot believe I wrote this. Don’t read it.

4. And Love Comes Back Around Again Kudos: 19 Really short Rumbelle semi-canon compliant post-series AU fluff. I wrote this for Rumbelle is Hope. It’s short and not very good. Kid fic.

5. Of Things We Should Forget Kudos: 22 Rumbelle cursed AU. My first ever Rumbelle fic, written immediately after Skin Deep aired in 2012. I posted it on LJ way back and then ported it to AO3 with it’s original post date, which is of course why it likely got no attention. The tags make it sound worse than it is. It’s something I am planning to use for an expanded verse someday, but it is what it is.

I don’t know who hasn’t done this yet, so tagging: @mariequitecontrarie, @leni-ba, @still-searching47, @rufeepeach, @ifishouldvanish