#i have an Inuyasha ''rewrite''

[myheartismadeofstars]

After watching Dororo 2019 I have a few thoughts:

1: Hyakkimaru is adorable. He's just so awkward and sweet at times. Him nuzzling everything is literally one of the cutest things I've seen.

2: I refuse to acknowledge Jukai, Nui, and Tahomaru's deaths. They survived the fire, and started over, together. Jukai and Nui also gradually fall in love because I think it'd be cute for Hyakkimaru's two mamas to get together. Everyone still THINKS they died, so when Hyakkimaru and Tahomaru see each other again it's awkward, and a surprise. I just want the brothers to love each other!!

3: my fiance and I kept comparing the series to Inuyasha. I think it would be interesting to see a crossover between them. I think Inuyasha would throw Hyakkimaru for a loop lol. But a few interactions I really want: Hyakkimaru and Miroku (I like to emphasize Miroku's kindness and intelligence more than his negative traits, and I think he'd find Hyakkimaru interesting, and Hyakkimaru could have some interesting thoughts on both of them being cursed. however Miroku being a bad influence on Dororo is also extremely funny), Hyakkimaru and Kikyo (both are "half" people. He has half his body and is working to get it back, Kikyo has half her soul, and literally can't get her soul back without killing Kagome. Despite typically being quite gentle and kind, especially to children, she's also supportive of Hyakkimaru's revenge. Honestly I ship it and think it would be cute AF for them to get together. I refuse to ship him with Dororo, because she's a child when they start hinting at it... Nah, that's his kid sister.) and finally, Dororo and Rin (a girl their age to play with! They are both tough little girls who may witness horrors but remain cheerful and love their freakishly violent companion. Also the image of them meeting Sesshomaru would be incredible. He's NOT a good demon, but he doesn't gaf about humans one way or another. I wonder if Hyakkimaru would have enough self preservation to NOT try and fight him)

4: I really got the vibe that Dororo is now in charge of, at LEAST that village at the end (especially since she's the one funding the rebuild) and I, personally, think that's hilarious, so I go with it immediately. I want 10000 stories about Dororo being treated like an authority figure while being like 8, I love it.

5: Hyakkimaru, how did you FUNCTION??? He had a PROSTHETIC SPINE??? First of all: how??? I have to handwave that with weird magic shenanigans because WHAT?

[kstewdeux]

Hi!! Just wanted to say I've been keeping up with your updates in the MHA universe annnnd I'm so glad to see you're back writing things within the InuYasha fandom again! Also I went back to an old fic of yours and its now under "do not resuscitate fics"? Does that mean its never coming back? Idk which one it was, I might've read every single thing you've made for the Inuyasha fandom thus far

First off, thank you for the ask and I’m glad you like my work. I’m very honored. It's a fair enough question. I will answer it.

To be honest, I didn’t expect anyone to notice or revisit the works I moved. The collection title DNR was a personal joke to myself. Some I hit a brick wall on, some I just never liked because of how I was feeling when I wrote it, and some I thought were best locked away. The ones I moved and why are as follows:

• Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (Mixture of Brick Wall & Anxiety)

• Breaking the Habit & Breaking the Habit Rewrite (Upsetting/Triggering Readers)

• Out of the Blue (How I was Feeling When I Wrote it)

• Unlovable (How I was Feeling When I Wrote it)

• This is Fine, Not Ideal But Fine (This was a partial oneshot which was part of Inuvember 2021 initially but I rewrote it nto an actual story, Everybody Wants to Rule the World (EWRW). EWRW has been completed writing side but the GIFs accompanying it are very involved and I haven’t had a real moment to finish those up. EWRW will be finished eventually (I’m hoping I’ll have a free moment soon.)

Anyway, sorry for moving them. Again, didn’t feel like anyone would notice. I have now moved them back out with exception of Unlovable and Out of the Blue for reasons above delineated. They were not gone forever, just unrevealed, until I figured out what I want to do with them, if anything.

[thirdeyeblue]

20 Questions Game

Thanks for tagging me, @bronzeagepizzeria & @quite-right-too 🤩

How many works do you have on AO3?

28

2. What's your total AO3 words count?

892,591

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Doctor Who

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Bloodstream (Ten x Rose multi-chap)

Tiny Lights Below (Ten x Rose - Tentoo x Rose OT3)

For All We're Worth (Ten x Rose multi-chap)

Mending (Ten x Rose multi-chap)

The Doctor's Brilliant Idea (Ten x Rose multi-chap)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Always always always, but I have a horrible habit of getting behind on replying to them - usually because I'm busy when I get a comment and consistently forget to come back... Then suddenly there's a ton of them. This is a reminder to sit down and tackle my neglected comments, so thanks, thing.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Ordinary Gifts for sure.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I meannnn, all of my fics have at least mostly happy endings, as I'm a baby. But I'd probably say Bloodstream - just considering the odds that have to be overcome to get there.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Never had until my goddamn Martha fic. But thankfully, the hate was on the latter pairing, not my writing. That's the only solace I took from that (along with some badass readers who defended me to a handful of lunatics).

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I write all of the smut! Lengthy, graphic, emotional 'first time' scenes, as well as all subsequent smut. I have a very, very difficult time skipping over sex (have only done it once to date, and intend to write a separate fic to cover the smut I skipped 💀) and will never skip the first time.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

No, never have.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope, thank god.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Somebody translated Bloodstream into Russian, which was fucking cool.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I'm doing it right now with @bronzeagepizzeria and my excitement knows no bounds.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

TenRose/TentooRose, of course.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Had an idea for a fic inspired by To Have and Not Hold by mtemplar, but have never opened the lil WIP again, and that was over a year ago.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Smut?

Also, not sure if this counts - but I'm a perfectionist about my writing. I'm constantly, obsessively rereading, which I do both as I go and when everything is finished. Making alterations, amending this or that, punching up, rewriting/removing whole scenes etc... But I still, of course, make some mistakes here and there.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I write way too goddamn much. Way too much positive reinforcement in the comments of my first fic gave me a weird perma-complex where I don't even feel like a chapter is complete until it's around 10k, which is insane. Somebody save me. This is a serious problem.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I personally don't do it - I'd rather allude to it. For example, from my fic Exposure, since I guess I'm just going all in with this goddamn questionnaire:

He murmurs something soft, something gorgeous, but Rose has got no idea what it is— only that it's far too structured to be sleepy gibberish. There's an almost-Italian-but-also-sort-of-Arabic resonance to it, yet entirely unique; something she can't even pretend to know how to accurately describe. 

19. First fandom you wrote for?

The first actual fic I ever wrote was for the Russian girl group t.A.T.u in either 2003 or 2004, but I wrote it at school during 'reading time' in Language Arts. It never saw the light of day anywhere.

The first proper fic I actually wrote, finished, and posted completely was for my first feral fixation ship, Inu/Kag (Inuyasha) back in 2005.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I fucking hate this question, but probably For All We're Worth or The Purpose of Repose

Tagging: @demdifferentstories @badxwolfxrising @mulderscully @aintfraidanoghosts @deardiary17 @naaer No pressure!

[dawnrider]

For your AMA — What’s your oldest draft that you hope to one day come back to and can you give us a sneak peek? ❤️

Hello @flannelfangirl!

Oldest draft is relative, since I have had to move and copy over my story folders from different laptops and external hard drives over the years. Then when I transferred everything to Drive, it replaced the file dates. SO with that caveat: I had, at one point, an Escaflowne college AU posted on FFnet. It's probably my second oldest posted fic. EXCEPT during the 2007 Purity Purge, it got reported as a ChatFic and FFnet pulled it down without warning. Fortunately I still have it. And I've tinkered with it from time to time with the plan to repost it on AO3. But generally speaking, the fandom just isn't as active, and my attention is typically on my Inuyasha stories.

For a sneak peek:

“Amano is so sweet.  I’m so jealous of you.” “Huh?” “He totally likes you!”  Hitomi thought about this for a moment. “Amano in our Spanish class, Amano?”  Yukari rolled her eyes dramatically. “Duh!  It’s so obvious.  Where have you been?” “Er… I guess I didn’t notice.  You can have him.  He’s not my type.”  Yukari sighed in frustration. “What exactly is your type?  You have turned down so many guys that wouldn’t give me the time of day!  I’m starting to wonder if you’re batting for the other team.”  Hitomi laughed at Yukari’s teasing statement. “I don’t know.  Most of those guys were frat boys.  I’m not into that whole deal, you know that,” she grumbled. Yukari and Hitomi had gone to high school together and Yukari knew from experience not to push Hitomi too far.  She dropped the subject and finished her yogurt and granola instead.  Hitomi idly pushed her own cereal around and stared off into space.  She felt a hand on hers and looked up to see Yukari standing already. “Come on, I have to pick up this book.”

The whole thing needs a rewrite before I post it. Again, it's pretty clearly early in my writing journey, so I would want to update a lot, edit, and possibly make a few plot and character changes.

[jakotsuto]

Are you bored? Are you looking for something to read, just to pass the time? Do you happen to like Inuyasha?

if the answer is yes to any of these questions, how about reading a fun, goofy AU fic centred on the Band of Seven in high school with a mystery plot? With genres like Coming of Age, Amateur Detective, Gay, Comedy and Mystery, this fic is possibly an abomination. But even if you don’t care about the main couple, and you most certainly don’t, you might have fun anyway. Try new things, and all that. There’s (an unreasonable amount, probably) attention to detail! Fun little references to the series! There’s comedy! There’s Renkotsu as the main protagonist— wait, what? Aw, man, you got Renkotsu in my Renkotsu fic! That seems like a weird choice. Even Google Docs thinks so.

Well, anyway, this is me Officially promoting my new Inuyasha fic, which is the first Inuyasha fic I’ve written in years. (I mean, technically it’s a rewrite of a very old fic, but there’s a lot more substance to it now.)

Title: the real mystery is why I’m rewriting this

Pairings: Ginkotsu/Renkotsu (main), Bankotsu/Jakotsu, Minor Kikyou/Suikotsu, Minor Hiten/Jakotsu

very minor pairings: Past InuKik, referenced Inukag

chapters: 2/probably 8

word count: 10,135

[inuyashaloverforever]

InuFics and updates on Trolls fic

So, I'll be rewriting Reunited, a fic inspired by @tilltheendwilliwrite 's Reunion and Ascension. Some things may be a bit similar due to how much I love her story and her writing but other than that there will be others that make their own appearances

Based on what happened in the last episode, I also have an idea for my first true Inuyasha crossover fic with Kamisama Kiss. I'll make a rough draft of it soon and show it to everyone here once I feel comfortable enough with it. Pairings will of course be Tomoe X Nanami but they are still Familiar and Land God/Goddess and InuKag

Before I end this post, I wanted to say that once I know how the story will go, Grey Troll Village has not been abandoned. I've just been really busy lately.

[delphi-p0ssum]

I've been radio silent for a little while and I want to talk about it.

Every scrap of my desire to finish queens has been destroyed. Not by burnout, not by a lack of ideas, not even by a lack of time to write.

By a comment.

Not someone cussing me out. Not someone being homophobic. Not even someone saying they just didn't like it.

This was unsolicited criticism- I do not ask for anyone to treat my fic with any sort of professional lens. I admit it has it's flaws. I'm perfectly aware of how many things I would change if I were to ever do a rewrite.

Tell me why this comment hurt more than any number of homophobic skrees I could have fended off. I'm older, I've been terminally online since before social media was even a thought in some douchey fratboy's head. I cut my teeth on quizilla kitten fics and independent sites hosting bizarre Inuyasha AUs. I have literally seen it all.

Honestly I'm not sure if I should even care anymore. Fine. You win. I'll never post another chapter so you don't have to ever read my shitty, shitty writing again.

I do not care anymore.

Yeah this reads like me passive-aggressively begging for attention but it's not. I'm just too tired to care anymore. I genuinely do not even want to continue anymore because of this.

Only gonna focus on my original content. Because then, I'll actually be asking for the critique.

[sailorshadzter]

this is something like me mashing all of the demon inu x kagome moments into one & rewriting them all to fit my narrative heheheh

setting the plot- post naraku battle they've only just won.

“Don’t get any closer!”

Somehow in the fog of his violent, angry mind, he can still see it’s her that approaches, and he knows that deep down he doesn’t want to hurt her. He would never want to hurt her. “Get away from me!” He snarls, knowing that he is seconds away from becoming someone he isn’t, that  when it takes over, he can’t protect her anymore. In the distance, he can hear their comrades calling her name, but she does not back down. Despite his commands, she only comes closer. Her familiar scent fills his nose, the last thing that will keep him sane, the last thing that will keep him who he knows he is. 

“InuYasha…” His name is a plea upon her lips and those blue eyes are looking out at him with a softness he doesn’t deserve. The darkness is closing in around him and he can feel it, the steady thump of his heart just barely heard above of the rushing of his demon blood. A split second later and he loses what little bit of himself he has left- the last thing he’ll recall is her soft voice, still yet calling out to him.

She knows she should be afraid, but she isn’t. 

The growling beast before her isn’t the InuYasha she knows and she won’t back down until his amber eyes are looking back at her. “InuYasha,” she calls out again and she swears his ears twitch with the sound of it. “I’m here, InuYasha…” She continues on, taking a single step closer, ignoring Miroku and Sango’s shouts from somewhere behind. In the distance she can see Tessaiga, far out of her reach, but she knows she can get him back without the help of his sword. After all this time, he doesn’t need that sword, he needs someone who cares- he needs someone who loves him. 

In the aftermath of battle, with his bloodstained clothes and skin, he is not who he once was.

 But she knows him and so she won’t back down, not even now when his eyes are those she does not recognize. Even when his jaws snap at her and he flexes his sharp claws, she does not take a step back. Rather, she approaches, hands outstretched in a gesture of fealty, her clear blue eyes not once recognizing the fear that courses through her veins. “InuYasha…” His name is on her lips again, but this won’t be enough.

He closes the gap between them and the sharp inset of his claws brings a gasp from her lips. In the depths of his mind, he catches the scent of her blood, but no matter how hard he tries he cannot bring himself back. She knows that the crying of his name, the scent of her blood, of her tears, simply wouldn’t be enough this time. And so, as his claws sink deeper, as blood soaks through her shirt, she knows what she must do.

Leaning in, she presses her lips against his, a gesture she’s longed for all these months. 

A warmth floods through him, quite unlike what he’s felt before. It takes but a moment for the feeling to reach not just his brain, but his heart, and the feeling leaves him feeling as if he might overflow. InuYasha… Again, it is her voice upon his mind and somehow he knows, despite the chaos of his demon energy, that this doesn’t have to be the end. InuYasha… her soft voice is everything to him and he realizes then, it doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, he wouldn’t let it be this way. 

The demonic energy is rushing from him as quickly as it came, but there was one thing that remained: Kagome. He realizes she’s kissing him, soft and sweet lips pressing against his own, and it is the one thing that anchors him to this place and to this time. “Kagome…” Her name is the first thing on his lips, the only thing on his mind as it clears. The scent of her blood comes next and she’s sinking into him, a smile on those rosy lips. 

“Are you alright now?” She asks, softly, words just for him.

He crushes her against him, tears hot as they gather behind his closed lids. “I am,” he says, his voice muffled against the top of her head. “Thanks to you,” he goes on softer than before, breathing her in, knowing as well as any one of them watching that without her… It could have been the worst possible scenario. “I hurt you,” he goes on, the stench of her blood overwhelming, a constant reminder of what he’s done- of what he’s capable of doing. 

“I’m alright,” she says softly, the truth. 

And so, right then, he kisses her as she’s just kissed him- it is soft, but it is warm. It is strong, yet gentle all the same. His arms come around her, tightly as he dares, knowing there was no other place he could ever wish to be.

So, there he would stay.

[ishgard]

1 and 12 for shipping questions?

Thank you! :D (Get to know my shipping preferences & ships)

Answered #1 here and here but I will absolutely list more >3

1. List 3 Shipping Tropes You Love

Dunno what this is called either but the Inuyasha x Kagome type bickering - GRANTED it has to be done well, it has to have a certain balance and I’m very picky about it because I see it done in ways that are just uncomfortable and not fun pretty often, but when it’s done well to my liking -chefs kiss- 

Similarly a bit nuanced, and I guess kind of falls under the umbrella of ‘power imbalance’ maybe? But any sort of… royal/knight, loyal servant/protector, trope. For me it’s mostly about the devotion, the longing, the 'I see a side of you no one else gets to see', the careful tiptoeing around the elephant in the room, or how they’ll sacrifice anything for the other no matter the cost.

Fake dating/arranged marriage. This is similar a bit to the ‘sex first romance later’, with the 'doing things out of order'. Love being put into a situation no one really wants/that isn’t ideal but then discovering you’re excellent together and an amazing team, often enabling you to overcome greater challenges/otherwise laugh in the face of whoever put you in this situation.

12. List 3 ships you currently love

Okay these aren’t all FF14 but-

Ahru x Deryk - Obv. I love them so much they’ve been so much fun, and even though XIV is a little on the backburner right now (and my sub is up) I can’t wait to get back and do more with them. They’ve really become a comfort ship, so cozy and appealing to so many of my favorite tropes/aesthetics.

Love two wanderers coming together after their own hard travels and sharing the road, and everything that entails. I think both of them, albeit to different levels, had a deep loneliness to them but at the same time just kind of embraced that loneliness - like it wasn’t exactly a bad thing, they both enjoy their solitude and take joy in their lifestyle - yanno, if it weren’t for all of the horrors X’D But they come together and it is, for the most part, quiet and respectful, knowing what the other has been through, and saying I see you, I’m here with you now, we don’t have to go it alone anymore. 

Reverie x Rann - This is one of my DD2 ships based on very old OCs of mine so there are a lot of layers here, and who knows I might just bring them to Etheirys down the road too. But the gist is: Reincarnation/defying death and rewriting the world order as a meansl to fix what went wrong, where we failed, and making sure we can always find each other because we’re two parts of the same song. Maybe committing some atrocities along the way because what’s a little sin so long as you’re safe? 

Emrys x Olivia - My other DD2 ship they are both sluts who bicker and fight but have each others back at the end of the day. This one I can ramble less about because they’re extremely based in their setting but I have been having so, so much fun with them. (Shameless fic plug though for anyone also on the DD2 train.)

[creative-hanyou-girl]

Seeing people be disappointed with Disney's WISH and rewriting their own versions of it is giving me war flashbacks to when we Inuyasha fans were in the same boat with Yashahime and started our own rewrites to satisfy ourselves. Y'all remember that era? I wonder if anyone is still writing their rewrites....one of these days I really outta write that Daughter of Twisted Time fic...

Anyhoo I personally haven't seen WISH but I saw the concept arts for it and now I really wanna jump on the WISH Rewrite bandwagon. I even have a few of the characters somewhat rewritten already with the main conflict and moral of my hypothetical rewrite figured out. I even have the pencil sketch of Asha's redesign done (just gotta ink and color it)

Also I think my working title is A New Wish (hehehe, get it? Cuz it plays off that its rewrite, and a NEW version on WISH? OK, I'll stop now)

I don't know if I'd write fanfic for it, but maybe a few animatics? Idk, I've still got so many WIPS in FlipaClip....

Would you want to see my ideas for a WISH rewrite if I posted them? Let me know if you want me to tag you if/when I do post my WISH Rewrite stuff.

[leechysmile]

20 questions writer meme.

Tagged by @alectoperdita

Tagging: the dash

I am only counting works I've done on my current AO3: LeechySmile

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

33

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

45,261

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Yu-Gi-Oh. Occasionally original work in exchanges. The other fandoms on AO3 don't count as they're fanart

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

One Man's Heaven (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters). Kudos: 45

Compliance Kills (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters) Kudos: 41 Don't look at this one I'm rewriting it shh

This Wasn't Part of The Plan (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters) Kudos: 37

You Never Had a Chance (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) Kudos: 36

Reconditioning (Original Work) Kudos: 36

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Only if I can think of something worth saying

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably Reconditioning since it ends with mindbreak. But this highly depends on if you consider mind broken but happy more angsty than no mind break but depressed, trapped, etc

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably my Dragonshipping fic: Anger Isn't Forever since Atem and Jou make up and stuff

8. Do you get hate on fics?

So far no, whether this is because I have guest comments off or not is debatable

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Kind of? It's generally dead dove stuff or has some aspect of hurt/comfort

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I haven't so far. I think a YGO character in Detroit: Become Human au could be fun. Not sure if that really counts though since it'd only be the DBH universe, not the characters

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

As far as I know, no.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I'm aware of

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Kinda? I've done fics inspired by roleplays before. Though most of those are still WIPs/unposted

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Oh boy, that's hard. I have three fighting for first place XD Puppyshipping, Tabloidshipping, and Brightshipping

15. What’s a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Probably one on my original AO3 account

16. What are your writing strengths?

Fuck if I know, I'm just doing my best

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Describing things, particularly surroundings

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

It can work better in some formats than others

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Inuyasha on my original account

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

So I tend to "Out of sight, out of mind" my fics once I'm done because I get extremely self-conscious of my writing. So I genuinely do not have a favorite because when I looked over my fics right now all I could do was cringe, sorry 😭

[dragongirldg]

I have never actually finished watching Inuyasha but I still find information.

I genuinely thought Sesshomoru was like a dad to Rin, so that is what I’m going with.

He took her in and became her dad and nothing else super gross. I don’t care what it was like in that time period, I’m rewriting that crxp in my mind.

She got together with a human or whatever and that’s it. Or a different demon.

I don’t care to spell his name right, right now. I’m upset with this information.

[clementinecoastline]

20 questions for writers

i was tagged by @isnt-it-pretty! thank you for the tag!!! this looks so fun!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

currently 4 (but there's another on the way soon)

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

30,992 atm !!!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

i've posted my work for haikyuu!! and genshin, but i also write for mdzs/cql and honestly. whatever fandom gets my attention. (i have an inuyasha wip im working on, and some orv stuff too)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

i actually only have 4 works but:

follow the tide (with the monsters on your shoulder) for genshin

the world is simplified for kings (to them, all men are subjects) for haikyuu!! (yeah the title is really long but. i'm fond of it)

to touch the sun (and keep on soaring) for haikyuu!!

i will die facing the sun for haikyuu!!

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

as far as i know, i've responded to every comment i've received !!! i love engaging with my readers. it's also easier since i don't have any really popular fics.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i don't tend to write unhappy endings and i also only have 4 fics posted. but to touch the sun might have the angstiest ending in the sense that tooru's issues still aren't resolved by the end of the fic. my snf au (current wip) ends on a bittersweet note on account of the mcd inherent to the premise.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

my happiest ending so far is probably the world is simplified for kings, since the brazil fling get to have a nice time as they fall in love with volleyball. i will die facing the sun also has an optimistic ending, but it isn't guaranteed that oikawa will win at the olympics.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

i'm not well known enough for that LOL

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

i haven't yet but it's in the cards !!!

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

i don't write crossovers for the most part. i write fusions/AUs and those can get pretty wild. the craziest is probably my wolf's rain au. i don't think i'll ever write a crossover but i wouldn't count it out!! i've read some good ones. maybe i can be convinced.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of. i don't think any of my writing has enough traction for that.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope but maybe ill translate some of my own work. and i'm open to it if anyone offers.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

none currently posted!!! but i do have a project i'm working on with a friend.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

all-time favorite is really hard bc ranking the strength of my hyperfixations against each other is just cruel. my all-time favorites (plural) are probably haikaveh, iwaoi, and levtsukki.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

ideally. follow the tide is not one of these. i have a lot planned out that i just haven't written or posted. the one that i probably will never finish is living tomorrow. it's an iwaoi relationship study that i really, really want to write but have lost my connection with. i need to find my thoughts on them again and recalibrate and rewrite my current draft if i'm ever going to finish it. but maybe i will!!

16. What are your writing strengths?

i'm not sure. i think i have a remarkable ability to commit to the bit with weird fusions and au's but i haven't really posted those. no matter how silly the idea, i can usually get pretty invested (like my wolf's rain au writing and fanart), and that doesn't really depend on how interested other people are in it. support is nice but not always necessary.

one of my main goals in writing is to get in a character's headspace. i'm a big fan of immersion and understanding who they are and how they think. i try to capture that in writing while adding lots of small personal details to help flesh out the character's life. based on some of the comments i've gotten, i haven't completely failed.

of course, if anyone has any ideas on what my writing strengths are, they're free to let me know <- blatant fishing for compliments

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

erm. well i have thousands of words in unpublished wips so. probably motivation. poor planning. a lot of it is inexperience. my imagery, repetitiveness, poor dialogue or description. those are all things to work on. if i were to look back at my published works, i'd probably cite a lot of the things i've improved on since then.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

oh no this one's controversial. well, i think that if you're writing dialogue in english (or whatever language the fic is in) and your characters are speaking another language. you have a few choices. if the characters say something in another language but you translate it, i would italicize that (ie. "Thank you," he said in Spanish.) if the characters are saying something in another language and it's written in that, i don't really mind whether it's italicized or not, BUT i think it has to be well executed. sometimes that depends on using the term properly, or also on. how in character it is for that character to do that. as a bilingual person, switching between languages/speaking other languages can get pretty complicated, so it really all depends on execution. i don't think that everything has to be translated in the text at that moment, but i think that everything should be translated eventually. footnotes are a good idea!!!! or it should be revealed later in the text, or in the author's notes. but i don't like it when it's never revealed or translated at all.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

warrior cats on ff.net but we dont talk about that. haikyuu on ao3. i wrote some inuyasha stuff in google docs in between but never finished or posted it.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

that i've posted? follow the tide. that i'm writing? ack. i really really like the snf au!!! but i like a lot of my other ideas too (daemon au my beloved). im very fond of my mdzs pacific rim au.

i'm tagging @conartisthaiji @monstrsball @wormcoded and anyone else who wants to participate !!

[cannibalinc]

20 Questions for Fic Writers!

I was thoughtfully tagged by @racfoam! Thank you <3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

25 works

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

318,492 words

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly HP and Teen Wolf. I also used to write a lot of Naruto about fifteen years ago.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Rigmarole Dance - Harrymort soulmate AU

Gentle Roar - Steter omegaverse mating run AU

As Portioned from a Whole - Harrymort dystopian Voldemort raises Harry AU

Anthropological - Steter xeno wolf rape oneshot

Id Est - Steter smutty 800 word drabble. Surprised this one is on the list lol

5. Do you respond to comments? Why? Why not?

Sometimes! If someone asks a question or comments something particularly conversational. I go through waves. 

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Uuuh this is hard. Angsty for who? hahaha

Based on reader response and bookmark notes I've noticed, either Paradisus, a Harrymort Volddmort wins AU in Draco Malfoy's POV, or Be Thyself, a soulmate AU in Lily's POV, seem to be the endings that bother people the most. I get a lot of 'this was great, I'll never read it again' lmaaooo

But a LOT of my works are open ended or end with one half still in captivity/unhappy. The other half is happy though! :D

Honeyguide, splits your skin, Research and Development, etc all have this "bad ending."

(*The angiest ending I'll ever write is still a WIP, but it's coming.)

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

The Rigmarole Dance for sure. It's light, funny, has the happiest feelings.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Sometimes.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I write mostly smut. Lots of non-con, lots of wet and messy, lots of monster cocks.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I don't think I've ever written a crossover.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yeah, a few times unfortunately.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yep

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I had a really fun steter omegaverse dystopia project with a friend that we discussed heavily but never actually started. We called it the trash diamond. It involved amputation, conditioning and programming, you know the fun stuff haha. I still hope to write it.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Harrymort <3

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

...I will finish all my WIPs gdi lmao

16. What are your writing strengths?

Atmosphere/prose. Recently, dialogue.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Action. I struggle between pretty phrases and conveying immediacy.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Yes! It's great for making the POV character and readers feel alienated when they can't understand what's being said. Also if you want to establish a character is pretentious.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Ooooh. I think InuYasha in the 2000s.

20. Favourite fics you’ve written?

I'm a self-indulgent writer, so pretty much everything I write is for me.

Research and Development was an experimental challenge for me that I'm really proud of. It's told in a dissociated first person POV through "scientific" logs and follows Voldemort's experiment on Harry and the deterioration of his indifferent observations as he becomes more obsessed with Harry.

I'm also really proud of Embryo, a fic idea I've been writing and rewriting for over ten years that I've begun to actually post. I've put a lot of work and research into it in order to capture Tom Riddle's voice and intelligence. It's in his POV, in the 1940s, and Harry shows up as a mysterious student no one can seem to explain or even remember long enough to answer Tom's questions about him.

I think racfoam already tagged a lot of other writers I know. Tagging @vdoshu @metalomagnetic @lordansketil @crowcrowcrowthing @vestiges-of-light and anyone else who wants to!

[intoevernightfanfic]

🎃🍄🛳️

Hi! :D

🎃 Do you plan on writing any seasonal fics? I had started a Halloween fic for this year, but ended up shelving it because of external circumstances (I had a mental breakdown thanks to pressure at work, gargantuan rewrites, and chronic pain lmao). I'd like to finish it this year! And, of course, I always love a good Christmas fic, but I haven't had any ideas. Maybe one will come to me!

🍄 Are there any fandoms you've never written for but want to try? I looooved the Red Winter trilogy by Annette Marie. There are two fics on AO3, one of which is a crossover. I don't know if I'll get a chance to dip into it this year, especially because part of what keeps me going recently is stats (if I'm being real here lol), but we'll see!

Other than that, I've only written a oneshot for Inuyasha, and it'd be fun to write a longer fic. I had a whole ongoing daydream about it around 3 years ago now, but I didn't write down the ideas, and I've since forgotten them. XD I don't know if I'll have the time for it, since I'm juggling a bunch of WIPs.

🛳 Are there any new ships you want to write for? (Platonic, romantic, or anything in between.) I wanted to write a Tomoe/Kurama but ended up scrapping it because I felt like that particular idea would be too problematic. ;A; I want more throuple content with Akura-Ou, Nanami, and Tomoe, though! I also had an idea for a poly relationship involving Mizuki, Kurama, and Ami, but I felt like it could quickly get angsty and messy, so. Eh. It seems like I can never write anything without inserting TOO much realism. XD

Thanks for the ask! 💕

[mannatea]

in order to rewrite/edit fics i originally posted in the 2005 to 2009 era, i must, unfortunately, submit myself to the mortifying ordeal of Reading My Own Shit.

this is, quite frankly, a cruel and unusual punishment to inflict upon a writer, but especially someone who used to sign off with ::pawprints:: on every chapter, and who abused the =^.^= face and *glomps* and god knows what other dumb shit I said. that’s to say nothing of the idiot story ideas. i really did just write anything that came to mind, didn’t i.

in my defense, with something like 600 fics under my belt between 2002 and 2012 (the last logging the wayback machine has of my old account), i was clearly completely consumed by writing. i low-key wish i still felt that way.

also, there’s just something insane about like, the obvious patterns? just going down the list you can see the fandoms as i hopped in and out of them, there are a LOT of tragedy/angst fics that come in spurts in like, every single fandom i’ve ever been in, and...the holiday i wrote the most ‘fics for is actually mother’s day???? (i hadn’t consciously even realized this until just today!) 

and then there are the revIEWS. “10/10. My favorite ToS story I have ever read, seriously. In fact, one of the best fanfictions I have ever read.” 

SIR...this is a Wendy’s fic I wrote in 2005.

sometimes i forget how wholesome and sweet fandom was for fic writers from like, 2000 until 2010 or so. the amount of positive sweet feedback i got from total strangers is actually heartwarming even now. i doubt any of those people even know that they contributed to me continuing to write for years and years. 

of course, looking back now i know those stories are mostly dogshit, but like, i dunno, everyone has different tastes and standards to define what’s enjoyable, and that can change as you get older or learn more. there’s plenty of stuff from even 2014 that i’m not very proud of, but which i can never dislike simply because, just like a lot of my old works, people liked it or connected to it. 

like, i’ll never forget a comment i received on an old inuyasha fanfic that dealt with the subject matter of a stillborn baby, because someone commented on that fic and told me it touched them. they’d gone through something similar and wanted to thank me for my “beautiful story.” that was in 2003. i can’t even begin to imagine reading that story now, but once upon a time it did some good for someone. 

and yes, if you’re wondering, i’m procrastinating finishing this rewrite because it’s very frustrating for me and makes me feel itchy lmao. like it’s not technically bad but it’s boring, and sometimes boring is worse, actually.