#i have several chapters written

[thatartiststudios]

I'll Give You My Life (From Now Till Forever)

Chapter 5: You And I Stargazing, Intertwining Souls

It was a quiet evening in the camp, the kind where the only sounds were the crackle of the fire and the soft murmur of the night. Callum and Rayla had just finished their dinner and now sat side by side, the fire casting a warm glow around them. The sky was clear, and the stars above shimmered like a sea of diamonds.

Callum had his sketchbook open on his lap, his pencil moving with practiced ease as he sketched by the firelight. Rayla leaned against him, her head resting on his shoulder, watching the flames dance and flicker.

“Whatcha drawing?” Rayla asked, her curiosity piqued as she peered at the page.

Callum glanced down at his work, his expression softening. “Just a landscape. The ruins of Lux Aurea. There’s a haunting beauty to them, even now.”

Rayla’s gaze followed the lines of the drawing, her fingers brushing against the edge of the sketchbook. “You really have a gift, you know that?”

Callum chuckled, a warm sound that seemed to mingle with the crackling fire. “Thanks, but honestly, I think my greatest gift is sitting right here beside me.”

Rayla’s cheeks flushed slightly, and she playfully nudged him with her elbow. “You’re such a sap.”

“Only for you,” Callum replied with a grin, leaning down to press a kiss to her forehead. The touch of his lips was warm and reassuring, lingering for a moment before he pulled back.

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[not-poignant]

Daily excerpt from today's writing, chapter 25 of Palmarosa:

‘Your naivete is very nearly charming,’ Raphael said, smiling above him. ‘Do you know how many I’ve witnessed in these moments of tumult and conflict? Almost enough to know exactly what thoughts move through your insignificant mind. I took you out of the dusty dark and restored you, saved you, and you mock me before strangers.’ ‘I want- I think I want to go ahead with the second contract. I don’t want to wait any longer.’ Raphael’s cold smile broadened. ‘If we’re sharing our thoughts, Astarion, then I think I want to punish you first for consistently breaking with our first contract. A more patient devil would wait, but I’ve been patient enough. Besides, I shan’t be too cruel. It will be proportionate, I assure you.’ Astarion was rather losing his appetite. ‘Now?’ Astarion said. ‘And if I…don’t want to commit to the second contract?’ ‘Oh, you will,’ Raphael practically purred. ‘You’ll bear my marks and bruises and you still will. Haven’t you realised that the reason no gods heed you, is that you already have one that you cannot forsake no matter what?’ Astarion stared up at him in confusion. Raphael crouched down, eyes flashing golden-amber. ‘It is the sun, my aberrational wretch. All of you fear it, but your lives revolve around it. It’s all you’ve ever wanted since you lost it, and you’ll choose it before you’d choose your own sanity. So here you are, quite mad, and watch – Astarion, my pet – you’re about to agree to the punishment, and walk with me quite willingly, and still sign your signature in blood at the end of the day.’

[essektheylyss]

I have FINISHED A CHAPTER and it did NOT take me a month, this is great

[soaps-mohawk]

I wish you can update for like twice a week 🛐. I'm always checking for new update hahaha.. anyways, take ur timeee 🫡🫡🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Anon, I know you probably meant well, but this is not the time for something like this.

(Gif courtesy of @collinnmckinley )

[fictionadventurer]

Potential September Reading

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (ideally in audio)

An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge

A Sherlock Holmes story (and/or a screen adaptation)

C.S. Lewis nonfiction

A sensation or mystery novel

A piece of one of the Psmith stories

Some kind of nonfiction book

[saturnneedsspace]

I finally finished the first chapter of my first Supernatural/Destiel fic!!! I’ve been working on it for a few weeks now, and I decided to finally post it. I’m planning on making it several chapters long, and I’ll try to update once a week or so. I hope you enjoy! (This is a different ao3 from my One Piece one. Saturns_Zer0)

Rating: Mature Warnings:  No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Benny Lafitte/Dean Winchester (past), Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Castiel & Jack Kline, Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, Castiel & Gabriel (Supernatural) Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Jack Kline, Charlie Bradbury, Gabriel (Supernatural), Bobby Singer (Supernatural)

Summary:

“Hey, Sam?” Dean asked, avoiding his brother’s question.

“Yeah?”

“Say you haven't talked to someone in years, right. How would you go about maybe, you know, seeing if they'd want to talk to you again?”

2 years ago, Dean made a decision. He never wanted to hurt his boyfriend, Castiel, and thought he was doing the right thing for both of them, but he very quickly misses Cas after ending their relationship. He dates around for a bit, but nobody ever fills the void that Cas left inside of him. With some encouragement from his best friend Charlie, and a lot of reluctance from his brother, Dean reaches out to Cas again with hopes of rekindling their old friendship, with maybe a hope for something a little more than friendship.

[arliedraws]

Ughhhhhhhh how do you get out of a writing slump? What do you all do when your prose is coming out as actual garbage? Like everything feels basic and boring and cliched?

[chaoswarfare]

dp x dc fic recommendation #2!

this masterpiece

i get really excited whenever it updates, have occasionally literally jumped for joy when it happens! definitely one of my all time favorite dp x dc fics!

[blametheeditor]

“Welcome, Eggs Benedict.”

Blue eyes stare at the elevator doors in silence as it's processed what just happened. Because not even five minutes into this adventure, and technology that will solely be relied on in order to perform something as important as safely leaving the underground facility just declared Mike Schmidt as a breakfast dish.

“HandUnit,” the young man begins, glancing over at the cheesy tablet. “You and I are gonna be great friends.”

Did that one action of randomly assigning him a name due to the screen glitching out prove that Afton Robotics is barely hanging on? Absolutely. And to be honest, that might be a little concerning considering he’ll be completely alone sixty feet underground where no one could help him if anything happens.

He had been warned about all of that before coming down here, however. Knew the risks and accepted them. The only part Mike was really dreading was how it’d feel like literal torture being left for hours on end with nothing but his thoughts.

Now his entire week just got a thousand times better.

“All personnel are advised to refrain from befriending the unit repair system,” the monotone voice responds.

It makes a wide smile spread across Mike’s face. “Naw, why not! You already gave me a nickname and everything!”

“What the system says and does should not be interpreted as ‘friendly’.”

“Too late, the damage is done.”

[sauntering-down]

it's done.

[deathtodickens]

Pete: Shameful.

Helena: Say another word, Peter.

Pete: I have four for you: Full. Of. Shame. Wait...

Helena: Everyday he finds new and exciting ways to annoy me.

Myka: I told you to think long and hard about it before you ever came back.

Helena: Let's just say I had my reason and leave it at that.

Pete, laughing: Long and hard.

Claudia: Can we not encourage him so early in the morning. I'd like to be able to keep my breakfast down today.

Pete: H.G. is the one who keeps setting her room on fire, like we don't already know she never sleeps in there anyway.

Myka: Whatever you think you know, you don't.

Pete: Mykes, even if the walls weren't as thin as they are, you have broken the Univille noise ordinance every single night since that woman has been back.

Abigail appears.

Myka: I swear to god, Pete.

Steve: Every single night.

Claudia: The walls are so very thin.

Abigail: And the warehouse echoes.

Abigail pats Myka's and Helena's heads, then reaches for a bagel.

Myka: Abigail!

Abigail: What? I thought we were sharing.

Myka: Helena?

Helena: I take it as quite the compliment, actually.

Helena proudly sips her coffee.

Myka: Oh my god. Goodbye to all of you and especially you, person who is definitely not sleeping in my room tonight.

Myka leaves, glaring at Helena.

Helena: What did I do?

Abigail sits in Myka's chair.

Pete: Think you burned your room down a little too soon this time.

Abigail: Nonsense. She just did it for the chase.

Everyone looks at Helena.

Abigail: Are you not going to chase her?

Helena: As though I am some desperate scoundrel who so longs for intimacy that I'd allow myself to be lured in by acts of emotional manipulation?

Claudia: Right, no. Of course not. You? Hah!

Steve: That's definitely not a lie. Sarcasm font.

Claudia: Don't say sarcasm font.

Steve: Why not? It's funny.

Claudia: We all know it's sarcasm.

Abigail: Your loss, boss.

Pete: Shameful.

Everyone goes back to what they were doing.

Helena taps her fingers against the wood of the table nervously.

Helena: For the record.

Helena stands.

Helena: I dislike all of you.

Helena leaves.

Steve: She was definitely not lying that time.

Claudia: Ah, she'll get over it as soon as she sees Myka's gorgeous greens.

Abigail: If anybody's curious to know, the floor here is also thin.

Pete: Swabs in, ma'boys.

Everyone reaches into their pockets and pulls out ear buds, ear plugs and cotton swabs. Shoves those into their ears. And returns to their breakfast.

Their newspapers.

Their minding of ones own business.

[miladydewintcr]

I'm really torn between starting to post my post-Inquisition multi-chapter happy ending Handers fic now, before DA:TV comes out and potentially renders everything in it impossible

OR

doing what I usually do and sitting on it for months until I've finished writing it

I've been sitting on my Mass Effect fic for over a year bc I want it to span the whole trilogy and I've only written to the end of ME1

[eventuallyaugust]

i know this sounds insane but i’ve been looking for this specific fanfic and i think you might have wrote it but im unsure. it was basically like a txt x 6th member reader getting into a fight pre debut or debut era, and i remember taehyun being especially confrontational and basically reader storms out and some girl (i forgot who) met with her outside

sorry if that wasn’t you 😭😭

that's an oddly specific fanfic, but yes, i wrote that one (refer to this one). it was bbtr (bound by the rules: written ver), but i changed that into a smau that was later discontinued (because of the recent events). also, yeji was the girl reader/oc met outside

below the cut was the fight between txt and reader anon was talking about & taehyun being confrontational back when bbtr was still written (without the yeji scene)

beomgyu and taehyun peak their heads out of their room, seeing hyunseol stride past them with yeonjun and soobin following behind before seeing the oldest stop at the door of huening kai's room.

"noona, please. don't do it. huening kai doesn't want you to know that he's been crying." beomgyu and taehyun hear from soobin and throw each other a look before walking out of their rooms to see concern painting the leader's face.

"no, we've been waiting for too long, soobin. it's time to address this. it's clear that huening kai is hurting, okay?"

"then why did you wait until now before taking action?"

the three oldest turn their heads to see taehyun crossing his arms while tilting his head. the second youngest look at the oldest intensely. "you could've just take action weeks ago, but no, you waited."

beomgyu keeps his mouth shut and takes a step back from the scene, the tension being too overwhelming for him to handle.

hyunseol returns taehyun's gaze with the same intensity, yeonjun and soobin ready to put themseves between the oldest and second youngest just in case a heated argument erupts. "because huening kai made me promise that i won't question any of his actions, no matter how bizarre they are. i respected his decision until now, but his behavior became more worrying, okay?"

"and you just noticed now?"

the corner of the oldest member's lips twitch and soobin takes that as a sign to break the pair apart. "okay, noona. let's—"

"what do you mean 'i just noticed now'?"

hyunseol takes a few strides towards, each step feeling a bit heavier than it should be. being the same height with the oldest, yeonjun blocks taehyun from her fellow towerz member and shakes his head while looking directly at hyunseol's eyes.

"i mean, huening kai is becoming worse than he was before. i'm surprised you just noticed this now. i wonder if you're still the same hyunseol noona we met."

soobin keeps his guard up and blocks hyunseol's path, his hands over her shoulders, still respectful of the oldest.

"what's that supposed to mean, kang?"

yeonjun turns to face taehyun and shakes his head with his widened eyes before mouthing 'don't respond'. he sighs and rolls his eyes when the second youngest shook his and did the opposite of what he wants.

"it means i'm calling you oblivious, dense, and—"

"say that to my face, taehyun."

"noona!" soobin frowns at the yelling as he desperately tries to keep the oldest away from getting to taehyun. "please, stop. don't make this worse."

"you take back, kang taehyun.", hyunseol menacingly warns.

"what if i don't?", taehyun nonchalantly retorts back as yeonjun shakes his head disapprovingly.

"taehyun, stop.", soobin authoritatively warns as he still keeps hyunseol away from him, unable to think of ways to dissipate the tension in the hallway. the second youngest scoffs, rolling his eyes and turns away before walking back to his room.

"you know what? fine." taehyun stops walking. "if you're so knowledgeable with this, try to fix this mess yourself. i'm out."

hyunseol gently throws soobin's hands away from her shoulders and walks out of the hallway and to the front door. soobin's eyes widen when he realizes what's happening and immediately tries to convince hyunseol to not leave. unfortunately, the oldest member's decision is firm and unrelenting.

poor soobin, trying so hard to keep a bond with his members.

beomgyu, taehyun, and yeonjun watch the interaction with leader and the oldest. they can see the cold wall surrounding hyunseol as soobin tries his best fixing the mess between his two members. but he doesn't know he's only human. he could only do so little for the people he leads. he can't do everything for them or he'll get tired doing so.

"sorry, soobin, but i need to go. i need some fresh air."

the leader's shoulders fall as the words dawn on him. defeated, soobin nods as his eyes fall on the floor. "o-okay, noona. take care and be careful."

hyunseol gently pats his shoulder since she can't pat his head and grabs her coat from the rack before opening the door and plunging into the darkness of the outside. the sound of the front door closing fully wake the three members up and look at one another with one thought in mind; we messed up.

taehyun falls in his thoughts as he covers his face with his hands. oh, man. i just argued with noona and made her leave. what am i going to do to make it up to her?

meanwhile, kai sits on his bed and starts crying again upon hearing the conversation on the other side of his bedroom door. i'm sorry, i'm sorry, everyone. i made you guys worry and argue with one another. if i only wasn't feeling stupid about everything, then this wouldn't happen.

hyunseol is walking onto the pavement as she stuffs her hands into the pockets of her coat. i'm so stupid. i shouldn't reacted like that. if i just take a step back and assess the argument and not let my emotions drive me, i wouldn't be out here walking, instead i would be talking everything out.

she ruffles her hair in annoyance before huffing out, the cold air making her breath visible in front of her. she arrives at a nearby park and finds an empty bench before taking a seat.

[squintern-supremacy]

thanks brain but when I said “fic ideas” I meant ideas for the fic I’m currently working on and not a whole plot for a bones zombie apocalypse AU

[violetnaps]

worst part of writing resolve is i need to reread bleach now

[scribbling-dragon]

so many things to do. yet i am afflicted by the worst possible disease: fic thoughts