#i haven't decided which is which but i just keep coming up with angstier and angstier situations involving scott's sunglasses

[yayasvalveplay]

I see a lot of Annons give their AU ideas so I’m here to give mine, do with it what you wish cause I won’t claim it:

(Also I just started watching Animated and most of what I know from that series is bits and pieces of what I was told so if some areas are out of characters that’s why T-T)

Transformers animated AU but what if the Autobots being asleep for like 50 years, the Autobots get discovered by a company that specializes in entertainment/robotics (I wanted to make it Sumdac himself but like, feels too mean for the character) that decides to enslave them.

They lose access to their ship and are treated as these Never before seen freaks (think the 2005 King Kong film where we see this big stage play to show the capture of Kong before he’s shown in chains but with the Autobots.)

They spend a good chunk of years acting as Humanities play things, probably a bit malnourished, a bit beat up whenever they don’t do something right, a bit tired because they just want their ship back man, they have a powerful artifact in their but like hell they’re telling these organics, who knows what they’d do with it. But these organics only see them as machines from the stars and they can’t contact Cybertron because they don’t have a way to get to their ship.

It all comes to ahead when one day Sumdac rents these strange machines as a way to promote a partnership with the company (or maybe he is the head of the company and decides to try and make some new tech with these funny machines) and the whole thing with the organic roach happens. Instead of helping, the Autobots decide this might be their best shot at escaping and as they try to get out of Sumdac towers, they come across Megatron’s head and body alongside the all spark (Sumdac was either gifted the box of the All Spark from the company and figured he might as well store it in the room with the dead cybertronian or already had it and had been studying it for a while) and now they’re faced with the choice of resurrecting Megatron to cause a ruckus so big that the humans won’t notice them slip away with the All Spark or try to take the All Spark anyways and risk having a fate similar to Megatron and be studied by these organics.

Would I love to see these ‘bots go ‘con? Yes.

I’m trying really hard to keep this as vague as possible but also as detailed as possible since I just started animated and this idea popped into my head and I just couldn’t get it out and I really really enjoy this blog with all its amazing stories and AU’s and NSFW discussions and how all of it works and ahhhhh I’m rambling and this is already way to Fragging long. Keep doing amazing work and I hope you have a wonderful day my dude!!!

Let's make this even angstier. Let's say they were found earlier. 40 years after they came to earth. This will give more time for their hatred of humans to boil until it pops when meeting Sumdac 10 years later, the supposed leader of the robot industry and who they've been "built in his image for."

Which you know is a lie they were not built by these humans who want them as entertainment, but haven't found a willing participant because of how they all act and how they arnt Sumdac certified.

So they go to sumdac, each of them packaged and forced with no food to stay quiet unless they want something to happen to their ship.

They are unpacked at sumdacs tower and left in his care for a week. Cue FNAF joke here. But it's them trying to keep a look out on Sumdac as they sneak around trying to find the exit. Bumblebee is mostly the one who does this and who is the one to find Megatron.

He reports back to Optimus about his findings. And while years ago op would of just grabbed the allspark and left. New Optimus, is tired of being nice.

He's the one to resurrect Megatrons helm and cuts him a deal. They'll get him out of here on the condition he makes a ruckus, and they can escape back to their ship. Yes they will not leave him behind.

"Do we have a deal megatron?"

"We have a deal autobot."

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do you write negan x reader and if so would you be interested in writing one where the reader has seasonal depression ? would take place during season 10 like negan isn’t with the saviors anymore

{a/n I wasn't super sure where to really go with this one, and it's honestly not the best thing I've written but I appreciated the idea I haven't ventured into my angstier style of writing much}

MASTERLIST

Come over~

Negan x gn!reader 

"I'm in the process of clearin' out cobwebs

I was taking the wrong meds, feels good to be sad

And my house is just barely big enough for my family

But it feels like a fortress when the weather gets bad"

As winter dew nearer, the lights getting earlier and colder, the sun seeming to slowly cease from existence, you knew what was coming, every year like clock work, and it never seemed to get easier. Though, you had someone there for you this year. You'd only really gotten close to the man because Daryl had asked you to keep an eye on him. He'd been open about what he'd done why he was in the cell, You knew about Glenn, Abraham. What he did, why he did it. Having broken down an told you all of it.

Your knee's pulled up to your chest as he tells you everything, "I was out... getting her chemo, and i came back and she was uh, fuck. She was gone, I burnt the place down, I couldn't bring myself to fucking, you know..." His eye's are glossed over, and each word is said breathlessly, almost panicked, you knew he'd never love you like he loved Lucille, but he did love you. "i was, fuck i was so broken, i needed control, and I had it... i couldn't bring myself to do something like that again, and i'm only really here still because some, Carl. Smart ass kid, his dying wish was to keep me alive." you listen intently, you knew about Carl, though only really being taken into the community near ten years after his death, the old leaders son, The grime's weren't gone entirely, you met Judith on the odd occasion while she was wandering around having slipped out of Daryl or Michonne's view, The story's never went away, there's always someone near who was at one of them, Like Arron was at the line up, or how Daryl had been with some of the leaders since the very start, you never really got over feeling like an outsider, never stopped being treated like one, perhaps that's why you and Negan had even grown close, or the two of you sparking up some form of relationship caused them to treat you like an outsider, though you'd never consider leaving Negan, he isn't how he's described in the story's. Changed.   

So when he noticed your appetite start to disappear, refusing some of the veg he'd sneaked from the farm while he was meant to be working, or waking up in the early hours to the quiet noise of the pads of your feet against the cold hardwood flooring, he knew something was up, deciding one night, while you were stood in the kitchen drinking some water and trying to convince your brain to shut the actual fuck up, to go and ask you about it. His frame, darkened by the sparse ,light in the room, lingers in the door way, he's not to sure if he should wait for you to notice him or, just say something, though when your eye's trail over to him, he takes it was his que to speak, "uh, hey" slightly unsure on how to really approach the situation, "You okay?" you shake your head letting the mouthful of water slide down your throat, "just, little low. it happens every year, Ill get over it ."You breathe, garnering a gentle nod from the man, he walks close enough to wrap his hands around your waist, gently leading you to the bedroom, his head lowering slightly to whisper in your ear, his hot breath against your neck and ear "You, tell me next time" Which you hum, gently in response to, finding yourself asleep in his arms in no time.

[zerolostwalks]

Fic writer asks:

4, 11, 16, 24, 44, 70

(there are too many great questions!)

Thank you thank you! They are really good questions!! (found here)

Long post is long so there's a read more cut. (Question 16. (How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?) gets especially long because I decided I want to discuss all my WIPs.)

4. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

This is a wonderful question, and honestly it depends. Some ideas definitely are me reading or watching something and forming an AU around that. Sometimes it's listening to music and a vibe strikes me that I am like I must write a story that fits this vibe. Other times, I'll be daydreaming and a single scene will pop into my mind and haunt me until I write it down which usually leads to creating the world and circumstances to allow that scene to happen. Sometimes I get an impulsive (in the cases of my darker angstier stuff intrusive thought) and my brain is like wouldn't that be messed up? (Like Crash Pad, Ch 11 solely happened because I built the backstory for the POV character and brain went, you know what't be really screwed up?)

11. Link your three favorite fics right now

Oh geez. But there are so many good fics!! At this moment the immediate top 3 that jumped in my head were:

-It's a supernatural delight by @invisibleraven (JatP fic) -Trip of My Life (Every Time You're Touching Me) by @daintyduck99 (JatP fic) -Prince Charming's Jacket by hitechlatte (Rise TMNT fic)

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

So most of my fic ideas are in some WIP phase. (I'm serious when I saw I need a focus schedule to help me out) We Run Together - This next chapter is all Reggie being all anxiety riddled because Cam and Bobby take him shopping . . .still not sure if we're gonna get to the plane ride this chapter or next. Bobby's first since turning and Reggie's first period. . .it's a miserable affair for the two of them. I have this mental image of them during a layover just sprawled in the waiting away noses shoved in some sort of fast food bag or peppermint bag fighting off the queasiness of being trapped in a metal tube with a bunch of people, including young kids. . Hello Baby June, Goodbye Heart - I keep going back an reading what we have for the next chapter and all our notes. I don't know how much Ash is ok with me gushing about details bu I'll just say the stuff we've got planned it's literally that meme of "give me fic. 'you have to write it.' no write only fic." A lot of of my JatP wips are on rotisserie skewers in my brain right now, rotating, coming into view, reminding me of their presence, enticing me to work on them. And they ALL have moments that I am like, you were the scene! The reason I started this fic in the first place and I still haven't gotten to you yet!! . Crash and Burn - Gotta get through this last chapter of Crash Pad, which is gonna be fun. But then Glowing Embers!! Aaaah, the Donnie POV side of Crash Pad!! Especially Ch 9-11 of Crash Pad like I am at that point of must write this that I have worked myself into a frenzied state where writing is no longer possible . Finally the Donnie Double AU - This AU has so much angst potential. Right now I have two planned fics for it. An unnamed one where Mikey goes after the Donnie Duplicate to try and coax him back to the lair. Only instead he sets him off. And like I said, it gets angsty. The Donnie Duplicate 1000% believes he is OG Donnie, it is hardwired into him, no amount of evidence is going to convince him otherwise. Also hardwired into him is the belief that the only way to get his life back is to kill the entity that stole it from him i.e. OG Donnie. Which leads me to the second planned fic Meant to Be(working title, it may change). This is the reader insert(possibly OC) led fic. Essentially the premise is Donnie Duplicate runs into MC, and initially begins clinging to them out of an 'I just lost my entire support system' desperation that turns into a really unhealthy obsessive possessiveness. When I say it is pulling a lot of vibes, especially the planned ending, from Meant to be Yours from Heathers the Musical I ain't lying. In fact most of the vibe songs I am pulling for this lean into dark and angsty feels. Straight up have been listening to a song called Stalker's Tango on a loop for planning parts of this fic

24. Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

Hmmmmmm, this ones tough, if it was bad advice I most likely purged it from my mind. The thing is sometimes what is great advice for one person and their way of writing may be terrible advice for some one else. Like even the write daily advice, I think this is great advice. But it needs to be tailored to some extent. When I got back into fic writing I worked myself to the point where I am now needing to reevaluate my expectations of me and my writing. Because I can no longer keep up with the way I wrote a few years ago. The same advice I would have thought was great then would kill me now.

44. What mistakes do you keep making no matter how many times your beta corrects you?

This question would be easier if I had a regular beta XD. Personal mistake of my own that I keep noticing, I don't let the story breath enough.

70. When asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?

I have no hesitations telling people I write. I might not always discuss what the stories themselves are. But the brilliant thing about fanfiction is I don't have to, I can just talk about the joy of exploring the characters outside of canon, exploring how they would behave in different circumstances. At my sister's wedding a couple years ago, most people didn't even care about the what I was writing, more on the how I found the time. Because this was when I was in peak production mode, where I was slowly burning myself out with the sheer amount of writing I was doing without pacing myself at all.

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tfw you come up with an au concept that is SO DELICIOUS specifically because it creates SUCH fucked-up/angsty situations or backstories but then you just kinda have to. sit there vibrating because in order to talk to anyone about it you have to explain the entire setup of the au and it probably wouldn't land as well anyway

[onigiri-dorkk]

Goals + updates for 2023!

(plus sneak-talks into my future fics!)

ALRIGHT RIVAMIKA FRIENDS! This evening (now that I've finally come back from my short New Year's trip... as well as recovered from major car sickness on the way back home l o l), my birthday-week-and-writing-sabbatical (😂) officially begins!

If you've been following, I've been hustling since November with my IRL workload and it has taken time away from writing and fandom things, so I had planned that from January 1st for a whole entire week I will dedicate my time to rest in the form of writing. No work, no emails, no ads...

NOTHING except sitting in coffeeshops or beautiful places and writing stories from my heart again.

During the holidays I had a couple of technically free days, so I wanted to get a one-shot in to get myself ready and warm up for this week (and then produced last week's one-shot, The Perfect Brew, which might mark my all-time favorite one-shot I've written so far).

The hard part was deciding what the heck to focus on and commit to. I thought about keeping it free, but knew it would lead to more one-shots, which is fine too.

But after I came back home and rested, I sorted through my WIP's (which, at this point, I actually have 7! I just forgot about 4 of them omg) and I rediscovered a WIP in my Google Docs I loved and forgot about, and that is the orphanage fic.

I don't think I've shared much about it just yet, but it will be a multi-chapter fic set after Season 3, and both Historia's orphanage and castle will play a big role in the plot for Levi, Mikasa and the Scouts. Obviously I don't think I will complete the entire fic just in this week (sheesh... I can't even imagine?!) but I aim to make a good dent in it and hopefully publish something by my birthday weekend :) I believe this is the one I want to make the most progress in, and hopefully get something published from it, though I can't promise timely updates the way you got Microcosmos every week or two.

Also on the back burner that I might trudge through this week is the Ackerman (Kenny, Levi, Mikasa) short-fic, and a post-war reunion fic that will likely be a long-fic. Then deeeeeep in my backburner is also a post-war long-fic that will circle around Levi and Mikasa and gang as Paradis refugees; I foresee this as something that will be a lot darker and angstier.

I'm honestly just excited for starting 2023 dedicating passion-time to writing; it feels like me saying YES to dedicating this full year to growing as a writer. I only began writing in May so it's strange that I haven't even hit a full year of doing so... But knowing that 2023 is starting and ending with me in love with writing is just exciting. I'm PUMPED. I have other ideas (maybe starting a Rivamika-specific writers' accountability group, etc) but I'll save all of that for another time hehe.

All this to say, thank you to all of my fandom friends I've made here who have encouraged me and brought me soooo much joy and inspiration literally on the daily. You don't understand how much your presence here has helped me in my real daily life, and has sustained this newfound inspiration. It makes writing and creating art not feel like an echo-in-a-chamber. To have real people enjoying what we create together, encouraging each other in the process, and sharing their joys for it, it's just sooo important and meaningful. Thank you all!! I will continue to ~dedicate my heart~ to creating art in lots of forms for our lil community here. :)

Please look forward to another year of Onigiri's proud hyper-fixation on Rivamika ;)

(P.S. I can see my nighttimes being filled with reading all of y'alls fanfics that I haven't gotten to read yet!!! PLS!! I CANT WAIT!)

[sundaeserenade]

What do you think of the tropes I think we need to see more of in reguri fics

Sociable Red (idk he seems like the type of guy with a special magnetism, that's why he's learned to be socially competent after spending time in Pasio, where he socialized a lot because of his damn boyfriend rival and people approached him regardless)

Red's POV of them growing to love each other again (it's mostly Green, because I think he's perceived as the more dynamic canvas: angstier, more prone to explosive emotions but I'm curious to see how people will interpret his experience and thoughts, will they be jumbled up like any other teen, prone to not understanding them, or will he be more in tune with them because of how introspective he seems but still won't understand them)

Red thirsting over Green~ (this needs no explanation, imagine your first bits of human interaction was with the fine af Green Oak)

We basically need more Red-centric stuff. I love Green don't get me wrong, but we need more of our og protagonist hermit.

I think sociable Red depends on the canon/universe you want to see. You're likely only going to see sociable Red in pokespe or pokemas spaces, because that matches the characterization of Red there.

And I kind of fit into that same vein. I like sociable Red in pokemas, but only in a certain kind of way. And I haven't read pokespe and don't plan to, so. I like hermit Red a lot because I like more socially awkward characters and those who just. do not talk. I love link from loz for this same reason, because we see so much of "happy-go-lucky protaganist with his gang of friends who believe in the power of friendship and wonder and love!" that I like something different.

but yeah, if it's pokemas, then it's fine, but i still hc Red to be socially awkward and have trouble speaking without a close friend there, hence Green. But I also don't mind people approaching him either and just learning to talk with him and knowing how to tell when he's mentally spent.

I've…seen quite a bit of Red's POV of them getting back together? Green is definitely the majority, but I feel like I've seen a good handful of Red. Maybe not. Maybe that's just my fics, but I know there's at least three out there, which isn't much but 🤷‍♀️

Overall--in any AU/trope/cliche/anything-- you're going to see more from Green's pov because Green talks. It is very difficult to write a character who doesn't communicate vocally. The writer then has to decide if they want Red to be selectively mute/use sign/or be mute. And in all of those situations, you're still going to have to rely on expressions, mannerisms, and behavior to write Red correctly. And that's hard for people to do, especially for writers just starting out.

and in addition to that ^ there's the whole "green's got more of a concrete character arc that can be followed and his character is easier to pin down." it's easier to get inside Green's head. You can get a feel for his personality easier, therefore, the writer is going to write through his perspective. I have no doubt the angst and dynamics play a part, but at the end of the day, people are more likely to write what they're comfortable with then something new/difficult.

but as for like Red's actual emotions/thoughts on it, it could go either way. I def don't think Red would fully understand his feelings, but he also would follow his instincts. They'd def be jumbled up and he'd be confused, but he wouldn't be as loud about it as green. Red's the type to avoid thinking about it and keep it all in and avoid the situation or topic entirely. he can't talk about it because he doesn't know how to explain it. and he's afraid of communicating the wrong thing. he doesn't want to be misunderstood. he's tired of being misunderstood.

I think red would be far more introspective, but even so, he's not sure of the conclusions because he doesn't have enough information. so he kind of goes with the flow. he takes things as they come. he follows his gut/instincts. but if he becomes overwhelmed, he'll run.

I think I've written a fair amount of red being a horny slut, but there could always be more. i also think this falls into that "idk how to write it" bucket because this depends on Red knowing what those feelings mean. he's likely to just blush and be confused and also just run whenever he gets too hot or his body reacts.

not gonna lie, I'm pretty sure I write from green's perspective just so I can have him point out how hot Red is. Green's saying everything every reader is thinking, so I find my fic audience is like "HELL YEAH GREEN'S RIGHT!! RED'S SO HOT!" like we're all in agreement with green that red's to die for. and I guess I write like that because in the fandom or at least in the beginning, there was a lot of green love, so I wanted to write through green's perspective to be like "red's hot, he's beautiful, he's sexy" so everyone would understand that red's sexy.

whenever i write through red's pov, he's so in love. he's so silly and goofy and loving towards Green. There isn't any immediate "Green's so hot, he's so sexy" it's more "Green's so pretty, he's so smart, he's so great" because I think that's what Red would think of first. If asked or pressed, he would of course say Green's hot and sexy too, but those aren't the first thoughts that come to his head.

Red thirsting, i think, has to start with…personality. he's got to know the person. that's how he makes connections. of course he's attracted to Green, but he's got to know Green. He's got to be sure Green understands him. Connections and bonds are so center to Red's character, that I feel all the thirst and hunger comes second, so Red thirsting would probably be in a series…or like a one-shot where they've been off and on dating, I dunno. But there could def be more.