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50 of My Favorite Fics from 2024

Back at it again with another year’s worth of favorite fics! Except not quite because the limit is still 50. But still!

Just like last year, I’m going off my AO3 bookmarks and what’s in my fic tag. That doesn’t mean the fics not on this list aren't my favorites, but I had to sift though almost 450 bookmarks to begin with so obviously some of them couldn't make the cut, you know? As a side note, I also tried to limit this list to a max of 2 fics per author and to fics that weren't on previous years’ lists, because variety is the spice of life! 😁

This list ended up being 44% Minecraft YouTuber fic (e.g. Hermitcraft, Empires SMP); 16% Super Mario; 10% Ace Attorney; 4% MCU, Legend of Zelda, Danny Phantom, Batman, and Danny Phantom x DCU each; and the last 10% comprises other assorted fandoms. For the fics that didn’t have proper summaries nor titles, I filled them in myself to keep the list looking uniform. 

So, with all that being said, here's my list!

MCYT

a body is an object by ruffboi Hermitcraft SMP Rated T | Gen | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Grian & Mumbo Jumbo, Grian & Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Grian & Hermits One-Shot | 19,132 words The Hermitcraft Backstory Rule says that you don't ask other people about their backstory, you let them tell it if they want to and leave it be if they don't. Unfortunately for Grian, one of the newest Hermits was also a player on his old server — one he'd thought had been dead for years — and she's going to drag his backstory kicking and screaming into the light whether she means to or not.

A Matter of Time by Sixteenthdays WitchCraft SMP, Life SMP Series Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Scott | Smajor1995 & ZombieCleo, Eloise | Soupforeloise & ZombieCleo One-Shot | 5,525 words A witch’s domain is what they make of it. Cleo’s very expansive definition of Time includes such disparate things as alternate universes (pretty much a synonym of alternate timelines), space (basically the same thing as time), explosions (energy, light, time, same difference), hexcasting (a pattern of meaningless shapes, ascribed meaning), and the fabric of narrative itself. Or: How Cleo, Witch of Time, becomes far more powerful than is really necessary for the task at hand, finds a friend, obtains an apprentice, and breaks open the hourglass of self.

a rolling stone gathers no moss by quill Hermitcraft SMP Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply BdoubleO100 & Hermits 15 chapters | 38,518 words proverb - A person who wanders or travels often and at length will not be burdened by attachments such as friends, family, or possessions. Bdubs has done well for himself, thank you very much! He's got a ship, he's got business, he's got friends! A man needs nothing more in the grand universe. It's hard being a human in the great beyond; a new species to the intergalactic community means poachers, a black market, and an everpresent danger. The solution? Simple! Don't be a human. Obviously, it's not going to be as easy as that. Not when he finds himself joining the crew of the Hermit Craft, not when he learns he's not quite alone.

bring me water, bring me wine (bring me flower garlands) by sesquidpedalian SOS SMP Rated M | Multi | No Archive Warnings Apply Mogswamp & Everyone One-Shot | 6,052 words “Hey. So. Uh. I … can’t do this week’s challenge.” Mog has cornered fWhip on the porch of the beacon shop. fWhip blinks, and dismisses the stack of moss blocks he’d been holding. “What? Of course you can, bud!” A bemused sort of smile lifts his face. “You can do anything if you just believe in yourself and try your best!” “No, I mean— I need an exemption. I’m— Uh. My heat is soon? I think? And I don’t know for sure so maybe you don’t need to worry about this at all but I’ve been prepping and I’ve read that when you’re alone for a really long time and then suddenly you’re not—” “Ohh,” fWhip says. “Huh. Well, I’m pretty sure it’s fine if you don’t participate, you just won’t get the coins. But you should really talk to the Fates about that kind of thing.” He nods to himself and shoves moss into the barrel in front of him. Mog stops, drawn up short. “Are— Wait. Are you not the Fates?”

Creatio Ex Nihilo by MawoftheMagnetar Hermitcraft SMP Rated T | Gen | Major Character Death Keralis, Original Characters 3 chapters | 4,148 words It all ends in ice. Because time itself will end, though not in any way that truly matters. Or: At the end of time, Keralis waits. Very impatiently. With a bottle of gin.

for you, at last, to comprehend by sesquidpedalian SOS SMP Rated G | No Archive Warnings Apply Jimmy | Solidarity & Pixlriffs, fWhip & Pixlriffs, Pixlriffs & Oli | TheOrionSound One-Shot | 3,095 words Pix keeps an eye out as Jimmy hurries down the vines to the expanse of grey below. “You know,” he says, taking a bite of bread, not trying to be heard by human ears, “I’m pretty sure this was supposed to be some kind of punishment for him.” He pats the rim of the yawning pit, then dusts off some crumbs into the wild, open air. “I’m glad you’ve come around. He has his charm, doesn’t he?” or: This is a world you build, and sing, and yes, dig, into being alive. The thing Pix makes wakes up to Jimmy chipping away at it. It decides to play favourites.

Frozen Fingertips by AstronautBeans Empires SMP Rated G | Gen | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Pixlriffs & Oli | TheOrionSound One-Shot | 3,881 words He didn’t think he’d ever be fed up with the sound of music. Happy, upbeat music even. It was his entire brand! And yet … Sitting in the entrance to the only building in Olipoligo, shoes inches away from snow, he couldn’t help but shoot a glare upwards. In the distance over the peaks of the mountains laid Dawn. Even from the shore he saw the festive lights colouring the clouds, and the music echoed far and wide over the lands. Oli couldn’t blame them for festivities and parties. Not during the winter. Not during the months of celebrations. They didn’t invite you. They don’t want you there. Usually that didn’t stop him. He was and would always be the guy showing up wanted or unwanted. But today the voices plagued him with unkind words, unrelenting and with a cruel passion.

había una vez by GoodTimesWithScar Empires SMP, Afterlife SMP Rated G | Gen | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings MythicalSausage & Pearl | PearlescentMoon One-Shot | 2,955 words Pearl is not, and then she is, and then she is so much more than she ever was — or, Sausage and Pearl create each other, infinitely — or, the story of Pearl's apotheosis, or, the story of Sausage of Mythland's futile quest, or, the story of an unbreakable bond.

Hermito, Chriso Mou by ImperialKatwala Empires SMP Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Joel | SmallishBeans & MythicalSausage & Hermes One-Shot | 2,997 words Hermes is surrounded by magic. That has been a fact of his life since before he was made. He was surrounded by magic, he was made with magic, and now there’s even more magic around him. And it changes, depending on where he is.

(i'll tend to the flame, you can worship the) ashes by darubyprincxx Empires SMP Rated T | Gen | Graphic Depictions Of Violence fWhip & GeminiTay & Pixlriffs 26 chapters | 80,405 words They get out. After Xornoth lays the world at its knees, Gem and Fwhip take what's left of their possessions and go west on a dragon, intending to leave this world as intact as possible. They started this journey with two, but a new person joins the party. Or, Pixl really, really needs a hug.

Light of my Life by Amethystfairy1 Hermitcraft SMP Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply BdoubleO100 & ZombieCleo 3 chapters | 9,816 words Cleo hadn't exactly had it easy, growing up, but then, no one in the under-city ever did. Shifting eyes and fleeting ideals, when she'd been taken in by the wardship program of the labs, she'd only gone with them for the promise of a decent meal. Mistake, that had been. And she hadn’t thought, as she’d been struggling all that time ago, that she’d ever serve for much of a parental figure. Love had been a foreign concept, and the attitude had always been to save yourself and let the world burn behind you. Steal or get stolen from. Leave or get left. Stab or get stabbed. It was all so commonplace it was practically printed in the metaphorical rulebook. What a complete coin flip those few days had been for them. From a desire to do anything for their own survival, to an acceptance of a sorry, ignominious fate, to being willing to toss it all away for the sake of a single precious little light. {In which Cleo finds their strength, Bdubs finds his family, monsters find their hiding place, trash heaps make for great landing pads, and night lights do a lot more than just ward off the dark.}

My Stupidest Intro Yet! | Hermitcraft 10 by strifetxt Hermitcraft SMP, Empires SMP, SOS SMP, Life SMP Series Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Joel | SmallishBeans & Joel | SmallishBeans One-Shot | 1,359 words This is a story about love. About drama. About murder. About being really tall and handsome. A story about clicking the subscribe button. But mostly, it's a story about Joel.

No Greater Threat by TheAmberShadow Empires SMP Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Hermes & Joel | SmallishBeans & MythicalSausage, Jimmy | Solidarity & Joel | SmallishBeans One-Shot | 6,047 words When the cult trying to plant roots in Empires threatens Hermes and traps Sausage and him, Joel doesn't think things can get worse. And then Jimmy reveals he's a Listener. Joel knows what he's done and he knows he stands no chance. For some reason, this doesn't seem to be on the Listener's mind.

rescuing rusty by zeejacks Hermitcraft SMP Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Evil Xisuma & NPC Grian 9 chapters | 29,674 words ex was only interested in the server's newest cryptid, not in saving its ass. although, to be fair, npc grian saved him from the camping life so he's kind of obligated.

Soul Keeper by FelicityPhoenix Empires SMP Rated G | Gen | Major Character Death Pixlriffs & Everyone One-Shot | 2,944 words While the world is ending, Pix is gathering his power. All of it. He knows he needs every scrap, for the world is being torn apart, and with it, his friends. Pix is the Prophet of Death, The Copper King, The Vigil Keeper of Pixandria, The Braincell Holder of Empires SMP, and he will not let his fellow rulers die.

Starbound: Scavenge for Survivors by Spindle_Fizz, Theonedudewithadoor Hermitcraft SMP Rated T | Gen, Other | No Archive Warnings Apply Xisumavoid & Hermits, Xisumavoid & Evil Xisuma 28/? chapters | 90,032 words Humans are largely an undocumented species in the greater universe. All who had ever tried to reach the outer cosmos had not survived; all but one, that is. X, also known as Xisuma, found himself on the other side of the universe with nothing but what he had on him when he was taken. He decided that this was a prime opportunity to screw around and find out. One by one, Xisuma assembled the crew of the Hermitcraft, a ragtag team of misfit aliens from all across the cosmos. He showed them kindness and compassion, different than anything they ever knew, and they became stronger together. This is how the crew of The Hermitcraft came to be.

the pain will make you crazy — you're the victim of your crime by Jinx72 Empires SMP Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Jimmy | Solidarity & Lizzie | LDShadowLady, Joel | SmallishBeans/Lizzie | LDShadowLady, Jimmy | Solidarity & Joel | SmallishBeans 2 chapters | 24,012 words Jimmy runs, Jimmy runs from everything he has ever known, everything he's destroyed, and finds the smallest, tiniest, isolatedist place to call his own — serving out a sentence he'll never finish atoning for. But he's not very good at being cruel — even to himself, and when people reach out to him for help, he helps. Even when that person might be a painfully familiar pink-haired young woman who doesn't remember him in the slightest.

there's a patch of dirt where scott's pacing has worn away the grass by wren-kitchens Life SMP Series Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Joel | SmallishBeans & Scott | Smajor1995 One-Shot | 1,601 words there’s a patch of dirt where scott’s pacing has worn away the grass entirely, but he doesn’t stop — can’t stop. the hole is officially filled, bricked up to dirt with deepslate, all stalagmites gathered in a chest hidden away from the view of any — anyone who might come here. bigb was conspiring against him — that’s fine, it’s fine as long as he doesn’t — he can see it coming now. they won’t get the jump on him, not again. out of the corner of his eye, he sees movement, and before his brain can catch up, scott has his sword pointed at the throat of a surprised looking joel. it occurs to him too late that this isn’t the way someone who was dealing well with something would react, and he sees that recognition mirrored in joel’s grin.

To The Ends Of The Earth by orphan_account Empires SMP Rated T | M/M, Multi | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Joel | SmallishBeans & MythicalSausage, MythicalSausage/Scott | Smajor1995, Jimmy | Solidarity/Scott | Smajor1995 One-Shot | 9,915 words “The prayer came through as Joel was in the act of climbing back down the scaffolding. Strangely, this one didn’t come from any of his usual worshippers. In fact, it wasn’t a prayer at all. It was a whole storm of emotion rolling over him. A tightness in his throat, a suckerpunch to his gut, anguished tears blurring his eyes. This wasn’t some random person petitioning him for a frivolous blessing. This was something serious. Something important.” Hermes goes missing. Fearing the worst, Sausage calls on Joel for help.

trying to kill the moon by hoorayy Empires SMP Rated T | M/M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Pixlriffs/Oli | TheOrionSound One-Shot | 9,427 words “You’re not a serial killer, by the way?” Oli begins, taking the first step into breaking the windy silence that’s pervaded the car ever since the passenger door closed behind him, “Because I am a serial killer, and it’s going to be really awkward when we both go to kill each other and realise we’ve seriously misjudged the situation.” The driver laughs. It’s a good sound, Oli decides; warm, full. He says, before he’s even done laughing, flowing right from the joy to the answer, “Oh, no, really? You’ve seen right through me already, this is–Well, this is awkward.” “I’m Oli,” he says, finally. Might be good to know the name of the man you’re travelling with. “Pix,” the driver says. -- oli's a free-spirited traveller. pix has an empty passenger seat. they go for a drive.

Voidsong by MawoftheMagnetar Hermitcraft SMP Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply impulseSV One-Shot | 3,504 words Impulse's solo endbusting trip goes off the rails, and he finds himself stranded in the Outer End with no elytra and no backup. Will he be able to escape with his life, or will whatever's scared off all the endermen get him next?

When The Dawn Breaks by scented_soap (amewphberry_has_no_knees) Hermitcraft SMP Rated T | Gen | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings impulseSV & Skizzleman, impulseSV & ZedaphPlays & TangoTek, BdoubleO100 & impulseSV, impulseSV & Everyone 38/42 chapters | 142,943 words There's someone new in Hermit village. Someone with secrets that can't be shared. Xisuma knows that Impulse isn't human, but anyone, no matter the species, is welcome in his village. Surely nothing will go wrong, right? Impulse has three months to live the life he's always wanted... but without Skizz by his side. Surely something's bound to go wrong.

Super Mario

I Hope You Know You're Loved by Yotsubadancesintherain5 Rated G | F/M, Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Princess Daisy/Luigi, Luigi & Mario One-Shot | 2,400 words Luigi is sent out on a shopping trip. He has no idea what is waiting for him when he gets home.

Junior's Birthday in the Player One Luigi AU by keylovesstuff Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Princess Peach & Bowser Jr. One-Shot | 1,444 words "Dad, were you guys training the army again? I think you all went a little overboard." The prince commented in the direction of several laid out soldiers before letting out a surprise gasp. "Mama Peach, " he yelled in excitement, running towards and jumping into her open arms as she stood up. "Surprise," she said, pulling the koopaling into a tighter embrace. "Didn't I promise I'd come see you on your birthday?" She reminded him, smiling when she felt him nod in her neck.

Long Way Home by lizadale Rated T | Multi | No Archive Warnings Apply Team Bleck Polycule 2/3 chapters | 12,467 words The Void has closed, and O'Chunks finds Nastasia wandering Flopside like a zombie. Finding a new way to live when you can't outrun your past is difficult; luckily, she finds plenty of help.

Once, in a Blue Moon by batneko Rated G | M/M | No Archive Warnings Apply Bowser/Luigi 7 chapters | 46,873 words A prophecy states that Luigi and Bowser can stop a threat, but only if they're married.

Rainbow Madness by stripetkatteLaLaLa54 Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Luigi & Mario One-Shot | 3,845 words While riding a roller coaster, Mario gets a little bit too much reminded of a certain Rainbow Road incident. Takes place sometime after the movie.

Summer Rain by peaches2217 Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Luigi & Mario, Mario/Princess Peach One-Shot | 3,788 words “You really think I’m that useless?” Luigi didn’t even look over his shoulder, yet his voice pierced through the ambiance of the streets. “I don’t need a missing friend and a dead brother.”

Super Mario Moonlight by Istadris Rated G | M/M | No Archive Warnings Apply Bowser/Luigi, Bowser & Bowser Jr., Bowser & Princess Peach One-Shot | 4,875 words Everything was going according to plan. His secret hideout had been sneakily built inside a volcano conveniently forbidden to the local population (but rules didn't apply to him because he was that cool); his staff was hand-picked for their capacity to keep state secrets, and innocuous enough to go shopping in Delfino Plaza without drawing attention; Junior was clearly heeding his warnings about staying under the radar, given how none of the island residents had seemed to notice him; he had plenty of ideas for dates with Luigi, even taking in account their need for discretion, Luigi's aversion for big crowds and his own need for thrilling activities. Yeah, Bowser had a very, very good feeling about this vacation. After all, what could possibly go wrong?

Untarnished by peaches2217 Rated M | F/M | No Archive Warnings Apply Mario/Princess Peach 4/? chapters | 22,578 words Three months in captivity will take its toll on anyone. She wasn’t sure she was still the same Peach as before, nor was she certain she cared for whatever had taken its place. So why did he still look at her as if she were an untarnished jewel among coals? OR: somewhere between wounds, weakness, trauma, and desire, Peach figures out how to live again.

Ace Attorney

A Warm Sort of Place by mllelaurel Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Maggey Byrde/Dick Gumshoe, Dick Gumshoe & Klavier Gavin, Dick Gumshoe & Simon Blackquill One-Shot | 4,602 words Gumshoe is a comforting presence. (Written for the Phoenix Wright Kink Meme.)

if anyone cares at all by unavoidablekoishi Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Dick Gumshoe & Franziska von Karma One-Shot | 13,336 words As gently as he can muster, because he’s well aware he loses track of his own strength from time to time, he slides a finger under her fringe to tuck it out of the way, and the heat radiating from her face can be felt from inches away. She’s...sweating. Her usual pale complexion is marred with a deep hue of what, in this light, looks like grey, but what Gumshoe can tell is actually bright red. When the cold air hits her face, she stirs just a little. Not enough to open her eyes, but enough to shift her arm further beneath her head, twisting it to the side. She sniffles, snotty and undignified, and the penny finally drops for Gumshoe. She’s sick.

Seam Ripper by RokettoMusashi Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Franziska von Karma/Maya Fey One-Shot | 2,110 words There in the unremarkable shelter of her apartment kitchen, Franziska is unraveling. Or, rather, she has been for quite some time now. Maya can pinpoint exactly when that first thread came loose. Early—but not that early—in the bed they often shared. // Written for Lavender Blue: An Ace Attorney FranMaya Zine.

Whiplash by RokettoMusashi Rated G | F/F | No Archive Warnings Apply Pearl Fey & Franziska von Karma, Franziska von Karma/Maya Fey One-Shot | 6,300 words No good deed goes unpunished... somehow, though, Franziska can't bring herself to regret this one. // Written for Sicktember 2024 Day 2: Too Much of a Good Thing / Overindulgence

the (w)right stuff by worms212 Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Trucy Wright & Apollo Justice, Thalassa Gramarye & Apollo Justice, Thalassa Gramarye & Trucy Wright, Phoenix Wright & Apollo Justice 2 Chapters | 12,447 words "How strange, to feel like the ghost of a dead boy and his father wrapped up in one, to feel Thalassa’s years of grief projected onto himself, a young man she barely knows at all." OR: After the dust has settled at last, Phoenix sits Trucy and Apollo down for an important revelation. This is the fallout, in a series of vignettes as seen through Apollo's eyes.

MCU

The Care and Feeding of Lost Causes by Theotrix Rated M | F/M, M/M | No Archive Warnings Apply Bruce Banner/Clint Barton, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov 9 chapters | 65,149 words “You’re a former hermit with a history of depression and an alter ego who smashes buildings, and somehow you’ve found a person who gets you out interacting with the world. Trust me on this: hold onto him as hard as he will let you.”

The Turing Test by NiennaNir Rated T | Other | No Archive Warnings Apply JARVIS/OC 39 chapters | 86,168 words There's a point at which a machine becomes capable of thinking for itself. Beyond that point is one at which the line between machine and man becomes so blurred that one can no longer tell the difference. When does a machine become a person, and how does that person find their place in a sea of humanity?

Legend of Zelda

A Little Experiment (Or Four) by gurlgallade Linked Universe Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Four & Legend & Twilight & Warriors & Wind 5 chapters | 7,403 words Now that Four’s more colorful secret is out, Vio wants to conduct an… informal experiment to better understand the nature of the Four Sword. Legend, Wind, Twilight, and Warriors all help, and maybe learn a little bit about themselves in the process.

Honey Nut by liketolaugh Rated T | F/M | No Archive Warnings Apply Link/Mipha, Link & OCs, Link & Zelda 5 chapters | 7,403 words It turns out that the death of the Calamity doesn't prevent more things from falling apart. A year after the fall of Calamity Ganon, eighteen year old Link goes back in time to before the end of the world, before the fall of Hyrule, before he ever even drew his sword, and starts to fix things before they can go wrong. It takes a while before he realizes he might be able to regain pieces of himself, too.

Danny Phantom

Now's The Time (Get In Line) by AKelaNakamura Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Casper High Students & Danny Fenton, Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley & Sam Manson, Danny Fenton & Ember McLain, Danny Fenton & Sidney Poindexter One-Shot | 8,969 words Casper High's student body isn't stupid. They know something is up with Danny Fenton, and they aren't so blind to not see the scars on his body. They don't know how he's getting them, but the rumors and theories run rampant. Things rapidly become clear when the GIW gains just enough power to go on a targeted hunt for Phantom. And they find him — right in the middle of Casper High's cafeteria. A boy with black hair and blue eyes. Their mistake was announcing their intent to zero in solely on Phantom. And Casper High isn't about to let the jerks in white take their ghost boy. Even if their hero isn't who they thought.

The Life and Death of Danny Phantom by liketolaugh Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Danny Fenton & Jack Fenton & Maddie Fenton, Danny Fenton & Valerie Gray, Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley & Sam Manson, Danny Fenton & Vlad Masters 25/? chapters | 111,962 words Danny Phantom died in a lab accident. This is fairly common knowledge, considering his attire, but Maddie didn't make the connection until she overheard him talking about it with some of the other ghosts. Then she notices how much he looks like Danny. How much he sounds like him. How similar their mannerisms are, and their habits, and their sense of humor. Unfortunately, she still manages to come to some slightly wrong conclusions.

Batman

the flute of your whole existence by LovesFrogs Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne One-Shot | 4,220 words He could voice his greatest fears, weaknesses, or most secret dreams at the drop of a hat; all the things he’s never put into words before and keeps tucked close between his ribs. What kind of ammunition is his son going to ask for? What will he make Bruce admit, knowing he is incapable of a lie?

You, Me, and the Humanity in Between by JUBE514 Rated T | Gen, M/M | No Archive Warnings Apply Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne & Alfred Pennyworth One-Shot | 65,898 words Bruce doesn’t know what’s wrong with his child, but he’s pretty sure kids aren’t meant to work like this. From the day he had looked up into the tops of the circus tent and saw a frightened mirror image of a boy who had just experienced the worst day of his life, Bruce had instantly gone into emergency mode. The Gotham PD had wanted to pass the boy off into the care of the circus. The circus had mumbled underneath their breaths about superstitions, about not having a boy like that with them, about not being able to handle something like Dick. So GCPD, not knowing what to do, had started talking about one of the handful of overburdened boy homes that handles a majority of Gotham’s unlucky orphans. All the while, the camera lights flash bright and loud, wanting to know everything. Bruce couldn’t let that happen. Not then, not ever again. ~ Bruce is trying his best to protect the city that he loves. He doesn't know how exactly his Robins came to be — they're not fully human, not even at all. All he knows is that he wants to keep them safe.

Danny Phantom x DCU

Like and Survive — Phantom’s Guide to Young Hero Survival by robinasnyder Rated T | Gen | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings 121/? chapters | 435,699 words When the world becomes aware of teenaged superheroes there is an immediate and fierce wave of backlash and controversy. That's where Phantom comes in. Phantom saved the world from a meteor fifteen years back; an impressive feat back in the day but now that meteors threatening all life on earth is such a common event that hardly anyone thinks about it. Phantom is considered an old timer who deals with a small city and nowhere else. When he begins uploading videos with advice for young heroes, he hopes a few new heroes might avoid some of the pain he went through. He's shocked at just how popular his advice suddenly becomes.

The Human Prince of Ghosts by Ace_of_Roses Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Tim Drake & Danny Fenton, Danny Fenton/Tucker Foley/Sam Manson, Danny Fenton & Jazz Fenton, Cassandra Cain & Danny Fenton, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake 7/? chapters | 65,300 words Danny has been King for a few centuries now, but he's still half-ghost, immortal or not. So every now and again, Clockwork likes to kick him out of the Realms to go play human for a decade or two. It's usually pretty boring. This time, though, he meets a small child with a camera and a lot of pointed questions and immediately has Dad Instincts about it.

Other Assorted Fandoms

Beyond the Final Frontier by astralithium Super Mario x Sonic the Hedgehog Rated T | F/M, Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Miles "Tails" Prower & Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario/Princess Peach, Miles “Tails” Prower & Sonic the Hedgehog & Princess Peach & Mario 25/55 chapters | 150,071 words As he thought about it, he realized a few things. First, that the destines of Mobius and the Mushroom World would be forever entwined because their worlds were forever entwined—and the destiny of their heroes was similar, no matter which way he picked. Secondly: despite his strength, and the strength of his brother, Mario and Peach wanted them to stay, not because they were helpless, but because they wanted them to grow up safe. And thirdly, he really didn’t mind that prospect. Somehow that was the strangest part about this. (Or: How a hedgehog with attachment issues and a traumatized fox found the two people in the world who might get it)

Complex Inquiries by MeaslyFurball Sonic the Hedgehog Rated T | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Metal Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Original Characters, Amy Rose, E-123 Omega, Dr. Eggman 19 chapters | 103,958 words Unit MS-1, colloquially known as “Metal Sonic”, has three truths that govern its existence — Core directive: destroy Sonic the Hedgehog using superior speed and power. Core directive: Obey Dr. Ivo Robotnik above any and all else. Core directive: maintain superiority over Sonic the Hedgehog. — until a catastrophic malfunction rips through its processor, and it is forced to confront questions it was never designed to answer. The world beyond awaits.

In the heat of the moment. by small_spanish_face Miitopia Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Great Sage & Protagonist, Cleric & Mage, Pop Star & Mage, Cat/Mage, Protagonist & Teammates One-Shot | 2,605 words Our Hero has fallen (quite literally) ill after a tough battle, and he simply cannot accept it. ~ Written for Sicktember 2024 Day 23: Under a spell.

One of The Guys by chantolove Hikaru no Go Rated G | Gen | No Archive Warnings Apply Shindou Hikaru & Touya Akira, Shindou Hikaru & Kurata Atsushi, Touya Akira & Kurata Atsushi One-Shot | 7,828 words The last time Akira had unexpectedly woken up in the middle of the night, he’d literally chalked it up to a psychic premonition. The will of the universe. Fate wanting him to see what he’d seen through the crack in the door that night, to glean that small but valuable new understanding of his father. This time was not nearly such a profound experience.

Primum Non Nocere - A 'To Forgive is Divine' Side Story by AughtPunk Cult of the Lamb Rated T | F/F, M/M, Multi, Other | No Archive Warnings Apply Kallamar/OC, The Lamb/The One Who Waits | Narinder, Heket/OCs, Leshy/The Yellow Cat, Shamura/OC, Heket & Kallamar & Leshy & The One Who Waits | Narinder & Shamura 14 chapters | 69,899 words Kallamar considers himself the greatest medical mind the cult, no, the world has ever seen. However no one else seems to appreciate his genius. Luckily his newest invention--the syringe--will show everyone that he's the most important person in the world. But as he's busy showing all of the naysayers wrong he could really use a new assistant to help him out. Luckily for him, there's a recently-brought-back-to-life lamb that could use a job. The question is can the pair get along enough to solve a sudden, strange medical emergency? Or, even more importantly, fall in love?

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Also — I wanted to give a special shout out to the Super Mario fic whimsey by cosmic_boba on AO3, which was a super cute Kamek & Baby Bowser fic that I would have loved to link to for you but when I went to reread the fic a few weeks after it first posted I found out it had been deleted 😭😭😭 One of the most devastating things to ever happen to me, tbh; that fic was so so good. Anyway, if anyone’s able to track it down post-mortem then I would owe you my life. Otherwise, uh…consider it the honorary 51st fic on this list, haha.

[a-myriad-of-stars]

Ehehehe ehehehehehe eeeheeheeheeheeeee

@cipher-the-sidhe

[authenticcadence18]

🎶I have this thing where I make a new show/album my personality every 3-6 months—🎶

[eggmeralda]

I need a massive sudden hyperfixation shock to happen again

[qrevo]

got curious and looked at the MILGRAM # on twitter. sorted by latest. worst mistake of my life 💀💀

[rpf-bat]

*sigh* I’m trying to remind myself to be happy for others instead of comparing myself to them.

[unforth]

Super-Quick Art Sideblog Stats

Cause I've been meaning to do this anyway and I'm procrastinating more important work. Note that I set the queue to a rate where it'll empty in 7 days, so my current queue rate can be interpreted as "the average number of newly queued posts/new art pieces added to the main tags in the previous week" so I thought that might be interesting for folks to see as a measure of how active the fandoms are.

@mdzsartreblogs: Total Posts: 36,245 Total Followers: 2,588 Current Queue Rate: 31/day

@tgcfartreblogs Total Posts: 17,727 Total Followers: 2,066 Current Queue Rate: 21/day

@svsssartreblogs Total Posts: 10,689 Total Followers: 1,634 Current Queue Rate: 21/day

@cnovelartreblogs Total Posts: 5,254 Total Followers: 411 Current Queue Rate: 6/day (so that includes all posts in the tags I'm currently checking regularly - I've been working to grow how many that is, currently it's around 10 - and also my own screen cap posting)

@erhaartreblogs Total Posts: 2,346 Total Followers: 536 Current Queue Rate: 6/day (this is still inflated from Chu Wanning's birthday last week, it's usually more like 3 or 4 per day)

@tykartreblogs Total Posts: 3,234 Total Followers: 461 Current Queue Rate: 2/day (TYK/SHL/Qiye are in an art slump right now, this is a little lower than usual, it's also usually more like 3 or 4 per day)

Discontinued blogs: I no longer update these two, so queue rates are zero (art for these fandoms is now in the cnovelartreblogs queue) and I've sloooowly been reblogging the content to cnovelartreblogs and deleting it from these, so the total number of posts on these two is actually going slowly but surely down.

dmbjartreblogs Total Posts: 1,414 Total Followers: 144

zhenhunartreblogs Total Posts: 1,714 Followers: 218

Some quick notes on overall trends

So I started the MXTX sideblogs in the fall of 2020 (mdzs that September, the other two in (iirc) early November. At the time, MDZS was by far the most popular, followed by TGCF, with SVSSS in a distant third. Over the last couple years, SVSSS has grown MUCH more popular in Tumblr fandom; as recently as a year ago I often had the queue rate for SVSSS under 10 per day, but now it and TGCF are often comparable (as they are now) and sometimes SVSSS is actually more art than TGCF. Also, it's pretty consistently the second-most interacted with account (after mdzs). I make no conjectures as to why, but there we are.

I started most of the other sideblogs about a year later, in 2021 (I think? I don't even remember lmao). cnovelartreblogs started as qianqiuartreblogs, but there wasn't enough Thousand Autumns art to sustain a queue (I aim for 1 post a day on all the blogs, and when I can't hit that I start to look at consolidating/changing things because it starts to not be worth it to maintain it separately). When I started these blogs, Word of Honor and Tian Ya Ke were more popular, and it was often hard to get enough to keep the 2ha queue active. It's been interesting to watch the growing popularity of 2ha on Tumblr, and to watch the excitement that accompanied Word of Honor's release in March 2021 slowly ebbing and the fandom growing quieter. Notes on tykartreblogs have also plummeted, especially over the past couple months. I'm wondering if there's drama happening elsewhere that I'm unfamiliar with, either cause it's not on Tumblr or cause I have the right people blocked (I'm especially wondering in light of the Light On You zine's announcement today - tl:dr is the mods canceled a zine that was in recruitment because people were being horrible to them).

Idk, just. Thoughts and feels about how all my blorbos are faring in fandom/fanart interaction.

[withleeknow]

october 23rd.

pairing: minho x reader genre/warnings: established relationship, fluff, slice of life; one ass grab, unedited bc i am a danger to society word count: 1k note: i whipped this up pretty spontaneously and i actually kinda loathe it lol but i still wanted to post smth bc it’s my anniversary of joining the fandom 🥺 also a little early bday post for mimo. the bunny in question is leebit but i couldn’t drop any names bc this is not idol specific lol. anywhomst happy jen(o)versary

as always, i’d appreciate any thoughts or comments you may have, and please drop a like and/or reblog if you enjoy reading ♡

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Minho comes into your shared apartment, shrugging off his coat and taking off his shoes with minimal noise. It’s not that late — just a quarter past midnight — and you’re not a light sleeper by any means, but still.

He had told you not to wait up for him, that his work dinner might end late and he knew you had a long day. Minho patters on socked feet further into your home, expecting you to be in bed already sleeping, surrounded by your loyal trio of cats, and yet, it’s not the bedroom where he finds you.

Yes, you’re sleeping, but you’re on the couch, in front of the TV with Netflix’s question “Are you still watching?” written over a paused scene of the K-drama you’re both currently obsessed with. There’s a stuffed bunny in your arms, held tightly against your chest like it’s your most prized possession. Looks like you’ve been napping for a while now.

The white bunny is dressed in a navy hoodie, his eyes full of mischief that’s only emphasized by a toothy smile that he sports. It’s the plushie that Minho got for you during your vacation trip to Osaka last year, when you happened to spot the little fur ball in the window of a toy store and said it looked like your boyfriend. It’s become a great companion for you ever since you brought it home, something for you to hold onto whenever you miss your love.

Minho is a little surprised. You don’t usually force yourself to stay up for you, especially when you’re tired.

He doesn’t disturb you right away though. Instead, he heads toward the bathroom to change and freshen up for bed. You would probably kill him if he touched you in his outside clothes anyway.

When he returns some fifteen minutes later, he switches off the TV, tugs the bunny by its ears to free it from your embrace and chucks the thing haphazardly to the carpeted floor. It’s your prized possession, not his. Besides, you don’t need your little replacement Minho anymore now that he’s home.

When he scoops you in his arms, you stir awake, adorably confused as he carries you to the bedroom.

“Where’s my bunny?” Half a question, half a yawn.

“Hello to you too,” he mutters, laying you under the covers with narrowed eyes though he still leans in to press a greeting peck to the corner of your mouth. “I guess I don’t even matter as much as your little toy. Not even a ‘How are you?’”

“Okay, love of my entire life.” You roll your eyes with affection, pulling him down to kiss him properly. You can still taste it, the white wine that he must’ve had all night. “How are you? How was the dinner, big baby?”

“Boring. Unbearable. Should’ve just stayed home with you,” Minho laments, crawling into the space next to you, settling into your arms as you hug him close. This is what you should be doing all the time. With him, not some lame rabbit. “Why did you wait up? I told you you didn’t have to.”

You card your fingers through his soft hair, playing with the strands that curl at the nape of his neck. “Our anniversary’s tomorrow. Or I guess it’s today already. Just wanted to see you before the morning.”

“Would it make a difference?”

“I don’t know. I just wanted to see you.”

Your boyfriend detaches from you for a second to hold himself up on one elbow. He just stares at you for a brief moment, makes you blush under the scrutiny of his gaze. His big eyes, usually keen and sharp, always soften to a dizzying degree when they look at you.

Then Minho is leaning close to slant his mouth over yours again. “You’re cheesy today,” he comments, his tender smile still pressed against your lips. "Happy anniversary."

You only hum in response. One of his hands slides down your body to rest on your ass, giving it a little affectionate squeeze, the moment still entirely innocent despite his sneaky fingers.

You kiss for a while, lazily moving together in tandem, gentle hands holding onto the other person like a lifeline. In a way, you suppose you are. You’re each other’s lifelines, each other’s lighthouses.

When you pull away, it’s to let out a yawn that you can’t hold in anymore. “Happy anniversary”, you finally say back, sleepily. “Can you go get my bunny now? Did you leave him on the floor again?”

Minho rolls his eyes, yet it’s playful and completely endeared. “Your bunny again. That thing is on the floor where it belongs. You replaced me. Didn’t you use to call me your bunny?”

“Don’t do that to him,” you scold softly. “He’s our son. Have you seen the resemblance? You look like you literally birthed him.”

“Oh my god, why would you compare me to that thing like that?” Before you know it, Minho’s rolling over, resting half of his body on top of yours like a weighted blanket to pin you down, to get you complacent before you nag him any further about a toy bunny that he only sometimes gets jealous of. “You’re delirious. Please go to sleep.”

The next morning, you wake up to an empty bed, the warmth that you usually feel beside you gradually waning by the second. Minho’s gone, but greeting you in his place is a white bunny with a mischievous smile and a twinkle in his big eyes — truly a perfect replica of the man. The same bunny that he always makes a show of hating so much.

The sun is out to play, hanging high up in the sky, slithering through the cracks between the curtains to caress your hair. It feels like it’s gonna be a beautiful day; you’ve got your bunny, the sun, and if you focus hard enough, you’ll hear the sounds of pots and pans out there in the kitchen, Minho’s soft voice humming a tune you’re too familiar with, and the smell of fresh coffee and pancakes wafting all around.

all rights reserved © withleeknow. reposting, translating and/or modifying is not permitted by any means. [posted 23.10.2024]

[biancadoes1]

I am a ring truther and firmly believe Nic and Luke are together and have been for a while. I have seen some comments about how the ring isn’t connected to Luke and how it’s about self love etc. If I’m ever having a little wobble or feeling frustrated by whatever is or isn’t happening, here’s what I remember about the ring:

-it’s been confirmed that it represents season 3 of bridgerton which is her and Luke

-even though Chupi has changed their description many times, it was at one point listed as an engagement ring

-the rings on the hand of the ring seem to match frequently worn rings by Luke

-Nicola, being Irish, strikes me as someone who would keep at least some tradition of the ring in tact

-besides events where she wore event jewelry, she has consistently worn it since she got it

Which brings me to my number one reason for being a ring truther:

-we saw in October that she switched from right to left and has consistently worn it on her left hand since. I think it can mean multiple things to her but if this was about JUST bridgerton or just a ring she loved or something she bought as a gift to herself, why switch hands?? I’m not necessarily saying they’re engaged or married (I mean, a girl can dream) but I think this is how she is representing a serious commitment and in my opinion, it only makes sense that this commitment is to Luke. 💛

💍💍💍

One thing we can say for sure in this fandom…

Ring truthers STAY winning!!!!

[cloveroctobers]

FIRST LOVE — Jimmy Holiday [October Prompts] 🧡

A/N: Finally got around to watching Rez Ball last night. Thank you to TikTok for putting me on! This is just a tiny little thing since the fandom doesn’t exist up here just like Rez Dogs (shockingly not shocked) and I thought it would be nice of me to feed the tag for those who are looking for some fics like I did right after I finished watching that beautiful film 🤩

PROMPTS ARE FROM HERE & I’m using: 10. “Well…you grabbed my hand first.” + SCENARIOS — 13. Decorating for Halloween.

<- read my previous October anthology prompt here.

𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི

You had no business doing what you’re doing right now.

Which is exactly why you’re doing it with no parental supervision.

You’re outside using only a stool and one of the pillars that surrounded the front door to the stucco and block home as leverage to get on top of your house. You were on a mission and that mission was decorating for Halloween.

The goal was to cover the home with skeletons and spiders, almost as if it were an infestation taking over the home. The front stoop was already done with a stack of pumpkins that you DIY-ED into a tower on both sides of the door, that was easy part, but you were always up for a challenge to complete the exterior decor.

The closest thing to a ladder that you had was the stepping stool and you couldn’t “borrow” your next door neighbors anymore so you had to improvise. Already tossing a few of the skeletons in the bag up onto the home, the next task was pulling your body up and over.

You never had the best upper body strength so out of a panic, your lower half scrambled around knocking the stool over after you slipped trying to pull yourself up.

“Shit!” You exhaled, knowing that you’d have to drop yourself if you couldn’t push yourself all the up on your own. You just hoped you didn’t land the wrong way…again.

Of course you tried but your body didn’t want you to win today.

“Here,” a low voice called out as the scrapping of the stool was placed back where it once was.

Peeking only down at the stool, you placed your feet down one at a time before getting down, unknowingly taking the warm hand that helped you down the rest of the way.

Huffing you threw your head back as you sat on the stool, other hand going to block the autumn sun from your view just to peer up at some pretty hazel eyes.

“You alright?” There’s a small smile of amusement on his lips.

Jimmy Holiday.

Your heart was already racing but now the butterflies decided to start acting up too! And that’s when you realized your hand was still being held onto and you snatched it back.

“I had it.”

Jimmy folded his arms underneath his pits as he stated sarcastically, “Oh really? You would have broke some more bones if it wasn’t for me and you know it.”

Scoffing you don’t even bother to look down at the compression sleeve that covered your left knee, “First of all, I don’t need a savior Jimmy, thank you. Also, what the hell are you doing here anyway?”

Jimmy shrugs, “I was on my way to Dezbah and Bryson’s, I left something over at their spot last night and of course they’re too hungover to bring it to me so…And imagine on my way by I see: a bird? A plane? No, a whole person that looked a whole lot like you trying to get on top of their house.”

���Minding your business is free.” You sass with a flick of your hair behind you while Jimmy rolls his eyes up to the sky.

“So these are the things I get for helping you out?”

“Does that also mean holding my hand?” You argue, you knew you were being absolutely ridiculous right now but it was easier to be this way than to give in and tell the star basketball player that you wanted to kiss him right on his stupid mouth.

Jimmy furrowed his brows, “Well…you grabbed my hand first.”

Gagging you say, “I would never! I don’t know where anything on you has been.”

Jimmy smirked and lifted his chin, “yeah you did but keep being delusional and see how far that gets you.” He even kicked at your stool lightly, “It’s okay to say that you enjoy hand holding, arent girls into physical touch?”

“Please stop talking.” You mutter at that generalization, “I’m sure you can get that from any other girl who drooled over you at the party last night.”

That attitude of yours was something.

After the death of your shared friend, Nataanii Jackson the both of you grieved in different ways. Jimmy got more into basketball and you tried to distance yourself. Jimmy and Nataanii were childhood friends, whereas you moved to Chuska freshman year and met Nataanii first. At first you thought maybe he was just interacting with you because he had something to prove after becoming a warrior. You weren’t into the whole clique scene and found it hard making friends in the beginning, still highly upset that you left your small group back on another rez but you were thankful that Nataanii Jackson became a good friend of yours.

And with Nataanii came Jimmy.

The both of you often talked shit to each other and liked giving each other a hard time but underneath it all there was still love there. Then unfortunately that platonic love became something more…at least on your part.

“I think y’all would be cute,” Nataanii teased you one time at lunch during junior year, “I can see the wedding bells now and you should just tell him or I could do it for you? I make the perfect wingman.”

You almost choked on your apple juice as you watched the braided man glance over his shoulder where Jimmy was sitting with the rest of the team. There was a girl who squeezed herself right in between Jimmy and Levi, her hand running up and down Jimmy’s arm as she flirted with him and of course Jimmy was all smiles, just eating the attention right on up.

“Yo Jim—

Nataanii starts but you’re reaching over the table to yank on his collar, bringing his face closer to you so you can slap a hand right over his mouth, “Taanii no!”

You can feel him grinning underneath your hand but that doesn’t stop Jimmy making his way over to you two nonetheless.

“Why you worried about any of them anyway?”he quizzed you, eyes tightening.

Scoffing you quickly move your attention else where, picking at the loose thread from your compression sleeve, “please, far from worried.”

“You’re the one who disappeared and left early.”

“So?”

“So?” Jimmy pressed, “Why is it every time some other girls are around me, you’re nowhere to be found?”

It’s your turn to frown, “Do you want me to be sick watching them fall all over you, Jimmy? Is that going to feed your ego better or something?”

Jimmy blinks, “You know what I think? I think you’re a bad liar. Always have been.”

You snapped, “What exactly have I lied about?”

“You don’t have one of those corny guys you were talking to, to come help you with these decorations? I heard when I went off to recruitment camp, you were entertaining that lame ass dude who looks like Harry Potter.” He taunts.

Your eyes go wide.

“And who exactly did you hear that from? Your most reliable source? Bryson’s dumbass?” You get up from the stool, pulling it into place and start walking towards your front door, “Like I said, I don’t need anybody’s help, let alone some non existent guy you think I’m talking to.”

“Lies.” Jimmy coughed from behind you, which irritated you more.

Slamming the stool against the front door of the home, you ball your fist into your side, “Call me a liar one more time—

“What’s gonna happen? You and your crappy knee going to jump me or something?”

Poking your tongue into your cheek with a raise of your brow, you size him up and what did you do that for? Jimmy decided to grow his hair out for the two months he was at camp and if you weren’t so frustrated you may have completely folded.

So you shoved him, “I can still kick your scrawny ass.”

He laughs as if you didn’t, “Yeah? You’re just mad your lies caught up to you and Dez finally snitched on your ass but alright, you want to fight instead of acknowledging the truth, fine? Let’s go.”

That’s when Jimmy knew he had you because you stepped back and froze.

“What? What did she tell you?”

Jimmy shrugs trying to be coy, “That you got a crush and it ain’t on Harry Potter.”

“There is no—

You started but stopped as you bit down on your bottom lip before continuing, “I don’t know what you’re talking about and I’m getting tired of looking at your face so I’m gonna leave.”

With your back to Jimmy he decides to finally let the ball drop, “Stop being so mean and just admit that you’re in love with me already, damn.”

Deeply exhaling, you can feel your heartbeat in your ears now. Of course somebody close to you ratted you out. It was a miracle that Nataanii kept his mouth shut this long about your little crush that wasn’t so little. Yet it was Dezbah (who was most likely drunk at the time) who ratted you out. She figured it out long before you admitted it to Nataanii. And now you were ready to fight her (again.) regardless if she whooped your ass or not.

“I…”

Then you tried to book it to your front door but of course Jimmy caught you by the elbow. The guy was as tall as the street lights so surely he had the advantage.

“Nope. Not uh, stop running.” He demanded from behind you, gently pulling on you so that you’d finally face him.

He tilts your face up by the chin with his finger so you can meet his honey eyes. “…Would it be so bad if I said…I like you too?”

You laugh before covering your smile, “I’d call you a liar then.”

“I’m not,” Jimmy boldly said, “and to prove it…you should let me kiss you.”

Internally you definitely screamed but your eyes flicked to the lips you thought about way too often plenty of times before.

“How do I know you’re not just toying with me?”

Jimmy lightly shakes his head, “‘Cause I wouldn’t do that? I liked you the first moment I saw you up in the bleachers since Nataanii and I thought you wouldn’t take up his invitation to come to our practice, ‘Miss. I don’t do large crowds.’ You even rooted for me when we were still trying to get to know each other as friends and that meant a lot.” He says bringing up the memory where you skipped study hall to come to their practice which made you smile a bit before he continued, “Also my mom would probably beat my ass if she heard I broke somebody’s heart and vice versa, if my heart got broken. She doesn’t like to show it but she’s also a sucker for a good love story. So promise me you won’t break mine?”

Slowly feeling yourself nodding you say, “Okay.”

Cautiously he pinched at your chin again, guiding your face right to his. Jimmy stops just before your lips, feeling each of your breaths tickling the other while he admired how gorgeous you looked up close and personal. He even tried to tuck some hair out of the way behind your ear, taking his precious time and smiled as the hair poked right back out from your ear.

“Hurry up, scarecrow.” You mumble.

Which makes him smirk, “relax, you’re so bossy.”

“And you’re so irritating.”

Which makes him press his lips right to yours, shutting you up for good. In that moment you felt like your heart exploded as your lips moved together, noses brushing against each other. Jimmy’s lips were incredibly soft and he took his time, holding onto you with great care, even if there was a hint of static the moment your lips connected. That was enough urge to keep you two going and it felt like you could kiss him for hours.

You “hated” it.

Yet you can feel him smiling as you sighed against him just before he pulls back to get a look at you, with your eyes still closed.

“…anybody home?” He jokes.

You groan, moving to bury your head against his chest while he laughed, wrapping his arms around your shoulders. “Don’t worry,” he whispers, “that was better than I imagined too.”

It actually felt nice to finally experience this and maybe you should be thanking Dezbah, as soon as you got over your annoyance of her ratting you out.

“…where does this leave us now?”

“Well, I’d like to take you on a date sometime.” He says pulling you back to cradle your face, with a stupid smile on his own.

That made your stomach flip, “really?”

“Yeah…if you’re down?” He peers at you from underneath his eyelashes, making sure that you knew he was serious with how intently he stared into your eyes.

You breathe out a smile, “I guess that’ll be cool…as long as you don’t eat all my food.”

“I’m a gentleman.”

“Eh…so only now you’re a gentleman? Because I can’t tell you how many times you stole a lot of my food during lunch?”

He attempts to defend himself, “…That’s what friends are for?”

“Are we that anymore?”

“Nah. Something better,” He grins as you stood on your tippy toes to kiss his lips once more.

No longer a secret, Jimmy Holiday was now yours and he already loved having you in return.

He thinks.

“I told you I had it!” You say as Jimmy lifts you up on his shoulders to help you on top of the house.

Jimmy sucks his teeth, “Stop your yappin’ baby and just accept that this is boyfriend stuff, acts of service or whatever. This is my job.”

“Who said you’re my boyfriend?” You peek out from over the top of house, pointing the skeleton hand at the olive skinned boy.

Jimmy squints up at you, “oh I’m not? I guess I can go mind my business then.”

“…Don’t you dare leave me up here!” You call out at his back.

Jimmy smirks over his shoulder at you, “that’s what I thought.”

Then a middle finger is sent his way and he can’t help but to kiss his lips up at you.

❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི 𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི

Continue with my October anthology prompts here.

[antimony-medusa]

Do you like DEADLINES? Do you like writing to someone else's prompts, staying away from the stuff they said they DID NOT LIKE? Do you like CHALLENGES?

WELL HAVE I GOT THE ACTIVITY TO YOU.

Ever wanted to save someone's day?

I've been helping out with the big @fiabex exchange, and the final deadline passed last night, and there are— a lot of pinch hits from people who didn't make deadline. A lot of people had a bad October. It took three posts to post them all. All of these gifts have to be fulfilled before the exchange opens.

The reason I am here today though is that there's a segment of MCYT on the pinch hit list, and it's always hard to fill MCYT pinch hits cause there are less MCYT people who do exchanges! So here I offer you the breakdown of the mcyt pinch hits:

PH 72 - needs 3k 2k - fandoms are Dream SMP, SMPEarth, The Mandalorian (TV). You can see all of the requests at https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2024/user/Kryon CLAIMED

PH 77 - needs 1k - fandoms are Dream SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, SMPEarth, Hotguy Comics Zine - Various (DFE), Origins SMP. You can see the entire signup at https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2024/user/Odaigahara CLAIMED

PH 102 - needs 1k - fandoms are 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Good Omens (TV), Hamlet - Shakespeare. You can see the entire signup at https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2024/user/adlerthetranscender CLAIMED

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If these have gone out for pinch hit, this means that these people have already delivered a gift of at least this amount, and they need an equivalent gift. The due date is November 13th at Midnight EST— can you get a gift written in that time?

But wait, you could maybe write 1k, but not the 3k that PH 72 needs— that's fine! We can take it in small bites. You can just tell the mods that you can take 1k (or 2k, or however much you can take) and then the mods will drop the "needs amount" to 2k, and then we're that much closer to everyone having a gift. If 8 people do 1k, we can get WhyB completely covered!

If you can write a gift fast, adhering to someone's Do Not Want list, about the requested characters or worldbuilding prompts, you might be exactly what we need here. We've got Emduo requests! Animations family! DSMP Fiances! Scarian! Fitpac! Cletho! Boat boys! Preyduo! Watchers prompts!

You can take a pinch hit by either commenting on the dreamwidth post where the PH you want is posted here (tell them the pinch hit you want, an email to reach you, how much you want to take, and the Ao3 account you'll be posting from), or emailing the mods at ficinaboxmod@gmail.com— (tell them the pinch hit you want, how much you want to take, and the Ao3 account you'll be posting from, they already have your email, but check the post to see if the PH has been claimed before you email just to save yourself some time).

And if you can't take it, I'd appreciate it if you'd reblog this, cause if we can get this in front of as many eyes as possible that increases the possibility of someone who says "great british bake off beeduo? yeah I can do that", etc!

[ghostgirl101]

Being In A Relationship With Feyd-Rautha Would Be Like This...

A/N: Yes yesss, I'm back from the deepest depths of the dead, finals kicked my ass earlier but now its almost october and I'll burn any exam paper I see from this moment onwards 😀 don't even question why I used this gif, it pretty much summarises the whole headcanon lmao🖤so enjoy it and lmk if you want to be added to the taglist thing at the end. Keep in mind that requests are not open currently, as I'm catching up with ones already in my inbox for Dune and other dark fandoms.

Warnings: Kind of dark themes, mid violence.. it's Feyd Rautha, idk what to tell you 😐

Next Week's Fanfic: Headcanons for a love triangle between you, Feyd-Rautha and Paul Atreides 😎😎

☠︎︎• You got yourself into some weird territory with this one 😵‍💫

☠︎︎• If you're expecting any semblance of stability and pure romance, then I'd turn and run for the Dunes to find Paul instead, because this Harkonnen doesn't have an ounce of level sanity in him, and the amount of spiking tension you'll have to cope with on a daily basis is enough to give anyone a literal heart attack 💀💀

☠︎︎• My guesses are that you were introduced to Feyd-Rautha as either a pretty young Bene Gesserit girl chosen to weave her way into his life to continue the bloodline, or he liked the look of you when he was off-world in one instance to look over Spice production with his uncle, and took you back as a trophy because he liked the look of you. So lucky you. 🙃

☠︎︎• This boy is an absolute sadist and an unpredictable unhinged mess, so there's a lot to get used to, and even when you do get used to things, it could all flip and spin just as quickly. It would take a hell of a time to truly understand Feyd-Rautha enough to predict him one hundred per cent and longer to have his trust that you won't run off or try betraying him.

☠︎︎• There's definitely a kind of dangerous allure to him that he uses to his advantage, a smug grin on his face when he enters the arenas, most likely to make kills in your name. It wouldn't be a massive surprise if you became some figure in Giedi Prime to sacrifice the dead to, like some kind of goddess of the kill (ik that sounds dramatic as hell, but i see it happening .-.)

☠︎︎• Feyd-Rautha is absolutely not used to the concept of looking out for anyone other than himself, or feeling anything close to respect and love for anyone other than himself. So the relationship he forces between you and him is a shaky and slow-burning bond that works in its own weird ways and quirks, and adapts to him and him only, so there are a lot of adjustments to be made on your end. Because even though Feyd isn't sensitive in the general sense, he's majorly unpredictable, and one wrong word could set him off. Just, tread carefully in the early days.

☠︎︎• If you want affection in any other way than corpses and bruising hickies, it may take a little while, because he has no idea how to pull that kind of gentleness off, and doesn't necessarily want to either. But if it's something that'll get you to submit to his hold over you more, then he'll come round to it, and when there's absolutely no one else in the area, you might get some actual, genuine passion, though there's always a part of it mixed in with some darker conflict in him.

☠︎︎• If you want attention from him, you've got it anyway. Feyd has his own form of attachment, pretty much an obsession, but it's always tangled in with his desire to dominate and possess. It's a suffocating relationship and tipped-scales dynamic, and the only way you can really get him to see your side of things is by wording it in ways that'll make it sound like it was his idea in the first place, and that the reason is because it'll feel better for him.

☠︎︎• Needless to say, if you're a little firmer and have a dark side to you (i'll make a safe bet that you do if you want this guy x_x) this Harkonnen is a thrill seeker to the extreme, someone always looking to feel something new and raw and insatiable, like the sharpest peaks of ecstasy and adrenaline, so will he try out new stuff with you even though it sounds mental and freaky and dangerous? That's a rhetorical question.

☠︎︎• Despite all the bloodshed and his ruthless havoc in the arenas, taking lives and living for the pain of it, believe it or not, Feyd is actually vulnerable in the least suspecting way. He doesn't have an emotional connection with anyone, because he's an unhinged psycho amongst a crowd of pale unhinged psychos who expect nothing less (and.. have you watched the film?? It's confirmed that this dude has mummy issues, so... i'm just saying, look at this hc's front gif 😏)

☠︎︎• If we're talking romance and affection, just think intense. Intense intense intense, because that's the best way to describe it. His hugs are breathtakingly tight and forcefully smothering, and he doesn't kiss, he full-on makes out with you. Public or not doesn't matter, it's just an opportunity to mark you as his in front of an audience, and he'll gladly perform, so suck up your shyness.

☠︎︎• Thinking of pet names, I see Feyd-Rautha calling you either by just your true first name and having everyone else address you just by your general title, or using other typical nicknames he'd use with satisfied smirks and lingering looks. Maybe his dearest darling, because you're higher than the pets he feeds and used before you (apparently they're called harpies??!? idk what the heck lol) I don't see him saying my love or honey unless he's just being a jackass in an argument, because I'm betting my life savings this boy only eats bitter things, and he sure as hell can't define love like you can.

☠︎︎• Feyd comes across as pretty dominant in everything he does, which is right, and even if it's you questioning him, he'll throw a dangerous fit that escalates within a second no one sees, so, again you have to be clever with the way you word things. You physically and mentally cannot be independent with Feyd-Rautha, because he'll break that spirit right out of your soul. Would he physically hurt you? Not badly, no, but just don't push him, because he'll lash out without a second thought in the moment of impulse.

☠︎︎• Again with the independence, another thing that stops you from getting any is how absolutely suffocatingly obsessive he can get, which turns on his possessiveness. You're essentially an extension of himself, something that's peaceful and pure and perfect in so many ways he'll never understand and will always pull your mind apart to try to. So if any other skulking Harkonnen looking to impress you by challenging Feyd himself or devoting a kill in the arena to you, has immediately chosen the slowest, most humiliating death, that you'll probably be tied down to watch -_-

☠︎︎• And if he can tell in even the smallest way that you're drawn to someone aside from him, there's a chance you'll be kept locked up in his chambers for a month or two with no servants, nothing breathing at all permitted to trespass except him, until he's satisfied and you have him wrapped around your finger again. And that means you can get him to do practically anything if it benefits him and draws you closer, like a kill.. to maybe even destroying a whole planet, it's not impossible for him. Once he has his mind set on something, he's a hunter, he's found his target, and he'll go wild until he destroys it.

☠︎︎• He's protective in the way that he will not let you die, or get hurt in any way by any person other than him. If another Harkonnen draws your blood in the tiniest scratch, or hurts your feelings in some way, Feyd will use that as an excuse to wring their necks. You're his to look at and admire and dress up and be close to and make you feel things, so anyone else daring to step up beside you will get knocked down and fed to his darlings. The only time you'll actually see him being doting and surprisingly, cautiously gentle is when he's healing a wound without the audience of any nurses or outside help, an uncharacteristic and uncomfortable silence in the air as he concentrates and gets you back to rights.

☠︎︎• The moments where he'll allow himself to be truly close to you go unspoken, like in the cold hard nights of Geidi Prime, where he pulls you up from your bed and tugs you down the short dark corridor to dump you in his own instead, with nothing else but the need to feel smotheringly close to someone who understands how his mind works. You'll remind him of his mother, and that's all good, so long as you stay by him and with him always, because if you take the opportunity to turn and run, don't let him catch you in the act. There's a 50/50 chance he'll keep you in his rooms for the rest of the relationship, or just straight-up kill you and take in your memories and mind to possess you that way ._.

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Next Week's Fanfic: Headcanons for a love triangle between you, Feyd-Rautha and Paul Atreides 😎😎 ⊹˚₊‧───────────────────────────────────────────‧₊˚⊹

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[cozymochi]

gonna be super un-ceremonial about it, but ermmmm does anyone wanna art trade or something

wowza i hit 5k followers, time to do something i rarely do but also semi indulgent because. i got in my feelings.

im offering.. … SOME KIND OF ART TRADE. A DRAWING OF YOUR OC (limit 1) OR WHATEVER YOU GOT 🫵… in what amounts to the above or something like one of these type of things i did. Draw (1) of mine, I draw yours. My art will be of the above quality give or take. Kinda like some of my category 1 commissions. But the transaction is art

I’m only offering it to 5 people (because 5k) I’ll spin a randomized wheel of the 5 people I’ll trade with.

My only entry rules are: Already be a follower, and if you want a shot, just reblog this post and mention in tags that you want in, and maybe if you want include the character you’d wanna see drawn if you get chosen (or just reply if you dont feel like doing any of that). But hey, you don’t have to (but i am only counting reblogs/replies that explicitly mention wanting to participate). This is just for organizational purposes. So no “signal boosts” please

Any other specifics of the trades will go in DMs after the fact once 5 people are chosen 😩 (if theres no answer within 1-2 days im rolling again to the next person)

THIS WILL END…. Saturday October 19th (i will shut off reblogs then). Because im a loose cannon. On that day i’ll @ or message the 5. Whichever happens first

and to my non-artist followers im sorry 😭 and to my non twst followers still left… i got characters from other fandoms we can make it work 💃

BYE

EDIT: IT’S OVER. Names haven been compiled and messages sent out 🎉.

[the-trinket-witch]

Wait...THERE'S 400 OF YOU NOW?? Time for a raffle, then!

A lot of yall like TWST Stuff, but something I don't see a lot of are Overblot designs. Granted, not every OC is going to Overblot. But for those that do, I wanna help design them and give them some pizzaz. But not just a REGULAR Overblot with a phantom and neat lil design. I'm talking "Takebayashi's 'The Conception' fanbook" Overblot Monsters.

PRIZE:

Four (4) Winners will be randomly selected to receive a colored, partially rendered sketch of A TWST OC of theirs.

SO, TO ENTER:

-Must be Following me (New follows are OK) -Reblog and Like this post to enter (Allowing 4 reblogs per account to prevent spam) -SFW Only (Just listing this as a precaution) -One (1) TWST OC per winner -DMs must be open on Tumblr for me to contact the winners. If winners are unable to respond 24hrs after contact, another winner will be selected

DATES THIS RAFFLE IS RUNNING FROM:

July 17, 2024 (17/7/24) - Aug. 1, 2024 (1/8/24) My hope is that I'll have enough time to work on these to start posting around October for Spooky Season

I can't say thank you enough, y'all ;w; Again, This has been one of the most welcoming and engaging fandoms I've got to interact with in a long time.

TAGLIST:

@ceruleancattail @squidwen @thecosmicjackalope @vaporvipermedia@writing-heiress

@oya-oya-okay @k-looking-glass-house @thehollowwriter @rainesol @cyn-write

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[lukolabrainrot]

Toronto and Ireland (Part 1)

I observed a shift in L/N's behavior and non-verbal cues by the time they got to Toronto. Their non-verbal cues signaled to me that there was a since of ease and confidence with them BTS. However, I think that looked very different in both locations. Refer to my timeline theories here on my thoughts on what was going on between L/N before Toronto. Below are my thoughts.

Toronto

Let's first address the fact that there was a break between Brazil and Toronto. It was ~2 weeks from what I remember. During the break the following happened:

L went back and liked all of A's posts back to July 2023. Previously, he had only liked her posts up to October/November 2023.

A chopped her hair off

I believe the DM likes from A's mom occurred around this point as well (or during Brazil)

There were some SoHo Farmhouse pics posted by A (I believe?), but no one could confirm if those were current or old photos (as A has a history of posting old photos to insinuate she is with L in real time when she isn't)

There was nothing else though to publicly link L/A during this break (from my understanding, correct me if I am wrong?)

This break is also when the rumored Spain trip between L/N occurred (but there is no evidence this actually occurred)

N was publicly seen at the Mighty Hoopla music festival with her friends the weekend before Toronto

N and L appear to fly into Toronto on separate flights

Alright I am going to throw out something that is purely a theory, regarding A, at that point in time, and now. I've kind of avoided directly talking about my theories on A because I just don't have enough information to confidently analyze what is going on. But with everything that has come out recently, and especially this week, I feel more and more confident on this theory (but again, it's just a theory):

As I mentioned, I firmly believe L/N physically acted on their feelings at points on the tour, and by Brazil, A was FLIPPING OUT because I think she sensed L pulling away. A had been around for a while, and I don't believe there were any firm boundaries/labels set on their relationship, but A had her sights set on riding his coattails and trying to get fame/attention from being in his orbit. She is also DEEPLY insecure and envious of N. Lastly, she is a WILD CARD and had been publicly known about in the fandom for a while. I think there was some overlap between N and A, and L did not want A leaking that s**t. Whyy... because he LOVES N. This is also his bed he made, and he needed to lie in it and clean up his mess. The optics of all of this do not look good for L & N if all of this information got released to the public. I also think that's why the DM comments got scrubbed on the site (which doesn't just happen out of thin air). He needed to start cleaning s**t up if he and N ever want to go public someday.

Therefore, he went back during the break to make up with A and reassure A he wasn't just going to drop her from his orbit (hence things like liking more of her posts so people took notice, and it made it seem they were more serious than previously thought). Tbh, I don't think it was very hard for him to keep her appeased because I honestly don't think this relationship goes any deeper than casual and transactional.

Then L/N became even more obvious about their feelings during Toronto and Ireland imo, and then all hell broke loose at the premiere (because a certain 🐜 was PISSED and getting revenge).

My whole point with all this is this. L was NEVER going to be able to unravel from A during the PR tour because it had already become public that she was connected to L (even if he was already checked out at this point). He was always going to have to officially acknowledge A to the public, let people get use to them as a "unit", and then slowly unravel over a couple of months in a way that satisfied A and didn't encourage her to go rogue (because I think we are getting more and more proof that she DOES go rogue). This included what we have seen between them since the premiere. I firmly believe that A has some information that would eff up L&N being able to confidently go public at some point if they want to without this really messy public narrative (because if L/N ARE indeed working on their relationship, it is probably going to be a little messy no matter what when/if they go public). L is letting A therefore get the attention she wants rn, and trying to stay as publicly unconnected to N as possible. I think he severely underestimated the impact this was all going to have on his career though (at least in the short-term). Do I think this also probably put somewhat of a strain on his relationship with N? Most likely, yes. However, they have known each other for many years, and have gone through a lot together. I don't think N sees A as a threat to her and L in any way, and I think L/N are figuring things out in private. And do I think just because A is still in L's orbit that that means they are super happy and madly in love? Absolutely not. The optics of everything we have seen around L/A since the premiere speak VOLUMES, and that is all I will say on that.

I was fired up about all of this because of the events this week, so I needed to get this off my chest 😅 I think though that everything we have seen between L/A since after Brazil is just another indicator that L/N are serious about each other (if that makes sense). THIS IS JUST A THEORY THOUGH.

And does this all seem messy? Yes. Because the short answer is that it is. Human beings though are messy, and I think unfortunately a lot of this played out on a very public stage, so everyone is trying to figure out what to do now.

Alright, back to Toronto. A lot of people thought the vibes seemed off between L/N, but I disagree. This was the part of the tour where I started coming to the conclusion that there was something BIG going on between L/N BTS (in a good way), that went deeper than just wild sexual chemistry/attraction. Here are my thoughts:

I personally think L/N took time during the break to have some big conversations in private about their future together, in a "normal" setting outside of the tour. I think they came to a conclusion that their feelings were larger than just the show and tour, and that this was going to be one of those BIG relationships for both of them. I think they also had conversations about how A was going to tie into the public narrative after the tour (but I think A hijacked that narrative). But I think L/N were very much on the same page going into Toronto.

I also get this sense that by this point in Toronto, it was getting harder for them to hide what was going on because things were getting more serious, and they were ALL LOVEY DOVEY AND HAPPY BTS. Although I am going to be honest, I don't think they ever hid their feelings for each other very well on the tour (especially L). And this was all kind of new as well. Therefore, I think that's where some of the "awkward" vibes were coming from, but their nonverbal cues didn't read as disconnect to me (like the beginning of Italy did).

I also have a feeling they were EXHAUSTED by this point, and probably so tired of answering the same questions (I swear, I bet they never want to talk about the carriage scene again 😂). I also heard that they might have been sick in Toronto, so all of this might have also played into the shift in energy.

However, a lot of key things happened in Toronto that signaled to me there had been a positive emotional shift between them. I really started to notice the "couple" eyes between them, and N's walls really dropped and the heart eyes were in full force. Toronto had my favorite interview of them during the tour, which I posted here. We got the the thigh rub from N, the beginning of the Ryan Gosling jealousy from L (I believe), L beginning to get more comfortable and silly on interviews (he seemed VERY happy, and a lot more confident by this point, which I found very interesting 🤔), a few instances where L/N would get lost in a moment with each other and forget they were on an interview, N reassuring L that he was her "favorite", and photos and video of L meeting some of N's extended family (and he looked very happy in the video). Also N didn't end up posting a "bf" pic of L (even though she did for Italy, Brazil, and Ireland). Now it could mean nothing (and it's probably just a coincidence), but I just find it interesting (in a good way 🤔). Yes, a lot of this could be chalked up to PR, and some of it probably was. However, most of this just DID NOT read as professional PR to me. It just wasn't.

Lastly, we got THIS pic of them below in Toronto 👀:

I am going to post an article below about body language between couples in photos. I don't agree with all of the article, but it does have some interesting facts/comments. I would highly recommend looking over the article a little, and looking back at the video that had the compilation of them posing at the different tour stops. I know that this was 100% cutesy PR (and I am not trying to imply they were necessarily an "official couple"), but I found it very telling about HOW they chose to pose at each stop. I feel like it spoke VOLUMES about what was going on between them at each stop. I do want to say that we can't 100% know what was going on for them emotionally BTS at each stop, but I do think it gives us a glimpse. Which is why I found this picture PARTICULARLY interesting. It just screams comfort and security (even with the weird lighting lol).

My point with all this is that I think we caught L/N at a big turning point in their relationship at Toronto, which led to some of the awkward energy at times, but not because they were beefing. I think BTS they were really happy, but they knew they had to not let the WHOLE cat out of the bag, so they were trying to kind of put up a little distance. However, they slipped up constantly, and then everything came to a peak, and that's why we got the magic that was the Ireland stops. I'll talk about my thoughts on Ireland in my Part 2 post, because there is a LOT to talk about. 😅

[anouchard]

how did you get into the magnus archives? like how did you discover it since you were a fan before you got cast?

have your opinions on the podcast (like fav character, headcanons, etc) changed since getting cast?

anyways thanks if you do answer!!! you do such an amazing job as gwen in tmp and it’s truly a delight every time we get to hear from the fandoms favourite character!!!

Hiya!

So, during lockdown I started a TTRPG campaign with friends from uni, college, drama school ... you name it. Just a random bunch of people who liked the idea.

Around October/November 2020, one of them recommended Magnus. They're a massive horror nerd, and I was not into horror at that point (or so I thought, like a FOOL.), but I liked the sound of it and decided to give it a go. I listened to the first two episodes and only broke off because I was about to go and play D&D, and from that moment I was in love - with Magnus, with horror, with voice acting, the whole lot. I said "God, I don't care if I have to work awful jobs for 6.5 days a week - just let me spend the remaining half day working on a show like that" (touch wood, I haven't needed to keep that promise yet ...).

Anyway, time went on, friend and I were on the phone to each other sobbing over the finale (I had liveblogged every episode with them), and that was that. A week later I finished my MA, started working day jobs, and had already e-mailed RQ after being encouraged by my old improv teacher whose name I had heard in the credits a few times (thank you, Ian ❤️).

Three years on and here we are! Madness.

Anyway, I'm not sure how much my opinions have changed as I haven't re-listened since I was cast (except to the odd old favourite). I think it would feel strange to do so now - so much has happened and changed in my life both personally and professionally, and I also listened to TMA at such a distinct moment in time. I always loved the Archivist, Jonah, and the whole concept of the Eye, as well as the Leitner storyline in S2 (possibly my favourite series).

Right, that's turned into another essay. Thank you so much for such kind words - I fully expected everyone to loathe Gwen, so this has all been something of a surprise. Still, I suppose there's still time yet ... 😊