#it is definitely...fic length

[angelpuns]

Me: 50au isn't a fic yet, its just an outline

50au Google doc with 58,000 words: hi :)

[slavhew]

Dirk in the middle of a therapy session

in all seriousness tho if you want dirk therapy hours. keep ur eyes on my ao3 account ive got some real stupid self indulgent 13k-odd words cooking and ill try to post it sometime this month

Edit: it is DONE and just shy of 14k. Go go go

[vinelark]

okay it’s not tuesday quite yet but ao3 is down and so is my brain so why not!! @burins tagged me for Temptation Tuesday, which is where you list ideas distracting you from your current WIP.

i actually have been working pretty steadily on the current WIP (buy back the secrets ch4) but i do have these kicking around the back of my head:

a “what is and what never should be” bruce & jason & tim au where some magic user traps bruce’s mind in a world where jason never died, but the cracks of reality are starting to bleed through and bruce ultimately must decide if he should stay in this “better” world or try to wake up. tim is also stuck in the illusion and catches on much quicker, and meanwhile in the waking world the real jason is trying to save them both. brainstormed this with @90kon last year and it’s still rolling around my brain

a concept @cairoscene and i brainstormed where when jason (or damian) arrive in gotham instead of attacking tim they lay a curse in the foundations of wayne manor that causes everyone’s feelings about tim to just—disappear. the bats no longer hold any affection for tim, and they don’t even dislike him, they just feel a deep apathy toward him. jason (or damian) see this as a kindness, because hey the alternative method of kicking tim out of the suit is way bloodier, right? obviously this is still not a great time for tim, and jason (and/or damian) are exempt from the curse and end up being the ones to intervene and try to undo it.

a fic set in tim’s early robin days where bruce gets hit with a new hatter x scarecrow special gas that makes you verbalize the worst fears of the people around you. batman and robin don’t know what it is yet, though, and bruce says some horrible things to tim under its influence; tim, based on what he hears, concludes that this has to be some sort of truth gas and operates under that assumption for weeks until the misunderstanding comes to light and bruce sets out to fix it.

the timkon-centric sequel to @cairoscene’s “send to all” fic where kon decides he and tim better, you know, Practice just in case tim gets hit with ivy’s pollen one day. just to be prepared! just to hone a potentially life-saving skill! cue idiots to lovers figuring things out in more ways than one.

tagging anyone who wants to do this!!

[hargrove-mayfields]

what do you mean Billy died on the Fourth of July?

actually he was floating around on a raft in Steve’s pool, sipping a hard lemonade. yeah Steve was there too. they were sharing the raft. but they went inside when the fireworks started because they were too loud for Steve’s sensory issues and they just cuddled in bed instead. hope this helps.

[raayide]

hi! for the ask meme:

9, 10, and/or 21, if you'd like!

ahh thank you <3

9 - What fic made you feel the happiest to work on?

I’d say the cure for the world is saltwater! It was as poetically nonsensical, as wildly out of order chaotical, as rip-down-this-character-to-the-bone as could be, and was essentially me putting on my horse blinders to the wider world and all actual writing advice in order to go buck wild. That’s also the story where I think I explore Astarion and personhood/monsterhood in the most realistic sense, and I rly enjoy rereads when hunting for more parallels to make between himself lol

10 - What fic was the most satisfying to finish writing?

That’d go to both dark fruits and purple rain stories - first bitten by the frost for the 9+1 format, because those are pomegranate-sweet treats when you pull them off correctly and over a fic as long as 30k, it felt like watching curtains come down to be able to mirror it so nicely. And then separate fire from the smoke because of the truly marvelous time I had writing the same scenes from different perspectives lol, it really forces your brain to recontextualize things you thought you understood about your writing into new trippy connections because it turns out a way to add even more Wyllstarion to your Wyllstarion is to give them both body dysmorphia and also devils

21 - What's something that surprised you while you were working on a fic? Did it change the story?

That’s a fun question! I think I would be correct in saying that the length of my stories always surprises me and I, nor my fingers, are ever prepared, but a more tangible one would be Wyll in you dream of stray animals. Originally I knew what I wanted the plot to be - Astarion attacking the party while possessed - and when I was writing that first rough go-through, Wyll just kept stepping up again and again to be the voice of reason, the one calming Astarion down, the one seeing him. I’d gone into the fic thinking it would be best to keep it all platonic to have the healing be more a focus, but ah, Wyll said no, I would like to help this wet bedraggled cat of a man and I will do it myself. thank you. and of course I said yes sir here’s the narrative do whatever u want

[woundedheartwithin]

Fuck it, here’s another sneak peak at my vampire au

He’d said he’d release him, and he’d meant it, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t enjoy their new bond while it lasted. He lets it wash over him as he closes his eyes, the desire to protect him, to kill for him and to die for him, to do anything and everything he asks without hesitation overtaking him, hot and ferocious and making his heart pound in his chest. He hasn’t felt like this since Soma had—

He cuts off that line of thinking and shakes Yagami gently, hooking his fingers under the younger man’s chin and lifting his face to gently kiss his lips. Yagami stirs against him, kissing back before he’s even fully awake, mouth opening the moment Kuwana’s tongue slides along his lower lip and letting him in. Kuwana hums softly and deepens the kiss, letting himself have this, even if for just a moment.

[szfiction]

“Kurama… should I tell him the truth?” Yusuke is slumped back on Kurama’s couch, staring at the dull, white ceiling like it will offer him the answers to all the world’s questions. He can’t recall the last time he’d actually spoken, but it had probably been a while considering the roughness of his voice. There’s a cup of tea on the coffee table before him that has surely gone cold. Kurama—who has been reading a book and graciously allowing Yusuke into his space—looks up, tilting his head curiously. “I’m certain you already know the answer to that, Yusuke.” Yusuke sighs. “Yeah, no shit.” He’s already been pushing it off far too long already. Kazuma obviously suspects something, he probably has for a long time, and Yusuke can’t keep stringing him along and offering half-baked truths. If he wants to commit to this, to him, he can’t continue to backtrack whenever things get too real.

Wooo, and here we finally are at the penultimate chapter of Reprise! In this chapter, lots of revelations, confessions and perhaps some spice as well~!

[coridallasmultipass]

Working on a fic still and laughing at these absolutely absurd conversations Bro and Dave have. But also lmao, Dennis from Game Bro with his broken thumb.

They're so fucking dramatic, and oh my god I just realized this probably makes zero sense at all, out of context. Idk how to convey how hilarious this moment is to me, without the miles of words written beforehand. I just need to laugh about it publically lol.

[waywardsalt]

aaaaaaaoooooouuuuuuuggghhhhhhh

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023: THE ECHO WIFE by Sarah Gailey. I don’t recall intending to hop on the Acquire-All-Things-Gailey train, but at some point I did?? And I have No Regrets?? This one was actually a gift, which was delightful!

[br1ghtestlight]

I think it's interesting that almost exclusively the fanfics im proudest of are the ones nobody has asked me about yet and the fanfics that I haven't really thought about finishing are the ones that most people ask me about. like im not upset about that or anything (tbh i would prefer to keep the ones im proudest of or have the most intention of finishing a bit more secretive vs the ones I probably won't finish which im fine posting the entire document for) Like a weird cause and effect thing going on. maybe the documents with the least interesting/descriptive titles are ones im trying to be more secretive about?? I didn't change them before posting or anything lmao

[h-i-raeth]

for the fic meme: enemies to lovers, coffee shop AUs and slow burns

Enemies to Lovers: Hovers between Love It & Like It. Heavily depends on the ship, arguably more heavily depends on the fandom & subsequent fic ecosystem.

Coffee Shop AUs: Hovers between Neutral & Hate It. Maybe more on the side of Hate It. I like my AUs to be as-or-less mundane than my source material, generally, so I'm reflexively disinterested in a fic that lowers the stakes of the narrative/removes unrealistic elements. That said, the right writer or premise can & has won me over to fics that have it.

Slow Burns: Love it. I primarily filter every search/tag dive I do in AO3 by word count. If a fic takes 30k+ for the characters that ship to even meet, I'm happy as anything. If they spend another 50k+ coming around to each other + 20k+ misunderstanding each other/30k+ mutually pining I'm ecstatic. Maybe part of that is that my favorite fics are the ones with intense worldbuilding or expansive divergence, but regardless: slow burn is The Shit.

[mbat]

before i pass out for the night. since my brain is back on dan and phil as if its 2016 or something i need to put this out into the world. this isnt some sort of important life changing post, just a personal funny thing

so when i was 13 and fixating on dan and phil, i read a lot of fanfics. like, i guarantee that even after all these years that, if i had the statistics, that fandom was the one i read the most fanfics for and constantly. i couldnt tell you what nearly any of them were about, and i have a feeling that many of them are probably lost to time by now. i also dont know if i need to mention that yeah, a lot of them were shipping, and yes ive long grown out of that. (the dnp fandom is actually what made me grow out of that)

anyway all this to say that over the last 6 years after i stopped fixating on dan and phil, one fanfic stuck with me and i just. i think about it every once in a while. its been over half a decade. it wasnt a groundbreaking fic, i dont remember any quotes or specifics, just the premise as of at least the first few chapters. idk why it stuck with me

it was literally a fic about. if the world had gotten to a point where almost every child was born as like, a science baby instead of a natural baby, and phil was a science baby, but dan was a natural baby. and there was somehow this like, thing where the science babies would bully the natural babies for some reason idek, and this was a highschool setting and i think dan was a new kid in school. and what gets me about the fic is that dan was some small shy scared kid and phil was some mean jerk bully. and how wild that is compared to how they are in real life

this isnt me trying to find the fic or the person who wrote it or any of that, this is literally just. i remember this fic at least once every few months and i needed to get it out of my brain somewhere

[the-irrelevant-trumpeter]

okay i’m back on writing this fic and it’s about 6600 atm, with still quite a bit to go, but i’m really nervous because it’s looking like it’s gonna be about 8k words, and the last fic i wrote that was about 8k ended up being my least successful cornley fic.

[pondslime]

fragments: a wip collection of smutty bo bullshit 😔🔨

Collecting all my 1k-and-under Bo tumblr fics into one neat little bundle on AO3. Will update accordingly! Two chapters posted.