#it is definitely...fic length
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Me: 50au isn't a fic yet, its just an outline
50au Google doc with 58,000 words: hi :)
#it is definitely...fic length#but the writing just isn't the quality i know it can be#im still working on chapter 2 i promise#its just boring cause its like...a bunch of stuff that needs to happen#but isnt very fun to write
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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
#homestuck#dirk strider#bro strider#beta bro strider#admin draws#fanart#my ao3 is stupidusernamepolicy and the fic will have some illustrations attached that i was originally planning to put here#but theyre not done yet and ive been wanting to draw this gag for no joke 2 years#asks#anonymous#forewarning the disher of the therapy might be a bit of a surprise but.#if youve been following me for a certain length of time. maybe not a big surprise at all.#thankfully for dirk it will definitely not be bro
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#original post#poll#fan fiction#oneshot#fic length#I didn't write it with the intention of splitting it but also it's like. 21 pages on Google Docs.#which is pretty long#and while I don't mind longer oneshots sometimes my brain sees a high word count and nopes on out of there#there is definitely something to be said for splitting things into bite-sized chunks you know?#anyway this is me procrastinating editing (and titling) the darn thing#Hogan's Heroes
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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!!
#i’d never heard of this what a fun concept#genuinely don’t know if any of this will ever get written but they’re fun to think about#these and the super complex epic-length AUs i make up for my bedtime stories that are definitely never going to get written#and the [redacted] au for @timdrakeflipzine that’s technically complete! but i keep thinking about it#my fic
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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.
#harringrove#silly because I can’t write a full length fic or anything today#but I definitely don’t want to think about what happens in canon on this very day#so I just made a half joke post instead <3
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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
#but no it’s definitely the length one of these days I’ll write a short fic I swear#it just won’t be today#or tomorrow#ask meme
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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.
#yakuza#lost judgment#yagami takayuki#Kuwana Jin#kuwagami#my writing#this actually isn’t going to be a smut fic believe it or not#we’re gonna go right to the edge and pull back every time#I’m definitely not gonna have this whole thing finished by Halloween BUT#I will post the bite scene#I did do a ton of rewrites because I decided I wanted a Kuwana pov for this one#I’m gonna keep working on it long long after Halloween tho don’t worry#cuz I dig this a lot#and it’s probably gonna end up fuckin novel length I’m not even kidding#one of those kinda deals actually where I could change the names and publish if I really wanted to 😂😂😂#I’ve created an entire universe for this with my own version of vampires and everything#…I should be working#vamp AU
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“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~!
#yyh#yu yu hakusho#kuwameshi#yusuke urameshi#kazuma kuwabara#my fics#reallyyyy hoping to hear reactions for this one because it's definitely the biggest chapter yet#both in terms of plot occurrences and in length at 14k
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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.
#basically theyre pretending that dave is married with kids and cheating on them with bro at this theme park#but there is no wife and kids theyre just saying that to fuck with someone next to them#bro/dennis is unrequited unfortunately#man this fic is taking forever to write#if u saw the hohohomewrecker comic panel i did on xmas this is still the same fic#wip#homestuck#stridercest#i have no idea what my wordcount is at right now and honestly im scared to find out#the page numbers are for samsung notes not actual page lengths#i wish i had the courage to start posting chapters but i keep going back to edit singular words so its not practical to post anything..#..until the entire story is complete#Cori.exe#Post.exe#suggestive#also disclaimer this is subject to change lmao i am indecisive as fuck#just wanted to laugh about dave teasing bro about having a thing for the game bro dudes#god i already see like 3 things im gonna change but i need a break lmao#also since the subject is stridercest its already written into the intro that the thing dave jerks off to in privacy is bros live action p..#..orn which bro has pointedly kept away from dave but when u live with a ninja u learn to be sneaky and dave definitely dug it up#like the smuppets were fair game but bro made an actual effort to keep the irl stuff hidden and has no idea what daves actually seen
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aaaaaaaoooooouuuuuuuggghhhhhhh
#oh. oh look. its the. its the fuckin. page and word count for chapter 1 of the ganonbeck fic. :)))))))#salty talks#ITS UNEDITED its unedited it'll definitely be shorter by the time i get around to posting it but. god#anyways it was actually going to be fucking longer but i actually moved a scene from chapter 1 to chapter 2#so chapter 2 will either be around the same length or shorter than chapter 1. maybe. no promises look at this shit
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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!
#books#books of 2023#book photography#the echo wife#sarah gailey#honestly i suspect gailey might be approaching Writer Goals(TM)#writes in a variety of genres and has wildly varied Aesthetics but definitely a Writerly Brand#i'm here for the genre hopping with recurrent themes and wild spread of ideas honestly#cat valente is the other author i side eye and go.....hm. Maybe You.#at some point i heard an agent say 'think about which currently published writers whose careers you'd like to have'#so i percolate on that intermittently haha#but gailey has some (one) YA and then writes the spread of spec fic#and i think i'm here for it tbh#valente is similiar in my brainpan#(i appreciate valente's length diversity too)#not me pining after authorial careers on a monday night or anything....
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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
#with a few exceptions of course. like a few fanfics ppl sent in I definitely want to finish at some point#my beloved fischoeder/bob fic <3 and my tina parenthood fic which probably wont get finished anytime soon. or even started#but i think that one is good i would love to explore that concept more#also the ones that im proudest of have like a lot more. story?? and context to explain so its like an Entire elavator pitch#they're longer fics usually if not in chapters then in length#also a few of them that nobody asked about are literally Finished and i just havent gotten around to editing/posting them yet#oops.#txt
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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.
#*falls over + frantically starts picking up actual hundreds of fics that are 150k or longer but honestly usually much longer*#yeah I like slow burn a. normal amount.#(real talk mostly I just like monster length fics for several reasons but slow burn is definitely a significant factor there.)#(love characters spending ages getting their act together. love them actually demonstrably being slow boiled into mutual obsession/fondness#before finally doing something about it)
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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
#there are few fics that i remember several years after i read them the first time. this is one of them#depressingly. some of the fics that are on that list are most definitely gone by now#there was one in the vt fandom i still think about 6 years later that i loved. but the person who wrote it hated it :[#the others that are on that list off the top of my head are the hlvrai mermaid fic and the hlvrai alien weed fic#my brain latches onto the most random fics to remember forever lol#my post#dan and phil#<- tagging for blog purposes. not because i want people to see this#if you see this post. good for you i guess ajfjshd#bur seriously if you know the fic/author of what im talking about. i mean itd be neat to find it again. but dont bother them yknow#its also wild how thats like. such a dystopian novel premise. not in a bad way just a neutral way#i love the premises that people come up with for fanfiction. like. ANYTHING can be a fanfic premise and i find that so magical#i had a fanfic premise that was originally meant to be a dnp fanfic that ive long since changed to be an original thing lol#and its... a weird premise lol. at least i think so#anyway since this is the bottom of the tags and no ones going to read this. i gotta say i have so many thoughts on dnp fanfic culture#and my personal relationship with it which i think. my personal relationship with it was heavily influenced by me being like.#transmasc + mlm but not knowing either yet and how wild that is to look back on#its why i love that one meme pic thats like. 'straight girls who fetishize mlm look like this in 5 years' and it shows a pic of jessie#jessie from breaking bad sorry the tag length ran out#but anyway im not gonna make full posts about that. just wanted to mention it somewhere lol
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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.
#do i know that that fic didn’t go well because of the length? no it could be a variety of things#but yeahhh i’m slightly worried about ut#and like. obviously writing what i want how i want is more important than trying to cater for readers (especially with fanfic)#but. yknow. it doesn’t make you feel great when a fic doesn’t get as much engagement as you’d like.#also i should mention that i mean successful as in. in comparison to my other fics.#not successful as in there being any sort of set definition for what qualifies as a successful fanfic yknow#does that make sense. possibly not.
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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.
#lately I've been tryin my hand @ shorter bitesize fics. bc the gaps between my BIG CHUNKY full-length fics are gettin.........ridiculous#and. as always. I am back on my bullshit. so there should definitely be more than two eventually dsfjhjfdshjfds#to justify. the collection. LMAO#my fics
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