#it's my baby

[benreyfaggot]

I'm feeling maternal instincts towards the ghost from hollow knight

[moghraidhs]

wip wednesday

rules: post a snippet from one of your current WIPs and pass on the love by tagging other writers.

tagged by @majorbuckyegan (thank you <3) i

“Dougie’s flyin’ tomorrow.”

The bread turns to ash in Ken’s mouth. Not that he didn’t know - Hermann and Louis had been sprucing up Just-A-Snappin’ all afternoon - but hearing it from Ham makes it seem that much more real. “I heard.”

“Should be up there too.” Ham’s jaw is tight. He and Douglass do practically everything together, including going on missions, even if they’re in separate forts. “Who the fuck else is gonna keep him out of trouble?”

Ken feels the pain in the words echo in his chest. “He’s made it this far,” he says quietly. “He’ll be fine. You gotta keep believin’ that.”

Ham looks at him. “Is that what you do?”

A bittersweet smile tugs at Ken’s lips. “Ain’t anythin’ else I can do.”

They sit there quietly as the sky turns from purple to navy and the stars come out. The air is starting to turn cool already, even though summer’s barely over. Ken shivers, shoulders hunched. He should have worn thicker clothing.

Something warm and leathery settles on his shoulders, smelling like cigarettes and the outdoors. “There you go, southern boy.” Ham’s smile is soft and crooked. “Don’t want you catchin’ another chill. Dougie’d kill me.”

Ken blinks, momentarily startled both by the words and the gesture, but he quickly shoves it aside. They’re friends. Friends do this kind of thing all the time.

me @ ken: sure jan

no pressure tags @swifty-fox @reallylilyreally @hogans-heroes @anachilles @ranger-elizabeth

[time-eatingnoodle]

New Illustrated Fanfic Project:

Scattering Embers: Ignition

Ignition - the act of starting a fire

It’s easy to forget the presence of a chess game when you’re standing right in it, and it’s easy to forget you are its pawns when you’re the one running. When you have to break walls to raise new ones, it’s easy to forget you’re stuck between them. When Rin’s demon heart is freed and all attempts to safeguard his humanity fail, it’s up to Yukio to take hold of the situation, and protect what remains of the brother he’s always known. At the same moment, in the throes of sorrow, Shiemi is witness to a spectacle that will send her on a quest not unlike Yukio’s, a quest that will change the way all three of them view life as they know it, alongside others who cannot escape this fate.

Chapter 1: please

[biubiupie]

──  𝘫𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘢

[onepiece-polls]

I can't believe kilguin counts as a crack ship, I've seen it in SO many fics as a background ship, it feels like a brother to me (I'm not actually complaining)

I know right? That's why I put it up for a vote before adding it to the tournament. But they don't have any canon interactions and they were voted to be crack by 72.7% of the votes. That's why crackship and rarepair aren't the same thing. A crack ship can be a rarepair but doesn't have to be, and the other way around.

[sunset-peril]

I've spent my entire morning (so like two hours now, as I'm typing this out into my Drafts) wondering why I don't have to make any edits to Trial of the Zora Armor despite having to make edits to Successors and just completely re-do ToZA's original mess of a prequel.

And I realized something

When I wrote ToZA, I didn't care about a lot. I didn't care about your opinions, your headcanons, etc.

I only cared about making it as canon as humanly possible

Literally half the point of writing that 42K word monstrosity when I had never finished anything before in my life specifically was to see if I could explain away the Zora Armor. (Hint hint for why ToZA is called that)

That fic would determine whether I shipped Link with Zelda or Mipha, because I only wanted to ship the most canon ship (I still do, but that's beside the point). If I could do this successfully, then I'd ship ZeLink? Failure? MiphLink

The fact that I'm a ZeLink shipper even for Age of Calamity tells you I succeeded, but that's another can of worms.

However! Even before I had the Wolfbred, even while Link was still a Hylian in my AU

Mipha was teaching me about Wolfbred culture.

And that's why Trial is my favorite fic I've ever written. I bought Creating A Champion specifically to help me write that book. I left BotW running in the background 90% of the time I was typing. It considers only the canon (ZeLink baby at the time of Calamity aside of course), so I wasn't influenced by much fanon when I wrote it down. And because of that, now that Hyrule's Final Stand is a full-blown AU, it still exists flawlessly.

If I could only publish one fic, I'd publish that one.

I'd love to have a book-bound version some day.

[captainseaweedbrains]

hi i just love your work the flock and i just have to ask what made you think to write a story like that

Oh my goodness! Thank you! 🥹 I'm so glad you're enjoying the Flock universe! It's a story @rosegardeninwinter (co-creator) and I are really proud of and have a lot of fun discussing and planning!

Well, Flock started back in 2020 when Cate asked if I had any writing ideas and I had told her how years ago, I had started a fic where Panem was a religious cult with extreme beliefs and rules. This fic has NO grounds in Flock, but it's what kickstarted our obsession with imagining what it would look like if Everlark grew up in a religious cult and were forced to marry because we're suckers for arranged marriages. The gothic elements fell quickly into place and that was that!

It's gone through a LOT of changes from when we came up with the idea to when I started writing it and publishing it, but a lot of the core moments have remained, especially where Marta and Katniss' dynamic is concerned.

Thanks for reading!

[daniclaytcn]

not to sound conceited but time loop fic is literally one of the best things i've ever made

[cerealforkart]

fairy princess au question: i can't rember if u said hero&normal exist in this universe but if they do-how do they feel about their mom being banished??

They do exist! I've talked a little bit about Normal's role in the AU here

I don't think Hero and Normal really get to talk about Sparrow, what she did and why she did it, and I think it's a major source of tension between them. Asking or talking about Sparrow makes grandpa Henry so sad and uncle Lark so angry, it's just become a bit of a taboo subject in the family.

To go into more detail starting with Hero, she feels very conflicted on Sparrow. She and her mom weren't particularly close before everything happened. Sparrow taught her everything about magic and defending herself and being a princess of the faewild (and probably queen someday), all things Hero isn't even a little bit interested in. Hero is really frustrated about Sparrow's banishment, but with her mom not around, she has nowhere to direct that anger, and she feels like she can't show it. She's the daughter of the woman who betrayed all realms, and as such she feels pressured to not show any weakness or be vulnerable because of that. She's upset her mom betrayed everyone, and she feels horrible about all the people that got hurt or died to protect their family but also, fuck all the realms, she just wants her mom back.

Normal 100% blames himself for absolutely everything. He was the one getting tempted to use the forbidden doodler magic, Sparrow is gone, and people got hurt, and most realms lost magic maybe forever because she felt like she had to protect him. He believes that everyone else blames him too, especially Hero since she starts distancing herself in the aftermath. Henry has probably had half a conversation with Normal about it, but it didn't really help. He's probably had half a conversation with Henry about it not being his fault, but he doesn't really believe him. A conversation with Lark wouldn't help because Lark thinks it's his fault and they would just go in circles blaming themselves and each other and it would be horrible. He does need to talk to Hero, but she doesn't want to have a vulnerable conversation. So he's just very sad.

[jesusbutbetterrr]

um I got sad so here a picture of my bee stuffie

[aylish91]

❄️ - what's your dream fic idea/concept and who would write it?

At the moment, it would be everything about "Sea of Hope".

It is about the main character desperately trying to come to terms with themselves while learning how to navigate the world around them in a better light. They want to be free and live not just survive.

It is about them learning about themselves and who they are/ what that means. They learn to navigate life, love, and adventure. Eventually they will learn of the curse and find a way to break free from it's effects, whatever that might be.

Found family, adventure, love~, and all the in between.

If I could choose an author other than myself, I would most likely choose oolongteacup or llamagodessofficial. I adore their writing style and how they form their worlds and descriptions.

[king-nyx]

I want to commission someone to book bind my fic and send it to me. I want put my fic in my TBR and carry it with me like it's a legitimate book.

[mdpthatsme]

The urge I have to redo Lushland with a custom map.

Edit: I could make it a downtown, university, and shopping district too. Oh, the possibilities when you have Sims4City.

[koenigami]

[radley-writes]

Went to the Waterstones app, and there it is. As soon as I can, I'm getting my grubby hands on this treasure.

*SCREECHES LIKE A PTERODACTYL*

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[natureaker]

Me celebrating bc I noticed a dark chin hair yesterday🎉🥳