#junemel

[modocanis]

Passer des semaines, des mois (parfois des années…hem) immergé dans une histoire qu’on écrit est une des meilleures sensations du monde, mais alors recevoir des fanarts en prime ! 🫶🫶🫶

[whirlybirdwhat]

Prompt: ASL give Dadan a father's day card. (She threatens to kill them but she keeps the card)

hehehehe this is late BUT HERE WE GOOOOOO

bear hag tiger bandit dad mom

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“Hey guys.” Ace started out of nowhere, as he and his brothers laid down, staring at the sky from their usual cliffside spot. “What even… is Dadan.”

A beat of quiet.

“A hag!” Luffy said delightedly, giggling as he rolled over to stare at Ace. “An ugly one! Or even a bear! Oh she’s a bear-hag! A bear-hag-tiger-bandit!” He then gasped dramatically, stars in his eyes. “DO YOU THINK SHE CAN HAVE CLAWS! AND FANGS!”

“No! Idiot!” Sabo thumped Luffy on the head without even moving from his position on his back. “Dadan isn’t a bear. Or a tiger. She is a hag though.” He nodded, as if he had made an excellent, proper point.

Ace groaned at his brothers. “No! I mean what even is she to like… us. Not anybody else.”

“What do you mean?” Sabo rolled over as well to look at Ace, who was staunchly refusing to look at anyone else and whose face was turning a brilliant shade of red.

“I mean… like she kinda watches over us right? Does that make her kinda like a parent?”

Sabo cocked his head to the side, thinking. “I mean… maybe? She does give us food and medicine sometimes.”

“NO! THAT’S NOT DADAN! THAT’S –“ Luffy was quickly cut off by a hit to the head from Sabo.

“The Mystery Doctor isn’t real, Luffy, its just Dadan in a shitty mustache.”

Luffy looked to the side disgruntled. “Hmph.”

“GUYS! Focus!” Ace finally rolled over to face his brothers, so now they were finally all looking at each other. “What is Dadan? A Parent? A Mom?”

“I never had a mom before! Or a dad! Is Dadan a dad? Or a mom?” Luffy chattered, jumping on the possibility.

“Neither have I. That’s why I’m wondering.” Ace ignored the latter half of Luffy’s comment. Sometimes it was better to allow him to ramble than to try to make sense of it all. “Sabo you had parents right? What were they like?”

“Shitty.”

“Well, duh. No shit. What else?” Ace prompted, Luffy finally having quieted about Dadan being a tiger-bear-dad-mom beside him, and both staring attentively at Sabo.

(Because, well. They were children who never really had a home beside each other. Dadan was the closest thing Ace ever got, Luffy never had more than spare moments when the bar wasn’t busy, and both never knew anyone that could have been called dad, or mom, or anything of the sort – no one who stayed that is.

Ace hated his dad, and loved his mom (and hated himself, for all that he did,) and Luffy simply didn’t think he had any parents to feel anything about.

Still, Ace wondered, and things that his brothers wondered about, Luffy wondered about.)

Sabo placed his hand on his chin as if to think better. “Well. If we’re figuring out what Dadan was closest to, my mom was kind of like… Eh. She just cared about appearances and looking pretty and shit like that.”

Luffy and Ace nodded as one. “That’s not Dadan.” Dadan might wear make-up and beads, but she was a mountain bandit who was never really seen by people other than her clan or her victims. She didn’t really care about stuff like that. Even if she did get pissed when they stole the lipstick she kept hidden in her back closet for war paint.

“And she cared about other kids more than me, and didn’t really bother me until I did something she or someone else didn’t like.”

“Definitely not Dadan.” Luffy and Ace nodded again. Dadan didn’t have any other kids and yelled at them all the time. (Though, that may be because they never did anything they were supposed to do. What did she expect? Chores were boring! )

“What about your dad? What was he like?” Ace prompted, tossing out the idea of ‘mom.’

“Shitty. He always yelled at me and called me names. He was mean about it though. Dadan just looks like she’s about to cry.” Sabo finished, still thinking hard. “I mean… my parents aren’t what everyone else says parents are like though? At least for the kids in Edge Town.”

“Yeah… dads are supposed to protect you right? And be big and strong? And leaders?” Ace questioned, bitterness tracing into his voice.

“And moms are suppose to like take care of you and bring you stuff! Like the Mystery Doc-“

“THAT’S JUST DADAN!” Both Ace and Sabo this time hit Luffy’s head, cutting him off.

“She just comes to check on us, then trips up all our traps! It’s not a Mystery Doctor! Just! Dadan!” Ace spit out.

Luffy whined as the three of them quieted, thinking over everything that they had just said.

Then, Sabo spoke the words that would seal Dadan’s fate.

“If Dadan is kind of like a dad…” She protected them, or tried to in her own way, and was the leader of the Dadan bandits. “And kind of like a mom…” She was the Mystery Doctor, as Luffy called it, and checked up on them while cursing them out in all sorts of nasty ways. “Then… is she a mom and a dad? Is that how that works?”

“Well. We only have one of her. She can be both.” Ace decided. Jungle life left no room for society to state who could or could not be what and… well…

Besides. Maybe mom’s were the protectors sometimes and the leaders, and maybe dads were the caretakers. Ace was pretty sure that could happen. Did happen. Roles were stupid anyway. Just do whatever the fuck you wanted. That’s how Ace and his brothers lived, anyway, how everyone should live.

But…

“Why were you really asking Ace?”

Sabo knew him too well.

“Some of the kids in Edgetown were talking about how they were getting their dads’ shit for Father’s Day or something.”

And Ace wanted to know if he should be making something for anyone (or just wallow in the hatred he had for his dad.)

If he had anyone to make something for.

Luffy doesn’t even question why Ace was lurking around Edgetown kids without them, and sits up with stars in his eyes.

“WE NEED TO MAKE A CARD FOR –“

“SHUT UP!!”  Twin fist slammed into a rubber head as Ace and Sabo cut Luffy’s idea off.

“HEY!”

Or maybe…

“Maybe he has a point.” Sabo hummed, thoughtfully, as they had all settled into the ground.

“What?”

“Maybe we should make a card for Dadan.” Sabo rolled out of the way of Ace’s fist. “No! Think about it! We get to tell her thank you for all the shit she tries to do for us and maybe she’ll stop yelling at us so often!”

Luffy and Ace looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Sabo felt vaguely insulted.

“It’d be super funny to see her face when we give it to her too.”

Luffy and Ace looked at him as if he were a genius.

Now, there was only one question left.

“How the fuck do you make a card anyway?”

-

Dadan woke up peacefully that morning, which was an immediate cause for her to reach for her knife under the bed and spring into action.

She never woke up peacefully anymore. Not since those three brats had taken to crashing the hut in the morning. Either something was wrong, or those brats were playing with her.

She was going to get more gray hairs than Garp at this rate.

Fuck.

Quickly, she scanned her room for any oddities, any thing that would tip her off to whatever the fuck was going on this morning.

Dresser. Mirror. Weapons. Window. Card. Window. Wall. Wea- Wait.

Card?

Dadan stepped closer to the piece of folder thick paper, lying on her dresser, and peered at it closely.

Hapy Father’s Day! It read, in the misspelt handwriting of a child who had previously learned to write well then gave up. It was in black ink, fancy looking, with a smear along the exclamation point and drifting off into the side.

Around it was jungle trees in crayon and something that might have passed as Dadan, if not for the lack of face, and the only visual characteristics being orange curls and red beads and sharp teeth and a angry look.

Curious.

Wait.

SHE WAS A WOMAN!

Damn BRATS!

She ignored the tears at the edge of her eyes and opened the card, knife set to the side.

Dear Dadan, the same handwriting as the front said, this time in dark blue, thickly pressed crayon. Hapy Father’s day. Thank you for taking care of us. Beside the note was a scribbled jolly roger, an S surrounded by crossbones as its signature. Besides that was another scribbly orange blob, this time marginally closer to looking like a person.

Beneath that, on the same page, was careful red print, again in crayon. The words were spaced out, as were the letters, as if the writer didn’t particularly know how many letters were in the word and was waiting for someone to tell them. It read Shitty Old Hag. Thank you for taking care of me. You are stupid but you are strong sometimes. Happy Fathers Day. – Ace

Besides that was some suspicious wet spots, hastily wiped away.  Dadan dabbed her own eyes as to not add to them.

Ace’s artistry skills were slightly better than Sabo’s at least. His version of her was most definitely a person, apparently sitting atop of a bear. She laughed at that, a little.

Her eyes skimmed to the next page, where a monstrosity of black and orange was red was scribbled out. She was vaguely sure it was human. Vaguely. It might have been a bear.

The yellow crayon writing had been outlined in careful strokes by someone clearly not the original writer. DADAN, it seemed to screech, YOU ARE THE BEST BEAR HAG TIGER BANDIT MOM DAD. MOUNTAIN BANDITS SUCK BUT YOUR COOL. – FUTUR KING OF THE PIRATES

Then, on the opposite side of the drawing, in bright orange, LUFFY.

These stupid, stupid kids.

Dadan wasn’t crying. She wasn’t.

Oh how she loved these kids.

She turned the card around one last time, to the message on the back.

This handwriting, graceful and in black ink, was one she recognized. Makino.

Dear Dadan,

I hope this gift doesn’t insult you too bad, the boys were so excited to do it that I just had to help them with supplies! They really do love you, even if they don’t quite grasp the difference between mom and dad. They told me they just decided you could be both. Isn’t that great?

Thank you for being there for our boys Dadan! Happy Father’s Day.

-Makino

Okay. Maybe Dadan was crying right now.

Oh, she hated the fact that she loved these boys.

“Shishishi!”

“Luffy! Shut up!”

THUNK!

Oh, she was going to kill them.

Dadan turned to the window where a top hat, a straw hat, and a quite obvious head of black hair was peeking out over the window sill.

“BOYS!” She raged, setting the card down with care before running to the window.

“RUN!” Came the terrified call, followed by laughter and joy as three boys sprinted away into the woods.

Dadan debated following them, before deciding she would rather they not see her teary-eyed face.

Ah.

She might not be the best parent, but she did alright at least. Enough to get a card on a holiday.

Dadan loved her boys.

She really did.

[kuravix]

Bon Kurei C5?

BON-CHAN! BON-CHAN!

[wellfine]

It's short for Zefferson Starship

If only you believe like I believe, baby.... we’d get leg

[yukiokumura]

8, 9, 10? 😳🌺

AAA THANK YOU ♥ I will do this for Lettersverse!

8. Favorite dialogue in your wip? (If asked more than once, respond with a new piece each time) 

It took me a while to think about this one because I have a couple favorite pieces of dialogue that immediately came to mind, but when it comes to Lettersverse, those pieces aren’t published yet. After some more thinking, I came up with:

“He doesn’t know you like I do.”

This is from two instances in Until Next Time! The first time, it’s said by Renzou and the second, it’s said by Yukio. I think the reason why I like this phrase is because it’s very much the tone for their relationship in current and in future chapters. Yukio and Renzou have a very different dynamic from Ryuuji and Rin. Where Ryuuji and Rin are honest and forthcoming, Yukio and Renzou tend to isolate themselves and trust each other more than other people. They keep a lot of secrets and that line feels real when it comes to them. Really no one knows them like they know each other and they like to keep it that way.

The other reason I like this line is because Yukio does this mirroring thing! Renzou is more experienced when it comes to dating and so, consciously and unconsciously, Yukio tends to mirror Renzou’s mannerisms and words in an attempt to interact with his boyfriend in an “acceptable” way. I think there’s been a couple other mirroring scenes where Yukio has done something Renzou has done but there will definitely be more in future chapters!

9. What scene was the hardest to write for you and why?

Shiro and Satan in the forest. For some reason, it took me weeks to get through that scene in Forever Yours. I don’t know what it was about it, but Satan is such a strange character voice and it was so hard for me to grasp him. I managed in the end and I hope it turned out well!

10. What scene was the most fun to write for you and why?

I think, of the chapters that have been published, the scene that was most fun was the scene in the temple when Rin and Ryuuji went off very late at night and snuck to the mountain. The part where they where both reciting a sutra together in the temple. There were some sentences there that I still enjoy now even though we wrote that scene several months ago.

[subbyp]

junemel replied to your post: I'd like you to PM the mods and tell them they are...

Wow that’s a weird request

Yeah, like.... why did they choose me? Why can’t they just make an account? Why do they think I know the admins? How did they even find me?

[junemel]

please read Sincerely ༼☯﹏☯༽

[mazout-fm]

Mais le contenu de l’article est AAAAAAH jpp bilingual bonus <3 <3

Ginsan be like

[marchthorn]

From the WIP game for @junemel

I am not too happy with this piece so I think I am going to remake it at some point. I wanted to make a small personal zine, each picture with characters somehow spelling out their names. Hence, Zoro making a z, or zoro z.

[chikabika]

Last Line of a WIP

Rules: Post the last line you wrote from any WIP and tag the same number of people as there are words.

@ruskaina​​ tagged me with this. uhhh cw mutilation? for the first one.

I refuse to acknowledge eachother as two words.

Two different pieces because the first one isn’t actually lines it’s still just thoughts, but the second one is like, long paragraphs beforehand.

I don’t know many writers past who trixree already tagged. @junemel​ ? @sydneyxface except the tagging for her isn’t working whope. @trixree​! 

(edit i’m a goober and miswrote who tagged me for this)

[whirlybirdwhat]

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people." (For the writing game *3*)

tagginb @oceanaromantic because this has some aspects of seal/celiac law that we talked about lmao

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"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Law has read countless books. He knows law (pun not intended, thank you very much,) the human body, countless ways to kill a man and the best way to shine a coin to perfection. He knows shit. He knows what ideologies he is going to follow.

And this particular phrase? Well, if Strawhat doesn’t stop touching his fucking hat, Law is going to lose it and – enemy, friend, whatever the fuck Strawhat is to him, - he’s going to chuck Straw Hat off the fucking ship.  Fuck philosophy.

His crew says he says fuck more when he’s mad.

Law is pissed.

A rubber hand slaps his head. It is not gentle by any means.

“Straw Hat.” He says, gripping Kikoku tighter. His knuckles whiten. Luffy laughs and takes no notice. “Stop. Touching. My. Hat.”

“But it's fluffy! Like a Seal! And I haven’t seen a seal before, but you said you were one, so now I have seen a seal, so I have to pet it. You either fight, eat, or pet animals Torao, everyone knows this.” His neck is stretching so that he's looking at Law upside down, like Law is the one without sense.

“I said I was a celiac –“

“A seal!”

“NO! It means I don’t eat bread, how many times to I have to explain this?”

“Huh?”

“UGH!” Law throws his hands up and tries a different approach. ��Chopper-ya is an animal. Do you pet him? Or Eat him? Or Fight him?”

“No! Well I tried to eat him before I knew he could talk and was TOTALLY AWESOME~! And I fought him a little bit because fighting is fun, and I don’t pet him we cuddle! Do you pet Bepo?”

Law’s been outsmarted by a man who quite frankly has a rubber brain.

Fuck.

The rubber hand slaps again.

“STRAW HAT!”

“BUT SEAL!”

“THAT’S IT! ROOM!” Luffy is switched with a sea breeze blowing over the sea. Zoro, previously asleep next to him, is already overboard by the time Luffy hits the water with a splash.

Now time to run before his head gets slapped again.

Dammnit.

[rika-chan24]

I was Tagged by: @junemel

Ten pictures in your phone that describe you

Well, that was a thing. I guess I will tag...um @cas-mishamigo @trashcanofthemonth @bribandit @pandaofthecuddles @pethamdir @sessykai @marchthorn

[yukiokumura]

Writers tag game!

Thank you for tagging me @thefoulbeast mwah mwah!!

How many works do you have on ao3?

36 O:

What's your total ao3 word count?

1,292,662 but that's definitely inflated a little bit considering I write a lot of fics with Rynoa. So half of those fics, their word count belong to her!

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Both surprised and not surprised by the results:

Sincerely (1682 WOW) A Stranger in Your Shoes (470) Until Next Time (448) Side By Side (375) Forever Yours (288)

Not surprised to see all of Lettersverse there but A Stranger in Your Shoes surprised me! I didn't notice it was that high...

Do you respond to comments; why or why not?

It depends! Most of the time, I do. There are times when I don't because either the spoons are not there, or like for one of my fics (and finally, it's time to rest) the fic was written from a very personal place and so I found it hard to figure out what to say beyond the story itself. So I let the comments stand on their own and know that if you commented on it, I love and appreciate you. ♥

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Parasomnia, probably. It's a one shot character study looking at Yukio's traumas and how they affect him. I don't really like angsty endings tbh so even that one barely applies.

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

If You Can't Beat 'Em or Three's A Crowd. I think both of those ended very happily and it's hard for me to choose which one is "happier"

Do you write crossovers? If so, what's the craziest one you've ever written?

The only crossovers I've written haven't been published. Though Rynoa and I are working on a Blue Exorcist/Kyou Kara Maou AU. Does that count?

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not that I can remember!

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Not as much as I used to! Most of it is either soft and making love or rough and tumble monsterfucking. There is no in between.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Lolol not that I know of!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes!! Lettersverse is being translated into french by our lovely @junemel-aoex~

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

*blows a kiss to @29rynoah* yeah all the time ♥

What's your all-time favourite ship?

The current hyperfocus is YukiShima.

But real talk it's hard to pick an *all time favorite* because I kind of just go where the hyperfocus takes me. Every time I remember a ship, I fall in love with it again, so it's hard to say if I have an all time favorite.

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

I'm not ready to give up on them yet...

What are your writing strengths?

Imagery and tying those images to metaphors. I love waxing poetic about a character's current state~

What are your writing weaknesses?

I have a lot of crutch words that I lean on (however being one of the big ones.) Other than that, I think I have trouble with pacing. I've been told it's really good, but I can't shake the feeling sometimes! I'm working on improving.

Other than that, finishing a damn project is a really big weakness.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

If I don't want the dialogue to be accessible to the reader, I would simply say in narration "He started speaking in another language." or something along those lines. If I want the dialogue to be accessible to the reader, I would state that there was a language change. Such as: "How are you doing?" he said, switching to Spanish.

I find that if I write out the dialogue in another language, I'm setting myself up for people who do know the language to scrutinize. It takes the reader out of the story, gives them something to focus on that I didn't intend for them to focus on. It breaks up the flow of my narrative. So personally, I don't do it.

If you like to do it, though, by all means. I ain't the writing police.

What was the first fandom you wrote fic for?

Yu-Gi-Oh!

What's your favourite fic that you've written?

It's hard to decide. Out of the fics Rynoa and I have written together, it's a tie between If You Can't Beat 'Em and Three's A Crowd.

Of the ones I've written on my own? The Turing Test is gradually rising to the top, though that's probably just because of the hyperfocus. ♥

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I don't know who's been tagged and who hasn't, so I'm just going to try and tag people from memory.

@29rynoah, @bluewindfall, @uuuuutan, @willowcatkinblossom, @tonguetiedraven, and that's all I can think of right now. If I forgot you, sorry! Feel free to do it and tag me!

[junemel]

girlfriends

[ao3feed-fma]

Je veux

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by Junemel

Il veut l'argent. Il veut les femmes. Il veut la gloire, le pouvoir, et il veut être reconnu. Greed l'Avide veut tout ce qui peut être possédé, et même ce qui ne le peut pas.

Words: 364, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Français

Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist), Homunculi (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Additional Tags: Angst and Drama

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