#midwinterspringwrites

[bearholdingashark]

Time Present and Time Past (Rare As A Glimmer Of A Comet In The Sky) Ch. 9

[A time travel Ludarklina fix-it by @midwinterspringwrites and me]

Rated E for smut.

A confrontation and a resolution.

Moodboard by @midwinterspringwrites

[politicalmamaduck]

WIP tag meme

I was tagged by the lovely @midwinterspringwrites, thank you so much!

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I'm going to break this up into original works and fanfic for just the things I've worked on this calendar year:

Original works:

an ember and the ells

inklings challenge 2023

Between Stars and Sky

not Reylo book

Midnight in the Undead City

hope and despair

dragon book

evil queen retelling

thy will be done

Fanfic:

am I not here? I, who am your mother?

I shall tag, and anyone please feel welcome to play along: @bonnetsed, @eachlittlebird, @america-oreosandkitkats, @the-reylo-void, @apisa-b, @southsidestory!

[redbelles]

Hello! 7 and 8 for the fic ask game, please!

7. any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

the star wars trilogies all have very different attitudes toward the force when you really dig into it, and i'm deeply proud of the work i did to stitch those attitudes together into something resembling a coherent whole for build a ladder to the stars

also, proud of myself for making uh,,,,, literally any of the "five lives robert baratheon never lived" in the clouds will form a crown even somewhat plausible

8. what song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

anyone who's taken a look at my AO3 can see i'm a sucker for hozier songs, and i've been lucky enough to receive some hozier-inspired fics (!!!), but i also froth at the mouth about bruce springsteen, so i'm going to say backstreets or this particular version of racing in the street. i'll cut myself off there because honestly i have way too many feelings about springsteen songs. it's fine, i'm fine, we're all fine here, thank you—

send me some fic asks!

[van1lla-v1lla1n]

So, femme hiker/gargoyle? I'm intrigued!

ask re: this ask game

yes!!! this is from some historically flavored monsterfuckery stories i've been working on (no idea what i'll do with them since they're not fic but i've decided i'll figure that out later).

the protagonist of this one is a young woman who's reluctantly entering ~spinsterhood~ while stuck on the family estate with her unsettlingly watchful mother. (i'd originally conceptualized this story in a more modern setting but historical felt juicier when i started drafting.)

here's an excerpt:

Marta had not yet found the distance into the woods at which she could scream and no one back at the house could hear her.

One would think in all this land, in a house the size of theirs, one might somewhere find some semblance of privacy.

Marta could select a book from the library in the house’s west wing and her mother could appear hours later in another hall and ask her why she’d chosen it. Was there something on her mind that beckoned that book to her, something Mother ought to know about?

After nights when Marta was plagued with dreams she would not later remember, her mother—whose bedroom was six doors down—would ask her at breakfast why she had slept so fitfully, tossing and turning so. Would she like a sleeping draught the next night to calm her?

When Marta returned from her constitutional each afternoon, her mother would frown frightfully, her eyebrows tilting at an angle befitting the most melodramatic theatrical mask. “It’s so frightening for you out there, my sweet. Every day you scream. Why do you insist on going?”

“Only a snake, Mother,” she would say, though the thing that frightened her most, the thing that made her scream loudest, was her mother’s omnipresence. The only knowledge Marta had held safe and secret from Mother was her gnawing rage—and even that she feared her mother saw in glimpses. Sometimes a mirroring petty hatred would rear itself in her mother’s hackles when Marta disobeyed her, and Marta was always ill at ease anticipating a conflagration that never quite caught.

[darklinaserver]

Secret Sankta Countdown: Day 5

Of Clockwork and Sunlight, or Aleksander Morozova's Surprise Encounter by @midwinterspringwrites

“Of Clockwork and Sunlight, or Aleksander Morozova’s Surprise Encounter” by midwinterspring is an entry from last year that serves steampunk AU vibes in a Ravka that is Victorian inspired, with Grisha powers and a Grisha-run country. 

So when Aleksander, grandson of tsar Ilya, needs his camera repaired, he stumbles upon the Starkov’s shop and hopes to be helped. And here he not only discovers that they can indeed help him, but also something more than he expected!

[ludarklina-fan-spot]

Because Lucy griffiths is gigging at The Hotel Cafe again my Lusander brain is going a bit cray, cray.

What a band this would be @midwinterspringwrites & @bearholdingashark

Jessie gif by @ladylrbloom

[andrinanightshade1]

Writing Patterns

Thanks to @midwinterspringwrites for the tag :)

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted/updated) fics and see if there’s a pattern!

Come on sweetheart - it's past your bedtime.

The Christmas tree lights blinked in the corner, catching the glitter on the baubles sagging on the branches. 

In Boone, Mellie Logan was always the first to hear any gossip.

Rey and her armful of lab books clatter to the ground as another body slams into her. 

His bed was suddenly too large, too empty. 

Today, the calendar mocks him—promising him a day wrought with fading hope and piercing agony.

“Rey…” he chokes on my name. 

Rose-scented steam fills Rey’s lungs as she strips her gown. 

Cold, sharp air fills Rey’s lungs— strangely frigid for May.

Sadie was the first one to spot her—leaning over the railings of the old paddle steamer and squealing excitedly.

Hmmm, looks like I enjoy an em dash!

Tagging anyone else who wants to play :)

[politicalmamaduck]

Hello! I'm curious about your "not Reylo book" WIP.

Dear @midwinterspringwrites,

Thank you so very much for the ask and for tagging me in the WIP tag game in the first place!

@apisa-b asked about my Not Reylo book as well!

I haven't written very much yet--just over 1200 words--but here's a snippet:

Her dreams did not haunt her with the valiant dead, those she killed and those she lost. No, her dreams haunted her with something with which she had much less practice, and therefore was harder to ignore.  A dark haired man entwined with her in her bed. She was on fire, but it was not the fire of battle frenzy. It was the fire of being desperate for more. More touches, more kisses, more friction. She moaned rather than screamed as his fingers teased her, entered her. His tongue licked away the sweat from her throat before he whispered “You’re mine, Princess,” into her ear.

[goatsandgangsters]

WIP Tag Game

tagged by @midwinterspringwrites and @bearholdingashark 💜 Thank you for tagging me! Tbh this is one of my favorite writing memes, so I’m always in the mood! 

I’m starting to pull myself out of the writing slump that I’ve been in since this summer. Between moving, unpacking, mentally adjusting to Newness, and my job being shitty, my creative brain juices have been… minimal. BUT I started three entire new fics this week, so I think my staycation helped! 

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

additional rule I add for myself: I only include docs I've edited sometime in the last year. bc I have way more WIPs than this, but this keeps things more present/less unruly.

down bad for dominikolai

amnesia au

yurkling lol

dominikolai ep 6 hurtcomfort

sun summoner nikolai 

the gangster au I'm not writing but could as a flex

handcuff lessons

succession theme intensifies 

that kazolai I owe kara 

Present

S&S Waltz

Maud Blyth, Terror

roleplay but they're bad at it

christmas fic 

ghost elsie chats 

more ghost elsie feelings why not

Tagging: @meyerlansky, @mercutiotakethewheel, @esssteee, @zizygy, @itsnotunfinisheditsmystyle, @hosseinis, @chaotic-tired-bastard, @malewife-darkling (and if anyone else is a fan of this meme, consider this an open invite!)

[bearholdingashark]

Time Present and Time Past (Rare As The Glimmer Of A Comet In The Sky) Ch. 5

[A time travel Ludarklina fix-it by @midwinterspringwrites and me]

Rated E for eventual smut.

Moodboard by @midwinterspringwrites.

Read on AO3.

[bearholdingashark]

Time Present and Time Past (Rare As The Glimmer Of A Comet In The Sky) Ch. 4

[A time travel Ludarklina fix-it by @midwinterspringwrites and me]

Rated E for eventual smut.

Moodboard by @midwinterspringwrites.

Read on AO3.

[bearholdingashark]

Out of Context WIPs

I was tagged by @goatsandgangsters and thank you for that because this is such a fun idea!

RULES: summarise your WIPs badly and let people vote on they'd most like to read! (No min number of WIPs, I'm doing this many because I have too many ideas and tumblr wouldn't let me do any more choices 😅)

(Not an official rule, but stealing from @goatsandgangsters: I'll do a sprinto for the winning fic!)

I tag @midwinterspringwrites @scrapbirdy @fiora-miriel @eighteenqs @ahopelessromanticwritersworld (but only if you want to!) and anyone else who wants to!! (and tag me if you make posts because I wanna see what your options are and vote!)

[bearholdingashark]

Time Present and Time Past (Rare As The Glimmer Of A Comet In The Sky) Ch. 7

[A time travel Ludarklina fix-it by @midwinterspringwrites and me]

Rated E for smut.

Moodboard by @midwinterspringwrites.

[bearholdingashark]

@midwinterspringwrites and @scrapbirdy I were talking about LJ prompt wars and how fun short Drabble/ficlet prompt fills can be, and so I put together an ao3 Darklina prompt meme collection for anyone to submit prompts and/or fill them! There’s no timeline or dates, it will just be open and no min/max wc! (I sat down to fill one with a Drabble and ended up with 1k words so whatever works 😅) This is meant to be low key and fun!

There’s already some prompts in there but we’d love to see more!! 🥰

[bearholdingashark]

WIP Tag Game

Tagged by @midwinterspringwrites (Thank you! <3)

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

And yeah....I know I have a problem (I didn't think the list would be this long though)

Darklina Phantom of the Opera (partially posted)

Darklina "monster in the closet" fae Sasha meet cute

Darklina modern grishaverse sex pollen fic

Darklina The House AU The Little Palace kinktober '23 (partially posted)

Darklina ep 5 au light bondage/edging to get answers

Darklina stylist Sasha actress Alina

Darklina ex FIL

Darklina baby trapping exes

Enola/Tewkesbury smutty dance lesson canon divergence

Enola/Tewkesbury/Sarah/William celebration

Darklina season 2 fix it double agent!Alina Brand New Heretic (partially posted)

Darklina first time roleplay

Darklina high school sweethearts second chance (when we were young modern au) (partially posted)

DITW Alina instead of Annika Darklina tether au

Darklina canonverse 13 Going On 30 au

Let Me Love The Lonely other Alina Darklina follow up

Darklina witch hunt

Darklina And They Were Roommates modern au

demon!Allina/witch!Sasha shared custody of Ivan Darklina

Darklina professor/single dad modern au

Ludarklina soulmates

Ludarklina dreams

Darklina No Notion first time regency marriage of convenience

Darkzoyalina voyeurism prompt

in public scream prompt Darklina invisibility

Darklina ceilings soulmates au

Darklina Jurassic Park/World Ellie/Alan AU

Darklina Harper's Island AU

Happy Blended Families Darklina Ulla/Luda

Anastas/Aleksander/Luda Birthday suprise

Lusander summoning each other's powers fix it

Darklina Beauty and the Beast pregnant Alina au

Darklina Old West au sheriff!Sasha/papa!Alina

Luda resurrection Shadow and Bone eventual Ludarklina (partially possible)

Darklina Father's Day card

Darklina house husband/mob boss washing the blood off

Prefold Darklina feat time travel (partially posted)

Darklina can't lie to soulmate (partially posted)

Darklina Addams Family crossover meeting the family

Darklina fake dating holidays omegaverse

Darklina baby girl Sasha ddlg 5+1 acceptance

Darklina circus au

Darklina demon possesion

Darklina baby girl Sasha breeding kink

AAA afterlife Darklina

Darklina puppy siblings modern au

Ludarklina Star Trek TNG wedding

Baghra visions lotr inspired

Darklina homemade Christmas gifts

Darklina ghost!Sasha Halloween fic

Darklina switchcraft au (Twitter 'stay' prompt)

Darklina ddlg marriage of convenience

Alternate Ravka Darklina

Spiritfarer Darklina au

Darklina post Malarkling

Baghra Mrs. Bennet Parenting Darklina

Tattoo Artist Alina non chronological multipchapter follow up Darklina

Darklina Rich Groom Poor Groom follow up

Darklina Pirate Song AU

Hallmark Darklina Royal Playground Marriage au

Vera Matilda AU Darklina

Titan AE Darklina

Mob boss/police chief prequel Darklina

Darklina DMs modern au (partially posted)

Darklina mob boss/police chief going public

Darklina dimension travel sequel (partially posted)

Letters to my Sun Summoner Darklina fic

While You Were Sleeping Darklina angst

Married At First Sight Darklina

Port Gamble Darklina fic I'm not tagging 70 people, so I'll tag @strangelock221b, @ahopelessromanticwritersworld, @fiora-miriel, @ditaliaa, @sternfleck, @ammarantas, @nightquills, @holy-muffins, @goatsandgangsters, @wingardium-fic (but only if you want to!!) and anyone else who wants to do it!

[bearholdingashark]

Writing Patterns

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there’s a pattern!

Stolen from @truthisademurelady because I was curious 😅💕

1. “Don’t tease, Sasha,” Alina mewled as she bucked her hips to try and get him where she wanted him.

2. Alina took a deep breath, needlessly smoothing down the skirt of her pink mini dress before she opened the door.

3. Alina sat down in front of her fireplace, her muscles relaxing as she sank back into the chair and let the worries of her day flow out of her.

4. Death watched, hidden by a glamour and invisible to all mortals, as General Kirigan led an army atop a horse as black as night.

5. Steve wasn’t suspicious, at first.

6. Alina wiped down the counter, more for a want of something to do to break the monotony than because it actually needed it.

7. When her parents had told her about the match they had made for her with Aleksander, the boy who lived down the street, Alina hadn’t been exactly sure how to feel about it.

8. The door opened, Aleksander striding back in the War Room, and Alina stood up straighter hoping it had been the right choice to stay.

9. Dr. Alina Starkov looked around the tent, tidy and dark with no real personal touches, her heart aching.

10. His son, Maks, murmured sleepily against his chest, the words unintelligible even for Aleksander who spoke fluent two-year-old.

Apparently my writing pattern is to start my stories with Alina 😅 very Aleksander coded of me

I tag @scrapbirdy, @midwinterspringwrites, @holy-muffins, @nightquills and @fiora-miriel (but only if you want to!) and anyone else who wants to join in the fun!