#no fanfiction to link yet because i haven't officially started it

[willinglyghoulified]

I can’t wait any longer. I have to share him with you all. The sketch for my newest character. Please welcome Dino! Info on him below. ♥ I’m in love with him and can’t wait to add the color. Details below.

Backstory: Dino’s real name was Daniel, and his family called him Danny. He grew up in Keansburg, New Jersey. He didn’t know his father, but his mother was very religious and taught her children to be the same way. One day, his twin sister winds up kidnapped by Raiders and is killed before he could get to her as he was unexperienced and young then. In a rage, he killed the two Raiders that took her. His sister’s prayer beads were clutched in her fingers, so he took them home with him. When he got home and told his mother what happened, she mourned her daughter but wasn’t grateful for him enacting revenge. Instead, she turned her back on him and said, “There is no Heaven for you, for Heaven does not accept killers.” He left home and picked up everything he now knows while traveling on the road. Ironically, killing people was what he turned out to be good at. He settled down with the Atom Cats for a while, but they didn’t like his profession. Dino was a “specialized mercenary that only took hit jobs,” as he called it, which was his way of beating around the bush that he was an assassin. The name “Dino” was the name the Atom Cats picked for him, and the name stuck even after he left.

One day, he gets a request from some Gunners to kill someone in Goodneighbor -- a rival mercenary that recently left their employ and set up shop there. His attack on one of their operating posts and the murder of Winlock and Barnes was enough to merit his assassination. They claimed they couldn’t kill this mercenary without starting a war with Goodneighbor, a war they knew they wouldn’t win. However, if a third party were to remove him from the picture, they just might have been able to pull it off. Dino takes the contract and goes to Goodneighbor to find his target only to find out that the mercenary he was contracted to kill -- Robert Joseph MacCready -- struck his fancy in more ways than one. 

Fun fact: his gun is inspired by the Fallout: New Vegas sniper rifles because I like them a lot.

He’s often been told that his style as well as his passion for cooking is odd, but he doesn’t mind. He has always considered himself an oddity. He likes to collect pins and has a bunch on his bomber jacket now. He prefers summer months and midriffs with cuffed jeans. Fucking loves cats. Favorite food: stuffed tatoes with fresh, seasoned razorgrain bread slices.

[sleeping-jayy]

"Here we go again" Information Post

(Read the fic here)

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Calling all creepypasta fans!

Do you like Eyeless Jack? Do you like gore, violence, and thrilling horror? Do you like homey vibes too?

I have just the thing for you! This fic (somehow) has all of this! From tags like hurt/comfort, to found family.

This fic is about Jack, who has hit his one year mark of working for The Tall One. Provided with a cabin, electricity, and protection, he is tasked with fixing up anyone who comes along. It's not in the job description to become familiar with them, but Jack can't help but hear their stories.

With reoccurring characters such as:

Toby Rodgers, Helen (The Bloody Painter) Otis, Tim Wright ("Masky"), Brian Thomas ("Hoodie"), Kate Hayes-Milens ("Kate the Chaser"), Cody (X-Virus) Unknown, and many more iconic characters.

And with lesser known characters (/OCs) like:

Pippa Darling, Leo ("Cross-X") Fincher, Reed Carter, "Something", "Smokey", and more!

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(For those of you who have read it already, hi welcome to under the cut, the ad is over lol. I wanted to explain some stuff since Act 1 has ended.)

Act 1

Starting with Toby Rodgers, and ending with Kate Hayes-Milens, Act 1 is a calm, homey handful of chapters with intertwined hurt/comfort along with sting of horror.

Although Jack has only been in his cabin for a year now, he definitely has a handle on things.

Along with the end of Act 1, comes the start of a secondary fic called "I want to die with all my scars (and if they don't like the way we are then fuck them)" I know I do a lot of songs as titles, but they do actually have significance, I swear.

This fic, will have a lot of additional material from outside of Jacks cabin. At the end of Act 1 (spoiler for those who haven't made it there yet.) Kate visits and gives Jack a walkie talkie to communicate with the others outside of his small circle. This secondary fic is for things mentioned in the first one but not fully touched on.

For example, it's mentioned by Liu that Ben said the Hornets boys (Tim, Brian, and Toby) were on a road trip. That is one such things that will be talked about in this fic.

Silly little adventures with other characters that may change the dynamic between each other that wouldn't otherwise be I the central plot of the first fic.

This includes OCs! Pippa Darling, a character from a fic on ao3, will be popping up occasionally, and my own character Reed Carter.

You can even submit your own character to be in the two series. Just leave a comment with a link leading to their story, or a social media so I can contact you!

(If they're heavily leaning on or shipped with a popular ("canon" in heavy quotation) character, then I probably won't use it due to not wanting any shipping or big relationships in the story. Unless you happen to have a set of OCs.)

FAQ

1. "Can I make fanart/fanfiction of HWGA?"

Yes! I encourage it! Just tag me so I can see it!

2. "Will [insert character] be in it?"

Most likely. If there's any requests, then I'll probably write for them too!

3. "What does Jack look like?"

Jack in this fic is more of a metaphor than a person. I'll let you choose what that means to you, but this also means that Jack can look like whatever you wish him to. Any "official art" I make for the series won't even have a consistent design for Jack because that's not the point. See Jack however you'd like, because he's supposed to be a source of comfort in anyway you, and his patients, see fit. You'll notice that that's why I've never outright described what he looks like. Be creative. :)

4. "Where/when does this take place?"

That's sort of a spoiler as of now. It's connected to "The Path of Black Leaves" which was made/coined by the slenderblogs here on tumblr, which is a a mode of transportation. But for a simple answer, kind of in New England.

As for when, it's taming place sometime in the mid 2000's

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That's all for now! This post will update as things get posted and the plot moves along. If you have any questions, OC submissions, or just want to say hi, do so in the comments! :) I love to see it!!!

[ikatako38]

Welcome to my blog!

Hi! Info on my fanfics, tips for navigating this blog, rules on submitting asks and posts, and a list of my alts are below the cut! If you want to submit a post to the blog, please read the rules down below! Thank you so much!

WIPs and fic Masterpost

Picrew Masterpost

Content Schedule

My Works

This blog is dedicated to my three ongoing fanfictions on AO3. If you haven’t visited them yet, click on the links below to get started!

This Place We Called Home (TPWCH) - Splatoon, M/M, Agent 24

Mi Hogar Eres Tú (MHET) - Versión en español de TPWCH

The Words We Left Unsaid (TWWLU) - Haikyuu, M/M, Kenhina [HIATUS]

However, I overwhelmingly post about that first one on here! I also used to post a series called Daily Jugoru that highlights vocab and grammar from TPWCH’s accompanying conlang (known as Juburanotako). But I haven't done that in a while, and it's quickly losing relevance as Three learns more Octoling.

I’ve also started posting memes about TPWCH, because why not? (Also haven't done this in a while lol).

Navigating This Blog

Every organizational tag I use on this blog is included below. To go to that tag, click on the corresponding tag at the bottom of this post. The nice little feature of doing it this way is that this intro post will always be here at the top if you want to switch tags.

To see everything related to TPWCH, including status updates → #this place we called home

To see TPWCH official art → #tpwch official art

To see TPWCH picrews -> #tpwch picrews (or the masterpost)

To see TPWCH Fun Facts -> #tpwch fun facts

To see all TPWCH memes (including incorrect quotes) → #tpwch memes

To see TPWCH incorrect quotes, → #tpwch incorrect quotes

To see everything related to the Daily Jugoru, including status updates → #daily jugoru

To see only the Daily Jugoru and other Juburanotako posts without the status updates → #octoling language

To see everything related to TWWLU → #the words we left unsaid

To see everything related to TWWFL -> #this way we found love

To see everthng related to TTWCF -> #this thing we called freedom

To see everything related to MHET → #mi hogar eres tú

To see TWWLU official art → #twwlu official art

To see ALL my art → #tako’s art

To see TPWCH fanart -> #tpwch fanart

To see ALL submissions -> #tako’s sumbissions

To see TPWCH guest fics -> #tpwch fanfic

To see the ridiculous carp my predictive text, autocorrect, and spellcheck gets up to → #adventures in google docs

To see/blacklist status updates → #tako’s updates

To see/blacklist other random things → #tako’s squidposting

To see an agent -> #(Neo) Agent 3/4/8

To see an OC -> #seyu, #lyle, #lucía, etc.

I also use other tags such as #splatoon, #haikyuu, #fanfic, #conlang, which I use to categorize my posts in the broader site, but I don’t suggest using for navigation. Many of these are just a holdover from back when I didn’t know how Tumblr worked and just stuck with me lol

Submitting Asks and Posts

You can submit an ask or a post at any time! I’d be ecstatic to answer any questions about TPWCH—or anything, really! 

And we now have fanart being consistently submitted to the blog, which is a literal dream come true! If you want to submit a fanwork, please follow the rules below to make sure it ends up in my hands and on the blog! (I promise they’re not scary rules! :P)

Fanworks of this fic are totally welcome and will immediately earn you my everlasting love and appreciation! Please send me any of your own creative work related to This Place We Called Home with the “Submit Fanwork” button if you want me to post it to the blog! AND SUPER IMPORTANT PART: You need to DM me on Tumblr or leave a comment on AO3, otherwise I won't see it! This goes for fanart, fanfiction, chat memes, you name it! And fun fact about submitted fanworks: they get reblogged once a month for three months! That means you'll appear on the blog a total of four times for each post you submit! (I may space them out a bit more than that if there’s a particularly high volume of traffic on the blog to ensure than every fanwork gets its fair share of appreciation!)

Posting fanart of my story to your own blog is also okay, but I ask that you do three things: [1]credit and ping me (@ikatako38) [2] link the fic (tinyurl.com/thisplacewecalledhome) and [3] spell the name of the fic correctly (This Place We Called Home).

Content-wise, I’m very open to any sort of AU or really anything else you want to do with my characters! If it complies with Tumblr’s (admittedly excessive) guidelines, you should be all set to go! If it would be labeled mature, just let me know that along with and content/trigger warnings in the DM you send me! I’m not currently avoiding any content warnings, but it’s nice to be prepared.

Thank you so much!

Alts

I currently have three alt blogs, listed here:

“Squids Don’t Have Bones” @ikatakoalt - for non-TPWCH related Splatoon stuff. This is just reblogs.

“Shades of Purple” @purplegays - for Zukka, Klance, and a little bit of Ranga. And now Sonadow/Soknux/Sonadoknux too, apparently!

“A Silent Glance Between Us” @puddinghead38 - for Haikyuu, and more detailed updates on my fanfic The Words We Left Unsaid. This one is basically dead.

“Ce Mur qui Nous Offre des Blorbos” @bugaboi38 - for Miraculous

“It’s Tako Tuesday Bois” @ikatakoirl - Writing blog and non-fandom or book fandom posts

“Rocket is My Babygirl” @raccoonboi38 - Rocket and GotG appreciation archive. Not planning on making any posts there, just reblogs so I can find them later

[pandawriterstuff]

I finished it. Holy crap.

I am literally half a sentence away from finishing my WIP. That has never happened with anything over maybe 5000 words. This is a couple hundred over 35,000. I only started it on June 20th and it is *half a sentence* away from being done.

It's a Fast & Furious Au of the first movie, the premise is what if it all happened right after Brian got out of juvie instead of after a few years as a cop. It's very heavily leaning on the idea of found family, parts are definitely cheesy, and the plot is basically 'the team finds out Brian is a narc and this actually makes a lot of things better'. I love every word and will post a link below in case anyone is interested (lol, I'd love that), but that's not really the point. I spent so long *not* finishing things. I have things written that are far longer than this, like +100,000. Things that deal with topics this briefly touches or skirts past because it is mostly meant to be a feel good piece with (hopefully) depth. Things that I spent years on. Some of them aren't even fanfiction, lol.

But I finished this. I did it, actually went back and finished the one sentence left in the middle of writing this post. In less than three months. I am both incredibly proud of myself and like, kind of in shock. It's done. It feels like this means I can do it. Writing everyday (almost) wound up being easier than I expected, and I do better with a steady routine anyway. I've just started a new job and won't have as much free time, but What it is exactly, other than 'keep writing things and finishing them' I don't really know. But still. It.

I both do and don't regret posting it on AO3 before it was finished. If I hadn't I'd probably let it sit for a month, do a general pass over it and then do one specifically to add more descriptions of sounds, smells, probably colors. Areas I really want to flesh out in my writing. Make things pop. On the other hand, having people subscribe, bookmark, leave kudos and especially comments, was incredibly encouraging and had me wanting to finish each pov piece so I could post and see the reactions. Some of the comments had me exploring things I might not have otherwise,and the sense of community when a comment and my response turned into a discussion was *chef's kiss*. But what might I have come up without them that could have been just as interesting to explore?

Also, if anyone is looking for a quality writing book I highly recommend Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg. I haven't read any of his other stuff yet, but I need to, because oh boy, did I love this book. Like reading prose poetry, yet it is an incredibly clear and easy read that taught me so much. It definitely impacted my writing here and will do so in the future.

And now that everyone has quit reading like three paragraphs ago. I will share that link.

So, The Buster's a Narc...

Summary:

Slowing now, and motioning for Jesse to stay back and keep low, Vince started sidling around the side of the house, following sounds of muffled moving, a few thumps. If the Buster was over here fucking shit up for fun or to let off steam, he was gonna kick him square in his ass. Maybe the balls too, for good measure. But no, squatting down in the overgrown grass so he could see down into the daylight basement, that wasn’t what the Buster was doing. What he was doing was getting slammed back into a concrete wall so his head cracked against it, a real official looking guy in a suit shouting in the kid’s face. This time when Vince told Jesse what to do there was no protest, his wiry legs eating up the ground as he ran for home and Dom.