#odaat au

[lizardrosen]

ok it feels a little odd to self promote in your asks, but i haven't seen you in my notes in a bit and wanted to let you know if you missed it that i started a new ODAAT fic project last month! another, longer, alvareider AU up on AO3. ouran OT3 would be fun but needs to wait until penelope & schneider get their happy ending, or i'll never finish anything lol

i'm happy for you to self promote and i'm happy to promote on your behalf: hey everyone, threegee is writing a really good alvareider au and if you like odaat at all you should read it!!!

i've been rotating your earlier reply in my head since i got it, the one about alvareider and the cross-cultural, cross-class aspect of their relationship, and the power they have over each other that they don't abuse, and the way penelope punches up at schneider a lot and figures he can take it.

then it cross-pollinated with your thoughts about ouran host club, and i started thinking about how any fic shipping haruhi with any of the hosts that goes beyond a fluffy one-shot is going to eventually bump up against the power and class dynamic. it doesn't need to be a huge focus, but it's definitely there around the edges all her interactions.

that would be especially true with tamaki, who has the most direct power over her because of her debt but seems unaware of it; and kyoya, who's extremely aware of the financial leverage he's got, and presses on that in pointed ways, but also comes to truly respect haruhi. they're not her landlords and can't literally kick her out of her home, but that's still one hell of a relationship factor! (plus there's everything about the beach episode, but that's more than i'm willing to grapple with if i tried to write this ot3, at least at first)

thinking also about how the hitachiin twins initially think that tamaki is just collecting his richest and most influential classmates, but he genuinely just wants to be friends with all of them, and how he sort of does the same thing with haruhi and is then very upset when he considers that he may have been demanding too much of her time.

...now i just want to rewatch ohshc.

[zwritestuff]

totally here for a one day at a time au 👀

hehe glad to know! i very much see roxxxy as penelope, but idk who would be her children and who’d play lydia (nina flowers maybe?)

[chaossmagic]

Yes hello I would like an ODAAT AU where Felicity is an IT consultant way below her qualification grade raising two kids while her ex-husband is in prison for cyberterrorism, lives with her Very Jewish (TM) mom and Oliver is their dorky dumb-but-smart-kinda superintendent.

Or actually it could work the opposite way with Oliver raising two kids estranged from his alcoholic ex-wife *cough cough* and living with an overbearing high society mother who wants her 14 year old granddaughter to wear pearls to school and Felicity is the endearing super.

[incorrectcq]

When the witch your friends are trying to hunt is kinda cute.

Witch AU by @gold-star-for-cathyparr .

[pastelvirgil]

this is the "me gay!!" scene i was talking about (logan as elena and patton as syd with logicality)

shut up this is literally every lesbian in this site

[mini-minish]

odaat but its… the uchiha household…

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

witasaweapon replied to your post “my response to remembering earlier that tonight is a ‘new episode of...”

For someone who went hard campaigning for the show to get picked up, I sure have watched a whole zero episodes of the new season i so desperately wanted!

same...i’ve watched each new ep once and then never again, which is very unusual for me--even now i’m rewatching schitt’s creek for like the 12th time this year and it’s only april, but the only parts of odaat s4 i’ve seen multiple times are ones i transcribed dialogue from to use towards fic. 

[jonofdany-moved]

Okay, so I’ve been thinking about how when blond Schneider first saw Elena and thought Penelope was a single mom, it looked like if that was the moment he decided he could hit on her.

As the cousin and best friend of a single mom in her 20s who is always talking about it, almost no guy considers a woman dateable (or even an option for a one night stand) when they are single moms. 

Probably because they are weak and stupid, but my point is that it’s fascinating to see that, even thought WE KNOW Schneider at that time was not Doing Okay and was even more of a bobo than he is now, seeing that Penelope was a mom didn’t send him away like most times sitcoms do when That Guy finds out a girl he likes has a baby.

On the contrary, he saw cute baby and immediatelly turned to Penelope, “so... single mom?” with a big smile. And of course Penelope was not about to say ok to that, like-- no woman would, lmao, but STILL. NO GUY ACTUALLY DOES THAT. 

They were way younger back then, but Schneider has never seem to mind a potential partner having kids as something bad like one could expect some guy to do.

Seeing how much he loves the Alvarez kids and how someone mistaking him for Elena’s dad made him smile, how he asumed his role as Alex’s “dad” during his baseball games (and how fucking important it is for him that Pen trusted him enough to take care of Alex and drive him to his games), how he understands and applies the protectiveness over the kids Penelope and Lydia have taught him...

Man, he mentions he has never ever think of having children of his own while babysitting the cutest baby and being there for Alex and Elena all the time, when this has been presented as a problem in Penelope’s best so far relationship, it’s honestly screaming HE DOESN’T BECAUSE HE ALREADY IS A DAD to me so much.

And it also adds to my ever growing list of ‘reasons Schneider really is that good for Penelope’. Because the guy doesn’t see a problem in a woman having kids (and even before Avery, his only other relationship, even if WRONG, was with a mother), and in the case with Penelope he already feels like the Alvarez are his kids and he is ‘co-parenting’ with her.

In short. Schneider is great and deserves to be a full time DILF.

[moonymoon]

Eliott was definitely waiting for Lucas to take the next step. He literally just came out to him and basically said he wanted to be with him. (It must have been so hard after yesterday, tho!!!! He’s such a brave boy!!! (My poor heart aaah)). It was Lucas’ turn to do something. AND HE WAS GOING TO. ON HIS TIP TOES AND ALL. WE KNOW IT. BUT MANON. I LOVE HER. BUT. AAAAAH. DAMN. Can we be next Friday, please?

[jasontoddsreanimatedcorpse]

Okay so I'm lowkey a sucker for a soulmate au but let's turn it around for a second.

What if something bad happened when you found your soulmate? What if you lost a sense? Only see in black and white? Your leg just constantly hurts from the moment you meet them? You lose the ability to tell when they are in trouble? You immediately forget that soulmates are a thing?

Think about how that would turn out - everyone just trying to avoid finding their soulmate, people who have found their soulmate getting pitying looks while people who have no soulmate go about the world in comfort, knowing they'll never have to suffer that way. Just imagine.

[onegay-and-a-bi]

odaat hogwarts houses hc

idk if i would ever make this a full au (maybe a bullet point fic??) but i figured i’d take a stab at the houses anyways

elena: gryffindor

i mean

she is very results oriented, and she’ll stand up to whatever she meets to get them

a little oblivious to other people sometimes. this isn’t necessarily a gryffindor trait, but its also not //not// a gryffindor trait

it would not be wrong to make an argument centered on her coming out, but i think there’s more too it

she’s kinda blunt, tbh. she’ll say what needs to be said, damn the consequences

not that afraid to stand out a lot of times

tends to be impulsive but always tries to do the right thing

alex: hufflepuff

ok but hear me out on this, its not just me saying it bc im a hufflepuff too

literally/arguably the most important part of hufflepuff is loyalty, which alex has in spades

he has shown he would do pretty much anything for his family (offering to beat people up in the name of elena?? if that’s not loyalty idk what is)

he isn’t perfect, but he has shown he’s willing to try and keep learning/changing as he goes along

at one point i was considering slytherin (he’s good at charming people into doing what he wants, esp in s1) but when you break it down: hufflepuff is beating someone up in defense of a friend, no questions asked, and a slytherin would do that but at the same time might have a secondary motive that serves them

not to say that’s necessarily bad, but to me alex fits more into the first category

lydia: slytherin

at least, probably

if you think about it, she isn’t afraid to go after what she wants/needs

and isn’t afraid of being a little sneaky to do so

could rule the world and be just ruthless enough to get away with it (not even in a //bad// way, but in that she would totally step on a few toes along the way)

determined to be seen as “strong” by everyone

very much a storyteller. this isn’t a canon slytherin trait, but its generally agreed slytherins are Extra(TM). and have you seen the way lydia talks of cuba?? exactly, you know im right

penelope: gryffindor

not to be stereotypical, but. being a soldier has to count for something

and yeah, there could be an argument for hufflepuff and that she went into the army to protect people

at the same time,, she just gives off gryffindor vibes

also: loyalty (et al) is important to her, but it’s not necessarily the //most// important

like elena; a little impulsive, strong moral compass, will also make decisions at great personal cost

will diffuse situations and etc, but imo that’s a type of bravery in itself

her and elena both occasionally run on slightly shorter fuses than everyone else, even if the end of that fuse is more shouting or internalized issues than a lot of other stuff

syd: ravenclaw

socially awkward bean that is a huge nerd

in a mirror of elena, syd is actually pretty people-smart (interpersonal intelligence)

they can, for the most part, read the atmosphere

i know nerd might be a stereotype but also they’re all about learning when they’re geeking out about the topic

honestly im not as sure about this one but who knows

schneider: hufflepuff

maybe im just tired but schneider is kinda hard to sort

in an actual au its just as likely he’s still the weird neighbor that happens to also somehow know about magic (maybe he’s a squib, has a muggleborn sibling, dealer’s choice)

but anyways if i had to pick i think hufflepuff would be good for him

he cares a lot about the alvarezes, and found family, and has or would do many things for them

once you gain his trust, sorry, you’re in his life for pretty much forever and is not prone to giving up (on people, anyways. except maybe himself but thats a whole other post)

would defend and throw hands just for a friend’s sake

basically the stray cat you fed once and trying to force him to leave never stuck

[iivxtii]

karchie x odaat

Joaquin: *gets text from bf*

Joaquin: sorry, i gtg, my bf just texted me and he's waiting for me

Joaquin: *leaves*

Archie: he has a bf, he's so lucky

Archie: hey, uh, wanna split that cookie?

Kevin: huh?

Kevin: wait...

Kevin: oooooooh

Archie: oh, never mind

Archie: uh, i thought...

Archie: ...sorry

Kevin: no, no! gAy! me GAY *chuckles*

Archie: oH! uh, mE GAY TOO!

*long pause*

Kevin: *finger guns* thats grEaT

*both chuckle*

Kevin: ...cOoKiE?1?

[aparticularbandit]

Current State of Bandit Fic

The last official one of these was in May, and then the last other update of a general updating schedule magnitude was in July, so...it’s been a while, so it’s time for another one of these, I think.

Under the cut because I know these tend to get long and not everyone wants to read all of it and apologies to mobile users because I don’t think the cut works for y’all.  Sorry!

plans for the rest of the year in terms of updates:

I’ve updated my word count this month to 1.5k daily instead of 1k daily and then plan to up it to 2k daily during Nanowrimo - and then if that’s able to hold, I’m hoping to keep that daily 2k up during December (but with the holidays, who knows).

I really like doing those polls before the Monday updates to see what y’all want and then posting that - and I think, with the variations in what I have in backlog, that maybe works better until I have a bunch of backlog for a bunch of different projects (like how I had Carla finished and had Luisa and the Fox finished and so was really just alternating new writing in between ... was it maybe once a month?) - so I think, come November, I’ll probably do that again.  That way I’m updating projects I have stuff written for and don’t feel constrained to projects I don’t have written updates for and might feel constrained trying to write updates.

October is still Kiss Prompts Month - I do have fall prompts, too, but other than one, they’re unfinished and probably won’t get posted until November.

October Monday updates will also continue to be for Luisa and the Wolf because that is your spoopy Halloween holiday fic.  Huzzah.

November is Nanowrimo, but given the writing this month, I should be okay in terms of keeping up the Monday schedule.

I have:

one (1) chapter of Falling

two (2) chapters of Aftershocks

one (1) fall prompt

two (2) chapters of Bitches Get Glitches

potentially three if i split that third chapter up into two chapters, which i’m still seriously considering doing.

Those should cover the four Monday updates in November if I don’t write other stuff for them.

My focus for the rest of the year in terms of finishing something is to finish the rough draft of the first book of the Roisa HP AU.  That’s the book I’m planning to focus on during Nanowrimo, and hopefully I’ll be able to get the rough done so that I can get the first book to y’all sometime next year.

Roisa Secret Santa is a thing!  I’m organizing that and I hope that goes off really well!

I may do Christmas or holiday prompts in December - because I really like having short little prompts to work on when I don’t want to dive into a deeper chapter - something short to write instead of something longer is oddly nice - so we’ll see about that.

I also want to finish one of the Christmas fics I started last year, but it’s not good in terms of word count - like...you’ll understand if I post it - but that’s...a high priority.

Other than that, I don’t know what the Monday updates in December will be, but we can cross that bridge when we get there.

general fic updates (aka - i mostly stop using capital letters for whatever reason):

posted but incomplete fics:

if you lived here, you’d be home now:

no one’s asked but it’s been months since an update and it’s not that i don’t want to update, it’s that it’s been long enough that i feel i should finish a reread of what’s posted before starting the next chapter and i keep dragging my feet on that.

i actually have a good idea of what happens in the next several chapters, so that’s not the issue, it’s just getting myself to finish the reread and then actually doing the writing.

there’s still a lot of chapters left.  sorry?  maybe i’m sorry for not updating more regularly now that ACAL is finished. :/

jane: the real story:

this is on back-burner because, even though i’m really salty, i’ve found that when i hit hey, it’s time to write petra! i run into a wall of okay, but i know people love petra, and i know she has a very specific voice and tone and then i get kind of...overwhelmed and worried that she’ll be ooc.  which is probably why i haven’t written the next chapter yet (michael isn’t really like this, but he might be - and raf isn’t like this at all because raf in j:trs is meant to be a commentary on...raf).  i think it’s that i don’t have a well enough grip of writing petra closer to canon to feel up to par writing her in this situation.  maybe?  idk.

i know this is one of the most ... whatever fics on ao3 when it comes to my fics, so like, i’m aware of that, it’s just...back-burner right now.

heart in motion:

i actually started the second chapter of this a while back.  i should finish that.  if so, you might see it in a monday update poll   we’ll see.

luisa and the child:

aka the sequel to luisa and the fox

i have the first...two?  three? idk chapters written.  i’m still feeling out the plot - i have a good idea of bits and pieces of it, but i’m still waiting on those to come together in one cohesive thing.

similar to the last three chapters of luisa and the fox, i don’t plan on posting these until i’ve got the entire thing roughed out and gone through a second write.  maybe a beta.  not sure on that one yet.

sin rostro:

this is another one of those petra is an important character who shows up in the next chapter and i’m not sure i’ll write her well issues.  holding off on this one.

emilia antonia:

i have a general idea for what happens in the next chapter, as well as a general idea of what happens in the rest of the fic.  this one’s a matter of me sitting down and focusing on it and writing it, and i’ve been in a bandit writes lint fic headspace recently, which doesn’t bother me.

falling:

i feel like i should go back and resee some of the episodes of hannibal with margot in s2 and s3 and then review a bit of muskrat farm in s3 (as well as some of alana in s3) because that’s where lu is in chapter three.  because i haven’t, i’ve been holding off on writing this one, too, even though i...have a general idea of things that happen throughout the fic. but no real ending.

also maybe have a crack fic planned that would technically be a sequel to this one but would really be a crack fic.  maybe.  we’ll see.

aftershocks:

have two new chapters for y’all written.

have a general idea of what happens in the next chapter.

have a general idea of things that happen in later chapters but not sure where those chapters are in terms of how immediate they are, if that makes sense.

the time of your life:

bitches get glitches is completely done in terms of second write, so each chapter would probably just need a precursory read-through in terms of grammar/spelling/etc. and other minor edits.

with the exception of what would be the third chapter if i split the current third chapter into two chapters - the roisa scene probably warrants a little more than just a precursory read-through before posting.

i’ve started the next fic, which is rafael’s fic.  the next one would be petra’s.

basically, each of the first however many fics (four) focuses on one character and their encounters with their soulmate timer.

one screwed up family focused on rose, even though it also included luisa’s past with her timer.

bitches get glitches focuses on jane, even though it also includes carry-over updates on what’s been going on with luisa and rose since the first fic.

the third fic focuses on rafael.

the fourth fic focuses on petra.

at this point, i have a fairly good idea of when each of these five characters’ timers went off and when they might go off in future fics (i’d be more specific here, but spoilers!).

after those four, i would want to write a fifth fic that wraps things up - but this is kind of dependent on where things get left off in petra’s fic.

rafael’s encounters don’t finish in his fic, which leaves it on kind of a cliff-hanger, and i don’t think his final encounter happens in petra’s fic, so...fifth fic.

i’m actually hoping that writing petra in this fic will give me the confidence to write petra in the other fics she shows up.  so.  there’s that.

unposted fics:

where the lightning splits the sea:

aka roisa hp au

as stated before, the first book is my planned main project for nanowrimo and i hope to have the rough draft finished by the end of the year (we’ll see if that actually happens or not).

i have an entire series outline consisting of main things i want to happen in each book, along with their titles, and things that have to happen in specific books to set up for the proper pay off in later books.

the first book is entirely outlined - chapter by chapter.

i’ve started chapter-by-chapter outlines for books two and three.

the entire compiled outline alone is seventeen pages long.

i love this project a lot, and i’m super excited to share it with y’all, it’s just long.

mexican stud:

aka rosalint fic

i have a full working outline!  chapter by chapter!  huzzah!

this one still comes in bits and pieces and scenes that aren’t always interconnected.  i know what happens, but then pick and choose at scenes to write when i want to write it.

this fic will likely end up being fairly explicit - or, compared with other stuff i’ve written, more explicit - simply due to the themes and the content.  that may be part of why i take so long to write it - explicit scenes have a tendency to make me uncomfortable when i’m reading them and i don’t feel fully comfortable posting explicit scenes. but....

this would considered part of the epic superhero crossover (see below), even though the events are, to some extent, considered canon to aftershocks (with some exceptions which can be explained...later).

everything’s coming up rose’s:

stalled.

still excited, still want to write it, but focusing on other things atm.

various other soulmate aus:

one-shot (tentatively titled chorus: romance says goodnight):

still kicking around in my head.

still want to write it.

don’t think y’all will like it because it’s in raf’s point of view.

and other reasons.

but still want to write it.

dreamers often lie:

still at the point where i’ve brainstormed enough that i should start writing it because then i’ll get a more concrete idea of the world and of the events in the world but--

i’m currently focused on the soulmate timer au in terms of soulmate fics right now.  oops.

epic superhero crossover:

aka jtv/tick/timeless/supergirl/x-files/agent carter crossover.

hey, look, that’s a lot of things, so expect this to be massive, too.

the more i brainstorm this one, the bigger it gets, and at this point, i think it’ll probably be a bunch of interconnected fics in a series - like the time of your life - the soulmate timer au - instead of one big massive fic. it’s just easier to conceive of that way.

mexican stud is a fic on its own but goes within this crossover.

i want to write a fic about how emma and whitney get together (because they are together before rose gets them and all three of them are together in mexican stud - together as in a group, not as in together, even though emma and whitney definitely are together).

i want to write a fic about how dottie became the way she is when we meet her in the main fic (this would likely involve carterwood and dottie/whitney aspects - either directly or implied - and then it would likely come up in the main fic, there’s a bit from the part i just wrote that i want to be directly an exact quote from this).

i want to write a fic with rhea raising dottie (and potentially use that as backstory on how rhea and lena are...coworkers/acquaintances/partners/surrogate found family/etc. which could lead to complications re: lena and dottie but...idk).

even if lena isn’t a huge part of the rhea/dottie family fluff, i want to write something that deals with rhea in luthor-corp and l-corp and what she was doing after she got to earth - because that one’s different than canon (because i’m using ben’s rhea in a pod au v1 for this).

then there’s the main fic itself - which is where you get a lot of the crossover elements - particularly the x-files elements, which don’t really come up directly in the other fics but are definitely there in some of them (and by some of them, i mean the dottie backstory fic, they would be in the dottie backstory fic).  this would also be where the supergirl cast actually comes in (other than rhea and lena and the luthors and maybe astra?  maybe astra’s alive in this?  since rhea was around maybe she took astra?  or lillian?  idk haven’t decided yet).

so - like - this one is also a huge massive undertaking but in a different way than the roisa hp au is.  the interconnected fics for this aren’t necessarily as linear as the ones for the roisa hp au, and i want the main fic to be enjoyable on its own even if you haven’t read the other fics - the other fics might also stand on their own ish, but like...the random kingdom hearts games - to get the full story, you maybe want to play the main games.  ish.

also debating using my trans!mulder here because...like, i love him and i know he got me into trouble but...his story works so well here in context and i would love to use him here.  so.  it’s.  complicated.  :/

but - yeah - there’s your update on the state of things.  maybe look out for another update at the beginning of january, because i might be changing up some of how i’ve been writing and goals and things - but i think that’s it for now.

[theclaravoyant]

I can’t believe I don’t even get Friends out of this mess

[mintedwitcher]

....there's a season 4???? Where????

One Day at a Time (2017) - 4x05

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

Schneider and Penelope are the first three. Sorry for submitting for some reason it wouldn’t let me send you the post.