#rnm rpf

[eusuntgratie]

whoops my hand slipped and i wrote more vlamburn porn. its amazing what i can accomplish when i'm procrastinating.

boys will be boys E, 800 words, PWP blame them it's really not my fault

“You got it?” Tyler asks, trying to keep his voice neutral. It’s not Jesa’s fault that Vlamis has the best tits he’s ever seen. “I think so. I’ll work on the posts and let you know if I need anything else.” Vlamis shuffles over to give her a one-armed hug, keeping his dick carefully in his hat. The second she’s out the door, Tyler shoves him onto the couch. He spares three seconds to pick up his hat and place it onto a nearby table when it falls to the floor, only because he knows how much Vlamis loves it and how cranky he’ll be if he steps on it or gets anything on it. Then he slides onto Vlamis’s lap.

[dadvans]

Rules: Give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words. (tagged by @snickfic, thank you, friend!)

most hits: five theories about victor "my husband" nikiforov (+ one fact) [yuri! on ice. 2k words. NR]

this was a silly little story i wrote for @lazulisong's birthday one year, and it is wild how much it blew up. extra shout-out goes to the guy who used to come into the beer store i used to work at who we all called "My Girlfriend," because every time he talked, he would talk about His Girlfriend (until they eloped in vegas and then he became My Wife)

2. second most kudos: Family Dinner [the old guard. 2.5k. T+]

both this and 5 Things were probably written in under an hour, which has taught me nothing valuable about writing the meatier, longer stuff.

3. third most comments: also Family Dinner!

4. fourth most bookmarks: the warmest part of winter [yuri! on ice. 8k words. M]

this fic might be a little too saccharine for me to re-read, but i'm immensely fond of it, because my wife did all the (VERY tender) art for it. it was a fun project for us to work on while we were long distance.

5. fifth most words: we should be stars and perfect tens [rick and morty. 10k. M]

an incredibly cathartic fic for me to write, and the start of writing several fics for RnM that allowed me to heal from childhood trauma. i'm still also incredibly fond of this one.

6. fic with least words: Goncharov (1973) [hockey rpf. 1.7k. M]

apparently all i write these days are very silly things, and this is probably the silliest. sidney crosby wants to be bullied so bad!!!

tagging: @rcmclachlan @drunktuesdays @lazulisong @crosbyism @squidsquadlove @sevenfists

[alexanderlightweight]

Hi, how are you and yours doing?

This isn't a prompt, but a question for future potential prompts. Ho do you feel about crossovers?

And if you are interested in writing them, what are fandoms you really are or aren't interested in?

hey!

(this is directed to people in general since i figure more will be curious)

okay so this is kinda a tough question because the honest answer is i'm not really interested in writing other fandoms at all.

i do find it interesting to think about malec interacting with other fandoms so people are always free to prompt with the understanding that 1) i may not know much about a different fandom and 2) i may not being interested in writing in that fandom. i think for fandom crossovers it would just be kind of these thoughts. so it's a risk for the prompter if they're okay with me saying no, because i will rather than badly write something i don't like.

also as a note, since i know this off the top of my head and its about fandoms that seem continually popular:

teen wolf (never finished a season, don't care), supernatural (never seen it dont care about it), 911 franchises (mundane, not interested), Good Omens (i dont have the brain power to figure out how they'd work together even though i love it), RNM (i refuse to write in this fandom on the basis of how shitty and entitled parts of that fandom are). harry potter franchise (because i'm not interested in writing in HP verse), LOTR franchise (i like the idea of alec reading the books not going there lol). Hunger Games (fusion or crossover i'm not interested in writing) are all ones i know already i won't crossover with. I don't write RPF either, since sometimes that's considered it's own fandom.

Also if you're going to send in a prompt, i'd rather it not be with a mundane fandom, aka a non-fantasy/supernatural/sci-fi fandom.

And also i'm down to try fusion instead, though again it will depend on if i'm interested in the fandom.

and again, anyone can prompt fandom crossovers but just be okay with being told 'no'. i don't have anything against any of these fandoms or any of the ones i'd say no to, there's nothing wrong with requesting. but i'll say no because i won't personally enjoy it and that's okay. it doesn't hurt me to say no.

hope this makes sense

<3 lumine

[tysonbaerrie]

stay (i missed you)

For a friend who isn’t even in the fandom but deals with me begging for prompts anyway. She requested “they only had one bed” so here’s 1k of melodrama and angst. Also, yes, i continue to name characters after my hockey babes. 

“What do you mean there’s no more rooms?” Jamie can hear Jill, one of the team’s management, from across the lobby as he and Tyler stand awkwardly, the only members of the team that haven’t received room keys. 

“There was a glitch in our system, I am so sorry.” The concierge replies, looking increasingly flustered under Jill’s withering stare. “I have one room left that I can give you.”

“Give one of them my room, me and my roommate will stay somewhere else.” Jill tells them, and the concierge shakes her head. 

“There’s a medical conference in town, every room in Toronto is booked.”

“Jill,” Jamie calls out, dragging Tyler with him until they are standing at the front desk. “We can share, it’s fine.”

“You’re the captain, you’re supposed to have your own room.” Jill points out, and Jamie shrugs.

“It’s only two nights, we’ll be fine.”

“If you’re sure…” She trails off, and Tyler looks at Jamie for a moment before shrugging. 

“It’ll be like the good old days.” Tyler replies, referring to the early days of Tyler’s time with the Stars, when he had shared a room with Jamie so the captain could keep an eye on the troublemaking new kid. 

Minutes later, they’re stepping into the room, suitcases in hand and exhausted from the flight. Jamie wants to bash his head against the wall when he moves further into the room and finds that there’s only one bed. 

“Shit.” He grumbles, and rolls his eyes when he hears Tyler chuckle. 

“We are literally living out a romcom.” Tyler jokes, but simply moves further into the room and collapses onto the bed face first with his suit still on. “I’m too fucking tired to care.”

Jamie’s suddenly thrown back to the so-called ‘good old days,’ when he hadn’t thought twice about sharing a bed with Tyler, when roadies meant quick handjobs while riding the high of a win or Jamie going to his knees in the shower the morning after as they raced to get off and get dressed before team breakfast. When friends-with-benefits had evolved into spending the night in each other’s apartments and lazy morning afters with breakfast and cuddling and naps between rounds of video games. When Jamie had fallen in love and, by the time he realized it, it was too late to avoid getting his heart broken. When he had pushed Tyler away because that was easier than waiting for Tyler to do it to him. When he had been forced to watch as Tyler got the picture, his eyes tinged with hurt for months before they slowly got back to something resembling their previous friendship.

It’s been years, and they’ve both moved on, even if they both happen to be single for the first time in years. Jamie stares at Tyler stretched across the bed and wonders if this is karma finally coming to bite him in the ass for being a coward and running away from his own feelings. He tugs off his jacket and tie and slips into the bathroom to change and brush his teeth. When he returns, Tyler’s suit is in a pile on the side of the bed and he’s burrowed underneath the covers. Jamie slides in carefully, putting as much space between them as he can. He worries about his ability to fall asleep knowing that Tyler is so close, but he must be more tired than he expected because the next thing he knows he’s dead to the world. 

Jamie’s awoken by his alarm, and scrunches his nose when he feels soft curls brush across his face. He pulls back enough to recognize that he’s wrapped around Tyler, his face pressed into his neck, one arm underneath him and the other wrapped around Tyler’s waist. It’s so comfortable and familiar and Jamie’s heart hurts because it’s everything he can’t have. He pulls away and grabs blindly at his phone until he shuts the alarm off. Tyler follows him as he rolls onto his back, collapsing onto Jamie’s chest with a groan. 

“We need to get up.” Jamie tells him, and Tyler presses his face further into Jamie’s shirt. 

“Few more minutes.”

“Ty…” Jamie begins to pull away and Tyler’s arm latches onto his chest, holding him tightly. 

“Stay. Please.” Tyler’s voice is tinged with something like desperation, and Jamie lets his hand that’s trapped under Tyler reach up, threading his fingers through Tyler’s curls. “Let me pretend for a few more minutes.”

“Pretend what?” Jamie’s voice is deeper to his own ears, rough with sleep and emotion.

“You know what.”

“I don’t.” Jamie lies. 

“Goddamn it, Jamie.” Tyler snaps, but he doesn’t move. “Let me pretend that you love me. That you ever loved me the way I do.”

Jamie feels like he can’t breathe.

“I promise I’ll go back to normal, but while we’re in this bed I just…I need this.”

Jamie doesn’t say anything, because no matter what he’ll always do his best to give Tyler what he wants. He tightens his arm around Tyler’s shoulders until Tyler turns further into his embrace. He feels more than he hears the shaky exhale from Tyler, but they say nothing else until Tyler pulls away, refusing to look at Jamie as he gathers his toiletries and escapes into the bathroom. Jamie stays in the bed for a moment as panic fills him, fear that he’s just let an opportunity pass. An important moment. Potentially life-changing. 

He flies from the bed and gives only a cursory knock on the bathroom door before throwing it open. He freezes when he finds Tyler hunched over the sink, his eyes red-rimmed when he looks up at Jamie in surprise. 

“I do love you.” Jamie confesses before he can stop himself. 

“Jamie…”

“No, let me finish. I’m sorry I was a coward all those years ago. I never should have run away from what we had. I was just…so in love with you, and convinced you couldn’t possibly love me back so…I pushed you away before you could break my heart. But I hate that you think I didn’t love you, because I did then. I do now.”

Jamie watches as Tyler sniffles before diving toward Jamie, face planting into his chest. Jamie responds instinctively, bringing his arms around Tyler and pulling until he’s flush against Jamie.

It feels like coming home, and Jamie doesn’t hesitate in dragging Tyler back to the bed. 

[dotsayers]

20 Questions: Writer’s Edition

tagged by the beloved @myrmidryad 

this is a LONG one so here’s a cut to avoid do you love the colour of the sky syndrome

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

101 after a recent purge... no one may know about my Past

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

329004! used to be about 350k but again... purge

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

on ao3 i’ve written for (chronologically) doctor who, skyfall, discworld, les mis, star trek, lord peter wimsey, marvel (various), in the flesh, red vs blue, roosterteeth rpf, check please, hockey rpf, star wars, daredevil, rivers of london, dishonored, emmerdale, dirk gently, holby city, hot fuzz, kj charles, guardian, the covert captain, taskmaster rpf, good omens, ghosts, roswell new mexico, leverage, schitt’s creek, the magicians, 9-1-1, it chapter two, the magnus archives, the old guard, the mandalorian, the ritual, the locked tomb

way back on the pit of voles i wrote for twilight, harry potter, hetalia and xmen first class. and on the newsround chatrooms i wrote exclusively harry potter fic about my oc neville and luna’s daughter

as you can tell i am not prone to staying in one fandom writing wise, i tend to end up with one complete fic and seven abandoned wips concealed deep in my google drive

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

finally see what it means to be living (captain marvel, carol/maria, i really hit the zeitgeist with this one i think i was something like the fifth fic in the ship tag)

do whatever you think (the magnus archives, this series is actually #2-7, then #8 #9 and #11 for me so i’m going to cheat a bit)

standing in a world of my own (daredevil, matt/foggy/karen, another zeitgeist hit! really miss writing for daredevil actually... it’s a perennial fave)

a winding road that stretches towards the truth (iron man, tony/rhodey, i STILL don’t know when this got so many kudos. i swear i looked away when it was at 100 and suddenly it ended up here)

where the long shadows grow (star trek aos, kirk prime/spock prime, thank god some people are checking the prime kirkspock tag is all i’m saying!)

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

i don’t really Do angsty endings... possibly a blanket of stars just because i ended it on something of a cliffhanger and then completely zoned out of rnm for long enough that i forgot where i was going with it. there was definitely the intention of fixing things but then i just... did not do that. and now the show is on s3 and i’m over a season behind! life comes at you fast

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

where the long shadows grow, because it reunited kirk prime and spock prime and they DESERVE TO BE HAPPYYYY. i’m a complete sucker for presumed dead/back from the dead stories, actually, so on a similar theme i have two (TWO) daredevil fics which follow the trope, one about ray coming back post-s2 (might never be normal again) and one about foggy and matt reuniting post-endgame (in the corner, taking up space). this is the only time i will ever acknowledge endgame ever again

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

i do write crossovers! in fact i am often roundly mocked by my friends for the increasingly esoteric nature of my crossovers. way back in secondary i wrote a twilight/labyrinth crossover where angela was sarah and jareth’s daughter  because i had a massive crush on a girl who liked both twilight and labyrinth. however, since that has been comprehensively scrubbed from the internet, i think my craziest crossover is probably part three of ‘traced upon the skies’, already an esoteric crossover of rivers of london and hot fuzz, when i added in a crossover with the horror movie ‘the ritual’ just because i wanted rafe spall’s character to be happy 

8. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

EXTREMELY rarely and only with extreme embarrassment. i will not be any more specific than that

9. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

i used to really struggle with doing this, to the point that i had over 300 comments just. lingering in my inbox unanswered. so i decided to give those up and just commit to answering them from then on, which has been working fairly well for about a year and a half now. i love getting comments but i get overwhelmed really easily and struggle with replying in a way which feels meaningful without getting in my head about it! 

10. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

yes lmao it was for a harry potter fic on ff.net where harry got sorted into hufflepuff instead of gryffindor. it wasn’t a very good fic but i think the fact it was clearly written by an 11 year old should have scared off at least some of the less flattering comments.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i don’t... think so? i don’t know how i’d find out to be honest, my vanity googling is rarely very effective

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes! as bronze may be much beautified (skyfall, mallory/bond) got translated into chinese, i was extremely pleased. i think it’s mandarin but the ao3 page for the translation doesn’t say and my mandarin is.................. extremely poor

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

also yes! me and jess little-smartass have written a lot together, although only our star trek/les mis series has been published, more’s the pity. we spent a lot of les mis fandom time workshopping aus and we were always extremely correct about all of it, imo

14. What’s your all time favourite ship to write for?

oh god. i think probably kirk/spock, although there’s some recency bias to that since i reread space manhattans recently and was reminded of my love for them. i really like writing jon/martin but i’ve mostly done that from outsider pov which is a bit different to writing shipfic, i think. joe/nicky from tog was also something i really liked writing but i struggle with plotting longer fic with them

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

i recently went through my abandoned fic folder so i actually have a few options for this. the obvious choice would be ‘any of the hockey ones’ but i did delete most of those just for my sanity. more recently i started writing a vaguely smutty pre-the thing mac/fuchs fic for alex @milkdrinker5000 which i really WANT to finish but am struggling with. most obscure answer (even beyond the thing) and most likely to remain unfinished is the insanely in depth post-tog booker/copley fic i had planned out back in about october. i wrote a good 6-7k of that one and then i realised it was going to be, like, difficult, and decided if i was going to put that much work into something it may as well be the novel im meant to be writing

16. What are your writing strengths?

once a friend told me i had an excellent facility for dialogue and ive thought about it every time i write ever since. i love writing dialogue and i think i’m good at knowing what sounds ic and what is right out. 

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

one of the things i struggled with for a really long time, and honestly still have trouble with, is depicting action in words. once i wrote a hockey fic which featured multiple hockey games and i spent probably four times as much effort editing those to make sense and be interesting that i’ve ever done on a talkier scene.

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

i’ve done it but only when i knew more or less what i was talking about - i did italian at school so i felt confident using it for nicky in something particular and real. i try not to italicise when i drop in words from other languages, which is what i usually do when i’m using a language i haven’t studied in depth (for example, joe’s use of arabic in some of my fic), and to only use words which i’ve heard used by native speakers in that context. i think if you don’t feel confident using another language, generally speaking, you shouldn’t do it. and for god’s sake don’t use google translate for a full sentence

19. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

harry potter on the newsround chatboards. ariana lovegood-longbottom my sweet child

20. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

this used to be an easy question because hands down the fic i was proudest of on posting it was i’ll be seeing you. i spent a year and a half on research and writing! but these days i do cringe a little at my hockey fic, and i think i’m prouder of some of my shorter works. let’s do a curveball and say layer on layer, down on down, which is my favourite of my rnm fics and the one i like most from a narrative voice perspective. getting michael right was stressful and i’m still proud i got it down for a TIME LOOP FIC, my absolute favourite trope

tagging @little-smartass and @leescoresbies just in case they want to try this

[litwitlady]

Fic Writer Interview

NOTE: This will prove interesting since I deleted half my fic on AO3.

Tagged by: @lambourngb - <3

Name(s): Brooke, ALovelyLitwit on AO3, litwitlady on Tumblr (other names on other sites that I’m never sharing here)

Fandom(s): The ones where I’ve written multiple stories include - US QAF (20 years ago), The Walking Dead, and Roswell New Mexico. 

Where you post: Tumblr and AO3. I have posted on LJ, FFN, and Mibba in the past.

Most Popular One-Shot (by kudos) This year: To be clear, I am in no way a popular author. RNM has been a strange fandom to enter, especially having entered at the end of S2. So my most popular one-shot (pre-purge and post-purge) is ‘Day into Night’ with 167 kudos. It was the first fic I published on AO3 back in May. So everything has been downhill since then! I almost want to count ‘this godforsaken mess’ because it has 175 kudos which were mostly gained from the first part. (I entirely regret the second chapter, lol). If we are expanding outside of RNM, my most popular one-shot was a Joe x Nicky fic ‘Deceit’ which has 300 kudos.

Overall: It’s probably a TWD fic, to be honest.  (Again, there’s the Joe x Nicky one-shot.)

Most Popular Multi-Chapter (by kudos) Overall: Absolutely a TWD fic. Maybe even the RPF fic I wrote a few years ago for a friend and buried on the internet where you’ll never find it. My most popular RNM fic got deleted a couple of days ago. It had 302 kudos. I doubt I’ll ever write anything for RNM that gets 300+ kudos ever again. The only reason that one got 300+ kudos is because I wrote it for the prevailing fandom attitude of idolizing Alex while throwing Michael under the bus. That will get you kudos your writing didn’t earn every time. My writing on its own struggles to get 200 kudos. After the purge, ‘Cosmic Clowns’ is the most popular RNM fic at 242 kudos. I’d love for ‘Send Me Home’ to beat ‘Clowns’, but I’m not holding my breath. 

This year: See above.

Favorite story you’ve written so far: Easy. ‘Send Me Home’. It’s self-indulgent and has so many of the things I love in it. Michael-centric, an Alex Michael deserves, baseball, Danny and Lena. I’ve never written AU for any other fandom ever. I’ve always hated them - never even read them. But S2 really sent me down a path away from the shitshow that is canon.

Fic you were nervous to post: Every single one. ‘Send Me Home’ is a mixture of nerves and excitement because I love it so much and any word against it makes me want to never write again. Smut of any kind is hard. The last chapter of ‘Date Nights’ (Alex’s Bed) was scary because I wanted the conversation about Tripp/Nora to be perfect. Plus, it goes against the widely-held fanon opinion that Tripp and Nora are cosmic soulmates. Being an unpopular writer (in terms of kudos, hits) is tough because the mean voice inside your head doesn’t even come close to being quieted by feedback from your readers. 

To be clear, I love the feedback I get! Y’all are so sweet. 

How do you choose your titles?: Lower case titles are generally song lyrics. Upper case stuff I come up with on my own. Sometimes it’s from a line or very specific idea in the story. Other times it’s just nonsense that feels ‘correct’ somewhere in my gut.

Do you outline?: No. I am a sit down and start writing person. A pantser, through and through. I always have the next 2-3 scenes in my head though. If I outlined everything, I would lose momentum because I would feel like the outline was the story and I was done. The energy would whoosh away from me as soon as the last bullet point was complete. My brain is a WILD place.

Complete: I wrote over 100 pieces of Malex nonsense this year. 50 or so remain on AO3. Most of those were ficlets of less than 1k words. 

In-Progress: ‘Send Me Home’ - hoping to complete during the first months of 2021. ‘Date Nights’ - hoping to complete by end of 2020. ‘Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone’ or Ghost!fic - hoping to complete maybe????? It might take me until next Halloween though!

Coming soon/not yet started: Thanks to a group of sweet enablers with great ideas, the Malex neighbors AU where Michael is a romance author is on my list to work on once I complete ‘Send Me Home’. That idea came to me because all of my ideas are dead and gone. I was worried I’d never have another story idea, and so I sat down one day to force myself to think of something. That’s the idea I came up with. And I really like it! 

If I’m being honest, there’s a part of me that wants to retire from writing fic altogether. RNM has so many extremely talented writers that it’s easy to talk myself into leaving the storytelling to them.

Prompts?: Umm...I deleted all the prompts that were in my inbox. Sorry. 

Upcoming work you’re most excited about: Finishing ‘Send Me Home’ is the writing I’m most excited about. The neighbors AU sounds great in theory, but I won’t feel real excitement for it until I start writing and know that I’m capable of telling the story.

Tagging: Anyone and everyone

[moscarific]

Some of you might have noticed that I have a new fandom. As often happens, the fandom itself isn’t new: Roswell, New Mexico, has aired for two full seasons on the CW, and a lot of the fans jumped on board at or near the beginning. I, on the other hand, sauntered in late, martini in hand, and binged the whole thing on Netflix in a week to get my mind off the fact that my HVAC had died in the middle of a heat wave and nobody could figure out how to fix it. The stubborn appliance is now fixed, and my condo is now a placid 74 degrees Fahrenheit throughout, but in the time it took, I not only watched all of RNM but wrote and posted my first fic in the fandom. It is a classic case of new fandom glow, and all it took was an aggressively mediocre TV show about attractive queer aliens and two weeks of sustained negotiation with the heating-cooling repair company.

Since I have friends in the fandom and they seem happy that I’ve shown up - especially since I brought martinis for everyone - I’m now on a Discord server where a lot of the RNM fandom stalwarts hang out. (Discord: yet another fandom platform that reminds me that the days of Livejournal were terrible but also makes me feel ancient.) Here I am, two days after joining the server, giddily chatting with my fellow nerds and plugging away at fic #2, when someone starts fretting that everyone is leaving RNM fandom and there will soon be nobody left. 

In my mind, this fandom is vibrant. My Tumblr dash is full of new gifs, fanart, and stories. The Discord is not overwhelming, but there is plenty of action, most of it on topic. AO3 listings indicate a steady stream of new material. It’s possible that things have slowed down since the initial boom, but this fandom is still moving at a healthy clip - especially since, as someone else on Discord pointed out, we’re in the middle of a long show hiatus (made longer by the pandemic and by some behind-the-scenes tsuris) after a season that mostly separated the fandom’s consensus OTP. 

My reaction to this concern is that RNM is the kind of fandom that has legs. At first, that was an inkling, fueled by the desire for more Malex fic to be injected directly into my bloodstream, but the more I thought about it while folding laundry (You know what else got fixed last week? My dryer. I am so happy. Never get old, kids.) the more I saw myself responding to a pattern. The upside to being old - and by old, I mean that the Star Trek fans I used to hang out with on a Yahoo Group dubbed me a Brassy Old Fandom Queen in approximately 2002 - is that you have perspective. 

At this point, I have written upwards of 200 stories in something like 50 fandoms. (Not all of these stories are on AO3; some of them are buried on Dreamwidth where they belong.) You know what still gets read? Stories in fandoms with a large amount of canon that is readily available on a major streaming platform. I haven’t watched a Gilmore Girl since there was a Bush in office, but I still get kudos almost daily on Rory/Paris fics that are older than the characters were in the first season of that show. Sometime around 2011, I wrote Mass Effect femslash because I was modding a fic exchange and took a difficult sign-up for the team, and that thing still gets read all the time. Not only are my own Star Trek: DS9, Teen Wolf, and Firefly fics still being discovered by new readers, but I continue to find new fanworks for all of those fandoms on my Tumblr dash and on AO3, mostly created by people who just now took a deep dive on Netflix and fell in love for the first time. Some of these canons have become dated, and several were not great in the first place, but they’re easy to become obsessed with and to say fresh things about. They’re also easy to maintain interest in. I’m not really creating new works in any of these fandoms anymore, but I eagerly pick up new fanworks by others when they come my way. One of the best fics I’ve read in the past year is a sparkling Garashir AU that you should read if you have any DS9 feelings at all. I’ve been disillusioned with the central Avengers storyline of the MCU for years now, but I’ll be damned if I ever stop reblogging Stucky gifsets.

You know what doesn’t get new fans or fanworks? Short, time-dependent fandoms that everyone consumes at once and then gets tired of quickly. I got a bajillion kudos in the first 48 hours when I wrote my one and only Venom fic, and I don’t think anyone has touched that thing since. It’s a pretty good fic, but nobody cares anymore. A decade ago, everyone was wild for Kradam, but I suspect that if I ask the dewy-eyed college students on my dash what a Kris Allen is, they will blink at me with sweet incomprehension. Last year, when Good Omens was the place to be, I followed a bunch of fandom-specific side blogs, all of which are now either abandoned or so slow they’re effectively defunct. I have dim memories of lingering on endless LJ photosets of Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson at some point in 2008, but I think we have erased this from our collective memory. In all of these cases, people got all their ideas and excitement out in one explosion of fannish energy, and then they moved on - usually drifting back to the large-canon fandoms they’d come from.

The flavor of this month is The Old Guard. Everyone is making gifs and writing fluffy backstory for Nicky and Joe. Almost everyone will be bored with this by Halloween. By then, there will be some other movie or RPF ship or live musical extravaganza that we are all either obsessed with or incepted into via fannish osmosis. Fandom needs these large, centralizing events to remind ourselves that we can all feel something in unison. But they don’t last.

That’s not to say that one kind of fandom source is better than another. Gilmore Girls is not a purer or more admirable source text than Lost Girl simply because you have forgotten that one of these shows exists. It’s just that some canons are better equipped than others to draw in and retain new fans, while others can’t sustain themselves without collective fannish energy to prop them up. And the best way to sustain any fandom is to lure your friends and neighbors into it, whether by talking up the merits of the canon or linking everyone to That One Fic or reblogging pretty gifsets until they give in. If everyone’s leaving the party, make a fresh batch of martinis. Chances are, a lot of people wanted to keep hanging around anyway, and a bunch of others were lurking by the door, wondering whether it was safe to come in.

[fraudulentzodiacs]

are you still writing malex/rnm fic?

I am not, currently, writing RNM fic. I’m not ruling it out in the future, but I’ve realized recently that I’ve lost most of my enthusiasm for it for a number of reasons. 

Plus, between the podcasts, NTC, and my current obsession with hockey and hockey RPF there’s just honestly not a lot of time in my day for it. 

[eveningspirit]

Fic writer asks

@theemmaarthur thanks for tagging me :) I did it, hey!

Author Name:

Hi, I’m evening_spirit on AO3

Fandoms You Write For:

I only ever write for one fandom at a time and at the moment it’s Roswell New Mexico.

In the past I wrote a couple of stories for Arrow, Killjoys, Black Sails and Criminal Minds, some Star Treks.

Used to write a lot for Supernatural in the times when the choice was between Wincest and RPF. Then deleted most of those stories, only left Gen fics.

Surprisingly enough I have 8 stories listed for The Gifted. Wow.

Fandoms that inspired me to write the most stories are, Season One of Agents of Shield, Hawaii Five-0 (don’t know how that happened, probably mostly one-shots) and Battlestar Galactica 2003. Loved that show.

Where Do You Post

Almost exclusively on AO3

Most Popular Oneshot

It has to be The Bridge , an Arrow fic, written during mid-first-season-hiatus (2012). It’s a totally platonic scene between Oliver and Diggle. I still keep getting kudos for it every now and again.

Strangely, Soft an RNM totally awkward fic has quite a lot of kudos, wow. But then, this is an exceptionally generous fandom. :)

Most Popular Multi Chapter Story

It’s difficult to compare a 16 chapter story to a 7 chapter story. The first one has more kudos and comments, the latter has a better kudos and comments per chapter ratio. Then again, the latter was in the Black Sails fandom that was, as RNM, very generous. :)

For this meme I’ll chose the former, it’s Early Enough, an Agents of Shield AU story that splits mid-season-one. The title is based on Coulson’s words "You can save everyone, even from themselves, if you get to them early enough" In this story Coulson stays true to this sentiment and saves Grant Ward (a victim of lifelong abuse, in case anyone had any doubts)

I’m kind of proud of this one.

Favorite Story You Wrote

This is a difficult question and I’m not sure I can answer it. I like so many of my stories. Each has something special in it, some part of me, be it miserable or happy, creative or self-reflective.

Okay, this one. words like silent raindrops fell . Didn’t mention writing for The 100, because this was my worst tv show experience. But this story feels very important to me. Perhaps not my fav, but important.

Story You Were Nervous to Post

All of them? Like, literally, every single one. I think lately I learned how to not get so nervous about posting, so it’s getting better, but I have this mindset, where I’m terrified of other people’s criticism, but at the same time it’s my only source of validation. Well, used to be. I think I’m slowly learning to self-validate. :) Anyway. It wasn’t supposed to be a self psychoanalysis post, so I’ll shut up about it.

How Do You Pick Your Titles

I have two methods – catchy quotes or song lyrics.

Do You Outline

Sometimes. Used to outline more, now I often go with the flow for as long as it takes me. Then I have to outline anyway. :)

How Many of Your Stories Are Complete

Of the stories posted to AO3, 63 out 68 stories are completed. Two are Works in Progress (RNM fics) and three are on permanent hiatus. As in will not be completed, because my muse moved on.

In-Progress

Heart Out in the Cold (Reignite) – is my take on what might happen post Season One finale of Roswell NM (it’s AU, for obvious reasons ;)

You’re the Storm that I Believe in – is a Roswell NM AU that takes place after the shed incident involving Alex, Michael and Alex’s father Jesse.

Coming Soon

Continuation of those WIPs, hopefully. :)

Do You Accept Prompts

Unfortunately, no. Nowadays I’m bad enough writing what I set out to write. Sorry...

Upcoming Story You’re the Most Excited For

Both of those WIPs actually. If I can call that emotion "excitement"...

Tag Five Fanfic Authors to Answer These Questions

Hm. Don’t know who of you has already done it. If you did, it would be sweet if you pointed me in direction of your post. You’re in no way obliged to do so, though, or to take this meme, of course. :) @hithelleth, because no matter if you currently write or not, once a writer – always a writer, right? ;) @soberqueerinthewild, @ultraballantine, @drnathanielheywood, @sophiainspace

Thank you for reading this super long post. :)

[poisonintopositivity]

Hi! I know you just deleted you RNM fics so feel free to ignore me if this ask bothers you. But uhm, i was wondering if you also wrote RNM RPF that got deleted? Or am imagining things??? Anyway, thanks so much if you do decide to answer this one.

Hi Anon!

I indeed deleted my RNM fics on A03. But I've never written RPF so I guess you were thinking about another author?

I know that @elliebirdthings wrote a few amazing ones.

In any case, if you need a link to all my deleted fics, here it is.

Have a very good day ! 😘

[3416]

What are your favorite ships outside of rnm?

HELLO LKJDSFFKLSD this is such a loaded and great ask, anon... are you wanting tv, movies, books, or rpf? jkdsfljflksd i have a lot a lot a lot

[elliebirdwrites]

f-ml replied to your post: I don’t want to make anyone else emo over the idea...

My first thought this morning was poor @elliebirdthings isn’t going to survive this.

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY. I WISH YOU COULD SEE MY FACE. My love of Vlamburn (OBSESSION) being known is the best thing I could have asked for. 

[eusuntgratie]

okay, let's do this: cuck aurora (vlamburn + aurora) (please and thank you <3)

HELL YEAH IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED

i think ive posted one other snippet this ones working title is i wanna see so everythings in that tag. tbh im not really sure where i'm going with this one but holy shit they compel me.

She turns to look at Michael who looks like he’s melting into the couch, fully dressed with his cock out.  “Your boy says you should clean me up.”  “Fuck, Aurora, that was–”  “Shh. I know,” she answers with a smile and holds her hand out in front of his face, raising an eyebrow. “Go on.” 

i've got some scenes i like but i need to tie them together and fill in some gaps.

wip wednesday game - make me write!

[eusuntgratie]

whoops i added a second chapter to this one too. have you seen emo!alex? its not my fault.

chapter 2 of it's a bad idea, right?

vlamis attempts to cope with alex's flashback look

for @lostcol who is sooooo normal about alex in eyeliner 😏

it's a bad idea, right?

baby's first vlamburn fic 😈

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59459986

1500 words, E (maybe M?) Tyler Blackburn/Michael Vlamis

vlamis shows up at tyler's after shooting the first couple of episodes because he's having confusing thoughts about his costar

or

what if vlamis had a ronen rubinstein-esque reaction to shooting with tyler and sucked his dick about it?

[eusuntgratie]

2025 wips

thank you for the tag @anincompletelist <3

i am a perpetual too-many-wips disaster so i'm always grateful for an opportunity to lay out what i'm working on.

malex pretty woman au (roswell new mexico)

my next big project is the malex pretty woman au. alex is the rich, detached businessman, michael is captivating in tiny blue shorts and thigh high boots. do you see the vision? i need to make a banner and pick a title!

(i make ONE comment to @bigassbowlingballhead about craving a certain type of fic and suddenly i'm being enabled into my next longfic 🙃). i am genuinely so excited about this one. i've got about 5k written and the whole fic is plotted. i'm thinking this will be in the 25-30k range? maybe? honestly jon is better at estimating my word counts than i am so who knows. still not sure if i'll finish writing this one and then edit and post chapter by chapter or what i'll do, but i think i'll be able to get this one up this year.

firstprince exes (rwrb)

if i have another big project in me i would LOVE to finish my outsider pov firstprince exes fic. i love love love this weird little fic but it is a real challenge to write.

sequels & additional chapters

part 3 of conformation (rnm) will be just alex and michael after their fun with maria at the club. maybe alex will make good on his idea of tying michael up and seeing how much he can take. i could write millions of words of sub!michael please do not tempt me.

chapter 3 of after hours (first prince/rwrb) aka mechanic alex will be alex and henry's first date.

one shots

come back inside is a malexa morning after the airstream scene fic...what if michael convinced alex to stay? this is probably more than half written. malexa my beloved 😍

hunting guide au (tknp, men's hockey rpf). tk hires pat for a guided hunt with his young daughter.

these might not happen 😐

shadow is a buddie fic that was gonna be a big bang fic (which will never happen) but i *could* finish and post the first few chapters as a one shot. featuring baby eddie having his mind blown by a slightly older, extremely gay buck at a college party while visiting his sister.

i wanna be adored is an elliott/marco, marco gets dropped into crystal valley fic that i've written about 5k for but can't quite get to do what i want. when i started writing it there were no kissingchambers fics, but there are lots now! so if you like them you should probably just read those bc this bad boy probably won't see the light of day even though i've got about 5k written.

dumotanger omegaverse college au (men's hockey rpf) - y'know i really love this one and i am unhinged about dumotanger but i think there's just something missing here that i haven't been able to figure out. i'd love to finish it if i do though! i've got maybe 3k written.

okay those are the ones with something significant written. i have LOTS of other abandoned wips and ideas, plus i always like to do some kind of short prompt series. i haven't done femslash february in a while so maybe i could write a few ficlets for that? maybe do some shuffle prompts again? hmmm. we'll see, we'll see.

my askbox and dms are always open for questions about my fic, wips, ideas, etc. <3

open tag for anyone with wips they wanna share!!!

[eusuntgratie]

2024 Writing Round Up

tagged by the wonderful @cha-melodius <3 thank you i love this!

i published 33 fics in 2024 🥳 101k words across 9 fandoms! i MIGHT get one more up by the end of the year but we'll see!

FEBRUARY

dance with me so we don't cry (rwrb, firstprince, T, 1500 words) a songfic au inspired by lonely dancers by conan gray. henry and alex have a meet cute in a club after having their hearts broken.

APRIL

ya girl was BUSY in april why did i publish so much fic this month?!?

thirst trap (911 rpf, ryliver, M, 500 words) baby's first ryliver! oliver takes a slutty gym selfie with a special surprise.

this could be a disaster (rwrb rpf, taynick, E, 44k) my slutty magnum opus finished posting in april! an au of sorts where covid didn't happen and we got a press tour for rwrb...and sluttery and shenanigans ensued.

you could've texted (911 rpf, ryliver, E, 1400 words) oliver reacts to ryan's insta story

chapter 1 of disaster (taylor's version) (rwrb rpf, taynick, M, 1500 words) taylor's pov of chapter 3 of this could be a disaster

MAY

hungry (hockey rpf, tknp, M, 800 words) Nolan's a succubus, TK is down bad as always

chili (the falcon & the winter soldier, sarahbucky, G, 150 words) sarah and bucky share a quiet moment in the kitchen

JUNE

quiet (911 rpf, ryliver, E, 800 words) the inevitable result of me learning that oliver shared a villa with ryan and his wife at aisha's wedding i don't know how to say it (hockey rpf, sidgeno & sidgenotanger, E, 3k) an omegaverse au where geno reacts to kris getting called up, kris falls in immediate lust with sid, and sid plays everybody like a fiddle to get what he wants. my 2024 sidgeno exchange fic!

after hours (rwrb, firstprince, E, 5k, at least one chapter left to post) alex is a (very hot) mechanic, henry is a visiting professor at UT Austin.

montana (hockey rpf, sid/anna, E, 1200 words) anna shows up to sid's place in montana and pegs him. that's it that's the fic.

JULY

couldn't help it (rwrb, firstprince, M, 400 words) the first of many kiss prompts. canon compliant reunion kiss at lake lbj.

then don't (chambers & kissing booth, kissingchambers, G, 600 words) a soft and sweet marco/elliott meet cute

fearless and fierce (teen wolf, stisaac, M, 600 words) a desperate post-battle kiss

already over (rwrb, alex/raf, E, 7k) hands down one of my favorite fics i wrote this year. a canon-compliant alex/raf fic.

your turn (hockey rpf, tknp, M, 300 words) it's not gay if you don't kiss on the lips, right?

AUGUST

close calls (rwrb, firstprince, T, 2k) alex is a musician and henry is his long-suffering bodyguard

laundry room light (911 rpf, ryliver, E, 800 words) oliver comes over to help ryan fix a light, and also rail him while his wife is upstairs

we've got time (rwrb, firstprince, T, 500 words) a soft and slow early morning firstprince kiss

SEPTEMBER

drink me up (roswell new mexico, malex, E, 3k) michael walks into the wild pony while alex is working the bar and has to blow him about it (a different first meeting au)

i wanna be in your bloodstream (rwrb, firstprince, E, 1700 words) alex is a vampire and henry is very, very into it

OCTOBER

Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula (chambers & kissing booth, kissingchambers, T, 600 words) Marco finds a welcome distraction from Elle at the Halloween dance

boys will be boys (rnm rpf, vlamburn, E, 800 words) things get a little spicy after tyler and vlamis take pics for the Burn the World Down vlambase merch drop

voice note (rwrb rpf, taynick + a bonus mystery character, E, 4k) disaster-verse; taylor's partner gets involved. just fun and smutty, not angsty!

it's a bad idea, right? (rnm rpf, vlamburn, E, 2k) what if vlamis had a ronen rubinstein-esque reaction to shooting with tyler and sucked his dick about it?

come find me in the crowd, love (teen wolf, sterica, T, 600 words) Stiles and Erica kiss at a party to make Derek jealous, but end up having too much fun to worry about him.

tell 'em i'm a good kisser (rwrb rpf, taynick, T, 400 words) Taylor finds Nick a little tipsy at the Oscars After Party

baby, it's alright (roswell new mexico, malex and michael & nora, T, 900 words) Nora's POV of the Caulfield scene. I'm sorry.

NOVEMBER

chaos theory (rwrb, firstprince, T, 800 words) henry watching alex and nora dance, but at a halloween party where nobody's famous

mississppi (roswell new mexico, malex, M, 2k) alex calls michael before his second deployment

not like this (rwrb rpf, taynick, T, 400 words) older taynick. they're still hot.

DECEMBER

conformation (roswell new mexico, malexa, E, 6k) a sex club bdsm au bc we deserve nice things (like michael in a harness with a collar and leather leash)

make you feel safe (rnm rpf, vlamburn, T, 1400 words) posted today! a little hurt/comfort set during 3x09 filming

no pressure tagging some folks bc this was fun to look at!

@onward--upward @captainjunglegym @stnichols @faketrex @taste-thewaste

@cuprun @matriayawrites @jdeanmorgan

@insecuregodcomplex @firstprincehornyramblings @onthewaytosomewhere @thighzp @rewritetheending