#sad abt all my lost wips tho

[valentinemesis]

[codename-adler]

i neeeeeeeeed to know more abt your trojan ocs anytime you wanna share

heehee i got a special pookie for ya jo 🫶 (trojans ocs roster here)

06: Mateo Solano (22) USC Trojans Goalkeeper

here comes theeeeee... Bitch™

don't got a gif for him sorry

i also now realize i accidently gave him Seth's number... wow. but believe me, Mateo's sm worse. i love mi princesita Seth. i don't even like Mateo. (jk. but like, he sucks a whole lot before he gets his redemption arc. interpret that however you want.)

he's one of the seniors of the team, he's 5'9 and fucking bitter about it, he studies Spanish because he is a lazy mf who has no plan but to go Pro (fortunately he will)

106% fuckboi energy fr he's insufferable

at the start of the new season (when Jean joins) he is still crabby about Laila having rejected him when he asked her out after their loss to the Foxes (in my universe/wip, Lailalvarez are not together yet bc i want to explore their relationship from the beginnings :) )

Mateo isn't really interested in Laila anyway, though, and he doesn't know why 1) it still stings and 2) he even asked in the first place (perhaps because they are the golden goalie duo of USC, perhaps because she is better than him and has broken records, perhaps because of something else...)

he's also such a bitchy asshole to Jean, because Jean is a beast on the court and Mateo is jealous

he's single and a v because he is waiting for marriage and the right girl (siiiiiiiiike!) (still fuckboi aura tho he's that extra)

comes from a very religious household and he is a practicing believer

he doesn't really have any friends on the team (sad) because he is so prickly and bitchy, but everyone is still kind and open to him because he is very reliable on the court, in the goal, and he does not second-guess or question authority, he's very good at following orders and instructions, always aiming for the best

and though it's good for everyone that he stays in goal because of his problematic attitude that would get the Trojans carded if their opponents heard him talk, the power of bitch he possesses is also a great asset, as he easily makes any enemy player lose their temper with his saccharine remarks paired with a Colgate smile

now! the plot twist!

Mateo is what you would get if internalized homophobia + comphet had two legs and an attitude problem

he is as homophobic as Seth and Aaron were, and even more if I dare say, and though he's never outwardly a hater and never uses slurs (at least he holds back on that for Jesus), he's such a bitch about homosexuality... it makes him so angry and queasy, he'll be rude af to you, he'll leave the room fuming, not participate in conversations, that kind of thing. he tries very hard to forget about Jeremy, to overlook it, and he's not like Lucas, questioning Jeremy's decision because of his sexuality, but it's so much better when Jeremy is single... (ik how this sounds, but believe me when i say he does not have a repressed crush on Jeremy, or Jean. that's just his Exy inferiority complex.)

thing is, it becomes incredibly difficult for him to ignore all of that gayness when Laila and Alvarez get together (oh), when Levi suddenly drops Angie to get closer with their assistant coach, when Jeremy clearly has a huge thing for Jean, the Drivers come out with their own gay thang, when Coach Rhemann himself gets his shit together with his long-lost broody ex... Mateo is literally surrounded by homos.

and sure, the wlw stuff never really bothered him, didn't get the appeal (and why do you think Mateo!!!), but with almost all of his authority figures dabbling in the gay, Mateo is kind of a caged animal, and he's bound to lose control and do some very stupid things, like start fights, get benched, punch a wall or 2...

oh, and there's Yanko too.

infuriating ginger man that won't leave him the fuck alone. mountain man of steal who is somehow always right, and chill. the designated Mateo-handler, apparently, because Jeremy had to delegate that hot potato to someone with less... undesirable traits to Mateo (i'm not sure yet how the rest of the team handles his outbursts bc he's not open about why he has them, not very vocal, but there's definitely a specific thing wrong at play here whenever they happen, and maybe Jeremy has an inkling, idk, tbd)

so it really comes out of NOWHERE. nobody, NOBODY has a fucking clue. least of all Mateo. then suddenly Yanko has had enough and pushes Mateo into a wall, and kisses him, very publicly, and Mateo kisses back.

there's a whole lot that goes on behind the scenes before that first fiery PDA, and after that it all goes downhill for a while before balance is found again. anyhoo. enemies-to-lovers ftw ✊

Mateo's family is very loving and supporting of him btw <3

and that's all for now for the resident pendejo of the Trojans, Mateo Solano 👿

[urdreamgirls-dreamgirl]

have any fic recommendations?

yesssssssss.

I just read Intricate Rituals by zade (AO3)/@racetrackthehiggins because it was recently rec'd to me (E, Complete, 11/11). I asked the people for something very sad but with a happy ending and the people delivered. I ate this up and read it basically in a single sitting if you don't include the time I took to go do my job for two hours lol. This hit every single spot in terms of very heartbreaking relationship dynamic that I was looking for. I love earnest but confused Steve who's just in love but scared to tell it until he literally can't keep it in anymore and a scared Eddie who lashes out and hurts Steve when he's honest and then deeply regrets it. That's what I care abt... morning, noon, and night, I care about her. She is who I want, that is where my loyalties lie. Definitely mind the tags on this one though!

I love love love Trouble Looks Good on You by indelicate (AO3)/@steddielations. (E, WIP, 2/4) I love the dynamic between Eddie and Steve here and I absolutely adore the way they flirt here. 10/10 flirting !! Also, if you love this then definitely check out Melt Me on Your Tongue (E, Complete, 1/1). Steve taking care of Eddie and both of them loving it. Both of these make me go 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I really love you looking at me, looking at you by emryses (AO3)/@emryses (M, Complete, 10/10). Very much in the same vein as Intricate Rituals, with a heartbreaking FWB-type relationship where Steve is clearly falling in love and Eddie breaks his heart because he's scared. So good.

Anything by Adure (AO3)/@toburnup, but particularly is your light on? (E, WIP, 12/16) which spans years of Eddie and Steve's relationship and is in progress right now (recently updated!). Another heartbreaking slowburn FWB situation for the boys (are we sensing a theme here yet??). Lots of internalized homophobia/self-policing in this one, so mind that, but so worth the read and so insanely well-written, it makes me jealous to read it. I also really particularly love throw me one (E, Complete, 5/5)!

Looks like we're in for nasty weather (E, Complete, 10/10) by prufrocks (AO3)/@geddyqueer is so so so so so so so so so s ooo cute. So cute!!!! Modern!AU where Steve is training to be a park ranger, Eddie can talk to ghosts, Robin hosts a monster podcast, and there's something spooky in the woods. :) :) :) :) Very fun and did I mention cute?

The Sad Steddie Scenario by @steddierthings. Steve and Eddie suffer a misunderstanding and Eddie is... harsh. I am (very very very) patiently! waiting for more more more of this. I love this. It's so good.

wonderin' where i am, lost without you by @outpastthebrakers was rec'd to me when I asked for something sad but with a happy ending. Definitely hit the spot! Eddie forgets Steve's birthday and has to deal with the consequences. Very sad and then very sweet <3

I loooooooove reputation by theamazingbard (AO3)/@theamazingbard (E, Complete, 2/2). Steve learns that Eddie is perhaps even more promiscuous than himself and doesn't know what to do with that information. I love me some idiots-to-lovers. That is my all-time favorite trope. They can have each other but they're just so stupid. It's very fun.

Please read off the beaten path by pukner (AO3)/@pukner (E, Complete, 6/6). You have to. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them (acab tho). Steve is aware of and secure with his sexuality and recognizes that Eddie is flagging. However!!!!!! Eddie is flagging accidentally. He is not aware of his sexuality!!! And then he is scared and accidentally hurts Steve. Which, as we've established, is my favorite dynamic. And I love the fandom reversal of "Steve is aware, it's Eddie who isn't!!!!!" Sooo good, soooo cute. Steve is just so adorable in this and I love him and cherish him deeply.

I asked for sad fic recs last week and was rec'd Stevie's Time Loop by stevesbipanic (AO3)/@stevesbipanic (M, Complete, 2/2), which I have not had the chance to read yet, but I am confident I'll really enjoy it!!!!

I was also rec'd The Man That I Could Be by ohstars (AO3) (ohstars autocorrected to oysters, stop it I am SCREAMING lol)/@oh-stars (E, Complete, 26/26), which I'm currently reading right now and really enjoying. I'm on chapter 5!!! We could read it together. Book club.

Also, you should read sorry about the blood in your mouth (I wish it was mine) 🙃

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

👀👀👀!!!!!!

cheating bc you sent me 3 eyeballs so im gonna give u 3 different answers 😌 :::

the DSMP Lost Boys AU. GOD i was on some shit when i was thinking abt that. it was literally so perfect. i still have the other half of the references buried somewhere deep in my wip folder but i just. never finished it. i was probably never gonna write an actual fic for it but god did i want to do more screenshot redraws . it was so perfect. i still think abt it sometimes when i watch lost boys like. damn .... sam is so tommy coded . i love you annoying little brothers

ANOTHER dsmp one: vengeful spirit. god. fuck . where do i even start. vengeful spirit was my baby i cared about it so much. it was my ghostbur-centric character study fic series where after cwilbur was revived, ghostbur fought his way out of limbo kicking and screaming and then they had to deal with the consequences of both existing in the living world at the same time. very heart player core. something something you hate yourself so much but now there are two of you and youre different people but also youre the same guy and you hate that your brother trusts the dead fish eyes version of you more than the living breathing one. aka ghostbur gets to be angry because i really just wanted to see him snap and punch something. unfortunately the first fic totally flopped and i had nobody to bounce ideas off of so i was the only person in the world to care about vengeful spirit. i had like 12 oneshots planned out and they were each titled with song lyrics from a song in the playlist (which still exists btw) and i made a layout and everything. A LAYOUT. i never outline things dude thats how u KNOW i went hard for this one. another factor in its death tho is i started writing it like.. right after the cwilbur revival when there was a huge lull in lore streams and i was trying to fill in the blanks. but because i am a slow writer eventually canon surpassed me and i was like "hm this is too divergent now and since i am the only one who is going to read this it will simply live in my brain forever" . also i think my time for writing dsmp is way past me now. sad! oh well theres other fandoms.

third one is NOT dsmp related but it IS general minecraft related. fuck dude i have so many ideas about minecraft worldbuilding. its such a perfect game to write about. i have so many minecraft ocs that have super complex lore that will probably never see the light of day bc im like. how the hell do i convey this information without actually showing people my minecraft world. the intricacies. there are so many. i cannot play this game normally i have to make a story every single time. EVEN WHEN im not actually setting out to make a story. even when im just like "hm yeah this is gonna be a casual world im not gonna take it too seriously" and then suddenly ive rebuilt an entire village to protect it from raids and all the villagers have names and im attached. sigh. i think about minecraft religion and also the magic system and how the world works and how mobs interact with each other and . man . theres so much. does anyone want to play miencraft with me i prommy i wont go insane on you

[eirvosol]

i'm bored lets do this

times new roman or arial .... arial is just default font but college has made times new roman the font that gets my brain gears working HARD

yes, probably. i have a ton of crappy handwritten stories from elementary/middle school hidden away. i like writing in pen more tho

uhhh consume content until it has consumed me and then pump a couple thousand words at like 3 am bc hyper fixations get the brain pumping

more than one word but any phrasing of "there you are" makes me Insane

don't rlly have any superstitions

that i'm actually terrible at writing and everyone is lying to me

mmm writing exposition that i can feel in my soul

dialogue. i love writing exposition but action can be too Much for me to write. probably a conversation between two ppl w some deeper theme idk

half of me does, half of me doesn't

YES. other ppl's writing haunts me bc something apt it has made me insane. my own writing haunts me bc of how badly it was written.

no i love angst i love it i do but i am too sentimental to kill my darlings

ability to write complete stories (instead of countless unfinished one shots), ability to write action (ie kisses, fights), and uhhh CREATIVITY!

uhh anything to do w conflict and resolution ... i get kinda stumped on how to resolve some issue within a relationship (maybe cause i can't solve my own laugh out loud). easy to write ....... trauma, unconfined love, self doubt. i love writing exposition of internal issues and feelings <3

not when i was younger, but i do now bc i love sharing my love for certain books and the feeling of knowing a book i have has been so well loved amongst many people. i do get nervous abt borrowing books from others tho

yes, yes, and yes. like i said in the previous answer, i love being able to tell that a book is well loved. with each dogeared page, scribbled note, water stain, and cracked spine, you can see the years of love and attention a book has received <3 like i said before, i'm sentimental T__T

not weird ig but a reciept

idk buddy im still working it out

zhongli sees red everywhere.

it’s not as if the world was colored red, a monochromatic scarlet. his eyes just seem to find their way to all things red. the color sneaks up on him and traps him in an everlasting trance.  it strikes a fire in his chest, with colors as brilliant and sharp as the red that surrounds his mind.  

he has not experienced so much red in thousands of years. the last time he was consumed by it, he gained and lost everything.  

yet, this compulsive notice of red is not the same as the dreadful war that graced him with the land he walks on now. no, it’s not the harsh red of blood. it’s the type of red that pulls you in completely, and leaves you craving and yearning for something you didn’t know you had.

never before had zhongli been so entranced by the fiery depths of red.

not until he met diluc.

a scarlet blaze of pyro. a phoenix devastating every wall zhongli could ever put up.

zhongli had found himself drunk on the fumes that diluc left behind, absolutely devoured by the flames he never doused.

diluc was a red that zhongli could not ignore. his red was incomparable to any other.

i love this passage deeply and it makes me sad that this is still stuck in my wips (I WILL FINISH IT ONE DAY) i wrote this like a year or two ago so i can't rlly explain the process except that i was absolutely devastated over the pure domesticity and passion of this pairing lol

19. started writing original stories on wattpad in elementary school (don't ask), got swallowed whole by the internet in middle school and started actually writing fan fiction in high school, took a creative writing class for dual enrollment, wrote an actual original short story and began writing poetry, and ig here we are... i mostly write fan fiction so nowhere to go w that but i'd like to publish a poetry book in the next 5 years

20. eternal happiness w my one true love ... a lot of my slash writing has some influence of what i crave in a relationship so yeah i'd choose the fulfillment of that over my writing reaching its peak

21. no. i adore writing and i wouldn't want to quit. i love being able to write. i rlly can't explain it but i just love it.

22. how could u ask me this.... no i am not organized jus gdocs scrambled with my schoolwork <33

23. my laptop propped up on my lap as i rot in bed at the late hours of the night....i cannot be poetic about my writing setup i am simply a gremlin

24. i used to just let the writing guide me but now i just make a messy outline of the overall plot and specific scenes and what i want them to cover. last time i wrote more than 5k words, i had a long ass paragraph for each scene i wanted to cover and what it would include lmao

25. mmmmmm i honestly can't say ... id have to reread my shit and i can't handle that

26. most of the characters i like i see myself in so it makes it easier. also, i am a stickler for characterization and it makes me go Insane if a character says something they never would

27. steve. he's so annoying (/heartfelt) and oblivious. i have to make him miss 90% of the signs right in front of his face smh

28. legolas <333 writing lotr ff is so magical bc i get to focus on exposition more. writing w his mind was so lovely to do

29. other people's writing or poetry. i get inso from the way people describe things ig ....if my inspiration runs dry, i just rot until something hits me lmao

30. no, my dreams r too chaotic and i rarely remember them when i wake up

31. im not good at this Wait .... thank you for reading my writing and showing so much love to it. you make me believe that i can actually connect to people w my writing like others writing has done for me. i love u <3

32. 'visible world' by richard siken or this one quote from a zhongluc ff that went something along the lines of "to have the capability to love something once tarnished is strength" i actually used this line in my college essay lmao but they both deal w overcoming adversity. 'visible world' helps me a lot when im in Bad places

33. mm video editing ig? it helps me connect to some of the characterization that revolves in my head

34. USE IT!!! IT DRIVES ME INSANE WHEN U GUYS DONT USE IT PLEASE

35. run on sentences LET ME SAY WHAT I NEED TO SAY IN ONE SENTENCE!!!! THE PACING IS OFF IF I BREAK THEM APART

36. Pain.

37. "wow! this mf was mentally ill and gay asf!!!!!"

38. i will reread my writing obsessively while writing it but cannot physically reread it once its published

39. idk once i hit writers block, i stop until its gone bc .... Writers Block

40. here's something i wrote recently (its unedited sorry)

blood and bones and ash / you live in my ribs / pressed right against my beating heart / tell tale and told / you're a comfort to my very soul / eyes peering into me / gold and amber and everything more / pinch my veins / let me feel your pain / as long as it's you / (i hope it's you) / spill into my guts / fill every crevice and / bloom like flowers / let their leaves sprout through my skin / rip out to feel the sun's warmth / i will be your soil, dig your roots deep / as long as it's you

Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

[scribbledeck]

[WIP] June n Jade post-canon semi-contentious semi-miserable all-love and eventually-fun-and-cathartic road trip

Slightly edited noodling of June+Jade roadtrip AU from my twitter:

June feels like she owes Jade one after inadvertently causing Jade to be alone on the 3-yr trip and Jade wants June to get Out of the house (and on some level make up for the lost 3yr spacetrip) and they are both kind of resentful of each other for it

On one level Jade just wants to have Fun and spend time with June in addition to dragging June by the ears out of her depression but how it ends up is Jade just gets more and more frustrated and guilty and disappointed even tho June is trying her hardest (reflection of Jade’s frustration with Jadesprite who was too busy being sad to do anything for others)

June is Tired and Guilty and doing anything just makes her more tired and disconnected…Jade is as worried as she is pissed and majorly disappointed so shes alternating b/t coddling and passive aggressiveness and it sucks 

But they have friends helping talk thru it and urging them to talk to each other so they can meet in the middle and they eventually figure out a fraught but slightly more illuminating conversation 

They gradually talk abt why Jade is mad (i.e. disappointment in herself, anger and grief over being deprived of relationships and intimacy even when she thought she would have those during the game, disappointment and loneliness that she still doesn’t know exactly how to belong with other people without feeling like she’s on the outside)

and how June just can’t be positive and happy all the time (grieving her dad and what her childhood could’ve been if the game hadn’t happened. realizations about what was so stifling about being stuck at home with her dad who was without bad intention reinforcing that she’d someday become a Man he’d be proud of. feeling guilty she didn’t appreciate him enough while she had him and guilty she’s become someone he would be disappointed in. oh boy when she starts growing facial hair and forgets to shave bc depression makes it hard its like layers and layers of discomfort and misplaced guilt.

keeps second-guessing her place in the reality she helped make and is terrified she’ll have to be in a position to retcon again someday and somehow fuck it up bc she’s not smart enough)

and they both get to discuss their grief and trauma and say FUCK the game!!! And maybe get matching one side shave haircuts to commemorate working to let things go haha 

Ok so i thought of June getting the cathartic genders half shave already but wow Jade with that but the other side is a *concept*

anyway there’s so much good dave and rose sibling content but not enough in depth june and jade stuff and i think that’s just such a shame

[wangxianficrecs]

Hi! I’m looking for a canon-divergence fic where at the bloodbath of nightless city, instead of killing like 3000 cultivators, he lets All The Ghosts from the Stygian Tiger Seal go and then (as everyone is distracted with their dead loved ones berating them) runs away with a-yuan to the countryside and gets him a house and raises his son as a non-cultivator and eventually nhs finds him and and tries guilt trip him with jl getting hurt but he says No Fuck You and in the end lwj comes and Stays

Aaaah, that sounds intriguing, and I’d love to read it, but I’ve never come across it.  

FOUND! by @whereisyourcahier who suggests Retribution by snowberryrose

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Anonymous 2 said:

So I’m looking for this specific fic that happens around the Sunshot Campaign a/ LWJ helping WWX stay calm w/ his demonic cultivation when WWX gets angry by making out to distract him. I though I bookmarked it on AO3 so I gotta pretty sad when I couldn’t find it in my bookmarks. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

FOUND!  by @lanwuxianz who thinks it’s Overcome by thunderwear

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Anonymous 3 said:

I read this story a long time ago abt wwx dead (?) But his body is trapped in a glass that nothing can break in koi tower, and the sound of his laughter haunts the place and only baby jin ling can see him. I think the latest chapter was abt an explosion and how wwx's ghost appeared and saved jzx from the explosion? There's a similar fic called glass coffin but it's not that one:( do you perhaps know this fic?

FOUND!  Three cheers for @bafflingshade who says, “Okay that took me an hour.... I'm pretty sure that anon number 3 is laughing shadow a WIP by ich_bin_ein_stern

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Anonymous 4 said:

Hi! I’ve been trying to find an a/b/o fic that starts out with madam yu finding out wwx is an omega and wwx goes into heat in the cave at the burial mounds. Can’t remember much else. Sorry. Could you help me find it?

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Anonymous 5 said:

Hi! I am trying to find a fic, it was set in Gusu with LWJ still in seclusion or just out of it, walking through Cloud Recess with A-Yuan and coming across LXC, JGY, JC and NMJ, I think. And then he proceeded to cuss them out. He said to JGY that he is Meng Yao, to JC that he rebuilt his sect only thanks to WWX's help, and then he finished off with, I am always LWJ. Please, help me find it.

FOUND!  by @mondengel who should know, since it’s their work:  Ready for Blood on the Ground by mondengel  (I just read this, since it’s about 1k, and it’s so funny and satisfying to hear lwj just... tell these assholes what he REALLY thinks.)

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Anonymous 6 said:

Hi, could you please help me find a fic? I think it was with the juniors on a night hunt and they got cursed and became women? But I'm not sure if this was the real plot because I remember I wanted to read it but then I lost the fic. Your help is much appreciated! Thank you!!

FOUND?  I had a thought about #6 last night, which is that Nonny could be thinking of this one, wherein half the story is focused on the three juniors and how they all respond to Lan Sizhui being (beautifully) dressed as a bride and used as a lure.  (No genderswap, tho.)  Heavy as the setting sun by snoozingkitten.   [my post here]

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@alovelyocean (7) said:

Hi! I've been looking for this one fic and I'm wondering if you're familiar with it. It's not the forcibly divorced fic and it's a post canon fic in which Wangxian both stop playing the song, and someone, is like "You don't play that song anymore. I guess you no longer have feelings for me?" WWX also sleeps in Gusu's guest quarters instead of in the Jingshi now too?

FOUND!  Thanks to @cqlfic we now know it’s Music by syriala.

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The only one left is Anon 4.  Y’all are doing so well, Sweet Followers, I’m so impressed!!!

[ponykidcurtis]

1, 3, 7, 16, 22

1. give short descriptions of all your current WIPs.

you really just like to make things hard for me don’t you?? i hate summaries

anyway i’ve got a) a fluffy fic where Chris sends Buck a “just keep swimming” gif whenever he finds out he’s feeling down (with eddie’s phone lol), b) the hunters au, which begins with eddie stuck in a time loop, c) a christmas fic where buck spends christmas with maddie and the diaz boys, d) a bingo fic that i spent too much time researching smoke inhalation for ;) and e) literally way too many others that aren’t even 911 so i won’t explain them, plus a few og stories as well

3. what makes you love writing?

everything?? it’s been my thing since i was 9 or smthn idk. i’ve always loved it. it’s just fun and i love the feeling when i really get going of like, actually accomplishing smthn!! it feels good!! i’m creating and i’m loving it!! being good at it is just a bonus lmao 

7. what books have shaped the way you think about writing the most? why?

ooh boy that’s a big question bc there’s SO many. a big one for sure is trc tho, bc imo my writing style is similar (not the same, but similar) to maggie stiefvater’s, and the things i choose to write abt (at least in my original work) are also similar :) they’re also just some of my fav books so they’ve influenced me a lot ngl...

also i hate to say it bc it’s kinda rude but uh. king of scars for sure. not bc it’s good but bc it was so phenomenally bad that it made me think “if this can get published, literally anything i shit out can get published” so that was a confidence boost

16. to what extent do you research for your writing?

depends on how much i care abt accuracy!! for short fic, i tend to research a little and then gloss over the bits i don’t know much abt, bc it’s for fun and it’s free and i don’t care much abt accuracy when i’m just posting my incoherent 3am ramblings lmao

for my longer fics or the ones i’m more invested in/attached to, i research more than usual but that’s honestly just bc i get lost down a wikipedia hole and end up barely using any of it anyway bc i simply Do Not Vibe With It (that being said, my next fic did get researched bc i had very specific evil ideas)

my original writing is like. mostly fantasy. so i just make shit up and go

22. how much of your own self/experiences do you believe pours into your projects? if this differs per project, which projects have the most and least of you?

lmao so much. i write fics like “you’re bi and you’re bi and you’re bi and you—” bc i’m bi and i feel like it!!!!! and sometimes they get some of my unnecessarily dramatic sad thoughts :) as a treat :) but only the stuff that fits w the character tbh i don’t go over the top w it 

my og stuff tho?? that’s just Me But Sexier baby

writer asks

[spirit-shroud]

Fanfix ask: I N K Q V Z

hewwo! ♥ from this ask

I: How many fandoms have you written in?  Do you have a favorite? technically, i’ve written fanfic for d gay man, h*mestuck, toontown, w*zard101, world of wardumb, undered tale, deltaed runes, hyperlifter, bard game, moonlighter, oneshot, dust: AET, Portal, no.6, and more recently, pokemon. i only have ut/os/swsh up on my ao3 tho because most other stuff is Very Old or just generally incomplete/not the general vibe of the fandom lol

undert*le was fun to write for just because of how rapidly my hits/kudos/comments went up but tbh i really only wrote for it because of the attention my fics got even tho they werent like.... remotely good. half of that is  looking back on my past work and cringing just bc it’s my past work but like. idk. im really hoping that writing swsh stuff will be a similar high but it’s something i feel a lot better taking my time and putting actual effort into my writing for 

N: Any fic ideas brewing that you’d care to share? oh always, heres some upcoming chapters of legendsfor the ones im actively working on/have been adding to lately: Tangled in Glimwood - the usual two end up dangerously lost in the glimwood tangle and have to set up camp for the night, armed with like, half a steel move and a trusty cast iron frying pan between them to make sure they’re safe from all the rude ass fairies. includes fun friendly banter such as ‘hop i swear to god you CANNOT eat the glowing mushrooms they are DEFINITELY SUPER POISONOUS’ and ‘this is why nobody in your family has any taste buds left’ and ‘do you think phantumps remember being alive? do they have any of their memories? if we both became phantumps, do you think we’d recognize each other and keep being friends? is that weird to think about?”  Hopscotch - hop has always been there for reader, so when his spirit gets crushed by bede, you step in and offer emotional support and it’s mushy as all hell. this fic entirely is being written bc i’m pissed there’s no option to hug hop during the game. i cant summarize it either its just ‘hop feels bad so you do something about it like a good friend instead of a Silent Protagonist Bastard Fool’ 

Striped Pajamas - a semi-sequel-but-not-really? a sequel if you squint? to sea vents where marnie, hop, and reader hang out again and have a sleep over and like. play video games together and it’s NICE they have FUN and my girl SMILES FOR REAL BC ITS WHAT SHE DESERVES 

Homecoming - reader + leon have been together for awhile and he’s bringing them home to meet his mom+little bro. it’s mostly uneventful and even awkward, as i’d imagine that kind of thing would be, so reader spends most of their time hanging out w this neglected nine year old child who really wants to show them his craftmine builds and amaze his future sibling-in-law with his intensive knowledge of Weird Science Facts

Pink and Blue - y’kno who’s nice? piers. optimal bro material. a lot of exhausted gay energy in this dude. this one is like. post-championship cup reader + hop just adopt this poor washed up man since they’re sad kids seeking guidance and he’s a sadder adult with too much time on his hands now that he isn’t a gym leader. sort of like, a ‘mentor who’s life is falling apart needs a new son’ sort of trope bc that’s pretty optimal. 

this got kinda lengthy but i do have more bc i have WIP Disease ™

K:  Do you have a guilty pleasures in fic (reading or writing)? idk how to actually define ‘guilty pleasure’ tbh. like. i like what i like and that’s all there is to it. x reader fanfic is a circus and i’m the ringmaster, bitch

Q: Do you like getting prompts from your readers? yes!! always!! i need to update my writing request page on my blog n maybe people will like. send me some dkfjhsgkjdhfg

V: Are there certain comments you’ve received on your stories that have stuck with you? its not a specific comment but ive been thinkin like. daily abt that guy who lovingly commented on 15/17 of my und*rtale fic collection despite it being very clearly abandoned for years. like. i still need to come up w a new chapter to thank em but i just dont have any un*ertale juice in my system rn 

Z: Is there a story you’ve written that doesn’t seem to get much love? not really tbh, like, i think out of the 5 fics i have on ao3 rn (fragmented, speechless, bad dialogue, my burden is light, day to day legends) they all have the expected amount of hits/kudos per their audiences. id really like some comments on ch1 of d2dl before i got ch2 posted but it doesn’t really bother me too much that there isnt any yet. its 1 chapter and it’s been only a week lol 

i also wish mbil had more comments but also the one hot fandom isn’t very large, the x reader one hot community is even smaller, and i havent updated that in like. a year dkfgjdhfg

[evanescentdawn]

(July 2nd)

today’s writing:

—wips: ss//genin ⭐️, ss//genin 2, touken//massages, touken//cancelled

—I tried to….immediately start on the genin wip, right after posting spring love, since I didn’t need to sleep right the instant. but like…. I kept getting distracted. and wondering if I should just work on other wips, and ended up going to sleep without Actually doing anything. or I think, I at least did a little bit? anyways, the trouble begins AFTER this. I procrastinated so much after I woke up which was what I was worried abt lmao. but managed to focus on it..and ahaha… IT WAS SO HARD !!! TO WRITE !!! for. I literally couldn’t. I don’t know how to get into geninsauce’s mind. he’s so freaking hard, specially in regards to sakura too, weeps. —urgh, genin!sasuke is soooo hard to write. especially in the early years, in regards to sakura. it’s why I wanted to write this in the first place. and weeps, there isn’t really…fics during this time to help me. so double sad. I really wanted to write&finish this, but okay. let’s just do another wip… more later on… sasuke’s pov because I Need it. I actually like writing his pov more, despite, haha, how easy it is to write sakura’s…. but. it’s really hard to THINK of idea for geninera urgh. lmao that wip didn’t work out. nvm. I have no clue on what direction to go with this, also btw. and then, god. it was such SO hard to write. I don’t even know but I think I forgot how to write fjkfkff it felt sooo stifff. I kept screaming along the way. I didn’t even THINK I’d finish this, but I really wanted to and whenever I thought of abandoning today I HATED YHAT so I persevered and somehow, somehow I fcking managed. it felt really nice when I Got into it and really managed to make some progress. I’m fcking amazing. but then….?! I don’t know WHAT IT IS but it wanted to continue??? and I briefly entertained that idea — linking this and the other genin era idea I had — but I quickly abandoned that, THANKFULLY. because I liked the idea genin era idea the way it was, but this did give some idea on how to go abt it so that was cool since I was stuck <3 and y’know this god took so much effort & struggle to write I was HELL NAH gonna continue it despite the temptation. but god… it was so difficult thinking of way to continue-end it. so much going back forth BUT EVENTUALLY REACHED AN ENDING AND SO HAPPY !!! I MADE IT !!! it’s really incredible because I didn’t think I’d make it….! I’m so so awesome <3 like??? there was even a random trouble with tenses in the end that I Don’t get, my brain suddenly wanting to witch to past tense??? and having to get past that block. but I MADE IT 🙌🙌 and so damn proud. deserve many stars for this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

—back on that short wip I tried to do as substitute for that first genin one…. I was gonna do smth with him saving sk or smth but the whole “body moving on own” not Them, y’know. it’s classic naruto&sasuke <3 and idk this fic just Wasn’t writing, so I moved back to the genin

—also lmao, sakura’s pov apparently really wanted to make an appearance and I Felt in my heart and so I couldn’t not do it. I don’t mind it. I LOVE IT, even. I feel like it’s gonna go soooo much smoothly. I at least started on it !! because I know if I don’t know, I’ll just Won’t ever becsude I lost the motivation/forgot what I was gonna go with it and then it’ll be years before I finish it, lmao. I didn’t really want to work on this tho, right that instant tho. also like. the wip is so Terrible. needs MUCH needed editing, lmao. but geninsk holds ALL MY HEART. god I don’t know what it is, but fckinb love her so much. she’s probs my fave sk.

—had time left of day and haku made me want to write touken so decided to work on touken stuff…! I was gonna try and write for this LOVELY idea she had, but lmao, it just wasn’t working. sadly 😔

—so I decided to work on that insane cancelled wip. I still can’t believe it exists. I wrote a bit!!! the time was going, lmao, since I got v distracted (because of haku…) but I wrote stuff !! which is cool. since I know what the au is about, there’s some moving to be done. also need to actually Think abt this fic’s plot. Since I don’t know abt it except angst + crack….my heart wants the angst…. wait, I really want to make this non-au, too. which means a lot needs to be shifted like stuff that doesn’t make sense but THE HEART WANTS IT WANTS <3

[starsfadingbutilingeron]

small baby rant abt one of my wips below the cut

every day i cry tho b/c i was so excited to write landing space when i thought of the idea but i just ended up getting so overwhelmed by the characterization of the taz characters and getting the lore right that it made me lose confidence in the idea and it makes me sad because i was so so so excited to write it and i still have all these ideas for where i want to go with it and an outline and snippets of later scenes but i just lost confidence in the story and thus lost motivation and it’s been months since i updated and i know that doesn’t mean i’ll never finish it but still : ( it’s very disheartening 

[payspersonal]

Honey you know I’m always interesting in anything you do 👀💙💙💙 which is your favorite WIP so far? Where did you get inspiration for it? Which member is it for?

Ari I really love you, I don’t know what I did to deserve you :,). I’ll post the WIPS in a second tho lmao.

Fave WIP would probably be either be and untitled one or Chapter 1/my upcoming series “Useless”. Both are Yoongi fics (surprise i love him sm). I got the inspo for the untitled one on a trip w/ my mom and bff, which sounds weird bc it’s abt the reader losing her brother, but I was thinking about my older brother when we were younger and how I’ve kinda just lost him as we aren’t close to each other anymore. its rlly sad lmao. Useless, I really don’t know. I’ve never really had a s/o (all of my exs are shitty) rlly like idk care for me?? and they went to a diff person, so I kinda felt betrayed by them and like my feelings for them were useless, as the reader’s are in the fic when she is tried to move on from him after his big betrayal. 

Wow thats long, but also made me remember of one of my “ex-boyfriend” and how we got together, it was a really terrible reason why he “dated” me.