#swan queen ficlet

[sssammich]

Platonic breakfast ritual (prompt)

oh what's up anon thanks for sending me this prompt

you didn't give me a ship so i just picked my own to write for so hope it's cool i wrote it for swan queen. if not, just come back and i'll do something else haha

thanks!

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It’s temporary, this thing. This current arrangement that they have while Emma finds a new place to live away from the loft—cramped and cacophonous; too full a house with a new baby. She doesn’t think too deeply about how she feels about it, pretends her heart doesn’t throb and ache at being displaced and replaced once again. It's a noxious thought to keep, so she does her best to clear it out of her.

So, yes. The arrangement to stay at the mansion until she sorts out her affairs. Yet Emma is not exactly rushing to end it. Not when the choreography of her waking hours brings about a certain comfort that she does not want to relinquish, happening in a place that devastatingly feels more like home than she has ever felt in all the decades of her life. In a place that isn’t hers to claim, but for now she’ll pretend because the walls are present and the sheets are soft. 

It is inconveniently pleasant to wake up rested at Regina’s house in one of her massive guest bedrooms. It is even more so when she languidly makes her way down the stairs and towards the kitchen where she first gets a whiff of food being made, and the lingering scent of coffee in the air. The rest of her senses catches up to her when she hears whatever Regina is cooking just as she inevitably sees Henry already sitting in front of his breakfast plate, fork in one hand and comic book in the other as if it’s the morning newspaper. 

“Good morning, Ma,” he offers, his eyes never once straying from the page. She shakes her head, but greets him in turn. 

“Morning.” Then, she casts her eyes up at Regina and offers her a smile. “Good morning, Regina.” 

“Good morning, dear.” Regina accompanies her gentle morning greeting with an offered plate brimming with food right in front of the seat that Emma has deemed as hers during her stay. Despite Regina’s frequent comments about Emma’s abhorrent appetite and etiquette, she’s there enabling Emma with a full plate. Emma notices, of course, but doesn’t say anything for fear that Regina will change and give her one less hash brown in the stack. 

Still, even as her mind slowly eases into the morning, she doesn’t immediately take her seat at the table. Instead, she heads towards the coffee bar—which is literally just the far end of the kitchen counters where there’s one of those fancy single-serve coffee machines. She sets to brewing herself a cup since that’s the only machine she’s allowed to touch; the Italian espresso machine beside it is off limits. For the best, Emma thinks. 

Once her coffee is done, Emma lets the mug sit to the side and plucks another mug out of the cupboard, repeating the steps, waiting quietly while the machine cranks and whirrs and gurgles before the dark sea of coffee fills the new mug. It is the first full cup that Regina has in the morning, the first dose of caffeine coming from the espresso machine that Regina handles herself upon rising. Emma only skirts the edges of her thoughts at what it means to have Regina trust her to make her first cup of coffee for the day. Yet on that first morning she'd received the request, Regina only arched a brow and exasperated teasingly, "surely, you can't completely flub up making coffee."

Emma doesn’t move in place, uncharacteristically settled on her feet, her arms folded across her chest as she waits. Not wanting to break the tranquil silence, she doesn’t say anything, and neither do the others in the kitchen. It’s a quiet morning, but comfortable and companionable. Normally when things are too quiet, she gets restless as if she must fill the space herself or excuse herself entirely. But the last week at Regina’s place has given her more peace than she’d gotten in months, and she hates that by the end of this upcoming week, it’ll be gone again. Still, she doesn’t think too hard on this. 

For now, she grasps both the filled mugs and places them on their respective placemats as she’s done almost everyday this week. She sits in her chair and she waits until Regina does the same. She offers the other woman a shy grin, perhaps more tender than she’d intended (she’ll simply blame the morning hours for it if pushed) and Regina returns it, the gentle smile across Regina’s face splitting her face so beautifully.

The three of them sit like a family that Emma has always wished for and eat breakfast together.

[wily-one24]

For Regina and Emma, something angsty over shared custody of Henry

Hey Nonny, you threw me with this one.

I'm not ignoring you, even though it's been a few days. I have some stuff happening at work, but... I guess we'll hear back on Monday, wehether good or bad on that one. And then I began writing and left it in drafts, bc I went to a music festival... and now it's Sunday... but here we go.

On to the fic (let)!

Ficlet: I Believe in Fairies (not sure about you, though).

An owl hoots.

Emma stops and frowns and looks up into the inky night sky.

Was it an owl? Do they have owls? It sounded like an owl. But maybe it's just an animal that sounds like an owl. She's not sure. She's honestly not sure of anything anymore. She's eaten griphon, ferrcrissakes, there could be all kinds of creatures here in this land.

Fingers snap in front of her face.

"Would you focus, please?"

Emma huffs.

"I'm focused."

But all Regina does is glare.

"If you were focused, we'd have a map already and I'd have Henry."

She feels her shoulders bristle.

"We." She points out. "We would have Henry."

"Nobody's going to have Henry if you don't muster up even a smidgeon of your ill-begotten power."

"Ill-begotten?" Emma stands. "There's nothing ill-begotten about it! My power comes from True Love, where'd yours come from?"

Regina crosses her arms.

"Hard work and effort. Like my parenting skills. "

Oh, dem's fighting words.

"Exactly what are you trying to say?"

"Hey!" Snow comes to stand between them, hands up as if to hold both of them apart on the off chance they launch at each other and begin tearing hair out. "This isn't helping!"

To be fair, it's probably a greater than off chace at this point.

Tensions are high in Neverland.

Emma gestures, a half hearted reach around Snow to point at Regina.

"But she said...!"

One look from Snow shuts her the hell up.

"You never change, do you?" But Regina is not cowed at all. "You come to town and just expect to be Henry's mother, you discover you have magic and you just expect to weild it without doing any of the work!"

"Regina..." Snow begins.

"No." Emma pouts. "Let her speak. Apparently, she knows everything."

Regina smirks.

"Not everything." She shrugs. "But I do know emotion drives magic."

She nods to the now smoking map.

Oh, she's going to be hell to deal with now.

[shikoslady]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan, Baelfire | Neal Cassidy/Emma Swan Characters: Emma Swan, Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Baelfire | Neal Cassidy, Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time) Additional Tags: Queen/Swan/Fire, Polyamory, Co-Parenting, The Evil Queen in love, SwanFire and Swan Queen together Summary:

To co-parent Henry successfully a unique arrangement is made.

[esther-dot]

Cinderella

Cinder-Jaehaerys 5k by @wendynerdwrites

A gender-flipped Cinderella Story

Lavender's Blue 4k

Once Upon A Time, in a faraway kingdom, Sansa Stark was humming a song while she swept the floors of Winterfell. Her face was covered in dirt and ashes. Her hands were dry and wrinkled from washing clothes and doing the dishes. But her hope and kindness had not been damaged by all those years of being ordered around by Ramsay Bolton and his girlfriend of the week.

The Weirdwood, the Wolf, and the Glass Slipper 5k

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a girl who loved her father very much….A Cinderella version of Jon/Sansa, mixing elements from the Cinderella stories as told by the Brothers Grimm and the film Ever After.

Together All the While incomplete 28k

Sansa Stark wanted to keep her household together. She borrowed a dress. Prince Jon wanted to escape his fate. He stole a horse.

Cinderella gifset by @yenstarkofrivia

Allerleirauh

Past Our Satellites 140k

Inspired and loosely based on the tale Thousandfurs (from Allerleirauh: All-Kinds-of-Fur) and Cinderella by the Brothers Grimm Rough summary of the tale for those who are unfamiliar with it: "A king promised his dying wife that he would not marry unless it was to a woman who was as beautiful as she was, and when he looked for a new wife, he realized that the only woman that could match her beauty was his own daughter." (from Wiki)

Princess Furball 9k

When Sansa's father announces his intent to marry her, she attempts to trick him out of it, demanding impossible gifts. When her father inexplicably succeeds in fulfilling her requests, Sansa fakes her death and flees her father's kingdom in a coat of many pelts. Sheltered by her trusty direwolf, Lady, Sansa is found by the prince of a foreign realm, who christens her "Furball". The former princess hides out working in the king's kitchens as a curiously humanoid animal as war looms. But things change when two kings and a prince die…

Swan Princess

The Little Bird Princess 18k @captainbee89

When Rhaegar defeated Robert Baratheon on the Trident, he only spared Ned out of love for Lyanna. And on the condition that Stark's eldest daughter would one day wed his son and quell the fighting between the North and the Crownlands for good.

This isn't my idea (this is my idea) of fun 10k orphaned

Their eventual marriage is meant to strengthen the Northern/Southern alliance, but Jon Targaryen and Sansa Stark can hardly stop bickering long enough to make peace with each other, let alone their kingdoms. But it only takes a few meddling parents, suggestive friends, and a jealous sorcerer's magic spell to show this couple that what they've been dreaming of has been there all along.

Moodboard and ficlet by @otp-that-was-promised

Every summer since they were children, Princess Sansa and Prince Jon are brought together in hope that they will fall in love and marry, uniting their two kingdoms. When they meet for the first time, the royal children take an immediate dislike towards each other, but as the years pass they gradually fall in love.

Snow White

Younger More Beautiful Queen 1k by @captainbee89

If the rumours were true, Jon Snow would be Sansa's cousin, a suitable match in both name and blood. Together, they could bring the whole of the seven kingdoms together peacefully. With Jon, Sansa would be Queen. As Queen, Sansa could order the death of Joffrey as revenge for Ned Stark's death. And what of her other children? Tommen and Myrcella would be taken from her, labeled as bastards and stripped of all their prospects. How dare this silly little girl be the more beautiful Queen she had feared? She would not have it.

The Dragonknight 7k

The day that Sansa got her moonblood, Queen Cersei's magic mirror named her the most beautiful woman in the world. There was only one thing to be done with the imprisoned Queen of the North... the child had to die. Cersei hadn't counted on her twin's soft heart or the wolf in the woods.

Little Red Riding Hood

Throw me to the Wolves 2k

Winter had been hard on Old Nan and everyone in the village worried about her, so it was decided that Sansa should make the trip to her cottage on the other side of the woods to bring her some bread and ale. On her way there, she meets a stranger…

In the Company of Wolves 10k incomplete

Fair of face and kissed by fire, Sansa Stark is a force to be reckoned with—with a feisty spirit to match the flare of her flaming hair. Still, there’s no shortage of suitors vying for the hand of the eldest daughter of Ned and Catelyn Stark—but despite all their clever plans, Sansa vows she will only marry for love. A chance encounter with a mysterious stranger in the woods, sets her on a path of passion and dangerous intrigue. Is Jon her salvation or her damnation? Perhaps he is both.

Red Riding Hood Gifset by @dcbicki

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Tin, Paper, Snow 17k incomplete

“Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.” The flames danced as high as a dream in a million, billion colours- scarlet, orange, purple, even blue, casting rich shimmering shadows on their faces and their hands and their hair. He steadied himself, stood upright, held onto her for dear life. "Would that we were made of glass," he thought. "Tin doesn't do well here. Nor paper." Higher and higher, the flames rose, crackling, singing. Tin, Paper, Snow, they whispered. It's time to let her go.

12 Dancing Princesses

Drifting through the halls with sunrise 3k

They were selfish girls, it was their choice that sentenced these men to death, month after month. The cycle would continue, soon the girls behind her would forget about the man on the stone steps, they would don their masks and new shoes and dance until the sun rose over the Narrow Sea.

The Little Mermaid

only a salt kiss remains ficlet by @flibbertigiblet

He was drowning, and then he was not. (He hears her before he sees her, his angel.)

wish i could be 10k by @theshipshipper

"Oh dear, you look cold," Queen Cersei said softly, floating next to her. "Come, come. Let's get you inside." The Queen led her into the dark cave, offering her a seat. "Now, then. I'm told you're here because you desire to be with your Prince?" She flicked her hand and an image of Prince Jon erupted from thin air. "Hmm. I see now... Quite a handsome fellow." Sansa couldn't help but smile at the sight of him. She'd wondered how he was faring after the shipwreck and ached to check for herself. She was relieved that he seemed alright. "My sweet summer child, you have it bad," Queen Cersei informed her, a smile in her voice. She blinked. "I -- what?" "You're in love," she clarified with a laugh before swimming towards a tall shelf in the corner. "I know exactly what you need."

Mermaids Have No Tears ficlet

Little Mermaid AU, specifically the Hans Christian Andersen version.

Gifsets: Part of Your World by @tatesharon The Little Mermaid by @swainlake The Little Mermaid by @dcbicki The Little Mermaid by @sardoniyx

General

Jonsa fairytale ficlet and gifset by @thewindsofwolves

Even though Sansa is now fourteen, she still feels a special enthousiasm for magic. And as Jon likes nothing more than pleasing Sansa, he shares the same enthousiasm. Then, as they are both bored during the great annual Christmas party hosted by Sansa’s dad, she asks her cousin to make one of his trick so the night can be less boring. Taking her outside, he brings her to the well, and asks her one of the ribbons she wears in her hairs. He asks her then to close her eyes and make a wish, before dropping the ribbon into the well. I wish we could go into an adventure.

The Snow Queen and the Huntsman Gifset by @dcbicki

Jonsa x Disney gifset by @amandapeetshusband

PRE CANON - WESTERN - FAIRYTALE - REGENCY - LITTLE WOMEN - HOLIDAY - SEASON SIX - ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - THE GIRL IN GREY -- next week -> POLITICAL MARRIAGE/MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE

[nekoannie-chan]

Week 17 Reblog Masterlist

Welcome to Week 17 2024 or Week 225, as always, fics would be listed in the order I read them.

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This is the list of the fics I read and recommend in Week 17 2024:

Dating Steve Rogers/Captain America Would Include… (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @just-a-hardcore-simp-who-writes 💚

Corruption inside of SHIELD (Steve Rogers X Reader)(Steve Rogers X Reader) by @buckys-wintersoldier 💚💙

Need A Hand? - 1 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @amathslutsguidetofandom 💚

On the Edge chapter 3 (Brock Rumlow X Reader)( by @tikus-library 💚

Did I step on your moment? (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @buckys-wintersoldier 💚

Not A Love Song (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @caplanbuckybarnes 💙

We can’t be friends (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @dameronology 💙

CA: TWS Anniversary Ficlets (Day 2) (Steve Rogers) by @voylitscope 💙

Hello (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @cockslutpadalecki 💚

March 27 (Steve Rogers) by @between-a-ship-and-a-hard-place 💙

Love you too, Sugar (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @bugsmunched 💚

Hawkeye part 3 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @swan-of-sunrise 💚

Fic (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @buckymorelikefuckme 💚

Stupid Bet (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @multiversefanfics 💚

𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒎𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒂 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @darkserenity24 ❤️🖤

Hummingbird - Part 7 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @thezombieprostitute ❤️

The Gemini part 8 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @rogersideup 💚

Before The First Light (Steve Rogers) by @able-knit-sweater 💙

Only Mine part 1 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @huffelpuff210 ❤️🖤

F.R.I.E.N.D.S (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @cockslutpadalecki ❤️🖤

The Hope of a Free World: The Prologue (Wanda Maximoff X Reader) by @messedupfan 💙

You’re stuck with me part 1 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @your-eternal-lies 💚

The bolter part 1 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @endless-ineffabilities 💙

There for you (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @ashdreams2023 💚

Fic (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @buckymorelikefuckme 💚

Only Mine part 2 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @huffelpuff210 ❤️🖤

The bolter part 2 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @endless-ineffabilities 💙

Wonderstruck chapter 15 (Wanda Maximoff X Reader) by @messedupfan 💚

Family Doesn’t Mean Blood (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @queen-of-the-avengers 💚

Hero's welcome (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @labella420 ❤️

Fic (Ransom Drysdale X Reader) by @sagechanoafter🖤💚

If You Loved Me You’d Share Her (Stucky X Reader) by @sophieshyacinthgarden ❤️

You’re stuck with me part 2 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @your-eternal-lies 💚

Only Mine part 3 (Steve Rogers X Reader) by @huffelpuff210 ❤️🖤

The bolter part 3 (Steve Rogers X Reader)( by @endless-ineffabilities 💙

[crime-wives]

your turn. tell me about your wips 👀

oh lord... where do we begin. let's start with me meddison/grey's anatomy wips.

so you were never a saint, and i loved in shades of wrong. this wip is currently in progress, two chapters on ao3 so far. basically my take on an angsty s2 meddison. they run into each other constantly at joe's bar and are very sad.

hollywood au. my meddison hollywood au in which meredith is unwillingly dragged into the spotlight after finding out her boyfriend is a. married, and b. famous. she gets a guest role on the same tv show as him and his wife. things spiral from there.

dead derek s4 au. basically what the title implies. a 'what if' scenario in which derek died in s4, and meredith and addison connect over shared grief.

tedstina fic. this wip is if after owen cheats on her, cristina shows up, drenched, at teddy's apartment all 'i didn't know where else to go.' there is lots of sad, gay, pining.

now... we move on to my swan queen wips. there are a lot, be prepared.

sad regina mills fic #1. a very angsty wip about regina's relationship with food, set during s1 of ouat. she's not dealing very well with henry hating her, and she turns to one of her coping mechanisms, which may or may not land her in the hospital.

sad regina mills fic #2. set after cora's death, little snippets of regina reflecting on her mother, and childhood. some hurt/comfort, also hurt/no comfort so.

say don't go song fic. regina reflecting on herself and emma in the middle of the night, with the dagger, after emma's sacrifice post s4 finale. (also regina really misses emma and doesn't know what to do with herself.

s6 regina is sad about emma getting married fic. has this been done before, yes. but i want to do it. anyway, buckle up, this one is very sad. our favorite lovable idiots fight, and make up, there are 'i miss you' texts, and lots of lesbian pining.

camelot hurt/comfort au. a little ficlet, (which could spiral into something bigger if i'm not careful,) in which emma seeks comfort from regina on a day when the voices are really loud. there's bed sharing and cuddles, and also hook is thrown into a tree.

the hanahaki au. um well... this is exactly as it sounds. set like 4b-ish. regina starts coughing up flowers one day, and it slowly gets worse until she's almost dead.

there's bed-sharing in this one. after a fight with her parents, emma shows up at regina's place. there are feelings, angst, and surprisingly maybe fluff.

the road-trip fic. uber driver x runaway bride. that's all i'll say.

neverland rewrite. except swanqueen, and mentions of torture. two hurt women heal together and find their son.

there are more... but i'll stop there.

here are some ideas i've had, but haven't written yet:

regina on henry's birthday during the missing year

my hc that regina taught herself how to draw/paint during the first 18 years, and the people she paints as vignettes.

supercorp: lena knows kara is supergirl au, but angsty

my meddison fic after meredith grey almost drowns

oh, my star wars fusion swan queen fic

anyway... i'll end this here before i get too carried away lol (this took forever to type.)

[marveltrumpshate]

June 2024 MTH fills

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GEN/PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS

BUCKY BARNES & KOBIK

Embroidery by Rebecca / @embroid-away - Needlepoint watercolor mixed media embroidery version of the Thunderbolts (2016) No. 7 variant cover featuring 616 Kobik hugging a geared-up Bucky from behind (MTH 2021)

BUCKY BARNES & STEVE ROGERS & TONY STARK & SAM WILSON

swtalmnd / @amysnotdeadyet - "Heating" (AU fic where Bucky, Sam, Steve, and Tony bake cookies) for saganarojanaolt and newtypeshadow (MTH 2022)

PETER PARKER & TONY STARK

E_Greer / @pawpawholler - Custom MCU Tony and Peter shirt for @spagbol99

LOKI & THOR

Laily / @lailyn - "Swan Song" (Loki & Thor The Snow Queen MCU AU fic where Loki is kidnapped by his birth parents and made to forget he was ever anything but a frost giant and their son, but Thor won't let him go) for @kerravonsen

SHIPS

BUCKY BARNES/STEVE ROGERS/TONY STARK

swtalmnd / @amysnotdeadyet - "Interface" (Bucky/Steve/Tony AU fic where Steve finally gets to kiss Tony) for @saganarojanaolt and newtypeshadow (MTH 2022) - "Heating" (Bucky/Steve/Tony AU fic where Bucky, Sam, Steve, and Tony bake cookies) for saganarojanaolt and newtypeshadow (MTH 2022)

PETER PARKER/WADE WILSON

@3twindragons - Spiderverse AU art of Peter B. Parker and Wade on a coffee date at a pet cafe for @kalika999

STEVE ROGERS/TONY STARK

@3twindragons - Art of vampire Tony looking at a bashful Steve from "A Date With Death," a Steve/Tony True Blood crossover fic for @ashes0909

@geekymoviemom - "High Value Target" (non-powered Steve/Tony Superfamily AU fic where they're tasked by SHIELD and the army to uncover a potential covert operation) for oper1895 and stillcentre

Nixie DeAngel / @nixies-creations - "The Baseball Date" (Steve/Tony baseball AU ficlet where SI owner Tony takes Mets player Steve to a baseball game for a date. Accompanying aesthetic here) for @gottalovev (MTH 2022) - "We Found Happiness In San Francisco" (MCU Steve/Tony ficlet where Tony realizes Steve's feelings after Steve takes him out on dates. Accompanying aesthetic here) for gottalovev (MTH 2022)

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My Fanfiction Masterpost

As mentioned in my profile's official pinned post, I write Hetalia fanfiction. I wouldn't say I have the makings of being a professional writer, but I did occasionally write devastatingly good short stories back in school. Having the characters already established makes writing fanfiction so much easier for me, I just have to plug them into situations.

My muse is 100% Canada, primarily with Madeline but Matthew works better in some universes. I ship Canada with multiple Hetalia nations, so in my work you'll find such ships as Ruscan, UkCan, GerCan, PruCan, SpaCan, CanMano, LietCan and CanLiech.

My stories can be found on both Archive Of Our Own and Fanfiction.Net, and my ficlets are also on Tumblr. My username was previously 'missycanucks', I only just figured out how to update my account names in August 2024.

My stories are locked on AO3, so you have to log into your account to see anything.

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A few of my stories have very high kill counts, so I've made a separate post that lists how many times each Hetalian has been killed off in my story. If you're wary of death in my stories, you can reference that before diving into anything. It does contain a few spoilers, so consider this your warning.

Story summaries and tags below the cut, along with links for the Tumblr ficlets.

ABSORBING THE DECK (2016)

Cardverse AU featuring CanadaxLiechtenstein and USUK. A lot of violence, most Royals get killed off. Heavily reliant on 2015 fandom tropes.

Poor and penniless on the streets, orphans Matthew and Alfred were born with imprints of future Marks on their skins. When they are discovered, the Spade Royals adopt them and prepare them for their future lives as Royals.

As their identities as future Royals could be used as dangerous leverage, the twins are kept away from the other Suits for as long as possible. Their first interactions prove quite safe, while the next proves disastrous.

The Clubs Royals also seem to be up to something suspicious, and there's an old prophecy Ace Antonio and Queen Kiku seem to know something important about.

What could this all mean for the fate of the twins and the Deck?

THE NEFARIOUS MATHILDA JONES (2017-2020)

Human AU with cops vs gangsters vs corporate elites. Multiple Canada ships, but listing them all would cause spoilers. Lots of heavier political and personal themes, so reader discretion is advised, but the story is quite the rollercoaster for those brave enough to read.

A large family corporation called Jones Conglomerates Incorporated controls the government, but the heiress is a criminal on the run. Gilbert Bielschmidt is a police officer who finds himself torn in a million directions by his promise to uphold the law, seeing that JCI makes the laws, handling the mobsters that break the laws, and attempting to hunt down the heiress and her friends before they destroy JCI.

THE ENGLISH QUIXOTE (2021)

Fairytale AU mixed with references to a regular nation AU. Intentionally plays on tropes of several classic fairy tales including Snow White, Snow Queen, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Frog Prince. Key ships are Lithuaniaxfem!Canada, GermanyxBelarus, SpainxUkraine and RussiaxLiechtenstein.

Arthur went to sleep in his modern London flat, only to wake up in a magical realm far away with alternate versions of the other nations. He quickly learns that he is in the Kingdom of Ixaidel, governed by King Gilbert and Prince Ludwig.

To the west, in the kingdom of Prathage, Prince Alfred and Duke Antonio are resolving a civil war, triggered by the “Ice Princess” who cast the land in an eternal winter five years ago. To the east, Princess Natalya of Stulikya is planning a coup, hoping to reclaim her family’s crown from her wicked sister-in-law.

As the realm’s unexpected Don Quixote caricature, Arthur finds that the misdeeds must be corrected, the spells must be broken, and the kingdoms must be set right before he can finally return to his own world.

ONLY ACES REMAIN (2022-2023)

Another Cardverse AU. Mystery and drama, only one death but it's a key traumatic event. Key ships are SpainxBelarus, CanadaxLiechtenstein and SwitzerlandxHungary, but two of these characters are aromantic.

The Aces have noticed that something is very wrong.

First of all, they realize that they are missing memories from earlier in their time as Royals, including how they came to rule each kingdom with their current colleagues. They then start dreaming of working with an alternate assortment of Royals during a war between Clubs and Spades, and seeing events that feel like genuine memories.

There are also two Joker fellows hopping around in the reflections of mirrors, as well as the soul of a mysterious sorcerer from centuries ago who is stalking them.

As they work through these missing memories and strange dreams, they will recollect the many bad decisions made in the past which led to the magical clusterfuck they are now suffering through, and open wounds they did not realize they were still suffering from.

DAMSEL CAUSING DISTRESS (2024)

Another fairytale AU featuring royalty and magic, deliberately referencing the stories of Rapunzel, Little Mermaid, Hansel & Gretel, and of course all the mythology of the fae kingdoms (though several fae rules are altered for convenience). Key ships are AmericaxBelarus, North ItalyxLiechtenstein, Germanyxfem!Canada and RussiaxHungary.

Prince Alfred doesn't want to marry just any woman in order to take the crown of Aegaimore, he wants to marry for love. His soothsaying Seelie fae cousin loks into the future, and determines that Alfred's true love is locked away in a tower, and she just needs to be rescued.

As he travels across the Eldarin Sea and the Kingdom of Solyra, Alfred’s path crosses with a mermaid who leaves the sea, a young maiden who is escaping her guardian, and a pair of siblings looking for their long-lost little sister.

Meanwhile, the Unseelie fae have their plans for the humans. The Unseelie Prince is planning to marry a human princess, while the Unseelie King plots to change the barriers between the human and fae realms.

At the centre of all of this is the fate of Alfred’s true love. For being a supposed ‘damsel in distress’, she sure is causing a lot of the distress.

DISCOVERED (Valentines 2018)

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An Englandxfem!Canada Valentines one-shot! Their secret love affair is exposed at a meeting by Spain, who rigs a bet to determine why Madeline has spent years rejecting everyone else's advances.

AMBER & RUE (Valentines 2020)

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A four-part Valentines special featuring Lithuaniaxfem!Canada. Through a series of gifts during the day at the Valentines Day meetings, Madeline learns she has a secret admirer who's ready to reveal himself. Mentioned side ships are GermanyxBelarus and SpainxUkraine.

MOVING ON (November 2024)

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Lithuania gets a surprise visitor at his home. Belarus has learned why he's been so much happier lately. Discussions of their relationship over time, mental health, and their current boyfriends (LietCan, SwissBela).

[rebelbyrdie]

2024 Ficlet Day

Time to empty out my drafts folder and inflict little random plot bunnies on everyone.

Ficlet 1

A Cross-Over Ficlet that No One Asked For:

Once Upon The Boys- The SwanQueen Gambit

I have no explanation, only an image. Superhero Emma and Supervillain Emma...a Vaught Enemies to Lovers production.

Heroes without something or someone to fight are just people in silly costumes.

So for Vaught to sell heroes, they had to create villains.

No one made villains like Mr. Gold. He was the original, after all. He had "died" in a pyrotechnic and blood soaked battle with The Seven years ago. Now he worked at Vaught's lesser known subsidiary. The Storybrooke Institute.

There was a saying in the Supe Community. God's go to Godolkien. Devils go to Storybrooke.

"We have to talk."

Cora Mills, AKA Heart Crusher, had dissapeared from the Supe scene years ago under "mysterious circumstances". Which in Storybrooke meant, she'd been promoted.

"This new angle." She held shook her sleek black tablet at him. "Is awful. I know they've been pushing for more accesible and bleeding heart stories but this is ridiculous."

Cora walked into his office like she owned it. She might one day. She was cut throat and liked, no loved, power. Her powers of mind control, telekinesis, and memory manipulation made her more deadly in the boardroom than she'd ever been in a fight. She poured herself a glass of his best brandy and sat on his plush couch.

"If Mary Margaret Nolan had two braincells left in her pretty head she'd be throwing a fit."

Lady White, a paragon of all things good, had been Cora's professional rival for their entire career. Personally, the two women were oil and water. Everyone, supe and normals alike, knee that the women despised eachother.

Which was exactly why their daughters were being pitted against each other.

"Regina has worked hard to establish herself. She has the skills, the looks and is holding down amazing numbers with the 18 to 45 male demographic. Why would she swear revenge on a GodU dropout with nothing but her parent's legacy to stand on. Swan has done nothing and is not on anyone's radar. Just because that idiot huband of hers-"

Cora never called David "Charmer" Nolan by name. She loathed then so much , she refused.

Cora jabbed her finger on her tablet. It flickered on to reveal a picture of Charmer, Lady White and their daughter The Swan in front of Vaught Tower.

"-wants their daughter to take a place on the 7's roster so they can finally retire."

Gold tuned Cora out for a moment. She was right. It was a weak story. The idea of two supe women fighting over the affection of one unimpressive human man was laughable. Still, it would keep eyes on screens and money rolling in.

Beside, Vaught needed all the good press it could get.

"-and instead of bringing her in to kill or capture them or whatever, they're going with a fight over some man?"

He scrolled through the pictures and the art mock up Vaught had sent over.

Swan's angel like wings, golden curls and white power orbs were stereotypically striking against Regina's dark motif and fire powers.

"They actually want to add evil to her name. The Evil Queen? We'll get our asses sued into ground. Disney will have a field day!"

Gold steepled his fingers and thought for a moment. He'd known about this for weeks. He had a counter offer, but wasn't sure if it was a safe bet. Since Cora was already incenced, maybe he could get her on his side.

Gold didn't want to be sidelined at Storybrooke forever. If he could get one of his Supes a redemption story and a spot on the 7 though? He'd be in a corner office at Vaught the next day.

"Well."

Cora's thirst for power and popularity, even by proxy. Was her weakness. He could, and often had, used it against her.

"There is another option I've been toying with. An interesting pitch if you will."

Cora lowered at him.

"Go on, Imp."

His old supe name. He hadn't answered to it in years. No one but her would call him that to his face.

"What if-"

[saxgoddess25]

Twenty questions for fic writers

Tagged by @kholran

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

44

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

229,803

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Once Upon A Time, Harry Potter, Torchwood. I've dabbled in a few other fandoms long in the past, but those works are not online right now.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Busted! (331)

Wakey Wakey (230)

Where Angels Fear To Tread (222)

The Darkest Hour Before Dawn (222)

Trading Places (192)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes, I do. I just don't always get the notification that they're there until sometimes weeks or months later, so sometimes I'm very late with my response.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

There are three that are angsty in different ways. Where Angels Fear to Tread is angsty in a major character death sort of way, but only if you read the epilogue. Claimed by the Wolf is bleak and hopeless angsty. The Hardest Part is just sad.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I'm not sure I could pick one. My Little Princess, maybe. Or perhaps one of the holiday ficlets I've written. They were fun.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not hate per se. Sometimes I get somewhat ignorant comments on my fics that deal with polyamory. Nothing too bad thus far. Though I guess I get the normal kind of "I HATE YOU!!" comments on the sad stories. Heh.

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

All the smut. All the time. LOL. I kid, but yeah, I write a lot of smut. And I'm kinky, so some of it is kinky. There's a fair amount of the regular kind too though. I used to write almost exclusively m/m slash, then when I started writing for OUAT, I started writing femme slash and a bit more het.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I haven't yet. I don't have anything against crossovers, but I've never had a plot bunny for one.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

If I have, nobody has told me about it.

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

Nothing that ended up published. Lots of roleplay though.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Snape/Harry or Snape/Lucius. Also a big fan of Swan Queen or Dragon Queen from OUAT. Xena/Gabby. Jadzia Dax/Kira.

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I have hopes to finish all of them. Whether ADHD-induced writer's block will let me though is another question! Gifted is probably the one least likely to be finished at this point because I've lost my notes, but if I find them again, I'll try to finish it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue. Hot Hot Smut.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Abuse of adverbs. Formerly, using a lot of epithets, but then I learned that was not necessary (and looked down upon), so I started cutting those out. Other than those two, just getting the dang thing finished.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I haven't written any that I can remember. Well, I sorta made up some bits of an alien language in my Torchwood fic, but that was just for a dash of flavor. I wouldn't have any major conversations in another language, mostly because I'd be afraid of getting them wrong.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I'm pretty sure it was Xena. It was just a tiny little ficlet and I'm not sure I even still have it. It's probably in a notebook packed away in a box somewhere.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

I think the favorite fic I've written is one that I've never published. I haven't even finished it and I don't know if I ever will. It is the story of Severus Snape and Regulus Black when they were at school and the relationship that developed between them. It's one of those stories that I started and then sort of became daunted by how long it was going to end up, so it is languishing in a file on my computer. Maybe one of these days I'll get back to writing it.

Tagging @ussjellyfish @abovethemists and anyone else who wants to do it!

[sssammich]

fanfic writer questions

Thanks for the tag, @foibles-fables

1- How many works do you have on AO3?

i'm at 122 right now (wahoo!)

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

794,634 (i am on a mission to 1 million in the next couple of years)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

well i've been around many a fandom block, but i'd say for current brainrot:

supergirl (mostly supercorp, but i have a smattering of rare pairs because women, amirite?)

swan queen

bumbleby (i also still have so many rosebird dreams i'll get there someday)

makayuro (with a smattering of rare pairs also because women, amirite?)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

well unsurprisingly, ever since plopping down on supercorp fandom, the numbers have been from there. but shoutout to my victorious fic from 2012 holding strong lol

evergreen, closest i get, not for nothing, you've got mail, and one way or another

5. Do you respond to comments?

yes yes absolutely!! sometimes i am late and sometimes i just leave it in there so i can have it stay unread but anyway i try to respond and i appreciate everyone who sends them to me. i have historically been a oneshot writer so it's been nice also to get comments on wips!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

oh shoot angstiest ending?? well i think i would say my supercorptober ficlet about memory loss of sorts might tick that (it ends kinda idk open but not bad, i will say)

but then there's also this one old soccer RPF i wrote that's more, idk, poetry than any real fic about one of them leaving lmao

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

the happiest ending? i mean all of them, i reckon. if they end up together or have a promise of together then they count lmao

8. Do you get hate on fics?

uhhh none that i've seen? i mean if it's in the comments, no? but if it's elsewhere, then also no? i have been fortunate in that way

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

OMG YES I AM FINALLY IN MY SMUT ERA

uh i reckon comedy smut for now (read DickFic here) but the day is young and my doc is empty so who's to say

but i have dreams for some sad smut because i'd like to develop the range LMAO

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

surprisingly, i do not. what i instead do is just little spin through five fandoms at any given time and just confuse myself that way

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

unfortunately yes. twice now. once was for my victorious fic that was used for a 5th harmony RPF lmaooo

and then on thanksgiving weekend, the first chapter of Crepe AU was posted by an anonymous for a The Wilds ship (but my friends rallied to get it taken down so i didn't have to send a takedown form to ao3 while i was traveling home)

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope but that would be totally rad

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

i love fic writing group work so yes! i have a series of sad angsty women that i have with my best friend in my revue starlight fandom, and then, of course, @sideguitars and i have 'humans in the storeroom' (that reminds me it's my turn to write the next part smh)

i also like jumping into writing sprints or writing exercises with folks (like a round robin)

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

let's not do this, i shan't pick amongst my children

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

so far all my wips are things i wanna finish and will do my best to finish. i have a couple of retired wips that will just sit in my ao3 forever and i have made peace with them, though.

16. What are your writing strengths?

i wanna say characterization, pacing, emotional resonance, and a simple and natural writing style maybe

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

action?? plot??? proper AUs lmao

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

i do not because i find i butcher it and also then i cringe lmao

19. First fandom you wrote for?

oh written for but never posted? hermione/ginny

posted for? god probably All My Children (bianca and maggie) when i was like a teenager hahahahaha

20. Favorite fic you've written?

sorry no can do i love them all because i wrote them and there are so many things i enjoy about them. but i will say that the writing events circuit i've done this past year (supercorp bigbang, bumbleby big bang, and swan queen winter solstice) are born out of a lot of labor of love and i'm really proud of the work i've done for them.

and not for a writing event, but i am also extremely proud of re:live for mayakuro fandom-- that one makes me think that if i never wrote for that fandom again, that that's a really good fic to end on)

No-pressure tags, of course: @sideguitars, @eqt-95, @fazedlight, @luthordamnvers, @vox-ex, and @waytooinvested

(yall have probably done this before but here it just in case!)

[destroying-your-happiness]

Text ficlet Regina: Not that kind. Soft nipples are better. You realize it’s been years since I’ve thought about anything like this? Regina: No, I don’t want pictures.

Emma: Years, seriously? Emma: Whoa, I wasn’t offering to show you mine! Emma: At least buy a girl a drink first!

Regina: Kindly disregard my previous messages, as they were sent to you in error. They were meant for your mother. Regina: To clarify, I was responding to your mother's questions regarding plastic nipples. For your brother's bottles. Regina: And what did you mean by seriously ?  Regina: Buy you a drink? Please. I'm not Hook.

Emma: Well done on sending out not one, but two wrong messages. That's pretty funny. Emma: What does it matter what I mean? I’m supposed to disregard your texts, kinda like I'm doing right now. Emma: That was supposed to be a joke. I buy my own drinks. 

Regina: I'm in a meeting at the moment, and it's fairly easy to make a mistake when your names in my phone are Idiot One and Idiot Three. Your father is Idiot Two, in case you were wondering. Regina: Actually, it seems like you're still responding to me. Regina: I certainly hope you continue to buy your own drinks. Our son is at a very impressionable age.

Emma: If you can't tell the difference between 1 and 3 then you shouldn't be mayor. How do you manage to balance budgets?

Regina: This from the woman who needed her son to teach her how to use excel?

Emma: Hold on, eating. So hungry. 

Regina: You know, with the number of sorceresses in the Enchanted Forest who use food to lure and destroy their prey, it's better you grew up in this world.

[konako]

"Morning." Emma sighed, leaning against the counter of Granny's. She rubbed a hand down her face with a grumble.

Granny raised a brow from where she was writing down orders. "That bad, hm?"

"... She's your granddaughter." Emma muttered.

Granny was about to ask what she meant when said granddaughter moved inside, hair unkempt and face sullen.

"Ruby? You're late for--" She began.

"--Yeah, yeah..." The younger woman sighed softly, moving past the two to head into the kitchen.

Granny turned to Emma and sighed.

"Regina?"

Emma nodded.

"It's been two weeks. She's gotten over fleas in half that time." The elder woman grumbled. "I still don't get that girl... falling for her."

Emma didn't interrupt the older woman's silent rant, even if she'd seen the 'her' that Granny mentioned. That 'her' was so closed off, so desolate, so solemn and yet... with Ruby--

--with Ruby she was alive with something.

Her face was bright, her smile real and genuine.

Emma couldn't help but wonder if the Regina she'd seen with Ruby was the real one. The one without the mask of the Evil Queen, the one without the shadows of a bitter past hanging over her--

--Ruby pushed through the door, body clad in her usual uniform whilst her face remained that same downtrodden status.

Emma watched her friend with a frown.

Something had to change.

!!!!!!!!

[actualhumancryptid]

69 - Swan Queen :) (bonus points if it's Emma saying it to Regina)

Emma took a little too long to notice. But when she did, she marched across Regina’s office and tried to grab at her hand. 
“Why the hell are you bleeding?”

Regina glared up at her from her desk. She was doing her reading one-handed. But she was no worse for it.  

“I’m fine.”

But, against her will, Regina let her examine it. The bandage was sodden with blood and she winced as Emma opened it up.

“Regina, this needs stitches.” Emma looked around. “The dressing needs changing, at least. Do you have a first aid kit?”

“I said I was fine, Miss Swan. Do you need your hearing checked?”

Emma ignored her, and started to roll up Regina’s sleeve, finding yet another cut. Another bandage barely doing its job.

“Regina! What the hell…”

Regina yanked her arm away.

“Seems to me you need a lesson in personal boundaries.”

“That has to hurt,” Emma said. “Why are you so afraid to be human? I can take you to see Dr Whale right now.”

“Not on your life.”

Regina headed towards a far cabinet, and struggled one-handed to pull out the first aid kit. She refused Emma’s help and began to wind another bandage over her wound, roughly. She tried very hard not to let the pain show. When she looked back over at Emma, she found the other woman glaring.

“What happened?”

“Nothing happened.”

Emma let out a breath, staring up at the ceiling in frustration.

“If someone hurt you, I need to know. You have every right to personal safety in this town, same as anybody else.”

“Thank you for that rousing speech,” Regina said, her voice cracking a little despite her attempt to be unmoved. “But nobody hurt me. It was….an accident.”

“I don’t believe you,” Emma said. “And if you don’t tell me the truth right now, I’m calling Dr Whale and getting him to make a house call with his home sewing kit.”

Regina glared at her, but Emma simply stared her down unflinchingly.

“Fine,” Regina said. “But you won’t like it.”

Emma crossed her arms, looking even more determined. Regina wanted to growl.

“I made a few miscalculations, and this is the result. It’s nothing to be alarmed about.”

Emma frowned.

“This was a…magic thing?”

“All magic has a price.”

“Yes yes, I know. I’ve seen The Craft.”

Regina glared at her.

“Do I look like a ninties goth chick to you, Miss Swan?”

“Honestly?” Emma said. “A little? I mean, the way you looked in that…you know.”

She made a motion near her breasts, and seemed to regret it instantly, blushing. Regina fought the urge to smile.

“Excuse me? The Evil Queen was not some poor-me trailer park goth chick.”

Emma smiled beatifically, and Regina realized she was being toyed with. She sighed.

“So, a spell?’ Emma mused. Regina nodded, rolling her eyes. “Is that why you can’t heal it?”

“It’ll be fine in a few days.”

“Presuming you don’t bleed to death first.”

“Oh honestly, it’s a cut. Don’t be so melodramatic.”

“It’s a gash, across your whole hand!” Emma said, looking frustrated. “And your arm. And more, probably. Because I can tell when you’re hiding shit.”

“Am I meant to check with you every time I do a dangerous spell?”

“Yes!” Emma hissed, and then she faltered, blushing a little. “I mean…God Regina. I just….”

Regina watched her, warming a little at the way Emma looked at her in concern.

“It isn’t as bad as it looks, Emma.”

“Yeah?” Emma said, looking disbelieving. “Would you even have told me if you were doing something that could get you maimed? Why would you even do this?”

“It was just a little protection spell,” Regina said, forcing the words out. “Ok?”

“No, not ok. What the hell, Regina? Protection from what?”

“Well you may have noticed how often we are in the path of general calamity?” She sighed. “Is it too much for me to want my son and his mother to be safe? I don’t think it is!”

Regina paused then, realizing what she had admitted to. She felt her face grow hot, and she looked away. At the wall, at the floor. Anywhere but Emma.

“You wanted to protect me?” Emma said, in wonder.

“Of course I did,” Regina said, trying to sound haughty. But her voice wobbled a little. She felt Emma rather than saw her when she came closer. Letting out a breath, she allowed the comfort of Emma’s hand on her shoulder.

“It goes both ways, Regina,” Emma said softly. “Remember that.” And Regina tried to remain unmoved, but the warmth in Emma’s expression took her breath away. She merely nodded in response. And Emma let out a sigh, looking back down at Regina’s injury.

“Now, I am going to dress that properly,” she said, giving Regina a firm look. “And you are going to shut up and let me.”

Regina smiled.

[reginasknight94]

Hello, Emma

*You're still glowin', you're still crowin', you're still going strong... * Regina sat on the couch, pinching the bridge of her nose, 'Why is that nobody told me that being a mother would mean to arrive to know a damn sappy musical by heart?' 'Hello Dolly is a good musical!' retorted the blonde. 'maybe the first time you watch it or even the 3rd, but defenetly not the two-hundred and... I've lost count.'

Little Henry giggled from the spot on the floor where he was sitting, right in front of the tv. 'Listen, look how happy it makes him.' The brunette softened, 'That is his favorite part, the one where Satchmo shows up.' She looked at her child fondly with a smile on her face. 'And, by the way, I didn't know that I could conceive THAT, with only my magic and my love for you.' Explained the blonde pointing a finger at their son.

'True love is the most powerful magic of all, dear.' The woman retorted looking at her partner with a teasing smirk but changed expression upon adding, 'And magic always comes with a price. I guess My price must be hearing Barbara Streisand singing for all eternity.' Huffed Regina, discouraged, hiding her face in Emma's hoodie that burst into laughter.

[swen4lyfe]

Emma no

"Regina please!" The blonde begged. "No" "Pretty pleeeeaasssseee." Regina lightheartedly rolled her eyes, "Emma no." "Emma yes." The brunette chuckled, "what are you, five?" Emma decided to pull out the big guns, she grabbed the mayor by the shoulders and gave her the most heart wrenching puppy dog eyes she could muster. Try as she might to look stern and not give in those sparkling green eyes that reminded her so much of their shared son. Regina gave a huff and released her hold on the shopping cart she had been pushing. "Fine do as you please." The sheriff gave a childlike bounce and a wide grin as she grabbed the handles, just as she was about to push off she turned to the normally stoic woman and gave her a peck on the cheek in thanks before taking a running start and leaping onto the cart that glided through the parking lot towards the mayor's black Mercedes. Regina shook her head in jest and continued to strut towards her vehicle following her best friend. She couldn't pin point the exact moment they got to this kind of affectionate gestures but she wouldn't trade it for the world.