#the level of misunderstandings in this au. oof

[sunnysidesevenup]

OKAY HEAR ME OUT SUNNY.

Arlo and Neige. But Gelphie (from Wicked). HEAR ME OUT THAT WOULD BE SO CUTEEEEE

I AM HEARING YOU LOUD AND CLEAR AMBSGDNSHSHHS

obviously their personalities are not a 100% fit so lots of things would be slightly different but OMGGGGGGGG GONNA BE THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR A WHILE.

I think this is the closest Arlo and Neige would ever get to an enemies to lovers plot lmao 😭

[cactusspatz]

November recs

Slipping this in before the year ticks over - Happy New Year, everyone! All Batman fics (including three crossovers with MCU Spiderman and Leverage), I had a lot of downtime to read while I was sick in November and it was time for the annual binge, so I read my way through a lot of @cacchieressa's recs (thanks for having great taste!) plus wandered into some of my own finds. More miscellaneous recs at pinboard for Spiderman, Star Wars, The Untamed, and Nine Worlds.

Gotcha, Bug by Mgootd - AU where Jason survives Ethopia, but Tim's parents start behaving strangely and Tim's investigation throws him in with the Batfamily anyway. Crazy fun ride.

Once Upon A Kidnap Dreary by PlotlessWanderer - AU in which Tim and Jason get kidnapped together for ransom - but their parents react very differently.

A Bat and a Reporter Break Into a Warehouse by @hmslusitania - delightful romp where Tim and Lois team up for an investigation.

Jason, Take the Wheel by Miss_Lazy_Tuesday - "Jason finds a new coping mechanism post-resurrection, and it changes a few things." A++ Jason using his insane level of training to be an epic troll. Incredibly funny, but also so healing.

Dead Robins Stick Together by HermesDay - "Tim finds himself trapped in a universe where the Red Hood decided to finish the job in Titans Tower." OOF. On the very opposite tonal end of Jason-returns AUs from the last one, but a really good engaging read.

Penelophon by Telperien - Selina/Bruce through the years, with a lovely Selina POV.

We'll Have to Muddle Through Somehow by @pluckyredhead - soft, thoughtful Roy/Jason where Roy is struggling with the holiday season and Jason is there for him.

Blue Jay Down by byrambles - "8 years after his parents died and he escaped Gotham's foster system, Dick is just trying to survive. When he stumbles upon an injured, blue-clad vigilante child in an alley, though, he has to make some decisions." This one hit my id so hard, I wish there were 30K more words but these were all good.

CROSSOVERS

(MCU Spider-Man/Batman) Set Naked On Your Kingdom by sassydandelion - "At the end of No Way Home, Peter chooses to sacrifice his life in New York to save the multi-verse…by letting Dr. Strange send him to a world where no one has ever heard of Spider-Man. What kind of crazy place is this Gotham City, anyway?" Fantastic AU, and Peter is just such a darling as he struggles to get by. Loved how he meets and bonds with Barbara (who is always amazing) first.

(Leverage/Batman) sparring match by Ffwydriad - in which Eliot runs into Cassandra on a team job, and they have a past. Thoughtful look at their difficult histories, but still very gentle and kind.

(Leverage/Batman) The Cross Purposes Job by solomonara - "A con on the verge of success gets sniped by an unknown third party. The Leverage crew traces the interference back to Gotham. Now the con has a new target: shady billionaire Bruce Wayne and the highly suspicious Wayne Enterprises." COMPLETELY DELIGHTFUL, such good team presence and misunderstandings on both sides, and the resolution is so satisfying.

[starlightshore]

Question about your DP AU but what are the main trio's families like? I think you've talked about Jack and Maddie a few times, but not in depth. Anything different between Sam and Tucker's parents? How much do the parents know about each other or what their kids are up to?

oof this topic is hard cause its been a long time since i watched the actual show (minus the two eps i watched to answer asks) and well, there really isn't a ton to work with regarding Tucker's Family. they seem nice. that's all we got. there's not even a "personality" section on their wiki page.

in the fandom, oddly enough, there's only one fic that comes to mind rn that had tucker's parents be semi-important (or at least, relevant) i can't remember the name rn but its like, "nobody knows au, tucker is a reluctant psychic who has to find a serial killer AU" which was a banger. i don't have a lot to go off of, so in all honesty I'm likely just going to make shit up to make things more interesting.

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putting all of this in a read-more cause its loooong.

What we DO know is that Danny and Tucker were "best friends since forever" so, here they are as besties from like, kindergarten. We can easily assume Maurice and Angela (Tucker's parents) don't mind the Fenton's antics, or at the very least tolerate it enough to allow Tucker to be exposed to their strangeness.

Meanwhile Sam would be going to some Rich Kid school. To up the ante, my take has Sam do something so scandalous and horrifying that this rich family moves from New York to a small town in Minnesota.

Sam isn't actually proud of it, but plays it off as if they are. cause like, yeah, their parents are never going to let them live it down. which is a success. We never learn what the hell happened, it's Sam's Noodle Incident.

Anyway to lay low from the shame of the event, they move to Ida's hometown (Sam's grandma) and it's Sam's punishment. They're "grounded for life."

To Jeremy and Pam's ignorance (Sam's parents) Sam is HAPPY to be away from the big schools and high end life. Not that they'll let them know that, like, ever.

I have no idea if this is canon or fanon but there's the idea that Jeremy and Pam are too busy and negligent to be aware of what's going on in Sam's life. And as long as Sam isn't repeating the New York Incident, Sam is probably fine to do as they please. They know now to keep a low profile.

Jeremy and Pam hate the local Fentons, first for being Weirdos and then later for bringing in the ghosts. (Which honestly, like, fair...) Poor Danny and Jazz get lumped in, seen as bad kids despite just Existing within the family.

The Only Normal Ones (tm)

For contrast, Tucker's family is middle class and very loving and attentive parents. Not helicopter level, but more than the average parent. Maurice and Angela keep track of Tucker's social media and worry about him -especially once the ghosts come out.

i won't go too into too much detail since i might make that fic, but I do want to give Tucker's family more importance and screen time. I won't be saying how but it'll be a nice development.

Danny's family is the same as they are in canon on a surface level. Some details are changed, but we get a similar result.

So for context: pre-portal ghost sightings are rare and people are quick to either see it as: superstition, a hoax, or misunderstanding of natural phenomena. The Fentons believe there's a natural explanation -until some shared childhood experience throws them into believing the paranormal. But they hate how ghosts are seen as gimmicky. They believe in the REAL science.

They want to use Math and Physics to explain the supernatural. They believe in a different dimension with different laws of nature, and they're going to uncover it! And obviously, they do with the Portal.

They study it with the help of Vlad's funding (who's relationship is different in this AU -he's still an evil bitch as always tho) they create the portal and study it alongside Vlad's team. (This is my work around from keeping the Fentons away from the GUI) Their personal bias against ghosts is something more "neutral" rather than "evil."

Personally I think misguided science is more interesting than outright witch-hunting styled ghost hating. the core conflict is the same, but it makes the parents more rational and grounded to science. This is a personal preference, each have their strengths. Regardless they've got big egos and jumping into a literal Unknown field of science that has it's own new physics, of course they're going to fail and misunderstand things. (science is failure just written down or however that saying goes)

[horaitos]

talk to me more about the au please!!! what’s the best part in your opinion? what’s the saddest part?

Ooh! Well, I really like what I’ve got set up for Edaline. In the books she’s always this soft but strong mother figure who was just trying to keep herself and Grady together before Sophie showed up. She’s the glue of the family, the level-headed one among Grady and Sophie’s impulsive tendencies.

However. In this au, Grady is dead. After losing her husband, Edaline finds herself falling into the same hole that she fell into when Jolie died. But she’s a queen, and she has to keep up a strong facade. She has to keep her country together. They can’t seem weak, especially considering everything going on with Linh and Choralmere.

So, she marries a man who manipulates her into believing that he can help solve her problems. Through this, she loses the trust of both her sister and her daughter. This part is interesting to work with, because in the source material I’m drawing from the relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude has a similar payoff and distrust, but different motivations, especially since Gertrude’s perspective is never given.

Another character I really like here is Linh, as you know. Which is… interesting, because I’m basing her off of Fortinbras, who is talked about throughout the play but only had like two actual scenes. So I’m probably going to write more with her than was given with the character she’s based off of because I love her so much.

Saddest part? Oof. Well, descent-into-madness type stories are always sad due to their very concept, but the thing I find most fascinating and tragic about the original play is the character dynamics and how quickly relationships can change. I want to incorporate these misunderstandings, how people can have good intentions but still be distrusted by those who simply cannot see past their own trauma and grief and bitter pain.

[jaywwriting]

Could I request a one shot for hq? I’m a sucker for soulmate aus so maybe a soulmate au with hinata? Thanks :)

omg I’m super sorry for the late reply!! school work’s been piling up more and more, now I have online piano lessons fuCK

my brain hasn’t been working that well so here’s a hc for this soulmate au instead of a one shot, hope you’ll enjoy!!

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𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞

pairing: hinata shōyō x reader

soulmate au: when you turn 16, the hair colour of your soulmate will appear on your wrist

As soon as your alarm rang, you immediately got up from your slumber. Wiggling out of bed and frantically ran to turn on the lights.

You immediately rolled up the sleeves of your pyjamas and brought your wrist up to your vision.

“Damn,” you thought to yourself, “is my soulmate a tangerine or what?”

A bright, striking shade of tangerine orange was tattooed on your wrist.

Of course, you’ve seen people who had unique natural hair colours but boy. This one was definitely dyed. Because there’s no way one’s hair can naturally be THIS orange!!

oof to hinata baibey

Time skip to a few weeks later — first day of school in Karasuno High woOp woOp

None of your friends were in that school with you. Of course, there were a couple of people who you recognised from your previous school, but you’ve never talked to any of them before.

After hours and hours of listening ( or dozing off ) to different teachers mumbling and rambling information, it was finally break time.

You spotted your favourite snack in the school’s vending machine, so you decided to buy some.

You were about to walk away from the humming machine until you heard loud bickering from a distance.

“HINATA BOKE!” was the loudest and clearest part of the bicker that you heard.

Curious and confused, you decided to sneak a lil’ peek and investigate on what was going on.

There you saw a tall raven haired boy fighting with a shorter, bright-tangerine haired boy.

you actually thought they were actually fighting — like, I’m-going-to-kill-you kind of fight — so you immediately ran over to stop them before someone ends up in jail

“Hey, cut it out!” You yelled, instantly gaining their attention as you marched towards the two and pushed them apart.

you know how they have that lil’ o.o face? yeah that’s the face they made when you yelled at them to stop HAHAH

THEY WERE SO CONFUSED LMAO YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW CLUELESS THESE TWO WERE—

anYWAY

The tangerine boy chuckled cheekily, explaining the whole situation. Turns out, they weren’t fighting and it was just their normal bickering and teasing!!

Embarrassed, you instantly apologised for being nosey and misunderstanding the situation. He then assured you that you weren’t being nosey and you were just being nice. He then resumed to introduce himself as Hinata and his friend as Kageyama. You too introduce yourself because it’s rude if you don’t introduce yourself back bruh

Kageyama nodded at you nonchalantly. But as he laid eyes on your hand, his eyes went wide and he instantly whispered some stuff to Hinata before walking away.

Now it was Hinata’s turn to be shocked.

“Okay wtf is going on why’re they so shocked?” You pondered. “And why does Hinata’s hair colour look so familiar— wAIT HOLD UP.”

You instantly rolled up your sleeve and brought your wrist up to the same level as Hinata’s head.

“Is it the same colour as my hair?” Hinata asked, mouth agape as he slowly rolled up his sleeve. You nodded hesitantly, heart racing frantically along with thoughts rushing through your mind like thousands of fireworks shooting up the night sky rapidly.

“No way.” Hinata gasped, rolling his sleeve up and inspecting your hair with the shade on his wrist.

Holy shit.

IT WAS THE SAME EXACT COLOUR AS YOUR HAIR

You gasped in shock as the fireworks in your mind instantly exploded, your stomach doing somersaults that it has never done before.

“OH MY GOSH I FOUND MY SOULMATE! I FOUND MY SOULMATE! YOU ARE MY SOULMATE!” *cues hinata running around in circles while jumping up and down ecstatically*

Suddenly, the loud, obnoxious bell that you despised began ringing, signaling everyone to get back into class.

You were about to leave until he tapped your shoulder gently, shyly glancing at you as he fidgeted his fingers.

“Hey um... y/n?” He stuttered, ruffling his messy yet fluffy curls. “Do you wanna meet up for a while after school? Y’know, to talk about this whole... soulmate thing? We can learn more about each other and—”

“Of course!” You instantly replied, internally squealing at how adorable he looked when he was shy. “I’ll meet you here?”

“O-okay! See you later, y/n!” He grinned widely, a blush forming on his small face as he jogged away.

As soon as he was pretty far away, you chuckled to yourself and gentle rubbed the shade of orange on your wrist, blushing as your grin began growing bigger and bigger.

well, this’ll be interesting

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omg this sucked so much I’m so sorry.

this is what happens when you don’t write for a long time HDJDHSJSJJ—

anyway I hope you enjoyed this hc!! unfortunately my requests will be closed for the time being as I still have a lot to catch up on. but don’t worry, I’ll be notifying yall when my requests are open once again!! :D all the info that you’ll need are found on my bio ( the link that’s labelled ‘info’ )

have a great day and I’ll see yall soon! ♡

- jayyy

[thelittlebirdthattoldyou]

hey stella! we haven't talked much but i do hope to get to know you better soon 😊. 16, 17, and 24 for the ask thing?

same here!! feel free to dm me on here or on discord anytime :3

16. What fanfic tropes do you avoid writing for?

hmm i tend to avoid anything that’s too violence heavy? i think my current wip with the little mermaid au is the most graphic thing i’ve written so far. even the ushioi assassin au had surprisingly low levels of violence lmao. i’m not a huge fan of blood and action writing is one of my weak points.

i also avoid getting back together fics because iwaoi is Not Allowed To Break Up. i’ll read hanahaki aus sometimes and i appreciate the romanticism but in general i’m not a huge fan.

17. What fanfic tropes do you gravitate to writing for? 

a lot of established relationship, outsider pov (especially coupled with secret relationship), and fluff. i like identity misunderstandings a lot, and i’ve written way too many wedding-centered fics (and i’m working on another one rn lmao). also i really love playing with epistolary-esque elements (letters, articles, social media posts, texting, etc.) in fic.

24. Do you prefer AUs with the characters, or sticking to the original universe? 

oof that’s a hard one because i love both, but i guess aus. overall i’m pretty satisfied with haikyuu canon and it’s fun to drop the characters into new settings and figure out how they would act. a majority of my fics (not counting tumblr drabbles) are canon compliant or canon divergent so far but,, that might change soon based on what i have planned.

send me a fanfic writer ask!