#the longest chapter i have ever written and posted was 15k words but having a stupid long oneshot feels like a different matter

[waywardsalt]

general question would it be fine or stupid to post a stupid long (possible 10k words plus) fic all in one chapter

[sapphires-and-silver-linings]

Fellow The Betrayer lover here 👋 I’ve really gotta say that it’s such a piece of art. Absolutely no pressure, but purely out of curiosity, as I really cannot wait for more: any updates?

“Piece of art” omg thank you 😭

And yes I am working on chapter 10 of The Betrayer in tandem with chapter 4 of Half-Life! My goal is to finish Half-Life chapter 4 first and put it on hiatus so I can jump back into The Betrayer for a bit.

Summer is always difficult for me to write because although I’m out of school, I go to visit my family and I rarely have a moment to myself whereas I have a lot of alone time and privacy in my own home. I unfortunately struggle to write when I’m not in a certain headspace, on top of being in a very over-stimulating environment (surrounded by young, loud, and quite clingy kids lol).

I’m getting somewhere for both upcoming chapters, but they’re both gonna be long. My longest chapter I’ve ever written (chapter 9 of The Betrayer, I believe) is nearly 14k words, and I truly think chapter 4 of Half-Life may surpass that. Chapter 10 of The Betrayer is probably gonna be around 15k words if I could guess, cos I’m only a quarter into the plot of the chapter lol.

I know it’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted any of my fics, but life has been insane for me lately (though if I’m honest, it always is in one way or another lol).

But I’m quite attached to both The Betrayer and Half-Life. I truly believe that they’re some of my best writing, and I am so proud of how they’re coming along despite the gaps between posting chapters.

For any of my Madness is The Color Green fans, I plan on editing it heavily and will hopefully work on it again too!

I wish I was more prolific than I am, but it’s hard for me to write a lot quickly, especially considering some personal life stuff going on. I also tend to go through times of writer’s block which sucks and is disheartening when many of my stories have very involved plots with lots of references to previous chapters, consistent and/or evolving themes/motifs and character development, and trying to maintain a specific tone throughout the whole story.

Sorry for the essay, I like to talk a lot 😂

Side note, though:

I was thinking of releasing some teasers for both The Betrayer and Half-Life to give y’all something while I slog through the rest of them!

Let me know if that’s something y’all are interested in!

And thank you so much for your kind words and patience! I appreciate it ❤️❤️❤️

[bylightofdawn]

So I updated the compiled masterpost for my JasPlo fic and it's a hair shy of 84,000 words. What. The. Actual. Fuck.

This might actually be the longest thing I have ever written in my entire like.

Yo, that's like an actual novel.

WHAT THE FUCK.

And I still have a lot planned.

I think.....I have enough pre-written I would be comfortable maybe committing to a bi-weekly posting schedule. Fucks sake I have 15K up over however many chapters posted so I have PLENTY of buffer space and I could always stop if say tomorrow my muses dry up and I can't write shit.

Of course, that requires me to be disciplined enough to actually proofread and edit. This focused writing thing is awesome but I don't have any of my proofreading plugins installed so my fic is even more mistake-riddled than normally because I just kinda edit as I go whenever Grammarly or prowritingaid point out something is off.

And boy howdy do I hate editing. LOL Professional proofreaders and editors might actually be touched in the head. Like, credit where it is due, they are fucking superheroes of the writing industry but whoever chooses that as their career path, I don't know how you enjoy much less don't suffer through proofreading someone else's semi-polished work.

Hmmm so I was debating maybe going to see the new Dungeons and Dragons movie tonight but I might put that off till Sunday and maybe NOT do the whole editing thing and instead start the next chapter.

I high-key want to involve Tyvokka somehow and drag hi into this mess so he can shamelessly tease poor Plo

[britcision]

Okay so Imma preface this by warning y’all that by 2025 I will have been writing consistently for 20 full years almost completely uninterrupted

I am not a reasonable baseline

So… uh…

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

I emotionally prepared myself for “around 140”.

It’s 175. I have 175 works on AO3. And. Uh. Over 100 on fanfiction.net before I moved in 2018. I haven’t even posted any of the Dragon Age stuff to AO3 yet.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

1 056 433 words.

236 362 are Dead and Loving it and you have NO IDEA how mad I am that it isn’t 236 632 I HAVE FAILED

(That’s 22% by the way and it is BY FAR the longest thing I have)

Everything over 15k is smut

3. What fandoms do you write for?

At the moment? I’m writing DPxDC, Dragon Age Inquisition, Critical Role campaign 2 specifically, and my own DnD campaign. Only DPxDC and CR are on AO3 at the moment, but my AO3 also has Samurai Deeper Kyo (MY FIRST FANDOM), and a Warehouse 13xDoctor Who crossover

Do not ask about fanfiction.net

4. What are your top 5 fics by Kudos?

Danny Fenton Dead and Loving It - BY FAR THE MOST

Payment - 1800 words of Caleb Widogast doing his level best to sell sex for magic and being thwarted at every turn by Yussa not wanting him to

Where The Heart Is - 6k fix it fic of said Caleb wanting to leave his friends and being cuddled about it

The Fey King - 6 chapter fic of Frumpkin being an actual fey king and the Mighty Nein finding out

Twisted Mirror - that good good dark Shadowgast for Shadowgast week and next in the series after Payment where Essek is not as smart as Yussa and faces Consequences

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

Almost always! Gonna have to throw in the towel on the latest chapter of Dead and Loving It cuz I fell behind and there were 185 of you absolute animals ❤️❤️❤️

But… yeah, I come from some of the smallest fandoms on ff.net and I mean “four fics total and I posted two of them”. Y’all take a minute to say something to me, I say something back!

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

So listen. I wrote a LOT of angsty Caleb for dearly beloved partner, because Caleb is his favourite and he likes to see him suffer, but that is mainly hurt/comfort.

The ANGSTIEST thing I have ever written is probably still my SDK fic on AO3, The Eyes. It’s a character study on just the saddest motherfucker in that whole sad series and because no one on fucking earth knows Samurai Deeper Kyo SPOILER TIME:

It’s Hishigi’s journey trying to save his people from the Death Disease and how he went from patients with names to test subjects with numbers and the numbers reached the hundreds of thousands… almost all young children. While he’s actively dying of the Death Disease and carving Medusa Eyes into his own body to keep it functioning. And his husband’s boyfriend abandoned them.

Anyway canonically in the manga he dies because his husband used a secret technique that burned his heart and Hishigi said “bitch you thought” and ripped his own heart from his chest to implant in said husband so husband would live

(Husband ABSOLUTELY promptly burned that one too I fucking hate him he is the fucking worst he nearly killed my fucking blorbo who loved him and I never thought I’d cry when he died BUT THEN HISHIGI WITH THE STEEL CHAIR)

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Honestly hard to say… by sheer volume, most of what I write is happy at the end by dint of Comfort or Fluff and I wrote So Many Mighty Nein cuddle piles

If we go double entendre it’s one of the 20k+ orgies for the most happy endings though

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Some have tried, but it’s infrequent and they’ve never come back because I DO reply to comments and I revel in their suffering.

Did write an entire multichapter fic from Pure Spite because some chucklefuck failed to Actually Read my Polynein crackfic about the lesbian and the wizard side eying each other like “so if we both fuck our girlfriend will she make us kiss” and deciding it was a terrible idea

They seemed to think I was writing a serious ship fic and told me I was evil or whatever so no I wrote a whole long bit about their fabulous bro-mance hanging out in the library with all their friends reminding the goddamn wizard to eat and sleep

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

……….. well let’s start at “I invented Magic Lube Thursdays and fulfilled them every month for a year”

I write PWP, I do occasionally write smut with plot, I do orgies, I do occasional solos, I do classic couples and throuples, I do all the genders, I party the fuck down on the xenodick because knotting is not just for the furries and I’m not giving it back, and I am still over 50% of the PolyNein Explicit tag and frankly it’s very sad someone else feed me for a change

I’ve done the light and fluffy, the very darkest dubcon although not fully explicit lately, the kinky shit, occasional vanilla… there’s a couple lines I haven’t crossed but they’re the ones I’m not interested in crossing

Off the top of my head… no necrophilia, although if you count vampires or, well Danny fucking Phantom as dead that might change at some point I guess

And I have been informed that if I count vampires as necrophilia the werewolves have to count for bestiality so I’m just a moral sinkhole of monsterfucking

(And I did once murder a nosy twitter bitch who wanted to force my friend’s Lucifer into a Samifer ship that if angelcest was incest Samifer was bestiality because they’re different species so by my own dang smartass I am double damned)

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

Well let’s just slide right past DPxDC and say yes I do fuck with the crossovers… the craziest ones… okay I’m not looking Imma guess and we’re going over a decade back in ff.net

Pretty sure I had The Covenant x Pirates of the Caribbean x Lord of the Rings x probably Inu Yasha and at least two more but it’s been 15 years and I’m trying to forget

I did a godawful set of YuYu Hakusho crossovers with my skirting-Mary-Sue-but-she-never-got-a-ship-and-existed-solely-to-cause-Situations-for-my-actual-ships

One of the years I succeeded on Nanowrimo was with a huge and godawful multi-fandom crossover fic where if I was running out of ideas we jumped fandoms and kept going and y’know what it fucking worked

It was bad, never posted it anywhere, but it worked

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I’ve noticed! But I don’t check or care to

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not yet, and it would be fucking wild to be asked

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

… short answer, not since I was 13 and my sister and I wrote the most sarcastic smut parody of all time

Long answer………. Seven notebooks cover to cover of back and forth with said sister, seven years of twitter RP, and three genuinely dreadful SDK fics where me and two friends wrote one each to put our blorbos in situations

(None of us had the same blorbos and we all hated each others blorbos it was amazing)

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

It’s a fucking toughie but my oldest and most consistent is HieixKurama from YuYuHakusho and also JinxTouya from same. Now THAT is some OTP 90s shit

Currently I’m still going hardest for the PolyNein (excluding Veth I did Goblin Mom for a year and a half in real time I did NOT make the leap)

And it’s new and fresh but it fills my heart and it might be here to stay, Timkerboy! Tim x Kon x Tucker for the DPxDC crowd

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

Probably any of the 84 I had on my phone for various fandoms that deadass just vanished one day. Cannot find them anywhere, dead forever

I WILL finish the celebratory Molly-is-back-let’s-size-kink-Caduceus orgy that I rewrote in THE WEEK BETWEEN CRc2 140 and 141 to add Molly from spite if nothing fucking else Kingsley fucking whomst

(I love Kingsley I have and will continue to play with Threeleaf but I am still mad)

16. What are your writing strengths?

So my main strength has always been building characters, I’m real good at getting into their perspectives and giving them distinct goals

Thanks to Critical Role though, I have also got DAMN good at balancing 8+ characters in a scene by dint of not having a choice

17. Writing weaknesses?

My biggest weakness is definitely follow through. Multichapter fics I’ve started far outweigh multichapter fics I’ve finished; I think I’ve finished about five, and one of those I went and wrote an ending on 12 years later to close off my ff.net.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages?

Only if it’s another language I speak well enough to correct Google Translate. Any Latin you see in my fic is all original translation.

It doesn’t come up much, because usually other languages are fantasy languages like Ghost Speak or Infernal that I’ll mark with different punctuation rather than assigning a real language.

I do commonly use short phrases, swears, and terms of endearment in a hodgepodge of other languages in my daily life, so despite people bitching about it I will include that in my fic. It’s how I learned some of my best swears!

19. The first fandom you wrote for.

Samurai Deeper Kyo. I was 12. It was dreadful. I finished it in my 20s and I still loop back around to write more every few years.

Some stories are just… fundamental building blocks of your personality, and since that series kept coming out slowly through my full teens and 20s, and kept getting better and better and more meaningful and deep and complex…

I owe Akimine Kamijyo a lot

And so do all of you if you like anything I’ve ever written

Also, Akari is my soulmate and she was on page for 30 seconds before being my favourite character and they WROTE HER OUT OF THE ANIME so the anime must burn even ignoring the rest of the butchery

20. Fav fic you've ever written?

It’s a toughie. Again, I write… a lot, and I also used to write a lot of self indulgent/left-of-self-insert on my phone only for me, but that was a different folder of 30 fics that also spontaneously disappeared

At the moment though, it’s the Sleepers series. I am fucking OBSESSED with writing Cole’s POV, it is the most fun I’ve had in ages, he’s so goddamn sweet but also intensely creepy

20 questions for writers, tagged by @gremlin-bot

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

10

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

87,995 (What the hell? I thought it was, like, half that 🤯) [This will increase dramatically once I get a few more things transferred from tumblr to AO3]

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now, it's mostly dpxdc. I'm trying to break into more solo DC and DP stuff. I also have a few works for Good Omens that I'm not ready to abandon.

4. What are your top 5 fics by Kudos?

The Nurse's Demands

Electricity

Remember, Remember

Want to Hold on and Feel I Belong

Answer My Call

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

Yes! I'm in fandom to make friends and have fun. I made one of my best fandom friends through AO3 comments. Besides, talking about things I've made and my thoughts behind them is fun. ^.^

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

On AO3? Probably Carry On. It's a Good Omens two shot that more-or-less starts with Abel's death. It then follows Crowley and Cain as they experience exile together. But I don't really do sad endings, so it ends with Cain finding a degree of peace, even if Abel is still dead.

In general? Never shared, but it's another Good Omens story. A sequel to the above. I wrote 3 fics/chapters that explore a Fallen Raphael!Crowley coming to terms with the fact that he can't heal. So in the 2nd installment, he gets close to some humans and when one is severely injured, he fails to heal them and they die. I won't share more than that, but I literally can't read that fic without crying and I wrote it. (The fourth and fifth part of the series are him wresting the ability to heal back from the binds that were placed on it, so even those have a happy ending in a way. The people who died remain dead, though, so I think it still counts.)

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Considering none of my dpxdc longfics are finished yet, I'm gonna go with another Good Omens fic, The Demon Piper. This is based off the story of the Pied Piper, obviously. Hamelin, Germany is experiencing a famine due to rats getting into the winter stores. The adults are desperate and many are considering selling their kids to indentured servitude or worse. So the kids and Crowley make a pact to run away together. They they go off and set up their own little settlement in the mountains and everyone lives and it's super sweet. I have a few sequels I need to post that get even fluffier.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Haven't yet! Y'all are the best <3

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

My third Good Omens fic! An Evening In! It's an 18k PWP with Soft Dom Aziraphale and Service Bottom Crowley, human AU. Really, it's just two men who love each other very much. It's so soft and self indulgent, even if they do explore some kink dynamics.

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

DPxDC is my first time in a crossover fandom. It's been a blast! IDK if it counts as crazy, though.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. Wouldn't that be the biggest flattery, though.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

No. I don't think my writing style lends itself to co-writing. I'm very particular about how things get phrased and I'm a plotter and most of my planning happens mentally while driving or at work or something.

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

Oh, I don't have one! I have a fav ship in certain fandoms, though. I was in the Sherlock fandom for a while, so Johnlock obviously. For Be More Chill (the musical) it's Michael/Jeremy. For Good Omens it's Crowley/Aziraphale. For Avatar it's Zutara. Newsies has Jack/David. For DC only fics, I'm an avid Tim/Kon shipper or Core Four. But for DPxDC I'm a multishipper. I was also a multishipper when in the MCU fandom (though Steve/Tony became a nOTP for me and was never a favorite even before Age of Ultron).

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

Oh, damn. It's hard to say. I plotted out a whole Good Omens Parent Trap Fusion. (Aka take the plot of the Parent Trap and fit in the characters from Good Omens.) I hate to call it abandoned since I would like to go back to it. But time...

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I do panic attacks and emotional breakdowns very well. I'm also proud of how I can weave a complex plot into a coherent story which will hopefully come out once I get further along in some of my long fics (particularly Answer My Call and I'll Carry Your Heart (Until I Find You Again)).

17. Writing weaknesses?

I don't think I'm very good at making sure all my characters have distinct voices. I've gotten way better at that this past year, but I'm still working on it. I'm also too much of a perfectionist which makes me slow. And I jump around ideas too much which makes it harder to finish projects.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages?

I will never do it. Way I see it, if the POV character understands what is being said, the reader should understand, too. Which means it needs to be written in English (the only language I can guarantee the reader of an English story can understand). If the POV character can't understand what is being said, neither should the reader. If it's omniscient POV, I will put it in English if I want the reader to have that information and leave it out if I don't. Not give some readers extra information that others don't get.

19. The first fandom you wrote for.

Naruto. I wrote it by hand in class on lined notebook paper and passed it over to my best friend. She, in turn, gave me drawings of my favorite characters.

20. Fav fic you've ever written?

God, I have no idea. I love so many of my works and each one represents something. The Demon Piper is the fic that got me back into writing at all so that's super special to me. Bring Me Home is the one that got me writing for the DPxDC fandom. An Evening In was my first attempt at smut and I am so happy with how it turned out (never thought I could do it). I'll Carry Your Heart (Until I Find You Again) has a premise I'm absolutely in love with and I have so many plans for it. Want to Hold on and Feel I Belong is proof of how much I love emotional breakdowns and I love how much of a punch it packs. Remember, Remember is my first time writing an introspective piece that covers a long time period and I think it works really well.

No, I don't have a favorite work. No way I could pick between them all.

Tagging: @greensword101, @isalisewrites, @britcision and anyone else who wants to do this!

[bonesandthebees]

it's the 1 year anniversary of me posting the first chapter of clinic so here's what I said about it on twitter

just thanks to all you guys for the love you've given me. I really appreciate it <3

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1st tweet: So 1 year ago today I posted the first chapter of #tommyinnitsclinicforsupervillains At the time I had ~80 user subs on my ao3, and my most popular dsmp fic had roughly 15k hits at the time. I had no idea what I was about to start with posting that first chapter of clinic. (1/12)

2nd tweet: I just knew that I had a very cool idea for a take on the superhero aus that I hadn't seen done before, and I could feel that it had a lot of potential. But I never expected to get the kind of reception it got. I never expected so many people to fall in love with (2/12)

3rd tweet: my world or the way I wrote these blockmen characters I had so much fun with. Coincidentally, I also created this twitter acc on the same day, so it's also my 1 year twitter anniversary and I have almost 10k followers on here now which is insane. (3/12)

4th tweet: So basically I wanna say thank you. Thank you to everyone who has ever left a comment or drawn fanart or sent me a message about how much you enjoyed clinic. Thank you to everyone who enjoys any of my stories in general. I don't talk publicly a ton about personal stuff but (4/12)

5th tweet: I started clinic right before I was set to go into my final year of uni. I'd been exclusively online for my entire 3rd year, and I was terrified about going back to in person classes. I wrote clinic while I was struggling with re-learning how to be around people again, (5/12)

6th tweet: and while I was fighting tooth and nail to try and pass my classes because I'd finally gotten used to the online format, and going back to in person was a huge struggle for me in an academic sense as well. And clinic was such a lifeline for me in the sense (6/12)

7th tweet: that it gave me something to focus on and strive towards. I got so much encouragement for it, and as the boulder kept rolling down the hill and it got bigger and bigger, it gave me a kind of drive that I didn't even know I had in me. (7/12)

8th tweet: Clinic is the longest story I've ever written. I also think of it as one of the best things I've written in a story balancing sense. I didn't think I knew how to balance plot and arcs and foreshadowing, but writing clinic taught me that I did and that I was GOOD at it (8/12)

9th tweet: It's insane to me that even a year later, I still get so much love for clinic. And it's also insane that I have a 'fanbase' in a sense for my fics just in general. I love to write, and because of my time writing for dsmp, I realized I could actually be a writer as a career (9/12)

10th tweet: I never let myself dream as a kid that I could actually be a published author because I thought it was too unrealistic. Maybe it's still unrealistic, but I want to go for it now. You guys gave me the confidence to tell me I could do it. That my stories are ones that (10/12)

11th tweet: people want to hear. So just thank you guys for that. Thank you for the love and thank you for the kind words and thank you for all of this. I've grown so much as a writer just in the past year alone and it's bc I've had more drive to write than ever thanks to you guys. (11/12)

12th tweet: Sorry this was so long but I had a lot I wanted to say. I'm so grateful to you all for all the love you've shown clinic and my writing in general. It's meant more to me than you guys could ever know and I can't wait to keep telling my stories <3 (12/12)

[retrowhatever]

So basically all I've done in the last week is consume an unhealthy amount of Horizon fanfic. I don't have an ao3 account (yet) so I thought I would put my list of faves here. I've ordered them from shortest to longest. This is the first of two posts.

Ereloy fics I love:

Glarebreak by @dark-t1des-hzd - 850 words / Teen & Up - short and sweet scene of Erend being hopelessly in love and Aloy being injured

The Greatest Moment by @pikapeppa - 1200 words / Teen & Up - short scene at a festival with an absolutely dazzling kiss

Sparkstruck by @yogrossdude - 1200 words / Teen & Up - short scene of Erend tripping over his words when he sees Aloy in Oseram armor

A Forthright Woman by @dawnfromzero - 1500 words / General - bewildered Erend not realizing she's into him too

The Serendipity of Thunderjaws by blue_dragon1836 - 1700 words / Teen & Up - injured Erend and probably my favourite Aloy-kisses-him-first moment

Chainscrape by @dark-t1des-hzd - 2100 words / Teen & Up - I won't ever get tired of Aloy getting mad enough that Erend just confesses his love, plus the last line of this one is *chef's kiss*

another lesson learned in blood by sunspot - 2600 words / Teen & Up - Erend would die for her (don't worry, he doesn't) and I would die for them

you are unbreaking, though quaking by @plaidflannelcake - 3000 words / Mature - I have such a weak spot for like mind control fics (spoiler alert for my upcoming niloy list) and this one about corruption arrows scratches the itch

a sky full of light and none of them stars by @rhovanels - 3400 words / Teen & Up - condensed slow burn, plus drunk Erend falls out a window

your hands on every part of me by justalittlebluetiefling - 3600 words / Mature / HFW spoilers - just a raunchy scene at the base but also Erend is in love because duh

your hands on every part of me by @soupandchaos - 3600 words / Teen & Up - come for the sexy sparring, stay for Erend flexing

Thread Together by @yogrossdude - 3600 words / Teen & Up - single scene where Aloy gets injured and Erend stitches her up while being awkward

Long Road Ahead by @ladymaliwan - 4300 words / Teen & Up - I love drunk Erend and I love drunk and confused Erend even more

Steady by theyloy - 4500 words / Mature / mild HFW spoilers - Erend is surprisingly delicate when applying body paint, Aloy is unsurprisingly flustered

old wounds by @yogrossdude - 4500 words / Teen & Up - Erend is injured and Aloy is mad at him, quelle surprise

A Chance by @brandyllyn - 5000 words / Explicit / mild HFW spoilers - Aloy thinks she's missed her chance and Erend is bewildered as usual

outside looking in by I_heart_thunderjaws - 6600 words / Teen & Up / HFW spoilers - Big ol' mutual pining, the ending is so sweet I almost cried, and fun cameos from the rest of the gang

Playing Games series by @soupandchaos - 7900 words / 2 works / Explicit / HFW spoilers - stripstrike. that's it, that's the fic

Hearth by @yogrossdude - 8400 words / 3 chapters / Teen & Up - hypothermia and unresolved tension

those wings in your spine by @theherocomplex - 8800 words / Teen & Up - Erend is charming and lovestruck and dense, so basically he's Erend, kind of a slow burn I guess

simmer down and pucker up by @skellagirl - 9000 words / Explicit - injured, tattooed Erend and Aloy being shocked that she's into him

Fire and Spit by @godliath - 15k words / 10 chapters / Teen & Up - a good slow burn with lots of lovestruck gentleman Erend

Honourable mention: The Moth by @sacrificethemtothesquid - 250k words / 92 chapters / Explicit - look I don't think anyone needs to be told about this fic considering it's the #1 ereloy fic on ao3 and honestly I've only read like a third of it and it's almost too angsty for me because I'm a delicate flower so I probably won't finish it but the Vanguard in this are amazing and Tandin might be my favourite OC in all the Horizon fic I've read so we're including this for him and the rest of the Oseram weirdos

I can't draw and I haven't written anything in years and years, so consider this a small contribution to the fandom. I'd love to hear anybody else's fanfic recs as well!

Oh and I used the tumblr @'s for people whose names I could find. Happy to edit to include the @'s for anyone I'm missing, just tell me who I should be crediting!

Part 2: Niloy recs

[spiderman-homecomeme]

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#5

Smutty fic recs?

BOY HOWDY DO I

OOOOH yes!! here are some of my fav smut fics, some classics and some newer!

needless to say, all of these fics contain smut

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until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky by @tvfanatic97-2 - honestly already one of my fav petermj fics. a porn-as-plot coming (heh) of age relationship study w on-again-off again petermj. it's *chef kiss* amazing

5/12 chapters

15k words

'Cause Girl You Earned It by @jenniboo311 - like!!! damn!! dom!peter in this is so so good, and the dynamic between the two is so wonderfully written

one-shot

4.5k words

Craving Your Touch by @anarchyduck - a little dom!mj!! as a treat!! peter gets blindfolded and thoroughly enjoys it :)

one-shot

960 words

Reckless Behavior by @spideysmjs - a friends to lovers where peter and mj are competitive about who's the best at oral. what ensues is hot and hilarious

one-shot

9.7k words

a peculiar offer by @spideyxchelle - mj asks peter for a favor, she wants to have a baby, and peter, being the excellent roommate and friend he is, offers to help. a sexy, and also very very sweet fic!!

one-shot

5.1k

Caught by @procrastinationpony - THIS FIC okay!! mj gets caught in peter's bed and it goes very well indeed !!

one-shot

3.4k

the way you make me feel by abusedtrademarkemoji - you may or may not need a minute to lie down after this one. the dirty talk and the slightly dom!peter is exquisite.

one-shot

3.9k

when you give that look to me (I better look back carefully) by @mjonesing - a fwb fic (that's due for an update EMILY) that i know is going to destroy me. another instance of porn as plot (or porn w plot that comes later, as em's tags say) that's fun and sexy!! and peter and mj are big ol' idiots in it. amazing.

4/10 chapters

18.9k

this coupon is good for... by flying_snowmen - a classic!! when will this fic return from the war? fair warning, it hasn't been updated since 2020, but it's still worth the read!! mj gives peter a coupon book for a gift, not realizing it's for sexy favors dsjlakfjd

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#4

Have I known you twenty seconds or twenty years?

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#3

✨SQUISH✨

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#2

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My #1 post of 2022

Do you ever see a take so bad it makes you viscerally react to it? like imagine watching nwh, hell the whole home trilogy, and your only takeaway is that MJ was a “useless, boring character” or that she did nothing to help Peter?? Sorry you can't understand the fact that people don't need to have powers to help someone?

Because can we talk about this scene? 

Peter is wrought with guilt after everything that’s just happened. MJ holds his face as she tells him “we’re gonna get through this and we’re gonna get through this together.” She holds his hand. She comforts him. She just sits with him. 

It’s not always about being able to fight. It’s about emotional support. It’s about helping your friend/lover stay true to themselves even in moments of wild grief and anger. 

The other two spideys show up at first to SUPPORT PETER. Not to fight.

So many times throughout this movie, Peter’s loved ones (May, Ned, AND MJ) keep him grounded when everything is falling apart. 

if you honestly can’t see how important that is to Peter and you think it’s just about being a good sidekick, then you don’t understand the character.

MJ does this throughout the entire movie, and it’s from the very beginning; right after the identity reveal in the crowd, at Peter's apartment, on video chat, on the roof. And that's just in the first twenty or so minutes. 

She becomes the optimism he needs and makes him hope when he becomes jaded after May’s death. 

there is no Spider-Man without the people he loves and the impact they've had on him. And in the MCU, there is no Spider-Man without MJ, Ned, and May. Even with the ending, Peter carries May's moral compass, kind heart, and sense of responsibility; Ned's loyalty and humor; and Michelle's love and optimism, forward with him. He's able to continue being Spider-Man at the end because of May's words to him and because Ned and MJ are okay.

And I don’t even wanna get into the whole “MJ Watson’s not coming back/oh well she lost her memories!!” thing bc that itself is a post for another time.

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[deliriumsdelight7]

TMI Tuesday

Back at it again!

So before I get into anything else, I’d like to once again plug the Hellcheer Helloween Gift Exchange. Sign-ups start in less than a week, and go on until nearly the end of the month. Check out the event blog, @helloween-gift-exchange for further details!

Now that that’s out of the way. This week I posted a new chapter of “One More Time, Steal My Breath.” This chapter took a lot out of me to write, and is the longest single installment I’ve ever written, clocking in at just over 15k words. I need to recharge my batteries before tackling the next one, but I’ve got it all planned out in my head.

Right now, I’m working on Chapter 2 of “Hold Me Like You Held Onto Life,” my vampire/reincarnation fic. No snippets available yet; the first one or two thousand words of a chapter are always painfully slow going.

After this… there’s a few projects I might wanna tackle next. I could dive back into the angst of “Searching For Those Wasted Years.” There’s the forced marriage fic I posted about a few weeks back. And there’s also a Little Mermaid idea sort of lurking… but I don’t think that one’s ready just yet.

Anyway - I’ll be here all day if you have questions. I look forward to hearing from you!

[actualbird]

tot stuff im currently working on

a fic titled "The NXX Investigation Team In Their Natural Habitat, Unhinged: A Documentary by DAVIS" which is a comedy ao3 fanfic i made and started developing just yesterday. i want to finish it soon as possible maybe this weekend because constant creation is the only way i kno how to EXIST and also bc im a very obsessed with the idea and ive been writing it every free moment since i made it. since itll most probly be coming soon, i wont post any teasers until i post it in full. all u get is the title. DONT ASK ME ABOUT THIS TIL IT'S POSTED. BC I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL AND I WILL END UP ANSWERING FKGKSJD.

The Journal of NXX Investigation Team Behavioral Studies 2021. my younger sibling has agreed to layout this and make some kind of cover as well! im paying them ofc, value the work of creatives. started compiling the stuff and since 2021 isnt done yet and also because i'll do some editing, this will change. but as of today, all my character analyses put together clock in at 12,455 words. lowkey wanna see if i can bump that up to 17.5k in the remaining time before layouting so that technically this compilation will have the wc of a NOVELLA

ch4 of marluke bodyguard au bc i do NOT wanna take a wholeass month to update like i just did kjbsfgjksgs. this one comes after the comedy fic in first bullet point tho bc i need to write a BUNCH of laughs to the point that im craving angst, which ch4 will be. Having A Certain Amount Of. sidenote: i am worried about how each chapter has steadily been gaining more and more words. i had said once "yeah this fic will be lik 15k when it's all done" and then "okay it might be 20k" and then now "if it goes past 35,398 words, it will become the longest fic ive written on ao3 ever. marius, luke, will u guys do that to me? WILL YOU?????"

[novantinuum]

Interview with a Fic Writer

Tagged by @fordanoia, thank you so much! ;w;;

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How many works do you have on AO3?

I have a total of 67 works posted on AO3. (Even more on my ancient FF.net account.)

Of these, 38 are for Steven Universe, 17 are for Gravity Falls, 8 are for Doctor Who, and 5 are for Trollhunters. (One of the Trollhunters fics and one of the Gravity Falls fics are the same story, though- it’s a crossover, ahah!)

Out of the bulk of them, most are one-shots.

What’s your total word count on AO3

271,227 words.

...damn, that’s pretty decent. Hot shit, Jen.

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

Oh hey, the answer I already gave above! Yeah, I’ve only written for 4 fandoms in my entire life. I’ve actually written tons more Doctor Who than I’ve posted on AO3, but it’s older fic I wrote when I was 12-18, so... not exactly up to my current standards of writing. There’s a reason I haven’t cross-posted many of those.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1) Hollowed Moon (AKA the abandoned Spinel and Stevonnie one) with 2,709 kudos

2) Crack the Paragon, my long fic, with 1,398 kudos

3) Shattering Atlas with 627 kudos

4) Contact with 476 kudos

5) Bi the Way... with 279 kudos

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try my best to! I’ve made some friends before by responding back and forth in fic comments, so I always think it’s fun to engage with my readers in that way.

Fun fact: if you theorize or muse about lore in the comments of any of my fics, I will also muse about lore with you! I love discussing deep character/plot stuff, and sometimes even go in a bit deeper about my thought process while writing certain bits when people ask me about stuff.

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

Probably either Shattering Atlas (mentioned above) or The Price of Freedom, since they’re blatantly Hurt, No Comfort. Even the angstiest of most of my fics tend to suggest a light at the end of the tunnel, but those flat out END in a depressing manner, ahah. Fun to write, but... damn. You were sure goin’ through it then, huh Jen? Pat pat. XD

Do you write crossovers? If so, what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever written?

I have posted a single crossover- the start of a Gravity Falls/Trollhunters fusion sort of thing where teen Stanley ends up becoming the trollhunter, and meets Blinky and Arrrgghh. I got 4 chapters and about 15K in before I got sucked into Steven Universe hell, so I never continued it. Wrote a pretty bomb ass fight scene for it, though.

(I co-wrote one other crossover when I was a teen with some friends at a sleepover- it was the most Wild Dumb Bullshit ever, pretty much throwing Spiderman and Sherlock and Bilbo Baggins and the Doctor into a room together and locking the door. @yourstylishmom I know you know what I’m talking about, uhsndghjdj w h e e z e)

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not that I can recall. The only strange comments I’ve gotten have been like... people debating about Spinel in the comments thread of Hollowed Moon...? That was bizarre. More amusing than anything, though.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I mean, I HAVE written smut before. Your typical kinky bullshit. Have I posted it, though? No. Will I ever? No. It’s for my eyes, and my eyes only.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I’m aware of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope!

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I did do a lot of Fiddauthor RP with @the-ill-doctor back in my Gravity Falls era! Those were some lovely times. ;w; <3 A portion of those RPs have been shared in a fic format, too--> The Time We Lost, the Time We Mended

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

I don’t exactly have ONE all-time favorite, but the only ones I’ve ever sat down and created genuine content for are the Doctor/Clara Oswald, Ford/Fiddleford, and Steven/Connie.

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

Hmmm. Second Skin. There’s only two more short chapters I need to write, but I kinda started writing that as a vent fic, and... I’m (thankfully) not in that mindset anymore.

What are your writing strengths?

I like to think that I write pretty decent character dialogue, and have a knack for capturing the voices of at least a few of ‘em. Some are definitely easier than others, though! Steven, Amethyst, and Greg tend to be the easiest for me when writing SU fic. And back in my Gravity Falls days, I found it easiest to write Ford and Stan.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I don’t know how to write fluff. I don’t understand romance. I technically understand the CONCEPT of it, but I have never myself experienced what I would consider true romantic attraction, so I have no clue what that experience feels like. I tried writing romance once in Ticklish, a teen Steven/Connie fic, but I to this day have no idea if this is what it’s actually LIKE. XD

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

I don’t really have any opinion on this, truth be told. I’ve never really run into this in the fic I read- but I’m guessing it shows up in plenty of anime fandoms.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Doctor Who! That was the first fandom I read a fic for, too. If we’re counting unpublished fic that we wrote before we understood the concept of fanfiction, though... then the game Blinx the Time Sweeper *wheeze*

What’s your favorite fic you’ve ever written?

1) Crack the Paragon. It’s certainly the longest, most recent fic I’ve worked on- and I like to think the character work I’ve dug into with that is pretty neat.

2) Contact. This is the first true finished multichapter SU fic I have, and I think it’s cool to finally look back on this project as a cohesive short story, and be proud of myself for seeing it to the end.

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Tagging (if you’re super bored and would like a fun thing to do) fellow writers:

@mimik-u, @fanfoolishness, @infriga, @abel-quartz, @endae

[luminois]

— fic writer tag —

tagged by @aliceu 💫

1. what fandoms have you written for (but do not currently)?

i think the first one i’ve ever written for was harry potter? then there was SKAM (if you’ve never watched this tv show DO IT but only the original norwegian show not all the other remakes) and then i wrote for bts for a couple years but i don’t anymore

2. what fandoms are you currently writing for?

stray kids only but i’ve thought about making side blogs to write about the anime i watch and genshin impact too (but i probably won’t since i’m already bad at managing one blog 🤧)

3. how long have you been writing for?

i think since i was twelve? thirteen maybe?? i read hp when i was eleven and i remember starting to write for it not too long after PLUS it was 2014 so you know that that means, it was THAT internet era lmao

4. on which platform do you post your stories?

tumblr as of now but i used to only post on ao3 and i remember making like two social media fics and posting them on twitter jsksjsk so cringe

5. what is your favorite genre to write?

fluff, any type of fluff, especially domestic slice-of-life fluff, im a sucker for happiness and happy endings and just love in general! and i’m too much of a crybaby to write angst, i’d just make myself cry constantly 😭 ALSO smut but only when i’m really in the mood and even then it always ends up just being suggestive instead of explicit smut

6. are you a pantser or a planner?

girl i don’t plan FOR SHIT i just get an idea and unless i write it immediately as i get it i’ll probably never write it because my inspiration for specific fics only lasts a couple of hours and then my mind moves on to something else 💀

7. one-shot or multi-chapter?

definitely one-shot, i struggle at being consistent and i like to think about the things i write as entire universes contained in small amount of words, like those tiny ecosistems people grow in glass jars

8. what is the perfect chapter length in your opinion?

long enough to tell a whole story as a one shot or make serious progress in a multi-chapter, but not so long that it’s heavy to read so anything between 2k and 5k (but i always write stuff under 1k because the stories i tell usually lack plots and they’re just pretty to read, unless it’s a multi-chapter then i write between 1k and 3k)

9. what is your longest published story?

probably devilish, i think it surpassed 15k even if there’s still the final chapter left to publish, but i also have a 15k jikook one shot on ao3 that im NEVER showing to anybody ever

10. which story did you enjoy working on the most?

definitely the stray kids as hogwarts students series, i had to do so much character study and it made me love the boys even more than i already did plus it was extremely funny and it made me dive back into the harry potter universe which is very precious to me as it was my first fandom i actually joined

11. favorite request you’ve ever written and why?

its not really a request but i wrote it for someone else so i’ll consider it one and it’s operation ex aka minho being hot and getting his girl back after a break up lol, i like it a lot because i’ve never written a making up fic before this one and i wrote it for someone that was really special to me (they’re not on tumblr anymore and i don’t really have the means to contact them again so it’s kind of like the only thing i have left of them but it’s not as tragic as it sounds lol)

12. are there recurring themes in your stories?

ive been definitely indulging more into a magical, kind of ethereal vibe while before i used to write about everyday life (which i still LOVE doing btw) also the summer inspires me to write more cottage core things so that’s definitely a recurring theme

13. current number of wips?

none, zero, absolutely nothing. i don’t keep wips i just produce fics and post them right away because i don’t plan anything and my imagination is limited to magical moments of extreme inspiration followed by a long nap that leaves me too dizzy to think for the next three days after that

14. three things you have noticed about your writing?

1. im good at descriptions and bad at dialogues

2. 70% is world building, 25% characterization, only 5% plot

3. somewhat always annoyingly poetic

15. a quote you like from a published story?

“this is the last of your firsts, and you’re handing it to him on the first day of july. you didn’t plan for it but it feels like you did, your eyes finding each other as the apples roll out of the fallen basket. your body knows what to do without having to think about it, and it’s raw and warm and wet and incredible. the grass becomes your bed and that’s where you stay, breathless and sweating, white satisfaction leaving you blind while you try to remember more besides seungmin’s name.” (from this seungmin one shot, because i also don’t give titles to my stuff.)

16. a quote from an unpublished story?

see number 13 lol

17. space for you to say something to your readers

thank you so much for liking the things i write even if they’re usually just random scenes cherry-picked from bigger stories i will never write, all i wish to do is make your day a little better even if it only lasts a couple of minutes. and i’m sorry for making you witness the insane ways my mind works sometimes, but i’m happy every time i get to hear your opinions about what i do so thank you again for sticking around and making me smile 💛

tagging anyone who wants to do it plus @orphic-chan and @skzshortcake ✨

[alexseanchai]

Fanfic 2020 in Review

I got tagged by @kasienda @noirshitsuji and @marvelousmsmol and I am tagging whoever wants to play!

1) List of fics completed this year in the order they were finished:

*filters own works to complete and updated in 2020*

1 - 20 of 57 Works by AlexSeanchai

nope. *adds filter to include only works of at least 1000 words*

unless otherwise indicated, these are all Miraculous Ladybug:

“don’t bake it lying down”, post-reveal Marichat vs Felix Graham de Vanily

“veracity”, canon divergence from “Ladybug” featuring Mister Bug and Verity Queen (so also Marichat, I guess)

“(no request is too extreme, if) your heart is in your dream”, in which Hawkmoth wins, for the thirty seconds or so before Emilie saves Ladybug and Chat Noir’s lives

“tell me you love me and make me believe it”, in which trans girl Chatonne Noire ropes Ladybug into helping plan her civilian self’s escape slash social transition

“kingmaker, oathbreaker”, in which Hawkmoth wins and Emilie watches her son remove himself from the family

“stay and let me watch you break it down” (Twelve Dancing Princesses), a modern setting

“set a course for winds of fortune”, in which trans girl Chatonne Noire has already escaped and Gabriel and Nathalie are trying to bring Gabriel’s son home

“we ground love in a hopeless place”, in which post-reveal Marinette’s attempt to remain resolutely not in love with her partner dissolves like sugar in coffee when they start a pun war

“ring the bells that still can ring”, in which Alya is deeply confused about why Adrien and Marinette are planning a wedding when last night both were single

“burning wishes at both ends (the cold wind and long loud wail remix)”, in which Gabriel made a monkey’s paw wish and Emilie makes another

“words cannot espresso”, in which Marinette’s OC roommate is justifiably worried for Marinette’s safety, and meanwhile Adrien takes care of Marinette

“the compromise of truth” (the chronologically second-earliest part posted to date of nine lives, snake’s eyes), in which Adrien tells his friends how he won some freedom and respect from his father

“At The Present Time”, the Ladrien/Ladynoir marriage proposal follow-up to @art-deco-shrimp‘s  “Your Presents Required”

“j'ai rêvé (so I don't have to dream alone)”, in which the events of canon must just have been a series of dream sequences, Marinette and Adrien both think, until they both arrive at Chloe’s Halloween masquerade dressed as themselves from the dreams

2) Number of words written:

ahahaha no. I am not counting all my scattered fic drafts and trying to figure out what I did and didn’t write in 2020. I refuse.

AO3 says I posted 162K in 2020. it is counting all of keeps you guessing (like any real love), which (a) I started posting in 2019 (b) is co-written by @galahadwilder​; it is counting all of my meta snippets collection, much of which was written in 2019; it is counting the Vimeo passwords for my vids. but I probably cleared 150K by a safe margin.

3) Your most popular fic:

“veracity” has a four-digit kudos count, wow, when’d that happen? this is also the 2020 work with the most hits and the most bookmarks, but “tell me you love me” has four-thirds as many comments as its nearest competitor.

4) Your personal fav:

“cannot break us, not with a thousand swords”, no question about it. this is the one in which Ladybug proposes marriage to Chat Noir via Princess Bride meme on Tumblr. (if you intend to download the work or otherwise to consume it with creator style off, you want the accessible version instead of the primary version.)

5) Your fav scene:

aaaaaaaaa

—okay so this is cheating and I know it, since Uncertain Humors (the one where Marinette/Adrien is both Orpheus/Eurydice and Theseus/Ariadne) is nowhere near finished, never mind posted (maybe I'll get “Sanguine” done to post on my birthday?)

but it is still my favorite of the year. as you might guess from that description of the story, this scene has content notes for character death:

Hell is a maze. Marinette walks.

This acrid passage has little to see but damp stone, seeming blood-stained in the dim carmine light. At about the height of her heart, the faintly glowing thread cuts through the not-clammy air; it ought to be pulsing at the same rate as the heart it's bound to. She might be able to see her own reflection if she looked down at the open sewage pipe, or at one of the puddles that now and again she splashes through, dampening the canvas of her shoes. She might see reflected what's behind her.

She remembers Mme. Mendeleiev lecturing on human physiology. In healthy humans old enough to have learned how, urination is a voluntary action: one may not know which muscles one tenses and relaxes in order to do so, and probably isn't paying attention to those details when one is doing, but one has conscious control over whether one does. Usually. Stress and anxiety mean some people are unable to relax the relevant sphincter muscle and others are unable to stop themselves. It's voluntary for cats, too: it's one way they mark their territories. Cat-boys have other ways.

There is a moment in every human life when all one's muscles relax at once. Some Parisians have had several such moments.

The thread is braided with itself around her left fourth finger, rows of tiny red half-hitch knots, and falls loosely over the back of her hand to loop twice around her wrist. She holds it wrapped between the fingers of her right hand to keep it at a constant tension, as though knitting with this insubstantial thread, so fragile for something two (two dozen, two million) lives hang from—too thin to sew with, no thicker than one strand of his hair. As she walks, she winds it around and around and around her wrist.

Between her ring finger and her right hand, it loops twice.

Marinette's shoe lands in a puddle she didn't see. The rainwater splashes soundlessly onto her bare ankle and on the stone.

(With cat-like tread, upon our prey we steal— It's a very loud song.)

She walks on.

6) A fic or scene that challenged you:

where the firelight fades, no contest. this is the second story I’ve ever been able to stick with more than a couple hundred words past the 20K mark, but it’s easily the twentieth novel-length I’ve begun. (though also, you know that kedreeva post? well, 90K later, I’m less than 15K from completing this 10K fic! I think.) and I have been learning so much about long-form fiction.

there has also been a lot of weeping and tearing my hair. case in point: I just trashed the chapter 15 draft because I figured out the reason it wasn’t going anywhere! I can probably keep the first few hundred words of that draft without any editing, and another few hundred with some revision...

7) A line of writing you’re proud of:

from “j'ai rêvé (so I don't have to dream alone)”:

Everything about their partnership is fragments of sentences in the dream diary Adrien writes in ultraviolet pen. Disjointed flickers of thought even when examined under the black light he hides in the snack cabinet under packets of Super Yoyo sandwich cookies and bags of cheesy Monster Munch potato chips and boxes of petit écolier butter cookies (chocolat noir)—none of which explains the gym-socks smell. All fleeting incoherent flashes, invisible between the mundane lines of La Modification shelved at his bedside between Leroux and Dumas. None of it is solid. Adrien has more proof his room's haunted.

okay let me break this down for you!

* Adrien started a dream diary to make sense of the memories

* in invisible ink, in a book that (according to Wikipedia) is thematically appropriate and won’t (if Gabriel sees it) look like anything other than Adrien developing an interest in French literature

* shelved between Phantom of the Opera and The Three Musketeers

* look I didn’t come up with the name “black light”

* or “chocolat noir” for what English speakers call “dark chocolate”, or “petit écolier” (that is, “little schoolboy”) for that sort of butter cookie

* also not my fault that “chocolat noir” sounds remarkably like “Chat Noir”, which, attentive readers may have noticed, is not a name that appears in the story after the header and before Miraculous Cure

* I found the website of a store in Boston, Massachusetts that caters to French expats, and the yo-yo cookies and the monster chips were right there in the photos, y’all

* the snack stash and the black light live in the cabinet where, in canon, the Camembert lives; yes, that cheese smells in the real world like gym socks

* this story’s akuma was not able to affect anything but squishy human memory: nobody affected remembers anything about Ladybug or Chat Noir or Hawkmoth, not in any solid way, not even when they read news articles about the subject, and this includes Marinette and Adrien not being able to see or hear or remember their own kwamis—but you know what Adrien’s Insta post about his poltergeist and Adrien’s Insta post with the floating sock don’t show and don’t explicitly refer to?

* I love this paragraph so much (my housemates may have been lovingly mocking me over it)

8) A comment that touched you:

there are people (y’all know who you are) who said y’all are studying my style. I ded of blush.

9) Something that inspired your writing:

by volume of fic drafts that can be blamed on any particular person, the winner is probably @norakwami​

10) Your proudest accomplishment (that one scene; finally finishing that one fic; posting your first fic; etc):

so that longest-story-ever-written record I set in 2007 with the 89.5K story that, till where the firelight fades, was the only story I’d gotten much past 20K?

I broke that fucking record!

and then I deleted the draft of firelight chapter 15 😭

11) Do you have any writing goals for the next year?

I’m starting work on a fantasy novel, a Sleeping Beauty retelling in which I explore (among other things) the economic consequences of the king’s ordering all the spinning wheels burned, and I want to make significant progress on that. and I want to not make my hands any worse; I kind of need those!

(breaking news alert: bodies fucking suck. so does giving yourself repetitive stress injuries in doing one and a half to two people’s worth of work for an organization that was never ever going to pay you more than one person’s worth of pay.)

[yeah-klave]

A Short History of What Happened

Written, with love, for EnKlave Fest 2021.

Prompt: Omegas aren't allowed to join the army, but then Omega!Klaus gets dropped into Vietnam and has to pose as a Beta. He manages quite well, right until he goes into heat. Alpha!Dave is protective and incredibly aroused/horny.

Genre: Omega verse, smut, developing relationships, slow burn, undercover, misunderstandings, secretly in love.

Word length: This chapter: 600 (Entire work: 15k+)

A/N: I've never written anything in the Omega Verse genre before. When I claimed this prompt, I had no idea where this was going to take me. But as I've been working on this over the last few weeks, this fic has just grown arms and legs. It's easily the single longest one-shot I've every written. So, basically, what I'm saying is that the entire fic isn't complete yet. For now, I'll just post the introduction. But watch this space, because more is coming...

Warning: This chapter is suitable for “teen and up” audiences, but the entire work, when posted, will contain explicit sexual content (so, 18+ only, please).

Disclaimer: I don’t own any of The Umbrella Academy characters or settings.

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If you asked Dave later, he’d probably say Klaus Hargreeves happened to him all at once.

In reality, however, it wasn’t quite that simple.

In fact, when Dave actually stopped to think about it, what really happened was that Klaus Hargreeves snuck up on him. Like a sneeze. Or an orgasm.

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Dave smelled Klaus before he saw him.

He was fast asleep on his cot in the tent, in the middle of a warzone. Then, suddenly, there was a flash of blue light behind his eyelids and Dave became conscious of the most intoxicating omega pheromone scent he had ever smelled.

Then Dave opened his eyes and there he was. He was. Small and vulnerable and frightened and male. Also, beautiful. Breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful.

Crack. Bang. The earth tilted on its axis. The ground shuddered and angels sang. There he was. The line in the sand. The before and after. Klaus Hargreeves had happened to him.

The first thing Dave noticed was the fear. He could smell it. It radiated from the omega’s scent glands in waves. It was fear, definitely. But there was something else in there too. Confusion? Dave thought. Disorientation?

The second thing Dave noticed was that the omega was mostly naked. He registered that almost as an afterthought. It was far less important than the simple fact that the omega was scared.

Even through the fog of sleep that still clung to him, Dave’s alpha instincts kicked in and his first conscious thought was: protect.

In hindsight, what he should have thought was: why is there an omega here? More specifically: Huh?! Omegas are banned from joining the armed forces. Baring that in mind, I wonder why a scared, naked one has suddenly materialised at the foot of my bed in the middle of the night? And why is he holding a… briefcase?

In those first few seconds, though, Dave’s brain didn’t get quite that far, because the omega looked up at him through large, hypnotically beautiful, dark-rimmed eyes and Dave temporarily forgot how to breathe.

The man looked up at him and cocked his head to one side, further exposing the scent glands on his neck. The pheromones in the air thickened. Then the omega furrowed his brows, his mouth opening slightly in wonder.

And Dave just wanted to scoop him up.

But at that exact moment, the assault started outside the tent and the night was suddenly filled with the sound of explosions and gunfire.

The man’s eyes got impossibly wider and the smell of fear intensified.

The other men in the tent began jumping to their feet, grabbing their guns and running to the exit. They barely spared Dave and the omega a glance. Thank God for betas, Dave thought with a small jolt of relief.

“Incoming!” A booming voice shouted through the night. “Go-time, ladies! Charlie’s on the wire!”

Dave hoisted himself out of bed, grabbed a pile of his clothes and passed them to the omega.

“Here,” he said kindly, his voice low so he couldn’t be overheard. “Put these on. I’ve worn them, so they’re covered in my scent. It should help… mask yours.” Dave swallowed and added delicately. “Probably best to… keep your neck and wrists as covered as possible. These guys are betas, but there are some pretty mean alphas out there, so watch your back.”

The omega let out a shuddering breath.

“Okay,” he said shakily, then quickly began pulling on Dave’s clothes.

***

And that, as they say, was how it all started.

[minsugallery]

Writer’s Tag Game

Tagged By: @taecup-ontrack @taecup-fics 🥺 Tee

1. What fandoms have you written for that you do not write for currently?

• I have written, but never published, fanfics for Marvel (mostly Bucky Barnes and Loki), Naruto, Black Butler, Harry Potter, and some Lord of the Rings, too.

2. What fandoms are you currently writing for?

• BTS

3. How long have you been writing?

• Probably around 3-4 years on Tumblr.

4. On which platforms do you post your stories?

• I originally used to write those drafts I mentioned earlier on Wattpad, but never published. That was for maybe a year or two or just writing drafts on Wattpad, but I only ever published on Tumblr.

5. What is your favourite genre to write?

• I feel most comfortable writing fluff and comfort.

6. Are you a pantser or a planner?

• I only really plan the basic plot, as in the way I want it to start and the way I want it to end, everything else in between is free game.

7. One-Shot or Multi-Chapter?

• I have an admiration for Multi-Chapter fics and extremely long One-Shots, neither of which I can accomplish at my current level, haha. I have only put out one Multi-Chapter fic so far because the concept of following up with more posts is a bit daunting as of right now, but hopefully in the future you will see more Multi-Chapter fics from me.

8. What is the perfect chapter length in your opinion?

• I struggle with writing stuff longer than 7-8k but I really want to push for around 15k.

9. What is your longest published story?

• So technically in terms of chapters, the longest story would have to be the multi-chapter fic “Love is Not Over.” But in terms of word count, I’m not sure because in my older fics, I never really used to put in the word count, but it’s probably “You’re My Forever,” or “My Dearest Queen.”

10. Which story did you enjoy working on the most?

• I absolutely adored working on My Dearest Queen, and it’s still one of my most precious fics to date. I also very much loved Painful Hugs ‘N All.

11. Favourite request you’ve written, and why?

• I’ve never opened up requests before!

12. Are there recurring themes in your stories?

• I write a lot of fluff, and established relationships!

13. Current number of wips?

• I have 4 wips and 1 outline/concept/idea that I haven’t started actually writing yet!

14. Three things you have noticed about your writing?

• First, I prefer happy endings. Second, I prefer starting with established relationships. Third, I’ve never written anything over 10k.

15. A quote you like from a published story?

• “Oh his eyes. They shone with the light of a thousand galaxies and were sprinkled with stardust.” [An excerpt from ‘Painful Hugs ‘N All’]

16. A quote from an unpublished story?

• “He drops sparkles and shimmers of stars as he gracefully rides along.”

17. Space for you to say something to your readers~~

• I want to thank all of you for being so patient with my gaps in between posting. I also want to thank all of you have come to my blog across all of this period of time because something I wrote brought you some sort of joy, or happiness, or comfort. Thank you for finding solace in my work, and here’s to many more fics!

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I’m Tagging: @taegularities | @hantaev | @joheunsaram | @cremeandsuga | @ditttiii | @sublimebangtan | @ressjeon | @petiteyoon | @deerecordstudios | @hobipaint

[fyliwion]

Hello! I’m a fan of your Kaiao writings especially the 30Kisses collection, and I hope to start with Two Truths soon! ♥️ For the fanfic asks, what about wednesday, october, minutes? :) thank you in advance! 😊✨

Thank you!!! <3 That’s awesome, and I’m glad you enjoy them ^_^

Thank you for asking! I’ll do my best:  Wednesday: name a fic which you have posted which you think is underrated?

Mmm this is a hard one. Out of DCMK fics probably The Cuckoo’s Trick. I’ve always been really fond of that fic (and was probably one of the things that had me repost 30 Kisses as separate fics). That said, I have a Sherlock Holmes fic called An Ever-Fixed Mark that I’m still startled I even managed to write. So that one’s def up there. 

October: name the darkest or angstiest fic you have written and/or posted?

That’s a tough one.... I think it’s a tie between Goodnight and there were a couple from my collection Sweet Days and Longest Hours on fanfiction.net that hit me. More ficlets, but Breathe and Another Word for Anger are especially jarring-- that collection will probably be the next to get up on A03 after Two Truths, since it’s got a few of favorites, and I still need to finish seven in it ^^;; 

Minutes: how long does it normally take you to complete a fic?

Hah! Ugh... forever or sometimes just a day. Honestly it’s hard to say. I have fic’s I’ve never been able to finish, but got the first 20K words out in a couple weeks. Two Truths is by far the longest and most complete I’ve ever done, and I still can’t quite finish up the last chapter even though it was mostly finished. That got started probably in 2010, but I picked it up (it was maybe 10k? 15k?) and pretty much did a thorough rewrite at the start of last April? May? And finished it the middle of August. That said, I had more time then I ever had in my life, which I think attributed to how I got 100k in three months. 

Ficlets I can churn out quick if I know what I want. I’ve done a fair number of one-shot in a day or two (even longer ones up to 3k or 4k) I write better if I can sit and get it out-- especially if it’s for a challenge or set of rules. I definitely have a hard time getting back into something, no matter how much I love it, if I let it sit too long unattended. 

[inviting-nonsenseworld]

Fanfiction Year In Review - 2020  

I saw some people do this and it seemed fun, so I decided to so it as well!

1) List of fics completed this year in the order they were finished:

Alright, let’s see

Incandescent (atla, gen fic)

In Your Arms (atla, zukka)

Saturated Sunrise (atla, gen fic. Sequel to Incandescent)

(bnha, atla AU, pre-tododeku)

A Couple of Steps is All It Takes (bnha x atla, tododeku)

time will bring a home that’s meant for me (bnha, tododeku)

Honorary mention: no rest for the wicked (tua, gen fic). I started this fic back in 2019, but I posted the final chapter in 2020. I dunno if that counts so I’m putting it as an honorary mention lol

These are the completed fics. I wrote some more that I didn’t post or that didn’t complete a fic.

2) Number of words written:  

55,937 words.

That’s including non-completed fics. It was a good year for writing for me, huh

3) Your most popular fic:  

Going by kudos and hits, it’s no rest for the wicked. If I only consider the fics started and finished in 2020, going by kudos, it’s Incandescent, but going by hits it’s In Your Arms.

4) Your personal fav:  

Definitely time will bring a home that’s meant for me, but Incandescent gets very close to it. The fic time will bring a home was something I wanted to write for the longest time, and I finally managed it! It’s a post-canon (well, sort of. it’s actually an over-the-years type of fic, but focusing on post-canon) very introspective fic focusing on Shouto and what is the meaning of home for him while also weaving into it the importance of his friendships and his growing relationship with Izuku. It was a blast writing it, and it’s the longest project I’ve ever written at once in a short time.

Incandescent is a close second because I love writing about characters with synesthesia, and it was very fun exploring a bit the consequences of Zuko having synesthesia in the atla universe.

5) Your fav scene:  

I love the scene in which Zuko wakes up still out of it after receiving his scar in Incandescent. It’s a simple, small scene, but it was fun writing Zuko’s perception of his environment and the colors he sees due to his synesthesia mix while Iroh is there.

I also really liked writing the scene in which Izuku wakes up from a nightmare in  time will bring a home that’s meant for me. It was meant to be an emotionally charged scene, so that was fun to write.

6) A fic or scene that challenged you:  

A lot of scenes from A Couple of Steps is All It Takes gave me trouble, actually. It was meant to be a short fic, two or three scenes at most, something around 3-4K, but then things didn’t feel connected enough and the world didn’t seem well built and explained, so it stretched into a ~15K mini monster. Scenes like the one in which Shouto and Izuku talk about Shouto’s waterbending by a lake, and the one where they’re attacked were particularly hard to write.

7) A line of writing you’re proud of:  

A trickle of sunlight reaches the kitchen from the living room. The glow reflects on the kitchen tiles, lighting up the room and highlighting the freckles that dot Midoriya's cheeks. The curls on the top of his head seem soft, no sign of leftover dust from his work yesterday anymore, and Shouto wants to feel the difference between them and the short hair of his undercut in his fingers. In the silence of the early hour, the moment seems almost removed from reality, a small, frozen piece of the world with just the two of them.

Midoriya feels like home, and sitting there in the middle of Shouto's kitchen, he looks like he fits perfectly.

I cheated a little because it’s not a line, but I love this part so much. It’s from time will bring a home that’s meant for me. The entire fic has a lot of lines and paragraphs that I’m actually proud of.

8) A comment that touched you:  

Ohh, I got some super sweet comments from someone who has chromesthesia just like Zuko in my synesthesia serie. They were really nice and made my day when I received them <3

9) Something that inspired your writing:  

The writing style of some tododeku writers, like unreemarkable and stanzas, inspired me quite a bit. I’ve read some fics from these authors that were wonderfully descriptive and emotionally charged, and the feelings they evoked in me are what I strive to do with my writing. So, I tried to do a bit of that in my latest fics! Not that I truly accomplished it, but it’s a step in that direction asxdcvfbghjgfd

10) Your proudest accomplishment (that one scene; finally finishing that one fic; posting your first fic; etc):  

Oh damn, that’s hard. Probably finishing time will bring a home that’s meant for me. I do love this fic haha

11) Do you have any writing goals for the next year?  

Finish let the shadows fall behind you because I meant to do that last year but then online classes kicked my ass. I also want to write 2 other tua fics, but we’ll see how that goes. I plan on finishing the last installment of my Zuko has synesthesia AU too, but that’ll take a while yet. I’ve kinda drifted back to one piece again, so I also wanted to try my hand at writing something with Law.