#the problem is i'm tag-teaming this fic and also one for the secret santa in july

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writing asks! 😈🎶👀(specifically tell me about time travel please)

well hello! writing asks indeed!

😈: has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

yes! i'm calling it the two-chapter break between the end of chapter 6 and the end of chapter 8. gotta keep you on your toes sometimes re. the fates of certain characters :)

🎶: do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?

sometimes i do indeed listen to music while i write! fixed point has two playlists now (whoops), one that's a companion and one that's just full of songs that were either inspiration or reminded me of the plot a bit. right now i'm on the wrap-up of the entire fic (!!!!) and the tune that's pulling it all together is the way it seems by nat & alex wolff!

👀: tell me about an up and coming wip please!

oh god i've just realized i'll need to write an ao3 summary for fixed point. fuck me. anyway. here are some stats from the current iteration, which is so so so close to being done. SO close. so close.

> 108,694 words > 16-17 chapters (i'm considering splitting this last one in two so probably 17) > 222 pages in the word doc (217 of that is fic, 3 is pre-plan, 2 is scrapped scene beginnings) > 156 instances of the word fuck > 29 different time settings, if I'm counting right > several side characters including: Steve Peeps, a cohort of trained assassins, Oscar and Emmy, Chris's Cousin Zee, and Francis Beaumont > one (1) ferret

i am so incredibly excited to start sharing this with you oh my god. i went a little wild with the emotional arcs, jonathan harris gets the most character development i've ever given a human being, "emotion swamp" DOES make a reappearance, chris and robert scream at each other a lot, vanessa is the absolute MVP and i love her a lot.

anyway this month i promise. i swear to god. i am finishing this fic if it's the last goddamn thing i do.

thank you for the ask! i hope it satisfies you for now :) love youu

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Your McShep fics are giving me life. I'm CRAVING McShep content recently - its so hard to discover a love for old fandoms that are now less active! Please send me all the great other McShep fics you stumble across, I've burned my way through your whole library

Oh my goodness!!!! This ask plus the one from a few weeks ago are really telling me I need to get back to doing fic rec posts regularly!!!!!

First of all thank you so much for your kind words about my fic 💖💖💖💖 honestly for me SGA fandom feels soooo active, even though I know it was an actual juggernaut back in the day lmao. BUT that means that there’s a MASSIVE backlog of stuff to read!!!! Just insane amounts of staggeringly good fics!!!!

And second of all you can check all my previous rec posts here: the tag is sometimes ficlets I’ve reblogged but also lots of links and lists in there!!

ANYWAY. Let me see if I can rustle up some new recs for you my friend! I have a couple of unposted recs in my notes so we’ll pop those in first:

Five People Who Know by hestia_lacey | ~4k, rated E

Five people who know exactly how John Sheppard feels about Rodney McKay.

Only read this if you’re prepared to have your heart stomped on, but ahhhhhhhh. The first part, with Jeannie, is definitely my favorite.

Wishes on a Wheel by waterfalliam | ~3.2k, rated T

The sun is gentle, faintly wrong against his skin. The wind whispers against his arms and neck that he’s alive and that counts for something, he’s never wholly alone, he still has himself—but it’s nothing like the sea breeze that feels like home.

Absolutely beautifully sad introspective Epiphany!John piece, dealing with his depression and feelings of abandonment, with a sweet ending 💖

Solitary by @esteefee | ~5k, rated M

Four days in solitary gives a guy time to think. Unless he's an idiot.

Aggggh the John voice in this is immaculate (as is to be expected from esteefee ofc). Sardonically funny with a soft and chewy emotional core that just...takes a little time and a little chipping away at to get to. But, you know, worth it.

Followed by two faves from this year’s sga secret santa, both of them variations on the theme of John and Rodney making up:

In the Dark of the Night by @hero-in-waiting | ~5.8k, rated M

The problem with arguments is that they never happen at a good time. Which is a to be expected given their nature. And the problem with trying to make up is, at least in the Pegasus galaxy, they come at an even worst time. Especially when John and Rodney get stuck off world, running from some locals who took a dislike to them immediately and five days after an argument that, in John's opinion, had started over nothing.

But at least they were together?

Love the concept of this one, love them being forced into life or death situations before being able to talk about their feelings, looooove the misunderstanding on Rodney’s part 🥰🥹

When I Think of All the Worries That People Seem to Find by @audioletter | ~2.3k, rated G

After ten years of being together, John acts like John and Rodney acts like Rodney.

Absolutely cried reading this I love it so much. The depth of knowledge that they have for each other after so long is so apparent in the best, most beautiful way.

Aaaand let’s round it out with a nice long one:

Inukshuk by murron | ~80k, rated M

A mission-gone-south isolates Rodney and John from the rest of the team. Forced to search for an Ancient outpost, they struggle to keep each other alive until the time their kidnappers prepare to sacrifice the one and purify the other.

This is absolutely a mcshep fic but I almost found that taking a backseat for me in my enjoyment of the way that the plot unfolds, the way that it’s written? Absolutely spellbinding work, I struggled to put it down.

[shey-elizabeth]

I posted 366 times in 2021

34 posts created (9%)

332 posts reblogged (91%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 9.8 posts.

I added 350 tags in 2021

#steter - 141 posts

#stiles stilinski - 39 posts

#steter secret santa - 31 posts

#steter secret santa 2021 - 25 posts

#writing is hard - 24 posts

#sugarcoated - 23 posts

#peter hale - 22 posts

#stetopher - 18 posts

#fic rec - 14 posts

#i love him so much - 13 posts

Longest Tag: 102 characters

#especially when character a and character b are doing something and days or weeks passing is mentioned

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

My 2020 Fic Master List

Here’s everything I started posting in 2020. Four finished fics and two long WIPs! I’m pretty proud of myself for getting this much done since my brain is half-way mush with everything else going on.

The Only Tree in the Forest (4/7, WIP, Steter, 16053 words)

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50 notes • Posted 2021-01-02 18:09:17 GMT

#4

Low-hanging Fruit

Low hanging fruit - a thing or person that can be won, obtained, or persuaded with little effort.

Peter sighs down at the bound, shirtless boy that’s been dumped at his feet, then raises a questioning eyebrow at his betas. “Was all of this really necessary?”

(inspiration image below the read-more! )

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59 notes • Posted 2021-10-22 01:06:21 GMT

#3

Sugarcoated by Shey

Stiles doesn't want to admit it, but his dad is right—he's trying to pack way too many minimum-wage hours into the five-week break before the new semester starts. But what else is a screwed over college student with a budget tighter than his worn-out skinny jeans supposed to do?

At least he's found some nice, distracting eye-candy to keep his mind off of his problems.

Chapter 3 is finally up!

70 notes • Posted 2021-03-05 22:53:52 GMT

#2

Sugarcoated

Stiles doesn't want to admit it, but his dad is right—he's trying to pack way too many minimum-wage hours into the five-week break before the new semester starts. But what else is a screwed over college student with a budget tighter than his worn-out skinny jeans supposed to do?

At least he's found some nice, distracting eye-candy to keep his mind off of his problems.

Epilogue

OMG It's DONE!!! I finished a long fic you guys!! I can't believe it!!!

97 notes • Posted 2021-09-10 21:23:09 GMT

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My Very Valid Explanation for All of the Teen Wolf Plot Holes

Here's a thought. Let’s go ahead and accept that TW is told from Scott's perspective. He’s the main character and the narrator. The plot revolves around him (often to the exclusion of other burning questions).

(Stop here if you don’t want to read about Scott being an unreliable narrator.)

That would mean that every time the audience is hearing about something that happened when Scott wasn't there, he knows about it because someone told him after the fact. That means the entire show is just Scott's retelling of whatever version of events he's heard about.

So using this Very Scientific Theory, all of the plot holes are places where either Scott didn’t care about an event, or times that people were straight-up lying to Scott about what happened.

Why did Jackson disappear at the end of season two? Why did no one go looking for Boyd and Erica? Where did Isaac disappear to when Chris came back without him? Cora? Danny?

You know who got an actual exit? Allison. The one Scott actually cared about. 

This could also explain some of the really out of character stuff. Like, Peter’s drama-queen killing of Jennifer that doesn’t seem to change anything. In Scott’s world, Jennifer disappears, and obviously Peter murdered her because he wants to be Alpha again. And the big bad villain would definitely scream "I'm the Alpha!" after his horrible murder was completed.

Scott the Unreliable Narrator also explains all of the weird plot holes. Like Derek deciding to run off with Braeden. Peter teaming up with Kate for no apparent reason. Peter’s bizarre hole-filled story about Paige and Derek. The lack of discernible ages for half the cast or any kind of timeline since the fire. Malia’s entire existence.

It could also be why Stiles "doesn't have magic." despite some strong evidence that he was headed that way. Because by the time Stiles would have been able to use it (probably post-Nogitsune), his relationship with Scott was fractured enough that no one told Scott about it.

It  would explain so many things if half the plot of TW was just Stiles going "no, buddy, you'll be happier if you don't know that Peter and I fucked like bunnies in the train station."

697 notes • Posted 2021-02-12 21:22:14 GMT

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HOHOHO! I'm so excited you're participating this year! I was like you when I first joined the fandom, and this event was a huge reason why I got out of my shell and started making the incredible friends I have today. I want to make sure I give you the best gift ever! Tell me what you love about CS? Favorite kind of tropes/fics? Can't wait to hear from you xoxo Santa

So I just went back and looked and I first posted about OUAT in 2014, so it’s been a while! And for posterity sake, I looked at my thoughts as I did my first watch of the season. here’s some interesting things: 

1. I thought Killian was SO pretty from the beginning, thought he was a super fun character, but didn’t love him as a shipping prospect for Emma; and 

2. Loathed Neal. Loathed with the fire of 1,000 burning suns. Also didn’t want him with Emma. I actually was so confused about him and felt like I was going crazy that no one in universe saw what I saw. 

3. Adored Emma. Like she was undoubtedly my favorite character and all my analysis of the show was “CAN EVERYONE CUT EMMA SOME SLACK, PLEASE?!?!” I at one pointed tagged a gif set of Emma with “precious little sugar dumpling” and another with “look at this little peach.” Emma is my favorite.

Which leads me to the eventual shipping of Emma x Killian. It was because HE CUT HER SOME FREAKING SLACK and was 100% team Emma. Emma became his favorite, and then he became my second favorite because of that fact. And now they’re tied for first. 

And holy shit I apparently decided I wanted to talk, so there’s more below the read more. 

So, things I love about CS would include: 

I love how, despite appearances maybe, Emma loves deeply and she wants to be loved deeply in return (I just rewatched Tallahassee and that episode is heartbreaking because it’s Emma solving problem after problem after problem in order to be with Neal and both him and August letting her down so much)

I love how focused and determined and single-minded and driven Killian is

I love how when Emma outwits Killian, he admits it and is delighted by it (seriously, it’s one of the first things that I noted! that for all his swagger and confidence there is very little ego)

I love how much you can see Emma just melt when someone hugs her

I love how much the idea of home matters to both Emma and Killian

I love how confident Killian is that he is going to find a solution to any problem even when circumstances seem bleak

I love the rare Emma smile when it’s happy and carefree

I love the look on Killian’s face he gets where it is 100% heart on his sleeve you can see everything he’s thinking BAM!

I love that in their first real conversation Killian wasn’t like “so tell me where you grew up” but is like “TELL ME ABOUT ALL YOUR THOUGHTS ON LOVE” and that instead of Emma being like “so, how’d you get into pirating” she’s like “SO...THIS MEMORIAL TATTOO. PROBABLY LINKED TO THE MURDER YOU WANT TO DO?! YES?” like, guys, have you heard of get to know you questions? did it not occur to you to warm up to the big questions? 

Favorite things to have in fic: 

Tropes: fake dating (obvi), sucker for a coffee shop AU, love it when the grumpy one meets the smiley one, secret dating, “who was going to tell me we’ve been dating this whole time?!?!”, have read 1,000 sleepy domestic fluff fics;

Smut: smuff or smut glitter over the really dirty stuff (mostly I get distracted by the logisticals of a lot of smut), and this is getting long;

I love a little bit of everything, to be honest. My only “requirement” is that Killian be on Team-Emma and Emma be on Team-Killian, which given this is a CS fic exchange feels like a given. 

I AM SORRY THAT YOUR SECRET SANTA GIFTEE IS SUCH A WORDY BITCH.