#there’s a good chunk of it written already

[everlastingday]

thank you @heartstringsduet, @carlossreaders, and @lemonlyman-dotcom for the tags! 💜

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Carlos was torn. Despite the gruelling nature of their program, he was starting to really enjoy the routine their group had developed. Eating meals with the others, studying with Mateo and Marjan, unwinding at the end of the night with them; these were all things that he looked forward to, and that kept him going throughout the day.

He sighed out loud, even though he was alone in his room, and there was nobody to hear him. Carlos knew that in order to dedicate time to Iris, which, he reminded himself, was the whole reason why he was here in the first place, something had to give, and it couldn’t be his studies. 

He had gotten a good chunk of his homework done the night before, so he decides that he’s going to spend the rest of his Saturday on Iris’s case. He thinks that the library is a good place to start — there’s a section dedicated to alumni works, including their third-year dissertations, so Carlos is hoping there will be something that Iris has written there. 

Just as he puts on his shoes, he hears a knock on his door. He wasn’t expecting anyone, but he figures it was probably Marjan or Mateo knocking to see if he wanted to go study. He swings the door open, and TK is standing there, sunshine personified.

“Hi,” he says happily.

“TK,” Carlos says, caught off guard. “Hi.”

“Sorry, is this a bad time?” TK asks, no doubt sensing Carlos’s hesitation. “I just wanted to see if you wanted to hang out with us today. Nancy had this great idea of grabbing some food at the dining hall, and going for a swim in the pond before it got too cold, and —”

Carlos cuts TK off before he can continue, selfishly, because if he hears any more, he’ll lose all his conviction and say yes to that handsome face. “Sorry, I can’t. I’m busy.”

TK sighs exasperatedly. “Carlos, what can you possibly be so busy with that you cannot take a day off?”

It was like a flip switched in Carlos. He bristles at TK’s tone, and suddenly he feels irritated. “I just have to study. Not that I need to report that to you.”

TK looks taken aback by the way Carlos snapped at him, and he regrets it instantly. He knows that he’s misdirecting his frustrations at TK, but by the time he opens his mouth to say something, to explain himself, TK’s already turned on his heels and stalked off. 

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[ghost-bxrd]

So there's a fic in the plan👁👁

“Who says I want anything? Maybe I just want to brag about my new jacket,“ he grins, “And my new rug.“

Nightwing spits at him, and Jason laughs.

“Don’t pretend to care now, Bitchwing. At least I’m doin’ something with it instead of letting it catch dust in the basement. You should thank me, really.

“You know nothing,“ Nightwing hisses, borderline feral in the way he strains against Batman’s restrictive hold, escrimas crackling dangerously, “You know nothing you despicable little—“

“Jesus,“ Jason whistles, flipping the safety off the gun he keeps aimed at the tank chock-full of fear gas. Wearing a helmet with its own air filtration system sure comes in handy at times, “Just get yourself a new comforter off Ebay or something. Rich assholes like you surely know a guy or two who like shooting exotic animals in their free time, right?“

— sneak peek of “Our Dead Drink the Sea” 🌊🦭

[quietlyblooms]

i wanna keep being a silly billy and keep writing, but i'm gonna be good... sending myself to mobile so that i'll actually sleep at a decent-ish time uvu please have a lovely night and day!!

[shima-draws]

Feverishly writing the plot for my Sanlu Fairy AU now out of spite. It’s spite that will benefit you all anyway but STILL.

[calmlb]

babyzai is activating my baby fever soooo bad he's the cutest thing ever I want one so baddd omg 😭

NO SAME i need to hold him so bad 😭😭🤲🏻 someone tell me where i can preorder my own babyzai ‼️

[spumonibones]

Chapter 25 of Chasing Wings is FINISHED.

That sucker is going to have so many lore/story notes lol

Chapter 26 is honestly super daunting. Been building up to it for several chapters now, and that is the starting point of this fic heading towards its end.

It might get split into two chapters, I don't think all its planned content will fit in one. Guess we'll see?

[raptorrobot]

i'm churning this shit out like butter. eat up

[cherrysha]

Can I write A/B/O genshin or is A/B/O uncool again

[noxiatoxia]

@pumpkinmetaphor HII ur asks are off and tumblr DMs are a nightmare to navigate so I will respond here to spare poor poor op

soo I have quite a bit written out actually, but idk if it'll ever come to be ...? I think I actually made a post abt it a bit back. It's just one of those many many things I write in my downtime for fun that will prob never get finished. Anyways the concept revolves around werewolves because I love stories of protags having some deep secret they cannot reveal for fear of rejection or worse. In the story, Kaoru has been infected with lycanthropy after being attacked badly by a werewolf. He lies about this encounter to everyone, doctors and his brother included, as he genuinely believes he must have saw wrong. He was attacked at night when he couldn't see well, the animal seeming to be a wolf...but there aren't any wild wolves in Japan. So Kaoru believes it must have been something else. (side note idk how the disease spreads as of yet. Think either saliva in the bloodstream like rabies or it's a thing of if you get killed by a werewolf you come back as one not knowing you technically died...)

Soso Kaoru beings acting strange after this event. After weeks recovering physically, coming back home, his personality shifts unknowingly to himself. He becomes a lot more restless at night, much more snappy and rude, generally kinda acting like his brother more lol. He just seems to be losing his temper easier and being more aggressive and physical, even with Hikaru, who he also becomes more snappy with. Obviously he doesn't understand why he's acting like this, neither does anybody in the club.

Then the big thing happens...full moon baybeeee. Up to this point Kaoru would feel more awake/elevated heartbeat when looking at the moon, but when the full moon comes around, he feels fucking crazy. Like manic and uncontrollable and he starts to freak out a bit. However he sticks it out because the club is hosting a prom event like episode 2, so it's like, whatever, go home and sleep later.

Until he makes the mistake of forgetting to keep himself busy, which leads to him compulsively staring at the moon, and then he finds he can't look away, and well.

And the transformation thing sort of has him black out. In my head, I imagine the werewolves look like regular wolves, just a tad bigger with bigger paws that may be more human-like. Definitely makes him lose all cognitive ability, and by the time he snaps back to normal, he doesn't know where he is, his clothes are tattered, he's in so much pain, and there's blood, and he's like whaaat the fuck happened here...

He's able to hide these facts, not wanting anyone to know how he found himself when he woke up bc that shit cannot be good. quickly through talk he finds that morning that haruhi got hurt last night, so of course hikaru (who is doubly worried about his brother who disappeared for a chunk of the night) urges that the two of them along with the rest of the host club check up on haruhi (who is at home trying to tell them "im fine guys gooddd")

but like, ofc its the club so they knock the door down lmfao. and tho haruhi plays it cool, she is obviously a little shaken about whatever happened. she has some bandages but nothing awful.

turns out, as she explains, an animal attacked her last night (cue tamaki wailing) and she scared it off by blindly slashing a pocket knife at it ("WHY ARE YOU CARRYING SUCH A DANGEROUS WEAPON AROUND!?!? IF YOU NEED BODY GAURDS KYOYA CAN DO SOMETHING IM SURE-" "i use it to open packages senpai.")

kyoya of course takes the idea of a wild, vicious animal on school grounds very seriously, and so inquires on the appearance of the animal. haruhi pauses but admits it looked like a wolf. of course kyoya tells her that can't be right, it must have been a stray dog, but haruhi insists it did NOT look like a dog.

anyways, the club are in uproar about this, arguing back and forth about this wolf-not-wolf that nearly killed haruhi, and kaoru is silently watching from the back as a terrifying realization dawns on him. he remembered waking up with there being blood. namely, blood on his hands and under his nails, and a nasty cut he got on his cheek which he assumed he acquired by tripping and hitting something sharp. But if he pairs that with what haruhi says, it seems INSANE, but also...it would make sense. everything to this point would make sense.

and it terrifies him. it terrifies him more that hikaru swears up and down that he's going to "kill that filthy mutt" that hurt haruhi, and it terrifies him that kyoya says he's going to bring this up with school staff about increasing security. he wonders if he told them that it wasnt just a wolf, it was HIM, that if they would be merciful, or if they would still hate him. if hikaru would want him dead still. and the fact is, he HURT someone. his friend. this is his fault and he cant even blame his friends if they wanted to go as far as kill him if they found out, now that he is literally a monster that can kill people.

this, finally, is where the carriage thing comes in (took long enough!) the story functions as an elaborate ass metaphor, where kaoru's lycanthropy is a physical metaphor for his anxieties about the person who he's supposed to be, the harm he thinks he's causing other people, the harm he's causing his brother. he's running around, trying to find a cure while keeping everyone in the dark, praying no one finds out before he can fix this and fix himself. and if he cant, his only option is likely a grim one, but he CANT let anyone know, it's too risky, he has to do this by himself. his self-destroying obsession with keeping everyone safe and doing the right thing for his friends causes him to push them away from fear of hurting them or getting hurt himself. there's that part of him that's convinced he won't be able to solve this.

it basically drives him to his lowest point mentally and physically. he avoids all his friends so he can't hurt them with his uncontrollable temper or possible transformation, he's doing tons of shady shit in an effort to cure himself. he goes to nekozawa bc if anybody knows how to solve this fuckery its nekozawa and nekozawa treats him like a little lab experiment lmao bc of course he is enraptured by kaoru's newfound form and the physical changes it has made to his body (sharper canines, faster-growing hair, possibly an inch taller, newfound silver allergy). but of course as news of the wolf attack on campus spreads so do rumors, some "crazy" rumors about werewolves being real, of course rumors that are mocked by most of the kids as being nonsense scary stories, but this does NOT help kaoru's paranoia...

as for how this story ends WELL it's unfinished so you can guess (i have no ending.) i do want some part of hikaru obviously finding out at the worst possible moment, probably a very unfortunate circumstance where kaoru is unable to escape transformation on a full moon and hikaru is there. and he probably begs and pleads for hikaru to leave him alone but of course his brother won't do that, and obviously he is fucking stunned to see his brother turn into ?? a wolf. like erm *marvel voice that just happened..... and since kaoru has no control in this form, he tries to attack and even kill hikaru. hikaru would obviously not fight back, bc he doesn't want to hurt kaoru. that and he is stunned silent.

there are other elements of the story i want. for example, if i ever finish this thing, i do have ideas of ayanokoji being involved somehow. probably a witness to kaoru's odd behavior/actual transformation and thusly being able to use this against him cuz Fuck Da Host Club. or even try to kill him herself bc he's a fucking wolf dude idk. i also had this scene in my head with arai being involved bc the night kaoru attacks his brother he wakes up far as fuck away from tokyo with no memory except knowing A) hikaru was there and B) there is blood all over him he can only think of the worst possibilities so he kinda wanders in an unfamiliar back road in a fugue state until some lady almost accidentally hits him with a car and is like. who is this child covered in wounds and blood......and very sane thing to do she is like. hey do u need like. a lift. you look like ur gonna die. you have like 3 stab wounds. and kaoru is like. floor it chief. anyways turns out it's arai's mother ! woah. which is funny because after helping Kaoru and hanging out with him she admits she's like, "oh i helped you cuz you remind me of my son. you seem about his age" and kaoru is like oh ha ha that's nice of you....and then fuckin arai shows up a few hours later and kaoru is like "ohhhhhhhhhhh............................uhoh."

to which since kaoru doesnt have his phone on him arai offers to phone haruhi for him since he has her number and of course 5 minutes later the host club is at their location in a fucking helicopter or some shit bc ZOMG KAORUUU WE WERE SO WORRIED ABOUT YOUUUUU WHERE DID U GOOOO (hikaru withholding information)

it's an incredibly "fan fiction-y" story i admit. but that's the fun of it. it could get soooo dramatic too. cuz like yeah duhh hikaru wouldn't want to kill kaoru ofc not but OTHER people ? there's a guy who is a werewolf. umm. can't see that going over well. and the general attitude kaoru would hold and the way he attempts to figure everything out on his own. the day he and hikaru reunite after hikaru finds out the truth could go so many ways, from silence to yelling to crying to awkward laughing to kaoru just blankly asking what hikaru plans to do with him now, like he's a prisoner accepting his execution. sorry i am a fan of introducing trauma between the toxic codependent twins. and like the other members of the club? i can see people like tamaki being quick to try and help kaoru (despite what he did to haruhi) and haruhi being like "this may as well happen welcome to Ouran Fucking Highschool" but people like Mori or Kyoya may be more hesitant, pointing out kaoru, while not malicious, genuinely CANNOT control himself in his canine state and has shown multiple times that can and WILL kill people, including his friends, and that can't be ignored or brushed off. maybe they put a muzzle on him idfk. either way, it's also a great metaphor for stigma bc once his friends start finding out, they are obviously treating him differently. Even (or especially) hikaru. he's being treated like a different person now. it makes him feel more inhuman than ever. they only see this awful monster he can become now, he feels, and honestly, maybe they're right. it's not all of who he is, but it's a part of him, a part of him that has hurt two people he loves most, and so he can't help but judge himself based off that too.

well ermmmm yes! that is my funny funny story that i have like 6k written down in a word document of that i may or may not finish who fuckin knowwws

[kbots]

y’all lemme know if you’ve got verawocky fic requests cause I’m out here looking to dominate the tag

[storms-path]

Au Ra August 2024: Day 15 - Giant

"All my childhood, the landscape above the canopy was dominated by that mountain. My parents always warned me never to go near it, that it was the domain of dragons. But..."

The call of the unknown will one day be answered, even if it takes a lifetime.

[junicult]

So happy that you’re back! I love your writing I think you do Shane and Sam SO well, do you think you’re going to rewrite the whimpering for Shane,Harvey (I sadly don’t remember who else was in it.) and I’m so sorry about that I did the same thing and tumble just said *poof* gone. Cried for a good 30 min tbh.

thank you!!! i’m so happy to be back. and IT LITERALLY SUCKSSS😭😭it was like the worst timing for that to happen too cus it was the first time in a while that i got a major surge in inspiration, & the fact that my wifi went down the same minute i tried to save it…tears were shed.

also i’m definitely rewriting it, are u kidding?? my fav topic is men whimpering trust me i won’t leave u guys hanging🫶🫶

[shoechoe]

Sheila E. reminds me of Hermes so far

[dabe-strudel]

I have a history of loving secondary characters or side characters in general more than protagonists. I always find them more interesting.

The issue is I have fallen into this tRAP WITH MY OWN WRITING but if I just swap the POV then I run the risk of it happening AGAIN

[sonknuxadow]

Ohh i just jumpscared myself with the knowledge that i have like 500 million unfinished synthv project files just sitting there . scary !

[outer-edges]

me vs the uncontrollable urge to write the longest most unnecessary tlou fic in the entire world. i currently have an entire notion page and playlist running for this fake part II fic