#this fic was written in a single day

[thedistantstorm]

Uh, surprise, I wrote an Elimakro fic that’s the prequel to the Thranto enemies to lovers fic I’m working on and I am really fucking hype about it?!

[quillkiller]

humbly asking for yalls favorite lesbian/wlw fanfics… <3

[intertexts]

ros i hope u know that every time u post nhw virion i want 2 EXPKODE he’s literally my most specialest little guy of all time i love him. having insnae blorbo thoughts over him except i don’t know how 2 articulate any of my thoughts so i am just perpetually rotating him in my mind at mach speeds. wgajghggh i wamt 2 hold him gentle in my hands. like a baby bird. ur imprint art makes me want 2 eat rocks. mentally i am putting ur imprint art in a heart shaped locket and looking at it and sighing wistfully like a widow whose husband died at war or some shit i love hjm SO MUCH ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ me when nhw virion

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[unopenablebox]

god protect and deliver me from the self-inflicted desire to do enough historical research to confidently make expansions and alterations to this medieval fantasy nonsense setting

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Anyone who tags 50000 different characters on their fanfic when said characters are not the main focus / only mentioned once should be hunted for sport

[damianosismyking]

So you have an au about damen being abusive with laurent ?????

Please let me know more?? Any hcs or thoughts or anything pls

The capri fandom needs some dark aus fr

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hello my darling!

I've been gone so long that I have no idea when you sent this and I'm deeply sorry for that!

I came up with the idea for an AU in which Damen's abusive way back in 2019/2020 (2021?) and to say I was a different person altogether back then is an understatement. I also haven't re-read the books in a long while so I can't say I recall everything I had imagined for this fic to begin with BUT!, I've got some fuzzy thoughts stored in the back of my mind that may satisfy some of the crave for Dark Damianos (a concept deeply slept on in my honest opinion but with how much people like to hate on him for free, it's best if we keep it sleeping lol).

DISCLAIMER: in my very private opinion, Damen has a natural darkness to his character that I find appealing (or would be appealing if I wasn't a coward) to explore. Those are the lenses through which I approach the abusive patterns he could come to develop in a relationship with an already emotionally/psychologically vulnerable Laurent. And also in my very private opinion, Laurent is a vulnerable character (for all reasons we as a fandom dwelled on to the point of exhaustion, but, most of all, in relation to how he sees and thinks of Damen — in terms not only of admiration but almost adoration, just as he did with his brother).

We all rememeber the scene at the end (?) of PG when Laurent is stepping on Damen's toes by saying bad things regarding his family and how Damen loses his temper and hits Laurent hard enough to draw blood. The guards step in to arrest Damen for hurting the prince and Damen takes full blame for doing it without showing a single bit of remorse whatsoever. Laurent is the one to talk his guards down from arresting Damen by pinning the blame of being assaulted on himself and that is it.

This idea (of an AU that never came to be) was forged mostly on the side of Damen's character that has a tendency to jump believe he is always right in the assessments he makes and proceed to never question the truth behind his own reasoning. And on the side of Laurent's character that always blames himself for every bad thing that has ever happened to him despite his own helplessness, and nurtures an unhealthy need for a role model to hold on to — once his brother, now his lover.

I'm going to leave all my thoughts for this AU bellow the cut, in case some people may find the matter too upsetting to read about. Trigger warnings for domestic, physical and psychological abuse, obviously! Proceed at your own accord and don't come whinning later🫰

so putting two and two together:

Damen is prone to angry outbursts or just violence in general. We see in more than one occasion that it doesn't take much for his 'bad side' to come out, which is a characteristic a lot of aggressors in this very patriarcal society we live in also showcase. And as their universe is ALSO incredibly patriarcal, this would check out.

As aforementioned, one of the most significative intances of Damen's violence is the day (after he had already slept with Laurent, after he admitted to himself he was in love with Laurent) where he he baits into Laurent's provocations and hits him.

Laurent's edge, I personally believe, though attenuated as it may be by the end of the cicle of abuse he endured all the way from his late childhood throughout his adolescence, will continue to be in place. It was wired into him as a survival mechanisms and old habits die hard. Whenever he is overwhelmed or any of his emotions slip from his iron-cast grip, he will likely spit fire and try and hurt whoever is within his reach.

Honeymoon phase being over, let's say the kingdoms were in fact merged (not going to get into any of that). Let's say Damen is the king of Vere as much as Laurent is the king of Akielos. Let's say their troups, their guards, palace servants — they are all unbiased and answer to both Laurent and Damen as their true kings equally.

Let's say Damen and Laurent continue to get at each other's throats. Lets's say they still got plenty to disagree upon and that their personalities continue to make them butt heads. Let's say their grudges, though they have agreed to leave the past be in the past, hold and come up again. An underlying resentment inate to their love. There's a lot of tension that I can see surrounding L/D's relationship. If you don't believe that it's fine, if you don't see it, that's more than okay. But I'm asking you to bear with me here.

They are having a heated argument in their palace about something that wasn't (shouldn't be) personal, but all of a sudden is. Damen says something that offsets a chain reaction in Laurent and he becomes a boy in selfdefense mode resorting to the good old habit of pushing Damen's weak spots just for the pleasure of making him angry and miserable. Damen has had a long day, he is weary, he is fed-up with all the kyroi, all the councelors making demands and telling him how to do his job. Laurent says the wrong thing at the wrong time and a moment later he is on the floor, with his hand on his cheek touching the burning spot where Damen slapped him. He bit his tongue in the impact and he can feel the blood in his mouth which he swallows.

There are no guards that come in this time, because they know better than to step into their king's quarrels. Damen tells himself it was Laurent who pushed him too far, he didn't mean to do it. Laurent agrees — Damen would never have done that if Laurent himself hadn't asked for it. Damen was good. He's only ever been good. He doesn't do anything without a good reason. Laurent is the one who fucks things up and pushes people too far. They make up.

Next time isn't that different. Nerves were high for a thousand different reasons. Laurent maybe got up from the wrong side of the bed. They argue. Damen pisses him off so he goes on to piss him off in return — just to give him a taste of what that feels like. In the back of his mind he remembers what happened last time they argued but he brushes it off as a mistake. Damen wouldn't dare to make the same mistake twice.

Then Damen does. And just like the other time Laurent loses his footing from the strength of the blow. His eyes tear from the pain but they don't fall. Damen is fumming over him, telling him how Laurent pushes him over the edge. Damen, who is such a just, charming, fair king. A much better king than Laurent is, with his head in place at all times in a way Laurent's own never is. If he lost his temper, it was because he was forced into it.

Laurent is the one who went too far again; Damen simply reacted to it. He stands and tells Damen he was wrong for saying the things he said. He shouldn't have. Damen agrees; Laurent shouldn't have. They make up.

Every time Damen is forced to loose his temper with Laurent he get angrier with Laurent and becomes a little wilder. Laurent should not make him keep doing it! He doesn't mean to do it! When the anger subdues, after they make love, in the morning after, Damen shows Laurent the tokens of the love he still has for him — a new mare of an excellent breed for Laurent's private stables, a new imported book he would like for his personal library, a new delicacy their cooks learns to make as sweet as a human can handle just the way Laurent likes it.

Damen is a good lover. Most of the time. If only Laurent stopped bringing out his bad side.

Laurent understands how every time Damen hits him it's his own fault. He tries to stop himself from causing their arguments but he can't. He always ends up saying the wrong thing, he always disappoints Damen somehow and though he can keep his stance straight and his face void, deep down he's terrified he will eventually drive Damen away.

After the loss of his entire family, after the death of Auguste, of living so many years under the sadistic regime of his uncle, Damen is everything Laurent has. And Laurent, warped as he is by nature, tainted and wrong and bad at his very core, doesn't deserve him. He knows he doesn't deserve Damen, who is so honorable, so good a leader, so righteous and mighty. But he wants Damen and he wants him to stay. He wants to be good for him and for Damen to think he is good.

So when the slapping evolves into punching, Laurent searches his own words, his own actions for where the fault lies. And always he finds it. The exact word he said in a meeting with their kiroi and councelors that undermined Damen's authority. The exact moment he stopped to speak with an ill-intentioned courtier who flirted with him and he must have unintentionally flirted back. The provokation implied in a comment he thought was innocuous. And the fact Damen only found more and more of reasons to be dissatisfied with Laurent, despite him becoming evermore self-aware and trying so hard, so much of the time, to please Damen, meant nothing more than the fact that Laurent was a man full of flaws. It wasn't on Damen.

They both agree Damen's assessment and his morals could never be wrong. He is too good and honest a man for that. Laurent is causing all of it.

The oldest members of their guards notice the slow, steady shift. Those that used to compose the old Veretian prince's guard are worried. They whisper among themselves when they see a new bruise blooming in their king's fair skin or hear the shouts coming from inside the royal chambers. But no one dares to raise a voice against king Damianos. Jord or Lazar (or whichever of the prince's guards you like best) goes to Laurent to raise their concerns and ask if everything is all right between him and Exalted. If there is anything Laurent needs. Anything at all. They will stand by him come what will. But Laurent berates them and tells them to keep their noses out of royal business.

Damen is approached by Nikandros and inquired about it when one day Damen unintentionally leaves Laurent with a black eye. Damen finds that is the perfect opportunity to lament about all the ways Laurent has been driving him insane and making him miserable. That he is getting worse with time where Damen had hoped he would have settled and his temperament improved. That years after the events they lived through, he keeps holding Damen accountable for things that should be left in the past. That Damen doesn't blame Laurent for killing Kastor, or torturing him in Vere anymore, so why should Laurent still resent him for Auguste.

Nikandros understands. He feels sorry for Damen, that Laurent makes his life so difficult. He has witnessed their quarrels before, had seen the way Laurent evokes Auguste's name as a dagger to dig into Damen's heart.

Then it becomes common knowledge all around their court: Laurent is as unbearable and hard to reconcile with as he'd ever been, prideful and resentful and cruel. And Damen is the poor man who has to handle him atop a whole kingdom he has to rule. There is no soul in their kingdom that doesn't feel bad for Damen's situation.

What no one seems to notice is that Laurent has taken to flinch whenever Damen lifts his hand. That he tenses when he raises his voice. That he is much more succint and careful with his words whenever Damen is around, because he doesn't want to upset him.

All they notice is Laurent's worsening moods. His renewed bouts of broodiness and anger. That he takes anything and everything out on everyone — the servants, the guards, officials, nobles of the court, the walls and the furniture. Nothing seems to please him anymore. Everything sets off his rage. Which is something else Damen has taken to punish him for, in the privacy of their chambers.

Laurent never cries. Not when Damen tell him how difficult he is, how impossible he makes to love him. Not when he sees the several shades of new and healing bruises all over his body, not when he gulps mouthfuls of his own blood. Laurent hasn't cried since he was thirteen. But he gets more and more hopeless each day that passes and he is proven again no good man could ever truly love him because nothing good and pure remains so in his presence.

Laurent always brings out the worse in people, no matter how he tries to get things right.

But he keeps on trying. Because maybe one day he can. And maybe Damen will see there is good left in him to love even though he makes his life hard and harder every day. And maybe one day Damen will love him easily.

Because all he really wants is to be worth it of Damen's love.

And that's all Damen wants too. He already loves Laurent so much. He would never, ever hurt him again if only Laurent would stop provoking him into it.

[benevolenterrancy]

Man, some fanfiction feels like you're writing with a broad brush, splashing paint all over the canvas, not too worried about what gets where as long as it's bright and fun and vibrant and pulls you in

And then there some fanfiction that feels like fucking surgery. Why is my heartrate picking up as I very carefully transfer one paragraph to another part of the page, going so delicately because I'm worried I'll break the thread of my thoughts and the entire web of plot is going to crash down to my feet

[lord-squiggletits]

Tbh sometimes the culture around gently asking people to comment on fics is so annoying to me. "Leave comments but only if you're comfortable and want to uwu" Actually I think you should leave comments bc that's the one fucking form of compensation we writers are asking for in exchange for the hours we spend writing stories FOR FREE and no I don't really care that it's "hard," it's hard to WRITE too but I still fuckin do it because I love it and get a sense of gratification out of the act of giving.

Like for fuck's sake before I became a Tarnma writer I wrote only MegOP, a literal top 3 of all ships in the fandom, updating regularly for like 3 years on end, regularly being put on rec lists, having over 200 user subscriptions. And yet with the exception of my most popular multichapter fic my comment rate is still fucking abysmal. Dozens or even hundreds of kudos (individual people who liked reading my fic, not hits which is the number of visits) yet I'm lucky if my comment section just hits fucking double digits. Literally one of the top popular writers for a top popular pairing and STILL most of the comments I get are just from my regular readers. They tend to leave comments on every chapter of multichapter fics which means my total number of comments doesn't actually represent the total number of people commenting. Popular fucking writer for a popular fucking ship and my comments section is still abysmal.

I actually don't care any more. Fucking comment on my shit and fucking comment on every writer's shit. I'm tired of only getting new comments for maybe the first few days/week after posting and that's it. I'm tired of feeling like I have to be a content farm constantly pumping out content in order to get any engagement at all, and if a fic is older than a year (or even honestly a few months) I might as well kiss goodbye to ever getting comments on it again.

I actually don't care anymore. If you read a fic every day then fucking tell me. Give me like a handful of fucking sentences telling me SOMETHING I know 99% of people on AO3 have taken a goddamn literature/composition class and know how to do something besides mindlessly consume content. Leave fucking comments it's really not that hard.

[star2stop]

oh my god guys i found a 2 year old spiderpool fic draft at the very bottom of my google docs and oh my god what is this

[theflyingfeeling]

me: look, I'm writing!!

me @ me: you're not writing. you just made a note file about the Olli/Allu fic advent calendar and spent an unnecessary amount of time on it too by using colour coding

me: I'm writing!! 🥰

[myrmidryad]

Practical Necromantic Cell Manipulation

Almost as a joke, Max asked, “Liz, did you and Rosa kill Noah Bracken?” “Oh yeah.” She raised an eyebrow, daring him to comment. “Twice, actually.”

For RIP Roswell Day Three, Crystal Ball: hocus pocus, tricks and treats, mystical abilities and connections, transformations and charms, tarot and palm reading, covens and familiars

Read on AO3

[humanrinds]

if you've ever read my fics and thought 'is this bitch ever going to write something kinker' the answer is technically no

[thewintersoldierdisaster]

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[oneirataxia-girl]

oc halloween challenge 2023 ⇝ day two

Lights, Camera, Action! ft. modern celebrity!Raon

Jin Raon, or by her stage name Eyre Jin, is most known for her role as Alyssa Lee in the horror romcom Thirteen Times's the Charm, and her most recent work alongside former Disney kid Steve Harrington and Corroded Coffin's Eddie Munson. Eyre has also graced many magazines for her partnership with Adidas, and more recently, her possible flirtationship with her two co-stars of the classic romcom Niceties.

bonus:

Niceties is a clever take on the classic love triangle trope -- with the book-loving protagonist Felicity Park (Eyre Jin) falling for the equally studious Asher (Steve Harrington) and the gruff biker Zane (Eddie Munson), Niceties doesn't force Felicity to choose between the two equally attractive men but instead allows the love triangle to form a real triangle, by having all three of them enter a polyamorous relationship. Critics of the film may claim the ending to be unrealistic, but perhaps the actors of Niceties might be able to prove that poly relationships can have a happy ending, even in real life.

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the enabler's call: @arrthurpendragon@hiya-itsamber@carmens-garden @shrinkthisviolet@slytherindisaster @daughter-of-melpomene-- want to be added? shoot me an ask!!

[jianghushenanigans]

Whumptober Day 25: Storm

It’s raining.

It’s been raining for a while, now, been raining since before he got here, but it feels different, now, somehow.

The worst of the storm has past, but now he is cold and exhausted and soaked to the bone. Any alcohol he had spilt has been washed away. If he was bleeding, it would all have been washed away.

He’s not bleeding. That’s the funniest part of it. All that fighting and he’s not even spilled any of his own blood, and yet here he is, still. He’s sat in a doorway in the rain and he’s dying and he didn’t even bleed for it.

He wasn’t ready. He thought he was ready, he must have been ready, or shifu wouldn’t have let him keep the book, wouldn’t have let him learn his secrets.

He’s a terrible disciple. Can’t even follow his master’s teachings.

He wasn’t ready.

He wasn’t ready for shifu to leave him alone and he wasn’t ready to fight Dark River on his own and he wasn’t ready to drink himself to the next level of cultivation.

He wasn’t ready to die.

He isn’t ready to die.

There’s so much he needs to do.

He promised his shifu he’d be waiting for him when he returned. He promised the Lady Rui that he would marry her out of her servitude, his own lack of feelings irrelevant. He promised… He promised Xiao Se that he would be the Guardian of the North, the Black Tortoise. That he would be there to help him. To help him and Ruoyi and Qianluo and Wujie.

They still need their da-shixiong.

There’s rain in his eyes.

That’s it, that’s all it is. The rain.

The storm had died down when the battle did, as though it had echoed him and the power flowing through him. Burning through him. And now he has no power and the rain has returned to normal and Tang Lian has returned to less than normal, to less than…

His head tilts to the side. He can’t hold it up any more.

The inn is in ruins, far worse than he promised the poor boy. How will he be able to survive now that Tang Lian has helped to ruin his livelihood?

He manages, slowly, painfully, to bring out something to pay for the damage. His wrist flops to the ground before he can purposefully place it there.

There’s blood on his hand.

That’s funny. He thought it was… the rain...

Crossposted here on ao3

[formulafang1rlwrites]

I have to confess something to you Lestappies...

I know you all voted for Queenofwags and I'm definitely going to write it (sooner or later) but since yesterday I can't stop thinking about my Bodyguard AU and well...what can I say. I've already written another (half) chapter of it.. 😬😅🫶

Sorry (not sorry)