#this is 1k worth of writing right here i cannot believe i wrote this much

[lesbianfr0gs]

malec + magnus taking alec to his london flat and showing him the city, telling him about how he's lived there and what his life was like back then

Having a warlock for a boyfriend was proving tohave many benefits. One mainly being the fact that Magnus liked to whisk Alecaway to different countries for dates. Today’s agenda included going to London,where they would spend the weekend in Magnus’ London flat. Magnus had portalledthem straight into his flat, and Alec was met with a modern interior, which ifhe was being honest he was expecting a little eccentricity, but Magnus is neverone to be predictable.

“I’ll give you the grand tour later Alexander,but right now we are going on a mundane tour of London.”

“A mundane tour?”

“Mmm. No magic. We queue like men.” Alec huffedout a laugh as Magnus held out his hand, wiggling his fingers as though thatwas going to entice Alec to grab it. Which, he did. Alec is only human (well, half human) and if his boyfriend wants to hold his hand, well he’s gonna damnwell hold it.

They spent the day sightseeing. Alec was amazedby the London Eye, his eyes lighting up as they looked over the city from uphigh, a small woah escaping his lips.Magnus held onto his hand as they walked through the city, never letting go. Noteven as they stood outside Buckingham Palace and he told him about the timethat he was invited by the Queen for tea, because of course he was.

As the day progressed, Magnus dragged himthrough the high street because we’re inone of the fashion capitals of the world, Alexander; I’m not passing up the opportunityto shop. So they shopped. Until Alec felt like his feet were going to falloff, and Magnus was thoroughly happy with his purchases.

“Now, I know I said no magic, but there is noway I’m carrying any of these bags back to the flat.” Alec smirked at hisboyfriend who clicked his fingers, sending their purchases back to hisapartment. Magnus spun around once finished and grinned at Alec, pure happinesstaking over his features and Alec couldn’t help himself from stepping into hisspace and kissing him softly, Magnus humming lightly against his lips.

“I think it’s time for dinner, don’t you?”Magnus spoke softly, almost whisper like when they pulled back, not wanting toruin the moment. Alec nodded and grabbed his hand again, intertwining theirfingers as they made their way to nowhere in particular.

Nowhere happened to be a small corner fish andchip shop, with small booths for people to sit in. The couple were sat acrossfrom eachother; their feet tangled beneath the table, and smiles on their facesas they slowly ate.

“Tell me a story.” Magnus looked up at Alecwith an eyebrow raised, questioning the sudden interest. “You know, tell me afun story of your time in London. You gotta have some fun stories right?” Magnussat quiet in thought for a while before a small smile started to appear on hislips.

“Well, most of my time here was poisoned byCamille, but around the 1970’s, when disco was very big, I had come to Londonto visit Ragnor. Now, I don’t know what got in to his mind but as soon as Iportalled there he was plastered. Like off his face drunk. Which, if you hadknown Ragnor, you would know that it was something that he rarely ever did.Except this time, he was sat on the living room floor, singing loudly, wearingbright pink disco pants.”

“Wait. Disco pants? Really?”

“Oh of course, they were the fashion back then.I myself was in a bright gold pair.”

“You were wearing disco pants?”

“Yes.” Alec sat wide eyed as he tried toimagine Magnus in disco pants. And when Magnus conjured up a picture of himselfwearing them, Alec choked on his food, laughing till tears came to his eyes.Magnus sat across from him, trying to keep a feigned offended look on his face,but the sparkle in his eye as he watched Alec laugh gave away his truefeelings.  

“I’m never going to be able to look at you thesame ever again.”

“Ha ha. Do you want to hear this story or not?”Alec nodded once he had calmed down, smirking into his drink, knowing that if heopened his mouth he would start laughing again. “Okay, well I’ve always stoodby the theory of never letting a friend drink alone, so within a couple hours,we were drunk out of our minds and obviously we decided to go out and causesome trouble.”

Alec sat with fascination in his eyes and agrin on his lips as Magnus told him how he and Ragnor had gone to a club andused their magic to make random peoples pants disappear of their bodies as theywere dancing. The pair laughed at all the antics that Magnus retold, yet aftera while Magnus’ laughs started to become sombre, a look of sadness reachingdeep into his eyes.

“Hey, what’s wrong?”

“I miss him. And being back here just bringsback all the memories.” Alec moved around the booth so that he could sit nextto Magnus, placing a hand on his knee and pressing a kiss to his cheek.

“Thank you for sharing that little bit of yourlife with me.” Magnus looked up from his lap, looking into Alec’s eyes, a lookof pure love on both their face.

“I’m starting to think I would tell youanything you wanted to know.”

“Oh. Anything?”

“Mmm.”

“Maybe you can tell me why you decided to drownyour chips in ketchup then.” Magnus gasped, slapping a hand to his chest,causing Alec to laugh.

“Are you calling me out on my ketchupconsumption, Alexander?”

“Yes, I am.”

The two spent the rest of dinner laughing witheach other and sharing soft kisses between bites of food. And in that moment, thatmoment of happiness and love, Alec knew that any memory made with Magnus by hisside, no matter how big or small, it would be worth holding onto forever.

[arofili]

how’d u get into writing? like, writing fic and being part of the silm community, being Known, that stuff? i’m really new to being a silm cc and i’d love to know ur advice! also: how’d u build up the confidence to start posting meta/hcs? bc i have a Lot of hcs and meta ideas but also i’m really anxious abt posting them bc yknow anxiety is like that

these are some great questions, anon! I’m gonna go through them one by one :)

how’d u get into writing?

not to be like, super cliche, but I’ve...kind of always been a writer? as long as I can remember I’ve been telling stories, and when I was too young to read or write I would dictate them to my mom, who would type them up for me and help me choose clipart illustrations to accompany them. when I got old enough I would always be writing; I attempted my first novel at age 9, and while that never really went anywhere I did finish the darn thing and it had some pretty sophisticated plot twists for a 9-year-old!

like, writing fic

around the same time I got into fandom! I was deep into Warrior cats (like. really deep) and I believe I started writing my first fics when I was like? 10 or 11? my memory is kind of fuzzy on the order of things, but I know I got an account on the Warriors forums when I was 9, and that I was already posting my fic there when I made my FFN account. I believe I was 12 when that happened, but who knows. I haven’t the faintest idea of what happened with those forums, but uhhh pretty much all of my Warriors fic is still up on FFN lmao. you could probably find that if you want to but um...maybe don’t?

my first Big Fic was a self-insert of...my entire 5th/6th grade class into the then-current timeline of the Warriors books...well. I honestly think that might still be my most popular fic of all time l m a o though I try not to think about it because Hashtag Cringe. though as much as I look back on that time with a “yikes,” I am very grateful for the Warriors fandom in a way? that place was so accepting and encouraging of OCs, of AUs, of completely disregarding canon, of worldbuilding that is completely alien from canon - it was a fantastic sandbox to begin with, there were so many ways to write stories and practically all of them were accepted and had fellow fans invested in them!

and being part of the silm community, 

soooo I wrote Warriors fic until my freshman year of high school (wow sdjfhkdsjfh), which was when BOTFA came out, and I was absolutely wrecked by the ending and immediately started writing my own fixit fic. I was also super hooked on Kiliel! so that was my intro to the Tolkien fandom; and simultaneously, I joined tumblr, and, well, the rest is history tbh.

I honestly do not remember when I first read the Silm, but I kind of got into the more obscure parts of the Tolkien fandom through fandom osmosis, and I do have a vague memory of doodling the Finwean family tree in geometry class so it might have been later on in freshman year? that was also the same time I was having my Queer Awakening, and Russingon definitely contributed to me unlearning my internalized queerphobia, so probably around then.

anyway - queer awakening, tumblr, Tolkien, transitioning from FFN to AO3 - all of that was happening around the same time. I know I dipped my toes in the Silm fandom then, but I was still primarily a Hobbit fic writer focusing on Kiliel. toward the end of high school I kind of shifted to LOTR and (qp) Gigolas...but somehow the Silm fandom is the most active of the Big Three within the Tolkien fandom, and I was getting dragged further and further in.

it wasn’t until @backtomiddleearthmonth 2019, my freshman year of college, that I really dove into writing Silm fic! I picked some Silm-specific bingo cards and never looked back :D that was really not all that long ago but I am obsessed in a way I don’t really remember being even with TH/LOTR, I obviously cannot see the future but I anticipate hanging out here for a long time. the Silm fandom is great overall and there’s just so much material to work with!! <3

being Known, that stuff?

so I don’t really have a whole lot of context on how “well known” I am in the fandom?? definitely within the past year and a half or so I’ve noticed that I like, get asks like this, and get a significant amount of notes on my posts, and I’ve made a lot of fandom friends especially since I joined some Silm servers on Discord (hmu if you want invites; I’m on the SWG server and 2 general Silm servers and the Russingon server) this past year. and I have 3,000 followers as of this month - and while ever since I hit 1k I don’t particularly pay attention to my follower count I can definitely say that I have more engagement now than I used to! but it took me a long time to build this “audience,” I suppose; I’ve been around the Tolkien fandom since late 2014, so nearly 6 years of this, lol.

really the best way to build a following, in my experience, is to just post a lot of stuff. when I started making edits I got a lot more engagement, because for a long time I would post one every day! (I made them in batches and queued them; I didn’t actually make one every day lol...and now I’m too busy to do that, so I just make edits for events and whenever I feel like it) And I have [checks ao3] 145 works in the Silm fandom as of today - I’m fairly prolific! I’ve come to generally expect 3-10 comments on most of my oneshots, which is a lot more than I used to have back in the day. consistency and quantity are more likely to attract people to your work - and quality, of course.

also: how’d u build up the confidence to start posting meta/hcs?

I’ve been writing since I was very young, and I’ve been writing fic for like...11 years? I think? in that time I’ve produced a lot of garbage, but imo most of that was in my Warrior cats phase, so I came into the Tolkien fandom with confidence in myself and my writing. I’m also working on original fiction on the side (I hope to eventually become a published fantasy author, but right now school takes up most of my time that I don’t devote to fandom, which gives me more immediate gratification and also is just Very Fun) and I know I’m a good writer.

basically, I’ve been doing this for like...half my life, and I’m still fairly young, so I’ve had time to build up my skill and confidence and I know I’m only going to get better with time. you will get better with practice. like I said, I’ve written a lot of terrible stuff, and it’s only through sucking for a long time that I’ve gotten to the point I am now. and I am far from perfect; I know I still have lots of room to grow!

for meta and headcanons specifically, I started with writing fic, and then when I didn’t think I could stretch something into an entire fic I would just make a hc post. I have a vivid memory of writing my first meta in a notebook during driver’s ed because it was so goddamn boring and I had Thoughts about Tauriel and Thranduil!

in my experience, meta comes from having Opinions and wanting to share them and most importantly to back them up - you need to have sources! you need to have reasons! you need to have justification! otherwise it’s not meta, it’s a headcanon or an AU. which is fine!! I love hc/AU!!! but they are not the same as meta, and I’m a stickler for being accurate when it comes to meta. if you have sources and shit to back you up, that will help you build the confidence to share your meta.

sharing disinformation and passing it off as meta instead of just coming out and saying this is a headcanon/baseless theory/AU or whatever is such a fandom pet peeve of mine; it’s not bad for something to not be Accurate! you just have to have that disclaimer - and even when you’re writing meta, you’re offering an interpretation of the text, and you need to acknowledge that other interpretations also exist and are valid.

um. I hope this answers your questions? and sorry for basically word-vomiting my entire life story, lol. this post got long; the main reason I’ve written so much fic is because I really just cannot shut up for the life of me. sooo if you can tear of that filter of being shy and just. say shit. you can go so far~!

OH and one more thing - I can’t believe I almost forgot this - but part of being a writer is participating in the community. this is code for LEAVE A DAMN COMMENT IF YOU LIKE A FIC. that’s how I made most of my fandom friends before Discord! I follow @ao3feed-silmarillion and stalk that blog for new Silm fics; I read the ones that interest me and comment on them.

I know this is not really the most common way for folks to find fic but it’s so rewarding to interact with new fic, new writers, new commentors, new stories - you can find gems that don’t rise to the top of the kudos/bookmark lists; you become friends with your fellow writers; you can watch people grow and change; you support smaller content creators. yeah, you might not be getting Just The Best Stuff, but it’s so so so worth it!!

and if you make friends in the comment section of other people’s fic - I guarantee you some of them will go to your AO3 profile and check out your fic, too! and they’ll leave comments! this is a fic community, and that’s what I cherish about fandom most of all, tbh.

anyway - again - sorry for rambling so much, but I hoped this helped! feel free to send in another ask, or to come talk to me off anon if you’d like! and definitely send me your stuff if/when you decide to share it; I would love to support you!!! <3

[ciarawritesmarvel]

replies - follow my lead [epilogue]

Okay, here’s my third attempt to reply to you all on the last chapter of FML! I’m afraid I’ve given up on replying to chapter 17, I just cannot face typing that out for a third time but I really want to reply to your incredible comments on 18 so here goes...

Before I do, please know that I was and continue to be blown away by the overwhelmingly positive response on not only those last few chapters but on the entire series. You have all been incredibly welcoming and I have even recently hit 1k followers, something I never expected to happen this soon. All I can say is thank you, or at least, that’s all I can say without going off on a long ramble!

I love you ALL so very much <3

@sarahp879 Oh, you can bet a lot of money that he did. There was none left anywhere and let’s be real, Nat drank most of it to deal with sitting between Sam and Clint yet again. Thank you for all your comments over the series :)

@vgurl18 I’m so glad you thought so...thank you! :)

@ek823 I’m so glad you enjoyed all the fluff and sweetness :)

@yknott81 I’m so pleased you thought so! I did have to make sure to get their reactions right, it took a little while. Steve’ll get over it in time ;)

@lostinspace33 Thank you so much, lovely, for all your comments over the past few weeks <3

@bucky-at-bedtime I’m so glad you enjoyed it!! I always try to get my characterisation as clear-cut as possible, it’s one of my main priorities so for you to comment on it means the world. You are the amazing one here, lovely!! I should have some time this evening to finally read through your recent writing too and I am SO looking forward to it, sorry its taken me a while <3

@rediscoveringdebbie84 I’m so pleased, scrunched up happy face smiling is the aim here :D

@echointhelibrary Thank you! <3

@chrys-1029 It most certainly isn’t the best story ever but I so appreciate that more than I can tell you! Thank you so much, you wonderful human <3

@stressedoutkylo IM SO SORRY ITS OVER LOVELY BUT YOUR COMMENTS FROM THE BEGINNING HAVE NEVER FAILED TO MAKE ME SMILE AND HAPPY AND I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THAT

@steverogersbish I have to get some comedy in there or it wouldn’t be my writing style, haha! Of course they’re happy and I’m so glad you are too. You’re a wonderful person and your comments have been so lovely so thank you! :)

@faunacea I know, neither can I! This comment is just exactly what a writer wants to hear I think. For you to say that its well-written means the world, I’m so pleased you liked the banter, the domestic touch, the love. Your comments have always added a spring to my step, you lovely, lovely person so thank you! I really hope you enjoy the next series <3

@ign-is REALLY? THAT’S CRAZY I’M SO GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING LOVELY

@diinofayce You have always been to kind to me. Thank you <3

@ooh-look-a-blibbering-humdinger Thank you so much :)

@avengersbabe13 NOW IM CRYING BAAAABE YOU’RE SO AMAZING AND YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN THANK YOU SO MUCH. Also, for someone to say they’re proud of me makes me weirdly emotional and stuff that’s just such a lovely thing to say thank you <3

@slowly-but-surely I’M SO SORRY BUT I HAD TO DO IT! FOR YOU TO SAY ITS THE BEST FIC EVER MEANS E V E R Y T H I N G TO ME I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH LOVELY <3

@thelastxgoodthing This means so much to me, thank you so very much :D

@feelmyroarrrr Thank you!!! :)

@sgtjbuccky I do like to feed people the fluff, I’ll give you that! Yeah, that gif is basically exactly what I had in my mind when I wrote this epilogue so I”m glad that came across! (so worth the ten minutes, in my humble opinion) What a look, am i right? Well, I’m glad I did because the recent Back To You, as I’ve said, was a complete fucking masterpiece lovely! Softness and love is my favourite thing to write and I can’t express how happy I am that you enjoyed it. Of course they’re engaged, but I couldn’t resist the chance to mess with the team one last time ;) Your words mean everything to me. I really, truly mean that, to hear that you’ve enjoyed this series so much when I admire and look up to you is just insane to me. I am more than honoured to now be able to call you a friend and I have so much love for you, Salina! You’re incredible and I so hope I don’t start writing crap and ruining everything 😂😂

@kat-lives Yep, you are definitely thinking of the correct photo and it certainly isn’t a bad look but I couldn’t resist including a bit of domestic fluff and that was the best way I could think of. I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed the fic, means the world <3

@shamelessbookaddict THANK YOU!!!

@realgreglestrade I’m so glad you enjoyed the fic, Steve’s reaction and probably Steve himself will always be my favourite in this series, simply because I love writing slightly clueless puppy dog Steve. Thank you so much, lovely <3

@buckysbeech No way, you binged it! I am incredibly impressed, I mean the whole story is like 30k words so that’s good going! My darling, you are the amazing one, thank you so very much <3

@spoopy-piineapple OHHHhhh my god that is so true, head canon 100% accepted, Steve is bridezilla but he ain’t even the bride. I may have to write a little oneshot about that one day. A huge notebook and sketchpad with ideas and he just gets it out and is like “RIGHT THEN”

@sydariah I am so pleased you enjoyed it lovely and thank you for the continued comments and support <3

@movie-dates-and-choccy-shakes Me? Talented? Pshh, nah but thank you!! Please don’t be dead though, lovely ;) <3

@riddle-me-bliss I HAD TO DO IT TO ‘EM

@spidey-linquentimagines Of course I saw your last reblog, I read every single comment on everything, I’m only sorry I didn’t manage to reply. I am so so honoured you enjoyed the series and my writing, means the world to me! I can’t wait to share them and I really hope you enjoy, thank you for all your support from the very beginning <3

@brieannakeogh Thank you! <3

@isabella212 Thank you so much <3

@dreamerinfinity I’m so pleased to hear that! Poor Steve, but I’m sure he’ll get over it when he realises his best friend is getting MARRIED! Oh they most certainly did, Bucky had to like sit with Steve for a solid ten minutes rubbing his back and calming him down, trust

@jaamesbbarnes I am so sorry I never replied to your comment on the masterlist before, I kept meaning to and then life got in the way. I had to get the 40s reference in there somewhere, and teasing is just my thing at this point. But, to hear from one of my fave writers on this site that they enjoy my writing means more than I could possibly tell you!  I’m so honoured that you binged my work, although it’s still a little hard to believe! I could literally rant about you and your talent forever, seriously. And, of course, I would love to add you to my taglist! Merci infiniment!

@ican-do-this-all-day no doN’T DIE <3

@dorkydaddies I’m so glad you enjoyed it and I really hope you enjoy what’s to come :D

@farfromjustordinary YOU BINGED IT IN 1.5 HOURS THATS MADNESS IM SO IMPRESSED. I AM A COMPLETE SUCKER FOR PROTECTIVE BUCKY SO I AM SO WITH YOU THERE, I HAD TO DO IT AND I WILL BASICALLY ALWAYS HAVE IT SOMEWHERE IN EVERY BUCKY FIC HONESTLY. I AM AN ASSHAT BUT ILL TAKE IT IF I WAS ABLE TO SEND YOU ON THAT ROLLERCOASTER. I AM SO SO GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT, THANK YOU LOVELY!! <3