#this is the first story i've actually finished in years

[joequiinn]

Not to get too sappy or long-winded, but the Dos & Don'ts of Fake Dating is officially complete!!

I've loved writing this story so much for so many reasons: not only was it my first dip back into fanfiction after a two year hiatus, but it's also one of the very few fics I've actually managed to finish. So, I thank everyone for reading, I hope you enjoyed the journey as much as I have 🖤

I'll be posting some character info soon to officially introduce everyone to Ice Princess as she was always intended to be - a fully fledged OC. In the future, I'll most definitely be writing more for this universe - I already have a number of ideas for oneshots, so we'll see where their story goes!

EDDIE X READER - COMPLETED

The start of your senior year had you rethinking everything your life had been thus far. It’s as if you woke up one day and decided it was time to do a complete 180. Maybe it was the senioritis that teachers joked about, or maybe it was your impending 18th birthday, but either way, you realized that maybe you didn’t like the life you’d been living anymore. So, you decide to change it. You just didn’t factor in Eddie Munson being part of that equation.

notes & tropes: 18+, fem reader, slow burn, faking dating, opposites attract, bratty rich bitch reader, super minor revenge plot, dysfunctional family dynamics, idiots-to-lovers, smut & nsfw themes

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chapter list

⛧ one ⛧ two ⛧ three ⛧ four ⛧ five ⛧ six ⛧ seven ⛧ eight ⛧ nine ⛧ ten ⛧ eleven ⛧ twelve ⛧ thirteen ⛧ fourteen ⛧ fifteen ⛧ sixteen ⛧ seventeen ⛧ epilogue

[himluv]

Okay. I think I've twigged to a reason why this game is so polarizing for the fandom. Please, allow me to ramble about this theory in these dawn-light hours, pre-coffee.

You see, Veilguard is a fantasy. I don't mean its genre is fantasy, we know that. I mean that, for the first time, the story Veilguard tells is itself a fantasy. And a pretty explicitly queer one.

(vague and mild spoilers for Veilguard below)

A world where strict, seemingly narrow-minded mothers can accept and use their child's correct pronouns and be proud of them. And where entire organizations rally around said child to affirm them.

A world where a queer organization stands up to all flavors of tyranny, and while it may suffer great losses, is victorious in the end. Its future is one of supreme hope for lasting change because one of their founding members becomes the ruler of their nation.

A world where a common enemy ACTUALLY unites everyone to fight back and those efforts are welcomed, even from those whose ethics are questionable. Because now really ISN'T the time for in-fighting. There will be time to discuss your morally dubious recruiting methods AFTER the world-ending calamity has been vanquished.

A world where the return of a tyrant is stopped, because the people joined hands with friends, neighbors, and loved ones and refused to let go.

And then they WON.

(depending on your choices, in the end love LITERALLY wins (the love was there and it mattered after all).)

To me, Veilguard is clearly a response to its development cycle. It hit its stride during the height of the pandemic, when people were sick and dying en masse, and most people felt more isolated and helpless than they had in generations. Facism was (is) on the rise across the world. And a very queer and neurodivergent development team looked at the world they lived in, then at the one they'd created, and made some choices about the story they would tell.

And then it released mere days before the US election. I finished playing it on election night (or rather the wee hours of the next morning). And can I tell you? This queer, neurodivergent, nonbinary person NEEDED this story. This exact story.

But, maybe not everyone needed it. To my reckoning, it's the first DA game to take such a firmly hopeful and positive approach to its storytelling, and that's bound to be divisive in a fandom as... Opinionated as ours (affectionate, mostly 😂 ).

Genuinely, I am sorry if it wasn't what you wanted or expected. I'm sorry if you felt let down by your favorite franchise. That fucking SUCKS.

But know that, for some of us, it was a lifeline in a very dark and tragic week, and I suspect it will remain so in the months and years to come. I hope that, if you ever need a dose of pure hope, you might give Veilguard another try.

[bokettochild]

🎶For the twelfth day of Christmas, my Ketto gave to me-🎶

Closure!!!!!

So, I've been talking about this for a fair bit now and debating the logistics, and I have decided to do it: A Christmas of Closure!

I have so many unfinished/on hiatus fics, some that never got past the first part, and this is my effort to (1) relieve myself of the guilt of not finishing them and (2) give a bit of closure to the readers who still wanted more from the story.

How does it work? You guys can choose any story of mine that you wanted to see more of, and the first twelve will get a little love this holiday season, with me posting one update every day leading up to Christmas, and ending on Christmas day with either whatever I was most excited to share, or what took me the longest and I needed more time for LOL

They key to this is that it's stories I've already started, so rather than spending half my writing time trying to figure out what it's going to be about, I'll hopefully just be giving words to something that's sat in my brain for the last few months/years. I'll get to share with you what was supposed to happen, while maybe jump-starting my own creative process so maybe (no promises) I'll actually be able to finish the story! (Again, NO promises, but also I hope so!!!)

(Specifics below)

All stories are on the table with the exception of TBBU, since that's already a work in progress and I will get there independently (*she lied, like a liar*). There might be others that have reached their natural end as well, and I'm not up to making zombies, but I can't name any right off, so go nuts and choose whatever you feel has been on life support for too long :)

Whumptober/Sicktember/Febuwhump prompts are up from grabs, but only in the form of continuations of already written pieces. I will not be writing prompts that I failed to post on time in this challenge (maybe another time)

The age of the fic doesn't matter, but be aware I might not be able to capture the same voice as I used to use. My writing style has changed and developed, but I will try and match my own freak when I can.

You CAN ask for specific things! I will not take unkindly to you popping in to say "write an update for story XYZ and maybe have ABC happen?" I can't promise that ABC will happen of course, because maybe that's not what was meant to happen, but I promise to consider any and all suggestions regardless, and try and make a Christmas present that you'll enjoy :)

The stories will get posted starting on the 14th of December and ending on December 25. There will not be an Ao3 collection, but I will have a master-list here on tumblr.

I hope that covers everything, but if you have any questions I didn't answer, please feel free to send an ask, so I can answer publicly, in the case others had the same question <3

[errruvande]

Fanfic writer interview

Thank you @thelettersfromnoone for the tag!! 💖

How many work do u have on AO3?

3, not your local AO3 girlie lmao

What's your total AO3 word count?

8 534

Your top 5 stories by kudos/likes

I'll go with Tumblr ones, cause from my 3 AO3 works the biggest number I got is 31 lmao

Anyone but you (Legolas x f!reader)

Night watch (Legolas x Reader)

Well-deserved rest (Haldir x f!Reader)

One messy night (Boromir x f!Reader)

Transition (Haldir x f!Reader)

Honorable mention (since it's not fics but headcanons)

Green Council receiving a hot pic from you (HotD)

TLK men's reaction on being pet named

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I always try to respond to comments! These little things are brightening up my day, so I wanna let the people know that they are my heroes hahaha

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

I really think it's Transition. All in all it's a pretty dark story, a bit depressing I think (I had these intentions while writing at least).

Otherwise, I don't think I have angsty endings fics?

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

New family members for sure!! Was thinking hard what to choose, cause I think all of my happy ending fics are on the pretty same level on a happy scale, but I remember that I have this gen, non romantic baby and I love it so much ❤️‍🩹 There's a little TLK OMC for y'all

Do you write crossovers?

I wanted to say I've never done this BUT THEN!!! My Assassin's Creed (Ezio) x LOTR little headcanon!!! My beloved child!!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

No, not that I remember getting any hate on my fics

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do, tho not much and on rare occasions. I used to write a lot of smut when I was younger (a teen), then I stopped being comfortable with it for a wild few years (tho reading never made me uncomfortable lmao).

Now I started writing smut again, idk what kind? Don't really understand what does that mean lol F x M traditional sex? Pretty detailed? If so, then yes lmao

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't know 😂 Maybe, maybe not. I think rather not.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not to my knowledge, I don't think so.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

We tried with my friend a long long time ago. Didn't go well lmao It's hard and kinda stressing, cause you never know what the other person is gonna write (at least we had this SURPRISE system), so... You kinda have zero plot cause everything you want to write plot-wise can be ruined by the second person's plot lmao

What's your all-time favorite ship?

Athelnar?? Athelstan and Ragnar were my first ever OTP (quickly followed by Alfred and Uhtred). You could never beat that Athelnar shit out of my body lmao I've never written for them, but oh I do love them boys!

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

Now, that's the HARSH one lmao

I think I have at least 3 OC stories that I really wanna write (2 for TLK and one for LOTR), but I'm scared that I will never actually do it. I never was good with multi chaptered stories, and these are indeed not a one shots 🥲

What are your writing strengths?

Ugh... I don't know? I think I was pretty good with dialogues and descriptions of the surroundings to build the atmosphere. But... I guess it's not for me to decide but for the readers?

What are your writing weaknesses?

I rarely finish what I've started lmao I should write everything in one go or else I'll never finish it... Or will finish it in two months even if it's a 2k words one shot

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

I love them! I've only done it with my LOTR fics (with Sindarin) but I really love it. But I really love it when the language is different from the language of the settings? Like, if the story is happening in England and everyone is English, but you have two characters who can speak idk Dutch, let them have a Dutch language in their dialogue. I had a rant post about it not that long ago actually lmao You have to think about your in-universe language

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

Ahhh Bungou Stray Dogs! I love them, and I'd gladly try to write something for them. Not a character/character but reader my beloved.

And maybe Stephane Narcisse (reign) my beloved and a reader

What's your favorite fic you've written?

The blood on my hands (Eomer) and Peace (Finan) are definitely my fave ones I think. They are dark and both explore some trauma

No pressure tags: @whitedarkmoonflower @lord-aldhelm @holy3cake @gemini-mama @emilyhufflepufftlk @persephones-journey @solinarimoon @mrsalwayswrite @emmanuellececchi @bilbotargaryen @levithestripper @mrsarnasdelicious @paula-in-dreamland

[pappykins]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Anders/Fenris (Dragon Age) Characters: Anders (Dragon Age), Fenris (Dragon Age), Isabela (Dragon Age), Male Hawke (Dragon Age), Varric Tethras, Sebastian Vael, Aveline Vallen, Merrill (Dragon Age), Original Templar Character(s) (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: First Kiss, Wicked Grace night shenanigans, Humor, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending, Awkward Situation, templars are dicks, Anders can't catch a break, Fenris to the rescue, Flirting, Kissing, idiot boys are idiots, Enemies to Lovers Series: Part 1 of Year of the OTP Prompt fics Summary:

It's never a good night when they decide to play Wicked Grace for something other than coin.

Or rather, it's never a good night for Anders; his resoundingly bad luck at cards and even worse poker face doom him to be the one most often humiliated by whatever prize is agreed upon instead.

His friends, on the other hand, find these nights delightful, and Anders can't even bring himself to be angry with them for it - it's his consistent lack of coin driving them to come up with these hare brained ideas as an alternative. He knows they mean well, and it's ultimately harmless in the long run.

At least, it usually is - until the night Fenris loses right alongside him, only to escape out Hawke's second floor window mere moments after flirting with Anders, as their friends cheer them on from the other room.

Maybe Anders has a right to be mad at his friends, after all.

[coquelicoq]

as a huge unreliable narrator enjoyer i love the fact that the raven tower is narrated by someone who cannot lie. so the narration is not unreliable, and any kind of uncertainty is always couched in "here is a story i have heard" or "i imagine", but it scratches the same itch as unreliable narration because the evidentiality of the narration is still so central, just in the opposite way. stories that don't care about where the narrator is getting their information or what biases are present in the way that information is shared with us are on one end of a spectrum, and stories that do care about those things are on the other end, and the raven tower is firmly situated alongside the unreliably narrated stories even though the whole point is that the narrator is as motivated as it is possible to be to never say something that is untrue. and it's fascinating to see how ann leckie manages to build suspense and subvert expectations without really at any point deliberately misleading the reader. every time i reread one of her books, the bouncing of the dvd screensaver in my brain gets a little more frenetic. how does she do what she does. ann leckie what is your secret.

[cookiescr]

Goddamn just finished dragon age inquisition and it was so fucking goood omygod like I did not expect to get so into it like I originally just started playing it for friend who couldn't play it and streamed it for her by mygdo it was so good

SOMEONE COMMISSION ME SO I CAN BUY VEILGUARD ON NOVEMBER ! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[charliextea]

Chapters: 1/9 Fandom: Sanders Sides (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Creativity | Roman "Princey" Sanders & Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders, Anxiety | Virgil Sanders/Creativity | Roman "Princey" Sanders, Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders/Logic | Logan Sanders Characters: Creativity | Roman "Princey" Sanders, Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders, Anxiety | Virgil Sanders, Dr. Emile Picani, Sleep | Remy Sanders, Morality | Patton Sanders, Logic | Logan Sanders Additional Tags: All romantic tags are BACKGROUND, main relationship is the creativitwins, depictions of verbal and emotional abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Alternate Universe - Fashion & Models, Model!Roman, Former Model!Remus, secret coffee shop au, Barista!Virgil, Dissociation, dissociated character, Trans Male Anxiety | Virgil Sanders, Closeted Character, Suggestive Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders, Dick Jokes, supportive!Remus, closeted!roman, Abusive Parents, Therapy, Healing, Unsympathetic Deceit | Janus Sanders, Cussing Summary:

Roman King was thriving. He was 6 years into a solo career as a model. He was about to sign a huge deal that would win him critical acclaim, but there's one problem. His past has come back to haunt him. 3 years ago, Remus King, Roman's brother and former modeling partner, disappeared from the tabloids entirely after a too-public stint in rehab, and no one has seen him since. Until one day, Janus Dee published an article that he claimed would tell all about Remus' abusive childhood at the hands of the child star scene. And Roman gets caught in the crossfires. To try to undo the damage that has been done, and keep his career from imploding, Roman has to go and see his brother in a middle-of-nowhere town and try to get him to recant his statement. But the first time they see each other again erupts into a furious argument. Neither of them is really sure if they're ready to see each other again, but the cat is out of the bag, the can of worms is open, and two siblings who have been pitted against each other since birth just can't let this go without a fight. Only this time, they'll be fighting to stay together. For real this time. The brothers they would've been if not for their... career.

[afniel]

me: I am going to write a little fanfic out of this dream I had with funny little robot guys.

me, but 19k words later: girl help I am exploring themes of disability, chronic pain, ableism, subculture, systemic oppression, PTSD, aging, neurodivergence, community, forgiveness, healing, and recovery. with funny little robot guys.

[atirosnor]

I can't beleive I didn't post this! Anyway, this was Ectoberhaunt II: Staff

A Grandfather Clockwork short.

TW - depictions of a ghost destabalizing; essentially melting. Character death. Also almost- suicidal thoughts? Is it considered that if a character is giving himself up for another? 

Yeah. I didn't expect this to turn out quite so angsty.

▪  《¤》  ▪︎ 《▪︎◇ ▪︎》 ▪︎  《¤》  ▪︎

It wasn't often Clockwork visited Danny in the living realm.

Even less so with his red eyes tinged green and his scar leaking shadows.

That Danny was in the middle of dodging ectoblasts from a ghost and his parents was irrelevant.

"Clo—"

A cyan hand found his shoulder and he was surrounded by the discordant ticking of a thousand clocks. As well as the glowing green gears; those might be worth mentioning.

"ckwork? Are you—" 

Of course he wasn't okay. He was literally shuddering as he lifted his arm to him, then jerked it back down again. 

"Da—" his voice was thick with static, and he opened and closed his mouth a few times, as if hoping some other sound would come out. Suddenly his voice was clear. Loud, like a gasp after being underwater. "Daniel."

"Wh-y did you bring me here?"

"Sa…afe," static. "la—ir."

::readmore::

He tried again. "Less…udchchchchx uder my…chxco—co..trol." 

His entire body was trembling, taut with tension as if two forces wrestled for control.

Danny reached for his shoulder, but Clockwork jerked away, as if sucker-punched. He tried not to feel hurt. 

Clockwork reached for him again, but his hand fell just shy of him as his eyes dropped. His staff appeared in his other hand, and he looked pained, yanking it to himself.

Danny noticed a drop of blue on his temple, like paint or liquid plastic.

His eyes widened. "A–are you okay?"

Clockwork offered a shaky half smile, but didn't answer. 

Danny pursed his lips, eyes wide. 

Clockwork listed to the side.

Launching himself to him, Danny tried to keep him upright, steady; in control, like Clockwork was supposed to be.

Not a jittery mess that looked like he'd either topple into a despondent contradiction or melt into a broken puddle.  

Clockwork leaned on him for a moment, then stumbled away and stood straight. Somehow, though he stood steadier than before; with more resolve, Danny realized, he looked way worse. The hand that held the staff gripped too tight; shaking, and his other arm seemed to be melting upwards and fading to mist at once. 

"Daniel." His voice was commanding, no longer the tender grandfather he so often showed. "You know the importance of Keeping to the right Timestream," It was a statement; a command.

Not a question.

Danny paled.

"I—Clockwork! You're going to li—" 

"Don't let the last words I hear be a lie, son."

He paled still further.

"This—this is all a test, right? Yeah, and in a few minutes…or hours, days, whatever—you'll come get me, and it'll just be another test-lesson-thing, and—"

Clockwork glided forward and put a finger to his mouth. 

"Daniel. I need you to listen, not speak, right now."

Danny bit his lip but was silent.

"Whatever I do, or you do, remember you can do better. Whether you think you're irredeemable or not, it will be made right.

"And you don't always have to be the one to make it that way. There will, at the very least eventually, be those who help guide you through messes you think you can't navigate.

"Simply—" and here he almost chuckled, "Don't worry about the future. Whether it is fixed by you or someone else, it will be.

"And whether it works out for the better good or not, pain is not forever, and their ends will become their beginnings. Daniel—"

Those eyes that should be ruby began once again to manically glow that venomous green, and the hand that had been on his lips now traveled down towards his neck.

A fury that hadn't been in his eyes now flashed, and a strong hand grasped Danny's throat, hard, too hard. Even if he didn't need to breath much, pressure on a throat always hurts. 

"Clchch—" Danny hadn't learned properly how to reform vocal chords or breath air through the back of his head yet. 

[Pressing a little too roughly, a little to hard. He was human, after all.

Then he started to strangle.]

Even in this, though, he realized Clockwork was fighting. 

He hadn't grabbed for his core. Never his core.

A large gear sprang—well, probably rolled—into existence between them, shoving Clockwork back. He looked releived, but the guilt in his eyes made Danny balk.

He tried to lighten the mood. "So that's what you meant about your lair being better, huh? Wanted to get geared up for how you roll?"

He could see Clockwork try to smile, but the self-loathing in his eyes ruined the effect. Danny frowned, worried. 

Those had been good puns, too.

Clockwork looked up and held his eyes, almost more sincere than he had ever seen him. 

~ pov change ~

"Danie—Danny. I'm sorry for leaving you like this. I'm sorry I'm so selfish, that I—" prefer to die than allow the chance that I could kill you. Oh, child. "I'm so sorry for leaving you." Alone. To learn to navigate the time stream as he had, without guidance. He'd tried, oh he'd tried to make a good beginning of it, but ancients—perhaps ironically; there never was enough time.

He seemed to be growing shorter—or, rather, shrinking. He felt—buzzy—seeing to much and too little as his powers acted up in anticipation of ending. 

Eh, they'd have a new host.

He was at the edge of a forgotten rice farming village in Babylonia.

He was in a Nasty Burger joint as it exploded, hurling debris as a hurt boy's world fell apart. 

He was at a crossroads near Ephesus as a man asked what it all meant.

He—his duplicate—stood before some observants who'd entered his lair.

"What are you doing?" they hissed.

They always came in threes. Why did they always come in threes? 

He hated threes.

He ignored their question. It was rhetorical after all. It had to be if they knew the answer, right? 

He cocked his head to the side. "Why are you here?"

It wasn't like he didn't know. They were trying to make him kill his ward. 

What more could they do to him as he allowed himself to end? 

They stalked forward. "What is the meaning of this?!" "You know very well why we're here." "What are you doing?!" 

The hatred emanating off of them was delightful.

Best infuriate them one last time. 

"Saving the timeline." 

Fulfilling his duties. 

Obeying you. 

His grin had to look gruesome with half his face melting off.

"You will immediately cea—"

"Stop? Spyníc? Deténgasse? I am following your orders, if I may remind you." he felt his face stretch into a too- wide grin. "Of course I may. Or perhaps your little power hungry egos are too weak for that."

What did it mean to him if they tried to hurt him? He was ending; because of them; they couldn’t injure him anymore than the slow death he was feeling right now.

They advanced, and his duplicate popped out of visibility before them.

Danny suddenly straightened, steel in his eyes. "I'll—I'll bring you back, Clockwork. I swear, I'll find—"

"No." Clockworks voice growled like thunder, sizzling and popping with ghost speak.

Danny cowered. 

Clockwork's face softened, but he hissed fiercely nonetheless, "You must not come for me. You must live."

I have had all the time I needed. You have not.

It had been the only way to be sure through his own actions Danny would live. There were chances, many truthfully, that Daniel could fight him under their power and win. 

But there were also possibilities he wouldn't; futures where Clockwork was the one left kneeling over the child's broken body.

His child's.

Those ended in a far worse way than those futures in which Daniel became the new Timekeeper prematurely.

The observants glared as they ventured around, his duplicate leading them on deeper into his lair.

He let his cheshire grin fade into existence before them. They reared back, tripping over themselves, then collected themselves, shooting him little glares all the while. 

Finally they stood straight, daring him to just weave into their midst and tickle their armpits or jab their solar plexuses. 

"You—you will not enact this—this sick—act!"

They were afraid. No, they were terrified. 

They would miss this power he gave them. 

He knelt and embraced Daniel in the molten mess he was becoming. 

"You will die." ��They hissed.

Clockwork smiled, wearied and broken and glad. "All is as it should be."

And Danny knelt on the floor and wept, in a cyan pool of ectoplasm that wrapped and caressed him, before seeping up through his skin to make a unique creature into a new one. 

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Clockwork's speech - maybe it doesn't sound too encouraging now, but I mainly put thoughts that brought me out of my depression—at least long enough to ignore it for awhile—and I think they're what Danny will need to remember in the future, when he, like any of us, inevitably messes up for a time, so he doesn't go down that hole of hating yourself so much you bring everyone down with you; at least for too long.;P As for the rest of it—word vomit. I honestly didn't know what to write, so I just put hints of what I would tell myself, if I were a separate person.

Tags... yeah.

@ectoberhaunt ?

[cirrus-grey]

There is a name, scrawled on the thin skin just below Martin's left shoulder blade. That name is Jonathan.

It's not terribly helpful, if he's being honest. He's met a lot of Jonathans.

[gottagobuycheese]

there’s got to be a faster way to play this game but How

[guesswhosaninja]

I haven't posted directly on tumblr in years but for a small update, I just finished my third year of NaNoWriMo in a row working on the same book (I did just over 60,000 words this year on the second draft of it, after doing the first draft entirely in 2020) ^^

It's finally getting rly close to a point I'll be happy to share it for the first time, which I'm very nervous and very excited about

[giantkillerjack]

This is how I organize my story notes. I thought the scene titles looked pretty good today

[ettadunham]

guess the number of books i have in the 'currently reading' category on goodreads while i'm doing this

[amtrak12]

Have I written for Nano in the last 4 days? No. But have I knitted 3 hats while teaching myself two new stitches and reminding myself how to do two more? Yes. Am I bothered by any of this? Maybe??? But mostly no.