#trc rewrite

[drusjer]

how to disappear completely without a trace * ᵃⁿᵈ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵇᵉ ᶠᵒᵘⁿᵈ ᵃᵍᵃⁱⁿ .

[romantichopelessly]

invitation to speak more about the secret good td3 in your head, if you so desire!

Ok so I sat on this ask for DAYS because I wanted to have some cohesive, great answer, but the thing about The Dreamer Trilogy that haunts me is that I can never come up with good concrete thoughts about how to fix the issues I have with it, which is why I reference the “secret good td3 in my head” because it can never fully leave my head in any real way. That being said here’s a list of some elements I would change to make my secret good td3, in no particular order.

The visionaries don’t exist. Liliana, Persifal, etc. are just psychics that keep getting visions of the end, and die for reasons other than their power. Explaining what Visionaries are and subsequently over explaining the magic system of td3 is part of what made the trilogy so confusing and ruined a lot of the magic that the TRC universe already had for me. We don’t need concrete explanations, and psychics can still fill this role. The changing age and exploding added nothing?? to the narrative?? that I can think of?? We can even keep the age gap for Carliana if we want to, just make Liliana an older psychic like Maura/Persephone/Calla. It will even add to the excellent Carmen-Mr. Gray parallels.

Lean more into the themes of the age group. TRC is a coming of age story. It’s about being 17/18. It’s about learning your inner self and getting others to see the true you. TD3 should be more about being 19/20/21. To me, TD3 at its peak is like Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6. Which is uniquely about the horror of being in your early 20s, losing support systems, having to learn to be a full self-reliant person, grappling with what your parents did to you, and the crushing loneliness of not being around Your People anymore. TD3 has all of these themes, but I really think they need to be fleshed out more, and given proper conclusion that isn’t just “yippee everything is fine now!”

Greywaren is longer. I think almost everyone agrees that Greywaren, as a book was just too short to wrap up all the plot lines set up, and does almost none of them justice. That book needed a whole rewrite. In theory, I’m completely fine with how it opens—Ronan being in a dream coma was foreshadowed from CDTH, and is an idea that I’d actually thought of as interesting before even reading the book. Other elements of this book like Declan’s rampage, Matthew going rogue, etc are great directions for the characters, I’d just want to rework them. I could make solo posts about any of these.

The Pynch breakup either doesn’t happen, or is set up further in advance and lasts longer. Personally, I lean towards the latter. Adam and Ronan’s conflict is set up from the very beginning of CDTH, or even from Opal (Adam warring between wanting to stay with Ronan and needing to follow through with his lifelong plans, and being frustrated that Ronan never asks for anything from Adam (specifically, to stay) ((side note: perhaps Adam’s insecurity here about Ronan respecting his boundaries so thoroughly stems from both having a family that never would respect his wishes, and Gansey (Adam’s model of love, Adam’s model of everything) having to learn not to ask things like that of Adam. What does it mean that Ronan never even tries?)) AND Ronan dealing with the crushing loneliness of being left and dealing with the consequences of having a long distance bf who is more successful than him). So they needed to have an argument about this. It’s also just in character that these two would not be perfect communicators. So. My idea: In CDTH we get no Adam POVs, just Ronan’s side of the story. We see, rather than Ronan just getting upset over one missed text, that Adam begins to pull away after the murder crab incident. We the audience don’t know why, other than Ronan’s unreliable narration and insecurity. So when Adam doesn’t respond to that one text at a vital fraught time, Ronan does what he does best, shuts down, pulls away and self destructs. Then MI rolls around and we start getting Adam POVs. We learn that after the murder crabs, Adam was throwing himself into trying to fix the nightwash situation for Ronan (Adam is not in contact with Declan here, unfortunately). After visiting for Ronan’s birthday and seeing the Lace, Adam starts to have dreams/premonitions about the end of the world (no visionaries in this universe, just psychics who are/were close to dreamers getting the visions!!). So he obviously sets out to fix this alone too. He calls his best approximations to contacts in this underground world that aren’t Declan. Henry and Mr. Gray. (+ maybe also Maura & Calla) ((Also don’t worry Henry doesn’t leave the Sarchengsey trip, just advises Adam on where to start)). Now that Adam has lost contact with Ronan (he was busy and missed the message and Ronan went off the grid like in canon), he goes full throttle into trying to solve everything while managing being his perfect Harvard persona (this gets him close to a breakdown, very reminiscent to Dream Thieves). Perhaps we get to see Adam and Declan working together to acquire sweet metals and understand the underworld of magic together. He and Ronan fight the one time they get to talk over the phone, Adam because he is truly scared Ronan will be the one to end the world, Ronan because he feels like this is another person perceiving him as a failure and wanting to control/baby him (+ he hates Adam hanging with Mr Gray and Declan of all people). By the time Greywaren starts, Adam is wrung out and hurting and Ronan is dead to the world, so yeah. He doesn’t think he can spend emotional energy playing safeguard to his boyfriend’s coma corpse. And then by the end of the book they have an actual argument/discussion no “they didn’t need words” cop out.

The number of Dreamers/Dreams has to be reduced. It’s cool to say that dreams were always integrated into this world, but it creates so many plot holes it isn’t even funny. There is no way Niall could have passed off the Greywaren being a box that brings dreams to life if Dreamers were such a common occurrence. No secret can be kept that well, someone in the black market would have known, and thus Greenmantle/Mr. Gray/Laumonier/ect WOULD HAVE KNOWN !!!

Declan does not have all his character erased by suddenly loving his mommy and daddy. Seriously what the fuck was that. Declan suddenly deciding to forgive his father because actually Declan was secretly the favorite child first is INSANE. Especially after seeing that that changed because Niall and Mor WANTED TO KILL HIS BROTHER!!! The two tenants of Declan Lynch in TRC were protecting his remaining family and fucking hating that Ronan idolized Niall just because Niall loved him best. So why make Declan turn around and do the same??? Suddenly Niall wasn’t so bad because actually he let Declan be shoved into a car trunk during a shootout out of love. I hate this plot line. Family doesn’t have to be forgiven. Understood, that’s one thing. Forgiven?? Not always. Sick of it. The real takeaway from seeing those memories should have been closure to Declan’s arc of learning that dreams should be viewed as people completely.

I definitely have other points but I cannot think of them right now. And I want to post this so I will. But TD3, as you can see, makes me an insane person.

[polichinelle]

yeah fuck it i'm making this its own post. basically very long winded (but still not as extensively detailed as i'd like) thoughts on adam & ronan (sort of) & whelk & noah

i remember reading the raven boys back in 2014 (ten years of rot in my brain!) and being sooo disappointed that there was basically zero fandom interest in whelk & noah beyond "omg whelk is evil and awful and terrible, poor baby noah!" when that is not the narrative surrounding them, not really. i feel it's a disservice to both of their characters to do that, especially noah's:

there is nuance there. there are implications. like... it's ALL about the implications!!! we basically see nothing of whelk and noah beyond what's left after the carnage. and it's a theme in trc for characters to have irreparably changed before we ever meet them (gansey, ronan, whelk, noah). we don't know what they were actually like when noah was alive, when they were best friends. when they were tight as ticks.

what we do know is this: whelk was noah's gansey. whelk was cheating on his own girlfriend with noah's, which is a shitty thing to do for sure, but something we also have zero context for. we also don't know how true it is, because whelk has such a self-inflicted warped view of his past. he keeps rewriting his own memories to think lesser of noah, because his absence hurts that much! we know they were best friends, the same way adam & ronan are best friends with gansey. we know they did everything together

okay, changing gears a little.

i'll paste the part where adam is possessed, sorry for the amount of screenshots:

and this line from a bit further along the chapter:

then, from noah's possession scene:

compare this to whelk's recollection of killing noah, and the effects it had on him:

"red lines streaked in the corners of his vision" "in whelk's head, unearthly voices hissed and whispered, words blurred and stretched together" "dictated by something larger and more powerful than himself" "somehow invited into his body through czerny's death" yes i am going there, yes i am making that point. i think, to some extent, barrington was possessed when he murdered his best friend. neither noah nor adam get their own pov while possessed, so...

i mean, time is a circle. noah needed to die so that gansey would live. noah had already died, gansey had already lived. it needed to happen, and so it would.

where the difference lies, i think, is in barrington's reaction to being possessed, versus adam/noah. for all that i'm arguing possession, i don't think barry's a stand up guy, he's a kid who's never had good role models (need i pull out the quotes about his shit parents) and who was raised by money and objects and reputation, which is why i think the possession worked. the idea to kill noah might've seemed like his own in the moment, an escalation of the situation he was already in, but unlike adam/noah there was no one to hold him back (not to mention barrington isn't as familiar with magic things(?) as they are). in that moment, whelk did truly lost it. he did the unforgivable. but there is no universe in which he doesn't.

for every time we see noah reenacting his death, we also need to imagine barrington whelk, seventeen and shivering. realizing as he's committing the act that he can't go back. perhaps realizing too that he couldn't stop his hands from gripping onto that skateboard, no matter how much he wanted to after that first hit. ("But instead, he remembered the sound Czerny made the first time he hit him.")

there's also adam in this. both him as a parallel to barrington, and as a strange sort of part of noah in a way. adam and noah interact the least out of the main group, arguably, but they too are a two-headed creature; they started out as one singular character and you can sort of tell. something something hands and eyes, something something sacrifice. ronan sort of parallels noah, in that he is not the same lively person we hear about, and he never will be that person again. both are cabeswater personified (although in different ways).

some more things:

"he once had been tight as ticks with his roommate czerny" "only whelk and czerny, treasure hunters and troublemakers" "it was possible that czerny's death wasn't for nothing after all" "[...] his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water" (in relation to: "he had been a swimmer himself, once") "czerny, you're in a better place than me, i think" "whelk, standing in the wreckage of his life, didn't laugh this time" "the dry, half-eaten burger on the passenger seat / the first fast-food burger he'd had in seven years" "these days, when whelk was trying to comfort himself, he told himself that czerny was a sheep, but sometimes he slipped and remembered him as loyal instead" "[...] took him back to that moment, the skateboard in his hands, the sad question gasped in czerny's dying sounds "we were friends like —"

also, whelk dying in the same place noah did. these lines:

both noah and barrington look the same in the end. broken, rumpled, forgotten. noah's family will never know his bones were reburied outside of their family plot. whelk's mother, however distant she is, will never be notified that her son has died. i think in a way barrington died at the exact same time noah did; something something invited into his body through czerny's death.

basically what i'm getting at is, noah and barry could've been ronan and adam i think, had the circumstances been different. they never will be, but i think about it sometimes.

and there's so many more things i'm not even gonna TRY going into, like noah and whelk both being parallels to gansey (the three of them kings in their own right), or the disparity between whelk talking about czerny vs adele talking about noah, or whatever the fuck is going on with whelk's backstory in general (what's the deal with his mother? how the hell did he get the aglionby job? a random headcanon of mine is that his and noah's search for the ley line lead them to fox way, seven years before the events of the book, and that's partly why whelk refuses to give out his name to maura, because barrington is hard to forget, and easy to trace back)

there is so much to talk about here and i'm so peeved no one is doing it properly... why are we still talking about declan bringing his weekly girlfriend over to monmouth for no reason when we could be talking about whatever the fuck kinda soul-fate-destiny bullshit noah and whelk have!

[aaronstveit]

i would loooove to hear more of your director's commentary about deep end! <3 not sure how much you can say without spoiling but did you make a lot of changes from the original draft? and are there any scene that didn't make it into the final fic? thank youuu <3

omg hi anon this question made my entire day <3333 gonna answer beneath a read more as always because when talking about deep end i am this trc meme

okay so firstly! i wrote deep end 3 times. the original draft had a final wordcount of 126,978 words. the middle draft had a final wordcount of 175,065 words. the final draft's wordcount is not finalized yet because i am still editing & still adding one scene to the epilogue, but obviously we've already surpassed the first draft's wordcount, so that's fun.

as you can see, about 50k words were added in the middle draft! there are a lot of reasons for this. chapters 8 & 9, as well as about half of chapter 10, did not exist in the original draft. i added them during rewriting because i felt we hadn't spent enough time with enjolras & cosette.

combeferre and éponine were almost nonexistent in the original draft. not just as a couple, but individually as well. every single grantaire & éponine scene was added in the middle draft, and most of enjolras & combeferre's scenes as well.

i actually didn't cut any full scenes out! there were quite a few though where i started writing a scene, realized it was wrong, and erased what i had written and started over. for instance, this bit in chapter 18:

in the original draft, i tried writing enjolras turning to grantaire at this point and saying, "I think I'm in love with you," before cosette answered the door. obviously, i ended up deciding against this, mostly because i decided the kiss scene would pack more of a punch if enjolras realizes he's in love with grantaire right when he's in the middle of their argument.

i also deleted soooooooooo many arguments. this is probably surprising considering how often they argue in this fic, but at least once a chapter i really had to stop myself and say, okay no this is getting unhealthy. i enjoy writing arguments too much apparently - which is good for writing exr, but only to a certain extent.

originally, grantaire was not going to have a sister. it genuinely did not even occur to me until chapter 11 (which was chapter 8 at the time), but once it did occur to me, i couldn't not do it. his grief plotline became way too dear to me way too quickly.

the biggest changes i made during writing all had to do with reordering events!! originally, karaoke happened somewhere around chapter 8. i ended up moving it wayyyyyyyyy back because i felt like their flirting was out of place so early in the story.

i also moved enjolras' arguments with cosette and grantaire to an earlier point than i originally intended. at first, i thought they were going to happen around the second-to-last chapter, but i moved them forward a lot earlier because i thought more work needed to be done with enjolras.

the chapter that underwent the most changes from the middle draft to the finished draft is chapter 24. obviously i can't say just yet what those changes are, but i'm really really happy with how that chapter turned out and i hope you all will be as well <3

several of my personal favorite scenes in this fic are actually cannibalized from something i tried writing and gave up on a few months ago. marius getting mugged in chapter 4, the hamlet conversation in chapter 7, and enjolras tending to grantaire's broken nose in chapter 14 were all taken from the same abandoned wip.

as for some more random tidbits that i find fun:

a fun fact for everyone is that cosette did not pull the phrase "who has a flag where he should have a heart" out of thin air! she takes this from courfeyrac in chapter 13:

which is why courfeyrac winces when enjolras says it in chapter 19:

also in chapter 19, enjolras means to say that Train to Busan is his favorite horror movie ending. i didn't just choose that because i love that movie (although i really really do) but because. well. i'm not going to spoil the ending for you if you haven't seen it, but... it was very deliberate is all i'm saying.

i really cannot overstate how much of this fic only exists because of cossette notebookmusical. for starters, i only even attempted writing it because she said "jamie if you don't write this." she also got to spend months listening to me bitch about it and receiving so many horrible snippets from the original draft so coco, if you're reading this, thank you from the very bottom of my heart 🫶🏻

more specifically, the entire beginning sequence of chapter 17 with grantaire staying the night at enjolras' apartment was inspired by cossette! i was asking her for situations to put the blond man in and one of her ideas was that he loses his keys. so everyone say thank you cossette!

also the bit in chapter 19 where enjolras thinks about combeferre a psychology minor is the worst thing to ever happen to you was added after i said something to cossette and she said something along the lines of, "would you like to elaborate on that?"

the ending bit of chapter 23 is also inspired by and written for cossette. you'll see what i mean in a few weeks.

there are a lot more bits and pieces inspired by things that cossette has said and done, or added just to make her laugh, but if i listed all of them i would be here forever. just know that this entire fic is cocoservice and it is only because of cossette that it exists at all <333333

there is also a collection of scenes i'm considering writing as "bonus content" for when the fic is fully posted - mostly scenes that already exist, but from another point of view, and a few that are only mentioned in passing.

okay i'm cutting myself off now because this is a lot of yapping even for me but you may always ask more if you're so inclined <3333 thank you sm for asking i had so much fun answering this! i really can't tell you how much it means to me not only that you're not only reading but also enjoying it so much that you're asking about it like... this is literally a fic writer's DREAM. thank you so so so much <3333

[zoebelladona]

fics by crowstyping (that's me!) 🌿

HIS DARK MATERIALS (follow @dximonions)

apple heart: narnia/hdm crossover. lyra belacqua x lucy pevensie one-shots collection.

bauble: a tony costa x lyra belacqua flash fic.

it's a long way out to reach the sea (but i'm sure i'll find you waiting there for me): au where lyra is not captured at the end of the subtle knife. lyra and will play in the ocean of another world.

paradise dropped: high school/small town au. panjava. will has a crush on lyra belacqua, they sit in the park and drink wine, talking about prophecies.

novaturient: post-the amber spyglass lyra realises that while she might love will she wasn't in love with him.

symbol no.14: bird: pre-the secret commonwealth fix-it where lyra and pantalaimon talk things out instead of letting it fester.

this peppermint winter: written post-s1 finale. christmas special about lyra trying to make the holidays feel special despite everything she went through.

within walls: human experiments but with dæmons

PERCY JACKSON

kyparissos, run! kyparissos, cry: novelisation of thalia's death

pointed north: au about my ocs, campers luke's age post-battle of manhattan. pov my son of apollo oc with mommy issues and psychosexual problems.

SHAPESHIFTER AU

the influence stars have: the lion king except it's humans who can shapeshift into animals

anatomy of an edelweiss flower: the secret of nimh except it's humans who can shapeshift into animals

《 possibly upcoming 》

power outage [ pjo / one-shot ]: throne room scene in tlo except thalia is there

lightning in a bottle [ pjo / multichap ]: au where luke does not join kronos. when thalia's tree is poisoned luke offers himself as volunteer to go on the quest for the golden fleece in an attempt to save her.

arkadia is gone [ pjo / multichap ]: broken trio lycanthrope au. in which it is lykaon instead of kronos.

smile to charge, hug to cast [ pjo / multichap? ]: my will solace and lou ellen are besties manifesto. backstory stuff and how they fared during the events of pjo

waking the oracle [ pjo / multichap ]: remember when we all were writing fics about will, lou ellen, cecil and nico going on a quest to reignite the oracle of delphi? i sure do

bellas aves [ pjo / multichap? ]: the one where will, nico, and lou ellen go on a quest looking for the nine muses that have been turned into birds

fixed star [ deltarune / one-shot? ]: following the events of the snowgrave route, instead of opening a new dark world kris goes to noelle and explains the situation. they think they might have a chance to find dess if they work together.

water lillies* [ merlin / two-shot? ]: freya is not dead. she and merlin got married, he visits her sometimes. he brings her flowers.

amphibious [ merlin / one-shot ]: merlin can think of no one better to look after aithusa than the lady of the lake.

the sorcerer's apprentice [ disney's wish / one-shot ]: i listened to my sibling complain about this movie for an hour and i got angry it didn't do fantasia 1940 sorcerer's apprentice like what the fuck

thaw & foredawn [ barbie / multichap ]: i rewrite magic of the pegasus but i let annika say fuck

recall [ loz / one-shot ]: totk being the "beginning" of the timeline makes me angry so i'm novelising a theory i saw refuting that

how terrifying to be aglow [ loz / multichap ]: totk + ss remix where i do my own take of the imprisoning war from skyward sword using tears of the kingdom worldbuilding. aka, hylia and the original hero are zonai

we'll be dead in the water [ thg / multichap ]: welcome to the 73rd hunger games! fanfic quality version of the ongoing rp between myself and @on-the-river-lethe. for more check out @laberinthos

waking up the giants [ tlg / multichap ]: my version of the backstory of the dead civilisation in the last guardian

wearing our remains [ trc / multichap ]: my adam/blue/noah manifesto + au where i remix trc to Not include gansey and ronan. die mad about it

[cabeswaterdrowned]

Thanks for the tag @retiredficwriter + I’m pretty sure @madwomanwithawarehouse tagged me in this ages ago but I either didn’t feel I had enough wips I’d like to talk about when she did or I just.. yk, flopped lol. Anyway. Criteria for this is there needs to be an actual document so the fics I’m writing in great detail in my head don’t count but things that have a titled doc count even in cases where they’re mostly outline. Will just give the title + fandom.

Rules (which somehow didn’t get copy-pasted before so I had to go back and edit) Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs

first three I have published *something* of as in the first 2 chapters or several chapters and then after that it’s all unposted.

Reading TRB (trc) (first 10 chapters posted)

tesselation (trc) (first 2 chapters posted)

Twilight au (trc) first 2 chapters posted)

then after that:

Rose Blood (pll)

challengers au (trc)

Sparia TRB au (pll)

Lisa Frankenstein au (trc)

unattainable (trc)

drabble (trc)

Julia introspective wip (the magicians)

Kevin wip (aftg)

wanna be the power ballad that (lifts you up and holds you down) (Aftg) ((technically I did post a first chapter of this in 2022 but if I ever resume working on it I’ll rewrite that one))

should’ve been me (pll)

pull another string and i’ll kiss your lips (trc)

no pressure tagging: @sergeantpixie @romantichopelessly @chaosandtwo @undergroundash @sofour @crimeronan @thevagabondexpress

[eddiemelrose]

Current Fanfic Ideas

The stuff I currently want to write. There's no guarantees though.

Last updated: 27 Oct 2024

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Spokane: Eddie's POV

Exactly what it says on the tin.

Sydney and Eddie therapy session post TRC (but pre-epilogue)

Essentially Sydney making sure Eddie didn't become Adrian's guardian because of lingering guilt over 'failing' them.

HATHAZUR

Currently drafting a fic about them. Janine cut a Sydney-esque deal with him and it's time for her to leave... but Abe doesn't want her to.

The birth of Basil Dragomir.

I started writing this but I think I'll go back for a rewrite.

Sydrian oneshot that I can't plot out until I read TRC.

All I'll say is that it involves Olive surviving childbirth.

Reeducation post series.

I had an idea of Zoe ending up in reeducation a good few years after the end of the series. Idk how the story would go yet.

The Spirit Dream Team.

One day I will write my next gen fic properly, and it will centre around said dream team - Maddy, Matthias and Clay.

Zoe Sage discovering Sydney's relationship.

I feel compelled to write this. I am a Zoe Sage apologist.

Rose and Lissa becoming "inseparable"

That paragraph about how Rose and Lissa became friends. I want to make it a full fic.

[the-ghost-king]

nico things i think about but nobody should expect me to write because i dont write anything anymore (oops?): nico as a trc dreamer au (nico = ronan, will = adam, lou ellen = blue, cecil = gansey w/ personality and plot changes to make it fit the characters better) "nico has just never been the same since he found his sister and mother dead in the driveway"; nico ballerino au where maria signed bianca up for ballet lessons as a kid and she ended up hating them but maria didnt want her to quit because she already paid for the lessons but nico was interested and the studio let him take bianca's remaining lessons for no additional cost and nico goes on to eventually become a really good professional dancer and actor, solangelo international school au where they meet as roommates and become like "highschool sweethearts" kind of situation, sally adopts nico and jason as kids and raises them alongside percy and they get propery therapy and shit throughout their lives so things are the same but also a little better overall with better support systems and stuff, the entire series and some additional pieces of the timeline all from Nico's pov some people may remember I uploaded some of these chapters and then deleted them and they are unlikely to ever be reuploaded or finished, nico in a sort of anne rice "tears to heaven" au where he is a castrati in 1700s Italy, nico as a ww2 polygot double agent, solangelo youtubers au, a series rewrite where theyre all 20 something when they meet instead of teenagers and appropriate shenanigans and horror ensue, one where there's no lotus hotel and they're all born in the current century and maria nico and bianca all live au, the one where nico is an accountant, the one where nico is an archeologist, the one where he is a nurse, the one where he is a an angel, the one in which he is a god....

[meimi-haneoka]

Oh my!!!! Just read your post and the summary of the chapter and lmao, I am perfectly willing to wait for the volume to come out. First of all, congratulations to all of us YunaAki fandom that we actually got our favourite hobo to confess his feelings. Lmao, stuff his mouth with chocomint ice cream, Akiho! It feels a bit embarrassingly cute to finally have them being canon (officially that is!). Second, are we getting hints of a potential future arc that ties up with TRC/xxxHolic, especially since xxxHolic Rei is supposedly going to be revived? That description of Momo's scene makes me think that a book that is capable of rewriting the world would without a doubt be involved in TRC/xxxHolic shenanigans. I don't want to keep my hopes up too high given that CLAMP are ageing and have been working tirelessly for so long but maybe secondary author written light novels with illustrations from Mokona-sensei may be the way to go in the future, at least as far as CCS continuation goes? Given that Light Novels are at their all time popularity high right now and they have done it for CLAMP Academy before, fingers crossed! Although I believe we might take a few years before we get anything concrete on that side. Sigh! At least we have CCS CC anime Season 2 to look forward to now. Third, OMG!!!!! Tomoyo!!! I am now 100 percent certain that Sakura is going to be wearing a "King of Kwa" Qun Kwa, fully designed, hand embroidered and stitched by Tomoyo. There will definitely be two weddings - one at Japan (which will be whatever the couple chooses but I would love it to be a traditional Shinto one at the Tsukimine shrine) and a traditional Cantonese-Chinese one at Hong Kong (ain't no way the Heir of the Clan and his Japanese bride getting away without a "proper" and traditional Chinese wedding). Given that it takes at least a year for even an traditionally experienced embroiderer to create a King of Kwa, maybe Tomoyo mentioning this as they are entering 9th grade means that SS will really get married right out of high school. Like even her brain says whoops, I better begin the wedding planning and bridal dress designing already. Yes! Give us I-am-a-wealthy-Victoria-Peak boy Syaoran and his enormously large family being in sync over Sakura wearing a real gold and silver embroidered on finest silk from Guangdong with it weighing around 10-15 kg and that being the bare minimum because it brings the most fortune and fertility with its Nine Dragons and Nine Phoenixes. Buhahaha. And Sakura just going along with it because she does not really get to dip her feet into her husband's culture much and she is enjoying all the big family time because everyone, legit everyone in the family, is enamoured with her and how cute and absolutely precious she is. Ahahahaha. Sheesh, I am blushing so much. I had headcanons for so many years but these are all of them coming true!!! *shakes my head and arms vigorously in my fangirling heaven*

OMG Aubretiaaaaaaa!! YES!! We finally made it!! WEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIEEEENNNDDDD 😂😂 Ok excuse my silly little moment but yes, can you believe that I would've NEVER imagined they would make him say THAT in canon? I've always thought that they would go "the subtle way", for several reasons (and it also makes sense, character-wise) and leave it at the true name reveal, but nope, they had to SHOCK ME even in the final, definitive special chapter!! 😂 It isn't a shock that Kaito is feeling romantic love for Akiho, not at all: the shock comes from seeing it spelled out "clearly" on paper! 😂 I even imagined that this could happen a couple of years later along the way, but it's perfectly fine like this. We talked about this before, right? The attraction he feels comes from a chemistry between souls, and there isn't anything shady going on. So everything else will still come at the right time (and it's not like CLAMP will portray any of it, so each one of us can imagine it however we like). I'm gonna write another post later about the chocomint ice cream because I realized I forgot to point some things out in my commentary! 😁

About the Holic tie-in, in this specific chapter it doesn't look like there's any hint (the "appropriate price" Momo paid is a concept that exists in CCS too), but it can still totally happen, even in Holic itself. Like a cameo from Kaito and Akiho (since it would be kinda weird to feature Sakura herself, and she would steal the spotlight wherever she goes). I don't know, I won't hope too much for it, but things in Clear Card definitely were left open enough for them to reconnect to it in the future!

And yes, I also am totally convinced that SyaoSaku will have a double wedding! 😁 Tomoyo can still totally create a western-style dress for the celebration in Japan, since usually after the traditional Shinto ceremony, there's the party and that's where the bride changes outfit and can wear the western-style dress! But yeah, I also cannot see them going without a ceremony in Hong Kong too, and I really appreciated the description of the King of Qwa traditional wedding dress, especially cause I looked for it and...YES, I CAN TOTALLY SEE HOW THIS "BEAST" REQUIRES AT LEAST A YEAR OF EMBROIDERY!! If Tomoyo is going to undertake this challenge, SHE REALLY NEEDS TO START NOW 😂 I mean, look at this....pink blossom, it's perfect!

It is so beautiful!! I can totally see Sakura wearing this! And YES, I agree, I think SyaoSaku will marry right out of high school 🥰 This special chapter really gave us "fuel" for so many future headcanons, right?? I really can't thank CLAMP enough for this!

[gg-selvish]

if i ever were to write something for trc/tdt series it would be a gen or t rated matthew & declan exploration of their bond as brothers basically rewriting their reunion at the end of greywaren as a bigger and more emotionally deep thing and then how that traumatic time apart would effect their dynamic going forward

[magpiesbones]

I love making playlists and was wondering if you have any songs that you associate with Witch Hat Atelier, The Raven Cycle or Howl's Moving Castle/House of Many Ways/Castle in the Air specifically?

Ooh or Hands if the Emperor?

oh this is a Really fun ask bc I found this really good trc playlist (unlinkable unfortunately) and it’s forever The trc playlist to me.

for witch hat I like a lot of Florence and the machine, but Forgiveness (許) by 4s4ki and silent legacy by Melissa etheridge also go very hard but I don’t really make playlists so. Most of my witch hat songs are ‘listen to while writing German college’ songs.

under the cut is the full TRC playlist written out.

like real people do- hosier

ghosts- the head and the heart

sea of love- cat power

dreams- Fleetwood Mac (or insert favorite cover)

Diplomats son- vampire weekend

arsonists lullaby- hosier

the mortal boy king— the paper kites

rivers and roads— the head and the heart

past lives— børns

I follow rivers— Marika hackman

the anchor- bastille

Bloom- the paper kites

Crooked teeth— death cab for cutie

see you- lady lamb

blame- bastille

5am- amber run

mystery of love- sufjan stevens

spirits- the strumbellas

From Eden- hozier

church- fall out boy

nobody dies- thao & the get down stay down

moving mountains- anima!

the twist- metric

pigeon- cavetown

sick of losing soulmates- dodie

A pound of flesh- radical face

dreaming- small pools

the predatory wasp of the palisades- sufjan stevens

November- sleeping with sirens

October- broken bells

devil in me- halsey

nineteen- tegan and Sara

rewrite the stars- original broadway recording of greatest showman

reflections after Jane- the clientele

The night we met- lord huron

rollercoaster- bleachers

come along (edit)- cosmo sheldrake

Ride- Lana de rey

so much- cavetown

Neptune- sleeping at last

heavens gate- fall out boy

the end of all things- panic at the disco

Willow tree March- the paper kites

Everything is temporary- cavetown

paint- the paper kites

Talk me down- troye sivan

Good times- all time low

Americas sweetheart- Elle king

family- mother mother

ribs- lorde

Call me out- sea girls

Trees- twenty one pilots

scene three: stomach tied in knots- sleeping with sirens

ten feet tall- cavetown

impossible year- panic at the disco

this is gospel- panic at the disco

the yawning grave- lord huron

always gold- radical face

Blue girl- the chromatics

waltz- the naked and famous

midnight city- m83

dream team- Aidan knight

devils playground- the rigs

you should see me in a crown- Billie eilish

teenage mind- Tate mcrae

silver lining- hurts

The wisp sings- winter aid

full circle- half moon run (this one REALLY has the vibe)

maybe we’re home- Lewis watson

wait- m83

July bones- Richard walters

lost it to trying- son lux

heirloom- sleeping at last

meet me in the woods- lord huron

Into the unknown- postcards from mars

welcome home son- radical face

young god- halsey

monsters calling home- run River north (also THE vibe)

let’s kill tonight- panic at the disco

No light no light- florence and the machine

these days are numbered- the head and the heart

hold on- Lewis watson

house of memories- panic at the disco

home- hollow coves

loneliness- SIAM

the funeral- band of horses

drive- halsey

gold- sir sly

another night on mars- the maine

we can try- between the trees

we’ll be the stars- Sabrina carpenter

why- Sabrina carpenter

slow dancing in the dark- joji

talk- coldplay

graveyard- halsey

the other side- Conan grey

Daughter- sleeping at last

if I get high- nothing but thieves

graveyard whistling- nothing but thieves

in this shirt- the irrepressibles

two men in love- the irrepressibles

[syciaralynx]

20 questions for fanfic writers!

Was tagged by my beloved @hot-flippin-mess!

1. How many works do you have on Ao3?

23! not a whole lot-

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?

360,386, imma wordy bitch 😎

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Zukka, AFTG, TRC, and i have in the past written for FF7/8 and Gundam Seed

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Replay: Not surprising! One of my oldest/longest fics 🥰

Blood in the Wine: Also not surprising, this one is a DOOZY

Cast Your Heart In Bronze: I didn't think this one would be so high, but I aint mad about it.

Lucky Stars: For a pairing that only has 1100 works!!?!?! Y'ALL ARE STARVING FOR THEM HUH.

It's a Wonderful Night (to get dicked down double time): FUCKIN LMAO YOU HORNY LITTLE FUCKS (ily so mcuh)

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yep, always!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't really write angsty endings??? I suppose Cinder is probably my most... brittle one. Also C'mon Baby Go and Set Me Ablaze, but that still has a happy ending.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

THEY ALL HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS. Idk probably the dragon verse? or arkterra? Or my current Softka works.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not so much hate as some ODD comments and bookmark tags, but nothing terrible.

9. Do you write smut?

What is a pebis

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

No, not my speed.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I believe Lucky is currently getting translated into Russian?

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not really, but i love chatting in discord servers and throwing some spaghetti at the wall to get the juices flowing. Collaborative help.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

WE DONT HAVE TIME FOR IT ALL. Zukka. Jerejean. Andreil. SnowBaz. Pynch. Destiel. Sterek. SPIRK. I could go on.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Ohhh Card Trick. I really want to go back to it and rewrite the current chapters before continuing and it is just a LOT of work.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Hmm. I think im good at describing emotions, character reactions to situations. I also think I'm pretty funny.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I don't think I write very good villains/anti-forces for my big fics. [though I've gotten better for BITW i think]

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I do it from time to time! I do speak a couple, or i take a gamble in google lmao

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Omg either Gundam Seed or FF8. I think it was a Squall/Seifer

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

I LOVE THEM ALL.

Blood in the Wine I think is the best writing I've ever done, but I have a REAL soft spot for Arkterra.

I taaaaag: WHOEVER WANTS TO!! Most of my mutuals have been tagged already, but feel free to grab it and do it if you want!

[haro-hawayu]

CCS: Clear Card Ch. 74

How is it June already??? Glad I had a bit of down time to check out the latest chapter, which can be found on CLAMP-net’s YouTube Channel. As always, do check out @meimi-haneoka's post on the latest chapter for any EN-JPN translation differences.

Links for previous chapter reactions can be found here.

Reactions

MAGICIAN SAKURA COVER!!!

Sakura looks SOOOOO COOL WAHHH!!!

If this outfit ever becomes Sakura’s “official” magician robes (like how all the other magicians just happen to have 1 set/design of “magician” robes), I would 100% not be mad about it (except there’s no way she would only have one design/set of such robes with Tomoyo around LOL) cuz it looks so so good

Oh! We’re finally seeing things from Touya’s POV!

Cute Yuki & Nakuru bonding time, loving the vibe!

With how Akiho was mentioned first... makes me feel the “rewrite” did in fact involve everyone...? Except Touya’s expression seems to indicate otherwise.

Omgsh Kero-chan XD

Whoaaa it’s truly the whole gang now!

Sakura 1000% best protagonist ever. I love her so much with how she’s reassuring Akiho that Akiho is important to her regardless of the fact that they’re “twins” as a result of the rewriting

Totally getting that “because this person is important you [Akiho], then they are important to me as well” vibe from Sakura as she’s explaining all this, major big sister vibes from her Kinomoto family please adopt Akiho and her fam (Kaito + Momo) after this series ends please

Wahhh it’s painful to see how Akiho is admitting her pain that void in her, of searching for someone except not really knowing who it is... I’m glad she’s admiting and sharing this too TuT

Tomoyo best girl. I love her so much for just being the biggest and best support for Sakura & others even tho she has no magic

Also 100% glee over Sakura declaring before everyone that Syaoran is her number one person!! Wooo!

Big brother Touyaaaa! So sweet!!

THE COSTUMES OMGSSHHHH!! They look amazing!!

~

Okay so it seems like the rewriting really did affect everyone, but it didn’t stop people from feeling that things were “off” (i.e. Touya, Akiho, Tomoyo even). I think that says a lot about how memories are just a very tricky thing, and in the end, some part of you will “remember” or “recall” even if you personally don’t have that memory (huhuuu so much TRC trauma thoughts)... like with Akiho knowing that there’s someone that she missing in her life, or Tomoyo remembering making that outfit somewhere before... because these things relate to that strong bond they have with another person (Akiho with Kaito, Tomoyo whenever she puts in her all with making costumes for Sakura). With Touya’s case, he’s just that very kind and protective person who puts his family and close ones above all, and I love that he also includes Akiho in all that even though she’s not his actual sister (hi again Kinomoto family, please adopt her).

It seems like Sakura and Syaoran will be the only two trying to find Kaito (or clues to lead to him) so far. I guess it would make sense given that because of the rewriting, they’re really going in kinda blind--they have no idea what kind of troubles or dangers may show up. I hope that we do get to the point where Akiho can come in and do the thing that only she can do, which is bringing Kaito back. Like sure, Sakura and Syaoran have the magic power to do all the other heavy lifting, but only Akiho will truly reach Kaito and make him actually desire to return.

Looking forward to the next chapter!! We’re really heading towards the end here!

[aliceinclockland]

what would Akiho ask Kaito?

Omg they really removed his name lmao

Imagine being called

" -san"

for me, one of the questions that would make sense for her to ask him is "Why?" like, not necessarily why did he do all of that since i don't think she knows to what extent was the "damage" nor she knows his true intent but like... just why... we're probably thinking questions like why is the love of her life currently a dragon, why can't she remember him, why were they living in a world that was a lie? and I can't blame you lol— like if I was on Akiho's shoes I'd be bombarding Yuna D. Kaito TONS of questions, but idk.

i feel like even if Akiho asked just the question "why" with nothing else following it i feel like Kaito already knows what she's talking about.

all it takes is for everyone to catch the dragon escapee so he can finally have a heart-to-heart talk with the love of his life.

also the " - san" shenanigans is similar to what happened to Princess Sakura in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (which hurts... a lot... 💔)— in trc!sakura's case, it was the price of trc!syaoran's wish to save her life. in clear card's case, it's part of what happened after Yuna D. Kaito activated the magic of the forbidden book, since he had to rewrite the twin Alices' story to save Akiho's body and soul to be fully used as a walking spellbook by the european magic congregation— erasing him and momo alongside the congregation in her memory and putting the "I'm sakura's twin who's immunocompromised so i had to live with our great grandfather until I'm better" in our Akiho's memories. in Akiho's world, he does not exist. and right now they're still in that fabricated world and yeah 🥲

idk if this helps im basically just rambling but as per usual, i have toooooo many things in my head that I can't words 😭

I'm still mourning whatever went down in chapter 77 honestly my head hurts from crying. agh YUNA D. KAITO YOU BLOCKHEAD 😭😭😭😭

[aaronstveit]

11, 15 and 17 for the ask game !!!! 🤍🤍🤍

hii milo thank you for asking!!♡

11. What fandom do you write for most often?

okay so nearly all my published works are for the raven cycle but now i am pretty much just writing les mis! there are still a few trc fics i might work on and i occasionally consider other fandoms but les mis is definitely pulling the reins in my brain rn and i only have so much self control really...

15. What fic of yours would you most like to rewrite?

oh god. pretty much everything i've ever written? i reread a lot of my work after i publish it and i'm like wow. even though i just wrote this yesterday there is so much i would change now. i mean i am proud of all of my writing to at least a certain extent because i put all those words on a page that was empty before and then i shared that writing even though it is so so scary. and other than fixing typos i don't like to make edits to my old work or delete it because i respect the version of me that wrote that stuff too much to go back and change it all. however i would really really love to take down my tatbilb pynch au one day, rewrite the entire thing, and actually finish it. it haunts me for real. i got a comment on it like yesterday asking if i was ever going to finish it and i'm like... well no not unless i rewrite the 50k words that exist already and then write another 50k to wrap it up. which just... does not sound like something i really want to do, unfortunately. but if ever i was going to rewrite something, that would be it. just so it would stop haunting me.

17. What trope is your favorite to write?

angst. i seriously love angst so much, it's a problem (blame @cosettepontmercys). once upon a time i was a happy go lucky young person writing shameless fluff piece after shameless fluff piece and then one day i discovered the great joy of writing sadness and anger and arguments and i have never looked back. if i'm not crying while i'm writing a scene then it needs to be more painful!

fanfic writer asks!

[ronseyz]

i think mstief should pull a stephanie meyer and just rewrite trc totally from kavinsky’s point of view