#which is like 7k words

[itstimeforstarwars]

And for my next chapter, I will present

[gothamcityneedsme]

wheee bang check in done.

[crookedghosts]

method acting [a little bit of truth (goes a pretty long way)]

Ch 3/ 5 || 16k words total || Jason Grace/Leo Valdez || Modern AU - Wedding + Fake Dating || AO3

The Bachelor Party Chapter! I'll take that with a side of Valgrace pining and Filipino!Percy karaoke, please.

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“Maybe that’s your problem. You’re both too worried about it meaning something. What if you just let it?”

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“Oh god, if I tried to sing, it’d probably cause an avalanche,” Jason stated, and Percy grinned over at him.

“You're really gonna let me duet your boy alone, Grace?” Percy teased, but Jason remained unmoved at the edge of the stage, Leo smirking at him.

“This goes out to you, baby,” Leo sing-songed, and the opening electric piano notes rang out over the speakers, punctuated by a drum beat and a familiar swinging of Leo's hips.

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“Also, seriously, what kind of shitty fake boyfriend would I be if I only cared about your birthday when other people are watching? It’s your day.”

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Summer sun, something's begun

But uh, oh those summer nights

[edwinisms]

so damn close to finishing writing my first fic for this show but my head feels like it’s gonna explode from writing an entire 3.3K theoretical analysis paper for like five hours straight and if I look at my computer screen much longer I might just fucking die so. here we are. suffering.

[respheal]

Me: Man, I have a working plot but it means I have to purposely leave my blorbo out of most of it :(

Nintendo: *kicks down the door and throws an updated LoZ timeline in my face*

[piease-iove-me]

who wants to see my unnecessarily detailed list of character roles for the PacRim fic? uh? uh???

edit. check rb

[lesbianlenas]

i was considering taking a class & then i saw that u have to write a 7k word paper for it omg 😭 i already have to write my comment which is 7k words imagine me writing two 7k word papers in one semester 😭 i was immediately like nvm i’m not taking that!

[whumpshaped]

Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed glitching. It’s a bit embarrassing to say, but I barely interacted with it in any way that you could see because the format made me feel guilty about reading whump in a way that I hadn’t felt in a long time. That’s a compliment to your writing! Glitching was about being an accomplice and moral choices and I got caught up in it that I stopped participating in the polls after a few posts. I really liked it though.

Since you couldn’t see the likes that I very much wanted to give the series, I’m sending my thanks directly. You are really good at writing, and your specific style is one of my favorites on this site. Your writing is just brutal in a way that a lot of whump writing isn’t, and your characters are extremely compelling/whumpable. I can’t describe exactly what I love about it, but I do love it. You also made glitching really quickly, which is impressive. I’m still in awe of how you made all the different endings for the finale. That must have taken forever.

Was Glitching always going to end the way it did? If the audience had voted to kill Seth at the earliest opportunity, would that have happened? Are there any other pathways that you had planned out that we didn’t get to see? Basically, I loved Glitching and I want to hear all the behind the scenes details that you are willing to share.

Thanks again!

aaaaaaaaaa thank u SO much for this. long ass response under the cut !

this is honestly.... mostly all i wanted to achieve w glitching. (my first objective was to create a whump cyoa story where the options were all bad, bc in all the other ones ppl kept picking the good ones and i was like :| but my whump..? no whump..?) several times i felt like maybe the second person pov is too much and its too real and itll turn everyone off... but then i thought. thats. kind of what i want. i want it to feel a little gross even if its fiction. i wanted to make ppl feel conflicted.

so please dont feel bad about not interacting! i understand how it could feel rly bad and guilt-inducing. im glad u made the decision to stop interacting when u did, its NOT embarrassing in the slightest. this message means a whole lot either way.

hehehehehe im GLAD theyre brutal! thats very much the style i wanna be known for lol and the style i enjoy! i want stuff to be gruesome and disgusting! i want it to be brutal and unforgiving! i want violence! i want gore! and also thank u, im glad my characters r whumpable. especially w glitching, i saw that when other ppl put their cute ocs in situations no one wanted to hurt them, so i was like ok whos my most vile most hated most disgusting oc whom everyone would Love to see be punched in the face- in general i love making my ocs whumpable and pitiful. i love a pitiful little guy

i stopped writing glitching when my exams started at college, and iced it after maybe chapter 8 or 9. then i picked it back up again after i got a 20th message in my inbox abt how ppl miss it, and it successfully forced my hand to finally sit down and just Write. (i do have to be forced to write a lot of the times. it doesnt work for everyone, but it does for me. obviously i can never get in the zone if i dont even open the document yknow. thats why i write a lot of shitty drabbles! it keeps up momentum!) and then i just kept writing. and writing. and writing. trying to get a chapter out every day because i knew what i wanted to do and i wanted to finish it. when it comes to the finale, iiiii decided i wanted to do that whole thing literally 2 days beforehand. my friend told me "wow these options r all good" and i said "i know i kinda wanna see all of them too". and the idea was born. the seed was planted. the bug was in my fucken ear.

so the next morning i checked the poll on chapter 13, and saw that of course the option to keep seth alive was winning by far. so i wrote that in advance. then i started writing out the endings for the finale. i managed to get maybe 3 of them done. then the next day i finished the other 6, tweaked the earlier ones, all that. i uploaded them all, posted everything privately, fiddled forever w the links (which i knew were likely gonna break anyway-) and THEN WHEN THE TIME CAME I WANTED TO MAKE ONE LAST EDIT AND ACCIDENTALLY POSTED IT. so i had to unprivate everything in a fucking frenzy like OH MY GOD PPL WONT UNDERSTAND I RUINED IT I RUINED EVERYTHING. but anyway yes it took me like 2 days of writing and editing but the response was soooooo worth it. ppl were so so so kind to me. it was honestly amazing.

one thing abt me, i started planning my stories At All in the last few months. before that, Nothing. and especially w smth like glitching, where the audience's decision influences the next chapter and i cant plan ahead, i didnt even bother. whatever the audience chose was always gonna happen. if they chose to exit the stream on the very first poll, i wouldve ended it. im serious. i thought abt pulling "you try to exit but it doesnt work" but then i was like. no. ppl can have one (1) chance to turn their heads away if they want, as a treat. i wouldve written a chapter about the debilitating guilt and lifelong "what if" feeling, and that wouldve been it. as for the earlier murder options, yes! i wouldve gone thru w it at any time. starting from maybe the 6th chapter (or whenever i brought in the murder option) the audience held the power to end the stream and seth's suffering. they chose not to. but they couldve.

one option that i wanted that never got chosen was the baseball bat. im obsessed w beating someone to the point of broken bones w a baseball bat. so when the ending was getting nearer and nearer, i thought about simply disregarding the last poll and writing a single chapter where the host goes "i respected the choices u made up until now, but this time, im making the decision". but i was like. no fuck that. this is an interactive story all about being able to choose ur own decisions. i just asked the audience to supply me w puppy seth commands, citing how it was interactive. i couldnt just go and ignore that two chapters later, yknow? plus as u said it kind of all hinged on the feeling of "i did this. im responsible". so if i took that responsibility away in the last second IN THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION OF ALL it wouldnt have been good enough

most of the time i just kept giving the options i really wanted to write, and eventually, ppl picked them. it was a good story in the sense that the order didnt matter too much. i could give the same options, and the host was still able to carry them all out.

some more behind the scenes- i thought about revealing the host's identity multiple times. i thought about making them someone the audience already knew (like ren, my friend's oc who greatly inspired the character from the very first chapter), or someone who couldve been vaguely familiar but unknown (a former friend of pumpkin?), but in the end i just settled on the mystery. especially since i decided to give it a paranormal twist. i couldve NEVER made a better reveal than the mystery itself. never ever. some things dont have to be revealed.

but yeah! thats that. i rly enjoyed glitching, i loved the response i got (it was by far the most popular story ive ever posted on here w the most tags and comments and asks), and i loved how i managed to do the finale. it was concise, i can say i finished another story, and its just all around a great time. thank u so much for ur message !!!

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

treating myself to my nano treat BEFORE I’ve done any writing. queen shit!!!!

[jakes3resin]

Upon reflection, Courting Fic could potentially be less fluffy than promised. But! Its not angsty. I just wrote a lot of Curt, and because I love Curt and find him fun, I thought yeah this is fluff because my baby boi (Bucky) is here with the love of my life (Curt) and no one is in pain or bleeding.

my b lol

[regulatedstrawberry]

Tails' Solo Adventure - Prologue Preview

Summary:

“When this is all over… I think I need to go it alone for a while. I can’t grow into my full potential if I always fall back on you.”

Tails decides to embark on his own journey, without Sonic. Takes place after the events of Sonic Frontiers.

Chapters: 8/? Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Read the Full Prologue Here!

“Alright everyone, prepare for landing!”

After what had been hours flying above the ocean, and a pit stop at Angel Island to drop off Knuckles, Tails, the trusty pilot of the Tornado, was ready for descent. He adjusted his goggles, flipped a couple switches, gripped the yoke, and pushed down, feeling the nose of the plane drop ever so slightly. The gust of wind that followed tickled and cooled his fur from the harsh sun above. In some ways, this was his favorite part about flying, right after takeoff and maintaining altitude. After being stuck within Cyberspace in the Starfall Islands, Tails had realized how much he had taken the sensation of touch, and holding things, for granted, and was happy to be back in his beloved plane. His excitement was only second to the sight of their home came into view - the sparkling waves of the ocean leading them to Green Hill in the distance.

Tails' signal was welcomed by his passengers, Sonic and Amy, who were more than ready to put the latest chapter of their adventures to rest. 

“Sonic, you might want to hold on!” Tails called out over the roar of the Tornado's engine. 

“Hold on?” Sonic, standing on the left wing of the plane, looked over at Tails with that charismatic grin of his. “But I’m having such a great time up here!” Playfully, Sonic spread his arms out in defiance. With the wind blowing through his quills, and the sun glowing against him, it was as if he had never been touched by the cyber corruption that had nearly taken him over just earlier.

“Sonic, be careful!” Amy pleaded from the passenger’s seat. While Sonic was quick to move on, for Amy, Sonic just fought tooth and nail against the largest threat to humanity to date about seven hours ago. Sure, they were used to saving the world by the skin of their teeth, but the last thing she needed was for Sonic to meet his end just because he was acting reckless. “You know there’s just a huge ocean below us, right?”

“Eh, fiiine,” Sonic sighed, rolling his eyes but not really - he knew Amy was just looking out for him. With an easygoing smile, he lowered himself from standing to sitting on the wing of the plane, hands gripping the edge. “But even if I fell, Tails would’ve caught me, right buddy?”

Tails caught Sonic’s mischievous smile in a brief glance, before focusing on the skies ahead and the nose of the plane. “Mm, if I felt like it,” he joked, shooting Sonic an equally smug look. Then, quickly, “Nah, I’m kidding- of course I would!”

The three of them laughed, as the plane soared steadily towards the landscape of Green Hill. The air felt sweet with the scent of the ocean, the sun beginning to dip towards the horizon. Tails savored this moment, for once they landed, it wouldn't be long until they all went their own adventures.

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After what was at least a solid four hours of tuneups, minor repairs, and refueling, Tails slumped himself into the chair of his workshop’s hangar, hands and face covered in sweat and grease. Letting out a sigh, he hung his head back to stare at the ceiling, and wiped the back of his hand over his forehead, feeling the sweat beneath his fur. This was pretty standard routine after an adventure, but it didn’t make it less taxing.

Besides, he needed to make sure the Tornado was in tip-top shape before he left tomorrow morning. His duffel bag was packed next to his desk with all the essentials — some food and water for the road, toothbrush, some advanced weapons, basic tools, and a jacket just in case, to name a few. It was going to be one of his first adventures on his own, without Sonic, or really, anyone he knew. And while he knew there was no rush to leave, Tails wanted to just get a head start and do something meaningful and heroic, and take a risk, instead of hanging out at the sidelines again. At first, Tails didn't know where to go - he thought about approaching this like Sonic, just taking himself wherever the wind led to. But when you needed to think about fueling a plane, and regular maintenance, he decided that Station Square was a good place to start, and he could figure things out from there. Adventure seemed to follow Sonic, so maybe that rubbed off on him, too.

Beneath the anticipation though, he was also dreading it. Was he really ready for this? While he had his heroic moments, Tails wasn't proud to admit the number of times he cowered in fear behind Sonic, or ended up needing to be rescued altogether- in his own words, he was wildly inconsistent. The decision to call this off was tempting.

But no, he needed to do this. He can't keep relying on Sonic to save him forever. He knew that Sonic was always supporting him, and believed in Tails more than Tails believed in himself. He needed to put everything he’s learned to the test, and see what he’s truly capable of.

The weight of it all was coming down on Tails as he sank into the chair, staring at the ceiling. Slowly, he closed his eyes, letting out a deep, full body sigh. This chair felt softer, more comfortable than usual. He could almost fall—

“Hey Tails!”

Sonic’s voice rang out from the front of the hangar. It jolted Tails awake, as he sat up straight with his heart racing, a fox in the headlights. “Amy’s heading out soon!”

That’s right, Amy was coming up today to say goodbye. Not even four days after they’ve arrived back, Amy was headed on a road trip with Sticks and Cream towards Spagonia. According to Amy, it was only going to be the best girls trip ever.

“Coming! Give me a minute!” Tails called out, pulling himself up from his chair. He quickly made his way to the sink in the back of the room, caught a glance at the dark grease and dust that caked his fur, and cringed. Yeah, he was going to need a little longer than a minute to clean himself up.

Read the Full Prologue Here!

[dallonwrites]

organised everything i have for it so far + tentatively cut some things (that i may put back if i find there’s missing beats but otherwise they were kinda unnecessary for the current vision) and refined my chapter two outline so if i have time at work tomorrow i can play around with it and write something like yayyyy i love when past me sets myself up like this

[litrallytyrus]

i have not been talking about janrichard enough lately . sorry . i’ll fix it

[funkily]

I'm like so unreasonably silly about ScWhip. I'm getting reasonably fed through New Life but Empires? That hits different.

They love each other. They hate each other.

They make out and say "no homo".

They tease each other and are just nerds.

They are my little dolls I play around with.

INCREDIBLY REALLL

[nandysparadox]

im coming to terms with the fact this chapter will end up being over 6k words. sorry guys

[echoingkarma]

Okay so, technically we finished Celestial Syzygy but we have no idea if its any good but its. Done?