#wip: untitled regency romance

[romanceandshenanigans]

Last Sentence Tag

Thanks to @clairelsonao3, here is her post.

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

It's honestly been so long since I added a sentence I'm making a guess at what was the last one I wrote.

God damn Thomas and his intentions.

Tagging: @janec23, @jo-harrington, @kittttycakes, @can-of-pringles, @16boyfriends-and-me, @auroramagpie

[yourwitchjay]

what should I write🤔

Despite the fact that I have uni to focus on and poor motivation I want to write and post more fanfics! So, I'm doing a poll were you lot choose what I should focus my attention on.

(please note all fics will likely be written at some point)

option 1: lets leave together (till death did up part)

currently ongoing and uploads one a week, voting would cause 2 uploads a week.

This fic follows Barty through first year and through to the war. It will be endgame rosekiller with other ships happening before that.

option 2: studying methods of staying alive

current wip, fully planned but has barley been written, voting would (hopefully) cause 2 uploads a week throughout october. Will be 10 chapters.

This fic follows the marauders girls (lily, mary, marlene, dorcas, pandora, emmeline, alice and narcissa) It's a modern, no magic au where the girls are all in univeristy and during reading week they deside to go to a cabin to turn studying into a fun girls trip. However, it all goes wrong when one by one the girls start disappearing.

option 3: on the rosier ranch

current wip with little planning but has started being written, voting would cause one chapter a week. Length unknown but around 20-30k.

This fic follows 6 povs (evan, barty, marlene, dorcase, lily and pandora) with 3 povs per chapter. It's a modern no magic horse riding au that follows 3 romantic plot points of; lily and pandora working on a project together and becoming friends, marlene starting work at a ranch where dorcas does all her riding practice, and evan and barty competing in a tournament.

option 4: untittled nobleflower

Just an idea currently, voting would cause one chapter a week but uploads would take a few weeks to start. length unknown.

This fic would follow alice and narcissa, being split pov. It's a regency era fic that would take inspiration from brigerton but NOT be a full au. Its a slow burn forbidden romance with exploration and criticizations of feminism in the era.

[thebabblingbrookenook]

WIP List

As of 07/14/2023

Hello Readers! Just wanted to pop on and say a quick thank you to all of you that have been so patient with my snail paced writing. I’m starting to get back in the swing of things and it’s my intention to post more frequently. 

I just wanted to share a quick glimpse at my WIP list and hopefully pique curiosity. Most of these are working titles and subject to change.

Most recently, I posted the 3rd installment of the ongoing fic The Viscount Who Loved Me Too Much. All three parts can be found on my pinned post at the top of my page. I already have plans for Part 4.

Forgive Me - Benedict x Reader Whump / Modern AU

A Birthday to Remember - Anthony x OFC / Regency Multi-chapter / Angsty Romance

Brother’s Keeper - Series of one shots in which a Bridgerton sister is charged with looking after a brother / Most likely Regency Whump

I’ll Take Care of It - Anthony x Reader / Spicy 🌶 / Era TBD

I’d Rather Fall in Love - Anthony x Reader Song Insp / Era TBD

Ladies and Gentlemen, *Her* - Benedict x Reader / Romance with possible 🌶 / Modern AU

Eyes of the Beholder - Benedict and Eloise / Regency Whump

Wear You Down - Anthony x Reader / 🌶🌶🌶 / Modern AU

Take it Back - Anthony x Reader / Body Appreciation 🌶🌶

On His Knees - Series of Benedict snap shots / Angst, Spice, Whump

Touch, Sounds and Color - Benedict x Reader / 🌶/ Modern AU

Like We’ll Never Have Sex - Benedict x Reader / 🌶 / Regency / This was song inspired and I also plan to mesh a prompt I got from the lovely @bridgertontess

Remember That Night? - Benedict x Reader / Angst and 🌶 / Modern

The Man I Thought I Knew - Anthony x Reader Mini Series / Regency / Angst and 🌶

How About Another? - 🌶🌶 / Brother TBD / Grateful Reader

Don’t Think - Benedict x Reader / 🌶 / ERA TBD

Proud of You - Brother TBD / Reader is rewarded when one of our Bridgerton Brothers is overcome with how impressive they think she is

Untitled - Anthony x Reader Fluff

Finishing Act - Benedict x Reader / 🌶 Breath Play / ERA TBD

Music Box - Benedict x Reader / Family Fluff / Regency

Unmuzzled - Anthony x Reader / He wants her vocal 🌶

Far From Decent - Benedict x Reader / 🌶 jealous clothes ripping / Modern

Make Me - Anthony x Reader / 🌶 

Plus One - Benedict x OC x Reader / 🌶 First Time Threesome / Modern

Untitled - Possessive Benedict

Untiled - Anthony x Reader Enemies to Lovers

Untitled - Benedict x Reader tattoo fic

The Lonely Ones - Benedict x Family / Emotional

Willing to learn - Anthony x Reader / 🌶

I’m sure some of these will fall away, but for now they are what I’ve got dancing around in my brain!

[seiya-starsniper]

WIP tag game

Rules: List some (or all) of your WIPs with a short concept summary.

tagged by @honeyteacakes, thank you for the tag! Sorry this took so long, my wips are....well. I have many WIPs so I'm just going to post the ones I'm actively working on!

Midnight Pleasures - Vampire AU fic where Hob makes a deal with a vampire named Dream. In exchange, Hob needs to help Dream hunt down a rogue creation of his.

[Still Untitled] - Hobrintheus PWP oneshot where Dream fucks Hob and the Corinthian in the Sea of Nighmares. Eldritch horror sexytimes ensues.

[Still Untitled] - Dreamling Regency Era + Omegaverse AU. All your usual trappings of courting and marriage + sexytimes

[Still Untitled] - Dreamling human AU where Dream is a romance novel audiobook narrator, and Hob may be obsessed with his voice.

[Still Untitled] Dreamling twoshot where Desire's realm is invaded by Hell, and Dream is injured in an unique way trying to drive off Lucifer. Pretty basic fuck or die premise.

There's more but these are the ones I've opened up in the last two weeks to work on! Plus that lovely sacrificial maiden AU I wrote yesterday, but that one's completed, just making small edits to it now. I think almost all of these have some sort of preview on my Writing Masterpost, which is also pinned to the top of my blog.

I FORGOT TO TAG PEOPLE AIDJASIDAD. Tagging @melodiousramblings @delta-pavonis @quellawrites and I'm too tired to tag anyone else, but if you see this and want to do it, consider yourself tagged by me! Also no pressure for those who are tagged to do it

[romanceandshenanigans]

Juliana: She had a genuinely difficult time not just sprinting to where ever it is she needs to get to. She's naturally athletic and genuinely likes the feeling of running, so the idea of having to casually stroll anywhere drives her insane. It makes her a very fast walker, much to the annoyance of anyone with shorter legs.

Finn: He tugs on his ear when he wants something. He's a very physically affectionate person and is the type to brush his hands along fabrics and pick up things to examine them. Unfortunately he lives in a society that looks down on that kind of behavior. So, to hold his fingers back, he tugs at his ear.

@janec23, @can-of-pringles, @auroramagpie and anyone else who wants to!

What is a fun fact about your OC(s) you're dying to share?

OKAY!

WRITEBLRS if you're seeing this, you're legally obligated to reblog with an answer, and then a new question for the next person!

Here's the start:

Which of your OCs is most likely to punch somebody in the face?

[jstar1992]

WIP TAG GAME

Rules: 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.

I currently only have one fanfic WIP at present, an untitled Gale Dekarios x Tav (my lovely Tav Samira) in a regency romance AU.

Because I was tagged by the very lovely @the-real-housewives-of-waterdeep I’m going to pass it on to the also very lovely @ask-arthurmorgan-rdr2

[alintalzin]

List of my wips: Original Fiction part 2.

Continuing on from last post.

Worlds of Myth and Magic.

Hijardis.

Polar fantasy kingdom, no planned story for this one yet.

Karine.

Fairytale fantasy kingdom where people sing all the time, family saga of six children.

Ashlynn's Tale: First book in the series, focusing on the second oldest daughter, currently a work in progress, reverse fairytale retelling of Cinderella.

Rudolf's Tale: Second book in the series, focusing on the youngest son, currently a work in progress, part Nutcracker retelling and part Snow Queen retelling.

Henri's Tale: Third book in the series, focusing on the eldest son, still plotting storyline, part George and the Dragon retelling and part Cunning Ileane retelling.

Snowflake's Tale: Fourth book, focusing on the eldest daughter, haven't got around to plotting storyline, King Thrushbeard retelling.

Rosella's Tale: Fifth book, focusing on the youngest daughter, storyline unknown, part Rumplestikin retelling, part Snow White retelling.

Magnus's Tale: Final book, focusing on the second oldest son, story unknown.

Lyace.

Steampunk inspired republic.

Clockwork Hearts: Standalone novel, retelling of The Scarecrow. Currently a work in progress.

Mayfair.

Edwardian inspired fantasy republic with tea magic.

No planned story for this one yet.

Delorini.

Pirate fantasy republic, no planned story for this one yet.

Jolant.

Gothic fantasy duchy with a ton of incest.

What lies in the forest: Standalone novel, currently a work in progress.

Spinoff series set three years earlier.

It is a corpse that loves you: First novel, Alisette Blackthorn's story, Phantom of the Opera retelling. Work in progress.

A Love So Dark and Dreadful: Rowene February and Lisella Grimn's story, plotline figured out, all I have to do is write it.

Faerlie's Story: Faerlie Shadowhent's story, genderflipped Bluebeard retelling. Title and plot not yet known.

Novelaide's Story: Novelaide Ernesti's story, retelling of Donkeyskin. Title unknown, but plotline figured out.

Obsidia's Story: Obsidia Harvath's story, retelling of Jekyll and Hyde and Jack the Ripper. Title unknown, but I know how the story will go.

Blancha's Tale: Title and plot unknown.

Rosena's Tale: Title and plot unknown.

Ivorie's Tale: Title unknown, folk horror, working on the storyline.

Keronis.

Italian Renaissance inspired political fantasy.

I have an idea for this one, but I'm still fleshing it out.

Hevering.

Tudor inspired fantasy.

Life is very beautiful: Retelling meets alternate history. Still working on the plot.

Deverill.

Victorian inspired fantasy barony with jewel magic.

No planned storyline as of yet.

Jacy.

Regency inspired cottagecore fantasy duchy with talking flowers and flower magic.

Untitled standalone novel: Retelling of Mansfield Park. Still fleshing out the story.

Morli.

Polynesian fantasy chiefdom.

No planned story as of yet.

Alguil.

Hispanic inspired fantasy kingdom.

I have a few ideas for this one.

Lysandr.

Jewish fantasy.

No planned story for this one yet.

Zonora.

Byzantine fantasy empire.

I have an idea for this one, but I'm still working on it.

Trodec.

Wild West fantasy.

Untitled novel: Still working on the story, haven't started writing it.

Silver in the Mouth: Standalone, work in progress.

Untitled novel: Still plotting, haven't started writing.

Revarik.

Cyberpunk inspired republic.

No ideas for this yet.

Endonaa.

Space opera set in a consortium of six planets.

A Dark Gambit of Stars: Standalone, work in progress.

Hapragil.

Viking fantasy.

No ideas for this yet.

Bersum.

Vintage fantasy with noir vibes. Like The Jolantean spinoff series, all the girls know each other.

It's not always romance: First book of the Richfield Sisters Duology, focusing on the eldest sister Posy. Romantic drama. Currently a work in progress, but I know how the story is going to go.

Ask me what I want: Second book, focusing on the youngest sister Frances. Old Hollywood inspired fantasy. Still working out the storyline, haven't started writing yet.

A Darkened Street: The story of Posy's friends Briony and Lita. Noir. Still working out the storyline.

The judgement of broken things: The story of Posy's friend Margot Wilde. Spy fiction. Work in progress.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

WIP tag game

Rules: Share the titles of each of your current WIPs and if your followers ask, share a preview of the one that sounds the most interesting. Send this on to ten mutuals who you are curious what they’re working on.

I was tagged by @jackironsides, @storm-and-starlight, @ruffboijuliaburnsides and @teddylacroix! Thank you! 💖

I am also really bad at tagging people and this has been going around for a while so... if you see this, consider yourself TAGGED. If u wanna.

Ooh boy. Last time I counted I've got ~40 WIPS, so... yeah. I'm gonna need to split this out more sensibly (I am not going to include all of them. There's a LOT that I've got notes for, but haven't actually started writing yet, and a couple that are ~secret~)

Posted, not finished:

Halibut part 2 (the one with the fishnets)

My Beloved Monster

If You Were (the immortal fic)

A Round of Gwent (chapter 2)

Started, not posted:

The shaving fic, but it's not his face 👀

Jaskier sickfic (Modern AU)

Dirty Little Punk Boy (Modern AU)

The Corvo Fic (Jaskier/Dandelion/Game!Geralt)

Orchid Hunters (Modern AU)

Cats The Musical (Modern AU)

Untitled Regency Romance (Jaskier/Valdo)

The Extremely Long Mpreg curse

The... less long mpreg curse (oh god)

Hearts of Stone Wedding

Not started, only planned/vibes

Wholesome birthday party with a side order of angst (Modern AU, younger Ciri)

Geralt and the Dick Compass Curse

Thou Art Nasty

The Fallout AU

The Wrong Bard

Pigeons (modern AU)

Mermay (but Geralt's the mer)

Jaskier accidentally gets Geralt cursed

[romanceandshenanigans]

"Are you actually sorry?"

He met her eyes, his lips turning into rueful smile.

"Not really. Still shouldn't have done it."

Sorry I really haven't had a minute to write in a while. 😅

@can-of-pringles, @16boyfriends-and-me, @kittttycakes, @janec23, @jo-harrington

Thank you for the tag @regalserpent !!

Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence

This is from The Sea is in Her Blood:

She felt her dispassionate façade crumble. “What?”

Tagging (with no pressure): @groundhog-day-party , @elrallin , @author-a-holmes , @eriquin , @amewinterswriting , @clairelsonao3 , @sender-paulson

[romanceandshenanigans]

Untitled Regency Romance: An Introduction

I suppose it goes without saying, but I'm writing a book. It will, with any luck, be a nice book and one I hope to have properly published some day (even if it's a long away off). This is just my place to put rambles and snippets as I navigate my way through the writing process. Who knows, I may even have a title by the end of all of this.

I hope you find it entertaining and know that my ask box is open if you're curious about any what, whens, hows, or whys. I wouldn't have made this blog otherwise.

Now onto the book itself.

Summary:

Juliana Hamilton's problems are about to be over. In less than a month she will be Lady Ellington. After mistakes in her youth involving, but not limited to, running away, cross dressing, and a passionate affair with a young writer, she is ready to settle into her comfortable, if boring future. The trouble is the past just won't let go.

Extortion and blackmail are dangerous enough things to have hanging over one’s marriage vows, but add in an all too familiar playwright and things are only going to get worse.

If only the past eight years had been as unkind to Mr. Michael Finnegan Smith as they had been to her. Maybe then she would have a better time knowing if the burning in her heart was hatred or love.

WIP Tag

Character Tags:

Juliana Hamilton

Michael (Finn) Finnegan Smith

Gwendolyn Harris

Henry Ellington

Thomas Ellington

Edmund Harris

Daily(ish) Author Updates

Snippets

Answered Questions

[mysteries-x-mistakes]

All My WIPs

A Knight’s Tale (wip 1)

Long ago, humans crash landed on the planet of Wostria. Thousands of years later, the last free human kingdom in the land of the elves is under attack. The princess is rescued and travels far away with the expectation that they’ll come back someday to reclaim their homeland. Once away from everything familiar to them, they realized they’d rather be a prince than a princess. Currently at the academy for knights, Nettle has their first experience on the field and is horrified by what they saw. Will they stay true to themself or accomplish what is expected of them?

25k+ words, tag, intro post here

Genre: YA fantasy, planetary romance

Mood: right as the season shifts into spring and everything starts to have hope and grow again

Topics and Tropes: coming of age story, gender exploration, police brutality, sexual assault, healing from trauma

Inspiration: Tamora Pierce stories, Dragonriders of Pern stories, the events of June 2020, Tess of the Road, my personal experiences with gender/religion

The Injustice of Mhorgun (wip 2)

The opening ball of the season was swarmed with undead. Four people are sent to investigate how and why they were able to get so close to the city on that night, some prepared and some completely not. What they found tumbled them into a quest beyond their reckoning. Is any of what they were taught by the church true? Each of them must balance this new mystery with the social obligations of the season and the expectations that their family has placed upon them.

10k+ words, tag, intro post here

Genre: historical fantasy (regency), gothic horror, adult fiction

Mood: the middle of winter when everything is dead, cold, lonely

Topics and Tropes: undead/vampires/liches, childhood friends to lovers, queer cast, freedom, expectations

Inspiration: Dracula, Pathfinder mythology, Jane Austen, TP: Shadows of London

Legendary Warriors of the Shattered Stones (wip 3)

Adrian Zoleta is your average college student, but his world completely changed the day Ignatius, an alien from another planet, appeared in his life. They were attacked by a monster made from evil magic + pollution which caused them to transform and become the legendary warriors! Together the two must find and protect the rest of the legendary stones from the villainous dragons who are corrupting the earth with their greed.  

not a novel - serialized fiction

3.5 chapters, 9.6k words, tag, intro post here

read the first chapter here or on ao3 @/LuminousPulse

Genre: adult fantasy, reverse portal fantasy, magical girl AU (except they’re not all girls), college AU

Topics and Tropes: found family, queer characters, color coded characters, land sea sky, climate change, pollution, capitalism, disability, and more to be discovered as I write

Motifs: rocks and minerals, natural disasters, anthropomorphic animals

Themes: Friendship is the truest bond; Individual action will never be enough to heal the earth as long as capitalism exists; The earth is worth protecting; It is a myth that you can become wealthy by working hard your entire life; Your worth is not based on how productive you are;  

Inspiration: Precure (MahouTsukai and Healin Good but also just as a genre), Tokyo Mew Mew, The impact capitalism has had on the earth

untitled dinosaur story (wip 4)

premise: sense of wonder and exploration, what would it be like to live alongside dinosaurs?

inspiration: dinotopia, mtg ixalan

untitled iron age ireland story (wip 5)

premise: what did it really mean when the Tuath Dé Danann went to live in the mounds?, what was life like in the iron age?

inspiration: gaelic mythology, the book of invasions, the secrets of sulphur springs

untitled dream story (wip 6)

Marble, a thirty six year old trans man, is thrown back into the past and, through a magical mishap, becomes sixteen again. He pops out of the portal in front of the [last name] family and together they must survive high school and find all the pieces of the spell that will send him home again. However, these spell ingredients haven’t been seen in over a century as humanity has slowly lost the ability to cast wild magic without any dependence on the now ubiquitous spell cards which are heavily regulated by the government. Will he ever be able to make it back home?

Premise: what would it be like to do high school over again as the correct gender?

Topics and Tropes: being trans, hard magic system, magical chemistry, de-aging, age-down romance, life do-over, homophobia

Inspiration: an actual dream I had, cardcaptor sakura, early 2000s, alchemy

Splash Zone (wip 7)

summary to come

outlining, tag, intro post (not here yet)

Genre: YA low fantasy

Mood: the height of summer when everything is bright, vivid, and colorful, especially the lip gloss

Topics and Tropes: parental neglect, blue vs red romance, trio of friends, mermaids, friendship, pirates, letters and diaries, beaches, secrets, mysteries from the past

Inspiration: H2O Just Add Water, Dive Club, Outer Banks, Lock and Key by Sarah Dessan, Our Flag Means Death

wostria (planet 1) vuelara (planet 2)

wostria side stories (bunch of misc wips)

[kember-writes]

First Sentence Tag Game

Thanks for the tag @theonlywolfpants!

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have fewer than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag some people to take part.

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Finished Fic

1. There was a girl in Sirius’s room. — Paper Walls (Wolfstar college roommates)

2. The Year Without a Summer, that’s what they were calling it in the newspapers, but Sirius Black couldn’t honestly say he’d noticed the difference. — Goetia (Wolfstar Regency infernal romance)

3. Remus fell awake with a start, and for just one blessed moment he allowed himself to believe that everything – the events of the last few days – it had all been some hideous nightmare. — Stay (Wolfstar-raising-Harry heartbreak)

4. “We really shouldn’t be drinking while we’re on watch,” Harry commented, setting the half-empty bottle of whiskey down on the rock between them. — Whiskey on the Rocks (Rarry besties-kiss-all-the-time)

5. He found Regulus sitting in a secluded corner of the library beside a tall window, almost hidden behind a stack of books, ignoring the rain that lashed against the leaded diamond panes beside him. — The Night Shows You (Blackrose overwork-isn't-sexy)

6. James was just about ready to die of embarrassment, and he hadn’t even started the damn essay yet. — Sex Education in School Isn’t Something We Can Rely On (Moonchaser public sex)

7. Sirius appraises himself in the mirror, then grimaces, then scowls, and plucks at the front of his old robes. — Wasted (On You) (Wolfstar heartbreak... uh, again)

8. “Wait a minute, are you jealous?” — Grey-Eyed Monster (Prongsfoot heartbreak! Change of pace)

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WIPs (in various states of completion)

9. It’s a beautiful morning in Godric’s Hollow, as it always is. — Best in Show (Wolfstar village idiots)

10. There was something about the promise of an early-morning practice that got James’s blood racing, made it difficult to fall asleep the night before and easy to wake up the morning of. — The Inside Track (Jegulus sports rivals)

11. It was a mad plan. — Under His Thumb (Drarry wild-scenario-leads-to-tender-moments)

12. Question One: Outline the appropriate procedures for dealing with (a) a Boggart; (b) a Chameleon Ghoul; and (c) a Pooka; and, (d) summarise the similarities and differences between these methods. — untitled Hogwarts story (not giving away any details suckaz :P)

13. Fun fact: the more times you run away from school, the less they care when you do it again. — untitled (older Wolfstar + Drarry spy AU)

14. Remus had turned his back. — Predator (Wolfstar heartbreak LOOK YOU KNOW THE DRILL... and mutually beloathed Rematrix...)

15. Lily was way, way out of her depth. — The Prince of Cordoba (Jily/Wolfstar/abortive Starflower medieval royalty)

16. Remus felt like he’d been punched in the gut, and when he pulled his hand away from his side it was slick with blood. — Long Shot (Wolfstar Victorian sick-fic but the "sick" in question is several bullets)

17. The cell in Nurmengard was nothing if not predictable. — Für das Allgemeinwohl (Grindeldore old flames)

18. Miss Bertha Jorkins, of Blackmoor, Hampshire, had always been exceptionally observant. — Saturnalia (Wolfstar Regency Christmas demon haunting with gratuitous mental torment of Walburga Black)

19. The wolf, of course, had always been silver, the colour of raindrops in moonlight. — Old Dogs, New Tricks (middle-aged post-war Wolfstar)

20. Remus had been ignoring James’s stare for the past ten minutes, but he could feel it prickling the back of his neck and his resolve was at breaking point. — It’ll Be Fun (Amortentia drinking game gone horribly right - Wolfstar/Jily/Dorlene/James^2/Moonflower/Mary & Peter sports commentators extraordinaire)

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So what we've learned from this is that I love causing pain to My Boys and that, wow, I really like starting things!

Fairly sure everyone I know has been tagged in this or decided to take part of their own volition, but if you haven't, please consider this your tag.

[itcantbe]

WIP tag game

Thank you @nooneshome12 for the tag. I haven’t published anything yet so they’re all WIPs! But maybe this will hold me accountable to actually publish something soon. These are all BOTW based because it’s what I know best.

Untitled Dream Fic: Link works through who he was versus who he is now

Zombie!Link AU: Maybe the Shrine of Resurrection didn’t work like we all thought it would

Regency Era AU: I’m a sucker for Regency era romances and I’ll be darned if zelink doesn’t slot into that nicely. Lady Zelda needs to save her family’s estate and marriage is the only answer. But she wants to marry for love, and won’t settle the dastardly Lord Ganon despite her father’s wishes. It can be hard to find a good match, however, when you’re often covered in mud because you’re chasing frogs for science and always talk about Sheikah relics. But one day a mysterious Duke arrives in town, and Zelda can’t get his blue eyes out of her mind. Cue fancy balls, misunderstandings, kidnappings, duels and more!

Master Thief AU: Det. Zelda Bosphoramus is determined to ferret out the identities of the two thieves plaguing Hyrule, codenamed the Princess and the Hero. It’s her first big case since joining Major Crimes at Castletown PD and it doesn’t help that her father, Capt. Rhoam, is breathing down her neck for results. What do these two thieves want with the Sheikah artifacts they steal? And just who are they?

I have a few more ideas but they’re not fleshed out enough for me to feel confident in sharing them yet! And I don’t really have anyone to tag so I guess I’m mostly posting this for myself.

[cocoartistwrites]

First Lines Meme

I was tagged by @livlepretre

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!)

See if there are any patterns.

Choose your favourite opening lines. Then tag 10 authors!

Original:

1 Fudge Theory

It’s the best paper she’s marked all term, with a fluent argument, comprehensive research, and forceful writing.

2 unnamed Fudge sequel (wip)

Nathaniel Harrington Cole III walks into her office with a smirk.

I really like this one.

3 The Beeches (wip that should already be a novel by now but instead i’m writing fanfics fml) This is my favourite.

The weather was beautiful and London was boring and Ada was going home.

4 The Merry Widow (original - if you can call it that, it's essentially Heyer fanfic - regency romance WIP)

“What a ramshackle arrangement,” my lord muttered to his lawyer as he scanned the letter.

5 untitled idea I vaguely started while on a walk last week

The only entrance to her house is up a spiral staircase on the outside of the building, five storeys high.

6 rapunzel dark academia retelling i haven't worked on for a year

The tower room is dark at the best of times.

fanfic:

7 aberration

Albus Dumbledore is unsettled.

8 unsphere the stars <3 <3 <3

Hermione Granger vanished from the sitting room of The Burrow during her twentieth birthday party leaving a pile of crumpled blue tissue paper and a note where her feet had been a fraction of a second before.

9 untitled eighth year dramione wip i will likely never publish or write unelss you bully me, which you will now i've put it into the world

It starts on the Hogwarts Express.

these next ones date from the period when i think i started working out how to write: 

10 How the Mighty Fall

Had they stayed, all but poor Neville Longbottom, they would have seen a body hurled out of the Veil. 

this one is doing the most!! well done to this one. 

11 Crookscrux

Tom glared at Crookshanks. Crookshanks glared back.

i cheated here and put two but it’s worth it 

12 Big Head Boy

Percy is the third person in his embarrassingly enormous, embarrassingly left-wing family to go to Oxford.

13 catastropic

Sirius pushed past some chinless moron on his way upstairs.

14 fait accompli

Hermione loved Harry and Ron.

the worst one out of context tbh

15 Daddy Issues

Harry Potter's engagement party wasn't quite the glamorous affair the papers had been predicting - not that they were invited to witness it.

16 Salvaged

Exams were over, and Hermione Granger had pinned her Head Girl badge to her robes for the last time.

17 Forever Means Forever

Soul bonded. She glared across the scuffed table at him.

18 Poised

The old man - the Dumbledore - stood and welcomed them to the enormous, hideous, freezing castle.

20 The Wanderer

They'd found him by the lake in the aftermath of a terrible battle, they tell him, and despite their strange inflections he understands their language perfectly.

ok some teenage ones as a bonus now y i k e s but good 2 compare

Draco's Nasty Surprise

Several months in the sun can bring a dulling of sense and logic, and it was perhaps for that reason that Draco Malfoy didn't owl ahead to the Manor to announce his arrival.

[[I hate this one it's so overwritten you can tell it is a work from my Youth]]

Sleeping with the Enemy

Draco Malfoy eyed Weasley from across the Great Hall, idly wondering if the freckled moron could be more blatant in his drooling over Granger.

[[this is also JUVENILIA]]

Cor Leonis

Hermione wondered what Ron was talking about across the table.

Kairos

He watched her as she sat with her little friends, delicately eating her cheesecake.

dying that three of my teenage stories start with people sitting and looking at other people at tables

I think the main pattern I can see is that I usually launch you straight in while also setting a bit of a Mood? Any thoughts??

I tag: @colubrina @provocative-envy @olivieblake @justcourbeau @gueneviere-fics @kiwiambrosia @fairfortune @sallyjavery @batmansymbol @frak-all but don’t feel you have to if you are not in the mood to consider The Body of Works

[daisylincs]

WIP Folder Game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!  ← part of my trick or treat now :D

Thank you so much for the tag, @eowima​​! You know, I think we should officially update you to the role of clairvoyant or something, lmao, because you won’t believe how well this fits into my ~master plan.~ (I’ll explain in a second, lol.) 

But before I start, um... letmeapologiseinadvancefortheshitshowthatisabouttofollow. My WIPs folder is, er, simply put, a mess. Chaos. A nightmare. 

I have an explanation!! I’ve always loved fanfiction and fandoms, and I’ve spent many happy years reading other people’s things - but I’ve never actually been inspired to create something myself. I don’t know, I always had tremendous respect for the creators who were already out there, but I never felt the inclination to join them, you know? 

Then I started watching AoS this lockdown, and... well, let’s just say that everything changed. For the first time ever, I woke up in the middle of the night and I had a fic idea, one that was demanding to be written down if I ever wanted to sleep a wink again.

And the more I got into the fandom, the more the fic ideas kept coming, until there was a point where I couldn’t read or watch anything without thinking, “ooh, AoS AU!!” So... into the WIPs folder it went. And as you can well imagine, there’s a lot there now. Like, a lot. 

Fitzsimmons was the ship that gave me my first fic idea, so of course there’s stuff for them. Then Huntingbird is the ship that actually pulled me completely and wholeheartedly into the fic verse. And then, of course, Staticquake, the ship that actually got me past my but I’m not good enough fears and, er, got me completely obsessed. I am still not over that.

And last but definitely not least - and, actually, you’re to thank for this, Océane, because it’s your fic that got me hooked on these two awkwardorable idiots - my brain decided that, you know what, if I’m going to write now anyway, I want to do Spideychelle.

So that’s the (long) story of me and my chaotic WIPs folder, and now with no further ado, I’m going to jump right in and give you a list of titles. *coughs* I am, however, going to put a cut here, because... well, you’ll see why. *cringes*

Key: 

💜 - Staticquake

💖 - Huntingbird

💚 - Fitzsimmons

🍋 - Dekesy

💗 - Pipsy

🤍 - Dousy

💕 - Skimmons

🧡 - Quakerider

💞 - Simmorse

🤎 - Mackelena

💙 - Platonic/Family Centric

❤️ - Spideychelle 

💘 - Clintasha

* - a series

(Ones with two or more hearts mean that all these ships feature prominently.) 

The List:

💜.  A Hero’s Reward

💜.  and i risk it all for this life we share

💜.  Angsty Post-Hive Recovery Fic

💜. barefoot on the grass, listening to our favourite song

💜. Best Friends But She’s In A Bad Relationship AU

💜. Bittersweet What-If Fic

💜. Blow Us All Away*

💜. Childhood Friends Fic

💜. darling just dive right in

💜. darling just kiss me slow

💜. don’t ask me where i’ve been, or what i’m gonna do (just know that i’m here with you) 

💜. every day in between

💜. Fairytale (Sleeping Beauty) AU

💜. Fake Dating Partyfic

💜. Flower Shop AU

💜. good old shake ‘n bake

💜. Grieving Fic

💜. High School AU Idea

💜. Hive Toilet Fic

💜. Hospital Fluff & Flirting AU

💜. Hotel Room AU

💜. i live for you (soulmates AU)

💜. i never knew you were the someone waiting for me

💜.  i’ll find my way through night and day

💜. just let your heart be free (you’ve got a friend in me)

💜. lights will guide you home

💜. Mission/Partners Fic

💜. Modern Royalty Fic

💜. Musical (West Side Story) AU

💜. Not That Girl Anymore

💜. PDA

💜. Pitch Perfect AU

💜. Post-Hive Pregnancy Fic

💜. put that body on me

💜. Rain Fic

💜. Red Thread

💜. Regency AU: Marriage of Convenience

💜. Regency AU: Arranged Marriage

💜. remember that with every piece of you

💜. Rom-Com AU

💜. Royalty Shenanigans Fic

💜. S3 AU - Daisy, Inhuman Leader

💜. S3 AU - Lincoln With SHIELD All Along

💜. Shake ‘n Bake: A YouTube Romance

💜. Skaters AU

💜. Sky’s the Limit*

💜. Snowed In Fic

💜. so baby i’m alright, with just a kiss goodnight

💜. some dreams do come true

💜. Soul Realm

💜. Soulmark AU

💜. Stardust AU

💜. Stranded-Somewhere-Cold Ficlet

💜. The Daughter of Thunder and Lightning

💜. the earth shook and the sky flashed

💜. took my heart upon a one-way trip

💜. TV Show AU

💜. Ward-Confrontation AU

💜. Watching Hamilton AU

💜. What-Ifs*

💜. you’d be the one i was meant to find

💜💙. Lincoln & The Team Bonding Fic

💜💙. MayLincoln Friendship Fic

💜💙. The Secret Warriors

💚. Academy Era Rom-Com

💚. Ah Crap My Ex Just Walked In AU

💚. Alya Fluff and First Words Fic

💚. Angsty Hair ficlet 

💚. Cute Family Zoo Prompt

💚. lunch break

💚. Second Child Fluff and First Words Fic

💚. Soulmate AU

💚. The Perfect Fairytale*

💚. The Team Ships It

💚💜. Fluffy Best Friends Idea

💚💜. ooh, la la la*

💚💙.  AoS Frozen AU

💚💙. FitzsimmonsSparks Fic 

💚💙. Us Against The World

💚💜💙. AoS Harry Potter AU

💖. Al Birthday Fic 

💖. always the same pattern, love

💖. blonde

💖. meet me half-way

💖. rollercoaster

💖. Soulmate AU

💖. The Blue Door (Notting Hill AU)

💖. the ride

💖. when did it all fall to pieces (can’t we build it back)

💚💖. Best Friends’ Wedding AU

💚💖. The Holiday AU 

💚💜💖💙. No Hive AU

💚💜💖💙. Post-3x10 Who Owes Who Fic

🍋. Angst/Introspection Fic

🍋. Beach Fic

🍋. Coffee Shop AU

🍋. Concert Canon Divergence Fic

🍋. Drunk Kiss Fic

🍋. Mission Kiss Canon Divergence Fic

🍋. Singers AU

💚🍋. Fluff and Teasing Fic

💚🍋. (Not A) Double Date

💗. ’cause you’re out of this world

💗. Coffee Shop/Baristas AU

💗. High School AU/Sleepover Fic

💗. Walls Come Down Fic

🤍. Affectionate Arguments/Take Care Of Yourself Fic

🤍. Danny Boy & Quake*

🤍. getting to know you, getting to know all about you

🤍. T Birthday Fic

🤍💚. Teasing/Introspection Fic    

💞. Birdie Birthday Fic

💞. Bodyguard AU

💞. Roommates/Best Friends AU

💞. you’re just my cup of tea

🧡. Abby Birthday Fic

🧡. it’s a better place since you came along

🧡. Reluctantly Perfect

🧡. Scarlet Birthday Fic

🧡💚. well that works    

💕. Coming Out Fic

💕. S1 Crush Fic

💕. you’ll be my lady

🤎. Childhood Best Friends AU

🤎. Church Camp AU

🤎. Giorgia Birthday Fic

🤎. Soulmates AU

🤎. then through the shadows, your light appears

💚💜💖🤎. Shippy Team Mistletoe Fic

💚💜💖🤎. Shippy Team Snowfic

💚💜💖🤎💙. Soft Family Fic from Chloe Interview

❤️. Ah Crap My Ex Just Walked In AU

❤️. Arranged Marriage AU

❤️. cute clueless moron

❤️. Cute, Dorky Friendship Idea

❤️. Fake Dating Friends to Lovers

❤️. Media Nonsense Fic

❤️. Michelle Jones, Agent of SHIELD

❤️. Michelle Jones, Inhuman

❤️. Océane Birthday Fic

❤️. oh, when you kiss me

❤️. Secret Santa Fic

❤️. Secret Santa Thank-You Ficlet

❤️. Spideychelle Week Day 5 - Roommates AU

❤️. Spideychelle Week Day 6 - Enemies to Lovers

❤️. Spideychelle Week Day 7 - Only One Bed

❤️. Teach Me To Fight, Parker

❤️💚. heads on a science apart

💘. Bobbi Birthday Fic

💘. 5 Times The Avengers Played Matchmaker, and 1 Time It Worked (Sort Of)

💘. Jade Arrow

💘. Natalia

💘. Roommates AU

💙. all the stars in the skye

💙. blue-eyed

💙. FitzDaisy Recovery Fic

💙. Happy Family Holiday Fic

💙. JemmaDaisy Friendship Fic

💙. see the line where the skye meets the sea

💙. Soft-Fluffy Philindaisy Tickle Fic

💙.untitled angst war fic

💜🤍💗🍋🧡💕💙. day’s eye      

(and that’s not even it. I haven’t even made documents for all the birthday fics. *crawls into a hole to die*)

So yeah, I’m completely insane and I’m probably going to be here for the next ten years trying to write all this lot and also I tag @ohwriteiforgot​​, @aleksandrachaev​​, @everythingirl44​​, @que-mint-tea, @anxiouslynumbme, @springmagpies​, @besidemethewholedamntime​, @infinitestarsintheskye​, @libbyweasley​, @a-biochemist-not-a-bird​, @nazezdha321​, @sadtunes​ and @here-for-huntingbird​, if any of you guys want to do this!

[missameliep]

WIP Graveyard Wednesday💾: pick a line from a fic you're in the middle of writing/or a fic you've abandoned (for now) and tell us what you like about it!

Thanks for the ask, sweetie! 😘

I’ve chosen to share a bit more than a line from a miniseries that is kinda of abandoned right now, but I certainly hope to find the will to finish it, because I was having a lot of fun writing it. That piece of dialogue I particularly like because it is funny and shows a bit of the dynamics between Elizabeth and Hamid in this AU.

“But I’m considering a different approach. Think of Regency or Victorian romances perhaps.”

“Longing stares from across the room might not work well presently... So are we talking duel or elopement?”

“Duel,” she whispers, "Most definitely. Much more exciting. It’d definitely be a hit.”

(Extract from the Untitled Desire and Decorum - Coffee Shop AU/Fake Dating AU)