#yearly fic recap

[kleiner-ghost]

2023 Fic Masterlist

Fics written during 2023

[Original] Candy Hearts Exchange (wizard x necromancer)

[Dishonored] Billie and Daud meeting

[Dishonored] Outsider and Corvo

[Deathloop] Colt’s slab pre-loop

[Deathloop] Frank angst

[Deathloop] Alexis is a furry

[Deathloop] [Dishonored] Juliana and Billie

[Deathloop] Harriet’s plane crash

[DX1] Bob Page x Walton Simons

[Redfall] Dev and Jason

[Redfall] Jake x Amelia crackfic

[Redfall] Jakob and Dev killing the fake Reverend Eva

[Deus Ex] Jensen x Pritchard x Jensen

[Deathloop] Kid Julie angst

[Deus Ex] [Original] post Invisible War sequel

[Redfall] [Deathloop] Gregoire the Vampire

[Star Wars] 12 clones crackfic

[Star Wars] Wrecker x OC fluff

[Star Wars] [Babylon 5] droids invading the B5 universe

[Star Wars]  [Deathloop] Bad Batch on Blackreef

[Fallout 4] Soulmate AU where you get money when your SO is hurt - WIP

[Multi] 2023 Kinktober collection including

[Deus Ex] Belltower freeform

[DX1] JC x Jock x Alex

[Star Wars] Echo getting sold

Fics written during 2022 and before

[Sabikui bisco] Pawoo x Reader

[Deus Ex] A Hole in the Ocean

[Fallout 4] Cait x Nora  

[Fallout 4] Pre-war Codsworth  

[Deus Ex] [DBH] Black and Gold rabbit - WIP

[Prey 2017] [Dishonored] December in Dunwall - WIP

[Deathloop] Egor x Reader - WIP

[Deathloop] Pre-Loop with Julie, Colt and 2 bit

[Fallout 4] Deacon x Nate

[Fallout 4] Sammy’s adventures - WIP

[Multi] 2023 Kinktober collection including

[Fallout 4] Hancock x Nora (psychic bond) - WIP

[Fallout 4] Hancock x Nora (one time fling)

[Saubnautica] MC x Sea Emperor

[juustozzi]

roughies from the time I was pretty deep in an art low, I gotta admit that the mention of dimple crocheting I saw somewhere was one of the things that kickstarted my brain again....

[mcytblrsource]

YEARLY MCYTBLR RECAP: 2024 EDITION

MCYTblr is a very large space if you see any missing events, exchange, or something else please send us an ask!

JANUARY

EVENTS:

FitPac Week Hermitcraft Rare Pair Week Wormman Week Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event MCYT T4T Week SpiderBit Week Treebark Title Swap MCYT Fanfiction Appreciation Week MCYT Physical Disability Week

ZINES AND MAPs:

Flamekeeper Zine Limited Life MAP Tribute to Jellie MAP

FEBRUARY

EVENTS:

MCYT Build Month Etoiles Week Fitpac Valentine's Drabble Fest Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Love Month Techza Week MCYT Yuri Week - Valentines Vylenix Week

GIFT EXCHANGES: (Based off of the beginning of posting period)

QSMP Secret Valentine QSMP Valentine's Gift Exchange MCYT Valentines MCYT Dead Dove Kink Meme Driving After Dark 2

ZINES AND MAPs:

Empires Rainbow Zine Convex Matryoshka MAP

MARCH

EVENTS:

QSMP Month Dream SMP Eras Event SMPLIVE Bingo Shubble Support Day QSMP Language Day Decked Out 2 Writing Challenge Week MCYT Aro Week Skizzleman Week SpiderBit Week Vitalasubzam Week Grumbo Week Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Themes Month MCYT Underdogs Event

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYT Recursive Dream SMP Rarepair Big Bang

ZINES AND MAPs:

Isla y Ovos Zine

APRIL

EVENTS:

Mumscarian Week The Bright Side of Life Series MCYT-Fem Slash Treebark Week Katecinda Week Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Angst Month

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYT Horror Gift Exchange

ZINES AND MAPs:

Hermitzine 8.5: April Fools edition The Minecraft Speedrunning Tarot Project Hermits Zine: Geminitay Edition Desert Duo Tongues and Teeth MAP

MAY

EVENTS:

Hermit-A-Day May HideDuo Kiss Week Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Duos Month! Fish Donna Week Hermitcraft Guess The Author QSMP AU Week

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYT Drabble Exchange

ZINES AND MAPs:

Hermit Coloring Book Mianite Zine

JUNE

EVENTS:

MCYT Omegaverse Month Voices For The Blade MCYT Trans Week Scarian Summer Smooch Fest MCYT Subversion Week Niki Nihachu Summer Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Pre-Canon Month

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYT Multilingual Big Bang

ZINES AND MAPs:

Boatem Village Zine Trafficzine Edition 5 Flowers in the Desert: A Desert Duo Zine

JULY

EVENTS:

MCYT Co-Create Event Gem Pearl Week MCYT Aspec Week Hot Scarian Summer RedScape Week Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Post-Canon Month fWhimmy Week HideDuo Week MCYTblr Fandom Crossover/AU event

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYTBLR AU Fest MCYT Fic Fight Driving After Dark 3 QSMP Big Bang

ZINES AND MAPs:

Petals of a Rose - Hideduo Zine Fairytales from the SMP: Volume II

AUGUST

EVENTS:

MCYT Musical Bingo Event QSMP Month(s) Hypnotizd ship week Skizz Week 2 FelPac week Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Crack Month

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYT Summer of Yuri MCYT RPF KinkMeme

ZINES AND MAPs:

Chronicles: a QSMP Egg Zine MCYT Sapphic Zine Empiropedia Hotguy Comics Zine Hermitzine 9: H is for Hermitcraft Bread Hermitcraft MAP

SEPTEMBER

EVENTS:

MCYT Non-POV Event Your Cubito, Your Culture Event Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Places Month Sausage September

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYTblr Fluff Gift Exchange MCYT Jukebox Bonanza Event

ZINES AND MAPs:

Hermitcraft Season 9 Zine The Hermit Arcana The QSMP Story- Animation Collab

OCTOBER

EVENTS:

MCYT Aro Week 2 Weekly Hermitober + Life Series Spiderbit/Guapoduo Fluff or Fright Scarian Autumn Smooch Fest fWhimmy Week QSMP Halloween Fanworks Event Hideduo Trick or Treat Week ImpSkizztober GTWScartober2024 Rats SMPtober Hermittober Team Ranchers Week Weekly Hermittober Pisstober MCYT Femslash: Vampires VS Werewolves Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Limbo Month 7 Holy Nights of Jeremy

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYT Horror Gift Exchange 2 MCYT Yaoi Exchange MCYT Trick-Or-Treat MCYT Halloween Gift Exchange

NOVEMBER

EVENTS:

DoubleHearted-vember Sixteenth Day Event: Memory Month MCYT Fan Fundraiser: Art Showcase

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYT Prompt Exchange

ZINES AND MAPs:

The Reason is You Zine [SpiderBit]

DECEMBER

EVENTS:

QPR Kersuma Week Dream SMP Sixteenth Day Event: Festive Month Bedrock Bros Prompt Months MCYT Christmas Prompt List Shadowrot Week Fuga4 Week Zedaph Week Felps Weekend Event MCYT Advent Solstice Social Collaborative Fanwork Event

GIFT EXCHANGES:

MCYTblr Holiday Exchange Rivals Duo Holiday Gift Exchange MCSR Mini Gift Exchange MCSR Winter Big Bang MCYT Playwriting Festival

ZINES AND MAPs:

Treebark Zine Coloring with Hermits The Heart of the Ouroboros - LifeSteal Zine Views of Hermitcraft 2025 Calendar Moonrot-Pearleo Zine Hermit Heartthrobs 2025 Calendar Morning Star Zine Double-Hearted : DDVAU Holiday Zine

[ex0rin]

End Of Year 2024!

the yearly tradition: (2022) (2023)

Fandom: The Walking Dead (January - August) Fic Count: 20 (+1 art) Word Count: 72, 235

Fandom: TFATWS/ What If…? (September - October) Fic Count: 5 (+1 art) Word Count: 13, 993

Fandom: TWD/ Dead City (November - December) Fic Count: 2 Word Count: 3, 720

Total Word Count: 91,448*

find me on AO3 here

Top Three (kudos) 1. Known better (M) (TWD, carl/ negan) 2. Anything you say (E) (TWD, carl/ negan) 3. Spread them wings (E) (TWD, carl/ negan)

Top Three (personal) & thoughts!! (under the cut)

It can be me (E) (TWD, carl/negan) *rape, non-con/ underage

Beside him, from the corner of his eye he can see the way Negan points down to the space between them, “Right here,” the other man orders and Rick’s full attention snaps up to Carl - his kid shuffles up to his feet silently, all of that intense focus on Negan and nothing else. Rick would give anything for Carl to glance down to him as he crosses the space.

OR: 07x01 but somehow darker.

Collision (E) (TWD, negan/ maggie)

Negan is still looking at her, eyes dark and mouth pressed into a firm line - she hates him with every fibre of her being. "Maggie," he says, softer now, like a question she would rather die than answer - the heat of his thigh carefully starts slipping away from between her legs and she bites back the frustrating sound that’s building up at the back of her throat, her thighs clench to keep him there, her body hums for touch – It's been so long since she’s allowed someone to touch her.

OR: Maggie finally lets it happen with Negan. Regrets it immediately. Spirals a little.

Fifty-fifty (M) (TWD, carl/ negan)

“Kid, it’s real cute that you think you get a for real choice here,” Negan says, voice low and brushing right up against Carl’s ear, “you’re gonna shoot two of ‘em, got it? You’re gonna pick two and,” Negan pauses again, bent behind him so that his chin is resting on Carl’s shoulder and Carl’s stomach does that flip again, his knees wobbling in that weird way, “and then boom.”

OR: Negan brings Carl out to a field to flirt with him to make him play a killing game.

*i was really really REALLY hoping that i'd pump out 10k over the last week of the holidays, but alas, that did not happen so this is the first of the years since i started doing this recap that i'm under 100k 😭 (i did add the fic word count that i'm currently working on just to bump it into the 90k zone for this post though, AO3 numbers below are still correct)

STILL! i completed @febuwhump 2024 again this year and that challenge really keeps me going (huge HUGE shout-out to the mod over there, @tempestaurora, who does so much and is so chill about voter fraud and just letting folks do whatev) (you can and SHOULD buy stickers)

all the love in the world to my old and new pocket-friends who kept me sane this year (via chats or stardew or sprinting or smut) 😘

@sparklingbinjuice @ladyshallots @duchessonfire @jdeanmorgan @5ummit @crushcandles @the-ravening @unlikelymilliner and everyone else too ❤️

as always, here's to more words (and more smut) in 2025!

also, because i was tagged by a bunch of folks:

[roseserpentpress]

Long time no post, but here's a post of a fanfic originally finished near new years... technically earlier, and then didn't like something and changed it which took. About a month and a half to get around too... and then promptly continued to dilly-dally in taking photos and posting it (I've also got another book I've bound that I finished in the early summer that I, uh... Still have procrastinated in posting. I do intend to do a yearly recap as well for my bindery fingers crossed as soon as I get the other one posted).

I personally fell in love with this Ginroki x Hijikata fic as I adored the writing style of the author since it is so incredibly beautifully and poetically written. I actually had a conversation with the author about the bookbind, which is why it was higher on the priority list (and since it was easily themed and shorter) but since I had first contacted them the fic had been instead switched to anonymous. As a result, I had to change some typesetting to represent the change, but nevertheless, thank you to the author for letting the fic stay up and a gentle reminder that choosing to orphan, rather than delete fics you don't want associated with you anymore is always an option!

Link as always below the read more :)

Lilac (17k, E)

Gintoki remains quiet, but there’s that twitch to his mouth that Toshirou recognizes as amusement. “It’s true what they call you, then.” He says, “A messenger of the devil.”

“No one has ever called me anything like that.”

“A demon.” Gintoki digresses.

“Yeah, that— I’ve been called.”

[natigail]

I was just doing my yearly recap of fics I've posted and as I did the tags for them, I realised I had done not one, not two, not three, not four, but five (!) phanfics that were just fluffy domestic one shots. I can't even be mad about it because writing those always feel like sinking into the familiar embrace of an old friend. And with how much we've seen and felt of DnP this year, it's been easier than ever. They're happy and I love writing them happy so much.

[writingmochi]

ｌｏａｄｉｎｇ ｉｎｔｅｒｆａｃｅ．．．

you have reached year 3

lissie: greetings! this is your flight director speaking~ welcome to the third anniversary of this blog. with so many changes in the trends of fics posted here and such, i'm surprised how this blog perseveres through it. first, thank you so much for reading, indulging, and/or interacting with this blog, me, or my works. the sentence before cannot describe the gratitude i'm expressing towards all of you.

second, i know updates are slow right now. much of what i promised from the previous november 15th didn't happen, especially terra incognita. many experiences have happened to me such as moving to a new country even for a short stay and my dwindling interest in the kpop fandom space in general with how i focused more on my other hobbies such as discovering new mediums. i would like to say that even with the minimal works posted here, i'm still gonna be here and write stories i'm proud of that you will be ready to read. i won't be quitting until i don't know what to write for these groups anymore. but, with art, it takes time to create something that i can be truly satisfied with, especially because i write novel-length works with intricate worldbuilding and narrative.

that being said, even if i'm not proud because i didn't meet the target that i wanted to meet, things still happened to this blog that i do believe has been the most growth i've seen now. and this is a yearly recap that allows me and you all to see the progress of this blog!

vvv

all research done (read: works written and released)

subterranean homesick alien | txt's soobin (52.7k [novel])

laurel hell | enhypen's heeseung (2 parts; 60.5k [novel])

besok mungkin kita sampai | enhypen's niki (13k [novelette])

total: 3 works (1 two-shots, 2 oneshots) and 126.2k words written

all the navigators connected (read: mutuals i got within the year. check last year's recap if you didn't find yourself!)

@galaxystardragoness (via @umbralhelwolf)

hello haru! i don't think we have interacted much other than things related to cult of dionysus network. i do have rb a few of your posts on my other blogs (fandom and random) so i'm very glad to see your posts on my timeline! cheers~

@14raeriluv

rae! genuinely, your tags make me remember that people do care about me outside of my writings. you've been a gateway to the other sides of enhypen fandom that i'm not in so looking into your blog helps me keep up with enhypen~ thank you for that!

@enluv

hi coco! i don't know if you're still lurking here, but hope you have a great time offline!

@seolboba

hey mako! you're the one who introduced me to a wider kpop oc community here on tumblr, alongside sof! it's been a long time since i've been thinking about street spirit, but i do have some ambitious plans about them as the street spirit project can be a gateway to improve my art portfolio. so glad to see you on my timeline when you update your ocs!

@bandzboy (via @pionas)

tris! the advocate and voice you are!! gosh i'm so glad i linked up with you because, honestly, you are one of the voices of reason for me to think about kpop critically, especially in the social and political side of the industry. so proud of you for being the voice of the kpop boycott for gaza that i'm still following today. all the best for you~

@thelargefrye (via @smallfrye)

smalls! gosh how are you? i love how you refer to yourself as the yoko taro of atinyblr 'cause i can definitely see that (as a self-proclaimed annapurna interactive of my side of the kpop ficblr). your stories are so creative and out of the box that i am very much inspired to make more fantasy fics instead of grounded fics because of them. i hope you are doing well right now!

@prodsh00ky

hello sam! glad to be able to link up with you and thanks for joining my collab~ hope we can talk or discuss more cause i am planning to be more active here, especially nearing the end of the year...

@hyukassubi

subi! so glad to see you here especially since we've talked before on the txt fic hub discord server. so glad to know that you're getting in the groove for writing. i am interested in your kai fics, so i'm might reblog something about it in the future. p.s. will be answering your rb after this

director's journal entries (read: all the rants i have thought out the past year. some are genuine, some are sarcastic):

finally i can post a continuation of time wave ahh

why am i making such a romcom fic so melancholic(?)

oh shoot

where did yall come from??? *panic*

i hate myself for not being able to finish another fic

pls let me finish a fic :[[[

i'm so sorry. but ever since laurel hell, why is there an abundance of enha parent au on the tags?

freaky ahh...

in the clerb, we all fam... ig

i have so many ideas. thank you other mediums!

spoiler: i went a place where my future fic will be set in ohoho

i literally just hear someone copulating a floor above me when i wanna write smut. bro if it can reach me, i’m horrified for their next-door neighbours

re: above: that's my ace side showing up ^^

it's been year huh and how did i still am able write more than 100k words

wow!

notable moments from the past year

the first time a fic has reached 1000 notes!

reaching 300, 400, and 500!

what’s next?

lissie: i mostly plan on focusing on the fics that i am working for currently (i only said, terra incognita act 1, loomer) that will posted this year and other things such as the 400 milestone collab!

i *might* make a poll about fics from my wip page that you are interested in reading the most but like it's still hard 'cause i have to be in a certain mindset to write. i will try to be active here more, especially with mutuals and in regards to @a-dream-bookmark. i will be a bit more low-key because i believe in a more thorough process that is quality over quantity. so, i hope you can be patient with that...

lissie: with all of that said, i thank all of you once again for another year of support. cheers!

[louisisalarrie]

HI. I apologize in advance if I ask the same question to more bloggers, but, as a new Larrie, I don't know many things and I don't have clear ideas. a veteran Larrie, here on Tumblr, thinks that H and L broke up at least a year and a half ago (this would also be demonstrated by the fact that Louis, completely drunk, fell and broke his arm) and that what is happening in these days is made possible precisely by the fact that they are no longer together. This statement struck me. what do you think?

hellooooooo anon and welcome! great to have you here :) I said a little while back I wasn’t gonna answer any more asks like this because I get so many asking if I think they’re still together, but the thing about drunk louis bothered me. So let’s chat :)

this is a great resource on tumblr, and you can also check out cosmicleeds videos on YouTube (uploaded about certain larry events but also a yearly recap every year on what has happened for larry) for some extra context on larry over the years, stunts, reasons why they’re still together, tattoos, everything. so I hope that helps with your journey!

I believe they’re together, and if im reading this correctly, it really icks me that that person has put it down to louis breaking his arm and getting drunk and partying as to “obviously coping with a breakup”. I assume that person is no longer a larrie, and that’s fine, each to their own, but to share a theory that holds absolutely NO substance and reads like a fanfiction is pretty yikes in my opinion. Anyway, i really think you need to make up your own mind on what you believe in.

However, if you’d like my opinion, I don’t think louis enjoying getting on the piss and breaking his arm is relevant, because he’s always been a bit rowdy. Has been since the 1d days. I’m not 100% sure the context of the og post you read, whether it was that louis’ drunk actions caused the alleged breakup or he was acting that way because of the alleged breakup, but either way, I don’t think that’s a contributing factor. Anyway, a lot of folks over the past few years have decided that they’ve broken up, because we just aren’t getting that much content. It’s far easier to deny something when you don’t see it. But trying to decide reasons as to why they’ve broken up is better off left for the very talented fic writers on this website.

[restlessmaknae]

2024 story recap

Just the traditional yearly statistics regarding the stories I’ve published this year. 💖

In 2024:

✨ I’ve published around 93000 words worth of stories

✨ I’ve written for 11 different bands (including 1 soloist)

✨ 8 out of these artists were ones I’ve already written for in previous years: ATEEZ; ENHYPEN; TXT; P1HARMONY; WEi; CIX; NCT; WOODZ

✨ 3 out of these artists were ones I haven’t written for before: ZEROBASEONE; BOYNEXTDOOR; &TEAM

✨ I’ve published 20 stories in total

✨ I’ve received 2701 notes on these stories in total

✨ The most notes were for red light, green light (564 notes) ft. ENHYPEN's Sunghoon; water prince (295 notes) ft. BOYNEXTDOOR's Leehan; favourite sight (279 notes) ft. BOYNEXTDOOR's Leehan

✨ The most published stories were written for BOYNEXTDOOR (7); ZEROBASEONE (2); CIX (2); ENHYPEN (2)

✨ The most published stories for an individual member (2 stories per member) were written for Hanbin (ZEROBASEONE); Taesan (BOYNEXTDOOR); Leehan (BOYNEXTDOOR); Sungho (BOYNEXTDOOR); the rest were 1 story per member

✨ The longest stories I’ve published were: water prince (13.7k) ft. BOYNEXTDOOR's Leehan; came the light (10.2k) ft. CIX’s BX; fire prince (8.9k) ft. BOYNEXTDOOR's Sungho

Thank you all so much for all the love and support that you’ve been giving these stories in the past year! I’m always grateful for all your kind words, reblogs and screamings in the tags. They mean the world to me. 💖

I've written a lot for newer bands, and I didn't know what to expect from the Tumblr reading fandoms, but I'm so happy that so many of you enjoyed them. I can reassure you that I'll definitely write more for them in 2025. 🥰

A few plans I have for 2024 in terms of writing (from the zillion ones I already have sitting in my ideas docs):

I have three story ideas for Anton, and I really want to write at least one of them

continue with the magical kingdom series for 'you are my fire, my wind, my flower'

continue with the KOZ International High series

I'm also really looking forward to write my super strength Matthew fic because it's been a while since I last wrote a superpower au

Also, Twinkling Watermelon was one of my favourite dramas of 2023, so I'm really excited to write my Twinkling Watermelon au with Fuma from &TEAM

Here’s to many more stories and ideas in 2025! Stay safe, happy and healthy, everyone!  💖

[elementary-my-dear-daddy]

Resolutions

Chapter One: Countdown

Pairing: Analoceitmus

Content: Orgasm Denial, Cock Cages, Chastity, Dom/sub, Hardcore Dominance and Submission, Boot Worship, No-Touch, Bondage, Sensory Deprivation, Watersports, Omorashi, Piss Play, Degradation, Humiliation, CBT, Gags, Handcuffs, Sounding, DubCon

Summary: Logan tasks himself with a full year of denial under a BDSM dynamic with Virgil, Remus, and Janus. Will he make it all the way to next year enduring all of their teasing? Who knows~

Read it on AO3!

A Foreword:

I am going to say this one time. This. Is. Fictional.

That means IT’S NOT REAL.

I’m using this fic to explore what a 24/7 dynamic looks like in a FICTIONAL universe. I don’t intend for this to be an accurate portrayal of BDSM and kink at all. Yes there’s safewords, but they’re rarely used, BECAUSE I’M WRITING ABOUT HOT FICTIONAL MEN THAT DON’T EXIST. AND I DO WHAT I WANT.

So be warned. Check the tags thoroughly before reading. I give a special warning to use of degradation and humiliation in this fic. It gets pretty intense and there won’t be a ton of written aftercare scenes. It is NOT nonconsensual, I assure you that Logan is loving every minute of what’s being done to him and it is to be assumed that everything done happens consensually.

Again. Just wanna reiterate, this is not how real BDSM and kink dynamics work, those require intense discussion and communication which isn’t seen much in this fic. Please take it at your own pace or skip chapters or don’t read the thing if it makes you uncomfortable in a way you can’t handle. 

There will be content warnings with what each chapter contains in the notes beforehand, but take them to heart before reading.

If you enjoy it, thanks! Consider leaving a kudos, like, reblog, or comment!

If you don’t, keep that shit to yourself!

Thank you for reading this, I hope you enjoy the story xx

New Year's Eve brought up many traditions for Logan and his partners. He was partial to reflecting on how he’d grown in the past year over a glass of wine, himself. Virgil took to sleeping in extra late so he’d be wide awake for the clock striking midnight. Remus bought fireworks of questionable legality. Janus used the holiday as an excuse to commit any sins to be atoned for come morning. In a way, this year’s celebration would prove no different to the ones before it, but after thorough discussion from all involved parties, it would certainly be one to remember.

December 31st, 11:04 PM

“Last chance to back out, Lo.” Virgil stated as he attached the restraints to his lover’s wrists, “You’re sure you’re still up for this?”

“First of all, this is hardly my last chance.” Logan countered nonchalantly, “I feel comfortable knowing if I safeword, that this will end and you all will care for me accordingly. Second of all, I am certain I want to go through with this. Not only do I want to challenge myself with this as a yearly resolution for personal growth regarding my own sexual boundaries, but also to flesh out the dynamic which we’ve found ourselves in.”

“Put so eloquently for a man about to cry for mercy.” Janus hummed from beside him, stroking the exposed flesh of Logan's thighs.

“I believe I can save it at least until next week.”

“Careful, Logey-” Remus grinned from behind the tripod he was setting up, camera pointing towards his partner spread out on the bed, “Or we might just not let you come at all tonight!”

Logan shot him a look, “Remus, that is not the plan.”

“I know, I know, I just like to make you squirm.” He turned on the device, hitting the record button when he found the perfect angle to do so at, “Why don’t you recap the plan for the camera?”

After a steady breath while Virgil continued to restrain him to their bed, he turned towards the lens,

“Today is day zero of my journey through orgasm denial. I will be having one final orgasm tonight before a year of celibacy.”

“Ah ah-” Janus corrected, “Not complete celibacy. We still get to play with you as much as we want.”

Logan just rolled his eyes, “Correct. You three will be able to copulate with me as a means to your own end, but I will not be allowed to climax, myself.”

“Or touch or pleasure yourself in any way unless we allow you to.” Virgil added.

“Yeah so you better enjoy this one while you can~” Remus moved to sit on the bed, scooting to be in between Logan’s legs.

On the nightstand, there was already a variety of objects waiting to be used that night. The first of which was a bottle of lube, which was promptly passed down to Remus. He grabbed Logan’s legs and threw them over his shoulders promptly, wasting no time spreading the lube over his fingers and pressing them against his hole. Being restrained, he couldn’t shy away from the touch, not that he wanted to, but Remus was a bit rough with preparing him.

“Why don’t you go ahead and say all your rules while we get you ready, baby?” Virgil softly stroked his hair.

Logan sighed as two fingers were thrust into him and a hand was wrapped around his cock, Janus and Remus co-opting his pleasure. 

“I-I’m not allowed to come.”

“That’s right, what else?”

“I’m not allowed to touch myself- ah!” Logan shouted as Janus’ hand twisted over his dick at the exact moment Remus forced in a third digit, “in…in any way that brings me pleasure~!”

“Good boy, keep going.” Janus hummed as he continued to stroke him.

“I-I’ll let my dominants, mmh, know when I’m close.”

A wicked smile spread across Remus’ face as he spread his fingers to stretch him further, before pulling them out entirely, “You’re gonna be so cute when you’re begging us to come and we refuse. What’s your last one, Lolo?”

A whine left his lips, bleeding into words, “-I’ll follow all orders given to me without argument or hesitation!”

Virgil suddenly pulled at his hair, eliciting a sharp gasp, “Only four rules, this should be a piece of cake for you, L.”

“And we know how much you just adore following rules. If anything, this is a treat for you.” Janus pulled his hand away as well, leaning closer to his face to kiss his cheek, “What do you say when someone gives you a treat?”

Logan wanted to chase the sensation of Janus’ hand, but with an ungodly amount of self control forced himself to stay still. “Thank you.” He managed.

After a bit of shifting around and stripping, they settled into their proper positions for the night. As previously discussed, Virgil would be fucking him, Remus would be riding him, and Janus would be using his mouth. He couldn’t think of a better place to be than in between all his boyfriends, giving and receiving an almost incomprehensible amount of pleasure. 

Remus was quick to straddle him, not wasting much time before slicking up his dick further and pushing it against his hole. The both of them let out moans as he took him fully, relishing the feeling of being filled again. Logan didn’t typically top, so he welcomed the rare warmth wrapped around his length.

Virgil was next, spreading his legs once Remus was settled and lining up to fuck him. He could be slow and teasing when he wanted to be, but for now he slid in at a steady pace. He wanted to get to fucking him, but also make sure that Logan could feel every inch inside him. Once the tops of his thighs rested against the other’s, he shifted forward further to share a deep kiss with Remus. 

“How does he feel, babe?” Virgil questioned, pressing his lips down the side of his lover’s neck.

“Not quite as big as you or Jannie, but I guess he’ll be enough to get me off.” Remus returned cheekily.

Logan let out another weak moan as he felt the two of them shift. That earned a couple chuckles from his three partners.

Then, Janus knelt up by his head, “You poor thing, I don’t think you even realize what you’re getting yourself into.” He cooed, “Are you really ready for one last orgasm before a whole year of nothing but denial?

“Yes, yes Master, I promise!” He said, sounding completely pitiful.

“Don’t worry, darling,” Janus stroked himself a few times before pressing the head of his cock to Logan’s lips, “We’ll make sure you enjoy it.”

Logan opened his mouth for the other, who in turn slid into the warmth with a sigh. With everyone officially settled, they could begin to move.

Naturally, Remus lifted his hips up and down a few times, until he found a good angle to pleasure both himself and Logan. He ground down, holding onto Virgil for support as he did. He was never quiet in bed, proving true now even with them just beginning. Moans left his mouth as he sank down repeatedly on his length and used a hand to jerk himself off in the process.

Virgil gave a few thrusts into Logan then, savoring the way he felt around him. He adored having the man beneath him and fucking him, no matter if he wanted it sweet and tender or rough and fast. He groaned, biting his lip as he built up a steady rhythm.

“Fuck, I don’t know how he stays so tight with how much we fuck him.” He commented.

“Because he’s a natural slut!” Remus added, sliding down his length once again.

“He certainly is, why else would he want us to have this much control over him? He must need it.” Janus said, gripping Logan’s hair and thrusting down his throat. 

Logan was in heaven. Remus clenching around him forced shocks of pleasure to course through him. Virgil picked up his pace and aimed to find his prostate with each thrust. Janus occupying his mouth made his mind float into the thick fog of subspace, making each and every sensation feel even more pleasurable than it already was. He wasn’t going to last long like this.

They moved rhythmically, almost as one being. When Virgil slammed their hips together, Janus would force his cock deep into Logan’s mouth, and Remus would grind down against him repeatedly until he was seeing stars. Every touch added to his arousal, and it hardly took any time before he was itching for more.

Logan’s hand formed a loose gesture, with two fingers sticking out from his fist. It was his non-verbal sign that he was getting close.

“I can feel him leaking inside me.” Remus groaned, “Can’t wait for him to fill me up!”

“So soon? You better enjoy it.” Janus looked down at Logan still eagerly sucking him off through the feeling.

Virgil aimed directly into his prostate with every thrust, “C’mon, we’re close too baby, come for us one last time.”

Logan couldn’t focus on any individual sensation with the assault on his body, all he knew was that the pressure was building fast. It could have been the way Janus was pulling at his hair, or the way Remus was riding him like his life depended on it, or the way Virgil sunk his whole length into him as he gripped his hips, but it was too much to hold back.

With a choked moan held back by the dick in his mouth, Logan toppled over the edge with wave after wave of blissful release. His muscles spasmed with the force of it, with his arms pulling at the restraints above him and vision going white from every sensation. He filled Remus, screamed around Janus and contracted around Virgil, triggering their approach to climax as well. 

It was Remus who came next, stroking himself as he aimed for his own prostate with a final slam of his hips and riding out his orgasm as he spilled over himself and his partners. Virgil followed soon after, coming into Logan’s twitching hole and working himself through it. Janus climaxed last, rapidly thrusting into Logan’s mouth before pulling out and spilling over his face ceremoniously. The room was filled with the sounds of four panting men and the lingering smell of sex.

Remus hopped off of Logan and fell beside him, Janus following suit after glimpsing down to see his lover’s fucked out and come-covered face. He smirked, going to untie the restraints on his wrists. Virgil eased himself out of him carefully, debating whether or not to plug him up and keep him full of his seed just a little bit longer. Ultimately, he decided against it and went to grab a few things to clean up.

“You still alive, Logie?” Remus nuzzled his head against the man’s shoulders.

“Mhm.” Logan managed to get out, before a yawn overtook him, “ ‘was really enjoyable.”

“We’re glad.” Janus reassured him while easing his arms down from the headboard, “Let’s take care of you now and we’ll talk about what comes next tomorrow.”

As Virgil returned with some towels and water, he stopped to click off the camera recording them. Logan was cleaned by the three of them and cuddles ensued shortly after, with many words of reassurance and kisses in between.

At one point, Janus picked up their phone from the night stand and showed it to the other three, “12:06. Happy new year, my loves.”

“Anyone have any resolutions they wanna share?” Remus smiled down at Logan knowingly.

“Hey, don’t tease him.” Virgil chided, “That’s what tomorrows for.”

“It is tomorrow!”

“Sleep first.” Logan sighed, snuggling deeper into the arms of his lovers.

He didn’t know how to feel about the possibilities of tomorrow morning. Scared? Excited? Impossibly aroused at the thought? Yes, yes, and yes. But those were thoughts for tomorrow. For now, he would happily rest in satisfaction. 

The rest of the year likely wouldn’t provide the same respite, though.

[notquitejiraiya]

8 YEARS

Last year, I wrote my first yearly recap after having been inspired by a tradition set by the wonderful @unioncolours each year. That recap contained an array of fics and thoughts and inspirations after the insane year for me that was 2022. It was a huge year for me in terms of many things. Shortly after my last recap, I got a master’s degree and officially became an engineer, something that honestly spurred on my creative drive. While studying for that degree, I had my coolest year of writing in a while: as you know from the last recap, if you read it, I wrote 9/10, Love Means Nothing (which, yes, will be finished in time, don’t worry), and most importantly, I wrote Strangers.

Most importantly, I say, because the entirety of 2023 would ultimately hinge upon what Strangers began. But that is something we’ll come to in time.

Be warned, this will be long, but if you'd like to read about my last year, please do keep reading below :)

Before we begin with the majority of this essay, I wanna give a shoutout to the lost soul of the year that is Traditions. It wasn’t long and it wasn’t hugely exciting, but it kickstarted this year in terms of fic posting, even if only on Tumblr, and it was a cute one. I always love a little challenge like those from a gift exchange, and it’s always nice to give a gift. I hope it was nice to read, too!

But, starting on the meaty stuff, I think it’s important that I address the two constants throughout the history of this blog. The first, which comes as no surprise to any, is ShikaTema: the most important ship to ever exist, to me, and the heart of some of the most wonderful experiences I’ve had throughout my fandom life. The second constant is a topic explored in a lot of Shikamaru-based content across the fandom and one that I will never tire of.

That second constant is chess.

The game of chess is something very special to me. The first day I met my partner, we played chess against one another for hours (and I lost - the only time he’s beaten me, actually). My best friend, who introduced us that day, gave me a rook keyring that I have kept on my house keys ever since, whether I’ve lived in my home town, another city, or now even in another country entirely. My favourite musical - one of the things I connect to my father best with - centres around chess, its politics, and its capacity for obsession. And probably the most important fic on this blog to date obviously takes its name from the game.

I have no doubt that most people who follow me, especially those of you here on Tumblr, discovered my writing as a result of Chess, either by reading it or maybe through the incredible art which that fic was lucky enough to receive. It was so special and personal to me to write, and while it’s certainly no longer my best work as an author, I’m still immensely proud and pleased with how it resonated with people. I think, so far, it is the most beloved thing I’ve written, at least to others.

But something that always bothered me about Chess was how little chess there actually was in it. Sure, there were a couple of scenes where chess was played, but there was more flower arranging and fish and chips than there was time sitting across a chessboard. It felt almost like a wasted opportunity to write about Shikamaru being a chess whizz and doing next to nothing with the skill. I couldn’t let the idea die. In many of my older stories — Tumblr-only stories — Shikamaru plays chess (or shogi) or inspires Shikadai or Temari to do the same. But nowadays, it feels like it has all been leading up to right now and to the monster that 2023 has birthed.

When I came to write Strangers in 2022, an idea came to me as just a little easter egg. That idea was that, in the Strangers universe, Temari’s husband would be a world-class chess player, and she, too, would have an equally worldwide job. It sort of naturally followed that Temari, too, could be a chess player; what she might lack in terms of natural strategic prowess, she more than makes up for in drive and ruthlessness, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about chess players in my life, it’s that they hate to lose. Temari 101, methinks. As I made my way through writing Strangers, that fact nipped at my brain tirelessly until, before I knew it, I had a 30k outline and, by association, a goal for what 2023 would be for me as a writer.

2023 would be the year of Grandmaster.

I’ve always been more of a character writer than a plot writer. I think perhaps that’s one of the reasons I’m drawn to writing AUs over canon works; to me, while writing, it’s more interesting to explore how an existing character would behave in a totally alien environment to their canon one, and Grandmaster is this year’s attempt at that.

I mention this because, while I call Grandmaster (GM) a ShikaTema fic, it is, first and foremost, a fic about Temari. Shikamaru is there — of course, he is — and he plays a crucial role in so many of the elements of her life within the story. But the story is unequivocally hers. We see what Temari sees, focus on what Temari focuses on, suffer through Temari’s delusions of her own self-importance, and feel the weight of the expectations put upon her. It’s an exploration of the weight of ambition that’s not necessarily your own, and it has gutted me to write more than Chess ever did.

I don’t have enough delusion of my own self-importance to yet write and publish an essay on this story, why I’ve written it, and how it feels to write it, but there are a few points that I have to voice in this yearly reflection because they’re so crucial to my last year as a writer and online.

You will hear me sing the praises of my friend Bex to the ends of the Earth. While we share a name, we have very different approaches to writing, and we often tell quite different stories, but she is truly responsible for inspiring me to write Temari-centric stories. 100%. If you are reading this and somehow haven't read what I truly consider to be the greatest ShikaTema fic of all time (no one cries for unknown soldiers), follow that link, read it right now, and then come back a changed individual. And you will be changed, I promise, because it changed me on an almost chemical level with its power. Everything you write, Bex, has that power, and it is extraordinary and frankly terrifying in the most incredible way.

I had already started GM by the time you began releasing When I am Gorgeous, but holy fuck, if that didn’t spur me on. The character growth and arcs in those stories are something to behold and something I strive for. With that in mind, the first point of this writing reflection is a thank you to Bex specifically, without whom I wouldn’t have had nearly as much fun writing as I’ve had this last year, and I wouldn’t be sitting where I’m sitting as I write this. So thank you - a hundred times over and more. I am honoured to share a corner of the internet (and a name) with you, my ‘rival’. Thank you.

The second point is another thank you. This time to @clumsydragon28, who is again a dear friend and without whom GM wouldn’t be what it is. From support in DMs to insane and phenomenal essay-like analysis in comment sections, you are outrageously inspiring to em and others and there aren’t words for my gratitude for that. But, as you already know, there are elements of GM and what is to come after GM that exist only because of you and your own beautiful writing and stories. I will refrain from spoiling the joys of the latter chapters of Plié — another absolute must-read where the love and joy of an art form ooze from every word and captivate you with their wholesomeness and beauty — but it helped me find the missing piece at the end of GM that lets me tie it up with a bow, and ultimately set into motion the fic that will follow. I can’t thank you enough, truly, but thank you. 

Having thanked those who frankly made it happen, I’ll get on with the writing-specific stuff. No spoilers, but it will be a little self-indulgent so bear with me.

I’ll start with something kind of trivial. GM is my first real time writing OCs in a fanfic as more than a passing reference. It doesn’t have many because I like to bring in canon characters where applicable. But sometimes that’s not viable, and I’m not about to force some character into a hole they don’t fit into because I hate when other people do that, so Danya and Mischa kind of had to happen. And I’ve had a really fun time writing them. It’s not uploaded yet, but there’s a chapter coming soon that’s quite focused around Mischa, and I think it’s some of my best writing in the whole story, and so GM has kind of gotten me over my fear of OCs. Nobody’s complained about their existence, and they’ve made the story more complete. A lesson learned, for sure.

Secondly, it’s no secret that I really like Rasa. Do I think he’s a wanker? Yes. Do I think hating him for what happened canonically is valid? Also, yes. Do I think that there’s nuance to his character that is often disregarded or forgotten? Absolutely. And, as a result of that, do I think he’s criminally underutilised in fics? Fuck yeah, I do.

So GM has a lot of Rasa. More than I initially intended when I began writing it, actually. He’s there pretty much all the time — if he’s not in the scene, he’s probably influencing what’s going on in it either directly or via years of impressionable behaviours. And it’s been really interesting to write that. Challenging, for sure, because I have to keep in line with all the relationships set out in Strangers and realistically make them come to a head where they do. And challenging in the sense that it doesn’t feel good to write some of the things that Rasa has to say in this story.

There have been a few times in my 8 years as a fanfic author where I’ve written something and actually felt violently emotional after having done so, but GM has given me a fair few of those moments, specifically as a result of Rasa. I won’t say which moments they are, partly because the expectation of how one is ‘supposed’ to feel consuming anything takes away the authenticity, I feel, but I wonder if when people read his dialogue in certain chapters — some already up, and some soon to come — they will feel the same as I did writing them. It’s an interesting thought I’ve never had the opportunity or time to really consider until GM, and one I am sure I will consider more going forward.

Speaking of Rasa and the link in relationships, I don’t know if I’ve even officially said in this recap that GM is the prequel to Strangers. I’ve never written a prequel before, but it’s a unique experience. It’s like working from the end to the beginning; it feels wrong and yet makes perfect sense. Keeping the sibling relationships in line with Strangers is really fun, honestly. Writing that fic, I had little opportunity to just write the three of them having fun or being loving in traditional ways, and I had zero opportunity to utilise Yashamaru.

Writing this fic, Yashamaru has been everywhere, and he has become one of my most beloved characters.

I have nothing else to say on that, I just wanted to give it it’s own line. He’s played a big part of warming my hear this year, and I love him.

Finally, I feel like this fic has really brought out the introspective beast within me. Introspection has always been my forte, but it’s really taken the reins this time. In some ways, I’m quite annoyed with myself for it and for being word and long-winded. I’ve always had the biggest respect for those who can say what they want to say concisely, and I have never been one of those people.

That’s the goal for the 9th year of notquitejiraiya, for sure, and I plan to do so with a fic in the same universe as has captivated me these last 2 years, this time with the focus on Shikadai. Shikadai will be a new challenge for me, too, especially a grown up Shikadai, and I'm excited to try and tell his story, concisely and without even half the discontentment present in both GM and Strangers lol. We deserve some cheerfulness and range here at NQJ Ltd.

But at the same time, I’m proud of the way I write and the way I express myself and the characters within my story. I think I’m quite good at following a train of thought in a realistic way — not quite to the level of my idol, Mr Alex Garland, but I’ve time to learn — and by being Temari-centric, GM has let me into Temari’s head and let me run havoc her thoughts. I’ve received multiple comments on GM about how it’s somewhat frustrating not to have Shikamaru’s point of view, and while I get why: no thanks.

This is Temari’s story. There will be some moments we see through other’s eyes, certainly, but I’m of the opinion that if we saw both sides of GM, it would be far more frustrating. This story will span ten years and for me, it’s an exercise in writing someone piecing together parts of their life during that time into something worth living and figuring things out as they go. In life, while you might get to hear what the people around you think from what they say and how they act, you don’t get the privilege of seeing inside their heads. Neither does Temari, and by association, neither do you. I hope it pays off in the end; I’ll be proud regardless.

But enough about Becks the writer. Something pretty insane happened for Becks the human being last month, something that she’s not completely over. I live in Finland now. I’m learning Finnish, and I’m on Master’s degree number 2 (yes, I am addicted to learning, do not judge me). I have, frankly, no time to write, but am I going to do it anyway? Of course I am. I can’t stop myself, even if I tried. Not to mention, the pressure of my first MSc gave me Strangers, and I’m not going to resist if the 2nd brings on something equally fun.

Another constant this year for Becks the human, that I am certain my friends must be sick and tired of, is The Brothers Karamazov. I bought myself that book as a treat for finishing my exams in 2022 and have been slowly chugging through it for the last year. I’m sure it comes as no surprise with my wordy introspective tendencies that I love a classic, and I think it’s quite fun that I’ve somewhat accidentally aligned reading this particular classic alongside falling into the Bungo Stray Dogs fandom and, even more fun, aligned with writing GM. Two wildly different stories of trios of Russian siblings. These trios – they follow me around, I swear! But jokes aside, I have only 98 pages left of this almost 1000 page beast, and it feels like the end of an era. Never in my life have I seen characters as humans more effectively, and never have I felt more inspired to make sure the characters that I write appear human, too.

But like I say, being wordy is my weakness. The evidence is in this almost 3k ramble alone. There are so many more things I could say, and maybe once I’ve finished GM and it’s all published and tied up with a bow, I might share those thoughts, too.

But for now, I must say thank you to the 8th notquitejiraiya year for being so memorable, despite my blog and my ao3 page having ‘little’ to show for it by way of variety. The 9th year will be a good one, I’m sure, and I enter it with incredible friends — authors and otherwise — and the will (of fire) to improve.

And become more concise. That’s job no1.

Thank you all for playing a part in the last 8 years, whether we’re close or we’ve never spoken. Your time means the world, and I hope you have an incredible day / night / life.

Becks x

[littleragondin]

✨2023: A Summary✨

Post your most popular and/or favourite edit/gifset/analysis for each month (it’s okay to skip months!)

Tagged by @troubled-mind thank you! (⌒ω⌒) This year I got into giffing, which I have been enjoying a lot. I drew a little, and I have started slowly putting down some thoughts about shows by the end of the year. Consequently, this is a bit all over the place lol

January

most popular: Tiwson being the Best Best Friend a boy could ever need! which is what he deserve 😌

my favorite: Golf failing at ripping Art's shirt off in Till the world ends. My second gifset ever, and I'm still pretty proud of it.

February

most popular: pffrtt xd ok it's my reaction to the "I want to eat you" incident from Tiw in MSP

my favorite: the Ameiro Paradox boys being silly and cute on the rooftop

March - it was my most productive and most popular month this year, with 3 of my yearly Top 10 posts

most popular: this Hands gifset for Bed Friend episode 04. Followed very closely by Alan/Gaipa and that Mulan quote.

my favorite: of course it has to be this gifset about Tian and Yang from To Sir, With Love.

April

most popular: this Hands gifset for the last episode of Bed Friend.

my favorite: once again, have to go with a To Sir, With Love gifset of Tian and Jiu. It was my first time using blending for my gifs!

May

most popular: this very serious gifset about the mains of Love Between Fairy and Devil

my favorite: I hesitated but it has to be Guangyan slapping Pu Yiyong repeatedly

June - small month this one, not a lot from me

most popular: daydreaming of the duck painting in the hospital of Love Tractor...

my favorite: this sketch of horror boys

July

most popular: my Gao Xiaolan apreciation gifset from Word of Honor

my favorite: this post of propaganda for my favorite QL siblings, especially the numerous siblings of Uwma

August

most popular: my musings about Thee and Thantai's childhood and relationship from Laws of Attraction

my favorite: Thee and Thantai again, drawing the morning hug before it actually happened

September - the month of Absolute Zero starting and my hopes going through a roller coaster

most popular: Suansoon watching movies while Ongsa watches him, as I got bewitched by AZ

my favorite: Phojai breaking Tag's heart in Love in Translation (i am so very proud of this one). Also, my Thee/Thantai's fic.

October

most popular: would you look at that, it's a Hands gifset! this time from Absolute Zero.

my favorite: my first ... comments post I guess? About Absolute Zero. I didn't finish it but i liked doing it, and I want to get into that a little more again next year.

November

most popular: Evolution of the Kimi ni wa todokanai opening sequences, which I loved dearly

my favorite: sorry to say it has to be exposing all of you to my thirst for Brother Anurak.

December - very slow month again, have not done much even during the holidays

most popular: My 2023 recap of QL songs!

my favorite: My Top 5 of QL intros.

I think most people have been tagged already, but I will tag @petrichoraline @iguessitsjustme and @benkaaoi if you fancy it!

[coffeetablettowers]

usually i don't make recap posts of my fics until the end of the year for my yearly round-up, but this week I wrote A LOT so here's all that I wrote this week.

A King Who Wears a Crown: gen rated g Cherry Lips: 2doc rated T Excitement: russdoc rate g A Pain Burrowed in Your Head: gen rated T Sleep Together: gen rated g Till The Day I Die: 2doc rated g

also tidbit: Cherry Lips, Sleep Together, and Till The Day I Day are all Garbage songs

[nehswritesstuffs]

The Time That We Love Best - RECAP - PART 6 of 13

So, you know how tumblr's dashboard has been made jankier and jankier with each passing update? I'm taking it into my own hands to make some masterposts of some of my long-form fics because even though they have a side-page on my blog, I don't know how long that will hold out, and this is easier to share anyhow.

The Time That We Love Best - 206k words - a slice-of life/WWII/1950s Whouffaldi AU

Broken into thirteen parts because tumblr is a very webbed site.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5

[Part 6] - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10

Prompt Fills: Part 11 - Part 12 - Part 13

51. April 1947 [FFN]/[AO3]

New neighbors move in next-door and they end up having more in common than first glance.

52. August 1947 [FFN]/[AO3]

When Clara has guests over, John has to enlist some help to reach something the accidentally left behind in the fray.

53. December 1947 [FFN]/[AO3]

John’s beard has become a yearly tradition, and Clara is going to make the most out of it.

54. January 1948 [FFN]/[AO3]

Something John finds in Clara’s purse gives him the need to catch his breath.

55. March 1948 [FFN]/[AO3]

John has a very important mate-to-mate conversation after an accidental row with Clara.

56. June 1948 [FFN]/[AO3]

John doesn’t know if he’s in the middle of a nightmare, or if he just woke up.

57. July 1948 [FFN]/[AO3]

A suggestion of Clara’s when it comes to their child resurfaces an old insecurity of John’s.

58. 25 September 1948 [FFN]/[AO3]

It took almost eight and a half years, but the Smiths have finally become the Smith Family.

59. November 1948 [FFN]/[AO3]

Adding Davey to the routine is a welcome change, though the Smiths are eager to reintroduce some pre-baby activities into their daily lives.

60. December 1948 [FFN]/[AO3]

With John’s beard grown in again, it’s time for Davey to join the Grynden Street Christmas tradition, while Clara has a little something to add to the occasion.

CONTINUED IN PART 7!

[natigail]

Week 52 (2024) updates:

Wrote 4.9k on my skz wolfpack AU - Rest in the Belly of the Wolf

Wrote 2.7k for a new wip for Dragon Age with a Crow!Rook in pre-cannon

And I journalled every day

Total words: 11k

Look at me back in double digits for the last week of the year! Hell yeah! I wrote the draft for the final skz wolfpack AU chapter and it was such a hard thing to work towards that closing scene. This fic has been so massive in both length and response to it, and that made me even more apprehensive AND I already find endings hard on a good day. Also seems I'm going to write more Dragon Age because I've got at least three ideas rattling around in there and I started on one of them this week.

2024 has been a time of ups and downs and I haven't gotten to write as much as my other years, so that feels a bit like a punch in the gut, but I have still written a whole lot, so I'm not going to let that get me down! And I've had many stories I loved this year, so I'm excited to do my yearly recap later. Onto 2025!

[writingmochi]

ｌｏａｄｉｎｇ ｉｎｔｅｒｆａｃｅ．．．

you have reached year 2

lissie: greetings, visitor! this is your flight director speaking~ welcome to the two-year anniversary of this blog (freaking awesome if you ask me). thank you so much for reading, indulging, and/or interacting with this blog, me, or my works. the sentence before cannot describe the gratitude i'm expressing towards all of you. this is a yearly recap for me and maybe for new visitors who come to know what has happened on this blog for the year.

before we get to it, i'm doing a survey to get to know my audience better (and more research). if you have spare time, do fill in the survey so that i get to know more about the visitors, the works, and the audience on tumblr in general! (average time is around 3 minutes~)

survey link! (survey closed)

leggo!

all research done (read: works written and released)

troubled pixies | txt's taehyun (2 parts; 52k [novel])

smirch episode 2: jay | enhypen's jay (27.4k [novella])

isobel | txt's soobin (43.3k [novel])

pizzeria run | enhypen's sunoo (17.9k [novella])

total: 4 works (1 two-shots, 3 oneshots) and 140.6k words written

all the navigators connected (read: mutuals i got within the year. check last year's recap if you didn't find yours!)

@it-rains-blue (via @itz-yerin)

yerin! the other biggest bamtori i know here! gosh i hope you're doing well irl and online... hope for the best for your confession cafe >> check it out folks @the-love-cafe

@heart2beom

hey jazmine! i notice you haven't posted in a while now. so i'm hoping your doing okay, okay?

@tyunlatte / @wave2tyun

alex! if you are lurking, i hope you're doing so good irl! live your life for the best (edit: alex's back!)

@lovejoshua

1/6 angels: ilem istg! hi! you've been like one of the constant presence when i check the discord server. hope you treat yourself well!

@junniieesbby

2/6 angels: whenever i see a heart, it always reminds me of you, angie. i think you're busy currently, so the best i can say is that hope you have a good rest cause you need it and always hydrate ;)

@hanniejie

3/6 angels: hey lex! i just saw the band au teaser on your blog and i wanna punch myself for not noticing that sooner! /j hope you have a great time writing that one :D

@txt-yaomi

4/6 angels: sof!! i gotta have to consult you more for street spirit cause just the way you work with the album for angel is just *chef's kiss*

@talesofyuan

yuan~~ ngl i can't wait to read your kei lovesick series (tho i'm hoping to staying loyal to yixiang) can't wait to see more of your &team fics. check the blog out for &team content, folks!

@choistick

5/6 angels: saph !! thanks for the tag and hope your hiatus is treating you well~

@robin-obsessed

6/6 angels: lee~ i've just seen that you also like riize like akfjbaieufiw okayyyy i hope you have a good day/night whenever and wherever you are!

@dido-of-the-endless

hi nida! tbh you have so many side blogs i'm confused in which one you post your writing (so i'm tagging your main account). feel free to consult me if you have any wips you wanna let out lmao >.< n thanks for joining the txt hub server, i won't know you if not from there...

@pyeonghongrie (via @pyeonghongrie-main)

rie! thank you so much for letting me in the cult (mueheheheh) and hope we can interact more here or on the server

@aduh0308

welcome to the roster, ada! thanks for letting me join the soobin collab and nice to see you!

director's journal entries (read: all the rants i have thought out the past year. some are genuine, some are sarcastic):

wow… i freaking broke tumblr huh

i shouldn't have been too ambitous fook me

bruh my body's crumbling…

i swear i hate college for not allowing me to write

i broke tumblr twice w/ a txt fic alsnskdams

tumblr can’t handle things :(

is my mind running too fast or is it just harder for people to understand me? annoying much…

i’m literally a step away from going out of the kpop fandom. this kind of fan behavior is sickening

^ and the fact is: i’ll probably survive

kinda wish someone could appreciate my writing just like i do for other people here

is there something wrong with how i write asks? i should have put more tone indicators…

the desire for me to revert back to web 1.0 is crazy. like, me owning a blog? ughh yes pls!

i’m getting freaking frustrated!!!

AGGHHHGHHHHHHHH

… will i ever … :")

*queue yoda's voice* you pushing back more wips i see

how the fuck have i made fewer works yet the wc is 20k away from last year's result? (166k for 12 compared to 140k for 5 works)

^ it's quality over quantity now darling

^^ and the fact that the year 3 count will get higher because of the fics you've delayed

notable moments from the past year

established @a-dream-bookmark, a rec blog + kpop writer & reader network

reaching 200!

started writing for ateez!

joining @kflixnet, @k-labels, and @cultofdionysusnet networks

what’s next?

lissie: if you haven't seen it, i'm starting a new big-scale series called terra incognita for enhypen's jake, do check it out if you like cyberpunk, or dystopian fics! also, i an doing the wips that i promised will be released this year (will prioritize evaluation and subterranean homesick alien first)

lissie: once again, thank you so much for following me on this journey! cheers~