#yep i wrote a novel

[hummingbird-games]

Dev Diaries

February 2nd, 2025

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[lavender-twilight23]

IMPROMPTU FANFICTION TED TALK

I’m gonna address something that I have thought about recently and then also give a little pep talk to anybody else that might be feeling this way or in a similar way:

Fanfiction is a valid form of expression and it’s okay to write fanfiction, no matter your age, no matter your life circumstance!

Recently, I’ve had doubts about whether or not I should still be writing fanfiction. I’m in my second semester of college, pursuing film, and I have plenty of original stories (three novels, four screenplays) floating around in my head that I keep telling myself I should get back into. But I still find myself feverishly writing fanfiction and pouring heaps of creative energy into that. And especially with how much fucking fanfiction I’ve written in the past six months, (over 201,000 words worth) I’ve had tons of thoughts like:

“You’re pursuing your passions, looking toward the future into your career ambitions, AT COLLEGE, and you’re STILL writing fanfiction?”

“It’s ridiculous how much fanfiction you’re churning out with all the original stories you have sitting in the back of your head that need to get written.”

“You’re wasting your time writing fanfiction, you should be investing your time into your original works, y’know, the things that are ACTUALLY gonna get released into the world one day.”

“You not gonna get paid for writing fanfiction– put more energy into writing the stories that you’ll actually end up getting paid to write rather than spending your time writing things that will only ever seen the light of a social media website.”

And shit like that. So I have thought recently: Why are you still writing fanfiction now that you’re taking active steps toward pursuing your dreams? Why are you writing THIS MUCH fanfiction when you should be spending your creative time working on your films/original novels?

Yep. So I guess some sort of guilt, or self-deprecation about writing fanfiction. And not just about the fanfiction writing itself, but also about HOW MUCH fanfiction I’ve been writing, to a point where I either 1) always have a project going, something I’m in the middle of, 2) always something next on my queue (I literally wrote a whole fanfic queue and color coded it to organize it for future fanfics and I have a huge-ass note on my phone/computer dedicated to recording/brainstorming ideas), or 3) spend more time in my fanfic-planning journal than taking notes for my college classes.

I’m doing well in classes and all that shit, but still, I find myself feeling bad that I write so much fanfiction, so to both combat that, and to give validation to others who might be hesitant about writing fanfiction as I've felt in the past:

IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY, IT’S VALID, AND YOU SHOULD KEEP DOING IT.

If it brings you joy, it has a purpose in your life. Fanfiction is just yet another way to express love for something you like, something you love, and that obsession comes out as passion, which has to be expressed, and it’s no different than drawing fan art, making edits, or even any hobby that ISN’T directly tied to a fandom.

If writing fanfiction is how you prefer to spend your creative time, then it has a place in how you live your life.

If it makes you happy and brings you joy, then it has a reason for being in your life.

Fanfiction has a purpose in your life, let it fulfill that purpose.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Carry on. ❤️🩷🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

[diminuel]

That Robin is a "propaganda" writer for the revolutionaries has given me a stroke of inspiration… because she wouldn't stop writing about Dragon and Crocodile, no, she'd write about a wandering swordsman and a cook… about a first officer and his captain, about a pirate sailor and his warrior princess… yep, Robin wouldn't just write about her former boss and her new boss, she'd write about her crew and what she went through for years (it's therapeutic)…

And if after returning to the Sunny she's still sending manuscripts to the publisher, well, that's her business…

Meanwhile, Smoker is shocked that someone wrote the whole truth about what happened in Alabasta… like a dirty romance novel.

Why can I totally see Robin packing her dirty romance novels full of very vital information? As soon as you have cracked the code which character and setting stands for which real life person and location you can get pretty thorough information!

Of course, most just consider it fantasy but Smoker must have been quite surprised when his reading material started to sound very familiar X'D

[just--vi]

2024 in Fanfic

In 2023 I wrote 185,542 words, and in 2024 I wrote 185,996, so at least I'm consistent?

I think it's interesting to look back at my 'goals' of 2024: Write something other than a Muggle AU (failed), convince everyone to ship Moonchaser (halfway there), write more smut (nailed it), read more (honestly, kind of nailed that too).

In 2025 I want to care less, write whatever I want, finally get that Armageddon AU out, and read ~even more~.

Anyway, here's what I did this year!

For the Love of Ducks - Wolfstar, started in 2023, finished in 2024.

Remus Lupin has always been sick, and he'd just like to feel normal for once. Sirius Black seems like the perfect man with a perfect, exciting life.

The Art of Getting Off - Jegulus

Regulus is a demisexual romance author who has one big hangup: Smut. After a mountain of bad reviews on his latest novel, an awkward meeting with his publisher, and a conversation with Remus, he decides to take the leap. Unfortunately the only person he really wants to sleep with is James Potter. Alternative title: "The art of fucking your brother's best friend six ways from Sunday without falling in love in the process."

Happily Never After - Jegulus

It’s a flurry of limbs. James doesn’t waste a second pulling him inside - or maybe that’s for practicality sake. If Sirius saw them together he’d lose it on account of them being them, and if Remus saw them together he’d lose it on account of it being the night before his wedding. Or, Regulus and James are friends with benefits. All hell breaks loose.

And They Were Roommates! - Wolfstar

Sirius scoffs, and when Remus doesn’t turn around to look at him says, “Face it Moony, you’re drying up. You need me.” “What?” Remus laughs tightly, squirting an aggressive amount of soap in the sink and twisting the tap with a little more viciously than it probably deserves. “So, you’re planning on playing wingman all night?” “Yep,” Sirius says, popping the ‘p’ for emphasis. “And you’ll play wingman for me. It’ll be perfect.” Or, living with Remus Lupin is torture. Thankfully, Sirius has a plan to address the tension.

Deerly Beloved - Prongsfoot

Over a night in the pub a series of escalating dares result in Sirius and James waking up married. It should be quick and easy to fix the mistake by getting an annulment, so why are they dragging their feet?

Love at First Bloom - Wolfstar

Remus Lupin took over his mother's flower shop after the passing of his parents. Now, he splits his time between catering to the floral needs of sleepy Hogsmeade village and pining helplessly over the devastatingly handsome man who buys weekly arrangements for his boyfriend.

Wreck the Halls - Jegulus

When Regulus is invited to spend Christmas with Sirius and the Potters, the last thing he expects is for James to bring a brand new boyfriend home for the holidays.

[mrs-dr-reid]

Letters Addressed to the Fire

(A Gale Dekarios Fic)

Pairing: Gale Dekarios x Female!Tav!Reader

Summary: Tav finds the letter Gale wrote for her in case he used the Orb, and he walks in on her reading it

Genre: Angsty af, but then fluff because ouch

Warnings: Direct transcripts of The Letter used (iykyk), crying, discussions of death/self-sacrifice, Gale being a human Jane Austen novel, un-beta’d (in the words of my discord friend, Pom, “no beta we die like hubris filled wizards” 😂)

A/N: Yep. I’m writing for Baldur’s Gate now. I got this idea from the comment section on a TikTok, and my masochist of a writer brain immediately started formulating this, so I apologize in advance for any feels you feel due to this fic

Word Count: 1255

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Who would have guessed that a simple page of parchment could derail an entire day’s worth of plans so quickly?

Tav had finally settled into a routine in Waterdeep with her beloved and his tressym, and decided she would get some chores done while Gale was out running errands. Summit fever kicked in, and she cleaned the kitchen, the living room, and their shared bedroom before making her way to the library to tidy things up a little bit.

She was organizing some papers that were strewn about on Gale’s desk when she came across a tri-folded piece of parchment with her name written on it in what she recognized as Gale’s handwriting despite it looking rather rushed. Tav’s eyebrows furrowed, and she sat on the edge of the desk before unfolding the parchment and beginning to read:

“My love,

Firstly - forgive the scrawled nature of this note. My handwriting is no match for the netherbrain’s tremors. Or perhaps my hands shake of their own accord. At this juncture, it is difficult to tell.”

Tav’s breath caught in her throat when she saw the word “netherbrain”, because it told her exactly when Gale had written this letter, and she was suddenly terrified of what she might read next. Nevertheless, her morbid curiosity got the better of her, and her eyes continued to flit down the page:

“Do not misunderstand me - I am not afraid to die. But I am afraid of what I might leave behind me. That my sacrifice might hurt you so that your life becomes an echo of my own, your chest corrupted by heartache as mine once was by the orb.

I hope and pray it is not the case - that in the time since I left you, you have lived a life full of beauty, happiness, and wonder. That is what I will picture when the time comes. Only you. You were all I ever needed.”

It was as if someone had thrown a bucket of ice water over her and stabbed her through the heart with a flaming sword simultaneously as Tav digested the script she held in her hands. Gale had planned to use the Orb to defeat the Netherbrain? He had fully intended to lay his life down for the survival of the group? For her? He hadn’t, that was abundantly clear as she was currently awaiting his arrival home from town, but why else would he have written this letter? Tav clutched the parchment tighter in her hands as she read on:

“You are calling to me - I have truly run out of time. But you will not - that I promise. When this is over, your life begins anew. Treasure it, as I treasured you. That is all I ask.

Yours forever,

Gale”

Tav didn’t realize she was crying until two teardrops dampened the parchment next to Gale’s signature, and by then it was too late to stop the river of tears streaming down her face, so she simply clutched the letter to her chest and let her emotions take over. She was vaguely aware of someone calling her name from somewhere else in the tower, but she was too swept up in her feelings to acknowledge it.

Gale came striding into the library while saying, “Ah, there you are, Darling! No wonder you weren’t answering me. Have you been cleaning this whole time…?”, but stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the state Tav was in. His cheerfulness instantly melted into concern, and he said, “Darling, what’s wrong? Why are you crying? Did something happen?”, while walking over to her.

Tav held up the letter, and Gale’s face paled within milliseconds of registering what it was. Tav sniffled, then said, “Were you ever going to tell me about this?”, her voice breaking on the last word as more tears threatened to burst forth. Gale hung his head with a sigh, and Tav choked back a sob when he muttered, “I thought I’d burned that,” sorrow and shame lacing every syllable.

Gale scrubbed a hand down his face and let out another long sigh before he said, “You’re smart enough to know what that letter meant so I won’t mince words: Yes, I was going to use the Orb and sacrifice myself to defeat the Netherbrain. But I realized something; it would have been exactly what Mystra wanted, and I didn’t give a rat’s arse about impressing her anymore,” making Tav furrow her eyebrows at his harsh words towards his former goddess.

He stepped closer to her, and took her hand in his while saying, “Since the minute you pulled me out of that rock, you’ve seen all of me for who I truly am. To you, I’m not The Wizard of Waterdeep, Mystra’s Chosen; I’m just Gale Dekarios. And that’s all I care about being now. You changed my life for the better, Tav, so it was only fair that I live it to the fullest and not cut it short in a reckless act of self-sacrifice. I love you more than I could ever express in words alone, and I’m truly sorry you found that letter without me being here to explain myself,” his eyes starting to glisten with emotion.

Tav cupped his face in her hand, then said, “I love you, too, Gale. And I’m sorry for sticking my nose into your personal matters even if it was for cleaning purposes,” earning a small chuckle from Gale before he pressed a kiss to her forehead. Tav let out a content sigh, then started giggling to herself. Gale shot her an amused look, then said, “What’s so funny, My Love?”, so Tav said, “I came in here to clean, and now I’m crying all over your desk,” through her giggles while wiping the tears from her cheeks.

Gale chuckled and said, “I suppose that is a humorous situation, even if the circumstances are less so,” before peppering kisses all over Tav’s face, making her squeal and thump his chest playfully. She looked him in his eyes and said, “Can you promise me that you won’t keep things like this from me ever again?”, so Gale put her hand to his chest where the Orb once was, then said, “You have my word, Darling,” his thumb rubbing over the back of her hand comfortingly.

Tav smiled at him, then said, “Thank you. I have other things I need to do, but honestly, I’d much rather just eat and go to bed and leave them for a later time,” which made a snort escape Gale before he replied, “I certainly can’t blame you for that. Shall we?”, and offered his arm to her. She accepted it, and the two of them exited the library together, but not before Gale took the letter from her and set it on fire with a flick of his wrist.

He said, “For now and forevermore, I choose you. Until I draw my last breath, you will always be my first choice,” and pressed a kiss to the back of Tav’s hand, making her giggle before replying, “And I will always choose you, My Love,” and stroking his cheek affectionately.

The two of them spent the rest of the evening indulging in a home-cooked meal and basking in the glow of their new life together, and as they fell into an easy conversation brought about by Tav mentioning they received a handful of letters from their former adventuring companions, it brought about an unspoken promise of undying devotion and love.

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[mythals-whore]

OC Tag Game!!

Thank you for the tag @rookamell i love to yap about my girl

Name: Cyrilla Mercar

Aliases: Rook, Cyri, Aegis (for reasons you may find out later)

Gender: female

Age: 29

Place of Birth: Minrathous, Tevinter

Spoken languages: Trade, Tevene, a little bit of elven (very bad elven)

Sexual Orientation: Probably bi but she’ll never find out because she likes to play with men’s feelings for fun (:

Occupation: PRE-VEILGUARD: Praetor turned Shadow Dragon, part-time criminal, professional menace to the Minrathous elite/Venatori, VG: Varric's Second, Leader of the Veilguard, POST VEILGUARD: Archon's personal guard (and special advisor), part-time consultant for Minrathous Murders & Monsters (rip MM&M from my cold dead fingers)

FAVOURITE

Color: Red(: mostly bc she thinks she looks good in it (she does)

Entertainment: Loves live music! Fun fact is that she took the quest where you say all the buskers in Minrathous very personally. Also fighting. She loves a good scrap.

Pastime: Plays the piano, but doesn't get a lot of opportunities at it. Vandalism. Going to a dive bar to drink and dance and get in a fight. RIP Cyri you would have loved After Midnight by Chappell Roan(:

Food: Khinkali (they're little dumplings with meat and vegetables in there)

Drink: Whiskey girl

Books: has read a lot of military theory, think Art of War but the Thedas equivalent. If some old Tevinter Legatus wrore a biography, she’s probably read it. And her feelings about it are probably similar to Davrin's feelings on the Monster manual guys. She has specific beef with Archon Hessarian who wrote several canticles for the chant of light and still had time to write an entire novel on his life and strategy in the war with Andraste. It has a lot of overt religious teachings in it and Cyri always thought it was ridiculous that they were forced to study it as some kind of war strategy because it has very little to do with the actual war.

1000% becomes the biggest fan of Bellara's serials though. Finds herself getting way to invested. She says they're over dramatic and cheesy but she fucking loves it.

HAVE THEY

Passed university: Uhm if you count the Tevinter military academy I made up then yes!

Had sex: Yep!

Had sex in public: as in, intentionally in front of people? No. In the backrooms of taverns/back alleys/a balcony/rooftop/Arlathan forest? Absolutely. She loves a messy night out.

Gotten tattoos: No, mostly because they'd make her more recognizable

Gotten piercings: Nah, liability in a fight.

Gotten scarred: Yep!

Had a broken heart: Assuming this means romantically, yes (when she was still pretty young) but she would barely count that. I am going to count losing her entire cohort during the Antaam invasion. Definitely the worse her heart has ever broken

Been in love: she would say no, but the answer is definitely yes she's just deep in denial and the moment she starts feeling anything resembling feelings she runs far far away.

ARE THEY:

A cuddler: Yes but she'd say no. My girl loves to deny herself the simple pleasures.

Scared easily: Yes! One of my favorite character traits about Cyri (that I gave her lmao) is that she's afraid of everything: the underground, heights, drowning, fish etc. But she kinda just does it through gritted teeth.

Jealous easily: Difficult to answer because I would say definitely not BUT um, there are specific instances. She's never been in a committed relationship (before Davrin) so she's never really had cause to be jealous. And also once they're established and there's no more uncertainty where that's concerned I'd say the answer goes back to being no. She knows that man is obsessed with and devoted to her. (gods help anyone who doesn't know it, honestly)

Trustworthy: Actually yes. She can definitely keep a secret and is very reliable, at least to her friends/people she's loyal to. So they have to earn it, but she will 100% come through for you.

FAMILY:

Sibling(s): None!

Parents: Adopted parents are both alive, but she's been somewhat estranged. They thought she was dead for a long time, they got her back for a little while and then she left with Varric and didn't write them because she assumed someone else would. It's a little complicated considering she's like a wanted criminal...

Children: None unless you count Assan, which she wouldn't ONLY BECAUSE she wants to spoil him and not be the disciplinarian so she's only Assan's mom when it's convenient.

Pets: She had a cat growing up that she brought in off the street and hid. she got to keep it. It's gray and very old now. his name is Smoke and he still lives with her parents. and Assan, ofc.

I AM TAGGING: @flowersforthemachines @thedissonantverses @basedonconjecture @complikatedd @gingervitus @cute-ellyna (((: tell me about your ocs let me love them

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

A Bastard's Carol: a work of fanfiction by scumbaganarchy 💣

Season's greetings, scumbags! I hope you're all having a pleasant day. I come bearing a gift (of a sort):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1we8qEVul2PTWFCtaVqyyXccVg8-xZBte/view?usp=sharing

A huge thank you to @viviangreeneart for the awesome art! ❤️ It turns out we should all definitely be making fake novel docs out of our fanfic. It's good for the soul.

Some pretentiousness about ABC below the cut.

Just over five years ago, a naiver version of me had the idea of writing a Young Ones/Rivyan parody of A Christmas Carol. She started actually writing for this idea in December 2019... and promptly discovered it was going to be a whole lot bigger than she'd anticipated. With one chapter posted before the big day, she decided to kick the rest into the new year.

That new year was 2020.

Yes, that 2020. Although, to be fair, what other one could I be talking about?

We'll skip all of that. None of us need to relive it.

One year, two or three lockdowns, and four indefensibly long chapters later, ABC was finally done and dusted in December 2020. It stood at around 60K words, making it by far the longest thing I'd ever written. I guess we all had to spend that empty time doing something, right?

Followers of this blog will have noticed, I'm sure, that I've never shut up about ABC since. Maybe you even rolled your eyes when you saw the title of this notification? Uh oh, she's going on about that old thing again...

Yep.

Look, I'm incredibly bad at hyping up my own work - self-deprecation is a bad habit, but a common one - and the more time that passes between who you were when you wrote something and who you are today, the harder being positive about it can get.

I was 18 when I wrote ABC. I had only gotten back into writing properly at 17. The whole work went through one major copy edit a year or so ago, when I knew a little more about writing - but I still didn't know as much then as I do now, and I suspect (and hope) the same will be true for a future version of myself when she looks back on my writing from this time.

All of this is to say, sometimes ABC reads to me as something written by somebody else. 18 year old me didn't write exactly the way I do now; she hadn't gotten the Bachelor of Arts cheat code boost that I have. But she was extremely passionate. She did love the bastards Rik and the gang created with all her heart. She'd also studied A Christmas Carol for her GCSEs only a couple of years previously, so she did at least understand the text she was taking a chainsaw to. I think all of this mattered. I think this gave ABC heart.

But what's my point in saying all of this (again)?

For a very long time, I've wanted but held back on commissioning an artist to draw me a cover. Well, no more. Truly, thank you ever so much to @viviangreeneart for indulging me and creating something fabulous for this old fic of mine. Thank you too to everyone who has ever commented on or kudos'ed ABC on ao3 over the years. It really does mean more to me than I can say.

Having dropped a new and flashy PDF decked out like an actual novel, here's the link to ABC on ao3, which will always be its home:

Merry Christmas, scumbags. Cliff bless us, Everyone!

[sofasoap]

Little hobby

Pairing: Johnny “Soap” MacTavish x F!Reader

Summary: Your secret hobby and past time discovered by your boyfriend.

Warning : M themed. Suggestive. hint of smut. Not beta'ed. A/N: I am sure 99% of us who writes fanfics has this experience.. of hiding our thirst from RL friends and families...

Part 2 of Little Bear series Masterlist

“He kissed her… mmm no that doesn't flow..The lust in his eyes….. Yep. That will work.”

“What ya doing there little bear?" 

You let out a mighty scream as you jumped and threw your laptop on the seat beside you.  You've been typing away and burning your brain cells for the last few hours, eyes sticking up to the computer screen and scrunching up your nose, so deep in concentration you didn’t even notice your boyfriend had come back in from his night out with the boys.

"JOHNNY!!! Oh my heavens, I was about to have a heart attack!!" puffing and pouting as you scramble to pick up the laptop and quickly slam the lid close. 

"Sorry bonnie, I called you a few times but your nose was sticking right against the screen typing away.. you writing a novel?? Can I have a read?" Soap asked as he bent over from the back of the couch, giving you a kiss on the head as he apologised. 

"Uh…"

Soap looked at you with a big smile, waiting for you to give him a reply. 

How do you tell your dearest boyfriend, that secret little self indulgent hobby that none of your real life acquaintances knows.

Writing fan fictions.

SMUTTY fan fictions to be precise. 

There’s no secrets between us. That’s one thing both you and Johnny agree on at the start of the relationship. With him away for work so often, both of you know communication is the key. Open with each other. 

Oh what the hell. He’s going to find out someday. Somehow. Your usual mutual friend who you use as beta reader is offline and away for family holiday, and you really want to get your latest chapter posted in the next few hours.

“Please? I promise you I won’t laugh.” How can you say no to those beautiful baby blue eyes, staring at you innocently.

“You promise?” You asked in a shy voice. “And please don’t judge me.” ‘I promise my little teddy bear. Now come on. Tell me what you are writing about?”

Passing the laptop over to him nervously, “Iamwritingasmuttyfanfictionaboutarthurmorgan.”you vomited out the words so fast, you were surprised Soap actually caught most of the words.

“Arthur Morgan? The character from red dead redemption two? What’s a smut anyway?” Soap remembered it from one of the game nights when the team gathered at their place, while Soap, Ghost and Price were playing cards, you sat there with Gaz, who was a huge fan of the series, playing the game while you watched on from the side, and occasionally finding guides online for him when he was stuck at certain point of the game. He didn’t expect you to take on such an interest in the character. 

Nodding your head,“It’s um, part of a series I am writing about, um…. I have been trying to get this chapter done for the last few hours,“ Waving your hand towards the laptop, “Just.. Just read it. And um, give me some constructive criticisms and see if you can spot any grammatical mistakes…” 

Sitting back, you wrangle both hands nervously as he opens up the laptop, eyes darting left to right, occasionally clicking on the touchpad, typing away to correct things in or raising eyebrows, tilting his head and nodding his head with approval. 

After what seems like the longest five minutes of your life, he finally closes the lid of the laptop and sets it aside.

“Well.” 

“Well?” scooting closer to him, you urge him to say more.

“Pretty good, didn’t know you had such vivid imaginations there. So tell me,” he leans closer, with a smirk on his face, “those sexy scenes you wrote… keen to try them out?” 

Oh. OHH. HoHOho.....

This took an unexpected, but not unwelcoming turn. You didn't end up posting that chapter until two days later. With additional smut scenes added. Inspiration from real life was indeed helpful.

“Good morning Bonnie bear, keen to go for another ride on the cowboy?” 

loosely based on my own experience ( minus the smut writing part ) when husband was asking me why I been typing and gluing my eyes on the computer after work for days. and "IAMWRITINGCALLOFDUTYFANFICITION" was all he got out of me.

@a-small-writer-in-a-big-world

@kaplerrr

@homicidal-slvt

@floral-force

[theyungihven]

Between Samosas & Tacos

↬ pairing: seonghwa as indian student and reader as a mexican student

↬ genre: smut, romance

synopsis

You are a mexican mystery reader who doesn't expect to be pulled into a romance novel one random december morning when she accidentally picks up the same book as a very good looking guy, in her favourite corner bookstore.

Seonghwa is an indian hopeless romantic who pursues maths because Dostoevsky advised him to pursue a career in science while continuing his literary pursuits and he isn't a slightest bit surprised when life lays out a well planned romance infront of him.

Their discreet romance slowly travels from conversation over chai versus coffee to tacos versus samosas as they discover each other while discussing the struggles that come with being a person of colour and an immigrant in the United States.

However one summer morning, their straight-out-of-novel love story starts leaning towards more of a tragedy when Mary finds out that Seonghwa allegedly sabotaged her research career.

But can the same guy who reads Lord Byron and Ahmed Faraz for breakfast stab her in the back? Can the same guy who fought his Indian parents for bringing a Mexican girl home, ruin her most beloved and precious thing in this universe? Find out this september!

↬ author’s note: i wrote for my desi atiny who dont get much content so yep seonghwa is not only indian in this fic but he's from hyderabad which is popular for its biryani.

A spin off of today was a fairytale

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[stjohnstarling]

wait so you figured out what "bigoted" (anti-Catholic?) "box office flop" that guy meant????

Oh god.

Okay so for anyone who doesn't know this is about this comment I got on my post about my priest/vampire romance novel:

Hilarious. Love that they were so mad they sat down to actually read the book and confirm that it was exactly as blasphemous and erotic as it looked. Good for them, wonderful.

And for months I've been stuck on what "bigoted box office flop" they're talking about. Because, well, my novel is explicitly based on Dracula (the "public domain novel" of the ask - and by the way what kind of insult is calling something public domain?), but this movie is something they've fully invented themselves. I did not have a clue what fucking movie they meant.

Until now.

After months of searching, I realized I could just google the words "priest movie" and would you believe that actually turned up the answer?

Yep! that's gotta be it. Leaving aside the uh, bizarre and frankly offensive thing going on with the vampire reservations, Priest is an Underworld knockoff from 2011 (it seems to be almost completely unrelated to the comic it's supposedly based on) that as far as I can tell nobody has ever seen. It could not have less to do with the book I wrote.

And I'm gonna watch it.

[dynamic-k]

*slides up to Chosen and you*

Y'all want a book reccommendation? >:D

Scarlett said you like mystery and comedy, Cho, and that honestly pERFECTLY lines up with the book I was gonna suggest.

Basically anything by Gordon Korman, but my favourite one of his is a book called "No Coins, Please", which centres around two young adult "I'm broke, I'm just here for the paycheck" camp coordinators dealing with a young prodigy that keeps running into town and creating perfect money laundering schemes. It's funny, well-written, and has a hint of mystery concerning "what is he going to come up with next, why is he doing these things, and will he get away with it?".

My second(heh) favourite of his (very close second(HEH-)) (welcome to the puns, Chosen :3) is "I Want to Go Home", which also centres around a camp, but this time we're looking over the shoulder of the prodigy's best (and only) friend. We watch as the prodigy refuses to participate in activities, outmaneuvers everyone, gets himself in repeated trouble, makes elaborate plans to escape from the camp and get back home, and drives his cabin coordinator UP THE WALL in the process. It's also funny, also well-written, and also has the mystery of "what's his next move?", "what're his actual motivations?", and "will he finally escape, or will he stay stuck in camp?".

Other really good ones include the "Bruno & Boots" series - starting with "This Can't Be Happening at McDonald Hall!" - which centres around another pair of troublemakers and their shenanigans (and was also the first book Gordon ever wrote - it was actually an English assignment in 7th grade before he turned it into an actual novel and had it published). And I have to also reccommend the dilogy "Who is Bugs Potter?" and "Bugs Potter Live at Nickaninny", which is... again... centred on a young troublemaker and his best friend - this time in a orchestra-school setting.

...That's a lot, but that's my hierarchy of what I'd reccommend.

If you couldn't tell (/pf), his MO is usually two young boys and their various styles of shenaniganery-bullsh[beep]t making the older supervisors go insane.

A lot of his books are pretty hard to find nowadays since Gordon Korman wasn't that well-known, and published his best books (in my opinion) in the 80s.

Either way, I hope you enjoyy~~

NOTED!!

[*AmazonKindle cowers in Scarlett's wake-*]

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Those sound so so funny and so good, I am definitely getting all of them you have no ideaaa

..For Chosen of course. U U'

Y-Yep.

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SS!Chosen: ovo

SS!Chosen: gimme.

[bethanydelleman]

Thanks for the tag @firawren & @glassslippers-n-cowboyboots

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 45

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 208,023. And that's a bit surprising because a bunch of my longer fics are only on AHA or my website.

3. What fandoms do you write for? Mostly Jane Austen, all novels, Elizabeth Gaskell (Wives & Daughters), and Anne Bronte (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall). I have also technically written Oscar Wilde and My Happy Marriage, but those were very transformative.

I also have written some fics based on Kdramas, mostly for Alchemy of Souls.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

A Ride to Netherfield - Jane breaks her leg on the way to Netherfield and must stay for a month. Short one-shot (6k) and the first Pride & Prejudice variation I wrote.

Of Every Elizabeth - short and sweet Pride & Prejudice fluff, Darcy has nicknames for the plethora of Elizabeth's he's met over the course of his life (it was a super common name at the time)

Carry Me! - three vignettes of Jang Uk and Cho Yeong from Alchemy of Souls after they are married

The Fourth Bennet Sister - long fic (30k words), Pride & Prejudice variation where Kitty Bennet becomes aware that she is in a novel. She desperately tries to protect her sisters from harm.

All's Fair in Love and War - short Pride & Prejudice variation. Mrs. Bennet has weaponized compromise, men live in constant fear of being forced to marry.

5. Do you respond to comments? Yep. Every time.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Umm.... I'm not good at writing angst. I don't like characters to suffer for too long.

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

8. Do you get hate on fics? Yes, because I dared to write Mr. Darcy marrying Anne Elliot. People get more angry about that for some reason than Elizabeth Bennet marrying Captain Wentworth in the same fic. Someone even told me Darcy would rather "throw himself off of Pemberley" rather than marry anyone other than Elizabeth. (Fic is called One Week Late)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? I have written smut a few times, it's pretty vanilla because I am pretty vanilla. I was reading Victorian erotica when I wrote my longest one, A Little Before Their Marriage (Jane & Bingley fic).

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I constantly write crossovers, my first published novel is a massive crossover, Prideful & Persuaded. One of my fun shorts is Fall on the Sword, where every canonically single woman in Austen's novels decides if they want to try for the recently divorced Mr. Rushworth.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not as far as I know.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? No, though someone did translate one of my meta posts from Tumblr. That was cool.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes, The Marriage Contest with Branch Cloudsky and two with Amelia Marie Logan, Poor Caroline and Inferior Connections. All Pride & Prejudice fics, all funny. (You need an AO3 account for that one, the other two are on my personal website)

14. What’s your all time favourite ship? Catherine Morland & Henry Tilney. They are the only Austen couple I cannot bear to break up.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I am writing a queer retelling of Emma called "Different Ways of Being in Love", where Jane Fairfax and Emma were lovers as teenagers, Jane is bi, Emma is a lesbian, and Mr. Knightley is ace, but I got stuck on the middle part. Someday hopefully!

16. What are your writing strengths? I'm told I write some pretty hilarious farces. I am told I do characterization well, which is my main goal when writing fan fiction. I try to stick as close to canon as possible.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I don't write enough filler or develop things well enough. I like writing action.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I would possibly try my hand at French, but probably never. I also have a lot of trouble reading accented speech (looking at you Wuthering Heights), so I'd probably never write it.

19. First fandom you wrote for? I am fairly certain I started writing a fix-it fic for Nineteen Eighty-Four after I read it in high school. Not sure I would be able to locate it but it did exist. The first since I started writing again was a sequel to Pride & Prejudice.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? Probably Unfairly Caught (my other published work) or The Fourth Bennet Sister. I NEEDED to write a Mansfield Park fic because I hate the ending, so it fixed my dissatisfied feelings. My goal is to edit The Fourth Bennet Sister and get it published sometime this year.

@wurzelbertzwerg, @kehlana-wolhamonao3 and @bad-at-names-and-faces

[el-dritchknight]

20 fanfic questions

originally tagged by @caelwynn!! thank you so much friend <3

no pressure but @owltio, @zeesqueere, @shady-groves, @mittenscatgod, @cookiewoli, @solsandrock , @spookemsdukems , @not-sewell , @florisam , @reallyinkyhands , @valleyrunearchives @aces-and-angels @bengalifairy @the-artist-and-the-scholar @solaettristis @sharpstake (FORGOT UR MAIN SORRY TUNES ILY) @meya-lily + anyone else who wants to!

how many works do you have on ao3? 117

what's your total ao3 word count? 141,242

what fandoms do you write for? UH right now my most recent fandoms have been my time at sandrock, stardew valley, hoyoverse, choices, dimension 20

top five fics by kudos:

Meeting Skrunkly! (ERROR143): MC x Michan Yujin Fluff

Window Rendezvous (ERROR143): MC x Micah Yujin Fluff

for slumber’s sweet embrace, i try (Lord of the Flies - William Golding): Jalph Fluff I wrote in high school. the kids are just cuddling so don't cancel me. cancel holding for all the shit he put them through /joking

Break of Dawn (原神 | Genshin Impact): X-mas VentiLuc RomCom

Balancing Act (原神 | Genshin Impact): Cynari Hurt/Comfort

do you respond to comments? i try to!

what is the fic your wrote with the angstiest ending? as the world comes to an end, I'll be here to hold your hand - grecente extended introspection / reimagined ending of the you-know-what scene happening in the movie :) I love the imagery <3

what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? 🤔 JK probably the ones where the ships are experiencing domestic bliss... for now

do you get hate on fics? no(t yet)

do you write smut? yep! want to commission me? ;3

craziest crossover? do oc crossovers count?

have you ever had a fic stolen? no but someone tried to steal oc back on fanfiction. that was so wild

have you ever had a fic translated? yes! a love that (doesn't) last a lifetime has a Vietnamese translation :D I personally am too lazy to translate some of my Tagalog fics into English and vice versa haha

have you ever co-written a fic before? yes, Meeting Skrunkly is one such collaboration. Open to more in the future :3

all-time favorite ship? me x @owltio, me x getting paid. UM CHROBIN!!

what's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? ahAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

what are your writing strengths? i can write fast (30 minutes for a one-shot has been my record), I can get the hang of other people's characters well, dialogues and dynamics also fascinate me!

what are your writing weaknesses? ...long fics... I AM TRYING THOUGH!!!

thoughts on dialogue in another language? slay. as long as it's done respectfully and with translations, you know we gucci

favorite fic you've written? THEY'RE ALL MY BABIES but my vtm oc's origin story, Caged Bird, was pretty fun to write

what's something you want to write someday? anything your heart desires ;3 JK I want to finally write the novel that's been kicking in my head since 2013 but I'm not sure if I want to make it an interactive novel, VN, game, ttrpg or what...

[pragnificent]

Tagged by @tina-mairin-goldstein! Tagging whoever else wants to play.

1.How many fics do you have on AO3?

78.

2. What's your total word count on AO3?

934,933. Wow, maybe I can break a million this year....

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Just HANNIBAL right now (and for like the last seven years or so). Been vaguely thinking about picking up a second but nothing has caught my interest strongly enough.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Attachment - 7,592

The Fisherman and the Beast from the Sea - 4,565

Sashimi - 2,807

Hungry Ghost - 1,585

Identically Different - 1,382 <- This is my best series and yall should give it a shot <3

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to, and I enjoy doing so, but sometimes the brainworms win and I don't get stuff done even when I really want to.

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

Breathless

I don't love this story, but "Hannibal is effectively braindead after the fall, but Will keeps caring for the body and feels that Hannibal is there with him, up until the body dies and Will turns himself in because there isn't any point anymore" probably counts as the most angsty? If you are in the market for a "Hannibal receives a brain injury and he, along with everyone else around him, has to cope with that" story Tina's For Remembrance (Holes in the Floor of the Mind) is a much better pick. And as I continue to think about it, Means of Influence has a pretty angsty ending.

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most of my stories have slightly bittersweet but still mostly happy endings. Part of the thing about that is I think it's really hard to envision a situation where Will is like 100% Happy Happy, his own mind hates him too much and every little scrap of happiness needs to be fought for and then vigilantly guarded. But I put both him and Hannibal through so much that I always want them to be as close to content as they each can be.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have gotten two flavors of Fic Hate. 1.) People calling the five year old kid OC in ATTACHMENT slurs like "r*tard" and saying "he belongs in jail" and etc.

Every time Hannibal or Will fuck someone who isn't each other at least one person decides to Yell At Me.

I think I've gotten the old "you didn't tag for bottom Hannibal!!" nonsense once or twice too, but who hasn't?

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

A little. I actually started Hannishark bc I was really intimidated by sex scenes and wanted to see if I could pull off a short monsterfucker story. I feel like I've gotten better at writing these but am generally more comfortable leaving them sparce on anatomical details and big on feelings/conversations.

10. Do you write crossovers? If so, what's the craziest one?

I've got a WRONG TURN crossover series that I'm very proud of here: Bear Mountain Road AU. You don't need to have seen any of the movies to read it, or anything, the movies' premise of "a clan of inbred mountain cannibals waylays travelers" is really just an excuse to put Hannibal (and Will and D, as child members of the cannibal family) In Situations. If I counts as a cross over, I've got a universe swap between the novels and NBC HANNIBAL here: Shiloh

I also have a vague idea for a SAW / HANNIBAL crossover but I've been sitting on that for so long, who knows if it'll ever happen?

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not so far as I know.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, several times.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Yep, a couple of times.

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

Hannigram and Reba/D (guys we need a fuckin ship name).

15. What are your writing strengths?

Character, emotions, dialogue.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Sex scenes, pacing.

17. Thoughts writing dialogue in another language?

Fine by me, tho I only think I've done it one or twice.

18. First fandom you wrote for?

FARSCAPE.

19. Favorite fic you've written?

Identically Different AU !!!! This it the best thing I've ever written and probably the best thing I will ever write.

[yanderepuck]

puck do you think its possible to convince arthur to write Sherlock/Watson; what would that convincing look like?

asking for a friend

You mean..like... Sherlock x Watson

I feel like that would take a LOT of convincing. HOWEVER. I feel like rather than bribing him you can show him AO3 and all the fanfics of Sherlock x Watson .

He would be VERY disgusted at first. But then you force him to read a few (probably with the help of Dazai) and Arthur gets even more upset

"SHERLOCK WOULDN'T SAY THAT!"

He thinks everything is SOOO out of character. And the more he reads/you read to him the more upset he gets. He thinks it is all very out of character, pointing out flaws and everything. It even gets to the point where he is correcting all the grammar, because he's also horrified at the style of writing.

Punctuation and commas are all in the wrong spot. What the hell are those three dots for. Not enough description. Not being described right. Tenses are not consistent.

So you know what he does? He wrote it himself.

"if Sherlock and Watson were to be a couple THIS is how it would be" and he basically writes a whole other book. It's a whole ass novel. Of Sherlock and Watson being gay. Doing detective work together, and making little snide comments to each other but in a loving way. And also being sure to point out that they have to keep the relationship secret. It's the 1890s they can't be like this out in public.

He refuses to write it as a modern au. And he's also done with it in like a week. And he presents the manuscript at the writers meeting. Dazai is like "WAIT I NEED TO GO GET TOSHIKO-SAN"

Will is very confused. Arthur is proud of his work. Turns out he had writers block for MONTHS prior to this, and he churned this out in literally a week because all the fangirls online pissed him off.

You see the manuscript and are immediately like "yep. This is going on Wattpad IMMEDIATELY"

Well I really hope that's what you meant bc I put quite a bit of thought into it. More than I anticipated

[literaticat]

Do you think the MG market is starting to recover? I’ve heard it’s trending now toward shorter titles, publishers are less likely to take risks on debut MG authors, etc. 

I keep reading articles essentially saying “MG is dead.” Every time I see this, I die a little bit inside when I think of all the work I’ve funneled into this debut MG manuscript over the past several years and the research I’ve put into perfecting my query. I’ve heard you only get one shot with agents per book. I can’t decide whether I’m better off shelving this manuscript and waiting to query until the MG market regains traction again (hopefully). But it’s ready now and I’m eager to get it into the world. When I started writing this book 4-5 years ago, the MG market—especially for spooky upper MG—was BOOMING. I can’t understand how it went south so quickly. 

Are other markets being affected by the MG decline to the same degree as the US market? For instance, the UK?

I wrote this last year. (Go on, read it, I'll wait!)

I still stand by everything I wrote there. Is there such a thing as a category of book being literally "dead"? No. Is MG doing badly? Yes. Is it still selling to publishers? Yep. And it will always sell to publishers? Correct. Is it a hot commodity rn? No! So might it be slower to sell, and publishers might be especially picky? Yes, you're getting it!

As for "going south so quickly" -- idk, is five years THAT quick? That's like half a decade in which a lot has changed, no?

-- the pandemic/remote learning/teaching to tests/screen time, etc etc combo mean that lots of kids are still below reading level and aren't used to reading for pleasure. Big chonking MG novels are daunting for a lot of kids.

-- the rise of MG graphic novels in popularity means that a lot of kids read those INSTEAD of "regular" novels -- so IMO, while it's no doubt true that all those things above are true, reading for pleasure IS down, etc -- the fact is that plenty of kids still read - they just aren't reading what lots of grownups would prefer they read. So maybe that's the grownup's problem. ;-)

-- The decree a year or two ago about B&N not carrying new MG hardcovers beyond the MOST popular ones means a very valuable venue for discoverability for new authors is gone -- it's not the be-all end-all of the "MG Problem" but it sure as heck hasn't helped!

-- Yes, from what publishers are telling me (and what readers are clearly asking for), short and snappy is preferable to long and draggy. What's going better than big chonkers are books with shorter chapters, faster paced -- or books with illustrations, or hybrid-GNs, etc.

-- And yes, I'm certainly also hearing dismal reports about MG Death from our co-agents in other countries.

ALL THAT BEING SAID: Regardless of what any doom-and-gloom-types may say on the topic, I simply have to carry on, and I'd advise anyone else to do the same.

For what it's worth: I sold about the same number of MG in 2024 as I did in 2023... which was around the same amount as in 2022, 2021, etc. Last week we had multiple offers from an Italian publisher for one of my forthcoming MG novels. So... OK. Dead? IS IT?

No.

(Definitely not THRIVING -- but also definitely not DECEASED!)