#yes this is about the opal bullets fic

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Those fics that are like lightning in a bottle you start them for fun this’ll take me maybe 2 days to get through them for a night fuzzy feeling to live on for a while and then you’ve finished at 2am and won’t stop thinking about it for weeks for weeks you are trapped and it’s all because of a one shot AU where they are playing cats from the musical Cats

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bending bros fortnight.... ideas... i guess

I don’t do events. I haven’t ever completed one prompt for any events and I’ve attempted a few over the years. I’m a slow writer, I have the attention span of a teaspoon, I struggle to organise anything, and I struggle to write anything short. I also write on whims so most of my fics are just what I like and aren’t even trying to be finished stories. I have like 500k of WIPs that are incoherent and not completed.

This event feels so catered to me though I feel like I’m a fool if I miss out. I only write fanfic, so even if some of the prompts I like or think are really cute if I can’t think of a story I won’t write.

So uh, here is me collating my thoughts! First step is organisation. Bullet points are the individual brother weeks, bolding what I might actually write or the prompts that I think are interesting.

If I don’t write anything for this event I’m giving everyone permission to send me hate mail!

Event is hosted here!

Week One & Mako Week:

Oct 3rd: Triple Threats AU - Okay, confession, I don’t like organised crime AUs in most fandoms (I think I’m in a minority since they’re always popular), with some exceptions, so I wouldn’t ever write this.

Lightning-- could try and write a short drabble about this relationship with lightning

Oct 4th: Pro-Bending --- uhhh not that interested in pro-bending-- I think probending is interesting to lilke, watch it.

Bonding With Opal--- see i love the idea of their friendship but i inherently see them as pretty similar so i can’t think of an interesting angle. like they’re boring genuine friends. I love that for them. Can’t write it. Not on its own.

Oct 5th: Therapy -- THE BOYS NEED THERAPY. NO IDEA HOW TO WRITE THIS??? as a fic with a beginning, middle and end? It’s quite intense so i think it’d need to be long.

Scarf--- could write a drabble

Oct 6th: Hurt/Comfort - UHHHH I love angst and H/C but this is too broad, I can’t think of anything. Maybe something will come.

- Love--- Mako’s love for Bolin could be cute to write?

Oct 7th: "The Talk" YES please Mako trying to tell Bolin about sex? I could try and write this. Could parallel with a triple threat triad telling Mako about sex.

- Discovering Sexuality- I literally have a 6k draft about Mako repressing his seuxality, wuko and strong Bolin brotherly relationship, it would be perfect for this event, i just have to finish it.

Oct 8th: Character Adopts Brothers - Honestly I’m not that interested in this concept in canon (i love mentor figures but no formal adoption) but I wouldn’t mind writing Lin fostering then adopting in a modern ish AU?

Father Figures-- Okay I had nothing for this until i was writing this, what if Tonraq took Mako fishing or something else boring and Dadly? Post book 4 so he and Korra aren’t even dating Tonraq is just being a Dad. Bonding????

Oct 9th: Free Day --- MAYBE i could write something to do with an AU where Mako and Bolin’s parents live and Mako and Bolin are well adjusted and boring.

Week Two & Bolin Week:

Oct 10th: Nightmares ---- So I have a wuko nightmare fic, so that wouldn’t be applicable as a Bolin and Mako fic, um, maybe could do a childhood fic. But i love this, both brothers

Pabu-- Pabu could fucking die, I guess. (I’m not much of an animal person)

Oct 11th: Meeting Naoki's Family-- LOOK I only have room for one Naoki family headcanon in my head and I already wrote it so... no

--- Fire Nation Heritage I love this, maybe I could write it? Bolin embracing being Fire Nation.

Oct 12th: Cuddling -- Can’t think of a story, but I love my bros expressing affection.

Caring for Mako--- If I can find an angle i WILL write this because I love this, but I wrote something recently for this. Maybe when they’re kids?

Oct 13th: Coming Out ---- I don’t HC Bolin’s sexuality strong enough  as anything to write this, in that I don’t think Bolin would care and I don’t think anyone else would either.

Mentored By Character -- interesting, no ideas yet!

Oct 14th: The Krew - This is honestly too broad, I love them as friends, not sure what this prompt actually prompts. But I love this so.

 Bonding with Beifongs--- YES I think Su loves Bolin a lot. Like she’s weird about him.

Oct 15th: Arguments/Fights -  Oh this is good, if I think of an idea.

(Sub)bending-- Bolin could see the heat from the lava as a way to bond with his mother and Mako? maybe?

Oct 16th: Free Day --- I have started to a fic where some Earth Empire diehard loyalists want to bring retribution upon Bolin for betraying Kuvira... wouldn’t be a short fic! Unlikely I’d finish in time, if I finish at all.

Alternative Prompts:

Bending Bros Fortnight Prompt: Before the Streets

Mako Week Prompt: Uncle Mako OHHHH imagine Mako bonding with his firebending niece or nephew that Bolin had unexpectedly with Opal. cuteee.

Bolin Week Prompt: Dark Bolin AU-- not interested. only brainwashed bolin being badass with lavabending in a ROTE AU. too long a concept for this event.

[andreycoded]

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HII A !!! yes we’re new mutuals but i’m so glad we are, your url made me SLAM the follow button honestly, opal bullets fics my beloveddd <33 shows you have taste 💓 i get such an ethereal feeling from your blog too lovee the aesthetic. and love reading your tags, i’m thinking about ”i’m elle woods and dean winchester is bruiser” adjdhfh

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ronan, hjp

i just did harry so

FEELINGS: i love him. i mean obviously i love him. i had to put this bullet point down and do the rest of the post before coming back to this. i project all over him. i can’t think of anything to add here like my feelings about this boy are Too Big.

romantic ships:

henry cheng. i feel like this needs to go first because this blog has a hard-line pro-henry/ronan stance. i like a bickery flirt, i like boys who throw pens at each other… i want them to have a conversation about ronan’s dad and henry’s mom. i want to know about the torrid affair they had freshman year before ronan fell in with gansey and how badly henry took being ghosted. okay.

now that that’s out of the way obviously gansey. let’s go get some orange juice, et fucking cetera. they’re in love

i really like pynch in canon but the fandom has soured me on it a little and i don’t tend to seek it out

nonromantic ships

BLUE! ill write you a headcanon post someday sorry it wasnt happening today i’ll have to PERCOLATE but god i want to tsee them to be better friends. sinking feeling ronan got in his stomach the moment he realized he was ride or die for her.

his brothers………… like he loves them but family is hard for him OBVIOUSLY but i want to know more about. after aurora dies.

i want more of opal but i absolutely viscerally hate the thought of her being a pet and i don’t want her to be a sweetheart baby for him to raise like Let The Boy Exist. they’re definitely close tho idk exactly What i feel abt that relationship or how i choose 2 interpret it but it’s good. 

noah but i have complicated feelings abt that on which i go back and forth lmao. but i do like them together esp w/gansey or gansey by proxy

k*vinsky like i have complicated feelings about that relationship and how m*ggie chose to play it out but that was definitely a Critical relationship and it just. as someone whos had Complicated Relationships that i sometimes wish hadn’t happened but which were still Formative it just really bugs me when people are just like “la la la it never happened” like idk maybe i wish it hadn’t happened too but it did! this is me having trauma feelings idk.

unpopular opinion:

uhhh what i just said about the k stuff, basically, that you can have a relationship with someone and it can end badly or even have been bad the whole time but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t important. his mom shouldnt have died… niall lynch was a bad person. those aren’t unpopular i dont think. fuck.

uh ok this one is going to make me sound kind of bitchy bbbbbut it’s super hard for me to read most fic in which ronan like, exists, because in almost all the stuff i’ve read (not all! but it happens so often that i’m surprised when it doesn’t) the fic is like, about how, ronan is so desperately in love with someone and willing to take what he can get from them. like “ronan loves adam” “adam likes ronan” are tags i saw on a fic and i… i hate that he deserves better? he’s not just like. a source of love for adam or gansey, or an accessory to rodansey so that no one gets left out, like. he is a real boy with emotional needs no matter how bad he is/was at expressing them that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. also adam is crazy about him let them be idiots who are embarrassingly into each other i’m so #bored with post-trk fic where the way they feel about each other is still unbalanced. i hate it.

i like to headcanon him as trans but i would really vastly prefer it if he wasn’t in canon on account of internalized something.

oh also, uh, let him be damaged? the way a lot of this fandom talks about what it means to be a survivor abuse makes me super uncomfy. like yes he has an alcohol problem and bad coping mechanisms; the fact that he overcame the worst of his suicidality doesn’t mean he’s going to be magically better. idk. also a lot of time this is subtle and not explicit condemnation of ronan but goes hand in hand with like “adam is the way survivors of abuse should be” (may of us are not) or “k was bad because he was damaged and that’s why you should hate him” kind of stuff (no uh he did a lot of bad things and that’s why). this is incoherent.

missing from canon: his dad was a bad person, his love scene with henry, the fact that he and gansey have done it. i mean i’m joking about those but like. Give Him Emotional Range we know has it. it sucks that we didn’t get any (? hardly any? none that i can recall??) pov of him healing during bllb. uh. idk.

edit: MAKE HIM GAYER. let him be sweaty and furious about every hot boy. thanks.