#;; I was originally going to post them on AO//3 but when I received my Invite I found out the page was run by Z//on//st sympathizers

[ballerinapriincess]

Fics from the Flower Inventory ;

;; Sorry for the lack of activity these past months! I've been dealing with some stuff IRL that has consumed my attention.

;; In celebration of completing my Rainbow Garden in Animal Crossing and the 10th Anniversary of this blog, I thought it was time to unearth some fics I drafted on Google Docs some years ago, under a document I used to list hybrid flowers I was breeding in Animal Crossing, dating back to 2021.

As someone who has Dyslexia, it was more comfortable to write these as drabbles, or ficlets. The Flower Inventory Series contains 3 FusionFall ficlets, testing two styles of writing. They're currently undergoing revisions to make sure the writing flows and the tone holds. The fics will be linked below as they are posted.

🌸 Flower Inventory, p. 1 A DeeDark drabble in third person, describing the end of the day at Mandark Industries.

🌸 Flower Inventory, p. 3 A DeeDark drabble also describing the end of the day at Mandark Industries, but from Mandark's perspective. Written last, but posted second for continuity.

🌸 Flower Inventory, p. 2 A third person drabble describing a day in Dee Dee's life as a "Hero". Posted last as it is still under review.

Special thanks to everyone that helped me proof these! See you next week!

#;; Hiiii!!! #✿ 。° :: { out of character ; } #DeeDark #Dee Dee #Mandark #FusionFall #The Flower Inventory #;; I was originally going to post them on AO//3 but when I received my Invite I found out the page was run by Z//on//st sympathizers #;; so they'll go on Tumblr #Hiatus Adventures

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

City of Heroes Not-Quite-Beginners Guide

There's a first layer of knowledge like "what's an enhancement" (It's basically equipment) and "how do I level up once I've got the xp" (talk to trainers) but watching a CoH Beginner's Guide I found there were a few things I wished he'd say:

Getting a Task Force Together: If you go into LFG under the Task Force tab you can mouseover the names of lit-up task forces and it'll show you the level range for the run. It also tells you who the character is that directs it. Then go into LFG Chat (find it with the mouseover popups by the chat bar) and type "LFM for [name of director], level [minimum level you read when mousing over the description]+ pst for invite." So for Positron 2 it'd be "LFM for Posi 2, level 11+ pst for invite." The main task forces are

Positron 1 and 2 in Steel Canyon

Synapse in Skyway City

Penelope Yin in Independence Port

Citadel in Talos Island

Manticore in Brickstown

Numina in Founder's Falls

While they don't show up on the minimap they're all within immediate view of the level trainer, who does.

When people reply that they're willing to come along, you click their name in the chat window and select Invite to Team from the popup.

Personally my netiquette is that I'm willing to repeat the posting in LFG once the number of party members has changed. Once I have someone I repost "LF6M..." for instance (team size for Task Forces is 8). It's also good for both courtesy and self-preservation to announce when the group's full. Otherwise you'll keep getting tells from people who want to join.

Archetype Origin: One of the largest jumps in power you'll receive is from set bonuses on matching enhancements. As you do plot-relevant content (storylines and task forces, mostly, but also battles against giant monsters) you'll receive Merits. These can be spent at Merit Vendors to get special enhancements that, as far as I know, can ONLY be obtained this way. Go into the list under your own Archetype (so, Defender if you're a Defender) and there will be two sets you can get, for a total of 12 enhancements. Each costs 100 merits, and the first stories that give merits are worth 3, so you won't be getting these immediately. But you can get your first by around level 20 if you're story-focused. And they're extremely powerful; sometimes enabling a whole different playstyle, such as effects that immediately recharge your buffs or drop you into stealth mid-combat.

Set Bonuses: It's also worth noting that set bonuses - on both AOs and Inventions (IOs) - are really strong. For instance you might get one where for having just 2 enhancements from the same set you get +7% accuracy on all attacks. Add a third and you get resistance to all crowd-control effects (like stun or hold). A fourth and you also recover energy more quickly. These don't stack infinitely, but they do stack a LOT. One drawback is they have to be on a single power. If you put the six pieces of an enhancement set like Scirocco's Dervish on different powers they're good enhancements, but you'll be missing out on the five Set Bonuses you get from having all of them. Personally I think this was a mistake, design-wise, but it is what it is.

Your First Invention: As soon as you go to Steel Canyon - maybe you're level 8 and you're joining in on Positron's first Task Force - there's a quest about inventions at the university. Doing this nets you a free IO, which is strong and which, while it can be outshone by later enhancements and need to be replaced for that reason, never stops giving its bonus due to your level. Where a level 20 Single-Origin Enhancement has no effect for a hero level 24 or higher, a level 20 Invention still provides its full value even to a level 50 player.

Ouroboros: You might be lucky enough to be near someone who drops a golden portal with an infinity serpent icon under it. If you click this it'll take you to Ouroboros, a pocket dimension outside of conventional time. This is important for lategame content and also a useful way to traverse the city, since entering Ouroboros grants you the ability to summon your own Ouroboros Portal once every 5 minutes and it has exits to several different areas of the city. If you're not lucky enough to have access to Ouroboros handed to you, Montague Castanella (also in the Steel Canyon University) has a quest chain that ends with your induction into the Midnighter Society. Once you're in, poke around the grounds until you find a crystal you can click on. It'll transport you to Cimerora, which is probably WAY beyond your current level, but going there means you're a time-traveler and grants you the Ouroboros Portal power if you didn't have it yet.

Ouroboros also has an area where you can simply select a storyline mission and run it - leveling down if necessary - so if you ran a few radio missions with friends and leveled out of a cool bit of lore you can still see it. This is also a good way to get Merits.

Team Transport: For 10 million inf you can get a power from the Pay-2-Win Vendor that summons a jet. This opens a popup for anyone in your party who stands close to it, for about the next 30 seconds, asking if they want to be transported to the entrance of the current mission. If you're in Skyway City and the next mission of your Task Force is in Boomtown, this can save your party about 5 minutes of just getting to the zone and traversing it to the mission door. If you're not spending a ton of money you can probably get this somewhere around level 20-25. If you're in a Task Force and someone in your team says "TT" in chat, don't go toward the subway station or the next mission: Go toward whoever said that! They're announcing that they're summoning the jet, so that a) people don't disperse and b) nobody else summons a TT at the same time, functionally wasting it. Once you've bought one your character has the power forever, but it does have a long cooldown (30 minutes).

#city of heroes #guide

[lenievi]

I often ramble about tos so here’s a helpful list with some of those posts.

I also occasionally write Star Trek fics so below’s a list because I don’t post everything to ao3. These are my spones fics. Other ships (mostly mckirk) can be found here.

☆ personal favourites

☆ Caught in the Storm | Spock/McCoy | wip The Captain had warned him that their new surgeon was filled with many idiosyncrasies, but Spock could not imagine what he’d meant by that. Until he met the man himself. (random snippet 1, random snippet 2 –  they don’t fit anywhere but they were written in this universe)

☆ Tea With a Vulcan | Spock/McCoy, pre-slash | 3k Spock has some concerns that McCoy's xenopolycythemia hasn't been entirely cured, and he corners him in sickbay. McCoy tells him a thing or two about his past and Joanna. For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky related a deleted excerpt

Forget-me-nots | Spock/McCoy | 1k When it was done, and Spock touched his tattooed wrist with a soft expression, the warmth spread through McCoy’s body.

☆ Ficlet - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky | Spock/McCoy McCoy is laying in sickbay after getting the first dose of the cure. Spock stays at his side for a little while. Prompt: feeling their pulse [ao3 link]

A Quiet Evening | Spock/McCoy | 927 words Spock gets a gift from his mother and shares it with McCoy. (Set after Journey to Babel.)

First Dance | Spock/McCoy | 784 words They dance. They kiss. tumblr version

Welcome home, Spock | Spock/McCoy, movie-era There were feelings and emotions Spock had not imagined expressing in the past.

A Moment of Weakness | Spock/McCoy | 1.3k “What are we doing, Spock?” McCoy whispered, breathing in Spock’s scent. “I am… uncertain.” a different tumblr version (pre-rewrite)

snippet - Bread and Circuses (spones)

Ficlet - Visits | 400 words The first time Spock visits his parents, Sarek does not speak a word to him. [ao3 link]

LITTLE BY LITTLE, CLOSER TO EACH OTHER SERIES

Moving Forward | Spock/McCoy, pre-slash | 1.6k A coda to The City on the Edge of Forever. Spock and McCoy talk, and as expected it doesn’t go well at first.

Of Guilt and Concern | Spock/McCoy, pre-slash + McCoy&Kirk | 3.6k A coda to Operation: Annihilate! McCoy didn't deserve Jim's forgiveness, and he didn't deserve Spock's kindness. He received them anyway.

Alone With You | Spock/McCoy | 1.8k When Spock wakes up during the last night on N-223, McCoy is gone. Concerned, Spock goes to look for him and finds him watching the stars. -- originally posted as Watching the Stars and Stranded but the ao3 version is tweaked to fit the series properly

☆ For This Space Would Be Hollow If You Were Gone | Spock/McCoy + McCoy&Kirk | 4k After finding the intelligence files on Yonada, Spock is determined to find a cure to xenopolycythemia. McCoy, however, does not believe in miracles.

THE TOUCH OF YOU SERIES

The Touch of You | Spock/McCoy | 2.4k After they return to Earth and resume their shore leave at Yosemite, McCoy can't sleep. Sybok took away some of his pain, but now McCoy is haunted by thoughts of losing Spock. post The Final Frontier 

A Moment in the Garden | Spock/McCoy, Sarek | 1.3k After their second shore-leave at Yosemite where they decided to renew their relationship, Spock invites McCoy to Vulcan. (original tumblr version)

WEDDINGS WIP

Ficlet #1 | Spock/McCoy | AOS The first time it happened, it was a case of very bad luck.

Ficlet #2 | Spock/McCoy | AOS No one told McCoy that eating from the same plate as Spock would be a bad idea.

Ficlet #3 | Spock/McCoy, Jim | AOS Continuation to the above.

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everything labelled with “pre-slash” can be read as gen too imho