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the-most-pathetic-edge-marquis · 1 year

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What fics are you currently working on?

oh, this is such a fun ask, thank you! (also if anyone sees these and wants to ask more about any of them i will ramble forever.)

i am very slowly working on updates to three of my published fics:

the truth of it, an au ending to new moon (alternatively titled 'bella jacob therapy speedrun' bc i love making characters talk about bella jumping off a cliff and harry clearwater dying)

as the ring on my cold finger, a bella-runs-away-at-the-wedding fic (that has currently stalled out just a teeeny bit because of the fact that bella has promised the volturi she will become a vampire & i can't imagine them taking 'what if i pinky promise not to tell anyone' as a reason to leave her human; i am currently brainstorming a very convoluted plotline about her faking her death to get around it, but oof.)

& of course, saving jacob part 9, which is getting sloooowly expanded. (vampire-hunter strategy meetings are so hard to write bc these vampires are so fucking overpowered but i am doing it through sheer force of will and paul making so many snarky comments)

and then i've got assorted wips rattling around, including:

billy/charlie brokeback mountain au!!!

[untitled fic request] (that i will finish bc they asked very nicely, jacob black has a daughter & i decided she's named sadie in honor of sarah)

vamp hunter renesmee au (ft jacob black and a strictly platonic road trip, smeyer wtf why would they EVER be a couple)

victoria bites bella during new moon (alternatively titled unhinged evil lesbianism)

tent scene version 2.homoerotic

embry gives quil a shitty tattoo

bella mental breakdown haircut ft jacob black & the bois

after That Scene in breaking dawn, charlie calls billy

angela is a morning person & leah is a night owl but they are very much in love

jasper teaches maría how to ride a horse

what REALLY happened in calgary (aka the unhinged murder-smut jasría fic i never thought i'd have the courage to talk about or publish but have recently been cleaning up)

deeply self-indulgent trans beau swan fic

life-and-death epilogue with consequences

bella and beau are twins (aka I HAVE SUCH A GOOD IDEA FOR THE NEW MOON POINT OF THE STORY IN THIS AU AND I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME SUMMON THE ENERGY TO GET THERE)

and then i also have open documents revising 2 of my old one-shots that i'm not quite satisfied with, and the continuation to "call it a favor," my maría-comes-to-help-during-eclipse fic, which is so unlikely to ever be finished i didn't want to count it above but i do open it and write some sentences every once in a while.

(plus a bunch of percy jackson fanfic but we don't need to talk about that here)

#thank you sm for the ask!#anyways if you're thinking wtf that's chaos...yea <3 #this is unfortunately how my brain works #it's kind of a miracle i ever finish anything at all #also would u believe me if i told you i technically have even more wips than this #these are just the ones that i open like. at least once a month #& not the ones that are sitting & languishing in the depths #like the follow-up to my lauren mallory fic #or jared going to cowboy camp #or a batshit carlisle/aro fic #(or any of my animorphs fics lmao)#& of course the next thing i write & publish will probably be none of these #but a completely random idea that refuses to let go of me #until i write it in like one sitting and publish it #(like i did with the werewolf au or the edward's hands fic)#(:

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thebest-medicine · 7 months

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Day 7: Flustered

Tickletober 2023 - RELIC - Smash & Grab - lee!Simon

[see my other tickletober 2023 fics]

[read on AO3]

A/N: I am going to inflict my recently read cute sweet weird little dinosaur shapeshifting punk x paleontologist romance novels upon you. (Youuuuu should read Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox. It’s narrated excellently by Kirt Graves and reads like a fanfiction in a novel. Also there’s some dinosaur animorphers lmao. The book is 1st person POV that switches between the main characters so I decided to try my hand at it.) Me over here changing up how one of the scenes played out - adding some tickles, classic. Enjoy.

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SIMON

What the hell? Within a few days my world had shifted and flipped upside down, and now, if the being-on-the-run damsel-in-distress role wasn’t enough, my forced traveling companion slash savior slash crush had just climbed into bed with me. Arms wrapped around my middle and I jumped, hissing out, “Dalton.”

“I’m cold, won’t you cuddle with me?” Dalton mused, pulling his body closer to mine under the covers. Damn this one bed safehouse.

“No- what? I- I’m going to sleep!” I argued - it sounded better in my head. “Get off!”

“Come onnnnn.” Dalton sing-songed. His hands pulled me closer to him and wrapped around my middle. He squeezed a little where his hands rested along my sides.

I knew I was in trouble when my mind caught up a few seconds later and realized the loud, squeaking sound that suddenly lit up the room had come from me.

“Oh… Simon.” His voice sounded honey-sweet. Why did it also sound so scary?

Fingers curled against my left side, scribbling curiously. Shit. What the fuck was this guy doing?! I snarled - well, I tried to, but it came out a little breathless. “W-What the fuck do you think you’re doing!?”

There was a snort in reply. “What do you think I’m doing?”

And then the hands wrapped around me from behind wiggled against the same spot again, this time on both sides. Shit. It really fucking tickled. Already. Shit. I swallowed a nervous lump in my throat along with the laughter starting to bubble up in my gut. I knew he could feel me tense and squirm with how fucking close he was lying to me.

“D-Dalton..” I tried to wiggle forward, out of his embrace that I wasn’t entirely sure yet if I wanted out of, and nearly got to the edge of the mattress.

“Heh. Ticklish? That’s pretty damn cute, Sugarbear.” Dalton’s smirk came through clearly in his tone. He chased after me with a few wriggles of his own and then nuzzled into my neck. Tingles shot down my spine as I gasped in a breath - I could feel the burn of a laugh trying to escape.

“No-” It came out as a wheeze, and I couldn’t hold back the laughter any longer as Dalton kept squeezing at my damn sides. “Ahaha n-nohohoho don’t! Wait- heheh wait!” I tried to shake my head just as little bubbles of laughter started to climb their way out.

“Don’t wait?” He teased. “Okay.” And then his hands started squeezing at my hips and I buckled forward, almost lurching off the bed.

“Nohoho- hehehee Dahahhalton! C-Cut it out!” I reached wildly toward his hands on instinct, trying to grab his wrists and pry them away. All I really managed was to hold on to them as he began tickling up and down the length of my sides. God, it- it didn’t do anything to deter him. He was… much stronger than me - which I did not have the mental energy to think about right now. In fact, I was quickly losing the mental energy to think about anything.

DALTON

Be still my beating fucking heart. This sexy, handsome, adorable, nerdy paleontologist- he was going to be the death of me. I nuzzled in against the side of his neck to get a little closer to those adorable little giggles - and to try and catch a glimpse of that smile of his.

“You have the cutest fucking laugh.” I teased as Simon grabbed onto my wrists. I pushed my nose gently into the skin behind his ear. I kissed there too, and felt his back shiver. “Fucking adorable.”

“Dalton! C-Cut it out!” Simon cried out, joy evident on his face and in his voice. His legs started to kick, sometimes knocking against my own legs. I wrangled my leg around to secure over his thighs, keeping still enough to wiggle but not kick.

“Cut what out? The tickling?” I wiggled my fingers up toward his lower ribs, earning a cackle. “Or the teasing?” I grinned. I placed all ten finger tips against his sides through the shirt he wore - his little sliver of protection. Then I spider-walked them in front to his stomach.

Simon shrieked and started squirming harder. His hands gave up on grabbing mine and instead moved to try and block as much of his belly as possible. It was cute. Everything he did was cute.

Simon’s cheeks nearly matched my hair as he giggled and squirmed. I whispered more teases and musings and compliments, and Simon’s pretty pink started turning red.

“Hey.” I patted his shoulder as he sighed and caught his breath. “Now I know a great way to pass the time while we’re waiting things out in this safehouse.”

Simon let out a tired little giggle at that.

“You… Pink menace.” He accused with no venom, smiling as he closed his eyes.

“You’re pretty damn pink yourself right now.” I smirked. Simon grumbled in response before I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him in close to be my little spoon. My cute, ticklish, dorky little spoon. Simon came willingly, tuckered out from laughing so hard.

Maybe another night, he might even seek out a little revenge? I remembered the feeling from several romantic encounters- the electricity of it, the bubbly lightness afterward. It was an interesting sensation to say the least, mammals were interesting - especially these strange hairless apes.

I stopped thinking about it too hard and refocused on Simon’s slowing breath in front of me. I nuzzled into his neck again, feeling him tense up a bit.

“Heh- no- no more tickling- I’m exhausted.” Another tired laugh.

“Yes, yes, but we can cuddle?” I asked, wondering genuinely, but also enjoying teasing him a little.

Simon let out a quiet little sound of distress. He sounded a bit tormented when he said, “Yeah, well, I guess we- we already are so..”

I hummed and answered, “Goodnight, Sugarbear,” as I felt him slowly relax into my arms. Butterflies danced in my stomach as though I had just been the one to be made kicking and giggling.

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 4 years

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great mysteries of the world: What did the JUSTICE people in ghost in the shell want??? this is like my third time reading the fic and i'm still curious lmao

Oh man, that scene. I honestly don’t know. I was mostly putting them in the background to amuse myself with a tongue-in-cheek nod to the Magical Inspiration Child from #41 named Justice. There are some genuinely great moments in Animorphs, and there are some moments that handled by any other authors would be malarkey but somehow work in context... And then there’s that scene. Where a kid named Justice explains to Jake the importance of justice. While handing Jake a drawing of a metaphor for justice.

I think part of what makes me bleh about that scene is that it just doesn’t work on a literal level. A random man who everyone thinks is a controller falls from the ceiling into a classroom full of free human children being sheltered by the anti-yeerk resistance... and no one reacts? The teachers just stand there patiently and let this alleged controller take a kid aside and interrogate him? The kid is totally fine with this guy (who, let’s not forget, is a very large bearded 25-year-old) which suggests that no one has taken the fundamentally important step of teaching these kids of all people not to trust strangers? And then everyone lets him leave with knowledge of their secret base and go back to the yeerks?

If a scene’s going to work on multiple levels, it has to work on multiple levels. It can’t be literally nonsensical and metaphorically profound. Allegory is great and all, but Animal Farm only works because you could read it as a story about barnyard animals and it’d still make sense. The whole plot of #41 doesn’t work because we can’t take the resistance seriously if the resistance doesn’t take Jake seriously, and both the resistance and the yeerks allow Jake to wander freely in and out of their secret bases on his journey of self-discovery. Anyway, the JUSTICE people were deliberately nonsensical. Because I was sending up to that scene that isn’t supposed to be nonsensical in context, but kinda comes off that way.

#animorphs #eleutherophobia #animorphs meta #animorphs negativity #41 #the familiar #anonymous #asks

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lesbianraggedyanne · 3 years

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jasper what were some of your obsessions in your preteen years? coming from the "cringe" post. just today I was thinking god I was so cringey as a kid thinking four from divergent was the ideal man (I didn't really have any men in my life until I was 18)

I mean!! Im currently p """cringe""" if you wanna check out my cartoon blog @captainunderkrupp lol. I fuckin adore trolls rn, cute funky lil musical creachures 💞

but I used to adore goosebumps and warrior cats and animorphs and books like that! i was the kids library fiend. cartoons like Ben 10 and freakazoid and the pbs shows like wordgirl and wild kratts were big for me... plus I got rly into manga and, never finished them, but used to be a bleach and naruto and one piece kid. still kinda wanna finish some of those... I'm p sure i used to have otaku pins lmao. and!! i got obsessed w webcomics when i was 12, lots of "gamer comics" and furry stuff (I still read a good chunk of the stuff I found back then tbh)

my real "cringey" years were 11-14 when i was a HUGE edgelord (still am a little but im a bit less dire abt it lmao) and wanted to be emo/goth and listened to a lot of linkin park... I also wrote my first fanfic when i was 13! :D a goosebumps crossover fic X3 plus that's when i started getting rly into anime and rewatching stuff from when i was younger and trying new ones... and when i was 14 i got rly into danny phantom!! plus that was also my era of hours of minecraft and undertale...

anyway. I used to adore ya dystopia like that too and inhaled it like i couldnt get enough but never got to divergent... but idealized fictional characters are fun to play with, yknow? esp when you're just a learning kid and are processing and consuming information at such a crazy rate while ur developing... and sometimes you look back and think "oh man i sucked" but again!! kids are constantly learning and that's part of the process, being "cringe" and making mistakes. I hope ppl learn to chill out and let them enjoy things, and not be mean or bullies abt it

#that was a BIG ramble but hope it makes sense #im anti cringe culture and pro bein real 'cringe' as much as they like #jasper speaks #anonymous #answered

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spagetthee · 4 years

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📂 I would love a Baku headcanon pretty please?

Of course my dear!

This is based on a fic I'm working on currently! Basically a very small part of the population is born a secondary quirk. And Bakugou is one of them.

Essentially a secondary quirk means that it is a seperate quirk from the other- and may have nothing to do with the first quirk. People like Todoroki could be considered to be double quirked as his two quirks can be used separately, and the manga and fandom refer to it as 'two quirks'.

Anyways Bakugou is born with two quirks- his original canon quirk: Explosion, and his second quirk: Animorph!(tho the name may change lmao)

Basically Bakugou has the ability to shapeshift into any animal he touches! This includes some insects and bugs, but does not include humans as he cannot copy the quirk. However, it may be possible to shift into a quirkless person. His quirk works kinda like a catalogue- once he touches an animal that shift is added to his catalogue where he can access it at anytime. However he cannot shift to a different animal once in animal form- he must go from human to animal and animal to human.

His Animorph quirk is limited via the size of an animal. The larger the animal is the harder it is to control in that form. With training he found that he can go up to about a medium to large sized pony. But not a full grown standard horse. Of course some animals are super hard to come in contact with- things like lions, tigers, large deer. Anything that he might use in combat is probably either too big or too hard to have contact with. So more often than not he's stuck with smaller easy to touch animals. (He has to touch them with his palm- no exceptions). His favorites to shift into are cats, ferrets, snakes or any lizard, and birds as they are easy to get in contact with. Although he does have a large selection to choose from.

Anyways, he gets into UA like normal, except this time he has a second quirk. But for reasons I can't disclose until the fic is out >:) no one is aware of his second quirk. Not even Midoriya really knows. He has his suspicions of course, but nothing concrete.

But onto bakukitty.

Cat Bakugou that hangs around the dorms and Ground Beta. Aizawa, being the stray cat guardian he is, finds evidence of a new cat and tracks him down. You know just to make sure he's not injured and feed him. But instead of finding a scruffy stray like he usually does- he finds a fairly well groomed light blond cat sitting on the ledge of very tall buildings. And of course thats not the greatest place for a cat to be so Aizawa scales the building trying to get the cat down. Bakugou being the little shit he is just stays where he is and watches his teacher scale a building for a Cat. If cats could smirk, he would be.

Eventually Aizawa coaxs bakugou down from his ledge with the lure of fresh salmon (Aizawa is a little concerned with how receptive this cat is. Were they a pet cat? Are people looking for him?). Aizawa was a little distracted with trying to get Bakugou down that he didnt even really notice that the cat had red eyes. Very red in fact. And there was a strange smell coming form the cat- oddly sweet, like burnt sugar.

He doesn't make the connection at first- not in the right way. He assumes that the cat b elonsto Bakugou. But that cant be right? He'd never seen a cat in the dorms nor had Bakugou spoken of a pet. But regardless Aizawa assumes the cat is Bakugou's, so he tries to lead the cat towards the dorms. Bakugou is having way to much fun with this and just goes along with it. Of course he can't reveal himself out here, but once aizawa takes him to his dorm...maybe he will. He'd been meaning to do so for awhile. He trusts Aizawa to keep his secret. To not hand him over to scientists or weirdos looking for quirks. (One cant be too cautious- not after what the HPSC did to those second quirked kids.) So he follows closely behind, not enough for Aizawa to see him clearly but close enough to know he's following.

By the time they get back to the dorms, its rather late- after curfew for that matter. So Aizawa is hesitant to knock on the explosive teen's dorm, everyone knows that Bakugou goes to bed at 8pm on the dot. So he was definitely not going to be happy about this- but well his cat got out so? It should be alright, yeah?

Bakukitty is just sitting behind him smugly as Aizawa knocks on his door. Aizawa has the masterkey, he could open the dorm and let the cat slip in...but what if it wasnt his cat. Shit. now what? Bakukitty rolls his eyes, or well- kind of. Can cats even roll their eyes'? Hes not really sure.

Aizawa keeps knocking- trying to get his attention. And its just so funny to him to watch his teacher fumble in the dark to get his master key to open the door. Aizawa was just gonna open the door and let the cat slip in, but when Bakukitty refused to go in- he just...picked him up. Bakukitty gave an indignant mreow and nibbled on his teachers finger- who in turn gave a look that could only be described as a soft stink eye. Bakukitty had to keeping nibbleing to keep himself from shifting and laughing his ass off.

Once Aizawa flipped the light on and noticed that the supposed student was not in fact in bed or in his dorm at all he started frantically searching the small room- like he would be hiding under the bed..idiot. Bakukitty meowed fondly and shook his head before turning around and nudging the door closed. Aizawa taking the hint closed it fully. Bakukitty stretched out his paws and a soft golden light filtered around his body. Transformation never took long, but Bakugou had half a mind to mess with his teacher and draw it out.

He did in fact draw it, the soft golden light illuminating the room and showing the slow(ish) transformation back into his human body. Behind him Aizawa lets out a soft annoyed sigh "What am I going to do with you problem child?"

Bakugou turns his now fully transformed body around to meet aizawa in the eye. "Well you could start with that salmon."

Sorry if the format is weird! I had to copy some of it off oof where I had it in my docs!

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justanotherghostwriter · 3 years

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Author interview tag!

tagged by Her Majesty, @agentcalliope

Name: Ghosty/Ghostie/You there/mate/dude/my guy/giiiirl.

Fandom(s): I have written for FMA:B, ATLA, The Hunger Games, Doctor Who (only RTD era), The Greatest Showman, Agent Carter, the MCU and Child Soldiers Breaking Hearts Animorphs, and I’ve stuck my toe into Stranger Things and Six of Crows. There are more things I’m into but I haven’t written for, but it will take a long time to list them all. :P

Where you post: A03, mostly. Sometimes I cross-post A03 links here on Tumblr, sometimes I write request drabbles directly to Tumblr.

Most popular oneshot: Going off kudos alone - Until You Stop Hiding, I’ll Hide With You, a fic written back when the MCU fandom still had Found Family aspirations for the Avengers team. Basically, the team rescue Tony and find out that the arc reactor isn’t a stick-on. (This information surprised me, by the way. I didn’t think that it would be my most popular by far.)

By comments alone - Battles After War, my first and (so far!) only ATLA fic. The Fire Nation becomes a democracy, but Zuko goes missing after the election, and the Gaang get their protective badass faces on.

Most popular multichapter fic: In both kudos and comments: Storge. An alternate POV/mirror fic/fanfic of a fanfic I wrote for a ‘five times plus one’ The Greatest Showman fanfiction that got entirely out of hand. About 20k out of hand. It’s (mostly) Charity’s POV to all the times P.T. was the best circus dad, but to his own detriment.

Favorite story you’ve written so far: I have a strange relationship with my writing, and this answer may change several times before the end of this week. At the time of answering this, though, I think it may be For Whom The Bell Tolls, which is a canon-divergent Hunger Games fic that follows the books exactly except that Peeta can see, talk to, and help ‘pass on’ ghosts. Mediator and ghost stories have been my fave since I was a wee tween girl (any The Mediator or Anna Dressed in Blood fans hollaaaa!) and I love Peeta so much as a character and I’m very interested in this kind of trope/dynamic, where every skill/magic/whatever comes at a very discernable cost. It just worked so well as a concept for The Hunger Games, and the fic pretty much wrote itself, and there isn’t actually much I wish I could change, when I look back at it, which is a great feeling for me.

(Close second place is Mavet, because my boy Jake Berenson still owns so much of my heart, and I still find myself yearning for an extended/better executed/more in-depth version of Elfangor’s Secret.)

Fic you were nervous to post: Every single one of them, lmao. xD Giftfic especially. Fic of other people’s fanfic/set in other people’s worlds especially especially. What if they don’t like it? What if I mess it up? That will be disastrous, because the reason I’m ficcing their fic is because I love it too much for my heart to contain. Messing up something I love that much is probably what my Boggart would become, tbh. (Does the fear stop my trash producing self? Not in the slightest! Insanity and doing the same thing over and over, and all that.)

(I will say, Battles After War was supposed to be much longer and delve into a lot of things that made me so nervous I took them all out. I’m probably going to add to the taken-out bits and post them as a second chapter, eventually, but it’s taking a lot of motivating self-talk to put it out there, because it deals with politics and what I, personally, feel are areas of Aang’s growth that canon didn’t address well enough and I know how very easily I can be blinded by my own prejudices and do those themes a great disservice, and, also, how that can potentially hurt and anger readers.)

How you choose your titles: If you can figure this out, please let me in on the secret. I always panic because it’s untitled by the time I have to post it and I just... Sometimes songs. Sometimes words from different languages, because I’m a linguistics nerd. Sometimes just the overall theme of the fic. Sometimes the prompt it was based on. Its a luckybag grab journey that I undertake each time.

Do you outline? Oh, yes. Every fic that’s longer than 1k always gets a skeleton written out first. Then I go back and fill in the skeleton. Some places have dialogue already. Others just have ‘they talk about xyz, and he says and then she says’. But I need to have a very clear scaffolding before I can start ‘colouring in’, if you were. And, actually, all the written skeleton stuff is just a writing down of the detailed scenes and things I’ve imagined in my head while doing the dishes or walking to the shops, or something. xD

Complete: I’ve completed 48 fic on A03, so far! Whoo! And a number of drabbles straight to Tumblr.

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In progress: *quiet sobbing* It has been a year, and I still haven’t finished chapter two of Lessons Worth Learning, which is a post-series FMA:B fic. Chapter two, entitled ‘Recovery’, has been outlined for eleven months. And just... sitting there. Also see the above mini-rant about the possible (probable?) chapter two of Battles After War.

Coming soon/not yet started: Dear gosh, dear soul, dear help. I have, not including the two mentioned above, six outlines for fic sitting on my computer. 🙃 🙃 🙃 I don’t know when those are actually going to see the light of day. I do know that I’ve signed up for one FMA and one ATLA holiday gift exchange, and those are going to be written, because they’re gifts and have a deadline and I love the holidays more than I am wary about my writing. Plus I’ll have more time. Or, at the very least, not need to be as awake during the day, so I can stay up super late writing. Two of those six are playing in Casey’s and Meagan’s sandboxes, because I have not gotten over my obsession with them or their fic, yet.

Do you accept prompts? I do! As you can see from the above, I have a backlog of fic that makes me weep inside. But, also, 50% of why I write is to get joy through giving other people joy, so I will never be able to close my askbox, I don’t think.

Upcoming work that you’re most excited about: Those good holiday-cheer-spreading giftworks that I’ll get the prompts for soon!

Tagging the following people: Yo, @thephilosophersapprentice and @skiewrites, @x-rainflame-x and @ruinsofxerxes - you wanna?

#To the tune of 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' by Joan Jett:#I LOVE QUESTIONNAIRES SO PUT ANOTHER ASK IN THAT ASKBOX BABY #About me #Thanks for being so sweet Casey =D #Also #if anybody reading this hasn't yet read any fic by Casey (agentcalliope on A03) or Meagan (aeoleus on A03)#you are doing yourselves a disservice. Please. Go read. Then come cry with me about the feels I've been carrying around in my pockets #for months

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filthyjanuary · 2 years

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✌💘

Ship you find cute but don't ship:

Since I have the Witcher on my mind, I'm going to say Geraskier? It's one of those things that hypothetically I would love and the fic and fanart is so good, but I find it very hard to ship things if the actual canon isn't good and the (show) canon just doesn't do it for me. I only like the whole grunting, kind of mean one who conceals how much he genuinely adores the sunshine-y loud one thing if... well you SEE THAT SIDE. But I just think Geralt in the show is so mean to Jaskier and there's never any pay off. Like the best I get is Geralt reluctantly tolerating him.. .and like not letting him die? It just makes me sad and Jaskier deserves way better. I still have three episodes of S2 left and Jaskier and Geralt haven't even run into each other so I have no idea if that changes but so far it's just not it for me. I want to ship it, I do. But Geralt would have to actually like apologize, make amends, do some groveling for me to do it. The relationship is too one-sided for me at the moment to want anything other than Jaskier to heal his broken heart and go find someone better lol.

OH ACTUALLY ALSO VI/CAIT ON ARCANE? It's ntot so much that I don't ship it because I actually do think the show lays it on very thick and I can't see them with anyone but each other, but I just genuinely don't care about Caitlyn at all? I find her so hopelessly boring that their shippy scenes did literally nothing for me. The whole rich girl who wants to be free of her gilded cage so she gets a "real job" plot very rarely works for me, but especially in this scenario where she's a cop? I just don't care.

Ship that is unpopular but you still like:

I think this is a genuinely bad and unpopular take in the Animorphs fandom which is fine, I get the appeal of Rachel/Tobias like conceptually, but I always shipped Rachel and Marco.... it's been awhile since I've read one of the books so maybe I'd feel differently about it now, but I just always loved their dynamic and all the ways they were so different but also the same. It's weird because I think Tobias is the kind of character that would normally click for me really hard but he just never did. I still haven't actually had the chance to finish the series because my library didn't have all of them, so maybe if I'd read the whole thing that would've happened but the ones I did read, he was just never my fav character or POV.

Also Cora and Stiles on Teen Wolf... they just made me happy lmao she's the only woman on that show I've ever shipped Stiles with, sorry to Lydia and Erica and whoever else. I wish they'd gotten more time together <3

controversial shipping asks

#asks #thank u anon!#long post #sorry this got so long i didnt mean to give two answers to every q #it just happened #tw #arcane #the witcher #animorphs

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demenior · 6 years

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Ask meme: A [SiR], H :)

A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?

For Sunset in Reverse:

I’m a bit of a cheater in that all of my fics are titled either after songs or after song lyrics. Nothing is original, lmao.

I knew I needed a title that was somber, as this is a pretty heavy fic, hinted at the possibility of a happy ending, but wasn’t cheesy.

For a long time I’ve been trying to use lyrics from the little-known Canadian band ‘Crash Parallel’ because they’re one of my favorite sounds to write to, and their lyrics always put me in a creative mood.

Their second album, as well as a song on the album, is called Sunset in Reverse. I’ve always loved the phrase- sunsets are typically considered part of the ‘tragedy’ landscape, where the end of the day leads to darkness, symbolically. Versus a sunrise which is always correlated with hope.

Sunset in Reverse, to me, implies a dark/bad time in someone’s life, but there’s been a change in perspective and now it’s actually a sunrise. That, along with the mental image of how sunrise to sunset spans an entire day which is the sun travelling from one horizon to the other, just seemed to fit the story of Shiro’s trauma and recovery that I wanted to be telling.

Hilariously, the lyrics of the song itself don’t really work for the fic (it’s a love song), but the imagery the title brings to mind still suits it, imo.

H: How would you describe your style?

Blunt. Blunt and to the point. I’ve got to work a bit more at showing rather than telling, imo. And better at descriptions. I find I’m very detail-oriented in a lot of areas, and then will gloss over long descriptions of scenery and surroundings in favor of conversation and dialogue. I’d like to expand on that more so I can paint better word pictures for people!

More than anything I feel like my writing is like I’m describing exactly what I’m seeing on a screen- so, hopefully, it always feels like you should be able to accurately picture exactly what’s happening at any given point in any of my fics, but at the same time, you might be missing a lot of things happening off-camera.

For all of you who read Animorphs, it’s actually very easy to see where the influence came from lmao.

#thanks so much for the ask!!!#about me #littlewhitetie #asks

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bellarkefanfiction · 6 years

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Lina got the chance to catch up with @ticogirls author of I Think You're Cute, Between the Lines, what a delicate heart, what a hard head and many more on ao3.

BFF: Tell us about yourself!

Mel: I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who starts sweating whenever they get this kinda question but here goes: I’m Mel and despite what my Twitter handle says, that’s not short for “Mellamy” lmao. I’ve been on Tumblr for close to eight years now (I just got a small stroke from saying that), I watch a fuckton of TV and movies (I mean. Who doesn’t, right?), and I’m also a proud BoC (Bisexual of Colour).

BFF: When did you start shipping Bellarke?

Mel: The first place I saw Bellarke was, I think like many of the fandom, on my Tumblr dashboard. During the post-S1 hiatus, one of my favourite gif-makers (she’s changed her URL and gone on several hiatuses so I genuinely don’t know where to find her anymore) was posting a bunch of gifsets of them. Again, like many of the fandom, from the gifs and screencaps of S1 alone, I basically assumed Bellarke was already a canon couple and decided “ooh, they cute. Lemme watch this show for that Good TV Romance™”. (Once more, like many of the fandom, I got a Rude Awakening when I started watching the show because it turned out to be So Much Worse… but also So Much Better.)

As for when I started really shipping Bellarke in the actual show, I think a lot of people fell in 1x02 (Bellamy saving Clarke from the grounder pit) or 1x03 (Clarke relieving him of the burden of mercy killing Atom). While those were both huge steps for me in terms of perceiving their relationship, I don’t think I really fell for this ship as a potential romance until 1x04, ‘Murphy’s Law’. The Charlotte/Murphy conflict peeled back the layers on both Bellamy and Clarke: his posturing and bravado was melted away in front of the delinquents, and all of her cool logic and reasoning was temporarily suspended. That, for me, was the first episode that really showed that despite all their oil/vinegar clashes throughout the show, at their very deepest core, Bellamy and Clarke were always going to be unified by the same goal — to protect their people.

BFF: How long have you been writing fanfiction?

Mel: I used to write (bad) fanfiction for some older fandoms, back when Wattpad and AO3 weren’t even conceived yet and all we had was FanFiction.Net and LiveJournal. Shit, I was really out here when ‘My Immortal’ was still being updated, lmaooo. I stopped for several years for a multitude of reasons — overstuffed schedule, physical exhaustion, a bunch of big life transitions, mental health issues etc. Bellarke was THE ship that restarted my fic-writing engine in 2015, and I think because of that, I’m always gonna have that Soft Spot for them.

BFF: Are you a part of any other fandoms?

Mel: Aside from The 100, I’m a huuuuuuge Star Wars hoe. Original trilogy, prequels, Rogue One, current series — I love them all. I’m genuinely nervous about Disney’s future plans for reviving this franchise but having quite literally grown up on this stuff, I just don’t think it’s ever going to be possible for me to walk away from this franchise, no matter how Messy it gets (and I’ve a feeling it will!).

I’m also really big on the MCU (currently obsessed with Thorkyrie) and From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, which I have no shame admitting is the guiltiest of guilty pleasures.

BFF: Are there any writers that you’ve drawn inspiration from?

Mel: I’m going old-school here, but I’ve always been enamoured by Douglas Adams (author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series) and K. A. Applegate (Animorphs series). It’s not so much about their kickass creativity with plot or characters, but more of the rhythm and pacing of their writing. They’ve each got a great way of balancing story and characterisation, all underscored and punctuated with these unique comedic inflections and beats.

BFF: Do you have favourite side-pairings or characters you also enjoy including?

Mel: I love writing Minty and, I’m not gonna lie, it’s mostly as a fuck-you to the writers for refusing to acknowledge Monty Green’s Gayness™. Memori have got a really fun dynamic to write too, and I still include a lot of Jasper/Maya in my fics because they deserve to be happy and in love forever. As for solo characters, Raven is hands down my favourite to voice, mostly because I feel like I can 100% relate with whatever’s going through her head in any given situation.

BFF: What are your favourite tropes to write?

Mel: Oh LORDT, do you got a full hour???

Lmao okay but real talk, I absolutely love writing Enemies to Friends to Lovers. I prefer Modern AU’s, simply because I like the concept of breaking our fave characters out from the grimdark world of The 100, to see how their relationships and attitudes could possibly evolve if they were allowed to care about dumb stuff like TV shows and public transport instead of just whether they manage to live or die. I am also a die-hard fan of the Roommates trope, simply because it’s the most convenient fic-writing device for ensuring that your ship will always have some reason to share the same space alone together with some regularity.

BFF: What do you predict will happen in season 5? Especially for our favourite duo?

Mel: So this is basically just “do you think Bellarke will become canon in S5”, right? (lmaodskjfhks) Well I hate to sound like I’m pushing a fatalistic attitude towards S5, but honestly, I don’t see Bellarke becoming canon in S5. After all, they’ve got a lot of ground to cover once they reunite on the ground. Six years is a heck of a long time, especially when one of them fully thought the other was dead. (It’s hard for us as fandom to grasp because we have been shown that Clarke’s fully alive and well, but we gotta remember, death is a separation of utmost finality. It’s not just like thinking someone’s away or missing.)

I do, however, think it’s feasible to expect some kind of recognition/acknowledgement of explicitly romantic feelings on either one or both their parts.

BFF: Do you have any plans for other fics you’d like to write, if so could you spoil or tease us?

Mel: Oh boy, do I ever. Full disclosure, I’m currently working on about 6 or 7 fics for Bellarke alone, but they’re setting up to hit at least 8k in length each so they’re definitely not going to be ready for publication anytime soon.

I do have one that I’m planning to post as a multichap, which means I won’t have to wait until it’s fully completed. I don’t want to give away too much, but it’s based on a French romcom titled Blind Date (Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément). It’s basically a neighbours / enemies to friends to lovers AU, and I’m really excited for y’all to read it!

BFF: What advice would you give novice writers?

Mel: I answered this question a good while ago in this post here with a few major points, but I think the most important one is this:

You are your best competition. I know it’s a lot easier said than done, but this is seriously the most important thing for me as a writer: DON’T COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS. It never makes anyone feel better (especially if you’re, say, writing fic for a big fandom with a lot of existing content). Honestly, it doesn’t even make sense when you think about how every writer is different and has their own unique style.

Be your own harshest critic, but also your biggest cheerleader. Write for you, to express yourself. That way, whatever you write/publish, at the end of the day, you feel good about it.

#ticogirls #bellarke fanfiction #features #author interview #by lina

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wonderwonderhowido · 6 years

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Year-end meme time! I have been answering these questions once a year without fail since 2006. Maybe one of these years I’ll stop, but not for 2017.

Was 2017 a good year for you?

Yes! In February I decided I wanted to quit my job and go to Brazil for 3 months. I quit my job and moved away from NC in July, left for Brazil in August. I had a short-lived but intense romantic relationship from April-July. We drove across the country together. Brazil was really challenging but overall amazing. With the exception of a couple periods when life was too hectic, I kept up with my yoga habit. I think I made it a full 8 months without skipping a whole week actually? Maybe it was 6 months, I forget now, I just know that it was an important milestone for me at the time because I have never managed to keep up an exercise routine that long before. I spent more time at the ocean and by the pool than I have in most other years of my life. I lost some weight. I stayed relatively on top of my shit (bullet journaling really helped, when I was doing that), and stayed sane. I read a fuck ton of Harry/Draco and BTS fic. I took a lot of chances with people I had only just barely met. It has honestly been a pretty stellar year for me personally, the mounting sense of despair over the external world aside.

What was your favorite moment of the year?

Being in the ocean with kids climbing on top of me, demanding to be tossed into the waves.

What was your least favorite moment of the year?

Nothing actually stands out. I had some pretty low moments of crying over certain things in my life, but nothing I can talk about on the online, and besides since none of them were reacting to specific things they all sort of blend together in my memory anyway. I did cry whole buckets while leaving my goodbye party in NC and continued to cry when I got to my ex-BF’s house and then cried myself to sleep, but it feels sort of not right to call that a least favorite moment, just cathartic.

Where were you when 2017 began?

At the same new years’ party I was at when 2014, 2015, and 2016 began. That night was kind of a mixed bag for me, although I did get a new years’ kiss, which I will probably not be getting this year.

Where will you be when 2017 ends?

One of my oldest friends in SLC is hosting a “polar plunge” at her house, so I’m going to do that. I probably will not be taking any kind of plunge myself but I can provide emotional support to those who shall.

Who will you be with when 2017 ends?

My friend Jennica and her husband. I have no idea who else, I don’t think I know most of their friends these days.

Did you keep your new years resolution of 2017?

Looking at the half-assed resoluations I made…. Lmao, no I didn’t, but then my goals for the year changed rather drastically in February when I decided to upend everything, and I feel pretty good about how I followed through with all that stuff.

Do you have a new years resolution for 2018?

Have another list of resolution-ish intentions I have, I still would not call this list whole-assed but hey:

-complete a 30 day yoga challenge (I am on day 7 already, actually, so if I keep up with it I'll knock this one out before the end of January)

-don't let more than 4 days go by without going to yoga (other than when I'm traveling)

-don't let more than 2 days go by without writing (other than when I'm traveling)

-write original fiction at least three times a week, even if it's just like, scribbling down 100 words of a writing exercise (again, other than when traveling)

-read at least 25 books

-read at least 20 short stories

What was your relationship status? Did you break up with anyone?

I was in a relationship from roughly April-July, we broke it off before I left for Brazil. I dated other people in there, although no one for as long as I dated him.

How many one-night stands?

I think four? Idk depends on what you consider a one-night stand. And I made out with lots of different people, which was fun.

Did you make any new friends in 2017?

I made a lot of new friends in Brazil! I’ve made some new friends and reconnected with old friends through kpop. I seem to have made some new friends in SLC, which has been really nice.

What was your favorite month of 2017?

Probably September. April really ranks up there, too.

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I turned 30!!! I think on the day of I went to work, got taken out to lunch by my boyfriend, swam in my apartment’s pool, and started watching Boku No Hero Academia, also with the boyfriend. I had a small party for myself over the weekend, if memory serves. It was really nice, low key and happy, I really enjoyed turning 30 and have been very much enjoying my thirties since. I remember thinking that I was going to feel angsty and panicked about turning this number but that never really hit. It was mostly just good.

How many different places did you travel to in 2017?

Ashland, OR; Wilmington, NC; Charlotte, NC; from Carrboro, NC to SLC, with stops along the way in Birmingham, New Orleans, a town in Texas that I have forgotten the name of; in Brazil: Fortaleza, Taiba, Manaus, Tefe, Mamiraua Reserve, Monte Alegre do Sul, and Sao Paulo.

Did anybody close to you die in 2017?

No.

Did anybody close to you give birth?

Yes, K and E.

Did you miss anybody in the past year?

I missed my NC friends a lot after I moved away. I missed Brazil and my people there.

Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

Other than public figures, no, not really.

What were your favorite movies that you saw in 2017?

Loving Vincent, Thor: Ragnarok and The Last Jedi.

What was your favorite song from 2017?

I have not done a great job of keeping track of which songs I’ve listened to the most this year, but: Silver Spoon/Baepsae by BTS; Nights by Frank Ocean; Soldados by Legiao Urbana; Don’t Take The Money by Bleachers; The Louvre by Lorde; Ultralight Beam by Kanye West; Young by The Chainsmokers.

Did you have a favorite concert in 2017?

Bleachers and MUNA in Charlotte! Also Chance The Rapper.

Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2017?

I feel like yes but I think I did less getting super drunk than in previous years.

Did you do a lot of drugs in 2017?

Not ‘a lot’ but I was not expecting this to be the year that recreational drugs came back into my life. So ‘a lot’ by my usual standards, I guess.

What kept you sane?

Yoga, walking, and journaling. This is a very boring and literal answer, sorry, but it’s true. I’m sorry to be one of Those People but exercise and mindfulness are the reasons I’m able to be off anti-depressants.

What did you do in 2017 that you’d never done before?

Traveled to a foreign country by myself. Tried cocaine. Wrote fanfiction commissions. Taught english classes. Learned how to samba. Used a bullet journal. Did goat yoga. Interviewed a creator I admired. Went to a club by myself.

What dates from 2017 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

-August 21, the day of the eclipse and the day I flew to Brazil.

-July 28-29, my last days in NC, the night one of my cats spent in the bathtub of a friend’s apartment, and the days I spent frantically moving out of my apartment.

-The Women’s March. Both because it was one of the very few times this year I felt politically empowered, and because that night I had a really fantastic tinder date with a woman who had also been at the march. This was only a couple days after I’d been dumped by the girl I was seeing, so I felt very spitefully pleased about the timing of it all.

-April 22. At my old job, we opened up a new public preserve, an event everyone in the org had been working to make happen for years. The event itself went extremely well and was super gratifying, and then that night was one of the early and really great dates with the guy I was dating.

What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Quitting my job in a way I feel good about. Making Brazil happen. Moving out of my apartment. Sticking with yoga. Finishing my otayuri Spy AU. Writing all the fic that people commissioned me for, even though it took me forever and a day. Paying off my credit card post-brazil.

What was your biggest failure?

I am disappointed in myself for not trying harder to write and publish more nonfiction, even though I felt all this momentum in that direction after the McElroy piece I wrote in May. I am also disappointed in myself for losing steam on the novel I started in 2016. There are some conversations I wish I had had with important people in my life, that I always chickend out on having. There are some feelings I wish I had been able to leave behind, but couldn’t.

What was the best thing you bought?

Other than plane tickets, probably my chromebook. It does not feel real at all that I bought that in 2017, though. This year has been five years in one.

Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder? happier

b) thinner or fatter? thinner

c) richer or poorer? poorer

How did you spend Christmas?

With my family in SLC, like I almost always do. We opened presents, my dad and I went to yoga, I read a lot of kpop fic, in the evening we went to a dinner party at my parents’ friends house and I ate a lot of really good food.

What was the best book you read?

If I manage to finish The Female Man today, I will have read 23 books this year, not counting the 6 Animorphs books I reread and the gazillions of BNHA manga chapters. That’s actually more than I thought I had read, and maybe I should make my books goal for 2018 a larger number, hm.

But anyway I think the best book of those was probably The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler or Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I also loved Swing Time by Zadie Smith but I read that at the beginning of the year so it sort of feels like a lifetime ago.

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2017?

Well for half of it I’ve been either living out of a backpack or in my pajamas almost 24/7. Also I got rid of most of my wardrobe. So I guess minimal?

What would you like to have in 2018 that you lacked in 2017?

A new Carly Rae Jepsen album!!! And greater financial security, a home in a city I’m happy about living in.

What do you wish you’d done more of?

Writing original fiction and freelance writing. Exercising more discipline in my writing life, in general. Mindfulness exercises when I was upset. Taking photos of people I wanted to remember.

What do you wish you’d done less of?

Sweet jesus do I wish I had spent less time mindlessly refreshing apps on my phone, particularly twitter. Also pointless angsting about personal relationships. Gone on less Tinder dates that I knew weren’t going anywhere.

What are your plans for 2018?

Going to Japan in May with @corvidyouths and @globsavethequeen!!! And getting a job in New York or LA or DC or, who knows, somewhere else that I haven’t though of yet.

Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

Well, I don’t know how much of my year this actually sums up, but these lines have been rattling around my head more than anything else. From Nights by Frank Ocean:

I ain't trying to keep you Can't keep up a conversation Can't nobody reach you Why your eyes well up Did you call me from a seance You are from a past life

#annual navel gazing #personal

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princeseerow · 4 years

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☕️ the ending of animorphs

full disclosure: i havent finished my reread yet (its taking me forever i KNOW), so my opinion of it right now is based on memories from 10+ years ago and things ive read either on seerowpedia or on tumblr. my opinion on the ending will likely change in the future so keep that in mind

with that out of the way, here we go

the biggest thing i remember from the ending, which is also the most controversial part i think, is rachel's death. i dont..... love it. i understand the point -- war changes everyone, it would be too unrealistic if all of the child soldiers animorphs made it out alive and unscathed and untraumatized, everyone has to make unthinkable sacrifices, etc. in theory i like the idea of a permanent death for one of the main characters but i hate that its rachel, because it makes it seem like she *literally* cannot live without the war and all of this violence and bloodshed, which frankly doesnt sit right with me at all.

when the writers actually respect rachel long enough to understand her character, she usually finds herself struggling with this uber-violent side of herself, and is at times appalled and disgusted and horrified by the part of her that seems to actually take enjoyment in this. instead of being offered the opportunity to understand and work thru and eventually heal from her trauma, shes killed, and its unsatisfying. (but then, i dont think any of the other animorphs get this chance to deal with their trauma either except cassie arguably, so thats not a rachel-specific issue. im gonna write a follow up fic called Book 55: The Therapy, where they just go to therapy for a bunch of chapters and everyone lives happily ever after after a while lmao)

also, and i didnt remember this until reading it on seerowpedia, but ax gets absorbed into this creature called The One?? and the other animorphs have to go rescue him??? it makes for a good sequel hook and gets the fandom creative gears turning but it makes me sad, i just want these poor kids to relax and be happy and not have to constantly be risking their lives :(

also also i dont love the idea of them nothliting the entire the taxxon species, or at least all the taxxons on earth, altho id have more in depth opinions about that if i knew if it was optional or mandatory. bc one of those things sounds like genocide to me

#animorphs #asks #anon #sorry this took so long #i started writing this like an hour ago; had to stop to collect my thoughts & then inevitably got distracted; then finally came back to it #also hate the fact that they killed one of only two female characters in the main cast to further the sorrow and manpain of a male character #but what else is new

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justanotherghostwriter · 3 years

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Fortnight, August, and September for your ask game! I hope you have a spectacular day!! 💜💜

Thank you, Ever, for the thoughtful questions, and for answering the ones I asked you back before I got to these. XD Hope you've had a great day! 🦋

Fortnight: What WIP do you plan on posting next, if at all?

You asked for one and I, induced by utter guilt, will give you the next bunch as a promise to the universe that these are actually coming one day, despite what it seems from my lack of follow through. Maybe this will magically hold me accountable.

1. Chapter 2 of "Lessons Worth Learning". Which was supposed to come out around December 2019. So that's how that's going.

2. My SSR Confidential gift for this year. Because why stop participating in fan events when you're several fic behind?

3. Chapter 2 of "Battles After War". Also from 2019.

4. It will probably be the end of the year by this stage so I'll put the FMA Big Bang piece currently looming over my head in this position.

5. Just post-war-ends ATLA fic.

6. ATLA AU oneshot.

And, from there on, it could be any of the various others slithering around on my newly ordered external hardrive. They include three Animorphs fanfic I've had around since... 2018, probably. Four Zutara fic with already fully developed outlines. A Kenshin fic, of all things, that will hopefully just fade into obscurity before I have to post it. And an Edwin Modern AU. Plus some vague ideas of doing another chapter for the Edwin fairytale AU I did for last year's 503 Week.

Sorry for turning your answer into a confession of sorts, Ever, but I feel better promising people on the Internet who don't care that I am trying my hardest to write fic many don't know exist or have forgotten about because I care more than the rest of the world does lmao.

August: Are any of your fics associated with certain genres/artists/songs etc?

"Welcome to the Black Parade" (Animorphs) is the most obvious one, here, because it's fully, 100% based on, and interposed with lyrics from, the titled My Chemical Romance song. The FMA BB story I'm working on is very closely linked to an album that I listen to when planning for it.

For the rest of what I've written... Not that I can remember? I definitely listen to music when in the brain planning stages of scenes and the overall storyline of the fic, but it's mostly just 'put music on shuffle, skip until a song that hits the right tone'. I'm a lot better at finding songs that fit other people's fic.

September: Share a comment or review that still warms your heart?

Listen, every single review is a gift, and I don't just mean that glibly. I don't clean out my A03 inbox so that I can go reading through all of them when I need an ego boost. People take the time to write the most beautiful things that I'm not sure my keyboard puttering deserves. I love it when they point out characterisation moments that felt right to them, because characters are more important to me than plot. And, as I've rambled about before, I love it when the lines I think will hit hard actually do. It's like winning something I can't quite explain.

All that to say that this comment humbled the heck out of me, and still does whenever I tackle things that are sensitive but that I feel, deep in my core, need to be talked about in fiction as well as in discourse:

"This is such high-tier whump and angst ;-; <3 I suffer from chronic pain and the small details like having the hot water bottles in an easy accessible place and then brushing aside the pain because that's normal for you - I felt very validated and I thank you for writing this!"

It's the 'I felt very validated' for me. Somehow, my writing managed to do that. I still don't have words to describe how much that means to me.

#Askbox answers #Fandom life #about my writing #In which Ghostie stays true to herself and is verbose #Ever Say Ever

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