#about 30k words in

[spacedace]

Been doing a plot overhaul of Ghosts of Gotham and the time line is getting wild but at least I have the general vibes of each of the four big plot lines figured out:

(shoutout to Brennan Lee Mulligan's portrayl of Tula on Burrow's End for making me realize what Dan's story was gonna be lol)

#dpxdc #ghosts of gotham #ghosts of gotham au #danny fenton #jazz fenton #danielle phantom #dani phantom #dan phantom #I have 53 scenes added to the timeline so far. Not total. Just what I have added to the timeline so far of my List (TM). #This thing is turning into a beast but I can't stop thinking about it #but also can't WRITE it until I figure out at least the bare bones of the plot #yeah 53 planned scenes counts as bare bones for this one lol #i've written over 30k words for this au and only have two actual completed chapters written send help

[foolscr0w]

unfinished portrait of lorgar aurelian, primarch of the word bearers, circa 877.M30, by an unknown remembrancer

#warhammer 40k #warhammer art #warhammer 30k #lorgar aurelian #word bearers #horus heresy #my art #space marines #adeptus astartes #legio astartes #warhammer 40000 #i have a lot of feelings about lorgar and i do wish he was less shit on by the fandom #hes easily my favourite primarch and every time i read bearer of the word i weep for what could have been #bc he has So much humanity in him and #urghhghhgh

[thegingerwrites]

I'm calling this "the grass isn't always greener au" and I'll probably never write it but it was stuck in my head today:

The Clone Wars are over, Palpatine is dead and the galaxy is more at peace than it has been in a lifetime. Anakin is no longer a Jedi. He has been living with Padmé and their children for two years now and everything is fine. Everything is definitely, absolutely fine.

And yet Anakin can't help but feel like he made some kind of mistake in leaving the Order when Padmé told him she was pregnant. He can't regret her or their children. He can't regret the fact that he no longer has to deflect blaster bolts on a daily basis. He can't regret peace.

But he does miss Obi-Wan. The ragged threads of their bond are still present in his mind when he can bring himself to sense them. (And he does, often, like picking at a scab or the empty cavity of a missing tooth. He prods at the empty space, making sure never to go far enough as to make Obi-Wan aware of it. He hasn't seen Obi-Wan in months). He misses having a purpose, a bright shining goal, the feeling of fulfilling his destiny even if the pursuit of that destiny aged him in ways he is still coming to terms with.

He was never the Jedi he should have been but now he is no longer a Jedi at all. And maybe if he had held himself together for just a little longer, he could still be one today.

The Force gives him the chance to find out.

Anakin wakes up in the body of Darth Vader, two years after the fall of the Republic, broken and in pain, fully invested in the power of the dark side.

He flees the Executor as soon as he can. Taking stock of his mechanical limbs, full-body burns, and life support suit, Anakin has no idea where he is or what has happened to him. But this is him, some alternate version of him. When he takes off the helmet and stares into his reflection in transparisteel window of his escape pod, he sees himself. Despite the changes, the burns, the eyes, he recognizes himself.

He seeks out Obi-Wan through the tenuous, broken bond in both of their minds. This may not be his world and this might not be his master, but Anakin knows he could find Obi-Wan anywhere if he allows himself to reach out to that connection again.

Darth Vader appears on Obi-Wan's doorstep on Tatooine, begging for his help. It takes Obi-Wan time to understand what is happening but they sit and talk and everything that happened in the last days of the Republic is slowly revealed. Everything that Anakin did, everything that he became.

They talk for hours, Anakin reveling in Obi-Wan's companionship again, taken aback by how much his master loves him, even this version of him and all that he did, and Obi-Wan nearly brought to tears by the idea of having Anakin back again. What Obi-Wan wouldn't do to sit side by side with Anakin again, to have even the smallest speck of hope that Anakin might come back to him.

By the light of his hearthfire, Obi-Wan asks Anakin to take off his mask, so that he can see his face again. Anakin would do anything for his master but especially this older, sadder version who loves him so desperately and he obliges. Obi-Wan reaches a gentle hand out to stroke Anakin's pock-marked cheek. He presses a kiss to his pale and scarred forehead.

Then Anakin wakes up in bed with his wife, pulled completely from the alternate reality and back in his body again, his eyes wet with tears. Without hesitation, he reaches out to his bond with Obi-Wan and pulls.

Perhaps Anakin didn't make a mistake in choosing peace. But he certainly made one in leaving Obi-Wan behind. And if Obi-Wan's love could survive all of that, it can definitely handle a few years of strained silence and damaged trust.

Anakin races up the steps of the Jedi Temple in early morning sunlight and for the first time in two years, meets his old Master for tea.

#obikin fic #obikin au #obi wan x anakin #obi wan/anakin #aniobi #i almost titled this “the grass isn't always greener” #maybe i could write this if i convinced myself it didn't have to be 30k long #hmmm 🤔 #i thought about putting in a read more but it's less than 700 words people can deal

[roadtripwitch]

Dream telling Hob about all his names when they meet again is sweet, but I think it would be funnier if he just didn't. Showed up 33 years late, immediately admitted they're friends, sits down, asks Hob about what he's been up to, forwards absolutely no information of his own until Hob tentatively asks him what happened, and the Stranger just goes "oh I was detained. It wasn't because of you that I didn't show up. I'm sorry" and doesn't elaborate. Hob thinks the friendship isn't actually solid enough to pry past the guy's very much too guarded eyes, so they keep on this charade of Hob Gadling and his Very Strange Friend. Dream doesn't even tell him he's not the one allowing him to keep living.

I have feelings about this I don't actually think the persevering anonimity is funnier, I think Dream cherishing Hob's willingness to call him friend just because he wants to and not because he knows him as Dream of the Endless with Hob actually just liking him as the Stranger and being distraught he didn't show up and then happy he did, is actually the sweetest scenario.

#the sandman #dream of the endless #hob gadling #sandman fanfiction #i would like a 30k+ words very slow burn platonic fic with Hob just going along with his strange friend #occasionally he crosses paths with people like mad hettie and johanna constantine that mention him and he just can't connect the dots #people also don't know hob's strange friend is dream bc hob describes him very charitably and other people just don't know dream like that #i also love the crossovers #good omens and supernatural and even shadowhunters #just hob having this weird Do Not Mess With This One mystic signal #and people freaking out because it's placed as to be a warning but an anonymous one #'wtf even can feel like this' and maybe only the higher ranking angels and demons have their suspicions #in the meanwhile hob is trying very hard to solidify the friendship enough that he can risk asking the stranger if he's actually alright #and if maybe he wants to talk about it #and does he know anything about ravens because hob has befriended this one raven and he thinks ravens would fit his aesthetic very well #the stranger had just decided to entertain hob's attempts at making him drink anything and he chokes on it

[thenightisland]

when the fool’s room gets trashed and he says he feels silly for thinking there was such a thing as a safe place in the world. when fitz says that he wished he had a place that reflected him so completely the way the fool’s room reflected him. when both of them are together in the wolf, a place that reflects fitz /and/ is a safe place in the world. i’m going to break a window.

#robin hobb #rote #karen liveblogs books #i know i wrote 30k words about this but it bears repeating bc i think about it every day #i will never know peace again

[meownotgood]

okay so as it stands right now (unless I find a workaround) under the influence chapter 2 will only be available to be read fully on ao3........

when I tried to post my draft on a side blog to begin formatting, I get a message that says, "only 1,000 blocks are allowed per post"... I didn't know this was the case until now... this issue won't even let me post half of the second chapter, let alone the full thing. even when switching to html and not using the rich text editor, I still receive an error message and cannot post

fret not, I'll still be posting it on tumblr and tagging people! I'll probably include the first 5-10k words or so of the fic on tumblr, but then you will need to click a link to read the rest of the chapter on ao3.

this many words of aki sex is too powerful 😔

#I've never known about this before? lol #it won't even let me save it as a draft #and I was only testing this with the first 30k words of the chapter #and the entire chapter is like... double that... so... #it would be a nightmare to scroll through on tumblr anyways #I'm not sure if there's a way to get around it but #I think that's what I will have to do #I'm sorry to anyone who prefers to read on tumblr...

[mrsbsmooth]

SURPRISE double chapter drop omg two chapters in one week WHO AM I omg i'm so excited about this chapter it's not even funny

Their ten-minute pause quickly turned into hours, and before he knew it, it was almost dawn, and he’d barely slept. He rolled over, flipping to the cold side of the pillow, and buried his face into it, wishing he’d just kept his fucking mouth shut. Why couldn’t he have just kept his fucking mouth shut? He pulled himself out of bed and grabbed his trainers. He needed a proper fucking workout today.

Read now on Ao3

Or start from the beginning

#i'm so excited about this chapter please read it #nanowrimo #reap the benefits of it #litg #love island the game #love island game #litg fanfic #litg s6 #litg ff #litg lewie #l #i #t #g #idk why i tagged that #bit hyper that i've written 30k+ words in 12 days

[velidewrites]

Starting Monday, I'll be posting my Elucien forbidden romance AU! There are 7 chapters, one for each day of the week, so I thought I'd open up a taglist for anyone that wants to be notified — if you'd like to be added, please leave a comment under this post, reblog or drop me an ask!

You can also find a few snippets for the fic here, here and here 💕

#no warnings except extreme pining and the usual smut #i'm so happy to be writing elucien again i've missed them so much #overall this fic ended at about 30k words but it might change slightly as i edit! #elucien

[dallonwrites]

THINK i am halfway through this chapter it just Feels Right, though based on what i know needs to happen i feel like the second half will be longer and the first half is 4.5k so like, laugh out loud !

#it is def a chapter that needs to be a beast but its also funny to me bc i know the next one is under 1k words LOL #I HAVE A VISION. i think there will be 3 chapters that are 10k+ #this one. the middle chapter which is its own separate part. and then the halloween one at the end #i am getting the vibe that lover boy will be less chapters than i expected but most of them will be longer with shorter interludes scattere #around but like. HOW LONG IS THIS GOING TO BE THATS 30k ACCOUNTED FOR! #i am trying to not be too rigid about that though i think im just anxious wanting to know The Word Count #which keeps manifesting itself into a fear of overwriting which whatever. unlearn that right now. #but lover boy is soon going to surpass the most ive written for 1 book which is 50k so im like what do i do what do i do!

[fruitageoforanges]

aemond & aegon's valyrian wedding, with helaena officiating, from my fic.

(please zoom in for more detail! there are a lot of details, for example, the handfasting binding is embroidered with vhagar and sunfyre!)

#hotd #hotd fanart #aegon ii targaryen #aemond targaryen #helaena targaryen #aegond #helaegond #holy fuck this took forever #my back is so sore now #but i'm so so proud of it #helaena is officiating bc the only precedent of valyrian weddings in westeros was maegor's #which was officiated by queen visenya #so it makes sense to continue tradition and have a queen officiating #also so she isn't left out bc this is basically a marriage between the three of them #i'm still crap at actually drawing backgrounds #this background was frankensteined in #anyway once again sorry for rambling about my fic #but i'm so invested in it #with the second part it's over 30k words

[inhumanrobot]

I know you already drew Wxson art butttt.... can I get some more teehee <:]

Please enjoy !

#don't starve #dont starve #wx78 #wx-78 #wilson #wxson #shipping #gif #animation #my art #valentines day #their wedding would require a 30k word fic but i think WX would actually enjoy a ceremony dedicated to everyone talking about how awesome #they are #and wilson would be like oh no a party #so wx would be like “i don't fucking need you to have a wedding stay home” #they already consider themself owner of everyone's financial assets anyway probably #last request #apologies if i didn't get to you there were at least 10 more after these but i did as many as I could this weekend! #thank you to everyone who sent in requests regardless if i managed to get to them or not! #hawwtdawwg

[nyxi-pixie]

in one of the cutesy lil study rooms at my uni. my friends are doing work for our seminars next week and i am writing fanfic about a 5'3 ginger and some bandaged loser

#listen #i gotta keep up with nanowrimo somehow #i already have 30k words in this stupid femskk fic and honestly i dont even know if ill end up posting it but theyre so silly in it #i want to eat them #soukoku #like why would i be reading about fucking contract law when i could be writing about my fav losergirls

[courtney-deserved-better]

an update on the progress of the ridonculous race rewrite! i currently have the first ten chapters fully written, the next five chapters are drafted (very roughly, but drafted), while the last ten chapters are not written. things got delayed by family stuff and my unexpected nosedive into a ted lasso obsession (which i am still in the depths of) but i am back on track and hoping to finish this fic soon!!

#the first ten fully written chapters are at 30k words #so if my math is mathing we will probably reach my goal of 75k words total! #if anyone else is a ted lasso fan im freaking out about the show on my multifandom blog #*points at trent crimm* he's just like me fr

[eskawrites]

taking bets now for how long the lethal company au will be. my original thought was like 15-20k, but now it's shaping up to be. um. 40k maybe?

#i think i'm a third of the way through and i'm at about 13k words so uh. yeah. #idk it might be closer to 30k #i really don't know why i expected anything else tbh #i was talking to my roommate about word counts yesterday bc she's in the middle of a fic that was supposed to be like 30k #and is now getting close to 80k #and she's like 'this is the longest thing i've written in like a decade! wait how long was your cfdau?' #'160k' #'FUCK' #writing things #lethal company au

[djarindykes]

if din was a woman she’d have a lot harder time calling herself grogu’s mom. because despite the fact that in mandalorian culture being a warrior AND a parent is the greatest achievement, the galaxy as a whole still divides women into two categories, either a stone cold badass or a soft woman. din is neither. she doesn’t want to be a mom but she loves and adores grogu and raises him like her own but she does not identify with Mom or Motherhood because she would feel like that strips away the hardened warrior reputation she’s worked so hard for. like, din in canon already had a difficult time accepting his role as a father in grogu’s life because of his already existing issues😭

#back on my butch din bullshit…. Again. #she would be sooo different and the exact same as man din #my 30k word fic is on the way about this + her relationship with lesbian luke who was never taken seriously as a war hero bc she’s a woman #din djarin #star wars

[autisticlancemcclain]

okay so i MEANT to write smth new for lances bday. instead i got distracted by my longfic that i’ve literally been working on for a year bc i DESPERATELY want it finished in the next couple days. so as a holder i have a snippet from the longfic for y’all tonight, i hope u like and happy birthday lance!!!

#i’m at the airport for like seven hours tmrw so i should have lots of time to hunker down and knock out some more parts #i just passed 30k words!!!!! #i’m getting there!!! #i’m thinking i’ll need about 50k to tell this whole story but we’ll see