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heich0e · 1 month

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liv…. i eat up your dialogue EVERY TIME like a crazy person.. if you post smth for someone i dont go here for, i read it just because 🤍 i 🤍 love 🤍 your 🤍 writing 🤍 but that being said……. i must know the details of the canonverse levi wip you posted. what did erwin do! what was levi and r’s relationship! how!!!!

if you're genuinely interested, i really don't mind telling u what the plot is because i will quite literally never post it. it was the first fic i ever wrote for any anime, and i hadn't even gotten very far into the actual show at the point of writing—so while some aspects are (tenuously) canon-compliant, there are also many very clear ways in which it is not.

so, to reduce that terrible levi x reader fic (it's so bad and i MEAN that!!) down to its barest bones, start to finish:

[WARNING: THERE IS AN ENTIRE FIC SUMMARIZED UNDER THIS READ MORE AND IT IS MULTIPLE THOUSANDS OF WORDS LONG. THEMES INCLUDE: DUBCON, CANON CHARACTER DEATH, VAGUELY MISOGYNISTIC TONES, AND EVERY SINGLE CRINGE-Y FANFIC CLICHE U CAN IMAGINE. BYE.]

at the point where the fic opens, reader is a young, low-ranking soldier in the survey corps on her way to mitras with levi and erwin to attend a small gala being hosted by a very wealthy family that they're petitioning (effectively wooing) to provide funding for the corps

the reason reader is asked to come along is because she comes from a very good family in mitras and is connected to the "high society" folk—though never explicitly stated, erwin very much intends to use her and her social graces as a sort of poster child and mouthpiece for the corps, in hopes that she can charm ppl and help them gain favour to accomplish their goal

all things considered, reader was very privileged growing up and had as comfortable/luxurious of a life as anyone (at least anyone in paradis) could possibly hope to have. her family is aristocracy/noble and comes from a long line of "wealth." her father is a doctor who consults with the military in a high ranking capacity—though he's never actively been a soldier, and it's largely just a cushy job where he doesn't do much actual grunt work, just gets consulted on things and sits on boards or whatever

reader graduated from school and enlisted in the military when she came of age—to the shock and horror of her family (especially her mother) and their noble peers. but she felt an impetus to do something with her life that wasn't just sit around docilely and look pretty until eventually her father handed her over to an advantageous husband and she went from daughter to wife and surely then eventually mother—while never actually having any agency or choice for herself

because reader was well-educated from childhood, she did well academically at the cadet academy, and because she grew up in a comfortable home she is physically very competent as well (though truthfully her skill as a soldier is often very OP and cringey to read back now... but it was my first fic! sue me!)

levi and reader don't interact much in the corps (as he's not her squad leader) but when they do they're constantly at odds—he thinks less of her as a result of her silver spoon upbringing, and while she doesn't dislike him, per se, she definitely resents his treatment of her

on the trip to mitras (alongside a very uncomfortable homecoming to her estranged family's home with two men who are effectively her bosses) they attend the gala/banquet and it's revealed that the family hosting it is the most wealthy in mitras (save for the royal family, though they're sort of unofficially considered the second-in-command) who reader is very familiar with—they have a son her age, and a few daughters slightly younger, who she grew up close to (i made all these characters up btw.... first fic liv was rly going wild)

the son from this family was always sort of sweet on reader growing up, and they have a vaguely romantic history in their teens (before reader enlisted.) reader very quickly surmises that she was brought along (or at the very least is able) to possibly sway the son in their favour, as the eldest and heir to this family's fortune, who would in turn convince the father to support the corps

the son (his name is adam btw. if anyone cares? lmao) is actually very sweet, and earnestly cares for her. he's just blinded by his own affluence to a lot of realities—like most extremely wealthy people are

reader is a good soldier and she's cunning, and she knows that what she's doing is ethically/morally questionable but in the interest of the greater good she goes along with some flirtation/manipulation for the cause

the story progresses and reader continues her work in the military, but the heir from this family is clearly infatuated with her and he (and his father/family by extension) begin implicating themselves more heavily with the military as an excuse to see her/spend time with her/etc though of course it's all under the guise of official business

so it's like the life she fled is bleeding into the one she built for herself, and it's stark juxtaposition becomes very clear in those instances where they overlap and she's forced to juggle them both

she just wants to be a soldier and do good. erwin is (in so many words) pressuring her to do her part and keep up the charade. levi is watching this all unfold from the wings and starts to feel some genuine sympathy for her

lots of very dramatic things happen, yadda yadda yadda. levi grows less hostile over time, and reader becomes closer to him. she's always respected him and that grows into something mutual. there's a lot of unspoken tension brewing between them

it's revealed that reader threw her cadet exam results so that she wouldn't be in the top of her class, and therefore couldn't become an MP and had to join either the garrison or the scouts. she did it intentionally (erwin knew and used this to his advantage) so that her family wouldn't be able to force her back to mitras. when levi realizes what erwin did/knew and how he used it to his own advantage it really upsets him, because he's basically pimping reader out for the betterment of the survey corps. this is the first time you really see levi get angry about the way she's being used (and you can infer in this moment that he maybe cares about her a bit)

more dramatic stuff happens!

the story culminates in the reveal that the son is planning to ask for reader's hand in marriage. her own family has already agreed. part of the financial agreement the powerful family has made with the survey corps is that reader will effectively be retired once she marries (and transferred to a clerical role with the MPs. desk work, basically. fake work, for all intents and purposes, because the position was made up just for her)

reader goes to erwin, understandably extremely distraught when she finds out, and begs him to stop it from happening. she doesn't really care about getting married, but she doesn't want to leave the scouts. he effectively (though not explicitly/in these particular words) implies that maybe if she fucks her "fiance" he'll be more open to compromise and let her stay in the corps

she does it, but unsurprisingly loverboy is not about to let the woman he's obsessed with (who he has now officially boned lmao) go back to risking her life every day in the military, and it's almost immediately revealed that her plan didn't work at all

(erwin pretty much knew the whole time it wasn't going to work. bastard.)

reader feels betrayed and helpless. she goes to levi the night before she's set to leave—who basically is like "uhhhh i told you so??" upon finding out what's happened—and they end up sleeping together anyway in a very emotionally fraught and vulnerable moment

she leaves the next day

a timeskip happens. turns out that the ENTIRETY of the wealthy family was killed in the attack in mitras (like between annie and eren's titans i think? don't remember what season that is. a lot of ppl get smooshed in a church. they were there.)

but reader had already been married into the family. she wasn't in the church and inherited the entirety of their wealth as the sole surviving family member.

she was also.... pregnant :) (of course she was! this fic hits every trope and bad fanfic cliche! maybe it's twins!)

levi is back in mitras years (??) later (listen.... i didn't know where the hell the canon storyline of this manga was going at the time so FORGIVE ME for the fact that obviously this is not canon compliant l m a o)

reader has become sort of a recluse since everything happened in mitras, but having inherited the wealth she's become a key figure politically and particularly with respect to the military because of her influence as a donor.

levi tracks her down to this surprisingly humble property on the outskirts of town.

there's a little boy playing in the yard. no more than four or five. he has dark hair and slate grey eyes. levi looks at this child and sees his mother's face.

the little boy speaks to him but levi is (understandably) very confused and disoriented. reader comes outside and is shocked to see levi there. like she's seeing a ghost.

reader tells the little boy to come to her and scoops him up in her arms, and she quietly reminds him (his name is Teddy btw... short for Theodore) that he's not supposed to talk to strangers.

and Teddy leans in real close and says "but mama... he has your wings" because Levi is wearing his survey corps uniform with the insignia on them. you've kept your own patch (a parting gift from erwin when he sold you off... how thoughtful) and treasure it.

all of which is to say that basically Levi is the kid's father, but because reader was already married when her pregnancy was discovered and the timeline still checked out—so no one ever questioned the paternity (especially because she was a WIDOW by the time she gave birth.)

teddy is now the "legitimate" heir to the entire fortune that was left by reader's husband/his family, but until he comes of age it's reader's to manage, so she can provide a safe home for him to grow up in—though notably removed from the society that she was raised in.

it's heavily implied (though not actually confessed) that reader and levi have been in love with each other for all these years, and there's a kind of optimism about what future is ahead for them now that their paths have crossed again. (present day canon-knowing liv is laughing at this part in particular.)

the end.

#liv got mail #for all that is good and FUCKING merciful if u make it through this thank you and i'm sorry #WIP #<- that tag feels bad and wrong here but oh well #hiding in the tags to talk abt this wip more hope that's ok lmao #the hard part is that i think there are some aspects of this story that ARE good and many that COULD HAVE BEEN good (but aren't)#adam's character in particular is very interesting to look at bc he's very morally grey #reader struggling against her circumstances is compelling bc her wealth turns the conventions of that narrative on its head #levi reckoning with his own prejudices!#erwin being kind of evil!#reader being of age when she joined the cadets and therefore older than the rest +#now occupying a kind of big sister role to the others after living all her life as an only child!#yeah... anyway

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applesontheground · 7 months

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💘 house call 💉

sending birthday wishes to @bisexual-horror-fan! as always, utterly thankful for a great friendship, and how else to show it by making our barbies kiss each other? this was another hypothetical we had talked about a little after the last cross-canon piece -- how the triads would react to properly meeting each other -- and in my nature i ran to write it for the special day.

(btw, i def intend for this to be something that happens outside the events of prometheus/post the "oh my god they finally hooked up" moment that's still coming. it's a slow burn after all, so spoilers that they get together eventually, i suppose?)

also: just to avoid confusion since there are a severe lack of names in this, i use she/her for the TTHITOW reader and they/them for the YOP reader!

SFW | Word Count: 2,771 | Tiffany Valentine x Reader x Charles Lee Ray & Herbert West x Reader x Daniel Cain contains canon typical/injury, compliant with Through The Heart Is The Only Way and Your Own Prometheus

In the dead of night, a car went squealing down the road. Trying to get away from an audience of dark windows, clear and open like crystal eyes peering into where they were going – and more importantly, who they were.

“Stop lettin’ go of it, you’re just gonna bleed out!”

“I’m not. Tiff, don’t fuckin-! OW!”

Another yelp from the backseat made the tires squeal, causing a sharp turn being made and the woman behind the wheel to finally slam both her palms down in an aggravated motion. “I can’t drive straight if you two are screaming in my ear! I just can’t!” She cried, hands white knuckling as they returned to take control.

Chucky looked to the ceiling of the car cabin, rolling his eyes and disguising it as agony to keep both of his girls off his back. Tiffany swung around from the passenger seat, and she argued, “He’s the one that says we can’t go to a hospital, especially not with the sorry sap in the back.”

Being reminded of the body in the trunk, the waitress rolled her neck but finally gritted, “No, nope. Fuck it, I have somewhere better than a hospital. Somewhere far safer for all of us, sealed lips and all.”

“Sure, sure. Take us wherever is best right now, baby cakes.” Tiffany finally softened, an arm on the crook of her elbow. “Only thing I have t’ask is where it is.”

“…Across from a cemetery…one town over or so…” She mulled, then quickly insisted, “A friend of mine, they work as a document runner. Believe me, we can trust them-“

“Oh, that’s nice. Perfect, just what we needed.” Chucky grimaced in a sarcastic bite, but the waitress snapped, “For God’s sake, if I’m your accomplice you could let me fucking finish-” Tiffany gave a downright diabolical look to him, patting the waitress’ arm as she mustered the patience. “…They got a couple doctors for roommates.”

“Oh,” His hands came up in a shrug, “Fine, that’s actually better than I thought.

Let’s make a house call. Sure they’d fuckin’ love that at this time of the night.”

Knock on the door.

From inside the house, the sole person in the kitchen looked up from the counter. First at the door an ocean’s away with the desolate living room seeming so vast; then at the clock on the mantle. Finally, a familiar voice hushing on the other side made them sprout up from their seat, discarding the question of a warrant before entering that had been forming in their mind. Even though no one else was on the main floor with them, they couldn’t help sneaking, the heavy quiet making them very aware of their own footsteps.

Opening the door, their eyes fell, a little disheveled in an expected way for this time of the night but growing in moments at the scene before them. Two women holding a man between them, one of them they recognized like the back of their hand. If there wasn’t a dark stain trailing down the man’s torso, they would’ve been quicker to say hello.

“Is everyone home?” The waitress asked, giving a pointed look from under one of his arms. The courier stammered, “I- They’re…” They looked to one woman, then the other. Finally, the man for only a brief glimpse as they answered more confidently, “They’re downstairs, but I can…Oh my god,come inside.” Forgetting formality, they held the door open.

“Downstairs, like in a basement?” Chucky clarified. Tiffany sighed, “What else could we be talking about, huh? Come on, you’re bleeding all over the porch.”

“Oh yeah, let’s go inside and bleed on the carpet-“ He snarked, his other girlfriend lingering by the door to catch a worrisome glance from the courier. Still, they smirked as she murmured, “I can explain, I promise. Thank you so much. We just couldn’t go to the hospital, you know.”

“Sure, of course.” They assured, nothing else needed to be said as they guided them in. One last look into the street, across it to the cemetery for a beat, then they closed the door behind them.

“Good timing. I had just been up and walking around when you pulled up.” The courier explained, ushering an open jar of peanut butter behind the toaster on the counter, one second upright and another crouched down, opening a drawer where you might expect them to keep the pots. Looking over one shoulder, they offered, “You can take a seat anywhere you’d like, by the way.”

“So, sweets.” Chucky rolled his eyes over to the waitress, and teased, “Do you have multiple pals that happen to be bangin’ a couple doctors, or is this who I think it is? Be honest.” The courier perked up, trying not to smirk. “She’s told you about me?”

Chucky shot a look towards the woman on his left. “All I’m saying is that you told me that you weren’t taking me to the Frankensteins. What do we mean by doctors, exactly?”

The waitress asked, “Do you want to be taken care of without the legal work or not?” and the courier lamented as they set some medical supplies on the counter, “Do we have to word it like that?” The gears continuing to turn in their head as they tore the seal on a bottle of peroxide, they then repeated in a confused tone: “Frankensteins?”

Seeing them busy quickly, even finding a pair of nitrile gloves conveniently stashed with the rest of the supplies and wasting no time to stretch them over their hands, Chucky scoffed, “Well, this whole household’s full of doctors, huh?” They met eyes with him and chirped, “Oh no, I’m a courier for the county, actually.” He gave a look of concern back down to the heavy tear – both through his sweater and doubling down into his skin – above his stomach.

They then hummed, “It’s alright. When you live with people in the business, you learn a little. Believe me, I may not be licensed but I know what I’m doing. I’ve patched up those doctors themselves a few times when they weren’t able to.”

“What, when they burn their hand on the stove or something?” Chucky scoffed, getting a small laugh from the courier. “Sure, or when they stub their toe on a doorframe.” They went along with it, shrugging casually but their smile slightly bent into a disguised grimace.

Chucky sighed, half from the load off he took on a barstool by the counter and half by the return of his humor. “Sure. Just like everyone here, you also know a thing or two about all that necromancy garbo, too. I know a sadist when I see one.”

The courier’s kind eyes grew wide. “Oh, did she tell you about that, or…?” They met eyes again, both confused now. He mumbled out, “…No? No, I was- I was joking, buddy.”

Before they could rewind their terrified expression, a door opening down the hall towards the right side of the house made their head snap towards it. They dropped the gauze from their hands into Tiffany’s lap. She merely watched in shock as the poor thing nearly lost balance shooting around the counter.

“The boys must be in.” Tiffany mused, one hand resuming the work they had been doing but still giving a curious glance towards the doorway where they had slipped out of sight.

Hushed conversation. The courier begging with a quiet, “please” was all they caught before they slipped back around the doorway and cleared their throat so all three people in the kitchen looked over. There were emerging figures from the hall, still shrouded in the deep dark of the corridor but still clear enough to see that one was taller, lankier while the other had a pair of metallic-framed glasses.

“These are friends of mine. They ran into some trouble and just needed the help.” The courier explained, “Friends, these are my partners.” The two men finally followed as they walked back in, the light showing their faces far better. The taller one was quick to react, giving a confused nod before his eyes settled on the blood seeping across the counter, finding the source and immediately softening in stature at the sight, concern making him antsy in how he stood behind the other two. His counterpart was far less disposed to it, still giving a close look to the courier, a raise of the eyebrows when they locked stares in a silent ask of ‘All this, and you brought them inside?’

“Oh, that one’s definitely a freak.” Chucky cringed under his breath, both of his girlfriends slapping hands over their own mouths and then his with the free ones. The courier disregarded it, ignoring the offense from one man by saying his name. “Herbert, Dan. This is a friend I meet up with every Thursday after late runs, and … her partners. Chucky and Tiffany?” Looking in a silent question to the other two just to be safe, both silently greeted in affirmation.

“Sorry about the blood, you guys. I know tricks on how to get it out of linoleum if you need.” Tiffany mentioned to them as both men tried to find their place in the scene unfolding. Dan quickly responded, shaking his head hurriedly and trying to crack an edgeless smile for her, “Oh, we got cleanup down well. I, uh- “ He gestured to the courier, “They get nosebleeds a lot, actually. Don’t you, honey?” Briefly pecking each other on the lips, the courier put a hand to Dan’s lower back and commented, “Yeah, about that. They know we do more than nosebleeds around here.”

“They what?” Herbert turned from the counter, paused in his movement to find some gauze. He even held it close to one shoulder, like he was about to abstain from the entire ordeal, but Dan quickly snatched it from him. Knowing there were more pressing matters, he came around the counter and asked Chucky, “How did you manage something so bloody? At this time of night, too?”

“Believe me, it’s better you don’t ask. What’s important is making sure I don’t die around your boyfriend over there.” Chucky grimaced, earning a suppressed glance from the man.

Herbert snorted at that, the courier cringing to themselves as Dan assured him, “Come on, you’re not doing that. You haven’t lost enough blood to die, I promise.” The courier then added kindly, “You’d need a lot more than that, actually.”

“I’m sure stranger things have happened,” Herbert warned, making Dan finally frown over at him as the courier hissed, “Enough.”

Chucky groaned, “For Christ’s sake, I think I know where this caravan is going. We all kill people, or at least know about the whole murder ordeal, so let’s stop being a bunch of pusses while we have this small talk, huh?”

“Kill people?” Dan echoed, half terrified of the mere mention but trying to disguise it as confusion.

“Oh, murder?” The word stained Herbert’s tongue, like a bad burn, “Is that what you call it?”

The courier scoffed at him, “I didn’t give them that word.” Giving a pointed look back, like they were growing exasperated from the assumptions, they silently resolved the issue and looked back to the others.

“Huh, we seem to know a little more ‘bout each other than I thought. Have you been yapping, too?” Tiffany then asked the waitress, crossing her arms to make the other woman huff, “Not…not anything specific about what you and Chuck do for a living, if that’s what you mean.”

“Well, we can understand now, can’t we?” Herbert piped up again, the courier handing him a pair of gloves as he now joined the small circle forming in the center of the room, “We don’t need to be so discrete: If you must know, I met Daniel in a morgue and the other one sneaking around two nights after they had moved in.” Even though it was a bit rude, the courier seemed tickled by the use of the other one, and when Tiffany noticed with a narrow of her eyes they whispered, “Long story.”

The right man for the job, Dan closed in as the one in charge of patching Chucky up. Herbert watched in a thinly veiled , but was soon distracted by the courier, who mosied over and took his fiddling hands. He gave them a tough look, but it was ignored in favor of peppering a soft kiss to one knuckle, whispering something that made him roll his eyes but finally release the tension in his hands and let them rest on his sides.

He fell far more content with watching, their chin on his shoulder as they mouthed, “God, he’s handsome, isn’t he?” Herbert didn’t respond, but a contemplative glance back over at Dan was all the courier needed to smile a little. They met eyes with the waitress, and they couldn’t help but feel some sort of strangely placed perfection in how they acted with the two misfits that had emerged from the depths of this strange little house in the middle of some desolate valley of silence and almost crypt-like complacency.

The waitress then turned her attention back to her own two. Tiffany had been idly speaking with Dan, but as soon as the awful gash in Chucky’s side was no longer visible under a healthy layer of gauze she was looking at him.

Dan finally gave them space, nodding one last time before walking over to the sink to wash his hands, meeting the other two there. Putting a hand on his shoulder, the waitress grinned as they shared a kiss themselves as Tiffany huffed, “Very nice work, Dan. My man’s almost good as new. If only you could fix that clunky chip on his shoulder.” Chucky made a face, and muttered, “Keep talking like that, and I’m running away with this one.” The waitress giggled, slapping him on the shoulder playfully as he pulled her into the two of them, giving her a kiss as well. A dim thought fell over her, and her smile faded as she murmured, “Well, now we just need to scrap the body that’s still in the car.”

There was a plastic clatter on the counter over by the sink, the triad looking at them while Dan slowly turned off the water. “You guys brought the body?” The courier gasped, and Chucky shrugged, “What, were we supposed to leave it out in the open with our fingerprints all over it?”

Tiffany then pointed out, “Well, we’re by a cemetery, we can just find a hole in the ground and take care of it.” She looked at Dan, who was shooting a gaze to the living room with the window pointing towards the graveyard. “You guys know a good spot for that, I suppose?”

“Body disposal?” Dan murmured, letting one of his dry hands slip around the courier’s hip, having them fit snug against him. Chucky jutted his chin towards him. “What, are any of you gonna say something?”

Tiffany then sighed, “Whether it’s burying the guy, dissolvin’ him in a bathtub like you see in those over-the-top crime shows…I dunno, we just need it gone one way or another, so we all don’t go to jail.” The courier gave a careful look to the hem of their shirt, streaked a bit with blood that had been lingering on someone’s hand while they had brushed past them.

Finally, Dan offered, “Well…we can help with that, too. I-If you want, I mean- we know how difficult…” Listening to him stumble, the courier’s arm came up to press their fingers into his back in mute support, ��It can be to get rid of evid- Bodies, all of that stuff.” He finally swallowed his last thoughts, looking down at the tile floor with an almost ill look on his face.

Herbert stopped rubbing the smudges from his glasses, placing them back on his face. When he got another uncertain glance from the waitress, he then mused more to his partners than them with an amused tone.

“Yes, I think that can be arranged.”

Tiffany beamed, “Great, so it’s a double date?”

The courier looked over at the waitress, and instead of anxiety, confusion, worry… There was a glimmer of mischief on the way they pursed their lips. It was more to hide a smirk than to express discomfort, and the waitress had to put a hand over their mouth to hide the matching smile.

It was dangerous; they had a match made in Hell and they weren’t sorry about it.

#poly!chiffany x reader #tiffany valentine x reader x charles lee ray #poly!danbert x reader #herbert west x reader x daniel cain #✏️#💉#💘

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everybody-loves-purdy · 1 year

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I feel so INSANE about how Frostpaw's visions are written btw. She's having the kind of visions that, in TPB and TNP, would have been considered legit connection to StarClan like there were Fireheart visions in TPB that read like The Same and he's noted to be a Chosen One Good Boy in canon? He was destined for a similar spiritual role? But since we had two arcs of our main meddie POV being. Jayfeather, who is canonically an Extra Special Super Close To StarClan Cat, it feels like the Erins forgot that GENUINE StarClan visions/dreams aren't like. How Jayfeather experiences them? Jayfeather in PoT and OotS is walking and engaging with StarClan in their hunting grounds basically every time he dreams at the MoonPool when like. Other meddies AT THE TIME describe just getting visions to interpret, Cinderpelt and Leafpool get vague environmental signs, Spottedleaf gets vague signs, Goosefeather gets more explicitly because he has Ghost Future Vision. And now that kind of sign has been proven to both readers and the Clans to be something bad actors can take advantage of, and both we as readers and the Clans know that StarClan aren't the only spirits out there! Instead "Frostpaw gets visions about cats who are soon to die" is written off as her overactive imagination and not just. Something that complies with the way that the dead fuck with living cats in canon? Nobody's worried about other bad actors in StarClan? Nobody's worried about ghosts around the lake? Nobody's worried about there being any more dark forest warriors that survived TBC? Like if the Erins intend for her to not be having real visions. Her visions are written WAY too canon compliant for it to make sense. And if they intend for her to ACTUALLY be connected to some spirits or other, then they've built a plot that requires every other meddie and leader and all of the DF trainees and any of the cats who interacted with the Sisters and any cat who's interacted with Tree to just! ASSUME that weird shit can only happen once. Going insane on main lmao.

Yeah I agree if this was first or second arc her visions would be much more legitimate but the Erins over exploring StarClan has just made her visions weird in present day.

Also I want to add on, I don’t like how they’re pushing this whole “you have a special connection to StarClan to be a medicine cat” idea as if there aren’t several medicine cats that became medicine cats through unexpected ways.

For example Cinderpelt only became a medicine cat because she got hit by a car.

Puddleshine only became a medicine cat because ShadowClan had none so they literally chose the most sensitive kit from a current litter and appointed him the medicine cat.

I suppose that perhaps maybe you could need a mentor to introduce you to StarClan to accelerate your connection from baseline normal to medicine cat special in these cases? But it’s not like the books themselves have said this. So I can only guess this is the reason otherwise we would just have a whole lot of medicine cats in history that just wouldn’t be able to connect with StarClan if this connection is from birth.

#anonymous #Frostpaw

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felixfathom · 2 years

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Since u don’t like ur prev rewrite how would you do it now?

my main issue with it is that much like canon i had no idea what i wanted it to be so while i knew what i wanted to change, i didn't know how to do it so most of my original concepts were placeholders for when i'd (supposedly) come up with better ones . what bothers me the most now is likely my arc for felix which in short consisted of him being blackmailed by gabriel after discovering his identity (this is all pre-GA btw thank you very much!) and later on acting as a double agent 4 ladybug .

it's not that bad in theory but i couldn't come up with a motive for him on my own so i kept waiting for canon to do so ? that's the whole reason i quit really . waiting for S5 to end (as S4 barely began mind you) to show me how THEY did it so i could compare it with mine, and aside from the feligami thing i might be happy with felix's arc in canon ??? so that is not the plan anymore LMAO ! and that was an example, but with all this newfound info i'll summarize in bullet points what i would change based on my preferences and what the crew intended with the characters too .

the endgame ships were chloenette and adrigami i think ? i'd still do adrigami but not chloenette . either felinette or a love square that's good. i'd do ladrien justice

felix would work for himself and no one else . canon did at least ONE thing right

i wouldn't try to be so canon compliant when i should appeal to me first. i'd cut S2 in half and use the remaining space on new akumas or repeat akumas i like

luka and zoe would be OUT. i wanted to try doing something with them if canon wouldn't but i can't think of a thing now

i'd play around with kwami swaps a lot more but still keep the team limited to less than 10 people bc i never liked the miracuclass. i'd give chloe the rabbit :]

and i'm not sure what else ... i came up with these on the spot so you'd have to be more specific for things i missed 😭 i'd be happy to answer !! (just don't ask about the class)

#this was looong oh em gee

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photogirl894 · 2 years

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Congratulations with this aniversary of Sun and Rain! 1 year and hopefully it will continue on much, much longer. I think it will not come as a surprise that I fell in love with this sentence : She would wait until the light of all the stars in the galaxy burned out, if she had to.

That is jusy beautiful and I wish I could have written something like this!

I have to admit, I am fearing for the time when order 66 will come and how things will change for Kimber and the gang. I am still heavily defending Crosshair and demanding his return with the Batch !

Kimber is becoming more and more the person she wants to be and wishes she would be, what is your inspiration for her growth and how she reaches that goal?

Oh Echo needs to be severely hugged btw ! please sent him a big ol hug from me!

And I loved that Fives has visited Kimber, that was so sweet and powerful.

Thank you so much, @ladykatakuri !! 💜 Your reviews of my chapters have been some of my favorites! They're always so personal and in depth and I love them! And oh yeah, this story still has a long way to go! 😊 I have a feeling we may be back here in another year!

Okay, you're seriously making me blush with how much you love that line!! 🤭😊🥰 That makes me really happy! I actually came up with that line while sitting in church, to be perfectly honest. I wanted something to really describe how long Kimber was willing to wait for Hunter and give him space and that was just something that came to mind. With how often they travel in space (and having hardly traveled before meeting the boys), the stars have become important to Kimber and I thought that was what would come to her mind. That is how much she loves Hunter and how willing she is to wait for him.

I know, I'm dreading Order 66, as well, especially given Kimber's close relationship with Crosshair. Honestly, I never intended on them growing as close as they are, but as the story progressed, I started liking their dynamic more and I fleshed it out more. Though that thought came to me of when Order 66 happens and Crosshair's betrayal...oh gosh, I'm dreading writing that and other future scenes! I've already got certain parts mapped out and I hate myself for it 😩 Like I've mentioned before, it's canon compliant, so unfortunately, Crosshair is still going to join the Empire and all of that, but Kimber will still affect certain parts of that.

You know, my inspiration for Kimber's growth and becoming the person she wants to be kind of came out of my own frustration with the story 😅 I kept having her end up in trouble and I just thought, "I need better ideas than her being a constant damsel in distress. I want her to be a stronger character." Then I had the idea of having her get training with other people. That kind of also came from my desire to include other characters, hence how Jesse and Kix came to be in the story, as well. She's now a stronger soldier and the BB boys will see her in action once more better than ever.

Oh Fives, my beloved! I'd recently rewatched Clone Wars and just fell in love with him all over again and I thought, especially after learning about him from Jesse, that Kimber just had to meet him and...well with him being dead, that made things a little bit difficult 😅 But I decided to spin it into something that served as both a sweet moment between Kimber and Fives as well as foreshadowing of events soon to come (and we all know what that is, of course) Plus, Kimber deserved a good dream, for once. That whole dream became a setup for her returning to the squad and everything else that's coming. It was fun to write for Fives, even if it might just be the one time. I love him and miss him so much 🥺

Don't you worry, there will definitely be more Echo hugs to come! 💜

Thank you again, my sweet friend! I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts as "Sun and Rain" progresses!! 🥰

#sun and rain fanfic #photogirl894 sun and rain celebration

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worldsunlikemyown · 18 days

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Masterpost (work-in-progress)

ASKS (mostly KOTLC worlbuilding, which is as yet untagged)

KOTLC

ANCIENTS WEEK 2024:

@ancientsweek: all the relevant information (and posts) are on this blog

Ancients week masterpost (just in case)

WORLDBUILDING

Timeline of the Lost Cities: my timeline for the world of KOTLC, intended to be as canon-compliant as possible, 5.8k, complete (link leads to the Timeline masterpost on Tumblr; here on AO3)

The Enlightened Script: my script simulating what I think the actal script of the Enlightened Language looks like; for other related things, see #the enlightened script

#flaming moonlark: a series of posts where I collect proof for Fintan being Sophie's biological father (that's a hill I'm willing to die on btw); may continue this year, but the last post in the tag was from August 24, 2023

#thoughts on the lost cities: kotlc worldbuilding and headcanons tag; other people's worldbuilding can be found in #kotlc worldbuilding; WIP (so not all posts are tagged with this yet)

#silmarillion keeper shenanigans: when I try to smush together two kinds of not-murderous-of-course-not-couldn't-be elves lol; mix of my posts and reblogs

FICS

Waning of the Evening Star, Dampening of the Ancient Flame: slightly AU Finspera fic, 23.9k, complete; rated mature, so please heed the tags

A Burning Brand: Ruedacted tragedy feat. Fintan, 9.2k, incomplete but I'm working on it

The Glory of Old (Now Fallen to Ruin): barely-begun Ancients-centric long-fic that I intend to see to the end, compliant with Timeline of the Lost Cities, 3.3k at present, incomplete

Wondering Whether Kindness Can Be Learned: Bronte character study of sorts, <1k, complete

Midnight Trysts: Luzpera fluff, <1k, complete

Keeptober 2023: two parts split between Ancients and non-Ancients, each of which is about 3.3k, complete

NEVERMOOR

WORLDBUILDING

*#nevermoorian musings: needs to be collated; doesn't exist yet

FICS

Mogtober 2023

A Blessing and Two Curses: AU where Morrigan has a twin brother (I don't think I've put this here before), 5.4k, complete

No One Left to Remember: first part of a Wundersmiths-related oneshot series, hopefully I'll do the other parts one day; standalone for now, <1k, complete

#masterpost #my stuff #<- working out a better tag for things i post. it hasn't worked yet lol

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01001000-01000001-01001100 · 1 year

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Dropping random facts about my trollstuck AU on my silly little sideblog while the other people involved in it are asleep B]

(because I might come to my senses and delete this later)

So you've got Hal, see, and he's a fuchsiablood, so he's a seadweller

Yeah this mf wears a wetsuit everywhere (all the easier to clean the blood off of amirite)

Short for a fuchsiablood his age but like. Still over 6 feet tall (BEFORE HIS ADULT MOLT! He's gonna be like 11 feet tall after it :,) because even if I can't be absurdly tall he can)

Since """"biological sex"""" is even less of a thing for trolls than for humans, one could argue that it doesn't make sense for him to be trans in the first place since theoretically gender is arbitrary and every troll is inherently trans and intersex therefore none of them are, but he's still trans Because I Said So

Adding on to that, since he's a royalblood (and according to the wiki they're all female) everyone probably just went 'wait, MALE?????' and so he probably had The Trans Experience™ of being frequently misgendered by strangers. At least before he grew to notoriety

bitch why does misgendered have the red squiggly line under it it's a real fucking word

*clears throat* ANYWAYS

Trolls have a bunch of cat behaviors also Because I Said So (I'm a catboy ok what did you expect). Like purring and shit

Similarly, there's a like. Biological response (I guess? I'm bullshitting here. It's pheromonal or some shit idk) to keep moirails from murdering each other when one is in a capital-r Rage (or even just regular pissed and murdery) and the other is within Murdering Distance (This is canon compliant as far as I know)

Hal literally stole someone's bones one time it's genuinely established canon (I'm not even kidding he telekinetically ripped out their fucking bones one at a time. He was very, VERY pissed and, well, in a Rage)

He changed his typing quirk at some point to match his moirail's more closely

}It used t() l()()k s()mething like this, if I re((all ((()rre((tly{

(Well. That's the in-universe reason. Really it was annoying to read so I changed it)

This AU has been rotating slowly in the back of my mind for quite some time so the Ye Olde typing quirk was actually a thing I came up with months ago in real time and the changing it thing was more recent

I'm brainrotting send help

Hal can't kill the condesce for. Normal reasons (*coughs into my fist* brainwashing actually but shh.)

Yeah it’s a whole thing

There’s also the whole. Helming thing

I am SOOO normal about mind fuckery *kicking my feet and giggling*

Anyways. Hal's weapon of choice is a naginata rather than a katana because something something fish->spear->weeb

Yeah sure he PREFERS to fight with telekinesis generally but "there's something so satisfying about stabbing people y'know???" (for legal reasons this is a joke I have never stabbed anyone)

He would do anything for his moirail tbh (this comes up often. It... causes problems down the line. The sheer devotion of this man smh.... it's also due to Normal Reasons btw)

why am I being vague about who his moirail is the only people who might see this post already know it's just Dirk :\

fuck it we ball. *commits to the bit*

who am I even talking to here I've addressed statements toward a General Audience but also don't intend for random people to see this

uhhhhh anyways. one eye is fuchsia the other is good ol' #e00707

(I project on to this mf SO MUCH- like I even fuckin realized his relationship with the condesce could be seen as an allegory for my relationship with my father and the trauma bonding wait why I am talking about this on the World Wide Web jegus grist)

uhhh uhh anyways he's in a kismesissitude with Jake

I have a shipping chart of this actually it's titled "THE POLYCULE"

It's on paper but it looks something like this (the other two alpha kids are omitted):

Yeah

he's a femboy

I typically use the term 'boi' to refer to him yes this is deliberate and not just Ha Ha Funneeee Meme

He's absolutely just. Gender goals.

though it's unorthodox for the higher-blooded moirail in a moirallegiance to do, he wears lots of accessories of his moirail's blood color because Fuck The Hemospectrum

This doesn't stop him from showering his moirail in gifts of clothes and jewelry of his own blood color tho. Probably a troll thing tbh

There are So Many things where I'm just like 'ha ha troll instinct' I should probably write down all the random shit that is canonically (in this AU anyway) just A Troll Thing.

A solid 80% of the things Hal does are 'to piss off condy'

gotDAMN do I want to rp right now. I want to like. Go onto pesterchum and inflict his presence onto people. maybe he can bond with some random-ass Dirk over how much they both hate the condesce

is the fact that she's just normal HIC a plot hole? lil bit

it's technically a no-sburb/sgrub AU but in a 'they don't play the game' way. my idea is that maybe Something got fucked up with the coding of the game and now it's a Time problem because the players exist, but they don't end up playing the game, despite needing to in order to exist in the first place idk I'll figure that out later

Aaaaaaaanyways. post-crash, Hal might change his trolltag I haven't decided yet

#rambling on and on about trollstuck

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sidecharactersdomatter · 2 years

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Ok this is for the ask Meme

1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13 and 16

Please and thank you 🥰

1. Oh This is gonna be a long one! I didn’t get into Ducktales until New Gods on the Block and I also watched Toonstarterz vid on how the reboot fixed Donald and Daisy’s relationship. Then in December I learned on both Youtube and Tumblr that the reboot would be canceled after 3 seasons (random person leaked that announcement on twitter and I’d chalk the rest to executive meddling) . That was flat out disappointing. Don’t get me wrong, Ducktales isn’t perfect and Season 3 was starting to show early signs of seasonal rot. I managed to not watch the final episodes of Season 3 and the finale (believe me that had problems and with it wasted potential and characters, Have you seen the Voltron Finale) Ducktales was an overall decent reboot, to quote a gramophone meme, “Does not work but could be fun to fix”. So I decided to create Karass to write about my OCs individual arcs (that don’t get impacted by any member of the Duck Family, I swear it was similar to Steven Universe’s Main Character Syndrome) and how they all grow as characters throughout their story. This labor of love might act as both Quality over Quantity, and 34 chapters proving why Humble overpowers Clout.

2. Echo: Kingfisher

Kyoko Stegano: Azure winged Magpie

Kaguya: Eurasian Sparrow

Tuyen: Vietnamese Greenfinch

Nozomi: White Cheeked Starling

Seyran, Kadriye, Eylem, and Zeki Tahir: Common Firecrest

Rumi: Flying Fox

Velerie: Secretarybird

5. While Canon was targeted for TV-Y7, Karass will be aimed at Young Adults, so I’d say TV-PG to TV-14 at best. The intended age range is 15-21.

7. Karass is both Canon Compliant AND Divergent. The finales for Seasons 2 and 3 will be altered. I do have plans to write in subtle Worldbuilding since my OCs do end up traveling (just not like the Duck Family does on their adventures) So far the events of Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck don’t happen because that was the worst episode of Season 3. The Rumble for Ragnarok in this AU is considered to be a lost episode.

11. Echo, Tuyen, Nozomi and the Tahirs are alright in their plot lines, but no doubt Kyoko and Kaguya are going to be tied for the most Angst.

12. Echo: Demiromantic Asexual She/Her

Kyoko: GNC Sapphic Asexual She/Her

Kaguya: Demigirl AroAce She/They

Tuyen: Demiromantic Lesbian She/Her

Nozomi: Trans Woman Bisexual She/They

Seyran: Asexual She/Her

Kadriye and Eylem: Demisexual She/Her(Kadriye) He/Him(Eylem)

Rumi: Genderfluid Polyromantic Pansexual She/They/Ve/Xe

Velerie: Transfem Lesbian She/Her

I’ve also got to learn how to subvert Queerbaiting (thank you OFMD) since DT17 lacked a lot of prominent same sex couples and had too much focus on their hetero ones.

13. To sum up what I’ve typed in my Notes App, (Hate Sink Mark Beaks was in Prologue 4 btw) Storkules and Selene for Echo’s arc, Obviously Lunaris and Bradford as the main antagonists for both parts (their whole characters will be changed drastically). Buford, Bentley, Black Heron, SteelBeak, Phantom Blot, Pepper (surprisingly during Kyoko’s arc) Gandra (who will also have an interesting dynamic with Kyoko) Penumbra will appear in Kaguya’s arc, M’ma Cabrera, Faris Djinn, Gyro, Fenton, Zan Owlson, and Daisy Duck.

16. Kaguya and then Kyoko. That is the plan.

#ducktales 2017 #ducktales fanfic #ducktales au #ducktales oc #ask meme #karass #karass ask meme #side answers

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feynavaley · 3 years

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Hetalia Headcanon #411

For all the things England blames France for, Canada’s self-esteem issues aren’t one he brings up often. He hardly ever speaks about that with France at all, actually. Because England does feel like France, with the way he handled his separation from Canada, is to blame for them – but then, why wasn’t England able to do anything about it? He ultimately spent far more time with Canada than France did, after all. Part of him is quite afraid that France would come up with that retort. Being aware of it is one thing, because at the same time, England can also refuse to acknowledge it fully and relegate it to a remote corner of his mind. Hearing such accusations out loud, instead, would make them much too real and painful. England isn’t sure he could handle being confronted with how much he hurt one of the people dearest to him.

Ironically, France doesn’t bring up the topic often exactly for the same reason – for how much he would love to blame England, he knows he’s the one who messed up in the first place, in spite of his good intentions. And aknowledging it fully is just as hard for him as it is for England.

#hetalia #hetalia headcanon #aph england #aph france #aph canada #feyna's headcanon #all this is intended as canon compliant btw #so shipless and with france and england taking care of canada in different times #never together #they were both too young though #and they made mistakes that shaped canada #(this is true for england with america as well actually)#(even though in that case it didn't result in a dent to america's confidence -- that one is as big as ever)

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carpisuns · 3 years

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you know, as a creator, i actually don’t consider myself that “creative.” that’s not rly intended to be self-deprecating btw—what I mean is that i am better at repurposing or expanding on other people’s ideas rather than coming up with my own. i’m “creative” because i create, but i have a hard time creating ex nihilo. I have to have a starting point. i can think outside the box, but there has to be a box first. (this checks out because I work as an editor lol. the main focus of my job is to polish or build on something that’s already there.)

that’s one reason that fan creation appeals so much to me. I have a hard time coming up with my own stories, but I love writing fanfic because it’s like I have a sandbox to play in and there are lot of possibilities I can explore. and I’ve never made up an art OC, but I love drawing my favorite fictional characters to improve my skills and stretch my creative muscles. fandom creation is so valuable for creators like me and to a lot of other types of creative minds too. people sometimes ask me why I don’t do more original work and the answer is that I haven’t yet been able to create something on my own that inspires me to keep creating the way my favorite stories do. and I don’t think that’s really a bad thing? inspiration comes in many forms and I will create based on whatever inspiration I receive. And right now that inspiration happens to come from a kid’s cartoon, or a book series, or some other already-told story.

even within fandom i kind of see a division of creators. There are the ones who come up with cool AUs/headcanons or interpret the story and characters in a fresh, unique way, and then there are the ones like me who mostly stick to canon and create based off that. and both are good! I get involved in fandom because I genuinely really enjoy the source content, so I usually don’t feel the need to give it a makeover lol. because of that I tend to keep my work pretty canon compliant (altho not always/not entirely). but I often really admire the creativity of the fan creators who do push past the boundaries of canon to make room for their own ideas and reinterpretation. I think it’s cool to have a mix and representation of many different types of creators/creation.

maybe the kind of creativity I’m talking about is a skill you can develop—a muscle you can build—or maybe it just depends on how your brain is wired. either way, if you’re a “non-creative” creator like me and you feel like your work doesn’t means anything because it’s not unique enough, just know that creation is creation no matter what and that your creation is still unique and cool just because you made it, and no one creates exactly the way you do. you might feel like you aren’t offering much to the world but you don’t know how you might inspire someone else or just make them smile. and that is worth it all on its own, at least to me. idk about you but i can’t imagine myself ever saying, “oh man, another drawing of my absolute favorite character that sparks joy just to think about :/ boring” or “lame, I found yet another fic featuring my favorite ship and my favorite trope that always makes me go bonkers :/” haha. my stuff may not not always be super original but I know people still enjoy it and I enjoy creating so that’s what really matters tbh

I’m really grateful for the creators who inspire me to create—whether it’s a source creator or a fellow fan creator. I truly am extremely inspired by fan creators every day and I feel honored and thrilled to be able to share the same creative space with them! thank you for sharing your work, even if you feel a little insecure about it. life is a richer experience for you and others because of what you create.

#idk what came over me #im just always Thinking Thoughts #and sometimes they just regurgitate out of me at random times #anyway cheerio #positivity #art #writing #mine

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oldandkinky · 3 years

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I've only read the most recent honey fics (which I love btw) so this might have been answered already but what happened to Geralt to make him Like That?

That's the thing: nothing not compliant with Witcher canon.

While I love Geralt, I think we as a fandom (and also A.Saps) tend to extremely underestimate what that kind of life potentially does to a person's (mental) health. These people are abused to an extreme degree from childhood on, tortured, have to watch their friends die, live with the knowledge that they could die on any given day, and get injured regularly. Head injuries in particular - like concussions - lead to changes in personality and are closely linked to antisocial behaviour. Think CTE and similar afflictions.

I think the Geralt of book and game canon is the best possible outcome, but he's also highly idealised. Is it likely that someone who lived through all those horrible things comes out as stable and loving as he did? Debatable, in my opinion.

Therefore, Honey!Geralt (or Garbage!Geralt as I've come to call him) is a version of him who has been left so damaged by his experiences that he is simply incapable of empathy. Add to that a skewed view of secondary genders and it's a perfect mixture of horrors.

In the beginning of their story, he very much intended to simply use Jaskier for his pleasure and nothing more. After that first heat, his instincts went into overdrive. He is still not able to empathise with Jaskier, but he thinks he can. He is convinced that he's not doing anything wrong and that things would be perfect if Jaskier just stopped being so pigheaded. He has these moments where he wonders if maybe he's doing something wrong but his delusion doesn't let him seriously consider the possibility.

He's a Witcher, he's the alpha, and Jaskier is just an omega - whose job it is anyway to spread his legs and nothing else - who never left his village and has no education. Of course Geralt is right.

#oldandkinky #oldandkinky talks #oldandkinky honey #oldandkinky dead dove #dead dove do not eat #witcher meta #i guess

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mallowstep · 3 years

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another au ask but do you have any tbc au’s?

not a ton...

i'm going to put the rest of this under a read more, because it's impossible for me to talk about tbc without talking about abuse, and like, i'm not gonna get graphic about it, but i'm also not gonna pull punches, y'know?

for stuff i already have, "may there be no sadness of farewell" is a squirrelstar au and it's got a lot planned for that au! i've got i think 7 chapters left, + two side fics, one of which is supposed to be 5 chapters/20k words.

and "make moonshine out of moonlight" is a canon compliant tigerheart & dovewing focused au.

i probably have other stuff? i don't know off the top of my head.

anyway.

as for stuff in progress...

the next au i have is untitled and basically:

"sandstorm doesn't die in avos and instead lives and when bramblestar drops her daughter off the highledge she drop-kicks him into the sun"

feat. sandstorm still alive during lost stars/whatever the next book is i always forget, and when bramblestar is physically abusive, instead of being okay with it like the rest of the clan, she drop-kicks him into the sun.

is this a squirrelstar au too? i'm not sure. mtbnsof is a weird genre cross of "squirrelflight grappling with abuse" and "intense political thriler" and like...

i love writing squilf, but i don't want to burn out of squilf angst, y'know? there's only so many times you can explore the exact same content in a row.

that said, i think this would be from sandstorm's pov. i want to see her deal with her daughter's abuse. if i can get personal, i relate heavily to squilf because i have seen my mom be her, and i have been her but we don't talk about that here that's main blog shit

so i've also seen my grandmother react and like. yeah. i'd want to write that.

for related reasons, i have at least a one shot planned where sparkpelt has to deal with her father's abusive behaviour. i don't know a ton about it yet, just that it is going to exist.

i actually have several ideas related to that concept, but some of them are for existing aus/plans, so i'm not going to talk about them in detail.

oh! i want to write an au where squilf runs away to skyclan bc leafstar realizes that bramblestar is an abusive pos

i want to do a cross-time and clan piece about time in the pit. there have been a lot of trauma pits. i want to write about it.

oh! an au where everything is the same dovewing just rips lionblaze a new one for how he treats her son.

and i was inspired by a tumblr post about ferncloud's ghost helping shadow + root?

(i do save all of my tumblr posts for inspiration, btw. i intend on citing my sources, so to speak.)

similarly, i have a loner squilf au saved, but i'm not sure how i feel about it. i have to sort out what/why happens. part of why squilf is so personally relatable to me is because she doesn't realize what's going on because yeah, abuse survivors often don't.

uh, i wanna explore the concept of "if you die in the dark forest you die in real life"?

and i wanna do a lot exploring ivypool & bristlefrost's relationship, but that isn't really, like, an au at all

oh! and yes, okay, i do want to do this: i want to do a slightly-crack au where shrewpaw and ashfur are wrestling for control of bramble's body, because shrewpaw just wants to treat squilf right and ashfur is trying to do his canon thing and here's the thing!

i say slightly-crack bc it's meme-y, but like, in reality, it's going to be terribly traumatizing to squilf as they act out the cycle of abuse in all of its glory, and she's powerless and confused and terrified. very angsty.

it will have a happy ending, tho. she deserves it.

and...i think that's it?

sorry this wasn't as like, detailed as the other au posts, i just...i generally like tbc? like it raises so many interesting dynamics to explore that i'd rather do that than write an au.

don't worry tho in a year i'll have 14 million ideas like i do for po3.

#ask #anon #talk #au talk #tbc #mine #txt #essay #abuse

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onthevirgeofdestruction · 3 years

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35 Q’s for Fanfic Writers

From this post

I’m having a shitty, rude alter-y, crap night so I’m just going to answer all of these to distract myself and focus and to not bother anybody just making my own post and putting it under the cut btw, notice to anyone not aware: since I’m moving I won’t likely be updating anything until I’m done doing so.

1. From one to five stars, how would you rate your writing? (No downplaying yourself!) 3/5? Could use more editing and description and can be weirdly paced.

2. Why do you write fanfiction? Because it’s better than focusing on pain 24/7.

3. What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works? I don’t seem to have a specific narrative voice that people recognize but I’m pretty proud of mostly organic dialogue.

4. Are there any writers that inspire you? as a rule i never look up to anybody for inspiration but there’s some stuff in my ao3 bookmarks I fawn over.

5. What’s the fic you’re most proud of? Right now, none of them. It changes normally, anyway. If get too proud then I’d get my ass kicked by RSD if someone didn’t like it so it’s safer this way

6. What element of writing do you find comes easily? Dialogue.

7. What element of writing do you struggle with most? Organic description, poetic language kind of stuff. I can paint a scene but I’m not so great with bring out out a feeling with description alone.

8. Which character(s) do you find easiest to write? Janus and Virgil are probably tied. They both have things I struggle with but I don’t have to go back and do much adjusting of language and tone with them. Though admittedly my Virgil is signifigantly more foul-mouthed than canon and I tend to prefer pre-AA feral asshole Virgil.

9. Which character(s) do you find most difficult to write? Patton. I write him the least, so people can probably tell. I love Patton, I really do, but it’s so hard to keep away from fanon Patton.

10. What’s your favorite genre to write for? Angst w/ H/C obviously. Or if you’re talking about regular book genres, Fantasy. I fucking love fantasy world building.

11. Who or what do you find yourself writing about most? Trauma. I blame Daeram. As if Ayri isn’t a giant Angst Demon.

12. Tell us about a WIP you’re excited about. Slopes. I’m really into it. I’ve got three one shots running right now. Patrons can read the first part of the unnamed cat remus one, there’s also a coffeeshop au tropey nonsense one like eglantine & lycoris, but Slopes is addiction angst. Mmmmm. Virgil is addicted to coke and alcohol and will listening to his friends even be in time? Who knows, especially not me, but there’s already over 30k.

13. First fandom you ever wrote for? InuYasha. Or was it Harry Potter? Or shit, The Blue Sword? Fuck, I’ve been writing for a long time, I really have no idea.

14. What’s your favorite fandom to write for? Sanders Sides. The characters are the perfect dynamic for writing since they exist in balance of each other and the popular, easy to project on archetypes featured are incredibly fun to do basically any scenario with.

15. What’s the weirdest fandom you’ve ever written for? Weird storywise? Kingdom Hearts? I can’t even follow the plot anymore. Weird Fandomwise? Sanders Sides. Its simultainiously the fluffiest and angstiest nonsense at the same time.

16. Any guilty pleasure trope(s)? Vampires. Gay ones. Gay Vampires. I also love calm tol and angy smol.

17. A trope you’ll never, ever write for. Any tropes that normalize incredibly toxic behaviour or tropes that are inherantly ableist, but I can’t think of any.

18. Wildest fic you’ve ever written? Incorrigible continues to be complete nonsense.

19. Do you prefer canon-compliant, AUs, or something in-between? AUs. I mean closest I even have is canon-divergence other than a single short.

20. Gen fic or shippy stuff? I like it when there is gay nonsense along with a plot that is treated as more important than the relationship the most. But I like both. There’s more shippy stuff in tss so i read more shipping action by default.

21. Favorite pairing to write for? (platonic or romantic!) Anxceit/Sleepxiety, but in general, give me darksides or give me death/j

22. Do you listen to anything while you write? Almost everything I write has a special playlist I listen to to help me write it, but otherwise I listen to my Nyan playlist, an alter is picking the tunes, or a voidfam playlist. I never have music off. When my internet is down I just listen to the songs I own or Anxiety’s theme on loop.

23. Do you prefer prompts and challenges, or completely independent ideas? I’m fine with all of them. I love working with prompts but I tend to deviate. And I’ve never done a challenge since I can’t do deadlines and bad things happen bingo never sent me a card and I applied three times.

24. One-shots or multi-chaptered works? I am generally multi-chaptered stuff, but I’ve been working on a few one-shots lately that are much longer than most one shots.

25. Have you ever daydreamed about side adventures/spin-offs from your fic? Tell us about them! I was originally thinking of doing some little 13-year-old Dreaming!Roman (y’know, the one with a job) shorts but it turns out I just had an alter of that little bastard and that’s why I inexplicably know more about him then I ever even considered. I still might do them after Dreaming is done. But that’s paced so slowly who knows when that might happen. Otherwise I put stuff in my notes and just do shorts of it if I’m like “oh you know what’s cool???” but since I can’t daydream maybe this question doesn’t apply to me.

26. Is there anything you’ve wanted to write, but you’ve been too scared to try? I want to do more autism stuff, and I’ve had it demanded a few times, but I’m scared of being that explict about it for some reason. Possibly because I might be, possibly because I’m scared of doing it wrong even though I’ve accidentally coded multiple characters autistic. I’m scared of explictly tagging them as such, too.

27. What’s the nicest comment you’ve ever received? That I can remember off the top of my head? I’m going with one from @a-genz-with-trauma-and-kins. It really helped me out and was just so kind and literally the best christmas gift I got in 2020.

28. How well do you handle criticism when it comes to your writing? I can handle it alright but Daeram is a little fucking pissbaby about it. Constructive criticism helps people get better, so I appreciate it. I can’t handle critism that is incomplete, though. “i just don’t get it” or “I don’t know I don’t like it” kind of things. If I can’t understand the why to fix it then things get out of control. And then I spiral and RSD for like four days minimum. If it came from an anon or a troll, too, It might not bother me for as long. Things that are just like “this is shit and you should feel bad” just make me laugh. Couldn’t even bother to read it long enough to insult me proper? I don’t care.

29. Have you ever gone outside of your comfort zone for a fic? How did it turn out? I have a few times. Mostly in shorts and prompts, I think. I think they turned out okay. They’re not particularly inspired or anything.

30. Tooth-rotting fluff or merciless angst? Depends on my mood. Am I triggered? give me the fluff. Am I vibin? Angst.

31. Do you have any OCs? Tell us about them! Fuck, fam, no, I can’t, I have so many. I have multiple original stories and some of them have very large casts and like holy fuck. Or do you mean in Sanders Sides fandom? Um, Morgan and Thorn in PD. The lesbian and her himbo dynamic. I love them. They’re dorks. Morgan is strong person with sharp tongue and soft romantic heart and Thorn is just so kind and so dumb and so exciteable he’s like a puppy. They were just filler characters and I got attached to them. Felton even gets redemption for being an ass later in PD, like oof i never intended to include so much OC content, especially for names I just picked randomly.

32. Summarize a random fic of yours in 10 words or less. nope I’m doing all of them because these are fun plea for my new self: 2 gay vampires, 4 humans, 1 braincell dreaming while I wake: trauma child needs therapy and so do you break: big oof, oh dragons, oh why, go virgil go rebuild: virgil is so not okay there’s more virgil to deal painful death: gay teens drink themselves into a new religion stargazing: whoops we didn’t realize people actually cared whole castle: everyone will throw down for kid!patton, even you incorrigible: found family with a shot of psychological horror and crack dangerous instincts: wholesome crime syndacite action slopes: addict gets mugged and thinks that’s just fine with him conflagration: logan avoids everything ever like a champ cat!remus: bored fae shifts gay pining from one person to another caffeine cyptids: caffinated gay panic goes faster than regular gay panic eglantine & lycoris: more tropes than you can toss a shoe at storytime: overpowered virgil also overreacts literally always

33. Is there anything you wish your audience knew about your writing or writing process? an alter and I write together and I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen, what I’m writing about, or even what year it is. I often don’t even remember what I wrote. There’s no outline. I have an idea and I pick things at random for it. There’s just notes and an evil gleam in a demon’s eye. The only reason I know more than readers is because I take a long time to edit and some of these stories have fucking alters up in my head who can tell me things. Daeram tells me nothing. The writing demon supposedly has all this knowledge but I have absolutely no clue because he does not talk to me, he just fronts and slams out 9k in a few hours or we cofront to write and I’m like “oh no she didn’t” while typing

34. Copy and paste an excerpt you’re particularly fond of. i’m fond of the entire painful death series and I tried to find something I really liked without spoilers in stargazing and I couldn’t so here’s a random thing from incorrigble: “So, what do you do with your friends?” Patton continued on with a megawatt smile. “Grand larceny,” Virgil deadpanned and glared at Patton, who was taken aback. Remy and Andy just broke out laughing while Virgil tentatively sipped his still-too-hot-cocoa.

35. Ramble about any fic-related thing you want! slopes my dudes slopes i have learned so much about cocaine! like wow! I thought for a minute it was going to end with MCD around 30k but it swtiched from whump to hurt/comfort and I still don’t know if it’s going to be MCD but look at that funky little coke/alcohol addict go, it’s a medical wonder he’s alive! It’s not like there’s what seems to be a little talked about interaction between alcohol and cocaine that causes a toxic chemical to build up in the liver which can result in liver failure and sudden death at basically any moment! Which is part of why it may result in MCD but this time no ghosts! maybe it’ll be h/c with whump elements or maybe it’ll be whump with h/c elements we can’t know for sure

#ayri writes #tw drug mention

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