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thewolvesof1998 · 8 months

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get to know your fic writer + WIP Snippet

Tagged by @jesuisici33 @hippolotamus @your-catfish-friend

When did you post your first ever fanfic?

God, I definitely posted 1D fics on Wattpad back in the day, probably in 2013 but I started posting again only in June of this year.

First character(s) you wrote for:

It was probably something 1D related either Larry or an OC/Harry Styles

Main character(s) you’re currently writing for:

Buck and Eddie of course.

Character(s) you haven’t written about before but plan on writing about soon:

Hmmm I don’t have anything planned, I’m just following the hyperfixation but probably someone from the 911 world, maybe Ravi or May?

Fandom(s) you’re currently writing for:

9-1-1

Platonic pairing(s) you currently write for:

Buck and Chris- you can't really avoid Buck as Chris's other parent when writing Buddie. Bobby and Buck- another father-and-son relationship. Eddie and Sophia- the Diaz siblings. The entire firefam I suppose.

Romantic pairing(s) you currently write for:

Buck/Eddie

Your top 3 tags on AO3 (if you post your works on AO3):

Not Beta Read, One Shot and Pre-Relationship Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz

Your current platform where you post your works:

AO3

Snippet of the wip you’re currently working on:

I haven't written in weeks but the inspiration hit tonight so here a bit from a new wip- something for Halloween:

Eddie could hear the creak of the tree outside as the wind tumbled through its branches, someone calling for their dog a few doors down and a motorcycle roaring down the street adjacent to his. He could also hear Buck’s heartbeat, its usual slow and steady thump, thump, thump. Normally he would hear Christopher's soft breaths and fluttering heartbeat from the room down the hall but the house is empty tonight. He can still taste the tequila from the shots they’d decided were a good idea after finishing their usual six pack. The alcohol warming his stomach, making his limbs feel like they belonged to someone else. Without thinking about it, they place themselves on Buck’s broad chest, his skin a contrast to the dark blue button-up Buck decided to wear tonight. Eddie can feel the sharp intake of breath beneath them and his eyes drag themselves up to Buck’s face. His usually pale skin is flushed ever so slightly, confusion dragging his eyebrows together in a look that would be comical if Eddie wasn’t so damn in love with him. “Eds?” Buck whispers, so quiet that if it weren’t for his enhanced hearing he wouldn’t have heard it. Eddie doesn’t respond, not verbally at least, he just steps in closer, placing his forehead on Buck’s shoulder, face tucked into his neck. Buck’s hands automatically come up to rest on his arms and Eddie thinks just for a moment that he’s going to push him away but instead, Buck’s fingers curl around his biceps, holding him tightly. Eddie breathes in, taking in Buck’s scent, citrus, honeycomb and sunshine on snow, it’s just as intoxicating as the alcohol. He’s nuzzling into Buck’s neck chasing that scent before he can stop himself. Buck shudders but doesn’t pull away instead, he bares his neck and tries to relax despite the vulnerable position. Buck has to know he’s not going to hurt him, Eddie could never hurt him. He opens his mouth and sucks in a breath, “Buck…” his name is as sweet as the taste of him on Eddie’s tongue. It so distracting that he forgets what he is going to say and instead, his hands slide up and one around Buck’s neck and into his hair, using the grip to tilt his head so Eddie has better access. Buck gasps, his fingers digging in painfully before relaxing again but Eddie barely registers it, drowning in Buck’s scent until it was just Buck and only him. Eddie’s teeth and claws lengthen as the primal need takes control, he manages to loosen his grip enough to avoid piercing Buck, the need to protect is just as strong as the need to mark and claim.

Tagging:

@wikiangela @wildlife4life @eddiebabygirldiaz @disasterbuckdiaz @spotsandsocks @try-set-me-on-fire @bekkachaos @buddierights @forthewolves @911-on-abc @shitouttabuck @911onabc @exhuastedpigeon @eddiediaztho @loserdiaz @ladydorian05 @watchyourbuck @king-buckley @chaoticgremlinwholikescheese @fortheloveofbuddie @sammy-souffle @steadfastsaturnsrings @mangacat201 @theotherbuckley @hoodie-buck @eowon @rainbow-nerdss @nmcggg @pirrusstuff

#tag games #fanfic writers #ao3 #thewolvesof1998 writes #buddie

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superfluouskeys · 5 months

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i wave my wand & command u to speak on hopeless, a fic that has lived in my bookmarks for time immemorial.

ohhhhh thank youuu!!! hopeless was my first wolgraha fic! It was based on 10 kiss prompts that I decided to make loosely related and kind of flesh out a story for my WoL. I was just going along cheerfully enjoying FFXIV until Shadowbringers but idk man several things about that part of the story just have my number on speed dial you know! I was like okay I’m gonna have to write for this to get the rocks out of my brain, ergo I’m gonna have to actually develop an OC.

I pretty much made Adrienne specifically to ship her w/ G’raha so I find it extremely funny a. how quickly I became attached to her for her own sake and b. how I feel her chemistry w/ other characters developed since she was initially conceptualized to complement G’raha specifically LOL. I previously had a hard time “bonding” with my own OCs and I feel this really marked a turning point in that regard where I was able to focus in on character ideas that really appealed to me enough to form that connection, if that makes sense.

There’s also like a huge gap in my AO3 works from March 2020 until January 2021 when I started writing for FFXIV. I remember I kept wanting to say something about what I was going through at the time and how I was feeling about my writing and about writing generally, but anything I tried to say barely made any sense because I think I didn’t even know what was going on with me. There was a period of time where I felt like maybe I just wouldn’t write anymore because I didn’t have it in me. Nothing inspired me, and nothing I had been working on pre-pandemic even remotely appealed to me anymore. I felt like it had been written by someone else.

In retrospect, it makes perfect sense, right? But it was hard to understand the feeling from the middle of it. And I didn’t want to be cold or disrespectful to the people who have loved my work over the years, but I also couldn’t find a good way of venting my frustration about how I was feeling, so I think I often ended up coming off that way despite my best intentions.

So my main goal in doing the kiss prompts was to not angst about them too much, to just get them done without much editing, and to write something fairly different from what I usually wrote in the past. I felt like it would be a good challenge for me because as I mentioned I really love unresolved tension and agonizing slow burn, but I think maybe I love it too much LOL, so sometimes when it finally came time for the culmination of the tension I would freeze up because I had built it up so much that I was afraid the payoff wouldn’t be good enough! Ten shortish prompts where they literally had to kiss felt like a perfect low-stress challenge to help shake my brain loose on this very specific issue, and for that reason I think it’s very sweet and pleasant to read where a lot of my other work is more fraught and angsty LOL.

I really don’t even know if this dialogue feels particularly in character, I was straight up just calling myself out for a laugh:

A dull terror is beginning to take root in her heart, the one that has borne the loss of countless others, the one that has already lost him twice over, and she searches her mind frantically for something to say, something that will keep her from spoiling the moment with things she can’t do anything about. “Is that your idea of a proper courtship?” she wonders, instead, trying at a teasing tone. G’raha looks up. “Is it not to your liking?” he counters. “If you’d prefer, I could go and sit across the room.” “You’ll do no such thing!” Adrienne tightens her grip on him instinctively. G’raha’s grin widens, and his tone turns dramatic. “Perhaps in a few months, our hands will brush, and I’ll write you a sad letter about it.” “I hate you so much.” Adrienne laughs weakly, but she cannot bring herself to loosen her grip on him, lest he slip away from her yet again in her negligence. “I don’t think that’s true,” says G’raha pleasantly.

It’s funny, now that my life is like pretty normal and okay again, I’m back to mostly liking fraught and angsty things, but at the time I feel my personal life was so bad that I really needed sweet and pleasant in my escapism!

Fanfic Writer Director's Cut Ask Game!

#tyty for indulging me!!!!!#i also was (and still am of course) such a huge fan of your work when I found it and i was so honored and delighted that you liked my fic!!#exciting tag for writing things #exciting tag for answered asks #personal #ffxiv #wolgraha #fic:hopeless #poor adrienne still doesn't have a consistent tag bc i just posted her on twitter #my poor bby #relegated to TWITTER #the injustice

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again-please · 6 months

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20 questions for fic writers!

tagged by @septemberskye c:

YOU go ahead and do this if you want! I tag THEE. go unto the tag and prosper.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

just the five!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

164,059. neat!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

actively just BG3. in the past, Star Wars, and a couple of extremely random, disparate things exclusive to my desktop

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

lmao I only HAVE five but A Little Further has the crown!

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

oh god, I'm sorry, I do reply to a few here and there especially when I see direct questions for me, but honestly I just feel so awkward bc all I can think to say is "thank you!" with varying numbers of exclamation points. and I am extremely blessed in that recently a lot tend to come at once and I feel terrible that I don't have the brain capacity to give everyone a proper reply

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

of the fics I HAVE ended (slides down in chair), I don't think any of them are angsty! I will do some bittersweetness, but honestly, I like a generally happy ending. I like to include angst, but resolve it - even if the resolution is in a next part in a series

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I guess that'd have to be find a thread to pull, and we can watch it unravel. takes place post victory against the First Order (in a pre-TLJ AU setting) so everything being resolved is just FEELINGS (and we all know how we resolve FEELINGS in this house)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I did actually get I think literally my first purely vitriolic comment the other day (again, I am DEEPLY fortunate) but honestly it didn't sound like they even read the fic it was left on? I guess I was just overdue for the experience lmao

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

yes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) but uhhhh what kind...I'm not sure how I'd categorize it? I guess my aim is for it always to be predominantly romantic, but I will go where the wind takes me in a particular scene

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

nope!

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes, just one! I wish I could find it but someone translated find a thread to pull, and we can watch it unravel.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I haven't! and unfortunately I would not wish me as a writing partner on my worst enemy lmao, I'm simply way too slow

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

it's always hard to see beyond the current obsession, but reylo and spuffy are soooo dear to me

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I feel particularly bad about survival season because I was in the home stretch, but man, when the inspiration dies it really dies

16. What are your writing strengths?

I want to say/dialogue banter, especially big group scenes, because that's when it really feels FUN for me and I accidentally go into a trance and do 1700 words of just conversation

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

other than being sloooooooooooow (700 words is a GREAT full day of writing for me), I cannot stick to an outline for the goddamn life of me. I really try and DO outline/summarize future chapters, but in the midst of a chapter suddenly something else will grab hold of me and I realize I actually need to write the complete opposite thing happening

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

oh I'm not remotely up to that task

19. First fandom you wrote for?

babes, it was Teen Titans. and NATURALLY I had an OC that joined the team and whom I (gasp) also freely used in half-baked X-Men stories. 10-year-old me had zero concept of the Marvel/DC divide and honestly I was happier for it

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

I think A Little Further. that one kind of gave me my confidence back and in my head it's permanently associated with that "oh god why am I so obsessed with this FICTIONAL MAN" energy that gets you through the tough times

#tag games #adventures in writing #ty for the tag!!

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enchantedchocolatebars · 11 months

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The very kind and very talented @queenspinoodle tagged me in this writing game! 💖 ✏️ 💕 ✍️ 💟 (THANK U!!!)

1. What motivates you to write?

My love for writing does! ❤️ ✏️ As a writer, I have stories to tell and headcanons to share. I wanna make myself happy with them! Also, the works of others motivate me too. Whenever I see a really good fic or writing piece online, I go, "Wow, what this person wrote was SO amazing that I want to write my own amazing thing!"

2. A line/short snippet of your writing that you are most proud of; if not, share a line from someone else's work that you love (just make sure to give credit

Not only am I gonna share a snippet, I'm also gonna explain why I'm so proud of it.

Here it is:

... Brown eyes begin to sparkle at that fact. Caleb had no idea! He casts a smile down at his mother’s stomach, giving it a light pat.

“I’m so glad God decided to gift you to us, Philip,” Caleb “speaks” to his little brother.

The corners of his mouth soften.

“I can’t wait to see you.”

This is from the short, canon divergent story I wrote titled "A New Addition".

In this scene, a (I'll say 5 since I didn't state his age in the story, but you can tell he's a small child) year old Caleb has just been told by his mother where baby's come from. Heaven! They're gifts from gods (her words).

The reason I'm so proud of this piece is because I love how sweet and sincere I made Little Caleb at the end. He's just so grateful that God gave Philip as a gift to him and his family and he can't wait to see / meet him. 🥹

It shows how Caleb has always loved Philip (even in his unborn baby state).

3. Which OC makes you smile when you think/talk about them and what are they like?

Uh, CLARA EVELYN CLAWTHORNE !!! 💞 🫶🥹 💕

I LOVE HER SO MUCH (SO DOES HER BIRDIE AND HUSBAND)! 💓 💓 💓

She's a hyperactive, carefree witch who's fun-loving and adventurous. She's also very kind and caring.

4. Which process of writing do you enjoy the most?

Coming up with ideas and writing them down.

5. Which part of writing do you think you're best at? (Stroke your own ego, it's okay)

I think I'm best at making my audience have a good time! My writing, for the most part, is always fun and exciting. You'll never be bored when you read my stuff.

6. What is something in the writeblr community that is most enjoyable?

THE POSITIVITY POSTS THAT PEOPLE MAKE!!! I LOVE REBLOGGING THEM!!! I love how uplifting they are. Whenever I'm feeling down about my work, I go back to read them. They kinda inspire me to maybe make my own writer positivity blog. Maybe one day.😌

7. A writing tool/device that helps you with writing (i.e. text-to-speech, a program, etc...)

THE GOOGLES.

8. A piece of world-building that you like in your own story (it could be the magic system, a particular place, a law, etc...)

I don't really create my own worlds, but I do like adding a sense of cartooniness / cartoon logic to existing ones lol.

9. What piece of advice would you give to encourage others to write if they are having a rough patch?

No matter what. <3 I know I won't. 😋

10. Tag some people whose work you love/ have been your biggest supporters

Easy:

@queenspinoodle

@princessrainbowpastel

@elusive---ivory

@angelcloves

@ren-c-leyn

@nightsoulvixen (I'm not sure if you write Roya, but you're always supporting me and I ❤️ you for that. <3)

#tagged in something #tumblr game #queenspinoodle #(I cry when you tag me in writer / writing things because it is SO SWEET OF YOU to do so 😭 🥹 😭 🥹)

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afreakingdork · 1 year

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Hey Dork! It's been a while since I came to your ask box hehe, I just wanna say that CtM was such a ride, and I'm glad I found that fic cause it's probably one of the greatest Donnie x Readers I have read!!!

Which also makes me come to my question, which feel free to ignore if you've already answered something like this!

But you've inspired me into making an OC x Donnie story and I've gotta ask you about some writing tips? Also writing Donnie's character since I'm... uh... Not that great at writing for him? 😅 is there just anything you do to get into his character or is it just something that easily comes to you?

AA sorry it's long I got carried away-! I hope you have a good day/night wherever you are! :D

Goodness gracious, it's good to here for you! You come back just to make me blush!

Even if I have answered this, it's certainly been awhile. First off, the fact that I inspired you to write makes me doubly blush! There is nothing in this world like inspiring someone else to make art! Back to the question at hand, it's funny I recently wrote a little example of my process on my membership ko-fi, but that's not really tips, is it? Not to schlep this off onto someone else, but @kathaynesart wrote an incredibly poignant bit about storytelling that I hope everyone has a chance to read! To be specific, I especially jive with "the Greenhouse Method" and their notes on scenes mattering. Even when writing something akin to a slice of life, I'm a huge proponent that the scene has to mean something. Even if the whole sequence happens just so one tiny revelation or line of dialog can be said, I think that justifies the scene for the plot! I get frustrated, especially with movies as of late, that are long for the sake of being long and have scenes that don't serve the plot. Everything is in service of the plot; that's the point of a story!

My writing has been refined through years of reading as well. Whether that be fanfiction or real books, being a voracious reader is practice step one and integral to hearing many voices in a means to hone your own! Also, just like drawing, you just have to start writing now. Good... Bad... It's all subjective and what's important is practice. Plus even stuff I look bad on that's 'bad' grammatically or problematic that I wrote a decade ago, still has merit because the idea may have been good or the emotion I explored was interesting! It breaks my heart when old media gets deleted for the sake of 'cleaning up.' I understand the necessity for brand management at a certain point, but sometimes I wish there were more options like orphaning a fic on ao3!

As for Donnie, and this specially I have mentioned before (again, not a thing, this is a note for myself), but I got to a standpoint where I felt comfortable writing him after listening to hours upon hours of compilations of him on YouTube. I have this thing where I 'hear' a character's voice, but I need to tune that and compilations help tune out the noise of other characters when you really want to sharpen your ear for just one. That isn't to say this process ever ends. I still watch compilations to this day to remind myself what I'm going for!

I believe I'm the one who ended up getting carried away, but I hope any of this helps and please feel free to message me if you'd ever like my thoughts on your work! This has been a delightful addition to my day so I wish you a similarly wonderful day/night as well!!! ✨

#ask #writing process #my fanfiction

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raplinesmoon · 2 years

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Also I’m the same anon who just read on the ropes!

The way you wrote Seokjin as a character 😩😘it made complete utter sense. he wasn’t just the funny guy he had depth and was conceived as a guy who had emotion as well so I LOVED IT😁

Hi On the Ropes anon (that is a mouthful, would you like me to call you something else?) 🥰

You don’t understand, OTR!Seokjin has my entire heart. I actually dreamt up the plot of the fic over a couple of weeks (lucid dreaming hehe 👀), and I just kept coming back to his character as the cornerstone of everything. I wanted to do exactly what you said, create a layered, complex Seokjin who was capable of emotions beyond cracking dad jokes. Not that funny Seokjin isn’t great, but I kind of think back to this one time the boys were asked who was the most romantic and I think Taehyung said Jin? I really saw his character as someone who struggled a lot in life, but also, no joke, falling in love with OC was life changing for them. Not just because of their situation, but also because the two of them, regardless of whether they ended up together or not, would forever inspire this cosmic shift in the other that rendered them unable to live life as they had previously.

It’s funny because I was actually thinking of them the other day and if you’ve read the epilogue, you know how things work out for them. But I wrote down this little scene of them, some time at 3:41am.

pairing: ex-boxer!Seokjin x lawyer!reader (from On The Ropes)

genre(s): fluff, slight angst

au(s): established relationship

word count: 425

warnings: wondering about what ifs

rating: pg (the OTR universe is 18+ in general)

a/n: I lowkey imagined this scene between them where they’re together after the 3 years apart, and just lying in bed (after some marathon sex ofc), and this is just what happens:

*spoilers below the cut if you haven’t read*

You feel Seokjin shift next to you, his warm palms coming to wrap around you waist, pulling you closer to him until you’re both a tangle of limbs, unable to tell where he ends and you begin. His faint breath fans across your neck, and right here, in his arms, you feel the safest you ever have. If home was a person, it’d be Kim Seokjin.

You hear his breath hitch, catching in his throat before he begins to speak. His voice rumbles, and a pleasant warmth settles into your body despite the chilly night air.

“What would you have done?” He asks. “If we’d never found each other again?”

You go limp in his arms, dread settling in at his question. That was a situation you’d never wanted to fathom happening to either of you. But you think back to those uncertain months before you’d found him again, and how you’d never managed to make your peace with the loss of his presence in your life.

You’d been okay, no doubt, doing better for yourself ,finally out of the rut that had plagued you for years. But your soul still felt fractured, as if there would forever be a tiny chip in the delicate glass walls that held your heart, one that would never be able to be repaired. Even if you could move on and live the happiest life you’d imagined, part of you would always belong to him.

Shaking your head, you let out a heavy sigh, not wanting to worry Seokjin this late at night. The two of you had more than enough creases and lines marring your once youthful faces.

“Jagiya,” you whisper against his ear, and immediately feel him melt, arms tightening around you. “I found you again. That’s what matters, right? And every day, I don’t take that for granted.”

Although you can’t see him smile, you feel it, his lips ghosting against your temple.

“I know,” he responds. “But for what it’s worth , ___, you were it for me. I’m not sure I would have ever been able to love someone else like I love you. Even Sooyoung. Everything I’d ever wanted, everything I’d seen my parents have, I wanted it with you. I still want it with you.”

Turning in his arms, you press a soft kiss to his lips, and the two of you linger for a few moments, lost in the feeling of each other. You’d never be able to get enough.

“Good thing we have nothing to worry about then, right?”

“Right.”

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actress4him · 2 years

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Whumptober 2022

ALT. PROMPT 12 - CARRIED TO SAFETY

This piece has a bit of back and forth from past memories to the present situation. Just keep in mind that (other than the texts at the beginning) anything in italics is in her head.

This started with an oc question by @hopepetal , which inspired a brainstorm session, which inspired this piece. As always, Bruno belongs to the beautiful and talented @painful-pooch . She gets tons of credit for this because she wrote most of Bruno’s dialogue and also came up with most of the plot, I just filled in the blanks and made it a fic!

I should also note that this is a Brumaria AU, not the canon fantasy universe! We call this the College AU.

Contains: fire, lady whump, dude whump, flashbacks, panic attack, respiratory distress, implied parental death, romance

Idiot💚:

When are you coming over?

Idiot💚:

I have your favorite chocolate waiting for you

Idiot💚:

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Kamaria shakes her head and allows a smile to creep onto her face as she reads the texts from Bruno.

You know you don’t have to bribe me with candy bars. I’ll be there in half an hour or less, just need to check my plants really quick.

Three little dots pop up at the bottom of the screen, and she knows some kind of quip about him being more important or handsome or entertaining than plants is coming. All true, of course, though she’ll deny it. He needs his ego to be taken down a notch or two from time to time.

The other option for his reply is something about how she works herself too hard. If that doesn’t come now, it inevitably will once she gets to his dorm room. And maybe he has a point - after all, she’s most likely the only botany student showing up in the science building after hours to peek in on her seedlings and make sure their environment is still perfect. But this isn’t just work, these are her babies.

Whatever it is he’s typing, she never finds out. An ear-piercing wailing sound suddenly fills the air, stopping her cold in her path and making her heart stumble over a few beats. The fire alarm. Every muscle in her body has gone tense, fingernails digging into her palms and jaw clenched, and it takes her several seconds to shake herself out of the stupor and realize that she’s just standing there in the middle of the hall.

It’s probably a prank. Some stupid frat boy, getting his kicks out of complete idiocy and wasting the time of authorities who have far more important things to do. It wouldn’t be the first time. Someone had pulled the alarm last year, too, and that was in a dorm building - thankfully not hers - in the middle of the night.

It really is probably a prank. So there’s no reason for her to be standing here with fear coursing through her body, already feeling the heat of flames on her skin despite the chill of the hallway. She can just turn around, stroll casually out of the building, wait out in the cold for firefighters to arrive and chat with the others kicked out of the building - if anyone else is even here - about how annoying this all is until they’re allowed back inside. Or give up on her plants for the night altogether and go meet Bruno.

Yeah. She can do this.

The alarm keeps on screaming, and her nerves match it, but Kamaria forces herself to turn and start walking back the way she came. Just one foot in front of the other, pretending like she can ignore the sound, pretending like it’s not intrinsically connected to fire and that fire means nothing to her. It’s just a prank, anyway. There’s no fire. There’s nothing to be freaking out about.

Except that she turns a corner, and she can smell it. The thick, acrid scent of smoke that immediately sends her mind reeling, rooting her feet to the floor once again.

Fire.

There’s a fire it’s on fire the building is on fire it’s happening again

Get out!

She’s running, down another hall than the one she was going to take, away from where she smelled the smoke, but it isn’t going away. It’s getting worse. She can see it now, filling the hallway, distorting the plain beige walls around her, and it burns her nostrils when she inhales.

She opens her eyes and her bedroom is barely recognizable through the thick layer of smoke filling it. Her mind is still half asleep, unable at first to comprehend what’s happening, but she knows she’s scared.

The air is getting hotter. Somewhere in her mind she knows that this isn’t the way she should be going, it isn’t safe, but she can barely breathe or see straight and her feet just keep taking her forward, running toward the only other exit she can remember right now.

Somehow she remembers through the haze of fear that she should crawl underneath the smoke to get to her bedroom door and feel it with the back of her hand before opening it. Her face is met with a blast of hot air from the hallway. Walls that used to be safe and familiar glow a foreboding orange and flicker with haunting shadows.

Then suddenly, she’s face to face with her worst nightmare. The hallway has been engulfed in flame, it’s covering the walls and crawling along the ceiling

Her whole world is on fire, the house that she’s lived in for twelve years burning around her

She can’t get through. She can’t even breathe. She’s not sure she even exists for a moment, because everything seems to just stop, taken over by fire

She can’t move, she’s trapped, she doesn’t know where her mom is

A sob breaks through, and it jolts her out of her panic enough to send her running. Where, she doesn’t know, just away away away away

She screams for her, but the roar of the flames drowns it out

She trips and slams into a door. A door means away, a door means safety. The handle burns her palms but it allows her inside a room that she doesn’t see or comprehend. It’s dark and filled with smoke and unfamiliar objects but she stumbles across it anyway, searching for a haven, searching for somewhere where the fire can’t touch her, gripping at her shoulder with her hand and feeling them both burn

Pieces of her home are crumbling around her and suddenly her shoulder is burning with intense pain

Kamaria hits the floor and curls up into a tiny ball, one hand still on her shoulder while the other clutches at her hair. Tears stream down her cheeks unchecked. “Mom…Mom, where are you?” The smoke clogs up her throat so that her voice is little more than a harsh rasp. “Mom!”

She wants her mom. She needs her mom. She can’t leave without her, she can’t

The smoke somehow grows even thicker and the fire creeps ever closer but Kamaria is too caught up in trying to breathe, wavering on the edge of consciousness, to notice. She isn’t aware of time passing, isn’t aware of anything past the flames flickering behind her eyelids and the feeling of her chest ripping in half, until a hand grips her arm and pulls her up. Suddenly she’s being crushed against a strong chest with arms that have felt like home since the first time she had them around her.

“I’m here, babe. I’m here. Look at me…you’re safe, I promise. I’ll get us out.”

Her head tips back and she looks up into Bruno’s face in a daze. Bruno is here. Bruno is safe. She’s never seen him look so worried as he does now, but she knows she can trust him to help her.

But… “Mo-om. I-I have to f-find…Mom.” She almost doesn’t get the last word out before it devolves into a coughing fit.

His expression falls, and she somehow wants to start crying again, though she doesn’t know why.

“Your mom would want you safe first. I promised her I’d never let you get hurt.”

She wants to argue with him. She needs to fight it, she needs to look for her mom, not worry about herself. But she knows Bruno, and how he gets about his promises, and she just doesn’t have the energy to fight him right now. Letting her head fall against his shoulder, she mumbles, “We have to find her.”

“I know. I know.” There’s some kind of fabric in his hand, and he presses it over her nose and mouth. “Can you hold this here for me? I’m gonna pick you up.”

She grasps it with a weak hand and buries her face in his neck as he scoops her up and lifts her off the floor. The fabric - a bandanna or something, probably - smells like him and blessedly not like smoke. She coughs again, and her throat is raw.

“Just breathe in and out carefully.”

Then they’re moving, and terror strikes through her at the thought of going toward the fire. Her fingers dig into his shirt.

“It’s okay, babe. I’m here. You’re okay.” Bruno keeps up his string of murmured assurances as the air starts getting hotter again and the deafening crackle of flames grows louder.

A man in a strange helmet and mask appears through the smoke and fire and snatches her up, running back toward the front door. She screams and kicks and slams her fists into his chest. “Mom! Mom!”

Her breaths start coming faster again. She wishes she could block out all the noise and the sensations, wishes she could just disappear, or wake up out of this nightmare and realize it never actually happened, just like every other time she’s dreamed of fire.

But the arms around her aren’t a stranger’s this time. The feeling of Bruno’s strong grip and his muscles moving beneath her as he runs keep her from slipping completely back into her panicked state. Bruno is here. Bruno is safe.

Except that now he’s coughing, too, and slowing down. They come to a sudden stop and he curses, body jerking as his boot slams into something over and over again. Kamaria tries to crane her neck and look. All she gets a glimpse of is more smoke and orange glow before there’s a loud, terrifying cracking sound from overhead and the ceiling starts collapsing.

Kamaria screams. She can feel the impact of something large hitting Bruno and cinders sprinkle across her skin and clothing, leaving tiny patches of pain behind. He drops to the ground, hunched over her, and for a moment she stops breathing, scared that he’s hurt, and lost in the renewed throbbing of her shoulder.

“Close your eyes…just close your eyes and relax, babe…we’re…almost out.” His voice is haggard and broken up by coughs.

“Bru-uno…Bruno please…” She doesn’t even know what she’s asking. She just needs them both to be safe.

His only reply is to kiss her forehead with dry, cracked lips and struggle back to his feet, pulling her in tighter than before. He turns away from whatever he was kicking, stepping over objects in his path, and starts running again.

The heat is so intense that it feels like it will cook them alive

Flames lick at her bare arms as they burst through the foyer and out the door

She wants to scream and cry but she hasn’t taken a full, good breath in what seems like hours, so she just hangs limply in his arms and tries not to think.

“Hey!” Bruno’s hoarse shout jolts her back to reality. “Over here! Somebody help!”

“I’ve got her, hand her through!” another voice returns, then she’s being pulled away from Bruno, away from her safety, and he’s letting them take her.

“No!” Kamaria thrashes, trying to cling to him, but he’s already almost out of reach. “No! Bruno!”

“It’s okay, you’re okay!” His hand is cradling the back of her head, and he kisses her knuckles. “I’m right behind you, I promise! Please hold still so you don’t get hurt.”

But she doesn’t even feel it when glass slices into her leg. All she knows is that she’s not with Bruno anymore, she’s being held by a stranger

There’s finally fresh, cool air

She can’t stop sobbing, until the sobs turn into coughs

Her entire house is a tower of flames

The sky is filled with ashes and sparks

Strangers are crowding around her

Someone’s trying to press a mask over her face

She’s coughing and screaming and slapping the hands away

Her shoulder hurts so much

“No! Mom!”

“Mom…Bruno!”

There’s too many people, too much pain, she can’t breathe, she needs her mom

Then he’s there. Bruno is leaning over her, blocking out everything and everyone else. One of his big, rough hands cups her cheek and the other brushes sweat-soaked curls off her forehead. “I’m here, baby. You’re okay. You’re okay.”

Kamaria leans into his hand and tries to breathe, tears slipping down her cheeks.

Someone speaks, and Bruno looks up and takes something from one of the strangers. “Here, can you let me put this on you? It’ll help your breathing.” He coughs himself, covering his mouth with his sleeve, but holds the mask up toward her face. “Please, babe. For me.”

She sobs again, but doesn’t protest when he lowers it onto her face.

“Good. That’s good. Try to take deep breaths for me, okay? Copy me.” Picking up her hand, he places it against his chest so she can feel it moving.

She can barely hold her eyes open anymore. The cool air blowing against her lips helps ease the pain in her chest, but exhaustion and anguish are weighing heavily on her.

“You’re doing so good. Rest if you need to. I’m gonna be right here the whole time, Kamaria, I swear.”

With fumbling fingers she reaches out and finds the corner of his shirt and grips it tightly. Satisfied that he’s close, she allows herself to drift into the darkness.

#whumptober2022 #no.29 #carried to safety #altprompt #original content #fic #fire #lady whump #lady whumpee #dude whump #respiratory distress #panic attacks #flashbacks #implied parental death #kamaria the assassin #Bruno stenberg #brumaria #whump writing

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andromeda4004 · 10 months

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6, 13, 17, 40! (so many good questions!!)

Oooh, good choices!

6 - Do you have your work beta'd? How important is this to your process?

I don't generally have my work beta'd, although I do sometimes ask my husband to read something to give me a "sense check" if I'm trying something unusual for me. I write on a word processor and I have been a professional typist, so typos aren't generally an issue, and for my day job I spend a lot of time correcting other people's written work, so my grammar and syntax is pretty good. I do like to sit on my writing for a while though; ideally I would write something, leave it a few days, then re-read (even if I wasn't editing) to spot any errors. Writing - posting - writing the next bit has been quite an adjustment for me!

13 - what's a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

Oh, tough one! I threw out a lot of the writing tips I heard as a beginner writer when I realised that they mostly make you easy to read, but not necessarily interesting. The best authors ignore them, because they have learned when they don't apply. I just googled "top writing tips" to try to answer this and they are all useful to a specific writing style, and no damn use to me. So the tips I do follow are "break rules intentionally" - learn the rules then figure out when breaking them will create the reaction you're looking for more effectively than following them would - and "know your audience". If you're writing something techie, lean into the tech; if you're writing something historical, lean into the details. If your audience didn't love that stuff as much as you do, they wouldn't have started reading it at all.

17- what do you do when writing becomes difficult? (maybe a lack of inspiration or writers block)

Switch tack. I get my best moments of inspiration when I'm meant to be focusing on something else. I could not stop coming up with interesting fic ideas when I was supposed to be finishing my Regency story; I wrote quite a lot of an original novel when I was meant to be working on my degree. If I want to stay immersed in a world but I just can't do the writing at the moment, I'll get deep into the characters instead, I'll do moodboards and playlists and go window shopping for things they might own. I've also written what I think of as "deleted scenes" for my OCs, storylines which are fun but which would mess up the actual plot, because then I can get them out of my head and get back to the main idea. If I'm really stuck I'll shut the laptop and go back to crochet or sewing, something entirely separate, and let the ideas churn away in the background until they're ready.

40 - If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

I've commissioned a couple of pieces of artwork for Morningstar Abbey and they were for romantic moments, I suppose. I do think about my stories in a very visual way, I know where things are in space during a scene, so I suppose I would love to see fanart of a scene that had a lot going on, because that would mean that I'd got the visual element across to the reader. My current WIP is an action/adventure so that will have a lot of very dynamic scenes that would look great on the screen! 😎

Thanks for the asks! ❤

#fanfic #good omens fanfic #ask game

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xoteajays · 9 months

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Oh! I did message you in instant messages. I can't always remember who I message someone. And I know that I send long messages that not everyone likes. So there's also that reason too.

Yeah. The High&Low franchise came out eight years ago. So you wish there was more people who still created content for the H&L fandom.

Which is bizarre to me? Because High&Low was a popular franchise when it came out, but now there seems to be nothing for the fandom. Especially because there are similarities between High&Low, Worst and Tokyo Revengers. Pretty boys who are delinquents. [I've only ever seen the Worst crossover movie with High&Low, not even the original series. So I can't comment much on Worst.]

Chimknj also wrote another High&Low story. Well.. There story would be a one shot, a one chapter story. Not that you have to read it. But it is a smutty story between Rocky and his girlfriend (original character) - during the events of the first movie.

And, I think, there is a person who's under the name FireOfJudgment on here. They have H&L stories, and AIB stories too. But I don't know what characters or ships they write for though. In case you may want to search their work. They might be an option for you.

It's best for me to write notes for ideas to stories, and characters, and who knows what else while being involved in the fandom. Because if I try writing when I'm not in any fandom, then my thoughts and ideas... I became fickle and scattered on what I want to write. It's a problem.

Being in a fandom makes me more focused to write for that fandom. If that makes any sense.

I mean.. The color coordination to my characters was accidental for me. Because I tend to go for a specific appearance for my characters, I was very adamant about using those people for my face claims but I wasn't sure for what fandom - and I probably will use them for a lot of other fandoms too. Most likely. But not sure which other fandoms yet though. Anyway. Anyway.. But one person's favorite color is blue, one is orange, and another is red which eventually became their signature colors. So I unconsciously connected them to their respective gangs, which is kinda funny because their personalities actually seem fitting for those gangs too. And since the High&Low cast of characters have been predominantly men, I wanted more female characters involved in the story. But there have been a few things I've been stick on lately.

i am just hella awful at answering my private messages. i’ll be like ‘ill reply to that in a bit’ and then completely forget.

it’s just weird. like fandoms used to stick around for longer and h&l is still relatively recent. like 2016 wasn’t even a decade ago yet! everybody go watch h&l and feel emotions you didn’t expect about a pretty boy gang show. the song ‘break into the dark’ literally got me F*cked Up, everybody go watch the unofficial music video.

i will absolutely go read a smutty fic, that’s half of what i’ve been reading lately anyway. love me an explicit fic. and rocky has grown on me, do really like that dude.

i used to be really good at writing short original stories, but now i find it a bit harder. need that high school inspired brain back. fanfics do come a bit easier for me, but i also second guess myself a lot and some stuff i don’t end up posting or even finishing. which is a shame bc it’s supposed to be a fun hobby. i definitely need a fandom to obsess over or i just go totally blank in the brain.

im so bad at colour coordinating my ocs, i can rarely ever decide on what colour suits them best. idk if anyone’s noticed how many light blue or pink characters i have ahsjdl. my own h&l oc kinda started as an oya oc and then developed into something more and got switched around a bit, i think i’m mostly happy with where she’s at rn tho. im having a lot of fun with her.

h&l is definitely lacking in the female character department. like even the strawberry milk girls don’t get a whole lot of screen time like i thought they would, which is a shame bc i think they’re cool and i love pink. i think naomi got the most screen time out of all the girls and even that wasnt a whole lot. n-e-way yamato’s mum and the bartender lady are, like, definitely gfs tho, that’s my hc.

#tj answers #writers bc like ‘its not gay!’ and then have no women in sight #there is no bechdel test passing here #long post //#long post anon

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babyjeep · 1 year

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AAAAHHHH you don't understand how excited I am about Current coming back. Even if it's just in posts for now. Yours is definitely my favorite teen wolf fic and OC and I reread it all the time (it is permanently open in my phone). Also I am right there with you shipping Ray with Allison (and maybe like half of the characters too) AND with assigning TS songs to the story. I told you once that Gold Rush is a R+A song to me and I always think of them when I hear it. Also I will forever love that you made Ray latina and that you incorporate Scotty being latino too. As a fellow latina that's not something I see often and I love it so much. Wishing you tons of inspiration and ease with writing! P.s. I would read any and all aus of your au where Ray dates a different person in each cause homegirl has chemistry with everyone lol

pearlbeth you are my invisible mutual that I keep in my pocket. I see you like all my posts and I always click on your blog to return the love but there is nothing there! 😩 I appreciate you so much and I’m happy to hear you are excited for the Current comeback. I wrote 99% of the chapter months ago, so editing it yesterday was exciting. There is probably about 2k words left to edit? Today is my mom’s birthday so after dinner with her I’ll sit down and go through the rest. (Not because I feel pressure or anything I just genuinely want to which is a lovely feeling I must act on)

Everyone on Teen Wolf have chemistry with everyone so I’m happy I could emulate that with Ray, but it also drives me insane. I’ll be writing a scene with someone else and be like, “Now hold on now…” 3B was especially hard because Stiles is possessed most of the time so he couldn’t be his charming self.

Also I’m devastated that there isn’t more Latinx rep for characters. Especially shows like Teen Wolf that take place in California! Maybe I’m crazy and live in a bubble but the rep on shows and rep irl are not adding up and there is no excuse for it. Jeff Davis, answer for your crimes…

#thank you for the ask!#and for all the love!#I’m collecting it and sending it all back~~~💖📥📦📫📨💕🎆💙🎉💖🎇❤️‍🔥💜#teen wolf #teen wolf current

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svucarisiaddict · 2 years

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Hello, I wrote you a note earlier about the Autumn series to let you know how much I loved it. Ive actually gone back re-reading my fav parts.

Was the story is set season 16 onwards? Well that's what I imagined when I was reading this and with a few mentions like when Sonny first started at Manhattan and a mentioned of Amaro, I automatically defaulted to thay era. And it truly felt that it was 'early Sonny' to me. Where he was a bit brash at times, sometimes a bit blunt and straight to the point.

I felt like Sonny was a complete a#$hole to her at times saying things like 'We’re not just friends and you fucking know it', 'I don’t appreciate the person I’m with screwing someone else'. That first one when he says no just friends absolutely killed me. As well as the chapter where she turning up to the precinct to tell him about their pregnancy.... For someone that adores, Sonny, even I was getting upset at him. This was something i thought i would dislike, but no. Unlike some other fics out there, that it felt to me that he was a human male with faults and all. I was on her side always. She won me over with her sass when they first met.

Oh and whilst I'm rambling away here my Brain for unknown reasons always names my reader Sophie whenever I read a Sonny × reader fic. Oh and my name isn't Sophie lol. I know its ridiculous - Sonny and Sophie. Similar sounding names.

I could go on and on. Especially about the angst of their relationship and their eventual happy ever after.....

I have a million questions but can I ask some basic ones if thats okay. I am thinking you have been asked these before and I'm sorry if they are lame questions these are the first ones that came to mind after I finished...

- Do you find Sonny easy to write for? I totally felt and believed what you wrote about him, I could see him really saying in an ep.

- Which scene/particular part/line was your favorite to write and what inspired it?

- Which part of Autumn Series was hardest to write?

- The Reader and Sonny eventually get their happy ending. But did you consider or think about an alternative that maybe he wouldn't win back the girl after everything?

More then anything, I really just wanted to let you know and appreciate your writing. Without sounding silly, this fic many others are just what I needed right now.

It makes my heart happy to hear someone enjoying my writing! I was excited to answer these questions.

The beginning of the Autumn series was set in Season 16. Definitely early Sonny- he still had a lot of growing up to do. I’ve loved seeing his character evolve.

I do my best to write the characters as real people. Sonny is obviously a kind, loving, and empathetic character but just like every other person he has bad days. I also think Sonny was still trying to find his way at SVU, his relationship with the reader, struggling to know what he wants in his professional life- he has a lot going on.

Let’s face it. Even the kindest person can be an asshole at times. LOL

Sophie is cute for a character. That’s one of the nice things about not having OC’s. Don’t get me wrong, I love OC’s too. I’ve read some fics with amazing OC’s! But it’s nice to be able to fit whatever name, and/or characteristics the reader envisions.

Thank you for your love and support! I appreciate it!

Do you find Sonny easy to write for?

I found Sonny very easy to write for. I’ve seen enough episodes to feel like I really know him. Sonny is just a normal person with his own quirks.

- Which scene/particular part/line was your favorite to write and what inspired it?

So, I had to go back and actually re-read the series to answer this question. My favorite scene was Sonny delivering Autumn. There wasn’t any inspiration. The idea just popped into my head.

- Which part of Autumn Series was hardest to write?

The will they won’t they get back together. I broke my own heart over and over.

- The Reader and Sonny eventually get their happy ending. But did you consider or think about an alternative that maybe he wouldn't win back the girl after everything?

It was for sure something I considered. I guess that’s why they were back and forth. Plus, it would have made the series shorter!

#sonny carisi #sonny carisi x reader #autumn juliet carisi #oc

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lubdubsworld · 3 years

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物の哀れ ~ ( the sadness of things )

( Note : This is just a personal post for myself. I’m trying to just make a record of how the fic was conceived and all that I experienced, writing this fic )

Inspiration :

So, I ran into an article on Japanese words and I was incredibly fascinated by the phrase , Mono no aware or the pathos of things : Basically the sadness of things. It was a very unusual concept to me because it could be interpreted in so many ways.

A little bit of digging around made me realize that some people linked it to the cherry blossom season where the flowers come into full bloom and add such a delicate beauty to the landscape. But of course, being seasonal, the beauty lasts for a very small time. The flowers die and their life ends .

its fleeting and passes by quite soon. So the sadness of things is basically how, the fact that something is fleeting or seasonal or about to end, should not take away from our enjoyment of things. Because yes the cherry blossoms die but people still flock to watch the cherry blossoms.

The phrase came to me at a very troubled time in my life.

My mother’s sister passed and she had raised me for a few years. I loved her deeply and she was only a couple of years older than my mother. Death was a thing that I had always viewed in abstract. The loss of a loved one was not something I had experienced on a very personal level, so it shook me.

And of course, being the person I am , I did what I always do when I get overwhelmed : Research.

I combed through reddit forums on grief, through blogs written by people who had lost loved ones , through blogs by psychotherapists, through online websites offering grief counselling and everything I could think of.

What fascinated me were two things :

1. ) The non linear nature of healing ~ the stages of grief is a myth. Nobody goes through stages of emotional turmoil and then magically becomes better.

By the way the whole stages of grief was formulated with reference to a terminally ill person coming to terms with their own death .

So, it couldn’t really be applied to people dealing with the loss of a loved one. At least not directly.

And the second, one,

2.) The very personal nature of grief ~ depending on how the relationship with the lost one is, grief varies. I realized then that only someone who had lost a loved one would know what its like. No one else could ever possibly understand the grief and pain that comes from loss.

As Heejin says in the sadness of things,” I would never know what his loss was like, because I would never know what he lost.”

It gave me a whole new perspective on how grief at the end of the day has to be a personal journey of healing , one that no one else can help you through. You need to live and hurt through every excruciating second of it.

There’s still so much I want to say about this but I’ll stop here. I’ll probably add to this as days go by. But yes, this wasn’t a fic that i wrote on a whim. It was something of a research project for me. An exploration of grief and healing.

Thank you for joining me in this journey. It was definitely one of the most fulfilling ones I’ve ever had.

The Story :~

You can read it here :

⋆⋆✵ 物の哀れ ( ‘the sadness of things’.) ✵⋆⋆

Chapter 1 ⋆ Chapter 2 ⋆ Chapter 3 ⋆ Chapter 4 ⋆ Chapter 5 ⋆

Chapter 6 ⋆ Chapter 7 ⋆ Chapter 8. ⋆ Chapter 9. Chapter 10.

Extra Drabble

Completed.

Alpha! Jungkook x Omega ! OC.

ABO Dynamics.

Genre : Arranged Marriage / Temporary contractual Marriage.

Warnings : Non- Con/ Extremely Dubious Consent . High functioning alcoholism. Genre related consent issues. Implied suicidal thoughts.

Summary : A recently widowed Jungkook agrees to a contract marriage to keep his company afloat. His grief overwhelms him and it is hard to look at his new wife as anything other than an intruder .

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The characters :

Oh, boy.

I could go on about these two for years.

Jungkook and Heejin.

Let me start with Jungkook :

Jungkook in the fic came to me as a very troubled young man. In the fic he starts off as a very depressed young man. The opening scene of him staring listlessly into a bowl of cereal while his friends talk to him and Heejin just watches if from my own experience with depression in 2017.

I would be numb in my body and mind with no idea what was going on around me and it seemed like everyone made all the choices for me while i just flowed along. It was a battle getting up in the morning. I had nothing to look forward to. Nothing to hope for.

So Jungkook , depressed and confused and reeling from loss is our hero.

Our main man.

The one I wanted you guys to root for.

The one I wanted you guys to see yourself in, in those moments when your pain and trauma changes you.

When you’ve always been a soft spoken, kind hearted person but suddenly the pain overwhelms you and you just want to scream the place down. You want to hurt and hurt and hurt because you’re hurting and you don’t know how to process it.

Jungkook’s journey is fraught with pain, endured and inflicted . He loses himself and his identity.

He’s a CEO, a father and a husband and he can’t be any of those things, because of his grief. So there it was the three things I wanted him to find and love and enjoy by the end of the fic :

His career doing something he loves :

Fatherhood raising the daughter he was blessed with : our lovely mina who I modeled on my own daughter ( and loved just as much )

and finally,

A Love that was unconditional and beautiful. That maybe new and different from what he had lost in his wife but just as, if not more fulfilling.

And so I stumbled into the woman who forever changed the way I perceived myself : Lee Heejin.

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Writing Heejin in this fic is so cathartic for me.

For years, I’ve been her. The voice of reason, the one to compromise. I would be the one every single person in the family would call , anytime anything went wrong.

Kind. Smart. She’ll know what to do. She’ll never say no. She’s always laughing. So witty. She’s so funny.

The phrases just blur in my head. I’ve been this emotional punching bag for people for so long. I had a very abusive father and honestly no one was there to listen to me talk about him. If i tried, they would always ask me what I did to make him behave that way.

So , if you think Heejin is a pushover, that she’s giving too much of herself to people who don’t deserve.....just know that sometimes, saying no and standing your ground is a privilege not everyone can afford. And because I’d been there i understood her.

That isn’t all she is though. She is also someone who knows that she doesn’t deserve to be treated that way. At no point in the fic does Heejin see Jungkook’s actions as anything other than the abuse it is and for that i will always be proud of her.

Heejin’s healing is much more complicated. She isn’t really healed at the end of the fic...because to be honest , I’m not healed and I don’t know what its like to be ....But she is on the path to it, and that’s what matters.

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#the sadness of things

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captain-ozone · 3 years

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Thank you for the tag, @flutteringdreams-matw!! I loved reading your review, and I’m stoked to have the opportunity to fill this out myself, too!

1) How many works do you have on AO3? 46. And not all of them have been transferred over from FFN. There’s at least another dozen between multiple fandoms over there, lol.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 656,571. My word.

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they? When one of your fandoms is DC Comics...Does that count as one or several? LOL. xD

There’s been Merlin, Danny Phantom, Batman (Comics), Young Justice (cartoon), Teen Titans (cartoon), Titans (TV Show), Smallville (TV show), The Justice League (movie), The Flash (Arrowverse TV Show), Miraculous Ladybug, Harry Potter, Rise of the Guardians, How to Train Your Dragon, Sword Art Online (anime), Blue Exorcist (anime), The Bright Sessions (podcast). Might be missing some.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 1. Come Alive (Young Justice) 2. life, if well lived (Batman) 3. On Three (Miraculous Ladybug) 4. a million dreams (Batman) 5. Genesis (Danny Phantom)

@redriotted should be informed that my top two are fics she requested from me via prompts I’m sure neither of us expected I would ever fill. Love you, dear! I credit you for these fics!

5. Which of your fic do you want more attention for? Difficult question for me to answer. I’ve been gifted with lovely feedback on most of my work. I guess if I were to choose one it would be Locking Up the Sun (Batman)? It’s a Fantasy AU. A fantastic exercise in world-building. I had so much fun with it that I’ve been playing with the idea of spinning bits of it into an original work.

6. Do you respond to comments, why or why not? YES. I try to respond to every review and comment I receive. I understand it takes a lot of time and energy for some people, but from the moment I posted my first Merlin fic in 2011, I needed to respond, even if with nothing more than a little thank you. And I’m not about to stop the habit. I met some of my dearest friends responding to reviews. I still meet wonderful people doing so. :) 7. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? Uhhhh, I’m not sure? I guess it depends on perspective. Most of my fics end happily, or rather, I am quite heavy-handed on the comfort part of the Hurt/Comfort trope. I do bittersweet more often than I do angst. I wrote a Merlin AU inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray about Uther Pendragon that was pretty angsty? Grief was another one, also in the Merlin fandom. I’m sure there were some in my FFN Merlin oneshot collection Rabbits and Bathroom Breaks that apply, but lord knows I hardly remember half of what I’ve posted in that monster.

8. Do you write crossovers? Once. I wrote a Rise of the Guardians/Frozen crossover with an Elsa/Jack Frost pairing as a gift for a friend. 9. Have you ever received hate on a fic? Oh, of course. Who hasn’t? I’ve been cursed out more than once, too. It always stings, but it’s a matter of stepping back and asking myself: is this constructive? will this make me a better writer? Once you frame the comment/review that way, it’s a bit easier to see that it’s unproductive to linger on it for long. It’s someone’s personal preferences and/or beliefs not aligning with your own. Or someone who can’t quite distance themselves from fiction enough to realize you are not always what you write, nor are you a reflection of the characters/plot you’re writing about.

10. Do you write smut? if so what kind? Rarely, and only as crack or as a joke. Nothing I would ever share in public. RIP Uther Pendragon/Troll fic of circa 2013-2014. I do so wish I’d saved you somewhere safe. 11. Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes, but I have no idea where they are posted or in what language. Most of the requests came over FFN, so I’m sure they’re available somewhere. In some capacity.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Not quite. My friend and I wrote every other line of the aforementioned Uther/Troll fic in a chatroom, if that counts. 13. What’s your all time favorite ship? I’m far more interested in platonic/family relationships in pretty much every fandom I’m in. If I were to choose one? Adam Hayes/Caleb Michaels from The Bright Sessions. Or Barry Allen/Iris West in The Flash.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? *eyes Shift warily*

I KID. I made a promise over half a decade ago, and I intend on keeping it. In all seriousness: A Merlin time-travel fic I started ages upon ages ago. I hardly remember what the point of it was. There is a fun scene I’ve considered posting as a oneshot more than once over the years, though, just because it makes me laugh.

15. What are your writing strengths? Dialogue, I think? I love it.

16. What are your writing weaknesses? Imagery/action. Give me a single scene focused on a conversation between two hopeless individuals that need some TLC and let me forget about where they are sitting or if they are sitting at all or if there are things that need describing around them, please and thank you. 17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? I’ve done it, in some capacity. I used my knowledge of Latin grammar from old high school classes to try to write spells for Merlin fics. I probably butchered quite a few, lol. I think it’s important to use language as accurately as possible, though, if it were to be used at all. Most of the time I take the lazy man’s route and use dialogue tags and italics, just so I can avoid making ignorant mistakes. As a reader, as long as I have translations in front of me, I’m golden. 18. What was the first fandom you wrote for? Merlin. I owe that fandom everything. 19. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written? Come Alive. I don’t know that I have ever had so much fun writing anything in my life. a million dreams (my Flying Grayson time travel tear-jerker) and Not a Bit (my MLB Brothers AU, inspired by the original PV) come in close second. I dig my family feels, obviously. 20. What fic are you most proud of? Shift, my Danny Phantom AU, if only because it’s been seven years since I posted its first chapter. Writing it has felt like pulling teeth at certain points, but it has been with me for a long, long time. Rereading it is like looking at a time lapse of how I’ve developed as a writer, lol. Heart of Gold (Merlin) is another. Before Shift, it was the longest fic I’d ever written, one, and it was my first time really developing an OC/attempting a redemption arc as well. It was far from a perfect fic, but boy did I feel like a queen when I finished it. I’m sure you might’ve done something like this at some point, @cdelphiki, but here you go! @breynekai-tfc, too! And anyone else who sees and wants to share, please do so!

#captainozone #ask game #my writing #fanfic #fic

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How come youre so good at writting? got any tips?

· Thesauruses are crucial for writing, as they give you different words that have the same meaning, it stops you from repeating the same word (like said) too many times. Here’s my favourite online thesaurus that I use

· I see a lot of people saying “No, you shouldn’t write for yourself! That’s self-entitled and incompetent!” but that’s exactly where you should start. Write something for yourself, give it a week, vomit at your cringe and write a new, better story, or drabble, and repeat until you get good. That’s what I did. My writing before The Story of a Toy was SO BAD. Back then I just wrote drabbles and ideas on things I liked, and I guess I just got better the more I wrote, of course, I still have a long way to go.

So practice makes perfect! Also, if you start out worrying about what you’re writing, you’re going so self-conscious you’ll lose your writing spark.

· Characters. I see a lot of fics with other people’s characters (or OC’s) where the OC either 1) It’s ALL about them, they’re the main character now bub-bye everyone else, everybody loves them.

2) eDgY tRaGiC bAcKsToRy everyone hates them and everyone loves them they hate life and everything in it. (This can be done right if you research depression and make the story more believable, as well as interesting)

3) They don’t do anything at all, they just blend into the background because the author doesn’t want to disrupt the canon more than they already have by adding their characters.

My advice is to try and avoid these tropes if you can.

Let your original character exist in your writing, in the story you’re writing, let them have different opinions on things to the other characters and have someone not exactly like them, give them realistic flaws that actually make them weaker instead of making them cute, and if you have to ship them with someone let it take time to develop their relationship through a few stories, and let the canon character fall in love realistically instead of on-sight.

And write for other characters, not just your OC if you have one.

· If you don’t have an OC and you’re just writing about the canon characters, keep them as in character as possible, but don’t stress out about it. you know what helps me with characterization without stressing me out? Alignment memes. They help me figure out what the character would do in this situation without making me feel scared, because they’re funny. Also, watching the movies/shows/reading the books about the characters helps too, just make sure to have fun otherwise you’re not learning anything.

Also, if you’re writing about a character that doesn’t have much of a character arc, say I minor character, feel free to give them a personality. Keep it canon, of course, but (and this goes for any character you write about) let them change through your stories. Give them lessons, let them get scolded by their mistakes, let them be more than what they are through others eyes and let them see a whole new side of this character that opens up your eyes.

Like what Liz Brasswell did with Wendy in Straight on till Morning I guess.

· Read blogs and YouTube websites about writing tips if you can, (I’ll link my favourites at the end) and of course, to be a writer you must be a reader first, gather all your favourite books and read them, what do you like about them? Is there a specific flaw in a character you like, or the style of the writing?

I love Liz Brasswell’s and Danielle Paige’s styles of writing, and Matt Haig, too. Find writers that inspire your own style.

Or movie directors, or movies in general. But of course, don’t let your own stories be straight-up copies of those movies, even if you’re writing fanfiction no-one wants to read something they know by heart unless you’ve added something interesting to it, a what-if scenario or something.

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(These are the YouTube channels and videos and blogs that help me a bit when writing)

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Thank you so much to @lantur, @roseofbattles, @megthemighty, @fullmetalscullyy, and @lastwagontrainhopper for the tag! Love you all! <3

How many works do you have on AO3? 16 😊 12 are from Fullmetal Alchemist, and 4 are from the Batman/Teen Titans category.

What's your total AO3 word count?

86845

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Someone to Watch Over Me—This one is very dear to me, because it was my first time creating an OC and I just fell in love with Dr. Kallen. I love outside perspectives so much because I get to explore Royai through different eyes and I find it very insightful. It was also fun to research a bunch of medical procedures and the 1900s hospital environment in general!

In My Tender Embrace—This one has my heart, as it took so much empathy and love to write, and it also really helped me explore Riza’s character in relation to motherhood what that meant after Ishval. It was so very very hard to write about her miscarriages and the toll it took on her and Roy, but it was also beautiful to me to help them both heal and strengthen each other with my favorite hurt/comfort.

The Moments to Remember—This is the first Royai fic I wrote (and also my least favorite haha). I mostly wrote it because my family was stressing me out about planning my own wedding, and some of that frustration leaked into the fic haha. I’d probably change a couple things if I went back to it, but it has some nice domestic Royai towards the end.

Hold Me Close—Ahhh this one is such a guilty pleasure! I loved writing these one-bed prompts so much, and it’s also some good practice for me to write some more intimate scenes. I haven’t written full on smut yet, but that might change in the last chapter oooooppppps.

The First Thing He Checked—This was one of my favorite pieces to write! I got to explore Berthold’s character a bit, and of course Roy just gets to save the day at the very end. I’m such a sucker for “Are you hurt?” tropes and this one was such a lovely character comparison piece to write.

Do you reply to comments, why or why not? Yes! It means the world to me that someone took the time to read through something I’ve written, and even more so that they would leave their thoughts on it, and it’s a way I can express my gratitude for that! Plus, I sometimes learn something from other people’s perceptions of the piece and can sometimes inspire new scenes or ideas.

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? Most definitely The Distance Between Us. Not only because both Roy and Riza are, well, dead—but also because that whole fic was just a heartbreak and a half to write.

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending? Probably “I’m Only Me When I’m With You,” because not only were Roy and Riza free of the usual war criminal trauma, but it was also like the most satisfying ending to write ever with that slow burn college dorks in love (ahh look, it’s an AU, go figure).

Do you write crossovers? If so, what's the craziest one you've ever written? I don’t think I will since I like overanalyzing too much. Like my current WIP is all about unfolding the events towards the Promised Day, and Arakawa’s making me read between the lines to figure out what in the actual heck was Roy’s master plan. Adding another fandom into that would probably just make my brain explode.

Have you ever received hate on a fic? I believe I received one comment on my old fanfiction account once back in the day.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? I’ve never written full-on smut, I tend to either write it non-explicatively or imply it somehow. I’m trying to decide which way to go on the last chapter of Hold Me Close, and depending on what I decide the rating will have to change. Favorite guilty smut to read: drunken confessions, dom/sub (hi @lantur), basically anytime Roy and Riza go undercover and things…happen, and secret relationships.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? I have not, thankfully 😊

Have you ever had a fic translated? No, but @klainelynch did a podfic of “Endgame” that I still haven’t quite recovered from.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? No, but I’d love to! It sounds fun!

What’s your all-time favourite ship? Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye—Such a wonderful dynamic and I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? I might finish I’d Still Choose You someday, but it’s a fandom that I don’t write for anymore unless someone requests it, and I just don’t have the same fervor for it as I used to.

What are your writing strengths? Hmm, I think that I do well conveying emotions in a real and grounded way. Some of my fics deal with some hard topics, and I always want the emotions felt by the reader to be well earned and rich instead of empty or fake. I like my writing style as well, and I feel like I learn something new with each fic I write.

What are your writing weaknesses? Random spelling and tense errors that slip past the editing stage, and it’s something I’m continually working on. I also feel like my prose and flow of the piece can feel a bit mechanical at times.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? I've included words in different languages in some of my fics, but I don’t think I’d be comfortable writing full dialogue unless it was Spanish, the only other language I’m fluent in.

What was the first fandom you wrote for? Percy Jackson, back when I was 13!

What’s your favourite fic you’ve written? I’d have to say Heartbeat, because those two pieces required a lot of empathy and research and love. And though it broke my heart to write that story for Roy and Riza, I put a lot of heart into it and it helped me to grow as a writer. That’s also the fic where the comments have humbled me the most, because it gets into some real-world issues that can bring up some hard emotions that I wanted to treat with the utmost respect.

Tagging @bringingglory @musing-and-music @nightglider124 @lightdusk96 and anyone else who wants to haha :)

#asks #tag games #fanficiton #royai #rachelrambles

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