#author’s note

[cod-dump]

Now I’m thinking of shipping Moose with Roach. Quiet, giant boyfriend and loud, feral tiny boyfriend

#shadow company moose #gary roach sanderson #author’s note #cod oc

[forever--darling]

i finished one of us about a week ago and still cant stop thinking about it it's easily the best fanfiction ive ever come across heres a little drawing inspired by this story and tysm for creating this masterpiece🥹🫶

stop omg I literally am going to cry 🥹 this is so beautiful and you are unbelievably talented. thank you so much! you perfected this in every way and I am in complete awe. 🤍🤍

#💌 asks #inbox #anon inbox #my writing #author’s note #avatar series

[agendercas]

Comments from Murdoc during the Silent Running Music Video Q&A (Part 1)

(Part 2)

#gorillaz #silent running #silent running mv #murdoc niccals #gorillaz q&a #author’s note #phase 7

[in-her-shadow-if]

Just letting y'all know the demo is being worked on! I took a Tumblr break from this game and @nextinline-if but I'm back now so I'll try to answer some of the Asks that have been sitting for a while soon.

For now, I'm not going to do NSFW. I need a break from that.

Thanks and can't wait to launch the demo!

-Vi

#author’s note #in her shadow if #interactive fiction wip

[whinlatter]

author's note | chapter 7: caged 🪽

thank you for reading chapter seven of Beasts! this chapter, we see the fallout from the controversial punch, watch harry and ginny go through about ninety bottles of ink writing precisely one bazillion letters to one another (my loves), and fret as the residents of grimmauld place fight a losing battle with pixies that may or may not be a metaphor for our characters’ own multiplying traumas, chasing everyone around and refusing to be contained. pray for our babies, for no-one is thriving - let's chat chapter seven! (plus a sneak peek of chapter eight, which includes a letter from a character yet to make his Beasts debut...) 👀

✨ spoilers for this chapter below the cut  ✨

writing notes and headcanons:

vibes: this chapter, i wanted the vibes to be claustrophobic, tedium, all hogwarts, real focus on ginny and her restlessness and over-it-ness, her starting to write a lot, both to harry and to others, and her starting to push the boundaries and rebel now she's lost her sense of purpose in returning. (@pocket-lilacs brought up pandemic-era uni vibes of 'what is the point of studying when all this is going on' and that is exactly the energy here). the politics is more a backdrop to ginny's arc in this chapter, though the thicknesse trial has uncomfortable echoes for gin's own set of experiences, and i'm having so much fun but also banging my head up against the wall/grappling with turning up/turning down the volume on the different macro/micro plots in different chapters to try and get different effects and to follow ginny's own engagement with the Big Questions of the postwar wizarding world. scale is hard, who knew!

quidditch: by far the hardest part of this chapter to write was the quidditch scene. it was 3000 words long originally, and i had to go at it with a sledgehammer to bash it into bits, dump most of it, and then just keep the most important parts to fold into this much quicker, punchier scene. the worst part of writing is spending days crafting a section and in doing so learn that you don't need it lmao. so yeah that's why this chapter was a week late. this one was a nightmare but we got there in the end lmao

the forest detention: our first flashback to the war year at hogwarts! why haven't we had more? answers on a postcard, all will be revealed, including the context for the silver trio's forest detention, but for now will just say the fact that snape sent the gang into the forest with hagrid for detention after stealing the sword has a) always had me in a chokehold because all of the endless ginny/forest foreshadowing but also because i've never been satisfied with the explanation that the detention was just an obvious easy option. can't wait to share more !!!

harry and ginny: all i want to do is write more letters for those two. 'sneaking out of grounds, booze, leather gangs' - that was how @madammalkins23 summed it up beautifully, getting at the vibes i keep coming back to with both of these characters: the sirius-black-shaped elephant in the room, basically. escaping from hogwarts with buckbeak? the risk being what makes it all fun? harry fixing up the motorbike? fighting a war against grimmauld place and getting on the whiskey? the looming shadow of molly weasley? it's truly giving padfoot. the idea of harry and ginny in cahoots, as partners in crime, really kept me going when writing this chapter - like, what if harry for the first time did have another person in his life who was of the 'fuck it' school of thought? (i even went back and read that jkr short story of sirius and james on the motorbike lol). basically, the sirius echoes just sort of ended up writing themselves, as they always seem to do in this fic. when it comes to the letters, it's striking to me that in canon harry is very preoccupied with who does or doesn’t write to him - at the dursleys', but also after sirius' death ('It’s just hard,' Harry said finally, in a low voice, 'to realise he won’t write to me again.' - HBP). i've never really got fics that have harry as a non-loquacious letter writer in the post-war period, especially to ginny - harry seeks huge comfort and reassurance in getting letters from people who care about him, and channels his worries about people he's close to into letters, especially people he views as family (sirius, ginny). that harry and ginny would become a bit emotionally codependent through letters seemed in some sense a natural choice, basically, and although they're still being very avoidant, in some ways, i think they're building a foundation towards becoming each other's person in ways that's important. (i am putting together a sirius and ginny parallels meta playing with these ideas and character-trait overlap that i'll share hopefully soon, so stay tuned on that one)

why won’t ginny open up? by far the question i've been asked most this week! i am really really excited and happy about the arc i’ve got in store for ginny on this question, so don't want to reveal too much, but there have been some beautiful insightful guesses in the comments section about why ginny is struggling to come clean with harry or her family. here we see harry begin to see through gin's defences, a little bit, but also show his own blindspots that come from him not having asked the right questions or always probed about her interior life before now. i'm always so grateful and blown away by the trust readers have put in me to deliver on all these protracted question marks but this week especially i felt v glad for readers' compassion towards these characters and especially for ginny and hermione, as they fuck up and get it wrong and struggle yet still get grace in the comment section. both are on a journey, but i know more impatient readers could be sick of waiting for them to get there, so just to say i am really glad everyone is getting it and seeing where both characters are at with empathy and kindness, because ofc what they’re both doing is frustrating (and, when it comes to gin, harry is beginning to think so, too)

plus thicknesse: had a long chat with @saintsenara about ol thicknesse, because he's kind of a baffling figure - ex-auror who gets successfully imperiused, becomes minister and then goes on to actively commit horrific war crimes while under yaxley's control. what's fun about the trials, though, is that you can use them as a conduit to raise these big moral questions for postwar wizarding society - in thicknesse's case, it's questions about agency, free will, and culpability, in ways that has real implications for ginny's reflections on her own experiences. so cheers pius love u

harry's patronus: i am salivating at all of your theories for this one - obviously i'm saying nothing for now, but keep them guesses coming, i live for em! and if you guess right, i'll come up with some kind of prize lmao

detention, career advice (and graves' apathy): back in the site of former detentions, ginny shows her remarkably sparse knowledge of wizarding careers in a scene that i hope shows her trying on for size different role models/authority figures and seeing which ones she feels most like. (i like the idea that ginny would actually be a bit interested in being an auror, if only she'd been in of age and able to benefit from kingsley's hiring amesty after the battle). having ginny hover over the idea of being an unspeakable was particularly important for me, because i like the idea of the dept of mysteries being quite a formative space for her (i feel like all i do is say 'wait and see!' but... i have things to do and say with this dimension i swear!) graves is like, do what you want, babe, i don't care. i'm here for the pension, frankly

michael corner: 'surprise bitch!' - michael corner, probably. do i think michael and ginny were mates after the breakup end of ootp? no i do not. but i have always been so struck that ginny and michael must have actually spent a lot of very intense time together during DH as die-hards in the DA (michael is the only character we hear whose torture by the carrows after attempting to rescue a younger student is described as particularly severe, which i think suggests his level of commitment to the cause). readers will recall my open disdain for michael corner up til this point - i have described him as the jack berger of hogwarts quidditch, for my satc fans - but i'm afraid to say i have now decided i quite like him and am excited for him to rock up in person real soon. i think he's a know it all softboi but with a goodie core. also as a writer there's something quite refreshing about bringing in a character who is an ex who probably can see through some of ginny's shit by virtue of having spent a lot of time with her but no longer needing to/caring about impressing her, placating her or keeping her on side lol

hermione: alaskanastro left a comment that summed this up: 'Man, Hermione is really just doubling down on the whole "I'm going to try desperately to control something in life to feel like I'm in control even if it's my friend's life" isn't she? Or at least trying to'. yep, that's what she's doing! we still don't know all that hermione's going through, but this hit the nail on the head fr. i feel bad that this fic is ginny pov at this stage in its arc, because i think ginny sees hermione in a particular way rn (their final conversation in this chapter really speaking to these tensions - ginny does not want to feel mothered, at least not by hermione...), but these two have a long way to go to get to a point of mutual understanding. wanna write a meta on their friendship soon, hopefully will get chance to before i finish chapter 8. but anyway - wonder what's going on with her and ron... hope we find out soon... hope someone tells us... :) :) :)

everything but the ghoul: the dumbest pun, but had to use this joke in a chapter where ginny skips school (everything but the girl's most famous song is called 'missing'... get it)

songs from the playlist for this chapter:

girls getting grouchy and teenage in their feelings is the big ol mood this week:

the middle of the world - nicholas brittell | sidelines by phoebe bridgers | difficult by gracie abrams | simulation swarm by big thief | crisis by elizabeth m. drummond | delete forever - grimes | chinese satellite (copycat killer version) by phoebe bridgers

i did promise a sneak peek didn't i...

From the desk of the MINISTER OF MAGIC Whitehall, London Dear Ginny,  I hope you’re well. I’d like to meet with you on Saturday the 12th of December at 11 o’clock. It’s important that we’re discreet. Please vanish this letter after reading. Sincerely, Kingsley

#beasts #author’s note #all of your theories give me endless life and for that i am very grateful #me at the beach this week kicking my legs and giggling at the sleuthing going on #obsessed!

[dietmountaindewbae]

hi my loves!

i won’t be active for a while, i have my admissions tests soon and i’ll be back until june, until then please bare with me.

x

#author’s note

[fili-oeuvre]

- Woodnote -

Humanity has managed to survive against the dangers of the wilderness thanks to the creation of genetic engineering and biomachines.

Though for the sake of resources, humans are often forced to cultivate outside of the safety of the safe havens, where many dangers lurk and the species known as turnskins call home.

(expect for there to be dark themes and descriptions in this)

Worldbuilding

- Biomachines

- Safe Havens

- Safe Haven society

- Humanity’s Paragon / Humanity’s Pioneer

- D.R.M.

- The Golden Children

- Vampires / The Night Workers

- The Orphanages

- The Haven Guards

- Pygmy Dragons

- The Wildlands (“the wilderness”)

- The Turnskins

- Wildlife

#tag search: #ask #original character #original characters #author’s note #lore dump #worldbuilding #moot’s art #main project: #woodnote #woodnote ask #other projects: #pyrrhic #adam & eve #doomsday

[ask-the-celestial-family]

Reminder! Before we go forward, going over the rules again since it’s been a long time and I don’t remember if we went over them.

Askers cannot physically interact with characters unless it’s through objects.

Askers cannot touch the Star, your hands will just go through it.

Crossing dimensions is no longer allowed unless you’re following a character going through the portal. And, once in that dimension, you cannot bounce back and forth into the main dimension and back. You’re stuck there with the character you came with.

There will be a character from the fic that you do not have access to because they no longer exist in the blog because of prior actions. You do not get to know this character yet.

If you cause something to happen sooner or different than the fic, there will be consequences to get the story back on track up to and including death or serious injury.

Underage characters are not askable except for one. Kill Code. That’s it.

Anons must pick an emoji they identify themselves with.

Anons do not have magic, you cannot shapeshift. You’re just ghosts that can talk to the characters.

As far as I’m concerned, the multiple dimension hop on Christmas didn’t happen, it was a dream that the askers had communally. The characters gathered from that are no longer askable. (Because of Solar’s name change and plotline.)

Something that happens during the multiple dimension hop does not happen because of changes from the fic. Thus why chapter 79 doesn’t happen on the blog and someone does not receive their name when they do in the fic.

Askers cannot hurt, touch, or kill any characters. Yes this includes evil characters and non-askable characters.

Asks equal plot. So asking a character unassociated with the plot will not further the story.

#kill lunar au #op answers #author’s note #rules

[wcstarless]

gosh i love antpelt

you know who else loves Antpelt?

Orchidtail, Sweetwhisker and Goldenpelt

He is their adopted son and he's made lunches before he goes to dark forest school and help him with his homework and give him hot chocolate when he's upset

Orchidtail trains Ivypaw/pool and is obviously devastated by Antpelt's death...if he dies...idk cuz the whole disappearing forever thing is over in my AU...

but boy do I love Antpelt

#warrior cats #author’s note #antpelt #dark forest #orchidtail

[taevbears]

Happy 2024!! (And more importantly, happy “2Seok coming home this year” 🤧)

I hope everyone ended 2023 well. I personally had a lot of things going on these past few months that had me inactive here and from writing in general, but I’m hoping that will change relatively soon!

For updates:

To Be Loved - There are only 2 more parts for this story, and I’m hoping to post them before the end of January (beginning of February at latest)

Magic Shop Series - I’m still definitely going to be working on this story throughout the year! I don’t have a set schedule for updates since the chapters tend to be quite long. But I have a lot planned for this story, and I hope you all look forward to it!

Untitled Hoseok Peter Pan Story - A new mini-series that I’m planning to write 👀 Possibly yandere, and definitely dark fantasy lol. I’m hoping to post the 1st chapter on Hobi’s birthday 🫡

and more to come this year too!

also, i want to say a big thank you to all the notes i’ve been getting for movie night 🥺 i never expected it to get that much attention at all tbh, but i do hope to post more one-shots like it this year as well!

anyway, happy new year! wishing you all the best this year can offer, and that one of us can win big money from the lottery 🫡

#author’s note #personal

[cod-dump]

this teen!Ghost au fic has me in a chokehold. I had been working on it for what feels like a couple days (I cannot perceive time like a normal person so I don’t even know) and Alejandro is now known as ‘Lamejandro’ by Farah

#it’s just a oneshot but damn it feels like a proper fic #teen!ghost au #author’s note #fic writing

[soobadnoonecanstopher]

AN IMPORTANT AUTHOR’S NOTE About Can I Stay? Part 3. :::::

This Author firmly believes that Assistant Byun Baekhyun did not intentionally keep the Blue Hard Drive.

This Author believes that it was, for real, and 100% no joke, a true accident and he genuinely does feel bad about it. Which is why he just ran a red light and he is driving 15 mph over the speed limit.

I’m saying this because this feels a lot like after i dropped chapter 22 of I GIVE UP and i had my comments blowing up with MISTRUST and DOUBTS for our dear sweet puppy. Just like THAT Byun Baekhyun was innocent, this Byun Baekhyun is also NOT that conniving and crafty. And he NEVER plays around when it comes to work. Okay he plays around a little when it comes to work but not the really important stuff that will stress out our dear sweet manager Noona and give her a stomachache.

It doesn’t matter of course, he’s still coming over and the effect will be the same as if he kept the blue hard drive on purpose.

He’s on his way right now. He’s driving he just turned on his blinker and took an exit.

No i haven’t started writing it yet. I am making dog food for my dog and I’m listening to Love Fool by Exo.

#author’s note

[vigilanterenaissance]

help @guruan-is-not-here ‘s art has me 800+ words into soft miguel o’hara smut… it’s 11pm and i forgot to eat dinner haha 😂🫣

#author’s note #miguel o'hara #spiderverse

[cambria-writes]

1600+ words into the next honey chapter and honestly i'm having to fan myself, this is ridiculous. idk if i should post a preview of anything else at this point cause this is just 1600 words of pure fucking lmao

anyways hopefully i can post this soon i really can't wait to see how people take it

#author’s note #about honey and the hatchet #this isn't as filthy as maybe i would've wanted it to be #but it's still #significantly fucking dirtier than literally anything i've ever written before #aces trying to smut lmao

[nextinline-if]

Asks are Open [Please Read]

Hi, lovelies.

Asks are back on for this blog. I still had some asks in my box and I'm answering some today but cleared the others out. I'm sorry if something you submitted went unanswered.

That said, for the time being, I won't be doing in-depth NSFW asks or super-long reactions (except sometimes if it just happens/feels right). Both of these take a lot of thought and time that I don't have because I'm chugging away at chapter 2. I'll still do reactions, but please set your expectations for answers that aren't very long for the time being.

Thanks and I hope you're all doing well!

-Vi

#author’s note #asks are open #interactive fiction #next in line if

[cupheadshowandhell]

Howdy-hey!! Wowzers, it has been a. long. time since I’ve posted here! So sorry aaa-

My Cuphead hyperfixation came back again and boy oh boy am I motivated!

I’m finishing up my last year of highschool, but I’ve had a decent amount of time, so hopefully I’ll be able to get some ask responses out here soon! I am juggling this in addition to my other project, @poppyspizzaworldgame , so the artstyle may not have as much detail (such as shading), I hope you don’t mind! 😚💜✨

Until then, here’s a doodle I did of the girlies✨

#show & hell #cuphead au #cuphead oc #cuphead #oc #author’s note