#chapter three will probably be the longest and be more of a continuous story

[duplicityvn]

Welcome to Duplicity!

Below you’ll find links to tags and the new itch page (once part 1 releases; tags will be added as they’re posted). You’ll also find some general information about the game and what to expect from here on.

As per usual, this game is a horror romance. It won’t feature any NSFW scenes, but it is not safe for minors. Minors DNI with this blog or the game.

Game Summary:

It’s been several years since you’ve been home, and a lot has changed. After failing to meet the strict deadlines of your former publishing house, your contract was terminated and you were left to fend for yourself. Once a prolific and popular author of romance and adventure stories, you’re now forced to move back home to live in your best friend’s apartment as their roommate. Struggling to figure out the next book in your series, you’re faced with many life-changing events, such as having to go back to work a customer service job you thought you’d left behind.

As you navigate this new chapter in your life, you’ll meet friends, old and new, and perhaps finally experience your own romantic tale… Just don’t trust everyone you meet.

(potential) Tag List:

#duplicityvn - general tag to encompass everything

#duplicitydevlogs - tag for dev-specific posts like progress and updates

#duplicity asks - tag for asks submitted to the blog

#duplicity griffin - Griffin specific tag

#duplicity tris - Tris specific tag

#duplicity taipan - Taipan specific tag

#duplicity dell - Dell specific tag

#duplicity nina - Nina specific tag

#duplicity savoy - Savoy specific tag

#duplicity riley - Riley specific tag

#duplicity melon - Melon specific tag

#duplicity mags - Mags specific tag

#duplicity all - general tag when everyone is involved in one post

#duplicity lore - tag for lore related to characters or settings

Here’s some potential questions I might get that I’m proactively answering now:

Why was the old blog deleted?

-I had a bad experience in the community and wanted to remove myself from it completely. I also had no idea where the game direction was going. Honestly, it started out with me wanting to make a yandere game with no understanding of what was going to happen really.

Why are you continuing with Duplicity?

-Duplicity originally stemmed from vague ideas about a horror romance I had started writing three years ago. Really, only some of the character names were similar. Once I started to feel like I wanted to come back and resume with development, I knew it needed a complete overhaul. So I went back to that old story and started piecing it together so it would work for a visual novel!

What changed and what can we expect?

-In the original demo, the game’s MC was around 20 years old. This has changed to player preference of anywhere between 25-30. Why? Because I’ve been wanting to see older characters in yandere visual novels, and just in VNs in general. I also don’t feel comfortable writing younger characters anymore. The characters’ ages will change depending on yours as well, which will be explained later. The only characters who have set ages are Mags and Melon.

-Speaking of characters, Sophie is no longer part of the story. I didn’t think about it at the time but I don’t want a minor to be included in this story when she’s not directly related to anyone, like a sister or a niece or something. In her place are several new characters: Nina, Savoy, and Melon.

-The game will be released in 3 parts instead of on a day-to-day basis. Part one will be mostly introductory but lengthy, part two will probably be the longest, and part three will mostly be focused on the endings of each route.

-The game will have more than just Griffin’s route. There are currently 9 endings I’m in the process of planning.

-As of the publishing of this post, everything previously known to the game is no longer canon, except for a few things.

What kind of asks can we send?

-Asks pertaining to the game and its characters and settings are all completely fine. In fact, it’ll probably help me develop the characters even better.

-NSFW asks are allowed! While there might not be NSFW in the base game (still juggling around the idea of a paid NSFW version), I am happy to write little fics if people are wanting them. I love writing, give me prompts!

-Hateful, derogatory, or other such topics that are sent to this blog will not be tolerated nor published. I wish to promote a safe space for everyone, and I won’t pay attention to any negativity.

-Silly and nonsensical asks are also allowed if they aren’t negative in context.

Alright this was long lmao but I hope it encompasses the general idea of what to expect from here on out! I’m not putting myself on a publishing schedule and I will update as frequently or as little as I do. I’m an anxious bean and can only do so much.

#duplicityvn #i hope everyone will like the new version ;3; #visual novels #yandere #male yandere #yandere visual novel #yandere vn #male yandere vn

[misguidedasgardian]

The White Dragon (43)

43. The Dragonpit

MASTERLIST

Summary: It was not finished yet 

Pairings: main Harwin Strong x Fem!Targaryen reader

Warnings: cursing, medieval and A song of ice and Fire AU customs, injury, burns, dragon fire, death, violence, armies, death, war and all that comes with it. Might miss some warnings but you know what this is about :) 

+18, MINORS DNI

Wordcount: 3.4 k

Notes:  this story it's near its end, like three more chapter perhaps, it had been probably the longest story I have ever written jeje

It took a fortnight to gather the remains of the Harrenhal army and the towns around it, they all rally to your cause and you were preparing to take the capital

If you come to think about it, you didn’t even know how you reached this point 

A sweet maid who had been here for all of your children’s lives serving in the White Hall braided your hair beautifully, as you watched through the mirror the armor that stood hanging in a mold of your own body in the corner. 

These braids were different, they were made to keep your hair off your face, they were made for riding, either dragons or horses, two thick braids were created from the top of your head and then in the back, they crossed together and gathered the remains of your hair into a low ponytail. 

They were war braids

You smiled sweetly at her thanking her and she only nodded and left.

As she left, Harwin entered

Your husband

He hadn't said anything since your declaration and statement, when you said outloud the intention of claiming the Iron Throne.

He looked at the armor in the corner and sighed, he was also wearing the thick leather layer, the one you put on before the armor itself

“What?”, you asked softly, and when he looked at you, he saw the girl he married almost 20 years ago, wide eyed and filled with life, and a bit of innocence 

“Is this what you really want?”, he asked softly, he looked concerned for you

“We have no choice”, you whisper sadly 

“(Y/N)”, he called softly

“Not after everything we have been through”, you continued, “is this, or take everyone we care about and flee, and how real is that possibility?”

“Very real”

“You say we pack up our children and go?”, you continued, “Aemond… Sarra… Helaena… the Starks… they are our family too also”, you told him, “and with dragons, there is no palace where we can hide that they won’t find us, Aegon, Rhaenyra, she will want revenge for Daemon, Aegon wants us all dead anyways”

“We have his children, he won’t come for us”

“He will want them back, they are his future, his legacy”, you continued

“Then let’s… settle North, help Stark and be behind him and ask for independence…” 

“Harwin…”

“The Iron Throne is the most dangerous seat in the realm, you are placing a target on yourself, and in our children’s backs”

“I’m aware…”, you continued, “but that is the lesser of two evils…”

“What about Rhaenyra?”, he asked then, “are you prepared to take her out of the throne?”

You had thought about it, about what it would be like… would you have the strength to kill her? you didn’t think you did, it would be easier if she just… she could be expelled to Dragonstone, to live there in peace…

Uh, peace

what a strange concept 

Rhaenyra was not going to find peace

It was not a treat, it was just a random thought you had, like a gut feeling, like you could predict the future 

No matter how far you tried to look into the future, you couldn’t see your sister fitting in any of them, in any of the scenarios you had pictured in your head.

How strange

“I will know when we get there”, you said softly, “Rhaenyra never wanted this, I’m offering an out for her, to live the rest of her life with her remaining children, in Dragonstone or Driftmark”, Harwin only nodded

“What about Rhaenys and Corlys?”, you had thought about them too, the Sea Snake, even though weakened by the defeats against the triachy’s fleet, still posed a very intimidating threat 

“They are in Driftmark and from there they control the Gullet”, you whispered, “I don’t know how they are going to take this”

Rhaenys had pushed you once, she had suggested you were the one that should be the heir, and you prayed that was enough for her to stay out of the way

Perhaps you could name her or Corlys your hand

Even though Corlys was your sister’s hand

Fuck

It was too late to back down now, Cregan was waiting, the ravens had been sent, your family was preparing…

It was done 

“I will be there by your side, whatever you choose, every step of the way”, you smiled faintly

“As will we”, you look to the door to find your eldest children there, both of them, Rhaegar and Maekar, ready for the fight

“together”, you said firmly, forbidding your children, and Aemond from participating in taking the city would be useless, you barely convinced Aemond and Aemma to scout the seas by the west, to try and keep them away from the hand to hand conflict 

But you did

You marched to the capital, the Northerners waiting in the Kingswood, your small army behind you, your sons in their dragons, you couldn’t lose, you marched back together towards King’s Landing, decided to take the city, first, by talking, then, if that didn’t work…

You hoped that worked…

You were so focused, so distracted by your family and their wellbeing, that you would have never seen this coming…

As you marched up the hill, from where you could see King’s landing,  you started hearing noises, screams, you ran with Cregan and Harwin by your side, and what you saw from the heights made you gasp

You were not the first one to try and conquer the city

From there you could see burning building, heard soldiers fighting, and behind the walls a great army, bearing the banners of a golden dragon

Aegon

Aegon had come for his throne 

You had begged the gods that he would have escaped to Essos and he was drunk in a pleasure house somewhere, but apparently, he got a taste for power and wanted him back

“This changes nothing”, said Harwin

“This changes everything!”, you cried back 

“No, he is right”, muttered Cregan, “we fell down at the city, the mayhem will make it easier, Aegon might be down there, two birds, one stone, we could end the war today”, he muttered, “we back up the royal soldiers loyal to Rhaenyra”

“The people will suffer”, you whispered, “it brought war within the city walls”, and then you heard it, you saw, from here, that something was happening in the Dragonpit, people were gathering, and… a golden dragon circled the building and then landed right inside….

It wasn’t Syrax, it was bigger….

It was Sunfyre 

Then the decision was taken for you

“Let’s take the city”, you whispered

The gates of the walls surrounding the city were wide open, the city was submerged in chaos, 

The remaining of the traitors of The Vale, of House Royce you gathered, were not competition for the Northerners, you cleaned the streets from any rogue soldier.

You unsheathed your Valyrian Sword yourself, that Daemon once gifted you, as you advance throughout the outer streets of the city

It was mayhem, Stark soldiers, Royal soldiers who you didn’t even know who they were fighting for, men from the Vale… your escort of soldiers got thinner the more you entered the city streets, it reached a point where you even had to grab your sword and swing at a man that came at you. 

At that moment, as the adrenaline took a golf of your body, you didn’t even care if that was the first man you had killed hand to hand, as you were desperate to see Rhaenyra, because something was truly wrong

Rhaenyra stook barely defended, Daemon was dead, and you wondered if Aegon managed to get inside the castle, if he did, with all those soldiers and people within King's Landing that were still loyal to his cause…. Rhaenyra stood little chance

You needed to get to her

Maybe you wanted to depose her, but you didn’t want her dead

After all, she was your sister

It was childish to think that you could pull off taking the capital by force and she was going to be alright, but there was no more time to think about that 

It was too late, and for better or worse, Aegon had made that decision for you 

“I have to make way for the Dragonpit”, you informed the man by your side, and they understood 

But that is where the thick of the conflict was, you soon learned when you got stopped by groups of soldiers that wanted to stop everyone who went in that directions

It was chaos

Even people from King’s Landing had taken to the streets to fight, you weren’t sure if Rhaenyra’s reign, or Aegon’s conquest.

Either way, your now small group was being swamped by soldiers on all sides, that cornered you. 

You were side to side with Cregan and Harwin, your sons and other ten northerner soldiers were in your same group, as you put back to back to fight off the soldiers that seemed to come from all the streets to the intersection you were in

“We are trapped!” growled Harwin, as he took out a soldier that came too close

“The army is close behind us, they should be here any minute!”, growled Cregan

Your numbers were diminishing, as your territory, as the enemy soldiers with painted golden dragon in their chest shouted obscenities about delivering your head to Aegon Targaryen

You heard Maekar scream, you looked back for only a second to see that he had been cut by a soldier, you whined, but he stood standing, the blade barely grazing his side.

“Maekar!”, you called

“Hold your positions!”, screamed Cregan, as you were tightly surrounded 

There was a second, a whole moment, in which you could hear nothing but your own breaths, a deathly silence, as you were trapped without a possibility to fight your way through or scape 

“it’s over”, you whined 

The growl that shook the capital rivaled the one of hundreds of soldiers that came rushing into the street, you looked down the street as a huge group of Tyrell soldiers led by Steffon himself, attacked the men that surrounded you and attacked them on the rear, while your dragon flew above you, restless, the only thing that prevent her to burn everything to the ground was you

You took a long breath as Steffon opened up a way for you to feel relieved, as you kept slaying soldiers, enemies 

Now all the houses, their armies, everyone supporting a different King or Queen, everyone had come to a huge breaking point

“You have to go to the Pit!”, you heard Steffon scream, after finally clearing the way for you to go trough 

You grabbed Maekar, wanting to check his wound, it was not too deep, and Maekar, grabbed you back, promising you he was alright, you only had to look at Harwin once and he nodded, silently promising to keep your son safe. 

Something was happening in the Dragonpit, and you had to find out what.

Steffon led the way, with a small army behind him to clear the way, and you advanced with your family right behind you

The adrenaline held a tight grip on your body, but you still walk hastily towards what it looked like the goal, 

Soon the street ended and you came face to face to the long steps leading to the greatest building of the capital and perhaps Westeros

Soldiers fighting for their lives, and from different armies were scattered all over the stairs, fighting their own battles, the banners and the heavy guards suggested that Aegon was here, and you got scared of the reason behind it.

Inside the building you could hear the dragons growling, and even dead bodies of civilians were also scattered, hinting at you as a civil rebellion had taken place 

Your breathing quickened as the beating of your heart as you almost ran towards the huge gates, something was going on

Something terrible

Something heartbreaking

Tears fell down your cheeks as you ran, Cregan by your side

Vhaelar circling the skies over the huge building, uneasy, you could feel her distress as she felt yours 

It was the longest walk you had ever taken, and then, finally, the last guards had been stroked down before you, just to let you pass

“Whatever it is, you will have supporters behind you”, murmured Cregan right behind you, “I will gather the forces, put some order”, you only nodded.

Only when you entered the Pit, and hid under that huge your roof, your eyes were able to adapt to the darkness of the palace, leaving the sunny day behind you 

And you could

You wished you didn’t

The smell of burnt flesh hit your nostrils just as the flames were clearing a pile of something you didn’t recognize, perhaps you didn’t want to, denial hitting you faster that you wanted…

You gasped, tears falling from your eyes

The crown of Jahaerys was lying on the floor, just by…

The laugh of Aegon shook you to your core

“The old cunt is dead!”, he laughed you looked up to face him, a sickening smile on his face as your eyes returned to the burning rests of your sister

A curling scream left your lips that resounded all over the building 

Your sister was dead

“You missed the show!”, he continued, his body deformed and burned, as Rhaenys left him, but now, there was a madness in his eyes. Sunfyre was behind him, his mouth, its teeth, were red, his eyes were on you, and then, right behind you 

You heard a loud noise, and a low growl, as you felt Vhaelar entering the keep right behind you

It was just Aegon and you

Vhaelar against Sunfyre

“You are next”, Aegon mocked, pointing at you with the conqueror’s sword, but you barely reacted, you felt numb, you felt nothing, a void and then… the pit that had installed inside of you was filled with rage, a rage that burnt you so deeply, you saw red

Red

Blood

Fire

Fire and Blood

As if someone signaled for it, you grabbed your sword tightly in your hand and let out a screamed, as Vhaelar growled menacingly

Vhaelar knew it was Sunfyre that killed her baby, Aegon had killed Rhaenyra, they both needed to die as well 

Soldiers and lords were posted on the sides, but they didn’t dare to intervene.

The clash of swords ringed in your ears

You knew Aegon haven't practiced in years, neither did you, but he was slowed down by his injuries, and you were always quicker on your feet 

Flames flied over you as your dragons tried to bit each other, with brutality, a fight to the death

You were quicker than him, quicker than Aegon, rapidly overpowering him

“WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?”, he screamed towards the guard, “KILL THE BITCH!”, as he couldn’t win fair and square

Vhaelar was quicker, incinerating all the soldiers that dare came close to you both, and the rest of them decided to stand back, knowing they were now on the losing side 

“I’m going to take your head, and after you are gone, I’m going to claim your dragon, the fiercest dragon after Balerion”, you couldn’t help but laugh, rage overpowering 

“You could never claim her”, you mocked, “not in a hundred years”, you kicked him, the sword of Aegon the Conqueror flying from his hand, now he was defenseless 

Now, it was truly over 

Vhaelar managed to burn Sunfyre, just to distract him enough to wrap around his huge jaws over his head

With a last scream, the last thing you heard was a hunting sound, as thousand pieces of dry woods were being crushed

You looked up just to witness the light go out of Sunfyre’s eyes, Vhaelar used one of her claws, to separate her body from the head she still had between her jaws, successfully decapitating the most beautiful dragon the world had ever seen

But as she did, dark, boiling blood started pouring, right over you 

You closed your eyes and used your arms to protect yourself, as a thick rain of black blood fell all over you. Dragon’s blood ran hot, so hot it was said it could melt stone and iron, the thickness of it made you fall to your knees, while you thought the adrenaline was keeping you from feeling the heat…

Aegon wide-eyed, look at the remains of his beloved dragon Sunfyre, he then looked at you, who had been bathed in boiling black blood, his dragon’s blood, you were not going to survive that

His attention was drawn again to Vhaelar, who dropped the head of his dragon, making a wet sound ricochet all over the pit 

“Sõbes!”, he commanded, Vhaelar growled loudly to the ceiling, and then she looked down at him, with anger in her golden eyes. Blackness falling from her mouth, the color making the white of her scales looked devilish. Aegon lost his foot, now scared, he raised his hand to try and command the dragon, “Sõbes!”, he repeated, Vhaelar tilted her head looking at him in wonder. Aegon smiled wickedly, the great beast finally submitting, or that is what he thought

In a second Vhaelar opened her jaws and closed back, biting Aegon’s arm

Aegon screamed bloody murder, as Vhaelar growled, having him by the arm, she twisted and turned, raising Aegon’s body in the air, to then drop him on the ground, he cried and turned, but relieved that the dragon had released him, but only to finish him off

You managed to raise your head, only to see Aegon being engulfed by the flames of Vhaelar

You took a long breath as the smell of burned flesh reached your nostrils 

You didn’t even know how you were alive

The dragon blood was boiling, it should have burned your skin, melt the flesh off your bones, but it didn’t, you looked at your hands, your armor was hot, the leather wanted to melt as well, but your skin was untouched, only tainted with the black, thick liquid

You stood up

To everyone who looked at you, you looked demonic 

your silver strand was tainted, as your silver armor.

Your family, Harwin, Maekar, Rhaegar, Aemond and Aemma, Cregan, and all the Lords of the great families that were in the capital saw you.

Walking out of the pit, still black blood dripping from you, the sword of the conqueror in your hand, and the crown of Jahaerys in the other 

The conciliator, and the Conqueror

Both the greatest rules

You were covered in blood

Dragon blood

Smoke rose from behind you as the Lords looked at you wide eyed

Vhaelar appeared behind you, roaring loudly 

 Fire and Blood

Taglist!

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[ladykailitha]

Story Update

Just giving everyone a heads up about my WIPs so that you don't think I've abandoned anything.

1- Royal Pain: I haven't posted in awhile because the next three chapters as tied together so much they are almost one REALLY long chapter. And it's getting spoilery now. So while I will continue to work on it, it won't be going up on my WIP Wednesday list until those chapters are completed.

2- Grief (A Friend Indeed): I'm going to focusing on this one until it's done while I'm still feeling those feelings, otherwise it might never get done.

3- Well Met in Moonlight: For October I will be focusing on this one with other spooky one-shots for my favorite holiday. I might even get it finished.

4-Batshit Soulmates: This is going faster now that I have decided to use canon as a suggestion and not a road map, in fact it's almost to the point I can start putting it up. Yay!!!

5- Code Pink: I'm still writing this one at work, I just have remember to bring it with me everyday so that I can keep moving on it.

6- 5+1: This is going on hiatus until I get some of the other fics done or closer to being done. I have rewrite some it as I started it with a plot in mind but it's not working out and I need to rework it a bit.

7- Boy w/a Bat: It now has a title. It's called "Never Hold Back Your Step for a Moment". It's from the musical "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and fits Steve so well. I will probably be working on this one for NANOWRIMO because people have been waiting for this one the longest.

So there you have it. I hope this helps so you don't think I've abandoned your favorites. November will be better for me because I'll have quit my job by then and I'll have a lot more free time to just write. My last day will be on Oct. 20th.

Thank you for all your support and patience.

#my writing #stranger things #steddie #ladykailtiha writes #the boy with the bat

[prolestariwrites]

EOY Writing Wrap-up

I saw this post and loved the questions, so I'm going to answer them below! Looking forward to another year of writing and fandom!

favorite fic you wrote this year: For sure Unforgiven, it was my baby.

least favorite fic you wrote this year: Love Between Goddess and Demon ended up being kind of disappointing for me. It didn't develop how I wanted it to and I'll admit I abandoned it since it didn't have any readers.

favorite line/scene you wrote this year: Probably the first chapter of Unforgiven, I couldn't wait to get Leon and Jake together again ha ha.

total number of words you wrote this year: 131,491 published!

most popular fic this year: By hits and kudos it was Unforgiven. My oneshot Smoking got the most notes on Tumblr.

least popular fic this year: It was Three To One, which surprised me honestly.

longest completed fic you wrote this year: Love Stuck was my longest completed fic at 23,307 words.

shortest completed fic you wrote this year: Sparring Partners was a oneshot with 1,796 words.

longest wip of the year: Between Goddess and Demon was my longest unfinished fic. I wrote almost 40k words before I put it on pause.

shortest wip of the year: 365 is still a work in progress and has only 18,964 words so far.

fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year: A toss between Resident Evil and LBFAD. I got to write some cool RE stuff and did a short story for a zine!

favorite character to write about this year: Gotta be my boy Leon Kennedy. He's just so easy to torture.

favorite writing song/artist/album of this year: I listened to a lot of Halsey while writing this year lol. I needed the angst.

a fic you didn’t expect to write: Smoking was definitely unexpected! I've never even liked One Piece and when I watched the live action I swore I wouldn't write for it. But then...

something you learned this year: To take my time. I've gotten a lot better at being okay at writing at my own pace instead of some imagined timeline.

fic(s) you completed this year: Altogether I wrote four completed fics!

fics you’ll continue next year: I'll be finishing The Fate That Binds and 365 in 2024. I'd also like to go back and try to finish The Wish since I didn't last year.

current number of wips: I'm actively working on four wips at the moment, two the most seriously.

any new fics to start next year: Yes! I'm going to try to write the last of the Dark Heart series, and I miiiiiight try more One Piece. Maybe.

number of comments you haven’t read: Zero! I read them all and respond to pretty much all of them.

most memorable comment/review: I really liked reading the thirsty reblog tags on Smoking lol

events you participated in this year: I wrote a fic for the LBFAD Mini-Bang! It was so fun to meet some new people and see all the different ideas.

fics you wanted to write but didn’t: I had another Resident Evil fic I wanted to get done but never actually started. Maybe this is the year for it?

favorite fic you read this year: River of Stardust by @yoshi-09

favorite fandom to read fic from this year: I still like reading DMC fic! Also got to read some good Reylo fic and RE fic!

#personal #fanfiction #eoy wrap up #writing

[bambiraptorx]

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this one's been answered here

11. Link your three favorite fics right now

Okay honestly favorites are hard and I'm bad at remembering the ones I actually like, but some that I really like:

But First They Must Catch You series

creation, haunted and holy

vigilantism for fun and profit

21. Would you ever collaborate with another writer for a story?

Yeah, I'd be down for it! I love getting to interact with other creatives, it's part of what makes fandom fun for me. I'd probably want it to be fairly short though, just because I already have so many stories lol. Maybe like a crossover fic? Or just helping someone figure out the lore and details and plot and whatnot for their story, which is a little less involvement but still fun.

31. Do you start with the characters or the plot when writing?

For fanfiction, I start with "here's these characters in this situation". And then ask stuff like: how did they get there? what needs to happen for them to be in that situation or act like that? The characters already exist, so I don't have to build up their characterization so much as understand it.

For original stories, I tend to start more with the characters and their world, and then figure out what might be an interesting conflict to follow within that situation. I actually do want to get into sharing some original stuff here at some point, but I need to decide on which story and how to do it lol. The one I've been thinking about the most recently is also kind of the oldest, so I need to reboot it a fair bit before I shared any of it.

41. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

Oh, I absolutely reread my fics. If I actually put the effort into writing it it's because I think other people would like it too, sure, but I totally reread my stuff a few times.

51. What’s your total AO3 word count?

152,868 words. About two thirds of that is Minor Interference, which is far and away the longest thing I've ever written.

61. Why do you continue writing fics?

Because I enjoy it, and because sharing my writing with other people is fun. Honestly, if it weren't for the component of "other people might like this too", I think I would write and draw a lot less. Something about having an audience makes me more likely to actually get stuff out of my brain lol.

71. When it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, ect.?

Poorly. (/j)

In all seriousness, a lot of this stuff is in my head, which isn't the best option but whatever lol. I have a bunch of planning and outlines and whatnot written down in various places, sometimes actual notebooks, but that doesn't mean that I end up using it lol. My original outline for Minor Interference is literally defunct at this point. Honestly, a lot of it is just that I go back and re-read stuff when I'm writing to make sure it's at least somewhat cohesive, and even then I don't always succeed.

For example, at one point in Minor Interference I forgot about Raph learning to use his ninpo in ways beyond the constructs around his body, and logically that should have showed up in the fight in chapter 19. Also, for whatever reason I never pictured a table in Draxum's kitchen? (It's fine, I've decided it's just the one in the training room lol.) And there's a couple other things, but I work on the logic that if no one's bothered to point it out, it must not have been that disbelief-breaking.

#asks #bambi's rambling

[missremember]

HoAS Turns 3!

Happy third anniversary to Hero of Another Story! I wanted to have chapter 10 out today, but alack. Real life has been draining me pretty hard. I'm hoping to get it out this month, though!

I started this story in 2020 as what I thought would be a brief eviction of some brainworms during a pretty rough period of my life. Now, HoAS is probably the longest continuous work I've written so far. Like...ever.

Despite how much I THOUGHT I was a good writer when I started, I can actually track, chapter by chapter, my improvement over time. Or, well, maybe it was just a change in style to one I like more. Others can judge, haha. But it's a truly fascinating cross-section, and unlike other projects...I still really like it.

I do have one small announcement about this story, actually: I've decided to break it up into "books."

This is mainly an accessibility decision. HoAS is over 70,000 words long at this point, and assuming I continue it to completion, there will be approximately 26 more chapters. It doesn't affect me either way how long the story is as one work, but I've gotten a lot of feedback about the impediment that is sometimes imposed upon readers when they see fic with a 5-or-6-digit word count, to say nothing of comments I've gotten about chapter length (shoutout to the one person who essentially called it an unreadable wall of text XP). It may sound like I'm making a slightly major decision based purely on criticism, and perhaps to an extent I am, but the way I see it I'm publishing a story that I want other people to read and enjoy, and if that means making what is essentially a formatting adjustment to make that story more accessible then that's fine by me.

Thusly, when chapter 10 comes out, I will be marking it as "complete" and adjusting the title accordingly. I'll also, at that time, be officially placing the story on hiatus, as I've been publishing this story over years, and it...kind of shows. I want to go back and edit the previous chapters to be more consistent and also do some good ol' copy editing, as there are a LOT of things that need fixing in that department as well (including spelling a character's name wrong almost every time that they're mentioned. Yiiiiikes lol). I can't say how long this will last given the length. Granted, I'm also not sure what difference putting something on hiatus makes when that something's fastest update speed between chapters was 2 months lmao.

During this time I'll also be looking to update the other multi-chaps that I have going, so you can look forward to those!

I also just wanr to say that, realistically, I'm aware that I'm not very popular. The audience for my stories compared to a lot of other writers in this fandom is...almost microscopic. But the readers that I have are so kind and so dedicated that I don't really care! To the audience that has been encouraging me to write and cheering me on for the past three years, I thank you from the very bottom of my heart. I wish I could put into words how much the comments, conversations, kudos, and every other thing that has been shared with me means. But hopefully this sappy tumblr post will suffice, lol.

I hope that this story continues to grow with me, and that we can all be excited for what's to come.

Happy birthday, Hero of Another Story! Here's to you!

#author blurb #hoas #hero of another story #kirby #not writing #augh augh augh the emotion! #what do I even say #I probably didn't need to make a post but it felt weird to let the Star Trio's story's anniversary go by without saying anything #anyway if you're reading that tags here is a bonus thanks!!! #ily all!!!!

[alexenglish]

ao3 wrapped (alexenglish edition)

stole this ask meme with the intent of using it as a writing retrospect! please enjoy if you enjoy.

fic round-up ♡ AO3 ♡ writing tag

How many words have you written this year? give or take 60-75k, i'm honestly not sure how many words i have between all my wip docs... my wip folder for my one published wip has three or so docs dedicated to graveyard and rewritten work. i'm suffering profoundly, but i am persevering - i think.

How many works did you publish this year? 5 individual ao3 works, and a short prompt collection with prompt ficlets from twitter.

did notice i feel limited while filling twitter prompts (character restriction, screenshotting, additional character restriction for alt text after screen shots bleh) - my fills are about half the word count of what i would usually do if i was on tumblr, so i think i will be bringing writing short prompts back to the good ol' askbox here.

What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)? without question, my favorite fic from this year is if you let me i might say too much (2min, t, 8.5k). i accidentally wrote a fic with such a lovely, strong sense of identity. some of my best setting and backgrounding work. just a tight little short story that i adore. i'm beyond happy with it and love the way readers love her as well!

What work of yours has the most hits? & let me kiss you (binsung, t, ch1/2 14.7k) ✊😔

What work of yours got more feedback than you expected? probably & let me kiss you! really delighted that people are still leaving comments on it and hoping it'll continue (me too!) haven't gotten any demanding or pushy comments to continue it, just a lot of gentle appreciation, which i'm grateful for hehe

Favorite title you used the mouth of the sun (chanlix, e, 10.7k). i found this phrasing in my poetry tag (where i go when i don't have a song lyric to use). when i looked it up, the real poem might be 'the mountain of the sun' - though i didn't investigate very far past the first few search results. i shrugged my shoulders and thought: 'mouth' is better.

i love 'mouth of the sun' as a combination of a lot of things: felix as skz's sunshine, felix as chan's sun - sunshine, happiness, the dizzying center of his own universe & the toxic ways that manifests for them in the fic - the icarus metaphor i used in fic, this idea of flying too close to the sun & how chan uses it to illustrate how his desire is obvious to those around them and it burns him with how he willingly gets close to felix; the way he flew too close to the sun when he propositioned felix before the events of the fic and got rejected. then the icarus metaphor more largely in the truth and in vinos veritas themes of the fic: the mouth of the sun, literally felix's mouth, that can't stop speaking and chan flying too closely by asking felix to elaborate on his awful truths, burning himself over and over again because he's desperate to know more in the moment and after, during the scene where felix is sober.

If you use song lyrics, which artist's songs did you pull from the most? used lyrics from all different artists, but excited to announce the planned sequel to & let me kiss you also is a 1d lyric title, and the decided series name is, you guessed it, also a 1d lyric <3

Pairing you wrote the most for this year? binsung! my binsung! my best and favorite boys~

Favorite pairing you wrote for this year? again, binsung

What work was the quickest to write? one plus one equals one (jilix, t, 2.1k) - this actually started as a twitter fic thread for their bdays, but i'm nothing if not a wordy bitch, but i knocked it out in like 4 hours which was great!

What work took you the longest to write? i started &lmky in... february 2022... maybe... and published chapter one in may, because i am a fool, and it's still not done so! excited to see if i can complete it before it turns a year old (may, NOT feb)

How many WIP's do you have in your docs for next year? technically only two - &lmky and the sequel! my teeth and ambitions are not bared. keep expectations low and everything else is a nice surprise.

What's your longest work of the year? & let me kiss you, queen

What's your shortest work of the year? one plus one equals one

What's your most common "Additional Tags" tag? "canon compliant" (in the way that 'canon' is working knowledge of idol life and not in the 'this is definitely real' way, thanks)

Your favorite character to write this year? jisung is super fun and easy for me in a lot of ways and his ships are my faves, but i really loved writing chan for the mouth of the sun, there's something so diabolical about getting to write an overly sympathetic unreliable narrator who is actually the cause of Problems. most readers will not see that at all (and they did not), but writing him was [chef's kiss]

The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year? my povs were very easy, but minho in &lmky is the most unwieldy motherfucker. he's not in chapter 1, but all my chapter 2 angst stems directly from the fact that he and jisung have the most whack conversations that i have to redact and rewrite because they're serving NO purpose. can't wait to get him laid in the sequel, maybe he'll calm down.

What's one pairing you want to explore next year? hyunho is the ship for the famed &lmky sequel, and it's gunna be so fucking glorious. i might be looking forward to it more than i am looking forward to finishing &lmky (mostly because i'm at the point with &lmky that's like DEAR GOD WHEN WILL I BE INSPIRED versus the hyunho barely exists so i'm floating on my back in the glittering pool of imagination about it)

Which work of yours have you reread the most? if you let me i might say too much, she really is my beloved!

How many kudos in total did you get this year? 961, and i'm eating them ALL. i am warm and well fed! 🥰🥰🥰

Which work has the most comments? proud of myself for remembering to check the comment thread stat and not just look at the total number and divide by two: & let me kiss you

Did you do any collaborative works this year? @clarz and I co-wrote a beautiful and wonderful secret gift for @sodapopblues and it was easily the most fun i had writing all year!

Did you write any gifts this year? this is probably the first year i didn't gift a fic to someone on ao3 wow! did previously mentioned collab with clara for erin, and did record my very first podfic for clara for her birthday, i love u clara mwah

Did you receive any gifts this year? my lovely excellent and highly talented friend @unseelie-siren/ @pxssnelke was SICK and did a pod of & let me kiss you and completely surprised me, AND wrote two banger fics for me: i just make it easy (minbin, e, 3k) and big things come in small packages (changjun, t, 2.6k). i hope my muse is up to task this year so i can give a little back to fae for faer's kindness 😘

What's your most common category? M/M

What do you listen to while writing? Study Music Alpha Waves: Relaxing Studying Music, Brain Power, Focus Concentration Music, ☯161

Favorite line/passage you wrote this year? hands down, the studio kiss scene at the end of the first chapter of & let me kiss you. the tension. that changbin. it's crazymaking. i'm obsessed with that changbin above all else.

Biggest surprise while writing this year? writing chanlix! despite being my first skz ship, i'm largely neutral on their dynamic - and then disparaging of the way it tends to manifest in fic - so it's moved out of even my top 10 skz ships. my personal meta about them has always been trying to dig into the stuff i feel is deeply out of sync in their dynamic, which is what compels me but never really enough, until felix basically tackled chan and gave him a footrub and then immediately abandoned him when changbin interrupted, and THEN i saw a bunch of weird and whack discourse about how felix doesn't top chan (HA! HA!), that i was like ah i simply must write a subversive fic within a trope i've been eager to write for awhile (sex pollen is among my good friend quinn @fleetwooded's favorite tropes! i wanted to take a swing at it). at first it was only going to be a love triangle, maybe with a hopeful ending, but as soon as it started i realized there was a thread of bad feelings i had to follow through to the end and i'm very happy i did.

THE END! feel free to steal this idea, since i stole it, and if you steal it and do a little retrospect yourself, feel free to send it to me/ tag me! love everyone's writing thoughts mwah!

#alexnotes

[carladuquette]

I was tagged by @dragonsoftheeast. Thank you, this was really fun!

1. What is your AO3 account?

CarlaDuquette. And yes, Carla is my real, actual first name.

2. How many words did you write total in 2022?

Ok, so here's the problem: Since I already updated Close your eyes, count to ten this year, AO3 doesn't count it for 2022. At least the fic doesn't show up in my stats for 2022, so I'm assuming that means none of the words I wrote for it figure into the word count either. Which means there's a lot missing. But then it counts all the words of fics I started in 2021 and wrote just one chapter of in 2022, so…

As it stands, according to AO3 I wrote 65,384 words in 2022. (For reference, it claims I wrote 168,090 in the seven days of 2023 so far, because it counts all of Close your eyes, lol.)

3. How many fics did you publish in 2022? How many multichapters vs oneshots?

I continuously updated one long-running fic and added to two oneshot collections that I started before 2022. I published five new stories in 2022, three of which were oneshots and two were multi-chapters. All of them were in the Elite (Spanish Netflix teen drama) fandom, except for one Casa di Papel oneshot.

4. What was your longest fic? Your shortest fic?

My longest fic was Close your eyes (unsurprisingly, considering that it's still ongoing after 2+ years), a Lu-centric future fic and my first foray into fanfiction writing. If we go by fics I started and finished in 2022, it's there goes Princeton, a pre-canon Lu-Guzman teen pregnancy/abortion fic. The shortest was Joy to the World, an AU… Christmas fic? Or more accurately a heartbreak AU Lu/Valerio oneshot.

5. What was your most popular fic? Your least popular fic?

My most popular fic by hits that I started and finished in 2022 was there goes Princeton. Least popular by hits was 12 points go to… in which some of the Elite kids watch the Eurovision Song Contest.

6. What fic didn’t perform as well as you thought it would?

"Perform" sounds weird and is pretty vague. I'll take it to mean comments, because that is what makes me the happiest. Based on that, I'd say I put a spell on you, a retelling of the movie Hocus Pocus with Carla/Samuel as the leads. Some people commented on the first chapter, but all but one dropped off after that. Not the end of the world, since I enjoyed writing it tremendously, haha. But of course it's always a little sad to see that you're basically just writing for yourself (one of the reasons why there aren't many OG Elite fics anymore, I'd venture).

7. What fic performed way better than you thought it would?

Missing her is like trying to know somebody you never met. It was the first (and so far only) fic I ever wrote outside of the Elite fandom, centering on my favorite Casa di Papel/ Money Heist character: Nairobi. I didn't really expect it to reach people, since there isn't an active ship in it and Helsinki is the only show character that actively appears in it. But it got several really kind comments, which made me happy 😊

8. What was your favorite fic you wrote from 2022?

Ooof. I mean, I'd have to say Close your eyes. But outside of that… Probably there goes Princeton. I'm proud of the character work in it, and of the Lu/Guzman relationship. But it had also been on my mind for a WHILE before I finally wrote it down, something I've always wanted to work on. I'm firmly pro-choice, and it's an issue really close to my heart, and I think I managed to tell a story where that comes through without overpowering the characters' journey.

9. What was your favorite fic that somebody else wrote in 2022?

So many options! I really enjoyed the Casa di Papel fic Un Buen Dia (currently on hiatus, I think) by queen of Nairobi fics AndraB74. On the rare occasion that @cupcakeb still writes Lu/Rebe, I'm there – last year it was her great "sort of canon compliant" fic hate to be lame. And the Archie/Veronica masterpiece hymn for the missing by @andsmile (10,000x better than the disaster of a show these two are on)

10. Tag your friends to do this year-end fic review as well!

Any fanfic writers, consider yourself tagged! Additionally I tag @booksandabeer @cupcakeb @lavandulacosmos @carlarosonn (you write fanfic, right? if not just disregard lol) @voidstilesplease @andsmile @theimprobabledreamersworld

#fanfiction #writing #elite #casa di papel #money heist

[talia-rumlow]

Home Sweet Home (AU Rumlow X Reader) Chapter Two - Red Lights

Finally! Chapter Two is up. This story contains some of the longest chapters I´ve written. I hope my wordcount isn´t too high! And remember to listen to the song!

Pairing: Brock Rumlow (Mechanic ex Military Brock) X Reader

Word Count: 2123

Summary: Things are starting to happen, when Jack asks Brock to keep an eye on you, while he´s gone.

Warnings: Age-Gap (no explicit material yet)

DISCLAIMER: This is an AU story. But I still don´t own any of the MARVEL characters, only my original ones.

HAPPY READING!

You wake up from sunlight peaking trough your bedroom window. Still hot as hell. God! When is this heatwave going to give? A cold shower, and an ice coffee, that's what you need. And then a very long day by the pool.

You walk across the hall into the upstairs bathroom, lock the door and get in the shower. Letting the water wake you up.

Last night was so nice. You talked, and laughed, and shared a six pack of beers. You almost felt that he was your age, or you were his age. You let him sleep on the couch. He could probably drive home, but you didn't care all that much for drinking and driving, even though he only had three. You kinda hoped that he'd still be there.

Then you start to think about him coming out of this bathroom, with only a towel on. He stood in THIS shower. Naked. Are you crazy? He is 46 years old. That is 26 years older than you. But fuck how hot he is. You suddenly feel the need to get out of this shower. Get the picture of naked Brock out of your head.

You slip into one of your summer dresses, with a bikini underneath, to be able to jump in the pool whenever you want. Then you go downstairs.

The blanket he used still lies on the couch. You take a breath. Then you hear something from the kitchen.

- Who's there?

You ask. Grabbing your purse to get your pepperspray up again.

- Take it easy, YN! It's just me. And don't bother look for your pepperspray, I'm holding on to that! Want breakfast?

You almost lose your breath.

- Brock?

- No! It's the good Samaritan, making you breakfast! Hungry?

You walk into the kitchen. He has his back against you, only shorts on, yet again he's shirtless.

- You know those jokes were a thing when I was like five?

You say.

- Stupid questions calls for stupid answers!

He answers, as he turns around and puts a plate with scrambled eggs, bacon and a salad, along with a glass with something that looks like protein shake in front of you. You look up at him.

His bare upper body glistening from sweat. Showing off his muscles even more.

- You think it was a stupid question?

You say, putting a tomato in your mouth.

- Who did you think I was?

He says, as he sits down with his own plate and shake.

- I don't know! My dad..

You shrug.

- Oh, yeah. He called me. Says hi!

He casually says, as he takes a big bite of his scrambled eggs.

- Well, did he say anything else?

Brock takes a sip of his shake.

- He'll be in Chicago for two more days. I told him about the pepperspray.

He says, chuckles.

- Oh, no.. Embarrass me much?

You say, putting some more pepper on your eggs.

- Hey, I was trying to let him know the house was as safe as a fortress with you guarding it.

He says, almost laughing.

- Stupid!

You say, and nudge his shoulder. You hand wet from the sweat bathing on his skin. You rub your fingertips together.

- What is it?

Brock asks.

- Did you jump in the pool already? You're soaking wet.

You say, not looking up, continuing to rub your fingertips together. 46, YN! He's 46!

- I always go for a run before breakfast.

He answers, as he chugs the rest of his shake.

- And Jack wanted me to stay here with you!

You choke on your bacon.

- What did he say that for?

You finally manage to say, your voice rusty.

- I don't know. Probably to make sure you don't pepper down the mailman or something.

You look at him. Is he going to stay? Maybe he think he's babysitting you.

- I. Thought. You. Were. A. Burglar!

He laughs. Leaning over the counter, closer to your face.

- I. Know!

He says. God! Is he going to stay here now? How will you get him out of your head then?

- Great.. So I have a babysitter...

You say, rolling your eyes at him.

- OK! I think you need to cool down!

He says, before he walks behind you, grabs you around the waist, and lifts you up.

- In the pool!

He continues.

- No! Brock! I'm not finished!

He doesn't answer. Instead he walks out into the living room. Still holding you around the waist. Carrying you.

- Brock! Stop it!

You try to get out of his grip. But at the same time you find this kinda funny. And his arms around you. His breath on the back of your head.

When he reaches the door to the porch. He adjusts his grip on you, suddenly he carries you by his side, under his arm. Again you try to break free.

- I had more food on my plate! Brock!

You yell.

Your hands grabbing for something to hold on to, so he won't get you outside. One of your hands hits his abs, instantly slipping from the sweat. Your hand gliding down his abs. Your heart skips a beat. Fuck!

When the door is open, he walks out and approaches the pool.

- No, Brock! I still have clothes on!

He continues to walk towards the pool.

- No! Brock! I have a bikini underneath! I have a bikini underneath!

Again you try to get out of his grip.

- Good for you!

Brock says, and then he lets himself fall backwards into the pool, still holding you around the waist. You scream.

The instant you hit the water he lets go. You're a good swimmer. But now you struggle. What is up and what is down? Your hands searching the water. You hit something, feels like skin. You move your hand. Fuck! Brock's abs again. Are they magnetic or something?

A strong pair of hands grabs you, drags you up to the surface. You take a deep breath the instant you get your head above water.

- Are you OK?

Brock asks, holding your shoulders, looking at you.

- That was funny when I was ten!

You say, splash him as you say the last words.

- Oh, come on. You thought it was a tiny bit funny.

Brock lets himself fall backwards in the water.

- You ruined my dress!

You say, as you get yourself up on the side of the pool, sit down, and put your feet in the water.

Brock swims over to you, under water. When he reaches you, he gets to his feet. Dragging his wet hair back with his hands. Looking at you.

- We're even then. You almost kill me with pepperspray. I fuck up your dress.

You don't answer.

- Oh, come on, YN! I'll buy you a new one, if it's that important.

He tries to smile to you, in a way that makes you smile as well.

- Come on! Get into the water.

Fuck it! You get to your feet, pull your dress over your head, before you dive into the pool. The water is great, and it's a hot day. You need this.

When you get your head over water you don't see Brock. Not before he puts his hands on your shoulders. You whirl around, and almost lose your balance. Then you just look at each other.

- I didn't mean to upset you. Really..

He says. You swallow. He is so fucking good looking, and you're alone. With him. In a pool. Almost naked.

He lifts his hand, to remove a couple og hairs from your face. The tension is almost smothering you.

- Hey! Room for two more?

A voice and barking from the yard brings you both back to reality. Quickly moving away from each other. Like it was illegal to stay that close.

- Molly! You're back!

You yell, and go to greet her, Kilo, Molly's lab jumps into the pool. Brock greets the dog, and you walk over to Molly.

- Sorry, I should've called first!

Molly says apologetically. Making herself comfortable in a chair. You sit down next to her.

- Hey, Mi casa es su casa! How was Seattle?

You ask, eager to know about her trip.

Molly leans back in the chair, looking up in the sky.

- Dreadful! I never should've left here.

You look at her. Contemplating if you should ask more. You decide not to.

- So... You're back for good?

Molly looks back at you, smiling.

- I'm back for good!

Your face light up, and you give Molly a hug!

- Yeyy! We need to celebrate this! Where is Jess?

Molly takes a sip of her bottle of water.

- On her way with supplies.

She answers. Laughing a bit.

Jess, or Jessica is the only one out of the three of you that is 21. So she usually buys all the "supplies" you need for social gatherings.

- Celebrate here tonight then. My dad's going to be away a bit longer, so I have this whole place to myself.

Molly looks over to the pool. Then she looks back at you.

- What about him?

She nods her head towards Brock and Kilo, playing in the pool.

- Who? Kilo? No worries.

Molly looks back towards the pool again.

- No! Brock!

She almost whispers. You don't quite understand why.

- What, Brock? I'll just stash him in the garage!

Molly laughs a bit, then shakes her head.

- What is he doing here?

Again, Mollys voice is really low.

- Oh, my dad! Wanted me to have a babysitter. I almost walked in on a burglar yesterday, when I got home from work.

You say, shrugging.

- Thank God, I had pepperspray.

You add, smiling a bit from the memories.

Mollys eyes widens.

- You had a break in? Here?

You can't hold back your laugh anymore.

- Well, technically it was only Brock. But I did handle myself.

Molly almost pierces you with her eyes. So you tell her the whole story. When you're done talking, she gives you that look again.

- You peppered down, Brock??

Again she whispers, every time she mentions his name.

- Why are you whispering?

You ask.

- It's Brock!

She answers. Like that tells you ANYTHING!

- Yes! I know!

You say.

- It's just that he.... He is...

Molly can't seem to finish the sentence.

- Totally and utterly hot as fuck!

Jessica says, putting her arms around the both of you.

- But, seriously, YN! What. Is. He. Doing. Here?

You get up, and give Jess a real hug.

- I can't even say hello first?

Jessica sits down.

- Of course! And now you have. So? What is he doing here?

Jess leans in closer.

- YN sprayed him with pepperspray, and Jack got really scared, so now he's babysitting, apparently.

Molly shoots in.

- Aha.. I see... And that's the short version?

Jessica says sarcastically. Before looking straight ahead, shutting up completely. You turn your face in the direction she's looking.

Brock comes over to you, with Kilo in tow. When they reach you, Kilo shakes the water off making all of you wet.

- Cool dog. What's his name?

Brock looks at Molly.

- Err.. Kilo!

Brock kneels down and plays with Kilo some more. Before he gets back to his feet.

- You'll be downgraded to the garage tonight. We're going to celebrate Molly's homecoming.

You say to Brock. He looks at you.

- So, you're demoting me?

- Demoting you from what? From babysitter to mechanic?

Brock sets his eyes on you. You swallow.

- Fine, I'll be in Jack's office, over the garage. He has a bed there. But you owe me!

Brock says, before he leaves.

- Do you need a babycall?

You yell after him. But he doesn't answer.

When you turn back towards Molly and Jess, they look at you like you were bat shit crazy.

- You actually talk to him like that?

Molly finally says.

- Like what?

You ask.

- Have you looked at him?

Jessica asks, leaning forward.

- Err.. Yes!

You say. Sure he's hot. Like divine hot. But he's still Brock.

- After he got out of that horrible relationship, he really cleaned himself up.

Molly adds. Molly hates uncomfortable silences and confrontations, and she probably wants the conversation to change. But this only makes you more curious.

- Hey. Why don't we go to the store and buy some snacks for tonight? We'll just put these in the fridge first.

Jessica gets up, and you help her with the bags. Thank God for Jessica. She always reads a situation like an open book, and now, now she really saved both Molly and you out of a conversation that potentially could become very uncomfortable.

A horrible relationship? With who? Should you ask him? Not tonight anyway. Tonight, you party with Molly and Jess.

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[heliopauseentertainments]

1,6, and 15 for Reforged?

Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it

Fic Context: Reforged

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

Originally, for the fic overall, I was inspired by a post by... I think their handle was squid-in-disguise (but I can't find the original post anymore and the ship-centered blog I reblogged it from almost 2 years ago apparently deleted). When I finish and type the final promo post, I'm going to try and tag them if I can verify OP's handle.

It was a fairly general prompt for if Rodimus visited Caminus and was hailed as a deity. I definitely took it in a different direction than was originally asked for. The original idea had "Megatron had secretly been in love with Rodimus the entire time" and I didn't lean into that as much.

I also went way deeper into Camien religion and history than I think anyone asked for, because I think that's interesting.

I also got to draw parallels with the Original Thirteen (from both IDW and Aligned). Added three drops of my experience with Judaism, threw the whole thing in the blender, and BAM.

TL;DR: I saw a post with an idea and no one stopped me. This is how many of my fics happen.

The rest of the answers are under the cut for length

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

We'll take away the sheer length, which far outstrips my other works.

This fic is special/different because:

It gets the most interaction and attention than all of my other fics combined. Something about it resonated with readers and this makes me very proud. I consider myself a very obscure fic author, so I was surprised that anyone even looked at it.

I started writing it on the tail-end of MegaRod being a popular-ish ship. I walked in right when content basically stopped being made (or at least incredibly slowed down to me and two or so other people that I know of). It was just a weird time to get into the ship, which is now almost a rarepair, but especially a weird time to drop a massive novel for it. This ties into the previous point: I'm surprised anyone looked at it.

It's my longest running writing project ever from starting to completion. (I've got up to chapter 98 drafted and only a few chapters after that left to go). Compare that to The Hollow Man, a novella that I slapped out in a month.

It's probably my most obvious example of "canon blending" right now. It's predominantly IDW1, but it's full of both subtle and blatant AU changes, on top of cannibalizing bits and pieces from other continuities, most noticeably Aligned.

It's the first piece I've had that got companion pieces, other little fics set in the same universe or bonus scenes.

It's the only fic of mine that my spouse threatens to write a crack/unhinged version of. For example: trials being based on the Great British Bake-Off

I'm sure there's more but that's what I've got atm.

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

Novels are hard. Don't write them. I like to think I'm a one-shot and novella specialist, so 40k+ word beasties are not my normal wheelhouse. Some people are best at novels specifically! I do not think I am one of them! Now watch me put my foot in my mouth for Solar Flare.

If you do write one, give yourself a word count and/or a chapter cap. Do not accidentally write something longer than Lord of the Rings (the novel, not the trilogy, but maybe don't write something the length of a trilogy either).

Your brain will sometimes build in foreshadowing for you. Convenient and terrible all at once!

Characters will sometimes provide a story path that you did not plan for. Sometimes this is good! Sometimes this can get away from you and you're at a runaway word count again.

Outlines can be helpful to keep your plot from wandering too far off. I had a very rough outline for this fic of what I needed to hit and whenever something veered too far off, I had something tether it to rather than completely losing the thread. This doesn't work for everyone.

#admin post #ask #ask meme #fic reforged #cracked mist #long post #Thanks for asking!

[inkpenparker]

Hi! Just wanted to say that I love your work on Ao3 and am DYING to find out what happens next on i used to want to be a hero, until i found that even heroes die (really hope that you're still continuing it!)

Hello!!

Thank you so so much for the kind words. Never fear, I definitely am not abandoning it. Not in the slightest. It’s truly my baby, not even just that fic but the entire series is the longest work I’ve ever created for any fandom. It’s a story near and dear to my heart and I’m still writing it.

The other half of that, the sad half, is that I’m working a lot right now and money is very tight, and I don’t have the same amount of writing time that I did when I started, or even two months ago. My family is also going through a lot of stuff, I’ve been open on AO3 that I’ve had a quite a few people pass due to COVID in my family, and so life has taken a turn, and I had to take on a few more responsibilities that I didn’t have when I wrote the first six chapters of ‘hero’, or the first two installments of the series as a whole.

I’m not abandoning, life just sucks and fanfiction is (rightfully) unpaid.

But! Since you asked so nicely, have a snippet 🥰

“Ready for today, Vis?” she asks. She used to call him Mr. Vision, until he put up a valid argument that he is in fact younger than her, and she couldn’t argue with him over it anymore. Plus he kinda feels like a cool older brother, just one that doesn’t live at home anymore . “Feeling alright?”

“I do believe so, yes. My processor is working perfectly, thank you.”

Penny grins and kisses his cheek. “That’s the spirit.”

Wanda laughs above Vision’s robotic but sincere chuckles, and Penny heads around the corner to check up on Mr. Stark. He’d been slightly manic this morning when she went to the lab to bring him upstairs. She doesn’t think that he even slept last night. Pepper had expertly covered up his dark circles with expensive looking concealer before she’d let him have any more coffee.

“Eh, it’ll be okay, Cap,” she hears him say over the roar of the engine before she sees them. “After this they’ll remember that they used to worship at your feet and everything will go back to normal. The government can go back to faking like you're their good little boy and I the ornery stepchild just like God intended.”

Most of the rest of the team is huddled around the planning table. Sam is straightening Pietro’s tie while the boy seems completely indifferent to the concept of the accessory. Natasha is scrolling through a large tablet, tapping away at buttons and windows Penny doesn’t care to decipher. She’s entirely too comfortable in three inch stilettos, and her chic black dress is probably worth more than Penny’s entire Queen’s apartment.

Steve snorts and shakes his head at Tony. “Not a chance.”

Tony smirks, then drapes an arm around Penny’s shoulders when she appears between him and the Captain. “Alright kid, remember what we talked about?”

Penny nods twice. “If anyone asks, I’m a Stark Intern, not Tony Stark’s personal intern, they’re not allowed to take pictures of me or ask me questions, and if they try, to threaten them with Ms. Potts and the Stark Industries legal team,” she recites dutifully.

“And?”

“And if I find myself within twenty feet of Secretary Ross, look for the nearest member of the team or scream fire; your lawyers will make sure I don’t get sued.”

Tony grins. “Nice job, kid.”

“Tony, you did not tell her to scream ‘fire’,” Steve accuses, pinching the bridge of his nose and sagging his shoulders in the quintessential old man way. He looks up at Penny with a tired expression. “Pen, tell me you’re not actually going to scream fire.”

Penny laughs at him. “I’m not gonna go screaming fire, Captain.”

Steve sighs in relief and the others laugh mockingly at him.

“But seriously, kid, don’t go near him,” Tony stresses. “If he asks you questions, do that thing you do with the shareholders and annoy him to death so he leaves you alone, and then find Sam or Natasha if you can’t find Pepper and I, okay?”

Sam winks at her, and Natasha nudges her side. “Nobody will bother you around us, kid.”

#ask #peter parker au #Penny Parker Au #marvel #irondad #fanfic #mine #i hate the way that snippet formatted but oh well

[foxymoxynoona]

In honor of your Two Year anniversary, which story took the most work to plan or involved the most research? which one takes/took the longest to write?

Ooooh this is a fun question!

So the first answer is the Secret Song Series books definitely have the most hours of writing and the most research. When I started writing I knew nothing about idol life and didn't even know much about BTS except that I adored them. I spend a great deal of time researching all the different themes in the story, like impact of fame on young adults, and trauma/relationship struggles for trafficking survivors, and laws about work visas and non-profits in Korea, this and that, etc. When the characters travel or live anywhere, I've researched everything from the hotel they stay at to whether they can get Korean food, etc. I "do" the shopping trips to make sure it's somewhat accurate. I make up Sasha's class adn work schedules, and JK's work schedule. It's why I ultimately decided to start posting, because I'd spent so much time on it, I felt like I might as well, even if I knew it wouldn't fit the bill of what a lot of people are looking for in an idol AU. Also just to be clear: I only learn about BTS through official things and I still have barely scratched the surface of all the content they've produced --I'm not on Twitter, I don't follow Kmedia outlets, I'm not digging around lookign for "true" private info. When I say I research, I mean that I know more about western celebrity culture but then try to learn how it compares to general Asian celebrity/idol culture and build my stories and what I want to apply to the BTS guys in my story through that theoretical long way and what fits thematically for my story/characters rather than being overly concerned with anything being "true". I'm still learning so much!

After that monster series though... The Red-Lions books. They are based in a video game world that I've learned and continue to learn so much canon about (all the manga, the supporting novels, the art and concept books, the fan theories, etc.), but if you're familiar with the games, you can probably see also how incredibly much I've added. It would not be difficult to completely separate them from the Dragon Age world they began with. I do extensive research into European and Asian history to draw inspiration, and some African as well. Probably the Viking references are easy to pick up on but the ancient Thracian tribes also provide a lot of inspiration! And so on.

That being said, if you only look at Lowlander, I think Amended may have actually taken me longer to write if you don't include the research.

On the opposite side, Sea of Indigo and Sugar Fairy were the quickest to write. I literally posted a chapter a day alternating for those stories for three months and then they were both done, the end.

#asks #anonymous #amended #secret song series #my writing #mywriting #personal #legends of the red-lions

[kyurilin]

Writing ask game: all of them bc I’m genuinely interested!

Gabby you're a menace and I mean that with all the love in my heart

notebook: I have two regular sized notebooks, and then two half sized ones where I will occasionally still write out notes for stuff. Since I switched over to using Google docs exclusively none of my notebooks get used as much anymore

pencil: I honestly love Calibri which is the fucking default font for like Microsoft word. Which is funny because I could use that for my Google docs horde but instead I'm apparently typing in arial

paper: the living room couch is honestly the best place, I can just curl up and type my atrocities to man

docs: so I'm not exactly sure what the exact longest thing I've written is because for one story I only know the page count, but my handwriting is also huge so it would likely be far shorter if it were typed. So my two contenders for longest are Truth Is Golden, the FNAF AU I never finished writing at I believe 290 pages (or close to that) and Present Mic's Totally Bullshit Life at 54k words and a printed copy of 140-ish pages. If I ever type up Truth is Golden maybe it'll be less

nano: I have not mostly because I can't make myself write daily I'm terrible at that

computer: Google Docs, gotta say it's just super nice since I can now just infodump onto an app on my phone rather than pulling out my bag of pens and a notebook and having to make sure my handwriting doesn't look substandard to me that day

genre: I'm 90% sure that now my favorite genre to write is Hurt/Comfort and that I am just as much of a sucker for reading it as I am for writing it. Hey Gabby remember when my favorite genre to write was Action/Adventure and I was terrible at it? I've really grown as a person, now I just emotionally damage my characters

tropes: Childhood Friends to Lovers, I am just absolutely weak for that even if it's not like a main part of the story

tw: I think the darkest theme is actually a part of the character building from my matching tattoos au wip where a character has a history of suicidal thoughts and an attempted suicide.

characters: every character I make no matter the universe loves the hit Pixar franchise Cars and has nothing bad to say about it, they're all Lightning McQueen's #1 fan, I need this to be known. Okay, more seriously though, I think I accidentally dump my own personality into every character a little and I don't mean to which is why I get attached to some in particular. And if they're not like a major OC in a story, their name or personality or look is from a character in something else.

wip: so just to give myself backstory for the current chapter story that I'm very slowly working on, I started a side doc that leads up to the events in that. For anyone reading crumbled rooftops, yes, there is legally a doc out there about Shouta and Hizashi that goes from chapter 298 until the start of the story that will probably never be put out because I wanted to more firmly establish what their relationship was going through since crumbled rooftops has Oboro's perspective and he's a bit of an unreliable narrator at the moment. Gabby I'm so sorry that means nothing to you

coffee: it's the same thing I drink continuously and that is diet Dr pepper at this point my blood is probably diet Dr pepper

personal: I love to slip in hints of stuff that would be fun to write by itself. My favorite part of writing has always been having this whole expanded lore in my mind and being able to incorporate tidbits into other things. I just really love to write and it's fun to share it with people even if I don't share nearly as much as I used to.

playlist: Spotify at some point is going to fucking break into my home and beg me to please chill on the character/story specific playlists I make because I usually find stuff that fits the right sound for a character and it also fits for like three story ideas. I have so many playlists I don't listen to and the mood wildly changes with each one. I have playlists for Cars OCs I have only thought about in passing. I have playlists for stories that never got started. I have a playlist for a character that still, 2 years later, only has one song on it. I cannot be stopped.

[youssefguedira]

there are two ways i could do this actually. either i post it in three chapters, before during and after the movie, or i do the flashbacks throughout. i am leaning towards option one tbh but i don't know

#if i do option one chapters one and two will be kinda jumping through the story #chapter three will probably be the longest and be more of a continuous story #so you know. it's that or continuous story broken up by flashbacks but i'm not sure how well that would work #neon has thoughts #the pierre fic™ #i've also decided to include a scene with pierre and his mother because you know. pain

[justanothersimp21]

Becoming Part of the Family [Lady D x Reader]

Chapter I.

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You're not sure why you're still alive.

You have not made a mistake just yet but you didn't think the girls would actually adhere to the rules about only killing maids that make any small mistake. They've been watching you closely because you're the longest to have stayed.

No one ever lasts a single week yet you've been here for almost two months. You had grown used to the fear that resides in you as you wander the great halls.

You hummed lightly and started to sweep. A gentle melody that you remember your mother used to lull you to sleep with. Right before she was killed by a Lycan.

Your eyes kept flickering to the grand piano. Nobody knew this about you but you knew how to play all sorts of instruments. Ranging from the violin to saxophone to the piano. It was almost like a way to reconnect with your mother every time you played. She adored music which in turn made you fall in love with it.

You shook your head at the thought of playing the piano. If anyone were to catch you, you're probably as good as dead.

Your hums soon turned into gentle singing, making sure to keep it soft as not to disturb anyone else. You were almost done sweeping by the end of the song.

Two flies flew on your hand and you stopped your ministrations. A swarm of flies buzzed its way in front of you and made out a body.

It was Cassandra.

You were somewhat relieved that it wasn't Daniela, that girl is the most insane out of the three of them. Although it doesn't mean that Cassandra was any more safe.

"Lady Cassandra," You lightly bowed your head at her, awaiting her instructions or for her to hurt you.

An awkward silence ensued as she stared blankly at you. It was weird, she would usually giggle and then threaten you, sometimes even use her scythe to puncture you. Never enough to kill you though.

You were somewhat taller than her, coming from a line of freakishly tall people. It was awkward at first, being taller than the daughters of Lady Dimitrescu but they definitely knew how to put you in your place.

You observed her face and realized she had a few tear streaks streaming down.

"Are you alright, Lady Cassandra?" You questioned in concern.

It seemed to snap her out of her thoughts. She glared at you but it didn't seem as threatening considering her tears.

"Keep singing," She demanded.

You blinked, almost certain you were delusional and she didn't just say that to you.

Her scythe was slowly making its way out of the sleeve of her hoodie. Realizing she was completely serious, you immediately started the lullaby your mother sang to you.

You made sure to be loud enough just for her to hear, you didn't want the other sisters to appear in front of you. And from how alert Cassandra seemed, she didn't either.

Hush little baby don't say a word,

Mama's gonna show you a hummingbird.

If that hummingbird won't fly,

Mama's gonna show you the evening sky.

When the nighttime shadows fall,

Mama's gonna hear the crickets call.

You notice Cassandra was starting to calm down and no more tears were falling from her eyes.

As their songs drift from afar,

Mama's gonna show you a shooting star.

As that star drops out of view,

Mama's gonna read a book with you.

When that story has been read,

Mama's gonna get your warm bedspread.

Cassandra seemed to be exhausted as she listened to you. Her eyes were obviously fighting to stay open. You bravely approached her and gently guided her to the makeshift couch in the back of the room.

She didn't even fight you which surprised you in a way. She must be really tired. You continued to sing as you tucked her with a medium sized blanket.

If that quilt begins to wear,

Mama's gonna find your teddy bear.

If that teddy bear won't hug,

Mama's gonna catch you a lightening bug.

If that lightening bug won't glow,

Mama's gonna find you an old banjo.

Cassandra no longer fought her sleepiness and drifted asleep as you picked your broom back up, continuing your sweeping.

You kept singing, soothing both you and Cassandra.

If that banjo's out of tune,

Mama's gonna show you the harvest moon.

While that moon drifts from the sky,

Mama's gonna sing you a lullaby.

As the song came to an end, you proudly looked at the floor you finished cleaning. You smiled lightly at Cassandra's sleeping figure. She looked so adorable when she wasn't trying to kill you. That’s when you hear light chucking from behind you.

You whipped around to see the tall Lady of the castle herself. How did you not hear her? Even though you were tall, she was massive.

Standing at only 6ft and 10 inches whereas Lady Dimitrescu was 9ft and 6 inches.

She's so silent for someone of her physique.

You immediately bowed your head, making sure to keep your voice a whisper to not disturb Cassandra, "Lady Dimitrescu. My apologies if I disturbed you with my singing."

For the first time ever since you've been here, Lady Dimitrescu had a soft look on her face, it was directed at Cassandra's sleeping figure.

Her voice was like silk as she whispered back, "Don't ever apologize for comforting my daughter. Have you finished your duties?"

"Almost, my Lady. I just have to clean the kitchen and wash the dishes," You respond softly.

She looked thoughtful, "No need. I'll get someone else to do it. You can have the rest of the day off."

Your eyes widened in surprise, "T-Thank you, my Lady."

"No need to thank me," She muttered, her eyes still trained on Cassandra.

"She's okay, right?" You couldn't help but express your concern.

Lady Dimitrescu chuckled, "She's a Dimitrescu, of course she is. I suggest you leave before I change my mind about you taking the day off. Or something worse."

You quickly bow your head again at her and made yourself scarce. You put the broom back into its original position and made your way to your room.

It was nothing big, just a small room with a bed, small closet and a nightstand. You plopped down, drained from just having a conversation with Lady Dimitrescu.

You learned a lot today.

They still carry some human feelings despite their overall look.

This probably won't change anything though. Tomorrow, it'll be the same thing between you and the daughters. It will be the same between Lady Dimitrescu and you.

You're just their maid who will no doubt make a mistake and end up down in the basement where all the other maids go.

In all honestly, you'd rather die by them than whatever waits outside the castle if you ever thought to escape.

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#original is on wattpad #lady dimitrescu x reader #lady dimitrescu x you #lady dimitrescu #alcina dimitrescu #family dimitrescu #kind of soft #comfort #re8 #resident evil village

[lifeline-au]

[ Intermission - QnA (1/2)]

What inspired this au?  Many hours to ourselves, writing a bunch of drabbles we didn’t see fit to post. We took inspiration from multiple other works of writing, as well as other ask blogs. Personally, we enjoy writing more than we do art. [ ☠︎✌︎❄︎🕆︎☼︎✌︎☹︎☹︎✡︎ ]

Which one of the addisons is your favourite to write?

Radio is fun to write, and he’s our personal favourite addison. We like Survey as well, though in more of a ‘wow. that’s me’ kind of way. However, we enjoy writing dialogue for Spam much more than both of them combined. [❄︎☟︎☜︎  ☞︎⚐︎⚐︎☹︎ ]

Were you nervous about doing a writing ask blog since it's mostly common for an art ask blog? Oh yes, definitely. We were worried it would not be seen. We did not mind at the time, however it’s very nice to see such positive reception. Perhaps this will continue. [☜︎☠︎👎︎]

So when the Addison's appeared, were they adults, kids, or babies? How'd they find each other? Were they programmed to see each other as siblings, or is it a kind of 'found family' deal? A bit of all three. Related in the same way that all fruits or genres of books are. Not quite related. But also family. Found each other in the Cyber Fields, where we believe all other Cyber World darkners appear. [ 💧︎☜︎🏱︎☜︎☼︎✌︎👌︎☹︎☜︎ ]

You post an awful lot, are you taking care to not over work yourself? Yes. Probably. We’re not sure what ‘overwork’ means in your dictionary, but it probably doesn’t include writing ten paragraphs of words at 11PM in the night. [💧︎☹︎☜︎☜︎🏱︎]

What's you guys' favorite food? Us or the addisons? We believe you mean the addisons- in which case, we suppose Radio might like cotton candy. Video, blue raspberry flavoured anything. Survey, caffeinated energy drinks. Banner, frosted pastries- like cupcake. Spam, pancakes. [☹︎✋︎☜︎]

Why don't y'all believe our warnings? Please consider an intervention with Spam and...HIM before it's too late. I don’t believe you know who you’re talking to. [☞︎⚐︎⚐︎☹︎]

How many arcs will there be? There's of course Fame and Post-Fame, but what else?  We have 5 arcs planned. Fame should be the longest- however it’s close competition between Fame and Post-Fame. The last two are a fun surprise. [☟︎⚐︎💣︎☜︎]

Will the story go through like the canon chapter 2 storyline? If it does , will we still be in contact with the addisons and spamton? Yes, it will. However, certain characters may lose contact at certain points. We will notify you when we break the line. [☹︎⚐︎💧︎❄︎]

What size are the character banners? 1062 x 247 pixels. [🕈︎⚐︎🕈︎]

Is it possible for a Lightner to be able to cross the boundary of both worlds and interact with the Darkners themselves if they were able to find the bridge connecting the two worlds? Or, Is it possible that only a selected few can cross that bridge? No. We don’t believe so. Only humans can cross. [ ✌︎ 💧︎⚐︎🕆︎☹︎]

Does a Darkner affect the Lightner world depending on how much their actions changes the surrounding areas or is it just the Lightners able to do that in the Drakner World? Only the light can really change things. [☹︎✋︎☝︎☟︎❄︎]

I like both the concept and execution of this blog! Your writing is really good! Thank you. Your kind words have been received. [⚐︎☟︎📬︎📬︎📬︎]

CONTINUED

#lifeline au #if u saw me send this earlier no you didn't