#dot point fic

[fastcardotmp3]

I'm not usually the audience for most kid fic content HOWEVER the idea of Eddie falling into a circumstance where he becomes the Uncle Wayne to some other kid who has nowhere else to go has me by the throat today

like. circular narratives.... hear me out....

maybe Eddie did have a sibling, a sister ten years older than him who was out of the house and as far away as she could manage before he even ended up in Hawkins with Wayne. maybe he and his sister didn't keep in touch because by the time she had her footing in the world well enough to come back and see him, Eddie was long gone already.

maybe she ends up in worse situations than he does by nature of not having a Wayne of her own to teach her what it feels like to have someone stick around for you and maybe one of those situations is ending up with a kid she's not equipped to take care of, no matter how much she tries.

she needs help, needs backup, needs someone to take this 10-year-old in and give her safety while her mother gets healthy and tries to learn what it means to be stable.

And hey, listen, Eddie Munson is 27 at this point, he's had seven years to heal from the bullshit Hawkins put him through and he's still working hard every day to keep that momentum going, but a child?

he's not a father, not an uncle, take her to Wayne for fuck's sake, he begs of his sister even though he knows deep down he doesn't mean it, not when Wayne has finally retired, finally has some stability of his own.

what other option do I have? I need you, Ed, is begged of him in return, and he hears her, he does, but what does he have to offer in this situation?

he's a mechanic with PTSD and a one-bedroom in Bloomington who's been pining for his best friend the former jock-turned-part time student for the past two years.

he's a wreck and a half who has nothing but lateral moves to make in his future and has to set three different alarm clocks to wake himself up in time for work every morning and he's just-- Eddie. That's all he is. That's all he has to offer.

It can't possibly be enough.

What's her name? he asks despite himself, out here on the sidewalk in front of his place of work where he'd been ambushed, where he knows Steve will be pulling into the spot across the street to pick him up any minute.

Naomi, is the answer, and she will be, even if Eddie doesn't see it yet.

There's no part of Eddie Munson which has ever dreamed of trips to the park and helping with homework and drives to the mall to buy presents for birthday parties.

There's no part of him which has ever sought out parenthood to anything other than the stray cat who likes to beg for treats at his back door.

There's no part of him which is built for this, Eddie knows, as he sees the familiar shape of a familiar car parking across the street and idling.

Naomi, he breathes anyway, looks down at the photograph being pressed into his hand, the untamed curls and missing front teeth.

She's sitting on the front steps of a trailer, sun shining down on her and pinking up the bridge of her nose and it's him for a moment. It's him, loved unequivocally by a guy who never planned to have kids, never wanted them, and loved Eddie with everything he had to offer despite it.

It's him, the little boy that still lives in Eddie's chest, just asking not to be forgotten.

You're all she's got right now, Eddie.

Well, shit.

He's gonna need to put a call into Wayne, isn't he?

#dot post #dot fic #eddie munson #steddie #dad!eddie munson #kind of #the only way these dudes end up with kids is via some sort of circular circumstance but BOY the CIRCUMSTANCE of it all.... #found the first three paras of this in my drafts and today me was like you know what? #past me made points

[losersimonriley]

First meeting flashback LFG

#ghostsoap #at this point eventually i'll have the whole fic posted in snippets on tumblr dot com. can't seem to control myself #my writing #sundowning fic

[moonsnqil]

something about outsider pov andreil fics is so good like oo yes let's observe these two little gremlins in love, it defies all natural laws but somehow they're cute together

#i like how most of the fics are either a) trying to figure out if these two actually even like each other #or b) realizing either of them are even in a relationship with a personality like theirs #bonus points if its their pro team who know next to nothing about their teammates #and then suddenly the dots connect and theyre all like wait what #aftg #andreil #the foxhole court #tfc #all for the game #nora sakavic

[deargravity]

obsessed with hajun because he is so loveable but also deeply unlikeable. which is... literally the charm of his character. he's slightly strange and incredibly elusive and undoubtedly morally questionable but no less human. he's sharp-tongued and insensitive at times, but he's clearly trying to be gentler, and a little more aware in his manner when it's necessary. (congratulations on the cognitive empathy, hajun, i'm sure you'll put it to good use.) i like that his moment of vulnerability didn't soften him up but he's learned to be honest with the people he loves. i know hajun is very much in his senses when he does something wrong, makes someone uncomfortable / embarrassed but i also don't think he'd appreciate his actions being moralised. at the end of the day, he wants to be seen, known and understood for who he really is but he's afraid of baring himself that way. he doesn't want to be an open wound, his childhood home was not forgiving enough for him to express any kind of injury. i suppose he thinks, "if i am to be abandoned, i'd rather be abandoned like a house on fire, not a sick dog. something malicious, unsympathetic and worth remembering, if not possible to return to." he's kind of twisted like that, and it's endearing to me (unfortunately).

we don't know much about his childhood in the yeon household (he did move to japan all by himself when he was 13 - which is a whole another can of worms to unpack because can you imagine having to independently build a life at that age in a new country, learn a new language and stand on your feet after being thrown out by your family? can you blame hajun for being a razor-sharp hazard to society? his childhood was pitiless, the city was even more so, no wonder hajun's only constant companions were his isolation and the fangs he had to grow to survive.) but i'll make a reasonable inference based on dongha's experience. we see hajun as he is now, with his cold, precise anger but we also see dongha's wet, thrashing rage that hasn't realised its purpose or target yet. dongha is the closest we have to understanding the extent of the yeon's family cruelty. dongha is everything hajun would have been if he'd still been his parent's son, hajun is everything dongha could be if he leaves behind his family. which is still insane, if you think about it. and i think about it constantly.

the self-made cynic, as they say. i like that he's disarming, unsettling, insincere, insensitive, sadistic, self-serving, cunning manipulative etc. whatever people want to say about him, but i also like that he's his truest self with allen and anne, and doesn't plan on changing that. the world be damned, they are the only ones that matter because they've looked him in the eye without flinching or turning away. like... BAE are so everything...

anyways, i hope he continues to be perceived exactly as terrible as he pretends to be, and i hope the writers leave his beautiful, skewed moral compass intact because i love every single reprehensible act he commits. (for his next trick though, i hope he uncovers something to launch a billion-dollar lawsuit against yeon conglomerate and sink them into bankruptcy.) i hope he continues to cook for allen and anne, i hope he stays fiercely committed to protecting them and caring for them, because clearly everyone else is nothing and if there is one thing he has faith in, it's the family he chose for himself, the family that chose him right back.

hajun and his quiet, precise rage. hajun and the childhood he had to bury so he could evolve to survive in a bigger, crueller world. the childhood that taught him to be afraid, and the adulthood that hasn't quite unlearned it just yet, but baby steps. something about hajun and i get mean when i'm nervous like a bad dog. something about anne and allen embodying tell me every terrible thing you did and let me love you anyway, and hajun taking the risk of believing it. and taking the risk every morning until he doesn't forget. hajun and i am not brave enough to look those who love me in the eye. hajun and it's not a conscience that assures morality, it's the resolve to be a better person to people you care about.

but we can't unpack all this right now. if you suffered through all that and are still here, i hope you have a good day.

#paradox live #paralive #allen sugasano #anne faulkner #yeon dongha #yeon hajun #bae are queerplatonic excellence to me #happy birthday hajun my little freak #i should write a fic at this point. why am i yapping on tumblr dot com #i hope my brainworms are contagious so that you all suffer too #i love him so bad and i think about him non stop #i hate him he is ridiculous and i never want to think about him again

[kyliebrightsun]

Okay, hear me out

Farm boy x City boy Au but it’s yax?? 👀

#the farm boy x city boy yax Au that nobody needed but here it is #like I just had a thought and now I wanna write a fic for this #i mean I have an AO3 account now so I definitely could 🤔 #animaniacs #animaniacs 2020 #animaniacs fanart #animaniacs 1993 #yax #max goof #yakko #yakko warner #yakko x max #a goofy movie #I’m gonna draw wakko and dot at some point for this Au I swear it

[thewolveswolf]

someone explain to me what the fuck i meant by:

dance

in my london, libraries & love planning notes

???????

#my planning dot points are usually so much more details #the fuck am i on about here #london libraries & love #good omens #good omens fic #fic #ineffable husbands #lll

[wixiany]

Riduurok of Convenience

Summary:

Paz froze, not sure if he had heard right.

Axe turned to him, a wry grin on his face. "What? I'm already raising your son, might as well say the riduurok now."

* * *

or Paz survived and Axe finds him, but his helmet had been long removed. Axe offers a simple solution.

#paz vizsla #axe woves #axepaz #pazaxe #??? #axe x paz #axe woves x paz vizsla #slow burn #my fics #come get your food #the mandalorion spoilers #the mandalorian #im going insane with their potential #thank you everyone on tumblr dot com who pointed out that axe may have adopted ragnar #i ran with it #paxe

[theyoungeragrippina]

send help it has literally taken me this long to realise jim is called jim because of jimenez and not just because jim is a funny name

#smooth brain symptoms #it took someone spelling it out in a fic i was reading for me to finally connect the dots #this is why i need fandoms because i need someone to point out everything to me #jim is still a funny name though #ofmd #our flag means death #jim jimenez

[honeydots]

put these thoughts on twt and figured i should put 'em here too, i was thinking abt how xander and laslow would both be pretty good w/ soleil's hair..... i don't think either of them would fall into that "dad sucks at styling daughter's hair" stereotype, they'd be able to brush it and put it up and be gentle. xander bc little tiny elise certainly begged her big brother to comb through her hair, style it, style it again if it looked bad rip (tho @glittergluwu and i talked abt her hc of xander needing to develop Hair Skills after his hair turned curly and unmanageable after puberty which i am STILL thinking about LOL) and for laslow, him having helped olivia with her hair when he was little, loved doing it even, just a fond memory. i still think laslow would get emotional seeing soleil a bit older putting her hair up and seeing just how much like his mom she really looks ;A;

#was also thinking abt a fic idea of future inigo helping past olivia with her hair like he used to #and then realizing ah. he isn't as good at this as he thought he was. not as good at all. maybe it's been too long but maybe he never was #but olivia gently helping teach him again. style just how she likes it. the ponytail and the braids and the headband #and you know obviously inigo is weeping at this point gjsngjdfnfb #(also woocy i hope u don't mind the tag i just thought the hc was so funny i was DEEPLY amused at 13 y/o xander with extremely bad hair) #(but i will remove it if u so please!!!) #mmm i don't want this in the tag but i want it in MY xnlw tag but i don't have one. #what should my tag for them be........ #the prince and the frog. laslows not a frog.... the prince and the DOG! no that's too kinky #ghsngshfn maybe i'll just leave it at #dots's xnlw tag #and figure out a better one later #dots on the soapbox

[manawari]

Teenage Mercenary but make it

🔥 POST-APOCALYPTIC AU 🔥

#seems like this is a big project of mine ever since joining the fandom #i already have some plot points so all i need to do is connect the dots and construct the character roles themselves #and also a freaking vacant time where i won't be neglecting (procrastinating) my other fics #teenage mercenary #mercenary enrollment

[fastcardotmp3]

It’s 2002 and Jonathan Byers is back home again in Indiana. It’s 2002 and Steve Harrington hasn’t found a love worth fighting for since the one he lost to the Upside Down in 1986. It’s 2002 and they’ve almost found each other.  stonathan // rated T // 3 chapters // 15K total

read on ao3 // snippet under the cut:

“So you and Argyle, huh? Whatever happened there?” Steve questions bluntly around the lip of his bottle. “I would’ve thought he’d come with you if you were moving for the gig and all.” 

Jonathan makes a face, not sheepish or ashamed, but just a face, and then he breathes out a breath which is almost a laugh. 

Steve is coming to realize that Jonathan is a man of almosts. It’s like everything he does isn’t quite on the nose enough to be considered concise or black-and-white in its existence. He’s on the precipice of vulnerability with every breath he takes while just as much keeping one foot in his own little armored pocket of safety at all times. 

It’s kind of infuriating. 

It kind of feels nice just to recognize it at all. 

“Yeah, uh,” Jonathan clears his throat, leaning back on both elbows now and watching the roiling mass of people in the bar instead of Steve, “that didn’t quite work out.” 

Steve’s eyebrows hop high up towards his hairline. 

“For real?” he balks. “I figured you two were sorta locked in by this point.” 

“You figured, huh?” Jonathan looks at him, just out of the corner of his eye. Almost. 

“Oh, forgive me for being curious, man,” Steve deadpans, and earns a quirk of the lips from Jonathan in response. 

A roll of the eyes and a genuine snort of amusement. 

“We tried opening the relationship,” he shrugs, “he discovered he liked being open and I discovered I’m… not great at, uh, sharing.” 

Steve can’t help himself but laugh. Not maliciously, or at least not intending to be, but just because it will never fail to shock him just how well he gets Jonathan Byers sometimes. For all of their differences, every once in a while the guy will just say something that Steve has never been able to put into words but has felt his entire life to be true. 

“Better man than me for even trying,” he says through his laughter, leaning a forearm onto the bar and letting it hold his listing weight. He can hear the bubble of Robin’s laughter over the music from somewhere on the dance floor, an easing thing to the beat of his heart and making it so he doesn’t need to look to check on her. 

He can stay just like this, watching the deft and practiced way Jonathan holds his bottle by the neck between long fingers, and then getting called out within an inch of his life by the calm and deadpanned tone behind, “oh wow, you a little bit possessive? Never knew that about you, Harrington.” 

#dot fic #stonathan #steve harrington #jonathan byers #platonic stancy #dead eddie munson #just like as a forewarning but it's me what do you expect at this point tbh #love after loss and so on and so forth!! they're 35 and figuring shit out!

[jessydia]

Sleepingbeauty dreamlingprompt

Desire and Lucifer join forces to take the dreaming, Dream is put into his own nightmare enteralslumber, the dreaming suffers and deteriorates without him, lucienne tells books in the great library read only true loves kiss can break the spell. Matthew finds hob and takes him into the dreaming  where he has to embark on a perilous journey across a crumbling landscape, not heed thorns of desire) and fight the dragon (lucifer) to get to the highest room of the castle and save the king and the dreaming.  

#dreamling #hob gadling #hob x dream #dream x hob #the sandman #fic I was going to write but stopped maybe I’ll do it in dot points idn

[sideblogforcrimpy-plus]

Opening my drafts/fic ideas and hunting through them like you do the pantry/fridge when looking for food

#I've added about 1000 words to a Moreid one that's partial case fic (human leather books were so morbidly interesting #that the dark of that in my mind went 'put it with this sad Moreid plan we never thoughts we'd expand on' #can you tell I'm tired? typis #anyways #and now I'm longingly reading things I've dreamed up over the last #/checks dates/ #three years and wondering where the rest of the the fucken #plan is #and #I haven't written them #i have #24 google docs for CM focs #some are idea compilations #some are less than a oage of thoughts #and some are multiple pages mixed actual writing and dot points #at least I expanded on existing ones instead of starting another new one again

[kiwibirdlafayette]

Aitheaca: About Flash’s clothes, are they reflective? Is it made to look like gold (with gold embellishments) or is his jacket like actually gold (assuming it’s something similar to gold leaf but for fabric and lightweight)?

If his clothes are reflective, I think combat with him could be really fun, because he just causes blindness on the battlefield on sunny days. It’d also be fun with someone on the crew didn’t realize who they were talking to upon first meeting him because looking directly at him is hard. So, they don’t know the danger they’re in until it’s too late.

Also! What’s crew dynamic looking like? I saw you mentioned Spark was on the crew a while back, but just to confirm, who’s officially on the crew?

Out of all the Aitheaca designs, who’s your favorite?

Thank you so much for the questions!! I appreciate it a ton, it means an absolute lot that you're interested in my sillies :D

With Flash's jacket, hell yeah! I wasn't specifically going for a reflective surface, but I did want his jacket to appear as if it was weaved out of fibered gold (that Im assumin would be like gold leaf in texture), that is yes lightweight man's gotta be able to move fast... like a flash of light haHA-

When light reflects off it in certain ways it could absolutely be used like a flashbang to blind enemies during battle, I'm imagining AND YESSS the crew would have zero idea, like in the plot I have in my head so far, Tom, Sonja and Spark are the first ones to encounter Flash, they just see a shape of a man in the sunbeam ahead, too bright to tell who exactly it was. Initially they think it could be Jordan, but its actually Flash, who was tipped off to their location based on Tom's Mecha-Dianite quintessence (that still puts off a pretty strong signature despite the cloaking sigils Wag had given him). Like you mentioned, he's really hard to look at, because while he's standing in the sun he's not creating a shadow, he's reflecting it. And its in this time they don't notice him pull out his weapons and BANG

Mer and co. end up having to come in to come in to help them out-because they don't exactly have experience fighting someone who is wearing basically a mirror for a jacket in direct sunlight- wearing wearing some kine specialized obsidian sunglasses because yknow this is isn't their first rodeo with this yellow dipshit (Merina's not as affected as Will and Cass but she's gonna wear em anyway for the bit)

I think of the designs, probably either Merina, Cass and Ianite are my favorite! Ia because I just had a lot of fun designing her armor and coming up with a darker color palette costume design that wasn't just dark purple, and working with different armor styles to get the specific celestial warlord look I wanted her to have :D Cass was just a fun design to do overall because his aesthetics have been something I dont get to work with much, a very patchwork vintage kind of thing, which is supposed to be a callback to Inter Amorem et Timorem , a short screenplay I wrote for school where- aside from it being a Tom reference- he was named Cassell because his emotions were spoken through cassette tapes C: But Merina's design might just be my favorite, I am a sucker for nautical designs and trying to figure out what a coraldragon hybrid might look like compared to a typical merling was a ton of fun :D Also trying to work in the color palettes of the Watchers was how I landed on the blueish purple scheme, because initially she was going to be teal and orange to call back a little to Sonja across the multiverse

(I promise I also love William equally but too much of his design was me making jokes about Joel/Pix/Bdubs)

And the crew! Currently as I have it, the peeps that end up in Aitheaca are Jordan, Tom, Capsize, Sonja, Martha, Spark (Tucker I was thinking about including, but I'm not sure how to work him back in, but basically they would find him in a different SMP prior to this; where the reconciliation between him and Sonja starts) Its very interesting to have 3 different Sparklez variants in the same timeline, surely nothing could go wrong /hj, but the dynamic can best be defined as "a group of people who desperately just need to figure their shit out because damn they have not really had a proper chance to rest and feel safe doing so"

While Tom and Jordan had their reconciliation arc during Isles (source: just trust me m8), Capsize, while having gotten a hang on being undead is carrying a lot of resentment and unresolved issues she's not sure about because she can't clearly remember the entirety of (specifically towards Jordan) and Sonja kind of holding a little resentment towards Tom, but more importantly her decision to choose to stay Mianite's champion despite her post-S2 not being sure and owning that choice. no longer even after Tucker he drifts away (and then how that comes into play when Tucker rejoins them, basically the stuff I allude to in the mini animatic) its essentially Embersduo and Zombiecaptains but they have trouble getting along, not because they're sick of each other, but more like damn We all Went Through a Ton of Shit and we're not good at talking about it or working through it together,but goddammit we're still gonna try to get along. That being said I do think they have moments where they can be their silly shenanigan selves :D

Martha's her own ballgame, in the sense that she's very endgoal oriented in trying to problem solve, and her reaction to Aitheaca!Ianite is very drastic as well, it just must be really weird to see a basically evil version of your mother. She and Sonj aren't great friends, but her and Capsize have caught on pretty well, and she doesn't mind Jordan (Tom's iffy, but at least they can connect over being new gods in a way) Spark's just along for the ride, he was supposed to get back home to help out Dia, Mot and the Wizards but the portal fucked up lowkey :] He's not exactly overjoyed to be parading about the multiverse but he's fine with Martha, Sonj and Capsize so he mostly hangs around them. It'll be interesting that's for sure, but this is the main chunk of the post-series stuff I want to do so yeeeee

#I'm still kinda toying with the crew dynamics but this is what i got so far :D #mianite: the tales of aitheaca #mianite au #gkm ocs #worldbuilding #mianite #merina coraldragon #william oricho #cassell lomorem #lafakiwi talks #lafakiwi writes #that being said. writing a fic is currently out of the question for me i do not really have the motivation #if anything i'll probably dot out the plot like i did for SKoD onto a google doc in bullet points #and draw bits n pieces here and there when I get inspired #but theres also like. pre- the Crew's arrival that exists thats like AAAAAAAA #yeah ive thought too much about this then is normal #asks #licantropa #lafakiwi draws #(for the doodle)

[astriiformes]

Speaking of writing, I have been having some unique challenges with one of the stories I'm working on (a Wittebane backstory one), because usually one of the things I'm most concerned with when writing fic is accurately capturing character voices, but for this one I'm working with

1) A character with no actual lines in canon, so I have to build his "character voice" around the vague scaffolding of what we do know about him, which is..... not much

and 2) A character who does appear in canon, so I can at least try to maintain something that resembles character continuity, but when we actually see him in the show he is an almost 400 year-old genocidal religious zealot and in the fic in question he is. 6.

#technically philip will be 14 by the end of the fic and probably more recognizable as himself by that point but #pinning down the exact right amount of foreshadowing/character continuity vs childishness/etc in his little kid characterization is a TIME #i'm enjoying it though it's a fun challenge #rotating this terrible man in my head and asking 'what made you the way that you are' #vs rotating caleb in my mind and asking 'who were you anyways' #something something about previous selves vs ghosts and how they're really both just different kinds of echoes #tl;dr me writing this fic is just #i've connected the dots. i've connected them

[ven-of-oath]

watcher x listener enemies to lovers 200k

AGREE

#dude if i had the skill and the dedication #the most ive written of a fic is like 6k words of the most melodramatic limlife au #i dot pointed the rest of the fic #as well as a spin off #but yeah writing is something that apprently hits me once every 10 years #considering the last time i wrote a fic wad like 2013 #askven