#i found in a fic which i really like

[tanoraqui]

I mean I get why there's a lot of S&D fic for such a niche fandom with a frankly bizarre canon format. It's like you get a short prompt every day. Anyway, this is for this one.

“Animancer, don’t do this,” Barnaby begged, his hands flat on the wall of the magical confinement circle in which he was trapped. Across the basement, Kotetsu whined in ghostly pain. “Please don’t make me do this.”

Barnaby wished he knew the villain’s real name. She was definitely possessed, and real names were supposed to help with that. But they weren’t that good nemeses.

Animancer gave a gloating laugh, echoed eerily by whatever was giving her those glowing eyes and ectoplasmic horns. Some sort of demon, from what he'd glimpsed of the notes in her black tome of forbidden knowledge.

“Make you do what, St. Bernard, watch my plans come to glorious fruition?” She spread her arms, beckoning in the whirlwind of ghosts being pulled forcibly into the bloody pentagram in which she stood. “Well, tough luck! You’re out of your league and there’s nothing else you can do!”

She was pretty much right, unfortunately. Animancer had been a D-tier villain when they’d faced off before, for her cruel press-ganging of animal ghosts into her service for petty crime. But sometime between now and the pet cemetery incident last June, she’d escalated fast. Her lair was still just her oversized basement, but the cages filling it now held human souls as well, some from people she’d killed herself—and soon, all would be drawn into the ghostly vortex building around her, nothing but fuel for the demon she was summoning. And Barnaby was trapped behind a barrier which no mortal could pass, and which he couldn’t affect from inside it, while Kotetsu was trapped behind a barrier which no ghost could pass—while also being yanked toward the vortex. Kotetsu was pressed flat against the magical wall of his pentacle trap, making great canine whimpers of distress.

“Please,” Barnaby repeated, “do not make me use scary dog privileges!” (Morgan’s silly names for things were infectious.)

But Kotetsu started howling in pain, a wail matched only by the helpless ghosts of humans and animals alike being pulled into Animancer’s ritual, and Barnaby drew his phone and dialed. If the demon actually arrived, he’d really be outclassed. But if he could flip the tables…

Animancer sneered even harder, as the phone rang. “What, this ‘scary dog’?”

She waved her hand and the warding spell around Kotetsu vanished.

Kotetsu fell flat, then scrambled to his feet and started dashing toward Barnaby, racing to jump into the dog-shaped space in Barnaby’s spirit. Barnaby reached back the same way—

But neither of them was strong enough to withstand Animancer’s spell. Kotetsu’s paws scrabbled frictionless against the floor as he was pulled backwards. Animancer laughed maniacally.

“No!” Barnaby cried.

“Did you call me just to yell at me?” Alex asked, annoyed, from the phone Barnaby had forgotten he was still holding to his ear.

“No, I need your help! There's a demon being summoned, and it's going to consume all these lost souls from the neighborhood—”

"Hm, pass." Barnaby could practically hear the S-tier’s expression turn from bored to cruel. "Or you could beg me..."

Animancer threw her head back and started swallowing the ghosts, glowing brighter and brighter with each helplessly screaming spirit.

"Alex, Kotetsu is going to get eaten."

"Oh hell no!"

Barnaby heard the back half of the sentence in person as well as over the phone, as Alex appeared in the room without fanfare. They dropped their phone, grabbed Kotetsu by his floating, frantically doggie-paddling paws and yanked him down. Holding him close in one arm like a massively oversized toddler, they strode forward and side-kicked Animancer in the chest. She flew out of her bloody ritual circle and hit the opposite wall, hard.

The roar of the ghost-twister summoning spell diminished, though none of the ghosts actually vanished. They were still trapped here, wailing in distressed cacophony.

Alex's snarl cut cleanly through them as they advanced on Animator. "This is my dog. You do not touch my dog."

"He’s not your dog!" Barnaby called.

"My useless Dog Boy, too," Alex added, not missing a beat.

Animator struggling back to her feet, still glowing electric blue. Alex started to glow an extraordinarily menacing gold in reply.

Kotetsu recovered enough from his shock to phase out of Alex's arms and finally, finally get back to Barnaby. As always, melding with him was like being excitedly and lovingly tackled and licked all over, and all Barnaby wanted to do was scratch his ears (spiritually, physically, every which way) and tell him that he was a good boy, such a good boy, didn't the best boys not get eaten by demon-summoning ghost vortexes? Yes they did! That's what they did!

...but there were innocents to save. Now not entirely mortal for the moment, Barnaby ran easily through the pentacle trap’s wall, and made it to the other side of the room just in time to catch Alex's fist with dog-augmented strength before they yanked Animancer's heart out of her chest or something.

(Okay, dog-augmented strength and the power of being on the Do Not Kill List.)

"What now?" Alex snapped.

"If you pull the demon out of her, fully manifest like it was clearly aiming for, you'll get a better fight," Barnaby said quickly.

Alex stared at him judgingly. But they couldn't hide the way their snake-slit pupils dilated with bloodlust.

"Fine," they said finally. "But it'd better really be a good fight, Dog Boy."

They loosed their grip on Animancer's throat and grabbed her—or whatever it was—by the glowing ectoplasmic horn instead. They flew upward, crashing through multiple floors of Animancer's house without pause, dragging something behind them that screamed as it was torn out of Animancer's body.

Animancer screamed, too, in agony until the demon was fully out of her body. Then she collapsed.

Barnaby dropped to his knees to check her pulse. Alive!

“Kotetsu, out,” he ordered, and lost that full-body warmth of affection as Kotetsu rematerialized beside him—but they did exchange a few ear scratches and excited licks before Barnaby stood and ordered, “Watch over her and bark if she wakes up, or gets worse, okay? I’ve got to find her necronomicon.”

And then get her out of here before Alex decided rending the demon to ectoplasmic shreds wasn’t fun enough and they needed to deal with the problem at the source, and get some mild necromancy powers in the process. Barnaby looked up at the clashes of blue and gold, unearthly shrieks and equally chilling laughter now happening above. He probably had a few minutes. He really didn’t want Alex finding that tome, either.

He scuffed the blood pentagram open first, of course, releasing all the gathered ghosts. Some dissipated instantly; others flew off, charged up with pain or wrath. That was…probably also a problem.

Barnaby sighed as he set-to searching the garage for Animancer’s cursed notes. This was why he preferred working with Morgan. There were certain overbearing complications, but at least once a heist was done, foiled or not, it was usually done, instead of snowballing into extended ghost-hunts. Animancer’s basement lair didn’t even have puzzles, even though she’d classed up to nearly B-tier. It was just a mess.

#s & d tier #alex stewart #alex s tier #barnaby s&d tier #fanfiction #my fic #tragically i thought up a backstory for barnaby while writing this which contradicts a backstory for barnaby #i found in a fic which i really like #ah schroedinger's backstory...is the dog dead or alive...

[andthebeanstalk]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

#original #the last unicorn #tlu #peter s beagle #molly gru #schmendrick #schmendrick the magician #two of my favorite characters in anything right there in the center of the story! and I'm glad I saw the film first! #my reading ability has diminished due to trauma disability etc. but it seems like having a visual reference actually really helped! #no wonder i only ever want to read fan fic! turns out reading is not actually Superior to other types of Storytelling. it's just different. #to say otherwise is snobbishness I have been eminently guilty of in my life! #but like it is easier for me to consume tv and movies and that is fine actually. also that's why I'm doing a graphic novel lol #because i wanted to make something i would actually be able to read if i found it at a library. altho the audio book IS gonna be bomb #the audiobook is for visually impaired readers and anyone who wants or needs it! accessible stories for everyone! yeah!! #my gender was already transed but now I've gained an ADDITIONAL gender! which one? I'll never tell 😘 #i am so powerful i have so much fuckin gender. my wife has no gender. and she is equally as powerful. #and also she has STUDIED THE BLADE #mostly zoro's blades from One Piece #normally YouTube recommends me shit movies like idiocracy or smth this is like if every day ur cat brought you a piece of rotten food and #then one day it brings you a BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED TALE FEATURING MY BELOVED TWINK FUCK-UP WIZARD FRIEND AND MY ALL-TIME HOMEGIRL MOLLY GRU #and also it's soft and beautiful and funny and fucking weird!! i wrote melodies to the songs in the books on my ukulele

[otaku553]

I have an agenda.

Long hair teenage sabo.

#one piece #sabo #you cannot convince me that he did not have a long hair phase #like if he grew out his hair to hide his scar he has to have tried more to hide it more thoroughly #I found a fic recently that followed sabo’s growing up in the revolutionary army and it was really really good #I want to see more amnesiac teenage sabo acting awkward around his peers because even back on dawn he had only two friends #more of kids being insensitive and asking about his scar which even he has no idea how he got #and koala and him being antagonistic towards each other #and them slowly becoming friends #anyways I’m so. I tried going onto YouTube to see if there were any good video analyses of sabo #and like yeah I can see why sabo would be a divisive character #but I also completely forgot that there are one piece readers who have not an ounce of media literacy #or respect for female characters #something something ‘sabo is like an oc insert because he exists so distant from everything and just in time to replace ace’ SHUT UP #or ‘favoritism towards sabo because he has a hot girl following him around and more hot girls in the revolutionaries’ I AM GOING TO GO INSA #KOALA IS HER OWN CHARACTER AND AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING ONE THAT DOES NOT EXIST JUST TO BE EYE CANDY OFF OF SABO’ ARM #SABO IS AN AMAZING CHARACTER IN LINE WITH THE THEMES OF ONE PIECE AROUND FREEDOM AND EQUALITY

[fistfuloflightning]

Lan Sizhui’s words are terrifying. Don’t move, don’t make a sound, I’ll be back when it’s over. And they’ve always been black for as long as he can remember. The other disciples his age have their soulmate’s last words in shades of skintone not their own, like delicately crafted scars that are easy to overlook. Warm and alive and welcoming. But his are black.

He’s eighteen when they change. He’s never heard of soulmate marks changing—fading to grey if the dead was brought back as a fierce corpse, but never changed. Like he was given a second chance—or the other was. But the black thaws to a shade paler than his own skin, the characters red and raw looking. Like they’d been cut into his arm. Like they were never meant to be there. I’ll be here when you wake, A’Yuan.

And those words terrify him even more.

Because apparently he’s fated to keep losing them, over and over again. He has no memory of the first, and his father cannot or will not answer when he asks.

And so Lan Sizhui waits for the day he loses everything all over again.

#mdzs #lan sizhui #wei wuxian #zhuixian #could that be their ship name? idk #soulmates #because apparently I love causing pain #theres like only two decent lsz/wwx fics that I’ve found that aren’t unhinged threesomes with lwj #which is a shame #because their dynamic could be really interesting #and heartbreaking #esp the moment they realize who they were to each other #bc wwx is closer to lsz’s age than lwj’s mentally and physically after the timeskip #my writing

[cuteniarose]

Personally I find it really funny that based on what the twins said in the Book 2 finale re: having to tell their mom about what happened to Unalaq, it's literally canon that Unalaq's wife a) exists, b) is alive, and c) is just chilling in the Northern Water Tribe

She took one look at all the spirit fuckery her husband was getting up to and went "Well that's none of my business" and honestly I respect that

#oh and when I say spirit fuckery I mean it in both the literal and metaphorical sense. blame kat's latest raava and vaatu fic #yeah I'm just gonna start posting random LoK opinions on here now. this blog's been dead long enough #not really an incorrect quotes girly anymore sorry #not even a girl anymore. but you know #most of my red lotus and oc posting will remain on my personal blog though bc no one wants to see that #anyway. yes. Unalaq's wife. when I say the avatar franchise has a mom problem this is exactly what I mean #80% of characters don't have a mom. the moms that are alive either have little to no screen time or mentions #or they're basically Schroedinger's mom in the sense that they exist but not really #the exceptions being like. pema and suyin. and maybe senna though she also has very little screentime #my point is. the twins are younger than korra. I know avatarverse has a precedent for putting kids on the throne. looking at you zuko #but really we should have gotten unalaq's wife as chief of the nwt #introduced her in book 3 during the lead up to p'li's prison break #but that's just my objectively correct opinion #northern water tribe chief raspberry when #(according to avatar wiki her name is malina so I've been calling her raspberry in my head ever since I found out #malina means raspberry in russian that's why. probably in a bunch of other slavic languages too idk I'm not an expert #and she shares a name with katara and sokka's weird white stepmom from the comics which no sane person considers canon. so that's fun) #the legend of korra #unalaq

[phoenixcatch7]

Why can't we have a batman is the spirit of Gotham au?

He already is, in meta, in character, in theming. Him and the joker. He is so very built upon what Gotham is made of, and Gotham builds from what he needs in turn, the setting of his story.

What if that is the reason he can take damage that would permanently ruin a physical career and come back? What if that's how he's managed to maintain his no-kill streak to such an extent? What if that's how he manages to maintain such high maintenance and all consuming identities?

For the heart and soul of a city containing all extremes, the richest nobility and the lowest of the poor, the cruellest villains and the most compassionate heroes, orphaned children and ancient lineages, a city rooted in fear and madness and grit-teeth determination and hard won kindness, what better choice could you find than Bruce Wayne?

But what if he wasn't alone in that? What if Gotham has sunk to such a low because its spirit is damaged and corrupted?

For the heart and soul of the cruellest city in the dc universe, the most unrelenting and uncaring, the one that practically laughs at your pain and suffering as you try to make it through another day, what better choice than the Joker?

#Batman v joker is yin yang up down left right it's the oroborus #Like it's possibly one of the most famous arch enemies of modern day lmao #Something something what if there was an actual reason b couldn't kill joker?? Like if joker died it'd kill him too. #Unbalance the incredibly fragile equilibrium b has spent decades fighting for #Like those threatre masks. Love theatre mask symbolism. But the batman is the smiling one and the joker is the frowning one #Its apathy vs compassion. Someone made a really good post about it a while ago but I can't find it ToT #But yeah imagine if b found out about the whole city spirit thing and freaked out it until he found out it was him. #Like full on possessive trawls through research and 'no I'm fine' to everyone watching and lying awake fuming and then it's all fine #Except now he can have an existential crisis because he never realised lmao. Idk maybe the waynes were infertile and he was a surprise baby #Maybe there's no hint he wasn't entirely human until he had the option opened to him. #Like he just thought all his weirdnesses were just from one of the various things he never got official diagnoses for #Which he still is! Some things were just supernatural lol #The kids are laughing at him but they've got the Gotham spirit of the protection which is how they're all (mostly) still alive lmao #Batman #Bruce Wayne #Cryptid batman #Gotham spirit au #Fic idea #Story idea #Batfam #Batfamily #Dc comics #Gotham #Dc city spirits

[novelconcepts]

The fucking choking noise I made when I tuned into a podcast for my run and heard a recent favorite actor go, “I’m still on Tumblr, don’t tell anyone.”

#me frantically looking at the date: #‘right this was 2021. what are the odds they still are? I mean. 14 years for MY gay ass. so. soooo.’ #'do you look at your own tags? at your character? at your ship? SURELY Not. but i would. so could i even blame you? welcome? sorry? help.' #I’m honestly so much less alarmed at the idea of favorite actors finding me NOW vs the truly horrendous idea #that they might have found me back in like 2011-2015 #like. I hate that person. the person who ran my blog back then suuuuucked #which is great cuz it means I’ve grown and matured and experienced life enough to improve #but also like. imagine your favorite actor knowing your tumblr blog from Before #and just loooooathing you #finding out you’re the one writing a ton of fic for their character now and being like ‘THAT one? really?’ #'i've had your URL blacklisted since the GLEE DAYS' fucking imagine #anyway. all of this is moot certainly. like there is just no way. it's all good. #but it did make me make the most unholy noise mid-run so thanks for THAT

[roseddraws]

Is no one gonna write about the voices developing into their own people after getting their own bodies, helping each other survive and grow into multifaceted individuals? Fine, I’ll do it myself

#slay the princess #stp #stp spoilers #stp fanfic #slay the princess fanfiction #fanfiction #fanfic #almost all of the stp fics I’ve found for stp have been romance #which is FINE and good and makes sense considering the plot and a lot of them are really well written #but we need more found family and if I have to write it myself then so be it #like does no one else see the found family potential here?!

[transingthoseformers]

In TFA AU where it's Optimus who was left behind on Archa Seven how could he possibly get a techorganic form? I mean, originally Elita used her scanning abilities on giant spiders and got infected, but how the same could happen to Optimus who didn't have scanning abilities?

I'm trying to come up with ideas, but I can't think of anything.

Okay as far as ideas I've got three

He didn't actually become technoorganic, he ended up getting rebuilt somehow instead, whether it was by himself or by someone else

I saw a fic where Tarantulas was on the planet and experimented on him some which gives us the interesting idea of tfa Tarantulas living on Archa Seven permanently because Tara 100% would be the type to turn someone else technoorganic

He lived with the spiders for a WHILE and modified himself into being technoorganic

#maccadam #transformers #that's all i got for now #tfa Optimus prime #optronix #< same guy #the fic I'm referencing used the name nemesis which eh. i think optronix is underrated #tfa elita one #double swap au #would approach two suggest that tara is the spider queen #IM NOT EVEN IMAGINING HIM AS LIKE. ONE OF THE OTHER SPIDERS BUT BIG NO I MEAN FULL ON TARANTULAS THE GUY #tara found a planet full of spiders and went ''ah yes i have finally found my homeland; time to become a spider too'' #idw tara really loved being a spider like that

[spinninglightning]

whenever i read fics i always end up thinkin of a song for the fic or like, th chapter and then i canr stop associating the fic w/ those songs

#i listen to sm fckn music tht all the songs end up bein wildly diff too #ong i cld make playlists for multi ch fics #*stares at electric rebels* #actually u know what #i will #here r some songs: #our song by matchbox twenty is (early ch) electric rebels treemina coded #butterfly by bts (song is abt the fear of losing a person and in electric rebels this is very much true #everyone has the fear of not only losing their lives but losing their family(+found) as well #time is very much sacred n stuff like that) #humming by turnover (thr lyrics “with you ill make it out alive” sold me on this one) #viva la vida by coldplay specifically for the capital students because of how disillusioned theyve become due to the games #and forming relationships w/ their tribute #really good examples are vipsania and hilarius #rhythm of love by plain white t's makes me think of all the good moments treech n lamina have had despite their circumstances #(its also just a them song in general) #young volcanoes by fall out boy for the tributes!!! it seems light a more lighthearted victory song almost? #a “we will persevere” thing but more full of complete happiness #think abt the scene of teslee mizzen n treech running down the hill in jubilation (obvs before shit went down) #would that i by hozier just makes me think of when treech first met lamina up in the tree #which witch by florence + the machine is definitely for vipsania just before & after the bombing (aspen too but to a lesser degree almost) #“whos a heretic now” “im miles away hes on my mind” yeahhhh #love grows (where my rosemary goes) by edison lighthouse is jst a rlly good treemina song #rousseau by nerina pallot is a good fpr one of the main questions in the fic “are we really born free?” #(no. theyre not they have to work for that freedom. rousseaus main theory specifically the idea of it works really well for this fic #and the hunger games in general) #the promise by when in rome seems to work especially for treech and how he interacts with the others #he always seems to make promises - that theyll live - that he wont leave - that hell take care of the living for the deceased #this ended up sm longer than intended i reached the TAG LIMIT #basil.txt

[sophiethewitch1]

wait i AM brilliant oh my god

#sophie speaks #my other cod:mw idea wasnt really hitting right but like #i have found something that ticks all the boxes #and it does what i think is most important for me when writing longfics which like... captures whatever feeling the piece of media gives me #like www captures the chaotic moral love/hate of the original batfam #the questions of responsibility and loyalty and where you're supposed to draw the line #and this fic is about the darkness of man. of the bitter taste of military and how living in a world like the cod:mw one fucks you up. #how it leaves you practically a shell of yourself. that you could never be whoever you were before #but its also about loyalty to your family above all. #also the reader in this one is just. genuinely a bitch lmao she is 100% using the boys for her own gain and she doesn't care at all

[akuma-tenshi]

does anyone want some writing i just rediscovered?? it's some older coa6 writing abt andrew questioning his faith (w/ a tiny connection to the other coa6 fic void and i are writing)

#rambling #idk i just found it on my phone n i kinda wanna share it #but i'd feel like a dick if i didn't ask #not tagging fandom or character bc it's a nothing post #it has like. one line that mentions a lover. n that's the connection to the other coa6 fic #bc gandrew the world (even though ganji isn't mentioned by name lmao) #i'm not sure if i really got andrew down right but i'm very happy with it. i wrote it in first-person which is rare for me

[thelioncourts]

I'm sorry you don't feel like you have a place in the fandom. I really do think most people seem to like you if that means anything! I like you.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

#thank you <3 idk what else to say #it's probably my fault that i haven't really found like. a person???? i've never been good at it #i feel like i like people around me so much more than they like me (which is fine people don't have to (but also i adore so many people..)) #(and maybe I don't tell them enough idk) #but honestly i don't bring a lot to the table so that's also going against me lol #i'm just here. and honestly as long as i can read the amazing fic from amazing people and drown in the actual story #and the characters and actors #then it'll all be okay

[gobstoppr]

and btw im in my hater arc rn. as time goes on the more i find a lot of 'fandom' stuff insufferable (i like art n stuff. just the way that fandom refits every media to fit a single mold and set of boring archetypes is exhausting.)

i just get really easily annoyed lately. and have been unfollowing people on a whim a lot. its not personal i promise

#fandom culture has made me actively dislike shit i was fixated on a year ago. looking at your ninja turtles #its not even like what they were doing were particularly offensive it was just exhaustingly boring #im sorry i just really dont care about ur 2 million fics about leo being a sadboy. or one million seperated aus. #theres definetly a part of the whole situation in general which has been me coming to terms with my own internalized misogny #actively re-examining my tendencys to gravity towards male characters #idk maybe its making me dislike art more. but idk. ive always analyzed why i react certain ways to certain things. this isnt new for me #anywaays. i had been following a bunch of ninja turtle blogs and they sorta kept messing around with shows like ninjago too #and at some point i was just like. i dont know if these shows are actually that good guys. i think youjust like shows for little boys #and fandoms tend to shaft female chars so it sure helps that their casts are 98% male . #maybe theyre not your blorbo maybe theyre just Guy McAverageMan. thats not inherently bad but you have to consider it. #guys rottmnt is isnt even that good . its not that good ok. its alright/pretty good. and the movie does a few neat things #i feel like ive become one of those people that turn 18 and then immediately go 'minors dni'. im not there yet but i just. #we're watching kids shows. its ok . you can say it. #you may have noticed ive been reblogging a lot of dungeon meshi stuff. i read it all over the past week. #but here's the thing. i thought it was mid/good for like 70% of it. #i think its got some really really cool worldbuilding ideas and stuff #but i think a lot of the writing was sorta. uninteresting to me. #my discord friends have been raving over izutsumi for months. #but i found her presence in the story to be weird and underdeveloped. she felt out of place and her introduction felt clumsy #i felt when the story was ramping up the manga got a lot better. because again theres some rlly cool ideas at play #all the shit with the lion? incredible. the way all the infighting led to more problems bc the elves refuse to explain anything? rlly good. #marcille landing in power? reallly good shit. (i still thought it was a lil undercooked still tho) #i cant stop thinking about laios in that climax scene. i think he shouldve been feral a lot more often #uhh. i got distracted. fandom bad and annoying. #saw a post talking about marcille realizing izutsumi is only 17 and then describing how 'omg shes a mom now' and i wanted to throw up #im done. i swear. im done talking for real. aagh #text

[theflyingfeeling]

fanfic rambling in the tags, nothing interesting really, just me talking to myself lol, okay to ignore or read as you please ✨

#so i've found the perfect prompt list for an olli/allu fic advent calendar sorta thing #but i'm too intimidated by my own expectations and ridiculously high standards to even start writing any of them 😭 #honestly these prompts are so insanely cute and fit olli/allu PERFECTLY #like. i'm actually having trouble deciding which ones to use because i want to write them all 🥺💞 #but i'm so so scared that i'll just end up writing the same (boring) story over again for 24 times 😔 #i wish i could just write without thinking and trying so hard to write a literary masterpiece #when i KNOW it's alright if it's just a silly little story about my blorbos #that's perfectly enough and i know this but my brain's just not having it 😩 #also if i were to write 24 independent fics i'd have to keep them short and simple but. that's not how i do fics. unfortunately (for me) #to overcome this i guess one option would be to write just one longer piece with 24 chapters #and somehow try to include the prompt of the day in each chapter 🤔 #but i don't want to make this even more complicated to myself lol especially because i'm planning to write AUs for a couple of the prompts #i REALLY want to do prompts (of any kind!!) but i'm just so scared of stressing myself out to another months-long writer's block 😭 #fair enough the last time that happened (last winter/spring) i was in a shitty place mentally anyway #and so far i've been happy to be writing on random bursts of inspiration. that's how it's the easiest for me. the words just...flow out #i'm so insanely jealous of anyone who can just create stuff when given any prompt 😭 #y'all are super humans to me how do you do it pls spill your secrets #and anyone tempted to comfort me by saying i shouldn't stress myself over this and that i don't have to write anything i don't wanna write: #i knoooooowwww and i appreactiate the sentiment but the thing is i actually DO want to write these prompts 😭 #in theory at least. because they really are cute as fuck wth 🥺 #the problem is that i can't /force/ myself to write something at the snap of my fingers without a clear idea besides the prompt #and also because i know it can take me days to finish even one story let alone 24 💀 #so to even START on this project is a little intimidating 🫣 #i just fear i won't have the patience :( #and when i realise i won't be able to finish the project i'll become frustrated with myself #if only i knew how to write shorter one-scenes in order to not tire myself out #but often i find those kind of fics somehow...unsatisfying :( #i'm just a sucker for crafting the context/background for stories. a little flesh around the bones if you will 🤧 #okay that's all now i'm gonna go stare at a wall while doing nothing useful for the rest of the weekend byeeee #if you read this far i hope you're having a nice saturday

[dyingturn]

Time travel au where at chapter 2, shin gets voted at the main game and wakes up in his highschool body. And he does everything he can to avoid sou to not get involved with the death game.

Alright, to be honest all I know is that shin met sou at his highschool, thought he was student, realized he wasn't. But they somehow became friends, (or he saw midori as a brother figure?).

I just think it would be funny how shin would react just from going back to class, seeing these people he forgot the names of, and studying... again. Of course he wasn't paying attention to that at all, he's confused, he was literally just fighting for his life to make the Joe ai work before he dies and now he's here?? What if this wasn't even real.

Anyways, he walks down to the hallway, and he sees it. A familiar green rat tailed hair, who's just smiling at him. No- he's dead. But...

Sou approaches him with that eerie smile of his and tries to have a small talk. Instead of answering he just ignores him, and when he pesters him long enough he just glares at him, before running off.

I'm thinking this would probably intrigue sou because shin isn't really acting like his past self and is wondering what event led to this drastic personality change and behaviour. And observes him even more. (Imagine if one day, sou actually transfers to the school just to do that, I know he can't but just imagine--)

(Because if he does, he would be able to pry more information from shin and shin would sometimes slip up when agitated/over confident like what happened at the main game, and sou was able to put together that shin either a) knows about asunaro therefore him b) pretty far fetched but time travel or something similar like false memories c) knows about the death game )

I have no clue how to end this, I'm not thinking of this au as a ship but more of a trying to avoid death flag kind of thing. Maybe he achieves avoiding sou and now lives a pretty normal life, hears about the news of Alice going to prison, not his problem but it Is concerning. And then wakes up at the death game, and was like "not again", but surprisingly, his percentage is different now.

Or maybe y'know, he meets or sees the other participants. The whiplash he gets when he sees keiji without his piss hair, sees q-taro in the television, passing by a delinquent looking mishima or something, I have no clue.

That's basically it. I'm sleeping early today, yeyy.

#yttd #your turn to die #aus #just some thoughts #again if you guys know any fics like this #i would love to read it #please tell me #i really cant write #this is how i ask for fics now hahahaha #im not really thinking of this as a ship #i just really like isekai or time travel fics #which yttd fics kind of lacks #or maybe i just havent found it #pls tell me some if you guys know some ^^ #just realized this is like a typical isekai mc moment #avoiding someone because they lead to their impending doom or something