#idontneedtobeforgiven

[thedarkestgreys]

🥷🥜

tysm cheyenne love u 😘😘😘

🥜 - What is your biggest pet peeve?

my husband has the tendency to play songs like 87% of the way through and then change the song and it drives me up the wall. I’ve been dealing with this for eleven fucking years. He knows it annoys me but he still does it.

🥷 - Tell me a secret.

I figured out my moms affair at 17, about a year and a half before she left my dad. And I kept it a secret because I knew it would absolutely destroy my dad when he found out and I naively hoped she would stop. (they are divorced and have moved past this and are now best friends. it’s all fucked i know)

#sorry to me messy on main 🙃 #bex answers #idontneedtobeforgiven #chaos emoji ask meme

[iwantthemtostay]

You and idontneedtobeforgiven are the tag team of the century

THANK YOUUUU!!!! We accept this accolade gratefully. We are (hopefully, fingers crossed etc etc) going to actually be in the same place together for the second time ever, first time in three years, when I visit her this new year and I cannot wait.

#idontneedtobeforgiven #dragging her along with me my gift to the fexi fandom #anon

[echoesofstardust]

Cock 👀

asdfhagsdf thanks for the ask, i should've seen this one coming (pun intended 😂😂)

cock: He rises up, leans over her, supported by one elbow on her mattress, his fist stroking his cock. She reaches out to wrap her fingers around him, helps him jack himself off, tugging up her shirt until her breasts are bare, arching her back.

“Cum on me,” she pleads, as she strokes him faster, tighter, teasing his weeping slit.

wip ask

#hope this is what u wanted <3 #asks #idontneedtobeforgiven

[goodthingscomeinthrees]

20 questions for fic writers:

ty for the tag, @somewhereapart 🥰

this is very long, so answers go under the cut!!

1. how many works do you have on ao3?

62 as epigraphs

2. what's your total ao3 word count?

i do not actually know! i wrote single chapters in a fic collection years ago, so that messes with my stats and i don't know how long what i wrote was anymore, so i can't do the math. but 2023 was 54,372 words, and 2022 was 113,431!

3. what fandoms do you write for?

currently: the gilded age, technically still svu but uh, let's not talk about that one fic i fully abandoned (at least until that question comes up lolol).

past lives: madam secretary, the west wing, the newsroom, scrubs, sound of music (i'm as confused as you are, don't worry), the good wife, grey's, stranger things, bones, fleabag.

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

as epigraphs:

the stillness of remembering, svu the legend of how you disappeared, svu come and untangle me (one of these days), svu let it all unfurl, into broken remnants, svu rather be sad with you (than anywhere away from you), svu

5. do you respond to comments? why or why not?

i do! i like the concept of having a conversation with readers (though i rarely get into an actual multi-comment convo). also i'm very type-a and pro-inbox zero, so i clear it out in batches to do replies.

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

for you i'd bleed myself dry, for the good wife. it's a post-5.16 fix-it fakeout, and every comment on it is just yelling at me hahaha

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

i think most of mine have a happy ending, even if it's not a true hea. my friend and i coined the term "milk and cookies ending," because even if we throw angst at you, we will give you your milk and cookies as a treat lol

8. do you get hate on fics?

thankfully, no.

9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?

incredibly rarely, and if so, very vaguely and (if you ask anyone who knows me), fairly "limb-free."

10. do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written?

i've written exactly one (1), imagining what a friendship between cam saroyan from bones and olivia benson from svu would look like!

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

sort of. i never called them out on it, so i shan't be doing that here.

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

nope!

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

yep! for two fandoms. for one, we split up the povs and alternated, which was very fun. for the other one, i (see the answer to 9. lol) handed off the smut.

14. what's your all-time favourite ship?

elizabeth/henry from madam secretary was my first real ship and the first fandom i ever participated in and wrote fic for, so they're the ride-or-dies forever.

15. what's the wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

looking at you, eo talks about god fic.

16. what are your writing strengths?

clarity and economy of words? i think? if you know me irl, this makes sense considering my day job. also, keeping things in-character, when it comes to dialogue and internal monologue.

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

getting away from vignette structure, writing plot. i hate plot. i suck at plot.

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for fic?

hoo boy, as a bilingual person (german and english) i have very strong feelings about this, but generally: okay if done incredibly sparingly, and in a way that sounds natural. harder to pull off than you'd think!

19. first fandom you wrote for?

madam secretary.

20. favourite fic you've ever written?

tell you my sins, and you can sharpen your knife, svu.

tagging: @sinkingsidewalks, @idontneedtobeforgiven, @idoltina, @msharmonycobel, @soshedances18, @sam-loves-seb, @rahleeyah, @morethanwords229 and whoever else wants to do this!

#writing meme #ty for the tag allison #this was fun but long haha

[muserepeats]

url tag game 🔮

rules: spell your url with song titles & then tag some friends!

tagged by @thedarkestgreys 😘 srry it took me over a month to complete

M - Money Can’t Buy It - Annie Lennox

U - Under Your Spell - Desire

S - Solid - Young Stoner Life, Young Thug, Gunna, Dr*ke

E -Erotic City - Prince & The Revolution

R - Roads - Portishead

E - Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

P - Prioritize Pleasure - Self Esteem

E - End of Time - Beyoncé

A - All Gold Everything (Remix) - Trinidad James, T.I., Jeezy, 2 Chainz

T - The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.

S - Shatter - Liz Phair

Tagging @erythromanc3r, @calculated2stagger, @iwantthemtostay, @idontneedtobeforgiven and anyone else who wants to play!

Honorable mention: Why Don’t You Love Me? - Beyoncé (go on YouTube and watch the video, it is fantastic!)

#behold a truly random playlist #that I will now listen to all the time #some lyrics here are formative #srry about dr*ke #tag game

[actnatural-ly]

year end fic review!

tagged by the lovely @luuver3 💖

1. what is your ao3 account?

actnaturally

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

101,172 published! vastly more than the 0 in the previous ~5 years

3. how many fics did you publish in 2022? how many multi chapters vs one shots?

15 total! 3 were multi chap

4. what was your longest fic? your shortest fic?

longest: fool's gold (23,294 words)

shortest: no new friends (687 words)

5. what was your most popular fic? what was your least popular fic?

by kudos? no new friends

by bookmarks? everything nice

6. what fic didn't perform as well as you thought it would?

idk! i'm surprised any of them got as many reads/comments as they did!

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

scenes on a couch; or, the best orange juice in southern california because it's such a silly little fic

home for the holidays because i thought the concept would squick a lot more people out

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

scenes on a couch; or, the best orange juice in southern california. i also have a big ole soft spot for i caught your fever, i’ll be feeling it forever

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

don't make me choose! just a couple of my favorites:

And no drugs for Lexi Howard, bye. by @changeyourwholepitch

Serious Inquiries Only by @fexifan

cruel to be kind by @wrylywriting

the deepest of cover by mer i can't find your tumblr anymore so i'll edit this later when i remember it

kitchen stories by @lesser-bohemian

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

@muserepeats @lesser-bohemian @iwantthemtostay @idontneedtobeforgiven @fexifan @lavender-blush @changeyourwholepitch @wrylywriting only if you want to! and sorry if you have already done this and i missed it 💕

#tag games #writing #fanfic year in review

[amaltheaz]

Thanks for the tag, friend! @herewegobacktomoon

new tag game!

featuring: questions i never really see

1. a time period you feel you'd do well in: it would depend a lot on where I am, if it's the time period of where I'm from, I'd do well maybe in the 1980's. If I'm anywhere else in the world... none 😂

2. a mythical animal you wish you could be: I feel this doesn't come as a surprise to people who have been following me for ages but, a unicorn

3. your favourite time of day: around 2-3am and also morning time

4. the main character that's the most like you: oof, um... main characters only??? Probably Kara Danvers

5. your favourite flower: tulips

6. a universe you would love to be in: one where everybody gets to be who they are, who they want to be and loved for both of those things

7. the aesthetic you wish you had: I don't think there's one i wish I had??? I've never really given that much thought

8. a character you would love to be: probably also Kara Danvers because I'd get to fucking fly 😂

9. a character you would be best friends with: honestly, Kelly Olsen. I think we'd be pretty awesome and chill friends and I think I need more of that. I seem to attract very dramatic set of people most of the time (LOVE y'all to bits but you know it's fucking true 😂)

10. your favourite outfit to wear: I don't have any? Sure, I have outfits that I wear regularly but not exactly my favorite. But I do like being comfortable though. Life's too short to wear things that make you uncomfortable

Tagging @idontneedtobeforgiven @drlaurenb @youngbloodbuzz and whoever wants to join in ❤️

#ask meme #Az speaks

[babysealfan]

WIP Weekend/WIP Wednesday

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

tagged by @actnatural-ly :)

“I don’t know,” Lexi says.

LMFAO tagging @sunshinebunnie @idontneedtobeforgiven @libra-lizard @lesser-bohemian @birthdau sorry if u already did this i can’t be bothered to check

#it is neither the weekend nor wednesday

[battenthecrosshatches]

Some supercorp Scott Moir Tessa Virtue studies for @idontneedtobeforgiven

#idontneedtobeforgiven #supercorp #btc art #ice dancing au #i see your tags

[ratherashleigh]

idontneedtobeforgiven replied to your post “�� time for A Fact About Ashleigh: when I was 9 we moved from Adelaide...”

This is the coolest fucking fact and do they still own it?

they do not! they sold the business when i was 16 and my mum has done a bunch of different things since but now she’s a trainer for developmentally disabled teenagers and long-term unemployed adults and is generally the best person ever.

#idontneedtobeforgiven #replies

[thedarkestgreys]

Almond milk!

🥛 almond milk— would you ever want to plan a road trip with friends? or would you rather visit one area and enjoy what’s there?

a few years ago my beloved noodle sisters and i descended on nashville for a week, and it was so much fucking fun. so i would rather do that again than road trip. we rented a house and hung out and cooked for each other and it was just a blast. 10/10 would recommend.

#cafe asks #idontneedtobeforgiven #bex answers

[iwantthemtostay]

*kicks down your door, tenderly holds your face in my hands* Wild Horses is the greatest single thing I have ever read and I know you know this, but truly, you treated the whole thing with such care and nuance and the way you weaved the past and the present together was just so lovely. There’s a reason I got it bound and printed. There’s a reason I reread it multiple times a year. I love it too because it brought me you! Which lead to redemption which you deserve all the praise for because that was your idea that you let me write with you. I love you and I love your words!

Part of the reason it's my favourite is because it brought me you!! A fic I was clearly meant to write. I love YOU and I love YOUR words!!

#idontneedtobeforgiven #*goes off to ugly cry*

[echoesofstardust]

✅💔

thank u for the ask <3

✅ what's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

mirrors?? 😂😂😂

💔 is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?

i wrote a little mermaid au ages back and when i reread it i keep on wishing for a happier ending (even though i wrote the fic 😂😂)

fanfic writer emoji ask

#thanks for the ask! #idontneedtobeforgiven #asks

[femininenachos]

So I got photos taken of the family pups for mother’s day and I hadn’t anticipated being in any photos but here we are, the Clexa Porn AU cemented in photos that my parents will hang in their living room, completely unaware

***

This is amazing. Legit made my day. (And those are some adorable pups!)

#submission #idontneedtobeforgiven

[muserepeats]

slow burn or love at first sight // fake dating or secret dating // enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers // oh no there is only one bed or long-distance correspondence // hurt-comfort or amnesia // fantasy au or modern au // mutual pining or domestic bliss // smut or fluff // canon-compliant or fix-it // reincarnation or character death // one shot or multi chapter // kid fic or roadtrip fic // arranged marriage or accidental marriage // high school romance or middle aged romance // time travel or isolated together // neighbours or roommates // sci-fi or magic au // body swap or gender bend // angst or crack // apocalyptic or mundane

TY for the tag @morganatique9 and @actnatural-ly!

Sending along to @lovegodherself @mycosmos-blog @calculated2stagger @iwantthemtostay @idontneedtobeforgiven @fexislut @sunshinebunnie

[actnatural-ly]

WIP Weekend/WIP Wednesday

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

tagged by the lovely and talented @notquitecogent 💕

Still, it takes a second before he recognizes the taste of salt on his upper lip, and a second after that to realize it means he’s crying.

wayyyyy too long to tag that many people but 🙏 i wanna see your stuff: @fexifan @alittleillusionmachinee @muserepeats @thedarkestgreys @idontneedtobeforgiven @myztify @birthdau @lesser-bohemian @calculated2stagger

#tag games