#wishfic

[mrs-nate-humphrey]

11-19, but just the odd numbers?

just answered 11, so i'm going on with the rest <3

i did do an extra question too, hehe. but that was an accident. thanks for the ask!!

13. Is there a trope you wouldn’t write if it was the last trope on earth? arranged marriage related romances. i just.... arranged marriages are a very real thing in many asian countries, and for me when i think of arranged marriage, that is what i think of, like, parental control over your marriage and shit like that. it's not sexy or fun to me, because it's such a reality and i can't see it as just a fantasy. (no shade to people who are into it, and i do have the rare arranged marriage fic that i personally like, but overall the whole concept gives me the ickies.)

15. A Hollywood producer tells you that they want to film just one of your fics. Which fic would you want it to be? oh, turning saints into the sea for sure. i was trying to write a romcommy fic, so... (for anyone who hasn't read it yet, i'll copy-paste the summary here: When Dan and Nate are caught under the mistletoe at Serena and Blair's Christmas party, Dan excuses himself immediately after the kiss. He would be ready to mope, drink too much, and possibly cry, but Serena and Blair aren't having any of it. In which Serena and Blair don't meddle - well, not too much - but a gentle push is enough to set the ball rolling.)

16. (YES I KNOW IT'S EVEN I ANSWERED IT BY ACCIDENT AND DIDN'T HAVE THE HEART TO DELETE IT ) What is your most underrated fic? this one! haha no i'm kidding i'm kidding. okay, tbh, my wishfic (fic based on the manga 'wish' by clamp) - there doesn't really seem to be much of an active fandom for it :( it's mostly just me & my boyfriend. which is nice in a different kind of way. i'm also gonna plug my josunate fic because ... why tf not. im obsessed with this ship and i am soooo alone in that.

17. What fic are you most proud of? uhh i'm gonna have to say just a yellow lemon tree, because that fic helped me move out of an abusive situation. i'm also proud of it's not an end (it's an uncomfortable pause) because that one was... a lot, in terms of intensity and subject matter, and i think i did my best in portraying it. the lights that stop me (turn to stone) is also up there, because i was committed to that fic in a way i hadn't been committed to a piece of writing in years. so yeah, that's my top 3, in that order. i couldn't just give you one fic.

19. Who is the easiest/hardest character for you to write about? Why? dan's the easiest character for me to write about, i think, because i find him very relatable in terms of personality, and nate is either just as easy OR a close second, because i find his trauma relatable to an extent. i think the hardest characters for me to write are jenny and serena, because they both experience feminity in ways that i find difficult to write without getting dysphoric. weirdly enough, blair is easier to write than those two, most of the time.

#thank u for your patienceeee #secondtolastrow #ask meme: behind the scenes

[thesummerfox]

fluttering banners of gathering night (16/16)

Trish's phone rings the second she sets foot back in the city.

Well, here we are.. the last chapter, whoa. I sincerely hope you have all enjoyed reading along — thank you SO MUCH for all the comments and kudos given on the way! I cannot even tell you how much I appreciate and treasure every single thing you have sent me.

Another biiiig thank you goes out to the Ward Meachum and Kastle fandoms on Tumblr for letting me talk about my writing and for being a building ground of great ideas all the way. This fic would not be what it is today if these lovely and talented people had not had my back in support and joy throughout.

Much love to all of you who've come this far in reading this magnum opus of mine, and please tune in one more time now for this finale...

[read the LAST chapter right here!] 

#ward meachum #trish walker #wishfic #wishship #fbogn #new writing!

[reallystellacadente]

Happy International Fanworks Day!

To celebrate International Fanworks Day over on AO3, and because I has a sad that most of my works are now waaaaaaay down the lists when people search their various tags, here’s a shameless self-promo of some of my stuff. 

If you want more, you can always search my username, stellacadente, to find something you like. Some content warnings, all tagged. Some of these works are very short, because it wasn’t until later that I simply started collecting prompts under one work (and Fictober prompts became 4 works). 

f!SW/Malavai Quinn stories

The Spaces In Between -- epic retelling of the Sith Warrior romance from the Quinncident through Shadow of Revan, with great liberties taken with canon. My labor of love, my bestest child.  217,684 words. 

I Will Follow You Shortly -- Sadly fluffy look at the end of the very long lives of Sith Warrior, Xhareen, and her husband, Malavai Quinn, and the last of the SW companions, told from the perspective of their daughter, Samheen, who has struggled all her life to learn the meaning of love. I usually still cry when I re-read this. 

The Last Goodbye -- Young Malavai Quinn says farewell to his fallen father, inspired by the devastatingly beautiful artwork of @mellorian-art.

A Most Welcome Turn of Events -- unfinished wishfic from the days when it seemed like our companions would never be returned after KOTFE. This will be incorporated into a reboot of the entire post-RotE expansions, although fair warning, I’m doing my KOTET ficfix first. Ch. 4, the story of Vasil Dorne, Elara’s father, is one of the best things I’ve ever written. 

The Future is Behind Us Now -- Speaking of KOTFE and KOTET, let’s never speak of them again because it was all a dream. 

Maybe Things Will Work Out Better This Time -- short, silly AU cast lists. 

We Will Always Be Family and Spiral Shadows -- short reunion fics, the first featuring Vette and Quinn reuniting after Iokath. 

I Am the Angry Child -- Young Xhareen and how she came to be Sith. 

A Place By Your Side -- my catchall work for Tumblr prompts and drabbles about Xhareen and Quinn. 

Other relationships and stories

All I Want for Life Day is You -- Soon to be free of the holocron in his head, Felix Iresso ponders the meaning and importance of love. It’s A Wonderful Life but in space. 

There Are Other Stories That Need to Be Told -- Fictober 2018 prompts about my other OCs, including Agent Zavaa, Sorc Myroli, Consular Dhavana and Knight Gislaran. 

WIPs

The Wicked Game -- AU where the Sith Warrior and her crew are now spies, caught up in the games the powerful play. An original story built with canon elements. I have posted teasers here and here and here and in some ask meme threads, but I’m in the midst of a pretty brutal second draft overhaul. I really can’t start posting this until it’s fully written and has been beta’ed and it needs a sensitivity read, too. There’s romance and sexual situations but sorry, no smut. 

The Forgotten Empire -- I really need to finish something, so I think since I have the prelude and epilogue written, I’m going to work on my KOTET rewrite first. Most of the rest is written in my head already. Written mostly to arrange a much better ending for Vaylin, lbh. 

Unnamed Tatooine Story -- an homage to sand, unadmitted feelings, fake marriage and OMG THERE’S ONLY ONE BED. It was supposed to be around 4000 words but it has already spiraled out of control faster than the Tatooine dust storm that traps Xhareen and Quinn in unfriendly territory. I really ought to finish this one, too. No excuses. 

#swtor #swtor fanfiction #malavai quinn #international fanworks day #sith warrior

[yukheii]

Do you have a list of all the drabble you've written? Btw I love your writing!

hi bubs! my masterlist has everything linked, but if you mean specifically these little ask blurb things, then yes! they’re under “wishfics” in my ml and sorted by member! you can also search on mobile with wishfic:[member initials] (ie: for jeongguk it’d be wishfic:jjk)!!

#and thank you so much!

[hellatronthesecond]

Hahaha

Voltrons ending was legit gainax stuff. It fucked iwth my heart, but I felt it was good. A bit sad for Lance, yeah. He was my boy. He got done dirty. But it was legit a good ending. And man now I am gonna have to see all the salty shipper trash and would be writers with your wishfic that ignores themes, development, progression and internal logic go nuclear. Oh man. Can’t wait to see the fallout.

#Voltron #Season 8 #my poor heart

[riajade01]

30 Day SWTOR OC Challenge - Day 5: Sexuality & Gender

Describe how you think about your character’s sexuality and gender. How would they talk about their sexuality/sexual inclinations or lack thereof? What is their gender and why? Are they cis or nonbinary? If they are nonbinary, what is their designation and when did they realize it?

(Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4) 

Mara is cis, female, feminine presenting, and somewhere on scale from bi to pan (this is difficult because our terms for different sexual preferences tend not to encompass interspecies attraction for obvious reasons). Gender binarism isn't a barrier for her in terms of sexual/romantic attraction, but she's internalized enough of the Empire's specism that there are plenty of alien species (humanoid and otherwise) that she'd either never even consider in that context or be actively repulsed by.

Unsurprisingly, this got long. I also learned something about her during the writing process!

Her sexual history is dominated by humans and Purebloods of varying gender identities and presentations. That's due both to the specism mentioned above, and also to the fact that humans and Purebloods are most likely to be in the same huttball arena in terms of power. Most of the twi'leks, nautilans, etc., that Mara has known were either servants or slaves, and exploiting that power imbalance is morally repugnant to her.

Mara's pretty chill about sex, (passion is her fuel, after all) and it doesn't require a romantic connection with her partner. Truthfully, aside from Quinn, she's only had one or two other relationships where she wanted both sex and romantic attachment with the same person. She's always been in situations where too close a connection represented a liability to her, and only overcame that for a select few people, who, I'm just now realizing, were all people with freedom and relative privilege in Imperial society (and thus the power to assert boundaries or say no), but none of whom had enough power to constitute a threat to her position. So basically Mara's not gross enough to actively prey on marginalized people, but she doesn't feel safe or comfortable enough to become emotionally available (i.e., vulnerable) unless she can convince herself she still has at least a slight upper hand in the power dynamic. 

Hyper awareness of the power dynamic in a given relationship is Mara’s thing, and as a result she has quite the power play/pain play kink. She likes to play the sub, but only when she knows the overall power balance is how she wants it. She would never let a fellow noble-born, head-of-their-house Sith bind and flog her. Quinn, on the other hand, can tie her down and do nearly anything his imagination can conjure. It’s trust, but also the insurance of knowing she’s his social superior.

This is another reason why the Quinncident fucked her up so much; it shattered her illusion of control, both because Baras was able to turn Quinn against her (demonstrating a lack of control in her relationship) and, in the aftermath, she couldn’t force herself to hate Quinn for what he’d done. 

#i used to think mara was pretty chill #and now i'm realizing that chill is 1000% due to privilege #take the privilege away and you get can't sleep stim abuse Mara from the reunion wishfic #my writing #30daySWchallenge #mara thrask

[areiton]

The Beauty of Miraculous Things

Castiel has spent an eternity watching and eight years alive. He has seen the world come alive and stars explode. He has seen mountains form and he's seen canyons carved from the relentless flow of water. He's seen giants and gargantuan reptiles, floods and fire. He watched his brother fall and his family fracture, watched man crawl from their caves and build empires and watched them fall in turn. He watched the pyramids rise, and Atlantis sink and the construction of the Great Wall. He has seen a million sunrises and sunsets and danced through showers of falling stars, has painted forgotten worlds with his rage and joy, and spent endless summer days watching the lazy flight of bees while flowers bloomed around him. He has flown through wind and rain and screaming storms, and swam with pods of whales, flown above packs of hunting wolves, watched the northern lights and let their colors tint his wings bright. He has witnessed every miracle, and created no small amount of his own. Has seen the beauty of this world and a thousand more. And nothing. Nothing is as miraculous or as beautiful as watching Dean bolting across the bunker, shouting at the blonde woman who can’t possibly be real but is, and dismissed just as quickly, because Dean is yanking her gun down, and calling her off, and his eyes are coming back to Cas, and-- Cas feels the breath shudder out of him, and he moves, without really thinking about it, snatching the hunter close, hugging him again. Replacing the memory of their last hug. He has to replace the memories of that last hug, when grief and regret were choking him and the words stuck in his throat, until the the only thing he could force out was that lame offer. He’s shaking and his head is tucked against Dean’s throat, lips moving against the soft cotton on his chest, chanting the only thing that matters. His name. Dean. Dean is alive. Dean is home. Dean. “Ok, Cas,” he murmurs, pressing the shaking angel closer, his eyes closing, his expression so raw the woman aches to see it. His lips press against the angel’s hair for a moment. “Ok.”

#destiel drabble #dean winchester #castiel #wishfic #ficlet #i wrote a thing #my writing #fanfic #AO3

[ocean-of-fiction-blue]

Wishfic prompt post

My wishfic prompt post! Comment!

#fanfiction #wishfic

[thesummerfox]

fluttering banners of gathering night (14/16)

Dance with me!”

If there is one thing she does love about Ward's apartment, it's that it gives her a great space to dance in. She's currently swaying back and forth to all the pop songs Ward loudly complains about from his position on the couch. Her hands are stretched out to him, beckoning him, pulling at him. She's grinning so widely that she thinks her face might stay like this when the clock strikes twelve.

“I don't dance!”

“Oh come on, when was the last time you did something silly just for the heck of it?” She twirls on the spot, blonde hair fanning out and swirling around her. Shoots him pointed glances whenever she lays eyes on his face. “Ward, pleeeease, dance with me?”

Hope you're all still with me as we dive into the other half of the action... Any other excerpt would have been a terrible, terrible spoiler -- so come on in and read more!

[read the latest here!]

#ward meachum #trish walker #wishfic #wishship #fbogn #new writing!

[thesummerfox]

fluttering banners of gathering night (13/16)

The end of the world takes another five days to actually happen.

Heading into an all-out confrontation with, well, you will see... I expect there will be yelling once this longest chapter so far is done... 

[read the drama here]

#ward meachum #trish walker #wishfic #wishship #fbogn #new writing! #seriously though you are warned -- things are about to get long and dark up in here

[thesummerfox]

fluttering banners of gathering night (1/16)

Trish Walker and Ward Meachum meet in a bar. There is friendship, there is love.. and then there is danger.

(Or: the birth of Hellcat, a particular brand of reluctant heroism, three common enemies, and darkness itself descending upon New York City.)

Here it is, at long last! The first chapter of my sixteen-chapter, almost-100k, May-October project that is sort-of a magnum opus at this point for me. I hope you’ll love it!

[read chapter 1 on AO3!]

#ward meachum #trish walker #wishfic #wishship #fbogn #new writing!