#the box and the dragonfly

[inolienkiki]

🙄❤️~ Three Types of Love, as rated by an aromantic ~❤️🙄

type 1:

(i.e. sexual attraction-based romance, mutual-dislike-to-inexplicable-lovers, self-insert x bad boy, thinly veiled fanfiction, age gap or noncon, fairy smut, etc.)

Rating: 2/10, boring, stop trying to sell me this

type 2:

(i.e. deeply founded platonic relationship, characters aren’t in a canon relationship because the author fucking forgot to include the scene where they kissed, Horace and Chloe, Horace and Chloe, I will also accept Will and Lyra but only before the fall, anyway go read the keepers series immediately)

Rating: 10/10, I can actually comprehend this

type 3:

(warrior cats romance, also Romeo and Juliet, love at first sight with so little explanation or context that it’s basically a magic system)

Rating: 11/10, hilarious, feels like something I would write. Fantastic.

[mellkellyismyhero]

the keepers by ted sanders really asks what if an immovable object was best friends with an unstoppable force

and what if they grew up and grew apart over twenty years until they can’t recognize each other and wouldn't call the other one a friend anymore

what if the immovable object had a son who was so immovable that even time can’t pass him by without him knowing about it

what if the unstoppable force had a daughter who was so unstoppable that even solid objects can’t slow her down

and what if the son and the daughter met and became best friends and were determined not to repeat their mothers’ mistake of leaving each other alone. what if they fought a war together. and what if, in order to end the war, they were forced to leave each other for twenty years, just like their mothers, despite their best intentions to stay together

and what if over those twenty years the daughter learned how to slow down and rest while the son learned how to move. and what if after their twenty years apart they found each other again and they got the chance to find out they were still each other’s favorite person in the world.

what then.

[toasted-pumpkin]

horchloe my beloved beats floor with fists

[nahranhaar]

bullfrog, box turtle, swamp milkweed, blue dragonfly, cattails, etc

[inolienkiki]

Keepers Fics

Go-Between- focuses on Madeline Oliver's story after the main events of the Keepers series! potentially also features neptune or jessica or someone new? i have some ideas but haven't really gone far with them yet

Denver Wardens- I have some ideas for this! but i haven't gone too far with it because i couldn't figure out how the timeline would work. but maybe i can still write a bit

Original Stuff

No Tomorrow- this is the main thing right now. not at all a final title, since I already kinda like The Life and Times of Imogen Clarke better, but I'm sure I can do something that's even better than both. anyway it's a story about time travel! and time travel organizations! and the grace that comes with ignorance!

Chosen Ones Anonymous- this is something i was working with a lot a few months ago, but i stopped because i wasn't really connecting with the main character. i could try making pamela more of an important character, or i could write alice segments, since those turned out really well

Tones Unheard- this is a draft title for a story about magic and child labor. i wrote the prologue and it was kind of nice but i had an idea for what the bad guys were calling their technology and i forgot what the idea was and it's really been bothering me ever since

Eccentricities- yeesh i haven't thought about this in ages, but it'd be an interactive project following two characters in a desperate chase across the country, and the internet. i got really excited about it a while ago and started plotting it out, but never actually wrote it

Onions & Garlic- i guess i could put this here. this is a detective story which i haven't touched in a while but would like to again at some point

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[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing is this art nouveau dragonfly box!

[littlealienproducts]

Porcelain Box with Dragonfly by DekorStyle

[fountainpenguin]

Fairly OddParents! Fanfic Trope: Wings AU. :D

Put a fanfic trope in my inbox and I will tell you how likely I am to write it and which characters or pairing I'd most likely write it for (From HERE)

This is not a trope I'm likely to write for in FOP. We have so many wings already, I don't think I'd give more to people who don't belong to one of the many flying species.

I do think Sparky without his wings would be interesting, as I would've preferred to see him played more like a dog and less like some guy who sleeps in Timmy's room.

I also think Sammy Sweetsparkle is unique for having wings, but mostly choosing to walk instead of fly (Even running for his life from a monster instead of just flying above it).

I think the most likely way I'd write this trope is in an AU where Fairies aren't necessarily born and raised by Fairies, but they're "made" (Possibly tying into the "Fairy For a Day" canon we saw in New Wish where Hazel grew wings after signing the fairy contract). I'd probably tie this to changeling lore too.

The idea here would be that Cosmo and Wanda were once human - For this AU where I ignore timeline inconsistencies, I might use what they said in "Growing Pains" about being teens in the 1590s - and they start growing wings one day, and it would be a story about them navigating lives with their parents and wishing they had someone to talk to.

Then one day, a series of events leads one of them to reveal their wings to the other (Maybe to escape chaos) and they start their journey towards training as fairy godparents.

I guess the other part of this is that Cosmo yoinks some child's essence and gives birth to Poof because he stole his lifeforce or something, but I think that's very accurate for a changeling-themed story.

Mary Alice Doombringer is definitely an option, as I've tied her to magic in my own lore. I didn't go this direction, but I think a fairy who hunts other fairies would've been sick :)

For an option that's a little more grounded in the canon that I could do a multi-chapter Wing AU with, I'd likely pick Remy. In my lore, Juandissimo legally adopts Remy and he's the only godkid who gets to keep his memories when he grows up (I prefer Timmy being an average kid to the end and therefore following the path of memory erasure like godkids are meant to).

For Remy, it's very much a story of him being given a rare opportunity and trying to be the person who deserves it... someone who has faith and trust placed in him and he doesn't want to break it, so he's willing to put in the work that comes along with this gift.

I prefer Remy being human the whole time, but if I were to do a Wings AU, he'd probably be the one I'd go with. I like the idea of him still being a human, just with fairy wings. At first he hides them, but eventually reaches the point where he goes downstairs to grab something from the kitchen, passes his parents in the hall, and they don't even comment on the wings. lol.

In my lore, the von Strangles cut their wings off (Heavily implied by the Season 0 canon where Cosmo asks Jorgen where his wings are and Jorgen replies that they were too girly and he uses a jetpack).

Jorgen has two kids in my 'fics - Italy and Fanny; twins - with the impending threat of "one of you will be taking over from the Tooth Fairy and one will be Keeper of Da Rules" looming over their heads, with the "one of you needs to opt into cutting your wings off" implied along with it.

A Wing AU where the Keeper DOESN'T cut their wings off and faces tension for breaking tradition would be pretty neat too.

Put a fanfic trope in my inbox Ask Game

[inolienkiki]

I see where you're coming from with this, but the emotional weight of Chloe and Horace having to live their lives apart, the parallel to that same time their mothers spent apart growing into the people they would be, the time each of them is given to lose a part of themselves and let themselves fade into new people... and yet their friendship persists even after decades... it gets me every time

that said, that is absolutely something chloe would say

ok it has been six years since the starlit loom was released and I still think chloe should have come back from the weird time warp thing 1 year later instead of 15 years later. horace would still get to be all sad and chloe's sacrifice still would have meant something, but also it would be hilarious if she popped out, startling horace, and once she realizes how long she's been gone she's like 'holy fuck. i missed the entirety of seventh grade. i have so much homework to catch up on.'

[marcielleblack13]

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[richardazer]

More doll pictures 🥰 Lanlan and Tingting 💙💚

[inolienkiki]

(I can’t believe I almost forgot to make this post)

HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY to The Box and the Dragonfly!

The Box and the Dragonfly was first released in the US on March 3, 2015. Not too long afterwards, I picked it up in my local library and absolutely devoured it. I didn’t bother looking into a sequel, but a lot of the book’s ideas stuck in my head. Around three years later, without intending to, I wrote a story about a character with Neptune’s power set. Awhile later, I was going back through a reading list my mom had been keeping in early 2015, and I vaguely remembered this book enough to go buy it on Nook— and I was honestly shocked when it held up incredibly well. (I don’t remember when this was, and Nook isn’t letting me check, but I think probably around 2020.)

Five years on, this book has become such a big part of my life. I’m incredibly grateful to have discovered it in the first place, to have returned to it at all, and now to have such incredible people to share this passion with. I love you guys. Thank you so, so much.

I’ve been working on a project recently that I hoped to have done in time for this anniversary, but that definitely isn’t happening. I wish I had something more to share now, but I really want to put into this the work it deserves. Keep an eye out :)

Tel tu’vra fal raethen.

[totaleclipse573]

Kay actually has pyrophobia, so when she sees the flamethrower she screams and flies out of the room still screaming XD

Oh no XD

Luckily she won't have to deal with that...except maybe around Omega. Or Eclipse. Or both of them on the verge of causing chaos for laughs.

[keydekyie]

every day I wake up and thank the sun, moon, and stars that I don't have to live with an HOA

[littlefinerthings]

🩵 light blue dragonfly gift box 🩵

[wildbeautifuldamned]

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