#working title subject to change

[darklydeliciousdesires]

Working title of this afternoon: Claire sits and pouts while muttering about low engagement on her work but not being too surprised since most fandoms are dead and nobody wants to read originals either so I might as well gloss these pouty lips and fucking get on with it. *LE SIGH*

[annabellelux]

WIP WEDNESDAY

I’m having the roughest week at work which has somehow, miraculously, transformed into creative writing motivation juice.

Here’s a lil messy something from a soulmate AU that is slowly, but surely, coming together ✨🔪

Baz

I hope he never lets himself stop to think about his borrowed resilience until I take my last breath. Only then, after I steal my first and final kiss from his lips and gift him my life, do I hope he realises that I never wanted him to know pain.

I vowed, with the conviction of a convert, once and for all, I will never hurt Simon Snow.

Simon

Being roomates with Baz Pitch is nothing but hurt.

He's rude. He's arrogant. He spends way too long in the loo blow-drying his hair.

The rest of this week is NOT looking up, so hopefully I’ll have something for y’all next week too 😂

Tagging: @scone-lover @captain-aralias @aristocratic-otter @stitchyqueer @urban-sith @facewithoutheart @raenestee @artsyunderstudy @martsonmars

[syntheticmask]

IT'S HAPPENING THE ART BLOCK- ITS ENDING!

Quench your thirst ya'll! Have a teaser for my new OC~

[oflights]

wip snip 4.2

thank you for the tag, @elskanellis! your snip is so intriguing 👀

in return, have some more of time travel fic: extremely gooey and tender and basically what the next 10k or so words are going to be (the fic is currently 20k lmao) before things get Bad again. still heartbreaking in its tenderness, though, because baby harry is heartbreaking (a contextual reminder that he is 7 in this snip!!! adult harry is henceforth "potter" from draco's pov).

“This is for me?” Harry asks, doing another turn, clutching at the still unnamed dragon in his hands. “All of this, the bed and—I can—”

“Harry,” Draco says softly, coming closer and dropping to crouch again, ignoring his protesting thighs starting to truly feel all the activity of the day. “Yes, all of this. You can sleep in the bed, you can name your toy—it’s all yours. This is what looking after you means; everything that I can offer is yours now. I promise.”

“Do I have to—” Harry starts, and Draco simply doesn’t want to hear where that’s going.

“No. You don’t have to do a single thing. It’s just yours. Because—because you’re a guest, and a kid, and kids deserve these sorts of things no matter what.”

“Oh,” Harry says, sounding genuinely startled in a way that makes Draco want to punch—someone. Perhaps Vernon or Petunia Dursley, or perhaps Albus Dumbledore. He did not ever imagine he would one day find new and more infuriating reasons to resent Dumbledore this long after his death, but he supposes life is surprising that way.

Harry breaks up his surprised, revelatory stance with another yawn, and this time Draco makes sure his tone brooks no argument when he directs him to the bathroom with the pajamas. To keep busy and shove down the punching urge, he resizes another set of clothes from the wardrobe for the morning, startling himself when he leans too far in and his hand disappears through the back wall.

“Oh, right, I should warn you,” Draco says when Harry returns, changed and padding gingerly towards the bed. “The wardrobe is a portal to the treehouse, so be careful if you go too far into it.”

“You have a treehouse?” Harry asks with a gasp, and Draco smiles at him, striding over and pulling the quilt back for Harry to settle in.

“You have a treehouse. I’ll show you tomorrow, if you’d like.”

He waits as Harry clambers onto the bed and settles against the mound of pillows, smoothing the quilt over him and then making sure the dragon is tucked in, too. “Any ideas on a name?” Draco asks softly, tweaking the dragon’s snout. “Do you want to sleep on it?”

“Can I name him after a—a con—a constellation? Like you?” Harry asks, frowning in concentration.

“Yes, of course you can. Which do you fancy?” Draco sits on the bed near Harry’s feet and leans back on his hands, gazing up at the ceiling as it cycles over them. “There’s Cygnus, the swan I was telling you about—he was my grandfather, you know, and right by Draco, so that’s convenient. There’s Pegasus, too, a type of flying horse, and Cepheus, he was a king in Ancient Greece—well, he chained his daughter up to a rock, so maybe not the best role model, but a cool name nonetheless. Just stop me if anything grabs you, really.”

“What’s that one?” Harry asks, squinting up and pointing; Draco makes a mental note to solve the glasses issue as soon as possible. He looks where Harry’s pointing, southwest of the quadrant he’d been explaining, and spots the most recognizable constellation there is.

“Ah, that’s Orion. The hunter. He was a Giant, you know, and he got pretty boastful, so Gaia—super powerful Earth mum, you did not want to get on her bad side—sent a great big scorpion after him. They fought, so you’ll never see Orion and Scorpius—that constellation all the way over there—in the sky at the same time. But Ophiuchus—he was a Healer, that one over there, see how he’s sort of between Orion and Scorpius? He gave Orion some medicine and saved him from Scorpius.”

Harry’s eyes are drooping closed, but he still murmurs, “Really? Is that all true?”

“Well, sort of. They’re stories, myths; all the stars have stories. There are different versions and they change depending on who you talk to, but I have my favorite versions because they’re the ones my mum told me.”

Draco checks in to see that Harry’s eyes are almost completely closed, and keeps talking hoping they’ll close further; how many times had his mother talked him to sleep?

“If you’re in the sky, it means you’re pretty important, right? So that means lots of stories. I’ll tell you all of them, if you’d like. I think you’ll enjoy this room, and you’ll be happy here. I hope so.”

That’s all verging on a ramble, but he thinks it doesn’t matter because Harry is asleep. So Draco gets up gently, patting Harry’s foot over the quilt, shoots the still unnamed dragon a grin, and starts to leave the room.

He stops only when he hears Harry mumble, “Orion. That’s his name,” and curl around the dragon, breathing going smooth and even, arms clutching it tight against his small frame.

Draco smiles at them both. “Goodnight, Harry and Orion.”

tagging @teledild0nix @phoebe-delia and @thehoneybeet, fully randomly chosen so absolutely no pressure!!

[districtunrest]

make me write!

tagged by @ongreenergrasses - thanks Green!!

send me an emoji and i'll write a couple sentences for the corresponding wip 💜

🧳 SOO chapter 28

💉 Otherwise Stable (Haymitch D13 detox)

🧩 Of Their Own (Selene & Kennet)

🪡 The Sewing Circle (Alice cut scene)

tagging whoever sees this and has a WIP they need to work on 👊🏻😤

[thatlenguy]

ok so i'm trying to work on. comics again and it is taking me so long i legitimately do not think it would work to do weekly/bi-weekly updates with my usual schedule rn. how august of 2023 me wrote and drew all of otf in like one month i know not. Current plan is i'll just keep going on the side till i hit page 12 then i'll put em out weekly and hopefully 12 weeks is enough to illustrate another 12 and so on. man. why are comics so hard.

[aculeus]

A little character lineup from a thing I'm working on!

[fanby-fckry]

Unintended consequences to taking note of the Alastor-Ursula parallels, in chronological order:

Creating a Hazbin Hotel/The Little Mermaid Chaggie AU.

Writing Poor Unfortunate Souls: Alastor’s Version.

Staying up all night writing Poor Unfortunate Souls: Alastor’s Version.

Poor Unfortunate Souls is now stuck in my head.

[tehrevving]

Something fun maybe (spoilers 😘)

[notsocooljess]

WIP File Game

thanks for the tags!! @thesunpersists & @littlemarianah 💗

rules: list the names/titles of docs in your WIP folder + open your inbox to asks about them!

(i don’t think my WIPs have changed much since the last time i did this. i’ve been in a slump 🫠)

tagging: @tetheredfeathers @rainymyx and anyone else that wants to join!

[savorypink]

cowboy crumbs! i’m so sorry it’s taking awhile, i’ve been getting thrown curveballs left and right lately 😵‍💫

It’s carpal tunnel on steroids— a new, unwavering pain; the digits feel as if they’re withering away. He’d be better off decaying, too. A pile of ash feels nothing, only the sensation of being whisked by the wind. Alex likes the thought of that. He could finally reach the moon. Be somewhere else. Anywhere but in this body.

[apocalypticdemon]

thank you for the tag, @clandestinegardenias!

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.

I have also elected to list only my WIPs for The Terror; I have one or two for other fandoms, but they are unfortunately languishing on the back burner while I figure out what I'm doing with them. I'm also actively planning/working on these, rather than the others, which are just... in storage, basically, to dust off for later.

without further ado!

the droning engine throbs (in time with your beating heart)

2. underneath the waves you were most alone

3. the once and forever bloom gone

4. is this a better way to spend the day (keeping the winter at bay)

5. never so much blood pulled through my veins

no-pressure tags: @sunlaire, @imwritesometimes

[honeybee-bard]

My fic has just hit over 40k words, meaning it is now officially novel length. I’m so horny for this one vampire that I wrote a book about it.

[ammyandissunbesties4lyfe]

very fun announcement that after a whole year's break, chapter 2 of Pinprick, my silly little poncleprophet fic, is now up.... ^_^

"That's what's getting to you? That's the first thing you're interested in right now? Dirt?"

note that there's formatting errors because of my heavy use of italics and how ao3 hates italics but i truly don't care atm. sorry if u see awkward spacing but it happens any time i go to edit a tiny little thing in the chapter i am tired of fixing it 💔

[curiositykilledtheradiostar]

This is part of a larger project I’m working on, but what if Legends Zygarde. and ancient Kalosian variants. Consider.

[maleficent-cannoli]

Oh also I can’t believe I forgot to say this but we have a working title for the song. I think I’m going to call it Sunshine (Take Me Home).