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Poor Eli, one dad is a mother hen and the other has the mothering instincts of a demented chicken

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I just had an idea for a new tag game!

Spoil your fics without actually spoiling your fics.

Basically, choose photos of things in your fic (or a wip) that are semi-important/relevant to your story, but outside the context of your fic, mean absolutely nothing. For example, if we were “spoiling” Sunrise on the Reaping, there might be picture of a gumdrop, a potato battery, a bunny, a milk jug, etc. I’m choosing to put mine in a collage/mood board just for fun, but you don’t have to do those for yours.

Here’s mine!

Swan Upon Leda

All Fangs But No Bark

TAGGING: literally everyone, but specifically @waywardangel-wilds @mollywog

My thought process here is that people will see the photos & will be intrigued & wonder what that item/photo has to do with said fic. So they might check out said fic. Curiosity killed the cat, and all that.

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hahaha well you’re in luck. First chapter is out now.

All Fangs But No Bark

Working on a Sterek fic. Felt like sharing some snippets. Here’s some chaos. :)

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Swan Upon Leda

Everlark • 8/8 chapters (complete) • 95k words • Explicit • Graphic Violence Warning*

“Ya know, Katniss and I. We’ve been luckier than most. I wouldn’t have any regrets at all…” and he pauses. “I-if it weren’t…if it weren’t for…” he shakes his head

“If it weren’t for… what what?” Caesar prompts.

“If it weren’t for the baby.”

And nothing could have prepared her for that.

The only reason Katniss regrets that night 4 months ago is because of everything that came after. The pain she caused him, when he realized it wasn’t real, just like everything else about their relationship. The way he pretended she didn’t exist for months after the second victory tour. But specifically this part, where she’s being forced back into a death arena while four months pregnant. It would make her inevitable death so much easier to accept if that night had never happened.

Peeta isn’t supposed to know. So why is he telling Caesar, and all of Panem, on national television?

OR: the fic where Everlark aren’t together yet, Katniss is pregnant during the Quarter Quell, Peeta isn’t supposed to know but then figures it out, Peeta never gets taken by the Capital and hijacked, and they try to live their “happily ever after”. Catching Fire -> Epilogue.

*TAGS: Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mallark, everlark, catching fire, mockingjay, post mockingjay, Quarter Quell, Slight canon divergence, book and movie lore, adjusted ages, they’re both 19, canon-typical violence, gore, death, grief, PTSD, nightmares, implied/referenced self-harm, dreams about domestic abuse, this is the hunger games yall idk what you’re expecting, secrets, ANGST, hurt/comfort, but a lot of the comfort is also hurt, eventual fluff, caretaking, morning sickness, hormones, unplanned pregnancy, miscarriage, I mean come on there’s no way that baby survives all of THAT let’s be realistic here, getting together, fake dating to real dating, Allies to friends to lovers to estranged to lovers again to estranged again and then back to lovers, falling in love, eventual smut, porn with plot, porn with feelings, un-hijacked Peeta, Finnick gets taken by the capitol instead of Peeta and he still dies, Im so sorry Finnick I love you but it had to happen, happy ending, making a family, I skim a lot of plot y’all know what happens, Greek mythology metaphors, THIS GOT WAY LONGER THAN PLANNED, semi-unreliable narrator

LINK <- to the fic

(More snippets under the cut, if that wasn’t enough for you, and you don’t care about spoilers — no smut in the snippets)

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Skimming through Swan Upon Leda looking for good snippets to post. Completely forgot about this entire scene. Had me laughing harder than expected. I miss writing Johanna Mason.

(Spoilers under the cut, obvi)

At dinner he holds her hand. Never letting her go as Boggs leads them down to the cafeteria. She laces their fingers, and squeezes. He only lets go as they grab their food trays, placing a kiss to the top of her head before they sit down at their usual table.

“Ew,” Johanna gags, “In front of everyone? Really?”

Finnick rolls his eyes. “Ignore her, she’s just salty that she has to watch all four of us.”

“Yeah well at least you and Annie can fucking acknowledge you like each other. These two assholes have Swiss cheese for brains.”

“It’s so wonderful to see you again too, Johanna,” Peeta grins.

“I like Swiss cheese,” Annie speaks up.

“Yeah, I bet you do, you nut-job.”

Finnick slugs her in the shoulder, and she cackles loudly.

“You better shut up Mason, I know all about your mommy issues now.”

“Do I look like I fucking care?”

“Language,” Effie huffs as she takes a seat.

Johanna rolls her eyes. Haymitch settles into the seat next to Katniss, eyeing her plate.

“Trade you,” he says, offering her his pickle for her biscuit. She sighs, handing it over.

“Peeta, they should really let you into the kitchen. The bread here is terrible.” Effie whines.

“Everything here is terrible.” Haymitch chuckles.

“Where’s Beetee?” Katniss asks.

“Working on something probably.” Finnick says, shoving mashed potatoes into his mouth.

“He said something about a force field.” Annie speaks up softly.

“A force field would be nice. That bomb shelter smelled awful.” Haymitch grumbles.

“Do you ever stop complaining?” Johanna grumbles.

“Do you?” Haymitch shoots back.

Johanna grins, snagging Katniss’s biscuit off his plate. She takes a bite before he can snatch it back.

“You all act like children.” Prim speaks up, and Katniss leans to look past Peeta.

“When did you arrive?” Katniss asks.

“I’ve been here since you guys sat down.”

“Oh. I didn’t see you.”

“Yeah, you were too busy giving bread boy heart eyes.” She says, elbowing Peeta.

Katniss goes red, and Peeta chuckles. Leave it to her sister to always embarrass her.

“Where’s mom?”

“She made a friend. Her name is Tanya.”

“Oh. Okay.”

They fall quite after that, everyone eating. That is until Johanna shatters the silence.

“That was quite the show you two put on during propos. If I didn’t know any better I would’ve figured you’re both actually fucking.”

Peeta chokes on the bite of apple he takes, and Haymitch laughs out loud. Katniss goes bright red, and Prim slaps Peeta on the back to help him cough it up.

“Oh. So you guys are fucking.”

“Johanna, would you please learn to shut the hell up?” Katniss snaps.

She grins. “Anything for Katniss Everdeen, my savior.”

“You make me regret making a deal with Coin.” She snarks. She doesn’t actually mean it- she is glad they saved Johanna. But that doesn’t mean Johanna doesn’t drive her insane.

“Awe, did I push a button? Is little Peeta not performing? Is someone grumpy?” She pouts in mock sympathy, “I’m sure I could fix that.”

Katniss jolts from her seat. Haymitch grabs her around the waist and yanks her back before she can smack Johanna, who just howls with laughter.

“Alright alright, I think that’s enough,” Haymitch says, slapping a hand over Katniss’s mouth before she can scream profanities over the table. “Perhaps we should keep these twos’ sex life out of the dinner table discussion, sound good?”

“I do not have performance issues,” Peeta grumbles.

“That’s something someone with performance issues would say.”

“Jesus Johanna, now you’re starting to piss me off too.” Finnick grumbles.

“What, are you also having performance issues?”

“Finnick doesn’t,” Annie says absentmindedly, smiling innocently as she pushes her food around, humming to herself.

Johanna is silent for a second, and then scoffs. “She’s actually insane.”

“I think we’re all a little crazy here.” Haymitch notes.

“I’m not,” Prim says.

“You may just be the exception, sweetheart.” He nods.

“How’s sober life going for you Haymitch?” Prim smiles.

“God, aren’t you just an annoying little ray of sunshine,” he says sweetly, mouth pursed as he shakes his head. He rolls his eyes when he drops the sarcastic act.

“So it’s going well,” Peeta translates for her.

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Making some minor edits to Swan Upon Leda. Holy SHIT I was cooking on chapter one. I fear I may never cook that hard or well again. 😔

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Working on a Sterek fic. Felt like sharing some snippets. Here’s some chaos. :)

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"Close call again huh, sourwolf"

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Fire!!

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I just think bilingual Stiles would be such a mess lol bi(lingual) disaster amirite

Soft-and-sappy sterek is my main squeeze but lbr they also are both assholes 🫶

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I need everyone to know that this is a spotted skunk (which I didn’t know existed) and that they are ADORABLE and also do a HANDSTAND before they spray you. Delightful.

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Oh, to be crushed underneath your werewolf boyfriend 💭

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is there a word to describe when one of your favorite fanfic writers stops writing for your shared ship and moves onto another fandom and you're just like, "damn yo, those fic summaries sound so good, but idgaf about those characters, but like, good for you & that fandom is lucky to have ya, but also, damn i wish you were still writing about our guys." 😢

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Hi v new to hungergames fanfom (obviously daw the movies when they came out but only started the books this summer) and Swan Upon Leda was the first fic I finished 🥹 it was perfection im obsessed with how everlark children are dubbed toast babies (it literally took me till YESTERDAY, yes, over 10 years, to realize Peeta isnt a diminutive of Peter hes named after Pita bread) its fucking everything anyway thank you for being a writer in the fandom i hope you continue!

Awe this is so sweet. I’m so glad you enjoyed! I will write more Everlark eventually :)

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but its important

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just Katniss finding joy in singing again years after the rebellion 🥹

(prints are up on my redbubble)

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There comes a time, in every uterus-having-person’s life, where despite having just changed the pad 30 minutes ago, the flood gates open on shark week and faster than you can say “ohNOguysIneedtogotothebathroomrightNOW”, your pants are stained crimson.

This is your friendly reminder to always keep a backup pair of pants and undies in your car.

So anyways. I bled through for the first time ever (while awake) 😔. At least it was in my dad’s car and not in a classroom in front of 20 high school students.