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So... Hypothetically... If someone were interested in that teenage mercenary discord server, who should they ask about getting an invite ? 👀

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Wrote another teenmerc fic, this time ijin/evelyn feat an injured kitten.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64179370

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Magical girl!Ijin has grown from a weird idea born from reading a magical girl webcomic parallel to teenmerc to a full AU with word building and everything.

I just need to figure out my antagonist(s) ("plant monsters? Based on lies and selfishness??" is not precise enough) and I might actually start to write it properly

Catch me trying to remember how bad guys worked in the magical girl stories I know (Tokyo Mew Mew had alien parasites which might be good inspiration but I can't remember if they were just animalistic or if there was something intelligent controlling them.)

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I just want to see Ijin laugh

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Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker but I am not at all hearing ㅈ as a j sound. My man that's "ts". j has an element of vibration in your back teeth that I'm just not hearing in ㅈ

Also my tablet makes me long press to switch keyboards and that's terrible

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Just started another teenage mercenary reread and I noticed:

We have the Samsong GLXAXY phone, the popular video games Legends of League and Battle Rounds....

And yet the car is a normal Volkswagen

Can't ersatz the #deutschequalität I guess

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So I ended up writing Hamchan/Ijin/Jiye porn, which was not at all what I expected to write this weekend, and also has nothing to do whatsoever with ifwd and also is going to need so much editing (seriously, this is my worst first draft in a long time), but I'm pretty satisfied. Gotta warn the people that I love and support bad-wrong ships early lol

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Things my brain is willing to provide:

-ideas for the big AU that's taking root in my mind and which I firmly decided I wouldn't touch until I'm really steady in my new writing habit

-ideas for the magical girl!Ijin AU that litteraly only spawned in my mind because I read a magical girl webcomic right after a teenage mercenary chapter

-maybe a sequel to ruin where they do 016's other fantasy, except I'm missing solutions for a few plot holes

Things my brain is not, apparently, willing to provide:

-ideas for anything that could fit the "fandom as an ecosystem" prompt for this year's IFWD

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Me: I need to think about what I'll write next, something workable that will fit in a one-shot

My brain: Concept: magical girl Ijin

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So I wrote teenage mercenary smut.

Title: Ruin

Ship: 016/Yi Ijin

Summary:

016 wants to ruin Ijin's polished appearance. In the car after an unspecified close call, he gets to.

Or: I'm horny about Ijin's chapter 217 side-part and I decided to make it 016's problem.

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One tab on suit fabrics, three on worsted wool specifically, one on the human penis, three on zippers, two on hyphenation... porn writing is going super well

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I must admit that when I was younger I used to feel some kind of contempt for people who gender bent one half of a homosexual ship to make it straight. Now that I'm older and wiser I know that the ships you write tell very little about how you treat people, but I also realized something just now while editing gay smut: porn is is much easier when the participants have different pronouns ._.

Thrice a sentence I need to weigh between "it it clear who 'he' is", "does it sound weird" and "how many times can I use this guy's name in a single sentence"

I swear I am this close to gender bending one of them 😭

I am so sorry, het writers of the past that I quietly judged, clearly you did you best

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Update on the side-part Ijin situation: I have now written smut about it, cause if I'm gonna be horny about Ijin so will 016

Coming to an AO3 account near you within the next few days I guess.

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It's been hours, I even went on a walk and yet I am still insane about side-part Ijin...

Maybe it's for the best that it was only temporary... you know, so I can actually focus on the plot every once in a while 🤔

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edit: so it turns out it's chapter 217 but they don't let you edit polls ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Not my mom insisting on a phone call to adress a problem that not only could have been an email but also could even have been a text!!

Literally just "hey you got a letter from the national treasury they say you forgot to pay this one tax" but noooooo instead it's an ominous text like "can you call me tomorrow we received a ✨ problematic ✨ letter from the tax people"

😭😭😭

My anxiety, mom. You are not managing it.

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So I wrote a teenage mercenary fic

Title: Call Me

Summary: 016 want to try the normal life thing. Ijin wants to help. The ensuing phone call is more emotional thant either of them knows how to deal with, but they try anyway.