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ABOUT FUTURE FIC LENGTH + POSSIBLE SCHEDULE CHANGE

Just a heads up since I might make another change regarding my writing.

I know I said posting every day is a terrible idea but I can't get it out of my head, and I came up with a solution, but that solution may not be desirable for many of you who have gotten used to me not writing that short things anymore. (Meaning small fics that are 200-400 words on average)

A small recap of the main reason why I started writing only longer stuff:

ChatGPT's generations at least used to be somewhere between 200-300 words back when I was still unaware of how genAI works and played around with it in 2022. I deleted my account over 2 years ago so I don't know if that has changed, but it did scare me into writing my fics longer because people typing their ideas into ChatGPT and calling themselves "authors" only because they came up with that idea caused people coming my way, seeing my old posts where I laughed at ChatGPT being a pervert unprompted and making Kaz and Pekka talking about their enemies with benefits relationship for some reason, and claimed I use AI to write my stories now and don't type anything by myself, and someone used the length of most of my stuff as proof, because the length of my ficlets apparently matched with a single ChatGPT generation length. This made me scared of such accusations and I concluded that I need to start making my fics longer to escape those, which then slowed my publishing pace down a lot and wips started piling up fast because people still assumed I'd return to my old publishing pace and that I need new requests pace to surplus the amount I publish.

But, I still have 330+ fics in my wips, unwritten.

IF we imagine I'd start posting every single day OR every other day, there should be certain alterations so I'd be able to maintain that.

Most of the requests I get are VERY simple ideas ("could you write [character] taking reader to a picnic and proposing?") and often it's hard to make them surpass the promised 500 words.

So. I'm thinking of going back to how I used to write, simple ideas CAN be 500+ words but can also end up being 200-500 words. The other side of this coin would be that I could post more often.

Note: ONESHOT REQUESTS WOULD STILL REMAIN AT 1K+ WORDS, that wouldn't change. (But I might have to restrict the amount of oneshot requests I take in at once if they start getting spammed again like they did in 2020 when I announced making my non-oneshots shorter, everyone started requesting oneshots to get their request to be "old length" and that ended up in me stopping with writing oneshots entirely)

Pros of this would be, for example:

less stress for me

all fics currently in my wips could be out by the end of summer 2026

I could, for example, be able to hold holiday fic events again starting from next year

bite-sized fics are better for some readers with e.g. attention span difficulties

Cons:

may cause some people think I've begun using AI to write my stuff because publishing pace would increase so much "suddenly"

some requesters who expected their request to come out longer may be disappointed when it's a couple of hundred words shorter

general preference/assumption in fanfiction/reader inserts nowadays seems to be 3k+ words

(But on the other hand, I have a couple people on my dash writing very short pieces and posting often and their blogs are thriving despite that so, it made me realise this may not be a bad idea at all)

NOTE: Once I would have cleaned up my wips and gotten them out, I might return to prioritising longer stuff more often, this would mainly be a way to get my current wips out into the world to finally run because at the moment they cause me a lot of stress, but I don't want to wipe them out without ever writing them.

IF I will go through with this, the new publishing schedule would begin on September 1 AT LATEST. (Note, I might change it to be earlier if it starts rolling immediately, September 1 is just a deadline because I need time to build up my queue for that)

But I'd love to hear your thoughts about this?

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Lord of the Rings: Imagine being Frodo’s childhood friend who he has a crush on and him getting irritated when Merry and Pippin flirt with you.

requested by anon

Note: nowadays all requests are done straight to asks, this is my old template of posting and I no longer have their asks!

WISH FOR IT

The picnic you had arranged wasn’t going as well as you had imagined it could go. For some reason, Merry and Pippin were constantly shooting flirts at you and basically competing which of them would make you more flustered, and Frodo felt tenser than your late grandma when she hadn’t had her morning tea.

Meanwhile, Sam was awkwardly sipping his tea, in between Merry and Pippin and Frodo, trying to concentrate his eyes on the sandwich in front of him. He was the only one who hadn’t said a word since you sat down, and it was strange.

“You’d desrve all the flowers in this field,” Merry sighed.

“This flower field is nothing worthy of them, Merry.”

Merry laughed. “What would you suggest, then?”

Frodo stood abruptly, gesturing towards you. “Can we talk? Alone?”

You frowned at his hastiness. “Sure…? Lead the way.”

Frodo almost half-ran towards the old oak tree on top of a hill and then stopped under it, breathing deeply a few times. You stopped in front of him, and tilted your head at him.

“I don’t like them flirting with you,” Frodo muttered, so quietly you almost didn’t hear him.

You frowned. “You do know they don’t mean anything by it, right?”

Frodo nodded, rubbing his neck as a dust of pink started spreading across his face. “Yes, I know, but it… I mean, I— it’s annoying.”

You stared at him for a moment, puzzled. You knew that look, he was trying to hold himself back from saying something. “Is there something else you want to tell me?”

His eyes flickered and he glanced at you nervously. He was silent a moment longer. “I’m afraid it would ruin our friendship if I said it out loud.”

You were both quiet for a moment and you swore you could hear your heart thumping in your ears. Was he going to say what you thought, wished, he’s going to say?

So you took a step closer. “I’m afraid that if you keep it in, that could also ruin our friendship. We used to tell each other everything, and besides, secrets hurt friendships.”

He swallowed and turned to you again, carefully taking your hands to his. “I… I like you. Not just as a friend, I… I can’t help but imagine us being more than friends, and it consumes all my thoughts. And the thought you’d fall for someone—”

You interrupted him as you started to laugh, startling him, making his face go even redder.

“Oh, Frodo. You really are a daft sometimes. You really haven’t noticed, have you?” you got out while laughing, wiping tears from your eyes.

“Noticed… what?”

You forced yourself to go serious. “I have liked you for so long, and thought you’d never like me back, at least not as deeply as I like you.”

He blinked at you. Once. Twice. Opened his mouth, closed it. Opened it again. “You like me back?”

“Ever since we had that dinner together at that old pub, when we were soaked in rain and had to find shelter. Or that’s when I admitted my feelings to myself. I know it’s been years and you may not remember it, but—”

“Sam arranged it for us, to encourage me to ask you out properly,” Frodo interrupted you. “I told you it’s going to be sunny the whole day but we knew it will begin to rain at some point. But then I wasn’t able to confess after all.”

You grinned and squeezed his hands. “Guess we’re both kind of daft.”

He licked his lips. “So… would you like to go on a date with me sometime?”

“I—”

“Have you kissed yet?!” Pippin’s voice carried over the hill and the two of you couldn’t help but laugh at it.

“I was saying, I’d love to.”

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Ok a small change of plans. To ensure my ability to tighten my updating schedule starting from September 1, I need to reschedule some of my pieces so my queue would last longer while I'm filling it.

This means that fics that were listed in my queue post have been postponed and I have yet to arrange their new posting days. This was a hard decision for me because I'm slightly afraid of receiving hate about it and I considered to just leave my decision unannounced and just do it without telling anyone because of that, but I know that wouldn't be fair for my readers.

I hope this will help my queue in a long run, meaning I'd be able to tighten my schedule to even post more often(!!!) than what I originally promised.

I almost did something very radical to solve this problem, but ended up not doing that. I just feel bad seeing requests from as far back as 2021 still lying in my drafts, I would love to see them in my queue, written ready to go live. I know that a fast resolution for this would just wipe all my old requests out and starting fresh, I keep getting people suggesting me to do that, but I don't want to do that, I just know I'd regret doing that because there are a lot of requests I've looked forward to writing but haven't gotten to them for one reason or another, and even picking out the ones that are my fave scenarios and dump the rest feels like I will regret doing that because knowing me, I'd just get a major idea for a request right after deleting the draft, I'd rather not risk it when writing has been hard for me anyway for a few years now. I also have gotten a lot of people telling me I won't have to hurry with them and it's my right to be as slow as I want, and while I appreciate the support, I know that. But it still doesn't change the fact that I feel anxious seeing those in my drafts when they were supposed to be published during 2022. And the knowledge that if years 2022-2023 and most of 2024 weren't how they were to me, my wips wouldn't be so messed up they are, I would want to finally take back control with them.

And that's why I circled around an idea to post every single day until April next year (starting from when The Sandman requests start posting because there will be daily posts from 3rd of July to at least until 15th of July) to get all my fics out and finally be able to start "fresh", but I decided to sit on my idea for two weeks at minimum and make a decision after that, it's been 5 days since I got that idea and this morning I finally concluded that's a terrible idea, I'd need to be much much more prepared to do something like that. For now, one fic a week is sustainable and a good pace, at least until I have enough fics to post two to three times a week, or maybe my writing launches over these next two months and my queue will be filled with hundred+ fics by September 1 (if that happens, I will absolutely start posting daily but I wouldn't count on such a miracle).

I've still not abandoned the idea completely, but I'd need more time to prepare it + a long-lasting motivation to write as it fluctuates a lot right now and that's obviously not good if I'm supposed to publish something every single day.

Let's look at this again during next autumn, maybe I'll be able to prepare more for something like that by then!

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Heyy! Could I ask for a preference for Luke Patterson. Reggie Peters. Alex Mecer from Julie and the Phantoms + What Makes Them Feel Loved? Please? Thank you!

LUKE

You remember the smallest, most insignificant things about him, what he likes, and use them to show your love. He’s kinda been used to people only care about big things in his life and hasn’t actually made effort to let people know smaller stuff, so when you take it as your mission to learn, you’re genuinely interested to learn, you remember his favourite scent in deodorant for example? It’s just something he knows you’re actually dedicated to know, learn and respect his preferences about things, even if they wouldn’t really matter if you look at the bigger picture. It really means the world to him.

REGGIE

You laugh at his jokes. You just get each other’s humour in a way no one else does, and it just makes him feel so happy. He sometimes feels like he’s weird because his jokes are often frowned at and he’s kinda clumsy in trying to entertain people beyond singing, so when you understand, or at least learn to understand, or help him become less clumsy, he’s just… looking at you like you hung the moon because you actually made effort to help him be more socially charming. (Also bonus points if you’re willing to support his fanboying about Star Wars, maybe you get into Star Wars in the process if you already aren’t into it, that would make him fall for you even harder if it was even possible)

ALEX

You appreciate his request if he wants to be alone. Now that he’s a big popstar/rockstar and not dead anymore, girls and guys around the world just want to have a piece of him, talk to him, have photos with him, he has to do meet & greets to bond with his fans… it’s all very training, and the truth is, Alex appreciates his peace and quiet once in a while and he wasn’t as prepared to all that comes with modern fame as he would have wanted to. He wasn’t loved only on stage, he was barely able to walk along the street without a screaming group of fans running up, demanding selfies and autographs.

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We've been waiting for this day, haven't we? I was hoping you can write something with Ray (Recursive Dreams) where he, clearly bitter and angry, falls hard for someone who still clings to hope and goodness, and while he wants to remain bitter because he thinks it's the key to survival, he realizes that there is more to life than just getting by. Thank you so much! :)

A/N: My last Ray fic for now, extra cheese for that. No dialogue because I didn't know what kind of a scene with dialogue I would be able to cook for this scenario, I tried to come up with something but wasn't happy with anything so I just left it out.

WORLD OF SCRAPS AND HOPE

The world had turned upside down long ago, people fighting for scraps to survive. People’s memories had become a currency, and there were people who were willing to turn them into zombies for money just like that. Empathy was dead for the most part, and Ray knew it better than anyone.

Ever since he was a child, Ray was taught into surviving, not trusting anyone, not building bonds. Everything would just end up hurting him in the end. But then he met you.

You, so full of life, hope, positivity. It almost angered Ray first, seeing how naive you were. How on earth were you thinking people would change, that world would become a better place, that a lot of that despair would just disappear if people would work for it. For Ray, even a thought of that kind of world was impossible to reach. It was an utopia, something that wasn’t possible, not anymore, after decades, centuries of it going like this. People just weren’t like you were anymore, yet you foolishly refused to dim yourself.

But the thing that Ray noticed was that seeing you, feeling your energy, how you managed to light up every grim room you were in did something to him — in him. It was irrational and crazy, but he slowly realised he was completely smitten with you.

He tried to hide it for the longest time, but more he tried, deeper he fell. And eventually, he was too tired to struggle against it, especially when you confessed your feelings to him. You told him you saw something more than bitterness and resentment in him, and that you believed in his lingering goodness, even if everyone else around him had long ago deemed him as an asshole who would never change.

So, he let himself to fall in love with you, he let you call him your boyfriend, something so foreign. He took you to dates, let you to take him to dates. Kiss you, you kissing him. Everyone who knew what kind of a person he was, would turn around and stare at how he looked at you.

He wasn’t entirely sure himself what exactly was he doing, if it was really him being romantic with someone. He had drilled negative thoughts about people and the world into his head long time ago, believing that being normal and empathetic would make him a lousy Harvester. And yet here he was, regaining those exact traits he had trained so hard to close out of his mind. And it was all because he fell in love. He almost felt the need to snort at how fairytale-like it was. Love conquers all and all that.

He didn’t live with you, or not officially. As a Harvester, he had travelled so much that in the end he just ended up sleeping at wherever he found a place from, but now that he had quit being a Harvester in hopes to settle down with you, he had just ended up hanging out at your home most of the time. That’s how he actually started falling for you, seeing how you welcomed him in even when you clearly knew most of the city secretly hated him because he had harvested so many of their loved ones, and his situation wasn’t even that bad, he wasn’t forced to do that for money, he didn’t seem to feel bad about it like most other Harvesters did. When in reality, he had just learned to mask it and push it under.

But then you came, unmasked him and revealed everything he had hidden over the years. And, after all this time, Ray finally gave himself a permission to hope.

Maybe there would be a better future for humankind.

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The Maze Runner: Imagine Newt trying to help you feel comfortable as the new addition at the Glade when you come up in the Box.

requested by anon

Note: nowadays all requests are done straight to asks, this is my old template of posting and I no longer have their asks!

Note 2: I didn't mention reader's gender and this is pre-canon (before Thomas) but the boys aren't surprised to see them so... interpret it as you want. I also tried to avoid referencing that The Glade is boys only, so you can also imagine this being an AU of mixed genders.

NEW GREENIE

You didn’t remember anything. Not your name, not your family, not anything from before you woke up in that rattling box that was going up fast, until you found yourself surrounded by a crowd of laughing strangers.

The smooth wall of that thing those people had put you into shortly after you tried to run away from them pressed into your back as you leaned against it, your thoughts still racing. They said you’d need to calm down before they’d help you in figuring out what’s going on, but this prison you sat in definitely didn’t help. Sure, you had stopped screaming and trying to rattle the bars, but your some part of your brain still told you they had somehow kidnapped you and wiped your memory, and them throwing you here only solidified that belief. You did remember how they had tried to reassure you at first, but you were panicking too much to listen.

Suddenly, steps approached your cage and you saw a human-shaped shadow being cast next to you, which immediately made you sit up straighter. A blond-haired boy stood there, looking you up and down.

“You know, you almost could have been a Runner from how fast you sprinted away,” he said with a smirk. “Have you calmed down now?”

You blinked at him. “Am I supposed to know what do you mean by that?”

He shrugged. “Suppose not. But you’ll learn,” he said and shifted slightly. “You seem like you’ve calmed down enough now. Can you remember anything? Your name?”

You shook your head. “No. I can’t… I can’t remember anything.”

He nodded. “It happened to all of us, you’re not alone with that. Your name usually comes to you within a day or two, the rest of your memory likely won’t come back though.”

“What is this place?” you mumbled, narrowing your eyes at him. “What was that lift, the box I woke up in?”

The boy looked over the bamboo bars of the cage. “I’ll explain everything in a bit. Sorry about throwing you down here, you gave us a scare when you ran off like that. Some guys have ran into the Maze in their panic and it may be too dangerous to go get them, and we only get one of you every month, can’t really afford that.”

“The… Maze?” you repeated, the word sounding oddly ominous.

You gestured around him. “Those walls surrounding this place, there’s a massive maze around it and no one knows a way out. Someone who wasn’t gifted with creativity made up the name, so… we just call it the Maze.”

Your heart rate jumped up a bit, panic threatening to step in again. “So… we’re trapped here?”

Newt visibly noticed your unease and glanced at the hatch. “Alright, enough talking about that for now. How about I let you out and show you around?”

You eyed him, suspicious. “Why did you change the topic?”

He sighed. “Fine. I’ll let you out, no funny business, yeah?” He hesitated. “And I’ll explain everything while we walk.”

You looked at him for a moment longer before nodding, and he opened the hatch. You climbed out, your legs still shaking slightly from your rattled nerves. Newt didn’t move immediately, letting you to inspect your surroundings. You saw walls that must have been hundreds of feet high surrounding the place, people of different ages everywhere, some very young and others looking a decade older, arguing loudly about chores while others carried tools and crates. A few pens for animals, some goats roaming freely around the field.

“I’m Newt, by the way,” the boy suddenly said, making you flinch slightly. “Second-in-command here. And don’t worry, I’m not as scary as that name sounds.”

You glanced at him. “Second to who?”

“Alby’s in charge. You’ll meet him soon enough,” he told you and added, “he was the one deciding you should be put into the Slammer, just so you won’t hold a grudge against me.”

You didn’t answer, just let your eyes wander over different buildings and people running around. This had to be a nightmare. Being trapped in a place like this. Newt was quiet for a moment, but then he continued when you started walking, gesturing around the place.

“This is what we call the Glade. Home sweet home, we have everything we need around here for now. But we dream of getting out one day, and that’s why we have Runners. They map the Maze out and one day, we hope to find a way out.”

You let out a breath. “Why are we here? What’s the purpose of this? Who sent us here?”

Newt shook his head. “We don’t know. We wake up here one by one, once a month when we get supplies to live. We have all come up here in that box once, and know only a little of what this place is. But as for why and who, we don’t know.”

You scoffed. “So… you’ve all been here for a long time, and you don’t know anything?”

Newt sighed. “We’re trying. We send out Runners every day to map the Maze out, but it shifts every single night, we have tried to find patterns for how it shifts but some have lost hope and deem it impossible. I was one of them, when I first came up. Alby got me out of that gutter, after I broke my leg when I tried to end myself. And the Grievers also play their part.”

You frowned. “Grievers?”

He pressed his lips together. “That’s for another time. It’s a distressing story.”

He then explained the rules of the Glade.

No stealing. No fighting. Everyone does their part.

And absolutely no going even near the Maze unless you’re a Runner.

Newt smiled. “You’ll find your place soon enough. We just need to see what you can do and assign a task for you based on that.”

You glanced around the Glade again and nodded slowly. “I hope I do.”

“You will, I’ll bloody help you myself if others can’t figure it out,” Newt told you with a grin, and you nodded again.

“Thanks,” you muttered with a careful smile, and Newt nodded once.

“I’ll send Alby your way.”

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[swanimagines]

Season 3 is really good though, give it a chance

Sorry, I don't know what are you talking about? Could you elaborate what does this mean?

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Heeyyyy!!!! I sent you a request for Timmy (TSON) a while back, where reader is feeling sick and our boy Timmy is panicking because he's a munchin and fears losing her because he already lost Una. No rush, but I'd like an update if it's ok please, do you have any idea when is it coming out??? You're literally the only one who writes for him anymore so pls forgive me for being impatient 🫣

Hey nonny :)

I'm afraid you have the wrong person because I have no idea who's Timmy and what's TSON, and I haven't received a request with that scenario with any other character either. Sorry I can't help, hope you find the person you're looking for!

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Hello Jenni!! I hope you’re doing well, I was wondering if you could write a fic for: Newt form The Maze Runner x Reader (Angsty 🦾).

I just rewatched the whole TMR trilogy and thought about a super Angsty fic.

the length you please (although I would make you an altar if you make it sloooow burn)

I’ll try to put my ideas in the most organized way haha

- so for this fic maybe reader was there way way before Thomas came up the box, so she has known Newt for a long time and they are both very close.

My idea is: Reader is the one captured by WCKD instead of Minho, so like the movie, they go and save her, but ofc, Newt is super sick, and when they go and get the serum, we are left with him, he tells us to take the necklace with the note inside (in this fic he writes it to us instead of Thomas) however we are still desperate to get him help, so we try and carry him or get him to the serum faster.

However, Newt, in his deathbed he confessed his love to us, so now we’re even more desperate to save him, because ofc we love him so much too, and maybe when they get to the reader and newt and newt is basically dead at this point, we still try injecting him and saving him, and the guys are like, y/n leave him he’s already dead or something, so we are all: leave without me I can’t leave him alone, and they are just like: no we can’t lose you both, and ultimately leave him there convinced his dead fr.

Now in the safe haven, we are all weepy and sad because of Newt, we even carved his name in the rock of the safe haven, we are really depressed (level we haven’t eaten for three days) for his death.

And all of a sudden one day, reader sees Newt in the safe haven (parentheses: maybe he did come alive because of the serum and found his was to the safe haven¿) and reading being convinced it’s just an illusion because WCKD messed with her head so much, but once she sees it’s really him, instead of being like: omg love you’re alive, she’s furious, she crashes out to Newt, and newt is like, what the bloody hell did I do? 😐.

He’s so confused because we are mad at him, we start constantly ignoring him all over the safe haven for days, (because we are scared to get attached to him again because he’s constantly putting himself at risk, we’re scared to lose him again, we also feel as if he left us because he didn’t tell anybody about his flare once it was too late, and we feel like we are still grieving him even though he’s literally right there, basically a bunch of emotions…)

So him, being fed up of us ignoring him for DAYSSSS, confronts us (literally crash out) and we fight¿ I mean, like a discussion.

And from here you can take the lead, like, I maybe think after that argument we confess how we feel and then make up or something.

I also looked at your prompts lists and there were some that caught my eye for this story, ofc you don’t have to use them all if you do decide to write this, but I think these would go perfect with it:

C3. “It’s none of you’re business” “it is my business if you cry because of me”

C9. “You left me!”

C30. “I love you, but I wish I didn’t”

C51. “Don’t you dare close your eyes”

C65. “Let go of me!”

Hi nonny!

I'm very sorry but you actually broke several of my rules. If you look at my navigation post (where I think you found the prompt list from), it reads that I don't take any plot with my prompts, either plot only or prompt only.

Also, when you click yourself into the prompt masterlist, it reads this, please read the whole paragraph:

And finally, this is what reads on top of the dialogue prompt list:

(The title + the last sentence in this screenshot)

The reason why I don't take plots with prompt fics is that prompt lists are for people who either don't have a plot in mind or for people who want to be surprised what I'll cook up. Taking plots with those would make people think I require plots for prompt requests too, which would then lead to confusion and people not requesting because they don't have ideas/feel their idea is cringy, like I often feel when trying to make up a request to someone else, or felt back when I still requested fics from other writers. Prompt lists were my saviours back then.

I have made it as clear as possible because at one point I got these requests (prompts with plots) almost on daily basis and I'd suggest for you to read a writer's rules carefully before requesting.

So in summary:

Oneshots: requests with detailed plots, possibly multiple scenes. Will automatically be longer than ficlets.

Ficlets: a simple idea, like a character making a pillow fort date for you. It will be short, but at least 500 words.

Prompt fics: no plot, just a prompt + character + fandom. You may ask it to be romantic and reader to be female, otherwise I decide whether it's platonic or romantic and I always make reader gender neutral unless specified.

Also, this request very much sounds like you want me to write a multichapter? There's like a dozen plotlines and I don't see how I'd be able to stuff those all in a oneshot, even if I made it 10k long. I'm not sure if you mean that but that's also something I don't do, especially not by request.

I absolutely suck at multichapters/keeping the story together for that long/finishing them/pacing/quality staying consistent, and there's a 99.9% chance I'll lose interest and abandon it very early on, I have never succeeded in finishing a single multichapter (I have more than 10 failed multichapters under my belt, always for the same reasons) so that's not going to happen. I have a multichapter going on right now for one of the characters I write for because people managed to cheer me into writing that, and it's like pulling teeth at this point and I had to pull it on a hiatus a year ago, and even though I will pull that through with force if not else eventually, I have sworn that's the last time ever I will attempt a multichapter because it's not for me at all.

If you still want me to write this, please resend this, but remove the prompts + clean the request so that it can be a oneshot rather than a multichapter.

Tagging Newt because anons rarely see replies to their asks otherwise.

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Hiya Swan! Could you write something about being Ray's partner and what was just a professional relationship turns romantic? Thanks a bunch!

A/N: For once, the gif isn't mine. I've gotten so used to making gifs of Freddy's characters for fics that aren't about Kaz or Pin, because there just isn't any in the gif library I can use and it feels weird to find a gif made by someone else for once!

DISTRUPTION

Neither of you had meant for it to happen, obviously. When you first started working with Ray, you both thought it’d be the start of a prosperous relationship, but not a romantic relationship. Necessarily not even a friendly relationship.

Things just started happening so fast after you did your first jobs, travelling around the country collecting people’s memories. You came along exceptionally well, worked in tandem, understood each other better than most Harvester pairs did. And over a short span of time, you even managed to build genuine trust.

At first, you didn’t really pay attention to your feelings. You thought they would pass, or that they weren’t romantic feelings and you were just misinterpreting them. But it became clear within days, you were head over heels for him. And that terrified you, since most Harvesters did not appreciate their partner starting to care too much about them. It would be a risk, something that could mess up your workflow. And you knew Ray was very unlikely to let feelings interrupt his work, if he even had the ability to care about you the way you wanted him to care.

At the time, unbeknownst to you, Ray was battling the exact same thoughts. He could keep it in better though, reminding himself that his feelings getting in the way of your partnership could sabotage the workflow. So in other words, neither of you had no idea the other was just as into the other, and thought your feelings are surely one-sided.

The revelation happened when someone you were going to wipe woke up before you could do it, and attacked Ray. You threw yourself on the guy, wrestling him before Ray scrambled up and knocked him out. You were both out of breath for a moment, before Ray knelt down and started looking you over, before he let a breath.

“You’re okay,” he muttered, and looked back at the guy lying next to you, clenching his jaw. “What were you thinking? He could have had a weapon.”

You were silent for a moment, before you muttered, “Him hurting you would have disrupted the mission.”

He barked out a laugh, stepping closer to you. “And you getting hurt wouldn’t have disrupted it?”

You fell silent at that, knowing he had a good point. Throwing yourself into the line of fire, or in this case, someone who would have overpowered you if Ray hadn’t reacted as fast as he did, was stupid. In the worst case, both of you could have gotten hurt, you were taught how to handle these things and you made a reckless, stupid act when you saw the guy trying to slam himself on Ray instead of doing what you had been taught to do.

Which was digging up a needle and injecting a paralysing drug right into his neck. Definitely not a wrestling match.

But turning and starting to dig through your bag would have given the guy more time to kill Ray.

You turned away from him and crouched over the guy who was now lying on the floor out cold. “Let’s drag him back, the helmet wasn’t able to reach the memories we want to get from him.”

Ray didn’t move, and you looked over to him and saw him clenching and unclenching his fists. You stared at each other for a moment, before he grumbled, “don’t ever do anything like that again.”

You raised your eyebrows at him before you nodded towards the guys legs. “You’d find another partner in no time.”

“They wouldn’t be you.”

That made you pause and you frowned at him, but he was already grabbing the guy’s legs and helping you to carry him back over to the chair. After that, you stood there staring at him for a moment, willing yourself to not say it, to not risk it.

But you couldn’t silence the voice that was thrumming in your head, so you succumbed to it and walked around the chair to reach Ray before he could pick up the helmet, and grabbed his wrist.

“I wouldn’t get another you either,” you mumbled, before you tugged him a bit closer. “If something happened and you were laid off for one reason or another, and I would get another partner… I don’t know if I would even want to do this anymore.”

He stared at you for a moment longer, and… suddenly leaned in, his lips meeting yours. You immediately responded, your eyes fluttering shut and your hands raising up to his biceps. And after a moment, you parted, foreheads still together.

“Boss can’t hear about this,” he murmured, and you shook your head no.

Yeah. An unconventional relationship, sure, maybe a little stupid. But still so, so beautiful.

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NEW/REIGNITED FANDOM FIC SCHEDULES

NOTE: I normally am not publishing as I write and my fics are written and scheduled to publish automatically (the publishing fics were written months before), so the whole priority request system is a foreign practice for me I only do to be able to hop into the hype train, as it's kinda required. So this means, for some fandoms, that may inbox could and likely WILL be blowing up, and I may not be able to keep up the pace like some of the other writers are (like writing and publishing 3-4 fics per day). It's because I've unfortunately gotten old and I'm not longer the Duracell rabbit I was 5 years ago, who was able to sit down for 6 hours and literally write 10 fics just like that without any problem. Nowadays, I get exhausted easily, it's a miracle if I'm able to write 2-3 fics on one sitting, but enforcing that regularly would lead to me getting burnt out, and then writing is a huge struggle for weeks or even months. I have to chop it up to the span of multiple days to prevent that. I've gotten criticised for not mentioning this before, so just a heads up.

The Sandman: I'll be attempting to post all my old The Sandman requests during the end of June and into July because of S2, there isn't much of them (13) so I think it may be doable but if it looks like I can't do them all, I will cut a few of the newest requests out of it. S2 requests will open as soon as I've watched the published part of the season, so first requests open for Part 1 and later for Part 2. If you've read the comics, please don't spoil me.

Wednesday: I have never gotten requests for the fandom despite it being on my list since the season came out (I made a big fanfare post about it too so it was weird when I saw how popular those fics were in other blogs 😅) so S2 week won't get any fics. Sorry. If I get S2 requests once the season comes out, they will be bumped up in my priority list though and I'll be attempting to fill them as much as I can during the season still being hot and running.

Ghost of Tsushima/Ghost of Yotei: I'm going to publish two of my requests (currently my only requests for it) on the release day and the day after that (2nd of October and 3rd of October). If I get any requests for either game after GOY is published, I will be attempting to fill as many of them as I can as quickly as I can.

Stranger Things: I will be publishing my remaining old requests for it during the span of the season running. There's 7 of them. And again, I will be attempting to write as many of S5 requests as I can during it running/shortly after it ends, but do note it's partly coming out during Christmas time and I'm not necessarily able to write them during that time as I'm staying at my mum's for over 2 weeks and I don't particularly enjoy writing on my laptop that much + I want to spend time with my mum and not be glued into my laptop because of requests.

Also about new requests you can be tempted to send now for one of these four fandoms and hope to squeeze through to get your fic "early": you're free to send it and try your luck, BUT please do note there may be 30 other people who also have the same thought for that fandom alone, which means I won't be able to do all of them for the release window/the hype wave.

If you do choose to request despite this warning and accept these terms (that your request may or may not make it on time), please give a read to my RULES first or I will be eating your bed.

(Also I'm trying not to be too ambitious but I'm kinda maybe planning or at least wanting to plan to start publishing like, 3 times a week starting from January 1 next year?)

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Which, as usual with new or reignited fandoms, means my old requests (minus the Robin piece that was voted to be published on 16th of September) that have been lying around in my drafts for eternity will finally be written and published in between 26th of November and 31st of December :) Though a word of warning, there are only 7 so I need to get creative how to place them to span through that time. My most recent Stranger Things request is from November 25, 2022 so it's kinda been a dead fandom in my blog (likely because of me being mostly inactive during 2023) even though I've published stuff for it sometimes 😅

Note! This means all my OLD Stranger Things requests will get written and published during December. So if you start spamming me with new Stranger Things requests, I can't guarantee they'll make it for that time since I'm pretty sure that if I promised that, there would soon be a hundred new requests sitting in my inbox 😅 I can of course handle a few new requests to be scheduled for it and of course you are allowed to send in one or two if you want, BUT please do note there may be 30 other people who also have the same thought because the fandom is so impossibly large and there are surely a lot of people reading reader insert fics for the fandom.

If you do choose to request despite this warning and accept these terms (that your request may or may not make it for December), please give a read to my RULES first or I will be eating your bed.

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Hi! Can I request some headcanons of Killian Jones falling in love and having a flirty love/hate relationship with a female pirate who is the captain of her own pirate crew? Thank you!

BEING A FEMALE PIRATE CAPTAIN AND HAVING A FLIRTY RELATIONSHIP WITH KILLIAN JONES AND FALLING IN LOVE WITH HIM

You first met him when he wasn't a pirate yet

And you happened to target the ship he was working in

You had chemistry from the start, even when he was tied up on the deck with the rest of the crew, one of your men having a knife to his throat

“Let the pretty boy live for now,” you told the pirate holding him in place

You left the ship with a few sacks of sugar

And he thought he’d never see you again

Until… years later, he discovered you being held a captive by Peter Pan

He remembered you, how he was kind of in your debt for his life

So after a few beats of hesitating, he decided to break the cage open and let you out

“This is only because I was in your debt, now we’re even,” he murmured as you crouched together behind the bushes to get away

“Sure, pretty boy,” you replied with a smirk

His heartrate picked up just a bit at your tone

He absolutely hated it

At least he wanted to hate it hsshshsh

And from that moment on, you had a… relationship, if you can call it that

Just casual fun at times (not really casual but you claimed it wasn’t serious, having his lips pressed against yours)

While pissing each other out at other times

He was crazy about you

But he also hated you to guts

At least when you weren’t making out over his desk

You were also crazy about him

(While hating him to guts)

He tried to take you on a “date” sometimes

Which was mainly just bickering but also involved a lot of making out

You stole back your ship from where Peter and his Lost Boys had hidden it

And almost got yourself killed in the process

His willingness to risk his life for your ship really made you fall for him hard to the extend you realised it

(But you still didn’t admit it)

He tried to write you love letters

But he wasn’t exactly an expert in love

He was good at flirting and make girls blush

But actual love was foreign to him

After all, he has lost everyone he ever cared about

He kinda feared that actually loving and showing his love would lead to you dying

Another heartbreak, another person who he’d be bloodthirsty to destroy

But he also knew that if he never admitted his feelings

And if you died somehow

He’d regret it for the rest of his life

So, he kept talking himself into it

But you seemed to always stop him

It started to feel like you didn’t want him to confess

Like you knew exactly what he wanted to say to you but you just didn’t let him

And your love was kinda strange

Because he also liked the way how you had a sort of a feud going on even when you were clearly in love with each other

You teasing him during you being alone in your (or his) cabin, lying in your (or his) bed, making out before you managed to piss each other off somehow

It was kinda sexy too

And only made him thirst for you more

So over time, he kinda decided that actually confessing his love for you could even ruin the relationship you had

You both knew you loved each other without an actual confession

And he ended up deciding that it was enough for him

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Hi there! I hope you don’t mind me reaching out like this, this might sound a little random, but I recently came back to Tumblr after a long time away. It’s been years since I was part of this space regularly, and I’ve really missed the fandom community here. I asked @moonlit-imagines for some direction on where to start reconnecting, and they pointed me toward a few people whose blogs I used to follow, and I think you might be one of the amazing writers I used to read and admire back in the day. If so, I just wanted to say how happy I am to have found you again! You were one of the “big names” I remember from when the fandom side of Tumblr felt like home. I always looked forward to your writing and the way you brought characters to life, it meant a lot back then, and honestly, it still does now. I hope it’s okay if I ask a quick question! Since you were so involved in the writing community, I was wondering if you know who's still around from those days, other writers who are still active, or even any newer ones that have joined the scene more recently? I'm especially looking for multifandom writers who include all kinds of readers (not just fem!reader), since lately most of the content I come across seems to focus on a single fandom or only cater to a specific type of reader. Sorry if this message feels a bit generic,I've been sending a version of it to multiple blogs just to try and track down familiar names or find recommendations. I'm really hoping to reconnect with the kind of content and creators I used to love. Thank you so much if you’ve read this far, and whether you're the person I remember or not, I’m wishing you all the best and hope your creative spark is still going strong! Take care!!

Hii! Glad to have you back here, hope you enjoy your stay 😊 I'm not sure how long ago you're talking about, but please note that there are some things that have changed in 2020's (with my blog) and I'd advise you to look through my pinned post.

As for your question, uh, I'm so sorry to disappoint but I'm no longer in touch with most of the active community, we aren't following each other anymore and are not speaking either and I don't think me reccing them would be welcomed by them, it'd be kinda awkward because we aren't friends anymore, I wouldn't even be able to tag them since I've been blocked by them for unknown reasons (that's how our friendship ended, me getting blocked out of nowhere). + Because my dash is very much desert, dusty wind and tumbleweed if we look at fandoms I'm in, there isn't much to read for me or rec because I'm not in fandoms that are hot RIGHT NOW, I'm still clinging to old but gold, also because I'm trying to protect my wip pile and chip it away as much as I can before finding a new obsession 😅

But anyway! I looked through my following list for you and overall, 27 blogs have last been active "years" ago and I currently follow 53 blogs. And there are only 9 blogs I follow who have last posted within the last 2 months, who still write fanfiction.

And if we count out people who write for only one fandom, here's who's left (I may miss someone, feel free to growl at me if I did):

@locke-writes

He has a library of awesome fics he has written + he posts frequent fic recs you can maybe use to find new blogs to check out! (If I remember correctly he's like me, he genders readers by request, but default is gn reader)

@heliads

Lisa is currently busy and doesn't post very often at the moment, but she's not inactive, she's definitely worth following as imo, quality is superior over quantity! She tries to keep her readers gender neutral but she's like me, she writes fem reader if it's specifically requested and otherwise writes readers as gn with they/them.

Kinda a bonus rec: @hughiecampbelle

Enna refuses from writing gendered readers at all, so you won't find fem readers from her blog! But please note, from my understanding, nowadays Enna is only writing for her current hyperfixations which switch sometimes, but I'd say she's multifandom despite that as her blog isn't typically dedicated to one and same fandom for very long periods of time. Like for example, a while ago she was really into Succession, then The Boys, then Hannibal, and now Thunderbolts, she isn't quick to change camps but she's not staying still for years either. But if that's not your thing, her masterlist is still really worth checking out, she has a loooot of characters she's written for over the years and her writing is so fricking beautiful and poetic in another level!

(I left Lacey out because you said you came into my blog through her so I didn't see a point, otherwise I'd rec her too!)

I think that's it at the moment. I'm sorry I'm no more of help!

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Every time I end up being disappointed in any way, even if I was just corrected on something I said, it affects my writing pace a lot, which makes me worry I will mess my plans up by not being able to deal with disappointments/being corrected and I wouldn't succeed even in ONE thing I do under pressure because life isn't always sunshine and rainbows. I promised to succeed and I want to keep my promise, I'd rather quit my blog entirely than let go of my promise and that won't come to question either, so I need to pull through by force if not else.

I dream of being able to write like I used to, just being able to let words flow, writing inside my head 24/7, always jumping at a chance to write, writing like 20k words a month without any problems or stress and being HAPPY with my fics 90% of the time, always having my queue full of fics, and being able to publish fics every single day, or even just weekdays and keep weekends off. Aka not be such a slop I am now, publishing once a week and even that feels like such a struggle sometimes, overthinking every single sentence and wanting to throw my keyboard out of the window because I feel I suck so much. Sure I had these feelings before too, but they were just an occassional visitor and not a 24/7 resident. I've written like ONE fic I'm 100% happy with within the last 2½ years, everything else feels like they're just monotonous slop and absolutely nothing special. I would love to just, wake up one day and be able to write so much that my wip pile would disappear within a few months, live up to my promises I made in 2021 and 2022. But nooo, I just can't find a grip on myself and am rather crying about my feelings, such a loser.

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Please can I ask for some headcanons about dating Will Turner (Pirates of The Caribbean)? Thank you!

DATING WILL TURNER

You first met Will as a teenager, and immediately recognised yourself beginning to fall for him.

How wouldn’t you? He was charming, handsome and most important, incredibly friendly and seemed to be just as flustered about you as you were about him.

You were also a servant, so you could relate to him in a lot of things.

Neither of your masters were fond of the way you started spending time together at first though

Teenagers in love easily meant getting distracted about your assigned tasks

But, you proved them wrong and balanced with romance and work perfectly, just like adults do, so they ended up accepting it

(You actually did sneak away a few times without them knowing while waiting for their approval, but they never found out so shh)

You officially started to date on your 17th birthday

He was such a sappy romantic when asking whether you’d like to be his

He was first considering on serenading you but decided it would be too bold

So he gave you a bouquet of flowers one day and then just… asked if you’d like to be his

And of course, you said yes

There isn’t many “romantic” places in Port Royal for people like you, unfortunately

(Only rich people live truly comfortably in 18th century, unfortunately)

Governor Swann liked Will though, and slipped some extra money for him so he could take his love to a proper dinner, at least just once

When Elizabeth (your best friend) was kidnapped by Barbossa, Will immediately set a journey to go rescue her

And of course, you smuggled yourself into the ship too

Once Will found out, he was horrified

Insisting you’ll get yourself killed

But you remind him he doesn’t have any experience in sailing either

The rest of the crew finds out not late after

Jack doesn’t really care as long as you don’t just lounge around (like he would do if he wasn’t the captain)

(If you’re a woman, you impressed Jack with your determination after a bit of a slightly heated conversation between you, Will and him, and his stitched-up crew almost ditched him for allowing you to stay onboard/rebelled, but eventually reluctantly accepted their fate)

Will tries to arrange some alone time every once in a while

It isn’t very romantic in a traditional sense, it’s impossible to do if he was looking for candlelit dinners or a walk in a park

But he tries his best, and that makes it romantic

He usually calls you “my love”

But there are times you have to pretend you aren’t a couple

Because it might be something to be used against Will (or you)

Neither of you are really vibing with being pirates for the rest of your lives

Will only wants to make sure you’re safe, and it’s not posssible if you’re pirates

He’s definitely the type to get married eventually

If you aren’t into marriage, it’s ok though

He would like nothing more than make you his forever officially, but he respects your desires

But whatever happens, you stick together and will stand beside each other until the very end if necessary

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Kissing headcanons for Ray from Recusrive Dreams, please and thank you?

A/N: Again, the gif is mine. Also these are pretty short, hope that's ok! Got my writing spark back again for now, let's hope it will carry! (It's 4am and I'm writing)

KISSING WITH RAY:

He’s not much of a kisser

He’s also not affectionate in traditional sense

He prefers showing his affection by not being a total asshole at you, like he’s with everyone else

He’s much like “I hate everyone but you” trope

But if he does kiss you

It’s usually after you were in danger

He appears to be tough and cold to most people

But he’s also kinda a surprise softie if he’s comfortable with someone/actually loves someone

Kinda = again, he’s not a softie in traditional sense, he isn’t coddling you

It just means he’s protective if needed and gets angry at you if you’re reckless, and throws you a blanket if he notices you’re feeling cold

(He’s always afraid of losing you but he just doesn’t say it aloud)

But back to kissing

If you’re a kisser, he’s not against it

He doesn’t hate kissing

It’s just that he’s usually not initiating it

Kisses are usually pecks accompanied with a snort from him

It’s heated sometimes, sure, but it’s not very common

(Heated kissing usually means it’s leading to more)

He isn’t the hickey type of guy because he doesn’t like “parading his partner around” as he worded it

Because the scowl he lies on anyone who tries to flirt with you is enough for people to back off

He can do some for you if you want him to, if you feel like it’d keep people away from flirting

But he’s not doing them unless you ask him

And as I stated earlier, after danger he’s initiating it

He kisses you hard and chastises you for throwing yourself in danger like that

He just can’t bear the thought of losing you

(Again, his inner surprise softie is calling ^^)

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