#I had to post something for shadowgast Saturday

[rainbowcaleb]

“Now here was a little creature, even if not made from magic it was surely touched by it, and it had no care in the world but to live its life.”

I am once again gently leading you over to read The Fourth Corner of the World

[burningdarkfire]

writing update for may!

i used to keep these short but actually it’s my house so i’m just going to make this as long as i want them to be 🤷‍♂️ the tl;dr though is that i took a break from blood moon because i was experiencing Doubts and instead i primarily wrote many thousands of words of explicit shadowgast for a new oneshot, because it be like that.

in may i wrote about 14.5k words total, which is my highest word count since my city “reopened” in march and i returned to the office, etc. i’m happy about that but it’s probably not sustainable

i updated my writing tracker to include days of the week, and it’s been funny to see the gradient that goes perfectly from sundays (4405 words total) down to saturdays (377 words total). i’ve been thinking about changing the tracker to be weekly instead of daily, but now i want to keep it daily for at least another month

my goal for june is to finish blood moon, actually. a real, genuine, “complete” draft for me to stare at

individual WIP rundowns under the cut>

[COMPLETED] for what you are is mine, the wulf-centric fic of astrid/wulf(/bren) over the years, 4813 words (total)

i started this fic back in february but did a huge overhaul of it in april and basically started it over - keeping the loose outline of events but switching POV to second person, focusing on wulf instead of astrid, etc. i’ve been weirdly stressed about writing wulf again for ages so this study was very helpful to work on just to establish my own concepts for the character

[NEW] critrole shadowgast “pon farr” oneshot, +5700 words

why write omegaverse when i can go back to the old classics 🤷‍♂️ i’ve had the concept of this fic since last summer but never wanted to commit because it is smut through and through and i didn’t (and honestly still don’t) think i have the technical skills to actually write it well. decided to give it a try anyway!

[NEW] venom symbrock “the body” oneshot, +3400 words

i rewatched venom 2 this month and it is truly the greatest romcom of all time. i am, evidently, obsessed with the concept of two beings sharing a body because what is love if not being consumed whole and becoming one, etc. this fic is kind of in a weird space currently because i know what i want it to mean but not how to actually convey that meaning through plot, so. i need to sit and think about it

critrole amnesia wulf sequel, +1400 words

i have fun writing this fic but i also have no real idea what it’s actually about yet so. i also need to think about this. wulf and bren though ... they’re cute

[NEW] critrole wizards polycule oneshot, +1200 words 

ngl as fun as reading wizards polycule is, it’s never really clicked for me as something the characters would actually do. however, i may have finally conceptualized an arrangement of the wizards that works for me? i don’t expect this to be particularly long, just sketching out an idea sorta thing

critrole widofjord blood moon AU, +1100 words

there are two wolves inside me. one of them thinks that just finishing a long fic that’s over 40k words is an accomplishment in itself and i should abide by my original rule of not spending much time editing because otherwise the fic will never finished. the other wolf thinks that crucial parts of the fic are kinda really weak right now because they’re the parts that would usually be fixed in post!

anyway, i just spent a good three weeks away from this fic so that i could peacefully wallow. i don’t have answers yet but i did start working on it again this past week so we’ll see where i end up

lol jayvik modern retired esports AU, +400 words

this series are kinda comfort fics for me so i work on them when i need this specific brand of comfort and it just didn’t really come up this month. i do have this entire fic outlined so it just has to be written. i struggle to work on multiple explicit fics at once so we’ll have to rotate with the new shadowgast one

[redacted project], +100 words

finally came up with a good ending for this so i think it’s just about done, which is great. hope y’all like it once it’s live!

arcane vikvel oneshot, +40 words

this fic has been almost complete for like two months but i have no fucking idea how to end it. i literally just need a last like .. three lines ... but i don’t know what they are. so we struggle on

critrole modern university AU, 0 words

this fic is essentially “in storage” as the last and final bastion in my backlist from last year. i REALLY want to write more in this universe because i have thousands of words of notes but i haven’t decided what a good way to do that is yet (prompts of some kind, almost certainly??) so this waits for me to figure it out

critrole modern league AU, 0 words

this fic is on hold because i know what i want it to be, it has an outline and many many notes, but i just don’t actually really enjoy writing modern AU romances? i don’t want to write the 20k word fic that this would probably take even though i’d like to read it? so i need to rework it but it’s taken a back seat since i have another modern gamers AU for jayvik 🤷‍♂️

critrole/lol crossover, 0 words

this fic is also on hold because as fun as the idea is, it requires me the author to know very specifically where each of the four characters are in their timeline and i just don’t. i just don’t know! i have thrown ideas around and not particularly loved any of them because they end up feeling unbalanced, so i’ll have to keep thinking about them sometime

[rainbowcaleb]

I had a super busy day today and was excited each time I remembered I could check tumblr later for Caleb essek posts from you! Thanks for brightening my day

I am so glad shadowgast saturday brings you something to look forward to 💜💜💜