#I have too many tedmort fics to write

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

The fact that the grpc is still around surprises me and doesn’t surprise me, both at the same time. And now that I see active rps in the tags again, I’m so tempted.

Somebody tell me no. I cannot join the glee roleplay community again - it’s been years since Glee has aired and yet sometimes the temptation of playing David Karofsky again gets me excited.

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

WIP Tag Game!

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

Thanks for the tag @haventacluewhatimdoing Made a new post because I get stressed about adding to other people’s posts this way! Anyway! I’ve got loads of WIPs so you’re in for a treat! I’m mostly working on Classic Doctor Who these days but I’ll leave a few of my Bob’s Burgers stuff too because I intend to get back to those eventually 😅 everything appears as it’s labeled in my docs and no those are not the final titles!

Classic Doctor Who

Jamie grows old

Zoe & Jamie

Threejamie angst

SevenJamie welcome home

Jamie sick!fic

Jamie remembers

Three/jamie reunion pt 2

From my smut folder (so you know what’re getting into if you ask!)

Seven minutes in heaven twojamie

Three/Jamie Smut

Three and Jamie can’t wait

The master and three

Five times

Salamander cult application

(Let’s take a moment to say ‘holy moly Caboose you’re writing a lot of third doctor smut!’ Feel free to call me out)

Bob’s Burgers

Bosco fic

Willow

To all the boys tedmort

Tedmort aquaticism

From the tedmort smut folder

Morts praise kink

Happy new year

Fake

I’m so sorry—I have adhd and attention span issues; I jump from fic to fic quite frequently which is why it takes me weeks to finish a fic sometimes and I tend to start new fics just for the hell of it.

I’m tagging: @doctordiscosbignaturals and @babsvibes but I’d love to see anyone else’s if you’d like to do it!

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

20 questions for fic writers

Thanks for tagging me @daddygrandpaandthebeaver yesterday and thanks for the tag today from @babsvibes

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

46, about to be 47

2. What’s your total word count?

236,929

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Bob’s Burgers

I am slowly working on some WWDITS fic as well, but so far nothing has been posted.

I used to write for HP and my work can still be found on ao3.

4. Top 5 fics by kudos

Not counting my co-written fics (because I feel like that doesn’t count since I didn’t write all of it and one of them is a posted RP)

Take a Walk With Me

I Like That Sweater On You

Now I’ve Got It, Do I Want It?

That Over-Hyped Corporate Holiday

Gawky

Just for fun, since all my top fics are HP (I wrote for that fandom longer) I here’s my top Bob’s Burgers fics by kudos!

Wrong

Where You Belong

This Never Happened

Love, Your Sailor

Rainy Day

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to respond to every single one! I really really appreciate the support from the people who read my fics and a lot of them tend to be mutuals here on tumblr, so it’s nice to know that the people I interact with pretty much daily are enjoying what I put out.

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Never Wanna Say Goodbye

For how much angst I love to write, I hate unhappy endings. This one is ambiguous, I’d say it’s the angstiest ending, even if it’s not the angstiest fic I’ve written. I think.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Never Too Old for a Bedtime Story

In a Lifetime

Probably. I don’t know, my opinion changes a lot. If you would have asked me months ago, I would have had a different answer. These two have endings that make me happy personally, so I choose these.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Yes. Unfortunately this was common while I was part of the HP fandom and one of the reasons I stopped writing and updating several of my fics. I usually delete the worst ones before they even get posted because I have comment moderation on all of the HP fics left on ao3 now. The people in that fandom seem to be very particular about their fics. I don’t want to start discourse or create drama, but I will say that I realized that, especially after TikTok and the marauders fandom exploded, my fics had to meet some kind of invisible standard in order to be considered “good” (aka atyd standard) and it feels as if readers come to expect your work to read like a published for profit book you can buy at Barnes and Noble. Considering you’re not paying me to write fanfiction and I do it not as a career but as a hobby in my limited free time, I don’t think that’s a very fair expectation.

I have never once gotten a hate comment on a single one of my Bob’s Burgers fics though.

9. Do you write smut?

Yes! As an ace person who is generally sex-repulsed when it comes to their own body, this is mostly how I experience it. I know it’s not always everybody’s favorite thing, so I don’t write it into every fic, but my characters do tend to be very sexual (For personal reasons I don’t want to get into my past, though I do want to make it clear that I am not ace because of it, I don’t want anybody thinking trauma leads to asexuality) but I do enjoy both writing and reading a good smut scene.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Not typically. I can’t never figure out how to do it write. Sometimes I’ll write fic based in the universe of another fandom, but I wouldn’t consider that a crossover.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, back in my HP days my best fandom friend and I co-wrote a series of Snupin fics based on songs from the Lumineers. Another one was an rp from discord that me and my rp partner at the time posted. Other than that, no I have not.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Tedmort

Obviously, since I am the (unofficial) tedmort CEO, what did you expect? 😉

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you will?

The Lupin-Snape Family Shitshow (title not permanent)

There is no real title for this because I affectionally have been calling it that since I started writing back in 2021. I wanted as much written as possible before I began posting to ao3, so that’s 77k already written for this mamma jamma! This is a Snupin fic in which Snape and Lupin became best friends after the war, married other people, and ended up cheating on their partners and falling in love.

I doubt I’ll ever finish it, even though I am still very interested in it and really love what I’ve written so far. Unfortunately, I don’t know how well the fandom would accept it (due to the ships and themes of infidelity) and I do not write for the HP fandom any longer. I haven’t even opened this fic since March 2022.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I write dialogue fairly well. I come up with some good, interesting ideas even if they don’t get posted. Im good at one shots and the one scene sort of thing - I’m a decent short form writer.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I struggle with connecting the dots between scene a lot, which is why I write a lot of one shots and drabbles. Those are the scenes I wanted to write and if I connect them together, I could make an entire story but I struggle with writing the parts that go in between.

Which is also why I have a hard time finishing longer works because I’ll write the “good stuff” first and struggle with making it into a coherent story that makes sense.

Another weakness is my adhd brain losing interest after I’ve posted a few chapters of a fic and then suddenly never feeling motivated to continue again.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

I use google translate because most of the languages I use, I don’t have fandom friends who speak it (to my knowledge?) which can be really tricky and can make things sound off to people who do speak that language.

I can only read, write, and speak in English, unfortunately, so on occasion I’ll write words or phrases into English sentences but not full dialogue.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Twilight, though I only posted one fic in 2009 to Fanfiction.net

Followed by Glee, which is when I actually started writing fanfiction for realsies. Up until that point, I had mostly written original fiction and never posted online.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

If you asked me before I joined the burger fandom…it would have been this one: That over-hyped Corporate Holiday And this awful crack fic that I still adore, years later for whatever reason: Dicked Down in Divination Feat. Severus Snape

But in all serious, this question was really hard. Maybe this isn’t the best work I’ve ever done and maybe I didn’t take ages to perfect it, but it makes me happy. It’s so sweet and I still adore the idea of mortuary student Mort and Navy sailor Teddy meeting in their twenties.

Love, Your Sailor

I’m not tagging anyone because most of the people I’d tag have already been tagged! But if you weren’t please do this I want to see all of your answers!!

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

WIP Game

Thanks for the tag @daddygrandpaandthebeaver I’m so excited for this!

Rules: In a new post, list 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 of it or tell them something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I don’t actually have a “WIP folder” per se, but I do have each work separated into files according to ship or just straight into my fandom folder if it’s gen or a ship I don’t write enough to make a folder for. I use google docs, so all my things are actually titled exactly as you see them, which means often times they’re named something silly or just…the title of the fic if I’ve given it one.

That’s 28 WIP’s - if anybody is wondering how I always have so much, it’s because I am almost always working on something! I’ll get bored, set one down and move to another. I’ll write a scene in one, decide it doesn’t fit, but use it to write something else. I start new fics faster than I can write them. I’d love to tell you about them, please ask!

Field trip

Lice Things Are Lice

Trickey 1

Valentines Day 2024

When I Taste Tequila

Calm Before The Storm

They Break Up, They Make Up

“That’s my dad”

[1] Divorced Dad Mort

[2 - DD] getting together arc

[3] Divorced Dad 3rd arc

Abbey: Teenage Years

If Teddy was there the whole time

Honeymoon

Careful, I Bite

Wrong Part Two

Willow

Champagne Problems

Fraud of the Dead: Mort’s Hickey

It’s hard not to be bitter

Light It Up

LYS Halloween

Movie Date

The Thundertaker

Tedmort Aquaticism

Truck

The Great Rat Rescue

[12] Touch Starved

I’ll tag @babsvibes @lovelyxxxsymone @witchy-boo @koko-raccoon and anybody else who wants to play along! I know I could tag more, but I want others to have a chance to tag someone too!

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

🥺🛒👀 for the fanfic ask game!

🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

I love those big, emotional reveals. Those conversations where they admit to being in love with each other or talking about their feelings. Oh, and when someone admits it to someone else…that’s a big one too (and one that got me quite recently with one of my most recent fics!)

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

Currently my most common theme in my work is Jamie getting his memory back, reuniting with the Doctor somehow, or just…experiencing those big feelings. I guess the overarching plot to a lot of my fics is “Jamie has big feelings for the Doctor that runs deeper than just a simple love.”

I think also just…friends to lovers. Apparently that’s a huge trope of mine that just gets me every time so it’s in so many of my fics across both my fandoms. Obvs it’s in the Doctor Who stuff but it’s very prevalent in a lot of my tedmort stuff (which duh, my headcanon is literally that they’re best friends who fell in love!) which…makes a lot of sense if you compare them to twojamie…

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

I have about 700 in my drafts

No jk I don’t have 700 but I have so many. Got a couple of longer fics in the works because I can’t for the life of me tell a short story. One is the story of Jamie and Zoe in a prequel of my fic Home Is Wherever You Are because I can’t get enough of Zoe and Jamie’s friendship.

Another one I’m working on is an alternative ending to a fic that shall not be named (it’s like an au of the au? If you could call that particular fic an au…) in which, oh, you could have guessed this one coming!!

…the Doctor comes back for Jamie.

Will I ever tire of writing this? No probably not.

Thanks for the ask Merlyn!! 🥰