#Tamora Pierce fanfiction

[isnt-it-pretty]

Fandom: Tortall, Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness

Rating: General

Catagory: Gen

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Thom of Trebond & Alanna of Pirates Swoop and Olau (of Trebond in the fic though)

Characters: Thom, Master Si-cham, The Black God

Additional Tags: Alternate universe canon divergence, temporary character death, Champion of the Black God Thom, Tusaine War

Summary:

Alanna dies; Thom isn't about to let that stand.

[six-of-snakes]

Fandom Trumps Hate 2024: Tortall series offerings

Browsing for the @fandomtrumpshate 2024 auction is open now! Bidding runs from March 5th at 8 am EST to March 9th at 8 pm EST! View all offerings here.

This year there are 5 total offerings for Tamora Peirce's Tortall universe!

Fanfiction

Chash (@ponyregrets) is offering a 10-20k fic with a max rating of E. Her favorite characters to write about are Alanna and Kel.

six-of-snakes (@six-of-snakes) is offering a <5k fic with a max rating of M. He likes to write Ozorne/Numair, Alanna/Thayet, Roald vi/Neal and aroace!Kel.

cricket (@cricketnationrise) is offering a 5-10k fic with a max rating of E. She is especially interested in writing Protector of the Small era, aroace!Kel, AUs, and alternate POV.

kitsuneri88 (no tumblr) is offering a 5-10k fic with a max rating of M. kitsuneri88 prefers to write Neal/Yuki and Numair/Daine.

fan labor

aliteralgarbageheap (@aliteralgarbageheap) is offering a podfic up to 5k, length depending donation. They especially like Alanna/George, Alanna/George/Numair, Kel & Neal, Kel & Dom, Aly/Nawat, but are open to other pairings.

if i messed up or missed someones @ or other info, please let me know!

[petals2fish]

Petals’ Favs of March Round Up:

Favorite Art: Painting the House by @constancezin

Favorite Fic: In Search of Something More by @kay-elle-cee

Favorite Song: Opposite by Sabrina Carpenter

Favorite Book: The Lioness Quartet by Tamora Peirce (finally finished my re read of the series)

Favorite TV Show: Avatar the Last Airbender Season 2

[idreamtiflew]

Ya'll. My favorite fanfic ever seems to be gone. I read that Archive of Our Own was being cyber attacked or something, and that some works did not make it. Lisafer on AO3 and Fief Goldenlake wrote a phenomenal fic about a romance between Sir Myles of Olau and Wyldon Cavall whilst he is at the castle training to become a knight. It is called "Paragons of Knightley Virtue." It. Is. So. Good. And it's gooone!! I hope to someday find it again, because Great Mithros, it is so fire.

[serious-goose]

damn, as a 26 year old, i'm reading and writing more fanfiction this summer than I have since middle school

[threespacemonkeys]

I’ve been speed reading this for over a week now. It is amazing piece is fiction check it out if you’re a Tortall fan!

[bakanokiwami]

TOP 10 BOOKS ON FANFICTION.NET BASED ON NUMBER OF FANFICTION (1999-2022)

To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Books Section on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.

Hitchhiker's Guide to [...] is short for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Romance of the 3 [...] is short for Romance of the 3 Kingdoms.

In 2000-2003, FFN used Miscellaneous Novels as a catch-all tag for all books that didn’t have their own category yet. It was then renamed to Misc. Books in 2004-2007 before it was removed by 2008.

In 1999, fanfiction weren’t divided into sections like Anime/Manga, TV, Books, etc. yet. It was just a small list of mixed fandoms.

Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles was actually in third place in the year 2000 with 126 fanfiction. However, it was the only year FFN had fanfiction for her works, that’s why it doesn’t turn up in the bar chart race.

In 2001, a new category called Harry Potter Author Fics was in 4th place with 888 fanfiction, but this category was removed by the following year.

FFN also hosted Vampire Hunter fanfiction in 2001-2002, but was later on removed because its author L. K. Hamilton didn't want fanfiction of her works.

The Tamora Pierce category was in the Books Section from 2001-2009 as a catch-all category for Pierce’s works before it was removed by 2009.

Similarly, the L.J. Smith category was in the Books Section from 2000-2007 as a catch-all category for Smith’s works before it was removed sometime in 2009.

I've decided to keep the author categories in the bar chart race since most if not all of their series did not get their own category until their author's category was removed.

Originally, the fanfiction list was sorted alphabetically too, but was changed to number of fics at around early 2013.

By November 2013, FFN started abbreviating numbers above 1,000 to K, so exact numbers aren't available for series with more than 1,000 fanfiction.

This bar chart was made with the assumption that the numbers listed in the Books section are correct. I can't seem to get the same numbers for some of these series when I go to the specific series' page and toggle ratings, other filters, and language to All though... I'm not sure where the discrepancy is coming from. (And it’s not the crossover fic numbers that need to be added to serie’s total fics from what I’ve observed.)

For example, HP currently has 844k fanfiction, but if you go to HP’s page and toggle ratings, other filters, and language to All, you’ll only get 800k fics. HP also has 51.3K crossover fanfiction, but adding those two still doesn’t equate to 844k...

Please refer to this post for more bar chart races.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! ��

[bemusedlybespectacled]

extremely minor pet peeve but it bugs me when, in fanfiction, characters say "gods damn it" or "oh gods" in a setting without culture-wide polytheism

like it absolutely makes sense in a story based on a D&D campaign or a Tamora Pierce novel or Viking history, like, one where polytheism is Definitely A Well-Known Thing In This Culture

but if you have Very Catholic Nuns and Very Catholic Priests and Very Anglican Vicars running around your canon setting, you're going to need to establish for me that this character is pagan and in what way before they start swearing by multiple unspecified gods for no fucking reason

[bluenotemagpie]

i thought that making the cats powerpoint (tm) would free me from my anguish to focus on, idk, usual stuff again. instead it has apparently freed a part of my brain that needs Something to Be Unhinged About and which has therefore flung itself back into tamora pierce's novels. for the first time in years it has occurred to me that i could, theoretically, write emelan fanfiction if i wanted to. like. i could just do that. i might start making a powerpoint about why keladry of mindelan is best character of all time. it is sunny out and i am going to take my kindle to the park and reread terrier.

[artist-ellen]

What do you think of genderbending?

It’s great fun? But I’m not sure the context you mean. In fanfiction? In stories in general? In manga/anime? In headcanons? Generally I’m a fan. I read a lot of Tamora Pierce growing up, had a genderbending manga phase and still occasionally indulge in the fanfiction. There are some really fun ASOIAF genderbent AUs out there if that’s what your asking. But I probably wouldn’t draw them without a commission because my list of things to draw is already wildly out of control.

[isnt-it-pretty]

Fandom: Tortall, Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness

Rating: Teen+

Catagory: Gen

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Categories: Gen, M/M, F/M

Relationships: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Thom of Trebond, Alexander of Tirragen & Alanna of Trebond, Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & George Cooper, Alexander of Tirragen & George Cooper, Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Baird of Queenscove

Characters: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau, Thom of Trebond, Alexander of Tirragen, George Cooper (Tortall), Gary of Naxen, Baird of Queenscove, Jonathan of Conté, Additional Song of the Lioness Characters, Roger of Conté

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Blind Character (not actually she's just visually impaired but ao3 doesn't have a tag for that), visually impaired author, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Past Child Abuse, Child Neglect (Alanna and Thom have Feelings over their father), Emotional Manipulation (via Roger), general warning for Roger of Conté being Roger of Conté

Summary:

Legends say that to have purple eyes means one is touched by the gods. To Alanna and Thom, all it means is that their eyesight has never been as good as it should be.

Unfortunately, both are true.

(AU where the twins are visually impaired.)

Here it is! The first (and second) chapter of my NaNoWriMo piece; the fic that's been bouncing around in my head for years.

[elephant-in-the-pride-parade]

20 Fic Writer Quesions

First, thank you @singeart and @mytardisisparked for tagging me!. I did a set of these last year and it was fun to see how my answers have changed since then!

How many works do you have on Ao3?

61

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?

1.6 million and counting!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Star Trek Voyager

Star Trek Prodigy

Sailor Moon

Harry Potter

Madam Secretary

Ive debated writing SwanQueen for a long time but by the time I had the energy and time to write, I'd lost interest in the show. I might rewatch and come back to it one day...

I have thought about writing Wynonna Earp or Tamora Pierce universe fanfiction but have yet to get an idea that grabs me. I like to find things i want to fix and it's hard when the source material is perfection.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

The Parent Trap (305)

Sailor Moon H Order of the Phoenix (289)

Sailor Moon H Half Blood Prince (222)

Eden's Deception (167)

Out of Reach (150)

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to! although if I'm busy or feeling down it can take me a while. Sometimes I forget.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I still think What Even is 3 Minutes takes the cake. Or I'll be Your First if You'll be my Last

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

I Heard the Comm on Christmas Morn and Parent Trap

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Unfortunately I've gotten hate on fics since I started writing them... and it's become just something I expect to happen. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it confuses me. Sometimes it makes me sad. It really depends...

The memorable haters:

There was the delightful Fanfiction.net reviewer who got pissed i was "making everybody gay" (that was funny actually). I forget if they were the same person who flamed me when Mcgonagall and Hooch kissed under some mistletoe. I digress. They thought queering up the canon was like sinful or whatever. I was delighted to disagree and make the story even queerer.

Another person cussed me out for magically restraining Sailor Plutos time travel powers so my plot would work and for making her have feelings about it. aparently mad the senshi were not all powerful deus exmachinas who never feel feelings... That one stung. That was the reason I left FFN.

Hate because in Sailor Moon H, Harry Potter was not the main character.

Hate that I made a magic bio baby for the magical lesbians. (I can't have a biobaby with my wife irl, can't I at least let the fantasy girlies have one!)

Hate for including C/7 in a story

...I wouldn't call it hate for the fic but I have had an uncomfortable amount of commenters who hate on Chakotay any time I have him involved with Seven / don't have him grovel to Kathryn / really any time I let him advocate for how he's been hurt... at first comments like this stressed me out because i worried i had not written the character sufficiently sympathetic. But then Parent Trap breached containment and I got enough comments to be able to see I had definitely written the character fine... it was just that some people were always just rooting for a "Chakotay falls over himself to apologize to Janeway for not immediately dating her" storyline that... I'm not sorry 😅 I'm never going to write that. The older I get the more I feel like both of J/C just need therapy! They've been through so much trauma. Their feelings are valid (yes, even for other people).

Parent Trap breaching containment also meant that when I hit an irl rut and couldnt get in the writing headspace for a bit, a bunch of - sincerely, well meaning - fans got into their heads to start a commenting campaign to get me to update. I heard about it and panicked (i had bad experiences that year of getting people who only commented "update soon" and those conversely stressed me out and made me not want to write - I love fic writing for the conversations and community... so it made me feel like readers thought i was just a content vending machine). so just the thought of potentially getting an avalanche of guests, well meaning or not, begging me to update made me lock commenting until the fic was done. I wound up deciding after that that since "update soon" requests were becoming a lot more frequent that I'd consider before posting whether getting them would hurt my ability to finish. So most of the time now if I know a fic is going to reach a bigger potential community, I don't start posting it until it's almost done. That has had some upsides! (Im less dependent on positive feedback for motivation now!) and some downsides (no one comments on my fics with their theories anymore) but on a whole, a good decision.

Immediately after finishing Parent Trap I wrote Fever and got this amazing guest comment from someone who said (paraphrasing cuz i'm too busy to go find it) "Youre better than this. how dare you write this filth. J/C are better than this" that one had me laughing for days. But the comment did prompt me to create a second account later when I wrote a tentacle fic. At the time I worried i'd get a ton of similar flame comments from people who were subscribed to my main for other types of fic... but I am even feeling like that's unnecessary now. I write what I write! Yes, some of it is really dirty, weird smut. I'm not sorry.

Currently any time I post a Threshold AU fic an anon drops into my comments section in order to call me "Sick" and "Deranged"... they make me so sad I don't even make a quippy reply. I just delete them. I write that universe for my own wish fulfillment... Someday (soon, hopefully) I'm gonna have kids. And I am going to have to have conversations with them about who their biological dad is. Why they look like one mom and not the other, whether their non bio family love them even if theyre not blood related. I might have a kid who feels different from everyone else because they're queer or they're neurodivergent or they're some new alienating feeling I am totally unprepared for. and I'll need to help them navigate that.. Writing about hybrid salamander kids getting raised in a blended family is FUN. But more importantly... it helps me practice those situations. It comforts me to know that if the characters can figure this out in the AU then I can figure this out in real life! What the hell is sick and deranged about that!?

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I write all sorts of smut. I post the stuff that doesn't totally mortify me once i've gotten out of whatever mood had me writing the smut in the first place.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I have exactly two crossovers to my name: Sailor Delta and Sailor Moon H. I think on the basis of word count alone Sailor Moon H (>500,000) is definitely the craziest.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I consider the unlicensed use of the AO3 archive for ChatGPT and similar LLMs theft. (and there are several court cases pending that are also seeking to address whether it is legally theft as it pertains to published fiction and newspapers). The canon creators of the fandoms I write for aren't allowed to make money by using uncredited ideas pulled from my fanfiction (just like I am not allowed to make money from writing fic with their copyrighted settings and characters) and i continue to be apalled that ChatGPT and other LLMs think they can get away with using others copyrighted ideas without permission. Especially that they can take advantage of people who cant profit off their own work.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? 

No but i would be open to it!

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

Yes! Once with @magdalenejaneway, once with @jellybeansarecool and once with @trekflower and all three were fantastic!

Most of what I write for Threshold AU is also increasingly collaborated on a great deal by the AU creators and a few other folks. It's been going for over 2 years now and doing that more and more has enabled us all to drop more references to previous fics and to create a more cohesive body of fic for the AU. in general its just been so fun and fulfilling to make these stories with other people who are as invested in the characters as me and it just fills me with joy. I'm really grateful for you guys.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

On the one hand J/C have inspired over 50 fics, But on the other I have also been loving Sailor Moon and those ships since before I knew what fandom or shipping were. And really the only reason J/C inspire more fic is that all the sailor moon characters got a happy ending.

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

I never want to give up on a WIP...

but I am in knots about what all to do with Out of Reach.

Out of Reach is a St:Prodigy S1 AU where Chakotay has amnesia and doesn't remember anything from his time on Voyager, all the while he and Kathryn are in a situationship with a baby.

There's two questions I never figured out how to answer: 1. Does he get his memories back. If so, how much and what enables it. and 2: Do he and Kathryn stay together?

On the memories front. saying he never recovers seems unfair to the character. But saying he magically does thanks to 24th century science feels cheap and disrespectful - to the reality of real memory loss and to the plot that built up so much tension around this. Saying he gets back some or more over time is more realistic, but left me uncertain of where exactly to end the story. Tying his retrieval of memories to Kathryn also tied me up in knots. On the one hand they're in love and thats romantic. on the other hand the optics of his recovery totally dependent on one person is icky.

I also found the baby really annoying to have there by the end - I still think he's cuteeee i really do!!! - it's just... he makes the "we should stay together and try to figure this out" answer a bit too convenient 😅. and he complicates Kathryns reluctance to restart their relationship. The more she resists, the more callous she seems (deliberately not trying to patch things up with her kid's father) when i really just want to focus on her fears that Chakotay would be happier without her and that even if they restart their romance, she might lose him again on a future mission. It's ironic because i originally created the baby to ensure she wouldnt just run away from her fears. And now hes contributing to my difficulty ending the fic...

Actually the more I think on it, my real problem is I could write my way out of this, but I cant do it in only one or two chapters and that makes me feel tired. i was sorta hoping to wrap that fic up. 😅🙈

16. What are your writing strengths?

Imagery has always been a strength for me. But i think I'm also getting really good at action scenes too.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Oneshots.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Only if it was information i wanted the reader to understand but not the POV character.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

W.I.T.C.H way back when I was 15.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

Universe to Mend - I even have a few sequel or companion novel ideas to come after it.

This has gone on a while... 😅 - thank you for tagging me and letting me ramble! i'll tag anyone else who wants to answer! have at it.

[lemonsharks]

About me

Heyyyooo

Adult, she/her, queer, excited to befriend other adults over shared interests! PM me if you're local! I'd love to hang out! (I like museums. And tacos.)

Anyone can interact, use your best judgment. I block with impunity.

I try to tag stuff according to my conscience and better judgement.

I live in Chicago with my best friend, our three cats, and my rosy boa who I swear thinks she us is a boa constrictor.

Fandoms:

Lockwood & Co, Stardew Valley, Star Trek, Dragon Age, Tortall (Tamora Pierce), Flight Rising

Interests:

Nature, history, reptiles, amphibians, sharks, cats, phylogenetics, neat plants, neat rocks, fandoms, history, archaeology, art, true crime, my current hyperfixations

Hobbies:

Bookbinding, sewing, collecting craft supplies, sometimes making stuff with the craft supplies, writing/reading books and fanfiction, digital painting, pixel art, watching shows & youtube, cooking, baking, travelling, (I go to see people, not places), beachcombing, herping & tidepooling (no touchy), photography.

Aspiring to hiking and backpacking.

Someday I will foster kittens again. I love doing that.

[sasusc]

9 people you’d like to know better

Tagged by @1lostsoul0fishbowl

1. Three ships: Bethyl...I've been stuck in Bethyl hell since I decided to finally watch The Walking Dead about 2 years ago...has it really been that long? Sam and Jack from Stargate SG-1...a ship so old, there weren't cute name combinations out there when I started. Now sure what it might be called now. Old school shipping used initials...SJ. Shenny! I love Sheldon and Penny together. The writers did Sheldon and Penny as well wrong and their canon ships also reflects bad characterizations.

2. First Ship Ever: I have to go with Serena and Darien...probably the first fanfictions I read and tried to write were about my favorite superhero duo. I had to mentally change their names to the 90's USA dubbed version when authors wrote Bunny/Usagi and Mamoru. I was young, but now I only switch out the usage of Bunny as her name.

3. Last Song: One Man Band by Old Dominion thanks to @olpie who pointed out this song is perfect for Bethyl

4. Last Film: Godzilla vs Kong...my 5 year old daughter loves Godzilla movies.

5. Currently Reading: I have a ton of Bethyl fics opened. Soooo many tabs on my phone opened.

6. Currently Watching: technically my daughter as one of the many Ryan and Friends videos on, but I'm binging Shameless (just got to S5). As well as Stargate SG-1 and The Walking Dead for writing purposes...helps keep me in character for writing and giving me ideas.

8. Currently Craving: cheese quesadilla with salsa...it's almost dinner time and that's what I plan to eat.

7. Currently Consuming: cough drops...just getting over a nasty sore throat/coughing fit.

9. Favorite Childhood Book: The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce

Absolutely no pressure with these tags (but if you do play, please make a new post instead of reblogging this one!!!)

@olpie @whovianlili @mulderscully @mizjoely @rckyfrk @paleshelter29 @paledarklight @madpatti @galadrieljones

[leafcabbage]

K,R,T?

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

oh man thats hard. i have upwards of 50 AUs and all have various angst thats pretty rough... ill focus on DRDI since thats what i have shared. i think some of the what-ifs for if ranboo hadn't had the bathroom breakdown and gone into winter break alone are pretty angsty. just downright tragic really. also, tommy and tubbo's backstory with being best friends and in love and all and then having to basically not speak for years. thats rough thats really sad. makes me nauseous if i think too hard on it

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

for sure! my first internet friend on fanfiction dot net was definitely an influence on how i wrote, i looked up to her SO much. not gonna name drop bc i dont think she write fic anymore but she was great. as for non-fic writers - suzanne collins (with gregor more than thg), tamora pierce, shaun david hutchinson, patricia c wrede, angie sage... all authors i read a lot of when i was younger and definitely had their impact on my writing. some i read back and can fully place where i got certain habits from.

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

hmmm.... i feel like a lot of fandoms fall into making only one character in a dynamic allowed to be hurt. like everyone can have problems all at once its okay lol we dont need one sad boy all the time. feeds into the dynamic of like strong character/uwu soft character who needs protected. also not a fan of last minute confessions (before weddings and all) and one sided pining. sick of one sided pining. just stop having the feelings. i have really low empathy

thank you for the ask!!!