#and am currently working on a purgatory fic

[loadinghellsing]

The Bird of Hermes // The Monster of God

The shrike is a song bird known for impaling it's prey upon the thorns of branches.

(if this isn't Andercard I don't know what is)

[renlyslittlerose]

Started and finished the Moonlight Serenade oneshot for @intermundia today. Felt so good to delve back into the universe for a little while. While the fic is not ready for posting, here's a little excerpt from what I am currently calling 'Pay Attention to the Cat' (this is not the actual title).

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Teasing his bottom lip between his teeth, he watched as Obi-Wan finally took his sunglasses off and placed them carefully on to the coffee table - the table that Anakin realized he’d narrowly avoided landing on when Obi-Wan tackled him.

Small relief, he supposed, that he wouldn’t have to go to the hospital with a broken clavicle.

“You couldn’t have just waited until I was done, hm?” Obi-Wan said as he began undoing the buttons on his shirt, hands steady as he went to work. Shedding the wet material, he tossed it down on to the floor next to Anakin before taking of his undershirt, the material just as wet as the rest of him.

“It’s Sunday,” Anakin said, waiting for Obi-Wan to help him with his shirt. He could do it himself, but he liked it when Obi-Wan undressed him. “Sundays are our days off.”

“And this Sunday just so happens to be the day that we’ve finally seen some sunlight.” Despite his grousing he started on Anakin’s shirt, hands quick across the front before he helped Anakin take it off completely. “What would you have me do? Ignore the dandelions until they completely consume the garden and the house, relegating us to a purgatory in which we are perpetually weeding?”

Anakin sat up slightly and shrugged off his shirt. “Sure, why not?”

“And you do realize that in this world of perpetual weeding, there would be no time at all for sex?”

“Sure,” Anakin said. Before Obi-Wan could continue his diatribe about weeding purgatory, Anakin leaned forward and sucked on one of Obi-Wan’s nipples, flicking his tongue along the sensitive nub.

Obi-Wan groaned and cupped the back of Anakin’s head, pushing into Anakin’s hungry mouth. Obi-Wan’s skin tasted of salt, droplets of sweat caught up in the dense matting of hair across his chest and pecks. He flicked his tongue a few more times across the pink nub, loving how sensitive Obi-Wan was to the simple touch, before he kissed across and gave Obi-Wan’s other nipple the same treatment. All the while Obi-Wan continued to pet him, sending little waves of pleasure down his spine to pool in his gut.

Lifting his head slightly, he looked up at Obi-Wan and waited patiently for his reward.

Obi-Wan gave it to him in short order, ducking down to capture his lips in a deep kiss. Groaning as their tongues rubbed together, Anakin relaxed into the embrace, hugging Obi-Wan close as Obi-Wan grabbed the meat at the underside of his thighs and hefted him up on to his lap. The feel of Obi-Wan’s cock - hard and thick and still so intimidating - pressed up against him made Anakin pant into their kiss, his hips twitching as they rutted on the living room floor. Obi-Wan was making his own softer sounds as he shared breath with Anakin, his grip along Anakin’s hip and the side of his neck both reassuring and maddening.

“You’re still a brat,” Obi-Wan said when they broke their kiss, his lips already finding purchase along Anakin’s neck.

“And you still love me.”

Tilting his head to the side, he squeezed his eyes shut and sighed with pleasure as Obi-Wan sucked a mark along the juncture where his neck met his shoulder. He could cover these marks when he had to go back out into the real world, but always memorized where they were so he could press into them throughout the workday - a reminder of Obi-Wan that got him through the day.

[kittlesandbugs]

Fanfic Writer Questions

Tagged by @sidestepping & @askweisswolf, ty for thinking of me!!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 62, but if you unstack the one shot compilations... 138ish? if I can math right.

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 119,010, and the bulk is FHR lol

3. What fandoms do you write for? Currently Baldur's Gate 3 and Fallen Hero, previously TWC, Dragon Age, Mass Effect/Andromeda, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Gonna cheat a little and do one per fandom because this is heavily slated towards Mass Effect Andromeda just from age lol

Sleep it off - Mass Effect, Shepard/Aria T'Loak, Shep gets drunk at Purgatory and Aria babysits her

Little steps to the side - FHR, Chargestep/Argentstep/Chargentstep, currently 55? little one-shot fics, usually prompts, sometimes tiny ideas I get in my own head

Space snippets - Mass Effect Andromeda, Jaal/Ryder, a few prompt one-shots that picked up big steam when it finally went Explicit lol.

Bottles of Thedas - Dragon Age Inquisition, Solavellan, 20 short one-shots inspired by the collection of booze you can pick up off the ground throughout the game (minus the Warden mixes)

Business and Pleasure - Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2, Exile/Luxa, a re-write/better ending for Luxa gift fic for an exchange

5. Do you respond to comments? I am absolutely terrible at responding to comments because I see them in my inbox and I'm like oh yeah I'll reply to that later when I have time and then.... six months go by... the shame happens... I love every comment I get and I am so sorry alkdsfjoajsdfl

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Ehhhhhhhhhh most of my fics are in-between things, not really stand-alones on their own. Probably the one I milked the hardest for the ending of it specifically is Words not spoken (FHR, Chargestep, Ortega visits Riley's apartment post-Heartbreak)

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Again.... in-between things... the Mass Effect Andromeda and TWC fics are largely feel good fluff, so most of them?

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not that I'm aware of, lol

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Typically fluffy and/or hurt/comfort character exploration, although sometimes I feel a need to go for a whump

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I haven't written a crossover since I was 13. I'm 37 now. I don't remember. It was pre-AO3 time for sure. XD

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I'm aware of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Not that I'm aware of.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? No, but I've written fanfics to fanfics by @ellstersmash and @sidestepping because they're both so talented and I Felt The Compulsion

14. What's your all time favorite ship? Whatever I'm currently writing for, in this case... any combo of Chargentstep aaaaaaaaaaand Durgetash lol

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Me, staring at my endless folder of WIPs, some of which having not been touched in five years

16. What are your writing strengths? Character explorations, snappy dialogue, short and sweet and punchy

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Writing long-haul, we're here for a good time, not a long time

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? Love it when other people do it! Very rarely do it myself!

19. First fandom you wrote for? Megaman X back in.................. 2000-ish? Very bad self-insert script fic lol

20. Favorite fic you've written? I think Time doesn't heal (FHR, Chargestep, all the Rangers and Riley experiencing the 3rd Heartbreak anniversary) is one of my biggest brain moments for writing fic, but Bottles of Thedas (mentioned above) has a special place in my heart for being the first and perhaps only large project I've finished.

Gonna taaaaaaaaaaaag... @astarien, @the-rebel-archivist, @gingerbreton, @rab-bitly, @catastrofriend

[gentrychild]

Hi! I'm not exactly a fan of BNHA and most of my knowledge about it came from fics and your blog. Curiosity about Bakugo's "death" led me to read the last 3 chapters, and the newest one confused me. I'm hoping you could shed some light on it?

Why is it important to the heroes that Bakugo lives? To the point an older, more experienced hero is prepared to sacrifice himself to revive Bakugo? Does he have some kind of secret weapon the heroes can use? What makes him /that/ important and vital to the current crisis?

Thanks for the help. I hope you have a fabulous day! (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡

I think you already know the answer to your question.

More seriously, I have waited quite a while before answering this ask because I wanted to see what the next chapters would deliver and also so I was sure not to be instantly proven wrong after unleashing a vast quantity of salt. But I don't want to wait longer so here are the usual warnings: this is going to be a salt post, this is my opinion and not some absolute truth, and I accept the risk of being disproved.

Bakugou's death and everything that happened afterwards was pointless and cheap.

I personally found Bakugou's "death" very underwhelming because, especially for such a popular character, there are far better ways to bring one incredible death scene. The manga tried to show us that he went Plus Ultra and how much he had changed but the way it was brought made it underwhelming. His death could have brought more damage to Shigaraki. Or, one could have gone in the opposite direction and shown that yes, he didn't stand a chance against ShigarAFO but put more emotion into it to show that he fought for every additional second. Or he could have "died" protecting someone, which would nicely tie-in with his character arc of learning to be a hero who saves people.

Instead, the result was lukewarm. And the fact that pretty much everyone knows he isn't really dead doesn't bother me. But the last chapters did, especially when Bakugou already got seemingly killed by ShigarAFO during the war arc (and got away with only a couple of cool scars).

But what was a "Ah! That happened! Pretty cool quirk application moment and I like the change we see in Bakugou once he is waiting in purgatory with Flame Might!" moment because a clusterfuck of epic proportion with what is done to try to bring Bakugou back.

The asspulls of all asspulls. The most "WTF" moment of the entire manga and I am saying that while fully aware that Mirio twerked in front of Shigaraki one chapter later.

Edgeshot decides to kill himself on the off chance of bringing Bakugou back to life. He intends to fold himself à la Plus Ultra to become Bakugou's new heart, performing one of the most WTF open-heart surgeries ever on the middle of the battlefield while ShigarAFO is stomping on the remaining members of the Dream team.

How does he know how to do that? Is that how one of his parents die? Why is he doing that? Because his generation failed Bakugou's so he must atone and as an adult, he must save the kid.

The sheer troll logic one must attain to decide something like that is beyond my comprehension.

Edgeshot isn't dying at the time. It's not a "At least, my death might save him" moment. No, this is a top hero, who decided that he had to die to save one kid while the Big Three are fighting for their lives. In the time it took him to pull that not-so-life-saving procedure, Miruko has now lost all of her limbs, now channeling the Dark Knight of Monthy Python but hey, at least, she is certainly doing a better job than Edgeshot at trying to stop Shigaraki from killing them all and destroying UA, which is, in case I need to remind someone, FULL OF PEOPLE WORKING TO KEEP THAT THING IN THE AIR.

To answer your question, not only was "saving" (because, again, Edgeshot doesn't even know if it will work) Bakugou detrimental to the whole operation because they sacrificed a top hero during a situation where all hands on deck were required but it might have been for absolutely nothing.

Even if Bakugou, now part jeans and part ninja, starts breathing again, no one sane of mind would expect to get back to his feet and to fight again. 

Now, I will hazard a guess as to why this so-called death was necessary. I could be wrong. But I feel that this was a desperate attempt for Bakugou’s character to have an excuse not to do anything while Izuku is fighting Shigaraki.

Because there has been kind of an elephant in the room for several arcs now.

The manga doesn’t want to outright say that by now, Izuku is stronger than Bakugou. Not just stronger, as in “in a fight, Deku would win”. I am talking about Izuku being in a league on his own by now.

Because here is the thing: you have Bakugou who is a really popular character, who rose to the rank of deuteragonist, and who is defined by two things: he never stops fighting and he never loses. And now that he is fighting the big bad (well, one of them), it’s a problem because if Bakugou wins, that means the entire hero society is incompetent, so is the villain (since he got beaten by a first year) and the MC and OFA is useless. But if he loses or just shown not to be able to keep up with ShigarAFO and Deku and has to stay on the sideline, it’s almost out of character for him because one of the things he keeps repeating to Izuku is “Don’t try to do things alone.” (The Jakku battle and the solo arc, in case you’re wondering.)

I disgress but that’s another thing the solo arc could have been useful for. Really setting up the fact that Izuku can fight with Shigaraki on his own and that he was now in a different power category than his classmates. Instead, we got the “This is the story of how we all become heroes” and the plot must now bend over backwards to justify it.

Also, there is a 75% chance that Bakugou wakes up at some point, with Edgeshot’s quirk, and helps finish ShigarAFO.

So, to answer your question, no, there was no reason for Edgeshot to kill himself over the possibility of reviving Bakugou. Bakugou and Edgeshot had no prior interaction that could justify this. And if Izuku arrived ten seconds later, this sacrifice would have been for nothing.

[starry-eyed-extraterrestrial]

Alrighty Mötley WIPs that are currently in the works/that I just love. I'll give you guys a top ten. Warning poly!Crue and Crue! slash under the cut.

1. Eternally- if you've been on my Tumblr and checked out literally any of my fic stuff you'll know what eternally is all about but if you don't it's an afterlife AU for Mötley crüe where the boys are all banished to purgatory on a creepy demon infested farmhouse where they have to take care of the creatures and crops living there while also trying to figure out how to deal with having four guys in the house and one bathroom. Poly!Crue, this one will get pretty serious and there will be alot of explicit content mentioned. This is also currently in development hell, as I am unsatisfied with literally every draft I do of it. (14% finished)

2.Balancing act- A TommyMick/ MarLee story where Tommy tries to get Mick into meditation, thinking that it might help Mick with his back problems, but all it does is make Mick really good at seeking glances at Tommy while pretending his eyes are closed when Tommy is doing some chacra healing stuff on him. 2006-ish/red, white and crue era. (Haven't started this one yet so 0%)

3.Detective Mars - AU fic. Mick is a hardened La detective with a back injury that sends him into early retirement. He has one final case to solve before that though and it just so happens to be a missing persons case where the victim just poofed out of existence one night or so his bandmates claim. Mick doesn't really believe them however and decides to go undercover as a normal guitar player looking for a band so that he could scope out whether they'd commited the crime or not. The case quickly unravels in a much different way when a strange connection from his past, is somehow linked to this La club band and now his mission is to protect them at all costs, without them figuring out his identity.(20% finished) (Also poly!Crue but very subtle)

4.Don't have a title for this one but(I take suggestions), the ADHD Tommy/ autistic mick fic- Over the years Nikki has gotten used to the quirks of his bandmates, but it's only when he has a particularly heated conversation with his therapist that he starts to take a closer look at their daily actions and suddenly....years of differences start to make sense. So he decided to journal his findings. (0%)

5. Mötley omegaverse fic- yeah I'm not gonna electorate. (2%)

6. Spank bank- Nsft warning, pure smut, poly!crue fic it's literally about the guys... pleasing themselves in the same room and secretly stealing glances. (Sorry, I'm a degenerate) (6%)

7. Whitehorse- Mick Whitehorse era fic, basically what Mick's dinamic was like in that band and what the guys treated him like and his general journey to becoming Mick Mars and all the growing pains in between. (Also there's a story that they tell about all the guys having to sleep in the van one night and all of them could just, not stop farting and I am a child so I think that's hilarious and I wanna write it) (0%)

8. Always my fist choice- Tommy proposed to Mick the day they met and then every single night afterwards, as a joke obviously never truely, he was just messing around. But if asking Mick to marry him everyday meant that he'd one day say yes then he wasn't going to deny them a wedding now was he? This one is gonna be angsty, right off the bat it takes a pretty realistic approach and it has alot more plot then this but I'm to tired to get into it rn. TommyMick/ Marlee

9. Be my daddy- based on the Lana Del Rey song of the same name this is pure Nikkimick smut ft. Nikki's daddy issues. Pretty self-explanatory. (10% finished)

10. Don't have a title for this one but Mick generation swine era angst. I don't wanna give too much away but there's a scene where Mick cries infront of them for the first time.

[zuppizup]

Hiiii I just finished the first two chapters of Fuel the Pyre! I'm super excited for it, it's very well done!

I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions about your writing process. How do you outline? What kinds of things need to be in an outline in order for you to visualize the story? Do you outline the entire story, one chapter, or just one scene at a time?

Thank you for your time!

Hello! Thanks so much for your kind words! I’m so happy you’re liking the fic so far.

This is a super fun ask. Not sure how coherent or helpful my response will be, but I’ll give it a try. 😆

So, stories like Purgatory, Fuel the Pyre or my WIP dark magic AU, always start out as a bunch of questions.

What if Ezran hadn’t interrupted Callum and Rayla in Viren’s study…

Could a human/elf halfling do primal magic? Can all of them or just a few? What would control that?

What would the world be like if dark magic actually was controlled and regulated.

I usually don’t start out planning a fic when I ponder questions like this, it’s usually just my mind wandering. For me, while I love big, wonderful, imaginative worlds (like the world of The Dragon Prince) what I’m really more interested in is how these things affect individuals. I actually tend to visualise the story before I outline. In fact, I often visualise far beyond where I think I’ll finish the story. (I say where I think I’ll finish because both my current long fics are now firmly in the “after the end of the planned fic” territory)

So, in Fuel the Pyre, for example, I imagine there’s a lot of unknowns for the people involved. Halflings would be pretty new on the scene, all things considered, so the characters themselves wouldn’t have the answer to these questions, which felt like a great excuse to add tension and drama.

Once an idea has got me and I can imagine how that conflict is going to affect the characters, the general outline tends to sort of write itself. I am a planner, so I by the time I start putting pen to paper (so to speak), I’ll usually have a beginning, a rough middle and an end. There will be plot points, tangents, twists and sometimes side stories that I haven’t figured out, but I’ll have a plan for the general flow of the story.

From there, I’ll come up with a pretty messy draft. So, I just sort of go wild in a document. Usually, when I’ve decided I want to write a longer fic, it’s because certain scenes just play on repeat in my head, so I’ll indulge myself and write those out. Then I’ll go back and make rough chapter/arc notes, which usually leads into some other fun scenes I get inspired to write, and slowly, piece by piece, I sort of string the fic together like that.

I used to outline more linearly, starting at the first chapter and working from there, but I found I’d get stuck on transition scenes (the bane of my writing life) and then avoid the fic. (If I put my fingers in my ears and sing very loudly, the transition scene can’t hurt me). I find letting myself write the scenes I’m excited for makes me much more productive. They usually give me ideas for other fun (I use the term loosely, I generally mean “angsty”) scenes and I essentially build my story like that. I do like adding foreshadowing and twists, which is made a lot easier by writing like this too.

In Purgatory, for example, I tried to drop a lot of subtle hints about Callum and his slowly building arcanum connection. It’s so fun when people pick up on that stuff, but I also don’t want it to look like I just pulled a twist or a revelation out of my rear. Nowadays, I do prefer to write the bulk of a story before posting, which this method obviously works better for.

Often, when I start a fic, the beginning and the ending are the most defined parts of the story and the middle is the area that requires the most work, but by stringing the various elements together, I sort of “discover” new conflicts and fun elements to explore, which (hopefully) makes for a richer, more entertaining story.

So, not sure if that was what you’re looking for, but if you could describe the stream of consciousness that is how I write, a process, this is mine. 😅

[novorehere]

Hey all! Just wanted to give everyone a bit of a content update.

I apologize for the lack of content for the past… year. I’ve been working through some stuff, and it’s been hard for me to find the motivation or inspiration to write. It comes in short bursts, meaning I’ve been (very) slowly chipping away at multiple projects at once. I just thought I’d update everyone on how things are going and make a list (partly for myself) of what I have in the works, what still needs to be done, and what you can expect from me in the future. Admittedly these are mostly obey me fics but I DO have other things tumbling about in my brain, I promise.

Opposite Day: 2/5 chapters finished, the rest 100% planned and around 30-40% written.

I’ve been sitting on an unfinished chapter 3 for almost a year now, and have written good portions of the other chapters in the meantime. This is the project I’m most excited to finish, and I feel bad for abandoning it for so long. Rest assured, I *am* still working on it, and am extremely happy it’s been so well received.

Untitled Simeon Comfort Fic: 75% finished.

Originally I wanted this written for his birthday (which was in February lmao) but as you can see that did not happen. I’ve got the beginning and end all written out, I sort of went off the script at the end with fun purgatory hall family fluff so the only thing I don’t have written is… actually the eating part. This will probably be the first fic I actually post, seeing as it’s the closest to completion.

“A series of Obey Me Vore Headcanons” Re-Write (Title Very WIP) 2.5/7 chapters re-written

This one I don’t think I’ve mentioned on here yet. I’ve grown increasingly unsatisfied with my original obey me headcanons list that I posted last year when I first got into the fandom. A. Because I hadn’t gotten very far into the story when I wrote it and didn’t get the full scope of the characters yet and B. (Most importantly) I feel like I really didn’t do the characters justice.

Since I originally posted it, there’s been a healthy amount of discussion on depth and nuance in vore media and reducing characters to tropes, etc. I’d like to re-write this series to focus less on physical aspects and “how they eat you” but rather more of an emotional and story driven story of why they eat you and their emotions and struggles that come with it. The obey me brothers are incredibly interesting characters, and I’d like to explore them in more depth and show you how interesting they can really be and why I love them so much.

This one might take a while to complete, but it’s gonna happen at some point. I‘ll keep up the original half-finished version in the meantime since I don’t want to delete it and ao3 doesn’t allow privating fics without orphaning them. I know it’s ugly in it’s current state, just know I’m working on it and the rest of those chapters will be overhauled eventually.

“Miss Em”: 80% written (kind of)

I’ve had this one sitting in my drafts for a while now. Originally I had plans to start another multi-chapter series but then Opposite Day sort of went to shit so I scrapped it knowing it was way too ambitious. But now I still have a mostly written Mammon fic in my notes app just sitting there and it would be a shame to just…leave it. I’m not sure what I’m gonna do with this one, Maybe I’ll write the Beel companion piece to it that I had planned and just leave it as a 2-parter. Who knows. It’s really cute, and I want to share it at some point.

Untitled Obey Me mini-drabbles: 60% written

Honestly this wasn’t supposed to be a whole thing. I started randomly writing one day on a burst of inspiration and it turned into little mini “scenario slices” for all the characters and I really like how it turned out. I still need to write for two of the characters and polish up some others, but it’s a fun low-stress thing to work on in between projects. Also excited to share it possibly soon since they’re fairly short and shouldn’t take long to finish (but you know me…)

An unspecified ITWOM fanfic: 0% written, 50% planned

For those who aren’t familiar, “In the World of Monsters” is an amazing novel authored by @vore-toast that just recently received a fantastic ending and epilogue (Please read it! It’s fantastic!) And I really would like to write a little something for it to show my appreciation. I have an idea planned out, but details would involve spoilers so I can’t say much. I’d need to ask for guidance on what exactly to include since the things I would like to write about haven’t exactly *happened yet* but I’ve said too much already… hee hee. I don’t know when this fic is gonna happen, but I swear to you it will. And if my original idea doesn’t work out, it’ll be something. I WILL be writing for this series, mark my words.

Heroes Off-Duty. 0% written, ??% planned

Huh? That’s weird... That one’s not supposed to be there. Ah well, It’s not relevant anyway. Carry on.

[jo-harrington]

20 Questions for Fic Writers Game

Thank you for the tags @the-unforgivenn @wroteclassicaly @onegirlmanytales @word-wytch

It's always fun to learn more about friends through these games.

1) How many works do you have on A03? - 10, technically.

2) What's your total AO3 word count? - 206k

3) What fandoms do you write for? - Currently Stranger Things. I used to write for The Vampire Diaries. I have a lot of half-abandoned never published fics for a bevy of fandoms though.

4) What are your top five fics by kudos? - The Store Manager Verse, Freaky Friday, Heaven, Hymns, Hell

5) Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? - Uhm...AO3 is pretty new to me...so I haven't responded to them on there yet really. On Tumblr I try to respond/reblog most comments. Lately I've fallen off the wagon, see my earlier post about my brain being broken.

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? - I would say As Above, So Below is pretty angsty as a whole. All 3 prequels- Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.

7) What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? - As of now, Freaky Friday because it's the only fic that has an ending, truly.

8) Do you get hate on fics? No.

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kinds? - Yes, I'm very poetic with it. I'm not writing smut for the sake of smut. There are writers on here that do it very well. Smut as a plot device, smut for symbolism...that's me. We're about to get into 3 smut-heavy chapters of AASB and sorry but every time someone cums, it's going to have a lot of meaning behind it. Earth shattering orgasms can also potentially shatter the earth here.

10) Do you write crossovers? - Yes, a long time ago a friend and I tried to flesh out Auror Ron Swanson (Parks and Rec/HP). It never went anywhere.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen? - Not that I’m aware of.

12) Have you ever had a fic translated? - Again, not that I'm aware of.

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before? - See #10. I am also currently (i.e. have been since 2017) co-writing a original story with an IRL friend. It's a passion project kind of situation/escapism. We don't get together very much and she is very much the type to want to rewrite every scene 4 times and that's not my thing.

14) What's your all time favorite ship? - It’s a tie between Steddie and Ronance.

15) What's a WIP that you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? - My Vampire Diaries Fic that sits at 500k in a Word Document somewhere and no longer exists online. I even made a TikTok about it once upon a time. FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS.

16) What are your writing strengths? - I don't know. I'm not too critical of myself in this work. I know when I'm doing something right? How about that. My confidence. It isn't misplaced. When I strike gold and I can really mine that vein and I am always proud of my work when I hit post. (Cut to my friends who are like "really Jo? you asking me about xyz at 3am isn't very confident.")

17) What are your writing weaknesses? - I don't edit anything. Probably more than that. Like I said, I'm not too critical of this work.

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? - Is it integral to the story? Are you using that dialogue to emphasize something in the story? Do you know the language? Do your readers know it? Something something, I could talk about this more in-depth, if you're really interested in my thoughts on it it's gonna have to be on another day. I've used a handful of non-English words in AASB as a whole, but there's a reason for them. Lets just leave it at that.

19) First fandom you wrote for? - YuGiOh.

20) Favorite fic you've written? - As Above, So Below. It's my baby, it means a lot to me. Once it's done, I'm going to be incredibly sad. It doesn't get a lot of love now, and honestly I'm kind of ok with that. Because the love it does get...I know the people who are reading it are aware of all the weight it holds, and they're able to pick up on all of the complexity of it. It isn't fanfiction in the traditional sense, I don't think. Our favorite characters just happen to be in it.

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[chicken-wayng]

I use any pronouns. If you'd like to keep it simple just refer to me as Wayng or You Can Call Me Al. I was born on 11/26/2003 in the U.S. South, which is a purgatory I long to escape from but admire its great beauty. Truly this state is natural and beautiful, it's just that the majority people are horrible and ugly. So this Tumblr account is where I feel I can be my most honest self.

🪻 I identify as an asexual lesbian. Sexually it's hard to determine what I am with so many opinions clashing with simple truth (I am both, neither), but exterior-wise it is all female so sex-wise that's primarily how I identify. Due to my ovotesticular syndrome a lot of unnecessary and sexist debate goes into my sex and/or gender identity. With that being said, that is as far as I will be going into it because it is a touchy subject for me. I am entirely attracted to the female gender though. I love women. They're beautiful.

🪻 I love fantasy, it's my favorite genre. I love everything about it, but really the dresses, mermaids and dragons allure me.

🪻 I love turtles. I believe that we all rest on the back of the Great One. My great nan was from Puerto Rico and she told me a folk story that I swear is the real origin story💯

🪻 I love all shades of purple, growing up The Color Purple was one of my favorite works (book and movie). I truly feel and do believe that whatever higher power is up there gets offended when we don't stop to admire it.

🪻Have I mentioned that I love women💜🩷🧡🤍❤️

🪻 I like to share about my current hyper-fixatations.

I enjoy writing fanfiction and to help sort through my works easier I wanted to make this masterlist.

ChickenScratchCollection

This is my parent collection where I bookmark my favorite works, my own works and collections, and any completed challenges.

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These works are translations to help the original fic writer get their work to more people; ALL CREDITS GO WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

No seriously request anything and if I wanna write it I will

2024 MerMay

2024 Yellowjackets

Bi Bi Buck

*read like Bye, Bye, Bye by NSYNC*

(Smut) Butcher is having a good dream - a really good dream. Except, apparently, it's not a dream at all.

[howl-fantasies]

Plot twist everything that happened in the past fic was a nightmare that yn was having will sleeping with victor in their apartment and victor wakes her up and as she wakes up she shoots up sweating and in tears and victor comforts her back to sleep

Hi dear! Ahaha thank you for your request, I was so sad about Y/N's death, your request is the perfect opportunity for me to offer an alternative end to the story😂

Y/N will be in tears at some point. Maybe not as soon as she woke up since she will be in the middle of processing everything, but she WILL, I swear. 😈

Warning: profanities, it's Gotham guys, Victor Zsasz being Victor Zsasz. English mistakes: i'm sorry about it, I'm working on it! 

Word count: 2.064

Part. 1 : Syfall

LITTLE NIGHTMARES

"I love you."

She felt her hand letting go of the phone, and she heard her arm smashing the ground loudly but felt no pain. She didn’t feel anything anymore. She could only listen.

Listen to the distant voice yelling her name from the speaker of her phone. Then, nothing.

Everything went black. She lost the game.

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A hard slap on the side of her face, then the feeling of freezing water all over her body made her jump out of her skin and let an undignified yell out of her throat.

"Bloody fucking hell!"

Y/N took a painful breath and opened her eyes, closing them immediately when blinding crude lights hurt her eyes. 

As a reflex, she started to trash like a madwoman in hope to blindingly kick some ass while she was searching under her right arm for her gun, it must be in her holster, right?

What was happening?

"Is it how you welcome your rookies here in hell, you fuckers?! I swear I'll exorcise you with my fucking own bare hands you sons of a bitch!"

Profanities, another coping mechanism, if you ask her. But whoever put her in this stupid situation wasn't having it, spraying another shot of freezing water directly on her angry face, cutting her somewhere around “(...)! Suck the barrel of my gun like a big fat cock!”

Perfect, now she was going to die a second time from suffocation. Great. Really great. Purgatory wasn't supposed to be fun, ok she got it, but they could have made a little effort here! Damn Victor was way more imaginative with his torture sessions. What was he waiting to join her et get the job?!

"Sweetness."

Now she was hallucinating. Or were they going to torture her with the voice of her still living lover? Yeah, torture was more like this, it was starting to get better.

"Y/N." Called his tired voice again as the water left her face. She put a shaking hand on it, brushing the liquid away and finally decided to open her eyes again.

White marble. White marble everywhere. And her naked ass currently sat in the black bathtub. Oh. Wait a minute here.

"What the fuck am I doing in the freaking bathtub?!" She asked, still processing everything and starting to feel absolutely ridiculous.

"Well", came Victor's heavy sigh on her right, "I put you here." He said while taking a seat on the white and black chair next to the thub. He looked absolutely exhausted. "Just an hour ago, you started to trash around the bed,”  he explained.

"Then, you suddenly stopped and started to wheeze like a dying old man. Had to call you twice before you served me some nonsense about Gotham being your legacy."

The woman blinked slowly. Oh. So everything was just a dream. A little nightmare made by her sick mind. Ok. Cool. She was still in the game after all. Good. She exhaled loudly, feeling her tensed shoulders slump from relief and letting her back do the same against the cold surface of the thub. "Goodness," she muttered.

Now she was really feeling like an old thing. Too old for all this shit. Everything felt so real, and she remembered it with absolute clarity. The street, the rain, the cold, the pain... her own inner maelstrom of thoughts... Her three last words...

This last piece of memory made her tense all over again, like she was just struck by a train. Did she say more than the "please protect new Gotham, she is my legacy" out loud? Oh please no. It would be terrible.

"Y/N?" Called Victor again. He was concerned. He always was when she  was so lost in her thoughts he had to take drastic measures to bring her back. She always was like this, fortunately not during any of their mission.

But in private... He couldn't remember how many times he had to inflict her pain to ground her and free her from her own complex and sinuous mind. 

If he was honest, he felt sometimes a bit jealous when he saw its capacity to trap his significant other in its twisted depth. Torturing her even better than him, touching her better than he would ever be able to.

Tonight was no exception. It made her a prisoner of one of her own personal  hell. He had jumped out of his own skin when her trashing started, thinking they were under an attack and someone was manhandling her just next to him.

However, it was only one of her many nightmares. He was accustomed to it since they started to live together, they were frequent with Y/N, and him too, they both knew it. He tried to call her, only getting grunts and unintelligible mumbles at first, then catching a few things.

She may have heard him since she directly spoke to him about taking  care of Gotham. Her voice shook him to his core, and as if she definitely wanted to finish him, her last three words tore him apart.

Oh yes, he heard it. Made him freeze like a deer in front of a truck a few meters from it and ready to be strike by it. Four years. Four freaking years, and she never said them. He often wondered how he would react if he ever heard her say it. Terror? Anger? Disbelief? Probably.

Being said while she was awake and in full possession of her manipulative mind, he would have doubt it and make her pay for this low move. But she wasn't. The glorious hitwoman was laying next to him in deep slumber hadn't a clue about the bomb she let out.

No doubt she would have preferred to bite her own tongue and swallow it than confessing genuinely her feelings for him. But she did. And he felt terrified. Terrified, but not angry. In fact and he wanted to smash his head against the border of the fucking thub for it, he felt happy.

But he didn't really have the time to bask in his newfound happiness since her breath suddenly decided to stop, making him panic. No way. No way for her to left him on this cliffhanger. No. Fucking. Way. In. Hell.

So he had grabbed her, lifted her from their shared bed and threw her in the bathtub just before opening the coldest water he could choose and splash it unceremoniously on her sweating naked body. Damn, he even had so to slap her to finally wake her up.

She was still tensed, he observed. Glaring at the wall in front of her like she would be able to make it crumble just with her inner fury. He stayed silent. Breathing slowly. He wouldn't try to call her again. It would be a disaster. She remembered the three words, her face was saying everything he needed to know.

Now she was thinking hard. Probably considering her options. Engagement and relationship, in general, always were an issue with her. Not like he was judging her, here in good old Gotham it still was one of the best ways to be killed. Admitting her love for him, would make her weak. Both of them knew it.

Finally, her head moved in order to face his neutral face, scrutinizing his eyes, posture, every little mimic she knew in order to find the answer to her silent question: did he hear?

She may have found what she was looking for. Her piercing gaze shaking just a bit before her beautiful eyes were slowly drowned in tears. Oh no. God please no. He wasn't good with her tears. Especially when he was the one responsible for it.

Never was, never will. Always felt like the biggest idiot in the room. You know, the one offering a lame glass of water as he would be incapable to find the right words.

That's why he preferred the presence of another person with them in this situation, ideally they would be the one responsible for the crying and he would beat the absolute shit out of them. For that, he was good. But now... now...

"Don't you dare", he breathed in raising panic. See what he was talking about. He was starting to hyperventilate.

His words made her laugh without any joy. "Fucking hell. You definitely heard it."

No, no, no, tears were rolling down her face which she tried to hide in her hands. He had to focus on his breath and wake the logical and practical part of his brain. Time for some facts to stop the sinking.

"Sweetness. Shhh. Shhh. Ok. Look. Not like you yelled it in a megaphone on top of  the Waynes' Tower or something",  he tried, hearing a snort. Good, it was something.

"Would have blown the whole city sky high if it was the case," she muttered. Good, sarcasm. Better than tears. He had to give himself a pat in the back.

"Attagirl, that's the spirit!" He smiled despite the seriousness of their situation. He even grabbed the side of her head to pull her to his lips giving her an encouraging kiss. The goofy moment didn't last, though. And her beautiful smile vanished like ice under the sun.

"Vic?" She called after a moment, earning a gentle "hm?". "If I die from a stupid bullet, take care of the city for me would you? And make sure Oswald and Ed don't kill each other or end killed in a stupid way." She muttered.

Again, he felt ice pierce his heart. Her dream must have really shaken her if she was asking for favors like this. He noted the change of subject, but decided to not point it out, for now.

To occupy himself and escape her sharp eyes, he looked at his right hand now slowly moving in the water of the bath and let a heavy sigh out. "Ok, Y/N."

The hitwoman nodded twice, falling silent again and resuming her glaring at the white wall in front of her. Clearly, the elephant in the room was still here, pretty cosy, probably having the best tea of its life until one of them find the courage to address it.

Victor got his hand out of the water, hanging it in the air for her to take. Fuck the elephant. It can stays in the room, they'll quit it. "Let's go back to bed Sweets," he offered.

She seemed to share his total lack of courage and grab his hand, ready to flee with him like the cowards she knew they were. But it was too much. Too much to talk about at 3 AM a Wednesday night.

She let him lift her from her seated position and dry her body with a fluffy towel in absolute silence. Both smart-asses too afraid to bring by accident the "three words subject." As soon as he finished drying her, Victor grabbed her behind her knees and lifted her again, kissing her forehead and walking back to their bed.

Hitman and hitwoman were now laying on their back, looking at the ceiling like two idiots. Sleep clearly left the room.

"There is a crack." He heard Y/N whisper to nobody. He searched it for a minute before answering. "Yup. Next to the chandelier."

Deafening silence again.

"There is another one, a bit on the left," she added in the same blank voice.

"I love you too."

He could have laugh, in fact he was fucking trying not to. Her whole body had a jolt like she was struck by the thunder.

"FUCKING WHAT?!" She now yelled, turned on her side to be able to see him better. Her eyes seemed ready to pop out.

"I'll call someone to take care of the cracks," he muttered as nothing had happened and biting his tongue just to gulp the hysterical laughter bubbling inside of his throat.

And like the courageous man he was, he closed his eyelids, ready to pretend falling asleep to escape any talk they both knew they weren't ready to have.

A soft 'pof' next to him indicated that she let herself fall face first on her pillow, like the incredibly brave woman she was.

Good. They were both masters at pretending. Just one or two hours like this and everything will be back to normal. Eventually.

Oh god, they definitely were rookies at lying to themselves.

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A/N - I hope this alternative end was to your liking. I can't picture some pure fluff for those two idiots. But total awkwardness when it comes to feeling... hell yes!

Here is a little bonus, please enjoy Victor’s absolute worthlessness resumed in this meme:

[typingdyslexiaisathing]

Cuddles with A Proud Demon (Obey Me! Fic)

summary: Lucifer is (once again) interrupted from his work. For a good reason.

characters: Lucifer, OC (who is NOT the MC just a 3rd exchange student)

content: established relationship, casual talk, romance, fluff

Lucifer didn't even bother to look up when the door to his study opened without a knock upon the wooden surface. He just kept his gaze to his paperwork as the door fully opened to allow Retha to enter. Her tail making a light thwack against the doorframe (by accident again) for her to hiss in air. But she soon walked her talon feet over to his desk to crack her knuckles. "Figures. Lucifer. It's been ages since you guys had dinner. Rest your eyeballs and finger joints."

The Avatar of Pride gave a tisk as he kept writing. "I still have work to finish before the evening has concluded. Some of which involves the next festival for the school as well as ordering you some things. I promised Lord Diavolo to ease your transition as much as possible. Any word on the other two 'exchange students' or my brothers to mention to me?"

Retha sighed to have her very long tail give an unexpected tap on the floor. As if she was tapping her tail instead of her foot as she thinks out loud. "Solomon just took a bunch of samples from me to go over at Purgatory Hall. Since it's not every century a human gets changed into a... What are we calling me? Hybrid? Chimera? Mix of Angel, Demon, Vampire, and Tooth Fairy? Whatever. Anyways. Solomon left about an hour ago. The little sheeple student that you all adore is currently fast asleep in the twin's room. Belphie, Beel, and Levi are there too. Some gaming group up went to the pasture as they all were snoring away. I already tucked them into the bed so they are snuggled together."

Lucifer gave a huff at that mental image to finally look up at Retha. His gaze looking over this once human turned supernatural creature to notice she was still unable to hold a human looking form. The horns were out in full. Scales along her face and arms. While the dragon wings were tucked in as hard as she might get away with so as not to bump into anything. Which has to be uncomfortable for her as she all but grabbed her long tail to hold it in both hands. So Lucifer could guess why she looked about ready to snap from tension.

The eldest brother soon stood up to walk himself over to Retha. Who gave a very quiet huff of air as Lucifer wrapped his arms around her. His own wings blooming to encase her in velvet ebony feathers. "I am grateful that you took care of them for me. But you should have joined them in the snuggle huddle as you would put it. Any time you need us, we are here for you Retha. You have been taking this upheaval of your life with such bravado. But it is okay to be weak and to need comfort. So let's take a break and just be."

Retha went very still to then nod. Reaching those clawed hands up to hug Lucifer back and just breathe. The tension easing out of her smaller frame as that tail swished in a gentle motion behind her. "Right. Okay. I already had a good sit down with Satan and Simeon earlier. But this... Thanks."

[xoxoemynn]

6, 16, 26!

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Yay, thank you, friend!

6. Do you have your work beta'd? How important is this to your process? YES, and SO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! I am useless without @monksofthescrew. And I'm EXTRA lucky bc she's there literally every step of the writing process. I'm constantly bouncing ideas off her when I'm still in the planning stages, asking questions as I'm writing, and then when she sees the actual draft it's like she's inside my brain and enhances it SO much. Genuinely would be lost without all her support and enthusiasm and brain noodles.

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them? Hahahaha oh boy. I'll just limit it to on my immediate to do list, and I have... five, I think, although I have a few others simmering in the background that I'm trying not to think too much about. The one currently occupying most of my brain: Ed is a legendary Broadway dancer who fucks up his knee on stage. While recovering and determinedly NOT thinking about how he doesn't know what he's going to do with his life now, he gets absorbed in watching some old black and white musicals featuring Stede Bonnet and Mary Allamby. Through some weird weirdness, he ends up transporting into Stede's world. Stede, he learns, somehow got trapped in this glitzy glamorous grayscale purgatory that looks like all his film sets. Naturally they fall in love, but struggle to find a way to truly be together. It has themes of being your authentic self/the temptation of avoidance/being comfortable in the unknown. Influences include Astaire/Rogers musicals, The Giver, Pleasantvile, Barbie, and Afterlight. I'm not sure I'm doing a great job selling this but I am VERY excited about it.

26. Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride? Oh, Clock Boys, no doubt. Started off with me going "oh yes this will be a TRUE standalone PWP that's going to be super niche and maybe three people will read it because it's just going to get Weird." And then somehow it turned into a full series? And they kept getting weirder? And nerdier? And then they got romantic? Not at all what I expected writing it, also not at all what I was expecting in terms of a response. But I'm thrilled because I love them dearly.

Get to know the fic writer ask game!

[ofhouseadama]

I am sick and tying to distract myself, so I’m gonna send you a long ask! If you don’t want to answer, that’s ok.

Favorite onscreen Garashir moment?

Favorite Garashir headcanon?

Favorite episode with a lot of Garashir in it?

Ideal fluffy Garashir scenario to read, write, or just think about?

Same as above but with angst?

Something you wish more people would do/try in fic for the pairing?

I always love to see your work, and I hope you have a nice day!

I hope you feel better soon, anon!

Favorite onscreen Garashir moment? So many of my favorite Garashir moments happen during In Purgatory's Shadow and By Inferno's Light but I think my absolute favorite of those is when they're walking out from the barrack and it's their first real conversation in months -- because Julian has been gone and the changeling has been far too agreeable and you get the sense that Julian is dazed but he's missed him and has both hoped Garak wouldn't come but has known Garak is their only hope -- and we get the wonderful argument about sentiment, and Garak's slight recoil when Julian bites back at Garak's assertion that if sentiment is the greatest weakness, then that's a lesson he'd rather not learn. "My dear Mr. Garak," is a close second, though.

Favorite Garashir headcanon? That in any post-canon scenario where they end up together on Cardassia, they both swear up and down that they are not fit to be parents and then end up with nine to eleven children with vibes that thread the needle between 2005 Pride and Prejudice's Bennet family and the titular Bridgertons.

Favorite episode with a lot of Garashir in it? I have an immense soft spot for Civil Defense and Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast insofar as episodes that have a lot of thematic Garashir, but not necessarily a ton of both of the characters.

Ideal fluffy Garashir scenario to read, write, or just think about? Summering at their big manor house in the country with immense grounds and gardens and a pond and their nine-to-eleven children who are chaotic little gremlins who love each other very much and are constantly in some kind of trouble and/or scheme. They all speak some kind of Kardasi-Arabic conlang that confuses the UT and were taught how to pickpocket as toddlers.

Same as above but with angst? Garak and Julian realizing they raised their children to be dutiful, brave, kind, and strong--to be heroes. They realize this on the eve of the second Dominion War. Alternatively: the dead man's switch on dutiful eldest daughter of the House of Garak and Bashir's panic button has gone off while serving in Starfleet in the Gamma Quadrant at the end of the war. She hasn't been home since the fighting started. She staggers in through the front door of the family home in the heart of Kardasi'Or at 5 AM after her crew made it back to DS9 against all odds and was ordered to stand down and go home, Commander. You were the first one in this war. You don't have to be the last one out. Julian and Garak are awoken to the biometric security system chirping, for the first time in four years, Zoya has arrived home.

Something you wish more people would do/try in fic for the pairing? Make Garak Cry 2k22 but that's just me telling on myself and what I'm currently working on in multiple Google docs.

[sarcasticdolphin]

Ok, I don’t feel like writing. Have some random thoughts on potential future things to be written instead. (mentions of smut so cut)

To be clear I am not declaring that I will write these (far too many for me to possibly write them all) or even claiming the ideas - so @fitzrove (or others) if you see something that inspires you, have at it. The worst thing that happens is that we end up with a few different versions of the same idea. And lol we are fanfic writers. I don’t think anyone will be complaining.

This is not a complete compilation of future mirrorverse fics, but rather the ones that I currently think I will write. Fitzrove also has some things in the works.

In the drabble category:

- Mafia au / Ink au

“Lessons” - very smutty. Tod teaches Rudolf exactly how to please him. Rudolf reminisces over various lessons that he has learned on Tod’s island as every time Tod takes him he seems intent on teaching him something. This could also end up a full fic or a collection of several one shots

“Healing” - How Tod treats Rudolf as the tattoo heals. Some overlap with Lessons. Restrained on the sex front but features Tod being even more possessive than usual.

“Fog of War” - The investigation into Tod’s dealings. Would be a pair, one told by Emma, the other by Rudolf. Investigation going badly - it is like Tod can read their minds. (He can’t, Rudolf is just telling him everything). 

“Treason” - How Graham and Emma discover Rudolf’s sympathies.

“Silver Tongue” - Rudolf’s interrogation.

“Master of the Strings” - Tod and Rudolf escape (featuring Murder and Mayhem)

“Purgatory” - Tod and Rudolf’s life together afterward.

- Oath au

“Mirror Mirror” - Tod takes FJ’s call with Rudolf (out of sight of FJ) sprawled across his lap. Ends with the reveal

- Mozart/Colloredo

“Wings” - Colloredo grooms Mozart’s wings while Mozart tries to play the piano. Smutty.

“Father” - Leopold Mozart shows up.

“Applause” - Colloredo tells Mozart about a premiere. Very smutty.

Chimes verse

“Blue Bird” - Rudolf and the blue bird of paradise

“I am Death” - Hiroshima

“Firestorm” - Tokyo and Dresden (and Hamburg?)

“Chernobyl” - Chernobyl

+ More historical events and birds. These are just the ideas that have been kicking around for a while

One shots

“Mama wo bist du?” - Child Rudolf finds a Raven at his window during the coldest night of the year, brings it inside, and keeps it warm.

“Too Late” - Sisi could have sworn Rudolf’s hair held the same inky darkness as her own. When she returns it is white-gold. Too late. (In tribute to the brunette little Rudolfs who ended up with blonde adult Rudolfs)

“Funeral” (Mirrorverse) - Rudolf at the funeral of Edward VII of the UK

“Addendum Franz-Joseph” (Mirrorverse) - FJ on how his son finally became a man. (and a few other things)

“Addendum Elisabeth” (Mirrorverse) - Elisabeth’s life away from court. Ends when she sees Todolf for the first time after returning

Full length fics:

Aftermath (Mirrorverse) - Direct sequel to Needs of the Many.

[three-headed-monster]

Too five writing tips?? (Also, I’m asking this one to a lot of writers, trying to get as much help as possible lol)

LINDSEY i am so sorry your ask has been stuck in askbox purgatory for soooo long, i am just so bad at answering stuff

this feels appropriate to answer now though, with the current blog discourse. also i needed time to kind of marinate and think about this but i'm ready to answer now :))))

do not give a fuck about what others say or think about your writing

in the end, if you're writing casually, it's up to you whether or not you want to take other people's advice. i think that in the end if YOU like what you write, then other people's opinions don't matter. writing is subjective and people will like what they like and hate what they hate. as long as you're content with everything you've written and everything you're gonna continue to write, it's up to you if you want to improve. you always can, but you don't need to feel obligated to based on even constructive criticism

2. you don't have to write in a specific consecutive order!

i feel like for me, it really works when i use a specific timeline for a fic but i don't always write like that! if a scene really calls to you in a fic or in a fic idea, just write it :))) don't wait with bated breath to write a scene you really want to (yes even if you have a million wips). writing is all about having fun, and writing little scenes can be fun. they can grow into larger fics or be absorbed into larger fics or even just be posted if you want. it's all about your experience and cobbling scenes together can often take time

3. even if you don't write it down, always try to have a direction when writing

you don't always have to outline. i for one hate outlining because then i look at my outline and i'm like damn what an outline and never write the fic lmao. but always know where you're going when you're writing. it can be what themes you want to convey or how you want specific scenes to go. know where you want to start and end and what scenes should go in the middle. this obviously is done best in 5+1 style fics but it can be done in everything else too! just try and know where you're headed inn a fic or else it might be easy to lose motivation (this is what happened with my abo fic lmao)

4. yes it can always be shorter...but does it need to be?

sometimes adding extra description isn't necessary but it's nice to have. writing shouldn't be just a back and forth conversation all the time, because realistically, if you're delving in the mind of a character, they don't talk the whole time. they're people. you have to think before you talk and so do you. words have weight and meaning. and sometimes a scene can just be a character reflecting on their actions and just doing something. it can be that boring. it just needs to progress the story forward. make sure that there's a point to everything you're saying but don't force yourself to condense scenes and moments if they're important

5. have fun with it, but don't forget to do your research

yes go with what you've got and what you enjoy, but make sure you keep in mind that sometimes research is necessary! it can be really annoying when a writer mischaracterizes someone or gets a detail wrong. especially when the information is easily available to find. of course, you don't have to take it too far, you don't have to deeply investigate like the tea distribution in the 1800s or something. but it’s good to familiarize yourself with some things about a character or a person in order to build your characterization of them. for example, it takes like one google search to learn that adam fantilli played against the don mills flyers in bantam and that SO MUCH of his reasoning to go through the ncaa stems from them losing in the OHL cup final and losing exceptional status. it’s that simple. you can take that and make so many narratives from it! you can have fun with this too…just remember that research makes your writing believable and real to the reader.

anyways those are my tips bestie!!! i hope these helped, and again i’m so sorry for not answering you for so long. the most important tip i think though is to be confident in your writing and continue to practice no matter what. life is too short to not start a work even if you have a million already and writing IS a form of art!! i promise that at least someone out there will appreciate your contribution.

[deepdarkdelights]

who is the softest yandere that you’ve written about

Hm, probably Purgatory! Yoongi or The Darkness of The Night! Joon.

The current yandere fic I am working on is pretty soft tbh 🤔...well, he's soft with the MC 😬