#drindrak

[wrongcaitlyn]

Do you have any fame aus or anything else that inspired you for the dear reader series?

no fame au's, unfortunately :( i am a BIG fan of fame au's, however, so i do have some recs! but the inspiration for dear reader was largely just me listening to my music and forming an au around it - one playlist turned into two, which turned into seven, which turned into 16, etc - and then i had a full au plot in my head😭

but for recs!! i bookmark pretty much every fame au i read just because i love them so much. they're definitely my niche i just cannot stop putting these people on red carpets - and it's always been this waySDKJF

you'd be paranoid too (if everyone was out to get you) by harrowhark is a catradora fame au (popstar!catra) and it was one of the first fics i ever read on ao3 and literally changed my brain chemistry. now this was like 3-4 years ago, so it's been a while since i've read it, even though when i was in my shera hyperfixation i re-read it like six times i think - if you ARE a shera fan, i would 100% recommend this one, i still remember how incredible it was! did it inspire the dear reader-verse specifically? no, they're very different in terms of plot/characters, but i feel like if i'm talking about fics that inspired me this one's essential😭

everyone wake up new jinx album just dropped by Drindrak is similar to the first one in that it is a fame au that just made me love the trope so much, even though it is much more crack than angst, unlike you'd be paranoid😭it's an arcane fic where jinx... becomes a popstar? except it's like, set in runeterra and vi is still in jail and all of that. like. I DONT KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN HOW MUCH I FUCKING LOVE ITSKDF i swear i just love a good crack fic every now and then, and this did it WITH fame?? i love. and so yeah, looking back on it, i actually do think it inspired dear reader a bit in the way that jinx was absolutely chaotic (will i ever stop on the jinx nico parallels? i wrote a goddamn solangelo timebomb au already but i'm still going to be pointing it out)

he was seen on occasion (pacing the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea) by stargirltv is a solangelo fame au!! and i know that i already rec'd it. but like. you have to know how much i LOVE this fic and though, once again, the plots are pretty different - but also similar in the sense of the character dynamics! so yeah tbh i'd say i probably did, unintentionally, take a lot of inspo from this, just because i do love it so much, and it was one of the only fame au's for solangelo that i had read (i've read much more now, ofc, seeing as i stalk the fame and social media tags like a hawk)

and then the last thing i feel like i have to mention when talking about the inspiration for this fic is the book, red white and royal blue. i think i mentioned in the first chapter of talk your talk's end note that this entire au?? started off as a rwrb crossover in my head. nico's age was calculated with alex's in mind. will going to college at nyu was because i originally planned for alex and him to idk meet at a class or smth. cecil was originally a law student (another ironic thing for a child of hermes, and yet i ended up making him work towards cyber security lmfao) just so he could somehow become friends with alex. i was fully emerged in this universe where somehow these friend groups collided, and i fully orchestrated nico as a popstar just so that they'd have double the fandoms to go crazy about it. so does it really have to do anything with rwrb in terms of plot?? no, but alex and henry are entirely to thank for this!!!😭

i know that i kind of took a bit of a strange route for a popstar au in talk your talk so it doesn't really match the usual trope? like person is already famous -> meets someone, either famous or not -> fight to get together bc of the press -> some sort of leaked photo of them -> they choose each other in the end. and dont get me wrong, i will eat up that trope any day, but i do really like what i did with talk your talk! i love any form of fame au, and so it's always just fun to see different spins on the common tropes :)

thank you for the ask!!

[princess-of-the-corner]

The Qrow-Salem marriage fic is called “Wicked” and the author is “Drindrak”. It starts before Yang was even a concept in the verse.

That's chaotic as fuck actually

[leesakuweek]

Thank you so much, LeeSaku Week 2023 Participants! 💕

@spellcasterlight

@lotusfartstwice

@drindrak-art

@nightingaleflow

@bizawa-art

(and myself, @valkyriav)

I can’t express my appreciation enough for you all spending time on creating fanworks for this rarepair event! All of your entries were incredible and I loved them very much! Thank you for making my very first hosted fandom event a success. I couldn’t have done it without you guys! 🥰

For anyone stumbling across this post, please check out this blog to see all their wonderful fanworks and please give them some deserved love. Also consider checking out the participant blogs; you will not be disappointed with their other works. ♥️

For the Daily Prompt Challenge Champion role, I will soon create a separate pinned post to display on this blog front and center until the next time I might host a LeeSaku event. Stay tuned for that post.

As a reminder, while the deadline for any Champion roles and thank you announcements have passed, if you wish to still create fanworks, I will still reblog LeeSaku works that relate to this event until the last day of spring, June 20th. The springtime of LeeSaku doesn't end until the last day of spring, after all. 🌸🍃

[drindrak-art]

It was a mistake – drunken horniness, on Qrow's part; fleeting sentimentality (but also some drunken horniness), on Salem's. Both were aware of who the other truly was, yet uncaring in the moment.

But their little mistake leads to something permanent; something Qrow never knew could happen.

And no. He's not talking about the marriage.

[negative-speedforce]

Top 15 Fics I’ve Ever Read

#1: The Golden One by AnonymusBosch https://archiveofourown.org/works/30698279 Rating/Category/Word Count: Teen, F/F, 14k Words Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Seven, Canon Divergence, Introspective Why I like it: Character study on individuality starring some of my favorite lesbians. #2: Where Truth Resides by Barakis https://archiveofourown.org/works/35861035 Rating/Category/Word Count: Teen, F/F, 313k Words Arcane, Caitlyn/Vi, Hurt/Comfort, Jinx Gets Therapy Why I like it: Jinx gets psychiatric help, Vi is the best big sister ever, Soft!Sevika #3: I Don't Want You To Be At Peace (I Want You To Fight) by Sealure https://archiveofourown.org/works/25535599 Rating/Category/Word Count: General Audiences, Gen, 4k Words Star Wars, Ahsoka & Anakin (gen), Hurt/Comfort, Everybody Lives AU Why I like it: The pain! The angst! The happy reward! #4: Inbound Flight: For Home and Song by QueenieWithABeenie https://archiveofourown.org/works/28493898 Rating/Category/Word Count: Mature, Multi, 58k Words Star Wars- Chiss Ascendancy, Multiship, Angst, Canon Divergence, Part 3 of a series. Why I like it: This is a very angsty, very plotty fic with dynamic story arcs and characters who are perfectly in character.  #5: DAISIES by potboiler: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28134648 Rating/Category/Word Count: General Audiences, Gen, 7k Words She-Ra (2018), Shadow Weaver Character Study, Angst, Alternate Universe Why I like it: It’s a dark, gritty deep dive into the mind a of a former villain who now lives with total paralysis. #6: Too Good To Be True (Can't Take My Eyes Off off You) by  Themadwomanwhoisunfortunatelylackingabox https://archiveofourown.org/works/7892560 Rating/Category/Word Count: Not Rated (Teen-ish?), M/M, 53k Words The Flash (2014), Eobard/Barry, Alternate Universe, Hurt No Comfort Why I like it: Oooh, boy. This is an intense fic. Takes place pre-canon, in a college AU with the Barry from the original timeline, before Nora got killed. #7: KOTYATA! by witchwood_hull https://archiveofourown.org/works/28182867 Rating/Category/Word Count: Teen, M/M, 79k Words MCU, Steve/Bucky, Semi Canon Compliant, Kitten Rescue AU Why I like it: Fluff, both literal (because kittens) and metaphorical. Also angst. #8: Dark And Bright Meet In Her Aspect by imaginary_golux  https://archiveofourown.org/works/6370615 Rating/Category/Word Count: Explicit, F/F, 11k Words Star Wars, Phasma/Rey, Dark!Rey AU, Sith Shenanigans Why I like it: THERE IS SO MUCH PLOT HERE I LOVE IT *screech* #9: Coma by Aelwyn https://archiveofourown.org/works/23330827 Rating/Category/Word Count: General Audiences, F/M, 33k Words The Flash (2014), Iris/Barry, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence Why I like it: In this fic, it turns out Barry dreamed up his Flash adventures (or did he?) while comatose.

#10: Dear Teacher, With Love by fancyh https://archiveofourown.org/works/17137298 Rating/Category/Word Count: Teen, M/M, 61k Words MCU, Steve/Bucky, Teacher AU, but not an actual AU Why I like it: After leaving HYDRA, Bucky infiltrates a high school. Shenanigans ensue. Hilarious, fluffy, and angsty.

#11: Alura | The Alura Trilogy, Book 1 by JoyeEverett715 https://archiveofourown.org/works/37640872  Rating/Category/Word Count: Teen, Gen, 55k Words She-Ra (2018), Pre-Canon, Shadow Weaver’s Backstory, Drama Why I like it: This fic expands on the backstory given in Light Spinner and tells a story of its own, which gives an in-depth view of Etheria’s world.

#12: Loki of Nowhere by theicesculpture  https://archiveofourown.org/works/11882577 Rating/Category/Word Count: Mature, M/M, 326k MCU, Loki/Tony, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, Space Quest, Angst Why I like it: One of my OTPs on a spaceship trying to steal the Infinity Stones before Thanos can? Heck yes! 

#13: everyone wake up new jinx album just dropped by Drindrak https://archiveofourown.org/works/35740111 Rating/Category/Word Count: Teen, Gen, 6k Arcane, Jinx & Silco (gen), Social Media/Twitter format, Crack Treated Seriously Why I like it: Jinx makes music instead of explosions and gets mental help. Silco is a good dad. #14: Captivated by leftennant https://archiveofourown.org/works/2245620 Rating/Category/Word Count: Explcit, F/M, 166k MCU, Loki/Darcy Lewis, Smut, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort Why I like it: It’s a very plotty fic, where Darcy ends up accidentally transported to Asgard during the events of Thor 1. Very gratifying read. #15: Project Compass by DistantStorm https://archiveofourown.org/works/23487166 Rating/Category/Word Count: Mature, M/M, 132k Star Wars-Thrawn, Eli Vanto/Thrawn, Angst, Spy Shenanigans, Post-Canon Why I like it: This is a really thrilling one, with kinda a Cap-The Winter Soldier style spy vibe. Space battles, not knowing who to trust, deadly poisons... what’s not to love?

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

A Farewell to Arm by Antarctica_or_bust https://archiveofourown.org/works/17425310 MCU, Stucky, Teen+, Crackfic, 5+1 things

Charlie Lock by seapigeon https://archiveofourown.org/works/10173128 MCU, Stucky, Mature (HEED TAGS), Angst AU It's a Lovely Day in Piltover by hellgodsrus, Taylor_Centauri https://archiveofourown.org/works/36321841 Arcane, LightCannon, Explicit, Chaos, Hurt/Comfort Long Way Home by DistantStorm https://archiveofourown.org/works/30064995 Star Wars- Thrawn, Mature, Thranto, Mind Control, Post Canon  If They Haven't Learned Your Name by silentwalrus https://archiveofourown.org/works/6329503 MCU, Steve/Bucky, Mature, Crack Treated Seriously, Recovery, UFOs

[makiruz]

Chapter 5: Oscar & Adam | soulmates have a tattoo that tells them how dangerous their soulmate is

What says on the tin. The whole thing provides interesting scenarios but I like this one specially because Oscar/Adam, duh; and it is a nice little one shot that makes sense and it's not creepy

[drindrak]

If anyone still plays pokemon go here's my friend code:

6762 5883 3031

[stormmdevil]

a oneshot series i was following hasn’t been updated since march (which, it happens. i’m following just in case, and i’ve followed worse.) and it just updated. i am pleasantly surprised. go author!!

[ao3feed-izuku-midoriya]

Ocean's Brawl

Ocean's Brawl by Drindrak

Brought a knife to hell and saw...

Izuku is thirteen years old when his idol ruthlessly crushes his dreams.

Seven years of suppressed rage bubbles beneath his skin and he thinks: I'll prove you wrong.

He may be quirkless, but he isn't about to let the world beat him down because he was born without inherent power.

Heroes have existed long before quirks did. Izuku will be a hero – even if he has to take the law into his own hands.

What was left down there and more...

Words: 728, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Inko, Midoriya Hisashi, Toga Himiko, Bakugou Katsuki, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Tsukauchi Naomasa

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Toga Himiko, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku & Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Midoriya Izuku & Tsukauchi Naomasa, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Midoriya Hisashi/Midoriya Inko

Additional Tags: Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Vigilantism, Vigilante Midoriya Izuku, Vigilante Toga Himiko, Midoriya Izuku Does Not Have One for All Quirk, Aldera Middle School Bashing, Aldera metaphorically burns to the ground, Inko is on a warpath, technically it's not vigilantism, because izuku is quirkless, and boy do the media freak out about that, (when they find out), All Might is a bitch at first, He gets better, but he still a bitch, and the midoriyas never forget a bitch, Angst, but like, soft angst, hitting y'all with that, Angst/Hurt & Comfort/Fluff trio, Analyst Midoriya Izuku, All Might never drops the bottle, Suicidal Thoughts, Midoriya Izuku is Not Okay, get that boy some therapy please, Izuku starts a revolution, saving one villain after the other, starting with Toga, Attempted Sexual Assault, nothing explicit!

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34424968

[olliya]

How popular is MadaSaku in context of other Madara’s and Sakura’s ships? Part 3

@madasakuweek

In the third, and final part of my analysis I will attempt to evaluate how many MadaSaku fics are really out there.

Also, since I am publishing this analysis 3 days after Madasaku Weekend (that took place on 27, 28 and 29.12.2019) and after the official closure (which also means, that I am late, lol), it is possible to evaluate the impact of the event on both platforms. 

As we’ve seen in Part 2, ff.net searches are full of pitfalls, and bound to deliver certain number of false positives (i.e. fics tagged in multiple ways). For major ships, this feat would be impossible, but for a relatively rare pair like MadaSaku it is still feasible to manually check for double tagging and therefore report a “real” number of works.

AO3 tagging system is much more robust, and uniformly used, nevertheless I performed searches for common phrases to exclude single fics slipping through the cracks.

One needs to regard ff.net and AO3 parts of this analysis separately, because many fics are published on both platforms in parallel. It is therefore not possible to sum up fic numbers for the two platforms.

So, let’s dive it. (For those not wanting to read my walls of text, there is a TL;DR at the end of the post) 

ff.net

I performed a search for fics tagged with Pairing Option and several consecutive searches for various Ship Names for ship Uchiha Madara /Haruno Sakura. For definitions, see the post: How popular is MadaSaku in context of other Madara’s and Sakura’s ships? Part 2.

During all the searches I divided the data into published before and after 01.10.2013 (the approximate date of introduction of Pairing Option tool).

Tables 1 and 2 summarize the results. For every search, fics were inspected and the number of fics tagged with Pairing Option is indicated in appropriate column (Column 3 in Tables 1 and 2).

Fics with double tagging (using Pairing option and a Ship Name) as well as using multiple Ship Names in summaries were flagged, according to method described below.

Since searches were performed consecutively, during each search fics were inspected for appearance of previously examined phrases. Number of fics containing the already searched phrases is indicated in Column 4.

If a fic was both tagged with Pairing Option and contained an already examined phrase, only the fact of tagging was indicated (to avoid “double-flagging”).

For completeness of data I searched also for phrases containing slash symbol (“/”). Ff.net search engine doesn’t recognize this symbol properly, and uses it as a wildcard, allowing appearance of any symbols (surprisingly up to 4 symbols…) between the words of the phrase. As an illustration, let’s consider the following example: search for Madara/Sakura brings, among others, a fic with phrase: “Pulled from the battlefield during the last, desperate fight against Madara, Sakura suddenly finds herself back in her genin day.” in summary. Therefore, it was necessary to check the summary for indications of romantic paring between Madara and Sakura in every given fic. Such evaluation is, of course, very prone to experimenter bias, but fortunately those unclear cases were very rare (and I tried my best). Number of fics that didn’t show any indications of ship is reported in Column 5.

As a side note: symbols “*” and “&” result in the same behavior of the search engine as a search with symbol “/”.

Fics tagged with other, more exotic Ship Names were not detected in this analysis.

The number of unique fics for every search was calculated through subtracting all the values from columns 3, 4 and 5 from the total number of fics. This approach allowed for the double-tagged and multiple-named fics to be counted once only. Finally, the final number of fics was calculated by adding the unique results from all the searches.

There were 77 MadaSaku fics published before 01.10.2013, and 183 published after this date. Final number of MadaSaku fics available on ff.net is 260.

After the MadaSaku Weekend 2019, 5 news fics were published: 3 tagged with Pairing Option and 2 with Ship Name madasaku (in context of indicating the event: MadaSaku Weekend 2019). And I am aware of one more fic, that was published for the event, but wasn’t tagged.

 Breaking down the data into the periods before and after introduction of Pairing Option, allows a peek into fandom’s tagging behavior and etiquette.

Ship name MadaSaku is by large margin the most popular way of indicating Madara/Sakura pairing in our community. 60% of older fics (published before 01.10.2013) and 52% of newer fics are tagged with this Ship Name. One has to emphasize though, that the phrase “MadaSaku” is often used in titles of events. Prominent events known to me include MadaSaku Week 2016, MadaSaku Day 2019 and MadaSaku Weekend 2019.

Other relatively popular way of tagging was Ship Name Madara/Sakura with 10 fics tagged this way (8 of which exclusively so), and Madara x Sakura with 11 fics (7 exclusively).

It is worth mentioning that even after introduction of Pairing Option, the community didn’t fully embrace this tool, with 76 out of 183 newer fics (42%) not taking advantage of it.

To examine if awareness of the tool existence increased over time, I checked how many fics tagged with Ship Name madasaku (as it is the most prominent of Ship Names, as shown in Table 1) were also tagged with Pairing Option (Table 3.).

No clear trend is detectable, as the numbers of fics per year are very low, and highly influenced by Events, but it can be carefully speculated that using of Pairing Option becomes more popular in last 2-3 years.

The reasons of not using the Pairing Option can be multiple: lack of awareness of the option, relative difficulty of finding and applying the tool, or conscious choice motivated by attempt on overcoming the rigidness of ff.net tagging system that doesn’t allow for multiple pairings, indicating background/past/one-sided etc. relationships and is generally unsuitable for tagging collections of unrelated stories.

Looking back into older fics (published before 01.10.2013) it can be noticed, that very few fics were back-tagged with Pairing Option (6 out of 77).

 AO3

Tagging system on AO3 is commonly accepted and used, therefore the number of Madara/Sakura shipping fics is relatively easy to find and was equal 212 before holding MadaSaku Weekend 2019.

Nevertheless, I performed searches for the same phrase as listed above, and checked for fics that according to their summaries featured romantic Madara/Sakura ship and were not tagged with AO3 ship tag.

I found 5 such fics containing the phrase MadaSaku (2 from @kendochick-moor​  and 3 from @drindrak​) and after reading the tags and summary I qualified them as belonging to the romantic Madara/Sakura ship. (@kendochick-moor​ @drindrak​, if you disagree, please let me know, and I will correct!)

Additionally, I found 2 fics (both from @kendochick-moor​) that were in my opinion shipping ones and were tagged with phrase Madara X Sakura only.

I allowed myself the liberty of adding those 7 fics to the 212 of tagged fics. Therefore, before MadaSaku Weekend 2019 AO3 hosted 219 MadaSaku fics.

Additional 13 fics has been added after the event, and now the count stands on 232 (225 according to the tag)!!! That is an increase of 6%!

As a side observation, this analysis tentatively confirms a trend that I was observing for several months, namely a shift of Naruto fandom from ff.net to AO3. During the MadaSaku Weekend 2019, held on 27-29.12.2019, 6 MadaSaku fics were added to ff.net, while 13 to AO3. The numbers are very low, and too low to draw real conclusions, but I find it symptomatic.

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TL;DR

There were 260 MadaSaku fics on ff.net before MadaSaku Weekend 2019, and 6 new have been added.

On AO3, MadaSaku counter was on 219 before the event and now is on 232 (13 new added).

Remember not to sum those number up – most of them are the same fics, published in parallel on both platforms!

 As always, comments, critique and hints are welcome!!!

[definitelynotaminion]

Hey! Just wondering if any recent naruto fics have caught your eye? I've been looking for new stuff for a while and could do with any recs! Thanks!

I have 200+ Naruto bookmarks on ao3, if you haven’t seen them!

Obviously I recommend everything Kat’s ever written, because she’s the uncontested master of fixing everything Kishi ever broke, but aside from Rare Pair Hell, Harrowed Hearts always gets my rec.

Pulling My Weight is good, I read every update. 

Dirt and Ashes, or: The One-and-a-Half Body Problem by Tozette is always a fave, and has the hottest take on Jashinism in the free world

Okay I lied I’m gonna rec one of Kat’s newer fics: Bury my heart underneath these trees by blackkat 

The last fic I found and read was https://archiveofourown.org/works/15001781 which was pretty good (Second Bite at the Cherry). It’s a cute Sakura-centric fic where she pulls a Kurama and steals Gaara, and goes around trying to create the United Nations of the shinobi world. Sai in this fic is unbearably precious and I love the Sai & Gaara & Sakura team. It’s very well done.

I went looking because of your request and just read this: if only you’d ask by tendertorn which is a cute one shot of the OG OTP

the table wobbles, its legs are too short by Drindrak a cute Mokuton!Sakura one shot

I’ve spent like three hours reading one shots just to find new stuff for you

I just found a “Sakura’s a symbiote” fic and I’ll read it and let you know!

[drindrak-art]

pov: you walk into the 1A dorms and two notorious villains and one vigilante are there

[drindrak-art]

Some asshole in atlas mere minutes after the squad enters: *says something racist about Blake*

Weiss:

[drindrak-art]

the team's on their way to the belt store

[drindrak-art]

I know I've been teasing a different bumbleby drawing on ig, but I'm not finished that one yet (the bg is being real difficult).

I've had this one sitting in my autodesk folder on my phone for like months now lol.

I draw Yang so different each time i draw her??? Like??? What even is a consistent art style. Tbh i did draw this one with my fingers on my phone, and my other drawings are done with my tablet.

This is drawn like straight from a reference from some show, idk which one.

[drindrak-art]

its not that qrow cant remember ironwoods first name

its that he doesnt try