#fic: maan

[calmingthoughtsinyourhead]

The only thing worse than realizing you are now the kind of person who reads shakespeare fanfiction

Is realizing there are barily any people out there who write shakespeare fanfiction

[downthedraincomic]

I have mentioned this once before but I'm going to be uploading the Written Version of the down the drain backstory-

Because it's FINISHED!! In a way... (I still need to edit and proof read half of it guhh)

Yeeeaah I was going to make it a long comic like how I'm doing part 1 but that's just... Not gonna work because it's taking way too long already. I dont want to take 1000years to tell my story, y'know? There will still be comics ofc, but I really just want to make them of my favorite/key moments within the story.

Soooo if you like splatoon fics that are long, slice-of-life, mostly comedic/drama, spanning over multiple years, character study (?) It Gets Worse™ type stories featuring lots of sketches and art, maybe you'll like it. The whole thing is also uhh... just under 70k words. Which is a lot eeeug BUT it was damn fun to write and if you are interested in reading I hope you enjoy it... Whenever I release it which will be soon (i swear)

[umanta]

I started writing a hero/don john fic because i've scoured the tag clean, but now it's transforming into a 'hero don't need no man' story

[lightyearssurrogatedaddy]

in this fic I'm reading

Ink just gifted Error a pair of gloves so they could finally hold hands, and I think my insides look like a goopy, bloody strew from how fast they melted.

[jowritesfanfiction]

I was possessed to write a Shakespeare fanfic

[star-centric]

Hehe a 🐑 for the ask game based on an actual tag I saw on ao3 once: "I wrote this for me but you can read it too i guess"

I wanna hear your most self-indulgent thoughts 👀

Fake fic ask game!

Sorry I’m so late in answering this but MAAN do I have a lot of self-indulgent thoughts that I’ll probably never get to writing to 😭 but the one that’s been eating at me for a while:

“MC, whatever you do- do not open the door.”

Simeon warned through the phone, pinpricks shooting up your spine. Regret filled you as the banging on the door grew more desperate- why did this had to be the one time you chose to ignore Solomon’s warning?

The knocks soon turned into banging, various pleas and cries to just please let them in growing louder. You didn’t want to believe that they would hurt you, but right now you don’t know what they’re capable of.

The demons behind your door are not the same ones from earlier, they’re feral-

A deep growl filled the air with an echoing crack, sharp claws finally breaching through, slit eyes staring straight into you.

You didn’t have time to come up with a plan.

You needed to escape- now.

[violivs]

NMTDaily: And So It Begins

- Beatrice’s first vlog! What an opening line, I love it lol. I remembered the hand wave on “hello, people of the Internet” having a wider arc across the screen than it actually does, funny enough! Glad I didn’t specify the wide wave when I referenced this line in MARRIED, the fic I posted on the 25th.

- “I’m not too old for Halloween”, girl after my own heart!

- Always thought it was interesting that Bea’s mother is American. I wonder how/why they decided that. It’s the kind of super specific detail that makes Bea feel so real, because who would make that up? It’s also interesting that it means Bea and Ben’s families are both somewhat international. Another parallel for them, another thing they have in common.

- I bet the Aunties’ wedding was the cutest thing ever, imagine Hero and Leo standing up with them! That’s probably the last time all of the Dukes were together before the story starts.

- I’m surprised Bea’s parents moved because her dad got a promotion. I would have assumed her mom did, because we get the impression of her as the high-powered businesswoman. But good for Bea’s dad. Is it canon that he’s a university professor? (Promotion = tenure?) Or did I make that up for fanfic and/or confuse him with Ben’s parents being professors in canon? Listening for that. Maybe Bea’s dad was actually also a business person all along and that’s how her parents met. Who knows.

- Bea says Australia like I say Indiana, lol (no hate to anyone from Indiana though! Just another of those inborn rivalries with the neighbor, like the Oz/NZ one.)

- “A great science program” I forgot Bea was a science person!

- I always loved the set decoration in this room, I remember it’s Hero’s room, and it’s so artsy and cozy and pretty. Love the wall art.

- “Leo and I are in charge of the house for the next six months” Excuse me, does this series really only take place over six months? Well, it ends in the first week of November, so that’s seven full months. I think it felt like it lasted a whole year when it was airing though. Time slowed down during a certain arc for sure.

- “in-joke with myself!” Classic. I kind of love that the text on screen saying “good one Beatrice” is Bea talking to herself again in-world, but out-of-world it’s kind of the Candle Wasters talking, interacting both with their own main character and with the audience. Meta.

- “Sorry my life is so boring” are like, THE famous last words for an LIW protagonist. Honey, you got a big storm coming!

- I was always so incredibly impressed with Beatrice’s independence, her comfort with leaving her parents and essentially being on her own before she even finished high school. I was alone in a college dorm hours away from home when I first watched this, second semester of freshman year if I’m not mistaken, and I could barely believe I’d managed it. I couldn’t imagine doing that any earlier than I had. I thought she was so brave and cool. I think Bea actually shows more hesitation and nervousness than I realized she did in this episode, both because she’s not used to vlogging yet and because being in a new place is nerve-wracking, but I still think she’s so brave.

- It’s so interesting that in a reversal of the play, it’s our Beatrice who comes from away to Messina to start the story, instead of Benedick and the other men returning from war. Of course, we’ll see how the boys’ arrival on the scene is modernized soon enough!

- Harriett does such a great job making you care about Bea and like her right from the start. You just want to keep listening to her talk. I can’t wait to do just that over the next seven months.

- The Benedict Cumberbatch crush is a stroke of genius, but what are the odds that there happens to be a super famous guy named Benedict that you can reference who is at peak relevance in the exact year your MAAN modernization premieres? Truly, this series as it exists could only have happened in 2014. It was the perfect time and the perfect people. What luck.

- Oh, this is the wider arc hand wave I was remembering! It’s just at the end of the video and not the beginning. Funny!

- Covering the camera with her hand and ducking out of frame at the end of her first video is a direct parallel to what Bea and Hero do in their final NMTD video, sliding out of frame and all. Love that.

- I can’t believe how much there is to talk about even with these early episodes. These posts are gonna get so long they’ll have to go under a cut for the later episodes!

💖🦩🥭

[ezralva]

okay so it keeps happening to me i can't- x)

anyway, just, you know how sometimes you start following people because, yay, same fandom ?

You may be the third or the fourth (or even more) person I started following and then discovered by pure surprise that you're also a fanfic writer I've read all the fics

it

just

keeps

happening

HAHAHA okay so ngl I went to check several of my latest fics and indeed you gave me kudos, thanks! But then it prompted me to check yours too and guess what, you turn out to be the author of the only GoCho (GojoxChoso) fic I ever read and I read that like a while ago. Maan, you got good rare taste, I see! Been wanting to write a short one-shot for that super rarepair for ages but had yet the chance to lol. My friend and I barely found any scraps for them even after venturing to the JP fandom side *sobbing but hey always nice to meet a writer with adventurous soul for rarepair! :)

[girl-in-the-chairs-void]

Tu maan meri jaan; a string of headcannons (Teaser)

There is a severe lack of desi!reader fics on this app, so @birdy-bat-writes and I have decided to feed you guys with some Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin and his South Asian Mrs. Seresin…So, without further ado, may we present; a tease...

 I completely melt at the thought of Jake getting married to a South Asian bride and they make the wedding half Western and half South Asian.

Him seeing you in the wedding lehenga for the first time and just forgetting how to speak

“Main aur kisi ke bare main kaise soch sakta hoon jab meri duniya mere samne hai?” how can I think about someone else when my whole world is in front of me?

The aunties probably have something to say about how he’s just completely all over you, but you two don’t even care. You’re already too far gone into the bliss of your wedding preparations and traditions that nothing seems to affect your mood.

He will not stop referring to you as Mrs. Seresin for ages...

and many more coming soon...

Tags; tagging some of my favourite desi blogs, moots and people who just want to be included in a jake x reader:

@jaaneymann @love-strawberry @shurisneakers @we-out-here-simping @brekkers-desigirl @happypopcornprincess @tongue-like-a-razor @bussyslayer333 @blue-aconite @littlebadariell @ravenhood2792 @dempy @crthurston @fandomunite2107 @fandom-life-12 @elicheel @arson-tm @startrekfangirl2233 @roosterbruiser @roostersrooster @whoreforseresin @desert-fern

(I am not sure how many of you (the desi blogs) like Top gun but I hope you will enjoy this <33)

[gallifreyshawkeye]

Intro for anyone new, Hiya/Update for anyone from "yon olden days"

The tldr: my kids have brought new joy into old fandom and old hobbies and my older kiddo has asked me to finish the series PROPERLY and make Alec Hardy not sad anymore (😆) and to write Tentoo whump (child, you have NO idea what beast you have unleashed!).

So I have found myself coming back to this blog thanks to my kids after a hiatus of several years due to (partly) said kids taking up an increasing part of life, as they should, on top of everything else. BUT, they are now late elementary and early middle school age and I decided a few months ago it was time to properly introduce Doctor Who to them as a show to watch. So we started properly with Rose and Nine and they were hooked harder than I could have ever hoped. They chose to watch nothing else until they had binged ALL thirteen seasons in about only four months! It was amazing!

It was also really cool to watch it again from as fresh and unbiased a perspective as I think I'm ever going to get. 11 and 9y/o's aren't influenced by other fandom perspectives, I refused to give them any spoilers along the way, and the whole experience was overall just such an unexpectedly refreshing and renewing one I can't put it into words. It's also been fascinating to get their takes. Here are a few:

- Ten is both their favorite Doctor, but Twelve isn't far behind at all, and my 9y/o son has them at almost a tie. In fact, when I asked each of them which Doctor they would want me to write a fanfic about, my son picked Twelve.

- They both haaaaaaaated the hand waving-ness of Moffatt's grand story arc conclusions: the Doctor being brought back by Amy simply remembering him, the soppy/cheesy way Clara got the Time Lords to give Eleven more regenerations, the entirety of Amy's pregnancy, and for that matter River having regenerations simply by being conceived in the TARDIS they never bought into. You should have seen the skeptical looks on their faces when they heard that line given as an explanation! It was quite priceless! And like I said, I gave no spoilers, no personal opinion ahead of time, nothing. I deliberately let them simply watch the show for what it is.

- They both liked Bill and Nardol way more than Clara

- Both were super confused by the the absolute mess of character arc in Chibnall's era. Not so much for the Doctor, they thought she was ok, just kinda bland, but the Master. They were in complete agreement that nothing he did made any sense whatsoever.

- They were in disbelieving shock and over the moon when David Tennant showed back up as Fourteen when Thirteen regenerated, and they were FURIOUS that they were going to have to wait six whole months before the specials came out 😆

As an added bonus, my 11y/o also has become quite the David Tennant fan. They were so devastated when Ten regenerated, they immediately wanted to watch something else DT was in, so in the process of listing things off, I mentioned MAAN as something him and Catherine Tate did together that was non-angsty and even after emphasizing that it was Shakespeare, they still chose to watch it (not that I was complaining! ;) ). They were literally sliding off the couch with laughter at the absolute comedic perfection that is DT and Catherine Tate in MAAN, and it's been all things David Tennant ever since! I got lots of things thrown at me during the course of Broadchurch because of, and I quote, "His stupid sad eyes and his stupid face!" and I have been ordered to write a proper ending that makes him properly happy. So maybe I'll have to dust off the epilogue fic I'd been writing all that time ago and finish it off for good.

Meanwhile, Doctor Who has been rewatched from the beginning nearly all the way through again and is pretty much the only show my son currently chooses to watch besides his favorite Minecraft YouTuber (Grian, for anyone interested and who knows that realm of things).

So it's been in the process of both my children falling into these fandoms as much on their own as it is possible for children their age to do so, that I have found myself back here. It started because I was looking up some of the whump gifsets I made of Ten in the episode 42 to show my 11y/o, and partly as a confession of sorts to them of how deep into the fandom I used to be.

And then the specials came out and there was Fourteen's beautiful face and big sad eyes (yes my 11y/o has a phenomenal point!), and now I've also found myself relistening to all the Eighth Doctor audios, and idk, whatever the combination of reasons I've found a new joy in it all.

And it's all combined to make me feel like I can write again, like something's been freed or been unlocked. I can imagine scenes and character arcs and come up with new characters and revel in meta minutia that will never explicitly make it onto the page but is vital for plot consistency.

I feel like I found part of myself again.

[fateinthestars]

Star Crossed Myth Advent Calendar Fanfic: Day Twelve - Soft Cheeks (Aigonorus/MC)

(Twenty-Four days of Star Crossed Myth Flash Fics using this prompt list)

Title: Day Twelve - Soft Cheeks

Pairing: Aigonorus/MC (MC's name left blank so you can fill it in with whatever you wish in your head)

Characters: Aigonorus, MC, Huedhaut, Ichthys, Teorus, Tauxolouve, Leon, Zyglavis

Word Count: 876

Rating: T

Prompt: "A swift kiss to the other’s cheek"

Summary: After a long day, Aigonorus is sleeping in the living room with MC by his side, but the Mansion's living room is always rather loud once the others return...

A/N: Very minor spoilers for Aigo's route. Set after his promise of infinity story. (Also, yay, I finally have a finished Aigo fic to post. I've had a Wip for ages that I need to get back to).

Day Twelve: Soft Cheeks (Aigonorus/MC)

___ was lounging on one of the sofas in the living room of the God’s mansion, Aigonorus sleeping by her side with his head on her shoulder.

“I see some things never change,” Huedhaut commented as he came into the living room, sitting down on the sofa opposite. 

“We have had a long day,” ___ defended her husband, though she couldn’t stop a soft smile forming on her face.

Huedhaut reached for the book he had been reading, and looked back over to her. “If that’s the case, maybe you best get out of here before…”

“Evening Hue! Huh? You really reading right now?! It’s Christmas Eve! We’ve been on Earth enough years to take part in something more festive!”

“...” Huedhaut sighed heavily and put his book down, throwing ___ an apologetic glance before regarding the overenthusiastic Punishments God in front of him. “Ichthys, I was trying to be considerate…”

“Huh? Of what?” Ichthys looked around and his grin faded as he saw ___ and Aigonorus. He bit his lip. “He’s sleeping again? Maan. I woulda thought with ___ here he’d want to be awake for once! Hey maybe if I -”

“I wouldn’t,” came a firm but rather worried voice. Tauxolouve headed over to them and looked at Ichthys with a soft smile. “Need I remind you what he did last time you and Partheno decided to flirt with her? And that was before they were married.”

“Still though, shouldn’t we wake him up? They should spend this evening together,” Teorus argued as he also headed into the living room.

___ glanced back towards Huedhaut, now understanding what the other had been trying to warn her about. The others were clearly all heading back here and the living room was only going to get noisier. She hadn’t been lying when she’d said they’d had a long day, though. They’d gone looking at a Christmas lights display after he’d picked her up from work, and then they’d made marshmallows together. She was perfectly content to let him sleep for now, though whether even Aigonorus would be able to sleep through the commotion that was starting in this room was another question.

Just when she thought things might calm down - Dui had returned by this point and Ichthys and Teorus seemed to have moved on from talking about waking Aigonorus up. They could be talking about a prank but right now she didn’t care as it had made the living room quieter - the living room door slammed open with such force that ___ was surprised it didn’t fall off its hinges. It was enough to make everyone gathered jump.

Huedhaut turned towards the door, his eyes wide. “Leon, what is the matter?”

“Ask the anal-retentive glorified kitchen scale if you’re that interested in what the matter is. Or maybe make yourself useful and summon some of your wine.”

___ winced. It wasn’t that unusual for Leon to be annoyed with Zyglavis but this anger seemed something more than that. 

“Like I am any happier about this than you are, you wretched lion!” Zyglavis snapped, heading over to him.

Huedhaut frowned, a suspicion forming in his mind due to how they both were behaving. He snapped his fingers and summoned a bottle of his wine. “Leon, Zyglavis, why do you not explain what happened over a drink?”

As the room seemed to calm down once more, ___ turned her attention back to her husband, sighing softly as she realised he was now muttering about the noise under his breath and shifting, almost awake.

“Aigo…”

Aigonorus sat up with a yawn. He sighed, stretching a little before he turned to face her. Looking into her eyes he suddenly smiled softly. “You’re still here.”

“Of course. All time with you is precious.”

Glancing around to check that the others weren’t currently paying any attention to them, Aigonorus wrapped an arm around ___ before giving her a quick peck on her cheek.

“Aigo!” ___ stammered. “What if the others…”

“Meh, they’re all too wrapped up in their own conversations,” Aigonorus muttered. “Besides, it’s their fault I’m awake. ‘Sides, why shouldn’t I kiss my wife’s soft cheeks whenever I want? Did you not like it?”

As his smile faded into a worried frown, ___ sighed to herself and pulled him into a hug. “Of course I like it, Aigo, it’s just… aren’t you too tired to be bothered with the other Gods’ teasing right now?”

Aigonorus snuggled up to her. “Nah, you’re my energy right now. And whilst we had a lot of fun earlier, I hadn’t really got to hold you like this today yet either. You’re as soft as always.”

___’s cheeks flushed red and she looked sharply around the rest of the room, relieved when no one seemed to pick up on that comment. It was then when she managed to just about hear the words ‘... that damn trickster…’ out of Leon’s mouth and she realised that his and Zyglavis’ mood had likely been caused by the King, and now everyone’s attention seemed to be on what they were saying instead.

Hoping that no one else would enter the room in the next few seconds, ___ turned her attention back to Aigonorus and kissed him on the cheek as well.

[kiwiana-writes]

hi MJ just finished my reread of with so much of my heart and i wanted to tell at you here too! because!!! what the fuck!! what the fuck!!! i need to print it out and eat it. i need to watch this specific version of MAAN. i need to squeeze mary like a tube of toothpaste. what an incredible fic 💕💕

"i need to squeeze mary like a tube of toothpaste" made me fucking CACKLE I'm not going to lie. I have been deeply enjoying all your comments popping up today -- that fic is still so fucking special to me and it never stops being overwhelming that other people also loved it 😍

(Meanwhile, I need to actually finish my ficbind of this fic for @celeritas2997 and @ships-to-sail lmao)

[shieldofiron]

BTS: for Vecna Vision 3D?

Oh Maan... So many scenes are my favorite but the Joyride chapter going into Steve's Vecnavision is so actually my fave.

This whole sequence was in Steve's perspective and he's not exactly the most observant of guys so there's several layers of dramatic irony in him agonizing over Billy and coming to a realization about his sexuality at the worst possible time, aka in the middle of the upside down trying to get out. Meanwhile Billy's clearly having his heart broken by how well Nancy and Steve work as a team, and do things without thinking for each other. Poor Billy thinks its a failure of communication that he has to voice his needs (it's actually good communication.)

This sequence's got everything I want: Steve realizing he's bisexual, sexy wound tending, Billy ripping out a demodog's heart or something, car chases, Robin with a makeshift flamethrower, tender homoeroticism, and Vecna being THE drama.

Eddie and Billy flirt so much in this scene my beta converted to a full on metalsandwich reader mid-fic. Not a joke, she ONLY ships them as a triad because Eddie's SUCH a flirt. He really is just like that.

I wrote it on a plane to Austin, TX and didn't have wifi access but I mostly accurately got the town layout.

The cyclone of demobats is my favorite part, it took me a while to figure out where I wanted the sequence to go, but I love the idea of swarms and swarms of them attacking, like in The Birds. Side note, is the Creel house meant to look like this or like Bates motel?

They do show that electricity kind of does exist in the upside down, and that objects there are from a particular time, so Billy figures out pretty quickly that hotwiring a car might be a possibility. One thing I wanted to play with is that from the moment Billy figures out that the lake gate is a no go, he is not stopping until he gets them home, he can't even stand still for one moment. While Nancy is gathering clues, he's scavenging as quickly as possible. That's part of what makes him a good team member- he takes risks and works fast, because he's used to obstacles making things harder.

And can we talk about Billy's healing factor? I'm dying to talk about his healing factor. This is the first time we actually get to see him really use it, he grabs things with his bare hands that would make the rest of them shrink back in fear, like crushing demobat skulls with his bare hands. I particularly love the part where Robin asks about upside down rabies, and Billy says he's pre-infected. I wanted him to have that sort of careless dark humor about his powers, like a certain someone who shares a lot with Billy.

And finally, Steve's VecnaVision. While I appreciate Nancy's in canon, it doesn't reveal a whole lot, actually it seems to step her back in character development all the way to season 1. I understand Barb dying is her thing but it seemed a little less evolved. So I had to imagine what Steve's biggest fear would be. First, Vecna plays heavily on his intelligence, which is an obvious pain point, but then goes further. Steve is a really protective person, which of course Vecna sees as a weakness. I really wanted to show that Vecna is most powerful here, and that he can cause physical sensation, completely warping a person's sense. Why show someone a vision limited by the powers of boring physics when you can do anything. Steve's Vision includes a lot of earthly references, he's thrown through the ground, digging into dirt. He's very solid and defined, ans his sense of self is the same way.

Later when Billy goes into his vision, everything is liquidy, scenes dripping and swirling and drifting, because I wanted to show that Vecna tailors his vision not only to the person but the way the person views the world. Billy's in a moment of transition, and he feels sort of insolid and unsure about so many things. He loves the ocean, but there's a fear there too, because the ocean can also be loss.

Maybe when I write the sequel we'll get to see what Vecna would do for everyone else.

Unusual asks

[sleepinthrumyalarms]

i REFUSE to believe you're 19. you write as if you're a 30yo with a PhD in English omg your writing sends me to heaven

maan fr? i think my fic language is far from 'phd-in-english' type of complicated, like it's pretty simple

but thanks!! i try to improve a little every time i sit down to write

[dancepartyaroundthefairyring]

Maan I need a fic about Jason finding out Bruce tried to kill the Joker but kept being stopped by Superman

Does it fix the relationship, I dunno. But like, at least let Jay know his dad tried

[ezura-knightshade]

Where is the 50k (minimum) miscommunication crack fic where Crowley basically goes through all 6 stages of grief when he sees Michael naked in his husbands bookshop?? I need it like I need air to breathe.

Like just imagine him just driving around the car playing pop music (I don’t know much about old English music, so just deal with the modern stuff).

Denial - How to disappear completely, Better than me

Anger - Bad Blood, 10 things I hate about you,

Bargaining - Blue

Depression - Somebady I fucked once, Missing you,

Acceptance - Getaway car, we are never getting back together, Since you’ve been gone, What doesn’t kill you,

And the best of all

Revenge - Vigilante shit, Fuck you,

Uncategorised but they have to be there: Drivers License, Mr. Perfectly Fine, I can’t decide, Lo maan liya (I tried not including Hindi songs but damn it would fit!),

I can’t think of more rn, you can make that your job.