#i bookmarked 'suffer the pain...' months ago but i had to reread it again

[liathgray]

Hi, I just wanted to scream at you for how amazing your writing is!!! It should be illegal for it to be this good! I read your fma a hop, skip, and a jump away series a couple of months ago (which i finished in about 3 days) and immediately bookmarked it and I'm still thinking about it months later! Its taking everything in me not to reread it again so soon, I'm serious! It lives in my head rent free these days. I have also read your fma an incomplete guide to parenting a couple days ago and I literally just finished your fma giants in the forest, but I had no idea it was you who wrote it until I finished the story and was looking through your previous works, then it all started to add up, which lead me here because I just love your writing so much and I had to let you know! You hit all of the characters right on the nose, they don't feel written, the feel like they're real breathing, talking, people. I feel like I'm watching this happen in real time, or like I'm watching a movie just because your writing makes everything feel so alive and smooth! I'm impressed with the banter between Roy and Ed, it just felt to realistic and natural (and quite funny too). It felt like you had a lot of fun writing giants in the forest, and I know it was a lot of fun (and heartache and pain and suffering) reading it! Now that I have found your other works, I am going to have go find out some way to pace myself so I don't repeatedly stab myself with amazingly well written angst and pain. Thank you so much for sharing your writing! You are amazing!! If I could, I'd give you infinity Kudos <33

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Dude i dont even know what to say like thank you??? I’m so so glad that my fics have been able to connect with you that much holy wow

Character writing is something i alway agonize over but am ultimately pretty proud of/ i think im good at it so its. Very nice to know its enjoyed. To know like ppl NOTICE the details and different voices gaghjhgdh makes my brain go brrr

Its been a while since I wrote Giants in the Forest but I remember having an absolutely BLAST writing the dialogue with Ed and Roy because their dynamic of “i hate you so much youre so annoying but also I trust you” is just so fun ur honour theyre both the worst

Im just babbling rn i guess im trying to say thanks too many words cause i wanna articulate how sweet this is to hear. Youre a gem my dude thank you

[captainkirkk]

✩ WEEKLY FIC ROUND-UP ✩

A collection of fics I’ve read (/reread) and thoroughly enjoyed in the past week-ish from all kinds of fandoms and genres.

Danny Phantom

we are all walking each other home by anthrop (Note: I love the way this author describes Danny and ghosts in general. They go hard in the body horror in their other fics, which I love) 

Danny’s eyes flare. “What?”

“Nothing,” Tucker says quickly, because he has a healthy sense of self-preservation and respect for the stupid amount of super strength and speed Danny’s got in ghost mode.

“It’s just weird to see Phantom look so casual,” Sam drawls, because her favorite thing in the world is to push a guy’s buttons when he’s already down, apparently.

Social Networking by ChaosDragon (PlotWitch)

Danny has always been aware of the dangers he confronts on a daily basis. Unfortunately for him, he's been too busy to learn how dangerous social networking can be.

Switch by dumbdpaus

Kwan doesn't really want to deal with Fenton's new ghost-powers problem, but he wants his mom to find out that he'd dared another kid to do something dangerous and irresponsible even less. So he strikes a deal with the runt: don't tell his parents, and Kwan will keep Dash off his back for three months and help him figure out how to stop falling through the floors.

For his part, Danny just wants to get back to normal and Kwan is the only one who even knows what the problem is, so he doesn't have much of a choice in who to turn to. Still, they're both just looking forward to when things can go back to normal.

Then other ghosts start coming through the portal and everything gets real complicated, real quick.

Les Mis

these things take time by sonhoedesrazao (+ podfic by klb)

He’s always wary of making assumptions; even more so when Grantaire is concerned. He knows he’s not the easiest person to deal with. People either like him or can’t stand him, and it’s easy to respond to those reactions, but Grantaire—Grantaire is hostile and mocking, Grantaire scorns his beliefs, and Grantaire stays.

can't cover it up by prouvairing

There is a raw pain in Enjolras’ chest, stretching his ribcage. Something that he cannot name, but tastes a little like grief and a little like shame, and it has nothing to do with Grantaire at all. And yet, it is on Grantaire that it decides to catch.

The Drunk Leading the Blind by juanjoltaire

When Enjolras is maced at a protest, he is left blinded, unclear whether or not he will recover. Grantaire volunteers himself as Enjolras's seeing-eye dog to guide him through his everyday life, while Enjolras remains clueless about how Grantaire feels about him.

ATLA

kintsugi by discordiansamba

After his ill-fated Agni Kai, Zuko is cast out of the Fire Nation without even so much as a hope of returning. Dumped on Earth Kingdom shores, he's forced to come to terms with the fact that his father likely wants him dead- and that maybe the Fire Nation was never that great to begin with.

That's the painful part.

The weird part? The weird part is breaking into a nobleman's manor in order to steal food, getting caught and then being hired to protect (babysit) said nobleman's blind daughter. Then again... maybe it's exactly what he needs right now.

(or, toph never got her field trip so now she gets to hog zuko for three whole years)

suffer the pain of losing your firstborn by TheTartWitch

this is what it looks like when your grandfather loves you but your whole family's emotionally constipated.

(except for your uncle, but that might just be all the tea he drinks.)

To Take Care by Haicrescendo 

Part 2 of What We’re Given

It’s a beautiful day on the Jasmine Dragon, the sun is shining, and Zuko has a Bad Feeling about it.

Or,

Zuko’s casual treason is interrupted by the Avatar, who is a child and a Pain In The Ass.

not as far west by howlikeagod

The two most wanted enemies of the Fire Nation escape house arrest. They also happen to be teenage boys.

Zuko and Aang take a break from firebending practice.

Natsume Yuujinchou

scrapbook by adventureboots

[image: A boy, maybe fourteen, stands on the porch of the Fujiwara household in a brand new school uniform. Slung over one shoulder is an old but well-loved leather messenger bag. In his hand is a brightly wrapped bento. The boy, although smiling, looks nervous.]

(or: Natsume learns to use a cell phone, text people back, call people first, and take pictures of his friends)