#iwillkeepfighting

[21st-century-ninja]

wild things update? in 2024? glory be! what a treat, thank you so much, it's fantastic

ALAJFKSLSNSBFFN WILD THINGS FAN?????

Tysm!!! I’m so glad to hear that you’re enjoying it!!

[tarvek-sturmvoraus]

hello I just wanted to let you know that your tags are on point. always good to see fellow screeching over the batkids.

alsdkfajsdf how did i miss this message for two months!!!!!! thank you!!!!!

(do you mean tumblr post tags or ao3 fic tags? either way!)

my ko-fi

[plothooksinc]

5, 11, 58 for fanfic ask game?

I'M SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG I pulled a muscle by stretching because hypermobility sucks as you get older and then I was like where is the meme did I leave it in my other pocket and then @shadowbends provided me a link like the goddess she is--

5. have you ever made a playlist about something you were writing as an elaborate means to procrastinate when you could have been actually writing and if yes drop a link, son

Mkay first off, HUSH STRIKEOUT I WOULD NEVER (I totally have)

I have two writing playlists. One is a general sweep TMNT stuff for all my different projects and is always in flux-- I put in songs I think of, songs attached to AMVs, official soundtrack stuff, suggestions from other people, and heck other people's playlists and then peel out the stuff I don't like (or associate too heavily with other stuff) because half the time all I need is "people associate this song with the guys" and that works for me. (It's also introduced me to a whole range of bands I really like.) It's here. It's not for any particular project, though, it's Literally Any Time I Open Up A TMNT Fic. (I have a skip button, I use it.)

The other one is a specific playlist for Zaibatsu Project with a heavy cyberpunk bent to it, and you can find it here. I did have a FFVII playlist for Misconduct, but that never made the jump to Spotify so I can't link that one. |D And I was making a MDZS/Ladyhawke inspired playlist for a... project... but that never got off the ground, so shh.

11. what’s something neat you’ve learned while doing research for something you were writing? also, how much do you worry about doing research in general?

I probably worry too much like every other writer out there, lmao. Uhh but I've learned a lot of fun stuff over the years! How long it takes to freeze to death, the different conductivity of heat away from the human body by various degrees of metal and moisture, a whole bunch of survival tactics for blizzard and avalanche conditions (yeah guess which fic I was researching here) and then the pile of fascinating stuff about NY underground because /gestures at the entire TMNT EU. Most things I learn are literally wounds and survival based because of the stuff I write, and a lot of different explosives and drugs because of the stuff I write, and I really should have a sticker saying Relax I'm A Writer up on my front door for when ASIO rocks up or some such...

58. what is the last thing that a fic made you google when you were writing it?

Side bar: Tumblr why can I not copy/paste more than one line anymore WTF Actually. The very mundane traditional roast dinner to make sure it was something that Americans actually did b/c Australia is very British-coded and I had one of those no-thoughts-head-empty times where I was like "wait, is this also a US thing???" Turns out it is with some mild variations, so OKAY THEN. (Very dull answer, I know.)

Thank you for the questions! <3

Meme is here.

[iwillkeepfighting]

Almost four years later, a third chapter appears.

(imo it works better with just the original two chapters, but I found this in my notes and liked it. so behold.)

[candiirabbit]

@iwillkeepfighting

shadow and maria deserve the world

[plothooksinc]

Soft asks: 3, 10?

3. what’s your favorite candle scent?

Honestly I haven't experimented much with candle scents, so I don't have a lot to go on here. I don't tend to light candles much b/c that requires me lighting a match first, which is a flinchy event for me! But on the rare occasion, I really like the smell of the ones I do have... and they're ...

...plain out vanilla. Honestly, people should just suggest their favourite scents to me so I can experiment. But the vanilla ones do smell extremely nice. ♥

10. What’s something you’re excited for?

I'm excited to finally finish a story for the first time since 2007. Everyone knew me for Underdark, which is also the last thing I finished, lmfao. It's getting harder to write recently because this sleep thing is throwing me hard, but I persist >:| Even if the chapters are getting ridiculously long. (Just think, I uploaded the first chapter with a general thought of 'lol bet it'll take me another month to write even the next sentence' and then my brain just flipped a switch and went nah. So. That's something to look forward to!)

Thanks! Soft ask meme here.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Don't go where I can't follow

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/SfXbQcP by IWillKeepFighting Robin might be dying, and it's Batman's fault. Words: 304, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 3 of Masks Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson Additional Tags: Mentioned Jim Gordon, Mentioned Alfred Pennyworth, Mentioned Leslie Thompkins, Injury, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Serious Injuries read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/SfXbQcP

[goodlucktai]

If you’d like another Rise prompt, maybe something about Donnie’s battleshell? If that’s too vague, maybe its origins, or maybe what Splinter thinks about it?

this is also set in the human splinter au <3

x

When Donatello was a baby, Yoshi didn’t worry quite as much about his soft shell. He and his brothers were all the same sort of fragile, questionable mutation and its potential effects aside, and Yoshi panicked over each of them an equal amount.

They played hard. They always wanted to climb and run and tumble. Yoshi is inclined to blame the ooze that psychotic goat-man alchemist pumped them full of, because blaming him is neat and comfortable and makes Yoshi feel warm inside.

But Yoshi has also spent a not-insignificant amount of his fortune on parenting books and magazine subscriptions, and according to the experts, children are just tiny crazy people who will run at full-speed into a wall multiple times for no reason.

Which is fine. Yoshi has been a papa for almost four years now and it’s quite possible that he’ll never want to be anything else ever again for as long as he lives. His boys have secured their place in his heart and no amount of broken windows or crayon-scribbled walls or gutted kitchen appliances (???) will change that.

The problem is that Donatello’s shell doesn’t afford him the same protection that his brothers’ do. He’s as fast and strong as the other three, and easily twice as smart, but he’s just not as hardy.

Yoshi has no idea what he would do without his credit card and his talent manager-turned-reluctant-godmother. Between the two of them, he has an answer for everything.

“I don’t want to,” Donatello announces before Yoshi has even opened his mouth.

“You don’t want to go roller-skating?” he says, affecting a tone of complete surprise. It causes Donatello’s chubby face to fold into an epic pout, which is adorable, which makes up for how frustrating he can be when he digs his little heels in about something.

“No, papa, I want to go. But I don’t want to wear that dum-dum thing.”

“Your Auntie Hala is going to cry for days and days when I tell her how much you hate the present she got you,” Yoshi tells him solemnly.

Donatello considers this. Then he says, “Don’t tell her.”

Ah, logic Yoshi can’t actually find fault with. He never would have guessed he’d spend his early thirties losing so many arguments with a turtle toddler. 

“You are wise beyond your years,” he says, wondering what it will look like when Donatello is a teenager, and whether or not Yoshi will survive it.

The ‘dum-dum thing’ in question is a modified back brace, meant for children with spinal disorders. Yoshi is pretty sure this qualifies. The reason Donatello hates it so much is the modifications Yoshi made to it; namely, the memory foam cover for his leathery carapace. It’s bulky and it slows him down and he hates falling behind the other three. Lately he’s taken to sitting out of their games because he would rather tinker by himself than wear the brace.

Yoshi is a little worried about that. He hasn’t come up with a way to make everyone happy yet, and he’s losing sleep trying to figure it out.

Leonardo pokes his head through the doorway. “Papa you said we were going,” he whines. “How come we’re not?”

“Negotiations have broken down,” Yoshi says, kneading his forehead with his palm.

“Dunno what that is,” Leonardo declares and visibly puts it out of his mind as not his problem. “Don-don, come on. We’re gonna skate.”

“No,” Donatello declares. His mouth is screwed up, brow furrowed, fully ready to be a little monster about it. “I don’t want to go if I have to wear the dumb fake shell.”

Leonardo tips his head to one side, considering this. It’s no secret to his brothers that Donatello has no fondness for the brace. This usually culminates in one or three of them helping him to escape it, and then hiding it somewhere stupid for Yoshi to find like the world’s worst Easter Egg hunt.

“We’re twins,” Leonardo says with all the unyielding certainty of a schoolteacher discussing matters with an obstinate child. “So we have to share. I’ll wear it, and then Donnie will wear it, and then it’s fair.”

Somehow—Yoshi can’t believe this, but somehow the logic goes to work. Donatello’s expression shifts from mullish to thoughtful. The most stubborn little treasure in Yoshi’s entire life is giving ground.

“It’s fair,” he agrees. He and Leonardo turn their big brown eyes up to Yoshi expectantly.

Honestly, Yoshi can’t believe he’s not going to have to wrestle Donatello into the brace for once in their lives. He’s a little embarrassed his second youngest child thought of this neat little solution before him. It costs him absolutely nothing to agree, and he straps the brace onto Leonardo’s back instead. When they get to the rink, one that Yoshi has unapologetically rented out for the afternoon so his kids can play freely, they’ll switch, and Donatello will wear it while the four of them turn inline skating into a contact sport.

And nearly a decade down the road, when Donatello is building advanced technology the way other kids his age are building blanket forts out of the couch cushions and Yoshi’s best sheets (re: his siblings) and he has long-since traded the brace for an armored shell of his own design, he goes from absolutely refusing to put it on to pretty much never letting anyone see him without it, ever, or else.

Because no son of Yoshi’s would understand the idea of a happy middle ground. It’s all or nothing, go big or go home in this house.

This is when the twin thing continues to save the day.

“Oh Telloooooooo,” Leonardo sing-songs, audible throughout the entire house, “Shell Time!”

“Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,” Donatello replies, but it’s a token resistance at best.

And when Yoshi wanders that way to check on things a few minutes later, he’ll find the boys in the garage. Donatello is chattering a-mile-a-minute at Raphael about the computer he’s building, and his older brother is nodding along agreeably even though he clearly isn’t absorbing a single word. Leonardo is sprawled on his plastron, head pillowed on his folded arms, letting Michelangelo go to town with glittery stickers.

Donatello’s soft shell will be covered by nothing but the blanket Raphael tossed over his shoulders, and Leonardo will wear the battle shell just long enough for his twin to relax his spine and sit without pain—because fair is fair.

[candiirabbit]

@iwillkeepfighting

...😎😎🌟

[0theghost0]

For the request party — any member of the Batfam with a serious case of Cowl Hair (also many congratulations on reaching that follower milestone! 🎉 )

BOOM

[plothooksinc]

Fic writer ask game— 13, 18, 19? (and tbh I did not read the whole list so. if there’s a number you were hoping someone would ask, insert it here)

13. what’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

I don't think I follow that many-- the only one I can think of is the one that says "if you're stuck, the problem is further back than you think" - this is almost always correct. Every other writing tip tends to be a "this works unless it doesn't" so it's kind of like EH.

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

A bit of Column A... though honestly, it's usually when I go to post the first chapter that I'm like "oh, right, title." And I'll often have had thoughts about it while writing that first chapter so will know more or less what I want to do. Zaibatsu Project named itself because of aforementioned "there are so many reasons to call it that on so many levels", but NRFTW was a case of "KJ, you can't call your fic Thinking With Portals that's too obvious, try again." So yeah. Mostly in the second half to end of the first chapter.

19. Has already been answered, STOP CALLING ME OUT I LIKE KIDNAPPINGS APPARENTLY--

ahem.

Honestly just about all of these questions look fun to answer, but nothing in particular is one I hoped for. These are plenty fun, though. :D Thanks!

Get to know your fic writer here!

[lloydskywalkers]

These WIPs are amazing and I don’t want to be pushy, but I would like to quietly encourage you and cheer you on to keep at ‘em, whether or not you share the finished work (Though of course we’d all love to see them, cough; that cannot be denied.)

hkndjgh this actually means a lot, you guys have no idea how much it means that you’re actually interested in seeing more of these :’D this has been a really good wake-up call to how many fics I’ve left sitting around, and it’s definitely jogged the hibernating writing side of my mind, so I really do plan on keeping at them! some of these that i’ve posted are just parts of bigger fics I have planned out, and I’d like to limit myself to three of those ongoing at a time XD

[candiirabbit]

@iwillkeepfighting

Doodle doodle

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Don't go where I can't follow

by IWillKeepFighting Robin might be dying, and it's Batman's fault. Words: 304, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 3 of Masks Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson Additional Tags: Mentioned Jim Gordon, Mentioned Alfred Pennyworth, Mentioned Leslie Thompkins, Injury, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Serious Injuries via https://ift.tt/SfXbQcP

[selnadeem]

Ohh Mama ❣️ I wish I knew then what I know now but thinking of you make it right. Are you still proud of me? #iwillkeepfighting https://www.instagram.com/p/CLmxT85hy1g/?igshid=iz4wlm03ah4g

[candiirabbit]

@iwillkeepfighting

Here is the Chinese Holiday themed series I drew last year!

had a lot of fun brainstorming abt each characters costumes. (inspired by @evanstanleyportfolio 's holidays art :)