#nooooot tagging this more

[skyward-floored]

NAME THE WIDELY ACCEPTED FANON THINGS. if its okay with you of course. im just interested :D

Mmmm not really sure I want to share all of them, but... I think a lot of generally accepted characterization of Wind is just... off?

Hear me out. This is a kid who was raised almost solely by his grandmother, who has a baby sister who he also helped raise. He’s one of the only young adults on the island he grew up on, and is obviously responsible, dependable, and cares deeply for his family and friends, both old and new. But he still keeps his childlike aspects! He’s a happy guy despite the crap he’s been through, and is upbeat and generally positive through it all.

And I just rarely see a lot of those traits of his in fandom?

It feels like a lot of the time he’s relegated to as just “the kid who desperately wants to be seen as an adult” (who cusses and drinks to make up for it of course). Which he isn’t! Wind isn’t an adult and he’s okay with that. What he wants is respect, and to not be treated like he’s helpless, like just another civilian who can’t handle himself. These things are different.

Anyway, this is just my opinion, so don’t take this too seriously. And it’s not that it’s widely accepted exactly? Well except for the cussing. But eh.

[britneyshakespeare]

i survived high school theater culture

[distractedrighter]

Don't Cry Over Spilt Wine

Universe: Baldur’s Gate 3

Pairing: F!Tav x Astarion, brief F!Tav x Gale but it's not flattering lol

Rating: E

Prompt: When Gale’s proposition fails to leave Tav satisfied, Astarion saves the night.

Warnings:

I wrote this when Gale was really, really getting on my nerves in Act 1 because of the apparent bug. I didn't realize it was a bug at the time. I've since grown a bit more fond of him because I feel bad that his ex is literally asking him to unalive himself but the characterization for him in here is nooooot nice. So, stay away if that offends you <3 I will not be rewriting it lol

Dirty, dirty smut. Also if you’re not into blood, this ain’t the right pairing/fic for you.

Tags/Tropes: I’ve written a foursome and somehow this feels filthier than that, vampire sex, blood sucking, cunnilingus, blow job, vaginal sex, gale is a unwilling cuck, astarion is superior and he knows it, astarion actually enjoys the sex, they ruin a perfectly good party, Tav has a vampire kink?

Excerpt: “Darling, you’re sitting in front of a naked vampire with over two hundred years of experience. You didn’t really think I came out here just to hear about how Gale is terrible in bed, did you?”

[mostmagical]

word tag game!!

thanks for tagging me @coffeebanana!! I'm supposed to find the words breath, help, unfold and smile in my wips

breath: this actually came up 5 times in a wip where adrien wakes up and someone is in his bed so I had options

He stared with wide eyes as she continued to sleep peacefully, oblivious to the world around her. Her mouth was slightly parted, moving slowly in the same pattern as her chest gently rising and falling with each breath, a tiny drop of drool on the corner. Her messy dark hair stuck out in long tresses all across his pillow and over her neck. Laid on her side, she had one arm curled under the pillow, the other clutching tight to something against her chest.

help: from my duolingo reveal wip that honestly I forgot I had any words written for (it's the gerund form but I could not find help anywhere else lol)

Ladybug smiled warmly at the newly rescued akuma victim, gently helping the woman onto her feet with an outstretched hand. “Are you feeling any better now?” she asked. She felt more than saw Chat Noir as he walked over to stand beside her. “Anything broken?” he asked the victim. The woman’s mouth opened, and words came out, but all Ladybug heard was feedback, like a radio between stations.

no unfold :(

smile: from my wip where marinette is trying to tell adrien something important! it's an expansion of one of my hundred word drabbles :)

“Red or white?” Marinette bit her lip, trying not to smile as she answered, “Pass. Just water tonight.” Adrien shot a look over his shoulder. “Water? Are you sure?” She traced wayward patterns over the tabletop, a nervous habit made to look somewhat coy. “I’m thinking I might take a little…break from alcohol,” she said. “A cleanse. To flush the toxins.”

I'm nooooot really sure who to tag and a bit burnt out on picking random words lol so I'm actually going to tag @blur0se to remind you that you wanted to do this wip game that coffeebanana also tagged you in

[risesthemoons]

HELLO. IVE DECIDED MAYBE I SHOULD TALK MORE ABOUT THE FUBUKI CLONE AU (ppspss @garbage--account @kumagorosh SORY FOR TAGGING)

get this: this au now takes place in ares-orion and its just about fubuki being replaced by this very somewhat photogenic clone and threatened atsuya not to tell anyone about it orrr... this part will be just left out to what youll think happens next but anyways while there's this whole time traveling thing happening and an interference just occured it made some sort of tear to what is supposed to be inazuma elevens fix it au except a clone replaces the fan favourite (fubuki) and most of the characters have yet to know this while atsuya, he already knows that something is nooooot right with his brother then cue the he gets threatened part " don't tell anyone or I'll kick you with a ball " etc etc BUT that's pretty much it

tldr: tmc volume 1 but there's a bunch of kids playing soccer time traveling things fix it au is ruined and there's this kid who probably was threatened not to tell anyone knows that his brother was a clone but doesn't tell anyone about this for a couple of episodes until his said brother's clones leg got injured and was about to leave.

[dwarfsized]

tagged by the beautiful and amazing @aevallare thank you!!

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

9!

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

63,696

3) What fandoms do you write for?

it's all bg3 right now, but I've also written for critical role and the arcana (visual novel)

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1 - that's the kind of love ive been dreaming of (bg3, astarion/f!tav)

2- ain't it warming you (the world goin' up in flames) (critical role, jester/caleb)

3- Liebe ist Fürsorge (critical role, jester/caleb)

4- Fighting the Hurricane (critical role, jester/caleb)

5 - true colors shine in darkness and in secrecy (bg3, astarion/f!tav)

5) Do you respond to comments?

yes! i try to do the "comment when you upload the next chapter" thing but sometimes its been a while since the last chapter and i get embarrassed and just respond to everything in one big rush

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

where i left Fighting the Hurricane probably combined with the (checks notes) 1+ year long update hiatus, i am coming back for you baby i promise. i have plans for it. i just. god. so much happened to me right as i was working on it.

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

All of my fic ends happy (this will not always be the case, eventual AA!AU will be. well. i shan't say.) BUT, and this might just be because its my most recent finished work, i think new steps might end off on the most hopeful note.

8) Do you get hate on fics?

this has never happened to me and id love to keep it that way lmao

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

yes :) the only real posted smut ive got rn is that's the kind of love ive been dreaming of, but i have other smut in the works

10) Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Fighting the Hurricane doesn't count, really, but that's the closest we've got: its a Critical Role/Pacific Rim fusion.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i'm aware of

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope!

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i have nooooot, but i am not sure that the way that i write (terrible first draft and then editing for 1000 years) is very friendly to co-writing. I'm not against the idea at all though, its just. you know. i wouldn't want to torture a friend with the everything about me. maybe someday though!!

14) What’s your all time favorite ship?

in this house we multiship, peace and love. :) though honestly i made a joke once about retiring kira as an oc after bg3 bc of everything im putting her through after becoming so enamored with kirastarion so maybe that? sorry blorbo from my brain, enjoy the conciliation prize of elf dick.

15) What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

stares guiltily at Fighting the Hurricane ch 2, languishing on my wip pile. listen, i still fully intend to finish that story. i was doing cool stuff in there. the only problem is that my brain exploded while i was writing ch 1, and this wasnt supposed to be more than 2k words but i am myself, and i didnt use outlines then, so my notes are a mess.

also i cannot possibly underline enough the bit where my brain exploded. this is an exaggeration only in that none of it came out of my head, but i was Not Myself for a Long Time.

16) What are your writing strengths?

i think my internal monologue bangs. this is because i agonize over it.

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

moving characters around in the space is like pulling teeth and i feel like a solid 30% of my editing is focused on that. getting someone from point a to point b elegantly and without it feeling like "astarion got up. he moved his feet. he sat down. he looked out the window" makes me feel like walking into the sea

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I like it when it makes sense! Why does this character use another language? Does the reader need to know what they're saying? Is the POV character unfamiliar with the language? Does the reader learn anything from this? If you don't have good answers, why do it?

I find tieflings really neat, and bg3 does the typical dnd thing of "tieflings are looked down on," without, like, doing much with tiefling culture. So Ive had Kira use Infernal as a shortcut to create familiarity with other tieflings, and use it to have private conversations bc why would anyone but tieflings and people living in The Hells know that language--this solves some problems for her! And it creates others.

19) First fandom you wrote for?

Naruto...... once upon a time i wrote shikamaru/sakura fic. i was going to make a joke about that being my actual first longfic but i just checked and it literally isnt, i worked on it for a year and if you dont count the in-text authors notes (it was a different time) the whole thing is shorter than true colors chapter 4.

can you imagine me, now, updating something for a year and it being less than 11k. lol. lmao, even.

20) Favorite fic you’ve written?

eldath's mercy is my darling right now who also scares me to death. update coming soon (this week? i hope?)

i will tag @simon-says-nothing and @raccooncrimes and @septemberskye and YOUUUU reading this if you want to do it, tag me if you do!!

[bogunicorn]

Tagged in this by @hiatus-mxkelsifer (who I hope is having a restful and productive break from tumblr <3).

I tag @rosella-writes @little-lightning-lavellan @jellydishes and @dismalzelenka and @crackinglamb

What is your total posted word count on AO3?

80,301 on my main account, 129,814 if you count my alt account. I stalled out for a while and went on a deleting spree early in 2022, so if my incredibly basic math is correct, I think... 105,185 words of that (62,250 on my main) is from this year alone.

How often do you write?

When it happens it happens. I would love to say I write every day but I do not. I'm very feast-or-famine.

Do you have a routine for writing?

Nooooot really? I do my best writing while sitting up in bed, with my salt lamp on and some music playing and the hood up on my sweater.

What’s your favorite tropes/pairing?

My absolute favorite ship dynamic is "these two people are fundamentally the same, to know one is to know both, and their similarities are why their relationship is doomed to tragedy". (See: any relationship that Thayet Trevelyan gets into.) I also like it when one or both (or more) members of a relationship are deeply fucked up and they're doing their best, but their best is complicated and messy.

Do you have a favorite fic of yours?

I call it "the tentfic" when I'm being glib but this is genuinely my favorite bit of writing in a long, long time. It's pull the moon to the waves, a Solavelyan fic taking place during the journey from Haven to Skyhold.

Your fic with the most kudos?

I Could Be Into That, a ~200 word Spider-Man/Daredevil fic, believe it or not. Someday, I'll mosey back into MattPeter and do the MCU!Matt/ASM!Peter fic of my dreams.

Anything you don’t like about your writing?

I struggle with "trusting" the reader to pick up on things and end up removing a lot of tell-don't-show when I'm editing, and I have a hard time telling if that's to the story's benefit or not until it's posted and I leave it for a while. I also do a lot of "face choreography" or get lazy and lapse into just writing dialogue when what I should really be doing is taking a break and coming back with a fresher mind.

Now something you do like?

I think I'm good at banter and character chemistry! Enough, at least, that when I write fic I like to think people understand why these characters feel the way they do about each other.

[reiverreturns]

WIP Tag Game

Tagged by @aeide, thank you!

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

i’m writing in actively writing in two fandoms so here’s a 241 special (and more than one line bc i have zero self control and context is fun)

 AC Valhalla

“Where did you find this?” Vili asks.

“Not found. A so-called gift from King Aelfred in place of our danegeld.” Eivor’s frown crumples into an outright scowl as she stares at the cross in his hands. “He wished me to accept his soft-handed God as my own.”

“I take it he was not pleased to find another heathen beyond saving.“

“The mob chasing me from the walls of Wincestre would evidence that.” 

TGM

“You don’t have to,” Rooster says for the hundredth time. 

Phoenix huffs a deep, long sigh. She’s stateside, he’s finding his feet in Yokosuka. The first brush of dawn caressing her cheeks is his blackness of night. She switches the phone to the other ear and laces up her boots.

“I know, but I’m doing it anyway, so save me the trouble and tell me where to go.”

 i am nooooot tagging everyone bc of my own inability to follow rules but if you want to @thebahwrites @sereshaws @alethiometry @kasseivor! no pressure!

[moonfromearth]

Get to Know Me Tag!

[useless info edition]

Thank you so much @papiermaker for the tag!! 😊😊

What do you have under your bed? Shoes, mostly, and a few dolls that I'm still holding onto from my childhood.

Favorite candy? (be very specific if possible) Hmmm... It's probably twizzlers (the multicolored ones or the lemon and cherry goo filled ones or the original too... I guess just all twizzlers actually). (this makes me want candy now 😋😋)

Describe your favorite shirt... It's a deep navy blue long sleeved shirt with white strips running across it horizontally and a stretched out neckline.

The last thing you drew/doodled was... I think it was the macarons I drew on a postcard for the postcard swap a lot of people do during nano (national novel writing month). I've been wanting to draw characters from Bendy and the Dark Revival so bad though, but haven't had the time yet.

Are you completely sober rn? Yes (lol I can't even legally drink yet, I probably wouldn't anyway, just not my thing 😆)

What's the one thing that annoys you more than anything? I don't really think there's one thing that's more annoying than anything... I think it would be having to do a video game fight over and over again because I did something stupid, that's always annoying (especially when my brother's there cause, like, he's really good at video games and I always feel embarrassed).

Have you ever gotten your tongue stuck to a cold pole during winter? No but I can't be the only one who kinda wants to see it happen... For science.... 😉

If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be? I think in Greece because we have a vacation planned to go there and I can nooooot waaaaait 😄😄

What was the single last word you spoke? I said "Yeah" to my mom because she asked if she could have the last poptart... Which feels like such a weird answer 😅😅

Tag whoever you’d like to know better:

No pressure, though, of course, feel free to ignore 😅 @newcrests-townie @oswanily @aliennooboo @thepettymachine and @dandelionwishies

[bluemojave]

tagged by @blackreaches and @adelaidedrubman to make my oc’s in this picrew and take this quiz to see what the fandom would think of them! this picrew did nooooot work for my masc bbies, so the only one we’ve got is my lovely Rei Hawthorne:

who is having mixed feelings about looking like a magical enby from an anime. the answers to the uquiz are below the cut!

You Have So Many Fan-Fics About You: Cain

You have so, so much fanfiction, either because you're so shippable, or because you're hot. Maybe both. Probably both. You definitely flirt with everyone, either way. Tumblr and Twitter love you and showers you with queer headcanons. Reddit keeps a safe distance.

this is so fucking true. Cain is my charismatic-slight asshole-golden boy. my king. and this is also true based on how much work i have for everyone rn lmao

Answer Unclear: Rei

Oh, you. No-one can figure you out. Some people love you, some people hate you, some people just don't care. You're hot, but also ugly, but also bland. You're funny, but also serious, but also a kind of weird grey zone. Honestly, keep doing what you're doing. It's pretty cool, in my option. Though a lot of my friends would disagree.

yeaaaah. Rei is a hard character to figure out and i feel like she would have a more niche following, since she’s not really the main character as-is yk? the fics that DO center them would SLAP tho

Bastard (Complimentary): Atlas

You're a bastard. A wet cat, if you will. And we love you for it. You're a little shit, but in the good way. You are the baddest babygirl. You killed a man, but you looked good doing it. You flirted with the hero and the enemy. All of Tumblr is madly in love with you. Congrats, I guess?

if he got any other answer besides this i would’ve been shocked

Very Complex: Valentine

You hold the fandom record for most angst edits. The fandom is divided over "I can fix them" and "I can make them worse." You have some severe past trauma and are probably queercoded. The writers had a lot of fun giving you more layers than an onion.

bb he’s not queer coded he’s the whole damn fruit bowl. but yes. he is also constantly trying to fix himself and making himself worse <3

Tragic: Miles Cooper

You're the sympathetic villain who does not-quite-bad-enough-stuff-to-be-hated for a very good reason. And you're redeemed by dying. Everyone's angry about it, you could have had an amazing redemption arc if you lived.

the thing is, despite the fact that yeah being a super soldier means he’s often doing villainous things alongside him helping out Loki bc of their situationship, i don’t think too many would see him as a villain? idk, this is the one that fits the least to me.

[mistocore]

i want to write SO bad but i need to PLAN first but i HATE planning

[thecolouryes]

things i have learned since coming back to the hellsite after 5 years:

1. some people never left. i have mutuals who are still blogging the exact same things they were when i left.

2. i still have Feels™ about spn

3. the background color changed. again. not that this site was ever any good, but it definitely hasn’t been any good since the website stopped being teal.

4. in my hiatus i learned how to curate content. you do it like this: unfollow people, block posts, add tags/words to your content filter of choice. then don’t click on the fckin post when it has blocked content.

5. i was gone just long enough to feel like a boomer interacting with this hellsite again, so i think we’re in a good spot actually

[gonemechaniic]

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉!

Tldr;; don't try to be my friend just in the hopes to get a ship. 

So I’m slowly beginning to discover things that are kinda making me uncomfortable regarding ppl trying to ship with Cindy...

Like I know in my rules ( which I have like 3 different links for so... pls fuking read them ) it states any shippy/nsfw memes sent w/o prior IC interaction or OOC conversation first will be treated as purely platonic or disregarded entirely... so yeah I would like to actually get to know the person writing the muse who’s into my muse, but just giving me the "hi hello how's your day *insert random niceties* cute emoji" and ghosting tf out is nooooot the way to go about it. 

I get that it's hard for people to really open up at first, it's the same with me sometimes, I’m either keyboard smashing or I’m just “s’up o.o”. I’m not asking anyone to go to the extreme, but if your muse wants to vibe with my muse, you gotta make some effort cause I'm rarely a spontaneous BFF and I'm not an insta shipper by any means. To me, chemistry has to be with between both mun AND muses. If I'm not feeling it, more importantly if I can't see any longevity with it, then I'm not going to fully engage. 

Like if you're JUST sending in ship related memes when I know for a gd fact that I have reblogged so many completely different variants prior then that to me is a pretty clear indication that you're not actually interested in Cindy as a person but what she and I could give to you as a ship partner.

And if you’re gonna try and turn around, or call me a hypocrite and say “ grr well you’re in a ship with blehblehbleh and that happened pretty fast harumph!” Yeah and guess what you don’t know; those are usually people I’ve known for YEARS, I am COMFORTABLE enough with them to explore that shit without reservations. And you don’t who tf I’m talking to over disco or through IMs so you can kick rocks straight into the fires of fuking Mordor for all I care.

Also, not entirely related, but don't randomly send me things that placate to her oversexualized aspects. I literally see that shit every time I cruise through her tag in hopes that I don't have to see her T&A out and about town. Yeah she’s hot, we have eyes, WE KNOW. 

Ugh I’m tiiiiired.

[remmushound]

The Mutant Games Chapter 3, Hide and Seek:

Summary: The first game commences

Tags: @brightlotusmoon @ilo-artistry @scentedcandlecryptid @selfindulgenz @spottedears

Content warning: Blood, death, bold words, swears

Notice: Fren and Ivan belong to @selfindulgenz and I own no right to them

“The first game will be Hide and Seek.”

Hide and seek? Leonardo started to laugh. If he couldn’t win at a game of hide and seek, then he couldn’t even call himself a ninja! Now the obstacles made sense— the field was just a large playing court! Then he remembered that the games had been arranged by Big Mama and suspicion immediately slammed back into him. That couldn’t be all there was!

The players seemed, for the most parts, uneasy. The iguana that had made such a fuss of his number before was still smiling as he made his way to the very front of the group, right up against the starting line, while the flustered frilled frog made the quick choice to follow after him. The horse that bore the number 96 was among those in the front too, as was the brown fox. Leonardo, not wanting to be pressed back, was quick to force his way into a front and center placement.

“The rules of the game are as follows. The game will take place over the course of ten minutes. During those ten minutes you, the hiders, will try to make your way across the field while taking advantage of the various hiding spots provided. On the opposite side of the court is a very special little android that will detect anyone not hidden by the time he stops counting, and that player will be eliminated. He is the seeker. Make your way across the white line on the opposite side of the court in the alloted time to win and move on to the next game. Should you fail to cross the line in the alloted time, you will be eliminated. Should you be caught by the seeker, you will be eliminated. The game will begin in ten seconds.”

Okay. That seemed easy enough. Leonardo shook off any jitters that remained attached to him. A game. That was all it was, a game! Hide and seek. He played that with his brothers all the time! Ten seconds passed like hours, and the giant timer above the field started to count down from ten minutes.

“One… two…” A high voice sounded over speakers, “Three… four…”

Were they supposed to be moving? Leonardo wasn’t sure, and no one else was either.

“Five… six…”

Leonardo shuffled slowly out into the court.

“Seven eight nine ten!” The last four numbers were read in quick succession and Leonardo dove for the closest hiding spot. “Ready or nooooot!”

A red beam scanned across the field, the light emulating from the robot’s glowing eyes. Leonardo held his breath, and he couldn’t help but find his eyes exploring the court. Then he saw that turtle girl again, hiding in a spot adjacent and slightly ahead of him. He hadn’t even seen her move! She looked back at him as she felt his gaze, and her eyes held stories that Leonardo couldn’t begin to read.

“One… two…”

More mutants were venturing out now, gaining the courage as followers to move as The Seeker counted.

Fren the frilled frog was finding it hard to keep up with Ivan the iguana. He was twice as fast, twice as confident, and twice as careless. When the counter got to eight, Fren found the nearest spot— she had to shrink to fit inside the small barrel. But not Ivan. Ivan kept on walking, several spots ahead of Fren and still going. At the very first sign of the word ten, he moonwalked behind a pole and bent himself in such a way to remain hidden as the laser sought the field. The robot scanned, and then covered it’s eyes again to count.

“Ivan— Ivan!” Fren hurried to keep up with the iguana, who seemed more busy playing his games than paying attention to the counter. “Stop goofing around! You’re gonna get us caught!”

“Dance with me, Fren!” Ivan took Fren by the hand, spinning the frustrated frog around and around several times before ducking with her under the cover of a cardboard bush as the counter ran down.

“Ivan— stop it! Ivan?”

Fren hadn’t expected Ivan to actually stop. He wasn’t even looking at her anymore— he was looking back, much farther back, to the starting line. One player— player 222– had moved not one step into the field. Fren checked the time limit and it displayed a great bold 8 minutes, enough time for them to get across but not if they weren’t constantly moving. The robot was counting again, but instead of moving forward, Ivan dropped Fren rather abruptly and began back toward the start line.

“Ivan!” Fren looked at the timer again, and then back toward her friend.

“Yeah, yeah, I’ll be right back.” Ivan’s voice had no worries in it, “go hang out with that other frog dude, I’ll catch up.”

At the front of the pack, Leonardo was growing more and more confident by the minute. He was almost halfway there, with over seven minutes to spare. If he had known it would be this easy, he wouldn’t have wasted time worrying about it! Sure, the amount of hiding spots offered were growing more scarce by the second, but as long as they all took turns going across the final stretch, he was certain everyone could make it. In complete opposition of Leonardo, the turtle girl seemed to be growing only more anxious. Never once did she venture anywhere where she wasn’t directly behind a hiding spot, crouched and slow yet still managing to surpass Leonardo more than once. She would stop, always at seven seconds even when she had three more seconds of possible advancement! She would be quick to make it up, but Leonardo was certain she could have been even quicker if she didn't waste those precious moments.

“Why so anxious?” Leonardo finally asked during one of the hiding periods, where he and the other mutant had no choice but to face each other, “It’s just child’s play!”

She rolled her eyes— rolled them all the way around until she was looking back. Her eyes constricted.

Meanwhile, Ivan was almost to the start of the game once more. He waved a friendly gesture to the lizard child, who seemed like a statue stuck in place. Ivan was sure he could help the kid out and be back with Fren in no time!

Fren hadn’t moved from her waiting spot despite Ivan’s insistence that she move on; she was there, looking back at him, waiting for him to duck under cover but he just didn't! Wasn’t he listening? Didn't he know that the robot had counted to ten and was already uncovering its eyes. Didn't he know—

“IVAN!”

“Huh?” Ivan turned around to see why Fren was so frantic. It was just in time to see the sea of red light closing in on him like blood creeping across the grass. “Oh!”

He tried to dive for cover, but the red was faster. It scanned over him.

“PLAYER 69 ELIMINATED.”

“Ah shi—“

There was a BANG, and an echo, and a thud. And there was sticky crimson that turned the red of Ivan’s shirt a much brighter shade. Ivan stumbled, his eyes so wide that they might have tried to jump out of their sockets! He stumbled some more, tail tucking and then lashing and trying to keep him balanced as his hands clutched the spot of entry on his abdomen. He didn't even feel it, it happened so fast, but he knew it was there. Ivan fell to his knees and slumped over dead.

“Ivan…?” The soft voice of Fren stood out among the gasps and the horror sounds that rebounded through the players.

“Oh my god…”

“What the…?”

“Is he?”

“One… two…”

“IVAN!”

Fren ran back, back to her friend while everyone fled the opposite way all around her. Many were blinded to the timer now, blinded to the seeker. Blinded to everything except getting away! Fren fell down beside Ivan, pulling him into her arms and trying to shake some life back into him. He felt warm— he was still warm— but he wasn’t moving. Fren put her head to his chest and there was no breathing, no beating. The bullet, wherever it had come from, seemed to have gone straight through.

“Ivan…”

“Eight… nine…”

Fren was yanked away by a force that grabbed both her and the child behind the line. Ivan’s blood was sprayed all over the lizard child, her eyes like moons and pupils pinpricks. The great green stallion, Rhett, bore both burdens under one arm as he ducked with them behind the only spot big enough to hide all of them. Multiple gunshots rang out, claiming the lives of those who had decided to simply make a dash.

“What the hell…?” Leonardo was among those that hadn’t dared to move on the first round following the death of Ivan. One unlucky soul had eaten a bullet right beside Leonardo and it took every ounce of self control the terrapin had to stay put even as the blood pooled around his feet. He looked to the other turtle.

The girl hadn’t moved from her spot either, not even to follow the rush. Maybe it was too much of a risk for her, too much potential to get swept up in the panic of players. Leoanrdo tried to count bodies, but once he got to ten he just couldn’t count anymore. He couldn’t stomach it. The girl didn't look back, or down, or at anything other than the finish line. The counter started again, and she started to lead the pack carefully over the strewn bodies and toward their secured future.

Leonardo started to move again only once the seeker had gotten to five and he realized he was running out of time. There were four minutes on the clock. Four minutes to get through the game, four minutes to survive. He started to walk and he was making good progress until a rough-scaled shoulder shoved against him, knocking him out of the way. Then there was a figure of furry brown to push him back down when Leonardo tried to get back up, and a slimy green one did the same right after.

The seeker reached nine and Leonardo ducked once more into a hiding spot so conveniently placed that he could look ahead and see the ones that had bullied their way past, and he knew exactly who they were. Mud Dogz. There was no doubt about it. The ogre in blue led his team to hide behind the same placement, crouched and huddled together though not quite touching. So it wasn’t just mutants here after all…

Leonard looked back at Leonardo and he smiled, showing crooked yellow fangs.

“Be quicker next time, turtle boy.”

“You know, we’re never going to get out of here if we don’t work together.”

The ogre rolled his eyes, and when the seeker started to count again Leonardo was on his feet in an instant— and then flat on his face in the next as a stuck-out leg tripped him. Leonard and his team of wicked yokai laughed, and one by one trod over Leonardo as they made their way further and further ahead. Whatever; they could do whatever they wanted, who was Leonardo to tell them what to do even if their choices were stupid.

Leonardo stood up— or at the very least he tried to before two very strong arms seized him and pulled him back into a hiding position.

“Ow— for once couldn’t someone just politely wave me over? Like this! Hey, Leonardo, this is me politely waving you over! Oh really? Then let me politely make my way over there! But noooo!”

The mutant turtle rolled her eyes and nodded her head to the side, motioning for Leonardo to follow her. Leonardo obliged.

“Uh. You do know the finish line is that way, right?”

She shook her head.

“Yeah, it is.” Leonardo nodded enthusiastically, “See? It’s right there! And by the way, what even is your name? That is kind of important in the introduction process. For example, I’m Leonardo, and you are?”

She nodded to the barrier that she had led Leonardo to; a lightweight foam barrier secured with pitches like one might secure a tent with.

“I… don’t understand.”

Still kneeling, the girl carefully undid the pitch on her side. Leonardo understood, and he undid the latch on his side so they were now supporting the foam between them. The seeker was seeking, but the hider girl started to move and so too did Leonardo have to follow, lest he be caught in the red. The scanners passed over them and found nothing but a registered barrier, and it just kept passing over. It didn't detect motion, after all! Just people.

They passed by the Mud Dogz and Leonard stared at them like he was witnessing an act of God itself; his jaw fell slack and open, and for a few seconds he allowed himself to stare as Leonardo blew a raspberry in his direction. Then Leonard was yelling at his team, and the three started to unsecure their barrier as well. Within two more rounds of counting, everyone else was copying the motions, walking without risk of being caught in the open, without need to switch spots. The last players, at what was practically a full sprint, managed to cross the line with not a second to spare as the timer went off and the game was over.

[useramor]

2021 fic year in review that i should've done days ago!

tagged by @tinselbuck aaaaages ago but i wanted to post a few more fics before i did this so i would have more fics to choose from lol!!

Total Number Of Completed Works: 5

Total Word Count: 44.8k (on ao3- 49k counting the prompt fills on here)

Fandoms I’ve Written In: 911!!

Looking Back, Did You Write More Fic Than You Thought You Would This Year, Less, Or About What You’d Expected? more for sure! especially considering i wasn't totally in a major fandom this year until i started watching 911, and i only started posting fic in december so to get 45k (not counting wips lol) in one month is pretty sweet!!

What’s Your Own Favorite Story Of The Year? i really like i think i wanna merry you actually! also a fan of i wanna get stuck in your head (maybe i'll be brave enough by then) they're both just rly sweet lol but on different ends of the spectrum (one is a sickeningly fluffy get together fic and the other is established relationship/proposal so)

Did You Take Any Writing Risks This Year? the NYE fic i posted is like... 50% smut and i am nooooot a smut writer lol but i wanted to challenge myself cuz i would love to have smut as a tool i can use in my writing and i actually don't hate how it came out

Do You Have Any Fanfic Or Profic Goals For The New Year? yeah! i have a few longer wips i wanna post and i wanna hit 80k words in january (i did 70k in december, i wanna see if i can increase it by 10!!)

Most Popular Story Of The Year? easily call me by your name it's at almost 600 kudos which is the most of ANY fic i've ever posted regardless of fandom! and i posted it 3 days ago so the response to that fic in such a short period is like so cool to me

Story Of Mine Most Under-Appreciated By The Universe, In My Opinion: idk honestly!! i don't rly think any of them are under appreciated? i think it's very sick that every time i refresh ao3 my fics all have new kudos's and i would say i want your midnights but i posted it at like 4pm yesterday (it's 11am for me rn) and it was nye so i cant rly expect it to have like 1000 kudos considering that

Most Fun Story To Write: i think i wanna merry you maybe? just because i came up with the concept on december 22, wrote the whole thing in one go, and managed to have it edited and posted by the 23rd so that was a fic accomplishment for me lol (i also think the title is cute sdfgkjh) but also call me by your name cuz it's the first not canon compliant fic i've posted so it was fun to explore the different scenarios and all of that

Most Unintentionally Telling Story: i don't think i have one actually? oh j-fucking-k it's not posted on ao3 but it's probably this fic which was just a prompt fill on tumblr but any sad eddie shit i write i guess is the most telling but honestly i don't project onto the characters i write too much cuz i highly HIGHLY doubt anyone wants to read that (also i'm so repressed i give eddie diaz a run for his money i am not touching my feelings with a twelve foot pole idfc)

Biggest Disappointment: hit a bit of a writers block w a wip i love dearly </3 but it's ok bc it is literally so specific and detailed that i'll probably go back to it after i finish the OTHER wip i started and also the other wip i have outlined after than and maybe i'll just write at the same time as the third wip....... ha ha .......

Biggest Surprise: writing at all ? don't get me wrong i write plenty throughout the year (big BIG fan of writing scripts and screenplays lmao) but i mean writing for fandom. i don't have too many fics posted at all but since i started watching 911 i've put out 5 fics for it (3 being above 10k too which fucks so hard) so that's fun :D

My Favorite Part Of Fandom This Year: i looooove being in fandom. idk i always have. i've been in fandom and on tumblr for hot minute but this fandom has been such a nice one :') and i rly like writing for buck and eddie! so i'm just rly happy everyone seems to at least enjoy reading it a little lmao

not tagging anyone cuz i was tagged in this like..... a while ago. and i'm sure you've already done it. but if u want to u can consider this me tagging u go right babycheeks

[wolffyluna]

Fic Writer Meme

 I was tagged by @thou-breath-of-autumns-being and @eldritch-elrics. Answers under the cut.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

135

2. What’s your total AO3 wordcount?

387198

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

There’s 22 of them, using a sensible-ish count. There’s Age of Sigmar, MCU, Dragon Age, Dragonshield (yes, the card sleeves), Dungeons and Dragons, Fire Emblem Awakening, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Guild Wars 2, Warhammer 40k, Heaven Will Be Mine, We Know The Devil, Keychain of Creation, Overwatch, Revolutionary Girl Utena, The Adventure Zone, The Magnus Archives, Silmarillion, Undertale, Voltron, TGCF, MDZS, Nirvana in Fire

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

‘The Heat Talking’ - Overwatch omegaverse. It’s popularity is very explicable :P.

‘A Stained Glass Variation of The Truth’ - Xianle Trio sickfic, featuring Mu Qing have a lot of feelings about looking after Xie Lian. This is one of the ones where I look at it’s popularity and go “[nods] my audience has Good Taste.”

‘Let Bastion Say ‘Fuck’‘ - Overwatch crackfic. I wrote for Overwatch a while ago. Those fics are very much not my best work. And Yet.

‘though shadows fall’ - TGCF HuaLian post nightmare hurt/comfort. (which reminds me, I should really write some HuaLian post nightmare hurt/comfort where Hua Cheng is the one who has a nightmare.)

‘All That Can Be Done’ - Overwatch Genyatta angst featuring Zenyatta dying of a God AI virus.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to, I really do, but... if I reply, the comment no longer shows up on the ao3 homepage. I do intend to reply, but the lure of having comments on my homepage wins out most times.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Probably either ‘All That Can Be Done’, the aforementioned fic where Zenyatta dies of a God AI virus and gets killed by Genji, or ‘Always Neater In Morality Plays’ where Sazed successfully poisons and kills Taako.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so what’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I don’t really write much crossover fanfiction?

...Though I am right now doing an rp featuring a character from a historical tv show set in the Tang dynasty accidentally time travelling into an AU version of the Handmaid’s Tale, so, uh, that’s probably the wildest crossover I’ve been involved in.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yes. I’ve received a few “you’re characterisation is bad and you should feel bad” and “how dare you write something to your tastes and not my tastes!”

‘Always Neater In Morality Plays’ got a... bad reaction. Including a popular blogger vague posting about in a way that made it obvious exactly what fic it is and how grody they found it. They may not have linked the fic directly, but, uh, everyone knew. (And I may have also sent an ill-advised ask along the lines of ‘you have the right to vagueblog whatever fic you like, but for the love of peace could you at least check who is following you, so you don’t put ‘oh god, isn’t this fic the creepiest thing ever?’ straight onto the dash of the author?”  And also a chunk of the TAZ fandom blocked me*.

And then several years later I found out ‘snuff’ meant something different than what I thought it meant (I thought it just meant ‘focus on major character death!) which added an embarassing glace cherry on top of that sundae of bad.

*This became sort of funny when some of these people got into the Magnus Archives. “Oh, so you draw the line at graphic depictions of poisoning, but someone exploding into a shower of worms is fine???”

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I do, yes. As for what kind-- well, my ao3 exists and is a relatively comprehensive survey.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nooooot to my knowledge?

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but if anyone wants to-- [makes ‘call me’ gesture].

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, not yet. I’d be potentially interested in doing one, maybe one of those ones where one person writes one chapter and then another person writes the next. At the moment I have a friend who is also interested in maybe doing that, we just don’t currently align on fandoms.

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

[whine] Don’t make me choose between my babies!

14. What’s a wip that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

‘A Shattered Angel And A Broken Fist’. It was one of the earlier fics I wrote, back before I learned that if I wanted to write something long, I needed to have an idea of how it was going to end. I lost momentum and now... I honestly have no clue what should happen next? I have re-read and gone “yep, some stuff should happen. Not sure what stuff.” So while a lot of people like it and it would be nice to finish, its probably not happening.

15. What are your writing strengths?

Hmm, I think I’m reasonably good at dialogue? I’m honestly not sure what my strengths are. I don’t mean this in a low self confidence way, more that I know I don’t have an outside perspective on my writing, and like a fish, I’m not super aware of the water I’m swimming in.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

I have a bad habit of people have conversation in Blank Windowless Voids of No Description.

I also have a less bad habit of trying to fill those voids with a) geology and b) Australian fauna and flora. This causes problems when the pov character has no reason to know geology, and the story is not set in Australia.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I am one of those people who pretty much only speaks English, except for the a bit of “Je m’appelle Wolffy. Le chat est petit.” So I don’t write dialogue in other languages. Too much risk of embarrassing error, for not much gain, when you can just use italics or something.

I do have a lot of thoughts about translation conventions in fic where the characters would not be speaking English, and things like whether to live honoriffics. The thoughts are a bit unformed, but mostly revolve around being consistent at least within a fic (no characters being “Your Highness” in one paragraph and “dianxia” the next), trying to avoid the affect you sometimes find in anime fics were every third word is in Japanese, and also trying to maintain character voice. (I occaisionally have moments of “yes, there is an English translation for what this character calls this other character, but it’s not what they canonically say and it’s going to bother me deeply if I only use English.”)

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Depending on how you define ‘fandom’ and how you draw the line between historical fiction and historical rpf, my first fandom was the Bagoas fandom. Not the Bagoas what followed Alexander the Great around, no, the vizier who was around before him.

...I was like twelve at the time, just to make this weirder.

19. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

[whines harder] don’t make me pick between my babies!