#oh gosh. so many ships apply... what to tag what to tag...

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

Weekend WIP Game

Thank you for tagging me, @rmd-writes and @thisbuildinghasfeelings!

I know I am very late to this, but it is still technically the weekend here in the Pacific time zone, so here we go. I'll be using the questions for Artists/GIF makers. (There are also questions for writers in @welcometololaland's original post!)

Rules: List your WIPs below (if you only work on one project at a time, feel free to include future WIPs/ideas!) then answer the following questions. Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs (or more).

1. WIP List:

I am so afraid to see these all written out in a way where I can count them. [deep breath] This is a rather mixed-up list of gif sets for 911 Lone Star, Schitt's Creek, and The X-Files. Also, since they're gif sets, they don't really have titles, just nicknames:

husbands fancy dinner lizard arc kisses quotes of devotion come rain or come shine spin instructors flashbacks yes way meet the parents until i'm okay, too pile of good things best man wedding attire tk stays capable and decent unspectacular things endless act of being loved gravity of hearts simply the best reassuring head kisses he's a jungle cat wedding behind the scenes soft light/tooms/squeeze hope is messy iris/tk arc you are good and i love you

2. Which WIP is your most complex?

Oh gosh. Anything that involves coloring of more than one scene, really. That's what slows me down. And pretty much all of these fall into that category. Which is a big part of why they're not done yet.

3. Do any of your WIPs involve you using a technique/style that you haven't used before? What inspired you to try it?

Um. Possibly? I'm not far enough along to know for sure, but I think a couple of them might involve trying out a new text treatment.

4. Which WIP do you expect will take you the longest?

I am historically a very bad judge of this. Lol. There are plenty of potential obstacles in that list. I'm afraid to jinx it/make things worse by saying anything specific.

5. Which WIP are you finding the most enjoyable to create?

The "lizard arc" set has been very enjoyable to play with. And I suspect that "he's a jungle cat" will be very fun to eventually get back to.

6. Do you have a favourite character to draw/stitch/paint/depict? Are they in many of your WIP projects?

Hmmm. Not really. I mean, I certainly tend to focus on my favorite ships, but I can't really pick a favorite from that group.

7. Which WIP do you experience the most self-doubt about. Why?

All of them. Because I am self-taught and constantly second guessing absolutely everything.

8. Have any of your WIPs been struck by the curse of creator's block?

I suppose so. Although It's more lack of energy or just… utter frustration that results in a WIP getting a time out.

9. Do any of your WIPs contain characters outside the main ship? How are you finding creating those?

Yeah, definitely. There are a couple on that list that focus on other relationships.

10. What emotions are you hoping to convey through your WIPs?

It varies. Some are angsty. Some are meant to be funny. But I think, in general, they are all trying to convey love.

11. Are there any features/details you are finding challenging in your WIPs?

[gestures wildly at the lighting teams on every show, thwarting my best efforts to see what's going on]

12. Which WIP has the most complex shading/colouring?

Don't know yet. All of them. Lol. I can tell you that the "fancy dinner" set has been in time out for months now. Because of lighting and coloring.

13. Which WIP has the most complex background?

Not sure this one applies to me.

14. Which WIP do you have the highest expectations for?

Oh, I really don't know. My opinions here change all the time.

15. Do you dream about any of your WIPs?

I normally do not remember my dreams. But very recently, I dreamt that I had finished one of those sets. I was very disappointed to wake up and realize it wasn't true.

16. Do any of your WIPs have particular complexities that your other art doesn't?

Hmm, I don't think so.

17. Are any of your WIPs commissions?

No, but some of them are friendly requests or things that came about from chatting here on tumblr.

18. Do you have a character that is more difficult to draw/stitch/paint/depict? Are they in many of your WIP projects?

I'm going to go with Patrick Brewer. That boy's face just… goes nuclear bright whenever I try to brighten a scene overall. There are a lot of rather pale characters on that show, but they take pretty well to coloring/brightening. He does not.

19. Tell us one thing we don't know about one or more of your WIPs.

Um. Some items have been on that list for years. They're not abandoned, I promise. I am just not in charge of the creative process.

Since it is barely the weekend for me anymore (and no longer the weekend for many of you), please consider this an open tag!! If you'd like to play along, go for it. Even if the weekend has passed you by.

[isleofair]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers!

I was tagged by @nicoroni (and I am also tagging them back 💙) (Trust us, it works. )

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

12 as of a couple of days ago! 🥰 2 are from last year and 10 are my progress so far in the 2023 - Year of the OTP Challenge (my beloved 💖)

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

212,706 (that's about a Moby Dick's worth of words! 😦)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Just Tiger & Bunny, and just FireSky as a pairing, at that! (Who knows if I'll ever branch out... for now I'm very happy in my little corner of the fanfic world 🥰)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The best cure for free fall (3,295 words) Kudos: 87

Stereoscopy (The Hero's Shoulders) (72,000 words) Kudos: 74

Three Dates (8,854 words) Kudos: 40

Snowdrift (3,050 words) Kudos: 37

Love, Counted along the Fibonacci Sequence (7,123 words) Kudos: 28

(These numbers may not look like much, and perhaps they are not, but considering I write a side ship in a small fandom, I am honestly incredibly grateful for literally every single one of these 🙏💕)

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

I probably respond too much to comments, if anything 😅 I cherish them immensely, so I tend to get a little carried away, and I try to answer every single thing that people say in them 🥺💙

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oh. Uhm. I only really do happy endings, so... let me think.

Technically, the story that leaves the most angst still on the table by the end is Stereoscopy (The Hero's Shoulders), because there are some not-totally-solved things left in the background.

The one where the angst lingers closest to the end as a feeling, though, possibly enough to leave a tiny taste-memory of it in your mouth, might be To a Steadfast Heart, or possibly Second Song.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Oh, gosh. I suppose it depends on how you define happiest...

The most triumphant and satisfying ending I've done plot-wise, in my opinion, is hands-down Intertidal's.

If you're going more by something like "how much pink glitter and marshmallows is the final scene conjuring in my brain", though, it might be Love, Counted along the Fibonacci Sequence, or maybe An Honest Mistake, or Asterism (I write a lot of pink-glitter-and-marshmallows endings, sorry.)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

The haters would have to know little old me exists for me to get hate, lol. But more seriously, no, I get nothing but sweetness and I'm so grateful 💖💖💖

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

Welll... I never quite mean to, but sometimes the story (and characters) ends up asking for it/needing it, and I'm so bad at saying no 😅

As for what kind... the kind that can have a 10k, E-rated chapter solely dedicated to the characters having sex, without me ever having to pick a word for "dick", lol (No, there's no trashy euphemisms, either; it's just me, my deep embarrassment, Keith Goodman's Very Polite POV, and synecdoche, my beloved, against the world 😂)

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I haven't, and I don't think I'm terribly interested in trying (never say never, of course, but for now I can't think of any that I'd want to write). AUs and/or fusions, on the other hand, are very interesting and I'm farily sure at some point I'll end up writing one.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Again, they'd have to notice the fic to steal it 😅 (Of course, it might have happened without my knowledge, but I don't see why anyone would steal unpopular fics. And besides, it would have to either be posted on a website I don't look at, or modified to be other characters, because "my" ship tag on ao3 is far too small to hide anything in there, lol)

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No. (I'd make a joke about them being translated from the Italian in my head to the English on the page, but I think them up in English in the first place, so it wouldn't really apply 😅)

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

No, but I've "co-written" a lot of concepts/headcanons in chats and I always have an absolute blast doing that! (I'm not entirely sure I could ever co-write a fic, honestly, because I'm a bit of a control freak about my creations, and I'd probably get insufferable during the process)

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

The only one I write, lol: FireSky!!! ❤️💜 AKA Keith Goodman/Nathan Seymour, or Sky High/Fire Emblem from Tiger & Bunny (... their hero names ship name looks like a pretty crazy crossover, lol)

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Ooof. I only have two real wips on my hands; the one I have more doubts about ever finishing is the one I was trying to write for the September leg of the 2023 YOTP Challenge (for which I ended up writing a different story altogether). It has very unconvincing logistics, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to fix that to my satisfaction.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Mmmh. I've gotten a fair bit of compliments about my characterization, so that's one, I suppose. I've also been very good so far at only writing one fic at once and actually finishing almost all of them (which is not nothing!) I also really like my metaphors/similes/analogies/symbolism a lot, especially in dream sequences, but I don't know if that's objectively a strength or just something I do well (mostly) only to my personal satisfaction.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I used to be good at not having run-on sentences, but I've gotten so much worse about it lately?!? I really need to check myself on that. And I think I'm not very good at coming up with complex plots (one initial premise to kick things off, and then following the flow from there? Doable. Several significant events actually shaping the story from more than one side? SAVE ME.)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Well, if the characters were speaking another language for some reason I suppose I might, but I'm only fluent in two languages, so unless I could find someone who could help me, I would probably try to avoid the issue altogether somehow.

I also think it's not an easy thing to handle, because if the reader is not supposed to understand, a few words and phrases here and there, that maybe get explained/translated in-story at the moment or later, are okay; but huge chunks that the reader can't understand would just be annoying, and if they're supposed to understand, you need to fit a translation in along with the foreign dialogue, and it might not always be easy to do so in an efficient / not cumbersome manner.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Mh. If we want to be really precise about this, I think somewhere in my parents' house is a tiny notebook with a lilac (or possibly pale pink) cover, where a strange, short scene set after the Season 1 finale of Smallville is written in pencil. But that was a one-off thing.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Stereoscopy (The Hero's Shoulders) will always and forever be my baby; it's the one I poured the most time and soul and effort into, and the one that I consider, in a way, the definitive fic I could write for that pairing.

I do feel like I have to mention Intertidal, as well, though: it's by far my favorite of the rest my fics, and I think it has a lot to offer.

This was a lot of fun! 😃 My dear fellow writers, if you see this and you want to do it, too, I am officially tagging you! 💚

[thisdivorce]

tagged by @energievie @squidyyy23 & @sunoficarus to do the fic interview. thanks all!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

12

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

305, 330 😮

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

conflict of interest

reckoner

change like shifting shadows

want you around

strangers on a train

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

always! someone took the time to comment, i love that! don’t always reply right away though.

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

not really a fic but the clover drabble

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

maybe truth or dare. it’s still angsty but ends in a good place

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

no, but i definitely find inspiration from other media (shows, movies, music)

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

fuckin’ TERFs. why are they on ao3 of all places? also just general criticism, someone said “your lot are crazy with this priest ian business” LOL. anyways i turned off anon and my experience has been much more positive on ao3. delete and move on.

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

always! i love writing it! not a specific kind but i will only ever write queer smut. i’ve written m/m (cis and trans), f/f (debbie/sandy) and i love writing soft d/s

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope

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

yes! it’s so fun! strangers on a train and blackout with @breedxblemickey and we plan to finish the series 🤞

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

gallavich of course. they’re my one and only

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

i plan on finishing all of them except one or two not published WIPs

15. What are your writing strengths?

depends on the fic, i think. i guess dialogue and having characters say little but mean a lot (at least in my mind lol). also emotional smut.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

repetition (that autocorrected to religion which is also true lol). it’s hard to think of new ways to describe like, body sensations in smut and falling in love. also i really want to utilize metaphors more.

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

no opinion on this, i don’t speak another language but if others do, i can learn something new!

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

on the podcast i said queer as folk but i forgot i wrote an nsync satire fic when i was 12 haha. i posted it on my nsync geocities website 😬

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

none but maybe one day i will develop another obsession. whose to say?

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

oh gosh, i don’t know. i love them all for different reasons. conflict of interest is really special to me but i’m sure once i complete another multi chap the same will apply.

tagging @xninetiestrendx @mishervellous @whaticameherefor @ms-moonlight-inn @notherenewjersey @grumble-fish @beebabycastiel @flamingbluepanda @crossmydna

[thequibblah]

2, 6 (for in pursuit), and 16 <3

2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

oh i love a question that comes with instructions. my top 5 tags are:

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Romance

Alternate Universe - Muggle

Smut

Humor

this is already fascinating to me because outside of the first one they all surprised me! it is funny that "romance" should come as a surprise since almost all my fic involves a ship, but i guess i don't always see it as Romance romance yk. but i think what happened here is that of the genre tags i do use, romance, smut, and humoUr just so happened to apply the most widely. muggle au surprises me too, have i really written that many? wtf?

update: oh yeah i get it now (lol)

6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?

omg . we LIVE. the village girl james is trying to help in the opening scene (the one with a persistent suitor she wants to shake off) is marlene, which i don't think i've ever said, and i didn't name her in the fic because 1. no names in that section 2. i tried to etymologically work from marlene to something era-appropriate and then was like WHY would i do this!! so. she went unnamed but now you all know the girl who was always cordial to lily amongst the villagers was marlene in my head

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

gosh i would love to read like...a time travel outlander au where lily is thrust into ancient greece...

ask me these!

[jacaranda-bloom]

FIC WRITER QUESTIONS

Thank you to the lovely @allwaswell16 @runaway-train-works @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed @uhoh-but-yeah-alright and @evilovesyou for tagging me to answer some questions about my writing.

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

47

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

901,445 (Hoping to hit the Magic Million by the end of the year!)

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

1 (One Direction)

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

When Tomorrow Comes 1155

The Baby Whisperer 950

Love, Ever After 898

Harry Poppins 856

Play Me A Memory 760

More under the cut…

5) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Oh gosh. Uhm. I don’t really write angsty endings? All my fics have Happy Endings and most have epilogues to round them out and tie them up in a bow. Perhaps I’d say If You’re Out There (I’ll Find You Somehow) purely because (spoiler ahead) the epilogue is written 100 years into the future so they’ve both passed.

6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Interestingly, I would actually say the answer is the same as above, If You’re Out There (I’ll Find You Somehow). The epilogue is so uplifting and I cry happy tears every time I re-read it. It’s written from the POV of their granddaughter and you get to see the world they had a hand in changing for the better through her eyes, so you get a sense of how impactful their lives were on the rest of society. Oof, tearing up right now just thinking about it.

7) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

Yeah, I have actually. I really enjoy doing new takes on an existing universes, although they aren’t always the easiest thing to pull off tbh. I’m not sure which I would say is the craziest, but the hardest to write was definitely The Peter Pan/Hook AU.

Harry Poppins - Loosely based on the book/movie Mary Poppins, but without any magical aspects.

Playing To Win - Set in the Big Brother house.

The Pirate and The Piper - A Peter Pan/Hook AU which I took a lot of liberties with.

In The Still Of The Night - My Dirty Dancing AU.

A Hungry Heart - This is a Great British Bake Off AU that is due out in September for the Cliche Fic Fest!

8) Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Whoa Nelly. Yeah, I do. All the time. Every fic actually. There’s only one, Exposed, the only fic I’ve published that’s not rated Explicit and doesn’t have smut. But, to be fair, the challenge was to write exactly 666 words and I still managed to get the implication in there. Plus, Louis was naked and Harry was applying body paint for the majority of the story, so like, I think I can get a free pass on that one - I tried!

In terms of what type of smut, I guess it varies depending on the story. I tend not to push the boat out too far, but I do dabble in BDSM in quite a few of my fics. A recurring theme in the comments I receive is that my smut scenes are well constructed and detailed, without being too tedious or drawn out, which is lovely feedback to get because they can be challenging to write.

9) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Absolutely. Every single one.

10) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not often, people are usually so kind, but there have been a couple.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I’m aware of!

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yeah, quite a lot, particularly on Wattpad, all with my full consent. That said, I’m thinking of stopping this because it’s getting a bit out of hand and I’ve been feeling uncomfortable about it recently for various reasons that I won’t bore you with here. 

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

Nope! I don’t think it’s really my thing tbh. I get very in my head about writing and struggle even to brainstorm or share too much until I’m well into a story.

14) What’s your all time favorite ship?

Of the 47 fics I’ve written, there are 45 Larry, 1 Narry, and 1 Louis/Dermot O’Leary (I think mine is still the only fic with this ship hahahaa), so that’s probably a good indication of my fave writing ship.

15) What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I have one lonely WIP sitting on AO3 from 2018. I keep promising myself I’ll finish it and it’s on my schedule every year, then I get distracted by other fics/fests and it gets pushed back. Plus, it needs a complete rewrite because my style has developed so much since I started it, so it’ll be a big job. Based on that, I think that the fic, in its current form, won’t ever be finished as the rewrite will completely wipe out what it was, although the underlying plot will still be there.

16) What are your writing strengths?

World building (or so I’m often told). I write very visually and people often say they can imagine the scene exactly, or that it’s like a movie, or that they think it’s actually a real place I’m describing, when most of the time it absolutely isn’t, it’s just something I’ve created in my weird brain.

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

Dialogue (although my lovely beta disagrees) and telling rather than showing. They’re both things I’m actively working on.

18) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I’ve never really considered it. It’s not something I’d shy away from necessarily, but it’s just never come up.

19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

One Direction. First and only.

20) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Wow. This is really tough because it changes over time. I find that once I’ve finished a fic I don’t want to revisit it for a few months because I’m kind of over it. But I find comfort in them after a while, like I get to go back to that happy place and immerse myself in that world and the characters again, similar to catching up with an old friend. It’s familiar. I think I also like different stories for different reasons and I’m drawn to various ones depending on my mood. My top 3 (although, ask me next week and the list will probably be completely different!) would probably be:

1. If You’re Out There (I’ll Find You Somehow). Written for the hybrid fic fest (a fest I created just for this fic lol). It’s not everyone’s cup of tea due to the hybrid aspect, but it’s one of the stories I feel is the most rounded from a character development perspective and the world building was pretty epic, if I can be so bold as to throw that out there myself!

2. No Going Back. One of my Big Bangs from 2020. I adore the way their relationship develops in this fic and the setting (as remote lighthouse keepers) was such a lot of fun to write. Plus I got to collaborate with an amazing artist who created an entire website as an accompanying travel blog which was truly wonderful.

3. From The Heart. This is a series I wrote for wordplay back in 2019. I had no idea that what I was doing was so unusual and so meta by having Louis essentially write for the equivalent of wordplay in the fic. It was such an fun way to share my writing process and challenges I encounter (exactly how many synonyms tabs do I have open at any one time?!) and I thoroughly enjoyed the outcome (although getting there was definitely a struggle).

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This was really fun and thanks to anyone who made it this far! Writing brings me so much joy and is a wonderful outlet for all the imaginings in my head, so I appreciate everyone who supports me and joins me on that journey.

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I’m pretty late with this and I’m not sure who has already done it but I’ll tag @fallinglikethis @homosociallyyours @lululawrence @reminiscingintherain and @beau-soleil-louis if they’d like to do this and haven’t already.

[justanalto]

re procrastinates writing, 10/6 edition

got tagged by @aleksandrachaev to talk ships (unfortunately not the one stuck in the suez canal) <3

1. First Ship - like many eight year olds at the time, i was positively obsessed with high school musical to the point where it's a core memory. i know all of the words to every song even fifteen years later. (oh god high school musical is fifteen years old help). i was a hearty troyella shipper, and my old fanfic is rotting away somewhere, i think.

2. First OTP - simon and isabelle from the shadowhunters series. i just thought isabelle was neat! and so was simon!

3. Current Favorite Ship - this morning i went down the kiradax rabbit hole. i have fallen very far. but also right now i'm absolutely in love with jola because jola

Not sure what happened to number 4 either :P (you murdered it probably)

5. Ship(s) You Wish Had Been Endgame - clintasha forever and always. also i wish sanvers had been endgame but the cw clearly cannot keep a good hold of its contracts. clexa, which. unfortunate. recently i became slight bechloe trash so uh. that too. also kiradax because ds9 is technically finished. also give me the quodo and garashir because dammit everyone's good. eddie and ana nooooooo

in the grey's anatomy edition: god i miss calzona, rip merder, THE SLEXIEEEEEE, give me back japril or i'll cry, but also arizona and carina were so good together too. i will n e v e r forgive the writers for jolex. EVER. they were supposed to be endgame!!!!

6. Ship You Wish Was Canon - rn? i love a good merhayes (and have completely forgotten who scott is i won't lie), supercorp, i'd kind of die for a good rhys x bryce, i got kidnapped into watching the big leap so currently rooting for paula and mike. (nick and mallory or i riot) and, of course, jola :))))

7. Ship That Most of the Fandom Hates but You Love - supercorp, i'm sorry everyone

8. You Don't Even Watch the Show, but You Ship It - also supercorp because i don't even watch supergirl anymore fhdsjflhldsjkfdsf. i also don't even watch waverly earp but i ship that ship. and sara x ava even though i don't watch LoT

9. Ship You Wish Had a Different Storyline - y'all i've been super bitter about sanvers since 2017 and i'll continue to be bitter about it to the bitter end. cw manage your contracts better challenge and yes the same applies to t100 goddamnit. i also wish they'd stopped using fitzsimmons as a disaster play every week, tbh. huntingbird?? they deserved better than to get written off like that abc fuck off

10. Favorite Ship(s) That's Endgame - SYDELENA MY BELOVEDS even though odaat got cancelled :/ but also literally every bones ship there was aka booth x brennan! hodgela! cam and arastoo! especially hodgela i miss them oh my gosh. hen and karen out there with denny also my beloveds :))

tagging: anyone who wants to do this because ships are so fun to talk about hehehe :)))

[rockinlibrarian]

Fic Writer Review

@pixiedane tagged everyone on this, and considering I've been wallowing in my sudden Being Into Fanfic lately (though to be honest I've been READING a lot lately more than writing), see this link, I figured I'd take her up on the challenge. You, too, may take ME up on the challenge if YOU have been writing fic!

how many works do you have on AO3? 19. That's much less than @pixiedane! I'm a baby fic writer!

what’s your total AO3 word count? 66,239

how many fandoms have you written for and what are they? There are technically seven listed, but "Marvel Cinematic Universe," "The Avengers (Marvel Movies)," "Captain America (Movies)," and "Agent Carter (TV)" all apply to the same fic, so really just 4. But that doesn't count fandoms I've written but not completed (and therefore posted) for. So there are more to come. Maybe. Sometime.

what are your top 5 fics by kudos? *

"On the End of Endgame," 51 kudos, because I'm right and Marvel doesn't understand their own time travel rules and 51 people KNOW it!

"The Puppy-Fly Effect," 39 kudos, because it's Back to the Future, the most mainstream property I've written for! So people see it and say, "oh, I've actually seen that one" and they're more likely to read it!

"The Invitation: an Epilogue," 22 kudos, which is pretty good since this is my newest fic on there. It's a Howl's Moving Castle (BOOK, PLEASE, OBVIOUSLY) epilogue, so considering it's not a RECENT thing it just keeps getting slow and steady readership. I myself have been reading a lot of Howl fic lately, and people are getting comments on their decade-old stories from me now, so I imagine this one also will slow and steadily keep accumulating hits and kudos.

"Kerry and the Meaning of Life," 20 kudos. I'm honestly not sure why this is, by far, my most kudoed Legion FX fic. It's the first one I ever wrote, and got me started on the whole writing-the-entire-Loudermilk-coming-of-age rabbit hole I fell into to begin with, but I've only improved over time, I think, but even after I'd posted other Loudermilk backstory I think is objectively better, this one still gets the most!

"Syd's (Third) Childhood Begins," 15 kudos, because when people finish watching Legion FX the NATURAL move is to seek out fix-it fic. I wouldn't say this is fix-it really as much as ensure-the-ending-is-actually-happy-it, but I did use the "fix-it" tag, and at least one of the commenters DID say they immediately came on AO3 "looking for pretty much exactly this"...

do you respond to comments, why or why not? Absolutely, because I know what it feels like NOT to get comments, and also what it feels like to-- I don't know, I just get paranoid, if people don't respond to me, I think stuff like "Did I say something wrong? Do they not care about my opinion? Am I invisible?" so I'm Do Unto Others-y about it, even if all I can think of to say is "Thank you!"

what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? Well, I haven't actually posted (read: finished) the ending yet, but it's definitely "Exploration of the Astral Plane," because that's just Legion FX canon. No spoilers, Oliver Bird starts out the show having gotten lost decades ago, and this is the story of HOW he got lost, and his friends didn't KNOW if they'd ever see him again, so the paragraphs I've written of the end do make me quite teary! The fic's really fun despite the canonically sad ending, though, honest!

do you write crossovers? if so what is the craziest one you’ve written? I have not written one YET, if I recall, unless you count the several mildly interconnected IPs involved in the Pipeweed Mafia Stories, which isn't even posted because I feel uncomfortable posting Real People fic online, but crossovers are fun and I really enjoy reading them, especially when the writer successfully blends things together while being true to the characters. Just today I read a hilarious one blending The Good Place and Harry Potter!

have you ever received hate on a fic? Gosh, this is such an ironic question. I wouldn't say that I WISH I received hate on a fic, but my fics aren't even NOTICED enough to receive hate! I already feel paranoid-- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, you know how it is-- when I don't receive LIKE on a fic! It's LIKE receiving hate for me, because my brain goes into "Does nobody like it? Does nobody care? Are they all too nice to say it's terrible?" mode, so, yeah.

do you write smut? if so what kind? Absolutely not. My demisexual self hates reading it, definitely not writing it. I struggled enough writing just a taste of what a horny, slutty teenager who-talks-too-much Oliver Bird would have been in this AU, and that's mild!

have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I'm aware of. That would really suck, wouldn't it, if someone stole my work and ended up getting MORE LIKES AND COMMENTS THAN ME on it.

have you ever had a fic translated? Also not that I'm aware of, and if I'm not aware of it but it happened I guess that would answer the "stolen" question, too.

have you ever co-written a fic before? Ever in my entire life, I feel like I must have, but not anything I've posted online then

what’s your all time favorite ship? Hmm. Honestly, there are ships I defend passionately if the topic comes up, but I'm not sure I have a favorite just on my own. Especially as I hate smut, so I avoid seeking out specifically shipping stories. But, since I have been reading a lot of HMC fic lately, I should mention that Howl and Sophie ARE one of my absolute favorite fictional couples, but that's just how DWJ wrote them, and I can tell you unfortunately that not all fanfic writers QUITE nail that chemistry...

what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? Speaking of The Good Place, I really do wish I could write the novelization, and maybe I'd write some pieces of it longer than the few paragraphs I have written? But I doubt I ever will, let alone to the point of FINISHING...

what are your writing strengths? Fanfic wise, I like to THINK I understand the characters very well, at least! Writing in general? I think it's just my quirky voice? I'm the only me.

what are your writing weaknesses? Oh, very much FINISHING. But beyond that, it's pulling teeth to get me to fill out the story sometimes. I tend to draft with dialogue, and then I have to go back and fill in what's actually happening AROUND the dialogue, and sometimes I'd rather not.

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? At first I was like, I don't KNOW any other languages well enough to do this! And then I remembered the Firefly fic I have mostly written but not completed yet, and you know how in the show their speech is peppered with random Mandarin phrases? My husband has the Firefly RPG book and there's an appendix of Mandarin phrases you might hear in the Firefly universe, and I DID incorporate a few of those phrases into my dialogue, just from that appendix and it's probably horrible, but it fit the universe...

what was the first fandom you wrote for? EVER? The earliest I'm sure about is the Ducktales fic I found in an old Girl Scout manual that I must have written when I was 11 or 12. The first fandom I ever posted on AO3, in response to an exchange, was Legion FX of course, but that wasn't until the ripe old age of 40.

what’s your favorite fic you’ve written? I'm going to give this one to "Two (or Three) Mutant Freaks Against the Fourth Grade" just because it has gotten the least number of hits of ANY of my posts, INCLUDING THE PLACEHOLDER WITH NO WORDS IN IT, so it needs more love. And it really is one of my favorites, because it's just a sweet little story about nerds making friends, and I love rereading it.

*This made me curious which fics got the most kudos comparative to their HITS, because the Endgame one has WHOA more hits than any other fic, but it's over a thousand, which doesn't make 51 kudos look so good anymore. Percentage-wise, it's less than 5%, which seems to be where most of my fics hit when you do the math-- between 4% and 8% kudos-to-hits. The exceptions, jumping up to about 18% each, are the BttF and HMC fics, and, curiously, my beloved childhood friend AU mentioned in the last question-- it may have the least number of HITS (22), but that helps the math when you consider it's got 4 kudos. The HIGHEST percentage kudos-to-hits is its sequel, the childhood-friends-as-teenagers-AU fic mentioned in question 5**-- it's got 6 kudos and only 29 hits, so that's about 20%! Apparently people LIKE when I have to write a sex-crazed adolescent boy. COME ON, people! (The story is actually about Asexuality so I guess it really isn't people just wishing I'd write smut).

**Oh, I just noticed the numbers renumbered themselves when I put bullet points in the middle of the original question 3 there, so this is actually the answer to question 8? But it SAYS FIVE.

[franstastic-ideas]

Master List Oct Edition (1/2)

It was as I predicted: bigger; so big in fact that it had to be split into two else the tags won’t work.

This half contains AU-centric headcanons (excluding Classic Undertale)

The second half contains Classic Undertale, Multiple AU posts, other headcanons (mostly of dif AUs) and Franstastic-Idea's more personal posts

More Than Frans - October Content

Wraithtale————————————————

Oct 1

WT? confession? proposal? marriage? gasp! babehs????

Some WT gang headcanons

beach episode hc for wt papara? or frans?

Oct 4 - can we take a peek in wtPapara/Frans dates?

Oct 6 - Granpa Gaster and Fatherhood hyjinks for the brothers?

Oct 7 - I’m interested in more “beach episode” headcanons for WT

Oct 9 - How would gaster react to seeing Sans's wraith gf????

Oct 11 - what of pregnant WT Frans and Papara?

Oct 20 - A ‘Thorny’ Situation…

Oct 21 - Wraithtale laws of magic and are there humans magicians?

Oct 23

So, Rosalyn's "rivalry" with Frisk is PURELY one-sided 

I would love to for Rosalyn to meet Chara

Mettaton’s confrontation with Rosalyn

I'd like to know what Wraithtale AU is?

I'm okay with tsunderes... if they don't punch every 5 minutes... 

Is Roselyn also the person who nearly killed wraith Frisk

What's Kris’ role?

Rosalyn would need the perfect plan on how to get WT Frisk to leave 

Would WT Kris ever meet WT Susie or WT Ralsei?

Would the Wrathtale characters ever get Kris to come out of hiding?

Oct 27

Would WT Chara be instantly alerted to WT Frisk's sudden absence

"Sans and Papyrus are kind of jealous over Kris, but it isn’t serious."

Oct 28

Frisk snapping back in defense of Sans and calling Rosalyn out on it

Is it because Kris uses magic to eat without gaining weight

Did Frisk and Chara even know what "cosplay" was?

Cryptozoologist Frisk———————————

Oct 1

Cryptozoologist Frisk and Sans confessions?

Cryptozoologist au love triangle proposals

We for CryptoFrans but what about CryptoFrister?

Oct 2 - what if she chose ... j e r r y ?

Oct 5 - If Frisk confessed romantic interest in Papyrus?

Oct 12 - Sans stumbles upon a section of how cute the Sans is

Oct 22 - Frisk gets injured. How would Sans or Gaster react?

Oct 30

Can we have some cryptozoologist au hcs?

Any Sans centric Sans centric cryptozoologist au hc?

Pure Convergence AU——————————

Oct 5

Sans Reacts to Red Moving Into the House Across the Street

The skeletons share one braincell amongst each other

Oct 9 - The Convergence AU Cast as Gravity Falls Gifs

Oct 13

What is Sans' pet chickens relationship with the other Frisks?

How would Sans feel about someone who cooked his pet chicken?

how does Sans feel to rival against the cool one(G)?

what time of space time shenanagins would happen with the chicken

Oct 14 - What breed of chicken would Henri be?

Oct 22

Do the other skeletons have any pets of their own?

I forgot Gaster in that ‘which birds would the other boys have’ ask

What is the convergence au?

Oct 23

what about convergence au cuddles?

More convergence Au please! Thank you!

Reverse harem trope of the Convergence AU specifics

The first rule of the Skeleton Harem is:

I don't hate reverse harems

Oct 26

What costumes would Frisk and the skeleton harem wear

What a halloween stuff would the sanses and frisk do?

Oct 28

Frisk and the skeleton boys are going to anime convention 

Pure Children of the Ruins————————

Oct 1

pssst how about Children of the Ruins hcs

Would Flowey be jealous over Chara and Papyrus?

Oct 2

more child of the ruins headcanon please!

everybody in the keepers of the ruins looks like?

Oct 10 - First kisses? for Frans/Papara Ruin Kids?

Oct 12 - More children of the ruins please!

Witch AU————————————————

Oct 4 - Witch Au! Witch AU!!! UfSans vs UsSans vs UtSans please!

Oct 5 - whats the thing they like the most in their witches?

Oct 8 - but what do the witches like about their skele?

Oct 29 - Witch Au. How did Frisk meet Black and G?

Pure Underfell——————————————

Oct 2 - How did Frans and Papara tell the Goats about their bfs?

Oct 3 - any tsundere Fell Papyrus and Chara?

Oct 8 - What are UF Papyrus' go-to "compliments" 

Oct 9 

What were UF Papara's first impressions of each other?

Say UF Papyrus found a book of pickup lines in the dump.

What happened to UF Chara to make her so terrified of many things?

Oct 11

How does UF Papyrus respond to being flirted with?

How would UF Chara respond to being flirted with?

After the person leaves Chara alone when Papyrus intervenes…

Oct 12

When UF Chara compliments UF Papyrus, what would he do?

UF Papara pregnancy?

Underfell frans/papara angst?

Oct 21 - If someone else comments about chara’s sensitivity…

Oct 22

Wow would Papyrus react to UF Asriel's closeness to UF Chara?

can we get some underfell papara/frans cuddle scenarios?

I demand more Underfell Fluffiness

Oct 23

To what degree do you dislike Tsundere? How about Fell Papyrus?

When Undyne finds out about Pap’s interest in a human 

Oct 24 - When Pap tries to kiss/cuddle her without telling Chara first

Oct 28 - Does Pap’s hatred for the Goat Family apply to UF Asriel

Pure Underswap—————————————

Oct 4 - Im gon a say it before anyone ask. Underswap papara ♡

Oct 12

US Papara pregnancy if anyone hasn't asked yet..

US Frisk's initial feelings about US Sans' hyperactive personality?

Oct 22 - Swap Papara cuddles?

Oct 27

Do you think that US Frisk has a particular taste for anything?

US Papara fluff! I demand it!

Pure G!Skelebros—————————————

Oct 1 - More gpapara headcanons please! child of the ruins hcs too?

Oct 3 - Does Gaster Sans or Gaster Papyrus have a cuisine specialty

Oct 4 - G!Frans please! 

Oct 5 - Discovering your S/O has a secret hobby, and being caught!

Oct 6

dude dude dude GSans reaction to a pregnant Momm Frisk ?

we absolutely need to have a g!papara version of pregnancy

Oct 7 - Have you heard of the gfrans don x kitten?

Oct 9 - G!Papara/frans First kisses?

Oct 11

Gpapara is so sweet and fluffy! can we have more of them?

G!Frans next!

Storyshift-related————————————

Oct 1 - Storyshift Papara

Oct 11 - KingSans x Ambassador Frisk first kiss? i miss this ship

Oct 12 - King Sans x Ambassador Frisk pregnancy?

Oct 21 - story shift king x ambassador please? fell version

Dancetale-related————————————

Oct 4

Dancetale sans and frisk headcanons?

More dancetale please! can we have some papara with that too?

oh gosh dancetale can we have some danceswap frans ???

Welp danceswap papara time

Oct 12

if the person is flirting with frisk, how does he cope with it

what are your thoughts with Dancetale!Gfrans?

Oct 21 - some more dancetale frans?

Oct 22 - how does sans even express his love for frisk?

Oct 23 - DanceTale AU where instead of ballet, Frisk ice dances

Mafia/Mobtale-related——————————

Oct 4 - what about mafiafell hc?

Oct 5 - Runaway bride Frisk! Sans is tasked to retrieve her ...

Oct 6 - Mafia Frans is so cute… like how slow is the slowburn?

Oct 12

mmmmmmmmmmmafia donna frisk x rival don G?

yknow the drill. Lets see some MobPapara but oddly enough.

Oct 14 - more mobtaleGfrans please!

Oct 21 - More MafiaGfrans or Gpapara

Oct 27 - Can we have some more Frans/Papara cuddles?

Wraithtale Swap—————————————

Oct 12 - WT swap what do you think the boys would be like?

Oct 13 - How would wraith Sans meet Frisk?

Oct 14 - How would WT Swap Sans attempt to rectify the situation?

Oct 21

WT swap, how do Papyrus and Chara meet?

How would Chara and Papyrus react to each other?

Oct 23 - When did Sans start wooing her?

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Merry Early Christmas and Happy Hannukah! (1/2)

[femslashhistorian]

4+4 Great Alex Danvers/Lena Luthor - AgentCorp Fic Recs

In this Alex Danvers/Lena Luthor - AgentCorp (Supergirl) Femslash Fanfiction Recommendation, I have collected 8 excellent stories – 4 novel length stories and 4 shorter stories.

This is my review / rec for @femslashreviewfest (2017) Day 5: A fic for a rare pair, but works also nicely for Day 3: A recent fic from your current fandom.

What has always fascinated me about fanfiction (and not just in AUs) were “what if?” and “what could have been?” scenarios. Lena had saved Alex’s life and Alex was about to realize that she was gay. What if they had …?

Alex / Lena is one of my favorite rare pairs and these are my favorite fics.

Overview of the Alex / Lena stories (scroll down for the detailed recs and links)

The Wrong Girl For the Right Reasons & What Works For Us by Shatterpath: The one that was the first of many

No Lovers by TheLionGirl (KissMySelfie): The one that is my favorite, in which they slowly build a life together

Stronger At The Broken Places by ShipwreckedPrincess: The one in which Kara asked Lena to look after Alex

Rivals by rTracker: The one that is a strange and beautiful smut fic

4 short stories

1) The one that was the first of many

Title: The Wrong Girl For the Right Reasons & What Works For (Pyramid Series)

Author: Shatterpath ( @shatterpath on tumblr)

Setting: Supergirl TV 2015 (DCU) AU-ish

Relationship:  Alex Danvers/Lena Luthor (AgentCorp) (f/f)

Rating: Mature

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Series synopsis: A long saga of Alex and Lena as a pairing, as well as their circles of family and friends.

Shatterpath has create an extensive series called Pyramid. Thus, while on AO3 The Wrong Girl For the Right Reasons is not the first story in the Pyramid series, it is the first Alex/ Lena story and was the first one written. The second ship in the series is Kyra Hart / Agent Vasquez (but they do not play a meaningful role in these two fics).

While clearly set early in S2 in a slightly alternate version of the Supergirl universe, the first story, could have just as well been a full AU. There is no action, no Supergirl and little of the history/baggage of Alex and Lena. The second story is much more embedded in season two of the show and includes Cadmus & co.

1) The Wrong Girl For the Right Reasons (2016)

11 Chapters, 25k words (completed)

There was nothing about Lena that was not a careful epitome of modern femininity, even the steely and dangerous-feeling fortitude she wore like armor. That femininity seeped into that well-guarded, confused place where Alex's protective mental door had been blown off its hinges and would not stay closed no matter how she might want it to. This… this was right, this was it. This softness and steel were exactly what she had denied herself for far too long.

Kara might have been Lena's first friend, but Alex soon followed, leading to some completely unexpected subtext. And kisses. And a weekend away...

No one is more surprised than they are at what happens after that.

2) What Works For Us (2017)

14 Chapters, 31k words (completed)

So, yeah, that really happened; a wild weekend Alex and Lena shared alongside the ocean. Now what? Alex and Lena struggle with the changes in relationships all around them, some strengthening and some shattering. Kara learns more about both of them then she thought she would and family and friends redefine themselves. There is truth in the coat of arms for the House of El: 'Stronger together'. Meanwhile the events of the Medusa Project are barreling down on them and will leave chaos in its wake.

After having fallen out with Maggie, Alex meets Lena at game night. They take a road trip together. For Alex who has just come out, all of this is very new ...

Hot and lovely. And very well written. These stories made me realize once again who much I love Alex Danvers - with Maggie, or with Kara or ... with Lena.

2) The one that is my favorite, in which they slowly build a life together

Title: No Lovers

Author: TheLionGirl (KissMySelfie) ( @kiss-my-selfie on tumblr)

Setting: Supergirl TV 2015

Relationship:  Alex Danvers/Lena Luthor (AgentCorp) (f/f)

6 Chapters, 45k words (completed)

Published: 2017

Rating: Mature

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

“I’m lucky to have you as a friend,” Lena said. The agent did not say anything right away, playing with her coffee spoon and looking at the CEO.

“Is that what we are? Friends?”

“Would rather call us lovers? Although I myself never went out to coffee with any of my lovers, though is always better to keep one or two around…” Alex bit her lip so she wouldn’t ask how many they were (with some strange jealousy running thru her veins). “I don’t think that what we have here can be called either of them.”

This story changes very little from canon, in fact there is just on big “what if”: What if Maggie (despite the attraction to Alex) had rejected Alex more strongly, moved away and it took her far longer to come around... What if Alex had moved on in the meantime ...

Kara is getting married to Mon-el (which is where the show seems to be heading) and this leaves a very lonely and heartbroken Lena, who meets a lonely and heartbroken Alex at Kara's wedding. What starts as a one-night stand slowly grows to become much more.

This is my favorite Alex / Lena fic. Apart from a few prepossession mistakes otherwise very well written, the story stays true to the characters and their dynamic. It acknowledges Lena's attraction to Kara and the chemistry between them and between Alex and Maggie.

I liked that the story does not end when Alex and Lena get together. That there are problems and the climax of the story long after that. I love how it deals with the fact that yes, there are issues when Kara eventually leaves Mon-el and Alex (with her old fear of being not enough) thinks that Lena will leave her for Kara. I love how slowly Alex and Lena fall in love and despite the odds build a life together.

The characters always behave believable, there is no hyperbolic drama, no stupid mistakes. There is humor, drama and a bit of angst and no action.

 Favorite Quote:

“Kara, what are you doing? Kara let me go? Don’t let me go! Just put me one the ground. Or just slow down a little bit. I’m getting nauseous. Kara, can we go back, I have a date. Gosh, Kara a mountain! A mountain! Not everyone here is indestructible! I’m taking your flying license when we get back. Where are you taking me, Kara? Ow! I think a bird just hit me. Jesus, you weren’t this fast when we were young!”

And after what it felt like an eternity they landed in an unfamiliar balcony. Alex was ready to yell at her little sister for kidnapping her but she felt two arms surrounding her waist from behind and a kiss on her check.

“Thank you for bringing her here, Kara,” Lena said and the agent turned to face her, being received with a kiss. An earth-shattering, breathtaking kiss that for a moment made Alex completely forget about Kara kidnapping her and dangerously flying her to God-knows-where.

 3) The one in which Kara asked Lena to look after Alex

Title: Stronger At The Broken Places

Author: ShipwreckedPrincess

Setting: Supergirl TV 2015 (DCU)

Relationship:  Alex Danvers/Lena Luthor (AgentCorp) (f/f)

13 Chapters, 27k words (completed)

Published: 2017

Rating: Mature

Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

After her break up with Maggie, a devastated Alex refuses to leave her apartment or see her friends and family. Worried that Alex is truly broken, Kara enlists an unlikely person to check on her sister.

Lena, herself, is broken in a lot of ways. Can helping Alex change that?

A story of how the most unexpected beauty can come from the messiest parts of life.

The rather unique twist of this story is probably that Kara asked Lena to look after Alex. They get closer, but Lena is afraid to admit that she might be falling in love with Alex, although Kara is her biggest cheerleader and wing woman.

I usually do not read stories written in 2nd person. This fic is and the fact that I read it anyway and enjoyed it already says a lot. This is a sweet story with just a hint of angst and it culminates with a hot sex scene in the last chapter. Told purely from Lena's POV.

 Favorite Quote:

"Oh! I didn't realize it was getting so late!" Kara announces suddenly and with such drama you immediately know you need to play along. "We are going to miss the movie if we don't get going." Her mouth forms a hard line and her eyebrows raise up and down. Lord, you hope her life never depends on her subtlety, she'd be doomed.

4) The one that is a strange and beautiful smut fic

Title: Rivals

Author: rTracker

Setting: Supergirl TV 2015 (DCU) AU-ish

Relationship:  Alex Danvers/Lena Luthor (AgentCorp) (f/f)

45 Chapters, 145k words (completed)

Published: 2017

Rating: Mature

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; read the author’s tags

If it's Alex and Lena smut you are looking for, come on in.

A 44 chapter story about Alex and Lena's first date. The date happens in chapter 44.

 This is an unusual fic that I enjoyed a lot. It starts with Alex needing to talk to Lena because Supergirl and Lena have been doing strange "experiments" together, that they try to keep hidden from Alex.

This story gives us a bit of a different take on Lena than the show and probably most fics I have read so far: Lena is rather adventurous and sexually aggressive, but despite her bravado and confidence, she is insecure when it comes to relationships.

The plot & love story There is a sort of Supergirl villain of the week plot but there are elements of a grotesque comedy and pieces that feel a bit like a twilight zone episode. This is a (long) novel length story and it is far more than a loosely connected smut anthology, but if you expect a novel sized cohesive plot, you might be disappointed: This is not a primarily (romance) plot driven fic and not the greatest love story of all time. But then again, I don't think this is what this story tries to be: the story arc is volatile and interrupted frequently by little vignettes, and it never takes itself too seriously.

The fic ends with a cliffhanger and book 2 is a WIP. But then again there are many things in this fic, but the conclusion of the overall plot is probably not what you will primarily be coming back for.

The vignettes / interludes The little interludes are delightful and lovely. Like little creative short stories, woven more or less loosely into the plot. (e.g. one about Jess and her family, one about the history of National city's warehouse district).

What really proves how special and brilliantly written they are is that I adored them, while typically I don't really like these in novels and see them as an unwelcome interruption.

The love triangles There are many arcs - many (possible) relationship, attractions and sexual tension in the story and the author does a fabulous job to dance around them and play with them: The main one (and endgame) is of course Alex and Lena, but there is also a Sanvers arc. Then there is Kara & Lena, and actually Lena & Supergirl - as Lena is not aware about Kara/Supergirl's identity.

While Kara is somewhat in Love with Lena (and may or may not be aware of it), the Kara/Lena/Alex love triangle is the stronger and more interesting one as Alex and Maggie are in a relationship at the beginning of the story. All the characters are somewhat flawed and human and portrayed very well by the author.

The Smut The smut scenes are brilliantly written, hot and kinky and probably the longest sex scenes I have ever read. I really enjoyed the elaborate mind games and "play" scenes between Alex and Lena.

Favorite Quote:

“I want normal,” said Alex. Letting Lena know with her touch that normal didn’t mean ‘boring.’ “I want dinners and movies and nights at home and...all the things you do in a relationship.”

Lena closed her lips in a line. […] “I just don’t know how to do any of those things. I’ve never had them.” […]

“Never.” Lena was letting Alex know...that the dead mother, the crazy adoptive family, the incarcerations, the death threats, the Lillian and Lex and Cadmus and the everything...none of it was normal. Lena had never once had normal. Ever.

Shorts

The following stories are all below 5k words. Some were always meant as one shots, some where meant to be a first chapter, but all of them feel complete enough and can enjoyably be read on their own.

5) Company Series

Author: Alsike

Setting: Supergirl TV 2015 (DCU) AU-ish

Relationship:  Alex Danvers/Lena Luthor (AgentCorp) (f/f)

Rating: Explicit

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

1) Company

Lena wanted to drink and maybe find someone to fuck to get her mother out of her head. She finds Alex.

2) Company (Reprise)

Lena takes Alex home. An education ensues.

 Short but intense series of two fics. The second part is very hot.

 Favorite Quote:

Lena rolled her eyes. "Since you asked and it seems the answer isn't obvious, I can explain. What makes liquor even more fun? Company."

Now Alex looked confused. What was this?

"You wanted to find someone to talk to? Here?"

Lena groaned. "No. I wanted someone to fuck. God, why are both you Danvers girls this dense?"

6) Give Me Love Like Her by Kassebaum ( @kassebaum  on tumblr)

Rating: Mature

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Lena's liaisons get her in trouble when she entangles herself with both Supergirl and Alex Danvers, not knowing they're sisters. She confides in her best friend Kara, who is unaware the 'other woman' is her own sister…

At the time of writing this, there is one chapter (Alex / Lena)

Alex and Lena don't know each other and after things did not work out with Maggie, they met at a bar and have a one night stand in an hotel. In the morning Lena is gone. Mostly very well written smut.

7) Background Checks by inkheart9459

Rating: General Audiences

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

It all starts with Alex wanting protect Kara from Lena Luthor. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, it doesn't stay that simple.

Nice short Fic. Feels like the overture of a longer Alex / Lena fic that was never realized.

8) Going, and Getting, Through [ff.net] by By wow__just_wow (now orphan_account on AO3) / Twilight Imperil on ff.net)

Rating: General Audiences

Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

“I know what you’re going through, Ms. Danvers," Lena says. "If you ever need someone to talk to, someone -”

“You have no idea,” Alex hisses between clenched teeth.

Lena raises a brow, offers her a thin, mirthless smile. “I do, actually. I’ve been through it - all of it.” The struggle to discover and define who you are, being rejected, falling for unobtainable women. Yes, oh yes, Lena knows.

Or: Alex's gay awakening is a hard, confusing path...and Lena Luthor takes it upon herself to help her navigate it.

 Brilliant. There are hints of more (Kara who might be jealous, etc). Like the overture to an opera that unfortunately never was finished. Sad that it never was continued but this is a beautiful fic that can stand on its own. Considering that the author's account was orphaned, this one will never be finished

 If you liked this, you might enjoy more of my Supergirl femslash fanfic recs:

Know love’s exact reason – A SuperReignCorp Fic Rec

10 More Great and Long Kara / Lena Fics (SuperCorp)

6 Kalex and Supercorp Fics, featuring Cat Grant

4 Alex / Astra (General Danvers) Fics

Or all of them

|@femslashhistorian | f/f fic recs | f/f history | @femslashhistorianficrecs|

[rakuraiwielder]

I'm working on your ask, but here's some for you: I, A, M, S, P, O, T

Ask prompt here: x

thanks puffin!! this is gonna be long and nostalgic eyy

I - HasTumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why? 

I wouldn’t say “actively dislike” butthe toxicity of fandom on this website has sucked away most of my passion for Voltron lol. I used to really dig itthe first month or so after getting really into it when S2 aired. I still havean unfinished draft for a 7-parter rarepair fic //ey guess my fav duo ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)// sitting in my folders. don’t think I’llbe touching it any time soon though. im rather burnt out from this fandom, evenif I do still enjoy watching all the new seasons thereafter.

another is StevenUniverse ah a. (but in its and my defence, I wasn’t really into it anywaysas compared to other fandoms. the songs are still good, but I haven’t beenkeeping up with the newer Steven bombs, one part because of motivation, andanother because the thought of going into the tags to reblog contentintimidates the heck out of me pffft)

A - Ships that youcurrently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone hasOTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

(puffin this question is gonnatake up half the ask oh god)oh bOY where do I start hahahaha. there’s so many aph and fe callbacks hahaha few otps aside I really have too manycrackpairs and platonic friendship ride-or-die squads I would die for. theseare only a few really relevant ones from the top of my head-

OTPS:

Norway/Vietnam (Hetalia) – alWAYS. i dont talk about and reblog much aph anymore but i still think about these two frequently. they were my first and closestthing ever to an actual otp in all my years of knowing what an otp was gosh Ihope to write about them again soon. their dynamics are the peak of mypreferences.

MU(avatar unit)/Silas (FE Fates) – thechildhood friends + loyal knight and liege trope + a pinch of memory loss wasnever really my thing, but guess there’s a first for everything ha h a ah a….silas is too pure for the angst I put him through im so sorry ಸ ل͜ ಸ

Berkut/Rinea (FE: SOV) – the second that one cutscene of these two played I got1000% more invested in the story pffft. anyways rinea may be top tier fav andberkut shit tier fav, and their story tragic as heck (and I would also arguethat he doesn’t deserve her), but their genuine and honest love for each otheramidst the incoming death flags gets me every time

707/MC (Mystic messenger) – honestly they can either be a really good platonicdynamic duo or a solid otp. purely from the perspective of my own MC, theycomplement each other well; perfect balance of light-hearted teasing and asolid wall of comfort for each other.

Ray-Saeran/MC (Mystic messenger) – ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

(Other) Ships:

Seychelles/Iceland/HK (Hetalia) – they are good togetherromantically or platonically hahahaha. a good golden trio of kids

Russia/Vietnam (Hetalia) – their potential relationship and clashof character due to conflicting personalities fascinate me. a totally differentnoir vibe from norviet and one I hope to explore if I ever come back to aph

Nyx/Leo (FE Fates) – nyx ships are reallyrare but half of them are surprisingly sweet and poignant. Odin and Laslow tooare really sweet candidates to woo this jaded grandma’s heart.

MU/Laslow (FE Fates) – got to thank a wacky7-11 employee au dream I had for this one. but in the games their supportconversations are surprisingly thoughtful and low-key flirting which was notwhat I expected at all. wholesome.

Ham/Kai (MUxMU, FE) – remember when I said protag/protagships are the good stuff? yea h thatprincess tutu au is coming along swell

Alm/Celica (FE: SOV) – the rare main canon couple I love whodon’t die and get their happy ending (LOL this sounds really pathetic now thatI’ve said it)

Leon/Valbar (FE: SOV) – no one is surprised LOL. romantic orno, as long as leon is happy with where he stands with valbar and valbar ishappy with where he is im happy for them both

Conrad/Rinea (FE: SOV) – I know there are a couple of youreading this whos gonna give me that look but liste n; they could have met, and there is potential for them.(honestly this is just like another norviet situation where I put my 2 topfaves together for crackpair experimentation bUT IT WORKS I ASSURE YOU)

Zen/MC (Mystic messenger) – zen is so earnest that I can’t refute himhahaha. he also has a special seat in my mysme heart, since he was the firstroute I played and made me create content for the fandom proper

707/Jaehee (Mystic messenger) – they are rapidly gaining OTP status ꉂ (´∀｀)ʱªʱªʱª aaaa nightmare flashbacks because justlike norviet they really are the rarest of crackpairs and have almost to no content(gonna get down to business and churn fic out one day). these two are moresimilar than they’d think too.

Cecil/Haruka (Utapri) – ahahaha a good ship from a guiltypleasure fandom

(Purely) Platonic:

Izuku/Iida/Ochako (BNHA) – the first golden trio of thisseries. I love them so much.

Vanderwood/MC (Mystic messenger) – they parallel each other. truly thebiggest ride-or-die duo I will support to the end of time

Zen/Yoosung (Mystic messenger) – zen is such a mother hen to yoosungwwwww truly wholesome

Chise/Ruth (Ancient Magus Bride) – platonic master/familiar-partner relationships where both of them care for each other so much to the point where they would die for the other are my one weakness. its the reason i love writing more fleshed-out pokemon aus and loyal dogs/animals in longer fics. anyways these two are good

M - Name acharacter that you’d like to have for a friend.

707. It would be a trip justknowing him. (apart from the memes. but my life is already 80% meme, honestlywhats the difference ahahaha aaa-) Just, I feel like it would be really fun tohang out with him and revel in his wackiness (even if that personality is afront, maybe one day when i finally get into his inner-circle of friends, I hopeto be privy and be a good listening ear to his truer, more sombre personality.)

On the other hand, myself-confidence and 2nd hand embarrassment will be directlyproportional to each other (And im 100% sure Seven is the kind of person whowill exploit that hAH)

S - Show us anexample of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

Every relevant character inMysmes is either a type of asexual (greysexual etc.), or on various points ofthe bi-spectrum. Yeah; even self-proclaimed, “straight-laced” Zen lol.

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (wealways need more ideas)

Vampire/Selkie AU ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

a selkie whose skin gets stolen and hidden from a human man is forced to become his bride and taken back to his village. there, to escape the stares of bigoted villagers and the clutches of her overbearing and possessive husband, she takes refuge in the only place he would not go; the old holy church.

only, she finds she isn’t the first to occupy this place of solitude. the master of the church notices her soon enough, and when vampire recognises the ancient weave of magic that flows within her, he appears; intrigued for something other than a fresh meal.

(basically a deviation from the standard vampire (romance-ish) novels lolol plot bunny hit me pre-Christmas eve dinner/yesterday and sofar im digging it. still planning the ship and fandom though; it might very easily be OC-based)

O - Choose a songat random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

since 1 is never enough, hereare 4 songs I was listening to recently:

Little Knights, Nem feat.Noire : Zen/MC(a zen-ish song through and through)

over and over, Yanagi Nagi : Saeran Choi + 707&MC(more saeran-centric with interpretative lyrics and referencing to both ray andunknown personas)

Finding something to do, HelloGoodbye : 707/Jaehee(fits their “don’t go where I can’t follow” dynamic haha ow.)

Life will Change, Shoji Meguro + Benjamin Franklin feat. Lyn Inaizumi : Kai(mui) or Ham(let)(honestly the entire persona 5 ost is massive fe fates protag feels)

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons thatyou will die defending?

Not really. I’m a very flexible person when it comes tointerpretable lore and content, especially if it’s the type of HCs that thefandom collectively comes up with. Unless it’s a canon fact, I like to dabble orjust stay away from HCs in general. If I have to come up with some in my fics,then so be it. But most of the time these HCs are either super vague or onlyapply to the context in this particular piece or series of writing. Basically Idon’t mind switching HCs for charas frequently as long as it does notfundamentally change their own character. (HCs for hobbies and loves and habitsand relationships apart from their inner circle, etc. are all fine)

Honestly it just boils down to expectations lol I know myown limits, and I know not to be disappointed when canon updates end updebunking (popular) fandom HCs or my own.

[edenfalling]

AO3 fic filters meme (redux)

(via @venusmelody) I actually did this a year ago, but what the heck, let’s see if the answers have changed much since then. For reference, I currently have 486 fics on AO3.

Go to your AO3 works page, expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!

1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?

General Audiences (359) / Teen And Up Audiences (97) / Not Rated (14) / Mature (10) / Explicit (6)

No surprises here! I write a lot of gen, and I am skeptical of movie-style ratings’ applicability to prose (plus I dislike issuing implicit judgments about what material is ~appropriate~ for people I know nothing about), so I mostly rate things in a spirit of "read the tags and decide for yourself” (’General Audiences’), with an occasional detour into "well, I guess this is a little heavier; maybe I should up the rating so people who care about ratings don’t yell at me even though I have accurately tagged for the heavy stuff so what is even the point" (’Teen And Up Audiences’).

I love tags. Tags are specific and therefore useful! Ratings, not so much.

The six 'Explicit’ stories include actual porn, and the 'Mature’ ones include sex that isn’t quite porn and/or some heavy stuff. (Mostly sex, though. People get weird about sex in ways they don’t tend to get weird about violence, so I usually deploy those ratings based on the presence of sex and stuff that’s tangential to sex and stick to tags for everything else.) The 'Not Rated’ stories are all from the same Angel Sanctuary fic series, which I CAN’T rate usefully for reasons that are probably obvious if you have any familiarity with the source manga.

(I used to have other unrated stories, but I decided this past year that I wanted to reserve that category for the Angel Sanctuary fics and slapped the others with either ‘General Audiences’ or ‘Teen And Up’ based on the ~highly scientific~ system of how I felt when I did a quick-skim reread of each story. *wry*) 

2. What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?

No Archive Warnings Apply (291) / Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (196) / Graphic Depictions Of Violence (12) / Major Character Death (9) / Rape/Non-Con (4) / Underage (2)

You may note that this adds up to 514 warnings, which is more than the number of fics I have on the archive. This is because I think using ‘No Archive Warnings Apply’ can give readers a false sense that the fic in question is light and harmless, which is, shall we say, not always a justified assumption. So I sometimes use ‘No Archive Warnings Apply’ AND ‘Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings’ as a shorthand for saying, yeah, none of the highly specific warning tags apply, but there are still dragons in these waters and seriously READ THE TAGS BEFORE YOU CLICK.

Also, no, I don’t consider myself a particularly adventurous writer.

3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?

Gen (407) / F/M (99) / F/F (39) / Multi (34) / M/M (17) / Other (3)

These are not accidental in the slightest. I am at heart a gen writer, and I am big on female characters, so the bias toward no ships at all, and secondarily toward ships that include women and girls, is completely deliberate.

As with the archive warnings, you will note that these numbers add up to more than 486. That is because A) some of my attempts at shipfic come out more as ambiguous gen, so I will label the resulting fic as both gen and whatever ship category is relevant, and B) I occasionally label for the relevant subcategories of poly ships.

And to quote myself from last year: The three 'Other’ fics include an instance of attempted parental rape (because it’s a would-be sexual relationship but holy shit I would not call that a 'ship’ in the usual sense), one genderswap (thus turning an M/M couple into an F/F couple, and how do you even categorize that?), and one character of canonically ambiguous gender.

4. What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?

Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis (106) / Homestuck (105) / Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (68) / Naruto (64)

I am currently active in Narnia and Homestuck (as a writer, not much as a reader), and I still have a handful of WIPs in HP and Naruto that I swear to god I will finish someday. (I am also game to write prompt!fics there, but I don’t really have independent inspiration for those fandoms anymore.)

5. What are your top 4 character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?

Dave Strider (40) / Jade Harley (34) / Susan Pevensie (33) / Harry Potter (29)

Oh gosh, popular characters from three of my four most productive fandoms! How utterly shocking. *wry*

6. What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? What would happen if you combined the two into a fic?

Prompt Fic (182) / Fifteen Minute Fic (101) / Friendship (95) / Backstory (79) / Fluff (59) / Slice of Life (50) / 3 Sentence Ficathon (46) / Worldbuilding (46) / Family (44) / Character Study (38)

Note: these are not actually my least-used additional tags; they are simply the least-used of my ten most-used additional tags.

Setting aside the ones that describe a type of fic (prompt fic, fifteen minute fic, 3 sentence ficathon), that leaves me with ‘Friendship,’ ‘Backstory,’ ‘Family,’ and ‘Character Study’. I have not yet written any fics with all four of those tags, but every combination of three has at least two fics.

7. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?

5 on AO3, more in other places. I do intend to finish all of the ones on AO3, and most of the ones posted elsewhere as well.

Tag 5 people!

I dunno, play if you want. :)