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lavender-lotion · 3 years

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Fanfic Writer Asks

I was tagged by @asarcasticwitch - thank you so much!

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

737, which is an ugly number :(

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

1,890,054 words, which ... AH I might actually get to 2mil by the end of the year!

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

thank you, ao3 dashboard for this handy list:

Teen Wolf (TV) (377)

X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) (187)

Marvel Cinematic Universe (93)

Glee (29)

Young Justice (Cartoon) (11)

Kingsman (Movies) (9)

Original Work (9)

The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (8)

Criminal Minds (US TV) (7)

Thor (Movies) (6)

Deadpool (Movieverse) (5)

Weird City (TV) (5)

X-Men (Original Timeline Movies) (4)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) (4)

Ragnarok (TV 2020) (4)

Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies) (3)

Teen Wolf (TV) RPF (3)

Iron Man (Movies) (3)

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T. J. Klune (2)

Venom (Marvel Movies) (1)

Stranger Things (TV 2016) (1)

Captain America (Movies) (1)

Fate: The Winx Saga (TV) (1)

Power Rangers Ninja Storm (1)

X-Men - All Media Types (1)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan (1)

Riverdale (TV 2017) (1)

X-Men Evolution (1)

Push (2009) (1)

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

With You, I Belong

Mates and Marriage Proposals

The Perceptions of You and I

(baby) maybe that matters more

Breathing You In

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

ughh so, fair warning, I have a lot of works. I definitely do not remember all of them, however I do have four works tagged as Unhappy Ending and then another nine works tagged Ambiguous/Open Ending, which is way more than I’d thought I had!

however, there is one fic that stands out in mind when I think about which of my works has the angstiest ending! Heed the tags :)

And Now?

Stiles Stilinski finds out who his soul mates are by setting one on fire.

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

ughhhhhhhh I truly do not know???

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

I don’t write many crossovers at all! I have some mcu/teen wolf cross overs, I have a teen wolf/glee cross over plotted (that i’ll probably never write), but my strangest is probably this teen wolf/x-men cross over!

what-ifs (don’t fuckin’ matter to no one)

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | M/M | X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)Teen Wolf (TV) | Logan (X-Men)/Sheriff Stilinski | Logan (X-Men), Sheriff Stilinski, Stiles Stilinski | Memory Loss, Telepathy, Mentions of War, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Child Neglect, Grief/Mourning, Telepath Stiles Stilinski, Telekinetic Stiles Stilinski, Nightmares, Cuddling & Snuggling

There’s somethin’ there. Somethin’ that has him sleeping curled up on his side with a pillow tucked to his chest, somethin’ that has him splittin’ up his food ‘fore he eats ‘cause he don’t need as much as a baseline. Has him turnin’ to tell someone shit that ain’t there. There’s just...there’s just somethin’ there that’s missin’ and it shouldn’t be missin’.

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

sometimes! I don’t write a lot of smut because I actively dislike writing it, but the smut I do write is super super soft and sappy and full of emotions lol

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

I respond to almost all of my comments! comments i won’t respond to: negative comments, unsolicited criticism, comments that aren’t relevant to the fic itself, comments simply asking for more

I love love love responding to comments! I love every single comment that I get and I want to show how much I appreciate getting them, and personally I think responding to comments is the only way to do that! everyone has different comment philosophies, but for me, if someone is taking the time to comment on my fic like I so badly want them to, I think it’s important to respond to show my appreciation!

10) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

aha YEAH I DO. this past weekend I actually got a number of shitty comments and had to file two ao3 abuse reports for harrasment (: I love it

I am no stranger to hate comments. I write copious amounts of age difference fic. I write copious amounts of incest. I am not going to apologize nor am I going to feel bad for enjoying either.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

ughhh I sure as heck hope not!

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! I have a number of them :) I always always do my best to make sure it’s linked to the original fic, AND that I add a tag noting that there’s a translation!

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

I have made a few attempts! the only successful attempt is there's nothing i wouldn't do to make you feel my love which is a collaboration with @flightinflame, not quite a co-write!

14) What’s your all-time favorite ship?

I am unable to answer this lol I don’t have an all-time favourite. mutli-shipping forever.

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

god okay this is such a good question! imma ramble about a few so bear with me here! (i may have 700 posted works but I also have a few hundreds wips & ideas floating around in my gdrive, too)

gone & past - this is a starrish wip i’d started in 2017. I ended up deleting it from ao3 to rewrite it and never got there, but I have about 20k of content! I built my home, inside of you - thorki human au with college jock thor and high school dancer loki. i’ve got a start and nothing else Sheriff Stilinski Gets Some Sweet Sweet Lovin’ - massive wip where... well, the sheriff fucks his way through the entire pack. I want to write it but. trans allison au - this is an au where allison is trans and that changes the entire season 1 canon. it features stallison, petopher, and a looooooong ass outline that will never exist beyond my wips You Fill My Heart (With Such a Gentle Love) - this is a stetopher a/b/o au with pregnant omega stiles and alpha pair petopher falling in love. it started as a labour of love to someone I no longer have in my life. I have about 30k, a full outline, but idk. makes me sad to think about it they slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered - this is my big x-men first class rewrite that I honestly don’t think i’ll ever finish. I have a few thousand words, a full outline, but no love lost for cherik so. doubtful Physiotherapy (I'll Be Your Baby) - this was a fic I was SO excited about, and then it kinda flopped and stayed a wip because I didn’t have a plan or the motivation to finish it. it’s a winterspider human au with amputee bucky and science twink peter that I adore the premise of but who knows breathing you in chapter 2 - I have a massive second chapter planned for this fic but the first did so good so fast I am way too intimidated to write more in case everyone hates it lmao

there are more arjgoirjeg there are so many more but these are the bigger ones I can think of right now!

16) What are your writing strengths?

ughhhhh I hate answering this because I have, like, seriously bad imposter syndrome around my writing BUT I do think i’m able to weave poignant backstory into narration & i write strong, distinctive narrative voices!

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

literally I can’t write settings at all. I don’t know how people vividly describe settings but I absolutely cannot do that and it’s one of the reasons I haven’t delved into original fiction. I need to write the town my characters live in?? fuck that imma just use a location we’ve seen on screen & let readers fill in the blanks lmao

I am also shit at long fic. I don’t have the mind for long and interesting plots, and I don’t have the focus to write long fic (which is why every long fic i’ve ever posted has taken me literal years to complete smh).

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

I like it! both as a reader and as a writer. as a writer, I generally only use a few words, or small sentences that can be understood by context, and I generally don’t

19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

the last thing I wrote and posted was this one:

Languish

It was a really, really hot Saturday, and most of the school was outback, enjoying the sun, not caring about the heat, and having the time of their life.

Everyone but Bobby, of course, who was melting away.

“I just want to remind everyone that I make ice. I am the Ice Man. I am not built for the heat and soon enough I’m going to melt away into nothing.”

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

this is another impossible question! I have a few I really enjoy, but I really don’t think I have a favourite that stands out above the rest!

i’m tagging: @4magicandmayhem @insertmeaningfulusername @midrashic @wynnefic @ikeracity @stronglyobsessed @elledelajoie @wolfnprey & anyone else who sees it and wants to do it! seriously! go ahead :)

blank questions below the read more!

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

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

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

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

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

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

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

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

10) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

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

14) What’s your all-time favorite ship?

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

16) What are your writing strengths?

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

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

19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

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

#lavenderlotion #my writing #writing tag #writing meme

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mozart-the-meerkitten · 5 years

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Heeeyy, okay, so I finally saw Endgame tonight. I’ve known what happens in it for months, but this was the first time I actually saw it. Yeah, stuff happened, moving on.

So, let’s get right down to the biggest problem in Endgame, and the one thing keeping it from being one of the single most epic movies of our time; the time travel shenanigans.

This post is gonna get long, so read more below the cut.

To illustrate precisely how Endgame went wrong with time travel, I am going to compare it to the time travel in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow TV show. Specifically the final two episodes of season 2, “Doomworld” and “Aruba”. Yeah, I’m comparing Marvel and DC, there’s a good reason, I promise.

Okay, so Endgame’s plotline is pretty well known, but in case you don’t know it, here’s a brief summary; Thanos kills half of the population of the universe, the Avengers (what’s left of them) freak and kill Thanos, who has unfortunately already destroyed the Infinity Stones, the only things that could fix the universe. 5 years pass, and Scott Lang (Antman), previously presumed dead, comes out of the Quantum Realm and tells everyone that time travel is possible and that they can use it to reverse what happened. They go back in time to get the Infinity Stones before Thanos, they do, and, long story short, one epic battle later they kill Thanos and his army. They put the stones back, and almost everyone lives happily ever after.

Now, on to the plotlines of Legends’ “Doomworld” and “Aruba”. Before I go any further, let me just say that season 2 of Legends came out in 2016, several years before Endgame OR Infinity War. Alright, so there’s this thing called the Spear of Destiny that can change reality. The bad guys, called “The Legion of Doom” manage to get it from the Legends and use it to create their perfect reality, which turns out to be a Doomworld for everyone else. The Legends exist in this world, but at first don’t remember who they are. I’m not gonna get into how they get their memories back, but most of them do, and they decide that they have to go to the past to steal the Spear of Destiny from themselves to stop the Legion from getting it. They manage to do this, but they all die, except their leader Sarah, who uses the Spear to 1. Revive her friends, 2. Get rid of the most annoying member of the Legion (Eobard Thawne, long story, watch The Flash) and 3. She uses the Spear to remove the power of the Spear, making it useless. Everyone lives, they return the Legion to their proper places in time (did I mention they’re all time travelers?) and decide to go on vacation in Aruba. Unfortunately, they do not land in Aruba, they land in Los Angeles in 2017, which is covered in dinosaurs and features Big Ben and a number of other buildings not from LA in the background. The season ends with Sarah saying, “Guys, I think we broke time.”

Okaaaaay, still with me? Good.

So, to give you my thesis statement; Endgame’s time travel was wrong because there are no consequences. This also happens to be what Legends does right.

The problem with Endgame is that you have so many people who get taken out of their proper times and not returned. A few examples; Loki stealing the Tesseract after the battle of New York, Gamora from 2014 just chilling now in the future somewhere. The Thanos that was defeated in the big battle was from the past and therefore him dying then creates a massive paradox. Like, what the heck? Other noteworthy additions; Nebula shot her past self and didn’t die. Steve Rogers went and apparently lived an entire life in the past with Peggy???? (Without telling her about Hydra, rescuing Bucky, saving the Starks, meeting young Tony, or doing a whole host of other things. Steve Rogers who in Civil War said, “If I see a situation headed south I can’t just ignore it.” Yeah, right, Marvel, that’s exactly the kind of life Steve would live in the past.)

Now, literally all of this (except the part with Steve, but that’s another post) would be fine if Endgame had shown us that there were consequences to these actions. Like, for instance, Loki leaving after the battle of New York completely changes the next two Thor movies at least. Gamora never meeting Peter Quill in the past but him still remembering her is also a paradox. But no, Marvel leaves us with the sunny, cheerful ending where everyone but Tony’s family and Bucky Barnes live happily ever after. No consequences to time or anything.

Meanwhile, Legends of Tomorrow (and The Flash, for the record) is all about consequences. It is made very clear that the Legends going back in time to meet with their past selves will have consequences, and the show delivers those consequences when the group crashes in LA and finds dinosaurs and Big Ben there, and with Sarah’s line “I think we broke time”. To diverge a little, every time Barry Allen (the Flash) has gone back in time and changed something, there have been massive consequences for his friends and family and city that he then has to deal with (black holes, portals to other universes, his friends losing family members, his friends gaining superpowers, ect.). Another way to handle this is demonstrated in Doctor Who season 3, where in the final two episodes the villain makes a “Paradox Machine” to remove the consequences of humans from the future coming back in time to kill their ancestors.

So, by all rights we should have a third movie titled, “Avengers: We broke Time” that deals with the consequences of Endgame. Because there are consequences, even if Marvel wants to ignore them. (Also, if you’re not looking at my comparisons of the plots of Legends and Endgame and wondering of Marvel blatantly ripped off DC then, well, I don’t know what to tell you. I could be wrong, but I can’t unsee the similarities.)

In conclusion; what the flippity heck, Marvel?

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magpiewords · 7 years

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Code name: Shellhead

Title: And The Stars Are Too Much

Universe: MCU (Civil War Compliant)

Rating: G, Alcohol Warning, Panic Attack Warning?

Word Count: 1731

Summary: They were finally a team again and teams party together and this should be normal why can’t he be normal? Tony has anxiety about time, space, and pretty much everything in between.

A/N: I LOVE this art piece by Caz. I didn’t get to proof this piece because work is sucking up my entire life, but hopefully this’ll be an emotionally satisfying piece.

He had only gone outside for a minute, just to get away from the smell of it. He knew he should have asked what kind of party it would be, but he couldn’t. It was so petty, so weak, Tony hadn’t cared this much about what his peers thought since freshman year at MIT. He should have just asked, but asking if there was going to be alcohol was sure to get some snide comment from Clint, which would make Tony defensive and he’d say something stupid, would start another fight and everyone would hate each other again and and and. He couldn’t have that, couldn’t lose what little healing the team had managed to do.

Maybe Clint wouldn’t have said anything, maybe Tony would have been able to ignore whatever cutting comment was made, but he didn’t want to count on something as fragile as their collective self control. Things had finally started going well after their ‘civil war’.

Tony had to bite his lip to hold back a laugh at the thought. What the media called a war had been a fist fight in a parking lot. Pulling the team back together had taken time, taken so much sacrifice. A year ago, Clint Barton had spit in Tony’s face. Now, he hosted the new Avengers at the Barton farm for a post-mission party. Wanda used to leave the room if Tony walked in, now her spot for movie night was two seats from his and asked him to put Cherry Garcia on the shopping list every other week.

Things were good. He should be happy. Four months sober, three months into dating Captain America, and two years past everyone trying to kill each other. Any crush he had on Steve had been pretty brutally crushed when his ribs cracked from the shield being slammed into him. As the team reformed, Tony’s usually flirty comments were hard to be found. Once or twice his mouth ran on autopilot, but was quickly followed by apologies and retreating to his private workshop at the upstate compound.

Tony hoped his silence wasn’t what finally earned Steve’s approval. Hell, Steve had told him it was movie nights and take out dinners and early morning missions where they meshed together as perfect leaders of the perfect team. Tony wanted to believe him, he really did but, for a billionaire, he didn’t often get what he wanted.

He was cruelly reminded of this fact as soon as he made it two steps onto the Barton farmhouse porch. With no city towers, no compound full of planes and machinery, the air was still and the sky was clear. An ocean of stars spread out above him.

“Oh no.” Tony managed to mumble before everything seemed to fade away. Like his body went offline, he couldn’t move, couldn’t look away. He knew the stars weren’t getting closer, knew the wide expanse of space wasn’t somehow closing in on him. No matter how much he knew, logical was useless against this. The sky was taking him away and he couldn’t stop it, couldn’t stop anything. Something from beyond the galaxy was coming for them and they were helpless to stop it and everything was a mess and the team was going to explode again like a super nova right in front of his face and and and. There was a crash of broken glass behind him and Tony’s whole body jerked back into reality. For a split second, the stars were invisible and he scanned the porch, waiting for Howard to stumble out and curse about dropping his favorite whiskey tumbler.

Instead, he saw Natasha through the screen door into the house. She looked almost as miserable as him, taking a huge swing from an equally huge bottle of vodka. There was laughter and music, but the stars were slowly coming back into focus, even if Tony kept his eyes on the house.

“Fuck this.” He decided, walking back into the party with purpose. Natasha gave him a look at he pasted, but she didn’t stop him as he made a direct line for the kitchen. Thirty minutes and a half bottle of whiskey later, she hadn’t moved. She still looked at him as he walked past her, his arms full with his own near empty bottle of Jack, the well loved bottle he and Sam had been passing back at forth, and a bottle of rosé just in case. None of the new Avengers new about his old habit, but Natasha did. Either she was too drunk to care or, Tony suspected, she knew nothing was going to stop him from this.

The laughter and partying had silenced the stars that glowed behind his eyes, but everything else was still too loud. Too weird. Scott Lang had literally tried to fry Tony in his own armor two years ago, now he was showing the billionaire pictures of his daughter. Vision existed and that was older news, but it was still too much sometimes.

Steve was nowhere to be found and Tony hated how much he cared about that. The unanimously chosen ‘Team Dad’ was probably holding Wanda’s hair while she threw up her one too many drinks. When Tony was her age, he knew how to hold his liquor, he thought bitterly to himself. Had he always been this petty though? It was crazy to say Steve was his, Tony could never have something that good. Even if Steve was sort of his, no one wanted his drunken ramblings and cuddles and crying and and and.

Alcohol was supposed to shut out his feelings, but he couldn’t handle the still overwhelming emotions that remained. So he stumbled back out to the porch, to hopefully escape the too much noise from the party that his brain had always hated but his social standing had forced him to endure. Maybe the silence would be loud enough to keep his thoughts at bay. At least the alcohol kept the stars muted and he nearly sobbed with relief as he sat on the steps to watch a peaceful world. The day was saved today, he had earned a drink. The team was in one piece and no one wanted him dead probably and his heart wasn’t trying to kill him for now and Steve maybe didn’t hate him and and and. He looked down the bottle of the dark bottle. If he reached the end of it, he reasoned, the small, desperate voice in the back of his mind calling out for Steve would be muted too.

“Shellhead,” The nickname was nearly a year old now, yet too new to do anything but hurt to hear. “What are you doing out here? I heard you calling my name, is everything –” Oh, was Tony’s small desperate thoughts actually coming out of his mouth? How could he slip up like this and how could be so pathetic and he was better than this and Stark men are made of iron and and and.

The sound of the porch door creaking was somehow louder than the voice speaking right behind him. Alcohol never muted things in the right order anymore. At least the stars were quiet. “I thought you quit.” Though Steve’s voice was soft, almost small, those words were loud and clear.

“So did I.” Tony replied, resting his head against the wood column keeping the roof above the porch. He could already hear Steve open his mouth to start a lecture. Was this how they break up? Relationship barely restarted and he’s ruined it in two months. He knew everyone got sick of him eventually, and he has known Steve for years, but he had hoped being romantic with him would have lasted a little longer.

Instead, Steve’s mouth shut with an audible click and he sat next to Tony on the old porch. “You okay?”

Tony didn’t say anything for a while. The question had started as unanswerable and the silence became too vast and Steve was too warm, soft in disposition despite or perhaps because of the hard muscles, and Tony couldn’t make his eyes focus anymore and the stars were getting loud again and and and.

“I don’t get asked that question a lot.”

“Okay.”

So kind and good, Steve had to be an impossibility. He doesn’t push for a real answer. More silence follows and it could have been peaceful but Tony couldn’t take it anymore. He let the bottle of Jack Daniels rest at his feet and let his hands wrap around Steve’s waist. His face pressed into that too tight cotton shirt and it felt perfect. Warm and safe and smelled of beach wood and too good and and and.

“Let’s go inside, okay? Clint saved a bedroom just for us.”

“I hate this farm.” Tony said into the shirt. Steve huffed, but Tony could hear his smile.

“It has some bad memories, yeah.” Steve lifted him like he weighted nothing. Each step towards the door was smooth. “But the point of this party was to make some good ones. Because we have new good memories now, right?”

Tony nodded, too many emotions occupying his brain to let him form words.

“Right. So you and I are going to go to bed and tomorrow morning the stars will be gone.” He takes the stairs one at a time. He didn’t have to, but it was smoother this way.

“How’d you know about the stars?”

Steve gave a little laugh. He almost sounded embarrassed. “The constellations were reflected in your eyes before I sat down with you. I know they hurt you, but god, they do make a beautiful picture on you.”

“Oh.” Tony was surprisingly okay with that. “Draw me.” He rubbed his face against the cotton fabric again and Steve laughed more genuinely.

“Tomorrow. We’ll have sunshine and Bruce is barbequing and Rhodey said something about baseball. It’ll be fun. You’ll be okay.”

“Thank you.” It took a lot of energy, but Tony pulled himself up to give Steve a kiss. He had been aiming for his mouth, just something chaste, but missed and only caught the edge of his lips. Steve laid Tony down on the bed, kissing him proper in return. He got in on the other side, pulling up the sheets and curling around his boyfriend.

“We’re okay, Tony. We’re all okay.”

#capimtrb2017 #avengers #stony #steve/tony #post civil war #civil war fix it i guess #the barton farm #alcohol #anxiety #stars and partying #noise sensitivity #steve rogers #tony stark #round 2

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