#overshadowed by fanfics

[kyofsonder]

Find the Word Tag Game

I’ve been tagged by @on-noon to find the words they chose for me in any of my current WIPs and post the line/passage where I found each one. Thank you for the tag, and for the challenge! I definitely need to write more of my original works, because I found most of these in fanfics.

My words were: hoping, fit, home, caught, and compare

I found hoping in my Danny Phantom oneshot “Lingering Scars”:

"Going on with what? If you haven't noticed, Jazz, there's a lot going on all the time in this town. In this family. In my life. You're gonna have to be a little more specific."

"With you! With these stains! This is clearly blood from that huge scratch you got the last time you were trying to train Cujo, but you told me that already healed and I haven't seen you wincing at the dinner table once lately! I know you've done laundry since then, too, it's been at least a month. So why is there a stain? Why are you hurt in the same place, to the same degree, when I can't see any evidence that you're hurt! At all! What's going on with you?" Jazz is nearly out of breath by the time she finishes her questions. Her arms can't seem to settle on being crossed in front of her chest or flailed out in the direction of Danny's laundry.

"You... noticed all that?" Danny asks quietly, muttering a curse to himself and hoping Dani doesn't hear.

I found fit in a rough draft of my Given oneshot “Present Tense”:

There's a person. For the first time in what feels like a very long time, and no time at all, there's a person on the beach with him. Their back is turned to him, but their features keep… shifting. They’re wearing a strange uniform, that looks in turns like the one he used to wear in middle school and the one he wears now as a high schooler. It doesn't quite fit on their body, either. Maybe a girl wearing a boy's uniform that’s too big for her? Or a boy who's grown too quickly and made his clothes too small? Somehow, it's almost both. Neither. Why would anyone other than him be in a place like this, wearing clothes that keep changing on their own? The question doesn't stay in his mind long.

I found home in my novel WIP “To Be Honest”:

Their family had searched. An assistant sent by the Shepherd family had searched. Micah himself had gone out into the wilderness beyond his home time and time again, just like tonight, and that last question had never been answered. The questions of where Asher and David had gone, whether they'd lived or died, whether they blame him even now -- none of those have ever been answered. So why, when he finally gets a chance to ask someone who was actually involved, is Micah in this situation? Why is David insisting that Micah is trying to ask something else? What went wrong?

I found caught in “Lingering Scars” again:

"If you don't tell us why you're hurt, Danny, I swear I'll --!" she has her threats primed for him and everything. No mercy. No delay. Fenton through and through. Caught between terrifying a kid who's already been through too much and being hunted for sport by a Fenton who's been dabbling in ghost hunting her whole life.

I also found compare(d) in “Lingering Scars”:

For the first time since they'd started talking, the cold in Danny starts to ease. Settle back into its usual place. His blood always runs a little chilly, and he's always half-conscious of that nebulous space inside him where it all pools together, but it changes when he's scared. The intensity difference between the normal state of the ice powers that live in him and the literal fight-flight-or-freeze version of them can't possibly be compared. His whole body relaxes when it goes back to normal.

To keep the game going, I’ll tag @aohendo, @writingpotato07, @calicojackofficial, @midnights-melodiverse, @wildjuniperjones, @galaxy-writes, @365runesofwriting, and any other mutual who wants to try to find these words in their own WIPs can say I tagged them!

To those I’m tagging, your words are: agitation, exchange, gesture, deliberate, inconsistent

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

One of my favorite things that happened during my last mage Hawke playthrough was during the final battle against Meredith. Everything's going well. We're kicking her ass, she's got just this much health left, we're so close... but then everyone gets stunned dizzy.

Hawke is stumbling around all confused, seeing stars. The rest of his companions are stunned. I'm annoyed because I just want to end this fight. Don't know how or who did it, probably Meredith, but the situation's dire.

Meredith's standing by herself at the center of the Gallows, shouting nonsense and smugly believing the Maker's going to come down and make her his new bride after she murdered a bunch of innocent people.

Truly, this is the part of the story where Varric says they all thought hope was lost, that in the end, Meredith would pull a fast one on us and claim victory...

Until the REAL hero of dragon age 2 comes storming at her. I don't know why Carver was the only one to not be affected, but he literally jumped out of no where and just started bashing Meredith with his sword while everyone else was too dizzy to do anything until she was dead and the cutscene played.

"Hawke defeated Meredith-" LIES, VARRIC. I know the truth! I was there! Hawke didn't do shit! Carver Hawke was the main character all along! He got shit done and Varric gave Hawke all the credit!

I bring this up because last night I finished my warrior Hawke run and when we got to the fight with Meredith, I kind of hoped the same thing would happen where Bethany dashed in all heroic and got the killing blow on Meredith.

She did not.

She got squished by a statue.

But it's fine, Bethany Hawke was the true main character in my heart.

[reitziluz]

Unbidden, he remembered the first time he had woken up on the office couch after hiring Serizawa. One of the bath robes for the clients in need of more hands-on exorcism had been carefully spread over him. For the rest of the week, Serizawa had hovered around him, subtle as a bear. He hadn’t minded it at all, having all that worry and care and affection wrapped around him like a warm blanket. “It’s different in practice. It’s different… with you.”

Days Spent Dreaming Shit-All, chapter 2: Theory and Practice

[read on ao3]

[probablyaseamonster]

Headcanon: Those times in episodes 5 and 6 when Scarab turned more buggish and monstrous wasn't him slowly revealing a "true form" or anything. He was just expressing his feelings <3

[allylikethecat]

tell me why my brainrot is so bad i thought you’d drop a double chapter for atkh since you alluded to even more tragedy and the chapter you did post is such a buildup for it.. anyway im literally so excited all the time for atkh it’s literally my fav fic ever

Okay so I will say I did briefly consider it, however I'm going to be at a work conference most of this week and if I did a double drop I wasn't confident enough in my abilities to have the NEXT NEXT chapter ready for Friday 😂 I guess forewarning- we are a few weeks out from the ~tragedy~ but it is coming and now I'm worried I'm hyping the tragedy up too much and people are going to be like "that's *it*" but I mean...I got sad while outlining / writing it so it's at least tragic to ME

Thank you so much for reading and sending me this ask omg I am *also* so excited about All the King's Horses all the time and am so grateful and excited that there are like other people reading it and interested in it. It has become my precious baby because HORSES and the BOYS. Like I am thinking about it and want to be talking about it basically at all times. It's a problem lol Also to say it's your FAV FIC EVER?! I am so incredibly honored oh my gosh thank you so much. I hope you are having the BEST weekend and that you have a wonderful week! I also hope you enjoy Friday's update! Thank you again!

❤️Ally

[geminired]

The Splat Chat Comedic Comments Part 4

[zero-braincells-left]

what the fuck do i do now dude

[kitsunequeen1987]

Yo

First ever Suitor Armor fanfic I've written- have fun. (I wanted to give V some attention)

[catilinas]

every day i cry and weep over lucan never getting to write the death of cato the younger into the pharsalia :(

[frumfrumfroo]

I asked because I'm working on rewriting the ST in an original setting with Finn as the protagonist. For that to work, I need to move Rey and Ben to make narrative space. But I don't want to do it in a way that feels mean spirited. Best I can think of is that Ben never falls, his family stays together, and there's a new villain. But I fear even if I do this readers will still be more interested in Ben's background HEA than my actual story because he’s the only thing anyone cares about.

Oh, cool. Yes, I think that would be the way to go. That way the saga's conflicts remain resolved and you're free to focus on new territory while including the OT trio as supporting characters if you want. You could have a minor Resistance (or equivalent in your setting) subplot about Leia's lingering trauma and how her lack of concrete resolution with Anakin affected Ben if you wanted to keep thematic continuity with the OT and retain some of that pathos to keep those characters well-rounded. It would help them both relate to Finn and keep them effective foils for his development into a leader. If you want to make sure people aren't distracted, you might want to start with reylo already together to avoid pulling focus towards them/their relationship. I don't know if that works for your plot or what you want to do with Rey.

It might not appeal to the biggest audience in the fandom, but it's the story you want to write so it will be a better story than if you tried to write something you're not passionate about or if you tried to pander. Make it clear in your summary/tags where the focus is so people know what to expect. The audience may be smaller, but it will be a more satisfying experience for both you and your readers.

[victimhood]

An ode to this classic Namjin scene

From chapter 34 of Blueberry Eyes/Strawberry Swing (a sope + slow burn namjin + established vmin fic)

“It’s fine,” Seokjin says. “Life sucks sometimes.”

“Just like the moon…” Namjoon muses thoughtfully. “We wax and wane through days of darkness and light.”

and

“What are you thinking of?” he decides to ask Namjoon.

“I’m just thinking of us making out, and I say to you that my body is an offering, for the sole purpose of your pleasure, and you play me like an instrument. I yield to your skilled hands and I sing only in notes you can hear, and so our love is a song that offends the gods, our music a subversion of divine dominion.”

Seokjin was expecting something more prosaic. “What are you? A virgin sacrifice?” Seokjin teases jokingly.

[mariathechosen1]

I crave female led queer content.

[unfo11owmelol]

Btw I like Chrom personality-wise and have nothing against his fans, but if he were to replace Ike in smash it would be a waste and just insulting. 😭

[allylikethecat]

New TS’s album on Friday❌

New ATKH’s chapter on Friday✅💃🕺🪩🎀💖

Thank you so much for reading and for the continued support! I hope you enjoyed the new chapter and I can't wait to hear your thoughts on it! It might not have been the tragedy drama filled chapter that I had teased (that's coming later don't worry lol) BUT I do really like this one (yay Fictional!Charli!) and I hope you enjoyed it as well! I hope you had a lovely Friday and that you have a great weekend!

❤️Ally

[vietbluecoeur]

mise en place

Rating: M

Relationship: Vince/Rody, Rody/Manon, mentioned (unreciprocated) Vince/Manon

Word Count: 2.6k

Summary:

Three people’s lists of meals and foodstuffs they enjoy (or don’t) before the end of things.

[raeofthelight]

I didn't know what to write for the writing thing so I wrote fanfic. LMAO having a published author read your fanfic without knowing it's fanfic is a feeling