#self-promo saturday

[skyfullofpods]

Ok folks, we're going to try this out and see how it goes!

It's midday UTC and it's

✨Fiction podcast self-promo Saturday!✨

Reblog this post with your audio fiction related self-promotion, or send me an ask, and I'll do my best to reblog every one I see!

[cha-melodius]

Self-Promo Saturday

Tagged by @orchidscript to list 5 works I'm proud of, doing this before Saturday gives up the ghost. The first four of these were pretty much a given; the fifth could have been many fics, but in the end I went with the figure skating AU that I feel like hits so many good notes between heart and humor and romance.

Please Don't Let Me Be So Understood (firstprince, E, 20k)

After one too many fights at work, Henry and Alex are assigned mandatory reconciliation therapy by their boss. Except the therapist thinks they're there for couples therapy... and surely, a bet on who will break first makes more sense than actually correcting her, right?

Nova, Baby (firstprince, E, 66k)

CIA agent Alex Claremont-Diaz and MI6 agent Henry Fox-Mountchristen don’t exactly get along, but that doesn’t keep their respective agencies from insisting they work together as partners. Then a mission in Colombia changes everything, and their relationship begins to shift and grow into something that neither of them ever expected… and something that could have deadly consequences.

Love is a Losing Game (napollya, E, 102k)

An AU set in the world of competitve chess tournaments during the late 1960s. When secret, late-night training matches between sworn rivals turn into something more, both men are forced to confront what is truly important to them.

A Good Man Is Hard To Find (lokius, M, 81k)

Getting caught eventually was probably inevitable. Mobius showing up at the prison with a job offer courtesy of the CIA? Well, that was pretty much the last thing that Loki expected. Soon he finds himself in a situation he never could have imagined: using skills honed over a life of crime in service of a government agency, all the while trying to balance his new job with his extremely inconvenient feelings for the only person who trusts him. When, after months of successful missions, he unwillingly becomes a pawn in a plot that has deadly consequences, that trust is put to the test—but he’ll be damned if he’s going to let Mobius down.

White Knuckles (napollya, M, 45k)

An Olympic Figure Skating AU. Featuring secret training sessions, falling in love with the last person you should, and learning how to lose control.

Please feel free to make this self-promo sunday, or monday, or whenever @three-drink-amy @14carrotghoul @historicallysam @myheartalivewrites @sherryvalli @kiwiana-writes @rmd-writes @iboatedhere @leaves-of-laurelin @tintagel-or-cockleshells @loki-is-my-kink-awakening @mirilyawrites @cricketnationrise @nontoxic-writes

[lemonlyman-dotcom]

Self-Promo Saturday

Thanks for the tag @lightningboltreader 💛💛 and thanks to @sugdenlovesdingle for starting it!!

The rules are simple: List 5 of your works that you're proud of. Tell us why you love them.

Any medium (fic/art), any fandom, old or recent - anything goes.

I am going to shake it up and use reader reviews.

All Your Colors Make Me Feel Alive “oh my I loved this so much!! I teared up while reading- especially the last 3 ones. TK sharing music with Carlos throughout their relationship is so sweet and the meaning that each song has for them is just so 🥰🥰🥰 loved this a lot, thank you for sharing!”

TK Strand’s Sweet 16 (times 2) (minus 2) “i love how you can practically feel the welcoming atmosphere of the party throughout the story, and the love everyone feels for each other. i also love how you’ve explored all the other dynamics and how you extrapolate on characters in such a lived-in, caring way that still feels true to the characters we see in the show. tk having a new family to celebrate with alongside his 126 family and dad is so good, and i loved those quiet moments with tk checking in on carlos… and tk feeling like he’s just starting a new good era by turning thirty after all he’s been through…:’)))) this is so fun, thanks for sharing!”

Call Me If You Get Lost “Omg this is so cute. My cheeks hurt from all the grinning. (And my stomach’s feeling pretty rumbly from all the talk of delicious food.) TK means so well, and he worried so much, and it all makes him spin out so hard… I loved that conversation with Paul and Marjan (and the lovely side story about her dad). I laughed so hard at the chaos of the cockblock scene, especially the mental picture of Mateo squirming around in the midst of it all, trying to get some clothes on. But mostly I loved how on board Carlos was, and how well he knows TK, and how willing he was to play along with this well-intentioned insanity. This was such a precious read.”

getting past the wounds of love “The trifecta of early Tarlos, music, and Paul had me smiling all throughout this sweet story! I can never get enough of Paul and he's practically jumping out of the page here. His characterization is that good, especially with all the small and careful details you included. And TK and Carlos in the car *swooning* -- there's a tentative energy about them that I absolutely adore! It's like TK keeps drawing these lines in the sand and then promptly forgetting about them because being with Carlos feels so natural and right. You captured it so sweetly and now I wanna rewatch all of their season one scenes soooo thank you for that <3”

I'm Not A Fortress, But I Will Try To Protect You “Wooooooooooow the way I loved this!!!!! Marjan's voice is PERFECTION, I could hear Natacha saying every line wow!!! Truly adore the way you're giving us so much more to this friendship, it's nice to see T.K. be close with someone other than Carlos and nice for Marj to have a friend in her corner. The way she helped T.K. see that Carlos isn't ashamed of T.K., but that maybe there's something more going on was so beautiful, such a wise way to look at things… Such a fabulous fic, so glad I read it tonight!!”

Tagging @chicgeekgirl89 @carlos-in-glasses @apothecarose @ambiguouspenny @bonheur-cafe @ladytessa74 @basilsunrise @louis-ii-reyes-strand @guardian-angle22 @herefortarlos @reasonandfaithinharmony @rosedavid @liminalmemories21 @your-catfish-friend @whatsintheboxmh @ithilien-writes @decafdino and OPEN TAG 🏷️

[txttletale]

the dead speak! (my patreon is active again)

being forced to suddenly move and a month-long visit with my girlfriends mean that for a while, my patreon has been pretty dead. no more! there's a new underside dev diary up and i'll be posting something every week moving forward -- if you want to get exclusive updates on my ttrpg projects, as well as poems, comics, essays, and other writing scraps, or if you just want me to have some walking around money because i Post so Niceys, consider checking it out!

this week's underside dev diary is about home moves, the system by which you can shed your accumulated tension by majestically fucking up your relationships with everyone who loves you.

underside is a cheerful game about superheroes having nice times, by the way, if you're not familiar. it's riffing chiefly on worm but also on the boys and invincible and that whole genre. it's my current big project and i'm hoping to finish it around the end of the year.

[schrijverr]

Self-Promote Saturday

Old fics can still be fun, so to keep the fandom ecosystem alive, I'm promoting one of my own today. This week's self-promote saturday fic is: The Religion of the All in the One (3.6k)

A case team Mustang is working on forces Ed to reflect on his relationship with religion and if he perceives Truth to be God.

I find Ed's relationship with religion and Truth to be absolutely fascinating, and as funny as atheist who met God is, I also love secret zealot Ed. Like especially before they truly get caught up in the plot, it's just Ed, he doesn't even have Al to confirm what he saw behind the Gate, so he is literally basing his whole life's mission on something that could very well not be real, but he Knows that it is. I love that so much, so writing this was very interesting and fun, bc turning my fascinations with canon into little exploration plots is a funky thing to do :D

[makiokuta]

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[benkevans]

I'm still looking for work and accepting commissions, drop me a line if you're interested!

I'm also accepting donations, literally anything helps right now. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/benkevans Venmo: @ben-evans-80

[chicgeekgirl89]

Self Promo (Saturday) Sunday

Thanks to @lemonlyman-dotcom for the tag!

The rules are simple: List 5 of your works that you're proud of. Tell us why you love them.

Any medium (fic/art), any fandom, old or recent - anything goes.

Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting- I got to write about T.K.'s relationship with Andrea and Gabriel, which was fun to explore. And I loved the ever increasing horror of Carlos finding his loved ones caught up in a bar brawl. Andrea was especially delightful to write.

Mothers and Sons- More Andrea and T.K. in this one. It was nice to see T.K. getting some comfort from a mother figure and my heart is so soft for Andrea accepting him into the Reyes family.

I Won't Say I'm in Love- I've said before, I always love writing early days stuff. And Adriana and Francesca are soooo sassy in this one, I love them so much.

I Get it From You- Cute little moments of habits Carlos and T.K. picked up from each other. It was fun trying to find little pieces of them that might have influenced the other person.

The Babysitters Club- I loved the way I twisted the "Buried in Rubble" BTHB prompt for this and turned it into something that was silly but also whumpy. Also T.K. and Carlos babysitting the Ryder children was sooo soft and fun to write.

Tagging (no pressure) @bonheur-cafe, @liminalmemories21, @rosedavid, @carlos-in-glasses. You may have already done it and I may have already like and reblogged it, but my brain is literally a sieve right now so...sorry if that's the case lol.

[skyfullofpods]

A big thank you to everyone who took part in yesterday's Fiction Podcast Self-promo Saturday (title pending)! Same time next week?

[reyesstrand]

self promo saturday

thank you for the tags @orchidscript & @fitzherbertssmolder <33

the only rules: list 5 fanworks you're proud of

wait in the fire (tarlos, 4x04 coda)

Carlos rubs at his wrist, his thumb moving over the thin skin that's chafed, and TK's breath catches as he notices the stark redness of his knuckles; the split skin and the swelling that still hasn't gone down despite the on-and-off icing in the hospital. It's a mark of his bravery just as it's a mark of his final, desperate attempts at freedom, and TK hates imagining what must've been going through Carlos' mind in those final moments. TK gently brings Carlos' hand up to his mouth and kisses over every swollen knuckle.

His fiancé's face softens instantly. It lasts for a beautiful thirty seconds, until his eyes flash with a memory. His voice is low and wobbly as he says, "I think I broke his nose."

wanna be still with you (tarlos, 2x08 coda)

He's too focused on keeping himself upright, feeling woozy from the exertion, that there's a sort of hazy quality to everything around him. TK hears his name being called, and he's—he's certain it's his mind playing tricks on him; he has to be in some dreamlike state where Carlos has found them. But then he feels hands on him—big, sturdy, warm hands he would recognize blindfolded—and he turns his head and sees worried brown eyes and he just about crumbles. Thankfully, he has Carlos there to catch him.

to which there is no reply (tarlos, honeymoon fic)

Everything about TK makes him forget. But then it all comes back to him slowly, not unlike a spark to kindling, leaving Carlos swallowing down his grief like the fire it is—trying to consume it all by himself so he’s the only one who feels the burn. He glances out the half-open window, and sees the white dots of birds drifting on the low tide, and he wonders how he’s supposed to leave it all. The salty air, the pleasant sun, the way TK walks without a line of tension in his shoulders. He knows they’ve transcended all different sorts of honeymoon phases since they gave their relationship a real go a few years ago; he knows that they’ll still be them once Owen picks them up from Austin-Bergstrom and they go home to the loft and work and responsibilities and Lou II. But he doesn’t know how he’s supposed to go back to a life without his father.

hold on to me (nancy/marjan, post-2x02)

She tries to keep herself focused on tiny tasks as she prepares to go home; the shower had been blissful, but now she longs for her own bed. Cap had told them they’d be able to take a few days off to grieve, and so she grabs the dog-eared paperback Carlos leant her a week or two ago and her headphones from her bunk and stuffs it all into her bag, approaching the stairs as she goes. It’s then that Marjan hears it, tiny but distinctive in the quiet firehouse: a thud, followed by the sound of frustrated cries, all suspiciously coming from the ambulance bay. Marjan moves quickly, maneuvering deftly around workbenches and supplies in the bay, biting on the inside of her cheek when she sees the source of the noise: Nancy, hunched over in front of Tim’s locker, staring down at the box of his belongings that’s tipped over onto its side.

from wing to wing (tarlos, 4x16 coda)

Carlos has been there through it all, has loved him through it all, and TK blinks back tears as he grabs Carlos’ hand and laces their fingers together, kissing the heel of his palm, the pulse point under the thin skin of his wrist, needing him to feel it—feel everything that’s too big to name—too. “

No matter what, okay?” Carlos reminds him, squeezing him tight around his middle. He hears it again—I’m not running, TK—in the cadence of Carlos’ voice, and he nods, and lets himself be held closer.

leaving an open tag because i’m getting to this near the end of the day!! <3

[synnthamonsugar]

I've got an inprnt now if anyone's looking to pick up physical copies of my art! I'll be adding new pieces as I proof them.

[theghostofashton]

self promo saturday

thank you @lightningboltreader and @orchidscript for the tags, and @sugdenlovesdingle for creating this! <3

rules: list 5 fanworks you're proud of

made up of a thousand scars

“I was a firefighter,” he says. “Or, well, I still am. My dad’s captain. I’m technically on leave.” “And you… don’t want to go back?” “I don’t know what I want.” He sighs, tracing his fingers across a spot that’s wearing in Carlos's kitchen table. “Thought being here would help me figure that out but…” He pauses, glancing up at Carlos with a shrug. Sometimes he wonders if the drugs made him who he is. Made him fun, happy. Someone people liked having around. He wonders if he’s still any of those things, sober. He doesn’t feel very fun anymore.

you saw the truth in me

TK Strand. He’s been asked to train TK Strand. He almost didn’t believe it, when he opened his inbox on Monday morning. He had to read Nancy Gillian’s email three times before it started to sink in. TK Strand is making his return to acting after five years, and he’s been asked to train him for the role. Anyone who doesn’t know TK Strand is living under a rock. His story will go down in pop culture history as one of the biggest falls from grace this industry has seen in years. Hollywood’s golden boy, years of good press and praise heaped onto him for his talent, his charisma, his massive heart, all thrown away after a failed engagement and drug-fueled bender broke headlines.

tell me how (4x18 coda)

He’s never felt pain like this before. Nothing in his life has ever hurt this deeply, right down to his core. It’s like a part of him died too. He doesn’t feel like the same person anymore. A piece of the puzzle stolen and destroyed, and Carlos wonders if he’ll ever feel whole again. If maybe, eventually, the space in his life where his father used to be will be filled by something else, another person to love, or perhaps an excess of the love he feels for everyone else in his life overflowing and subsuming the gap, something, to prevent him from being doomed to go through rest of his life incomplete.

until we laugh again (4x14 coda)

He keeps playing the phone call over in his head. Paul handing him the phone, his dad listing off Kendra’s symptoms, the panic that shocked his whole body when Owen said he was starting rescue breaths. He should’ve expected it. He knows his dad well enough to know that if there’s something he can do to save someone, he will. No matter what. Even if it could mean losing his own life in the process. TK shudders, squeezing his eyes shut. He doesn’t want to think about that. He really, really doesn’t want to think about that.

support beams bend and break (3x11 coda)

It doesn’t feel fair. It doesn’t feel fair that he has to go through all this just because some guy decided to play a stupid prank. Because he cared about his job, cared about finding that woman and baby that were being abused. He doesn’t think it’s fair that everything hurts this much when he just wanted to do the right thing. He just wanted to help that woman, to make sure she and her child were safe. Only she and her child never existed, and he fell right into their trap. He’s so mad he’s seeing red. And he knows he shouldn’t be. He knows the anger is useless. He knows it won’t do anything for him. He knows he just needs to get past this, just put it behind him, but he can’t. He can’t move on. He doesn’t know how. He doesn’t know how to not feel this.

i'm getting to this kinda late so just gonna leave an open tag for anyone that wants to share!

[txttletale]

new underside dev diary on my patreon, going into more detail about the approaches system and how they're organized. as a result, last week's dev diary, explaining why i decided to go with 'approaches' instead of 'stats', is free for everyone to read.

underside is my work-in-progress dark superhero ttrpg focused on exploring trauma, escalating conflicts, and fast-paced action based around cool power interactions more than statblocks--what masks is to teen titans, i want underside to be to worm. i've been working on it for about two years now and released a much earlier draft under the name capes in the dark--i'm currently hoping to release a feature-complete playtest pdf in early 2024.

if you subscribe to my patreon, you'll get to see these weekly updates as they come out, as well as a weekly scrap of writing, poetry, or game design.

[writingwife-83]

The John Mayer song that inspired this fic’s title happened to play as I’m listening to my music on shuffle this morning, so have some shameless self promo on this lovely Saturday cuz tbh I was kinda proud of this fic and the kudos are lower than I remembered lol

Read on AO3 👇

Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

Summary: When Rey Niima lands her first job with the FBI in the city of Coruscant, she meets an unexpected stranger on her first night in the city. This chance meeting becomes much more than meets the eye and Rey is unexpectedly thrown into a world of lies and intrigue which she, and her heart, were not prepared for.

[tricksywizard]

For self promo Saturday, we’re excited to introduce you to Weetrill! Also here’s a snippet page from chapter one of our upcoming webcomic ‘Walk on, Weetrill’!

Please spread the word about our best good fellow and if you want to see more WIPs and progress reports, head over to Patreon!!

[aelyryapayne]

Self Promotion Outreach!

Hello folks! I'm opening up this post for some Self Promo Saturday goodness! If you're an artist, TTRPG maker/creator, dice maker, mini painter, or anything along those lines, I'd love to hear from you, so post something below for me to take a look at!!!

I'd also love to see some suggestions for anyone you think I should add to my network!

Interests include:

-TTRPGs, including art, minis, maps, etc -Sci-Fi -Fantasy -Horror -Fey Lore and Myth -History -Authors/Books -Arts and Crafts

As for myself, I'm an artist and creator, mainly in TTRPGs, though I also dabble in general fantasy, sci fi and horror.

I have my own website, where most of my work is presented, and I also have a Ko-Fi, where I show WIP progress pics, AND offer some lore facts, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

I'll be including more content soon, as I have recently been made redundant and am looking to become a content creator full time!

Reblogs and such all welcome! I just want to expand my network! ^_^