#spitewrites

[jessicas-pi]

I conducted a vote on which fic snippet to share, and you chose the shipfic I'm writing out of spite!

(Sooo, just for a little context: this is from a short fic set in the same setting as my main Medieval AU, but not in the same universe/continuity as my main Medieval AU. Kinda like what SW Legends is to canon, yknow?)

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“I’m the PRINCESSSSS!”

Ahsoka’s flailing arm nearly hit Rex in the face, but he dodged, and caught her around the middle, stopping her tipsy swaying. “Yes, Your Highness, we know.”

She threw an arm around his neck and squished her cheek against his pauldron. “I’m prettyyyyy.”

“If you insist, Princess.”

“Do you think I’m pretty?”

She swerved wildly, and he redirected her. “It would be unseemly for me to answer that, Princess.”

“Seemly. Seeeeeemly. Stupid Seemley Ress,” she said, slurring his name, then trying to correct herself. “Stupid Seemly Ress. Resss. Ressss! My tongue’sss not workin’, Ress!”

“So I hear.”

“I’m pretty. And I’m strong.”

“As everyone knows.”

“And I’m tall!”

“Acknowledged.”

“And I’m orange!”

“Correct.”

“AND I’m… I’mma walk on my own now!”

She shoved him away and took two wobbly steps forward before he had to catch her again.

“I can do it!” she whined. “I’m a lady. I’m twen’ny yearssss ol’. I can walk!”

She very clearly could not, so with a sigh, Rex bent over and lifted her completely, carrying her down the hallway. “All due respect, ladies do not get sloshed at formal dinners.”

“Isss no’ my fault,” she muttered. “Issstupid Korkie’s fault.”

“Right,” Rex said, ignoring her and the looks he was getting. Mostly sympathetic ones; everyone knew the Princess was trouble and was used to her getting into worse predicaments than this.

“Korkie says you liiiiike me,” she continued, singsongy. “He says you’re—you’re not sssaying an’thin ‘bout it cause of, uh. Uhhhhh. Clones! People don’t like you. Stupid people don’t. Good people do. Korkie says I like you.”

“That would be surprising, considering the amount of complaining you do whenever I’m around,” Rex deadpanned.

[grapeautumn]

François can be in the Moulin Rouge or otherwise stumbling down the Quartier Pigalle with this covetuous slip of a dress. She's a rake and roué, and it's the stretch after the turn of the century where she gets to play a bohemian again, perhaps in worser times. There's a cigarette holder he's turning between her fingers. Down her bared back are the gouges from all the trenches mud-choked after the war to end all wars. It's not the same here as it is in Berlin because Paris is the centre of the world. he made it so

I think he's very good with his can-can. Think he's an Elle. When he picks his dresses they're always flared or pleated because he has thin hips and it flatters her. I think françois could care less about anything besides her next cig and the next war she'll stake her claim into, gender is a performance and she's an artiste just as much as she's chevalier, soldier. Spearing fish in New France. Backhanding Vietnam's finest cup from her table because she tells him his own God turns from him in shame. He's a complex character that can hold many, many multitudes and she can be queer just as much as he is cruel.

OTL hope this clarifies things anon. Not posting ur thing since you were pretty rude

[sunriseverse]

how i’m feeling about hitting 18k and this damn thing still isn’t done.

[pobopolybius]

I need to finish writing that Sinclair/Dante A/B/O fic now just bc I like spitewriting HDUAHAHA

[regicidal-optimism]

might fuck around and do a spitewrite night, it’s been ages 

[thou-breath-of-autumns-being]

self-injury cw, psychiatric abuse cw, hannibal cw

Will Graham cuts himself in inelegant, violent lines. The cuts don’t look like anything; they symbolize nothing. It is a small victory.

The next time they meet, Hannibal’s nostrils flare. Will didn’t really expect to conceal it, even as the scabs flake under the bandages. He tracks the scent of human blood to its origin like a bloodhound. Over the coq au vin that was never a coq, Hannibal looks at him with hunger. 

After dinner, when Jack has gone, Hannibal approaches Will. “As your psychiatrist, I must ask.”

Will knows the game and hates himself for playing his part. “You’re not my psychiatrist anymore.”

“A concerned friend, then.”

Will doesn’t respond. The cuts throb like a heartbeat.

“God casts us into these bodies without our consent,” Hannibal says. “They thrum with powers we do not understand. They are necessary, yet uncontrollable. The urge to express ownership is understandable.”

“By hurting myself.” Will’s voice was defiant in its very flatness. 

“Self-destruction is incomprehensible,” Hannibal says. “It violates every instinct of the animal mind. To do what those around you do not like is to express your agency. To do what they cannot understand is to be ungovernable.”

“You’re not trying to get me to stop,” Will said.

“I see my role, as a psychiatrist, as being to free my patient from that which constrains them.” Hannibal smiles. “A radical freedom, as the Existentialists say.”

Hannibal was telling the truth, at was the fucked-up part of it. “I don’t think everyone around me dislikes it.” A challenge, and Hannibal rises to it.

“Even more incomprehensible, then, for an animal to prepare itself for the slaughter.”

Will doesn’t know what he cut himself for. Bait for a trap, a lure which would make Hannibal his. Both. He didn’t think like that before Hannibal. 

“Sometimes an animal desires nothing more than to be devoured,” he says, and he knows he lost, he always knows that he has lost when he starts talking like Hannibal, “the predator has a certain grace.”

Hannibal’s eyes sparkle. “So it does.”

[dadbodgintoki]

my literal biggest pet peeve in the aa fandom is when ppl have franmaya in narumitsu fics all like, Having Their Act Together and Happily In Love while the two bumbling lawyer men take decades to figure their shit out bc like. not only is that almost always some old version of the usual "women exist to push the two dudes together" bs but it just seems so fucking wildly ooc to me like. in what world does franziska von karma have better emotional processing skills than miles edgeworth??? miles at least got to experience some kind of understanding of love as something that he could potentially inherently deserve, even if it's buried under years and years of trauma. franziska never even had that!! mvk was her literal father!! she cannot separate herself from him!!! this chick has ISSUES and she's not going to magically be better at feelings just bc she's a woman she's going to be a hot fucking mess about all of it. and let her be a hot mess!!!! that's part of the fun!!!

and this isn't even TOUCHING on maya, who has been through so damn much (and ppl are usually good at acknowledging that at least) and is so fucking busy taking up the mantle of the master of kurain like where in the fresh hell did she get the time/emotional energy to not only be a girlfriend but also the Sassy Sidekick Figure to phoenix all the damn time.

like i'm not saying they have to be the most tragic fucked up nightmare couple ever, but it really grates my damn cheese when everything i see has them getting together soooo easily like it just feels like convenience for the sake of the Great Narumitsu Love Story and i guess the point here is, if anyone has any franmaya fics they've read that allow them to be messy and prickly and hurt each other and still come to love each other.............i'm Listening

[jake-marshall]

My goal as a rare pair writer is to be so prolific that the ship is no longer rare.  Where it’s known because I made it so with my own two hands.  Where I convert people to liking it, and continue to write for them, or on the flip side, people get sick of seeing it because I post that damn much - and their hate only fuels me more >:3

[damienthepious]

I saw your tags abt good boy ganondorf au and i just wanted to say i started reading that the other day and it is very good i love him thank u

oh 🥺🥺🥺 ahhhhh thank you!!!! thankyousomuch, i adore Gan... i really oughta bounce back into that au sometime and see what I can get done. I have a lot more written, actually, it’s just that none of it is. y’know. complete  😔

[janiedean]

Lol fuck that "gross abusers" anon Jaime and Sandor are chilling in heaven right now and Damon's living his happy human life, they are babies who have all done like one wrong thing in their entire lives

exactly and when it came to sandor the one thing he did wrong was bc he was ordered to so excuse me if I’m laughing my ass off here also sandor and jaime are totes in heaven being fwb until they’re joined by the other half of their ships and I say so

[royalreef]

(( Unpopular opinion: the Monster Prom fandom wins the award for ‘ Most Boring Monster Fucking ’

Like. THEY’RE ALL MONSTERS. HOW DO YOU MAKE THIS THE MOST BORING SHIT. YOU COULD SWAP THEM OUT FOR HUMANS AND NEXT TO NOTHING WOULD CHANGE.

[badolmen]

Me, making OCs when I was 12: okay so um she’s got a generic name and a vague but unhappy background and she’s bullied a lot and not at all strong enough to fight back and I swear she’s not a Mary Sue um she’s plain looking and doesn’t have really strong opinions and doesn’t really have any conflicts in the story and

Me, making OCs now: this is MERCY, her HORSE is named PEACE and her DOVE is named JUSTICE, she slaid a DEMON at age 8 and got adopted and trained by the TEMPLAR KNIGHTS and when they were executed by the Church she FLED and despite WEELDING THE SWORD OF MICHAEL doubts her true worthiness until a cardinal asks her to straight up MURDER the POPE bc he’s possessed by a DEMON and leading the Church into sin via a continent wide genocide of the ‘unworthy.’ She’s also a LESBIAN but she has pledged her life and sword to GOD and will not surrender her HOLY oath despite, on occasion, craving a wife and quiet life.

[mittensmorgul]

Hello. Is there a chance that you know when the decision about Chuck beeing the villain of the entire show was made? And more specifically was season 9 written with this point of view?

Hi there! I’m sorry this has been sitting in my inbox for a few days, but I’ve been turning it over and over in my head trying to figure out how to actually answer. Because I don’t think this is something that was like the writers just suddenly decided, and began plotting everything else in the story around that fact, you know? And while it might be interesting to puzzle over, it doesn’t affect how I personally engage with the show.

I’ve written many times about the difference between a Watsonian Reading of a text versus a Doylist Reading of a text, and why sometimes understanding the Doylist might inform the watsonian read you’re willing to accept, so I can understand the interest in wondering if there was a moment in the writing room where it was declared that Chuck Was Not A Good Guy, and that the entire story should be told with that underlying assumption. For me, personally, it’s been clear since 4.18 that Chuck was not really a good guy, long before it was revealed that he was really God.

Was this always the intent of the writers? We just don’t know. I don’t think it matters. He always came across to me (ESPECIALLY in 5.22) as a self-important dick... but I know a lot of people really love his monologue on everything, and have always had rather warm feelings about it. So was their intent to make him seem smugly self-satisfied from the start, or is that an angle that later showrunners and writers seized upon and played up? Does it even matter when the story has made it clear now that Chuck has been the villain of the entire show from the start?

I understand how my personal opinion from the start here has probably made it easier for me to roll with the more recent canon revelations about Chuck than it would be for folks who have always believed that Chuck was a Good Guy from the start, that God would ultimately be on their side, or that if God wasn’t actively helping them, it was only because he was testing them or having them prove themselves to themselves or whatever. I understand people have clung to the notion that he was essentially still a good guy, even through all the shadiness. I just... could never see him that way.

ESPECIALLY after s11. I don’t think Chuck’s characterization has really changed since then. It’s just been... unmasked for what it really is. I think everything Chuck The Prophet was saying back in 4.18 about being a cruel and capricious god was... pretty on the nose. Then again, I’m fairly sure that Andrew Dabb took over the showrunning duties in mid-s11, and began setting up what he knew would eventually become the series endgame run, with Chuck as the final big bad. So that run up to the end of s11... was Dabb’s doing...

I don’t really know how much Chuck’s character (his fictional being, in addition to just... his personality, like how we’d talk about the character of real people, the quality of his essential being or whatever) played a part in the writing from 5.22 when he “vanished” through 10.05 when he appeared to tell Marie “not bad” at the end of her musical, and then again from that point until he dragged Metatron to the bar at the end of the universe in 11.20. I’m fairly certain that as soon as they began writing s11 and determined that Amara would be “God’s sister” that they knew that Chuck would have to make an appearance eventually. And the entire storyline of the MoC having been derailed and repurposed in mid s10 likely facilitated the escalation of the story. But again... I’ve written heckloads of stuff about s10, the accordion plot, how Carver had been writing toward a series finale in 10 until they got word they’d be renewed and wanted to keep going, and jerked the whole story onto a completely different narrative track in the back half of s10. As a seasonal arc, s10 will forever be my least favorite, because it’s just... a mess. Yes, even s6 comes across more coherent than s10, just looking at the overarching narrative structure. Episode wise, s10 probably wins for a few stellar entries, but yeeeeeesh, it’s a structural disaster overall.

But I have a tag for that, and lots and lots of posts, and Carver himself saying that this was exactly what happened there, so... I think it’s probably valid to say that the writers really hadn’t even thought much about Chuck until the MoC became about the Darkness in 10.23, and then they had to invent a whole mythology to bring in this super-powerful God-level power to the story, and “God’s sister!” sounded like a solid plan...

So I’d say that Chuck was being set up at that point to have to answer for his “original crime” of locking up the Darkness, you know? Though I don’t know how much of how it played out by the end of s11 was Carver’s doing, or Dabb’s. I am fairly certain that from the moment Dabb took over (quietly mid-s11, and possibly knowing he’d be tapped to take over before then and beginning to lay down tracks toward his eventual story plan, and then completely by 11.23) that what we’re seeing play out in s15 was always his intent.

But in s9? I don’t think Chuck was really even on any of the writers’ radar, at all. Even if they all were working from the perspective that he was God in the Supernatural universe. I just don’t think it affected what they were writing, you know?

Well, I mean, there’s earlier episodes where God was referenced... I mean 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon (hey, written by Dabb!) where we learned that God knew all about their problems, but he didn’t think it was HIS problem... I mean from that moment on, it’s really difficult to think of God as a charcacter who’s on their side, you know? And the end of the story he’d been content with was Sam in Hell for eternity, and Dean miserable in suburbia for eternity, and Cas probably being subjugated by Heaven and the Apocalypse starting again anyway... I mean... ew...

Or in 6.20, when Cas prayed to God, begging for a sign, begging for help, to do the right thing, he got NOTHING in return, zip, zilch. He did the only thing he could, and in retrospect, wasn’t releasing the leviathans something Chuck was probably deliriously happy about? More monsters and mayhem! A beloved hero character becoming the villain in the process! I mean, in s9 when Metatron was “Playing God” and trying to write his own story of the universe, isn’t this exactly the story he wanted to create too? Kinda on the nose there, even if they weren’t actively portraying Chuck himself as the bad guy here. They were explicitly telling us that Metatron was literally rewriting God’s playbook as self-insert fanfic.

So even if they weren’t actively writing Chuck as the big bad, they used Metatron-- the scribe of God-- to fulfill that function. In 11.20, when Chuck talks with Metatron about his turn playing God:

CHUCK: You know, you really are a terrific editor, Metatron.METATRON: (Chuckles.) Well, I was a terrible writer. A worse god. It's good I've got something going for me.CHUCK: (Takes off his glasses and stops typing.) Yeah, you know, I have to say, I didn't see the whole evil-turn thing coming.METATRON: Mm-hmm.

CHUCK: (Chuckling.) Why did you try to be me?METATRON: That was just a sad, pathetic cry for attention.CHUCK: (Chuckling.) Who's attention were you trying to get?METATRON: Yours.

He takes all of this and tries to turn it around, to deflect blame from himself as if he hadn’t literally done everything Metatron did, and more.

METATRON: It wasn't just the saps who were praying to you. The angels prayed, too. And so did I – every day.CHUCK: I know.METATRON: You want to sell the best-selling autobiography of all time? You explain to me – Tell me why you abandoned me. Us.CHUCK: Because you disappointed me. You all disappointed me.METATRON: (Stands up and looks at CHUCK with wet eyes.) No, look. I know I'm a disappointment, but you're wrong about humanity. They are your greatest creation because they're better than you are.(CHUCK starts to look more guilty as he looks at METATRON.)METATRON: Yeah, sure, they're weak and they cheat and steal and... destroy and disappoint. But they also give and create and they sing and dance and love. And above all, they never give up! But, you do!

But even after Metatron’s sacrifice, even after everything nearly falls apart, Chuck STILL tries to weasel out of responsibility for anything, still tries to deflect and minimize, even blames Amara for why he had to lock her away in the first place. And that hasn’t changed about him one whit, from the start right through the present. It’s always been an essential part of his character, and he’s been called out on it repeatedly in s15 by Becky, by Amara, by Sam, by Dean... probably by Michael, too. Like... this is how he’s always been, it’s how he’s always been written, even if the intent had never been to explicitly unmask him as the ultimate big bad of the entire series until the end of s11.

Like Amara accused him in 11.22:

Chuck: I'm sorry. For this, for everything.Amara: An apology at last. What's sorry to me? I spent millions of years crammed in that cage... alone... and afraid, wishing -- begging for death, because of you! And what was my crime, brother?!Chuck: The world needed to be born! And you wouldn't let me! Amara, you give me no choice.Amara: That's your story. Not mine. The real reason you banished me, why I couldn't be allowed to exist... you couldn't stand it. No, we were equals. We weren't great or powerful, because we stood only in relation to each other. You think you made the archangels to bring light? No. You made them to create lesser beings, to make you large, to make you Lord. It was ego! You wanted to be big!

and he admitted to Becky in 15.04:

CHUCK: Things were said. Uh… Now I’ve found msyself low on, um… resources. I went to ask my sister for help, and she rejected me. ‘Cause she sucks. And now I’m just… stuck. So, I thought I’d come see you, my number-one fan. And, I don’t know, see if you can help make me feel big again.BECKY: So, you want me to… fluff you?CHUCK: I mean, no.BECKY: You do. You thought you could just come back to me, your pathetic ex, your number-one fan, and get what you’ve always gotten from me… a nice big crank on your ego.

Meanwhile, in 11.22, Amara had asked him if he wouldn’t change, why should she? Yet... she DID change, beginning in 11.23 when she reconciled with Chuck. Only... he never did change at all.

So... to finally circle back to your question again... I don’t know if it’s relevant what the writers were thinking about Chuck and any random potential for him to return to the story in any capacity, let alone as God, let alone as the eventual Ultimate Series Big Bad back when they were writing s9. I don’t even think God/Chuck was on their radar at all, because I don’t think the entire MoC storyline was crafted with the end result that it would be the key to the Darkness’s prison. At least not way back in s9 when the MoC was dreamed up. It only ever evolved into that because of the narrative disaster of the s10 plot accordion. Which is why, while I fucking HATE s10 for it, I can’t be all that mad about what it unwittingly brought about, either.

Heck I hope any of this makes any sense whatsoever. This is one of those subjects that’s just like “insert key, wind mittens up, watch her go” :’D

[fallenhero-rebirth]

A confession: Spite is such an overwhelmingly powerful motivation for me, but it’s not always a healthy one. I am trying to learn how to quiet that side of me down.

Just a little.

[omgkatsudonplease]

them: harnessing resentful energy is the demonic path from which there is no return

me, spitewriting all of my fics: where's my zombie army then

[regicidal-optimism]

do you have an ao3? absolutely in love with your /r ghostbur era tntduo and I desperately need the rest of that fic

my ao3 is consumptive_sphinx!

as of right now there is no rest of that fic, it was a minific prompt for a spitewriting event I'm doing this evening, but I do have several other /r tntduo fics. (and who knows, I might continue that one!)

edit:

nevermind just read your pinned. I am off to browse your works for more ghostbur Quackity sex thank you for your service.

I AM SO SORRY ABOUT THE LACK OF GHOSTBUR ON MY AO3. I CAN REDEEM MYSELF I PROMISE