#tag stuff

[celtic-crossbow]

Tagged by the exemplary @zehiiro 💙

Last song | listened to: Stay - Ghost, Patrick Wilson

Favourite colour: Midnight blue

Currently watching: TWD rewatch, Good Omens

Last movie: Five Nights at Freddy’s

Currently reading: Just Fanfiction

Sweet/spicy/savory: I guess savory.

Current obsessions: Always TWD, TWD:DD

Currently working on: Two series (Blood Ties, The Dixon Chronicles), two Daryl x Reader requests, two Caryl oneshots.

I’ll tag (with zero pressure to complete💙): @loganlostitall @deansapplepie @taylormarieee @littlegodzilla @walker-bait-1973

[katistrophe]

All right, Picrew challenge time - rules are the same as for the one I got tagged in: make yourself as a kid, teen, young adult and now, except using this Picrew instead because I love it, use your favorite color at the time as a background, and tag some people.

(Badges etc are optional, I just thought it was neat to track what I’d figured out about myself when - though the young adult is fudging it a bit, I definitely still counted as one when it clicked I was nonbinary.

…also, I thought it was cute with the cats until having to remove them for the last one broke my FUCKING heart.)

Tagging… @awordwasthebeginning @toooldforthisbutstill @theherondaels @thattalviel @wippsteertt @black-cat-aoife @mutantenfisch @grumpyfaceurn @tatzelwyrm aaaaaand right back at @having-conniptions

…and just for fun, bonus young adult!me a bit after I moved out after the cut:

[itwoodbeprefect]

Fic Writing Review 2023 🌈

i wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year and bring it to a nice close, so i took to tumblr search and google to see if there was some sort of tag game going around. i frankensteined this list of questions from a few different versions of what was probably originally the same thing, but the nature of The Website of course makes it impossible to locate an original, so this is me just sort of, well, joining the fun by starting a parallel thread.

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Words and Fics (on ao3) 📚

words posted: 73,947, but this is a little deceptive because all the words for A flip-flop state of mind currently get counted for 2023, so it's probably something closer to 45-50k

fics posted: 21, which will eventually go down to 19 when i update the two multi-chapter works and they get sorted into the new year

first fic: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Throuple [Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)]

last fic: Bases loaded, do your dance [h50]

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Ships and Fandoms ⚓

ao3 tells me the following:

Starsky & Hutch (8)

Hawaii Five-0 (2010) (7)

Ted Lasso (TV) (2)

Stargate Atlantis (1)

Hard Core Logo (1996) (1)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) (1)

Top Gun (Movies) (1)

and for each of those it's probably the ship you most expect if you know the thing (and the way fandom works), except maybe ted lasso (both fics are keeley/roy/jamie) and sga (a gen team fic, no ships).

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Top 5 Fics by Kudos 🏆

no big surprises here. ted lasso was easily the biggest fandom i've written for this year (not to mention that these two fics had the good fortune of being posted very soon after the finale), followed by h50 long before s&h comes on the scene:

How To Build A Triangle (or accidentally fall headlong into one, or whatever the fuck) [ted lasso]

Honey honey, how you thrill me (Honey honey, nearly kill me) [ted lasso]

A flip-flop state of mind [h50]

Oh, kiss me like the final meal (Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight) [h50]

Something old, something new [h50]

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Top 5 Favorite Fics 💖

these are in no particular order!

3 AM, the time when most people die - this is a hard core logo (1996 canadian movie) fic which just kind of Happened, and it hung around on ao3 for a solid few days in a 0 kudos 10 hits sort of state, which had me giggling every time i thought about it. 2023 goal of writing for me, myself & i achieved (0 kudos on a fic)! ✅ (that said, it does also bring me great joy to see that the number is upwards of zero now. lovely to see an obscure thing find its audience. <3)

Your hands in my back pockets - a starsky/hutch fic, and in some ways the opposite to the previous one. i had a "this is alright" sort of feeling about it when i hit post, and the (lovely! very flattering!) way people responded to it surprised me somewhat. reading it back now, i don't know what bothered me about it at first - it's nice, it flows, it's all good! plus, i really like the title. it's a good s/h title.

POV: It’s a lovely day, you’re sipping a refreshing cold drink on your 70s apartment balcony, and the upstairs neighbor who always waters the sago palm outside your front door when you forget about it has that one friend over and his windows wide open. - this is a starsky/hutch all dialogue fic, and it was just plain fun! very easy to write, thankfully not hard to read, and the title is completely ridiculous in a way that still gives me a kick.

How To Build A Triangle (or accidentally fall headlong into one, or whatever the fuck) - can't not mention this one, i think. it's the roy/jamie/keeley ted lasso fic i wrote in record time (for me), and i had a blast doing that and i think that's palpable in the end result. i have warm memories of this!

Oh, kiss me like the final meal (Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight) - h50! steve/danny! they'd gotten swamped by all the starsky/hutch in 2022, but they made a minor comeback this past year. and again, this fic was just plain fun - a scene that really needed the mcdanno rewrite, and i'm glad it happened, and that it decided to flow so smoothly it grew twice as long as intended. the gag with the gun is still good, the banter works, and i like "it tastes like a laugh".

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Fandom Fic Events 🤝

my knee-jerk first thought was none, which would have been a blatant lie for this year! i wrote a fic for the SHareCon (starsky/hutch con) zine, which is currently still zine-only but will appear on ao3 at some point in the future, and i also wrote something for this year's Starsky & Hutch Advent Calendar, which can be found here (which will also lead you to all the other lovely advent calendar gifts of 2023 and previous years!). neither of these things would have happened if starsky & hutch fandom hadn't been such a warm, welcoming, unbelievably well-organized space. <3

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Projects for 2024 👀

oh god. oh god i have so many things on the grill.

the end of 2023 was a stretch of time where i did write some, and at times even a very decent amount, but nothing seemed to be getting finished - which was annoying for a bit, and then sort of petered out into oh well. it'll happen, eventually, when it wants to. which means that currently i have a whole bunch of nearly finished things for a whole bunch of fandoms:

bad buddy - should this be top of the list? who knows. but oh, i need to write something for this - i have to, i need to, you know. it's just that it's turning out to be more of a challenge than most new things i start writing for, because i do feel i have a reasonable grip on the characters, but the fact that it's a thai series which i'm only consuming through fan-generated subtitles is clashing with some of the fundamentals of how i usually write fic, as it turns out. usually i watch a thing and then mimic character voices to write a section of (probably mostly, maybe only) dialogue, which then gets filled out with descriptions and an actual setting later on. the problem with bad buddy is that i love, love subtitles, and i love, love the people who write them, but they do (understandably! naturally!) lead to some very clunky english at times, and i just can't write things like "are you chickened out, fierce eyes". i cannot. which means i need to half-invent the right english character voice (and how that blends with the little i know of thai speaking patterns and customs), which takes away the thing i usually lean on way more heavily than i previously realized i did, so. it's a journey! it's an experiment! i'm learning things! i'm making choices! and i'm pumped about it but it's also REALLY slowing down the bad buddy fic production.

starsky & hutch - many things are happening! many many! they're just happening slowly. there's one particular fic about starsky and hutch comfortably out at a party and hutch fielding questions about names which has been 98% done for a month or two, but i need one (1) more connective paragraph to wrap things up, and apparently i'm in no hurry. and i love that for me, at the same time as i'm tempted to flick my brain and go Do It. Just Do It. oh god, and then there's a much older comedy fic stuck in close to the same situation only there it's 95% and the missing part is the end, which is at least a little more serious, and there are. i think literally a dozen probably. things that are cooking, bubbling, making interesting little noises. it's yet to be seen which of those turn out tasty.

h50 - there are some shorter wips here that have great potential to go somewhere, but mostly i want to finally (finally!) wrap up a flip-flop state of mind, which only needs finishing touches (albeit a bunch of them) on the final chapter, and then maybe 200 more words for the short epilogue to round things out. i had somewhat hoped to get that done before the new year, but it didn't work out that way, and i'm at peace with it - the longer this fic takes, the more comical my initial estimate of "i can probably get this done within the month" becomes. and after that's done, i can refocus my energy on Sweet like a chic-a-cherry cola, another ill-fated plan which i Will see through (while also enjoying myself), dammit, but i think for that one i'll need to pre-write the whole thing before i start posting again or i'll just keep going in circles.

nashville - it's been a while since my rewatch, so i'm not sure it will ever really come together, but i have a fun little 5+1 will/gunnar thing which lives half in a google docs file and half in my heart. could be nice!

sga - there's One Fic that's near done and has a few turns of phrase in it that keep making me go "oh, this might be worth finishing, actually" every time i return to it, but i think i'll need to let that happen a few more times before we actually get there. there's also a light and comedy-ish aro/ace john fic (heavily featuring john&rodney and john&team) on a low boil. i think that one might need to wait for me to rewatch the show at some point so i'm correctly immersed in the Vibes of it all, but it's very dear to me, so it still gets a permanent In Progress label.

due south - there's one particular thing that i might get back to? maybe. it could happen. @redgoldblue's dedicated live reporting on their due south watch, as well as their ds fic, did stir something in my brain.

other - there's literally two paragraphs of hard core logo fic kicking around in my notes which might turn into something some day. (when i started writing 3AM those new words were intended to blend with the two existing paragraphs, but they never did.) there's some ted lasso that can still be considered wip, but my ted lasso fic moment burned bright and short, it seems, though it's nice to know the framework is there if i ever do a rewatch. oh man, and there's a weird homoerotic over the top (because that's what this canon is) tango & cash wip which i hope will make it across the finish line some day, but i wouldn't be surprised if in the end that's, like. coming to an ao3 page near you soon! in 2026.

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Tagging ✨

tag any number of people you want as far as i'm concerned (which can be zero! that's a valid number), but i haven't spotted this going around in my fandom circles yet, so i'll shoot for some good coverage: @redgoldblue @luredin @actingcamplibrarian @stephmcx @pterawaters @the-arya-silvertongue @logicgunn @incognito-insomniac @dedkake @spaceradars @spurious @sparrowsarus @flownwrong @theroseandthebeast @jimmyandthegiraffes @soleadita @ivycross @murphyhatesme @bgharison @thekristen999 @cowandcalf @msbeeinmybonnet @ruztyryan and you, reading this. i fully tagged myself to do this, so please don't feel shy about doing the same! i really do want to read your answers, if you feel like giving them.

obviously there's no pressure, and also feel free to modify this any way you want! give different stats, list top 5 by hits instead of kudos, name just one favorite fic, add in fics you only posted to tumblr rather than ao3, skip a category or invent a new one or throw the whole thing out and only reflect on a single piece of writing in more detail - it's all fair game, as long as it suits you.

[igglemouse]

🌘quiz + picrew : your inner adventurer.

Thank you @minty-plumbob - @eljeebee - @crabbeychick for this tag! I've been meaning to do this one and I had a lot of fun making this! Makes me want to jump on World of Warcraft!

I'll tag... @anamoon63 - @crownsofesha - @merrymomo - @wannabecatwriter - @sirianasims - @bakersimmer - @mysimsloveaffair - @daniigh0ul - @pink-chevalier - @helenofsimblr - @sparkiekong

As always feel free to ignore or whatever!

[eyeofthemoose]

I was tagged by @somethingsgottasaveyou to do this picrew and take this quiz (thank youuu)

I'm tagging @beachesgetpeaches and whoever wants to do it :D

[landgraabbed]

got tagged by the bestie in law @vanoefucks!! thank you so much this was fun to do. tagging @cyazurai @doomcathedral @timberllania @venriliz @juniemoe to do this picrew + share your last listened song

[baldurians]

i was tagged by @katsigian to make some ocs in this picrew, thank you! ♡

All of them are BG3 OCs:

Zinnia ☆ Mia ☆ Lucía ☆ Belith ☆ Zandryn ☆ Zahra

[red-nightskies]

Wip day

Tagged by @refinedstorage 🖤 thank you

Filed under things I draw at work when I’m bored

[alistairs]

Got tagged by @mercymaker to make some OCs in this. Thank you 💕💕

Jovanka 🔮 // Mary 🌊

Tagging: @minthara @tekehu @bethesdas @aldcaldos @0lemunch @nokstella

[cyanturtlesoda]

Rockerz

[lunelfy]

People You'd Like to Know Better ;

Thank you for the tag @silwermoon-sims & @waaneco :)

Last song: Relaxing Hang Drum Music

Favourite colour(s): green/violet, black/white

Currently watching: ain't no time for series, school is calling

Last movie: I don't remember 🤔 probably "Scrooge: a Christmas Carol" 2022, which was literally a year ago on Christmas 😂

Currently Reading: "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible" (long title xD) by Charles Eisenstein

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: Sweet & Savoury

The last thing I googled: YinYang in the Bible

Current obsession: dancing and drawing

Currently working on: animal drawings for my classmates

I tag: @autumnserenade @lilypixels @poisonedsimmer @pixelshary @rethdis-love (and whoever else reads this and wants to join :) feel free also to ignore if you've already been tagged)

[itwoodbeprefect]

fic writer 20 questions

i was tagged by @luredin! thank you! <3

i feel like i've done this one (or one very like it) at some point before, but i couldn't find it when i went searching, so maybe i just read through it and composed answers in my head? or my very confused tagging system is understandably failing me.

How many works do you have on AO3?

right now, 242!

What's your total AO3 word count?

587,542.

What fandoms do you write for?

several! these days mainly starsky & hutch, but h50 is still very present too, and i think both stargate atlantis and 911 may also be worth mentioning. beyond that there's a lot of other things for which i'm working on a single fic, or there's a document with multiple of them but i only open it once in a blue moon.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

well. four out of five of these are for a fandom i wouldn't write for anymore today for obvious reasons, and the other one (Tell me I'm perfect) is a Shadowhunters fic:

It's the truth

Tell me I'm perfect (but tell me the truth)

I dare you to dare me

Finders Keepers

That escalated quickly

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i wish i did! i keep trying to get into a healthier habit on that front, because i love comments and i'd like to say thank you and engage with people more, but it's a complicated thing - not in real life, but in my head, unfortunately.

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

not an easy question, and it's not because there's too many to pick from! i'll indulge in a little melancholy at times, and maybe even a somewhat things-aren't-perfect ending, but generally there's at the very least a solid spark of hope even if the rest of the fic was sad. i think maybe Sobering (a mash hawk/trap fic) could qualify for actual angst, but even that one i seem to have tagged as "angst? i think?" when i posted it.

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

now this, this is where we get tangled up in weighing a hundred fluffy fics against each other to decide happiness rankings! maybe something like Flowers for no reason but you missed me (starsky/hutch) or And I love every inch of you (And then some, and then some) (h50 steve/danny) because both of those are just pure giddy happiness start to finish, which means the happiness has been building for the longest by the time the ending rolls around.

Do you get hate on fics?

thankfully, not really! most of my stuff is deeply inoffensive. there's been a sporadic comment here or there over the years of someone randomly telling me they didn't agree with something i wrote (by which i don't mean people pointing out genuine mistakes - that's very different, and very helpful), but even then i wouldn't necessarily classify that as "hate", just as a very awkward way to respond to reading something that annoys you for whatever reason. what springs to mind is one that started with "i have not seen the episode" and then proceeded to interpret an in context line from a character as my personal beliefs on whether children are capable of evil, so. that kind of thing.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

not officially! but unofficially i've been told that it's fun and really really sweet, so no surprises there.

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

not usually, which means that the craziest (and only) one on ao3 is probably the h50/s&h crossover (Said the apple to the orange), which is truly very uncrazy.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i wonder about that sometimes (i feel like after many many years and with the recent bot stuff on top, the answer should maybe be "probably"), but not that i know of!

there was an instance once of someone copying a story title, but they did so in a way that didn't even work. i was writing in dutch at the time, but english titles were Very Cool, so my story was called "ladies, bugs and ladybugs", and the other person took that, translated it to dutch, and used that for their story, which. those words don't match up the same way in the slightest, so it's just a random sequence of things by that point.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes! actually, i was probably the first person to translate any of my fic - all of the very, very early stuff posted to ao3 was just an english copy of originally dutch stories - but these days there are also a lot of russian translations (russians seem to be very active in h50 fandom!), some mandarin, some french. one italian, i think. it's very cool!

also, shout out to people who do podfics, too. <3

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

a few attempts were made over the years, but most of that never went very far for one reason or another. none of it is on ao3.

What's your all-time favorite ship?

as of right now, probably starsky/hutch!

What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

oh, i'm afraid i could fill, well, lists. one that immediately comes to mind that's technically a little past this category because i know i'll never finish it is a very long h50 project in which i took up about a hundred different little threads from the series and tried to weave them together into a giant fix-it-ish getting together coming out case fic sort of thing, and i still think the plotting work for that one was sound, but i'm just never going to actually get 100k down for a fic like that at this point in my life. (note that this is not a fic that's already up on ao3 in part - i'll finish those, one way or another.)

and oh my, for maybe a better answer: the starsky-watches-cowboy-movies starsky/hutch fic. i want to write that one, i do! and i am, and i do have real hope that i may one day finish it, but it's a fairly ambitious project in multiple ways, so there are some serious obstacles i will need to find some way around.

What are your writing strengths?

i love the patter of writing dialogue! people tell me characters sound believable and like themselves, so that's nice. also, balancing ridiculously fluffy things in such a way that it doesn't tip over into saccharine, and i also think i manage good jokes sometimes. i've been working on descriptions and atmosphere, and that's been fun.

What are your writing weaknesses?

i've completely unlearned how to write long stories! and ironically, i do write a lot of overlong sentences. also, i'll turn to google for absolutely anything, but deep down i'm a pretty impatient writer when research is needed and it doesn't happen to be a subject i'm already interested in, which oftentimes means i'd rather handwave things or scrap the idea entirely, even though i think really well-researched fic is amazing. and on that note, no matter how much american media and internet content i consume, i'm not american and have never been to america, which can be a challenge when writing for almost exclusively american fandoms. (i think i understand beds now, but i'll have to google sinks one of these days.)

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

ha! this was a thing that was very, very common for a while in my dutch fic writing community, because more or less all of the fictional properties and/or real life celebrities people were writing about were british or american (maybe with tokio hotel as the one notable exception), so there was A Lot of fic written in dutch with stilted high school english dialogue thrown in. i was never very into that, but hey, if it makes you happy, definitely go for it, and that goes double if it's just a few sentences for flavor! compared to what i used to see, ao3 culture is extremely conservative with these sorts of things.

all of which i say while also still, in the back of my head, considering the possibility of writing a really obnoxious ted lasso fic with 90% dutch dialogue, so. i too might become guilty at some point in the future.

First fandom you wrote for?

twilight! it was nessie/jacob, with i think a love triangle with a vampire thrown in. we all have to start somewhere.

Favorite fic you've ever written?

i recently reread How To Build A Triangle (or accidentally fall headlong into one, or whatever the fuck) and i still think it's really good and fun, plus it's a minor miracle that i got it finished so easily! there's a decent chance i'd name a different fic if you asked me again tomorrow, though.

Tagging

I have no idea who has already done this or been tagged for it, so I'm just going to throw a few names out there (@redgoldblue @actingcamplibrarian @stephmcx @spurious @goneahead), and then give the usual disclaimer that obviously i'm tagging you all with no pressure, and that if anyone sees this and it seems like a fun list of questions, i'm tagging you too! ✨

[igglemouse]

@eljeebee tagged me for this one and I had a lot of fun with this character creator! I know it's been like weeks since the tag but I save these and try to get to them when I can and

I also have moley moles!

For this one I will tag...

@miss-may-i - @queeniecook - @serenasims - @moonfromearth - @memoirsofasim - @ellemant - @havenroyals - @greensleeves101066 - @weirdosalike - @wannabecatwriter

as always, do if you want, ignore if you want!

[luckylolabug]

9 People You Want to Know Better

Tagged by @chibiosaka 💖

3 Ships: Locklyle, Hanleia, and Dogelle

1st Ever Ship: Probably some Disney movie just for something I enjoyed. If you're meaning first ship when I was AWARE of it, it's Taran and Eilonwy from the Chronicles of Prydain book series. They're still my babies and I love them.

Last Song: Touch Up by Mother Mother

Last Film: The last one I rewatched was The Labyrinth for the millionth time. The last one I saw in theaters was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Currently Reading: A Court of Frost and Starlight by SJM; Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin; The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten; and rereading Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn (Yes I read too many books at once)

Currently Watching: The Artful Dodger (PLEASE WATCH THIS SHOW); Schitt's Creek; and rewatching both FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Criminal Minds

Currently consuming: Chicken schnitzel, latkes, and applesauce. 🕎💖

Tagging: @starwritingbri @glassamphibians @witchwhaat @earlmothraoffangbanger @tallergrass @ursa-asshole @patrocool @amazinggrace00 @historyofshipping

Everything is optional! 😇

[landgraabbed]

my wife just reminded me that i got tagged in this by @doomcathedral!! so sorry it took me so long!! even though my sims 2 sims aren't full on ocs i didn't feel like doing this with ocs from other games or digging out my saga sims for this. so hector it is!

name: hector jonas nicknames: none i don't think so gender: male star sign: scorpio height: he's definitely on the shorter side orientation: gay nationality/ethnicity: i tend to play loose with ethnicity in the sims but hector is definitely southeast asian. probably vietnamese since he reminds me so much of youtuber maqwell lmfao favorite fruit: grapes, probably. he's fancy like that favorite season: he tends to have his best fashion in the fall so yeah favorite flower: lilies favorite scent: snapdragons. he has a bouquet made by gwen in his house coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: tea average hours of sleep: he takes his beauty sleep very seriously. except on nights that marius is in werewolf form lmfao dogs or cats: cats!! dream trip: my guy keeps wanting to go to takemizu cjdjssfdsd soon. number of blankets: oh he's a blanket fiend. all of them. random fact(s): well, he wasn't the first vampire i made for bloom valley--that was eleanor, actually. i made her at the same time as marius but decided against keeping her after going through a mind numbingly boring round with her. but after my wife streamed coffee talk eps. 1 and 2 for me i really wanted to play with a vampire again since we both love hyde (and gala ofc) so much, so i put the effort to add some vampire gameplay mods and it worked! i really want to bring eleanor back into the main cast at some point. i really loved her. also his name is literally the first and last names of a footballer swapped lmfao

[baldurians]

tagged by @alistairs to make some ocs in this picrew, thank you!

✩ Deirdre Vrammyr (and she as a vampire maybe? 👀) ✩ BG3

✩ Serena Westwood ✩ BG3

tagging: @fenharel @katsigian @fereldanwench @noonfaerie @thefathersbride @faarkas @emahriel @breadedsinner @leopardmuffinxo @virmire @goldenclaymore