#technically for my au but in the beginning its mostly canon compliant. so

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[ficfinder-general]

I'm new to Codywan. Doyou have a list of Must Reads or Fandom Classics or anything like that? (Bonus points for longfic!)

Funnily enough, I'm not sure I'm an expert on Fandom Classics, but I do think that the long Clone Wars rewrites/fix-its are a perfect way to start! (And then you can move on to shorter fics and crazy AUs haha) So these are all longer, and can be fit into TCW continuity, even if they diverge at some point because the writers can't help themselves and will fix canon (as they should).

{recs under the cut, please mind the tags listed on ao3}

in our hearts some ancient song by whimsicalimages (@keensers)- Fives discovers the chips, he's on the run and gambles his life on the assumption that there's something going on between Cody and his general, so they would help him. Some amazing lore in this fic. 40k words

Golden Shield of Brightness by NerJetii (@nerjetii)- Soulmate AU, your soulmates' (romantic and platonic) names are written on your wrists. "Only" 15k, but I would recommend it even if you're not a fan of soulmate AUs (=they don't fall into each other's arms just because they're soulmates). Focuses on Obi-Wan, mostly, but we also learn a bit about how the Kaminoans treated the clones.

I am teaching myself how to be free by tattooedgreenhouse (@gershwyndl) - this might be THE Clone Wars rewrite for me because the author has taken upon themselves to literally retell the whole series from Cody's AND Obi-Wan's POV. It's ambitious, I'm pretty sure it's technically canon compliant, but we do get our happy ending. Appropriately, it's 113k long.

i'll orbit your flickering star by sunskippa (@sunskippa) - Also a Clone Wars rewrite (by this I mean that it goes through the events of the series from Cody's POV), also canon compliant, 78k words. Might be my favourite ending in the genre, beautiful. I don't even know how to sell this, but it's a must-read imo

|to failure sweet victor| by littlekaracan (@cillyscribbles)- 20k words. In case you've read all those rewrites and you just want to skip to the part where Cody leaves the Empire and they find each other again on Tatooine *with a twist*

you read my mind, I'll read yours series by sospes - This is very much canon divergent. Starts off as a mission fic, Cody and Obi-Wan discover an artefact that creates a Force-bond between them. Misunderstandings ensue. Look at the tags/ratings, some of the works later on are spicier/angstier. But you could also read the first one and call it a day if those aren't your jam. (The whole thing is 166k long at the moment.)

will you be an anarchist with me? by a_alene (@birdiedoessw) - an outsider POV (Rex's) on Cody's and Obi-Wan's relationship. With the extra twist that they can't stand each other at the beginning of the war. This is something I would've loved to read when I was getting into codywan, it's a great way to start. (25k words)

shoulder the sky series by Night Fury (@shootingstarpilot) - Last but not least, an ongoing series (all but two works are finished, more than 200k words atm). You'll have to "get through" the first work to read the more codywan-focused fics (and I don't mean this in a bad way because the story is a m a z i n g. Just so you know.) To be honest, I think it might be a bit confusing to read at the moment because as far as I can see a work was removed from the series, but it's still up? I'm not sure what happened there, but I suppose you could simply read all the author's works in chronological order :D This series is pretty much Obi-Wan AND clone troopers focused and relies a lot on the Jedi Apprentice series (which isn't canon anymore) but you're gonna be fine if you haven't read it.

(If anyone reads this, please feel free to add your own suggestions!)

[galactic-pirates]

SANCTUARY APPRECIATION WEEK

Day Five (Historical Adventures) Fanfic Style

I currently have 4 posted fanfics that are set in the past but only Gentlemen of Blood really qualifies for the ‘adventure’ tag. Choosing Fate is an arranged marriage AU pre-canon in the 1870′s. It takes little effort to watch a man carry a load is a technically canon-compliant oneshot post Ripper-reveal and The Tragic Tail is about Helen’s ill-fated trip on the Titanic.

So Gentlemen of Blood! Summary:

In 1909 the Prime Minister called a meeting of The Five. Adam Worth had become a real problem. In true Moriarty style his danger came not just from his mind, but from his insidious organisation. James Watson scoffed at the Prime Minister’s paranoia, right up until the moment he was shot by one of his own security men. When you hear “they have people everywhere” you expect it to be hyperbole, you don’t expect someone to be working for them inside the bloody room. Now the Five have to stop Worth before he can enact his plan to destroy London. However, Worth’s Jekyll and Hyde nature raises some questions about an old mystery... Whitechapel.

All the stories are James/John/Helen obviously, I mean it’s me haha. Anyway, writing the 19th century involves an awful lot of googling “did they have...” or “what did they call...” or “when was this invented...” AND word choices and phrases too. Language evolves over time so a lot of searching for word origins. I probably don’t get it completely right but I like to try.

Something else I try and think about is the passage of time. I had Helen reflect on this a bit in The Tragic Tail. She noted that the Titanic had been her first major disaster involving a huge loss of life. The memory still has the power to shake her a century later because it was the first. She made decisions then and reacted to it, in a way that she wouldn’t have after living through the two world wars. 19th century Helen is obviously still Helen but she’s less experienced and I try and weave that in.

That’s current fics. Now are there any WIP’s in the works...

From a purely historical standpoint yes. I’m currently finishing up writing Time Will Tell, which is a soulmate AU mostly set in 1887-1889. But again that doesn’t really qualify for the ‘adventure’ tag. Now what might is (should I ever write it) an idea on the list for another Sanctuary/Warehouse 13 crossover. Obviously as this fic is still in the ‘idea’ stage, this is just a working summary:

The Warehouse explodes, Pandora’s box is open and the world has lost hope. Riots and wars erupt around the globe as tensions rise. The Sanctuary is barely keeping up and then the abnormal uprising begins. Thousands of abnormals pour out of Hollow Earth. It is the end times... and then John Druitt appears at Old City. He warns that Adam Worth is constructing a time machine intending to change the past. The world in his image? Helen Magnus can’t allow that, no matter how bleak this future has become.

Strange readings dispatch Myka Bering to the Hollow Earth tunnels and she follows Helen through the portal to 1898 - to a world that still has its hope. Myka knows the future is lost. Pandora’s box is open, that isn’t something that can be fought through and changed, it’s the end of all things. There are parts of Helen’s past she’s desperate to change, but her principles say that she came back to stop Adam Worth from changing history. If she does alter the past, that makes her as bad as him, but if the future is already doomed... 

No guarantee this will ever be a thing. I have 9 fics on my ‘idea’ list at the moment. Plot bunnies spawn faster than I can write them. I think it would be fun though. I didn’t manage to get Helen and HG Wells working together in the Odyssey: Future’s Legacy crossover, and that’s a scene I want badly so Helen and HG having adventures at Warehouse 12 does call to me.

Happy Sanctuary Appreciation Week! :)

[rueitae]

Writing Roundup 2020

This is a writing reflection I’ve been doing for myself every year for the last four years. Its a positive boost to myself see how far I’ve come and look back on my progress for the past year and look forward to the new year. 

Everyone is welcome to use this same format if they’d like to do the same! 

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Stats:

Words written:

330,000, which is nearly half of all the words I’ve written on Ao3 in the last three years. 

One Shots Posted (all fics plance unless otherwise stated):

In the Arms of the Ever(pink?) Tree (4463 words)

For the Plance Secret Santa exchange. Post s8 date/not date on a snowy moon. Love confession. 

Birthday Treats (2129 words)

For Pidge’s birthday this year! Domestic family fluff, breakfast in bed, plance kids.

Begin Again (Together) (4805 words)

Canon divergence from before episode one! Pidge and Lance are established dating when alien intervention brings them to where they are supposed to be: with the Blue Lion. Just a brief look into what the AU would look like. 

Common Ground (4521 words)

A treat for my friends who introduced me to Magic Knight Rayearth and pointed out some fun character parallels. There is this beautiful art Arya made to go with it because we’re all trash for both series. Plance meet up with Fuu and Ferio post series for both couples. 

Bonded To You (1808 words)

For the Langstron Halloween Exchange! Established plance with a baby Lance is trying to keep safe from a witch who would take advantage of the child’s heritage. 

It Tasted Good (6785 words)

Pikelavar for Pikelavar Month! The premise is crack, but it's mostly treated seriously. Pike ate the Jewel of Jitan by accident and doesn’t realize it until Haggar finds them. Meklavar gets Protective.

The Remainder of Days (3188 words)

Part of my Bad Things Happen Bingo. Fantasy AU where Pidge is a minor forest goddess and Lance is her neighbor mortal farmer. 

I Love You a Lily More Each Day (3232 words)

Another of the Bad Things Happen Bingo. Canon compliant where Lance is undercover at a flower shop and knee deep in an illegal smuggling operation. 

Lease on Life (4978 words)

This one was also part of Bad Things Happen Bingo and was an experiment. It’s POV of an oldest plance kid, canon verse. Her parents’ Paladin days come back to haunt them one night. Some cute family stuff too in there. 

Ready to Dance (4135 words)

For the Valentine’s Day exchange! Post series. Lance tries to get back into the party scene and Pidge rescues him from a disastrous night. 

Loopholes (5476 words)

Technically I didn’t write this fic this year, but a very kind reader asked if I would post this to Ao3, so it was my first fic of the year on Ao3. It’s Lotura! Originally a gift for a dear friend I’ve had since elementary school. It’s a fantasy AU where Lotor stumbles into Allura’s kingdom needing help. 

Next to Me (7311 words)

Also for Bad Things Happen Bingo, this is probably one of my favorite fics of the year. This is the canon verse AU that went all wrong in s7, and Sendak succeeds in destroying Earth. Lance and Pidge end up not only his prisoners, but also two of the last humans in the universe. Ends open ended, but it became a series in the end!

Into Me (14248 words)

The sequel to the above fic. There are two versions, this and the one below. The title tells all. Lance and Pidge come to terms with their new life aboard Sendak’s flagship and do their best to keep the other comforted.

Into Me (non-explicit version) (7228 words)

Exactly the same as the fic above, only this one is SFW

Sunshine (3831 words)

A Bad Things Happen Bingo! One of my favorite concepts. Canon verse. Pidge gets sick while she and Lance are on a scientific mission. 

Showoff (635 words)

A really short fic for a friend on their birthday, featuring their plance kids!

Respite of the Heart (4181 words)

A fic I have been wanting to write for a very long time. I love the concept of Pidge as a Disney Princess in the sense she has the forest guardian theme and all these animals love her. So there’s some play on that as the Paladins stop for lunch on their journey back to Earth in early s7. Lance comes to a realization and they have a chat surrounded by the animal friends. @anchoredtetherart did a phenomenal piece to accompany it. Please look at it in awe here.

The Hardest Part (3960 words)

For Bad Things Happen Bingo! An AU of the episode The Reunion where Pidge doesn’t return when she’s supposed to. 

A Planned Sacrifice (4988 words)

Another Bad Things Happen Bingo. Canon verse. Pidge assumes that being a sacrifice for the ‘forest god’ is strictly ceremonial and at worst a wild animal. It’s actually Sendak, who no one has seen since Shiro shot him out of the Castle. He remembers Pidge and is far too pleased to see her again, tied up on a silver platter. 

Almost Forgotten, but Not Gone (3946 words)

Bad Things Happen Bingo. AU sometime in s1 where Haxus isn’t as dead as Pidge thought. 

Touch (7519 words)

Written for the Lance Goes Boom bang! It was inspired by @fenixseraph ‘s amazing art here! It’s a different take on The Way Forward, where Pidge and Lance are separated from the rest of the team and placed in their own cell. And the Red Lion causes issues. 

Chaptered Fics started/added to:

Wolf In Thieves’ Clothing (4516 words)

An AU of The Castle of Cagliostro from Lupin the Third series. Lee, you have my thanks forever for making me watch this finally. Pidge is a literal princess whose kingdom is in the middle of an internal coup. Lance is a gentleman thief who rides with his best buds Hunk and Matt. Their paths are destined to cross again when Lance goes back to the castle he used to call home. 

Game of Love (4593 words)

The most crack of the bunch. AU of Fall the of the Castle of Lions where Sendak and Haxus get away with it all. Pidge and Lance are prisoners on Haxus’ new ship, and Lance finds an opportunity for eventual escape when he learns that Haxus has a crush on his second in command. Operation matchmaker begins. (happy ending planned for all)

What Tides May Bring (20704 words)

Collab with the fantastic @anchoredtetherart for MerMay! Established plance as mermaids and guardians of their elements with adorable mer child. Then angst because they are all captured by a ‘research’ institute. 

Seasons of Magic (16546 words)

I actually added a chapter this year! Ongoing collection of one-shots with mage Pidge who lives in the country and cultivates her plant magic and makes potions with the assistance of her dragon familiar, Lance. Mostly domestic fluff. 

Too Soon and Not Soon Enough (11438 words)

Added another chapter this year to my Keith-centric AU. It’s basically VLD but five years early and they’re all literally child Paladins. Keith gets to meet Krolia earlier and its fun to go into tween friendships as they try and navigate the reality of their situation. 

Seeds (48833 words)

Added a ton earlier this year. A collection of plance fics all or mostly under 500 words. All meant to be adopted by others if interest strikes. Covers many genres.

Chaptered Fics Finished:

Resolve to Fly (75799 words)

Written for the Pidge Angst Bang. My artist @alchemie0 did an outstanding job capturing the feel of the fic. Look at the art here! Canon verse AU where Pidge encounters Haxus, who has crashed on Earth. She helps him repair his ship in excitement and good faith, which he pays back by kidnapping her. For two years she survives as little more than a housepet on Sendak’s ship. Gen.

Who's Protecting Who? (28989 words)

Also technically not written this yeah, but posted. A collab with Hush waaaay back in 2018. It's a plance Altean AU with Pidge as distant royalty and Lance as a bodyguard.

A Dish Served Cold (21533 words)

Finally finished this one! Canon verse in which Pidge accidentally runs into Sendak on an isolated planet. Sendak takes advantage of this encounter and tries to return to the Empire with her in tow. Much Pidge whump. Gen

Reflections: 

Best title 

I still really really love Too Soon and Not Soon Enough (11438 words). Because it's too soon for the Paladins to be Paladins, and for Keith it's not nearly soon enough for Krolia to return. It just feels like it has a lot of heart to it. I hope I can keep it going, but my ideas are incredibly scattered for it. 

Worst title 

Touch (7519 words). Yeah it’s a play on ‘Don’t you touch her’ but it feels soooo dry. 

Best/worst last line

Best: This was really, really hard choice this year, but ultimately, making up for the terrible title, its Touch (7519 words) 

“It feels good to escape the ship with all of his teammates, secure in the knowledge that he has a way forward not just as a Paladin, but also with Pidge.” 

- Not only did I manage to fit the title of the episode in there, it's got that hopeful tinge to it and reflects on personal growth both internally and with Pidge. 

Worst: This one isn’t necessarily bad from Begin Again (Together) (4805 words), but it could be better. It didn’t get quite the epic sense I was hoping to pull from it.

“Okay,” he smirks, hand firmly on the throttle. “Operation save Earth starts now.”

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?

Definitely wrote way more. Even with posting two fic that are essentially the exact same, I still ended up writing nearly half of my total Ao3 word count this year. (330,000/670,000). Doing Bad Things Happen Bingo was a bit part of that - I was very inspired at the beginning of this year - but also there were many events I participated in (8 total!!) on top of my personal projects. 

What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.

A really hard decision this year, because there are several that make me really happy. I think oddly enough though, it’s Game of Love (4593 words) because of its potential and how much crack it is. It has such whacky rom-com energy to it but also that underlying angst of the situation I can fall back on. My favorite trope to explore is what happens to the characters when they’re captured. I just really enjoy the concept and the challenge to make such a concept believable with minimal suspension of belief. 

Okay, NOW your most popular story.

Using kudos as my gauge (and not counting the chapter fics), the winner is: 

Respite of the Heart (4181 words)

Not surprising because Ivy’s art is STUNNING.

Story most underappreciated by the universe?

I think that’s It Tasted Good (6785 words), the pikelavar fic. Pikelavar is underappreciated in general

Story that could have been better?

For all I was excited to write Sunshine (3831 words), it didn’t quite fall the way I had imagined in my mind. I don’t know if it was the structure or I was running out of steam or what. All i know is that I wanted more but all I could concentrate on was that scene where he’s caring for her in bed. Maybe I was just too ambitious.

Sexiest story?

No brainer it's Into Me (14248 words). Literally. Which really shocked me that it happened. Didn’t think I’d write any smut at all, let alone this year. This particular fic just kinda called out for it 

Saddest story?

The prequel to the above fic: Next to Me (7311 words). How much more sad can you get than Earth being destroyed, being Sendak’s prisoners all while trying to tell each other ‘i love you’ without seeming weird because you’re the last humans in the universe. 

Most fun?

I think it's Ready to Dance (4135 words). Just Valentine’s fluff and impromptu slow dancing in the park at night. 

Story with single sweetest moment?

I’m picking What Tides May Bring (20704 words). Listen, mer Lance and mer Pidge playing with their mer baby in their domestic paradise is probably one of my favorite things I’ve ever written. Dad Lance has my heart. 

Hardest story to write?

The last chapter of A Dish Served Cold (21533 words) was like pulling teeth. I’m pretty happy with it in the end but at the time man it was so hard. 

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

I wrote smut. It was...weird? But also strangely calming. I wrote more for another fic but it's still a WIP. I definitely need to be in the mood to write it. 

Proudest Achievement:

The Pidge Angst Bang. Resolve to Fly (75799 words). Look at that word count. I only wanted something under 3k at first, so it was just going to be Pidge meeting Haxus. But by the time I finished that part it was already 10k. So even though I was going through a rough part of my life, I just kept going and it ended up being my therapy. I’m really proud of the fic and I love my artists’ pieces. It really lifted my spirits. (You should all really go check out the Ao3 collection of all the bang stories and art they are AMAZING you won’t regret. If you love Pidge angst they are all must reads.)

What are your fic writing goals for next year?

I’d like to finish my Bad Things Happen Bingo card and then focus on my current WIP, that includes the Seeds collection. There are days I still feel a bit overwhelmed, and I’m still trying to find a routine after moving. I’d like to do more events too, but I think I need to be more selective about which ones I do. I don’t want to burn myself out. 

Apart from that, I’d really like to try and give back to the community more. I’d like to start consciously writing fics for others without an event to go by. 

Past Years:

2017

2018

2019

[tippenfunkaport]

Tippen's Fics Megapost

Here’s a list of every fic I’ve posted so far. On AO3 * FanFiction.net.

Tips are super appreciated! ko-fi.com/tippenfunkaport   

I will update this post whenever I post new fics so you can find the complete list all in one place.

Series

I’ve collected my one-shots in the order they happen in two main collections for easier reading.

SPOP Missing Scenes - Collection of missing scene fics (mostly Glimbow)

SPOP Canon Compliant Post-War Fics - Collection of all my fics that happen Post-Season 5

Key for main ships in each fic

😻 = Catra / Adora (Catradora)

💖 = Bow / Glimmer (Glimbow, Glow or *sigh* Blimmer)

🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 = Mermista / Sea Hawk (SeaMista or Merhawk)

🦂💐 = Perfuma / Scorpia (Scorfuma)

🥼 = Entrapta / Hordak (Entrapdak)

Key for fic status

📕 = Multi-chapter completed

📄 = One Shot

📖 = Multi-chapter work in progress

Ongoing

📖 Glowing Up: The Princess and The Pirate (Friendship / Fluff / Adventure) - 💖 The origin story for how Bow and Glimmer met!

📖 Prince Bow and Archer Glimmer (Romance / Adventure) - 💖 AU where Glimmer and Bow swap roles!

📖 Going There (Romance / Adventure) - 💖 Series of missing scene fics from Glimmer and Bow’s perspective of Season 5.

Ensemble or Platonic Fics

Fics that either feature multiple pairings (aka the whole gang together) or just friendships and family relationships.

📄 An Outside Perspective (Comedy/Fluff) - 😻 💖 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 🦂💐 An average Etherian and his mentor travel to Bright Moon to attend Queen Glimmer’s ceremony honoring the regular people who acted heroically during the Horde War but why does the Queen’s boyfriend look so familiar? (Almost everyone is in this one!)

📕 The B-Team (A Catra and Bow Buddy Adventure) (action/adventure) - 😻 💖 Catra and Bow try to save their stubborn magic girlfriends from themselves and accidentally become friends along the way. (50/50 Glimbow and Catradora)

📄 Bow White and the Seven Princesses (A Bedtime Story, as told by Sea Hawk) (Comedy/Fluff) - 💖 😻 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 Sea Hawk and Mermista are babysitting the children of Bright Moon and Sea Hawk tells them a special personalized version of the classic fairy tale featuring their parents in the starring roles.

📄 Pride and Princesses (Another Bedtime Story, as told by Sea Hawk) (comedy/fluff) - 😻 💖 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 Uncle Sea Hawk is back! This time he’s reading the children of the Super Pal Trio a tale of epic ROMANCE and ADVENTURE, the classic love story between Adorabeth Boomnets and Fitzmeowmoew Catsy. (Yes, it’s a ridiculous SPOP version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.)

📕 SPOP Palentines - A collection of 15 one-shots (mostly funny but a couple of serious ones) celebrating friendship, family and other more complicated dynamics! (Table of Contents here)

📄 Web of Lies (Family/Fluff/Romance) - 💖 Bow tires to tell his dads about what happened at Princess Prom without spilling all his secrets.

📄 Of Its Kind (Fluff/Family) -  😻 Baby Melog kittens!!

📄 OK With This (fluff) - 🥼🧜🏽‍♀️🔥A Mermista and Hordak friendship? More likely than you might think!

📄 Fraternize, Co-Captain or Assassinate(Fluff / Angst) - 😻💖 The Best Friend Squad plays sleepover games.

📄 Glimmer’s Crazy Day (fluff) - 💖 Glimmer writes in her journal about a really crazy day she had, the kind of wacky day you can only have by totally random chance… right?

📄 Kyle, Lonnie and Rogelio Plot to Steal a Freaky Demon Baby (Fluff/Friendship/Family) - The Horde Trio hanging out in the Crimson Waste and deciding to go back and get Imp.

📄 Good Trouble (Fluff) - 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 Sea Hawk drops Double Trouble off after the events of Perils of Peekablue.

📄 Moonlight Ghost - 💖 Something nameless is haunting Bright Moon castle and interrupts the royal family at dinner.

📄 The Fire Prince (Action/Adventure/AU) - 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 Beginning of my Beasts AU, Sea Hawk as arsonist Robin Hood

📄 Captain Mermista (fluff/comedy) - 💖 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 Swap AU! Adora, Prince Bow and Archer Glimmer come to Seaworthy to hire a ship to take them the see Prince Sea Hawk in Salineas... but they're not sure what to make of Captain Mermista.

Romance / Shippy Fics

📕  Cans of Tuna and Redemption Arcs (Romance / Fluff) - 💖 😻 Pure fluff modern AU in which Catra is Glimmer’s literal pet cat and Adora is Bow’s golden retriever and they all meet cutely. (Technically complete though I sometimes add new chapters randomly)

📕 Save the Archer (Angst / Action / Romance) - 💖 😻 Save the Cat goes wrong. Glimmer gets left behind. Bow gets chipped.

📄 Getting Warmer (Romance/Angst with Happy Ending) - 💖 It’s only a few hours before they’ll be going to rescue Catra and a traumatized Glimmer is having nightmares of having to face Horde Prime again. When she wakes up screaming, the only person she wants to comfort her is still mad at her, their relationship damaged beyond repair. Or is it?

📄 Another World (Angst/Romance) - 💖 Post Princess Prom Horde Glimmer AU

📕  First Kisses We Didn’t Have(fluff/romance) - 💖 A collection of one shots where Bow and Glimmer might have gotten together if things in canon had happened just a little bit differently.

📕 A Merry SPOP Shipsmas! (Fluff / Romance) - 😻 🥼 💖 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 🦂💐 Collection of one-shots inspired by famous holiday songs, one for each major canon ship!

📄 Just Like Always (Romance / Fluff) - 💖 😻 Adora and Catra think they’re helping Bow and Glimmer with an elaborate marriage proposal but their friends have pulled a bait and switch.

📄 “Yes, your majesty.”(Comedy/Fluff) - 💖 Bow accidentally refers to Glimmer as “your majesty” during a Princess Alliance meeting.  But, it’s fine, she should be able to make it through this meeting without getting completely distracted by sexy thoughts, right?

📄 Babysitting Arrows (Comedy/Fluff) - 💖 😻 Comic antics ensue when Catra thinks Glimmer might be pregnant and Adora’s Aunt instincts go into overdrive. 

📄 Time and Space (Romance/Smut) - 💖 When Bow and Glimmer have their first big fight as a married couple, Glimmer just wants to skip ahead to the part when she’s forgiven. But when an apology isn’t enough and Bow’s still mad at her, she uses magic to recreate a moment from their past with a sexy twist.

 📕 Glimbow Shorts (Romance / Fluff) - 💖 Various short fics I wrote for Glimbow Week. This is made up of…

Prompt: Memory: Bow tries to get Glimmer to remember the ridiculous names of all his siblings. (Post Canon)

Prompt: Injury: Bow patches Glimmer up after she gets injured on a mission. (Missing Scene)

Prompt: Touch: The Best Friend Squad is having a sleepover the night after their visit to Plumeria and Bow wakes up to discover he’s been unwittingly cuddling Glimmer in his sleep. (Missing Scene)

Prompt: Princess Prom / Jealousy: Glimmer wakes from a nightmare with a question for Bow. (Post Canon)

Prompt: Family: Glimmer talks to Micah while he enjoys a snack in the Bright Moon garden. (Post Canon)

Prompt: Swap: 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 Glimbow and Seamista swap places for a scene from Princess Prom (AU)

Prompt: Wedding / Proposal:  Shortly after Angella’s disappearance, Bow and Adora discover that new Queen Glimmer’s been getting marriage proposals from would be suitors (Missing Scene)

📄 The Gift of a Lifetime - (Romance) 💖 It’s Bow’s Birthday, and the whole gang is getting together for a big party. Everyone keeps saying he doesn’t look a day over 30! Problem is… he’s turning 50.

📄 Shells (Angst/Friendship) - 💖 Bow trying not to have a breakdown about losing Glimmer to Horde Prime while cooking for Adora.

📄 Scars - (Angst / Romance) 💖 Bow is all healed from the Pulse bot but there are still a lot of open wounds between him and Glimmer.  

📄 Kowl Jr. (Fluff with a wee bit of Angst/Romance) - 💖 Bow and Glimmer are called to investigate reports of poachers in the Whispering Woods and find a creature long thought extinct.

📕 The Wrong Princess Prom (Romance / Drama) - 💖 Key moments from Princess Prom through Battle of Bright Moon from Bow’s perspective

📄 Parenting is an ADVENTURE! (Fluff, Romance)- 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 Sea Hawk and Mermista being domestic with their kids!

📄 Booty Call(comedy / romance) -  💖 Glimmer indulges Bow’s pirate fantasy. Sexy but not explicit.

📄 Did Someone Say Seabowmista? (comedy) - 💖 🧜🏽‍♀️🔥 Joke fic I wrote for April Fool's Day where all may not be what it seems when Bow agrees to a threesome with Mermista and Sea Hawk.

Find my fics on AO3 * FanFiction.net. Only AO3 is linked from the titles to simplify my life.

[i-did]

Idk if anyone has asked this previously, sorry if they have!! I was wondering what some of your favourite andreil fics where? Particularly au fics, cause u saying that u sometimes ponder andreil having met when they were in their 60s made me think maybe andreil aus are ur thing? Hopefully that makes sense lol, also rlly curious how u think andreil meeting in their 60s may affect their dynamic/relationship potentially?

Okay so I actually have a bookmarks list, but I'm hoping to go back and read them and see if I still like them now lol, since my taste has changed a lot over the years and since I started to critically think about fandom culture. I bookmark a lot of stuff even if it contains trends I criticize in fandom culture since… those trends are largely unavoidable. But anyways here's my bookmarks list, its pretty mixed:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/strawberryproblems/bookmarks

I guess Au’s are my thing maybe, I've never really thought about it. I have a detailed list of all the different AFTG fanfic ideas I have, some detailed backstories and HC’s of various foxes, some au’s. I have 13 HC fic ideas rn in that file that are canon compliant, either before or after canon, and about 20 on the AU list, but a lot of those are a more vague “this movie/book au” while some have a lot of detailed notes and ideas. I have no idea how many of these ill actually ever write or publish tbh, I like to think about them mostly for myself and sometimes posting my art or writing can discourage me due to lack of traction/popularity. I struggle with comparing myself to others tbh which is why I stopped posting so much art.

As for Andrew and Neil meeting in their 60’s, there is just so many different ways it could go. I once thought of an AU where they meet once when they're in their early 20’s for a period of time, and then meet  again by chance in their 60’s and have a moment of “oh I remember you.” It really depends on a lot of factors and how they would have gotten to that point in the first place. 

30 is half of 60, but I'm casually writing a fic where Andrew and Neil meet in their early 30s as neighbors in an apartment complex and due to a rent increase and the pandemic have to move in as roomates. I’m writing it with a friend and not taking it very seriously atm and I don't know when/if ill be posting it, since it’s mostly for me and him to enjoy right now, and I'm trying to focus on foxholes. It was just supposed to be a “bored roomates stuck in quarantine end up with a FWB situation AU”–but since it’s Andrew and Neil, I ended up planning out the last 10 years of their lives and what happened and how they're different from their canon selves and why they would be where they are and how would they get close enough to even get to that point. 

They're both very different and similar to the people they are in canon, they never really developed in the ways they do in canon, but they're stuck in a new way than before. Andrew’s deal with Aaron has expired and Andrew’s let himself get forgotten, refusing to reach back out and keep contact with anyone. The team lost it’s class I status. Neil never graduated from high school and when his mother died the car exploded while he was burning it, and he got badly injured. I had fun constructing a bunch of details in the background and random technical details that aren’t needed for the basic premise of the fic, but I personally prefer to think about. 

If you want an ‘Andrew and Neil meet when they're older au’ there’s this one:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17573861

It’s not how I personally think stuff would go down, but it’s still a good read. It’s also on my bookmarked list so clearly I liked it enough to give myself the option of going back and rereading it again later. 

But anyways, I essentially need a stronger framework to even begin to think about how Andrew and Neil would act if they met in their 60’s, there are just so many options. Probably didn’t give the response you were expecting, but who knows maybe one day I’ll make a bullet fic or two.

[laufire]

I’ve struggled against the few WIPs I had that depended on s6 and it just... doesn’t click. I keep frustratedly erasing big chuncks of my writing and trying different things and nothing. So I’m hitting pause on that --while hoping something in s7 gives me something that kickstarts them again--, and focusing on the canon-divergent WIPs (and the weird Blade AU series lol).

Some ramblings under the cut, because:

If anyone’s curious, the (post-)s6 fics were a Multi POV Commander Echo and a Diyoza/Octavia in the anomaly (Octavia’s POV) one-shots. Part of why I’m struggling with them is that they’re obviously ideas that would get jossed come s7. So I’m putting them aside for now and seeing if something does click during the season --actual development on those fronts, something that I’ll dislike and make me want to write an alternative, whatever.

One of the other WIPs is technically canon-compliant because JRoth did me a solid and refused to give us spacekru flashbacks \o/ \o/ \o/. Its provisional title was “Raven Reyes Got Laid In Space” (I’m a petty person okay xD), which is pretty self-explanatory. However, it ended up far far more angsty -tons of Raven & Space Fam feels and heartbreak *sighs*- and less about sexy times that I wanted it to be xDD. Still includes Echo/Raven as friends with benefits who don’t communicate properly and a Harper/Monty/Raven that I get more emotional as I rewrite it the longer it’s happened since the s5 finale :))))))

Around the beginning of s5 there was a post I can’t find anywhere where someone (from fandom? the cast? writers? IDEFK) speculated that Raven felt guilty about not having gone to the bunker when she was supposed to, causing Clarke’s death and everyone else to be stuck in space. I thought it was ridiculous because out of all of them, only she and Bellamy would’ve had a shot of making it at the bunker lmao (Emori and Murphy? Not even considered. Harper and Monty? Not on Clarke’s List. Echo? Banished and condemned to an awful death). To me that was the darkest timeline lmao. So ofc I got the idea of writing something with Raven in the bunker (though I didn’t know where to go with it at first). It’d include Octavia/Raven because it might be my only chance to write them lol.

A super self-indulgent Bellamy/Echo/Raven/Shaw immediate post-s5 getting together fic, from Shaw’s POV. Completely ignoring s6 because that’d be too complicated.

Since the end of s4 I’ve wanted to write a Natblida!Emori AU where Clarke did go through turning her into one in God Complex. Its scope were those last few episodes of the season, right before Praimfaya, and it included Memori & Luna and Memori & Raven, though it was mostly Emori-centric. This, btw, remains my only WIP where nobody describes Emori’s face like they have a massive crush on her. I’m sure I’d manage to be obvious about it some other way xD

There are a few others but they’re more ~vague at the moment. The last one would be the aforementioned Blade AU series. It all started when I was asked about Vampire AU Memori headcanons and the world opened up before my eyes xD. Then s6 came and made them ACTUAL IMMORTALS, and then made Murphy DRINK ACTUAL BLOOD and I lost it.

Anyway. The concept is different than in that initial post but. Some basics: Indra is Blade. The first part is multichapter from Bellamy’s POV (with maybe some others because I’d like to add some of the other character’s flashbacks, like Raven or Monty, who in theory don’t have their own part yet), as the Cute Yet Reckless Victim Indra has to rescue after he got ~seduced by a vampire couple that wanted to eat him (which, yes, is Memori. I wanted to write for that ot3 sometime and I took my shot xDD. It’d also include Bellamy/Raven, and Raven & Indra & Monty).

Then there’d be some one-shots from characters I want to fit into that AU: Memori, of course; Indra & Gaia; Diyoza/Octavia; and Clarke/Josephine because APPARENTLY that’s who I am now xDD (they would so, so be highborn classist vampires lol). With a last plotty part (hopefully; in case you haven’t notice I tend to get sidetracked...) with Indra & co, those important characters, the Jahas as born vampires, and Bellamy/Wells + Bellamy/Raven.

I’d like to finish all these this year in case the show’s ending kills my enthusiasm, so I’m putting this ideas ~into the open to give myself a push lol.

[a-corndog-named-schibbs]

Operation Beach Day

It’s the dead of winter where I am, so here’s my take on a Voltron beach episode.

Canon compliant up to season 6.  Kind of an au where the crew return to earth, but rather than having to deal with a big mess, they get to relax a bit when they get there.

Enjoy!

“Almost there, guys,” says Lance, making a final turn onto a side road.

“Still not gonna tell us where we’re going?” says Keith.

“It’s a surprise,” says Lance, “Don’t worry, guys, you’ll love it.”

All his friends are piled into the old family van with him.  Shiro’s in the navigator’s seat next to him, Keith, Hunk, Pidge, Allura, Coran, Krolia, and Romelle all squished into the back rows.  Technically, this van wasn’t meant to carry this many people, so Pidge is currently sprawled out over Hunk and Keith’s laps while Lance tries his best to drive carefully and not hit the brakes too hard.  Even Kosmo is in the trunk, turning circles and whining nervously at the new sensation of being in a moving car.  Every once in a while, Krolia will reach back and give him some reassuring head scratches.

Finally, Lance pulls into a small parking lot, “We’re here!”

Everyone presses their faces against the windows and stares at the soft white sand and immaculate blue water that awaits them.

“It’s a beach!” says Hunk, his face lighting up, “I haven’t been to a beach in forever!”

Lance grins, “I told you you’d love it.”

“Uh, Lance?” says Shiro, “I didn’t bring a swimsuit.”

“Don’t worry, I brought extras for everybody.  And sunscreen too, Pidge, don’t panic.  Now, everybody out!  Operation Beach Day begins now!”

“How the hell is this place not crawling with tourists?” Keith asks as they all climb out of the van.

“It’s a private beach,” says Lance, grabbing bags from the backseat, “My parents know the owner, he’s always been chill about letting us use it.  We just have to not blast obnoxious music or leave a bunch of trash or anything like that.”

There are small changing booths near the parking lot and everyone claims one to get dressed in, some pulling out swimsuits from their own bags and the rest going to Lance for an extra one.

At one point, Lance taps Allura on the shoulder just before she goes into one of the changing booths.

“Princess, I got something for you.  A little gift to celebrate your first time at an Earth beach.”  He holds up a pair of black swim bottoms.

“Oh, that’s sweet of you, Lance, but I already have a bathing suit.”  Allura holds up the pink two-piece swimsuit she thankfully remembered to pack.

“Don’t worry, they’re not for you to wear.  Hey, Shiro!” Lance says, louder this time, “Did you say you needed an extra swimsuit?”

“Yeah, I did.  Thanks, Lance!” says Shiro, catching the suit as Lance tosses it and stepping into his own changing booth.

Soon, everyone is milling around on the sand, admiring each other’s swimsuits.  Everyone except Shiro, who hasn’t left his changing booth yet.

“You okay in there, Shiro?” says Keith, knocking on the booth door.

“Just having a little trouble getting my suit on,” says Shiro, “Lance, I think you got me the wrong size.”

Lance suppresses a laugh, “No, they’re supposed to be like that.”

Shiro opens the door, clad only in a black speedo.

“Oh!” says Allura, unabashedly admiring her boyfriend’s toned physique.

“Enjoying your gift, Allura?” says Lance, grinning.

Allura grins back, “It’s the most wonderful gift I’ve ever received.”

Finding a place to set out their beach towels and umbrellas isn’t too hard considering they’ve got the beach to themselves.  Lance is practically bouncing with energy the whole time, eager to get into the water.

“Come on,” he says, waving to the others, “Everybody in!”

Hunk is also ready to burst with excitement, “Yes!  I’m so ready for this!”

Pidge crosses her arms, “I’m good, thanks.”

“Wrong answer, Pidge,” says Hunk.  He scoops her up easily in his arms, “Come on, this way to the water!”

“No!” Pidge shrieks, suddenly panicked, trying to squirm out of Hunk’s grip.

Hunk stops, surprised, immediately setting Pidge back on her feet.  “You okay?”

Pidge scowls at the ground, cheeks red with embarrassment.  I don’t know how to swim,” she mumbles, “I don’t want to fucking drown.”

“Aww, Pidge…” says Hunk, putting an arm around her, “Lance and I have both been swimming since we could walk.  We’re not gonna let you drown.”

Lance nods, putting a hand on Pidge’s shoulder, “We’ll stay in the shallow water the whole time.  And hey, maybe we can even teach you how to swim!”

“Right, and if you don’t like it, we’ll come right back to the beach.  Sound good?” says Hunk.

Pidge nods, hesitantly, “Yeah, I think that’d be all right.”

“Sweet!” says Lance, “Keith, you coming in too?”

“Sure,” says Keith.  He turns to Krolia, “Mom, do you want to swim with us?”

Krolia shoots him a look over the tops of her sunglasses, “And get my fur wet?  No thank you.  Besides,” she holds up a paperback book, “I’ve got some Earth literature to entertain me.”

The book has the title Ranch of Romance written on the cover in a flouncy font and features a rugged man in a cowboy outfit, his flannel shirt almost completely unbuttoned, holding a swooning woman in his arms, her dress dangerously close to slipping off.

Keith’s entire face goes red, “Uh…okay, Mom.  Coran, what about you?”

Coran’s currently dressed in an old-fashioned striped one-piece bathing suit and holding a sand pail, “Oh, I think I’ll pass, my boy.  I’ve been meaning to try my hand at building one of those sand castles you Earthlings sometimes talk about.  I figure if my grandfather can build the Castle of Lions, I can surely build its miniature in sand form.”

“Suit yourself,” says Lance, “Come on, Keith, let’s see if Hunk and Pidge want to have a chicken fight.”

Over the course of the next hour or so, Lance and Hunk attempt to teach Pidge how to swim, first getting her used to having her face in the water, then trying to teach her how to float.  It’s not easy, her skinny frame making it hard to stay buoyant, but eventually, she can manage a doggy paddle with relative ease.

Once she’s comfortable in the water, Keith suggests pairing off for a chicken fight.  They start out Arms vs. Legs, with Pidge on Keith’s shoulders and Lance on Hunk’s.  Team Arms wins, but only because Hunk stepped on a shell and lost his balance (at least, that’s what Team Legs insists happened).  Then, they switch to Left Side vs. Right Side.  Right Side wins that time, though it’s a hollow victory for Lance, since Keith’s strategy seems to be to use him as an actual lance.  Eventually, the game devolves into a four-way splash fight.

“Hey, guys,” Shiro calls from the shore, causing the four paladins to cease splashing for a moment, “Anyone up for a volleyball game?  I think I found a net.”

Once the others have waded back out of the water and toweled off, they all gather around the volleyball net Shiro found, joined by Allura and Romelle, who have been enjoying some sunbathing.  Romelle, especially, is looking quite a bit pinker than normal and Lance makes a mental note to remind her to reapply her sunscreen later.

“So,” says Shiro, “How should we divide into teams?”

“Boys vs. girls!” Lance says quickly.

“No fair!” Pidge protests, “There’s more of you!”

“No duh, Pigeon, why do you think I suggested it?”

“We should have one of you join our team then,” Romelle points out.

“Yeah!  We deserve a fourth honorary girl on the team!” says Pidge.

“Fine, fine,” says Lance, “I’ll let you have it.  Pick an honorary girl.”

Pidge’s grin is downright devious, “We want Shiro.”

“Pick another honorary girl.”

“You never said any of your teammates were off-limits,” says Allura, as precise as any lawyer, “If you didn’t want us to choose Shiro, you should have said something before hand.”

Lance crosses his arms, “Well, maybe Shiro doesn’t want to be an honorary girl.”

But Shiro merely shrugs, good-naturedly, “I don’t mind, really.”  He ducks under the net and joins the girls’ side.

“Oh, no,” Keith groans, “We’re so screwed now.  Lance, you’ve screwed us.”

“Why?  What do you mean?”

“Shiro’s a monster at volleyball.  He’s gonna wipe the floor with all of us.”

Shiro rolls his eyes and grins, “Stop trying to scare them, Keith.”

Keith turns and glares at him, “Shiro remember when they had that volleyball tournament at the Garrison and you spiked the ball directly at some guy’s head and he went to the hospital for a concussion?  ‘Cause I do.  It’s actually a very vivid memory for me.”

Shiro shrugs, “What’s a game without a little risk?  Now are you gonna serve or what?”

In the end, the girls’ team wins soundly.  Pidge and Romelle might not be athletically inclined, but Shiro and Allura very much are, and competitive to boot.  Keith puts forth a valiant effort, but is no match for both of them in the end.  Lance and Hunk spend most of the game trying their best to not die.

Once the boys’ team is done licking their wounds, everyone decides to swim a bit more to cool off.  Even Pidge agrees to it, though she spends most of the time hanging onto Hunk’s shoulders while he does the actual swimming.

Meanwhile, Keith finds a piece of driftwood and he and Lance decide to play fetch with Kosmo.  Kosmo seems more interested in splashing around in the ocean than actually chasing the stick, so it’s mostly Lance and Keith who have to retrieve it when it lands further out and begins to float away.

At one point, Lance throws the stick a little too hard and it lands in the deeper water where the waves are breaking.

“Dang it,” says Lance, knowing there’s no way in hell he’ll convince Kosmo to swim all the way out there, “I’ll get it.”

“No, I got it,” says Keith, “I’m closer.”

Lance watches him wade out into the water, almost slipping at one point as he hits a small drop off.  Eventually, it’s just his head and shoulders visible above the water.  He reaches the stick and holds it up in the air, waving it at Lance, completely oblivious to the huge wave about to break behind him.

“Keith!” Lance yells, “Keith, there’s—“

Before he can even finish his sentence, the wave hits Keith, knocking him over.  It must flip him completely upside down because at one point, Lance can see his feet briefly stick out of the water.  Just when Lance thinks he’ll have to go rescue his dumb boyfriend from drowning, Keith surfaces again, a shell-shocked look on his face.

“You know what,” Lance calls over to him, “I think that’s enough fetch for one day.  Why don’t you come back to shore?”

“I can’t,” Keith calls back.

“What do you mean you can’t?”

“I can’t.  I’m naked now.”

“What?!”

“The wave took my stupid trunks off!”

“Oh my god,” Lance has to bite his hand to keep from laughing too hard, “Hang on, I’ll get you an extra suit.  Just stay there. okay?”

“Like I have a choice!”

Lance sprints back to the van and digs through his bags to retrieve an extra pair of red swim trunks.  As he runs back to the shore, the others seem to have noticed Keith’s predicament.

“Keith, if you wanted to go skinny dipping so bad, you should have said something,” Shiro calls, between bouts of laughter.

“Don’t let the sharks bite you!” says Pidge, “You won’t be able to sit for weeks!”

Keith flips the bird in their direction.

“Don’t worry, Keith, I’ll save you!” says Lance as he bounds into the water, holding the swimsuit over his head.  Kosmo, wound up from all the excitement, follows him into the water, barking and teleporting at random.

“Oh, sure,” Lance says to him, “now you want to chase stuff.”

He reaches Keith and tosses the suit to him and Keith ducks underwater briefly so he can shimmy into them.  Once he’s decent again, Lance scoops him up in his arms and carries him back to shore.

“Is the princess carry really necessary?” says Keith, “I’m not injured or anything.”

“Keith, buddy, you’ve gotta let me exercise my god-given right to be as dramatic as possible.  Besides, am I not allowed to cradle my own boyfriend?”

Keith snorts, “How the tables have turned.”

Krolia’s waiting for them on the shore with towels and a lecture for Keith to be more careful.  As the sun begins to set, the others wade back to the beach and get dry.  Hunk and Shiro find an old fire pit and build a bonfire.  Lance, fully prepared for the possibility of any beach activity, brought plenty of food to be roasted.  The group enjoys a delicious meal of hot dogs and s’mores.  Soon, they are all full and beginning to feel drowsy, the especially satisfying kind of tired that comes from running around outside all day.  It takes all the energy they have left to pack up their stuff and get it back into the car.  At one point, Pidge actually falls asleep on her feet and has to be carried to the van by Shiro.

Eventually, Lance starts the car and makes the drive back to where they’re staying, this time with Krolia in the navigator’s seat, since she’s the only one among the group not in imminent danger of falling asleep.  Lance can hear soft snoring coming from the backseat.

There’s something deeply satisfying, he thinks, about coming back to his old home and sharing it with his new family.

[aparticularbandit]

Current State of Bandit Fic

The last time I did one of these was on April 12, so it’s been about a month and a half.  I figured I wanted to do one again, especially since there’s been a lot more stuff started and to give general updates on what I’ve been writing, etc.

This’ll be under a cut, so apologies to you mobile users because I don’t think it does the cuts.  :/

Completed JTV Fics:

Carla

THE LAST CHAPTER HAS BEEN POSTED.  IT’S DONE.

Luisa and the Fox

I have one more chapter left to post, and I plan for that to be next month.

I do still plan on potential extended scenes in a different fic.

In-Progress Posted JTV Fics:

If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now

Still planning on posting at least a chapter a month until it’s done.

I’ve liked having these on alternate second Mondays with Luisa and the Fox with a chapter of Carla every other week, but given that the latter is done and the former is almost done....

Probably still plan on posting these on Mondays.

 There are at least fifteen twenty known chapters (as in I have a fairly good idea of what happens in those chapters) and past those potentially two more at least - and some of those might expand because I know me and this should all happen in this chapter! and then it ends up being longer than I thought.

Right now it feels like this fic is shaping up to be more like multi-chapter chunks/arcs.

So the first arc was Luisa’s first few days at Belle Reve, and that was eight chapters.

The current arc I estimate to have at least seven chapters (six of those I have a fairly good idea of what’s going to happen but there’s an in-between of what’s currently going on and the latter half of the arc - like there’s a time period that I don’t have covered that I think may have a chapter but am not sure).

The next arc has at least five chapters (that I have general ideas on what happens with them) but will probably be longer than that.

The next arc has at least four but probably five chapters (that I have a fairly good idea of what happens - two of those chapters may be combined into one, but not sure at this point).

The next chapter has at least two, maybe three chapters before a one-two chapter break, and then there will probably be more chapters but not sure exactly on how this one will go as well.

Okay so apparently that’s more like twenty more chapters.  Oops.

The general ideas are the same as they were the last time I gave the estimate.  It’s just that at least one other complication has been added, among other things.  This is more likely to be longer than shorter.

Jane: The Real Story

Still not planning to schedule updates but may go into the Monday update slots.

Still don’t know how long this is going to be.

I do have the season one arc fairly plotted (or, well, partially plotted because there was a lot that happened in season one and while I know some of what I want to do with this, there are probably other things I should address and haven’t decided yet).

I have season two better plotted.  Or.  It’s less like seasons and more like arcs.

The first arc is Jane + pregnancy.  This is your season one equivalent, but it’s fairly different from season one.

The second arc is consequences of lying about the artificial insemination.  This is your season two equivalent, even though it address some events from season one.

The third arc is dealing with the aftermath of those consequences and...takes place in two different locations.  This is your season three/four equivalent.

I’m not sure if I’ll have an equivalent arc for season five because by that point it mostly won’t exist but I suppose there’s at least one aspect I’d like to address from season five so.  There’s that.

Basically it’s better brainstormed.

Still planning on having this be flexible in terms of updates.  For now, at least.

The Adventures of Rose, the Baker’s Daughter

I still like writing fairy tales and still don’t want to be judged but for now, this one is not in the cards to be regularly updated.  Kind of like the Pokemon fics.

Not abandoned but not super high priority.

Aftershocks

Potentially goes into one of the Monday update slots but not sure at this point.

Have a general idea of things I want to happen in this fic but not enough to give a general chapter count.  This is a really new fic, so it’s still being brainstormed ish.

I do look forward to the Luisa/Lint scenes, though, and I do plan on this being very focused on just Luisa, Rose, and Lint.  I don’t really want it to be bigger than them at the moment, although it may expand after this initial first arc.  I’m not sure yet.

May have a companion piece in regards to the Rosalint fic.

Kind of like how Carla and If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now are companion pieces.  You can read them separately and they work, but if you’ve read both, you get more out of them...ish.  They reference and call back to each other.

Heart in Motion

Not planning on having a firm updating schedule with this because it’s comedy and comedy is hard for me (dramedy is a little bit better but not by much).

This one is harder to write because idk if I can accurately capture the feel of all the ODAAT characters (Lydia, in particular, may be hard).

I have a general idea of where I want to go in terms of plot on this one.

I do want to have some ODAAT-centric chapters that set up for later stuff; I don’t want to just focus on Luisa and Rose drama (although I definitely do plan on drama as a result of...primarily Rose, let’s be honest).  But I don’t want to make the ODAAT characters side characters because I want it to be just as much their story as Rose and Luisa’s.

Expect irregular updates for now because that’s probably what might happen.

Sleeping Habits

I keep forgetting that there’s supposed to be a second chapter to this.

My bad.

In-Progress Unposted JTV Fics:

Everything’s Coming Up Roses

No change from the last update as I’ve been focusing on other projects.

Shenanigans: Luisa and the Fox

Name change.  More like a rearranging.

The only change here is more brainstorming, tbh, insofar as connecting it to another piece.

I like companion pieces, and while one might assume that the fairy tales are companions to each other, right now it’s looking like they’re more companions to another, much bigger, project.

May take up a Monday update slot once Luisa and the Fox is finished.

Where The Lightning Splits The Sea

aka Roisa HP AU.

This is probably going to be really, really long.

The first book has an outline.  It should be...fifteen chapters long.

The second book has the beginnings of its outline - right now it’s at least seven chapters long, but that only gets us to the end of October.

The following books I have notes on stuff that I want to make sure to include.

I’ve started writing the first book.

Right now I’m in chapter three, and the book is already over 13k.  That should give you some idea of length here.

I have a really good idea of what I want to do with this entire series.

It’s just probably going to be really long.

Right now, the plan is to finish an entire book and then post the chapters as updates (probably on Thursdays as opposed to the normal Monday updates).

I hope to have betas for these, and I’d like the betas to have the general overarching outline of what’s going on...but maybe not.

Maybe should have different betas for this.  I’m unsure.

Also I should probably finish my HP series reread.  Oh well.

A Christmas at Longbourne

aka Hallmark Holiday Special

Projected to be five chapters long.

Hopefully to be posted on Mondays in July.

Because Christmas in July, y’all!

So.  Should probably focus on this and finish the rough draft but I keep getting distracted.

Currently with the second chapter.

University AU

Unsure on length.

Have a fairly good idea of overarching plot.

I think last time I checked I was in chapter...two?

But there was a prologue, so for y’all that’d be the third chapter.  Ish.

Probably won’t be a Monday update slot.  But could be?

Rosalint Fic

Yes, this is more considered a JTV fic than a Tick fic because it’s set in the JTV universe more than The Tick universe.

Right now I mostly just have bits and pieces.  Scenes.  Some fluff, some...not.

This is likely the companion piece for Aftershocks, probably, so.  You won’t need to read both to enjoy either of them but you’ll enjoy them more if you read both.  Basically.

Brainstorming JTV Fics:

Canon-Compliant Soulmate AU

OKAY BUT I WENT THROUGH SOULMATE AU PROMPTS AND IDEAS AND I HAVE A GENERAL GOOD IDEA OF WHAT I’M DOING WITH THIS AND I’M ACTUALLY EXCITED,

It’s still in brainstorming stage because.  do you see the above?  I’ve been doing a lot of writing on a lot of other things.

Brainstorming Non-JTV Fics:

Potential Lint/Overkill Prequel Fic

Just what it says on the tin.

Probably more a collection of one-shots that would follow like lightning.

Potential Timeless Soulmate AU Fic

Focuses on Emma.

Uses the same general soulmate timer world as seen in the Roisa one-shot that people liked.

Have a good overarching idea of this but want a few more specifics before jumping into it more.

Probably won’t use the time machine BUT plan on having other Rittenhouse funded research that they want to use to control people.

Potential Timeless/Noir Fusion Fic

In which Emma has amnesia and gets dropped on Lucy’s doorstep before Lucy knows about Rittenhouse.

I have ideas about this one and I like those ideas but still hammering out the specific details of the fusion.

Like I can’t just make Lucy an assassin.

Like Emma makes better sense if I fuse her as a combination of Chloe and Altena but she’s technically in Kirika’s role.

Like how do I throw the rest of the gang in here (and do I, considering one of the great things about Noir was that none of the main characters were men and the men who showed up were usually in minor or plot device roles)?

I really want to write this because Noir is so near and dear to my heart but....  Idk if anyone else will enjoy this, tbh.

[almea]

Can you make some fic recs of your fav bees fics pls?

I kept putting this off because I knew it’d take me ages to make a list and ‘d ramble on and on, but I read a new fic this morning that I fell in love with so I was like, I need to answer that fic rec ask just so I can include this.

The post got ridiculously long because of my rambling and I didn’t want to put everything under a read more, so I’m making a bullet point list and then putting all my rambling after the read more. Also, some of my ramblings could probably be considered kind of spoilery for the fics if you don’t want to get spoiled for why I love them lmao.

world in colour

you’ve got me seeing stars by @twelveclara

what i’m trying to say is i think i love you again by @twelveclara

find each other in the darkby @yangonfire 

Brighter and its extrasby @y8ay8a

these rumors they have big teeth 

bet on it 

wings of wax 

Flight Risk 

Trust the Sun 

softly dreaming 

Home

world in colour is the fic I read this morning that I immediately fell in love with. It’s a colour based soulmate AU, and I always love soulmate AUs, but colour based ones are especially great with RWBY since there’s an in universe importance to colour. It’s very introspective and most of it takes place before Blake even meets Yang, but god I love reading about Blake’s musings about colours and what they mean. And she’s like. Such a disaster once she meets Yang.

The summary says it’s a series of slightly canon-divergent one-shots, but there’s only one chapter right now so I don’t know if it’s a series of connected one-shots that take place in the same universe, or a series of standalone one-shots that take place in separate universes. If it’s the latter, then I’m at least in love with the Bumbleby chapter from Blake’s perspective. If it’s the former, Blake’s initial reaction to Yang is going to make it sting in a whole different way when she runs.

you’ve got me seeing stars by @twelveclara I love how cute this fic is. I love that it’s Blake and Yang falling in love in a world where they don’t need to fight a war. I also really love Sun being the oblivious narrator in the first part. It cracks me up every time I read it because he’s so clueless, but he’s so sweet about it once he finds out.

what i’m trying to say is i think i love you again also by @twelveclara except this one is more “Erin, why?” because she’s trying to kill us with angst. One of my favourite things about this fic is how the past and the present are interwoven together and being told at the same time. I think it’d take away from the impact of the fic if it had been told in chronological order because there’s something the way we’re told Blake and Yang’s relationship is Complicated and then shown how good and easy it used to be and how strained it is in the present at the same time that hits really hard. Like, you’re constantly being reminded of this beautiful relationship that they lost and I love it because it hurts so much.

find each other in the darkby @yangonfire I love Beauty and the Beast Bumbleby AUs so much. I especially love them when Yang is Belle. I love both of them in both roles because they both have traits of both, but Yang as Belle is rarer so it’s always a delight when I find one where she is. Blake and Yang still haven’t actually met yet, but I’m looking forward to where this goes.

Brighter by @y8ay8a The thing about this fic that I find hilarious is that (I think???) she mentioned it started off as just being a way to write about Blake and Yang having sex, but she ships them so hard that it ended up being about Feelings. It really shows now that she’s revising the chapters because the original version of first couple of chapters didn’t have a lot of Feelings, but now there’s so much. 

The ffn.net version has the unrevised version of chapters 5-7 and is “complete,” but the ao3 version is slated to have 9 chapters so I’m super curious about what those last two chapters are. Also, it gets real angsty towards the end because it’s “mostly canon compliant except Blake and Yang are secretly in a sort of relationship,” so volume 3 happens.

There’s also a series of extras that act as a prequel to the main fic. This one’s a lot of Feelings and Blake realizing she’s pining while Yang’s oblivious to just how much she adores Blake. You could probably even read it as a standalone fic if you’re not interested in Blake and Yang having sex in the main fic.

these rumors they have big teeth I’m a fucking hoe for fake dating and this was the first one (and only one for a while) that I found for Bumbleby and I love it so much. Especially because it’s also a celebrity AU. One of the most interesting points in this fic is Blake and Yang technically not really knowing each other before they start the fake dating thing, but also having this secret history that no one knows about. I really love the last scene in the second chapter. It just hit me right in the heart.

bet on it This is a short little one-shot by the same person who wrote the fake dating AU that’s a lot of fun. It’s got Blake and Yang both pining for each other but being disasters about it and Sun trying to profit off their disaster-ness. Spoiler alert, he kind of fails.

wings of waxThis one’s a series that’s set in a high school/modern AU. I really like the way they write both Blake and Yang. And apparently I really love out of order storytelling because that’s also something I really enjoyed about this series. The different parts are arranged in chronological order in the series page, but if you look at the dates they were put up, it kind of jumps around. There’s something about not starting with all the pieces and jumping around the timeline to fill in the blanks that I really like. Also, two of the fics in the series are restricted so you need to be logged into ao3 to see them. One of them is the beginning of the series where Blake and Yang go from being acquaintances and classmates to starting their kind of relationship.

Flight Risk I really love the warm fuzzy feelings I get from this fic. There’s a period where there’s some really sad stuff that really got to me, but after they get past that it’s all the warm fuzzy feelings. And all the team RWBY interactions are really sweet in this. Along with Blake’s family and Yang’s.

Trust the Sun This one’s like a complete 180 from the previous one because there’s so much angst, but I love it. It’s written in second person, which I know not everyone enjoys, but I love second person when it’s done by someone who knows what they’re doing. I feel like it’s really good at conveying emotions in a way that makes me feel them as strongly as the characters. But anyways, it’s a really interesting take of Blake where she does come back and mends her relationship with Yang, but she doesn’t let go of her guilt for a very long time. It was written before volume 5, so obviously it doesn’t quite line up with the development she had in volume 5, but I still really enjoy it. There’s also a desperate kiss in the rain, which I’m All About.

softly dreaming This one’s like, a really interesting mix of angsty and cute. It’s set in a post-volume 4 period where Blake came back but things are still bad between her and Yang, and Blake has a dream where she’s married to Yang. So a Yang who’s in love with Blake and married to her and showers her with affection while looking at her with all the love in the world? Adorable. Precious. I love it. But with a Blake who can only remember a Yang who hates her and thinks she deserves that? Heartbreaking. And the ending is Blake waking up and it hurts even more.

Home And I’m finishing this up with another disgustingly cute one. It’s really just about Blake and Yang having sex for the first time, but it’s cute. It’s filled with love and affection and it’s so sweet.

There’s probably a ton of other fics I could list, but I’m tired and had to rewrite most of this twice.

[bookwyrm214]

Where in the World is Bookwyrm214? (8/18 Progress Report)

I got through typing the first 688 words of Rhapsody in Reverie chapter 16: Caught in a Landslide today, and I wanted to let y’all know what’s going on in Book-land, since I know it's been over two weeks since my last fic update.

Rest assured, now that I’ve started the typing phase for 16 it’ll be fully typed tonight, beta-read ASAP, and hopefully posted tomorrow. If all goes according to plan, 17 won’t be too far behind, and 18 will be up on Sunday according to the original schedule.

I’m going to try and put the rest of this under a read more bc it’s pretty long, but this is what’s up with my life and my planned content moving forward!

I’ve been working through the stress of going back to long distance with the honeybee (he moved back to college last week), my job finished off for the season last Friday (I spent the afternoon sleeping the length of a shift), I was dungeon master for about half of Friday’s session (though I gave the reigns back to the honeybee pretty quick, I have the writing part down, but the execution isn’t there yet), I played for myself and a friend who couldn’t make it in my Saturday dnd session and helped my other friend through her first session, gave my best friend shit about cancelling his Sunday dnd session to prep for his not-yet-girlfriend to visit while being supportive and encouraging about meeting her, and prepping to move back to college myself at the end of the month.

I’ve been trying to get used to the new laptop’s keyboard, which is a big one for why ch16 is so late. I had to finish transferring everything to my new laptop so my little sister could use the old one for online elementary school, which was a bear to do and tool for-flipping-ever (I ended up having to get an external hard drive for my photos, since I’m really bad about deleting the blurry ones after birding trips and they wouldn’t fit on my flash drives to move them off)

I have, however, had a very productive couple weeks! It’s just mostly offline and draft work, so it’s not visible progress.

Writing-wise I’ve made great progress! I’ve got:

• 688 words typed of RiR chapter 16 (1.5 pages of the 11-page rough draft)

• Brainstorming for chapters 17 and 18 of RiR, so that when I get 16 up I can jump right into the last couple chapters.

•My Fugo-centric post-RiR work (Deep in the Dark) got a lot of attention last night and this morning, with most of the beginning outlined.

•15.5 of RiR, aka the sexy chapter (Body's Aching all the Time) is handwritten, but typing/editing is going to take awhile since I'm not quite happy with it & the honeybee doesn't want to beta-read smut, so I’m just going to be extra careful with a fine-tooth comb on that one.

•Post RiR giomis (Here Comes the Rain Again) has a rough summary of the first few chapters.

•A fairytale AU Sheila E/Trish work (A Girl in Trouble is a Temporary Thing) now has a very detailed outline & will likely be my next typed/posted work, since it’s a cut and dry one-off and wont spiral into chaos like the RiR universe has.

•My pre-canon Bruabba fic (Come Out and Play) has a chapter typed and three handwritten with a possible fifth in planning, and its follow up fic (No Light, No Light) has four chapters outlined, and for those I have a couple pages of OC stand/user planning done too. (It was supposed to be a one chapter smut and now it’s become a sprawling edgy feelings two-part fiasco, and I need to rework a lot of the timeline/planning for it I think. I retroactively decided to have it set in the RiR-verse and I need to edit it so it’s compliant)

•My fix-it post-canon everyone lives Bruabba AU (Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology) has gotten some love by running it by the honeybee and fleshing out parts of the rough outline.

•Fugio fantasy AU which doesn’t have a working title yet is also in the mix, while it was technically the second concept I came up with for Jojo’s fanfiction it’s been shelved for no particular reason.

And that's just my writing!

When it comes to my art I have a lot of ideas and goals:

•Mermaid Bucci gang series:

--> To go with Mer-Mista and Mer-Narancia, I did Mer-Bucciarati which I may redraw the head/face of since I don’t feel like it meets my quality standards.

--> I want to finish up the Sticky Fingers jellyfish to go with mer-bucci + the Sex Pistols fish + Aerosmith (i think I concept-ed that as a shark?)

--> I want to continue that series to include Abba, Trish, Fugo, and Giorno, plus their stands!

• I want to ink and color my PHD redesign, getting it out of my planning notebook and onto actual art paper.

• I want to draw Deep Sea & Fandango, I have reference images but I want to make true concept art since I’ve gotten a lot of feedback interested in Georgia.

• I want to draw Scaramouche & Margaritaville, for similar reasons to Fandango and Deep Sea, since I’ve pulled reference art already and I want to finalize their designs/ possibly make a stand-stats sheet.

• I want to draw my original stands from DitD, one of which (K.Y.E.) I have sketches in my notebook, plus pulling reference art/making a concept sheet for my COaP/NLNL stands. (I can’t really name any of these bc spoilers, but I’m really excited for K.Y.E. and it’s user, the honeybee really loves that one!)

If you’ve stuck through reading this so far, thank you! This is a fairly comprehensive summary of my fan-works right now, so hopefully all of these see the light of day sooner rather than later! I appreciate the support I’ve received thus far, and I look forward to sharing all this stuff with y’all in the future!