#when I can source my whump organically right from canon

[bumbleboa]

small sketch study

[lilmissnatcat24]

Turn Left Ch 10- I Took the One (More?) Traveled By

Shepard and Garrus try to go to C-Sec for support, but are faced with an obstacle they aren't sure they can overcome.

Relationship: Femshep/Garrus Vakarian

Archive Warnings in author's note (CW- addiction)

Additional tags: enemies to friends to lovers, slow burn, slow build, alternate universe- canon divergence, detective noir, sex club, anonymous sex, canon temporary character death, murder mystery, drug use, dom garrus vakarian, whump, smut, heavy angst, alien sex, dual pov, an overly sexual elcor named candy, earthborn, ruthless, fake/pretend relationship, dead dove: do not eat, identity porn, yall when i say slow burn i mean SLOW like they're not getting together in this fic slow

Detective AU mixed with identity porn mixed with so much whump my fingers are bleeding

(or, start from the beginning here)

lil text blurb:

“Listen, Shepard. I want to believe you. I do--” you could try harder , she thought bitterly-- “But you have to admit, this is all a tad bit outlandish, even for you.” She didn’t want to know what ‘even for you’ meant to Pallin. She wanted to scream, she wanted to throttle him, she wanted to curl into a ball and sleep for days. But more than anything, she wanted the big, stupid turian to believe her.

“If you’re too blind to see what’s going on right in front of you, we’ll go above you,” Shepard snapped. “We’ll go to news sources, ambassadors, anyone who’ll listen.” 

“What you’ll do is cause mass hysteria on the Citadel,” Medina spoke ahead of Pallin, as Pallin was gearing back to snap back some snarky retort. “Shepard, tensions are high right now. You can’t go screaming on the corner like some conspiracy theorist that there’s geth hiding in the walls on the Citadel. You’ll cause riots.” 

“Then what the hell are we supposed to do?” Shepard threw her hands up in the air. “Just ignore it? Let it slide? Sir, that was a geth we fought! Geth! On the Citadel! Just hours after they’ve been seen on Eden Prime-- hell, they destroyed the colony! This is big, this is… it is…” Words escaped Shepard. She never thought she would have to plead her case this much. She expected pushback, she never thought that Pallin would instantly try to discredit her. 

“Well, lucky for you, it’s now officially out of your hands.” 

  The voice came from behind Shepard and Garrus. Pallin’s eyes went wide, his mandibles flicked out. Shepard turned behind her to about the scariest looking turian she’d ever seen in her life. Light gray plates, violet eyes, mandibles that stretched out all the way behind his fringe. He stared at Pallin coolly, his voice deep and finite. Shepard had no idea who he was, but even the way he was standing there gave her goosebumps-- and not in a good way. 

Garrus stood to his feet, swaying slightly but at attention. Shepard could hear the sharp intake of breath, she expected from the pain from his wound. “ Saren ?” he said incredulously. 

[addrianastarflower]

Why can't this be a normal field trip? (With the LOV? No way!) by AddrianaStarflower

Actual fic is posted underneath the break, but I'd appreciate you looking at it on ao3 because it will read a little better :D

Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Category:

Gen

Fandom:

僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Relationships:

Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku

Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku

Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko

Characters:

Midoriya Izuku

Bakugou Katsuki

Dabi | Todoroki Touya

Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko

Additional Tags:

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Could Technically be Canon Tho

Fluff and Angst

Angst and Hurt/Comfort

Whump

Whumptober

Whumptober 2022

Holding eachother for dear life

Camping

With a Villainous Twist

Midoriya Izuku Has One for All Quirk

minor manga spoilers

Soft Bakugou Katsuki

Bakugou Katsuki is a Good Friend

Bakugou Katsuki is Bad at Feelings

Midoriya Izuku is Bad at Feelings

Midoriya Izuku is So Done

Izuku: Why can't this be a normal field trip?

1-A: With the LOV? No way!

no.2

nowhere to run

cornered

Gamer Tomura shigaraki

Midoriya Izuku Whump

Language: English

Sitting together in the tree where they were perched, Izuku watched as Kacchan slept peacefully. He couldn’t sleep here, the forest was a far too open place. They were too vulnerable. They were in a tree for goodness sake! What would happen if they fell?

They were tied in, but still!

Slowly though, Izuku relaxed. Nothing had happened thus far and Kacchan would be upset if he was too tired to hike around in the morning. Sure, years of getting only a little sleep left him up at weird hours, but he still did sleep and hiking all day was due to make anyone tired.

Hours later, he woke up to a rustling beneath him.

The sun had not yet graced the horizon but the sky was beginning to lighten.

He glanced around rapidly. Where was that sound coming from?

He looked beneath him for the source of the sound.

Shoot.

Dabi and Shigaraki walked beneath him, arguing.

This couldn’t be happening.

It was supposed to be a normal field trip. They were supposed to hike, camp, and scavenge for a few days and then go home.

It should have been fine.

So why was Shigaraki of all people out here in the middle of nowhere? Were they purposefully trying to stalk him to get him killed?

It certainly seemed like it with the number of villain attacks he got into.

 “I’m telling you, Gigantomachia will never follow you. He only cares for your sensei.”

This was bad. Like really bad.

They weren’t strong enough to fight, even with their quirks. Blackwhip wasn’t stable at the best of times and it was messing with the rest of One for All. Not to mention whatever Float was doing.

“Sensei said he’d follow me. He has to, Sensei doesn’t lie.”

Dabi sighed, “Your sensei isn’t infallible, Shiggy. He’s in prison right now, for goodness sake.”

Shiggy huffed. “Let’s just set up camp here and drop it? Okay?”

Izuku could see Dabi roll his eyes from his perch. “Sure. Good place as any.”

They sat down and began to set up camp at the base of Izuku and Kacchan’s tree.

This was extra bad. 

They weren’t just passing through, they were sticking around..

Izuku gently placed a hand on Kacchan's mouth. If they heard his snoring they’d both be done for.

Izuku held his breath, hopefully they wouldn’t hear him.

Kacchan startled awake, his eyes wide and ready to scream at Izuku.

Izuku widened his eyes equally and held his other hand to his lips in a shushing motion and pointed beneath them.

Kacchan signed to Izuku, “ When’d they show up? ”

“ Just now, they were arguing and woke me up. They’re setting up camp, I don’t think we can get down.”

Quietly, under his breath, Kacchan swore.

Izuku could agree with the sentiment but tensed, hoping that the villains beneath them wouldn’t hear.

What was Kacchan thinking! Saying anything was such a bad idea when they were right beneath, it seemed like he was just trying to get them killed.

They even couldn’t use their quirks because of the suppression quirks that Aizawa-Sensei put on them. So they couldn’t speed through the forest and now they couldn’t get out of the tree. Without the cuffs, Izuku might have even just been able to fly them out but it was futile.

Slowly, Izuku crawled forward in the tree nook to hug Kacchan. He needed some support right now. 

It was risky to move, he knew, but he couldn’t hold it in himself to care.

Kacchan opened his arms to let Izuku in and they sat side by side.

Very quietly, Izuku whispered to Kacchan to get his attention, “Kat.”

They would have to wait it out, but who knew how long the wait would be.

Kacchan turned to face him, rustling some of the leaves near his head in the process.

Shigaraki looked up. “What was that?”

Dabi shrugged, “Probably just a bird. We are in the wilderness, after all. It’s like you’ve never touched grass before, you weeb.”

Izuku just pulled Kacchan closer and signed, “ Sorry. Just wanted to get your attention. I wanted to say I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have picked the forest. ”

Kacchan huffed softly, “ Someone else would have picked the forest if you didn’t, idiot. Better us than Tapeface and Acid. ”

Izuku gave a chuckle under his breath, “ True .”

Luckily, Dabi and Shigaraki seemed intent to only stay the night and move on.

That at least, was a blessing. They didn’t have to get down before they left.

Thus, the night was quiet.

[go-events]

GO Rom Com Spotlight: @princip1914​

The marvelous @princip1914​  has claimed Latter Days to adapt for Good Omens in the Good Omens Rom Com Event.

For reference, here’s some information about the source material!

Synopsis of Latter Days: Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss), a young Mormon, arrives in Los Angeles with three fellow missionaries to evangelize. The group’s promiscuous gay neighbor, Christian (Wes Ramsey), makes a bet he can seduce and sleep with one of them, and his flirtatious ways help Aaron realize he is actually gay. Returning home to small-town Idaho in shame, Aaron is sent to a faith-based center to be cured of his homosexuality – while Christian, who’s fallen in love with him, desperately tries to find him.

We spent some time chatting about how the adaptation is coming so far, as well as future plans for it! Now, get to know @princip1914 (also here on Ao3) a little better!

goromcom:  You know how if you open a Tumblr chat with someone you haven’t chatted to before, Tumblr tells you two things they post about? Yours reports that you “post about #good omens and #crowley"–which seems legit.

princip1914​: I didn’t know tumblr did that but yes, that’s 100% of my content right now, lol.

goromcom: You chose to adapt Latter Days as your rom com. Has this movie been a favorite of yours, or is there some other reason you chose it?

princip1914​: I picked Latter Days because I remembered it fondly from my high school days when I was a baby gay unsure of myself or my place in the world. It was one of the first gay romance films I ever saw, but I definitely did not rewatch it before I picked it. Upon re-watching it now…wow, it has not really held up. The acting is cheesy, the characters fall in love, like instantaneously, there’s a Black Best Friend™️ character, and there’s a whole lot of ways in which the movie just uses AIDS, homophobia, suicide, and straight up torture as a plot device [ed: which we will talk about later under the cut, to make it easily avoidable for those heeding the content warnings that will be listed above the cut.] That really grosses me out.   But I love working with flawed source material! I think it’s fun to see what I can do with it. The most recent fic I wrote was verrryyy loosely based on some tropes from Groundhog Day, which honestly on a rewatch in 2019 also contains problematic elements. So I think taking these old, somewhat flawed, properties and transforming them is a great feeling!

That said, Latter Days also has some elements that really speak to me even though it is a bit cheesy/cringy at the end. One thing I loved about it growing up is that it really tries to engage with big questions about belief, faith, and being a good person in an authentic way you don’t usually see in Rom Coms. Its storyline–“Mormon and gay playboy fall in love, Mormon learns you can be a good person without organized religion, gay playboy learns how to confront his fear that everything is meaningless and make his own meaning in the world through relationships”–is actually pretty similar to Good Omens, although dressed up very differently. 

goromcom: What’s your favorite moment of your chosen rom com, and are you looking forward to presenting it in your adaptation? Any loose plans for that scene that you can share? 

princip1914​: I have a lot of favorite moments from the movie, it’s hard to pick just one, but here goes. [Spoiler alert for Latter Days and the upcoming GO adaptation fic] In the movie, there’s a character whose long-term partner has just died and the Mormon character (who will be Aziraphale in my version) is comforting her. He asks her if it was her husband who died and she says, “He wasn’t my husband. He was my best friend.” And let me tell you, I CANNOT WAIT to devastate Aziraphale with that line in my fic. [end spoilers] I’m also pretty excited to adapt the sex scenes to be honest. That movie earned an R for a reason.

goromcom: :waggles eyebrows:

Do you plan to stick very closely to the story beats of the original movie, or make bigger changes? And will this be a human AU, or will you fit it into canon?

princip1914​: I think it’s funny because Latter Days already feels like a Good Omens AU. As I mentioned, the themes are very similar and the Mormon character, in the first two acts of the movie especially, has a very similar character arc to Aziraphale.

I think I could stick closely to the movie if I wanted to do a simple human AU. However, the more I thought about it, I realized the more difficult and more interesting fic would be one that works within both the bounds of canon and the tropes of the movie, and actually ends quite differently than the movie. I’m not sure I can keep the apocalypse in play with the ending I’m shooting for, so my guess is this fic is going to end up being a canon divergence fic set somewhere in the ‘90s, which feels about as early as I could go without losing the early 2000s vibe of Latter Days.

Trying to adapt elements of the movie to Good Omens canon and not vice versa, has been a really interesting challenge. It meant figuring out what is essential to Latter Days and what can be changed without losing the shape or recognizablity of the source material. I’m keeping the setting in LA. I’m keeping the central philosophical question of the movie (which is arguably also the central philosophical question of Good Omens). One thing that obviously had to be changed for this story to fit into canon is that while Aziraphale and Crowley have a long history, Latter Days is essentially a meet cute. So, what I’m saying here is that the first lines of my fic are: “What the fuck,” hissed Crowley, “Aziraphale, you’re a Mormon now?” and it just goes downhill from there.

goromcom: That sounds great!

(I’m asking my closing question early, as we will be putting the answer for another question under the cut.)

I am blatantly stealing this question from The Good Place: The Podcast, but here goes: Tell me something “good”. It can be something big or small. It can be a charity you think is doing good work, or you can talk about how great your pet is.

princip1914​:  Well, my pet is amazing. Her name is D'Arcy, she’s a mutt terrier/lab mix and gives the best cuddles. But, since not everyone can cuddle with my dog, I think I’d like to just mention a charity that I started working with this year. It’s called Back on My Feet. Basically, it’s just an organization that sets up running groups in cities in the US northeast and south that connect people who are recovering from addiction or recently experienced homelessness or incarceration with other people in the area who like to run. It meets 3 days a week and we just go on runs and talk.

goromcom:  Exercise and helping people! It sounds amazing. :)

Okay, so other than NOT doing an AU, what’s an interesting decision you’ve made in your planning so far–a notable casting decision, a changing of venue, or some other plan you have to paint Good Omens all over your rom com?

[ content warning for discussion of conversion therapy under the cut–discussion is firmly anti conversion therapy. ]

princip1914​: I think that this is more of a general change to the plot, but one which I do feel is in keeping with Good Omens rather than the source material. I don’t really like to write (or read) dark fic or whump type stuff (totally fine if others are into that, but it’s just not my cup of tea!). The end of the movie has some very intense stuff that sort of uses horrible things like electroshock therapy to “cure” homosexuality as a plot device/obstacle to getting the two leads together and…yeah I am probably going to signficantly change a lot of that. Even if I wanted to keep it, I think it wouldn’t be appropriate for the Good Omens elements of the story. I think Aziraphale’s character arc is more about his internalized fear of heaven (which can, of course, be read sort of as internalized homophobia) rather than external fear of punishment. That’s the main difference between heaven and hell, right? Heaven punishes through guilt, and hell punishes through pain. I think it just wouldn’t work for Aziraphale’s character to have to go through a series of external tortures, so you can absolutely expect a lot of the 3rd act of the movie will be changed. If I can, I’d like to take it up through canon and have the third act of the fic feature the notapocalypse, but that might be too much of a tall order. We will see…

I’m also going to make full use of the LA setting! I really like LA and I have some complicated yet fond memories of not-dates I went on in various places in LA with a person who was unattainable romantically but a lovely friend.  I think the movie definitely had a tiny budget, which is why the “LA setting” is basically just reduced to the character’s apartments, but damn it, if I want Aziraphale and Crowley to have tense not-conversations about their relationship while watching the skaters at Venice beach, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

goromcom: Looking forward to reading an adaptation that fits itself into near canon! Should be really thought-provoking.

[penpatronuswhump]

PARABATAI PAIN

An anthology of Shadowhunters whump stories featuring Alec and Jace.

Summary:

An anthology of whump and hurt/comfort stories that feature the Jace and Alec bromance but also includes Magnus, Clary, Izzy, Simon, etc. Friendship, drama, angst, aftercare, family, brotherly love. Mostly canon, but with my own interpretations of runes and magic.

Story#1: FRIENDLY FIRE When Clary gets hurt on Alec’s watch, Jace is furious until he realizes that his parabatai is injured much worse. Story #2: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN Jace volunteers to be a guinea pig when Magnus invents a spell to protect Nephilim from demon possession. Story #3: HITLER'S WARLOCKS Rogue warlocks kidnap and torture the Lightwoods. Story #4: PARABATAI PURGATORY

STORY COMPLETE!

Jace lashed out. Both of his palms collided with Alec’s chest like a battering ram and slammed him back against the wall, skull first. Donuts skidded across the floor and sailed into the air. Alec’s knees buckled and he slid to the floor, clutching his midsection, slowly toppling over. He looked down at his abdomen with wide eyes like he was seeing it for the first time. “God, Jace,” he gasped, stunned.

Jace bellowed down at him, “For the last time her name is Clary and she’s not a little—” Fresh liquid felt warm on Jace’s hands. For a moment, he stared at the blood and wondered why Clary was still conscious if that much had leaked from her leg. Then, he looked at Alec’s black long-sleeved shirt, newly revealed with his jacket absent, and saw the source of the blood: a long and large “V”-shaped bite across the left side of Alec’s torso that resembled giant insect pincers lined with rows of shark teeth.

Suddenly Jace recognized Alec’s lethargy for what it was—shock.

“ALEC!” Jace cried. He lunged forward just in time to catch Alec’s head before it collided with the floor. “Dammit, Alec, why didn’t you tell me you were hurt?”

“Because it doesn’t hurt… It doesn’t hurt—not bad… Not badly.” Dazed, dizzy, Alec clawed at Jace’s shoulders, trying to find purchase, an anchor.

“I told you to protect Clary, not get yourself killed!”

Alec sighed and closed his eyes. “Can’t do anything right, can I?”

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