#wipdate

[festiveferret]

Wipdate!

Well. It's been like three years since I've done one of these, hahaha, but I've been missing fandom life so I thought it'd be fun to share an update of where I'm sitting. Toddlers manage to take like 140% of your time and energy, even though they sleep a lot, so I've mostly just been parenting, but I've been getting the writing bug lately, so there's very slow progress, but progress nonetheless.

Basically, I have a list of fics I want to make sure I finish. They're the ones it would break my heart to look back on twenty years from now and realize I put all that time and those words into something that never got shared. I haven't been having new ideas very much, so I'm putting all my creative energy into things I've either promised to other people or to myself.

I'm not going to list everything I've posted since my last wipdate, since that was a looong time ago and you can always sort my works page chronologically! But here's the latest ones...

Posted:

Do Not Reply  - Tony replies to a Do Not Reply email address thinking he's shouting into the void. Spoiler alert: he's not. Runaway Train - Preserum Steve and Prince Tony meet cute. Entwined - The aftermath of Ults Stony being magically soulbound and then separated. Lost and Found - Winteriron - Bucky finds a lost dog. Vacation Days - SHIELD needs Steve to take his PTO Sanguinary Revelations - Tony and Steve go on a date with a twist Kindly Calm Me Down - Ults Steve knows how to calm his Tony down after a mission First Christmas - Stony's first xmas as parents Even of My Secret Soul - Secret soulmates

Updating:

Second Chance Summer - Stony with a 20yr age gap. Pre-written and posting on Saturdays. Up to chapter eight. A Good Thing - Comic collab with Askafroa - Alpha!Tony and Omega!Therapist!Steve - almost done! Yet I Will Try the Last - Truck Stop Hooker AU with hooker!Steve and flashy billionaire, Tony Stark. Up to chapter four! (I swear I haven't given up on this) Held Remix - A rewrite of Held with Tony as the sub and Steve as the Dom. Up to chapter twenty-nine. Ashy and I are making a point of getting our chaptered version of Held edited and posted, and then we're cracking on with Remix. We may or may not do both seasons, but we're at least going to finish out S1.

Beta Queue:

Bro Code -  This is one of my 2023 MTH fics Rented Family - I started this one in like 2019 and finally finished it. It's a no-powers Ults AU where Tony is dying of his (canon!) brain cancer and Steve is a security specialist/bodyguard who Tony hires to be around while he dies. Yay for finishing old wips!

Wips:

This wiplist is basically just going to be my list of "I'll be sad if I never finish them" fics I mentioned above. I have no plans to stop writing fic entirely, but I'm definitely slowing down, and I want to focus on the stuff that will feel really good to have done so I don't ever leave myself or you guys hanging!

1) Held edit (the chaptered repost) and Held Remix (at least S1). @ashes0909 and I are picking away at it, but between three kids, two jobs, and two timezones, it's slow af. But we'll get there.

2) My other 2023 MTH fic, older professor Tony and young flirty student Steve for @sabrecmc pod bid. It's maybe a third done.

3) My contribution to the Stony Dating Sim game from MTH 2024 (I'm doing Ults Tony as a love interest. If you want to know more, check out @stevetonydatingsim).

4) My Stony Twilight AU. I posted a snippet of it here a long time ago and I've been picking at it ever since. It's at 33k and probably about halfway done.

5) Fangbait 3. My Fangbait series was always intended to have three parts. Two are up already. The third was on hiatus for a long time, but I just abruptly wrote 80% of it last night, so once I get the sex scenes (and a title oh no) done, she'll be good to go!

6) Yet I Will Try the Last has been waiting for waaay too long for an update and I feel really bad about it. It was the one time I experimented with posting an unfinished WIP (mostly because it started as a oneshot and then I started adding to it) and I regretti spaghetti every day that I did that lol. I. Have. Not. Given. Up. I have the outline for the rest, I know what I want to do, I just need to do it.

7) Brooklyn is a canon divergence from right after Avengers 2012 where Stony travels on a modified quinjet together, cleaning up the chitauri weapon's market. It's maybe a third to a half done? Another one I started a loooong time ago and never got my steam back with, but I would really like to. I really like that one.

8) A Venom/Eddie fic from right after the first movie. It's not too long and it's probably also about halfway done, so I believe in myself. It's called Parasite.

9) A collab started a few years ago that I'm not going to out here in case my collab partner doesn't want to do it anymore, but we did a fair bit of it so I'd love to get it done.

Writing comes in little spurts, but I have to pick and choose between my hobbies now, so I just have less time and energy to spend on one thing. I've been trying to read more to fuel the words! I also have OG stuff I'm working on, but that's just as slow as the other stuff lol. I miss you guys! Hope y'all are doing well. (Happy Easter if you celebrate!)

Thanks as always for reading! <3

[wildalligator]

wipdate I guess oooauagh I hate guitars

[enspey]

Just dropping in for a random Monday wipdate. I’m still trying to catch up on commissions, but for my sanity I have been working on a side project. Can’t share commission progress, but I can show wip progress.

@infamous-if brainrot is real. Devyn’s outfit had to be redone. People will see when I finally finish. One day. I had a sad, I loved the outfit I originally did, but it was not accurate to character so it was washed away….saaaaaaad. No glamrock Devyn. Technically looks more cohesive this way, but….the sparkles! YOU DONT UNDERSTAND! Best part of working on Devyn is she has the same hairstyle my friend rocked for years. Granted her’s was neon green. Her pink phase was long. It just made me smile thinking about my friend.

Not sure when I will be able to finish this. As Iris still needs adding and then putting everything into the composition planned. But I didn’t want to be silent forever. I’m still alive. Art is being done. Commissions being worked on (albeit slowly).

And happy Pride Month!

[sportspuckball]

new fic: 'chase all the ghosts from your head'

Mattia Tkachuk is the best athletic trainer on the continent (maybe the world, who is to say) and Leon Draisaitl's her newest 'charge'. The Oilers hired her to keep him in top shape on the ice and she was absolutely up to the challenge.

Two problems: she'd wanted to bone him for a long time, and he hates her.

Or, what happens when two stubborn, damaged, and beautiful idiots learn to build a legacy to love each other well.

(This is the R63 I promised in my WIPdate post. It's finished and I had a fuck ton of fun writing it. This version of our idiots is just a delight.)

Read on Ao3 HERE

[eshikage]

Wipdate!

[yj-98]

ok im gonna be real im giving up on this for the night but um <333 tim wipdate (wip update) ....... ill probably finish it tomorrow. all i have left to do is render tim himself :)

[j-a-nuary]

WIPdate - gif edition

Highly open to interpretation story made clear: I've queued something old because I simply can not get enough sleep to work properly.

DR:BB:

Carrier:

Saprophyte:

In Which...:

Untitled Monsta X/Ateez crossover fic:

The Seungmin one:

Mingi Mango thing that caters specifically to @chans-room:

Random Ateez texts:

[cant-icle]

oh i forgot i never added the wipdate!

[on-a-lucky-tide]

WIP Update (WIPdate?): The Witcher King

Dandelion plucked a pheasant leg from his plate and wafted it threateningly in Aiden's direction. “You have a lot to learn about courts in the north. You scoff now, but think of the humiliation when all we have to offer at Geralt's side is wine, wheat and Metinnan silk. Culture, that is what we need to bring to those heathens. Culture.”

Geralt hummed thoughtfully. “They will have their own culture. We'll need to adapt to it.” Aiden nodded in agreement and the three of them lapsed into silence as they ate.

Indeed, Geralt had read widely for months. Knowledge was power, after all. But the more he read, the more unsettled he became by the stark contrast between the warm climes of his southern home and the frigid northern regions. They traded in the bizant, not the gulden. They worshipped Freya and the prophet Lebodia. Most of the official accounts had been dry and boorish, but Aiden had always been able to source texts that Geralt's tutors would blanch at. So Geralt's study of economics, faith and customs had been tempered with more exciting stories of prophets being eaten by dragons. Geralt had enjoyed one in particular, recounted by Addaria Bach, a dwarven musician from the Copparette, about how followers took Lebioda's remains from his sarcophagus during certain festivities to kiss them and, much like the dwarven poet, Geralt had been amused by the prospect of pious priests in silken robes kissing fossilised shit.

“What are you smiling at?” Dandelion asked around a mouthful of pheasant.

“Prophets and dragon dung,” Geralt replied blithely and Aiden grinned.

They saw the lazy evening hours away with inane conversation and a few songs on Dandelion's lute, before bedding down on their sleeping mats. The temperate was barmy and there was no sign of rain, so they had decided to sleep outside under the insect netting. Geralt stared at the glittering stars above his head and picked out the constellations one by one. He wondered whether the stars would look the same in the north, or whether they would be as alien to him as the currency and the faiths.

The crickets and crackling fires around the camp were soon accompanied by Dandelion's soft snores, and the camp quietened enough for Geralt to pick up on a conversation happening several metres away.

“Heard the beast's ruthless,” said one low voice. “Emotionless. Doesn't feel a thing. Only appetite he has is for the flesh, younger the better.”

Another soldier scoffed around his tankard. “Let's hope that Prince Geralt inherited that famous stamina of his great-granda Hugo then.” There was a round of raucous laughter, and then, “By the time that monster's finished with him, he won't be walking at all, let alone worrying about riding a horse.”

I'm meant to be working on Decembert and Geraskier stories, but my brain decided no. Instead, we've gone down a rabbit hole of lore and continued writing The Witcher King. Prince Geralt's on his way west to catch a boat from Cidaris to Pont Vanis in southern Kovir. He's doing a lot of introspection, worrying, you know, Geralt type things.

Lebodia's story is great. Not only was he worshipped by one of the last Manticore Witchers (Merten), but he feels a lot like the Continent's answer to Buddhism. Compared to the northern Pantheon (very Olympian/Nordic) and the Eternal Fire (very medieval Christianity, right down to the crusades), Lebodia promotes peaceful ways, simple wisdom and kindness. Literally, that's it. Here's a teaching:

"He who intends to walk the valley of darkness ought to bring a lantern with him. For he who sprains his ankle in the darkness will not walk far." –The Good Book; or, The Teachings of the Prophet Lebioda

He gets eaten by a dragon while trying to protect some villagers from it. Lebodia is known as the Great Beggar, and I guess this kind of reflects "higher society's" low regard for the religions and prophets of the peasantry, perhaps. But I like to think Lebodia's story would resonate with Geralt a whole lot. Kindness, practical wisdom, defending the innocent.

Now, Hugo of Rivia, my dearest boy. Hugo is distantly related to Meve or Reginald (the family trees are a little vague), but he is also Foltest's ancestor (which could potentially make Geralt related to Foltest, which... urgh, royal interbreeding). But Hugo! He got pegged by his wife so hard he couldn't ride a horse. Proof, I hear you cry.

Hugo of Rivia was the second Prince Consort of Bienvenu, queen of Temeria. Not much is known about him other than the fact that he fared much better than his predecessor, Ragbard, in the queen's bedchamber. Rumours were rampant that he had to work very hard to fulfill the expectations of the queen - hence the ever prying eyes and his rather famous reluctance for riding horses. (Witcher Wiki)

He's also reported to have died of "sexual exhaustion" trying to give the queen a second child, although his efforts were "heroic". There are many a rude song written about it and I'm sure Dandelion knows them all. As for the soldiers in the earlier excerpt commenting about Hugo's stamina, I'll leave the interpretation of their intent down to the reader. Either way, I want to slowly shed more light on Geralt's past and why his reputation at home (and his self esteem) is so very low.

With thanks to my partner in crime, @cylin-aka-ankamo, for ongoing support with this project. Go check out her Witcher King art.

[betheflame]

Wipdate

Since I’ve never done one of these, the “previously published” is my entire catalog, but here’s a few things I’m working on right now!  Untitled Stony Political Soulmate AU: Commissioned by @aspiring-academic through their donations to fight the wildfires in Australia (that was this year, too, can you BELIEVE) - the fic will focus on Steve the Congressman and Tony the scientist working together to end the migrant crisis at the U.S. border - while also getting their second chance on love. Posting starts August 3. Untitled Stuckony A/B/O Sex Worker AU: Commissioned by @corsets-and-cardigans also for wildfire donations, this one has established alpha/alpha WinterIron and omega Steve. Tag line: “Bucky and Tony thought they believed in omega rights, then they fell in love with one.” Posting starts mid-August. A Common Guttersnipe: MTH 2019 fic for @sabrecmc @festiveferret @ashes0909 @ishipallthings @bill-longbow @captainneverever @juuls. A My Fair Lady remix where Steve can’t stop speaking Brooklyn, Tony makes a bet with Rhodey, and I leave Freddie Einsford-Hill out completely. Posting starts mid-September. 

There’s also a PepperStuckony Wing fic getting cooked up for @tehroserose, a collab with @ashes0909 for Marvel4BLM and then... welll.... MTH is kicking off again!

Posting Now!  Past, Present, and Future (?) - MTH 2019 adjacent fic that features de-aged Avengers and parental figures Stucky with guest appearances by MJ, Peter, and Pepper helping to make sure the tiny super heroes stay alive.  Steve-Tony Games Fluff Fills - A whole host of one-shots that put these two in a lot of universes.  These Times have been interesting for my productivity. I’ve gone through a few weeks where I’ve written upwards of 15k and a few where I stared at blinking cursors. I am exceptionally grateful for fandom in general, though - y’all have gotten me through a lot of lonely moments! 

@festiveferret and I also made the INCREDIBLE decision to start a podcast about two weeks before everyone went inside and stopped listening to podcasts, but we’re 11 episodes in and not planning on stopping anytime soon. Give a listen @podonthesuit. 

[festiveferret]

Wipdate!

Okay, it’s been a really long time since the last one, again. I’m always like “no way it’s been that long,” then the list of updates is 4 million fics long. Big womp.

Posted:

Spark(y)s Fly  - Dog trainer Steve and single dad Tony. Black and Blue - Bad BF Brock with Steve as Tony’s PA Comfortable - Post-CAWS, Stony h/c Ex-traordinary Christmas - Getting back together ft. shitty bf Ty Instant Reaction - Steve and Tony meet and have instant chemistry Doorway - Homeless omega!Steve and helpful Alpha!Tony Malware- My first 616 fic! Punch Line - HS AU shitty ex-bf Ty (are you sensing a recent theme?) Breaking the Law of Attraction - Tony loves Steve’s mind, Steve loves Tony’s might. (collab with @ashes0909) Cat's Out of the Bag - Cat sitter!Tony AU, w/ID Porn Can't Write One Song (That's Not About You) - Band AU, so much pining Fresh Water - Stuckony love confessions Hoodie Thief - Steve finds something else when looking for his hoodie Post-It (Winteriron) - Office AU love confessions Part of Your World - Mermaid!Tony, smol!Steve In Recovery - ABO, arranged marriage + PTSD service dog Known - OFMD Episode 8 bed sharing Dalliance - OFMD Fuck buddies to lovers Sugar on Top - Shitty ex-Ty, Baker!Steve, Grad student!Tony Still Fine - OFMD Old scars h/c + first kiss

Updating:

A Good Thing - Comic collab with Askafroa - Alpha!Tony and Omega!Therapist!Steve Yet I Will Try the Last - Truck Stop Hooker AU with hooker!Steve and flashy billionaire, Tony Stark. Up to chapter four! Held Remix - A rewrite of Held with Tony as the sub and Steve as the Dom. Up to chapter twenty-nine. (Planning to dive in again in the new year!)

Beta Queue:

Do Not Reply -  I keep bumping this beta in favour of other things but at some point I’m just going to have to put it next in the queue for @ashes0909 and make it actually happen lol

Wips:

1) You may have noticed that Our Flag Means Death has barnacled onto me in the best way possible. Fear not! I’m still writing Stony (and other MCU ships) but it’s fun being in something new and wild and chaotic and I’m probably going to be posting a fair amount of OFMD in the next little while as well. I have a bunch of ideas and WIPS for the show, so if you’re into that, stick around, there’s more to come!

2) I have been opening and closing an Ults AU where Tony is dying of brain cancer and Steve is a security specialist/bodyguard who ends up living with him for like a billion years and I’ve reopened it once again. Let’s see if I can ever finish it.

3) Still working on my sexy collab!

4) I’m in the WH Big Bang so woohoo! Gotta write that bad boy. I have an idea and like a quarter of it written.

5) I’m in some zines, one of which is due on a really short timeline, so gotta crank something out for that.

6) Backburner includes the Twilight AU and Yet I Will Try, which I really need to update at least once this year 😬

I’ve got a wee break between renovating season and gardening season, so hoping to do a lot of writing in the next two months. I’m co-running the @reforgedzine for Bucky/Tony and there’s still a few days left to apply so if you’re in to Winteriron, please do! 

Thanks as always for reading! <3

[tapir-boy]

back by no demand: a wip update

lila & ari's first meeting with the iron bull (goes wrong) (not clickbait) (dont watch after midnight) (etc etc youtube clickbait titles) (pending editing)

now posted! https://archiveofourown.org/works/64560886

oc & oc relationship where my commander lavellan (pre-being the commander) brings his niece to skyhold and establishing her connection to solas & bull bull/lavellan/felassan where two of them become step-uncles to the lavellan niece and also felassan gets cured of tranquility and has to live life afterwards. (not even outlined this is just a thing i keep thinking about. theres maybe a scene where the lavellan niece finds out about felassan's secret dead daughter and they have meltdowns together. who knows)

this has now spiralled wildly out of control and combined with the felassan/lavellan/bull ideas i had which is why they're now grouped together. shout out to my partner for enabling me RNSDKJGLD

as a treat, these are the WIP titles

the tapir-boy legally mandated Gender Fic TM CR where sof gets to reflect on gender after the convo w taash (includes trans neve bc its canon 2 Me)

no progress whatsoever. at some point im going to give up and just post it OR completely rewrite it. but that point is NOT TODAYYYYY

taash/laidir fic going over their history and how they end up getting together (will end in smut. this is a threat)

halfway done ish! the smut is potentially on the cutting room floor, im discovering via this fucking emmrook first time fic that i HATE writing like detailed smut, so its more just a fade to black at this point. IF i want to i might go back and do the smut. but for now its a fade to black. but i have about half my planned scenes done, i just need to finish the other half

sof & lucanis talking together after the titan reveal & sof picking a fight with solas over it

now written! yippeee https://archiveofourown.org/works/64880545

emmsof first time (wip. its almost at 3k now. im fighting for my life w this thing)

we've made it to 4k 🎉theres like one or two more sections i still need to write, and then its going to Steep for a while, and then im going to have to HEAVILY edit it since its kind of all over the place. such is the way of writing one fic over the course of, uh, six months

sofcanis first time (ends w them snuggling w emmrich to Cope with the Horrors.)

this may also spiral out into a much larger WIP at this point, i talked about it for too long and now its like 3 chapters that are outlined of the whole Thing of sof coming home, not all of it is smut now

and now for the new ones (because god help me i cant sTOP-)

a small series of interludes about the veilguard and their allies during the time that sof is missing in gay baby jail

mostly outlined, but i have like 500 words for the first scene i was thinking of

pre-canon series of vignettes about sof, varric, and harding during the year they travel before dav

tbh this is largely just an excuse to actually write out some canon about the war of the banners in my verse and establishing why sof is so secretive at the start of dav regarding their identity. its like half a wip and half a glorified outline

5+1 fic about connor hawke hiding lila's existence from the party in act 1, and the first time he intentionally introduced them

this was kind of spur of the moment, blasted it out in two days, possessed me until i had it done type of fic. its pending editing but ive already done one round, its honestly probably on its final draft at this point, but i wanted to get that fic about sof and their reaction to the titans out first since its been sitting longer. this is probably whats getting posted next

[sunflwrvolume6]

little sparrow

Tyler Vance has always loved working at The Little Sparrow Inn, nestled between two mountain peaks. She enjoys meeting new people, and the view outside the windows is to die for. She may not like doing the business side now that she’s inherited the bed-and-breakfast, but there is no place she’d rather be than right here in the mountains.

When one stranger comes through in hopes of refuge, Tyler doesn’t hesitate to do everything she can to figure out - and fix - the darkness that surrounds him, consumes him from the inside out. She knows the mountains can be dangerous, especially in the winter, but Tyler can’t help but pray that the Little Sparrow Inn can heal Niall from whatever heartbreak and tragedy that he’s running from.

scars and souvenirs

“I don’t even trust myself any more. And I can’t keep doing this.”

Max Bauer hasn’t had a home in over two years. Every place has been a temporary refuge, and she’s tired. Tired of running, tired of looking over her shoulder, tired of the loneliness. She keeps herself locked away, won’t let anyone in, and falls asleep every night praying this isn’t a dream.

Niall Horan hasn’t moved past the tragedy of unknown. Even after a decade, he is still searching for something he can use to atone for his mistakes. He goes to work, comes home, and falls asleep every night praying this is just a nightmare.

Then Max’s past barrels into her present, and she’s left with a decision to make: Keep running, or trust another person for the first time in years.

What happens when these two broken people find each other? Can they each find what they’ve so long been searching for? 

rules of summer

Sun & Scrimmage has been Rory Lake’s home-away-from-home for ten years. Every year, she’s gone to the summer camp for fun, sun, and football. This year isn’t any different - except for how it is.

Now cabin leader and team co-captain, she has more responsibilities than before. Everything changes further when she’s introduced to Niall Horan, and while competition has always been a vital ingredient to the camp, the rivalry that starts between Rory and Niall is far from friendly. That’s fine, though - she doesn’t mind terribly.

Rory has rules for her life, but sometimes, rules are meant to be broken.

someone lost, something gained

Veda Mitchell has never had a good relationship with anyone in her family except for her grandfather. When he’s diagnosed with terminal cancer, Veda immediately and without hesitation moves in to take on the role of sole caregiver. He’s done so much for her throughout her life. Caring for him, making his life easier before it ends, is the least she can do to repay him.

The routine she follows is steadfast, set in stone, and it brings her comfort. Meeting Niall wasn’t in the plans, but Veda finds herself yearning for his bright, infectious smile and calming presence when everything goes wrong. And wrong it goes.

[wip]

Hey, folks. A little WIP-themed update for you. A WIPdate, if you will.

Following on from this recent ask, not only have we decided to listen to this sage advice, but we will be changing the opening hours of our ask box.

From Monday, July 4, not only will it be open a full 12 hours, but during this trial period, you will be able to submit questions anytime between 6AM and 6PM (Eastern Standard Time). Don’t say we don’t spoil you!

Keep the feedback coming, as always.

Love,

The humans behind @wip

[fear-before-valor]

// Wipdate time! 

[chibisquirt]

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