thomascastle

[thomascastle]

You know what? Yeehawgust. *cowboys your art prompts*

[thomascastle]

I find it very telling somehow that the neighborhood has been so quiet this week, and the last.

Usually, the noise level is a complete racket around this time every year.

This year...nothing.

Eerie, dead silence every night.

I wonder what tonight will show.

[thomascastle]

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Beatrice Prescott, Ironpsyche

Additional Tags: Short, Vignette, Drabble, One-Shot, Urban Fantasy, Magical Realism, Superheroes, Psychic Abilities, Psychics, Original Character(s), Original Fiction, Major Original Character(s), POV Original Character, Original Female Character(s) - Freeform, Original Character-centric, Original Universe, POV Original Female Character, Implied/Referenced Incest, Sibling Incest, Brother/Sister Incest, Romance, Angst and Romance, Angst, Drama, Drama & Romance, Angst and Feels, Communication Failure, Trans Character, Trans Female Character, Trans, Canon Trans Character, Screw the narrative let's make the tags do all the work, LGBTQ Character, LGBTQ Female Character, Canon LGBTQ Character, Canon LGBTQ Female Character, Robots, Cyborgs, Exosuit, Exoskeleton, friends to nothing, Best Friends, Childhood Friends

Summary:

Just a short scene I cooked up between Ironpsyche and Beatrice, two of my normal characters from Pick-n-Mix Comix. I wasn't expecting them to have a connection or even know each other at all, but I started putting storylines together, and well...

I'm not sure if this will ever show up in a story itself, so I'm putting it separate for now, because it hurts me in dark places and maybe I want to share the horrible heart-wrenching.

Or maybe it's just over-dramatic and weird. I'm used to that by now.

Whooooo wants to read about incest?

No, not that kind of incest.

Consensual, forbidden love type of incest between grown adults who grew up together.

But then their bodies changed, and they changed with them.

It's very mopey and sad, and at 300 words, it packs a punch.

For me, anyway.

I couldn't really figure out where I wanted to put it in their storylines — they weren't even supposed to have a connection, but I kept drawing coincidences and patterns between them, so it seems the universe wants their angst to be inevitable from a certain point of view.

Anyway, it hurts me a lot. Maybe it'll hurt you too, dear reader/s.

[thomascastle]

[thomascastle]

My favorite thing about writing in a slice of life fantasy world where all the myths are true and there's no masquerade is that I can casually drop lines like "My house is haunted, so I'm going camping for the weekend," and "The goblins just slipped through a timeslip or a reality gateway and infected the world," and they'll just be, like, exactly the same weight as saying there's a wasp nest in the backyard or that your house is infested with raccoons or squirrels. Yes please, more slice of life urban fantasy that doesn't turn things into epic conflicts (at least not at first) and weird fantasy pests are just, you know, weird fantasy pests.

[thomascastle]

Hello! Is there a way to insert a tag in between already existing tags on a fic I'm editing? I wish ao3 had a feature whereby you could reorder tags as and when you want.

I'm someone who likes to keep the serious, useful tags earlier in the order and add silly thoughts about the fic at the end of the block, so it's such a bummer I can't seem to move around tags as per my preferences :(

Unfortunately, the only way I know of is to remove the tags you want to go later and add them back in after you type in the new ones.

[thomascastle]

hey i know i asked for constructive criticism but what i actually wanted was for you to tell me i'm extremely talented. and also pretty. sorry if that was unclear

[thomascastle]

Hey, gang. I'm not supposed to mention this on AO3, but since I'm doing original fiction and the project extends far beyond AO3's boundaries, it should be fine to mention here — I'm doing a Patreon for Pick-n-Mix Comix now!

It's just on a monthly subscription rate, and there aren't really many tiers or options, but I'm in the process of dedicating my time to producing this content and I'd really like to see this work turn into everything it can be, so I could really use the support. Like, I'm not desperate or whatever, but it'll help me keep my tech and production supplies in order month-to-month at the very least, and you'll be helping to make Pick-n-Mix Comix into something really special.

If you have some funds to spare every once in a while, think about it. Alright, thanks for listening. Check out my AO3 and the Pick-n-Mix Comix series specifically, or message me on Discord at realteacat — and if you want to license any of my characters for your own commercial works, send me a message or shoot me an email at therealthomascastle@protonmail.com, because all of my characters and the original content I write about are available for licensing if you want to work something out and do something of your own with them.

[thomascastle]

You know when you write yourself into a corner and have no idea how to make it out, or what the right way out of it is? You know what the solution is? 😅🤷