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Inktober Day 13: Rise
The exam prep had killed her. Dylan knew he had pushed Christina hard, but as she lay completely still on his living room floor, he was wondering if he had maybe gone too. He rolled himself off the couch and cradled her head in his arms.
“Christinaaaaa,” he wailed, cupping her face. “This is all my fault. I should have never suggested we start the next unit.”
“Tell…my roommates…to wash…the towels” she groaned, before tilting her head to the side and sighing. Dylan let the tears come. He watched as Christina’s spirit left her body, and joined the great big party in the sky.
“We will always remember you, Christina,” he said solemnly. He slowly lowered her back down onto the carpeted floor that definitely hadn’t been vacuumed in months. He closed his eyes in silent morning. Then he stood, stretching and cracking his back.
“Alright, I have risen like a phoenix and I’m ready to keep going,” Christina said as she stood. “Let’s keep going.”
“Nah man, we need to take a break before you croak again. Do you want Doritos?”
All art by @cool_beans_jw on insta. Writing by the weird sister.
#Inktober#inktober day 13#inktober day thirteen#inktober rise#rise#phoneix#exam prep#exams#exam stress#university#halloween#spooky season#spooky szn#drawing practice#drawing prompt#31 day challenge#writing practice#31 days of halloween#writing prompt#traditional drawing#traditional art#traditional sketch#sketchbook#ink drawing#short story#she dead#haven't slept in days#doritos
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Hey everyone, first time actually posting something!?!
Seeing as Halloween is just around the corner, I’ve decided to create my own prompts list for the spooky season and challenge myself to a writing challenge. And of course all the fics will be based around Thiam!
I’ve created a 31-day prompt list however instead of the traditional a story a day I’ve decided to combine some of the prompts to hopefully make 13 Days of Halloween. All works will be posted over on ao3 under my username WolfBoy88.
Also, for anyone feeling inspired or would like to use any of these prompts, please feel free to do so!
Prompts List 2022
1. Pack Party
2. Carnival
3. Thunderstorm
4. Doppelgangers
5. Jack-o-Lanterns (or Pumpkins)
6. Nightmares or Night Terror
7. Candy
8. Horror/Scary Movies
9. Gargoyle
10. Soul Bond
11. Fortune Teller
12. Ghosts & Ghouls
13. Frat House
14. Black Cat
15. Taboo
16. Woodsman
17. Spiked Punch
18. Angels & Devils
19. UFO
20. Creepy Forest
21. Blood
22. Sexy Costume Party
23. Incubus/Succubus
24. Haunted House
25. Vampire
26. Ritual/Summoning
27. Grave
28. Urban Legend
29. Dagger
30. Cabin in the Woods
31. Trick or Treat
Alternate Prompts
1. Cave
2. Pollen
3. Skulls & Bones
4. Spiders
5. Hallucinations
6. Gnome
#halloween#halloween 2022#halloween prompts#Halloween prompts 2022#writing challenge#writing prompts#teen wolf#thiam#theo raeken#liam dunbar#13 days of Halloween
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Hello loves! 💛✨
I really love October with the fall aesthetic and Halloween, so I made my own prompt list instead of participating in another challenge.
I collected my writing for my falltober 2023 on this masterlist, I hope you enjoy it!
day 1: Decorating - Jake
day 2: Apple picking - Natasha
day 3: Pumpkin carving - Bradley
day 4: Candy - Jake
day 5: Corn maze - Bob
day 6: Skeleton - Bradley
day 7: Scary movie - Bob
day 8: Beetlejuice - Jake
day 9: Leaves - Bradley
day 10: Bonfire - Natasha
day 11: Vampire/werewolf - Bob
day 12: Costumes - Jake
day 13: Friday the 13th - Bradley
day 14: S’mores - Bob
day 15: Chestnuts - Natasha
day 16: Hay ride - Jake
day 17: Haunted house - Bradley
day 18: Dancing in the rain - Bob
day 19: Pumpkin spice latte - Natasha
day 20: Scream - Bradley
day 21: Sweater weather - Jake
day 22: Black cat - Natasha
day 23: A quiet place - Bob
day 24: Witchy - Natasha
day 25: Blood - Bob
day 26: Scary stories to tell in the dark - Jake
day 27: Trick-or-treating - Bradley
day 28: Halloween party - Natasha
day 29: Handing out candy Bob
day 30: Cujo - Jake
day 31: Halloween - Bradley
Thank you so so much @famfan-1034 for your continuous proofreading for this challenge, it means so much to me!
#falltober#top gun#top gun maverick#top gun masterlist#top gun maverick masterlist#jake hangman seresin#jake hangman seresin x reader#robert bob floyd#robert bob floyd x reader#natasha phoenix trace#natasha phoenix trace x reader#bradley rooster bradshaw#bradley rooster bradshaw x reader#october
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Platonic DCA (Sun & Moon & Eclipse) Prompt List for November!
Hiya lovelies! Decided to do a fun a fun lil prompt list challenge for all my fellow aspecs out there for November, and so with the help of some friends and moots we compiled a list of platonic prompts for our beloved DCA jesters!
Rules:
- Can be Art or Writing either goes!
- Feel free to go as wild/imaginative as you wish with the prompts!
- The prompts can be for Sun and Moon by themselves or with y/n’s or oc’s! Whatever you prefer!
- No NSFW please! (wanna keep to the platonic theme here hehe)
- You don’t have to complete the entire list! You can even do the prompts on different days whatever works for you!
- Use the tag #Ace Jesters for any prompts posted (or just tag me fhdgj i don’t mind) i’d love to see what you guys may come up with :D
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Onto the Prompts:
1. Morning after Halloween
2. Autumn
3. Hug
4. Broken
5. Parental/Caretaker
6. Space
7. Dragons
8. Kiss
9. Haunted
10. Fantasy
11. Catboys
12. Angst
13. Arts and Crafts
14. Cuddle
15. Prank
16. Dress Up
17. Swim
18. Gym Jesters
19. Bug Hunting
20. Gaming
21. Domestic
22. Googly Eyes
23. Sick Day
24. Dinner
25. Story Time
26. Sleep
27. Arson
28. Trust
29. Confession
30. Family
That’s the list! Have fun everyone! :D
#fnaf#fnaf security breach#five nights at freddy's#five nights at freddy's security breach#fnaf daycare attendant#fnaf sun#fnaf sundrop#fnaf eclipse#fnaf moon#fnaf moondrop#Ace Jesters#november prompts#prompt list#this is my first time doing a prompt list fhdjg#sorry if the prompts are a lil whack lol#but i hope anyone who decides to partake has fun with it :D
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More info under the read more, since it gets a bit long!
Unwatermarked so you can crosspost to any site you wish, however, please give proper credit if you do repost.
Since I haven't seen any Stickmintober prompts (or if there are any I'm stupid and haven't really looked for them), so I decided to create a prompt list for myself (mostly because a while back I told someone I'd consider hosting this).
Anyway, as a small bonus, since I know it's difficult writing a small story for 31 whole days in a row (writing like that should be saved for NaNoWriMo), I thought I'd throw in a bonus writing prompt list as well! Feel free to get creative with the prompts or if you want, use the prompts from the top list.
I will be tracking the tag #stickmintober2023 for those who participate but you can also @ me if you want to see your pieces as well. I understand this is a bit short notice, I am angry w/ myself as well for taking this long to announce something like this (HELL there's prob a better prompt list on Twitter that peeps are prob preparing for that I'm not aware of) but either way, I hope you guys enjoy this little prompt list nonetheless.
That being said, this isn't a competition! Don't burn yourself out trying to chug out equivalents of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper everyday, just try to keep it simple, esp if it's your first time! And as always, have fun with it too!
Thanks in advance for participating!
Prompts for Screenreaders:
First Image: Stickmintober 2023 Prompt List!
Day 1: Breaking the Bank
Day 2: Henry Stickmin
Day 3: Police Force
Day 4: Escaping the Prison
Day 5: Rupert Price
Day 6: Dave Panpa
Day 7: Stealing the Diamond
Day 8: CCC
Day 9: West Mesa
Day 10: Charles Calvin
Day 11: Infiltrating the Airship
Day 12: Reginald Copperbottom/RHM
Day 13: General Galeforce
Day 14: Favorite Past Toppat Leader
Day 15: Toppat or Government?
Day 16: Ellie Rose
Day 17: Fleeing the Complex
Day 18: Dmitri Petrov/Grigori Olyat
Day 19: Dance
Day 20: Glitch
Day 21: Sven Svennson
Day 22: Completing the Mission
Day 23: Favorite Ending
Day 24: Underrated Ending
Day 25: AU (favorite or your own)
Day 26: OC (favorite or your own)
Day 27: Silly
Day 28: Angst
Day 29: Favorite BG character
Day 30: Costume
Day 31: Halloween
2nd Image: Stickmintober 2023 Writing Edition!
Week 1 (Oct 1st-7th)
Write about Henry Stickmin. Whether it's a headcanon interpretation of his past or about his life before or after certain events in canon.
Week 2 (Oct 8th-Oct 14th)
Write about Toppat life. Either from the point of view of a character, minor or main or before or after certain events in canon.
Week 3 (Oct 15th-21st)
Write about your interpretation of the events after an ending from Completing the Mission. Whether it's an ending you don't think about much or your favorite
Week 4 (Oct 22nd-28th)
Write about the hypothetical past of a Toppat Leader of your choice. Special challenge: No Terrence or Reginald ;)
Week 5 (Oct 29th-Nov 4th)
Two this time! Write a Halloween-y themed story or just a write something involving your favorite ship, rarepair or otherwise.
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20 questions for fic writers
thank you for tagging me @gregorovitchworld! 💚
1. how many works do you have on ao3?
13 🙃
2. what's your current ao3 word count?
73.611 (not that bad i guess but i wish it was more)
3. what fandoms do you write for?
only bbc sherlock for now but i am thinking of writing for good omens too :)
4. top five fics by kudos?
-> Rosie's Elephant in the Room
-> Human Urges
-> JOHNLOCKed in a Closet
-> Let Me Fix You
-> Halloween
5. do you respond to comments? why or why not?
yes! i respond to every single one (unless it is only an emoji... but even then i do it most of the time)
why? because i fucking LOVE connecting with my readers! and i wanna make them keep commenting on fics. because comments are so fucking important!!! they are what keep us writers going!
6. what's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
aaah probably Missing (but that will be happy again!)
so in the end it is THE LONELIEST
7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
JOHNLOCKed in a Closet, i'd say
8. do you receive hate?
thank goodness i don't!
9. do you write smut?
nope. i write some subtle sex scenes, but never long ones or intensely described. i just don't feel comfortable with it.
10. do you write crossovers?
nope. seems too complicated to me 😂 i don't really read them either so ig i don't have the urge to write them. ooh, wait i wrote a short freebatch/star wars/johnlock kind of crossover once. prompt: "geeking out over something" (day 14 of my otp challenge! that i might have ignored for about a year now... whoopsie)
11. have you ever had a fic stolen?
3 times that i know of. novelhd dot com is a bitch. they stole JOHNLOCKed in a Closet (JLiaC), Strawberries and Cigarettes (S&C), and my oneshots on wattpad. it is fucking heartbreaking and really made me lose some trust in humanity as well as my motivation to write for a long time... DO NOT STEAL FICS!
12. have you ever had a fic translated?
no, because i don't feel comfortable with it. probably because of the shit that happened to me described above.
13. have you ever co-written a fic before?
nope, but i would be up for the challenge:)
14. what is your all-time favorite ship?
the answer is obviously johnlock lol.
15. a wip you doubt you will ever finish?
all my wips. no idk. i've got lot of wips and i will never completely give up on them. maybe just forget them, haha.
16. writing strengths?
writing about feelings, dialogue, inner monologues, two-person interactions
17. writing weaknesses?
well, smut lol. writing long intense plots (i am a fluff writer xD) - but i hope to get better at it. i have big hopes for Missing.
18. will you write a dialogue in another language?
never say never! but only after i have checked up with someone who speaks/knows said language well!
19. what was your first fandom?
*sigh* bbc sherlock, my babes. ;)
20. what's your favorite fic you have ever written?
first thought of day 9: hugging of my otp challenge. it's an alternative ending to TLD. it's a bunch of big emotions, big words and and big moments. - ghost mary actually is one of the big reasons they finally get together!!!
tagging (if you have already been tagged, feel free to ignore this and/or tag me in the post you already answered those questions): @totallysilvergirl @lisbeth-kk @gaylilsherlock and man who else??? anyone! anyone who wants to join the fun!
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˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗Countdown To Valentine's Day Challenge˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗
Below you will find 14 headcanon questions/prompts for the Valentine's season, one for each day leading up to it. For multimuse blogs, feel free to pick a different muse every day or just do one muse for the whole month! If you enjoy the challenge, make sure to tag some friends or reblog this post to spread it! I hope everyone has a safe, warm winter! This was inspired by @mimis-memes' Halloween Countdown Challenge!
1. Does your character like or dislike Valentine's Day? Would it be love or hate instead? Why?
2. What does your muse associate with Valentine's Day?
3. Does your muse believe in love? Why or why not?
4. Has your muse ever had their heart broken? Tell us about it!
5. Surprise a writing partner with a starter in which your muse gives their muse a Valentine's Day gift!
6. What is a color palette your muse associates with Valentine's Day?
7. Does your muse prefer getting purchased gifts or homemade ones?
8. Is your muse material or more into romance?
9. Would your muse be interested in marriage?
10. Write an open starter about your muse at a speed dating event!
11. Make a short 3-4 song playlist for your muse on Valentine's Day!
12. What is your muse's favorite kind of candy?
13. Describe your muse's ideal wedding invitations!
14. Create a love-themed moodboard for your muse! This can be Lovecore or anything else that will fit with how your muse interprets, deals with, and expresses love!
#roleplay memes#rp memes#writing prompts#headcanon meme#headcanon memes#headcanon ask#headcanon asks#character study
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SO! These are for next year but, introducing
SpiderTober! 2024 Writing Prompts By tic-toc-clock77
A creative project for the entire month of October! Anyone and everyone is allowed to join with their writing, art or anything that they want to if they so wish!
Day 1- Jeff, "Blood."
Day 2- Jane, "Scars."
Day 3- Liu, "Memories."
Day 4- Nina, "Change."
Day 5- BEN, "Games."
Day 6- Sally, "Toys."
Day 7- Bloody Painter, "Quiet."
Day 8- Eyeless Jack, "Eat."
Day 9- Laughing Jack, "Fun."
Day 10- Ticci Toby, "Atonement."
Day 11- Slenderman, "Alone."
Day 12- Kate The Chaser, "Forest."
Day 13- Masky, "Tired."
Day 14- Hoodie, "Awake."
Day 15- Laughing Jill, "Alive."
Day 16- Judge Angels, "Loud."
Day 17- Nurse Ann, "Loneliness."
Day 18- Clockwork, "Regrets."
Day 19- Smile Dog, "Frown."
Day 20- Jeff and Liu, "Bias."
Day 21-Clockwork and Sally, "Resemblance"
Day 22- Hoodie, Masky and Toby "Challenge."
Day 23- Nina and Jane, "Differences."
Day 24- BEN and Kate "Outside."
Day 25- Sally and BEN, "Ghosts."
Day 26- Smile Dog and Jeff, "Friends."
Day 27- Clockwork and Toby, "Smile."
Day 28- Slenderman and Eyeless Jack, "Faceless."
Day 29- Kate and Masky, "Unlikely."
Day 30- Nurse Ann and Sally, "Help."
Day 31- All, "Halloween."
#creepypasta#spidertober2024#🕷️tober#🕷️tober2024#jeff the killer#clockwork#clockwork creepypasta#natalie ouellette#ticci toby#toby rogers#tobias rogers#ben drowned#bloody painter#helen otis#judge angels#liu woods#jeff woods#ej creepypasta#eyeless jack#sally creepypasta#kate the chaser#masky#hoodie#nina the killer#jane the killer#smile dog#slenderman
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Flashback: Klainetober 2022 fics
Since we are back in October (and I'm feeling all sorts of nostalgic), I just wanted to reblog and share the old Klainetober 2022 fics that myself and my friend @madas-ahatters-world did last year.
We put them all together in a series called Halloween Harvest - Klainetober 2022. There were 31 prompts - and we do plan to get back to them, but here are the ones we did finish.
It was fun writing these. It was challenging to try to take a stab at horror writing, which isn't usually my thing. These fics were created last year when I first started writing fan fic - so its nice to look back on some old work and see how my style has developed in over a year.
If you haven't read any of these - enjoy!
The cover art for each story and individual story summaries are listed below the picture. (13 stories so far!)
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Day 1 Prompt - Poisoned
Nightshade by bitbybit (puttingittogether)
Summary:
An unexpected route through the Dark Forest brings a young bard face-to-face with magic, mystery, and unforeseen consequences.
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Day 2 Prompt - Cage
Vervain by bitbybit (puttingittogether)
Summary:
Torn between a life of solitude and imprisonment in the cursed forest and the freedom beckoning just outside its glades, a young man is finally forced to decide which path he chooses to take.
But will his choice only bring him more death and heartache?
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Day 3 Prompt - Insects
You're Buggin' Me by MadAs_AHatter
Summary:
On their way home from the pumpkin patch, Blaine takes a short cut that leads them to a sketchy motel in the middle of nowhere. In their attempt to make the best of things, they come across some unexpected visitors.
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Day 4 Prompt - Buried
Graveyard Shift by MadAs_AHatter
Summary:
Blaine isn's sure what Kurt was thinking when he agreed to help out at their local cemetery.
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Day 5 Prompt - Trees
Feeding Time For Woodland Creatures by bitbybit (puttingittogether)
Summary:
The world has turned upside down, and Kurt is in search of the one person who will help him make sense of it all.
But while searching for Blaine in the forest, he learned that timing is everything when hungry creatures need to feed.
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Day 6 prompt - Photograph
Until The Darkness Fades Away by MadAs_AHatter
Summary:
After traveling back to Ohio to participate in the dedication of the new Dalton marquee, Kurt wakes up to an empty home, no Burt, Carole, or Blaine in sight. When he starts receiving strange text messages during a freak thunderstorm, he quickly realizes that things may not be what they seem.
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Day 7 prompt- Trespassing
No Trespassing by MadAs_AHatter
Summary:
Part 2 of Until the Darkness Fades Away
After learning that things are, in fact, not quite what they seem, Kurt works relentlessly to find his way back to Blaine.
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Day 8 prompt - Basement
Come Into My Parlor by bitbybit (puttingittogether)
Summary:
After an evening of clubbing, two men have a night neither will ever forget.
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Day 9 prompt - Eyes
Lavender by bitbybit (puttingittogether)
Summary:
With Death looming all around them, two young men must learn to see what is right before their very eyes and listen to what lies within their own hearts.
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Day 10 prompt - Growl
What Lurks in the Dark by MadAs_AHatter
Summary:
After a night out with his work buddies, Blaine wakes up Halloween morning to some unexpected disturbances.
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Day 11 Prompt - Obsession
My Hands Are At Your Throat (I Think I Hate You) by MadAs_AHatter
Summary:
After finding out they need to fundraise for their trip to New York, the New Directions decide to hold a booth at the McKinley Annual Halloween Carnival. When an anonymous donor offers a hefty donation to the Glee Club, Kurt finds himself coming face-to-face with the last person he expected.
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Day 12 Prompt - Passenger
All Aboard by bitbybit (puttingittogether)
Summary:
A trip from Paris to Prague on the Orient Express sets the scene for a meeting between a traveler and a mysterious passenger that catches his eye.
Could romance bloom between them?
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NOTE: Day 13 prompt - (still to be written)
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Day 14 prompt - Omen
The Child by bitbybit (puttingittogether)
Summary:
While out and about running errands, Kurt keeps running into a strange child everywhere he goes. He suspects something odd is at play, but Blaine thinks he's just being a bit paranoid.
#klaine fanfiction#klaine fanfic#klaine fic#klainetober#klainetober 2022#bitbybitwrites#klaine#kurt hummel#blaine anderson#madas_ahatter#fanart#fanfiction#glee fanfiction
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Looking for some writing prompts? If so, you’ve come to the right place! So this past christmas, I joined in with doing a christmas prompt writing challenge and had an absolute blast doing it so decided I’d come up with some Halloween themed ones! Figured I’d share them here just in case anyone else was looking for some inspiration for the upcoming holiday :) Listed below are the prompt and trope for each. I came up with 13 of both a prompt and trope and then threw them into a generator to randomly combine them. Of course, no one has to strictly abide by this and can also mix up the prompts & tropes however they see fit. I’ll probably also keep mine more Jeremike related but again, all these are open for whatever you want to write about. I would love to read any works inspired by this list so feel free to either tag them using #13ghostlyprompts if you post them here, or feel free to just get my attention by any other way you see fit. I personally plan to post each as a chapter of one large fic on ao3 starting 13 days out from Halloween with the last chapter being posted on the 31st.
1. Haunted House // Friends to Lovers
2. Horror Movies // forced proximity / trapped together
3. Trick or Treat // found family
4. Graveyard // mutual pining
5. Pumpkin Carving // first kiss
6. Matching Costumes // reunion
7. Full moon // time loop / time travel
8. Urban Legends // established relationships
9. Halloween Party // first meeting
10. Believer or Skeptic / ghosts // miscommunication
11. 3 am/ witching hour // fantasy
12. Fangs // confessions
13. Decorating // roommates
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A Haunting In Jackson
A Haunting In Jackson - A "Visitation Rights" Short Fic (Absolutely can be read as a standalone fic)
Summary: A campfire story told by Tommy Miller leaves you spooked
Pairing: Joel Miller x F!Reader; Miller family dynamics (includes Ellie)
Rating: 13+
Warnings: Just an eerie setting, reader being nervous, fluff and Miller family dynamics. Some swearing. A spooky ghost story told around a fire pit on Halloween night.
Word Count: 3,200 (ish)
Author's Note: For the Halloween writing challenge made by @pedrocontestsrus ; set after Visitation Rights and Morning Routine, but definitely can be read on its own if you're not interested in reading the other two. That's why I'm submitting it for the contest. It's a standalone in this fic verse. Happens 7 months after Morning Routine (for anyone who cares about the timeline).
Prompt #2 Theme: A Dark and Stormy Night ⚡️
Must include: A lit candle, bare feet, a creaking sound
I keep visiting this Jackson verse, but I don't mind! Funny how Visitation Rights was basically just a spur of the moment fic.
xxx
Jackson, 2025
You hadn't watched a horror movie in over twenty years, but you remembered one that had an eerily similar scene setting to this. Thunder rumbling in the distance, lightning flashing, rain pelting against the roof, wind howling, blocking most sound out and causing the branches of the old ash tree behind the house to smack violently against a window in the spare bedroom that your boyfriend, Joel Miller, used as an office and workstation for his smaller projects.
You were padding cautiously down the short hallway to the stairs in the dark of night barefoot, you know, like any sane person who'd been startled awake by a loud thump, armed with nothing but a burning candle stick in your left hand. (The electricity had gone out right before you’d gone to bed that night and the stick was closer to you than a flashlight.)
Paranoid you was mentally bashing yourself for not waking Joel, letting him stay curled up in your shared bed, completely unaware that something might be going on. Joel might be half deaf, but he was a strong and capable fighter even at 58, and you could've used back up in the form of his broad frame, just in case.
Logical you however, had managed to convince yourself that whatever you'd heard couldn't be anything you couldn't handle on your own. You'd survived more than twenty years by yourself in a fungal apocalypse with nothing but dogs for company. Besides, it had to be nothing. A raccoon, if anything. Or a squirrel that managed to chew its way into the house. It couldn't be an intruder. This was Jackson after all. A small town filled with a community of proven trustworthy people and guarded by a fence and patrol twenty-four-seven. It was for that same reason that it couldn't be one of the infected. They never could get even close to the fence line, the Jackson patrol, which you and Joel were a part of, made sure of that.
And it definitely wasn't a ghost. It sounded stupid in your head even as you were denying it. Billions of people had died since outbreak day, most on that very night or during the following few weeks, and you'd never run into anything that suggested ghosts existed. If you couldn't find evidence for them after such a tragic and violent event, you figured there was nothing to find.
That somehow didn't stop you from being on edge anyway.
Damn you, Tommy, you cursed silently. Damn you for getting it into my head.
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You'd always hated horror stories, ever since you'd been a little girl around a campfire, your friends swapping scary stories as tradition insisted. Your friends had fun with it, but you didn't, spending half the night lying awake in your sleeping bag, listening for any strange sounds, even though you were always camping out in the relative safety of each other's backyards.
You'd braved a few horror films here and there in your twenties, but only for dates with guys you were really interested in, and you always lived to regret it, spending hours on edge, looking over your shoulder just cause you felt like someone was watching you.
When your life had become a literal horror story, the infected one of the greatest nightmares ever seen in fiction and reality alike, you'd hardly slept for days. Most people probably hadn't, as they feared the infected attacking and tried to comprehend their massive losses, but you had especially not been equipped to cope with the fungal spread. It probably hadn't helped that you'd taken off alone, with only your black Labrador Raven to comfort you at night. But she'd been a lot better than nothing. A second set of ears that allowed you to sleep enough to remain sane.
So you were the least likely person to understand why Tommy was insisting on telling a scary story as if you were all back in middle school.
It was Halloween night, and while it wasn't an official holiday Jackson still celebrated (for obvious reasons), Tommy and Maria had still invited you, Joel, and Ellie over for a chicken dinner and a marathon movie watch of The Addams Family DVDs he'd found in a store the month before while out on a supply run. Popcorn was even included.
It was later followed by supper over the fire pit in their backyard, which consisted of beef sausage made from one of the cows recently slaughtered in town. Joel had showed Ellie how to cook one over a flame on a stick pulled from Tommy's tree line and sharpened by the pocket knife you'd gifted him last Christmas.
It was after everyone had finished eating that Tommy brought it up.
Joel had groaned. "Don't we live enough horror?"
"This one's a good one," Tommy insisted. "You'll love it, Ellie. It's based on a true story."
She was the only one who looked remotely curious. You supposed that was enough since Tommy was settling into his seat and clearly mulling over how to tell the story. Maria seated herself right alongside him, willing to humor her husband.
Joel was distracted, and likely would remain so. He was seated cross legged in the grass next to his one and a half year old nephew, receiving handmade wooden blocks over and over as the toddler willingly passed them to him. Joel had accepted each one with a grateful smile that mesmerized you a little. The kid was too young to know, but Joel had made them himself not long after he'd returned to Jackson with Ellie, months before you showed up. But you knew. You knew how much his nephew meant to him, and how much he valued his time around him. You were so focused on their endearing interaction you almost didn't catch on that Tommy had begun telling the story. (You'd later wish you hadn't caught any of it at all.)
"This story happened here in Jackson," he started. "The Green family, husband, wife, their teen twin daughters moved here in 1925, lookin' to start up a ranch like most who moved out here back then." He took a beat. "Now, Jackson was a small town then, might've been even smaller than it is now, but it wasn't that safe. Most of the west had been tamed but there were still a few outlaws, and no matter how tame a place gets, there's always someone stirring up trouble of one kind or another." He paused, "Mr. Green was one of those men. Wanting so desperately to afford his own land, he took to gambling, and cheating when he knew he was about to lose. Ripped off a lot of people, and in turn pissed a lot off too. In revenge, someone lit up his little clock shop on main street with him inside. They didn't know his wife was there with him at the time."
"But their daughters weren't?" Ellie prompted, invested in the story already, hands on her knees.
Tommy shook his head. "Thankfully, no. They were at a friend's house."
"So, what happened after?"
Tommy sighed. "The sheriff found the burned bodies of the husband and wife in the morning, unrecognizable, but the twins recognized the jewelry they were wearing, and everyone knew he'd been there that night. The fire was immediately deemed suspicious, but the murderer was never found."
"Of course not," you couldn't help but huff out. You'd heard a lot of similar "true" stories like this.
Tommy ignored you. "The orphaned twins found their father's secret stash of money and were able to rebuild the shop, turning it into a sewing store. A place where they handmade clothes to sell to people and sold supplies to make clothes, depending on the customer's preference. They turned the second floor into an apartment, living in the same space together. It made their lives easier to be able to walk downstairs and immediately get to work."
"There was one hiccup though," he stated dramatically, "The twins kept hearing noises at night. It started out as random thumps and creaks they could easily explain away as the place settling or their cat knocking something over, but eventually turned into sounds like footsteps and dragging furniture. It freaked them out, especially since whenever they got up to check, the living room chair would usually be out of place. They couldn't believe it. Something was moving it, but they didn't know what. Didn't want to know."
"What happened to them?" Ellie encouraged him, frowning.
"About a decade after their parents died, their shop burned down mysteriously," Tommy told her, poking a stick at the burning logs in the pit, moving them around so the flames could get more oxygen. "Luckily, they weren't inside, but because there was no evidence to otherwise, it was deemed as an accident this time. The twins weren't convinced. They thought their parents' killer was out to get them. They thought their parents had been with them in their apartment and were trying to scare them out, like they knew it would happen again. Of course, they couldn't prove it. That didn't stop them from moving out of town, settling somewhere else. The locals heard that they lived out long, mostly happy lives after, but they were, to say the least, haunted by what happened until their last breaths. They never did get justice for their parents. Their killer was never found."
Everyone here that isn't under two years old could relate to that, you thought. Being haunted by loss and injustice.
"While that was the end of the story for the Green family," Tommy continued, "It was not the end for the town. The spot the shop was built on was used for other things. More shops, eventually a house when main street was moved over to where it is today. No more burned down, but the roof on one shop collapsed because of heavy snowfall one year. Of course, that's not the spooky part. It's that the buildings on that piece of land were always haunted. The owners always heard strange things a night, always found furniture moved from where they'd been left."
"Where is the piece of land?" Ellie inquired curiously, if not a bit nervously.
"You don't actually believe him, do ya?" Joel teased, glancing over at her.
"Of course not," she denied. "I just want the full story."
He grinned like someone who'd found a secret to weaponize against a friend. You were smiling too. Who knew Ellie was superstitious?
"No one knows where the piece of land is," Tommy declared. "It could be one of our houses for all we know. I don't think it's mine, but then I sleep through a lot."
"Tell me about it," Maria huffed.
You chuckled at her comment but couldn't help but shiver a little. It wasn't like you thought Tommy's "true" story had actually been real, but rather that the spirit of the story (pun not intended) had settled over you, so similar to the feeling you used to get after finishing up a horror movie. It may have been fake, but your body reacted like it wasn't, getting keyed up over the creepiness of strange noises happening in a house that should be quiet.
Joel, ever so vigilant, noted your shiver, but assumed it was from the cool wind picking up. It was probably close to ten at night.
"Well, we outta get home, huh?" he suggested, looking up at the sky. "The clouds are gathering. Might have a storm tonight."
"I'm certain of it," Maria told you both. "Can smell it in the air."
You never quite understood how people could do that, and wondered if your sense of smell was just bad.
You pushed yourself up off the log you were sitting on as Joel scooped up his nephew and handed him off to Maria. "See you tomorrow," he said to both her and his brother. They both nodded.
"Thanks for the story, Tommy," Ellie said, hopping onto her feet. "Even if it's totally fake."
"If you say so," he hummed, smiling. He almost convinced you that he believed the story and that it wasn't entirely made up. Almost.
Ellie was about to walk away when Joel stopped her with a hand. "Where are you going?"
"Some friends of mine are hanging out with Dina at her house," she informed him. "I said I'd stop in."
Joel gave her a disapproving look. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I won't be long," Ellie replied, giving him a pleading look. "You know them."
It was mostly true. You and Joel had seen her with her friends before and had met Dina herself, but you both weren't naive enough to think that wasn't just the tip of the iceberg of knowing them. Teens hid their truths well.
Still, against his better judgement Joel gave her the benefit of the doubt. "Be at the house by midnight the latest."
Ellie jumped in spot. "Okay, I will. Thanks!"
Joel shook his head as she jogged off. "Am I going to regret that?" he asked you.
"Probably," you said honestly.
You both turned to Tommy and Maria one last time to say goodbye and kissed their son on the cheek before strolling back to your house across the street.
The wind started to really blow and thunder boomed in the distance. An autumn storm was definitely on the way.
x
A wooden floorboard creaked behind you and you spun around, heart pounding in your chest. You relaxed instantly when you saw that the noise had come from Joel stepping on one of the house's loose floorboards (that he had been, in fact, planning to fix that weekend). In the dark you couldn't really see the details of his face, but there was enough light to see the outline of his sleep mussed hair and angular nose. You could also see that he'd slipped on the matching shirt to the gray sweatpants he sometimes wore to bed on chilly nights before following you.
"What are you doin’ up?" he murmured sleepily, voice as gruff as ever.
"I heard something," you whispered back. "Probably nothin’, but..."
Joel nodded, understanding. If there was anyone who could outmatch your anxious state of being at any point in time, it would be him. He already had the handgun he kept hidden in his nightstand in his right hand.
Of course he'd taken your concern seriously. Even though he'd been in Jackson for nearly two years, he still fell into old habits easily. He'd probably never quite believe that the town was one hundred percent safe. It was why he'd joined patrol.
He didn't know why you were worried, but you being worried was enough, and you decided not to tell him that the single thump wasn't really what had compelled you to get up.
The storm was dying down, and when another thump sounded, followed by a soft whine, your current dog, a senior black Lab named Penny, limped out of her bed, stopping by your side loyally and growling, neck hair standing on end. Though your heart was banging in your chest and your mind was once again wondering what the hell was in the house, there was still a part of you that managed to wonder how Penny had heard the sound at all. She'd been progressively losing her hearing during the past year, and her deafness was in both ears, unlike Joel's.
You and Joel glanced at each other anxiously and quietly made your way down the stairs, Joel automatically taking the lead, and you gratefully following. Penny smartly lingered at the top of the steps, watching you go.
Once you'd both made it to the kitchen, Joel tried flicking on the lights, and you were grateful when they worked, surprised that the men who dealt with the power supply had gotten it back up and running so soon.
Ellie, however, was certainly not pleased by that revelation. She blinked at you and Joel, squinting in reaction to the sudden bright light, and groaned. "Fuck."
She was seated in one of the kitchen chairs, bending slightly over to rub the big toe of her right foot, clearly having stubbed it on something when she'd stepped into the room. Her tied back shoulder length brown hair was soaking wet and she was still wearing the dark green raincoat Maria had gifted her on her sixteenth birthday.
She pulled her hand away from her toe to pinch the bridge of her nose, eyes avoiding both yours and Joel's. "How much trouble am I in?"
"Ellie, do you realize what time it is?" Joel lectured, immediately switching into dad mode. You liked to think it was trademarked to him. "It's four AM. You promised you'd be home by midnight."
"I know," she moaned. "But I fell asleep, and no one bothered to wake me up. Dina didn't know I wasn't supposed to stay over."
"Why didn't you tell her?" Joel quizzed as he approached her. He sniffed the air. "And why do you smell like you poured alcohol over your head?" He stared at her disapprovingly.
Ellie grimaced. "I may have drank a little." She knew better than to deny it at least.
"Go get washed up and get to bed," Joel ordered sternly, eyes narrowing. "And don't think about spending time there next weekend. We'll talk more in the morning."
Ellie chewed her lip, but didn't argue, standing and bowing her head in defeat as she raced past you both to do as told.
Joel shook his head as he watched her go and scrubbed a hand over his face. You blew out the candle you were still holding and placed it on the kitchen table before reaching out to slip your newly freed hand into his. "Teenagers."
Joel grunted. "She listened better out on the road."
"Out on the road she was in survival mode," you reminded him gently. "Here she feels safe enough to make mistakes. To get into trouble."
"Are you trying to imply it's a good thing she stayed out all night and drank?" he huffed. "Did God knows what else?"
"No," you said simply. "I don't like it either. But at least it's normal."
And it was far better finding Ellie in the kitchen, even if she was a little tipsy, than some ghost.
You snorted at your train of thought.
"What're you thinkin' of?" Joel asked, having noticed.
You shook your head. "Nothin’. Let's get back to bed."
He agreed to it reluctantly, still stewing over what Ellie had done, and after you shut the light, you led the way back upstairs, past Penny, who'd climbed back into her dog bed in the hallway.
He got back into bed first, and you followed, wrapping an arm around his middle, burying your face against the back of his shoulder, and he accepted your embrace without protest.
You slept soundly for the rest of the night, what little there was left, despite Ellie having come home late.
There were worst things in life than a teenager coming home drunk.
At least you weren't living out a horror movie called A Haunting In Jackson.
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Welcome to the challenge prompt AU
Hello friends, and welcome back to Gay✨ has brainrot for her own fanfic. This post is a welcome to the AU guide where I explain what we’re looking at.
Before I say anything else, a PSA. Fuck JKR. LGBT rights are human rights. How did she write the most queer coded characters and then be like “sorry, only Fumbledore is gay. Love him!” Lol nah.
This au is based loosely off the criteria in this post, where the lovely anonymousqualities called into the Tumblr void for someone to take on their idea. I’ve heard their call, they looked over my outline, and I am posting part one today! Woo! The OG prompt was meant to be plotless, kinda crack fic ish, but I don’t know how to quit when I’m ahead so there will be a good deal of lore-building/lore-fixing from the source material.
Enjoy! ✨
Timeline: Halloween 1981 - Harry’s 8th year
Title ideas (taking suggestions):
The Age of Silver and Gold Alliances (currently the one I like most)
Snake in the lion den, lion in the snake pit
Mirror images, distorted reflections
Ships:
Jegulus, Wolfstar, NobleFlower, RoseKiller, PandaLily, platonic MoonWater, Drarry (in the future), and more!
Things it will be featuring:
Regulus raising Harry
Harry and Draco becoming friends as young children
Regulus being a spy for James - but not the Order, never the Order. Him building a resistance of former death eaters with Narcissa Malfoy’s help.
Harry being a prodigy - and a scary one at that
Lily and James are alive (surprise! Regulus put them in a coma and adopted their son!)
BAMF Minerva McGonagall and BAMF Narcissa Malfoy
Snape gets an actual reception arc instead of dying a trash lord (hello, Uncle Severus)
And so much more!!!
A link to the series ❤️
1-There Is No One Else
Regulus saves Lily, James, and Harry. Minerva saves him. Custody changes, Remus goes ape shit on Dumbledore, and the smallest moments of context.
2-Family Home
Regulus raising Harry from ages 1-4 (ft Grandma Minerva), meeting Miss Cissy and Draco
So many cute moments in this one.
3-We Who Remain When The Price Was Paid
Harry Potter becomes the Master of Death on his 5th birthday. It's like playing where's Waldo, but instead, it's where are Harry's uncles???
Narcissa starts the resistance of exclusively wives of Death Eaters (blood magic pta moms)
Uncle Moony, Uncle Padfoot, Uncle Barty, Uncle Sev
4-Ragtag Little Family
Regulus just wants to hold a family meeting. But you can't hold a family meeting unless you can get the whole family in the same place.
A prison break, wolfstar reunion, wolfsbane potion trials, blood magic pta moms get a name, another prison break, a unicorn, a rat, and a birthday.
(happy adoption day, Uncle Moony)
5-Moony, Bobcat, Padfoot and Prongs are proud to introduce Harry James Potter-Black
6-Mirror Images, Distorted Reflections
Harry's last year before Hogwarts. Lily and James are awake, we get the family meeting Regulus has been wanting, and everyone tries to figure out how to function again.
7-Forbidden knowledge and misunderstood monsters
Year One (in progress)
8-Turns (in the tides of war)
9-The choice no one gets to make
10-The ones who lived
11-I love (the ghost of) you
12-Roads unseen guide us home
13-Always and forever with you
Fan Art (yall, you have no idea how exciting it was to even just typer that omg)
From our beloved prompt giver, @anonymousqualities from little Luna in 4-Ragtag Little Family ❣️
#glta#glta writes on ao3#glta writes fanfic#glta writes#glta has brainrot#challenge prompt au#regulus raising harry#Moonwater raising Harry#platonic Moonwater#marauders era#marauders fanfic#Jegulus#supportive + platonic Jily after the birth of Harry#Harry calls Regulus Papa#I will give no spoilers of the Hogwarts years yet my plan is too good#wolfstar#nobleflower#Drarry
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Ghost Mutuals Tag Game 🦇 Send this to the last ten Ghesties in your notifications, then reply here with ten facts about yourself! Let's get to know each other!
Thank you for the tag @nihil-gaiman (Ps: I've meaning to tell you how much I fucking love your screen name!) 👀
Tagging: @papasmicstand @pinksweetsxtan @sodoswitchimage @ghostlylivres @fishwithtitz @copias-sewer-rat @silverofthunder @love-is-all-you-need-13 @switchplate-2 @her-satanic-wiles @sisterprocrastinator
Apologies if youve already been tagged
1. I have a weird thing about cryptids and monsters, bloody love them - give me a kaiju movie, a fuzzy blanket and some chocolate and I'm anyones.
2. My favourite horror movie is Halloween (1978) - I went to see the original at the cinema last year and it was so amazing to hear the John Carpenter opening theme on the big screen! 🎃
3. My favourite season is autumn 🍂 Samhian being my favourite festival and time of year - I love nothing more then a cozy blanket, big thick jumpers and big boots.
3. I love anything to do with the Occult, books, music and histories, it all really interests me.
4. I am a non-theistic Satanist - it's a big part of my life and has been for a few years now and my faith means a lot to me. I am consistently challenging myself, learning and improving. Satanism saved me in many ways.
3. I have fibromyalgia, bipolar disorder, social anxiety disorder and ADHD with suspected autism - which unfortunately leave me housebound, a lot of the time. My interests are my life really. 🖤
4. I live in the north of the UK - very near to Manchester.
5. Nothing makes me happier than being sat in my room in the dark with my candles, incense and vinyl player going. This is my selfcare.
6. I was a music photographer for 11 years and the biggest band I photographed was Metallica. I also got to shoot my favourite band Ghost on their first ever headline festival appearance in the UK. I was the proudest ever Ghestie that day.
7. Ghost has been in my life for 11 years and I could never see that changing. I love them dearly and they complete me.
8. My favourite papa’s (can't pick one) - Secondo and Copia. I also love Terzo too, because he was the first papa I got to photograph. My favourite ghouls are Sodo and Swiss, they do weird things to me. 🙈
9. I have a huge secondo tattoo and also covered in loads of other tattoos and piercings. I'm your typical doom metal cryptid really 😂
10. I am very sex-positive 🥵😈 and love to write fan fiction for others to live out there best sex-positive lives. Smut smut smut! 🖤
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🎃 War Is Helloween 🎃
fandom: SAS: Rogue Heroes
word count: anywhere between 100 and 1200
pairings: Gen, Johnny Cooper/Reg Seekings, David Stirling/Doctor Gamal, Jim Almonds/Pat Riley
behold! all of my October prompt fills collected together on AO3 in one handy dandy series. they can be read separately. I hope you enjoy!
every fic title is a Wednesday 13 song, so I've also made a little Halloween playlist on spotify to go with it if you enjoy that kind of thing :)
thank you @almost-a-class-act for organizing this, I really enjoyed challenging myself to write something every day! <3
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🍎 ｡:*• ─ HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN CHALLENGE. › ( bellow you’ll find 31 questions/prompts, one for each day until halloween, for your muses to answer. for multi-muse blogs, you can pick a different muse for each day, or answer all questions with the same muse, your choice ! if you enjoy the challenge, tag some friends on this post and/or your answers, for their muses to answer as well. happy roleplaying & happy halloween everyone ! )
1. What are their thoughts on Halloween ? Do they enjoy it ? Do they count the days until Halloween ? Do they hate it ? Any reason in particular ?
2. What’s their favourite Halloween memory ? And one they’d rather forget ( if any ) ?
3. What’s their ideal costume ? Have they ever had the chance to wear it ?
4. Is there a costume they’d absolutely refuse to wear ? Could they be persuaded by someone/something ?
5. Have they ever gone trick or treating ? Is it better to receive treats, or to trick others ?
6. What’s the funniest prank/trick they’ve played on anyone ? How did the other react ?
7. What’s their favourite Halloween candy ? And a candy they don’t really like ?
8. Do they have a favourite Halloween/Autumn food and/or drink, something they patiently wait all year to taste again ?
9. Would they rather stay in or go out for Halloween ?
10. What are their favourite Halloween movies?
11. If they could experience a situation from one of their favourite Halloween/scary movies, what would it be ? ( You can even make a starter based on said plot, if you’d like ! )
12. Make a mini Halloween playlist for your muse ( 3/4 songs ) .
13. Have they ever been to a Halloween party ? How did it go ?
14. Have they ever been to a pumpkin patch ? What did they do there ? Did they enjoy it ?
15. Have they ever carved a pumpkin ? How did it go ?
16. Your muse is carving a jack-o’-lantern for this year’s Halloween ! Describe it, draw it or use this generator ( or a similar one ) .
17. Are they scared easily ? What’s the worst scary prank someone’s pulled on them ?
18. Have they ever been to a haunted house ? How did it go ? Is it something they’d like to do again ?
19. Would they take a job at a haunted house ? What would they like to be ? How would they scare the visitors ?
20. Do they enjoy decorating their house and/or garden for Halloween ? Do they get competitive over Halloween decorations with their neighbours ?
21. A color palette they really associate with Halloween.
22. A flavour and/or smell they really associate with Halloween.
23. If they had to spend a Halloween night in reading a book, which one would they pick ?
24. If they had to spend a Halloween night in playing videogames, either alone or with friends, which one would they pick ?
25. Write a starter/drabble based on one of their favourite Halloween songs/movies/books/games. ( The starting point could be a sentence from said media, or just its general idea/plot. )
26. Do they prefer Halloween over Christmas ? Why ( or why not ) ?
27. Pick a character from one of their favourite Halloween movies and write a small interaction/drabble between them and your muse.
28. If Halloween was to be banned forever, would they be sad ? Would they try to save it ? How ? Would they be indifferent ?
29. Something they think should absolutely be a Halloween tradition.
30. How would their perfect Halloween be ? What would they do ? Who would they spend it with ?
31. Make a Halloween moodboard for your muse.
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2022 Writing Review
Tagged by: @ttimbradford on the LAST DAY OF THE YEAR because she wants me to scramble
1. Number of stories posted to AO3: 14
2. Word count posted for the year: don't make me say it 386,717
3. Fandoms I wrote for: 9-1-1, The Witcher
4. Pairings: Buddie and Geraskier
5. Story with the most:
kudos: The Best Lie is a Truth (My Best Mask is My Face) - 2,149
bookmarks: same as above - 997
comment threads: Let My Ink Stain Your Pages - 671
6. Work I’m most proud of (and why): This is a difficult question. I'm proud of a few stories I worked on this year - Direct Deposit and Further Than Blood (Or Than Bones) had me pushing myself as a writer and delving into topics I knew wouldn't necessarily be popular. However I think I have to go with In the Gray You are Golden, one of those magical moments where the inspiration hits like something divine, the words flow like water, and it all comes together.
7. Work I’m least proud of (and why): Don't Play Games (Come My Way) - I'm a perfectionist and while I can't quite articulate why, I don't feel like I quite nailed this story the way I should have. Like I just missed the bulls-eye.
8. Share or describe a favorite review you received: @mistmarauder never fails to delight me and make my day with her in-depth comments and general screeching. I think her responses to Further Than Blood (Or Than Bones) and In the Gray You are Golden are my favorites, actually, although I know Curl Up In My Heart and Let Me Keep You is probably her favorite of mine from this year (no one is immune to cat!Buck).
9. A time when writing was really, really hard: Honestly, writing I'll Scrawl it on Every Wall I See was more of a challenge than I expected. I just had a lot going on in my real life so finding time and focus to work on it was difficult.
10. A scene or character you wrote that surprised you: Buck babysitting Chris during the tsunami and while Eddie goes to fight club in I'll Scrawl it on Every Wall I See didn't come to me ahead of time - it just happened as I was writing and I literally stopped and stared into the distance for a second in delighted surprise.
11. A favorite excerpt of your writing: Oof. This was a tough one. Probably a tie between the entire segment of Eddie's thoughts when he's shot in Further Than Blood (Or Than Bones) - the fic wasn't quite where I wanted it to be until I wrote that segment and then went back and sprinkled those quotes throughout the fic, turning the fic into one long flashback (which the reader doesn't realize until they reach the shooting). A small excerpt is here:
The thing he never told anyone is
when his lover was unnamed and fed from him
all he thought about was
love.
Love is poured into his mouth and he swallows and he
b r e a t h e s.
The other would be frankly the entirety of In the Gray You are Golden but I really liked how I incorporated the tsunami/Eddie Begins into the fic with the flash flood and how I wrote it happening. I got a lot of comments saying how much the last few lines hit them like a gut punch and I'm so proud of that:
Christopher’s mouth is right at Buck’s ear. “Dad?”
Buck starts shaking. He clenches his entire body to get it to stop. He shakes his head.
Christopher is a child of the wasteland. He knows how to be silent when he cries.
12. How did you grow as a writer this year: I wrote situations where there's a lot of trauma and emotions going on (including during sex) and got a bit darker in that then I usually do, I wrote a couple tropes I hadn't thought I'd ever write or hadn't written before (such as a Zombie Apocalypse AU), I dipped my toe into HTML coding for the emails in I'll Scrawl it on Every Wall I See, and I incorporated poetry into a fic with Eddie's mental landscape as he's shot in Further Than Blood (Or Than Bones) (yes fun fact I approached that segment as a poem).
13. How do you hope to grow next year: I hope to continue to find new and interesting situations to play with for my annual Halloween fics.
14. Who was your greatest positive influence this year as a writer (could be another writer, beta, cheerleader, etc): @extasiswings who always reassured and encouraged me when I was doubting myself - and of course she co-wrote A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (But Love is Undefinable) with me.
Can't believe I almost forgot @catdadeddie whose Castle AU moodboard inspired me to write a fic that ended up being over 100k words long goddamn you Nova.
15. Anything from your real life show up in your writing this year: If it did, I wouldn't be admitting it.
16. Any new wisdom you can share with other writers: If you don't make yourself take breaks to recharge your brain is going to make you and trust me, you will not like how that goes. Give yourself time to rest.
17. Any projects you’re looking forward to starting (or finishing) in the new year: Nothing in the fanfic world. I actually woke up with ideas for next Halloween and wrote them down so I wouldn't forget them, but those won't be until October which is a full ten months away.
18. Tag some writers whose answers you’d like to read.
@extasiswings @kitkatpancakestack @tripleaxeldiaz
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