#doomed by the narrative baybee | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fancy-a-dance-brigadier · 2 years

Text

I was tagged by @galacticlamps to share the titles of my current unpublished WIPs, so thank you friend!! I love stuff like this, and it’ll also be useful to get my WIPs in order, I think. I’ll split them up by fandom for the sake of clarity, since I currently have WIPs for Doctor Who, DS9, Voyager, and the video game Final Fantasy XII.

Doctor Who

A Duchess and a Sailor Walked Into a Bar - A Ben/Polly fic which follows their relationship from their childhood, to meeting each other and the Doctor, to departing the TARDIS. If you’ve read my fic ‘A Tale of Two Soldiers’, it’s got the same format, with one half of each chapter being Polly’s POV and the other half being Ben’s. It’s pretty bare bones at the moment (I’ve only written Polly’s POV for the first chapter), and I haven’t worked on it since January, but I’m sure I’ll get back into it when I’m more in the mood for writing Doctor Who fic again.

Five Times Ben and Polly Got Married (and the One Time They Didn’t) - Does what it says on the tin, really. It’s part of my AU where all of the Second Doctor’s companions travel in the TARDIS at once, and it’s pretty light and fluffy. Again, I’ve only made a start on the first chapter, so it may be a while before it sees the light of day.

Here Falls the Shadow - This is the first fic in the series I want to write about Sarah-Jane and Mike Yates solving extra-terrestrial mysteries after they’ve finished adventuring with the Doctor. It involves haunted house shenanigans and is lowkey inspired by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, but the creepy thing in the wall is an alien actually. I’ve written a chapter and a half for this one, and it’s probably the Doctor Who WIP I’m most likely to finish.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

A Thousand Summers - It’s post-canon Siskoshir baybee!! Well, kind of - I headcanon that Benjamin is away for ten years following his disappearance at the end of ‘What You Leave Behind’, and this fic follows what Julian gets up to in those ten years. There’s post-canon Bajor, Sisko family feels, and, like most of my DS9 fics, plenty of angst to go around. It’s a multi-chapter fic, but it’s more a collection of one shots than a linked narrative. I’ve written two of the stories already, and I’m honestly very tempted to post the first one soon. I think I’ll try and finish one of my already active multi-chapter WIPs first, though.

Living in the Arms of Freedom - So this is an AU where Sisko, Jadzia, Julian, and Miles all left Starfleet pre-canon for Angst reasons and became a crew of space pirates instead. They’ll get involved with the plot of main canon eventually, and they’ll meet the non-Starfleet characters too. I’ve written some of the first chapter of this one, but I’m putting in a pin in it because I like the idea so much that I kind of want to turn it into a work of original fiction instead? I’m not sure yet, so bear with.

Untitled Siskoshir Kid Fic - Once again, it does what it says on the tin (although I’m sure it’ll have a proper name eventually). I’m actually four chapters deep into this one, and I’ve shared the first chapter on the Siskoshir Discord server, but I’m very hesitant to post it publicly just because I don’t want the subject matter to be misconstrued or misinterpreted. But if enough people show interest, I may post it - you never know.

Star Trek: Voyager

The Storm Inside - Because I am apparently doomed to rot in rarepair hell, I was possessed to write a fic for B’Elanna/Kes, and this is it. Again, I’ve only made a start on the first chapter (I’m starting to notice a theme here), but this is basically a fic where these two lovely lesbians bond over their mutual uncontrollable rage and fall in love <3

Final Fantasy XII

Fear Not the Darkness You Must Walk - Quite simply, this is my take on a novelisation of the game. It’s been in the works since about 2016?? I think?? Well, there have been kind of two versions of it, the old version and the new revised one - the first version I wrote when I was a teenager and actually posted on FF.Net, and it was... not good. So the version I’m working on now is Vastly Improved, if I do say so myself, but also distinctly unfinished. I’ve written ten chapters and a prologue, so that must count for something, right?

(Also, I don’t really post about Final Fantasy at all on this blog, but I have a sideblog dedicated to it @sky-pirate-penelo, so take a peek if you want to see some good FFXII meme content)

I’ll tag @lady-sci-fi, @nerdy-flower, @nostalgia-tblr, @enterprisery, @irresistible-revolution, @cordrazine-official, @xomby, @stopthatbluecat, and anyone else who’s interested! (no pressure of course <3)

#this was a lot of fun #thank you for the tag!!!!#also this got a lot longer than i intended so uh #sorry about that #fancyfics #dr who #ds9 #voyager #tag game

13 notes · View notes

callmearcturus · 2 years

Note

what u said about doom being the inverse of hope was MAD interesting. i love looking for new ways to align the aspects esp since we've got so much "Hard Canonical" data for them in a way we don't for classes. you briefly said something in your hope bit about rage also being tied to How The Game Works and i'd love to hear more about your rage thoughts! (also the interesting what u said about someone thinking u were a rage player; i've also had a bit of a connection in my mind drawn between heart and rage, since they're both in my head aspects tied to the player's feelings & how the player interracts with the world through their own perspective and feelings.)

i'm using this ask to talk about Rage. we're almost done with aspects baybee.

So Rage.

At last I am forced to skew towards the "canon" (snort) answer, mostly because I think the canon answer was written after the fact so it would fit nicely into the narrative. Rage was pretty non-descript and unremarked on in the comic, leaving it ripe for re-framing later.

So I sort of concur: Rage is the Aspect for the people who just hate all of this shit. It is the anger at the systems around you and the falsehoods that shine neon lights and act like they're guiding stars. Fuck all that shit. It's all lies, and you should be pissed about it!

Rage is sort of a wholesale rejection of... all of this, honestly? I feel like a Rage player might be a little pissed off at the idea of even taking a quiz to figure out their classpect. They might be the people who lean towards eschewing labels, as opposed to the rest of us who love playing with categories. Rage players cannot be BOXED IN, man!

Personality-wise, I think Rage folks are gonna skew True Neutral and while they want to Smash The System, they... don't have a ton of insight on what the system Should be? I don't want to paint them as the leftists who want to go full anarchy without establishing necessary safety nets, but kinda? You got a lot of soul, and you're passion is vital to the movement, but also sit down and lets plan some shit too, okay?

Rage players have so much power and passion, they maybe need some direction-- but by their nature bristle at being given any. They're like comets.

Pretty cool but also a little exhausting for my tastes.

#classpect navelgazing #whomstve

18 notes · View notes