#entirely unrelated to the road trip of it lmao
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i would love to hear more about some of the unfinished The Wilds fics
Buckle up. There's a lot of stuff dying in my hard drive. Maybe, when I get the time, I should try to finish some of it up/patch it up/post random snippets (if anyone would be interested?).
So here's the thing, I have my drive separated into two types of fics for The Wilds: there are fics I consider potentially still in play and fics I've scrapped altogether. Two different folders. I'll make you a list under the cut and tell you what I consider each to be. And I'll probably give too much commentary about each.
If you want to know more or get a snippet of any of them, please send follow up asks. I would love to share. Or I'd love to hear what, if I were to pick back up with writing, you'd want to read the most. No guarantees, but I'll think about it.
I posted the snippet for i'll be waiting on you forever from Fatin's POV in another ask. Not very far into that, but I also haven't moved it to the scrapped folder. I think my problem with that kind of fic is it doesn't feel fresh enough - it's hard to make it feel new when we already know where it's headed. I've done it before, but it's hard.
I started a second Star Wars AU that's unrelated to the first where Leah's a Jedi Padawan and Fatin is a senator - literally Anakin and Padme in Attack of the Clones. Didn't get very far but didn't scrap it.
I have one that I'm still hoping to finish that's placeholder titled "Leah loses her mind" rightfully or wrongfully, I don't know. It explores her season two on island hallucinations and how that affects her and the group. It's 6.5k and unfinished, but I'm planning to take a look at it and see what can be done.
There are so many post island fics that are just snippets and doing nothing on my drive. I kept trying to experiment with writing all of the season two POVs post island and that shit is hard. Probably a sign not to expand too far away from Leatin because apparently I can only care so much lmao. But I haven't bothered to scrap them.
There's one where I attempted to write Leachel but that shit was also hard apparently. Really I was trying to write all different pairings and didn't get very far. Not scrapped and I have considered trying again more than once.
I started a no experiment AU where it was just an actual plane crash. I have 5k of that and no memory of writing it. Not scrapped. Not sure if I'd ever finish that.
The season 3 fic outline I mentioned in another ask but didn't link because I was on mobile, so that's here if you missed it. Not scrapped, but unfortunately I think outlining it made me feel like I told the entire story even though I never wrote more than 2-3 chapters. That's the problem with outlining, but only sometimes, because I outlined the exes fic/we're falling apart still we hold together, and that was fine.
I started a road trip AU back in 2021. Wrote 7k. Outlined the entire thing and same problem as above. Got stuck. I think I was trying to force word counts on myself for each chapter and it wasn't working. Not scrapped but very unlikely I'll touch it.
I have one just called "waterfall 5" that has five moments spent at the waterfall, and I almost finished it. I think I still have some hope of finishing it, since it's a quick thing.
I've talked about it before, probably two/three years ago at this point jfc, but I don't remember what I've disclosed about this fic. It's the one I mentioned in another ask about it not feeling right, so I didn't put it out, and it's something like 50k words and had a massive plot hole that I had to try to fix, and I was going to do a whole rewrite and maybe put it out. This one haunts me. There's a chance I'll throw the entire draft out one day without editing or fixing any issues. Or maybe I'll take another stab at it, since it's all there. Truly, this one haunts me. For once, I had a perfect title and nothing to show for it. There's probably snippets of it in asks on my blog somewhere from back when The Wilds wasn't cancelled and I was insane about it.
I scrapped the Grey's Anatomy AU. Just gave up on it.
I wrote 239 words of something vaguely Dotin and scrapped that too.
I have a first draft of the fake dating AU i don't belong to you (but you're wrong) that I scrapped. I took it in an entirely different direction and scrapped 10k of this other thing. I think I salvaged some of it for the posted fic, but it started going the wrong way.
Also have a scrapped draft of the last chapter of the soulmate AU i said i wouldn't let you in. That first draft of that chapter was BAD.
I scrapped 14k of everyone else's perception of what was happening with Leatin on the island. Like Leatin through every other character's eyes, and I don't remember why it didn't work or what I didn't like about it.
I'm not gonna lie, some of this stuff I'm looking at...even I don't know what it is anymore.
I scrapped a document called "untitled" and this is literally all that's in it:
"She sees her on the first day of school, sitting with the kid that supposedly led the FBI to Gretchen. Leah smiles slightly as Fatin crosses the lawn, and the kid – Ian – turns to look where Leah’s looking, and Fatin just tilts her head in acknowledgment and keeps walking. There’s nothing more for her to do."
I don't know what that is.
There's STILL a lot more documents I haven't touched on because I haven't bothered to open them and find out what they are (and my placeholder titles don't tell me much all the time). But I feel like this is a good start lmao.
Sorry for writing a novel, but you did ask. If you want more, let me know and I will make time over the weekend to post some stuff.
#Anonymous#the wilds#leatin#my fic#sorry for the length but you asked lol#and i would love to share more#it might just take me some time to get it out there#i've missed talking about writing even if i haven't been doing a whole lot of writing recently#i hope that'll change
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💖 🧐 🤩 (ily)
💖 What made you start writing?
You know those scenes or snippets of dialogue that kick around your head on a loop and drive you absolutely INSANE until you write them down?? It was that asl;dkjfa the first fic I ever wrote was for Dramione and I told absolutely NO ONE. To this day, it's why my ao3 author name (well, formally ff dot net author name lmao) is completely unrelated to this username. I was like I will not be perceived. But then here we are years later.
🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?
I feel like this was a targeted question a;sldkfj I spend... an inordinate amount of time researching. I was actually just telling Sophie about this yesterday but I planned the entire road trip/vacation for the Pogues in late nights as if I was taking the trip myself. I know which highways to take, I know which towns/sightseeing stops there are along the way. Want to know what tourist activities there are near St. Simons & Jekyll Island? I've got you covered. Did I use Google Maps street view to find their exact campsite so I could accurately describe the bird sanctuary and surrounding trees? Maybe so. I also fully intend on planning out Jarah B's massively extravagant Southern wedding
🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?
Grizz Visser my BELOVED <3 I've just never ever connected to a character more. I feel that boy IN MY BONES. I get him. I see him. I absolutely adore him and I think I'm going to be very sad when the rest of the fic is finally published. He's been my emotional support soft!jock lit nerd for the past few months.
Send in some Fanfic Writer Emoji Asks!
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unrelated but i have this friend i'm gonna see after some time and i'm just so afraid she's gonna want to drive somewhere and her driving scares me so much like she goes so fast, every time i have stepped into her car, i get extremely anxious and i have to pretend like i'm fine cause i dont want to hurt her feelings but yeah... also just being in a car that isn't driven by me or my mom makes me anxious in general like i just do not trust drivers 😭
also speaking of driving, yesterday when i was in the car with my mom while we were all in traffic, i saw a man brushing his completely bald head...it was an amazing thing to witness.
i have a friend like this and she did not believe she was a crazy driver (even though everyone around her told her she was) until she had me in the passenger seat. 10 minutes in, i legit had an anxiety attack - nausea, couldn't breathe, my entire body was tense and i literally screamed at her to pull over or i'd throw up in her car. she pulled over and i was heaving on the side of the road and she was like "whats wrong???" and i told her she drove like a fucking maniac and made me have an anxiety attack 😭 (it was harsh but i was in hysterics and literally thought i was gonna die). the rest of the trip, she kept under the speed limit and stopped cutting people off and now our entire friend group roasts her for having driving so bad that it gave me an anxiety attack LMAO so yeah that's kind of an effective way to get to them
sorry that was a long tangent but yeah sometimes you just gotta tell them before they hurt someone or themselves??? some people drive like they're invincible and it is terrifying
and im curious... what kind of brush was he using because sometimes it's good to brush a bald head to exfoliate it??
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🌹 (ily biggest mwah ever!)
ily maria here's an extra long sentence from my road trip fic for you 💕
He watches all of Buck’s instagram stories though, has his notifications on (which is something he had to google how to do after Buck mentioned having Maddie’s on so he’d never miss another baby picture, and will never tell another living soul), but the ones he posts of Christopher and himself are Eddie’s favorites.
for every "🌹" you send me, i'll give you a sentence from my wip
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every little bump in the road
for @gleeadvent day 5: exhale
happy new yearrr lmao i'm still here doin this in the new year hehe 🤪 idk i guess i'll be trying to write for all of them just for the sake of writing ya know so yeah lol
1123 words; title from "breathe (taylor's version)" by taylor swift
set during 4x06 glease - maybe warning (not sure) for a small mention of marley's situation in 4x06 (after trying the skirt on and it being revealed that kitty fucked with it bc she's a fucking evil little -- anyway) also swearing lol
what else do i usually put heres lmao uh written for glee advent day 5 which means it's actually december 5 :] idk about you (but im feeling 2022) except i'm actually not i think it's actually just uh december 32 (not that i Want 2021 to continue but like it just does not feel like it at all 😂 Anywayyy sorry i'll shut up now fghjlkd)
read under the cut or on ao3 💓
Tina… probably needs a break. Needs to go to sleep before 2 am, mainly. She could tell her friends had the same thought from Blaine and Sam’s hesitance to leave after rehearsal, when she insisted that she was fine staying by herself, just had a few costumes to finish up, but ultimately Blaine and Sam had talked about running lines together and she suspected Blaine just wanted the comfort of his own home. So they left without too much fight and Tina’s at school alone again, like she has been almost every day for the past month, mostly voluntarily -- but with Mike being back and horrible wardrobe updates and finally thinking she’d gotten a chance to get out of the supporting side role for a moment but even Finn not believing in her potential and kind of accidentally taking on all of the costuming for Grease by herself, she’s a little… tired.
She’s been a little tired. Of a lot more than making costumes.
But she sets her stuff down on the piano backstage, makes her way to the costume racks, pulls Marley’s yellow skirt out and the new measurements taken today after the failed fitting, and tackles that first, because she does love doing this, and she loves the show and wants to do her part to make it the best it can be, even as the start of tech week grinds her already-rough sleep schedule to smithereens and her teachers this year don’t seem to like leniency very much. (They also claim to be fed up with glee club nonsense, but this really isn’t glee club-related, even if the entire main cast is from the glee club, and most of the rest of the cast, and the pit is mainly comprised of the glee club band, and it’s being directed by current and former glee club members….)
No one else in the glee club was interested or capable enough to volunteer for wardrobe, but Tina then also insisted she could do it herself, so a part of her being the only one is stubbornness. At this point, she kind of wants Finn to call Kurt back to help her with it since he could do that with Santana. It could be like nationals her sophomore year again, where they were in charge of making the girls' dresses and she still somewhat stayed under Kurt's tutelage at that point, but he helped her and assured her in her skill enough that she was able to take over more in his senior year. And she had someone to talk to about fashion who had ambitions and passions in it that she didn't know in anyone else.
But Tina knows that won’t happen, for completely unrelated reasons. She’s not sure she should be wanting that at all, as she remembers Blaine’s crushed expression after his audition, the smile that didn’t reach his eyes when she asked if he was okay, didn't reach his eyes when he got Teen Angel, hasn’t reached his eyes in weeks, since returning from an impromptu trip to New York.
The waistband of Marley’s skirt has been taken in a few inches, folded over itself and sewn in place, the overlap a small but significant length. Tina kicks herself for not noticing earlier today, when Marley got so distressed about having gained weight, and also not noticing until now that her new measurements are the same if not a bit smaller, so it couldn’t have been that.
Fuck -- her brain isn’t working; she makes sure that stays true by dropping her forehead to the table, and after a short forceful exhale she sits back up and grabs scissors, carefully snipping through the stitches that are actually done really well and tight and by whom? and pulling the waistband taut again, measuring it fully just in case, and hanging it back up.
Before she can worry more about who might have done it, though, the sound of people coming very loudly up the stairs to the stage echoes in the empty auditorium, startling her for a moment and then Blaine and Sam poke their heads out from behind the curtain and she smiles. Blaine waves, Sam holds up a plastic bag. “We brought food.”
“I thought you guys were running lines?” Even though neither of them have huge parts, and she knows they already have the songs down. “You wanted to come annoy me instead? I'm touched.”
Blaine smiles slightly as they walk towards her. It’s still not the smile she misses from him (she really misses) but she thinks it might be getting there. Tina gives him small smile back and a side hug as he corrects, “Wanted to come help you instead. And we can run lines here with you!”
She pretends not to notice the slight red around his eyes, the bit of rasp in his voice and the way he sniffs and clears his throat quietly; she just cranes her head up to kiss his cheek and goes to hug Sam, too.
“You need help with anything, T?” Sam asks, opening the bag to set Chipotle items on a table that Tina just cleared of some fabric scraps. “Besides food, of course. Since you basically live here now.”
Tina laughs and pushes Sam gently, and runs through the list in her head while opening her bowl that she sees immediately doesn't really contain her usual order, even though this is not the first time she’s tried entrusting it to Sam and Blaine to get, but she’s grateful anyway. For the food, and for their presence and energy pushing her tiredness aside, making her almost forget it was there in the first place.
She has to start finish her own costume for “You’re The One That I Want,” which is probably the biggest thing, but she also has to alter Santana’s and Kitty’s costumes a bit, and she has a few “Beauty School Dropout” headpieces left to make.
… that’s it? Tina looks around… pretty much. She’s a little surprised by her own sticking to schedule; the first dress rehearsal is in a few days still and she’ll definitely be done by then. She’s confident enough that she decides not to spend her limited time and energy teaching her friends how to correctly glue the tin cans together, or any sewing, and just says, “I don’t have much left. You guys can run lines or whatever, or run the songs while I do other stuff -- it’ll help me too.”
“Cool,” Sam agrees around a mouth stuffed with burrito. He bangs a fist on the table. “‘Beauty School Dropout’?” he asks, facing Blaine who does a half-smile again as he opens his bowl and responds, “Maybe after we eat, dude.”
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(end notes bc i like this part of posting on ao3 lmao so i'll just put it here here's some more randomness 🤪)
this was maybe gonna stay just tina?? but guess what there's two fuckers (affectionate) who decided to show up
(started writing these three as sunset curve in katp and now i can't escape the blamtina brainrot) (3/5 of my glee advent fics are blamtina let's see what it ends up being at the end lol)
idk shit about glee bc i haven't watched it in a long time lol jk but i also dk shit about grease bc i've never seen it all hgjdfk i know is like what was on glee and like what i could learn from jojo siwa's dwts grease dance XD so if there's any inaccuracies or whatever idk that's why lol
also i have never done shit with like clothes and stuff lmao so idk how that works either i based things on my experience in two high school musicals in the pit not at an arts-hating school and having no idea how the costuming works so it's probably a little different lol, and i also based things on my experience fucking up my sleep schedule this semester :P
#i actually really like this :o#oh i also snuck some kurtina in there sdlkghfj#ik the tags aren't working rn but that'll hardly make a difference for this tbh#correction it Won't make a difference lol but imma tag shit anyway 🤪#glee#glee fic#tina cohen chang#blamtina#my ficsssss#glee advent 2021
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For the writing meme: 1, 9, 17, 36?
(ask meme)
1. Tell us about your WIP!
i haven’t started yet and don’t think i will until we get more season 2 material from alice isn’t dead so i know where the plot of the podcast will go. unless i get a really good Big Idea out of the blue, which isn’t likely, i’m not good with plotty things. anyway this is in a file on my desktop titled ‘yuuri isn’t dead’ and is about viktor nikiforov’s surreal horrifying road trip in search of his husband yuuri, who isn’t dead, and maybe doesn’t want to be found, but it’s too late for viktor to turn back now. he’s being pursued himself by people that aren’t entirely human
9. Favorite/least favorite tropes?
mutual pining MUTUAL PINING
least favourite: i swear to god i have not read a group chat fic that didn’t get annoying after the 2nd or 3rd chapter. also i feel about a/b/o probably the way @kixboxer feels about vampire aus. i may come to regret giving kixboxer that information. i’m still waiting for my a/b/o frat fic featuring the friendly fuckboys of fraternity OMEGA COCKNUM BONG, COME ON THERE IS SO MUCH POTENTIAL
17. What things (scenes/topics/character types) are you most comfortable writing?
as i said up there i am not good with plotty things, i want to try! this needs to change. things that are in my comfort zone are super character-driven, introspective, stream-of-consciousness types that probably jump around a lot. me, nervously: IT’S AN ARTISTIC CHOICE (lmao no it means i threw up my hands and inserted a scene break instead of trying to write a proper transition) i would never cut it as a professional author because after so many thousands of words of this it gets BORING. thankfully however i think i have plenty of time to figure out how to Do More Stuff
character types! this is super interesting. i think i like: characters who are pretty insecure. this makes their povs very unreliable and that is super fun. one time somebody commented on an old fic like I SEE YOU TRYING TO HIDE THAT EPIPHANY IN A PARAGRAPH OF UNRELATED INTERNAL MONOLOGUE, CHARACTER X, YOU DON’T FOOL ME and that made me !!!! in glee. also characters who are perceptive and constantly Think a lot (VIKTOR), they just go tcktcktcktcktck inside their heads how do they live like that?? it’s so cool people are so cool (i say, while irl i strive to avoid social interaction)
36. Post a snippet
more planning thoughts for yuuri isn’t dead!
makkachin is on this road trip with viktor and he protects his human. all the thistle men get eaten by makkachin before they come anywhere near viktor. the danger of this is it actually makes viktor more vulnerable since he doesn’t even realise he’s got someone on his tail until they jump him in the back of a petrol station at midnight, and hellbeast-who-loves-hugs makkachin comes racing in to devour at least three of them and rescue viktor in a mildly gruesome and disturbing manner
this version of the thistle men from alice isn’t dead (i need to come up with a separate name for them) can shapeshift, which is how we get a couple of jump scares when what-looks-like-phichit and OOH IS THAT OTABEK HELL YEAH IT’S OTABEK etc etc etc turn out to…not be what they seem. viktor is going to get increasingly paranoid
this may also become a bonding road trip between viktor and yuri plisetsky, his One Good Ally
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so i just finished rewatching the road to el dorado (again) which is one of my favorite animated movies and i wanna talk all about how super queer it is
so lemme hit you with some bullet points
for starters, let’s talk about how the actual movie is framed
two guys (miguel and tulio) have a close (undefined?) relationship
they have their differences but they’re practically inseparable
through a series of insane coincidences (divine interference??) they end up at el dorado
they meet a girl named chel, and they’re both attracted to her but agree not to get involved with her
tulio ends up getting close to chel anyway, and this upsets miguel and tulio’s relationship
they still manage to stay in el dorado and pretend to be gods for three days because of more lucky experiences/divine interferences (the volcano almost exploding and then receding, the ball going into the hoop allowing them to win the game, etc.)
it’s also shown that tulio and miguel have very different morals/values that seem to be getting in the way of their relationship and are (mostly) unrelated to chel being in the picture (miguel wanting to explore the city vs tulio wanting to lay low, for instance)
they end up all three leaving together anyway, without gold (which is what they went to el dorado for), miguel and tulio’s relationship repaired, and chel seemingly attached to both miguel and tulio
you could view all this as Heterosexual “platonic male friendship triumphs despite those pesky tempting Women getting in the way” but uh... nah that’s boring
here’s what we could maybe interpret from the movie (and i’m putting a “read more” because this got away from me)
el dorado is a special place where weird things happen to tulio and miguel’s relationship
something/someone/multiple someones (gods maybe) want t + m to get to el dorado and stay there long enough for... what?
(for them to work out their relationship in the liminal space that is el dorado, that’s what!)
they don’t end up with gold, and if we interpret them as being “just friends” throughout the entire movie, then it doesn’t really seem like their relationship has changed at the end of the movie at all
it just seems like they’re as close as they were before, except tulio has a girlfriend now, which isn’t very satisfying and isn’t exactly great storytelling
it’s much more interesting to interpret t + m’s relationship as evolving throughout the movie, because of their journey to el dorado and because they’ve met chel
so here’s what i’ve got (and this is also where the non-canon interpretative stuff comes in)
at the start of the movie (which begins in spain), tulio and miguel’s relationship is basically the quintessence of the facebook relationship status “it’s complicated”
they know they’re attracted to each other and they love each other and they’re definitely more than friends but??
they also want to like?? date other people???
but they’re still in love with each other???? it’s confusing
they have a system worked out where they always tell each other when they go on dates/hook up with other people and they find that that communication feels comfortable and good
(which is why the whole “girl from barcelona” thing didn’t go over well - miguel hadn’t told tulio about her and that wasn’t part of their Plan)
and they don’t really understand why they feel so okay with not being exclusive so they chalk it up to #brosbeingbros
(sorry boys #bros don’t bathe naked together and casually touch each other and make declarations of love in the face of death but whatever)
they call each other “partner” because “friend” (or “pal” lmao) doesn’t feel... right? for how strongly they feel about each other?
basically they can’t understand how they can date each other and how they can also date other people and it’s confusing and they’d rather not define things for now
then we get to el dorado
and chel!
(sidenote: i love chel)
tulio and miguel are both attracted and attached to chel (the movie focuses more on tulio and chel’s relationship, but we definitely start to see miguel and chel’s closeness near the end when she kisses him)
it’s chel that forces tulio and miguel to really look at what they mean to each other
lbr - if they were just friends, buddies, pals, then miguel staying in el dorado to be a “god” and tulio leaving with chel wouldn’t have been such a big deal
and it’s clear that miguel isn’t jealous of tulio for having chel - he’s upset with tulio because it seems like tulio likes chel more than he likes miguel
(like that’s LITERALLY how the movie frames it)
but tulio and miguel have bound themselves in this weird psuedo-relationship where they don’t really want to step outside of monogamy and other socially-acceptable relationship boundaries, so they’re like, “yeah we’re just friends, we can just split up, it’s not a big deal”
it’s definitely a big deal, because they don’t split up at the end of the movie - the three of them all leave together!
what happens (aka what do i want to have happen) post-movie?
tulio x miguel x chel duh. but let me elaborate.
miguel’s like “whelp. you guys are together now. that’s great!”
chel: “yeah, we’re all together now!”
m: “yeah but like... you and tulio are... together.”
c: “??? i must’ve misread things because i thought we were all kind of dating now?”
m + t: “wait YOU CAN DO THAT??”
the three of them spend their whole trip back to spain trying to sort things out
c: “so for years you guys have been in love but you haven’t actually made anything official because you kept liking other people too?”
m + t: “we didn’t know you could?? date multiple people??? at once????”
m + t: *explain all the things they do together as Bros*
chel: “those are all things that couples do you idiots”
m + t: “HOLY SHIT”
when they get back to spain chel gives them some space at first to figure out their relationship and they go on lots of dates and are generally just disgustingly couple-y
but of course they miss chel so they go on lots of tri-dates together and introduce chel to spain
and then chel goes on a few dates with miguel because they didn’t get enough of a chance to just spend time with each other what with all of the Drama going on in el dorado
and then chel and tulio go on some dates and the three of them sort of continue that pattern
and they’re all just so goddamn happy
to sum up
miguel and tulio needed to go to el dorado and meet chel in order to figure out their relationship
there was no point to all that lucky stuff happening unless miguel and tulio had a purpose in going to el dorado, and instead of getting gold out of it, they get a better understanding of their relationship (and chel!)
drama happens in el dorado but it works out and three of them leave together to a song that literally has the lyrics “on the trail we blaze”
(they are trailblazers. their relationship is literally blazing a trail do you see what i’m saying here)
in conclusion
@ dreamworks i will pay you to write sequel with canonically polyromantic miguel + tulio + chel please
#the road to el dorado#mine#I DID IT I POSTED IT#this is rambling and long i am so sorry#you can tell that the style of this post is influenced by all my time spent in the check please fandom lmao#also if i said anything offensive/ignorant about polyamory/polygamy please let me know
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