#i guess i have just written so much lately about that sort of dynamic
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pretty pleaseeeee ill take any crumbs from the counselling au 🥺🥺 (also love the new kofi as always vos at the crime scene)
the next chapter of the couples counseling au is going to be the one where they're instructed to hold hands!! and the counselor tells them to try to treasure little intimacies (ie. cooking together, holding hands, listening to the same song at the same time, napping together)
but also because it's told from anakin's pov it's going to involve more padmé - specifically padmé being justifiably hurt that she was once again waiting for anakin
it's gonna be interesting i think trying to write this chapter and strike a different tone than a more perfect union, when both padmés are upset about the same thing and both anakins have the same priorities (obi-wan first). it's just that couples counseling au anakin is less stupid but more oblivious almost - he's not going to come to the realization as quickly that he's in love with obi-wan, and no one's gonna handhold him through it. in all, it's a much more serious tone than a more perfect union of course, but there are enough similarities (basically 'kit's corner on a fall of anidala and rise of obikin in story format' that i'm probably going to struggle a little bit to keep the tone right in couples counseling au
#asks#couples counseling au#also it was so interesting to read back over the new kofi fic#and the whole beginning part of it before anakitty shows up#has such couples counseling vibes#and then some of obi-wan's jealousy during the story when he thinks of anakin and padme#is very a more perfect union AND couples counseling lol#like his whole thing about how the apartment is too quiet because anakin is out with his wife#and he's been left behind#and its FINE#and whatever he doesn't care that anakins a child bride or WHATEVER#i guess i have just written so much lately about that sort of dynamic#that it slipped into the anakitty story even though it really didnt need to be there#quick someone make me write a modern au as a palate cleanser
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Hello, do you have an AO3 account? Because I saw a thing on here about you writing an arranged Marriage AU for Obitine and I am interested. (Even though I don't think Obitine should be a thing. Maybe a fleeting crush when they were young brought one by being on the run together. But not much more.)
I mean, I DO have an AO3 account, but it's pretty exclusively for READING fics as opposed to WRITING fics. I don't really... write fics, I guess. I've done the AU posts here, but you'll notice that none of those are really... in prose. There's no dialogue, it's primarily just a recounting of events. And that's about as far as my creative writing skills really go.
The Obitine Arranged Marriage AU is something I wrote up on Tumblr, and you can find it here. I ALSO dislike Obitine and don't think it should be a thing and that's actually exactly why I wrote the AU, to explore what a relationship between them might have actually looked like and just how miserable and disastrous it would've been for both of them. What fleeting feelings had been there from their teenage hormones would NOT have lasted very long when up against some of the outside pressures they'd have faced.
The major thing I wanted to do in that AU was sort-of make something that went AGAINST a lot of the more popular tropes I see with Obi-Wan. So not only does it explicitly look at how BAD this relationship with Satine would be because of how badly matched their personalities are, it ALSO explicitly has Obi-Wan not at all happy in Mandalorian culture. He's not accepted within it and it's SO vastly different from Jedi culture that he can't be truly comfortable within it. He assimilates as much as he is required to as Satine's spouse, but he doesn't LIKE it much and tries to hold onto as much of his Jedi culture as he can, regardless of how uncomfortable it might make Satine or the other Mandalorians feel.
I tried to make the AU not like... a demonization of Satine, but she doesn't come off well in it, either. I'm not a huge fan of her character and I'm especially not a fan of her relationship with Obi-Wan. I am personally of the opinion that the way that relationship is written sort-of ruins Obi-Wan as a character in many ways, and that feeling absolutely comes across in this AU. Satine is... prioritizing other things in the AU above Obi-Wan, and while that can be an admirable trait on its own, it becomes very clear that it has an adverse effect on her personal relationship with someone she asked to make a major sacrifice for her. And as that relationship continues to dissolve and sour, she gets defensive because she's a teenager under immense amounts of political pressure and something has to give and she decides to let it be her relationship with Obi-Wan.
This is kind-of an exploration of exactly why this kind of relationship DOES NOT WORK unless both parties are particularly willing to enter into this dynamic. Satine CANNOT prioritize Obi-Wan over her people and her duty, but she married him, and Obi-Wan had certain expectations about how that would look that are completely unmet, which lea ds to resentment and frustration on both sides. Obi-Wan is also just someone who isn't going to be happy sitting on the sidelines doing nothing, so this dynamic works extremely badly for him in a way it may not for someone else.
Satine does ultimately come around and start to realize just how much damage she's done and tries to make amends, but in many ways it's too late. Obi-Wan is TRYING and Satine is TRYING, but they just. Can't. Connect. They can't understand each other now that they're not within the relatively simpler situation of being on the run for their lives, and that inability to see from each other's perspectives rips them apart.
All that to say that if you do not like Obitine, the Obitine Arranged Marriage AU is probably for you lol.
#star wars#obi-wan kenobi#obitine critical#obitine arranged marriage au#satine critical#satine kryze critical#if ships are important to you then the two ships that i end up putting into this au are codywan and quinobi#(and a side of vox i think. i can't recall if i mention it explicitly in the post but if not then know that it's there in my head)#the codywan is asexual but the quinobi is not#both relationships would probably be on the aro spectrum because. ya know. jedi#the AU DOES technically also deal with anakin and anidala and is - obviously - critical towards both#and finally it is also a happy fix-it au because i put obi-wan thru a lot and wanted him to be allowed to be happy at the end
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stripedroseandsketchpads replied to this post:
1) I’m very sorry to hear about the fandom sexists (god are they everywhere—“nasty woman” much? They sound like Andrew Tate, jfc!)
Thanks! Certain parts of Austen fandom are fairly conservative and very gender-normative and that's definitely come up in response to that particular fic before. First Impressions was my most popular Austen fic on AO3 for years, but other parts of fandom struggled more with the idea of a f!Darcy who does pretty much everything that canon Darcy does being desirable to a man, or appealing to anyone at all.
(In fairness to them, some of those spaces ended up actually having conversations about why Catherine registered as colder and more unpleasant than Darcy even when doing exactly the same things, interrogating their own double standards, etc.)
This isn't the only reason to dislike the fic or Catherine, of course—I made my other post late last night when I was tired and forgot to clarify that! It's from 2010 and definitely has flaws. It's just that there was (and apparently still is) a very glaring divide between the responses from the more progressive and queerer side of fandom and the more conservative and heteronormative side, wrt Catherine in that fic specifically (even though it's a het fic!).
2) Your fic concepts are impeccable, I followed you for genderbend blogging and I really need to spend sone time trawling your AO3
Thanks! I have written a ton of fic over the years, so some are definitely weaker than others, but I have fun with them.
Also, my experience is that most people are very much not here for genderbending, so that's really nice to hear!
Also tbh as a lesbian often writing lesbians… “step on me” any time a woman is the tiniest bit not-nice or does anything perceived as “mannish” (including being the tiniest bit not-nice) doesn’t feel much better…
it feels like ppl think femdom is “taking the most toxic possible iteration of misogyny in D/s dynamics w a male dom & female sub (bc obv male dom/female sub can be perfectly fine!) and flipping it so the man is in the ‘girl role’ and the woman is in the ‘male role’” and. Heavy sigh.
A lot of AO3 comments give off the vibes of “She’s totally a bitch but I can say that bc I like it and think it’s hot. Feminism!” RIP.
Hmm. It really depends on context for me. My experience with it has come pretty overwhelmingly from other queer people, primarily queer women—that may reflect my social circle!—and that feels very different to me than an environment overwhelmingly dominated by straight women being like "ew, a woman acting like Darcy is so awful."
Like, sometimes it does definitely give a "me finding anything between slight assertiveness and mass murder in a woman hot is totally praxis" vibe that's annoying. But annoying in a very different way!
I will also say, in fairness to the AO3 First Impressions commentariat, that they did not literally say "step on me, Catherine," lol. I was just quickly characterizing the sort of vibe there—it was more like "I'm gay for Catherine" "you managed a female Darcy without making it feel like she's being punished, awesome" "Miss Darcy is a gem" "one of my favorite versions of Darcy" "I have a crush on Miss Darcy" "fem!Darcy 4ever and ever amen" etc. So the contrast with the "I don't get what Henry sees in her???" "I guess he wants to be dominated because he's weak" "Darcy could never be a woman" etc is just very sharp.
#stripedrosesandsketchpads#respuestas#nice things people say to me#fic talk#fic talk: first impressions#austen blogging#austen fanwank#a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide#catherine darcy#general fanwank#lady anne blogging#genderbending#long post
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2, 3, 8, and 19 for the fandom game, for any fandom(s) you feel like talking about :)
(for 3, fic and/or meta posts, can't actually remember if you've posted straight up fic before haha)
2. My favorite fic from the fandom that I’ve read
I haven't read a ton of fic sadly (although I haven't read a lot in general the last few years due to college making me read So Many academic papers and books that I got burnt out and haven't quite recovered my love of reading. Yet). Although, my friend @lookerdewitt has written literally some of the best fic I have ever read, so I would probably say one of their fics.
3. My favorite fic from the fandom that I’ve written myself
I have actually sort of written fanfic (both legit fanfic, and also a few "thinly veiled technically fanfic if you changed the names" for a fiction writing class that I had to write several stories for and wanted to see if I could get away with it), but I haven't actually. Shared those fics with anyone? Partly bc I have historically almost never finished any fiction writing project that I have started, ever, and partly bc I'm just shy about sharing my writing in general.
I have been working on a LoZ fancomic idea for the past uhhhh four or five years (technically last decade since I first came up with the idea in late high school and then had it sit in the back of my head for several years bc all I had was a setting and a handful of characters), and I have never in my life stuck with a project this long, so I guess that would be my favorite from my personal works bc it's apparently something I care about enough to not abandon entirely. I've actually made a decent amount of progress on my "detailed outline" recently, so here's hoping I can stick it out and actually get to the script and then to drawing pages one day.
For meta posts I think my favorite is actually my analysis of the Octopath 1 cast and how the major antagonists in each of their stories acts as a mirror and foil to each character. I really enjoy analyzing stories in general, but I so rarely write it out, so I was happy to actually do so for once. Gave me a lot of confidence for all the other meta and headcanon posts that I wrote afterwards.
There's also a Legend of Dragoon meta post sitting partly-finished in my drafts where I analyze themes surrounding each dragoon spirit and its wielders, which I haven't finished bc I only remember to work on it when I'm doing my yearly replay of LoD, and also bc it started looking like it might need to be a series of posts due to uh....length. Like I make a lot of lengthy posts, but each dragoon spirit's analysis was about a short essay's worth of words, and there are eight spirits soooo....hopefully I'll finish that one day, bc it's an analysis I've spent years thinking about.
8. Is there anything I wish people would write more about in fics? (A dynamic, an exploration of an arc, just a character that doesn’t get much screentime, etc)
I'm always a sucker for post-canon healing/recovery/rebuilding arcs. Can't get enough of them honestly (when I have the motivation to read). There's something so fascinating about looking at a character who Went Through Some Stuff, but the main narrative didn't look at the effects of that, and so a dedicated writer took up the challenge of trying to explore what comes after.
Most of my favorite characters are weird side characters who don't get a lot of love from the writers of canon or fans, so I'm always glad to see stuff for them as well.
19. Favorite headcanon
Oh hmmm, there's a lot and it depends on which media we're talking about, so if you're curious about a specific game let me know. Off the top of my head though hmm...
Okay I have this headcanon that Milo TriStrat snorts when she laughs genuinely. Like sure she's got the ladylike proper, cute laugh that's part of her spy job and totally fake, but when she is being fully honest and laughing for real, she snorts.
#space-spring#ask game#I still don't have an ask tag#the fact that I got an idea in high school wrote a short blurb that I didn't feel was going anywhere and shelved said idea for uh#close to a decade before I suddenly all at once had a plot to go with the setting and characters like#never throw out your old stuff I guess you never know when it'll come back to you
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Writer 20 Questions
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1. How many works do you have on AO3?
58
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
177,314
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Dragon Age, fairy tale retellings, and one fic each for Sherlock Holmes and Batman
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
so Fade to Black and Fade to Black and Back, my two multi-chapter smut series for Star Wars Rebels, are I guess going to be my enduring fandom legacy lol. 637 kudos for the first and 452 for the second.
After that it's...more smut, but Talk About It is Dragon Age smut, and I guess my most popular stand-alone story at 399 kudos.
Then it's back to Star Wars Rebels, but Wedding Dance (377 kudos) is a gen fic, so that's my most popular non-smut piece. Braided at 320 kudos is another explicit one.
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I always mean to, but sometimes when a bunch come in at once I get overwhelmed. I try and go back and respond to unanswered comments every time I revisit an old fic. Just this week I answered a couple that were seven years old *wince*. It's never too late, right?
6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
That's Scenes From Rivendell, no question. I can still make myself cry re-reading that fic. Poor Celebcarch.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Most of them have happy endings really, but I'll say the happiest is Marriage of Convenience, because it was written to provide a happy ending for Alistair and Anora--and that's a pairing that only arises out of some pretty grief-laden circumstances in Dragon Age: Origins. So that's the fic that takes something sad and makes it better.
8. Do you get hate on your fic?
A couple times people have tried to chide me for writing smut, which is like ??? Did you not see ALL the warnings? My sister what were you even doing at the devil's sacrament?
9. Do you write smut?
I doooooo. Yes I do. I don't feel even a little bit bad about it, either.
Sex is important! It's one of the most intense, emotion-rich experiences in life! Especially in a love story--there is nothing that will tell you more about the dynamic between two people than showing how they have sex. And the smut is the part that's usually left out in mainstream media, so it's the big "missing piece" that I am often drawn to want to fill in, creatively.
10. Do you write crossovers?
I haven't, but it would be a fun challenge.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I'm aware of!
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yes and it's the best feeling every time. Same for getting podfic made of my stories, or fanart. Just the best.
13. Have you ever co-written a fic?
No, but from rp experiences, I think collabs are absolutely the way to go if possible. It just gets lonely writing on your own, and having a partner keeps the energy up.
14. What‘s your all-time favorite ship?
Space pirate OCs. But excluding my own characters... man, I've had poor luck with my ships, honestly. Looking back through the characters I was really passionate about, canon screwed me one way or another on all of them. I loved Mulder/Scully, Xena/Gabrielle, and Kanan/Hera, and all of their shows went off the rails at the end, so I think about them all with a tinge of sadness now.
It's better to love your own characters, because then at least when you make awful things happen to them, it doesn't come as a surprise.
15. What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
My only current WIP is a kid's book, and I hope I do finish it!
16. What are your writing strengths?
Dialog, and also there's a sort of lyrical register that I can shift into pretty easily (it's a trick I often use for endings).
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
Oh, self-indulgence. Things like writing about Kanan's seaglass eyes, or people "growling" their dialog. Cheese, basically. I don't rein myself in too much for fanfic, but in original writing I have to be strict with edits because if I don't force myself to stay spare and restrained, I'm probably getting cheesy with it.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
Tricksy, very tricksy! It's certainly not something you can just hand off to Google Translate. I personally wouldn't do it unless I had some first hand experience with the language, or could consult with native speakers.
Funny story on that, for the space pirate novel, I had a bit where I needed an automated warning looping in various languages. The English was "Warning! Please evacuate the building!"
I asked my Russian friend to give me a translation, and he said I'd need to do some cultural translation first, because the Russian "would be a lot more direct. And they wouldn't say 'please.'" So he gave me Vnimaniye! Vyhodi zdaniye! which apparently translates more directly to "Attention! Exit building."
That's the kind of thing Google Translate can't do for you.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
X-Files. This was Usenet days. Alt.tv.x-files. Many many memories. At one point there was a spinoff group so we could roleplay, but not roleplay being in the show, exactly. Just like all living in a town. It was almost a proto-Tumblr.
I miss Usenet.
20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?
It might be The Last of the Rebel Angels: that one's not the best, I don't think, but it's the weirdest and most ambitious. I had something to say, and even if I only managed to sketch it out or gesture at it, there's still a really tender place in my heart for that fic.
Any fic writers who'd like to fill out the questions, please consider yourselves tagged!
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hello my dear friend abby xilianx.....for the fanfic ask game: 4, 5, 10, 19, 21, 22, 23 >:)
HELLO DEAR FRIEND KELS!! SORRY IM LATE I WAS AWAY FROM MY PUTER!!!
AND WOW LOOK AT ALL THOSE NUMBERS!! Aight...let's see here...
4. Pairing that makes no sense to you?
One that was…odd to see even existed was Luka/Father Balder. Just not my thing, but also just confused me more than anything lol Like...HE KILLED HIS DAD, LIKE WHAT LUKA DOING OVER THERE???
5. Favorite platonic pairing?
This one is a hard one…I guess (since I’m almost done with Nona the Ninth) the one I can think of is Pyrrha and Cam Hect? I love the family dynamic of them taking care of Nona 😭😭😭 Their dynamic is so wholesome and I love reading every bit with them in it.
10. Fandom that you've spent the most money on?
Oh…EASILY THE BIG MAN LOL (not shown here is every single Godzilla movie, because I own them all physically lol)
19. Fanfic you read again and again?
AHHHH THIS IS SO HARD!! I literally can’t narrow this down to just one, because I re-read quite a few. ‘night, I stand’ and ‘fowl play’ I’ve re-read quite a few times (THANK YOU KELS!!!), ‘To Lose You’ by Wilmaa because it hurts so bad BUT IT’S SO GOOD, THE CONCEPT ALONE IS AMAZING!! Also, ‘Your Soul Was Never Yours’ by Dikhotomia is one I love going back too. I absolutely love the concept and how it was written. I HAVE SO MANY OTHER FAVES BUT THESE ARE ALL I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW!!
21. Favorite fic trope?
Oh it gotta be that hurt/comfort or hurt/no comfort. They are both neck and neck. It's hard to pick between them. Love both reading and writing it (if you haven’t guessed already lol). I love seeing the stories and ideas people do with just heartbreaking events and subjecting my fave meows meows to tragedy, AND seeing if it’ll okay for them in the end lol
22. Least favorite fic trope?
I don’t think I’ve actually read enough to know the full list, but off the top of my head, I don't care for any sort of highschool AU or any school AU in general. I’ve never found a fic from any fandom that I’ve read that I found anything to like about it…I’d say there’s quite a few tropes I ain’t a fan of, but this one is off the top of my head!
23. Age when you started reading fanfic?
I wanna say later middle school/early high school, so 13-14??? I remember reading a few Godzilla fics here and there but I remember when I got into Doctor Who, that really opened the doors for me to really read fics. FUNNY ENOUGH THO, IT TOOK UNTIL BAYONETTA FOR ME TO ACTUALLY USE AO3….HAHA. I had only been a Fanficition.net user for so long…oh how I missed so many fics because of it.
THANK YOY FOR THE ASK, THESE ARE SO MUCH FUN TOO DO!!! YIPPIE!!!
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I used to ship SNS but have sort of moved away from it as I just lost interest. I kind of even dislike it now if I'm honest, and I think it's because I see it as evidence that Kishimoto is terrible at writing meaningful relationships between men and women. Not coding. There are interviews out there about how SS and NH were always going to be endgame, and it's easy to see this build up in Naruto Part 1. I think Kishikoto's execution was just terrible in the end, which made people feel the relationships were rushed. The reason SNS is beloved can be boiled down to Kishimoto fleshing Naruto and Sasuke out more than anyone else in the story. Nevermind the fact that he was only ever going to end the series with them as just friends. So, Kishimoto's misogyny and at times mediocre writing is to blame for SNS more than fans misinterpreting the work.
Sorry for getting back to you so late. I wanted to chew on this idea more since I couldn’t make up my mind on how to respond when I first saw this. I’ve come to the conclusion that I agree.
See, even when I did ship Sasuke and Naruto forever ago, I never bought the idea that Kishimoto secretly wanted it to be canon no matter how it was peddled to me. I can’t tell you with any certainty why I used to ship it, but I know part of the appeal is how interconnected the two of them and their stories are. What you said makes me think that Sakura was supposed to be similarly interconnected to them (to make a sun, moon, and earth dynamic, I guess), but she wasn’t well written enough/given enough relevancy for that to work. This would explain why she’s given so much panel time even when she isn’t doing anything and why she’s often added to Naruto/Sasuke’s thoughts and thinks about the two of them a lot rather than Kishimoto fully committing to Naruto and Sasuke alone being the focus.
It’s kind of like her character’s failing draws attention to how much more interesting Naruto and Sasuke’s dynamic is, especially since she’s meant to be the corner of a love triangle. From there fandom is gonna fandom and the two boys get shipped.
As for why she’s so poorly written, I’ve already said that I think that whole conversation is speculation (speculating is fine, I do it myself, I just don’t think I’m gonna take a hard stance on any conclusion right now). When it comes to whether or not Kishimoto is a misogynist, I won’t go as far as saying he is one, but I will say that if he is revealed/confirmed to be a misogynist, I wouldn’t be surprised.
I want to genuinely thank you for the ask, by the way. It’s not everyday that my mind’s changed, much less by some else (whether that be from my stubbornness or having spent too much time in certain parts of the fandom, hearing the same ideas/arguments over and over again is anyone’s guess), so it’s a nice treat whenever it happens. Again, I really appreciate the ask ‘cause I probably wouldn’t have considered it from this angle otherwise.
#thanks for the ask#sns analysis#fandom analysis#once again talking about Sakura’s bad writing#naruto#naruto shippuden#sakura haruno#naruto uzumaki#sasuke uchiha#i won’t tag this pro or anti sns since I don’t think that’s the point#my stooff
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Heeyy Ginger~~ 💕 self-love time! talk about which ones of YOUR creations (edits, artworks, fanfics) you like the most then send to other creators to do the same 💕
warning for 18+ discussion under the cut! minors dni please <3
WAIT THIS IS SO SWEET DON'T 😭😭😭
hmmngmgnhmg it is, of course, impossible to choose a favourite child - but i think if i had to pick just one to talk about then it's got to be blood sugar, baby!
this fic was written in the wake of imperium: cataclysm in late november of 2022, basically because prime universe!william solaire is really really hot already and imperium!william - aside from having literally no screentime, so i can say whatever i like about him - has the potential to be hot AND evil, which for me is like the ultimate combination 🤩🤩
my version of prime!william is very much a man who loves his children more than anything else - he won't let them get away with anything, per se, but he absolutely loves those two to pieces and holds his family very very close to his heart. imperium!william, then, takes that love and (as for everything in the imperium) whacks it up to eleven - so what happens then?
the solaires, for better or worse, really get the short end of the stick during catacylsm, so i really wanted to talk about what alexis and vincent's fates might have meant for william - what it might have done to him, feeling both his progenies die in such quick succession, and what that would have made him do now.
in canon, we also have that first william audio where lovely meets him for the first time - this fic is sort of my answer to that, i guess? it's never clear if they ever met in the imperium before vincent died or not, but i think it's unlikely they ever did. it also felt kind of boring to me, that they get rescued by asher but then we never hear anything about them again, so the idea of william kidnapping lovely and staging this first meeting was born!
the vibe of this fic rests quite heavily on the aesthetics of it all - the room around lovely (and william himself, now that i think about it) gets described in a way that's trying to show the reader that the house is quite old and quite expensive! things like william's gloves and handkerchief, the addition of a mantel clock, a chest of drawers, heavy curtains on the windows... all of those things are meant to suggest that we're dealing with a man who's very wealthy, and combined with lovely's restrained, confused body, there's the implication that he's also very powerful.
(obviously, we get that in the dialogue and the narration as well - william and lovely both mention the fact that he's a vampire king, and although lovely doesn't really know what that means, it's not difficult to infer that it means he's got a lot of money.)
the way that william speaks was actually not as difficult as i thought it would be to write - it's supposed to be slightly stilted, archaic, and a little bit awkward! it's referenced towards the beginning when lovely notices 'letters sticking and sliding where [they] don’t expect them', but that's all meant to get across the point that william a) is speaking with a noticeable french accent, b) is much, much older than lovely (by hundreds of years), and c) is much more formal in his speech than vincent was, and that lovely's used to.
in every iteration of this, lovely was always going to be tied to the bed for the whole time. while that does make for quite a nice (if obvious) reminder of the power dynamic here, there were actually two more significant reasons for having the scene play out with them stuck there: the first is that the idea of being tied to a bed has a whole load of, uh, explicit connotations that i wanted the reader to have in the back of their mind - sex and vampires kind of go together anyway, and i wanted to make william extra extra hot in this one because i think it's what he deserves and also i am an equal-opportunity vampirefucker and everyone deserves the chance to think about getting fucked by the sexy powerful rich vampire king, this is my contribution to society
the second reason is literally no more complicated than i wanted this to echo various conventions of film, specifically with an eye to horror and melodrama - our poor captured protagonist has been caught and is being tied to the railroad tracks, while our villain is busy monologuing up a storm.
(and wow, does william monologue in this one! you can probably tell that i wrote the dialogue first, and then went back in to fill in the rest - he really doesn't shut up at all...)
however, william was never going to be a purely evil character for me - i did my best to make him as sympathetic as possible, while still adhering to the conventions of the imperiumverse and making it clear that this is a world where the boundaries of socially acceptable and morally justifiable behaviour are absolutely not the same as the prime universe.
part of that is tied to that slightly laissez-faire, hand-wavey 'we're in the imperium, anything can happen' mentality that i like, but to me his attitude of 'i have to preserve anything i can of my children, anything at all just to prove that they existed' comes from a place of very deep, very tragic loss. it's an expression of desperation, of bitter regret, and of absolute and screaming grief.
this is a man who loved his children more than anything else in the world and who is not willing to let them go, and is now calmly explaining to lovely why that love justifies keeping them captive indefinitely. it makes sense to him, although he's not keeping them in exactly the same way that vincent kept them. vincent kept lovely as a food source - william is keeping them as a souvenir. he's hoping that lovely remembers vincent as fondly and as lovingly as he does.
lovely... isn't really sure if they do or not, but they're not immune to the imperium either - they were kept by vincent long enough that the stockholm syndrome had time to reasonably set in, enough that they definitely associated vincent with survival, with warmth and food and human contact, but can't quite figure out if what they're feeling is actually love. they're strangely upset that vincent never told them he had a sister, and they're surprisingly fine with the idea of getting revenge on vincent's killer. however, they know that what vincent did was, on some level, wrong - hence their confusion, and their slightly contradictory behaviour.
it's all about survival rather than affection for poor lovely, as shown by them asking william to stay ('if he leaves, there’s no telling when - if ever - he’ll come back for you. Call it personal experience.') but also refusing the water he offers them ('Like hell you’re drinking anything he gives you.'). they don't trust william, but they've learnt that the best way to survive is to obey.
the ending with william trancing lovely is deliberately ambiguous - does he turn them? does he keep them as a human? it's entirely open to interpretation, but my personal version is that he keeps them human for a little bit in a sort of weird, vincent-esque way? they're kept in much better conditions than vincent had them in, but it's william's twisted attempt to emulate his son, and feel closer to him by doing things as vincent did them (hence why he calls them 'my little thrall-to-be'). then, after that, he does turn lovely into a vampire to keep them 'preserved' forever, eternally attached to him and kept in his house.
it's implied that there's some degree of attraction there, at least in a sexual sense ('You shiver slightly, but you’re not sure why. “Oh, is that it? That’s what you want - to be good for me?” A playful smirk. “You spoil me, darling.”'), but the extent of that is also up to the reader's interpretation. all i'm saying is that he's hot on purpose, the long hair and the gloves were absolutely on purpose, and i don't blame you <3
my favourite favourite part of this has got to be that last dreamy bit ('There’s a house in the woods, a very long way away...') - if i remember correctly, i think i wrote that bit quite early on but saved it, because it didn't really fit the tone of the rest. it's designed to read like a closing montage sequence in a film, where the dialogue has finished and the music is coming to a finale, and i think it mostly worked...?? idk i'm just really pleased with how it turned out, especially the sensory description there! the house that lovely mentions is deliberately left unclear - you can decide whether i meant it to be vincent's or william's. i have to keep some secrets, after all 🥰🥰
honourable mentions: get in, loser!, a ring on the carousel, motion capture, resist and elongate, mad or sublime, five more minutes
#girl who writes essays for a one paragraph question uh oh#thank you so much for this ask!! too damn nice to me i tell you#been in a bit of a writing slump since the mer fic so v nice to think happy thoughts abt an older piece :DDD#i say it about them all but this really is my baby#the gals (gn) on discord heard me screaming my head off as i was writing it and i'm sure i sounded like an idiot#but i'm pretty pleased with the result#this one more than anything is a love letter to more cerebral and psychological horror#as opposed to the gorier 'bury the hatchet' or the uncaring viciousness of 'wrapped up in clover'#i mean this fic isn't EXACTLY psychological horror in the classic sense but ykwim#ginger speaks to lovely blogs#<333333333333333333
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Twenty Questions for Fic Writers
Tagged by @staceymcgillicuddy. Thanks!!
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
42! I have more on ff.net.
2. What's your total AO3 word count?
1,612,657. She a chatty bjtxh.
3. What fandoms do you write for?
rn just Stranger Things, but in the past I've written for Criminal Minds (that's sort of...ongoing, I guess), L&O:SVU, The X-Files, Sailor Moon, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy, The Stand, and Homicide: Life on the Street. Also there's my roosthoard crackfic.
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
Sharp as Nails, Soft as Honey (hellcheer)
You've Earned It (Barba/Carisi from SVU)
Longing (Juice/Chibs from SoA)
Come With Me Tonight (Juice/OC, SoA)
The Space Between (hellcheer)
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I try to! Sometimes I forget and then I feel awkward replying like ages later. I never replied to a bunch on Space Between and feel bad about it. :/ So now I try to respond right away bc I want ppl to know how much I appreciate their support.
6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
None of my fics end angstily. They might have angsty events, but everything always resolves happily. I write fic to fix shit, not to make it worse!!
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Ummmmm...lol! Probably the sort-of crackish sequel to Come WIth Me Tonight, Under My Skin. Juice, Chibs, and my OC move to a Greek island and raise goats and bees and have sex all the time. What could be better??
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Not lately, but Come With Me did get some bullshit, mostly bc the SoA fandom didn't like the idea of a more submissive Juice Ortiz (dumb, frankly), and they just in general like to hate on OCs.
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Yup. Didn't start until my spn fic, Half of Something Else, but since then yeah. Most of them have had smut. Sometimes it's more vanilla, but I usually do prefer to play with power dynamics. Some have outright D/s stuff goin on, but I usually don't get that "formal" with it.
10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?
I've got the crack-ish roosthoard fic, which I plan on turning into a series, and once I tried to write an X-Files/CriMi but couldn't really get anywhere with it. So usually no, I don't.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not as far as I know. I'm not popular enough, which is fine w me.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
I was about to say no, but then I remembered back in the day someone translated my Sailor Moon fics. So yes!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Sort of? Like, not officially, but nearly everything I write these days is at least partially co-written with @tonybourdain
14. What's your all-time favorite ship?
Oh gosh. Ummmm...okay, either Jon/Aryn from Farscape or Jaime/Claire from Outlander.
15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?
Oh geez. I want to finish my Stand fic SO badly, but idk if it's gonna happen. Also my SoA fic Get You In. I know what I want to happen, but writing it is the hard part. :/ But the one I know I'll probably never finish is Collide, my SVU fic. Like the other two could get finished some day, but that one? Prob not.
16. What are your writing strengths?
Dialogue, esp banter. I think I'm pretty funny. Also giving my sentences and paragraph a certain rhythm. I have a good ear.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
I get stuck in ruts. Like repeating myself a lot.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
I've done bits and pieces of other languages in my fic, but if I needed anything more complex or longer, I'd get someone who spoke whatever language to help me.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Homicide: Life on the Street, I think. Then very shortly after that, The X-Files. Or maybe vice versa I don't remember.
20. Favorite fic you've written?
I really really love my spn fic Half of Something Else. There's this whole bit that takes place near a swamp that I just adore. But also my SoA magnum opus, Come With Me Tonight. I poured my blood, sweat, and tears into that baby.
Right now I'm really enjoying my current hellcheer WiP, With Teeth. I think it's gonna be good.
I'm gonna tag @anniecrestaodairs, @prosopopeya, and @lightsaroundyourvanity
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Asking here so tumblr won't eat your replies in the meronia tag. Do you have any headcanons for them (or for lawlight) in an omegaverse setting?
both grateful to you for the consideration bc UGH!!! WHY IS IT EATING MY POSTS!!! and mildly horrified that i am going to blast this at 8x as many people as i would be blasting it at on my sideblog.
100% kidding. i already spent, like, three separate posts talking about spit at this point, so i think any illusion of dignity i once held is long gone.
however. to be totally honest with you i have spent approximately zero moments thinking about the omegaverse, and i will say i don't have any original thoughts for lawlight ever & have no intention of writing them. i pretty much exclusively enjoy them bc of the immense talent of authors within the fandom; i don't think i would have ever warmed up to the idea of them together otherwise.
so, having it out of the way that my skull is completely empty on this topic, allow me to seriously entertain it. there are a few things that i think work well about the trope, and a few things i think could be tricky. for example— the most obvious upside is that the dynamics give an obvious, easy excuse for characters to act on their attraction to one another despite whatever hurdles stand in the way, which make it an appealing option in some ways for meronia given the somewhat complicated vibes going on there (& there's i guess an opportunity for continued complicated vibes since it could be written to have them hook up before actually sorting through any of the “Mello being bitter as all fuck” shit gets resolved). second thing that i feel like fits nicely for them is the possessiveness aspect because. uhhh. Mello is very abnormal about Near in a lot of ways and imo that's Definitely One Of The Ways He's Weird. third reason that i can, like, see the appeal is that there's the built-in intensity kind of inherent to the trope, which again could be made more interesting and fraught by a persistently messy dynamic between them.
to me what makes it less appealing is that the very basic default dynamic in omegaverse is not one i find particularly compelling for Mello & Near. not saying that it's Bad or Wrong or Incorrect Writing or anything, just that it's not, like, my thing for them. i think the dynamic probably Could be done in a way i would enjoy, i just think it would have to be executed in a certain way. also i am going to put this in the clunkiest way possible bc it's late on my body clock rn (<- excuse; i'm actually just stupid) but like. something about the idea of Near being submissive due to Biology Reasons just kind of bores me idk. i very much enjoy writing him being into Mello bossing him around but i prefer for him to be actively kinda freaky about it tbh, and something about the Innate Biology Stuff of omegaverse kind of dulls that effect for me. maybe there would be a way around it, but that would be a possible sticking point in terms of interest for me.
all of this being said i definitely borrowed a tiny tiny tiny bit from omegaverse for i'm lost and i'm lonely (i hunger for you only) [which is, by the way, not recommended reading as i feel like i need to rework mello's characterization now that i'm more used to writing him, but it's still a concept i like a lot. if you go into it with the knowledge that it's a bit OOC (suspension of disbelief: Mello having a single ounce of emotional intelligence & self-awareness at age 18) then i imagine it could still be kind of a fun, short, highly incomplete read].
i pretty much just borrowed the idea of like, biting & bonding (bc it's. about Near being a vampire. hehe) but it's a T rated fic (... for now) so it's, like. not a sex thing idk. that being said, if i was going to write omegaverse for them (i do not see this happening bc i have a lot of WIPs i find compelling already) it would probably be with the same sort of setup in that fic (mafia Mello coming back to Wammy's bc Near is mysteriously/suspiciously super fucking sick & shit is looking bleak)
anyways. i'm sorry if this isn't what you were hoping for bc i didn't give you literally any headcanons but!! it was a fun question to engage with still, so thank you for asking it. also, final thought, Light is an omega. GOODBYE
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Do you have any ships for Marianne or Daighre? If you do, would you like to gush about them?
i woke up to this (two days ago lol) and was like 'whoa don't give me too much platform about this topic' hahaha
okay just IM GIVING YOU ONE LAST CHANCE TO BACK OUT lol no too late for that. this isn't just romantic ships but also friendships because uwu i love it when someone adopts marianne.
aight so fiiiirst, @dcwnthercbbithcle IDK MAN, I THINK WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING EACH OTHER FOREVER why did we just talk now coz Fiadh and my baby just clicked together so well. i'm always super happy to find muses that are involved in the cycle one verse coz i think marianne is somehow a different person back then living a different life altogether. it's a pretty confined life, yes, and that's why i'm so happy she has fiadh aka literal force of nature. i think bunni just knows how to talk to me coz we just keep yelling back and forth at each other about daighre and fiadh and it's all fun and games until your bestie chooses to kick the bucket on you after all you've been through - literal lore getting written because of their shenanigans, going through a war and grief, balancing their domains and friendship together, and then she's gone and you have to go through your long lame life alone. and the best part is meeting again in the future and knowing things have changed between them but they're kinda clinging to some semblance of the past, one because she remembers, the other coz she does not. HAVE YOU SEEN THE LONG HEADCANONS BUNNI WRITES FOR THEM I CANNOT I AM CRY
next is allie. i'm so thankful for @wildcxrds for being marianne's first bestie when she got back in the rp scene. i love this because they share the same element - fire - but have veeery different dispositions. where marianne is temperamental, allie is patient. where marianne is quick to anger, allie is all patience. and extra points because allie is an orphan and yet she's the one who sort of adopted marianne. anyway, i'm so glad i'm seeing you around again! excited to write with you once more!!!
@cfgcdsandmcnsters's malakai. this guys should be a lesson to all that when you say "sEnD shIppY meMes EvEn if wE DoN'T hAVe A shIP" WILL GET YOU A MEME AND A SHIP AHAHAHA. oKAY BUT FIRST LET ME SAY THAT LILA IS LITERALLY THE BEST HGJSFGJSHDFGJHG SO AMAZINg. I'm so terribly sorry Marianne isn't as creative as Malakai and all she can come up with is a dumb nickname while she gets something poetic AF ahahahaha. I'm sorry what, i can't hear you over eventide sun HAHAHAHA. he's sooo gentle with her and it kinda annoys her? like 'wtf you can't always put me first, mal'. never thought marianne would ever hang out in a punk club but what can we do...
@vihilum and i one day jumped on discord and just planned the entire dynamics of reed and marianne and HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? OH yes because i randomly doodled a thing and bam! ship. anyway, i know you're not here a lot but i just want to say anyway that i loved what we talked about and your enthusiasm for their dynamics. your demon child reed will always have a home in marianne whenever your guys are back.
and you're last @heksery because i can (no because you have two, wtf that's illegal). this is funny coz we were both out of tumblr when it happened, there were memes before there were even ships, and honestly, the ships happened because of the memes. ironically, i haven't finished the meme that started this. it's not much but i will finish it anyway otherwise i will feel like i've tricked u into doing this HAHAHAHA. i think i once said their trope is found family but how to unfind them HAHAHA i love that Marianne gets some degree of pass from jules and pat HAHAHAHA
if you've heard of fun's some nights "coz i could use some friends for a change", i guess that's her thing with jules especially. like, does she fully trust jules? no, but she's not looking for someone who will 100% not stab her in the back and who has a shiny moral compass. she's there for jules' strength and no-nonsense attitude and her begrudging way of showing love because, i think, at the back of her mind marianne knows she has also this begrudging way of accepting love. if jules wants to take care of people but she doesn't wanna admit it, marianne wants to be taken care of but HAHA she doesn't recognize it either so jules can insult her and she can angrily accept.
idk what she liked about patrick. he's hot? but yeah no kidding, it's probably that plus the swag and power and his hair lol. that's soooo sexy to her but also annoying AF. and your boi can't resist egging her on and she can't resist wanting to take him down a notch but they have to watch their tempers because it's either breaking the bed or breaking the house probably. just like with jules, i don't think marianne would ever admit it but she feels safe in his presence because she knows he could take her attitude and he could also take her on - in a banter, in a fight, in *ahem* other stuff - like in terms of power he can match her. so it's basically the touch her and you die but also touch him and you die so just let me scream quietly in my corner thanks
haha oh well i think that's all. i probs said too much, but hey, you asked XD I just wanna thank everyone who puts up with me about this ahahaha *sinks back to the sea*
#(.ask me i should know: answered)#haha thank you for asking uwu#i hope your breakfast/lunch/dinner is fine AF
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For the ask meme , what about jadzia ?
favorite thing about them
she’s just. genuinely very enjoyable. like I feel like other characters I have more specific things to say about them but she’s literally just very fun to watch I love her beautiful woman weird guy who is also a worm energy. her swagger her panache her power. all the scenes where she’s doing her professional science job and also just saying some vaguely insane shit are important to me. but then like I also think one of the most interesting things in her character was kind of unintentional as they were trying to sort her out where early jadzia was a lot quieter and more serious and theoretically more like she was before joining and then she just kind of evolves into her final form. like I don’t think that was intentional I think they just kinda went hmm this character isn’t working let’s try something else but I think the idea that sometimes it’s this gradual progression towards a balance (in a different way than it is for ezri later as well) is an interesting one.
least favorite thing about them
it’s too easy to talk about tears of the prophets and the whole like “she’s never mentioned that they want kids before now but since they’re killing her off she is now Woman Who Wants A Baby because i guess her death isn’t tragic enough otherwise, and it feels like cheating to talk about how “if worf hadn’t shown up it would’ve been you” (idr if that’s the exact quote and I refuse to look it up but it’s like that) is a horrendous retcon, but holy shit everything that happened at the end of s6 into s7 was like. it’s just so clearly spiteful?? like I’m not breaking new ground here we all know it but god.
also I do think her willingness to just like throw her life away for some random guy she met two days ago is kind of funny but if I knew her in real life it would drive me insane
brOTP
benjamin!! literally just. I mean she has great dynamics with so many people and some of them didn’t even get ruined in s7 but they’re so important to each other both across lifetimes and as sisko and Jadzia Specifically that they gotta take the top spot
OTP
I do like worfzia a lot when they’re written well (90s trek loved the “a relationship can’t be interesting unless they’re fighting about dumb shit all the time” school of thought, and while some of their arguments made sense bc they had conflicting worldviews and experiences and shit that they should reasonably have to struggle to work out, some of them felt like they were more a feature of this). but also kiradax soooo deeply important to me from like late s1 onward and I simply think. what if they were wifes.
nOTP
sigh ok I’m gonna talk about it but just like. I really liked what the julian and jadzia friendship settled into!! she wasn’t into him and he eventually got over it enough that they could become rly good friends!! and like I’ve said this before but I get if he still had lingering feelings ik that doesn’t always just go away but like. to treat it like it was ever remotely mutual is so disingenuous and a disservice to both characters imo
random headcanon
this is really specific but I like to think she kind of loosely keeps in contact with arjin (the trill initiate she was the field docent for) even if he doesn’t go on to be joined. I think it would be nice if they had a little like pen pal mentorship thing going on every so often yknow.
unpopular opinion
it’s funny I feel like there aren’t a lot of wildly differing opinions on jadzia. like generally speaking pretty much everyone thinks she’s enjoyable? I feel like I have seen people say she’s not the best written character and I don’t think they’re Wrong (and i do feel like to a degree they do more interesting trill stuff with ezri) but it also doesn’t. bother me that much in this case tbh.
song i associate with them
I can’t remember who it was anymore but someone mentioned recessional by vienna teng as a kira/jadzia song but after ezri shows up and it’s.
yeah…………..
favorite picture of them
if I don’t talk about rejoined at some point during this I’ll die for real so here it is ⬆️⬆️⬆️ women kiss
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re: blam and star wars, it could be either! would love to see both the essay and the fic (but only if you're so inclined of course)
oh anon, i'd be happy to. leave the fic with me; i have an idea.
as for my blam + star wars general thoughts ok, ok, so this is a wider point i want to make that's a little wishy washy and unestablished but pretty much comes down to the use of pop culture within glee and the impact that has on character dynamics so, uh, buckle up.
so
ok, the thing is, when you watch glee you can't for a single moment forget it's written by forty year old man. you just can't. every pop culture reference feels either too late or meant for the wrong generation, and i get that making a show that's trying to keep up with trends when you film so far in advance that they'll be long over when the episode airs can't be easy, but it also means the characters frequently feel like they're trapped in a bubble the audience can't really relate to.
the pop culture categories that actual work are:
musical theatre
everything blam has going on
and that's it. musical theatre kids knowing about musical theatre in a show designed around musical theatre kids is about as straight up safe as you can get. of course rachel would know about shows that haven't been staged in over a decade. of course kurt's references would be niche. of course they'd sing songs that first came out in the 1950s and not think twice about it. it's musical theatre, baby! knowing tony award winners and who's collabed with who and every word to every song barbra streisand's ever even contemplated singing is par for the course.
(this is why my most hated line of the show is in the new rachel when tina utters the cursed words "what rachel would sing, the song of the summer, call me maybe" and my soul immediately leaves my body never to return because who the fuck wrote that who thought that was okay did they just walk off the street with no prior knowledge of the show please god someone explain.
call me maybe is a jam.
in no literal universe would rachel choose that song what the fuck what the fuck what the fuc--)
every other pop culture reference the characters in this show make is...less convincing, like, a lot less. the sort of less that really hammers home the point that ryan murphy just woke up one morning and decided to write about teenagers and his only research was listening to the radio on his way to work.
it's better earlier in the show, but they run out of ideas/stop even trying by, like, late season two.
then there's blam. and, okay, blaine still absolutely falls into this trap alone/with other characters, but combined with sam - who's own references are actually normally pretty spot on - we can forgive it.
instead of media meant specifically for, like, three people born before 1975, sam and blaine talk about comics and nickelodeon shows and star wars and artists actually on the radio! they dress up as superheroes and play video games and read fanfiction!
all this lets us fill in the gaps, too. it tells us 'hey, these are two teenagers doing teenage things'. it's not a leap to guess they have sleepovers and spend the weekends hanging out. we know they spend time together outside of school, that their ambition isn't the thing that ties them together, and that they're both involved in extracurriculars that aren't glee. blaine's a cheerio, sam's on the (synchronised) swim team, they run the superhero club, and they're student body vice/president.
they're friends.
and i can't believe i'm saying this, but it took until season four to actually see that between characters.
sure, the others fall in and out of friendships between dramas and ambitions and/or the neglect of the writers (kurt and mercedes just stopping interacting was a particular sore spot) but for the most part we're never actually shown solid friendships between them that aren't the last five minutes of an episode in which they sing something emotional together to show the audience 'hey, look how close they are! see! this totally makes up for continuity and development!'
hell, we had two whole seasons of kurt, rachel, and santana living together in new york and i'm still convinced they all despised each other.
when the only things tying you together are talent and ambition ("gave me a chance to shiiiiiine") then, uh...i'm not sure that's actually friendship, whatever the show kept trying to hammer home.
if they'd just thrown in hints every few episodes that rachel and kurt were going to see shows together regularly and dissecting them afterwards, or that finn and puck had things in common that weren't just their terrible past of bullying, then i probably wouldn't have found the sam/blaine friendship so revolutionary.
(this is when everyone comes at me and says that kurt and rachel were best friends and, like. lol. ok. sure. season one kurt and mercedes, i'll give you. otherwise we have literally no proof that any of these kids even interacted outside of school and/or romantic relationships. even some of those were distinctly 'school hours only' let's be real, artie i'm looking at you. sam lived with kurt's family and kurt still openly dislikes him by season five. and new york was a shit show, let's not pretend otherwise.)
and i realise i haven't said a single thing about star wars yet so like ok
most of what we see of sam and blaine's friendship is in season four. sam mentioning that blaine reads him star wars fanfiction to help him fall asleep was a vital reminder in season five of their dynamic. that what we see on screen isn't all there is. that the two of them still spend large portions of time just being nerdy, loving friends. that they're still teenagers.
i'm sorry but teenagers nerding out over star wars together and reading fic and going on wiki spirals ("hey, i just read a website all about ewoks and how they're polygamists!") and treating the fact that they're sharing a room in the city like one everlasting sleepover is just about the most realistic thing glee's ever done, fight me.
that their friendship's forged over pop culture feels right and real and lasting.
so, idk. i guess star wars feels like a perfect representation of glee getting it right (for once).
it's also a throwaway line that tells us a dozen other lovely little things about their friendship that maybe we hadn't seen in a while.
so yeah. glee is 90% outdated references, 8% borderline relevant ones, and 2% blam being the saving grace of the later seasons.
(and on a headcanony note, pals, pals, blaine anderson would have crushed the ever living hell on of both han solo and obi-wan kenobi, and sam evans will one day look at a picture of hayden christensen and natalie portman and realise why he wore out his copy of revenge of the sith as a kid, i don't make the rules.)
...............it's half past midnight what the fuck is wrong with me.
#replies#anonymous#'it is two thousand nineteen you think i want to talk about glee' and all that#why am i like this
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some thoughts on writing fanfiction and how for me it's just sapphic venting (as opposed to being out of passion for homestuck):
so, tho i kinda sat out 2022 ive written a pretty substantial amount of homestuck fanfiction over the last few years, plus another fic from the year i graduated late from high school (2014) (cw: cishet)
when i got into yuri because of bloom into you (the manga) i was filled with all these sapphic feelings i just had to get out somehow, and my mind drifted to my technically still extant ao3 account. i was relatively comfortable writing something involving nepeta since i had done so much research into writing her last time (i also used to do dumb omegle RP and stuff let's not talk about that--) so i just cast my mind around to find a cute girl to pair her with so that's why i ship fefnep
like i've written dozens of fics basically on me throwing at a dartboard
i'm not that passionate about homestuck right now. it's hussie's magnum opus and i unironically think it's a fantastic thing all around but i'm not passionate about it. so i guess i feel sort of apologetic being a lapsed fangirl but still writing fics for that space.
this is part 1 in my essay series on miwa and impostor syndrome (joke) (unless?)
i was gonna end it there but honestly i feel really limited by this ship. i don't like dream bubbles so you basically just get "i guess they live somewhere on alternia and might hang out idk", sburb (pain) and meteor (just kinda boring) as settings. it's difficult to write some sapphic stories because trolls don't shame each other for their sexuality and gay panic and gay realization stuff just can't happen. idk... i don't really know what else to do, i do still think they're cute together but i struggle. obviously i haven't written too much lately that i i felt like releasing so... yea
and i guess a postscript, i've mostly hung around this nepeta/equius/feferi/eridan bubble and it's comfy and i like the various headcanons i've come up for their dynamics. i also like how nepeta and feferi have done nothing in canon so you basically have to make stuff up for them to have real characterization and that's a fun writing prompt
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So. Some of you may have noticed that I’m a bit less active here of late. It’s true. I’ve been keeping my distance recently and the reason for it is simple:
I have kind of lost the steam to create content for this fandom and don’t feel like sharing my mdtb stuff with a wider audience at this point.
It feels counterproductive to do it too, if I’m being honest.
For one - and I’ve shared a lot of posts about it in the past - it is undeniable that low engagement is the thing that kills creators’ motivation. We create stuff for you, the fans and the fandom, as much as we create it for ourselves, and spending so much time on stuff and putting so much effort into it only for it to be ignored over and over, and over, and over again is very demotivating. I understand not everyone likes the same shit, I do, but still, it is not a nice feeling to spend hours or days on something and then seeing it disappear into the chasm of internet with barely any echo.
Another thing is that I like creating content that focuses on healthy relationships with lots of romance and fluff thrown into the mix. Even if the storylines are predominantly angst-focused, I do love my happy endings and stick to them most of the time with a few dishonourable exceptions. That being said, I don’t think this is particularly appealing to the mdtb fandom as it is right now. Maybe it never really was to begin with, but I was too into the ship to see it? No idea, really. All I know is that the current approach to this ship makes me want to keep my content to myself for now.
You know, the funny thing is that I keep seeing people post about how they got into mdtb for violence and hate, and that it’s for sure how everyone else got into this ship too. In hindsight, it should have made me realize this fandom maybe isn’t for me a while ago.
You wanna know how I got here? It was fluff, angst and hurt/comfort. The good stuff that ended happily and made me smile like an idiot. Specifically, it was the wonderful fics written by authors like reandown, blackkat, Kalira, keanblade, and many, many others that got me into this ship and made me want to create my own content for it. This is what got me hooked. Not violence. Not hate. Not whatever other bullshit dynamic you all want to shove down my throat to the point I’m beginning to choke on it. It was fluff and the amazing potential for these two broken men to find some happiness with each other.
Does it sound cliche? Maybe. Do I give a flying fuck? No. Will I continue shipping them this way? Absolutely.
The thing is I go to fandom overall to find good stuff and positive vibes. In short, I want it to make me feel better, not worse. I don’t mind a bit of pain, because it can provide a nice cleanse when you end up in tears over one moment or another, and I like my fluff with a side of angst besides. What I don’t want is violence and pain and hate all the way through in almost every single piece of content, and that’s what I have been getting.
My disclaimer here is that you can all create and enjoy whatever you want, guys. It’s your right to do so. But at the same time I would like to say that I’m sick and tired of some things, and I just need a break from it. Maybe some time off will help me push it all away and I will be able to forget about all the shitty, needlessly provocative, mean-spirited shit I’ve been seeing. Who knows. Time will tell, I guess.
On a side note and as a conclusion of sorts, I would also like to add that I get why people hate on this fandom so damn much. I will not elaborate further, but I do get where the hate is coming from and, in some cases, it is actually pretty fucking well-deserved too.
All in all, this is my partial hiatus announcement, I guess. I’ll continue posting chapters for my ongoing stories and I will also share the art requests I got, but I don’t think you should expect to see more new stuff from me for now.
I will come back at some point. I just need a break.
#mdtb#madatobi#personal#was it your intention to chase people out?#no clue#but that's what's happening regardless#i'm tired of this bs#maybe a break will help#who knows#for now it's lossie out
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hi hii I was wondering if you had any taekook x reader fics ? 🙈 , also wondering if I could I go as 🗯 anon if that's okay? I love ur recs so much and ur page is a LIFESAVER , ily bae <3
🌷 Dear 🗯️ anon! I am sorry for answering so late. My drafts are all messed up but I was able to focus on this. On my 📍 pinned post, I actually asked if you meant love triangles or MMF smut but you didn't reply. So, I'll just put both =)
Enjoy! Much love and credit goes to all these wonderful writers who brought these fics to life 💖🥳
TaeKook Fics (Taehyung x Reader x Jungkook)
Love Triangle/s
M/M/F Smutty One Shots/Series
#ReadwithMe (fics in my reading queue/planning to read)
Love Triangle
All I Want @ardentlyjae - series [6/6] | 126k | War AU, Soldier!Taehyung | Heavy Angst, S
I actually read this on AO3 but I realized it’s on tumblr too. I remember this fic every time I hear Kodaline’s All I Want, which the fic was inspired by
Anima Meaology @arckook - series [5/5] | 26k | Soulmate AU, soulmate glitch (those with mismatched tattoos on their wrist) | A, F
I read this long ago on AO3 when I had this soulmate AU-fixation phase and I saw it on tumblr recently. Just had to read it again 🥺
Aquarium, Part 2 @whatifyoulivelikethat - two shot | 6.9k | cheating/infidelity, healing/comfort, second chances | A, F
I really like this comfort fic 🥰. Also shows that people deserve second chances, even the person who caused so much hurt. Screamed about it here and here
Change @junghelioseok - series [10/10] | 39.2k | a kind handsome stranger (Taehyung) makes you question your deteriorating relationship (Jungkook) | A, S, F
can I just say that Taehyung is such a sweetheart here 🥰? I always envision Paris Taehyung 2018 in this
Everything Goes @jamaisjoons - one shot | 24k | Fuckboy!Taehyung, Bestfriend!Taehyung, Stranger!Jungkook, unrequited love | A, S (really angsty)
First Light @inktae - one shot | 24k | Bestfriend!Taehyung, Masked Jungkook who can’t seem to leave the forest, Fantasy AU, based on hotarubi no mori e | F
If you’ve seen my fic recs list, inktae is always part of my recs. The way they write is just emotionally and visually haunting. Their works are just masterpieces. This is beautifully heartbreaking and heartbreakingly beautiful.
House of Cards @aiimaginesbts - series [10/10] | 40k | infidelity au, taehyung in an arranged marriage with someone else, roommate Jungkook | A, S, F
don’t we all want to have a roommate like Jungkook who will be there to comfort you over your heartbreak over someone else?
Stealing the Bite by wildernessuntothemselves - series [6/6] | 37k | witch!reader x werewolf!taehyung x vampire!jungkook, supernatural au, fantasy au | S, A
I mentioned before that some are divided re the ending, so I wonder what’s going to be the reactions of others
The Muse @daddychims - one shot | 30k | Author!Reader, Bestfriend!Taehyung, Fuckboy!Taehyung, Coworker!Jungkook, Taehyung offered OC to watch him have sex with another so she could write an erotic scene | S, A, F
The Universe of Us (read on mobile) @/taesthetes (officially closed her account) - one shot | 21k | Dream AU, Fantasy, Slice of Life, Kimi no Nawa-inspired | F, A
I am never going to shut up about this fic lol. It’s not exactly a love triangle, ugh hard to explain but please read this wonderful fic. Check their other KTH x R x JJK soulmate fic Cloud Ten too.
When You Least Expect @johobi - series [12/14 + drabble] | 118k | Slow Burn, Love Triangle, Drama, Childhood Friend Taehyung, set up with another guy (Jungkook) | S, A, F
ugh, I want to put another tag about Jungkook but I guess it’s a surprise. I just love the drama 🍿
🌷 I’m forgetting two more fics but I’ll update this once I remember. I haven’t read recently released fics too! I’ll add if there are good ones that come along
MMF Smutty One Shots/Series
A Piece of You @httpjeon - one shot | 13.9k | abo dynamics, camboy AU, camgirl AU, fan jungkook joins the cam session | S, F
All’s Fair @kimvtae - one shot | 13k | soulmate AU, college AU, dating Taehyung for a year but different name (Jungkook) showed up on OC’s wrist (lol it’s not a problem if you can get them both) | S
Blacklisted @/httpjeon - one shot | 21k | dom/sub AU, CEO AU, “after departing from your dom, you’re assigned to two incredibly powerful men” | A, F, S
Business @btssmutgalore - two shot | 28.9k | executive!reader, inventors/start-up owners taekook | S (seriously, how could I have missed including this here)
Dulce Periculum @forgottenpasta - two shot [2/2] | 16k | Hybrid AU, Tiger Hybrid!Tae, Owner!Reader, Wolf Hybrid!Jungkook | S, A, F
Easy Like Sunday Morning @ofsugakookies - one shot | 11.8k | boyfriend AU (yes, both of them), dom!taehyung, sub!jungkook | S, PWP
It Takes Two To Make A Thing Go Right @imaginethisbts - two shot [2/2] 11.6k | Hybrid AU (dog hybrids) | S, A (side note: I realized I’ve read all of their fics! give their masterlist a try)
Just Kidding @/whatifyoulivelikethat - series [5/?] | 21.1k+ | nympho OC, friend Taehyung, tae’s roommate Jungkook | S, kinda F, crack
this is actually fun 😊; and the episodes are written in a drabble-ish sort of way so you won’t feel like it needs to be updated to get the story moving. It’s basically just reading fun scenarios of nympho OC and these two satisfying her needs *wink wink
Not So Digital @jiminables - sequel to Digital Boy | 2.7k | camboy!taehyung, bestfriend!jungkook, short mxm | S, slight F
Playing to Win @tayegi - one shot | 8.6k | FWB AU (tae), sort of enemies to lovers (jungkook), TaeKook (mxm), originally Taehyung x OC (fwb) | S
okay this is one of my favorites! I’m amazed at how the power dynamics were written. Taehyung seems a dom with OC but with Jungkook he is all soft and sub; then, there’s that dynamic between Jungkook and OC who disliked each other originally. I just found the shifting so interesting and the writer was able to display these changes in dom/sub behavior among the three characters really well
Pour Up @jungkxook - one shot | 14k | fuckboy AU, fratboy AU (applies to two of them), one sassy OC, one kind of jealous Koo | S (thank you dear author for reposting this! 🥰)
Shhh @bang-tan-bitches - drabble (with OT7 sequel) | 2.7k | PWP (just pure hot imagine)
Shameless @imaginethisbts - one shot | 5.1k | established relationship (jungkook x oc), Taehyung’s POV, exhibitionism | S (not exactly threesome, because JK and OC are just doing it in front of people, Taehyung had a bit of action in the end)
Sugar & Spice @divine-bangtan - one shot | 20.8k | Kiki’s Delivery Service!AU, Baker AU, Noona AU, Assistant!Jungkook, Rich!Taehyung, pining Koo, a bit of M x M | S, F, A (it’s all good everyone ends up happy 😊)
Sugar and Spice @sunkissedjk - two shot [2/2] | 8.6k | Your friends ask you whether you prefer sugar (jjk) or spice (kth) | S
ugh this is such an indulgent imagine. If taekook are your friends and they help you decide what type of sex you prefer through a demonstration, wouldn’t you want for multiple demos before deciding? *wink wink
Sacrilegious @therealmintedmango - part of the Gods and Monsters series | 15.6k | Demon!Jungkook, Fallen Angel!Reader, God!Taehyung | S (so sinful 😈💦)
Sweat Pea @nitaescence - series [10/10] | 63k | DDLG!AU, caregiver!jungkook, caregiver!taehyung, little!oc | S, F, A
so I’m glad there was an ask about caregiver!jungkook because I remembered this. I actually checked if there’s a follow up drabble because the ending is open to any interpretation so I’m curious how other readers interpreted it
051 + Scum’s Wish @scriptmin - one shot | 3k | bestfriend!jungkook, pining!oc (unrequited), rebound!taehyung | S, A
it’s actually kind of sad 😭 but I added this because it's good to have variety. Not all smutty pieces will be a happy one
Tattooed Two @/httpjeon - one shot | 8.5k | tattoo artist AU, boyfriend Jungkook joined by his bestfriend Taehyung | S, F
The Doms Next Door @tatertotthethot - series [3.1/?] | 33.8k+ | BDSM AU, Poly, Neighbor AU, Tattoo Artist AU | S
I really love this series. It’s so funny too, I remember Jimin here - he’s THAT bestfriend you want to have. PLUS TaeKook are absolutely hot. If you're not interested in being a sub or partaking in bdsm, you will reconsider
The Hush Series @suga-kookiemonster - two shot [2/2] | 16.9k | coworker’s friends TaeKook, sort of E2L (Jungkook), dom!taehyung, a bit of voyeurism | | S
okay, I really like author’s writing. It can be about sinful delicious smut scenes but I noticed the members always have this developed characterization. I actually find Taehyung so adorably charming - makes me wonder if irl tae is secretly sinful too behind that sweetness lol
Thic Trilogy @btsinned - series [3/7] | 37k+ | CEO AU, Hybrid AU, College AU, Chubby!Reader | S, F, A
🌷 I’m throwing in fics in my reading queue #ReadwithMe
Attitude Adjustment @s0seo - one shot | 11.8k | Roommate AU | S
Chain Reaction @kissmetae - one shot | 3.2k | boyfriend Taehyung and friend Jungkook helping OC relax | S
Cherry @kpopstories - series [4/?] | 29k+ | college AU, fuckboy AU, love triangle | A, S, F (this is part of my ongoing reading list)
Cobalt Blue @hauntedlilies - one shot | 11.3k | artist AU, “you asked Jungkook to draw you like one of his french girls” | S
When You’re Mad @honeyj00ns - one shot | 3.8k | established relationship (boyfriend Jungkook), enemies to lovers Taehyung, Taehyung is JK’s bestfriend, Christmas AU, College AU| S
Madam Cupcake @craztextae - series [6/?] | 69.2k+ | Sugarbaby AU, Idolverse, idol!jungkook meets OC through an app called “sugarmamas(.)com” | S, F
Player Two @minjoonalist - one shot | 10.6k | Gamer!Jungkook, Boyfriend!Jungkook, Boyfriend!Taehyung, Brat!Reader | S
Tag Team @goodnight-tae - one shot | 5.2k | stripper AU, TaeKook are roommates and friends who share most things 😉 | S, PWP
Whoa @bangtanlalaland - one shot | 4.7k | skater!taehyung, 1970s AU, coworker!jungkook | S, PWP, Crack
posted: 2021 March 12; updated: 2021 May 12
link to other fic recs here
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