#i'm focusing on the silly lines because the humor is a light in the dark
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I've been sharing 50 shades quotes and moments hand selected to be humorous and ridiculous, but I believe I've given you all a false impression of the book as bad in just silly ways, just funny quips. What I haven't shared are the subtly homophobic and stereotypical characters of color and inaccurate mental health portrayals (including suicide), among other issues:
the one hispanic character smokes weed illegally (this is used to paint him negatively) and tries to force himself on ana, saying the most basic spanish phrases to remind you he's hispanic; there are only three other characters of color I can think of, all black, one is a black kickboxer and christian's trainer (always making quips and antagonizing him while they fight), one is the kickboxers brother, and the other is a personal security guard christian fires and whom ana says she doesn't really like (when she's never had that kinda problem with any other security personnel); one character is introduced as "small, dark, and gay. I loved him immediately" and is an overdramatic hairdresser; the most "normal" queer character doesn't have the fact she's dating a woman revealed until her very last appearance in the series, and she's already very infrequent (ana also happily notes that this means Ros won't be ogling her husband); Christian's mother is described as looking "relieved" when she finds out he isn't gay like she assumed; the author conflates Multiple Personality Disorder (an outdated term for Dissociative Identity Disorder, but that's what they use) with schizophrenia as if DID is someone experiencing schizophrenia; when a character attempts suicide christian asks and I quote "why would she do this to me?"
I'm making jokes at the expense of the books, but I've been generally not sharing the genuinely unpleasant aspects. they're all fairly small, but they are numerous. I'm sure there's details I'm forgetting at the moment as well. so if you wanted to read it ironically with me, there's also all this to contend with
#50 shades trilogy#tw suicide#tw racism#tw homophobia#i'm focusing on the silly lines because the humor is a light in the dark#but like. everything generally sucks#there are so many little moments that add up#christian has a line about fantasizing about ana with another woman. and its like. thought crime isn't real#but with the rest of the book's context and vibe...that doesn't mean it's nice to hear about you fantasizing about queerness#as if its for your own pleasure christian#anyway. i've been just keeping the ickier parts to myself because I'm reading the book ironically#but I fear I've mischaracterized it#so. alerting you#book sucks beyond uninteresting smut scenes#AND i'm only one person so someone else with a different intersectional identity would probably notice things#i've unintentionally overlooked#i have noticed christian's 'philanthropy' in his business. unsure what to make of it quite yet#if I'm making problems where there aren't any#i would've included mrs. lincoln on the list but since christian does eventually come around (after 3 entire books)#and stop defending her pedophilic actions. i omitted it#anyway. wish me luck y'all
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So long, farewell! 💜 I won't be posting from this account anymore. To close it out, here is a roundup of my Lucifer fan works, as I think that's how most came to find me here.
You will need an AO3 account to read most of my stories; it's relatively easy to sign up if you don't have one. Though I'm gone from here and elsewhere in the Lucifer fandom, I will continue to read comments and attempt to reply to them, so please consider sharing these fics and commenting your thoughts on AO3!
LONG READS (20,000+ words)
A Refraction of Light
314k words. My giant post-S3 canon divergence that spans Earth, Hell, and Heaven. If you didn't like Lucifer's Netflix era (the last three seasons) or wished there were more power couple vibes for Deckerstar, you might enjoy AROL. Though I finished it in 2020, after S4 had aired, I think it works quite well as a S4-S6 fix-it for those who'd like one.
In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children
210k words. The 50 female-focused "blip" years Lucifer's finale conveniently left out, also several post-S6 chapters. Heavy angst surrounding family and spiritual trauma but aims to be cathartic by acknowledging pain. All that said, more humor and Deckerstar than you'd probably expect, given the CW tags.
Reins Series: Try My Reins and My Heart & As Certain Dark Things Are to Be Loved
35k words when read together. Porn with feelings/plot. Fun, sweet kinkiness that should be read in order. Dominant!Lucifer because I struggle to see the Devil otherwise and because Chloe deserves a fucking break in the care of her sex god beau.
In a Similar Vein
21k words. Funny, sweet, and absurd S1 divergence wherein Chloe becomes (very wrongly) convinced that Lucifer is a vampire. Alas, it is missing the last chapter.
Chloe KNOWS
20k words. Funny, sweet, sexy S2 divergence in which Chloe accidentally gets a devil reveal when she stumbles upon an ageless Lucifer in vintage pornography. Oops.
MEDIUM READS (5,000 to 20,000 words)
If the Shoe Fits & In the Family Way
14k words when read together. Alternate post-5B/S6. Feel-good, funny, fluffy, even sexy. Godifer and Mrs. G being good partners, parents, and Improvers of the Universe. If you need a sweet, positive fix-it for the end of Lucifer, these fics might fit the bill.
Rebound to You
12k words. Feel-good, funny, sexy AU where Lucifer is still the Devil, but he and Chloe didn't meet as in canon. Instead, they meet a couple of years later, after Lucifer has naturally gotten a phone and Chloe has divorced Dan and is now resorting to dating apps to meet people. Features a fun gimmick of Tinder-like chat logs (used sparingly, I promise).
Something More & Pump It Up
11k words when read together. These two canon compliant fics won't seem like they go together at first, but I promise they do (thematically). Both are pre-canon and about the subtle ways in which Lucifer and Chloe are an amusingly great match. They just haven't met (yet) to know it! The first story is sweet and about Jed and Chloe's relationship; basically a character study of Chloe as told from Jed's POV. The second is a bit of a sex farce about Lucifer watching Hot Tub High School after settling in L.A., but it's also porn with plot or at least a character study.
Not to Mii
10k words. Lucifer sticks around at the end of S3's "The Last Heartbreak." One thing leads to another, and you get strip Mario Kart. I promise it works.
The Fine Line Between Desire and Fear
10k words. Feel-good and silly post-5A divergence featuring a haunted mansion on Halloween. Almost solely Deckerstar-focused but also imagines a future where Michael is trying to redeem himself and earn Ella's affection; the only problem is that he's afraid...of a lot, actually. The irony!
Sweet and Sour
10k words. A comical Michael/Ella fic based on the 5A trailer. Turned out to be rather in-character for many aspects of Michael, so it holds up, I think.
Now That's What I Call Big Devil Energy! Series: Big Devil Energy & Satan's Got a Heart On
9k words when read together. Funny, sweet chaos. Lucifer being a completely over-the-top Devil in love.
All You Can Play
9k words but really more like 3k if you want the finished part of the fic. (First chapter can stand alone; don’t read past it if you don’t like unfinished work.) Chaotic humor, sex farce. Canon compliant missing scene wherein I will tell you not to hate the player (me) but the game (S3). The reason Lucifer isn't there to protect Chloe at the end of 03x04? He's with Lexy, the judge's soon-to-be ex-wife. This is that story. Featuring Chuck E. Cheese.
Bound by Iniquity
8k words. Dark 5A canon divergence from Maze's POV. Her dirty dealmaking with Michael backfires, big time.
Get Thee Behind Me
7k words. Porn with plot/feelings. Lucifer and Chloe try anal sex for the first time. Feel-good comedy ensues.
Baptized by Desire
7k words. Dark but sweet S3 divergence. Lucifer comes to believe he really is a delusional human while he's in the psychiatric hospital in "God Johnson."
Hells to Betsy
6k words. Answering the question of how Chloe afforded a large three-bedroom townhouse in L.A., especially once Maze moved out. Come on! Detectives are paid well but not that well!
Darkest Before Dawn
5k words. Sweet, funny, sexy wing fic. No wing oil, but there's a barrel of crude oil and Dawn dishwashing liquid. This is not an ad.
SHORT READS (<5,000 words)
The Dotted Line
4k words. Porn without plot. Lucifer is attracted to Chloe in anything, even undies from Target.
Checked Baggage
4k words. Porn with light plot. What if Chloe took up Jana's offer for a threesome, partly out of spite? Bisexual chaos that is still ultimately very much about Deckerstar.
Winging It & Made in His Image
4k words when read together. Both are chaotic sex farces that wax on about the Devil's dick. They must be read in order.
Reefer Gladness Series: Flying High & Baked with Love
3k words when together. Sweet fluff. Established Deckerstar getting high together.
Lunch at the Y
3k words. Porn without plot. Roughly set in a better post-5A world where Lucifer eats Chloe out in a dressing room because of course he would. That's a love language.
Those Who Favor Fire
2k words. Porn without plot. Roughly set in a better post-S3 world where Deckerstar have gotten their HEA and have been together for some ten years or so.
My God's House Has Many Rooms
2k words. S6's "happy" closeout is creepily vague to me. This story explores a horrific what-if.
Raising Hell
1k words. Porn without plot. An ode to the blowjob.
Use My Words Against Me
1k words. All dialogue, pure chaos. Caught up in yet another scandal, closeted Republican Senator Olin Graham asks the Devil for a favor. You'll only appreciate this if you know enough about American politics and aren't a fascist piece of shit. Sorry not sorry.
Earthly Delights on Borrowed Time
666 words. Post-S4 reimagining where Lucifer and Chloe are making things work.
The Perfect Help Meets
666 words. Dark, canon compliant one-shot about Lucifer's angst/depression as he tries to make things work with Eve, all while he's in love with Chloe.
Other Stuff
A softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone — Lucifer meets the comic A Softer World. Inspired by an old post by @casimania that can be found here.
General Fanvids — Deckerstar being painful and/or lovely, plus some Trixie because I love her character.
S6 Critical Fanvids — Just me making sense of S6's plot, which I cannot read as anything other than incredibly dark and anti-choice.
Crack Fanvids — Pure comedy and chaos.
Lucifer Season 6 Time Travel Visualizations — Lucifer S6 uses time travel without clearly laying out how it works. I made two visualizations to help explain the possibilities: one for the loop existing in a single timeline and another for the loop causing or being a part of many/parallel worlds.
Lucifer S6 Wiki — After Lucifer Season 5B and S6, I started digging into the writers’ interviews to understand what the hell had gone wrong. You'll find their answers to a lot of common S6 questions here. They’re real, er, interesting Hollywood folk, to say the least.
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Kagehime! Can you please give me a few tips to write a good lunami fan fiction? I'm struggling a bit, and since I admire your writing style with all my heart, and wish to become a better writer myself, I thought to ask for some advice... Thank you for reading this!
Well, I’ll do my best to help, but these are going to be pretty general since I only write broship interactions for that pairing (with the rare exception for a request). I think the core for any sort of relationship, especially LuNami, is the friendship, and that pairing in particular has an amazingly warm, supportive, and lighthearted friendship. So, depending on what sort of fic you want to write for them, keep that friendship in mind as much as you can. Remember that Luffy is cheerful and supportive and will do anything in his power to make Nami smile, he promised Genzo that he would protect that smile. And then Nami tends to be the one hoping to keep Luffy focused, but is perfectly willing to laugh along with his antics, will cry for him when she knows he’s hurt (emotionally or physically), is 100% loyal and dedicated to helping him achieve his dreams, and is willing to set aside her fears and fight for his sake, as well as the sake of the crew.
So, any sort of fic you write for them, be it angst-ridden to something light and fluffy, do your best to remember those sides of their personalities, how they differ, how they’re similar, how they support one another, etc.
In terms of style, it’s harder to give you specific advice on that, at least for me it is. I’ve slowly developed my style over years and it changes depending on what I’m writing. I have some fics that are dialogue heavy, others with a lot of inner monologue, and now I’m working more on including as much imagery as I can. I find that fluff fics, anything light-hearted, are best written with more dialogue and direct interactions. Serious fics, anything with angst or heavy emotions, I lean more toward inner monologue and imagery. So, the best advice I can give on this is practice as much as you can, read as much as you can (cliche advice, yes, but good advice still). Look at your favorite writers’ styles. Ask yourself what about their writing you like most. Is it the narrative? The dialogue? The imagery? The tone? The structure? And then kind of practice mimicking those qualities. Let them influence how you write, but if it proves too difficult to write like they do (which is to be expected), then tweak it, adjust how you piece your words together in a way that flows best for you. Every writer will point to a number of writers that they take inspiration from in their work, but their styles are still unique to them because they’ve only taken bits that work best for them, or best for the subject or genre they are writing. The style I use in my Norse AU fic is heavily influenced by George R.R. Martin, for example, but the moments of comedic relief I sprinkle in are different from his. I can’t describe how, I just know they aren’t like his... It’s less dark wit or gallows humor, more silly antics/ slapstick, that’s in line with actual One Piece humor. Well, there is some dark humor, but I feel it’s noticeably less than what’d you see in the GoT series.
Anyway, I digress... I hope this advice maybe helped. I’m terrible at giving advice, especially when it’s so broad, but I hope you manage to piece together something you like. Just, don’t be afraid to fail. It’s scary to write something and then put it out there for others to critique. There will be some people who love it, others who don’t, but you won’t learn what works best for you and what others enjoy most unless you keep practicing and listening to the responses you get. I’ve been writing fanfiction for... 5 years? About that? And my style has changed immensely since those days. Like, I am horribly embarrassed every time I read any of those first few fics I posted. Hell, I’m embarrassed every time I read something from 2 years ago! I’m even embarrassed when I go back and re-read a fic I literally just finished! It happens, lol. But that’s because I kept going. I made mistakes and I learned from those mistakes. I grew, became less afraid of taking risks, began to write more for myself than others. The vast majority of my readers have been supportive since the start, even if their feedback comes with constructive criticism - they’re just trying to help, and it’s important to take that feedback to heart, but not let it discourage you, and just keep pushing yourself forward.
And most importantly - write what you love. The more passion you have for the subject, the more willing you will be to put the effort into what you write, and often the easier inspiration will come. I’m a stream of consciousness writer (at least 95% of the time), but if just sitting down and writing doesn’t help you focus or bring together a cohesive piece, then try to outline your ideas, write down little blurbs that are already in your head, and try to work through it visually before putting it all together. It’s okay to do either or both, whichever works best for you. As far as I’m concerned, there is no wrong way to write, at least in terms of process and style (grammar and spelling get a little more rigid, but those are things everyone makes mistakes on, even if they’ve been writing for decades - that’s what the editing process is for).
Okay, I think I rambled on enough about this. See? Stream of consciousness writer here, lol. So, I hope something in this bit of word vomit is at least a little helpful. Good luck! XD
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