#farscape au

[dawnrider]

What would you consider "the one that got away"? (aka the story that you desperately have wanted to write and for whatever reason it just has not come to pass yet?)

Good morning @neutronstarchild my dear!

There are a few actually. The two that come to mind immediately are the Inuyasha Farscape and Old Kingdom AUs. I've started them, I have ideas and mirrored plot points written down... But I just haven't had the bandwidth to sit and really get into my notes. Trying to do both universes justice is going to take a lot more focus than I have time for right now.

Someday...

#thirsty asks #thirsty thursday #dawnrider fanfiction #to be written #Farscape AU #Old Kingdom AU

[harveyb-wabbit92]

Spark Doll! Tartarus: I'm only judging on my experience with you, but I've never seen such a deficient species.

R/n, she looks at him flatly: Did anyone call or stop by while I was out?

Tartarus: How do humans make it through a cycle, even half a cycle without killing each other?

R/n, getting irritated: Trust me, we find it difficult— Did anyone stop by?

Tartarus: You have no special abilities. You're not particularly smart, can hardly smell, can barely see, and you're not even vaguely physically or spiritually imposing. Is there anything you do well?

R/n:...Watch sports or something, damn.

#S: farscape #ultraman incorrect quotes #tokusatsu incorrect quotes #tokusatsu #ultraman #Spark doll au #Absolute Tartarus #Absolute Tartarus x reader #afab reader #Absolutians

[isagrimorie]

Did Voyager fandom ever go through the Casablanca AU phase back in the 90s and early aughts?

The theme was angst and the ship doesn't end up together just like in the movie. But the 'Rick' analog in the story almost always ends with a new beautiful friendship.

Off the top of my head of fandoms that's had that one or two really good Casablanca AU multi-chapter fics:

The X-Files - Letters of Transit by Loch Ness (Mulder/Scully)

I think LoT was the first fic that kicked off this whole chain. Post-Colonization.

It’s 1999– The Date has come and gone, the “Project” is underway and deadly bees have been unleashed on North America. With the world coming apart and people scrambling to get away from the swarm. Mulder faces fateful decisions about his own role in events to come– and about Scully.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series - As Time Goes By by Yahtzee - Angel/Cordelia, Buffy/Angel (Buffy as Laszlo, Angel as Ilsa, Cordy as Rick).

This story is set six years from now and may contain spoilers for anything that has happened through early Season Three ATS and Season Six BTVS. After that, things begin to go AU. You'll be able to tell where canon is and is not in force. Also, if you haven't watched "Casablanca" before -- well, first of all, what HAVE you been doing with yourself? Go rent it! If you choose to read this first, you'll be spoiled for the movie. (Not that anything actually spoils "Casablanca.")

Farscape - Bellum Interruptum by Cofax (John/Aeryn)

Of all the crappy little bars on rundown stations at the ass end of the universe, she had to walk into mine.

Also, I think there was an Alias fic based on the same idea but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.

Did Star Trek ever join the ranks (specifically Voyager)?

It would be a shame if there was none because the Voyager crew are practically dressed for it in The Killing Game.

#fic rec #the casablanca au challenge #multifandom #farscape #btvs #ats #roundup #inquiry #fic search #star trek voyager

[prismatica-the-strange]

An AU I think about constantly is Gantu actually leaving with Lilo, and, since she's not what the council is after she's just kind of abandoned on some random port planet.

No one else knows what Earth is, nor where it is so she has to make her own way, jumping different cargo and travel vessels.

As she grows up in space she becomes a somewhat infamous space punk/freedom fighter, fighting against the council for the rights of different species and trying to stop the colonization of already populated planets.

One day, when she's in her mid/late 20s, her short life on Earth is all but forgotten, besides one vivid memory of Nani, her (stolen) ship crashes on a familiar planet.

#Kinda sounds a little like Farscape but that's kinda what I was going for in a sense #lilo and stitch #prisma rambles #au

[paramounticebound]

@fasciinating ♥’d for a lyric starter! || Song: A Greater Call by Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas

     “The world left behind is dying.” Khan lives in the house of desolation-- it seeps from his teeth and tongue like a cascade of combusting particles, atomically melancholic in the scope of the mission at hand. “The stars will not guide us, but their light will show us the way.”

Betrayed by the very mechanics that make him, as those that have marred the planet share them to an extent that renders them impossible to forget. Like worms in a peach tree. He would not be martyred, nor shall his righteous fury burn itself out among the stars. “With the sun at our backs, we heed and we bleed. This is the first step to reach the infinite.”

#fasciinating #verse: tbd. #au where they're sent to into deep space to find a suitable planet #either filled with farscape-esque shenanigans or confronted with the vast sorrow and emptiness of space (: #or something idk i have no thoughts in my head just khock

[zhakyria]

I had the chance to commission Kahl'ryn from @psychededoodle. I have no words for how much I love this. Everything, all the details, the expression, the scar, the cybernetics, everything is so well done!!

And with this amazing portrait - I'm gonna talk a bit about Kahl and what he is up to in my Arclight AU. So... some rambling thoughts under the cut. :)

For reference: The Arclight AU is a melting pot of various sci-fi franchises. Star Wars, Farscape, WildStar, Star Trek, to just name a few. However, the core of it is Star Wars. A lot of the universe rules are Star Wars rules - such as how space travel works and the Force.

The major players from Star Wars include: the Galactic Empire, the Mandalorians, the Sith Empire, the Chiss Ascendancy, the High Republic, and the Grysk Hegemony.

Much like swtor!Kahl, arclight!Kahl was born in the Sith Empire. His father is the (now former) Sith Lord Xhai'tan. He was trapped in a burning building when he was a child, which is how he got the burn scars. He joined the Imperial Academy and joined Imperial Intelligence upon graduating. Some of his first missions included hunting down terrorists and stopping Darth Jadus. For his double agent arc however, he didn't infiltrate the SIS.

In Arclight the Sith Empire is mostly at odds with the Dominion from WildStar. So, Kahl is tasked with infiltrating the Dominion and carrying out his mission there. The Star Cabal is still a threat and Kahl eventually dismantles it.

Now things really start to diverge. You see, most everything from Shadow of Revan onward doesn't happen. So how does my boy meet Theron?

I made the executive decision that since the Republic isn't the same Republic as in swtor and isn't the power in direct conflict with the Sith Empire, that Theron would instead be from the Dominion. ((I know, I know, not the best allegory if you know anything about the Dominion - like they live up to their name. Does make it way easier for Theron to defect though.))

Then I needed the catalyzing event. Enter the Dread Masters. They were imprisoned by the Dominion, but they escape but with Emperor Vitiate dead (did I mention that? no? So, yeah Emperor Vitiate does die, and after a short war between the Sith, Acina comes out on top and takes the Throne - this is also the time of Malgus's first betrayal,) they go rogue.

Kahl is called in to help with the situation by Lana and she eventually wrangles the help of Theron in tracking and defeating the Dread Masters. Much like in Shadow of Revan, Kahl and Theron grow close.

Then the tradegy of Grismara happens. For those unfamiliar with WildStar. Grismara was home to the Mordesh. A elf-like species who were masters of science, alchemy, and art. They were arrogant and proud, sure of their own superiority. That was until the Everlife Elixir, developed by their most lauded scientist became their curse. The Everlife was meant to give immortality, and they trusted Dr. Lazarin so much that it was distributed worldwide. Then the Everlife became the Contagion. Everyone (and the lore implies everyone) slowly turned into super aggressive mindless cannibals (basically zombies).

Grismara was a neutral world on the edge of Sith and Dominion borders. Both sides were trying to ally with them, but when the Contagion broke out - the Sith turned their back on the world and the Dominion set up a blockade and quarantined it.

Kahl and Theron disobeyed orders to try and help the Mordesh. During that terrible year long attempt at saving the Mordesh, Dr. Lazarin made a small break through. He created the Vitalis Serum, which delayed the effects of the Contagion, but also required frequent injections. The remaining Mordesh were trapped in a half-life. They no longer age (they got their immortality) but they also are unable to have children unless a cure can be found.

Kahl and Theron organized for the last of the Mordesh, to escape. Taking them to the Odessen Coalition. A small and new coalition of planets that came together with the help of Xhai'tan (Kahl's father) and Thrass (who is alive and rescued by Xhai'tan - That is another books of thoughts so if you are curious about how Thrass fits in here feel free to ask.)

With the fall of Grismara, Kahl and Theron defect and join the Coalition. Kahl eventually commanding a heavy cruiser as part of the Maarasu Nighthunters - the Odessen Defense Force division in charge of covert operations and missions that take place beyond the borders of the Coalition. It is Kahl who finds Thrawn and Ezra where they have been stranded for 7 years (again another book of thoughts that I can talk about later). Kahl then goes on to support Thrawn, Thrass, Eli, and the others Chiss fighting to save the Ascendancy.

I'll stop there but....yeah so lots of thoughts.....enjoy!

#arclight: kahl'ryn #my oc #imperial agent #twi'lek #swtor #star wars #star wars au #psychededoodle art #not my art #commissioned art #arclight au #so many thoughts #so much to write #and only the first prologue done #yep think there might be more then one before I am finished #I can and will talk for day to anyone interested about all this

[pragnificent]

Tagged by @tina-mairin-goldstein! Tagging whoever else wants to play.

1.How many fics do you have on AO3?

78.

2. What's your total word count on AO3?

934,933. Wow, maybe I can break a million this year....

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Just HANNIBAL right now (and for like the last seven years or so). Been vaguely thinking about picking up a second but nothing has caught my interest strongly enough.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Attachment - 7,592

The Fisherman and the Beast from the Sea - 4,565

Sashimi - 2,807

Hungry Ghost - 1,585

Identically Different - 1,382 <- This is my best series and yall should give it a shot <3

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to, and I enjoy doing so, but sometimes the brainworms win and I don't get stuff done even when I really want to.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Breathless

I don't love this story, but "Hannibal is effectively braindead after the fall, but Will keeps caring for the body and feels that Hannibal is there with him, up until the body dies and Will turns himself in because there isn't any point anymore" probably counts as the most angsty? If you are in the market for a "Hannibal receives a brain injury and he, along with everyone else around him, has to cope with that" story Tina's For Remembrance (Holes in the Floor of the Mind) is a much better pick. And as I continue to think about it, Means of Influence has a pretty angsty ending.

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most of my stories have slightly bittersweet but still mostly happy endings. Part of the thing about that is I think it's really hard to envision a situation where Will is like 100% Happy Happy, his own mind hates him too much and every little scrap of happiness needs to be fought for and then vigilantly guarded. But I put both him and Hannibal through so much that I always want them to be as close to content as they each can be.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have gotten two flavors of Fic Hate. 1.) People calling the five year old kid OC in ATTACHMENT slurs like "r*tard" and saying "he belongs in jail" and etc.

Every time Hannibal or Will fuck someone who isn't each other at least one person decides to Yell At Me.

I think I've gotten the old "you didn't tag for bottom Hannibal!!" nonsense once or twice too, but who hasn't?

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

A little. I actually started Hannishark bc I was really intimidated by sex scenes and wanted to see if I could pull off a short monsterfucker story. I feel like I've gotten better at writing these but am generally more comfortable leaving them sparce on anatomical details and big on feelings/conversations.

10. Do you write crossovers? If so, what's the craziest one?

I've got a WRONG TURN crossover series that I'm very proud of here: Bear Mountain Road AU. You don't need to have seen any of the movies to read it, or anything, the movies' premise of "a clan of inbred mountain cannibals waylays travelers" is really just an excuse to put Hannibal (and Will and D, as child members of the cannibal family) In Situations. If I counts as a cross over, I've got a universe swap between the novels and NBC HANNIBAL here: Shiloh

I also have a vague idea for a SAW / HANNIBAL crossover but I've been sitting on that for so long, who knows if it'll ever happen?

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not so far as I know.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, several times.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Yep, a couple of times.

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

Hannigram and Reba/D (guys we need a fuckin ship name).

15. What are your writing strengths?

Character, emotions, dialogue.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Sex scenes, pacing.

17. Thoughts writing dialogue in another language?

Fine by me, tho I only think I've done it one or twice.

18. First fandom you wrote for?

FARSCAPE.

19. Favorite fic you've written?

Identically Different AU !!!! This it the best thing I've ever written and probably the best thing I will ever write.

#hannibal #hannigram #francis dolarhyde #prag's fic #reba mcclane

[calocera]

my star trek x farscape au

[jadelotusflower]

Stargate rewatch: 1x19 There But For The Grace of God

One of my favourite episodes titles of the series, also kicking off what is essentially a four episode arc to end season 1 and kick off season 2. 90’s tv was the eternal battle between episodic and arc-based storytelling, and I actually think the show threaded the needle quite well.

I do love an alternative universe episode, back in the beforetimes when a multiverse served a story purpose and not just a fodder for fanservice of the “your favourite character, and they’ve got a new hat!” variety.

The story credit for this episode is David Kemper, an Executive Producer for Farscape, but this is his only Stargate contribution. Robert C Cooper wrote the teleplay, and the episode was directed by David Warry-Smith, his first of 11 for the show.

Love that they brought back Catherine, Elizabeth Hoffman is great (RIP). Given that Jack is a general in this timeline, perhaps we can assume he kept her on the project as opposed to the main timeline’s General West shutting things down/sidelining her after Abydos?

But Jack still went on the Abydos (suicide) mission so presumably wasn’t a general at that time. I know we have to be la la la don’t think about it with the alternate timelines but I’m so curious how things went down in this universe!

How long did it take them to work out how to use the gate without Daniel’s help? I guess they couldn’t communicate with the Abydonians without Daniel but they still were able to kill Ra - how? If they never went to Chulak what triggered Apophis’s interest in them to mount an attack on Earth? Why is the attack in this universe before the attack in the prime universe when really the events should be delayed in the AU?

This is a decent wig for Sam. Sadly, the only decent wig she’ll get the entire series.

I also wonder what was the difference in this universe so Sam didn’t join the Airforce.

Daniel guilelessly giving the address for Chulak right after taking about Jack intending to blow up Abydos. He’s so used to his Jack whose come so far since then, never even thinking that alt!Jack may not have, and what they might want the coordinates for.

lol, Daniel walks down the stairs, crosses the room, looks at the map, then puts on his glasses.

“Every one of those red dots is a destroyed city.” Apophis a fan of the United Celtic Nations it seems.

Daniel finally twigs that he might be in an alternate reality (with Sam defining it for him), but we can’t be too harsh, he canonically has zero pop culture game and this was the 90’s. Even in todays over-saturation of multiverse content Daniel would probably still have no clue.

They made a decent attempt at Spader!Daniel with this pic!

Daniel and being dead/missing in alternate realities/timelines, name a better duo.

It is interesting that in a lot of the AUs the show explores, Daniel’s lack of involvement in the Stargate program coincides with that universe being doomed.

I forgot that the 38 minute gate window was first established in this episode! That’s a huge piece of lore originating in an alternate universe.

It wouldn’t be an alternate universe without at least one character with silly hair.

Generally I prefer AUs that explore character rather than ones used to advance plot (or are lazy fanservice looking at you mcu), and while the primary purpose of this episode is to give Daniel forewarning of the Goa’uld attack and the gate address to the source, there is some nice stuff here especially around Jack and Teal’c.

Because at their core alt!Jack and alt!Teal’c are still the same - Teal’c still hates the Goa’uld, Jack is still willing to take big risks on his instincts, and there’s a mirror to Children of the Gods where Jack reaches out to Teal’c, but it’s a dark mirror, and it’s the little differences that matter because Jack isn’t the same person as the one in CotG, who went through the Abydos mission with Daniel and came out a better person, instead he’s the one that sent the bomb that killed Teal’c’s family, and it dooms them both.

Opening credits shot!

“I also wish to blow us all to hell.” Alt!Sam is a badass. No difference to prime!Sam there.

There’s also an interesting moment between Teal’c and Daniel in the gateroom - Teal’c doesn’t shoot straight away when he could have, so maybe Jack telling him of the alternate universe where Teal’c was fighting the Goa’uld got through. He still fires as Daniel runs for the gate, but only hits him in the shoulder - at such close range Teal’c could probably have made the kill shot. His hesitation saved Daniel’s life, and ultimately the life of his other self.

Because Daniel’s presence in the other reality changes nothing for it - alt Jack, Sam, Teal’c and Catherine all still die, the Stargate is destroyed and that would have happened anyway (with maybe the exception of Jack being able to stall Teal’c to set the self destruct).

But Daniel’s changed - there but for the grace of god (or fate) go our team.

#stargate sg 1 #stargate rewatch #1x19 there but for the grace of god

[andavs]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @thekristen999

How many works do you have on ao3? 21

What's your total ao3 word count? 380,201

What fandoms do you write for? Working on some 911 that I haven’t actually posted yet, and Teen Wolf, which has shifted to the back burner because Eddie Diaz took over my brain.

Top five fics by kudos: A Crooked Way to Fly Tabula Rasa Gift Trapped From Ashes The Guard and Red

Do you respond to comments? I fully intend to. And then my inbox is full of comment notifications from six years ago. I'm sorry I know I suck!!!

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I don’t think I’ve written an angsty ending? 

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? All of them, I think.

Do you get hate on fics? Occasionally someone will say they didn’t like the ending of Tabula Rasa, but that’s it. And I get it.

Do you write smut? Nah. Once I found out that the actors had seen my art (for both Teen Wolf and 911), that fourth wall imploded in my mind and now it makes me too uncomfortable.

Craziest crossover: I haven’t done proper crossovers, but I did a Sterek Shrek AU one time that was unexpected.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of. Someone once took a sketch, colored it in, and reposted it as their OCs, but that’s the closest.

Have you ever had a fic translated? I think so? I know people have asked to translate them, but I never actually checked after.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? As in putting my own words in a doc, no. But @petals42 and I collaborated a lot with brainstorming and plotting, and then she did the writing and I did the art.

All time favourite ship? To write? Tied between Sterek and Buddie. But I also love Veronica and Logan from Veronica Mars, and John and Aeryn in Farscape, even though I’ve never wanted to write or really read fic for them.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? My Teen Wolf season one rewrite! Stiles is Derek’s age and a deputy, and he and Derek knew each other in high school. I still love it, it was just a monster and I haven’t been in that mode for a long time. I still have hope! I want to! If only for my own satisfaction.

What are your writing strengths? I’ve been told I’m pretty good at in character dialogue, at least with Stiles’ voice, and that’s the part I enjoy the most.

What are your writing weaknesses? Descriptions and like…actual, genuine emotions, I think. Whenever I try to write the heavier stuff, it feels way too melodramatic and then I cut it way back to the point where it’s basically gone.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language? If there’s plenty of context around it so you can get the gist of what they’re saying, then it’s okay. Like in Oceans how Yen never speaks a word of English, but everyone else’s responses tell you what he was saying. Otherwise I tend to prefer things like, “He said in Spanish,” or “They argued in Spanish for a minute.” 

First fandom you wrote in? Either Alex Rider or School of Rock. 😬

Favourite fic you've written? I still really like this outsider pov fic. I fucking love outsider pov. I have a 911 outsider pov that’s been mostly done for like two years, but then I realized the actual team isn’t in it enough to make people want to read it, so it's just kind of sitting there.

Tagging: @kitkatpancakestack @wellhalesbells @mad-madam-m @tawaifeddiediaz @cinematicnomad @zainclaw

[harveyb-wabbit92]

Spark doll! Tartarus: No offense, human, but what could I possibly need from you?

R/n: Manners, personality, stock tips.

#S: farscape #ultraman incorrect quotes #tokusatsu incorrect quotes #tokusatsu #ultraman #Spark doll au #absolute tartarus #absolute tartarus x reader #gn reader

[enigmatist17]

WIP Folder Game

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I was tagged by @cassiefisherdrake and @frombrad2worse :)

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Fan-Fiction/Fandom:

Stars - Order 66!AU

Unnamed Farscape fic - John mourns being stuck on Talyn without anything from Earth

Rise up - BG3 fic where Astarion remembers the first day of the rest of his death

Cry For Help - Angel and the gang help out Spike after he escapes the Initiative

Unnamed Buffy s5 fic - reworking season 5 a little bit

Side by Side - Booth meets a vampire who shares his face

Step by Step - Law and Order SVU/Criminal Minds crossover

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Can't promise I'll tag the same number of people, but here goes! @luxshine @mcu-supersoldiers @the-bad-batch-baroness @niobiumao3

#tag game #wip game #wip folder game #clone wars #farscape #baldurs gate 3 #buffy the vampire slayer #angel the series #law and order svu #criminal minds

[flo-nelja]

mind control

I get this one often, because people love me <3 also while it changes the two first are always the same.

Xavier/Magneto (X-men)

I have read fics with consensual mind control for them that were extremely formative. I also read fics with noncon mind control, though in general they were gen. The last one has happened in canon a few times, though it was often more complicated than that. It's never easy. But damn it works so well for well and there are so many possibilities

2. John/Scorpius (Farscape)

Nothing beat the horror of John realizing how the mental chip was influencing him, slowly, then too fast. And it was hot too.

3. Doctor/Master (Doctor Who)

With a Shalka image, because with the Master living in a robot body and unable to leave the TARDIS, there's at least an element of this, but there is potential in both directions and it would be so creepy and this show already has so many mind control plots. I think it might work.

4. Eden/Mohinder (Heroes)

I used to ship this really hard when I started watching Heroes, and the mind control was canon, and it had unrealized potential. So I spent quite a bit of time looking for fics. ^^

5. Christabel/Geraldine (Coleridge)

Discovered this ship in a Locked Tomb related accident, and damn, the canon mind control and creepy homoeroticism was everything.

6. Horatio/Lin (Horatio Lyle)

The fact that Horatio has trauma about Tseiqin mind control makes the possibility of this - for plot reasons of for sexy reasons - even more delightful.

7. Jon/Martin (The Magnus Archives)

The universe is good for this, and I've read so many good fics for this, from canon-typical use of compulsion to Web!Martin AU...

8. Sistah Spooky/Mindf**k (Empowered)

In canon Hannah is too much of a good person to brainwash anything but herself (and it's creepy enough), but she did some invasive-things-you-can-safeword-from in Theresa's mind anyway, and there would be so many possibilities, if the writer had not evilly made them fail to resurrect Hannah.

9. Knives/Legato (Trigun)

It happened once and of course the power dynamics totally go in the opposite direction, but still, it has fanfic potential.

10. The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair/Stephen Black (Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell)

Yes, still here for the creepiest aspects of fairy magic!

#mind control #meme replies #xavier x magneto #knives x legato #gentleman x stephen #sistah spooky x mindf**k #doctor x master #eden x mohinder #horatio x lin zi #scorpius x john #christabel x geraldine #jon x martin

[thepedanticbohemian]

Any Farscape fans here?

While I'm waiting for the WGA strike to resolve, I've decided to put my #Farscape #fanfiction AU novels back on my The Crais Chronicles website. It's going to take a few weeks. The final chapters of the series of novels need to be rewritten. The doc files have disappeared and the HTML I coded are blank. Woe is me. I know every scene I wrote by heart, but now my style is genre-based and the novels were written in literary style.

When my BFF let me know Claudia Black promoted the website on her Tumblr blog, I knew I had to put it back up.

I will post an update when it's all finished and ready for your Captain Bialar Crais reading pleasure. And yes, everyone shows up, including John, Aeryn, and all the rest. It's a long-form series about Crais getting himself together and becoming--mostly--a decent citizen.

#Farscape #john x aeryn #aeryn sun #john crichton #Claudia Black #Ben Browder #Chiana #DArgo #writing #writers #writers on tumblr #novel writing #writers and readers #writer things #writerslife #writerscommunity #writing community #Pilot #Captain Crais #Captain Bialar Crais #Crais #bialar crais #Crais Chronicles #Lani John Tupu

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, May 3

Buffy and Darla fight. Darla hits the wall and falls to the floor, winded. BUFFY: You know, I just wanted to start over. Be like everybody else. Have some friends, y'know, maybe a dog... But, no, you had to come here, you couldn't go suck on some other town. DARLA: Who are you? BUFFY: Don't you know?

~~Welcome to the Hellmouth~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Weekly Drabbles #121 — Teen Angst by veronyxk84 (Buffy/Spike, Dawn, R)

MedWhump May 2024 Day 3: "Squeeze My Hand" by MadeInGold (Buffy/Riley, T)

Spike realized he'd been so alone in Sunnydale. by enigmatist17 (Spike-centric, unrated)

Moving on by Lilacsandorangeblossoms (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 423 by madimpossibledreamer (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure xover, T)

Once more with feeling - Ch. 1-11 by LadyEkaterina (Shameless xover, Willow, Kennedy, Xander, T)

Three's a Crowd - Ch. 1 by HAL1500 (Giles/Jenny, G)

I hate the way - Ch. 4 by DancingAngel0013 (Buffy/Giles, E)

Highlands and Tropical Islands - Ch. 3 by QuillBard (Buffy/Faith, M)

Object of Affection - Ch. 3 by felixsfishnets (Xander/Spike, E)

Catching Heat - Ch. 7 by mabus101 (Buffy/Tara, Buffy/Anya, Tara/Willow, other pairings, E)

A friend from back Home - Ch. 5 by WhiteMonsterEnergy (Buffy/Reader, Spike/Reader, everyone/Reader, not rated)

Spidey Does Angel - Ch. 13 by megamatt09 (Spiderman comics xover, Cordelia/Peter Parker and other ATS women, E)

A Different Kind of Relationship - Ch. 2 by wnelson001 (Xander/Dawn, other pairings, E)

Something Lingers - Ch. 4 by goodbyetoyou (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Au-delà de l'objectif de la caméra - Ch. 3 by Miss Kitty (Buffy/Spike, PG-13 Francaise)

Secret Obsession - Ch. 17 by Maxine Eden (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

So It Goes... - Ch. 4 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

A Ripple In Time - Ch. 18 by CheekyKitten (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Going Astral - Ch. 2 by Geliot99 (Buffy/Spike, R)

What Love Looks Like - Ch. 3 by DeamonQueen (Buffy/Spike, R)

Green Eyed Monster - Ch. 6 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Angel Doesn’t Know - Ch. 5 by fortes775 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Rebehold the Stars (Love from the Other Side of the Apocalypse) - Ch. 14 by Asokatanos (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The joining of souls - Ch. 18 by delfine (Buffy centric, LOTR xover, FR13)

Secret Obsession - Ch. 17 by Maxine Eden (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

So It Goes... - Ch. 4 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

What the Drabble? Vol. 2 - Ch. 21 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Banner: Yours is better than mine by JSBirsa (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Banner: [Banner] Boiling Point by Harlow Turner (Buffy/Spike/Faith, worksafe)

Banner: [Banner] Crystalline by Harlow Turner (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Banner: One Touch by Dusty (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Comic: [Xander of Buffy The Vampire Slayer] by paulgadzikowski (Xander, worksafe)

Masks / Makeup: [17 background character masks from] episode 5 of the 5th season of Angel. by christopherburdett (worksafe but monster faces)

Sims: Anya Jenkins from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. by redroseproudrosesadrose (Anya, worksafe)

Moodboard: Alexander "Xander" Harris - Buffy the vampire slayer by awinterrosesstuff (Xander, worksafe)

Gifset: Ranking Buffy Summers' hair evolution (as voted by my followers) 11/11 by buffysummers (Buffy, worksafe)

Gifset: #you should be - WHO’S AFRAID OF LITTLE OLD ME — TAYLOR SWIFT by detectivedawnsummers (Willow, worksafe)

Gifset: by all accounts, she almost drowned... by clarkgriffon (Buffy, worksafe)

Gifset: Farscape (1999-2003) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) by redcheekdays (Giles, Sineya, Spike, Buffy, worksafe)

Gifset: favorite Buffy episodes by michaun (Buffy, also Drusilla, Angel, Scoobies, Giles, Joyce, worksafe)

Fanvid: Wesley&Lilah | Born To Die by 1SnoWhiteQueen1 (Wesley/Lilah)

Fanvid: Buffy + Spike - Running Up that Hill by All Choseny (Buffy/Spike)

Music:Welcome to the Hellmouth - song and lyrics by Ben Blutzukker

[Reviews & Recaps]

7 episodes in [ATS]. What an incredible show, but I'm not ready for Doyle... by Julezz21

First time watcher.. on season 3 [ATS] and checking in lol by Rude_Magazine2307

Just finished my rewatch [ATS] and I wanna share my best and worsts… by ukcountrylover

[Recs & In Search Of]

ISO: Strong_Entrance_4309 is Looking for lost playlist [that was on Apple Music of songs that felt like they belonged at The Bronze]

ISO: Thatonequeerkitty seeks ATS OCs, AUs, or head canons

[Fandom Discussions]

POLL: Round 1 Poll 23 [and other polls] by btvsepisodetournament

imagine how Buffy might react to finding out that Spike and Angel... hooked up in the past. by thefoolsprincess

just say he’s trans [Xander Harris image] by stardust-kiddo

Parallels since the pilot [images of Buffy, Faith] by antlerslayer

fear, itself is one of my favorite episodes of btvs of all time. by cleverbabyghoul

the scene in bad girls where faith draws a heart on the window of buffy's classroom is like obv gay as hell but even BEFORE... by antlerslayer

Your favorite Self-deprecating moments on Buffy or Angel? by Randy_Giles1880

Buffy did try to help Faith by jogaforacont

Giles and Olivia by Slayerette444

Big bads and horror tropes by Nikelman

Which minor character would you have loved to see as a series regular? by speashasha

This is excellent television [and asking for tips for prepping a first time watcher] by cbusjunkie

Illyria is a good metaphor for mental illness/addiction/ any illness changing people into somebody you don’t know anymore by Eagles56

Angel Season 5 Episode Ranking by elishamarie28

Cordelia should have had a little success with acting instead of just completely giving it up completely by jdpm1991

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20 questions for fic writers

Thanks to @isagrimorie for the tag!

1 How many works do you have on Ao3?

14

2 What's your total Ao3 word count?

452,732

3 What fandoms do you write for?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and technically Angel, I suppose, but not really), Mass Effect (but not recently)

I've also tried writing some Avatar: The Last Airbender and Farscape and Person of Interest works over the years, but nothing that I've finished yet.

4 What are your top five fics by kudos?

Coexist: Season 3 Buffy AU in which it was Giles, and not Jenny, who was murdered by Angelus in Season 2 [27 chapters; 277,084 words; various POVs but mostly alternating Buffy/Faith]

Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard: Season 4 Buffy AU in which Faith wakes up from her coma having forgotten about killing Allan Finch and everyting that happened afterwards [one shot; 16,904 words; Buffy POV]

Together: Season 3 Buffy AU in which the Homecoming Dance goes a bit differently [one shot; 2,711 words; Faith POV]

Done: post-canon Buffy fic set a few years after the end of Season 7, with Buffy having mostly stepped back from being an active Slayer [one shot; 4,312 words; Buffy POV]

Mixed Signals: post-canon Buffy fic looking at Faith's changing relationship with Buffy since first meeting her [one shot; 4,919 words; Faith POV]

5 Do you respond to comments?

Not often or promptly enough. I try though: I really do appreciate the comments I get a lot.

6 What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Think this is a toss-up between two different canon-compliant Faith POV one-shots: One Girl In All The World and Calling.

7 What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Together is the happiest and fluffiest thing I can imagine ever writing.

8 Do you get hate on fics?

I don't think so? None that I can remember anyway. (I do use the block and mute features on Ao3 though, so maybe I'm just blissfully ignorant.)

9 Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

No. Just don't have the talent for it.

10 Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I don't have any published crossovers but I do have very vague ideas for a Buffy/Farscape crossover that I sometimes play around with in my mind. (Largely inspired by the joke of taking the couple of times Crichton makes references to 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' which his crewmates don't get, and pretending that they're right to assume he's talking about a person he knows rather than a TV show he used to watch.)

11 Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge (and honestly I'm not sure I'd want to know if I had?).

12 Have you ever had a fic translated?

If I have I don't know about it (and I would love to know if I did!).

13 Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. I think it might be fun, but I'd probably have to change the way I write a lot.

14 What's your all time favorite ship?

Moya!

I mean, look at her!

(Oh, okay, it's Buffy/Faith, if that wasn't obvious.)

15 What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I'd love to finish either of my uncompleted Mass Effect fics (the first and longest, Residuum, is actually fully planned out and has been for years: I just got stuck on writing a particular chapter and never managed to come back to it; I had a fairly detailed plan for Night Winds in Nos Astra when I posted the first chapter but then I decided I hated it and never figured out how to fix it.)

16 What are your writing strengths?

Dream sequences. Internal monologues. Foreshadowing. Planning. Quoting bits of canon back at the reader in hopefully interesting ways. Hopefully getting the characters' voices sounding reasonably accurate.

17 What are your writing weaknesses?

Deadlines. Brevity. Physical descriptions. Titles.

18 Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I haven't really thought about it much before, honestly.

19 First fandom you wrote for?

Mass Effect is the first fandom I submitted anything for anywhere online. I wrote some Avatar: The Last Airbender fic before that though (a long Azula POV AU that I would kind of like to come back to one day, though I'd probably have to rewrite it from scratch).

20 Favorite fic you've written

Realistically, I think popular consensus must be correct that Coexist is the best thing I've ever written (though I sometimes wish I'd spent more than a minute thinking up a title). It's definitely the work I'm proudest of, and I think it contains some of my best writing (and ... well, most of my writing, based on the numbers I just posted). But I have a bit of a soft spot for some of my earlier Mass Effect fics, which aren't incredibly polished but I learned a lot from working on, and for Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard as well.

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