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jahayla-parker · 8 months
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Bewitched Love : Peter Parker x Reader
Part 28
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Desc. & Warnings: 1k wc, see navigation for description and warnings
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Y/n pulled Peter back in for one last kiss. She held onto him tightly even as she pulled back. “I believe in you,” Peter promised, truth shining in his hopeful eyes, making y/n smile. She nodded appreciatively at him as he stepped aside to let her do her thing. eter nodded in silent agreement.
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As the skyline shifted colors, y/n took a deep breath. She watched Strange’s spell begin to take shape. The now-cured villains started to disappear from this universe, their cosmic presences fading until they were no longer present. Then the same thing happened with the other Peters.
Y/n knew what was coming next and looked over at her boyfriend. She and Peter shared one final look. Y/n gave him a weak smile and mouthed a silent "I love you". She felt her tears falling down her cheeks as she tried not to panic or doubt herself.
Peter saw y/n’s tears and gave her an encouraging smile. “You can do this,” he mouthed silently. Peter smiled again to show her he believed in her ability to do what she was about to try. He wordlessly swung away to give her space to concentrate without him being a distraction.
Y/n was grateful for Peter’s support and encouragement. But, she could still feel the sense of doubt sitting deep in her stomach. She had never tried to do something like this before. While y/n promised Peter she’d not interfere with the premise of the spell, she was not sure she could truly prevent that.
But, y/n knew Peter believed she’d could and trusted her to do so. So, even though she could feel the doubt gnawing at her, she chose to ignore it. Y/n smiled to herself as an idea came to her mind. While she recognized there was some doubt and fear lingering inside her, she chose to not let it weigh her down or influence her thoughts. Instead of trying to put her trust in herself, y/n chose to put her trust in Peter’s faith in her. She knew that no matter how much she believed in herself, or how little doubt she might have, nothing would measure up to the way Peter wholeheartedly believed in her.
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Y/n was starting to feel dejected when she only saw Strange’s energy around her and not her own. She had already begun her counterspell, but nothing seemed to be happening. Although, she had to remind herself that she didn’t even know what it should look or feel like if it did work. Nonetheless, her doubt began to rise from its place in her stomach as she watched Ned and MJ disappear from their place by the statue.
Y/n tried to still remain positive and self assured. But, as she watched Strange’s energy grow and spread through the area, she wanted to cry. She couldn’t lose Peter. Y/n knew she should continue to focus on the spell she’d thought of to help the handful of people Peter wanted to remember remember. Except, even Peter’s faith in her wasn’t enough to dispel the fear over not being able to remember Peter if she didn’t succeed. But, y/n wasn’t going to let her fear ruin that either.
It was a chaotic paradox and a complete catch 22. Her doubt over whether the counterspell would work risked it not working. Meanwhile, if she let her faith in Peter’s belief in her make her overly optimistic and overly confident, she risked not doing nearly enough to make the spell successful.
As the air around her warmed and the sky started to shine, y/n closed her eyes. She concentrated her cosmic energy on the counterspell as she replayed Peter’s support in her mind. Y/n’s palms faced upwards as she hovered slightly above the ground, azure waves of light and energy radiating from her body. Y/n pleaded with her mind and powers to trust Peter’s faith in her.
Y/n opened her eyes just as Strange raised his hands to finalize the last of his spell. She knew she did all she could with the counterspell. She focused on repeating Peter’s words of encouragement in her mind any time a sliver of doubt that it wasn’t enough would creep into her mind.
Y/n watched as the sky around her and Strange brightened violently, signaling the finality of his spell was moments away. She lowered herself from the sky until her knees were pressed into the dirt, her wounded shins laying flat against the ground. Y/n had decided it wasn’t safe to try and plead with her powers again, after all she’d just tried to get them to trust Peter, pleading with her abilities would only signal she didn’t trust herself enough. So instead, she closed her eyes tightly as she curled in on herself. Her mind wandered through her experiences with Peter as the sky around her continued to shift. Something came to mind, a spell of sorts. Except, it was not anything taken from any text, nor the Book of Shadows she used a spell from to counterbalance Strange’s spell, and not even the darkhold. Rather, it was the one she’d unconsciously used during their Europe trip. When Agatha had drained y/n of nearly all her energy and power, y/n unconsciously began muttering the phrase salutem invenire, find salvation. It had resulted in y/n finding herself in the same place Peter had been moments before. Her unconscious mind and/or her powers considered Peter to be her salvation. So, y/n decided to give that a shot.
The way y/n saw it, she wasn’t doubting herself by silently longing to remember her salvation. Instead, if anything, she felt it was a sign of her faith in herself. After all, it was through her recollection of how it had worked the last time, through trusting that her powers knew her well enough to know who/what her salvation was, and through trusting that her powers were capable of doing what it took to protect/remember that.
Having convinced herself it was safe and worthwhile, y/n blocked out everything else around her as she thought of Peter. Except, she didn’t long to have her powers salutem invenire -find salvation. For, y/n knew as long as she could remember who Peter was after the succession of Strange’s spell, she’d never stop searching until she found him. So, it was more important to focus on what she really longed for. To remember Peter. To remember her salvation. Y/n’s mine went blank and silent other than her silent mental spell casting.
Salutem mement mi.
Salutem mement mi.
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Salutem mement mi.
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Through her closed eyelids, y/n could sense the brightness around her as the sky flashed violently bright. Salutem mement mi, remember my salvation, she thought one last time before everything went dark.
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lovelesslittleloser · 2 years
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I’m my opinion, one of the greatest tropes is when a character either one, desperately doesn’t want to become/do/say/etc a thing, but then later on, that becomes the precise thing they’re striving for, or two, a character comes off as normal at first and then becomes/does/says/etc a thing that was unexpected (but if you read it again you’ll see hints dotted around).
Like, a character would say, ‘no, I refuse to befriend anyone here!’ or ‘I could never fall in love with such a person!’, but then later on in the series they have a large and close-knit group of friends and the other one just proposed
Or a character looks and acts normal for a large portion of the beginning but then they pop up with the ‘why would I be bothered if you killed them?’ or ‘I’ll do anything to make you mine!’
Okay I might have made one sound more positive than the other but honestly I like them more when it’s a violent change in the direction of violence, so shut up
So pretty much what I want in a series is for it to start off normally, probably a good amount of cliches, hopefully gay but I can only wish, maybe the mc is really unfriendly and made an enemy out of some hot guy really fast idk
But then later on in the series, the longer and more gradual the change the better, I could do for like eight seasons baby, they slowly change
They get a bigger and bigger friend group, they grow more and more accustomed to violence (probably a medieval fantasy setting because of course), and they fall more and more in love with the person they used to hate. Maybe even a bit too much in love with them, if you consider that to be a thing.
Mmmmmmmmm I want it but I feel like there’s a part of the equation that just makes these types of stories, but I can’t think of it for the life of me. Comedy? Being gay and doing a lot of crime? I mean I guess if it was advertised as like ‘person gets stuck in otome game, comedy ensues’ and ended up being bloody and violent I would be a little miffed but??
I feel like a witch trying to brew up the perfect concoction and trying not to ruin it by adding too much eye of newt or something god damn
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ayoharuko · 1 year
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What do you guys think?
Soo I've been planning to do an genshin sagau fic...but...I’ve been also wanting to write an BL(Boys love) or yaoi 
I love BL and I really want to make my own fic about some original characters....actually if I had artistic talents I would wanna make my own BL Webtoon!
Soo should I write a original BL by me? or a genshin sagau fic?
Tbh I was planning to do them at wattled but...idk lol my wattled is...cringe since I made it when I was...yea lol
Soo yea...my thoughts are just so full of ideas of multiple things that I just wanna do them all lmao
But what do you guys think?
Feel free to comment guys :)
Original BL or Genshin sagau fic?
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bobgoesw00t · 1 year
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Next chapter is up and HOO BOY IS IT FLUFFY!!! :D
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aileana-the-writer · 1 year
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Comenta en los fanfics que lees
Parece una tontería y a veces no sabes que poner o qué escribir.
Pero un comentario puede ayudar al autor/a a seguir con esa idea y que no caiga en el olvido.
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noonaishere · 1 year
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So I didn’t think I would be making another post so soon (I’m actually supposed to be working right now, but I’m doing what the kids call “procrastinating”... mostly because I don’t want to work 😭) but I just noticed my follower count:
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🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Not too shabby for a blog that I only made for this fic specifically - because you can’t post pictures on AO3 (or you can, but it’s super difficult? I’m confused by tutorials) - and only has one fic.
I promise you all that there will be more, I’m just so overloaded with work right now that I haven’t been able to finish the fic I’ve literally been working on since... *has to check notes because it’s been so long I’ve forgotten* ...April.
*sigh*
So we have about... two months? Three months until I can post the next fic. It’s maybe halfway done in the writing stage, but then I need to let it rest for a bit and then read it again so I can find all (or at least most) of the mistakes. Then I need to make all the texts (and that took like two straight weeks last time and a lot of carpal tunnel inflamation).
I can give a hint though, in case anyone is curious what might be in it, so I’ll just post the screencap I’ve been holding on to, that inspired it:
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(Thank you for the idea @luvvvx )
You’ve heard of One Set of Idiots, now try Two Sets of Idiots!
Also, it’s going to be an Ateez fic. (I’ll be changing the icon and theme of the blog when we get closer lol)
So again, I apologize that this is taking so long, I just have no time 😭
But it will happen.
#ateez#fic#ateez fic#cafe au#music industry au#smau#putting it in tags in case anyone is interested and wants to save this for later#you can tell it's going to happen because I refuse to give up on it lol#if it wasn't going to happen I would have given up MONTHS ago lol#But really: I want to finish it so I can get back to work on my original stuff#and I have so many things in various states of being done#We have: a fantasy epic with character driven plot that culminates in a battle; there's also alien-like demigods and political criticism!#We have: a BL story between a ghost hunter and a man who seems to be more than he is! emotional stuff! learning to love yourself!#We have: werewolves and other mythical beings! I hope this is a fresh take but idk yet lol#We have: lesbian scifi king arthur! The Wasteland! reality jumping! swords! lesbians (like I already said)! sci fi!#We have: a kpop manager turned killer! Intrigue! Crime! Covering up crimes! Soft kpop bf and stoic murderer gf! The internet!#We also have: a fanfic that I didn't finish that has so many ocs that I MIGHT AS WELL make it into an original thing. love! punk rock! etc!#I forgot I was working on so many things omg. this is what happens when you have to keep pushing everything towards the side#I'm also joining a DND group that will be streaming starting in January. Watch me play a somewhat haughty grave cleric who desires revenge!#or ''listen''? I'm not sure if we're using cameras. idk if I want to since I don't want to have to find a better background lolol#oh! I'm also going to make an etsy shop soon: I'll be selling screen printed patches (at least at first)#I designed a cool ateez one people might like and I figure I'd sell it to make some money off it since like... redbubble thieves exist 🙄#anyway I think that's all for rambling in the tags#as you were
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fishylife · 2 years
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I didn't know that A/B/O made its way to Asian BL comics too, that's interesting
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jahayla-parker · 9 months
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Bewitched Love : Peter Parker x Reader
Part 25
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Desc. & Warnings: 1.2k wc, see navigation for description and warnings
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Peter 1’s eyes narrowed. “No...” he said viciously. “I just wanna kill you myself,” he spat.
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“Attaboy,” Osborn replied, holding his ground and waiting for the attack.
Y/n had frozen upon hearing her Peter’s statement. It wasn’t that she didn’t understand his feelings or where he was coming from. But, y/n knew it wasn’t who he was. She didn’t want him to change himself into someone he didn’t want to be. Y/n knew her Peter would regret killing Osborn, even after what Osborn had gone to May and tried to do to y/n earlier.
Y/n stood silently, watching as her Peter Peter 1 and Osborn fought even more aggressively than they had before.
Peter 1 had intentionally moved the fight back, distancing himself and Green Goblin from y/n. He webbed Osborn’s foot and knocked him to the ground. Peter 1 then jumped into the air, planning on landing a possibly lethal jump slam attack.
Except, y/n had noticed this and blasted Osborn’s lying body to the side. She sighed when her Peter Peter 1 returned to the ground, his fist majorly denting the shield replica rather than likely killing Osborn.
Peter 1 took a few rushed breaths as he watched Osborn rise and uncover a blade from his gauntlet. His eyes narrowed as Green Goblin whistled and smiled wickedly. Peter 1 charged forward, starting the fight back up again.
Y/n moved to near the two, only to find herself being held back. She snapped her head sharply to the sides, seeing Peter 2 on her left and Peter 3 on her right. “Let me go!” Y/n hissed, tugging against their firm grips.
Peter 1 heard y/n’s outcry and glanced her way. When he saw she was safe and being held back by the other Peters, he refocused on Green Goblin. Peter 1 slammed his fist into Osborn’s face, sending him sliding against the metal.
Y/n glared at the Peters holding her in place. “You-,” she huffed, “You promised.”
Peter 2 sighed, “we promised to keep him safe”.
Peter 3 noticed y/n’s disbelief over Peter 2’s response. “Which is why we’re holding you back,” he explained. “If you get hurt right now, especially at the hands of Osborn, he’ll…” Peter 3 sighed. “I don’t know that we’ll be able to stop him from doing something he’ll regret,” he concluded.
Y/n hung her head. She didn’t know what to do. Y/n noticed Peter 2 decided to walk over to try and stop the fight, but she wanted to do something to help. She knew that Peter 3 was right. But, she also knew her Peter Peter 1 was too focused on his hatred of Green Goblin already right now.
Y/n suspected that very few people would be able to get through to her Peter Peter 1 in his current state. As much as she hoped Peter 2 would be able to do that, she doubted it. Y/n didn’t want to risk making it worse, but she also didn’t want to not try to stop her boyfriend from making such a grave mistake. However, she didn’t have very long to contemplate her actions because she noticed her Peter Peter 1 had found Osborn’s glider. Even before he acted, y/n could predict where this was headed.
Peter 2 and 3 assumed y/n’s defeated response to their argument meant she’d realized they were right. Which was true, but they had taken that to mean she wouldn’t move towards Peter 1. That part was not correct.
Y/n had silently sucked in a deep breath as she encouraged herself. She hadn’t done something like this before, but she hoped her confidence in herself would be enough. Y/n stealthily motioned her hand up and down her as she pictured her turning invisible. She’d been able to make May invisible before, but she’d never turned herself invisible; let alone doing it all silently, using only her hands and mind and no spells.
When y/n noticed her invisibility worked, she rushed past Peter 3 and to her Peter Peter 1. She shielded herself before going in. Given that her body was still invisible at first, at least to the others, the azure shield seemed to be protecting nothing. Instead, it appeared merely as a seemingly empty shield that formed beside her Peter Peter 1 and Peter 2 (who was kneeling as he tried to keep Peter 1 from killing Osborn with his own glider). However, when y/n’s powers of invisibility lapsed, her body reappeared in the bubble. Y/n tried to help Peter 2 push the glider from her Peter’s Peter 1’s hands, only the device snapped.
The majority of Osborn’s glider flew to the side, but Peter 1 still held a sharp fragment of it.
Y/n took advantage of the slight gap between the Peters now. She immediately jumped in front of her Peter Peter 1, her shield instantly pushing the gilder fragment upwards to keep it away from her body as she stood in its place. Y/n breathed heavily as she stood between her Peter Peter 1 and Peter 2. “Peter, don’t,” she spoke softly.
Peter 2 stared at Peter 1 silently. His eyes holding understanding and sympathy, but also a silent plea.
Peter 1 glanced between Peter 2 and y/n as he felt his rage lessen. His eyes squinted as his bottom lip shook with grief and shame as he became confused over what to do.
“Amica mea, this isn’t you,” y/n stated. “M-May wouldn’t want this,” she said, her voice small.
Peter 1 stared into y/n’s caring eyes and lowered the broken piece of Osborn’s glider. He knew she was right. Besides, he didn’t want y/n to see him do something like what he’d been about to do.
Green Goblin tsked and pulled another blade from his suit which he quickly drove into Peter 2's back.
Y/n dropped her shield and spun around. She dropped to Peter 2’s side as he fell to the ground in pain. Y/n winced as her Peter Peter 1 stepped around her, moving towards Osborn. She pressed her hands against Peter 2’s wound as she watched her Peter Peter 1 closely.
Peter 3 ran closer with Green Goblin’s cure held tightly in his hand.
Osborn smirked. “She was there... because of you... I may have struck the blow, but you...” he grinned evilly, “you are the one that killed her”. Osborn laughed manically, shaking his n head mockingly at Peter 1 who was glaring angrily at him again.
“THAT’S NOT TRUE,” y/n declared loudly, her eyes still stuck on her boyfriend. “Don’t listen to him,” she pleaded. “Listen to me, only me, please,” y/n requested, her hands nervously shaking against their position on Peter 2’s body.
Peter 3 chucked Peter 1 the cure for Osborn, letting out a sigh of relief when Peter 1 caught it.
Y/n watched her boyfriend while he took a deep breath and seemed to debate his next move.
Peter 1 glared at Osborn as he heard y/n’s voice echoing in his mind. He let her warm voice mix with May’s until he felt the tight feeling in his head subside some. He stepped forward and slammed the cure into Green Goblin’s neck. Peter 1 knew he’d likely used more force than necessary, but at least it was a compromise. He aggressively tore the serum from Osborn’s neck when the villain’s laughter died out.
Osborn looked remorsefully at Peter 2. “Peter?” He asked, his confusion clear in his tone and eyes. “What have I done?” Osborn wondered to himself as he shook his head in disbelief.
Peter 1 just continued to glare at Osborn. His breathing still heavy.
Meanwhile, Peter 3 joined the group and relieved y/n of looking after Peter 2. Peter 3 then signaled for y/n to go to her Peter Peter 1 before he turned his attention to Peter 2.
When she reached his side, y/n threw her arms around her Peter Peter 1. She felt his body loosen instinctively in her arms, his smile pressing against her collarbone. They silently clung onto each other as Peter 2 and Peter 3 discussed Peter 2’s status. Y/n leaned back after a moment and smiled at her boyfriend. “I’m really proud of you,” she sniffled with a shaky nod.
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alittlelessalone · 6 months
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Fun Scum Villain fic concept:
So Shen Yuan and Shang Qinghua are sent back to their original world temporarily due to system shenanigans and need to wait x number of days until they can go back. They wake up at the times of their deaths and get to use this time to do some final things in the world before returning back.
So Shen Yuan of course wants to spend the time with his family and getting to see them again and say goodbye in a less depressing way. But Shang Qinghua doesn’t have that and he’s just finished PIDW.
Shen Yuan makes sure he has enough money to get him through the timeframe (after learning about Shang Qinghua’s financial situation), so he doesn’t need to work to keep himself alive, so he decides he wants to write something a little more heartfelt as a sort of last hurrah.
He decides in honor of the two lives he and Shen Yuan stole, he’s going to share the backstory of Shen Jiu and write a story about Shang Qinghua.
Shen Jiu comes first and it’s mainly just a tale about him and Yue Qingyuan using his unposted backstory, but in the end he decides to make some minor changes so it’s not as depressing. Namely, that when they died, their souls were both sucked into Xuan Su. The pair ended up trapped there, but they were trapped there together in a world that couldn’t hurt them anymore and allowed them to finally be together.
It’s a poignant and bittersweet story that doesn’t excuse Shen Jiu’s behavior, but it does a lot to explain it and expand his character. And while it of course has its detractors, people generally like it and Peerless Cucumber is there in the comments singing its praises for all to see (and there in Shang Qinghua’s apartment smacking him over the head with a rolled up magazine and scolding him for being by such a good writer and selling out on PIDW).
The Original Shang Qinghua story doesn’t really have any old notes to go off. He was never meant to be a fleshed out character and was always just a plot device villain. But Shang Qinghua feels bad for PIDW’s Mobei-Jun, so he decides to write something for his sake too.
In this story, it’s revealed that Mobei-Jun didn’t actually kill the Original Shang Qinghua, but instead worked with him to fake his death after Lou Binghe ordered him dead. Shang Qinghua reveals that the pair were actually lovers and maintained their secret relationship over the years and that was why Mobei-Jun never seemed interested in romance.
And most readers are like wtf except for the bl fans who love it. And even Peerless Cucumber is a little more hesitant to praise it since it sort of came out of nowhere, but he can admit that it’s clever and well written. And Shen Yuan can tease Shang Qinghua relentlessly for it, even if he also approves and finds it very sweet.
Depending on how much more time they’re stuck there, maybe the pair can also write one more story, giving the original Lou Binghe a happier ending too.
Eventually, it’s time for them to go back. Shen Yuan says goodbye to has family and Shang Qinghua says goodbye to PIDW and hopes that his changes and additions can bring people some peace, even if it’s probably too late for those who need them most.
Shen Yuan realizes that Shang Qinghua was trying to alter the canon in hidden ways so that the system could silently incorporate them into the world without breaking anything. He figures it’s mainly for Bing-ge’s universe that’s still more or less PIDW, but being the mega-fan that he is, he decides to put a theory to the test.
It takes a lot less time with the help of the sect, but he manages to grow another plant body like his own. And then with Yue Qingyuan’s permission, he uses some of Shang Qinghua’s new hand-wavy canon to reach out to Xuan Su. And the next thing he knows, Shen Jiu is waking back up in the plant body after years trapped inside the sword.
And of course there’s a lot of questions and Binghe tears, but Yue Qingyuan gets his Xiao Jiu back and Shang Qinghua realizes that his changes must have taken in the other universe too, now meaning there’s less suffering there as well. He gets to curl back up in his king’s arms that night and rest assured that no matter what universe he’s in, both his king and that universe’s Shang Qinghua are well and truly loved.
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olderthannetfic · 6 days
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People on fandomsecrets are really mad this week about other people reviewing fanfiction on goodreads and I don't want to litigate whether people should or shouldn't use that website in that manner right now, because the thing I'm actually wound up about is:
when someone asks why, they say "BECAUSE FANFIC ISN'T BOOKS!!!1!1!" as though this is supposed to explain everything, and when asked to elaborate they basically just find ways to say "fanfic, by virtue of being fanfic, is not a book, which is a different thing from fanfic, by virtue of books being books which are not fanfic" in more and more words without adding any coherent information.
Fanfic is a type of story. Books is a type of physical object. In the digital age there are now lots of professional ~official~ works of literature which have never once been published in a physical form. The comparison is meaningless to begin with and also doesn't answer the question.
Is this just a way of ignoring the goodreads thing entirely so they can stealth complain about the Wattpad thing where people used to that site call all stories "books"? Is that what's going on here?
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Sighhh.
I know some people think Goodreads is for Real Books™, but a hell of a lot of what's on there is trashy romance novels. I myself am an author... of indie selfpub m/m mystery novels that are overtly fandom-adjacent in that BL way. Like most people in that space, I'm mainly focused on ebooks. Why are these things not fic? Well, because we sell them for money and we don't call them fic and because we've done a successful find and replace on the character names.
I think people have trouble articulating why fic is not books because they're used to thinking in terms of content, and they know perfectly well that Goodreads is full of content that might as well be from a fic.
But no, I don't think this is an anti-Wattpad thing at all.
What they're trying and failing to articulate is that fic is not a book by virtue of its author not intending it as one.
Fic authors, or at least ones adhering to a certain kind of AO3 culture, mean their work to be a not-for-profit gift for their fandom community. They often have a horror of it escaping containment to reach the eyeballs of outsiders.
Now, frankly, with the multitude of Goodreads users reviewing original omegaverse mpreg romance novels, I'm not sure that the site actually counts as outsiders, but that's how the people going "Fic is not books!" feel. It's a violation to bring fic there just like it's gross when a talk show host digs up some horny fan art to show to actors so they can have a good laugh at fandom's expense.
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shen qingqiu:
Okay first a quick intro: Shen Qingqiu / Shen Yuan is the main character of SVSSS, and his deal is that he's a guy from the modern world who wakes up in the novel he read, in the body of one of the characters. Shen Yuan is his name in his original world, while Shen Qingqiu is the name of the character he became - that he uses for himself for most of the novel.
Now, what happened to him… The thing is, at the core of his woobification are his actual canon traits, but some fans really crank them up to the point where it becomes a disservice to the character. So you never know when someone saying "oh Shen Qingqiu is so oblivious" means "due to several intersecting factors Shen Qingqiu has some extremely specific blindspots regarding certain topics" (which is just true) or "haha Shen Qingqiu could get kissed by a man and still not realize that man has romantic feelings for him" (just one variation of the sentiment, but one i find particularly bewildering considering. in canon. a man kissing him was exactly what made Shen Qingqiu realize that man was actually in love with him. like my dudes the bar is low but its there!).
Stumbling into this second version in fic was funny a first few times, but now it's like… I genuinely can't tell whether any particular author is overplaying it for comedy, or genuinely believes the character is That dumb.
Also ppl often severely underestimate his power level. Like idk if that's because they compare him to the characters he often hangs out with, who are those genius top-of-the-world experts (despite him outpacing literally everyone else he ever fought against), or because of how he bungled his first-ever case (like, you know, two weeks after waking up in a whole NEW BODY, in a different world), or because he tends to downplay his own strength and also tries to avoid killing people… but like, this man took a technique that in the original was just "aesthetic and interesting" and developed it into something that could be super deadly within weeks, he's just not using it that way. And he also fixed og Shen Qingqiu's broken cultivation within the first few months of being in that body. So he's actually extremely talented and pretty strong, he just spends most of the book either nerfed by external factors (such as poison that disables his spiritual energy at random times) or surrounded by veritable powerhouses.
And this is for Shen Yuan-as-Shen Qingqiu. But the version that drives me completely up the wall is actually the portrayal of just Shen Yuan - in fanworks where he either never gets transported to the world of the novel, or wakes up as a different character. Because suddenly the traits that already get unduly amplified with Shen Qingqiu version become straight up caricature-like. He's not only oblivious to the extreme, he also gets painted as this completely naive soft babyboi (this is about a guy whose most well-known pre-transmigration canon trait is that he writes famously vitriolic rants about novels on the internet); plus, like, on the physical level, super frail and waifish which uh. wow. nice walking right back into the BL tropes the novel itself avoided?…… So yeah I'm super not keen on this portrayal. I know he doesn't appear as not-Shen Qingqiu version of himself in the novel, if we don't count the rant in the beginning, but like. please extrapolate from the character we actually have instead of writing this mega-woobie who shares nothing with the base version?
Terrible little bastard man who has a sad backstory but is actually genuinely a terrible person. Fans like to act like he is just a soft sad boi deep inside and make him lose all of his edge.
So the thing about Shen Jiu / og!Shen Qingqiu in canon is that we first learn of him as an unquestionably, almost cartoonishly villainous character. As in, he is literally a villain in the book our main character has been reading… before dying and waking up in the world of the book, as that very villain (hence the distinction of Shen Jiu being the "original" Shen Qingqiu, as our main character begins to use the name Shen Qingqiu for himself. Shen Jiu, however, is an old name that only the original has used). The original Shen Qingqiu that our main character knows is a serial child abuser in a teaching position, a murderer (killed his colleague, killed his old fiancee's entire family…), and a lecher (visited brothels and had designs on his female disciple).
Then, over the course of the novel, we learn more about Shen Jiu - in particular, that a number of things our MC "knew" about him were not true. He did not kill his colleague, but rather failed to save him, despite trying to; he killed his "fiancee"'s family because her older brother has abused him for years (and also, Shen Jiu was forced into agreeing to marry her), and also he only actually killed half of them (only men); he visited brothels because he only felt safe in the company of women, and he just went there to get a good night's sleep; and he only ever saw that female disciple he was accused of lusting after as a daughter. And in general, he had a horrible childhood, and was himself a victim of abuse.
However, not everything gets disproved. Shen Jiu still turned from a victim to perpetrator, abusing a child (coincidentally the protagonist of the og book) and trying to set him up to die/be killed several times. Canon is very clear on that point. The situation with Shen Jiu and the og book version of the protagonist is very much an illustration of cycles of abuse.
Also at a certain point, we meet the author of the in-world book, the one our MC was reading - who explains he scrapped Shen Jiu's tragic backstory because it would make him too controversial. Quoting from memory, something like: 'if you said he was a villain, he was also tragic; but if you said he was pitiful, he'd also done terrible things. All in all, a character like this was a hotbed for all kinds of fandom discourse.'
Prophetic fucking words.
Somehow, seeing all that, some 'fans' have decided to jump into a completely opposite direction: making Shen Jiu a poor little misunderstood meow meow who did nothing wrong ever and was a soft princess and totally was never mean to the protagonist ("the protagonist just has inflated sense of ego and misunderstood Shen Jiu's normal teaching as singling him out for abuse" was a take I had to see with my own two eyeballs. Theres btw an extra from Shen Jiu's pov where he laments that the fake manual he gave the kid has failed to horrifically kill him yet).
Which puts the rest of us in an awkward position of having to defend his canon assholery. Like, the whole point of this character is that he's complex! That he's both a villain and a victim! Reducing him to just one is doing him a disservice, and either extreme is equally incorrect! And this is something that happens with many similar characters, I know, but what boggles my mind about Shen Jiu's case in particular is that. it's spelled out. The whole deal with his character is spelled out in canon. And some people still go "oh so Shen Jiu was secretly the most morally pure and good character, got it". Like. how?????????????? ??? ?? ?????
noriaki kakyoin:
Uke-fied to the max so he can be shipped with jotaro lol
Ohmygod where do I even start. Kakyoin's the poster boy for twinkification and woobification of a canonically very capable, interesting (and not twinky at all) character who's so many things at once- a loyal friend, really smart, a bit of a weirdo, infodumping trivia at random times, quick-thinking in dangerous situations, reckless, polite and respectful, vengeful towards enemies but always kind to friends, depressed, determined and motivated in the face of mortal danger despite it all - even when he had the chance to leave the Stradust Crusaders and just come back to his normal life, he decided to stick with them. This decision eventually cost him his life since he got killed by Dio, the main villain. The fandom either calls him a cardboard with no personality (which is not true at ALL, where did that take even come from) or they downplay his canon badassery- Jotaro x Kakyoin shippers are often guilty of this along with twinkifying Kakyoin. The ship is fine, but they're way more interesting if you take into account their canon characterisation as huge weirdos who somehow work pretty well together- they're both different flavors of autistic that sometimes just so happen to align on the same wavelength.
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happypopcornprincess · 3 months
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Tangled Fates
Part 2
A Phaya x Tharn fic about their past life as Sapuna and Wansarut.
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a/n - As a desi, this series has captured my heart with the mythology and storytelling! So I wrote this fic as I believe this backstory was one of the best in BL! This happens right after Sapuna is saved by Wansarut and left on the riverside. All of this is my imagination this is not from the book as i haven't read it yet. A lot of this is inspired from indian and thai mythological stories that my grandparents would tell me (shakuntala, nala-damyanti, radha-krishna, etc)Some terms might be difficult to understand so I have underlined them and provided a guide at the end for them.
The Sign series spoilers ahead!
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Leaning back on the tree bark under the night sky, Sapuna winced as he tried to calm down. He took shallow breaths while pain coursed through his body. Within a single day, he had been bitten by Prince Chalothorn, thrown from the skies, almost died from Naga venom, and saved by a Nagini.
He was experiencing the after effects of detoxification. His eyesight was weakened, he couldn’t see the infinite like he used to. Is this what human vision is like? How do they manage to live like this?
He closed his eyes in frustration, trying to get some rest so he could gain strength to go back to the battlefield. He was worried that his brothers and sisters were searching for him. But the image of Prince Chalothorn flying towards his army in his serpent form worried him more. He wasn’t even in Garuda Lok. Everywhere he looked he found huge trees and dense forests. The shallow river on whose bank he sat was clear and cold, he craved for the warmth that was native to his kingdom.
This was Naga Lok, or somewhere near it. Nagas were territorial. They would never wander far from their home.
The Nagini earlier was proof of it.
“You will not be safe here.” Her eyebrows scrunched, she gazed at him with a blend of curiosity and caution.
“And why should I believe you?” Garuda retaliated with anger, looking at her legs that were still in the water, her territory, ready to run in case he attacked.
“I extracted all the venom but I can’t help with the after effects. You should return to your kingdom and let the vaidyas heal you.” She pleaded, looking around. “You will be killed if you stay here.”
The Lady turned away from him to face the water, and he flinched in habit when she turned into a serpent and dived into the water.
Did she go away to warn him? Will she be back? Why did she help him?
He could now hear the rumble in his stomach as if it were the roar of a lion. He remembered the lavish banquet he had shared with his clan before the war. In spite of his best efforts, Sapuna couldn't help but think about the delicacies he had been served just a day earlier.
Another sound echoed through the forest at the moment, the simmering sound of bangles. Sapuna sat up abruptly, on alert. He looked around but saw no one.
Was the Nagini back to finish me off?
Something brushed against his hand. Without his divine vision it took him a while to see what was in front of him in the moonlight.
It was a lotus leaf filled with berries, fruits, and edible flowers from the wild. His hunger only grew as he smelled the freshly picked mangoes, and throwing all caution to the wind, he dived in. Halfway through, his eyes caught a movement in the water.
He lifted his head to see a blur of green and gold; the same as the Nagini's clothes.
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The sound of Wansarut’s bangles echoed through the plains as she picked the fruit. She chose the mangoes carefully for the injured Garuda. She saw how he ate the mangoes happily yesterday, they seemed to be of his liking. What do Garudas eat anyway? She has heard about them eating serpents since she was young. It sent a shiver down her spine. She will simply leave the food like she did yesterday and won’t talk to him. The quicker his health improves, the sooner he will leave.
She gained her composure, and took off her anklets and bangles and kept them by the riverside. She almost got caught yesterday. She saw a fawn and its mother drinking water by her side. Smiling, she said in their tongue, "Keep them safe for me now, will you?” The fawn nodded, standing guard over her jewels with its tiny form.
She got into the water, smiling back at the fawn. Spending time with wild animals in this forest has always been her joy. This place was the divide between Naga Lok and the human world, a place she accidentally stumbled upon while wandering in the woods. It felt like a hidden haven, known only to her; a sanctuary where she felt safe.
She surfaced by the bank where she had left the Garuda, quietly approaching the tree where he had fallen. There, she delicately placed the lotus leaf, ready to run away the second she placed it on the ground.
"Why are you here?"
Wansarut screamed as the heavy voice echoed behind her, causing the food to fly from her hands and land on the ground. Startled, she turned to find the Garuda staring at her with an unpleasant expression. Although color had returned to his skin, and he no longer appeared pale, his armor was still stained with blood. Other than that, he seemed to be in good health.
“Do you often save your enemies and treat them with mangoes?" Sapuna inquired, a strange sensation in his chest as he observed her green attire and flowing hair.
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"Do you make a habit of lurking in the shadows to frighten others?" the Nagini screamed once more, eyeing the scattered food on the ground.
His gaze remained steady as she gathered the fallen fruits, placing them on a lotus leaf and gently allowing the stream to cleanse the mud. Garuda found himself unable to look away, his attention fixed on her delicate wrists and the fluidity of her hands in the water, reminiscent of the mudras of Kohn.
Sapuna snapped back to reality. "Why are you here again?" he asked, approaching her as she handed him the food.
"Because I want you gone," she declared, scrutinizing him from head to toe.
"Is this a farewell lunch, then?" he inquired, taking a seat under the tree where he had fallen. Diving into the mangoes, he saw the Nagini looking at him, puzzled.
"You need to regain your strength to fly. Mangoes help," she explained, turning to leave. "I hope you leave this place by tomorrow."
Sapuna quickly swallowed his food and shouted, "Wait." She halted, looking back at him, one foot in the water and the other on the stones near the bank.
"Thank you. The Garudas will never forget your kindness and hospitality," he expressed.
The Nagini locked eyes with him. "I hope you don't forget to repay me." Sapuna recalled her asking for this war to end, for peace among her kind and his.
“I will do what I can," Sapuna replied.
The Nagini nods, stepping into the water to go away when the Garuda shouts again, “What is your name?”
She pauses yet again, but doesn’t turn.
"Wansarut." After saying so, she shifts into her Nagini form and dives into the water.
“Wansarut.” Sapuna smiles, whispering her name as he looked at the half-eaten food with a smile on his face.
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Sleep didn’t come easy for Wansarut that night. The image of the Garuda's face lingered in her thoughts.
There was an unusual aura about him; something she had never witnessed before. His presence seemed to glow, and his features were perfectly sculpted. In his human form, he could easily be mistaken for a heavenly demigod. Truly divine.
She thought about the possibilities if he was a Naga like her. She could have asked him for courtship. They could have had the blessings from the elders and…
Wansarut sat up, shaking her head to dispel the fantasy.
He was a Garuda, her enemy. She could be in grave danger if discovered that she helped a Garuda. She didn’t even know his name and she wanted to do what? Ask him to court her? Love her?
Attempting to push these thoughts aside, she tried to sleep, resisting the image of him standing by the stream where he fell, waiting for her.
But she made a firm decision - she wouldn't go back. It wasn't just for her safety but for his as well.
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More to come soon...
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Guide
Sapuna - Phaya's name in past life as a Garuda
Wansarut - Tharn's name in past life as a Nagini
Naga - A creature from Hindu and Thai mythology who has magical powers and can shapeshift into a Serpant
Nagini - Females of Naga clan.
Garuda Lok - The realm of Lord Garuda
Naga Lok - Realm of the Nagas
Vaidyas - healers
Smiling, she said in their tongue - Naginis have magical abilities to talk in any language (be it human or animals)
Mudras of Khon - Khon is a classical dance in thailand and mudras are different types of hand movements in classical dances like odissi, khon, bharatnatyam, manipuri etc.
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hey anna! the wait for kwami’s choice part 2 truly is abysmal and it’s so hard to navigate through the tag with all the leaks about, do you have any fic recs to tide us over until gloob puts us out of our misery?
not only do I have fic recs, I also have way too much to do rn and therefore will spend an inordinate amount of time crafting a detailed rec list for you 😘 (we can also just consider this my 2022 ao3 wrapped lol)
goes without saying perhaps, but ANYTHING by @peachcitt is gold and also uniquely devastating, some of my particular favorites being:
metamorphosis - 97k, enemies, sleepovers, you get it. i'm normal
those benevolent stars - 23k, ladrien thief/prince/soulmates au. what more do I even need to say
chat noir's white french man hit list for feminist purposes - 7k, hilarious and devastating, this fic is a child to me
double dare - 32k, ladrien, absolutely everything. cemented my friendship w/ peach bc I had to scream at her everyday abt it
I thought the plane was going down - 11k, attuned to my tastes specifically, adrinette having a History while on airplanes
@carpisuns also puts out banger after banger like it's her dayjob, specializing in understanding the ridiculous nature of the lovesquare to such a degree and also being the funniest person alive. some of my faves from her are:
tell me something I don't know - 120k, the marichat fic EVER, mar's dissertation on lovesquare and guess what she's right
pink - 14k wip, adrien loves marinette, SOFT
two idiots and a hamster (collab with @botherkupo) - 24k, adrinette roommates, makes me cry laugh
@picayunearts is a goddess on earth. she bends word and image flawlessly to her will. recently she has enraptured me with
final girl - 41k, marichat, au where marinette succeeds in giving up her miraculous to alya in origins. INCREDIBLE marinette character study
@rosekasa invented ladynoir and i'm not afraid to say it. check out everything on her ao3 but just note the following
when things were good - 15k wip, breakup fic/post hawkmoth takedown, has been ruining me in a SPECIAL way
new marinette 12k, post-guardianship memory loss marinette, a classic
like poles of a magnet - 12k, enemies au, hurts my feelings
ya'aburnee - 13k, ladynoir, HURTS ME VERY MUCH. I'VE NOT RECOVERED
@buggachat's fics always feel like i'm attending a course on adrien and marinette's true characterizations explained to me by someone with a PhD in lovesquare and I walk away enlightened. she has an incredible gift for storytelling and just Getting It. anyway read
maintaining a professional distance - 43k, ladynoir hotel room shenanigans, god-tier characterization
when you're near 10k, ladynoir dating but adrinette have never met, a classic
@sha-nwa should honestly quit her career and write lovesquare fanfiction for me full time. proof:
the way I loved you - 68k, marichat break up fic, will be cemented into my mind forever
photograph - 1k, sweet adrinette, abby loves making me cry
things WOULD be amiss if I did not mention @officialratprince (carolinaa on ao3) bc their fics derailed my homework schedule on several occasions last semester, though I'll be honest that their fics are not for the faint of heart or those who wish adrien agreste to have a good time. my faves are
I will take it / it can't go wrong series - 3 fics at 16k, 25k, and 39k, adrien's journey through experiencing child abuse and his friends being there for him, culminating in gabriel's court trial
home sick - 14k wip, adrien gets pneumonia and Everything Is Really Bad
other various fics I love for various reasons:
how hawkmoth got his groove back series by @agrestenoir - 2 fics at 3k and 1k, one of my favorite crack fics i read last year. had me crying laughing
1 step forward, 3 steps back by agnes writes - 10k, breaks my heart every time I read it. also makes me legitimately angry at adrien while still keeping him in character which is a feat in and of itself
the last day on earth by reiaji - 10k, chat blanc keeps happening as marinette gets older, I am incapable of not recommending this fic
okay now go forth and don't do your work<3
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teejaystumbles · 7 months
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Teejaystumbles’ Dreamling art and fic - ultimate masterpost
Fic
general tumblr writing tag (teejay writes)
AO3 (I’m not going to link to every fic I wrote, there are several, please check out this link to the archive)
Art
general tumblr art tag (teejaystumbles)
Pillowfort (for 18+/NSFW works so be aware before clicking!)
Patreon
deviantArt
My original webcomic Behind the Obsidian Mirror (BL, aztec setting, WIP) can be found in my deviantArt gallery and on my Patreon. I also made an extra tumblr but it’s not up to date.
specific posts for certain events or AUs:
Monsterfucktober Bingo 2023 masterpost (full card)
As the World falls down comic (Labyrinth dream AU) (WIP)
Illustration/Cover
pages 1-2
pages 3-5
pages 6-8
pages 9-11
coming soon
The Storms of Life (1889 canon divergence, complete)
kind of related to ch2 - apparition
ch2 - rescue
ch6 - nightmare 1 (cw blood, claws, injury)
ch6 - nightmare 2
ch8 - waiting in the garden
ch10 - kiss
extra - Hob (cw body horror)
Valentine’s Day - Hob in lingerie
Hob portrait
plant creature Dream + Hob
Flatter the Mountain Tops (dragon AU, complete)
ch1 - Hob+Dream as dragons
ch6 - dragon snuggling
ch7 -  partial transformation
ch9 -  a feather, a reminder…
other Endless dragon sketches
Hob mastering partial transformation
some Hob faces
dragon/human sex (sft version with link to nsft)
more dragon/human sex - Hob being irresponsible (comic)
Ollie/Hob sketches
Hob being lifted up by a dragon
loads of more wonderful art for my dragons can be found on @amielot’s tumblr!!
Fins & Fangs AU (vampire!Hob/nixie!Dream)
now with a fic!! Wash these sins on down the river for a life I didn't choose by @karalynlovescake
Story post
story sketches
nix Dream being carried doodle
three stages of monstrification/curse
vampire/nix making out (sft version with link to nsft)
glowing in the rain (angsty)
Hell or High Water (AU with skate merman Hob that tumblr helped create through a poll <3)
sketches 1
sketches 2 - daydreaming on a rock like a good mermaid
first eye contact
sketches 3
sketch with ruby 1
sketch with ruby 2
trying to save a “human”
sketch with ruby 3 - sexy Hob
Hob caught in a net sketch
underwater kisses sketch
Hob playing in kelp forest sketch
sketches 4
Hob pinup
chibi Hob with pet
some Hob faces
anatomy studies (sft version with link to nsft)
dive with me illustration
merman/human illustration (sft version with link to nsft)
Hob caught in a net illustration
Unsustainable (dark!Dream/Hob, Hannibal-inspired AU)
art and premise
drabble
more drabble/thoughts
Single AU/fic art posts
Knight Hob
Cobwebs - sad Hob + kiss
Dryad Dream (cw body horror)
A Hope in Hell
Hob in corset (1789)
There’s an Emerald in the sky (Daniel/Hob)
Spiritstalker (cw blood)
1489 AU - 1 + 2, extra
Jumper (2008) - 1 + 2
Beauty and the Beast (fairytale dream rescue AU)
Moulin Rouge AU
kidnapped Hob (blindfold)
The Hunted (assassin/vigilante AU)
Servant of the Bones AU
Orc Hob
Witch Hob 1 + 2 + 3 + cover art and fic!
Sleep Token song illustrations
Rain (Dreamling)
Apparition (Dreamling - for Storms of Life)
Aqua Regia (Morpheus)
The Offering (Dreamling)
Euclid (Hob - for There’s an Emerald in the Sky)
Take Me Back To Eden (Dreamling - for There’s an Emerald in the Sky)
Higher (Corinthian/Dream)
Aldritch Kemp fanart (Ferdie): sketch, art
Art for others/Masterpost part 2
(I had to cut in half because I reached the tumblr link limit)
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