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cap-ironman · 1 year

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Medley Month - Create in Your Favourite Universe: Cap-IM Universe Medley Fest

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It's the 15th, so welcome to the next month of Cap-IM's Universe Medley fest!

You can create as many works as you like across as many different mediums as you like! This is a no-pressure, low commitment challenge to encourage you to try something new, stretch your creativity, and check out other versions of Steve and Tony.

For our full fest guidelines, including our annual schedule, please click here.

Coming up, Create in Your Favourite Universe!

We've visited eight Marvel universes so far in our medley fest — but have we gotten to your favourite incarnation of Steve and Tony yet?

No matter the answer, this month is for you.

Got a hankering to create in a universe that's passed already, because you love it so much and the plot bunnies are a-hopping? Get to it and share the love 💞

Missed out on your fave 'verse because the timing just wasn't right? Here's your second chance!

Can't wait until we reach the universe that's got Steve and Tony the way you like 'em best? No need to wait, you can create for it this month.

Is your favourite universe not specifically on our list? Then it's an ideal time to crack your knuckles and get creating.

Go wild — go multiversal, go obscure, go AU… any universe fits the theme, as long as it's your favourite. (And don't worry, we won't count if you have multiple faves — after all we don't ask you to choose between our heroes, now do we?)

Come celebrate Steve and Tony with us. If you love that universe, we'll love it too.

WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

If you would like to earn a badge for Create in Your Favourite Verse Month, you must submit your work before the end of 15th May.

UNIVERSE MEDLEY:

If you post a Stevetony work set in Your Favourite Verse canon in the next month, congratulations! Share it on a Cap-IM community platform, add it to the AO3 Collection and BAM! You've participated!

UNIVERSE THEMED PROMPT FEST:

Got inspiration? Fill out our prompt form to inspire creators! You can also come along and fill a prompt for the universe of the month, or two, or three… the sky's the limit! We have plenty of past prompt lists to browse through.

Don't forget to share your work with us, and post in the AO3 Collection!

RUN A MINI-CHALLENGE:

Love a universe with all your heart and have an idea for a flash challenge? Let's do it! Get in touch with the mods to claim a month (or contact us on discord in the #universe-medley-challenges channel) and you can run it on 's community platforms! The cap-im mods can also support you in setting up and/or modding the mini-challenge.

CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!

This is a fest encouraging fun exploration in various Marvel universes, and we'd like to invite you to share your milestones with us!

Badge Milestones

I created a work this month!

I created my very first work in this universe!

I created something for each of the 12 months!

I participated for the second year!

I hosted a mini-challenge!

I submitted a amnesty fanwork!

If you do any of the above this month, let us know by filling out our Prize Claims form.

If you have any questions or comments, read our event guidelines, email us at [email protected], or get in touch on tumblr, on contact us on discord in the #universe-medley-challenges channel.

#stevetony #stony #superhusbands #capimevents #universe medley fest

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cactusspatz · 2 years

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For the writing asks: anything that appeals to you from 21, 24, 30, 32

Huh, I have no idea why my reblog flipped all the letters to a numbered list. The mysteries of Tumblr ever deepen....

21. Can you accurately predict how long your fics are going to be? If you can, what’s your secret?

You know, I used to be like ‘but how do authors knowwww’ when people would complain about how a fic expanded on them, but after a while you really do get a sense for it? It helps that my default setting is ‘less that 5K’ lol. I think it’s a combination of reading and writing experience - you have a sense for what length a certain plot/trope will run, and your own wordiness or lack thereof, and then can guesstimate from there. So the real problem is when a story decides it’s not what you thought it was, or grows additional plot and you have to recalculate. But I’m such a ‘plan in out in my head/daydream before actually writing’ lazybones that that hardly ever happens for me.

24. Thoughts on flashbacks/flashforwards.

A useful tool at times, I guess? I’m not sure I’ve ever written a flashforward. Actually, I’m looking through my fic and I seem to be a fairly linear writer, I’m more likely to have a character remember an event in narration rather than do a proper flashback - probably because it’s usually shorter, hah.

30. Describe a fic that almost happened, but then it didn’t.

LOL so so many that I had to start dumping them in a WIP amnesty to let myself give up on them without feeling like I’d wasted my time.

There was a fic that I did an unusual amount of planning for and then wrote almost none of: a Leverage/Magnificent Seven (the 90s TV show) crossover where the Leverage crew clears Vin’s name, naturally to be called The Tascosa Job. I had a decent idea of the plot, and how the Leverage crew worked in old-timey days; I even visited what’s left of Tascosa on a road trip. That’s probably the most pre-planned fizzle of a plot bunny I’ve ever had.

32. Do you have a word/expression that you always use in your writing?

Probably? Hmm. I usually only notice when I’m writing and someone’s winced repeatedly or raised their eyebrows three times in a row or whatever. You tell me! [ETA: oh wait I am SUPER weak for describing things as warm, like, as a positive adjective/touch/environment]

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jupitermelichios · 4 years

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RIP to my abandonned fics

This is just me pouring one out for fic ideas that I’m never going to finish writing. If any of you fancy taking any of these ideas out for a test drive, knock yourselves out. It’s not like I’m using them.

During Tony Stark’s time at MIT he decides that to get the full college experience he needs to start a shitty garage rock band, so he puts ads up around campus and the people who answer are the OG MCU Avengers line-up. (I don’t remember now who was going to play what instrument, except that I’m fairly sure Thor was supposed to be the drummer, which is just proof that this idea could never have worked, because obviously Thor would play Keytar.)

Captain Cold gets set on fire during a LoT mission and Heatwave is way too into it.

TV Constantine persuades Chaz to have bad-dom style unhealthy BDSM sex with him in order to summon a demon they need to speak to, but Chaz will only agree if he gets to prove to John he can treat him right after.

Tim Drake is a shop assistant at Dinah Lance’s florists. Bart works at a coffee shop and keeps nearly getting fired for drinking the cinnamon syrup straight from the bottle. Kon works at Roy’s tattoo parlour. When Tim comes in to get some piercings done, Kon realises that this is the coffee-addict customer Bart’s been crushing on, and tries to set them up, but ends up falling for both of them in the process.

When criminal law professor Bruce Wayne goes missing from his college campus, it’s up to his kids, and the deranged Ethics professor they’re not supposed to know he’s dating, to figure out what’s going on. But some of these clues look a little too much like red herrings, and can they even trust a man who claims Joe Kerr is his real name?

At the height of prohibition, some priceless jewells on loan from to the Gotham museum go missing and private security guy Jason Todd realises he makes the perfect fall-guy. Fortunately Wayne Foundation boys stick together and Officer Grayson has a recommendation for the best private dick in the city. And sure Drake’s a little squirrelly and a lot weird, but he’s Jason’s last hope.

Tony doesn’t want a kid. He’s pretty sure he’s the last person on earth who should be trusted with a child in fact, but when he realises SHEILD are keeping a super-strong wall crawling four year old in a cell because they don’t know what else to do with him, what can he do except take the boy home with him? At least he’s got JARVIS to help him co-parent.

When Wade Wilson finally got a cure for the worst of his memory problems, he was expecting to get back a whole lot of mundane memories, maybe a few assisinations he’d forgotten committing. What he wasn’t expecting was to find out that apparently in all the months when he could barely remember anything day to day, he’d somehow managed to seduce the Mutant Saviour himself. Now he just has to figure out how he did it, and whether Nate even still wants him.

Getting recruited to SHIELD at seventeen was weird enough. Clint getting sent undercover to a shitty highschool in the middle of nowhere to recruit an escaped child supersoldier experiment calling himself Deadpool is a whole new level of weird. Especially when it turns out, he kind of likes his mark.

When he realises that Stiles is never going to make sensible decisions about who he sleeips with, Derek decides it’s his job as a good alpha to take control of Stiles’s sex life. He just wasn’t expecting to enjoy the control so much.

A Teen Wolf x Nailbiter AU. Beacon Hills is notorious accross America because despite being barely big enough to support a high school, it’s produced fifteen of America’s worst serial killers. When bodies start turning up in the woods, it’s up to Scott and his friends to figure out what it is about their sleepy town that produces monsters before the people they love get caught in the crossfire.

Rorschach doesn’t know what he is. When he’d asked his mom, back when he still small enough to try and reach out to her, before he learned that she’d never reach back, she’d just said “A monster.” Mostly he doesn’t care. His abilities are useful, and the work he does proves over and over that humans the real monsters. But there’s something about Dan, about the trust he shows, the way he smiles after a hard patrol, the way he’s always fussing and worrying over him, that makes Rorschach wish he was just a little more human that he is.

Everyone expected Nate to leave the Shatterdome when his co-pilot died, but he’s detirmined he’ll get back in a Yaeger one day. He takes over training the new recruits, always on the lookout for someone drift compatible, but it’s not until he catches the base’s scarred half-mad janitor doing drills with a mop that he feels that connection. It turns out Wade’s like him, a former pilot left too damaged to get back into the fight, but Nate’s sure if he can just persuade the higher-ups to give it him a try, Wade’s the second chance he’s been looking for.

The last thing Strange does before Thanos kills him is to send Tony’s conciousness back in time. He wakes up the morning after Obie’s death with a decade of memories that haven’t happened yet and absolutely no idea how to turn this into a plan to save the world.

If people are interested, I might turn some of these into not!fic, and if anyone wants to use one of these sets up as a prompt feel free (but please credit me).

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crumbsfortherats · 2 years

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Hello dearest rats!

We have been toying with the idea to organize two events and this is me trying to gauge interest, to see if anyone else would be interested.

1. Sebchal Appreciation Day 2022

Last year’s Sebchal Appreciation Day was a lot of fun and we’d like a sequel, if we’re honest! This would take place on 16/05 (May 16th) and it’s really a celebration of Sebchal where you can post gifsets, art, fics, favourite moments, hopes and dreams, anything about Sebchal! Here’s a link to the announcement post for last year’s so you’d know what to expect!

2. WIP Amnesty Day

This one isn’t specifically Sebchal linked, but it feels like it might be easier if we’re all into the same pairing? Anyway. we probably all have some documents hidden in the far corners of our computers, with the start of a story you saw so clearly once and that just didn’t go anywhere. This is to breathe some life into the old WIPs!

The logistics of this are still being worked on, but the basic idea is that, if you have WIPs that you either don't want to finish, can't finish, maybe you just want to get the idea out in the world, you do just that. Make a post detailing the idea and see if anyone else wants to pick it up to not let the plot bunny go to waste!

So if you’re interested in any of these events, please like this post or reply to it if only one event seems like your thing. We hope to create with you all soon! 🥰

- Meo & L

#admin post #especially with all the new crumbs it seems a lot of fun to make it a community thing!#this ship truly has the most talented creators and i'm totally not biased <3 #sebchal

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podcasts-in-review · 4 years

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The Adventure Zone

The Adventure Zone is an actual-play, RPG podcast and a spinoff of the comedy podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me, that follows the 3 McElroy brothers and their dad Clint as they play through several different long-running campaigns. The first arc, Balance, has 69 episodes, the second, Amnesty, has 36, and the third, Graduation, has, at time of posting 22. Podcast episodes fall generally around an hour to an hour and a half, and the first two arcs are completed, the third is not. TAZ also has several mini-seasons and one-shot eps as bonus content.

Now, for the breakdown:

Plot/Writing - 7.5/10: I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t really enjoy how TAZ was plotted or paced when I initially started out listening to Balance. However, since the first few episodes were really just Griffin finding his feet as a DM, the plot definitely improved through the first season and into the second, and a similar thing occured with Travis as DM for Graduation. Both Griffin and Travis excel at crafting tight-knit, well thought out stories for their players with plenty of dramatic moments not crafted by the dice, but what suffers as a result of this is a good sense of player agency and action. In fact, many of the best scenes of the show are when TAZ’s players upset the DM’s plans and take the story in their own directions. This type of “railroading” is most apparent in Balance, but similar situations are also common in the other two seasons. I do not think this distracts from the plot too much, but it can be jarring if you are used to RPG shows more driven by player choice. Since TAZ is an RPG podcast, I can’t really comment on its writing, but character and NPC dialogue is always entertaining, and, though TAZ does struggle with consistent RP in the beginning, it eventually gets better and better.

Characters: 10/10: TAZ’s characters, simply put, are amazing. While most of the more minor characters might be one-dimensional or only there to help the main group with one important thing, the main cast and supporting characters definitely feel more like fleshed out human beings that fit into the craziness of TAZ’s worlds perfectly. The main cast of player characters are all complex and fun to listen to, from Merle’s plant seduction to Aubrey’s bunny rabbit to Fitzroy’s boycloaks, and all of them develop and change as people over the course of the series. The main 3 characters across all seasons get well-developed backstories and meaningful relationships with the many many side characters, who are really what make TAZ stand out. All of the side characters TAZ’s DMs create are hilarious, memorable, and contribute to the plot in their own ways, and many of the more major ones even get their own well thought out character arcs.

Voice Acting/Sound Design/Technical Aspects: 9/10 - For an RPG podcast, TAZ definitely goes above and beyond with its sound design, including voice filters for special voices and its own original soundtrack for all of the campaigns. The TAZ soundtrack is definitely one of my favorite things about this podcast, and tracks range from synth-heavy and intense, to somber and relaxing folk-ish music for Amnesty, to a more orchestral sound for Graduation, all in keeping with the genral tone of each arc. Due to the fact that it is an actual-play RPG podcast, not a lot of voice acting in the traditional sense occurs, but each character develops their own voice and the voices are sometimes done extremely well, sometimes not, though the character voice consistency definitely improves from season to season.

Tone/Genre:10/10 -TAZ is definitely a comedy podcast. If you are looking for a lot of serious emotional weight all the time, this is not the RPG show for you. This, however, is not to say that TAZ never has its emotional moments, and there are definitely times where I genuinely felt for the characters, in both their happiest times and their dakrest ones. However, these moments can often be overshadowed by the truckload of goofs, gags, and funny ha-has this podcast delivers. There have been countless times where I’ve had to keep myself from genuinely laughing at Taako’s jokes, or Master Firbolg’s one-liners, or just.... everything about Ned Chicane, and this podcast is truly amazing at switching between genuine heart and dramatic moments,to funny in-jokes on a dime, and this ability to combine laughter with genuine emotional depth so easily really serves the podcast well. Like its characters, the worlds of TAZ are just as wacky, weird, and sometimes batshit insane, and really lend themselves to establishing an overall tone of the narrative, but never go too far as to completely shatter the suspension of disbelief due to their firm grounding with their multitude of characters.

Overall, TAZ is a wonderful, feel-good podcast for anyone interested in a fantastically told, funny as hell, RPG game with surprising emotional depth and some of the most memorable characters in pretty much any podcast anywhere. Despite its humble beginnings as a spinoff created on a whim, The Adventure Zone, over 3 campaigns and 100 episodes later, is still going strong as but a simple comedy series that became so, so, much more.

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nottonyharrison · 4 years

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top 5 gg fic ideas you wish someone else would write?

Put me on the spot why don’t you?

Ummmm... okay this list may just be a bunch of plot bunnies that I started writing and failed to finish but that’s just whatever, right?

A futurefic where it’s eventually revealed Rio was DEA all along (legit I posted three chapters of something similar but I deleted it recently because I hated it)

S1 Canon divergence where the girls never get paranoid, Beth never throws the keys, and the sting at F&F never happened.

Canon divergence where Beth strikes up a flirtation with Turner rather than Rio early in S1

Big Lebowski homage surreal crime caper comedy ‘episode’ complete with The Rug™ and a ferret (I may still write this but it would be better if someone else did)

150k Annie/Nancy/Gregg slow burn that’s 50% slapstick, 50% angst, and 100% idiots to lovers

Make my dreams come true?

Anon Ask Amnesty

#good girls fanfic #good girls nbc #Anonymous

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hartmonfest · 4 years

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Past Prompts for Amnesty Days

As part of Hartmonfest2020 we’re going to have a couple of amnesty days - that’s days where you can create a fanwork using any of our past prompts.

Now updated with more prompts since we're doing a Prompt Amnesty day as part of Hartmonfest2022 too.

This post has all of those past prompts in one place for people to peruse. Here they are, from oldest to newest, listed by event.

Hartmonfest2019 prompts:

fluff

Cisco character fic

no powers AUs

alternate timelines

hurt/comfort

canon

soulmates

musical

Hartley character fic

lunch

college

holidays

invitation

other Earths

favorites

what do you hear

mythology

hair

family

no touching

hugs

role reversal

working together

the past

going out

artsy

unspoken

magic

Hartmonfest2019 plot bunnies for adoption:

Cisco looks after Hartley’s rats and Hartley is all heart eyes about how caring he is with them

they meet at scientific conferences

first time Hartley gets hurt heroing

fanvid set to a song sung by one of the actors.

Music Meister comes back to meddle with Cisco and Hartley

Lessons Hartley has learnt from chess

Hartmon Long Weekend:

getting together

established relationship

domesticfic

weekends away

holidays

celebrations

Hartmon Halloween 2019:

candy

costumes

black cat

creatures of the night

bodyswap

superstitions

angels & demons

fusion/crossover with a supernatural themed fandom

“I didn’t need you to save me”

Hartmon AU week:

in space

romcom

fusion

roommates

historical period

apocalypse

fandom AU

other professions

fairytale

education AU

criminals

different meeting

Hartmon ASL day:

features either ASL or another kind of sign language

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Hartmonfest2020

Redecorating/moving in together

classic book fusion

picture prompt 1, a mostly greyscale picture of many doors in a row. Most of them are grey, except for one, which is bright red.

4 things Hartley got wrong about Cisco & 1 thing he got right

tech support

It’s Hartley’s first Pride Parade and he drags Cisco along for support

monochrome

epistolary format

“I don’t forgive you but I still love you”

picture prompt 2 - A heart shape that’s been carved out of some brush.

song prompt 1

pulp action genre

confidence

E2 Hartley Rathaway is so tired of fighting Earth-2 Reverb

film fusion

Cisco loses his voice

song prompt 2

over and over and over again

Real-life rivals who are anonymous friends/lovers online

“It’s ancient history”

Magical realism AU

LGBTQ+ Cisco

song prompt 3

picture prompt 3: A highly futuristic looking robot, standing in front of a holographic screen.

song in your heart

headcanons/meta

Hartmon Halloween Weekend 2020

Halloween headcanons

Sweet treats

Horror films

Time to party

Urban legends

“I choose trick”

Magic

Otherworldly

Hartmon Winter Weekends 2020

Winter comforts

Snow

Hallmark movie AU

Romcom AU

Gifts

Singing

New Year’s

Resolutions

Hartmonfest 2021

Parade

Post-Crisis

Support

Undercover

Identity

Rec your favorite fanworks

Trust

Episode tags

AU of your choice

Memory

New Beginnings

"I do not think it means what you think it means"

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Hartmon Fall & Halloween Weekend 2021

First frost of the year

Pumpkin

Leaves

Haunted house

Scarves

Pranks

“Christmas? It’s not even Halloween yet“

Sugar coma

Rainy day

Turned into a __ (vampire, werewolf, ghost, zombie, etc)

Book, blanket, tea

The witching hour

Hartmon Winter Weekends 2021

Decorations

Baking

Joy

Coming home

Snowed in

Traditions

Surprise

Midnight

Hartmon Valentine's Day 2022

heart-shaped

poetry

secret admirer

quality time

love letters / love notes

Hartmonfest 2021

Flags

Rainbow

“What language is that?”

Season 8 AU

Post-canon

Time off

Out of time

“I wanted it to be true.”

Comics fusion

Farewell

Hartmon Fall & Halloween 2022

bonfire

homemade costumes

bats

walks

“I need to warm up”

graveyard

layers

drinks

“Are you scared?”

Hartmon Winter Weekends 2022

ice skating & outdoor fun

spice

greenery

cozy

cards

holiday prep

silent night

family meal

#hartmonfest2020 #hartmonfest #hartmon prompts #cisco x hartley #hartley rathaway x cisco ramon #modpost #hartmonfest2022

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candidateofloyalty · 4 years

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2019 Fic Retrospective

I saw a number of people doing this, and since I’m always up for talking about my own writing, I decided to imitate them. Admittedly, I’m a bit late, but since I didn’t have computer access for a decent part of this week I think it’s justified.

Apparently I wrote 55k words of fic this year? Given that I spent half the year out of the country, that is higher than I expected. I guess suddenly allowing a podcast to become my entire personality is a powerful motivator.

1/31

The Clock Strikes Midnight, Fire Emblem Echoes, 3.5k words

The prince is throwing a ball to find a spouse, and Faye just knows that this is her chance to make her dreams come true. There's no time for her to worry about the messenger who brought her the news, not when she can finally live out her fairytale.

My birthday gift for star, this time only posted one day after their birthday. Someday I will figure out this timing thing. They wanted a Cinderella AU, and as someone who read approximately 5 million fractured fairytale novels in high school, I had an immediate idea of where I wanted to take the plot. I’m pretty pleased with how this one came out, especially since I never actually played Echoes. It’s also one of my rare fics where the title isn’t a song lyric.

2/14

Sacred Simplicity, Dangan Ronpa, 900 words

Sakura and Aoi meet up for their weekly donut date, but Sakura's mind is elsewhere.

I can’t believe it took a fic exchange to get me to write Sakuraoi. The request was cute and I had a good time, though. I’m always a fan of the concept of Hope’s Peak practical exams. The whole premise of the franchise is that these kids have crazy skills, so let them use them.

3/3

My Fantasies from Long Ago, Persona 4, 5.2k words

While walking home from work, Yosuke is hit on the head by a mysterious cat-dog-thing. This is the least weird thing that happens to him over the course of the next 24 hours.

Apparently I had a lot of outside sources of inspiration this year. I guess that’s what all fanfic is, but even so. This AU is from kawaii-bunny-mel, and is ridiculously fun to write. This one sticks pretty close to the source material, since I intended it as an introduction to the AU. I wrote most of it on trains while cross-referencing the original episode. As it turns out, writing is much faster when you don’t have to worry about pacing or coming up with original events.

5/4

The Present You's Daydreams, Persona 4, 7.2k words

Yosuke's been doing magical girl temp work for about a month, and it's pretty much the best thing that's ever happened to him, even if it does mean having a weird bear roommate. Then Souji invites him to a party, and Yosuke has to face something even scarier than magical enemies: social interaction.

The second part of the BAPC AU, and the one where I went off and did my own thing. As much as I love the source material, I wanted to fit the rest of the IT in somewhere, and there are like 6 characters in the entirety of BAPC. Really, though, a significant amount of this fic was an excuse to have Yosuke use his customer-service voice on a dragon. I’d also meant for this to be the one where they got together, or at least showed mutual interest, and then Yosuke went and made things awkward. I don’t know what I expected. I got to write Hamuko being cryptic at Souji, though, which was even better.

5/19

Dazzling Blue Sky on the Window, Persona 3, 3.9k words

After Erebus, Metis is prepared to vanish, but Igor suggests another option.

This one was my birthday present to myself. You might wonder what that means when all of my fic is incredibly self-indulgent to begin with, and the answer is merging two universes and saving my favorite minor character in the process. It was only after the fact that I realized how much projection was involved. It’s fine.

6/16

Bright-Eyed, Tireless One, The Adventure Zone, 2.2k words

Minerva is here, physically present, and Duck's so glad to see her. The only question is what to do with her. They've got enough people hidden in the Amnesty Lodge basement as it is. (Immediately post Episode 28)

I caught up to Amnesty right after episode 28 was released, which is what we in the writing business call good timing. I immediately wrote this in a haze of love for Minerva and have not thought about it since. I think episode 30 confirms it as canon, though.

7/8

Not So Nec-Romantic, Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun, 1.7k words

Nene's been studying to join the Healers' Guild for years, and it's finally time for her admissions test. It doesn't quite go as planned.

Star egged me on to write this and then wrote their own, funnier take on an RPG AU, which would have been rude if it weren’t for the fact that I got to read the better fic without having to write it. My favorite part of this fic is Mitsuba and Kou charging in from their epic fantasy quest without noticing that they’ve landing in the middle of a comedy of errors. I kind of want to write what they were actually up to but also it’s funnier this way.

8/25

Open Seas and Ways Of Life I've Forgotten, Friends at the Table, 3.5k words

Cass is adjusting just fine to life on their own, thank you.

They'd be doing even better if their new teammate wasn't so eerily reminiscent of their sibling, but that's all right. They're definitely coping.

And here we hit the fatt tipping point of my year. The Kingdom Game was probably the point where I fully devoted myself to this show, and a large part of that was the ability to conspiracy-board all of Sokrates’ influences on Cass’ personality. I have not stopped thinking about the Pelagios siblings since.

9/29

Not the Only Ones Pretending, Friends at the Table, 1.2k words

It sounds so nice, in theory. Mako's just running into an old friend while going out for fried chicken. But even though the Chime has broken up, two of them in the same place can still throw the simplest of missions into chaos.

I wrote this in an hour after listening to the penultimate episode of Counter/weight because the Orth-Mako scene ended right where things got good, to my mind. I just wanted to know more about how the Chime interacted after the timeskip. This also marks the start of me defaulting to Mako’s POV in every other Counter/weight fic I write.

10/14

A Magic That Won't Go Cold, Friends at the Table, 4.5k words

Jacqui doesn't normally like being sent on bodyguard jobs, but then, she's not normally working for Joypark darling Aria Joie.

I’ll just come up with a fun Jacria AU to think about in my spare time, I thought to myself. There’s a lot to explore with an Aria who never left Joypark. I can come up with some neat bullet points and it will be a good time. Then I started connecting the bullet points and at that point I had an entire outline for a fic. It’s what they deserve.

10/18

Questions Ricochet Like Broken Satellites, Friends at the Table, 2k words

Kobus' entire life had been pointless, but for once, they could see exactly what they needed to do. Then Vicuna pulled them out of Liberty and Grace.

I could not tell you why I latched onto Kobus so hard, but that didn’t stop me from doubling the size of their ao3 tag in a month. This fic ended up pretty depressing, which is ironic since the whole point was to give them a happier ending than they got in canon, but at least they’re alive at the end of it.

11/4

Detect My Sudden Existence on Your Sonar, Friends at the Table, 3.1k words

AuDy didn't intend for the rest of the Chime to move in with them. They didn't object when it happened, though.

I had a lot of trouble trying to write from AuDy’s perspective but I’m pleased with the end result. Maybe next I’ll figure out how to do pacing and/or tonal consistency. I do like the Cass stuff at the end but I think my favorite scene from this fic is everyone helping Aria unpack her stuff and being goofy.

11/11

Telling Dreams from One Another, Friends at the Table, 1.3k words

Mako shows up on Kobus' doorstep holding a Divine, and doesn't even have the decency to bring fried chicken.

This started because I kept thinking about how Kobus’ form of Ambition would have been Faith and how close that comes to Loyalty, and then the more I wrote the more I liked the dynamic between Kobus and the younger Makos. A lot of it can be summed up as Mako being the mid-twenties upperclassman who looks at the freshman and goes “oh look, a baby” much to the freshman’s annoyance, except instead of being in college they’re both secret agents raised as weapons since they can remember. It isn’t addressed in the fic but I imagine this ends with Kobus following Mako back to Kesh and ending up with eight identical older siblings.

11/24

Find Out What Broke Me Soon Enough, Friends at the Table, 1.9k words

Kobus is still reeling from their failed attack on Grace, but when Aria Joie asks for their help, they can't think of a good reason to refuse.

Continuing the theme of “what if Kobus had friends,” I like the idea of Aria being worried about Righteousness consuming her and going to the one person she knows of who’s successfully stepped away from a Divine. Like the last fic in the series, I tried very hard to give Kobus a happy ending and they categorically refused. As it turns out, when you’ve been raised to see yourself as a sacrifice for the greater good, it’s hard to find other ways to make a difference, and Aria doesn’t know them well enough to push it. One day I will find the right combination of characters and circumstances to let Kobus rest.

12/7

Take Our Time 'Cause It Feels Like We're Dying, Friends at the Table, 1.7k words

When Cass coughed up the first flower petal, all they could do was stare at it in disbelief.

Yes, I know, hanahaki. I am surprised at myself too. I was just thinking about what it would take to get me invested in hanahaki and because of who I am as a person my brain immediately applied that to Counter/weight. I know where I’m going with it but I want to finish F&M before continuing, so keep an eye out maybe in February. Also, doing this retrospective made me realize that this is the second time I’ve used a line from this song as a title for a Counter/weight fic. Whoops.

12/17

The Movements of My Mind, Friends at the Table, 1k words

On his way back to Auniq for the negotiations, Throndir stops by the cave where he met Kindrali.

My first non Counter/weight fatt fic, and once again it is introspection about a Dre character, because without realizing it I ended up with a favorite player. I just like coming up with in-universe explanations for things that were probably mistakes on their part, and I’m always interested in how the Kindrali connection works. Even if I am now incapable of thinking of Kindrali without going “I wonder what day he remembers??”

12/25

Fantasy and Microchips, Friends at the Table, 9.2k words

Five times Mako hacks things accidentally because of Cass, and one time it's intentional.

The year ended as it began, with me taking someone else’s AU and writing a fic about it. In this case, it’s a comic done by drowzydruzy on twitter. I looked at it, went “that’s pretty funny, maybe I could write a fic about it,” and then two chapters in I realized how to exploit it for angst and pretty much didn’t stop. The trickiest part so far has been making Rigor references without getting too heavy-handed. I’m halfway through writing the last chapter now, so naturally I’m procrastinating by doing this meme. It’s actually a meta-narrative about defeating Rigor by not being too beholden to your own projects, or something.

#ignore me #fic retrospective #this will only interest me but i had to talk about my thoughts on a kobus-mako relationship somewhere

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