#shipyships

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!

@rondoel 's new comic is making me ship Slate/Gossan. Which is, of course, a joy and great fun. Seriously, check it out and melt with me.

But, @cobaltbluesu amazing incredible art already made me ship Slate/Feldspar to the point that I'm writing a fic about it.

Oh no! Oh no! What do I do???? Send halp.

#outer wilds spoilers #outer wilds #shipyships #the muse writes #the muse is silly #feldspar #slate #gossan #slate/feldspar #slate/gossan

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Monthly Writing and Reading Update

Long time no see Tumblr. I am working towards ending my Super Long Hiatus not because life has slowed down but because I am tired of being on hiatus. That means Monthly writing updates to keep me on track. I'm also posting what I've read this month for the interested. Said updates are below the cut.

If you have any fics you want to recommend that I read feel free to send me an ask or a message! I'm always looking for new fic to read... 

WRITING UPDATE

Hybrid Theory

Percy dies in battle.  A very tragic death that wasn’t at all lame, thank you. Unfortunately, the gods aren’t done with him yet. Instead of waking up in Charon’s waiting room as he should, Percy wakes up in the courtyard of Hotel Valhalla.  Thinking things can’t possibly get worse he runs to Carter Kane for help. In hindsight, that probably wasn’t the best idea he’d ever had.

I’ve not made a lot of progress here since I’ve gone on hiatus... I’ve not been in a good headspace to try to work on it tbh. That being said, I’m drafted to Chapter 27 and outlined to Chapter 30.

 World Travelers: A World Around

No summary written yet. Basically it’s part six of my bountyhunter!Nico, seafarer!Percy adult!demigods Percico AU. 

I’ve drafted to Chapter 5 drafted and outlined to Chapter 12. It will be 21 chapters long. Nothing is posted on AO3 yet. 

Ways of Love: Part 3

No ritle. No summary written yet, it’s what it says on the tin. 

I just wanted to say I do think about this still. It lives in my brain...just very quietly. I’ve written part of Chapter 1?

Assassinations, Building Nations, and International Relations

The war has been over for a year and the tenuous peace has held. Everyone has gone home and while Team Avatar misses each other, life has been going great. Until Aang gets a mysterious note from Zuko. A midnight trip to the Sun Warriors has much further reaching consequences than anyone could anticipate. But the first, and biggest, item on the agenda is to keep the Fire Lord alive.

This one is suffering from Writers Block TM. I know where I am and where I want to go and I have NO IDEA how to do the between part. That being said I’m drafted to Chapter 13 and outlined to Chapter 14.

White Lotus Buds (Working Title)

Music night washes over Iroh. The crew’s attention  on each other means no one notices  their allegedly ill prince slipping over the side of the Wani and onto the dock. 

Zuko, as The Blue Spirit, is leaving to meet another White Lotus Bud agent to exchange information on the Earth Armies for similar details on Fire Nation troops. 

The White Lotus Buds are more successful than Iroh expected. Sometimes he thinks the war would end in days if they left the operatives in charge. 

The White Lotus Buds were inspired by Zuko himself. It wasn't difficult to connect The Blue Spirit’s earlier escapades with Zuko. Not once one realized there were connections to make.

Iroh does not know when the sneaking began, though he has his suspicions. Ten year old princes don’t go missing for days on end easily. And there's the  ambiguity surrounding  Azulon’s death and Ursa’s sudden flight. When it started doesn’t truly matter when Zuko will not speak of it.

 Iroh lets himself be drawn into the singing of an old sea shanty. It helps keep an old man awake, which he will need if he wants to be alert for his nephew’s return later that night.

This is a White Lotus!Zuko AU and a Blue Spirit AU and a Zuko joins the Gaang early AU. With lots of Zutara and lots of identity shenanigan's. 

I have drafted the first 14 chapters for Book 1. I have outlined the first 22 chapters and have notes for every episode of Book 1. This one won’t post until Book 1 is done because I keep having to rewrite parts of chapters as I go. 

When the Dark Comes Rising: Gathering

With another Rising in its infancy the remaining five must gather. As a safeguard the Light left certain defensive measures in place. It us up to Will, Bran and Jane to assemble those defenses. In the process they must discover the loving bonds that will be the foundation for the Circle to come.

This is also not dead. I think about this often. I have drafted to Chapter 12 and outlined to Chapter 14.

These Temperamental Days: On Balmy Nights I Know That I Am Yours

No summary as of yet on these. It’s Marvel and Stucky post Civil War. I’m about halfway through? 

READING UPDATE

Avatar Fic

Fear the Dragon, Not the Flame by Des98

Azula is born without bending. It doesn't change who she is, but it does change everything else.

Nobel Boldness Series by hootowl

“Because they're going to arrest me for earthbending.” And they did, but things didn't go according to plan. In fact, failure had never even crossed her mind. A capture!fic...of sorts.

Fate Deferred by  catie_writes_things

At the south pole, Katara and Sokka returned to their village with only a few small fish to show for their trouble. “Stupid magic water,” Sokka grumbled, while Katara fumed silently.

Aboard his ship, the banished Prince Zuko admitted with a tired sigh that his search of the southern seas had proven unfruitful. “Tell my uncle...we’re going to try the eastern Air Nomad territories again.”

Underneath the waves, within his frozen cocoon, the Avatar slept still, and the world continued to move on without him.

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Aang remains in the iceberg ten years longer. He awakens to a very different world.

[Now on Book II: Earth]

Still Burning Embers by archergwen

It's been three years since Sozin's Comet should've returned - and it hasn't. The war drags on, complicated, messy, as the Avatar and his band roam shoring up defenses and helping in small raids.

And in Ba Sing Se, there is no war, or rumors of war. Not even after the Fire Princess took the city in one complicated day. So in the Lower Ring, a young prince and retired prince can continue to work, disguised, silent guardians of the small world they've carved for themselves.

Until an encounter, one night, wrapped in flames, ends that.

#situation report #PJO #Avatar The Last Airbender #percico #zutara #nico di angelo #percy jackson #shipyships #will/bran #Marvel #Stucky #zuko #katara #captain america #bucky bear

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

I thought I’d get in on the Jar thing!  I included the blank because I’m nice like that.  (I stole this. I just...don’t know who from. If credit is due, please just tell me. Thanks!) 

Update: I stole it from @luke-x-percy apparently. 

#pjo #percico #ruegard #beckengard #jercy #reynabeth #jasico #haleo #name game #shipyships

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

And the final round of Ship Jars. I saw the Avenger/Marvel fandom didn’t have these yet, so here you go! 

Edit: It was brought to my attention that I didn’t give y’all a blank! My mistake, but here it is now

#marvel #stucky #clintasha #sciencebros #steggy #name game #captain america #bucky bear #falcon #hawkguy #black widow #ironman #scarlet witch #shipyships

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Okay, so I’m...like... a lot obsessed with this Jar thing? Did anyone ask for an hourly jar meme for my fandoms? No? Too bad. 

...I SHOULD be writing. Oh well. 

#merthur #name game #merlin bbc #shipyships

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

More Ship Jars! More! and also the blank again. JOIN ME. (Still stole the idea from someone else. If tags needed pls just tell me. k. thx. bai.)

#name game #avatar the last airbender #taang #shipyships #zutara

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Help! I’m working on a percico fic, but crying over the perc*beth, while listening to I Can’t Help Falling In Love done by Ingrid Michaleson. 

*needs cookies*

#percico #pjo #percy jackson #nico di angelo #shipyships #situation report

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Does any one have stucky fic where Bucky finds out how reckless Steve has been since his fall and is very not happy with him? Can you send links? I need it cause reasons.

#stucky #the muse requests #bucky bear #captain america #shipyships

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

My Two Cents on Queer Erasure + Nico

Apparently I will also occasionally rant about fandom stuff here when I can't keep it in my head any longer. I'll tag it #The Muses muses, for those of you who want to blacklist it.

Here is my opinion on all the fighting about people who ship Nico with girls.

I'm ambiguously against making Nico heterosexual just because there is so little representation. It's a huge deal that he's queer. So, taking that away IS a lot worse than making one cishet person queer.  I personally won't read something that just erases Nico's confirmed queer identity. But I'm also not going to start a fight with someone over it.

My main rant will be about making Nico bisexual.

Nico is NOT confirmed to be gay. He may be bi or pan and taking that off the table is just as erasing as saying "lol. he's straight because I want him to be!"

That being said the people who use bisexuality as an excuse to put Nico with a girl and that do it only for that purpose are doing the character a HUGE disservice. They are often misrepresenting bisexuality by making sexuality be like a switch. Bisexuality is, of course, a sexual orientation where someone is attracted to members of both the same and opposite sexes. Not an orientation where someone likes one sex and then decides, no actually they like the other.This is an important distinction. Not only for dealing with understanding people in RL but for writing too. Here's why.

The quality of the story will be a whole lot less when Nico is labeled bi for convenience. Instead of your regular old story were the word bisexual is thrown out and suddenly Nico is for all intents and purposes cishet. Just imagine a story where bi!Nico is with his girlfriend and she catches him checking out a cute guy. And they bicker and then he makes her admit that the guy does have a great... well you get the point. By, saying Nico's bi so he can date this girl and not exploring his sexuality with him...you miss a lot of great opportunities.

That being said. If you want a straight Nico. Go for it. Like I said, I won't fight you over it. Just, please, show some respect and tag it as the AU it is. Actually, if you are changing a characters sexuality from what it is or appears to be in cannon, tag it. That way if people don't want it. They know not to read it.

Because in the end. The character's you love are often formed to be like you in your head. So, how they are shown in something you read about them is deeply personal. Hey, the Nico that lives in my head, outside of The Love We Miss, is pan-romantic. And I KNOW that's not a coincidence.

#pjo #percy jackson #nico di angelo #percico #shipyships #the muse muses