#tdir snippet

[ladylynse]

A TAZ/TDiR (The Adventure Zone/The Dark is Rising) crossover snippet for @grainjew‘s birthday! Happy birthday. We have so few common fandoms now I had to really go digging. It’s a good thing you’ve already been thoroughly spoiled for TAZ because this ruins key moments of The Stolen Century and Story and Song. Also, for anyone who doesn’t know it, the end of TDiR sequence, Silver on the Tree. Also on FF and the AO3.

Will Stanton had witnessed a lot of things in all his years of watching, but he’d never seen this before. This shifting, this resettling, this wrongness.

It was time to move on. To find a new profession, a new name, a new life. He thought he’d try a new field again; it was too suspicious, coming into something knowing so much but having nothing to prove that knowledge, and he didn’t want to raise anyone’s suspicions. That made things…difficult.

Will Stanton, currently a history professor at the University of Reading, was not deaf to the wild conspiracy theories of his students or the quiet mutterings of some of the faculty. He knew exactly what they thought of him. He’d just hoped he’d have a little more time before they thought to question everything.

He hadn’t realized it had been so long since he’d come here. Months had blended to years, and years to decades, before he’d noticed. And now he can’t have been here for forty years already because he still looked so young and maybe there was some mistake and—

He’d tried to avoid having his name recorded, his picture taken, but that was…difficult in today’s society. He could hardly remember a time when it hadn’t been difficult. At least he’d done a stint as a computer programmer before this; ever-changing though that field was, he’d kept up his knowledge on the side. It made disappearing easier, and he’d have to disappear again soon.

Perhaps he’d learn chemistry this time. He hadn’t tried that yet, and—

The world shifted.

Shuddered.

Disassembled and reassembled too quickly for anyone else to notice.

Everything was as it should be, but it felt like nothing was quite in its place.

There was something…missing.

He could feel it, the lost ache of something dear, and hear the echoes of screams in his head, screams that hadn’t sounded in this realm. Screams that had never sounded at all. Screams from stolen voices, silenced to almost every ear.

A click of a button submitted the students’ final grades. It was rather absurd, thinking that anyone could believe each student’s knowledge could be so summarily defined. He had no idea how many of them had taken to heart the lessons he’d been trying to teach them. About history. About humanity. About their world, now fully in their hands, and the weight of their choices or inaction.

Especially in the wake of this, of Darkness that should not be, a remnant that should be unable to touch this realm. Such things would not matter if the Dark had found a way to return. He was not supposed to act, was only to Watch, but if this world was no longer free of the Dark….

Will rose, stretched out a hand, spoke words no one else in this realm knew to speak, and walked out of the little office—out of that life—forever.

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He found no trace of the Dark or their meddling. Years passed, and he came back to that day, to that moment, time and time again, but wherever he was, he always felt it. It seemed to have no origin on this earth. It resonated instead in every molecule, in every vibration of the universe.

He had studied physics this time, but he had learned nothing, understood nothing, until he had gone back to live that year through again for the hundredth time and beyond. This was the first time he had not felt it—the shift, the resettling, the screaming silence—and though he knew he had not missed it, he could not find what had changed.

It was the same moment experienced over again. Nothing should have changed. But it had. And he was the only one who knew, the only one who could know.

His search for answers had swept him around the world, crossing the Old Ways and common roads alike, but it was not until he had reached a crossroads of the two in the United States of America, intending to get some food from the taco truck unwittingly parked on the intersection, that he heard the Song and finally understood.

It was not the Dark. Not the Dark he had fought, the Dark whose rising tide he and the others had turned back. This was the Dark of another world, another realm. It sought to destroy, to consume. It was powerful. Insatiable. And it had come here.

It had taken as its vessel a man not unlike Hawkin, whispering in his ear and using him to bend others to its will until it had bound them all. It had risen, and it had overwhelmed them. It had won. They had let it, had welcomed it rather than fight it, but Will’s heart ached for the soul of the man lost inside, for all the souls that had been swallowed since the first. He could feel the man across the planes, struggling to remember, to breathe, to live again in the Light, even as the Darkness would have him drown.

Will knew this was not his fight.

He could not turn back this Dark alone any more than he could have staved off the second wave of the Dark that had fought for control in his world, so long ago yet still so recently.

But those who chose to fight now were not doing so alone.

When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back.

They had not been six, in the end. He had held the Sign of Stone; Merriman, Fire; Barney, Wood; Simon, Iron; and Jane, Bronze. But Bran had not held the Sign of Water alone, for he had not been able to cut the silver spray from the tree and defend against the Dark, and it had been John Rowlands who had taken it up and helped the Light. Without him, the final mistletoe blossom could not have been cut before they had been overwhelmed, and no white bird would have flown free from the tree and into the world.

Will knew, as everyone now did, about the seven birds who had guarded the Light across the realms, who had fled from the Darkness which tirelessly pursued them. He knew that they had chosen this time to stand and fight, and he knew they did not fight alone.

This was not his fight, but their Darkness was now invading his world. Their magic had reached his plane. And from the ruins of food truck before him, Will saw a brave resident of his world stand and fight back against the rising Dark. The evil inside men was a matter for men to control and not something in which he could interfere, but this was not wholly their evil.

So, he helped in the little ways he could, in the ways that wouldn’t be known, his magic masked by theirs, because it was of the Dark, and he was of the Light, and those who fought against the Dark should never need to do so alone.

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When it was over, Will did not forget, just as he had not forgotten the last time.

Nor did he make anyone else forget.

Now that it was known, now that it was remembered, it should not be taken away.

This was not the time for forgetting, and too many mistakes had been made for forgetting in the past.

As it was, truth would become tale soon enough. Whether remembered in rhyme, masked in myth, or lost in lyric, details would fade as in dreams and memories would become muddled. Before long, all would be relegated to fable and fancy, to story and song, for such was the way of things, and however long Will watched, that would not change.

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tagged by @five-rivers - thanks!

Rules: Post the file names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous the name.

Send me an ask with the title that intrigues you the most and I’ll tell you something about it!

*coughs* Well. Some of these are just floating on my desktop and some are just titles in a giant word doc and some are in an old folder... Yeah. Let's start with the easy ones and go from there. I'm not digging out my flash drive, so this is whatever's on this computer--which I've been using since July. Have I worked on all of these recently? No. Do I still look at them occasionally? Yes, for some of them. Are some certainly dead? Yes. Probably. It's highly unlikely I'll go back to some of these. But I don't have a fic ideas graveyard, so they live as indefinite WIPs. So, herein lie some of the WIPs I've actually started to write down:

Desktop:

Shift and Revision

Down the Rabbit Hole

Protocol DP AU

Unbound - Huntsclan!Jake AU

Forewarning (all)

Passageway

DP Lancer fic

Compromised multichapter

MLxDP crossover

Secret Trio fic

Then, in a collective file of pieces of WIPs:

Phantom's Capture

Dani's Return

Debbie's Pronouncement

DJWiFi fluff

Trollhunters/DP crossover

DP Val bit

ML Post Oblvio bit

RotG/DP

Acceptance - Jazz and Dani

The Curse

Visions con't

Superphantom prompt sapphireswimming (you can tell I still don't have a clue what to call this can't you)

Ghosts

DP - Awakening

ML disaster

You're too late

Scrapped SQ (called scrapped because I went with a different idea--see: Whirlwind--but kept in case I want to go back to this idea)

Plasmius and Jack angst reveal

Then, in an older snippets folder, whereupon my naming really goes downhill:

10-11

A Gift

blah

Bleeding con't

Chance Meeting

Dark is Rising x Harry Potter

DP Dash

DP post PP

DPxADJL 2

DPxHP

DWxBttF

Glitches new

Haunted

Interlapse snippets

Isolated extra bit

MASHHH

mrable

mrible (w Grace)

mrible

N time travel

Susan's story

Tru Calling x DW

A different snippets folder:

Broken con't

confessions sequel spitballing

Ladybug

Ladybug oneshots

Mockingbird

oneshot challenge

DP/ATLA

random dream idea

Sidelines

Then the other snippets file:

Secret trio ignoring age

Narnia/TDiR

Merlin

DPxDetentionaire

Supernatural/the Mentalist

body swap

The Listener and Being Erica

DW/Buffy

M*A*S*H/DW

Firefly - Echoes

Chronicles of Narnia/Merlin

DP/Merlin

Hogan's Heroes

DW/Being Erica

AD:JL (maybe DP crossover???) [sic]

Magic School Bus follow up?

extra Isolated bit

DPxHP 2

#tag game #ladylynse #i've gotten smarter about naming #which is why if it doesn't have a title #most have a fandom #unless the fandom is obvious to me from the name #makes sorting a lot easier

[ladylynse]

Master list of my tumblr writings under the cut. Fandoms you can find:

American Dragon: Jake Long Avatar: The Last Airbender Danny Phantom  Daredevil Gravity Falls Harry Potter Miraculous Ladybug Merlin My Hero Academia The Owl House Percy Jackson Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja Rise of the Guardians Voltron: Legendary Defender Crossovers (Secret Quartet, SuperPhantom, Phantom Falls, GFxOtGW, DPxDTMG, OtGW/Trollhunters/GF/DP, SPN/DP/RC9GN, MLxRatatouille, DPxML, Firefly/TAZ Balance, TDiR/TAZ Balance) Original Fic

Alternatively, check out my three sentence fics, random WIP scenes and snippets, or fic ideas, and take a peek at the fanart and fanfic I’ve been gifted.

And remember: you can always find me on FFnet and the AO3!

If you like my work, please consider buying me a coffee. (I write thank you snippets!)

American Dragon: Jake Long

Rotwood’s Paradox (Part 2): [FF | AO3] Rotwood isn’t supposed to be the one doing the saving. If anything, that's a dragon’s job. Unfortunately, Mr. Long is the one who needs saving.

Avatar: The Last Airbender:

Atonement (Part 2): [FF | AO3] Role reversal AU. Sokka wants to make up for his past actions, to join the Gaang, and Azula is having none of it.

Danny Phantom: 

Anomaly: [FF | AO3] Jazz has noticed that something’s off with Danny, so she finally confronts him. (Ectober Week 2018, Days 26 and 28)

Being Watched (Part II): [FF | AO3] Mr. Lancer hadn’t really meant to see what he did, or to eavesdrop for as long as he did, but now that he had…. He couldn’t exactly deny what he knew. (Lancer reveal request) Note that this is crossposted as Hobson’s Choice, credit to @fantasticwhovian for the title

Compromised: [FF | AO3] Harriet Cane is trying to get something on Vladimir Masters—photos, dirt, anything—but she’s getting nowhere…until she overhears a private conversation and discovers far more than she bargained for. (Phic Phight 2019) (potential continuation)

Dani’s Return: Ordinarily, Danny would have been delighted to see his ‘cousin’. But not when she turns up on his doorstep barely conscious. And not when his mom is home to see her.

The Deal with Poindexter: Poindexter hadn’t meant it, but that didn’t change what had happened, and it didn’t free Danny now.

Devoured: [FF | AO3] AU. Vlad died in the proto-portal incident, but Jack and Maddie still think they see him, still feel his judgement, still face his wrath. (Death, gore, fire, mental instability) Domesticated [FF | AO3]: Maddie the cat doesn't need to understand everything about her human to care about him. (Phic Phight 2019)

Explorations: [FF | AO3] The invitation to join the quest—or hunt or whatever—in the Ghost Zone was only the start of it, but with Sam and Tucker by his side, Danny figured everything would be fine—especially when the ghosts were obligated to play nice. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the Ghost Zone itself is harmless….

Finality [FF | AO3]: Danny can't do it anymore. He can't pretend that everything is normal, not anymore, not after what happened. (DP Angst Day 2019, originally this ask)

Florescence: [FF | AO3] Danny keeps insisting that it's just a cold. That it's just a sunburn. Except it isn't, and he's getting worse. (Phic Phight 2019)

Helpless (Ectober 2018 Day 13: Help): [FF | AO3] Star hates feeling helpless, but without weapons, she can’t do anything in a ghost attack. Strangely, Danny Fenton doesn’t seem to feel the same way. (Continued for Day 15 | Day 19 | Day 26 | Day 31 | and March 19, 2020)

Implications: [FF | AO3] Jack doesn’t intend to be fooled again, especially by blatant ghost trickery, and it’s high time this ghost learned not to underestimate him.

Influence: Dani is so close to being free, but Vlad’s influence runs deep. (Based off this drawing by @dannyphandump made for Ectober 2018 Day 27)

The Masters Plan: Duffel bags, in Vlad’s opinion, can be terribly useful.

Missing: [FF | AO3] You never know what you have until it’s gone. That’s what they always say. But Danny had never imagined that phrase might apply to his sister.

Oddities: [FF | AO3] Jack can't deny that their ghost hunting equipment malfunctions around Danny-exclusively around Danny, consistently around Danny--and decides to get to the bottom of it, once and for all. (Phic Phight 2019)

Passageway (Part 2/Part 3/Part 4/Part 5/Part 6/Part 7/Part 8/Part 9/Part 10 [cont off tumblr]): [FF | AO3] The Fenton Ghost Portal in the basement lab is empty, broken. Instead, the portal is inside Danny--and even when he knows something's coming, he can’t stop it. (Danny as the ghost portal AU)

Perception: [FF| AO3] Valerie always took seeing colour for granted—until the day it went away. Soulmate AU (colours), Gray Ghost

Perplexities: [FFN | AO3] (Ectober 2021, Day 17: Found Footage) The video, upon review, did not show what Kwan had been expecting. At all. (Continued with Favour | Sweet Dreams/Nightmare/Echo/Insomnia)

Phantasmagoria: [FFN | AO3] At first blush, the new year seemed like it would start off normally enough, but Danny should really know better than to expect normal by now. Still, this was not what people usually meant when they talked about a new year yielding infinite possibilities.

Phantom’s Capture: Jazz was too late to stop it, but she had to try.

Protocol (Part 2/Part 3/Part 4/Part 5/Part 6/Part 7 [cont off tumblr]): [FF | AO3] Jazz doesn’t want to take the shot, even at the risk of exposing her cover. (Dystopian AU where the GiW are competent and seize control of the government, using fear to turn the general populace against the ghosts they unleashed.)

Resolution: [FF | AO3] Danny’s wary of seeing the Ghost Writer again, but it’s almost Christmas, and his apology will mean more if it comes before the safety of the Christmas Truce. (Christmas Truce 2018)

Revision (Part 2/Part 3/Part 4/Part 5/Part 6/Part 7/Part 8/Part 9/Part 10/Part 11/ Part 12/Part 13 [continued off tumblr]: [FF | AO3] Maddie can’t deny it any longer. If ectoplasm can become blood, there’s more to this story than she ever realized. (Optional sequel to Shift.)

Shift: [FF | AO3] Maddie’s capture of the phantom was routine--until she saw the shift in colour that meant it suddenly, horribly, wasn’t. (DP Angst Day 2017) (Optional sequel)

Snapshots (Part II): [FF | AO3] Phantom never changed, even though everything–everyone–else did. Even Dani. Especially Dani. Danny didn’t realize what that meant until later. AU

The Trouble with Ghosts (Prologue/final chapter 18/18): [FF | AO3] Lancer hadn’t realized how closely young Mr. Fenton’s school troubles–and the secrets he surely wasn’t telling his parents–were tied to ghosts until after that encounter with Phantom. (Lancer-centric multi-part) 

Together: [FF | AO3] “We’ll always be together,” Maddie had promised, but then there was the accident, and they weren’t. Until she came back. (Phic Phight 2019) (character death) (amazing fanart)

Turning Point: [FF | AO3] Valerie finally hits Phantom with one of her new weapons—but the result wasn’t quite what she’d expected. (DP Angst Day 2018) (awesome fanart inspired by the fic)

Vantage Point: [FF | AO3]  Phantom was young. Painfully young. Somehow, Lancer had never really noticed that before. (Phic Phight 2019)

Reflections bonus scene: In which Spectra’s reason for wanting the Fenton Xtractor is finally explained.

Christmas Truce ficlet wherein I attempt to fill in the blanks of the cute reveal comic I got as part of the 2018 exchange. 

“It’s National Believe in a Ghost Day” - a post I hijacked from taliaxlatia, adding onto her quote with a little ficlet

Creepy!Danny AU (ish) - in which Wes can’t understand why no one else sees it (now expanded and crossposted on the AO3 and on FFN)

Start of a post-dissection fic in which Danny remains but Phantom is gone (so far) 

Snippet in which Maddie confronts Phantom in the basement lab.

Snippet in which Star talks to Valerie about secrets--namely, Valerie’s.

Daredevil:

The Devil: A short series of three sentence fics regarding outsider POVs of Daredevil that build a larger story.

Observations: There has to be some irony in the fact that Brett Mahoney is accusing Matt Murdock of working with Daredevil.

Gravity Falls:

Finding Purchase: There’s a power in words, just as there is in belief…and in doubt.

Harry Potter:

Dreams: [FF | AO3] Somehow, Hermione found herself dealing with a stubborn muggle-born who had been told that an astronaut is not exactly an ideal wizarding profession.

Miraculous Ladybug:

April in Paris: Adrien’s deep, dark secret isn’t much of a secret any longer, but he’s not sure it ever really was. (future fic fluff)

Broken: [FF | AO3] Chat Noir and Ladybug fought Hawk Moth and won, but now they must live with the consequences. (angst, character death)  (also: debating doing this to explore other outcomes) Note: multi-chaptered fic on FF/AO3 but only the first chapter/one-shot posted here

The Cemetery: Ten years after Hawk Moth’s defeat, Adrien is happily married to Marinette–to Ladybug–but even after all this time, it’s still…hard…to visit the cemetery. (also: debating doing this which would show some of what happens before this point)

Comfort: [FF | AO3] After an akuma attack that hits a little too close to home, Nino and Alya find themselves comforting each other. (DJWiFi December 2018 Day 30)

Guidance: [FF | AO3] André wants the best for his daughter, wants to give her the world, but when he can’t fix everything and make it right for her, the best he can do is try to nudge her along the right path.

Happy Father’s Day: Everything’s going to change. (Adrinette fluff) Midnight in Paris: [FF | AO3] Marinette realizes what Chat Noir means to her, and she’s determined not to lose him, even if it means revealing herself. (angsty MariChat)

Mockingbird: a teaser for what will become the sequel to Masks

The Proposal: [FF | AO3] Nino had never thought Chat Noir might turn up in his room. Ever. He just didn’t know the hero that well. So why would Chat Noir come to him with something like this? (DJWiFi, LadyNoir)

Sacrifice (Part II): [FF | AO3] Sometimes, a bad plan is the only one you have–but for Marinette, it’s better than the alternative. (Written for MariChat May 2018)

Smile: [FF | AO3] Sometimes, it’s hard to believe the truth. (Juleka-centric)

Tell the Truth: [FF | AO3] Alya confronts Adrien, trying to convince him to confess his big secret–because what’s the harm, especially when she’s already figured it out?

The Ventriloquist: [FF | AO3] Adrien is given an ultimatum: betray his partner or see her destroyed.

The Video: Really, Alya can’t be expected to deny the evidence right in front of her.

Masks - alternate scenes

Merlin:

Accusations: [FF | AO3] Accused of sorcery, Merlin is imprisoned on Uther’s orders. Of course, no one else (especially Arthur) seems to think he deserves that. 

The Attack: The knowledge that King Arthur has the powerful sorcerer Emrys on his side isn’t always enough to deter those determined to attack.

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In which magic is needed to evade a situation, and Merlin can’t really get out of showing his hand.

My Hero Academia/Boku No Hero Academia:

Discovered: [FF | AO3] They all know, and Midoriya can’t change that, but…. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if one more person found out, too.

R&R: Class 1A finally gets a chance for some rest and relaxation. When Midoriya wanders off to look at the stars, Uraraka joins him. (IzuOcha, fluff)

The Owl House:

Snippet in which Luz comforts Hunter (post S2)

Percy Jackson:

Questions: Son of Zeus!Percy AU. Post-The Lightning Thief. Percy isn’t impressed with his father, and after everything, he feels like he has more questions than answers.

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: Aftermath: [FF | AO3] Randy didn’t really think the NinjaNomicon would mind wipe him now that he’d defeated the Sorcerer—well, he’d hoped not—but he definitely didn’t expect what he got once he finally opened it again. 

Anonymity: [FF | AO3] Anonymity is so passé. I know who you are. Really, what was Randy supposed to think when Debbie texted him that?

Captive: [FF | AO3] Not every prison has four walls–but it would’ve been easier for Randy to escape if this one did. Debbie’s Pronouncement (Part II): [FF | AO3] When Debbie drags Randy into her newspaper office for questioning, things go about as well as can be expected.

Downfall: [FF | AO3] It was all happening so fast. Theresa didn’t want to leave Randy, didn’t know if it was already too late, but how was she supposed to find him now? This time, even the Ninja seemed to have his hands full. (AU or post-S2)

Revealed: [FF | AO3] This time, Randy doesn’t know how he can keep his secret. This time, he’s unmasked in front of everyone.

Roots: [FF | AO3] The Sorcerer is gone, but he left some roots behind. At least, that might be what First Ninja is trying to say. Randy’s really not sure.

Selfie: Randy hadn’t expected this to become a trend. 

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Random scene, somewhat reminiscent of Captive

Snippet in which the Ninja is found by Debbie and Theresa

Fic in which Viceroy learns of his father’s death.

Rise of the Guardians:

Family: [FF | AO3] Jack had thought, now that he was one of the Guardians, that he wouldn't be spending Christmas alone. But Christmas is more than just a day. 

Voltron: Legendary Defender:

Endurance: [FF | AO3] It was proving to be a long journey back to Earth, and Keith had to be sure everyone on the team was ready for whatever happens. Pidge really didn’t think she needed to be singled out, though.   

Crossovers

Non-fandom fiction:

The Book Burning

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