Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤️
Oh gosh I have so many fics this is an almost impossible ask, but I'll roll with the ones I have the strongest feelings about right now in this moment (as I scroll through my AO3 history)
and my sleeves are growing wet with the moisture dripping through [Mononogatari, Malevolent Spirits, Hyoma/Botan] - My most recent fic and the first time I've been the first fic in the tag! Just a little bit of hurt/comfort to soothe my soul. Still waiting for the tag wranglers to create an official tag on AO3 for it, but this was a lot of fun and I feel absolutely normal about this series, don't check
Seven Nights [Hakuouki, Yamazaki Susumu/Yukimura Chizuru, 🍋] - First completed multichapter in a non-AnS fandom! It's a slice of life/post war/home renovation fic the whole way down and I loved writing it.
the abyss gazed unto thee [Hakuouki, no pairing] - NECROMANCY 🙌🙌🙌
A Place at the Table [Akagami no Shirayukihime, Snow White with the Red Hair, Happy Family] - Gen slice of life series about Obi, Ryuu, and Shirayuki bonding over food. It soothes my heart writing it and going back to read it 💖
Initiate [Gokushufudou, Way of the Househusband, no pairing] - I mean, YES, canon pairing but it's not the focus on the fic. The focus is Tatsu finding a home and a sense of belonging in the community. It was my first fic outside of AnS, period!, and by kudos is my top fic on AO3.
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➳ : When creating OCs, what do you typically start with first? (i.e. appearance, name, a theme, etc.)
Monday Malarkey
//Narrative purpose, which can be tied to character motivation. Yes, even in roleplay. I was an artist and writer first (I wrote novels and short stories since I was 11-12 years old, made my first comic at 5), roleplayer second. Er, third. Either way, I tend to treat roleplay as collaborative storytelling, and as such, the OC I create has to written to fulfill a certain role or else I will have no interest in writing that character. Why? Because I can't ride on vibes and aesthetics only. The character needs a purpose and a direction. Otherwise, if I create an OC for the sake of creating an OC, then I can get quickly bored with them and not do much but bench them.
I'm going to give two OC examples from my WoW days. One is a young night elf druid named Kantado, while the other is a Tauren hunter named Tibalan. Of the two, Tibalan would be more visually appealing and have better vibes to work with. He's chill, gay, and a literal cowboy--even has a kodo ranch, guns, and a poncho. So you'd THINK someone this cool and awesome than aesthetically-generic Kantado and thus would get more RP, right? Ohhh, dead wrong.
Kantado, the "generic druid night elf" ended up getting more roleplay because he obtained a narrative purpose: someone young who kept losing his loved ones to the various conflicts of Warcraft and had to grow to be a more serious druid rather than laze about playing his lute all day and hope to get laid. Because he had the role of "comic relief sidekick with his own subplot", I had more of a drive to get on Kantado than I do for Tibalan. Tibalan may have the cooler aesthetic and vibes, but he had NOTHING going on beyond "chill gay cowboy". And that is a disservice to the character. Unfortunately, roleplay in WoW at current is not my priority, hence I am unwilling to bother to do something for him when I have this--*waves hands around blogs and original stories*--to prioritize first.
I guess that just tells you how so very critically important having character motivations is as a writing priority over vibes, personality, and aesthetics. You may go nowhere. That's what happened to me. And that's why I have, like.... 50 Tumblr RP blogs but I only survived on just 2 before making this one. But eh, that's the beauty of OC creation. You gotta experiment and see what clicks.
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Hi. I just read the 4 town fic you mosterd on ao3 and I also wanted to make a fic like that and I was wondering if you have any ideas on what I could write on. I understand it must be hard to write so much but I was wondering if you have anything you would like to see in a fic writen by someone else.
Hi! I'm so sorry for the late reply, I was camping 😭
I'm so honoured that you read my fic and were inspired to write something similar!
I've been brainstorming fic ideas all day 👹 so here are some of my suggestions depending on what you specifally liked!
If you like the tour setting, you could always write some tour shenanigans! Depending on the tone you want to convey, you could write about the Toledo concert for something fluffy, or post-pandapacalpyse for a recovery/angst fic! You could even play with writing about previous tours. I don't know what your headcanons are, but canonically they've been on at least one tour before '02 ('99, it's on the disk Miriam gave Mei), so it could be fun to write about what that tour was like. Since it's uncharted territory, you've got full reign to do whatever you want with that!
Specific Tour Ideas:
It's their first tour, and they're not used to being so close to each other all the time. Fic focuses on them bringing down each other's walls, and they go from coworkers/friends to family.
They're performing in Kitchner, and nobody can really shake the whole giant red panda thing. Could take a similar format, with the first chapter focusing on them before the concert, the second during, and the third after.
If the tour setting is too limiting, but you want them to still be doing boy band things, you could always write them doing a myriad of other things. There are plenty of promotional things they have to do (interviews, shooting music videos, recording songs in the studio, etc.) and all of those have been grazed upon at best by the fandom, so I'm sure many people would be interested in reading that. Generally speaking, there is so little content surrounding 4*Town, even in the fandom, that mundane interactions are just as fulfilling as larger scale stories.
Specific Boy Bandy Ideas:
I literally haven't stopped thinking about 4*Town messing around in the recording booth (If you don't write this, I will LMAO). One of the members is there alone, vibing with something they've written, and any number of members come in, and just,,, shenanigans. Messing around, trying to hit each other's notes, improvising, trying to make each other laugh, and they end up recording a lot of it. Maybe part of the amalgamation they made ends up on their next album, and the fans eat it up.
Filming a music video could have a similar, but a little more controlled vibe. Depending on the concept you come up with, the process could be,,, interesting. I'm imagining them in mermaid costumes right now, but you're definitely not limited to things we've seen in canon. They could be the school bad boys, or maybe filming something that the viewer is supposed to insert themself into (akin to the music video for One Direction's Night Changes). Of course, none of the members can take each other seriously, no matter what acting instructions they're given.
This one is a little out there, but what if 4*Town had a show similar to Run BTS? Just something that gives them an excuse to do weird things as a group in a controlled environment, so they don't have to worry about getting swarmed by fans (unless that appeals to you 👀 the angst could be juicy). Haunted houses come to mind, just because it's a pretty classic trope that, to my knowledge, has yet to be explored with 4*Town, but really, this idea goes as far as your imagination can take it. Could be a one-shot, or each chapter could be a different episode, it's really up to you!
Of course, 4*Town isn't always going to be on-duty. Assuming they actually like spending time together, there are many things they could get up while on a break from their promotional stuff. From what I've seen, this is the most saturated concept in the 4*Town subsection of the Turning Red fandom by far, but I still eat it up whenever I see it, so 😭
Specific Off-Duty Ideas:
Maybe I'm a little biased, because I just got back from a camping trip, but send them camping! There are so many shenanigans that can come from being out in the wild, and so much to play off of. Camping brings beaches, and hiking, and campfire stories, and importantly, privacy.
Domestic 4*Town!!! For something really relaxed, you could just write them at home! I don't know if you headcanon that they live together or not, but post-ikea trying to build furniture fresh after moving in together is an underrated trope. There's movie nights, baking, cleaning fics, or if you're feeling more angsty, nightmares, sickfics, and general exhaustion are all things to play with.
Then, of course, you have heavier angst. I'm currently 11000ish words into a plane crash fic for 4*Town, but if you also want to write a plane crash, please do!! It's literally my favourite trope lol, I can't get enough.
Specific Angst Ideas:
A stalker (either fan or anti) breaks into their hotel/apartment/house.
Somebody gets violent at one of their fan interaction events, and hurts one (or multiple) of the members.
Car accident, tour bus accident, plane crash (👹) literally any form of accident can be fun to play with, especially once you've established exactly how each member interacts with each other.
Finally, you could always do your own take on the Pandapacalypse! I wasn't the first, nor will I be the last to write 4*Town's POV, and there still is so much to explore! If there was anything you wanted to change, any headcanons to insert, dynamics to change, go for it! Nobody owns this concept, it's yours to do whatever you want with. Hell, you could even just,, write pretty much the same fic if you wanted to, or even missing scenes from it. I think I would cry if anyone ever wrote Aaron T.'s pool escapade from his perspective 😭 that would be so cool.
One super small piece of advice that you didn't ask for (but I've been dying to show off my notes LMAO) is to keep little headcanoned events in a document or notebook or something for reference! They're great things to reference as a bit of world building, and to make the members feel a little more well-rounded, since the only canon stuff on their personalities gives them one or two character traits at best. I'm just gonna,,, drop some of mine here 💅 for funsies 💅
As seen in You Know What's UP (It's Us):
T and Tae got kicked out of the hotel for being too rowdy on their first tour.
Aaron Z. doesn't like sleeping alone, and will stop at nothing to end up at the end of someone's bed.
Jesse is the secret third member of the menace line, specifically and only because he knows exactly how to make the members talk.
And some yet to be seen (but referenced in my next fic 👀) headcanons!
Robaire reads a lot of romance novels.
Aaron T. will whine forever about stubbing his toe, but if he injures himself in a way that could warrant a doctors visit? He's hiding it until he can't anymore.
Aaron Z. and Taeyoung go on hikes together.
Aaron T. and Jesse met because T. fell down the stairs at their agency. He found him laughing his ass off, ankle sprained, and ended up taking him to the doctor on-site.
So yeah! Those are my suggestions :-)! Feel free to take them, leave them, or take the aspects you like and leave the stuff you don't! I really am so honoured that you asked me. Thank you!
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