#zombie penpal

[godzilla-reads]

🧟‍♀️ Zombie Penpal: Choose Your Own Adventure #34 by Ken McMurtry

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

When you were younger you had a penpal named Sam, but she stopped writing once Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, years later, a mysterious new student arrives at your school by the name of Rose who has an uncanny- and undead- resemblance to your old penpal. With 16 different endings, what will you do?

This is the first time I’ve read a choose-your-own-adventure story and I actually really enjoyed it. This one is meant for younger readers, but I was greatly entertained by the options I was given and some of my endings. I did go through to get to every ending I could, so my favorite one is when the gym teacher turned me into a frog and left me by the river.

I would definitely do more of these!

#godzilla reads #zombie penpal #book review #choose your own adventure #reading #book blog #bookworm #booklr #bookish

[burritowitch]

Lonnie's 'in case of my death' note from shadow of the bat #41 which according to @lesbiananitafite reads a hell of a lot like a suicide note because he is Not Normal, written out below because it is so hard to read as is:

It looks like tonight must have been that night. I know I've caused you a lot of pain and grief over the past couple of years, and I'm sorry for that. You thought you were bringing me up to be the All-American boy, playing ball on the weekends, studying hard to be a doctor or lawyer. Instead you got a criminal. My memory is tainted, my good intentions derided. And, probably, I'm dead.

How to begin to explain how I feel? The world is like an alien planet to me, the brittle laughter and hollow fun of a theme park overlaying the nightmares of war and discrimination and brutality. The people society respects-- the great and the good-- are, in most part, the small and the evil to me. It's as if I see with laser eyes, burning away the surface illusions that hide the fact that we're zombies-- puppets controlled by somebody else. Again I'm sorry, because I know you're upset. You're good people-- nearly everybody is good people-- and that's what the elite take advantage of. But society is changing. The information revolution allows every man to see the great and good are no better than him. The old power structures and their fascist ways cannot compete with the anarchy of tomorrow's technology. The time of the common man is coming. No longer will he have to march to battle as fodder for bankers and arms makers. No longer will he live in a fog of deceit stoked up by politicians' lies. The future is freedom... and all I ever wanted was to hasten its birth.

I think it all began with Xuasus. I was eleven when he became my penpal... Every month I wrote to tell him the wonders of America-- Every month he wrote back with tales of hovels and soldiers and the brutal repression that made up his life. After a year, his letters suddenly stopped. Mine were returned "Not Known." Another year passed before I found out why he Xuasus wrote once more, a single sheet scribbled in some seedy back alley. His father had been arrested and not heard from since. His mother took ill. His sister died of malnourishment. At the age of 11, Xuasus was fending for himself on the streets. Remember I asked you to help me find him, Dad? You said it was another country, the rules were different there. We could do nothing. But I couldn't just forget a friend like that. I started to haunt the library. I found out Xuasus' country was a dictatorship, at war with Marxist guerillas, with ordinary people caught in the crossfire. I found out the guns came from Europe, and Russia... and here. A few men made big profits, while half a world away, poor people suffered. I read about war and the history of war, and the psychology of war, and the horrors of war. You never knew it but--

That's when I went through those months of nightmares. Remember? Anyway, I soon realized something-- almost all wars were caused by only one man, or one small group of men. And every time the elites ordered 'Fight!' it was the ordinary men who became canon fodder-- and ordinary families followed him into oblivion.

I learned that the state is more important than the individual. I learned that politics is soaked in blood. But I couldn't accept that it had to be that way. Remember how crazy I was about books, Dad? I used to make you take me to the bookstore every Saturday. Flying saucers, cults, conspiracy theory, religion, the occult... I drank it up, tried in vain to make sense of it all. Then I discovered Scudder Klyce's "Universe" and the jigsaw finally fell into place.

Scudder Klyce worked out the secret of humanity. Vox populi, Vox Del. The voice of the people is the voice of God. The elites are parasites, vampires sucking on the life-blood of man, turning everything good and decent into foul corruption! That's when Anarky was born. I couldn't help Xuasus-- but I could give the people of Gotham a voice, no matter how small, against the forces that oppress them.

--If I am dead, please don't think ill of me. I only wanted to bring a little sanity into an insane world for a little while, I was something no one else had ever been... the voice of the people. One day-- and it won't be long-- the tyrants will die away, scorned and mocked by their former victims. One day you'll see that I'm right; maybe then you'll be proud to say "My son did that."

All my love, Anarky (alias Lonnie Machin)

#lonnie machin #save me i suffered doing ths

[virusinfected-memes]

AU PROMPTS FOR AU AUGUST ;

It’s August, that means it’s time for more AUs. Send a number for an AU, dynamic, or trope that will be used to write either a drabble or starter. Send 💫 for a random number instead. You’re welcome to send multiple in one ask to combine them.

POPULAR PROMPTS.

001. aristocrat au  002. assassin au  003. bakery au  004. band / musician au 005. coffee shop au 006. college au 007. cyberpunk au 008. dark fantasy / grimdark au 009. dystopian au 010. high fantasy au 011. historical au 012. monster (vampire, werewolf, etc.) au 013. murder mystery au 014. paranormal au 015. pirate au 016. roommate au 017. royalty au 018. superhero / supervillain au 019. time travel au 020. zombie / undead apocalypse au

LESS POPULAR PROMPTS.

021. alien invasion au 022. circus / performer au 023. deserted island au 024. host (alien, parasite, etc.) au 025. host club au 026. imaginary friend au 027. mad scientist au 028. mmorpg / virtual world au 029. no humans au 030. penpal au 031. podcaster au 032. private investigator au 033. role reversal au 034. influencer / streamer au 035. space opera au 036. street racing au 037. treasure hunter au 038. underground fighting au 039. urban fantasy au 040. writer au

FANDOM CROSSOVER PROMPTS.

041. Alice in Wonderland 042. Among Us 043. Animal Crossing 044. Assassin’s Creed 045. Avatar: the Last Airbender 046. Battle Royale / Squid Game 047. Beauty and the Beast 048. Dead By Daylight 049. Dragon Age 050. Dungeons and Dragons 051. Mass Effect 052. Peter Pan 053. Phantom of the Opera 054. Pokémon 055. Scooby Doo 056. Silent Hill 057. Stardew Valley 058. Stranger Things 059. Studio Ghibli (any film) 060. The Lost Boys

POPULAR TROPES.

061. bad guy won’t die 062. break the cutie 063. conjuring evil 064. dead cell phone 065. deal with the devil 066. everything is a simulation 067. false friend 068. final boy / girl 069. fire-forged friends 070. found family 071. found footage 072. hidden in plain sight 073. idealist vs. pragmatist 074. library full of secret knowledge 075. nightmare on Halloween 076. secret heir to the throne 077. the chosen one 078. the powerful artifact 079. the reluctant hero 080. the world that never progresses

LESS POPULAR TROPES.

081. aw, look! they really do love each other! 082. awesome, but impractical 083. bad guys doing good things 084. blessed with suck 085. condensation clue 086. dark is not always evil 087. dead all along 088. eviler than thou 089. false chosen one 090. genius bruiser 091. genius ditz 092. golden hero to anti-hero 093. good people with evil powers 094. light is not always good 095. mood whiplash 096. nature’s revenge 097. really 700 years old 098. villain is actually the hero 099. you are number six 100. you can’t fight fate

SHIP TROPES.

101. afraid to commit 102. bet / dared to date 103. dating app 104. drunk / Vegas wedding 105. enemies to lovers 106. fairytale retelling 107. fake relationship 108. fated mates / soulmates 109. forbidden love 110. friends to lovers 111. grumpy person with sunny person 112. holiday fling 113. love at first sight 114. marriage before romance 115. marriage pact 116. playboy / girl in love 117. right person, wrong time 118. secret admirer / unrequited love 119. there’s only one bed 120. work rivals

#ask meme #inbox meme #roleplay meme #rp meme #writing prompts #send a #* mine

[rec-review8890]

Suga | Magic!au RECs

(💦) ~ Smut , (🐑) ~ Fluff , (👊) ~ Angst , 

(📝) ~ Series , (🗒) ~ One-Shot/Drabble , 

(💜) ~ Personal Favorite 

Request Guidelines | Fic Rec ML

NONE of these works are mine. Give all your love to the authors and their works. The links will either bring you to the Tumblr page or a Ao3 page of the work. 

Magic!au includes witches, warlocks, wizards, and fae. It also includes curses or “other worldly” concepts that involve magic. 

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Title: Thorns & Mildew 🐑🗒

Author: @alilbihh​ 

Summary: Witch!Yoongi x Reader. 

↳ “you’re not human.” “did you think I was?” yes, you want to say. or maybe. something that sounds at least halfway believable. but the truth is that the day you’d first seen him your very first thought was oh. you are not like me. you are not like anything I’ve ever seen before.

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Title: Magic of The Night 👊🗒💜

Author: @gukyi​

Summary: witch!yoongi x human!reader. Also Halloween and Horror!au. 

↳ “There is a witch you go to for spells and potions whenever human nature is not enough for things to go your way, and he loves you more than anyone else ever will.”

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Title: Exiled 🐑👊🗒

Author: @casuallyimagining

Summary: Also zombie!au.

↳ “After a year of being on the run and the world’s shittiest luck, Yoongi comes across a familiar face. You. The only problem? Everything is trying to kill him including, he assumes, you.”

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Title: A Lost of Correspondence 👊📝

Author: @crystaljins​

Summary: Wizard professor!yoongi x wizard professor!reader. Part of a Hogwarts drabble series.

↳ “You used to have a penpal, once. But that was long before you accepted a job as a professor at Hogwarts”

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Title: Snowstorm 🐑👊🗒💜

Author: @btsmosphere​ 

Summary: Also jack frost and childhood friends!au. 

↳ “Strange things happen in the woods when you return home for Christmas. And why does your mum insist you stay away from Min Yoongi?”

#yoongi #suga #suga bts #yoongi bts #bts #yoongi x reader #suga x reader #magic!au #magic yoongi #magic!yoongi #fic recs #bts recs #wizard!yoongi #witch!yoongi

[rarepears]

Masterpost [April 2022]

April 2022

meng yao falls in love with shizun shen jiu au

shen yuan's 600 children au

shen yuan's domestic helpers au

tianlang jun is shen yuan's brother au

SOLO LEVELING’S EQUIVALENT OF LINKEDIN FOR HUNTERS

cat jiu au

LWJ X WWX angsty arranged marriage au

shen jiu is luo binghe's grandmother au

wei wuxian's papapa adventures au

luo binghe transmigrates as jin guangshan au

endeavor x ukitake

sung jinwoo's plastic surgery au

eldritch horror wei wuxian au

no one believes LBH to be the real LBH au - LBH's return to the cultivation world after surviving the endless abyss

Jedi Generals Fred and George au

SUNG JINWOO’S GRADUATION SPEECH

Jin Guangshan vs Old Palace Master - who has more gold au

JEDI LAN WANGJI AND SITH LORD WEI WUXIAN

pidw! shen jiu is reborn in modern china and becomes a celebrity au

Liu Qingge is Nie Huaisang's cousin au

Wei Wuxian and the Wens run away to PIDW au

Baoshan Sanren headcanon

wen ruohan and his ancestors au

SUNG JINWOO’S BILLBOARDS

yue qingyuan pulls on shang qinghua's pigtails au

shen jiu's brocon brother au

wen ruohan and his corpse bedmates au

HIBARI IN STAR WARS STEALS THE CLONES AS ONE DOES

shen yuan the tiger au

shen jiu is penpals with the emperor au

emperor of mdzs au

crossdressing wei wuxian au

mdzs bird au

shen qingqiu marries a brothel madam au

harley quinn the jedi master au

sex pollen in mdzs au

liu qingge and human cauldrons au

a very different kind of shang qinghua x mobei jun au

sung jinwoo's high school reunion au

BNHA SLUDGE VILLAIN

beru goes to school solo leveling au

zombies in mdzs au

poison ivy becomes a solo leveling monarch au

aizawa dies and becomes grimmjow au

shen jiu reborn as nie huaisang au

snape in svsss au

svsss u haul au

shen jiu's happy invention life au

immortal WWX waiting for LWJ to reincarnate au

single parent of a plant baby thy name is shen jiu au

tsuna is a parrot au [khr]

shen yuan creates a xianxia kpop industry au

lbh's sword falls in love with sqq's sword au

sung jin woo x wen ruohan

GET KNOCKED DOWN SO YOU GET KNOCKED UP - Shen Jiu X Liu Qingge.

shen jiu is stuck in a time loop and decides to use this to vacation for once au

2 husbands and a pregnancy au yep luo binghe is the one pregnant for once

shen jiu becomes a spirit au

shen yuan x consequences for marrying luo binghe au and yue qingyuan tracks down shen jiu's reincarnation to replace shen yuan as peak lord

svsss beauty standards au

shen jiu has khr reborn's teaching style au

svsss hunchback of notre dame au

airplane's shitty plotholes au

the au in which an 8 year old calls peak lord shen jiu as didi

peak lords cursed to morph into animals and get petted by shen jiu au

Shen Jiu falls in love with a dragon AU

liu qingge and wen ruohan are married au

yue qingyuan is a mob boss au

#masterpost

[ardentaislinn]

Candy Hearts Letter 2022

Hi! I am also ardentaislinn on AO3. Thank you so much for volunteering to write one of my chosen fandoms! I really can’t wait to see what you come up with. Most importantly, I hope you have fun writing whichever of my fandoms it is. Any suggestions I make here are optional.

Here you’ll find:

My general likes

My DNWs

And prompts for the following fandoms:

반도 | Peninsula (2020) (aka Train to Busan 2) - Jung Seok/Min Jung

Practical Arrangement - Sting (song) - Man/Woman

고요의 바다 | The Silent Sea - Han Yoon Jae/Song Ji An

Christmas Class Reunion (2022) - Elle/Devin

Original Works - Badass Woman/The Equally Badass Man Who Secretly Loves Her, Male Soldier Deployed Overseas/His Female Penpal That He's Never Met, Reality Show Producer/Reality Show Contestant Who Knows It's Mostly Fake But Plays Along, 19th Century Male Detective/The Clever and Meddlesome Woman Who Gets in His Way

A quick note on the Korean names - I’m fine with however you choose to transliterate them. Hyphen/no hyphen, slight differences in romanisation, etc. Just do what you are comfortable with and I’ll adjust no problem.

My likes:

I love getting together fics most of all. I love almost every kind of trope (fake dating, slow burn, enemies/rivals-to-lovers, trapped together, there’s only one bed, “unrequited” pining (that is really requited), found families, etc.) I also like casefic, epistolary fic, consent, beta heroes, competence, communication, U/RST, positive endings.

You may notice from the below that my ships mostly involve broken but good-hearted men being secretly head over heels for badass ladies, (and usually not feeling worthy). So that dynamic is strongly encouraged.

Happy endings (or at least hopeful endings) are preferred. Like, super, super preferred. I don’t mind angst at all, but it kinda has to be on the way out of the darkness by the end.

I also like smut, but it certainly isn’t a necessity. For smut, I’m (sadly) fairly vanilla. But I like light bondage, cunnilingus, shower sex, and accidental/consensual voyeurism, (Particularly guys taking matters into their own hands when they think they can’t be with their lady, and the woman stumbling across him mid-act. Writer’s choice whether the woman joins in or gets embarrassed)

Dislikes/DNWs:

Miserable endings. Death of a requested character. Humiliation. Drug use/drug mentions/addiction. Self harm/abuse. Non-con/rape. Heavy kink. Animal harm. Underage sexual content.

Fandom specific prompts:

반도 | Peninsula (2020) (aka Train to Busan 2)

Jung Seok/Min Jung

While maybe objectively not as good a film as the first one, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Given that it was essentially a cross between Escape From New York and Mad Max, what isn’t to love? I loved the expansion of the world and the clever uses of zombies in the chase scenes. And I really liked the idea that anything can mean happiness when you love and are loved in return - particularly in regards to Joon Yi, but also Jung Seok (and his found family?).

Mostly I just want Jung Seok and Min Jung to kiss. I think they'd help each other heal and be stronger together as a team. While they did grow throughout the movie, they probably have a little more growing to do before they are ready to be together, and they might always be a little dysfunctional, given their traumas. It would be impossible to entirely smooth away all those sharp points they've developed. But they'd understand each other in a way no one else would.

What would interest me the most in this fandom is post-movie fics. But if you wanna do a canon divergent/au thing, I’d be cool with that, too. 

Some prompts:

In order to stay together after being rescued, Jung Seok and Min Jung have to pretend to be married.

Jung Seok’s POV when he realises he loves Min Jung.

After four long years of loneliness, Min Jung just wants to be touched. Maybe they start a physical relationship that slowly morphs into an emotional one.

Neither would be particularly verbally demonstrative. How do they show they care about the other without saying "I love you?"

Jung Seok isn’t surprised to find himself in love with Min Jung - and wanting to be a father to her girls - but is he good enough for them? He’s left them behind once - can he forgive himself? Can Min Jung?

The zombie plague escapes from Korea - and Jung Seok, Min Jung, and her girls are the closest thing to experts on how to fight back and contain it that the authorities have. Will their nightmare never be over? Or is this a chance to end it once and for all?

With Min Jung in hospital while her leg heals, Jung Seok suddenly finds himself a surrogate father to two very unruly girls.

Practical Arrangement - Sting (Song)

Man/Woman

I received a great fic for this song for Yuletide, which you can find here. I’m requesting it again purely because there is so much scope here to work with, and so many different interpretations you could go with. And I want them all!

I mean…this song just screams marriage of convenience story, right? I love this trope, particularly when it’s two practical people going into the arrangement for logical reasons…only to find feelings somehow got involved. It’s a perfect set up for slow burn, pining, forced proximity, and all that good stuff.

I think in this song in particular the man might be lying to himself from the very beginning about this being a platonic arrangement. I don’t have any headcanons for their names so feel free to call the characters what you want!

Some prompts:

At what point does either character realise they have feelings for the other? How did they get there? With lots of pining and classic tropes? Do they have to play a couple outside of the house, or is this strictly a legal arrangement?

How do they meet? What happens to the woman that either character thinks this is a logical solution? How bad of a situation is she in?

Why is he lonely enough to propose this solution? Or has he secretly loved her for a long time and only wants to help her? How does the intimacy of marriage and a “warm house to return to” change things for him, even if it’s meant to be platonic? Can going through the motions of intimacy and sharing a home lead to real and lasting feelings?

How long does the “separate beds” promise last? Do they decide that for the duration of their marriage that they will satisfy each other in the bedroom as well? Or do they absolutely never touch given their promise of platonicness? 

How does he bond with her son? Do they do things together as a family or mostly lead separate lives?

It sounds like she’s a disaster in the kitchen. Is he a good cook? Does she learn to after all in an act of finding herself? Or does she finally let herself be taken care of for once?

A historical AU? Maybe she’s a titled widow fallen on hard times, and he’s of the rich merchant class and still not considered good enough for her in the eyes of society.

Maybe it’s a Beauty and the Beast scenario? He’s disfigured or magically enchanted but she marries him to save herself and her son. It turns out he’s not as bad as the stories claimed.

If you want to turn this on your head, you can. Maybe the narrator of the song is a creep and/or a stalker and she actually has to get away from him and falls in love with someone else!

고요의 바다 | The Silent Sea

Han Yoon Jae/Song Ji An

So, I requested this for Yuletide, and got two excellent fics here and here. There was a third one in the collection that was also excellent, too! Right here. Normally, when I am so blessed with fics for a tiny fandom like that, I feel like the itch has been scratched, so to speak. But (un)fortunately, in this case, the fics were so good that it made me ship this pairing so much more.

It’s a crime that they didn’t kiss in this, honestly. Two of my favourite Korean actors (Bae Doo Na and Gong Yoo) in one show, buckets of chemistry, and nary a romance! Gong Yoo was at his hottest, too, with the neck tattoo and attitude. (Bae Doo Na is, of course, always at her hottest.)

They are both smart and know what’s up. I feel like they’d make a good couple. And the tension between them, particularly in the beginning, just makes it hotter. Most of these prompts presume that Yoon Jae was rescued at the end there with the others, of course.

Some prompts:

I’m envisioning a whole scenario where she marries him to share her status to save his daughter and they fall in love. They need to make it convincing or it’s basically fraud, so they move in together and pretend to be a couple… Maybe this happens after their adventure, or maybe it’s an AU where they never went to space, or they marry before they go and then they go to the moon.

There was a lot of tension between them. And sometimes there’s only one surefire way to ease that tension…in a maintenance closet.

What happens when they get back to earth? Inevitably, paperwork and bureaucracy. But maybe also they need to save the world? Again?

Additional bonding time in space, before or during everything going to hell. They have a lot of trauma they can share/bond over.

How do they work together to protect Earth after everything they've been through? Does it bring them closer together? Does the water crisis get solved or are things worse than ever?

What happens to Luna? Do they become her surrogate parents? She’s not really human, so what kind of difficulties does that present? How do they explain her presence in the rescue craft to their superiors? Once back in the real world, do they have to pretend she’s normal? This could either be very fraught or rather comedic depending how you want to play it.

Ji An and Yoon Jae have to quarantine together for a few weeks after getting off the moon.

Feel free to do some worldbuilding! The scenario is both terrifyingly realistic and completely apocalyptic. How else is it different from our world? How is it the same? What is going on outside of the limited scope we see?

Christmas Class Reunion (2022)

Elle/Devin

Originally, I saw this Hallmark movie and just thought it was okay. I didn't fall head over heels for it. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of it. Maybe it didn’t entirely stick the landing but it had all the elements to make a great romance.

Devin used to be a goofy class clown, and now he’s grown up into being a responsible, respectable, single-dad. But he’s perhaps still dealing with that old high school feeling of not quite being good enough. Particularly not for a girl as smart and driven as Elle. He still retains a little bit of his goofiness, but he’s definitely matured a lot. Throughout the movie, Elle’s modern, forward-thinking ways help Devin push himself that little more. 

Elle, on the other hand, has always been responsible and ambitious, and until now has been dating guys just like her. Now that the perfect life she’d worked so hard for is starting to fall apart, she’s reassessing her priorities and maybe just…chilling out a little. She feels like she still has to put up a front, but not so much around Devin, who seems to like her just as she is and whose slight goofiness helps her mellow.

They definitely wouldn’t have worked as a couple in high school, but they had both changed a lot in the intervening 15 years, to the point where they’d kind of met in the middle of their two personality extremes, purely by chance. Maybe they still had a bit of growing left to do, but it’s clear that they were in a place where they were ready to be together and make it work. 

I'm a lot more interested in where they are now with themselves and each other as opposed to flashing back to their high school years for an entire fic, but I don't mind if you mention or feature scenes from that time to illustrate their development.

Some prompts:

First Christmas together, so soon in their new relationship. Or maybe a series of big days throughout their first year, like first Valentine's, before their engagement. Or maybe many Christmases over the years, to see how they evolve.

The movie kind of cops out by not answering how Elle deals with the fallout from work, and the fact that Elle and Devin live in different cities. I don't feel like there's necessarily an easy answer to any of it, so how is all that resolved?

A missing scene where Devin pines for Elle. Maybe he'd always had a crush on her and didn't feel worthy back then, and those feelings of inadequacy are coming back because he finds 33 year old Elle even smarter and prettier and more incredible than teenaged Elle.

They work together to find Samantha a well-deserved happy ending.

Maybe they live in different cities for a while. How do they keep in contact? Texts? Emails? Phone/video sex?

Bonding time with Skylar. Is it all smooth sailing, or are there some difficulties with Elle coming into their lives?

AU/Canon Divergence. Maybe they met again under other circumstances? As long as keep the dynamic I mentioned above (Amazing woman who feels like she needs to put up a front when the life she worked so hard for is crumbling/the guy who has matured and grown so much but still isn't sure it's enough for her to fall for him.)

How did Devin's proposal happen? Or did Elle get sick of waiting and proposed to him?

Original Work

Badass Woman/The Equally Badass Man Who Secretly Loves Her, Male Soldier Deployed Overseas/His Female Penpal That He's Never Met, Reality Show Producer/Reality Show Contestant Who Knows It's Mostly Fake But Plays Along, 19th Century Male Detective/The Clever and Meddlesome Woman Who Gets in His Way

I think these tags basically speak for themselves, but just in case you want some guidance I’ll give some ideas below.

Badass Woman/The Equally Badass Man Who Secretly Loves Her

Most of the major ships I’ve had throughout my life fall into this category. Terminator’s Sarah Connor/Kyle Reese, Mad Max: Fury Road’s Max/Furiosa, Aliens’ Ripley/Dwayne Hicks, even Peninsula’s Jung Seok/Min Jung listed above. Whatever you write doesn’t need to be an action sci-fi story, though! I’m equally happy with a contemporary rom com where they are CEOs or a single-mother inn owner and a handyman or whatever. There are many ways to be a badass.

As for the story itself? Anything where the hero is quietly enamoured by how competent and capable she is, but doesn’t feel worthy of her, is what I’m after here. So, maybe she gives him a surprising confession. He's loved her for a long time, how did they meet? Maybe they have to kiss/share a bed/work on a mission together and it makes the feelings come to a head. Maybe he confesses to her in a moment of weakness and is surprised when she tells him she feels the same. Maybe they used to be spies or vigilantes together. Like, she was married to his best friend, and the three of them used to work together. Then the best friend dies and they blame themselves and fall out of touch. They have to reunite years later and he’s still carrying a secret torch for her and doesn’t realise she feels the same. There are plenty of routes you can take with this!

Male Soldier Deployed Overseas/His Female Penpal That He's Never Met

For this one, I was thinking something along the lines of the Hallmark movies The Christmas Card or Holiday for Heroes. She sends him a Christmas card or package and they start exchanging letters. He doesn't have much family, and so her letters really mean something to him. Or maybe she's looking after his dog while he's deployed and she sends him photos of his beloved pet, and they get talking. Or maybe this is set in 19th C England, and he writes to inform her of her brother's death, and his comforting words really touch her heart. I just really like epistolary romances! And I really like that moment when they see each other in person for the first time and realise that maybe those feelings that had been developing weren’t so crazy after all. It was all real.

Reality Show Producer/Reality Show Contestant Who Knows It's Mostly Fake But Plays Along

Again, this prompt was inspired by a Hallmark movie, this time Love, For Real. I really liked that he was attracted to her smarts and cynicism since he was feeling pretty jaded about reality shows himself. There's a lot of potential conflict considering falling for a contestant is unprofessional and against the rules. But I obviously don’t want fic of that movie, it’s mostly just the vibes.

Author’s pick of the type of reality show. Cooking competition? Dating show? Maybe it's a friends to lovers story where the producer convinces their friend to join up to help out and they see new sides to each other. Maybe she's the producer and he's the best friend/contestant, a la the Kdrama Love is for Suckers. Maybe it's a Survivor style show and they get “lost” in the wilderness together. Maybe one of them is a celebrity playing up a superficial image for a show, and the producer sees the real, likeable person who comes out when the cameras are off.

19th Century Male Detective/The Clever and Meddlesome Woman Who Gets in His Way

I’m just a sucker for mysteries with a female protagonist or co-lead set in the Victorian era, with a male detective or private investigator that works with her. I love the way the women have to work against and within the system but then use people’s expectations against them. The detective will often be able to work openly in the public sphere when investigating, but the woman works subtly, behind the scenes, in the private sphere. Those two skills end up complementing each other to the point that the crime couldn’t be solved or the criminal brought to justice without either of them. The fact that these stories often lend themselves to having clever, bookish heroines who everyone underestimates, plus a lot of banter with the detective, is just icing on the cake.

For specific ideas, maybe she writes him a letter with information about a crime - he initially dismisses her but is intrigued. Maybe they meet at a crime scene and he’s suspicious because she seems to know so much. Maybe he thinks she or someone close to her is a culprit and she’s trying to prove him wrong. Maybe he goes to her about a case because she has some specific expert knowledge, but she insists on getting far more involved than he intended.

Hopefully that’s all. Sorry it's such an epic letter. Thank you for writing something for me!

#candy hearts exchange #candyheartsex

[sanguine-salvation]

✿

"I heard about the 'monster in the sewers' long before I was evading our Captor in them. The zombies sold you short, though. You’re truly so much more magnificent than any simple monster.”

FRIENDSHIP.     childhood friends  /  work buddies or coworkers (does being rogues together count? we'll say so for now)  /  family friends  /  friends with benefits  /  smoking buddies  /  adventure buddies  /  fake friends  /  recently friends  /  party buddies  /  friendship of need  /  dying friendship  /  circumstantial friendship  /  partners in crime  /  old friendship  / [your muse] is the good influence  /[your muse] is the bad influence  / [my muse] is the good influence  / [my muse] is the bad influence  /  opposites attract  /  ride or die  /  frenemies  /  roommates or flatmates  /  penpals  /  exes to friends  /  enemies to friends  /  other

ROMANCE.     childhood sweethearts  / [your muse is mines] childhood crush  / [my muse is yours] childhood crush  /  exes  /  exes to lovers  /  forbidden lovers  /  highschool sweethearts  /  secret relationship  /  opposites attract  /  long distance  /  unrequited [from your muses side] /  unrequited [from my muses side] /  unrequited [from both sides] /  skinny love  /  friends to lovers  /  enemies to lovers  /  spurious relationship  /  power couple  /  newly entered  /  soulmates [ metaphorical ] /  soulmates  [ literal ] /  awkward  /  turning toxic  /  toxic love  /  cheating [on your muse] /  cheating [with your muse] /  other 

FAMILIAL.     siblings [half] /  siblings [step] / [my muse] is an older sibling figure to your younger sibling figure  / [my muse] is a younger sibling figure to your older sibling figure muse  / [my muse] is a parental figure to yours  / [my muse] is a child figure to your muse  /  guardian figure  /  legal guardian  /  adoptive child  /  foster child  / [your muse] is taken under mines wing  / [my muse] is taken under yours wing  /  other

ANTAGONISTIC.     dangerous to each other (lbr, croc would probably win)  /  dangerous to others  /  unpredictable  /  rivals  /  petty  /  developing into sexual or romantic tension  /  based off family matters  /  based of off circumstance  /  based of professional matters  /  based off misunderstanding or lies  /  conflict of ideology  /  betrayal  /  hero - villain dynamic  /  enemies  /  fight club  /  friends turned enemies  /  lovers turned enemies  /  exes turned enemies  /  other 

#i have a place for you || answered #dance with || brutalscaled #// pls know I am so excited to do more with these two #// I would love to see how they interact more omgs #// your croc is so fuckin good I am just :DD whenever I see a post

[morgan--reads]

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy - Megan Bannen

Summary: Hart, a marshall who patrols the magical land of Tanria to hunt undead drudges, and Mercy, an undertaker struggling to keep her family business going, have never gotten along. Then Hart starts sending letters to an anonymous friend, growing closer to his penpal without realizing that it’s Mercy or her realizing that it’s him. 

Quote: “It annoyed Mercy to no end that after years of putting up with that insufferable marshal, some primal inner instinct continued to think he looked good enough to eat.”

My rating: 4.0/5.0   Goodreads: 4.23/5.0

Review: This book is far from perfect. The worldbuilding is confusing and cluttered, there are far too many subplots, and the pacing is kind of strange. None of that stops it from being a ton of fun. Basically it is a You’ve Got Mail romance set in another world where there are radios but no internet, zombies cross the border from another world, and people worship a set of gods. The chemistry between the two leads is great, both in their banter and the letters they exchange, and the side characters are all delightful. The world is complicated enough that I never bothered to understand it and that never prevented me from enjoying the story. There’s enough delightful details—the cantankerous Old God messengers and the beautiful funeral rituals come to mind—that the big picture is less important.

#the undertaking of hart and mercy #megan bannen #book review #book recommendation #fantasy #romance

[general-kalani]

sends u flower for preestablished relationship w rickaroni

{ Prompt from here! }

bold for things i could definitely see or want, italics for things i could see or am unsure of and striked out for things i don’t want or cannot see.

FRIENDSHIP.     childhood friends  /  work buddies or coworkers  /  family friends  /  friends with benefits  /  smoking buddies  /  adventure buddies {If a zombie apocalypse counts LMFAO} /  fake friends  /  recently friends  /  party buddies  /  friendship of need  /  dying friendship  /  circumstantial friendship  /  partners in crime  /  old friendship  /  [ your muse ] is the good influence  /  [ Charles ] is the bad influence  /  [ Rick ] is the good influence  /  [ my muse ] is the bad influence  /  opposites attract  /  ride or die  /  frenemies  /  roommates or flatmates  /  penpals  /  exes to friends  /  enemies to friends  /  other

ROMANCE.     childhood sweethearts  /  [ your muse is mines ] childhood crush  /  [ my muse is yours ] childhood crush  /  exes  /  exes to lovers  /  forbidden lovers  /  highschool sweethearts  /  secret relationship  /  opposites attract  /  long distance  /  unrequited [ from your muses side ]  /  unrequited [ from my muses side ]  /  unrequited [ from both sides ]  /  skinny love  /  friends to lovers  /  enemies to lovers  /  spurious relationship  /  power couple  /  newly entered  /  soulmates [ metaphorical ]  /  soulmates  [ literal ]  /  awkward  /  turning toxic  /  toxic love  /  cheating [ on your muse ]  /  cheating [ with your muse ]  /  other 

FAMILIAL.     siblings [ half ]  /  siblings [ step ]  /  [ my muse ] is an older sibling figure to your younger sibling figure  /  [ my muse ] is a younger sibling figure to your older sibling figure muse  /  [ my muse ] is a parental figure to yours  /  [ my muse ] is a child figure to your muse  /  guardian figure  /  legal guardian  /  adoptive child  /  foster child  /  [ Charles ] is taken under mines wing  /  [ Rick ] is taken under yours wing  /  other

ANTAGONISTIC.     dangerous to each other  /  dangerous to others  /  unpredictable  /  rivals  /  petty  /  developing into sexual or romantic tension  /  based off family matters  /  based of off circumstance  /  based of professional matters  /  based off misunderstanding or lies  /  conflict of ideology  /  betrayal  /  hero - villain dynamic  /  enemies  /  fight club  /  friends turned enemies  /  lovers turned enemies  /  exes turned enemies  /  other 

#copy that taccom { ask } #prebeat #muse: rick grimes #i stopped watching my series thing for this and i lvoed every bit of it <3 #anyway uhhh if you wanna explore smth else or plot other things lmk :3

[death-in-shift]

Favourite Time of the Year: Winter

Comfort Food: Pasta

Favourite Dessert: Cake

Things to Collect: Coins, stickers, penpal petters

Favourite Drink: Ramune

Favourite Musical Artist: I like a lot

Last Song You Listened To: Dragula - Rob Zombie

Last Movie You Watched: Stoker (2013)

Last Series You Watched: The Disastrous Life of Saiki K

Series You’re Currently Watching: Classroom of the Elite

Current Obsession: None

Dream Place to Visit: Canada, Iceland, Italy, Japan, possibly Netherlands

Something You Want: Tats and a few more piercings

Currently Working on: My OC’s backstory (possibly other concepts), renovating some pages on my other socials, maybe renovating this acc a bit.

Tagged By: @xpricity

Tagging: Anyone who wants to do it

#ooc #meme #currently listening to dragula

[godzilla-reads]

📖 November Reading Wrapup 📖

I started off November with 149 books in my pocket and left at 164 books, meaning I read 15 books this month! My top 3 are starred below:

🌎 What You Need to be Warm by Neil Gaiman

⭐️ Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke

🪐 Alone in Space: A Collection by Tillie Walden

⭐️ Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee

❤️ Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

💍 The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

🗻 So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014-2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin

🧟 Zombie Penpal by Ken McMurtry

🧄 Garlic & the Vampire by Bree Paulsen

🐥 Poems About Birds edited by H.J. Massingham

❄️ The Naked Tree by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (trans. Janet Hong)

🐲 The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

⭐️ Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

🏴‍☠️ One Piece Vol. 6: The Oath by Eiichiro Oda

🍄 How to See Fairies and Other Tales by Charles van Sandwyk

#godzilla reads #reading wrap up #books read in 2023 #books read in November #book blog #reading #booklr #bookworm #bookish #bookwyrm

[transporttoanotherplace]

October 2022 Book Goals

October🍂 , One of my favorite months of the year and it's time for a spooky 👻 book month theme. All month long I'm going to largely devote myself to reading dark academia, sci-fi, horror, thriller, mystery, magic, or Halloween-related books. My exceptions are books that I've had on hold at my library that come through.

Book goal: 12 books 📖

Dream goal: 24 books 📚

Book Challenges

The Horror Aficionados group on Goodreads is hosting a challenge to read horror stories that meet the following listed topics:

Bat 🦇 Cat 🐱‍👤 Ghost/Haunting 👻 Graveyard ☠ Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin 🎃 Monster 👹 Scarecrow 😱 Treats 🍬🍭 Tricks 😈 Vampire 🧛‍♂️ Werewolf🐩 Witch 🧙‍♀️🧹 Zombie 🧟‍♀️

I have until November 30th to complete the challenge but I hope I can either finish the challenge by the end of the month or make a major dent into it. Also, I have 17 books left to read for the PopSugar 2022 challenge and there are 7 prompts I need to fulfill to keep me on track so I've chosen:

A book about or set in a nonpatriarchial society

A book with cuterly in the cover or in the title

A book about witches

A book set on a train, plane, or cruise ship

An #ownvoicesSFF bok

A book featuring a parallel reality

A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid

I have zero clue what I'm reading for most of my book challenges but here are some books I know for sure I'll be reading this month:

Most anticipated: It's a tie between Sleeping Beauties and PenPal. I've actually never read a Stephen King book and so I decided to start with this one as my first and so far I really like it but it's kind of hard to follow with the number of characters. I've heard amazing things about PenPal and that it's extremely disturbing which I am ready for! I actually rarely read scary books aside from psychological thrillers but those rarely freak me out so honestly this entire genre will be new for me.

Book I already know I'm going to love: The Book Thief. I know very little but a long time ago I read the first chapter and I was hooked but life got in the way. I just have a strong feeling about this one since everyone I know recommends it to me.

Nostalgic selection for October:

FEAR STREET SAGA!!!

R.L. Stine was my favorite author as a teenager. He's the only horror author I ever went out of my way to read and I was obsessed with Fear Street. I read the cheerleader saga once a year and I'm excited to read the rest because it's been so long that I don't even remember most of them. I do know they're not long reads so we'll see how many of these I can bang out. They're largely why my dream goal is so high.

I'm so excited for this month and to see how I fill this out in the end. I had most of September planned out but since I'm new to the horror genre, don't really read a lot of sci-fi or magic books, and dark academia is new to me I'm eager to see how I take to this challenge 😁🎃

#october 2022 book goals #horror books #please send me recommendations #dark academia #book goals #books 2022 #stephen king #fear street saga #horror

[ram-de]

i skipped class

it's offline class and i don't feel like it. imagining i'm arriving there and be miserable listening to crowds of people already knowing each other like talking and stuff. knowing there's going to be a recording of it later anyway. it's the first time. and i don't like this feeling.

cause i know it's wrong, and it may lead to something even worse. like, oh i skipped this and i turned out fine? maybe i can skip other things too. like.

i'm scared. of stuff.

i wanted to be normal. but i know there's a lot to fix. i know. it's back to being sad and lonely and stuff. the letter penpal thing? i don't know. i feel like most doesn't really like talking to me. they talk about themselves and never ask question back.

i feel like i expected more. maybe that's how it supposed to be? like i went all desperate and maybe wait until they feel like friends or something. i got jealous when they told me about how fun and exciting their day with their friends were. other times i wrote lengthy letters because i'm excited, but i went overboard.

i'm just. lost. maybe i'm not made for writing letters. maybe i'm not made for laughs. maybe i'm not made for friends. maybe... i'm not made for life? perhaps it's a coincidence that i'm here. just a one in a million chance that something happen. yes. i write just to write. without any meaning. letting the stream of my mind flows through. it's. it's pathetic. being in this kind of state. being me.

but even i. just use the app to fill the void. and sometime it did. sometime i feel fulfilled and happy as if i forged an interaction. sure i did. but at the end of the day, what meaning does it carve? sooner or later the void will be void again. and then by that time i'll look for other desperate things to distract myself. to make me forget my responsibility. to run away from scary things.

games. books. writing. making doodles. listening to music for hours. watching movies. folding origamis. eating. walking around without any meaning.

sooner or later, i'll be that. like a mindless zombie. walking for the sake of walk. no thoughts. no goals. just living the day without knowing what happens. what a miserable life to live. isn't it?

sure one day it'll get better, but then maybe it'll get worse too. what the hell happened..

#ramblingrams

[myers-meadow]

I’m so curious to see what a note from RB Michael Myers would look like in your eyes. I’m not sure if it technically counts as a note, but perhaps a response to a pen pal while still at Smith’s Grove? If not whatever you think would work! Bless you for doin’ all these, they’re all real sweet so far!

Hi and thank u for this wonderful request anon! I feel like he would’ve been the kind of penpal to want to send stuff other than letters, such as stickers and newspaper clippings and so on. Perhaps he will draw too. Imagine him receiving stickers!! Since it was the seventies/eighties, he may also have used a typewriter to type out letters instead of handwrite them. This is in response to someone's first letter to him, asking him a few questions, and that is how your penpal friendship may possibly begin!

.

Dear y/n,

I do receive penpal requests and letters. Thank you for your concern on my health. There is little worthy of note here. Dr. Loomis says it is a good thing to practice writing and communication. He is still concerned that I do not speak.

He tries to help me and brings me books and newspapers most days.

Do you like to work with your hands? Whenever I get the itch, I make masks. It is harder than it looks. The other day another patient stole one of them, but I made sure that would not happen again.

The important thing is to find balance. When the mask is too thick, it is more durable, but it weighs too much to sit comfortably and not slide down When it is too thin, it will be messy when I paint it. The fastenings will also be less secure then, since it will rip easily.

Send me materials for more masks. I heard there is special Halloween stuff on sale this time of year.

Kindly,

Michael

#lovenote #michael myers #halloween #lovenote request #lovenotes from a slasher #rz halloween #rz michael myers #rob zombies halloween #smiths grove #smith's grove #penpal from michael myers

[rosedemonart]

💔Hey Everyone!💔 I have leveled up as a Artist and now have a PO Box! Woohoo! If anyone wants to send me Cute Mail here is my New Addy <3 MISS CHERRY MARTINI PO BOX 313 BAXTER 3911 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 #mail #creepintouch #mailbox #gothic #zombie #penpal #fanmail #pobox #misscherrymartini https://www.instagram.com/p/B9qN7lNgmfk/?igshid=1dedmldjn3n7x

#mail #creepintouch #mailbox #gothic #zombie #penpal #fanmail #pobox #misscherrymartini

[bcygenivs]

thinking about how before all of *gestures vaguely at the planet* THIS i was supposed to have a horror movie and baking date with a rly cool girl but then I panic deleted the app out of anxiety when the county went on lock down

#give my right arm to watch sleepaway camp with some lemon squares rn :(( #ANYWAY who wants to be penpals and start a long distance romance full of yearning and existential dread #some pride prejudice and zombies shit? #txt