Ace / Adonis

Ace / Adonis is back with... maybe not a vengeance. I don't have anyone to venge. But I'm here now hello! Writer rambling sideblog for some trenchcoat possums https://linktr.ee/aceadoniswriter

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WAY too many ongoing projects to list here, so I'll just add stuff as and when I start talking about it!

Creatures of the Night (#cotn) - fun little trilogy about werewolves and vampires, book 1 is that rare gem, being edited, books 2 and 3 are yet to begin

Ghost Walkers (#ghost walkers) - I have trouble describing this one to be honest. Some guys accidentally stumbling into stopping a king doing things he shouldn't. Also a sequel will exist at some point

Various short stories under #ace's shorts

Various fanfics that I might work on sometimes under #ace's fics

Publishing/sharing stuff has happened to me and you want to read it? If I have a link for you, #ace published a thing!? will have it!

Oh and you can go and sneak a look at @the-tower-project, I'm over there too :) will be tagged #the tower project when I talk about it here

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Presenting: The Long Con

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

His life began the day that he left HYDRA, without even the memory of experience to rely on to find his way through the strange familiarity of the world - and yet he finds he has the experience anyway.

Then Steve Rogers shows up at his door, telling him that he is James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, an old friend who died in the second world war. Steve is wrong. But the whole world is hunting the Winter Soldier, and if he wants Steve's help, he might just have to pretend. Maybe, if he does well enough, it might eventually be true. It's not like he has anyone else to be.

Finally decided to actually start posting this bucky fic I've been poking at for... over seven months now. In theory I update it regularly! (I have a reminder set so I should succeed).

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Things I have got up to in the last, uh... two months

Mostly uni essays (sadly). The good news is those are done now!

The majority of my creative stuff has been ttrpg related, but that does mean more of my original Bucky fanfic has been written... albeit future scenes and not actually where I got to. So I'm still on chapter 11 of that.

Snow Moon, however, is now 12 chapters long, so more Bucky/Jake for whoever's interested in that. Plus a bonus Moon Knight oneshot!

The latest short story on both Storyforge and Novellea is Monument. Not sure which I last announced so there may be more new ones too 👀

And to top it all, off, new project alert... this time with its own shiny new sideblog because why not. More detailed updates for @the-tower-project will be over there - and it's shaping up to be pretty cool after only a couple of days, if I do say so myself.

That's it. See you on the next (hopefully sooner than two months) "weekly" update! Or before then if I do some writing and remember this blog exists, which is always possible.

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Disappeared for a month and I return with gifts of the Jake Lockley/Bucky Barnes variety (inspired by this prompts list by @creativepromptsforwriting). They have possessed my heart I fear (I do not fear, I love those two) so the gifts will continue for the length of said prompts list (aside from 29 cos an even number is required)

Aside from that I have done very little. Guess that's uni life for you

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Things I got up to this week

I'm gonna try to make this a consistent thing. Building an audience (or at least an ability to post consistently) for actual marketing when I do actual publishing, and all that. (Should probably start actually using writing tags too in that case lol)

On a related note, I made a substack. Not quite sure what I'm doing with it but I imagine it'll be much like this blog just perhaps a little more professional (just a little)

Shared another short story over on Storyforge

Speaking of the shared ones, got my first ever money for writing thanks to Novellea (which gives you some if people who have paid the subscription like your story. From what I remember the only difference between free and paid use of the app is free you get to read three stories per day, paid you get infinite, and there's some cool stuff on there so definitely recommend it in general!) <- that sounds like an ad lol I promise it isn't xD

Worked on the fanfic more than I should have, and the other short story I've got going on less than I should have, but I did finish it when I wanted to, so 🎉

The short story in question is something I'm gonna Submit To A Thing, so I'll keep you updated how that goes. It's set in the same world as Ghost Walkers which is exciting - and the person I gave the first 2/5 to read was disappointed that GW wouldn't follow the same characters cos she was invested lol. So that's probably a good sign!

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VICTORY

(I finished the short story I wanted to be done by the end of today)

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Which OC would the fandom mischaracterise the most?

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We often write plural characters these days, so.

Very high chance that out of the Ghost Walkers system it's Wanderer. Poor thing doesn't know what a boundary even is at the start, it would be very easy for people to reduce it to the evil alter 🙄

Tbh though, also Tomo, for quite the opposite reason. People might strip ser of any complexity and make ser into just a lil guy who needs protecting and can't stand up for seself. Especially against Wanderer

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Working on a short story in the world of Ghost Walkers to submit to a thing. A very colourful plan is going on currently!

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Me writing chapter 8: finally we're getting to the part where he's not suffering!

Me writing chapter 9: oh ig we're. back to the suffering then

I don't think he'll really be having a good time for a good while. Compared to before it'll be good now though xD

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He's happy! He's happy! He's finally happy!

He doesn't know what that new emotion he's feeling actually is but we can work on that xD

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Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell

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This has evolved to one of fanfiction’s major assets in my eyes. To every author that cares enough about the characters in their stories to examine trauma, but also the slow, tedious processes of healing and recovery: your stories mean so much to me and other persons with mental health problems. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Society: We don’t talk about how anger is Often just masking grief

A 17 year old with a blorbo and a laptop: Don’t mind if I do tho

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Me writing chapter 8: finally we're getting to the part where he's not suffering!

Me writing chapter 9: oh ig we're. back to the suffering then

I don't think he'll really be having a good time for a good while. Compared to before it'll be good now though xD

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Finally finished chapter 7 of the fanfic while the essays huddle in the corner and weep

(The fact that I wrote six and a half chapters in a matter of days then took this long to finish the seventh is exactly why this thing won't be shared until it's much more written! Any hopes of a regular posting schedule are destroyed in the face of my absolutely chaotic writing schedule)

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EIGHT

(And only one essay huddling in the corner weeping now!)

AND my boy is through the worst of it now :)

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Finally finished chapter 7 of the fanfic while the essays huddle in the corner and weep

(The fact that I wrote six and a half chapters in a matter of days then took this long to finish the seventh is exactly why this thing won't be shared until it's much more written! Any hopes of a regular posting schedule are destroyed in the face of my absolutely chaotic writing schedule)

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Oops I remembered Storyforge exists

Some sad guys for you

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listen i may take 4 weeks to write a 3k word chapter, and i may take 45 minutes to decide whether i should use “laugh” or “chuckle”, but at least i don’t use ai and whatever you’re getting is pure chaos from a human brain

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Writing things I've got up to this week

Drumroll please... mostly nothing! Lol

The past couple of weeks I've had two - two! - separate cool new ideas, just to make my life easy ig. One was all about a lovely lil computer program trying to figure out a sense of self, hopefully to become a short story at some point, and the other was the rather more ambitious "I want to write a version of Grettir's Saga set in the Creatures of the Night world." So yeah. The second one unlocked me some cool new worldbuilding for that, though, so!

My uni has a fantasy journal so I've pulled out an old short story, also set in the COTN world, to hopefully submit to that. Just need to make some final edits and do that by Sunday. Feels far more Official than sharing stuff online, kinda scary but very cool.

Oh and speaking of sharing online, I figured out where the share link for stuff on Novellea is, in perfect timing for having just put another short story on there! So have a look at that if you wanna see an unexpectedly philosophical investigation into the nature of humanity 👀 (or any of my other things lol)

Now, I should be working on essays... that recent fanfic is calling, though...

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The fanfic is three chapters long already. I am unstoppable >:)

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Oops, 6 now (or just over rather as I already started writing chapter 7)