Dreams of ANT

The archive of the Dream. ANTchan's fanworks only blog, for those who want the content, but not the tidal wave of fandom.

[anamelesstraveler]

Commenter Spotlight, January 3, 2025

One of my goals for the new year is to spend more time appreciating my readers! Our first spotlight is for:

✨This_gay1idiot✨ who commented on Silence Lay Steadily:

I saw the art on Twitter and fucking hell this is briliant! I dont know why I, bigest fan of the american idiot that is graves, didnt realize that maybe the fucking forest shadows were gravess shadows. Briliant writing, a story I will read again and again untill another chapter comes out. Cant wait to see how this ends.

I'm so glad that you enjoyed the fic, even after finding it incomplete after so long 💕 I had so much fun writing Graves in this brief chapter. I love imagining him as his wonderful, arrogant self and somehow also... a little bit like an eldritch horror. It really suits his most wicked character traits, and I really enjoyed giving him the power rush that he would absolutely thrive in.

I hope to bring you another chapter of the fic soon! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment on this WIP, it means so much to me!

[anamelesstraveler]

It's been entirely too long since I've used this site at all! Starting 2025, I'm going to kick off getting back into fandom, creating and appreciating the things others create! I've missed this and I've missed you all!

I meant to post this yesterday, but here's some snippets from my four active WIPs!

Adrenaline Rush 3, pt1 (6,273 words):

Give Me Back My Heart, ch2 (4,707 words):

Silence Lay Steadily, ch6 (3,706 words): (NSFW!)

I'll Be Yours, ch3 (141 words and YES I did add two more words just to get this number):

[anamelesstraveler]

Soap blinks awake, only to find the tall figure of Ghost is standing beside the bed. It should be unnerving, to look up and see the white skull staring back down at him. But Soap is never afraid.

“Hey, Ghost,” he greets sluggishly. “Y’okay?”

He’s come to ask the same thing every night he finds Ghost in his room. Because like a child after a nightmare, there’s just something… small about the way Ghost stands near him. Which is absolute insanity, because the apparition would tower head and shoulders over Soap any day. There just seems to be something about Ghost that shrinks in on itself those nights, standing silent and still at his bedside. And looking at him like this, somewhere in his sleep-addled mind, Soap’s hands itch to reach out. He finds himself staring at Ghost’s hands, nearly invisible from the black mass of him.

“Y’keep comin’ back,” he whispers. “So you do like me, huh? ‘M not so bad.”

The shape of Ghost shudders - a laugh?

“...’hnny–” Ghost’s voice dips in and out of focus, half a word coherent and then the next hopelessly smothered into whispers. But for the first time, Soap watches as Ghost seems to stoop even further at the failure, a real, heartbreakingly human frustration etched in every part of him. His massive form shifts, a hand separating from the void of his body. Does Ghost want to reach out just as badly as he does?

Is he lonely like this? Soap wonders. Trapped in this existence for who knows how long? 

-Ch3, Silence Lay Steadily

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

So excited to share this commission that @bluegiragi did for me!! Gira, I can't thank you enough for taking this on ❤

[ericaschall]

[podfic] of ANTchan's fic 'Paralyzed'

Podfic on AO3:

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

Author: @anamelesstraveler / ANTchan

Rating: (very) Explicit

Pairing: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley and John “Soap” MacTavish/others

Featuring 'Slut' Soap (thank you for your service Mr MacTavish!) and top Ghost who is completely lost in the face of Soap's utter perfection.

[anamelesstraveler]

I've been pretty much speechless and screaming incoherently over this ever since you posted this. I can't begin to tell you how amazing this is. You're one of the most talented podiccer's I've listened to, and your work is always wonderful! This is so kind of you to create this lovely podfic. I can't thank you enough!

Everyone, please go check this out!