Astrid

Main Blog @lunardeity-astrid. Here you can find all my writing updates, links to Ao3 stories, and any work posted here on tumblr. Think of it as one massive masterlist. 

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)/Bruce Wayne Characters: Hal Jordan, Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: nothing but fluff, Dancing Summary:

This was one of the few times Hal didn’t let his head wander into the clouds. Wrapped in Bruce’s arms as they led lazy trails in the famed ballroom of Wayne Manor, easily became Hal’s heaven on earth. There was nowhere else he wanted to be at that moment.

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Military Units for Fanfiction

So here’s a short basic description of military units for fanfiction purposes.

A Team: Usually 4 soldiers, a non-commissioned officer and three junior enlisted officers.

A Squad: Made up of 2 teams, contains 10 soldiers. And commanded by a Staff Sergeant.

A Platoon: Made up of 2-3 squads, contains 36 soldiers. And is commanded by a Lieutenant.

A Company: Made up of 3-4 platoons, contains 200 soldiers. And is commanded by a Captain.

A Battalion: Made up of 4-6 Companies, contains 1,000 soldiers. And is commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel.

A Brigade: Made up of 2-3 Battalions, contains 5,000 soldiers. And is commanded by a Colonel.

A Division: Made up of 3-4 Brigades, contains 15,000 soldiers. And is commanded by a Major General.

A Corps: Made up of 2-5 Divisions, contains 45,000 soldiers. And is commanded by a Lieutenant General.

A Field Army: Made up of 4+ Corps, contains 90,000 soldiers. And is commanded by a General.

An Army Group: Made up of 4-5 Field Armies, and contains 400,000 to 1 million soldiers. Commanded by a General.

An Army Region: Made up of 3+ Field Armies, contains 1 million to 3 million soldiers. Only used in times of war, such as WWII. Commanded by a General.

This is only for the Army, not the Marines, Navy or Air Force. I hope it helps in your writing endeavors.

[lyralit]

fifty ways to get to know your characters (and how to write them)

what is their name? and how does this fit their character?

last name?

do they have a middle name?

name a song that describes them

what are their pronouns?

gender and sexuality?

do they like someone romantically?

list five words to describe them

what about five dialogue tags to use consistently on this character?

what is their motivation?

do they consider themselves a good person?

colour that describes their personality

MBTI type

enneagram type

character they're based on

person they would bring down whilst dying

person they would kill if they had the chance

character they would get along with if they were in the same universe

character they would hate if they were in the same universe

artist they would listen to

artist they would hate

give them a theme song

make them a playlist! (see my other post for songs to put on that playlist, here)

make them a mood board

assign them an aesthetic

what are their strengths?

what about fatal weaknesses?

the one person who can convince them to do something they're stubbornly against

who would they kill for?

what tropes do they fall into?

fatal weakness (food edition)

book they would definitely read

language besides their mother tongue they would (have) learned

murder accomplice

thing that makes them go weak at the knees

most obscure thing they HATE

while we're there, biggest phobia

are they (would they be) a book or movie person?

are they a romantic

childhood experience that defines an aspect of their life

what is their age?

birth sign? / zodiac?

what constellation would they be

name a famous myth could they would have been the main character

old or new soul

assign them a smell

assign them a smell they like

can they swim?

street smarts or brain smarts?

what is this character's purpose to the plot?

[vaememes]

` ° • ✧ MARILYN MONROE PROMPTS.

❛ Fear is stupid. So are regrets. ❜ ❛ It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. ❜ ❛ I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. ❜ ❛ If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. ❜ ❛ The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. ❜ ❛ I restore myself when I’m alone. ❜ ❛ I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it. ❜ ❛ Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she’ll conquer the world. ❜ ❛ No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. ❜ ❛ I am good, but not an angel. ❜ ❛ I do sin, but I am not the devil. ❜ ❛ I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. ❜ ❛ All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t. ❜ ❛ When it comes down to it. I let people think what they want. ❜ ❛ I already know I’m better than them. ❜ ❛ If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere. ❜ ❛ I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. ❜ ❛ A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. ❜ ❛ It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. ❜ ❛ Success makes so many people hate you. ❜ ❛ Dogs never bite me. Just humans. ❜ ❛ It’s all make believe, isn’t it? ❜ ❛ I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. ❜ ❛ I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. ❜ ❛ I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. ❜ ❛ But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. ❜ ❛ It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired. ❜ ❛ I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy. ❜ ❛ Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. ❜ ❛ The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. ❜ ❛ A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. ❜ ❛ We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. ❜ ❛ You know, most people really don’t know me. ❜ ❛ I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. ❜ ❛ I believe everything happens for a reason. ❜ ❛ Friends accept you the way you are. ❜ ❛ We should all start to live before we get too old. ❜ ❛ If I’m a star, then the people made me a star. ❜ ❛ I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human. ❜ ❛ It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary. ❜ ❛ An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. ❜  ❛ I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. ❜ ❛ I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since. ❜ ❛ Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. ❜ ❛ The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. ❜ ❛ What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course. ❜ ❛ The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. ❜ ❛ Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. ❜ ❛ Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. ❜ ❛ I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn. ❜ ❛ I wish I knew why I am so anguished. ❜ ❛ Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. ❜ ❛ I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. ❜ ❛ I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time. ❜ ❛ I have feelings too. I am still human. ❜ ❛ Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. ❜ ❛ I want a child and I fear a child. ❜ ❛ I think I have always had a little humor. ❜ ❛ I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about. ❜ ❛ I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. ❜

[introvert-unicorn-deactivated20]

Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied 

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful

Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

[asriels]

novel writing meme

send me an ask with a number in! i see a lot of ask memes for fics but fewer short and sweet ones for novels so i hope you enjoy this one!

1. what’s your current wip about?

2. share a bit of your wip

3. describe the main character(s) of your current wip

4. which part of your wip are you most looking forward to writing? (or which did you most enjoy writing if that part is finished already)

5. describe a minor character in your wip

6. tell me about another idea you have that you want to write one day

7. share part of another wip that you’ve already written

8. tell me about another idea that you’ll never write and why you’ll never write it

9. share an aesthetic for your [current or future wip name/idea]

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

“I’m okay. It was just a bad dream.”

“What was it about?”

Bruce sighs, sliding his hands into his pockets. “Nobody wants to hear about that stuff.”

“I do. That’s why I’m asking you. You scare me when you’re like that. I feel so helpless because I don’t know what’s going on up there and I want to.”

Hal can see that Bruce doesn’t want to talk about it, that no amount of pushing, or prying will make him. He’s about to give up when Bruce’s trembling hand swipes at his raven hair. “I dreamt of a friend, about him dying.” Bruce offers as little as he can, the words that Hal had said floated into his mind. He did trust him. He trusted him with every part of himself but some parts were not as pretty.

“Was it Harvey?” Hal asks and Bruce looks up, his brows furrowed.” You had said his name one night.”

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne Characters: Hal Jordan, Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: AU, Fugitives, Running from the law, I don't know why I wrote this, it just came to me Summary:

An au in which young Hal and Bruce are fugitives running from the law. (This is literally so short and just an idea I've been infected with.)

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Beauty and The Beast but Bruce is a giant bat.

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

Beneath cigar smoke, Hal's brown eyes still shine as beautifully to Bruce as they had, nights ago under drab tents lit with bare amber under Europe’s sky. He hadn’t stopped scouring Hal’s face since he came home, since they moved to their private beach miles outside of coast city. He had been every bit of a warmth compared to the cold shoulder of memories and nightmares that plagued him often. It was hard for Bruce to forget about the things done and seen on those islands.

Hal can feel Bruce’s gaze, so he glances up. “ You always stare at me like that. If you want to jump into bed with me just say so.”

Bruce shakes his head, a chuckle rumbling deep from his lungs. Hal’s voice brushes the dark memories away.

Chapter 2 is up!

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So far, I've written about three chapters of So We Will Live Today and all I can tell you is I don't like it. Today, I'm restarting to try and find a new angle.

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

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: DCU (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne Characters: Hal Jordan, Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: AYY it’s a sequel, Batlantern - Freeform, WWII AU, Post Tramuatic Stress, Angst, domestic life, Self-Hatred, Survivor Guilt Summary:

A sequel to We May Die Tomorrow. Bruce has arrived home from war. After a year, the nightmares still come and he is unable to shake the things that happened to him as he starts a domestic life with Hal. On the other Hand, Hal has coped and accepted the death of his close friend. He’s ready to for the world after the war. (This follows the Alt. Ending.)

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

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: DCU (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne Characters: Hal Jordan, Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: AYY it's a sequel, Batlantern - Freeform, WWII AU, Post Tramuatic Stress, Angst, domestic life, Self-Hatred, Survivor Guilt Summary:

A sequel to We May Die Tomorrow. Bruce has arrived home from war. After a year, the nightmares still come and he is unable to shake the things that happened to him as he starts a domestic life with Hal. On the other Hand, Hal has coped and accepted the death of his close friend. He's ready to for the world after the war. (This follows the Alt. Ending.)

[lunardeity-astrid]

Alright so here me out Batlantern Cinderella Au.

(Yes. I did rewatch Cinderella and it was the best choice I made in this adultish hell, I’m supoosed to live in.) 

Keep reading

[lunardeity-astrid]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Fluff, Doctor AU, Jason is a book nerd and you really can’t change my mind, Batfamily (DCU), Jason is a Dork, writing this made me remember just how much I love Jason Series: Part 7 of Paging Dr. Wayne Summary:

Just a little introduction for Jason in my Paging Dr. Wayne Au

[lunardeity-astrid]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne Characters: Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Paging Dr. Wayne, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Medical, Batlantern - Freeform Series: Part 6 of Paging Dr. Wayne Summary:

Hal and John get into an accident while responding to a call. Hal has orders from Dr. Wayne to stay overnight for observation but Hal, on the other hand, doesn’t like to follow orders.

“Is this really necessary?” Hal’s words are muffled around the thermometer that is placed in his mouth under his tongue. The hospital gown is next to him and in silent defiance Hal has decided not to put it on. Because, putting it plainly, he’s not staying.

Bruce takes the thermometer from his mouth, reads it, and lays it aside. He places his cold hands- which Hal tells him, every time he touches Hal’s skin-on the inside of Hal’s wrist, feeling his pulse. His blue eyes flicker up to acknowledge the paramedic’s question. ”You were in an accident, Hal. Overnight observation is standard procedure at Gotham General.”

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

A little bit of Dom!Bruce and Sub!Hal never hurt anyone, did it?