the time will pass anyway

Fanfiction sideblog of starsfromuncle. My AO3 is AvatarSkywalker78, and this blog is where you'll find new stories, extracts, fancasts, and anything else to do with my fics. Feel free to ask me anything about my stories or my OCs. Current icon is Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin from 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'!

[avatarskywalker78]

Well this looks fun and I’ve been working on commenting a lot more the last few years so…why not? It’ll be great!!! This is gonna be my new pinned post for the month (and I’ll list the fics below!)

Drabble - Bubble by Rose_of_Pollux

[writingdose]

write it anyway even if you think it’s bad. a badly written fic is still better than a nonexistent fic.

[feralplantwife]

I want to add that I have read some fic that I felt were bad but they had something about them - story, theme, a specific moment, etc. - that was so interesting or chewy that I think about it to this day, even years later.

So what if you're not someone's next great author? You could also haunt their dreams and nightmares simultaneously, and be the ghost in their daydreams. Don't ever give them peace.

[avatarskywalker78]

Belated Thirsty Thursday but whatever - here's my updated list of my Muncle fics :D

close - a few weeks after the events of 'The Love Affair', Napoleon's still acting off and Illya finally figures out why...only it's not that just near-death experience that's been haunting him

synergy - During 'The Dippy Blonde Affair', Illya doesn't expect to be held at gunpoint by Baldanado,...but luckily Napoleon has a plan

matrimonial - after the villains of 'The Deadly Goddess Affair' have been dealt with, Illya continues to find Napoleon's near marriage deeply funny...and Napoleon gets emotional over why his partner was even in the running

respite - after 'The Odd Man Affair', Napoleon's been struggling to sleep whilst recovering from getting shot, and he and Illya finally talk it out...

hope - after 'The Foreign Legion Affair', Illya wonders why his partner's suddenly become withdrawn since reaching Marrakesh...and finds out that when news of the plane initially came through Napoleon once again thought he'd lost him...

restored - after Napoleon and lllya are cured in 'The Moonglow Affair, Illya wakes up first and goes for a routine check-up...only there's a problem when his partner nearly flattens the medical team because his last coherent memory was needing to get back to Illya-

devotion - near the end of 'The Terbuf Affair', Illya questions whether Napoleon's regretting how things went with Clara and wonders whether he'd even still be an option if she were free...and Napoleon's utterly horrified to realise this because it never crossed his mind even once

duplicity - in which Illya is suspicious of his partner as the out-of-character moments stack up during the August Affair, while the real Napoleon is desperate to escape from captivity because it's only a matter of time before Illya figures it out and that means he's in danger...

instinctual - an amnesiac Napoleon's loyalty to Illya is as deeply ingrained in him as his UNCLE training, and when his instincts tell him not to trust Mara he heeds it, given this is all he's got to go on. And as fragments start coming through the memory block, flashes of blonde hair, blue eyes and someone who's very, very important to him...

chivalry - after the duel in 'The Round Table Affair', Napoleon's in a good mood, having helped Ingolstein kick out the mafia... but he's curious as to what's put Illya in an even better one to the point that he's openly showing affection towards him

promises - Illya, bolstered by the display of heroics he's just witnessed in Ingolstein - and the general atmosphere around them - feels compelled to tell his partner what's in his heart...and to make a declaration in the process

veracity - in 'The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair' Napoleon's shaken up in the aftermath of the attack and fearful that no one, not even his partner, is going to believe him...but Illya never had any doubts whatsoever, and refuses to let anyone dismiss what he went through

[avatarskywalker78]

Belated Thirsty Thursday but whatever - here's my updated list of my Muncle fics :D

close - a few weeks after the events of 'The Love Affair', Napoleon's still acting off and Illya finally figures out why...only it's not that just near-death experience that's been haunting him

synergy - During 'The Dippy Blonde Affair', Illya doesn't expect to be held at gunpoint by Baldanado,...but luckily Napoleon has a plan

matrimonial - after the villains of 'The Deadly Goddess Affair' have been dealt with, Illya continues to find Napoleon's near marriage deeply funny...and Napoleon gets emotional over why his partner was even in the running

respite - after 'The Odd Man Affair', Napoleon's been struggling to sleep whilst recovering from getting shot, and he and Illya finally talk it out...

hope - after 'The Foreign Legion Affair', Illya wonders why his partner's suddenly become withdrawn since reaching Marrakesh...and finds out that when news of the plane initially came through Napoleon once again thought he'd lost him...

restored - after Napoleon and lllya are cured in 'The Moonglow Affair, Illya wakes up first and goes for a routine check-up...only there's a problem when his partner nearly flattens the medical team because his last coherent memory was needing to get back to Illya-

devotion - near the end of 'The Terbuf Affair', Illya questions whether Napoleon's regretting how things went with Clara and wonders whether he'd even still be an option if she were free...and Napoleon's utterly horrified to realise this because it never crossed his mind even once

duplicity - in which Illya is suspicious of his partner as the out-of-character moments stack up during the August Affair, while the real Napoleon is desperate to escape from captivity because it's only a matter of time before Illya figures it out and that means he's in danger...

instinctual - an amnesiac Napoleon's loyalty to Illya is as deeply ingrained in him as his UNCLE training, and when his instincts tell him not to trust Mara he heeds it, given this is all he's got to go on. And as fragments start coming through the memory block, flashes of blonde hair, blue eyes and someone who's very, very important to him...

chivalry - after the duel in 'The Round Table Affair', Napoleon's in a good mood, having helped Ingolstein kick out the mafia... but he's curious as to what's put Illya in an even better one to the point that he's openly showing affection towards him

promises - Illya, bolstered by the display of heroics he's just witnessed in Ingolstein - and the general atmosphere around them - feels compelled to tell his partner what's in his heart...and to make a declaration in the process

veracity - in 'The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair' Napoleon's shaken up in the aftermath of the attack and fearful that no one, not even his partner, is going to believe him...but Illya never had any doubts whatsoever, and refuses to let anyone dismiss what he went through

[auspex]

where would we be without friend OCs... nowhere good!

[ndnbutch]

the author’s thinly veiled nothing #notwriting #straightupnotwritingit

[purpurle-iris]

Imagine how many great, weird, awesome stories would exist if writers actually wrote instead of scrolling on tumblr

[katje-is-writing]

u know what i didn't come here to be attacked like this

[drawlight]

People reread stories. Fics too.

I knew that intellectually but it never truly clicked until I opened an old favorite last night to get lost in for the thousandth time. But if you’re a fanfiction author, someone out there is reading and rereading your stories. Someone out there is loving your world and words not just once but over and over and over again.

That’s amazing.

So here’s a shoutout to the readers and rereaders. The commenters and kudosers and lurkers and everyone and anyone who has ever picked a fic up and loved it.

And here’s a shoutout to the writers, in case you need a pick me up or a slight bit of love. Somewhere, out there on a screen under a sky you’ve never seen, your story is coming to life.

Not just once. But again and again and again.

[jandjsalmon]

Again and Again and Again. 

[isabellebissonrouthier]

reblog with a spoiler for your wip with zero context. no context allowed.

[oc-extraordinaire]

Which OC will never marry?

[avatarskywalker78]

It's Work in Progress Wednesday and I have stuff written!!! Firstly I've started the 3x04 fic which explains just how, exactly, Illya managed to get a straw (comic book science for the win, my loves :D) - Markus, demonstrating, has just been shoved into a vat of water (he drew the short straw), and Illya and Ash are observing.

“Watch the button.” “The what?” For a few seconds nothing seemed to be happening except Markus seeming mildly disgruntled, and then- “What on Earth?” The top button popped off the shirt, floated up to his chin- And then seemed to adhere to it as it started to lose colour - Illya watched in fascination as it changed shape, morphed, spread over his mouth and nose - then just before it became fully translucent it expanded and- “A bubble!” He exclaimed. “It’s created a bubble!” “Exactly! And that’s not the end of it – keep watching!” She was right because the material was clearly still moving around and if Illya squinted he could definitely see something moving, the water rippling as whatever it was moved up towards the surface- The second it broke the surface it came to a stop., A tube. It was a breathing tube. “Ash, how in the world—” “Clever, right?”

Further explanations shall be in the fic itself (gotta save something, right) but this will still have the angst the episode should've expanded on because, well...there's a teeny, tiny issue with communication...

And next up is...the beginnings of a rewrite.

See about a month or so ago I went through my backburner WIPs (I've twenty-one of the blasted things) because yeah, sure, I'm pretty focused on The Man From U.N.C.L.E but I really do want to make at least something of a dent in it, get at least a few finished by the end of the year, so I went through the list and tried to figure out what the problem was with all of them, what was holding me back.

Half of them boiled down to needing to rewatch the source material (particularly ones for The Flash and Cobra Kai), others just simply needing to seek out motivation for the story itself one way or another (a couple require some outside help) but others, it's that the fundamental premise is kinda flawed-

Such as the 'Seg and Adam gain a daughter AU', in which Adam Strange finds out he has a daughter via Alanna - comics canon, btw - after she contacts him and asks him to take her because of growing anti-alien sentiments on Rann, so he's having to grapple with sudden fatherhood and all the complicated feelings that brings up (especially as, according to the timeline changes, he's eventually going to become Supergirl's grandfather which is something he's desperate trying not to think about, it's daunting) but eventually comes to terms with it-

'Doesn't sound so bad' you might think and on the face of it, no, it's not, there's probably a million fics with similar premises.

But I've seen posts (and seen for myself) about how women are cut out of the narrative, more recently seeing posts about how women are shoved aside to make room for MLM pairings and if canon kids appear at all never gets to play a role in their lives. I've been meaning to actually read some of the Adam Strange comics for years but one thing I know is that he and Alanna were a battle couple and I've been thinking about how, much as I love Krypton, the fact that she's almost completely absent (she's literally just a voice, for god's sake), is...actually not that great, really.

I've been thinking in general that maybe it's time to fix that.

So I'm revamping the entire thing because there's no reason for her to be absent, no reason for her to not go with Aleea, her own daughter, if the danger's that bad, it just doesn't fit right so now she's going to be one of three main POVs in the fic alongside Seg and Adam.

Here's an except from the new opening scene - protestors have broken into the building, Alanna's already been injured, and as a friend hands her a Zeta-Beam device, time is running out.

An explosion sounded from outside, the fence, they've brought down the damn fence- "Go!" "Alright, but - but good luck, Alanna." "Thanks." I'm gonna need it, she thought as she took off again, if my child and I are to get out of here alive- She would not, could not think otherwise, bolted up another set of stairs and straight into her father's office- She'd never seen him look so harried before. "Mama!" Aleea cried. "Mama, what's happening?" "We're being attacked." She said, fighting to sound as calm as possible as she took her daughter into her arms. "I'm afraid we're going to have to leave Rann, Aleea." "Are we going to Papa?" "Yes." Yes we are, and there's going to be a lot of questions to answer- None of that mattered - Adam would accept her, that wasn't in question...and that was the only important thing here.

This is definitely going to require me reading the comics, of course, get a good sense of what Alanna is actually like...but it's a start, at least, and you've got to start somewhere.

[fox-on-the-moon]

Actually making your selfinsert overpowered and friends with all your faves and a hybrid of the coolest species and in a relationship with your crush and the long lost sibling of the villain is called having fun and its cool as fuck

[wholesomey-artist]

[ao3commentoftheday]

user scripts for AO3 relationships

If you're someone who wants to be able to find (or avoid) ships while reading on AO3, odds are good that a fan coder out there has created a user script that could help you out.

User scripts are similar to extensions. You add them to your browser to automatically adjust web pages for you. User scripts allow you the opportunity to personalize them, however, which is wonderful for things like AO3 filters.

Here are a few that might be worth a look:

AO3 multishipper saviour - if you want to read about a particular character in a relationship without specifying any other person. The relationships can be specified to be romantic or platonic or both.

AO3: Reorder Ship Tags - Automatically reorders relationship tags on work blurbs so romantic ships (/) always appear before platonic ships (&).

AO3 Relationship/Character Highlighter - highlights the ship/character you’re looking for if they appear in the first two relationship/character tags.

AO3 romantic relationship savior - hides all romantic relationships in sort & filter page that has "/"

AO3 First Relationship Tag Filter - toggle on the script if you're browsing a relationship tag and all the works that don't have that tag as their first tag will be hidden. Works on both romantic (/) and platonic (&) relationships.

AO3 relationship savior - hides works that have too many relationships in them.

AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing - will hide fics that don't have the designated pairing listed first in the tags.

AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing (Auto) - The difference between this and Neeve's script is that it automatically detects the primary pairing, little to no configuration needed.

AO3 Show every pairing except THAT one - Remove relationship tags from script which you do not want to read.

Feel free to add more in the notes!

[philliwolf5]

I needed this. The filtering is a PAIN on AO3, and you can't save it. 😮‍💨

[ao3commentoftheday]

If you want to save your filters, there are two ways to go about it.

If you do the same search/filter every time, just bookmark the results page with your browser. The URL contains all of your filters, so every time to visit that URL, you'll get the pre-filtered, updated results.

If you use the same filters on different searches (e.g. always filter out Character Death in every fandom), then you can use a bookmarklet to run your filters for you. Instructions on how to set it up can be found here.

[bebx]

[heywriters]

How to survive the phase of shitty writting? I know i can't skip it in order to grow, but realistically, how to not give up? I already tried to quite completly, but i still feel that call,nbut when i try to write it feels so pointless. How to keep going knowing everything i create is worthless for now and i don't even feel i'll ever progress? I’m trying to come back after quite long time of not writing, i was writing for years before but never got any good, so obviosly i wont come back to write a masterpiece right away, i never aimed for a mastepiece in fact, i just want to make it any readable and i know i need to practice but i’m worried it can never get better.

I get asks like this every now and then, and they always contain the problem.

Your writing is not shitty. It is not worthless.

Bloggers using these terms to describe early writing are often being either glib or depressing. Ignore their advice if it is making you feel bad.

Do you write for pleasure or for praise/accomplishment? If the latter, then you are simply in the practice stage. Practice is inherently worthwhile and no effort in this regard is a waste.

If you write for pleasure, then everything you create fulfills its purpose by being entertaining to create. A small child does not drop the crayon when it realizes its drawing will never be in the MoMA, does it? No, they don't care they just like drawing stuff. Adopt that mindset. Just write to get words on the page and ideas developed because you want to.

My advice for the insecure writer:

Stop re-reading your own work; you're a very biased critic right now and that in itself is holding you back.

All improvements are for later drafts. Trust me, you'll have whole new ideas by draft three so put off the nitpicking and focus.

Avoid outside opinions, writing advice, and blogs like mine for a while; we tend to inadvertently make you feel like you've done everything wrong and need to start over.

Stop starting over. Stop deleting your early drafts. Save all of it (this was the best advice I ever received).

Read and watch books and movies for motivation, and to analyze their strengths and weaknesses.

Do. Not. Compare. Yourself. To Other. Writers—your art is about you and what concerns you, other creators have nothing to do with it.

Remind yourself dumber people are doing it wrong confidently. Copy their confidence.

When you feel self-doubt creeping in again, tell it to take a hike, you've got a story to write.

Whatever you write, no matter the quality, take pride in being a writer at all. Lazy suckers just use AI.

There's nothing wrong with making a mess. How are you supposed to learn from constant perfection? Scratch out dumb sentences, leave afterthoughts in the margins, and side tangents in brackets. If the writing isn't going well, write ROUGH DRAFT in big letters at the top to remind yourself it's just a sketch of what you had in mind, not the finished product.

"...i’m worried it can never get better" I have great news for you! This fear will only be realized if you quit. Since you feel the pull to write there's clearly no point in quitting, your brain already knows writing is the answer. Ideas don't like to wait, and life will keep trying to interrupt you with bigger things, so there's really no time like the present. Go write!

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[transisstor]

Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.

[lyonnerileyauthor]

shocking how much of writing is putting down a sentence and then thinking, "okay, but now a less shitty version of that"