don't play hard to get, be hard to forget

ao3 is bartemuscouch. writing blog for loveution.

[bruised-muses]

writing masterlist

FANFICTION:

oneshots :

SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL:

is this the end? (platonic agaphie, set after book 1.)

KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES:

like you were my closest friend (keefitz, ship study)

we work so well (and we don't even know why) (fedex/detz, modern au)

all i did just to make you happy (still you don't even fucking love me) (keefe-centric, canon compliant)

within the spirit of the same womb (i forsake you) (fitz & alvar centric, canon compliant)

aro sophie au (wip, on hold)

sophiana winnowing gala fic

keefitz skinny dipping 5+1 fic (wip on hold)

HARRY POTTER (MARAUDERS ERA):

this moment is the gift i wanted (just stay with me) (wolfstar, fluff)*

gold cage (hostage to my feelings) (jegulus, bridgerton au)

speak now rosekiller au (wip, on hold)

MIRACULOUS LADYBUG:

i pictured you with other girls, in love (and changed my identity) (loveynoir, loveybug au)

THE HUNGER GAMES UNIVERSE:

you learn to know when it's time to go (like a sick joke) (snowjanus, canon compliant)

multichapter :

KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES

so inviting (i almost jump in) (fedex little mermaid au) (wip)

ORIGINAL WRITING:

poems :

summer love (originally posted on my main blog)

others :

nothing yet

THINGS TO NOTE:

i am a minor.

my fandoms are (in order of activity)

kotlc

miraculous ladybug

harry potter (marauders era)

school for good and evil

the hunger games

percy jackson

the heroes of olympus

harry potter (golden era)

land of stories

disney

descendants / isle of the lost

yea I'll add more as I read on but this is it so far !! hope you enjoy my blog

currently, i'm only writing for kotlc, sge & marauders, but i willing to open up more fandoms in the future.

* is for fics that i wrote for asks.

[bruised-muses]

something different blooming

0.5k ficlet - fluff - written for keefitz weekend 2025 - au sunday

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You would think that after years being in love with his best friend, Keefe would get used to the jolt in his stomach when he meets Fitz at the start of the summer and he looks nothing like he did at the end of summer last year. You would be wrong. No matter how much change Keefe braces for, no matter how much he looks at pictures of him on Biana’s Instagram, no matter how much he, himself has changed, his heart still leaps when he catches sight of Fitz for the first time, usually bathed in the evening sun. His breath always catches like it did the first time, three years ago, and he always has to take a few moments to just gaze before he calls out a greeting. 

Except this time, Fitz doesn’t give him a chance to look for more than a second before he’s looking up, bright blue eyes meeting Keefe’s before his face breaks out in a grin. Keefe reacts just a little late, taken aback, because it’s always him who has to get Fitz’s attention, and he’s not used to this role reversal. Before they can move towards each other though, the front door opens with a bang and Biana is leaping out to tackle him. Keefe barely has the forethought to drop his luggage to the sound when she reaches him and the two of them go down in a mess of limbs. 

“Nice to meet you, too, Bee,” Keefe chokes out, lungs working at double spee to recover from the attack. 

“Welcome back!” Biana yells unnecessarily, still on top of him. The pressure on Keefe’s middle lessens after a few seconds, and he looks up gratefully to see Fitz’s hand held out. Biana, held back by his arm, looks disgruntled, but Keefe knows she’s in a good mood simply because she’s letting herself be restrained. Any other time she would’ve elbowed her way out of his grip by now. 

Once he’s been hauled up and suitably fussed over, Biana calls the taxi driver to help him unload the rest of his luggage into the house. Since she leaves to direct him, Fitz and Keefe are left alone, and Keefe, who had all but blocked out the memories of the last time they’d been together, alone, is paying the price of pushing the memories down the deep abyss of his mind. Because all of a sudden, he cannot repress it anymore. It’s like the pressure of the force of his denial for it caused an action-reaction force like in Newton’s second law, or whatever his physics teacher was trying to teach him. 

Whatever the reason, now that he’s back at Everglen, he can’t help but get deja vu. Fitz is staring at him the same way he did at the end of summer last year and Keefe’s still feeling like he can’t breathe under the weight of his scrutiny and Keefe still wants to step closer and fill in the gap and Fitz still looks like he’s waiting for Keefe to come closer. There is a moment where Keefe almost lets his body make the decision for him and move, but the moment passes and Fitz grins his crooked little grin at him. 

“Welcome back,” he says, and then he doesn’t say a thing. Keefe, breathless and perhaps a bit smitten, smiles and he just knows. This is going to be the best summer ever.

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keefitz tsitp au like i promised. it's not likely to be a full fic but more like snippets whenever i think of it. also theres not much tsitp about it yet tbh but whateve i wanted to do smth for au sunday. yes i got too indecisive at the end so i just stopped there.

[bruised-muses]

"i want it to be you" he says and he means 'we'll be able to be happy together'. "i want it to be you" he says and he means 'i want you in my future'. "i want it to be you" he says and he means 'you want me too, right?' and 'i wanted fate to tell me it was you' and 'it was your name i was searching for' and 'in this world, through this robotic, impartial process, i still tried to find you' and 'the world will let us be. i want you.'

[hostilecandle]

If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.

If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform

None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.

THIS GOES DOUBLY FOR ARTISTS.

[hodari-pavels-good-boy]

Posting this here from my main too bc I feel that strongly about it

You dont get to witch hunt and scour peoples work just frothing at the mouth hoping someone messes up so you can publicly humiliate and gang up on them. Fuck genai and every single poser and lover that uses it but if you are not 1000000000% certain that something is made with it you shut. the. fuck. up.

Pathetic loser behavior on display here

[mintedwitcher]

I'm about to get mean because this shit? this pisses me all the way off.

"hurr durr these very common writing practices are SUPER OBVIOUS AI TELLS!!!!!!!!!! obviously this is an AI invention and not the result of AI being trained on THOUSANDS OF REAL FUCKING STORIES!!!!!!! we're all very intelligent!!!!!!!"

I hate yall. I hate yall for fucking ruining fanfic with your goddamn motherfucking AI obsession. "ooh there's em dashes!" YEAH REAL WRITERS USE THOSE. "there's long paragraphs!" YEAH BECAUSE THATS HOW PEOPLE WRITE STORIES.

we're not "writing like AI" - AI is writing like us, because it fucking stole from us in the first fucking place.

I've never used AI in my work, not ever, but guess what, my fics are ALL written like that. long paragraphs, long sentences, em dashes and hyphens and other grammatical tools, because I fucking know HOW TO WRITE.

quite frankly, if you think these things are "genAI inventions" you're just telling the world that YOU DON'T READ ENOUGH.

[mama-qwerty]

quite frankly, if you think these things are "genAI inventions" you're just telling the world that YOU DON'T READ ENOUGH.

This. This right here is the fundamental problem of the genAI witch hunts.

AI didn't pop out of the ether, ready to churn out eerily human-esque quality writing from the get go. It was trained using writing already available online. And a lot of that writing, was from fanfiction. And we fanfic writers use em dashes and long sentences and long paragraphs, because yeah, that's how the narrative pans out sometimes.

And that's how real writers write. It's not always perfectly grammatical, or perfectly formatted or phrased. Good writing grabs you by the ears and drags you along, and that doesn't happen if you're worried about making sure each and every one of your sentences is diagrammable.

Don't do this. Don't accuse a writer of using AI as some kind of 'gotcha' moment, in which you can puff out your chest and pat yourself on the back for being soooo clever. You're not. Ask if you must, and either accept the answer or don't. But don't attack a writer because you think you have the best AI detector because of a few superficial things that REAL WRITERS DID FIRST.

[isabellebissonrouthier]

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

[bruised-muses]

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

There were no memories to reconcile them together, because this was where Alvar, his brother and Alvar, Neverseen member, separated. Somehow, it helped him process the turn of events just slightly better.

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A collection of memories Fitz has of Alvar over the years.

for roisins reading rumblr 2025 fitz day IM SORRY ITS LATE I SWEAR AO3 WAS ACTING UP BAD. uh hope u enjoy

[bruised-muses]

thinking abt amy and sophie all the time

[bruised-muses]

give me more keefitz? please? 🥺👉👈

whaaaaaaat... me late? no, neverrrrr.

[bruised-muses]

stop. listen to me. winnowing gala snippets in your area soon, okay?

[dalniente]

it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

[bruised-muses]

is it so bad that i want to see sophitz thrive again. not even in a shippy way i just need them to BE!!!! now that the cognate inquisition has been done, and all the secrets between them are spilt, show me them repairing the fractures!!!! i want to see sophie telling fitz things again. fitz talking to sophie about his hurt and them getting it out of the way. sure we might not have romantic sophitz anymore but i want bestie sophitz!!!! i want to see them having telepathic conversations in any room NOT to hide things, just for the hell of it!!! i want to see them help each other with homework. i want to see them absolutely demolish any opposing team in base quest. i want my sophitz back :(

[bruised-muses]

likely thing for you to say /silly

[wow-youre-so-pretty]

No one can ever make me hate Keefe because honestly if I had to physically feel everyday how much my parents didn't love me I think I would run away multiple times too

[bruised-muses]

i love rereading my writing because WHAT is going on.

[bruised-muses]

is it so bad that i want to see sophitz thrive again. not even in a shippy way i just need them to BE!!!! now that the cognate inquisition has been done, and all the secrets between them are spilt, show me them repairing the fractures!!!! i want to see sophie telling fitz things again. fitz talking to sophie about his hurt and them getting it out of the way. sure we might not have romantic sophitz anymore but i want bestie sophitz!!!! i want to see them having telepathic conversations in any room NOT to hide things, just for the hell of it!!! i want to see them help each other with homework. i want to see them absolutely demolish any opposing team in base quest. i want my sophitz back :(

[bruised-muses]

sokeefe but something's not quite right. sokeefe except the weight of secrets is growing more every time sophie asks a question keefe cannot answer, every time keefe brushes off her worries. sokeefe but sophie is too busy, too exhausted, pulled too tight to be able to give keefe enough time. sokeefe but keefe is too busy trying to make sure hes not making everything worse he accidentally fucks it up. sokeefe and theyre trying so hard but theres too much going on and 'we cant do this now' and 'when can we?'. sokeefe but sophie finally addresses the weight of keefe running away. sokeefe except they finally talk about the pedestal that keefe puts sophie on. sokeefe and they talk about how its fine for keefe to have secrets but cant sophie keep hers once in a while? sokeefe and they want to do this and 'i do love you' but 'why is this so hard?' and 'i dont want to break your heart' but 'im so sorry'

[ssseashell]

the constant struggle of mlm and wlw ff writers to find other synonyms for characters other than their names, "he" and “she” or the color of their hair..

[propussyslayer]