Why Not? Fanfiction, Drabbles and Rambling

Age 30+ Random dust bunnies that my brain creates |18+ content

[chaosisbeauty23]

Just updated this to reflect my most current works on AO3

Multi-Chapter/ Long Fics

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees

4/16 Chapters - In Progress. Post-canon arranged/fake marriage AU. Slice of life slow burn. Rated E for later content.

Kinktober 2023

12 chapters— Complete. Collection of explicit one shots based on the prompts from this post.

Entropy

17 chapters— Complete. RivaMika fic set seven years post-canon. Deals with the impact of PTSD and lifelong trauma. Rated E, will contain heavier mental health themes than most of my work.

Rebuilding from the Wreckage

16 chapters— Complete. RivaMika set post-canon in Hizuru. Mostly canon-compliant and deals with the trauma and aftermath of the canon events.

Smutober/Kinktober Prompts 2022

16 One Shots — Complete. Series of 16 shamelessly smutty prompt fills with zero redeeming values.

Determination

Multi-chapter— Complete. Rivamika-centric canon rewrite following the progression their relationship from RTS onward. All chapters now posted.

One Shots/Shorter Works

Are You In?

2 chapters— Complete. RivaMika Spy AU created from a prompt.

Stamina

One shot — Complete. RivaMika unabashed smut based on this post about whether the Ackerman stamina extends to the bedroom.

The Surprise Guest

One shot — Complete. Mikasa has moved on with her life after the war, but a surprise guest arrives forcing her to confront her feelings.

When It’s All Over

One shot — Complete. The battle at Liberio has left Mikasa reeling and trying to cope with loss and betrayal. Forced to share a room, she finds a lifeline in an unexpected person.

Rivamika Month: Week 1 - Cinema

2 Chapters — Complete. Fluffy, post-canon two shot about Mikasa and Levi dancing around the feelings they have developed for the other.

Rivamika Month: Week 2 - Celebration

4 Chapters — Complete. A sequence of drabbles featuring different celebrations/seasons. Set over the span of several years.

Rivamika Month: Week 5 (free) - Clay

One Shot — Complete. Combination Mythology and Modern AU. Levi is an artist who can’t get a woman from his dreams out of his head. Loosely based off of the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea.

Words Unsaid

Two Shot — Complete. Written for Levi’s Birthday. One winter afternoon, Levi gets a knock on the door from a regular visitor who wants to drop in to celebrate a special occasion. The weather has other plans.

Keeping Warm

One Shot — Complete. On a trip back to the port from meetings, Levi and Mikasa get overtaken by the bad weather. Cold and miserable, they decide to wait it out in an old outpost together. Shamelessly trope-laden and smutty.

Explosive

3 Chapters — Complete. The rising tension between Levi and Mikasa reaches the point of no return and Levi finds himself helpless to resist.

Taunting

One Shot — Complete. Pure smut that focuses on the dynamics between Levi and Mikasa.

Nothing Changes

Two Shot — Complete. Angsty smut set in the timeframe just before RTS. The bonus chapter will post 7/5 and is an alternate version of the story.

Keeping Quiet

One Shot— Complete. Smutty one shot featuring the under the desk trope and some highly inconvenient timing.

Insubordination

One Shot— Complete. Mikasa aims to break Levi’s control in this smutty one shot, again featuring Levi’s poor desk.

A Losing Battle

One shot— Complete. A sweet and humorous AU where Kuchel is alive and meets Mikasa for the first time.

Wonder

One shot— Complete. A short, introspective fic written for a one-sentence challenge. Focuses on Levi’s thoughts after the birth of his daughter.

Nostalgia

One shot — Complete. Levi and Mikasa have developed a routine of trimming each other's hair. This time, it provokes a wave of nostalgia too strong for Levi to dismiss.

One Regret

One Shot — Complete. As Levi, sits injured in the aftermath of the final battle, he believes that he’ll die from his wounds. While thinking of what has come to pass, he reflects on the only regret he has.

That Dress

One Shot — Complete. Triple-drabble for Wanksgiving 2023 featuring, Levi, Mikasa, and a dress he finds irresistible.

Disproportionate

One Shot — Complete. Mikasa finds out that lifelike figurines have been created of all the Survey Corps members supposedly based on reality. But she’s certain that can’t be true after trying the change the outfit on Levi’s figure. She might just get the chance to see for herself. Mostly crack but steamy as hell.

To Hell with the Paperwork

One Shot — Complete. Successor to Keeping Quiet. It’s Mikasa’s turn to be buried in paperwork post-mission when Levi seeks her out for some alone time. As their tryst gets interrupted, Levi decides to get a little revenge before showing Mikasa just what the paperwork has her missing.

A Balm Against the Cold

One Shot — Complete. Sweet, fluffy one shot taking place toward the end of the timeskip. Mikasa is stuck on watch by the sea on a frigid night. An act of compassion from her cranky Captain opens her eyes to a different side of a man she thought she knew well.

Determination Tumblr Drafts

Available Drafts from the earliest pass at this fic.

Chapter 1 - Ties

Chapter 2 - Shiganshina

Chapter 3 - Lost

Chapter 4 - Before the Snows

Chapter 5 - Frost

Chapter 6 - Center

Chapter 7 - Sleet

Chapter 8 - Pride

[satorusmegu-moved]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Levi Ackerman/Mikasa Ackerman Characters: Mikasa Ackerman, Levi Ackerman Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Depression, Emotional Hurt/Comfort Summary:

Eren runs away leaving her behind, like he always does. Levi picks up the pieces.

[darkskywishes]

I really hate to ask this, but I’m in a desperate situation right now and need some help.

If my posts—whether on this blog or on my Attack on Titan side blog ( @scarletskiesinthepaths )—have ever meant something to you, and you’d like to support me, here’s my Ko-Fi:

Support ScarletSkyWishes

Support ScarletSkyWishes

Even a small donation helps more than I can say.

There is absolutely no pressure. I write my posts because I’m passionate about the subjects, not because I expect payment. But for those wondering why I’m fundraising:

I am poor and disabled. My current wheelchair (a TiLite Aero Z) was measured improperly and is actively harming me. I was born with two rare, genetic disabilities—classical-like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type 1 (which resulted in congenital hip dysplasia) and a progressive, childhood-onset generalized dystonia-plus syndrome that fewer than 50 people worldwide have been diagnosed with. Both conditions make walking extremely difficult, and I rely on my wheelchair daily.

Unfortunately, the way my current chair is set up causes my hips to dislocate and compresses nerves in my spine. Every time I use it, I end up in severe pain, and I’ve been told by my doctors I’m at real risk of developing cauda equina syndrome if I don’t get a properly fitted wheelchair soon.

While I do have health insurance, I’m responsible for a 30% coinsurance after meeting my deductible. I’ve already met the deductible, but my share for the wheelchair still comes to $2,500—an amount I simply cannot afford on my own, especially with how many other expenses I currently have.

If you’re able to donate, it would mean the world to me. If you can’t, reblogs are also deeply appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and thank you to anyone who can help, financially or otherwise.

Ko-Fi link:

Support ScarletSkyWishes

Support ScarletSkyWishes

Also, I know many on here are struggling financially themselves, so please don’t feel bad if you can’t donate. I’d rather people prioritize their own needs if they don’t have the means to support others. Normally, I wouldn’t ask for donations at all, but unfortunately, I can’t really function without a wheelchair.

[miss-rum-hee]

>Toronara (doujin store) halts sale of certain works because of credit card companies

>MangaZ shuts down because payment processors blocked it

>Melonbooks no longer accepts use of VISA & Mastercard on online stores (because of censorship)

>DLsite starts to block countries from viewing certain content, no longer accepts VISA & Mastercard

>Payment processors block team payments for creators of adult games on Steam

>Now Surugaya has removed their online listings for adult games & doujin because of payment processors

Fucking hate these cretins, I swear.

[mooncaps]

And before one of you says "it's just because of the really bad gooner shit" I'd like to impress upon you all: If you want your wholesome queer handholding stories, or stories about trans kids finding support and acceptance, you have to also defend the "really bad" gooner shit. The fash will see those things as equally abhorrent and use their pursuit of one to shut down the others as well. None of you is hurting anyone by enjoying unconventional art. (I'm sure you can find an example of a person who enjoyed unconventional art and also hurt someone, but the art didn't hurt anyone, the person did. You can like weird art without hurting people.) If you want your queer stories, your dark horror, your consensual bondage, your werewolf romances, or even the most vanilla, consent-focused depictions of tender heterosexual love-making, you have to stand against all censorship.

Also you're allowed to like the bad gooner shit if you want.

And even if you don't want any of that, it's especially important to stand against payment processors dictating what's allowable without ever putting a law on the books, completely bypassing the branches of government. A payment processor should simply process payments, not unilaterally decide if you're allowed to spend your money on things. If this type of thing is allowed to become normalized, it opens the door to more overreach, giving payment processors the power to evaluate and disallow even more of your purchases.

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu

Sign the Petition

Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play

[anxietyproblem]

[ekingston]

STEAL THIS POST.

don’t just reblog but REPOST, rephrase, do your own research and run with it however you want. DM me to email you the high resolution images if you need them. just help spread the word.

more info & links here.

[chaosisbeauty23]

Just wanted to point out that reporting to the App Store typically gets results. This worked quite well with Lore.fm and their other apps.

FYI, in case anyone is skeptical it’s the same company. I loaded a shitty WIP pdf up for shenanigans and look at the share link it creates.

[ekingston]

Hi; I don't know if you're still following the word-stream stuff, but the app is back online on the app store as "booktok - books and podcasts". The reviews marking it as having AI scraped data are still on the page itself, even though the name has changed, and duckduckgo still directs to their page if you look up "word-stream audiobooks"-- although if I don't know how long that will last. The website is seemingly gone, but the app still presumably has access to all the stolen works in the database.

Best regards, -someone else whose fics were stolen

yup

word-stream is back

it just calls itself—in an obvious attempt to profit from the TikTok upheaval—BookTok, now. and it’s not just the app, either: the whole website is back online, same as it was just before Cliff Weitzman took it down.

(in case you missed it, here are the original story & the update.)

fortunately (so far) the fanfiction category hasn't been re-added, but if you go to the store page for the app you can see that it’s still using 'fan-created universes' as advertising.

Weitzman didn't register the app under his own name this time, but through something called 'Oak Prime Inc'. hilariously, however, the email address listed in BookTok's privacy policy still refers to word-stream.com, so if Cliff was trying to scrub the connection between Speechify and his BookTok app, he didn't do a very thorough job.

here's the thing (and i'm about to put this up in a separate, more easily digestible post): if you take a look at the terms & conditions of Cliff's other platform, Speechify, it claims a truly comprehensive license to use the works uploaded to that platform in any way Cliff sees fit, including publishing and monetizing it elsewhere. and i keep seeing posts on Reddit and Bluesky from both readers and writers, happily using the Speechify app to read fanfic, advanced reader copies and their own yet-to-be-published work to them.

this is a BAD IDEA. Cliff has already proven that he will take work authored by others without their permission and redistribute it wholesale if he thinks it might make him money.

Cliff is the financial beneficiary of both Speechify and word-stream/booktokapp. it seems pretty obvious to me that he's trying to claim, via Speechify's terms & conditions, that every work uploaded to Speechify is his to do with whatever he pleases, which naturally includes moving them to this other platform so he can charge people for two subscriptions instead of just the one.

thank you so much for keeping an eye on this, anon, and for reaching out!! like i said, another post will go up today about the above, but i'm going to ask you all to help ensure that my posts & my name aren't the only ones giving voice to this message. when i tried to approach people about this issue on social media, often the—completely justified!—response was 'why should I take your word for it?' and Wikipedia only allowed the mention of Weitzman's copyright infringement to remain on his page when 'The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction' was listed as a source.

it can't just be me. DON’T take my word for it. do your own research (i would love to be proven wrong about this!), talk to your friends, engage with posts on social media similar to the ones i mentioned above (those are just some examples, don’t pile on to the OPs!) and make sure people know what they're jeopardizing. help me protect authors from money-grubbing shitheads like this one.

[amywritesthings]

with the banning of tiktok, i want to make this abundantly clear for those who may be coming over to the tumblr side of things:

this blog is anti-censorship

this blog is "dont like dont read" and "ship and let ship"

this blog is supportive of "problematic" and "dark" ships, tropes, dynamics, storylines, and art

this blog believes that what you consume or create in fiction does not define you as a person, your morals, or your ethics

bottom line: fiction is fiction

[olderthannetfic]

Kiefer the Forest Dragon pattern by Marie Overton

Kiefer is the project of projects. He began as a idea I had been thinking about for a while of a large detailed dragon made of yarn. He def

Guess I need to learn to crochet

[chaosisbeauty23]

You should! There are so many neat projects for crochet. Plus, you get to give some pretty awesome gifts that don’t take quite as much time to make as knit projects.

[olderthannetfic]

Heh. I've knit like one gift. My shit is for meeeee!

But yes, I have many things saved on ravelry for when I get around to learning crochet better.

[chaosisbeauty23]

We have a lot of kids in the extended family so crocheting made the holidays much easier.

That said, I tend to make a lot of blankets and wearables that I hoard for myself. 🤣

My current WIP is a shawl in a fingering weight alpaca/silk blend.

Pattern sources:

Cat - Freehanded by me

Panda Scarf

Octopus Squish

Zero Lovie

[olderthannetfic]

Kiefer the Forest Dragon pattern by Marie Overton

Kiefer is the project of projects. He began as a idea I had been thinking about for a while of a large detailed dragon made of yarn. He def

Guess I need to learn to crochet

[chaosisbeauty23]

You should! There are so many neat projects for crochet. Plus, you get to give some pretty awesome gifts that don’t take quite as much time to make as knit projects.

[chaosisbeauty23]

do you know any active discord that's either centered around aot or specifically rivamika fandom i can join ?

Hi Anon,

Feel free to DM @binibchielq or myself. One of us will get you a link to the Rivamika Discord.

[olderthannetfic]

OMG

[olderthannetfic]

Wow, tumblr, you sure are a website.

This was a link post, but I GUESS NOT ANYMORE

[olderthannetfic]

Let's see if tumblr can manage to post this link without being its usual self...

A Fine Sweater pattern by Yu Jie 玉杰

Published with permission from KC Green.

[olderthannetfic]

All the ‘normal’ anti ‘grooming/fetishization’ queers cozying up to socially conservative types bouta learn real quick that tokens were meant to be spent.

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[olderthannetfic]

Is this probably the newest deleted AO3 fanfiction fiasco?

https://www.tumblr.com/elveny/755624045301678080/search-for-deleted-fanfiction-memento-archive

This site has been online since 2021, but people found it until now.

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Oof.

I am all for saving deleted fic... for oneself.

You don't repost that shit openly. Honestly, people!

[kerkhofbloemen]

Why not? It's not like there's copyright. As soon as you post a fic online it ceases to be yours alone, as far as I can tell. You shared it voluntarily and openly after all. I can see the problem with plagiarism but not with credited reposting.

[chaosisbeauty23]

1) Copyright absolutely exists for fics. Copyright is passive, unlike trademarking, and includes the right to control distribution.

2) Me choosing to archive my work on AO3 does not mean I am giving you, a complete random stranger, the right to repost it anywhere you want without my permission. It means I am giving you the opportunity to read it on the site I chose to post it on and in the format I chose to use.

3) All of these discussions always ignore the very real and sometimes dangerous impact of doxxing, online bullying, or lack of irl physical safety when queer youth in conservative places get their profile discovered. Sometimes an author has a very fucking valid to delete and you continuing to spread it can put them at risk. In the case of memento archive, works that were changed to anonymous or orphaned were retained with the old usernames attached.

The author gave you a way to personally and privately archive via the download feature. Hell, DM a friend a copy. IDGAF as long as it’s not being reposted without consent. It’s your problem if you choose not to do that and feel sad later when they exercise their right to delete the work. Take some accountability instead of encouraging theft from the already uncompensated labor that goes into creating fanworks.

[johaerys-writes]

Finding out that ALL of my works, including those that are on-going and some that were deleted, have been uploaded to some random "Archive" without my information or consent is definitely not how I wanted my day to go

[elveny]

I’m boosting this.

Memento Archive, an archive for the recovery of deleted fanfiction.

Apparently they scrape (scraped?) AO3. Many of my fics are there and apart from Jo’s and mine, I’ve found those by @kunstpause @curiousthimble @pikapeppa @thebibliosphere and @captainderyn as well - others definitely also will be there.

This has been done without consent or notification.

I sent them a takedown demand, don’t know if they’ll honour it. But WTF. There’s a reason my fic is on AO3 and AO3 ONLY.

And the banger? “An archive for the recovery of deleted fics” - none of them are deleted. And if so? FOR A FUCKING REASON !

[chaosisbeauty23]

Fancy meeting y’all here after the thread. Signal boosting.

Yall, stop stealing author’s work. Full stop.

Things like this keep bringing me closer to disengaging with fandom full stop. I love my readers dearly, especially all you wonderful folks I interact with daily, but no one is owed my work or gets to decide it lives on another site “just in case”. That frankly feels like folks treating me as a vending machine for writing and that’s not okay.

[lucymeyer5]

My submission for Rivamika Month Day 1: Cottagecore | Flowers

[chaosisbeauty23]

This is so beautiful @lucymeyer5 😭😭😭😭

The emotions in their faces make me want to bawl and I love the lighting!

[chaosisbeauty23]

I wrote a one shot for RivaMika Month: Day 3 (Childhood) based on a prompt by @binibchielq!

It’s a short, slice-of-life fic about dropping their daughter off for the first day of daycare.

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