[cheesybadgers]

Narcos Fic: Old Habits Die Hard Masterlist

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Chapter 1: Confessions In The Dark

Chapter 2: Point Of No Return 🔥

Chapter 3: Convergence 🔥

Chapter 4: Consequences

Chapter 5: Time, Truth, Hearts 🔥

Chapter 6: Across The Miles

Chapter 7: Home 🔥

Chapter 8: On The Floor

Chapter 9: Until Death Do Us Part

Chapter 10: A Leap Of Faith

Chapter 11: Second Chances

Chapter 12: Breathing Space

Chapter 13: Revelations 🔥

Chapter 14: A Deal With The Devil

Chapter 15: Sacrifice

Chapter 16: Like A Prayer 🔥

Chapter 17: Siempre Tuyo 🔥

Chapter 18: One Day At A Time 🔥

Chapter 19: In The Same Boat 🔥

Chapter 20: Something Old, Something New 🔥

Chapter 21: For Old Times' Sake

Chapter 22: Past, Present, Future

Chapter 23: Desde La Frontera 🔥

Chapter 24: Suerte (Epilogue)

Miscellaneous Masterlist

[ithappensoffstage]

and if I'm crying, it's because I'm in love.

[cosimads]

JAMIE BELL as Niall Kennedy Half Man — Episode 6

[buddienetwork]

You remember the beagle. 9-1-1, S09E17

[ao3commentoftheday]

hey, blog! 🌸 anon here. I think there are probably other posts about long fic, but I was wondering if you or others have any advice on sticking to a single long story instead of jumping to another? I'm mostly of a short fic writer myself, and I'm so interested in the secrets long fic writers possess. Anyway, thank you for running this blog! An awesome project :)

I'll give you my secrets as a fellow short fic writer who sometimes dips into medium-fic and the occasional long fic.

Be obsessed with your story. This can go a LONG way to helping you maintain your motivation. Daydream about it. Make playlists about it. Talk to friends about it.

Try to make each chapter feel like a oneshot. Give it an opening, a middle, and a closing. Have some character development or achieve a plot point or drop a clue that will be used later in the story. The more you can give yourself the satisfaction you get from a oneshot, the better.

Do jump to oneshots on the side to keep you going through the long fic. Sometimes you really do need to get the feeling of "done" to be able to continue something that's still in progress. Don't deny yourself that feeling just because you think you should. Life needs dessert and short fic writers need completed works.

Embrace a B plot (and a C plot and a D plot). These side plots can last for a single chapter or can be threaded through the whole story or they can bridge from chapter 12 to chapter 18. Whatever their final form, these smaller stories-within-the-story also help to satisfy the need for a short, punchy hit of dopamine when the story is starting to feel huge.

I'll leave it there for now and open it up. How do the rest of you go about writing longer stories? Especially if you typically prefer to write shorter.

[tetrimidion]

Longfic writer enjoyer here. I'm going to agree with all this, but #2 I do a bit differently.

I treat each chapter like an "episode" of a TV series that has a reputation to get people to binge watch. So I studied what it was about a few of them that makes people want more in my genre I write in (examples are Squid Game, Hannibal, Dexter, You, Based on a True Story, etc.)

The build up and endings in each episode. They all had a cliffhanger in common.

So I don't really give my chapters a "satisfying end", and I make sure the last paragraph and story note ends on a high stake.

This does two things that is ultimately the same thing:

(1) Keeps me excited to start the next chapter.

(2) Keeps other people's interest to read the next chapter.

If you leave the ending of the chapter on a cliffhanger that is intense, it also has more of a chance for it to generate conversation about the fic/chapter due to positive-frustration of the reader wanting to know what will happen next.

This then creates engagement that helps keep you personally motivated too! A few people created a tumblr accounts just so they could DM me to chat personally about a chapter/cliffhanger with me before even.

Good luck, anon! I'm rooting for you.

[cheesybadgers]

Jannik Sinner is so delightfully awkward in interviews lol. Also, I know everyone likes to think of him as Novak 2.0 but his habit of missing multiple match points feels very reminiscent of Roger 😂

[cheesybadgers]

Losing after being 5-1 up in a set (although I absolutely appreciate there were reasons today)? The French Open being the one elusive grand slam (for a while re: Roger anyway/so far re: Jannik)? I’m sorry, he’s not beating the Roger comparison allegations 😭

Tbh watching Rome the other week (especially the match against Medvedev), I had an awful feeling something like this would happen at RG after the last few months. Admittedly, I thought it would happen later in the tournament than this and I didn’t think it would happen when he was literally serving for the match, but I can’t say I’m completely surprised.

Genuinely scared of who might win now though as there are two truly terrible options 😬

[cheesybadgers]

AHHHH YESSSS MATTEO!!! Oh how I’ve missed watching him play this well ❤️

[cheesybadgers]

If you’d told me a week or two ago that Matteo would end up in the RG quarter finals, I’d have said you’re tripping. He could barely win a first round challenger match for so long and I feared he might end up retiring if things didn’t improve soon after so many injury setbacks, but now look at him 😭😭❤️❤️

[cheesybadgers]

I knew I became invested in half the Italian Davis Cup team for a reason a few years ago, but little did I know it was going to pay off at RG this year 😂 Nor did I know that it wouldn’t involve Sinner…

Whichever Italian ends up in the final now, they have one job to beat Zverev if he ends up there as well. ONE JOB, GUYS. Obviously I want Matteo B to go all the way, but whoever it is, you have to win.

[cheesybadgers]

Oh Matteo ☹️☹️☹️ He looked so conflicted even when he knew he had to stop and his team was telling him to retire. I just hope he hasn’t done any serious damage.

Still, he has had such an amazing run this tournament, more than I ever could have expected given where he was at just a few weeks ago. I hope he takes some positives away from it regardless of what’s next and remembers he belongs on a tennis court for as long as he wants to be on one ❤️

[cheesybadgers]

This tournament is cursed, I swear 😂 Tbh I was rooting for Cobolli over Arnaldi anyway as I think the former has a better chance against Zverev in the final so at least this means more rest for Cobolli, but given how the semis went down with Matteo’s retirement and to think now of all the ‘What ifs’ if his body had held out for a couple more rounds….aaarrgh I need the clay season GONE already.

[harrykim]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 03.12 Helpless

[dailybtvs]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.07 — "Lie to Me"

[buffysummers]

Buffy quotes that live rent-free in my head 3/?

[harrykim]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 06.07 Once More, With Feeling

[nvexe]

my pronouns are she/her bc I'll never be him (anthony head playing on his pink ds in full costume on the set of merlin)

[dragongirlteeth]

It's such a disappointment that tearing someone's throat out with your teeth kills them. Sex would be so much more fun if we could maul each other and come back from it.

[dragongirlteeth]

I think if you get killed in a sexual context the universe should just give you that one for free and let you go again.

[inadvertently-biblical]

I'll remember to mention that.

Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 3x17 "Enemies"

[inadvertently-biblical]

RUPERT GILES & BUFFY SUMMERS

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 5x05

[maryoliveoil]

No. Fuck. No.

Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.

[jareckiworld]

Francine Van Hove (1942-2025) — The Sphinxes and the Dictionary [oil on canvas, 1985]

[systmiki]

This embroidery isn't very technical, but I've really enjoyed playing with yarn in my art.