okay so I have struggled to write anything for a long while and I recently realized every single time I have ever finished writing prose (except one time but that was in the midst of 17 year old heartbreak insanity and it was very short) was because other people had a deadline for me. And so basically I have decided to auction off my WIPs/fic ideas (for free) to loving homes so I feel like I have to actually write. If anyone finds any of these ideas/ excerpts interesting please leave a comment saying which one and when you want it by and hopefully this magic trick/science experiment should work :)
dividing by fandoms:
Carry On:
Basilton Grimm-Pitch’s 10 Step Plan for Getting Over Simon Snow ^(letting himself be in love with) - This fic is set during, and in the summer leading up to, seventh year. Baz creates a new spell which is basically his personal aunt agony response to his despair over Simon, and follows him on a journey of self acceptance, righting his wrongs, and maybe even confessing his love?... also is basically my love letter to magazines <3 (first chapter written and list but otherwise horrendously underplotted)
You’ll Understand When You’re an Adult - In a world where every Watford student experiences a centuries old spell on their eighteenth birthday that reveals to them through some expression of “soulmate magic” some clarity on their romantic feelings. Baz is dreading the 24th of February. He knows that in the morning he will no longer be able to keep secret his giantly gay and forbidden love for Snow. He spends his birthday zooming around the country, meeting the parents and parental figures of his true love, but somehow manages to keep it secret from everyone but Ebb Petty. That summer, Simon finally learns his birthday when he wakes up and begins to be hounded by Baz’s family for some god-forsaken reason (it takes him longer to figure it out). Through this they both gain a better understanding of each other and then make out. yay! (shorter fic, probably 4 chapters?)
Fraternity House- Baz Pitch meets Samantha Snow, the chosen one, when they are cast together as roommates by the crucible. Forced to live in Fraternity house - the gender neutral dorms built after his mother’s death - and attend group meetings about transgender identity and gender diverse expression, Baz throws himself into studying the magic of the crucible, and makes sure to let Sam know that this is all because she is really a Normal and shouldn’t be allowed to attend. Under the pressure pot of everyone’s eyes, the Mage’s ire, and his family’s surety that Sam will be the queer deviant, Baz finds it hard to question and explore their gender. They watch in jealousy as Sam is able to explore being more feminine or masculine, while they have to play the perfect son. Eventually they are both nonbinary and makeout. Mwah! (first chapters written but def need a rewrite and again the horrors of plotting)
Stuck Up Private School Boys (Simon falls first)- One summer day in foster care Simon decides to take a stand against the caretaker’s homophobia and tell her he is gay. He is lying of course, he tells the closeted boy he ends up in an unlikely friendship with, but the more he explores Brighton with his friend, the more he starts to question everything. Eventually left with the horrifying realisation that he is in love with his enemy and roommate, Baz Pitch, he has no idea how to proceed. Back at Watford he attempts to become friends - or at least not actively hostile- with Baz, but he doesn’t make it easy. The stuck up boy is still determined to bring Simon down and the world of mages with it. (then they make out. Mwah. repressed Baz. Mwah!) (underplotted, first two chapters written)
Harry Potter:
The Long Summer - About a crackship making its impact in a serious way, Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy have an affair that is exposed at the beginning of the summer between Ron's 3rd and 4th year, this results in a sort of Nanny McPhee situation where Draco comes to stay with them at the Burrow, like the posh spoilt cousins in that movie and the kids all fight but eventually get along. The adults deal with angsty infidelity etc stuff, but that is mainly all written and I'm getting stuck on the kids having fun wish fulfillment kind of stuff. There's lots more going on, lots of povs and stuff with Harry and Hermione and Wolfstar and Andromeda too, but that's the basic synopsis. (This has been my baby for so long (5 years!) and its definitely my longest work, I currently have around 50k words written I think (not typed) and I'm only half way through...My plan has always been to get this finished and then post over a summer, about two chapters a week. So if you want it, it would be due 1st chapter by early June (any June, but hopefully this one) and last by that September.)
Cursed Understanding - a James/Lily/Snape fic set in their fifth year. When James and Snape get into (another) fight, Snape curses James with some experimental dark magic that accidentally causes James and Lily and Sev to swap bodies (alternatingly). Forced to work as a group together to try and undo the spell the three slowly grow closer and learn each others secrets and what it's like to walk miles in each others shoes and look out for each other. And fall in love... Also Snape is a stealth trans guy but I need to figure out how to write that without it being incredibly dysphoria inducing for me. (has a loose outline and first 3 chapters written)
Squib AU - AU where Harry and Ron are squibs and Hermione is a muggle, and they meet at Stonewall Secondary school as year 7s, Ron being sent to live with Mrs. Figg since in this fic squibs are usually sent away from their families to live in the muggle world (inspired a bit by some of the world building in one of my favourite fics ever: the brilliant difficulty series by basketofnovas), and Hermione living nearby. A lot of Ron knowing a lot more than everyone and being like... holy shit is that Harry Potter, and playing with the impacts this would make on the rest of the wizarding world and the plot of the books. Also incredibly queer, especially trans, because I'm incredibly T4T and it is painful for me to limit myself to one trans head-cannon lol, also irl I know way more trans people than are in this fic, so its true to life to be fair. I was rereading what I have so far recently and here's a bit that made me laugh:
Ron snapped out of his petrified state and ran. Perhaps one should help old ladies put out fires, but when one is rightfully accused as an arsonist, it may be better to stay out from underfoot.
(very underplotted overall but a few scattered chapters already written and I have some drawings too!)
4. I have two more trans marauders fics I've written a bit for but they both span all seven years + so they are a bit insane lol, so I won't list them it just felt wrong not to acknowledge for myself at least.
um I am super embarrassed to post this but I'm trying to remind myself that nothing exciting happens if I don't take any action. Either way I want to post for the next few six sentence sundays because by some divine miracle I have the next three weekends off (I work food service so that is a rarity!), so hopefully that will give me a little deadline and feeling of duty. And in the process of writing this post (it has been growing in my drafts for a few weeks) I have realized how close You'll Understand When You're And Adult is to being finished so I think I will try to push through and finish that first...
If anyone has read this far thank you!!
And good luck everyone for all your creative endeavors too <3
