Summary: Dottore caught himself a pretty bird. To Pantalone's delight, it mistakes him for its master. They have fun with that.
"I heard you returned from Liyue with something curious," Pantalone says as he enters Dottore's lab. His steps ring hollow in the vast space. "It must be curious indeed if it bears mentioning at all, seeing as Lohefalter brought back the Geo Archon's gnosis. What could be more interesting than that?"
(Read more on AO3.)
This idea somehow erupted from my brain when I was considering @yelpfic’s Dottore prompt. I told taeru about it and was immediately enabled to write it lol
The feeling of utter relief when you finally manage to write something again after almost half a year *hysteric laughter*
le désir prend place dans ce qui adviendra (FF7: RenoTseng, 1.1k, M)
Tags: Established relationship, inappropriate texts during work hours, how tag
Summary: Tseng receives a text from Reno. With an image attached, the like of which he has not even dared to let himself dream about.
In the middle of the meeting with the new rookies, Reno slams his hands down onto the table. The rookies gawk at him, startled out of their discussions, some seeming to shrink into themselves, no doubt expecting a tirade from the vice-director of the Turks. Tseng makes a note of their names to review their files. Maybe desk jobs might suit them better than field assignments if they're this easily cowed by someone as unthreatening as Reno.
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Written for @neurotoxia because I’ve been meanly neglecting her and writing stuff for other people for way too long, lol.
I miss being able to write and harbour the small hope that shameless porn will kick my writing anxiety to the curb. And this is where YOU come in, dear reader. I’d love to invite you to ✨ send me a porny prompt for either Genshin or FF7! ✨
The idea is to write something short and to the point so that I don’t end up getting caught up in wanting to develop plot lol
Pairings:
Zhongli/Xiao
Xiao’s former mistress/Xiao, mob/Xiao
Diluc/Eula
Diluc/Kaeya
Dottore
Rufus/Sephiroth
Reno/Tseng
Cloud
For prompt ideas, you can have a look at @kinktober2022 and pick something at random. Mix and match. Ignore the days, for I will too xD Though you don’t have to use those prompts as guide. As long as you give me something horny to work with, we’re good!
What I’m willing to do depends on the pairing/fandom/whether it’s an AU or not. I’m pretty open about playing with new kinks ranging from enthusiastic consent to noncon, but I won’t do a/b/o, foot jobs, pregnancy, or scat. 😄
So, I couldn’t find one of these that suited my tastes, so I made my own. Designed for fic, certainly good for RPing as well, maybe you could re-use it for art but idk, some of these would make very weird art prompts. Drop a pairing and a number in my ask, you know the drill!
1. First kiss
2. Last kiss
3. A goodbye kiss
4. A kiss given to the wrong person
5. A kiss that was never given - Breaking with love and pain (YJ: JayDick, 500w, T)
6. A kiss that was regretted
7. An underwater kiss
8. A “Spin the bottle” kiss
9. A steamy kiss
10. A shy kiss
11. A violent kiss
12. A playful kiss
13. A platonic kiss
14. A kiss to make up
15. A supernatural kiss
16. A kiss on the hands
17. A kiss on the cheek
18. A kiss on the forehead
19. A kiss on the nose
20. A kiss on the neck
21. A kiss on the back
22. More than one kiss
Current pairing options are: ZhongXiao, DiluKae, or RufuSeph.
May be combined with any other prompt meme you find on my tumblr!
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
7: Where did the title come from?
8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?
11: What do you like best about this fic?
12: What do you like least about this fic?
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
It’s been a while since I did one of these. I flaked on the 2020 one because idk, depression and burnout I guess? 🤪 I’m starting this year on a higher note, so let’s see what that means for me in writing terms.
AO3 name: crookedspoon
Fandom(s): Batman/DCU, Before Crisis/Final Fantasy VII, Genshin Impact, Hades, Locked Tomb
Number of fics: 33
1. Fic you spent the most time on: my body is a ravaged temple (Genshin: Zhongli/Xiao, 7 weeks-ish? Plus more time spent mentally preparing to actually write it)
2. Fic you spent the least time on: idk, My days are numbered, maybe? (TLT, 553 words)
3. Longest fic: my body is a ravaged temple (21k)
4. Shortest fic: in our bodies a rooted history (182 words, Genshin: Diluc/Kaeya minific prompt fill)
5-9. Most hits / Most kudos / Most comment threads / Fav fic you wrote / Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: my body is a ravaged temple
10. Share a bit of your WIP or share a story idea that you’re planning: Sharing ideas publicly is a dangerous endeavour, because it means I won’t be able to use them as gift fics anymore.
Best title: the knife in my back, it reminds me of you
Worst title: less the monsters, than how we lived beside them
Longest title: less the monsters, than how we lived beside them (49 characters)
Shortest title: Gut Feeling (11 characters), which incidentally, is also the funniest, because it’s actually about organ fondling.
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
More, actually. I wanted to take a break from writing to refill my batteries but then I let myself be roped back into exchange fandom again. Maybe this year I can manage to stay away, at least until I have more confidence in my writing again.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
Pairing: Red XIII/Aerith, probably.
Genre: High School AU, if it counts as a genre.
Fandom: Genshin Impact.
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
My most popular is actually the one that makes me happiest, but at the same time, I can’t take all the credit for it since it’s a fic based on another fic. So I’ll go with:
so essential you feel to me now (FFVII), a RufuSeph fics I wrote for bulletproof that made me stupidly happy.
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
my body is a ravaged temple (Genshin: ZhongXiao).
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
All of my RufuSeph fics? It’s such an underappreciated ship xD Specifically:
a kiss I can't resist - the one that kicked off the high school AU nonsense. Can’t remember if it’s any good beyond the halfway point, but it’s one of my least kudos-ed fics.
Story that could have been better?
Most of them? I have a terrible habit of writing too close to a deadline and then having to rush the ending.
Saddest story?
this offering of a scarlet wound (Genshin: ZhongXiao, 740w). Character death. Though I’m guessing life is a conditional clause (FFVII: one-sided Zakkura) might be a close second because it’s hanahaki.
Most fun?
I got to confess, my hair is a mess (FFVII: Zakkura). Just Zack messing around with hair products and Cloud being charmed.
Most fucked-up story?
Depends on your definition of fucked-up? I wrote Red XIII/Aerith forced bestiality and RufuSeph consensual guro - both are fucked-up in different ways, although they don’t make my fucked-up meter ding as they’re pretty straightforward lol
Oh, I know: these contradictions in kinship (DCU)! Damian basically rapes Dick while he’s asleep but when Dick wakes, he’s totally into it. So much implied grooming and fucked-up “family” dynamics going on in the background.
Hardest story to write?
Chocobo Chocolates (FFVII: RufuSeph, 5.5k). It was written for worldbuilding ex and that’s what made it so hard: having to add worldbuilding. I mean, a lot of the worldbuilding details were provided by my recip / beta @neurotoxia and still it was like scraping myself raw from the inside. I love the fic and am proud of it, but man, did it fight me.
Easiest/most fun story to write?
My days are numbered (Locked Tomb: Griddlehark, 553w). Just a silly birthday bash crack treat.
Top five scenes you would like to see illustrated:
Can I cheat and say anything? Any of my faves kissing? I don’t really think in “scenes” so i can’t remember if I wrote any. It’s just vibes and ruminating.
Let me see if I can get five together:
Xiao in awe of Zhongli’s dragon horns
the resting Xiao I describe in like a spring dream – for a while
Nope, that’s all I got.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Hm, I felt like I was playing it fairly safe most of the time. Until ravaged came along. I really pushed my limits with that one, in terms of style, content and length. Many of the scenes that are in there I did not think I could actually write until I was writing them haha.
Even writing a thing based on someone’s else’s killer fic was a huge risk for me because I’m an anxious mess who thinks everyone hates what I do. But my recip was the absolute best about it, so the experience was rewarding in so many ways.
What are your fic writing goals for next year?
I don’t rightly know. This is perhaps not a goal, but more of a wish, but I’d love to have fics drafted, edited, and polished before they’re due.
For the e.e. cummings sentence starters meme, zhongxiao + "your slightest look will easily unclose me."? (So many of these are so good, it was hard to choose!)
Sorry for the wait! This was surprisingly difficult to find any words for because it already encapsulates everything?? What more could I possibly say without repeating myself less eloquently?
Still, I tried. (ZX, T; 404 words, 2nd person POV)
I am not off to a good start this year, but I can’t seem to quit either.
623. how empty an absence is (DCU: JayDick, 1.1k, T)
Tags: Past character death, mortality, introspection, a study in pretentiousness
Summary: Thanatopsis. That’s it, that’s the fic.
It’s crisp nights in April that find Jason scuffing his boots over the damp grass at Gotham Cemetery, the memory of an Ethiopian sun like cling film on his skin, head and heart swirling with thoughts of love and death and family, of chasing attachments that never were.
