Act II of Who Remembers a God is currently sitting at about 80,100 words. I expect it will probably get around 15-30k more in order to fully wrap it up and be ready for posting, and The Editor (my cowriter of the Sechs Empire AU) has reviewed 19 out of 34 chapters so far.
I posted a short fic about Gideon and Oswald, "The Dark Dragon's Keeper." It can be read on its own, but it also serves as another mini prequel since it takes place right after Oswald was defeated at Kelve Lava Ruins by Ari and Scarlett and taken into custody by Gideon.
Editor and I are trying out a new beta reader/editor for our Sechs Empire Hetalia AU, so hopefully this will be the kick we need to finish this behemoth and get to revising/posting it.
My kink AU for GoA is making good progress and has a new beta reader. Once I knock out maybe 2-3 more chapters, I think I can start posting it.
Life updates
Still unemployed... but I joined an RF art server and made a bunch of new friends, so that's been fun!
Starting to get back into D&D again. My husband is running a game for me and some old friends, and I'm running a one-shot for some of my new friends
Hello and welcome to my goofy little nest here on the internet! Help yourself to a cuppa tea and get cozy. Here are some links to my current projects. Have fun exploring☆
Sweet hero Puffbun
Rf5 Updated Fancomic on A03
The Flower Boys
Link Click Alt timeline Bridon Arc fancomic
Link Click x IDV fancomic
The Clever Crow Burglar (Complete)
Didi and the Buns
Digimon Cybersleuth Fancomic
For projects where I don't have the link listed above, feel free to search up the title, I think I've got everything tagged more or less correctly. And if you find any snacks in the fridge, help yourself to whatever you like 👍
Since you asked for requests, I’m gonna be indulgent and ask for Lucas (RF5) writing to an ungendered reader about a little adventure he’s off on, perhaps in Azuma, and he misses you. And perhaps he uses his teleportation skills to surprise the reader at the end 😉. The relationship can be platonic or romantic, your pick!
Thanks for opening requests! I hope you get lots of fun ideas coming your way 💜
OH DEAR GOD I STARTED THIS THEN FORGOT I’M SO SORRY
thank you for your request and the well wishes! I’m delighted, though sadly I don’t know much abt Azuma yet since I still haven’t managed to get my hands on the game 😔 but I think I can still do something fun with this prompt!
Treasure Mine,
As much as it pains me to be apart from you, the marvels of this world of ours truly know no bounds. The village I find myself in of late is known as Trampoli, and it has the most fascinating landmark: a floating island high above the village, taking the shape of a whale! I am told that one of the earthmates in residence had a very similar beginning to your own, I wonder if there is some correlation?
Would that I could steal you away with me to lands unknown as easily as I can wander off myself. Do you realize, my heart, that this deems you more indispensable to the people of our beloved home than a god? Perhaps that sounds arrogant of me, but I will not risk understating your significance by understating my own. You are a marvel, far beyond any wonders of floating islands or cities ruled by dragons.
In the late-night quiet of this village’s charming little inn, when even the rowdiest of revelers below has surrendered to weariness, I imagine you doing the same. Tucking into bed dressed down for the night, cheeks flushed and hair not yet dry from the nightly visit to the baths, what an inviting sight you must make.
In fact…
• - • - •
The ink from his last pen stroke had not yet dried when the letter fluttered to fall on a very different table. His imaginings proved quite accurate, as his gaze fell upon a familiar hand reaching toward the lamp. Cozy under the covers, face still flushed, and painfully inviting. Their eyes met, and all he could do was smile as he indicated the letter.
“I was intending to write to you, but perhaps this message is better delivered in person.” Lucas smiled, eyes painfully soft, and crossed to the bedside to accept an offered embrace. “Hello, my darling. I’ve missed you terribly.”
to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube
they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!
i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies
Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.
just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.
i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape
I'm getting so tired of the way the discourse around "trans representation" throws transmascs who like vaginal penetration—and even more so trans men who want to get pregnant—under the bus.
"You're just giving that character a vagina for porn reasons!" Yeah, you know what? Sometimes I am. There's a character I love whom I see as cis, and so the only time I'd write him as trans is if I have a "reason" to do so. And for me, that reason is usually my massive pregnancy kink. Does that mean that when I write him as trans, it automatically doesn't "count" as trans representation because I'm doing it for gross fetish reasons?
And actually, I see this character so strongly as cis that, sometimes, instead of making him trans, I'll make the setting omegaverse and make him an omega. (I write my omega men as bigenital with vaginas and penises.) And I agree that this isn't "trans representation" per se. He isn't trans in these stories. But it is still a trans wish-fulfillment fantasy in the form of, "Wouldn't it be interesting if it were universally societally accepted that some men have vaginas and can get pregnant?" And it does still touch on issues that actual trans men face, like being seen as less of a man due to his genital configuration. But I'm ultimately doing it because I want to see him pregnant, so I guess none of that allegory "counts".
Meanwhile, there's a different character that I do see as trans. I will always write him as a trans man no matter what. Even in omegaverse settings I make him a trans male alpha rather than an omega. Is that "better" trans representation than when I make the other guy trans, because I'm not doing it "just" for porn reasons? Or is it still no good because I write him as a vers-leaning-bottom and get him knocked up all the time?
It's just frustrating because I am a trans man who loves having a vagina and who has seriously considered getting pregnant. So I like any stories where it's treated as normal for men to have vaginas and be pregnant. To me, that's important representation. And I'm so tired of my personal wish-fulfillment stories being seen as illegitimate because obviously no real trans man could want what I want.
And, like, I get it. Believe it or not, I used to be extremely dysphoric about PiV sex and pregnancy too. I understand that this can be a trigger for some people. But I wish people would stop making their own dysphoria everyone else's problem. Or even worse, people who aren't even transmasc taking those trans men's dysphoria and using it to attack other trans men who aren't dysphoric in that way. I wish people would understand that no two trans people have the exact same experience, and that just because someone's fantasies involve something that some trans men don't like, that doesn't mean they're an evil fetishizing fujo victimizing the real trans men.
And frankly? I'm cool with the fetishizing fujos too, as long as they're respectful to actual real-life trans people. Let's hold hands and write FTMpreg together.
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Honestly, a lot of people could stand to learn to identify when they're having a mental health crisis instead of assuming it's a typical and proportionate reaction to some random AO3 fic.
I don’t think healthy people every really get chronic illness.
I have a friend I know from when we were both 6. She is the only person living nearby and so she saw me go from walking through limping to wheelchair on a daily basis. I keep her updated on my health even tho we rarely hang out anymore.
She was gonna come over yesterday and I had to cancel. She asked if I can’t hang out later that day. When I said i won’t feel better later, that if I feel that bad in the morning later will only get worse she got annoyed and “joked” that I’m just finding excuses. And I was surprised, she knows all about me being disabled after all? So, a bit taken aback, I told her it’s a normal thing for me.
“But you got the diagnosis now, aren’t you better?? I thought you’ll get better now”
She was honestly surprised and it made me realize a thing. They don’t get it. They don’t get that getting diagnosed only equals benefits like welfare or parking spot for us, and sometimes better pain meds but that is just like pushing luck. That it’s a forever thing. That that one day we felt good a week ago was just a bright spot and doesn’t mean we won’t need our aids anymore, cause chronic illness is not linear and will make a great comeback in next four hours, and the next good day is planned on when we’re 70.
Cause when abled people are sick, they get better. And our illness is just an excuse for them. And when we say we will never get better they think we’re being dramatic and pessimistic.
And I don’t think they’ll ever get it, cause to get it you need to live it.
And I want my friends to stay healthy and not go through hell.
honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before
Alright I have been enabled so I’m gonna say somethings.
Fatalistic sarcasm is a thing, however, it usually hides deep feelings of insecurity, and whether you consciously recognize this or not, it validates them. Seriously, I used to constantly make jokes about how other people’s work was better than mine, and it did nothing for my self-esteem, it was a tool to deflect from my own feelings of inferiority and it actively worked against me thinking critically about my own and other people’s work. If it was a joke I could put myself down instead of analyzing why someone’s work was better and trying to incorporate that into my own
As someone who took creative writing courses I was constantly surrounded by other brilliant people, if I hung my head in shame every time I read something as good or better than mine I never would have lifted it.
As someone who has watched a lot of writers with very good idea’s crash and burn I mean it when I say you either develop a healthy sense of respect for your own work or you stop writing.
There’s three things I really wish more people consider
1. Do you think their work is better because it’s a different style, one that you like? There’s an element to ‘the grass is greener on the other side’, I have seen people work in some amazing styles that I wished to god I could replicate, some I managed, some I never did, but there’s nothing wrong with either. having a different style Is Not the same as having a bad style, each has their own strengths and you can admire one without putting yours down
2. Knowing someone who is a better writer is a blessing and if they knew you were using their work to bring yourself down they would not be happy, mooch off that friend, analyze their work, ask them to edit your shit, as long as you’re not annoying them be shameless about it. the best thing creative writing did for me was give me the confidence to ask people to critic my work and shamelessly better each other for that sharing
3. People need to normalize being confident in their work, the quality of your work has literally nothing to do with your worth as a person, the quality of your work has nothing to do with your worth as a writer. You can write something really shitty and the only thing I’d say to you is that your trying and I respect you for that
I also don’t like comparing my work to others’ bc it starts to feel almost competitive in a way. It turns to asking “which of these is better?” instead of “what do I like about each of these?”
We’re not competing against each other to see who can bake the best cake, we’re all bringing dishes to a potluck. It’s the community and love for the craft that matter
