HardCider

Blood in Moderation is my original story. Fanfiction is one of my favorite hobbies. Asks about my stories are always welcome. Warning, I like dark, depressing, whumpy themes in my fiction. Some of my art/stories are intended to be offensive and can contain uncomfortable things. Don’t like don’t read.

[greenapplespider]

Introduction:

Happily married zoomer. Blood in Moderation is my original story, it is a dark, urban, fantasy series I hope to one day publish.

In my spare time, I write and draw. Fanfiction is one of my favorite hobbies and I like to do art for fics I enjoy. (Commissions are always open and tips welcome https://ko-fi.com/hardcider)

I am TheHeadlessLeech on ao3.

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I am pro-ship, pro-free speech/expression, and generally anti censorship when it comes to the written word.

I enjoy dark, depressing, whumpy stories. If I write, draw, or enjoy something that offends you, move on- I don’t care for the sensibilities of cry bully’s, nor do I care if you think some dynamic of my work(s) or the fandom’s I’m in are problematic, per whatever pet issue seizes the masses.

‘don’t like don’t read’, ‘dead dove do not eat’, and ‘YKINMKATO’ etc., I do my best to put a plethora of content warning on my stories, please mind the tags.

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Blood in Moderation is my original work, it is an extremely dark urban fantasy. Most of my OC’s are from that universe. If you’re searching up the tag or related BiM tags on my blog, please keep in mind that the older material is not necessarily ‘canon’ as it was made before I had a solid grasp on the world at large.

My plan is to have the first book published within the next 5 years. I post concept art, world building, and different character musings concerning the series here.

As things are published I will share where the original work can be obtained.

[greenapplespider]

Line art for a lord of the rings illustration I’m working on for a whumpy fic I have in mind ;p

[greenapplespider]

Working on some lord of the rings art for a fic I had in mind :p

[befuddled-calico-whump]

little mermaid au

[greenapplespider]

Some sketch commissions of other people’s OC’s - all very fun gentlemen to draw

[greenapplespider]

Some sketches of my OC Jessica from my original story Blood in Moderation

[greenapplespider]

Was commissioned to do some Mass Effect fanart ;p

[wisteriasabloom]

[cactusringed]

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??

[veckati]

half body shots to bring good fortune and iorveth as usual

[sungrass-sheeps]

If I don’t tag it no one will know the other one is Vernon Roche (in my headcanon).

I just copied the La Valette soldiers’ armor.

(He had to be wearing something else at some point in his life.)

[wolfythewitch]

Hungry

[darillium-night]

Did you know that when you write fan fiction you can make characters do anything you want

[darillium-night]

Has anyone heard about this

[eidolonlathi]

Big if true.

[greenapplespider]

Portrait of Isengrim for this month’s art challenge, put on by the WhumpLovers Collaborate on discord. The prompt was ‘broken nose, discovery, and loneliness.’

[tmnaihw]

im so sorry i left the iornon circle for that leadership. um….

[bsideheart]

more characters with psychic powers who get migraines and seizures after they use them. i wanna see someone kill a bunch of ppl with their mind and then lay in a dark room vomiting for two days

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]