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if i look back, i am lost
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i don't do bad sauce passes
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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⭐ It's quite a debt I owed.
Hello! I'm Fini. I write sometimes, mostly about trauma & violence in their many forms. You can find an extended about page here, & a fic directory here.
note: I recommend looking at the website view of this blog for mirrored uploads of all my fic, as well as author's commentaries! You can access this via mobile browser as well.
Cold-Edged With Dear-Bought Wisdom
Fandom: Hollow Knight Relationship: The Pale King/White Lady Characters: White Lady Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Imperialism Words: 166 Read it on this blog | Read it on ao3
…And so we must seem, for such is the cost of our wish…
Written for Be a Goldfish Round 3.
i know how to hurt me better
By: neocardinia [@genusplantago], spikenard Rating: Explicit || Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu/Yue Qingyuan, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Yue Qingyuan Word Count: ~6k
Summary: "You're drunk. You can't—you're not—Xiao Jiu," Yue Qingyuan says helplessly, stuttering out the half-finished thoughts his mind can't quite assemble into a coherent protest. Xiao Jiu looks up at him through his eyelashes in a way he must have learned from one of his brothel girls, and strokes him root to tip. Then he leans in and licks it, clumsily. "I can be," he says, and tips his head. When Yue Qingyuan, still holding his breath, says nothing, he repeats himself: "I can be Xiao Jiu."
[can be read as a one-shot] || link is in replies
[ID: Event infographic for Be A Goldfish: A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang, dated 1 July to 31 August 2026. Across the middle, a variety of mediums are listed in three columns: "meta, zines, podfic, poetry, ficlets, drabbles, playlists, fanvids, (web) weaves, recipes, crafts, paintings, graphics, sketches, textiles, gifsets, icons, and more!"
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Welcome to Be a Goldfish: A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang! Join us for round 3. This is an event dedicated to small fanworks, taking the time to appreciate the little things, and big fun. Whether you’re a returning participant or you’ve just heard of us, dive in!
Participation is easy: just share as many small fanworks as you like, in any medium you can dream of, from 1 July through August 31, and comment on works shared by your fellow goldfish.
Fancy a bit of structure and inspiration? We offer weekly prompts and medium suggestions, as well as a comment bingo and a punch card. Use one, use none, use all: that’s your call! Participate on your own terms.
Want more information? Read our RuleDoc, which includes guidelines for a variety of different mediums, a few content restrictions, and image accessibility and commenting resources.
You can share works to our Dreamwidth Community, our AO3 Collection, our Pillowfort Community, or tagged #beagoldfish 2026 here on tumblr. You can tag us directly @bag-bang, too. Once you’ve posted, log your fanwork via our handy Entry Submission Form. At the end of the event, you can request awards for all your hard work!
Flex your fins and swim with us to new fannish heights. Experiment, explore, get excited, try new things, and share with us and other fans along the way!
Not in the creative mood? Join us anyway! Leave comments with wild abandon, cheer your fellow goldfish on, find new favorite works and compile them in a rec list or several. This is an event for everyone! Discover new works, new fandoms, and new friends. Your new favorite thing might be just one microbang away. Don’t forget: be bold! Be brave! Be kind! Be a goldfish!
AU Roulette 2026 Sign-ups are officially open!
And with that, we are getting things started! As a brief reminder for those new to the event -- AU Roulette is a casual fic-writing challenge encouraging fanfic authors to play around with different types of alternate universe stories, which will be randomly assigned to each participant regardless of the fandom they sign up with.
Writers will be able to sign up from May 10th-31st with a fandom of their choice. At the start of June, each participant will be assigned three AUs from a masterlist using a random number generator. Each author will then have the choice of completing the challenge one, two, or all three of the AUs. Any fic exceeding a 500-word minimum will be considered a completion, so long as it employs the AU premise. Fics can then be posted at any point during the month of June.
As a reminder: The fandom you signed up with is used to filter AU assignments, in order to minimize re-rolls! (For example, someone signing up with "The Lord of the Rings" will not be assigned a High Fantasy AU). Please only sign-up with one fandom.
The sign-up link can be found here. Please feel free to spread it around and get the word out about this year's event!
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Lace’s chamber in the Cradle is cold and empty. A bed of flowers, she decides, is called for, and these broken vents, once fixed, will provide much needed warmth.
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behold: my very first hollow knight fic :3 it's a pre-canon exploration of lace trying to navigate existing in the citadel, and having normal feelings about flowers which refuse to grow beautifully and the concept of being alive.
4 a story idea you haven’t written yet
4. a story idea you haven’t written yet
Ahhhh, I don't want to give too much away...I'll go with the obvious silksong postcanon fic that I have vaguely plotted and about 200 (out of a projected 65k) words written of, if that counts. It is Lacenet in the sense that it focuses on their developing relationship, though one can read it as platonic, romantic, or neither, if they so wish. Mostly it's about navigating duty/responsibility & ethics of care, with an endgame of mutual trust & a new beginning.
How about… (7) your preferred writing fonts, (17) talk about your writing and editing process, and (27) your favorite part of the writing process?
7. your preferred writing fonts
answered here!
17. talk about your writing and editing process
I make a very strong effort to outline my work before I begin, with the exception of one-shots—one reason No Further Debts has taken me so long is that I did not outline it before I began writing! I never enter a chaptered work without having some strong idea of what each chapter should be, but lacking a concrete outline to reference & all my typical character notes stymied the process—I'm forced to work out very subtle and specific nuances on the fly even as I know the emotional and thematic "core," so to speak. If I've outlined it, mostly it's a matter of convincing myself to sit down and actually write the damn thing. The words will come if I'm willing to focus. I tend to edit as I write, as most people do, which can range from adjusting single words and punctuation to re-ordering and condensing entire passages—I habitually sort of work out the same idea a couple times in a row and then condense what I've written into something more cohesive. Often times I'll also write a sequence and realise it belongs slightly earlier or later in the chapter and move it. Once I have a finished draft, I'll make a first pass to see if there are any glaring errors, or redundancies, or clumsy turns of phrase, or filler clauses, and adjust accordingly. Then I send it over to my partner for cohesion and grammar, as well as to my writing buddy, Azure, who is generally familiar with the source material (unlike my partner), and can give me more detailed feedback and ask me specific questions regarding things like character intention.
27. your favorite part of the writing process
answered here, but I'll expand on it! I mean, the simple answer is that as much as I love writing, [whiny] it's hard! It takes a lot of mental energy that I often don't have to expend due to various disabilities and my other obligations—daydreaming is nice because it sets the stage for most of the process. It's not very often I have to work through a passage on a mechanical level; if I do, I'm addressing the connective tissue between the elements I'm most strongly able to visualise (and that's my least favourite part of writing, because...it's hard!). I write to pick at particular emotional truths and contradictions in my life with a layer or two of abstraction—you might say that I write for catharsis—which is really an extension of the daydreaming process for me. I suppose on a technical level I do like editing because...it's easier. I'm quite lazy, to be honest with you! No writing, only fic!
14, where do you get your inspiration?
14. where do you get your inspiration?
Hmm, I think this is a difficult one to answer, because the answer is somewhat abstract—I like to work from internal contradictions and/or (the) alternate possibilities (they offer). I'm honestly not very good at writing action-driven plot, so all of my fics can be understood as character studies/deep-dives into various characters' psyches with little external movement. I like to push characters to relative extremes and ask what that embodied experience is like. I also enjoy writing missing scenes and alternate perspectives for a similar reason. Exploring power dynamics and what it is like to live within them is a big theme for me, so I look for opportunities to do so across all my interests! The more straightforward half of this is inspiration from other texts e.g. song lyrics, poetry, plays, novels, movies, &c.
Number 12: What’s a trope you’re really into right now?
12. a trope you’re really into right now
Retellings/adaptations! If you can count that as a trope...I'm a big fan of intertextuality, but lately I've gotten into exploring fanfiction as a medium for adaptation and seeing what new things I pull from both sources!
oh oh oh do 27 + 28
27. your favorite part of the writing process
Tempted to say editing, but I have to be completely honest: daydreaming. A close runner up is the moment when I break through a block...it's frustrating up until that point, but the rewarding of working so closely and intently more than makes up for it!
28. your least favorite part of the writing process
The connective tissue...but this is mitigated somewhat by having a clean and consistent outline! Nevertheless, writing the transitions between the most emotionally resonant moments is my least favourite part because it's the most difficult...they have to be fluid and are also unto themselves resonant in significantly less straightforward ways. I find threading the needle challenging and exhausting.
19 n 29?
19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic
At this point (though this won't be true for long--I'm going to badger my friend and writing buddy into sending me readings on roman architecture very soon), probably honeybee hive & social structures!
29. how easy is it for you to come up with titles?
Pretty easy! Mostly I steal them from poetry/other works/music or else from my own cut and saved poetry...I find it difficult to start working on the body of a fic without a title; I like having the direction.
7 !! :0)
7. your preferred writing fonts
I write in Scrivener (on my partner's license), so I default to Sitka Text, but outside of that I have a fondness for EB Garamond and Cormorant Garamond! I'll edit in Arial or something similar for the visual difference.
✍️ more fic writer asks!
reblog & your followers can send asks with the questions they’d like you to answer!
the last sentence you wrote
a character whose POV you’re currently exploring
how you feel about your current WIP
a story idea you haven’t written yet
first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP
the word that appears the most in your current draft (wordcounter.net can tell you)
your preferred writing fonts
if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…
start to finish, how long did it take you to write the last fic you posted?
what is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?
a WIP you’d like to finish someday
a trope you’re really into right now
a fandom you’re thinking about writing for
where do you get your inspiration?
favorite weather for writing
favorite place to write
talk about your writing and editing process
if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic
the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic
in what year did you publish your first fic?
when did you publish your most recent fic?
do you ever worry about public reaction to what you’re writing? how do you get past that?
pick three keywords that describe your writing
how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?
besides writing, what are your other hobbies?
are you able to write with other people around?
your favorite part of the writing process
your least favorite part of the writing process
how easy is it for you to come up with titles?
share a fic you’re especially proud of
