Welcome to King’s Reversed Fic Request game, in which you show me the finished product, and I create the story. What is this? Essentially I have found myself in a rut in which I am unable to finish one-shot fanfictions due to a compulsive nature requiring me to write no less than 10k for anything I publish. As I’ve finished several longfics or long series, some as long as 300k-550k, I do not need more practice writing longform fiction!!!
But there’s more to being a skilled writer than longform. The art of the short story is something most writers discount, and I wish to become much, much better at it… And that’s where you come in.
You, reader, friend, anon that haunts my dreams, will be able to submit any fic concept that you want to read, presented with the information you might see while browsing Ao3. Ships, Tags, Synopsis. You show me the fic you want to click on - I make it clickable.
Yes, this means you’ll be writing a synopsis without context. A hook meant to catch a peruser’s attention without spoiling the plot, or a dangling question waiting to be addressed… whatever you would see in the description of a fic on Ao3, you include… This means you can decide the tone, the genre, the characters, the subject… but you cannot decide any twists, turns or endings.
I am aiming to write fics within the 500 - 6k word category. This is, in case you didn’t know it, below my average chapter length in most cases. Hence… hence why I need the practice. Adjust your synopsis accordingly, for a short one-shot format.
If you’re interested in throwing me a challenge, continue to read for more specifics… sorry I yap so much!
All Fics will eventually be posted in an anthology collection! I will probably backlog a couple fics to post all at once, and then from there post as I write them.
**Please Note:** If I receive more than… 2 of these, I won’t be able to guarantee them all or do them in order. HOWEVER, I kinda want to set a goal for myself to complete one every week or two, so submit, and don’t come at me if I write it months later.
**Submissions should be received in the Ask box so that I may respond to them with the link to the fic, making it clickable! Please submit as many as you like!** - Anon or Non-Anon asks allowed, however if you are going to do it on Anon, please consider giving yourself a codename or signing off with an emoji unique to you or something, I will be unlikely to prioritize anon asks if I think there’s a chance I’m accidentally doing the same person back to back to back. (This also means, if you don’t have an identifier and only submit one, you’re likely to be passed over out of fear you’re the same person as the others…) - I am going to try and intentionally stagger ships, people I write for, etc. to not repeat myself back to back.
All submissions can be long, or short - be wordy, be precise, your call. Please note some things:
Titles are completely optional, but for me they’re often contributing factors into why I click a fic, so I wanted to give you the option of putting something you like in there.
Ships/Tags: You can include as many as you want, but don’t be a little shit and tag contradictory things or stuff you know won’t make sense for a <6k one shot. (Slowburn is out, unfortunately!)
Rating: M, T, G - this one is also optional, but I know it does influence whether a lot of people open a fic, so go ahead and specify!
Synopsis: must be written like you’re writing the description of a fic you’re about to click publish on. Non-optional formatting. You may not include any other details about the plot beyond the synopsis and what you’ve tagged.
Submission Format
Title: (Optional)
Rating: (Optional, M, T, G)
Ships:
Tags:
Synopsis:
I am willing to consider pretty much any submission, part of the game of this is to stretch out of my comfort zone a bit. However, please do not toss me rarepair ships just for the sake of “seeing how it goes,” my enjoyment out of this will come from being able to provide a fic for someone that they actually wanted to read. If you truly love a hyperspecific, obscure rarepair - go ahead! But please submit ships that you genuinely wish to read about.
In fact, in general, please submit things that you genuinely wish to read about. I will enjoy myself more that way.
Whitelisted subjects are not required, and in fact barely mean anything. It’s just a couple of points towards stuff that I’ve been wanting to write myself and maybe am more inclined towards. But I almost didn’t include it because it really won’t factor in so much as to what I choose to write. As for the blacklist, it’s just stuff I’m not comfortable with that I need to say just to cover my basis. And for the record, if any of the blacklisted ships come up within a polycule… I probably don’t like that polycule either. Or will write it without ever addressing that corner of the ‘cule :’)
Whitelisted Ships/Tags
DaiSuga, UshiTen, IwaOi, AranKita
Canon compliance concepts
Happy Ending, Fluff, Comedy
Blacklisted Ships/Tags
Crossover concepts with other media. (Unless you know it is something I have watched to completion and could manage.)
Dark Fiction Themes - yandere concepts where ships hurt/maim/kill each other, or otherwise fetishistic violence against the characters. Ideally you’ve read my work before and know I will do a lot of violence against a character, this is specifically blacklisting the torture-porn esq nature of some dark fiction themes.
im writing a fic where a plane crashes near the end, and as you've also written a plane crash fic, i just wanted to ask - do you HAVE to specify what the causes were, and get into specifics?
This is a fun question. Obviously, the answer can ultimately only be answered by you yourself, as only you have the context needed to know whether the mode of plane crash is relevant to the overall story.
I do have opinions though, as someone who has indeed crashed a plane twice for fics.
1. The method of plane crash will heavily depend on whether or not you need any survivors. If you’re crashing a plane to kill the people inside, I would 100% recommend telling the readers why - because it won’t matter! Planes can crash for a variety of reasons, all of which usually result in 100% fatality if it occurs mid flight. Usually. Put some geese in the engines. Have a wing explode midflight. Hell, have it crash with another plane. You can do pretty much anything you want.
2. If you need those people to *survive* the plane crash, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TELL THE READER EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. You NEED plausible deniability and the unreliability of the characters who are not plane experts to justify that. Planes can crash for a variety of reasons and it’s unlikely the survivors will know exactly what happened.
In “The Island,” my plane crash is caused by something happening to one of the engines. In my head, this was always geese and/or other birds. But all the characters see is fire, and then the plane crash part is initiated, and I never go back to explain exactly what happened. Because they survive, and I don’t want someone going “uhhhhhhhh they would NOT have survived XYZ.”
In “The Plane Dropped,” I had a different challenge - surviving a land crash is substantially more difficult than an ocean one, so I needed the coverage of my “crash” having missing pieces. A) how they got far enough away not to be found, and B) how they crashed in a way that left so many alive. Because we don’t know what went wrong, we don’t 100% know what the pilots were or weren’t doing in the cockpit. There’s no engine failure in this fic because if there was, everyone would be dead. So dead.
So I think the question is really up to you: if the results of the plane crash don’t matter, I’d very much consider specifying exactly what happened. But if you need a specific outcome from a plane crashing, definitely consider the circumstances you need to create, and work backwards to find a crash scenario (and the relevant info to give the reader) that fits your purposes.
This is applicable to far more than just plane crashes to be fair, but that would be my main advice for this sort of thing.
In your artist Iwa AU, does Iwa let his paintbrush do most of the talking and does Oikawa eventually get frustrated about being worshipped when all he wants is to be loved? Or does he revel in the attention, in the fact that he's consumed someone's art so completely and made it his?
I think the best way to answer this is explain that a lot of their relationship in Muse (which Im assuming this is about) is sort of a metaphor for the things that give us meaning / make like meaningful.
Iwaizumi is so deeply depressed that he's literally living in a dark house because the lightbulb is burnt out. His passion to paint whiffed away with his passion to live, and painting, for him, was his first love.
Artist Iwa, in Muse, considers painting to be his first love, his true love, hence why he feels like his life is over if he can't figure out what to paint next. When he meets Oikawa, what he experiences is a combination of love at first sight, and plain old human lust. He becomes obsessed, because there is suddenly an object of desire that isn't painting. But painting is the only way he knows how to express love, so that's what he does. He doesn't know he's doing this, it's just who he is. It's why he struggles so much to verbally "want" Oikawa and actually tries to avoid him - love is made for the canvas, not for real life. He wants his love back, he just doesnt know its in the real world. (Its also why its a written that he asks to paint Empress, and not Oikawa first - Empress being Oikawa's greatest love at the time.)
Its all one big metaphor about finding what gives your life meaning.
Oikawa's AU doesnt get touched in Muse, not really. In my head though, he is very much at a low point himself. Their apartment complex is not fancy, its not nice - he's in Japan. I always imagined him still as an Argentinian volleyball star, but one who's career did not go as planned. One that is now doing everything except moving back in to his parents house.
No, I don't think Oikawa ever grows tired of being worshipped. I think it's exactly what he wants, to be the one and singular muse for an artist of Iwa's caliber.
But I also dont think Iwa stays as intensely psychotic about it. I think they get dinner, they smile, they brush hands on the elevator ride home, and for both of them, the world seems a little bit brighter, and love seems a little more in reach, and he changes that light bulb. And suddenly the canvas isn't the only place that holds the meaning of life.
Thank you for giving me an excuse to talk about Muse, it's definitely one of my favourite AUs and I wish there was more love for itm
I dont like when people get annoyed with the Alien Enthusiast Oikawa headcanons because yes, obviously it's technically fanon but claiming its based on nothing is ridiculous. Every time that character appears as a kid that kid is wearing an alien themed clothing item. Its so close to being established fanon Haikyuu-bu parodied it by giving him an alien girlfriend.
Oh, what, just because I'm a tall blonde glasses-wearing historian who views their own wants and desires as humiliating and wouldn't be caught dead putting in effort only to lose, and is widely considered by friends to be an annoying pedantic know-it-all with unbelievable nonchalance in every situation, I'm 100% Tsukishima? That seems a little bit dramatic.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was an art/story/commentary/something YouTube video from like 10 years ago. I legit cannot remember anything about it, except for the following.
It was narrated by two people, and I was watching it for the artwork because they were both super talented and drawing really well, but they were drawing their OCs, and explaining the character lore.
And I barely remember the lore BUT what I do remember is that they had a sort of enemies to lovers vibe, but the creators were clearly not on the same page on the depth of this romance.
Because the dialogue was like:
Creator One: They really didn't get along at first, but after enough time, they've really started to rely on each other and see each other as their closest companion.
Creator Two: Well, unless something better comes along. OC might enjoy the relationship physically but they're not looking to settle down.
Creator One: Well of course. But underneath all the mean sniping back and forth, they wouldn't sell each other out for anything.
Creator Two: Not necessarily true. OC is evil, not looking for love, and is willing to ditch when they need to.
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And I swear to god I remember sitting there, having started watching just to see the art, being like "did these two agree to ship these characters??? I dont think they communicated their vision correctly."
One person clearly thought they were soulmates, the other was CLEARLY interested in the ship only for the hate sex.
can we get more elaboration about tendou being unable to swim perchance
I didn't even see this ask come in lol. Sorry for the delay.
I'm not sure what elaboration I would give 🤔 it's a headcanon that, for me, came out of nowhere or isn't really inspired by anything specific. He just sort of looks hydrophobic and like he'd never really tried to get into the ocean before.
I think a part of it is that swimming is something that is very easily "missed" and then once you're an adult it's super easy to avoid having to do it. In my brain Tendou has a lot of unusual skills and/or life experiences. I tend to headcanon him coming from mountainous regions, and having lots of athletic experience, so it makes sense that he's got great balance and can walk on his hands and has a really fast sprint pace, but he's also someone who grew up without any friends. So he was never invited to any pool parties, never went to the beach with friends. If it never occured to his parents that people arent born knowing how to swim (which, when you know how to swim, often feels like the case) he literally would just never have been given the opportunity to.
And I think as he got older (14/15/16 - Shiratorizawa age) it became more of an intentional avoidance. Not because he was afraid of water, but as he grew up he developed an interesting intersection of "I don't want to give people another reason to laugh at me" and "being the scary monster gives me armour, I can't risk chipping that reputation." So he was incentivized to uphold the image he had developed that, while entirely unrelated to water, would be damaged by people learning he couldn't swim.
And then, the natural progression is that as you get older, even if he never had a natural fear of the water, logic takes over. You cannot swim = being in the water could kill you. So he does develop an unease about the idea of trying to learn, not because he doesnt want to or because he is uniquely afraid, but because self preservation is very simply "if you cant swim, dont dive into water."
And I think for him, by the time he's 18/19/20, he's sort of just... Accepted it. He does not have the desire to learn to swim, he can splash around in shallows or go collect shells on the beach when people swim. In his brain he just is someone who cannot swim, and even if people suggest he learn just in case of an emergency, in the words of my roommate, who also can't swim: "If I go on a cruise ship, and then I die because I drown, that is entirely my own fucking fault."
Anyway, if you want further reading for my "can't swim" Tendou, he appears in "Paranormality," (Specifically Witch & Wolf but he does get drowned in a river briefly before that), "Chasing Fireflies", "Politics of Dehydration" (a one-shot in Love, On & Off the Court) and "Soulmake Adventures," though it is only referenced briefly in one chapter.
Daichi and Oikawa in Alien Americana feeling like lovers because I'm aromantic and have always defaulted to using my idea of platonic devotion to describe romance so now that I'm writing a story that's actually about true platonic devotion it's all fucked up and you can't tell the difference.
Suga: Hey, Daichi... If I ever find a girl I think is the one, and I go to get married, can you promise you'll come crash the wedding and take me away?
I love how waterslides are so inherently out of control and absolutely lawless once you're on your way. Imaging the Karasuno boys at a water park and they one by one just come shooting out of a dippy water slide at mach 10 and skip like a stone across the pool.
This is an OC that literally nobody has ever met before for an entirely unrelated project but I'm been practicing my full scenes for ArtFight and I wanted to show off.
So... Uh... This is Diego, he's a witch and sometimes he fights giant snakes with a magic lasso.
Bodyswap AU but its actually a Boyfriend Swap where two characters wake up with someone else's partner, and the vise versa, but the Partners that have been Swapped wholeheartedly believe that they have always been dating and are in love with the wrong person. Who and Who.
