A Story Untold

So many stories I've known yet left unwritten. Here are the first steps of the journey to get them on paper.

[ladykf-writes]

The FF7 Exchange works are out!

And mine amongst them. You might be surprised to find out I chose a Barret prompt, but I really did enjoy it. The prompt was basically Barret and hydroelectric power -- taking things post meteor and being a bit more in character than having the man who bought the story that mako was clean energy and pushed a whole community in for it... and sending him searching for oil.

Hopefully my recipient likes it. Here we go:

After the World Didn't End (a FF7 fanfic)

Summary: What do you do, when the world you knew is over and you’re still there?

EXCERPT:

Barret considered that, then came over to kneel with Marlene. “You okay with that, baby? If I go for a little while?”

Marlene took his hand, little hand curling around a finger as she considered it. “Okay. Do you want to take a cookie to the kitty’s person? Mr. Reeve wasn’t scary.”

Barret was pretty sure that if the Turks had told Reeve to scare her, little girl or not, he’d have done it because it was his neck on the line and she wasn’t his baby. Just like Barret would have done anything he could and some things he shouldn’t to protect her.

He was… not at peace with it, but he understood the nuances better. He got it. He didn’t have to like it.

“Alright, sweetie, I’ll take a cookie to Mr. Reeve,” Barret said, and when she scampered off he knelt by Cait Sith. “Now what’s this about, Cat?”

“In Reeve’s old job, he did a lot of infrastructure,” Cait Sith said. “While everyone else was tearing things down, he was building things and managing the power grid. O’course, there’s not the same resources now… but he’ll make do, he always does. And!”

Cait Sith hopped and spun in the air, pointing at Barret when he landed neatly in front of him. “You can help!”

“Really.” Barret felt himself smile despite his misgivings. “And what help do you want of ol’ Barret?”

“Reeve can run a board room,” Cait Sith said. “But a city hall is different, ye ken?”

I'm really proud of this one, adding a new character to my repertoire. Do enjoy.

[depsidase]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[ladykittenfair]

And this is why you ALWAYS make sure no light is going to be coming into your house and bouncing off a mirror, or crystal ball, those shiny faceted glass doorknobs, or anything else before you leave the house.

[lannegarrett]

[nondelphic]

every writer has That One Scene that lives in their head rent-free but they can’t write it yet because “the vibes aren’t ripe”

[batbetbitbotbut]

what I'm gathering is that writing is like having a head full of avocados and you don't know which one will ripen next or when but you have to keep poking them forever because if you miss it you feel rotten and your brain turns to mush

[seekingstars]

IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS - Nikita Gill

[ladykf-writes]

FF7 Compilation summarized in verse, GO:

when the gloom hits your eye and there's doom in the sky that's the OG

when you seep dark goop and the Sephlings all group, that's AC

when there's bombs in the air and you're full of despair, that's BC

when everything's dire and the world is on fire, that's CC

when Chaos flies and Omega arises, that's DoC

[yulemire-deactivated20250818]

Vincent has really sharp eyes and I expected Cid to have sharp eyes as well, but nah, they're softer compared to Vincent and that information makes me feral

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sometimes I have to remind my dad that he’s a master furniture maker and most people do not possess encyclopedic knowledge of European and American furniture styles and the history of wood glue

[what-even-is-thiss]

If there’s one thing you as a regular person need to know it’s that the highest quality wood furniture out there is not held together with metal screws. Metal isn’t generally used in actually good wooden furniture outside of hinges and decorative bits. This is because when the wood and metal expand and contract over time they change at different rates and over many years this slowly pushes the screws out.

Really good wood furniture is made by using joinery and wood glue. Possibly just joinery if you do it correctly. The wood and glue expand and contract at the same rate and this makes the furniture last way longer. We’re talking centuries longer.

[princesscas]

How it feels to read a really good fic and find the author has dozens more like it 

[ladykittenfair]

Just a reminder to always, ALWAYS go to an author's page by clicking on their name in the story you just devoured. That's where you can view ALL their works and go through like you're a grocery store making an order for your favorite tags and tropes.

[princesssarcastia]

there are some things a character should not be able to tell us about themselves EVEN with a gun to their head. depending on the character that could even expand to include "most" things

[princesssarcastia]

i'm talking "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink" territory. "i've constructed an elaborate rube goldberg machine of plot to force this character to have precisely the realization about themselves that i want them to, and i'm only maybe 60% sure it'll work" territory. "the deity of their choice reveals it to them in a dream and they wake up and say, 'no, that can't be right,' and promptly forget about it" territory.

[swamp-spirit]

My dog's really a study in Buddhism. He can see my muffin wrapper and he's miserable. Crying. He needs to eat my muffin wrapper so bad.

I get up and throw it away. He forgets about it immediately and happily goes to sleep.

You are not sad because you do not have a muffin wrapper, my beautiful boy, you are sad because you want the muffin wrapper.

[liminalbeauty]

That’s actually pretty deep. Excellent explanation.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[adamsmasher]

Sound on!!

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

cr 大同云冈蛋雕-凯哥

[vulgarmaw]

No, no, that's my hyperfixation in-law twice removed on my mutuals side.

[idsb]

If you haven’t changed your url in years tell me why as someone in your same boat it’s for science

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

a bad terrible foolish logics.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Wow this post is almost 6 years old?!

Not only does it continue to not be possible to do such a sneaking, but it’s getting less and less possible the older I get. High School me could pull the occasional all-nighter and be at least partly functional for most of the next day, but 30 year old me absolutely cannot.