LP Lives Here

Lunatik_Pandora on AO3. 18+, they/them, aspec bi-disaster. I keep my writing and art stuff here now I guess. TERFs can get fucked.

[lunapwrites]

Masterlist of Fics

If you want to see the stuff that I'm even remotely proud of, you can find it here:

Louder Than Love - (Rated E, 134,734 words - WIP.)

Poly!Wolfstar+Tonks, OotP fix-it. If you like music references, nuanced family relationships, and banter (omg so much banter) then you may like this one. I'm honestly pretty proud of how this one is coming out overall, now that I'm getting into a groove. Contains fluff, humor, and angst. (18+, mind the tags.)

Satellites series - (Varying lengths and ratings.)

All the fun little one-shots and drabbles I've posted on here end up under this heading, with some cool moon references added for extra tone. You'll find the Beater!Remus drabble in here, as well as the Peter fics. Fluff and angst mostly (some humor here and there.) The majority is Wolfstar; there is one in there that is Poly!Wolfstar+Tonks. Also some art!

Ouroboros - (Rated T, 12,393 words.)

Remus taking care of his estranged father at the end of Lyall's life, and having to come to terms with his own feelings. Extremely angsty, extremely unreliably narrated. Technically part of the Satellites series; this is a divergence from the LTL plotline (so same background for Remus) and directly references it in parts. Can be read on its own just fine.

A Matter of Interpretation - (Rated M, 2,183 words.)

My interpretation of what actually happened with "the prank." Attempts to address the reality of hot-headed teenagers and their behavior. Literally no one comes out of this clean. It's angsty, but in a matter-of-fact kind of way.

for him. - (Rated T, 6.090 words.)

Remus & Harry bonding time. Realistic "pranks" that have nothing to do with magic and everything to do with Teenagers Doing Dumb Teenager Shit. Simple but candid discussions of sexuality. Also one of my favorite Remus vs Snape scenes I've ever written. Wolfstar, but no prior relationship. Mostly humor with a bit of reasonable angst.

The Great Biscuit Calamity of 1978, and Other Such Disasters - (Rated T, 8,093 words.)

Remus and Sirius making gingerbread men, but also a little bit Remus having no patience for the gender binary. Wolfstar with background Hinny. Humor and fluff with an undercurrent of angst.

three knocks upon the door - (Rated E, 6,998 words.)

A dark casefic that goes wildly off the rails, and my first foray into femslash. A rare Lily/Tonks with low key background Wolfstar! (And another rarepair, if you squint!) Possibly one of my favorite fics I've ever written. 18+, please mind the tags!!

Where the Wild Thyme Grows - (Rated M, 7,000 words.)

My first ever high fantasy fic! Featuring Dad!Sirius and a slightly unhinged Remus (and we love him for it.) Also Arthur and Molly being adorable together. It is a horror fic, though, so be warned! Dark themes and graphic depictions of injuries within.

Applied Theory - (Rated M, 6,698 words - WIP)

My Wolfstar Enemies-to-Lovers Academia AU! Raw posted here and ported straight to AO3. French!Sirius and Welsh!Remus. Includes technical discussions of magical theory (occasionally AP formatted), Shenanigans, and more French dialogue than I had any right using. Great fun though. :)

I've also made a masterlist of all my fic playlists here, if you're interested!

[bluerose5]

Thank you, Black people in fandom spaces. Thank you, Black creators and Black lurkers. Thank you Black artists, Black writers. Thank you, Black bloggers, Black influencers. Shoutout to those Black characters, both canon and original. Thank you, Black people, both queer and cishet.

Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

And since they don't get told it near enough, thank you, Black women especially!!!

[murfpersonalblog]

You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[janmisali]

pick whatever option the person you're following who reblogged this post didn't pick. if they didn't say in the tags what they picked or if you're seeing the original post and not a reblog, pick at random instead.

first option

second option

Remaining time: 4 days 1 hour

[lunapwrites]

Desperately begging my brain to stop screaming Wiggles music at me I am TRYING TO WORK

[thewriteadviceforwriters]

🧩 How to Outline Without Feeling Like You’re Dying

(a non-suffering writer’s guide to structure, sanity, and staying mildly hydrated)

Hey besties. Let’s talk outlines. Specifically: how to do them without crawling into the floorboards and screaming like a Victorian ghost.

If just hearing the word “outline” sends your brain into chaos-mode, welcome. You’re not broken, you’re just a writer whose process has been hijacked by Very Serious Advice™ that doesn’t fit you. You don’t need to build a military-grade beat sheet. You don’t need a sixteen-tab spreadsheet. You don’t need to suffer to be legitimate. You just need a structure that feels like it’s helping you, not haunting you.

So. Here’s how to outline your book without losing your soul (or all your serotonin).

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🍓 1. Stop thinking of it as “outlining.” That word is cursed. Try “story sketch.” “Narrative roadmap.” “Planning soup.” Whatever gets your brain to chill out. The goal here is to understand your story, not architect it to death.

Outlining isn’t predicting everything. It’s just building a scaffold so your plot doesn't fall over mid-draft.

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🧠 2. Find your plot skeleton. There are lots of plot structures floating around: 3-Act. Save the Cat. Hero’s Journey. Take what helps, ignore the rest.

If all else fails, try this dirt-simple one I use when my brain is mush:

Act I: What’s the problem?

Act II: Why can’t we fix it?

Act III: What finally makes us change?

Ending: What does that change cost?

You don’t need to fill in every detail. You just need to know what’s driving your character, what’s blocking them, and what choices will change them.

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🛒 3. Make a “scene bucket list.” Before you start plotting in order, write down a list of scenes you know you want: key vibes, emotional beats, dramatic reveals, whatever.

These are your anchors. Even if you don’t know where they go yet, they’re proof your story already exists, it just needs connecting tissue.

Bonus: when you inevitably get stuck later, one of these might be the scene that pulls you back in.

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🧩 4. Start with 5 key scenes. That’s it. Here’s a minimalist approach that won’t kill your momentum:

Opening (what sucks about their world?)

Catalyst (what throws them off course?)

Midpoint (what makes them confront themselves?)

Climax (what breaks or remakes them?)

Ending (what’s changed?)

Plot the spaces between those after you’ve nailed these. Think of it like nailing down corners of a poster before smoothing the rest.

You’re not “doing it wrong” if you start messy. A messy start is a start.

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🔧 5. Use the outline to ask questions, not just answer them. Every section of your outline should provoke a question that the scene must answer.

Instead of: — “Chapter 5: Sarah finds a journal.”

Try: — “Chapter 5: What truth does Sarah find that complicates her next move?”

This makes your story active, not just a list of stuff that happens. Outlines aren’t just there to record, they’re tools for curiosity.

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🪤 6. Beware of the Perfectionist Trap™. You will not get the entire plot perfect before you write. Don’t stall your momentum waiting for a divine lightning bolt of Clarity. You get clarity by writing.

Think of your outline as a map drawn in pencil, not ink. It’s allowed to evolve. It should evolve.

You’re not building a museum exhibit. You’re making a prototype.

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🧼 7. Clean up after you start drafting. Here’s the secret: the first draft will teach you what the story’s actually about. You can go back and revise the outline to fit that. It’s not wasted work, it’s evolving scaffolding.

You don’t have to build the house before you live in it. You can live in the mess while you figure out where the kitchen goes.

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🛟 8. If you’re a discovery writer, hybrid it. A lot of “pantsers” aren’t anti-outline, they’re just anti-stiff-outline. That’s fair.

Try using “signposts,” not full scenes:

Here’s a secret someone’s hiding.

Here’s the emotional breakdown scene.

Here’s a betrayal. Maybe not sure by who yet.

Let the plot breathe. Let the characters argue with your outline. That tension is where the fun happens.

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🪴 TL;DR but emotionally: You don’t need a flawless outline to write a good book. You just need a loose net of ideas, a couple of emotional anchors, and the willingness to pivot when your story teaches you something new.

Outlines should support you, not suffocate you.

Let yourself try. Let it be imperfect. That’s where the good stuff lives.

Go forth and outline like a gently chaotic legend 🧃

— written with snacks in hand by Rin T. @ thewriteadviceforwriters 🍓🧠✍️

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[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

hate that I was understanding when I should’ve just been a cunt

[lunapwrites]

I was about to say that there have been a few recent instances of me being irrationally angry about the existence/appearance of ads, but you know what I actually think I'm still not mad enough.

In what fucking world does a drug manufacturer need to employ an airplane pulling an banner behind it? Why do I need to see your shitty advertisement in the one square inch of horizon that isn't already clogged to fuck with billboards? Are you going to start sending up bat signals for wegovy or some shit? Maybe drone-powered light shows. Leave no space untouched. (/s)

Additionally, I made the mistake of trying to read an article the other day while I was out - and thus no longer within the protective sphere of MrLP's expansive ad blocking systems - and FOUR INSTANCES OF THE SAME FUCKING AD BAR POPPED UP. Literally covered over half the page, no way to minimize them or close them out, and then I lost a whole chunk at the bottom to the "you should subscribe for X per month" like I've got subscribing to shit money right now. I was left with a three-finger-width space to read from at the bottom half of my screen, to which I said "fuck that and fuck you" and threw my phone back in my bag with great prejudice.

I am going to start fucking hunting advertisers for sport.

[hpffwritersguild]

Hi writers, bit of a bittersweet announcement today.

After some deep thought and many, many rounds of discussions amongst the mod team, we've made the decision to sunset The Guild at the end of July.

The long and short of it is that life got a bit bigger and busier for all of us than we'd ever anticipated. New jobs, new moves, new humans - and of course, doing all of that when the doing is harder than it's ever been before. With all of that going on, running a server like this to the standard that it deserves to be run is next to impossible. We don't have the bandwidth anymore to run, let alone build, the workshops we had ideas for. The changes we had planned to implement to make the server easier to navigate have been in limbo since last winter - it's disappointing for us that we couldn't swing everything we'd wanted to do, but it's also just not fair to all of you.

To that end: we will be continuing with the archival project, to move our resources off Discord and onto Ao3 and our Tumblr. We will have this completed before the server closes. We will also be having one final WAT in July as a send off on July 10-12. Hopefully this gives everyone the time they need to connect with everyone they want.

And on a personal note... I love the community that we've built here, and I'm extremely sad to see it go. And I'm incredibly proud of the work we've done, and the work all of you have done. I hope you are too. I hope that all of you can carve out some new pocket in fandom or writer space that will work for you the way it should. I hope that your pillow is always cool, that your socks never bunch up in the toes, that they never run out of your favorite treat. I hope life is kind to you.

Thank you so much for your support and your stories over the last five years. Take care of yourselves.

-LP

[lunapwrites]

More evidence to add to the "my child definitely internalized the fantasia 1940 dinosaur sequence whoops" pile:

[playing with her toy stegosaurus and t-rex] "Ohhhh nooooo! Tee-rex bite his face!" [Makes the t-rex bite stegosaurus on the neck] [exasperated noise]

And also: [places all dinosaurs on their sides on the ground] "Dinosaurs all fall down!"

However she is also choosing to rewrite history and science in her own vision by making Brontosaurus and Triceratops get into an argument because Triceratops ate Brontosaurus' tail. But it's okay, guys, because they hugged it out and are friends again.

Send help. 😭

[lunapwrites]

[depsidase]

[danilanidingdong]

Watched a movie last night called Victim. From 1961. It's an interesting picture, but it's important. Why?

It helped change the law. It helped make it so that average folks could see how ridiculous it was to make homosexuality illegal and an arrestable offense. Which it was.

Because at that point in history, that's what happened. Someone found out you were gay and blackmailed you and you either paid the blackmail or went to prison. In the movie there's an older gay man whose been to prison multiple times and he breaks down over the thought of having to go again.

The most interesting part is that the movie was an X Rated film. What caused the rating? No homosexual sex or anything. Just the fact that the homosexuality in question was not demonized enough for the censor's likings.

This pride, my young queers, please, I beg you, watch something historical about what life was like for us. There are people alive today who went to prison for being gay. Who hid in fear of being discovered every single day. And that fear was considered justified because, at the root of it, those people were technically criminals for who they were.

I see a lot of similarities between the world depicted in that movie and the one we are seeing be built around us by fascists as we speak today.

[enki2]

[hoseoch]

“what are you gonna do, cry about it?” yes . the fuck

[depsidase]

[raindropcascade]

@isuggesteatingtherich

[64mpg]

i tryyyyyyy but i get overwhelmed