home of too many aus

mercury, they/he, full of too many ideas

[mercurycat-ao3]

Hey, I should do an intro post for here!

hi, I'm Mercury and I have too many aus! some are up on ao3, some are just in my brain at the moment. one day I may post art here, idk. feel free to ask me anything!

things I have stuff posted for:

Maybe if we were different people [on hiatus pending rewrites] - Vampires smp, solo fic, in progress, teen. what if Scott was 19 and human and facing the horrors?

Beneath the wine-dark sea - Vampires smp, solo fic, in progress, mature. Owen and Avid are mer getting treated poorly by the militia and Legs (human) is slowly coming to realize just how bad the situation is

Service dragon - Flight smp, series, in progress, general. Gadget is a service dragon for tf!legs' POTS, mostly fluff or series-typical angst

things I don't have stuff posted for:

oav!au - Vampires smp. a Louis lives au, among other things that I don't wish to spoil. I have an entire vampire lore doc for this and a spreadsheet. I went in depth with the vampire stuff, I love world building (ask me about my world building 👀)

untitled everyone is supernatural except legs au - Vampires smp. I don't think I'll ever finish or post this one, but I had fun coming up with it in the first place lol

[mercurycat-ao3]

congratulations btwds!louis for officially having more words of dialog than btwds!avid despite only being present in a singular flashback

if we are going by English words spoken (discounting all contact calls translated for ease of reading), our purple siren had ONE SINGULAR ENGLISH WORD. ONE. counting contact calls would add an additional 13 words bringing us to a grand total of 14 words expressed over the entire course of the fic.

Louis, who was in ONE FLASHBACK SCENE, said an entire 89 words.

lmao

[mercurycat-ao3]

this is exactly the campfire conversation from the July 6th stream, what do you mean?

[mercurycat-ao3]

so heads up y'all, I thought I'd be able to get this week's update out as usual, but I'm unfortunately going to have to miss a week. I ended up not writing a single word this whole week and I've got a memorial service tomorrow and honestly? don't want to be writing the "Avid dies in this one" chapter tonight.

maybe if I get hit by inspiration beam we can get an early chapter (but no promises). sorry to have to slap on another delay after having to take off so much time already. I swear we will get to the end if it kill us

[questions-about-blorbos]

Reblog if it’s okay for people to inbox you questions, headcanon, theories, anything about your Blorbo

[mercurycat-ao3]

so heads up y'all, I thought I'd be able to get this week's update out as usual, but I'm unfortunately going to have to miss a week. I ended up not writing a single word this whole week and I've got a memorial service tomorrow and honestly? don't want to be writing the "Avid dies in this one" chapter tonight.

maybe if I get hit by inspiration beam we can get an early chapter (but no promises). sorry to have to slap on another delay after having to take off so much time already. I swear we will get to the end if it kill us

[mercurycat-ao3]

Hey! I saw you asked how to do a clickable link on ao3 in your human Scott Goldsmith fic, and for some reason I’m sending it as an ask rather than as a comment on the fic itself ^^;

The HTML to add a hyperlink is:

<a href="[Link goes here]">[Whatever text you want the link to be attached to here]</a>

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Copy & paste version (replace the spaces with the link and the text):

<a href=" "> </a>

thank you so much! I have since figured it out, I just haven't updated the link on that fic yet lol

[mercurycat-ao3]

I will not be posting any new works featuring v!avid or mentioning tf!avid or tf!marm in service dragon or any future flight smp works/series.

as for what I do with my published vsmp works, what do you believe is the best course of action?

discontinue them and leave them as is

discontinue them but post a final synopsis

continue them to their natural conclusions as a final goodbye

other (specify)

Voting ended onJun 14

you all have a week. I am genuinely shaking. I hate all of this. I am so sorry if this is how people are finding out. aaaaaaaaa

[mercurycat-ao3]

I know I still have a couple hours on the poll still, but I've come to a final decision on where I stand on things (the offical updates on my fics saying basically this will come later tonight)

we will be continuing to the end! but things will be a little different

for Beneath the Wine-dark Sea: Avid will be staying as written. I will be killing them within the next couple chapters. No edits will be made to what was already written and tags will be edited to make it very clear that this is my goodbye to the character and in no way in support of the real person. mervid will be getting mourned for a bit by Owen, but it won't be the central theme of his character. if this isnt something you wish to read anymore I fully understand. I just want to finish my little story and say my goodbyes to the character

for Maybe if we were Different People: the role of Avid will be getting recast and will be played by Mumbo Jumbo for this and all future fics where v!Avid would go. would Cam make more logical sense in every way? yes! but I know next to nothing about Cam and how he plays characters and genuinely have no bandwidth to add another creator to my watch cycle right now, so Mumbo it is. the fic will stay up while I do rewrites and will have tags and title edited to reflect this

wine-dark sea will probably need another week off at this point because this is my hell week at work and between that and the heat, I will not be a functioning human for very much of the week. but im gonna aim to have a double update so, there's that lol

[mercurycat-ao3]

proof of life and that im out here drafting up the next installment of service dragon! cheeeeeeeeeeeeese

[productofaritual]

Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"

[ourinquisitorialness]

Fanfic Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

Send me a word, any word, and if it’s in my WIP document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence or line it appears in.

[mercurycat-ao3]

I will not be posting any new works featuring v!avid or mentioning tf!avid or tf!marm in service dragon or any future flight smp works/series.

as for what I do with my published vsmp works, what do you believe is the best course of action?

discontinue them and leave them as is

discontinue them but post a final synopsis

continue them to their natural conclusions as a final goodbye

other (specify)

Voting ended onJun 14

you all have a week. I am genuinely shaking. I hate all of this. I am so sorry if this is how people are finding out. aaaaaaaaa

[mercurycat-ao3]

in light of what ive heard from legs' stream yesterday, the "continue to natural conclusions" option will 100% involve writing out/over v!avid entirely. i don't want them in my works anymore.

it looks very likely this is the road we are taking, but I still appreciate hearing people's opinions. thank you for all the support, believe victims, and if you're able to, support those most affected (musi, peeporp, and box)

[mercurycat-ao3]

I will not be posting any new works featuring v!avid or mentioning tf!avid or tf!marm in service dragon or any future flight smp works/series.

as for what I do with my published vsmp works, what do you believe is the best course of action?

discontinue them and leave them as is

discontinue them but post a final synopsis

continue them to their natural conclusions as a final goodbye

other (specify)

Voting ended onJun 14

you all have a week. I am genuinely shaking. I hate all of this. I am so sorry if this is how people are finding out. aaaaaaaaa

[mercurycat-ao3]

ok I just had a wild 15 minutes what the fuck actually????

so uh,, yeah,,, um,,, not sure what im gonna do about wine-dark sea or different people since avid is such a prominent character in them, and that's probably gonna mean me just abandoning oav altogether at this point because I can't exactly write him out without breaking my plot,,

goddammit I can't believe its happened THREE TIMES now with mcyts I've enjoyed, even peripherally.

[mercurycat-ao3]

I just woke up from a dream that I was reading a really good vsmp fic that I believe was called "do not stand at my grave" and it was an au where ghosts are real and Owen died just after Louis. it seemed to be that Louis had ended up possessing/reincarnated as Legs in such a way that Legs seemed to have his personality intact but Louis had his old memories still.

in this au, it was known that ghosts could interact with the living. if you give the ghost something, it will do something for you if you ask politely. i think Avid was blind, or at least it was heavily implied that he could not see very well, and he wasn't deep in vampire mania. in fact, it seemed that Legs had sort of taken him in to some degree? but Avid had been found at the Old Graveyard from 200 years ago and had been giving offerings to the only intact stone (unreadable) and asking the ghost to do what it most desired. Legs finds him and sends him back to town to "go find Graecie" (which. it was flight graecie specifically. why was tf!graecie in my dreamed vsmp fic)

the ghost taps Legs/Louis twice on the wrist, specifically the one dangling by his side on the part facing his back. and then again when no real reaction was given. and then Louis has a sudden rush of memory that that was where Owen would tap him to get his attention silently

and then he realizes he can feel his own dead body nearby and oh. thats his grave. so why did someone respond to Avid?

and then it clicks. (and this is exact dialogue i remember reading btw)

"Owen? Are you in my grave?" Louis asked.

"I am not there." Owen replied. "Not anymore."

"Then where are you?"

and then Owen takes on a shimmering mirage-like form at the edge of the graveyard. i think the next line was something like "over here" with a sort of teasing tone, but that was when I woke up

anyway I don't think I'm gonna write this dreamed fic anytime soon, but if anyone wants to play in my weird ghost dream au, go for it (just show me please)!

[mercurycat-ao3]

I love writing "beneath the wine-dark sea" because I get to let out all my little fucked-up author desires in a controlled environment. I can explore non-human povs that have very limited knowledge of humans, I can explore themes of dehumanization, I can do anything I want!

the problem is that I end up needing to triple check every time I want to use certain language for certain characters. Apo will never use "they" to refer to a singular mer or use any major technical terms regarding tanks or biology. Legs will never use "it" for a mer and will also not call them "mer" as he's stuck on "siren" at the moment, plus he almost exclusively will use technical terms. Owen doesn't know many human terms so I can't even say "glass" or "tank"! I spend so much time cross-referencing terms I've used in previous chapters to ensure consistency if nothing else!

yet I wouldn't have it any other way 😌

[iguanodonwildman]

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