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The Girl Who Doesn't Want to Be the Chosen One

Do you want to read something funny and sweet and cute?

Do you want fic with plot and feelings?

DO YOU WANT GELPHIE? Then I have something special for you!

read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/72803046

mysticmilks

The Girl Who Doesn't Want to Be the Chosen One

The world where Elphaba grew up outside of Oz and it's Glinda's mission to bring her back

Finished

~58k, M, Romcom, Fluff and humour

Modern Au with magic, slow burn, from 'blond' to lovers for @gelphiebigbang2025

https://archiveofourown.org/works/72803046/chapters/189644746

mysticmilks

The Girl Who Doesn't Want to Be the Chosen One

The world where Elphaba grew up outside of Oz and it's Glinda's mission to bring her back

Finished

~58k, M, Romcom, Fluff and humour

Modern Au with magic, slow burn, from 'blond' to lovers for @gelphiebigbang2025

https://archiveofourown.org/works/72803046/chapters/189644746

The Girl Who Doesn't Want to Be the Chosen One

The world where Elphaba grew up outside of Oz and it's Glinda's mission to bring her back

Finished

~58k, M, Romcom, Fluff and humour

Modern Au with magic, slow burn, from 'blond' to lovers for @gelphiebigbang2025

https://archiveofourown.org/works/72803046/chapters/189644746

#gelphie #glinda x elphaba #wicked #gelphie fanfic #gelphie big bang #wicked fanfiction #glinda x elphie

mysticmilks

Gelphie Big Bang Fic

The Girl Who Doesn't Want to Be the Chosen One (57929 words) by mysticmilks Chapters: 22/22 Fandom: Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland Additional Tags: GelphieBigBang2025, GelphieBB, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, romcom, Humor, Fluff and Humor Summary: El has no plans for her life. After more than twenty years of being a disappointment — to herself and to her family — she’s learned not to bother trying. She’s never reached her goals before, so why expect anything now? She drifts, she settles, she keeps her expectations low. It’s fine, really: some kind of college degree, a few doomed relationships (who actually has a functional one in college?), a miserable summer in the middle of nowhere, Europe. That’s about as far as her ambition goes. What El doesn’t expect is the most beautiful girl she’s ever seen to appear in her rented apartment — all pink dress and glitter — insisting that El follow her on a quest to save something called Oz. No. Absolutely not. That is definitely not part of El’s plan.

(I promise to create a nice promo a bit later)

Gelphie Big Bang Fic

The Girl Who Doesn't Want to Be the Chosen One (57929 words) by mysticmilks Chapters: 22/22 Fandom: Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland Additional Tags: GelphieBigBang2025, GelphieBB, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, romcom, Humor, Fluff and Humor Summary: El has no plans for her life. After more than twenty years of being a disappointment — to herself and to her family — she’s learned not to bother trying. She’s never reached her goals before, so why expect anything now? She drifts, she settles, she keeps her expectations low. It’s fine, really: some kind of college degree, a few doomed relationships (who actually has a functional one in college?), a miserable summer in the middle of nowhere, Europe. That’s about as far as her ambition goes. What El doesn’t expect is the most beautiful girl she’s ever seen to appear in her rented apartment — all pink dress and glitter — insisting that El follow her on a quest to save something called Oz. No. Absolutely not. That is definitely not part of El’s plan.

(I promise to create a nice promo a bit later)

#gelphie big bang 2025 #gelphie #gelphaba #wicked fanfiction #glinda x elphaba #gelphie fanfic #glinda upland #wicked

mysticmilks

Undercover Prince

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66379225

Two undercover prince walks into a bar inn and there was only one bed.

Or: what if Damen traveled incognito, met Laurent and assumed that Laurent was a pet.

mysticmilks

I've just posted ch2!

#captive prince #captive prince fic #lamen #damen x laurent

bookishdiplodocus

How I turned an idea into an outline

With NaNoWriMo around the corner, I thought I might show you how I plotted my novel.

This is the story structure I used:

0% inciting incident

0%-20% introduction in the world, ends with a point of no return

20% first plot point: the hero receives his marching orders

20%-50% response to the first plot point

35% first pinch point: reminder of the nature of the antagonistic force

50% midpoint: big fat plot twist that changes the hero’s AND reader’s experience

50%-80% attack: the stakes are higher now

65% second pinch point: again reminding the reader of the antagonistic forces at hand

80% second plot point: the final injection of new information into the story to give the hero everything she needs to become the primary catalyst in the story’s conclusion (no new information past this point)

80%-100% resolution + final conflict + return home

I didn’t make this up. I think it’s by Larry Brooks, if The Internet informs me correctly. Fun Fact: once you pay attention to it, you’ll see this structure everywhere. Just take a look at any Harry Potter book, for example.

These points are the “bones” of my story. Next, I decided what “flesh” to put on them.

I simply made a list of things I like to read about:

Books about books and libraries

Magic

Quirky characters

Intelligent, fast-paced and sometimes silly

So, I combined this list and the structure points into a story that makes sense. Because I don’t want to spoil my plot / I am still to shy about my wip, I will make up a new plot for this post, so I can show you.

0%: The hero does something magical without knowing how she did it. She discards it, because everybody knows it can’t have been real.

0%-20%: We see the daily life of the hero: she is unhappy because all she wants to do is read, but she is not allowed to. She reads in the dead of night and is punished for it by her evil stepcousin. She finds a book on magic.

20% It all clicks together: she can do magic!

20%-50% The daily life for the hero changes. Instead of reading all night, she practices magic. She now loves books even more. She has little victories over her evil stepcousin, but hasn’t won yet.

35% The evil stepcousin finds out that she can do magic and takes away the magic book.

50% She discovers she can do magic without the book.

50%-80% The hero is not the only one who is bullied by the evil stepcousin. Her younger cousin is a victim as well, and he doesn’t have magic to defend himself. The stakes are raised, this is bigger than herself now. The younger cousin also wants to read, so they have several bonding moments over reading.

65% The evil stepcousin hurts the younger cousin, he’s in a coma now.

80% The hero discovers the evil stepcousin could do all these evil things because he knows magic too.

80%-100% The hero confronts the evil stepcousin, fights him off, nearly loses but wins in the end. He gives up and releases his power over the younger cousin who wakes up from the coma.

It’s not the most genius plot ever, but I literally made this up in minutes. So can you! And imagine the genius plot you can come up with if you spend more than a few minutes on it.

Then I calculated how many scenes I need in which part of the story. My wip is a YA or 12+ book, so I want it to contain about 75,000 words in total. I want my scenes to be around 1,000 words long to keep it snappy, so I need 75 scenes.

Scene number 1 (0%) is the inciting incident, scene number 15 (20%) is the first plot point, scene number 26 (35%) is the first pinch point, scene number 37 (50%) is the midpoint, scene number 49 (65%) is the second pinch point, scene number 60 (80%) is the second plot point and scene 75 (100%) is the last scene.

Some sidenotes on the 1,000-word scenes:

That’s more of a vague rule of thumb than a strict rule. If your scene needs to be longer or shorter, make it longer or shorter of course. My wip has some 2,300-word scenes as well.

Having 1,000-word scenes does not mean I have 1,000-word chapters, that would be really short. I will divide my novel into chapters after I’m finished writing my first draft.

For NaNoWriMo, maybe you could write scenes of 1,667 words, so you do one scene per day. A 50,000-word novel has 30 scenes of 1,667 words. Inciting incident is at scene 1, first plot point at scene 6, first pinch point at scene 11, midpoint at scene 15, second pinch point at scene 20, second plot point at scene 24 and scene 30 is your last scene. That’s just an idea, you got to see what works for you.

Then I made up in one sentence what will happen in every scene. For example: “They meet the dragon and he sends them on a sidequest.” Now my outline consists of 75 one-sentence scenes. This way, I prevent the problem of the sagging middle and other pacing problems and I still get to surprise myself when writing.

From those one-sentence scenes, I flesh out every scene into a first draft, using the process I described in my post How I never have to face an empty page when I write.

And that’s my first draft! I hope everything is clear. Feel free to ask me questions if it isn’t.

I’m gonna tag a few people I admire, who I hope are interested. If you aren’t, feel free to ignore me, or message me to take you off my tag list. If you would like to be added to my writing advice tag list, let me know.

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lifeafterpsychiatry

Stop just asking "is it normal?" and start asking "is it harming anyone?" Lots of harmful things are normalized in this society and lots of things considered weird or rare are completely harmless. Whether something is considered normal or common shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether it's okay

Undercover Prince

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66379225

Two undercover prince walks into a bar inn and there was only one bed.

Or: what if Damen traveled incognito, met Laurent and assumed that Laurent was a pet.

#captive prince #captive prince fic #active prince fanfiction #lamen #damen x laurent

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Undercover Prince

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/BYoTi1h by mysticmilks Traveling incognito, Prince Damen intended only to gauge the political climate ahead of the upcoming negotiations with Vere. Absolutely nothing to do with a messy breakup, fraternal betrayal, or his father’s failing health — strictly diplomacy. What he didn’t intend was to end up sharing a cramped room in a forgotten roadside inn with a sharp-tongued, golden-haired Pet named Charles… purely for political reasons, of course. (Spoiler: Charles is no flirt. He’s Prince Laurent, heir to the Veretian throne. And Damen has no idea what kind of mess he’s just walked into.) Or: two undercover princes walk into a bar... New chapter every week. Guaranteed: flirting, lies, and diplomatic disasters. Words: 2613, Chapters: 1/7, Language: English Fandoms: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Relationships: Damen/Laurent (Captive Prince) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mistaken Identity, There Was Only One Bed, Undercover Missions, Enemies to Lovers, but much less enemies than in canon, Sexual Tension, Auguste Lives (Captive Prince), Secret Identity, First Meetings, It's my first Captive Prince fanfic so be gentle read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/BYoTi1h

mysticmilks

Just a reminder to check out my new fanfic

#damen x laurent #lamen

bonk-is-looking-away

We reclaiming tonight bois

vaikeuksia

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A post shared by Its Lence!🥭✂️ (@mangolence)

OP (mangolence) actually redid this himself! Here's his comic and his description:

"I’ve been wanting to make this post for quite some time. Working through internalized transphobia is hard, but it’s worth it. In my country, being transsexual is classified as a mental illness. If you are trans, you are treated as sick by the court system and by the healthcare system. The idea that transmedicalism helps trans people is false, and unconventional trans and nonbinary people aren’t why transphobia exists, ignorance and bigotry is why transphobia exists.

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If you want to learn more about this topic, I highly recommend Brennen Beckwith’s three part video series, starring with “Breaking My Silence On Kalvin Garrah | Part 1” , and Contrapoints video "transtrenders". Big thank you to @krougrin for encouraging me to make this post!

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#transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #transmasculine #nonbinary #transmed #transmedicalist"

palenoface

ihavedonenothingright

Want to Attend an Online Captive Prince Fan Meet-Up?

You can join our new Discord server using the link below. My hope is that the server can be a fun, supplemental place to promote our fics, host events, and generally discuss Capri. It is 18+ by necessity.

It was one server, once. A Captive Prince server dedicated to discussing the books and promoting fanworks. | 5 members

If you're interested in becoming a mod, DM me here on Tumblr or over on Discord. I'm looking for people who know a little bit more about Discord than I do who can help get the server ready for the event.

I'll be back sometime later this week with polls about what date to host the first meeting (though there will hopefully be more) and then later, what time.

#captive prince

ayeforscotland

Something funny about another wave of actors who starred in Harry Potter films coming out against the Supreme Court ruling - and therefore JK Rowling who funded the campaign.

tuttle-did-it

Reminder that this it’s precisely why Rowling has rebooted Potter because all the faces of her old material have spoken out against her anti-Trans hateful shit. New merch, new articles worth new actors who profanely have it IN their contract to shut the fuck up about her TERF shit.

Don’t buy into it. Don’t buy the merch, don’t watch the new bullshit.

mysticmilks

Even though HP was my favourite book growing up, I'll never give Rowling even a cent of my money. You can still have warm feeling toward the story, but don't buy anything. Don't buy her books. Don't watch the new show. Don't participate in any official events.

#Harry potter #rowling

Undercover Prince (2613 words) by mysticmilks Chapters: 1/7 Fandom: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damen/Laurent (Captive Prince) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mistaken Identity, There Was Only One Bed, Undercover Missions, Enemies to Lovers, but much less enemies than in canon, Sexual Tension, Auguste Lives (Captive Prince), Secret Identity, First Meetings, It's my first Captive Prince fanfic so be gentle Summary:

Traveling incognito, Prince Damen intended only to gauge the political climate ahead of the upcoming negotiations with Vere. Absolutely nothing to do with a messy breakup, fraternal betrayal, or his father’s failing health — strictly diplomacy. What he didn’t intend was to end up sharing a cramped room in a forgotten roadside inn with a sharp-tongued, golden-haired Pet named Charles… purely for political reasons, of course.

(Spoiler: Charles is no flirt. He’s Prince Laurent, heir to the Veretian throne. And Damen has no idea what kind of mess he’s just walked into.)

Or: two undercover princes walk into a bar...

New chapter every week. Guaranteed: flirting, lies, and diplomatic disasters.

#captive prince fanfic #captive prince #lamen #damen x laurent #damianos of akielos #laurent of vere