Chasing Plot Ducklings

penna_nomen on AO3 - writing fic for multiple fandoms including the Caffrey Conversation series for White Collar. Easily distracted by books, and penguins, and... well, just easily distracted, okay? Banner art commissioned from Will Quinn

[penna-nomen]

Finally, a pinned intro post!

About me: English literature major working in IT in the Pacific Northwest. She/her. Posting fanfic as penna_nomen. Joined Tumblr in July 2023.

Fanfic on AO3:

Co-author with @silbrith of a White Collar AU series called Caffrey Conversation

Posted in many fandoms including Discworld, Doctor Who, Good Omens, The Good Place, Murderbot Diaries, Psych, Red White & Royal Blue, Schitt's Creek, Supernatural, and several of Jane Austen's novels.

I prefer writing stories with happy endings, often with a mix of humor, fluff, and angst.

Writing Goals:

fanfic goals: Complete my Devotees series for The Murderbot Diaries and write the finale for the Caffrey Conversation series. Participate in various prompts, challenges, and exchanges for fun when I have time (and not pressure myself to do them all).

original works goal: Figure out what to do with my sci-fi WIP titled Prime Conditions. One of the characters is an opinionated purple duckling named Amethyst, and she's my Tumblr icon. She thinks of herself as my plot duckling, which is like a plot bunny but louder.

[thirstkanaphan]

[reasonsforhope]

You don't have ever to choose between being a girl or a boy

You don't ever have to use a specific label or term

You don't need anyone's permission to call yourself queer or nonbinary or trans or enby

In fact, you don't need anyone's permission to call yourself any of those words almost by the definitions of the words themselves

There's no judge. There's no tryouts, there's no membership card, there's no applications or fees (and thank goodness for that!!!)

In fact, because gender and queerness are both, at their core, about the ways people feel inside and want to interact (with each other, with society, with their own concept of self, etc.), there are very few hard boundaries at all

And you certainly don't have to figure out a specific label or a specific gender identity in order to figure out want you want - in life, in queerness, in gender, in general - and start to move toward it

[audliminal]

Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other

[mrv3000]

Murderbot (used to dealing with Mensah and the Preservation gang): There are bad guys out there. So I need to go out there. With them. For a while. And um... interact with them. For a while. I'm being very vague so as to not offend sensibilities. Do you get what--

Farai: Go fuck them up already.

Murderbot:

[stiffyck]

I need more touch averse characters. Yeah yeah touch starved characters are all fun and all but what about characters who don't want to be touched at all? Characters who dislike the closeness of other people, characters who dislike casual touch, who are uncomfortable with hugs and cuddles-

Characters who others struggle to comfort because a hug just makes thing worse, and people usually use physical touch as a way to comfort each other. Characters who keep getting their boundaries crossed because it's normal to just casually touch people, it's expected a lot of the times, and no one thinks twice about it.

I want more touch averse characters

[markovchaingang]

normalized data implies the existence of problematized data

[transcyberism]

that's his brother Lore actually

[starfleetofficial]

Something I enjoy about Martha Wells writing and the Murderbot books is how often she plays with the way very close 1st Person narration blinds you the physical reality of the character. Murderbot just spent three pages telling me about its very level headed ideas and then it cuts to and anyway the whole time I've been thinking about that I've been silently curled up on the floor like a dog while everyone politely waited for me to be done.

[probablily]

I just love it when things are earnest like everyone get more earnest now

[dathen]

I had a thought about whether Murderbot would be able to survive Castle Dracula.

Now, I think the answer is yes as long as Murderbot doesn't run out of power. The real question is at what point would Murderbot force Jonathan to escape/kill Dracula and the other vampires to protect him? (Because of course Murderbot is there to a protect a client.)

Murderbot is an incarnation of the Dues Ex Machina so I am all for this. It doesn't seem to need power frequently, so I think it would just designate Dracula as Hostile One pretty fast and throw Jonathan over its shoulder and do a turbo-marathon back to safety.

[tachvintlogic]

Jonathan: But I need this for my job! It will look bad on my record!

Murderbot: And keeping you alive is my job, so we're getting out of here.

[ghostlynimbus]

WIP Word Guessing Game

Rules: Send me an ask with a word and I'll post a sentence or paragraph from one of my WIPs that contains that word!

If you manage to stump me, I'll write three sentences and share these.

If you want to play please feel free to reblog/repost this so people can send you words.

[trilliath]

it's really fucking annoying sometimes that my job is Brain because then I use too much Brain at work so by the time I'm finally done and can work on the writing that's been itching at me all day I have only a tiny fraction of Brain left

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

problem with finishing a fic is immediately wanting to start a new one

[peach-pot]

anyways. relationship anarchy forever, happy pride.

[scarlct-vvitch]

ART and murderbot make me crazy because they are both so wildly apart from any other being (bot or human) around that they thought they would never have a friend. never be understood. ART is more intelligent than any other system it's ever met by a mile. murderbot is a rogue secunit that has spent its entire life lying about it. the two of them have been so alone for so long that a friend is a foreign concept, only for others, only for humans. and then they meet. and theyre like hey. wait. youre like me. i didnt think that was even possible. i want to be around you and save humans with you and be up in your business and if i can't im gonna freak out. i want to annoy you until we die. i kidnapped you when i got hurt because i dont trust anyone else. i want to do surgery on you. i put my human's lives in your hands willingly. i have never been truly seen before you. do you want to watch tv forever?

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[wonderstruck]

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