My name is Frances. I've finally decided to create a sideblog for my loves Ted and Rebecca. Here's a bit about me:
🩷I'm a librarian (I've earned the master's degree!) and i have a BA in English
🩷 Besides Ted Lasso, my favorite shows, films, and books include The Mysterious Benedict Society, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Derry Girls, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Little Women, and a lot more.
🩷 I love writing fanfiction! My primary ao3 account is thegreatkatewritingmachine, but I use the pseud pinkboxes for Ted Lasso fics. You will find both E and G rated content there.
🩷 I'm autistic and queer, I love Victorian-era fashion, my favorite season is autumn, and I don't like chocolate ice cream.
This is a sideblog. I will follow from my main blog @mysteriouseggsbenedict
I welcome Ted/Rebecca fanfiction requests via my ask box! See below for my guidelines for submitting requests:
Requests can be for any rating (so, yes, you can request smut)
No major character death
No serious illness, injury, or accident (particularly no involvement of cancer, even if it is in a way that is "less serious")
No omegaverse
Explicit fics involving kinks or unusual dynamics will be case-by-case basis, depending on whether it's something I'm interested in and capable of writing. Feel free to submit any smut requests and I will not be offended even if it's something I'm not into.
I fill requests according to what sounds interesting and like something I want to write at that moment; that is to say, it is not necessarily in the order of who requested first.
Request fulfillment will usually be about 1000-3000 words in length.
I have really enjoyed doing fic requests in the past, and it makes me super happy that people want to request things from me, so generally the vibes are very friendly and fun! Don't be afraid to request whatever, so long as it's not containing the couple of things I'm not down to write about.
The key to writing good fanfiction is to harbor a deeply humiliating desire, and the trick there is that even pretty basic and societally-accepted desires like “being held” and “being wanted” CAN and WILL be humiliating if they’re intense enough. Become so estranged from human connection that the idea of someone playing with your hair fills you with yearning so deep you feel like you’re going to throw up and you will write some banger fanfiction. It might have some other consequences too but idrk about that.
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
Something they never tell you about being an adult is the power of just being The Person Who Reliably Shows Up. Even if you don’t think you have much to bring to the table except being kind to people, wanting to learn, and contributing when you can. Many of the good things that have happened to me and many of the connections I’ve made have been because I just kept showing up and people were like, whelp, I guess we can’t get rid of your ass and now you’re a load bearing part of the community
