Platypan (Peterqpan on Ao3)

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[platypanthewriter]

Fic Masterpost

 I’m realizing I did not fully post a lot of these here, and a lot of them are more edited or expanded on Ao3 under peterqpan FYI...but I’ll work on getting them up here too

BLIND AS A BAT (Bruce doesn’t believe Clark’s in love with him, despite his five separate confessions.  5+1, complete, 3.3k)

A GOLDFISH DIES IN GOTHAM (DCEU Bruce’s goldfish dies, and he contemplates crime and mortality, complete .6k)

Canon-adjacent (S2): 

BIRDWATCHING FOR DUMMIES (Post S2, Steve and Max try to protect the Hargroves from Hawkins, while Billy tries to figure out wtf is happening.  Complete.  24.3k)  Part one | Part Two|Part Three

BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Mid S2, After Steve and Nancy break up, Billy and Steve hook up at a party...a bunch of times.  Complete here, edited and expanded on Ao3. 10.8k)

FRIDAY, 4PM: GAY SEX AND DEMODOGS (Post S2, Steve realizes the Upside-Down is encroaching on his school grabs a random student to warn them--and it’s Billy.  Complete, 8k)

STEVE HARRINGTON: HOME ALONE (Canon diverged in S2, Harringrove Christmas Special.  Complete.  25.9k) Part One/Two/Three/Four/Five

STRANGEST (184k WIP, post S2 fixit, slow burn)  chapter 1/chapter 2/chapter 3/chapter 4/chapter 5/chapter 6/chapter 7/chapter 8/chapter 9/chapter 10/chapter 11/chapter 12

Canon-adjacent (S3):

BILLY HARGROVE: POSSESSED TRASH BANDIT  (Steve hears rustling out by the pool, and finds Billy, confused after escaping the Upside-Down.  Complete, 2.3k)

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING (Post S3, Billy lives and returns to Hawkins, where he and Steve catch up.  Complete, 2.3k)

HIDING A MULTITUDE OF SINS (Steve needs help fighting demodogs, and Billy tries, but he’s not much use.  “Hiding injury” trope, complete, 1.9k)

SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE (After the events at Starcourt, Steve runs into Billy Hargove, visible but incorporeal--but he starts to suspect Billy’s not actually a ghost.  Complete, 17.9k.)  Part One | Two | finished on Ao3

DING DONG DASHING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR (They get Billy out of the mall, but even the hospital can’t save him…but even after he dies, he isn’t really gone, and strange things happen in Hawkins.) Part One | Two | Three

SPRING BREAK (AND PINKY SWEARS) (Post S2, pre S3, Steve realizes something is up with Billy Hargrove.  He can only ignore it so long.  Complete 2.4k)

SWITCH YOUR PARTNER ROUND AND ROUND (Mid S3, Steve and Billy switch bodies in the car wreck.  Complete.  10.8k) Part One | Part Two

1980′s AUs:

BABY’S FIRST PUNK ROCK CONCERT (AU where Billy and his mom moved to Chicago, and Billy meets Will at a concert.  Will introduces him to Steve.  Complete, 7.1k)  Chapter 1/Chapter 2

THE BEASTMASTER (Steve comes home to a silly ongoing incident.  Complete, 1k)

BILLY’S GOT ACE HARDWARE (Billy’s asexual, and thought kissing ‘straight’ King Steve would be safe.  Turns out, it is, just not the way he thought.  Complete, 2.3k)

IT TAKES A VILLAGE (Kid!Steve just wants to hold Kid!Billy’s hand and kiss him under the slide, and their teacher is gonna make sure Neil allows it.  Complete, 7.5k) Part One | Part Two

Short Ask Prompts:

Flayed Karen Wheeler

Pool Noodles (Steve finds Flayed!Billy at the pool, and calls Hopper)

Possessed Neil Hargrove

Steve’s an accompanying pianist, off Gravegrove’s lovely art of Billy with a violin

Harringrove April Master List (30 unrelated one-shot prompts, descriptions in link!)

Fantasy:

THE DRAGON’S PRINCE (Prince Steve’s country needs help.  The only answer: ask a dragon who never sends in his paperwork on time. Mood: Inspired by Shrek.  Complete)  Chapter 1/Chapter 2/Chapter 3

THE DEVIL LOOKS AFTER HIS OWN (Little Steve Harrington is so lonely he tries summoning a demon with a ritual advertised on TV--but luckily, it doesn't work, and a buff, non-human nanny hired by his mom shows up minutes later.  Years later, they're best friends, and Steve still doesn't know the truth.  WIP) Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

THE KEG-KING OF ELFLAND’S SWORD (Mood: High Fantasy Jane Austen.  Billy and Max travel to a strange town where the people live with more magic than he’s ever seen, and he meets a beautiful man at a ball.  The kegstand with Tommy is replaced by a swordfight. Complete on Ao3, 68k.) Part One | Two | Three | Four | 5-end on Ao3

A STRATEGIC PROPOSAL  (Sir Harrington proposes marriage to get out of awkward conversations with his ex.  Only problem is, Sir Hargrove thought the proposal was serious.  Complete)  Part One/Part Two/Part Three/Part Four/Part Five/Part Six

Modern AU:

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (DRIVES AN UBER) (Prince Steve flees his wedding, and asks his Uber driver to take him bowling...and on a date.  WIP)  Part One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six

UNLESS...? (Steve’s straight.  He knows that for sure, even though he wants to friend-marry the new bartender, and touch his hair.  Unless...?  WIP, 26k)  Part One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven

1001 NIGHTS (IN ONE MONTH OF ELECTIONS) (Billy and Steve react to 2020-2021 in the US of A)  Parts One And Two | Three

Teen Wolf:

STILES THINKS HE’S PUNNY (DEREK WISHES HE’D STOP) (Teen Derek encounters Stiles at the police station, the day of the fire, and Stiles helps him get away from a hunter pretending to be a police officer.  2kish?  Complete.)

FIVE CONVERSATIONS THAT PROBABLY HAPPENED, AND ONE THAT DIDN’T (5+1 Missing Scenes.  Complete, 22k.)

WHITE LIES (Stiles tries to cover for the weird noises werewolves keep making in his apartment, Complete one-shot)

Miraculous Ladybug:

IN WHICH NO ONE’S IMAGINATION OBEYS POSTED SPEED LIMITS (Marinette becomes convinced Chat Noir and Adrien are having an affair, while Adrien begins to suspect Ladybug is in love with Rena Rouge...WIP, 23.8k) (no link, sorry, it’s all over on Ao3, I’ll post and update, whoops)

Over the Garden Wall:

Greg is a Chaos Fairy, Wirt needs to learn to Say No, and Sara's day just got Cursed With Being Interesting (Further adventures over the Garden Wall by our heroes, in which Sara comes along, and Wirt is bullied by a talking horse)  (All over on Ao3 again, I’ll post here when I get around to it)

Star Vs. the Forces of Evil

THREE’S COMPANY (After the events of the show, Marco and Star realize Tom is acting weirder than usual.  Stomco OT3.  Complete, 4.4k)

Good Omens

USE YOUR NOODLE (A short silly thing that happened while Nanny and Brother Francis were raising Warlock.  Complete, 1.2k)

The Hobbit

THE HOBBITON SHOW (Thorin, a detective, is asked to guest star on a musical puppet show for children.  WIP, 1k)

[midnights-dragon]

[kittygirl255]

2024 is the year we hammer in 'Don't like don't read' back in common use.

[hunnystufff]

Little preview (first 8 pages) of my Comic "Nachtklang"! Little reminder that the pre-order for the Comic is still up until the 1. march! (You can also read it on patre0n ofc!)

[ihni]

Off the edge

For the Fall of Neil Hargrove, day 2 prompt; "The Camaro"

~~~

The car is an object; not living per se But sentient, maybe, perhaps, in a way She knows her boy’s touch from the many repairs Knows that he loves her, and knows that he cares

He fixes her ailments and fills her with gas Washes her paint job and polishes glass Until they sparkle, until they gleam Together, they make such a glorious team

He’s a good driver, she’s a good car Together, they’re great; they go fast, they go far She doesn’t know feelings like hate and thereof But loves him, as much as a car can feel love

Some nights, he is hurting inside her, she knows His driving is reckless and angry, it shows On some nights he screams, on others he weeps Sometimes, he curls up on the backseat and sleeps

One night, he is shoved to the driver’s side door And held there, and screamed at, then shoved to the floor Another man enters her, sits in the seat And backs her away from her boy, to the street

The man drives her off, he is angry and strong His grip is abrasive, he drives her all wrong She knows; this is he who has caused her boy’s pain She knows; she will not let him do it again

So she speeds up, though the man tries to brake She turns on her own, and she drives to the lake She knows these roads well, and she knows where she’s going He tries the handbrake, but she is not slowing

Right up ahead, there’s a turn in the road They’ll crash, and they’ll drown, and they’ll sink and corrode She speeds through the fence and then they’re in the air The man in her seat screams, but she doesn’t care

She is an object; not living per se But sentient, kind of, somehow, in a way She doesn’t know feelings, but maybe it’s glee? She feels as she dies, and her boy is set free

~~~

@fallofneilhargrove

[platypanthewriter]

She’s crooked, she thinks, lying under the water in death, he’s parked badly, this man, her boy’s father her boy would have never, she thinks as she sits have set her on boulders, her chassis all tilted

Fish swim away as the man’s engine roars, fuelling his arms—he yanks hard at her doors, but his roaring gets softer—he stops, pounds her glass she remembers Rusty Girl saying ‘Kill his ass.’

The bad parker stops moving, and then starts to float against her ceiling and windshield, like he thinks he’s a boat. She hopes no one finds them, now his engine has guttered, and feeds him fresh fuel, brings him coughing and spluttering

Her boy will soon miss her, she thinks, and she uses the last of her will to coast forward, abuses her chrome and her mirrors, grating over the floor but her boy must not find her, mustn’t open her doors.

She waits to stop thinking, and then she just waits she’s tickled by fish, they mouth at her plates Her fluids float upwards, and so do the man’s, her upholstery’s staining, she thinks, like some stoner's van's.

Humans all look the same to her, all soft and blah colors except when they find her, they’re black like her leathers with headlights and tubes, are they humans or cars? She tries to roll further, she doesn’t get far

The man is not fueled, though, they wrap him in plastic they don’t bring the gas can, she wishes she could ask if he’s off to the wrecking yard, sold off for parts or can be repaired, if his engine still starts

her headlights still work, though humans switch them off, it helps her to watch him, to see if he coughs she could roll on over him, she thinks, where he lies crush his whole engine, make sure he dies

but her door clicks and swings open—it’s the Rust Girl her head still needs sanding and painting, a whirl of rusty metal that clouds down her back, --and the boy made of nice seat leather, polished and black.

She likes them, those two, nearly as much as her boy when they tow her to dry, let her drip, give her joy as they talk about Neil, that he’s dead, dead for real, that no fuel and no lubricant will let him heal.

Her boy is at home, Rust Girl wants to repair her, wash her seats, wax her paint, they must look a pair Rusty and dripping, but soon they’ll be shining And she and her boy, they’ll get back to DRIVING

~~~

Not up to your standards, @ihni, but I couldn't leave the poor heroic Camaro in the lake!

[platypanthewriter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Real NEW CHAPTER of Strangest, if anybody is interested in that!

[thissortofsorcery]

💞A different type of rec list ask game, to rep your own fics and other authors you enjoy.💞 Spell out your user name with fic recs. If the letter correlates to one of your fics you rec it (no duplicates use a different fic for repeat letters.) If you get to a letter you don’t have a fic title for you rec one you‘ve liked from someone else. 💖Send this to someone who might need a little love on their own fics or just like spreading the love.💖

Oh, my username is LONG, this is gonna be HARD (haha get it). Keeping it Harringrove to keep it simple (for myself. I have over 3k bookmarks on ao3)

The Green Hawkins Tigers Sweatshirt, by me. 1k, Steve comforts Billy after a run in with Neil.

Hook Possum, by @platypanthewriter. 16k, Steve's a camp counselor and there's a guy Possum Mascot he's very friendly with. This fic had me laughing and giggling from start to finish. It's ART.

I Had to See You, by me. Almost 2k, Billy and Steve broke up three weeks ago, and Steve shows up on Billy's doorstep. One of the fics I'm proudest of.

sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, by @whenyouwishuponastar7. 94k, Steve is a professional babysitter, and is hired to look after Max after she and her older brother move to Hawkins. This was the first fic I read from her and I FELL IN LOVE. Absolute masterpiece. Every time she posts new fics I run to read them so fast.

Shout At The Devil, by @writerwhowritesao3. It's actually a series (155k) that has me by the balls, but the first fic(68k) can be read on its own just fine. It's a retelling of season 2 and it's delicious. It also gives Susan a personality. I would tag just the first fic, but I don't have a J in my username and I HAD to.

Of Cats and Men, by @ihni. 39k, Billy hits a cat with his car, and has to take care of three little kittens. Steve helps. This fics is EVERYTHING to me. Billy and cats get me every time, right in the heart. You will need to hug your pet when you read this, though.

Run for the Shadows, by @shieldofiron. 36k, this fic is DELICIOUS. Friends with benefits to lovers, OBLIVIOUS STEVE. So oblivious. Pure of heart, dumb of ass. I had such a great time reading this fic.

Towel Talks, by @weird-an. 10k, after s3, Steve finds Billy in the community pool sauna. I love this one because An does caring Steve SO WELL. I was like this 🥺 the whole time I was reading it. It's so so good.

On Loving Billy, by lilpeas. I don't know their tumblr. 16k, this is THE break-up and make-up fic. It hurts SO GOOD, their emotions are so beautifully written out. It wrung everything out of me. Love.

for what you have tamed, by skoosiepants. Don't know their tumblr either. 10k. Billy is a cat and a dragon, and he keeps saving Steve's life. I LOVE magical realism, and this fic builds the world incredibly well. It's such a good read.

Sideways, by @robthegoodfellow. 46k. THIS FIC. It spins season 2 on its head so fucking well, oh my god. Rob is such a good writer, I've read this fic more than once and it gets to me every time. Their Billy is incredible.

Only The Freaks Come Out at Night, by shippingmyarmada (idk their tumblr). 67k. GREAT post s2 fic. You know I cry from happiness when I find a post s2 fic. This one is really, really well done.

Rotten Apples, by @weird-an. 14k. It's. a. WITCHER. AU. Do I need to say anything else???????? I love this so much. So much. You have no idea.

Camaro, by @lovebillyhargrove. I'm cheating a little on this one bc I don't know the name of the fic and I wanted to include it, and it's about the Camaro coming alive after season 3 and going on a killing spree to avenge Billy. It gets EVEN BETTER from there. Ana wrote this so well, whenever a chapter dropped on tumblr I lost my shit.

every night fucks every day up, by anonymous. 8k. It's a modern AU, and you know I love my modern AUs. Steve and Billy interact through snapchat. I have a soft spot for snapchat because i first heard about this app reading a Sterek fic in january 2014. This has nothing to do with the fic.

Read to Me?, by lemonlovely (idk tumblr). 12k. Someone leaves books with marked passages at Family Video for Steve. It's SO CUTE. SO CUTE. I love it.

Yeah, It's Me, by @callieb. 29k. Another fic that's between s2 and s3, and this one is SOOOOO GOOD in that their relationship starts as a FWB that's kind of unhealthy and I just about died reading this. Happy ending though. Trust me, it's worth it.

And that's done! It took me over 2 hours to put this together lmao so go give these fics and these writers some love! They deserve it.

[theadhdgoblin]

[ihni]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Look what @platypanthewriter wrote for me! Art and glass flowers and a creative Steve growing up in a glass studio and a scantily clad glittery Billy there at the end of the chapter, and oh it painted such vivid images in my head!

I smiled all the way through it and now I want to create stuff in glass! So i spring and cute and lovely! Thank you so so much!

[platypanthewriter]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many moooooore <3 <3 <3!!!

[platypanthewriter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

Steve doesn't have the life he thought he'd have, but he's happy, mostly, he's useful, he makes good money--and then he meets Billy Camaro, and desperately wants more, wants to be selfish, wishes he could ditch everything else to make Billy smile.

I posted a fic!  Hoping to keep posting chapters until it’s done...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IHNI

[aggressiveviking]

been thinking about billy punching things

[rilinhyl]

Season3

Pool and Whistle and kissing

(If Steve was also a swimming pool lifeguard /Creepin’ up on him)

[writingsfromspace]

This refers to writing posted on tumblr!

"None of the above" here means "I'd rather not get a comment at all than any of the options listed"

Writers! Which of the following would you MOST like to receive in response to your writing?

Keysmash (kjafldsgjflk) or scream (AAAAAAAaaaahhhhhh)

Emojis of any variety (🥺 <3 (ㄒoㄒ))

Reaction image/gif (I don't think I can add one of these here whoops)

Any of the above

None of the above

Not a writer/see results/clicky button

Voting ended onJan 24, 2024

Reblog for sample size please I am but a little writeblr

[patroclusdefencesquad]

fiction and fantasy are so fun because it's like. if i met this man in real life i would drop kick him off a cliff within three seconds of him opening his mouth. luckily for him he doesn't exist so we can all happily ignore those red flags and pretend we could fix him

[avaantares]

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

[heywriters]

UPDATE: Plush Books still exists on Amazon and on Goodreads under the pseudonym "J.D. Geraghty" where the fanfics are also listed. They also have a list of cookbooks that are without a doubt AI written (the descriptions for the books are repetitive nonsense so god forbid what exists inside).

From what I can see on Amazon, most of the stolen fanfics have become "Unavailable." This entity likely operates under more than one name, so it isn't safe to assume crisis averted. Numerous bad actors are posting AI written works to Amazon, which just means plagiarism slurry with a side of potential danger (like the autogenerated mushroom identification books).

[tokyoterri2]

oh ffs. shared.

[asynca]

oh fuck you, 'JD Geraghty'. You did not write this. I DID.

[ihni]

For the lovely @platypanthewriter, for their fic "Strangest" (this scene is adapted from one of my favorite scenes from chapter 20, where Steve has made a ... thing ... for Billy. Home-made presents are the best, right??)

ALSO. Fun fact, but Denise actually exists in real life. I love her. XD

[platypanthewriter]

AWWWW IHNI YOU ARE SO AMAZING AND LOVELY 💖💜💕😭

[thebibliosphere]

Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.

[michellepsychologist]

The holidays can be stressful