Hello and welcome to my AO3 update blog. Here you will find regular updates and news about my writing on AO3 under my username: TheShortestManonEarth
Note for all my fics: All of my fanfics on AO3 are restricted to registered users.
Last Update to MasterList: 4/3/26
Current Writing Status: writing during my summer break from grad school until early September.
My Pseuds and Accounts:
Tumblr: this blog, breakingthebinarybubble and thatshortpersonyouknow [inactive].
FFN: QuixoticQuest [Inactive/No longer posting here]
AO3: TheShortestmanonEarth, and pseud: QuixoticQuest
Instagram: RainbowTiger_Art [private].
IMPORTANT: ⚠️❗️🚨🚨My old Instagram was hacked and you should unfollow/report it if you still interact with it: RainbowTigerArt.⚠️❗️❗️🚨🚨(Instagram refused to do anything to help me recover it).
🎨🖌🖍✏️Art Comissions: I do not currently do art commissions and I only draw for fun now. However, if you want me to draw a scene/moment from one of my fics I'll gladly do that for free, just send an ask or comment on my fics to request it.
General Notes and Guidelines for this blog:
- ✅️ Yes: Ask questions about the fics or chat about anything related to the fics.
-✅️ Yes: Have discussions in the comments about updates or the plot of one of my fics.
-✅️ Yes: Ask about updates in a respectful way. I will be posting any information about fic updates here, so my hope is that people will refer to the update posts first before sending an ask.
-✅️ Yes: You can ask about the plot/details of upcoming chapters, but I may not give detailed answers to avoid spoilers.
✅️ Yes: You can have discussions related to the fandoms I write about. Please tag and label things as spoliers when they come up. I love hearing people's thoughts or predictions if it's an ongoing show/series.
✅️ Yes: You can make art or write fics of my work or inspired by it as long as you credit me under my AO3 handle: TheShortestManonEarth and tag this blog if you are posting it to Tumblr. If you write a fic on AO3 you can use the "inspired by" checkbox to credit me or if you do fanart, send me an ask so I can promote it. I like supporting smaller artists or just artists in general. I also ask if you post it on Twitter/X that you notify me as I do not have an account on there.
This is the "Inspired By" box on AO3:
❌️ NO: I do not allow reposts of my work, writing or visual. I also do not allow submission of my work to AI. No exceptions. Repost is defined as the removal of my work from its original posting site location and/or posted under a pseud that is not mine. EX: You copy/paste my work from either of my Tumblr accounts to another Tumblr not run by me or copied to Wattpad (because I don't have an account on there). If you wish to share my work, please do it from one of my existing posts or one I have approved via art commission.
If you find my work on a site outside of Tumblr under either shortywrites-ao3 or breakingthebinarybubble or outside my ao3 TheShortestManonEarth (pseud QuixoticQuest on ao3 and FFN), please notify me immediately so I can file a take down request. I do allow reblogs of any of my posts from here or my other Tumblr.
It should not be this complicated but apparently AI has made people forget how plagiarism works. Plagiarism is when you take someone else's creative or intellectual property and claim it as your own. Or if you do not properly credit the original creator that can also be considered plagiarism. Ever wonder why Disney wins so many lawsuits? It's because of how strict copyright laws are with their IPs and anything that challenges that as theft is sued. Take this shit seriously and respect artists' and writers' wishes to not repost or remove their work from their original posting locations.
The only reason AO3 can exist is because there is no monetary exchange for the works. While I am not charging for my work I still expect you to respect my requirement to keep control over my content/work.
-Some fics will have NSFW and/or 18+(no one under 18) 🔞content and will be labeled accordingly. These updates won't have any details or excerpts, just links and a brief plot summary.
-If you send an ask about a spoiler or recent update, please put that at the top of your message so anyone who wants to avoid spoilers can.
-All spoiler posts will be tagged as "spoiler"
-This blog is exclusively for my writing on AO3. Asks and discussions will stick to that as the subject. Sending unrelated or inappropriate asks will result in an immediate deletion of the ask. A second offense will result in blocking.
-This is a safe space. Homophobia, transphobia, racism, anti semitism, TERFs, biphobia, xenophobia, acephobes, white supremacists, MAGA supporters, anyone who likes ICE (not sure why the hell they'd be on Tumblr), or any other forms of bigotry are not welcome here. Don't be a dick to other people. I am not your parent and won't clean up after your messes, so use your best judgment. I would really like to avoid needing mods. Just be nice, it's not hard.
Now that the serious part is out of the way, here's what you will find on this blog:
-Posts with links to recent updates
-Announcements about ongoing multi chapter fics and where they are in my work queue.
-Memes or posts about my writing issues.
-Cat posts or dog posts (I have to do it for my cat)
-Promotion of other AO3 writers' works
-Announcements about any length of time I will not be writing for any reason (this will be posted here to this pinned post as well as in a normal post).
-Announcements about new or upcoming projects and their projected launches.
-Announcements about any delays or writer's block. My ADHD decides when I can focus on fandoms or specific fics, I just work here.
-Announcements about changes in fics in terms of story, characters or plot, etc. If there's a new ship, a bumped up rating, or something that might need a content warning in the fic's tags, I will post that update here.
- Important information or PSAs from AO3
-Story development updates and sneak peeks.
Fanfiction MasterList
The Owl House
One Shots
Note: Most of my TOH fics are lumity based unless otherwise noted.
Salve (AO3), T Rating. Based on S2E14 “Reaching Out.”
You Are Gold (AO3), T Rating. Post Series AU (written pre season 3). Amity grapples with her identity and her growing feelings for Luz.
I Wanna Know What It Feels Like to Never Come Back Again (AO3), T Rating. Post Series AU. Pre season 3 alternate ending.
Wild Disaster Kitchen (AO3), T Rating. Modern AU/non magical AU. Luz runs a food mewtube channel where she experiments with food and tech.
Between the Magical and Mundane (AO3), T Rating. Post series look at Luz’s life in both the Boiling Isles and the Human Realm.
Lightning Never Strikes Twice (AO3), T Rating. Set post King’s Tide during the 2 months in the human realm pre season 3.
The Little Things (AO3), T Rating. Ice cream shop AU.
Bring Her Home (AO3), T Rating. Alternate ending to season 2 and 3.
That Time of Year Again (AO3), T Rating. Post series AU with future kids.
When Everything Feels Like the Movies, You Bleed Just to Know You’re Alive (AO3), T Rating. Set during the 2 months in the human realm pre season 3.
Where the Lost Things Go (AO3) T Rating. Luz goes on an adventure to solve the mystery of the things she finds in the lost and found bin at school.
Situation Steeped, All Brewed Up (AO3), T Rating. Teashop humor AU.
Catastrophically in Love with You (AO3), T Rating. Pre season 3 AU.
Multi-Chapter
Fragmented Pages (AO3), T Rating. Amity Blight is the bestselling author of the Good Witch Azura book series, she's famous, respected and still one of the strongest abomination witches of her generation. Her life is perfect. But in the back of her mind is the feeling that something is off and that her perfect world isn't what it seems. IN PROGRESS (off hiatus).
When You Know (AO3), T Rating. COMPLETE.
All That Love's About (AO3), T Rating. College/Modern AU. Non-monogamy focused AU that celebrates the wide range of sexualities, gender identities and everything beyond. IN PROGRESS/ON HIATUS.
Arcane
One Shots
Note: Most of my Arcane fics are Caitvi based unless otherwise noted.
Hear the Thunder in the Skies But Don't Let Them See the Tears in Your Eyes (AO3) T Rating: set pre season 2. Alternate take on season 1 ending.
I Wouldn't Self Destruct For Anybody Else (AO3), M Rating, Based on S2 Act I trailers/pre season 2. Pit fighter Vi.
My Aim Is True (AO3), T Rating (see fic for specific content warnings). Time travel AU based on Acts 1 and 2 of season 2. CW/TW: Contains subjects that might be triggering (please check tags prior to reading).
When No One Can Be Found, May I Lay You Down? (AO3), E Rating. Post Season 2 Act 3 fic.
I Won't Be No Runaway (Cause I Won't Run) (AO3), M Rating. Post series AU where Vi and Caitlyn run the last drop.
Ask Me What the Hell I'm Looking For Like You Don't Know (AO3), T Rating. Post series AU where Vi and Caitlyn run the last drop.
Multi-Chapter
Being a Loser With You Doesn't Suck (AO3), T Rating. Caitlyn is a librarian and Vi is a brawler who crashes into Caitlyn’s life. IN PROGRESS.
I'm Melting, Darling, and I Can't Let Go (AO3) M Rating.Firefighter AU featuring firefighter Caitlyn and Vi. Inspired by “Station 19” and somewillwin’s artwork. Vi grew up around Station 19, she played hide and seek in the halls and followed the firefighters around to learn more about being a firefighter. When the captaincy at 19 opens up because of Vi’s adoptive father, Vander’s promotion to chief, Vi knows she’s going to get it…
Enter the new Captain of Station 19, Caitlyn Kiramman, a transfer from another station, and now Vi’s rival. IN PROGRESS.
Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
One Shots
Note: Most of my G-witch fics are Sulemio based unless otherwise noted.
Now You Know Me (AO3), T Rating. Star Wars AU.
Don't Be Afraid (I'll Keep You Safe) (AO3), G Rating. Post Series.
Closer Than This (AO3), T Rating. Modern AU with firefighter Suletta and EMT Miorine.
Wherever Life Takes You (You Know I'll Follow You) (AO3), T Rating. Post series AU shot where permet spreads like a disease across space.
Till I Hear It From You (AO3), T Rating. Humor shot. Both Suletta and Aerial catch a cold.
Wishful Thinking (AO3), T Rating. Humor shot. Suletta goes skiing and does some reckless things to get closer to Miorine who works on ski patrol.
Through Fire For You (AO3), T Rating. Humor shot. Suletta challenges Guel to a fire ramen eating competition on Miorine’s behalf.
My Heart is a Ghost Town (AO3), T Rating. Halloween one shot.
Love With Your (Dare I Say Forever) (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Doomed, Forever, Kiss.
Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning's End (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Prologue and Desperation. Part 1 of time loop series.
In Hindsight (Like An Idiot Summer) (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Summer, popcorn, and stupid. Humor Shot. Miorine and Suletta work in a zoo.
Forgiveness, Can You Imagine? (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompt: Forgiveness. Part 2 of time loop series.
The Most Beautiful Thing I'll Never Have (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Date and Supplication. Part 3 of time loop series.
One Way Up (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Pining and Overstimulation. Humor shot. Suletta attempts to impress Miorine on a trip to a waterpark.
It's Only Dancing (AO3), T Rating. 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Miorine and Suletta explore their love through dancing. Prompts: Jealousy, boat, and yearning.
Missed Connections (AO3), M Rating. 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompt: Sky. Alternate ending to “It’s Only Dancing.” Miorine and Suletta reunite after six years apart in an airport.
Smile Like You Mean It (AO3), T Rating. 6 +1. The six times Suletta forced a smile or smiled less than genuinely and the one time Miorine made sure Suletta smiled for real.
Always With You (AO3), T Rating. Post Show. In the aftermath of Quiet Zero, the permet infection damages Suletta’s memory, causing amnesia. Miorine struggles to cope with the memory loss and with the possibility that her groom may never regain her memories of the last few months together.
Here It Goes Again (AO3), T Rating. Humor shot. Miorine issues a new challenge to her groom: kiss Miorine as much as possible everywhere on campus. And Suletta is nothing if not a good groom.
One Last Time (AO3), M Rating. The Last of Us AU. Miorine and Suletta have spent the last fifteen years or so since the outbreak going through the motions. Surviving more than living. Suletta wants to believe there’s more to life than that. If only she could convince Miorine of the same thing.
Long Long Time (AO3), M Rating. The Last of Us AU. Alternate ending to “One Last Time.”
I Give All of Me (Just to Save You) (AO3), T Rating. 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompt: Kaiju. Spiderman AU. Modern AU. Suletta is the local hero known as Spider Girl. Besides Eri, no one else knows Suletta’s secret. Or so she thought.
When You Lie Down with Wolves You Learn to Howl (AO3). E Rating. 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Shapeshifter and Debauchery. Set in the same universe as “Perfectly Strange.” Halloween one shot. Humor. Braving a haunted house should have been a simple thing. Except that nothing is simple when you're a recently mated werewolf.
Suletta finds out the hard way that she isn't nearly as fearless as she thought. Good thing that Miorine is very into her girlfriend's protectively jealous instincts.
Multi-Chapter
When You're Gone (But I'm Still Here) (AO3) T Rating. Dead Boy Detectives AU. IN PROGRESS.
Aiming For the Sky (AO3), T Rating. Cowboy/gunslinger AU based on the film “The Quick and the Dead.” IN PROGRESS.
This Is The Way (Back to You) (AO3), T Rating, Star Wars AU based on “The Mandalorian.” COMPLETE.
Chasing Sunsets (AO3), M Rating. AU where Asticassia is a modern flight school for fighter pilots. COMPLETE.
Perfectly Strange (AO3), E Rating. College AU. Werewolf AU. Suletta is a werewolf trying to navigate both the human and supernatural conflicts in her life. Miorine is trying to escape her father and is drawn to Suletta. IN PROGRESS.
Return to Me (AO3), M Rating. Modern AU. Firefighter Suletta AU. A tragedy connects the two women and their lives are forever changed, for better or for worse. COMPLETE.
Took Me Around the World to See (You Were Where I Need to Be) (AO3), M Rating, Modern AU. Miorine and Suletta take a final road trip before they go their separate ways post college graduation. The universe has other ideas when it throws a robot apocalypse and other wild adventures their way. Gwitch meets The Mitchells vs. The Machines AU. IN PROGRESS.
Queen and Lionheart (AO3), E Rating. Modern AU. Miorine Rembran is the recently elected president of Asticassia. While she has won over many people since taking office, she still has to face the fact that the world is still divided by those who were born on Earth and those who were born in space.
Then there's her "secret" affair with her head of security, Suletta Mercury, that everyone seems to know about. Just a day in the life as president. IN PROGRESS.
If I Go I'm Goin on Fire (AO3) M Rating. Modern AU. Firefighter AU based on “Station 19”. Suletta and Miorine have been friends since their academy days, but neither has managed to admit that they’ve been falling for each other since the day they met.
When some events start to reveal things about the past and their families, Suletta and Miorine are in turn pushed into their own heartfelt revelations. IN PROGRESS.
Rizzoli and Isles
Note: Most of my R&I fics are Rizzles based unless otherwise noted.
One Shots
In Case You Don't Live Forever (AO3), T Rating. Alternate ending to the season 1 finale. Surrounded at all times by death Maura simultaneously realized and ignored the fact that at any point her job could turn from distantly sympathetic to personal. Then Jane asked the impossible question: What would you tell someone who died if they could still hear you beyond the grave?
The dead were gone once they stopped their vital functions. Maura believed that with absolute certainty. Even if it might be better if she believed in something else.
Steven Universe
Note: Most of my SU fics are Connverse based unless otherwise noted.
One Shots
Sway (AO3), T Rating. Dance themed prompt.
Taking a Chance (AO3), T Rating. Steven and Connie go karaoke singing.
A Familiar Forecast (AO3), T Rating. When Steven’s car gets stuck during a blizzard, he and Connie bond over some familiar memories of their first blizzard together.
Everything She Does Is Magic (AO3), T Rating. Post SUF reflection from Steven’s POV.
Growing Together (AO3), T Rating. Set before “Growing Pains” in SUF.
In Your Eyes (AO3), T Rating. Future fic set post SUF.
Multi-Chapter
Someday (AO3), T Rating. AU set post “Growing Pains” in SUF. ON HIATUS.
