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fanwork blog of theeightschronicle dot tumblr; chuchisushi on AO3; call me chuchi or sushi!

[soylentgrey]

I hate to be that bitch but... in response to that fanfic ask post - ‘notes from an undertaker’, #5 #9 #11, and also will it ever be finished? I completely understand if not it just rlly got me in the feels so I gotta ask. Also I absolutely love your writing style and narrative building 💖

5: What part was hardest to write?

updating the old drafts to current standards has been pretty difficult! i think the hardest overall though has been trying to pick the thread back up and figuring out why i stalled in the first place with it (way WAY out on the other end)

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

no, it's always been pretty much itself. i did go through at some point in like 2019? and do some grammar and style quick edits to make it more bearable to read in one sitting, but i've otherwise preserved it essentially as it's been because that's always been important to me, to be honest wrt 'yeah this is how i started: no fucking idea what i'm doing' LMAO

11: What do you like best about this fic?

you know that comment about how every writer spends their life writing variations of One Story? it's a story that gets close to that One Story, i think

as for finishing it, i come back to it every once in a while, but it's best to subscribe if you want updates, because posts are sporadic. i try to not make myself beholden to a schedule bc that sucks the joy out of things for me. i have enough timelines to stick to at work

[soylentgrey]

A TOKUSATSU LOVE SONG IN G MAJOR

Art// shevaara | russet-red | muchymozzarella

Story// chuchisushi

Rating: T

Tags: Genji Shimada/Tekhartha Zenyatta, Genji Shimada, Tekhartha Zenyatta,  Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, 5+1 Things, Canon-Typical Violence, Grief/Mourning, Unreliable Narrator, Non-Linear Narrative, Sentai Genji Shimada, Oni Genji Shimada, Developing Relationship, Established Relationship, philosophical naval gazing, this fic was originally an experiment to see how far i could push a silly concept, into being serious before it looped back around into silly, and at some point it grew a plot, Banter, Concept!Zenyatta briefly

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Side characters and pairings: Minor Jesse McCree/Hanzo Shimada, Jesse McCree, Hanzo Shimada, Angela "Mercy" Ziegler, Minor mentions of other characters

Word count: ~15K

Summary: 

Snippets from a career of derring-do: Genji never expected a chance encounter with a strange omnic to grant him a power beyond normal limits; yet, who really is Zenyatta? Genji learns him over the years and, in doing so, finds that he can be a hero, too.

Or: Five times Genji 'saves' Zenyatta, and one time Zenyatta saves him.

[gallirae]

Rules: post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic/original/anything!) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

@galadhir tagged me

“But then had come the questions of scripture, and Galli hated them most passionately of all.”

Tagging some people who follow this blog that I haven’t interacted much as much. @guardiankraglin @clifffsecord @lunaforeva @darthlenaplant @whistle-like-whale @the-devils-beast @stardestroyervigilance @wet-raccoon Also I literally couldn’t tag a bunch of people, apologies for that, you know how tumblr can be. @space-poncho @honeypothux @egregiousderp @krispyscreams @mint-and-parsley @smols-darklighter @magisterhego

[egregiousderp]

It was easier to reblog than make a new post, T. I hope that was okay? (@shiparmada also kind of open-ended tagged and reminded me.)

I had something I might throw away that I was working on.

It’s hard for me to tell where I stopped or wrote last because Apple notes doesn’t exactly save my place. So I tried to find a last sentence in he whereabouts that seemed to have a nice, encapsulated idea in it. (Shockingly a lot of the sentences in this one are still pretty short?)

“Baze makes a note to sweep up the scattered leaves later with his fingers and replace each and every one of them in their meager little bowl, to make even the tarine last, to pick up the things Chirrut scatters before him.”

(I think that’s enough to tag pretty much everyone. So. If you have a WIP, or even a thing you’re not sure about, PLEASE pretend I tagged you? I so miss seeing what people are working on and between moving and life and the hurricane I’ve kind of fallen off the face of the earth these past few months?

Please show me what you all are making!)

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@egregiousderp to fuel you in your writerly endeavors too! here’s a rough draft snip from the chirrut-is-a-dragon-baze-is-a-tree fic

though it ended up being more than a sentence to complete the thought,,,, if anyone else sees this and wants to do it, feel free to!

[soylentgrey]

treated myself last paycheck - super excited to dig into all of these ☆

[soylentgrey]

slowly working on the persephone and hades/beauty and the beast spiritassassin fusion au again, so here’s a snip from it

[soylentgrey]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Bodhi Rook, Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, Baze Malbus, Chirrut Îmwe Additional Tags: mid-foreground baze/chirrut, Character Study, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, unearthing this fic from the depths of writer's block, no betas we die like men, Survivor Guilt, Team as Family Series: Part 2 of bind up your brittle battalion; we march again to war Summary:

He walks the halls like a ghost sometimes, something small and restless.

Or: Bodhi Rook, after Scarif.

[soylentgrey]

finally typing up some of this very self-indulgent marked!samuel au because of the death of the outsider trailer, so here’s a snip - young samuel as an (un?)lucky sailor

[poladraws]

loosely based on my favourite scene from Agape, adzuki by @soylentgrey​ 

its a wonderful fic about space dads and my favourite baos how could I resist

[soylentgrey]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus Characters: Chirrut Îmwe, Baze Malbus, both luke and leia are mentioned very incidentally Additional Tags: Unreliable Narrator, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Character Study, Pre-Canon, where the pre-canon takes place essentially via extended flashback, making shit up about the guardians, Established Relationship, Pre-Relationship, where the pre-relationship takes place via extended flashback, this fic is basically chirrut going on an extended tangent and hijacking the thread Series: Part 3 of bind up your brittle battalion; we march again to war Summary:

Baze's great hands are broad and warm and shape metal and plexglass, wood and people.

Or: Chirrut breaks his staff and goes to pester his husband to fix it

[jakathine]

When u see this post 3 sentences from a wip.

An excerpt from Ch 2 of ‘Initiation Phase" The next morning was filled with meeting the other students already inducted into the Temple. They welcome Chirrut and Baze excitedly, having never heard of an instance where two were brought into the fold at one time. Least to say, wagers may have started to happen even though they were usually against the rules.

[soylentgrey]

Baze dives that afternoon for the uneti, spreads out their lengths on the stone. Chirrut sees with his failing eyes the halo of gold lamplight and the dark huddle of Baze where he kneels with his hands splayed across the cut wood's span, watches ruby pearlescence pool underneath the fibers slowly as the uneti warms enough to bleed once more. Baze chooses the length of wood he will use for the weapon.

[soylentgrey]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus Characters: Chirrut Îmwe, Baze Malbus, Bodhi Rook, the rest of the crew is mentioned but not really explicitly interacted with Additional Tags: Unreliable Narrator, Canon Compliant, a love story in two parts, Pre-Relationship, Established Relationship, Pre-Canon, Food, Cooking, Character Study, pt2 is on the flight to eadu, idk if jedha was completely wrecked by the death star, but for the purposes of the fic baze believes so Summary:

Food is love.

Or: two times Baze makes steamed buns

[soylentgrey]

bottombobbysinger replied to your post “bottombobbysinger replied to your post “i have hit a slow patch in...”

Lol the eating disorder prompt and artsy Baze combined would send me to Hell, cuz all I can imagine is Baze being a 'starving artist' and just doing it to be dramatique. And having a judgy vegan phase. We all go through phases when we're in art school, bby.

OMFG no, separate fics that’re canon-adjacent AUs

[soylentgrey]

also that fantasy au has moved a little bit. baze’s second reaction to seeing chirrut is basically ‘oh my god is he okay is he hurt is this why he’s still out here?? ARE YOU ALRIGHT?’ chirrut’s reaction (which we unfortunately don’t see because this is fixed baze POV) is basically ‘this sweet summer child is now Mine I’m Taking Him The Empire Can’t Have Him’

[soylentgrey]

Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

2: What scene did you first put down?

3: What's your favorite line of narration?

4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?

5: What part was hardest to write?

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

7: Where did the title come from?

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

11: What do you like best about this fic?

12: What do you like least about this fic?

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

[telesilla]

if you see this, post 3 lines of a WIP

“Yeah. Something went wrong–I never found out what–and he stood up and said, ‘Ah fix it.’ He dicked around under the hood and got back on the bus and said, ‘start'er up.’ The bus was fine and we made it to the hotel.”

[madamehardy]

John could tell Dave was taking this seriously because not even an eyebrow wiggled.  "Yes.  Help me Obi-Dave –“

“Nah, Dave Solo, except that I never shoot first. ”  

[sophia-helix]

Victor falls in love easily. A note of music, a turn of the head, a movement of the hips, a clasp of the hand. He falls in love for as long as it lasts; a summer or a winter. Once for a year, once for an afternoon.

[minim-calibre]

Images flooded her brain, chaotic and contradictory, and she closed her eyes as if that would somehow block them out. She couldn’t think about the future right now. If she thought about the future, she’d go catatonic. Now, though. She could handle now.

[sevensneakyfoxes]

Steve strips the bed methodically, trying to ignore the thick red stain in the sheets even as the not-quite-dry blood sticks to his fingers.  The blood has seeped into the top of the mattress too, a violent bloom on the left side of it, and Steve resists the urge to haul the mattress from the frame and throw it down the stairs.  The only thing keeping him from destroying it is the fact that it would certainly wake Peggy, who has finally managed to fall asleep in Bucky’s old bed.

[blackestglass]

The memory of her telling him that she liked how this shirt brought out his eyes the last time he’d worn it had, in fact, drifted across his mind when he was going through his closet to get dressed for tonight. “Oh,” he says after a brief pause, scratching at his cheek. “Thank you. You also…look nice. Very…sparkly,” he finishes lamely with an awkward hand gesture that’s supposed to…emphasize her sparkliness? Oh god, he’s terrible at this.

[cacchieressa]

When the attack came, Rey responded so quickly that even she wasn’t sure what had happened. Luke had said that if she was deeply in tune with the Force, time would seem to slow down during emergencies, giving her the ability to process events and make decisions quickly. She’d nodded but hadn’t really believed it until now. When time slipped back to its usual speed, the two guides had disappeared with the armored speeder, and the General was looking at her with something like amusement in her eyes.

[marmolita]

“Please what?”  Cesare recoiled the flogger, wrapping it in loose loops.  "Do you want me to stop?“

[wildehacked]

His Holiness waves away Micheletto’s every sin, forgives him the crimes he has yet to commit with a careless blessing. “My son is weaker without you,” he explains with a kind impersonality, as though Micheletto were a knife Cesare had dropped in the street.

“I understand, your Holiness,” Micheletto tells him, a good knife.

[lazaefair]

What if the Guardians had made their move years earlier? “On the fourth hour of the fourth day of the month of Anasto in the Year of the Dragon.“ That was the message coded into little waterproof chips tucked into the sweetcakes sold at the cake stand in the lower quarters by a blind, smiling monk and his large, gruff chef.

[iwritesometimes]

[Bodhi] smiled. Was this what being dead was like? This wasn’t so bad. Sure, he could tell it wasn’t real, but it was still more pleasant than literally anywhere else he’d been for longer than he could remember, so he wasn’t about to complain.

[omicheese]

“I heard that the Noldor are murderers.”

“Who would they have murdered, though?  Each other?”

“I am not sure.”

[lightbows]

Baze laughed a little and Chirrut’s heart seemed to briefly hurtle into his throat. Whatever sensation that was, it was not going to make sparring any easier. “You’re as good as they say, if that’s what you’re worried about. So I got in a couple lucky shots.”

[adigeon]

“Sure, for most people,” Jyn said cheerily. “Baze,” Bodhi interrupted, “see, the thing is, usually you’re not wrong, but he – he’s blind.” “Blind,” Baze repeated. “He’s a blind fortuneteller.”

[soylentgrey]

Baze does not broaden until his teens, and then the changes happen all at once - he loses track of his limbs; his trousers and shirts are both too tight and too small; his throat and joints ache. He goes from wire and whipcord to a stout strength that the archery only deepens. He finds, soon, that the little ones in the creche attach themselves to him.

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bottombobbysinger replied to your post “i have hit a slow patch in this fantasy au so, spiritassassin...”

I mean, like, artsy Baze is like 20 of my kinks. Just Baze being really good at art stuff.

i just want you to know you’re a monster and now i’m both considering this and trying to fit it into brittle battalion

[soylentgrey]

i have hit a slow patch in this fantasy au so, spiritassassin community, is there any sort of scenario, au, emotion, or relationship aspect that you want to see explored but that you haven’t seen yet? (yes i am taking prompts. no i will not write every one of them. please throw spaghetti at the metaphorical wall and see what sticks.)