Completed Fic - Yu-Gi-Oh! The Rewrite Vol 1: Awakening
Story Title: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Rewrite Vol 1: Awakening
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime and Manga)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42005976/chapters/105459891
Summary: Yuugi Mutou is a quiet boy. He’s also the school punching bag. So when he finishes the Millennium Puzzle just before the end of Grade 6, he finds his upcoming life in Junior High to be just a bit more haunted than he bargained for.
A canon-rewrite/AU where Yuugi finishes the Puzzle early. Takes place before Season 0/the original manga.
Written with and beta’d by my friend, unicornholly!
Warnings: Light angst, bullying, implied/referenced child abuse, violence, injuries, implied/referenced trauma, panic attacks, possession, amnesia
Characters: Yuugi Mutou, Yami Yuugi/Atem, Anzu Mazaki/Tea Gardner, Jonouchi Katsuya/Joey Wheeler, Sugoroku Mutou/Solomon Mutou/Grandpa
Pairings: N/A - implied one-sided Yuugi/Anzu on Yuugi’s side if you squint
When I Started: 2020
How I Lost My Shit: Life happened. We started watching S0 and all of DM together at the start of lockdown and planning this series since we had some spare time. But once mandates started lifting in mid-to-late 2020/early 2021 we both got super busy again and couldn’t sit and plan and write as much as we wanted.
How I Finished My Shit: Lots of freaking out, extensions given by our wonderful mod(s) running the Big Bang, and compromise on chapter ideas that were on too grand of a scale to finish on time.
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Summary: Loki thought that he had it all planned out. Figured he knew it all. From making great grades in school, to gaining the respect of King Laufey. But most importantly to take his place as an heir of Jotunheim and join the Core magic group of his Clan. Only as Loki will find out you don't always get what you want.
And maybe that wasn't what he needed in the first place.
Warnings: death of a character, minor detail of a beheading
Characters: Loki, Thor, Laufey, Frigga, Odin, Hela,Farbauti, Valkyrie, Lady Sif, Lord Hogun, Lord Fandral, Lord Volstagg, Þjálfi and Röskva
When I Started: This story started on July 23, 2018. I wanted to do a story with Loki dancing and using magic at the same time. So I just started typing.
How I Lost My Shit: Wrote the first chapter and after that didn't know where to go with it. So it just sat on the computer until this event came up.
How I Finished My Shit: Saw @wipbigbang sign ups and was like okay we will give it a try. I started by fixing the first chapter before thinking that I wanted Thor to have some challenges in the story too. Once I got started the ideas started to flow until the story was done.
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Art Title: A Soldier’s Rosary (moodboard + watercolour)
Fandom: Downton Abbey
Link: the art – the fic
Warnings: For the art: medical imagery. See the fic for its own content warnings.
Bragging Rights: I really enjoyed working to bring DumasofDale’s characters and ideas into images! I haven’t touched watercolours in years and I’m happy with how Thomas and Elliott’s painting turned out. Given that the fic is set during the First World War, the moodboard also required some extra work to find or alter photos.
My favourite part is a fairly simple one (and possibly due to the fact I’m also a writer). It’s the short excerpt of Thomas’s letter to Elliott. I think it shows the well of tenderness and longing inside Thomas, which he rarely shows to anyone.
