#coldmackerel

[4d-jukebox]

do you ever read a fanfic that turns you inside out, and look to the author’s notes to find their social media handles? to see if they’re still around today, what they’re doing, to message them and let them know that their writing changed something in you. and it’s a blank blog, a deactivated handle, no way to know where they’ve gone to now.

maybe i passed them at the grocery store this weekend. maybe they got accepted into the same college as my sister, on the other side of the country. maybe i reblogged a funny post by them on their new account. maybe they have kids now and i will one day teach them how to write the alphabet so that they too, one day, can share stories with the world.

i hope you’re doing well. i wish i could thank you.

[hufflepuff-skank]

@coldmackerel I really just need to communicate to you how much I love The 6th Ward. I feel guilty to admit that I haven't read any of your newer works, but honestly, I haven't read more than a couple Ereri fanfics in the last 4 years or so despite them being my absolute number one ride or die ship, so it's not like I've been in the scene anyway. But like.....I cannot express just how intense of a read The 6th Ward was for me. No one has ever, ever written anything that made me feel more emotionally overloaded than you did when you wrote that story. I remember binging the fic over a couple days' time, reading in the dark of my bedroom, completely transfixed by the interactions and life questions going on, and by the end, I didn't know what to do with myself. I just.....I could go on for hours just repeating myself saying, "It was so good. It was so impactful. I was so emotional. It was so fucking good." I dont even know what to say. I can't come up with any coherent thoughts or analyses of the story. It just. Was so fucking good. And it's stuck with me for years. You fuckin rocked my world with The 6th Ward.

(I just started rewatching Attack on Titan for the first time since it came out (I never continued watching after the second season finished airing) and it's been very weirdly difficult. I've never had this reaction to any other anime, so it prompted me to talk about my favorite piece of writing in existence.)

[wynonnaearpfanficrecs]

Day 63

the way to found By coldmackerel

Teen and up Audiences 

1/1 Chapters *Completed*

[maewrite]

a clexa fanfic!

I honestly never watched the show bc i didn’t want my heart to be broken at the end. i’ve only read what you guys write and this one is amazing : it’s funny, sweet and everything i think lexa and clarke should be 

it is a pretty popular fic but i stumbled upon it just a few weeks ago, it’s called the business of caring by coldmackerel  

it’s basically a fic where lexa works for the campus police and clarke for the communication center in the same building and they try to catch a mysterious vandal

give it a try, it’s a completed 15 chapters fic that you’ll read in one go (also raven’s character is epic)

[bi-badass-geek]

“the business of caring“ by @coldmackerel.

I hope it’s enough @electome cause in all honesty it’s not my kind of thing so i only read most of it (yeah i suck at this santa 🎁 thing i guess). I also ain’t good with words so for 2018 i wish u everythin u need and more Clexa feels cause how could we go without those badass bitches 😏.

[clarkelexafic]

prison comedy, told out of order and out of line. lexa has the worst prison id number ever, raven needs to expand her vocabulary, clarke can't mop, and putting octavia behind the kitchen line is tantamount to reckless endangerment.

[wynonnaearpfanficrecs]

Day 5

This Old House By Coldmackerel

Mature

28/28 Chapters *Complete*

[rifewit204]

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

Chapters: 15/15 Fandom: The 100 (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Clarke Griffin/Lexa Characters: Clarke Griffin, Lexa (The 100), Raven Reyes, Octavia Blake, John Murphy (The 100), Bellamy Blake, Monty Green, Jasper Jordan, Finn Collins, Nathan Miller Additional Tags: here's the campus police au that approximately nobody wanted, it has arrived, hypothetical bear traps, illegal painting, gratuitous awkward flirting, when someone refuses to acknowledge the magic of friendship, gay friendship, i have been told this is humorous, but i presume nothing Summary:

a public service announcement: the campus police would like to politely remind all students, well-wishers, and supporters of the university during this time of serial vandalism that painting on buildings without permission is still illegal. this has not changed no matter how 'cool' you think it is. vandalism has never been nor will it ever be 'radical', 'sick', or any version thereof. -supervisor lexa woods

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