#fic-related

[teh-nos]

It is utterly WILD to me to read your posts that indicate your Ao3 stats make you insecure, because you are hands down an incredible writer. In the top three I have ever read online. I will never ever need any other evidence that Ao3 stats are a useless metric than the fact that someone who writes like you ever doubts themselves. You are chef's kiss superb. Please never stop writing.

😳🥹❤️ Thank youuuu, Anon ❤️

I suspect everyone that writes anything, no matter how popular it is, doubts themselves sometimes. I bet if I was a super-successful BNF I'd be worrying that I'd just lucked out by hitting popular tropes (as, indeed, I would have because that's how these things work!) or that it was just a huge fandom or something (again, probably).

I am glad my insecurity is helpful, and I really mean that I'm not being sarky or anything, because we do all need to learn that the stats are meaningless. I've only really learned this by posting as several different people on AO3 who I will assume all write at the same level of quality yet they have very different stats depending on what they post. Almost always lower than my main account, who at this point has a bit name recognition to rely on. What the hell, right? How can my own variants not all be doing the same as each other! Yet all of me have fics on AO3 where I occasionally think "oh, these must be TERRIBLE, look at that kudos ratio!" Even though I know that kudos and the ratio thereof is a pile of nonsense that at best measures how comfortable people are about clicking the little button at the bottom of a fic. We need to worry about this less, which of course includes myself. Whichever myself I am being at the time.

Sometimes I don't even worry that I've accidentally written something bad, I worry that the thing is not bad but just not a thing anyone wants to read, which btw is probably why being weirdly dismissive about short fics gets to me so much - that too would be a case of getting skipped over for what I wrote rather than how I wrote it. The fear of being Too Weird, maybe?

Sorry for rambling a bit here. Thanks again, Anon, and I am glad to be of some help, and also would you marry me? ❤️

[red-hydra]

Okay byeee we're doing canon divergence.

I am not writing Carnage returning to Cletus as a cockroach 😂

[batmurdock]

finished the entirety of The Undying Lands today [with the caveat I still need to upload it to ao3]. 

It’s very surreal to think that just a few short years ago, the idea of finishing a tri-novel [if I may] series was extremely daunting. It still very much is, and it hasn’t fully sunk in yet.

But at 200 pages a story, 246,157 words overall - but who’s doing numbers on these things? - it’s...satisfying. It’s not DONE, done, of course, there’ll always be minuets and follow-ups and edits and so on, but...

for now, it exists. as do I. And so does Nic, without whom none of this would’ve ever been possible. I owe you so much for even introducing me to Herbert, Dan, Ash, and Crawford - among many other joys and endless emotional depths. 

So - thank you for reading along with us, for sharing your enthusiasm and your passion, and for all the wonder you yourselves bring to the world.

just a little note to mark a milestone.

excelsior and onward, children.

- g.

[deranged-joculatrix]

you're one to talk

[restlessfeathers]

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

IT’S DONE SO I RELEASED IT AND I’M LATE FOR WORK NOW SO HAVE FUN READING IT I’LL BE WORKING AND CAN’T FIX IT ISN’T THAT JUST PEACHY

[sanderssidesfanfiction]

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...you’d like to be tagged in a Roceit Trans!Royalty!AU.

Mod Delta here. I’m about 15k words deep in a slowburn Roceit fic and I want to stir up interest. If you’ve been on the blog and seen our blog preview post, yes, this is Royal Growing Pains. If you want to be added to a taglist specifically for this fic, please like/reblog. Know that if you’re on this blog’s general taglist, you’ll be automatically tagged in this work and its updates.

Some General Warnings Thus Far: This fic does have some homophobia undertones and overt transphobia involved. It will have deadnaming and misgendering. However, it will also have a happy ending, and no abusive/unsympathetic Sanders Sides characters this time around the block.

[wyvern-dork]

This is becoming increasinly relevant to me as I move forward with this writing project of mine. I’m curious if anyone here knows Maria’s “canon” age?

I mean, in the games (Shadow Dragon, New Mystery and FE Heroes) I interpret her actions and dialogues more like those a 9-12 year old. But that would make her, what, 5 when the war started? Would Micky seriously sit down in front of his FIVE YEAR OLD SISTER and say “hey do you wanna save a lot of lives? :))” of course she’s gonna say yes you dirtbag she doesn’t know any better which she by the way barely does when she’s 12 either geez

I personally headcanon Maria as nearing seventeen during Shadow Dragon, and that she’s still a bit naïve and overly optimistic because that’s just who she is (and I love her for it, obviously). But I also see her as mature and that she thinks before she acts. Anyway, that would make her about 11-12 when Michalis sends her away to Deil, in my headcanon.

This could just be a case of me placing the characters I write about closer to my own age (soon to be 24 and I just cannot be fully comfortable with a 10 year old seriously saying “hey yeah I wanna go out into war tee hee!!” and then doing just that because it gives me a nervous breakdown like what the fukc)

What is Minerva’s canon age, even? 19, perhaps? WAS SHE 13 WHEN SHE GOT SENT TO LEAD AN ARMY, THEN?

Or is this just a plot-hole-ish in Shadow Dragon? I mean, if I’ve understood this correctly: *Altea’s fall was kind of what started the war - and Marth looked and acted to be about 12-14 then *And we then learn that six years pass, so Marth would be about 18-20 years old as Shadow Dragon plays out *We DON’T exactly know WHEN Macedon joined Doluna in the war, but we know that King Osmond was kind of worried and asked for Archanea’s assistance (against Doluna, or just in general? kinda vague) at one point *So we do not know WHEN Michalis murdered him - but it had to be early, or we’d have accounts of Macedon siding with Archanea first (right?) *And, we know that Minerva and Michalis probably argued about this, but would Michalis really hold out for like a YEAR before he made his first move? *I think not *He’s a patient bastard but at the same time, events moved fast as soon as Doluna decared war SO back to Maria I think she was sent to Castle Deil early, if not at the very start of war then at least one year in. Conclusion: Archanea’s lore is a clustermess And there are no canon ages BUT I’d love to hear other interpretations from you all!