#jaymeow writes

[disorganizedkitten]

*holding your face gently in my hands* you're allowed to write whatever the heck you want. I'm giving you permission. Officially. If anyone goes "no one asked for this" you can send them my way.

Write it. Have fun.

^ reminder from and to a girl who almost asked for permission to write her plot twist before remembering she has free will and the person who should be happiest with her writing is in fact herself

[applecyderwriter]

i have 11 days to finish this manuscript the only thing pulling me away from my computer for the next two hours better be my girlfriend

[disorganizedkitten]

more crossover posting on main because clearly I have to do all the work myself (/lh) so dpxdcxsd

As you do

Batman is a busy guy! So busy! There are always fires to put out, and he has so many villains and sidekicks and dang it he's supposed to be having a personal life too - and he just got reports of people being terrorized by ghosts. And a government organization trying to justify the hunting of said ghosts with some definitely suspicious equipment and blatantly harmful rhetoric.

It honestly sounds like some sort of scheme to drive unwanted residents out of town... Or to lock them in the town? Amity Park's internet presence is retro and just suspicious and the only people travelling appear to be tourists

Batman can't go investigate, his kids can't go investigate, almost everyone on his roster of heroes to call can't investigate - but he happens to have contact info for a couple non heroes who would be even better for undercover work.

Enter Mystery Incorporated.

They're actually in Wisconsin at the time, planning to check out the Repurposed Cheese Castle that had such a disastrous "haunting" a few weeks ago, (Daphne's bet is on a descendant of the original Dairy King trying to scare off New Money Vlad Masters, but Velma thinks it's a tourist draw and the boys are excited for cheese and football merch, respectively). They don't mind going down to Illinois first, the Cheese Castle Haunting hasn't had a second incident yet.

Amity Park, A Nice Place To Live.

Like many of the small towns they find being terrorized by something or other, the town looks almost normal between attacks. The gang check into a hotel and ask about any weird things happening recently - as they always do - and get told that aside from ghost attacks, there's nothing. Ghost attacks, you say?

Fred don't build a trap before you even know what type of ghost we're catching.

They start investigating! Well, they get snacks first - Shaggy and Scooby have to try Nasty Burger, and the rest of the gang should eat something too.

And who do they find there but Danny, Sam, Tucker and Valerie? Danny hears them talk about wanting to see a ghost, and very tiredly he leans over the booth divider and tells them that if they see a ghost attack, they really should run away. That's what he does, and his parents are professional ghost hunters!

Shaggy and Scooby have a new favorite civilian! Man, someone who understands that it's better to run from scary things! Hey do you want a milkshake and to go play video games while the others go their silly ghost hunting thing?

Tucker is down! Tucker is so down!

Fred is up at the counter talking ghost-catching-traps with Valerie, and she's lividly explaining how the ghost boy destroyed Axiom Labs, him and his monster dog, and the different things she- sorry, Red Huntress - has tried and how the ghost boy got out of them.

Sam is... squinting a little bit.

Here's the thing. Rich people don't all know each other, okay? Especially big rich families who only have one or two public facing heirs and have a bunch of other kids and cousins and niblings that aren't public-facing. But there are... stories... about the Rogers and Blake families. The Mansons are rich because they run a cellophane empire, they're new money - the Blakes have been rich since the 40s, with the main branch running a soap empire and lesser branches in acting, modeling, and managing family land overseas, and the Rogers have just been filthy rich for living memory. That's not the weird part. The weird part is that Daphne Blake and Norville Rogers were born in 1954, and they should not still be teenagers in 2007.

Sam's immediate suspicions are that the gang died in a car crash in 1969/1971, and these are ghosts trying to move into Amity, like Johnny and Kitty. But she can't bring it up in the middle of Nasty Burger. So when Velma and Daphne finish eating and say they're gonna go wander the town, Sam volunteers to come along. The boys are in a heated discussion about Doom versus Pac-Man and Captain Cool versus The Blue Falcon, and Fred is talking engineering with Valerie, so technically none of the other tourists are being left unattended.

So off they go! And dang it, these ghosts of a rich once-heiress and her genius friend are actually nice to hang out with. Sam mentions a charity and Velma has so much to say about the history of that charity and the people it helps! And that time they arrested a corrupt treasury officer to make sure that the charity actually did it's job.

man. Sam kinda likes these two. She really hopes they aren't secretly evil, she'll feel bad.

Meanwhile, Valerie's shift has ended and she's taking Fred to the ruins of Axiom. And he has decades of experience, so he notices - the ruins of the new security system. The abandoned dog kennels. The euthanizing equipment. The evidence of a mass grave for once-beloved security guards. Valerie hadn't known the dogs were put down. She thought they were rehomed.

...maybe the ghost dog wasn't acting out just to cause problems. Maybe the ghost dog is looking for his friends.

She still wants revenge. But Fred wants to know why the ghost dog and ghost boy would go after the lab, and his best theory is revenge for the guard dogs, and Valerie knows that revenge loops can only lead to disaster. Fred wants to investigate the dog trainers next, and Valerie is going with him because yes, she knows that these ghosts are real - but what if the ghost boy is the trainer's dead son?

Smashcut to Shaggy, Scooby, Tucker, and Danny - they are playing Doomed at Tucker's house, with copious snacks, having the time of their lives, and they're talking about creepy things going on.

Now, here's the thing. Rarely do the whole gang find real monsters. It happens, but it's rare. Shaggy and Scooby on their own? They find the real monsters. Shaggy has been kidnapped by vampires, turned into a werewolf at LEAST twice, he's taught gym to monsters, there was the mirror monster Shaggy, he's been haunted, The Rogers Family and the Doos are Always Intertwined. When Danny and Tucker talk about possession and how most ghosts - not all, but most - are just trying to live their lives and are causing problems in the process of that, and then they talk about the GIW... well, Scooby's hackles go up.

Monsters are scary, ghosts are scary, by virtue of being ghosts and monsters. But they're usually befriendable once the boys get over the shock.

They don't deserve to be hunted for being what they are.

Danny and Tucker look at each other, and decide hey, maybe we can test something. They take the boys to the park, and Danny calls Cujo. Fetch ensues.

Sam decides to take the girls to the Fenton Lab. Maybe it's because Daphne mentioned that she's a pretty good backup driver, or because Velma made an offhand comment about driving on dangerous mountain roads, and Sam, with her car crash theory, wants to know how they deal with constantly being around beloved friends they've killed.

The investigation derails that. But only a little bit. The girls figure out near-immediately that someone died for the portal. They can tell.

And then they can help Sam work through the trauma of not just killing her friend once but twice, because at one point she accidentally rewrote reality and saved his life and everything was worse for it.

And investigate the portal. :3 That's sure some really purposefully placed wires, guys. And buttons. The Scooby Girls can fiddle with the portal safely because they're Immortal with a capital I.

It could go Fenton parents being purposefully dangerous or it could be sabotage from someone else like in the one corpse au I can't find. I vote it's someone else because I like the Fenton Parents. But! This has become a murder investigation! And the girls are good at investigations.

The Scooby gang and the trio + Valerie meet up in the park; Fred and Valerie have a lot of information about Dalv Co and Axion labs. Daphne, Velma, and Sam have proof of portal tampering. Danny, Tucker, Shaggy, and Scooby have done their own little investigation into each other, more than anything else.

Valerie gets read in. It's also very important to me that she sees Cujo and works past the hate to pat him on the head. He's just happy to sniff her.

I'd probably end this with them finding out that this was engineered by Vlad or a higher up in the GIW, exposing and arresting them, and then the gang heads off to their next adventure (still gotta see that cheese castle, don'tcha know) and Team Phantom gets to settle into equilibrium with their ghosts. Maybe Shaggy and Scooby play moral support for Danny to tell his parents before they leave, just for safety reasons.

[disorganizedkitten]

Ya girl posted a new fic so here's the memes about it

It's called Trust Exercise it's about Techno and Phil getting married for a peace treaty and then Techno and Kristin dealing with assassins while Phil's off doing Politics.

Bonus! Some editing notes for posterity.

Hollow said I should Peacock about it so I am <3

[disorganizedkitten]

New silly au time in honor of @nancyheart11

In general bc she needs to be honored but specifically because she's a professional evil advisor and thus plays devil's advocate/defense when I get upset that Oritel and Marion ditched Sparx.

Every time I get huffy Nan reminds me that their planet was uninhabitable, their people and their children were dead, and there really wasn't anything else for them to do

So. Au where instead of going out and getting themselves statued while in self-imposed exile, the king and queen of sparx exile themselves to Earth.

You can see EXACTLY where this is going.

About six weeks after Mike rescues a baby from a burning building, he and his wife get new neighbors. The couple is a little bit older, and they are so, so clearly sick with grief.

And Mike and Vanessa are still getting used to having a kid, they didn't even get the usual 9 months notice, plus Mike's long hours at the station, so they can't spend too much energy on their neighbors, but they do want to help. So Vanessa makes a casserole when she can, and introduces herself, and Marion and Oritel appreciate the kindness even as they want nothing more than to curl up and die and see their children again.

Their eldest died protecting their youngest, and she was slaughtered anyway, and surely this is a failure on their part because how could they leave their girls alone?

(but the attacks were everywhere, and they were rulers, responsible for their planet, how could they have known it was a distraction-)

For a little bit, that's all it is. Vanessa helps Marion with her porch garden, just a little set of pots with Azealas and Daphnes that Marion says she wants to plant as hedges once they're grown. Marion makes a baby blanket - she's not a good enough cook to return that favor, but babies always need blankets, and she made a point to personally make her girls'.

Oritel meets Mike when he comes home from a bad fire where too many people died, and Mike sits on his own lawn for a few minutes crying. Being a first responder and not getting there in time is crushing. And Mike knows he'll feel better once he can go inside and see his wife and daughter and know that they, at least, are fine, but that won't save the families involved from their grief. Oritel sits with him.

Oritel's cover story is ex military, a commander with a dishonorable discharge after all of his subordinates died to the same attack.

The situations aren't the same, but they're near enough for comraderie.

The couples grow to be friends, from there - the exiled king and queen talk about their daughters, Daphne, nearly grown when she was ripped away from them, and Azalea, gone too soon, torn away when she was too little to even have a personality.

Mike and Vanessa introduce Bloom, their little girl orphaned by a fire so severe that social services couldn't find any trace of living relatives.

Oritel and Marion have the immense honor of helping to raise Bloom, and slowly they grow to be more than their grief, and talking about their daughters ends in affectionate laughter rather than heaving sobs, and yeah, now and again they think of what it would be like if they'd taken their girls and ran, abandoned their doomed planet and their doomed people for a quiet life like this before the Witches Three killed them- but Daphne would have never left, not their shining Crown Princess, not their powerful Nymph and proud Guardian Fairy. And when they're not drowned in grief, Oritel and Marion remember too the reasons they didn't abandon their planet to begin with; because it was theirs, and they loved their people, and they were determined to give them a fighting chance.

Things gets better.

And then Bloom starts a wildfire

[disorganizedkitten]

Ya girl finished the second chapter of that one fic she wrote! Trust Exercise! It's about Techno beating assassins in the long game, the intricacies of trust in a society built on subtext, getting to know your spouses, the moral of murder on vs off the battlefield and (checks notes) drugging.

 Please read the tags and then have so much fun.

The chapter is 23k long.

[disorganizedkitten]

There's been a lot of dinking around recently and trying new things and I'm realizing as I stretch my writing skills and topics that we are STILL dealing with "the underlying theme is love" and "the overarching theme is love" and they are all just different people who love desperately in different situations showing it in their own ways

And. It's comforting.

Sometimes love is still hard for me to conceptualize which makes that as my reoccurring theme kinda funny maybe, but it's like. I know this force and I want to understand it best. Let me examine it.

One of my AmeSMP quotes was "there's never been a monster worth fearing that was driven by anything but Love" and I stand by that but I think there's also room for "there's never been an angel worth respecting that was driven by anything but Love"

At the end of the day. It's all love

[disorganizedkitten]

I'm having so much fun you guys have no idea