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[kryiter]

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

The Engineer’s Forge on Ao3, by me.

Pairing: Gustave x Female Reader

Rating: E

Word Count: 4333

Back in Lumiere, it was not uncommon for Gustave to work late into the evening, refining his life's work and imparting his knowledge onto his apprentices.

Wondering why he hasn't returned home, you venture out to find him still in his workshop, slaving and hammering away over the anvil.

It is there in which he discovers that beneath your skirt, lies nothing else.

[theorist-fox]

OI! YOU MAKE ME SO HAPPY! AND YOUR COMMENTS ON HERE AND ON AO3 ALWAYS HAVE ME SCREAMING LIKE I’M FERAL. I yap to everyone about the wonderful replies I get from you.

(Just wait until my drawing tablet arrives since my iPad kinda died… then I’ll be drawing the Gustave smut)

YOU DRAW TOO???

FUCKING HELL WE'VE BEEN BLESSED

GUSTAVE NATION HOW WE FEELING

[kryiter]

Current WIP I’m working on. Good to see an improvement from a year ago. First time using Clip Studio Paint as well.

One year ago…

[kryiter]

In my previous post I mentioned that I’d written way too much about my two OCs that originally started off as DnD characters that evolved so far beyond into a passion I never expected and has consumed every waking moment of my existence for the past few years.

This is the current state of my manuscripts:

(I just need to share this somewhere because I’m bubbling with excitement)

Book 3:

Book 2:

Book 1: (Which I’m still currently writing because I wrote 2 > 3 > 1 whoops)

I’m very excited to share these one day. And this is my reason for not having posted fanfic in a while (I’m so sorry)

[kryiter]

I was going through my old rough sketches from several years ago. These are from 2022 I think????

I miss drawing. I miss my babies that I’ll give no context to.

I would give my life for these two idiots.

I love them so much I’ve written two and a half books about them 🥺

It’s a low-effort post, and it’s not Gustave. But my camera roll made me remember these exist and these two are the characters that helped me find my love and dedication to writing again. They’ve been my whole existence since 2020.

[kryiter]

Guys I need to know if ao3 has been loading slowly for the past several days (like really annoyingly slow) or if it’s all my technology collectively dying at once o.0

[kryiter]

OH MY GOD?? HELLO??? I have literally just remembered this platform exists and you're here? How have you been? I check ao3 every day to convince myself to write but I just end up checking your page and then deciding it's not worth it for me... last time I wrote ao3 went down and since I too drop my stuff directly into ao3 I lost it all. Gustave is just too good for the world.

AND we both have science men going through hell obsessions, it's like we're twins. I am spinning Gustave and Lorenzini Venigni around my head 24/7. It's just like games set in Belle Epoque France own my braincells and I am here for it.

I am going to get back on the grind... I have so many ideas I need to get out into the world and I cannot wait! I promise I won't make you cry like I did last time.

- Iris / serpenphare, formerly OttawaRockstar on AO3 (sent in as an anon because I've not finished updating my blog yet and I don't feel like embarrassing myself </3)

Omg hiii 🥹 I’m so happy to see you here! I swear it’s like we’ve all been yanked back to our Tumblr days all of a sudden. We totally are twinning lol

I’ve been screaming into the eternal void trying to get myself to finish my fics good! I’ve been starving for Gustave fics and I feel even worse that I’ve been so worn out from work lately that I haven’t had the mental ability to write something that isn’t hot trash. But I have some time off this week so I’m hoping that I can finally finish one or two of them and get them out, but I also have to battle my own brain to do it rip.

PLEASE NEVER BE DISCOURAGED FROM WRITING I WILL LITERALLY READ ANYTHING AT THIS POINT (and I really like your fics hehe). I also keep checking Ao3 then growing sad when I don’t see more Gustave/Reader or OC, I know how you feel 😩 But we must persevere for our tortured science men.

Writing directly in ao3 is madman behaviour but I’m feral and like living on the edge (I obsessively CMD + C in case I lose my work).

I hope the fic fairies sprinkle our brains with writing dust or something. <3

[kryiter]

After a day of being yelled at by old men and a legitimate near punch on in the aisle, I may have whaled on my PGR wife a little.

It was only 9am. Side note: please be kind to retail workers we’re just trying our best to help you. Half my job is tech support rather than sales at this point.