#merelyafigment

[wawamouse]

Miguel kept pushing, kept chasing, didn't close the clasp, just held the chain poised there around Chico's neck, speaking against the bare skin between clasp and loop. “Tell me you want it.”

Giving Jewelry & Taking Dick by Merelyafigment

A while after their return to Em City, Miguel and Chico have grown close. Close enough for Miguel to want to replace something of Chico's he's broken, even when Chico's being kind of a dick about it.

Art commission by @calwasfound <3

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@merelyafigment We all wanted to raise your spirits & let you know that we're thinking about you! This weird little fandom is better for having you in it 💖

Special thanks to scheming like ryan but good this time! (@officialnotary @imposterzoe @9cbffs @pilot-nobody)

[riosnecktattoo]

Just wanted to thank you for your little Brio Valentine's Day celebration! I missed out on this fandom when the show was airing, and thus haven't seen your lovely creations before, so it's much appreciated!

Aww my pleasure! 😊 there are many very cursed creations too that are better left in the past haha

[thatwhichidarenotspeak]

For the Fandom Related Asks: B, P?

B: A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind.

Well there are a lot that I didn’t start out considering but various authors I already read have written fic with pairings I wouldn’t have gone looking for but discovered I enjoyed. Most recently for example, a Good Omens fic with Michael/Lucifer. Though @merelyafigment has accidentally gotten me on the Miguel/Ray train even if she wasn’t aware.

P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

Oz AU with Cyril never having had the accident & writing children’s books. Ryan is his publicity person. Miguel works for Father Ray in an after school program for kids & they meet when Cyril is on a book signing tour when he stops in to read to the kids. 

[chaifootsteps]

For the controversial shipping asks, if you're taking them: ✌

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship: ✌

This is me and most ships that canon tells me to like that aren’t outright notps, and I don’t know know that I have too many controversial ones. This is Jack and Sally, Guy and Michellee, pretty much any ship involving Gelfling. Lokius is another...honestly, Loki/anyone that isn’t Thor.

A lot of the time, “find cute but don’t ship” is me scooting a healthy, wholesome option to the side so I can ship something fucked up. 

[aye-write]

For the Writeblr Ask Game - 15. What’s the best writing advice you have come across? What’s the worst?

Hi friend, thank you for your ask! 

15 - What’s the best writing advice you have ever come across? What’s the worst? 

Best - Gosh, the best writing advice is a tie between: 

The first draft just has to make it exist. The second draft makes it functional. The third, and anything beyond it, makes it effective. Take your time. 

and 

You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first. 

Worst is, without doubt, 

Write EVERY day

I don’t like the advice to “write every day” because for neurodivergent folks, folks who have jobs and families, life stressors, or who are just busy, the idea to write every day is not sustainable and not even achievable for so many of them. Or if it is possible to achieve, it can lead to stress, burnout, which just means you’re more likely to have to take a break and stop writing anyway! 

The idea that you’re not a “real” author if you don’t write every day is ludicrous. You are not failing for not writing every day. Self-care is important. 

[ineffablefool]

merelyafigment replied to your post “I… huh?”

I would've hit the evolve button just to see what would happen. (Probably nothing.) But still: that's an amusing glitch.

I couldn’t actually do anything with it, including yeet it over to Professor Tree.  It was a very, very confused ice piggy.

[wawamouse]

Okay, I'll be selfish and send my fics as an alternative if you want to.

↻ FLIP FLOP or ✄ DVD BONUS for

Starting Something https://archiveofourown.org/works/59182768

Or

Signaling

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64385344

Feel free to ignore this!

↻ FLIP FLOP: send me a scene from one of my fics and I’ll describe or write it from another character’s POV!

Something Starting

...Take a wild guess at which fic I chose to remix LOL. Also, forgive me my attempt to mimic your writing style 😆

[wawamouse]

[crawls into your inbox and stares with big begging for theory eyes]

(Re: these tags)

Ok, it’s more like a headcanon I’ve yet to really explore in anything yet, which is just touchstarved!chico… a state he finds himself in despite and even made more severe by how many people he surrounds himself with, because a clap on the shoulder here and there is nothing, and besides, there are Rules to the duration of casual touches that leave a bigger hole than it could hope to fill!!

By contrast, Miguel pinning Chico up against the bunk in season 3 — the way Chico’s able to hold him and hold him and hold him (and be held, be clung to) after stabbing Miguel? Rewires his brain a little. Because of course Chico is not aware of what this unsettled feeling in him is. So like… he starts figuring he’s into the violence because surely that explains why the prolonged touch scorches—he’s averse to the danger, instincts screaming against it even if afterward, he misses the contact.

Basically, I think it would be interesting & there is potentially room to explore a Chico who misinterprets being touch-starved as variously: being into violence, being into executing violence, being into knives, whichever…

With additional confusion when he feels vague echoes of it during the brief hug in a McManus’s office, after trying to chase that thrill fighting Torres (unable to fully achieve more than the simple adrenaline because the exchange of blows happens too fast—always the issue with fisticuffs. Also he nearly gets his throat cut and it wasn’t even as scary-sexy as he was hoping. Mostly it was just scary. Wasn’t that worth it.)…

(Also holding Shupe down and cutting his arm off wasn’t that exciting either?) (Chico can’t quite figure out the right mix of things to feel that terrifying gratification again)

Also something something, Chico casually referencing his misinterpretation to Miguel once they’re friends again in terms of, like, “doesn’t it kind of turn you on when you’re in a fight? That’s normal, right?” and Miguel is like 🤨 “Ummm what? No?” Meanwhile Chico’s trying to argue some theory about endorphins and it all being the same. 🤔