#sciencepuncher

[tabbyclaw]

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

Candy Hearts author reveals are out, and I can now advertise what I wrote! For anyone who missed the collection, have some post-canon Oxventure in the Dark fic in which science and magic collide, and so do Edvard and Zillah. I took a gamble on this exchange and signed up for a lot of things I’d never written before but was feeling brave enough to try, and I’m glad I matched with @postalninja on one of them! This was incredibly fun to write, and it includes one of the best bad puns I’ve ever written.

[randomthunk]

Edvard has joined the “muscle girls appreciation” Facebook group.

[cicaklah]

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

Fandom: Oxventure - Blades in the Dark

Pairing: Zillah/Edvard

Rating: they bone in this one

Summary: It was just once. But as everyone in Volisport says, once is enough.

Tagged: First Time, Second Time, Fluff, well fluff for volisport, Volisport Tourist Board, Pregnancy, happy people having good sex and being excited about the future, Love Letters, Pre-Heist, Pining, Mutual Pining. yes we are in change your name and flee the country territory, nails boards into the fourth wall

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wake up babes new watch me just dropped and its chaptered, but no fear, its all written, just need to edit/beta part 2. Thanks again to my beta extraordinaire, @postalninja, who painstakingly fixed all my tenses with the patience of a saint.

I know I said that I'd already written this one and that it was going to go up really soon after I broke everyone's hearts last time but then this grew a plot and legs and aaaah I hope people like it.

[cicaklah]

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

Title: (watch me and you) make something new

Fandom: Oxventure in the Dark

Pairing: Zillah/Edvard

Summary: It was just once. But as everyone in Volisport says, once is enough.

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Chapter 2 of (watch me and you) make something new has FINALLY been completed, after so so so much effort, I am finally delivering on what I promised all those months ago i.e fluff, but with much hinting at wider, exciting things, but for now, lets all just enjoy Edvard and Zillah being all loved up.

Thanks as usual to my beta @postalninja for the wrangling and to everyone who has cheered on this bloody series since it started so innocuously with people jumping off cliffs and thinking that mad scientist might be cute after all.

And despite everything I said the last few months there will be a part 6, because I owe Kasimir a story, and I should fill in all the gaps that I introduced into the watch me universe with this story, but after that story I am probably done (as much as I'll ever be done with this monster of a story).

This has been so much fun and I love everyone who has read and commented and kudoed and messaged me about this, I'm so glad I'm not just screaming into the wind on this one.

[cicaklah]

edvard/zillah for the ship asks? :D

What made me ship it?

Okay so the thing that was the catalyst was the moment in the Astor gambit when Jane did the flashback to say that Zillah taught Edvard how to cliff dive and they made a day of it, but it probably came from the first bloody trailer where they bicker about the line shooter catching on fire, and just because...they're SO hot??? I've written before about how Edvard and Zillah are similar because they're both choosing to become criminals out of economic need and frustration with making money the conventional way (compared to Kasimir and Eleanor who are career criminals and Lilith and Barnaby who are toffs on a lark), and they're both hyper competent with huge blindspots, but also because of Edvard's distracting moustache and nuclear charm and Zillah's huge muscles and inherent goodness...just they are brilliant characters who deserve to kiss a LOT.

What are your favourite things about the ship?

The care they have for each other, the flirting, how hot they are and how they tolerate each others foibles but also support each other in their dumb shit and also obviously fancy each other, but also please see my 45,000 word manifesto about how they are mfeo, watch me.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I don't think so...I'm very sure that all my opinions are correct. I know it won't be canon, but also that is why I write all the fanfiction.

[cicaklah]

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

Fandom: Oxventure in the Dark

Pairing: Zillah/Edvard

Rating: Kissing and Heisting

Summary: Point is, with who she is, what she looks like, her standing in society, she's not supposed to want slightly fey inventors who still have all their own teeth, who she would have to bend down, even ever so slightly, and only in her boots, to kiss properly.

And yet. Is that not why someone turns to a life of crime? So that they don't have to follow the rules?

Tagged: Getting Together, Romance, Idiots in Love, everything I know about d&d is from oxventure and it shows, when we cross the streams the jokes get even more self-referential, everyone can cast moonbeam, deus ex callbacks, the romance is over 9000, pre-Barnaby/Lilith, Demons, Museums, Heist

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Notes: Kissing! Heisting! Magic! Team banter! Not in that order!

A little bit of pre-Barnaby/Lilith for the kids who ship that, and a lot of me being extremely romantic and silly with these idiots. I ship them too hard, but I amuse myself, so much that its enough to write a 7k romantic story when I really, really need to be on my thesis game. Oh well. Leave me a comment to let me know that it was totally worth it?

[randomthunk]

Would you believe me if I said this is something that’s been in my head for a while but also was brought to fruition by the end of The Astor Gambit? Well you should because that’s how it is.

[randomthunk]

Oh NO. That’s ADORABLE.

The man who starts at an 11 is temporarily rendered speechless due to his brain re-wiring itself to have “big strong girl that reflexively chokes people unconscious” co-exist alongside “smol(ler than me) and cute”.