#setting fire

[sillycreaturestims]

Burned Book Stimboard

@fruitbatz12 wanted this

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9, 14, & 27!

9. longest wip of the year

Since I only posted one chapter of it in 2020, I don’t think The Underground  (The Gifted) actually counts. setting fire to our insides (for fun) (RNM) is the longest fic I posted this year, but it’s not technically a WIP anymore, though I did promise a sequel I’ll never write... So the longest WIP would be the time we've been given, which just passed 30k (27k posted).

14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

Oof all of them? I never expect anything tbh. I guess take me back to the start (RNM) is a good candidate, since I meant to respond to that prompt with maybe a 1k ficlet and it’s gone past 22k...

27. favorite fanfic author of the year

I honestly can’t pick one. I’ve read so many amazing fics. Even just going with the authors who’ve written this year (I’ve read a lot of older fics coming into the SH fandom) I just can’t choose.

In the RNM fandom, @lambourngb @jocarthage and @usbournejez come to mind for longer fics, but I’ve also read a lot of absolutely amazing short fics. For SH, @the-prophet-lemonade ‘s fics are incredible. I might be biased because they’re my friends, but coming in and reading @moonlight-breeze-44 and @eternallysilvermagnusandalec ‘s autistic Alec fics has been a really strong experience for me.

The absolutely incredible talent of fic writers will never cease to amaze me, and I can’t count the number of fics that have changed my life in some way.

[poetrywhore4ever]

I am not a creature that was born. I am a fire that was set.

Moss Angel The Undying; Sea-Witch

[literaryquotations]

I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people. Otherwise, people’d be doin’ it all the time.

Adam Young, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

[themerrytroll]

It's hot. Photo by Joshua Newton @joshuanewton IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq8xEBdh35v/  

[mggoteater]

Burning Roses

[echo-bleu]

Rules: Summarize your WIPs in one sentence!

Thank you for tagging me @t-lane-writes !

Oh my. This is the thing where I remember that I have far too many WIPs. How do people stick to just one and get it done? I wish I could do that.

Okay, let’s go. I’m only putting my fic projects in here, because my two originals are not developed enough at this point. In order of last poster chapter.

our hands clasped so tight (RNM): Ten years after both of them were badly injured by Jesse Manes when he found them together, Alex and Michael reunite and learn to get to know each other again, including the secrets that they are both keeping from the world.

still, there were mornings (RNM): (some spoilers ahead) While navigating the aftermath of Noah and Max’s deaths and Rosa’s resurrection, Alex and Liz start to realize that the mysterious illness they’ve both had since they were teenagers is linked to the aliens in town, and may be the key to bringing Max back.

setting fire to our insides (for fun) (RNM): After mentally and physically hitting rock bottom while trying to support everyone else, Alex asks Isobel for help getting past his mental blocks and setting himself on the path to recovery.

Complicated Truths (RNM): Starting his new job at the CIA, Michael Guerin finds out that his handler is no one else than Alex Manes, who left him on a beach three years ago after a whirlwind romance, but this newly disabled Alex has secrets and a family history that will put them both at risk as they try to unmask a double agent.

Power Through (RNM): (slight spoilers) On the run after escaping a detention center, mutant Air Force veteran Alex Manes is taken in by the Mutant Underground, and quickly falls in love with one of their leaders, Michael Guerin, but his escape triggers a chain of events that will lead them to face off the dangerous Sentinel Services and attempt to take down the experimental lab that ties their pasts together.

The Underground (The Gifted, technically on hiatus): Clarice, an anxious young mutant dealing with racism, finds a job at a mutant-run café called the Underground, and quickly bounds with the owners’ best friend, John, a disabled Marine veteran recently back from Afghanistan.

All We Stand To Lose (The Gifted, technically abandoned): Three weeks after Clarice left John to go with the Morlocks, Marcos and a reformed Lorna come to her for help, and unroll the tale of how, burdened with guilt and grief, John let himself be captured and grievously injured by the Inner Circle.

If You're Still Breathing (The Gifted, technically abandoned): After the events of the finale, John tries to recover from his injuries and get used to a world without Clarice in it, while Marcos and Lorna reconnect and everyone grieves for their losses.

Tagging anyone who wants to do it. It’s fun :)