@sullypants, I'm hoping you'll accept the responsibility of leading my administration's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration! Who else is going to bring me regular briefings on summer vibes? ⛱️😎
fic writers asks! 23 and 48 (stories: head underwater, OR the good place au, OR the roswell au)
23. least favorite story you’ve ever written
the real answer is probably the very first fic i ever wrote, back in middle school, for the OG Roswell. Liz comes back to town for her wedding to [some guy I made up]...but Max is still in love with her...and she's still in love with him!!! it was very subtle, very emotional stuff, i assure you.
as for things i've written as an adult - i will go with this little New Year's Eve bughead pre-relationship fic, kaleidoscopes. it's not bad, it's fine, it's just very meh.
48. three spoilers for (insert story title)
here's what i'm gonna do. i'm gonna give you 1 spoiler for each of these 3 stories, but i'm not gonna say which is which. :D
Ethel Muggs is in a bunker.
Jughead helps Betty move into a group house.
Betty & Jughead take a boat out to the middle of a lake.
this is a random question for you, but i'm curious to know your answer—of your stories, which do you recommend to a new reader as a first read?
omg hi, what a lovely question, i am so flattered to receive such an ask! Admittedly, this is a very challenging question for me to answer without knowing what you're after, because i've written everything for different reasons, in different genres to stretch myself, going through genres and styles like Veronica goes through jewel-toned suit jackets.
Based on what I know of you, I would recommend A touch of Melbourne Magic. It is the only story that I have written in this comic-style. It's light and breezy, a bit campy, a holiday core 5 with bughead being unhinged yet adorable. This fic is really close to my heart and I had a lot of fun with it.
Most of my other stuff is explicit with a capital E. I once tried to write an M story and just failed miserably, upped the chapter count and just wrote porn to save my soul.
Otherwise. Probably not my best in terms of writing, given it was my first ever novel length completed fic, but my personal favourite, is The Inevitability of Betty Cooper, which comes with accompanying Jughead POV 'drabbles'. Betty is trying to work undercover without being too thirsty for sad sack gang leader. meditationonbaaal described this once as 'canon in reverse' and it kind of is in a way because psycho FBI Betty needs to learn how to play nice with others <3 Look, i love it, but it's not for everyone: dark themes, a metric fucktonne of tension and just so many lies.
Notes about the other stories are under the cut :) Thanks so much for asking and taking an interest! Choose whichever adventure takes your fancy (if any)! And of course, happy to talk about whatever else you want to know before you try (if you want)!
My two other long fics are:
Viper Radio : a hard core mystery, lots of overt speculation, lots of sleuthing, lots of hypothesising, lots of exhibitionist Bughead. I wrote it to learn how to write a mystery that people could follow along with and that could be put into a literal murder board (which redcirce did for me!)
Summer Shivers, is a twist on a classic rom com arc, subverted older guy/younger girl where jughead is basically just led around by his nose (think a bit like Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne from Twin Peaks). I wrote it to learn how to write a hideously painful slow burn and to prove that I could be romantic. I also wanted to write a lot of banter and families torturing Jughead.
My smut one shots were to push myself in writing different styles of fast burn porn, which is out of my comfort zone because I love writing hideous slow burns and lots of pining hahahah, but there are a couple of stripper ones, a demon sex one and a christmas one. My favourite of these is Admit you’re hot for me. All of these fics are A LOT, but also were very fun for me to write and I learnt a lot, so... *shrugs*
....i NEED to know about Donna Watches, esp if it is what i think is.
Donna Watches is the sequel to Bret Watches/second chapter of a larger fic that includes the two, and both are them watching the bughead sex tape, except they watch different portions because I'm convinced that that tape caught them having sex multiple times. Sad to say both have aspects of dom!Jughead/sub!Betty, but only because Bret wants Jughead to rail him and Donna wants to dominate Betty, so that's what would titillate them, and therefore that's what's in the fics. I'd actually intend for there to be a third chapter that's Ethel watching the tape before she realizes who's in it, and that one would actually be romance focused because that's what she wants, and also it would probably end abruptly and guiltily when Ethel realizes who's in it. Idk, they're all kind of excuses to write porn but also kind of explore the respective POV characters' approach to sexuality and romance. Anyway, there's barely anything in the Donna doc:
“It’s supposed to be my turn.”
“Not if you break the rules. You were going to come without me while I was right there; the last time I tried that, you teased me until I begged and then left me waiting while you had a midnight snack. You didn’t even bring food back when you were done.”
“I let you come all over my tits eventually though, didn’t I?”
“Keyword: eventually. know the rules: it’s time for your punishment.”
[Some action, idk]
“Oh no, a punishment, whatever shall I do?”
There's like one other fragment and then that's it. I focused more on the Bret doc, because it would be published first and I wanted to avoid duplicating actions/events in the two fics. I do want to finish them, but right now my mind is very much in jabitha/bugabitha mode because, hey, sometimes you have to create the content you want to see in the world.
hit me with some 'do you like or like like me coda' details, if you please?
Thx love! So I have a couple in that doc that are too precious to give away but here’s one I’m willing to tease 👀😜
Betty and Jughead go home to Riverdale with Charles one year after college graduation to help Betty’s mom clean out the rest of the house so she can finally sell it. Polly refuses to help.
They have sex for a final time in her childhood bed.