Hello there, I go by Kit! I realized that my fics are getting pretty long, and theyāre near impossible to keep track of for anyone unwilling/unable to read them on AO3, so I thought Iād make a masterlist here! Iām including fics from this blog, as well as fics from any of my sideblogs, so donāt panic if you see that a link leads to a different blog!
There may be some slight changes between the fics here and the fics in AO3, because I will often edit minor word choices in AO3 after posting, so the fics might be a little less polished here, but I wanted to make sure that they were still available here in case of another AO3 outage!
(Not all fics are fully uploaded to tumblr yet, so Iāll probably add them pretty soon and post them here when I do!)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
Hard Knocks āVerse:
This is my long-standing TCW series where everyone lives, nobody dies, but survival leaves a mark on everyone in ways that stick with them for longer than an episode or two.
A Series of Hard Knocks: Part 1 of the Hard Knocks āverse. Hardcase survives Umbara, and Dogma learns to separate his sense of self from who he is as a soldier.
Knockout: Part 2 of this series. The inhibitor chips get discovered slightly ahead of schedule, resulting in some complications and a long road to recovery for Tup.
Knockback: Echo is rescued from the Separatists, but recovery isnāt so straightforward when heās down a few members and up by a few kilos of durasteel.
Crimson Company and Corrie Colds: Commander Fox comes down with The Plague ā¢ when his batchmates are on-planet for the first time that year, and they wonāt take no for an answer.
AITA But Clones: Exactly what it says on the tin. Somebody gave the clones Space Reddit, and theyāre sharing their beef with the whole galaxy.
Chapter 1, Chapter 2
Mismatched Sets: Tup joins TBB for a mission, with all the adventure this entails!
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
Legend of Korra:
Bold and Beautiful: AO3 Link
Autistic Bolin undergoing the terrifying ordeal of being known.
Band of Brothers:
Little By Little: AO3 Link
Age Regression AU where Littles are Known and Eugene Roe finds his family in the men of Easy Company (Iām just here for the cozy, found family vibes and some TLC for our favorite medic).
Snow crunching under the tread of his cracked jump boots, Ralph tried for the third time to rein in his growing apprehension as he checked yet-another foxhole to find it absent of a certain Easy Company lead medic.
Captain Winters had pulled him aside earlier in the night to let him know that heād sent Doc Roe to town to get a hot meal, letting him know that heād be the only one on the line until Doc got back. Heād understood the decision at the timeā neither of them were any good on the front line if they collapsed from sheer exhaustion. But now, with the sun peeking over the horizon, Spinaās gut churned with the knowledge that Gene wouldnāt stay away that long even if he was bleeding from a chest wound.
Spina's perspective of an early Bastogne morning and a quiet night in Rachamps.
Fic Link:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Pretentious asshole is OUT! Pretentious Sweetheart is IN! Wearing dapper clothes and holding the door open for others makes you feel COOL AS H*CK! Glance up from your hefty books to give a stranger a smile!! Quote literature to inspire others! Be presumptuous in the way that you presume that everyone needs their day to be a little brighter!!!
On July 20, 1969, 109 hours and 42 minutes after launch, Neil Armstrong and Edwin āBuzzā Aldrin entered the lunar lander āEagleā, made a final check, and the Eagle undocked from the lunar orbiter āColumbiaā, where the third member of the crew Michael Collins, stayed in orbit around the moon.
Partially manually piloted by Armstrong, the Eagle landed 0 degrees, 41 minutes, 15 seconds north moon latitude and 23 degrees, 26 minutes east moon longitude. Armstrong stepped out, and Aldrin followed 20 minutes later: human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. The two men spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on its surface.
One of the astounding aspects of the mission was the seeming simplicity of the technology used to get man to the moon. According to Oliver Gassmann, professor of Technology Management, the mobile phone in your pocket has one million times more memory than the Apollo 11ās computer. Same about the procesor: the latest phones typically have more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.
āIt suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didnāt feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.ā āNeil Armstrong
(gifs fromĀ the documentary Chasing The Moon, 2019)
āShould have shot Hinkle in the ass.ā Muck commented, cackling alongside Penkala and Malarkey as Babe finished retelling the tale of his and Spinaās misadventures near the German line on their way to 3rd battalion.
āHinkle nearly shot him.ā Ralph remarked dryly, shaking his head as he smirked into his can of beans. Babe had the gift of gamā almost nobody could spin a yarn as well as the easygoing Philly redhead currently doing his best impression of the aptly-named, āHinkle.ā
Grounded to the here and now by the way that Babeās knee pressed up against his, Spina could almost pretend that his hands had stopped shaking from either the close encounter or the cold, grateful that his threadbare gloves stopped the tin cup in his hands from rattling.
A Spina-centric fic for my Littles are Known BoB AU.
Ao3 Link:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: āAw man, that guyās cake is way better than mine.ā The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork āHOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!ā]
so, MetacognitionĀ is theĀ practice of thinking about thinking or identifying oneās cognitive processĀ . in essence, metacognition is understanding how you prepare for academic challenges, exams, or tasks, and then being able to reflect on whether you did well, you prepared adequately, and what was most effective. in a writing setting, this type of self-awareness helps you transfer skills in writing, say, fanfiction into writing academically, competitively and professionally.Ā
hereās an articleĀ from brown university on the subject iāll discuss further. there are 3 parts of practicing metacognition identified in this article: planning, monitoring, and evaluation. how might this look like for a fanfic writer?Ā
planning: asking oneselfĀ āwhat is my goal?āĀ āwhat strategies should i use to meet that goal?āĀ āhow much time/length do i need to meet my goal?ā. so maybe my goal is to write a meet cute where two characters kiss. iāll need to use a perspective, an upbeat tone, and forward characterization to do this. itāll probably take 5000 words and two days to write.Ā
monitoring: asking oneself: is my story making sense? am i reaching my goal, or do i need to summarize more succinctly to keep it to 5k? maybe you started with a lot of exposition and now youāre 6k in and the characters havenāt met yet. what went wrong/changed? is it ok that it changed or did you not realize it got away from you? what now?Ā
evaluation: asking oneself: did i reach my goal? was it effective? what would i change next time?Ā
this is where comments come in
it is incredibly difficult to evaluate yourself. comments likeĀ āi love this!ā actually do begin to touch on the evaluation step of metacognition. it means, in general, the writer isĀ on the right track. comments likeĀ āi loved the dialogue between x and yā orĀ āthe emotions of this section really hit meā begin to answer the questions of was it effective, did i reach my goalĀ and conversely answer what would i change next timeĀ (by adding more of whatever was specified as working well). HYPER SPECIFIC comments, like analyzing the story between the lines or pasting in a line that you really liked and explaining why, is like jet fuel for the metacognition process and iām not exaggerating. specifically pointing out what was effective and why is incredibly usefulĀ
i can straight up credit my writing style to all of my friends and readers who have given incredibly detailed comments. when i found a community who gave feedback like that, my writing improved a thousand times faster than before. so! i guess what iām saying is give feedback! it goes so much further than you realize!
This is exactly the post I was thinking about when I wrote that recent post about how fanfic authors develop as authors by adapting to what they perceive as successful with their audience -- based on positive feedback.
Feedback absolutely does not need to be "critical" to help an author improve, and anyone who insists that fanfic authors need negative feedback or they'll never grow is. Well. To start with, incorrect.
I have some thoughts about comments and feedback and I will put them behind this cut tag.
First of all: positive feedback absolutely is important and helpful to writers, or at least to me as a writer. It's actually more important, and gives me more useful information, than negative feedback. Constructive criticism is also useful, but constructive criticism, if you're doing it properly, incorporates positive feedback.
By this point in my life as a writer (if we're talking about fiction, I cannot call it a career, I am an amateur there) I can pretty much do my own critical feedback. Yeah, this is too long, it fucks up the pacing, I must grit my teeth and make it shorter. Doing this scene this way isn't working, I need to find another way. Too many clauses in that sentence, slow it down so the reader can follow the action. That kind of thing.
What I am really bad about is predicting how other people will respond to my writing. I know what *I* like about it, and usually there is some overlap between that and what other people like; but there's also usually a lot of divergence. No matter how accomplished you may be technically, the one thing you cannot do is read your own work from the perspective of someone who didn't write it. And this is why it's really valuable to get feedback from people who aren't you, during the process and afterward.
Pointing to things you liked about a story is helpful to the author even if you don't explain why you liked them. It lets us know what's working, and that is as important to know as what isn't. Cause you don't want to take out the things that are working because of some rule you're trying to follow regarding the things that aren't.
And also, the positive reinforcement helps with motivation, especially at the WIP stage. It's always been really helpful to me to know that people are reading and enjoying the story while I'm working on it; I am willing to disappoint myself by not finishing something but not to disappoint other people!
Anyway, this is just to say: positive feedback is helpful not just emotionally but technically, and I deeply appreciate the fact that AO3 the site and AO3 culture is pretty well optimized for it. Think of it as casting bardic inspiration or something. Leave a positive comment today! Give writers courage in the doing of their work! God knows nobody else will.
Taking this bit from behind the read more to highlight it and underline it and in all caps: "Leave a positive comment today! Give writers courage in the doing of their work! God knows nobody else will."
Leave a positive comment today! Give writers courage in the doing of their work! God knows nobody else will.
As a writer (and a teacher), positive feedback is so important. I know where I'm going wrong, or a sentence doesn't quite read right. I might have rewritten that sentence three or four times. But to know what lands well? To know what evokes emotion in my readers? I need my readers to tell me that.
