Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Now You See Me (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alma Dray & Dylan Rhodes, Dylan Rhodes & Jack Wilder, J. Daniel Atlas & Merritt McKinney & Henley Reeves & Jack Wilder
Characters: Dylan Rhodes, Jack Wilder, Alma Dray, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, J. Daniel Atlas
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Medical Procedures, Whump, Disability, Physical Disability, Disabled Character
Summary:
"It wasn't supposed to go like this," Dylan says, not sure if he's talking to Alma or Jack or even himself.
"His leg," Alma says, hand over her mouth. "He…" she trails off into French, muttering what might be prayers or curses.
Jack chooses that moment to try getting up, frantically pushing himself away from them and crying out in shock when the movement jostles his injuries. He collapses back against the asphalt, frustrated tears leaving trails through the grime on his face.
In the distance, sirens wail.
(or, Jack Wilder is in the car when it crashes a few blocks too early.)
Chapters: 1/8
Fandom: Now You See Me (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: J. Daniel Atlas & Henley Reeves, J. Daniel Atlas & Lula May & Merritt McKinney & Henley Reeves & Dylan Rhodes & Jack Wilder, Henley Reeves & Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Henley Reeves, Lula May, Merritt McKinney, J. Daniel Atlas, Dylan Rhodes, Jack Wilder, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Urban Fantasy, Chronic Illness, Movie: Now You See Me 2 (2016)
Series: Part 3 of paranormal au
Summary:
Henley’s selkie skin goes missing. The Horsemen gain a new member whose self-decapitation tricks are a little too realistic.
howdy folks it's been a while have another nysm not!fic. this one includes a bonus actual prose scene 3/4 of the way through btw
previous: king edward ii au
nysm not!fics #6: "Love Potion" jacklula
at some point during ny2m, chase sees lula flirting with jack and goes "i'll help her along; it's not like they're gonna live long enough for it to backfire" and hypnotizes jack to be receptive to her flirting
canon happens, chase loses, doesn't undo the hypnosis, and jacklula get together
but something is ever so slightly off. jack keeps having these flashes of, not disgust, but wariness? when lula interacts with him romantically. he's not sure how to describe it, really.
he tries going to danny, but danny blows him off--- it's just something he's not used to and lucky to have, after all. jack remembers henley's goodbye and doesn't ask danny for romantic advice any more
he almost says something to dylan next, but this isn't the sort of thing he needs to bring up to the new leader of the eye. dylan has enough on his plate.
by this point, the flashes are strong enough that lula is noticing his reactions. "if you don't like when i do XYZ, i'll stop," she tells him, and jack, guided by the hypnosis, says "i love everything you do to me"
lula is the one to go to merritt, with a "hey, is jack acting different than he used to? i'm not trying to like, mind meld with him, y'know? i wanna date jack, not a pushover who agrees with everything i say."
merritt hadn't been looking too hard, but now that lula mentions it, jack is acting off from how he had before lula. or, more accurately, as merritt thinks through the timeline, he's been acting off since they got sent to macau.
jack knows there's something wrong now, but he can't articulate it, and every time he tries to bring it up with lula, he can't. he can't stop his physical reactions, though, and lula has noticed
finally she sits him down and goes "hey, i know you say you're fine with whatever I do, but i can see your reactions, and you don't seem fine. i'm not comfortable being intimate when you react like this to me trying to hold your hand."
jack: are you... breaking up with me?
lula: i mean, i don't really want to, but you clearly aren't happy
and that's enough for the hypnosis to break, because lula has called it off.
jack quite literally throws himself across the room, shoving himself into the bathroom and hyperventilating a bit because he was starting to like lula before chase got to him. she was funny and smart and talented and hot and into him, but he didn't want it like this
rest under the cut due to length
lula is freaking out because she tried to let him down gently (ish. she tried, merritt, but he's having a panic attack in the bathroom and you were his roommate for a year; surely you can talk to him)
merritt sits in the living room with a book and lula goes to have a little freak out of her own in her room.
jack gets himself calmed down and composed and comes out of the bathroom expecting to have lula still there. he wants to make it right, because he's just been leading her on this whole time, hasn't he. he should make it up to her. he's prepared to white-knuckle his way through a date as an apology for freaking out so much and making her think he doesn't love her, because he does love her.
he thinks.
he should love her, at least.
but lula is gone, and merritt is just looking at him the way he does when he's actually nice, instead of faux-nice like his performances. this is the merritt that intuited jack's father was an angry drunk and stopped drinking in the safehouse. this is the merritt that figured out jack doesn't like thunderstorms and stayed up watching dumb action movies with him to drown out the storm. this is the merritt that clocked jack's restlessness and started teaching him mentalism
and jack just kinda collapses onto the couch, head buried in his hands, and says "i think i'm broken"
merritt raises an eyebrow: "i think something happened in macau, something to do with lula."
there's a pause. jack doesn't move, but merritt keeps going. "I think my brother has always had it in his mind that he's a romantic, and he's never had any qualms playing cupid."
jack sits up. "but i do like her." a beat. "or, at least, i did like her."
merritt pats him on the back. "it's up to you what you do with it now, but my advice? figure out where your head is at before you take it to her. she's tough; she'll be fine"
while jack is having his panic attack and talking with merritt, lula is freaking out in her room
instead of the relatively comforting presence of merritt, she is found by atlas, and atlas has been a little in his own head abotu all this.
he's very atlas about it, but he does clock something's up with lula
"i think jack and i broke up," she says
"well shit," danny says.
"i think it was me. he was flinching every time i touched him or kissed him or flirted, but he would say he was fine."
"is he---" "merritt's with him. where's the fucking gym in this place danny i need to---" "wanna go get drunk"
atlas and lula go get properly sloshed bc atlas doesn't do heartfelt conversations. (this is post-ny2m atlas, not ny3m atlas)
the issue here is that the next day, when jack is ready to go talk to her, she's hella hungover
"I really did like you, before," Jack says. "I didn't hate it all."
Lula downs half Merritt's rancid hangover cure, regretting the fifth round of shots, and the fourth, and the third, and maybe even the second.
"I don't ever want my boyfriend to be scared of me," she says. "You say you were fine, but you flinched every time I grazed you."
"I..." Jack takes in a shuddering breath. "In Macau, while you all were practicing your cardistry, Chase cornered me. He... Merritt says he's always liked playing Cupid. I guess... I was a guinea pig."
"Because I kept flirting with you," Lula says, the realization working far better to clear the sluggishness than any raw egg could. "He wanted to play matchmaker because I couldn't keep it in my pants. Jack, I'm so---"
"I did like it," Jack cuts in, then grimaces, correcting himself. "Some of it. I did like you. I do, still, I think."
Lula takes another swig of hangover cure, making a face at the taste. "I don't want you to lie to me, Jack. Not now. Don't try to save my feelings, okay?"
"I'm not ready to date again, but... don't count it out?" He smiles, not one of his camera-perfect stage smiles, but something smaller, a little bit self-deprecating and leagues more real than anything he's flashed her way since. God, not since Macau, or at least London. "I have to get my head back on straight--- everything's all jumbled up. I wasn't lying to you, at Iong's. There really hadn't been anyone before you. I didn't think I could."
That is a little flattering, but Lula's brain is replaying Chase cornered me; Chase plays matchmaker; Chase cornered me; Chase plays matchmaker.
Her feelings aren't Jack's problem, though. She pastes on her own wide smile, sticking out a hand. "Friends, then?"
Jack laughs, quiet but real, and reaches out to take it. "Friends." He cocks his head to the side, smirk playing across his features. "For now."
i think he and lula can work it out, like any ship with a sort of trauma on one side that makes it difficult to have traditional intimacy
but it'll be a long arduous process that lula can't really help with
especially because jack doesn't want to be coddled or seen as weaker so he doesn't really let on how much he is struggling
❄️ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?
okay so. i think it would be really really cool if someone (anyone, really) wrote any of my nysm not!fics, but i would literally pass away if someone wrote 5th horseman alma or edward ii au.
📚 what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app?
i honestly don't remember the last time i opened my notes app. however, i do have a physical notebook i carry around so let's pull that out and see. ahhh. it's discussion questions about a reading on classification for grad school
🐚 do you like or dislike surprises?
i enjoy surprises like gifts, but not when they mess with my schedule. surprise me with a new book or a gift card, not an outing or trip
🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?
🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before (optional)
hi M!
🌵 ⇢ share the link to a playlist you love
i don't actually have any public playlists lol, but i'll link one of my favorite albums instead: Una Mattina by Ludovico Einaudi, which has one of my favorite songs of all time on it. Everyone go listen to Nuvole Bianche now.
🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love
have a The Pitt fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66061972
🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?
I love analysis comments! Tell me line by line what you liked and why and what you think might happen next! alternatively tell me how you noticed parallels between what i've written and canon <3
🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before (optional)
hmmmmm. honestly i'm not sure what personal lore i have left to share publicly without getting into doxxing territory lol. my favorite painting is Paul Cornoyer's The Plaza After the Rain and it's my background on my laptop and my phone.
post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character
in nysm, i don't think jack ever actually had a proper crush on atlas--- there was some idolization and like, professional envy, but not a romantic crush
🎱 ⇢ post your AO3 total stats
🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?
🌵 ⇢ share the link to a playlist you love
🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that?
🛼 ⇢ describe your latest wip with five emojis
🥑 ⇢ you accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help?
🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love
💌 ⇢ how many unread emails do you have right now?
🌻 ⇢ tag someone you appreciate but don't talk to on a regular basis
🐇 ⇢ do you prefer writing original characters, reader inserts, or a mix of both?
🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before
🎲 ⇢ what stops you from writing more in your free time?
🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings
🧸 ⇢ what's the fastest way to become your mutual?
🪐 ⇢ name three good things going on in your life right now
📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app?
🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character
🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?
🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on
❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?
🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity
🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh
🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?
🍦 ⇢ name three good things about a character you hate
🥝 ⇢ do you lie a lot? what's the most recent lie you told?
🦋 ⇢ share something that has been on your heart and mind lately
🦴 ⇢ is there a piece of media that inspires your writing?
🍅 ⇢ give yourself some constructive criticism on your own writing
🐚 ⇢ do you like or dislike surprises?
🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here
☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?
🐝 ⇢ tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them
🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them
🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it
🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?
My friend @vyther15 (writing blog @vyther16) has been on a Now You See Me kick and both unwittingly and unknowingly dragged me along for the ride via tumblr feed, which means when I saw that he'd written a fic for the fandom, the first thing I did after reading it was decide it would be fun to get up to shenanigans and bind her a copy of it as a surprise. (With the added bonus of completing a project for Binderary 2026 with @renegadeguild!)
streetlight eyes wide by vyther15
On the fifth day of Olivia hiding in her room, Henley knocks outside of mealtimes. "I, uh, I wanted to talk to you about something a little more important than food."
Olivia slinks over to the door. "I know you're Henley Reeves," she says. "And I know you killed my brother."
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about," Henley says, voice wry.
(or, Henley Reeves adopts Jack Wilder's little sister. It's only mostly on accident.)
Once I started typesetting it, I realized that it was the perfect length to make into a sextidecimo (2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inch pages), and wouldn't you know but a deck of cards is 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches which isn't too far off, and what would The Horsemen's magic tricks be without a deck of cards, and we all know I love a fun lil theme... so I committed very hard to the bit. I found a horrible quality promo photo from NYSM2 that featured a deck of The Eye cards which I then spent an entire day recreating out of shapes and color alteration of existing images in Canva. Was it the easiest way to go about it? Certainly not. But if we have learned anything about me, it's that I love to recreate a thing so I can manipulate it to my will in a typeset, and it worked out! With minimal swearing even! My initial plan was to use that for the title page, but then I decided it was simply too chaotic and difficult to read the text, so Ace Of Spades card for the title! Complete with a playing card font for the title and page numbers to cinch the legitimacy. And then to further embrace the Deck Of Cards theme, each scene break (since there are no title pages) is a different card suit and it somehow magically worked out perfectly to finish the cycle from beginning to end.
At first, I had grand plans of doing a full cloth case and foiling the card back design onto it, but uh. Were you aware that 2.5x3 inches is rather small? And there's a lot of detail in that design? I abandoned that idea pretty quickly and decided to use some lovely marbled paper from a friend (who also gifted me the paper I used for end pages!) and instead committed somehow EVEN HARDER to the idea of a deck of cards. By making a box for the lil guy to live inside. And you best believe I sat there with two different brands of cards to compare while designing to make sure I got everything as close to legit as possible. (Spot the text going up AND down the sides, plus copyright text on the bottom and flap -- or in my case, gift note and book curse, and a little tab cutout and hinge fold so the box doesn't bust apart when you reach in to pull out your cards book)
I'm not sure I'm fully converted to the Tiny Book Crew but I'm very pleased with how the lil guy turned out and how quickly it all came together. And how much less painful it is to have to reprint the entire thing. Multiple times. After mis-cutting. And realizing I'd borked the page numbers somewhere along the way of strategically adding blank pages to remove from each signature rather than have to procure 12 additional pages of text.
Binding details below the cut!
No font size or spacing info this time, because I typeset for quarto since it's the same scale, and then just made it smaller when I printed.
Body font: EB Garamond
Title font: JQKA Wild
Text message font: Nirmala UI
Bookcloth: Brillianta Dark Red from Colophon Book Arts
Endpages and cover paper: gifts from a @aetherseer , exact details unknown
Spine design: We R Memory Keepers foil quill in silver
hello everyone i spent half of yesterday afternoon reading about king edward ii of england and his contemporaries in order to make a loversdeath au, so! welcome to part 5 of my nysm not!fics, an au that started with loversdeath as Edward II/Piers Gaveston historical au and quickly spiraled to be about everything but loversdeath. enjoy <3
previous: mt. knives au
next: "love potion" jacklula au
King Edward II au.
okay so. in real history, a lot of these people die, and king edward ii was uh, Not a great king. favored his presumed lover too highly, disregarded his wife, did some war badly, and got overthrown by his wife and her lover and executed. none of the real people involved in the drama i'm stealing were good people, except maybe the few kids who die young (rip joan gaveston you deserved better, as did your younger half sister margaret de audley, who did not die young but still deserved better.)
Character Roles:
Dylan Rhodes/Shrike: Edward I (apologies Dylan fans; this au isn't super kind about him)
J. Daniel Atlas: Edward II
Henley Reeves: Isabella of France (wife of Edward II)
Merritt McKinney: Roger Mortimer (lover of Isabella of France)
Bosco Leroy: Edward III (son of Edward II and Isabella of France)
June Rouclere: Joan Queen of Scots (daughter of Edward II and Isabella of France; in this au, she is adopted bc Atlas and Henley are both white)
Jack Wilder: Piers Gaveston (lover of Edward II)
Lula May: Margaret de Clare (wife of Piers Gaveston; remarries after his death)
Olivia Wilder (oc): Joan Gaveston (daughter of Piers Gaveston and Margaret de Clare)
Allen Scott-Frank: Hugh de Audley (Margaret de Clare's second husband)
Jessie Silva (Jack's assistant in the ny3m deleted scene): Margaret de Audley (daughter of Margaret de Clare and Hugh de Audley)
Charlie Gees/Vanderberg: no direct analogy; he is the illegitimate son of a wealthy lord, and his backstory is essentially the same as canon.
Veronika Vanderberg: Ralph Stafford (supporter of Edward III and kidnapper of Margaret de Audley)
the plot (that which cannot be inferred by this character list, that is) will be under the cut, bc this ended up longer than i expected.
NY1M+NY2M
Dylan (or other character of your choice; not required to be dylan) is the king of England. He has a son, Jedward Daniel Atlas, who is believed to be the second coming of King Arthur (edward ii was literally believed to be arthur reborn at first).
Atlas grows up, meets Jack Wilder, and grows super close. Dylan hates this, because he's homophobic he wants his son to marry a woman in order to have heirs, because those are important, and also because Jack Wilder is too low on the social ladder; he's not high-ranking nobility.
Atlas asks Dylan if he can bestow a title upon Jack. Dylan responds by cutting off Atlas's household for a bit and exiling Jack to Aquitaine.
Dylan dies in battle. Among his last words are a demand that Jack remain in exile in Aquitaine.
Atlas becomes king of England. His first proclamation is to bring Jack out of exile and promote him to Earl, a title typically reserved for relatives of the royal family. He also arranges Jack's marriage to Atlas's cousin, Lula (Margaret de Clare was Edward II's niece, not cousin, but that has been adjusted for age purposes here)
Atlas agrees to marry Henley Reeves, princess of France, and travels to France for the wedding. While he is gone, he appoints Jack regent. The rest of the nobility are displeased by this. (Isabella of France was 12 when she married Edward II and came to England; that has again been adjusted here for modern sensibilities)
Henley and Jack become friends. Henley and Atlas have Bosco and adopt June.
The court and nobles bring forth a petition to the king to have Jack removed from his post and exiled. Unable to withstand the political pressure, Atlas agrees to exile Jack, but not without granting him a ton of land and other stuff. Jack is exiled to Ireland, where he is "the King's Lieutenant in Ireland"
Time passes. Atlas does kingly stuff. Henley takes a trip home to France, where she meets Merritt and begins an affair.
Atlas strikes a deal with the nobility and brings Jack out of exile. Jack returns to earldom and spends so extravagantly that the nobles get mad at him again. He is exiled a third time, on pain of death if he returns to England.
Lula has Olivia, and Jack breaks his exile to go visit her. the nobility tracks him down and executes him. (Piers Gaveston was executed 2 months after the birth of his daughter Joan, and was not given a proper burial until Edward II successfully petitioned the church to have him un-excommunicated).
of course, Jack is not actually dead. he fakes his death and moves to France, becoming friends with Merritt and getting updates brought about his daughter and bff (lula) and bf (Atlas) by Henley when she makes the trip over the channel.
Atlas arranges Lula's remarriage with Allen Scott-Frank. They have a daughter, Jessie. (The timeline here is a bit fudged; it took a while longer for both the marriage and the daughter to come about).
Henley and Atlas start to scheme about how to fake Atlas's death so Henley can rule and Atlas can go hang out with his boyfriend eating drinking wine and eating cheese in Paris.
Atlas acts like a raging dick and terrible king. Henley builds support with Merritt and ousts Atlas. She makes Bosco king and herself Regent, and then orders Atlas killed. Atlas "dies" and goes off to France to hang out with Jack.
(Edward II actually found another favourite after the death of Piers Gaveston, Hugh Despenser, and lavished him so much that Isabella of France got fed up and overthrew him).
Once Bosco turns 18, he takes over as king and demotes Henley and "executes" Merritt (merritt goes to france with the other faked death crew to bother them).
(Edward III did oust Isabella of France when he turned 18 and she was exiled for a bit before reconciling with her children and her grandchildren. Roger Mortimer was executed by Edward III at that time).
NY3M
Charlie's mom is killed by Veronika and Charlie almost dies.
He ends up in June's castle and through shenanigans not unlike Merlin+Arthur or Gwen+Morgana bbc merlin, becomes close with June.
Charlie tells June about his revenge. June goes "we should tell my brother the king about this." they tell her brother the king.
Her brother the king (Bosco) says "I am 100% on your side; Veronika needs to go. Unfortunately, I cannot take her down without losing like, 90% of my support base, and that's how you get a coup. Can i secretly fund you as you undermine her and bring her low enough that I can execute her?"
Charlie+June needle Veronika, making her paranoid and such. Veronika kidnaps Jessie for political clout, and Bosco can't actively do anything about it. (Edward III supported Ralph Stafford and, instead of returning Margaret de Audley to her parents, created Hugh de Audley as the 1st Earl of Gloucester. Ralph Stafford and Margaret de Audley went on to have 6 children that survived into adulthood).
The faked-death crew all get a message from June+Charlie and show up to A Christmas Carol veronika and rescue Jessie.
Veronika freaks out, loses all her political power, and is accused of and executed for treason by Bosco.
The faked-death crew fuck back off to France to day drink (and play Robin Hood) and Charlie gets all of Veronika's land and money, which he uses to improve the lives of the peasants in his domain.
If anyone has the desire to write this au, please please please let me know. It has so much potential. It also has so much plot and I cannot commit that much time to it.
Additional ideas I did not include: Walter Mabry as Hugh Despenser. Tressler + Bradley as various Earls who were part of the disagreements over Piers Gaveston. Alma Dray as Edward I's wife Eleanor of Castile.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Now You See Me (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: J. Daniel Atlas & Merritt McKinney & Henley Reeves & Jack Wilder, Alma Dray/Dylan Rhodes, J. Daniel Atlas & Merritt McKinney & Henley Reeves & Dylan Rhodes & Jack Wilder
Characters: J. Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, Jack Wilder, Dylan Rhodes, Alma Dray
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Vampire, Movie: Now You See Me (2013), posting this during the ao3 blackout like a soldier under artillery fire, some danley if you squint, everybody is a paranormal creature
Series: Part 2 of paranormal au
Summary:
To be clear, Jack Wilder isn’t one hundred percent jazzed about being a werewolf.
okay i've got a shorter nysm not!fic today; this one is less a coherent fic idea and more potential character beats. this is called the mt. knives au for reasons that i can explain if you're really curious but essentially is just an inside joke with @jianghuchild who helped me draft some of this.
Previous: 5th horseman alma au
the mt. knives au is, essentially, an au where all the og horsemen ended up with a disability of some sort in between ny2m and ny3m.
atlas: hard of hearing. heat exhaustion + infection in australia messed up his ears good. uses hearing aids and keeps it under wraps until the death cube, where they get wet and stop working. knows some ASL and is pretty good at reading lips.
lula: amputee. toxic shock syndrome+complications=loss of limb. she loses part of one of her legs, and when she's not wearing a prosthetic, she uses crutches to get around. she incorporates it into her act, but she's not pleased about the death cube either bc her prosthetic is not designed for water
jack: cane user. broke his leg badly like a year after the horsemen broke up. can get by with just a leg brace under his dress pants for the length of a show on the cruise ship, but not the kinds of things they do in ny3m. He's limping by the end of the movie. usually uses a cane, but does his attempted confession to Lula in a wheelchair bc he strained it so much
henley: low vision/partial blindness. not quite sure what caused it, but it effects some of the more finicky tricks she used to be able to do; she's adapted her escape act to work with her vision. She does her tricks haptically and knows her locks by feel. sometimes mixes up with horseman she's looking at. is learning braille and is a whiz at figuring out text-to-speech and screen-reader functions. her tarot card from the ponies is embossed with braille text.
merritt: alcoholism. but it's actually treated as an addiction instead of a mild joke for a less-important (unfortunately) member of an ensemble cast; he deals with withdrawal symptoms and cravings and gets mean about it (and feels worse bc he didn't want to get mean).
Dylan: chronic bronchitis. Got it from his dip in a river in a safe. I don't have anything more for him bc he doesn't really show up enough for it to matter in ny3m
it really depends on what i'm writing, but usually either settled, frustrated, or gleeful/excited
🎉how often do you celebrate completing & posting a work? how often do you give yourself the credit/validation that you seek from others when you post? (if you don't, you should!)
once i post a fic to ao3, i make the tumblr post, reblog the post to myself, and then send it to all the relevant discord channels. i don't really celebrate posting works unless it's the last chapter of something, or something i've been really struggling with, bc usually i'm posting the fics as a reward for some irl thing i've been putting off. the kudos and comments emails are the rewards really, but the fic itself it also a reward.
💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language
the characters by far. idc about plot (i write mostly oneshots and drabbles), i rarely write full-on aus, and, not to toot my own horn, but i am naturally pretty good with technical stuff and figurative language. but if i'm writing fanfic, it's because i am enamored with the canon characters, which means i want to get them right. if the characters don't read as correct, then it's not a good fic in my eyes, and i need to go back to the drawing board
