Weirdo_with_A_Quill

This is where the fanfic author in me thrives. Aged 18+, Aussie, living my best life. Pronouns unnecessary, headcanons welcomed.

[weirdowithaquill]

WIP Game:

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

This is my second time making one of these, and in part it's to help me reorganise my thoughts and help me get back into writing. University has done a lot to weigh me down over the past two years, and so in some ways I'm hoping to get the chance to write at least a bit more often this year.

In order to best show just how much I am working on, I'm dividing this into old WIPs (from the last list) and new WIPs (which I started on since then). And remember, you can ask about any of these and I will share what I can!

The Old WIPs: 1: Sir Topham Hatt and his Engines (RWS) 2: Mixed-Traffic Engines (RWS) 3: Silent Engine Bert Again (RWS) 4: Edward; a Requiem in Steam (RWS) 5: Mavis the Quarry Engine (RWS) 6: History of the Sodor Highland Railway (RWS) 7: Five American Engines (RWS) 8: TATMR Horror Story (RWS) 9: The Reject Railway (RWS) 10: Tales From the Other Railway (RWS)

11: In Orwell's World (Voltron) 12: Pidge & Dr Strangelove (Voltron) 13: Keith and the Wolf (Voltron) 14: Grandma McClain and Adam Join the Voltron Crew (Voltron) 15: Planet Obscure (Voltron)

16: TDWT Rewrite (Total Drama) 17: Total Drama Grand Tour (Total Drama) 18: In the Hold (Total Drama)

19: BirdFlash story (DC) 20: Jingle Bells, Nightwing Noel (DC) 21: Red Hood Reading Club (DC) 22: Manor on the Hill (DC)

23: Malevolent Spirit (Saiki K) 24: Dark Reunion's Anti-Love Ray (Saiki K) 25: How to Win Over Saiki K, or a Rhapsody of a Man Not in Love (Saiki K) 26: Saiki K Europe Trip (Saiki K) 27: Kusuo's Christmas (Saiki K)

28: Jinrao (Naruto) 29: Obito, Father of the Jinchuuriki (Naruto) 30: Akatsuki Parents (Naruto) 31: Naruto & Nazis (Naruto) 32: Sakura Out-trains Everyone (Naruto) 33: Work Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 34: Adoption Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 35: Children Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 36: KakaObi Regency Story Part 2 (Naruto) 37: The Club (Naruto) 38: Atomic (Naruto) 39: Only Love Can Hurt Like This (Naruto) 40: The Hidan Story (Naruto) 41: School Shenanigans (Naruto)

42: AssClass Yearbook (Assassination Classroom) 43: The Theoretical Sequel to 'The Informant' (Assassination Classroom)

44: Britain in the AtLA World (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 45: Fast Car (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 46: Kaoru and the German (Ouran High School Host Club) 47: Romantic Killer AU (Romantic Killer)

The New WIPs:

48: The Samhain Special (RWS) 49: The Tour (RWS) 50: Summer Blues (RWS) 51: May Love Guide You Home (RWS) 52: It Lives in the Hills (RWS) 53: Thomas & Friends Season 22 Rewrite (RWS) 54: It's Sodor, Uramichi Oniisan! (RWS, Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan)

55: Easter Egg Hunt! (Voltron) 56: An Idiot Sandwich (Voltron) 57: The Spirit of Easter (DC) 58: Izuku Midoriya & The Dark Knight (MHA, DC) 59: The Gilded Age (MHA) 60: The Bunny Suit (Assassination Classroom) 61: Karma's Trick (Assassination Classroom) 62: Three Stops to Your Heart (Naruto) 63: A Trip on the Flying Scotsman (Naruto) 64: The Happiest Family (Naruto)

65: They Say the Past Haunts You (One Piece) 66: Zoro & Luffy: Buddy Daddies (One Piece) 67: Thailand (One Piece) 68: Down the Aisle (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 69: Dormmates (Sasaki & Miyano) 70: Wisps of Time (The Galaxy Railways)

Ok, so the good news is that most of my fics are now quite happily in one place... but the less brilliant news is a lot of these are longer-term projects. Some of them I am further along with than others, but a good few of these are a long way off. If you want to read them, then make sure to ask about them to keep them fresh in my mind!

Now, as for who I'm tagging in: I'm going to drop ten names here, and offer that anyone else who wants to do the game can do it as if I recommended you (I am not putting 70 tumblrs in here, I'm pretty sure the site would hunt me down). You don't have to join the game yourself, but I personally enjoy it as a fun way to order my thoughts!

@mean-scarlet-deceiver, @angryskarloey, @joezworld, @septemberofgenders, @scottishproductions, @jobsoldbootlace, @anonymousboxcar, @transsexualunderground, @eeveeandme05 and @thefedoragirl

And yes, I am probably going to do this again if I get under 50 fics. This is turning more into an organisational exercise than an exercise in showing off what WIPs I have XD

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[uie-deactivated20230402]

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[kitten--aesthetics-blog]

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

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[mewymarsher]

Dirty Percy.

[kedreeva]

When I was a kid, maybe 14 or so (which is, you know, 20+ years ago), I belonged to a Yahoo! mailing list for an anime called Gundam Wing. It was mostly populated by other teens, of varying ages, as it was started by a teen and her friends. Eventually it migrated, when Yahoo! groups started as forums, and even branched off into non-GW related stuff in a second forum.

One of the things I remember the most clearly is the oldest person in the group. Her name was Steelsong. She was a 40-something Dom with a sub whose name we knew even though we knew nothing else. She ran her own fanfic archive because the web was still handmade HTML and navigated in webrings and I’m pretty sure Google didn’t exist or was only barely, barely launched and not well known. She was kind and patient and we loved her. She treated everyone on the group with the respect given any adult, even though most of the rest of the world was still treating us like we were children. Not teenagers even, but children. She never once condescended to any of us, never made our youth a barrier to her respect, never treated us like we were incapable of being full people or like we were less than her because we were young.

I remember that she hosted our fanfiction, as absolutely terrible as it was (and I still have some of it, I am WELL aware of how cringingly terrible it is, just absolute nonsense garbage), right there alongside of other fic that was soul-achingly beautiful. Not a separate section for her friends or for kids, just right there like we were good enough to feature alongside other authors. I never once received crit from her that I didn’t ask for, only support. Only love. I am still writing today partly because Steel was so kind about our fic, fanfic and original.

I remember that when I started doing clay sculpture, she commissioned a tiny pair of dragons from me, to support me doing artwork. She sent a check my mom cashed for me, and my mom helped me mail it when it was finished. It broke in transit, and Steel assured me that she mended it and that it was still beautiful. It was a small gold dragon curled up with a small silver dragon.

I remember that her patience knew no bounds. I remember that she was there for us, regardless of reason. When we wanted to know silly things like what to do with a single AA battery, she answered. When we had serious questions about sex, she answered.  When we had questions about writing, she taught us. When one of our group members, a young gay teen in Australia, ended up in the hospital and then stopped making posts, and we all knew what had happened, she let us talk to her about it because we couldn’t go to our own parents, even though we had just lost a friend.

She was not a replacement to my parents, but she was an extra parent, in some ways. A friend, certainly, but someone that had been through more life than we had and was willing to pass on knowledge if we asked for it. Someone older that we trusted with things that were too uncomfortable to go to our parents or teachers or whatever about, because we already knew she wasn’t going to judge us or something, and that we would get an honest answer.

I don’t know why I’m remembering this so hard tonight, and I’m not sure if there’s a point to sharing this, except that I know she’s gone now. She was ill the last time we spoke, and her site went down a long time ago, and I miss her. She was a huge influence on my life, then and now. She was hope, for me, that life as an adult didn’t have to be boring, it wouldn’t have to mean giving up the things I loved and Becoming Only Responsible With No Fun. Her presence meant I had hope I could still write and play with friends even when I wasn’t ‘a kid’ anymore. And she’s gone, and I miss her, and I wanted to share her from the perspective of youth, and the perspective over twenty years later has provided me.

And I think of her, when people go off about older folks being in fandom with younger folks. I’m an older folks now, or at least middle aged folks because there are certainly folks older than me still, but I wasn’t always. I’ve been here since i was a younger folks, and I know how much Steel’s presence and support meant to me, how much she helped not just me but everyone on that group. And I think of the people saying older folks don’t belong in fandom, and that they shouldn’t interact with younger folks at all, and I just think… I can’t agree. I needed that kind of solid presence in my life back then and even at the age I am now, I need the folks older than me to stay. I want them here.

So I guess, like, if you’re here and you’re 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 or whatever, I want you here in fandom with me, still. Your presence here is a comfort. It is hope. It is a reminder that life will continue to be fun, even as I get older, myself. And if you’re younger and you have this sort of elder in your groups, I hope that they are like Steel. I hope they are kind and patient and supportive, and that knowing them gives you hope for your own future. I hope in twenty years you look back and remember them fondly.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you would never let ai write fanfics for you

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

I would sooner take weeks onto months to write a single chapter than let a soulless immitation of human creation parrot a mirage of my vision back at me-

Oh and creative integrity aside- suppourting ANY AI includes the enviornmental impact, human rights exploitation, outright slavery??, economic bubble, and about 101 other neg impacts. You cant easily stop all the bad things in the world that you play no part in, but you CAN very easily stop using AI, especially in fandom where it is not welcome.

[depresseddisneyprincess]

reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing

[the-liars-art]

Fuck yeah this is important

[tearsanctuary]

“yeh, i write fics as a hobby, it’s just something i do to become a better writer, i post it just because” i say, as i cry myself to sleep because out of 200 hits just 10 people left kudos

[dragonmuse]

Just saw a post elsewhere arguing that if a fic is really long and published very quickly than it must be AI.

Y'all, some of us are just deeply ill in an occasionally very useful way, okay?!

[weirdowithaquill]

There's also the other side of this which I prefer to do - which is bank up a heap of finished chapters and then release them so I have time to keep up the momentum. It's what I'm doing with The Gilded Age: An Endhawks Fic right now, in fact!

In other words, writers will always write in different ways, and every way is valid except for AI.

Please, give fanfic writers love - we do this for free and we just want to share our writing with the world.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

sending love, support and appreciation to Archive of Our Own and all of their volunteers for everything they have been doing for the site, writers, artists, fans, readers, fandoms, everything. they deserve all the praise ♡

[weirdowithaquill]

Hi Werido, if you don't remember me, I was one who was discovered your ERS fanfic series last month.

So far, I just got back reading your stories since I finished your 4th volume "Silly Big Engines", and they're really fun to read through because I noticed that they're rewrites of Season 5-7.

I have one question in mind: how do you get inspired to write?

Hello! Mentioning you discovered the ERS last month sent me checking my comments to see if I could figure out who you were XD

Ah, yes there are a lot of those old ERS fics, aren't there? Yes, a few are rewrites of classic episodes, though as I got my legs under me I grew a lot more experimental with what I was writing, both in the ERS and in general.

As for inspiration, hooooo boy...

I get inspired by just about everything. I get inspired by random thoughts, by reading other books, by doing new things, by learning about history, even by eating. I'd say the important thing is to see everything as new and exciting. It doesn't help that I have a billion new ideas every day and then can't write them - but then again, maybe that's for the better...

But to be more specific, I believe there is tremendous value in reading books and learning about the time period they were written in. For the Railway Series, that means looking at the 1940s-1960s and studying them. Awdry himself was inspired by incidents he either experienced or read about in railway magazines.

I got the idea for this particular Traintober prompt from a rabbithole I went down learning about WWI after reading 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a German literature course at Uni.

But at the end of the day, anything can be inspiring. Writing isn't about grammar or the conventions that were drilled into us at school. It's about having a story to tell, and wanting to tell it. It's about wanting to share all the insane ideas you have floating around.

This has already gone on way longer than I originally intended, so I guess to sum it all up: pull from your own life, but also from the world around you. If you really want to tell a story, the words will come to you... most likely at the least opportune time. Like when walking the dog, or at 3am.

[rontology]

I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.

[rontology]

we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!

[rontology]

compiling my favourite responses

[weirdowithaquill]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! 2025 is finally over, and I for one am happy to see it go.

And since October, I've been working on something new, and a bit out of the blue for me

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

I may or may not have gotten into Gilded Age history and My Hero Academia at the same time. This is the result. A huge thanks to @lswro2-222 for agreeing to be my beta reader!

I hope you all have a great 2026, and that you enjoy reading!

[weirdowithaquill]

Happy Christmas Everyone!

That's it. That's the post. Go be happy. Enjoy the holidays, no matter what you celebrate.

So have a very Merry Festive Season, and a Happy New Year!

[weirdowithaquill]

Hello there,

A few months ago, I was looking for any Thomas AO3 fanfics after reading stories like "God Rest, Ye Merry North-Westerners" and "Half Of A Whole", and that's when someone on Discord recommend me to your fanfic stories, "The Extended Railway Series".

Even though I haven't read any of your stories yet, am I supposed to read them in order or I can just jump into any of them that interests me?

Hello!

Sorry for the wait - it's been a very busy couple weeks thanks to the build up towards Christmas - but I've got some free time now!

I'm really happy to hear someone recommended my series! It's plenty long, so it's good for something to sink your teeth into - and I would personally suggest reading them in order, as they often have references to past instalments. So, a bit like the original Railway Series in that regard!

You can of course jump into any that interests you though! You just may have some questions that you'll find the answers to in past fics!

Thank you for your question, and I hope you enjoy reading!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

things some people, especially people who are new to ao3 or fandom/fanfic space as a whole, seem to not understand:

archive of our own is an archive. not a social media.

archive of our own was built with the stance that there would be no censorship, because other platforms already had censorship where some things that were taboo were reported/removed. ao3 was built with the purpose that all of these works, that were not allowed on other platforms, would be allowed on ao3.

the archive will house anything that’s considered fanworks. so no, you cannot report this fic because it portrays in explicit details taboo topics about xyz, you cannot report that fic because it romanticizes and glorifies xyz. ao3 will not remove any of those fics, because whether or not you like it, those fics do not go against ao3’s terms of service.

“but these things are not allowed on other platforms” that’s precisely why ao3 was created, to house and give a platform to these things that were censored/banned/removed from other platforms.

if you have a problem with this, you can use other platforms to post and read fanfics

but you should also know that ao3 by far has the best tagging system, meaning you won’t get anything like what ao3 provides on other platforms, meaning it may be a pain in the ass for you to find a fic with the prompts and pairing you’re looking for, meaning you may still get jump scared by things that are triggering to you half way through your reading of what you thought was an innocent fic. because other platforms don’t have tagging systems, where you can find and avoid any character/pairing/tag as you please, like ao3.

[gilles-prost]

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[n1790]

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[masterj]

HELLO FAT FACE 😀

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

Hello Fatface!

[weirdowithaquill]

Hullo, Fatface!

[weirdowithaquill]

I was rereading your story ‘An Ode to the Flying Scotsman’ and decided to make a little doodle mock-up of Abi the Azuma. I hope you enjoy :)

Oh my goodness she’s so cute! You got exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote her!

Thank you so much!