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Basically the way I write, I get an idea and make a new doc and I start writing; if it gets beyond about 2k words, the chances of my carrying it on are Significant and so those are what I would consider to be WIPs - on top of that, I would also say that I have to have like. Touched the fic in the last six months otherwise it is not really a WIP lol
WITH THOSE CRITERIA IN MIND - here is a list of all of my WIPs (under the cut for length) (also, as always, if any of them Intrigue you, please ask me about them...):
Jujutsu Kaisen
Our Promise - the sequel to my fic The Promise, and the second fic in the series In Servitude to the Gojo Clan - from Suguru's POV, this fic focuses on Suguru, Shoko and Satoru going to visit Suguru's parents for the winter holidays and deals with the results of abuse by the Gojo Clan
The End and The Beginning - a post-canon au where Satoru lives (and Nanako too) that focuses on Satoru learning to live with a major disability on top of his powers going whack while he and Shoko deal with the aftermath of the apocalypse; originally meant to be a lot more focused on Satoshoko (and it still is!) this has also grown into something of a Shoko character study and a dumping ground for all of my various headcanons/ideas
When The Chips Are Down - a recounting of Suguru's childhood in the series Variation Upon A Theme wherein he is half-raised by Toji and half trained to be an assassin; I struggled for a while to work out The Purpose of Suguru's fic but then I watched Naruto, and Suguru and Toji's dynamic is now very much inspired by Haku and Zabuza
Doomed Yuri Time Travel - Title not final lol - this is a sort of sequel to my fic The End Is Near (And So Is A New Beginning) which focused on the deaths of the Six Eyes and Ten Shadows of four hundred years ago, this time focusing on What Happened When They Went To Shibuya 2018
Picture Perfect - a fic that explains the origins of each of the 56 photos seen in the Hidden Inventory movie ending; feat. Arakaki Honoka, my OC who's in the year above sashisu at school and whose cursed technique revolves around cameras; also feat. SO much sashisu and a melancholic ending...(when I get there...I'm only three pictures in so far lolsob)
Shot Through The Heart - a Tojigo no curses au with a bit of background sashisu (I have vague vague plans for their tragic backstories in this au too lol) wherein Toji is a thirty-year-old single dad of two who hires recently-kicked-out-of-home highschooler Gojo Satoru to babysit them
Again and Again and Again - in which post-Night Parade Suguru gets sent back to the moment in Hidden Inventory where Satoru asks about killing all those guys...i.e. Suguru gets put into a timeloop and this sort of fixes him, maybe
Through The Storm - after a year and a half of Satoru blowing in and out of their lives, the Fushiguros realise Satoru hasn't been around for a hot minute - they end up at Jujutsu High where Satoru is currently recovering from [insert terrible injury/illness here, I have not worked that one fully out yet]
Part of Your World - Tsumiki is your run-of-the-mill hedgewitch and Toge is the siren who's been eating her onigiri and leaving her pretty gifts, and who eventually ends up in her care as a silent and strange human boy (a Togemiki Little Mermaid AU lol)
Naruto
Whelve - wherein Uchiha Madara takes on a genin team and this manages to stop him turning evil (this will eventually result in an au where he becomes Nidaime Hokage, which has a lot of impact on the Later Plot)
A Friend In Need - technically the first chapter of this is posted, as a sequel to my fic The People Who Care, but the rest of the fic is going to be Kakashi's various friends helping him out with Naruto and with learning to be a person outside of a Shinobi (I also have vague thoughts about how the plot might be impacted if Kakashi is kinda out of action for a while but I dunno if that'll work it's way in at all....)
It Takes Three Minutes To Die - Rin doesn't die when Kakashi's Chidori goes through her chest; recaptured by Kirigakure, she struggles to survive and to find meaning in that survival as the bloodthirsty nature of the village forces her to grow claws she never wanted
A History of Kirigakure - an in-universe non-fiction of Kirigakure's history, culture and society, as well as a little bit of background to the land of water as a whole; ultimately I started making this as I realised I didn't have enough knowledge about Kirigakure for the Rin Lives au lol so I decided to make some of my own and thought I might as well get it into a position it could be published and shared with people (it is nowhere near that state rn lol)
Blood Red Blossoms - a fairly self-indulgent fic where Sakura's parents die during the Konoha crush and her team rally together to help her throw it (and this, somehow, fixes everything)
Other
JJK-Naruto Crossover - Title not final lol - this is an au where the Naruto cast are put into Jujutsu Kaisen; partly inspired by the crack idea that Kakashi has Hajime's lightning power and every modern sorcerer who meets him is like...ah just like Hatake-sensei! And this absolutely incenses Hajime
Naruto-JJK Crossover - Title also not final - the opposite of the other au, wherein the JJK cast end up in Naruto and I cry about trying to make the Six Eyes work in the Naruto lore
sometimes i feel bad for having mostly female ocs and then i remember the large amount of people who are so obsessed with men and mlm ships exclusively to the effect of rampant violent misogyny so i think im ok
ill get too into my own little bubble like "oh no i must be overdoing it having so many women.... i really should diversify" but then stepping out and realizing that no it seems im far more in the minority than i thought and theres a scarily disproportionate amount out there who wouldnt even consider adding One
I would also like to propose that the Greenwood is a temperate rainforest: the descriptions of it in the Hobbit sound very much like the temperate rainforests found in the UK, especially in how things grow upon other things (the only argument against this is that it does not apparently rain nearly enough for it to be a rainforest...but also I don't think it rains enough for the forest to support the amount of life that it describes, so potato, potahto)
One of these days in gonna work up the courage to draw the Fëanorians so I can realise by Redhead!Fëanorians agenda (they can all have red hair if you believe hard enough)
One of my favorite bits in all of wha is when coco runs off to the tower of tombs by herself and qifrey goes after her... The trigger for it all of course being beldaruit pretty much trying to snatch coco right out from under qifrey lol. When beldy is basically trying to let coco down easy on the prospects of being able to bring her mother back from the dead it almost reads to me as what he wished he could have got through to qifrey when he was his apprentice. Cuz on paper what coco and qifrey are going through seems very similar, they seek to restore something that may only be possible through forbidden magic (at least if our reading is that qifrey is just trying to restore his eye and his memories). And this is coherent because from beldaruits pov qifrey is a troubled child who grew into an equally troubled adult, whom beldy cant even be sure he can trust to be a teacher in favor of his personal missions. (A biased and skewed perspective, but one partially shaped by qifreys own secret keeping) This of course upsets tf out of coco the same way it probably would have for qifrey at her age. What really perfects this moment for me is when qifrey finds coco trying to get to the tower and hes talking her down from her state of desperation he's thinking internally "i wish someone had said this to me" which is so heartbreaking and it just really shows the disconnect between qifrey and beldaruit. The gap between the things beldaruit wishes he could have got through to qifrey and the things qifrey wished hed been told is so big, and coco ends up right in the middle of it. And what qifrey says really is what gets through to coco! Beldaruit has to learn that their similarities is what makes them such a good pair, rather than the opposite
Something about the brimmed caps taking the credit for Coco’s passion when really Olruggio’s gentle, soft magic was what inspired her. Something about Olruggio setting the story in motion completely unintentionally, purely by being kind. Something about the sky’s kindest, most radiant star
Every time Sean Astin makes a statement on whether or not Sam and Frodo were indeed gay for each other in lord of the rings he’s always like “well we have to acknowledge that attitudes around sexuality have changed dramatically over the past several decades and since authorial intent is only up to speculation, the story is open to multiple readings, some of which might have different significances for different groups of people also they kiss on the lips because I said so”
Rosie: "This is my husband Sam, and that's his husband, Frodo. Frodo is my husband-in-law. I'm not into him, he's he's a bit too 'elfy' for my taste, but Sam likes him, and that's fine with me. As far as I know, Frodo can't give Sam children, but Frodo looks after ours all the same, so I don't mind sharing Sam if it means another pair of eyes on the wee ones. In all honesty, our family tree is right simple compared to some hobbits. Yes, I'm referrin' to you Lobelia, over there pretendin' you ain't eavesdroppin'. Still bitter you ain't got either of my boys or their house, eh?"
Tbh it's canon that Frodo invited Sam and Rosie to move in to Bag End after their wedding and they all lived there for a couple of years until Frodo went to Valinor, so yeah. Running with it.
And once Rosie dies, Sam says his goodbyes and disappears after him.
what’s funny is people assuming that rosie would somehow be too dim or naive to KNOW that sam loved frodo, instead of looking at a guy who would loyally follow a beloved friend to hell and then help carry him home again, and not be like ‘oh i can’t not fuck that.’
Polyamory, specifically polyandry, would be an interesting solution to the oddball population of the Shire.
The Shire is excellent farming country, with consistently good weather, and only one tough winter in living memory; hobbits like to produce large families; they’re resistant to disease, rarely violent, and encounter few dangers. It is usual for hobbits to produce many children, so that (for example) Bilbo and Frodo are unusual in both being only children, with no siblings, and not having children of their own. All of this should point to a population that increases every generation if not doubling outright. Young people (and their ideologies!) should rapidly outnumber the old with an ever-increasing effect and impact on society. However, the Shire has a surprisingly stable history; it never seems to increase or decrease greatly in population, and the bell curve of age seems… demographically balanced? There certainly isn’t a conflict from rising young bloods challenging the middle-aged reactionaries; there’s no unemployment; there are no housing crises or waves of emigration, or even a tendency for young people leaving home to marry. Meanwhile, not only does the Shire not suffer from internal pressures, but it remains obscure and hardly noticed in global politics.
What makes sense here is that adult hobbits form a loose group. Four parents in a polycule, between them all, may produce four children. All four parents claim to have four children. An outsider would assume this meant the adults had eight children.
Hobbits therefore are not especially fertile or fecund. They simply have large families. Much of their interest in genealogy is due to the complex relationships of blood-kin, hearth-kin, love-kin and pledge-kin, who must all be carefully tracked and measured - not just because you need to make sure that you don’t climb into bed with an un-permitted degree of blood-kin, but to track family alliances and carefully quantify the precise level of thoughtfulness to put into the proper present to gift your father’s lover’s lover (too much implies a degree of intimacy that might upset the polycule.)
Thus, while a hobbit matron may tell a startled dwarf that she has seven sons, she might only have borne five of them herself, and have one hearth-son by her wife, and a pledge-son of her first husband’s. There are between three and four fathers involved at various stages of production, from conception to pledge-duty, but there is debate about the precise number of fathers, as one child was festival-conceived and therefore provisionally pledged to the Brandybucks until more distinctive paternal traits should materialise. It’s expected that four of the sons will be uninterested in women, and their contribution to family life will be in raising hearth-children and pledge-duty. However, this level of detail is normally negotiated later in conversation, as a mutual overture of friendship. So she’s just clear and simple: yes, certainly, she has seven sons. Yes, they’re all hers. Yes, that’s fairly normal - yes, hobbits like big families. How big? That’s really hard to say! Well, about thirteen hobbits live in her house… er, she has forty-three nieces and nephews. Yes! She has nine siblings, that’s correct, but some of them are still babies themselves..
In this way, a bewildered dwarf might assume that hobbits are absurdly fertile, producing an average of seven children per couple, at an absurd pace.
When in fact, with about half of hobbits never bearing biological children, the population of hobbits is pretty much always the same.
Tl:dr, hobbit population works perfectly well, both internally and in the perceptions of outsiders, if the majority of the Shire is gay, they’re all polyamorous, and they all firmly claim to be parents of high numbers of children. Of course Frodo fathered Sam’s kids - he named them! They were pledge-kin but not hearth-kin, as Frodo needed a lot of quiet and stability in the home.
No outsider ever parses hobbit genealogy well enough to understand this except for Gandalf, who never explains anything either.
Okay, reblogged this too quickly out of enthusiasm.
This makes so much sense in the worldbuilding, actually???
Like, consider: Elves don't understand hobbit families, but hobbits are also baffled by elf families. You have exactly one partner ever? And it's considered wildly inappropriate to take another even if that partner straight up dies? And they only raise their own children, usually three maximum? Most hobbits would be convinced that elves were cold, unfeeling and anti-social.
Bilbo is percieved as oddly elf-ish when he comes back from his adventure at least in part because he only takes on one hearth-child, and even then quite late in his life. Like sure dude, you don't have to have romantic or sexual partners but no children????? Very strange. Here. Take a Frodo. Maybe he'll fix whatever is wrong with your brain.
And this also explains why hobbits get on better with Elrond than most other elves. Because Elrond has a weird af family by elf standards and takes in foster children all the time. He seems much warmer by comparison. Basically, when Bilbo comes to stay at the Last Homely House and he's doing his writing Elrond would be thrown by how comfortable Bilbo is with his family.
Elrond: My apologies, I know this must be quite confusing for you.
Bilbo: No no I understand perfectly. You have two blood-parents (Elwing and Earendil), two hearth-parents (Maglor and Maedhros), one blood-brother (Elros), and one pledge-brother (Gil-galad). Certainly a bit unconventional due to the kinslaying and all, and a bit on the small side, but other than that...
Elrond, who has never in his life had his family called 'small': ...
Pledge - legal documentation on some sort of “vow,” of familial connection, like a legal marriage or adoption or birth certificate, and maybe also something like a fealty/apprenticeship in some cultures?
Love - you love them so they are kin on an emotional level, regardless of biology, where they live, or legal documentation.
I really like this a lot & it makes a lot of sense. I wonder how the whole “cabbage patch hobbits” reproduction would affect this! Like, that way, you can’t even rely on matrilineal genealogy, because biological parentage is nonbinary & sexless - any two, or maybe even fewer or greater numbers of bio parents could be involved in procreation.
I think any cabbage-patch shenanigans would come under “blood.” Thus leading dismayed outsiders to ask: why do plants count as blood????? Why are plants blood!!!!!!!
In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM
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