The Bonded-Pair Cover

The Bonded-Pair Cover

I wrote this for the Thulaz zine @galrashipzine hosted, and I’ve finally had the time to post it to my AO3! 

You can all read it on AO3 here. (For those who’ve read it in the zine, there’s a sequel up to it too, if you’d like to read more about Thace and Ulaz as undercover partners! That one is rated explicit though)

I’m so excited for all of this! (And that people can finally read my contribution.)

IT’S FINALLY HERE!!

90 pages of thulaz content which contain 8 art and 9 fics from 15 talented creators.

[ click here to download for free ]

*please do not repost / distribute / print / sell without permission

New Years word count

I feel a little silly, but I also want to share! In 2018 I managed to write 222,569 words of stories (and not all of it was fanfic). That’s a long novel! Or 2 more average length novels. I feel accomplished. 

What was your 2018 wordcount, tumblr writers? Let’s share our progress!

Trying out this ‘Sunday Six’ Preview idea.

So the following excerpt is from The Rites of Courtship chapter that I’m currently working on, called “The Reckoning” (fic is explicit, Keith/Thace, and this features Keith’s abandonment issues)

Keith snarled. “You left me! I kind of understand why, but you left and I was alone—“

The outstretched hand fell, and the scent of regret rose over the other scents, overpowering. “But your father—“

“He left me too!”

New fandom? New fandom!

Or “So now I’ve come up with it, but what do I do with it?” 

I’ve watched Trollhunters/3 Below! I liked it! But as ever, the ideas won’t stop. I am that guy who ends up with a dozen AUs for just about every fandom, and this one won’t leave me alone right now. 

Short Premise: Jim and Barbara are changelings in the sense of October Daye-verse, and the plot goes off the rails basically right from the beginning. 

So now I’m just sitting here looking at it, because I’ve had two surgeries on my wrist in recent months, and thumb-typing on my phone is really not a productive way for me to write. (Also, I should, um, finish that other big WIP first.) 

I phone-typed up a rambly thing in case that was enough to make the idea go away, but it didn’t. Don’t know when (if ever) it would end up written, but might as well share, right? 

Ramblings pasted into a google doc for ... changeling equality?

In addition to thanks/credits and warnings etc, I like to put in Fast/Fun Facts!

Worldbuilding is my jam, and while I’m sure 9 out of 10 readers don’t particularly care about diet, or little cultural practices, or the child development and reproduction of an alien species, I like sharing! I try to make them related to the chapter, of course, but it can be hard to explain all the things in fic without being info-dump-y so that’s what I use the notes for.

Is there any rules for what you can/can not say in an A/N on AO3? Me and my friend recently experinced being called out by another writer. In the A/Ns of 2 seperate fanfics. Basically she accused us of bullying/abusing her & using her when she was vunerable and ruinning her love for the fandom & just basically making people hate on us. All of this is a lie and we cut her off bc she was toxic and abusive/abusing us in various ways & we feel awful. I'm wondering if we can report her to Ao3 or smh?

If there is abuse happening, report it to the Abuse team.  Without knowing the contents of the author’s notes, I can’t really give any other advice. 

Generally, notes are used to inform readers about some element of the story or to thank readers/betas or to credit a fanartist or other type of source material. At least, that’s what I tend to see. 

Anyone else have things they put/see in author’s notes?