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Ooooh, "Yeah I can help" for the ask game? :3
:D yipppeee
I havnt wrote anything for this since May so thank you:)
Prompt here | list of wips here
The heroes all sat in the monitor room, listening intently to the sound of a young boy talking in the other end of Cap's comms. They all heard him when he said he turned into a younger version of himself but... Well, exactly how *young* was this kid? Batman's eyes narrowest as they listened.
“Billy– Please tell me you do understand how stupid this is. You’re going to just let the league listen into your life for a couple hours!” The voice of the other boy spoke, ‘Billy’ was supposedly the Captain, everyone except Batman felt bad for listening in when it became clear this conversation was, itself, going to reveal a lot of his personal information. “Spooky– look this is a terrible way to treat teammates. You’re practically spying on him!” “Not practically. This IS spying.” Kal corrected sadly, Barry nodded in agreement. “He left his comms on. If anything, it'll just teach him to be more cautious.” The excuse felt weak, even to batman, but they continued spying anyway.
The +1 story, you're not going anywhere please!!
Game here
wooo okay (CW Attempted suicide)
They hated this. The entire league hated this. They were stuck with no contact with Marvel with no explanation, and only two days left before they were able to open that god damned letter. It was driving them all insane and there had been more than a few attempts to just open it already because maybe that way they could do something before the worst case happened, but they kept being stopped by someone else who clearly wanted to do the same but couldn't for fear of disobeying what could be Cap's final wishes. When the day came, everyone who'd been originally asked was there without prompting. Even Flash wasn't late for once, having been pacing around the halls at record speed. They froze at the contents of the open letter, at the face of the kid staring up at them from a dirty, reused plastic folder. Batman snatched the information before anyone else could think about it while Zatanna took the neatly folded paper addressed to her.
Re-sharing this post I found on Twitter for people looking for alternatives to NaNo. I haven't tried any of these sites but they might be worth looking into.
fruit emoji ask game for fic writers
Send a fruit emoji for an answer!
🍉 Do you prefer to write short fics or long fics? Multichaptered works or single ones? Why?
🍓 What’s a fic you’ve written you feel is underrated?
🍎 Is there anything you straight-up won’t write?
🍒 What’s your favorite character dynamic to write? (Can be romantic or platonic, specific or general!)
🍊 Who’s a character you don’t write for that often, but keep meaning to write for more? (They’re so interesting! But maybe you have trouble pinning them down, or keep getting distracted by another blorbo…)
🍑 If you could make a connection between your favorite character and another work you care about (whether a crossover/fusion or a wonderfully “pretentious” literary reference) what would it be? How would it work?
🥭 Rank from most enjoyable/fun to write to least: Fluff, Smut, Angst, Crack.
🍍 What kind of AUs do you like? Are there any AUs you hate or just generally have beef with?
🍋 What’s your favorite spicier trope to write?
🍌 In your opinion, what’s the funniest joke/reference/pun you’ve made in a fic?
🍏 Is there something you overuse, whether it’s a certain phrase, trope, or piece of punctuation?
🥝 What’s your favorite trope/AO3 tag to write?
🍐 Is there anything in canon that you absolutely hate and love to fix in fics? A wrong choice made, a fuck-up in characterization, a misunderstanding never cleared up, a conversation never shown onscreen, etc…
🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.
🫐 What’s your favorite underrated thing in your fandom? (A ship that only you seem to write for, a character there’s almost no fics about, a trope that criminally hasn’t been written yet, etc.)
🍇 Is there a particular scene/episode/book/etc that you want to just write a million fics about, over and over? Which one?
Reblog if you're okay with receiving asks for backstory info on any/all of your fics.
If not all, specify which ones in the tags.
Brainstorming with my boobs?
the most powerful writing tool is actually Brainstorming With The Girls
So... apparently the NaNoWriMo organization has been gutted and the people at the top now are fully focused on Getting That AI Money.
I have no reason to say this other than Vibes™️ and the way that every other org who has pivoted to AI has behaved but I wouldn't trust anything shared with or stored on their servers not to be scraped for training LLMs. That includes pasting stuff into the site to verify your word count, if that's still a thing. (I haven't done Nano since 2015).
Also of note:
Age gating has been implemented. If you haven't added your date of birth to your profile or if you're under 18, it's supposed to lock you out of local region pages and the forums. ... It's worth noting that the privacy policy on the webpage doesn't specify how that data is stored and may not be GDPR compliant.
...
Camp events are being run solely by sponsors. Events for LGBTQIA+, disabled writers, and writers of color no longer appear to be a thing at NaNo.
Just... go read the whole thing. It's not that long. Ugh.
Wip Wednesday (ft some fics I didn't think I'd touch ever again)
But I forgot to post this yesterday so the WIP is coming tmr 😕
WIP WEDNESDAY
Yeah, I can help
Prompt | Previous Snippet
After his talk with Freddy, Billy was more than regretting this decision. He hadn’t even thought about his deadname being revealed to the league through this entire ordeal. They didn’t even know he was trans to begin with. It had never come up since Marvel was his idealized version and living lightning didn’t really have a gender to begin with. Still, he stood by getting Luthor out of the city with as little disruption as possible, so it was a hit he’d have to take. He pulled away from Freddy’s hug with a smile as the other agreed to help him with the USB. The next part was more daunting, he pressed the button which would ‘tune him in’ and the static of a silent room flooded his hearing. He apologized for keeping them waiting and was met with a sharp intake of breath from what sounded like Kal and Barry, which did not fill him with any hope. After a moment Batman spoke, the stupid gravelly voice somehow brought him some comfort.
“Captain Marvel.”
“Yeah, Hi, that’s me.” The other heroes in the monitor room all took a breath. They could hear how young he was, even over the call.
“Just, how old are you right now?” Kal asked and Billy winced.
“Um, fourteen.” There was a moment of silence.
“...are you sure?” He couldn’t help the way he flinched at that. It's not like they were being purposefully offensive to assume he was younger; they would know his voice was that of a 14-year-old girl.
“Yeah, i’m fu–” he cut himself off, remembering who it was he was calling with, this wasn’t Freddy or Mary or some random street kid, he couldn’t be as snappy as he wanted, “Yeah, I’m sure.” He amended and tried not to cringe at the awkward quiet.
“Okay. How are you going to get into the center?” He snorted, that was the easiest bit.
“Oh, don’t worry about that, if we’re all set, I can just do it.” There was a huff from Batman, clearly annoyed at not being told the plan, Billy couldn’t bring himself to care, he wasn’t exactly willing to waste time explaining a plan that he didn’t actually have. He knew what he’d do but it wasn’t really a plan, and he didn’t feel like explaining that he was going to swear at his two least favourite cops and maybe throw something if they pissed him off.
Wip Wednesday (ft some fics I didn't think I'd touch ever again)
But I forgot to post this yesterday so the WIP is coming tmr 😕
Billy is sitting in the cafeteria or something just minding his own business when Hal comes bursting in with Barry hot on his tail, they're being loud enough that he doesn't really take notice of Batman sneaking in too.
"Your name is CHARLIE-!?" That throws him off and he stares blankly at the two.
"Um, no?"
"Then why do you keep telling people that when they ask for your name for their babies??? There's been like 12 Charlies born in Fawcett in the last month-!" Okay, maybe Billy wasn't completely thinking properly, he was tired okay? So instead of thinking up some kind of excuse that would make sure his identity lived to see another day he just, told the truth.
"It was my dad's name, actually."
Silence.
"...ohhh." the two men backed slowly away, embarrassed at their mistake. Batman just filed the information for later, something tugged at his memory but now wasn't the time to be thinking about that.
Thinking ‘bout my Jewish Billy headcanon and that Spider-Man comic post about how when he saves people and they ask his name to name their kid after him he says his Uncle Ben’s name, and just thinking in the canons like PoS where he knew and loved his dad he gives his dads name to the people who ask. So there’s an influx of kids in Fawcett named Charlie after the late great Clarence Charles Batson who helped raise a pretty sweet kid who spends the better parts of his days saving peoples lives
Danny stares at the hero in front of him and mumbles, "I knew I should've left sooner." Before Flash can ask about that he sighs and drops his bag, "they tried to take her? So she's fine?"
"Yeah, she's at a safehouse." He nods and steps back into his apartment, it's practically empty. Not that there was much stuff to begin with but everything he had managed to buy and make the apartment more homey was gone. Packed into boxes and stuffed in a closet with everything important in his bag.
"That's good." He says plainly opening his bag and finding the modified phone that he used for contact with Tucker and Sam.
"You planning on going somewhere, kid?" He could hear the concern (and slight suspicion) in the hero's voice but elected to ignore it in favour of getting the information he needed onto a spare USB stick.
"Not a kid," he mumbled as he downloaded the data.
"Sure." Danny couldn't bring himself to care about the sarcasm and instead dropped the USB into Flash's hand and picked up his bag.
"Don't come looking, don't do anymore research on me. If the GIW think you know anything about me or where I am they'll try take you again, and they're not going to give up so easily," he stretched and walked towards the door, "the USB has any information you might need about the GIW and The Anti-Ecto Acts. Maybe that'll help you understand." He walked out the door, praying that the information drop would distract Flash long enough for him to make an escape, especially now he knew that the GIW were in town and using his powers would only draw attention to himself.
He barely got down the street before a wd burst appeared next to him.
"You know the Anti-Ecto Acts were a scrapped bit of legislation, right?" Danny froze
Danny's reveal goes...not so well. To put it lightly. He's gonna have to pretend to be an adult. At fifteen. Which he can definitely do!
Before he left, Sam and Tucker had conspired to get him a fake ID and set him up with a landlord they could blackmail into accepting him as a tenant.
He moves to Keystone City, and he is, indeed, very adulty.
He buys a Dutch Oven that he doesn't really know how to use. He reads the newspaper comics. He gets a job as a paid intern at the local news station, and he answers to the fancy scary lady reporter Linda Park. He uses that job to pay rent and stuff.
Very adulty.
Except that Miss Scary Reporter Lady Linda keeps asking questions she shouldn't. Keeps looking where she shouldn't.
And she won't drop it.
If she actually investigates, she'll find Danny's real name, and then his parents, then the fact that he's wanted by the United States Military for existing, and she'll get hurt by the GIW when they pull her in for questioning.
So he laments his sweet, sweet apartment, packs his bag of essentials (again), and opens the door to do another runner.
He opens it to see the Flash, Linda's...boyfriend? Husband? Danny isn't sure, but he's standing right there, in uniform, looking unimpressed.
"So." Flash starts, crossing his arms.
"...'Sup?" Danny asks, knuckles white as he grabs the strap of his bag.
"Some creeps in white suits just tried to kidnap Linda," Flash says, leaning on the door frame. "Don't supposed you know anything about that, huh?"
(Pre) WIP Wednesday
I'll post the snippets tmr when the poll is done :)
WIP Wednesday
Poll | Other writing
Running away will solve all problems
Look, Billy really wasn’t planning on running away. He liked it at the Vasquez. They’re cool; they’d never hit him, or starved him, or locked him in his room, even when he was being an asshole and mentally prepared himself for it. He never thought that he’d ever willingly leave (being forced to leave was another story, he knew he wasn’t a good enough kid for such a great placement) yet here he was, bags packed and hidden in a corner he was surprised nobody else had found in the 2 years he’d been away. He stuffed the last of the stuff he’d managed to take (before the guilt had sunk in) into the little hole in the wall then closed it with the loose half brick. The zeta was nearby and after a few days of consistent walking he really needed a shower. Sure, if he showed up as himself, Batman would immediately clock that something was wrong, and Flash would probably go all mother hen on him but that wasn’t anything he couldn’t handle... okay, maybe his plan was to spend as much of the time in his room and hopefully just avoid confrontation at all costs.
No joke this is a great strat if ur a perfectionist and u wanna get a draft done. If ur too tired to think about it you can just get words down then focus on other drafts
pro tip: if you write at 3 a.m. when your brain is half asleep, you can trick yourself into thinking your messy draft is a masterpiece.
pre WIP Wednesday
I think if billy wins again i'm gonna have a dif character for the wip at the bottom cuz this is ridiculous guys 🙄
WIP Wednesday
Poll
Under the Weather, Over this Shit
Okay, yes. Currently Billy was sick, very, very sick. He had a fever that was much too high and a cough that made him want to die more than the fever did. He’d spent the last few days, held up in the cave in a nest of blankets and water bottles that he kept making portals to take the backs of shelves in big chain stores. He felt somewhat bad for stealing but then he’d cough again and realize that he actually didn’t give a damn.
Marvel had been fine with chilling in Billy’s mind and using the time to catch up on some much-needed rest (No, he didn’t need sleep, but it was nice sometimes). However, their plans of a chilled recovery in the cave were foiled by the beeping of their comm. Sure, Billy could’ve just ignored it, it was probably nothing after all, but he seriously didn’t need the league on his case about ignoring a message. He couldn’t exactly tell them he had a cold that was kicking his ass. No, he had to answer it and suck it up.
One thing about Billy is that he was not a very likeable person when he was ill. Maybe when he was younger, and didn’t have to ignore the illness and just carry on, but not anymore. He’d learnt and adapted to be the worst that he could when he was sick, this way people avoided him, and he was harder to take advantage of… he’d learnt that lesson the hard way.
Actually, getting up and transforming and getting to the zeta and walking to the meeting room took so much willpower that Billy just wanted to die. Even being in the completely healthy, not sick, body of Marvel did nothing to help him, Marvel had offered to take more control but the idea of being out of control of his body sent such a jolt of fear through him that he didn’t even need to voice his denial. Marvel knew and he wouldn’t push him.
Do you have an AO3 acc?
Yep!!
I'm currently working on a multi chapter fic so I havnt posted much else recently but I am doing a spookfest thing for the end of the month ;)
I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -
I am fine with "the audience" -
downloading my fics
printing my fics
copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics
sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3
making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss
doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc
I am not fine with "the audience"
doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity
feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever
Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.
Enjoy the fandom things.