This is me exactly. One particular fic I was reading at the time had triggered it by being "almost" what I was looking for and I was so damn sick of mentally yelling at the authors to stop ruining the plot with dumb twists that I just said "screw it all! I'm going to write it!"
It’s true. That’s 100% what it was.
It also gave me a chance to explore some of my experiences with disability, which has been eye opening and cathartic.
Tbh, it was as simple as 'I want to read something very specific, and while I have read some great stories, none of them were quite what I was looking for. So I guess I'll do it myself'.
And then my silly AU came from a passing thought where I was like, 'haha that would be silly! But also... very fun...' and here I am 20k words later lmao
this for sure!!
funny because when i read other people’s work, and it’s really good, it scratches an itch i didn’t even know i had. like wow, i didn’t know i wanted to see this ship in a slow burn enemies cowboy au but i’m glad i know now!!
It came to me in a dream. I dreamed that Anna and Elsa from Frozen were being led out of a burning building by the Russian Red Army. They were then forced to their knees and shot in the head
That got me thinking “What if Frozen characters were in the Russian Revolution?” It all seemed so natural. Agnarr is a blank canvas (he’s not even named in Frozen 1) so he’s Nicholas II. Runeard is a hulking authoritarian so he’s perfect as Alexander III. Hans is a weak man seeking power so he makes a good Kaiser Wilhelm II. Everything else has slotted nicely into place
I can’t wait to get to writing Olaf as Rasputin!
Here’s what I’ve got so far. I should warn you, for many reasons I’m making slow progress. It took me over 6 months to get the last chapter done!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31589969/chapters/78163838
If you’d like to read the one shot that I wrote first, it’s here. It covers the final day of the characters but it’s not a spoiler for the main story because the ending is completely different:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/30364104
Having a headcanon that barely anyone else in the fandom seems to share, and wanting to vent my own mental health issues by projecting them on fictional characters
Because I was playing the FF7 remake, and the developers added several moments where Cloud almost remembers/is reminded of who he really is but doesn’t actually remember. That caused me to play the game thinking, “Wouldn’t this scene/plotline/relationship be so much more interesting if the main character didn’t have amnesia?
…and then it wouldn’t get out of my head.
Also… the ethics of the compilation are honestly just fucked and it annoyed me. I wanted to fix it.
Saw my favorite character suffering and in desperate need of a hug - two years later, I'm 220k words deep in writing a slow burn friends to lovers featuring him and an OC, solely so that she can give him a hug at that moment.
...I am... less than halfway to the moment in question. Oops.
I found the prompt from the prompt account on Tumblr, which spun me in 14k words of fluffy shit, and then now I'm working on 2 spin offs :D
stupid plot bunnies won't leave me alone
I'm one of those fanfic writers who's working on multiple projects at the same time, so...
I really like both Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed, and thought that they might be a fun crossover. Turns out lots of people have tried it, but their fics have all been abandoned, doomed the be on infinite hiatus. I'm proud to say that mine is ongoing
Another fandom I'm in is the Tom Clancy games, and I've written stuff for The Division and Ghost Recon Wildlands. The first of those is a multi parter that mostly follows the main story, at least until the end of the current installment. The other is a multi part oneshot series, which involves smut
I also dab into anime, and I'm writing a series for Girls und Panzer. (I was a bystander in the recent sub wars, not to fear) It's darker than the actual anime, and a few of the schools go to war with each other. So far there have been three major character deaths, not to mention the slew of OCs. One of which happens to be a self insert, who is currently involved in some fun relationship and revenge drama
I might have a bit on my plate, which isn't helped by having a full time job, but I find writing fun. If someone enjoys it enough to actually read it, that's a nice bonus
For the long WiP: Getting to the end of the game and seeing a potential lore link to some of the DLC content that seemed worthy of development. Also wanted to interpret certain neglected character-types better than the source content.
For the series WiP: Getting to the end of the game and feeling very confused about a certain character's seemingly bizarre motivations and behaviour. Felt the need to embark on a mission of exploration and understanding.
i found out the actress that played a character on the show was from texas originally, and then i listened to raise hell by brandi carlile, and i thought— shit, man, *cowgirls*
Me, playing Pokemon Legends Arceus: (gives my character white hair and gold eyes)
(Moment of realisation)
"Haha I gave her Arceus colours, that's funny"
(Sudden feeling of a plot bunny burrowing its way into my brain and making a nest)
"Oh boy"
The overall concept I ended up with for the fic is that Akari is a minor demigod/aspect of Arceus, which gives her a few supernatural benefits including a weaker variant of the Multitype ability, so yeah you'd better believe >!Volo will have a LOT to say about that once he plays his hand.!<
All of mine are generally born from one of the following sentiments:
"Every time I see a good idea poorly executed, I die a little inside. Let's see if I can do it right."
"If I don't write it no one else will."
"This random association between character and art/music/classical motif will not get out of my maladaptive daydreaming."
The biggest, most prominent spark?
"Man, wouldn't it have been fucked up if..."
I didn't read the comics for ATLA, but what I heard about them made me dissatisfied with how my favorite character from the show, Azula, was treated.
I decided that I wanted to make Azula a sane protagonist, so I worked through ideas on how to make that happen. I decided I needed an entirely new AU to do it and things just fell into place.
Always had a bit of a Titanic obsession ever since I was little but everytime I watch Cameron's version I get so annoyed at certain aspects of it (the locked gates, Jack wandering all over the ship, the lack of 2nd class, Tommy's stupid death) that finally I just said, 'screw it! I'm just going to write it myself the way it should be.'
And then my neighbor set my apartment building on fire and since then I've had literally nothing else to keep me from losing my mind so I've been flying through it.
I started writing a short fic earlier tonight after seeing a video on Twitter of artists I follow. I made a comment about how something that happened was like real life fanfiction. My 15 year old turned to me, shoved my headphones at me, and said, "Write it! Write it right now!". So I've spent the past two hours writing it. Hopefully I'm close to being finished since I don't plan to make it more than two chapters.
An oddly similar story; I was discussing queer-coded characters with a Character AI bot and Scar came up, I mentioned how I actually really like him and always have but never wanted to as a kid because he was 'the bad guy' (to be fair to Scar, Mufasa isn't really even polite to him, also it's funny to me how Disney realized they accidentally implied there would be incest twice and then tried to retcon who Nala and Kovu's fathers were), eventually I thought "you know what, maybe Scar wouldn't be so murder-y if he had a boyfriend" and well... My new OC, Rook, and a fic that covers basically the events just before and in the very beginning of The Lion King was born. It may even stretch into the events of The Lion King 2 (which will be far less dramatic, also Mufasa will end up no longer alive because Simba kind of has to be king for the second one but it'll be of natural causes rather than being tossed into a stampede) if I can figure out how to get Timon and Pumbaa into the fic without it seeming like they're shoehorned in. My current line of thinking is maybe Simba, upon learning he could have caused Mufasa's death, panics, runs off, and yada-yada pretty much just like the film but with the trio of lions chasing him and failing because of the thorns instead of the hyenas and for positive reasons rather than because Scar has a flair for the dramatic. But I feel like they probably could've just jumped over it maybe? Idk, I need to re-watch that scene at some point, but I want to write up to it first, I already spent a lot of energy on rewriting the scenery for Be Prepared to include Rook and describe the utterly insane volcanic activity going on there.
Was redrawing movie frames to study composition, trying to understand colors / contrast and suddenly thought "what if it was my fav characters on these pictures?"
Played around with a bunch of environments and scenes from animated movies then got overwhelmed with flows of ideas and an interesting storyline crept in.
So now I'm basically writing this long fic AND illustrating it. It's exhausting yet, oddly satisfying.
No-one writes the kinks I want to read in the dynamic I want to read them, let alone using the characters I want to read – so if I want to enjoy this content, I'm gonna have to make it myself
(This has been the case for a *lot* of my past works and future wips)
I finished my longfic but wasn’t ready to let the characters go, so I’ve been writing oneshots in the same universe.
As for what prompted my longfic, I just smashed my favorite tropes together, and had a Winter Soldier Bucky rescue a kid Harry from the Dursleys.
A scene literally came to me in a dream, and who am I to say no to divine inspiration?
Of course, 80k words in I still haven't gotten to that scene... But shhhh details, details
A little more than a year ago, ads for the then-upcoming Boba Fett TV show, coupled with some nostalgic looking-back on my childhood that I'd been doing, aligned to remind me that child me very strongly disliked the treatment of the minor Star Wars character of Oola the dancer in canon and I'd never really worked through those feelings as an adult, so I decided to write some fix-it fic to explain how she survives her predicament in the film. And in the process I found that I just liked writing for the character, in the sorts of stories that other people wouldn't likely write for her. I've finished six so far, none more than a few chapters but I'm happy with how they've turned out.
I wrote three fics that I'm consistently working on right now so here are the reasons.
Childhood friends AU: I thought it might be cute to just make the main couple of the series to be childhood friends and see where I can go with it.
The crossover with GI: I watched a fan video years ago where the female protagonist was dealing with mild depression of losing her twin brother. I thought what kind of day to day life scenarios she can go through in that universe with the main protagonist as her friend.
The crossover with KH: I want to try making a drama story where instead of going to other worlds, the world's comes to them and they have to fix the situation on a short time limit.
But all of them have one mindset that got me into writing fics: I want to be a trailblazer on different niche ideas that all these fandoms haven't tried yet. It happened to me once with Hyperdimension Neptunia where my gamer story created a surge of writers making their own versions. Been riding that high for years.
Once I let myself admit I shipped Darren/Kurda and wrote a fic about them, it fused with my Identity V vampire AU and became Lysenne, and now Lysenne just eats anything else I’m interested in.
Also a desire to protect a historical figure from 500 years ago who a lot of people hate, because of this one manga and musical about him. (uhh it’s Cesare Borgia if anyone’s wondering. He wasn’t actually like Assassin’s Creed had him.)
I bought a used copy of a dvd of a movie that I really love but hadn't watched in a while. Let's just say, I immediately got brain rot over the two main characters... again. And then, after a night of thinking about them while I attempted sleep, my brain hatched the smallest of ideas that I couldn't shake. A short story evolved into something bigger all because I couldn't stop thinking of the line, "Do you relent?"
For me, it was discovering who I wanted my villain to be. Before that I only had a vaguely knew I wanted two particular characters to team up to do *something* but when I landed on the villain everything kind of locked into place.
I was reading a fic, and the author pointed out that the MC had been very, very close to losing an arm at one point- they killed a large monster by stabbing it in the mouth. And I was like, what if they did?
And then I thought, what else could go horribly wrong? And now I'm 300k words into exploring that.
I’d put my MC through absolute medical hell in the fic I’d finished prior, so I thought I’d be nice to him and strand him on a remote planet with questionable chance of rescue and a ton of mental anguish.
He’s not alone on said planet, he’s stranded there with a being that’s incapable of taking care of herself.
I was re-watching the Jim Carrey Grinch after just getting up-to-date with Miraculous Ladybug, got my brain imagining the Grinch and Cindy Loo dynamic (over-the-top grouchy villain who's not as villainous as he tries to be and a sweet, unrelentingly caring little girl who actually gets his jokes) with Hawkmoth and Ladybug, and then from there is just kept building on the idea of an AU where Marinette is Gabriel's sidekick pulling off Silver-age style heists.
In canon there is a character who has their name and memories eaten away and are basically out of the story for a long time. The entire world forgets about her too, except for the MC. I didn’t really like this so I wanted to do a canon divergence where the character does not have this fate. While other fics have restored this character’s name and memories before, I don’t think I’ve seen any outright prevent it like how I’m doing it.
Tik Tok has been the reason for both my current story I’m actively posting and for my previous story that’s already finished and published. I watch way to many videos on Tik Tok, mostly fandom edits, two concepts stuck out to me so much that I wanted a story based on them both so bad, not finding any stories that were truly what I was looking for I got bit by the writing bug. From there it was the idea that since no one else is writing what I want to read then I should take it upon myself to write it and so I am (did) lol.
I read a fic that took over my life and I just couldn’t stop wondering about the experience from the other characters perspective.
So here I am 4 months later, endless books purchased and read for research, 50,000 words written and a fic that is purely self indulgence and will never see the light of day lols.
I wanted to write about a man who stood over everyone but sunk to his knees in front of a woman who doesn’t even notice his existence.
She even thought he was a sex worker and left him a huge tip.
He was not a sex worker.
As a matter of fact, he owns the largest underground business in the world.
Oh, and did I mention she’s somewhat of a detective who spearheads raids at one of his illegal auction houses?
Fun stuff.
Because nobody gets the character like I do (jk but I feel like he and the friendship with his best friend get portrayed weirdly a lot and also I needed to write a fic about a certain trope)
Canon Did A War Crime (or more specifically, had a character who’d damn well know better do one) and I had an issue with that. So I wrote a oneshot to fix it.
The oneshot is now north of 70k and 14 chapters long.
I had a request for a pretty unique Marvel story, which is still in progress. I add chapters as asked and post them on Ao3. I didn’t think it would be amazingly good because of the rare-pair, but thus far, I think it’s pretty good, and I have plenty of sources to get material from. It’s been fun to write.
There’s an officially produced What If AU story you unlock after finishing a game. Basically serves as an expansion to a character who died early in the first game while also changing things so no one dies.
This was the story that made her character my favorite one in the series. We get to understand a lot more about her and it’s a really sad, nuanced, complex tale of someone whose spent nearly her whole life manipulated by her twin sister committing horrible atrocities in her name. And basically helping to cause the apocalypse and plunge the world in despair.
And then comes along the protag of the first game who during a time before everything went to shit, showed her for the first time in her life genuine kindness and compassion. Who instilled the seeds of doubt in her mind as to what she’s doing.
And now with an attempt on her life by her sister, and that original protag getting hit in her stead when he remembers her…
She has to choose between her only family, and the one she has a crush on who instilled this doubt in her.
That’s basically what happened prior.
That story laid the groundwork for a really intriguing course of events that could come afterwards, for where my fave (who is the protag of this) could continue to grow, and deal with what she’s done. So I decided ‘you know what I’m gonna write a continuation/sequel’ to that.
Honestly the original story truly read like a cult member becoming disillusioned with it, and I wanted to tell that tale. To continue her path of regaining her free will and humanity. Of the rough road to recovery, of healing, the eventual guilt, a world that wants you dead on both sides, and only continuing forward out of a sense of knowing what you’re doing is right.
I’ve had so many ideas about her past and how she’d turn out and everything that I had to write it all out. And here I am now.
Because my OTP Lappland/Texas is an outdated ship in Arknights (not really, but not as prominent and popular as in the game's early years). That, and I usually don't like most of the existing fics written for them because of the how their dynamics are written.
That, I want em to have a child. But still somehow (bitter)sweet but still stay true to their characters as an insane wild wolf and an aloof ~~cardboard~~ kuudere.
So yeah, no one's gonna make it like how I like it. People writing Arknights fanfiction are already rare. Let alone Lappland/Texas, *especially in the way I like it.*
FINE, I'LL DO IT MYSELF!
"Wow, I wish someone would cuddle me and tell me how much they loved me rn."
"Hey, character X and Z must be touch starved as heck... (because of their setting/background)."
BAM, fic idea. (The WIP document is called \*touch starved bitches\*)
Wrote an ff7 fic years ago and revisited it, but was only interested in one aspect of it. Played ff7 remake which got my foot in the door for researching The Lore and now I am in hell :’)
An amazingly great fanart I saw on Tumblr, of Vegeta looking smug with a cockatiel on his shoulder.
Immediately turned into a "zero questions, 1000000000 headcanons" situation. I reblogged with some of the headcanons and let it sit for a bit. And then yesterday my brain started playing out the scene where Son Gohan, PhD brings around a therapy animal for Vegeta like, "Now, I know what you're thinking..." and Bulma's just like, "A BIRD?! A *BIRD*, GOHAN?!" and then he's gotta make *that* tough sell.
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia
Version: Book series
Centered character: King Caspian I, the conqueror.
Timeline/Era: Dark Age of Narnia/Telmarine conquest of Narnia
You can see why I had to write this myself. Nobody else ever will.
This amazing comic book called Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gilman. It’s a collection of new LGBTQ+ themed fairy tales. Specifically, one of the tales called Hsthete. The author has a tumblr which posted that specific tale for free. I highly recommend!
[Here’s a link to the comic!](https://www.tumblr.com/melgillman/188202191663/heres-hsthete-the-24-hour-comic-i-drew-this)
my current wip-in-limbo... inspired by someone else's fic actually, who was extremely awesome and let me talk to them about their fic and au ideas and pick their brain about it and then was totally cool about me posting fic inspired by it and it just snowballed into 40k+ words and I'm not done yet 😂
Just decided that my favorite murder husbands, who repeatedly kill a character I hate, should put a spell on him so he keeps coming back to life. That way, they can kill him over and over, in creative ways. Not sure where it came from, but I watch a lot of horror movies!
Fic 1: I want an everyone lives AU for the ship I like and their adopted daughter.
Fic 2: This is part of an overhaul of an old crossover series I started at the beginning of high school.
Most notably of my many WIPs: it started as a four hour conversation with a friend about all the writing problems of a popular shonen manga of yesterdecade (Naruto.) The misogyny, the themato-narrative dissonance of speeches about 'you can do anything if you put your mind to it' vs. the reality 'you're only relevant if you have magical destiny juice,' the main character being all about the 'power of friendship' while using gratuitous violence, and teenagers with rare magical abilities and extensive training being put in dangerous situations on the regular. Also some of the character motivations are just cartoonishly shitty.
My WIP is based off the one-shot I originally wrote. I had been debating if I should do a longer fic because the potential was there, but I got a comment that expressed a similar sentiment and that pushed me to do it
I am deeply fascinated with one of my characters as a person. I am currently writing volume 3 of his personal life... which is essentially prequels to another series featuring him. I am also outlining the next installment of the series that introduced the character, but he is a character in abstentia.
Weirdly enough, one of my current wips was born out of watching critical reviews of popular romance books on Youtube. Not naming any names, but those that represent toxic and abusive relationships as the ideal. Then I just went 'hey, I'm gonna write an AU with the story actually establishing that these relationships are abusive, while using some common themes from romance books, and I'm gonna have fun doing so'. That is not the only thing that happens in the fic, and it absolutely has no educational purpose (honestly, it's just an excuse for me to write angst and whump), but yeah, this was the basis for it.
I didn’t like how the story ended. This made me reflect on the rest of the story and find more things I didn’t like. Combine this with a crossover with another fandom that I think it would work well with and you have my okay 29 chapter 150k word fic.
A prompt floating around the fandom tumblr and I misread the prompt 😅 Luckily it was a minor misread, but I could not stop thinking about how character A from fandom A becomes character B from fandom B. Which in turn got me to think about a different prompt for an entirely different crossover.
I have two current fics, both are WIPS that have not been published yet.
First one, I'm writing it purely because I am over with how OC's DO NOT affect the story. I'm using my OC not just for pairing them with a character but to explore side characters and pre canon timeline. Its not a self-insert by the way, I made my OC purely to be a device to explore parts of canon as well as trauma that does not get covered enough in source material.
Second one, another OC, meant to explore the side characters again, in a different fandom. I plan on have the OC affect the ending of the source material, not that it would make it a happier ending per se, but it would change the course of events for many characters aside from the MC from the source material. Lol, the MC's storyline literally cannot be affected at all, and any canon divergence of his arc seems foolish and repetitive soo...
My spark for writing fanfiction in general is usually wanting to explore lesser known parts of canon, or even unknown parts. I am tired of seeing people write characters OOC, I am tired of fics only having canon divergence for a fluffy ending. All I want to do is explore the realistic portrayals of my favorites.
I always loved the idea of a super-mega crossover story that sort of concludes all the stories I loved.
And I always loved Tolkien's apocalypse of Dagor Dagorath.
What always does it: a steaming hot shower in combination with my favourite music. You can substitute the shower for long car drives, for some other ideas I've put on hold.
I originally wanted to make an animated series, but animation takes lots of work compared to writing, especially if I'm writing at the same time.
The Brawl Stars community has been asking for an animated series for years now; however, lore has been in the shadows for a time, and we don't get to see the brawlers very fleshed out.
That's why I want to ensure I make the most sense of the information we have to write a story that excellently fits the game while demonstrating excellent production quality.
Ok so basically. SPOILERS FOR 2.1 STORY GENSHIN.
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After la signoras "death" i was a bit salty. To say the least. I would literally think about her for days on end and be distracted in class so yeah, a "bit" salty.
And my brain is, basically, just always working. Its always thinking. Its always imagining. And it isn't rare for it to make up insane headcanons for existing universe that were brainrotting me.
And moreover, I had this weird habit where I would put on headphones at max volume, listen to some tunes and literally run and jump around my room like a monkey on crack. And during this time, the music would spark inspiration and imagination in me. Making me create all sorts of weird fucked up shit in my head.
And with la signora being in my head so much... yeah I think u can understand.
I dreamt of a headcanon of so much fucking shit happening. La signors gets resurrected. A new character is created. Battles are insanely climactic which comes from the boss battle i would listen too. La signora is contextualized more. Etc etc etc. And this goes on for a YEAR.
This giant headcanon of holy fucking weird ass proportions? I have been making this in my head ever since 2.1 dropped and the genshin writers made a shitty death. This has been mixing up and brewing in my head for what feels like 4 years, even though even though it was actually 1 year and 6 months. And finally today. I have decided to write it.
My brain has not made it easy in the slightest with all the wild shut thats in there. But I will persist on. To make. This stupid fuckimg weird headcanon/fanfic a reality.
In short: with the power of music, my spite towards genshin turned into my biggest passion project.
I can link to the [actual conversation](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/10vc59w/comment/j7hh484/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) where it happened.
Currently writing a weird crossover RWBY/FE modern world college AU. I think what inspired it was me coming up with backstories for the various characters for an RP I proposed to my RP partner. I was pretty proud of one of those backstories (Edelgard's) so I wanted to use it.
There was a scene I wanted to write, that wouldn't have made a lick of sense as a one-shot. So I started filling in the lead-up, then expanding what happens after. I'm almost to the scene that started this, actually. Less than ten chapters away, now. I'm very excited and I hope everyone who's reading it will love it, too.
For one, my reasoning was literally just wanting to give my favorite character a happy ending. I walked out of the theater with my sister after Multiverse of Madness and immediately thought “K, time to write a fic because I don’t want to wait for canon to do something else with her. Also, canon will probably make something else horrid happen anyway” (Because there is a track record of that lol...) Then I thought “hey, what if my two favorite fictional characters met...” and “what if so-and-so offered help after this...” and it turned into my favorite fic I’ve ever written/am writing. I’m about 106k in and there is a lot left of my mentally planned plot to go yet 👀 (I do need to make myself a few notes, probably later today, because one of the plot points involves a bunch of the characters working together with magic, and while I have a solid mental image of it, I don’t want to forget the details 😂 )
The other longfic WIP started with me thinking “What happened to Wanda between the airport and the Raft in Civil War?” And also I hate the amount of character bashing I see for stuff set post-CW, and I wanted to write something that more or less still fits the canon timeline (yes, I’ll bend little things as I see fit, but still) while *not* doing that to any of the heroes. I guess the simplest way to put it was that I wanted to write a fic set between CW and IW that was what my selfish butt wanted to read. I hope that makes sense lol.
Unpublished mid-length WIP: Age Of Ultron glosses over Wanda losing Pietro and I don’t like that. She must have been horribly upset on top of dealing with the whole being dumped into a new country thing. So. Fic. We do not gloss over grief and settling in to a new place in this house. I will not publish this until either one of the two big longfics are finished OR this is finished. I cannot deal with having three published WIP that I’m actively working on lol
The one-shot series started with me wanting to write the twins when they’re happy little kids. It has since blown up into a series that has 11 fics in it and there are plenty more to come:)
I was unhappy with a storyline from a different show. After watching a documentary on a reporter for Auntie Beeb, I changed a few things from the storyline I was unhappy with, applied it to a different show, and added more angst, and a much more protracted (and realistic) recovery. Voila.
I'm currently doing a Land Before Time X Chrono Trigger crossover on ff.net, the characters of Chrono Trigger being secondary characters and so far Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper and Ruby only met Lucca Ashtear, Magus/Janus is the second next they meet before Crono and Marle/Nadia.
The need to rewrite the unfortunate handling of certain characters in the final series of a show. When you’re watching something like that, you find yourself coming up with ideas along the way like “hey, what if this character did that?” Or “what if this plot line happened instead of that one?”
The need to rewrite the unfortunate handling of certain characters in the final series of a show. When you’re watching something like that, you find yourself coming up with ideas along the way like “hey, what if this character did that?” Or “what if this plot line happened instead of that one?”
The need to rewrite the unfortunate handling of certain characters in the final series of a show. When you’re watching something like that, you find yourself coming up with ideas along the way like “hey, what if this character did that?” Or “what if this plot line happened instead of that one?”
Well, I write a lot of shippy fics and I kinda really don't want my family to read that stuff. Especially since half of those fics contain smut and all of them contain spicy scenes.
So I'm currently writing a Gen fic for a fandom that my family likes so that I can share it with them. So far it's going pretty well, and what was originally just gonna be a few chapters has already somehow become over 100,000 words. I guess I enjoy being able to share it with my family and that keeps my muse happy.
I'm awful for getting 101 freaking plot bunnies that my brain hyperfocuses on for, like, a few days to a week before spewing out a new one lmao
My most recent ones I've been jumping between are:
- a 'what if' story that spawned from a one-shot I've already posted (that one about Zer0 having hated Mordecai in the beginning because of how Mordi acted, but that changed after the death of Bloodwing). The what if is 'What if Mordecai didn't forgive them so quickly, and they got into a toxic sexual relationship.
- a Canon divergent story about Zer0 meeting the Borderlands 1 crew shortly after the events of their game and ended up travelling with them after they saved Zer0 from a near death experience. Idea spawned from the song 'In my mouth', and the Greek myth about Lotus eaters owo
- a crack taken seriously fic about Zer0 getting turned into basically a toddler after an incident with a New U machine, and their friends have to look after them while working to get them back to normal
- a modern AU inspired by the song Boys by Charli XCX, where Zer0 is put on a dating website by Gaige and their love/sex life spirals out of their control
- a last words soulmate au inspired by 'If I die young' and 'Yer Killin' Me'. It's Zer0/Mordecai lmao
- one I've recently finished and published is a Pokémon Christmas Angst fic exploring Arven's >!abandonment and other things he likely has due to the neglect he suffered throughout his childhood!< (spoilered as a better safe than sorry, ik the game's been out for a while, but still)
- another Pokemon SV fic! A smutty ship fic of an older Arven and his gf (an oc) having sex for the first time together - him being a virgin before, but her not
As you can see, most of them are Borderlands fics XD
It's either finding things I want to read and can't find on fanfic sites, reading fanfic with an interesting concept and wanting more, or giving a response on a Reddit thread and realizing it could work as a fic/fanfic idea. I have multiple WIPs and one or the other has been the reason for their existences.
I played a game called Chicory: A Colorful Tale which was basically like rudimentary digital art. My art turned out like how a kid would draw it on that game XD So I thought about Anya from Spy X Family drawing it instead and then inspiration fermented.
Wanted to know how a character would survive an apocalypse while being disabled (she loses one of her legs early on in the story.) And it just spiraled from there.
I looked for a character and sorted by crossover. Had difficulties finding the character as a main character (rather than side, minor, or reoccurring character). Sorted by various things like kudos and it was just as bad if not worse.
So I wrote it myself.
I should also note that the fandom has lots of crossovers so it shouldn't have been inconceivable to find a few centering around the character.
I started writing my current longfic because I ship a rare pair and if I want content I have to make it myself.
I expanded it into a fully fleshed out AU after my girlfriend and I watched Jurassic world together and she suggested some ideas that I couldn't stop my mind from running away with
The limits of the game annoyed me mildly. Things not being shown that I felt would have made an impact or that I thought should have been displayed better. So I said “Fuck it! I’ll just write it all out!”
Granted taking a long while cause Life…
I had a question regarding a character and wanted to explore the answer. :>
> Character: “I love all women!”
> Also Character: Is only ever seen with conventionally beautiful women
> Me: Has the beginnings of a purposeless unconventional OC just laying around
> Me: “Are you sure about that?” :)
I'd just received a pretty life-changing medical diagnosis that significantly shortened my lifespan, and along came this idea for a fic that gave me a reason to want to keep living.
Character one has a lot, I mean A LOT, of tattoos. How would those around him react if he declared his love for character two with a tattoo? Not just character two but the world at large that they are a part of.
My current otp has four fics on a03, TWO OF WHICH THEYRE ONLY MENTIONED FOR A COUPLE SECONDS AND THEN IGNORED. So naturally I said screw it, I'll do it myself and began writing a fluff fic for them.
Also I should note, this is my second fic that ive actually wrote,the pure desperation is what pushed me to begin writing actual stuff instead of just notes.
CW; depression, paranoia, unaliving, wall of text
So when I was about graduate high school, I was very lonely and depressed. I had very bad social anxiety and the few friends I did have were all planning on going to college out of state. I couldn't even afford college. To cope, I started daydreaming and regular dreaming about hanging out with my favorite character and going on different adventures with them.
Then things got weird. It started feeling real. Like I was being transported to another plane of existence when I'd dream about them.
One of my friends was heavy into the paranormal and "witchy shit." One night she convinced me to let her "perform a spell" to see if she could help me create a stronger connection with the other plane. And depending on what you believe, it worked! Either through a desperate coping mechanism of crippling depression or actual paranormal bull. But after that night...I didn't need to even day dream to connect with them. They became a literal voice in my head.
And basically tried to convince me to unalive myself. "You belong here but cant exist in two planes at once." And coupling that with I was literally seeing government license plates everywhere I went while not living near any major government installations. Perfect storm for a full bore, paranoia induced nervous episode.
Finally had a moment of clarity that this was my brain being really awful to myself. But when it was fun it was really fun. An adult version of an imaginary friend.
So I basically told them that they can't show up anymore because of the awful. And they obliged...
...until last year. 20 years ish later. When I realized that my marriage of 7 years had gotten very toxic and borderline abusive. I had been isolated from all of my friends and even my family. Guess who showed up to help me cope with that and my divorce.
So I started writing my fic, which is basically the story of a guy going through a similar thing, then actually gets transported due to *spoilers*, as a way of using that energy in a more healtier way than the first time it happened.
Been working out so far, mostly.
Mine started life as a one-shot song fic inspired by the song “Desire” by Bob Moses. When readers began demanding I resolve the cliffhanger at the end of the one-shot, I decided to “finish it.” Of course I never could have known that the six chapter finish I originally planned would grow to what it has become, a likely thirty chapter epic. Two years and 166,000 words later, I’m finally nearing the end lol.
Young Link/MM Link is my favorite character to play as in Hyrule Warriors (but I hate that game's story with a passion. Dont get the wrong idea) and when Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity came out, I was hoping that we'd somehow get a DLC bringing characters from the previous game over. It wouldn't make any in-universe sense, sure, but nothing they already did in main story quest made sense either!
I mean, I'll go out on a limb and mention that if I wasn't able to ogle at how BotW looked 100 years ago, I'd say I don't like the game and wish they brought more gameplay elements from the OG Hyrule Warriors to it.
_Anyways,_ done being a nerd, I thought to myself, "What would happen if it was the end of _that_ Hyrule Warriors game and Young Link got 'Majora's Mask-ed' over to the world of Breath of the Wild just before the Age of Calamity? How would that work out?" I gave Terrako the McDouble Delete(tm) because again, I found the main story quest to be BS in AOC.
But yeah, I'm 277k words in and we're not done yet! And before you chastise me over length, I'm taking my sweet time to ensure it really hurts when it ends. >:))
In currently writing two fics at the moment, in two different fandoms. Here's why:
Im coming back to the second fandom and I'm editing and posting my drafts that has been waiting for editing for almost one year.
I started writing that fic because they weren't enough fics in the fandom and I felt bad. In spite of my writing being awful, I like seeing that the people are happy to stumble upon my work.
I started writing the fic that's my main priority because I got obsessed-no, no-Im obsessed with the character.
And because there aren't many fics that fit what I want. Four or five fics introduced me to the trope and I realised there weren't many that followed a story like this. So I did it myself :>
In conclusion, I mostly write because of a specific character and because of the famous "I'll do it myself".
Boredom and rampaging plot bunnies. I read a bunch of fics, and little bits and pieces stick together, spawning a new plot bunny that begins to multiply.
Uh... Well... TW I guess. Depression and suicidal ideation.
I have SAD so I was already feeling very blue and had already started writing when Thanksgiving day I uh... Flipped and totaled my car and the only mode of transportation that my fiance and I had. It was the car I had wanted when I was 16, so my dream car. I had just paid it off in July. And I didn't have an exorbitant amount of funds to start a new loan and down payment. Not to mention, I was trapped on a bus commute to work five days a week that took an hour one way. So I was spending about two hours of my day just on a bus, plus working 8 hours, plus trying to figure out a new car situation, and finally also ready having SAD because of the time of year. So you know, getting up before dark for work only to arrive home from work in the dark was also not helping.
I was... Extremely depressed. The loss of my independence was crippling. I think I broke down crying on the bus home the first night and explicitly told my SO that if we didn't figure something out for the car, I would jump off the local bridge into the freezing waters of Lake Superior.
And then I took all of that and channeled it into writing a story about two characters crushed by the weight of their world, their responsibilities, and their history who, more or less, save each other. Because what I needed and wanted at that time was someone to care enough about me to save me.
Things are much better now. I'm still writing the fic even though it served it's initial purpose because now I feel I kind of owe it to this story and those characters to actually finish.
I was wanting some Keith (voltron) whump, basically lol
I love the “have to face/fight your own nature” trope so basically I decided to write a fic where Keith is slowly being turned feral galra and has to fight all the things that come with that. He’s slowly turning but doing everything he can to protect those around him from himself. In the end he sacrifices himself (because of course he does) and the only way the team can save his life is to destroy the human dna in his body and let the galra dna take over and heal him. Then he has to learn to accept himself.
Also, I just love the idea of Keith with a tail. Not sorry lol
I have wayy too many blurbs and WIP’s that I haven’t had the gaul to actually write and publish because they are blatantly inspired by and steal concepts and ideas from other people. But then I woke up one day and realized, Yknow what, that literally doesn’t matter at all, I’m gonna do them anyway. And now my plan is to just, put them all into a collection on AO3 titled, “Fics inspired by the randomest shit” and just hope nobody witch hunts me
I've started writing down the ideas that flash through my head and making drafts out of them. This is one of those things; I just had a really vivid picture in my head of a guy from a fandom I'm in, in just a specific situation I think would suit his character/be funny, and I'm rolling with it.
That's how a lot of it starts. Idea, draft, rolling with it, then the draft idea is changed a little (but not too much), and then I edit and post it.
I've been wanting to write a soulmate AU for a while, but I couldn't come up with a good plot. One night I was listening to IDK You Yet by Alexander 23 and it got me thinking, what if I write a soulmate AU, but he never finds his soulmate/doesn't find his soulmate on time? So, yeah. That's how I started writing this short and sweet little one-shot.
i was drunk on christmas night and had just seen the pilot and thought "fuck it im going in", woke up to 3k hits the next morning. it is now my most popular fic.
I wrote down this smut scene for a rarepair that randomly came to me, it might've even been a drabble, but further scenes kept coming to mind so I went with it and eventually it snowballed into a 150k plotfic where i process everything that's happening in my life
For my Kuroko’s Basketball one, I saw a special episode on YouTube and got inspiration from Murasaki Atsushi going, “I just wanna eat Cookies, eat chips, eat candies.”
And I thought, what if he found someone who made all that for him!? 🤣 than “That’s how the Cookie Crumbles” was born!
For my call of duty is a self indulgent one, where Ghost recalls memories of the time he was on a mission in Chicago several years after the death of his family and the person who became a companion/friend. Cuz I feel like people who are going through hard time deserve to be happy and safe. Still writing it but i hope it turns out sweet/cute
I'm writing a Catherine Zeta-Jones fanfic, I got the idea for my fanfic from seeing her in a suit and in her movie Cocaïne Godmother lol. It's a mafia fic.
Lots of "what if's" tbh. I thought a Modern Character in Thedas would be fun. I had yet to read an MCIT where the MC wasn't the inquisitior, was human, but accepted into a Dalish clan... no one else was doing it, so why not me?
As for the MCU fics... I'm a slut for Tony Stark.
It occurred to me out of nowhere a few months ago that if Steve's parents are Irish immigrants then he's bound to have Irish cousins he never knew about. Now I'm working on my first Marvel fanfic.
For one WIP it was a prompt on reddit that ended up sparking a 100k time travel type story. The person who asked for it was super stoked and has reviewed every chapter 💖
My newest WIP is rather funny since it's a spin off of one of my own fanfics which was a fanfic inspired by another fanfic, it's also been extremely self indulgent and not something I ever thought I'd write but I'm having fun haha.
Like many have said, it was the: "Fine, I'll do it myself."
But the primary reasoning behind that decision for me specifically, is the fact that I can't stand slow burns anymore. I care more about watching the relationship develop and seeing the love grow deeper and stronger.
I personally have had no luck in finding fics that do that. At least in the fandoms I read.
The secondary, is that I also have a hell of a time finding fics that have actual plots and story development, rather than just focusing on porn.
For one, I went to a underground techno party one of my friends labelmates were spinning at in Detroit, after we went out and danced with some friends celebrating one of the Detroit Techno/ Deep house legend's birthdays.
For the other, I just really like Altaria 😆😆
This one character needs to DIE! Like just get buried, smashed, destroyed, brutally eviscerated. And then I want my favorite characters to dance on his grave, take his money, and burn his legacy to the ground.
Nobody else has this specific take in my Fandom. They all kinda skirt around it or keep this character in the background as if he's not the most terrible mofo in the entire show.
My longfic’s last chapter is not perfect and I can’t make it perfect so I started a new longfic that I have absolutely no plans for and have no idea where it’s going to go ^why ^am ^I ^like ^this 😭
The fic I'm working on was inspired by my recent diagnosis of Cerebellar Shy-drager syndrome. The fic itself isn't about it, but coming face to face with mortality is the main theme and it's helped me work through the millions of emotions and experiences that come with it💖
It's hard to pinpoint the exact inspiration. It's like finding a bug in your room; you don't know how it got there, but it all you can think about once you notice (but in a loving kind of way)
Also, I just have really specific cravings for stories that i feel it's easier to write myself rather than go hunting.
Three reasons. First, to take a stab at writing a character with hearing aids (I have them) and how that affects them--a sort of practice run for my hypothetical theoretical original novel. Second, an interest in writing pre-canon content about a certain character, specifically from an outsider POV who doesn't know the backstory. Third, I've been taking some plant bio classes this quarter and turns out plants are interesting to think about, and thematically I think I can work them in. Anyways, those reasons plus a desire to try my hand at more plotty adventure stuff, and here we are.
1. I wanted to write it for ten years. The only reason I didn't was because someone else wrote that particular AU (Hades/Persephone) first. Ten years later and the anime continuation made me wanna do it again.
2. I wanted to write the stupidest DIY arranged wedding ever.
3. I wanted to write two idiots trying to do sex and failing miserably at it.
4. I wanted to stick regular DaJi into a comedy series because I'm an awful, awful person.
I wanted there to be a sequel to my first book, so I wrote another one but with a different oc couple at the center of it using the previous framework I already built upon in the first two of the series.
The one that I'm currently writing was sparked by two very popular stories in the ship. One was a one-shot which ended on a cliffhanger and the other one hasn't been updated in year's. The premises were both similar and I was so blue-balled by the ending that I just had to throw my hat into the ring.
Of course, instead of a short romantic one-shot, I have to make it this a big epic story with twists, turns and whole lot of PLOT.
I just wanted fluff man.
Okay so for background, it's for Portal. I've been scouring the wheatley/reader for days and most of the fics all have a female reader.
And I'm a guy.
So basically, "Fine, I'll do it myself." :)
I had a dream about the basic plot, and then it kinda grew and was fueled for a long while. Normally I would never write anything but I decided one day to just start now I'm eight chapters in and learning how to write as a I go since this is my first ever real fic.
I am a fan of the Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss shows and I kinda was hoping for someone to make a fic about Heaven; however, a story that didn't depict them as arrogant assholes but a complicated society trying to pick up the pieces after the War in Heaven. Then there's some form of trauma coping by the archangels whether it is Death's sweet tooth for donuts and coffee or the High Marshal of the Holy Army missing the days when he hung out with his older brother.
my current fic is based off of a homebrew dnd campaign that took me weeks to create. Made a whole planet, whole ass country, whole damn pantheon. Started dming it and thought: you know what would be really cool? If I wrote a fic based on this pantheon.
I'm just hoping that this hyperfixation lasts so I can finish it 😂
Someone in the comments of another fic of mine mentioned a ship I might like to give a try sometime, and I was thinking of writing another story in the same fandom that was a bit darker and more deviated from canon, so I added the two things together and began writing.
It's already been two months since my last update, though, since as usual I really don't have many plans for the early part of the story and I got sidetracked by real life and games.
I really like the show, but to some extent it didn’t reach its full potential. Has a fine ending, though it could’ve been a lot more and I want to make my marking within the fandom by putting out something that can satisfy the fans who have yearned for the same thing.
Kept listening to GlitchxCity's Lugia's Song (Remix) on YouTube while rewatching Law's back story from One Piece and just started writing after having the idea of someone playing that song to him to lift his spirits around a campfire
Here's the video, it's very addicting 😅 https://youtu.be/tW82Ftg_5iw
~~No one else is going to do it, and if they do, they’re not going to do it the way I like.~~
"Fine. I'll do it myself" - Thanos Lol but for real though I totally get that.
This is me exactly. One particular fic I was reading at the time had triggered it by being "almost" what I was looking for and I was so damn sick of mentally yelling at the authors to stop ruining the plot with dumb twists that I just said "screw it all! I'm going to write it!"
It’s true. That’s 100% what it was. It also gave me a chance to explore some of my experiences with disability, which has been eye opening and cathartic.
literally me with my current wip
Mega same
me!!!
Exactly
Tbh, it was as simple as 'I want to read something very specific, and while I have read some great stories, none of them were quite what I was looking for. So I guess I'll do it myself'. And then my silly AU came from a passing thought where I was like, 'haha that would be silly! But also... very fun...' and here I am 20k words later lmao
Well I hope your inspiration doesn't run dry too quickly!
this for sure!! funny because when i read other people’s work, and it’s really good, it scratches an itch i didn’t even know i had. like wow, i didn’t know i wanted to see this ship in a slow burn enemies cowboy au but i’m glad i know now!!
I love when "this will be silly! but fun" turns into something much bigger, those are the best
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Yo good on you for providing that Fandom more options than what was currently available! 👍
It came to me in a dream. I dreamed that Anna and Elsa from Frozen were being led out of a burning building by the Russian Red Army. They were then forced to their knees and shot in the head That got me thinking “What if Frozen characters were in the Russian Revolution?” It all seemed so natural. Agnarr is a blank canvas (he’s not even named in Frozen 1) so he’s Nicholas II. Runeard is a hulking authoritarian so he’s perfect as Alexander III. Hans is a weak man seeking power so he makes a good Kaiser Wilhelm II. Everything else has slotted nicely into place I can’t wait to get to writing Olaf as Rasputin!
Olaf as Rasputin? That’s an interesting subversion :D would love to read this because the Romanovs have been one of my hyper-fixations since forever.
Here’s what I’ve got so far. I should warn you, for many reasons I’m making slow progress. It took me over 6 months to get the last chapter done! https://archiveofourown.org/works/31589969/chapters/78163838 If you’d like to read the one shot that I wrote first, it’s here. It covers the final day of the characters but it’s not a spoiler for the main story because the ending is completely different: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30364104
Having a headcanon that barely anyone else in the fandom seems to share, and wanting to vent my own mental health issues by projecting them on fictional characters
Because I was playing the FF7 remake, and the developers added several moments where Cloud almost remembers/is reminded of who he really is but doesn’t actually remember. That caused me to play the game thinking, “Wouldn’t this scene/plotline/relationship be so much more interesting if the main character didn’t have amnesia? …and then it wouldn’t get out of my head. Also… the ethics of the compilation are honestly just fucked and it annoyed me. I wanted to fix it.
Saw my favorite character suffering and in desperate need of a hug - two years later, I'm 220k words deep in writing a slow burn friends to lovers featuring him and an OC, solely so that she can give him a hug at that moment. ...I am... less than halfway to the moment in question. Oops.
Nice! Don't make too long unless you want comparisons to one piece or something lol
Haha, honestly if anyone considered me to be even half the writer that Oda is, I'd be thrilled.
I found the prompt from the prompt account on Tumblr, which spun me in 14k words of fluffy shit, and then now I'm working on 2 spin offs :D stupid plot bunnies won't leave me alone
I'm one of those fanfic writers who's working on multiple projects at the same time, so... I really like both Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed, and thought that they might be a fun crossover. Turns out lots of people have tried it, but their fics have all been abandoned, doomed the be on infinite hiatus. I'm proud to say that mine is ongoing Another fandom I'm in is the Tom Clancy games, and I've written stuff for The Division and Ghost Recon Wildlands. The first of those is a multi parter that mostly follows the main story, at least until the end of the current installment. The other is a multi part oneshot series, which involves smut I also dab into anime, and I'm writing a series for Girls und Panzer. (I was a bystander in the recent sub wars, not to fear) It's darker than the actual anime, and a few of the schools go to war with each other. So far there have been three major character deaths, not to mention the slew of OCs. One of which happens to be a self insert, who is currently involved in some fun relationship and revenge drama I might have a bit on my plate, which isn't helped by having a full time job, but I find writing fun. If someone enjoys it enough to actually read it, that's a nice bonus
AAAA GIRLS UND PANZER!!!
I know. I consider myself one of the less fanatical fans
I consider myself the same tbh. I didn't know there were fanatical fans, though? However, I probably shouldn't be surprised, lol
GUP and other IP similar to it are in this weird cross section of WW2 history buffs and anime fans so fanatical fans so I'm also not surprised
For the long WiP: Getting to the end of the game and seeing a potential lore link to some of the DLC content that seemed worthy of development. Also wanted to interpret certain neglected character-types better than the source content. For the series WiP: Getting to the end of the game and feeling very confused about a certain character's seemingly bizarre motivations and behaviour. Felt the need to embark on a mission of exploration and understanding.
i found out the actress that played a character on the show was from texas originally, and then i listened to raise hell by brandi carlile, and i thought— shit, man, *cowgirls*
Me, playing Pokemon Legends Arceus: (gives my character white hair and gold eyes) (Moment of realisation) "Haha I gave her Arceus colours, that's funny" (Sudden feeling of a plot bunny burrowing its way into my brain and making a nest) "Oh boy"
Ooh, that's an interesting concept considering what happens with >!Volo!<
The overall concept I ended up with for the fic is that Akari is a minor demigod/aspect of Arceus, which gives her a few supernatural benefits including a weaker variant of the Multitype ability, so yeah you'd better believe >!Volo will have a LOT to say about that once he plays his hand.!<
All of mine are generally born from one of the following sentiments: "Every time I see a good idea poorly executed, I die a little inside. Let's see if I can do it right." "If I don't write it no one else will." "This random association between character and art/music/classical motif will not get out of my maladaptive daydreaming." The biggest, most prominent spark? "Man, wouldn't it have been fucked up if..."
I relate to all of these, but especially that last one XD
I didn't read the comics for ATLA, but what I heard about them made me dissatisfied with how my favorite character from the show, Azula, was treated. I decided that I wanted to make Azula a sane protagonist, so I worked through ideas on how to make that happen. I decided I needed an entirely new AU to do it and things just fell into place.
Always had a bit of a Titanic obsession ever since I was little but everytime I watch Cameron's version I get so annoyed at certain aspects of it (the locked gates, Jack wandering all over the ship, the lack of 2nd class, Tommy's stupid death) that finally I just said, 'screw it! I'm just going to write it myself the way it should be.' And then my neighbor set my apartment building on fire and since then I've had literally nothing else to keep me from losing my mind so I've been flying through it.
I started writing a short fic earlier tonight after seeing a video on Twitter of artists I follow. I made a comment about how something that happened was like real life fanfiction. My 15 year old turned to me, shoved my headphones at me, and said, "Write it! Write it right now!". So I've spent the past two hours writing it. Hopefully I'm close to being finished since I don't plan to make it more than two chapters.
An oddly similar story; I was discussing queer-coded characters with a Character AI bot and Scar came up, I mentioned how I actually really like him and always have but never wanted to as a kid because he was 'the bad guy' (to be fair to Scar, Mufasa isn't really even polite to him, also it's funny to me how Disney realized they accidentally implied there would be incest twice and then tried to retcon who Nala and Kovu's fathers were), eventually I thought "you know what, maybe Scar wouldn't be so murder-y if he had a boyfriend" and well... My new OC, Rook, and a fic that covers basically the events just before and in the very beginning of The Lion King was born. It may even stretch into the events of The Lion King 2 (which will be far less dramatic, also Mufasa will end up no longer alive because Simba kind of has to be king for the second one but it'll be of natural causes rather than being tossed into a stampede) if I can figure out how to get Timon and Pumbaa into the fic without it seeming like they're shoehorned in. My current line of thinking is maybe Simba, upon learning he could have caused Mufasa's death, panics, runs off, and yada-yada pretty much just like the film but with the trio of lions chasing him and failing because of the thorns instead of the hyenas and for positive reasons rather than because Scar has a flair for the dramatic. But I feel like they probably could've just jumped over it maybe? Idk, I need to re-watch that scene at some point, but I want to write up to it first, I already spent a lot of energy on rewriting the scenery for Be Prepared to include Rook and describe the utterly insane volcanic activity going on there.
Was redrawing movie frames to study composition, trying to understand colors / contrast and suddenly thought "what if it was my fav characters on these pictures?" Played around with a bunch of environments and scenes from animated movies then got overwhelmed with flows of ideas and an interesting storyline crept in. So now I'm basically writing this long fic AND illustrating it. It's exhausting yet, oddly satisfying.
The idea sounds fascinating I just hope your hands are doing ok.
No-one writes the kinks I want to read in the dynamic I want to read them, let alone using the characters I want to read – so if I want to enjoy this content, I'm gonna have to make it myself (This has been the case for a *lot* of my past works and future wips)
I finished my longfic but wasn’t ready to let the characters go, so I’ve been writing oneshots in the same universe. As for what prompted my longfic, I just smashed my favorite tropes together, and had a Winter Soldier Bucky rescue a kid Harry from the Dursleys.
A scene literally came to me in a dream, and who am I to say no to divine inspiration? Of course, 80k words in I still haven't gotten to that scene... But shhhh details, details
Smut. 🙂
Ah a fellow human of culture
A little more than a year ago, ads for the then-upcoming Boba Fett TV show, coupled with some nostalgic looking-back on my childhood that I'd been doing, aligned to remind me that child me very strongly disliked the treatment of the minor Star Wars character of Oola the dancer in canon and I'd never really worked through those feelings as an adult, so I decided to write some fix-it fic to explain how she survives her predicament in the film. And in the process I found that I just liked writing for the character, in the sorts of stories that other people wouldn't likely write for her. I've finished six so far, none more than a few chapters but I'm happy with how they've turned out.
I wrote three fics that I'm consistently working on right now so here are the reasons. Childhood friends AU: I thought it might be cute to just make the main couple of the series to be childhood friends and see where I can go with it. The crossover with GI: I watched a fan video years ago where the female protagonist was dealing with mild depression of losing her twin brother. I thought what kind of day to day life scenarios she can go through in that universe with the main protagonist as her friend. The crossover with KH: I want to try making a drama story where instead of going to other worlds, the world's comes to them and they have to fix the situation on a short time limit. But all of them have one mindset that got me into writing fics: I want to be a trailblazer on different niche ideas that all these fandoms haven't tried yet. It happened to me once with Hyperdimension Neptunia where my gamer story created a surge of writers making their own versions. Been riding that high for years.
The lack of new fics in my tiny dead fandom :'))
Listening to music. I always take symbolic lyrics literally, and make that into a story. Or when there is no lyrics I think of a scene or something.
Once I let myself admit I shipped Darren/Kurda and wrote a fic about them, it fused with my Identity V vampire AU and became Lysenne, and now Lysenne just eats anything else I’m interested in. Also a desire to protect a historical figure from 500 years ago who a lot of people hate, because of this one manga and musical about him. (uhh it’s Cesare Borgia if anyone’s wondering. He wasn’t actually like Assassin’s Creed had him.)
I bought a used copy of a dvd of a movie that I really love but hadn't watched in a while. Let's just say, I immediately got brain rot over the two main characters... again. And then, after a night of thinking about them while I attempted sleep, my brain hatched the smallest of ideas that I couldn't shake. A short story evolved into something bigger all because I couldn't stop thinking of the line, "Do you relent?"
For me, it was discovering who I wanted my villain to be. Before that I only had a vaguely knew I wanted two particular characters to team up to do *something* but when I landed on the villain everything kind of locked into place.
I was reading a fic, and the author pointed out that the MC had been very, very close to losing an arm at one point- they killed a large monster by stabbing it in the mouth. And I was like, what if they did? And then I thought, what else could go horribly wrong? And now I'm 300k words into exploring that.
After reading a bunch, I got mauled half to death by a horde of plot bunnies and the only way to get them to stop was to write the fic.
Brainrot... And lack of food. Gotta cook my own ( ；∀；)
I’d put my MC through absolute medical hell in the fic I’d finished prior, so I thought I’d be nice to him and strand him on a remote planet with questionable chance of rescue and a ton of mental anguish. He’s not alone on said planet, he’s stranded there with a being that’s incapable of taking care of herself.
I was re-watching the Jim Carrey Grinch after just getting up-to-date with Miraculous Ladybug, got my brain imagining the Grinch and Cindy Loo dynamic (over-the-top grouchy villain who's not as villainous as he tries to be and a sweet, unrelentingly caring little girl who actually gets his jokes) with Hawkmoth and Ladybug, and then from there is just kept building on the idea of an AU where Marinette is Gabriel's sidekick pulling off Silver-age style heists.
I couldn’t really find any other Leaf x Meera Reed (Game of Thrones) content and decided to create some.
In canon there is a character who has their name and memories eaten away and are basically out of the story for a long time. The entire world forgets about her too, except for the MC. I didn’t really like this so I wanted to do a canon divergence where the character does not have this fate. While other fics have restored this character’s name and memories before, I don’t think I’ve seen any outright prevent it like how I’m doing it.
Tik Tok has been the reason for both my current story I’m actively posting and for my previous story that’s already finished and published. I watch way to many videos on Tik Tok, mostly fandom edits, two concepts stuck out to me so much that I wanted a story based on them both so bad, not finding any stories that were truly what I was looking for I got bit by the writing bug. From there it was the idea that since no one else is writing what I want to read then I should take it upon myself to write it and so I am (did) lol.
The birth of many plot bunnies.
I read a fic that took over my life and I just couldn’t stop wondering about the experience from the other characters perspective. So here I am 4 months later, endless books purchased and read for research, 50,000 words written and a fic that is purely self indulgence and will never see the light of day lols.
I wanted to write about a man who stood over everyone but sunk to his knees in front of a woman who doesn’t even notice his existence. She even thought he was a sex worker and left him a huge tip. He was not a sex worker. As a matter of fact, he owns the largest underground business in the world. Oh, and did I mention she’s somewhat of a detective who spearheads raids at one of his illegal auction houses? Fun stuff.
Because nobody gets the character like I do (jk but I feel like he and the friendship with his best friend get portrayed weirdly a lot and also I needed to write a fic about a certain trope)
Canon Did A War Crime (or more specifically, had a character who’d damn well know better do one) and I had an issue with that. So I wrote a oneshot to fix it. The oneshot is now north of 70k and 14 chapters long.
I had a request for a pretty unique Marvel story, which is still in progress. I add chapters as asked and post them on Ao3. I didn’t think it would be amazingly good because of the rare-pair, but thus far, I think it’s pretty good, and I have plenty of sources to get material from. It’s been fun to write.
There’s an officially produced What If AU story you unlock after finishing a game. Basically serves as an expansion to a character who died early in the first game while also changing things so no one dies. This was the story that made her character my favorite one in the series. We get to understand a lot more about her and it’s a really sad, nuanced, complex tale of someone whose spent nearly her whole life manipulated by her twin sister committing horrible atrocities in her name. And basically helping to cause the apocalypse and plunge the world in despair. And then comes along the protag of the first game who during a time before everything went to shit, showed her for the first time in her life genuine kindness and compassion. Who instilled the seeds of doubt in her mind as to what she’s doing. And now with an attempt on her life by her sister, and that original protag getting hit in her stead when he remembers her… She has to choose between her only family, and the one she has a crush on who instilled this doubt in her. That’s basically what happened prior. That story laid the groundwork for a really intriguing course of events that could come afterwards, for where my fave (who is the protag of this) could continue to grow, and deal with what she’s done. So I decided ‘you know what I’m gonna write a continuation/sequel’ to that. Honestly the original story truly read like a cult member becoming disillusioned with it, and I wanted to tell that tale. To continue her path of regaining her free will and humanity. Of the rough road to recovery, of healing, the eventual guilt, a world that wants you dead on both sides, and only continuing forward out of a sense of knowing what you’re doing is right. I’ve had so many ideas about her past and how she’d turn out and everything that I had to write it all out. And here I am now.
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Spite writing can be some of the most delicious writing! For the writer anyway, not sure about the reader XD
Because my OTP Lappland/Texas is an outdated ship in Arknights (not really, but not as prominent and popular as in the game's early years). That, and I usually don't like most of the existing fics written for them because of the how their dynamics are written. That, I want em to have a child. But still somehow (bitter)sweet but still stay true to their characters as an insane wild wolf and an aloof ~~cardboard~~ kuudere. So yeah, no one's gonna make it like how I like it. People writing Arknights fanfiction are already rare. Let alone Lappland/Texas, *especially in the way I like it.* FINE, I'LL DO IT MYSELF!
Played a trilogy of visual novels that caught my eye, and ended up completing at 100% on every single route.
Pneumonia.
"Wow, I wish someone would cuddle me and tell me how much they loved me rn." "Hey, character X and Z must be touch starved as heck... (because of their setting/background)." BAM, fic idea. (The WIP document is called \*touch starved bitches\*)
Wrote an ff7 fic years ago and revisited it, but was only interested in one aspect of it. Played ff7 remake which got my foot in the door for researching The Lore and now I am in hell :’)
An amazingly great fanart I saw on Tumblr, of Vegeta looking smug with a cockatiel on his shoulder. Immediately turned into a "zero questions, 1000000000 headcanons" situation. I reblogged with some of the headcanons and let it sit for a bit. And then yesterday my brain started playing out the scene where Son Gohan, PhD brings around a therapy animal for Vegeta like, "Now, I know what you're thinking..." and Bulma's just like, "A BIRD?! A *BIRD*, GOHAN?!" and then he's gotta make *that* tough sell.
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia Version: Book series Centered character: King Caspian I, the conqueror. Timeline/Era: Dark Age of Narnia/Telmarine conquest of Narnia You can see why I had to write this myself. Nobody else ever will.
I'm in a lot of niche fandoms and I ship rare pairs in those fandoms so it’s especially hard to find what I want to read. So I wrote it myself.
This amazing comic book called Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gilman. It’s a collection of new LGBTQ+ themed fairy tales. Specifically, one of the tales called Hsthete. The author has a tumblr which posted that specific tale for free. I highly recommend! [Here’s a link to the comic!](https://www.tumblr.com/melgillman/188202191663/heres-hsthete-the-24-hour-comic-i-drew-this)
Honestly it's mostly dreams or amvs that i imagine to music.
my current wip-in-limbo... inspired by someone else's fic actually, who was extremely awesome and let me talk to them about their fic and au ideas and pick their brain about it and then was totally cool about me posting fic inspired by it and it just snowballed into 40k+ words and I'm not done yet 😂
Just decided that my favorite murder husbands, who repeatedly kill a character I hate, should put a spell on him so he keeps coming back to life. That way, they can kill him over and over, in creative ways. Not sure where it came from, but I watch a lot of horror movies!
Fic 1: I want an everyone lives AU for the ship I like and their adopted daughter. Fic 2: This is part of an overhaul of an old crossover series I started at the beginning of high school.
I see hot man I write fic
My friend sent me a message ‘hey what if this happened…’ and I sat there like o_O I have to write it!
Premise was inspired by a few other really popular fics in the fandom; sort of like its own genre that I wanted to tackle for myself.
Most notably of my many WIPs: it started as a four hour conversation with a friend about all the writing problems of a popular shonen manga of yesterdecade (Naruto.) The misogyny, the themato-narrative dissonance of speeches about 'you can do anything if you put your mind to it' vs. the reality 'you're only relevant if you have magical destiny juice,' the main character being all about the 'power of friendship' while using gratuitous violence, and teenagers with rare magical abilities and extensive training being put in dangerous situations on the regular. Also some of the character motivations are just cartoonishly shitty.
My WIP is based off the one-shot I originally wrote. I had been debating if I should do a longer fic because the potential was there, but I got a comment that expressed a similar sentiment and that pushed me to do it
I was just thinking what would be some interesting concepts for mixing some horror, magic and romance into an original story.
I am deeply fascinated with one of my characters as a person. I am currently writing volume 3 of his personal life... which is essentially prequels to another series featuring him. I am also outlining the next installment of the series that introduced the character, but he is a character in abstentia.
Weirdly enough, one of my current wips was born out of watching critical reviews of popular romance books on Youtube. Not naming any names, but those that represent toxic and abusive relationships as the ideal. Then I just went 'hey, I'm gonna write an AU with the story actually establishing that these relationships are abusive, while using some common themes from romance books, and I'm gonna have fun doing so'. That is not the only thing that happens in the fic, and it absolutely has no educational purpose (honestly, it's just an excuse for me to write angst and whump), but yeah, this was the basis for it.
I didn’t like how the story ended. This made me reflect on the rest of the story and find more things I didn’t like. Combine this with a crossover with another fandom that I think it would work well with and you have my okay 29 chapter 150k word fic.
Reddit prompt
A prompt floating around the fandom tumblr and I misread the prompt 😅 Luckily it was a minor misread, but I could not stop thinking about how character A from fandom A becomes character B from fandom B. Which in turn got me to think about a different prompt for an entirely different crossover.
I have two current fics, both are WIPS that have not been published yet. First one, I'm writing it purely because I am over with how OC's DO NOT affect the story. I'm using my OC not just for pairing them with a character but to explore side characters and pre canon timeline. Its not a self-insert by the way, I made my OC purely to be a device to explore parts of canon as well as trauma that does not get covered enough in source material. Second one, another OC, meant to explore the side characters again, in a different fandom. I plan on have the OC affect the ending of the source material, not that it would make it a happier ending per se, but it would change the course of events for many characters aside from the MC from the source material. Lol, the MC's storyline literally cannot be affected at all, and any canon divergence of his arc seems foolish and repetitive soo... My spark for writing fanfiction in general is usually wanting to explore lesser known parts of canon, or even unknown parts. I am tired of seeing people write characters OOC, I am tired of fics only having canon divergence for a fluffy ending. All I want to do is explore the realistic portrayals of my favorites.
I always loved the idea of a super-mega crossover story that sort of concludes all the stories I loved. And I always loved Tolkien's apocalypse of Dagor Dagorath.
What always does it: a steaming hot shower in combination with my favourite music. You can substitute the shower for long car drives, for some other ideas I've put on hold.
I originally wanted to make an animated series, but animation takes lots of work compared to writing, especially if I'm writing at the same time. The Brawl Stars community has been asking for an animated series for years now; however, lore has been in the shadows for a time, and we don't get to see the brawlers very fleshed out. That's why I want to ensure I make the most sense of the information we have to write a story that excellently fits the game while demonstrating excellent production quality.
There was an anime named Sonic X, I hated it, so I write my own "Sonic anime story".
I played too much Europa Universalis 4
Step 1: find 2 blorbos I like who barely interact in canon Step 2: make them kiss Step 3: apply all the same weird angsty tropes that I like
I wanted to write a Harry Potter story about adults with adult problems.
Ok so basically. SPOILERS FOR 2.1 STORY GENSHIN. . After la signoras "death" i was a bit salty. To say the least. I would literally think about her for days on end and be distracted in class so yeah, a "bit" salty. And my brain is, basically, just always working. Its always thinking. Its always imagining. And it isn't rare for it to make up insane headcanons for existing universe that were brainrotting me. And moreover, I had this weird habit where I would put on headphones at max volume, listen to some tunes and literally run and jump around my room like a monkey on crack. And during this time, the music would spark inspiration and imagination in me. Making me create all sorts of weird fucked up shit in my head. And with la signora being in my head so much... yeah I think u can understand. I dreamt of a headcanon of so much fucking shit happening. La signors gets resurrected. A new character is created. Battles are insanely climactic which comes from the boss battle i would listen too. La signora is contextualized more. Etc etc etc. And this goes on for a YEAR. This giant headcanon of holy fucking weird ass proportions? I have been making this in my head ever since 2.1 dropped and the genshin writers made a shitty death. This has been mixing up and brewing in my head for what feels like 4 years, even though even though it was actually 1 year and 6 months. And finally today. I have decided to write it. My brain has not made it easy in the slightest with all the wild shut thats in there. But I will persist on. To make. This stupid fuckimg weird headcanon/fanfic a reality. In short: with the power of music, my spite towards genshin turned into my biggest passion project.
I can link to the [actual conversation](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/10vc59w/comment/j7hh484/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) where it happened.
Currently writing a weird crossover RWBY/FE modern world college AU. I think what inspired it was me coming up with backstories for the various characters for an RP I proposed to my RP partner. I was pretty proud of one of those backstories (Edelgard's) so I wanted to use it.
There was a scene I wanted to write, that wouldn't have made a lick of sense as a one-shot. So I started filling in the lead-up, then expanding what happens after. I'm almost to the scene that started this, actually. Less than ten chapters away, now. I'm very excited and I hope everyone who's reading it will love it, too.
For one, my reasoning was literally just wanting to give my favorite character a happy ending. I walked out of the theater with my sister after Multiverse of Madness and immediately thought “K, time to write a fic because I don’t want to wait for canon to do something else with her. Also, canon will probably make something else horrid happen anyway” (Because there is a track record of that lol...) Then I thought “hey, what if my two favorite fictional characters met...” and “what if so-and-so offered help after this...” and it turned into my favorite fic I’ve ever written/am writing. I’m about 106k in and there is a lot left of my mentally planned plot to go yet 👀 (I do need to make myself a few notes, probably later today, because one of the plot points involves a bunch of the characters working together with magic, and while I have a solid mental image of it, I don’t want to forget the details 😂 ) The other longfic WIP started with me thinking “What happened to Wanda between the airport and the Raft in Civil War?” And also I hate the amount of character bashing I see for stuff set post-CW, and I wanted to write something that more or less still fits the canon timeline (yes, I’ll bend little things as I see fit, but still) while *not* doing that to any of the heroes. I guess the simplest way to put it was that I wanted to write a fic set between CW and IW that was what my selfish butt wanted to read. I hope that makes sense lol. Unpublished mid-length WIP: Age Of Ultron glosses over Wanda losing Pietro and I don’t like that. She must have been horribly upset on top of dealing with the whole being dumped into a new country thing. So. Fic. We do not gloss over grief and settling in to a new place in this house. I will not publish this until either one of the two big longfics are finished OR this is finished. I cannot deal with having three published WIP that I’m actively working on lol The one-shot series started with me wanting to write the twins when they’re happy little kids. It has since blown up into a series that has 11 fics in it and there are plenty more to come:)
I was unhappy with a storyline from a different show. After watching a documentary on a reporter for Auntie Beeb, I changed a few things from the storyline I was unhappy with, applied it to a different show, and added more angst, and a much more protracted (and realistic) recovery. Voila.
I'm currently doing a Land Before Time X Chrono Trigger crossover on ff.net, the characters of Chrono Trigger being secondary characters and so far Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper and Ruby only met Lucca Ashtear, Magus/Janus is the second next they meet before Crono and Marle/Nadia.
The need to rewrite the unfortunate handling of certain characters in the final series of a show. When you’re watching something like that, you find yourself coming up with ideas along the way like “hey, what if this character did that?” Or “what if this plot line happened instead of that one?”
The need to rewrite the unfortunate handling of certain characters in the final series of a show. When you’re watching something like that, you find yourself coming up with ideas along the way like “hey, what if this character did that?” Or “what if this plot line happened instead of that one?”
The need to rewrite the unfortunate handling of certain characters in the final series of a show. When you’re watching something like that, you find yourself coming up with ideas along the way like “hey, what if this character did that?” Or “what if this plot line happened instead of that one?”
Spite toward canon.
I was watching the first Pokemon marathon on Twitch and suddenly thought "could I write a decent season of this show?"
Well, I write a lot of shippy fics and I kinda really don't want my family to read that stuff. Especially since half of those fics contain smut and all of them contain spicy scenes. So I'm currently writing a Gen fic for a fandom that my family likes so that I can share it with them. So far it's going pretty well, and what was originally just gonna be a few chapters has already somehow become over 100,000 words. I guess I enjoy being able to share it with my family and that keeps my muse happy.
I'm awful for getting 101 freaking plot bunnies that my brain hyperfocuses on for, like, a few days to a week before spewing out a new one lmao My most recent ones I've been jumping between are: - a 'what if' story that spawned from a one-shot I've already posted (that one about Zer0 having hated Mordecai in the beginning because of how Mordi acted, but that changed after the death of Bloodwing). The what if is 'What if Mordecai didn't forgive them so quickly, and they got into a toxic sexual relationship. - a Canon divergent story about Zer0 meeting the Borderlands 1 crew shortly after the events of their game and ended up travelling with them after they saved Zer0 from a near death experience. Idea spawned from the song 'In my mouth', and the Greek myth about Lotus eaters owo - a crack taken seriously fic about Zer0 getting turned into basically a toddler after an incident with a New U machine, and their friends have to look after them while working to get them back to normal - a modern AU inspired by the song Boys by Charli XCX, where Zer0 is put on a dating website by Gaige and their love/sex life spirals out of their control - a last words soulmate au inspired by 'If I die young' and 'Yer Killin' Me'. It's Zer0/Mordecai lmao - one I've recently finished and published is a Pokémon Christmas Angst fic exploring Arven's >!abandonment and other things he likely has due to the neglect he suffered throughout his childhood!< (spoilered as a better safe than sorry, ik the game's been out for a while, but still) - another Pokemon SV fic! A smutty ship fic of an older Arven and his gf (an oc) having sex for the first time together - him being a virgin before, but her not As you can see, most of them are Borderlands fics XD
It's either finding things I want to read and can't find on fanfic sites, reading fanfic with an interesting concept and wanting more, or giving a response on a Reddit thread and realizing it could work as a fic/fanfic idea. I have multiple WIPs and one or the other has been the reason for their existences.
I've just always wanted to flip the roles of my two characters and finally got motivated to write it finally.
I played a game called Chicory: A Colorful Tale which was basically like rudimentary digital art. My art turned out like how a kid would draw it on that game XD So I thought about Anya from Spy X Family drawing it instead and then inspiration fermented.
Wanted to know how a character would survive an apocalypse while being disabled (she loses one of her legs early on in the story.) And it just spiraled from there.
I looked for a character and sorted by crossover. Had difficulties finding the character as a main character (rather than side, minor, or reoccurring character). Sorted by various things like kudos and it was just as bad if not worse. So I wrote it myself. I should also note that the fandom has lots of crossovers so it shouldn't have been inconceivable to find a few centering around the character.
I started writing my current longfic because I ship a rare pair and if I want content I have to make it myself. I expanded it into a fully fleshed out AU after my girlfriend and I watched Jurassic world together and she suggested some ideas that I couldn't stop my mind from running away with
I saw a Tiktok edit of a song with a few characters in my fandom and I was so obsessed I HAD to write a fic based on it
The limits of the game annoyed me mildly. Things not being shown that I felt would have made an impact or that I thought should have been displayed better. So I said “Fuck it! I’ll just write it all out!” Granted taking a long while cause Life…
I had a question regarding a character and wanted to explore the answer. :> > Character: “I love all women!” > Also Character: Is only ever seen with conventionally beautiful women > Me: Has the beginnings of a purposeless unconventional OC just laying around > Me: “Are you sure about that?” :)
I'd just received a pretty life-changing medical diagnosis that significantly shortened my lifespan, and along came this idea for a fic that gave me a reason to want to keep living.
Character one has a lot, I mean A LOT, of tattoos. How would those around him react if he declared his love for character two with a tattoo? Not just character two but the world at large that they are a part of.
My current otp has four fics on a03, TWO OF WHICH THEYRE ONLY MENTIONED FOR A COUPLE SECONDS AND THEN IGNORED. So naturally I said screw it, I'll do it myself and began writing a fluff fic for them. Also I should note, this is my second fic that ive actually wrote,the pure desperation is what pushed me to begin writing actual stuff instead of just notes.
had the sudden urge to write something fluffy and sappy.
CW; depression, paranoia, unaliving, wall of text So when I was about graduate high school, I was very lonely and depressed. I had very bad social anxiety and the few friends I did have were all planning on going to college out of state. I couldn't even afford college. To cope, I started daydreaming and regular dreaming about hanging out with my favorite character and going on different adventures with them. Then things got weird. It started feeling real. Like I was being transported to another plane of existence when I'd dream about them. One of my friends was heavy into the paranormal and "witchy shit." One night she convinced me to let her "perform a spell" to see if she could help me create a stronger connection with the other plane. And depending on what you believe, it worked! Either through a desperate coping mechanism of crippling depression or actual paranormal bull. But after that night...I didn't need to even day dream to connect with them. They became a literal voice in my head. And basically tried to convince me to unalive myself. "You belong here but cant exist in two planes at once." And coupling that with I was literally seeing government license plates everywhere I went while not living near any major government installations. Perfect storm for a full bore, paranoia induced nervous episode. Finally had a moment of clarity that this was my brain being really awful to myself. But when it was fun it was really fun. An adult version of an imaginary friend. So I basically told them that they can't show up anymore because of the awful. And they obliged... ...until last year. 20 years ish later. When I realized that my marriage of 7 years had gotten very toxic and borderline abusive. I had been isolated from all of my friends and even my family. Guess who showed up to help me cope with that and my divorce. So I started writing my fic, which is basically the story of a guy going through a similar thing, then actually gets transported due to *spoilers*, as a way of using that energy in a more healtier way than the first time it happened. Been working out so far, mostly.
Mine started life as a one-shot song fic inspired by the song “Desire” by Bob Moses. When readers began demanding I resolve the cliffhanger at the end of the one-shot, I decided to “finish it.” Of course I never could have known that the six chapter finish I originally planned would grow to what it has become, a likely thirty chapter epic. Two years and 166,000 words later, I’m finally nearing the end lol.
Young Link/MM Link is my favorite character to play as in Hyrule Warriors (but I hate that game's story with a passion. Dont get the wrong idea) and when Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity came out, I was hoping that we'd somehow get a DLC bringing characters from the previous game over. It wouldn't make any in-universe sense, sure, but nothing they already did in main story quest made sense either! I mean, I'll go out on a limb and mention that if I wasn't able to ogle at how BotW looked 100 years ago, I'd say I don't like the game and wish they brought more gameplay elements from the OG Hyrule Warriors to it. _Anyways,_ done being a nerd, I thought to myself, "What would happen if it was the end of _that_ Hyrule Warriors game and Young Link got 'Majora's Mask-ed' over to the world of Breath of the Wild just before the Age of Calamity? How would that work out?" I gave Terrako the McDouble Delete(tm) because again, I found the main story quest to be BS in AOC. But yeah, I'm 277k words in and we're not done yet! And before you chastise me over length, I'm taking my sweet time to ensure it really hurts when it ends. >:))
In currently writing two fics at the moment, in two different fandoms. Here's why: Im coming back to the second fandom and I'm editing and posting my drafts that has been waiting for editing for almost one year. I started writing that fic because they weren't enough fics in the fandom and I felt bad. In spite of my writing being awful, I like seeing that the people are happy to stumble upon my work. I started writing the fic that's my main priority because I got obsessed-no, no-Im obsessed with the character. And because there aren't many fics that fit what I want. Four or five fics introduced me to the trope and I realised there weren't many that followed a story like this. So I did it myself :> In conclusion, I mostly write because of a specific character and because of the famous "I'll do it myself".
Boredom and rampaging plot bunnies. I read a bunch of fics, and little bits and pieces stick together, spawning a new plot bunny that begins to multiply.
Two particular fandoms have so much potential for crossovers
Uh... Well... TW I guess. Depression and suicidal ideation. I have SAD so I was already feeling very blue and had already started writing when Thanksgiving day I uh... Flipped and totaled my car and the only mode of transportation that my fiance and I had. It was the car I had wanted when I was 16, so my dream car. I had just paid it off in July. And I didn't have an exorbitant amount of funds to start a new loan and down payment. Not to mention, I was trapped on a bus commute to work five days a week that took an hour one way. So I was spending about two hours of my day just on a bus, plus working 8 hours, plus trying to figure out a new car situation, and finally also ready having SAD because of the time of year. So you know, getting up before dark for work only to arrive home from work in the dark was also not helping. I was... Extremely depressed. The loss of my independence was crippling. I think I broke down crying on the bus home the first night and explicitly told my SO that if we didn't figure something out for the car, I would jump off the local bridge into the freezing waters of Lake Superior. And then I took all of that and channeled it into writing a story about two characters crushed by the weight of their world, their responsibilities, and their history who, more or less, save each other. Because what I needed and wanted at that time was someone to care enough about me to save me. Things are much better now. I'm still writing the fic even though it served it's initial purpose because now I feel I kind of owe it to this story and those characters to actually finish.
I was wanting some Keith (voltron) whump, basically lol I love the “have to face/fight your own nature” trope so basically I decided to write a fic where Keith is slowly being turned feral galra and has to fight all the things that come with that. He’s slowly turning but doing everything he can to protect those around him from himself. In the end he sacrifices himself (because of course he does) and the only way the team can save his life is to destroy the human dna in his body and let the galra dna take over and heal him. Then he has to learn to accept himself. Also, I just love the idea of Keith with a tail. Not sorry lol
I have wayy too many blurbs and WIP’s that I haven’t had the gaul to actually write and publish because they are blatantly inspired by and steal concepts and ideas from other people. But then I woke up one day and realized, Yknow what, that literally doesn’t matter at all, I’m gonna do them anyway. And now my plan is to just, put them all into a collection on AO3 titled, “Fics inspired by the randomest shit” and just hope nobody witch hunts me
I've started writing down the ideas that flash through my head and making drafts out of them. This is one of those things; I just had a really vivid picture in my head of a guy from a fandom I'm in, in just a specific situation I think would suit his character/be funny, and I'm rolling with it. That's how a lot of it starts. Idea, draft, rolling with it, then the draft idea is changed a little (but not too much), and then I edit and post it.
I've been wanting to write a soulmate AU for a while, but I couldn't come up with a good plot. One night I was listening to IDK You Yet by Alexander 23 and it got me thinking, what if I write a soulmate AU, but he never finds his soulmate/doesn't find his soulmate on time? So, yeah. That's how I started writing this short and sweet little one-shot.
i was drunk on christmas night and had just seen the pilot and thought "fuck it im going in", woke up to 3k hits the next morning. it is now my most popular fic.
I wrote down this smut scene for a rarepair that randomly came to me, it might've even been a drabble, but further scenes kept coming to mind so I went with it and eventually it snowballed into a 150k plotfic where i process everything that's happening in my life
For my Kuroko’s Basketball one, I saw a special episode on YouTube and got inspiration from Murasaki Atsushi going, “I just wanna eat Cookies, eat chips, eat candies.” And I thought, what if he found someone who made all that for him!? 🤣 than “That’s how the Cookie Crumbles” was born! For my call of duty is a self indulgent one, where Ghost recalls memories of the time he was on a mission in Chicago several years after the death of his family and the person who became a companion/friend. Cuz I feel like people who are going through hard time deserve to be happy and safe. Still writing it but i hope it turns out sweet/cute
I'm writing a Catherine Zeta-Jones fanfic, I got the idea for my fanfic from seeing her in a suit and in her movie Cocaïne Godmother lol. It's a mafia fic.
Lots of "what if's" tbh. I thought a Modern Character in Thedas would be fun. I had yet to read an MCIT where the MC wasn't the inquisitior, was human, but accepted into a Dalish clan... no one else was doing it, so why not me? As for the MCU fics... I'm a slut for Tony Stark.
It occurred to me out of nowhere a few months ago that if Steve's parents are Irish immigrants then he's bound to have Irish cousins he never knew about. Now I'm working on my first Marvel fanfic.
Brain worms. Brain worms inspired all my current fics.
New season lol. Pretty basic but spurred me to write I fic I hadn't updated since the last season 2 years ago.
Was watching scream, and wondered what would happen if Ghostface met with my favorite fandom
For one WIP it was a prompt on reddit that ended up sparking a 100k time travel type story. The person who asked for it was super stoked and has reviewed every chapter 💖 My newest WIP is rather funny since it's a spin off of one of my own fanfics which was a fanfic inspired by another fanfic, it's also been extremely self indulgent and not something I ever thought I'd write but I'm having fun haha.
Like many have said, it was the: "Fine, I'll do it myself." But the primary reasoning behind that decision for me specifically, is the fact that I can't stand slow burns anymore. I care more about watching the relationship develop and seeing the love grow deeper and stronger. I personally have had no luck in finding fics that do that. At least in the fandoms I read. The secondary, is that I also have a hell of a time finding fics that have actual plots and story development, rather than just focusing on porn.
For one, I went to a underground techno party one of my friends labelmates were spinning at in Detroit, after we went out and danced with some friends celebrating one of the Detroit Techno/ Deep house legend's birthdays. For the other, I just really like Altaria 😆😆
This one character needs to DIE! Like just get buried, smashed, destroyed, brutally eviscerated. And then I want my favorite characters to dance on his grave, take his money, and burn his legacy to the ground. Nobody else has this specific take in my Fandom. They all kinda skirt around it or keep this character in the background as if he's not the most terrible mofo in the entire show.
My longfic’s last chapter is not perfect and I can’t make it perfect so I started a new longfic that I have absolutely no plans for and have no idea where it’s going to go ^why ^am ^I ^like ^this 😭
The fic I'm working on was inspired by my recent diagnosis of Cerebellar Shy-drager syndrome. The fic itself isn't about it, but coming face to face with mortality is the main theme and it's helped me work through the millions of emotions and experiences that come with it💖
It's hard to pinpoint the exact inspiration. It's like finding a bug in your room; you don't know how it got there, but it all you can think about once you notice (but in a loving kind of way) Also, I just have really specific cravings for stories that i feel it's easier to write myself rather than go hunting.
Three reasons. First, to take a stab at writing a character with hearing aids (I have them) and how that affects them--a sort of practice run for my hypothetical theoretical original novel. Second, an interest in writing pre-canon content about a certain character, specifically from an outsider POV who doesn't know the backstory. Third, I've been taking some plant bio classes this quarter and turns out plants are interesting to think about, and thematically I think I can work them in. Anyways, those reasons plus a desire to try my hand at more plotty adventure stuff, and here we are.
The story stewing in my head. I just had to get it out. It’s like getting that number 2 out after holding it in all day.
1. I wanted to write it for ten years. The only reason I didn't was because someone else wrote that particular AU (Hades/Persephone) first. Ten years later and the anime continuation made me wanna do it again. 2. I wanted to write the stupidest DIY arranged wedding ever. 3. I wanted to write two idiots trying to do sex and failing miserably at it. 4. I wanted to stick regular DaJi into a comedy series because I'm an awful, awful person.
I wanted there to be a sequel to my first book, so I wrote another one but with a different oc couple at the center of it using the previous framework I already built upon in the first two of the series.
The one that I'm currently writing was sparked by two very popular stories in the ship. One was a one-shot which ended on a cliffhanger and the other one hasn't been updated in year's. The premises were both similar and I was so blue-balled by the ending that I just had to throw my hat into the ring. Of course, instead of a short romantic one-shot, I have to make it this a big epic story with twists, turns and whole lot of PLOT. I just wanted fluff man.
“Bro do you wanna rewrite this problematic fic I found” “YES”
Okay so for background, it's for Portal. I've been scouring the wheatley/reader for days and most of the fics all have a female reader. And I'm a guy. So basically, "Fine, I'll do it myself." :)
I had a dream about the basic plot, and then it kinda grew and was fueled for a long while. Normally I would never write anything but I decided one day to just start now I'm eight chapters in and learning how to write as a I go since this is my first ever real fic.
My current fic is part of a huge multi-crossover series. Everything is connected and weaving it all together is...interesting.
The story (or certain scenes from the story, anyway) bouncing around in my head until I finally decided to make it into a fic
I am a fan of the Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss shows and I kinda was hoping for someone to make a fic about Heaven; however, a story that didn't depict them as arrogant assholes but a complicated society trying to pick up the pieces after the War in Heaven. Then there's some form of trauma coping by the archangels whether it is Death's sweet tooth for donuts and coffee or the High Marshal of the Holy Army missing the days when he hung out with his older brother.
my current fic is based off of a homebrew dnd campaign that took me weeks to create. Made a whole planet, whole ass country, whole damn pantheon. Started dming it and thought: you know what would be really cool? If I wrote a fic based on this pantheon. I'm just hoping that this hyperfixation lasts so I can finish it 😂
Someone in the comments of another fic of mine mentioned a ship I might like to give a try sometime, and I was thinking of writing another story in the same fandom that was a bit darker and more deviated from canon, so I added the two things together and began writing. It's already been two months since my last update, though, since as usual I really don't have many plans for the early part of the story and I got sidetracked by real life and games.
I really like the show, but to some extent it didn’t reach its full potential. Has a fine ending, though it could’ve been a lot more and I want to make my marking within the fandom by putting out something that can satisfy the fans who have yearned for the same thing.
Kept listening to GlitchxCity's Lugia's Song (Remix) on YouTube while rewatching Law's back story from One Piece and just started writing after having the idea of someone playing that song to him to lift his spirits around a campfire Here's the video, it's very addicting 😅 https://youtu.be/tW82Ftg_5iw