Works in Progress

Updated: 08/30/23

Ask Memes:

  • Send me a ✒️ and a wip title/code name and I’ll write three sentences on that wip and you get the sentences 
  • Send me 💯 and I will write 100 words in my current project, and share my favorite sentence/section.
  • send me a 🎁 and I’ll write five sentences of what I’m working on and share one
  • Send me a word; if it’s in my wip document, I’ll share the sentence its in
  • Send me a 🌹 and I will post one random sentence of the WIP I’m working on

WIPs:

(Open for ask memes, motivation, and/or any questions)

* means tentative due date

UFOs:

(open for questions and encouragements, and have some written but it has been set to the side)

  • “potential” - angst & smut (Coopstead derogatory)
  • “elevator” - smut (Rhodestead)
  • “Hard Candy” - spoiled rich boy AU (Moustead, smut)
  • “bond circle sickness” - omegaverse (Rhodestead, smut)

Prompts:

(CLOSED, received prompts currently on hold)

  • Will Whump + omegaverse Rhodestead w/ Halzek
  • “God, I wish I were anywhere but here.” + Moustead
  • “I saw the brake lights, but not in time.” + Reesker
  • “You’re telling me you made this. With your own hands. And you’re still alive.” + Rhodestead

Amorphous Blobs:

(open for questions, nothing has been written so far)

Original Fiction:

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  • “pats”- friends to lovers, bisexual fat main, lesbian love interest, new adult
  • “lightning boy” - chosen one twist, queer siblings, aro/ace main character
  • “magic boys” - brothers, magical realism, queer main character
  • “superhero” - enemies to lovers, superheros and villains, queer love story
  • “reignite” - magical realism, queer love story, back from the dead & necromancer
  • “bloom” - fake dating, queer love story, college setting
  • “hot vampire” - bi4bi fat main characters, supernatural romance

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RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE
book > screen

Baby.” It’s become a thing: baby. He’s knows it’s become a thing. He’s slipped up and accidentally said it a few times, and each time, Henry positively melts.

- - - - - - -

“Hello?” It’s Henry’s voice, sweet and posh and shaky and confused, and relief knocks the wind out of him.

He hears Henry’s exhale over the line. “Hi, love. Are you okay?”

He laughs wetly, amazed. “Are you kidding me? I’m fine, I’m fine. Are you okay?”

“Just hold on until I get there, we’re gonna figure this out.” “I will.” “I’m coming. I’ll be there soon.”

Henry exhales a wet, broken laugh. “Please, do hurry.”

I can't be autistic bc I'm actually great at understanding social cues!

[Cut to my POV, a Terminator-style overlay analyzing word choice and body language while over everyone's head a bar labeled Are They Mad At Me shows varying levels]

why none of them got into The Good Place

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

egyptiann

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

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“sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up” yea it was fucked up that was the entire point they made in the show. thats why they spent multiple seasons fighting to change the system of the Good Place vs. the Bad Place.

would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

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