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trick or treat!! :3c

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And then Arata throws the door open.

“You’re not actually breaking up with me, right?” Arata says, voice cracking, and Souma’s eyes widen.

“Oh, come on, Arata. I was kidding, I’m not actually breaking up with you.”

Arata walks over and practically dives into Souma’s bed, his hands grabbing the back of Souma’s jacket.

And suddenly, Souma feels really pathetic for getting so upset over something so stupid.

“I’m sorry for scaring you.”

“I’m sorry for giving her ammunition to use in your fights.” Arata responds, muffled by Souma’s shoulder.

“Nah, it’s not that big of a deal, really. I’ll just write another set of imagines to piss her off more.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Power Rangers S.P.D. Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elizabeth "Z" Delgado/Sydney Drew, Jack Landors/Sky Tate Characters: Sydney Drew, Elizabeth "Z" Delgado, Bridge Carson, Jack Landors, Sky Tate, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Bad Things Happen Bingo, arrow wounds, Assassination Attempt(s) Summary:

Syd switches places with an alien princess to save her from an assassination attempt.

This is for @badthingshappenbingo​​ for the prompt “Shot with an Arrow!”

Trick or treat!

Ok well you've read all my wips but have this stupid one from the VBS superhero au because it's funny:

They’re all hanging out after practice when Mita casually goes “Hey, is it true your group name was Gurney flap back in the day?”

Azusawa’s eyes widen and Akimine chokes on her drink.

Arata sighs. “Yes, that was our name.”

“Wow, I heard you had a death wish, but I didn’t think you worked it into your band name.” 

“Ok one, it’s a racecar reference. Two, it was Souma’s idea.” 

“Oh no, that’s unfortunate,” Azusawa says. 

Shinonome looks confused. “Wait, what? I don’t get it.”

“A gurney flap is the thing on the back of a racecar,” Arata explains. “It’s a normal thing to reference.”

“Ok but like what does it have to do with your death wish?”

“I didn’t–” Arata says but then he stops. “Shinonome, do you know what a gurney is?”

“No.”

“It’s the thing people are wheeled to hospitals in,” Arata says in a tone of voice that probably implies he added you fucking idiot to the end of that sentence, and Shinonome looks annoyed.

“Oh, I know what those are, obviously, they go down the street all the time, I just didn’t know the word.”

“Gurneys… are going down the street… Shinonome do you mean an ambulance?”

“Huh?”

Arata tries not to scream. “Shinonome, an ambulance is the big white trucks that people drive. A gurney is like a small bed on wheels that people put an injured person on to take them to the ambulance and move them around the hospital.”

Shinonome nods. “Oh. right. Then, what’s a racecar.”

Arata blinks. “Oh, you’re fucking with me.”

“Huh?”

“Akito grew up in America,” Toya says quickly, “so he doesn’t know a lot of things.”

“They have ambulances in America?” 

“He grew up somewhere rural.”

“They teach about them. And racecars.”

“He was homeschooled.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shinonome Akito & Touno Arata, Aoyagi Touya & Miyata Souma, Mita Koutaro & Okazaki Tatsuya, Azusawa Kohane/Shiraishi An, Miyata Souma/Touno Arata, Miyata Souma & Shiraishi An, Shiraishi Ken & Touno Arata Characters: Miyata Souma, Touno Arata, Shinonome Akito, Aoyagi Touya, Okazaki Tatsuya, Mita Koutaro, Shiraishi An, Azusawa Kohane, Shiraishi Ken Additional Tags: Car Accidents, Hospitals Summary:

Akito almost gets hit by a car. He’s fine, but others aren’t.

I’m noticing an increase in new fic writers on AO3 who…uh…mayy not know how to format their fics correctly..so here is a quick and VERY important tip

Using a random fic of mine as example..

The left example: ✅✅✅

The right example: ❌❌❌

Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!

If a new character speaks, you need a line break. If you notice a paragraph is becoming too large, go ahead and make a line break and/or maybe reconfigure the paragraph to flow better. I’m not a pro writer or even a huge fic writer but…please…ty…

put a "∞" in my ask box and I'll shuffle my music player and give you my favorite lyric from the song that comes up.

1, 19, 40 for the writing ask!

1. Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely?

Oh boy… If we’re talking ProSeka, then Vivid Snow, Dulling Leaves. It was my first fic in the ProSeka fandom and I was just getting on my feet after being in a small fandom where I wrote a lot of short ideas because people were hungry for content. It’s just… not the best imo and the way I wrote Harumichi was my knee-jerk reaction after reading Nocturne Interlude.

If we’re talking other fandoms, then definitely Chariot Arcana, Rank Up! It was such a good idea, but I wrote it three entire years ago and my writing skill wasn’t good enough to do justice to the idea.

19. Share a no-context snippet from a WIP

(Okay this is cheating a little because I can’t find a non-spoilery snippet from my current WIP so this is a short thing I wrote for inspiration)

That day is so… vivid in An’s memory.

She can remember it like it was yesterday.

It’s burning hot out. It’s the end of June, and she’s ready to get home.

She’s holding her dad’s hand as they’re walking back from the store, holding some ingredients for dinner and a fruit smoothie that An had bought to cool off.

And then Arata and Souma are running down the street together, and An’s about to run to join them and say hi. Maybe offer them a sip of her smoothie.

But before she can take off, everything changes.

And suddenly, everything’s a blur.

The crunch of metal and the sound of Souma hitting the pavement are still so loud in her head.

And she’s running.

Her dad’s barely a step ahead of her, and he pushes through the crowd to kneel next to Souma.

Souma, who’s covered in blood. She can’t tell if he’s breathing.

She tries to push through the crowd, tries to get closer, but suddenly someone’s pulling her away.

She can’t get any closer, no matter how hard she tries, and then she sees an ambulance approaching and her dad is dragging Arata away and she finally manages to break free from whoever’s holding her back and running over to her dad and Arata.

Arata’s screaming, barely coherent, but his struggles are in vain. He can’t keep going much longer.

And after a few more seconds, he’s completely silent.

It’s so quiet. So… dark.

But the screams keep echoing in her head, and then she can feel something.

Someone’s hand is grabbing her.

She tries to pull away, but their grip is too strong.

And then she turns around, and it’s…

It’s Souma?

He’s covered in blood, lying on the ground, and he’s gripping onto An’s arm.

His eyes are so wide, but they’re lifeless.

He’s… he’s…

Then An turns around, and suddenly she sees the same scene with her dad and Arata.

She turns away from them, and it’s Aunt Nagi and Uncle Taiga.

Away from them, and it’s EVER.

Away from them, and Kotaro and Ms. Kawasaki.

Away from them, and it’s Akito and Toya.

And then she finally shuts her eyes, but even that doesn’t stop it.

Because she hears it.

“An-chan… It hurts…” Kohane pleads, and she cracks an eye open slightly…

And she wakes up with a jolt.

She can’t breathe.

She reaches for her phone, and the next thing she knows, she’s dialing a number.

There’s a groan, and…

“This better be fucking important…”

An sighs with relief.

“…Up for some Wii Tennis?” She asks, and there’s the sound of someone scrambling from the other side.

“An-chan? You okay?”

“I had a really bad nightmare. I guess I just went scrambling for my phone on instinct and called whoever came up.”

Arata sighs.

“I’ll be right over.”

“You don’t have to worry about that. I was just joking about the Wii Tennis.” An responds.

“Yeah, yeah…”

40. Write a 9-word fic.

(This was the hardest one to do by FAR)

Toya’s breath catches. There’s… so much blood. It’s terrifying.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Caligula Effect (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Caligula Effect Protagonist & The Go-Home Club, The Caligula Effect Protagonist & Thorn, The Caligula Effect Protagonist & Ostinato Musicians Characters: The Caligula Effect Protagonist, The Caligula Effect Female Protagonist, Aria (The Caligula Effect), Kashiwaba Kotono, Satake Shogo, Minezawa Izuru, Kagura Suzuna, Amamoto Ayana, Shinohara Mifue, Morita Naruko, μ (The Caligula Effect), Hibiki Kensuke (Kagi-P), Nijoin Shizuka (Sweet-P), Ichinose Mirei (Mirei), Tomoe Kotaro, Koike Tomoya (Ike-P), Natsume Asuka (Thorn), Komori Akira (Shounen-Doll) Additional Tags: Crangst, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

You’re a traitor, aren’t you, President? Or should I say… Lucid?

Or: Mizuki Shima has a crisis over being both a Musician and the Go-Home Club President. She goes digihead and her friends must help her.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Kurusu Akira/Sakamoto Ryuji, Persona 5 Protagonist/Sakamoto Ryuji, Amamiya Ren/Sakamoto Ryuji Characters: Persona 5 Protagonist, Sakamoto Ryuji, Akechi Goro, Phantom Thieves of Hearts, (bc the others are there but not for long) Additional Tags: Persona 5: The Royal Spoilers, Third Semester (Persona 5), Angst, Whump, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mild Gore, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, I'm Sorry, no beta we die like merciless players, Minimally Verbal Persona 5 Protagonist, unless his friends do be acting up, anyway never get me on a rant about the post-shido-palace cutscene, because this is the kinda shit that can happen if you do Summary:

It wasn't like Akira hadn’t been planning to confront Maruki anyway, but... the knowledge that Akechi's life was dependent on his decision heavily complicated things. He knew he didn't have it in him to go against Akechi's wishes, though; the ex-detective had made it crystal clear that he would rather die free than live under the influence of another higher power. Akira had grappled with the dilemma for a while, tossing and turning atop his cot as the darkness of Leblanc's attic held little comfort, but eventually - as much as it had hurt him to think about - he'd resolved that he was prepared to have to let Akechi go, for his sake and for the rest of the world.

Akira had been finally ready to stop his racing thoughts in their tracks and sleep, despite the hour surely being ungodly by then. Unfortunately, his mind had other plans, having been given the space to wander and provide him with a thought that was perhaps even worse.

  What if Akechi's life wasn't the only one hanging in the balance?

Guys. Guys this isn’t my fic but it’s my dear friend @exist-without-saving‘s and it’s so good PLEASE read it please

Every writing advice ever: If you’re having trouble with a scene, skip it and write a different part of the story.

Me: If I don’t write in chronological order, I will die