Story Title: How To Win Friends and Influence People
Fandom: Doctor Who/The Magnus Archives
Link: link to story
Summary: In which Rose Tyler and Jonathan Sims have an extremely unpleasant experience in Henrik's department store one evening shortly after closing.
Warnings: violence, death
Characters: Rose Tyler, Jonathan Sims, Wilson the electrician, various supernaturally animated mannequins
Pairings: none
When I Started: in February 2020, as a response to a Three Sentence Ficathon prompt that got wildly out of control
How I Lost My Shit: did I mention that the fill got wildly out of control? Also, 2020 happened.
How I Finished My Shit: panic and sheer bloody-mindedness, mostly. And then I straight-up forgot about my posting date because September has been one damn thing overlapping with another on various non-fandom fronts, and I didn't remember I hadn't done anything with the story until I saw some last-minute posts go by tonight. *headdesk* Mea maxima culpa!

Story Title: Unexpected

Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (modern AU)

Link: AO3

Summary: Rey doesn’t want anything from her one-night stand Ben Solo, not even now that she’s broke, jobless, and pregnant. But he’s desperate to avoid a scandal that could derail his election campaign, so they agree to a cold-blooded business deal: she’ll marry him and be the perfect political wife—for a price, and a limited term.

Warnings: pregnancy

Characters: Rey, Ben Solo, Finn, Poe Dameron, Rose Tico

Pairings: Rey/Ben Solo

When I Started: At the end of 2019. I wanted to practice writing longer work, so I decided to try adapting the plot of a novel I’d read into a modern AU. 

How I Lost My Shit: Even with a template to follow, I had to simplify it (cut out subplots) to make it shorter and alter some of the emotional arcs to fit this fandom/ship—so I still got stuck figuring out the mushy middle. 

How I Finished My Shit: Because writing for a Big Bang meant I had a deadline! And my artist, the lovely & talented Doptimous, encouraged me all the way. 

Story Title: Turn The Page
Fandom: Supernatural 
Link(s): Story on AO3
Summary: Sam and Cas go to help Jimmy Novak from the other world when they learn that he’s dying. 

This different world is one where Sam didn't die at Cold Oak, so Dean never made the demon deal. The battle between Michael and Lucifer at Stull Cemetery never took place. And Castiel never officially met the brothers, remaining in Heaven for the most part.

Jimmy’s predicament is the cause of demons retaliating for Sam’s visit months ago. After all, Sam's presence led to two Archangels coming down to Earth. These demons strongly prefer the status quo: angels stay up in Heaven while demons face little threat from angels on Earth. 

Sam and Cas work to save Jimmy's life. Their time in the other reality takes an unexpected turn after Cas sacrifices himself. While Cas saves Jimmy from the brink of death, Sam can't bear losing Cas for good. Unfortunately, Sam also must sort out his conflicting feelings for the other Jimmy while being secretly in love with Cas.

 This story takes place shortly after SPN episode, 15x03 "The Rupture."
Warnings: None
Characters: Sam Winchester, Castiel, Jimmy Novak, Jack Kline, Claire Novak, Dean Winchester, Gabriel 
Pairings: Sam Winchester/Castiel, Sam Winchester/Jimmy Novak, Jack Kline/Claire Novak
When I Started: May 2020
How I Lost My Shit: Okay, I admit I started the story prior to the sign up deadline for the WIP BB this year. I was nervous about doing this story because it was a sequel. After all, it helps to be familiar with the previous installment to get a better understanding of the sequel. Though I try my best to fill in any necessary details for newcomers to the story universe.
How I Finished My Shit: Seeing the really nice response on the previous story (Fade to Black); I was motivated to return to the world of this story.
Upon seeing WIP BB return this year, I felt the sequel was the best story to do since I had an idea brewing for it. Having deadlines helps me a lot as well as the writing sprints on Discord. Everything came together to encourage me to finish this story. 

Art Title: I See Fire
Fandom: The Witcher (TV)
Warnings: none
Link: Here on Dreamwidth or here on AO3.
Bragging Rights: It was very enjoyable to try on new characters in watercolour and to do an art for kiki's hurt/comfort fic. I tried to hint at the dramatic aspects of the fic (heed the warnings if you go read) without being too explicit or gloomy. The border was an experiment and I am pleased with how it turned out.

Preview:

<b>Art Title:</b> [moodboard for] winter covers everything
<b>Fandom:</b> Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
<b>Warnings:</b> none
<b>Link:</b> https://archiveofourown.org/works/26024056
<b>Bragging Rights:</b> I enjoy the dramatic color palette and the pictures of items in threes to further emphasize the poly aspect of the story
(note: this is a belated post but the art was posted on time :) )

<b>Art Title:</b> [moodboard for] winter covers everything
<b>Fandom:</b> Sherlock (BBC TV)
<b>Warnings:</b> none
<b>Link:</b> https://archiveofourown.org/works/25799008
<b>Bragging Rights:</b> I think it conveys the cozy romantic vibe of the part of the fic when Mary and Sherlock are in his flat hanging out, eating, having sex. :)
(note: this is a belated post but the art was posted on time :) )

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Art Title: Overlaid With You
Fandom: Guardian (镇魂) (TV series)
Warnings: none
Link: the art on AO3

Bragging Rights: I'm pretty happy about how the images turned out. I'm especially proud of the pic with Shen Wei sleeping, the hair alone took soooo long to edit :D



You can find the rest of the art on AO3, and the story is being posted here on AO3


NOTE: At the time of me posting this the story is not yet complete, but please check it out and leave some love for Trobadora! Also, the artwork contains mild spoilers for the story, but nothing major.

Story Title: The Way it Ends
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Ship: Pepper Potts/James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark
Link(s): Fic on AO3 by LadyJaye | Art on AO3 by Lets_call_me_Lily
Summary: What if Barnes had overpowered Tony in Berlin?
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Temporary Character Death, Major Character Death, Not Team Cap Friendly
When LadyJaye Started This Thing: Three years ago, inspired by an Avengers Kink prompt.

posted on behalf of writer :)

Story Title: DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
By: Cornerofmadness
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel the series
Link: AO3 (I don’t have it up on FFN yet but I am grateful to the site. I lost more than half of the original story in a 2006 computer crash but luckily all 6 chapters were up there).
Summary: A year after Sunnydale collapses, Buffy and Faith head to L.A. for the Christmas holidays but it’s not going to be a silent night.
Warnings: violence, death of a minor character (I guess some would argue he’s a major character but I don’t assign that much importance to him)
Characters Buffy Summers, Angel, Dawn Summers, Connor, Faith Lehane (as the major players), Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, Xander Harris, Charles Gunn, Fred Burkle, Lindsey McDonald, Amy Madison, Andrew Wells
Pairings: Dawn/Connor, Gunn/Fred, mentions of past Buffy/Angel & Buffy/Spike
When I Started: May 2003, let that soak in for a while. It feels like yesterday…
How I Lost My Shit: I was in the middle of a huge depression after an injury cost me my medical career. On top of that I was retraining and almost ready for the next career and nervous about that, had a major illness/death in the family and then a new fandom found me. Soon after I started publishing professionally and so much fanfic got forgotten. Not to mention that at chapter six, I managed to write myself into a hole at 26,000 words in by introducing Lindsey (and then his character being what it was in S5, sigh)
How I Finished My Shit: Honestly it’s all down to this challenge. When I first learned of it, I went back and pulled out all my old Buffy stories. I had always felt bad I had so many forgotten ones. I ranked the ones I thought I could finish after all these years and this was the one I tackled this year. I still have no idea what I originally intended with Lindsey but rather than retcon his chapter fifteen + years after the fact, I spun it a different way that I think works.

Art Title: Of Songbirds and Song-eaters
Fandom: ASTRO (band)
Warnings: none
Link: the art on AO3 | the fic on AO3

Bragging Rights: I'm really happy I decided to give making art for this story a go, even though the fandom was totally new to me. I had a lot of fun, I fell in love with a new fandom, I met wonderful new people, and I also think I did pretty good with the pictures :D (I learned how to change someone's hair colour from brown to pink, wohoo! :D)



You can find the rest of the art on AO3, and you can read the story by nagi_schwarz over here ^_^

NOTE: The artwork contains mild spoilers for the story, so if you don't want to know any details beforehand, please read the fic first!

Story Title: music (when soft voices die)

Fandom: ASTRO (K-pop RPF)

Link(s): Story on AO3

Summary: Part five in a series. Park Minhyuk is a song-eater, a creature who can drain life-force from other people through the music they make. He’s hiding where no one will think to look for him, as an idol, because everyone believes song-eaters are female and cannot sing. Cha Eunwoo is a Songbird, a trained hunter of song-eaters. He, too, is leading a double life as an idol. Kim Myungjun became an idol to avenge the death of his older sister, who was killed by a song-eater when he was a child. For years, Minhyuk has been in love with Myungjun, and now they're finally together, but the secret he's keeping could tear them - and their entire team - apart. Unfortunately, he's not the only one keeping secrets, and as the truth unravels, so does everything Minhyuk has worked for his entire life.

Warnings: Blood and violence, implied/referenced child abuse, implied/referenced torture, angst, bigotry and prejudice, implied/referenced suicide

Characters: Astro ensemble, original female idols, original managers/staff, original family

Pairings: Kim Myungjun/Park Minhyuk, background Park Jinwoo/original female character

When I Started: I started this series back in February but knew I had to tell this bigger story for the universe to really work. It was a really cool universe and I wanted to do something with it and I really liked the concept. Also, the concept was inspired by my baby girl, who likes to try to eat my phone when it’s playing music. She used to try to eat this little flashlight and my husband was joking with her and asked her if the photons tasted good so when she tried to eat my phone the music went all wobbly I asked her if the music tasted good and an idea was born and of course an Astro song was playing and I had to write at least one story inspired by my baby, okay?

How I Lost My Shit: Truth was, I never really had it. As a rule, if I don’t know the ending scene for a story when I’m tooling around with it, I don’t ever really pursue it. I’m a pantser, not a planner as a writer, but I have to know the end; that’s key for me. Also this story covered a truly massive amount of time, story-wise. Initial drafts started when Minhyuk was about thirteen, but he doesn’t get together with Myungjun till he’s twenty-one, so that would have been a lot of time to fill, so for a whole month I didn’t touch this universe at all, and then a friend pointed me in the direction of the WIP BB, and I liked the concept of the AU and the challenge so much, I thought...let me try it. Let me see if I can just write a story even if I don’t know the end.

How I Finished My Shit: I’m not really sure how. I busted out about 93k words in July and I’m pretty sure all of them were for this story and I’ve never worked so intensely on just one story before and there were a lot of panicked Zoom calls to my writing friends who don’t even listen to K-pop who listened to me talk my way through all my options for plot lines and endings before I just went for one. One thing that really inspired me was the amazing art. Selenic kept sending me previews of the art and I was like well, I better pony up something worthy of that art. And here we are. My longest story to date. Quite possibly my biggest feat of world-building to date. The series isn't finished by a long shot but this story is and that's what counts.

Art Title: Fanmix For "falling down with a crashing sound"
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Warnings: Some songs may have profanity
Link: AO3
Bragging Rights: I had so much fun with this one. I had done a fanmix last round for part 2 of the series so I wanted the covers to have similar but different looks. There's meaning behind the pattern and the black on the front cover, and since this is the conclusion with all the Avengers in it, I decided just to put the Avengers symbol at a low light level witht he tracks over it for the back cover.



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Art Title: Art For "A Bard's Guide to the Galaxy"
Fandom: The Witcher/Star Wars
Warnings: None for the art
Link: AO3
Bragging Rights: It took forever to get rid of the background for the lute picture, but I love how the cover turned out. And the wallpaper is actually a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, but I love love love how it turned out with the quote and the border.

The full size wallpaper is up at https://i.postimg.cc/kMTmxWwm/ABGTTG-WP.png



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Art Title: Fanmix For "Dream within a Dream"
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: the Series
Warnings: Some profanity in the songs
Link: AO3
Bragging Rights: I enjoyed this fic so much, but it was so hard picking songs! But I think the final choices are really good for the fic and balance the many POVs and relationships/friendships in the fic.



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Art Title: Art For "Safe and Sound"
Fandom: Agents Of SHIELD/MCU
Warnings: None for art
Link: AO3
Bragging Rights: I am so blessed that my author is letting me make this now and a fanmix later, because I'm running out of laptop access time. I'm super pround of the banner because I had to meticulously cut out Melinda's background for that picture. It turned out pretty good, in my opinion. And I loved the quote I picked for the wallpaper, the conversation, because I think it's a turning point in their relationship.

The full-size wallpaper is up at https://i.postimg.cc/vTgmLBVr/SAS-WP.png



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Story Title: The Doctor and Rose: A Tale in Three Waltzes
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Link(s): on A03
Summary: The Doctor takes Rose on a journey of magical, musical discovery. They may just end up discovering other things, too.
Warnings: Nil.
Characters: Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Jackie Tyler, OCs.
Pairings: Nine x Rose
When I Started: 1 Jan 2020
How I Lost My Shit: I was planning to finish it within a week. My muse refused to write anything for months, and no matter how hard I tried, it didn't work.
How I Finished My Shit: Signing up to this event, begging and pleading with the muse, and writing a crazy number of words in a sudden and large burst, listening to the music and hoping for the best. And an amazing beta/idea partner.

Art Title: Art For "agape"
Fandom: DC Comics
Warnings: None for art
Link: AO3
Bragging Rights: I'm super proud of these. The graphics provided were two different sizes, and it helped that the quote was words from Jason. The banner was an experiment with textures and I think it turned out well.

The full-size wallpaper is up at https://i.postimg.cc/m2Z7VM4y/A-WP.png



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Story Title: Rectifying Past Mistakes
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Link(s): AO3
Summary: When Mycroft gets Sherlock out of Serbia, he drops a bombshell on him he isn't quite prepared for: after years of being gone out of his life, Sherlock's ex-wife Elizabeth has reappeared, under the name Mary Morstan. While he was off taking care of Moriarty's mess she was protecting those he cared about and helping his brother, for reasons, he finds, that she is keeping close to the vest. But when they're forced to stay in close quarters at Baker Street both secrets and old wounds come to light and, perhaps, things might turn out for the best after all.
Warnings None
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Anthea, John Watson, Mary Morstan, Greg Lestrade, Molly Hooper, Mummy Holmes, Siger Holmes
Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/Mary Morstan with background Greg Lestrade/Molly Hooper and Siger Holmes/Mummy Holmes
When I Started: April 2nd, 2016
How I Lost My Shit: I was rewriting "The Empty Hearse" for this episode and was having trouble figuring out how to incorporate the basis of this AU into the episode.
How I Finished My Shit I got a hold of the transcripts page for this show and downloaded TEH's transcript, and that helped so much. Once I had the actual words and actions from the episode to base my AU on it got so much easier to writer it, and I think I was done in about a week of starting.