where there's smoke there's--

Writing this here for, say, if I find these things on AO3. Or if I want to write them, but two things: I’ve never written for Stranger Things and I have two ideas for new fic ideas. I also am looking at rewrite_a_fic this year as well. TL;DR do I have the time? IDK.

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Sweetbreads (200 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Cooking Lessons, Organs, Ficlet
Series: Part 13 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: An excerpt from a cooking show on how to prepare sweetbreads.

We Could Die Like This (4743 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Charlotte/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox & Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks & Bayley | Davina Rose
Characters: Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt, Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose, Sasha Banks, Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Inspired by Final Destination (Movies), Inspired by Irish Mythology, Little Black Dress, Surreal, Tokyo (City), Car Accidents, Homophobic Language, Japanese Mythology & Folklore, WWE Clash in Paris, Accidental Death, Hotels, Reality TV, Electrocution, WWE SummerSlam 2018, Podcast, WWE Wrestlepalooza, Airports
Series: Part 14 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: Becky Lynch is living her best life when a raven suddenly appears.

I honestly had no intention of revising and expanding an exchange fic from a few years ago. I felt like I needed to rewrite this fic I wrote in screenplay format or I clumped some discarded drafts together. Instead a more recent kudos led me to A Night in Alexa’s Playground. For some reason I actually was motivated to rewrite the fic instead of thinking “oh maybe I need to introduce Vampire: The Masquerade lore in this What We Do in the Shadows homage. Anyway, the fic (original linked on AO3):

Playground After Dark (3454 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alexa Bliss/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Alexa Bliss/Lilly | Alexa Bliss's Doll/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox
Characters: Alexa Bliss, Lilly | Alexa Bliss's Doll, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: WWE Money In The Bank, WWE Money In The Bank 2018, WWE Money In The Bank 2022, Las Vegas, Dubious Consent, Hotel Sex, Therapy, Flashbacks, Femdom, Mommy Dom Alexa Bliss, Pony Play, Pegging, Spanking, Riding Crops, Frottage, Butt Plugs, Age Play, Masturbation, Voyeurism, Subspace, Rewrite
Summary: After Money in the Bank 2022 Becky Lynch insists she doesn’t need a friend. Alexa Bliss insists Becky needs a friend. Alexa becomes more than Becky’s friend for one night.

1) write for iddyiddybangbang before the fest started
2) post my tardis_bingo comment bingo chart 😑

So I read this post from the OTC. I totally understand why OTC needs a non-commercialization policy. On a petty level I've been annoyed at, for instance, someone writing fics in a kink meme and then linking to a site like Ko-fi at the end. And for copyright reasons I get not monetizing works. But part of me feels like their rules are a wee bit draconian.

I've been linking to the summaries of books I use as summaries for unconventionalcourtship to prove that they're real books since the goal is to alter a romance novel summary for a fic. I'm not advocating people to actually buy the book. I don't even know these authors. I haven't read their books. 🤐 I guess in the future I may just leave the links to the comm announcement posts and on DW but I'm a bit annoyed I'm being lumped in with people who actually are "please go to my Patreon for more!" when I thought I was doing a good deed.

Also: The OTC mentions Twitch but I want to clarify that getting a Twitch account is free. I would assume under their TOS that asking people to get Twitch subscriptions (with or without Amazon Prime) is against their TOS. There is no such thing as "Twitch Prime." And technically I think X actually can't be allowed to since you can subscribe to individual creators on X.

IDK, I think this policy needs a little bit of hammering out because to be fair it's thorny to enforce their commercial promotion policy as is.

Here is my table for this year. Probably will see if I can rescue some fics (no comments obs) I was planning to do for other tables and migrate them here.

a work posted in the past month	a fic that's under 1k	a work from your first fandom	art on AO3	a work posted in 2024
a work by someone who's given you a kudos or a comment	a work with an impressive/eye catching title	a fic that's over 20k	a work by someone you've come across recently	a work from an event from 2014
comic with no dialogue	a fic not on AO3	FREE SPACE	a work about your first 'ship	a fic with multiple chapters
a work posted in 2014	a work posted in 2025	coloured art	a work that made you sad	a fic you reread often
a work from a Big Bang	a work in a series	a oneshot	a fic with more than 5 additional tags	a work from your newest fandom

Haven’t done any fandom posts in a minute, but here goes…

This is a short and sweet post to say I’m probably not going to write about some people that aren’t at WWE anymore. Maybe if they’re connected to current people at WWE but that’s it. I feel my stories with a good chunk of people I wrote about with people not with WWE is over. That’s it. I still love these wrestlers even if they’re not at WWE anymore.

I am trying to write some WWE stuff but I’m procrastinating as I’ve filled my life with things such as “do I need to buy this thing or make this game transaction” and “it is very important I raid people in Clash of Clans today.” It will be done by next month I promise.

I have about around 800 bookmarks and most of them aren’t on AO3. I decided to stop using pinboard.in partly because of the owner’s views and partly because of the lack of tech support on the site (as in the guy still insists on not getting a lot a help for the site). I decided to move my bookmarks to raindrop.io. Despite reading the site’s instructions on how to make bookmarks public I haven’t found the button to make my bookmarks public.

The smartest thing to do is to suck it up, check to make sure what links are still operational and what isn’t duplicated on raindrop.io, and move them to AO3. But I just discovered a couple of alternatives to pinboard.in and Delicious. There’s Linkhut and Linkhorse. I don’t know how fanfic friendly those sites are, though. I’m looking at both of them and I’ll probably have some sort of a solution soon.

Update: Didn’t take me long. I’m going to sort through my duplicates on raindrop.io and move my bookmarks to AO3. It’ll take a while, though.

I decided to do fandom50challenge. I retroactively made my repost of my Scandal fics #1, and the post is here. This week I've decided to talk about a fic idea I have no idea I'll return to. It's that or "fics I'm reccing for comment_bingo early" but that'll be a post anyway, so why write the latter idea now.

So I wrote this fic for the femslashafterdark exchange before it ended. I had a vision for this fic I abandoned because in part I didn't have the time to execute the early years for Nakia and Okoye in the fic. Also my recipient didn't want death in their fic and I abided by that.

I planned to have Nakia start off training with the Dora Milaje before she decided to join the War Dogs. Here she would also be considered to be the Black Panther in case something went wrong in the royal family. Nakia would eventually become disillusioned with the Dora Milaje and feel that Wakanda should become more involved in world matters instead of staying isolationist. While Nakia was with the War Dogs T'Challa would die in combat with Okoye by her side (this idea was based off of a spin-off comic set before the Black Panther movie). Nakia would be picked up while on assignment with the War Dogs and go through the process of becoming the Black Panther (adhering to the MCU process without randomly having her eat a flower and poof, Black Panther). I'd rewrite the fic today but I never saved my canon notes to rewrite it and I'd have to search through everything I wrote to rewrite the fic.

I’m posting just the AO3 link as I think it’d be a lot of work to post the full thing here again, and I know I’d get the temptation to condense and re-edit my old stuff. TL;DR there was a fannish panic on fic including rape and also I was hounded for the smut I wrote. So I anoned this for a few years. Only issue is the fic not being canonically compliant (Big Finish wrote a Suzie Costello-centric audio which added things to the Torchwood canon well after I wrote this).

Yes, I’m also stalling some fannish things I should be doing to post this.

The Library (6032 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Suzie Costello/Toshiko Sato, Gwen Cooper/Suzie Costello
Characters: Toshiko Sato, Jack Harkness, Owen Harper, Suzie Costello, Gwen Cooper
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Collars, Vibrator, Possession, Dreams, Dream Sex, Revenants, Alternate Universe - Movie Fusion, Jossed, Community: reel_torchwood
Summary: One of Tosh's devices is the key to completing Suzie's biography, but it's more than she bargained for.