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Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Snowflake again, hello! This is my third year participating in this challenge because I just think it's kind of neat haha, I always end up falling off pretty early on but I think participating in the first place is what matters :D

I have an intro post here (which I did for Snowflake '24) that I will update at some point now that the challenge has kicked off again. Either way, I'm eli and I like miscellaneous fandom stuff. My current obsessions are TTRPG related, mostly Vampire: The Masquerade and Call of Cthulhu, and include actual play podcasts as well as engaging in the lore in other ways. But I also flit from fandom to fandom and have a hefty collection I come back to every once in a while :)

I'm doing this challenge because I like the journaling aspect of participating! I can never seem to stick to a consistent journaling schedule so having the challenge as an excuse to start up again is always good, and it gives me a little boost for the start of the year and reminds me to get back to things I wanted to get done but kept putting off due to... time scheduling stuff. Alas, real life gets in the way of fun things <(＿　＿)>

Anyway, hopefully I'll be able to come back to this challenge a couple more times, here's to a good start for 2026!

I remembered to write this before the start of November at least :)

( Actual play ramblings: )
( Short thoughts on new and ongoing dramas: )

Thanks so much for making me something, I'm looking forward to seeing whatever you come up with!

I'm down to receive fic of any rating from Gen to Explicit (whether in the porn or the violence/gore category), so just go wherever the story takes you. The Likes are really more suggestions than what I explicitly want in a fic, so feel free to take inspiration or completely ignore the list as you like. As for DNWs, if it's not on the list, assume I'm cool with it!

Find me as timegoesby on AO3, I'm always open to treats (°°)～

Some General Likes:

Angst | Bickering/Banter | Casefic | Canon-Divergent AUs (fix-it, make it worse, what-if, role swap, etc.) | Character Studies | Complicated Relationships | Darkfic | Enemies/Rivals to Lovers | Feeling Confessions/Realisations | Fluff | Found Family | Friends to Lovers | Good/Bad/Open Endings | Hurt/Comfort | Hurt No Comfort | Misfits Coming Together | Lovers to Rivals | Missing Scenes | Mystery | Pining (Mutual or One-sided) | Power Dynamics | Slice of Life | Worldbuilding | Whump

Some Smutty Likes:

ABO | Age Gap | Aphrodisiacs | BDSM | Begging | Body Worship | Consensual Non-Consent | Dub/Noncon | First Times | Forced Orgasms | Foreplay | Fuck or Die | Oral | Overstimulation | Power Imbalance/Power Plays | Praise | Rough Sex | Switching | Size Difference | Teasing | Tentacles & other Monsterfucking Fun | There Was Only One Bed & Related Forced-Closeness Tropes | Threesomes (or more)

DNWs:

Non-Canon Permadeath of Requested Characters | Unrequested Mundane/Non-Supernatural AUs | Reader-Insert | Focus on Unrequested Identity Headcanons
For smut: Age Play | Daddy/Mommy Kink | Infantilisation | Piss/Scat/Vomit (in a sexual context) | Pregnancy/M-preg (breeding kink is fine, just no actual pregnancy) | Underage (under 16) | Vore/Cannibalism

For the fandom-specific prompts in AO3, consider the Freeform tags as inspiration or ideas rather than things that must happen.

时光代理人 | Link Click

Relationships: Cheng Xiaoshi/Lu Guang (Cheng Xiaoshi affected), Cheng Xiaoshi/Lu Guang (all affected), Cheng Xiaoshi/Lu Guang (Lu Guang affected), Cheng Xiaoshi/Vein (Cheng Xiaoshi affected), Cheng Xiaoshi/Xia Fei (any affected), Liu Xiao/Lu Guang (any affected), Vein/Xia Fei (any affected)

Some ideas:

For the Cheng Xiaoshi/Lu Guang and Vein/Xia Fei ships: love the premise of accidental exposure leading to confession of feelings for pining characters, or to unexpected reveals about character's likes/thoughts that lead them to try new things.

For Cheng Xiaoshi/Xia Fei, Cheng Xiaoshi/Vein and Liu Xiao/Lu Guang: I'd love to see fuck-or-die scenarios for these ones, especially with reluctant characters eventually having to give in due to the clearly painful/dire circumstances.

Baldur's Gate

Relationships: The Dark Urge/Halsin/Shadowheart (The Dark Urge affected), The Dark Urge/Halsin/Shadowheart (Shadowheart affected), The Dark Urge/Halsin/Shadowheart (Halsin affected), The Dark Urge/Halsin/Shadowheart (all affected), The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash (any affected), Gale/Wyll (Wyll affected), Lae'zel/Wyll (Lae'zel affected), Karlach/Shadowheart (any affected)

Some ideas:

For the Dark Urge/Halsin/Shadowheart throuple: basically I believe these three would be so kinky together that they would definitely dose themselves on purpose lmao, but I could also see it being an accident that they're all too happy to deal with. Feel free to make Durge any gender/race you like, though if you'd indulge a dragonborn lover I'd be eternally grateful.

Every other ship: accidental exposure via magic side effects made them fuck, basically. I'm not looking for much plot I just wanna read the pairs boinking lol.

Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)

Relationships: Megaera/Thanatos/Zagreus (any affected), Megaera/Thanatos/Zagreus (all affected), Thanatos/Zagreus (any affected), Megaera/Zagreus (any affected), Achilles/Patroclus/Zagreus (all affected), Asterius | The Minotaur/Theseus/Zagreus (all affected)

Some ideas:

For the Meg/Than/Zag throuple, and the pairs involving Zagreus: maybe the fates have a new prophecy for zagreus, or aphrodite gets bored one day, honestly go wild, I'll take anything for these ones.

For he Minotaur/Theseus/Zagreus: I like the idea of everyone getting accidentally dosed during a fight and having to deal with that (make love *and* war, in a way), or maybe Theseus or Zagreus calls on Aphrodite's aid during battle and she has a different idea.

For Achilles/Patroclus/Zagreus: a possession or mind control thing would be fun for these guys, or a terrible memento malfunction that affects them when they were just taking a break.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)

Relationships: Hans Capon/Henry of Skalitz (Henry affected), Hans Capon/Henry of Skalitz (Hans affected), Hans Capon/Henry of Skalitz (all affected)

Some ideas: I love the trope of sex pollen leading to confessions lmao, especially for pining characters that have their reasons to keep their feelings secret. Aside from that, honestly let your imagination decide how and why the sex pollen-ing happens.

Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Relationships: My Unit | Byleth/Seteth (Seteth affected), My Unit | Byleth/Rhea (Rhea affected), Linhardt von Hevring/My Unit | Byleth (Linhardt affected), Dorothea Arnault/Petra Macneary (any affected), Dorothea Arnault/Edelgard von Hresvelg (any affected)

I would prefer whatever Byleth gender makes the ship slash, so F!Byleth for Rhea* and M!Byleth for Seteth and Linhardt, though I could be swayed by a F!Byleth/Seteth if the mood strikes you.

*I also forgot to clarify on the AO3 before signups closed but Byleth/Rhea is the only exception for the Mommy Kink DNW since Rhea clearly has a mother complex lmao.

Some ideas:

For the Byleth/Seteth and Byleth/Rhea ships: magic gone wrong, and Byleth is the only one around who can help. How much pragmatism and or begging is involved is up to you!

For the Dorothea ships: perhaps they were exposed while fighting one of those crest beasts, or some magic gone wrong, or maybe it's just plain old unresolved sexual tension that needs to be resolved for crest-magic regulating reasons.

For the Linhardt/Byleth ship: this is definitely something Linhardt proposed to study the effects of something or other, lmao. Now whether the fuck-compulsion is the goal or a side effect, that is up to you!

Been a while, huh? Anyway

I forgor to do wrap-ups for the last few months of the year so anyway here's my yearly total:

Words Written: 117,017 Fics: 28

Completely dropped the ball on my translation project so I'm not even gonna bother counting lol...

Anyway I'm super stoked!!!! Hells yells!!! Wrote less than last year but honestly hitting 100k for the second year in a row is such a wonderful thing I'm not even mad.

Now for some breakdowns!

Looking at my AO3 stats I wrote for 17 different fandoms this year, with most of my words being for 蟲師 | Mushishi (5 fics for a total of 23,178 words), followed by the Time For Chaos podcast (also 5 fics for a total of 11,943 words).

My longest fic (not counting the ongoing ORV one i started in 2023) was Return, for Musishi, running at 13,543 words, and my shortest were two 100 word drabbles for Get in The Trunk and All Saints Street.

The most viewed fic (again not counting the ORV one because that beast is out of control) is a Merthur fic I wrote for a fest that is now sitting at almost 4.5k views (holy shit) and ⁓200 kudos. The least viewed fic is the drabble I wrote for Get in The Trunk, now sitting at 5 views and 1 kudo which, honestly, is four more views than I thought it was going to get (there is one, i repeat 1, other person writing fics for this fandom and I thought they might see it tbf, which they did xd). The second least viewed fic is a Time For Chaos one sitting tied at 5 views but with 2 whole kudos, which, considering I'm the only person writing for this fandom, is actually a lot because my expectations were literally zero xd.

Anyway here's to 100k more words on 2025!!! Hopefully this year I do some inkingitout check ins because I signed up again...

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Hey there, thanks so much for making something, I'm sure I'll love whatever you come up with!

I'm down to receive fic of any rating from Gen to Explicit (whether in the porn or the violence/gore category), and shippy or non-shippy, so just go where the story takes you. The Likes are really more suggestions than what I explicitly want in a fic, so feel free to take inspiration or completely ignore the list as you like. As for DNWs, if it's not on the list, assume I'm cool with it!

Find me as timegoesby on AO3, I'm always open to treats (*￣3￣)╭

Some General Likes:

Angst | Bickering/Banter | Casefic | Canon-Divergent AUs (fix-it, make it worse, what-if, role swap, etc.) | Character Studies | Complicated Relationships | Darkfic | Enemies/Rivals to Lovers | Fluff | Found Family | Friends to Lovers | Good/Bad/Open Endings | Hurt/Comfort | Hurt No Comfort | Misfits Coming Together | Lovers to Rivals | Missing Scenes | Mystery | Pining | Power Dynamics | Slice of Life | Worldbuilding | Whump

Some Smutty Likes:

ABO | Age Gap | Aphrodisiacs | BDSM | Begging | Body Worship | Consensual Non-Consent | Dub/Noncon | First Times | Forced Orgasms | Foreplay | Fuck or Die | Oral | Overstimulation | Power Imbalance/Power Plays | Praise | Rough Sex | Switching | Size Difference | Teasing | Tentacles & other Monsterfucking Fun | There Was Only One Bed & Related Forced-Closeness Tropes | Threesomes (or more)

DNWs:

Non-Canon Permadeath of Requested Characters¹ | Mundane/Non-Supernatural AUs² | Reader-Insert | Focus on Unrequested Identity Headcanons
For smut: Age Play | Daddy/Mommy Kink | Infantilisation | Piss/Scat/Vomit (in a sexual context) | Pregnancy/M-preg (breeding kink is fine, just no actual pregnancy) | Underage (under 16) | Vore/Cannibalism

1 - Temporary death/fakeout deaths/threat of death, etc. are fine, as is death of other characters that are not the requested ones, I just want the requested characters to be alive by the end of the fic :)
2 - What I like about these canons are the interesting supernatural settings, so I'd prefer something set in the worlds and time periods of the source. That being said, for my Mignon request I'd be fine with any sort of setting change AU as long as Oh Youngone is still a vampire ;)

Opt-Ins & Mini Challenges:

Unconventional Fic Formats (epistolary, CYOA, in-world documents, etc.) | 1st or 2nd POV stories (from canon characters' POV, no reader-insert) | Crossovers (For Ghost Wax & Agent Stoker requests)

Mini Challenges:
Yuleporn
Crueltide
Interactive Fiction
Two For One - Crossovers

Find more detail about fandom-specific likes and prompts below, but feel free to go your own way with whatever you choose to make.

Time For Chaos (Podcast)

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Characters
Any in the tagset - Carter Tillinghast, Fairuz Gibran, Margarete "Margot" Sauer, Vaughn Villiers.
Desmond Mahoney is not in the tagset (for lack of space), but his addition is always welcome.

In General
I'm so starved for content I'd literally take anything: casefic, shipfic, canon divergence, character studies, literally whatever.
I'm most interested in missing moments or character backstory speculation -- fill in the gaps in the story! Theorise on the conspiracy! I've neither played nor read the Masks of Nyarlathotep adventure so I welcome any and all sorts guesses as to what is really going on. I'm also a big fan of the Cthulhu Mythos so if you want to write some sort of case fic involving a lovecrafitan investigation I am all for it.
I'd also just take the characters hanging out in between adventures and having a fun (or a not so fun) time together, because I love them and anything they do.

Some Ideas
Again, this is just my brainrot idea dump, feel free to do whatever as I am aware I wrote a lot lol.

• Margot: For her past, how did she come to join the Order in the first place? What drove her to it? Could Gunther have had something to do with it behind the scenes? How did she come to have that relationship with Gunther? What was it like?
  For more present things, what was her life like in the years between Peru and New York? What kinds of things did she get up to in order to move through the ranks in the Order after proving herself with the golden mask? How has her art/reputation as an artist evolved?


• Vaughn: For his past, anything involving Oberon is fair game, but I'm especially interested in the tragic end of that relationship. Were there any things that Vaughn left unsaid? Anything he wishes he might have done differently? Additionally, Oberon's poem to Vaughn mentions Carcosa, does that mean he knew about the "mythos" before Vaughn did, and did he perhaps try to tell Vaughn about it? omg what if Oberon is in Carcosa right now and the delusions Vaughn has been having are actually him glimpsing Oberon there?
  Otherwise I'm super interested in explorations of Vaughn's faith, how he went from his Anglican upbringing to losing his faith in the trenches to becoming a staunch Catholic due to glimpsing mind-shattering horrors.


• Fairuz: I'm interested in her pursuit of knowledge. How did she first get started? How did she come to join the Order independent of her father? Does she have any goals in joining aside from finding out what happened to her mother? Otherwise, her relationship with her father. When/how did it become so strained? He clearly cares about her, and yet he's keeping so many thing from her, how long has she suspected that her father may be lying about some very important things?
  


• Carter: I feel like this funny, debonair conman actually has some sort of incredibly tragic backstory, I mean, he's in debt with the Irish(?) mob and scams old ladies for a living before he gets with the squad, that's gotta have come from somewhere, right? We see him grow once he makes friends, but I'm interested in the kind of person he was before he ever got kicked in the face by that horse. Has he always been a conman? Did he ever have an honest job? What was his life with his latest late wife like? Were there parts of it he enjoyed?
  Otherwise anything involving him trying to write and publish that (in)famous book of his adventures or just him talking himself into (and perhaps even out of) any sort of comical problem that might befall a slightly clueless American in a foreign country like Peru (or even England, lmao) after the bulk of his horrible adventures are over.

As for ships or pair interactions:

• Carter and Margot: love them and ship them so hard, but even as friends they are fantastic. Anything that involves more of that top tier banter, whether it's them dealing with more spooky mysteries, some juicy angst at the thought that the other may be dead, or just their hilarious hijinks.


• Fairuz and Vaughn: I don't ship them romantically, but I love their partnership and can see them being in what we would consider a queerplatonic relationship nowadays. I just want to see them working together, perhaps to unravel the dark secrets that surround them and exchanging mad theories, or spending some time together healing at Eagle's Grange.


• Margot and Fairuz: I love their interactions when they're on screen together, especially in the second season when their relationship grows increasingly complicated due to the Order's involvement. How does Margot feel with being tasked to essentially spy on her friend for the Order? How does Fairuz deal with he thought that another person she holds dear may be keeping important secrets from her? I also think they'd make an interesting ship, something about the way they band together as two capable women against the 20th century world makes me feel like they'd find comfort in one another, especially after all the shit they've been through.


• Carter and Vaughn: That scene on season two of Carter softly kissing Vaughn's forehead and putting his picture in the locket he always keeps with him lives in my head rent free. They make great friends, Carter often being the straight man to some of Vaughn's more ideologically esoteric ramblings, and I think they'd make for an interesting ship as well -- there's just something about Carter always being the poor victim to Vaughn's homicidal bouts of madness (under the pyramid, at the basement of the Juju house, inside the house of the lizard man...) that just makes their whole dynamic kind of tragically ironic. What happens after their work is done in England? Does Carter go to visit Vaughn at Eagle's Grange?


• On Desmond: Being the newest guy, he's the one we know least about, so there's not that much material to go off for backstory speculation (though you're welcome to attempt it). However, I would welcome his addition in any story. What would a meeting between Vaughn and Desmond look like? What happens if the Mystery Squad asks him out for one last job before they leave England?

Ghost Wax (Podcast)

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Characters
Must include - Owen Voncid.
Luca and Pip are always welcome additions, but not necessary to the request (for matching purposes, my nemesis). Also Worldbuilding ^^b.

In General
I just want case fic! More spooky mysteries! Voncid doing his reclaimer thing and talking to dead people! Also, while I would love a fic that included either Luca and/or Pip, I'd also love a fic taking place before Voncid even met them. How did he handle the reclamations before? Have his methods changed since? Has he truly gone soft?
I love the horror elements of the podcast, the whole having to piece together a mystery from the mouth of a dead person angle, and the whole use of magic for good and evil. Also the bees <3
Since the creators have said that the Ghost Wax universe operates on an "anything goes" policy, feel free to get creative!

Some Ideas

• Afaik the current HQ of the gang is based in the United States, so what if a (mythical/magical) creature from another country finds its way in Voncid's territory and starts wreaking havoc? How did it get there? How will Voncid deal with it?


• What if Voncid gets caught in some sort of magical trap like a maze/time loop/illusion? How does he figure it out? How does he get out? Does anyone else notice, and if so, do they help?


• A good old horrific "something supernatural killed this person and we gotta figure out what it is" story, you can't go wrong with a classic. If you want, take a peep at my Summer of Horror dear creator letter to see what I wrote for Ghost Wax and some horror tropes I like for more ideas ;)


• I'd also welcome crossovers with other nominated supernatural podcasts. I'm familiar with Archive 81, Agent Stoker (see below haha), The Black Tapes, Kane and Feels, The Silt Verses, and World Gone Wrong, so consider them all fair game for fun crossover purposes :) I'm also a fan of anything Cthulhu Mythos, which I know is also in the tagset, so use it if you want as well, like -- what if Jinx knew some of the cats of Ulthar? ;)

Agent Stoker (Audio Drama)

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Characters
Must include - Agent Stoker.
Agent Caliban and EnGAGE are always welcome additions, but not necessary to the request (for matching purposes, alas). Also Worldbuilding ^^b.

In General
I'd honestly be thrilled with anything. A deep character study of Agent Stoker and his traumas? Hell yeah. A fun adventure romp as Agent Stoker and Agent Caliban solve another apocalyptic mystery? Bring it on. Agent Stoker trying (and failing?) to stop EnGAGE from killing yet another person that threatens its plans? Sounds fun. Some juicy canon-divergence? Finding fluffy slice-of-life in the midst of the end of the world? As long as Agent Stoker is there doing his thing, perhaps accompanied by one or both of his not partners (or any of the people he's met along the way), I'd be glad to receive it!

Some Ideas:

• An early case from before Agent Caliban's death, showing Agent Stoker gaining experience and perhaps grappling with what he's learning.


• EnGAGE trying, once again, to become Agent Stoker's partner. Results of the attempt completely up to you.


• What if Agent Stoker had been the one that died* when EnGAGE first attacked, and also came back to continue helping Agent Caliban? How would that series of events have occurred?
  *I know one of my DNWs is permanent requested character death but it's okay if he comes back as a ghost dw.


• Agent Stoker tries helping someone, but fails. How does he deal with it? Does it hit him as hard as the first time? Is that a good or bad thing?


• I'd also welcome crossovers with other nominated supernatural podcasts. I'm familiar with Archive 81, Ghost Wax (see above haha), The Black Tapes, Kane and Feels, The Silt Verses, and World Gone Wrong, so consider them all fair game for fun crossover purposes :)

민용 | Mignon (Cartoon)

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Characters
Must include - Mignon, Oh Youngone.

In General
I would love shipfic of any sort, smut is welcome too! Anything that takes a look at Mignon's life after he turns into a vampire, how he deals with the changes, and how his relationship with Oh Youngone continues to develop.
Some worldbuilding would be more than welcome. Vampire society is clearly organised in some sort of underground way, so feel free to build on that however you deem interesting. How does Mignon learn to navigate it? What does Oh Youngone do to ease him into into it (if anything at all)?
Also, as I mentioned in the caveat to my DNWs, I'd welcome any sort of setting change fic as long as Oh Youngone is still a vampire! Wanna write the same story beats but they're now in a medeival-inspired fantasy kingdom? Go for it! College AU where Mignon is the student with the troubled home life and debt while Oh Youngone the sickly guy who keeps missing class because he's secretly a vampire? Hell yeah. Play with it, do whatever!

Some Ideas

• How does Mignon adapt to his new life as a vampire? Does it change his relationship with Oh Youngone? Who has the hardest time with the changes?


• Roleswap AU where Mignon is the vampire boxer trying to win over the reticent, cool doctor who is investigating why his supply of blood bags is constantly going missing.


• What is their home life like after all the chaos? What kind of moments of domesticity do they value? What is their new normal like?


• Vampire bloodplay and biting stuff. Super into that. Lean into it as much as you like.


• What if someone is hunting them down? Does it have anything to do with Mignon's or Oh Youngone's past life? Can they deal with it on their own or do they need the help of other vampires?


• Canon divergence where Mignon avoided getting the shit beat out of him and so Oh Youngone never bit him. What would be different? Would they still end up together?


• Canonically vampires are very long-lived. How does this affect their relationship? Do they lean even harder on each other, or do they struggle on their own? How do they view the changing world, or the possibility of one day living in a world they won't recognise (especially Mignon, since it seems Oh Youngone is used to it)? What will their life look like in 20, 50, 100 years?


• Anything with Oh Youngone being protective over Mignon and Mignon being a completely lovestruck puppy.

*Insert gif of spaghetti-haired boy singing about May or whatever*

Words Written: 8,377

Once again the way I decided to count this was by the completed fics I post on AO3 so I don't have to deal with changing wordcounts, which means that it seems like there was not a lot of output for this month but behind the scenes... I have like four WIPs, all of which are over 4k words long... so yeah... Anyway, I completed the monthly goal of 7.5k words on the surface so I'm fine.

What I completed:
1) A Link Click fic in spanish for the lyricaltitles  community! As per the challenge, it's gonna be a series of 3, one for each song in the album. I've already started working on the second and I'm very excited, but I got distracted so I didn't manage to post it in may lol.
2) A Dimitri/Dedue fic for the Rare Kink Buffet Prompt Fest. It was quite fun to work on as the request was basically in-line with my own HC for the relationship so obviously I wrote 6k words for what was supposed to be a short and simple smut oneshot. I mean it's still a smut oneshot, but it's on the medium side, with an extended, overly gratuitous undressing+bathing scene.

What I worked on:
Started and abandoned a Dark Fall fic for dick-or-treat, mostly because I managed to write myself into a corner where the characters just wouldn't do what I wanted them to do and I had to take a break or go mad. It was basically smut so I'm not too torn about it, but I still maintain my desire to write more Dark Fall fic and might revisit it in the future. Especially to fill up my Scalding Hot Bingo card that has simply lain forgotten ever since I got it oops.
I started writing a Yanqing/Jing Yuan fic for the Rare Kink Buffet Prompt Fest that was also supposed to be short smut but then for some reason I got really into the set up and it ballooned to 5k words of Yanqing's pining and then I got stuck on a sword fight and long story short I'm still working on it but obviously now it's its own thing and it's probably gonna be a two, maybe a three parter.
Started working on my intoabar fic and it's going great, definitely going a little longer than I anticipated but I'm not mad I'm having fun! It's a Link Click/Spiritpact crossover, continuing on the story from the intoabar fic I did last year. Fingers crossed it doesn't take me another year to add to this series because it's been such a blast hahaha
Second fic for the lyricaltitles comm, the first two are Lu Guang POV and the last one is going to be Cheng Xiaoshi. The first is season 1, and the others will be post season 2. I have a vague plan in my head which is heavily influenced by the songs that go with each fic, but as always things change beyond my control once I star actually writing so I'm just along for the ride.

As for translations... I've fallen off again I'm so sorry. My head is full of bees and they all clamour for my attention :V

Quiero hacer una lista de audio dramas en español pq me hace falta contenido xdd

Ahorita sólo son primeras impresiones, luego hago un post de recs y lo pongo bonito como mi lista de actual play podcasts.

• Valle del Cielo Gris: básicamente Welcome to Night Vale en español (con todo y un interludio musical para la sección de comerciales en lugar de la metéo), pero lo digo con todo el cariño del mundo. Una estación de radio en un valle en algún lugar del mundo (creo que ni ellos saben dónde están), donde pasan cosas completamente bizarras que son completamente normales en el valle. El interlocutor, Joaquín, nos presenta las noticias y plática con varias personalidades que viven en el valle, como el señor Exaltación Archuleta(? no tengo ni idea) y el Rey Van. Aún así, hay un aire de inquietud creciendo en el valle, y me interesa saber que va a ser la trama a largo plazo.

• Dos After You: un asesino en serie le graba mensajes al ser de su obsesión. Ok, es un poco (mucho) más que eso, pero no sé cómo explicarlo jajaja. Normalmente discrimino contra los esp*ñoles porque a veces no les entiendo ni gilipollas, pero la trama de este me llamó la atención y decidí darle un chance. De entrada me encantó el misterio y el estilo de narración, y el toque de horror supernatural me vendió completamente la serie. Lo único malo es que cada episodio dura menos de 10 minutos, y yo quiero que sean más largos >:(

• Toxicomanía: dramatización de la historia de la legislación toxicomanía, la cual legalizó las drogas en México por algunos meses en 1940. Antes de escuchar esto ni sabía que había pasado eso jajaja, supongo que pronto aprenderé porqué quedó borrado de la historia. Muy interesante y me encantaron los efectos de audio y como suenan los VAs.

• ¡Coartada!: una fiesta de aniversario, un autor asesinado, una casa llena de sospechosos. Al empezar a escuchar me recordó mucho a un misterio al estilo de Agatha Christie. No llevo mucho pero me interesa, aunque a veces se siente mas como una narración de audiobook que un audio drama.

• Bienvenido a la Vida Peligrosa: Profesor Uribe llega a México e inmediatamente se mete en problemas con un cártel, cuyo líder quiere que le enseñe filosofía a su hijo. Otro drama esp*ñol que decidí darle chance porque vi que la mayoría de las voces eran latinas jajaja. Eso sí, no me estaba esperando la escena de tortura vía cortarle los huevos a un hombre cómo la primera cosa que iba a escuchar entrando al show, pero supongo que sirvió para establecer el tono. Ah y también la preview de la escena de full on sexo al final del mismo episodio. Este drama es 18+ definitivamente xd, pero si me llamó la atención y la calidad del audio esta súper.

• Crónicas Obscuras: antologías de terror folclórico (mas o menos), cada temporada sigue una historia. me está gustando mucho la producción, apenas voy a terminar la primera temporada (6eps de como 30 mins) pero si me late.

• Fausto: dramatización de un caso de asesinato real en el que una familia entera fue encontrada degollada en su casa. ya pasé mi era de true crime así que no se si voy a terminar de escuchar esta... pero de eso que esta muy bien echa si.

• Blum: misterio en suiza ^^b

• El Gran Apagón: lo que dice en el envase, se va la luz en todo el mundo O.O

• Sangre Celestial: radionovela de una familia complicada xd

• Simulacro: todo es falso O.o

• Manual para ser Juan Helsing: historias de bichos owo

• SED: La Advertencia: se va el agua y mexico se derrumba :p

• Retornados: expedición a marte gone wrong OAO

• Cassettes: casa embrujada y una historia familiar que debería haberse quedado escondida

• Nido de Avispas: una isla en la que nada es lo que parece

• Gemelos Digitales: que tal si tuvieras un clon que existe solo en forma digital?

• Quien Contra Mi: el set up es un poco meta pero de una manera interesante, originalmente es un podcast sobre exorcismos y cuestiones religiosas, pero la mayoría de los episodios fueron borrados. Luego el productor regresa y explica que paso realmente con los otros hosts del podcast...

• Corderos: una escuela alemana en chile esconde muchos secretos, y los estudiantes pueden estar en peligro (o bien ser el peligro).

• DELETE: en el 2075, la humanidad produce tal cantidad de data que ya no tiene capacidad de almacenar cosas en la nube, así que se forma un comité para decidir que se borra y que se guarda.

Can't believe it's already... *checks notes* May? Wtf. Where did the last three months go? Anyway.

Words Written: 27,588

Words Translated: 5,103

Welp, I definitely took a translating haitus for a while there. In my defence, the one chapter I did was super long and every time I went to chip away at it I could feel my braincells fleeing at the mere thought of having to remember all the imperial titles I came up with for this. At least this arc is one chapter closer to completion, and finally the ML is going to stop playing around. Phew.

Onto the fun bit, writing!

Since I set the 90k goal for the year, the goal for 3 months should have been 22,500 words, which I definitely did!

I finished my fic for the smallfandombang with a whopping 13k words! It was so fun to work on, probably one of my favourite fics of the year haha. It ended up taking me in a completely different direction than what I first envisioned when thinking about the Mushishi Modern Era AU, but honestly I couldn't be happier with how it turned out, and the podfic is gorgeous to boot! Now that mushishiweek is coming up I'm wondering whether or not to do more works in that canon... I'll wait until the prompts come out to decide, this year I definitely want to post for more days than last year so hopefully I can get my shit together enough to pre-write some of that.

What else... Oh, I finally took the plunge and snatched a pinch-hit! It was for the merthurglompfest, a fest I was thinking about signing up for but at the time of signups I was busy so I sort of sighed and let it go, but then I saw the pinch hits go up and I took a peek and one of them immediately grabbed be, so I said what the hell, this is my chance! It was actually super fun to work on and reminded me of why I love Merlin so much haha, def wanna write more merlin stuff in the future. Also, having to find a beta for this fic (as per the fest rules, I'm usually a "no beta we die like [humorous comparison]" kind of guy) got me in contact with a wonderful writer who introduced me to the show Lewis! I binged it all in under two weeks I loved it so much, and I'm even watching the pre-prequel Endeavour (which I do like, but it's different vibes from Lewis and I def like Lewis better). Now I'm beta-ing a whole-ass series of fics she's doing for the lewis/hathaway ship and I'm absolutely loving every single word. God some people just have gold in the brain.

The last highlight of the month is definitely the latest fic I did for the bethefirst challenge! I wrote a Vaughn-centric fic for the Time For Chaos podcast (the one that introduced me to call of cthulhu, which I keep gushing about to anyone who'll listen) and honestly it was such a blast. I actually intended for it to go a vastly different way but the start wasn't working out so I re-wrote it in a completely different scenario and suddenly it all clicked. Needless to say, I'm already writing another fic for the fandom (because I need more Carter/Margot bickering in my life), and I'm waiting for season 2 to end (5 episodes left as of writing this oh god) so I can go back to re-listen and write even more. I know I will be the only person writing (and reading) for this fandom but I don't care, I do it because I love: therefore I must. Be the change you want to be in the world and all that.

Anyway hopefully next check-in comes at the end of may and not 3 months later... ㄟ(≧◇≦)ㄏ