Kat’s Fic Master Post

I finally gave in and created a master list for organization’s sake. fear me and my fleet of fics

3/8/2022 Edit: Completely up to date!

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MULTI-CHAPTERS:

Stories of varying word counts that feature multiple chapters.

Most recent multi-chapters

Howl Series (Crescent & Gibbous): When Virgil found himself staring down the barrel of a mugger’s gun, he had no idea it’d lead to him getting adopted by a werewolf on the spot

A Singular Cog in The Machine:  Logan adheres to the belief that needs of the many far outweigh the needs of the one, the latter being himself. platonic lamp

The Bronze Statue: Virgil is a servant turned thief on the run. The last thing he expects is colliding with a talking sentient statue who’s insistent that he’s the long deceased true heir to the kingdom’s throne. platonic prinixety

See More Multi-Chapters here! 

ONE-SHOT SERIES

Collections of stories that can be read standalone but are a part of the same universe. 

Most Recent One-Shot Series

Tiny Virge AU: In which Virgil is inexplicably a young child again and the other sides scramble to find a solution to bring him back to his normal grumpy adult self all while trying not to coo at how cute little Virgil is.

No Scorching Sun Nor Freezing Rain: In a world where humans are the practically extinct ones and dragons freely roam and rule the skies, a young draconic adult named Logan is in desperate search of a human to decipher the knowledge lying within the books of his hoard. He just didn’t expect the first human he’d discover would be an abandoned human hatchling left to fend for itself

See More Oneshot Series Here!

CONCEPT FICS

Fics told in an informal, loose story-telling style.

Most recent concept fics

When the Sides Get Sick, Each of Them Have Different Reactions: Headcanons about how the Sides handle being sick

Flower-Crowns: Patton gifts his famILY flower-crowns and in return they gift him one of his own.

Check out more concept fics here!

ONESHOTS:

Completed single-chapter fics with the bare minimum of 1k words.

Most Recent Oneshots

These Bones Never Rested While Living: Roman used to think that dying falling off a horse was the dumbest way for important historical figures to go. creativtwins

Scaled and Icy:  “Oh, Virgil is going to hate him. He’s going to erupt in a rant about Logan being too impulsive as if Logan doesn’t think out every action in a methodical manner.” Or. Logan decides to adopt an abandoned human child. platonic Logince

Rooftop Requiems:  Hero, villain–it doesn’t matter, the system is fucked regardless of what side you’re on. platonic Moxiety

To Hell with Semantics: Sometimes Virgil wondered if he came from the same clutch as Logan. Because the last thing he expected was to find Logan caring for the young of a legendary, dangerous adversary to all dragonkin. brotherly Analogical

Cave Canem:  Patton might’ve been a boy once, a normal boy, a boy who loved splashing puddles and creating make-shift forts. He isn’t one anymore. platonic Moxiety

Check out more oneshots here!

FICLETS: 

(completed single-chapter fics that range from 500 to 800 words in length)

Most Recent Ficlets

The Light Within the Dark Trees’ Shadows: When Logan was younger he sought comfort in the moon. Now he dreads its’ arrival

A Sticky Situation: Janus’s gloves is more than for the aesthetic–there’s a practical use to them. A practical use Remus decides to exploit for a “funny” prank. familial anxceitus

A Vigilant Prince: After several days of no sleep, Virgil finds himself sitting listlessly in the kitchen at 3AM. Fortunately a prince is there to help out. platonic prinixety

Someday My Prince Will Come:  Roman expects a lot from the one Virgil Locksley he plucked from underneath his bodyguard’s eye. What he doesn’t expect is for the kid’s first words to be, “Don’t send me back.” platonic prinixety

Silver Eyes: Logan just wants to keep his brother safe, they’d gotten so far with Logan’s wits and well-placed words, they just needed to go a little further with them. Brotherly logicality

Check out more ficlets here!

MICRO-FICS

Fics that are 400 words and below

Most Recent Micro-Fics

Depression: There is a person in a room somewhere in the world. Surely you’ve been that person at some point. platonic analogical

Heavenly: “You’re…heavenly.” platonic prinixety

Finding Optimism: It isn’t as easy as finding loose change. platonic lamp

Calling: As a demon, Deceit must answer any and all summons. Even idiotic ones.

Sink into the Soil: It’s pathetic, Roman thinks, to be reduced to a shriveling sobbing shell of a someone once so proud and confident. platonic roceit

Giggly: The first sign of things going terribly wrong was Logan giggling. The man never giggled. platonic logince

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Teaching an extracurricular, I get FURIOUS when people are excessively strict to kids. Shut the up! They had to sit through long division already today! This is play fun time! Yes there are rules even in fun spaces but the only ones that are essential to enforce are those that relate directly to their safety!

Yes! I’ve had to pull adults (older than myself) aside and be like hello :) so um. You yelling at them is really not enhancing anybody’s time in this space :) me included.

I coach youth athletics and it's honestly awful to see how other coaches will yell at their 12-yr-old players or make them run laps during a time out if they're losing like they are young and learning!!! This is supposed to be a fun activity!

I had a group of parents basically demand I yell at their kids and make them do physical punishment (running, pushups) for making mistakes during practices to "toughen them up" and I almost laughed at their faces like no!!! I will not do that, fear of punishment might motivate kids in the short term but long term that is incredibly detrimental and traumatizing to them.

No More Yielding But a Dream Fic

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On the eve of a midsummer, Roman ran through the woods. He ran into twisted thickets and past barbed thistles. He ran as he heard wolf howls and vulture screeches. If the fae would not have him, the woods would. 

Either one would be better than the fate that awaited him otherwise.

“You shouldn’t go into the woods when the summer reaches its peak,” Roman’s brother told him once as a child, “You might run into a fair folk.”

“A what?” He asked, his little face screwed up tight in confusion.

“The fae–they’ll trick you, try to ask for your name to take you far, far away. They’ll make you dance until your feet bleed–oh! Imagine the blood dripping onto dandelions!”

His eyes had widened then, terrified at such a thought. That was then, this was now. On a midsummer’s eve, many moons since his adolescence, he found himself in the woods. It wasn’t an accident, not really. It was out of survival.

 He kept going until at last he reached an arc of mushrooms. Every instinct within him screamed to step away, to go around, to move anywhere but closer to it but he ignored them. With legs like wood, he stepped inside. Nothing happened at first. Birds continued to chirp as the trees were gently swayed by the summer breeze. A fox yipped in the distance. 

“Why hello there,” A silky voice crooned from behind him, “you’re far from home, princey boy.”

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Ahhh, this was so good! I’m stoked that you continued this!!! This really straddles the line of a bittersweet ending in a way that is totally satisfying. You write Virgil being a fae so well. It’s a kind of characterization that I admire, because I find it hard myself to write with that kind of…mean mindset? It’s not mean though. It’s morally gray and he has a self-serving neutral mindset that gives the feeling of dehumanizing Roman, not because he sees Roman as not human, but because humans are less than fae and this one is now his possession. But I love the angle that Virgil frames it, that because Roman is his that means he will be treated well. If you buy a TV, you don’t just go around breaking it. And the lack of control Roman now has, and not knowing what the future holds or what’s expected of him, that’s unsettling as hell and may get to him later on. But for now? I like that he acknowledges that he should feel a certain type of way about this, but after all the trauma he’s suffered, he is overwhelmed by relief to be safe. Virgil taking care of him is not kindness, but the alternative makes it look so much better, and I can’t fault him for that. I also love the moments where Roman speaks out of turn, like commenting on Virgil’s spider aesthetic or touching the crown, and Virgil allows it, even finds amusement in it. I get the feeling that Roman has just become the world’s most protected puppy.

Thank you sm!! I'm glad you like Virgil's characterization, I was worried about being able to hit that morally grey sweet spot while staying true to his personality.

"World's most protected puppy" is a very apt description. In my mind, Virgil ends up getting more abnormally attached to Roman than most fae feel about humans in their possession, partially because he does allow Roman to speak his mind.

my prof for my banned books class left n is on leave for some reason so now theres a new prof n shes fucking changing up everything.

shes jus talkin bout how much she hates the final exam the og prof had set up n is changin the entire thing to be like. we watch a video and write a response to the video and it has nothing to do with the fucking books we've been reading

Had something similar happen in my British Lit class--my original professor had a family emergency and had to leave mid-semester...she promised us she'd leave all her class notes to the new professor and they'd just take over from her notes. He DID NOT do that.

He did a fucking syllabus day in the middle of the semester, constantly complained about how the old professor did things and how shitty it was that the university made him take over this class.

We were supposed to study Othello, instead he made us do Hamlet. Increased the homework load 2x the amount and made the group projects that half the class already completed as "extra credit"

I would highly recommend going to the dean's office and expressing your concerns with the final exam--it's something I wished I did with that class.

Ada Limón, “To Be Made Whole”, On Being with Krista Tippett

Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

Paul Eluard, “Right in the Middle of the Month of August”, Selected Poems(trans. Gilbert Bowen) (x)

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you ever just. think about walking into a lake and like. becoming a fish.

you do not have permission to stop caring about vampires just because october is over btw. vampires are a year round event

🎃 Just some inconspicuous cats committing acts of spooky boops!! 🎃

Parents, PLEASE check your kids’ Halloween candy this year. I just found a seasonal revival of Tumblr’s boop feature inside of a Twix bar.

yet booped ye may be, and booped ye shall be: by mutual and by follower and by random;

was playing "fetch" with the ocean today by tossing stones into it and watching them wash back up with the tide a few meters away, and it got me thinking about grief and the things we carry with us even after we lose them