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good….let the spite flow through you….write the new chapter just to take a stand….

“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”

My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding

hello writers.

"i don't comment on ao3 because i don't wanna be annoying or weird" skill issue + you greatly underestimate the power dynamic here, writing multi paragraph comments is like feeding a bunch of deeply insane and possibly starved ducks at the park and watch them go completely mad over having received a piece of bread

Maze’s Victory outfit from Chapter 16 of Unto the Labyrinth!!! Commissioned from @maitaitiu ❤️

Unto the Labyrinth: Chapter 16 (Victory: Part 2) is now up!

“So, Maze,” Caesar began once everyone was situated, “How does it feel, being back in the Capitol and knowing you’re the Victor of the 57th Hunger Games?”

“I…” Maze began. Everyone was silent, clinging on to her every word. “It…it doesn’t quite feel real. Like a dream.”

It was the truth. Nothing quite felt real anymore.

“You’re living the dreams of many people, Miss Donahue,” Caesar replied. “I hope you realize that.”

“It’s more of a nightmare, really.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56468086/chapters/166874686

Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC, Beetee Latier & Wiress

Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.

But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

This is what I was referring to in my previous post by the way!!!!

All of my fics have been scraped :(

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

In light of the information that some asshole has illegally scraped all public Ao3 works posted before March, I’ve decided to make all of my fics only accessible to registered Ao3 users, and I highly suggest you do the same if you are an Ao3 author

Unto the Labyrinth: Chapter 15 is posted!!!

The world in front of her was so blurry that she couldn't see Beetee's facial expression. “I'm sorry, Maze.”

“I can't do it.” Her voice broke. “I don't want to—I can't—be the Victor!”

There. She said it. The V word, in reference to herself.

Beetee's words softened even more. “I'm so sorry.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56468086/chapters/166324528

Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC, Beetee Latier & Wiress

Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.

But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”

NOTE: Read the author’s note at the beginning of this chapter!!! I’ll post it on here as well

Tales From The Labyrinth [Tributember 2024]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60251710/chapters/153753643

Introducing Tales From the Labyrinth — a series of one-shots involving characters from my other fic Unto the Labyrinth! I did these last November and didn’t get around to posting them here until now <3 I hope you enjoy!

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Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types

Rating: Teen and up

Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Charactee Death

Relationships: Original Character(s) & Original Character(s), Haymitch Abernathy & Original Character(s)

Summary: “Side POVs and story tidbits from the world of "Unto the Labyrinth" and the 57th Hunger Games, up through Chapter 11. Previous reading encouraged but not required.

[Tributember 2024, credit goes to @sunnyjustice for the prompts!]”

Just realized that I’ve never posted Tales from the Labyrinth on here 😳 post incoming soon

Numbers Tag Game

rules: give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words (feel free to interpret however you would like; if not on AO3, can be on Tumblr or FFNET!).

Tagged by @rivalhughs !!!

Most hits: The Town of Anywhere, with 3493 hits!!! I’m surprised it has that many, honestly. I always thought of it as kind of a niche thing but ig people read it? (Also, I swear I haven’t abandoned it!!! The next chapter is in the works and I’ll get around to it eventually)

Second most kudos: A Burning Question, with 184 kudos! My Encanto/Disney Hercules crack crossover one-shot that I wrote in one sitting while heavily caffeinated one night.

Third most comments: Ties of Blood and Water, with 57 comments! My offering to the Hetalia fandom that I’m also surprised got as much attention as it did (also my personal favorite to reread……ngl I kinda cooked with this one)

Fourth most bookmarks: Falling, with 27 bookmarks! Another one of my one-shots, this time a ship one with AE-3803/U-1146 from Cells At Work! I’ve noticed that this fic got a resurgence in popularity recently, possibly because of the Cells At Work fandom becoming active again? (Speaking of, I really hope the live action movie comes to the U.S. eventually bc I wanna watch it so bad)

Fifth most words: Tales from the Labyrinth, with 19,336 words! A one-shot collection based in the world of my other fic Unto the Labyrinth — and a world thats canon status has been absolutely decimated by the release of Sunrise On The Reaping! Yay for me! /s

Least words: Midnight Snack, with only 228 words! A little Legend of Korra one-shot fic I wrote for a challenge.

I tag @toxic-luck, @elephant-in-the-pride-parade, @chibidashie, and @yumiribbon, as well as whoever else wants to do this!

tag your wip as a plot from this very exhaustive list of novel plots

NEVER MIND I MANAGED TO WORK THE NEW LORE INTO UNTO THE LABYRINTH

WE ARE SAVED

So, upon reading Sunrise on the Reaping, I’d like to congratulate Unto the Labyrinth for officially now being canon-divergent and an AU.

I’m a little pissed that SotR messed up UtL’s story trajectory so bad, especially with Beetee, but whatever.

I’ll release an official statement when I post the next chapter of Unto the Labyrinth

So, upon reading Sunrise on the Reaping, I’d like to congratulate Unto the Labyrinth for officially now being canon-divergent and an AU.

I’m a little pissed that SotR messed up UtL’s story trajectory so bad, especially with Beetee, but whatever.

I’ll release an official statement when I post the next chapter of Unto the Labyrinth

⚡️Unto the labryinth from the WIP Game

Here, you get a brief excerpt of next chapter!

As they turned a corner, another familiar voice rang out.

“Here she is! Our shining star herself!”

Philomena stood at the end of the corridor, a giddy grin on her face, next to Harmonia, Troy, and the members of Maze’s prep team. Philomena was unchanged, donning her usual skintight bodysuit and pink pigtails, as was Harmonia.

Philomena rushed forward and engulfed Maze in a hug. “Maze! Oh, I can’t believe it! Victor of the 57th Hunger Games!” It might have been the lighting, but Maze swore she saw tears in Philomena’s made-up eyes. “Congratulations, dear.”

👾 WHAT IS UP WITH THE MIIS (I question, calmly)

Not much really, I started this fic in 2021 in the throes of my Miitopia hyperfixation and then never finished it.

I’m just gonna post the whole thing since it’s so short

For context, there is a dark lord who steals people’s faces

CW: mild body horror

It never hit Vas how awful it felt to lose one’s face until she lost her own face.

At first, there was a tingling sensation that quickly turned into a burning sensation as her face was ripped off her body, her being split in two. She was now two entities, both of which she was painfully aware of.

She could still feel the sensations of her physical body. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest, the firm floor beneath her feet, and the metal of her wand in her hand. But she was blind and mute, unable to see and unable to speak, to once again curse the being that had done this to her and countless others. So she just stood in place and clutched her mage’s wand and hoped her body would remain safe.

Her face, through which she could see and speak from, was another story. The Dark Lord Athlios, who she could only hear for right now and the one responsible for Vas’s current state, was pulling her face back towards him, making some sort of awful pun about faces. Through her disembodied eyes she could see her three teammates down below, looking on in disbelief as their leader’s face floated in front of them.

Their leader. Vas was supposed to be their leader, yet she foolishly let this happen to her. She should have seen it coming. After all, Athlios had already stolen the faces of all her friends. It was natural he eventually stole hers. But yet the event was still unexpected and oddly embarrassing. She was supposed to be the put-together one, goddammit!

Since her face and her brain were disconnected, Vas wasn’t entirely sure how she was able to speak. Scientifically, it shouldn’t be possible, but Vas had learned that here in Miitopia, sometimes it was better to leave some questions unanswered. But she was able to speak, and in her bewildered state, she was only able to cry out one measly word.

“Help!”

“Give it back,” Irene threatened the Dark Lord, pointing her staff at him. The staff glinted in the dim lighting of the castle, provided only by the firelight emitting from both the chandeliers and the volcanic landscape outside. Athlios’ villainous laughter filled the stone chamber.

“I don’t think I will. In fact, I think I need another one.”

Before Irene could say another word, her face separated from her body and flew through the air, hovering right next to Vas’s. Irene’s body, now faceless, stood next to Vas’s body, clutching her staff in the same manner Vas clutched her wand. Athlios did another evil laugh.

“Let’s see you guys FACE this!”

Vas felt her face being pulled backwards, before colliding with something. An imp. There was another brief tingling sensation as her face settled on the creature’s head, and Vas felt her consciousness merge with that of the imp’s. She could feel its body as if it were her own, and she felt its thoughts and emotions. The imp mostly just felt rage towards Vas, Irene, and their two remaining teammates. After all, the Dark Lord’s imps were made specifically to try and destroy them, after all.

The imp started to attack, striking Drac, the team’s vampire-turned-chef, into the chest with its pitchfork. Vas couldn’t control the actions of the imp, she quickly realized, she was just along for the ride. When the imp turned back to take its place on the right side of the Dark Lord, Vas saw another imp on the left side of Athlios, this one with the face of Irene. Her face looked scared, the same emotion Vas was feeling, yet hers also had a hint of acceptance on it. Which made sense, Vas thought, seeing as this is now the second time Irene’s had her face stolen and tacked to one of Athlios’ entities. The first time it had happened, her face had been attached to Cerberus, along with the faces of Drac and Loup. The same trio that had come along with Vas for this fight.

WIP Game

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title/emoji that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

⚡️Unto the Labyrinth chapter 15

🔮 Town of Anywhere chapter 32

👾 Miitopia fanfic (that’s literally the title)

🇺🇸 Recognition

👽 Star Trek: Bound In Blood

Tagged by: @rivalhughs AND @clearedpipes (y’all really wanted me to do this huh /lh)

Tagging: @toxic-luck @elephant-in-the-pride-parade @yumiribbon @chibidashie

Sorry for abandoning this blog 😭 I’ll post some stuff later!

I haven’t posted art in a while so uhhh here’s some of the characters from my fic Unto the Labyrinth if they were marketable plushies

I enjoy the Two Cakes Philosophy and I believe it deserves its place enshrined in fandom culture.

Forgive me for the extended metaphor but I also want to simultaneously celebrate what I’m calling Bakery Display Case Philosophy. You know when you walk into a bakery and the display case is full of beautiful treats? And there’s a variety of different colors, textures, and flavors to discover? And that’s so deeply exciting?

You might say to yourself, “No one is going to want to read this pairing. No one is going to want to want a character study of that character. No one wants genfic in this fandom, only shipfic.”

And you might use that to discourage yourself from writing a certain fic.

Fandoms, like bakeries, need cakes and cookies and éclairs and cream puffs and shortbread and brownies and pies and tarts and petit fours and turnovers and cinnamon rolls and madeleines and meringues—and so many other things—to survive.

Write your dark chocolate pistachio croissant fic. Your fandom needs it actually.

I am doing these for the month of November featuring side POVs from Unto the Labyrinth! I’ll post them when they’re up!

Tributember 2024

Tributember for Hunger Games! (2024 prompt list)

Tag: #tributember or #tributember 2024

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Tributember2024

Underneath the "read more" is the plain text version of it.

Plain Text Version

Title: Tributember Prompts

Instructions: If you choose to participate, write something tribute related based on the day's prompt. Actually posting what you wrote is optional.

Prompt List (30 total, with bonus number 31):

Onstage

Don't look back

Hesitation

Truce

Impossible battle

Shaking hands

Treacherous

In another time

Mentor

Forgiveness

Behind you

Warmth

Consequences

Alone

Too much to bear

Run

Can't sleep

Defiance

Anywhere but here

A rare kindness

By any means necessary

Exhaustion

Don't you dare

Thinking of home

Uneasy

A distant cannon

Regret

Worth protecting

Cornered animal

Fatal flaw

(Bonus) Hope

Quiz: Which “Unto the Labyrinth” Character Are You?

I created a fun little personality quiz based on the characters from my fic Unto the Labyrinth!

No need to have read it to take it! Let me know who you all get :)

I thought I had a queue set up, but I guess I didn’t. Whoopsies, will fix

Unto the Labyrinth: Chapter 7

Soon, the plate beneath Maze’s feet began rising, taking her with it. The tunnel plunged Maze into darkness, and she gulped, nausea clenching her stomach.

This was it.

Thirty seconds later — which felt like an eternity to Maze; the launch room must have been deep underground— she emerged into bright light. She blinked a few times, before taking in the sight of the arena before her.

Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC

Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.

But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”

So I kinda forgot about Tumblr for a while and now I have a backlog of Unto the Labyrinth chapters to post. Whoops.

I’ll be queuing those up for the next couple of days

Haven’t been on here in a while, anyways here’s plush Maze from my fic Unto the Labyrinth