Welcome to my blog :)
It's been just a smidge over a year so I figured I'd replace the old pinned post :)
I'm A_MX ("A" for short if you want; "Your Grace" is also acceptable /jk). Mostly in the PJO and ATLA fandoms at the moment, occasionally writing for something else. I'm on AO3 under the same name.
What do I write? Slow burns, getting together, enemies to lovers; mostly canon divergence AUs. Trying to write more femslash lately after years of mostly slash.
Do: Leave comments, ask me about my fics or headcanons, recommend me cool fics, tell me about your writing, send asks.
Don't: Bother me with bullshit discourse, feed my stuff into any "AI", waste my time with spam, ask to collaborate unless we know each other really well, and don't "but that's not canon" or "but the author said" me.
Feel free to create transformative works based on mine ("inspired by" fics, fan art), as long as you link back to mine or tag me. For podfics or translations, please ask first. Don't crosspost / reupload elsewhere!
"What's your name? How old are you?" What are you, a cop? I'm old enough to know better; if you have to ask, you're too young.
My fannish philosophy, if you can call it that, is to be the change you want to see in the world, that's why I try to leave comments as often as I can and shout out fics I loved here on Tumblr (check the #fic rec and #reading recommendation tags on my blog, or the /fic-recs page on my blog.
There's a list of current works on the /my-stories page of my blog, but here's some pointers to stories, new and old, that are particularly dear to me:
Marked for Life is perhaps my biggest achievement so far: 120k words of "toxic yuri" Azula x Katara enemies to lovers. Set in a canon divergence AU where Azula won the last Agni Kai and took Katara prisoner. Heed the tags, the toxic yuri does, in fact, contain abuse! That dove is dead!
Like Fire and Water is also one of my best, if I may be so unhumble. A post-canon (not ToA-compliant) Clarisse x Annabeth story, just shy of 30k words. If you like grown-up characters who feel disconnected from everyone they used to know, stories dealing with police brutality, and a side of courtroom procedurals, try this one.
Osmosis is the shortest on this list, a 3.5k words observation about loss and mourning, featuring nonverbal!Percy x Nico, set an indeterminate amount of time after PJO (can be read with or without HoO in the timeline). I like to think this is one of my strongest in terms of tone.
The Hero's Hero – an older fic, but as the kids these days say, I think I cooked with this one. Cooked, served, ate. 8k words of Nico di Angelo x Luke Castellan, kind of a slow burn even though it's not quite long enough; spans post-PJO through HoO and after.
House, Home, Heir Apparent was my first ATLA fic and also, if I'm not mistaken, my first het fic. Set a years after ATLA ends without Azula's capture: Sokka finds her by accident, changed by years of exile, and as they're forced to work together for a week, he learns to love her.
The ABCs of Rivalry was my first Jercy fic and is still one I re-read every now and then to feel nostalgic about Back Then™. Just a quick 3k fic about breaking up and getting back together, but I think it's not bad.
Lastly, a few words about comments. Even though I keep pointing it out, I barely get any, so let me once again emphasise that I like, appreciate, permit, allow, ask for, and welcome concrit! I grew up with the comment culture on FFN, where they're called reviews and people write them accordingly. I owe much of my early progress learning to write fics to the relentlessly honest reviews I got when I started out. I create art and do it not least to improve; life is a never-ending challenge to learn more IMO.
Nothing I write is perfect. Far from it. I know that; I can name a thousand things I want to improve on. For the longest time, I was awful at writing dialogue and I feel like I've only recently got acceptable at it. All of my fics contain bits that are only in there because it was the best I could come up with in lack of something better and eventually settled on "ehh, it's fine, it'll do".
I want to know what I can improve on. And I want to know why people liked what they liked about my writing. I want critique.
A ton of "this is perfect I love this so much" comments are nice, but without some criticism, I feel like their value is diminished. I know there's pleny to criticise about my writing, so when nobody does, I wonder – is praise worth anything if it's given indiscriminately? If I got the same amount of "this is great" comments if I put 1⁄20 as much effort in, then why bother?
I want to grow and learn and I can't do that without criticism.
So please, if you are ever so inclined, do leave concrit. Don't trashtalk it for the sake of it, just be honest about flaws.
I am also a firm believer in not compromising in the face of half-assed crap, and that you can't have your cake and eat it too, so if I've got a mixed opinion about a fic and the author doesn't want concrit, I will say nothing at all instead. IMO the (AO3, Gen Z) trend of treating any sort of critique as a personal attack is a fatal mistake and I refuse to sanitise my reviews (FFN did it better) to sycophantically cheer on an author who wants to decide what people say or don't say about the story they put online.
