It’s up to us to return that kindness

Hi, you can call me Cal, I'm Dutch and use any pronouns. I'm not online very much and tend to get overwhelmed quickly, so I might not always reply to messages/asks.

Witch Hat Atelier

Material Girls: gen character study; each of the members of the atelier get a little shopping trip to themselves. Fluff with a dash of angst.

Common Ground: gen adventure focusing on the dynamic between a young Easthies and Qifrey as they're forced on a playdate together. Humor and slight character study.

the letters and lies we bestow: orufrey, half-epistolary, half-vignettes of the messages shared during Qifrey's travels, and the reveal of which lies those letters held. Angst with a hopeful ending.

The Wise and the Torch: orufrey and arcko canon-divergence AU in which the pact of pain was not upheld and Qifrey and Olruggio have both reached fame and success, but at the cost of being unable to be together. Due to reasons explained here, I am not posting this on ao3, so congrats, you've found the only existing link to the first part of this fic. (will upload the link to the second part once it is completed.)

Bright One, Make It Real: orufrey time loop fic, inspired by In Stars and Time. Heavy heavy angst, focus on mental illness struggles.

Other fandoms I've written for:

Amphibia

Dungeons and Daddies

The timing of this ask is so funny, I swapped out my pinned post explaining atobaoi's status with my new pinned post literally yesterday. Incredible timing. Thanks for reminding me to add that explanation to the post.

All good, I was planning to make a post about it but I kinda forgot lol

I deleted it because I noticed I wasn't dealing well with receiving (very sweet and kind!) feedback on it, little hard to put into words why. Wise and Torch is a really special passion project between me and my sister (we've spent well over 50 hours on-call talking about it), and when I posted it, that passion just dropped from a 100 to a 0. I guess it was just too personal a thing to offer up to the public, but I couldn't have known this was the case until after I posted it. Whatever, good lesson, I know how my boundaries work.

Right now I have two plans for it bc I do hate just making a fic disappear. I'm gonna clean part 1 (chapter 1 - 7) up tomorrow, put it all in a google doc, and have a link to that doc in my pinned post. I'll just keep doing my thing the next month or two, keep writing and keep the story between me and my sister, and then when part 2 is done I'll link that in a doc as well.