Assigned Raven

(original post here)

Share something that you're working on. A draft, a snippet, an idea you're currently vibing with. Give the people a peek behind the curtain. Hmm, there's my WIP The Baby Plot that I'm determined to complete this summer, but I think I'll talk about something(s) else for this, the plot bunnies gnawing most at my ankles, vying to be the thing I next work on: My as yet unposted first RWBY fic, For Want of a Nail, currently an around 55,000 word rough draft written mostly in the last two weeks of July 2023 and first week of August 2023. I usually manage about 10,000 words in month, to give an idea of what those two-three weeks were like for me. Why haven't I posted it yet? It needs more work, and I've had other fics demanding my attention. The inline link goes to art I commissioned of a scene from it, and that sneak peek scene is included with the art (written by me, not the artist). Fair warning that it's a dark fic with some fluffy scenes, and that is one of the fluffy ones. There's also my exploration of what Maiden!Yang would be like if it happened, Not Your Sacrifice, and that's very much not fun for her or her loved ones, but hopefully will be rather more fun to read. Also there's Yellow Beauty Burns Gold, about a headcanon of mine that it's Yang's Semblance that turns her hair golden blonde, and if she doesn't use it for long enough it'll fade back to the black inherited from Raven. Incidentally there's at least several months where she doesn't use it after Volume 3... (And there's the top secret thing to get revange! on @starlightsaphron, she knows what she did, and I haven't forgotten (alas, I need brainbleach) or forgiven. I think it'll end up being posted as 'Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings' because I don't know how else to make sure there's no spoilers in the warnings and tags. I'm assured it sounds painful by a certain someone I discussed the idea with :3)

AND/OR Share a work in progress from someone else that you're excited about. Talk about what you're looking forward to or hoping for. Give the creator a shout out or a pep talk. @electronicyarn's A Different Shade of RWBY. There's many things I'm looking forward to but most of all more Bees! Yes, Yarn, I know there's just been some, however there was Bees withdrawal for so long, and I can never have enough Bees! More, pretty pls!

AND/OR Tell a creator directly that you love their WIP and why you love it - either in a comment or an ask or in tags on a post. Yarn again, just to keep things simple, because I'm pretty sure I already do that by commenting on Shade.

BONUS: share a prompt that you're never going to fill yourself (for whatever reason) and tell folks to run with it. Quite simply because I'm highly unlikely to write anything that isn't Bees or Yang centric: Qrow Branwen searching for his potential offspring after learning his vasectomy healed itself.

Looking forward to this Bees chapter! If a little nervous because you can be a little evil with your writing... not that I have any legs to stand on there, Moderately Evil Writing Buddies that we are.

Yang Xiao Long from RWBY

finally finished ^^;

EDIT: single pics in better quality: 

team RWBY

Nothing is ready to post yet, but i do feel confident that I ahve the opening line nailed down for a RWBY oneshot I'm working on(and intend to have be the first story i actually post):

Don’t fall. Whatever you do, don’t fall,’ Ruby thinks to herself.

However, I also have a tendency to get distracted by trying to work out the concept for other, long-form stories. My most recent such distraction was "what would Remnant look like by the time of V8 if Ruby hadn't been born?" This question is then meant as the setting for a "Ruby falls into that world after the events of Volume 8 instead of the Ever After" story. (So far, I've only really concluded that the situation is much more dire than the one Ruby unwillingly left, and I have no real direction for the story, too much hinges on what V10 and beyond are poised to reveal.)

Prompt that is free for anyone willing to take it (while the WIP Wednesday rules say it should be a prompt I know I won't write myself, I'm still too early in my own career to be certain of what I will or won't write, so I'll just give two that I know can be taken in so many ways that I'm not going to ever be able to cover them all)(Both are RWBY prompts, because I have so many ideas):

1: "Following Summer Rose's disappearance, Raven Branwen makes an effort to be an active presence in Yang and Ruby's lives." This sentence covers it, but more expansively: what would the effects be if Raven changes her mind about being a deadbeat, fleeing towards, rather than away from, her child(ren) (I have a slight preference for Rosebird(parents) here, but the concept does not inherently need any connection between Ruby and Raven beyond "Ruby is Summer's child and Yang's sibling" to exist prior to the divergence outlined in the prompt.)

Full of Stars

Bumbleby Anniversary 2026 Day 8

Fandom: RWBY

Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long Ruby Rose/Weiss Schnee

Read From the Beginning

Summary:

What if the world was a more sinister place than anyone ever imagined? What if no one was truly safe?

Several months after Team RWBY’s encounter with Jaune Arc, Weiss and Ruby are moving on with their lives, blissfully unaware of the darkness lurking at the fringes of civilization. Meanwhile, Yang and Blake must contend with the consequences of their choices and the horrible toll their sins will demand from them.

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Ruby honestly had no idea what she was supposed to be feeling at the moment. She and her team were all in the conference room at Weiss’s office, waiting for Oscar to make his appearance. Ruby was trying to be hopeful, optimistic even, but it seemed that all she could manage at the moment was apprehension.

Despite all the chairs surrounding the conference table in the center of the room, no one was sitting. Yang was leaning against a wall with her arms crossed. Blake had claimed her customary corner in the back. Weiss was standing by the room’s closed door, staring intently at it. And Ruby herself was skulking behind Weiss, nervously wringing her hands.

Ruby was shocked by how easy it had been for her to forget that the Hound existed while she’d been all wrapped up in her wedding, but now, reality had rudely come calling. The news story about that poor woman with silver eyes had really driven home for Ruby how inescapable the Hound was. She couldn’t tell if she was being paranoid, but she was utterly convinced that the Hound would find her sooner or later, whether she was ready for it or not.