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This technically isn't one of my fics, but it's still really good and I wanted to put this here anyway. I may have stayed up a teensie bit later than expected, since I'm not used to colouring or rendering. Enjoy, @itslivybear ! For the @livyartdump

How did this angry, feral 8 year old become Dick???????!!!!

How did this sweet, happy 13 year old become JASON!!?????

Dick: We’ll make the pies! What could possibly go wrong?

*Meanwhile in Star City*

golly gosh what could it be

oh wow I actually drew MHA fanart for the fir4st time in like a year

This is fanart for this fic:

Zutopia - Itslivybear - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia [Archive of Our Own] A friend is making a podfic of it and this is gna be in the videos!!!!!! ACK so exciting

I, being a lover of fashion history as well as an insufferable pedant, corrected them by saying that both the year(s) it takes place in as well as many of the technological and cultural influences seen in the world are actually more in line with the subsequent, much shorter era known as the…

the Edwardian era.

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

Izuku is born during the year of the rabbit and he is OVERJOYED to have such an useful quirk! Sure, having to hug a girl every time he needs to use his power is a little embarrassing but it's perfect for stealth mission.

This is an AU where Katsuki and Izuku are friends because Izuku is ridiculously cute and fluffy when he is a rabbit and if people are mean, he doesn't let them pet him.

Izuku still gets OFA and for some reason, can immediately use it at 100% but only when he is a bunny. To avoid the bone breaking, Izuku has no choice but to bunny up. The Todoroki vs Midoriya fight at the Sport Festival was the funniest thing ever.

Izuku doesn't realize that his quirk isn't a quirk until UA, when Aizawa uses Erasure on him. Izuku doesn't change and keeps doing whatever mischief he was up to.

FMA x BOTW AU i actually gave this so much thought and i really like it so les go

For our core cast we have Ed and Al as Link (kinda sorta) and Winry as Zelda.

Winry is in this AU actually the Queen of Hyrule, having inherited the kingdom in her teenage years when her parents died unexpectedly and before the Calamity she is still very much just a teen. The stress of that combined with the weight of the prophecy and her not being able to unlock her sacred power does not go well with her. She often escapes to guardian and mechanical research to ignore her responsibilities.

Ed and Al are Winry's childhood friends and personal guards. The two are exceptional swordsmen and they found the Master Sword in the Lost Woods at a young age. They try to help Winry whenever they can with her responsibilities and push her to go have a little fun every once in a while.

OK AND ON TO THE CHAMPIONS im actually most excited about this part

For the Zora we have Champion Maes, King Roy, and the head of the Zora Guard Riza. Ed, Al, and Winry often visited Zora's Domain and Winry is especially close with Maes.

For the Gorons we have Champions Sig and Izumi. Izumi was Ed and Al's old teacher who lives in Goron City. They failed to mention that Izumi is in fact a Hylian when talking about her to Winry, so Izumi was Winry's first pick for a Goron Champion. Sig and Izumi both fill the Champion role anyways haha

For the Rito we have Champion Ling, picked out of his many siblings in hopes of someday becoming the Chieftan of Rito Village. Ed and Ling have an ongoing rivalry.

For the Gerudo we have Chief May. May is especially close with Winry and the two often visit each other, aiding each other in times of any need both as young leaders of their kingdoms.

When the Calamity occurs, Ed and Al almost die protecting Winry from the guardians, Ed losing his arm and leg and Al full on dying. Winry activates her powers then and manages to save Al's soul in the Sheikah Slate (if Mineru can do it then Hylia incarnate can figure it out) and save Ed from dying. She brings Ed to the shrine of resurrection and tasks Pinako and Paninya to build Ed a new arm and leg and Al a new body from her blueprints in the Sheikah Slate. As much as she'd rather work on them herself, Calamity Ganon is still out there. So she heads to the castle alone to contain Calamity Ganon.

Al is given a new body and stays on the Great Plataeu waiting for Ed to wake up. Initially Pinako and Paninya stay with him, but Al convinces them that it's ok for them to leave. They still visit him every once in a while until they're gone.

100 years later, King Roy and Captain Riza are still trying to find a way into Vah Ruta in desperate hope that Maes is still alive in there somewhere. The Gerudo have a male Chieftain only referred to as 'Scar'. There is a rumor that Rito Champion never died within Vah Medoh and instead escaped (or became) the blight that plagued all the other Divine Beasts

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Ok gonna explain some of my thought processes behind these choices under the cut >:D

You move into a house and aw cute, it has the kids height on the walls but you notice there's a three foot difference in height between measurements, you check the date, they're a month apart. The final measurement is on the ceiling. It's dated two days ago.

You're part of a recovery team that have finally found a stranded ship, they were found too late and have all passed a long time ago. They all died of starvation. You enter their storeroom, it's filled with food. In the dining hall you find the tables laden with perfectly fine looking breads, cakes, cured meats, jams, candies. Your medic says all the people sitting at the table didn't eat a Thing.

You wake up in an apocalypse. You can't find anyone at all as you wander the streets but you do hear faint music playing from somewhere. You stumble into a supermarket, to see all the aisles still full, except for the shelf that was full of ear plugs, which look to be the only thing that was looted.

Like there's light, sound, props. Having a street where every house is decimated except for One. Landing on a planet known for having No Water and a plant is growing and you don't know where it could have possibly gotten moisture from but you can't find the citizens Anywhere.

I'm sorry, I'm just kinda over the "graffiti on the wall to show the bad guy is around". That's not environmental storytelling that's just normal story. Show me I'm in the villains territory by the rain suddenly cutting out above me as I'm driving, even though it's meant to be raining all night. I park the car and step out, and realise the constellations are Wrong, until I see they're Not constellations, they're the blinking lights of a massive ship-

kill someone

ask this question: “What could go wrong?” and write exactly how it goes wrong

switch the POV from your current character to another - a minor character, the antagonist, anyone

stop writing whatever scene you’re struggling with and skip to the next one you want to write

write the ending

write a sex scene

use a scene prompt

use sentence starters

read someone else’s writing