RoseDeVents

Hi, I’m new here. 

I have no idea what I’m doing with Tumblr, but I’m trying to increase the engagement I crave from my writing. Sometimes it feels pathetic how excited I get to receive a comment on my Archive of Our Own stories. And sometimes I wish I could send out an update. Like, “hey I know I said I was going to post the next chapter today, BUT ...” Or maybe get a little encouragement. Or a pulse check on a new story idea. 

That’s why I’m making an attempt with this ... page? ... social medium? ... blog? Whatever this thing is, I’m going to try it. I’ve been asked a few times if I have a Tumblr and the excuse of “I don’t know what that is” has worn thin. 

Now, the story about my usernname: A few years ago, I bought a very simple yet expensive Dior necklace. I love to travel, and the design reminded me of a compass. Christian Dior loved eight-pointed stars, and his design is called a “wind rose.” I learned the wind rose is a symbol for travel and adventure, and that seemed perfect. I have always loved this necklace as a symbol for my world traveling, and always vaguely remembered the collection was called “rose de vents.” It is, in fact, “rose des vents.” 

Rose des vents means compass. Rose de vents means wind rose. I’ve never studied French, but I think leaving off the one “s” might change the meaning entirely. Like, now it’s just two words together versus something with meaning. Perhaps the mistake is akin to writing shift without the “f,” or perhaps the French wouldn’t expect an American to get it right anyway. 

It took me more than a year to realize my typo. A year of posting stories on Archive of Our Own as “RoseDeVents,” thinking it evoked my worldy ways and not ... something that is probably meaningless. I tried to change my username and add that extra “s,” but apparently “RoseDesVents” is taken by some other  travel-loving fool. Or someone who is named Rose. 

I guess it doesn’t really matter, in the end. I use the name to remain anonymous, like I’m sure most do with usernames. And if you’ve read any of my more depraved stories, maybe you can see why. I’d rather not have my real name in big letters next to the absolute filth that simmers in my mind, begging to be written down and shared.

2020 was a tough year, to say the least. I don’t even know how I got the idea to peruse fanfiction on one, I’m sure, very boring day locked down in my house. Once I let myself have the guilty pleasure, I became ravenous for it. I think I probably read more in eight months of that year than the previous five years combined. The more I read, the more ideas I had. Eventually, I started writing them down and turning them into my own stories. And when I was brave enough to create an account, for some reason my fanciest necklace popped in my head. I wanted to keep it fandom-neutral in case my little hobby went on for a while. After a year of posting continuously, I can say it will go on for at least a while longer – I’m at 31 stories and counting. 

I will always be grateful that the pandemic brought me back to my love of writing, which was a passion I thought died out years ago. I truly appreciate Archive of Our Own and the accessibility to so many wonderful stories. I’ve tried fanfiction.net but I don’t like the functionality as much, so let me know if you ever see my stories cross-posted there or anywhere else - that isn’t me! 

This was probably way too long, right? Well, all of it was to say: Hi, you can call me Rose. I will be posting here about my writing, but I can’t promise there won’t be a few typos now and again. 

I've been in my head about posting my 50th story on Ao3 for, regrettably, years. Should it be the sequel to my Slytherin Toy story? Should it be a gift fic to another writer? Should it be one of the countless WIPs that I pick up and put down every other month?

Paralyzed by choice, I haven't posted anything new since 2023.

But today is the day, and it's been a loooong time coming.

Like everyone else, I have become obsessed with queer hockey players over the past few months, and the men of Heated Rivalry have inspired my new breeding kink story, "Breed You." I'm posting a few pictures here so I can link to them in my story. I hope that is a thing that still works :)

Check out my story on Ao3 and let me know what you think!

I'm not sure when this happened, but at some point recently, I crossed over 1 MILLION hits on my stories!! What a milestone! Though, to be transparent ... 468,000+ of those are for my most read story, Breed.*

Also, despite not posting for months, my number of user subscriptions on Ao3 keeps rising. Maybe they're mostly bots, but I hope not :) I really appreciate that people want to read what I write!

NaNoWriMo always takes a lot out of me and this year was no exception, especially since I had to go hard in the final days to get 50K words. But this year was also unique because I wrote my first original story! Wait, not wrote – that would imply I actually finished it. No, it is a Work In Progress like a lot of other things, and speaking of ...

I've been pushing myself to update my incomplete stories and dubbed this "updates week" for myself. This weekend I am planning to update three stories:

The Curse of 100 - finally finished the next chapter after having it half done for a few months ...

The Idol & The Football Star - I've decided to end with a third chapter because I am not as inspired on this as I want to be. It still feels weird writing about real people, especially with new information constantly coming out about them that changes the story. I have an idea to do a paranormal AU with a witch Taylor and werewolf Travis but not sure when I'll have time to write it ...

and, the most triumphant update:

New Year's Eve Wedding Week - which hasn't been updated in TWO years! Because I only want to write it at this time of year, ya know? Well, and also I dove headfirst into writing Dramione over Biospecialist ... but I always intended to finish this and it will be - hopefully very soon!

Good things are coming in 2024!

'Severance' is complete!

The final chapter of Severance is finally posted! It is also being cross-posted in Russian here by Natyfantastic with this incredible art by RaspberryJellyfish.

Isn’t it ironic ... that in the process of writing the ending to Severance, I was offered a severance package by my company? This past month or so has been wild, and unfortunately hasn’t been very conducive to writing. If you’re wondering when the next chapter is coming, I don’t know yet. I’m on my third rewrite of Chapter 11 lololololol but maybe third time’s the charm? I hope to have it done soon though, especially since I ...

... totally dropped the ball on The Curse of 100. I had the best of intentions in January when I said regular updates were coming! What a cliche I’ve become. I have a list of excuses – being intimidated by the glory hole chapter even though I’m also excited to write it; wanting to finish Severance so I can put all my focus on 100; and then getting wrapped up in my Call Me Daddy fest fic again – but then I remind myself that I’m supposed to be enjoying this. It’s not a job or a chore, so that means I can take my time.

I found out a few weeks ago that the HP Call Me Daddy Fest was happening again, and with the success I’ve had from Breed I felt as if my honor was being questioned if I didn’t participate.

I thought I had a pretty great approach for coming up with what I thought would be a quick one-shot. I looked through my doc of story ideas and picked out ones that would fit the fest parameters. Then I did sprints on each topic and the one that flowed the easiest, I decided to write.

14,000 WORDS AND THREE WEEKS LATER: I finally finished it! I am a week late, but the organizers said they would still let me in ... even though I only asked for one extra day and that turned into seven ... whoops ...

This is my explanation for why I haven’t finished Severance and why I already stopped updating regularly on The Curse of 100. I don’t know if this expression makes any sense, but I got lost down a plot hole. I couldn’t get anything done until I finished the fest fic, but I think fans of my other stories are going to find it is right up their alley!

I gave myself a challenge over the holidays to blackout my bingo card for the Harry Potter Fanfiction Club server and write a series of stories. It was a labor of love, but somewhat slapped together to get it all in by Christmas. I would really appreciate it if more people would read the full series but most readers - unsurprisingly - are getting drawn to the explicit “Mistletoe” story that is Pansy/Ron, NottPott and Dramione. I haven’t written for two of the three ships before and I must say it was delightful.

I have a new story out!!

I’m so excited to share it since I’ve been working on it on and off for at least 6 months. It’s also my 35th story on Ao3 woooo!

Like probably many other people, I creeped on Ao3 long before I actually made an account. And I didn’t make an account until I wanted to start posting.

I thought I missed my chance to post about my Archive of Our Own anniversary, which was Nov. 2, but then I checked the first story I posted and its published date - Dec. 4. I think that is a more accurate representation of what I wanted to post anyway: since joining Ao3 two years ago, I’ve posted more than 600,000 words on the site.

Six.

Hundred.

Thousand.

Like ... what?? That’s insane! And sometimes I think that number should really be higher, but I’m not about to go total up all the things I haven’t published yet.

Some other astounding stats:

Nearly 9,000 kudos

Almost 1,000 comment threads

More than 500,000 hits