VinkunWildflowerQueen FF Updates

People have asked, so here it is (It's a WIP).

If you have any categories you'd like me to add, let me know.

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Author's Favourites (of my own)

Greg Award Winners

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Post-canon

Canon compliant fics- Act 1

Canon compliant fics- Intermission

Canon compliant fics- Act 2

As Long As You're Mine centred fics

Gen/non-Fiyeraba fics

There's No Place Like Home

It's been twelve tide-turns since Elphaba last saw home.

She is tired, frustrated by her lack of progress and sometimes, dare she say it, lonely.

A tiny article from Munchkinland gives her a spark of hope- enough for her to risk returning to her homeland. Not for the place itself, but for her sister. For someone who knows her.

Because sometimes home isn't a place, it's a feeling.

This is basically what I thought "There's No Place Like Home" was going to be vibe-wise before I saw the film.

Honestly, I haven't written much in months. Other than Trope & Error in September 2025, I haven't been able to get anything done.

I have started a lot.

I have had many ideas.

But everything stalls a few paragraphs in and I think "I'll come back to that" and then... never do. And this is why I don't post anything before it's finished.

Life has been a lot and I've just... shut down, it feels like.

Life is... well, still shit tbh and is still a lot. But I'm now trying to move from shutting down to sparking something. Key word, trying.

Anyway, the point is this: I had an idea that it might be easier for my brain to actually do something if I wasn't writing something... but rather re-writing.

When I moved all my fics from FF.net to Ao3 a few years ago, the struggle to not re-write everything that made me cringe was real.

So, I am considering giving one of my early fics a "glow up" (as the kids say... right?).

I'm talking the fics I wrote my first year-ish in the Wicked fandom:

Everything from Ever Ever After in October 2010, to One Night With the King that was posted in that period of time between 2011-2012 when time isn't real- the dot above the i in "Jeremy Bearimy", as it were. (iykyk)

But I don't want to do this if no-one wants to read it. So! I would love if you would take a minute and fill out this handy Google form to help me decide which fic- if any- deserves a bit of a makeover.

The OG version would remain on FF.net and Ao3 as is. The glow up version would be posted separately.

Thank you for your time.

Honestly, that's because I haven't written much. A lot has happened this year, which means I haven't been in the best place to write.

What I HAVE written is a lot of poetry. 50+.

As a teen, it was how I processed things and tried to make sense of them, the world and myself.

It was a space for me to confess the deep and dark thoughts I didn't have anyone that was safe for me to burden them with.

And now, that's how I've felt this year. Or I didn't want to burden anyone with them.

(Except my psychologist. She said it was the first time she's started a session with "how are things?" And been handed a bunch of poems).

So I'm hoping 2026 will be a reset year and I'll be able to find comfort in making my fictional faves go through angst and drama rather than dealing with my own.

Creative Writing 102, Assignment 3: Write a scene between two characters, using at least two tropes of the mystery, romance, drama or bildungsroman genre.

Fiyero: hasn’t started. Elphaba: regrets everything.

What follows is a crash course in tropes, trust, and the fine line between friends and something else.

Musical verse. Shiz era. Pre-Fiyeraba.

read chapter 1 on Ao3

SO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOOD ENOUGH TO DATE ELPHABA THROPP?

From Here's Looking At You

“To the 27m who keeps writing in- from the girl in the pink coat: Yes, I was looking for you. I need to check out this person who is like, practically stalking my best friend! What if you’re a psychopath??? SHOW YOURSELF. Why don’t you talk to her? PS. Just FYI- she is single. But you will have to answer a carefully constructed questionnaire I’ve made before I’ll let you go out with her- you need to prove you’re good enough for her. There’s 49 questions and an essay question.”

Galinda is very protective of her best friend. School has never been Fiyero's strength. But he's game to try.

So, here's his answers. To all 49 questions- and an essay.

FFnet

She flinched.

The back of Fiyero’s hand brushed hers as they walked alongside one another across the quad, and she flinched.

Elphaba isn’t used to being touched. Not like this, not under the eyes of everyone at Shiz. But dating Fiyero comes with a different kind of stare, different kind of whispers than she’s used to.  And Elphaba has a horrendible feeling that she’s going to ruin everything. Unless something changes.

Musicalverse Shiz AU.

Inspired by Taylor Acorn’s song ‘People Watching’.

Ao3

FFnet

It was once upon a time-

As all good stories start-

A tale of love, of loss, of life,

One close to my heart.

A tale the stars yet still recall, a love

Until the end of time.

The story of Alivia and Kole in verse.

FFnet

The idea is, how well do they understand the themes, structure and techniques these poets used and can they demonstrate this by using them in their own writing?

If I can, especially with assessments that involve more creativity, I like to try and do a mock-up of the tasks. This gives the kids an idea of what to do and what it could- should- look like. However, I always tweak it somewhat so they can't just copy mine.

For example, with this task, I chose three classic poems to reimagine that we don't study, but are somewhat similar. We study Shakespeare sonnets, I chose an Italian style sonnet. We look at Poe's The Raven, I chose another Poe poem, etc.

For my Poe poem, I obviously did Annabel Lee- as some of you may know, this has been my favourite poem for many, many years. And when I needed some tragic love story to use as inspiration, I thought of Until the End of Time and the story of Alivia and Kole.

So... I wrote a poem. For the first time in years.

Is it as good as Annabel Lee? God, no.

Is it terrible? I don't think so. There's at least some lines in there that I think are pretty good.

Me, finally posting a new Fiyeraba in 2025? It's more likely than you think.

Summary:

Fiyero runs into his ex. The one who broke his heart. The one who’s now married. And very, very pregnant.

Naturally, he tells her he’s also doing GREAT. He's engaged actually. His fiancée? Just inside the bookstore.

There’s only one problem: she isn’t.

Yet.

Fiyeraba AU. Bookstore meet-cute. One fake engagement, one philosophical proposal, and a leap into something that might not be fake after all.

FFnet

2024 was not my best year.

Health issues, both with myself and within my family; my mental health really took a hit in the last quarter of the year; supporting my best friend through a lot of drama; and managing the financial stress we're all going through right now.

This always creates a catch 22 situtation, where I get blocked on writing and then not writing stresses me out more.

So I'm really glad that I was able to get out the few things I did in 2024, and grateful that people enjoyed reading them.