Paper Wings And Faerie Things

Jujutsu Kaisen

Our Promise - the sequel to my fic The Promise, and the second fic in the series In Servitude to the Gojo Clan - from Suguru's POV, this fic focuses on Suguru, Shoko and Satoru going to visit Suguru's parents for the winter holidays and deals with the results of abuse by the Gojo Clan

The End and The Beginning - a post-canon au where Satoru lives (and Nanako too) that focuses on Satoru learning to live with a major disability on top of his powers going whack while he and Shoko deal with the aftermath of the apocalypse; originally meant to be a lot more focused on Satoshoko (and it still is!) this has also grown into something of a Shoko character study and a dumping ground for all of my various headcanons/ideas

When The Chips Are Down - a recounting of Suguru's childhood in the series Variation Upon A Theme wherein he is half-raised by Toji and half trained to be an assassin; I struggled for a while to work out The Purpose of Suguru's fic but then I watched Naruto, and Suguru and Toji's dynamic is now very much inspired by Haku and Zabuza

Doomed Yuri Time Travel - Title not final lol - this is a sort of sequel to my fic The End Is Near (And So Is A New Beginning) which focused on the deaths of the Six Eyes and Ten Shadows of four hundred years ago, this time focusing on What Happened When They Went To Shibuya 2018

Picture Perfect - a fic that explains the origins of each of the 56 photos seen in the Hidden Inventory movie ending; feat. Arakaki Honoka, my OC who's in the year above sashisu at school and whose cursed technique revolves around cameras; also feat. SO much sashisu and a melancholic ending...(when I get there...I'm only three pictures in so far lolsob)

Shot Through The Heart - a Tojigo no curses au with a bit of background sashisu (I have vague vague plans for their tragic backstories in this au too lol) wherein Toji is a thirty-year-old single dad of two who hires recently-kicked-out-of-home highschooler Gojo Satoru to babysit them

Again and Again and Again - in which post-Night Parade Suguru gets sent back to the moment in Hidden Inventory where Satoru asks about killing all those guys...i.e. Suguru gets put into a timeloop and this sort of fixes him, maybe

Through The Storm - after a year and a half of Satoru blowing in and out of their lives, the Fushiguros realise Satoru hasn't been around for a hot minute - they end up at Jujutsu High where Satoru is currently recovering from [insert terrible injury/illness here, I have not worked that one fully out yet]

Part of Your World - Tsumiki is your run-of-the-mill hedgewitch and Toge is the siren who's been eating her onigiri and leaving her pretty gifts, and who eventually ends up in her care as a silent and strange human boy (a Togemiki Little Mermaid AU lol)

Naruto

Whelve - wherein Uchiha Madara takes on a genin team and this manages to stop him turning evil (this will eventually result in an au where he becomes Nidaime Hokage, which has a lot of impact on the Later Plot)

A Friend In Need - technically the first chapter of this is posted, as a sequel to my fic The People Who Care, but the rest of the fic is going to be Kakashi's various friends helping him out with Naruto and with learning to be a person outside of a Shinobi (I also have vague thoughts about how the plot might be impacted if Kakashi is kinda out of action for a while but I dunno if that'll work it's way in at all....)

It Takes Three Minutes To Die - Rin doesn't die when Kakashi's Chidori goes through her chest; recaptured by Kirigakure, she struggles to survive and to find meaning in that survival as the bloodthirsty nature of the village forces her to grow claws she never wanted

A History of Kirigakure - an in-universe non-fiction of Kirigakure's history, culture and society, as well as a little bit of background to the land of water as a whole; ultimately I started making this as I realised I didn't have enough knowledge about Kirigakure for the Rin Lives au lol so I decided to make some of my own and thought I might as well get it into a position it could be published and shared with people (it is nowhere near that state rn lol)

Blood Red Blossoms - a fairly self-indulgent fic where Sakura's parents die during the Konoha crush and her team rally together to help her throw it (and this, somehow, fixes everything)

Other

JJK-Naruto Crossover - Title not final lol - this is an au where the Naruto cast are put into Jujutsu Kaisen; partly inspired by the crack idea that Kakashi has Hajime's lightning power and every modern sorcerer who meets him is like...ah just like Hatake-sensei! And this absolutely incenses Hajime

So - the real question is how do we get to the point that Sauron is turning his eye on the Shire? And the answer to that is that something must have happened in the Hobbit to change history to some extent

Then I remembered my Bilbo Time Travel Fic

The thing about time travel aus is they always end up a little formulaic and I came up with this one for the purposes of Changing Things Up - like I think Bilbo's two goals once he realises what's happened is to a) get the ring and b) save Thorin

And he does not find the ring. In fact, his attempts to do so cause the story to change and he doesn't do this pivotal thing - Gollum remains underground with his Precious and Bilbo carries on with the Quest, discomfited and more determined to save Thorin in whatever way he can

But I've been contemplating what causes Bilbo to go back in time? And I am thinking that perhaps, it's related to Sauron, and he is ALSO returned through time and so becomes obsessed with destroying the hobbits because he doesn't know enough to know when the ring was picked up by the one who destroyed it - the quest for Erebor is secondary and he also abandons Dol Guldur before the white council can intervene

REGARDLESS we thus can blame these changes on Sauron - without the ring, he lacks some amount of power but he has enough to direct his orcs in this direction and poison the waters and the soils and freeze the winters, and this is already in action by the time that Bilbo arrives back at his house

(Side note: I'm thinking Kíli still dies - why? Angst lol but also because this is not necessarily a like...fix it au? More like a "hey let's see where the paths of fate take us" - Thorin survives to sit on the throne but he has several plans to abdicate to Kíli as soon as the rest of the people from Ered Luin return)

(Bilbo still returns home because a) guilt about Kíli and b) he's still wound tight with anxiety about the Ring)

Bilbo becomes pretty important pretty quickly in the Shire because he has Experience In Adventuring which means he knows people and can get advice, etc etc - they struggle through several years of meager harvests and hard winters where the wolves cross the Brandywine (determined that it will Get Better Soon) but eventually there's an actual orc attack and it is decided that they must travel again

I reckon that hobbit numbers have possibly decreased somewhat due to The Hard Times but they all congregate in one place (potentially Brandy Hall as it's the most defensible) and come to the conclusion that They Must Leave though they aren't sure where, and Bilbo is like. WELL why don't we all go ask my good friend Lord Elrond of Rivendell

Let's insert here some shenanigans because it's a bit vague in my head BUT eventually they end up in the Anduin Valley and I think this is where the first major split happens - some hobbits find the Anduin Valley and the Beornings and this whole place to be Ideal and don't want to carry on through more treacherous lands; they're tired and the Beornings have offered them space to farm

But Bilbo wants to see Thorin and the Lonely Mountain again, if he's entirely honest, and so argues against it because they are too out in the open here and the shadow of the Misty Mountains hangs over them (it worries him that he still has not found the Ring yet) - some of the hobbits stay and some of them pass through Mirkwood (accompanied by the wood elves this time, as Bilbo IS friends with their king now and WILL use the favours owed to him) and comes to Dale and the Lonely Mountain

This is about where my thoughts end because there are a lot of politics that would inevitably happen here - we have Bard who's after a decade now settled in his position as king, we have Fíli who's about to take up the mantle, you have Laketown that's rebuilding on the banks of the lake though is perhaps not as prosperous as Dale....lots going on and a small army of Hobbits comes marching in asking for aid....