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I wrote eleven fics for MCYTblr Aufest Battleship. Eleven! And I actually like all of them and am even proud of some. Go me!

A Cast of His Face for Kaesa, Hermitcraft
1k, Bdubs/Etho, fantasy AU
Summary: Twelve days, five hours, and twenty-two minutes after Etho died, he walked into Bdubs' office.
Author's Note: The first fic I wrote for this event. I had the idea for a story combining Major Character Death + cloning + paperwork and this came out. I tried for a combination of funny and heartbreaking, and from the comments I succeeded :)

Undeath Certificate for salemoleander, Hermitcraft
0.3k, Cub&Cleo, afterlife
Summary: There's been an error with the paperwork regarding Cleo's afterlife.
Author's Note: Another case of "I looked at a tag combination and got an idea I really liked," in this case immortality + deity AU + paperwork. Perfectly suited for ZombieCleo, of course, and manager Cub.

In the Oldest Cell for januarymorning, Hermitcraft
1.6k, Grian/Cub/Scar, fantasy AU outsider PoV
Summary: I'd been alone in my cell for fourteen years when they finally threw someone else in with me again. An avian, with red and purple and blue feathers.
Author's Note: Same thing again. I loved coming up with stories for specific words even back in school. And writing low pressure first person outsider PoV was fun and surprisingly easy.

The Last Task in Grumbot for Kaesa, Hermitcraft
0.9k, Grian & Mumbo & Scar, among us mech AU
Summary: Mumbo had insisted on checking on Grian's mech one last time.
Author's Note: We were getting closer to the end of the board and needed more hits on Major Character Death, among us AU, mech AU, darkfic, and a few others, so this happened. Also featuring tasty betrayal.

Who will you eat tomorrow so we can rule together for zoewinter1, Hermitcraft
0.3k, Docm77, Among Us AU
Summary: The massive solar storm that made it necessary for all planetary bases to evacuate to the orbital station was the best thing that could have happened for Doc's cover. The dragon was a nice bonus.
Author's Note: We were close to clearing the board and needed more Among Us AU, iirc I wrote this on my way to work on public transport. Did not expect to write vore tbh ^^ and I had never written Docm before but I think it came out well.

I wrote these first five fics in four days btw. Something in the lava down in the Nether.

Soulmate Bond (Homebrew) for ggumdrop, Hermitcraft
0.6k, Cub & Scar, D&D AU
Summary: "Cub, I need you to listen to me."
"Who are you?“"
"I'm your soulmate. That's why you can hear me even in the antimagic field."
As soon as the voice mentions being your soulmate, you recognize where it's coming from: there's a tug inside of you, an invisible string connecting you to someone else. (Don't worry about it, it's homebrew.)
Author's Note: I rested during the first boss fight but came right back for the second board, and I think the idea of using 2nd person PoV for a D&D-style narration was cool. (I wrote parts of this during my lunch break at work. Seriously what was in that lava.)

Sounds So Splendid for zoewinter1, Life Series
0.3k, Gem & Scott & Impulse, space opera AU
Summary: “Impulse. We're a rock band on a space station. Why in the never-ending event horizon have you signed us up to be background musicians for an opera?"
“Because of the tax break, of course."
Author's Note: Iirc someone mentioned hitting space opera by having an actual opera in space somehow and I could not resist. I was also glad to get a hit on "taxes," I would have been disappointed otherwise. And I was particularly happy with the title for this one.

Teammates for Life for Sharo, Hermitcraft/MCC
0.8k, Cub&/Scar, canon divergence
Summary: Scar is anxious to meet his MCC teammate Cubfan135 for the first time.
Author's Note: I thought "canon divergence" and "different first meeting" would go very well together, thought of Convex, and then of MCC. I had fun with this one, especially making up a history for AU Cub (yes he won Minecraft Monday together with Techno, because I said so.) I had to do research!, look up MCC records and stuff, that was fun too.

A Dangerous Prize for Alice_not_Alice, Hermitcraft
4.2k, Etho & Cleo, fantasy AU
Summary: King Ren gives Cleo to General Etho as a war prize, not knowing that there are plans in motion.
Author's Note: Alice likes fae!Etho, fey bargains, power imbalances, situations where Character A is compelled by outside forces to hurt or bind Character B, and a bunch of other tasty things, and I was planning to write them something from the beginning. It took a while to finish because I had to figure out the ~scale, but I was happy with the roles I found for the characters. My one contribution to the grand battle against the Wither Storm.

The Upside of the Downside for Odaigahara, Hermitcraft
2.9k, Grian/Cub/Scar, Pyre fusion
Summary: As the Nightwings' Reader, Grian has a difficult choice to make before his first Liberation Rite. Who should have the chance to be freed from their exile? Cub and Scar would make the decision easier, if he could believe them.
Fusion with Pyre (Video Game)
Author's Note: Speaking of fics that I planned early, took me a while to figure out, and where I was happy with the roles I found for the cast: this one. I saw "video game fusion," looked at my Steam library, saw "Pyre," and could not get the idea out of my head. And it seems like I succeeded in making it understandable for people without knowledge of the game, which is good. I really like how the fusion turned out and might even be thinking of writing more in this AU one day (will probably not happen but who knows.)
I was very efficient with tags on this one considering how long it is (I got 27), that also felt good.

Potato Blossom Magic for im_always_stressed, Dream SMP
0.4k, Technoblade/Philza, sex pollen aftermath
Summary: Admittedly, out of everyone to get caught in a potato blossom cloud with, Philza wasn't the worst option.
Author's Note: We were very close to finishing the third board and sex pollen was one of the few tags still needed. I don't remember how I got the idea for this Techno/Phil snippet (which I wrote on my phone during my commute) but it was fun. It's been a while since I watched either of them so I rewatched parts of Techno's turtle stream and was reminded just how great they were together.

Aand that's it! 11 works and 13.469 words in total, over 17 days. I had such a great time. Hermitcraft is now my most-written fandom on AO3 with 20 works, followed by SGA with 17.

And I could not resist signing up for multifandom Battleship, which starts this weekend. I'm planning to take it a little slower, and I still need to add more prompts, but I also wasn't planning to do this much for MCYT Battleship so who knows.

Thanks to my mom, who volunteered to come help me on Saturday, my new study room is already looking quite nice! Unfortunately the wifi in this room is much much worse - DD has said it wasn't great but I didn't realize how bad, it keeps cutting off. I got so frustrated that on Monday evening I decided to move the modem from one room to the other since it looks like there is also a suitable thingy near the electrical outlet, but it didn't work and then the wifi promptly also stopped working in the first room when I moved it back. ...my nerves did not like that, wow, I had not realized I was so close to freaking out.
Yesterday I came home late so I couldn't look at it, but today I tried turning it off and on again and it works again! What a relief. Now before I move it to the study room (which definitely needs to happen before my online exam next month) I'll do some more research.
I'm also procrastinating on studying by tidying (among other things), which, could be worse but still. Have I mentioned I have an exam in a month.


I'm enjoying cleaning out my post drafts though. Feels good. This time, some notes I made about Dream SMP videos/vods/streams I watched and didn't post for whatever reason, back in 2022-2023. Solely for my own recollection.

( Quackity 1 million followers celebration, ft. being hunted by Techno )

( Blueberry TV Dream SMP season 2 )

( Tommy Exile Arc )

( Revivebur visits Phil, Tommy visits Las Nevadas, Mumza visits the server, George visits his nightmares )

( The Masquerade )

Works reveal for hurtcomfortex was a week ago. Sadly I didn't find as much time to go through the collection as I might have wanted, but I still found a few stories I want to rec. All different MCYT fandoms, for variety ^^

With The Venom In My Mouth by antimony_medusa
Fandom: Dream SMP
13.6k, Phil & Techno, time-travel & de-aging
Summary: [...] Or: Philza gets sent back to his childhood and finds it's fucked up. What could make this worse? Oh, oh finding that Techno is in danger, that's just great.
Why I love it: This was written for me (for the prompt "Time Travel - Meeting younger version of loved one and finding them in a bad state") and it's fantastic. I love the worldbuilding with the strict class system and the flying stone islands, I love Phil struggling with being a child again and having strict parents, I love his determination to get himself and Techno out, I love the character voices, and I love how the story develops with its many different kinds of delicious h/c.
Canon knowledge required: I don't think so, but not sure.

move your feet from hot pavement by Odaigahara
Fandom: SMP Earth
2.8k, Techno & Phil, AU (but in rough SMP Earth setting)
Summary: Three years of nonstop battle. Three years of campaigning, of concocting plans and holding things together as budgets faltered and superiors demanded more, as fellow generals assumed he could conjure miracles and therefore failed to actually show up as reinforcements, and Techno’s own side had pulled the rug out from under him. They’d mismanaged so much of the war that defeat had become the favorable option, and then none of them had wanted to take the consequences onto their shoulders.
There had to be a show of faith, they’d said. The Antarctic Empire had traditions when it came to graciously accepting an enemy surrender, and one of them was the delivery of some important adversary into their hands.
Why I love it: Techno thinks he was handed over to Emperor Philza to be executed, mmm the angst is so good. Great character voices.
Canon knowledge required: I don't think so, but not sure.

the only theory they can't prove by Odaigahara
Fandom: Hermitcraft
2.8k, Joe Hills & ZombieCleo, time-travel to an apocalyptic future (CN: body horror and other creepiness)
Summary:“You’re going to nuke the server after we’re done here, aren’t you?” Cleo interrupted.
“Well, yes,” Joe said, faltering, “seeing as you’re the only person we can reasonably extract.”
“Then forget about it. It’s not likely to be real anyway, is it? You’re from the present. This is just a possibility you conned into existing.”
His mouth felt very dry, and it was difficult to speak. The eyes on the walls strained to watch him, dewy and frightened, and the eyes on ZombieCleo were steely and determined and more than a little resigned.
“You’re right,” he managed. “I mean, that’s a reductive but accurate way to describe this situation, and we are going to solve it, so there’s no reason to dwell on the horrific particulars. That is a job for therapy, which you and probably also I will require in spades.”
Why I love it: The author did a great job creating a horrifying apocalyptic future, that somehow still made me nod and go "yeah, it's Hermitcraft, this tracks." Ahem. I really like the character voices too.
Canon knowledge required: Probably yes.

I'm currently procrastinating on a bunch of stuff so I finally cleaned up my notes on the various DSMP finales.

Wilbur did a whole goodbye series, I already posted about the last part, and also about Quackity's Las Nevadas finale.

( Egglore finale )


( Sam & Boomer finale )


( Discduo 4-parter finale )


( Syndicate lore finale )

Yesterday was MCC 27, aka MCC Underdogs, and the third anniversary of MCC. ( MCC spoilers )

Today is also Tommy and Tubbo's last DSMP lore stream (for this season), I'm excited. The first three parts were very dramatic and I bet the ending will be even more so. Part three ended only about twenty minutes before MCC began, that was a mood whiplash ^^

Second day of Vienna Comic-Con, I had a great time again. I was proud of myself that I resisted the urge to buy all the things, but I did buy one book (half because it sounded interesting and half because the author was very nice) and a Minecraft heat change mug and a coaster and a pretty bookmark with spooky eyeball art to hang on our kitchen wall and a ring. I don't usually wear rings but this one looks like a tiny sleeping blue and gold glittery dragon and I couldn't resist.

So much great cosplay again. Like yesterday there were many people in fairly simple store-bought costumes, especially in Akatsuki cloaks, and several Trafalgar Laws. I also saw a great Molly and Yasha (and I got a few compliments for my Gilmore's Glorious Goods shirt.) And three people in NHL merch for some reason? And while yesterday I didn't see anything for my shiny new fandom, this time I saw three people in Techno merch and also a Ranboo, an Alivebur, a great Quackity with yellow wings, and a whole group consisting of Tommy, Techno, Quackity, Ranboo, Dream, and Ghostbur. (And maybe Hannah? She was sitting with the others but I didn't recognize her outfit, not sure if she was even in costume, but she was wearing a flower dress and a tiara.)

I already look forward to the next one! And then Worldcon in Glasgow 2024 :)
And now I will stop procrastinating on studying, self.

I watched Wilbur's DSMP finale! Not live because I was at a birthday party (where I learned about Diggy Diggy Hole and happened to meet a Hermitcraft fan), but I looked up spoilers on the way home, and then DD and I watched it for breakfast. It was somehow perfectly fitting. Cc!Wilbur is a combination of dramatic emo kid and an agent of chaos, and the finale for c!Wilbur was both emotional and ridiculous. Also there are so many cracky lore implications xD

( Spoilers )

My parents are currently on vacation, so like last year DD and I are at their place enjoying the garden and the nearby river. We collected three bowls of plums so far and the tree still looks full.

In a display of spectacular timing I got sick. At least according to the symptoms and the quick test it seems to be not covid but it still sucks. To cheer myself up I'm posting the first chapter of the fic I've been working on: originally I wanted to wait until the first draft is done but it's about 90% done, good enough.

Speaking the Other Language
Fandom: Dream SMP
WIP, chapter ¼, 5.7k
Summary: Breaking the cycle of revenge and violence is hard.
Pre-Doomsday AU: Tommy finds out that Technoblade wants to destroy L'Manberg. He tries to find a different solution.
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Pre-Doomsday War, solving problems with communication, which requires a lot of talking, Reluctant Allies to Less Reluctant Allies, Enemies to Enemies-But-Ceasefire, accidental diplomat Tommy, nuclear standoff except Techno has withers and Tubbo does not have nukes yet

I really should get an icon for this fandom…

More DSMP thoughts! Ft. Doomsday and up to the end of season 2.

( Mostly Techno VODs, some others )

I'm also rewatching episodes quite a bit for fic research purposes. (The story just keeps growing…)
Maybe I should get an icon, idk what of though.

A few days ago I heard that Technoblade died. I had no idea who he was but when I learned that he was a very popular Minecraft streamer I decided to check out a few of his videos. I started with the Potato Wars: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. I enjoyed them, so I watched a few others and enjoyed those too, and then I started watching his Dream SMP videos.

( ...and accidentally fell into a hole. )

I have no idea how long I'll stay interested, maybe I will have forgotten all about it next week, but for now I really look forward to watching more of Technoblade's videos. His death (at only 23) is a tragedy, fuck cancer. He would have made so many jokes about how many views and subscribers he got after his death.