FAGE... The 13th Gift for SapranoStewart (and extras)

 The first time I ever joined FAGE was last year for FAGE 12, but I rejoined this year, and this year I was challenged, because I was given a set of fandoms that I didn't feel comfortable with and/or didn't really know. I finally decided on doing a Luigi/Daisy story as my giftee requested. 

From there, I was given four very broad prompts, and I went with the one I knew I could use, and that was 'reveals themself to be a shapeshifter.' It was a prompt I was sure I could work with. And even before I started the story I had an idea of how I wanted it go, but as is fairly common for when I write a story, it took an abrupt left turn.

Part of that abrupt left turn ended with me having not one, not two, but three different endings. However, most fanfiction sites frown on the idea of 'choose your own adventure,' so I chose the happiest of the three endings... even if, had I wrote this story for myself, I would have chose one of the others.

It's mainly because of those that I am writing this post, but before I share those, I wanted to mention that some people may notice little easter eggs to other games, movies, shows, songs, and more  hidden in the entirety of Sarasa Nightmare... I assure you, that was deliberate.

For the main story, you can visit one of five sites that I have it posted in:

Click the image for fanfiction.net

Click HERE for Ao3

Click HERE for Stars

Click HERE for Adult FF

Click HERE for ADifferentForest

And now for the extras:

Post-Story

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Luigi slid down the front of Daisy's door, sitting against it uneasily as the beast that Daisy had become roared loudly.

There was a loud bang as the beast obviously rammed into something.

For the next several minutes, the ruckus continued, but eventually it slowed.

As the noise died down, Luigi closed his eyes, promising himself that he'd sleep for just a minute.

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“Come on, Luigi!”

The loud voice woke him, and he sat up in his bed at home with a sudden start, blinking up at Mario.

“It's Princess Peach's birthday party, bro. You're going to make us late!”

“What?”

Mario gave him an exasperated look. “Would you hurry up? You know Peach has her friend coming from that neighboring kingdom. Princess Daffodil... Dahlia... Dandelion... Something like that. Let's go.”

Luigi shook his head in confusion, not quite able to believe that the last few years of his life had all been some sort of dream, or maybe a nightmare.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words (Micro) Holiday Edition Submissions and Winner

 A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words decided to put on a holiday based contest that was focused on the images, using fifty word (or less) stories to chronicalize the image. As with most contests, I did enter. I submitted two entries, one of which, won a prize.

My first submission was Failed It!

It's a short driblet entailing Renee's failure as a baker.

The second is A Viking Yule and winner of the White Elephant Award (an award for a story that doesn't fit any category)

This is based around the wild hunt, for now just a driblet, but eventually I do intend to extend it out to a full length one-shot.

As always, my entries are now posted on both FFN and ADifferentForest. 

A Bit About My Thirst Submissions

By the time this posts, the results for the Thirst Contest will have been posted, though as I write this, it is still several days away. I am writing this completely unaware as to if I will get lucky and win a prize or if that will be another day of bad luck - which, given the way the voting was set up, I suspect the latter.

For the record, had I known going into the contest that the only thing the readers would be able to vote for were the specialty awards and not the traditional top three, I wouldn't have even entered. 

Here's a bit about why.

Anyone who reads my stories can pretty much safely say that I tend to write outside the norm. I'm not afraid to make people hate me and I don't write a story for a contest just to go the standard route. For the record, if you don't know what the standard is, it's an E/B HEA romance... typically with minimal to no angst. That's not me. Over the years I've had people call me the queen of angst, and though I will write E/B, they have to earn that HEA if I decide to give it to them. More often than not, I don't even bother. 

Once in a rare while one of my contest entries will actually get a popularity award, even though my stories aren't the standard. And when that happens it makes me certain I did something right. I actually impressed people enough that they voted for my Lauren story (Lost But Not Forgotten) or my Julie story (For the Dogs) or my Victoria story (Tenetur Per Sanguine). For me, awards like this are extremely satisfying. And unfortunately, with the way this contest is set up, there's almost no award the readers can vote on that works with either of my two stories. 

The two stories I entered into the Thirst Contest were Take It Back and Imprint of Yore, two very opposite stories. 

So, let's talk about Take It Back:

A lot of the people that reviewed this story during the contest have asked for me to continue it. I want people to understand, that I wrote a complete story, and I have no intention of continuing it. I gave the E/B lovers a glimpse of potential hope, but in my mind I don't see a continued story ending in anything other than tragedy. 

Bella has lost everything. She's been through literal, spiritual, and mental hell. And there's one of two ways to look at it. Either everything she's been through is her fault or it's all Edward's fault. You can pick which way you see it. Either way, there's no potential for an HEA, not in this storyline.

With that being said, maybe if I'm ever feeling especially bitter, I might continue it, but understand the ending I see in my mind is not a pretty one. 

In the mean time, I've never been opposed to people taking my fanfics and using them as a starting point for their own - as long as they give me credit for my part in it. So, if somebody wanted to write a continuation ending in an HEA, they could, but it wouldn't be me. 

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Then, there's Imprint of Yore:

Of the two, this is the clear underdog, none of the reviews so far have asked for a continuation, and the review count on the contest is disproportionately low. It having the second lowest count of eighteen stories. 

And yet, I'm drawn to continue this, I want to see the next section. I want Edward and Jacob to find some sort of happy union. I see rocks and bumps and hills and mountains to climb in my mind. And I want it on paper. I want people to be able to read this story. 

So I do intend to continue this. In fact, I see this as at least a trilogy, with rough paralleling to the original Twilight saga. I don't know if it will be a success amongst my readers, but I intend to go with it, anyway. 

Thirst Contest Submissions and Winner

 As is fairly standard for me when a contest is made available (that I'm not judging or validating) I did submit the max amount allowed. In this case, that was two entries, one of which surprised me and actually won an award... mostly because I thought if either got an award it would not be the slash story.

It's making me consider updating my pre-set post that's scheduled to release in about ten hours, but I don't think I will as that was my unadulterated opinion at the time I wrote it about eight days ago. 

So, without further ado, my two entries were Take It Back and Imprint of Yore. 

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Unlike most of my contest entries, which I tend to write as complete one-shots with no intention of ever extending them, I do intend to continue this fic. For more details on that, stay tuned for the post later today. 

As always, my contest entries are posted on both FFN and ADifferentForest. 

TwiTricksandTreats6 Submission

 The TwiTricksandTreats6 Contest just concluded and I did manage to submit a story for it, though it was an extremely tough write for me.

The story I submitted was Frat Party for One

It is now available on my ffn account and on ADifferentForest. 

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Halloween Edition Submissions and Winner

 As usual, I did submit the max of two allowed entries for the most recent A Picture contest. One of my two stories did win a special award while the other didn't win anything. 

My first submission was A Regular Salem Witch Trial and while it didn't win anything, I was quite happy with how it turned out.

My second submission was The Soldier and the Fairy, which won the Invisible Man award for a non ExB story. 

These stories are now available on my account on ffn and on ADifferentForest 

PerfectDateContest Submissions and Winner

I've been struggling to write lately, in fact I only just barely managed to get these two stories done. They, unfortunately, proved to be extremely difficult for me to write. 

Frankly, writing at all, has been difficult. I hope that will change soon, but I'm not certain, because I'm not even sure why I'm having such a hard time writing at the moment. 

But with all that being said, I did manage to submit two stories to the PerfectDateContest, one of which won an award.

My first story that I submitted was A Date of a Strange Variety. No one knew this, but it is a spin-off one-shot for my story Necromancy in the Fifth. 

The second one I submitted was Lost My Mind. It won the Bumble Award for best non-canon.

As always, you can click the banner images to be taken to the stories on ffn. The stories are also available on ADF. 

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Quarantine Edition Submissions

I submitted two different stories to A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Quarantine Edition. Neither of them were winners of anything, but one I am planning to turn into a full length story in the future. 

I submitted Life in a Bubble, which is a completed one-shot. It is available on both ffn and adf. 

And I submitted Letters and Barkeeps, which will be turned into a full length story in the future, but currently the one-shot is available on both ffn and adf. 

Life and Death Characters - Casting Call

For the most part, I have avoided trying to put face to names. In large part, this because many of the characters from Life and Death. A few days ago though, I got into a conversation with a which led to us talking about some of the Cullen household and what they might look like. Since then I've worked to put faces to names. I'd already matched faces for Beau, Edythe, and Julie, but the rest of the Cullens I hadn't.

I sort of doubt I'll do it for other characters, below are Beau, Julie, and the whole Cullen Clan

Beau was described when he was human as being tall, broad-shouldered, and blue-eyed. After too many hours looking through far too many actors to mention, I finally found Luke Bilyk. I admit, he's a little too old, but I do believe he is a good match.

We never got an official description of Julie after she because a shifter, but my assumption is the females are similar to the males from the original saga, both shooting up in height, and losing they're baby fat, etc. As such, Devery Jacobs felt like a very good fit. 

Edythe was described with the same copper hair as Edward had. And no matter who the movies selected, to me 'copper hair' is more red than brown. Also, based on her general description, I belie Katherine McNamara is the best match

It was harder for me to find genderswapped characters for the rest of the Cullens. But I finally decided on Brooklyn Decker for Carine and Armie Hammer for Earnest.

Kenton Duty as Royal and Kalia Prescott as Eleanor

Cameron Ocasio as Archie and McKenna Knipe as Jessamine

Life and Death Continuation Banner

As everyone knows, I almost always make my own banners for my stories. They may not be the best in the world, but it's just part of my process. However, a few days ago, I commissioned a banner for my Life and Death Continuation as whole. One that used specific people, which tends to be a bit beyond my capabilities. 

Today, I got the finished piece that was made by Bee Masen for this. 

The people I chose for characters are Devery Jacobs as Julie Black, Luke Bilyk as Beaufort Swan, and Katherine McNamara as Edythe Cullen

A Bit About a Future Piece

Introducing a Twilight/Elfquest crossover. The Moon's Journey will be, for the time in question, a one-shot. I don't know how long this one-shot will be, though I'm assuming it will be over ten thousand words. The banner above feature Bella as an elf – specifically a wolfrider  – and her wolf, Clearwater. Though I may slip in a couple of other Twilight characters, the vast majority of the characters I will pull from will be the wolfriders in Elfquest. 

This story is inspired, in part, because it's a crossover that hasn't been done, and because I need a bit of a different ending after the bittersweet end to The Final Quest in Elfquest. Those that have read the comics will know exactly what I mean. 

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I don't know exactly when this story will be posted as I'm working on it between my continued work on Rebirth and Affliction: Eclipse Reimagined and it's extras, Necromancy in the Fifth, and my current drabble, We Saw the World End on a Tuesday. (Other works are on hold until inspiration strikes to work on them)

Writer's Block

So the above is where I'm at currently on my writing. I'm working through it. But it's taking time.

TwiTricksandTreats5 Contest

I forgot to announce this contest when it opened last month, but there is still time to enter. They're accepting entries through October 11th.

Entries must include a pumpkin reference and be at 3,000 words.

For full details on this contest please click the image below:

BotheredContest Entries Posted

I submitted two stories to the BotheredContest, now that the contest is completed, the stories are posted to my account. You can click on the images below to go to each story.

Happy Labor Day

Albino Elephant!

Just a little...

Squirrel!

Little Animal

Cuteness