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Tropes and Tales Masterlist

Den of Thieves

Law and Order:  SVU

Mayans MC

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Archived Stories

(For Rafael Barba, Sonny Carisi, Bryan Kneef, Nevada Ramirez, and Frederick Chilton)

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When you're deep in a way overdue Kinktober piece (oops) and realize too late that you've made the reader character morally grey and made the blorbo far less perfect than usual but you feel guilty about the slow rate you publish and don't want to delete it and start over.

(It's Borracho).

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Shadow and Light: Chapter Four

The Mandalorian/Din Djarin x F!Reader

WC:  4174

Other Pieces:  This is part of a larger miniseries that can be found here.

CW:  Slow-burn; pining; a charged moment in the dark but no smut.

Mandalorians were, by reputation and in reality, a tough people.  A culture based around weapons, war – Mandalorians were made, not born.  They trained from childhood and were whetted and sharpened into fierce warriors.  Mando knew as well as anyone.  He had trained – brutal, fierce training – that left him bone-tired, aching, covered in bruises.  It had all been to prepare him for his life now – the life of a bounty hunter.

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Shadow and Light: Chapter Three

The Mandalorian/Din Djarin x F!Reader

WC:  3312

Other Pieces:  This is part of a larger miniseries that can be found here.

CW:  Slow-burn; plot-building; canon violence; non-canon fighting; pining.

Channeling always left you drained, and it was doubly so when you used Ashla for healing.  It was like a fast-moving river:  when you opened the gates and let it flow through you, it wasn’t the using that wore you out – it was closing the gates, turning it off. 

You’d heard about entire orders of people who could use the power.  You own adopted people had mystics who used it for guidance or healing, and you’d heard of the Jedis and Sith, and darker sects like the Nightsisters.  You knew that those who were trained in it could channel it specifically, but for you, it was just torrents of raw power that coursed through you.  Neither good nor bad.

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Shadow and Light: Chapter Two

The Mandalorian/Din Djarin x F!Reader

WC:  3853

Other Pieces:  This is part of a larger miniseries that can be found here.

CW:  Slow-burn; plot-building; canon violence; minor injuries.

It was Mando’s own fault that he got hurt within seconds of landing the Crest on Arvala-7.

You had woken up in the co-pilot’s seat, nestled under your own cloak and a little sore from sleeping in an awkward angle.  Mando was in his pilot’s seat, and he gave a quarter turn and the barest of nods as you woke up by degrees.  You swiped a surreptitious hand over your mouth in case you’d been drooling.  Hoped you hadn’t been snoring too loudly or worse, talking in your sleep.

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Shadow and Light: Chapter One

The Mandalorian/Din Djarin x F!Reader

WC:  2258

Other Pieces:  This is part of a larger miniseries that can be found here.

CW:  Slow-burn; plot-building.

The Mandalorian knew every square inch of the Razor Crest.  The old gunship wasn’t the fastest, but she was sturdy, and the Mandalorian was aware of every creak and groan it made.  He knew that one warning light – the one for leaking coolant – was faulty.  He knew the one landing ski took a second longer to engage than the other.

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Shadow and Light: Prologue

The Mandalorian/Din Djarin x F!Reader

WC:  1769

Other Pieces:  This is part of a larger miniseries that can be found here.

CW:  Slow-burn; plot-building.

You weren’t exactly sure how you ended up on Nevarro.  Well, that wasn’t true:  it was a series of decisions – some good, some bad – that led you to that forsaken, rocky world.  It was more of a philosophical question.  How did I get here?  Where am I going?

Right now, where you were going was the local cantina.  The drinks were weak, the food was questionable (the vegetables limp, the meat had a queasy grey cast) – but the chatter was good.  The cantina was the only real place to socialize, so it was a motley cast of Nevarro locals, travelers passing through, bounty hunters…and even a few stormtroopers, remnants of the Imperial Army.

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Bound to You: Prologue

Poe Dameron x F!Reader

WC:  2012

Other Pieces:  This is part of a larger miniseries that can be found here.

CW:  Arranged marriage trope.

Poe Dameron rose quickly through the ranks of the Resistance.  General Leia Organa trusted him, and more to the point, he always got results.  Always.

Rare intel into the First Order’s movements?  Recruiting missions to convince disgruntled members of the New Republic to join the Resistance?  Errands to build relationships with allies in the Outer Rim?  Poe did it all with his own unique panache and ineffable charm.  Being a handsome bastard with an appealing smile didn’t hurt. 

Sometimes, admittedly, his charm failed him and he found himself in…uncomfortable situations. 

Like now.

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Hey! Hope you’re doing well!

I had this thought and this “oh!” moment today and I was really trying to figure out how to word it without sounding like I was being sneaky or anything like that but I think I should just say it 😅

I don’t know if you remember but I had sent something in to you about a Rick Flag fic? I can’t remember when it was but I think I did? Anyway, this isn’t me being all demanding and pressuring about it but I had reblogged a fic about him and a nurse reader a few months ago and I didn’t realize until today that it’s kind of similar to what I had sent you. I was trying to rack my brain as to why it sounded so familiar for a while and only realized today.

I’m not quite sure what the thing to do would be, do you put it on hold? Change it? Don’t do anything and archive it? Or if it’s not written don’t even do it? I don’t know the etiquette for this 😅

I’m seriously not trying to sound like I don’t appreciate you or your writing or your efforts to write, you and you’re writing are amazing and phenomenal, but I don’t want to cause anything or give you an unnecessary headache, you know? I hope this made sense!

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Hey! Thanks for the note! Things here are good (busy) - I hope everything is good with you!

Firstly, thank you so much for the heads up! There are people (probably well-meaning) who send the same ask to multiple writers, and it has caused fandom drama in the past. Not with me, luckily, because I am the world's worst at turning out stuff at a reasonable rate, but I've seen little meltdowns about "stealing" ideas when it's just one person with an itch he/she/they want several people to scratch. I think I've gotten maybe one or two of these asks before, but I never had anything so firmed up I couldn't pivot away from the original conceit and dodge the drama.

But secondly, I do have some words down on this ask you sent me for Rick Flag. But no worries! I didn't make the reader a nurse at all. In it's current incarnation, reader is one of the therapists who works at a Walter Reed-style physical therapy ward.

So a gentlemanly tip o' the hat to you, friend! Everything is fine!

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dev is....shocked

okay, so i never thought i'd find myself in this situation. but well, here we are. someone was kind enough to bring it to my attention:

a (newer?) user who goes by @kiwiispunk has basically copy and pasted {garnish} and posted it as her own.

Another day, another story plagiarized…

Keep it frosty, fellow writers!

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Anonymous asked:

Will there be a part three for Mending Fences? Or is it on hiatus?

Hi! I've already answered this, here.

"Mending Fences" is one of several WIP's I'm actively working on, but fan fiction is not my priority, as I have a full-time job, a burgeoning writing career outside of fan fiction, etc. etc.

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Seeing you around is always a pleasure, honey! ❤️

How are you doing?

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It's a pleasure to see you around too, bebe!

I'm doing well. Well-ish. Work is relentlessly busy, but the novel I wrote that is being published is nearly ready (in it's final galley form, closing in on a cover), so the good and bad balance out!

How is everything with you?

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There are either three gremlins or one gremlin asking more than once, but at least one of you is asking about a third part to the Rhett Abbott "Mending Fences" mini-series. I'm happy to report that my scattered brain is sloooooooowly turning back towards fan fiction now that the novel is nearly in production, and that I have a third part roughly outlined.

Yee-haw, babies.

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