Operation: Safaia

Writing journal of safaiagem
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I was never really able to get into Game of Thrones for a couple of reasons. No access to HBO in the early years was a big one, but once I heard how much sexual assault was in the early seasons, I knew I had to bow out. Despite 90% of this being very up my alley, sometimes, something isn't for you. But, through a series of watch parties with a friend, I ended up watching most of season seven and then I watched season eight as a "being part of the cultural moment." I don't remember how I ended up on AO3, but one thing led to another, and suddenly, I had ideas. So I did something I never do; I started writing with zero plan and that was how Revenge is a Wild Justice came to be. I had maybe three or four scenes in my mind I was writing toward, but I was mostly getting there with no real plan. I ended up planning things out much later in the game, but that wasn't until close to chapter 35 and it was a rough outline. Despite all of that and my threadbare knowledge of the world, people really liked the fic.

So, I wrote a sequel that some people really didn't like. What started as a warm welcome ended on a very sour note that left me the closest I have ever come to ghosting a story. I was determined and I soldiered on. So that is why the Vengeance Has No Foresight series is marked as complete, and I've had no desire to return to it. I am proud of myself, though, because I wrote 380,520 words from July 2019 to February 2021. The first story was 195k while the second was 184k, the two longest fics I have ever written. Revenge is a Wild Justice is still by far my best fic stats-wise to this day, with the most kudos, hits, bookmarks, and everything in between. Game of Thrones showed me some of the best and worst sides of modern fandom at once and it has made me extremely conflicted about my time there.

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There have really only been two or three times in the last decade or so that I have written something other than a canon AU. I tend to tweak something in an established universe and then kind of hang out there. It's comfortable for me and one of the reasons there are eleven series listed on my AO3 account. One of the big ones is the Ten Years Gone series, which is a Teen Wolf Supernatural Hunter/Demon AU, the second is a one-shot Avengers Inception AU, I Don't Sleep (I Dream), and the third one was a Daniel Craig era James Bond AU where Bond and Q are criminals and Eve is 007 trying to hunt them down. The funny thing is almost all of them were inspired, at least on some level, by either graphic or gif edits on Tumblr, so thank you, Tumblr people. The first fic is Smooth Criminal, which was a working title that just never went away and was written in 2013. For a long time, nearly a decade, it was a one-shot, but for NaNoWriMo 2021, I decided to return to the universe and wrote The Saddest Thing About Betrayal. I have labeled this series as finished, but as you can see, I never intended it to be a series in the first place, so here we are. It's only two fics long, with one rated M and the other E. They vary in length, with Smooth Criminal coming in at ~28k and The Saddest Thing About Betrayal is ~70k for a total of 97,676 words.

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I haven't been here long and it's always a rollercoaster. There is Everything with Gaiman, which is its own can of worms, but I've had a weird relationship with these two fandoms as well. I wrote Sleeping Wake/Waking Sleep in November 2022 and let it sit in my drafts until early 2024. I just didn't feel confident in posting it which hadn't happened with me and fic in a long time, but I did finally get it out there. Dead Boy Detectives was the polar opposite. I jumped in within weeks of the show debuting, which I rarely do, and here we are. This series currently has four works, 139,416 words, and ratings range from T to E. It's not complete because I plan on returning to it very soon.

Before Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I considered myself a casual Star Wars fan. I had seen all of the movies and really enjoyed them, but never really engaged in the fandom. However, that movie did what Disney wanted it to and brought me into the fandom. Unlike most people, I immediately jumped on the Rey/Finn/Poe bandwagon and wrote Like An Exposed Nerve in 2018. I also saw Rogue One and to this day, that's my Star Wars movie and I adore it. I got the idea for That Which Is Lost By Not Trying mere weeks after seeing the film, but it wasn't until the Fanfic Frenzy of 2020 that it finally got written. Then, I came up with a way to connect my two sequel trilogy fics with my Rogue One AU and we went from there. Following the release of the last sequel trilogy film, I also added a one-shot after the events of Like An Exposed Nerve. I've had an idea for a fifth story in this series for a long time, but it has felt too similar to previous entries, and I worry no one would be interested. Three out of the four fics are multi-chapters and 25k+ with one one-shot with the total for series being 102,501 words. The three multi-chapter fics are R/M for Mature while the one-shot is NC-17/E for Explicit.

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I'm not usually one to write well outside of canon. Usually, I'll go with canon divergence or something like that, but the Ten Years Gone series is probably the biggest exception to that rule. I saw a tumble post about a Supernatural AU that got stuck in my head, I signed up for the Teen Wolf Big Bang after that fandom sucked me in, and it was all downhill from there. To this day, (Take Away This) Ball and Chain, the first in the series, is one of my highest in terms of kudos and hits. Parts one through six were written between late 2012 to late 2013. I returned in 2016 for part seven because I always had vague ideas for two more entries, and as part of my 2020 pandemic writing spree, I finally finished the final entry in the series. This is one the rare series marked as "completed" and I don't plan on changing it. The fics range from PG-13/T for Teens to R/M for Mature and vary in length from 25k+ multi-chapter fics to one-shots that are only a couple thousand words long. It spans eight total works and a total word count of 144,420.

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If you look at my fic writing history, you'll see a rather large gap between 2007 and 2010. The reality is I was in the process of having a complete mental breakdown, which eventually led to hospitalization and moving back home. So fandom and writing weren't hugely on my priority list even if I never gave it up, I was doing more original stuff during that time, but in 2010, I ended up seeing Inception, and I really liked it. It was there that I found the "party post" over on Oh No They Didn't, which let me find fanfiction again and, eventually, Inception Kink. Despite being in fandom for nearly a decade, I joined very young [14], so I didn't know what a kink meme was. I found so many, not even smutty, prompts and wrote my little heart out that, to this day, Inception towers over everything else on AO3 in terms of sheer quantity of fics.

During that time, I wrote three different origin stories for Arthur and Eames. One of them spawned two sequels before sputtering out, the other never really got off of the ground (though maybe I should go back and look at it now), and then Against Us just clicked. The series No Defintion, because Arthur and Eames did not define what they were to each other, grew and was primarily written between 2011 and 2013, I did return to the series in 2020 for another one-shot. I've never marked it as complete because I always feel like I could come back to this series at any given time. There are six entries at the time of writing for a total word count of 142,458 as of January 2025. Story details and links are below.

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I didn't mean for this series to happen. I went into it with the complete intention of doing a one-shot. Then the response was so good and peer pressure works and in two months I wrote nine stories with an overarching storyline. The Sweet Compulsion Of Music is a series of fanfictions set within the universe of The Witcher. It is an alternate universe after season one of the show and largely focuses on the developing relationships between Jaskier, Yennefer, and Geralt. It is nine fanfiction long as of January 2025, 102,518 words, written over the course of May 2020 to July 2020. They are rated PG-13/T to NC-17/E. It's marked as complete for now, but I've been low-key outlining a tenth entry for a long time -- life just happened and I haven't figured out how to make it work.

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Title: Never Try To Outstubborn A Cat
Author: me
Word Count: 5,596
Characters/Pairings: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Cat King & Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Cat King & Charles Rowland, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland, Cat King
Warnings: Sexual Content, Kissing, Character Study, relationship dynamics, Co-Dependency, no beta we die like edwin and Charles, can be read as a standalone, Other characters mentioned - Freeform, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst
Summary: After everything that had happened, their falling out with the Cat King hadn't been resolved yet. Edwin desperately wants everything to get back in order and return to normal to regain that sense of control. Charles would do anything to ease even a few of Edwin's many worries. The Cat King wasn't thrilled about being pulled into the Dead Boy Detective's shenanigans, but he might be willing to listen if the right dead boy comes along and explains it.

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Part 4 of More Than Endless Repetition

Notes: Hello everyone, and welcome to another one-shot in this series. I had a hard time actually starting this one after loudly proclaiming to Discord how short this fic was going to be. Yes, my clown makeup is on point, thank you for asking. Anyway, if you're new here, I will do my best to explain the events of previous stories in this series as best I can so you can read this as a standalone. I still have more one-shot ideas and maybe an idea for a longer fic if I decide I like the idea. Comments and kudos mean the world, and then some, to me, so thank you in advance. I'm over on Tumblr and do try to share previews when I'm working on fics. Also open to prompts.

Title: On The Brink Of Hell
Author: me
Word Count: 7,071
Characters/Pairings: Modern Johanna Constantine/Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling, Modern Johanna Constantine, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU), Jenny Green
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Dreams and Nightmares, Demons, Exorcisms, no beta we die like edwin and charles, can be read as a standalone, Explicit Language, Character Study, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Playing Fast And Loose With The Rules Of This Universe
Summary: When Johanna Constantine first met the Dead Boy Detectives, she told them she didn't work for free and her payment was Edwin's map out of hell. Astra was still lost down there, and the idea that this sixteen-year-old boy managed to escape gave her hope for the first time in years. Now she has the map and has to figure out how to use this information, or Johanna just made a teenager relive his experience in hell for nothing.
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Part 3 of More Than Endless Repetition

Notes: Look whose, back again, it's me. Hello everyone, I didn't lie. I actually returned with the one shot I said I was planning, and it was within a reasonable amount of time! Truly, this fandom has done wonders for me. Anyway, I have done a pretty good job of making this as standalone as possible, but you'll get more out of it if you've read the previous two stories. I'm also pretty sure about that rating, I don't think people on AO3 run on the MPAA model where more than one "fuck" bumps me up to an R-rating, but if I should change it to M, I will. There is another one-shot on the way, and it has a title! So keep an eye out for that, and thank you so much for supporting this series. It means the world to me.