About three weeks ago I was possessed by some deranged spirit of fanfic hoarding and spent a weekend downloading every single fic in my bookmarks. I ended up with about 2300 fics in my Calibre library, a brand new e-reader, and no idea how to make either of those things useable.

Now I'm writing the post I wish I could have read three weeks ago. I was not familiar with Calibre, I don't know anything about coding, and it took me a long time to figure out the basics because they're so basic that no one really bothered to explain them anywhere. This is going to be a long, long post, but I hope it can be useful to someone else in a similar situation. It took a LOT of work, but finally getting my library and my ereader set up the way I wanted felt amazing.

To start with, I immediately came up against a couple of really frustrating roadblocks:

1. Everything(Calibre library, ereaders) sorts by Author by default, which is a terrible way to organize fanfic.
2. My fic library came with 10k tags, which end up getting read as "genres" on my device, making any attempt to sort or navigate by tag/genre useless.
3. I can't simply "move" a tag or group of tags from one column (i'll get into columns later) to another. So when I was attempting to make my default "tags" column usable, I would have to, say, populate the fandom column and then manually remove the fandom from the tags column. 0/10 do not recommend
4. On my device, I can sort metadata alphabetically or by most recently used, but not in order of how frequently the tag is used, they way you can in Calibre and the way I'm used to in AO3
5. I couldn't make a collection in Calibre and then export that collection to my device.
   1. Collections are extremely slow and tedious to make on my device, and the only way I could find to add multiple fics to a collection was by exporting everything i wanted in a collection in one folder (with no subfolders) and linking that folder to the collection on my device.
6. My initial exported file structure (I'll get into it later) was Fandom/Pairing/Series. This immediately presented a problem for crossovers and stories with multiple relevant pairings.
   1. You can't put one fic in multiple folders, so if you have crossovers you'll have a folder for Fandom 1 and a folder for Fandom 2 and a third folder for Fandom 1-Fandom 2.
   2. Pairings have the same problem, and if there are multiple pairings in the same series, your Series folder will be split between the two pairings folders.

I wasted a lot of time trying to find ways to make the above issues work the way I familiar with from using AO3. It took me a long time to realize that what i needed to do was re-evaluate my whole approach to organizing based on my personal needs and the resources available to me.

Step 1: Setting Goals and Priorities.

The way many of us are used to sorting through fanfic on AO3, using its tag and filter system, is not practical to replicate in Calibre or on ereaders. Tag functions are not as robust as they are in AO3, and because there's not tag wrangling the multiple versions of the same tag and the conversational tags really gunk up the works. I wasted a lot of time trying to prune the tags directly imported from AO3, and it just hurt me in the long run. A personal fanfic library has different requirements than AO3, and uses different tools.

If you think about it, AO3 is a massive archive maintained by hundreds of volunteers to serve the needs of millions of users. By contrast, your personal library only needs to serve one person (you) and is only being set up and maintained by one person (also you). My biggest organizational breakthrough was understanding the advantage of sorting a library of fics that have already gone through the filter of "stuff I like". This dramatically changes the kind of information I need from tags.

Before you start organizing, it's important to sit down and really think about your needs. Here's what I came up with for myself, more or less in order of importance, after I had my epiphany:

1. Intuitive Organization: If I want to find something specific, I should be able to know where to look and find it easily
2. Identification: I need to know what I'm looking at quickly and relatively painlessly.
3. Browsability: My initial attempts at organization left me with a mess of nested folders. My ereader is not particularly snappy, so going in and out of a lot of folders is annoying even without the other organizational issues I mentioned above. I want to be able to skim casually and pick something based on my mood
4. Streamlined Navigation: The fewer clicks it takes to get where I want to go, the better. The things I reach for most frequently must be the most accessible. Typing on an ereader sucks so i don't want to have to use any search functions
5. Aesthetics: I want using and browsing through my ereader to look and feel nice.

Your priorities and the decisions you make based on those priorities is going to have a lot to do with where and how you want to read and what kind of device(s) you have, if any. I wrote a more involved post detailing my ereader setup a little while ago, so I wont go into it here. Once you have your vision for a functioning setup, you have to gather your tools.

Here are the main Calibre features I ended up using in my final system.

1. Custom Columns
2. Templates
3. Virtual Library
4. Metadata Plugboards

And here are the plug-ins more or less necessary* for my workflow:

1. Epub Merge
2. Count Pages
3. Generate Cover

(*I will not be discussing FanFicFare in this post. By the time I learned of it I had already manually downloaded my library from AO3, and I abandoned my attempts to figure it out in favor of getting what I already had in order first. If anyone sees a way FFF can streamline my current workflow PLEASE let me know. But ELI5 because i have a baby brain and I don't know anything)

The plug-ins come in later, lets talk Calibre features

Custom Columns

Absolutely necessary to build the foundation of a functional library. I avoided messing with them at first because I found all of the options confusing, but its straight forward once you use it.

When you go to Preferences -> Add your own columns -> Add custom column, the Lookup name is what you'll be using later in templates and plugboards. Don't put a # in the lookup name, but when you're pulling information from a custom column later the lookup name will always be preceded by a #. Column Heading is what is displayed in library view. Description is useful for reminding yourself what you meant to use that column for, it becomes hovertext, but you can ignore it. Default value and search template can also be ignored for most purposes.

I use a couple different column types.

"Comma separated text, like tags, shown in Tag browser". The tag browser is the left side panel in Calibre. My columns of this type: Fandom, Pairings, Cover Tags(for use with the cover generator), and Type(the broadest category for my library: Fanfic, Small Fandoms, Commercial Fiction, Comics, Other, ect). Probably Fandom and Pairings would be better served by the column type "Text, column shown in the Tag browser" because I want one and only one tag for those categories for organizational and file structure purposes, but I made these when I SUPER did not know what I was doing.

"Text, but with a fixed set of permitted values" basically lets you make a dropdown list. My one column that uses this type is Tier, which contains broad categories I may want to handle slightly differently than the rest of my library. "Favorites" "S-tier" "TBR" and "DNF" are some of the things I use this column for. I didn't wind up using this column a lot, but it came in handy a few times. Probably my Type column would be better served by this column type, because i only use a few categories mutually exclusively.

"Column built from other columns, behaves like tags" is the type for my Keywords column. This column is populated from my Pairings and Cover Tags columns using a template, and is the column I reference in my plugboard when I export my library to my device.

"Integers" is the type for my Wordcount column. I'm used to judging story length by wordcount, so its good information for me to have on hand. The "Count Pages" plugin can be set to count words and populate this column. The default value is "0" and I disregard the "format for numbers" completely.

Templates

I don't know anything about coding, so templates were tough for me to wrap my head around at first. Even the manual for the calibre template language soared above my head, so my explanations are going to be extremely basic for people like the me of three weeks ago.

Templates can be used to dictate the file structure your library is arranged in when you export it to a device or a storage disk. The way of thinking about it that made sense to me is that you're writing out the file name and destination for your fics. When you go to Preferences -> Saving books to disk or Sending books to device, you can go to the "template editor" and see how the template will export the fics you've selected. If your template doesn't make sense or wont work, the editor will tell you and Calibre wont let you save it, which is good.

The default template is {author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors}

Which means that fics will be separated into folders by author (Lastname, Firstname because of "author_sort" not that that matters for fics) and in the author folders will be folders with the name of the titles by those authors, and in those title folders will be files named "Title - Author".

Terrible way of sorting fanfic.

Like I said above, my first usable template for sorting fanfic was Fandom/Pairing/Series and looked like this:

{#fandom}/{#pairings}/{series}/{title} - {author}

So I had a folder for each Fandom, and inside each of those I had a folder for each pairing, and inside each of those I had a folder for every series, and every .epub file was named "Fic Title - Authorname". If there was no series or pairing, that file simply wouldn't be made, and the fic would be directly located in the previous file.

This was... functional, barely, but it involved a lot of unnecessary friction. I have a lot of fics from fandoms I'm not really in but I like those individual stories. So I'd end up with exactly one fic from like, Among Us, or Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, hidden away by itself in a folder. Also, smaller fandoms I hardly ever looked through were mixed in with larger more active fandoms. Not very browsable or streamlined.

It was around this point that I took a break from attempting to organize my library and I took the time to set up my ereader exactly the way I like it. This gave me a patch that would automatically group my series together (so they didn't need to be exported into their own folder), a patch that allowed me to display a limited number of tags when I was browsing in list form, and a plugin that gave me great aesthetic and navigation options.

This encouraged me to rely less on file structures to organize fics and more on the functionality already present in my device. It's important to work with the way your device tends to structure and organize files, rather than against it. So after taking into account what ways my device works best and the features it has, my new main export template became:

{#fandom}/{#pairings:| | -} {author} - {title}

Everything in a fandom goes into a single folder, and since every file name starts with a pairing, everything in the same pairing will be listed together when sorted a-z. Even if a series has different pairings, it will still be grouped together with my automatically sort series patch. "#pairings:| | -" just means that that dash - between pairing and author name will only show up if there's a pairing in that field, otherwise the filename will just start with the author.

I also decided that every fandom that had fewer than 20-30 fics would go into a single "small fandoms" folder, so I wouldn't have so much clutter in the home page of my library. For these fics the template was slightly different:

Small Fandoms/{series}/{#fandom} - {#pairings:| | - }{author} - {title}

at first I tried to use {#type}, but that didn't work for me, and since I exported small fandoms separately from my main fandom library, I just wrote it out. Since fandom is the first part of the file name, everything of the same fandom will be listed together in the same way pairings are in main fandom folders, which makes the large group folder more browsable.

The only other group of fics I sorted separately from my main fic library are my Marvel fics. They make up almost a quarter of my fic library and I have a whole rant about attempting to sort and organize marvel fic that I'll put as its own post on my page. There were a lot of extra considerations that made for a lot of uniquely tricky organizational decisions.

When I was ready to export my fics, I had to configure my device with my desired template for the section of my library i was exporting. Going to Preferences -> Sending books to devices and adding the template there did not work for me. I had to plug in my device and configure that specific device, and reconfigure every time I wanted to use a different template/metadata plugboard(see below). Before I could do any exporting, though, I needed to make sure all my columns were populated with the tags I need. For that I needed virtual libraries.

Virtual Libraries

If you want usable tags to show on custom covers and display on your device, like I did, you need to populate them. I could find no shortcut for this. Only you can decide what your ratio of Long Term Usefulness to Short Term Tediousness is. Mine was rated very heavily towards the usefulness side, unfortunately for me, my eyes, and my sleep schedule.

Virtual Libraries can help you separate sections of your library into more manageable chunks. You can select your search terms using the tag browser on the left, click on the "virtual library" button located just above the tag browser, and click "current search* to make a virtual library of the fics you currently have filtered. Once in a virtual library, the tag browser will only show tags that are present in that virtual library, not your full library.

This makes it much easier to go through the tags that were imported from AO3 and populate your columns in bulk. This way, having several different tags for the same pairing and fandom becomes less of a problem: you can simply select all of them, bulk edit metadata, and add the one tag you want to use to your desired custom column. I did this for Fandoms, Pairings and Cover Tags, and I used Virtual Libraries to populate my desired tags one fandom at a time.

For Cover Tags I tried to add only the minimum number of tags required for me to identify what the fic is at a glance. I tried to keep it to about 5 or 6. I also tried to mainly add tags that I would go looking for. Maybe a fic has a tag for "Hand Holding" but I never specifically go looking for fics with hand holding; I wont add it. Most side character tags fall under this category too, unless its something like a character study where that information is useful.

Most of my decisions about what tags I use and how I want to apply them are based on vibes. This library is only for me, so "idk this just feels right" is a perfectly valid reason to make a decision.

Fandoms and Pairings get one and only one tag each. If it's a crossover I pick one fandom to be the main fandom and then in Cover Tags I add "Crossover" and "Second Fandom Name". Same for pairings; secondary parings go in the Cover Tags.

Shorter tags are better. Instead of Full Character Name/Full Character Name their pairing tag will be a smushname. The tags I shorten as much as possible too, for device display reasons.

I found no way around the process of adding Cover Tags taking one hell of a long time. But for me, when it was finally done and I was paging through my perfectly organized ereader with its custom covers... it was worth it. It was soooo worth it.

But wait, you may be asking. I thought Genres on devices always take from the main Tag column? That's where Metadata Plugboards come in.

Metadata Plugboards

Devices have a set number and type of metadata fields that they can populate from Calibre. As far as I know, there's no way to make a device add an additional metadata field of your choosing. However, Plugboards allow you to change which column an existing metadata field is populated from. This is where my Keywords column comes in.

Keywords is built from my Pairings and Cover Tags columns using the following template:

{#pairings:| *|,}{#covertags}

the "#pairings:| *|," portion adds an asterisk before the pairing tag and a comma after, if and only if a pairing is populated in that column. The comma is so the pairing tag and the first tag dont smush into one combined tag, and the asterisk is because tags are always sorted in alphabetical order and I cannot find a way around this. the * ensures that the pairing will be listed first in the tag metadata. You could probably use a 0 or 1 or another symbol for this, as it pleases you. I suspect some symbols are special characters that wont work for this little sorting trick, but I don't know which ones those might be. The asterisk works just fine for me.

In Preferences -> Metadata plugboards, you can create a new plugboard by selecting first the format (.epub for me) and the device (can be any device, or you can get specific). Plugboards, as far as I can tell, are always on once you save them, and you can't create multiple plugboards for the same format-device combo. In "source template" I put {#keywords} and for "Destination field" I put "tags". When I export my library, all my painstakingly selected tags will be present and on display and the mess downloaded directly from AO3 will be nowhere to be seen. I can now hide the "default" tags column so I don't have to look at it, but all that information is still there if I need it.

When I'm ready to add more fics again (I needed to take a break), I plan to make a second library (not a virtual library) called DECON where I can properly tag incoming fics before sending them to my main library (I got the idea from a comment somewhere on this forum). I also made an ARCHIVE library for things i don't want on my device but don't want to get rid of. Fics I have merged into one file go here.

Epub Merge

In a lot of cases there are a bunch of really short fics in a series. I often like to combine these into one .epub file using this plug-in. I tend to title the merged fics as the series title and I'll add a "Merged" tag to the main tags (not the cover tags). The unmerged fics will then be reassigned from Type: Fanfic to Type: Merged and get sent the the Archive.

Cover Generator

This one is just for fun, and it's brought me a lot of joy. I really love these Penguin Random House inspired AO3 covers made by kuzzzma, and I used them with the cover generator to display the Title, Author, Series, Pairings and Cover Tags for each of my fics. Its super easy to use this plugin to generate in bulk, and even just picking a nice placeholder cover background to display the most important info on really makes a difference in the experience of reading fic on an ereader. I even went a little crazy in some places and added fandom logos and maybe ships to the base covers in GIMP (I know as much about GIMP as I do coding, and it was pretty easy to figure out the very basic tools needed to do this).

Aaaaaaand, that's pretty much it! I know it's long-winded, but its all stuff I really struggled with, and I did go really crazy for a while there. I hope laying everything I learned out like this is helpful to someone, somewhere, at some point. This post is by no means meant to be exhaustive, and in fact if anyone has some suggestions for better ways to do stuff, or ways FanFicFare could be used to help things along, that would be GREAT and I'd love to hear about it! And if you organize your fanfic completely differently, I'd love to hear that too!

I can't believe I'm actually typing this but it's done. I gotta edit the chapters as they're gonna come out for SPAG and stuff but the actual story and all the prose is done. At my current rate of releasing chapters I've got a while before everything's uploaded to AO3 but I might start posting twice a week.

But HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT'S DONE. 79,564 words. 36 Chapters. I started on a total impulse in Google Docs on January 11th 2026 and I had no idea that writing this was going to completely consume my entire life. There were days off that I literally did nothing but write. I made playlists, agonized over individual lines, read other fics, rewatched the show for research. I'm normally a big gamer but Steam says I've played only 4.7 hours of games over the past two weeks. Writing has literally taken over my life but I've had a fucking blast doing it.

Even if I never finish another fic I am insanely proud of this one. I have no idea whether this actually counts as long but it's nearly the length of a commercially publishable novel so I'm calling it long.

I didn't compromise either! I made a plan starting like half way through writing and executed on it completely. I hit every beat I wanted to. It's done!

That's all I'm just hyped for myself and I needed to share it.

literally the first and foremost thing abt spider–man is that he's one of the first teenage superheroes who are not a sidekick or under someone's mentorships in Marvel (for example, say batman and robin) yet for some reason, all MCU fics i see fall just right under that. be it Tony Stark, avengers, Matt Murdock, ​​Punisher etc etc ....

So yeah, I would like some fics where he does interact with these heroes, but he's still independent and is strong. The heroes see him as an equal or maybe have some time coming around that. (I understand the MCU Peter did have that sort of relationship with Stark but that was mostly awkward if you've seen homecoming, AND it was only for ONE movie of Spider–man's trilogy.)

I feel like during this last month or two, I have lost so much motivation for my writing. I used to get new fic, scene, and character ideas weekly, and I haven't gotten a new one for what feels like ages. I used to fantasise about the fics I'm writing, but I don't anymore. Now it's the holidays, and this is prime time to write and get out more chapters of the fic I'm working on, but there's only a week left of the holidays, and I haven't written anywhere close to my word count goal. I'm scared I'm losing my passion for writing. It no longer feels as fun as it used to, and sometimes it feels like I'm doing it out of a sort of viewer-pleasing complex instead of because I genuinely enjoy it.

Like, my soul is out there now and it sucks and it's awesome and I'm scared and I'm exhilarated and I'm gonna fly apart and I feel like I finally accomplished something meaningful and I can't believe that I actually care about it this much and oh god now I'm rambling somebody stop me does anybody have a bucket of cold water to splash me with because I've never felt this naked before from putting myself out there and aasauuuugggghhhh this is beautiful torture.

I am beyond excited. After 18+ months of work, my 350k AU is finished!!! 😍

It will take me 68 weeks to post … 😭😭

I’m ready for my next story, but I literally cried tonight hitting post for the first 3 chapters. 🫠🫠

I feel like I'm too negative about my own writing. I've been trying to not be like that. It's tough, though. But yeah, what do you love about your own works?

It's called "A map for two hearts" by "Guilty_pleasure_cake" , it's basically a continuation for season 2 of the One piece live action series, the Arabasta arc, but with some realism and Luffy x Nami moments, accurate to their OPLA charactaristics not the Manga canon ones, because in the LA they changed them a bit. So support on there is highly appreciated like bookmarks comments, subs even shares with friends that like this ship!

I write fanfiction on Tumblr and I’ve gotten a few requests from people, around 5? I respond pretty late because I’m busy with college work, and when I’m not doing my college work I’m trying to unwind and play something or watch a show. Normally I respond about a month later or two months later? I tell people my asks are closed and always update them if I’m going to be delayed, but I feel so guilty for answering my fanfic requests so late.

I don't know why, but I've always liked it.

For example: One character says, "He's a Big Shot!" and another character chuckles because, upon hearing "Big Shot," they're reminded of Spamton from Deltarune.

I like these kinds of things; I find them funny.

Let’s do one of these tonight!

As always, here are the rules:

1. Leave a song lyric in a top level comment. Let’s keep the lyrics to 1 - 4 lines or one verse if the song has shorter verses. To not bury other prompts, let’s limit it to 1 - 3 consecutive prompts in a row.

2. Reply to prompts if you have an extract that you feel matches the meaning of the lyric, has the same vibe, your extract contains words from the lyric in it or the phrase itself is used in the extract.

3. Upvote the ones you like and try to at least comment on one answer to your prompt

4. Be mindful of the sub’s NSFW rule

5. Have fun :)

...is probably the simplest way to put my question.

One of the things I'm battling (other than writing) is getting rid of the social media mindset. I took breaks, listened to podcasts, reminded myself why I write and why I should write for me everyday. But old habits die hard, I guess. To be fair, I am writing for a (dying?) fandom, which also gets little engagement on other fics in the same tag, combined with the fact I'm using first person POV with a niche concept. Still, I do everything I can to make it up by trying to be a good writer! Because anything can be enjoyable as long as you can execute it well, at least, from all my experiences, it is what I have seen and heard from others.

Despite my beta readers telling me that the chapter was executed well, I can't seem to be convinced without tangible results. I KNOW that as long as I did my best, it's fine. However, with people barely commenting on my fics, this and my others, I can't help thinking that I'm just a sh*tty writer. That I have to be better, perfect even, do get readers to care.

It's a toxic mindset, I can tell even as I write this post. But I don't have any other framework to approach this situation. Ever since social media, I no longer can rationally critique myself without spiralling into panic mode every now and then. I'm starting to think this is an issue that goes beyond the methods I've tried previously. Any thoughts?

Notes: This fanfic is set two months after Turnabout for Tomorrow and may contain spoilers for AA5. Read at your own risk. With that out of the way, I hope you enjoy this (sorta) short fanfic. Let me know what y'all think.

Summary: Juniper invites Apollo to hang out with her at a café. She plans to confess her love to Apollo. Will she succeed in confessing? Will Apollo reciprocate her love? Find out in this one-shot fanfic.

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[Saturday February 20^(th)****, 2028, 9:30 am, Apollo’s Apartment]

As the ear-piercingly shrill alarm rings on his phone, Apollo Justice reaches for it and turns it off. Still shrouded in drowsiness, he wakes up and trudges towards the bathroom and gets ready for a cold bath. Once he was done with the bath, he stretched his body and hence felt ready to go on with his day. As he was about to change into a red t-shirt and a pair of navy-blue shorts, he gets a phone call. Apollo picks it up and sees that the call is from an unknown number.

“An unknown number…… I hope it’s not another client. I really want this Saturday to myself.” Apollo thought to himself before picking it up. “Apollo Justice speaking,” he says professionally. He then hears a meek, female voice from the other end, timidly saying his name.

“Apollo,” said the girl. Immediately recognizing the voice, he nervously asks, “J- Juniper? I- Is there anything I can help with?”

“Y- Yeah. Umm… can we meet at the café today? There’s… *cough* there’s something I want to talk to you about.”

“The café, huh……… sure. I’ll be on my way. At what time?”

“Is 5pm okay with you?” Juniper Woods asks.

“Yup. 5pm it is.”

“Alright. I’ll be waiting for you, Apollo.”

Apollo hangs up the phone and changes into his t-shirt and shorts. After putting on his training shoes, he mounts his bicycle and heads for the gym.

[Saturday February 20^(th)****, 2028, 10:30am, Gym]

Upon arriving at the gym, he performed a few warm-up exercises before approaching the squat rack. As he was about to begin his leg day, an all too familiar voice gleefully called out to him, “Apollo!”

Hearing his name, he turned around and saw his co-worker & friend, Athena Cykes, who was wearing a yellow tracksuit. “Hello there Athena. I suppose today’s your leg day too?” asked Apollo, passing a friendly smile. Athena answered, “Yup. Just wrapping up my cardio, and then I’ll head out. If ya want anything, I’ll be at the treadmill.” Then she ran off to the treadmill as per her word. Once Apollo got done with 3 sets of ten squats amounting to 30 kilograms, he approached Athena and asked, “Hey Athena, can I ask you something?”

“Sure thing. I’m all ears,” said Athena. Then, Apollo asked, “By any chance, did you happen to give my phone number to Juniper?”

“Wait a minute. How did you know that?”

“I’m psychic, you know…” said the two-horned attorney with a stern expression, before quickly switching to his dorky disposition and saying “Just kidding, Athena. It’s just intuition.” Athena then said, “Yeah… Junie said that she wanted to talk to you about something. Not sure what it is though.”

“Well, she wanted me to meet up with her at the café. I’m presuming it’s just a friendly get-together.”, said Apollo. The yellow clad attorney then got off the treadmill, and as she dapped Apollo up, she said, “Eitherway, I hope you have fun with Junie. See ya on Monday at the agency!” After waving each other goodbye, Athena jogged out, and Apollo carried on with his leg day.

[Saturday February 20^(th)****, 2028, 3:00pm, Apollo’s Apartment]

“2 hours left… I better get ready”, thought Apollo, as he rummaged through his closet filled with red suits, and picked out his favourite one, which is his usual lawyer attire consisting of a white shirt, teal tie, red pants and a red half-coat. After taking a quick but thorough cold shower, he changed into the attire, put on his attorney’s badge (because he felt like it), and booked a taxi to the café that Juniper mentioned.

[Saturday February 20^(th)****, 2028, 5:00pm, Café]

As Apollo entered the café, he saw no sign of Juniper Woods. Thinking that she’s just late, the red clad lawyer sat down at the table in the far corner from the entrance door. After a couple of minutes, he saw a magnificently beautiful young girl enter the café, who was wearing a light pink dress, a cream half-sweater with a yellow ribbon and a pinecone, white fingerless gloves, a white sun hat with a brown section, and brown shoes, coupled with a sun hat adorned with sunflowers, while her greenish-brown hair were worn in pigtails with knots tied at the end with leaves. As this girl was approaching him, he could sense the pleasant scent of lavender, and the underlying euphoria that came along with it. He waved to her, and she meekly waved back as the girl sat down on the seat across Apollo, who knew the girl to be Juniper Woods.

“How are you… Apollo?”, asked Juniper.

“I’m fine, what about you?”

“I’m fine too.”

The flower girl then asked Apollo, “So, what have you *cough* been up to?” The two-horned lawyer answered, “Not much. Just the usual lawyering. Outside of that, I’ve also started hitting the gym after the HAT-2 launch two months ago.”

“That’s really nice”, said Juniper, while sporting a gentle and warm smile. This was followed by a moment-long awkward silence, after which Apollo then asked, “If I remember correctly, there’s something you wanted to talk to me about.” Juniper then exclaimed, "Ah yes, that’s right! You see… *cough* the *cough* thing is…” Suddenly, Juniper’s face went pale as the flower girl felt increasingly nervous, and it would not be long until she would enter a coughing fit.

“Junie! Are you alright?!” asked Apollo. He got worried and quickly ran towards the drinks bar to get a glass of water, which he gave to Juniper. “It’s okay… I’m here, Juniper. Here, have some water”, said Apollo as he reassured her, gave her the glass, and gently rubbed her left shoulder. Juniper gulped down the glass of water, took off a sunflower from her sun hat and inhaled the pollen from it, much like how an asthmatic would use an inhaler before putting the sunflower back. Apollo, still with a concerned look on his face, asked her how she was feeling, to which Juniper answered, “Y- Yeah *sigh* I’m a- alright now.”

Juniper cleared her throat and said, “As I was saying, I… I wanted to tell you something important.”

“Something important?” asked Apollo.

“Yes. You see… the thing is that I… I love you.”

After five seconds of silence, Apollo look down and started giggling smugly. Slightly agitated, Juniper exclaimed, “It’s not a joke, Apollo! I really, really love you! Ever since you and Athena defended me 4 months ago, I’ve been admiring you for as long as I can remember. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to continue my studies at the academy. You saved my dreams! You saved my life! And even at your worst, you tried to defend me in the courtroom bombing incident. You’re as strong, bright, and warm as the sun. Your smile gave me hope when there was none. I still remember when you shielded me from the rubble during the explosion. I’m forever in your debt, Apollo!” She then took off her right glove, grasped Apollo’s right hand and said, “I…… I don’t know what I’d do without you.”

Surprised by Juniper’s infatuation, Apollo tried to process everything that the shy girl in front of him said. After a bit, he replied, “Junie…… I had no idea you felt this way for me.” But then, to Juniper’s surprise, the two-horned attorney grasped Juniper’s hand (which was holding his hand before) and said, “But truth be told, I also really like you. Your gentle smile and kind words calm me down when I’m in a bind. Your presence soothes my soul, like the moon’s reflection on water.”

“Apollo…” whispered Juniper with a smile, before tears started falling from her eyes.

“Don’t worry, Junie. I’m here. Cry as much as you want. I’ll always wipe your tears.” Said Apollo, while wiping away Juniper’s tears.

Once the red attorney was done with the beautifully romantic ordeal of wiping the flower girl’s tears, he chuckled as he asked, “So, anything you want to order right now?” Juniper quickly replied, “Oolong Tea with a French Omelette!”

“Interesting choice, Junie. In that case, I’ll get myself an Americano and a club sandwich,” said Apollo, as he then called the waiter to give their order. And so, the two spent a beautiful and romantic evening with each other, eating their food and talking to each other about their future career plans.

[Saturday February 20^(th)****, 2028, 6:00pm, People Park]

“That was quite fun for a first date, wouldn’t you agree, Junie?”

“It sure was, Apollo,” said Juniper with a chuckle, as the two sat on a bench, shoulder to shoulder, watching the serene golden sunset as cherry blossom trees showered the young couple with petals. They wrapped their arms around each other’s shoulders and exchanged affectionate glances before hugging each other tightly.

As the two were interlocked in a hug, Juniper said, “I wish time would stop right now, because this moment…… is the greatest moment I’ll ever experience. Apollo, I want to promise you one thing.”

“Yeah, what is it, Junie?”

“I promise to always support you through thick and thin. Even if the world chooses to become your enemy, I will always be there for you, to help you, to fight for you. Apollo, I… will be your light of hope that shines in the darkest abyss of despair.”

“Junie… I also promise to be by your side… always. Even when the sun goes down, I will be the fire that guides you in the dark, and I will be the sword to your shield.”

After a while, the two let go of each other, and Juniper presents a tiny box to Apollo. Confused, he asked about the box, to which she answered, “This box contains two rings: a gold one, and a silver one. They’re the symbols of our newly formed partnership.” Then, she takes the silver ring and gestures the red clad attorney to let her put it on his ring finger. Afterwards, Apollo took the gold ring and put it on the flower girl’s ring finger.

“I guess it’s official now,” said Apollo while letting out a chuckle. Before the two left the park for their respective residencies, Juniper gave Apollo a peck on the cheek, causing him to blush as red as the suit he was wearing.

“See you soon, Apollo!”

“See you soon, Junie!”

They walked away as they waved back to each other.

[The End]

People who try to tell me things are ‘not that deep’ fundamentally misunderstand me. I am not a fish desperately in search of the ocean. I am a magpie that roves the canons, searching for shiny things to put in my nest. Whether or not it actually is given deep narrative weight by canon itself is of secondary importance to the fact that it has the potential to be interesting, and thus, I covet it.

I really like these two authors (jawlinessss & styleslove club) on tumblr. They write really good fanfictions that are funny and filled with fluff (that’s not cheesy at all). I want more fanfictions like this ones they write. Preferably with a grumpy and sunshine trope but I am open to other suggestions.

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i've heard that most people tend to have the opposite problem. but for me, i am always itching to write, and generally feel like i do so pretty well, but i am literally incapable of coming up with actual plot ideas, and i really struggle to get going with my writing if i don't have a direction to follow. it's really bumming me out because i know so many people would probably love my writing and i'd enjoy posting it, but i just can't write without ideas!! and those prompt generators don't really work for me because again, it's always super super vague and doesn't give me the direction i need. i almost always have the vague idea of what i want to write (hurt/comfort, a setting, etc) but no actual events, or story beats. any advice? :(

Hello! Sooo I'm here to ask some help if possible 🥹

I'm doing some research for an essay. It's basically around the theme of fan-fiction as genre and I wanted to include people's opinions on fan-fiction and what are (on personal opinion) the best pieces of fan-fiction out there, the ones you read and you totally think "how is this masterpiece not in a bookstore" or "how do people not know about it".

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I'm brainstorming for a 5k word fic, but all I can think of requires 20-100k words to fully flesh out.
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Fandoms: Monster hunter/[Undecided]

Yo, i have an idea for a fic where the character is Gogmazios(My beloved) from Monster Hunter(Search the monster up for more context), and I mainly I am interested in making the fic with the idea that he doesnt have a human form, or atleast doesnt have one he can use for long eventually. I will be eventually grabbing multiple different concepts of dragons from mutliple different media, like dragon type moves from pokemon or the Ancient dragons from Dark souls and Elden ring, you get the idea.

I mainly have two questions:

Which ficitonal world should he start in, like MHA, RWBY, or just go with Monster Hunter, I will take any suggestion and if you can explain and describe some concepts and ideas for stuff in that world that can be aplicable for this type of thing.

The second question is if I should start him as full dragon, start as baby dragon, have the black hardened tar from the get go or have to gain it, should he have a weapon attached to his back or not, and if so what kind.

For more context to the second question, Gogmazios is titled the Giant Halberd Dragon and Specter of War, the Halberd title comes from how it tends to have a large weapon like structure stuck to its back due to the tar like substance it sercreates in both of its appearances, in its first appearence, it had a large mechanical harpoon thing to shoots forward suddenly called a dragonater, used for the monsters and elder dragons in the series in large Arena's which tend to deal a lot of damage, in the more recent appearence of Monster Hunter Wilds, Gogmazios had a rail/lazergun cannon? thingy instead, both of which, when fighting Gogmazios, can be knocked down and used against it.