Ch-ch-ch-Changes [aka What I Write Now vs. My Older Fic]

originally posted on my Dreamwidth blog in December 2023

In June 2023, as I wrapped up my fic Keep You Like An Oath, I decided it would be my last time writing canon era Tolkien fic. So if you've been subscribing to me on Ao3 for canon-era stuff like Shades Of Silver-Gold or my Omegaverse retelling of the Silmarillion, or my non-smutty crack series Keeping Up With The Fëanorions, I'm sorry to disappoint but this is not a thing I'm doing anymore.

As my spoons continue to dwindle with my chronic health issues being what they are - and it's only going to be downhill from here - I have to focus on the stories that spark the most joy, and I am much more excited by the relatively blank slate of Maglor in our world and all of its magical realism possibilities, than I am with writing retellings of canon, gapfillers and fix-it canon AUs. Additionally, I do not particularly enjoy the obligatory formality of canon era either, living in a world where economic inequality runs rampant - writing about royalty and splendor just reminds me of poverty and hardship, rather than being an escape from it. Your mileage may vary, but this is how my brain works. 🤷‍♂️

So as things stand, I will only be writing the following:

1. post-canon Silm-adjacent fic with The Squad [Maglor continuing to wander the Earth thousands of years after canon ended, encountering my OCs Anthony, Nicholas, Sören in the modern era and through different periods of history]
2. original fiction with my OCs [Anthony, Nicholas, Sören] in some combination
3. whatever the hell Corn of Eternity is
4. possible one shots for small fandoms like Father Ted, etc.

There are two other things I should note to the people who read my fic:

• When I first began writing fanfic for public consumption in 2016, I wrote cis M/M to alleviate my dysphoria. In 2022 I began to shift my focus to writing cis-on-trans M/M, and T4T M/M, and now I intend on writing cis-on-trans M/M and T4T M/M exclusively**. Some of this is because my dysphoria has horseshoed where I feel more dysphoric writing cis-on-cis M/M, but feel gender euphoria writing queer trans men living their best lives. Some of this is because I've been noticing a trend where there's more FTM representation but almost all of it is being written by people who don't identify as male and involves either feminization, pregnancy kink, or both, and while I don't want to yuck anybody's yum or tell people what they can and can't write, I can't be the only trans guy who's tokophobic AF and would like to see more transmasc erotica that is written by trans men [where the lived experience colors the fic] and also doesn't involve pregnancy. So I felt it was on me to step up to the plate and try to write the content I want to read instead of complaining about stuff that might be other people's thing but not for me.

  **With the exception of my shared universe Corn Of Eternity, which is an eternal WIP; I don't feel like retconning one or more of the guys to be transmasc, and the romance/erotica with The Squad takes a backseat in that universe to other shenanigans.

• Because of my ADD being put on an amplifier with brain fog from long COVID, I no longer have the spoons for plotty longfics that are over 12 chapters and 80k words long. So if you've been enjoying those, and you haven't been enjoying my 5-10 chapter fics that are under 50k words, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I learned in the latter half of 2023 that my days of being able to write 12+ chapter/80k+ word fics are behind me. You can expect those 5-10 chapter fics of 15k-50k words or less to be the norm from here on out [that and one-shots].

  There is a possibility that I may, in the future, write one or more series that involve multiple fics, like two to four connected stories of 5-7 chapters each. I do have a couple of those sitting on my to-do list, but I'm not planning on anything that involved until after 2025 if not later.

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