Finally finished another entry into this series. Slowly Usagi finds a way to turn things around in her life. As she does, she reaches out to those who she cut out of her life.
MAN this thing is big. This single chapter is bigger than some of my earlier stories. I had a lot I wanted to cover. But the pen-ultimate episode of my story is here. I know some may not like where this is going BUT this is the story I wanted to tell so bare with me and know I’m always trying to go for a happy ending.
Any fan artist out there looking for a prompt for some Senshi/shittensou art, here’s something I’ve thought of lately. The “Wearing the boyfriend’s shirt to bed” trope with all the different Senshi wearing shirts appropriate to their owners. Here’s what I’m thinking:
Usagi: Mamoru’s pink shirt with the rolled up sleeves
Minako: A button up white shirt like Kunzite’s human form just came form office (bonus points if she’s playing with his tie in some way)
Rei: Jadeite’s favorite hoodie
Ami: An overwatch shirt (or some video game shirt)
Makoto: A sport’s jersey (the samurai blue soccor team would be perfect)
That wasn’t my best year, but compared to 2020 it was a lot of steps in the right direction. It was a year of transition and recovery for a lot of people, unfortunately recovery doesn’t happen as quickly as we would like most of the time. But as the old saying goes “Be the tortoise, not the hare.” Still, I got a lot of projects I’m still working on and others that are coming down the pipe line.
Preview for this year:
1. Finishing up “Ghosts of Yesterday.”
2. Finishing “Collar of Love”
3. A collaboration I can’t speak of just yet
4. My first AU story.
So for now, just sit back and relax and know things will get better.
I know I shouldn’t beat myself up over it. I mean I am writing and I did have issues with mental exhaustion this year. THAT being said I do find it annoying my productivity has been inconstant this year. The like ONE thing I wanted to do was be have more consistency with my writing and I found myself having a very uncertain release schedule.
I don’t know if I’ll get another chapter done before the end of the year. I am trying my best to get Ghosts of Yesterday done before 2021 thought. Again, TRYING. Just stay tuned and give reviews as they keep me going.
Man. This one just kept going for me. I’m pretty sure working on this chapter is what has prompted me to try my best to work on shorter chapters with my Choker of Love series. Anyways, I hope everyone enjoys. I’ll be getting another chapter of Choker of Love done sometimes next week (something for you to read on your phone while your forced to face family). As for this story, it still has one more chapter and an Epilogue. Cross your fingers. I’m hoping to have it done by the end of the year.
Since the last one I posted got so much attention I decided to post another random thought and see what people think. Today’s subject: Opposites Attract.
The opposites attract aspect is seen as a major component of Haruka (I know the personality charts say she’s an introvert BUT she flirts so much I think she comes off as an extrovert) and Michiru’s (the introvert) relationship. At the same time, many fanfiction writers like to use it as a negative when trying to discredit the Mamoru and Usagi relationship. Many authors highly that Mamoru’s introverted nature make him a poor candidate for a relationship with the VERY extroverted Usagi and think the equally extroverted Seiya would be a much better pick. Again another double standard of fanfiction.
Frankly, speaking as someone who is an extrovert who has a partner who is an introvert I can say that it helps to balance each other out and you find you bring out the best in others when you aren’t totally mirroring every aspect of your significant other. It often helps to bring out the best in each other. Just like how Mamoru helps to ground the energetic Usagi and she helps him to come out of his shell. That’s true love right there.
I’m trying to keep the installments of this story more constant so a new chapter comes out about every two weeks. So far I’m close to keeping on this type of a release schedule.Still, here’s hoping things keep going smoothly.
This chapter helps me remember my new rule of “try for shorter chapters.” I originally was going to have a lot more happen but instead I ended up breaking up the chapter and having more things happen in the next chapter. I’m beginning to think this story is going to take a while to tell to the fullest.
September. Yikes. Just when I thought I’d get more writing done, something new would happen and I found myself exhausted and barely able to get anything down on paper. That being said, I would like to introduce my new multiple chapter story entitled Choker of Love. It will focus on Sailor Venus and Kunzite and have elements of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics to it.
Also, I am still working on Ghosts of Yesterday. It was actually while working on this story I realized, “DANG! I need to write shorter chapters. That way I can post more often.” I actually split up the second chapter of Choker of Love because my original stopping point would have made the chapter double the length. So, relax and know I’m always working on getting more writing done.
Choker of Love:
Thanks to reincarnation, Minako is an Omega and finds out Kunzite is an Alpha but is her father’s best friend. Will she be able to win the heart of her beloved Alpha?
Sorry this is so late! It’s been a long week. Thank you again @dendyweek for hosting such a fun and fantasic event! I hope it becomes an annual thing, I would return for this!!
Thank you to those reading and reviewing. If you loved this story but also enjoy lighter ones, please go check out my original Growing Pains. It’s a slow burn romance with enemies to lovers. It was originally an SM fanfiction but I decided it swung too close to Customer and made it an original instead. I could really use the support so I hope you’ll go read and review there too.
@dendyweek is why I republished this story so make sure you head over and read the other great Dendy works posted for this event. So sad tomorrow is the last day!!
They’re hard hitting so there’s only two again today. Posting the rest tomorrow as the end of @dendyweek for me. I can’t post on Saturdays. I hope you’ve all enjoyed this story’s return!
Please show me support on my OG story Growing Pains. It updates every Tuesday and promises to deliever just as much (if not more) as any of my FF does!
Synopsis Bound: It was just a dream. That’s what Mamoru told himself as he faces his first date with Usagi sans Endo. But it wasn’t just a dream and Mamoru’s about to find the horrible truth.
For the next three months, I’m taking a break from fanfiction. The good news with that is, payment for Patreon will be paused for those three months. So for either $3-$5 dollars upon entry, you get three months to binge read without a monthly fee!
I have way more content on my Patreon than fanfiction or AO3. Like more of AWE, Cell Mates, all my fairy tale stories, and fics that have never been posted! Some never will be. There’s enough content to keep you reading for three months at least. And if not, you can read something again. You got three months!!
After July, I’ll unpause if I have something to post. And you’ll be informed beforehand so you can decide to stay or go. As long as you don’t cancel, you’ll only pay the entry fee until at least August!
Consider subscribing and supporting my original sites as well! I’ll be selling myself as much as possible on those sites from now on. You’ll get more updates there than here!
This is my contribution to Dendy Week! It’s not the best, but please remember it isn’t beta’d and it’s hard adulting and writing at the same time. lol.
Title: When Dreams are Realities
Summary: When Usagi comes back from a vacation, she’s told that what she remembers isn’t real. Her boyfriend isn’t her boyfriend and she now she has a fiance? (this is an AU)
This is me all day. And the writers block has given half birth to a whole bunch of unfinished WIPs that were started in an attempt to break through the writers block, which then only resulted in writers block for the writers block exercise. It a vicious cycle.
Summary: Motoki finds Mamoru the perfect gift for his bachelor party. But the consequences might turn out to ruin the wedding. My amateur piece for Smutember.
Summary: Contrary to belief, Mamoru Chiba liked the Christmas season. He enjoyed the chilly weather, the overly large coats, and the smell of cinnamon and pine. Up until five years ago Mamoru liked Christmas. Then he met a tiny rambunctious odango haired junior high student.
“Though Usagi’s eyes were hidden behind her fist, the quivering of her lower lip caught Mamoru’s breath, and the tear that escaped from behind her hand ran down her cheek so fast, if he wasn’t looking he never would have seen it.
He should leave her be. He knew it.
But Mamoru also knew that if he walked out the door, her hunched over form would haunt him for the rest of the day, week, or whenever he saw her smile again. He couldn’t explain it, but he couldn’t let her just sit there and suffer.”
Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love!
I wasn’t tagged but I got this from @adriannasharp and want to participate! My 5 favorite fics I’ve written in no particular order:
Captive Princess Prince Endymion/Princess Serenity. This one is my baby, my first ever fanfic. I was so out of practice with writing, and I had never written smut before, so this took 3 months to finish. And I was TERRIFIED to publish it because it caters to my own kinks that I had never told anyone. But this is the fic that led me to the Moonlight Legends Discord and all the friends I have in the fandom now, so I’m really proud of myself for writing it and being brave enough to publish it. She’s heavy on the bondage with a surprise ending
The Shepherd and the Moon This is my current WIP and first multi chap. A retelling of Sailor Moon R in which Mamoru’s memories never returned, and 5 years later the Black Moon Clan are relentlessly attacking Earth and the Senshi. It’s an angsty, cute, falling-in-love story, with lots of sex and danger and sexy danger in the future.
What’s Under the Ugly Christmas Sweater Another smutty UsaMamo one shot. I wrote this for the ML discord Secret Santa, and I’m really happy with how it turned out, considering I wrote it on a time crunch. This seems to be the fic of mine that people come back to, and I love that. I’m really proud of the banter between Usagi and Mamoru (it’s pre-reveal), the Tuxedo Mask Christmas Sweater, the characterization, and I think it’s some of my best smut.
Love Me in Chains A MinaKunz smutty one shot. This is one of my very favorites and is the least loved of all my fics lol. Minako and Kunzite roleplay Mina’s kidnapping fantasy I know this fic would get more attention if it was UsaMamo, but it’s so similar to Captive Princess, and I really like MinaKunz in these roles.
A Little Fall of Rain Usagi/Dark Endymion. It was hard to pick a final one, but I’m going to have to go with this one. It’s the darkest piece I’ve written, and one of the darkest I’ve seen in this fandom. Endymion abducts Sailor Moon and tortures her for the whereabouts of the Silver Crystal. I’m really proud of myself for GOING THERE and following my instincts when it came to this fic. There’s physical and sexual torture, as well as deep emotion and connection. I regret nothing. Mind the tags with this one!
Location/Occupation/Age: Chicago ‘burbs, Nurse, 30’s
About my fanfics: anything from OTP to what you love to write, what you wanna write etc. UsaMamo is my OTP, and I love to write about them! But what I like to focus on is emotion. In the OG anime and Manga, they go through so much individually and as a couple, but neither medium really cared to delve… well, anywhere near the lasting effects of those actions and events. Let’s explore a bit, yes?
This is what I am trying to do in my WiP “Once More, with Feeling!”, a rewrite of a Dark Kingdom arc where Usagi and Mamoru start dating almost from the beginning. I got cozy within Mamoru’s head, took some liberties with his psychometry, and topped it off with a secret relationship. Much of this story has been spent asking myself, “How would X make them feel?”
Feautured Work: “Home”
“Usagi struggles in the aftermath of Galaxia and Chaos after returning home from Sagittarius Zero-Star”
“I will treasure this. Thank you so much for writing it. I am happily riding the angst bus here.”
“This is beautiful. Oh my gosh. Your writing is gorgeous.”
“Wow wow wow you said all aboard the feels bus and you meant it. This was heartbreaking in the best way. I’m very much team “Usagi encourages Mamoru to Harvard”, but the way you handled it here was just…wow.”
Welcome to Sailor Moon Quickies! This is a low-stress, all fun mini-bang (emphasis on bang ) to write your 1st or 101st smut. Treat it as a warm up, treat it as a break from your current fic, treat it as a plunge into the wet, smutty deep end you’ve always wanted to try. This challenge is all about getting in (to the hilt?), getting hot, and having fun!
We are promoting early so you can pound out your Quickie at your leisure. Tag or @smquickies2022 during the main week, June 19-25, so that we can boost on Tumblr. Don’t forget to add to the AO3 collection as well.
Guidelines:
Publish between June 19-25, 2022
Use any prompt as inspiration; do as many or as few as you like
1k words or less
Rated M (fade to black, less detail) or E (all the detail) with any SM pairing(s)
Please announce rating and pairing before the readmore break
Add to AO3 Collection SM Quickies 2022
Share on Tumblr for a reblog - tag us at @smquickies2022 and use the tag #SMQuickies2022
UsaMamo Week 2022 will be the week of July 24th-July 30th! Seeing as it is the 30th anniversary of Sailor Moon, this year’s theme will be “Anniversary”. See below for the daily prompts. Feel free to fulfill as many or as little as you like (or merely follow the blog for the submissions)! Your fanwork will be reblogged!
Rules:
Usa/Mamo must be the central pairing
Tag appropriately
Any rating is ok!
Feature at least one of the daily prompts
All types of fanwork is accepted
Post on Tumblr tagging @UsaMamoWeek2022 and #usamamoweek2022
If on AO3, the collection to post to will be UsaMamo Week 2022
Have fun!
One thing that I love about this fandom are the annual events ♡ looking forward to it!
When the prompts line up with my AU I’ve been hyperfixated on for months-
The war is over for the moment and there’s peace. But there’s never rest for the Senshi. Watching their Usagi suffer and struggle with her relationship with Mamoru is killing them. If only she would give Mamoru another chance or move on? But there’s nothing they can do about that, right? Cue Minako with an ancient Venusian love potion. The only problem is; the ingredients require each of them to put in an item that symbolizes their true love. Now what? They don’t even have crushes! Fate is never that cruel though and Destiny reveals her hand for each of them.
I felt that the fic screamed a cute romcom like poster, which meant of course all 10 needed to be on it! Which nearly became the end of me as it surpassed 200 layers, but I think they turned out quite cute and I’m happy with the coloring.
I hope you all like these quirky drawings of the ten as much as I do, and please read and leave lovely comments for the fic!
So happy to have gotten this fic done. Thank you for your work @mochibuni it’s beautiful. And thank you @ssminibang for hosting and running this event.
Btw you can check out the playlist I made for this fic here if you like! Thank you to those of you who’ve been reading and reviewing since I first posted this! The love is well appreciated!
This was so good but why the cliffhanger @shnuggletea I cried when it just ended it’s like nooooooo
UsaMamo Week 2022 will be the week of July 24th-July 30th! Seeing as it is the 30th anniversary of Sailor Moon, this year’s theme will be “Anniversary”. See below for the daily prompts. Feel free to fulfill as many or as little as you like (or merely follow the blog for the submissions)! Your fanwork will be reblogged!
Rules:
Usa/Mamo must be the central pairing
Tag appropriately
Any rating is ok!
Feature at least one of the daily prompts
All types of fanwork is accepted
Post on Tumblr tagging @UsaMamoWeek2022 and #usamamoweek2022
If on AO3, the collection to post to will be UsaMamo Week 2022
Have fun!
One thing that I love about this fandom are the annual events ♡ looking forward to it!
A Sailor Moon fanworks project answering the question “What If Crystal Tokyo had a Met Gala?” The idea is to design a high fashion couture outfit featuring at least one Sailor Moon character based on the theme. Creations can be any type of media, including writing about the fashion or the gala itself.
This year’s theme is Dreams and Eternity celebrating the release of the Eternal Movies. Like the real Met Gala, this theme can be explored as literally or figuratively as you like.
Any and all characters from Sailor Moon canon are welcome, and any and all creators in fandom are welcome! Please use the hash tag #sailor moon met gala and/or tag @crystaltokyometgala when posting so you fanwork can be reblogged onto this tumblr that will serve as an archive for the project.
