madimpossibledreamer: iron man flying (iron man)
2025-06-05 11:01 am

The Embedded Narrative

After Desmond finished his speech, I went “wait a minute, that sounds familiar”. There’s a lot of similarity there with Glenn Yarbrough’s It’s So Easy Not to Try.
Chapter title from Beta-senpai (who is still not beta’ing this whole story as he’s not familiar with Assassin’s Creed but is lending a hand here and there). I also sent him part of the speech and he went “I’m sensing some well-earned hostility there...”
compilation of weirdly 10x more relevant to Desmond than your average TSW character dialogue from Krieg:
“Are you here for a signature? I'll make it out to "Christ almighty," since you're so intent on dying for our sins.”
(He did also mention ‘the buzz fades’. That’s less Desmond-specific, though.)
“I’m a writer. I make millions repeating myself. What’s your excuse?”
“Who would you be, what would you be, without this, without your precious war on evil, without your secret world, your sacred brotherhoods, your ranks and titles and rituals. You’d be just another rat stuck in the race with a dead-end job, living for a paycheck and the weekends.” (...not that Desmond would think that was a bad thing.)
“You soak in it so others don’t have to. You take one for the team.”
“Maybe it’ll be different this time. Maybe you’ll save everyone.”


Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Desmond finds the clue he needed for Rogêt's vision.
Word Count: 2114
Rating: Teen  

 

the nihilist and the assassin )

 


madimpossibledreamer: Eye from manga drawing. (ace attorney)
2025-06-02 03:47 pm

A Better Distraction

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Assassin's Creed (Beginning's End)
Summary: Shaun uses the key he'd been given only to find Xander's having a bad day.  Shaun doesn't take being helpless any better than Xander, though.  Maybe there's something he could do to help.
Word Count: 740
Rating: Teen

 

sometimes that's all you need )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro pointing at the camera (point)
2025-06-01 01:45 pm

Never Fade Away

I was hoping to have been able to work on the Cambion AU again but between unexpected stuff this week and next week and a migraine today, we're going with another thing I already had written but wasn't planning on posting yet.
For this one, the thought occurred to me while reading a different (and really good) soulmate fic series by x_los 'what if I used the Linked concept for it'.  Then was like, nah, that'd never work.  A ton of the plot can't happen if Blake isn't allowed to keep being mysterious, but I kept thinking about it.  For one thing because Time Lord Blake isn't quite as inclined to not share that it's going to change things drastically anyway, and also because Phoenix and Edgeworth have been using blocks a lot recently and I suspect Avon and Blake would be the same way, because they're both nosy but also inclined to be fairly private.  Add in some more Federation worldbuilding, and it totally works.  Basically how the Linked soulmate AU stuff works is that two people form a mental Link, kinda like having a mental penpal.  Platonic versions exist and at some point I might write one, since I'm using it again.  Though, of course, while people talk about accepting that there's a bit of a stigma.  (I suspect this isn't a completely original soulmate AU, partly because it's an extrapolated 'but what if more common' expansion on a Dresden Files Dresden/Marcone kinkmeme fill.)  That being said I like the concept of 'this isn't cutting out free will, just giving you limited telepathy, and what you do with it is up to you'.

Main Points:
Blake's 7 (probably series A/season 1, but otherwise ambiguously set) (Black Holes and Revelations)
Chapter Summary:
 Blake and Avon argue all the time.  This doesn't end like one of their usual arguments.
Word Count: 400
Rating: Teen

 

on keeping secrets )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Eye from manga drawing. (phoenix)
2025-05-30 01:32 pm

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 377

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Buffy calls home using magic.
Word Count: 1261
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

 

Chapter 377: Staring In The Dark )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro pointing at the camera (kujo)
2025-05-29 01:12 pm

Fourth Wall for a Fourth Age

the lair area is actually near the Park, not the black goat woods. I think I just included it before the Filth pool because it felt like something important to include and I wasn’t going to have it pop up again—except now it has, so now it’s non-euclidian with two different entrances far away from each other and absolutely no explanation. Random non-euclidian geometry is perfectly in-character for this game.
Also almost named this Outside the Story, but the next chapter’s title is more concrete, so I thought I’d go for contrast.
 

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Time to check out the lead at the lighthouse.
Word Count: 2534
Rating: Teen 

 

in the rain )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Eye from manga drawing. (phoenix)
2025-05-25 02:09 pm

Connection Renewed

Phoenix you and Edgeworth are entirely made of dramatic gestures

Main Points:
Ace Attorney Soulmate AU
Chapter Summary: This time, it's Edgeworth who refuses to get shut out.

Word Count: 1277
Rating: Teen
Pairing: pre-Wright/Edgeworth
Spoilers: spoilers for the fourth game

 

parallels )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro thinking 'yare yare daze' (yare yare daze)
2025-05-24 07:42 pm

idle thought #669

you know, people should be allowed to have squicks!’ okay, go on, I’m listening, but that’s a weird thing to have to say. ‘I mean, some people overreact when you tell them you’re not cool with writing something’. Yeah, sure, there are entitled people everywhere. ‘People have called me an anti!’ As long as you’re not doxxing people. ‘People get really upset when you tell them you’re not willing to write pedophilic content!’ aaaand there goes the mask off moment I was waiting for watching the thread. Gee willickers, I have absolutely no reason why people would be upset by that accusation. No one, not even a fortune teller, could have seen that one coming.
You’re on the Ao3 subreddit. Just slap a ‘no underage’ on the prompt. Or specify which teenagers you’re cool with shipping with each other. Calling it pedophilic is not much better than calling it CSEM, and yeah, I sideeye some of that stuff, but I don’t interact and I most certainly do not tell people to their face you think they’ll commit pedophilic acts through writing.


madimpossibledreamer: iron man flying (iron man)
2025-05-23 01:20 pm

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 376

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: The Slayers find Rush's lab notebooks.
Word Count: 1140
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

Chapter 376: Haunting the Truth )

madimpossibledreamer: iron man flying (iron man)
2025-05-22 02:01 pm

The Breadcrumb Trail

Desmond would have known that Krieg was in Solomon Island if he’d listened to the Sheriff complain about the number of calls she’d had to go on because the guy was getting drunk again.
Hide & shriek is a goofy spinoff that I honestly wasn’t going to mention except for the fact that lore-wise Carter would absolutely have played it and I realized it was the perfect opportunity to actually make Desmond talk about something. And he didn’t drag his feet this time, so hurray, he’s actually learning.


Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Desmond gets to have a quiet morning and figures out his next steps.
Word Count: 2689
Rating: Teen 

 

a few leads )

 



madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro pointing at the camera (kujo)
2025-05-21 08:46 pm

idle thought #668

I also wonder if the strong ‘opt-in concrit’ stance goes alongside the heavily minority-based nature of Ao3 writerbase. Because yeah, if you’re getting a lot of unsolicited ‘you’re living wrong’ criticism in real life, you’re hardly going to want that from your escape.


madimpossibledreamer: Tatsuya holding a motorcycle helmet under his arm and looking at a swingset (tatsuya)
2025-05-18 01:50 pm

Let Down Your Walls

Their choice of conversation was actually chosen at random but given later events it's actually thematically appropriate.

Main Points:
Star Trek (the 2009!movie verse) Cambion AU (New Genesis)
Summary: Restless, Leonard goes for a walk at night and finds yet more unexpected facts about Captain Kirk.
Word Count: 1512
Rating: Gen

 

i'm a doctor, not a psychiatrist )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Tatsuya holding a motorcycle helmet under his arm and looking at a swingset (tatsuya)
2025-05-17 08:44 pm

idle thought #667

for those of you who make fun of the idea that all lowercase fiction is an artistic choice, I would like to share the reasons why I did this for a few stories, because I suspect others might be doing it for the same reasons but be unable to articulate why. And yes, I had to do it deliberately, because the word processor I was using kept capitalizing letters so I had to delete the letter and uncapitalize it or undo the autocorrect. For the few fics that I did it for, it was an artistic choice. In my case, the few it made sense for were dreamlike or dissociating, so it communicated a feeling of being unmoored from reality or the usual standards of reality. I can also point to the culprit as to who gave me the idea in the first place: E. E. Cummings, though the ‘common knowledge’ that he never used capital letters might have been a misunderstood exaggeration.

madimpossibledreamer: Tatsuya holding a motorcycle helmet under his arm and looking at a swingset (innocent sin)
2025-05-16 01:14 pm

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 375

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: They interrogate Diavolo.
Word Count: 1117
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

 

Chapter 375: 21st Century Schizoid Freak )

 


madimpossibledreamer: Eye from manga drawing. (phoenix)
2025-05-15 01:56 pm

From the Frontlines

Warning: this might be a feels chapter.

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Chelsea's return is entirely voluntary, because she's got a secondary assignment.
Word Count: 1099
Rating: Teen 

 

back in London )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Izanagi|Souji in full costume holding out a hand (izanagi|souji)
2025-05-14 08:16 pm

idle thought #666

This will be...a long time in the future. But. One of the reasons I definitely ship Shaun and Desmond is, well, first tsundere characters are, like, my jam, but. In AC3 specifically Shaun mellowed. A lot. Still snarky, but he softened a lot and actually made time for Desmond and was quietly supportive about Bill.
The moment I knew The Secret Histories wasn’t going to stay 100% gen was when Shaun got really soft to Desmond, and Desmond was doing it back with a little teasing. (I probably should’ve known before, maybe when Desmond was having his panic attack and probably when Desmond was thinking ‘you know what sounds nice being back in London with Shaun buying me a sandwich’, but, uh, I can be dense about crushes in real life too, so.)

madimpossibledreamer: iron man flying (iron man)
2025-05-13 01:08 pm

sink to the bottom

Andrew briefly considered buying Xander a pack of smokes and went ‘that’s not going to help’.

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Constantine|Hellblazer
Summary: Living and surviving are two different things.
Word Count: 1515
Rating: Teen, with the warnings. because it wouldn't be constantine or hellblazer without the warnings
Warnings: general Constantine warnings, including but not limited to survivor's guilt, Xander's self-hatred and self-destructive tendencies, public restroom horror (kinda akin to the Justice League Dark movie scene if you've seen it), blasphemy, implied rape and/or murder, potentially unhealthy attitudes toward sex

 

i kinda hope this isn't how it's supposed to be )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro thinking 'yare yare daze' (yare yare daze)
2025-05-12 12:43 pm

Open Secrets

Main Points:
Buffy/Blake's 7 (Place in the Universe)
Chapter Summary: Jesse overestimates how well he and Xander are keeping the aftermath of Halloween a secret.
Word Count: 1080
Rating: Teen
Background Jesse/Xander in that Xander is oblivious

 

he might be slightly distracted )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro pointing at the camera (point)
2025-05-11 01:39 pm

The Company of Legends

Main Points:
Star Trek (the 2009!movie verse) Cambion AU (New Genesis)
Summary: Doctor Leonard McCoy gets to hear all the gossip and then meet the legendary figures for himself.
Word Count: 1929
Rating: Gen

 

'tis a silly place )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Izanagi|Souji in full costume holding out a hand (personatown)
2025-05-09 08:34 pm

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 374

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: The sound is investigated.
Word Count: 1123
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

Chapter 374: In the Wake of Poseidon )