Journal of Mistress Kat

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Title: Sweet Treats
Author: kat_lair 
Fandom: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance (Album)
Pairing: Fun Ghoul/Jet Star, Kobra Kid/Party Poison, Fun Ghoul/Jet Star/Kobra Kid/Party Poison (implied)
Tags: Spooktober, Ficlet, Candy
Rating: M
Word count: 666

Summary: “We’re gonna dine on this for a while, boys.”

Author notes: Spooktober 2024, Day 31/31. Prompt/theme: Candy. Done. SPOOKTOBER SUCCESS \o/ 31 fandoms in 31 days. Can I get a motherfucking WAHOO in here? This last one I'm gifting to pushkin666 and dreamersdare who have wanted me to write something in this fandom for a while I believe. So, here you go, have the sweetest of Halloweens ladies 🎃🍬 And no, the word count is not an accident 😉

Sweet Treats on AO3

( Sweet Treats )

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Not the Friday Five questions, just... things to be cheerful about

1. I got podficced again!

Unintended (Stray Kids, Han Jisung/Lee Minho) - A gorgeously emotional recording by pieces0fstars who has a real knack for bringing out every choked up gut punching feeling in a story.

Ensnared (Wheel of Time, Moghedien/Lanfear) - A tiny masterpiece with sound effects by pezzax_podfics ! And the kind of underlying threat one would expect from a narration from Moghedien's pov.

2. Also fanart! vampireshmu did a perfectly creepy jagged sketch based on my Waycest ficlet Sharpest Lives, check it out here: Sharp

3. Writing has been happening, though I am still very behind on the getyourwordsout goal and probably will continue to be tbh. But still. I have finished a fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Felix) and it's out for beta, one is veeeery close to being finished (Stray Kids, Seungmin/Jeongin), I have also tossed a shared fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Minho) back to dreamersdare, while she is currectly working hard at finishing off another shared fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Changbin).

4. In RL news, my Bucharest conference trip in September is all booked! Now I, apparently, need to write the paper. Rude.

5. This weekend I have no plans beyond coffee and writing. Wish me luck!

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Wow Kat, what's that sound? Well, glad you asked. It's the sound of me SMASHING through my 75k getyourwordsout goal! BOOM! We're currently >78k and there's still a day to go.

*smug*

Much of the words came from a) co-writing done with dreamersdare and b) because I churned over 24k for Spooktober fics/ficlets, even if some of that churning happened after Christmas lol. Posting most of them back-to-back was a really interesting experience actually and I have some reflections.

( (under the cut, it's all very self indulgent) )


I was always going to do a Spooktober Masterlist for my own amusement. I know I'm about to list all of these for the 2023 Fic Round Up soon (well... Sometime in Jan?) anyway but there everything will be by fandom so let me just induldge my love of lists *pets the list* so, here, Spooktober Fics in posting order (links will take you to AO3 but if you prefer DW for reading, everything is under the spooktober 2023 tag.

( List under a cut due to length! )

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I have signed up getyourwordsout again because I love their spreadsheets. I've gone for the 150k optimistically even though I've never achieved that. It's good to have goals or something?

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Finally, I wanted to flail about being podficced!!

The lovely pezzax_podfics podficced under his wing (TXT, Choi Soobin/Choi Yeonjun) and turned a tiny ficlet into a full-blown audio drama with music and sound effects and it is so, so extremely cool I absolutely lost mine when listening. Also, please appreciate the cover art! (akdkjsj wings!)

The most awesome pieces0fstars podficced Volcano (Stray Kids, Han Jisung/Lee Minho) and holy shit the emotional impact the recording packs... Look, I obviously had a lot of emotions about the concepts which I wrote immediately after the song dropped. But the thing is, I wrote the fic so I knew what was in the fucker and yet, YET, I was absolutely choked up, clutching my heart, because the performance got that exact frayed, desperate edge I tried to convey in words and... Yeah, please listen.

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