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I figure we should get started so here’s the last recap:
ShadowClan:
1. trans!Rowanclaw
2.?
RiverClan:
1. Minnowtail
2. Moth/Leaf
WindClan:
1. Onestar
2. ?
We just need to come up with something for ShadowClan and WindClan and then weβre set. Any ideas?
(Not to sound whiny, but wasn’t I the one writing about Onestar?)
For ShadowClan I had a few ideas
1. Brokenstar’s childhood and how it shaped him
2. Featherstorm meeting Hal, and her reaction to him virtually abandoning her
3. Tigerheart’s POV (Dovewing, spying on the Dark Forest)
(I know, I’m pretty boring)
For WindClan I’m running dry. Do you have any ideas?
Don’t worry, the numbers aren’t an indication of who’s writing what, they’re just bullet points of sorts, so of course you’re writing the Onestar one π
Featherstorm and Hal sounds wonderful! That would be really interesting to explore. (Or maybe Red and Boulder and their lives in the twolegplace before they join ShadowClan?)
Hmm… I really want to include references to the Tunnelers and Moor Runners for the WindClan one but I’m not sure how to do it…
This seems a bit more far-fetched than the other ones, but perhaps tunneling has secretly been passed down and Crowfeather’s apprentice (named Fernpaw :p) wants to reintroduce it to the Clans? Maybe some disaster requires tunneling and WindClan has to re-learn it?
Maybe π
I’m also kind of tempted to write about Tallstar-era WindClan though…
Or maybe about Windflight’s parents
Both seem like good ideas. Maybe Tallstar attempts to tunnel again? Idk.
I had a better idea to what I suggested before! You know how WindClan used to have those rogues/loners that visited? How about we write about them?
That way we can include references to tunnelers and moor runners too.
Great idea! Let’s start drafting our respective stories, and post them here when we’re finished so the other can edit π
Okay π
oopsies
welp kinda abandoned so TpyoCaln claims?
Noope not abandoned, we just haven’t written anything yet π
TELL NO ONE
Coffeeshop AU plot idea dump
Before I start, I was thinking about the POVs. If you read through this and see something you like, maybe we could incorporate more POVs? I’m going to leave a link at the bottom of the comment to a Hetalia fanfic that balances a ton of POVs very well, while still following a storyline. It’s a rather long fic, so I would only suggest scrolling through the chapter index and maybe reading a few chapters, just so you know what I’m talking about.
Conflict: Kat and Jayfrost run rival cafes, across the street from eachother. The Soup Stand and the Hazelpage, respectively. One day, they make a bet. Whichever cafe attracts the most customers within a certain amount of time (somewhere between one to six moons, maybe?) wins. The losing cafe must close down.
*This isn’t the blurb, by the way. Just me trying to get ideas across.
Here’s a few notes about the characters and their situations. It’s a lot, so we don’t have to include all of them, unless you would like to.
β Kat’s intern, Winterpaw, is trying to hook his boss up with the cute waitress/artist Shiveringrose.
β Iceflower is a customer at the Hazelpage, simply to stay away from the menace that is Winterpaw. She hates him, he drives her mad. But one day, Winterpaw saves her from a car, and she is forced to help him with what he calls “Project ShivKat”. Slow-burn Winterflower, perhaps?
β Thanks to her art skills, Shiv is put in charge of advertisement. Kat was expecting a few signs, maybe a fresh logo. What Shiv had in mind was a bit more…creative. It may or may not involve necromancy and skeletons. Lots and lots of skeletons.
β Flowerstream works for the Hazelpage, and is at the Soup Stand for diplomatic reasons. That is, until Shiv’s undead chases Flo into a closet, where Flame, her ex-girlfriend who she is secretly thirsting for is hiding.
β Hazelburrow and Dawnmist, the original founders of the cafes, occasionally check up on the characters. They’re basically an old married couple. Hazelburrow will bring comments from his mother, Kate.
β We can include frequent customers in the background. Wavepaw, Goldenpaw and Owlwater, Stormy Sea and others would work. And Goldie and Stormy’s dialogue can be a bit flirtatious.
β Writing our own ship feels awkward to me π I thought about a case of anonymous love letters, but tell me what you think. Actually, tell me what you think about all of this.
P.S. The fanfic link is here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1425655/chapters/2996581
This sounds like literal perfection π
Yes, I’ve come across that fic before, never read it fully, but I have flicked through and it does look very good so I’ll probably read it properly at some point.
The idea of the cafe conflict sounds wonderful, and I love all of the character ideas. Although, one thing that I like is the Icy/Owl/Winter thing and all the ships in that so maybe we could do something with that?
We definitely need Sunny in here too, as well!
And we need to have Wollow and Stormy as the arch-rivals that are actually in love with each other π
Yes, I agree about writing our own ship, so the letters sounds wonderful. I think it would be interesting to include lots of types of writing, so letters and maybe texts and things when we can.
So, yeah, this all sounds good π I’ll see if I can get on chat this evening, or, if not, tomorrow, so we can discuss it together.
How about a flirtatious and polyamorous Winterpaw? And by flirtatious, I mean he’ll walk up to you and go WE SHOULD BE A COUPLE, like he does on chat π Polamory would allow him to end up with both Icy and Owl.
I agree on the Wollow and Stormy thing. They could be the characters that walk up to eachother and go “you’re the worst”, but they would die if anything happened to the other.
I feel like our relationship would be a ton of fluff π Flirtatious dialogue and lots of accidental touching π
Yes to all of this π
I’ve been thinking about this fic all day and I came up with an idea that I’m not 100% convinced about but I thought I’d ask your opinion on it anyway? Basically I thought that, instead of writing from our own POVs, we focus on the others, as we’ll turn up occasionally from what they see anyway, and at the end of each chapter we attach two letters, one from each of us to the other, but nobody reading knows who they’re from. It could be a mystery thing that we hide until the very last chapter.
I just like the mystery element of it all, but I don’t really know if it sounds like a good idea or not.
Also, we need to establish who works at/is a customer at which shop π
That’s a terrific idea, but maybe we could attach one letter from on of us at the end of one chapter, and the response in the next chapter?
I’m writing this in a hurry, so I can’t post who works/eats where right now, but we’ll get to it π
Oh haha no problem
Eek I really need to write for this
Fern I’m so sorry I’m a terrible collab partner I will get his done I WILL DO IT
We should get started π
FERN I’M WRITING THIS FIRST CHAPTER THING RIGHT NOW AND IT’S A MESS OMG
LIKE A BIG, SPRAWLING, CRACK-FILLED MEME SLUDGE THAT CAN TURN DRAMATIC AT THE FLIP OF A HAT?????
I’m not kiddding the first line is:
“Flora first found out about the illegal ostrich dealer through a city-wide protest.”
OTHER CRAP LINES INCLUDE:
“She clenched her sign, which read: GIVE ME OSTRICHES OR GIVE ME DEATH. Other signs included FEATHERS ARE OUR FRIENDS or SPONGEBOB IS ILLUMINATI.”
“They spoke in a language only people like them would know. The language of ostrich.”
JUST KNOW I AM WORKING ON THIS AND IT IS UTTER CHAOS
That sounds beautiful, Cyp, I can’t wait to read it π
WOOP HERE IT IS
[THE HAZELPAGE]
After Flora realizes she’s not going to leave this town, she gets a job at the Hazelpage. She likes the way it keeps her hands thrumming, and by the end of the day, she smells like coffee and vanilla.
As a bisexual teen who loves Australian wildlife (aka, a freak) Flora is expected to work at either the Hazelpage or the shop from across the street, the Soup Stand. The two shops, they hate each other like cops and robbers. She avoided the Soup Stand for undisclosed reasons.
For the summer, the Hazelpage is her home. In the fall, Flora has to go back to high school, where everyone is either a hipster or a jock and she just doodles in the margins of her biology notebook, not fitting into either category.
Emma pushes a flier to her chest. “The Soup Stand has a new discount going, it seems.”
Flora puts the broom away, sighs a bit. “Sales wise, Jane say we’re neck in neck.”
“I’ll talk to her about it.” Emma turns to leave, and in the light, her hair looks tarred and feathered.
Flora still hasn’t told her about the ostrich in the basement.
[THE SOUP STAND]
“One order of the melt-your-mouth spice soup!”
Shiva’s skeleton earrings clink like teacups as she dives into the kitchen, dropping order tickets onto the table. As soon as she is in, she is out, feet whirling. Refill his ice tea. Box her broth. Shiva doesn’t catch her breath, not on the job, not ever. Fresh pixie cut, black lipstick, spider hair clips: she’s a witch.
Shiva’s boss stops her in one of those rare moments when she isn’t carrying a pitcher of lemonade or a bowl of noodles.
“Howdy, Kat.”
Katherine’s complexion reminds Shiva of sugar cookies. Katherine smiles. Says: “Shiva.”
A pause, long enough for Shiva to light a match. The silence stretches, and the match grows shorter and shorter, until the wood is no more. Shiva’s hands burn. She wipes them on her jeans.
“Kat? You needed to tell me something?”
Katherine nods, rolls her ankles. “Right. Things are going pretty well for the business, and I was thinking about changing up our logo a bit.”
The existing logo is a steaming bowl of green soup. Shiva thought the soup looks like snot, but she would never tell Katherine that. Her boss continues: “Since you’re so great at art, I was wondering if you wanted to help design it.”
Shiva could feel the ink stains on her forearms, a product of boredom and the fine-tipped Sharpie in her pocket.
“Yeah,” she says. “Yeah, for sure, I’d love too.”
Katherine giggles. Bubbly. Her face is covered in freckles, a connect-the-dots puzzle. “Thanks, Shiv.”
“No problem.”
Katherine starts walking. Her shoulder brushes Shiva’s as she passes. Shiva gasps, grabs her hand. “Wait.”
Shiva whips out her Sharpie, pops the cap, gets close to Katherine. One hand holds Katherine’s chin like fine china, thumb on her candy lip. The other is connecting Katherine’s freckles with a black Sharpie. Constellations. Katherine’s stealing all the oxygen from the room. Shiva can’t breathe, but her hand continues to work. Keep the lines straight. Don’t smudge the ink.
“OH MY GOD THEY’RE GOING TO KISS. OMG OMG OMG OMG FRANCES YOU NEED TO GET CYP OMG IS THE VIDEO STILL GOING KISS KISS KISS.”
Shiva falls backwards. Katherine’s face turns cherry. Winston bounces, camera rolling. Frances buries her face in her hands. Fleur chokes back laughter.
Frances steps up. “Katherine, Shiva, I do apologize-”
“GOD FRANCES STOP BEING SO NICE.”
“Winston!” Katherine snaps. “Pause the camera!”
“COULD YOU JUST KISS ALREADY?”
“NO.”
“WHY NOT?”
“I’ll fire you. Iβll fire all three of you.”
Winston puts his phone away. Fleur studies the ground. Frances drags Winston [away, and Shiva runs before Katherine can say anything. Katherine touches her cheek. The Sharpie smudges.
[1]
Winnie tried to video Shiv and Kat today
How has he not been fired yet?
Iβm not sure
I get off at 5. See you then.
Alright
Love you <3
Bye
[ODE TO OSTRICH]
At the beginning of summer, Flora found her ostrich at a city-wide protest. She canβt quite remember what the protest was for, but everyone you could possibly imagine was there: the college hippie, the Turkish barista, and that one woman who could pass for a lobster.
Signs read: MY GIRLFRIEND DRAGGED ME HERE, SPONGEBOB IS ILLUMINATI, FAERIES ARE REAL, and MARRY ME JACOB SATORIUS.
The Hazelpage and Soup Stand didnβt speak to each other, of course. Flora flinched at a flash of red hair. Jane and Katherine stood on opposite sides of the street. Ethan was typing away on his cellphone, biting his lip. Winston, crazy intern he was, yelled at a man in an ice cream truck, scaring away small children. Frances regretted her life decisions. While the man in the ice cream truck was distracted, Floraβs coworker, Cyprus, seemed to be stealing ice cream.
There was also an ostrich in the middle of the road.
Flora recalled there being a zoo escape or a wildlife group or an illegal dealer. Something. Somewhere.
She named the bird Bob, and it now lives in the basement of The Hazelpage.
It should not have been that easy.
[SOUP-SCENTED SEXUAL TENSION]
Fleur used to have a stack of turquoise envelope. Way back when, she would take pieces of paper and fill them with cities of stick people, adding notes in a handwriting that was violently loopy. She would write about her new cat, about the cute boy from down the street, about the best pasty she had ever eaten.
She would shove those papers into the turquoise envelopes and mail them off. Then, she would spend the next few days in an anxious state of waiting. On the days she got replies, she was on a high
Last year, at the end of school, Fleur burnt her envelopes over the stove.
Fleur doesnβt draw stick people anymore.
[2]
Thank you for the cupcakes. They were quite nice.
Np
I just noticed there were some weird noises coming from the basement.
At the Hazelpage?
Yep.
I bet itβs nothing. Donβt freak out.
Iβm not freaking out
Itβs 3 AM in the morning. What are you doing?
Surfing tumblr
Go to sleep
Says you
Youβre the one always up so late
Should I be worried?
Nah
Well, Iβm going back to sleep
HEY
?
BEST OF WIVES AND BEST OF WOMEN
π
Gah I didn’t edit this
I love this :O
Seriously, I love this so much. It’s absolutely spot on; the tone, the humour, the characterisation!
Especially the charactersation, actually. I grinned like an idiot at the section with Win, it was so unexpected and so totally perfect π The others agree with me on this point
“MARRY ME JACOB SARTORIUS” and “Frances regretted her life decisions” made me laugh out loud. The latter because, well, that’s so true to life, and the former because I really hate that guy π
The ice-cream bit in general was perfect.
Fleur and the letters! I was not expecting legitimate anguish but I felt that on an actual emotional level
The texts <3 "best of wives and best of women" that was perfect.
The whole thing was perfect, actually, and I'm only left with one tiny criticism which is that 'tarred and feathered' probably isn't the best expression to use as a description, but that was the only thing.
I suck at reviews DX
This was amazing, you're amazing, I love it well done <3
I’m writing the chapter and I’m not done yet so I thought we should talk names?
It’d be easier to discuss probable names and stuff on chat but I thought I’d write all my ideas down in one place first so we can work from there.
Starting with the ones we know for certain, Flo is obviously Flora St Ream, which means we can use Flo as a short form whenever we’re referring to her.
Jane for Jayie I think works nicely, and though it’s rarer we could spell it Jayne instead? That way we could justify the use of Jayie as a nickname in-universe. I don’t know what her surname would be, but I don’t think that’s such an urgent concern. Frost would be fine if we ever need one, and I was thinking Forrest sounds similar but more commonly used, if you think that sounds like a good idea.
I spoke to Flame about names, and she really liked Fleur but I think I’ll get confused if we call her that! I’ll talk to her about it again, but her BCA name was Faithlynn, though she mentioned it as Faith yesterday, which I think is nicer. She didn’t like Fiona or Flavia, which were my favourites. I suppose we could ask her about something like Freya? Whichever way we go, her middle name is Susan, and when we were doing BCA her surname was Shine for a long time, though she did change it to Sunnyside, which renders Susan redundant. I think we’ll have to ask her for her opinion on this one π
I like Emma for Embix, and we can use Dawn as a middle name or a surname if need be. I’ll ask her for her opinion next time I get the chance, but I’m very happy for it to be as it is.
Winston is perfect for Win, of course, and it’s also the BCA name he submitted which means it’s been approved by him as well.
I know Kat’s real life full name is actually Kathleen, but it shouldn’t be much of an issue in the fic as we can just shorten it to Kat whenever we refer to her.
As for Shiv, Shiva is just fine, and she said yesterday that she liked it so we have her approval on the matter. We can use Rose as a middle name if we ever need to. Perhaps part of her schtick is that she just calls herself Shiva Rose rather than with her surname.
Evan for Eagleclaw is great.
As far as you and I go, I guess that’s up to us to choose. As much as I like Frances, which is a lot, it is dangerously close to my real name and I know Fern is a legitimate name so I’d rather go with that. Your name is up to you, obviously π
We can talk about the others as we introduce them into the story. A lot of them submitted BCA profiles, and since the people we’re including are mostly active on chat we can always ask them whenever we see them/as we need to.
Also, we need to come up with a name for the collab as a whole at some point π
Oh my god, please use Jayne as the spelling, that is fantastic. XD
THE HERO OF CANTON
THE MAN THEY CALL JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYNE
Haha I didn’t realise I was referencing anything π
Haha, it was just my first immediate thought on seeing that name. π It’s from the sadly short-lived TV show Firefly. If you haven’t watched it, you totally should (warning for cursing and semi-explicit scenes). It’s sort of a Western in space, with a crew of small-time thieves/smugglers/whatever on a spaceship called Serenity trying to just survive until the next job. Jayne Cobb is their gunman, and not the brightest bulb, but good at what he does. ^^
Those suggestions sound good :). I do happen to know many of the characters/BlogClanners real names, but I didn’t know if they would be comfortable with us using them :p. So, I think we should keep Kat as Katherine, so she doesn’t feel like her privacy was violated. And, although it is a boy’s name, I do love Cyprus and I want to keep it.
Another question. How are we going to post this? If we post them as we write them, then we’ll need to set up a due date for when we turn these chapters in. Or, we could write them all, edit them all, and then post them.
What do you think would work best?
I wasn’t suggsting we use their real names, as I know quite a few of them too, and I wasn’t planning on it, but I was just pointing it out in case you weren’t aware π
Cyprus is fine!
I think it depends entirely on how many chapters we plan to write. If we want to do a lot, then it would probably be better if we post them as they’re written, but if we choose to do less, then we’ll be able to post them all here first.
You are an actual, literal angel for doing this and I am indebted to you for it <3
I'm going to edit it a little (mostly by way of fleshing out the dark forest part because win's always getting at me when I don't put emphasis on it but the rest is beautiful and I love this so much) and then let Win do his worst so it might look quite different by the time he posts it but I'm so so grateful that you did this for me
And I'm sorry you had to stay up til 2:30 I didn't mean for you to lose out on sleep because of it
Ily thank you <3
Please feel free to edit voraciously. And don’t worry about the sleep, that’s my fault because I miscalculated how busy I was going to be.
No problem, Fern. Anytime <3
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