They Kiss Instead

Title: They Kiss Instead
Author: Timothy Wren
Fandom: Naruto
Relationship: Uzumaki Naruto/Uchiha Sasuke
Genre: Anime, Romance, Canon Divergence
Word Count: 2,064
Warnings: Canonical concepts of suicide/murder-suicide. Nobody dies in this, but Naruto does think about letting Sasuke take him out, in line with the canonical scene; canonical violence.
Summary: When he realizes they’re hurtling toward a mutual end, Naruto refuses to let Sasuke die.

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The Way, the truth, and the lightsaber

Title: The Way, the truth, and the lightsaber
Author: Timothy Wren
Fandom: Naruto, Star Wars/The Mandalorian
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Momochi Zabuza
Notes/Warnings: Imprisonment, Meet Cute, Discussions of Violence, Mandalorian Culture & Mando’a Language
Word Count: 1,200 (complete)
Summary: The man in manacles shifted, looking up with a dirty face– Zabuza inhaled roughly. Silver eyes pierced him in place, intense on a face that had seen better days. He had a black eye that was only just starting to fade.

“Not a jetii.” He croaked, from a bone-dry throat. “Mandalorian.”

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Love (who art a light to guide)

Title: Love (who art a light to guide)
Author: Timothy Wren
Fandom: Naruto
Relationship: Hatake Kakashi/Momochi Zabuza,
Genre: Anime, Romance, Sentinel/Guide
Warnings: Sentinel/Guides are known, canon-typical violence, canon-typical references to ANBU, non-graphic child murder, Zabuza’s canon backstory (of child murder, as a child)
Word Count: 3,815 (complete)
Summary: The only reason Hatake Kakashi’s page in the bingo book read “kill on sight” instead of “flee on sight” was because it was fucking useless to flee from a half-feral Sentinel.

There’s just one problem

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Bakugou Katsuki’s Birthday

April 20th is Bakugou Katsuki’s birthday. Bakugou is a character from Boku no Hero Academia that I did not intend to love. A lot of people have a lot of negative things to say about him and his character, but I fell hard and fast for that characterization.

In this post: why I love him, and an art/writing Bingo challenge for his birthday.

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Spring Character Shorts

Character-specific writing prompts are now available in the forum (“Dragon’s Rest”) as a writing challenge. The blurb from the Rules of Engagement, explaining the rules of the challenge: “Spring Character Shorts” is a writing challenge. Prompts will be posted daily throughout the second half of March 2021, though there is no deadline. This means ones a prompt is posted, you can make an attempt for it at any time. To meet the challenge you must choose a character from any of your fandom who meets the prompt– in your opinion– and write a piece about them. The piece should be…

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The Beginning

As you can see, I have finally, after much deliberation, made my own website. If you’re reading this, you’re either buckling in for the ride at the beginning of this journey, or looking back on it through the lens of time and– hopefully– admiring how far the site has come since its inception. While I fiddle with background images and headers, I am keeping in mind the main portions of the site, and the reasons for which it was created: first, as a place to showcase my personal writing, and then the forum which will become a home for the…

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