Fic: you're at the bottom, this is it

you're at the bottom, this is it
After so many kidnappings and unwanted advances by Bowser over the years, an especially trying night at the end of which she’d gotten kidnapped by him again has Peach finally snapping and letting him have it. This is some of the aftermath.

Fandom: Super Mario
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy
Relationships: Mario & Luigi
Additional Tags: Hurt/comfort
Length: 1,830 words

This fic exists because I had a hankering for writing this part of the timeline, the low point Bowser has to hit and the uncomfortable truths that have to be dragged forward for him to truly be part of this polycule. Also, I had the image of Kamek kneeling next to a Bowser in his shell, talking to him and threading a hand through his spikes, similar to how he did in Chapter 9 of A Dream of Sunny Skies.

What Peach says exactly isn’t very important, so I didn’t bother writing it. The only important thing was Bowser’s reaction. And sure, he had been terrible to her in the past and she’s definitely justified in snapping and letting him have it, but her words are still allowed to sting, you know? I didn’t want there to be any winners here. Not Bowser, who’s fledgling character development was just harshly stuck down, not Peach, who was filled with a fury she’d never felt before, and now has to sit with how cruel she’s capable of being and the emotional crash that follows, not Luigi, who inadvertently kickstarted this whole mess and had had his own fair share of being yelled at, not Mario, who is forced to be a bystander to this entire ordeal. But they’ll recover from this!

Year in Review (of my fic)

This year I set out to post at least one fic every month, because I almost inadvertently managed it last year and it will be very amusing in hindsight. Well, I'm happy to say that as of today I've managed it! So that's exciting. It definitely got tougher near the end of the year because I got really busy all of a sudden. All in all, I'm happy I never have to do this again, lmao. And I'm excited to get to work on some multi-chapter fics next year!

Anyway I wanted to list all the fics-per-month I've written, hehe. For months where I wrote more than one fic I'll just pick my favorite!

( Here are the fics! )

So that's 12 fics plus 10 extras, totaling around 49.5k words! Looking forward to writing less next year, hopefully. I have a bunch of other hobbies I'd like to catch up on, too, like my video game backlog or my Neocities site or even seeing if my melodica is still viable to play after sitting in its case unused for almost 5 years, haha (I should probably buy a new one). Maybe I'll even start going to the library again... 🤔

I did it!

Now that I’ve successfully written at least one fic per month this year, I will never have to do so again. This hopefully means I will now have time for other endeavors, such as clearing my video game backlog or working on my Neocities site or seeing if my melodica is still viable to play after sitting in its case unused for almost 5 years or figuring out where to buy a new melodica or going to the library.

…Oh, and also working on all the multi-chapter WIPs I’ve been neglecting, lol.

It'll be nice to not have a self-imposed deadline to stress over anymore (except for the upcoming Valentine's Day fic, I guess)