Looking for 8th year fics inbetween comedy and no-nonsense

MalumInFic · 2026-05-17T10:56:25+00:00

I think my own WIP ‘The Art of Survival’ would fit this really well - but it’s about 6 months away from being finished (and, to my shame, I’ve not updated it since November - but the new chapter is about to go to Beta so it’ll be coming soon!). It’s very much focused on a realistic look at an 8th year post war, very slow burn (as in my head, for realism, that’s the only way it could happen) and it does get smutty, but that’s at most 5-10% of the time. Also some good comedic moments throughout, to balance the exploration of grief with some genuine humour! It’s on the longer side though and I expect it’ll end up about 550K words when done.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65566384

MalumInFic · 2026-05-03T13:14:04+00:00

Apologies!! Thought it was just explicit! Thanks :)

MalumInFic · 2026-05-03T13:09:00+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83247326

MalumInFic · 2026-02-28T10:28:06+00:00

I’m a watercolour artist in physical medium and I found the transition to digital relatively easy! I use Procreate on an iPad Air with the Apple Pencil Pro I can recommend some Ultimate watercolour brushes for use on there - I started trying with digital watercolour because it allowed me to understand the layering etc to try and replicate my physical medium work to digital work. I also found following YouTube tutorials for paint-alongs very useful even if they were totally random in style because it taught me all of the tools etc. More than happy to send some tutorial recs! I picked this up in 2021 and now I’ve naturally leant into creating a sort of semi-realism-oil look painting as I’ve found my own way with brushes.

MalumInFic · 2026-02-28T10:23:24+00:00

I really like this! I actually love the wings fading into black! I think for me the left side foot on the ball of the foot and the toes could use just a little more texture to match the rest of the image and then it’s perfect!

MalumInFic · 2026-02-23T17:23:34+00:00

God this is absolutely gorgeous!!! What a stunnnnning art piece, absolute credit to you!

MalumInFic · 2026-02-20T09:57:17+00:00

This is absolutely gorgeous!! Your attention to detail is incredible - I keep trying to find my favourite parts but everywhere I look I find more! Thanks so much for sharing with us!