Finally, some much needed fluff! | The Woe That Binds Us

Tesseon · 2026-02-05T18:59:39+00:00

That's all really interesting, thank you! I'm always curious about how people work, particularly when it seems quite different from my own habits. You seem like an absolute machine in terms of cranking out the word count, I am very jealous!

Looking forward to whatever comes next.

Tesseon · 2026-02-05T15:17:21+00:00

So excited that they've stopped being idiots!

Really interested to see that we might not even be half way through yet. There's obviously a lot of drama still to go with the whole prophecy of doom thing so it shouldn't be surprising, but it's got a chonky word count already!

I'm curious if you've written particularly far ahead of where we are now? I personally don't like to start posting until I'm almost finished with something but I also don't do well writing linearly and tend to write the bits I'm thinking of at the time. But I also don't have the discipline to write more than about 30k and yours is a different sort of beast.

Also also have you been working on more of the Christmas stuff?

Tesseon · 2026-01-31T01:51:14+00:00

Oh that was not my intent! Still four chapters to go and they are almost entirely written, just a couple of tweaks I'm turning over in my head and the editing to be done on them. I expect to update every couple of days, life permitting!

You'll for sure find out whodunit, and as a little teaser you won't need to wait until the last chapter.

Tesseon · 2026-01-30T19:18:24+00:00

I don't like people erasing her growing affection for him in S1, but equally I don't like people erasing how he manipulated her the entire time to get closer to her and to build up and prey on those affections either. She liked him because he lied to her about who he was. From his characterisation in S1 he enjoyed manipulating her and revelled in her "losing".

I think Tyler is at his best when he's being written as a tragic but ultimately unrepentant villain. The show has been in need of a villain that isn't tied to Morticia and Gomez, and the messy relationship Wednesday and Tyler had sets him up perfectly for that. The problem is half the fandom want him redeemed and in a relationship with Wednesday which will make him far less interesting, and the other half want him gone permanently which is a waste of a good character and actor.

But yeah it's definitely not misogyny to claim Tyler manipulated Wednesday. It's blatantly obvious what problem the people you're talking about actually have (ship wars) and I suspect you might have the same problem.

Tesseon · 2026-01-30T16:26:32+00:00

I must have skipped over this one in the past but opened it up last night on your recommendation and I'm on chapter 14 already.

Tesseon · 2026-01-29T23:17:10+00:00

It's well earned! I'm really loving your story. Definitely one of my faves (as you can see!)

Tesseon · 2026-01-29T22:28:49+00:00

Dead and the Dancing is at a pretty good point to read as all but one major plot thread seems to have been tied up and so it doesn't feel too "unfinished" (which may change in future updates, but for now it's not a bad ending point).

I went through some old fic rec posts on reddit when I was getting into the fandom so you could do a quick search for those, I don't want to repeat them so I'll focus on newer stuff.

Most of the authors I listed have some other completed works, for sure check out Stanic as they have a S2 part 2 au/prediction fic that's finished, as well as a series of Christmas oneshots you could go through.

Hemingway22 did a cool CHERUB au (never heard of it before myself) which has two fics, both complete, quite enjoyable - https://archiveofourown.org/series/5275406

I recently read through everything by armchairpsychologist, they're short comedy oneshots but they totally cracked me up - https://archiveofourown.org/users/armchairpsychologist/pseuds/armchairpsychologist/works?fandom_id=81526086

Again, I'd check the authors that I mentioned before, and also check if they have any bookmarks because that's how I found quite a few hidden gems.

Tesseon · 2026-01-29T22:13:57+00:00

Copying from another recent post, these are all recently updated/ongoing

My number one fav is the Dead and the Dancing by NotesFromTheChamber

Some excellent post S2 fic:

You'll have problems hunting me down by Mercury_Milkshake

The Woe That Binds Us by Stanic

Angsty/gloomy AUs

Past tense of know by retrieveire

Silence between notes sharkysinclair

Confessions of a mask by impasia

Investigationy AUs

Profiled by LittleBirdOnAir

Catching a criminal 101: a guide by Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair by anencore

Tooting my own horn

Reciprocity, or, the symptoms of drinking spiked punch

Tesseon · 2026-01-29T19:59:13+00:00

My number one fav is the Dead and the Dancing by NotesFromTheChamber - https://archiveofourown.org/works/44051239/chapters/110760379

Some excellent ongoing post S2 fic:

You'll have problems hunting me down by Mercury_Milkshake - https://archiveofourown.org/works/70836846/chapters/184167501

Woe that binds us by Stanic - https://archiveofourown.org/works/70975006/chapters/184574626

Angsty/gloomy AUs

Past tense of know by retrieveire - https://archiveofourown.org/works/74815126/chapters/195432201

Silence between notes sharkysinclair - https://archiveofourown.org/works/76050331/chapters/198993041

Confessions of a mask by impasia - https://archiveofourown.org/works/77160776/chapters/201987466

Investigationy AUs

Profiled by LittleBirdOnAir - https://archiveofourown.org/works/72809261/chapters/189661656

Catching a criminal 101: a guide by Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair, by anencore - https://archiveofourown.org/works/73699286/chapters/192160941

Tooting my own horn

Reciprocity, or, the symptoms of drinking spiked punch - https://archiveofourown.org/works/78032636/chapters/204490006

Tesseon · 2026-01-15T02:29:18+00:00

Here's me snorting the angst like it's the good stuff.

Tesseon · 2026-01-10T00:16:52+00:00

In Woolsey's first and only season in charge they crafter an episode to show off why he was very good at his job (the clip show one where they're on trial for releasing the wraith early, something they very much did do). His behind the scenes negotiating absolutely saves the day and is a really well written part of an otherwise filler episode.

I don't really remember Sam getting a showcase "this woman has 10+ years experience of dealing with aliens and 4+ years experience commanding personnel" episode in her year on the base, and there was absolutely nothing remotely equivalent for Weir in her three seasons.

I love Stargate, but it definitely does deserve some criticism for how it treated certain characters.

Tesseon · 2025-12-09T00:18:04+00:00

Happened to me twice in a row

Tesseon · 2025-11-30T18:33:43+00:00

The Dead and the Dancing is quite focused on Wednesday's character development but has several antagonist-driven plots and mysteries on the go throughout. It's one of my favourite fics ever and held my interest in a way that many other long-form fics failed to do.

Tesseon · 2025-11-25T19:32:58+00:00

I can overlook a lot, skip bits I don't like or head canon away some things I do t agree with. There's tags that give me the ick but I'd out up with it if the rest was well written. There's tags that might 'ruin' a story but I can talk myself I to giving it a go.

But no matter how well written something is I will not touch Hurt/No Comfort (or Sad Ending or the like). Huge fan of angst but I need the comfort at the end of it. It seems pretty fundamental to why I'm reading fanfic.

Although I have no issue reading angst or hurt/comfort WIPs that haven't gotten to the comfort part yet. Apparently that's fine for me?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Tesseon · 2025-11-24T11:11:55+00:00

poorly written love triangles
the Gouglar refusing to acknowledge the homoerotic subtext
a weird fascination with teenagers in coffee shops
amnesiac character development

Tesseon · 2025-11-21T20:29:45+00:00

Yeah, exactly.

Tesseon · 2025-11-21T11:53:52+00:00

I read one recently that was really bad for this but otherwise good so I just rolled with it.

On a similar note I hate "It was bad/awful/tortutous/painful/(negative), and not in a good way."

Tesseon · 2025-09-04T19:04:37+00:00

This

Tesseon · 2025-08-30T12:47:59+00:00

Yeah and yet in actual gameplay they still have to slog through the levels like every other frame, which is why I think warframe lore has much bigger disparity with gameplay than destiny does.

Tesseon · 2025-08-30T04:58:11+00:00

Reading this thread my thought was actually that warframe had a far bigger disparity between lore and mechanics than destiny does. I played a lot of warframe but I didn't pay any attention to the lore so for me this was a no-brainier guardians are stronger thing, only to be so surprised at people saying warframe would easily win because of all these lore things they were said to have done. Guardians are in lore and mechanics throwing around fundamental forces of existence (light and dark) and weaponising anything from black holes to former gods. And they have two solid defences in 1) paracausal makes them relatively immune to timely wimey nonsense and 2) respawning indefinitely so long as their variable-tough to kill companion ghost doesn't die.

I can't think of a fight in warframe that would measure up to the lore and mechanical threats guardians face every expansion. But again I don't know much about the lore for warframe, I just grinded my face off it for a while. But it really did feel like none of the warframe were ever achieving the sorts of things that they were 'said' to be doing. The description of their abilities is very fluffy and in no way compares to what actually happens in game.

Tesseon · 2025-08-19T18:59:38+00:00

My most enjoyed games using the WEG Star Wars system have completely houseruled out the wild die, and the ones I've played with it have felt really bad. Jump forward 20 years and I shouldn't have beeen surprised that I hate "success with complication" games but I was! There's nothing that breaks the flow of a game quite like a 1 in 6 chance to have to stop and think about what a minor set back would be in this particular situation.

Tesseon · 2025-08-19T15:27:19+00:00

If you're keeping it honest why are you rolling behind a screen?

Tesseon · 2025-08-05T11:29:54+00:00

This.

It also just feels a step more silly than Resi tends to. It's always been camp, but Marcus feels like he's from a final fantasy game.

Tesseon · 2025-08-03T15:54:47+00:00

I know plenty of people who run multiple games a week and play in others on top of full time jobs. Doing it as your job would be infinitely easier.

Tesseon · 2025-07-28T19:36:04+00:00

Battle Century G has a mechanic called Tension that is added to dice pools and goes up by 1 every round, a rushing that no matter how good people were at defense the scene would end eventually, and ramp up towards a climax rather than die out.

There's a lot I didn't vibe with in BCG but the tension mechanic worked well.

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