ArcaneSword
Fandoms
Recent works
-
Tags
Summary
“But I’m not just doing this out of the kindness of my cynical little heart, Cunningham.”
Her eyes went wide and his smirk grew into a grin, “I want some reciprocity, Chrissy.”
“You do?” she swallowed, eyes still wide, hands now motionless but still gripped together, as she asked breathily, “What did you want… me to do?”
“Twenty-four hours.”
“What?” her eyes narrowed in confusion.
“If I’m gonna contaminate my very being by actually—” he mimed a dry heave and got a snicker out of her “—buying the fucking sheet music for a fucking Billy Joel song and learning it—"
“I already have the sheet music, you big baby,” she scoffed but he could see the tiny smile twitching at the corners of her mouth.
“Yeah, but I’m still gonna be tarnishing my reputation for you. So, I want twenty-four hours of your complete and absolute obedience.”
“Obedience?”
Based on a Tumblr prompt where Eddie strikes at deal with Chrissy but didn’t bother to read the fine print. What’s even worse is that he’s the one that wrote the fine print…
-
Tags
Summary
There was something about Eddie that just… did something to him. It was like the guy cast some sort of magic spell or made some devil’s pact because… well, Jason wasn’t gay. He still got turned on by Chrissy and looking at the naked women in Playboy and Penthouse and he never even had an inkling of desire to look at his teammates or classmates while they all used the group showers after basketball practice or PE, so he couldn’t be gay, but…
But there was something about Eddie’s long wavy brown hair and his chocolatey-brown eyes and his sly smile. There was something enticing about the tattoos that graced his nicely toned arms and his long, dexterous fingers that he adorned with heavy silver rings. And there was all the confusing feelings Jason had about the pair of handcuffs that Eddie used as a belt buckle, but it wasn’t just that.
It wasn’t only those physical things that made Jason’s body conspire against him when Munson was around. It was also because that fucking freak had a knack for humiliating him.
...Or Jason has a sexual awakening after getting humiliated by Eddie and tries to do something about...
...A.K.A. Jason's side of the story in this AU.
Series
- Part 4 of An Aching To Be Free
-
Tags
Summary
“Well… You know… Fuck it, I’ll take you camping then,” the smile slipped off of his stupid fucking face as he realized what the fuck he had just said. What he had just fucking offered.
By the stunned look on Chrissy’s face, he knew that his stupid fucking mouth went too far this time. What the fuck was he thinking!? Oh yeah, she’d definitely go along with this fucking plan. She had to have been itching for him, the fucking King of the Freaks, to take her, the gorgeous and popular head cheerleader and Queen of Hawkins High, on a fucking camping trip for a fucking week during fucking spring break—
“Okay…”
“Huh?”
Or... Maybe all it takes is one van and one big sleeping bag for two people escape the curse of Hawkins for a week.
-
Tags
Summary
Eddie chuckled before he sat up and leaned forward, his elbows resting on his knees as he grinned, “Abso-fucking-lutely not.”
“What do you mean ‘absolutely not’, dork!?” Erica crossed her arms across her chest as she spat out, “You told me to get new players to join the cause. You said you’d help me teach them DnD so I could start my own club at my school.”
“Yeah, I said to get players, but I didn’t say to get…” he gestured dismissively with his hand and scoffed, “This…”
“Oh, are we doing this again?” Erica’s eyes went wide in a mockingly innocent expression, “Do I need to remind you about when you thought I couldn’t play? And do I need to remind you how I wiped the floor with your precious Vecna campaign? Peter has potential, just like me—”
“Relax Lady Applejack,” Eddie smirked then pointed at Peter, “I’ve got no problem with that one, but that one,” he pointed at Chrissy, “That’s the one that I’ve got a problem with.”
“Me!?”
Or the Queen of Hawkins High gets roped into playing DnD by her younger brother and it turns out that the King of Hellfire is the dungeon master. I think we all know where this is going...
-
Tags
Summary
“Guess who’s got a date tonight!?” Steve sing-songed just as Chrissy stepped through their apartment’s front door.
She dropped her commuter bag onto the bench by the front door and stared at Steve and his stupid smile that grew into a muppet grin. A grin that she longed to punch off his face…
“You?” she deadpanned. Trying desperately to act nonchalant as she pulled off her sensible yet professional shoes and placed them beneath the bench, hoping that she wasn’t the one that was doomed in this narrative.
“No, I don’t have a date,” Steve laughed and pointed at Chrissy with both index fingers, “But you do.”
“What!?”
“You’ve got a blind date, baby!” Robin appeared out of nowhere with her mouth gaping open like Statler while she and Waldorf laughed maniacally.
...Or the wonder twins set Chrissy up on a blind date and she runs into Eddie instead.
Recent series
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Buffy raised an eyebrow at the logo of the luxury bath and body store that she was too broke to even walk past.
“Look, I just got you a couple of bits,” Spike said, dumping the bag on the counter, “to replace the bloody dish soap you’re using. That shit’s bad for your skin, you know?” He unpacked the bag, revealing an entire stockpile of shower gels and soaps, shampoos and conditioners, and—oh my God, a rose clay face mask, Buffy thought, greed overtaking her features before she could suppress it. “And some toothpaste, razors…” Spike continued, as she forcefully rearranged her expression into one of haughty indifference. “Not that you need it,” he added, raising his hands in withered self-defense, before tucking his hands into his pockets. “Just looked like you could use stocking up is all.”
Buffy needs pampering. Spike obliges.
Series
- Part 17 of Hit You With My Best (One) Shot
Bookmarked by ArcaneSword
14 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time to update.
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
Series
- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,034
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
- 8
- Comments:
- 1,357
- Kudos:
- 7,003
- Bookmarks:
- 8,315
- Hits:
- 429,412
Bookmarked by ArcaneSword
18 May 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Very thorough and easy to follow HTML reference guide
-
Tags
Summary
Who said jealousy was an ugly emotion? Spike thinks it looks gorgeous on his girl.
When a near miss momentarily puts Buffy's true feelings in the spotlight, Spike immediately craves an encore. After all, he and Anya are sick of being treated like clowns, so it's time for a death-defying double act to treat their formers to a glittering spectacle. Whether they like it or not.
So come one, come all, boys and girls
of all ages! Step under the Big Top and direct your attention to the center ring. The whole beautiful show is about to begin...Bookmarked by ArcaneSword
02 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Post-Chosen, Buffy's struggling to adjust to the new status quo of her life: no longer the only Slayer, but still The Slayer. The one in charge. Propelled to investigate a strange blip on the magical radar, Buffy finds herself in Duluth, Minnesota and much more than she bargained for.
Meanwhile, Spike has come back from the brink himself, only to be entirely at loose ends. No purpose, no guiding light, he gets himself out of LA and into a mess of, well, not hot water, that's for certain.
AKA, Buffy and Spike reunite in my home state and they hate it.
Written for EF's 2026 Challenge Month, answering werehorse's challenge of Spuffy vs. YOUR favorite local cryptid, which I've had my eye on for months. This has been a lovely excuse to get Spuffy to Minnesota.
Bookmarked by ArcaneSword
09 Apr 2026
-
Tags
Summary
There's a brand new demon in Sunnydale, and he's doing the whole tourist trap; the sights, the sounds,…the dark urges of unconscious minds.
And to Buffy's horror, her dreams are filled with the last person she would've chosen.
Series
- Part 1 of In Your Dreams
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 23,846
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 125
- Kudos:
- 286
- Bookmarks:
- 41
- Hits:
- 6,576
Bookmarked by ArcaneSword
09 Mar 2026