Zaniida
Fandoms
- Person of Interest (TV) (107)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe (34)
- Thor (Movies) (24)
- The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (16)
- Lackadaisy (Webcomic) (12)
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The cast of POI reimagined in the aesthetic of the SCP Foundation: The world is full of supernatural phenomena, but there's a group that goes out of its way to ensure that the general public doesn't know this.
Originally planned as an Event to take place entirely during October 2018 with five chapters total (posted on the 1st, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 31st). As you might notice, that's... not what happened. But the story has expanded into quite the riveting tale!
Note: I worked with a variety of my fellow writers to establish prequels and sidefics that are canonical to my central tale, fics that flesh out some of the characters' backstories, fates, and their very natures. Still could use more, so if you're interested in contributing, get in touch!
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- Part 2 of Five Acceptable Bargains -- October AU Variants
- Part 5 of Creepyfest AUs
- Part 5 of POI Epic Tales
- Part 1 of Open Chapterfics (POI)
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Cell Divergence by Zaniida
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), Vox Machina Origins (Comics)
02 Oct 2025
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Percy’s last defiant struggles earn him nothing more than a quick and brutal beating, and then it's too late.
(Three ways Percy might've suffered if Vox Machina hadn't found him in that cell.)
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- Part 5 of Creepyfest 2024
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E01 Pilot: An ex–Foundation agent at the end of his rope gets a job offer from an enigmatic recluse who can somehow predict the details of anomalous events before the Foundation even hears about them.
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E08 Foe: When their latest alert matches a Foundation agent lost 94 years ago, Reese suspects time travel, while Finch suspects an even more chilling reality.
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- Part 8 of Creepyfest 2020
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She keeps going back to look in the mirror, like wiggling a loose tooth.
Selkie's thoughts and feelings after her hair got burnt.
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- Part 12 of Zaniida's Birthday Requests
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At some point, Percy asked Vax about braiding.
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- Part 11 of Zaniida's Birthday Requests
- Part 13 of Five Moments of Intimacy (Alt Fandoms)
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Zaniida's Birthday Requests by Zaniida
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Critical Role (Web Series), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Person of Interest (TV), Selkie (Webcomic), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
21 Aug 2025
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Each year, I try to post a prompt with about two weeks to go before my birthday (August 31st). This should allow people to focus on writing small, contained fics that don't balloon into giant projects.
Ideally, write it up before deadline and then post it on my birthday, so I wake up to a lot of unexpected fics to read.
Please also look at my July prompts, because they have a half-deadline of my birthday. It's generally "do something creative in a medium you're not used to using," like a writer drawing fan art or an artist recording a scene or someone making a bento box (food art) or sewing/knitting/crocheting/etc. I aim to inspire creativity and pushing outside your comfort zone to make something cool!
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Five Moments of Intimacy (Alt Fandoms) by Five Moments of Zanii (Zaniida), Zaniida
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series), Elfquest, Lackadaisy (Webcomic), MASH (TV), My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Octodad (Video Game), Recess (Cartoon), Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, Slayers (Anime & Manga), Star Trek, Stardew Valley (Video Game), The Sandman (Comics), Welcome to Night Vale
19 Aug 2025
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My fics establishing the new "FMI" or "FMNI" format, which explores five distinct versions of nonsexual intimacy:
1. Physical Intimacy (grooming, touch, sensuality, nudity, first aid or medical care)
2. Emotional Intimacy (sharing the same strong emotion, or having one character go through emotions while the other comforts them)
3. Experiential Intimacy (letting your hair down together, sharing an experience)
4. Secret Sharing (opening up to someone about a hidden part of yourself, something you don't want to share with everyone)
5. Vulnerability (allowing someone to help you, or to observe you in a time of weakness or distress, or learn something they could use against you; opening up about the things you care about or your creative endeavors that are dear to your heart)If you'd like to make a fic in this format, go right ahead! I'm hoping to spearhead a whole new genre, like the 5+1 fics ^_^
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Other Podfics (not for POI) by Zaniida
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series), Housemates (Fanfic Series), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies), Welcome to Night Vale
01 Aug 2025
- Words:
- 240
- Works:
- 6
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July Creativity Prompts by Zaniida
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Person of Interest (TV), Welcome to Night Vale
16 Jul 2024
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Every year, the same sort of prompt: Go forth and make something fannish in a creative medium you're not familiar with or not yet skilled at.
Each year, I try to meet that challenge myself, delving into some new form of fannish creativity. I've made fan art and podfics, script readings and acted scenes, bead art and Sims characters, a comics page (still hope to add more to that one), logic puzzles and a crossword puzzle, and even a Meta essay on the character arcs of the Avengers. Probably more. Maybe someday I'll finally make that opera.
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- 1,243
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- 4
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Exploring Complicated Emotions by Zaniida
Fandom: Lackadaisy (Webcomic), Person of Interest (TV)
22 Nov 2022
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Some emotions are easy to describe, and sometimes easy to dismiss.
Others are difficult to put into words, and a person going through such emotions might not even understand themselves why they're reacting the way they are. Why they feel this way. And difficult emotions, especially ones that are hard to put into words, might equally be dismissed as imaginary or pointless. Come back when you can use human language to describe what you're going through.
But exploring these emotions at length can be quite interesting. And this collection highlights some of the pieces I've done with the most work detailing such nigh-ineffable qualities of the human experience.
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The thing is: Hobbes would go, if they told him to.
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01 May 2025
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Someone turned a fic into a work of art using typography. Fascinating. I should like to see more.
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'Til the End of the Timeline by mandarou
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
29 Jan 2018
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This is a timeline for anyone focusing on Steve, Bucky, and the Howling Commandos specifically within the MCU canon.
March 10, 1917 - James Buchanan Barnes is born, and we were all officially fucked.
July 4, 1918 - Steven Grant Rogers is born, and somewhere in Brooklyn Bucky's mother wept . . .
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- Part 4 of Dishonor
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- 17,254
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- 7/?
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Bookmarked by Zaniida
29 Apr 2025
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Useful rundown of the timeline for Steve and Bucky, including speculation on some of the details.
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hold to be steady by harcourt
Fandoms: Marvel Avengers Movies Universe, Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers (2012)
02 Nov 2012
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Written for this prompt, whose premise is probably the darker flipside of in the day's.
In the 70 years Steve's been in the ice, there have been some amazing leaps in submissives' rights - a collared sub is no longer classed as the property of their Dominant, uncollared subs aren't expected to quietly put up with unwanted attention from Doms, [...]
After Clint back chats Steve a little too much, Steve forcibly puts Clint down into subspace, tell him that'll he'll damn well listen to what Steve says, tells him that if he's going to be on the team then he'll be on there under Steve's conditions, which includes one of the new high-tech StarkIndustry collars that can't be removed without a specific code - one that Steve's not telling Clint
Things got better during the seventy years Steve was frozen, but Steve, man out of time, stayed the same.
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22 Oct 2024
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Steve sees Clint mouthing off a lot and being reckless in the field, learns he's a sub, and concludes that he needs to be brought under control via forced subdrop and a collar he can't take off. That was just normal in the 40's.
Clint does not respond well to this, but he's also too conflicted and compromised to tell anyone, and the rest of the team is oblivious for too damn long. But eventually they figure it out, and read Steve the riot act, and put him through sensitivity classes, and get Clint back into Coulson's care like he's supposed to be.
One of those deeply uncomfortable (and suspenseful) fics that is well worth reading.
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Some think it strange, that Cassandra, as a Lady, is waited on by a manservant and not a lady’s maid.
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- Part 14 of Little Moments In The Quiet
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24 Aug 2024
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Desmond winds up becoming Cassandra's manservant, and he understands her better than many others could.
Lots of subtext. Moderately negative toward Percy (with good reason).
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During their travels in the Feywild, even Garmelie’s assistance can’t stop Vox Machina from wandering into trouble. It is, after all, what they do best. This time, however, they may have run into something more powerful than even they can face down – in the form of a Wild Hunt, eager for sport and thirsty for blood.
This does not go well for Vox Machina, generally. It goes even worse for Percy, specifically.
Alone, cut off from his party, and being hunted by creatures more dangerous even than the Chroma Conclave, it will take everything Percy has just to survive.
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06 Aug 2024
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In the Feywild, the team runs afoul of the Wild Hunt -- and Percy winds up alone and on the run, pushing himself to the limit (and past many limits he thought he had) to survive what by all rights should be a death sentence. Intense and gripping.