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2025-07-28 06:56 am

[sticky entry] Sticky: Introduction Post

I signed up for an account to join the [community profile] smallfandomfest, but now that I'm here I guess I should post something? Anyway, I'm MerricatB and I'm seriously hyperfixated on Sense8 right now so any additional content is good content. I started writing fanfiction for the first time ever in March 2025 and have since published 23 fics! So you can find me on Ao3 if that's your thing. Or if you want to chat about Sense8, hit me up and I'll respond.
merricatb: Image of Wolfgang Bogdanow (Wolfgang1)
2025-12-27 06:44 am
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Fanfic in 2025

Y'all I published 100,000 words this year!!! It's really hard to believe it. I only started writing fics in March and posted my first one at the end of April. This year has been absolutely shitty in a bunch of different ways, but I'm grateful that I'm writing again and for all the people in fandom and beyond that I've connected with. Hopefully 2026 will bring an end to some of the terrible crap happening in the world right now but if not at least there's still communities like this one.

I still have unrevealed work for the Sense8 Holiday Exchange that I can't talk about quite yet, but for the fic that officially put me over the 100,000 word mark, may I present Nai-robbery.

Nai-robbery
While visiting Capheus on an especially costly trip to Nairobi, Wolfgang reflects on the similarities between their childhood friends.
Teen, 3504 words
This was submitted for [community profile] smallfandomfest. The prompt was: Wolfgang & Capheus - Bonding over having loyal (and loud) childhood besties

I hope to eventually write OT3 (Rajalagang) + Felix visiting everyone in the cluster, and I'm now one step closer with Capheus. One of the things I think we really missed out on with the cancellation was seeing more moments between members of the cluster that didn't have a lot of interactions. Wolfgang is one of the worst for that, which is definitely due in part to his character since he basically didn't talk to anyone but Kala until episode 10!!! But I think there was seriously a missed opportunity for him and Capheus to bond over the two of them having basically the same BFF. Felix and Jela would get on like a house on fire and god help anyone's peace and quiet within a hundred feet of them. And since we never got the background story for how Capheus and Jela met, here's a bit of that too. 

merricatb: Image of Kala Dandekar (Kala2)
2025-12-17 08:47 am
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Fic Recommendations

I just posted some recommendations for [community profile] rec_cember over at [community profile] thecluster. Check it out here and by all means if you have some recs yourself, send them my way. The more the merrier. 
merricatb: Image of Wolfgang Bogdanow (Wolfgang1)
2025-12-16 12:15 pm
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Fanfic: Ringing in the Holidays

Tis the season! My first holiday fic. I drank some eggnog and put Santa hats on my gargoyle and my glass skull, and reindeer antlers on my dog, and got to work on a Christmas fic. The Sense8 holiday exchange is also still happening but I can't talk about it until the reveal on the 31st so stay tuned for more on that soon. Until then, a little Rajalagang Christmas fluff: 

Ringing in the Holidays
Summary: A holiday trip to the Bavarian Alps turns into something more.
Rating: Teen & Up
Words: 2645
merricatb: Image of Rajalagang (Complicated1)
2025-12-09 05:43 am
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Fanfic: Art Must Always Be Free

OMG y'all this was so much fun to write. I love Wolfgang & Lito's relationship and I think there was a real missed opportunity for Wolfgang to be protective of Dani over Joaquin and their shared awful gangster families so here's a tiny bit of that. Double the throuple (plus Felix), double the fun.


Art Must Always Be Free
The Mumbai quartet heads to Mexico City. Property damage ensues.
Rated Mature (for brief violence)
3228 words
merricatb: Image of Sun and Mun (Sun/Mun)
2025-12-04 05:49 am
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Fanfic: Invisible Friends

This is my 40th!!!! fanfic. I can't believe it. I only started in March.

Anyway...I love the finale of Sense8. It's filled with joy and so much fun to watch, but if you look a little too closely you can see a TON of plotholes and inconsistencies, and I swear Lana Wachowski didn't look at a single map of Paris when writing it which makes squeezing missing scene fics into canon-compliance a little tricky, but alas. I did my best. This is like the tequila squared gay math of Paris geography and that's A-OK.

This was submitted for [community profile] smallfandomfest with the prompt: Sun/Mun - Coming out of the sensate closet.

Invisible Friends
With her cluster's encouragement, Sun formally recruits Detective Mun to their cause.
Teen and Up
1270 words
merricatb: Image of Rajalagang (Complicated1)
2025-12-02 11:49 am
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Fanfic: Uncomplicated

This one didn't take long to write but I fear the Avril Lavigne song that's been in my head since reviewing the prompt will be around far longer. Written for [community profile] smallfandomfest with the prompt: "it's complicated".

Uncomplicated
Rajan surprises his partners with an impromptu celebration.
Teen and Up
1047 words
merricatb: Image of Kala Dandekar (Kala2)
2025-11-30 11:46 am
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Dear Creator Letter: Sense8 Holiday Gift Exchange

This is my first gift exchange and I'm soooo excited! Sense8 has been my primary hyperfixation for quite awhile now, and is the reason I started reading and writing fanfiction to begin with. There just isn't enough content to satisfy my obsessive autistic brain and I need MOAR.

As far as likes, I am very much a stickler for canon. Any expansion of things seen in the show, missing scenes, pre-canon events, I'm here for it. Rajalagang + Felix is my favorite (if you couldn't tell from my works on AO3) but I also really enjoy general Cluster fics, especially rare pairs that didn't have much interaction (like Capheus & Wolfgang, Lito & Riley, etc). I read Lito/Hernando/Dani, Nomi/Amanita, Sun/Mun, and basically anything with Capheus since there are so few. Sapien relationships are most welcome as well. 

There's so much to explore in post-canon with all the storylines that didn't quite get wrapped up, so any ideas for those are also appreciated.

DNW:
AUs
Non-compliance with canon (future fics after the movie are ok)
Copaganda (Mun is ok since he knows the justice system is flawed…Will and especially Diego are on thin ice)
Wolfgang/Felix romantically in any way
Wolfgang and Felix being violent with each other
Capheus/Jela romantically in any way
Kala sidelining/divorcing Rajan
Felix staying in Berlin when Wolfgang goes to Mumbai
Explicit sexual content
Pregnancy or children
Birthing a new cluster or general OCs
 

Thank you in advance <3
merricatb: Image of Rajalagang (Complicated1)
2025-11-30 11:03 am
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Sense8 Holiday Gift Exchange

OMG it's happening!!!!! Y'all, if you have even the slightest interest in Sense8 please sign up for this. Very low minimums and it's gonna be soooo fun!

sense8 holiday gift exchange


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merricatb: Image of Rajan Rasal (Rajan1)
2025-11-26 02:47 pm

The Barbarian

I just completed my Fannish 50 in 2025 with this entry!

This fic is based on something that occurs in one of my others (Shakespearean Proportions) but can be read as a standalone. It's super fun and fluffy (in more ways than one) and was submitted jointly for [community profile] smallfandomfest under the prompt: Gifts as well as for [community profile] fourormore Bingo 2025 under the prompt: Feral.

The Barbarian
Forbidden from doing the eccentric billionaire thing and buying Wolfgang a tiger, Rajan finds the next best gift to cheer him up.
Teen and up
1636 words
merricatb: Image of Kala Dandekar (Kala2)
2025-11-23 03:08 pm
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Fic: Guten Morgen

I saw this prompt during the last round at [community profile] smallfandomfest and was still thinking about it while reviewing the updated prompt list, so here I am kicking off round 38!

Written for the prompt: thanks to Wolfgang and Rajan, mornings became Kala’s favorite part of the day.

Guten Morgen
Kala experiences a delightful disruption to her morning routine.
Teen and up
1102 words short and sweet


merricatb: Screenshot of Felix Berner (Felix1)
2025-11-18 05:33 am
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Small Fandom Fest PIMP

I wrote a pimp for Sense8 over at [community profile] smallfandomfest and am starting to review the prompts for when claims open up next week. There's still time to pimp your small fandoms as well as submit prompts for anyone interested. This is a great community for the little guys (fandoms with less than 2000 fics) so we can hopefully all grow together. Check it out if you're ever desperately searching for slivers of new content from your special interests.
merricatb: Image of Kala Dandekar (Kala2)
2025-11-14 04:41 pm

Bingo Baby!

I did it! I got Bingo for [community profile] fourormore

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It was my first time participating in a bingo game and this was so much fun! Lots of good prompts for inspiration that I would've never considered. I was kinda all over the place and wasn't sure where I'd end up (and might be able to manage a second or even third one but I'm not committing to anything at this point.)

Drama Awkward conversations
Meet the Family
Memories
I Can Tell That We Are Gonna Be Friends 
Pain Forest
Feral Grief
The Moment We Are Done With It
Competition
My Heart is Not a Clock 
Cold "We leave you alone one day and this happens"
Limits
Testing the Limits
Complicated relationships
Chicago Style
FREE SPACE Dancing
Herr Wingman
"You must think I'm stupid"
"That's not going to fit" Loyal
Herr Sugar Baby
A polycule with 10+ people
Costume Opportunity  
Kisses Old-fashioned
Holy Fear
In Mental and Spiritual Strength
Jealousy Flowers Holidays



Added to my Fannish 50 masterlist as well so I might be able to complete that by end of year too. 
merricatb: Image of Rajalagang (Complicated1)
2025-11-14 10:48 am

Meet the Family

Continuing my theme of not using especially original titles on new fics (last week's Herr Wingman joining my other Felix Berner POV fics: Herr Sidekick and Herr Sugar Baby), I just posted Meet the Family to go with Meet the Husband and Meet the Wife.

This one was a lot of fun to write once it finally got going, and ended up way longer than anticipated so I now officially have two multi-chapter fics under my belt. It was submitted as part of [community profile] fourormore 2025 Bingo for the prompt: Awkward conversations


Meet the Family
After relocating to Mumbai, the time comes for Wolfgang to meet Kala and Rajan's families. It goes as well as expected.
Teen and Up
5855 words


merricatb: Image of Rajalagang (Complicated1)
2025-11-10 08:08 am
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Small Fandom Fest

It's baaaaack! [community profile] smallfandomfest is returning for round 38.
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I love this so much. This fest was why I joined Dreamwidth to begin with (thanks to [personal profile] maevedarcy) and I just submitted a bunch of prompts. There's a small fandom for everyone, so please sign up and show some love to the little guys.
merricatb: Screenshot of Felix Berner (Felix1)
2025-11-08 09:40 am

Herr Wingman

While watching the finale for the billionth time I was struck during the Nothing Matters When We're Dancing montage by Rajan in the corner of the screen potentially dancing with a mystery person. There's also a brief adorable scene of Felix and Riley dancing and my brain just went from there. 

Herr Wingman
The fairies aren't the only ones to work their magic at Nomi and Amanita's wedding as Felix intervenes in a love triangle that refuses to communicate.
Teen and Up
1517 Words

Adding to my Fannish 50 masterlist and [community profile] fourormore bingo for the prompt: Memories

merricatb: Image of Kala Dandekar (Kala2)
2025-10-28 10:49 am
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Personal Milestone

I'm really bad at self promotion etc but I'm trying to be more positive overall and acknowledge my accomplishments so here goes...I just recently passed 10,000 hits on AO3!!!

I only started writing fanfiction this year and published my first fic at the end of April and now I have 34. I never even really read much fanfiction before but Sense8 has such a tiny fandom and tumblr just wasn't sustaining me so I went looking elsewhere and here we are.

I used to want to write for a living and even self published several books, and then got totally burnt out and wrote NOTHING for years despite being desperate for some sort of creative outlet. Fanfiction brought me out of my slump and back into writing which has been such a huge help for my mental health. I love seeing the same names pop up in kudos and comments and geeking out about my fave show with people. And now I feel like I'm contributing something to the community instead of just deep scrolling tumblr and hoping for new content.

So here's to 10,000 more I guess, and hopefully I'll be out of my writing slump soon and post more fics.

merricatb: Image of Kala Dandekar (Kala2)
2025-10-15 10:29 am

I Can Tell That We Are Gonna Be Friends

Sense8 was originally meant to be five seasons and I'm still shaking my fist at Netflix for canceling it, but at least we got a wrap up movie and that leaves plenty of options for missing scene fics. In this one, I wanted to explore the developing friendship between Kala and Felix. It takes place during the finale.

I Can Tell That We Are Gonna Be Friends
Kala bonds with Felix in the hospital while reminiscing about his childhood with Wolfgang.
Teen and Up
3599 Words

Adding to my Fannish 50 masterlist and [community profile] fourormore bingo for the prompt: Memories

 

merricatb: Image of Rajalagang (Complicated1)
2025-10-10 07:36 am

Costume Opportunity

I started writing this fic months ago and just could not get it going. I even tried changing the POV and still wasn't feeling it, but it's FINALLY done!  I gotta say, having that many people in one scene is a serious challenge. I had to write all their names out and check them off to ensure I got them all and the count was correct and I still missed one.

Costume Opportunity

The cluster finalizes the plan to take down Whispers. It's very pink.
Teen & Up
1384 words


Adding to my [community profile] fourormore bingo for the prompt: A polycule with 10+ people, and Fannish 50 masterlist.

merricatb: Image of Kala Dandekar (Kala2)
2025-10-06 07:45 am
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Small Fandom Fest

I got my button for filling three prompts! Cannot wait for the next round!



My claimed prompts are listed below:

Title: By Light of Morning
Fandom: Sense8
Pairing/Characters: Rajan/Wolfgang/Kala
Rating/Category: Teen & up
Prompt: After
Summary: In the morning after Nomi and Amanita's wedding, some concerns begin to arise.
Words: 1186

Title: What is Best in Liiiiiiiife
Fandom: Sense8
Pairing/Characters: Rajan/Wolfgang/Kala + Felix
Rating/Category: Teen & Up
Prompt: Rajan prepares a birthday gift for Wolfgang and Kala (he had no idea trying to surprise them would be so difficult)
Summary: Rajan enlists the help of his own cluster (the sapiens) to put together the perfect birthday gift for his partners.
Words: 1007

Title: The Value of Veneration
Fandom: Sense8 
Pairing/Characters: Nomi Marks
Rating/Category: Teen & Up
Prompt: Nomi's repayment for e-Death
Summary: The time comes to repay Nomi's debt for e-death
Words: 1708
merricatb: Image of Rajalagang (Complicated1)
2025-09-26 12:58 pm

Ficathon!

I got a super cool badge! This is my first time participating in a Ficathon for [community profile] fourormore and it was so much fun. Lots of prompts for things I didn't even know were a thing. 

Ficathon badge for Fourormore with a poly background and knight