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[aghostamonghumans]

Hey there👋

This blog will consist of everything related to fanfiction and writing in general. I will probably reblog a lot of writing advice and memes, but you can also find some exclusive updates on future fics I'm writing or small fanfic ideas that might never see the light of day. Don't worry, I have specific tags for everything that I post, so you can more easily find what you're looking for

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About Me:

They/Them

Aro/Ace

Fanfic Writer & Artist

Social Anxiety

MHA obsessed

Tags I use:

#Ghostly fanfic -> My own fanfiction

#Ghostly recs -> Fanfic recs

#Ghostly ideas -> little fic ideas or snippets that I probably won't ever write

#Ghostly updates -> updates on my wip fics/writing in general

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[ao3commentoftheday]

[kiwikamenrider]

Humans Are Weird compared to other aliens because all of their elements they needed for instellar/intergalatic travel are present on their worlds already but we have to invent our own

Alien: what do you mean you created- you cant just INVENT new elements, thats now how this works!

Human Scientist: Well, its not easy, but we made a bunch of them, like time crystals!

Alien: what in the name of the gods of sshlao are time crystals.

Human Scientist: this! (Shows off time crystal)

Alien: ??????????????

Alien: thats not even a real object! How is that an element???

Human Scientist: we dont know, but quantum computing works a lot better with them there!

Alien: YOU DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND THEM?

[just-an-evil-immortal]

As a native german speaker I sometimes need to remind myself, when writing in english, that I cant just keep going with a sentence and that, unlike german, where you can make a sentence go on for as long as you want if you're a true lover of Nebensätze, english sentences are usually shorter and aren't supposed to go on for multiple lines or god forbid a whole paragraph.

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Stop procrastinating! Go and make stuff!🎵

[lightwolf]

Editing? Oh you mean fic patching.

[lightwolf]

Protagonist now has more complex motivations.

Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.

Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.

Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.

The horse now has a name.

Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.

[mmedemerteuil]

Characters now no longer reference the previous version’s climate and have been updated to react appropriately to the currently set season.

Solved a glitch where supernumerary limbs would sometimes emerge during complex physical interactions.

Should no longer display “[insertnamehere]” during conversations and narration. All of such occurrances have been replaced with the appropriate tags.

Conversation continuity has been improved. Characters will no longer inappropriately respond with lines from previous iterations of the narrative.

All references to “Event A” have been purged to reflect changes in narrative structure.

Now with more thematically-consistent swearing.

[kedreeva]

Back-to-back repeated words that resulted from sentence rearranging or start/stop editing have been cleared.

Paragraphs which contained two or more instances of the same adjective have had their adjectives updated to accurately reflect a player’s vocabulary inventory.

Minor time traveling issues have been resolved, all characters should now exist in the same tense.

Punctuation has been improved. Commas have been reduced by half.

Characters sighing has been reduced by 30%.

Characters looking at things or people during conversations has been reduced by 40%. To make up for this, characters thinking about the conversation has been boosted and descriptive narrative has been added.

Title has been applied.

[aghostamonghumans]

struggling to pull the words for literally the last few paragraphs of the fic out of my brain right now

[sweetcreatures-world]

I don't think you guys understand how much of my writing process involves sitting alone and staring into the void

[prettyboysinpain]

And I’d do it again

[notthatblairwitch]

[luna-azzurra]

How to Write Angst That Hurts <3

[aghostamonghumans]

I should stop giving a shit about my writing style actually. Maybe the I'll finally get something done for once

[dionysiaproductions]

[aghostamonghumans]

I currently have two Dr Stone wips that I'm working on to satiate my hyperfixation but somehow my brain doesn't want to write for either of them right now. No, it wants to start a reaction fic that I just know will get nowhere either. Plus, I told myself I wouldn't start anything new until I at least got one of the wips done (they're not supposed to be long stories) but the temptation is there...

[writingdose]

things I won’t let ai take away from human writers

em dash

“not x, not y, but z”

short sentence stacking as a stylistic choice

none of these belong to ai. these are all what human writers have been writing since day one, way before ai was invented. ai was trained to mimic how human writers write — so em dash, not x not y but z and short sentence stacking would never have been used by ai at all if ai hadn’t learned and mimicked them from human writers.

no, you are not “fighting against ai” by accusing every work that has em dash, not x not y but z or short sentence stacking in it as ai-generated, you are helping ai harm the writing community by engaging in witch hunt and scaring human writers away from creating/sharing their works for fear of being wrongly accused of using ai.

speculations, accusations and ai witch hunt harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I just want to start by saying that no, I am not a fan of gen ai. I avoid ai-generated fic if I came across one that's properly tagged as such. but I still don't agree with people who say "you (general you) are a bad, terrible person if you use gen ai". because while the usage of gen ai can indeed be bad and extremely harmful, that still doesn't necessarily always mean "everybody who uses it is pure evil". I feel like people are much, much more complicated than whether or not they use gen ai.

a lot of my friends and family members openly use it. and while I don't agree with their actions, I know for a fact they aren't bad, evil people. I guess my point is that you can disagree with someone's action, and you can absolutely think their action is terrible and harmful, without letting this one terrible and harmful action define their entire self-worth and label them as "an evil person". humans are so much more than that.

harassment will not make you the good guy.