Headcanon Hell

Writer. Evan. They/them. A little bit of whatever I’m currently watching/reading

[homunculus-argument]

Hey fanfic writers who know their way around the kitchen, I have an idea for you:

Pick two characters that you like writing together, and a recipe you're proud of doing really well, and then write a short story of the two of them making that dish, depicted in such precise detail that someone reading through it could actually reproduce the dish by just following the instructions written into the action and dialogue.

If you're so inclined, you may keep sprinkling the story with red herring hints that the story is going to get ~saucy~ at some point, but it doesn't. You're just showing your readers how to make one hella damn good lemon meringue. Nobody fucks around your lemon meringue.

[amyzestypond]

Hey hi hello 👋 I've had the urge to revisit writing lately. The lost sheep has returned home, free of the mental illness that's he's been plagued by for years. I don't know where this is going. I'm here to flex my creative muscles which have frankly gone limp in the last 5+ years since I've last written anything. Is anyone still even out there?

[temporary-dysphoria]

a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions

[ivorydice]

I did that thing where I was checking out a wip I haven’t touched in a long while, and before I knew it I was really sucked in and just reading it and enjoying it, and then it just fucking ended abruptly during a good scene and I nearly started screaming, and then I remembered it’s my own fucking wip and that means I have to be the one to fix this and finish it and I really really nearly started screaming and just asdfghjkl

[iwantedtobeadored]

Hey op, you didn’t have to come into my house, drag me out of bed, and proceed to drown me in my own bathtub

[snarky-bee]

I think another problem with the mindset of kudos/comments on AO3 is part of the “stalking” culture on instagram. If you like a picture that is months old on instagram, its “insta-stalking” because you had to scroll through that person’s profile in order to find those months-old pictures. That is NOT how AO3 works. It’s not cringe or embarrassing to find a fic that was posted in 2012 and like it. It is there to read. 

Same for works on AO3. Sure, maybe some of us have some old works that aren’t up to our current standards of writing. But I, personally, am never going to look at a kudos email and think “ew omg I can’t believe someone found this fic from 2016 why are they liking it”. In fact, I am entirely going to go “nice! people are still reading some of my older works too, I’m glad they enjoyed it”. It’s an archive, it is meant to be a collection of transformative works, old and new, and you are meant to find them. 

In fact, if you find a work that is from five years ago and you really liked it? I bet the author would love a comment even then.

Stories are written to be read. 

Show some appreciation.

[barbex]

Writers write to be read!

Older stories need love just as new ones. Please don’t let stories and chapters die of neglect after one fucking week!

[elfwreck]

I got a comment a couple of months ago for a nearly-10-years-old crackfic and I was thrilled! 

Part of why there’s sortable searches at AO3 is to let you find fics for a now-dormant fandom, fics that are no longer canon-compliant after the new episodes, fics that work with fanon tropes that are no longer popular, fics from authors who are no longer actively writing… and just fics that weren’t written recently. 

Comments on old fics are great! Often, they bring back a rush of memories for the author - oh wow, I remember when I was obsessing about this fandom, how much I loved this pairing, the fics I read that inspired this fic! 

[nokomiss]

Getting kudos/comments on old fics is always a cause for celebration! And also never be embarrassed to leave kudos/comments if you work your way through an author’s catalog of fic. I know that personally, when I open the daily kudos email every morning, if I start seeing the same name repeated, it makes me want to jump for joy. Especially if the person reads a variety of fandoms, because that either means we love the same things (yay!) or they like my writing enough to try out new things (double yay!).  

Fics are labors of love, and getting to find that people still love the months, years or even a decade later? Is awesome.  (And showing appreciation for fic in the form of kudos or comments is an excellent way to inspire more fic! It’s a win-win.)

[akiyty]

Last year i got a comment from someone who’d read my work TWENTY YEARS AGO and sent me a note about it. It made my year

[drst]

I mean, if you find a pro author you like and go buy/borrow all their older books and leave reviews or something on Goodreads nobody thinks that’s stalking, do they? It means “Oh I just found your work and I’m getting caught up and enjoying it immensely!”

Or you just encountered a band for the first time and go listen to all their previous albums?

It’s totally cool to read a fic writer’s back catalog and leave kudos or comments, is my point.

I’m always tickled when something I wrote a while ago gets a kudo.

[amyzestypond]

Finally updated my icon!! Feels appropriate since I haven’t been caught up on OmgCP for a couple years now

[amyzestypond]

okay art has never really been my thing (and i’ve def never drawn on my tablet before) but i finished binge watching the tangled series and i absolutely love this little nerd so much

[the-right-writing]

Writer Beware makes posts on which publishing houses to avoid at all costs, which words to look for and which words to watch out for in contracts, and several other things that will keep you in control and knowledgeable about the publishing process.  I’d suggest reading through the website if you want to avoid getting ripped off, cheated, or scammed.

[the-right-writing]

I’m just going to reblog this every so often because it’s a site that every writer needs to see.

[write-on-world]

Cheers @mj_kuhn.

[amyzestypond]

Okay y’all I finished Wayfarers #2 and I’m losing my shit. How is it so good. This is incredible. I love it so much!!!

[kaylewiswrites]

I love the ambiguity of the term ‘WIP’. Is it a project in it’s third draft? A final draft being queried? An idea I came up with six months ago and haven’t written anything about yet? You don’t know. Nobody knows. 

[willowdove]

Least of all the author

[ebonyheartnet]

[amyzestypond]

I think I need to update my icon since I’m not even close to being caught up w check please anymore but I have no idea what to change it to pls help me

[amyzestypond]

hey!!! if you ever do write fic about wayfarers tag me in it PLEASE. also im down to screaming about it anytime!

Ah yes I will! I’m gonna be done w school (forever!!!) after this week so I’m working on finishing up a really old supernatural fic then I think I’m gonna take a shot at some wayfarers. I just love them all so much 😭

[amyzestypond]

Yes!! They’re both hilarious and def seem like people I want to know. Plus neither one feels one-dimensional which is incredible

And you’re right! I love how much detail exists in this universe! It actually feels like a realistic place!!

[amyzestypond]

Hello I ADORE Wayfarers please talk to me about it :D

Ah hello!!! I read the first book over the last two days and I’m sosososo happy it exists!!! Gender fluid aliens! Space lesbians! I love all of it!!!

ALSO I absolutely need more Kizzy & Jenks hijinks across the galaxy holy shit

[antique-symbolism]

I randomly remembered this meme I made a year ago and I hope it will convince all of you to read the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers

[amyzestypond]

So I just finished reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and this is DEFINITELY a series I would write fic for hooooly shit. If anyone has read it or has any fic prompts, please message me so I can geek out about how much I love this book