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Chapter 1: Voices

Chapter 2: Secrets

Chapter 3: The Lunar Pools

Chapter 4: My Name Is Karah

Chapter 5: Hidden Truths

Chapter 6: Exposed

Chapter 7: New Wings

Chapter 8: I Am Nova

Chapter 9: New Beginnings

Epilogue

[itsmoonpeaches]

one day you too could be a fanfic author who updates a decade later

[gjdraws]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

WHO IS USING THIS

AN APP??? THEY HAVE A FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

THE LAST FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

[iguanodonwildman]

Reminder that ao3 does not have an app. Any apps you see are third party and are making money off of the writers without their consent. They’re also probably harvesting your data. Do not support this garbage.

[fractalspaces]

Louder so people don't quick-scroll:

THIRD-PARTY APP. PROFITS OFF WRITERS, HARVESTS DATA. DO NOT DOWNLOAD.

[reh-hateshumans]

Excuse me. To whom it may concern; I need someone to bury their fangs into my thighs while going down on me.

[prophetic-writer]

"How do you write such realistic dialogue-" I TALK TO MYSELF. I TALK TO MYSELF AND I PRETEND I AM THE ONE SAYING THE LINE. LIKE SANITY IS SLOWLY SLIPPING FROM BETWEEN MY FINGERS WITH EVERY MEASLY WORD THEY TYPE OUT. THAT IS HOW.

[elliespectacular]

Happy 24-6-01!

[azure-arsonist]

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

[ackee]

something ive realized about social media is that people like Character Design but they do not actually like ocs. you can make a zillion designs of like, a humanized fish or can of soda or flower or whatever and get thousands of likes. but once the novelty wears off and you actually want to Make something with the characters and give them a story (mini comics, a longform webcomic, animations etc) its like pulling teeth.

outside of your mutual circle, you will get one or two reblogs thats like "#i dont know what this is from but—" like they are just incapable of realizing there is art outside of fanart. i no longer blame people that go "oh this isnt my oc its actually just my au/take on [popular character this looks nothing like] from [big media everyone loves]" bc you literally cannot get people to engage w/ your art unless its a one off design or already connected to something .

man. idk where im going with this besides it feels like there's nowhere for ocs that arent gimmicky and marketable and it SUCKS !

[walnutsupreme]

so mad i have to make content for my ocs. what do you mean he can’t just appear on my dash

[ad-wills]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918) Love, 1895

[dykerory]

cunt dykeula. is this anything.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Japanese stage play 'Dracula: The Musical' with its all-female cast. In particular, Wao Yoka as Dracula.

She is serving.

ETC: Not an all-female cast. I was misinformed. The serving remains.

[ceejoules]

not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

[necromancelena]

If you ever find yourself in a horror scenario, remember to blush really hard when the ghost/demon/monster appears. If you do that fast enough you might be able to shift the genre.

[necromancelena]

This applies doubly if the antagonist is more abstract. If a house starts growing teeth and flesh you've gotta be prepared to get a little freaky

[brightlotusmoon]

[kujakumai]

You, a fool, when characters state different or contradictory things about backstory events or how the world works: This is a plot hole!

Me, wise, enlightened: Not so, neophyte. Have you considered all the exhaustive possibilities in which one of these characters simply has no idea what they are talking about, or better yet, is a fucking liar?

[andwewerebothgirls]

[nobrashfestivity]

Mount Wilson Observatory, Film Footage, Solar Eclipse, 1930

[jaded-stag]

I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.

have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.

Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.

Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.

Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.

It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.

[pastafossa]

This for real. Alllllllll of this. All of these sounds are the way different people speak based on their emotions. A snarl is not going GRAWR like a dog. It's so furious their teeth are bared, every syllable sharp and cutting and loud. A growl is lower, the words dangerously rough and hot, a warning.

It's the same with softer sounds. A purr is that low, gravelly mmmmm noise of pleasure, or words warm and smooth as melted chocolate. When someone chirps, it's bright and happy and quick, the syllables a little clipped in excitement. Panting is not tongue lolling like a dog; it's a heaving chest and words that are half-breath.

This is what language, what storytelling IS. It's symbolic, it's imagination, it's metaphor and analogy and simile. Strip that away and all you have is textbook descriptions, which are of course useful when reading actual textbooks, but far less entertaining when reading a goddamn fictional story.

[bisexualbaker]

(I originally posted this response on a post made by a TERF, but I think it does better here.)

Genuinely sharing this, for anyone who might not know, because Maude knows what counts for "teaching to the test" these days: A simile compares two things using "like" or "as". In the example above, we'd rephrase it as "His smile was like a whisper" or "His smile was as quiet/tenuous/subtle/etc as a whisper" if you want to point out the specific aspect that makes it similar to a whisper. A metaphor compares two things without using "like" or "as". Saying "He gave a whisper of a smile" is a metaphor, because it's saying his smile is similar to a whisper without using the words "like" or "as". Can someone literally whisper a smile? Well, unless they're literally whispering the words "a smile", probably not. But what might an author be suggesting about a person's smile by comparing it to a whisper? How quiet is it, how tenuous, how secret? What qualities might a whisper share with this smile, and why? What peace might be broken if the wrong person were to see this smile? What might be gained that he's sharing it with you?