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Fanfic Writer Ask Meme

A: Of the fanfic you’ve written, which is your favorite and why? B: What was the first fandom you read fic in? Which was the first you wrote fic for? C: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]? D: What’s the most personal fanfic you’ve written? E: What character do you identify with most? Is there a certain fic of yours that captures these qualities particularly well? F: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]? G: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about? H: How would you describe your writing style? I: How many fandoms have you written in? Do you have a favorite? J: What’s your favorite fanfic trope? Have you written it? K: Do you have a guilty pleasures in fic (reading or writing)? L: Which of your fanfics was the most emotionally challenging to write? M: What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with? Did it turn into a story? N: Any fic ideas brewing that you’d care to share? O: What are your thoughts on people writing fanfic of your fanfic? P: Where did you find the most inspiration for your story < insert title >? Q: Do you like getting prompts from your readers? R: Which writers (fanfic or otherwise) do you consider the biggest influence on you and your writing? S: How do you feel about fan art inspired by your writing? T: Any fanfic tropes you can’t stand? U: Is there a pairing you would like to write, but haven’t tried yet. V: Are there certain comments you’ve received on your stories that have stuck with you? W: What is your favorite pairing to write? Favorite pairing to read? X: How would you categorize your fanfic reading? Are you a voracious reader? Do you carefully pick and choose? Something in between? Y: What are your thoughts on your personal satisfaction with something you’ve written vs. the popularity of your stories? Do you tend to be most satisfied with your most popular stories? Z: Is there a story you’ve written that doesn’t seem to get much love?

7ndipity

Happy Weekend! I’ve really enjoyed getting to talk with y'all more this week, so I thought I’d share a few more ask games to answer over the weekend! Feel free to send as many as you want, I love these games and they’re currently what’s keeping my brain from turning to goo while studying, lol💜

sleepy-bebby

fyr3wyrm

As an Scientist i can confirm that this is, indeed, funny

rated-a-for-awesome

every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu

memecucker

if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?

mala-taste

If I were writing about firefighters I'd also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I'd do the same for a minority I'm not a part of.

I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.

We need to bring this back.

mala-taste

And apparently just this summer they DID bring it back - it's called Little Details and it's on Dreamwidth!!!!

alexseanchai

crazy-pages

Remember, a world where everyone stays in their own boxes and only writes about their own narrow demographic is straight up a goal for racists. If you ever find yourself attempting anti-racism so hard you've looped back to "functionally the same thing racists want", stop, take stock, and ask yourself where things went wrong.

gudetama-tamad

Nothing says Christmas in the Philippines quite like a balete tree wrapped in Christmas lights

astoryinred

Only in the Philippines

#balete #christmas

depsidase

tolerateit

#leave my fanfic alone

meret118

How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

tolkiengif

Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.

marglith

anxiety has you googling shit like can I check books out at the library

womaninterrupted

What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?

surroundedbybooks

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.

ndcirque

This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.

Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.

So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.

That is not good.

macleod

In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).

It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.

This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.

@xkcd-for-that

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.

mayflower-gal

Star Trek yet again being accurate about future history (Picard saying “little is known about this era (the early 21st century) because much of the digital records are gone.”)

mahgck

you have to outlive donald trump

mahgck

imagine how funny the internet will be on the day he dies.

prole-log

murderessdominatrix

via @quasi-normalcy

agwitow

A Writer’s Ask Game

Send me an ask with the number(s) you’d like me to answer!

The Basics 1. Do you listen to music when you write? 2. Are you a pantser or plotter? 3. Computer or pen and paper? 4. Have you ever been published, or do you want to be published? 5. How much writing do you get done on an average day? 6. Single or multiple POV? 7. Standalone or series? 8. Oldest WIP 9. Current WIP 10. Do you set yourself deadlines?

The Specifics 11. Books and/or authors who influenced you the most 12. Describe your perfect writing space 13. Describe your writing process from idea to polished 14. How do you deal with self-doubts? 15. How do you deal with writer’s block? 16. How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied with a project? 17. What writing habits or rituals do you have? 18. If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be, and what would you write about? 19. How do you keep yourself motivated? 20. How many WIPs and story ideas do you have?

The Favourites 21. Who is/are your favourite character(s) to write? 22. Who is/are your favourite pairing(s) to write? 23. Favourite author 24. Favourite genre to write and read 25. Favourite part of writing 26. Favourite writing program 27. Favourite line/scene 28. Favourite side character 29. Favourite villain 30. Favourite idea you haven’t started on yet

The Dark 31. Least favourite part of writing 32. Most difficult character to write 33. Have you ever killed a main character? 34. What was the hardest scene you ever had to write? 35. What scene/story are you least looking forward to writing?

The Fun 36. Last sentence you wrote 37. First sentence or your current WIP 38. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had 39. Weirdest character concept you’ve ever had 40. Share some backstory for one of your characters

The Rest of It 41. Any advice for new/beginning/young writers? 42. How do you feel about love triangles? 43. What do you do if/when characters don’t follow the outline? 44. How much research do you do? 45. How much world building do you do? 46. Do you reread your own stories? 47. Best way to procrastinate 48. What’s the most self-insert character/scene you’ve ever written? 49. Which character would you most want to be friends with, if they were real? 50. [Other question—ask me anything]