Avaetin (Ava)

I wasn't allowed to use my other account as primary so I shifted here lol

[avaetin]

Hi! This is Ava.

No, this isn't someone pretending to be me (I doubt anyone has the time and energy to do that lol). My avaetin account was a secondary blog, which restricted some Tumblr functions for me, and made using it difficult. So I made this account.

I will still keep the other account (for now) but will eventually have it deleted. Thank you for reading.

P.S. Also I made a Nion community.

If you're interested, do message/send an ask.

[avaetin]

Hi! I just wanted to say I really love your AU with Aeon and Nico and haha it brings me genuine joy everytime I reread it. I heard you have a Nion community and I wanted to ask if I could join?

Thank you so much! If you love the original AU, perhaps you'd love the other AUs we have for them as well, lol. Though, the bulk of them were in my previous (deleted) account, in passing conversations.

Here is the link for the community. It's not much, but I hope you like what is there so far! LINK HERE

[uwillneverknowwho]

Literally always take headphones with you. If you decide that you probably won't need them today, that's the devil talking. You will. You will

[avaetin]

It's been a while, Percico.

[avaetin]

Just want to share that the links to the AU of an AU, aka Actor! AU, are on the Nion community page.

[avaetin]

Oh, Percy, honey. You have no idea.

So, all it took was me getting sick and being bombarded with so much workload to get inspiration. (Not really. I was just too sick and busy to write.)

[avaetin]

First time in almost 2 weeks (including weekends) I'm able to stop working before 12am 😭 I haven't even touched any of my writing docs because of work. Hopefully I can do so soon 😭🙏🙇‍♀️

[avaetin]

I love coming back to the playlist created by @burnheartmusic for AKM because I keep finding new gems. Like this song I'm listening to now, "I Can't Find Your House." It's soooooo Percico-coded for this AU. It's so good and so bad at the same time (but still in a good way lol).

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer What does that make me when you ask me to come over? It's been too long, but not long enough I was so close to forgetting everything that meant so much You said you missed me and I wanted to feel needed So just like that all my pride wasn't worth keeping

Oh I hate how I couldn't find your house After my phone died a couple miles out I don't recognize any intersection ahead of me No, not since loving you quit being muscle memory And honеy you should know I was so proud When you stopped haunting evеry street in this whole town Now I just feel sick for having to slow down Do you know why? Why oh why oh why I can't find your house

Now it's pitch black I have no directions Treating the speed limit sign like the weakest of suggestions I'm in danger of my emotions flooding I guess it's on me falling for someone who doesn't even love me We keep talking but all I've ever felt was Reminded your life's something I won't ever be a part of

I still hate how I couldn't find your house After my phone died a couple miles out I don't recognize any intersection ahead of me No, not since loving you quit being muscle memory And honey you should know I was so proud When you stopped haunting every street in this whole town Now I just feel sick for having to slow down Do you know why? Why oh why oh why I can't find your house

I'm sure we broke up for a reason It just feels so unimportant Compared to the feeling I get waiting at your doorstep I got painkillers in the car I'll take 12 in the morning Blame myself for the clouds The second you say that it's pouring

I'm sure you left me for a reason It just feels so unimportant Compared to the feeling I get waiting at your doorstep I got painkillers in the car I'll take 12 and drive away Praying it's not me you think of When you picture all the worst choices that you have ever made

Oh I hate how I couldn't find your house After my phone died a couple miles out I don't recognize any intersection ahead of me No, not since loving you quit being muscle memory And honey you should know I was so proud When you stopped haunting every street in this whole town Now I just feel sick for having to slow down Do you know why? Why oh why oh why I can't find your house

I would be there But I can't find your house Do you know why? Why oh why oh why I can't find your house

[peaceandlovetechnology]

Every single day this month has been like Okay sure. Okay sure what the hell. Okay sure. I guess

[avaetin]

I be having "visions" of other Nion AUs at 5am in the morning, just because I'm so busy the rest of the time I'm awake.

[avaetin]

Chapter XXIV - The Sacrificial Lamb

Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types_Avaetin_A Kairos Moment - Chapter 24 [Archive of Our Own]

Pairing: Primordial God! Chronos/Nico di Angelo

Rating: M

Chapter Summary:

“Why are you still here, Luke?” Percy asked. He pointedly ignored the hostile glare Alabaster sent his way. “You said you were going to try for the Isle of the Blest.” “I still am. There’s just…” Luke paused for a moment, sighing. “It’s complicated.” “So make it less complicated,” Percy said bluntly.

Tagging: @vex-vexey, @its-larry, @sunshines-child

(If you want to be added/removed from being tagged, please tell me in PM. Thanks!)

[avaetin]

The Lovers: Hemera & Aether

[Commissioned art by @nyankocatnyan ❤️]

Masterlist here: HERE

[avaetin]

Chapter 24 be like:

And then Chapter 25 be like: Well, Nico. You're going to find out.

[meteor-sword]

i might elaborate later but fanfic replies literally develop writer’s metacognition and make them better writers

[meteor-sword]

so, Metacognition is the practice of thinking about thinking or identifying one’s cognitive process . in essence, metacognition is understanding how you prepare for academic challenges, exams, or tasks, and then being able to reflect on whether you did well, you prepared adequately, and what was most effective. in a writing setting, this type of self-awareness helps you transfer skills in writing, say, fanfiction into writing academically, competitively and professionally. 

here’s an article from brown university on the subject i’ll discuss further. there are 3 parts of practicing metacognition identified in this article: planning, monitoring, and evaluation. how might this look like for a fanfic writer? 

planning: asking oneself ‘what is my goal?’ ‘what strategies should i use to meet that goal?’ ‘how much time/length do i need to meet my goal?’. so maybe my goal is to write a meet cute where two characters kiss. i’ll need to use a perspective, an upbeat tone, and forward characterization to do this. it’ll probably take 5000 words and two days to write. 

monitoring: asking oneself: is my story making sense? am i reaching my goal, or do i need to summarize more succinctly to keep it to 5k? maybe you started with a lot of exposition and now you’re 6k in and the characters haven’t met yet. what went wrong/changed? is it ok that it changed or did you not realize it got away from you? what now? 

evaluation: asking oneself: did i reach my goal? was it effective? what would i change next time? 

this is where comments come in

it is incredibly difficult to evaluate yourself. comments like “i love this!” actually do begin to touch on the evaluation step of metacognition. it means, in general, the writer is on the right track. comments like “i loved the dialogue between x and y” or “the emotions of this section really hit me” begin to answer the questions of was it effective, did i reach my goal and conversely answer what would i change next time (by adding more of whatever was specified as working well). HYPER SPECIFIC comments, like analyzing the story between the lines or pasting in a line that you really liked and explaining why, is like jet fuel for the metacognition process and i’m not exaggerating. specifically pointing out what was effective and why is incredibly useful 

i can straight up credit my writing style to all of my friends and readers who have given incredibly detailed comments. when i found a community who gave feedback like that, my writing improved a thousand times faster than before. so! i guess what i’m saying is give feedback! it goes so much further than you realize!

[mikkeneko]

This is exactly the post I was thinking about when I wrote that recent post about how fanfic authors develop as authors by adapting to what they perceive as successful with their audience -- based on positive feedback.

Feedback absolutely does not need to be "critical" to help an author improve, and anyone who insists that fanfic authors need negative feedback or they'll never grow is. Well. To start with, incorrect.

[plaidadder]

I have some thoughts about comments and feedback and I will put them behind this cut tag.

First of all: positive feedback absolutely is important and helpful to writers, or at least to me as a writer. It's actually more important, and gives me more useful information, than negative feedback. Constructive criticism is also useful, but constructive criticism, if you're doing it properly, incorporates positive feedback.

By this point in my life as a writer (if we're talking about fiction, I cannot call it a career, I am an amateur there) I can pretty much do my own critical feedback. Yeah, this is too long, it fucks up the pacing, I must grit my teeth and make it shorter. Doing this scene this way isn't working, I need to find another way. Too many clauses in that sentence, slow it down so the reader can follow the action. That kind of thing.

What I am really bad about is predicting how other people will respond to my writing. I know what *I* like about it, and usually there is some overlap between that and what other people like; but there's also usually a lot of divergence. No matter how accomplished you may be technically, the one thing you cannot do is read your own work from the perspective of someone who didn't write it. And this is why it's really valuable to get feedback from people who aren't you, during the process and afterward.

Pointing to things you liked about a story is helpful to the author even if you don't explain why you liked them. It lets us know what's working, and that is as important to know as what isn't. Cause you don't want to take out the things that are working because of some rule you're trying to follow regarding the things that aren't.

And also, the positive reinforcement helps with motivation, especially at the WIP stage. It's always been really helpful to me to know that people are reading and enjoying the story while I'm working on it; I am willing to disappoint myself by not finishing something but not to disappoint other people!

Anyway, this is just to say: positive feedback is helpful not just emotionally but technically, and I deeply appreciate the fact that AO3 the site and AO3 culture is pretty well optimized for it. Think of it as casting bardic inspiration or something. Leave a positive comment today! Give writers courage in the doing of their work! God knows nobody else will.

[avaetin]

A review I haven't responded to because I haven't updated the fic. OTL

I have the habit of only replying when I update the fic, soooo....

[avaetin]

I'm excited to write the next chapter, just because I have this vision in my head of Alabaster screaming at a certain someone over Nico. 👀

[avaetin]

Avaaaaaaaa

Luke in the new chapter it was just awhahzuhsnshs

How can you still have this hold on meeeee

I'm never letting you go. 🙂