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Alright, so I’m gonna try my hand at RPing again. Never done it on this platform, I used to RP Queen Elsa and Ororo Munroe (Storm) on FB years ago, and fight against getting nuked so much, so let’s see how this goes… tips appreciated!
Apparently, every time I like or follow someone, it links to my main blog, and not my RP one. This is annoying. If I’ve liked/followed an RP blog, this is the one I’m using.
writing advice: never italicize words to show emphasis! if you’re writing well then the reader will know and you don’t need them!
me: oh really??? listen up, pal, you can just try an pull italics from my cold, dead fingers
I feel this on a spiritual level.
bringing back this great example.
I can and will italicize the fuck out of my writing, thank you very much.
you can pry italics out of my cold dead hands
Oh you want my italics? You want my italics? You want my italics? You want my italics? You want my italics? YOU WANT MY ITALICS?!
Come and get em, you uncultured swine.
writing advice: never italicize words to show emphasis! if you’re writing well then the reader will know and you don’t need them!
me: oh really??? listen up, pal, you can just try an pull italics from my cold, dead fingers
I feel this on a spiritual level.
bringing back this great example.
I can and will italicize the fuck out of my writing, thank you very much.
you can pry italics out of my cold dead hands
for a person who can’t understand cues very well italics are a fucking godsend because they add so much emphasis through a form of speech that isnt well. speech.
Use italics and whatever thing you’re not supposed to use however you like. Find your voice, find your character’s voice. Best writing advice I’ve ever heard: Know the rules so you can do a better job of breaking them.
writing advice: never italicize words to show emphasis! if you’re writing well then the reader will know and you don’t need them!
me: oh really??? listen up, pal, you can just try an pull italics from my cold, dead fingers
I feel this on a spiritual level.
bringing back this great example.
I can and will italicize the fuck out of my writing, thank you very much.
you can pry italics out of my cold dead hands
I wish I could use them in freaking text messages! Be so much easier to get my point across.
This Pope Though
Evanna, Tom and Jason wrote tributes for the late Helen McCrory via Instagram. /*
RIP Helen McCrory. Beautiful piece written my Damian in the Sunday Times.
I’m a minor, and I’m going to be for a couple more years. I know some people don’t really like interacting with minors as much, but I want to make fandom friends. I haven’t told anyone but I can’t meet up with people or buy as much merch, and I don’t want to wait to be an adult to participate in fandom. Do I just not tell anybody or should I make friends who don’t care?
I grew up in the generation where every adult in our lives made it excessively clear that revealing the fact that we were young online was dangerous behaviour. I'm regularly horrified to see teenagers post their ages where anyone can see them. My initial, gut reaction to this question is dear god don't tell anyone you're a minor.
I'll leave the actual decision around whether to reveal your age up to you, but I recommend talking to your parents or another trusted adult before you do. If you're not comfortable doing that, then please read up on some privacy tips for teens to help you stay safe online.
You don't need to meet people in order to participate in fandom. You don't need to buy anything to participate in fandom. All that you have to do is join the online community of people who are nerding out, squeeing, creating, celebrating, and talking about your favourite characters and stories.
This might mean that you're a silent lurker, looking at art and reading fic without commenting or reblogging at all. It might mean that you become a fanartist or a fic writer or a podficcer or fanvidder or a cosplayer or a fan crafter or any of the myriad other types of creators that exist in fan spaces.
It will probably also mean that you'll be somewhere on the spectrum between the two, and that your involvement will change in type and degree as you move from one fandom to another. There are some fandoms where I'm a lurker, some where I'm a commenter/reblogger, some where I'm a writer or an artist.
Try lurking in a community first and picking up the vibe. What are the people like here? What are the rules? Do these people have the kind of community I want to be more active in? You can always reveal your age later if you feel like you want to.
People are online are going to assume you're an adult until you tell them you're not. Lurking will also give you a chance to see if you're comfortable with the kinds of conversations those communities are having. If you're not, then it's okay to back out. You can come back some other time if you want to give it another go. In the meantime, there's always another group of fans for you to meet.
Take care of yourself and stay safe. ❤
If you want to be more involved in fandom, but worry about interacting with adults, I suggest looking around tumblr or other social media and seeing if there are any discord servers in your fandom specifically for minors (I've seen some for a few of my fandoms).
Discord is a great way to interact with other fans, and you can even just be a lurker in one too if you want to judge the general vibe of other fandom members.
As always, be careful and stay safe. Being a minor on the internet is hard, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun while you're here <3
Oh, definitely lurk and don't tell me your age. I also suggest not having explicit back-and-forths with people.
If you're hanging out discussing like, who would win in a fight, how powers work, things like that, just interact as normal. If you want to discuss how powers would effect sex, keep it educational as opposed to explicit (think Waifu catalogue). If someone tries to pull you into an explicit RP remember that you can both get in trouble for that.
OP, as a parent whose kids grew up online, I'll give the same advice I gave to my own kids:
Lurk all you want. Chat politely sometimes. Don't tell anyone how old you are.
(We used to know that "A/S/L?" meaning "age, sex, location?" in a chatroom was a sure sign of a creep. I hate that it's become common to put that info in your profile.)
Do not provide verification for your age. (Get comfortable asking, "What are you, a cop?") Don't give out your real name, the city you live in, where you to go school, or ideally, what region or state you live in. NOBODY ONLINE NEEDS TO KNOW THESE THINGS.
(Yeah, you'll lose out on some merch that way, unless you have a local adult who's willing to be an address for you.)
Do not meet with anyone. Do not give out your phone number. Ideally, don't give out your email, or make a separate one for your "I'm an adult, really" account.
Talk to YOUR parents, or another trusted relative or adult mentor, about your worries. Please. It's important to have an adult you can trust, who can help you spot the difference between "those are just grownups talking about grownup stuff" and "those are f'n predators; stay away from them."
Safety doesn't come from sticking with your own age group. There are predator teens, AND there are predator adults who pretend to be teens. And teens can't usually recognize them.
Safety comes from seeing a broad range of communications, including about sensitive topics, so that you know what's normal and what seems creepy. Safety comes from not giving people contact info they don't need for online activities. Safety comes from recognizing when a conversation makes you uncomfortable, and quitting it - and blocking the other person or people involved, if you want. Safety comes from seeing people argue badly and the apologize awkwardly, so you realize that anger isn't a dangerous emotion on its own. Safety comes from learning where your boundaries are, which means going places where you might reach them.
SAFETY DOES NOT COME FROM IGNORANCE. It does not come from isolation. If you're mature enough to be on Tumblr asking anonymous questions, you know enough to put yourself at risk. From here on out, safety comes from knowledge and practice.
So practice in ways that can't get to you physically: in places where nobody knows your real name or where you live or how to contact you, so that if you drop out of a Discord you have effectively vanished.
(I am so damn sick of ageism in fandom. All the "separate areas for minors and adults!!!" thing does, is leave minors vulnerable to predators and guarantees they'll keep that vulnerability into their mid-20s.)
Small caveat: Laws about what's legal to share with minors vary by country and state. Go learn yours. Please avoid tricking adults into committing felonies by letting you see art that's illegal for you to see.
But as far as 90% of fandom discussions? Age is irrelevant, and I wish more communities would acknowledge that consciously instead of setting up a system where the rule is, "minors can be here if they lie."
Was anyone gonna tell me the A/S/L question was the sign of a creep?
Like 90% of the people I interacted with online in my teens asked that question.
Where the fuck did people find out this information?
I found out that A/S/L meant "creep" because I got plenty of A/S/L requests from people, told them the answers (...I was an adult), and then they got creepy. Asked if I had a boyfriend, if I had pictures online, if I wanted to do sex chat, etc.
Block and move on.
And there were plenty of all-ages chatrooms, so when someone joined and said "Hi My name is ____ and I am 15!!" several of us rushed to answer, "oh honey NO! Don't tell people that! There are creeps who will use that info against you!"
(In most cases, A/S/L is not dangerous info to give out. I live in a city of almost half a million people; nobody is going to find me based on mentioning it. But. There is no reason for anyone to know that info, either. It's an easy example of "only a creep cares to know this on first meeting.")
But if minors and adults aren't interacting with each other, aren't sharing space online, then the warning signs that adults figure out don't get explained to minors.
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Poor Narcissa!!
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ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.
Hyper-specific advice because I don’t see enough of this!
make your characters have inaccurate perceptions of themselves. your character might think they’re selfish but at every opportunity they act selfless. we all have blind spots so give these to your characters too! (this works best with first person pov but I’m sure you can do it in third.)
make a character’s personality trait helpful sometimes and harmful other times. impulsivity that makes them act quickly in high-stress situations which is great but it also sometimes results in the wrong choices.
make an excel/google sheets doc for your outline. for mine i have the chapter number, the date, the character pov (since mine is first person and switches between 5 characters), a summary column, and a continuity column. my story takes place in one setting but most stories have multiple locations, so you could include a column for that, the time of day, even the moon phase (one of my wips is from the perspective of animals so that is super important for that story).
you can also use excel/sheets for keeping track of your conlang. for my animal wip i have constructed a language called Vannro and I have 300 some-odd entries into my excel doc. i have columns for the Vannro word, the English translation, etymology and derived words (for some), the part of speech, and the subject. you can easily sort in alphabetical either in English or your conlang, and also sort by excluding all entries that aren’t under the subject “derogatory” or “places” etc. I always forget what my “be” verbs are so I sort through the part of speech column so I can find “is” “was” “are” etc.
use perspective to create tension for your reader. for example, in The Blackwater Anomaly in a chapter from Rainer’s pov, we experience his nightmare, however in a later chapter from Holly’s pov, when she asks him directly, he lies and says he hasn’t experienced any nightmares. Holly doesn’t know he is lying but the audience does. I also have characters who do not get chapters from their perspective, who may or may not be lying, and so both the audience and the characters experience that anxiety and uncertainty together.
consider using deep pov. you can read some articles about it but essentially you make the audience experience the story at the same time as the character and it makes your narration more active. this can also be done in third person. this has a lot to do with “show don’t tell” (although sometimes its better to just tell). remove some “telling” words like “thought/felt/saw” and just get directly into what’s happening. instead of “Ava saw a shadow fall across her shoulder” make it “a shadow fell across her shoulder”. your reader will know who you’re talking about. this even jumps into the unreliable narrator when you change “I felt like Isaiah was blowing me off” to “Isaiah blew me off.” the former has room for doubt and makes your character seem weaker. if she thinks she’s being blown off and she’s pissed about it, make her say that! you have to make the audience believe it’s true, it makes them more invested in the character’s experiences and emotions. and then if they later find out Isaiah wasn’t really blowing them off, there was an emergency or something, both the character and the audience can feel regretful together over misreading the situation and being pissed at Isaiah. if you leave room for doubt, then your reader will just feel unsurprised during the reveal and frustrated at your character for being stupid up until then.
you don’t have to “show” everything. sometimes there’s boring parts of a narrative that no one really cares about. you can either make a break in the text to show a time skip happened when your character was driving from point a to point b or you can give a paragraph or two about the drive, just telling what happened, even include an accident on the side of the road or an unexpected and frustrating road closure. its a very mundane and relatable aspect in our lives and we don’t need to be “shown” these, we can just be told. summarize the nonessential by telling or just skip it.
hey! i just wanted to tell you that you’re allowed to write whatever you want. put whatever you want onto that page, write your feelings out no matter how the story turns out. i love you and whatever you’re writing about is amazing and valid:)
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OKAY SO IN THE WAKE OF PEOPLE ENDED UP FORGETTING MORE AND MORE ABOUT BASIC INTERNET SAFETY BECAUSE EVERYONE GREW UP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
please don’t actually put on your bio that you’re underage especially in a website that isn’t catered toward children
i keep cringing when i see people admitting they’re minors or put “14″ in their bio as their age because it seems they think it will help ward off adults and yeah it probably does, but i don’t think it will ward off predatory dangerous adults
if anything it paints a target on your back
if you don’t want people to send nsfw to you then simply say you don’t want to talk about nsfw (and people who don’t listen to you about it should be blocked anyway)
you don’t have to lie about your age either just don’t mention it at all, there are ways to establish boundaries while staying anonymous
remember, anonymity isn’t just for trolls, it can also protect you from dangerous individuals online
i saw someone saying “you knowing im 14 isn’t a safety concern because you’re not significant” and so im reblogging this post as a reminder that there ARE predators online who aim for underage children so let’s not make it easier for people like that to find a victim.
if not knowing someone’s pronoun and age makes you uncomfortable to follow them, then the smart thing is to not follow them, and you can even block them for your own peace of mind! there is nothing wrong with blocking someone who never interacted with you especially if you think they have Bad Vibe. you don’t owe them anything.
May I offer a small piece of editing advice? If you find yourself dreading it, try mixing some positive notes about your draft in with the negative.
For example: This part needs to be changed, this character’s arc has to change to fit in with the new subplot, but DAMN that line on page 25 is amazing.
I find it helps me stay motivated throughout the editing process and shows me that no matter how many things I messed up, no matter how many major and minor fixes I list out in bullet points, no matter how many typos and misplaced words I need to weed out, there’s something good about the draft, something worth saving.
