Look Out! This Bee Got A Pen!

call me willow // 18+ // ship and let ship // firm believer of "don't like, don't read"

[dirixxarsn]

hating red hood is one thing and i can see people's arguments on that but as soon as they turn it on jaybin its on sight

[phleb0tomist]

he would not fucking say that, but with disability.. he would not fucking be able bodied. sick n tired of characters walking away from multiple life changing injuries without a scratch. let’s get some natural consequences in here.

give that knife/sword fight survivor nerve damage. give the character who was shot in the gut a stoma. give that fire survivor lung damage and an oxygen cannula. give that leg injury survivor a cane. give that starvation survivor gastroparesis. give that spinal injury survivor a manual chair or powerchair.

while we’re at it, give your characters congenital disabilities too, just because. give them intellectual and development disabilities. give them acquired and postviral illnesses. dare to make somebody bedbound. for me.

[beesbiteandwillowrites]

slowly crawling out of my writer's block by writing a single sentence a day and reminding myself that slow progress is also progress

[obsidianpegasus]

Basic Fandom Etiquette Everyone Needs to Remember:

Creators do not owe anyone content. Do not ask writers when they will update.

If an author did not ask for [negative] criticism , do not give criticism.

Read the tags carefully before reading a fanfic.

If you ignored the tags and were upset, that is your responsibility, not the creator’s.

Disliking a ship does NOT give you the right to attack people who enjoy it.

Do not tell authors or shippers that their ship is “disgusting,” “wrong,” or “shouldn’t exist.” Shipping fictional characters is not a moral failing.

No one is obligated to justify why they ship two fictional characters.

Headcanons are PERSONAL interpretations, not universal truth.

Dark themes in fiction do not equal real life beliefs or intentions.

Leaving kudos or short positive comments genuinely matters.

Not every fanwork is made for you, and that is okay.

Scrolling past content you dislike is better than engaging negatively

Enjoying a fandom later than others does not make someone less of a fan.

Disliking a fanfic does not entitle you to announce that to its creator. Sending hate comments to authors is NEVER justified, even if you disliked the work.

[chucktaylorupset]

“Irritated fans produce fanfic like irritated oysters produce pearls.”

— Anne Jamison (via pen-in-hand)

[real-batman-thinker]

you guys KNOW I love Jason… but I am so sorry this would be SO fucking camp to diy 😭😭😭

[everythingfox]

He doesn’t have to worry about a mortgage

[juniper-and-dragonthorn]

Anyway, my biggest tip for getting into fandom is to engage. Send asks. Share your creations. Do the tag game even if you haven’t been tagged. Talk to people on their posts. Ask for people to follow who like x things. All difficult things for the socially anxious, I know, but it gets better with practice, I swear 🫶

[hacvek]

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

[olyia-stories]

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

[dragonpyre]

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

[serinos-kitt]

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

[dragonpyre]

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

[serinos-kitt]

So what is a rain shadow?

[lethalbutterfly]

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can't get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.

[mindfulwrath]

May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as there’s no scale bar and it’s all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. I’ve only just started playing with it but it’s SO FUN.

[jeanjauthor]

I do think this could be useful for writers! ...Caveat, if you're going to use this for making a map for anything published (digital or paper, even if it's only in a fanfic archive or whatever), please, please credit the creator and their program as how you made that map! The more ways information like this gets out there, the more useful it'll be to other writers, roleplaying game DMs/GMs, creators, etc.

[oh-opossum]

One of my favourites for mapping plates, biomes, etc is Tectonics.js. If you're familiar with how tectonics shape a planet, you can guess where the features go by toggling plates, crust thickness, etc. Between Mapgen4 and Tectonics.js, we've got some pretty sweet tools at our disposal.

[brehaaorgana]

More stuff!:

European Geosciences Union Blog — Beyond Tectonics: Building fictional worlds to better understand our own

Reshaping Reality's Worldbuilding Tips

Worldbuilding pasta's series, An Apple Pie from Scratch also check their resources page!

R/worldbuilding's Reading List. Also check out their collected resources link. This basic geology guide from 11 years ago is still nice.

Creating an Earth-Like Planet, and The Climate Cookbook (aka Geoff's Climate Cookbook) technically the climate cookbook is a part of Creating an Earth like Planet I think.

Related: Worldbuilding Workshop's "Working Out Climates Using Geoff’s Climate Cookbook." Which goes through using the resource in order to map make. Also just the Worldbuilding Workshop in General.

Madeline James Writes's Worldbuilding Guide

Worldbuilding 101 (this links to the Biomes section but there's like...everything.)

Also I would recommend looking into Landscape Archaeology as well! That's because Landscape archeology is basically adding the social/cultural layer on top of all that geology and geography. Environments change when communities live in them, and communities likewise adapt to various environments.

This is a short free introduction to the concept: "Notes on Landscape Archaeology." To summarize, Landscape archaeology sort of like...studies the relation of people to places/spaces (that is, landscapes) in time.

Also this paper [An Archeology of Landscapes] breaks down/introduces the key concepts that I learned which is first that you can form the "construct paradigm" of a landscape from settlement ecology, ritual landscapes, and ethnic landscapes.

And then the highlights of their summary of what constitutes defining a landscape:

Landscapes are not synonymous with natural environments. Landscapes are synthetic (Jackson, 1984, p. 156), with cultural systems structuring and organizing peoples’ interactions with their natural environments ...

Landscapes are worlds of cultural product ... Through their daily activities, beliefs, and values, communities transform physical spaces into meaningful places. ...

Landscapes are the arena for all of a community’s activities. Thus landscapes not only are constructs of human populations but they also are the milieu in which those populations survive and sustain themselves. A landscape’s domain involves patterning in both within-place and between-place contexts ...

Landscapes are dynamic constructions, with each community and each generation imposing its own cognitive map on an anthropogenic world of interconnected morphology, arrangement, and coherent meaning ...

Basically a "landscape" is made by a community living in an environment. Once you have a geological environment that makes sense, landscape archaeology is like... Basically how I feel confident knowing where trade routes would be on a map, where there are areas of continual high conflict, what kinds of agriculture exists where, etc. once the geological stuff is hammered out, it's like...I know how that would influence the local cultures and vice versa. At that point, it's easy to start marking the natural borders, settlements, trade/port cities, and even strategic fortresses. If you have properly put rivers on a map, then marking your port cities is effortless, basically.

Also:

This course syllabus for a Landscape Archaeology class is freely accessible. It includes an online resources page.

Place, Landscape, and Environment: Anthropological Archaeology in 2009

(Landscape Biographies is open access, as is Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach. But I wouldn't try to read every essay.)

[dedicatedfollower467]

If you are like me and find it helpful to have video reference for a process/activity in addition to a written guide, Artifexian is a YouTube channel that does a LOT of world building stuff and specifically he's in the process of creating a world following a lot of Worldbuilding Pasta's methodology!

[countesspetofi]

It doesn't generally bother me when things in/on another world aren't the same as they are here and now. Because it's literally another world.

[secondsongbird]

Dick taking a hit meant for Jason and getting magically turned into a bird and Jason having to spend 3 hours trying to catch his feathery ass. Fellas, have you ever given yourself angst over a bird

Jason having a moment where his heart straight up STOPS cause Dick's costume is just in a pile on the floor and he just stares at it and the person is getting away but Jason's having the "did I just watch Dick die" moment but then the costume rustles and there's a bird looking at him. I take it back that Jason would have a lot of trouble catching him Dick probably just lands on him after a little bit.

Bird Dick bringing Jason shiny things from around his apartment cause he can tell Jason's stressed and trying to make a nest out of Jason's hair and random debris meanwhile Jason's just like oh my god what if THE Dick Grayson TM is stuck as a bird FOREVER because he tried to save ME (self loathing)

He tries to leave Dick at home with Alfred and Dick FREAKS OUT and latches onto Jason's jacket and pecks him when he tries to get him off so finally Jason's like fuck it I'll just take him with me

Not shutting up all night in the cage Jason got him (to keep his dumb bird ass SAFE!!!! MIND YOU!!!! he went to the pet store and asked the person and it's a very big and nice, furnished bird cage!!!!) so Jason lets him out and Dick keeps trying to sleep on his head so eventually Jason makes him a little nest on the other half of the bed (and then has sweaty nightmares that he crushed him in his sleep)

Dick: Has taken up permanent residence in Jason's hair

Jason: if you poop on me I'm throwing you out the window

Dick: has no comprehension what was said because he has a bird brain but he likes hearing Jason talk :>

Dick keeps bringing Jason seeds from his food bowl. Does Jason eat them? No. Does he keep trying anyways? Yes. (Jason doing that thing you do with little kids where you pretend to eat the inedible food they give you and Dick is super chirpy and happy)

Dick: Trying to show off his nest he's very proud of (it's made of random debris and a LOT of Jason's hair)

Jason:

Jason: That's great, buddy. Good job. (He's praying he doesn't have a bald spot)

Jason finds keeps bringing in magic people to figure it out what to do and Dick keeps squawking at them and trying to peck them when they get too close to Jason

Jason: having a crisis

Dick: doing a silly little bird dance

Jason's apartment actually feeling kinda home-y for once cause someone's actually there. Like he’s cooking dinner and Dick is singing for him and it’s actually kinda nice

#unironically the least stressed Dick has been in years #no thoughts only shiny objects and jason hair :>

[pantserspen]

How to Fix Underwriting

1. Slow down at emotionally important moments.

Big emotions need space to land. If a scene feels rushed, pause the plot briefly to show how the moment affects the character.

2. Add reactions, not explanations.

Instead of explaining what a character feels, show it through physical responses, hesitation, or small actions that reveal emotion naturally.

3. Ground every scene in the senses.

If a scene feels thin, add one or two sensory details—sound, texture, smell, or temperature—to make the moment feel lived-in.

4. Let thoughts interrupt action.

A line of internal thought can deepen a scene without slowing it too much. Thoughts show stakes, fear, longing, or conflict beneath the action.

5. Expand consequences, not events.

You don’t need more things to happen—you need to show what matters. Focus on how events change relationships, decisions, or self-perception.

6. Strengthen setting where emotion peaks.

The environment should echo or contrast the emotion of the scene. Setting is not decoration—it’s emotional reinforcement.

7. Add specific details instead of general ones.

Underwriting often relies on vague language. Swap “they argued” for one sharp line of dialogue or a specific breaking point.

8. Let dialogue breathe.

Short dialogue exchanges without pauses can feel flat. Add beats—silence, gestures, interruptions—to give the conversation weight.

9. Show transitions between scenes.

If scenes jump too quickly, readers feel disoriented. A brief transition helps establish time, mood, and emotional continuity.

10. Clarify stakes early in the scene.

If readers don’t know what can be lost, scenes feel empty. Make sure the character wants something specific and fears losing it.

11. Use the “what are they feeling right now?” check.

After each major beat, ask what emotion is dominant in that moment. If it’s missing on the page, the scene is likely underwritten.

12. Expand scenes that feel “too clean.”

If a scene resolves too neatly or quickly, it probably needs more tension. Messy emotions and unresolved feelings add depth.

[bluedillylee]

here’s to the queers 🏳️‍🌈

it’s pride month everyone do some crime!

[kittyearstodd]

Jason looks so good here I'm actually starting to like the outfit

[owlithere]

JayKyle red string of fate AU BUT they are using it like a bungee line

Kyle, in disbelief: What the hell! What were you thinking! Jason, amused: Nice save, flashlight!

somehow inspired by BumblingBeesAndWillowTrees's fic: Tie a Knot and Hang On

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[shycorvid]

Still on that time travel fix-it trope with Jason being the one sent back. He wakes up as a child again, maybe a week after he's caught stealing the tires of the batmobile. Still not adopted, but he's very aware that Bruce is keeping an eye on him. Jason isn't about to repeat history and let Batman adopt him again (maybe they were getting better back when he was an adult, but he also has a lot of regrets and wants a break from vigilante life. After everything he's been through, he's owed that, right? So this time around, maybe he shouldn't become a Wayne). But Bruce (both as Batman and as himself) keep trying to talk to him. Jason manages to escape every time, but Bruce is a clever man and will find a way if Jason doesn't take care of this now.

At a time where Batman is busy with a rogue or somewhere he can't keep an eye on Jason, Jason takes the opportunity and goes to New York/Bludhaven wherever Dick is living. Because he remembers how angry Dick was at Bruce then. If anyone would help Jason stay out of Bruce's grasp, it would be him.

Dick answers the door to this little kid wearing worn out street clothes glaring up at him. Dick, immediately on the defense, glares back. They do this for several minutes because they're both stubborn like that. Then...

"You need to stop him."

"Stop who?" Dick asks, because maybe this kid is in trouble and needs help?

"Batman," Jason says like it's obvious. Before Dick can deny/deflect/shut the door in his face, he continues: "He keeps trying to kidnap me and make me Robin."

Dick's mind blanks out as pure, unfiltered rage courses through him. Because now he doesn't care about what exactly this kid knows about him or Batman. How dare Bruce try and replace him?!

"The fuck he isn't," Dick snaps, and Jason smiles in relief. Because Dick will stop this madness.

[luna-azzurra]

Signs your romance subplot has absolutely no tension (sry)

♡ they meet and immediately like each other (goodbye conflict, we barely knew you)

♡ the only thing keeping them apart is a misunderstanding that one conversation would fix

♡ both characters describe the other as "beautiful" within three pages of meeting

♡ their chemistry is told not shown (the narrator insists they have spark. they don't.)

♡ the love interest has no personality outside of loving the protagonist

♡ they argue once, make up immediately, never argue again

♡ obstacles are external. they always agree with each other about everything.

♡ the rival love interest exists for two chapters then vanishes without explanation

♡ they almost kiss. something interrupts. this happens four times. on the fifth time they kiss. the end.

♡ the love interest is described as funny, clever, and kind. we see none of this.

♡ their big emotional moment is in the rain. it is always in the rain.

♡ the breakup lasts exactly one chapter before they reconcile

♡ "i've never felt this way before" said by someone with no prior emotional history

♡ both confess feelings at the same time. no awkwardness. no stakes. just synchronized emotion.

♡ their first kiss is perfect. no bumped noses. no wrong angle. cinematic and frictionless.

♡ jealousy subplot introduced and dropped without consequence

♡ they have one shared interest and it is the plot

♡ trauma bonding mistaken for romantic chemistry (these are different things)

♡ the side characters ship them loudly. this is not a substitute for actual tension.

♡ one of them dies temporarily. other is devastated. they come back. no lasting emotional damage.

♡ they end up together because the plot ends, not because they chose each other

♡ epilogue: married with children. every loose end tied. nothing left to feel.