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[boxesandrings]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I've returned

[meowthiroth]

you’ve heard of Ancano, now get ready for

ancanito :)

[meowthiroth]

i’m fucking WHEEZING at the tags so i had to stop and draw something real quick dkslkdjlsghdflkf sorry

[headspace-hotel]

i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times

[headspace-hotel]

Gotta recirculate this post periodically just cuz

[martinkhall]

Just don't read the post too many times.

[headspace-hotel]

Oh god oh fuck

[kitausuret]

Write fanfic for yourself.

Publish fanfic for the rotation of 3-6 people who are devoted readers and will either go feral or leave you very nice words and yell with you about it.

[caseywond3r]

hey guys so apparently this is a thing a lot of people don't realise but like. if you have had writer's block/ art block for like. six months. a year. two years. that's maybe not a block. that's maybe depression. and you should maybe look into treating the source of the problem instead of just beating yourself up for not being able to write/draw. be kind to yourself and know that your struggle to create isn't based in laziness or a lack of skill or talent.

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

You also do have like, a finite amount of energy. Especially creative and emotional energy.

The celebrate-the-grind stories where some famous artist held down two grueling part-time jobs to make ends meet and got by on four hours of sleep a night so they'd have time to write their novel or paint or whatever, so what's your excuse are absolute bullshit. We should look at those about the same as we look at long-haul truckers doing a lot of amphetamines to handle driving for 16 hours a day or AAA game studios and crunch time.

So yeah, if your ability to make art has dried up, you really should take a good look at the underlying reasons and see if there's maybe some self-care you need to be doing. The answer is pretty much never "laziness."

[opalescent-potato]

tags via @tyrannosaurus-trainwreck

[pipdepop]

Every time AO3 makes an update, there’s a chorus of ‘and can we please please please be able to leave kudos on each chapter pleeeeease?!?!’

In theory, this is a nice idea. We’ve all smashed the kudos button on our favourite fics, bemoaning the fact we can’t give them all the love.

But ya’ll, kudos per chapter would absolutely fucking suck.

For readers, it would suck because it would compound the existing problem of making it hard to find fics that are good and not just long - not that a fic can’t be both! But there are plenty of Pulitzer-worthy one-shots out there that are buried way way down the list when ranked by number of kudos, because they’re beneath a bunch of 50/? fics where the author lost sight of where the hell the story was going 30 chapters ago, but their fic has had 50x the chances to be viewed so has more kudos. It would encourage authors to release their fics in lots of little chapters instead of a few longer ones/one-shots as they might otherwise have done (and as might otherwise suit the story).

And for authors it would especially suck, as it would compound the existing problem of people not commenting. Kudos are very much appreciated, but comments make an author’s day; but so few people bother, and frankly, it’s disheartening. Let people just click a button to show their appreciation for each new chapter? The hits:kudos:comments ratio would get even worse than it already is.

You can already ‘give kudos’ for each chapter of a fic on AO3 - by commenting. Hell you can literally write ‘kudos!’ It will make the author smile, I promise.

[212thincorrectcanonquotes-deact]

I actually never thought about it like this. If you are a fic writer or reader you should definitely read this 👆

[theglitchywriterboi]

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

[gailynovelry]

They say you should write every day, but sometimes a functional writing process looks like writing 1k in a sitting because you're getting a head of yourself, writing 500 words because you had a chapter to wrap up, writing 50 words because you felt too sad to write, writing no words because the state of the world overcame you for a few days, writing 1.5k because sometimes ennui turns into fury and purpose, and then 700 the next day because you remembered that there was a cool scene you wanted to get around to and—

[beyoursledgehammer]

WRITE THE PORN YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD

[tywvin-archive]

creators see your reblogs. creators read the nice tags you type in when you love their work. creators beam when you ask to be added to the tag list, or tagged in their edits and writings. creators see your comments saying how beautiful their content is. creators smile when you send an ask telling them how much you like their work. creators appreciate interaction with their content and love you for it, really. so if you like something, reblog it, say how much you love it in the tags, reply to it with a nice message. you’ll make someone’s day.

[prettyinaccurate]

i imagine this scenario would be a lot more concerning in real life

[mysterypond]

Made some fanfic writer achievements, might add more later

[mysterypond]

Part 2

[maskedbeliever]

[krokatron]

Kinda curious about this one in the fic community: do you read your work after you've uploaded it? Like you've done all your proof reading, edits etc. Do you read after you've published?

[thisiswhymomworries]

writing smut like

how many synonyms for “penis” do I actually know?

[3tno-moved-deactivated20190902]

and how many of those synonyms am I actually willing to use

[thisiswhymomworries]

tier 1 (most accepted, considered sexy): cock, dick

tier 2 (generally accepted): length, manhood, member, shaft

tier 3 (clinical, too formal, but not cheesy): groin, penis, phallus

tier 4 (cheesy, barely acceptable): [insert name] Jr., dong, junk, knob, prick, rod, tool, wand, wood

tier 5 (ridiculous, unacceptable, pls don’t): anything to do with beer cans, baby-maker, bishop, choad, donger, dragon, fuck wand, fun stick, hog, johnson, jimmy, lap rocket, little [insert name], love muscle/rod/stick, meat stick, one-eyed [anything], piston, private eye, schlong, trouser snake, wiener, winkie

tier 6 (you’re literally a fourth grader): baby arm, baloney pony, beaver basher, beef whistle, custard launcher, dude piston, flesh flute, heat-seeking moisture missile, krull the warrior king, luigi, mayo shooting hotdog gun, meter long king kong dong, pig skin bus, piss weasle, purple-headed yogurt flinger, purple-helmeted warrior of love, schlong dongadoodle, single barreled pump action bollock, spawn hammer, steamin’ semen truck, tan banana, thundersword, wang doodle, whoopie stick, wing wang doodle, yogurt shotgun 

[naeoreed]

this author is so me

[naeoreed]

I JUST FOUND OUT THEY HAVE A TUMBLR SO HI @boxesandrings I THINK YOU'RE VERY REAL FOR THIS

[boxesandrings]

SHUT UP HI

[boxesandrings]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

something overcame me hopefully this is the end of my writing slump

More info below break:

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: F/M

Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Skyrim

Relationships: Ancano (Elder Scrolls)/Original Female Character(s), Ancano & Female Dovahkiin | Dragonborn (Elder Scrolls), Ancano/Female Altmer Dovahkiin

Characters: Ancano (Elder Scrolls), Female Altmer Dovahkiin | Dragonborn (Elder Scrolls), Nirya (Elder Scrolls), Savos Aren, Mirabelle Ervine

Additional Tags: Vaginal Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Oral Sex, Dirty Talk, Secret Relationship, Ancano is pathetic and needs a win, Thalmor (Elder Scrolls) - Freeform, Thalmor Being Assholes (Elder Scrolls)

Elenara is studying at the College of Winterhold, but is getting strange vibes from Ancano, the Thalmor advisor. Even so, she feels herself drawn toward the Altmer.

Ancano is angry about his position at the school, and a new student seems to be an especially large thorn in his side. Even so, she is rather pretty...