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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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YOU ARE THE REASON
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@call-me-blackwell
I never relate to people who "have a story to tell" or people who think that you should write a story with a lesson in mind. No, I write because I wanna experience something. I may not have a story tell but I have an experience I want to share with you. I have emotions that I want you to feel with me. There is no lesson, there is no test, life has already given you too much of that.
As a teen who's only allowed tumblr in terms of social media, how would you recommend building an author platform?
As a teen, I’d recommend writing for fun. Save the business side of things for when you’re older and gotta support yourself. You have the privilege of being able to enjoy yourself and work on your craft for the time being. Take advantage of that. Publishing can wait.
Warning: generalizations are used liberally below. Mentally preface all statements with in general and dont yell at me. For purposes of definition, standard is meant only in terms of familiarity and the intent of the distinction is solely to indicate something a reader…
So freaking interesting and detailed and all-around useful and informative!
The title made me Nervous As Fuck, but it’s actually a very interesting read.
Here are the main parts:
In the author’s experience, the 1-2-3 fingers ‘preparation’ thing that we all know and love (and happens in 99% of fics) isn’t done by gay men. It’s important to be relaxed and go slow, then take a minute to adjust - but the idea of ‘stretching’ with fingers isn’t recognised. (According to the author. There’s some fighting in the comments. He adds that written fingering is hot - it shouldn’t be wiped from fanfiction by any means - but it should instead be embraced as a pleasurable sex act of its own, rather than a mandatory stage of all anal sex ever.)
Anal sex without preparation and lube isn’t actually going to cripple you. It’s commonly done, especially by long term partners, and frankly it can be part of the appeal.
I’m so guilty of this. I’m sorry, End Game Myc, I didn’t know. Continuing sex after the bottom has come is generally very unpleasant and uncomfortable. It’s also seen as bad etiquette and very selfish.
Cock rings don’t stop you coming. They prolong an erection, sometimes even after coming.
The prostate isn’t a ‘press for pleasure’ button. It doesn’t produce an immediate shower of stars. Like all sexual pleasure, it builds gradually and needs sustained stimulation.
Coming after two or three tugs of the cock shouldn’t be written as ‘standard’, even if the character has been on the edge for a while. It generally takes longer. Ten seconds is given as a ‘minimum’.
Male orgasm isn’t really heat - it’s pressure - and it’s located more in the groin than in the belly.
The slit at the end of a man’s cock isn’t that sensitive. The frenulum (underneath the head) is the sensitive bit. There’s also no large vein on the underside of a penis, and it certainly doesn’t swell up.
Apparently we can make more of a thing out of pre-come. It’s normal for there to be loads of it. (Hurray?)
There’s more discussion, personal experiences and arguing in the comments.
I’d love to pioneer the “fingering isn’t necessary” campaign - but I know that the first fic I post without dutiful fingering will get at least twenty comments explaining to me how anuses work (i.e., they’re elastic and need to be stretched.)
I’m a cis woman, but I’ve had my share of anal sex and I’ve been campaigning that fingering isn’t necessary for years. Lube up, start slow, relax, and you can insert a penis without any prior prep.
Anuses don’t so much “stretch” as “dilate.” And if you’re experienced, you have some control over the muscle. I’ve even had anal sex without lube, and while I wouldn’t necessarily recommended that, it was not particularly painful and I certainly didn’t bleed or anything. There’s such a thing as rectal mucous. It’s not at all like vaginal lubrication, but a rectum isn’t totally dry. It definitely helped that my partner was uncircumcised (which will be true of most UK/European characters) and we weren’t using condoms. Foreskins reduce friction and condoms add it, so, I wouldn’t recommend unlubricated anal sex except in those circumstances.
The “one finger, two finger, three finger fuck” trope annoys me and I never write it. My characters usually just get down to the anal intercourse if that’s what’s on the menu. Or, if I do write prep, it usually involves butt plugs or rimming, since I like those things and I dislike fingering. I’ve never had anyone lecture me in the comments about how anuses work (and if they did I’d tell them where to stick it, literally).
IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST
OR ‘PEAKED’
BUT PIQUED
‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’
THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA
THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU
ADDITIONALLY:
YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’
IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.
ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME
‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’
THANK YOU
BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE
BREATH - THE NOUN FORM
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY
WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)
DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN
WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)
WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING
BAWL- TO SOB/CRY
BALL- A FUCKING BALL
YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.
THANK YOU.
*slams reblog*
IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.
SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE
IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.
DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED
DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC
AND TO CONTINUE THE OP’S THEME
IT’S SNEAK PEEK
NOT SNEAK PEAK
A SNEAK PEAK WOULD BE A MOUNTAIN ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE
THEY ARE VERY LARGE AND WOULD FIND THIS GENERALLY DIFFICULT
THANK
(OH AND ONE OTHER THING
BULLION = PRECIOUS METAL
BOUILLON = STOCK, FROM THE FRENCH “BOUILLER,” TO BOIL)
SHUDDER:
SHUTTER:
NOT SAME NOT SAME
sleight of hand: magic tricks slight of hand: President-Elect
I love this post so much oh my god 😂
“A MOUNTAIN ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE” I’m losing my shit
I would just like to point out that you CAN ’ball your eyes out’, you just need a really good melon scooper and a willingness to try hard enough.
It’s #nationalauthorsday, but rather than highlight my fave authors, I want to say a huge thank you to my readers. This meme was made by @writing-in-the-grave on Tumblr, and it’s been chillin on my desktop for days because it’s so insanely sweet and makes me smile. I have the most supportive followers and readers out there. You guys have helped me make my dreams come true and given me so much courage and motivation. You really have no idea how much your kindness (and memes) mean to me. I am forever grateful for all of you ♥️
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4UPz6FgJ8n/?igshid=lqbsopv3ahmu
I’m okay my brain isn’t broken everything is fine
Okay so since I have your ear I just want to say, I truly, seriously admire you and your work, both in your writing and in the community. I’ve read your books, they’re fantastic. You’re such a very skilled writer and it shows. And your work in the writer community practically makes you a saint. I know too many young aspiring writers who don’t have the resources to take a writing class, and having free videos like your’s on YouTube, on just about every subject they could need, has absolutely meant the world to them. I hope you know how irreplaceable, invaluable, admired, and loved you are in this community.
Omg thank you so, so much <3
When I started pursuing the whole writer thang, I had no one. No mentors, no advice, no how-to videos. It was just me, the library, google, and wonderful Cliff cheering me on. So I had to figure everything out by myself, and it was super hard, and I made a lot of mistakes. So I figured if I can make the process easier for someone else, might as well. The journey is already tough enough, yanno?
Anywho, thanks for the support and appreciation. It really means a lot <3
No, thank YOU. You deserve the support and appreciation, and I’m very glad I got the chance to thank you for everything you do.
this is so sweet
YOU GUYS ARE TOO MUCH ILY <3 <3
JENNA IS ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST SUPPORTIVE WRITERS OUT THERE AND SHE DOES SO MUCH FOR THE WRITING COMMUNITY AND IF IT WASN’T FOR HER, I WOULDN’T HAVE IMPROVED NEARLY AS MUCH AS I HAVE OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS
IN CONCLUSION, THANK YOU, JENNA!!!
I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING!!!!!!
Kids love to talk about the shit they draw, and Alyssa loves it even more than any kid I know. She takes her time with the drawing, she labours over it and cranes her neck this way and that, trying to see her creation from every angle. Her crayon game is strong, too. Her colours never escape the edges, and there’s never a tell-tale crack of white between her strokes.
“Let’s see what you’ve got, Alyssa.” I smiled at her, and she spread her drawing paper on the table.
Before I could even grasp what I was seeing, she pointed to a corner of the drawing.
“This is where it starts, right? At the corner, because we all start reading at the corner. But not this corner. This is the wrong corner to start reading from, which is why I’m telling you to start reading from this corner. Got it?”
I leaned back and looked at her. “Okay?” I managed.
“Okay, so you see the sun here? It’s going to explode one day, according to Space. That’s a book, I read it sometimes, when I’m home. Anyway, it’s going to go kaput, and it’s going to burn…”
She traced her finger down the paper.
“The ground down here. But not if we come up with a solution. You can see that we’ve tried different techniques here. This one…”
She traced her finger to a cabal of green-skinned witches with broomsticks. “…is a gang of witches, and they’re going to lay an evil, black magic spell on the sun. But that won’t work, right? I don’t think it’s going to work. So anyway, then we have…”
She traced her finger to a tank and a man who looked like a general. “The President. And he calls in the military, and they decide they’re going to shoot the sun, with huge tank guns and stuff. Fighter jets, too, and I guess submarines can launch missiles when they surface. You can see them all here, except the submarine is a little small because… yeah, anyway, it doesn’t work.”
I nodded, following her finger across the paper again, to a concert.
“And then all the big music artists make a concert, and I guess they’re kind of dumb, because they think they can just sing and everyone will be less afraid. And honestly, no one should show up, but they do, lots of people do, because I mean, these artists have a pull, right? They always have such stans.”
“Yes, I think they do,” I slipped in, which got a glimmer of a grin on her face.
“And here, you’ll see that there’s a…” She frowned and cocked her head to the side. “Well, it’s a building, and there’s a lot of smart people in it. You know, like the really smart people, and they’re trying to hack the sun into not exploding. And they’re really smart, but they’re missing the common sense thing. They’re missing that the sun isn’t made of wires and stuff, so you can’t just hack it.”
I sighed. “This is great, can I just… take this off your hands, and I’ll give you a grade when I return it to you?”
She looked at her drawing and then at me. “Okay, I guess, but I need to tell you about the merfolk, who live below the submarine here…”
Congrats. This is why I'm not excited to read comments anymore.
Just a reminder... Don't do this. Think before you comment. You don't know my life and I don't owe you a chapter. What is the point of this other than to make me feel bad?
Don't look for the comment, don't say anything, just... Learn from this and move on. Think about what you are saying with your comments.
Things I enjoy more than a "plz update" like comments:
"I left kudos on this a while ago, and I wish I could do it again a second time after rereading this"
"This is a great story so far. Keep up the good work!"
"This is still one of my favorite stories"
"I'm glad I found this, because it's like a hidden piece of treasure"
"I'm still interested if you'd like to continue because I love this story an unhealthy amount."
Literally anything you liked about the chapter
Intent can be innocent, but when the comment is just how you feel and has nothing or little to do with the story, it hurts. It puts focus on you instead of the person creating.
The "when are you updating?" comments also get me, because like... I'm not a time traveler. I don't know.
THIS!!
Trust me, nobody wants me to update more than I want me to update.. but it’s hard..
Yes. Please. As much as i love working on these stories, it DOES take time to just get around to working on them, let alone the actual writing itself. A lot of us just get busy with real life stuff or other projects. Unless we explicitly say the fic is on a hiatus or will just be discontinued, rest assured us fanfic writers WILL get it done! But please be patient. Even if the comment about when we’ll update next isn’t made to be mean or nagging, it REALLY adds a lot of pressure, which just makes us feel bad when we see how long it’s been.
Let me break it down another way: we all know in the Sanders fandom that Thomas has a sporadic updating schedule too, and we all do our best to be patient and not rag on him about when the next video will come out.
So please, let’s show the same courtesy to our fandom’s fanfic writers!
^^^^^
That bit at the end!!
If you wouldn't say it to Thomas, why would you say it to us??
Congrats. This is why I'm not excited to read comments anymore.
Just a reminder... Don't do this. Think before you comment. You don't know my life and I don't owe you a chapter. What is the point of this other than to make me feel bad?
Don't look for the comment, don't say anything, just... Learn from this and move on. Think about what you are saying with your comments.
Things I enjoy more than a "plz update" like comments:
"I left kudos on this a while ago, and I wish I could do it again a second time after rereading this"
"This is a great story so far. Keep up the good work!"
"This is still one of my favorite stories"
"I'm glad I found this, because it's like a hidden piece of treasure"
"I'm still interested if you'd like to continue because I love this story an unhealthy amount."
Literally anything you liked about the chapter
Intent can be innocent, but when the comment is just how you feel and has nothing or little to do with the story, it hurts. It puts focus on you instead of the person creating.
The "when are you updating?" comments also get me, because like... I'm not a time traveler. I don't know.
when artists feel like they have to do things, either: 1. the creative block gets stronger and we feel even worse about it 2. we force ourselves to work and the end product is terrible and we feel even worse about it please, please don’t rush artists. i’d rather have a better end product that takes a bit longer and has a BUNCH more passion in it than a bad end product that took less time and has no heart in it.
If there’s a male character I care about (when I’m writing), there’s like a 50% greater chance of him crying at some point because in this house, we support normalizing men and boys being emotionally expressive and vulnerable and we will never shame them for it
here’s the thing. if a piece of media’s only redeeming quality is that it has a lot of diversity and no good writing, no good character development, no good plot...i don’t really want it. i shouldn’t have to settle for scraps just because it comes in the flavor i want.
Lazy I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the box, would you mind explaining what a cryptid is exactly?
I'm sure it has a definition, but the way I've heard it used it's to describe a creature or being, shrouded in mystery, that doesn't seem like it fits in our reality. Something other. Maybe something that was once recognizable but isn't anymore. Usually used to describe urban legends, and in this case, a regular person that wandered into a forest and over some time became something else.
I really love the idea of something that vaguely feels wrong. Like, something that seems like a regular person, but is just a little bit off. You can't describe why, but maybe some little thing that gives a person humanity is missing.
Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.
Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.
Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.
Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.
Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.
Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.
Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.
Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.
Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.
Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.
It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.
Or, in short: the narrator =/ the author.
You know what else is a shame? This nowadays tendency of putting on the author the responsibility of teaching their readers morality.
Authors are allowed to write morally ambiguous characters.
Authors are allowed to write downright despicable characters - and guess what they are even allowed to make despicable characters charismatic and likeble and the protagonists of their stories if they wish - because absolute monsters exist only under the bed.
It is not up to the author to spoonfeed the readers about morality and Yes I know this character did a bad thing and I am going going to show it in the story and make other characters call them out of it and– Bullshit.
The authors should be able to write what they want without having thousands of people jumping and their throats claiming to know them, their ideas and their morality based on what they write.
It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.
I made a generator for the Sanders Sides fandom! With results such as:
And:
Or:
The characters included are Logan, Patton, Roman, Virgil, Deceit, Remus, Remy (Sleep) and Emile, although the main four will come up more frequently than the others.
Feel free to use yours results as inspiration for art/fics/edits/whatever you want, but please link back to this post if you do!
(Remember to write marginalised identities you don’t share responsibly!)
Hello I love this
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT HOW AWESOME THIS IS FOR WRITERS???? I AM SO INSPIRED!!!!
being naked is not sexy. wearing a white 18th century shirt with poofy sleeves tucked into a pair of black high waisted trousers is sexy. there are no exceptions
Fun fact: a character doesn’t have to be a good person to be a good character.
The reader: I can’t wait to find out what happens next!
The writer: neither can I, my friend. Neither can I
