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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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YOU ARE THE REASON
NASA
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noise dept.
we're not kids anymore.
if i look back, i am lost
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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@chocochick-creations
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again
Moshang WIP
I didn’t take many photos this weekend, but you can enjoy this one that made me laugh.
I absolutely love your Paper Faces fic! I've been subscribed since you started posting and it's been such a wonderful journey. One of my favorite fics for sure! Congratulations on completing it!
Waaaaaaaaaaa I missed this!! 😭 curse you inbox notifications!
You’re so sweet!! Paper Faces has been such a wonderful experience for me and y’all really have been the highlight! I couldn’t have done so much without all y’all being there to offer encouragement and kind words, so I’m happy to hear you loved it as much as I did!
A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.
My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.
My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.
This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.
Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.
I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.
So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.
Update:
I printed out my long fics as gifts to myself. I’m in love and holding the stories in print is doing wonders for my life.
You could read them on A03 if you wanna:)
me writing the worst paragraph of my life knowing that a sexier, more hydrated version of me will fix it later
🎊 I’ve finished my first fic for SVSSS 🎊
It’s a canon divergent Double Shen AU, full of Shenanigans. (Get it? lol) You could read it, if you wanna🥰
SVSSS: Guess that Eldritch Horror!
(TW: many arms/ stitches)
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New chapter of Paper faces is up.
A03 here!
(Shizun picrew attempt for taxes lol source here)
Ohh, so I was looking at my storage and found these! I originally shared them on twitter before yeeting the platform. Anyway, feel free to use! Art memes for your oc :D
Figure/ low-perspective/ clothing practice featuring Shen Yuan from Ch20 of my latest fic- Paper Faces on Parade:)
More SQQ TikTok shenanigans
did you guys know about this oc stuff. you can just make a guy. big if true
but watch out. theyre in your brain now
I made Another Thing. Enjoy, is you’d like. Idk. I’m not your parent.
So my problem with most ‘get to know your character’ questioneers is that they’re full of questions that just aren’t that important (what color eyes do they have) too hard to answer right away (what is their greatest fear) or are just impossible to answer (what is their favorite movie.) Like no one has one single favorite movie. And even if they do the answer changes.
If I’m doing this exercise, I want 7-10 questions to get the character feeling real in my head. So I thought I’d share the ones that get me (and my students) good results:
What is the character’s go-to drink order? (this one gets into how do they like to be publicly perceived, because there is always some level of theatricality to ordering drinks at a bar/resturant)
What is their grooming routine? (how do they treat themselves in private)
What was their most expensive purchase/where does their disposable income go? (Gets you thinking about socio-economic class, values, and how they spend their leisure time)
Do they have any scars or tattoos? (good way to get into literal backstory)
What was the last time they cried, and under what circumstances? (Good way to get some *emotional* backstory in.)
Are they an oldest, middle, youngest or only child? (This one might be a me thing, because I LOVE writing/reading about family dynamics, but knowing what kinds of things were ‘normal’ for them growing up is important.)
Describe the shoes they’re wearing. (This is a big catch all, gets into money, taste, practicality, level of wear, level of repair, literally what kind of shoes they require to live their life.)
Describe the place where they sleep. (ie what does their safe space look like. How much (or how little) care / decoration / personal touch goes into it.)
What is their favorite holiday? (How do they relate to their culture/outside world. Also fun is least favorite holiday.)
What objects do they always carry around with them? (What do they need for their normal, day-to-day routine? What does ‘normal’ even look like for them.)
