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I said I’d post my writings here… and then I didn’t. Like a liar. But I did finally upload them to private collections in AO3 to keep them all in the same place. So I guess message if you’re interested in 5e and Pathfinder OCs…
Your comments mean something even when the author never replies.
Sometimes your comments mean something especially when the author never replies.
exactly this
mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter
as a fanfic writer, it’s important that you went through a journey where you called eyes orbs
Me opening up the half-finished draft of my ‘narratively creative’ Conclave fanfic:
Heath Ledger in A Knight's Tale (2001)
author: sorry I’m jumping on this bandwagon and writing a fic with the same premise as all these other fics
me, has read 500 fics like this one and is prepared to read 500 more: please never apologize for giving the people (me) what they (also me) want
WELL I WOULD READ FIVE HUNDRED FICS
AND I WOULD READ FIVE HUNDRED MORE
JUST TO READ ONE THOUSAND FICS WITH THE SAME
PREMISE AS THE ONES BEFORE
DADA DADA (DADA DADA)
DADA DADA (DADA DADA)
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#when i wake up#well i know i’m gonna read#i’m gonna read the shit i read just yesterday #when i wake up#well i know i’m gonna read#i’m gonna read the shit i read just yesterday
I want to write my fanfic <- isn’t writing my fanfic
the reality of being a writer
Plot Bunnies, Plot Chickens, Etc.
As a lot of people aren’t familiar with plot creatures, I thought I’d shed some light on the members of the mental menagerie…
The Plot Bunny - Story ideas that come bounding in and start multiplying.
The Plot Chicken - They squawk, flap around, and shit everywhere, but when you actually need to do something with them, they scatter.
The Plot Sloth - Takes its sweet goddamned time turning into something useful.
The Plot Mule - When you mash two plots together and get something cool, but you can’t get a sequel out of it to save your life.
The Plot Cat - Lazy little bastards who take up your headspace, scare away all the other plot bunnies, but won’t actually do anything except lay there.
The Plottweiler - Barks loudly and viciously so you can’t ignore it, distracts you from everything else you want to write, but leaves you too paralyzed with fear to actually put words down.
The Plot Squirrel - Cute, distracting, full of nuts, and just TRY to keep up with that train of thought.
The Plot Bedbug - Shows up during the night, chews on you so you can’t sleep, and disappears in the daylight.
The Plot Tick - Burrows in, bleeds you dry, and leaves you with the creepy-crawlies. Mostly preys on horror writers.
The Plotroach - Totally unappealing, but so tenacious they’ll survive anything until you finally give up and write them.
What Plot Creatures have you encountered?
The Plot Dolphin - Either something very intellectually stimulating and probably surreal, or porn without plot, no inbetween.
The Plot Fin Whale - It’s a longfic, but a surprisingly fast-moving one that just flows right out of you.
The Plot Dragon - A gigantic pile of your most treasured tropes that probably don’t go that well when mixed together haphazardly like that but so shiny
The Plot Gryphon - A crossover.
The Plot Chimera - An especially ambitious crossover.
The Plot Hydra - WHERE ARE ALL THESE SUBPLOTS COMING FROM
The Plot Salmon - A love story that ends tragically.
The Plot Peryton - That deathfic you don’t want to write because you like that character and don’t want them to die but its shadow will be cast upon you until you give up and write it.
The Plot Stick Insect - You thought the plot was going to do one thing but SURPRISE! The characters have decided to go in a completely different direction.
Favorite Spell/Curse/Potion effect to inflict on a character
Truth (compulsion to tell the truth, can't lie, have to speak their mind
De-aging (turned into a kid, replaced with their child self, etc)
Shape Altering (genderbend, turn into an animal, apperance altering, etc
Poison (just poison)
Personality Change (trait/body swap, mood change, alignment switch, etc)
Memory (amenesia, viewing/sharing memories, altering memories)
Love/Hate (love spell, forced affection or dislike, etc)
Invisibility/Ghost (separated from body, disappear, removed from history
Time (time travel, time loop, stuck in time, etc)
Telepathy (hear thoughts, telepathic bonds, truth sensing,,)
Resurrection (revive from the dead, zombie, rebirth, etc)
Sleep/Visions (trapped asleep, prophetic dreams, etc)
year three for this poll! let's see if people's opinions have changed~
the past results can be found here and here
sorry for other option, tumblr polls do not have enough spaces!!!
One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.
Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.
There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!
the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."
bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.
It's not so bizarre when you realize dating changed a lot when teenagers began to have their own cars, which they were driving to other places, and in those other places they were having sex with people. Sometimes in the cars.
Obviously the adults freaked out about it.
Caught Up On My Stories BTW. Handling It
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problem with finishing a fic is immediately wanting to start a new one
there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.
short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.
meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.
