Dragon Ball fans plz stop ignoring Goten

im just a guy who really likes Dragon Ball (DB/Z/GT). Goten fan for 22+ years. I’m the one who writes all the MarTen

[dbzebra]

Wanted to repost this! This is my MarTen long fic, Surpassing the Strongest! It’s an End of Z canon divergent story featuring #Goten as the main character, finally giving him the spotlight and big plot line he deserves!

This fic is very near and dear to me, it’s only six chapters (so far) but it’s only just beginning! I sincerely hope you enjoy it, and as always if you do read I would love to hear what you thought!

Thank you to everyone who has read or commented so far, it truly means the world to me!!

AO3 link:

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

[jesterlesbian]

you have to remember it's always always worse on twitter

[onecells]

YOU🫵'RE 🫵 NE->XT.!! moTHERFUCKER!!!!

GET LOVED!!!!!!!!!!

[cozymochi]

Another dark sorcerer with quirky, questionable powers who talks to himself a lot and is probably unwell

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[altospaceangel]

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[cozymochi]

I do not have time to refine this nor recreate the background and smaller things from scratch to make it more unique to her specifically :( Been too busy with too many things on and offline. So now it’s more like a “proof of concept” to get the point across, I’m so sorry, girl. Still HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANYWAY TIA 🫡🪷 Ramshackle is better with you in it. 🙏

Bonus, the reverse filming of a spot on Sages Island:

[disclaimer: Character choices determined by randomized wheel spins. It just happened to be thematic 💀.]

[unadulteratedhideouttrash]

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[mademoiseli]

Streaming's really convenient and all, and I really do appreciate it. Some of my all time favorite movies or shows I discovered thanks to streaming, whether they were new movies/shows that were created for a specific platform, or an older piece of media I had somehow missed. But.

I miss when everyone in the family would gather around to watch the same show at the same time.

I miss when there was a good amount of really good shows on cable that most everyone around the country would watch together.

I miss when people could reasonably keep up with the shows their friends and family would recommend.

I miss when people didn't have to worry about spoilers as much because everyone would watch the new episode at the same time.

I miss when a "big episode" or a holiday special would be announced and everyone would anticipate it.

I miss when filmmakers would make more films (and specifically holiday films) aimed at the whole family, and not just hyper-specific target demographics, because it was assumed that the whole family would watch them together on the big screen, and later watch it together at home on the small screen.

I miss the sense of (offline) community surrounding film and television.

[mademoiseli]

In a similar vein, I miss when a good movie that did poor in the box office would get redeemed by dvd sales.

I miss anticipating the release of a dvd or blu-ray of a new movie, or the release of a special-edition dvd or blu-ray of a classic, because that was the only way to watch it at home aside from catching it on tv occasionally. I miss the art of the dvd menu and spending hours watching all the bonus features, and playing mini-games if the dvd featured some.

I miss how common it was for tv shows to also be released as dvd sets. I miss when people didn't have to worry about a favorite, obscure, streaming-only-show being wiped off the face of the earth because it wasn't successful enough.

[coolman229]

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

[dbzebra]

or when you actually do remember it, when you write it down it doesn’t come out the same way or just sounds worse lol

[ostriches-because-i-said-so]

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

“First and foremost I’m writing for myself,” I hiss through my teeth, resisting the urge to refresh my email for an Ao3 message for the 100th time.

[mxrderscenes]

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

[galadrieljones]

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

[xalphafox]

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

[headspace-hotel]

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion

[renn720]

I wrote a 234k fic in a year-and-two-months and it was only possible because the protagonist has the most horrific dissociative disorder I have ever seen in fiction and, yeah, meant I could skip literally anything I did not want to write.

[dbzebra]

I was stuck for months writing a scene because it just kept coming out wrong. My fic is canon divergent but up to that point it hadn’t fully diverged yet, so I wanted to have the scene from canon to play out in a similar way. (Was basically Goku telling Vegeta that Uub is Buu reincarnated)

no matter what I did, couldn’t have it fit with both my new changes and flow of the scene. Wrote and rewrote it at least a dozen times.

eventually just scrapped it entirely, and just made a vague reference to it from the main character’s perspective while it was happening and then expanded on it later.

more recent example, cut a scene in most recent chapter because it just didn’t work with the flow of the reveal to next scene with my villain. Worked way better and again just had it mentioned so it still happened but didn’t spend 1000 words on it

tldr this works like a charm imo so yeah just cut it if need be

[autumnmobile12]

Writing fanfiction is like broadcasting into the void of space.

Getting kudos is like seeing a blip on the monitors and knowing there's signs of life.

Getting a positive comment is like making contact and knowing you're not alone.

[allwaswell16]

I just want to talk about the power of commenting on fics for a minute.

I have my main fandom, but when I read in other fandoms, I don't know many of the writers. So I usually just find fics by looking through the tag I want. And if it's a tag I'm really interested in, I'll read every fic in the tag. And if there's a fic I really liked in there, I'll start reading everything by that writer.

So what this means is I'm sometimes reading fics or writers that don't have tons of hits/kudos/comments on their fics, but I found them through some obscure tag I wanted to read. And so I'll get back some really incredibly sweet replies to my comments.

But then, something even more incredible started happening. I'd be reading WIPs by some of these writers and they'd literally start writing the rest of the fic for me. They started asking me what I hoped to see happen or if I had any requests. And when the fic was finished, one of them said the only reason they kept writing the fic was for me.

Sometimes there can be such a lovely connection between the writer and the reader just because you decided to leave a comment. And sometimes you as the commenting reader can become the lone reason why a fic makes its way into the world for all the other readers who come after you.

[waywardsou2]

Comment on fics, kudos fics, come back to a fic - read it again - go to kudos and realise you've already kudos then tell the author you are back once again

Do whatever you can to let the author know that you like what they wrote, even if it's a single emoji in that comment section ok?

LET THE AUTHOR KNOW YOU LOVE THEM because a lot of fic authors don't know that, and they need too. Let them know that they are loved