Wildly Winging It Through The Creative Process

| Monarch | she/they | 26 | Art and fic and anything else suiting my fancy DuskMonarch on AO3

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[cogneartive]

when the persona you made eats you; when the performance youve been putting on eats you; when the name they gave you eats you; when the image people made of you eats you; when the role you were assigned eats you; when the you that other people see or even made for you or you made for them takes over the you that you know and eats you alive.

[katalean]

happy valentine’s day (you can also pinpoint the moment I gave up clearing and just decided to leave this as sketches)

[strialternatives]

their souls are constantly calling out to each other and they make it everyone else's problem i think-

[eela]

this is a hold up!

[lightwolf]

Editing? Oh you mean fic patching.

[lightwolf]

Protagonist now has more complex motivations.

Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.

Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.

Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.

The horse now has a name.

Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.

[mmedemerteuil]

Characters now no longer reference the previous version’s climate and have been updated to react appropriately to the currently set season.

Solved a glitch where supernumerary limbs would sometimes emerge during complex physical interactions.

Should no longer display “[insertnamehere]” during conversations and narration. All of such occurrances have been replaced with the appropriate tags.

Conversation continuity has been improved. Characters will no longer inappropriately respond with lines from previous iterations of the narrative.

All references to “Event A” have been purged to reflect changes in narrative structure.

Now with more thematically-consistent swearing.

[kedreeva]

Back-to-back repeated words that resulted from sentence rearranging or start/stop editing have been cleared.

Paragraphs which contained two or more instances of the same adjective have had their adjectives updated to accurately reflect a player’s vocabulary inventory.

Minor time traveling issues have been resolved, all characters should now exist in the same tense.

Punctuation has been improved. Commas have been reduced by half.

Characters sighing has been reduced by 30%.

Characters looking at things or people during conversations has been reduced by 40%. To make up for this, characters thinking about the conversation has been boosted and descriptive narrative has been added.

Title has been applied.

[crowttore]

Are you currently suffering from The Character?

[ozdical]

[shrimpribs1]

pocky game but nothing can be just a simple challenge between these two

[reeruh]

[seukorei]

we can dance forever

[moonlit-doodles]

careful what you say around that guy, goro.

[cattnipt]

caught you

[wizardshark]

99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!

[saspitite]

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME

BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND

PANSEXUALS GROW FROM THE CEILING

[elizapad]

Happy Pride, cave dwellers 🦇

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[dusk--monarch]

Cognitive Wilds is simmering away (as in, part one (of many) is closer to done than not)

[dusk--monarch]

Are you perhaps in art fight this year?

This ask is what finally prompted me to learn what art fight was lmao. I'd been seeing the teams reveals and people talking about their ref sheets and had no idea what anyone was talking about.

That said, not this year! I'm trying to lock in on my current projects (coughcognitivewildscough) for right now. I'd definitely consider it next year though!

[harperloney]

I KNOW 2/2 PASSED I JUST CANT GET HIM OUT OF MY HEAD