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we're not kids anymore.
if i look back, i am lost
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GUYS PIRATING IS BAD.
DO NOT PIRATE ANYTHING. NOT SHOWS/MOVIES. NOT GAMES OR SAFER GAMES. AND CERTAINLY NOT BOOKS. AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS. AND NEVER EVER EVER WATCH MUSICALS WITHOUT GOING TO THEM AND DONT USE ADBLOCKERS/OTHER ADBLOCKER TO AVOID ADS AND VIRUSES PIRATING IS VERY HARMFUL TO THE CORPORATIONS WHO WORKS VERY HARD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY. ANYONE WHO PIRATES IS BAD. BAD PIRATING. EVIL. OH AND THIS
I drew a fan art of tadc funnybunny fanfic: Rest Easy with the authorās helpā¦ This is a scene from Chapter 5!
The fic (explicit):
https://archiveofourown.org/works/71111466
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It was so fun working on this with you!!!! I loved how it turned out, it's so cool seeing this scene come to life! ššš
if yaoi is so good then why aren't they women
reposting from bsky, but heres a cheat sheet for how to properly send a message to payment processing companies over the recent highly conservative shift in where youre allowed to legally spend your money
more info here!
another show that deserved better.
all of infinity train now on the IA
a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isnāt social media this is community.
Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.
š how do u win the idgaf war when it comes to shipping
i'm 28
rewatching a movie you loved as a teen and realizing itās actually really really really really not good
ācouldnāt be meā ācanāt relateā āi always had good tasteā and then i check the profile and youre 22ā¦.. give it a second! your favorite movies will start sucking shit shortly!
decentralize and clean up your life!!!
use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
use storygraph instead of goodreads.
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
last updated: march 18th 2025
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
(opening the authorās works page after finishing a fic) and if im lucky theyāll have written this exact same fic but different a bunch more times
where my radiobelles at......... :)
media literacy would automatically go up 100% if people knew how to consume stories without self-inserting themselves into the characters' shoes. "if i were him..." you're NOT. you may relate to his story, his past, his traits, his quirks, his identity but the moment you start treating the story accepting what you feel/think as what the character feels/thinks, you're misunderstanding the story.
THEYāRE SO CUTE IM SICK HAPPY PRIDE CLAUDELEINE!!!š³ļøāš
on transitioning from fanfic to original fiction pt. 1
before i finally finished my first original short story in 2021, i had probably between fifteen and twenty attempts under my belt. some of them were only a handful of paragraphs -- strings of dialogue that never quite found the right mouths to go into, descriptions of settings that were beautiful and purposeless. a few more promising ones turned into meandering conversations between characters whose point i hoped to find in the course of writing them. it wasn't easy like writing fanfiction. but that was the point in order fit the contours of what i thought a short story was supposed to be: serious and literary. not something that i had fun writing or at least, not anywhere close to the same fun that i had with fanfiction.
i tried a lot of different tactics to get out of this rut. i could make scenes but there never was much point to them. whatever quality seemed to animate my work when i was writing about characters that did not belong to me was utterly missing from anything that came from my own mind. it's only now that i've finished a couple more stories and finally gotten one published that i have realized that this is, in large part, the point of writing your own characters. when you start, you don't know them, even if you think you do.
there is a difference between compiling a list of traits and general ideas about a character and actually making one, especially if you are used to working with characters that have been developed by someone else. you have an idea of what they sound like when they are talking and how they might look walking around. though this might change depending on the kind of fanfiction you write, you are still working from a base that your readers are familiar.
i've been writing my own version of eren jaeger for almost four years now. there are ways that i have changed him to my own purposes but, ultimately, the way i write him adheres to a general form of a reckless, self-loathing person who is allergic to his own happiness. this is my own interpretation of him, based off of the text, as well as other fics i have read. when i have an idea for a fic that involves him, he is already a known quantity in a lot of ways and all i have to do is figure out how my interpretation of him might move through different scenes. it's still a lot of work (which is why it can be super scary when you're writing in a new fandom for the first time) but there is something i can tack back to if i am lost, especially now that i've written so many versions of him. since i write a lot of aus, usually the characters are the same while the setting varies wildly. but because i have a concrete set point in my characters, it doesn't feel like i'm having to come up with everything from scratch.
when you're working with an already developed character, someone else has already done a lot of trial and error, shaping them into what they are. making decisions about their personality and how that interlocks with the story. creating alternate versions of them that don't end up fitting into the final product but inform it anyway. creating a character who is compelling and believable takes a lot of work and trial and error. while in fic, your character is usually your set point (meaning that they way they act is generally defined in your mind), a character you create on your own, as well as the story that you create around them, can be changed depending on what you find interesting and what best conveys the themes that you are trying to communicate. it is a lot more freedom but with that freedom comes a lot more choices that have to be made. and it is through these choices that you are articulating your creative vision for the story and maybe even your work as a whole. even if freedom is technically a good thing, it can be scary! like fuck, i gotta make all these choices on my own??? in this economy????
i used to think that these choices needed to be made in a different way than i made them in my fic writing. i used to think i had to make the smartest and most intellectually riveting choices that would make my readers think i was smart and well-read and knew what i was doing. but when i did that, i would end up with these meandering, solipsistic 5k behemoths that never went anywhere or reached any higher form of truth.
when i am writing fic, my guiding question is "does this make me horny?" which might sound insane but stay with me for a second. for me, horniness is not just about sexual arousal but a certain feeling i get in my brain that means i am inspired by something. i can't describe it but i know when i feel it. i'm sure you have a feeling like this too when you find a piece of art that you really vibe with or a song that can't get out of your head. it's speaking to something deep inside you that you don't quite understand yet but you know is important.
by ignoring this feeling when i was writing my original work, i was ignoring what i actually wanted to write. even if it wasn't "serious" or adhering to the conventions of contemporary literary fiction. it wasn't until i was so burnt out from writer's bock that i started to let my original characters act in ways that i found interesting, instead of adhering to some amorphous genre conventions i made up in my head. once i figured out this trick, my stories got a lot better. not because i would always get it right the first time but because i would be interested enough in the story to keep working on it. if you don't give a shit about what you're writing, it's unlikely that anyone else will.
anyway i have more thoughts on this and how to actualize it (unfortunately, a lot of revision) but will stop here. :) feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions about this or your own methods for developing original characters.
tldr: let your freak flag fly!!!!!!!!
