#TheyDid

Sideblog for my fanfic obsessions and silly little ships that I just can’t seem to shake. Recovering OUAT addict. 30s. They/she. 18+.

[oleskyfm]

[coalitiongirl]

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

Regina slides out from under her, her hand still on Emma’s cheek, her finger winding around Emma’s hair. “It might be prudent.” She offers no explanation, no justification, no reason why she would just surrender herself to a fate that has given her nothing but trauma before.

“It would kill you,” Emma says, and she tries to find that young, frightened girl in Regina’s eyes again. But she is gone. Regina is opaque, as unreadable as she is after their trysts. “The people chose you to be queen. That doesn’t mean that you need to…to do these things to protect them. You deserve freedom. You deserve…”

A finger is against Emma’s lips, gentle but unrelenting. “Let me meet him,” Regina says. “Let me see.”

[noisytenant]

we should call it this again

[louisegluckpdf]

fake freaks out and about again with the release of del toro’s frankenstein. “call me crazy but the creature could get it 😳” well of course you want to fuck him it’s just jacob elordi in pretty paint. if you saw the kinds of monsters i want to fuck you’d hurl

[plushworldz]

trust i got yall fr 💯💯💯

[hexhive-deactivated20251119]

[clytemnestraaa]

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

[lorillee]

big tshirt that says YOUR INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and I HATE FUN on the back

[messrsage]

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[burr-ell]

[heartbreakincident]

nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

[heartbreakincident]

most correct addition so far

[eternal-confusion-of-han]

rewatching the series so I can write the porn more in character

[theclonewriter-blog]

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

[onewordtest]

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

[joehywheelah]

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

[tenoko1]

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

[cj-amused]

Things I didn’t know

[prismatic-bell]

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

[jawnwats-deactivated20160713]

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

[notesoftruth]

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

[flootzavut]

“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“

“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.

[dechart]

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

[eddiestarchild]

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

[magpiefngrl]

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

[heywriters]

Thank you, because having more than one way to interrupt dialogue is not confusing at all lol (I’ve only seen em dashes inside quotations, the other way hurts my brain—I prefer commas).

[bostonyaoi]

age gap 🤤🤤 unbalanced power dynamic 🤤🤤🤤🤤

[genderpuppy-deactivated20250617]

it's ok to be horny! it's good to be perverted! your sexuality isn't shameful and the things that turn you on are good and should be celebrated!!! even if its weird!!!! especially if it's weird and fucked up!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[wanderinginkpot]

Everyone remember to download those beloved fics ahead of time! And don't forget to thank your local AO3 volunteer for working those long hours!

[mrsterlingeverything]

Sex is when im in your head and youre in mine