Herperlo D

Welcome to my world of idea vomit. Feel free to drop me an ask or pitch an idea. Mostly FFVII-centric and some YOI, but I dip into other fandoms as well. You can find me in ao3 under the same name.

[fandommaniac2401]

I found this article when I was looking for a fic, and found it kinda amusing. It was written last year and they didn’t even mention ff.net or ao3

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2017/07/05/health/kids-teens-fanfiction-partner/index.html

Tagging as many writers as I can remember right now because I want your opinions, sorry if this annoys you.

@helly-watermelonsmellinfellon @gemnika @sprinklesbopalop @tsume-yuki @cywscross @crimson-chains @asreoninfusion @bookedequestrian @esamastation @evenescenttranquility @hiruma-musouka @herperlo-d @littwink @ladyhallen @nimpnawakproduction @skygemspeaks @saferion @squidspawn @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin @therapeutic-steter @up-sideand-down @weiila

[herperlo-d]

It’s not the first article I’ve seen about fan fiction in general, though I’m pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t talking about fan fiction negatively, more so since it is on a big brand news network like CNN. Maybe a little misinformed?

I don’t know what she’s googling if those are the links that she recommends. The feeling I get from this piece is that she doesn’t know what exactly she is talking about–like she sort of knows but not really about fanfic things. I don’t think she even googled anything about fan fiction, except for the ‘fanfiction lingo’ because the sites she provided have already been reviewed by her other colleagues. The part where she said, ‘completely mild to nearly soft-core porn’ is a pretty huge hint, like lady, it goes way past soft-core porn you don’t even know.

I like that she asked parents not to read their child’s stories, not many people realise that it feels quite invasive since it ‘isn’t legit writing’. But asking the parents to take a look around the fandom? The kid is never entering into any of the sites, like ever.

What bothers me the most about this is the line, ‘Not all of it is about sex -- but a lot of it is.’ Less than half of most fandoms, especially the bigger fandoms unless canon was based around mature/explicit things like murder, are made up of explicit/mature content. People can also filter them out easily (another hint that she isn’t truly into fanfics). Though I clicked on a few of her given fanfic site links and I realised that they were completely unlike FFnet or AO3. They had little to no filtering system for ratings or warnings. At most, their tags were for general stuff like genres or fandoms, so I guess it is understandable if those are the only sites she knows.

All in all, it isn’t the best or worst article about fan fiction, though I wish that she had done a bit more research before writing her article.

[herperlo-d]

The one thing I don't understand is why anyone puts up with Bakugou's shit. Izuku is literally cringing away from him and they know that Bakugou calls him useless so why is no one doing anything? Even if Izuku says he's fine with it, but the boy would probably break all four limbs and his face but still say I'm fine. Personally, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with a person like that, let alone try to be friends with him.

[hraapwrites]

Sugar and Spice And Everything Nice (Is What Mafia Bosses Are Made Of)

mas·cu·line

having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men, especially strength and aggressiveness.

For as long as he can recall, Iemitsu has drilled him with the lessons of masculinity. That men must be strong and fierce, not small or cute. That they must value certain things, and leave the rest to the women. So Tsuna takes the lessons his dad tells him to take, and does his best to keep his genuine feelings bottled up tight.

After all, no proper man would be interested in things like shoujo, sewing or baking. So he must fix himself until he is a proper man, and until then just pretend like those things don’t exist.

It’s just too bad the baby that shows up on his doorstep won’t let him.

(Otomen!KHR au.)

Chapter 1

“Hey, isn’t that Sawada?”

The voices catch him off-guard, and he hastily straightens his spine. “Ah,” he mumbles just loud enough for people to hear, “I guess I’ll have to tell Mom they don’t have her size.” His heart pounds as he turns around, and catching sight of his classmates, waves. “Oh, hey guys. Doing some shopping?”

“Yeah.” One of the guys tilts his head towards the pile of yarn he’d been staring hungrily at, desperately trying to convince himself that he didn’t need it. “You do crafts, Sawada?”

“Ah no, not me.” It scrapes his throat to say, but he says it. “My mom. She asked me to grab some things, and I remembered her mentioning she was almost out of worsted-weight yarn. I was just checking to see if they had any in the colors she liked, but I guess not.”

“You’re a good kid, Sawada. We’ll see you on Monday, right?”

“Yeah, of course!” he waves to them as they go, and then numbly goes up to the counter to pay for what few items he has in his basket. 

Keep reading

[herperlo-d]

Fic idea #17

Okay, so Eren’s first impression of Levi hadn’t been the greatest (the man did just buy him like he’s a fucking animal or something... and fuck his father too for actually selling him in the first place), but he shall reserve total judgement for now. He will wait and see if the guy was decent enough that living with him will be tolerable (unlikely), or if he was a real douchebag alpha (likely).

And well... if Levi was one of those alphas, he’s just gonna have to utterly ruin him because no way was he going to be the only one suffering in shitty circumstances. Who knows? If he played his cards right, he might be able to escape the sinking ship and leave the alpha to drown by himself. Eren may not have a lot of power in this new situation, but like hell if he was going to roll onto his back and accept it. Horseface doesn’t call him a vicious bitch for nothing.

[herperlo-d]

Fic idea #16

The first time Sephiroth met Cloud, it was at a Shinra-sponsored pet adoption drive (for the good publicity). The SOLDIER had escaped to the back room from the overwhelming noise and disorganisation in the courtyard, only to find a young man sitting on the floor crying into the fur of a very confused husky.

[herperlo-d]

When you get this, you need to say 5 things that you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)

1. I like that I can make people happy from reading my fics. It makes me really happy to know that I made someone’s day just from those few thousand words. Those sort of comments are the best types to receive.

2. I like my brown hair. I think it looks nice under the sunlight.

3. I like that I can be someone who my friends and family can go to for help when they need it.

4. I like that I am studying biology because it is freakin cool and interesting.

5. I like my hairy legs. I think that they are fine even though people tell me that I shouldn’t.

Wow this was harder than I thought. Looks like anon was right, positivity is cool and if y’all had as much difficulty as I did, then I think that all of us sorely need some self-positivity. Thank you anon for sending me this message!

[herperlo-d]

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

My 2017 ffvii Secret Santa is out! It is the most I have every written by far (10k words holy shit) for a single chapter and I was so done with it by the time I finished writing.

I am quite proud of myself, though. I never would have thought that I could have written (and written so much) for somebody else within a time limit. So, I hope that you’ll enjoy reading it and be as proud of me as I am of myself for unlocking this mini-achievement.

[concerningwolves]

Writing Deaf Characters | Speech is Speech

Before I get going, I’m 75% deaf, as some of you know, semi-reliant on hearing aids and lip reading. My first languages were Makaton sign and then BSL. I now use spoken English.

There are a lot of issues I find with how deaf people are represented in books, when represented at all. I would love to see more deaf and hard of hearing characters in the books I read- without having to read books specifically about deaf/HoH people- but when I find them, they’re grossly undercharacterized or stereotyped. Authors write them in a way that sets signing language characters apart from speaking characters as if they are inferior, and this makes my blood boil.

Some technicalties

I’ll keep this brief.

You may have heard that “deaf” is a slur and you should use “hearing impaired”. Don’t. I’ve never met a deaf or hard of hearing person who believed that. Use deaf for people who are deaf, and Hard of Hearing (HoH) for people who lack hearing. These can be interchangeable depending on the person. This is why sensitivity readers are a useful part of the beta process.

Sign language is incredibly varied. It developes in the same way as spoken language. Fun fact: in BSL there are at least half a dozen ways to say bullshit, my favourite of which is laying your arms across one another with one hand making a bull’s head sign and the other hand going flat, like a cowpat. It’s beautifully crude, and the face makes the exclamation mark. Wonderful.

There are different sign languages. Knowing more than one would make a character multi or bi-lingual, even if they are non-speaking.

Makaton is basic sign language used by children, and it mirrors the very simple language used by toddlers.

Yes, we swear and talk shit about people around us in sign language sometimes, and no, it isn’t disrespectful to have signing characters do this. Just remember that we also say nice things, and random things, and talk about fandoms and TV shows and what we’re having for dinner, too.

Each signed language is different from another. ASL and BSL? Nothing alike. Just google the two different signs for horse.

Remember that sign language is a language, equal to the spoken word

Therefore, treat it as such. Use quotation speech marks and dialogue tags. You only need to explicitly state that this character uses signed language once, and then let your modifiers and description do the rest.  It isn’t a form of “sub-speech" or “making hand actions”- sign language is a language all on its own: it has its own grammar rules, syntactical structures, punctuation, patterns, idioms and colloquialisms. For example, “what is your name?” becomes “Your name what?” with the facial expression forming punctuation in the same way that spoken English uses alterations of prosodic tone (inflections). There is even pidgin sign; a language phenomenon usually associated with spoken language.

In the same way that you would describe a spoken-English character’s tone of voice, you would describe a signed-English speaker’s facial expressions and the way that they sign- keeping in mind that these things are our language’s equivalent of verbal inflection.

So please, none of that use of “special speech marks” or italicised speech for sign. If your viewpoint character doesn’t understand signed speech, then you take the same approach that would be used for any other language they don’t understand, like French or Thai. E.g “He said something in rapid sign language, face wrinkling in obvious disgust.” is a good way of conveying this. The proof that you’ve done this well is in whether or not you can switch “sign language” for French or something else, and it would read the same.

Don’t be afraid to describe how things are said, either. Sign language is such a beautiful and expressive way of talking, and to see a writer do it justice would be truly fabulous. Putting this into practise:

“Oh, I love maths!” She said, fingers sharp and wide with sarcasm. She raised her eyebrows.

“I’m sorry.” He replied and made his face small, but could not keep the grin forming. She was starting to laugh, too.

This is part one of two, for the sake of readability and keeping the information simple as I can. Part two- writing the deaf characters themselves- is coming up over the weekend. See you then and best luck with your writing until that point :D

This is part of my weekly advice theme. Each week I look at what you’ve asked me to help with, and write a post or series of posts for it. Next week: settings and character development (including heroes, anti-heroes, villains, and every other kind of character).

[naamahdarling]

Thank you, this is wonderful and helpful.

[bramblewing-deactivated20210119]

Remember to reblog not-popular and/or young artists’ work to support them

83 likes and only 2 reblogs is discouraging

Spread it, support it

[bramblewing-deactivated20210119]

full offense do you see my point

[herperlo-d]

Secret Santa update

Great news everyone! I have completed my secret santa assignment! Ikr? I couldn't believe it too. And I actually finished it hours before the deadline instead of minutes before.

I'm currently out of the country which makes it double amazing because lemme tell y'all writing, editing and formatting on my phone while on holiday is no joke. I had 3 close calls that shaved off years of my life like holy shit.

Hopefully my gift-ee would like my fic. I tried my best to fulfil their request, as unspecific and open-ended as it was. Idk if I hit the things they were expecting or looking for.

Here's to a great yuletide and a happy Hanukkah and other seasonal greetings that I've missed out. I hope that y'all will get good fortunes this festive season.

[herperlo-d]

Finals kinda feels like a guy came up from behind and stabbed you 50 times in the head and another 60 in the body when ur down drowning in a pool of your blood and shredded brains trying to regenerate because YOU GOT A PAPER TMR GODDAMNIT but you cant cus he just stabbed your spine and you cant feel you fingers and after he leaves ur holding a stick between your partially intact jaw desperately flipping your textbook and cramming whatever you can into your liquifying brains but you cant because by now half of them are outside of your cracked open skull and ur still trying anyways cus what other choice do you have

[herperlo-d]

A's dog is a demon dog. Hates everyone on sight and everyone is scared of it. It's never nice to anyone except for A... and apparently B too AU

[thewritershandbook]

[avelera]

Useful if this is how you think, though often I don’t see the outline until after the draft is written, because after awhile one just internalize this kind of stuff from all the media one ingests. Point is, use if helpful, ignore if not.

[sharpestrose]

Another suggestion for anyone interested: because one of my weaknesses as a writer is sustaining narrative momentum, I’ve recently started using this mystery novel breakdown as a template, even though mystery/detective isn’t the genre I write in. It’s really useful as a way to keep track of what the story needs at a given moment in terms of balance and character.

[herperlo-d]

Re-reading How To Be A Saviour Without Trying, and enjoying every minute of it!!! But I gotta ask, do you post your stories mostly on tumblr or AO3?

Thank you!!!! I'm glad you're enjoying yourself :D I post most of my stories on tumblr because a lot of them are really short and incomplete. Hahahahaha. I'd feel guilty posting another wip on ao3.

[herperlo-d]

As you guys can tell, I’ve given up transferring chapters 8 to 13 of HtbaSWT from ao3 to tumblr. Please check out these chapters on ao3 instead. I’ll be linking future chapters to ao3 on tumblr.

[herperlo-d]

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

Good news everyone! I finally updated as promised!!!!

[soggywarmpockets]

Tonight I may have had an encounter with the smoothest human being on earth.

As many of you know I work as an actor in a haunted house. This is a fun job for many reasons, but witnessing people’s reactions to being scared is by far the best. I’m a scare window actor, which means I hide behind a section of the wall that is held up by a latch that I can lift and drop away suddenly, scaring people with both my scream, and the loud sound my window makes upon being dropped. I have a small hole drilled in the wall to look through to see people passing.

The smoothest human being on the planet wore a white hoodie. He came in a group with three other friends. I did not expect to scare him much. After a while you can kind of gauge just by what you can glimpse from your peephole whether someone will be a good scare or not. Men in their 20’s in a mixed group of friends typically do not get scared easily. But this guy was wearing white in my blacklight-equipped hallway, so he had made himself an easy target and I had to take advantage.

I dropped my window precisely when he was in front of it.

He leapt back toward the wall on the other side of my narrow hallway and his drew back his arm like he meant to punch me.

“This is it.” I thought. “I’m finally going to be socked in the face for scaring someone.”

But I was wrong.

His arm kept curling back behind his head. Smoothly, flawlessly, effortlessly he tucked his hand behind his head, leaned back on the wall opposite me, and propped a foot up on the plywood frame of my open window, reclining with ease.

“So, come here often?” He asked.

All of this occurred within the span of a second. Maybe two.

I was shook. I was stunned. I almost broke character.

I shrugged. “Only on the weekends.” I replied with my character voice. His group laughed. He double finger gunned me and walked on.

I will never forget him.

I cannot stress enough how perfect his transition from his fear reaction to his playboy act was. It flowed so naturally.

He is already a legend in my haunt.

[yellingintothelegalvoid]

Most people have a fight-or-flight instinct. This man has a third option: flirt.

[soggywarmpockets]

Must have been a bard.

[cogitaeworks]

#ImagineYourOTP

We need the second part where the SmoothGuy comes back every weekend on his own to that same peephole when no one else is watching to get a scare from TheSpook but it ends up as a flirt game within the two every weekend.

And a third part fastforwarding to the future where SmoothGuy tells his children, “I met TheSpook in a haunted bouse. It was love at first fright.”