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Unfortunately due to the nature of ao3, a full site boycott would likely be ineffective. I won’t be donating money to them though.
Looking for fanfic recommendations that are Alcina Dimitrescu/Reader but the reader's kind of a loser. Kind of like a Roger and Jessica Rabbit scenario. I don't mind smut, but I prefer plot, fluff, and hurt/comfort. I don't usually post on Tumblr, so I hope this turned out alright! :D
(uses the “make your character say something while not actually saying it” writing advice i saw on here once)
(character interactions are now 200% more fun to write)
holy shit what
Pray tell, how does this advice work? For a friend
The way I’m familiar with it is:
Before:
“Bluh, I don’t wanna go to school” Sarah grumbled, “I’m too tired.”
And now, when neither Sarah nor the narration are allowed to directly say that she’s tired or doesn’t want to go to school:
Sarah glowered at her backpack, still yet to be zipped up. She stifled a yawn, and found her gaze drifting back to her comfy, cozy bed. “I could… skip a day,” she muttered, before shaking those thoughts from her head.
Reminder for folks who
1: are new too writing
2: struggle to remember all this stuff WHILE they’re writing, and/or
3: feel like their writing is lacking even when they know this stuff
THIS IS A TIP BEST SAVED FOR REVISION!! A lot of stuff like this is! When you’re writing a first draft, the only thing you should be worried about is getting the message on the paper. My “first draft” usually looks more like a rough outline and jumps around between eloquent prose, emojis, sincere dialogue, and sometimes things like “blinking white guy dot gif”. Because that gif has a very specific emotion, right? But it’s hard to put into words, it’s time consuming, and when I’m just trying to get my thought out before it slips away from me, I don’t want to stop and ponder how best to go about it.
In your first or second pass, it’s okay and normal to say “I don’t want to skip school. I’m tired.” As long as the improved/revised version makes it to the final product, you’re a-okay. 👍
PS: if you’re a fanfic author and you’re just creating for the fun of it, you can disregard this entirely if you want. I looked at this and thought “yeah but that’s a lot of work” and then remembered that I don’t have to do it when I’m not Writing Professionally. Is it objectively good advice? Yes. Do I HAVE to do it when I’m just posting things on the internet for free? Absolutely not.
Scrolled through ao3 today and found one of my own RE8 fics that will probably never be finished…oops…
Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.
Nor will my writing projects ✌️
If I ever write more, yeah, no gen ai. At. All.
Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction
which is more your style of fic writing
i just blacked out and 10k words were there
i write one word a day for three years
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Idk the ad was funny to me okay
"I write for my own enjoyment"
And
"I'm happy when people interact with my writing"
Are two sentences that can coexist!
speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.
the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.
you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.
YOU GET IT
That fic you wrote?
The one about the ship no one else cares about, or the deeply unpopular character, or the extremely unusual AU?
The fic that got no comments or kudos when you posted it?
Months or years from now, that fic might be exactly what someone is looking for in the sea of fics about all the popular characters, ships, and AUs.
Your fic might be the only fic out there that has what someone is looking for. The only fic that scratches the itch that it turns out you and that reader share.
And that's awesome.
How the Elder Wand Choses its Master
So, this is a short theory, but it is an interesting one and I kinda wanna make note of it anyways. And that is:
I don't think the Elder Wand allegiance works the way we're told.
I do think it is cool, in a story kind of way, if the Elder Wand has a slightly different mechanism for choosing it's master than your typical wand. (also yeah, the wand lore stuff in Book 7 is a mess, the movies try to explain it/make it clearer but kind of don't, and... the mechanics of wand lore is not especially what I want Harry and Voldemort talking about during their big confrontation.)
But I also like finding alternate ways of making it work, and here's mine. I do think it's interesting if the Elder wand goes to whoever is the most powerful person in a conflict, because "power" can be an interesting, nebulous thing, and that can get into, idk, themes and stuff. My very first HP meta was a kind of Grindeldore thing, where the wand's power shifted to Dumbledore because he was the one willing to imprison the man he loved for the rest of his life... and Grindelwald wasn't. I also think this is fun to examine when it comes to Dumbledore's extended, planned, suicide-by-Snape. If that had worked, then I think Dumbledore would have broken the power of the wand: if his murder was actually just an extension of his own power, he would have died uncontested, and I think that was the plan.
The transfer over to Draco is by far the messiest, I am not even a little surprised that there are a ton of theories about how he was never the master. I don't mind that: I think it's funny if both Dumbledore and Voldemort were blindsided by... underestimating Draco Malfoy. Also I think it's funny that Draco realizes he was the master of the most powerful wand... immediately after he isn't anymore.
Which gets into my own headcannony interpretation of the duel on the tower, which almost certainly isn't intended by the text, but which *is* fun to think about. See, I think it's kinda cool that Dumbledore dies in a three-way duel, just like the one that killed Ariana which he was never quite able to process. I do think Dumbledore puts Harry and Ariana in the same category - the innocent he has to protect but possibly sacrifice. And if that's the case... then Draco becomes Aberforth - just here to protect his family but completely out of his depth and kind of a liability, and Severus is Grindelwald - dark, brilliant, and one of the closest relationships Dumbledore has. I think there's a lot going on in his head at that moment, and it would be cool if it (unintentionally) bled into how the Elder Wand perceives the situation.
So when Draco disarms him (when Dumbledore lets Draco disarm him...) there's a lot going on with Dumbledore's angst about not being able to protect innocents, about Aberforth really never forgiving him, about if how Draco will just agree to be saved that will mean something. So maybe in a weird way Draco does have power over him, in that instant, in that moment.
And then Malfoy Manor is easy. Even though Harry physically took Draco's wands from him, and didn't magically disarm him - Draco is lost, conflicted, and seems to want Harry to win. (I mean Harry defeats Voldemort with Draco's "friendly" wand, and unicorn cores are loyal, I don't think he could have done that if Draco hadn't wanted him to win.) Harry is clearly more powerful. Same thing with his confrontation in the woods - Voldemort is scared, of Harry, of death, of all sorts of things while Harry is at peace, surrounded by his loved ones, not scared of Voldemort even slightly. So the wand perceives him as more powerful.
(and I have no idea what was going on with Grindelwald and Gregorovitch. Grindelwald/Dumbledore/Gregorovitch love triangle??? :D)
I think Dumbledore was foolish to assume that the Elder Wand's ownership would die with him. I think that none of them really understood the Elder Wand and how and why it shifted its allegiance. I personally think that the idea that it's undefeatable in duels is a fairy tale, just like the idea that you could escape Death if you stayed under the Cloak as we know Harry can be seen by multiple others and hit by spells while under the Cloak. First, here's the scene in Deathly Hallows with Ollivander
‘Was?’ repeated Harry. ‘Isn’t it still his?’ ‘Perhaps not. If you took it –’ ‘– I did –’ ‘– then it may be yours. Of course, the manner of taking matters. Much also depends upon the wand itself. In general, however, where a wand has been won, its allegiance will change.’ There was silence in the room, except for the distant rushing of the sea. ‘You talk about wands like they’ve got feelings,’ said Harry, ‘like they can think for themselves.’ ‘The wand chooses the wizard,’ said Ollivander. ‘That much has always been clear to those of us who have studied wandlore.’ ‘A person can still use a wand that hasn’t chosen them, though?’ asked Harry. ‘Oh yes, if you are any wizard at all you will be able to channel your magic through almost any instrument. The best results, however, must always come where there is the strongest affinity between wizard and wand. These connections are complex. An initial attraction, and then a mutual quest for experience, the wand learning from the wizard, the wizard from the wand.
Wands can have preferences, and they can make choices. In Dumbledore's death scene, the Elder Wand had three options 1) essentially die 2) Severus 3) Draco I don't think it chose to act against Dumbledore, but Dumbledore was never an option for its loyalty because Dumbledore didn't even try to fight. He had given up, which meant he had lost before the fight began. The Elder Wand didn't want to 'die', so it had to choose between Severus or Draco to stay alive, so to speak.
It didn't choose Severus in that moment because Severus was not remotely in power in that moment. He was acting against his own will on Dumbledore's behalf. Draco was also acting on Voldemort's behalf, but his disarming of Dumbledore was done of his own choice and will, so of the two, Draco was the most powerful in that moment, because he actually had the intent to disarm Dumbledore, and we know intent matters a lot in magic and, I think to wands as well.
I imagine that the Elder Wand prefers to be won in a duel, so even though it went to Draco, it was never loyal to Draco and instead looked for an opportunity to move to a more powerful wizard, which is why it shifted to Harry as soon as Harry came along as an option. If Draco had done the reverse to Harry shortly after, I don't think it would've shifted back to Draco as Draco's will and intent were weak in that moment, while Harry's were very strong.
Likewise, in the conflict with Voldemort, Harry wanted and intended to die by Voldemort's hand, so he had the power in that scenario. Voldemort was acting on Harry's behalf (although unknowingly), just as Severus had acted on Dumbledore's behalf. If a third party had been involved, the wand might've shifted away as it did to Draco, just to be certain that it didn't die with Harry, just as it didn't want to die with Dumbledore, but it didn't have that opportunity. I do think that if Harry had stayed dead, the wand would've shifted to Voldemort rather than die with Harry, but it wouldn't have been loyal to him, the same as it wasn't loyal to Draco.
This is also a really fun way to think about it. It's very the Ring of Power being all - sure I WANT gandalf or galadriel but I'll TAKE bilbo or gollum, if there are no other options.
For all we know, the idea that it goes to the most powerful wizard is made up and perhaps the Elder Wand doesn't care about power at all! Perhaps it just chooses wizards on ✨ vibes ✨
For the last goddamn time...
"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."
That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.
It does NOT mean
That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing
That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)
That you need to kill off characters (??? what)
That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones
That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to
The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.
The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.
Good grief....
Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.
yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth
Jinx’s psychosis comes through in these quick film scratched doodles. Whenever a flash of her unstable personality leaks out Arcane presents them as if Jinx herself took the film stock out of the projector and madly scratched these doodles into each frame before haphazardly stuffing the film reel back into the projector.
You could look at the entirety of Arcane as if it was a show that was filmed and edited by someone trying to tell a story, but then Jinx (as her own character) has found the film reels of the show and is actively interacting with it to tell her OWN side of the story. These scratches and doodles are essentially Jinx’s commentary track.
But what’s interesting to me is HOW her doodles often represents WHERE in her arc she is.
For example. Early on these doodles are deliberately being used to BLOCK out scary or unnerving imagery. The soldiers on the bridge, the bad memory of her sister yelling at her. Jinx chooses to draw OVER these moments. Literally trying to scratch them out from her memory. Because she’s a child here and Jinx’s personality has always been about protecting her child self, it makes sense that even as a commentator she is choosing to block out these moments to protect her child side.
But as the story goes along, her doodles take on a more narrative function. She starts doodling characters talking to her from the sides. She’s not blocking out the memories, she’s actively using the doodles to help give form to the formless voices in her head. She’s saying “see? I’m not crazy, Mylo was telling me shit! Look, there he is behind me!”
Near the end of Season 1 this narrative storytelling choice Jinx is doing starts to become even MORE clear. Now these doodles aren’t just to represent the voices in her head, they are used to re-contextualize her own memories. So as she thinks she sees Caitlyn laughing at her, she literally draws devil horns on her head, reframing this moment of Caitlyn’s fear as mockery.
And of course when Vi triggers Jinx in the climax of the season, her scratches become MUCH more visual and representational. These doodles don’t look like the usual film scratches we’ve seen up till now. If I were looking at this from a filming perspective this would be more like they were literally projected into the set Jinx is acting in. They’re multi colored. They look more pencil like than film scratched. They’re not as bloom heavy as previous scratches, and the film doesn’t jostle about as much indicating Jinx isn’t drawing these directly on the film stock like previously shown. I would say these look more like she’s literally surrounded by her doodles in-camera.
And this continues into season 2. She’s still surrounded by her demons, and it’s filmed the same way as in season 1. The only major difference is that now her doodles are interacting with each other. She draws Isha running around shooting away the bad doodles and trying to protect her. Once again this is Jinx telling her story through these doodles.
When Jinx loses Isha and is contemplating suicide, jinx’s doodles are ALL that remain. The screen turns black and nothing but Jinx’s doodles comes through. This is almost like the memory of her is so overwhelming that she literally blacked it out, and the only way to reinsert this moment into the show is for Jinx to draw it frame by frame. Up until now the doodles have always been drawn on top of the frame. And while Jinx is often in the shots and can appear small and overwhelmed by the doodles, she’s never just outright been blocked out by them. I think that’s what this moment represents. She is so lost that she can only recall this moment after the fact and redraw it. It’s not perfect, it may not have even happened this way, but it’s the only way she can piece together what happened between shots.
And finally… when Jinx enters the final battle, something different happens. Up until now Jinx’s doodles have been used to block out memories, draw the voices in her head, reframe moments from her perspective, etc. They’ve been abstracted and rough and off to the side or drawn haphazardly over the stuff she’s blocking out. She never draws it on herself. So what happens here?
She draws an accurate representation of what she looks like in that moment on top of herself.
This is Jinx FINALLY coming to terms with who she is. She’s showing us that in this moment THIS is who Jinx is. It’s not abstractly represented. She’s not blocking anything out. She’s not reframing the moment. Shes not recreating frames that were missing. She’s just drawing what is represented in the shot and who she is now.
If these doodles are Jinx adding commentary after the fact then this flash is her putting a punctuation on the end of her arc. Up until now these doodles could be seen as her showing HOW she became Jinx, but this final moment is her saying this version of her is the TRUE Jinx.
And of course, there’s the “THE END” shot. That is Jinx literally signing out her story. If you ever needed proof that Jinx is alive, the fact that Jinx doodles all over the show is proof of that. Arcane is Jinx watching back the story of her life and adding her own notes and commentary to the film reel itself and that is what WE, the audience, are watching.