Kat’s Writing

Hi, I’m Kat! This is my sideblog for my writing. I mostly write Marvel and humans-are-weird stories but will write whatever inspires me. My stuff is tagged #katsens-writing. Please do not repost to other sites without permission. ||Masterlist|| Buy Me a Coffee? :)

[blaidd-gwyn]

I know leaving a comment on a fic can be intimidating, like there's this pressure that it has to be well written or meaningful or whatever. But I literally just got a comment that was just ":O" and it's made my day

[katsens-writing]

Seriously even a keyboard smash or a string of emojis is nice! A comment means so much more than just a like (but don’t get me wrong those are appreciated too!) and a REBLOG?? Forget about it.

[hischiercore]

let’s talk, shall we?

it’s no secret that tumblr writers have been leaving or deactivating their blogs, especially in the last year or two. and i think the reason why is even less of a secret.

the fact that writers have to practically beg for feedback and interaction on a site where they post their works for FREE is ridiculous. the fact that most of the people who are reading and consuming these works don’t even spare 10 seconds to add a nice tag to their reblog (if they even bother to do that) is borderline enraging. this is tumblr, not instagram or twitter. likes on tumblr do nothing for the writer. i don’t care if you think that it helps them appear in the tags, or if you think that seeing yet another “___ liked your post” is encouraging to them, because it doesn’t and its not.

and speaking of likes, why is the ratio of likes to reblogs so fucking huge? and before you think i’m being dramatic, lets take a look at some of the notes from my own works.

at the time of me writing this, my one-shot, dream lover, has 821 notes. that’s pretty good right? but let’s see how many are empty likes and how many are reblogs.

769 likes.

52 reblogs.

out of those 52 reblogs, 35 of them are empty. no tag, no comment.

one of my reactions currently has 2,038 notes. you may be thinking that’s a lot, which it is and i’m incredibly thankful for how many notes i’ve gotten on it. but how many are likes and how many are reblogs?

1,924 likes.

113 reblogs.

out of those 113 reblogs, 81 of them are empty.

one of my headcanons currently has 1,110 notes.

1,069 likes.

41 reblogs.

28 of those 41 reblog are empty.

why is it so hard to reblog things and give feedback?

“oh but it won’t fit my blog theme!” if you’re so fucking concerned about what your precious tumblr blog looks like, then send an ask. they’re just as appreciated.

“i don’t know what to say tho!” we’re not asking you to be shakespeare. if you’re really that no thoughts head empty just put a keyboard smash, if nothing else.

“but i’m shy and embarrassed!” the anonymous option is there for a reason, and most writers have it turned on. being shy when you have the option of keeping your identity a secret is no excuse.

and yes, i’m aware that some writers don’t have the anon option on, which brings me to my final point.

stop. demanding.

if a writer has requests open, be a decent human being and use your manners. going into their inbox and saying “____’s reaction of this.” is no way to request something. saying please, thank you, or even “hey, could you do a reaction of _____?” is a thousand times better than just telling them what you want them to write.

writers spend hours of their time and energy to write things for you to read, and leaving an empty like is meaningless to them.

if your liked a writer’s works, reblog them and maybe add some nice fucking tags while you’re at or send an ask to them about it. because sooner or later, after so many likes and barely any interaction, more and more writers are going to leave.

stop making them desperate for any spare crumb of interaction and start leaving feedback if you love these writers so much.

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[katsens-writing]

Isolation

A/N: I’m back! Well sort of anyway. I have like three different wips and a million ideas for other stories that I’ve had for awhile but I did this instead. I’ve been meaning to do this for awhile though because I had a anonymous request for it forever ago so here ya go anon! (Sorry it took so long anon, I hope you still lurk somewhere in the vicinity of my blog so you can see this!) Check out my masterlist here! If you want to be added to any of my taglists let me know!

Anon’s Request: Ensign! Admiral Stabby wants to know how extraterrestrials might view social distancing when the Handbooks all say that Humans require contact with other beings to maintain peak efficiency.

Content: Mentions of disease, isolation. (Basically what’s happening now but in a sci-fi setting.) Please let me know if I need to add anything!

Word Count: About 1k

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     En’thaar lowered the chart and clipboard grasped tightly in his pinchers and looked up at the airlock of the ship docked before him, bracing himself for whatever he may find behind the door. In spite of Human-Anastasia’s reassurance, he was on edge, for he had no idea what to expect. The ship they were about to board had just returned from the outer rings of Kolstaj. When the ship’s last exploratory mission returned, a few of the mission members exhibited symptoms of Spirlux. It was a disease common enough to many species, with treatments and preventative measures available to nearly all of them. All, except, humans.

Keep reading

[katsens-writing]

What are "words"?

Words are what we use to convey our thoughts and ideas, what we use to communicate, however we are not limited to just words for these.

[katsens-writing]

I challenge you to a 10 minute writing challenge based on "Flumpf"

Is that like a hurt/comfort thing? Well my shift is about to start. I’ll see what I can do tonight once I’ve got my start of shift stuff out of the way. 😂

[katsens-writing]

How would you describe "describing"?

Describing is when you use words to inspire an image of something in another person’s mind. If you do it with enough detail and in just the right way, they will picture what it is that you are trying to get them to think of.

[writingwife-83]

I’m know I’m not the first person to say this, but any newbies on tumblr really need to understand how different this is from a lot of other social media. Particularly tiktok.

I just saw a creator on tiktok reminding followers that it’s actually a problem when someone goes back to the earliest post and watches all the posts chronologically, liking and commenting along the way. The stupid app recognizes it as spam or something and then kinda puts a halt on their account? Literally punishing people for positive engagement?? 🥴🤦‍♀️

I’ve already heard people saying years back how they don’t want to be “creepy” and go through a persons blog, liking and reblogging tons of stuff. But think how many more people are going to be worried about it now, thinking they might do actual damage! Most people, especially younger people, are so used to the way tiktok works now. So please, do not ever worry about this on here. Just remember-

You will never do any harm if you go on a like and reblog fest through someone’s tumblr blog! The only risk you’re taking is to make the blog owner weep for joy!! 😭🤣

[actualaster]

This website literally passes around posts that are so old, the newest comments are celebrating things like “Happy 10th anniversary to this post!” sometimes.

The worst that usually happens is a creator going “wait, what, HOW did you find that 7 year old post that had no tags buried in the depths of my blog?”, very few people actually get mad about it (and from what I’ve seen, the people who do are all entirely immigrants from socmed sites like TT where they have entirely different cultures about it.)

Tumblr itself is based around longevity in many ways.  So, just have at it.  Have fun.  If you like that post 12,000 pages deep on my blog, GO FOR IT.  That’s what this website is all about

[blue-kyber]

You want rabbit holes? We got rabbit holes! We got blogs and blogs of them!!

[the-haiku-bot]

You want rabbit holes?

We got rabbit holes! We got

blogs and blogs of them!!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[katsen13]

Sting-Op Mixup

I wrote this as a response to a writing prompt and reblogged it a few days ago. The story took way longer than expected because it just kept growing and life got in the way as it does, so the reblog came three weeks after the original post. On top of that, for whatever reason my ‘read more’ link didn’t work so it pretty much died after that because its a bit on the long side for a short story. To be honest though, I worked too hard on it though to let that happen. I really got invested in this one to a degree that I haven’t with my other stories so far, so this is my attempt to revive it. If you want to see the original reblog and the prompt itself click here. Again, it is a bit long so you have been warned! Feedback is welcome. Hope you like it! :D

Thanks to @writing-prompt-s for the inspiration!

*If you like this and want to take a look at my other stories, click here.*

You stare dumbfounded at the group of people gathered in the dingy warehouse in front of you, as the door slams shut behind you.

Hey…! You thought. Thats my jacket!

Standing in the middle of the group was a worn, denim, military-green jacket with long sleeves faded a bit at the elbows and pockets on the sides as well as one on the wearer’s left side of the zipper. You would know that jacket anywhere. It had been your favorite one before you donated it last week to the old clothing collection for the undercover units.

Keep reading

[katsens-writing]

I just realized I never shared this here! I can’t believe it. It’s an old story I wrote awhile ago for a writing prompt. I actually had a sequel in the works for a bit plus an outline for a whole series of sorts but it just never caught on. So enjoy something technically new from yours truly! 😂

[katsens-writing]

Kat’s New Masterlist

Hiya! For those of you who followed me from my main blog, @katsen13, and to those new to my randomness, welcome! I finally felt that I had enough written to create the new masterlist I spoke of when I created this blog. This will include everything I’ve written since starting this blog, including the rewrites of stuff on my main. If you want to see the original versions, don’t worry, I’ve included a link to the original masterlist below. I will update this and reblog it as I write more. My newest pieces will be indicated. Enjoy! Feedback is always welcome and my inbox/messages are always open! If you are ever inspired by my work, feel free to use it, just be sure to tag me so I can see it and share it! :D

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Update: Hey guys! Just want to let you know most of my stories are tagged with the title and ‘by Kat’ at the end of it because I am not that great when it comes to coming up with original titles. Also, I am opening some taglists for anyone who is interested. I’m going to have one for my Marvel writing, one for my humans and aliens stuff and one for just my writing in general. If you would like to be added to any of those, let me know! I might add one for Good Omens later…

Kat’s Masterlist

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Avengers:

Loki’s Laugh (Headcanon inspired short story)

Some Pet (Headcanon inspired short story)

Second Chance (Masterlist)

Our Kids

Super Flu

Meeting the Team

Meeting the Agent

Meeting the Sergeant

Bumpy Night (Masterlist)

Exchanged Love, Part 1

Exchanged Love, Part 2 

See You Again -New!

Life Goes On -New!

Holiday Headache

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Good Omens:

Good Omens Drabble -New!

Play It Again -New!

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Humans and Aliens:

Popping Knuckles

Seasons

Languages

Amusement

Heightened Senses

Brain Wiring -New!

Isolation -New!

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Writing Prompt Stories:

Hostile Takeover

Vampire Vengence

(Unnamed Prompt) -New!

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Randomness:

James’ Wish (The Princess and the Frog headcanon)

The Girl and the Hawk

[definite-human]

Contrary to popular belief, abandoned WIPs are crucial to the writer ecosystem, as they become the fertile soil from which completed works grow. Without them, the landscape would be sterile and barren

[krytella]

Commenting positively on fic like

Unfamiliar author: wow I loved this!

Author you’ve interacted with before: you killed me, I’m dead

Author who’s your friend: I hate you

[p1013]

Replying to comments on your fic like

unfamiliar commenter: Thank you so much! I’m so glad you liked it!

commenter you’ve seen before: Let me grab my shovel and help you into your grave.

commenter who’s your friend: HAHA BITCH I WARNED YOU

[l1atena1]

Don't you sometimes get an absolutely extrodinary, mind blowing, such an awesome idea for a story, but you just don't have enough skill level to pull it off?

[dark-magical-ships]

Write it anyway.

Write it anyway, write it anyway, write it anyway.

There are so, so, so many reasons:

You gain that skill level only through practice. So practice.

No matter what you’re writing, no matter how badly you think you’ve written it, there is ALWAYS some audience that will love it and cherish it.

You can use what you write the first time around as a first draft and just rewrite it again later when you feel like tackling the story again!

Rewriting the same story over and over is a valid writing process. It’s literally just creating new drafts. Each iteration will be better than the last, because each is building on your growing skill and experience.

If you love the story, it will always be worth telling simply for your own enjoyment. If no one else ever sees it, that’s okay! Your art should be for you first, anyway.

Write it anyway.

[pragnificent]

Reblog if you are a fic writer who welcomes moodboards, playlists, remixes, art and any other type of gift based on your stories.

[doctorslippery]

(via (4) know your long pokey sticks : coolguides)

[katsen13]

A diagram of long, pokey, pointy, hurty things. Something every writer should have on their blog for reference.

[lyralit]

show, don't tell:

anticipation - bouncing legs - darting eyes - breathing deeply - useless / mindless tasks - eyes on the clock - checking and re-checking

frustration - grumbling - heavy footsteps - hot flush - narrowed eyes - pointing fingers - pacing / stomping

sadness - eyes filling up with tears - blinking quickly - hiccuped breaths - face turned away - red / burning cheeks - short sentences with gulps

happiness - smiling / cheeks hurting - animated - chest hurts from laughing - rapid movements - eye contact - quick speaking

boredom - complaining - sighing - grumbling - pacing - leg bouncing - picking at nails

fear - quick heartbeat - shaking / clammy hands - pinching self - tuck away - closing eyes - clenched hands

disappointment - no eye contact - hard swallow - clenched hands - tears, occasionally - mhm-hmm

tiredness - spacing out - eyes closing - nodding head absently - long sighs - no eye contact - grim smile

confidence - prolonged eye contact - appreciates instead of apologizing - active listening - shoulders back - micro reactions

[katsen13]

Fake Fic Title

Substantiative

Ok I misunderstood it as substantive instead of substantiative so this is what you get. Fair warning, I did not proofread it, I literally wrote this in like 5-10 minutes. You have been warned.

Substantive

“Substantive? What is that? Is that like, like ineffable or something?” Crowley scrunched his face as he lifted his wine glass.

“No, no dear boy!” Aziraphale replied. “Ineffable is far beyond substantive. Ineffable means something beyond comprehension. Substantive means…”

“Oh,sod off, Aziraphale, you and your big words. Why can’t you ever just say something plain and simple?”

“Well I’m trying to, if you would just let me!” The angel huffed.

“Go on then, let’s have it. Just because we have the rest of eternity doesn’t mean I don’t have plans,” the demon replied, getting snappy.

“What I’m trying to say is… well before we met Adam and his friends… before humanity really even began I guess…”

“Oh, for Satan’s sake Aziraphale, just spit it out!” Crowley exploded in exasperation.

“What I’m trying to say, Crowley, is that I find your company-I find you- to be substantive.”

Crowley blinked at the angel. “I did what now?”

Aziraphale sighed. “I’m saying you’re enough, dear boy. You are enough for me, just as you are.”

[katsens-writing]

*runs in out of no where, drops this then vanishes back into oblivion.*