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Doin a pinned post cuz all the cool kids do it.

This is an 18+ blog.

Fiction is a space to write and extrapolate upon society and humanity. Sometimes this is not pretty. I do not condone unhealthy relationships or actions. Fiction is purely fiction.

#mir writes #about mir

16 and 20 for the ask game?

I apparently don't get notifications for my asks, so I missed this 😭 I'm so sorry.

16. Do you make playlists for your fics?

I do sometimes! Especially for original content, but I also have a playlist for my biblically accurate angel Hualian fic.

-Here is a creepy playlist for a different story called The Demon Farm. (I never got around to finishing that story. I think it was originally a Dragon Age AU.)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4s0KDNiPKlrYyzHzhWiP93?si=3O7wSG_-TPCoUgYBdYqWyQ&pi=SlwPGQPSSAG4L

20. Do you listen to music when you write?

Sometimes! More often I'll listen to music while I brainstorm. But when I wrote a stripper fic, I had four songs on loop.

#writing asks #kir asks

"I'm curious about 2, 6, and 18"

Answering this from someone in discord!

2. When and where do your best ideas seem to strike?

Sometimes my best ideas hit me out of nowhere while at work. Sometimes driving. Many appear right before I shower for some reason. I have a shower ritual where I warm up the room and put on a green dim light and set towels down for my dog, and for some reason it just makes me creative. I keep my phone in there to brainstorm in notes.

6. What's your usual writing environment?

At my desk or in bed. A lot depends on my pain levels for that day. Sometimes phone writing feels better, sometimes keyboard does. And voice to text tends to be easier on my phone. Pretty much always in my bedroom. Sometimes I'll pace the house and act out the scene/dialogue or talk about my brainstorming points. (Yes, this is very embarrassing when caught.)

18. What's a trope you want to write but haven't written yet?

This is tough for me to answer. In general, I've wanted to write darker horror, but I'm just not well practiced yet. As far as a specific trope, I'd love to someday write something where the protagonist has a dark secret you'd never guest until it's revealed towards the end. My usual style is more character driven, so these sort of plot driven tropes are a bit more difficult for me.

#kir asks

Asks Open!

#writing asks

ningmengyaohua

"By the Lunar God..."

paperplateprose

not now kitten. daddy's realizing that the scene he invested 1000 words into could be significantly improved but only if he started over from scratch

slop4u

I hit 1k followers in twitter and did 1k requests and Sam Wayne was one of them, do enjoy!

Some Tomodachi Life Demo Cirrus Moments

Firstly, he naps by this fountain most of the day. I can't get him to stop.

(it took me a bit to figure out the face paint. And my hand hurt, so I just used random stamps)

Cirrus as the ✨News✨Anchor✨

(Pei Ming and Kay are the only other residents atm, and you can imagine that Cirrus is not having a great time.)

Kay and Cirrus meet for the first time. They discuss BDSM.

There's also a hilarious moment where Kay is thinking about Pei Ming's face, and Cirrus comes up behind Kay, scares them, and Kay's face falls off. Cirrus, in terror, runs back to his home.

(Man was not made for running.)

And now he is following Kay around for some reason

✨ Anyway, this has been a Cirrus update! Stay tuned for Pei Ming updates and other news. ✨

#cirrus obscura #tomodachi life #I'll post Pei Ming later cuz I was crying laughter tears

winn-schott-throughtheheart

man i wish my ocs (that i don't post about) had a fandom. alas

ahyperactivehero

Fanfic Author Asks!

(I love these things so much, I thought I would do my own lol)

How many WIPS do you currently have?

Do you prefer oneshots or longfics?

What was the last thing you looked up for a fic?

Do you save your 'cut scenes' from your fics? (Want to share one?)

Where do you get your title inspiration from?

Do you listen to anything while you write? Or do you prefer silence?

What fic are you the proudest of?

Has anyone ever drawn fanart for one of your fics before?

What time do you prefer to write? (Day, night, etc.?)

How much do you write before you post?

Do you outline your fics before writing them?

Have you ever made a moodboard for a fic? (Do you want to share it?)

Have you ever made a playlist for a fic? (Share?)

What is something you really like about your work(s)?

Do you look at comments right away? Or save them for later?

How do you write your fics? (Handwritten, google docs, word, etc)

Do you regularly discuss your fics, or do you keep most of the info to yourself before you start posting?

How do you decide what POV to write in?

Do you work on multiple fics at once or only one at a time?

What made you start writing?

What is something that no one has caught about one of your fics?

What is one of your favorite tropes to write?

Do you post your fics on a schedule?

Do you have any writing goals? (Word counts, chapters, finishing fics, trying something new?)

Is there a scene you are dreading writing? (Want to share what it is?)

What is your favorite part about writing?

What is a question that you never get asked about your fics that you really want to answer?

Do you prefer canon compliant fics or AUs?

What fic are you the least proud of?

Is there something you would go back and change about a fic if you could?

How do you stay motivated?

Out of all your fics, what is your favorite title?

What is your favorite line from *insert fic name here*?

Have you ever done a collaboration? Would you?

Favorite review you've gotten?

Are/were you surprised by your top fic? (hits, kudos, comments, anything)

Favorite genre?

Fic idea you're most excited to get to?

Do you have a preferred writing snack/drink?

Happy Endings or Sad Endings?

Bonus: Readers, tell your fave authors something you liked about their fics/works!

d-adpool

not putting my whole pussy into it today lads. you're getting my left labia at best

tearlessrain

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

tenowls

The Reverend of Empty Words of the past was already extremely horrifying. The person looking at him now had swallowed the Reverend of Empty Words. He was ten times, a hundred times more terrifying than the nightmare of his younger years.

drawing black water arc frame by frame myself bc the donghua may never get up to it (aka MY EXPRESSION PRACTICE THAT SPIRALLED OUT OF CONTROL)

datrava

Best seat in the house

thunderpot

I've been working on a long (50p+) moshang doujin for a while now, and today I finally managed to wrap it up and post it for my patrons. So as celebration, I'm finally taking out of the vault this one! It's the art that sprouted the idea for the comic and kept me going strong at it until now!

reengeart

Oh my, it's this time of year again! Happy Lantern Rite in Genshin Impct! Here is my favourite character from Liyue - one and only lord Rex Lapis!

Thank you so much @rabbitparachute for my Secret Santa gift of Brin!!

Brin is my BG3 Durge <3 Click here for his bio.

#bg3 durge #bg3

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