Worst Chosen One Who's Ever Been Chosen

I swear I'm gonna finish my fic || INTJ || any and all pronouns || on AO3 @Spockzilla || Honestly not sure if I'm using Tumblr right

[radiofreederry]

[whats-a-bear]

same energy

[fluffmugger]

[leninthesixth]

you gotta include this photo

[cumpriest]

ağlıycam

[lilli-sturmreiter]

[shitpostinguniverse]

[angstbotfic]

yes and

and 

[sic-semper-hominibus]

[rebel13lion39]

[pastrytown]

[artsyunderstudy]

I will finish this soon but for now, enjoy a WIP. 

[artsyunderstudy]

catch me dear I’m fallin my walls are coming down piece by piece take me now

[dingdongyouarewrong]

you can explain why it’s important for aspiring authors to read published books and not just fanfiction without condescending to fanfiction authors/readers and implying it’s inherently of lesser quality

[dingdongyouarewrong]

like a lot of fanfiction is genuinely good and well-written! there’s some amazing work there! there is absolutely fanfiction out there that’s the same quality as well-written published works. being like ‘well, it’s cute, but it’s not real writing’ is just dismissive and frankly completely untrue. 

but, at the same time, there are a lot of reasons it’s important to also read published works, and those reasons aren’t just ‘it’s better’. for one, a lot of writing original fiction involves introducing one’s own characters and setting to an audience who knows nothing about the characters or worldbuilding, which is generally not something you’re going to learn how to do by only reading stories where you already know the world and characters. that doesn’t mean the work isn’t good; it just means it doesn’t teach all of the skills you’ll need to know when writing

[roach-works]

im a lifelong fanfic writer, but one thing fanfic won’t teach you is how to end a story. or how to structure one, really. fanfic is itself a continuation of a story, it’s a transformative work, and… it’s kind of rare for long, chaptered fic to actually be complete. it’s awesome when it is! but you do kind of get used to reading fanfic as a big nebulous cloud of what-ifs, and furthermores, and so ons, and etc.

published fiction pretty much always has to have a start, middle, and ending. you can’t really learn formal anatomy from fanfiction. you can learn a lot of creative stuff that published fiction rarely has the freedom to engage in–aus and remixes, for instance–but fanfic really isn’t where you’re going to be able to study structure and discipline.

[tsukithewolf]

Thank god. Finally some good fanfic vs. published story dialogue.

[mixelation]

Fanfiction is also usually published as the author writes it, which means authors are limited in their ability to retroactively change story elements (removing plot holes or subplots that go nowhere, or adding foreshadowing for an important event they decided they wanted 1/3 into their story, etc). This means stories overall are generally less “polished” than professionally published work. 

On a similar note, fic writers can “get away with” a lot more fluff that doesn’t move the story forward– ie, dedicating an entire chapter to characters cuddling, or spending a very long time explaining the economics system of a secret wizard world. This is a strength of fic because it’s often what people want to read– but it’s also something that usually hinges on the reader already being deeply invested in the characters and the world, which is a luxury you’re not going to get from a lot of original fiction.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Fanfiction isn’t necessarily better or worse than original fic, but it is a fundamentally different art. An aspiring fiction author reading only fanfic is like an aspiring fiction author reading only poetry; it’s great to enrich your skills by reading widely, but if you don’t read *the kind of art you are trying to make*, you won’t know how to make it.

[roach-works]

writing is so hard i want to be praised for all my most clever lines right now

[roach-works]

everyone is like 'writing is so isolating' but i write three lines and immediately hit up all my friends for attention like im a cat who's never been fed

[ryanhatesthis]

Well, that’s enough internet for me today.

[anonymouse-the-asian-deactivate]

another into my fine collection of sacred texts

[jadesdumbstuff]

“it's so much better than that though. It's about the children realizing they didn't understand the parents as well as they thought and the parents realizing that they had passed down generational trauma and both parties ending the trauma together paving way for a happier family. Honestly it's probably a result of more people getting therapy and our society getting more open with talking about mental illness” -FB comment

[sockablock]

Knowing a fic author through AO3 is like attending someone’s thesis presentation and politely clapping at the end, knowing a fic author through this hellsite is like going over to their house at 3AM to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar

[writers-dilemma]

Knowing a fic author through both I like watching them eat that mayonnaise out of the jar and then attending their thesis presentation while making relentless, unbroken eye contact

[kidovna]

Favourite scene from Any Way The Wind Blows for Baz’s birthday!

And an extra page of Simon playing with Baz’s hair because this is apparently my new favourite thing:

[cynopoe]

“Those were my fifth-year fantasies: kisses and blood and Snow ridding the world of me.”

[leave-her-a-tome]

Microdosing on writing by opening a google doc

[politicalmamaduck]

Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.

Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.

Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.

Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.

Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.

Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.

Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.

Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.

Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.

Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.

It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.

[nyarnamaitar]

Or, in short: the narrator =/ the author.

[oblakom-deactivated20200302]

You know what else is a shame? This nowadays tendency of putting on the author the responsibility of teaching their readers morality.

Authors are allowed to write morally ambiguous characters.

Authors are allowed to write downright despicable characters - and guess what they are even allowed to make despicable characters charismatic and likeble and the protagonists of their stories if they wish - because absolute monsters exist only under the bed.

It is not up to the author to spoonfeed the readers about morality and Yes I know this character did a bad thing and I am going going to show it in the story and make other characters call them out of it and– Bullshit.

The authors should be able to write what they want without having thousands of people jumping and their throats claiming to know them, their ideas and their morality based on what they write.

It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.

[theanishimori]

It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.

[brightlotusmoon]

The tags speak the truth.

[starpeace]

i’m sorry but the idea that most people don’t know the force exists for sure is so fucking funny because it implies a vast majority of citizens who are like, 50:50 that the jedi are straight up faking this. like either it exists or the jedi are the funniest bitches known to man

[starpeace]

clone trooper: are we ready for battle, sir

jedi who has been setting up stage theatre wires across the battlefield for the last three hours so they can pretend to lift things with the force: the force works in mysterious ways that will take at least thirty more minutes, trooper

[starpeace]

jedi who doesn’t believe in the force who just assumed everybody else was also doing this

[ghostly-lee]