Mad J-J

So much to write, and so little time. I reblog everything that is not related to writing on @justablogwithoutaname.

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[ao3commentoftheday]

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[noah-wyles]

she's the best of us

[star-shard]

Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

Both are beautiful forms of writing.

[mad-j-j]

My partner was super excited to show the Wolf Among Us 2 trailer yesterday because he knows I loved the first one

And I told him: "My love. I am flacid. If I had a dick I would still be flacid. This is the 345st trailer or sequel reveal we get. I have no hype"

I'll get hyped when it gets out

maybe

[pnkmateria]

come get your stars everyone

[ID: golden star edited to say "i survived the March 2026 tumblr reblog update" /end ID]

(thanks @solstice-st4rs for the better alt text)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

What happened now

[mad-j-j]

Man, I missed it

[moethh]

die die die

[lycosofscribes]

It's a pain in the ass, but it's my pain in the ass!

[prokopetz]

was fucking a dragon present in that era? or is that a relatively modern thing?

(With reference to this post here.)

You did see individual dragons taking human lovers in early D&D, though offspring were rarely discussed, and tended to be normal examples of the non-draconic parent's race when they did show up; human/dragon hybrids in that era are more typically presented as tragic creations of evil magic. (See: the whole anti-miscegenation thing discussed in the previous thread.) The actual popularisation of the dragon-fucking thing is a funny story, and came about for two reasons.

First, 3rd Edition introduced the sorcerer as a core class. Their core-book writeup offers draconic ancestry as a possible explanation for sorcerous blood-magic, and though it's explicitly framed as an unverifiable rumour (modular sorcerous bloodlines were a later development), most players took it at face value; thus, "guy whose grandma fucked a dragon" was now a core option as far as the game's player base was concerned.

Second, on the other side of the GM screen, one of 3E's mechanical innovations was the introduction of a rigorous templating system that allowed stacking modifiers onto any basic monster stat block to produce a wide range of variants. Most published examples demonstrating how to use the new system used the half-dragon template – probably simply because it was a straightforward template with few restrictions on what it could be applied to, which was handy for example-making. However, that it came up in examples so often drew attention to the fact that it could be applied to a lot of things, including many things one wouldn't necessarily think of as being conventionally fuckable, which had certain unavoidable (and possibly unintended) implications for the game's lore.

(Later editions would de-emphasise the templating mechanics in favour of publishing long lists of pre-baked variants for each monster type, but the oddball half-dragons stuck around as a sort of legacy feature.)

Between a whole core class which the player base had decided were a bunch of filthy dragon-fuckers and the promiscuous presence of the half-dragon template in worked examples of how to use the new templating system, 3E ushered in the era of memes about dragons being willing to fuck literally anything, and it's simply never left.

[mad-j-j]

disappointed this post is not, as I first thought, discussing the real-life historical examples of dragon fuckers in medieval times, but satisfied I learned about DnD history nonetheless

[mad-j-j]

It's like I just made it through a rite of passage, I got my first ever comments from AI bot scammers on two of my works on AO3! In the span of 72 hours, too - oh boy, can't wait for more of them to try and get me!

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[paprikatupp]

The face of a man about to see Hell

[artofthrones]

The Cloak of His Protection by ~CalamityBean

[luxwing]

Video game: (has main character that travels the world alone)

My fuck brain five minutes in: but what if they had a friend

[luxwing]

[absurdlyinaccurate]

me, the motherfucker with over 50 abandoned works in progress: i have an idea

[rosedenali]

good night to people who write extremely rare-pair fanfiction, enthusiasts of the college au, people who hate canon with a passion, people old enough to have been squicked, gen z wattpad users, forgotten OCs from 13 years ago, the kudos button on ao3, people who write one-shots exclusively, the first kisses that happen on chapter 42 at the Earliest, enemies to friends to enemies again to lovers, and lastly… people who comment on fanfiction regardless of when it was posted

[marchantia]

[corvid-language-library]

The sooner you start, the sooner you'll be done with it and the sooner you can stop thinking about it. Go on, up you get, it won't be as bad as you think.

[corvid-language-library]

You won't want to do it later either. You might as well just do it now. Even if you don't finish it all, anything you manage to get done now is something you don't have to do later (when you still won't want to do it)

[dionysiaproductions]