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[marshonthemellow]

okay i remember December 25 2016 i got a brand new laptop. and the day after i got my laptop i stumbled to your fan fiction with bill the siren and dipper the pirate, and i spent so much time obsessing over that storey! the other day i thought back to it and i was wondering, have you added anything new?? are you going to Finnish it?? also i wanna re read it but i just cant find it for some reason. but it was one of my fave things i have read :))

I’m not sure why you wouldn’t be able to find Off the Deep End on ao3… Here’s the URL??? https://archiveofourown.org/works/3706983

Unfortunately, I’m not planning on finishing the fic :/ However, what I did do is post a summary of what I had planned for the rest of the fic here on tumblr! (I’ll get around to posting the same thing on ao3 eventually *sweats*) Here’s the link for that too! : https://marshonthemellow.tumblr.com/post/158523678430/hi-so-i-read-your-billdip-pirate-fic-and-its 

Hope that helps!!!

[marshonthemellow-primary]

hi so i read your billdip pirate fic and its really good but idk if youre going to continue it so could you please let me know? sorry if im being pushy but im kinda in fanfic limbo here rn lol

oh my god yes hi I didn’t expect anyone to ever find my tumblr again let alone message me

ye I’m probably not going to update the fic anytime soon??? I’m really really REALLY sorry about that… Fandom’s kinda dead and I’m actually working on an original novel now? (and also university #ripme) I’m super glad you like what I’ve managed to write though!!! 

If it’s any consolation, the ending I had planned involved Dipper and Bill somehow getting together (because I never managed to figure out how lmao) and cute fluff happened. Exhausted Dipper saying “fuck it” and straight up falling asleep in the pond with Bill, soaked to the bone, while Bill sings about his One True Love under the stars and moonlight because I am a DISGUSTING ROMANTIC SAP and everything.

But ANYWAYS, the plot was that Dipper would have to leave Bill in the pond for a few days while the Pines went out to explore the rest of the island but then LO AND BEHOLD Gideon has of course followed the Mystery Shack pirates to the island and finds Bill. He captures him and brings him back to his ship where he dumps him in a fairly sized aquarium in the Captain’s quarters? 

Then Bill overexerts himself by reaching out to Dipper via dreams. Dipper and the rest of his crew follow what directions Bill managed to tell them and stage an ambush attack to rescue Bill. It was going to be fairly EPIC with the mutineer half of the Mystery Shack crew having joined Gideon and wanting revenge and then Dipper dodging his way to the other side of the battlefield and breaking into the Captain’s quarters where he finds Bill in the aquarium (and maaaaaybe there was going to be a cheesy touching-palms-through-the-glass moment, we will never know). Then Gideon (of course, the little shit) interrupts, and actually I’ve never decided whether I really wanted him dead or not, and whether it would Dipper or Mabel that would kill him if I did. But anyways, Dipper gets Bill out and kinda like… just dumps him overboard?? very anti-climactic I weep.

Bill manages to sing the enemy pirates from the beach and into the ocean Gideon’s ship was anchored in. Whether they just kinda fall asleep or get eaten by the rest of the sirens is honestly just up to your own taste really.

Then I have absolutely no idea what happens. All I know is that first there’s The Angst because Dipper has to leave the island someday but Bill isn’t about to spend the rest of his life in an aquarium on the Mystery Shack just to stay with Dipper (once was quite enough thank you), so Dipper prepares to leave the island and Bill behind despite both their broken hearts. But when Dipper and the rest of the crew row back to the Mystery Shack, the other sirens ambush them again but only so that they can give The Shovel Talk™ to Dipper on Bill’s behalf. And then Dipper more or less runs back to Bill (and that just sounds so cheesy when said like that but I assure you it’s a Very Emotional Scene *snort*) and “convinces” him (it doesn’t take a lot of arguing, let’s be honest here) to leave with him on many many pirate adventures (and instead of being kept trapped in an aquarium, Bill would just swim alongside the ship until they’d get to a small deserted island Bill could live in while Dipper goes off and does his thing. Sometime during the story Bill would’ve gotten a magical item allowing him to use his dream powers to communicate with Dipper even from really really far away???? maybe idk).

There was a rough idea of a sequel maybe happening (obviously not going to be anymore) with a fairly important Mabifica storyline (as in, a good 50-50 split between billdip and mabifica). Pacifica would’ve basically been Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean 1 except with more Honest And Good Communication and Talking About Feelings with Mabel. The billdip storyline would’ve started with Dipper loosing dream-contact with Bill for (to his knowledge) no reason at all so of course he panics and gets the crew to divert course to Bill’s island ASAP only to discover that the idiot made a deal with some other supernatural creature (I don’t remember who it was but it was basically the Gravity Falls version of Ursula from The Little Mermaid) to get legs in exchange for his dream powers (instead of his voice I guess). Then it’s basically just Dipper trying to teach Bill how to be a Proper Human™ and Bill not having it. 

OH AND ALSO I just now remembered Bill had some Tragic Backstory™ to be revealed. Basically he was born in a lake up north (AKA the good ol’ US of A) where he lived a pretty decent life until some human settlers started up a village on one of the banks. The humans started fishing in the lake, of course, making it hard for the sirens to hunt themselves. So it was rough for a while but the sirens made do and left the humans well enough alone. But then one day there was a little child playing on the beach while Bill (still quite young) was also playing nearby and so, trying to make friends, Bill started singing.

I think we all know what happens next.

The child, of course, drowns. The villagers, outraged and grieving, took their boats out and hunted the sirens down (they’d also sing and laugh sadistically while doing so because That’s How I Roll). Bill is the only survivor, and that’s because his parents managed to free him from capture (by literally overturning the boat because I swear the entire family has No Chill). They urged him to swim as fast as he could to where the lake flowed into a river (that led to the ocean) and Bill watched as his mother was killed right in front of him before the rapids took him down. 

He then spent months travelling southwards, eating what little he could scavenge and cowering in fear of every new creature he saw (because any of them could be a predator, especially the ones with the sharp teeth) until Tad found him and brought him to live with the colony. 

AND THAT’S ALL FOLKS

I think there were more plot holes/mysteries to be solved in the fic but fuck me if I can remember them. Just ignore them really. The fic’s like 2-3 years old now idk.

[marshonthemellow]

The #noolcaraOT3 from our game @the-eye-of-magnus! feat. Endacara, Human!Bool and Edgelord™, respectively @berby-business‘s, mine and @lifewhatisthat‘s characters! (^////^)

[mochatricks]

waits patiently for a zenyatta short/comic/anything……..one day, soon

[marshonthemellow]

okay but what’s the story?

Zenyatta during the omnic crisis? before the monastery in Nepal was founded?

Zenyatta as a combatant in the war, before any sort of spiritual awakening, angry and confused at the cruelty of the world he’s found himself in 

or Zenyatta as a scrambling omnic running away from human troops storming nepal and trying to survive, scared out of his wits and hiding away in the dark

perhaps a glimpse of life in the shambali instead? When Tekhartha Mondatta was still alive and Zenyatta hadn’t left?

imagine a child, a tiny nepalese child, running up to one of the monks of the monastery up on the mountain, wide-eyed and brimming with curiosity at the sight of eight shiny floating orbs

or a short or zenyatta’s life when wandering the world, helping the struggling to find inner peace

a montage of all the people zenyatta helps: a teenager sitting on a bridge, a homeless man yelling obscenities at passersby, an omnic hiding a 9mm in the inside pocket of his coat, and of course a certain green newly-made cyborg brimming with rage and hate

and zenyatta himself coming face to face with the horrors of the world. A group of five men trapping him in an alley at night, only to be found in the morning with a detached arm and circuits sparking erratically

or maybe something less direct. zenyatta witnessing five men shoving a fellow omnic to the ground, or perhaps him finding the fellow omnic only after the fact

but never never does his faith seem to crack, because zenyatta might be squishy in the game but he’s faced horrors in lore and he came out of it stronger

my robo son is badass come and fite me if u disagree

[kryallaorchid]

Novels don’t have Author’s Notes

I think one of the problems which fanfiction authors face is the fact we are one of you. We are a fan. We love the work. We recognise the faults. We want to be a part of the community and contribute.

Because of this, however, there’s this mentality that fanfiction authors, who do everything without getting paid and often without recognition, owe it to people to write things the way they want it to be written.

Don’t like something in a novel? Put it down. Walk away. That’s it. That’s the end. (I mean, unless the novel turned into a craze and then it’s okay because you’re supposed to hate things that are popular, right?)

Don’t like something in a fanfiction? Let’s tell the author. In detail.  Let’s be condescending about it. Let’s insult them at the same time. After all, they owe us for reading.

Not updating fast enough? Complain. Updating too fast? Complain. Don’t get the exact right details? Complain. Omg, there’s sex/death/murder and I wasn’t warned? Doesn’t matter that fanfiction gets far more warning than most. Complain anyway. Don’t want to wait until the chapter’s released which explains it all? Complain. Omg, these two characters are underage, they shouldn’t even be kissing let alone having adult conversations about sex. Complain. Loudly. Call the author a paedophile.

Pick up any novel off the shelf and there’s nothing in terms of who the author is and what work they put into the story. You pick it up, you read. There’s no notes in the middle to explain something that people might not get. There’s no notes saying “Hey, this might not be historically/culturally accurate.” There’s no warnings. It’s fiction. People get that things may not be the same in the real world. Yes, a story is expected to be at least believably accurate but it doesn’t have to be.

People don’t seem to understand personal preference vs facts and interpretation vs critique.

By all means, critique a work. People like to know if they’re getting grammar wrong, or overusing words, or breaking rules. People need to know hear “hey, PTSD isn’t quite what you think, would you like to discuss it?” or “That gunshot wound isn’t realistic, I can help”. But please understand, people who write fanfiction do so for the love of the work. A lot aren’t professional and they shouldn’t be expected to be. Do we want to improve? Yes, absolutely we do. Offering guidance and gently nudging is so much better than; “You got this wrong. You’re terrible. I don’t like it. Die in a fire.”

You wouldn’t say that to a published author. Why say to a fanfiction one?

We are far more approachable than the average published author and a lot more fragile. We don’t have publishers and editors backing up our work. We’re unproven and our egos are often not strong. Authors are given the benefit of doubt until the book is finished. Why can’t fanfiction authors be given the same benefit?

[azdomiel]

Also, you don’t know who the author is. They might be a kid. They might be posting their work for the world to see for the first time, for all you know.

I posted my first Star Wars fanfics when I was 12. Luckily, I’m pretty sure people guessed how young I was and were nothing but supportive, and while I stopped writing for a while during my last years of high school, ultimately the feedback I got on my first fics (which, I reiterate, I was 12, no way were they that great) gave me the confidence to continue later on.

My brother also posted his first fanfic, for the Warhammer 40K fandom, at 12. He got flamed and told everything was wrong and he was wrong and he should stop writing forever.

He’s written hundreds and hundreds of pages of fiction, far more than I have, but he doesn’t post them anywhere anymore. He doesn’t let me read them.

Your words will make an impact. Your kindness or cruelty will make a difference to a young author.

Don’t be that guy.

[arialerendeair]

BE.

FUCKING.

NICE.

TO. 

FANFICTION.

AUTHORS. 

*skips off into the sunset*  

[oh--you--pretty--things]

[the-eye-of-magnus]

[marshonthemellow]

Token Icons for our upcoming tabletop game! I’m the happy weetle robot!!!

[luluquiq]

Im sorry, but, potato.

WHY

[marshonthemellow]

HOLY SHIT THEY HAVE RETURNED

[bloodwingsniper-deactivated2017]

*Likes thinking of Hanzo being increadibly intelligent mathmatically.*

Pretty tech savvy too. He looks very traditional and old fashion becausehe’s very loving of that style and despite everything he still appreciates tradition. But he was taught a lot and his family was wealthy enough to get their hands on almost anything they wanted so he absolutely knows how to use a smart phone and even more than he lets on. He thinks guns are inelegant and allow for too much waste of skill and whatnot but he knows how to use them.

Idk man, I just like thinking of him being able to easily keep a conversation with Symmetra or Winston about tech and mathmatical stuff and even McCree about guns and other weapon related stuff, he just doesnt want to talk much in the beginning.

Its McCree who finds out just how much Hanzo knows in the end. Hes the one who puts in all the energy to get past Hanzo’s walls.

[marshonthemellow]

!!!!!! all the yes!!!

Hanzo doing modern stuff is also a fave of mine.

During a mission in Route 66 where he and his team (let’s go with mccree, lucio and... tracer? maybe?) get pinned down a far ways from their nearest extraction point, Hanzo just up and highjacks a jeep and yells at everyone to get in [[cue intense car chase with Hanzo pulling stunts like skids and reverse driving]]

Or when he, Winston and co. are sent into Vishkar’s HQ to get sensitive information -- Winston as the hacker and Hanzo and co. as the backup -- and Winston can’t get to the computer/terminal (maybe he’s non-fatally shot, or busy with a whole gang of guards) and Hanzo manages to hack his way past the corporation’s state-of-the-art firewalls

Or simply every day stuff like Hanzo fixing up/upgrading soldier 76′s visor during down time

or discussing the finer technical details of different gen consoles with D.Va

or whipping out a samsung galaxy to show mccree a picture of a corner shot grenade launcher because it’s hard to describe in words

and I know there’s some speculation going on right now about whether Hanzo has something against omnics or not, but I like my characters open-minded so what about Hanzo discussing omnic models, frames and upgrades with Zenyatta while calmly drinking tea

until-midnight conversations about hard light and ice technology with symmetra and mei

not-so-subtle critiquing of mccree’s prosthetic hand and perhaps Hanzo even has a little bit of an inventing streak in him, offering to make it better 8D

[marshonthemellow]

MARSH IS A FRIGGIN MORON

SUP GUYS GUESS WHAT

I DELETED MY TUMBLR ACCOUNT OF THREE YEARS YESTERDAY

YEP THAT’S RIGHT I LOST THREE YEARS WORTH OF FOLLOWERS, POSTS AND NETWORKING

SO COME ON IN AND FOLLOW THIS BLOG FOR WRITING AND @marshonthemellow-primary FOR SHITTY TEXTPOSTS IF YOU KNOW I USED TO FOLLOW YOU AND NOW AM NOT, PLEASE SEND ME AN ASK AND I’LL LOOK INTO IT. I ALREADY RE-FOLLOWED 75 OF U SO PLEASE CHECK IF I AM FOLLOWING YOU OR NOT.

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KTHNXBYE I’M GONNA GO CRY NOW