maverickk

mav | i do not have enough enrichment in my enclosure | tell me if i’ve made you cry

[twofoldzines]

Today’s WIP is brought to you by @mmavverickk!

[mmavverickk]

oh hey that me!

[writingdose]

the power of yaoi will save you and your blorbos

[faytears]

long hair percy was real in son of neptune. he went months without cutting it and it grew to the point where he kept it in an unkempt half up half down style that still somehow looked frustratingly good (especially mid-battle) and no one could look him directly in the eye.

[sparrowharks]

sometimes i feel like my sole purpose on this planet is to think about drew tanaka’s potential..... drew tanaka as her mother’s mistake. drew tanaka as her sister lacy’s biggest secret. drew tanaka as camp’s mean girl. drew tanaka as the girl who hates pegasi for touching silena’s soul. drew tanaka as the epitome of grief. drew tanaka in the big house making eye contact with jake mason, wondering how either of them would ever learn to breathe again. drew tanaka as the cruel, envious witch as she watches will solace and nico di angelo move on and learn to love despite their trauma. JUST OUFHEICJSJCCHJCSKFJCJ N

[writingdose]

“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.

[pjo-dump-acc]

(Head)canon that Sally Jackson had ALL them gods coming for her, it’s just that Poseidon won.

Oh and she knew.

Because there can’t be 15 godly looking ‘mortals’ that live close enough to come to her candy shop at 2pm on a Tuesday when everyone else is working just to flirt with her.

[ferocioustrout]

“mom coded” “sister coded” “wine aunt coded” what if she’s his friend instead. you’re actually allowed to be friends with women

[micahulrichdraws]

NEW LIMITED TIME SALE! My hand-signed “Warden” & “Guardian” Small Art Prints are now discounted while supplies last! You can check ‘em out in my web shop (in my bio)! ❤️

[willow-lark]

in another better universe rick riordan would have stayed consistent w the three-to-a-quest rule and four out of the seven would have died in hoo

[willow-lark]

ok now that i’m thinking and it again i want to explain my reasoning as to who dies.

leo ofc literally is the “oath to keep with a final breath” in the prophecy of seven. he gets out of this because of aeschylus’s cure. it shouldn’t have worked. maybe they thought it would, but it didn’t. he dies freeing calypso.

annabeth in tartarus 🫣 don’t jump me. don’t jump me. no one jump me. i do think it is important and awesome that percabeth THEEE it couple got out together and survived. but let’s up the stakes. i am open to hearing out percy dies & annabeth survives arguments but one of them should die in tartarus and percy is the main character so. i guess plot armor? is how i’m thinking about it

frank dying as his stick burns up. i don’t remember all the plot of hoo but i’m pretty sure there are times where this comes close & it happens as he’s saving other people. like it was SET UP in SON and it was just. fine. in toa when it does burn up he’s just. fine??? COP OUT. i love frank & don’t actually want him dead but that was a cop out in toa and everyone knows it.

aaaand jason…. my baby boy the only one of the seven who actually dies. post-quest mind you! this would be awesome though like at the end of hoo they’re down to four and they’re like ok we’re good we’ve defeated gaea and then NOPE! jason gets killed!

leaving percy piper and hazel. my loves. honestly hazel could be a candidate for dying too bc she’s brought back via the doors of death being open so maybe when the doors close she can no longer exist in the world? or you could make the argument that she ALREADY died so therefore she already counts as one of the 4 deaths needed to make the seven three. idk. hmmmmm

[willow-lark]

in another better universe rick riordan would have stayed consistent w the three-to-a-quest rule and four out of the seven would have died in hoo

[bayetea]

something about piper's fake jason memories that I don't think most of the fandom understands (and rick himself basically retconned later in the series) is that it's very heavily implied in tlh that piper created the most vivid memories herself through the power of love. and rather than being "memories", they were actually visions of her potential future - like she prophetically understood that the "real" jason was a person she could fall in love with before she even knew him

like... hera didn't do this. piper did. piper saw the possibility of real love through the mist and then she made it happen in real life. that's such an interesting ability for a child of aphrodite to have. or at least it was, until rick started acting like this never happened lol

[elfagito]

every friend group has a corpse in it. if you think yours doesn't, YOU'RE the corpse.

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[bi-files]

I’m a patron of the arts (I leave nice comments on aO3).

[byler-alarmist]

I'm a patron of the arts (I reblog on Tumblr dot com)

[belladonnabedlam]

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

Voting ended on19h

I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

[elle-thereafter]

These are important things I have learned about writing fiction. I know these things, but sometimes I need a reminder. So I am writing them here, both as a reminder for myself, and as a reminder for all those who, like me, sometimes forget.

Characters must make choices.

Characters should often make bad choices before they make good choices.

Character choices should drive the vast majority of the plot. Characters reacting to having random stuff thrown at them is far less interesting than characters reacting to the stuff they've thrown after it's ricocheted around and comes bouncing back toward them.

If a character refuses to make a choice, there better be consequences for that too, and you better have a damn clear way of showing those consequences to the reader and the character.

Nearly every time I'm struggling with writing something, taking a step back and thinking about these 4 things usually helps get me unstuck.

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies