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Tips for writing Abandoned Hospitals
✮ The smell arrives before anything visual does. Always before. Decades-old antiseptic that never fully evaporated, black mold, particulate plaster, and something underneath all of that you will not name. Your character detects it from the parking lot. Do not skip this. Writers skip this constantly. Smell is 70% of fear. If your character walks in and immediately describes what they SEE, you have already lost the reader's stomach. Fix it.
✮ Long hospital corridors are acoustic funnels. A door swinging on a corroded hinge forty feet away sounds, physiologically and neurologically, like it is directly behind your character. It is not. But they don't know that yet. And more importantly: they can't immediately tell the difference.
✮ Original floor tiles: white hexagons, many cracked, grout gone grey-black with decades of something. Footsteps echo differently on intact vs. cracked tile. Your character will begin unconsciously stepping around the cracked ones without deciding to. Write it as unconscious. Don't give them the decision.The body knows things the mind hasn't processed.
✮ Nurses' stations have the room call-board still mounted. Metal slots, room numbers, some still containing names on yellowed paper in faded handwriting. Perfectly legible. Your character should read one name specifically. A real first and last name. This is what grounds supernatural dread in human scale. The horror of a ghost is always the horror of the specific person who became one.
✮ Do not have your character open a patient file and find something horrifying written in it. That is lazy and everyone does it. The horror in the file is that it is completely routine: a 54-year-old man admitted for a hip replacement in 1987, three pages of unremarkable medical notes in a nurse's tidy handwriting, then nothing. No discharge date. No transfer. Just nothing. The nothing is the story. Let the reader ask the question. Don't answer it.
✮ Operating theaters are always on upper floors. The surgical table is still there. They never take the table. In real abandoned hospitals, across multiple countries, documented cases: they always leave the table. Your character should wonder why no one took the table. Do not have a character explain why no one took the table. Some questions should stay questions.
✮ The morgue is in the basement. This is always true. The drawer handles are still there. Your character's hand will move toward one of them. Write this as involuntary. The hand goes first. The decision to stop, or not stop, comes second. We don't choose our curiosity; we choose whether to follow it.
✮ The drawers are not all empty. Not because of anything supernatural. Because animals nest in sheltered spaces in abandoned buildings, and a heavy insulated metal drawer that latches shut is extremely sheltered. Your character knows this. They do not think of this until after they've opened one.
“You can’t fix him” I don’t wanna fix him! I wanna FUCK him! I’m a pervert not a psychologist!
Consider an AU where Ghost Debunkers! Oromë and Celegorm join forces with Aradhel and her best friend, Nahtanis, as they explore the opulent but abandoned rooms of Utumno Manor, a place made infamous by its owner, Mr. Melkor Bauglir, and the ritual sacrifices he performed to summon malevolent entities. Their routine exploration takes a dark turn when they discover the tales surrounding the manor are more than mere exaggerations and lies.
Small Fandom Summer 2026!
For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:
Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3
Post it to AO3
And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.
Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.
And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:
So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.
There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.
Here's to creativity!
Images are white text on a black background with a coloured icon taking up the leftmost third of the image. They are as follows:
Green icon of a magnifying class over a beetle. Who's That Boy? (wrote for a character that previously had no AO3 tag)
Orange icon of a tape measure. Size Matters (wrote the longest fic to date in the fandom)
Grey icon of two women holding hands. Lesbifriends (wrote the first F/F fic in the fandom)
Yellow icon of a smiling face surrounded by hearts. My Special Person (wrote something because you knew that one person who'd appreciate it)
Blue icon of an elephant and a mouse. Lorge and Smol (wrote a crossover between a fandom with more than 1000 works and a small fandom)
Grey icon of handcuffs. Testing the Waters (this had better not awake anything in you)
Yellow icon of two fish approaching a hook. Hooked! (wrote something for the first time and are already planning on writing something else for it)
Green icon of a bag with a leaf on it implying soil or plant food. A Brand-New Bag (wrote for a fandom so small you had to teach AO3 what it was)
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the treacherous shaft of curufin
"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!
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Just came home from the boat, everyone enjoy THE Huan gif
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Arda's local menace
🌈🎉HUAN EMOTE PACK🎉🌈
The Pride pack has 11 different flags, while the other has four different poses, one with Lúthiens sigil and one with the Feanorian star as a flag, and a gif!
Huan with 11 Pride flags
Some Huans
The thing that the people who get mad about Nienna defending Melkor and other bad people don't understand is that, being the Lady of Mercy, she is quite literally the public defender archangel. She was created and designed to be able to have empathy for literally everyone in existence, so that no one is ever alone without anyone to speak for them.
And for those who get mad at public defenders and defense attorneys I will also point out that it's absolutely vital for having a state under the rule of law that respects human rights and is not run on the whims and good (or ill) will of those in power that even the worst person imaginable has someone defending them in court.
Similarly, it is vital that someone like Nienna exists. You can probably see now why her close connection to Námo is not a coincidence - he needs her. And why she is counted among the Aratar.
I have an OC she's a vampire in modern era but in hiding.
how easily she hide, she a Muslim dahh.
Why are you wearing a cape? "because I'm a Muslim"
Why are you awake at this hour? "because I'm praying"
Why are you so pale? "because I'm a neqabi"
Her name is Qamar<moon> she works in a shop around the corner, she works the night shifts and extra 2 hours of day shifts because her co-workers suffers from early mornings.
how can you work 12 hours and you don't look tired? "because I'm Muslim and God reward those who believe😇"*and certainly not because I'm a vampire*
Her neighbour is a werewolf in hiding, they both know there's something about the other but neither are noisy.
Shams<sun> the werewolf, as her name suggests is the shiniest loudest girl you will ever meet, covered in glitters and beads from her hair to her toes.
She works in pet-daycare and ironically is good with cats not dogs.
Elven word of the day, 419/?
Half from Sindarin
Meaning “seashell” 🐚🐚
This word is derived from syalmā, a word for shell, conch or the great horn of Ulmo.
It further derives from the root syal meaning resound, likely referring to the phenomenon of holding a shell to your ear and hearing rushing sounds like the ocean. I think it’s such a cool and poetic root.
Hyalma is the Quenya cognate.
"You cannot bestow upon me such folly! I am not the sort to receive flowers!"
real ones can't stop thinking about this fic by @holyplasmaball
*watching the Balrogs approach*
Maedhros: gonna burn yourself if you're not careful.
Fëanor: I don’t think they produce heat.
Maedhros: it's FIRE.
Maedhros: Still think Balrogs don't produce heat, father mine?
Fëanor (already smouldering): shut up
