Narrative Nest

Writing things! Also lots of Dimension 20 and assorted podcasts. Main blog is indigo-a-creeping. AO3: Indig0. Elder Millennial just doing some words.

[sweatermuppet]

the authors barely disguised longing for acceptance

[partywithponies]

Women can write m/m. Men can write f/f. Asexuals can write filthy smut. Lesbians and gay men can write m/f. It's all arbitrary anyway. Who give a shit.

[partywithponies]

"Oh but they don't have an experience of-" I don't have any experience committing or solving murders either but that's still mostly what I read and write about.

[rmhashauthor]

I've never banged an alien but here we are.

[partywithponies]

You've never banged an alien yet! There's always time!

[ritz-honorz-the-cock]

Galatax the Space Wizard

🌌 🌌 🌌 × 🔮 💎 🔮 × 🌌 🌌 🌌

[jackklinemybeloved]

saw a lot of people talking about how they wanted more city council of darkness, so I will humbly recommend the other vampire d20 season: coffin run! here’s some stuff you’ll also find in coffin run if you liked it in ccod:

vampires. duh. (but seriously, similarly goofy and fun vampire shenanigans)

werewolves who are much cooler than the vampires

zac oyama! again playing a vampire of low intelligence who kind of figures it out by the end? eventually? squing is kind of like if zaeth was an ugly nosferatu with a baby head

eleventh hour canon gay romance with an npc

anticolonialist messages kinda

cool lighting effects when the elder vampire npc talks

other reasons to watch coffin run:

jasmine bhullar! such a good dm. there’s a reason she got brought back for d20 on a bus, she absolutely earned her place among legendary DMs

battle sets! Well-designed fights on an all black and white sets which is a fun style choice. the final battle is iconic

props! everyone at the table has so much fun with them. also comes into play for the final battle in a delicious way.

izzy roland playing a mad scientist who hasn’t been outside in nearly a decade. he’s not a vampire he’s just Like That.

generally such a fun vibe and SUCH an incredible cast, Carlos Luna and Erika Ishii are also amazing here (Erika’s tribute to Anna May Wong is great and May is a great character in her own right; Carlos brings a lot of humor to his character but also a lot of depth)

anyway. watch coffin run !!! happy vampire summer

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[eeyore9990]

Write Your Story

I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.

Why?

He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didn’t even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but that’s beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me – his first beta – and y'all?

He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.

Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, “There is already a Minecraft story.”

Me: Okay? So what?

Lucifer: If there’s already a story, no one will read mine.

Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, “What if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.”

He laughed.

I showed him Mornings Aren’t For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.

Then I said, “So do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in love… would anyone read it?”

He laughed and said, “No because you already did.”

So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.

I’m going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.

Write your story. It doesn’t matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didn’t write YOUR story. Only you can do that.

And I want to read your story.

[naamahdarling]

Holy crap, this is A+ parenting and such a good lesson.

[prophetic-writer]

I'm sorry but I have one draft that I never finished but I laugh every time I see it

[hellsquills]

Writing Tip

Neither do i

[eviliens]

Unreliable everyone

[brennan-lee-mother]

There was something so perfectly satisfying about Zaeth getting out of trouble not by dodging responsibility like always but by owning it, by saying “this was my choice and I had the right to make it, because this is my fucking town.”

[narrative-nest]

I wonder if HJ and Vesper were bitten by the same bat.

[mysteryteacup]

1 became a superhero, 1 became a rich businessman.

The answer is obvious.

It was Batman.

[narrative-nest]

I wonder if HJ and Vesper were bitten by the same bat.

[islandoforder]

wait so vesper died in 2003, 23 years ago, and nancy is 51. she was 28 when she wrote that obituary. how long do you think she’d been working for the omaha sunday scoop at that point? no wonder it hit hard, a girl just a few years younger than she is, passionate and driven like she is, who never had the chance to be more. how much of nancy’s career do you think was driven by the determination that someone needs to tell the story of people who think they’ll disappear without anyone noticing, how many nights did she spend doggedly pursing a story, exhausted and upset, and pulling out that old obituary for the strength to keep pushing forwards?

[melonmb]

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

but let's be so clear Ermine's not dead, we don't know what powers she can use from in the abyss, but she has powers there are people looking for her and she is NOT DEAD

[thehobbitbadger]

Koschei always being on Zaeth's side, because his sire wasn't there for him... we love breaking the circle of abuse in this fandom.

[mercurymasc]

obsessed with the fact that nobody asked what kind of mythical creature estelle laurent is but madelaine did take the time to ask if she was any good in bed

[dead-potato-monster]

some zac oyama parallels

cloudward ho! ep. 13

city council of darkness, ep. 12

[frownyalfred]

me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you

[newskyillusion]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who hasn’t updated anything in four years: I think about you often and I hope you’re alright

[azrielgreen]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who wrote one life altering banger and nothing else: I hope your pillow is cool and your skin is clear and you find money in a forgotten jeans pocket

[jezebelgoldstone]

me, whispering to every single person on this post: please leave one singular comment saying literally any of that