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Reminder: All nihilBliss content is certified 100% free and clear of the Videodrome signal. Reading my fanfiction will not give you hallucination-inducing brain tumors, now or ever!
nihilBliss: r-18 nsfw, always a ride - curate your experience responsibly
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Every time I see your username on my feed, it reminds me of Author & Punishers “Nihil Strength” which feels very appropriate
OMFG, I fucking love that song!!! Thank you, Inkeee! You are always a light in my day.
hot take apparently but i think it's good for white people to relate to poc's art. i think it's good for straight people to relate to queer art. stop acting like we're different species who could never possibly understand each other what the fuck is wrong with you
not to be "comment on fanfic even if they are oooold"
But I just read a pretty good fic published in 2014-2015 (you know, roughly TEN YEARS AGO) and I was like, damn this is so cool, I have to leave a comment, even if you know, they probably wont see it...
The author replied less than an hour later.
Important heads up to younger or newer fans: AO3 sends comments and kudos digests to e-mail addresses. We don't have to check an AO3-specific inbox nor look at specific fics to see comments. I can log out of AO3 tomorrow and ten or twenty years from now I will still get e-mails from AO3 containing comments -- and once I've read it, well, it's not difficult to log back in and reply.
This is also why leaving mean or negative comments is rude and the rule of fandom (although it's a rule much older than AO3, since most/all old fanfic sites did this - livejournal not being a site meant for fics) is "Don't Like? Don't Read".
An AO3 comment is not a review.
It's fanmail.
It is a letter you are sending directly to the author, which happens to also - if the author approves it - go up under the story. You are sending a letter directly to the author.
make a girl smile today.
give her a sword.
I know this will bother unhealed adults, but the real world, more often than not, does give you second chances and do overs. Very rarely are things set in stone. And people, especially young people, deserve to know that. Because lording the idea that they can never mess up, even once, does a lot more damage than good.
Some writing advice that likely won't resonate with the whole, but certainly will for a few:
It's okay to do minor edits as you go.
Some of us are control freaks who can't move on until it's fixed.
This is a friendly reminder to give your OC a firm and unmistakable L every now and then.
This is a necessary action to keep your OC healthy for the long term.
speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.
the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.
you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.
YOU GET IT
I, of mostly sound body and spirit, request that if I’m ever to die, someone post a new work on my AO3 that says “sorry, she died, ongoing stories postponed forever” because don’t I want my fanfic buddies to think I ghosted them. Amen or whatever you say in a will.
This was written as a joke, but for those who don't know, this is an actual optional service that AO3 provides called Fannish Next of Kin.
If you're struggling to write sex, write food. if you're struggling to write food, write gore. if you're struggling to write gore, write sex. They're all variations on the same themes.
it's all sensation and consumption and intimacy. it's all violence and beauty and taste. it's all wild and animalistic and elevated by our humanity. it's all deeply cultural and symbolic. it's all enjoyed by every sense the body has to offer.
"copper syrup drenched her tongue as she dug into its flesh" can be the act of eating pussy, biting through skin, or eating a piece of fruit.
people keep adding notes to this like "careful, you might end up writing cannibalism" as if this is not from the cannibalism-enjoyer blog.
god, give me the strength to turn my petty bitchyness into fanfic
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Your name is Elwurd. You and your alien girlfriend, Joey Claire, just had a great night watching troller derby, so now you want to go home and be that big, tough butch for her! But Joey did remember to text that little burgundy fucker that taco night is going to be tomorrow night, right? Right? Because you are here to plow your girlfriend like you're prepping fields for harvest, and you do not have much patience for bullshit right now.
The novelist writes from inside. I’m rather sensitive on this point, because I write science fiction, or fantasy, or about imaginary countries, mostly—stuff that, by definition, involves times, places, events that I could not possibly experience in my own life. So when I was young and would submit one of these things about space voyages to Orion or dragons or something, I was told, at extremely regular intervals, “You should try to write about things you know about.” And I would say, But I do; I know about Orion, and dragons, and imaginary countries. Who do you think knows about my own imaginary countries, if I don’t? But they didn’t listen, because they don’t understand, they have it all backward. They think an artist is like a roll of photographic film, you expose it and develop it and there is a reproduction of Reality in two dimensions. But that’s all wrong, and if any artist tells you, “I am a camera,” or “I am a mirror,” distrust them instantly, they’re fooling you, pulling a fast one. Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts—only in the truth. You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside. OK, how do you go about getting at that truth? You want to tell the truth. You want to be a writer. So what do you do? You write.
--Ursula Le Guin, from the "On How To Become A Writer" at LitHub, from The Language of the Night (via @neil-gaiman)
I mean, the obvious solution to the perennial fanfic writer's dilemma of "there are only so many ways to cogently describe conventional sex acts" is to give your protagonist a very specific kink.
the great thing about being a fanfic writer: if there's a certain fanfic plot you can't find, you can make it yourself.
the terrible thing about being a fanfic writer: now you *have* to write that fanfic plot you can't find.
