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twenty-four ✯ she/her ˖.𖥔 ݁ ˖ ⊹ ✯ minors do not interact ✯

[offdutyskye]

✯˖ ⊹ skye ₊˚ ⋅ ۶ৎ

✯she/her ✯ twenty-four ✯ jason todd’s wife ✯ superboy prime’s lawyer ✯ scorpio ✯ scotland 4ever🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ✯ mdni - eighteen plus blog

©offdutyskye do not under any circumstances shove my work into ch*tgpt. do not translate, copy, repost, or feed any of my work to ai. it’s disrespectful to me, other creatives, and yourself

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[creativepromptsforwriting]

we need to be more bored. i used to be so creative in my spare time, now I'm just on my phone.

[offdutyskye]

Dick jerked his head in Jason's direction. "Turns out all it took was a pretty face for Jason to agree to karaoke." Tim's mouth fell open. "No way." Jason's blood thundered in his head, an audible roaring thing. He folded his arms across his chest, squeezing as tight as he could to block it out. Damian peered at him like he was reading a book with very small print. "You have a lover, Todd?"

☕️ read chapter seven of Third Chances on ao3

pairing: jason todd/fem!oc

rating: mature (16+)

cw: strong language, canon-typical violence, ptsd, eventual smut, suggestive themes

chapter summary: dick grayson is good at many things. getting under jason's skin is one of them. he uses this power for good. OR. dick grayson invites maeve to karaoke and jason spirals.

content: slow burn, jealous jason todd, jason todd is oblivious to his feelings, dick inflitrating jason's personal life, worlds colliding

length: 20.4k words | ongoing (regular updates)

a/n: god i love making jason suffer. at least he finally has her phone number ;)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION

[bebx]

[yunyuu]

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

my heart is so full. I love writing, my comfort characters, my family, my favorite people, my friends, my pets, every animal in the world, my favorite shows, horror movies, ao3, fanfiction, books, music, making art, mist, gloomy weather and rain so much

[lost-in-eriador]

in 2026, remember how GOOD writing feels. remember how satsfying it is to get your characters to the point you have been dying to get to, where they will experience the love, fear, relief or whatever the feeling you want to bring to life may be. let this year be the year of writing, prgress and of satisfactory endings.

[overthinkingao3]

We write for ourselves, but we post for others.

(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

does anyone see me? does anyone even care?

[ponderingpen]

THIS. Exactly this. I think it is so important that we begin to encourage a culture and community of this, when it is KIND, because like, at the end of the day, yes, my view counter goes up, but is it the same people? Do they have thoughts and feelings about this thing I poured my soul into?

Imagine you've gone on a trip and you want to share the photos and people just look at them. They say NOTHING. They might give you one smile and a nod. You're trying to share and connect with them, but there is no connection because from your point of view, it is one sided.

Or, if you've written a composition for a class, and you get a 'complete' in the gradebook, and the teacher just shrugs and says "I read it, isn't that enough?" when you ask for feedback or you ask what they thought about it.

People don't need essays about the way your work affected them (but tbf, we LOVE those), just to have more than an icon, a number, a little faceless blip on the screen. I want to know WHAT connects so I know where I am succeeding, what is connecting, HOW the story is coming across, if you love my stupid little blorbos, because I love them and I want you to love them, too.

If someone's work connects with you, connect back. It's free. It's FUN, because I LOVE responding to comments. You build a community rather than a creator- passive consumer relationship and in this capitalist hellscape nightmare, I think it is something we all need, artists especially.

[editerrrrrawr]

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everything edited by me .ᐟ.ᐟ free 2 use, plz like + reblog :P

[writingdose]

me: I should write

also me: let me play the scene in my head and fantasize about writing it instead

[verdantdrawzstories]

Reminder that fanfic authors write the stories you like

FOR FREE

[uniicorns-arereall]

you know what, fuck it be free, keep reading that bad fan fiction, keep writing that bad fanfiction, keep using y/n, keep staying up to 4 a.m reading x reader, to be cringe is too be free

(just NO a.i)

[offdutyskye]

“Shakespeare?” She smiled. Jason shifted in his chair. “It’s a classic for a reason.”  Maeve leaned closer, the way a person might when telling a secret. “I pray you do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine.” He blinked. “You’re joking.”

☕️ read chapter six of Third Chances on ao3

pairing: jason todd/fem!oc

rating: mature (16+)

cw: strong language, canon-typical violence, ptsd, eventual smut

chapter summary: jason todd is not developing a routine. he simply likes the coffee. and the mugs. and the booth. and the waitress. either way, there will be consequences.

content: slow burn, diner-shenanigans, jason is oblivious to his own feelings, jason is a secret nerd, shakespeare and coffee

length: 16.3k wc | ongoing (regular updates)

a/n: fave chapter i've written so far. is it obvious i love writing these two interacting in literally any way?

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]