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Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.
I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.
THIS
Oni?
“Anubis? Are those ribbons on ya horns there?” Karst asked, causing the tiefling boy to jump slightly.
“O-oh, um, yes,” Anubis reached back enough to pinch one of the light pink ribbons wrapped around his horns in between his fingers.
“Wait, horns?” The masked man said.
Suddenly, the man was in front of Anubis, reaching his hands towards Anubis’ face. Anubis’ brain started panicking, but before he could react, the masked man’s hands were on either side of his face. His touch was surprisingly soft as he ran his fingers along Anubis’ purple skin, and Anubis felt his face start warming up again. This felt way too intimate to be happening with someone Anubis barely knew, and with someone who made Anubis have this super nervous, flighty feeling in his stomach. He kind of wanted to run, but it wasn’t like the guy was hurting him or anything.
“Your face is very soft,” he said, his hands travelling up to Anubis’ hair.
“Th-thank y-you?” Anubis stuttered, his face ablaze as the masked man’s hands ran through his hair, searching for Anubis’ horns. Anubis kept wondering why he didn’t just step away from the man, until he realized that having someone’s fingers thread through his hair like that kind of felt… nice. Even though neither Karst nor the masked man could read Anubis’ thoughts, he squirmed with embarrassment when the thought crossed his mind. All this anxiety was making Anubis feel light headed.
I’ve been writing
Mostly DnD things bc idk I’ve been very inspired lmao I might post some snippets here and there
Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!
Guys I reblogged this and then wrote an 8000 word story I didn’t even have a solid plan for. Reblog this shit.
Please, great fortune cookie of writing. I beg of you.
I need this right now man!
Rediscovering my Fanfic.net
Oh my god I recently remembered about my old fanfiction account and decided to go back and reread some my old writing on there to laugh at all the cringe and die about how I used to write fanfic of real people yIKES but
Some of them??? Weren’t even that bad??? Like, I can tell i’ve improved immensely, but some of them actually had some really great lines in them and some really fun concepts and I might end up recycling one of them as a short story featuring COMPLETELY FICTIONAL characters bc again, yIKES
And then I read the comments and cried like a baby bc they were all so nice and validating and honestly were a really big pick me up. I’ve been in a writing slump since I finished KAMIKAZE, and like,,,,, those comments actually kinda helped to read. I think I’ll screenshot them and print them and hang them up around my room to read whenever I’m feeling down about my writing or am dealing with writers block. I think it’ll help, and make me cry every time I glance at them lol
Listen. Listen to me. Don’t ever stifle your creative impulses because you’re afraid your vision will come across as too pretentious.
You’re allowed to express your passion with as much melodrama as is necessary to achieve catharsis.
You’ll find it’s amazing what you can achieve when you pursue your art without internalized shame.
imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.
for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.
there is NO WAY to avoid tropes!! everything is a trope!! that doesn’t mean it’s bad!! embrace it!!
At a convention, a famous writer once said “tropes are like gears, if you use them well, they can be an integral part of the engine/plot. Or, you can just throw them on the side and make a steampunk hat”
I took that to mean that tropes are just tools, and, if used right, aren’t even really noticed.
Legit this looks like it was made for artists and I sTAN-
Definitely.
Artists and Writers
reasons to not quit writing:
your writing is a skill, not an inborn talent (unless, yeah, maybe it is). not everyone can do what you do and love
everyone says they want to write a book. everyone has what it takes to write a book. not everyone does it anyway. you be the small percentage of success you read about
your writing will always seem brickshit horrible because you wrote and read it a million times
you love this writing thingy. quitting it will be like cutting off your fingers one by one.
someone out there will want to read what you wrote.
someone out there wants to know what is on your mind.
someone out there appreciates your art. they will share it with their friends. they will share it with their loved ones. they will share it with their future self because maybe what you wrote saved them.
if you give up now, you know you will just come back to it again, whether it’s years from now, months, or next week. you love writing, that’s why you planted the seed of thought that you are going to write this book, and whether you come back to it or not, your unwritten stories will come back to you.
From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:
- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.
- archive everything on your blog you want to keep
- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.
- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.
- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.
- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.
i rarely see more than one (1) disabled person in fiction, and at that i rarely see disabled people that don’t have on sight disabilities. ya know i just wanna see a character or two having type one diabetes, better at that, i wanna see them be in some sort of fantasy fiction.
off topic of this, but i hate the “character with x disability gets disability ‘fixed’ once in fantasy/magical land” trope, like why are people so quick to fix us? why can’t people just make living with disabilities easier in fantasy lands instead of erasing them?
like i’d love to have a tiny pocket dragon that could sense my blood sugar highs or lows, i’d also think it’d be cool that a wizard could give me a potion that lets me eat cake or pizza or pasta without dying.
I think a lot of the time, abled writers are under the impression that they’re doing disabled people a “favour” by providing escapism from what they consider to be awful lives. The thing is though, when you’ve got a disability you tend to be quite good at finding ways around it, and honestly? Can you imagine how wild that would get in a High Fantasy? It’d be fantastic. Consider:
Pocket service-dragons like OP said, trained to monitor vitals and blood sugar. They’re good at helping people with cardiovascular-type problems, epilepsy, diabetes and asthma. All the dragons require in return is permission to hoard pocket lint in caches around the home.
A different, slightly larger breed of dragon will sit on the shoulders of those who are Deaf and/or blind. They’re probably about the size of a crow. These ones act as guides and signed language interpreters, and are able to communicate in more code (or a fantasy equivalent) by tapping with their claws. Plus, they’ll breathe fire at anyone who is being an ableist piece of shit.
Fantasy hearing aids that are part magic, part tech. They mould around the ear in whatever shape the wearer wishes (bonus if they look like serpents or vines with a silver sheen) and, if not being used, can coil around a wrist or finger. (Do you have any idea how many times I’ve almost lost my aids bc they fall out of pockets or get misplaced??)
If the wizarding world of JK Rowling gets wingardium leviosa, then fantasy can totally have magically enchanted supports - walking frames, crutches etc - that come to the person’s aid when needed. Also, levitating charms? Clothing that supports the wearer so that a lower-limb amputee can whisk around places? Just think about Doctor Strange’s magical cape.
And then, after all that, your fantasy world can literally just have the same aids as ours. There are many, many creative options and every single one of them are preferable to being erased from the world of fiction.
*sigh* I’ve already made an addition but this idea is SO under-explored. So please also consider:
The literally limitless possibilities for prosthesis, including having a character stand on their flying prosthetic foot in order to fly/levitate, prosthesis that remains awake while they sleep and can defend them in the night, prosthesis that looks completely real but is just packed with compartments, prosthesis that functions precisely like a real limb and is directed normally by the brain, invisible prosthesis, magnetized steampunk prosthesis, limb prosthesis that is basically a floating hand/foot with the limb between missing- like, can’t be touched missing,
A full menagerie of mythical beasts that can serve as service animals, up to and including keeping the soul in the body while waiting for healers to arrive so that the heart can be re-started much longer after it has stopped beating. Some mythical birds were said to steal nightmares and fly away with them as well.
Horse-sized intelligent dragons used as mobility aids
Chariot/chair/wheelchair mobility aids that levitate and/or move quickly
Emergency communication devices that will alert the other holders of a crisis with location and specifics even when you’re is unconscious, such as with epilepsy or passing out from low blood sugar
Hearing aids/glasses that not only aide impaired hearing/vision, but also allow the user to hear/see in other specified places in the world
Magical devices that stimulate dead nerves in cases where a limb goes dead, reducing the need for amputation
Similar magical devices that straight-up reanimate dead limbs, so that you can leave your arm lying around and still use it when you walk away (so much plot opportunity, SO much)
Magical capsules you can swallow that give you lots of healthy energy, which can be used for various disorders that lead to fatigue but can also be used as a first aide to aide healing of wounds/illness
Pill cases that remember what you need to take and what you’ve actually taken and WILL get in your face if you’ve forgotten
Capsules or spells for cleanliness that reduces the need to bathe for those for whom it’s difficult
House plants that release chemicals your brain SHOULD be producing so that you breathe it in- possibly in conjunction with medication that helps to regulate so you don’t overdose on serotonin what you’re trying to sleep
Plants you can eat that will literally replace your compromised immune system
A ritual that will take a magical 3D photograph of your current physical condition, and, if you’ve taken one, you can use this complicated spell to have your physical body go back and become exactly what it was at that point- like a computer backup.
Many, many options for spells, healing herbs and rituals that will ease chronic pain
I think ya’ll mentioned why abled writers ”fix” disabilities. Magic. Why give you a magical hearing aid when they could just magically fix your hearing? It’s magic, there’s no limit to it. I see what you’re all saying and it does sound cool af, but I’m just saying. If any of ya’ll write a story with what you’ve been saying tho, I’d love to read it.
But we’re asking these writers why they wanna “fix” us when magic is right there with so many more options, why “fix” us when there are so many things you can do for us with this magic? Like left and right we see ourselves portrayed as “wrong” or “flawed” and it reasonably irks us that people believe we need to even be “fixed” in the first place.
I obviously don’t speak on behalf of all people like me, but I don’t want some magic trick to fix a characters pancreas if they have type one diabetes, I want to see them be able to live a better quality of life. An easier one. That’s it! I don’t want to see them be fixed and turned “normal”, make their life easier than it is whether it be with magic potions for carb intakes or pocket-service dragons, and whatever else! Just don’t erase us.
It’s a matter of including us vs eliminating us.
A fantasy or science fiction world where disabled people don’t exist is the ideal world of people who advocate for eugenics, for our deaths because we’re broken and not human enough. That is a horror story.
If you want to give disabled readers escapism: write it without the ableism, not the disabled. Write it so every disabled character gets the accessibility devices the medication the prosthetics the accommodations they need. Not magically removing the disability.
I don’t want escapism from my disability I want escapism from ablism.
this goes back to the whole notion of disability justice, which is that people aren’t disabled by their bodies; they’re disabled by an ableist society.
because if someone in a wheelchair, for example, had access to every building and every vehicle, could navigate their way around a city or park or campsite or beach like an able bodied person, had all their basic needs met, had the same opportunities for employment and freedom of movement and housing as an able bodied person…would they be “disabled”? Or would their body just be different, but no less restrictive than anyone else’s?
and that can be the “escapism” in a fantasy setting. accessible fantasy worlds, where all bodies are different and all bodies are good.
A reminder for when you’re writing
Thank u Jeff Goldblum
trying to get your story together like:
Explaining your story to a willing ear:
“I really like your story! is there more?”
“I like this character, is there more about them?”
Okay, this never happens. I just sat down for a solid 3 and a half hours and wrote a fic from start to end in a draft format that closely resembles mid-draft as opposed to first draft. My concentration never wavered.
I’m afraid
Reblog for the concentration wizard to visit you and let you get super far in your WIP
Best response to anything I’ve ever posted
If you’re gonna write straight characters you need to have a reason for it, it has to be relevant to the plot :/
you cant just have straight characters for the sake of having straight characters :/
like it’s just bad to try to force straight characters into a story for no reason :/
yall ever start writing and something so much darker than what u planned to write comes out and ur like ‘u ok in there’ to urself
