sorry. my bastard.

dori: 30s/whatever pronouns

[princesses-and-bitchcraft]

TALK TO ME ABOUT MY WIPS

Hello I’m Dori and I’m Very Bad At Writing. Now, I do not mean this as a criticism of the QUALITY of my writing but rather I am bad at the Act of putting words on paper. But I am always Thinking About It. So please, talk to me about my writing. I will love you forever.

Here is my AO3, and below the cut is a list of stuff that I’m currently working on. (Spoiler alert all my current stuff is Doctor Who.)

Firstly is the piece I have done the least with which is a sequel to An Alien Who Doesn’t Believe In Vampires, wherein Clara and Jenny team up to dismantle the Slayer system, with middling levels of success. I don’t have that much to say about it and I’m pretty sure it has an audience of exactly Two. (Celia is the second person. Hi Celia.)

I’ve also got my Movie Night AU sandbox that I play in. I’m currently working on one Actual Story TM where Jack challenges Clara to a drinking contest and loses pitifully, feat. 13, Yaz, the Ponds, and and Ashildr cameo. It is Just For Fun, many shenanigans ensue, Rory confiscates both Jack’s vortex manipulator AND the Doctor’s TARDIS keys (”Rory that’s not how it works, you can’t just take my keys, she’s not a car”) and to cap it off, this’ll have the distinction of being the first time Jack and the Ponds actually meet. If you think that seems like an absolutely batshit random cast of characters, well, I mean I guess you’re valid but it’s my sandbox so I make the rules lol

There’s lots of other stuff going on in the Movie Night sandbox but none of it that’s reached Actual Story status yet, mostly just cute, silly, or occasionally angsty Moments.

I’ve got something going on that’s sort of a sequel to both this and The Doctor Falls, wherein I Kill Missy For Real and Clara is left to deal with it. Realistically it’s going to be about the Lumiat when I really get it going but so far I’ve been too much of a coward to get to the Actually Killing Missy part and just keep adding a bunch of stuff to the beginning, including an exploration of Clara’s relationship with her ship when it’s really not the time. It’s going to be a very serious and probably pretty heavy piece, which is funny when it’s the sort-of sequel to That Self-Indulgent Puff Piece I Wrote While Drunk. I contain multitudes.

I’ve also building a bit of a series around whatever the Heck I started when I wrote On The Ruins Of A Good Death but that has mostly stalled out for the moment. Mostly what I’ve got right now is just a couple hundred words of Clara/13 being Toxic and the fam being Utterly Bewildered.

Finally, we’ve got Missy And 13 Are Given Space Flu (no working title, that’s really just a description). It’s actually NOT linked to anything I’ve already posted. I know, it’s very shocking. I don’t quite know what to say about it except that I am having A TON of fun writing it, the energy is INSANE, 13 is absolutely feral and has had quite ENOUGH of Missy’s shit but unfortunately, she’s stuck in the TARDIS sickbay with her. Yaz is also there. Yaz puts up with so much...... Poor Yaz......

(Oh yeah we don’t really talk about An Intemperate Interloper.)

OH ACTUALLY WHILE WE ARE HERE. I have not wrote anything about this in literal years but I DO also have a Buffy/Veronica Mars crossover that I would like to come back to Some Day where Lilly is a Potential Slayer (yknow.... instead of a corpse...)

[rabbitkinglune777]

get to know my ocs aesthetics!

[penny-anna]

over and over again it comes down to the fact that fanfiction is most people's only exposure to amateur writing

[penny-anna]

'so there's this website where literally anyone can post fiction they've written whenever they want and - get this! - a lot of it is bad' yeah no shit. what would you expect?

[justseventeen]

August 2001. 'Shimmery flavored lip gloss in a totally flipped-out case. For who you are.'

[sylveonetta]

BtSSB Osaka Exclusive coord for picnic with friends :)

More incredible photos my friend took of me ❤

(Not covering my face in any of these because these photos are gorgeous)

[natoraptor]

“Tour Guides”

-2026

[sawed-on-shotgun]

need a hat that says I WONT SPEAK UNLESS SPOKEN TO AND ITS NOT BECAUSE IM DISINTERESTED AND DONT LIKE YOU I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND SOCIAL INTERACTION AS WELL AS MOST PEOPLE AND ASSUME BY DEFAULT MY PRESENCE IS UNWELCOME AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE SO I KEEP TO MYSELF BUT I DONT MIND IF YOU INITIATE so i can wear it to work

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[murderthedolls]

[junewild]

incredible innovations on the beverage front

[ophanimkei]

[theveryworstthing]

you meet a mysterious cat girl at the pier before the fireworks show.

[naobox]

✨Yuu's magical girl transformation is finally revealed!✨

By the way, today is her birthday AND a solar eclipse! Incredibly fitting

[dykepuffs]

There is a really frustrating thing where some kinds of speculative story are hard to write because they will be assumed to be bad (clumsy, harmful, regressive) metaphors for real-world events or people, rather than exploring completely speculative ideas. Like:

"What if a small group of religious extremists, persecuted in their own country, moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there?" - But the Americas and Australia weren't inhospitable and were full of Native nations, why are you perpetuating the idea of Terra Nullius and manifest destiny? - Yes, that's because this isn't a metaphor for the British invading other countries, it's a metaphor for finding out how much of a person's religious practise is rooted in worldly concerns, vs how much they will really stymie themselves for the sake of God.

"What if 1/100 children born was a werewolf?" - But queer people are no danger to straight people, and disabled people don't have predictable patterns to their illnesses, and most people who have uncontrollable rages really CAN control them and are just lying, and no minority group has superpowers... - Yes, but that's all immaterial, because I wanted to talk about a load of other metaphors about the passage of time and responsibility and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

It almost feels like death of the author, like "Death of the most obvious metaphor" - If you couldn't reach for the (tormented) parallel between being an alien species and being stateless, what stories could someone tell? If your changeling-baby was neither disabled nor adopted, what would the story be about? Etc.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

[aetherograph]

Sometimes there's no metaphor.

The Wicker Man comes to mind. It's not a metaphor for anything. It's about the confrontation between Christianity and The Old Ways. There's metaphors in the story that are explained, but the film itself isn't a metaphor for anything. Christopher Lee's character says things elder Pagans taught me to say to Christians. The filmmakers did as much research as they could and cared about portraying the religious practises accurately according to information they had available to them at the time. The way the Christian character behaves, and what he says, is 100% things I have had said and seen done or had done to me and mine. There's no metaphor for anything, it's all right there in the open.

Sometimes there's no fucking metaphor.

Lately I've stopped writing because I feel so trapped by the audience assumption that everything I write will be seen to be, not just a metaphor, but specifically a bad metaphor, for some real-world thing when I am writing about literally what I'm writing about. A changeling is not inherently a Bad Metaphor for being autistic or disabled, writing about a religion is not inherently about Christianity. Vampires are not inherently a metaphor for sex or disability or what-the-hell-ever.

Not everything is a fucking metaphor, and tbh someone thinking everything must a metaphor for something else is a deeply Christian behaviour.

To assume that everything must be a metaphor is a very Christian way of viewing the world, I'm just gonna come out and say it plain. It's an established Christian belief that goes back at least as far as the medieval period, to think that everything in the world was created by their one-god as a metaphor or a parable for them to learn some kind of Christian idea, and that the whole world is meant to serve this purpose at all times.

Y'all need to stop fucking imposing that on everything. If you want that, stick to bible parables. Don't come out here reading stories by non-Christians expecting that's why or how we write stories, and certainly don't come out here combining it with bad faith readings and accusing people of things.

"well but I'm not christian anymore--" a person is what they PRACTISE, not what they say. People can SAY anything! So if you don't like being called christian, stop fucking behaving like one. Actions speak louder than words!

"but death of the author" that means YOU bring projection to the art, and YOU need to take responsibility for your response and interpretation. It isn't MY fault you are bringing a shitty, poisonous, lack of critical thinking to my story, and it isn't my job to soothe you either! death of the author means DEATH. It means grow up and take responsibility for your fucking projected meaning over the fucking text, not "my interpretation is what the author intended and even if it wasn't it's the author's responsibility to respond to me about it". No it isn't. You experience what YOU bring to the art.

Any piece of art will react to you if you react to it. You get from it what you bring to it. It will meet you half-way, but no further. It is alive if you are. It represents something--and so do you. YOU ARE A SPACE, TOO.

[rabbitkinglune777]

drew myself ^⁠_⁠^ - Punnya

[rabbitkinglune777]

im not as well versed in art as Salem is but I'm trying my best. he's resting a little bit and while he does that, I felt like doodling myself while I'm out. he'll be ok by tomorrow.

[parkchanwoohoo]

My (limited) understanding is that a yandere is like a stalker while a tsundere is like, mean to you to hide that they like you? I may have gotten the nuances wrong but I gotta say I prefer the former solely because the intentions are at least legible. When I was getting sorta stalked (not actually, he'd just watch my social media and then suddenly show up when I posted about being in different places) I Knew What The Deal Was, whereas I've apparently lost out on a lot of opportunities bc someone decided to go the negging route and I responded with disproportionate anger

[parkchanwoohoo]

Listen. Someone tells me they want me so bad they wanna cut my legs off? Clear communication, firm and open, no rhetorical tricks, I appreciate it even as I am rapidly buying a gun. Someone calls me an idiot? I'm saying things about their mom nobody in their bloodline has ever heard before. AND they like me? Well damn TALK to me then, Jesus

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]