You Drink Water, I Drink Anarchy

Little blog about all my headcanons and fics and actually, just everything. Mostly batfam! RedNightDeer on AO3

[rednightdeer]

I’m so excited to post chapter 2 of Debauched Halflings!!

[buried-alive-inside-my-comics]

BRUCE WAYNE IS A PTA PARENT

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[brucewayneweek]

WHY

HELLO HELLO HELLO

Bruce as PTA-Parent fans

Have we got a prompt for you!

👀Monday August 22👀 we’re looking at you!

@brucewayneweek

[brucewayneweek]

Bruce Wayne Week!

August 21 - 27, 2022

Official Prompt List is Here!!

We can’t wait to see what everyone creates for this year’s Bruce Wayne Week!

Make sure to read the Rules and FAQ before starting to create.

Remember, this is a Character Appreciation Week for Bruce. All of your works must be Bruce-centric and if they include Bruce-ships, Bruce must get at minimum 50% of the focus.

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Almost all forms of fanworks are accepted - fanfic, fanart, headcanons, incorrect quotes, playlists, mood boards, etc.

Send us an Ask with any questions!

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Official Prompt List

Aug 21 - Virgin!Bruce / Medieval AU / Heart of Gotham

Aug 22 - Hugs & Cuddles / Mer AU / In the PTA*

Aug 23 - Childhood Friend / Arranged Marriage / Father Figure

Aug. 24 - Brand new at Batman / Wing Fic AU / Fear of Guns

Aug. 25 - “I’m Vengeance” / Accidental Infant Acquisition / Grey Ghost

Aug. 26 - Caffeine Addiction / Midnight Snacks / Bored At Meetings

Aug. 27 - Eyeliner / New Parent / Therapy

*PTA = Parent-Teacher-Association, a group that advocates for school improvements. They might hold bake sales and fundraisers for needed supplies, argue about uniform requirements, organize school events like dances and spirit rallies, etc.

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This is a ship-friendly, censorship-free event. We will have a tagging system in place for blog posts so that everyone can safely curate their own experience.

Follow us on Twitter brucewayne_week

Please reblog to help spread the word!!

[brucewayneweek]

Bruce Wayne Week 2021

Clarification of Intent and Rules

Bruce Wayne Week is a Character Appreciation Week. 

This is a Bruce-centric week with the express purpose of creating fanworks that focus on Bruce.

You may have secondary characters and Bruce-ships, of course! - but Bruce’s character should be the main focal point of your work.

Please read the EVENT RULES and FAQ for further clarification* before beginning to create!

Thanks to gayclarkkent on Twitter for creating our prompts graphic! 

*If the links don’t work, it’s probably due to a Tumblr bug that affects android phones. Try them on a computer, or visit the AO3 Collection profile for the list of Rules and FAQS.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/BruceWayneWeek2021/profile#faq

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[theclonewriter-blog]

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

[onewordtest]

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

[joehywheelah]

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

[tenoko1]

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

[cj-amused]

Things I didn’t know

[prismatic-bell]

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

[jawnwats-deactivated20160713]

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

[brucewayneweek]

Bruce Wayne Week 2021 -  Official Prompt List

August 22 - 28, 2021

August 22 - Detective / Gothic / Enemies to Lovers

August 23 - Gala / Identity Porn / Marriage 

August 24 - Villain!Bruce / Historical / Nightmares 

August 25 - Young!Bruce / Omegaverse / Undercover 

August 26 - Animal Transformation / Soulmates / Truth Serum 

August 27 - Parenting / Multiverse / Suits 

August 28 - Monster / Time Travel / Free Day

We are super excited and hope you are, too!

But, before you get those creative juices flowing, 

please check out the Event Rules & FAQ 

And, stay tuned to this blog! We want to build community as well as a larger body of Bruce-centric work, so we’ll offer occasional check-in’s leading up to the event - all of which are completely OPTIONAL and NOT REQUIRED for event participation - but we’d love to hear from you in the upcoming months as BRUCE WAYNE WEEK 2021 approaches to learn how you’re getting on and to help spread the word so all of your hard work gets lots of views from AUGUST 22 - 28!!!  

Please reblog this post! 

[rednightdeer]

YASSSS IT’S GONNA BE AMAZING

[brucewayneweek]

It’s Voting Time

for Bruce Wayne Week 2021

You can vote here ONCE between March 23 - 29, 2021. 

Attempts to “stuff the ballot box” will most likely result in those prompts being disqualified. Please only submit this form once. We want an enjoyable event with a broad range of prompts that excites many participants, not a select few.

The Official Prompt List will be posted by April 2. 

Bruce Wayne Week 2021 runs from August 22 - 28. 

Event Rules and FAQ

[brucewayneweek]

Bruce Wayne Week Interest Check

It’s coming! A Bruce-centric week in August 2021 to create fics, art, mood boards, playlists, or whatever you can imagine about our favorite man!

This is a ship-friendly, censorship-free event.

Other members of the Batfamily may be included in your works, but the focus should be on Bruce - be it his personal struggles, trauma, romances, or family relationships if seen through his lens and perspective.

Please complete our interest survey if you plan to participate and to help us choose which week in August works best for you.

We will take prompt suggestions once the dates have been finalized.

Spread the word by reblogging!

[rednightdeer]

Memes I made for the fic Silver Secrets by @aboutbatman

Here is a link to the fic:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27632537/chapters/67607714

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Go read it bc it’s awesome!!

[rednightdeer]

When your car wants to bang you

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationship: Bruce Wayne/Batmobile

Characters: Batmobile - Character ; Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Drug Use ; Implied/Referenced Sex ; look the batmobile is a human okay ; This is crack ; the love is one sided ; Attempt at Humor

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26802112

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[imsadandwantsomeonetorailme]

just some,,, assets of the batboys ;) ;)

[panoramicambitions]

black and red

for day 1 of superbat week 2020, i painted the capes prompt

[darkest-drop]

Day 2 @superbatweek Fake dating

Rating: G

It hurts to pretend you have the most amazing thing in life.

[rednightdeer]

JUST A QUICKIE

Superbat week day 1: cape p0rn and omegaverse

Warnings: none

Rating: E

Couple: Lord Superman / Lord Batman

Tags: justice lords universe, toxic relationship, cum inflation, belly bulge, blowjob, anal sex, omegaverse: alpha!Kal and omega!Bruce

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25533544

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[mx-uniix]

Tips for a newbie fanfiction writer?

[zeskiverse]

You can’t improve without writing.

Always have back up of your stuff.

Distraction-free software that helps you write do exist.

Pasting your text from google docs onto AO3 will make it look funny.

There’s a script☆ that solves that problem.

Feedback (or the lack thereof) is never what you expect.

Learn to write for yourself in the first place.

Not everything you write will be the best fic ever™.

You can’t control how people react to your stuff.

No self-deprecation. Seriously.

A good summary attracts people. (No “I suck at summaries” there!)

Punctuation and structure are so important.

Don’t be afraid of using a character’s name. That’s why they have one.

Get a beta reader if you can.

It’s YOUR story and only you can tell it.

DO write that 9861th coffee shop AU for your fandom.

Anything is an AU.

Researching is good but don’t let it keep you from writing.

Tag your stuff accordingly.

Advice you see around aren’t supreme rules set in stone.

You’ll learn more about your style as you go.

Don’t compare your writing to others’. Especially “famous” fic writers.

Perfection doesn’t exist. Stop striving for it and just write.

A rough draft is better than NO story.

It’s okay to move on from an unfinished work to a new one.

It’s okay to not write 200K words in an hour.

Any length of writing is okay. Just focus on telling YOUR story.

Slumps and writer block are common.

You can always improve your writing if you want to.

Read lots and notice what you like in other people’s writing.

If you’re not having fun take a step back.

Set up a sideblog for writing on tumblr.

Tag your stuff accordingly. (both on AO3 and tumblr)

Follow spaces for fanfic discussions like @ao3commentoftheday

There’s no consensus about ANYTHING regarding fanfiction.

You can’t please everyone but you can please yourself.

Some people out there are rude and can’t be reasoned with.

Fanfiction is NOT your job. Don’t feel guilty for “not updating in months”.

Publish your stuff because you want to share it.

Everybody write crappy fics. Write yours.

Game soundtracks (instrumental) are great to play while writing. 

There’s always somebody out there waiting for your fic.

Many times you won’t hear but they exist.

Have fun. Indulge yourself. Treat yo self.

Writing is the best thing but also the worst.

Jot down those ideas. You won’t “remember later”. Seriously you won’t.

Inspiration often hits you when you CAN’T write.

It also often leaves when you can write.

Everybody hates and loves writing. That’s the life of a writer for ya.

Even your fave fic writer can feel ehh about the fic of theirs you LOVE.

Starting from the middle or the end IS a thing.

Listen to Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten. She knows what’s up.

[ao3commentoftheday]

I write my fics out in Google Docs and then paste the text into Ao3 when I'm ready to post it. Does anyone else have the problem of pasting with italics? If there's a word in italics next to punctuation, Ao3 will add in a space for some reason and it's kind of infuriating.

One of the AO3 translation volunteers (Min) created a Google Docs script to handle issues when copying from a doc into AO3. It’s really easy to use

create a copy of this google doc. It contains the script that will do all of the HTML formatting for you.

Delete all of the text from the document.

Write or paste your fic/chapter into the document.

Go up to the top menu and click the new menu option Post to AO3, then choose Prepare for posting into the HTML editor

Note: because this is an apps script, you’ll need to give it permission to run the first time. 

The script will automatically mark up your document with the required HTML that you can then paste into the AO3 composition window. \o/

To revert your text back to normal, just go back up to that menu and choose Remove HTML. It will look like regular text again. 

Once you have the doc, you can make a new copy of it for each new fic you write and that way you’ll always have that script available when you need it :)

For other cool stuff, read this post from @ao3org - which is where I found this script in the first place ❤

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shout out to all the artists and writers that can relate to the feeling of “this won’t take very long at all” with the follow-up of “Oh Dear this is taking much longer than anticipated”