the irrepressible urge to make things

sideblog of an unhinged fanfic maker. i can promise... stuff. of questionable quality. we're just having fun, here. see pinned post for all relevant information 🩷

[solacium]

hello there!

i'm sol (he/they), fresh into my 30s. currently i write for genshin & hsr, with the occassional d.gray-man piece, and on an even rarer occassion, ensemble stars.

here's this blog's tag directory for a more complete idea of my ships & fandoms.

i'm one of those don't like don't read/don't ship don't interact people, but if you're particular about what the people you follow ship, there's a chance i might be on your dni. follow at your own peril!

i'm not particular at all about top/bottom dom/sub dynamics; everyone has switch potential to me, i just write certain dynamics more. do not rope me into shipping discourse, i'm just here to write.

that aside, i hope you enjoy your time here! sorry if you're seeing this late, i never anticipated getting any attention on here at all 💀

i follow from xing-hua.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

It's Worth It

As someone who has been stuck in the drafting stages for a long time, I get it. The slog gets tough. You take ages to rewrite something, only to realize the changes you've made contradict what needs to come later. Many hours have been wasted staring at walls, trying to get things to work.

But it will work. You will reach a point where everything makes sense. You will find a way to let go of great words that no longer have a place in your story, because you will be be able to replace them with better ones. You will end up with a better story that you will be proud of.

Keep going.

[cityandking]

oc asks: not-so-nice edition

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

hunt: Who or what is your OC hunted by? A person, a feeling, a past mistake? Is your OC able to let their guard down, or are they constantly alert?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pain: What's the worst pain your OC has ever felt? Do they have a high pain tolerance?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

[i-know-how-my-story-ends]

God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit

[bananonbinary]

“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.

which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”

[bananonbinary]

actually people should address this in fanfic more because “i know we could half-ass it, but i would never fake mistreat my fake husband, how dare you” is absolutely delightful

[thekijs]

New trope: fake dating for spite.

“Look, my only goal here is for our pretend relationship to be demonstrably healthier than Aunt Rita and Uncle Carl’s fifteen year, three child marriage - which means the bar is so low we probably can’t fuck this up”

[aurorawest]

preserving @river-gale’s tags for posterity because yes. yes. this is it. you get it.

[ficwip]

save the date

The All-Ships Ship Week!

A ship week for all ships, every last one of them! Your OCs too. Open to everyone 14 & up. The fleet sails from October 21-27

🚢 event info & prompt list

🚢 discord info (18+)

[ficwip]

The downloads are here! Just in time for the 10-day countdown

[thirtysixsavefiles]

few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

[the-space-narwhal]

[thehappyfangirl]

Someone mentioned on another tumblr post about how nobody complained that Agatha Christie wrote ANOTHER book about murder.

Write your story. Write it again. And again.

[sashaforthewin]

Okay but do you understand the TREASURE TROVE of reading a fic you enjoy and then looking at the author's page and discovering they have written multiple just like it?! That is the ultimate score!

[solacium]

tagged by @tellmewhatyouc! thank you for the tag <3

rules: share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able and see if there are any patterns!

with every breath i adore you | blade/luocha, hsr

He watches the flowers bloom into his palms, petals speckled with red.

2. heart, hands | blade/luocha, hsr

There is a faint chill in the air around them.

3. three of cups: the lighthouse keeper | neuvillette/wriothesley, genshin

He dreams – and yet he knows he is not quite dreaming, it is someone else's – of a storm.

4. the light of you (spills through my fingers) | blade/luocha, hsr

Luocha shucks off his shoes at the door and makes a beeline for the couch, collapsing onto it with a sigh.

5. two of cups: rain | neuvillette/wriothesley, genshin

Wriothesley finds him sitting on the edge of a ruin, feet hanging off the edge, gazing out toward the expanse of sea.

6. silver | neuvillette/wriothesley, genshin

He only ever seems to find himself here on his few idle afternoons.

7. second chance | blade/jingyuan, hsr

Sometimes it occurs to you that the only living person who has any memory of what happened all those years ago seems like a lifetime away, and no longer the same person you knew back then.

8. memento | blade/luocha, hsr

"It seems we get to see another year end," Luocha settles next to Ren, a rustle of fabric in the night breeze, faintly cool.

9. touch | blade/luocha, hsr

Ren watches as Luocha takes his hand in his own.

10. exceptions | blade/luocha, hsr

Night falls, with their quiet words.

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i like to drop you directly into what's happening; i'm not good at leading into scenes. i almost never start at the beginning when i write 😅

tagging.... whoever wld like in on this c: it was fun & made me actually think about how i start stories 😅

[noonbeam17]

theyre in a polycule

[awawandroid]

reminded me of soil composition chart

[luetta]

a handy pocket guide to all things

[solacium]

ao3 fic meme

tagged by @sodomhipped & @youknowthelines <33 sorry i took 9348576 years to get to it dkfjgh.

Rules: Go to your AO3 account and find the following:

What ratings do you write most of your fics under?

general (29)

mature (4)

teen and up (3)

What are your top three fandoms?

honkai: star rail (14)

genshin impact (12)

ensemble stars! (6)

What is the top character you write about?

blade (honkai: star rail) (10)

luocha (honkai: star rail) (7)

hehe

What are your top three pairings?

blade/luocha (8)

mikejima madara/oukawa kohaku (6)

diluc/kaeya (4)

What are the top three additional tags?

fluff (18)

established relationship (16)

not beta read (15) (AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

Does any of this surprise you?

not in the slightest, and in the most delightful way. i really hehe'd my way through this because it's nice to see my preferences laid out so clearly before me 🤭

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tagging @bladesandstars, @boyslit & @ladydorian-writes if you feel so inclined! and anyone else who'd like to hop on c: <3

[transmantraut]

[luna-azzurra]

Physical Intimacy Prompts

They bring their foreheads together in quiet moments, feeling each other’s breath and just being present.

When things get scary or uncertain, they instinctively reach for each other’s hand.

One sneaks up behind the other and wraps them up in a soft, comforting hug.

They gently trace patterns on each other’s skin, like absentmindedly drawing circles on the other’s arm.

When one is tired, the other’s shoulder becomes their perfect resting place.

Little stolen kisses, playful and unexpected, but always leaving the other smiling.

During an intimate moment, one plays with the other’s hair, lightly brushing through it.

Right before they lean in for a kiss, one bites their lip in anticipation, making the moment even sweeter.

Their lips barely touch, creating tension and leaving both wanting more.

[vasira96]

it's always "immortals always lose the ones they love!" and never "this family has had this incredible, powerful, loving figure present through generations of their lineage, all because they are descended from someone the immortal loved long ago" and i think that's a shame!!

[ficwip]

reblog and put in the tags the 13th sentence from any WIP

[a-really-hot-caterpillar]

One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

[shadowerrata]

I don't remember where I heard this now, but I absorbed the advice, "if you're stuck, count ten sentences back and start again from there". It's not always ten sentences back, for me, but it does force me to look at the last handful of lines I've actually written on a sentence instead of a story level, and that is eminently helpful in unsticking myself most of the time.

[theothin]

I recently resolved a point where I'd been stuck for months not by changing anything in the scene I was currently writing, but by realizing I needed to add another scene before that one to establish key information I couldn't work into the current one

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[questions-about-blorbos]

Would your Blorbo survive opening up and talking about their feelings?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 27, 2024

This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send the situation (in which you want to see a Blorbo) to our inbox and we’ll make a poll for you where people can vote if they think their Blorbos would survive said situation.