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Sunny | adult | pro-ship | any pronouns | fanfic writer and fandom account

[solar-eclippse]

❄️ Sunny | Any pronouns | Adult ❄️

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❄️ No extensive DNI, as long as you know that I’m queer and proship and won’t dial myself down for people who disagree with that. I have no patience for bigotry, including whatever type of bigotry you think of as "acceptable". Minors can interact, as long as you block the tags “nsft” and “suggestive”.

❄️ Fanfic writer (technically, I write original fiction as well).

❄️ Currently focused on Blue Eye Samurai, but I've also written for Arcane, League of Legends, Overwatch, The Magnus Archives, and RWBY. Other media I enjoy and will likely post about includes Wings of Fire, Castlevania: Nocturne, Baldur's Gate 3, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Homestuck, Genshin Impact, Dungeon Meshi, One Piece, The Silt Verses, The Elder Scrolls, and the Horizon games.

❄️ I regularly go on unplanned hiatuses, sometimes for months. If you're worried I've abandoned this account, there's a 99% chance I haven't, but feel free to send me an ask!

❄️ Sideblog - I follow back from my main.

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Reminder that the label NSFW (or versions like nsft) is not a moral judgment. "Not safe for work" literally means "if your boss glanced over and saw this on your phone or computer screen, you could get penalized or fired." That's why nudity is labeled as NSFW because even if nude bodies aren't inherently sexual, your boss probably still wouldn't be thrilled to see naked people on your screen.

[pillowspace]

It feels like this every time I write a fic

[jabberwockprince]

me when i see people assign who is the mom, dad, kids and uncles/aunts to a group of friends/found family and entirely ignoring all the fucking complexities of their relationships with each other to give them the same exact shallow surface traits for nuclear family shit. and then that cold ass take on the characters becomes the popular one which means its illegal to even think about these friends having any sort of interesting dynamic bc the majority of people now perceive them as actual blood related family bc theyve been reduced to nothing but polly pocket dolls

[syn4k]

[talking about my favorite characters] okay so THESE two come in a bonded pair and if i think about them too hard i start taking poison damage

[talentlesshuman]

Vent art

[talentlesshuman]

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[thankyourluckystars13]

I'm really not apologetic with this hard stance, either. I'm very firm on this, too. My art has already been used, twice now by people who did not ask my permission, so they could "enhance it" with Gen AI. I really see nothing good coming from generative AI except poor excuses for laziness and glorified search engines that don't work.

[iguanodonwildman]

This is an important time to make the distinction between generative and analytical AI. Analytical AI is what AI is supposed to be for. It’s all the boring stuff like analyzing data for patterns. For example, you probably heard about that AI that was designed to tell apart bear claws from croissants for a bakery that is now being used to detect cancer cells with greater accuracy than human doctors. That’s an analytical AI, while everything mentioned in the post above is generative AI. (Which sucks!)

[colakills]

just saw another fic that completely misunderstood elementary schoolers. going to make a post as soon as my shift is done

[colakills]

i lied im doing this mid shift.

okay starting with preschoolers (3-5 year olds) they range a lot. i mostly work with nonverbal preschoolers, but i know several who are insanely verbose and use big words. one of them will answer questions in full sentences, the other doesn't even respond to her name.

kindergartners are pretty similar, but they tend to do a lot of vacant stares.

first graders looove attention. if you pay attention to a first grader you're done for. they tend to start developing their personalities to an extent at this point, and are more like little drama queens than anything else.

second graders are complex, strange beasts. they know swear words. they watch horror movies. they stay up until 8. they're real rebels. at this point they get a little meaner. more likely to point out your boogers. they still think burps are funny.

third grade is a bunch of little guys. like at this point they're at the age where they think they're basically adults and have nothing to worry about. baby talking them is a bad idea.

forth grade is 9-10 year olds and trust me, they're so much more mature than you think. they're basically like people. some of them are pretty cool. some are not.

fifth are the snootiest, smuggest little bastards on earth. they understand slurs and use them. do not talk to them.

[autumncrocusandladybug]

Chipping in : 3 to 5 years old

3 years old : depending on their mood, they want to do everything alone or have an adult by their side during the whole task more for the attention than for any real help. They have a thirst for independence. They are really proud of their achievements and also really proud to be big because now that they started school of course they are a grown up. Their sentences aren’t perfect but they actually speak way better than you think (if they want to talk - not talking non verbal here : some of them won’t talk to you until there is a high level of trust). It tends to be the age where they ask « why » all the time and it may not stop for a while. They have no real concept of time : they say earlier for last week and will believe you are 10 since you are that much older than them.

4 years old : it’s the age they can be real little shit. They are in a balance where they still want your attention but also do not want your attention AT ALL. They are starting to master the language which means they will start to « lie », they are actually just trying to see how far they can take language. They are generally understanding more and more about the world and it may be overwhelming. I’ve seen more meltdown from 4 years old than 3

5 years old : they know things you had no idea about in details you can’t imagine. They love the old gods, old civilizations, geography, everything about nature… They just want to know how everything work. They almost reached the point where they can speak like an adult. They are pretty independent but may from time to time want you for themselves to remind you they are here. If they actually feel you may not be there for them, they may try to do a lot of shit to get your attention

[mikkeneko]

What my dad (who was a teacher) used to say about the 9-11 range was, by that point they have pretty much mastered being a kid. They understand and can manage pretty much everything in their environment. They know who they are and what they like and what they're capable of, and they can do pretty much anything they care enough to do.

And then puberty comes in and burns it all down to the foundation and they have to start that mastery process all over again.

But by a lot of measures a 9-11 year old kid can do pretty much anything (with some obvious categorical exemptions) an adult can do.

[red-stairs]

I saw this and had to save this image cause I definitely have a few readers like this.

[lumpywhump]

a whumpee who can't stand silence anymore. It lets them think, and when they think, all the bad stuff comes out. They can't deal with it. So they consistently have a tv on when they sleep or have music following them through the house... now what happens if they don't have access to that anymore?

[ozonegrrrl]

jinx :3 :3 :3 :3

[coffincoitus]

two characters: flirty banter, clearly getting off on the power dynamics between them

people who are scared of going to hell for masturbating: he loves him like a son

me, hauving covid: can he call him that while they fuck

[leonkennedysprostate]

having talented friends is so wild!!!!!! like. YOU!!!!!!!!!! YOU made THAT. YOU DID THAT?!?!?!?! YOU created!!!! THAT!!!!!!!!!!! WOAH!!!!!! praise!!!!!!!! praise for one thousand years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tide-locked]

i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

[tide-locked]

i am obsessed, in the most derogatory way possible, with the people in the notes who are reading this post and then saying, well, those stats you're pointing at are why you have to make it clear in fiction that they've had a conversation about Consent And Safety. if you don't tell people to use condoms, if you don't tell people that it's not ok to choke someone without prior consent, if you don't tell people that they have to do these things Correctly, you're part of the problem.

so i will say it again: fiction is a reflection of life, but it is not real life. fiction does not have to set a good example. fiction does not have to be safe, sane, or consensual.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible way to live your life. if you read it looking for that, you are the problem.

[whumpingandsmilinglikeanidiot]

Whumpee thinks Caretaker is their new master. Good trope, right? But check this out;

Caretaker doesn't notice.

Because the morning after the day they were rescued, all Whumpee did was get Caretaker a cup of coffee. It was only after then that Whumpee realized new master new rules, and Caretaker might not like coffee at all. So after an hour or so of a panic attack, Whumpee decides to stay put and not do anything.

But Caretaker didn't say anything about that coffee, so Whumpee should probably keep doing that?

And so, every morning, Caretaker gets a cup of coffee, says thank you, that's a nice gesture, and gets done with the day, while Whumpee tries to stay as quiet and unnoticed as possible. Not angering Caretaker is their top priority. Caretaker notices Whumpee is really, really quiet, but hey, they might just like it quiet. They do seem a little scared, but they've been putting off well, so Caretaker is positive that they'll get better with time.

Then Caretaker hears Whumper liked a cup of coffee every morning.

That's.. a strange coincidence.

I hope that's a coincidence.

And they finally try to talk to Whumpee about it, and Whumpee breaks into tears and Caretaker realizes what a mess this is,

[endeacent]

A porcelain rose, forever blooming

[what-even-is-thiss]

The line between fantasy and sci-fi is a highly frayed shoelace that’s been cut into multiple pieces and randomly tossed over someone’s shoulder tbh

[what-even-is-thiss]

It kind of comes down to vibes and not even then because dungeons and dragons has aliens in it and Star Wars exists

[what-even-is-thiss]

You can explain things with magic and technology because as has been proven you can have space lasers and actual Thor in the same movie.

[luna-azzurra]

What to Give a Sh*t About While Brainstorming Your Book

(A.K.A. Before You Even Touch That Shiny Blank Page)

↳ What You’re Actually Obsessed With Stop trying to write what’s trendy. What do you spiral about at 2 a.m.? What ideas make you grin like a gremlin and mutter, “Ohhh, that’s juicy”? That’s your story. Chase that weird, niche, can’t-let-it-go stuff. Your obsession will be the fuel that drags you through chapter 27 when everything sucks and you kind of want to fake your own death.

↳ Your Story’s “Why the Hell Should Anyone Care?” Not in a mean way. But genuinely—why should a stranger give up sleep to read this? What itch does it scratch? What feeling does it deliver? Figure that out early and let it guide you like a tiny emotional compass. If you can’t answer it yet, cool. But keep poking at it until you can.

↳ A Character With Big, Messy Feelings Don’t start with a plot. Start with a person. A disaster with a wound and a want. Someone who wants something so badly it makes them do unwise things. Get to know them like a nosy therapist. Let them tell you what kind of story they want to be in.

↳ Conflict That Isn’t Just Vibes Mood boards are fun. But conflict is what makes a story move. Make sure you’ve got some stakes, emotional, relational, existential, literal. If your idea doesn’t have anything to push against, it’s not a story yet. It’s an inspiration board.

↳ A Rough Emotional Shape Not an outline. Not yet. Just… the feeling. Where does it start (lonely)? Where does it go (rage)? Where does it end (hopeful)? Think of your book like a rollercoaster. You need the high points, low points, and those slow creaky climbs that make people scream. If it’s all flat? Snoozefest.

↳ The One Vibe You Want to Nail Every great book has a thing. An atmosphere. A flavor. Your job during brainstorming is to catch the scent of it. Is it spooky and tender? Funny and tragic? Cozy but secretly brutal? Whatever it is, write it down. Tattoo it on your brain. Let it infect every scene.

↳ Something You’re Scared to Write About You don’t have to go here. But if something in your gut says, “Oh god, I could never write about that”… maybe poke it. Maybe there’s gold in there. Maybe the story wants to heal something. You don’t have to bleed for your art—but if it makes you uncomfortable in a thrilling way? That’s your fire.