GAB's Blog (or smth)

The fries on the side of my actual blog

[somethingbygab]

hiiiii

i'm gab (she/he). i have a lot of shit that i write and sometimes i get bored pretending to be a real author and just want to be silly and scream shitty ideas into the void so that's what i'm doing here.

my universe is inspired by harry potter (fuck jkr) except it's 100000% more gay and i actually put some thought into worldbuilding (not a lot but it's there). there's magic, there's angst, there's a lot of love, and there's really complicated lore that i hate explaining. if you want to see more, i have a real blog where i swear less but explain things more or smth. posts about that here are tagged with the sanguine sonata.

i also went on a side quest and started polishing an old work from before, which is tagged with cursed and chosen and can be found on ao3 here. currently updating on mondays.

tl;dr: felt silly, might delete later.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[wandringaesthetic]

You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

[corvuscorona]

if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes

[ach-sss-no]

guys i made my first blackout poetry

[talesfromaurea]

I'd much rather see one thousand "graphic design is my passion" canva book covers and scribbly ms paint covers and poorly scanned colored pencil covers than a single AI generated book cover

[stormyskies-writes]

Forbidden Love Dialogue Prompts

Trying out some different tropes. If there's a trope you'd like to see some prompts for in the future please let me know.

"Stop—someone might see us."

"You told them. You—I can't believe you told them about us. I trusted you."

"That fucking hurt!" "I'm sorry. I—I panicked when they walked in. I don't want to get caught!"

"Come on, you have to admit, sneaking around like this is kind of... fun."

"Someone saw us last night. They saw us. God, what if they tell?"

"I don't care! I don't care. I can't do this anymore. The lying, the sneaking around. I can't bear the thought of anyone else touching you, of anyone thinking... I want everyone to know you're mine."

"We—We can't." "Why not?" "If anyone ever found out..." "They won't."

"I love you." "You take that back." "No. I'm done hiding. I love you, and I want the entire world to know you're mine."

"Would it really be so bad—getting caught?" "Yes!"

"We have to stop." "What are you talking about?" "We can't keep doing this. We're going to get caught." "I don't care."

"Why won't you admit it?" "Because I'm scared, dammit! I'm terrified of what this means. I'm terrified to want you, to need you, to... love you. Because if anyone ever found out... God, it would destroy us."

"We were doomed from the start. But you know what, I wouldn't change a damn thing."

"Loving you was never the problem. It was pretending I didn't that killed me."

[the-bar-sinister]

I'm so glad to see AO3 making it absolutely clear that none of these things are allowed to even be HINTED at.

Here's some of the language from the new post about AO3's police on commercial promotion:

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There is a wide variety of things that are not allowed under AO3's non-commercialization rules.

Any other language which one might interpret as requesting or having requested financial contributions, whether for yourself or others. This covers indirect references, euphemisms, or other language intended to get around the TOS. Some examples of this include:

Thanks for the coffee!

My ☕ username is the same as my username here

This chapter is brought to you by my patrons

You know where to find me if you want early or bonus chapters

Check out my Twitter to learn how you can donate to me since I'm not allowed to discuss it here

If you want to hear more about my ideas, talk about fandom, or find more of my stuff for a coin, visit my Tumblr

Solicitation is not allowed, whether it's for yourself or on behalf of someone else.

[srfirefox]

Here's the crazy thing, folks. You *can* day things like "My Tumblr is [username], come over and scream into the void about these blorbos with me!" And then plaster your kofi all over your Tumblr. You can say "Thanks to [someone] for suggesting this fic! I listen to people's suggestions all the time on Tumblr!" for literally any reason someone told you to write a fic.

It's not hard to filter out the things you shouldn't say based on environment. Back when I was in high school you'd hear about all the fun someone had that weekend, but they wouldn't say there was drinking and weed and throwing firecrackers into a campfire where a teacher or parent could hear them.

[inqorporeal]

The reason we're not allowed to post monetary links or use any language alluding to it on AO3 is for our protection. If a copyright holder wants to sue a fan writer for making money or demand their work be taken down as "property" of the copyright holder, AO3's lawyers need to be able to defend us by saying money isn't being made and not perjuring themselves.

It's a LEGAL issue. AO3 has no issues with writers earning money. Just not directly via their platform. Not enough people seem to understand this. There's a very long history of copyright holders throwing their weight around and taking a hatchet to fandom spaces using legal backing, and we're trying to avoid that.

[lierdumoa]

It's more than that though. It's not just about protecting their asses, legally. It's also about the principles and values upon which AO3 was built.

AO3 came out of an exlicitly anti-monetization fan culture. You will hear the founders of AO3 use the term "gift economy" a lot if you follow any of their socials, which is another way of saying "mutual aid economy."

AO3 is a non-profit organization built and coded and maintained by volunteer labor and charitable donations.

Understand that when you try to use the AO3 platform to monetize, you are not just monetizing your own labor as a fan creator. You are also monetizing the volunteer labor of everyone who built that platform.

And they will tell you that they are NOT OKAY with you exploiting THEIR LABOR, THEIR HOURS UPON HOURS OF CODING AND TAG WRANGLING AND ORGANIZING AND FUNDRAISING, for your personal gain.

Stop trying to sell books in the middle of a library.

[saturn-s-ghost]

I have no outline tho, just vibes

[somethingbygab]

gotta write the manuscript to write The Scene

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

“First and foremost I’m writing for myself,” I hiss through my teeth, resisting the urge to refresh my email for an Ao3 message for the 100th time.

[vermin-and-the-maggots]

Unfortunately reblogs were turned off but that post is important for people in fandoms to see

[13personalities]

my dearest love (ao3) has befallen a great tragedy (is down for maintenance) so i must pine alone in my lonely tower (i could do something productive but i think not)

[somethingbygab]

*starts a new story instead of finishing up already started stories*

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

anyway the fall of the house of usher needed more drama so why not write a longfic about it?

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[eridan-ampora]

narrator who's terrible at social cues & describes every facial expression as "unreadable"

[ursulakats]

"The frown was completely unreadable. Thankfully, the loaded and raised gun offered a clue."

[somethingbygab]

Chapters: 15/15

FINAL CHAPTER IS UP NOWWWWWW

[somethingbygab]

chapter 13 is going really slowly so great

i really have hit creative block so probably not gonna be an update this week. i have some of the chapter written minus the aforementioned timeskip (which made me feel closer to an update than i actually am) as i power through the block because i want to finish this story, so fingers crossed for an update next week ig

[somethingbygab]

i love writing chapter summaries lol chapter 13 is finally up!

will chapter 14 be up next week? only time can tell (probably not tho)

[somethingbygab]

i'm finally putting up the last chapter today??? sounds fake but it's so happening!

[batsandboba]

(opening the author’s works page after finishing a fic) and if im lucky they’ll have written this exact same fic but different a bunch more times

[batsandboba]

and if im unlucky, Hockey RPF (37)