maybe there's hope

an X-Files fic sideblog for bitshortfromastormtrooper

[foeofcolor]

[ebookporn]

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[nowwhateinstein]

2026 MSR Bingo Challenge Card

Today’s the day, fam: the unveiling of the 2026 MSR Bingo Challenge Card!

For a plain text version of the bingo card: MSR Bingo Challenge 2026

HOW TO PLAY

Simply pick a row, column, or diagonal line on the board and write stories for those squares. You can write several short pieces or one longer story that combines multiple prompts.

The bingo element is meant as a fun challenge, but if you don’t want to write a fic with several prompts (or don’t have the time), no worries. Pick however many squares you’d like, in whatever combination suits your fancy!

*** I Want to Believe (Free Space): This is your chance to personalize the board! Maybe you want to include some domestic bliss in the Unremarkable House, explore an AU, or include a prompt not on the card. Do with it as you like! *** 

POSTING:

Post finished fics to the AO3 Collection (please read through the Rules before posting).

Authors are encouraged to share their fics when they post to AO3 on their socials!

Fic submissions will remain open indefinitely, but to be included in the official Challenge Master Fic List post on the socials, your stories must be submitted to the AO3 collection by Sunday, 6/28. Questions? Message me. Happy writing!

[haybellewrites]

you ever read one of your old fics and think "damn past self. you went hard on that one. i'm so proud of you." while simultaneously thinking "future self got to get their shit together and actually write something, i mean come on now."

[animentality]

[avelera]

If posting fic online has taught me anything, it’s that I have no idea how the reader will react to anything. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Not the faintest clue.

Fics that I think I scribbled off just to get them out there get the kindest, most rapturous feedback. Fics I slaved over, agonized over, bled my soul into get a couple tepid replies. Fics I thought were me revealing the darkness and weird kink that lives in my brain, scared to even post it for fear of judgement, get, “Aaaw that’s so sweet!” replies. Baffling.

My conclusion? You just never know. You really just can’t know. When I did a workshop with 20 other writers I would try to guess what their critique of my story would be and I was right maybe 1 in 20 times. Only one other writer would have the same critique for my story that I had. And it wasn’t even always the same person.

The encouraging part about this is, if self recrimination, the fear that you know what people won’t like about your story, is holding you back, just say fuck it! You’re almost certainly wrong! All you can do is make it the best story you can for the energy you have. And yeah, sometimes that means scribbling it out in an evening and kicking it out to the void of the internet before you can change your mind or worry about editing it more than once because then you’ll never post it.

It’s all chaos, man. You don’t get to decide what the audience thinks. All you can do is create it and put it out there for them to decide.

[moethh]

die die die

[kabsey]

I want to write more in 2026. And there’s only one way I can do it—by writing the most self-indulgent garbage you have ever seen.

[alonelystargazer]

writing goals for 2026 ✨

to write

[punksalmons]

the thing about writing is that it's very hard unless you have to leave the house in 15 minutes or perhaps go to bed

[pillowspace]

It feels like this every time I write a fic

[teddywesworl]

i do write for attention, actually, because that's a normal reason to create art

[teddywesworl]

did you hear about that actor performing a play in front of a crowd? clearly only doing it for attention

[teddywesworl]

im trying to say something and im not gonna say it in an empty room

[lena221bee]

tags by @yuanzhous

[fear-is-nameless]

Even a short comment or praise or constructive criticism can go a long ways. Might even make someone's day.

If you like something, say it!

[ghoulodont]

(stumbling out of the document covered in blood) ok i wrote 100 words

[plushworldz]

trust i got yall fr 💯💯💯

[pillowspace]

It feels like this every time I write a fic

[rimonoroni2]

good smut is really a character study and that is final. i need it to be about vulnerability i need it to be about trust or lack thereof and most of all i need it to be emotional agony. thats what sex is for