I've been experimenting with a few drawing styles lately and I'm pretty happy with this one. I call it "Average AO3 Author."

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I've been experimenting with a few drawing styles lately and I'm pretty happy with this one. I call it "Average AO3 Author."
So...as you may or may not know and/or care, I've been struggling with writing a fanfiction recently, so I did what I usually do and got really drunk and wrote...not the fic, but something:
I can't write. My inspiration is gone. If only there were some magic potion that could make it better...
I see the shot glass I bought from the island where my grandma was born, sitting on my desk, looking right at me. I don't even think I was 18 when I bought it, just like I wasn't 18 when I had the photo on my photo ID taken...the ID I used to buy a bottle of cherry Sourz a few days ago.
I sigh as I put two and two together, knowing exactly where this leads. But...what if it doesn't have to this time? I'm not 18 anymore, I can drink responsibly. I take the bottle off the shelf and pour myself a shot.
It's sour, of course, but also sweet, the familiar burn of the alcohol searing the back of my throat. It tastes good. I don't have to go crazy, just enough to get some liquid inspiration. Those two shots won't do it, so I chug another.
I wonder what my grandma was thinking when she let her 17-year-old granddaughter buy a shot glass. Probably, "well, she'll be 18 soon and knowing our family, it will be all downhill from there." She wasn't wrong.
I still don't feel a buzz. I pour another shot, and another, and another, and...I lose count after that. Maybe it's not so bad, drinking. I remember being told a story at uni about a guy who said drinking saved his life, but I don't remember his name or who he is. It's just some crazy story we used to tell to justify getting shit faced and missing lectures the next morning.
I put on some old episodes of Family Guy for...inspiration? Background noise? Just because? I don't know. I think the Sourz is starting to kick in.
The shot glass seems to get smaller the more I pour into it. It's a simple thing, mostly clear and colourless, with the three-legged coat of arms of the Isle of...oh...what is it called? Oh well. The coat of arms is the same colour as the cherry Sourz.
Do I even need the glass? If I continue trying to pour shots into it, I'm going to spill something, but if I just drink straight out of the bottle...
I may as well stop pretending. I know exactly where this leads. I put the glass down and take a swig straight from the bottle. I'm feeling so good now, so happy, so at peace with the world.
I set the shot glass aside. It's probably for the best. Somehow, it reminds me of a simpler, more innocent time. Maybe that's what my grandma was thinking when she let me buy it, she thought it might make me think twice about succumbing to the family curse. Too bad it only works when I'm already drunk.
Back in the old days, at uni, I would have only drunk like this to go out with my friends and party the night away. I still feel the urge to dance. Instead, I laugh at the memory. All those friends have moved on now, to bigger and better things - and I suppose technically, I have too. There's just this one habit I can't quite seem to kick. I wonder if any of those old friends ever drink like this and remember the old days.
I'm so tired. I haven't even looked at the thing I'm supposed to be writing. Oh well. I know where this leads. I rest my head, just for a few minutes...oh, who am I kidding? I'm falling asleep, still vaguely aware of Family Guy in the background, lulling me to sleep like a lullaby. One of these days, I won't wake up again, but as a wise person once said, "never get drunk unless you're willing to pay for it in the morning."
A/N: I'm aware it's a cheap shot, but it's a cheap shot at someone who can definitely take it and will never read this anyway.
You're in the middle of writing a long-ish fanfiction and you're suddenly hit with writer's block so severe you can barely even write a stupid Tumblr poll about it. What do you do? Asking for...purely hypothetical reasons.
Leave it for a few days and hope your inspiration returns
Open up the fic and force something out
Get really drunk/high and try writing
Give up on writing entirely
Use what you already have written as a Chat GPT prompt and let AI write the rest
Have a mental breakdown for several weeks and see where that goes
Start a new life in the forest and slowly forget about the modern world
Other/ Are you insane?/ Show results
I didn't expect this to blow up quite as much as it did, I thought it would get like 4-5 votes at most but 77, wow! I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who voted, particularly the 97.4% of you who didn't call me insane, that was very nice of you.
You're in the middle of writing a long-ish fanfiction and you're suddenly hit with writer's block so severe you can barely even write a stupid Tumblr poll about it. What do you do? Asking for...purely hypothetical reasons.
Leave it for a few days and hope your inspiration returns
Open up the fic and force something out
Get really drunk/high and try writing
Give up on writing entirely
Use what you already have written as a Chat GPT prompt and let AI write the rest
Have a mental breakdown for several weeks and see where that goes
Start a new life in the forest and slowly forget about the modern world
Other/ Are you insane?/ Show results
Ever read through your old fics and realise they're absolutely riddled with plot holes? I re-read my Garashir multiverse fic which I thought was pretty cool, but it turns out it's full of plot holes! Here are a few, just for funsies:
In a modern day universe, they go to a train station and drink coffee. In a modern day universe later on the fic, it's established they have no money and Garak steals a credit card. How did they pay for the coffee in the earlier universe?
In that same universe, they just...steal a train. In my defence, I was pretty delivberately vague about this: "Somehow, they managed to disconnect it (the front carriage), figure out how to get it moving and set off down the track before anyone followed them." However, there is zero mention of a driver or any passengers, even in passing.
In a universe where Julian's augmentations were discovered before he graduated Starfleet Academy, he flees to Terok Nor while it's still under Cardassian control. Through a series of events, he ends up having to flee from there, and with the help of our boys steals a spaceship from the docking bay...whose doors just...open...somehow...I guess...with no explanation. At all.
Nobody in modern day Earth-based universes notices Garak is a literal alien. This was supposed to be a running joke but isn't mentioned nearly enough for it to work.
The means by which they move from universe to universe and the reasons they can't just go back to their own universe are hopelessly nonsensical and inconsistent. There is always a transporter involved, or they put together a makeshift one, but none of the specifics make sense. Admittedly, this is consistent with the show, but it's really annoying when you notice it.
Near the beginning, it's established they have to be touching while they transport in order to materialise anywhere near each other in the next universe. However, on one of their last jumps, Julian is the only one who is given access to the transporter and only manages to transport Garak using some nonsensical trickery, meaning they were nowhere near each other at the start of the jump. In the next universe, they materialise right next to each other...this should have been impossible.
Not really a plot hole, just something that didn't make it into the fic: I was originally going to explain that they keep running into duplicates of themselves due to the transporter picking up on their DNA signatures and dropping them near similar DNA. I guess that doesn't make much sense now I write ir down, but it might have gone some way to explaining why there always happend to be a convenient Garak and Bashir in every random universe they end up in.
I'm sure there's more but these are the main ones I noticed. Will I be editing my Garashir multiverse fic? Absolutely not. Is there a point to this post? Also no. Do I think anyone is going to bother reading this? Fuck no.
Obnoxious annual birthday twins post! Happy birthday to me, Andrew J Robinson (aka Garak from DS9) and Simon Pegg (aka Scotty from AOS).
A missed opportunity was for us to see Julian get back from his lunch with Garak, looking all pleased with himself, walking into his quarters. Y’know, it’s been a long day. He takes off his boots, his jacket, gets out an actual notebook and writes something down. Then we see him rip it out and go to his closet where he dramatically sweeps all his identical uniforms out of the way to get to the back wall where he has a Pepe Sylvia red string board titled “WTF IS GARAK”. He push pins in the paper he just wrote on that reads “has maybe A Mom????” because he’s fucking determined to figure out Garak and this is what he got during lunch today.
Of my 2 WIPs I'm working at the moment, one comes from a place of deep-seated misplaced rage and the other stems from intense regret and a desire to change the past. Naturally, the first is about zombies and the second is a silly time travel romp. Also, both are currently untitled.
if u were a huge asshole as a kid. and u still feel guilty over it. especially with tumblr's evil bullshit moral stance that you can never be forgiven for cruelty you've done in the past - even as a kid - bc "omg *i* knew better as a kid, you were being bad as a kid bc you're just a bad person" - it is literally just Not True. you do not have to hold the weight your guilt for the rest of your life. the person you are & the way you choose to act Now is the only indicator of whether you are a "good" person or not. if you understand the mistakes you made & choose to be compassionate & kind instead, there is no need to feel like you've lacked absolution - you find it for yourself in your growth into the person you want to be
there are some actors who are like ;) maybe they are g-a-y! it could be whatever you want it! ;) and then theres andy and sid
Ooohhhh Sid
Is this the same event as the Death Grip Photo? They were really gaying it up that day, huh!
I know I'm late to the party...but I just happened to be looking through some old AO3 comments...and...and...I...called it? I called it...I CALLED IT! It may have been a weird alternate universe hologram thing but I'm taking it!
I'd ike to thank Elemental_Queen, don't know if you have a Tumblr but hit me up if you do, 'cause honey, you called it too! There'll be no need for that riot!
fanfic writers what font do you write in
i know on ao3 it's all in verdana but when you're drafting the fic in word or docs or whatever
choose
times new roman (you will never be free of times new roman, 12pt, double spaced)
arial
cambria or georgia
calibri???
helvetica
verdana
garamond
comic sans bc i KNOW some of you are out here doing this
other (tell me in the tags!)
I know this is a lot of Geoguessr content on main but I can't believe I actually found this random nudist beach (it's near Darwin, Australia if you're interested)
Oh no! Mirror Gene Roddenberry has come flying through a quantum anomaly to personally vaporize every zipper in our universe.
How are you closing your Starfleet uniform?
The edges fuse together if you line them up perfectly
Very thin, very frictionless laces
“Computer, close jacket”
Any missing fabric slowly grows back to fill in the gaps
Every outfit is a hologram
Every outfit is a pullover… with physics-defying elastication if needed
Aerosol application
Velcro but it’s transparent
Zipper but it’s on the back (something else)
The Naked Now (show results)
Found in the wild on Geoguessr
I imagine some trans person or enby changing their name like.
-> Goes to Wiktionary.org -> Clicks "Random entry" -> My name is now ጭምብል
click on this link and find your new name
i got:
I could have gotten patrimonializaremos which was my second spin but sure my name is... Hairstyler.