How do you feel about fics with wildly different chapter lengths?
I dislike it because it breaks the flow when I'm reading
I'm fine with a 1-2k word difference in length, but more than that is annoying
I like it when chapters are different lengths if it's intentional/adds suspense
I'm fine with varied chapter lengths; I just like to read!
I don't notice if a chapter is shorter/longer than the previous ones
Voting ended onNov 18, 2024
I'm working on a WIP right now, getting approximate word counts for chapters, and some of them are twice the length of others... Most are 3- 4k, but one is over 7k, and another is barely 2k, lol!!!!! Do I just need to get better at editing? Who knows.
Pls rb for a larger sample size; I'm looking for general opinions here!
what animal would espa be the most fond of :] or !!! if she even likes animals or not!!!
aslo how would an interaction between dimitri and espa go???? and dimitri and Ms Ann?
are we ever gonna see miss ann beaten up? 🥺
Ohhh interesting questions 🤔
Espa is not the biggest animal fan ever, but I can see them liking birds. Yes, definitely birds. Little kiskadees or large eagles or urban doves, any of them.
I think Dimitri would like Espa! Since Espa is really easy to work with and drawn to people. It would easily compensate Dimitri's stiffness and awkwardness. If it's in a context of getting them to work together, they both would be very professional, and they would get along eventually. If they randomly met, they would have a chill time hanging out. That thing that people do where there's not any direct communication, but they can easily read eachother and give little hints and will know what to do. I they might be very compatible.
I can also picture Dimitri being like. Entrusted with Espa or something. So they would be above them, for a mission or something. I think it wouldn't take long for Espa to catch up with the fact that Dimitri is a "weapon" too and blur the lines of the hierarchy in its head.
Both Espa and Dimitri are loyal soldiers for their organization, both are quiet in the outside. Dimitri is a bit insecure in his own skills, despite being very very good. They are a bit more in touch with their actual emotions than Espa, but Espa can be far more, hm, loose? Less stiff. Flexible. She is more confident and can sort of turn off weapon mode. In parts. They're more of a "weapon" (silent, ignorable, can be picked up and dropped down) than a "soldier" (obedient, disciplined, intimidating), meanwhile Dimitri is the opposite. As much of opposites they can be being that similar, lmao. They would probably make eachother comfortable. Subtly.
Ohh I think Ms. Ann would make Dimitri nervous. If she was put as its handler or something, it would probably be a little more tense than normal. Ms. Ann isn't all that strict, but has a very annoying temper. Dimitri isn't sure what to do about that. She feels like a loaded gun pressed to its head. As I said, he's much less confident in his skills than Espa is, and probably thinks he's a single step from making a thousand mistakes. Ann, on the other part, might be a little annoyed if anything, because she's used to someone with less of a presence, but she wouldn't have a lot to complain. She'd come to find them them useful and sorta neat, eventually.
Are we ever gonna see Ms. Ann beaten up... I don't think we canonically will, especially not that soon :') Damn Ann your hate club is growing you should probably watch out...
Okay okay so pool day with the world of r!dream! I believe that the pool would be at Karl house because it fits for some reason. Quick reminder these are just my personal small ideas
-Tommy brought water guns and he makes it his solid mission to just attack you and Wilbur. Tubbo and Ranboo also get in on this and it leads to a war of water guns fights and Tommy getting tackled into the water by Wilbur.
-George and Sapnap bully dream about how nervous he gets when looking at you in your swimsuit. They even go as far as to when all four of you are together complimenting you and watching dream react.
-quackity and sapnap both have many times during the day picked you up and tossed you into the water. One time qauckity did it you were able to grab and drag him into the water as well.
-tubbo starts a very chaotic game of Marco Polo where half of the people who were It would throw themselves into the sound of someone voice.
-You, dream, Wilbur, and Tommy all played a game of chicken and it ended with tubbo and ranboo helping you take down Wilbur and Tommy.
-Karl and quackity would at random attack you with water in the pool.
-You, Niki, jack, and Wilbur would play pool volleyball together and it quickly gets competitive and you at some point would try to hit jack in the face with the volleyball.
-Karl is in charge of the music but will queue songs if someone has a request.
-When you take breaks out of the pool niki will join you and the two of you will sit and gossip about random things.
-George would probably bring water balloons and attack Dream and sapnap with them at the most random time leading to a water balloon fight.
-in the end you and dream will get in the car to head home and he would surprise you with a stop at a ice cream shop. Getting you both ice cream he would park in a empty parking lot and let the two of you enjoy the sun setting with the music comping from the car as you both sit on the trunk looking at the sky. -🍀
omgyes! i'm expanding on your ideas under the cut :) <3
firstly, shirtless dream in the pool? you're gone, bye bye y/n.
karl would be the only one with a house (and a pool) (as everyone else lives in the college apartments) and it comes in handy more often than not.
tommy would 100% bring water guns for himself, ranboo and tubbo, and not the pissy little dollar store ones, like the ones you get from a toy shop and they're so over the top HA. and everyone would curse because omg wilbur why did you have to bring your younger brother?? but it's not that serious, because without him and tubbo and ranboo, it would be pretty calm and we don't do calm.
lmao yes sapnap and george (& sometimes wilbur :o) would totally compliment you and dream would be in his own personal hell because he can't tell anyone to quit it because it's not his place :) (which leads to the boys bullying him because of that exact reason >:))
quackity!!! dragging him in the pool with you after he's pushed/thrown you in like 5 times in the past hour makes me laugh ahahahahah he would bob to the surface, his wet hair covering his face and would just cackle.
marco polo!! yes, love that game. it would be so chaotic because there would be so many injuries from people cheating outside of the pool (cough sapnap) and like you said, throwing themselves at the sound of a voice (ending up with a few eggs on heads from knocking into the side of the pool). there would need to be a few ice packs on hand after a game of marco polo.
when you asked dream to be your chicken partner, mans short circuits. he really locks up because omg your thighs on his shoulders? 😳i don't mean to make it dirty, but he's really struggling here. winning against everyone you play because dream is so competitive that he has to win.
karl and q would continually splash you in the pool, even after you said you just want to float and relax. nOPE. they are so annoying and you actually get pissed off because omg just leave me alone for 5 minutes. but then they act all sad (you know how they are) and you have to forgive them to stop them from moping around. dickheads. but you love them <3
hitting jack in the face with the volleyball would cause so much chaos AHAHAHAAH you and niki would be dying of laughter and wilbur would try his darndest not to, but he can't help it.
karl is the music man. he has his giant speaker set up and he's playing dj (sapnap tries to take over, but everyone complains, so he doesn't).
gossiping with niki! omg i love. she asks you about you and dream and you go all quiet and heat rises to your cheeks when you make eye contact with him on the other side of the pool and he has this cute boyish smile on his lips at that exact moment and nothing could've gone better for niki. she continues to tease you even after the pool day because once you started rambling about him to her, she can tell how much you like him.
george secretly packed some water balloons and asked you to help him with something inside quickly. you knew the plan all along. so, once you had filled like 50, you and george race outside with them all in your arms and start attacking dream and sapnap, who now lay on their towels in the sun. the plan is so great and you and george definitely don't shut up about it for weeks.
dream had been asking karl all day if he had any ice cream (even though every time he asked, karl said no). so, on the way home, dream pulls into a car park on the side of the road and you're confused because wtf? then you see the sign for the ice cream shop and it all makes sense. he gets 4 scoops of vanilla 😐anyways 😐then he drives to the other side of the carpark, where there are no cars, and opens his door and gets out. he pops the trunk and sits in it, all while you're still in the passenger's seat. some playlist plays loudly and then you get the gist and follow him, scooting in next to him in the trunk. and as the sun sets, pinks and purples paint the sky and the sun dips just below the horizon and its perfect.
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Someone PLEASE recommend the lightest, fluffiest Mando fics pls I know he’s a character just DRIPPING w angst but I am straight up not having a good time right now so I need to read about that man being sweet and awkward so if anyone has recs pls send them I’ll love you forever!!! Literally if you’ve written a sweet and/or silly fic about this man come promote it to me I am begging you!!!
It's almost finished (7k-ish still to write) and might be ready after this weekend....which means it's poll time people!!!!! I did a poll about this ages ago and BiAP beat this one for publishing by like two votes. Some details:
Actually, it's not related to the Gladiator movies (except for the vibes) because I hadn't seen the first one until last week!
Basically, Ancient Rome in space.
Set between the end of the Mandalorian S2 and BoBF.
40k words (9 chapters, 2 epilogues planned)
When/How do you want this fic?
I want it ASAP, with weekly updates
I want it ASAP, full fic published at once
I have too much gladiator-adjacent content to read already, wait to publish
Do you have any favorite headcanons about r!Dream that you haven’t shared?
hmmmm i have a shit ton of random moments that i think about and just never write down because they’re very minor things such as:
sharing your snacks with r!dream when studying at the library and he forgets his lunch e.g an orange or a clementine or trail mix or chips (something small so it’s like: some for me and some for you <3)
grocery shopping and judging each other for the random foods you throw in the cart (i half-wrote a blurb about this when i first started roommate!dream and i just never posted it so i might finish that and post it later)
buying novels for each other/going book shopping and then eating at a small hole-in-the-wall cafe
having a week to annotate a book and then swapping books at the end of the week so you can read each other’s annotations
when it’s exam season and using flash cards to test each other on topics which turns into loud cheering and excited yelling when the other gets it right or they’re close to the correct answer
making the other’s bed when one of you are burnt out or in a slump
dream teaching you how to play minecraft/other computer games if you don’t know how to already just so he can play with you
wearing each other’s jackets in the winter because they’re all hanging on the same hook next to the door and sometimes you can’t be bothered to find your own
going to ikea
asking dream to hang string lights up in your room and then he just stays on your bed even after they’re up just to hang out because he loves your company
going to an art gallery and pretending to be art critics and laughing a little too loud for the environment you’re in
playing board games and it gets a little heated because you’re both so competitive but eventually apologising to one another (even though it took everything in you both to do so T-T)
thank you sm for asking!! i might add to this list later if i remember anything else but this is all i’ve got as of right now! <33
maybe a cute lil moment the morning after New Years when they greet each other in the kitchen and they both go like omg it wasn’t a dream I’m actually dating them now
ok let’s say you wake up first and leave your room, leaving dream in there alone. sapnap, quackity, and karl are sprawled across the couches and the whole apartment is a mess. i’m almost certain than while your cleaning up, dream emerges from your room and sees you picking up cups and bottles and just silently joins you. no words are spoken but the air is just different and it’s relieving. meanwhile, the three boys are still passed out and don’t wake until like an hour later when they hear you two laughing together and they just know that something happened last night because ;) dream left the living room and never returned HA you two are still in disbelief that you’re together because you’ve waited too long for this to happen 🥰
