#conqueringthespace

[mataglap]

midgetnazgul replied to your post: @itssinenoon replied to your post: fun fact: ...

I understand this sentiment on a spiritual level

conqueringthespace replied to your post: @itssinenoon replied to your post: fun fact: ...

Same happens to me, I can’t read a fic that has “cum” written, I don’t know why x_x

dolltrash replied to your post: fun fact:

hard same, gives me ff.net flashbacks

I AM NOT ALONE! :`)

Thank you, that makes me feel a bit better about my weirdness. :)

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@mataglap reblogged your post and added:

Because he’s literally Prospector Logann from Starcraft, ripped straight out with minimal changes, and Starcraft‘s stylistic has always been more heroic-space-opera than practical.

@operativesurprise reblogged your post and added:

Countershading

@youraveragejoke replied to your post “I did the thing where I woke up thinking I had gotten far more sleep...”

its the male equivalent of boob plates. gotta remind people that nipples and boobs exist ya know?

I see some of y’all came at this with your Doylist answer and I am here to tell you that I appreciate and value this input but a) it raises more questions like okay but still why? and b) the better way to write what I actually meant with that question is why does Jesse McCree, a character with agency, get up in the morning and put lights on his titties?

@futchmccree replied to your post “I did the thing where I woke up thinking I had gotten far more sleep...”

they're like headlights, DUH

@greenwoodcomic replied to your post “I did the thing where I woke up thinking I had gotten far more sleep...”

headlights

Two votes for headlights...

@conqueringthespace replied to your post “I did the thing where I woke up thinking I had gotten far more sleep...”

For Hanzo to find him easily in the dark? (I'm joking, no idea actually xD)

Acceptable!

@murpl replied to your post “I did the thing where I woke up thinking I had gotten far more sleep...”

When you're dedicated to your aesthetic and two things you need have colors that aren't quite aligned to that aesthetic, sometimes, things need to be updated. For Jesse McCree, that had to be his chestplate. And if he can't go into battle chest out an rarin to go, he'll go chest lit and ready to rave.

This seems legit. Brb, changing my McCree shitpost tag to “jesse ‘rave nipples’ mccree”.

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I understand the fanfic thing. I wrote a story based around hanahaki disease, i wanted to make it brutal and painful and like a real illness but I discovered later someone had similar ideas. I posted it before I knew and im so scared im gonna get called out even though I had no clue :') it sucks

Aww, I doubt it. At most someone might go, “Oh hey, reminds me of X fic! Have you read that?” 

I think most of us, despite my occasional brain-gremlins telling me otherwise, are aware that most fan creations are already borrowing from a source and playing in all kinds of storytelling tropes (both the ones we actually label tropes, like hanahaki, or the ones with no name but that nonetheless persist), so even though there’s 1,001 interpretations, we’re going to arrive at similar ones all the time, because there’s only so many that make sense with the options available to us. Besides, lots of people are thirsty AF for hanahaki fic and will absolutely read every available one without complaint, because yours is still yours. Even if you had some shared ideas with that other writer, you still probably wrote it a little differently, incorporated a couple different things (borrowed and remixed from some other available script/interpretation :P), etc. Two cakes, two cakes!

I usually see “there’s no original ideas!” as a lament, but honestly in the context of fan creations it should be kind of freeing, hah. There’s no original ideas, so fuck it, write the thing!

Edit to add, because the fact that we were writing these similar thoughts at the same time is just golden:

@conqueringthespace replied to your post “All fanfiction is borrowing from borrowing from borrowing, but every...”

I have a lot of ideas, and read even more fics that share those ideas, so I live with the fear that someone will come at me for "copying" when it's just that a lot of people think alike and use the same tropes (which, don't get me wrong, I LOVE THE TROPES). But then when it's me writting them it's a "ah shit, am I repeating other people's stuff???"

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@bluandorange replied to your post “So. I do like me some slow burn. Hit me up, make me crave iT! But...”

the 50k shit should be regulated to 'galacial burn'

@basscleft replied to your post “So. I do like me some slow burn. Hit me up, make me crave iT! But...”

Over 100k for 'heat death of the universe burn'

Okay so two candidates for word count “burn” categories, and then we get this:

@conqueringthespace  replied to your post “So. I do like me some slow burn. Hit me up, make me crave iT! But...”

I guess, it depends on how much times passes? Like, you can write a 3 month lapse in 10K, or, 5 days in 50K (which, I'm guilty of <.<). So I supose both are different slow burns?

So this candidate for like, some hybrid temporal-word count metric (also if you ever feel guilty about this, just remind yourself that @krebkrebkreb once took like four chapters just to get through a single dinner and I ate that right up [GET IT?????????????]). 

I also saw @bluandorange ask if it’s about like how much time passes within the narrative, or if it’s time external to the narrative (so both about temporality which I’m gonna fuckin operationalize over here as internal-temporality and external-temporality because I can), @futchmccree mentioned it instead as in relation to the length of the fic (so maybe action in chapter 3 of 4 can be slow burn but so too can action in chapter 7 of 10??) and then @youraveragejoke probably said something clever but mostly just called me out so NYAH :P :P :P

It’s almost like categories are meaningless bullshit anyway destroy them, wallow in the chaos, create new ones at whim, it’s Pride Month and I’m sure these are related ideas somehow, but I’ve lagged on my caffeine consumption!!!111! so it’s hard to finish ideas.

That got weird but. anyway. I’m a big fan of very descriptive tags when something starts to get too nebulous. Alternatively, you could do what I do in practice, which is frown at the tags a lot and decide it’s not worth fucking with.