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"the only difference between a cult and a religion is the scale"
NO. NO IT ISN'T. THIS IS WHAT THE CULTS WANT YOU TO THINK IT IS NOT TRUE. THERE ARE RELIGIONS THAT ARE NOT CULTS AND CULTS THAT ARE NOT RELIGIOUS AND YOU MUST LEARN THE DIFFERENCE
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Some of your LARP groups are more cult adjacent but you aren't ready to hear that yet...
Fanfiction asks! ^_^
I would love the answers to: 2, 15, 17 and 57
2. Where do you get your fic ideas?
My “holy trinity” is:
-Other media (fiction and non fiction)
-Real life experiences
-D&D Scenarios
The first two more so than the last one, my group’s D&D sessions get pretty absurd; but we have some really good one-liners that pop up from time to time.
Due to how boring my job used to be, I pretty much always had something playing on my phone. Podcast, tv show, audiobook, movie— I’m very much the kind of person who can’t simply “watch” things while idle so finally having repetitive tasks and silence to fill really gave me a push to explore different stories and better understand what was so great about the stories I’d consumed without idle tasks.
Real life stuff probably goes without saying, but Flint’s entire existence as a character was sparked by one dumb thing a guy said to me at an anime convention and the instant sass I instinctively clapped back with.
15. What’s your favorite time to write?
I’d love to say 3AM because I’ve been known to wake up scribble out a banger of a line and go back to sleep — buuut I’m such a day walker and have to weave in writing time with life so the real answer is probably “whenever I get the chance”. I get lucky sometimes, and the stuff my cowriter and I are editing doesn’t need a lot of work— and then the majority of the time it’s scrawling madness that we have to spin into something that makes sense.
17. Do you have a writing routine?
I don’t have much of one and really need to establish one.
I do at least, try to make sure we’re putting out an update of some kind each month because I work better with deadlines.
57. How conscious are you about including symbolism or foreshadowing in your fics?
I try to work with the symbolism and foreshadowing that accidentally exists and underline that. There are so many ostrich-horse parallels in Secrets, and I don’t think any of them came to life inorganically.
My cowriter and I wanted to subvert expectations and have the charge being the one to teach the bodyguard a skill— then I was like “okay but actually Vanda is a horse-girl!” And everything that happened after that was coincidental.
The Kyoshi books are the most read books of the avatar, the most talked about, the first ones and the most bought ones, the writers were afraid of making them. those books brought life to the fandom again but when I look how people talk about kyoshi on other platforms I just sighs and think of how much this fanbase is missing out.
90% of the avatar fanbase only knows kyoshi from those few seconds on the shows.... that's sad
Fanfiction Writing Asks
Do you daydream a lot before you write, or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?
Where do you get your fic ideas?
Do you share your fic ideas, or do you keep them to yourself?
How do you choose which fics to write?
How many wips do you have? What fandoms/pairings are they for?
What’s the last line you wrote?
Post a snippet from a wip.
Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip.
Does this word [chosen by asker] appear in your current wip?
Do you work on multiple wips or stick to one fic at a time?
Do you write scenes in order, or do you jump around?
Do you outline your fics? If yes, how detailed are your outlines? How far do you stray from them?
Do you listen to music while you write? If yes, what have you been listening to recently?
What is your favorite location and position to write in?
What’s your favorite time to write?
Do you write by hand, on your phone, or on your laptop?
Do you have a writing routine?
Do you enjoy research? Which fic of yours required the most research?
Do you enjoy creating OCs or do you prefer to stick solely to canon characters?
Do you prefer writing AUs or canon fics?
Do you prefer writing chaptered fics or one-shots?
Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?
Is writing the beginning, middle, or end of the story easiest? Hardest?
How do you choose whose POV to write in?
What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)?
What’s your least favorite part of the writing process?
What area of writing do you feel strongest in?
What area of writing do you want to improve in?
What’s something about your writing that you’re proud of?
How much do you edit your fics? Do you edit as you write or wait until you finish the first draft?
Do you use a beta reader/editor?
Do you take fic requests? Why or why not?
Is there a specific word count that you hold yourself to/enjoy writing the most?
How much of your personal life/experience do you include in your fics?
What’s your favorite fic you’ve posted?
What fic are you proudest of?
What fic has been the hardest for you to write?
What is your most self-indulgent posted story?
What’s your most self-indulgent wip?
What is your favorite world that you’ve created for a fic?
Who’s your favorite character you’ve written?
What’s your favorite title that you’ve come up with?
Is there a trope or idea that you’d really like to write but haven’t yet?
What is your favorite genre to write?
What genre/trope do you tend to write the most?
If you could only write one type of AU for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Is there a trope that you’ve written before but are now sick of?
Who is your favorite character to write for? Has this changed since you’ve started writing for that fandom?
What fic of yours would you say is the best introduction to you as a writer?
How would you describe your writing style?
Does what you like to write differ from what you like to read?
What’s the average word count of your fics?
What is the most-used tag on your ao3?
What’s the fandom/pairing distribution of your posted fics?
Have you noticed any patterns in your fics? Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?
Are there any fics that you would change or rewrite if given the chance?
How conscious are you about including symbolism or foreshadowing in your fics?
Do you have a favorite piece of figurative language you’ve written?
Have you participated in any fic events/writing challenges? If yes, what were they and did you enjoy them?
In [insert fic], what inspired the idea for the plot?
In [insert fic], what’s your favorite scene that you wrote?
In [insert fic], is there a deleted scene/idea you wish you could have included? Why did it get cut?
What was the hardest part of writing [insert fic]?
If you rewrote [insert fic] now, would you change anything?
If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would happen in it?
What’s a fun fact about [insert fic]?
If a fic was titled [insert made up title], what would this story be about/how would you write it?
Are there any fics that influenced you to write the way you do?
What are your favorite fics at the moment?
Are you subscribed to any writers on AO3?
Do you spend more time reading or writing?
What’s your favorite writing compliment you’ve gotten?
What do you tend to get complimented on the most about your writing?
Do you have a fic you wish got a bit more love?
Is there a particular fic that readers gravitated towards that you didn’t expect?
How do you deal with writing pressure, whether internal or external?
Why do you enjoy writing fanfiction?
What motivates you during the writing process?
Do you have any writing advice you want to share?
Free space - asker can come up with any writing or fic-related question they want!
Shoutout to shitty weather for giving me a plans-free Sunday in which i can just zone out to Drunk History and chill.
This delightful artwork is by @rhysuje and I'm so in love with it! You should 100% go get a commission from him. My cowriter and I have tons of big angry bird moments planned in Secrets with Colonel Trotter here.
I wanna draw ostrich horses for the rest of my life now 😤
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I actually have hardly touched pintrest but these did track oddly enough.
No pressure tagging: @corinnesin, @graywand, and anyone who wants to play!
This delightful artwork is by @rhysuje and I'm so in love with it! You should 100% go get a commission from him. My cowriter and I have tons of big angry bird moments planned in Secrets with Colonel Trotter here.
The body is willing but the mind is hostile
scariest thing is when you're a kid in a huge family run by women and then you go over to a house that's deeply patriarchal & misogynistic. i remember when i was 8 years old and i got invited over to my friend's house for a big birthday party with her entire extended family. after the enormous lunch that served over 30 people, i got called into the kitchen to do literally hundreds of dishes, alongside all the other little girls and women. not only were the boys our age all excused from the meal to go play, but all the grown men went to the living room to watch sports together and drink. i couldn't believe it. i asked why some of the grownups were watching TV but the girls had to clean up and all the women just laughed and laughed at me.
as a teenager when i learned the word "sexist" and used it the older women balked at it and tried to convince me this arrangement was a good thing actually because women need space from men, and cleaning in the kitchen after parties is a sacred domain of safety. and i was like actually i think needing private safety from your own husbands, sons, and brothers sounds even worse. like do you understand you somehow made this even more troubling than it already was
like i think it's fine if a bunch of sister-in-laws/wives want time together without their husbands & brothers to talk together in camaraderie. i'm not judging that. obviously. but dare i ask why the women's meetup could only take place while doing manual labor for a nearby room full of men
it's also interesting how this ingrained rigid social structures in children bc i was mostly friends with boys at that age and in fact was at the birthday party of a friend who was a boy so i remember complaining to him at school that it was weird all the girls had to help clean up because i didn't know any of the other little girls so i felt really left out that i didn't get to hang out with my own friends for a chunk of the party and he and the other little boys were like "that's just the rules."
yeah growing up in the Appalachian bible belt I absolutely often saw this re-enforced by women.
My mom used to say "he's a boy they don't know how to clean" but then she'd also get mad when my brother wouldn't/couldn't clean. Weird ass Southern Woman stuff right there.
this sucks im going to kill (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) the president of the United States. (end statement)
I will chew on what I have bit off even if it is just a little too large right now.
I will make it fit.
Sunday: I burn my thumb with a hot coal because I touched it... It does not hurt, I do zero aftercare and move on with my life. Today: tiny bit of grease pops at my thumb. It hurts, I do all the aftercare ... ahhhh
When I was in the early stages of creating Lotus as a character I think the alcoholism might've come second... like it was just a trait she had until I thought about it for like five more minutes. I grew up seeing a lot of different alcoholics, and the majority were men. Actually the "card carriers" the "oh yeah that's a drunk right there"? All of them were men. But it's not that the women didn't also have the same problem-- they just covered for it better or didn't fit my expectations of what a "drunk" was supposed to look like. So after a few more minutes of thought, that trait became a big part of her, the encompassing nag on her shoulder, the thing people who know what to look for will know on sight. But Flint? He's an optimist so he's gonna have to realize this a few times.
