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To those fanfic writers that are not english native speakers: sometimes, when I read your work, I notice that english isn’t your first language, because there are strange phrases. I know immediately that to you, they are perfectly normal, since it’s the way your language describes things. And I love that, because here you go, creating your art, in a language you spent so much time learning, just so that other people can enjoy your stories! It is so amazing and I will never criticise you for that, but instead I will be thankful that you put in all the effort.

I love you all, you are amazing. Keep creating, please!

tinysidestrashcaptain

Writing is hard. Writing in a language that is not your native tongue is even harder. I love and respect the hell out of you all!

obstinatecondolement

I read a book a while back, which I have completely forgotten the name of, but the author mentioned teaching poetry workshops to children of different age groups and said that the a lot of the younger kids came out with some really sublime stuff because they hadn’t internalised as many cliches and boring stock phrases in the English language yet, while the older kids tended to write very formulaic stuff in comparison. I think that writers working in a language that’s not their native tongue bring a similar quality to their work. You’ll see phrases that a native speaker could never come up with that are so fresh and beautiful.

mikkeneko

We native English speakers tend to do a lot of washing in each others’ water, so to speak, when it comes to writing. We’re all drawing from the same stock pool of set phrases, idioms, metaphors, and classic literary references.

You second-language folks, you bring the fresh and the new into that pool, and I absolutely am grateful for that.

dykepuffs

A good barometer if you keep noticing that a certain length of time in your memory keeps being the hub of "when everything changed" or "Back before everything nebulously got weird" it's always worth checking if that year or time period coincides with a big change in your own life.

Did the world get a lot kinder and more reliable in 2014 or is that when you got a rich girlfriend and were spending more time in affluent areas? Was there a flourishing of queer culture in 2001 or is that just when you left home? Were winters harder before 2019 or was that just the last winter you spent working outdoors? Were pop stars more important in 1993 or were you just twelve?

johnny-depp-is-loved

dawaxxenpith

At risk of sounding like a hater and an asshole this looks like AI and if its somehow not, the editor who reworked images and sharpened them up made it look like AI

Edit: yeah its AI

theromanbarbarian

This is the actual image (from a 6 year old reddit post so def not AI). Either someone asked AI to recreate it or AI, being the plagiarism machine it is, was asked for a pic of dogs finding humans in the snow and just ripped off the first image it could find. Another reminder that AI doesn't actually create anything. Also real cute dogs.

badboneszone

Actually a fantastic example for when you need to illustrate to someone that AI art is theft, blatantly, and not in some abstract way

snowstories

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

mossbear-minese

I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately

But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"

Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character

shuploc

Vintage Jayce and Viktor, in their early days

sentientgarbagereceptacle

Kabru’s babygirlification

Vol 3 → Vol 11

pigeon-princess

hungry hungry dungeoneers

lightningstrikes-art

mijifuuu

request #7

i always think of what theyd be like if kak had survived, bc he had just transferred to jotaro’s school so they were kinda “forced” to see e/o, while abdul, joseph and polnareff had no reason to stay in japan lolol