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current user: meg, 24, any pronouns

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[waka-chan-out]

first post since 2022 how’s it hangin fellas. i moved across the country and got my first full time job and started grad school and got two cats. been a bit busy. i’ve gotten very good at writing emails.

i’ll probably be moving my stuff to AO3 soon because i just cannot stand this platform anymore. i appreciate all the support for the last however long and it’s cool to see my fics still floating around. i’m proud of a lot of what i wrote on here and stand by my silly little character opinions. i won’t be removing any posts here, just revising the stuff i really like and moving it over.

first post will be something y’all haven’t seen yet. i’ve talked about it before but it’s atsumu angst. i’ve got about 4,000 words that i’m proud of and probably another 2,000 to go so it’ll probably be a short multi chaptered thing. i’ll probably post about things other than haikyuu too. i’ve been in jason todd hell for weeks and have short ideas for guys like jonathan crane. i love me my damaged men. be on the lookout. my name is the same over there as it is here.

this platform changed my life for the better in many ways and again, i appreciate the support immensely. it kept me writing consistently and the creative juices were always flowing. i met one of my best friends in the world on here (hi nimo i love you and i’ll text you back in just a second) and have interacted with so many cool people from all over the world i honestly cannot believe it.

thanks for the love y’all. you’re so damn sweet. i’m not abandoning you forever, i promise. just renegotiating my interests a little.

peace,

meg 🩷

[dingdongyouarewrong]

you can explain why it’s important for aspiring authors to read published books and not just fanfiction without condescending to fanfiction authors/readers and implying it’s inherently of lesser quality

[dingdongyouarewrong]

like a lot of fanfiction is genuinely good and well-written! there’s some amazing work there! there is absolutely fanfiction out there that’s the same quality as well-written published works. being like ‘well, it’s cute, but it’s not real writing’ is just dismissive and frankly completely untrue. 

but, at the same time, there are a lot of reasons it’s important to also read published works, and those reasons aren’t just ‘it’s better’. for one, a lot of writing original fiction involves introducing one’s own characters and setting to an audience who knows nothing about the characters or worldbuilding, which is generally not something you’re going to learn how to do by only reading stories where you already know the world and characters. that doesn’t mean the work isn’t good; it just means it doesn’t teach all of the skills you’ll need to know when writing

[roach-works]

im a lifelong fanfic writer, but one thing fanfic won’t teach you is how to end a story. or how to structure one, really. fanfic is itself a continuation of a story, it’s a transformative work, and… it’s kind of rare for long, chaptered fic to actually be complete. it’s awesome when it is! but you do kind of get used to reading fanfic as a big nebulous cloud of what-ifs, and furthermores, and so ons, and etc.

published fiction pretty much always has to have a start, middle, and ending. you can’t really learn formal anatomy from fanfiction. you can learn a lot of creative stuff that published fiction rarely has the freedom to engage in–aus and remixes, for instance–but fanfic really isn’t where you’re going to be able to study structure and discipline.

[tsukithewolf]

Thank god. Finally some good fanfic vs. published story dialogue.

[mixelation]

Fanfiction is also usually published as the author writes it, which means authors are limited in their ability to retroactively change story elements (removing plot holes or subplots that go nowhere, or adding foreshadowing for an important event they decided they wanted 1/3 into their story, etc). This means stories overall are generally less “polished” than professionally published work. 

On a similar note, fic writers can “get away with” a lot more fluff that doesn’t move the story forward– ie, dedicating an entire chapter to characters cuddling, or spending a very long time explaining the economics system of a secret wizard world. This is a strength of fic because it’s often what people want to read– but it’s also something that usually hinges on the reader already being deeply invested in the characters and the world, which is a luxury you’re not going to get from a lot of original fiction.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Fanfiction isn’t necessarily better or worse than original fic, but it is a fundamentally different art. An aspiring fiction author reading only fanfic is like an aspiring fiction author reading only poetry; it’s great to enrich your skills by reading widely, but if you don’t read *the kind of art you are trying to make*, you won’t know how to make it.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Hey as someone who does both I want to point out a few key points from this thread:

First, published recent books will give you an idea of what sells. Not that you can’t be free to write what you want, but many genres and categories have certain expectations that publishing keeps pretty rigid. Romance, for example, has some very rigid tenets that will benefit you to follow (at least until you publish enough books to start breaking them). Publishing also works on comp titles - you need to know what recent books to compare yours to in order to sell it.

This isn’t easy to hear, but if you are trying to get paid money for your work and don’t go the indie route, you have to learn what the rules are. “My book is too unique to be compared to anything else” or “my book doesn’t fit into any genre” never, ever works. Learn the genres, figure out how to make comparisons, and be willing to wait a while for things to go somewhere.

Second, pacing sins are forgiven in fanfiction. They are brutal in publishing. You can have those cuddle scenes, but they can’t get in the way of rising tension, and they certainly can’t last an entire chapter. Learning to balance quiet scenes with action scenes are something you’ll have to hone for publishing.

Third, yeah, editing is going to get you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been through my current book and found at least five more errors per chapter despite having just gone through it, and I haven’t even turned it over to my agent yet. Augh. Fanfic readers are far more forgiving if I’ve repeated the same word within a paragraph.

However! I don’t want to disparate either - fanfiction can help you learn lots about writing, writing for publication can help you improve on your fanfic skills. It’s just important to remember that they are different, and you’ll need to know those differences if you’re looking to be published.

[awaari]

(ꈍᴗꈍ)ε｀*) ~~ <3

[waka-chan-out]

coming out of my cave to say colleen hoover’s books are so bad you guys holy shit

[punkpugs]

Unfriendly fucking reminder that TERFs, SWERFs, and really any other self identified “radical feminists,” “gender abolitionists,” “womyn-born-womyn,” or anyone whose feminism is “female centric” (ie excludes trans women) are not fucking welcome here. You are not welcome to this space, to my posts, or anywhere near me. Get lost.

[toadpeee]

“Your art isn’t valued by the number of notes you get” okay but. If you spent 6 hours baking a cake for a party, but no one at the party eats your cake, it’s still disappointing.

[i-wear-the-cheese]

This articulates something about the different between value and validation that I didn’t previously register on a conscious level.

[nevercure]

This is why I tell people I feel more like an entertainer than an artist.

I want to hear them laugh, chat, comment, speak, roar, cry, get irrationally angry, I need people to respond to my art and get inspired and need more.

I don’t want a note, I want a response.

[aspex-t]

Responses are very nice. I like reading over them. They make me feel fuzzy. Of course, likes and reblogs are also very appreciated, but responses make me feel a special kinda fuzzy.

[astraltrickster]

That’s the thing about the “oh, create for yourself, don’t worry about other people!” attitude (that almost exclusively comes from non-artists and people who have tons of followers and routinely get tons of validation for SOME reason) that doesn’t quite work. I guarantee you, most of us already ARE creating for ourselves above all-

But we POST our creations for human connection, and that’s not a bad thing.

[sagechanoafterdark]

I’m not sure when we all got to the point where wanting validation for something you worked hard at is seen as a bad thing. That you’re pathetic for wanting.

If you think that way it’s not only toxic as hell it’s killing creators.

Creating isn’t easy. When there’s nobody to look at your work and say, “You did a good job. This was hard.” The drive and ambition disappears, then so does the work.

Give your content creators value.

Reblog content.

[54prowl]

I'm going to try to be as kind as I can with this.

so ok I've been seeing this more often than usual recently but please try to be normal when reblogging stuff especially creative works. avoid putting hateful tags on reblogs because the original poster sees that.

you wouldn't want a random person saying "#wow I hate this character but---" on your works, right? (and that is not the compliment you want it to be btw.)

and stop seeking content on this site just to shit on it. go make a post about it instead of reblogging something to put mean tags on. someone worked hard on that, don't be a dick.

don't spout community on this site while being the cancer that causes creators to stop sharing their works.

please be normal. ok ily bye.

[waka-chan-out]

just a reminder to minors that you are not even remotely welcome here. this is a hostile space. i get a notification that someone with this in their bio followed me and i say “oh, fuck you” out loud. i hope you have an awful day.

[awaari]

Some captains batch drawings and a Hinata

[mintmatcha]

I mean this in the worst way. no one is doxxing you when they ask for an age. they cannot find you on age alone

[awaari]

meteorhead Sakusa ☄ Happy Halloweeeeeeen!

[inthetags]

reblog and put in the tags a petty reason why you blocked someone

[phantomrose96]

Anon hate is shitty and you shouldn’t do it of course but it’s also the funniest and least effective kind of hate

For starters the blogger can just delete and ignore it. And given tumblr’s penchant for eating asks I think it would drive some hate senders a little insane if they keep checking back in wondering if their ask got eaten.

For second the anon ask format guarantees the blogger gets the last word in every time. Even if anon sends a follow up message they will never get the last word. And tumblr for better or for worse seems to run on this currency of “whoever expressed the last opinion in a post is the one we’re supporting”

For third, this publishes the hate directly to the blogger’s own followers, i.e. the people MOST likely to take the blogger’s side. Home court advantage by design.

[phantomrose96]

#I call for an audience with the king. After waiting in line I stand in front of his throne #(dressed in a huge white bedsheet like a cartoon ghost so as to hide my identity) #I call the king a bitch. I insult his policies all of which were made with the guidance of his court who r also all here #the king ignores me. I say it again in case he didn't hear. The king ignores me #I leave in shame (via @septimus-heap)

[waka-chan-out]

one day i will drop the most horrendous piece of writing you’ve ever read. i will use the words gummy and slick and slimy and the reader will have no personality and stutter constantly and be so submissive that they act like an inanimate object that moans and then it’ll get more reblogs and “omg this is so hot 😭🥵😳😩” comments than anything i’ve ever posted and then you’ll simply never hear from me again.

[breakingpengui1]

goshiki batomu

[waka-chan-out]

blank blogs why are you like this. what do you think this platform is for.