[weregirl96]

My fics!

You Never Have to be Alone: Extended cut -

You Never Have to be Alone - ongoing, updates weekly. What would have happened if Shanks decided he was too selfish to leave his son on Dawn Island? What if he came back to find the Grey Terminal in flames and Luffy hurt? How does taking the ASL trio with him change the story? Especially after Law joins them. Rated mature mostly due to cannon typical violence, romantic relationships are mostly background.

You Left Your Bite Marks on my Ribs - complete. Law has been stressed out due to the Red Devils injuries and hasn't been taking care of himself, Shachi and Penguin decided to do something about it. Part of the YNHtbA universe. Law/Penguin/Shachi explicit smut.

Another Modern Au-

Make a Boy Fall in Love - complete. Marco meets Ace when Luffy is brought into his ER after Luffy was injured at work. Watch how they try to make a relationship work around an ER doctor and a firefighter's busy schedule. Marco/Ace, rated teen for swearing. Background Law/Lu

Photophobia - complete. Marco worries when Ace hasn't responded to his texts all day, he comes home to find him asleep with a migraine. Established relationship Marco/Ace, written when I myself was struggling with a light sensitive migraine.

Even in the Darkness, I'll be Okay - complete. After Ace wakes early in the morning from a nightmare, Marco invites him over to nap together before their date. When their nap also gets interrupted, Ace decides that it's time Marco knew about his mental health struggles. Established Marco/Ace but early in their relationship, heavy discussions of mental health issues including depression and suicide attempts.

Unconnected one-shots

Adorned and Adored - Ace wears jewelry and drives Marco crazy. 100% an excuse to write Ace all dolled up in gold and Marco breaks a little about it. It's pretty much just 4k words of explicit smut.

[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

[theswisscheeserag]

You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like

[theswisscheeserag]

And then when the ant convention is in town they’ll be like dude… we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didn’t know u loved ants

[theswisscheeserag]

And sometimes you need to ask them to go to the ant convention. But you Will not get anywhere hiding your passions

[marlinspirkhall]

Nothing funnier than having a 20 minute crashout about how much you hate your job and then continuing with your day. I hope hunter-gatherers did this midway through tracking their lunch.

[marlinspirkhall]

#genuinely because like if we were always like this then maybe it will be okay #and life isnt uniquely horrible now

@daftpatience

[petals42]

people who comment on fics just to say that they are re-reading and still cried/felt emotions/loved it are the greatest people on earth and should be given a thousand dollars. 

[mihri-the-sasscatte]

Size comparison of Y’gathok, the Ceaseless Hunger and Bjorn, our level 20 Goliath Barbarian.

[professorsparklepants]

Hey quick question: why the FUCK do you have that

[kittyopteryx]

Imagine, from out of nowhere, your dm casually slapping this thing down on the table like any other encounter.

[mooretimetoplay]

“Yeah, the fight will start in a sec, uh…I’ll give inspiration to whomever helps me get this fucking box out of my car.”

[necrowemancer]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/ This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game

[jelloapocalypse]

Please watch this reveal video it’s kickass

[creepsandcrawlers]

FUCK ME  the reveal video

[threefeline]

“CHRIS??????”

[tanoraqui]

“Um, I don’t think our plan is gonna work.”

[8bitmickey]

[island-delver-go]

Always reblog Y'gathok

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

always ALWAYS reblog Y'gathok!

[alexidoesart]

Loki disguised as the Bridesmaid, from the myth of the Þrymskviða!

Its been ages since I made one of these, I'm happy to be making phenakistoscopes again!

[notthesomefather]

This is wonderful! Great work.

[zooophagous]

I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.

[upward-bound]

nearly 80k reblogs and how many of you eat lamb

[zooophagous]

The ancient shepherds I'm referencing also ate lamb lol

[bluerain3-deactivated20230129]

[dollsonmain]

[darthmaulscatgirl]

i love how this works no matter the result

[pervocracy]

child handling for the childless nurse

My current job has me working with children, which is kind of a weird shock after years in environments where a “young” patient is 40 years old.  Here’s my impressions so far:

Birth - 1 year: Essentially a small cute animal.  Handle accordingly; gently and affectionately, but relying heavily on the caregivers and with no real expectation of cooperation.

Age 1 - 2: Hates you.  Hates you so much.  You can smile, you can coo, you can attempt to soothe; they hate you anyway, because you’re a stranger and you’re scary and you’re touching them.  There’s no winning this so just get it over with as quickly and non-traumatically as possible.

Age 3 - 5: Nervous around medical things, but possible to soothe.  Easily upset, but also easily distracted from the thing that upset them.  Smartphone cartoons and “who wants a sticker?!!?!?” are key management techniques.

Age 6 - 10: Really cool, actually.  I did not realize kids were this cool.  Around this age they tend to be fairly outgoing, and super curious and eager to learn.  Absolutely do not babytalk; instead, flatter them with how grown-up they are, teach them some Fun Gross Medical Facts, and introduce potentially frightening experiences with “hey, you want to see something really cool?”

Age 11 - 14: Extremely variable.  Can be very childish or very mature, or rapidly switch from one mode to the other.  At this point you can almost treat them as an adult, just… a really sensitive and unpredictable adult.  Do not, under any circumstances, offer stickers.  (But they might grab one out of the bin anyway.)

Age 15 - 18: Basically an adult with severely limited life experience.  Treat as an adult who needs a little extra education with their care.  Keep parents out of the room as much as possible, unless the kid wants them there.  At this point you can go ahead and offer stickers again, because they’ll probably think it’s funny.  And they’ll want one.  Deep down, everyone wants a sticker.

[mikkeneko]

This is also a pretty excellent guide to writing  kids of various ages

[important-cat-pics]

[jackalope78]

I'm kind of obsessed with Florin's character arc. He's such a minor side character-especially in this book-(Spoilers beyond book 5 here) but he's a mercenary, so someone who decided killing people for money was just fine actually. And then enters the dugeon and falls in love with another crawler, which I think had to shift his world view at least a little, because he's not a crawler killer. But then Ifechi dies thanks partly to his own temper (Yes, absolutely part of the blame falls on Lucia Mar, but if he hadn't attacked her then Ifechi wouldn't have died. It was a tense scene, and Lucia Mar was both antagonistic and violent, but she's also a kid* stuck in a dungeon and trying to stay alive). He briefly looses hope, regains it when he realizes that there are people out there trying to help others. He decides to stop the crawlers killing crawlers, including and especially Lucia Mar, and then the drop hits about whats going on with her and he spends the next several floors protecting this person who was involved in the death of the woman he loved. And all of this is happening in the background. THAT'S A WHOLE ASS BOOK PLOT RIGHT THERE.

I do think this background arc, especially when contrasted with Maggie My or Quan Ch, is a huge point the books are trying to make. When life is hell, all that matters is how you treat other people.

[were--ralph]

the problem with tumblr spells is all of you lil sluts are casting and not giving it time to charge so you're all casting cantrips and not 9th level death spells. everyone wants to be the one to take them down no one wants to be the one who assists

[were--ralph]

we're going to try again witha little but minimal casting

IT will happen in August of 2026. like to charge and reblog to cast but cast sparingly

[were--ralph]

Wait stop. everyone +like now and spread it a little but cast on the same day in August. lets try August 6th or something.

[were--ralph]

CAST NOW

[leafdoggy]

it drives me fuckin crazy that dungeon crawler carl is so popular. It makes me feel like I live in a different universe than everyone else.

[leafdoggy]

The main character is a fuckin nothing gamer man. The writing style is so simplistic as to be completely dreadful to read. And what I read was astoundingly sexist, racist, and ableist.

Like. Okay. Here is a collection of snippets from the book.

Fucking how is this the biggest litrpg in existence.

[thewolfgodsblog]

I needed to see this to feel better about my novel. Maybe it's not as bad as i thought, if this is what's popular

[orphanpupok]

Hi! I read all of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books this year and I feel like I need to point at that these are all cherry-picked examples from the very first novel in the series. Two are quotes from our protagonists Carl and Donut at the very beginning of their character arcs and the rest are quotes from the System AI who is one of the series main antagonists and is intentionally being crass out of cruelty.

Is the writing in the first novel simplistic? Yes. I think it’s probably the weakest book in the series, but like many authors Matt Dinniman improves with practice and as the series expands so does your understanding of these characters and the world.

I think it’s totally fine to be put off by this and not want to read the books but don’t feel like you need to call it bad writing to justify your own taste

[hanbei-hq]

Samantha 4th wall breaking

[kooldewd123]

two books into dungeon crawler carl, i think my favorite part of the whole video game schtick is how the whole inventory system essentially functions as a form of... what i can best describe as brute-force foreshadowing? whenever they go over their rewards from a big fight or something it feels i'm watching anton chekhov pull out a bunch of guns, hold them up to the camera, give a quick but comprehensive explanation of how each of them works, and then hang them up on the wall until you're left staring at chekhov's armory trying to guess which one's going to go off first only for carl to save the day with a random piece of rebar he innoculously picked up like fourteen chapters ago instead. it's taking the usual video game randomness of accumulating assorted loot and junk and then giving it purpose through the audience's understanding that this is a constructed narrative and that every single piece of loot and every single tooltip had to have been intentionally placed there by the author, while also using that understanding as a vehicle for misdirection by flooding the reader with so many obvious plot devices that the surprises are able to hide in plain sight.

[fuckofffanpol]

In honor of my most popular (and controversial) post:

Are you familiar with the word "squick"?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 7

[fuckofffanpol]

yeah i'm definitely going to have to submit this to one of those poll blogs to get a better sample size