Writing Is My First Love

My Writing Blog | Ao3: WhiteCollarNonsense | Call me Shadow, they/them | 26 years old | Icon is a panel from Attack on Titan's manga by Hajime Isayama, traced and colored by me

[whitecollarnonsense]

Welcome to my blog!

I write fanfiction and stuff I write will go both here and on my Ao3 account! Unfortunately, due spam bots, my works are for members only. I will work on copying them to Tumblr, but it will be slow going.

All my works will get links sometime in the future.

Anything less than 1000 words in length will be posted here exclusively.

I also plan on writing a Linkverse AU that will be a Tumblr exclusive, but I'm still brainstorming. The tags will be announced once I start posting.

[hanleialuke]

5 things your character can't do while speaking

Choke. Just think about it, seriously. Think about what choking is and imagine speaking while it’s happening. That would fuckin’ hurt, man.

Hiss. Look, it’s just not possible, okay? No matter how “evil” you want your character to seem.

Snarl. Animals snarls. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast snarls. The Hulk snarls. You know who doesn’t snarl? PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SPEAKING.

Shriek. Come on, 99% of the time, “shriek” is not the word you want.Let’s face it: if you put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, your reader gets the picture. Don’t bring to mind banshees and screaming toddlers.

Sneer. I’m not even going to bother explaining this one. “SNEER” ISN’T EVEN A SOUND.

[phrux]

Choked is not meant to be taken literally, an obstruction in the throat. It means they’re having difficultly speaking, they’re forcing the words out with difficulty. Often used when the character is convulsed in tears or laughter.

Hiss is a low, threatening whisper. Raw, guttural, vicious. It is NOT a literal hiss like an animal, it is a tone of voice that serves the same function. Someone will hiss that they’re going to cut your throat- a message from one person to the other.

Snarl is the same kind of thing. Not literal, it’s a tone of voice that serves the same function. It’s raw and gutteral like a hiss, but more savage than vicious. It’s loud, it’s showy, it’s intimidating. It’s very alpha male, big man, look at how fucking dangerous I am. I’ll take ALL of you on. Even if they’re snarling at one person in particular, nobody better back them up or they’re gonna get fucked up too.

Shriek. Come on, seriously? We’ve all heard people shriek either in fear or outrage. High pitched, loud, out of control, feminine. Men can shriek, but it’s funny and emasculating. Think angry italian women throwing pots and pans or ladies on tables who just saw a mouse.

Sneering is contempt whether it’s a facial expression or a tone of voice or both. There are a hundred different ways to sneer with your voice, but it all adds up to the same thing.

[carnivoredeer]

How descriptive words work 101

[susspirria]

Op radiating cinema sins energy with that list lol

[neopet-euthanization]

OP tagging this as “reasons they stop reading a book in ch 1” yet not grasping like the most basic form of figurative language is… something

[flipocrite]

[mikkeneko]

PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.

[amarguerite]

Via @watertightvines

[wildjuniperjones]

Here's the link. It was actually not immediately easy to find, so I thought this might help.

[rosemoonweaver]

GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3

[rosemoonweaver]

Other things you can do:

Linked footnotes

Customized page dividers

Sticky notes

Lined paper

Paper that looks stacked on top of each other

Old looking paper

Newspaper articles

Tumblr posts

iOS text messages

Emails

Fake ao3 authors notes and kudos button

Freaking discord chats

Its fucking amazing. Ao3 is fucking amazing. Can I legally marry a website?

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[starkerfilth]

WHAT

[the-stars-our-destination]

One of those times I'm reblogging something so I can find it again later

[brritzchilly]

Oh, HELL YEAH

[random-questions-fairy]

Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

[theredscreech]

Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).

[heroineimages]

Bookmarking this…

[backofthebookshelf]

This inspired me to see if Patricia C. Wrede’s Worldbuilding Questions are still online, and not only are they, they’re on the exact same page I saw them on in 1998. Somewhere there’s a binder of the Word doc I made of all of them and the answers I filled in for Baby’s First Fantasy World

[moethh]

die die die

[no-one-offical]

‎

[blackheart-biohazards]

😈 You are not bound by the Hays code.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.

😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.

😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.

😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.

[dovesndecay]

[pipermca]

I got another spam comment today on AO3, and I want to share it as a PSA. But before I do, I want you to understand that you SHOULD NOT DO what this comment is asking. Ok? Ok.

See that bit at the bottom? Don't do that. Insert ParamedicGuy.gif going "Don't."

Other malicious spam comments I've gotten seemed designed to make an author question their writing, or outright encourage them to delete their stories from AO3. This one is different, in that it tries to get you to destroy the work on your own computer.

If you ran that command, it basically locates your Documents folder, then deletes everything in it, including all subfolders. It also does it without any prompt, so you have no chance to second guess your actions.

This is just fucking trolling.

Coincidentally, we just did training on a cyberattack similar to this, called a ClickFix attack. You can read about how that works here.

As a general rule, if ANYONE or ANY WEBSITE tells you unsolicited* to do anything in Powershell, CMD RUN, command prompt, shell command, or something similar, DON'T.

*There are legit reasons for running commands in PowerShell or the command prompt, but in those cases you are likely seeking out a solution to a problem you are already experiencing. Don't just run random commands on your computer as recommended by some unlogged-in guest on a fan fiction site.

Always think and consider before taking action, and get a second opinion from a trusted source. When I got this comment I was pretty sure what the command would do, and it took me about three seconds of googling to confirm it.

Be safe out there!

[bulkhummus]

Wait is jerking it to fanfic like? Widely accepted?

critically acclaimed even

[raelemond]

treating your own characters badly is problematic? back in my day if we were mildly inconvenienced on the way to work we'd vivisect them for the stress relief

[bokettochild]

come to think of it, I don't think I've SEEN any vivisection since like....2019?

Maybe I need to trot my self back to the DP fandom again LOL

[curiositysavesthecat]

If you are a fanfic writer or a fan artist who creates NSFW contents, how would you feel about it when/if one of your audience told you they masturbated to your works?

I'm a fanfic writer. I'd be honored / I'd have positive feelings about it

I'm a fanfic writer. I wouldn't care / I would have no strong opinions on it

I'm a fanfic writer. I'd rather not know / I'd have negative feelings about it

I'm a fan artist. I'd be honored / I'd have positive feelings about it

I'm a fan artist. I wouldn't care / I would have no strong opinions on it

I'm a fan artist. I'd rather not know / I'd have negative feelings about it

I'm both*. I'd be honored / I'd have positive feelings about it

I'm both*. I wouldn't care / I would have no strong opinions on it

I'm both* I'd rather not know / I'd have negative feelings about it

I don't create NSFW contents

I'm not a fanfic writer or a fan artist. Poll does not apply to me

Voting ended onJan 12

*I'm both = I'm both a fanfic writer and a fan artist

This poll was submitted to us and we simply posted it so people could vote and discuss their opinions on the matter. If you’d like for us to ask the internet a question for you, feel free to drop the poll of your choice in our inbox and we’ll post them anonymously (for more info, please check our pinned post).

[starlightrows]

Fanfic writer affirmations

• My writing is for my enjoyment first, and the rest of the world second

• My interpretation and characterization is just as valid as anyone else’s

• The worth of my writing is not measured in likes

• My writing is good and adds value to the fandom

[flametrashira-deactivated202505]

Printing this and stapling it to my forehead

[archivewriter1ont]

Same.

[meangirlnurse]

i wish AO3 had, like, an option to tag certain characters as “main characters” or “side characters” because if you try to find fics about an unpopular character through their tag you end up browsing through like 3000 fics where one sentence mentions them scratching their ass in the background and that’s it 

[whitecollarnonsense]

Unintended side-effect of starting writing pregnancy fics: writing it how I view pregnancy, which is horror.

[joyful-soul-collector]

Fanfic Writer Friday

Alright fellow fanfic friends, it’s Friday, the best day of the week, and it’s about to get a lot more fun. Ya know why?

Reblog this post if you want people to send you asks about your writing process, wip/fics, or headcanons today! For each ask you get, send and ask back in return!

This is a weekly event, to be held every Friday (obviously) and is open to all fanfic writers in any fandom! Don’t be shy about sending asks to blogs you don’t know—this is a great way for writers to get to know different blogs and fics, and make new friends!

(in case you feel like you’ve seen something like this before, this is based of of writeblr’s Storyteller Saturday, aka STS!)

[whitecollarnonsense]

So, there is a "comment fest" that is being started by someone on Tumblr and it mentions that some people do not "appreciate constructive criticism".

I want to make my stance on that clear: I want constructive criticism on things I am being paid to do well. Writing fanfic is not one of those. If I start getting constructive criticism comments on my fics, I will stop posting on Ao3 because my hobby is no longer a safe hobby.

Just don't be an asshole and give unsolicited constructive criticism to people doing what amounts to and is free labor. And yes, that includes the new writers asking for it. Do not give it.

[mummer]

“not unkindly” has to be one of the ultimate adverbs ever. Implies so much