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[writingfandomsandthings]

** DO NOT USE AI ON MY WORKS **

AO3 Account and SquidgeWorld Profile include the following fandoms:

Alex Rider (including a crossover)

The Amazing Digital Circus

BBC Merlin

Big Hero 6

Blood Money (Choice of game)

Brave (Disney)

Chronicles of Narnia

Creme de la Creme

Digimon Adventure

Fire Emblem Awakening

Fire Emblem Echoes

Fire Emblem Fates

Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon

Fire Emblem Three Houses

The Giver

How to Train Your Dragon

The Hunger Games

iCarly

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Lab Rats

Lord of the Flies

Percy Jackson series

Pokemon

Ranger’s Apprentice

Royal Affairs

Shin Megami Tensei

Star Wars

Theodore Boone series (crossover)

Unnatural History

Wizards of Waverly Place

Young Bond series (crossover)

Keep in mind some of these are fandoms I don’t really participate in anymore or intend to write for again. Many came from my fanfiction.net account, before I intentionally deleted all the fics and locked myself out.

I have fandom sideblogs and here they are:

@agastyatreepetals is my Shin Megami Tensei franchise blog. As before fanfics and adjacent are pinned at the top of the blog

@thedivergingpaths which is my Tales of and Fire Emblem dual fandom blog. My pinned post is just full of Fire Emblem fanfiction, but hopefully I’ll be posting some Tales of stuff sooner than later.

@merlinistired which is my BBC Merlin and Arthuriana blog

@oldsolisinthewalls is my "I Was a Teenage Exocolonist" (iwatex) sideblog

@themostcollectibleofmonsters is my pokemon and digimon sideblog

@blorbos-vs-the-kawaii-beam is my animanga (and etc) blog

@gl1tchingthruthewallz is my western animation and video and comics blog. Gonna be a lot of indie animation probably

@dragonsunderthegates is my dragon age and baldur's gate 3 blog

Compilation Posts:

IWATEX Mini Fics

SMT & Persona Fics and Thoughts

Fire Emblem Fics

Merlin Fics

** DO NOT USE AI ON MY WORKS **

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[josilverdragon]

Saved this because it is so true.

[dancinbutterfly]

As a fic writer? If you encourage me? You are the most valuable person in the room

[kingcatnine]

we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs

[duckbunny]

some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

[kingorqueenofnarnia]

Peter, fifteen and fresh out of a bloody and brutal war, sneaking out of Cair Paravel in the middle of the night and going to the river, sticking his head into ice-cold water to shock himself out of a nightmare riddled sleep. Narnia won, but at what cost?

Peter, lying in Susan's bed with his fingers curled tightly into the fabric of her skirts, dried tear tracks on his face and Susan singing quietly in an effort to comfort him. Her fingers pick apart the strands of his hair and he falls asleep only to wake up an hour later with screams on his lips.

Peter, wrapping his arms around an Edmund who has returned from war and murmuring frantic thanks to the Gods for keeping him alive. He presses kisses on Edmund's forehead, cheeks, nose and eyelids, and considers the idea of never letting any of his siblings out of his sight ever again.

Peter, sitting on the High King's throne at the age of thirteen and wondering if he is worthy of this, if he deserves this, if he is capable of this. He is thirteen and barely knows anything about anything and he is High King who should know everything about everything is he worthy is he deserving is he capable he does not know—

Peter, in Lucy's room sitting on the floor with his back pressed to her bed, allowing her to braid flowers into his hair as he stares at the wall. The Victory Parade is in a few hours, but they lost many soldiers and people and Peter has lost sleep and sanity and good friends. Narnia has won but Peter has lost.

Peter, carrying a candle to the Castle Library at two in the morning and pulling out a book about children's fables. He cannot sleep, might as well distract himself. The candle dies down and the sun comes up, and Peter drags himself back to his quarters to get ready.

Peter, who locks himself in his chambers and does not come out for days and days, who refuses food and drink and buries himself under his blankets and stares out the window with blank eyes and slack eyebrows, who does not speak and does not cry and pushes his face into his pillow and screams for the nightmares to go away please I'll do better I just want to sleep please stop please—

Peter, who wants peace and contentment, but cannot help but go to war. Peter, who is quiet and introspective but needs to be loud and abrasive because he is High King. Peter, who wishes he could put down the sword that he wields as easily as he breathes.

Peter, who desires peace, but becomes a God of War

[mysterious-gizem]

[friendamedes]

i know it sounds woefully self-centered and ungrateful but i do think a lot of ao3 commenters could benefit from a quick how-to-talk-to-strangers-on-the-internet course

[naryrising]

I hope you don't mind my adding onto this, because I totally agree, but one thing I've noticed more often lately is people commenting on a work who just say what the work is.

Examples: (not verbatim quotes because I don't want to put anyone on blast but the gist of real comments I've gotten)

"Wow, A/B smut!"

"This is the first story for this pairing!"

"Huh, never seen this [kink/trope] before."

And like, this isn't rude exactly, but it does always give me a sense of, ok, but why are you telling me this? I know it's A/B smut, I wrote it. I knew it was the first work for this ship, I had to create the tag. I know it's a rare kink - I enjoy it, I can't find enough of it, that's why I wrote this in the first place.

I've taken to replying to these type of comments with "I hope you liked it!" because it feels like the most generous way to interpret them - the person probably did like it, if they read it and left a comment, but they forgot to actually say so. Often they reply with "Yes, it was great!" or similar actual commentary about what they thought of the story. So maybe consider just saying that in the first place!

Better example: "Wow, I've never seen a fic for this ship before. I was really excited to find it, because it's so rare. Thank you very much for writing it, it was awesome!"

I realize this takes slightly longer, but it is much, much nicer to receive than a comment that just tells me that I wrote a fic. I know I wrote a fic. Let me know that you read it.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[devinellekurtz]

Late Night at the Art Studio From my upcoming artbook, which is crowdfunding right now!

[marlynnofmany]

The tiger He destroyed the fourth wall Yes YES The tiger is out

[recurring-polynya]

me (crazy eyes, covered in blood): I NEED to finish writing my fanfic. so I can start writing a different fanfic.

[prokopetz]

Creating an OC who's fucked up because of their parents might seem harmless at first, but unless you're very careful about avoiding certain topics, at some point you're going to have to think about what their parents actually did to make them so fucked up, and now your OC's fucked up parents are also your OCs.

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[ashen-crest]

This seems to have vibed with a lot of folks, so as encouragement: after posting this, I did in fact write a whole chapter. So you can do it too! You ARE capable of putting sentences together!

[the-prairies-calling-out]

"Why do you buy books when the library is right there?"

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

Also, I like being able to read at my leisure and generally have books at hand.

[its-the-blob]

#public libraries are good because they let people access books they might never otherwise read#private book ownership is good because it's Yours#physical books are good because they last a long time and again it's Yours#ebooks are good because you can fit a whole library into the physical space of a single book and they're cheaper to produce#audiobooks are good because they're accessible to people with eyesight or visual reading issues and leave your hands free#in conclusion: all books are good and people should enjoy them however and whenever they can#(lest it be misunderstood I agree with you completely OP I just also really like books in general and it got away from me)

YES. all books. every kind

[convelocity]

Fangs out for another ride around the sun

Grab prints here or here

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."