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guys. tumblr finally rotted my brain enough, that i yelled, "Oh! You leave it there?!? OH! JAIL FOR YOU! JAIL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS!" at the end of a fic.

it was like second nature. send help.

(If you want to read the fic that provoked such a reaction, it's Ghost by Yobotica on AO3. {Here's a link!} It is an Assassin's Creed, pre-DesShaun fic, so if that alone sells you, great! But honestly, for the concept alone, you should read it anyway. It was a brilliant read.)

#rotp update #rotp reads #rotp fic recs

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

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I'm not ignoring my WIPs. they're ripening in my mental cellar

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Hey! ... Fair enough.

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If u want to write a story about a character that’s just you but hotter with a dark twisted backstory and magical powers and a pet falcon or something, I think u should just go ahead and do that. Who’s gonna stop you? The government?? Fuck the police.

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Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:

Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:

Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?

Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.

Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.

Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?

Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.

It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:

Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?

Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.

When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.

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Why am I like this

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That moment when the unrelated scenes you've been writing for two weeks both somehow connect (i have no idea how this happened)

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Honestly, the main theme song to my ABO Shassie fic is Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. I might craft a playlist for my stories that are song-inspired. Maybe not. If there's an interest, I'll make a poll.

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Not all of my stories are song-inspired... Just... A large majority of them, okay?!

I don't have a problem. You have a problem!

#rotp update #rotp wip talk #psych #rotp talks psych #alpha beta omega #song mention

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some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

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hey...hey you... do you need to save your work? save your work. don't listen to the devil, save it now. you can always save it again later (and you should).

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extremely disappointed there isn't someone out there who will write the exact fics i want to read 24/7 so i don't have to do it myself, what a disgrace, someone somewhere needs to shape up

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Drarry dads morning.