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thinking about the he/shes, and the she/hes, and the he/hers, and the she/hims 💖💘💗💞💝💟💓💘💕💝💖💗💓💘💟💞

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tell me pls I stole this from twitter lol

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[Yet Another] 'Questions for Fic Writers'

I need to get back into the fic-writing mindset, so I'm posting my own list of writer asks. Send me a number (and feel free to reblog)!

What inspired you to start writing fanfiction?

How do you come up with your plot ideas?

Are there any specific themes you enjoy exploring in your fics?

How do you channel characters' voices and personalities?

What techniques do you use to create believable dialogue?

Do you prefer writing shorter, standalone fics or longer, multi-chapter stories?

How do you handle writer's block or moments of creative stagnation?

Do you have any rituals or habits that help you get into the zone?

Have you ever collaborated with someone else on a fic?

What's your favorite part about the fic writing process?

Are there any tropes that you particularly enjoy writing?

Are there any clichés or tropes that you actively avoid in your fics?

What's the most challenging aspect of writing fanfiction for you?

How do you go about researching details or canon information?

Do you plan your fics or prefer to let the story unfold as you write?

How important is it to you to stay true to the original creator's vision while writing fanfiction?

What's the most memorable comment or review you've received on one of your fics?

Are there any fics or authors that have been particularly influential or inspiring to you?

What's the most unusual or unique setting you've used?

How do you approach action sequences or intense moments?

Have you ever used fanfiction as a way to explore your own emotions or personal experiences?

What role does humor play in your writing? Do you enjoy adding comedic elements to your fics?

How do you write endings for your fics? Do you prefer open-ended or conclusive conclusions?

What advice would you give to someone who wants to start writing fanfiction?

Are there any specific writing tools that you find helpful?

How do you approach plot twists or surprises in your fics?

What two (or more) fandoms would you like to see a crossover for? Would you ever write it?

What's the most ambitious or challenging fic you've ever written?

Are there any characters, relationships, or general character dynamics you've never written about but would like to try?

How do you handle writing multiple storylines or subplots?

Do you prefer writing from a single character's perspective or switching between different viewpoints?

Have you ever participated in fanfiction contests, challenges/fests?

How do you incorporate world-building elements into your fics?

Are there any fic writing tips or tricks you've learned along the way that you'd like to share?

What do you enjoy most about being a fic writer?

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Fuck off🖕

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reblog if you’re one of them queers 💪💪💪

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Trying to prove a point to my transphobic parents

Reblog if trans men are REAL, VALID AND HANDSOME MEN, NO MATTER HOW THEY CHOOSE TO PASS

Reblog if trans women are REAL, VALID, AND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, NO MATTER HOW THEY CHOOSE TO PASS

And finally, because it's a part of my argument for this point, and also because they are,

Reblog if nonbinary and genderqueer people in general, are REAL, VALID, AND GORGEOUS PEOPLE, NO MATTER HOW THEY PASS

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The Greek Mythos Project: The Submission Process

Hello everyone, Camila here! Finally have the time to actually flesh out the details of this project so here we are, with the Official Submission Process Post :). Dw, it's absolutely not as formal as the name suggests. This is mostly just a heads up on what will happen once you reach out with your submission (also... art is totally included btw. I need to put this in an official post but now that I've learned how to post art on AO3? Yeah, we're doing this 😂😂).

The Very First Step: How Do You Submit. Submission somewhat varies between whether or not you have an official account on Tumblr/want to stay completely anonymous or if you have a tumblr account you can submit to us through (although you can totally ask to stay anonymous to the general public or even just beyond me, Camila, who is currently and at this point going forward, the only one who maintains this account and therefore will see everything). Here are the two pathways to go through, separated for everyone's convenience :).

If You Don't Have Anything For Us To Communicate Back To Us Through, such as wanting to stay completely anonymous or just not having a Tumblr account, then you can just send us an anonymous ask! Of course, though, when you do this, we would like for you to acknowledge the fact that we will have no further communication with you other than public posts, and so basically when you submit your work, it's a "one and done." Yes, you can absolutely sign off a pseudo-name in your ask as something to keep track of you by and I'll explain that further later in this post, but just acknowledge and know that you're basically "dropping it off" into our hands from then on and we won't be able to offer further resources such as editing, "beta-ing", or even just asking for further clarifications of stuff :(. But! I promise to you that it's not that intimidating. Submitting things anonymously into this project will allow you to test the waters of your particular fixation and build confidence without having any strings attached and, honestly, we'll take good care of your works :). I personally am a writer of over 7 years, have been hyperfixated in Greek Mythology, and I've edited and worked with hundreds of writers over the years, scholarly or at the basic world-building levels. This is a project aimed to bring together a wide audience and just bring content to those niche writers/concepts and so, what's the big deal? We've got you <3.

If You Do Have A Tumblr Blog/Way To Communicate Back With Us, it's the exact same submission process as those without a blog. Just open up the ask box, copy and paste your submission along with any additional information you'd love to give, and send it our way :). You can tell us if you absolutely do not want to hear anything back from us or even have your name attached, or if you'd like to be connected with those similar to your interests :). Either way, the submissions are the same--via the Ask Box--but this just allows for better communication between us and you. There are two aspects of this project: getting people's work out there and building a community, and both ways of reaching out to us accomplish at least *one* goal of the two, if not both :).

The Second Step: What Happens After You Submit Your Work To Us. Well, we review it. Depending on what's going on, I and/or one of my lovely teammates will go through your work to do some basic editing and formatting work to make sure it fits Wattpad/AO3's structure along with making sure that all the triggers are correctly tagged. This is a requirement in your submission process, especially the trigger warning tagging process. As much as this is based on original writing styles, I do want to make sure we maintain a baseline level of conformity between the works as much as possible. Small things such as the space between paragraphs along with how the breaks in scenes are presented are mostly the things we'll be looking at but it'll really depend on the actual fic and it absolutely will not be on you as the writer to do this. Write it how you want to write it and we'll find a way to meet you in the closer-to-you middle :).

[Coming Soon] Here Is What We Ask For In Your Original Submission.

Optional Steps Within This In-Between Process. We provide in-depth editing, worldbuilding, and beta-ing help! Currently, as I am writing this, there are only two of us on the team--me, Camila/ @sleepdeprivationbutitsvaruna along with Leo, He/Him, @pluckedchicken --but I hope to either expand as this project develops further or we just grow comfortable in our roles. I personally specialize in developing worlds/AUs/worldbuiling while Leo has reached out to help with general editing and working with those darker AUs that I'd personally rather not touch. You can even reach out to us before you start your work! I know quite a lot of people with a diverse understanding of the myths that I can either point you to for help or I can even just do my own deep-dive search and help you out directly! This can be done based on request in the original ask submission--for those wanting to stay anonymous--or over DMing with me, my own blog, or Leo's blog. Just feel free to reach out and we'll try to help you out with anything!

The Third Step: What Happens When This Is All Published. Currently... absolutely no clue. It's only like a Month into this thing and I haven't even written the first sentence of my own submission, so this answer is really only going to come with time. Half of this post in general contains stuff that I came up with on the spot, and don't think that we (or at least I) have all the answers over here just because we have a fancy and cool blog. It's 2300 rn and I've literally written over a thousand words in one sitting while having spent the entire day luring out my motivation kitten and only managing to get it an inch closer and nowhere near out from under the bed, so. Yeah. We're figuring it out over here too.

As for a literal answer to this very real question: my current thoughts is that, at some point in the sooner or later stages (probably when I get the "What We Ask For In Your Original Submission" post posted), we'll come up with a general template to go off of, showing the submitter's name, socials, where to find them, additional information they want to give, author's notes, TWs, etc. in an easy-to-navigate way for both us and the reader.

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a couple years back i made a post about life advice and one of the tips i gave was 'cheat at solitaire if you want to', and i've been thinking of that since.

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Idk why ppl think that Poseidon left Sally. Like babes, no, she dumped him after he offered to make her and immortal and build her palace at the bottom of the sea and he respected her decision and seemed to keep an eye on her and their son up until she was kidnapped by his brother but was believed dead.

#!!!!! exactly!!!! #going through the things I keep getting so confused #bc I generally love Poseidon so I was like ??? do I remember the books right #like as in did I delusion myself into thinking it was different bc of my love for Poseidon #but no #*Sally* broke up with **Poseidon** #and now I feel like I’ve just been majorly gaslight #poseidon #sally jackson #percy jackson #pjo

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Hey guys, absolutely bored here. Does anyone got any good Poseidon fanfics? Like, Poseidon-centric one with preferable angst but basically anything centering around Poseidon? Hopefully?

#about to stalk the poseidon centric tag on ao3 #but like. if anyone has any recs #bc they rare #then pls send them my way! #i speak; you tolerate #poseidon #greek mythology

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reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m socially exhausted - i don’t have the time right now - i don’t know how to reply - i have a bad memory and got distracted - i’m having a depressive episode and don’t have the energy to socialise

not reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m ignoring you just because - i hate you - i’m fed up with you - i don’t want to be your friend anymore

#me rn with meat #I'm sorry I really want to respond to your response to my ask #I'm just exhausted #and depressed #and really sick :(( #love you tho and thank you for the time spent researching!!! /pos /gen

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Also!!! You can combine it with other gender-labels too!! Genderfluid is a very encompassing term but you are allowed to combine it with other terms to describe your experience. I mean, I'm an Agender Genderfluid person and I use those labels to describe how my pronoun preference changes but my personal feelings toward gender and the gender attached to those pronouns is that I don't particularly care. I'm not attached to gender, but my pronouns do change.

I think I'm gender fluid or something, help

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oh honey, gender crises is never fun im so sorry :( but im glad u came to me for help !!

so, I figured out I was genderfluid by trial and error really, but these are the the signs that made me say “yea genderfluid is right for me”

1. shifting perception of my own gender. im mostly boy aligned, but I have really femme/girl-like periods and other times where I feel like gender is just not for me :)

2. being somewhat comfortable with everything, but having preferences :3

3. being really really hot no matter how I present :) I present mostly hyper-femme, but on occasion I like to test my passing abilities as a boy, and idk man looking like one makes me feel very euphoric on certain days :3

also, if u feel like looking for experiences of fellow genderfluid folks u can check out @genderfluid-culture-iss !! they’re very neat imo :3

besides that, im here for any and every question u have for me !! <3 gender is fucking hard, and if I can even help in the slightest - yk where to find me :3

#I don't see this part of the conversation being brought up often #so I wanted to make sure it is being said #the term genderfluid is such a broad term that it might feel obligatory to just slap it on yourself or another #even thought it feels somehow just as wrong as it feels right #but I'm just here to let you know that things can be added onto each other #it's just like adding adjectives onto an object #it might be a cube #but it can also be a pink or purple *glass* cube #you can call it a cube or you can describe it further using other adjectives <3 #you've got this baby gays #and adult ones #we've all got this <33 #genderfluid #genderfluid culture

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rb this post if you're taller than me, i'm 5'2

tags so i can reach more people in the corpoverse @totally-bing @the-real-google @realsafari @im-pandora-i-promise @im-the-real-roblox-i-swear

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Honestly, the best relationship between the Big Six’s Sibling Relationship is Hestia doing this and Poseidon just standing/sitting/doing something in the room and automatically filling it in.

Like, it’s that meme that I don’t care enough to explain where Hestia is yelling at whoever invoked her wrath while Poseidon is just standing behind her on his phone and filling the spaces with monotone curse words.

[Poseidon is also the oh-too-willing backup behind the threat :)]

Hestia: I will swear word at you.

#Poseidon is the proud corrupter of Hestia #and Hestia relishes in her siblings’ outrage #But know it’s not that Hestia *won’t* or **can’t** get her hands dirty #Its just so much easier to have someone else do it! #But them <3 #greek mythology #poseidon #hestia #meat <3

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Thank you so much!! Even if this is from your experience as a writer and researcher, it was still very nice to have a good start :). Again, I don’t study Apollo nor His myths—although I am trying to get through the Iliad rn—so anything really is a good start! Thank you so much!!!!!! I’ll definitely be using this as I slowly ease myself back into writing & back into this draft that I found! Wish me luck!!

Hey Pen! Guess who just stumbled upon an old draft of theirs (that’s 85 pages-) and decided that it’d be better with another character! Unfortunately, they don’t know much about this new character, which is Apollo, and so they were hoping you could give them basics of the myths, your headcanons, and/or fics that you liked the characterizations of? It’s fine if not, I just felt that you’d be the first and easiest source to get this information from bc I just don’t know His character or His myths. Literally anything could help, even directing me to others that I could ask for help. I have written for him before and a lot of people liked it, this is just a much bigger project and I’d just love help and guidance :)

I am more than happy to help you with this! Sorry for the late reply because I have to do a bit research for this post 😅

But first, a quick disclaimer: I am not an expert on Apollo or Greek mythology in general, just an enthusiast who loves researching. All my claims should always be taken with a mountain of salt.

And a note for everyone else: @sleepdeprivationbutitsvaruna is hosting "The Greek Mythos Project", a fic series featuring many characters in Greek mythology. You can learn more about it in this post (or the official announcement on their project blog)

Now let's talk about Apollo!

Contrary to popular media presentations, Apollo isn't completely arrogant and self-centered. He is proud of his talents, yes, but he is also a loving, generous, and righteous god. He loves his family dearly, lavishes his partners with gifts and favors, and aids his people in many domains.

Of course, like other gods, Apollo has his wrathful moments but not without a reason. He doesn't only punish people for insulting him, but also those who hurt his loved ones or innocent commoners. This is why Apollo has the title of "Destroyer of Evil".

Apollo has many myths showcasing different aspects of him, so it's hard to boil him down to a single depiction - the one I just gave you is how I perceive him from my readings. For further research, I highly recommend the Theoi website, as it provides lots of Greek and Roman literature quotes that you can use as starting blocks. You can also check out @my-name-is-apollo's content, they have even more resources and insightful analyses about Apollo.

Aside from my literary view of him, I do have personal headcanons of Apollo that may or may not be relevant to his classical depiction. They are scattered ideas for now, and I will pin down a more concrete character for him in future works.

But to put it simply, I see Apollo as a golden god on the outside but a hurt child on the inside. Apollo's childhood trauma is what fueled his strive for perfection and, in an ironic twist, was the reason for his excel in arts (think of the quote "For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain" from The Thorn Birds)

There are also other wonderful takes on Apollo you can check out. The works that feature Apollo that I highly recommend are Apóllūmi by @hycinthrt, Retrograde by @starfanatic, and The Ungilded Version by MeZaKi93. Not to overly spoil your read, but I really want to talk a bit about them a bit!

Retrograde is the one that ignited and heavily influenced my HC of a traumatized Apollo trying to cover his past wounds with his "golden god" mask. The other two works have Apollo as calm, playful, and a caring figure to his loved ones. The Ungilded Version has Apollo as an amazing father, and Apóllūmi displays his role as the protector of children.

But that doesn't mean Apollo is 100% perfect in these works. He still has his flaws and selfish deeds, but that doesn't completely ruin his image in the story! You just fall in love with him more at how fleshed out he is!

And that is all I can help. Hope your writing process will be as smooth as possible and I will see you in the Greek mythology project ❤️

#sorry for the late reply #I was stuck on the fact that you’re joining me in my project??? #i read through it and then my brain just Stuttered when I read that #I would seriously be Honored- #and thank you for promoting it!!! you’re such a kind human being- #but like !!!!! #ik it’s kinda gotten a little bit of traction and stuff but to see people actively talk about it #like this #is just Incomprehensible to me #anyway I’m gonna go back to my little bubble of space and annoy my friends about how kind ya’ll are #and again #thank you so much for this research #I’ll definitely be combing through the references you gave to try to gain my own idea of Him as a character #I did write him once in a pretty sucessful TOA project but I didn’t feel that the same characterization would fit :(( #again thank you!!!!!!!!!!! #pen <3 #apollo #greek mythology