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#I will probably post in this board soon tbh I want to know what I'm doing WRONG so I can FIX IT!!!!!!
moral of the story from this mentorship discord: never let twitter bitches do a redditor's job
#risa is an author now#everyone in both writing discords was like oooooooo watch out for this reddit. It's a fantastic resource but BRUTAL be prepared#so after this last rejection I'm finally like#me: okay well listen. we don't have to post anything. let's just look at the posts and study them so we can at least learn a basic format#the reddit: literal line by line explanations about what's wrong and needs to be fixed. which is exactly what I've been asking for#I HEARD THE ANGELS SING#FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING CRITIQUE#listen#I need to internalize that the majority of writers that I meet will not have gone to college for writing#and didn't have their feelings beaten out of them with workshops formatted like this#it's also now putting into perspective why the few people I have beta'd with got irritated with me lmfao ^^;#I 100% do this line by line here's 'what's working here's what isn't here's what's missing here's why this doesn't make sense to me'#line by line SPECIFIC stuff#like somebody told me 'this is missing plot' and I'm like what does that MEAN#I can give you plot in a novel format or a synopsis but this has to be 250 words max this is an entirely different format#YOU HAVE TO BE!!!!!! SPECIFIC!!!!!! THERE ARE LIKE 12 WAYS TO DESCRIBE THE PLOT OF A STORY WHICH ONE?????????#Anyway I LITERALLY got a fantastic resource within the first two posts I've read and now I UNDERSTAND!!!!!#MORE OF WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING!!!!!!!#I will probably post in this board soon tbh I want to know what I'm doing WRONG so I can FIX IT!!!!!!
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kagejima 2 years
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You know, my brain is still stuck on the idea of Toshi being a stripper. Like he would probably be stiff at first but eventually he'll get into it and be the star of the club馃憖馃憖馃憖
HEHEEHEHHEHE OMG I'VE BEEN DYING TO TALK ABOUT STRIPPER!TOSHI!!! HE'S SO PRECIOUS.
@pan-cakez i don't know if you read it and that's why it's been stuck in your head but i hope you don't mind, but I'm actually going to tie this into my own stripper!toshi work!
It's actually the very first story (very first story, but tbh it's more of a prologue to the entire series) I ever posted on here when I started this blog back in may and i'm planning on it being my magnum opus heheheh
more thoughts under the cut (female reader, stripper club mentions obviously)
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I'm gonna give some continuation into Stripper!Wakatoshi heheheheheh. This is sort of canon Wakatoshi?? He played volleyball in highschool and college but never went on to play professionally in this.
So, Wakatoshi... who has been asked by you if he wants to work at your establishment
And he's never really thought about it before.
But he knows he needs an actual job and rent is due soon.
And roommate Mattsun who has his fancy corporate job in marketing doesn't mind helping out and covering Wakatoshi's part of the rent at all, but Wakatoshi still feels bad because the townhome they share is definitely far from cheap.
But Wakatoshi doesn't even know if this is a good decision.
Nevertheless, he still takes your card when you give it to him. You tell him no pressure, he can take his time to think about it, but you'd be happy to have him if he accepts.
Tendou thinks it's a good idea, of course.
He won't shut up about it the whole time on the walk back from the restaurant.
"You'd be so good at it!" Tendou is telling him, "You're all big and strong! Ahhh, you'd have everybody swooning over you!"
"I can't dance though..." Wakatoshi tells him, "I can't dance regularly so I don't think I could even dance like the way I needed to for that."
"Ehhh, I'm sure they'll be lenient with you." Tendou shrugs before patting him on the back, "It's worth a shot though, isn't it? You could make a lot of money!"
"I guess..." Wakatoshi sighs when they reach the entrance to his townhome.
Tendou stands in front of him and puts his hand on his shoulder, a much more serious tone in his voice now, "You can do it, Miracle Boy. You can do anything you set your mind to. I hope you know that."
And Wakatoshi, for the first time in the conversation on this walk home, smiles.
His best friend always has his back no matter what. It's always been that way.
When Wakatoshi enters his home, he isn't expecting Mattsun to be there in the kitchen. It's late, and Mattsun usually has to put in longer hours at the office this time of year, but there he is, making a snack.
"Was wondering where you went off to. You left your gym bag so I figured it wasn't there..." Mattsun laughs.
"Drinks with Tendou." Wakatoshi answers, walking over to the glasses cabinet and pulling out one of their larger ones. If he wants to work out in the morning, he needs to stay hydrated so he isn't hung over in the morning.
"Ah? Did you have fun?"
"Somebody offered me a job."
Mattsun stops slicing the salami for his mini charcuterie board
"Oh?"
Wakatoshi nods and pulls your card out of his back pocket, wordlessly handing it over to Mattsun.
Mattsun knows exactly the place as soon as he reads the card.
"Oh, the girls at the office go to this place all the time! I've gone there for a few of their bachelorette parties," Mattsun's face lights up, "It's really nice too. Did someone try to recruit you?"
"The owner."
Mattsun is speechless.
"The owner, huh?"
Wakatoshi nods again before he takes a sip of his water.
"Weird," Mattsun's forehead creases, "I hear she's kind of elusive. I never saw here when I went there."
"There was some creep hitting on her at the restaurant so I had to step in."
Mattsun smirks, "Look at you being all Prince Charming."
Wakatoshi just continues to sip his water.
"So are you gonna take it?"
Wakatoshi shrugs, "Tendou thinks I should, but I don't know if it's a good idea."
Mattsun sighs. He knows Wakatoshi like the back of his hand after living with him for a few years, so he sees that Wakatoshi is nervous right now instead of indifferent to the entire thing.
"I think... that it wouldn't hurt to stop by there. See the place for yourself. Maybe introduce yourself to some of the other people who work there." Mattsun suggests as he hands him back the card.
Wakatoshi takes the card, examining it again.
There's the name of the club - Loveluxe - in white letters and it stands out from the deep blue-ish purple of the rest of the card on one side, with the address and phone number on the other side.
And your first name and personal phone number scribbled hastily in an empty spot in sparkly gel pen.
Mattsun asks if he wants to stay up and watch a movie he's been holding off on watching with him, but Wakaotshi declines.
Wakatoshi thinks about you as he's getting ready for bed.
He thinks about the way you looked so cute as you told him a little bit about the club you owned - he can't remember anything you said though - he was too distracted by the way your lips moved. The way the lace of your black bra was still playing peek-a-boo under your shirt and it took everything in him to not look down and offend you.
He thinks about the way you had smiled at him when you told him no rush to get back to you.
But he doesn't want to wait.
If Tendou and Mattsun think it's a good idea - he trusts them with his life - then it probably is.
Wakaotshi sits down on his bed and flips the card over and over in his hands again before he picks up the phone and dials your number.
A few rings into it and he's wondering if maybe he's making a mistake
He doesn't have any time to hang up though.
"Hello? Who am I speaking to?"
Your voice. It makes his heart do somersaults.
"This is Wakatoshi." He answers obediently.
"Ohhhh! Hi!" You say, and he can picture your perfect smile in his head as you say it, "What can I do for y--- OHMYGOD, PUT THAT DOWN, YOU TWO. I'M GONNA TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK IF YOU BREAK ANOTHER LAMP!"
Wakatoshi pulls away the phone from his ear
"Sorry," You apologize, "I'm not usually like this. Some of the men that work for me are... chaotic." You sigh.
"It's fine," He smiles, "Um. I was wondering... if it would be alright if I stopped by? Maybe tomorrow morning?"
"Oh, yeah! We have our weekly meeting tomorrow morning too so you can meet everybody!"
Oh. He wasn't prepared for this type of answer.
"So is this a yes to my offer then?" You ask, and he can still see your smile.
"I think so?" He says hesitantly, "Maybe?"
You laugh and his cock twitches in his sleep pants.
"I'll see you tomorrow morning at 10 o clock then, Wakatoshi Ushijima."
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wastelockwoes 4 months
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20 questions for fic writers
I stole this from @chipper-daily 馃挌
I'm also terrible at tagging, so if you see this, consider yourself tagged :3
1. How many works do you have on Ao3?
Oh lord. Public - 21. Actual total uh... Oh fuck, 30 fics.
2. What's your total Ao3 word count?
378,162
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Currently IZ, I doubt that'll change anytime soon.
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
Suck (IZ, ZADR, NSFW)
Ready to Burn (IZ, ZADR, NSFW)
Get Down, Make Love (IZ, ZADR, NSFW)
Twisted Transistor (that's right, that's mine lmao) (IZ, ZADR, NSFW)
Seven Minutes In Heaven (IZ, ZADR, NSFW)
If you're sensing a theme, that's cuz you're right. I have brainrot. I wonder if anyone from my Silent Hill fic days even follow me on AO3 anymore lmao.
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I do! Unless I just genuinely can't think of a reply (i.e, someone makes a request for what they'd like to see happen in an In-Progress fic, and I know it's not gonna happen but don't want to accidentally come across as rude. If there's nothing else for me to reply to, I won't respond to that comment. Sorry!)
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
For IZ, it's Post-Blue for sure. For Silent Hill, despair and die has the worst ending of the two fics I wrote by far. Sorry Henry <3
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Weirdly enough, I think most of my fics have happy endings? I say weird, because I'm not actually a happy ending kinda guy, but I do like to provide some sort of resolution since fic is predominantly something people turn to for entertainment.
That being said, I'd say Suck is probably my most hopeful ending, and that things genuinely stay pretty good for the lads in that AU barring the light kidnapping incident that occurs in the sequel.
8. Do you get hate on fics?
I have been wonderfully blessed so far, which means now I've written that and manifested it into the world, someone is gonna leave me an absolute ripper of a hate comment. Worst thing someone ever did was ask for an update on Suck after less than a month, while also calling me stinky.
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Nah.
JK, I write a lot. If you're over 18, go check it out yourselves <3
10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?
Oh boy. Yes, I actually do enjoy writing crossovers, even though I never read them. I wanna write an actual IZxSilent Hill crossover sometime soon, but for now Prisonic Fairytale is the closest to achieving that (and desperately needs updating soon, sorry orz)
BUT, my first ever IZ fic was actually technically a crossover. The plot of Love Is A Verb is based on the film Wristcutters A Love Story, though things diverge a lot and the ending is very loosely based on both the film and the original novella that was based on called Kneller's Happy Campers. I only don't have it tagged as a crossover since I diverged so much from the film's plot halfway through the fic, and no characters from the film appear (or do they...?)
If you check that fic out, please mind the tags. There's a lot of very heavy themes in that fic.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
If I have, I have no idea, and tbh I'd probably rather not know.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
I have not!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
The wonderful @chipper-daily and I currently have something in the works that you're all gonna love >:3c
14. What's your all-time favorite ship?
If you couldn't guess by now, it's Zim x Dib.
15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
Oof. Honestly, my Foodcourtia fic Enemy of the Fugue State. Because I started writing that as a total stream of consciousness kinda thing with zero outline, and my brain put on the breaks half-way through a goddamn sentence and I'm not sure how to get to where I wanna go next.
This isn't to say it's abandoned by any means! Just that I might need to go back to the drawing board with that one.
16. What are your writing strengths?
I like to think I'm good at writing dialogue?
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
I could be way more descriptive tbh.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
All about it. Alas, I'm monolingual, so that's not something I can experiment with myself. Unless Dib or Zim ever go to France or Germany and need to ask to borrow a pen or something. In that case, I'm all set.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Final Fantasy 7. It was terrible, and no longer exists. Cloud and Vincent got married at the Gold Saucer and that is literally the only details you'll ever get out of me. I was 13 xD
Tho getting super technical, the first 'fic' I ever wrote was a class creative writing assignment in Year 5, where I wrote about Digimon.
20. Favorite fic you've written?
I love all of my fics, else I wouldn't have written them! That being said, my favourite published fic is definitely Love Is A Verb 馃挌
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limerental 2 years
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2021 Year-End Fic Review
tagged by聽@handwrittenhello and I won't be tagging anyone because I have anxiety <3
how many stories did you complete?
counting my ficletvember stories, 60 individual fics and ficlets. which is way more than I thought but that's what happens when you write a fic a day in November.
what is your total word count for the year?
155k published on ao3. My ficletvember fics ended up being 26k total, plus I have some wips here and there. So ~180k total this year.
what fandoms did you write in this year?
Mostly the Witcher, but I did have a diversion this summer into the Loki fandom and wrote two Sylki fics and a fic for a Thorki event. Also, a sense8 ficlet.
did you write more, less or roughly about what you expected?
I wrote less than I wanted to this year for varying reasons, but I'm happy with what I did write. Last year I wrote about double what I did this year, but I also was still living with my parents and since have bought a house by myself so have much less time and energy to write.
what鈥檚 your favourite story of the year?
I feel like I wrote so many different things all over the board this year so I have no idea. I really loved getting deep into Yenralt this year tbh I think this was just the year of writing so many Yenralt ficlets. But my favorite may have been then send down the storm, my Lambert/Aiden remix fic, mostly because I did not know I could love that ship and found my way there through a really personal story very dear to my heart.
what鈥檚 your most underappreciated story of the year?
My BTC reverse bang yengilla fic, in dark and twisted braids, which was posted in June and still has less than 300 hits and 80 kudos. A lot of my fics in general flew under the radar this year because I wrote a lot more f/f or rarepairs or both. Meanwhile, my yennskier wip I posted just last week has more hits and kudos than any of my 2021 fics except for a Geraskefer fic from the beginning of the year.
biggest fanfic related disappointment of 2021?
I didn't win a single one of the three different bingos I participated in this year lmao and also I was kinda disappointed in the most recent (non-Witcher) bang I participated in where my artist was non-communicative and then dropped out and holiday craziness meant my pinch hitter and I could barely discuss anything and by the time I published the fic, I barely remembered or cared about it. I knew I didn't like bangs and that was confirmed but I'm going to do another one soon anyway hehe
biggest fanfic related surprise of 2021?
The Yennskier Rennaisance bringing a ton of attention to 2020 fics like the poet's wish and lilacs and dandelions. It warms my little heart to see people finally reading the monster that is the poet's wish because I think I finished it in a fandom lull and the way I posted it in huge chunks of chapters also just led to way less readership at the time. But not anymore!
something you look forward to working on in 2022?
just for you, dear readers of this blog, I will share my current list of possible fic ideas that I probably won't write:
Yenbert modern au humiliation-heavy femdom
FrinFran with missing scenes and where francesca comes back for fringilla
FrinFran lawyers modern au
[Redacted] Yen bang
Geralt kills Yennefer :/ aw :/
Trissbert romance ft. jealous but pretending not to be jealous Philippa (concept being: Philippa. why are you allowed to have TWO bratty subs?)
A Shard of Ice revision with Istredd/Geralt/Yennefer
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blogocrap 7 years
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PLOT PART 3
Satan: abandonment is the worst possible thing to her. And after spending weeks or months alone in a cell being told you are literally going to die, that's how she feels. Because Tootsie and Feb are the only two people in the entire universe she loved and felt like they loved her
Sam: Tbf Feb is at fault here, cause she wants to go back to see Em and talk to her after the first time she went, but she doesn't know what to do or say so she keeps putting it off
Satan: well I mean
Satan: Tootsie does it too
Satan: they both basically say the equivalent of fuck you when they never come back
Satan: so she loses them both in short succession and it kills her
Katie/Sam: Feb without meaning to - I'm assuming Tootsie didn't mean to either
Satan: no Tootsie actually did
Sam: Damn
Sam: Feb's just in the sort of place where you've just had a fight with someone, and it's awkward and you don't know what to say so you stay quiet and away while you try to work out what to actually say
Satan: in fact he's about to leave and he's not believing her and Em says if you leave now don't ever come back and tootsie says 'i can't believe I ever thought about marrying you' and she responds 'I'm sorry you ever wasted your time' and they don't talk again until post pardon
Sam: Damn
Sam: I feel like the pardon would be what gives Feb something to talk about because she's suddenly like "wait no you can't kill her, I still need to make up with her and work this out, and then we can be best friends again - you can't kill my best friend"
Satan: that would be the sentencing
Sam: I DON'T UNDERSTAND LAW XD
Satan: the pardon dismisses all charges
Satan: sentencing is guilty/not guilty and the punishment
Sam: then the sentence would snap Feb out of the awkwardness and trying to work out what to say
Sam: She'd be at the cell like the day of the sentence, immediately rambling on about how she can make it better and get them to change the sentence
Satan: honestly
Satan: Em would be so fucking defensive
Satan: and think Feb is only doing it out of guilt
Satan: cause technically it wouldn't be a death sentence if she hadn't killed those people to save her
Sam: Understandable
Sam: She's partly feeling guilty, but mostly scared that Em is going to be killed
Sam: Cause like the whole point of getting shot for Em was so that she wouldn't die
Satan: tbh Up probably tells Feb he's working on a pardon
Sam: Tbh Feb would be mega salty with Up ever since the arrest
Satan: until the sentencing he keeps it sort of quiet because he needed to know how much they were charging her with
Satan: Up won't be expecting Em to plead guilty to all charges without a plea deal
Satan: When he reveals about the pardon he'll probably also be like look this was her idea in the first place
Sam: Feb would just be so angry
Sam: She might even start yelling about the fact that she killed people and a little kid, and going "fucking arrest me too then!"
Satan: wait feb killed people what
Sam: At her wedding
Satan: or is that just the wedding
Satan: yeah that's clear cut self defense
Satan: When Em goes in to rescue Feb she shoots first
Sam: Not the little girl tho - she got caught in the crossfire
Sam: She'd at least have manslaughter
Satan: that's manslaughter and could be pled out easy
Sam: Feb wouldn't care tbh she'd keep going on about it and demanding that they give her the same sentence as Em if they're going stick with it
Satan: She can try but it won't work
Sam: She'll try
Sam: If she has the ability to, she might even trash her lab
Satan: Because she didn't make a massive bloody mess in front of the commander, and purposefully take point so that no one else on the team fired first making her the only killer on the mission on the murder front. The rest would be instructed to only shoot at people with raised weapons because self defense
Satan: plus multiple huge outstanding warrants
Sam: Tbh this whole thing would actually destroy Kray
Sam: Cause he was there, and he really feels like the crew is his family
Sam: And suddenly Em is in prison and has a death sentence
Sam: And he couldn't help or stop it
Satan: hence why Em allows Up to be the only one to know that part of the plan
Sam: Yup
Satan: lest someone else do something to try to stop it but Em knew going in someone was going to have to go down
Satan: and she wouldn't let Narcis live because she would walk out in hours
Sam: Yeah
Satan: the good part is
Satan: with death sentences
Satan: years to follow through
Sam: Feb would be doing everything she could to make things right
Satan: How upset is Feb going to be that Em is applying for transfer as soon as she's granted her pardon
Sam: She'd be crushed
Satan: Em is just so emotionally fucked up
Satan: plus you have to remember she's all alone in that cell until sentencing
Sam: Yeah
Satan: Up visits when he can but aside from Feb and Tootsie essentially saying fuck you
Satan: the only company she has is Junior one cell over.
Sam: I'm thinking, if we do seriously injure Feb, she'd also be very numb from not being able to work and stuff so that would contribute to the not visiting
Satan: I totally get it
Satan: Em won't, but I do
Sam: Like no one's completely in the right here and it's all so beautiful fucked
Sam: The worst part is that Feb still tries and still wants to work it out
Satan: Em will take a lot of time to be even remotelyokay with things
Sam: Okay but Feb, after years of trying to find out where Em was transferred, just giving up and becoming the complete opposite of the bubbly woman everyone once knew
Satan: I don't know if Em is gonna get the transfer or not yet
Sam: If she does, Feb is gonna eventually turn cynical and rude and mean
Satan: she's applying for it, but she's also just been granted a huge pardon and may have to serve under Up for a while
Satan: Em is gonna be much closer to modern Em after this though
Satan: she's gonna be a lot colder and filled with a lot more spite and a larger tendency to hold people at a far distance
Sam: Feb is going to be a lot less kind and trusting tbh
Satan: I honestly
Satan: don't know how they're gonna fix it
Satan: but I hope they do
Sam: I don't know if they can
Sam: Same, I hope they do
Sam: Could you imagine them bumping into each other after the years and Feb just straight up telling Em to go fuck herself before getting as far away as possible
Sam: Like I reckon Feb would also quit the Rangers when she couldn't find Em again (especially if we fuck with her ability to walk/work)
Satan: tbh as soon as her contract was up Em would leave the rangers, (legally) change her name, and do freelance work
Sam: Cause her entire reason for going for the Rangers was because Em said she'd be great at it and to go for it - and it'd depress her to be there
Sam: Feb would end up as a chemist or something
Satan: tbh Em probably has a journal that's just
Satan: everything since she ran away
Satan: and she probably gave it to Up right before the rescue mission and was like read it if you have to but after that burn it
Satan: he probably gives it to Feb instead
Sam: Oh no
Satan: it would fill in the gaps of what Em didn't tell Feb
Sam: Feb would keep it forever
Satan: specifics of her parents abuse, the worst of the years between home and the rangers, even when she boarded the starship and how hard it was not to tell her right then and there who she was
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