#Not fiction

[gainingfiction]

Who is the hottest guy you have seen out and about recently?

Great question! Unfortunately I live in a small, somewhat rural town, and the selection of hot guys is not ideal. So I’ve been sitting on this ask for a while.

Turns out, my patience was fated. I just saw the very first guy I ever had a crush on. Like, one of those major, embarrassing boyhood crushes. It’s a tale as old as time; the nerdy, closeted gay boy fawning over the straight, popular jock. Nothing ever came of it, of course, and I moved on. It’s been years since I’ve seen him and I haven’t given him much thought. But guess what—he’s gained weight. Ex-jock indeed.

I was doing some (very) last-minute Christmas shopping at the liquor store, when a familiar (but somewhat rounder) face caught my eye. He’d always had a cute, handsome face, but it looked even cuter now, softened as it was. I mean, he has dimples! He was dressed casually, and his wavy dark hair was a bit tousled and shaggy. He was wearing grey sweatpants (God is good) and a baggy purple hoodie, but it was the sort of baggy that accentuated rather than disguised his new, rotund belly. And from behind, his puffy winter coat did nothing to minimize his obvious love handles.

He played on our high school basketball team back in the day, and had always been athletic when I knew him, but I expect he fell into a trap that entangles many men in their mid-20s (i.e., getting a little chubby). I'm useless at guessing weights, but if you forced me to speculate, I'd say he's up about 40-50 pounds from his fighting weight. And he's not particularly tall. Considering his wardrobe, I can’t help but think of Mean Girls (2004): “sweatpants are all that fits me right now.” Wishful thinking, maybe.

I don’t know if he’s the hottest guy I’ve seen out and about recently, but you never forget your first crush… I hope he has a great Christmas, and gets plenty to eat while he’s home for the holidays.

#asks #not fiction #weight gain #glad he didn’t catch me staring #I feel a little sketchy writing a lengthy description of a real person #but hey it’s better than creepy stealth pics you see floating around right? #gay #genuinely grey sweatpants are a gift to humanity and every man who wears them should be nominated for a nobel peace prize #i love answering asks so keep them coming!

[mastergir]

you show me a tub of goo and i’ll show you a good time

#facts #not fiction

[alhyastarain]

Why...

???: You did it again.

Me: Yes, it seems like it.

???: Are you proud of yourself?

Me: I have no regrets.

???: You... You are a monster. You should be locked in a psych ward.

Me: Maybe. Who knows?

???: This is not who you are...

Me, in an excessively soft voice: Do you know who I am?

???: Y-you... you're just a teenager, acting edgy...

Me: You said I was a monster.

???: I-

Me, my voice now leaking darkness and pleasure: You have no idea who I am.

???: Nor do you! This is not part of you. You can still go back...

I snapped.

Me: Do. Not. Dictate. Who I am or am not. This is not some "mistake"- it is part of myself, and I won't reject it again.

???: ...

???: Did you enjoy it?

Me: I think so.

???: You're always so kind... Why would you do this?

Me: Because kidness is not my single defining trait- nor is it cruelness.

???: He was your friend.

Me: That is true.

???: Yet you chose to destroy him. Why?

Me: Maybe because I got bored. Maybe because I was fed up. Maybe... because destroying gave me pleasure.

???: You are a monster.

Me: That I am. But I'll still be good, and I'll still be bad, regardless of what you say. I longed stopped listening to your opinion- and now, I won't let you speak for me.

???: What-

Me: You are but the sum of the beliefs and lies society taught me. So, I do not need you.

Conscience: You can't live without me!

Me: You're right, I can't. There won't be a day I won't doubt myself, not a day I won't regret some of my decisions and overthink what could've been. But, at least, I will try to live by staying truthful to myself.

Consience: Everyone will hate you.

Me: Some will, some won't. But, same as with you, I won't care about their opinions. Only those who I love will get the best from me- nothing more, nothing less.

Consience: You will never get rid of me.

Me: I know.

Conscience: You need me.

Me: You are a mask. I might use you, to go unnoticed. But I don't care. Not really, I don't.

Consience: They will notice.

Me: I don't care what they say.

Conscience: But you-

Me: I don't care. Go. Leave me alone. You are nothing but thoughts, and thoughts do not define me.

All that was left was silence, and I smiled. Nothing -noone- would stop me from being who I am, but myself.

#alhya's words #writing #rambles #rambling #spilled words #spilled thoughts #prose #not fiction

[bluemonkwrites]

#creative nonfiction #prose #fathers #texas rangers #not poetry #not fiction #creative writing

[innocentsardonicpotatoes]

Lost Ring

A lost ring between you and I,

Lived on with life, not asking why.

For how this love came to be,

Was plain enough for those knowing our history.

I called you my other half, you called me your love,

Hoping nothing come in between us, high and above.

Day by day, night after night,

We had each other, even after a fight.

We shed tears,

We hid our fears.

But it is a tale that would go on

Although the ring is long gone.

Image taken from Pinterest

#3 am thoughts #spilled thoughts #poetic #inspired from reality #not fiction #prose poetry #story #short poem #romance #lovers #lost love #relationships #poetry? #rhyme #rings #broken #soulmates #half a heart #life quotes #bookblr

[theprissythumbelina]

Was teaching a student today and had them on one of my favorite horses in the string. Normally not a fan of greys, but I'll make an exception. Had them on the lunge, we're getting ready to trot, I ask him to move up and he immediately lets out the loudest, longest fart I have ever heard from any animal. Not even exaggerating, it went on for 20 seconds. My student is red-faced from laughing, I'm open-mouthed in shock, the horse is unperturbed, and I can think to say is "Do you feel better now?"

We all take a second to recover ourselves and get back to it, I ask him to trot once more and he does it again!

#not fiction #but certainly is writing #He was acting perfectly normal besides the gas #I have never had that happen in my 18 years #it was impressive

[xansmenagerie]

Oof. I was made redundant at the end of last week, and I'm already exhausted. Not for the reasons you're probably immediately thinking - although CV updating and juggling recruiters and so forth is pretty full-on - but because of how much effort I've had to put into being kind.

I was part of a fairly small company, around 45 people, and we had to lose 10 of them. That's a quarter of a pretty close-knit community gone in under a week (because consultations don't need to take that long). And yes, I'm hurting and angry, but the people having to do the actual cutting? They're hurting too, pretty badly, because we're not just anonymous faces - we're friends, more or less.

Add to that that I'm also something of an elder and the sort of person who tries to look after people... I've either been comforting the people doing the cuts via stupid jokes and reassuring them that I'll be fine and making sure they take care of themselves, or I've been comforting people who either knew they were going or didn't know if they were or not while for most of the week not revealing that I knew I was one of the people on the list.

It's easy to forget or ignore just how much energy kindness can take, especially in situations where self-care is needed just as much. I don't think I could have managed it so well if I wasn't in a situation outside of work where metaphorically speaking I could get my oxygen mask on extremely quickly - and, for that matter, if my innate trauma response wasn't "clown around and make cups of tea".

But there it is. And this too will pass - like a kidney stone, but it will pass.

I have a CV that's mostly up to date, the sun is shining, and I have an extremely in-demand skillset in my industry. I am financially secure enough that I'm in no rush.

And hey, at least this means I have a bit more time to sit and write for a while?

#not fiction #cw: redundancy

[ritterum]

it’s very hard to stay mad at family when you (that is, I) think back on the hardships you endured together, and the stresses and shocks that brought them to where they are now. but then you get close and they lash out at you in the same ways, and the old wounds open, and you remember why you stayed away in the first place. maybe anger has turned into pity (for distance both chills and tempers the heart), but the physical effects, the physiological effects: the body is loath to forget the insults of yesteryear. if it could not forget the lurking beasts of the primeval savannah, how could it forget the cutting tongues of the ancestral home?

#not fiction #for once

[squarefics]

Ao3 being down and people freaking really shows why it's important to consider them. They are providing a large database that a crap ton of people use, at not a ton of money tbh with how large and expansive it is.

#ao3 #ao3 update #not fanfiction #not fiction #queue me up scotty

[fluorescentbrains]

me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off

#d #rihanna sticks and stones can break my bones but fictional people’s thoughts about whips and chains excite me

[nakakabaliw]

trying to get through the day.

#artists on tumblr #baliwart #dungeon meshi senshi #senshi of izganda #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #disco elysium kim #disco elysium #lieutenant kim kitsuragi #kim kitsuragi #emotional support fictional men

[innerenigma]

•Normalize Fanart for Fanfics Again You Fools•

It's not cringe anymore (it SHOULDN'T be cringe anymore), just do it. You're doing something you enjoy, who cares what anybody else says! So spread the words my fellow internet brethren.

Spread the Word :)

#fanfic #fanfiction #fanart #normalizefanartforfanfics #normalize fanart for fanfics #wattpad #archive of our own #ao3 #fanfiction.net #quotev #crossover #crossovers #fandom #fandoms #readerinsert #reader insert #xreader #x reader #oc #oc's #au #alternate universe #podfic #pod fic #fic rec #fanart for fanfic #fanartforfanfic #fanart for others #fan fiction #fan fic writing

[charliejaneanders]

Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

#writing #am writing #am revising #fantasy #am writing fantasy #book tumblr #bookworm #bookworld #science fiction #books

[not-mary-sue]

Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

#wattpad #wattpad purge #ao3 #archive of our own #fan fiction #fandom #fandom culture

[k9effect]

Reblog for a larger sample size!

No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.

I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.

#sam polls #fanfic #ao3 #fanfiction #fan fic #fan fiction #writing #authors #writblr #fanficblr #wattpad #quotev #live journal #fanfic.net

[xansmenagerie]

Hi! This is the writing archive for Xan's Menagerie - if you want to interact with me in non-writing ways, skip over to my reblogs blog.

I'm always happy to take writing prompts; I tend more to urban and low fantasy, but goodness knows what'll happen with the right impetus...

WIP info under the cut.

Mostly I tend to short one-off pieces but I am working on a novel in the background very slowly - keep an eye out for the SYJKR tag.

SYJKR

My most recent attempt at a full-length novel. It’s a magical boarding school story started because I was somewhat irked at a certain infamous writer (you can guess what the working title stands for). However, I’m also a fan of Shakespearean hijinks, and so…

Darcy Symonds is dreading going to her new boarding school; she’s not rich, she’s not white, and she sure as hell doesn’t have any family connections to play off. After all, that’s why she’s had to move to yet another boarding school!

Darcy Symonds is kinda excited to go to his new boarding school; he’ll finally get to try out the spells he’s not allowed to do in the house and maybe make some friends that he’s allowed to share his less-than-mundane life with.

But something out there has other plans, and all it takes is two envelopes to be switched to put them in motion…

I’m aiming to hit as many representation beats as I can manage and my sensitivity reader budget will allow, so we’ll see how this goes.

MotW

I play in a long-running Monster of the Week game, so I generally have at least one companion fic in progress at any given time for my own amusement. A lot of them make it on here - look out for references to Mel (a Mundane turned Crooked) and Colin (a Spellslinger disaster zone turned into an even bigger Divine disaster zone).

writing-prompt-s

My drafts folder is full of starters from the writing-prompt-s blog. Every so often I’ll take one out and shake it vigorously until a story falls out.

#not fiction #writing wip #writeblr #writblr