#but once i stop working on the fic

[the-cookie-of-doom]

having a very bizarre experience with my writing rn where I can fire off 2-5k without blinking, but as soon as I stop looking at that fic for nay length of time, I just. can't work on it anymore. The inspiration totally wells up. I'm having a hard time just finishing the smut fic I wrote yesterday? I know what needs to happen, I'm very motivated to write, but... there's just nothing

#cookie speaks #idk what's happening #i don't feel motivated to work on anything #i want to start a new wip #i have 18 in progress already so im going to Not Do That #but like #idk it's weirs #as long as I don't stop writing I can write for hours #i can pull 10k out of my ass as long as im not interrupted #but once i stop working on the fic #it's like the creative well dries up #maybe I'm just too tired to think enough to write

[cottoncandysprite]

Nandermo is peak "not unrequited they're just stupid" bc you could honestly characterize either as stupidly, obviously in love with the other who pretends not to give a shit and it would work. Like my usual perspective is Guillermo's unrequited pining for a decade bc i relate to him a lot but i always forget that Nandor is also a giant puppy dog who is absolutely whipped for Guillermo

#started reading a fic post-confession where guillermo was the one treating nandor unfairly in the relationship #and it completely rocked my world #like yeah holy shit once nandor stops being an idiot about his feelings guillermo has to work on himself a LOT to make it work #i guess it just depends on your preference for quiet unrequited devotion or big stupid feelings #wwdits #nandermo #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz

[anthonysdemo]

BLACK BROTHERS?!?!!!!

#guys… i’m supposed to be working on work and a commission rn #i have a full animation to be working on- but angst got ahead of me #black brothers #regulus black #sirius black #allow my dude to CRY once in a while #marauders #marauders era #i need to stop procrastinating #anyways anybody have good black brothers angst fic recs?? #the noble and most ancient house of black #fun fact : this was going to be a regulily drawing and then i was like OMG SIBLING ANGST WOULD BE SM BETTER

[bamsara]

I've been awake since 4pm Yesterday and if I go another 2 hours then it's a full 24 hours and if I go another 6 hours after that then I can go to sleep and finally have a fixed sleep schedule. Wish me luck fellas. I'm dying

#ive been struggling to get some patreon envalopes done and I planned on doing a sticker making stream today but Ima be real folks #i am not in the health to do so #but also ive been asked to be everywhere at once the last few days so uhhh sorry for lack of content #i know im not posting art or fics as often as I was before but i promise you they are constantly on my mind #and im working on them when i have the time sjdhhfh #hopefully I can get this stupid CO chapter out before I die and people stop asking me if it will continue #like YES i am simply dead #sara shush

[wander-wren]

presumed death literally the trope of all time. you’re telling me i can have the grief and horror of character death AND have the happy ending too??

not to mention the possibilities after “dead” character turns up again.

maybe they have no idea their loved one thinks they died, and they show up all nonchalant only to realize things have gone horribly wrong. maybe their loved one thinks they’re a ghost/hallucination/trick and won’t accept them.

maybe they do know their loved one thinks they’re dead and they’re choosing to keep up the facade for their safety. watching from afar, unable to comfort them.

maybe they faked their death and believe their loved one is in on the scheme when actually that message was never received.

maybe, in the process of whatever almost killed them, they forgot about their loved one/old life/etc, and aren’t aware they have anything to return to.

maybe they “died” thinking no one would notice their absence, leaving their loved one full of regret for things unsaid. perhaps their loved one heals and moves on, only for “dead” character to return.

and just, augh, the aftermath. waking up to find “dead” character gone and assuming it was all a dream/they really did die. the codependency. the anger, even, that they didn’t come back/let themself get hurt/lied. maybe guilt if their body was abandoned by their comrades, only to learn that they were alive all along.

name me a trope that does more i’ll WAIT.

#wren wrambles #presumed dead #fanfic tropes #fanfiction #i’m working on a fic with this premise #i’ve written it at least once before as well #AND it’s in one of my books #i also play with the other trope of ‘presumed dead by everyone but [character]’ which is also so so good #the DENIAL?? #esp if that character gives up and it becomes normal presumed death #i actually had to stop adding to this bc i kept thinking of things and i was like shh wren youve made your point #anyway this is my favorite trope ever but i dont actually seek it out a lot but maybe i should #it’s devastating done well tho so i feel like i would need some lighter fics on the side to take breaks lmaoo #devastating but also happy

[marshmellowtea]

MEAN TO HER???

#instead of sleeping or working on my fic like i’m supposed to i am once again looking at the nope tv tropes page lmao #i can’t stop laughing this is so uncalled for 😭 #she’s probably never seen one before be NICE!!!! #nope 2022 #marshy speaks

[casiavium]

links meet but it's just my 600 AUs of skyward sword

#top right looks like a joke. I promise he didn't look so much like an anime boy in the initial sketch #I did him last and am getting very tired lol #sword spirit (human form) was the first I did I should have stopped while I was ahead lmao #going to reblog this with links (ha) to the fics they show up in. maybe #that would be a lot of work #cherryart #skyward sword #'wow cherry these are all soooo cool have you actually written them where can I read them' #well. for once. they DO all have writing to go with them :0 #however. it's all fucking ghiralink

[snickerdoodlles]

For the author ask thing L and M? ❤️

ooohh choosing violence i see, i approve 😂❤

L. favourite fic of yours?

gonna throw you a curveball here. while i love the question choices, i also don't want to tag someone with a post that's gushing about their story and then in the same breath talk about something i don't like. so! as you all know, i've been into KimChay for A Hot Min, so let's take a min to gush over one of my favorite lil fics that's been around since the beginning of the BOC airing:

reverence is a little collection of KimChay vignettes. it's what i would consider 'old' KimChay fandom because it has a lot of influence from the Filmania kp trailer and novel versions of them, but it still largely reads as Kim and Chay and everything's little snapshots that can be as connected or unconnected as you want to read them (ft the occasional AU chucked in for flavoring). i really like vignettes so it's very happy days for me whenever i feel like dipping my toes back into this fic for a reread 🤗

M. least favourite fic of yours?

i'm not gonna trash talk anyone's fic here, something that's not for me can just be not read by me, and that's that. so! instead i'm gonna call this the continuation of the Kim tea ask, because there was one important take i completely forgot about when answering that question lol:

☕ fic that shit talks WDYS

this includes: every damn fic that had some variation of Chay saying "YOU WERE THE ONE THAT LEFT". tell me you didn't pay attention to the lyrics without telling me you didn't pay attention to the lyrics. Jeff did not pour his blood sweat tears and more into that song for y'all to dismiss it like this. BOC did not completely rework Kim's storyline to include music so that he sung this to Chay as an apology for this. also, similar weird take that goes hand-in-hand with the dismissals: Kim did not """"steal Chay's song"""" -- WDYS is the song they literally worked on together. Kim is helping Chay write it on screen. Kim finishing it as an apology to Chay to explain Why He's Like This is a really good step towards a reconciliation between the two of them actually.

i just. aurgh. it's a fantastic song that is basically the thesis statement of kinnporsche: the series, for all three pairings, and it's just really annoying to see yet another fic ignore all of that to play off the one english line for a cheap shot at Kim. ik a decent chunk of my irritation here is the number of stories vs any story specifically, and it's not like there's ever a limit on how many times a concept will be used, but. ugh. i do not care for it At All.

[fic author asks]

#kinnporsche #tea asks #it's funny to go from LOOK AT THIS SHINY to ARGH tea 😂 #but yeah following up the reverence author im about 98% sure they deleted their tumblr so we should be all good there 🤞 #generally i try not to get actually heated about fandom takes i disagree with but the WYDS nonsense starts tapping into like #dismissing the actual song and intent behind it #and as someone who *really loves* listening to musicians inspiration behind songs and the story behind that song in particular #those fic/fandom takes go beyond Take I Dont Agree With to Stop Disrespecting Actual People's Work #i think we all made that joke at some point when we first watched it because there was just the one line in english but like. #once the english translation was out. [s i g h s] #ANYWAYS

[snek-panini]

Today is a day for books. Or one book, anyway. This is Close to Home, So Far Away, a Good Omens fic by Mercury Starlight. It's a memory loss/alteration fic with a lot of angst (for real, mind the tags if you decide to give this one a try) but oh my gosh, it's wonderful. Tasty tasty angst. It is unfinished but don't let that deter you, the biggest angstiest plotline is resolved enough to be satisfying. The last update was in 2021, so it's a pre-season 2 kind of angst instead of the new canon flavor.

I love the way the cover came out on this one. It's gold HTV on dark green book cloth and I'm in love with the simplicity. It reminds me of the very pretty books I find in used book stores sometimes, that have enchanting covers but are often either impenetrable to read, very fragile, or out of my budget. But this one is none of those things, it's exactly as compelling as its cover makes it seem. There were originally supposed to be more gold swirly bits in the corners but I made the lines too thin and my cricut ate them. I thought about re-cutting them but I liked the way it looked without them so much I just left them off.

More pics under the cut!

This is a coptic binding, which is my preferred style for unfinished fics. The spine has no covering and no glue, so technically if the author decides to update it again I can cut the stitching, add more pages, and re-stitch for an updated book without having to make an entirely new one. The downside is that glue can help mitigate swell at the spine, and without it I had issues. I squished this thing for days, it got very flat, and it fluffed right back up again after stitching. The book is about 250 pages and I think that's the upper limit using the methods and materials I have. I want to try it again with short grain paper and see if that helps.

Downside to coptic binds: you can see right through them in between signatures, and when you're used to other types of books it sends a panicked "my book is broken!" signal to the brain.

Upside to coptic binds: pretty colorful stitches down the center of each signature. I love how the bronze looks with the green cover and the shiny cover lining. Because there's no glue in the text block you can't do regular endpapers here. I think this is called a doublure.

Title page, first chapter, and a new thing I tried. All the art assets came from rawpixel. The thing on the first chapter page is the extra swirly bit that was supposed to go on the cover. I think I made it too big here? I'm not sure. Graphic design is not my passion and I am learning it only reluctantly XD The last image is unique to this fic. There's a reference to a specific form in the story, which the author created and linked as a PDF, and I really wanted to include it, so I put it in an appendix at the end. I really like having it there and plan to incorporate more stuff like it in future binds, if I can.

I think that's it for this bind! I hope you like it, @yeswevegotavideo!

#bookbinding #fanbinding #snek makes books #good omens #fic rec #i'm not good at coptic yet but I'm working on it #i need to do more of them this is only my second one #i didn't get the case binding down till my fourth one #very proud of this one though #it's so simple compared to a lot of what i've made #once i finished the cover i couldn't stop looking at it

[magicalgirlmascot]

Remember when I was like "oh yeah I should be able to finish KNPS by the end of 2022" and now we're heading into the last 2 months of 2023 and it's looking like maybe it'll be done by the end of next year

#ficblogging #knps #it can finally stop taking place in the future lol #once its done itll be a while before i write an inika/mahri continuation if i write one at all #bc that would take place in like. 2028/29 and thats a bit far off #and also working on other stuff would be good! im still trucking away at the ackar/mata nui fic #and i do want to make the bionicle sports anime a reality #and original projects too #dont get me wrong i love knps and im not stopping this train any tike soon! its just gonna take a bit thats all #we're getting there! slowly!

[vcrses]

went from "yeah, this dumb idea i have for himbo!porsche will be 40K max with bite sized chapters" to officially crossing 80k words today.

and we're not even close to the end of chapter 12 yet.

#shoutout to situationship for being my longest most thought out fic ever #but also how the fuck did i manage to do this while working two jobs and being in school full time #and then completely lose my ability to write once i stopped doing ANY of that #fic: the situationship

[deklo]

i’ve got 1h 45m left of the summer sons audiobook but even less considering i’m listening at 1.2 speed BUT it’s so hard for me to pay attention when im drawing UGH

#i’m gonna try for a bit #i listen when i’m working which is much easier usually #i just miss a few sentences here n there lol #most recent thing that just happened? fucking on page #nice. #also i’m assuming the professor is the Bad Guy™️ #and everyone in this book kind of annoys me. but not necessarily in a bad way LMAO #also i read a few fic before finishing the book and i thought sam calling andrew princess in fic was one of those instances #where people overuse a word used once or twice in canon #(like junkie in aftg) #but boy was i wrong! he won’t stop calling him that! and andrew LOVES ITTT HEYYYYY

[sugar-coat-it]

ALRIGHTYYY I am hoping to bang out one or two of the requests in my inbox soon, so sorry for anyone whose request has been sitting in there for a bit, they have not been forgotten!!!

here's a couple of things in progress/on the docket if you're curious

Crazyyy overstimulation with Matty request

Jealousy/edging/crying/cumplay request

Blub on fucking body piercer! Matty that could turn into another part???

Doing Matty's makeup/facesitting (I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT THIS ONE DON'T EVEN WORRY)

#I AM COOKING!!!! #me writing more than one fic at once: #a single mom who works who jobs who loves her kids and never stops ‼️

[shibaraki]

when it comes to writing it’s good to think of your brain like a muscle. but keeping that line of thinking I wanted to say that as writers we have different skills and that’s okay. so you may be good at short sprints. others do long. some even do marathons!!!!! whether you write 500 words or 5k words or over 20k words it is still valuable, it’s your work and it is time well spent

#does this make sense. who knows #anyway I’ve said it once I’ll say it a million times stop comparing yourself to other people #everything has its place in fandom ok someone out there loves your writing regardless of the length #I know writers who struggle to reach 3k sometimes look at longer fic writers and think man. I wish I could do that #while on the other hand I have long fic writer friends telling me ‘I WISH I KNEW HOW TO SHUT UP’ lmfao #length is not equal to quality. and writing short fic is a skill in and of itself #to build a world with so few words??! ITS HARD !! and people do it! #concentrate on the race you’re in now. you can always work your way up to something new if you want to #you cannot jump from 100 metre sprints to multi lap races!! #I’m sure this has been said before it’s just something I was thinking about #priv

[hilsonisthecure]

#ao3 #working on that hilson fic and i cant wait to share it once i start a fic i don't stop for 5 days straight its so bad i wont even leave my #room

[seravphs]

I’m scared to post knight Gojo thank you for being so nice to me about it bffs 💛

#I’m nervous! I’m so nervous!! #thinking about the John Green quote about potential and fear of failure #knight Gojo is really scary to me because the last project I think people really liked from me was Teen Dad Gojo #which I've made my peace with even though I used to be really embarrassed of it but if I peaked at sixteen #I could not continue to live with myself that's so embarrassing #knight gojo is my attempt at showing how much I've improved but what if I finish it and I realize I actually haven't improved at all #you don't understand how much this idea horrifies me #I don't want to be frozen in time like any living thing I want to grow! #I'm not normally this insecure about my writing because I am at heart just a blockhead who just bulldozes through life driven by impulse bu #I think Mao talked about this once but there's a chart for growth and at some point your ability to criticize your own work exceeds your #ability to create because you're good enough to recognize quality but not good enough to manufacture it #anyway! knight gojo is going out tomorrow and I'm going to stop being a baby about it and if it sucks it sucks and I keep learning #thanks for being here with me guys <3 let's have a sleepover after I drop the fic <3