#former fanfic writer

[shironezuninja]

I haven’t finished watching this Ultimate Spider-Man episode when I wanted to skip ahead yesterday. But once I saw Dick Fury putting up a Daycare room for the Chibi Marvel Characters, I flipped out and made this today.

#collage #texts #stickers #screenshot #flipping out #christmas 2023 #hobby #habit #spider man phase #dick fury #name calling #pissed off #chibi style #ultimate spider man #former fanfic writer #danger mouse oc #shirakage mouse #cosplaying #power man #iron fist #white tiger #spiderman #nova marvel #anthropomorphic crap #naughty innocence #anger symbol #animal rugrats #they’re not the same #chibi are not considered babies #who wants an ass whoopin’?

[the-sugar-in-your-coffee]

back on my writing bs, go follow my Wattpad :)

@freezedried_tofu

#aesthetic #writing #wattpad #Wattpad writing #Wattpad writers #writer #female writers #I swear its not fanfic this time #former fanfic writer #plz help me #fanfic

[genavere]

Former Arrangements - Chapter 22 - THE FINAL CHAPTER!

“You’ve never been weak, Lucy,” he whispered in a hoarse tone. “Not once.” His lips captured hers again in a softer, lingering kiss. When they parted again, their foreheads pressed together. A hush fell between them, broken only by their ragged gasps of air. Warm fingers caressed her face, neck and shoulders. A thumb brushed over swollen lips. Shimmering chocolate orbs opened slowly to catch his.

Last chapter? LAST CHAPTER!? Alas, this IS the last chapter! And boy oh boy, what a last chapter this is! I have a favorite part that is hopefully pretty obvious.

This chapter is pretty much entirely dedicated to Natsu and Lucy finally having some time together and discussing important life decisions together. Stuff that I needed to get out after everything that happened and settle other issues through the story.

Thank you everyone who has stuck with me, left reviews, kudos, hearts, and reblogs. This has been an exciting journey, and one that I hope everyone else enjoyed, as well!

After this, I will be taking a little break from writing to get caught up on some reading, personal tasks, and figuring out what will be the next piece to work on. Hopefully when the next project comes out, you can all join me for that!

Once more, thank you everyone who read this little passion project of mine and following the adventure that started out simple enough and evolved as it went. And thank you to my discord group who urged me on and helped me hash out ideas while I worked on this. It all meant so much to me, and I am glad I found a good server to join!

Until the next adventure! 🥰

Links to read on AO3 | FF.net

#Former Arrangements #fairy tail fanfiction #fairy tail #fairy tail nalu #fairy tail 100 years quest #fairy tail manga #lucy x natsu #natsu dragneel #lucy heartfilia #nalu fairytail #ft nalu #nalu #fanfiction #writing #creative writing #female writers #finished fanfic #Last Chapter #The Guild Awards #Nominated Fanfic

[meownotgood]

if I have to drag you all back to 2016 and write a hanahaki disease fic with aki I will. don't test me. if no one else is brave enough to do it, then I will take up the mantle.

#my favorite trope as a young fanfic writer #I can't decide though #is it better for aki to be slowly dying conflicted with feelings for you that he knows he shouldn't feel #or is it better for the reader to be dying because they're in love with him #but they know he's too focused on his mission to love them back #or being manipulated by makima #both are very scrumptious ideas #but honestly I'm leaning towards the former #love sick aki makes me feel things

[gritsandbrits]

Finally got my AO3 account which means Memoir Of A Former Magnus!

#memoir of a former magnus #tfa #tfa fanfic #transformers #transformers animated #sentinel prime #fanfiction #read on ao3 #writers on tumblr

[raven]

actually it is literally always the most dogshit stuff too because like theres a lot of ace attorney fanfiction but no one is talking about their storied ace attorney fanfiction writing past no one is publishing their ace attorney fanfiction

#& im not really even talking about publishing something that used to be fanfic. just like being a former fanfiction writer

[ardenskyedarcy221b]

Why do I ever trick myself into reading published books anymore???? Because the common theme is boredom in comparison to all the fic I’m used to reading 🙃

#arden spews #published vs fanfic #reading #fandom #listen to me #I’ve been wanting to get into reading published works again for a while now #maybe find a new fandom to obsess over #yknow #the usual bs #BUT EVERYTHING IS SO POORLY DEVELOPED #it’s irritating #how can these stories be published #when nothing makes a lick of sense #It blows my mind #and I don’t think this is about me being a former pretentious English major spewing #this is me having spent so many years in fandom where writers write want they want #And THAT is the difference #ugh #now I gotta try to convince myself maybe I’ll find another good book since the first was a let down #crosses fingers

[thegoddesswater]

☀️🌌💦

Thanks, TC! I'll be using Miadhachain Legacy (ML) for this because it's giving me the most brain-rot at the moment.

☀️ Sun - What’s your favourite part of your WIP?

I know this is probably meant to be a "share part of the story" question, but honestly my favourite part is the part where I've healed enough to find joy in these characters again. I've talked before about how my former co-author for ML became extremely abusive, so the fact that I'm genuinely coming back to this project on my own and enjoying it is huge.

🌌 Clear Skies - How long have you been writing your current WIP?

For Miadhachain Legacy that would be...yikes. Sixteen years. (Created circa August 2007) Or at least, that's how long it has existed as a concept. I have not been actively working on it that long. It was long-term hibernating from December 2009 until about April last year when I started poking at it for signs of life again.

💦 Flood - How many WIPs do you have?

A few! More since my brain decided it wanted to go in and finish the old incomplete fanfictions.

Let's see in the original works there's:

Talentless/Wild Card - the LGBTQ+ fantasy duology and all accompanying side-stories

Miadhchain Legacy - Which was plotted as a 3-4 book series, but is still being restructured. The first book's working title is "Dissidence" - which I still rather like, but might not end up keeping

The quasi-cyberpunk dystopia (with no working title that I like)

And then for the cluster of fanfics we've got:

Heart of a Warrior - the first ever fanfic I started (and never finished)

Run, Runaway - a 2nd gen fic (with child OCs for characters I no longer feel like would willingly reproduce, ah hindsight)

Victor's Folly - a sequel to one of my other fics that I meant to write thirteen years ago

Blood of Sages - This one's new as of November last year and was never supposed to be a thing, yet here we are anyway

From this ask meme!

#My former co-author and i used to actually celebrate the creation anniversary of Miadhachain Legacy each year #We legit made an event out of it - it was marked down on our calendars as a yearly event #I cannot emphasize how massively Miadhachain Legacy was part of my world for those first drafts #There are some other fanfics that are in DEEP hibernation that do not get counted as WIPs at the moment because they are sleeping #Like Reunion/Massacre/Last of the Goldoans/the untitled Zelgian fic I've got (they are all for fire emblem) #writer ask game

[mintiestcrystal]

me when reading other people's writing: LOOK!!! their unique style comes across with word choice and punctuation placement and syntax and everything comes together to create a special and wonderful tapestry of words!! i love how this person consistently uses this style, it ties their works together and gives it a personal flair!!!!

me reading my own writing: I have used the gift of literacy for evil. Why do I subject innocents to my incompetence? My style is boring and unchanging and bad. My words do naught but bore and frustrate. Why do I contribute things to the world that it does not want?

#writing #writer #fanfic #fanfic writing #the pen is mightier than the sword and i am annoyingly poking my readers with the former

[shironezuninja]

I skimmed through the 1st issue of Untold Stories of The Foot Clan, and immediately disapproved an image of a Mutant Sperm Whale. Nezu-Chan’s Reboot’s fault for not including humans into the series, dishonoring Brian Cosgrove’s wishes.

#ai art #ai artwork #ai art practicing #ai art experimenting #collage #background remove #stickers #ai art generated #hobby #habit #spider man phase #nezuko kamado #gumoko #gumoko chan #black haired girl #spidersona #age shifter #nezu chan #dawn crumhorn #dark dawn #danger mouse 2015 #cosplaying #shirakage mouse #gothic lolita #demon slayer kimetsu no yaiba #former fanfic writer #anime chibi #entertainment district arc #marvel #hair styles

[comicaurora]

I rewatched an old charity stream and had a question: do you think My Immortal was genuine?

I didn't at the time I read it, but at this point, having watched a BUNCH of videos about fake My Immortal authorship confessions where every single one of them claims it was a joke and Bad On Purpose, my contrarion ass is inclined to believe it was, in fact, legitimately sincere on the part of the writer.

Sometimes a thing gets written because the writer really, really wants it to be good and make sense to the audience. Sometimes a thing gets written because the writer profoundly enjoys the act of writing it, and the audience is entirely secondary. Most writing is usually a combination of both motivators, but early online fanfiction especially skews heavily towards the latter; things get written because the author 100% loves writing it, exploring what they're putting in the story, etc.

Parodies are almost always written with the former motivation, with the audience reaction being centrally focused. A parody writer envisions their audience picking out their clever jokes and laughing along with their insights. Jokes aren't generally made purely for the joy of telling them, but for the laugh they receive in response.

I think My Immortal reads like something firmly from the latter category; a young teenage girl gleefully enjoying writing everything currently appealing to her - looking hot in rad outfits, going to cool concerts, hunky boys kissing her (and maybe… each other??? 😳) and generally dealing with the trials and tribulations of being the center of the universe. Fanfic is exactly the place to indulge that impulse, and I hope she had a great time writing it. And maybe indulged in a spellchecker eventually.

#asks #not aurora

[genavere]

Chapter Ten for Former Arrangements is written, now the editing phase!

Definitely having to edit this one cause my critical side came out hard core while writing it and I have to make sure it is worth posting. 😰

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic #fanfiction #natsu x lucy #nalu #fairy tail nalu #writer problems #editing #Former Arrangements

[sinnhelmingr]

sb: posts a p*ns l*byrinth gif w the faun  me: BEATS MY BRIMSTONE FROM DOSAB MUSE BACK W A STICK

#Y'ALL ARE FOLLOWING THE FORMER TOP FANFIC WRITER FOR THAT SERIES #AND I NEVER HAD THE BALLS TO RP FROM IT FOR SOME REASON. #AND BAH GAHD I AM NOT ABOUT TO START NOW

[hppjmxrgosg]

to all the fanfic writers who write about small, niche tropes and random crossovers that have less than a thousand works total and rarepairs and one specific vein content so that despite the master pieces you write you only get a couple hundred hits: you are doing god's work. i am kissing you on the head. you are my lifeblood.

edit since its getting lost in the tags: the thousand works comment is not to minimize the people who write for subgenres with maybe 10 works or rairpairs with like 3 works, but to include people who, while garnering more attention than the former, may still feel disheartened for receiving less attention on their work than people who write for megafandoms or very common tropes. 1000 is more than ten, but 1000 is closer to 10 than 200,000.

#i love you infinitely #fanfic #ao3 #rare niche fanfic about the strangest crossover that fuels my heart #edit: this isnt meant to minimize people who only get maybe 8 hits or amhave 10 works in their content realm #but to include people who write things that might be bigger than some fandoms and pairs #but are still miniscule in comparison to mega fandoms

[ayselluna]

Ascendant Astarion Recommendations!

I'm a fan of both Spawn and Ascendant Astarion so I do enjoy reading both. But if you want to explore and read some good shit~ Ascendant fics well here you go~

I've read a lot so bear with me, These are my TOPS~ I LOVE ALL OF THESE:

A Gift, A Curse by @elemit - This updates daily most of the time, the author is getting busy IRL but it should be back on a daily update again soon I think. This is one of the darker theme of Ascendant Astarion "50 shades of 'FCKNG LITTLE TWAT' Ancunin" as one of the comment says haha some scenes are "traumatic" but the rollercoaster ride of emotions you'll get on this story is one for the books! ONGOING!

Fangs and Fractured Hearts - by @fangsandfracturedhearts - This one's one of the softer sides of the Ascendant, the dynamic of Tav and Astarion here is exquisite! The cliffhanger on this one just uggghhhhh. i love it!! ONGOING!

Hellish Rebuke by @bluedaze - this one's a classic! the details on this story is so genius I swear. Also I think a lot of Astarion fanfic writers got inspired with the Devil's dealing here. Also Tav here is effing smart and just chef's kiss! such a great heroine! ONGOING!

His Star - His Queen [Originally titled Across Stars and Time] by ARandomIntrovert - Now this a bit different, What if multiverse exists? Now there's two Astarions fighting over you, Spawn VS Ascendant, where do you think this would go? :)) Story's definitely amazing and unique! I easily got invested. haha ONGOING!

In Another Life by @locallegume - Definitely a softer side of the Ascendant but Tav and Astarion's dynamic here is one of my fave! <3 Tav here is not the overly good role model we usually read, she's troubled too and definitely has effed up issues. but sometimes you just need to find your own freak and be together forever. ONGOING!

Pieces Still Stuck In Your Teeth - by @howlsmovinglibrary / @wetcatspellcaster - The amount of Banter and D&D Lore on this one is superb! you have to watch out for the writer's notes! I love how I get to learn more D&D stuff and godssss how many times I almost got so swayed by the Ascendant here! good thing Tav's so good at bantering haha ONGOING!

Whither is thy beloved gone? by @brabblesblog - It has a sequel!!! - that's how good it is! <3 also The Ascendant here is my favorite! The confrontations are just so real and so true I caaaaan't. He wrote the Ascendant so good I actually sided with him more than Tav! A lot of smut ngl but I got into the characters more that I should have. you're missing out if you haven't read this. COMPLETED!

Remember ye not the former things by @brabblesblog - THE SEQUEL!! It focuses more on the aftermath and them working out their relationship, a lot more TAV bg story but gods, Astarion here , I just want to smother him with cuddles and kisses, TAKE MEEEEE ONGOING!

Most of these are still ongoing but I am updated w/ each, along with other Spawn Astarion fics :)) They are all good! some more soft than the others, some darker and evil :))

Let me know if you guys want to get some Spawn Astarion fics recommendations!

#my day starts and ends with me just reading Astarion fanfics tbh #my life is just him now #I live for these now tbh coz larian isn't going to add more!!! #astarion #bg3 #bg3 astarion #astarion ancunin #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #astarion x reader #astarion x tav #astarion fic #just me rambling #ascended astarion x tav #ascended astarion

[saintsenara]

What parts of canon do you find the most frustrating/that you are dissatisfied with/wished that was handled better/explored more? Mine is the inconsistency of Voldemort as a character. How he is described as being perhaps the most talented student that Hogwarts has ever seen and so powerful and intelligent but regularly made such dumb decisions e.g. in the final battle where he still uses Avada Kedavra despite seeing it not work before. I like the explanation that Horcruxes rotted his brain

thank you very much for the ask, @sarafina-sincerity!

the parts of canon which i find the least satisfying all have the same thing in common: their morality is individualist.

the harry potter series has - at its core - a really profound and very black-and-white belief that good and evil not only exist but are rooted in the individual. and while i understand why this is the case - the later books in the series are governed by the genre conventions of folkloric epic and, especially, of christian folkloric epic, which means that the whole seven-book narrative arc ending in a battle between christ and satan after which all is well is only to be expected - i don't like it.

so here we are... ten things i hate about canon, for fanfic writers to win my heart by interrogating in their work...

i hate the series' insistence that everything is fine once voldemort is dead

the middle books in the series - especially goblet of fire - do a really interesting job at hinting at the endemic rot in the ministry of magic, and the ways that the state and its enforcers perpetuated harm during the first war that was indistinct from that perpetuated by the death eaters - above all the use of internment without trial for suspected death eaters [which is a reference to something the british state actually did in the 1970s!].

they show how widespread blood-supremacy and magic-supremacy is, even among people who don't openly support voldemort; how the wizarding population is kept deliberately ignorant by what appears to be state-controlled media; and how no serious efforts have been made to eradicate the conditions which enabled voldemort to attain such power.

this is then forgotten completely in deathly hallows, where the fact that almost the entire civil service keeps working for a government which is committing genocide is hand-waved away with "oh, people are scared", and both the epilogue and jkr's post-series writing take the view that kingsley manages, as minister, to preside over a government which easily sheds all its old prejudices and starts working properly.

i don't like this! i think it's just much more interesting for corruption to be impossible to fully eradicate from the government, for blood-supremacy to have long-standing causes which actually take a lot of very hard work to untangled [especially the fact that the wizarding world not appearing to have a welfare state means that those whose lives are poor or unstable are prime targets for radicalisation], and for kingsley to have the same capacity for leaning on the prophet and worrying about his polling numbers as any other politician...

i hate that the series changes how the death eaters are written between half-blood prince and deathly hallows

connected to this shift from the series hinting at the broader issues in the wizarding world to a flat battle between good and evil is that the death eaters, their aims, and their modus operandi are written very different between half-blood prince and deathly hallows. in the former, the death eaters can be situated very easily as anti-state sectarian terrorists who have all sorts of complex analogies within british history and politics. in the latter, they're just caricatures of pure evil - which is why the death eaters introduced from the latter stages of half-blood prince onwards, especially the carrows, are considerably less interesting as characters than those, such as lucius malfoy, barty crouch jr. and bellatrix lestrange, who are introduced earlier.

it's also why the voldemort of deathly hallows feels so uninteresting. i don't like the fanon that the horcruxes render him insane at all - when he's shown outside of the epic battle between good and evil in that book, he's shown to be as lucid and cunning as always - but he ends up having to flop because his only purpose in the overarching narrative is to be killed. in the earlier books, in which he's a paramilitary kingpin poisoning and corrupting a society which was designed to exclude him because of the fact of his birth in revenge for its treatment of him, rather than satan and hitler's lovechild, he is so much more interesting.

i hate the series' belief that slavery is fine

obviously, one of the biggest examples of state malevolence in the series is that wizards own slaves. like many readers, i loathe that the house elf plotline ends up being reduced from its potential for radicalism in chamber of secrets - in which dobby mentions whisper-networks of elves who decry their treatment at wizards' hands - to what we see from goblet of fire onwards - in which elves love being enslaved and think that any attempts to free them from their subjugation is cruel.

i also hate that elves' freedom is then hand-waved away as part of the general race towards "all was well" with the implication that hermione found it easy to undo what appears to be centuries of state-sanctioned oppression without any pushback at all.

the house elf plotline is one of the clearest distillations of the series' individualistic morality. harry abhors the treatment of dobby at the malfoys' hands entirely and only because he doesn't like the malfoys. he abhors voldemort's treatment of kreacher, but sees absolutely no issue with sirius' because he likes sirius - and he clearly sees no issue at all with his own legal mastery of kreacher, seeing as, literally minutes after the end of a war in which the good guys fought for the rights of muggles and muggleborns to be seen as fully human... he is considering ordering his slave to make him a sandwich.

i hate that the series doesn't show the realities of resistance

the reason i think the whole "why does voldemort keep using avada kedavra, isn't he supposed to be clever?" question arises is because the series is incredibly resistant to the idea that the good guys must have to kill as well, which makes it look like it's only the death eaters using it while the order use lots of clever magic that the stupid terrorists are too thick to think of.

this is idiotic - not only because the killing curse is canonically flawless unless the thing you're blasting is your own horcrux and so the order would use it for efficiency's sake alone, but because the reality of being a resistance fighter is that, even if you're on the "right" side, you are going to have kill people or they will kill you.

lupin is completely right in deathly hallows that harry is breathtakingly naive to avoid shooting to kill and that - without the protection of genre conventions allowing him to be preternaturally merciful - his resistance to killing is going to result in him being destroyed by the enemy. it is inconceivable that the rest of the order don't using the killing curse - and the question of what this does to their souls [is it murder if you believe yourself to be justified in your actions?] and their senses of self post-war is so interesting to think about - and i wish we were shown this in the text.

especially because molly absolutely blasted bellatrix with it.

but i also hate that the series thinks that violence is fine when the good guys do it

this is primarily another example of the black-and-white "this is fine because harry's good" theme which runs through the series, which we see in things like harry using sectumsempra on draco malfoy in half-blood prince or the cruciatus curse on amycus carrow in deathly hallows. harry's overarching response to committing attempted murder is to sulk that the incredibly minor punishment he receives is reducing the time he could spend hitting on ginny, and his response to torturing amycus is "lol. lmao."

the series thinks - again and again - that cruelty and violence are completely fine when the person they are perpetuated against "deserves" it, and it does not bang.

and that the series allows the good guys more complexity in characterisation

the role played by the house system in the story - and, above all, the fact that our heroes are all connected to one particular house with straightforwardly admirable associated characteristics - means that the villains receive less opportunity to also have positive traits intermingled with their negative ones - and, therefore, complex and interesting personalities.

i also dislike that when non-gryffindor characters - especially slytherins - do reveal themselves to be brave and loyal etc., instead of recognising that this is because bravery can be multi-faceted the series suggests that they should be recategorised as "belonging" to a "good" house.

or, in other words, me and dumbledore's "i think we sort too soon" line in deathly hallows are enemies for life.

i hate that the series blames merope gaunt for dying

and - of course - the main way a villain isn't allowed as much complexity as a hero is that the series never examines the impact of voldemort's childhood on his adult self. while we see hints throughout canon of just how profoundly affected he is by his institutionalised childhood and the weight of his grief over his parents [his mother especially] - such as him learning as a baby never to cry for attention because it's futile - this is hand-waved away throughout the series by dumbledore-as-the-voice-of-god as irrelevant. the eleven-year-old tom riddle is straightforwardly evil, that he grows up in an orphanage is used as nothing more than narrative colour to underline how creepy he is, and dumbledore's spectacular mishandling of their relationship is viewed by the series as undeniably correct right up to the very last moment [when harry imitates dumbledore by - and we should call it what it is - deadnaming voldemort in their final confrontation].

but the most egregious thing that dumbledore does when discussing the course voldemort's life takes is blame merope gaunt for her own death in childbirth, by implying that witches are immune to one of the most common causes of death throughout human history if they just try hard enough and then saying that a nineteen-year-old girl whose life appears to have been nothing more than unrelenting abuse and misery [perpetuated both against her and by her] lacked the moral fibre to try hard enough.

and this infuriates me.

i hate how the series treats female characters who don't fit its narrow spectrum of "correct" womanhood

merope is but one victim of the series' general issues with treating women who aren't its heroes - all of whom are exactly feminine and beautiful and clever and talented enough that we know they're good people, but not any of these things in an extreme which could make them vapid or arrogant or defiant of social norms or so on.

the series takes a very low view of women who exist outside of narrow boxes - whether they are interested in a hyper-feminine aesthetic [lavender brown, rita skeeter] or a more masculine one [marge dursley]; conform to stereotypes about being bitchy, flighty, or vapid [pansy parkinson, romilda vane] or refuse to adhere to social expectations to be polite, meek, and demure [fleur delacour]; are unmarried, are not inherently maternal, and/or are cruel to children [bellatrix lestrange; petunia dursley; dolores umbridge]; are unrestrained emotionally [cho chang; moaning myrtle] and so on. and i don't like it.

and i also hate that - connected to this - the series uses physical appearance - especially weight - as a shorthand for [female] characters we're supposed to dislike.

what it says on the tin, really - if the series doesn't like a character, especially if the character is a woman, you can almost guarantee that they will either be fat or be unusually thin.

and finally...

i hate that the series prioritises one form of love - love as suffering and as sacrifice - over all others

part of the series' march towards the epic two-person showdown between good and evil is that harry is made to endure trial after trial - including his death for the salvation of mankind - in the name of love. obviously this is because he becomes, by the end of deathly hallows an allegory for christ, but it also fits into the series' view - articulated most frequently by dumbledore - that love, suffering, and sacrifice are all synonyms.

the acts of love the series foregrounds - snape's willingness to endure anything because of his love for lily; sirius' willingness to rot in azkaban and caves and grimmauld place because of his love for james and harry; harry giving up a love that's like "someone else's life" with ginny so he can go die - are all sacrificial, and the series generally takes a dull view of love that is fluffy, silly, carnal, selfish, soothing, transformational and so on. lavender and bellatrix's open adoration of their lovers is mocked; dumbledore's sexual desire for grindelwald is punished by his sister's death; tonks and lupin's uncomplicated happiness in the birth of their son is not to last.

but happy endings and silly jokes and forehead kisses are love too. and the hill i will die on is that they have even more potential to bring about the salvation of the world than constant suffering and abiding.

#asks answered #asenora on canon