#i wrote so much stuff that kinda belongs in the tags right in the post | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

acourtofthought · 1 year

Note

“The Phoenix is a mythical Greek bird often referred to as a Firebird”

“Firebird (Classification) Firebirds, also called Phoenixes, come in many shapes and sizes, and can be found around the world.”

We can all copy and paste from online websites to prove a point.

As for the rest of your rant, I have no idea what you’re taking about. I left you one comment highlighting all the Lucien and Vassa hints, as I was interested in your POV, but your reply to me was irate and kinda rude (so I wrote a lengthy rebuttal in response - purely out of the merit of debating). I didn’t call you a high schooler, I have no idea where you got that from ?

And sure, this is your blog. But your blog doesn’t exist in a vacuum - you are posting your opinions on an online, public platform using hashtags, meaning that it will be seen by other tumblr users. I found your blog because of your anti-Vassien posts, stuff like this; “He and Jesminda were an inferno while Vassa would feel like a lukewarm bath in comparison.” (As if we even know anything about Jesminda?).

It seems like you post a lot of antagonistic stuff yourself (literally the top photo is mocking elriel shippers with a juvenile buzz light year gif, saying there’s “no sign of intelligent life” lmao). A quick scroll shows that you’re not afraid to enter the spaces of other ships and reply to their stuff, telling them how they’re wrong (despite you saying in your recent reply to me, that you don’t see the point in debating with people who have opposing ships to you ???)

And tbh the fact that you’re confusing me with someone else who is calling you a highschooler, or whatever else - speaks to this. If your blog was purely pro-elucien content, and people came into your asks just to shit on elucien - that makes them the assholes. But if you’re posting stuff publicly that shits on other people’s ships (as you do), as much as it’s your right to do so, you can surely expect people to take issue with what you’re saying, and debate you on it. Which again, is literally what you do to other people.

I’m not “angry” at your blog - you’re just getting back the same energy that you put out.

You can copy and paste all you'd like from the internet however, Vassa is not a phoenix so in this case your selection isn't valid.

Firebirds belong to Russian / Slavic folklore while Phoenix belongs to many cultures. To proclaim they are one in the same means you're trying to lump all cultures into one.

You're searching for any possible way to try and tie your Lucien / Vassa theory belonging in Day together while ignoring what we know of her curse.

The fairytale revolves around Koschei and the FIREBIRD. Which is not ever noted as Koschei and the Phoenix.

She was cursed and wants to break the spell. What about what she's going through makes you believe she wants to continue turning into a bird and requires the sunshine of Day to do so?

Energy I'm putting out there? You mean the energy I share with my followers under the Elucien, Anti E/riel tags? The energy where I'm not seeking out E/riel or Vassien fans and starting arguments with them? You saw my posts in the Anti Vassien tag yet you thought it would be a great idea to start an argument? Because you're triggered by my stance? Are you saying I'm not allowed to think "Lucien and Vassa would have lukewarm chemistry?"

As far as the intelligent life post, did you happen to note who it was aimed at? Was it everyone who shipped E/riel or was it at Anti Lucien's who eviscerate him because he had never even met Elain but wanted to meet her once to know if he should try to fight for her while she was in love and engaged to someone else? Then those same people turn around and ridicule Elucien's for shipping them. So yeah again, people that throw the first insults are going to find that their targets fight back.

You and I are not the same because again, I am sharing my content under the correct tag letting people know which side I fall on and am not baiting people or entering their blogs to start things. My mutuals and I deserve to address the bullying and flat out twisting of facts that occur in this fandom in a space that was created using proper tags.

YOU are the one actively searching out accounts that you don't agree with and hiding your identity while trying to start something. And it's interesting you claim you're not the Anon from earlier yet I have never received Vassien shipper anons back to back on the same day. In fact it's rare that I have any Vassien shippers message me 🤔

8 notes · View notes

sorugao-bandgeek · 1 year

Text

Got tagged by @hopeswriting and thought it'd be fun to do. also forgive, my computer is awful slow right now so I am struggling to link stuff

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

i have 21 works

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

431, 934

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Accomodations, We Are Two, you have my love, Inquisitor: I am Not, and Aisle 2

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Depends on the comment, sometimes i respond, but most times i'm kinda like 'ehhhh I'll do that later' and then i forget

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

i don't think i have a fic with a angsty ending?

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

probably any oneshot with Ushijima :3

7. Do you write crossovers?

yes, currently its a HP/KHR one that I want to finish but i've been lagging it.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I think someone once complained about how I was writing a story and I thought it was pretty rude so I was just like "just exit out? you don't have to read this dude" and then I deleted the comment cause wtf. honestly if yall don't like something just hit that backspace, theres no point in making yourself miserable and then being a dick

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, its not so descriptive and I try to show feelings more than anything else...so lime? i don't know honestly

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope!

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope!

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope!

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

It's from Naruto but ShikaTema is top tier, not that I have openly ever said that, but they belong together forever and always

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

my fear in general is just never finishing my stories, which is a bunch of them on ff.net

15. What are your writing strengths?

fluffy, homey, domestic moments. sweet, tooth rotting stuff. (tbh i just wanna be held so that yearning translates waaaaay to well into my writing)

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

actually sitting down to write. naah but honestly, I think I struggle, especially with my long fics, keeping things tied together? I tend to bounce around too much

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Italics is the way, but only after I write the language but also finding the write translation site to use said language.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

either naruto or bleach

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

jujutsu kaisen, i'm stewing on an idea i have, but it really has to be a oneshot cause long chapter stories, i cannnooottt anymore

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

we are two, it is my pride and joy even though sometimes I wish I can convince myself to delete it off the face of the planet. I'm doing a different version of it though, so I am excited to start posting that

I tag: @what-the-fic-khr, @romancedeldiablo, @sweetcandyliar-writes,

#i forgot about this #i started it and then when i got on my laptop this was still up #about me

5 notes · View notes

missroserose · 3 years

Text

Fic Writer Question Meme!

Thanks for the tag, @venhedish—I love stuff like this! I'd apologize in advance for how long this is likely to be, but I suspect we share that tendency, haha.

How many works do you have on AO3?

20 total. I've been publishing there since late 2018, so about three years now. That sounds right for me—I'm way too perfectionist to ever be prolific.

What's your total AO3 word count?

125,744! Apparently it takes me three years to write a novel's worth of words I feel are worth publishing...which also sounds right.

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Three, primarily: The Lost Boys, Stranger Things, and Supernatural. Mostly Stranger Things, since I was pretty enmeshed in the Harringrove community for about a year and a half, though these days I'm hanging out more with the SPN crowd. We'll see if that translates to more fics.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1.) Sunflower (524) 2.) Quickly, look away (506) 3.) We'll Become Who We Meant To Be (383) 4.) Too Young To Fall In Love (333) 5.) When the Waters Start to Cross (283)

First, what's not surprising: all are Stranger Things/Harringrove works. I'm a little surprised to see that "Sunflower" had edged out "Quickly" as my most-kudosed story, for years it was the other way around—but maybe that's actually not that surprising—part of the reason I haven't been as active in the fandom is that I really love the darker and more complex renditions of Billy Hargrove's character (a la "Quickly") and since S3 aired it seems like the fashion has moved more towards more lighthearted fluff (a la "Sunflower"). Still, both are pretty undemanding smut, so it makes sense that they're on top; similarly, I'm not surprised to see "Too Young To Fall In Love" in the top five either.

I am a little surprised that "We'll Become Who We Meant To Be" is #3—it's honestly close to genfic, there's only the tiniest moment of hinted-at attraction in there. I'm not mad about it, I honestly feel like it's one of my better efforts; on the other hand, "Wake Me Up" was in a similar vein and it's close to the bottom. I guess there's just no telling what's going to catch on...in fairness, a 25K outsider POV novella is a much bigger ask than a 3K short story.

Honestly, I'm probably most surprised at "When the Waters Start to Cross" cracking the top five—it's a 52K+ WIP and a profoundly complex atmospheric existential horror/romance, which is, like, five strikes against it. I'm not mad about it, though—I love that fic, even if it is a huge time and energy suck, and it definitely contains some of my best writing.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I do! Sometimes it takes me a while, but I genuinely appreciate people taking the time to leave feedback (even if it's just a string of emoji!). And every once in a while I'll get really thoughtful or incisive comments that spark whole conversations—that's one of the best reasons to write fic!

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Hmm...to be honest, nothing immediately comes to mind; I love angst but tend to want it to serve a purpose, i.e. it gets a character closer to who they want to be. So most of my endings are at least hopeful. *checks list* It looks like probably my angstiest ending is also my first fic posted, "Blue Masquerade". Poor Michael.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you've written?

I don't currently write crossovers; I wouldn't rule it out, but frankly I haven't come across an idea that appeals to me. Waaaaaay back in the mists of time I had a Daria/Harry Potter crossover that I was actually pretty proud of, but I got about as far as getting them to Hogwarts and then kinda ran out of ideas, so I never posted it.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not that I can think of? I'm not big-time enough to get hate, haha. Worst I ever got was some rando asking for top or bottom tags, which I just ignored, and one person on "We'll Become" who was like "I don't like this pairing but you did a good job", which kinda had me like ??? thanks, I guess? I did get one comment on "Quickly, look away" from someone who felt like it was in a different headspace from the fic I wrote it as a sequel to, but that didn't strike me as hate, it's a perfectly fair observation.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

So first off, yes, and second...I recently came across this great Garth Greenwell quote that really gets at what I'm trying to do when I write smut:

In America in 2019 we are inundated with images of bodies to an absolutely unprecedented degree—images of eroticized bodies, images of sexual bodies; the Internet makes all our fantasies visible, and it trains us in new fantasies. And yet it also seems to me that our culture suffers from a dearth of representations of embodiedness, by which I mean of bodies imbued with consciousness. I’m not at all antiporn, but sometimes pornography (maybe especially Internet pornography, with its arms race of extremity) seems to want to evacuate bodies of personhood, to present them as objects. I think literature is the best technology we have for representing consciousness, and so I think there’s a kind of intervention that literature can perform in representing sex explicitly: it can reclaim the sexual body as a site of consciousness.

"Embodied porn" is probably the best description I can come up with—I love writing sex precisely because it's such a charged form of communication (Greenwell's words again), because there are things a character can do and say in that context that they never would normally. Like, sex acts are great and all, but what really does it for me is what's going on in their head, what's the history that brought the character to this point, how're they handling the inherent vulnerability and intimacy of this incredibly risky but potentially rewarding moment. Kink (whether through roleplaying, props, costumes, or whatever) is really just another way of adding to that personal meaning, since without the characters' reactions any trappings are meaningless.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, although I'd love to work with a translator someday (whether with fic or another context)—I'm fascinated by the inherent puzzles in translating between languages, especially with informal speech and its many idioms and cultural references.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not yet! I'd be open to the idea, but it definitely has to be with the right person...

What's your all time favorite ship?

Isn't that basically like asking a mom to choose her favorite kid? Seriously, I like different things about all of them...which one's getting the most attention depends entirely on mood and headspace and other effectively random variables.

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

I don't have any I've given up on entirely, yet. Even Waters, as beastly complicated as it is, I've been ruminating on and adding to and arranging in my head lately...

What are your writing strengths?

Atmosphere, character, dialogue. I've said it before, I'm a capital-R Romantic at heart: I love writing settings that reflect and reinforce a character's headspace—while also implying what said character might be missing in their viewpoint.

Something I've noticed—my husband worked for years as a penetration tester, which meant he would regularly have to talk his way past people on a moment's notice. So, unsurprisingly, we both notice people, but he tends to observe their presentation (clothing, accessories, especially ones that're markers of social class and group belonging that allow him to tailor his approach), whereas I notice what they say and how they say it—and, often, what they don't say.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I suddenly feel like I'm in a job interview, haha. Perfectionism is a big one—I have a tendency to feel hopeless and quit if something's taking too long, rather than persisting until I get it sorted, even though some of my best work is stuff where I persisted. Also, I'm big on emotional intensity—which isn't a bad thing, necessarily, but I sometimes read back over my stuff and I'm like "geez, Ambrosia, ease up a bit"...I could definitely use some comic relief in my writing sometimes, but I think I'm often too insecure to try it.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I don't have any in particular—I rarely do it myself, because I don't trust myself to do it properly. (Perfectionism again!)

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Daria, way back in the day. My work is still up on FF.net...sometimes I wonder if anyone's ever going to dig it up and confront me with it, haha. (I doubt anyone will ever care that much...I guess I'm more just curious if my style from twenty years ago is recognizably me.)

What's your favorite fic you've written?

If we're talking about finished fics, probably either "Wake Me Up" or "Young At Heart"—they're both pretty oddball, but both required a fuckton of work and both came out pretty close to what I wanted. But "Waters" is my biggest baby...maybe I'll open up Act III to work on today...

Thanks again for the tag, Ven! I'm going to tag @ihni, @redmyeyes, @twobrokenwyngs, @skybound2, @sambrosia, @shewritesdirty, @introvertia, @coffeeandchemicals, and @anarchist-billy—if you're up for some rumination, I'd love to hear your thoughts on your writing!

#author stuff #my writing #fanfic culture #about me #tag games

20 notes · View notes

lavendertwilight89 · 3 years

Text

20 Writer Asks

1. how many works do you have on AO3?

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

Oh dear lord...867,431

3. How many fandoms have you written for, and what are they?

Just Inuyasha fandom. I’m boring.

4. What are your Top Five Fics by Kudos?

What You Like

Call You Mine

Halloween

Sake

Rock Bottom

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do... Eventually. LOL Writing deadlines that only exist in my brain make me avoid my comments and then respond to like 100 at once and this disappear again. Also... I feel bad just with a simple response when people take the time to comment and then I’m like UGHHH NO THEY DESERVE MORE.

Anxiety just rules my life.

6. What fic have you written with the angstiest ending?

Uhmmm... I’ve heard Only for a Moment has an angsty ending because it’s like they are saying goodbye? But it is a happy ending overall. I think the angtiest one there will be and keep in mind it’s still happy will be What You Like--Tales of Sango and Miroku. Bcz canon-div where Kag doesn’t come back. Sad. But What You Like is where Inukag reunite. So. Yes. Hahahaha...

7. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

These are harder questions than I originally thought they’d be... Probably What You Like? Tied with Holding Out For a Hero the ending is written but the smut isn’t...sue me.... I always right a happy ending though. More ways than one sometimes. Badda bing

8. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I don’t do true crossovers, but I do fics inspired by books/movies like Holding Out for a Hero is a Shrek AU, Bad Blood is Burn Notice, Make a Wish is an Aladdin AU kinda

9. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yes. I have gotten some comments regarding a relationship between inukag that went too fast. But my only justification is it’s a one-shot and sometimes it has to if I’m gifting the gift of smut? Also, I rely heavily on the fact they are soulmates usually to kinda fuel my fires <3

10. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do--and uhm...usually sweet and loving and/ frantic and mating stuff.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No? I don’t think so. Usually check with my libraries if I have a troupe that’s used a lot so I don’t hit anyone by accident.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not yet--I have been approached though and gave the green light.

13. Have you ever co written a fic before?

Yessss and still pending a couple more due to time and energy and WIPs...

Current ones:

Right Where I Belong with @fawn-eyed-girl art by @eliza-faust-diary

(With a Kiss) I Awaken Thee with @fawn-eyed-girl @ruddcatha and @neutronstarchild art by @mamabearcat

Just Say It with @sapphirestarxx

And not really co-writing as much as collab-ing on But There Was Only One Bed series with @superpixie42

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

INUKAGGGGGGGGGGGG A SHIP I WILL DIE ON AND SINK INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE DARK WATERSSSSS

15. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Uhm... Crashing Down. I started it, realized how rushed it was and how I should have probably written it all first and gotten it organized and then posted since its a pretty dark idea. Idk if I’ll ever circle back, but we’ll see.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I use fragments to the best of my abilities. Inuyasha shares a lot my internal thoughts when he thinks he’s going crazy or has short patience level. Also, I feel like I’m pretty witty.

Also fluff apparently. I apparently can just barf up fluff like no one’s business.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Angstttttttt and action is kinda a struggle too. I feel like angst I chicken out on and try to skip over it rather than draw it out like it should be done and then action well.... I feel like I repeat myself and I don’t paint a good picture.

18. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Omg I love it! Too bad I only speak French but I do love some key words or even phrases dropped in a fic in Japanese.

19. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Inuyasha

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Uhm... I don’t know really. It’s really hard to pick... I think my baby is probably Shelter though. It was really original and the ideas just...flowed. Also, for an originally-supposed-to-be-a-one-shot and it’s almost at 100k words. So, definitely proud of that puppy.

Tags: Anyone else who wants to play!

11 notes · View notes

vivithefolle · 3 years

Note

I'm a bit confused. You said in one post that you thoroughly dislike Hermione and that you had no respect for her at all. Yet ... you like Romione? idk, it seems contradictory tbh. I like when Romione shippers acknowledge her flaws and messed up moments but when someone that dislike and even hate her character that much ships Romione and I see them posting about them and calling them "cute" just seems weird

I’ll share with you my whole thought process so you can understand where I’m coming from:

Itty-bitty Vivi who read Harry Potter for the first time (at 13/14, so not so itty-bitty I guess, oops): Woaaah Hermione and Ron yaay!!! They're awesome I love them! They're my OTP always and forever!! Best thing to happen in Harry Potter!! JKR is a genius!

Slightly less itty-bitty Vivi discovering the Harry Potter fandom online (thankfully years after the ship wars, else I probably wouldn't have survived): Why is there so much hate towards Ron? And why are people so opposed to Romione?? It was meant to be since the first book! Or, okay, the second book is when I realized it was gonna happen, but still! Oh well, here is a fic where Hermione berates Ron for everything and he is the only one actually working for their relationship. Cool, more Romione!

Even less itty-bitty Vivi starting her own Tumblr and going around, adding her grain of salt to debates and talking about stuff: Yeah! Ron is great! He's done bad things of course but Hermione has done her fair share of bad things too! Actually, now that I'm rereading the books, I'm reminded of this person I used to call a friend, who was quite smart and cultured but would often be very harsh to me because they claimed it was “for your own good" and “because I'm more mature than you"… I still wanted to be around them, because they were just so smart and passionate, but we often rowed and eventually they really just went too far and tried to make ME out to be the bad guy and most people believed them because they had a reputation as someone cool and logical while I was known for being emotional… wait, what the fuck, that's… that's exactly what happens in the fandom with Ron and Hermione! What the fuck, was I Ron? Admired their intelligence, praised and supported them, fell in love even but was met with scorn and open disdain?!… no, no, come on. Hermione wasn't that bad.

Vivi rereading Half-Blood Prince (and no, this wasn't about the canaries, but about what Hermione was doing after): Oh my god she was that bad.

Vivi as she ponders alternately: Wait, what about JK Rowling? What does she think about all that? What was her intention, what did she want to accomplish with the characters? I know books belong to their readers but if I want as objective an analysis as possible I must try to understand her thought process while she wrote.

Vivi learning about a staple of British literature called “literary alchemy”: The quarreling couple!! Sulfur and Mercury, the Red King and the White Queen, who must marry for the story to end happily!! And their union is represented by… a rose!! Oh my god, that is brilliant, that is so cool! Romione was ALWAYS going to happen, I knew it! Ha!

Vivi discovering the “[Ron] needed to make himself worthy of Hermione” quote: Wha… but… what? Worthy? As if Hermione was some sort of precious trophy or whatever? What the hell? Wait, Ron had to make himself worthy of her but Hermione didn't have to make herself worthy of him? Is it because Ron is the boy or some shit like that??

Vivi going through JK Rowling's interviews and finding sexism and double-standards galore: Yep, it's because he's the boy. And that bit about Hermione being based off herself when she was younger… ouch. And to top it off the scriptwriter pretty much worshipped Hermione…

Vivi rereading the books again: Is it just me, or does Ron hardly ever get any praise or acknowledgement from the adult characters? Meanwhile Harry and Hermione get stuff like “as good as Charlie Weasley" or “brightest witch of her age"! And, damn, I used to side with Hermione because I love cats, but she was completely awful in POA! She apologized but then the plot made her out to be right even then?? And I always thought her Yule Ball entrance was kinda over-the-top, but damn if that's not compensating for something! Also what the hell, I get that Harry is suffering and all but will someone PLEASE pay attention to the fact that Ron is being bullied BY A FOURTH OF THE STUDENT BODY AND NOBODY SEEMS EVEN REMOTELY CONCERNED????? Also what the hell is wrong with the sixth book, I never liked it much but it's like it's trying to make every character look bad, wtf?? And, and, holy shit I never noticed but Ron was asking legit questions during the Horcrux Hunt debate but Harry kept deflecting or mocking him but it's still Ron who had to apologize in the end??? And I've read a whole post about how Hermione punching Ron is the appropriate reaction for a very small child and not a supposedly “mature" character, and that Harry had to SHIELD RON FROM HER, oh my god?? It's�� oh my god, what the fuck is wrong with JK Rowling?

Vivi, in denial: Well, Harry Potter is decidedly not a romance. It's about love, but romantic love is quite far down the priority list when it comes to it. JKR has herself confessed that she wasn't too good at writing romance, and I don't blame her because writing romance is hard. But I did enjoy Romione! When I was little I saw it coming from a mile away, granted I was already savvy in literature but that must have been because she was doing something right! And then the sixth book happened… the sixth book which… which was released after the Harry Potter movies were being filmed, wasn't it?

Vivi looking up the timelines: Oh my god. Oh my god it's even worse, the movies were being discussed before Goblet of Fire came out. Come to think of it, I always found that the Trio felt… different, after Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry and Ron especially felt like they had gotten dumber? And Hermione was suddenly explaining everything when exposition used to be split between her and Ron…

Vivi, in mourning: So that's what happened. Ron ended up being shortchanged to make Hermione look better, because Rowling was fonder of Hermione than she was of Ron, and the scriptwriter too come to think of it. Curse you, Steve Kloves!!!

Vivi, who is nothing if not what Pokémon fans call a nostalgiafag: But… but… yeah, it sucks that Ron was shortchanged, and actually yeah it's a freaking travesty and I WILL freaking spread the world about this, mark my words, but, but I still… I can't help it, when Hermione “looked up at Ron and her frostiness seemed to melt" I melt too. When Ron compliments Hermione or tries to take care of her as much as he can I… it still does something to me, I still find myself rooting for them even if I know there's the awful sixth book and the stupid post-Locket beatdown. Their kiss, for God's sake, I've just realized that Ron may have swept Hermione off her feet physically, but it's Hermione who jumped him, you could say Hermione metaphorically swept Ron off his feet!! God damn it, that's good, that's so good!

Vivi, at war with herself: No, I can't let myself be blinded by nostalgia!! The facts are that Hermione shows borderline abusive - even actually abusive - behaviour, this can't be denied! I don't want to root for an abusive relationship! I don't want to root for a relationship that relies on my favourite character being dumbed down to work!!!

Vivi, about to uncover the secrets of the universe: … wait a second. I don't have to.

Vivi, having an epiphany: Reading Solstice Muse's Romione fanfics gives me such happiness because she just gets the characters! She doesn't portray Hermione as perfect and never fucking up, and she always treats what happens to Ron with respect… Well, especially since she can't play them off as a joke since she often makes Ron the POV character. But, yeah! I can still like Romione… if it's well-written. Which, well, isn't the case in the original books… at least, isn't the case anymore after Rowling's bias got the best of her. Even though they do have their great moments.

Vivi, finding purpose in her life: I am going to spread awareness. I am going to tell the world. Fuck, just rereading the books, I've noticed how blatant the favouritism is and how unbalanced it can be. No wonder the fandom seems to collectively scoff at Ron - the books themselves do whenever it's convenient for them! The fandom plays favourites, because the author herself played favourites, and the worst part is that she didn't even realize it! Imagine you spend your life getting into traumatic situations out of love for your friends who always receive compassion and validation for their feelings about said traumas, but YOUR trauma is hardly touched upon and in the rare case it is, it's only to be mocked or used against you… Fuck! You're a piece of work, JKR! And the fandom just swallows it whole like a bunch of lobotomized snakes! Screw it! Screw it, I'm going to say it like it is, and I'm going to say it LOUDLY! People are going to hear about what Ron goes through and we'll see if Harry and Hermione look like the only ones worthy of therapy then!!

Present day Vivi, as she scrolls through the (heavily filtered) Romione tag on AO3: Ugh, another Drarry… and another… and another… oh, a Hinny-centric fic for a change, cool but I'm looking for more Romione than that, sorry. Gah, why is it that Romione appears as a secondary ship everywhere but they can't get their own stories? I've just seen a Snupin come up for God's sake! Oh, finally, a full Romione!! *clicks* … … … awww that was so sweet. Kudos! Okay back to the search… oh, another one!! *clicks* … … … it's Ron-bashing. It's Ron-bashing and it's not tagged Ron-bashing and that's why it showed up in my search AND I'M GOING TO FREAKING RIOT-

#vivi answers #ask #romione #ron weasley #hermione granger #ron weasley defense squad #ron weasley defence squad #ron x hermione #harry potter series #anti jk rowling

85 notes · View notes

morkofday · 3 years

Text

fic tag game

thank you so much for tagging me @i-am-just-a-kiddo ♥ i love rambling about my fics and my writing even if it always also brings up all the doubts and insecurities i have but. these are my children so i will show them some love :’) and it is always just wonderful to share this all with you my dear ♥

placing under cut bc i do ramble, as yall know to expect by now!

Name: VishCount i’ve already explained the origin of that name a couple of times so am sparing you from that but gotta just say that i never expected to get so fond of this username and the nicknames that followed ♥

Fandoms: wow ok so buckle up, this is gonna be a ride first i gotta mention the finnish fandom for this youtuber group called LaeppaVika. i adored them as a teenager and i still watch the videos sometimes :’) couple of the members still stream stuff even if the group has pretty much fallen apart by now and am just very fond every time. they feel like home in a way. those fics were my first ones and am still kinda proud of some of those?

then there’s this one random finnish utapri fic i once wrote... tbh i’m not sure why my anime fandoms never made me write anything? maybe it was the inexperience and the fear of using a second language lol

after i got over that and got into BTS, i’ve written a ton for them. most of those are oneshots that vary from 1k words to 10k or something. a couple of longer ones have sprouted too and one is still in the making and i have sooooo many ideas. mostly just random aus. i adore to write those.

lately MDZS has been my favored fandom and it has gotten some oneshots too as well as my gigantic xicheng fic that hangs somewhere well above 100k now. i wish to finish the last part for that soon but who knows, maybe it will take longer than expected sigh. and now DMBJ has pushed in as something that yells at me to write tho i’ve only posted a short oneshot for it for now. and oh, last year i also posted a couple of silly oneshots for 2moons! that was... weird tbh but am glad i did that.

i wish i had more fandoms tbh bc there is so much interesting stuff there and i have so many ideas and inspirations but i’m very slow at writing. things don’t always just come out and some fandoms don’t grasp me for long enough that i would be able to tap into any projects. but i have no hurry, right?

Tropes: hmm do i have any? am not sure. i thought that maybe soulmate aus or some abo stuff was my thing but i’ve slowly drifted away from those. then it comes to just... idk. hurt/comfort? found families? i also adore slow burn these days and i feel like i’ve gotten a bit better at writing that but it’s still a struggle. also just, as already noted, all these different aus? mostly fantasy based ones. those are always so cool and somehow very whimsical? and lately i’ve also just fallen into this hole where i love to write some bittersweet tragedies or at least stuff that feels like a tragedy in some sense (and i blame my dear kiddo for that bc they’ve written the sweetest of tragedies and i want that too ok)

Fic I spent most time on: how do you count this? do wips count? bc if they do, then I feel like my xicheng fic called you’re the sunset and i’m the last purple left behind is it. it just keeps on going and i feel like i’ve given it all of my waking hours and heart and soul. then it could also be my BTS abo fic My Lungs for You to Breathe that is slowly reaching its second year? am not sure. but it has been going for ages bc sometimes it comes and sometimes it goes and currently i’ve spent over six months without updating it and. yeah. (it would be nice to mention some fic here that i’ve made some research for but tbh i never do any research. am horrible like that but i’ve never just. had the energy? tho i have hopes that i could go on this wild research spree for this one guardian idea i have but let’s see...)

Favorite fic(s) you’ve written: (making a list bc am unable to choose, fight me)

and you remain - my pingxie oneshot that just helped me to get all of the feelings i had after tlt2 pour out. am very fond of it destiny tied us together - some introspection of lwj and jc’s relationship and how it changes throughout the years as they both mature, learn things about themselves, fall in love and realize that they share the same ppl in their hearts (and maybe develop a tentative friendship bc they’re so similar in so many ways). i had so much fun with this and it just felt like my brightest moment haha painting your skin with all of me - the xicheng soulmate oneshot i wrote at some point and still adore. it just seemed to work and in the middle of my xicheng struggles writing them so briefly and gently just felt right pouring love (growing flowers) - the ot7 oneshot i wrote bc of this one amazing twt prompt/moodboard. it was the last part of my mono series. i love it so much. joon was so nice to write throughout the whole thing ;; lilies bloomed under your carpet - my god au for taejoon. it poured out of me so wonderfully and it was so amazing. still one of my favorite creations, this whole au. Stories Untold / chapter 3 - this was a collection of taejoon oneshots that i was trying to make but am not sure if i will ever finish them all. but this one, where tae is a forest god and joon a human able to see supernatural things, is very dear to me bc it just feels complete

Fic I spent least time on: gosh i think it must be either my first wangxian oneshot we had it almost or my touch-starved joon oneshot show me my skin and touch my heart with very soft and lovely taejoon. both created themselves in a couple of hours?

Longest fic: currently my xicheng monster but i somehow expect my bts abo fic to get even longer if i ever manage to finish it

Shortest fic: it’s apparently my namseok fic for joon’s tokyo called missing you (i’m homesick). it created itself out of my own experiences of living in a long distance relationship and is one of my faves in that series.

Most hits/kudos/comments/bookmarks: most hits and comments go for my bts abo fic which doesn’t really surprise me when it’s a multichapter fic :’D most kudos go for the already mentioned xicheng oneshot and most bookmarks go for the bts ot7 fic!

Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: hmm if i could rewrite something, it would probably be my first bts fic and my second long fic called Even the Universe Makes Mistakes. that soulmate au now feels a bit outdated and there are many parts i would like to change and things i would love to think again. then if i was allowed to expand some world, i would love to write more for the xicheng soulmate au bc there are many other pairings i would love to explore there too or just to see lxc’s take on the events perhaps. other thing would be my namgi oneshot it passes (for us both) bc i adore namgi and the love they create in that brief moment.

Share a bit of a WIP: it hasn’t been long since i shared snippets of several wips but let’s go with my pingxie which i’ve been working on and am just so damn excited about (especially now that i can use the bazaar photoshoot imagery as inspiration):

“He moves, pulled in by the darkness of the lake, mirroring the softly blue sky with its gray, heavy clouds. The snow lands on his nose, into his lashes, clings to his coat and his shoes. He doesn’t feel cold, doesn’t hear anything beyond the softness of the snowfall. Nothing exists and everything does, real and fake at the same time, comforting but still making him feel afraid.

He could lose himself here, could be lost from everything. He could stay and be forgotten, could join those people that tried to make him remain, could take the easier way. He could rest, just like he was supposed to do so many times before.

Maybe he does belong, after all. Maybe he is part of this place, so awfully familiar with it, so willing to even stop his own heart to get here. And maybe he is not, this place only hungry for those who don’t yet remain, refuse to give into this dream-like space.”

thank you once more for tagging me my dear! this was fun even if looking back to my old fics and all the lack of updating and posting these days makes me feel kinda bad... i’ve just been in a slump lately and am slowly trying to get out of it even if i almost fall back in all the time. it’s funny when last spring i felt like i was at my peak sigh. but well, as i’ve already said, i have time right?

i dunno so many writers over here but i’m tagging @cross-d-a and @kholran bc i’m curious about your work. also tagging @inkblue-black and @jockvillagersonly if you want to blabber about something or if you just want to see this. and oh also tagging @wangxianbunnydoodles bc am always open for new ppl and i know that you write ^^

#tag game #sorry am making these posts today again #also sorry for always tagging the same ppl #i hope you don't mind #have fun!!#about me

16 notes · View notes

thrillingdetectivetales · 3 years

Text

2020 Creator Wrap

2020 Creator Wrap: Favorite Works

Okay, okay, I know I’m late with this but the incredibly sweet @irolltwenties and the utterly delightful @anthrobrat were both kind enough to me in this bad boy and it seems really fun, so here we are!

Rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (or so) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought to the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

According to my AO3 statistics page, I wrote just over 100K of fiction this year, across 17 different fandoms, a few of which won’t actually go live until after the New Year because they’re part of a gifting collection that hasn’t been revealed yet... Anyway, I picked my faves for a variety of reasons, listed briefly after each link. If you have any questions about works I’ve shared (or just in general) feel free to ask!

1. Front Row at the Gongshow

The Pacific, 16K, Rated G Andrew ‘Ack Ack’ Haldane/Edward ‘Hillbilly’ Jones

Aside from being the longest completed work I produced this year, this is also the first fic I’ve ever written using the “found document” format. While there are parts of it I feel really conflicted about, I’m still incredibly proud of it and think it’s one of the better fic I’ve written...possibly ever. Which is doubly funny because I don’t usually do modern AUs of period fiction, but the hockey angle was enough to tempt and lo, here we are, lol.

[Excerpt from Deadspin]

"You all remember Eddie Jones, right? The corn-fed captain of the New Orleans Rougarou so wholesome he belongs on a box of Malt-O-Meal? The gentleman bruiser who spends his free time playing country tunes for kids with cancer?

Our favorite dapper D-man led his team to 97 points last night in a shut-out victory against the Los Angeles Kings, clinching a playoff spot for the first time in franchise history. Oh! And he also got caught on camera at the after-party, sucking face. WITH A DUDE."

2. Entremets

Hannibal, 8K, Rated E Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter

I have...so many Hannibal fic that I’ve started writing and haven’t finished because all my ideas lead to long plotty epics and also big name fandoms scare me. I did this one up for Eat, Drink, & Make Merry, and I’m really, really pleased with the way it turned out, considering it was my first foray into establishing new character voices and also a successful exercise in writing explicit content, which can be a bit of an Ordeal for me, so overall I’m incredibly happy with it. Plus! My deep and abiding love of writing characters cooking/eating/otherwise dealing with food finally paid off!

“The pâté was supposed to be more of a gesture,” Will explains, spreading a golden sliver of honeycomb out across a slice of sopressata with the blade of his pocket knife. “You don’t actually have to eat it. I’m not even sure if it’s any good.” He smears a healthy dollop of chȇvre across his meat-and-honey concoction and pops the whole thing into his mouth without ceremony.

“What better method exists by which to convey one’s appreciation of a gesture than to indulge it?”

3. An Ode to Matty Big-Time

The Good Place, 2K, Rated T Jason Mendoza/Original Male Characters, Pillboi

This one was actually a request made by my very dear @thesummoningdark, who wanted to see some bisexual Jason per that one fantastic Tumblr post about how everyone in TGP should be bi, and I’m really, really proud of the way it turned out. I love writing comedy and I very rarely get to lean into it as hard as I’d like, so delving into the whole wild craziness of Jacksonville, as explained in the show was really fun. I also love writing original characters, and this was a great excuse to indulge.

“We probably shouldn’t do any butt stuff,” Jason warns, with as much gravitas as he can muster. “I had two of Stupid Nick’s Disaster Buckets when I got here.”

“Yeah, your face is still kinda orange,” Mateo agrees fondly, bringing his other hand up to brush his thumb over Jason’s lower lip. It stirs a little frisson of heat in his belly that Jason is 68% sure isn’t just indigestion. “No chemical burns, though, so I think you came out on top.”

4. This and Who I Used to Be

The Tick (2017), 3K, Rated G Arthur Everest/Superian

Another new fandom I haven’t written in before, this was a fill for the Rare Male Slash Exchange that turned me on to a pairing I’d never even thought of before I wrote it and am now low-key obsessed with. It is also, to date, the ONLY Arthur/Superian fic on AO3 at all, which is a cool weird honor and fairly indicative of my life’s goal to eventually write my way into smaller and smaller fandoms until I come out the other side with original works. It was really fun to explore these characters, and to figure out some world-building for Superian’s backstory that fit within the tone and established canon of the extant Amazon!Tick universe. Also featuring an original character that nobody asked for but I’ve come to love unconditionally.

Arthur glances down to where Superian has one cheek pressed against his shoulder, humming something off-key and unintelligible with his eyes closed. Arthur sighs. “Let’s get you inside.”

He hauls Superian in until he can prop him against the wall while he shuts and locks the door behind him. When he looks back over, Superian is smiling at him, soft and lazy. He swings a finger in Arthur’s direction, a broad, sloppy motion, and announces, “I knew you’d say yes.”

“Technically I said fine,” Arthur rebuts. He gestures down the hallway toward the kitchen—which leads on to the bedroom, as Superian well knows—and sighs, “Come on. I don’t know what those handcuffs did to you, but you should probably lie down and have a glass of water or something.”

5. Rain in Its Season

Band of Brothers, 12K, Rated G Edward ‘Babe’ Heffron/John Julian

Oh boy. What to say about this one. It’s maybe not as polished as I might have preferred, but I feel that way about mostly everything I write and at the end of the day I do really love what I managed to do with this piece. Written for the Heavy Artillery Rare Pair Exchange, I managed to lean heavily into both my love for needlessly granular period research and original characters, which are abundant herein. Frankly, based on the very little we see of him in the show, Julian himself is practically an OC, but I digress. This was another of the longer pieces I’ve ever finished and I’m proud of it even if I’d’ve liked to write another 15K or so, time constraints notwithstanding.

“Tell me. Please. Why’re you here?”

Babe flinched, gaze dropping to the floor. His heart was a raw, swollen welt in his chest. He swallowed and licked his lips, slow and pained.

“Come on, Julian,” he rasped, low and quiet. “You know why.” He laughed, soft and hoarse, and shook his head, once. When he looked back up, Julian had taken a careful step into the center of the room. His eyes were very dark, his mouth very red, hope and fear warring in his every feature. Babe fisted his fingers in the cotton sheet underneath him, halfway to pleading as he insisted, “You gotta know.”

Julian sighed and came over to hover at the edge of the bed. Babe spread his legs to accommodate the intrusion.

“That was - ” Julian started. His voice failed midway through the protest, and he swallowed, took a breath, and regrouped at a lower volume. “You said that was just buddies, what we did over there. That it didn’t count. That you didn’t want it to.”

The TL;DR of this all being that while I didn’t write as much I wanted to this year in terms of volume, I feel like my quality has been improving consistently and hope it continues to do so into 2021 while I try to finish out some of my years-long WIPs and get into longer completed pieces.

I’m not sure who all to tag, so I’ll say @thesummoningdark, @blahblahblahclintnickiscanon, @thisbadge, @incognito-insomniac, and anyone else who’d like to join in and hasn’t been tagged yet! (If you’re the latter, feel free to @ me so I can see what you’ve written!)

Happy New Year everyone May the fanworks you create this year be prolific and soul-affirming!

#creator wrap #2020 creator wrap

10 notes · View notes

dannydouni · 3 years

Text

I got tagged by @faceless-dude for smth. And like. All I want to say is that you so much. Cuz I’ve had this sitting in my drafts for months and I didn’t know when would be a good time to post it. Or like update it or like just when I should do anything with it. So yeah. Thank you so much for helping me get the chance to post this :)))

“I’ve had this in my drafts for some time now probably since the Canadian thanksgiving and like only touched on it a few times, and well I never got to post it cuz I got well uuuhhh... shy I guess and at that time a lot of things were going down and stuff. And because of that I just felt like it had no meaning whatsoever anymore. So I thought I’d edit it a bit so it fits better and so I can finally post it and stuff.... sometimes it’s nice to get something out there after having it written down for so long. And well what better time to post it than now XD on New Years!. Anyways here it goes”

Hey guys, friends especially, ITS A NEW YEAR!!!!!! I just wanted to pop in and say that...well...thank you. And while I don’t really mean this directly to anyone so far (details for ppl that I know on this app will be written later on in this post). I know it’s usually super cheesy and just cringe and stuff but I honestly couldn’t care less about that stuff when it comes to the people close to me and to the people I love and care about. So I would like to take this opportunity to thank y’all. First and foremost. What the actual fuck guys. Why lmao. Out of everyone in this world you bunch picked the weirdest, ugliest and just straight up stupidest dude out there to be friends with XD, y’all do know there was much better than this out there right XD. I legit have no competition since I’m just so bad LOL. But still, for some reason, with all the shit I just listed y’all still decided it was a good idea to be friends with me. Y’all still decided it would be a great idea to stick with me up until now. Y’all still decided that I could belong with other people that I could fit it with you guys. That I could.... have genuine, real and just straight up amazing friends. I have absolutely no fucking clue how this turn of events happened. But I can say this with full certainty. You guys have changed my life. You guys are probably the main reason I’m still kicking around to this day lol. You guys are the reason I keep going and keep living and just keep enjoying the tiny gifts that life has to offer sometimes instead of pain XD. I still don’t and probably will never understand why or how god or life decided to be nice to me the few times I met one of you but I’m honestly so eternally grateful that I just... I have no words almost.... I just don’t know what to say sometimes. It’s honestly so out of this world how amazing and nice some of you are even tho I’m like the complete trash of this world XD. In all honesty.... without you guys I’d probably not even be here lmao... I’d probably would’ve just went on with my life with nothing to wish or hope for other than for the next day to pass even quicker than the last.... or just for days to just over as soon as they start... I won’t say more cuz that’s shit is personal and I’m not about to write that in public 😎. But like I know for sure that without you guys. I would not be here right now. So thank you. Thank you for everything. Thank you for all the memories you’ve given me, the countless nights you’ve made me die of laughter, The countless times you’ve made me choke and almost die from how funny something would be, the countless times you’ve made me think “damn I don’t ever want to wake up from this dream if this is not real”. Just thank you, for talking to me, for letting me vent, for letting me be there for you when you were there for me, for being my rock to lean on, for helping me go through the toughest of times like if it was a normal day. Thank you guys so much for treating me like an equal, for being friends with me, for playing with me, for inspiring me, for teaching me new things and helping me with anything I could ever ask for. Thank you guys so much, and while words will never be able to fully explain what I fully mean or what I fully feel. But I hope that this at least will give you an idea of how greatfull I am for you guys... i hope this will show you how thankful I am for you guys. I love you guys so much that the word love just can’t even express how much you guys truly mean to me. You guys have changed my life for the better and even tho I will probably never be able to repay that I’m hoping that I can do something to at least return how much y’all have done for me. And even tho a lot of the people I mean by this message are not on Tumblr I have a few that are and it is for that reason that I will thank you and write something for you guys here too. So here is the part for the specific people.

@frogb, Genny :)

Genny :D

GENNYYYYY >:D

Good God..... how are you even real XD well to start off, a quick intro :).... probably my only irl friend that is actually active on this app and of course MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER IN THE WORLD AND THE #1 PERSON IN MY LIFE >:), I want to take this opportunity to just thank you again (I know I’ve said a a bunch of times and you probably hate me for saying it a lot XD, that along with sorry :(((( I can’t really control that Lmao but I’m getting better at it right :D). You....you’re my best friend :)... you have changed my life for the better way too many times cuz. I’ve honestly lost count dude. I’ve lost count. I just want you to know that even tho I said that the first thing I wrote on this post was meant for a bunch of people. I was really mainly thinking about you when I wrote it. Ever since you’ve been part of my life. You have made sure to change it completely. And only for the good and for the better. I don’t think you have a genuine idea of how much you’ve changed my life and how much you’ve made me happy :)... thank you Genny thank you so much for being the best thing to ever happen to me. Genny you truly are the best most amazing, kindest, nicest, loveliest, most wonderful, most talented person I’ve ever met. Look I won’t write my full thing here since...well I’ll say the rest to you directly. But well .. Genny... I love you... I love you so fucking much alright :D thank you for being the highlight of my life. Thank you for being you Genny and thank you for being here for me and just being my best friend in the world :)

@ritsu-in-a-maid-dress , heyyy duuuudee buddy chum buddy pal XD (don’t ask lmao), I know we like met only a few weeks ago actually idk maybe at the point when I actually decide to post this it’ll be months or like a year 😳 (and if it is HOLY SHIT WTF I HOPE I ACTUALLY TOLD YOU SOMETHING IN THAT TIME CUZ DAMN) and well so far, you have been nothing but an amazing, way too nice, handsome friend that has somehow probably one of the sweetest hearts out there. You’re actually so fucking funny and have made my day much better sometimes just from the very few talked we’ve had lmao (correction now it’s actually been quite a few 😳and honestly they’re getting to much better and funnier so thank you so much for making me laugh :D (oh and I will never forget that one call we had for 3 FUCKING HOURS DUDE!!!! THAT WAS AWSOME!!!) ) and while at first I was very shy to even talk to you. I’m happy that I can comfortably say hi without any regrets or anything lmao. I will tell you something I’m very thankful for in dm too cuz it’s kinda private :) so yeah.... thank you so much for being you and being my friend :D

@quellfy yoooooo duuuudde I don’t think we’ve ever really interacted on here but I’ve talked to you on the server and well I can know from there that. You’re just such an amazing and kind person. And that every time we talk I have a great time :)) I don’t know a lot about you but I do know that you’re an amazing artist who has amazing art (yes even when it’s not sad “pointing at alluka in snow drawing” amazing) and that you’re such a kind and I nice human being who’s been just super nice and good to me :)) so thank you. For being my friend and for being such an amazing human being :D

@faceless-dude yooooo I don’t think we’ve properly talked before but like :))) I really think you’re an amazing person and just super talented. Your art is something I’ve never seen before and I really really think it’s unique and just amazing. Thank you for your wonderful wishes. And yeah dw. I plan on keeping that promise >:) Gen will get her booties kicked just like you asked XD

@kur-upira we probably only interacted a few times. But in those few times. I could tell what kind of person you are and how much of an amazing person you are :D. I can tell you that just from those few times. I was able to see how much of a beautiful, talented (yes holy shit. I cannot stress this enough. I love your artstyle and good god it’s so good everything from the actual drawings to the shading to the colouring. It’s amazing dude. I really mean that. It’s one of the most unique and most beautiful artstyles I’ve ever seen), friendly and just amazing human being you are :))) thank you for those few interaction (which probably took me whole days to respond to because of anxiety and bs XD sorry about that lmao) and yeah. I would absolutely love to get to know you better and to interact more with each other :D

@starrynarwhale, I know we like pretty much only interacted like twice with each other but from those few times. I knew that you were a wonderful person :) not just an amazing person. But a very talented one too :D (your art is amazing dude. It’s really great. Not only that but like. Can I just say that. Your frog gon fridays are godly dude. They’re always so fucking cool and wholesome 🥺🥺I love them so much. Amazing) you seem like a very kind and amazing person so yeah :)) I’d love to get to know you better :D

@catboyyouko yooooo. I know we probably have only interacted once but let me tell you dude. You’re a wonderful, amazing, nice, kind and extremely talented human being. (Dude you don’t understand. Your art is fucking amazing. Not only that but your comics are so goddamn great too. Not just in an art way but in a story way too. It’s just always so amazing) oh and also like... I see that you vent a lot and stuff and just wanted to let you know that if you ever needed someone to talk to or vent to. I’m here for you. I feel like you’re such an amazing person and I would love to get to know you better :) so yeah. If you ever need anyone to talk to. I’m here alright :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE. I LOVE YOU ALL SO FUCKING MUCH

And if I didn’t @ you I promise It’s just cuz I’m too scared to bother you and @ Ing this many ppl has already made my anxiety skyrocket.

#sorry for @ing so many of you #I love you all so much #and I hope to get to know all of you better if I don’t already :)#thank you all for being part of my life #and for making my life so great

7 notes · View notes

tuntematonkorppi · 3 years

Note

Fanfic Writer Ask Game: 1,3,4,6,7,9,10,12,13 and 16 :)

Well hello, someone isn’t fucking around x)

1. How long ago did you start reading fanfiction? Writing fanfiction?

i started reading fanfic probablyyyy 14 or 15 years ago. My sister had given me her old laptop and she had left a couple of her stuff and some fic she had downloaded on it so i read them even tho i didn’t know the fandoms really well and i had no idea who most of the characters were.

i started writing fanfic i think 12 or 13 years ago. i don’t remember exactly when i started writing or publishing.

3. Are there any fics that inspired you to write what you do?

well, i have a couple of absolute fav fics (like anyone else i guess), but i can’t say that they actually inspired me to write. like i admire the prose and the plot and the characterizations of these fics but i usually find inspiration in the canon material, or in unrelated movie plots, or in situations from my actual life.

4. Link your three favorite fics right now.

THREE? ThAt’S CRUEL DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY BOOKMARKS I HAVE???

okay let’s see what i liked lately.

the switch by moonprincess92

jyn/cassian. It takes ten years of other relationships, broken limbs, quitting jobs, starting new ones, Instagram posts, depression, almost marriages and Thanksgiving turkeys for Jyn and Cassian to realise that they belong together.

it’s over 100k and it’s fucking glorious.

a lesson in navigation by sandalaris

seth/kate alternate s2, over 30k and still in progress and omg i love it so much it’s fucking perfect

and one from a fandom i don’t really participate in anymore but that i love love love love LOOOOVE

find what fits by @everythingremainsconnected

amanda/martin a dghda pacific rim au and it’s fucking amazing

6. How do you find new fic to read? Where do you primarily read fanfiction?

i go to ao3, i type the pairing in the search window, i filter for english fics and then i go through all the pages, opening the fics that looks promising on new tabs. then i read.

Answered 7 already.

9. Tag 3 fic writers you think are underrated/unknown in the fandom/fanfiction community.

well it’s actually kinda hard to figure out because i’m not super involved in fandoms anymore and i don’t know if the authors i love are well known or not. so, yeah, sorry x)

10. What’s your favorite fandom, pairing, or character to read fic for?

at the moment i’m very much back on my rogue one bullshit, but i’m also obsessed with fdtd. i’m also still very much into kastle and leverage. i used to be super into other star wars stuff, dghda, the magicians, captain america and wynonna earp but not that much anymore.

12. What’s your favorite title you’ve come up with and why?

i don’t really come up with titles tbh i just look up the lyrics of the songs i’m listening in repeat at the moment i’m writing a particular fic and see what fits best.

my current favorite title is for a fic i haven’t started publishing yet and it’s a 5+1 fics whose working title used to be “whump fest”. now it’s “you gotta love all the pain”

13. Do you outline your fics? How much of a headache would someone get if they just looked at an outline of yours without reading the fic?

hahahah i’m 99% a pantser. i sort of know where i’m going but i very veeeery rarely outline my fic. out of all my wips, i’ve currently outlined only two and i can tell you that if anyone look at those outlines, they might think i wrote them while being high on LSD and having a stroke at the same time.

16. Do you research for your fics? If so, how deep of a rabbit hole have you gone down by accident when researching?

i mostly research recovery times and medical stuff the most and usually i don’t fall into an endless rabbit hole. i did however got sucked into a youtube vortex while researching snowboard tricks for my snowboard au rogue one fic.

Thank you so muuuch!

Fic Writer Ask Game

#replies #tunte tries to be a writer #fuckyeahdeafandasexual

7 notes · View notes

bigskydreaming · 4 years

Text

Tagged by @hood-ex to post the last line I wrote from a WIP. I didn’t do that, obviously. I mean, I started to do that, I did do that, but then once I’d typed it in here I kept going and writing the rest of that scene, which was very much not the point of that tag game but hahahahaha what are rules even.

From a fic about Ric, Jason and Cassandra, called “The Dead Don’t Live Here Anymore:”

Still buzzing with more energy than he knew what to do with, Ric finally paused long enough to survey the tempest tossed aftermath of the fight’s chaotic seas. He wiped a slightly bruised hand across his face, mopping up a dab of blood as he did so. The bodies of prone and groaning men were scattered across the floor, making a chain of island outcroppings amid the flotsam and jetsam of broken barstools and shattered pool cues. The air stank of sweat, blood and violence, garnished with the citrus scents of spilled (and wasted) tequila. His tongue probed experimentally along the side of his mouth. He might have chipped a tooth. Damn.

Still perched atop the bar counter in the same position in which she’d weathered the entire fight - seriously, from the glimpses he’d caught in his peripheral vision, Ric was pretty sure she hadn’t budged the entire time - Cassandra finished off the last of her nachos and licked her fingers clean.

“Are you two done bonding yet?” His alleged sister asked without even a glance in their direction. Both decidedly unbothered and distinctly unimpressed, all at once and without needing so much as a word to express that. She wore her disdain like a jacket layered over her tank top; nothing in her posture or facial expression conveyed it explicitly, but it was very much there all the same.

Now there was a skill with multiple applications. He was kinda jealous, not gonna lie.

“Eh, I could go for more. It’s not even ten o’clock yet,” Jason said somewhat absently. The majority of his attention - and his scowl - stayed focused on the ragged hole evident in his leather jacket as he held it up for inspection. It was actually more of a pout, Ric decided. He smothered a snort. The guy took a shard of broken beer bottle in the arm without rating it even worth a look, but one more scar added to his battle-worn coat, and he was having an honest-to-God sulk.

Not that Ric was judging or anything. He definitely got the combination of emotional attachment and very few possessions with which to be attached. Honestly, it was more just....a swift surge of humor rising up from one of the locked and unlit rooms deep inside him, the ones still waiting for the return of a tenant who was very much not him. He’d done his best to stay away from those halls. Squashing the curiosity that every now and then urged him to wander those corridors, citing arguments that he had just as much a right to walk them as anyone. And maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. It always ended up feeling like rummaging through a dead stranger’s clothes either way.

But this was one of those times where it wasn’t like he’d gone looking through another man’s belongings, because he didn’t have to. The laughter that bubbled up at the sight of the tall and daunting other man wearing an extremely young-looking and put upon expression.....it came spilling out one of those dusty, locked away rooms all on its own, unprompted, no trespassing required. The rush of affection it gathered from the mental hallways it raced through and navigated far better than he himself did, the jokes, the teasing that somehow were all waiting right there on the tip of his tongue...it was all as familiar as it was unnerving. It was all unnerving because of how familiar it was.

Ric had never had a younger brother, younger siblings - well, not that he remembered, obviously - but he didn’t need a guidebook to know this moment, this second right here was what it felt like to have them. It would be so easy, then and there, to just grab onto the tail end of that laughter as it rushed by. Ride it to the surface, out into the open, let it fly free and claim the credit in its wake, just enjoy whatever came after it....

But he bit his tongue at the last possible second, swallowed it all down and shoved all that back away into the burrough of his mind he’d designated as “The Other Guy’s.” Turned the aborted laugh into a choked cough instead. Air gone down the wrong pipe, no big deal, just need a moment.

Because no matter how familiar, how right it felt for a second, all the ones that followed never failed to call that out as a cheat, a lie. Not his to enjoy. It wasn’t his place to tease Jason with familiarity he’d never earned. There was nothing for him, nothing that might actually be called his, in the telling of jokes he couldn’t claim to understand. That may have been what it felt like to have a younger brother, that split second right there, but it wasn’t his brother, his feeling, his familiarity to enjoy. Ric had enough trouble feeling like he had a right to his own damn life as it was. He didn’t need to feel like he was stealing a dead man’s family on top of it all.

Course, as always, the younger siblings that still couldn’t make up their own minds as to whether they were Dick’s or Ric’s or neither’s or both’s, well, they seemed just as determined as ever not to get that. He had the sense - born of instincts, not the tattered echoes of someone else’s memories - that not having made up their own minds yet wasn’t really a problem for them. Figuring it all out on the move, making it up as they went....that all seemed very much the rest of this family’s style. And it wasn’t even that Ric couldn’t see the advantages of such an approach, didn’t get the appeal....he just didn’t know how to get as comfortable with figuring it out on the go. He was plenty familiar with going through life without the firm dependability of solid ground beneath his feet, but this was something else entirely.

And just wanting to match the end results of lifetimes spent adapting on the run.....that didn’t actually make a damn bit of difference when it came to how far behind the rest of this family he was now.

Like the saying goes: If wishes were horseshoes, well, his parents would still be alive.

Okay, maybe that wasn’t exactly how that went, but close enough.

“And sister, please, don’t trivialize what we did here,” Jason proclaimed dramatically, drawing Ric out of his maudlin musings and back into the fitful fluorescent lighting of the here and now. The younger man swept one arm out wide to the side, emphasizing everything within its broad radius, then did the same with the other. He wore a painfully false face of earnest piety, along with hints of a smirk threatening to erupt from beneath. “This was about justice, not fraternization. These are very bad men.”

Cassandra skewered every bit of his bullshit all at once, in one go. With just one single spearing look, and a coolly half-raised eyebrow of contempt.

Once again, Ric just. Felt all the jealousy. Decided what the hell. Embraced it fully.

“Okay, see, that,” Ric called out, jabbing a pointed finger at The Other Guy’s little sister. She flicked her eyes at most half an inch in his direction in acknowledgment. Ugh. Her nerves of steel were as impressive as they were annoying. Whatever, that was a grudge for another day. “That right there? That’s just....masterful. Forget about that stuff you were telling me about reading body language, the way you sell your body language....I mean jeez, you packed enough judgment into just that one little look, you could send a whole convent of nuns running off to do penance without needing a single reason why. Now that, I can definitely make use of. Can you teach me that?”

She flicked her eyes the rest of the inch or so needed to take Ric in fully. Raked him up and down with a brisk, assessing look, though assessing what, he had no idea. It wasn’t like they were total strangers at this point. Whatever. Point being, he felt decidedly judged. Rude. It was only fun when she did that to Jason, not him.

“No,” Cassandra decided at last.

Huh. Cool cool. Well. Let no one ever accuse Little Sis of not being succinct, at least.

Jason snorted.

“Cassandra’s a prodigy, y’see,” the younger man drawled out, piling heavy emphasis on a tone best named Mockery. He punctuated his jab with dramatically wide eyes and a nod of his head in his sister’s direction.

She propped one elbow on her leg and dropped her chin atop her fist, leaning into it as she contorted her face into such a saccharinely sweet expression, she could have refilled the sugar shakers with it.

“Whereas Jason’s just a bitch.”

Their brother dropped his own facial contortions and took up a scowl and a glare in exchange.

“Why are you like this.”

Cass shrugged. “Tu existis, ergo sum oportet.”

“You will be, therefore I must,” Ric’s brain translated for him absently, even though Latin had definitely not been one of the languages of his youth. He hardly noticed though, busy gesturing back and forth between the two siblings.

“So this is like, like a thing with you two, huh? Okay, so. Now. Is this just like a you thing, like just another one of the very many ways this family is like the superhero version of the Addams family, but heavily on drugs and no, not the good kind, or like, is this actually a normal family thing and I just grew up watching the wrong sitcoms.”

Both of them stopped and visibly contemplated that for a beat. Jason tilted his head towards the ceiling, face scrunched up and squinting with one eye as though doing particularly complicated math in his head. Cassandra remained positioned exactly as she was, but thanks to some infinitesimal, impossible-to-pinpoint shift, she now was the spitting replica of Rodin’s Thinker.

“It’s more like...hmm. How best to put this,” Jason mused. “Let’s just like, call it ideological differences, I guess. Look, the only thing you really need to know is I’m right, she and the rest of the ilk are wrong, and you should be on my side and get on the winning team.”

Cassandra rolled her eyes and leaned back, now bracing herself with her hands planted palm-flat on the bar counter to either side of her.

“Now ask him how much of his ideology was formed back when he still had literal, actual brain damage, and whether he just remains committed to it because being a stubborn asshole is most of his personality.”

“Wow, very uncool, sis,” Jason said loftily. He threw an arm in Ric’s direction. “Just tossing my old brain damage out there like that, and in front of our currently brain-damaged older brother, no less. For shame, Cassandra, for shame.”

He sniffed dramatically and pointedly then. “Also, not that you care, obviously, but that was a very sensitive time for me. I was only recently resurrected and imbued with mystical roid-rage and my only caretakers were assassins who believed blowing things up was the solution to all life’s problems. I mean, not that they were wrong about that part, but still.”

Their sister looked actually contrite for a moment, but the flicker in his direction had Ric suspecting that had more to do with him and his well, currently brain-damaged state, than it did Jason’s follow-up soliloquoy. To which Ric now had follow-up questions of his own. Oh, so very many follow-up questions.

He held up a hand, palm out. “Wait, hang on. Rewind a second. Can we revisit the ‘recently resurrected’ part of that?”

Jason waved dismissively. “Its a long story. Basically, like, back when I was fifteen I was beaten to death and blown up by a homicidal clown and then six months later I crawled out of my own grave because, to be honest, I don’t even know still, Gotham’s just like that, y’know? Then our Dad’s grudge-bearing ex-girlfriend, who happens to also be the daughter and second-in-command of a legendary order of elite assassins, like, she found me and took me back to their secret magic day spa to give me a good dunking in that sweet, sweet resurrection juice that also gives you like, intermittent road rage but worse, and then when I was back to my old self except but now with those couple little extra features, they trained me up and sent me home to sow chaos and destruction in the old man’s city because I mean, like I said. Grudge-bearing ex. Hell hath no fury like an al Ghul scorned. Anyway, so yeah, that’s the gist of it. It was this whole thing or whatever, but its pretty much ancient history at this point. And that’s what you missed on Glee.”

Ric took a minute to absorb all that, rewind it, run through it again, and then loop it all around a good five or ten times in case there was a secret code in play somewhere and he just wasn’t getting it.

Meanwhile, Cassandra wrinkled her nose at their brother. “Really? You watched that show?”

“Only enough to know how to mock it,” he fired back defensively.

Ric held up his hand again, so as to derail all of whatever that was before it had a chance to run off and become its own separate thing. Problem was, he still hadn’t quite organized his thoughts on the debriefing of moments prior, and didn’t have a clear plan of attack for how to go about tackling his desperate need for more context there.

So when “Beaten to death and blown up by a homicidal clown?” was what came out as most direly in need of further information, he wanted to go on the record as feeling that wasn’t entirely on him. It was the missing context’s fault, see.

Jason squinted at him. “Yes, beaten to death and blown up by a homicidal clown,” he reiterated, as though a lack of repetition was the real problem there. “What part of that are you having trouble with?”

Ric looked over to Cassandra, somewhat helplessly.

She just offered a casual lift of one shoulder. “It happens.”

While Ric was still trying to formulate a response to that, oh, somewhere in the vicinity of “Does it, though?” Cassandra carried on.

“And don’t let him fool you with that ancient history bit. The only thing less dead and buried than that is him. He has to fit in “I died though,” at least once before every meal and again before bedtime. Otherwise people might forget, of course.”

“Fine. It was an important milestone in my life, alright?” Jason pronounced with steadfast confidence that was only slightly diminished by his sudden preoccupation playing with the zipper of his jacket.

Cassandra rolled her eyes again. “And yet I’ve died twice and manage to occasionally go ten whole minutes without bringing it up.”

“That’s his real gripe with me,” she added as an aside to Ric, as he stood there...processing. “He can’t play his favorite ace in the hole when I’m around. Drives him crazy.”

“Whereas dearest sister’s gripe with me is she’s the absolute worst and can’t let me have anything ever,” Jason grumbled in audible annoyance.

“Yes, that’s what it is. Absolutely.”

“Exactly, see? I’m so glad we’re all on the same page here."

“Make better choices,” Cass sing-songed, attention intent on a bottle cap she’d found to play with, walking it knuckle by knuckle on one hand and then the other.

“I just want everyone here to know that I used to dream of having a sister. I wanted one more than anything in the world, I thought having a sister would just be the best thing ever. And then she happened,” Jason flung his narrowed stare at her like twin daggers.

Cassandra yawned at him.

“Well great,” Ric said at last, into the silence that followed. “That clears everything up nicely then. Thanks so much.”

16 notes · View notes

queenmercurys · 4 years

Note

Ah, I'm so sorry to hear that you've been getting hate for shipping Jo and Laurie. People can be so terrible. :( I'd love to hear more of your thoughts about them, but I understand if you prefer not to share more out of concern for the hate. Regardless, thank you for your answer.

Thank you! It’s really not a big deal, but I’m kinda at that point in my life where I really don’t need to be reading hateful comments about fictional ships on a website like Tumblr. And worst of all, most of these comments are added by people to gifsets I make. So, like, not only do I now feel like it’s risky to even post gifsets about Jo and Laurie, but also the very small amount of interaction I do get for my work is negative feedback. Not a good time. And it confuses me, because I kinda thought Jo and Laurie were a popular ship. And even if they weren’t, who cares? Amy and Laurie shippers already got everything they wanted in the film, why do they have to come after people who ship Jo and Laurie? Doesn’t make much sense to me. But yeah, overall I don’t think I should engage in the ship wars, I’m in my early twenties, I really am too old for this shit. But I will say this: to anyone who thinks it’s ok to comment (or write in the tags) negative things about a ship on an edit someone has spent time making and posting, you need to think about your life choices. And yes, this includes people who reblog the stuff and go “I hate the ship but I love their friendship” because bruh, that was not the point of the edit so like, just don’t interact. It’s that easy. If you don’t like something, don’t interact with it.

Sorry about that mild rant, Tumblr is very frustrating. But yeah, no, I think I’m good with talking more about them, and if someone is offended, they can (and should... I dare you, please) just block me.

For some AU things, I really love the idea of Laurie actually receiving Jo’s letter and the consequences of that. I’ve seen a few fics kind of delve into that, but not really in the way I see it. So, maybe one day I’ll write like a fic based on it. Though that would make me kind of have to address the Amy situation, which I’m not really interested in writing about. But even as just a concept, Laurie finding Jo’s letter and reading it when it’s “too late” is just so bittersweet and I both love and hate the idea. Their entire scene in the attic is just full-on bittersweet.

I fully subscribe to the idea (I mean, it’s not an idea, it’s what it says in the official script) that Jo didn’t actually run after Friedrich, and allegedly did end up marrying no one. Mostly because it’s what she wanted, ultimately, and also because I really don’t think she and Friedrich were compatible at all. I’m not really seeing it as “if Laurie can’t have her, no one can”, I just don’t see that relationship working. Even if Laurie and Jo had ended up together, I’m not confident that they would have needed to get married, or get married right away. They could have traveled around Europe together, as Jo had always wanted, and gotten to know each other as romantic partners and seen where it’d go from there. I don’t think Jo and Laurie are one of those traditional couples (or friends) in any aspect, so I can’t imagine the basic “marriage, then kids” formula for them.

I really would have liked to have known what Jo wrote to Laurie in those letters while he was gone, the ones he never answered. I’m not expecting them to have included anything romantic (because if they had, Laurie probably would have felt more positive about answering them), but still, I would have liked to have read them. I truly think the two of them were best friends and as close as two people could possibly be, so their separation is even sadder because of that. I also hate that Laurie was not there for Jo when Beth died. Obviously that’s because he wasn’t in the country, but that’s when she needed Laurie the most, and he wasn’t there, which sucks.

I’m not sure if anyone else noticed this, but Laurie is still wearing the ring Jo gave him even in the scene where Amy draws him. I just find it really heartbreaking that even after everything, he still couldn’t let her go. And Jo, too, still wears the red scarf shared by her and Laurie (which I assume originally belonged to Laurie) after all those years. I don’t think it’s that easy to let go of your first love (or any love), and Laurie’s facial expressions and reactions around Jo and Friedrich say everything I need to know about how he felt.

My main headcanon for how I would have wanted Jo and Laurie to end up together would’ve been essentially what would have happened in the film if Amy had not gotten involved. I think I still would’ve wanted Laurie to go to Europe and Jo to have that time to figure out her thoughts, and when he’d return, she’d express her feelings and then, maybe they would go back to Europe together, because I really do want Jo to have that trip. Or alternatively, she figures out her feelings earlier and joins Laurie in Europe. A bit of a romantic sentiment not really befitting Jo’s personality, but the impulsivity is there. And that way, she could, again, see Europe.

I think overall, I respect everyone’s opinions about the ships in this film, but I have found that I can’t personally understand where the reasoning for Amy and Laurie or Jo and Friedrich comes from. That is, no doubt, reflective of my own personal preferences and biases, and doesn’t reflect any kind of “truth”. This is just my opinion. In the script, they refer to Laurie as Jo’s childhood love, and I really do believe she loved him, and that they could have been an amazing couple. And as a lover of the good, old-fashioned friends-to-lovers trope, I would have liked to see it. A couple with mutual respect, admiration and 100% comfort around each other is a rare thing to find. All too often, Hollywood ships consist of two people who seem to hate each other, but that “hate” is supposed to be translated into some kind of sexual tension (also present in LW). I never understood this, so for me, Jo and Laurie were pretty much perfect. And, as kind of a sidenote, I adore how out-of-the-norm their aesthetic is. How many ships can you name where the man and the woman swap clothes consistently without it being a big deal? The two are so comfortable around each other, I’ve never seen anything like it. I think their chemistry is outstanding, their story is beautiful and even though they weren’t endgame, they’re still definitely my OTP and the only ship I’ve given a damn about in years. So, I think they did some things right.

#jo x laurie #ask #anonymous #again thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about them!#this is a lot more scattered sorry about that #and again if you dont agree thats fine

11 notes · View notes

cycat4077 · 3 years

Note

How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

Which fic has been the hardest to write?

Which fic has been the easiest to write?

How do you feel about collaborations?

Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

Thank you, lovely! 🥰🥰🥰 So many questions 😋😁

How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

Oh dear me! I use google keep specifically for fic ideas...and there’s 26 for Sonny/SVU alone in there XD Most of them I want to include in my Changes series, but there’s a couple other unrelated ideas too! Including a fic which has a plan and a few scenes requested by an anon ages ago...(I’m so sorry! 😩)

Here’s a snippet from a Changes verse one that’s been in the drafts forever :P

“Yeah, I’m…I don’t want you to find out from the news…It was a…a h-hostage situation. I was…I was…he had a gun to my head.” Your chest constricts and the air evaporates from your lungs. It feels like you’ve been punched in the gut. You choke out a gasp, clutching the phone in both hands. “Oh my God, babe. Are you hurt? Who did this?” “I’m okay…Y-yeah, I’m okay.” Sonny seems to be convincing himself rather than you. “L-Lieu got him….before…” There’s a long pause and you wait with baited breath on the verge of tears. “Before…” his voice cracks and now you hear him sob. “I almost…I nearly lost everything today…”

Which fic has been the hardest to write?

Changes was my first multi-chapter fic that I actually finished which meant that it took a lot from me to get there. I enjoyed it so much but still worry that it wasn’t good enough in the middle to gradually build that slowburn.

However, I also have an Agent Carter fic, Bring Her Home, that required me to do some digging into historical accuracies as well as MCU canon. It was fun but tedious! I had this theory that Jarvis’ wife died in the war and was Howard Stark’s first attempt at the whole JARVIS technology...until Season 2 ruined everything about the show that theory :P I wrote another two fics belonging to that series (which are all Peggy x Jarvis fics) and have another one in my drafts that would be a multi-chapter conclusion...but I haven’t found the motivation to connect my beginning and the end :(

Which fic has been the easiest to write?

That’s a tricky question because sometimes I get these ideas and I sit and write for a little bit and all of a sudden there’s a fic. It’s weird and hard to describe. Sometimes I barely do any editing and hope for the best when I post. This is kinda what happened with Gods, I Love Her (Arya x Gendry). I did fuss over the editing a bit but it was just this kinda spur of the moment fic (and it’s my most liked fic on AO3 😭). So, I guess these types of fics are “easy” in the sense that they just come to me. Same with Proven Wrong Once Again (Maleficent x Diaval). My brain is strange sometimes 😜

How do you feel about collaborations?

I think it’s a brilliant idea! I’m hesitant about reaching out because a) I’m a bit shy when it comes to that stuff b) my academic life is so hectic sometimes that I don’t wanna promise a collab and then not be able to finish it 👉👈

Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

Noooooooooooo! It’s too hard to! For one thing, I’ve read fics from so many fandoms meaning that I’ve encountered a lot of incredibly talented writers out there! It’d be impossible to give them all the shoutouts they deserve.

Another thing is that my main fic-consumption right now comes from the SVU fandom...specifically them Sonny Carisi writers! And lemme tell you, whoever posts in the tags on here are all amazing writers! They all deserve credit, but of course I’m biased towards a few 😉😉😉

#asky thing #fanfiction #witches-unruly-heart #thank you Karen #*virtual hugs*#and if you didn't catch on you're one of my faves #<3 #about me

1 note · View note

fand0mfan · 3 years

Text

fanfic author tag game!

tagged by: @twofrontteethstillcrooked & @yourgaydads

tagging: (anyone who wants... I haven’t been on Tumblr much to see who’s done this already... @angel-in-new-york-city @ghostcat3000 @et-in-arkadia ???)

Where you post: fandomfan on AO3

Most Popular One Shot (by kudos): Lessons Learned at the Helm (and the ongoing popularity of this Pirates of the Caribbean fic continues to perplex and delight me)

Most Popular Multi-Chapter (by kudos): When a Man Hears the Call of the Sea (which is also pirate-themed—look, I like pirates, OK?—but also just about the only multi-chapter fic I’ve written... I’m a one-shot kinda girl)

Favorite story you’ve written so far: This is hard. I legit love all my babies. Favorite because I wrote it for a beloved tiny fandom whose co-creators welcomed me in? Ill Luck at Cards (cheers Impverse). Favorite because it was the first challenge I participated in, and I wrote some stuff for a rarepair that some folks have adopted as common headcanons? Corporal Person or: How Nate Learned to Stop Worrying and (Just Maybe) Love His Husband. Favorite because I was happy with how it filled in holes in canon in ways that I found satisfying? James Dates (which is slightly cheating, because it’s a series of 6 stories).

Fic you were nervous to post: Probably the podfic of Falling Apart to Half-Time. It’s so beloved in that fandom (including by me), and it was my first ever podfic, and I integrated music, and I wanted so badly to do that amazing story justice. I don’t actually feel very nervous about posting any of the fics I’ve written. I stand by them enough that, while I do anxiously await kudos and comments and hits, I’m mostly just happy with them myself and want to share them.

How do you choose your titles?: I write the story and then fret over what the hell to title it. No rhyme or reason governs these choices. I don’t use song lyrics much, but I do sometimes. I don’t use famous quotes much, but I do sometimes. I don’t use puns much, but I do sometimes.

Do you outline?: Not really. I usually keep a google doc going and at the top of it is the completed, sequential bits of the story. At the bottom are random jotted notes about beats or scenes or lines I want to come later. I don’t usually write straight through from start to finish, so sometimes those notes get fleshed out first and then copy-pasted into the part of the story where they belong.

# Complete: 57

# In-Progress: Don’t have anything in the hopper at the moment.

Coming soon/not yet started: Nope. I go through cycles of active and fallow writing, and don’t write in every fandom I read in. Right now I’m in read-only mode.

Prompts?: Yep, when I’m in the mood. I tend to like prompts with specific rules (specific word count, must include specific words, must be written in a specific amount of time, etc)

Upcoming work you’re most excited about:

#my fic #tumblr games #remember when i used to write?

3 notes · View notes

darkwingsnark · 4 years

Text

FIC WRITER MEME

Tagged by @prince-luffy

AO3 name: DarkwingSnark

Fandoms: ...SEE, I’m in lots of fandoms. Or at least, I’ve written for them during hyper-fixation periods. Let’s see what AO3 says...

Batman: The Animated Series (20)

Batman - All Media Types (7)

Wander Over Yonder (Cartoon) (6)

DuckTales (Cartoon 1987) (5)

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (5)

Penguins of Madagascar (3)

James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl (3)

Darkwing Duck (Cartoon 1991) (3)

Disney - All Media Types (3)

Dan Vs. (2)

Milo Murphy's Law (2)

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja (1)

The Batman (Cartoon) (1)

Lady and the Tramp (1955) (1)

Looney Tunes | Merrie Melodies (1)

Winnie-the-Pooh - All Media Types (1)

Alice in Wonderland (1951) (1)

Gummi Bears (TV) (1)

Winnie-the-Pooh (Disney) (1)

.... Honestly, I feel like there’s more that this list isn’t covering. Like Phineas and Ferb isn’t here and I wrote for that show too. And many of these can be simplified and condensed because they belong to similar fics.

Tropes: Depends on the fic. But as a whole, tend to write Romantic Comedies with a lot of slow burn. Mostly because... struggle is funny. People being dumdums and oblivious to the obvious is funny. Aaaaand also because it allows the episodic quality of shenanigans to occur.

Number of fics: Up and posted on AO3? 53. Does not include stuff on FF.net or that’s sitting in google docs begging to be finished.

Fic I spent the most time on: Not sure how to read this. Does it mean active man hours? Or does stuff like having a hiatus in-between count? Because TECHNICALLY ‘Real Value’ was started in high school, and I didn’t rewrite it and carry on the series (with Moonie) until many years later. There are also fics like ‘Growing Love’ or ‘Priorities’ that took a lot of time to do research. Like learning how to build a lawn mower so I could have a character believably break it apart for repairs.

....God I do a lot of research that doesn’t go into the actual fics. Because all I need, really, in the confidence of what I’m doing to be the character and describe an action here or there.

Fic I spent the least time on: Probably something drabble related? Or maybe the fic I did that was just me venting out emotions because I was feeling guilty? ‘A Mother’s Intuition’ was written and posted within a couple of hours.

Longest fic: Complicated. The longest thing written is technically an RP, NOT a story. (Different, trust me.) ‘What Happens in Gotham’ has a word count of 207,413. But fic wise at 89,022 word would be ‘The Constant Gardener’ .

Runner up being ‘Priorities’ at little over 87k.

Shortest fic: Drabbles? Uh, let’s see.. Probably from ‘Beauty and Your Worth’, as i think one was literally a paragraph long. ... Speaking of Gummi Bears, I wonder if I still have my notes on the GruffiGusto fic I wanted to write. Something to look into.

Most hits: Apparently ‘Fallen Hard’ at 5354

Most kudos: Also ‘Fallen Hard’ at 518. There... were more fans of Milo Murphy’s Law than I realised.

Most comment threads: ‘Fallen Hard’, 193 comments. ‘What Happens in Gotham’ following at 185.

Most bookmarks: .... that’s something people care about? I hardly ever bookmark things, since I read it in one go. But... I can look?

Ah.... ‘Fallen Hard’. 63

Total word count: 971,833 Oh hey! Almost a million. That’s something to celebrate.

Favorite fic I wrote: 'Knights of Dobenshire’. Hands down. (With ‘Heart of the Cards’ being very close.) I like writing road trip styled stories. It allows many things to happen within the narrative. BUT, ‘Knights of Dobenshire’ wins because it was such a satisfying conclusion of this build up, you know? Scrooge is finally no longer just putting up with the relationship with Fenton, but fully embracing it. That surprise feeling that hits him when he realizes, dear lord, he IS attracted to Fenton beyond affection.

It hits me more than a mutual pining because there I KNOW they will get together. But here? While writing with Moonie? I DIDN’T KNOW! I was worried in the end we’d have to write another fic to finally reach that step. Scrooge is stubborn and does what he wants, let me tell ya.

Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: 'Fallen Hard’, ‘Season of Miracles’, ‘Going with the Flow’, pretty much anything that isn’t complete. BUT, not posted, I really want to get back to more of the stories planned in the McCrack series. It was a ship I kinda made from the ground up, with nobody caring about it in the beginning. So it feels very important to see that series through.

Share a bit of a WIP or a story idea you’re planning on:

... Actually, I can share something from 'Donald’s Party (Working Title)’. @swampy-tiefling and I started. Just the first scene to get you guys hooked.

Donald took a deep breath of air from the doorway of the house and sighed, once again pleased to find himself at his home away from home. Traveling the seas and exploring the world with the navy were its own rewards, he supposed, but there would never be anything quite like the countryside-- the middle aged mallard having practically been raised on Grandma Duck’s farm. Donald Duck was happy to be on shore-- his naval carrier being docked for the week in Duckburg as they replenished supplies and took care of whatever repairs that were needed. Whatever excuse his bosses wanted to use were fine by him, he was just happy to not be scrubbing decks for a change!

That didn’t, however, mean he was able to rest and relax-- as the duck was startled out of his thoughts as somebody bumped into him. That somebody was his grandmother as she came to, just having caught her plate of cookies before they fell.

“My land, Donald! What in the world are you doing hiding here when you should be meetin’ and greetin’ the guests?”

Donald ignored the woman’s soft glare as he waved her off, using his other hand to steal a cookie in the process. Stuffing it in his mouth, he murmured out a response.

“Phooey, they’re just relatives.”

“Even more of a reason to go out and talk to them.” Before the sailor could argue, Grandma Duck placed the plate of treats into his hands. “And put these out on the snack table while you’re at it. Poor Fethry is looking peckish.”

Donald rolled his eyes, but otherwise did as he was told. Wasn’t it just like life to make him work at his own welcome home party? Walking towards the open yard where the party was taking place, it didn’t take long to reach the table, where his cousins were already gathered around as they chat.

This instantly caught the attention of the lankier duck, his gaze zoning in as he smiled widely towards Donald in greeting.

“Well if it ain’t the guest of honor, with snacks to boot!” Fethry leaned closer, his red hat wobbling with him as he continued to inquire. “Say, cuz, ya wouldn’t happen to know if these are gluten free, would ya?”

Donald gave him an unimpressed look.

“You’re not going on another crazy diet, are ya?” Though, in all honesty, he was more worried his looney cousin might try to drag him along-- and after months of eating nothing but mush, he would NOT miss out on his first chance to pig out on actual home cooked meals.

"Not crazy at all, actually!" Fethry grinned that goofy grin. "See, it's all right here; Gluten Free; It's the Way to Be' !" he shoved a rather lengthy-looking hard cover book in Donald's face. Donald had no choice but to stare at it, the words all blurring together from its close proximity to his eyes. The offending object remained there for only a second, however, before it was yanked back, the nutty mallard already busy flipping through it.

"Let's see, here, there's a fascinating chapter I think you should-- Don?"

Phew, that had been close. Donald was still in sneaking away mode, and jumped and yelped when he was tapped on the shoulder. Oh no. He'd been caught, after all. He slowly turned, with a forced, toothy grin, to face his fate.

A wave of relief washed over him when he saw his girlfriend, Daisy, smiling sweetly at him, instead.

“And where do you think you’re sneaking off to, Mister? You’ve been gone for so long, and here we are, with you haven’t even given me a kiss ‘hello’ yet.”

Now there was something Donald didn’t mind doing, as his girlfriend leaned in her face for her reward. Wrapping his arms around her, he planted the biggest of smooches to her temple.

“Gaww, I’m sorry Daisy. I really did miss you.”

This earned him a soft smile, as it was Daisy’s turn to kiss him on the forehead.

“And I missed you, hun. Now, tell me… why WERE you sneaking around?”

“Grandma put me on entertainment duty.”

“Well, “ his girlfriend began, “it IS your party, after all. They came to see you, seems fair to me.” This made the sailor groan as she looked at him unsympathetically. Rolling her eyes, the reporter sarcastically patted her boyfriend in comfort. “There there. Now don’t go sneaking off for real, the boys will be arriving soon. And Grandma tells me Uncle Scrooge will be bringing along a special guest.”

“Special guest?” Donald asked incredulously. “Like who?” This caused Daisy’s eyes to glimmer all the more in mischief, a look that told him that she knew something he didn’t know. And that something was big news, if he was reading her right.

“Oh, nobody TOO special, I suppose,” Daisy was stalling, and it was driving Donald up the wall. The duck woman continued her teasing. “Nobody except your uncle’s new date friend.”

"Date friend?" Donald practically exclaimed, prompting Daisy's grin to grow all the more smug.

"Yep! You've missed quite a bit since you've been away, you know."

"No kidding...well I'll be..." Donald was shaking his head, but he was smiling. Uncle Scrooge, dating, at his age... it was nothing short of a miracle. It was about time, too!

"Meanwhile, why don't you go say hi to the rest of the guests? I know it's hard..." she rolled her eyes. "but at least make an effort, okay? Thanks, hun!"

Donald's heart fluttered as she smooched his cheek, and left. He glanced out over the yard, and saw quite a few familiar faces; Gus, Ludwig, Gladstone... heck, even Gyro Gearloose had shown up!

He sighed, but this one wasn't a sigh of pure despair. It did feel nice to be home, surrounded by people who most likely cared, and his nephews were even going to show up soon. Not to mention, he'd get to tease his uncle for finally taking his advice on the whole dating thing.

That alone gave Donald the pep in his step he needed as he threw himself back into the party-- where he knew his crazed family would be waiting for him.

#long post #fanfiction #snark life #disney ducks #mccrack #meme

26 notes · View notes

kreekey · 4 years

Note

I'm obsessed with your blog and your art! You're extremely talented! And I love your view on John and Paul because yessss 100000% they had lives outside of each other and other important relationships. That's one thing I find confusing about mclennon. But I still like parts of it. I'm not sure if it actually happened but I do think there was tension. Do you think there was a romantic tension or any opinions on it

Oh wow, I’m glad you like my blog and art!! Thank you so much I got a dumb grin on my face. And I didn’t think someone would come to ask me for my opinion on that stuff, haha 😅 but it’s really nice!

And I love your view on John and Paul because yessss 100000% they had lives outside of each other and other important relationships

I’m so glad someone shares my sort of feelings on this 😭💕💕

So in my view, I don’t know if there was romantic tension! I can see why people think so because sometimes they would say stuff like this:

“PAUL: It’s like, uh, “We have to get back.” “We’re on our way home.”

JOHN: Yeah.

PAUL: There’s a story. There’s another one – ‘Don’t Let Me Down’. “Oh darling, I’ll never let you down.” Like we’re doing—

JOHN: Yeah. It’s like you and me are lovers.

PAUL: [reserved] Yeah. [pause]

JOHN: We’ll just have to camp it up for those two.

PAUL: Yeah. Well, I’ll be wearing my skirt for the show, anyway.”

[From the Get Back sessions]

But honestly? I think there was brotherly love, some sort of obvious connection, but I don’t think they were in love in the romantic sense. I think they longed for each other in 1969/1970, but because they were friends for so long--and such close friends--who were going through a not-so-clean breakup. You’d want that relationship back in the way it used to be. There were only four people in the world who could really relate to The Beatle experience, and two who knew what it was like to be Lennon/McCartney, right? So it was losing a friend, an immensely valuable one, one they had for so long and were so familiar with. And they said stuff like that to express how they really understood each other (hard thing to express...) or to respond to how the media portrayed them. But you can understand your friends without being in a romantic relationship with them. It would be difficult or impossible to fully explain their relationship because we’re outsiders, but I wouldn’t jump to ‘they were lovers’. Being great friends is still a beautiful story, I appreciate that. Sometimes I think the word ‘friend’ doesn’t fully encapsulate their dynamic, but I still think ‘lovers’ is something completely different. But anyway, that’s just what I think personally. Impossible to tell anything for sure haha.

Tangent: I know some of y’all say the ship was possible because John was bi or at least bi-curious. And yeah I believe he was bisexual/fluid in his sexuality, but being bi doesn’t mean you’re in love with your friends haha. I have a close (same gender) friend who’s pan and people at school will be like “are you in a relationship?” even thought we’ve said no and it’s kinda uncomfortable. Possibility doesn’t mean it... happened. I don’t think it can be used as evidence for him and Paul in particular, or else you can say it about any man John knew... Also, I believe Yoko when she said John never really entered a relationship with a man as he never found the right one because John literally said that, albeit in a lighthearted manner. (Extra tangent: I saw someone write that John would’ve come out as bisexual but the in the 1970s they didn’t have the word for it/John wasn’t aware of bisexuality. Whoever you were, you kinda undermine the fact John definitely ran in the scene where bi and other sexual orientations were relatively out. Here he jokes about hoping his baby to be bisexual lol. Anyway...)

I think my main opinion on the McLennon ship is that it’s nearly all speculation and interpretation, so it’s hard to discuss it. And I think some of the people who say it’s true want it to be true more than they want the truth (whatever it is), so much so that they’ll look past things that contradict it or will stretch their interpretations so far as to make it look like they were in love in the romantic sense. Sometimes people will post pictures of them looking at each other out of context or something as ‘proof’ of McLennon but it honestly makes me think of it as a parody. And I can see why shippers like it--it would be a gorgeous story and they had a great dynamic!! But I really don’t feel comfortable with people who claim it was 100% true. Because Paul has denied it openly and very clearly multiple times before. And he would know, I think. Plus other’s who write about John’s heterosexuality (like Cynthia for example). But, John can’t really respond. It feels nearly disrespectful and presumptuous to say you know about the lives of these two people if you didn’t actually know them, y’know? Especially because that, in particular, is such a personal issue. Sensational, even. And it’s also something to insert into biographies and to claim and a way to sell copies--I’m not saying that every author who claims it is being disingenuous, but I question people like Goldman. Because some of the people who support it will bring up straight false information to back it up. My basic view is that it’s fine to ship it as long as you don’t try to say you are certain in its reality. I don’t think the information is known to be able to say it’s certain.

Also, another one of my opinions related to ‘McLennon’ is that some of the fandom share made up quotes or stories as ‘proof’ for it. Support your ship, sure, but separate fiction from reality! These are real people. For example, I’ve seen this one posted a few times:

“Cynthia Lennon is a goddess, you know. Paul is a god. Aren’t I lucky to have such a religion?”

Not necessarily McLennon, but John calls Paul his religion. This is from an alternate history book called Walkin' Blues-Beatles At The Crossroads: An Alternate History Of The Beatles Novel (Jackie Lane). I also posted this one and asked if anyone knew the source for it:

“One night he was so drunk that I had to drag him away from the pub and bring him in a park to vomit. When he finished, he was upset so we sat on a bench. Still drunk and hesitant, he pointed his finger at a star straight above our heads and he said: ‘That is the star my mother dedicated to me and it has always been mine. But from now on it will be yours too, if you want. Its name is Mary Julia and every time you will at it in any situation, any moment, you will know that I’m there near to you and laughing about how queer you are. I will always be there, I promise, I will look at you from Mary Julia. And even the contrary because it’s our star, just ours, a star that belongs to two idiots that strum and that every night lie on a bench full of alcohol.’ I was flabbergasted and together we started to laugh. Some years later I looked at that star and I cried for the whole night. His laugh near me wasn’t enough to make me stop. But I realised that he kept his promise and it was beautiful.” [-- Paul]

Some people told me they were pretty sure it was from a fanfiction. Y’all, I wrote fanfiction too. I wrote a epistolary-like piece of fiction once. If someone shared it as a real quote I’d be fucking mortified lol. (Also, when I posted it asking for a source some people in the tags were like “I don’t care if it’s fake that’s beautiful” and I’m like how do you not?? That blurs the line between reality and fantasy and that’s terrible because they were live people like you and me at a point...)

Uhm I think those are my takes. Thank you anon for the ask!! Sort of an excuse to share all my thoughts that I figured no one cared for 😂😂 And I get people will disagree and that’s okay!! If you think there was tension, etc I can see why! In the end there were only two people out there that can really answer that.

#mclennon #John Lennon #paul mccartney #the beatles #opinión #the beatles fandom #fandom #anon #asks #personal #love ya anon!!#i know some of my mutuals are into mclennon and i respect that to be clear!!#(but at the same time i respect paul's word when he says nah) but i respect everyone #all of you #and #!!!i think it's a cute idea!!! i wrote fanfic and drew fanart of them like its obvious the idea of it is romantic #but in my head i always saw it as just an idea #i think #peace and love

11 notes · View notes