#it was just another fan fiction

[wytchsbrew]

Happy One Year Anniversary to the Thing That Changed My Life.

Writing Starfall has been the single best experience of my entire life. I've had dreams come true doing this, met amazing people who really enjoyed the story, and saw fanart of my ideas for the first time. All this came at a point in my life where I was at the lowest I had ever been, and this single piece of writing, this experience, kept me going, and kept me alive.

This single piece of writing made me realize I am really a writer, the thing I dreamed of being my entire life, and made me believe I can write everything I want, anything I want, made me expand my horizons and no longer fear people reading my work.

Though things have changed in the last year, and the faithful readers have dropped to just a few, I'm still in it for the long haul, Starfall, and I can't wait to see you until the end. I can deeply and very much say Starfall and GLTAS changed my life for the better, and I owe them so much.

If you talk to me about Starfall, if you have stuck in there this long, if you are still a fan, just know, I love you, and I would not be here if it weren't for you guys helping me push through in the beginning. You guys are flat out fucking AMAZING, and I love every single one of you into the depths of my soul, new readers and older readers, those that stuck around, and those that left.

I owe you, and Starfall, everything.

#gltas #green lantern the animated series #razaya #i'm crying as i write this #tomorrow is technically the anniversary #but #still #i know to y'all #it was just another fan fiction #but to me #it was a life changing experience #i made friends for the first time in my life #i learned so much about myself #i was ACCEPTED #i was enjoyed #it just #means a lot to me

[archduchessofnowhere]

It's always so funny to me when directors/writers of poorly researched historical dramas get mad when people point out the poor research. "Oh no how dare the people who enjoy actual history to watch the history-based show!" Bestie who did you thought was going to be your audience???

#you made a movie that only napoleon die-hard fans will care about. don't get mad if napoleon die-hard fans don't like your fanfic lol #(yeah this is about ridley scott's napoleon movie) #i don't even care about napoleon but why can't scott just say his movie is fiction inspired in the real history and be done with it #in another interview he said historians can't know if something really happened because they weren't there??? abran las escuelas!!!

[lunian]

"just because Gale is a malewife material it doesn't mean he is a father material—"

IN YOUR HEAD

in mine Gale Dekarios cries like a total happy loser when he holds his child for the first time

#yall need to stop this boring ass gatekeeping for fans #just another day seeing annoying posts #bc i relate to Gale being kind and loving to children but also struggling to think if i could be a good parent #but game never gives you a proper answer if he would be a father in actual future and would he love it #i think he would #someone thinks he wouldnt and its fine #just stop shaming others ITS FICTION #mystuff #bg3 gale #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3

[froldgapp]

The pain of reading some of the best fanfiction in your life and then seeing the story was last updated some years ago and has five chapters left to go.

#just another tinker #the old guard #fanfic #fan fiction

[hussyknee]

#israel is a terrorist state #free palestine #anti pierce brown #anti margaret atwood #anti jk rowling #anti brandon sanderson #anti sarah j maas #anti alex aster #anti heidi shertok #this is not about making their work into yet another fandom battleground and attacking their fans bc you can't attack israel #it's fine if you're fans of their work and continue to be‚ just make an informed decision about whether you want to give them royalties #and how you can keep them accountable #Casey Mcquiston just made a tone deaf reference to Netanyahu when they wrote RWRB in 2019 shut up abt them unless there's more evidence #evidence against Alice Oseman is also an innocuous couple of tweets from 2018 get real #science fiction #fantasy #racism #colonialism #imperialism #knee of huss

[jaxxsoxxn]

Boomer is surprisingly agile.

It's not a new thought for Barry, who's sitting in one of many boring JL meetings. Hal, sitting on his right, is chatting silently with a few of his fellow Green Lanterns, who decided that they wanted to be briefed into the mission, while Booster, who came only for the man, is sitting on his left and trying his best not to look miserable. And failing.

Batman's answering the seventh question asked by Plastic Man and by now, Barry's brain is going so fast that he fears he'll jolt and run through the place just to be occupied by something, anything! Yet he stays still and lazily lets himself get lost in his thoughts about the Rouge.

Digger wasn't big on stretching, above the basics, always kinda grimacing when he mentioned or out right asked him if he did Yoga. Normally, before he got his hands on the Speed Gauntlet, it didn't show half as much - normal people just didn't have the means to create enough space that this type of movement needed. Boomer, on the other hand, was natural enough with the Speed Force, that not only he made it look easy, but he also made it look so good.

His body almost moved naturally, twisting and sliding through the air like he was born for it. Few of the people closer to him, that knew about their relationship, asked about it - what's his routine, how can he do that or, usually only asked by other speedsters, how much does he know?

Which was his personal favorite, because how do you say to them that "he knows so much and nothing at all."? He can instinctively know where you'll end up before you know that while speeding, but he has no idea what exactly Speed Force is, he knows about phasing and about how you do it, he has no idea if you can run normally. He's the smartest idiot you've ever met, and he's so adorable while talking about it all, that Flash listens through his stupidest hypotheses.

He'd actually fight the Gotham's Condiment King and his goddamn old mayo shooter just to see Boomer stretch. He wonders if that'd make him even more agile or would it do nothing, since it'd be easier than his normal stuff. Can Digger do splits? Fuck, that'd be a view - he usually wasn't big on exercising or doing anything alike near him. Shame was how Harley called it teasingly, but they both knew by the way his red cheeks would give it away, that she's saying the truth.

Is there a deal to be made here? If he could get him to exercise near him like that...

Fuck maybe he didn't even need to make it a deal, maybe if he'd just say that he doubts it's a possibility for the man, he'd do it just to prove him wrong? Or maybe being sweet was the better option, if he'd get his lover comfortable enough, maybe he could help and what wouldn't he give to lay his hands on those thick thighs and-

"Flash!" a hand landed in front of him, on the table, shocking him from his thoughts. He grimaced when he noticed whose hand was it.

Slowly, he looked up at Batman, ignoring Hal's snickering on his side and the amused stare Diana tried to hide.

"Yes..?" he said, trying his best not to show how he wanted to just run, get away and jump his lover the second he was let go.

Bruce, with a heavy sigh, looked at him with enough disappointment to make him wiggle in his seat. After a few seconds of this torture, he looked up briefly and just gave up.

"Okay, this briefing was... worse than usual. At the end of this week, I'll send you the message with a new date for it, since it's not anything needing our attention immediately... You all are excused." his voice was stoic, but slightly tired, and before Flash could feel bad about it, he sent him a thankful look and bolted. Hal and his friends be damned, he will catch up with them later.

Right now he had to catch up on something else with his dear Rouge.

#idk #probably bad english #bsing trough life #<3 #ssktjl #boomerflash #flash x captain boomerang #flasherang #flasharang #fan fiction #writing #bad writing #lowkey spicy #but its mostly flash drooling while bat tries to brief these idiots #he is failing #“hey why is he just kinda jumping from one subject to another so quickly?” SHUTSHUTSHUTSHUTSHUT #thats how thinking works trust

[tobias-hankel]

2023 Criminal Minds Pre-Whumptober Collection 🖤

To get everyone ready for Whumptober, I figured I would run a September Whump Collection. To join, just click the questionnaire linked below and follow the instructions listed. I will assign you a full prompt based on what you selected. This form will be open from August 10th, 2023 to August 25th, 2023. I will give everyone their prompts by September 1st, 2023. 

✨ https://forms.gle/qVTBXJaSeEkBVZba9 ✨

🖤 Rules! 🖤

1. You must be 18+ to join as the fics can be rated G to E and I will be DMing the prompts.

2. All ships, including readerx, and no ship/gen fics are allowed.

3. You do not need an ao3 account to join this time.

4. Fics are due September 30th, 2023. Chaptered fics don’t have to be finished by this date, just chapter one submitted. Late entries and questionnaires are allowed.

Further details are in the questionnaire.

#criminal minds #fic rec #writing challenge #writing prompt #creative writing #fan fiction #criminal minds fanfiction #criminal minds writing challenge #whump writing #whump prompt #spencer reid #aaron hotchner #emily prentiss #leave it up to the account named Tobias Hankel to run another whump collection #I'm really not picky about this #it just felt time to run another collection #I look forward to reading them all

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

秦昊 qin hao in shahai沙海/tomb of the sea (adaption of daomu biji series) 

#china #fashion #cdrama #drama fashion #qin hao #best best best best wu xie #his way of acting gives me goose bumps #no he didn't act #he was possessed by wu xie's soul lol #dmbj fans love him so much #fans of dmbj fiction generally think another actor in reunion: the sound of the providence didn't present wu xie #the performance felt overexerted #i don't know it's just doesn't feel right #it's not wu xie #qin hao is so natural #he is just naturally watchable #captivating #living very truthfully in imaginary circumstances right in front of my eyes #he is wu xie #dao mu bi ji #dmbj #the lost tomb #daomu biji

[7-andahalf-rats]

specimen 12 mayhaps

I put off drawing him for so long because idk how to draw people but I actually like this doodle a lot tbh. my first time drawing him evar teehee

some HCs I have on him below because I love him so much and. I know you also suffer from The Disease

played HD reno with my mom and she named him Freddy. so I just call him that now. Idk if he has an actual name but in my mind he will always be Freddy

probably a resident evil nerd. he also just likes fps and horror games in general, like half-life and doom. his favorites were always RE though (he is very salty about the bad remakes). prefers console to PC but he doesn't mind too much

can't cook. can't bake. do NOT let him cook

got into vlogging through his love of games. probably went into a bunch of haunted/rundown buildings during his career, and I like to think he'd make stupid references in his vlog posts (like "wow! what a mansion!"). I picture his vlogging medium to be a mix of Ted the Caver (but the spooky parts are instead cheesy references for laughs) and those urban exploration channels on YouTube

probably freaks S14 out when he makes a gaming reference like they genuinely cannot picture that senior citizen picking up a controller and not spontaneously combusting

speaking of S14, he kind of bullies them in the older brother way. like he doesn't really mean it. at first when S14 became a specimen though, he DEFINITELY did. I think their dynamic is either "older brother & sibling 15 years younger" or "long lost father you met at a Walmart buying soggy cabbage that treats you more like a friend than a child" to be honest

I think he has serious anger issues and possessive tendencies from S12, but at his core he's just kind of a rugged nerd. not a very social person but can hold himself in a conversation

probably gives good hugs and falls asleep drooling in his leather recliner like SNNNORRRRRKKKKkk. exhale SNNNOOORRRKKK. exhale

#HAHAHA THANK YOU TUMBLR USER JENBOBBYY FOR GIVING ME AN EXCUSE TO INFODUMP MY OLD MAN HCS 😈😈😈 #ik you said S12 not old man but. I can't draw interiors </3 and the old guy is the best part of S12 tbh #I need to draw him more. like seriously I had a lot of fun figuring out how I wanted to draw him. #just realized I drew the scythe wrong but I'm not gonna bother fixing it. it is in the Lord's hands now #ugh I love him so much </3 #he's on my list of “fictional characters that are my dads now" #whatever I need to stop talking and rest. I need my beauty sleep. #thank you again seriously for this ask I love ur stuff so much and it is awesome to see another old man fan <33 #spookys house of jumpscares #spookys jumpscare mansion #sjsm #specimen 12 #is there a tag for the old man? idk

[natsmagi]

FOR REAL I GET SO MAD WHEN I SEE POSTS LIKE "eww why are ntsmg fans such weirdos!! They dont deserve to have natsume/tsumugi as their favs!!" Like first of all we're not hurting anybody pls let us LIVE, second of all Have You Seen the Characters in Question. Like if we're freaks then what does that make THEM!??!? If they were real theyd be the freaks ur complaining abt!!! TL;DR natsumugi loser weirdo freaks canon and im here for it. Also that alice natsume is so CUUUUTE

ITS KIND OF ODD TBH ?? like obviously i get that not everyones going to like the same stuff but like. if you dont like characters being weird, why do You then also like ntmg.......? if its someone who doesnt ship them thats complaining then fine whatever but its so weird to me when people who claim to ship them make these complaints bc its like?? then why do you ship them???? do you Only like the bits where the two of them are being sweet to each other? do you only like their angsty backstory? do you only like the comedic relief? i have a hard time grasping the idea of dedicating yourself to a pair or character without loving (or at the very least tolerating) every aspect of them........ have these people read the stories? or are they being deliberately oblivious? i have no idea

it makes me really sad how people are so afraid of being seen as "weird" though. too often that word comes with negative connotations when that doesnt need to be the case at all, and i wish these people would stop living in fear and surrounding themselves with those who judge people based off how Socially Normal (according to a christian society) they are

also i just get annoyed seeing ntmg get watered down to some idealized couple completely stripped from their complexities to better fit what we're taught is Morally Correct (according to puritanical beliefs) or reduced to a comedic duo SHDKJFHD

#some of you people really need to learn to live a little #because not allowing yourself to indulge in what you enjoy or just getting mad at OTHERS for indulging in harmless behaviour #is going to make you miserable #and i really fucking wish this shit wasnt so ingrained in todays people #because such a judgemental and reactionary attitude genuinely is harmful especially towards queer people #but thats a whole other discussion for another day #and as i always say its OKAY to be uncomfortable with things #there are MANYYYYYY ntmg artists who make things that makes me very uncomfortable so i SIMPLY DO NOT ENGAGE! #but to act like ntmg Themselves arent weird ??? #and like you cant possibly understand why the fans might indulge in some weird stuff too ?? #thats gotta just be projecting on your end atp #ask #btw this is about harmless self-expression and exploration via fiction and not LITERAL CRIMES #just so you fuckers dont go assuming shit because Jesus Christ the second you start being open about accepting weirdness and being weird #people automatically assume the worst shit imaginable which is so fucking insulting to literally every single human being on the planet #this post is about fictional characters being weird and us being allowed to indulge in it #do Not twist my words into Anything else. #EDIT OMG I GOT SO CAUGHT UP IN BEING ANGRY AT STRANGERS ONLINE I FORGOT U COMPLIMENTED ME #THANK U VERY MUCH!!!!! ASJHFKAJSHDG

[sadiecoocoo]

Mortycest will always be my otp for Rick and Morty… but I also think that Brad/morty deserves some recognition and should get a lot more fan content

#rick and morty #morty smith #Brad #idk his actual tag #there’s only one fic on ao3 and nothing even happens with it #it was still a good fic #it was just unrequited #give Brad/morty more fan content #be it fanart or fiction #I could write something myself #but I don’t want to #also Mortycest is still my favorite and is the default for my writings #I would do Brad/morty for my zombie au fic #but on a poll that I posted most ppl said to not have romance #I might just do it anyway #or make another poll #or ask ppl to make comments on my fic #idk

[vermillioncrown]

at the risk of sounding butthurt for talking about not being butthurt: going through quals really prepared me for trawling through fandom meta and research while keeping my zen

#redglyphs #opinionated verm #i have not seen another fandom as salty and divisive as the dc one #all the interesting meta and summaries come with this implicit ''you illiterate idiot'' vibe (exhausting) #or the ''we do what we want and fuck canon'' mindset is taken to the extreme end (simplistic and lacking nuance) #personally the visual style of a lot of western comics grates at me so it's hard to get into #but i do like the wack and fucked up dynamics of canon + trying to imagine a world/chronology around that #i like calibrating what i write around canon -> thus those meta&summary posters are very valuable and interesting to keep up with #i just gotta do 🙈 whenever they start to lambaste ''''fans'''' for not reading the comics/despised fanon reinterpretations of characters #''mmhmm yep. okay okay. i'm stupid. but let's get to why my blorbo is so fucked up bc of [whatever issue/run]'' #like whatever they say they cannot roast me as hard as this one prof from my quals panel did #that prof is basically the successor of the academic lineage that established his discipline #and man utterly destroyed me during the exam #''you have no idea what you're talking about; you didn't even read taylor's hypothesis from 1941'' and i just let my soul evaporate lmao #anyways. i feel like fandom (all fandom and esp ones w sprawling canons) would benefit from two things: #1) willingness to learn (you gotta try to absorb some of the canon to transform it; ''know the rules to break them'') #2) willingness to accept limits (ppl are allowed to pick and choose; ''you gotta tolerate other ppl on the playground'') #and like. fucking chill out. we're all literally writing about some fictional dudes doing fictional things #rarely is a thing you dislike actually harmful rather than just distasteful (to you personally or broadly w/e)

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Ugh. Supernatural fans will write fanfics about Dean Winchester that are so heart shattering it tricks me into thinking I should rewatch Supernatural.

#it tricks me into think supernatural was anything more than very mediocre. but maybe my opinion has changed #i just kno i didnt really like it that much bc i thought x files was better and i thought the Christian stuff was boring #but i also used to not like narut0 so maybe i should givr it another shot #ugh. idk i just think some of thr bedt fics ive read were from supernatural. and they've evolved so much over time #like i was reading supernatural fanfic when cas was 1st introduced. ugh. there r a couple fics that r etched in my brain #but i have no idea what thry were called or how i would even try to find thrm. thry were all on fan fiction dot net. woof #anyway im procrastinating. but i should try to draw cas. i feel like i coulf maybe drse him now. or Dean. maybe. i always found thrm hard #to draw. ys kno. ugh. ive got thr supernatural feels. thr fandom i go to when i want to experience thr most wretched sadness #supernatural ramblings #god. i hope this isnt the stsrt of something. ive got so much othet bullshit to watch #unrelated

[majiburger]

i'm neither a Hater or Lover of t*ylor *wift (i mean, i like a few of her songs but don't really care about anything beyond that), but one of my pet conspiracy theories has always been that a lot of her songs are about the amc hit show mad men

#this isn't me saying 'oooh so many of her songs apply to the mad men' characters btw #this is me baffled by the fact that she named one of her songs lavender haze after she heard the phrase in a mad men episode #and when i came across that snippet somewhere i had been watching mad men so a part of me was extra-sensitive to that phrase #and when it did happen it happened in an extremely random episode at an extremely random timestamp #now i may not be a Stan but i am aware that most popstars tour a lot so i wondered how she had the time to make it that far into a season #then i considered the timing and realized it would have been entirely plausible for her to watch the show during the pandemic #interestingly: she claims that the album she released during the pandemic is based on fictional stories #and i just can't help but notice PATTERNS. one of the songs is called betty (about a character named betty who gets cheated on) #yet another song has lyrics about being a 50s housewife which. again. BETTY DRAPER #TS also has a lyric that says 'i cut off my nose just to spite my face' and sally draper has like. canonically done that. to her own nose #now am i saying she sat around writing fanficcy songs about mad men on purpose? no. but also yes. #censoring her name because i don't want her fans OR haters to find me but this theory has been KILLING me and i wanted to get it out there

[dynamoe]

I overhauled this chapter to make it flow better into the end of the story and added all the illustrations I've been posting in dribs n' drabs on tumblr as I finished them.

Now with more spontaneous vomiting!

Billy and his Grrrl go to the fair. White discovers the perks of being a hostage

→ → → READ IT ON AO3

Please read and comment if you are so moved

this is the most romantic scene I've ever written...

She unbuckled herself and wiped some vomit from his mouth with her hand, “You gave me hope that not everything is going to be a pile of shit forever,” Alison struggled to express herself, however inelegantly, “And that’s reason enough for me to love you. So I said it— I love you.” Billy was delirious, “I threw up a lot.” “I know. It was awesome.” “Does this mean you’ll stay with me after graduation?” “Let’s get you cleaned up, cowboy.”

In this chapter...

Pete taken hostage by his own fan club militia and made an offer he can't refuse. He could refuse it, but that would be rude.

Billy has a weird dream but not a sexy-type weird dream.

Alison and Billy spill their emotional guts out on very different carnival rides.

References to things that only people in their 50s know about that will baffle you.

Vomit.

#ao3 #ao3 writer #ao3 author #ao3 fanfic #read on ao3 #the venture brothers #vbros #the venture bros #pete white #billy quizboy #fiction #story #fan fiction #backstory #flashback #origin story #1990s #tomorrow's just another day #illustration #illustrator

[subarashiihibi]

Please let 2024 be the year the durarara fandom stops making “jokes” about Izaya being in a wheelchair 😍😍😍

#literally the same jokes as 2016/2017 durarara fandom #like yes. he did this to himself and yes. he purposely makes it worse by refusing treatment #he’s still disabled ? i just don’t get it… #idk it just rubs me the wrong way cause why are you so quick to be like ’lol guys he’s in a wheelchair’ #like why is that funny. please answer quickly #‘but light he’s a fictional character’ I don’t give a fuck girl what about the disabled fans who see that 🤣🤣🤣 #u wanna make fun of the circumstances that led to him in a wheelchair cause he’s a coward? sure! #u wanna make fun of him specifically cause hes IN said wheelchair? hm. no! #watever maybe IM the snowflake 🙄🙄🙄 #it just feels like Izaya being disabled is a trivial thing #AND ANOTHER THING #can u ppl stop fucking saying shit like ‘omg I hope izaya gets out of his wheelchair :((((‘ girl fuck you #cause if you were saying it in good faith as in u want him to stop being so stubborn and self harming that’s one thing #but I know damn well it’s not and you just can’t stand that he’s disabled #ok Rant over I need to go study for biology lab test 🤓 #I think I said that last part already but I just felt like saying it again idk 🤷‍♂️