#just don't quite have the same poetry to them. im a fiction writer not a scientist

[quantumfeat72]

ok i just had a humans-are-space-orcs thought

i grew up in bear country. like, the “you can’t leave food in your car because the bears will break your car and eat it” kind of bear country. so up there people make sure to teach their kids how to avoid getting eaten by bears. and you know the number one thing you do to avoid encountering a bear in the first place?

you make sure it hears you coming

if you’re hiking with a friend, you talk loudly the whole time. if you don’t want to do that, or you’re alone, you wear bells or something else that makes noise. because bears aren’t stupid, they know humans are trouble, and they don’t wanna fuck with you any more than you wanna fuck with them

like. think about that. bears are walking tanks. they can cave in the door to a house or move around a 500 pound dumpster like its nothing. you can shoot a bear with a gun and not do much more than piss it off. a bear could absolutely pick off one lone human on a hike for a free meal. but bears never hunt humans, and they rarely attack humans

like imagine an alien visiting earth and their human friend hands them a bell and says “when we go through here we gotta make sure the local apex predators know exactly where we are at all times”

and they’re like “...oh, yes, of course. the other predators on earth must have learned that they can’t kill a human, and it’s better to avoid a fight if you can”

and the human says “no, if a bear attacked us we’d die”

and they’re like, wait, what?? you want to give our exact location to something that could easily kill us? do you have a death wish??? and their friend is like, no, look, bears don’t fuck with humans if they can help it

not because they can’t, but because they know better

#humans #humans are space orcs #earth is space australia #space orcs #lukewarm takes #mine #and YES it is more complicated than that #but 'bears dont like to be startled and are more likely to attack if theyre scared and confused' #and 'they don't really hunt much of anything besides fish' #just don't quite have the same poetry to them. im a fiction writer not a scientist #i've been working on a prequel to that humans-are-space-orcs story i wrote forever ago #in part because it broke 1000 kudos which like #holy shit #but yeah i have a draft that i gotta work on some more but im hoping to have that out soonish #100 notes #DAMN that was quick :o #500 notes #1000 notes #5000 notes

[musashi]

(hi im gonna just live in this inbox for a hot minute) Anyway, question — do you recall what it was that spurred you into writing fanfiction in general (assuming that there’d been something to ignite that particular flame)? And uh…assuming that writer’s block is something you really deal with, what’re some things you do to combat it? (kinda hoping these q’s make sense; east coast’s finally starting to feel the cold and my brain hasn’t adjusted yet 😭)

thanks for waiting on this reply! i have had a weirdly busy life as of late xD hope you're keeping warm!

what spurred me into writing fic was not one single event, but historically it has always been either kin stuff or a want to tell stories about my friends. i am fictionkin, but before i had the language for that, my friends and i were just... attuning ourselves to fictional characters, if that makes sense? every year i'd be in a kinshift, and using limited vocabulary to describe that, and my friends would want to do it too so they'd pick the characters they felt the most and we'd all just melt into those roles. improv bits as the characters. notes passed in class written like little chatlogs between them. we'd just set these scenes, and so my friends and their characters blurred lines, and i'd write those lines because they were fun!

on the ACTUAL kin side of things, i get homesick. i miss people. i want to write love letters. DtE was a love letter to james, really--i feel overflowing with how proud i am of him, how much i adore him, how alight he makes my beating heart feel. and at the time of writing it, he wasn't there, i had no outlet--i could yell about him on my blog, or to my friends, but it never satiated me. so instead i wrote a whole epic story about the way i see him and love him, what i remember from our time together. and i took the opportunity to write about everyone else i loved, too, and the world i loved back when i lived in it. if you read my fanfic as letters of devotion from whoever i'm kin with, it becomes very obvious that love and gratitude is where i write from.

emergency situations is the same thing with Fi. it's hard to reconcile with how much she means to me and how much reverence and love i feel toward her, it's especially hard with how the fandom treats her. so instead i wrote poetry about her (with a sickfic, because it's really the only way i know how fghfhdg) i constantly call her my muse because writing about her makes me write better. a chapter of Down can read like shit but the second i start describing Fi--not even physically there, just her presence--my narrative waxes poetic, my grasp on language blooms with flowers, when i write from love i write well. it's the root of everything. it's all i can write about.

i miss people, i miss homes, i miss experiences--they live in my head, so i write them. i feel restless if i don't. i don't think i'll ever be 100% happy with my writing but i have TOO MUCH inside of me to not write. i HAVE to get it out.

i don't believe in writer's block. no disrespect to anyone who does! but i believe what people refer to as 'writers block' is just perfectionism most of the time. my mantra to myself is 'just fucking WRITE' like i get it. i get you want the story to be how it is in your head. i get you want to pick apart the language until you find the right words to justify the pictures you see. i feel it! it drives me insane. but i will not get anything done if i try to write a perfect story and so instead i just write a story. i don't care how shitty my sentences are or how dissatisfied i am with them. i just WRITE, and if i really hate it that much i can fix it later. but i can't make SHIT good unless i have a first draft.

often i find that writing it, stepping away from it, and coming back in even just a day's time, i am actually fine with the story i've written. it just feels better, to me, to have a hundred published stories i find kinda mediocre than it is to have a hypothetically perfect none.

i quite literally scream 'JUST FUCKING WRITE' at myself when i find myself succumbing to writer's block. that is hardly advice but it is, to be blunt, exactly what i do.

#wendy rambles #wendy answers #sereniatta

[friendlyneighborhoodcapricorn]

hiii! i was wondering if i can get a matchup for both the mcu and arcane?

i’m female, 5’5, straight, a libra, ENFP, ravenclaw, i have medium length blonde hair and big blue eyes and im pretty pale.

personality: i’m a pretty expressive, charismatic and enthusiastic person. i love to talk to people and understand the world around me, i’m very curious. i tend to like to be in the spotlight and have eyes on me, i really like attention from others and i crave a lot of validation. i think i have a pretty good sense of humor, i love being goofy and i love to make people laugh, i’ve always been a jokester and i like poking fun at people, not in a mean way but to just get a funny reaction out of them. i’m also sort of an air headed person and i sometimes don’t understand sarcasm from others so that makes me pretty gullible. on the negative side, i have quite a temper and can snap pretty easily because of my PTSD, i’ve learned how to control it but it can be pretty intense if someone were to betray me, abuse me in any way, or attack me.

i also have anxiety and paranoia sometimes and that can cause me to go through very painful panic attacks or close up from others and isolate myself if anything triggers me. but when i feel safe with someone i’m able to be my goofy self and excitable.

hobbies: i consider myself an artist, i’m a writer and i’m currently in college to become an author and editor for fiction. fiction is my go to genre and i love creating characters and crafting my own stories with personal deep meaning. i believe literature is a beautiful art form. i also love writing poetry, drawing and sketching a bit, acting, playing my bass (i play both up right and electric) in my orchestra and doing makeup. i also love abstract fashion, dogs, memes, MUSIC (classical, 90s hip hop, alternative) and good food. i’m all about good food and my personal aesthetic is a mix of cottagecore and dark academia.

my type: i’m usually into very quiet, gentle and shy guys since that matches well with my loud personality. i also like guys that share the same type of creativity i have and enjoy having deep and meaningful conversations about life. i would love to have a s/o i’m inspired by every single day and to admire everything about them, even their faults and struggles, and i hope they do the same for me. <3

thank you for doing this!!! 💌

You’re my first Arcane request so thank you because I absolutely love that series!

For Arcane, I match you with…

Viktor

(That scene will never not be funny)

To say Viktor is inspiring would be an understatement. His life's work is literally trying to improve other people's lives, and if that's not admirable, then I don't know what is.

From that flashback scene, we know he likes animals, so he loves dogs just as much as you do. You can expect lengthy discussions on your favourite breeds.

Since you're curious, you'd probably love listening to him talk about what he and Jayce are working on, even if you don't always understand what exactly is (honestly, they probably aren't always sure either).

Viktor isn't as expressive of his thoughts as you might like him to be, but that's mainly because it never occurred to him that someone might to hear them.

He totally doesn't mind you poking fun at him from time to time, as long as he gets to return the favor.

Viktor doesn't have a lot of time to read, but if you want to share some of your work with him, he'll gladly clear his schedule.

And now for the mcu, I match you with…

Peter Parker

Okay, so Peter isn't exactly the quiet type, but he's definitely gentle and a little shy so I can see it work between you two.

He's a goofball by nature, so expect back and forths where you poke fun at each other for all sorts of things, just trying to see who can make the other laugh the hardest.

After he tells you about his secret identity, you can expect him to take you on late-night rooftop dates.

Just imagine lying on some roof together, just talking about wherever the conversation flows.

If it's a clear night, you make up constellations with the most ridiculous names.

You have a very similar taste in music, so introducing one another to your favourite artists is a thing.

You try to help as best as you can when he's swinging aruond the city as Spider-Man. He inspires you by not wanting to be a hero, but just someone who wants to help whenever he can.

Since you play the bass, he'll come up with the most ridiculous songs for you to play. I'm talking parodies of parodies.

His personal favourite was when you drove MJ up the wall by sending her a video that started out as something else entirely, but quickly turned into a rick-roll when you started playing Rick Astley.

I hope you enjoyed it! Thanks again for requesting, and have a lovely day/night :)

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