#thoughts about writing

[blackrosesandwhump]

The thing about writing is, you can simultaneously hate it but also love it to the point that it consumes you.

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[mannatea]

2023 was a great year for me in terms of writing productivity. Writing 285,000 words in one year was not only incredible—it's also the most I've written in a single year in the 20+ years I've been writing fanfiction. And that number doesn't even include the RP I've done (which is at least another 115,000 words as of today).

I love writing fanfiction. I love my blorbos. I love character writing. In fact, I love it so much, I spent the last 20 years convinced that I would never give original fiction a real try.

But 2024 will be different.

Tales of Symphonia has been an interesting fandom to write for. It's very quiet and secluded (as far as fandoms go). There isn't much overlap when it comes to ships/shipping, either, resulting in a very limited audience.

I've written for quiet/small fandoms before, but this is the first time I've written a multi-chapter story for a fandom like this, and in the interest of being completely honest I have to admit: I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I kneecapped myself by choosing to write stories about children/babies/pregnancy (which I'm certain cut my potential readership in half) and it felt pretty bad to commit myself to stories that didn't garner much interest. On the other hand, I completed two 100,000-word long stories this year—something I've never managed to do before in my entire life.

And I think there's something to be said for the fact that I did complete those stories...and quickly. I blasted through Break Open the Sky in three weeks, and finished The World Could Be Beautiful in something like six weeks. That's fast, and it gave me time to recharge while I edited and posted the work (which meant I wasn't relying on feedback/comments to keep going). That's incredible for me; I've never done that before.

It helps that I'm very passionate about my blorobs, and that I chose stories that play to my literary strengths (character writing + Identity), but that I managed to, for the first time in 20+ years of writing, write for the passion of it—without relying on comments/reviews—is a game-changer.

TO BE CLEAR: I'm very grateful for the feedback I received this year. @likes-words-and-shrimp was the MVP in welcoming me back to the ToS fandom, and honestly...without her influence (and @trash-god's unwavering support despite not even being in the ToS fandom) I don't think I would have done much writing this year. <3

But I did write—a lot—and it had me considering my newfound capabilities and my future.

This is where my feelings get very conflicted. I love fanfiction specifically because it's fanfiction; I love the characters, and I love exploring worlds and universes whose rules are not entirely up to me. I never wanted to write original fiction because I didn't want to have to try to create these things myself...mostly because I wholeheartedly believed for 20 years that I was the kind of writer who wasn't good at (or capable of) writing endearing or interesting OCs.

Do I still believe that? I'm honestly not sure, but I do know it was an easy excuse. You can't fail if you don't try, you know.

Moving on.

Here are three deeply, brutally honest confessions:

First, my spouse (the very one I met through my fanfiction way back in 2003) thinks I'm wasting talent and skill writing fanfiction that "maybe 3 people will read." He knows I do it for fun (the way other people watch TV, for example) but I think he's incapable of understanding why I'd work so hard on something I know won't get much attention. (I don't know how to feel about the "talent and skill" part of this. He hasn't read my creative writing in almost a decade.)

Confession the Second: while I'm not opposed to writing for a small (old, quiet) fandom with a 3-person audience for the fun and passion of writing my beloved blorbos, it is disheartening to spend literally hundreds of hours writing with very little engagement. (It's the nature of the beast of small/old/quiet fandoms, yes, but it still feelsbadman.)

My third and final confession is to say that I am confident I could get just as much attention with original fiction as I do fanfiction these days. (The bar is low, but that's the point.)

Look, I'm not delusional. I know my writing is heavily character-focused and, to that end, sometimes boring and/or ploddingly slow. I'm also very aware of the fact that original fiction requires a different skillset than fanfic—especially in some genres. I'm not doing this to please my husband (I don't think he actually cares that much) and I'm not doing this to quit my day job (I write too much niche bullshit to ever make a living writing), but damn, I'm at a point in my life where I think I'd be remiss not to give original fiction writing a fair and reasonable chance.

Will it feel bad to bust ass and get like three readers? Yes. But that feels bad regardless of the project in question. At least if I write a book and it flops horribly I can say I tried. At this point, it's more of a question of, "Why not?" than anything.

What's the worst that happens? I fail? At that point I'll just turn my original fiction into a goddamn fanfic. Reverse Uno.

TL;DR: I love writing fanfiction but it's hard to write for a small fandom, and now that I know I can write complete long stories, I've decided that for 2024, I will be setting fanfiction down to see what I can manage with original fiction.

Wish me luck, y'all. ✌

#thanks so much for your support this year everyone #it really does mean a lot! and despite what this post says #i think a lot of the fact that i'm willing to give original fiction a try #is thanks to all of you. <3 #mini shoutout to those folks from like 2007 who told me to write original fiction too #i didn't forget i was just a coward #thoughts about writing

[qweenofurheart]

im pretty happy with my most recent post but i really do want to get better at writing and comics. imo i could have done better with the pacing and specificity of the character’s feelings and relied less on cliches? and added more subtext and subtlety? basically what im trying to say is prepare for more attempts in the future lol

#art school isnt really giving me a chance to breathe but ive been forcing my own personal projects anyways… #i wrote a short story recently lmk if i should share. or i might make it into a comic #not art #txt #writing #thoughts about writing #comics #writeblr #<- im anti writeblr

[rainboq]

Don't let anyone tell you that thinking about writing isn't making progress.

Yeah, I know it's hard, you're not putting words on a page, you're just turning ideas over in your mind. Putting together plot threads, character beats, dynamics, and relationships. That's still working on it.

Without a sturdy foundation, you can't progress. That thinking you're doing? Trying to see how all the pieces fit together? That's laying that foundation, figuring out how all the bits and pieces fit together. Sure, some of it won't work when it's first put down on the page, but that's fine. Every drawing starts with a rough sketch, and every story a first draft. It's good, great even, if things change in the course of creation, but you can't start the sketch or the first draft without ideas.

Without thinking through it, rotating those characters and beats in your mind like rotisseries on a spit, you're not going to have those ideas. You're going to be left with a jumble of words without a course, characters and events without a through-line and connective tissue.

Sometimes it helps to just put words on a page, but sometimes it also helps to know where those words are going. So don't berate yourself because you didn't get a word count today. Thinking about it still counts.

#Writing #Thoughts about writing

[ace-oreos]

I have a few vague ideas for where I want to take Squad Four and I'm not really committed to any of them... if I (hypothetically) posted a poll with some options, would anyone be willing to participate?

#dar's writing #or at least #THOUGHTS about writing #while not actually writing #coruscant guard

[the-fae-folk]

I really don't know if it is that people are asking difficult questions, or if it's my inability to control the sheer excess of my writing. Brevity has always been somewhat difficult for me to attain, though somehow in recent years my writing has become lengthier than ever before, and while I'm fairly pleased with the progressing quality in the writing itself, I know that the length makes it difficult for people to engage.

Though certainly there's some increased difficulty in these questions that I cannot deny. Questions about the world, the systems, the details, and the nature of the Faerie. And anything concerning actual folklore I try to take great pains in doing my research, even if I'm certain I already know the answers. You never know what you could be wrong about, and even with all my effort I could still make mistakes, and likely do. Yet perhaps I should put some effort into more brief pieces of writing. Deliberately trying to write something concise yet meaningful and well formed. It is often a more difficult task than some would imagine.

#thoughts about writing #thoughts about asks #asks #writing

[moronic-validity]

Genuine question not at a offensive I love your stuff just.. how do you write gore and abuse and stuff without feeling bad about it. I try to but it makes me feel so icky

No offense taken!

My entire background is in horror! I started with gore sfx when I was 8 and started doing mini horror movies when I was 13.

I actually went to college to learn how to make better and more effective horror content.

While in college I got super into slasher movies and with it, the slasher fandom here on tumblr!

Writing horror is second nature for me and a lot of people would argue it's because I'm desensitized (which isn't a bad thing, as long as it doesn't bleed into the real world).

Now this may be a hot take, but don't try to make yourself write something you're not comfortable with!!!! If writing horror/gore/dark content makes you feel gross, don't write it!

There's no shame in not writing something that makes you uncomfortable.

#teddy talks #theo's thoughts #writing #thoughts about writing #that was a really good question anon

[neitherthehoneynorthebee]

Whenever fanfic characters go "did I just say that out loud" I always usually find myself thrown out of the story with disbelief. Which is interesting because I've experienced that in real life - I think the thing is that for the characters, it's a convenient way for them to express something embarassing or secret, but when I do it it's because I'm so out of it (ill, disassociated, physically isolated) and so it's in a larger context of feeling out of control and confused.

#thoughts about writing #fyodor talks

[tracingpatternswrites]

I just got an e-mail notification that a fic was posted which had been inspired by something I’ve written. At first it made me super happy (a part of me still is so astonished that something I’ve written has inspired anyone to write anything) but now I’m feeling a bit... I don’t know. This might get rambly so I’m putting it below a cut.

The fic in itself is...great, really. It’s good, absolutely heart breakingly sad, well written and dark. I love a good dark fic, love reading them when I’m in the mood, and this fic is quite honestly right up my alley in a lot of ways. 

It’s just... the fic is based on Secrets in the Black of night, a PWP I wrote for the Wolfstar Bingo for the prompt Slytherin!Sirius and (as far as I’m aware) tagged appropriately. Mine’s a dub-con fic and tagged as such, but it is essentially a PWP with no real dive into the characters or their history or where they come from or where they’re going. 

The work associated with it is not that. It’s a deep dive into the psychological aspect of trauma, tagged with both MCD and non-con.

This is not about writing about these things. As I said, I like reading dark fic myself and especially if it’s well written (which I think this is). It’s also tagged appropriately so that’s not an issue. There is just...something in the A/N that, and I don’t know if I’m overreacting, but it’s left me feeling a bit...I don’t know. Sad? 

So in short, in my fic they’re 7th year students at Hogwarts, Sirius is every part the pure-blood Black heir and a (suspected) Death Eater. He finds out about Remus being a werewolf and uses it to essentially blackmail Remus into sleeping with him. In my fic the dub-con is quite heavily hinted, but as I said, it’s a PWP so there’s no real character development or nothing to explore any of the characters’ reasons to why they’re doing what they’re doing. 

I don’t really have a problem with someone diving into the minds of these characters and evolving them. But the A/N states: 

Warning: this is a formally-educated-in-the-subject survivor's take on the problematic and generally misunderstood nuances and subtleties of emotional dependence, trauma bonding, and transgenerational cycles of abuse. It addresses briefly the progressive breaking down of the human psyche, its effects, and its consequences.

/../

Take note: It is stated clearly in the original that Remus was forced into the situation by a more powerful individual using leverage to induce submission. Thus, emotional manipulation and coercion and NOT BDSM. By psychological definition, such a situational dynamic is not and can not be consensual even among consent-capable adults. Reminder: these are seventeen-year-old school kids. They are more vulnerable. Trauma has a deeper and more devastating impact. An abuser is ALWAYS responsible for their actions, regardless of their age.

End notes:

You were warned. I expect there will be strong opinions - clap-back at my clap-back, if you will. Feel free to discuss, but hate will be removed. Personal attacks will be banned.

As a note: coercion is not consent. Forcing someone to consent is not consent. Arousal is not consent. Arousal does not equal desire. Participation is not consent. Victim confusion does not equal consent. Continuing despite the above is assault. Lack of penetration does not mean it's not rape.

And, like, I know all of this. I know all of this in real life, but my fic was not that. And I just have this overwhelming sense of wanting to explain myself. I feel, like, I don’t know. Guilty that I didn’t clarify this in my own A/N, maybe? 

I don’t know. Maybe I’m reading way too much into it, nowhere does it say that they didn’t like my fic, but it just feels a bit...passive aggressive? Or something. I don’t know.

Their fic is still amazing and I’d like to tell them that, but I’m not sure how to leave a comment without saying anything about how their A/N made me feel, and I don’t know how to do that without coming across as if I’m just over-reacting or trying to make up excuses. I just know that now I’m feeling a bit sad and uncomfortable about the whole thing.

Gah. I don’t know. Maybe this is just me spending way too much time thinking about this on a Saturday night 😕 

(If you are the author of this fic feel free to reach out because I would love to talk about it, and your fic was absolutely amazing)

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[gabrielwritessometimes]

Hi Big Bro !

For the ask, what about : 3, 7, 10, 18, 19, 36 and 39 ?

Take your time to answer ! Hope you have a good day/evening/night 💖

LIL BRO I missed you in my asks too 🥺 ! I'll answer under the cut !

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed ?

Of course it is cursed. It starts with a white page of google docs. Then I can spend hours or days until I write something. Usually it's a -, followed by a list of miscleanous stuff : quotes, "I want them to kissy kissy umbrella shared ;w; !", sets of clothes to describe, ANYTHING. And then I organise it. It takes so little time. Then I give up, since I'm satisfied. Then it haunts my dreams until I open the page turned WIP. And then I write 20k in 5h or so and I post it UNPROOFED and I let you read while I sleep or go to work. I don't even check the reactions afterwards, I'm that mother who doesn't look at the crying baby but is just happy it isn't inside anymore I'm so sorry.

7. What is your deepest joy about writing ?

That's gonna be a weird one, but : feeling. Feeling stuff I never felt in real life or on the contrary writing about raw unrestrained feelings I got to experience. Even weirder : panic attacks make me so much more able to write angst and characters losing it because I know what it is. I know what bounds are like, I know what love feels like for I cherish a few selected people, but as an aro/ace I don't love that way. That's why I feel so happy writing about feelings, all kind of them.

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you ? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you ?

Oh I get haunted a LOT. Daydreams, dreams, little bits of dialogues running through my head at work, a song making me jolt because it'd be perfect... that's why I do lists before writing, it's like vacuuming all these haunting parts and create a puppet out of it for you to see. I perceive that as "this is something worth writing and showing to the world", it's a green light and a good omen !

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end.

"There are two things that make the God of Winter feel alive : the pure unrestrained happiness to see his children and the pure unrestrained pleasure to know deep down that he isn’t the one who suffers the most."

I'd rather use an original work for this one if you'll allow me. This glimpse of Léviatha'n's crooked sense of joy if both a foreshadowing (of what will happen because of him in Esporys) and a mirror shot from Aleksiel in He Who Rules Above the Snow ("His sleep was fit for he knew the turmoil he caused in his close family's minds, and their toss and turns turned into wicked lullabys soothing his heart.").

At first it was more straightforward, showing only Léviatha'n's malignity but it didn't work : Léviatha'n is both extremes, the dead quiet mirror sea and the tide tearing everything apart. He had to be balanced by something equally unbalanced which is the love for his children. Just like Zaga'n is everything to Suzak, Lantide and Léviath are everything for Léviatha'n and the wicked sense of pleasure he gets out of Suzak's endless mourning comes back to bite him when his children die in front of him. Did he learn anything from it ? Of course not, the sea doesn't learn to evade people to avoid suffering, it only restore the bodies to shore sometimes. That was the feeling I wanted for him and I think it turned out well !

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start ? Why did you start ? Were there bumps along the way ? Where are you now and where are you going ?

I started when I was 5 or 6. My childhood wasn't really a happy one, so instead I wrote stories of things that didn't happen to me to brighten it : winged bunnies hopping next to the bus like dolphins do close to boats, imaginary friends I was the only one able to see who laughed as they stole apples from the neighbour's tree with me, ... my father always indulged me in these fantasies, my mother way less.

There have been a few bumpses like right now because I am drained from work and just WISH I could chill and do nothing, slowing down all my creative process. I also had a few in middleschool when I became terrified of writing, one of my bullies reading texts she found aloud for everyone to laugh at me.

I have two solid novels I can share with the world though, a visual novel planned and many novels to write about the lore of the Life Marble, stories of unconsequential characters to show their daily life, insights of the Gods' minds, diaries found after the End, ... I also started drawing to be able to give my characters some realness. Will I be able to do it ? Wait and see !

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice…what do you Know ?

I know of loss, grief and not belonging. I know of secrets unshared gnawing at your insides and invasive thoughts. Of the fear of lies colliding between two worlds you tried to keep separate. Of panic attacks of being too much and too less at the same time, of blaming looks and punching walls and yelling to get people to look at me. I know of being put aside because I asked for basic decency.

I also know of softness and joy, of shared looks and desires, of joined hands kissed softly under an apple tree. I know of aspirations, of setting a clear way and being patted on the back after offering the word they needed or a hot chocolate. I know of the silent gratitude in shared looks after discovering someone did something for you the way you wanted it done.

I know of baby steps and the pride of keeping balance when everything starts to tip. I know of taking commands or receiving them without arguing, because sometimes people should really let their ego aside and stop feeling attacked out of thin air. I know of putting myself first, saying no and biting back too.

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up ?

Writing is as necessary as breathing for me. It comes easily, trained since childhood, and no matter the support or the time I'll always be able to do it. I am tired but will still write a description of a peculiar plant in my lore or find a new way to sign documents for Aksel. Because you don't need to write 450 pages to be writing. Just like reading comics is still reading, roleplaying, creating charasheets and lore is still writing.

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[wherekizzialives]

You’ve been doing what?

Is the question that nobody has asked me about how I’ve been spending my limited free time this month. Re-immersing myself in the BBC TV series Merlin is the answer that I’m sharing with everyone anyway. BBC Merlin fascinates me, both in the ways it deliberately diverges from what “everyone knows” about the Arthurian legends and in how it twists those bits of the legends it has chosen to…

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#Arthurian Legends #bbc merlin #fan fiction #thoughts about writing

[ziskandra]

Elemental Writer Asks

🌍 Earth: What do you think is the foundation of your WIP?

⚡Lightning: What’s the most shocking plot twist you’ve ever come up with?

🪨 Rock: How do you deal with writer’s block?

💐 Spring: Have you ever scrapped (a huge chunk of) a story to start over?  Why did the change come about?

🌎 the foundation of my WIP(s):

Honestly, as someone who mostly writes for exchanges and other challenges with set deadlines, I’m never sure how to interpret “WIP”! So, I’m taking a two-pronged approach:

1) The WIP I most recently updated was Chasing Demons, my Ace Attorney WIP which hasn’t seen an update since last year (oops) even though I still have the next 30k or so written. It’s basically a secret-parentage AU that got a bit out of hand…

I am bad at keeping up the momentum of regular posting when working on longfic! I think I worry about running out of buffer? But if I don’t post until I’m finished I would probably never finish (not that I tend to finish long fic anyway — I technically started this fic in 2009 and came back to it after a LONG break). I still find chaptered fics to be an elusive beast!

(That being said, I’ve not tried it since I’ve been properly medicated for my ADHD so. Perhaps in the future?)

2) The most recent WIP in terms of ‘wrote down some words about something’ (that I can talk about aka isn’t for an exchange) is probably the inquisitor!Meredith AU I’ve been noodling away at, but atm it’s mostly just ‘hypothetical conversations with Warden Contact Loghain’ and ‘very awkward interactions with Cullen’

⚡️most shocking plot twist:

I’m not sure about ‘shocking’, but I’m definitely quite proud of the ending of ‘a celebration of being alive’, my Loghain/f!Cousland fic, because it was a concept that had been living rent free in my head for a while and apparently last year I thought a good birthday present would be writing a fic for myself for once 😜

🪨 dealing with writer’s block

Poorly! But in like, the opposite direction to what other people seem to experience in which I will just start writing something new and this is why I find long-term projects difficult 🙈 Generally if I’m taking a break from writing I won’t even make myself try to write; I know the urge will come back eventually.

If I’m writing something for a deadline and things are stagnating I’ll usually put on some music that reminds me of the characters and go for a walk or a drive because my brain goes faster when in motion. If it’s something plot-related I’m stuck on, I’ll usually brainstorm with a friend because a fresh set of eyes always helps. For characterisation, canon review. For ‘everything I type seems like liquid shit’, a break 🥲

💐 have i ever scrapped a huge chunk of content to start again?

I don’t think so, not really — I rarely get rid of stuff entirely (I’ll move it to a separate outtakes document). It’s like keeping scraps of fabric 🙈

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#asha answers #mxkelsifer #thoughts about writing #pls (anyone) feel free to ask stuff! #it feels really good to talk about these things again

[mannatea]

Picking the first things I see so what do you think about: the May/Dec Romance trope and Met in an MMO AU? Also bonus?? Hanahaki 🌹

Send me a fanfiction trope and/or fanfic AU and I'll talk about my opinion(s) on it!

May/December Romance: I thought this shit was the bees knees until I dated someone 20 years older than me and it ummm didn't work out. Anyway, I tend to actually ignore the trope these days. I either like character interactions or I don't; age gaps are fine if they happen to be there but I don't lean on or otherwise seek out that trope as a general rule...and even when the age gap is present I tend to not lean on it overmuch, except in situations where it might actually end up mattering (aging, for example).

Met in an MMO: Since I did meet my old raid & heal lead from World of Warcraft in person TWICE (it was super fun), I have to say this trope would be A BLAST to write and to read, were it catered very specifically to me as a person. I've even been tempted to write it just because so many guilds in WoW used to meet up and get together for events and stuff!! Like I'm sorry but there's something SO funny about Lloyd as a dual wield fury warrior zug zug brain and Raine on comms constantly criticizing him for not watching threat, and then Genis posting meters ONLY when he's on top while Zelos begs people to give him time to sunder and Colette says "that was a good attempt guys, we'll do better next time!" even though they asses wiped at like 40% 😭. Regal and Raine in silent competition to top healing meters 24/7. Lloyd uses the MMO to bond with Kratos? Dirk is there too. Zelos is the worst ret paladin in the world OR the worst rogue (I can't choose) but he has 20 custom emotes he made (that he puts on his fucking bars) to hit on people who play female characters in-game. Sheena race changed to a male character and will never brez Zelos no matter how much he begs. ✌ Presea plays with them for like 3 years and never speaks in voice comms. Guild fucking drama??? PLEASE.

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I SHOULD NOT EVEN BE THINKING ABOUT THIS LMAO I'M ALREADY OBSESSED WITH THE DYNAMIC.

Hanahaki: This trope is very much not for me and I don't really understand the appeal of it on a general level. It's like a terminal illness 'fic but without the medical knowledge being necessary, maybe? I guess I can see the appeal there.

I'd never write this myself, but I've read it a couple of times and I do really appreciate writers who take the time to write a unique twist on this trope, because I think it really adds something to the idea of it and makes it fun to engage in. Definitely not the kind of thing I seek out, though.

#likes-words-and-shrimp #thoughts about writing #LITERALLY plotting an mmo fic in my brain thanks for reigniting this bullshit in my me! LOL

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[officialspec]

modern au but set in brisbane. is this anything

#TRICK QUESTION its everything. to me #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille donato #senshi of izganda #laios touden #kabru #falin touden #izutsumi #farcille #chilchuck tims #namari #my art #dunmesh #brisbane meshi #americans have all the fun putting their modern aus wherever they live. well its my turn. namari is a caboolture bogan i know this #ive thought about this So much i need to write down all my notes somewhere