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jameszmaguire · 10 months
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y'know, sometimes you just gotta look at the average age of people in a certain fandom and go 'good for them, i'm too old to interact with media in the way that they're doing' and just nope out
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27-royal-teas · 4 months
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20 Questions for Fic Writers
I was tagged for this by @shark-myths: thank you so much for the tag, i had a lot of fun with this!! <33 
tagging: @luckyfinn72, @spirallingstarcases, @abovetherainandroses, @vampylily :) no pressure, just for fun!
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1. How many works do you have on AO3?
Only 10, but im definitely gonna increase that number if possible lol
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
34,287. I mostly write really short oneshots but im working on a few chaptered fics that i plan on finishing in the (hopefully near) future 
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Fall Out Boy currently, I’ve written a few All Time Low fics (and im hoping to write more). I used to write a LOT in the umbrella academy fandom, but none of my fics from there are on ao3– and im not too inclined to share them since they were written years ago. I’ve dabbled in a few more fandoms between then and now (pjo, omori, etc) but fob is the first fandom that’s stuck with me in a while. 
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
In order: 
better off as lovers (and not the other way around)
my heart is on my sleeve 
burn it up all night
chekov’s cat
(we’re) falling apart to triple time
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I do!!! I try to, at least- i love getting comments so much, they make me so happy. I hoard them like a dragon. I personally love it when authors respond to my comments— it means that they liked what i thought. I like knowing that i can touch people in some kind of way. so it makes me really happy when i can do that for others 
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
I don’t really write much angst— i used to ONLY write angst but now i write mainly fluff with happy endings. planning on some darker stuff later, though. I haven’t written angst in like two years but I guess I’d say the angstiest fic i have- on ao3, anyway- is prrrrrobably burn it up all night. 
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
well, everything else, I guess. i really like the ending of chekov’s cat— not only did i have fun writing it but it’s kind of a very open ending. 
8. Do you get hate on fics?
nope. I hope to maintain that nope but whatever happens happens 
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
I do not. I’m a minor so i feel kind of uncomfortable writing it but I’m not bothered reading it as long as it’s not too hardcore porn
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
I haven’t written a crossover yet, but I have some ideas for some good ones. 
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Nope, not that I know of
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Also nope, but if someone asked me to I’d definitely say yes! the fact that someone liked your fic enough to translate it into their own language or interpretation is really like, the hugest compliment ever. 
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Actually, I have, several times— the first fic I wrote ever was actually co-written with my friend. we were in middle school. It was a wings of fire self insert, because we were hilariously cringe. ive also co-written some umbrella academy with my best friend— she was the one who got me into fic writing for real, I owe her everything! and I hope to collaborate with @luckyfinn72 at some point in the near future— we’ve been talking about doing a collab on an ATL fic. 
14. What’s your all time favorite ship?
oh boy uhh. I don’t really know, actually. I write a lot of peterick but I feel like I can’t say that they’re my favorite— because they’re not. I love to write their dynamic because it’s a lot of fun, but I feel like ultimately I don’t really have a favorite; ships I get invested in come and go frequently. 
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
In 2020, I began writing this story called Run, Boy, Run. It was a five hargreeves tua angst fic about five’s time in the apocalypse. I liked it a lot at the time, and I always wanted to finish it, but I never got around to it, and whenever I go to the doc I don’t know what to say. So I don’t think I’m going to finish it now, but I really wish I had back when I was more active in the fandom. it’s posted on my FIRST first blog, back before I made @blurrycow, but i don’t remember the url much less where the fic is. 
16. What are your writing strengths?
Hm. I’m still kind of new to fic writing, in terms of everything— I only really started writing two years ago, and I only started posting this year. I’m improving, and I’m getting better, but I feel like there’s not much I can pin down as a definite strength at the moment. I guess I’m pretty good at dialogue; making it feel natural. 
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
FINISHING A FIC. god. I SUCK at finishing stuff. I have twelve unfinished wips open on my chromebook as we speak. I’m not consistent in my writing style, I change tenses a lot, I’m lacking in writing feelings and descriptors, I’m bad at keeping the careful balance between dialogue and action. To be honest— I’m not a good writer. But I’m getting better, and I’m still young and also generally pretty new to fandom, so ive got all the time in the world to make it better. 
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
I’ve considered it but I feel like itd come out unnatural or sounding dumb. I don’t want someone fluent in the language to be like ‘they wouldn’t fucking say that’ either, so there’s that
19. First fandom you wrote for?
wings of fire, the one fic i wrote with my friend in middle school. also, before i learned abt ao3 i handwrote a 30 page splatoon self insert fanfic that i keep in a folder in my closet 
20. Favorite fic you’ve written?
I don’t know. Usually I just post them when they’re done whether i like them or not because at least they’re done, right? My most kudosed fics are not my favorites. i guess i really like chekov’s cat. I had a lot of fun with the plot of that one. 
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eggmuffinwaffles · 1 year
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🤖: Are non-fandom friends aware that you write fanfic?
Gives the irls who follow this blog a little kiss on the forehead hi besties idk how u put up with me
But yea most of my close friends know i write to some capacity bc i really. dont care that much idk i keep my main blog and my fandom blog separate ish so that theres a little bit of a degree of separation between my main and my ao3 but to my irl friends/tua fandom friends ive challenged them to find it bc its not hard. as long as employers/people who aren't close with me cant find my ao3 i dont care cringe culture is dead
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aryasage · 1 year
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stolen from liv (is anyone surprised at this point?)
do you read or write fanfiction and why?
yes. obviously? apart from being fun, i feel like i have a lot more freedom than with traditional writing. you'll notice in all of my fics (especially atcybyna) that i don't have strictly correct writing all the time. that's intentional (unless it's a typo or something, then it's just me being dumb). having mostly correct punctuation and such and then suddenly having the narration turn into run-on sentences? that conveys something. i really enjoy parallels and motifs (if you hadn't figured that out already) and this is part of that. having traditional writing standards and then breaking them is what makes it interesting, but it's hard to do that when your reader expects you to keep up those standards throughout the whole work.
that and brainrot
2. how and when did you discover fanfiction?
there's a fic not in lolrpf on my account. i'll let you figure out the rest.
3. how has fandom and fiction evolved since you found it?
i'll be honest i don't really know how to answer this question? i haven't been in fandom for long enough to see much change, i don't think
4. do you still engage with it in the way you used to?
i have to scroll past a lot more cringe things now.
5. which fandoms do you enjoy reading/writing?
lolrpf at present but can't say i enjoy looking through the fandom tag. the few people actually writing gen fics are what keep me sane
there's a tua fic that's just been sitting there taunting me for about six months. doubt i'll ever get around to finishing it but it was an interesting restriction i had to work around with the one line i really wanted to include at some point
That One Fandom. i have a doc full of fic ideas and a bunch more wips. might go back to them some day when the lolrpf brainrot runs out. but that'll take a while.
6. who are your otps?
i participate in exactly zero fandoms where shipping isn't at best awkward and at worst incredibly problematic! there's a reason for that!
7. have you told anyone you write fanfiction?
well sometimes people ask what i'm writing and i just laugh and say it's…creative writing, other times i tell them and their face falls instantly. have been able to convince some of them that as long as you're not cringe about it it doesn't have to be cringe though! we're getting there.
8. what does fanfiction mean to you?
the fact that you don't have to do all the world and character building yourself and just get to the angst or the fluff is pretty neat. my twin shadow. the way that you can build a community by just throwing your writing into the world. lots of things. i think it's hard to pin down.
9. do you prefer canon-based fanfiction or au? (so fanfiction that slots seamlessly into the original story or ‘alternate universe’ fanfiction where the world is slightly different)
aus just kinda hit different, ngl. you can do so much more with—well, everything. and pure canon in rpf—it can get messy extremely quickly if you're not careful. i tried once and it basically turned into an au anyway.
10. tell us about a fanfiction you’ve either read or written
one time i had a dream where i was a certain pro player (not gonna name names) (and no, it's not who you think) who was basically jhin but with a bit more restraint about that whole war thing. i'm sitting at a table in the back of a bar, and the people at the bar are talking (loudly, they're drunk) about the war on the horizon, and how much simpler it would be if the second coming of jhin hadn't disappeared.
woke up and wrote down a basic plot and then i worldbuilt the whole setting: basically, champs are gods and can make someone their vassal, depending on the god that can mean anything from visions in their dreams to full-on getting possessed every so often.
with jhin, well…like in canon, mans is a bit murderhappy, so his vassal is freakishly good at killing people…but it’s always a spectacle. he doesn’t even know he’s jhin’s vassal until one day in a battle (he’s a soldier, there’s a War going on) he blacks out and suddenly all his allies are cheering for him. they don’t know his name, so they’re not shouting that. they’re shouting the name of the god that won them the fight.
fast forward a few months, he’s basically won a war single-handedly. that’s great and all. but he doesn’t remember how he did it. all he can remember are the screams and the blood and the joy he had felt doing such horrible things. and that terrifies him.
time skip to a few years later, he’s trying to live a normal life, trying to pretend like the voice of the god in his head isn’t constantly telling him to murder everyone in the room. but another war is coming. and this is where our story starts.
he gets drafted (again) because even though he’s a war hero, that only means he’s proved how important he is. and, you know, corrupt government and all.
in the army, he meets people who were able to keep their being a vassal secret, and they all bond over the gods in their heads.
and that was about where i ran out of plot. it was an interesting world, but the story that i chose to tell was both too long and too directionless for me to ever finish. might do something else with that setting at some point though.
oh yeah and @space-axolotl you should answer these too >:)
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adevillikeyou · 1 year
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So I got some media thoughts for y'all
I forced myself to sit down and actually do some constructive media consuming instead of just scrolling through my youtube feed and selecting nothing for hours and hours last night.
Cruised through season 2 of Death Love and Robots and my god was it mid as hell. I know they're just random collections of shorts and so you can't really rate the aggregate of them the same way that you would look through the pacing and content of a scripted season of television, but still it was So Weak compared to the first one.
Just by its nature it's always gonna be hit or miss, but I felt like I walked away from the first season really energized about indie animation and with a lot of interesting takes on the genre and just eager to get even more. Season two by comparison was just slowly wearing me down from the second I hit play.
The best shorts weren't even ones that I loved, they were just ones that I thought had a really clear and fun vision that was executed on very well. TBH most of it was either so overwrought I couldn't stand even imagining what the writers are like to be at a party with, and the rest was just so hetero-normie core that I was totally checked out from start to finish.
STILL I would take the normie-core bullshit of the immortal fuck grandpa that's too badass to die and too hot for women to not throw themselves at a million times over the weird Pro-Life, Conservative dystopia, Aryan nation wackadoo shit that the short about illegal offspring was working with. WHAT EVEN WAS THAT?! I was losing my mind the entire time, it literally felt like a concept out of fascist bootcamp.
I'd honestly largely say skip the whole thing. It's not really worth the watch. The Christmas one was cute, the one about the brothers was a solid 7/10, the Michael B Jordan one as well. But there was genuinely nothing that came close to exciting me and that was a total bummer.
LUCKILY I saved the night by starting The Imperfects and it was such a relief to find it to be really fun and touching and well produced. I'm only three episodes in, but already I'm getting so much that I wanted from a show like The Umbrella Academy that I didn't feel like they could make work.
The characters are very irreverent and smarmy, but also genuinely tender and insightful and lovely people to get to watch? It has that dark, campy humor when it comes to violence that doesn't feel too try hard. And the music is often a little on the nose, but at least I quite enjoy the choices and they aren't too in your face with it yet.
Whereas TUA felt very much to me like a panel of fifteen year olds trying to be edgy and interesting and just making some high tier cringe, this is actually hitting the mark for that tone. Everyone's lowkey fuckups and the world is a bit nihilistic and comically uncaring, but the performances are there, the writing is there, the visuals are there.
I am very excited to see where the rest of the season goes and am genuinely surprised that I haven't seen much of it at all in fandom spaces. The characters are so cute and lovable and shippable and it made me not want to roll over and die like a lot of "superhero" media is these days.
IDK, I would recommend giving it a watch, you'll know in the first episode if it's for you. But generally if you're into scrappy youths with uncontrollable powers doing their best to make it in the world, I would recommend. It's much more of a respectable successor to Misfits in that way than any of the other shows that I think have tried to capture that same lightning in a bottle.
They even had a good pilot episode, which is one of the hardest things in the world to pull off.
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spn-s16 · 2 years
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i'm sherlock! certified baby; they/them :)
blorbo collector with a specialty in babygirls and meow meows
very queer, not interested in fandom moral discourse. don't ask me about the proship/antiship debate
CRINGE CULTURE IS DEAD AND I AM PEACE SIGNING BY ITS GRAVE. into many of the 'cringe and problematic' fandoms
og miraculous fan (the gap between s1 and s2 killed me)
other things you might find here are, in no particular order, boku no hero academia, the umbrella academy, avatar: the last airbender, batman (wayne family adventures and ambigious ao3 canon), miraculous ladybug, voltron and assorted howl's moving castle bits and bobs
casual stay w/ a hyunjin bias but lee know is constantly wrecking my bias monogamy, as he should
voted snail bug race 2023
current biggest fandom is genshin impact but who knows what'll actually get through to my dash
i also run an incorrect tua blog! @just-incorrect-tua
my art blog is @sherbird-art, where i steal my profile pictures from >:)
on ao3 at @/dabihawks
if i forgot anything pretend i didn't
blorbos/ships under the cut, in case you're curious
main blorbos (also in no particular order): genshin impact scaramouche/wanderer, xiao, kaveh, alhaitham | tua five | bnha todoroki shouto, dabi/todoroki touya, bakugou, hawks | batman jason | a:tla zuko | miraculous adrien/chat noir | voltron keith
main ships (subject to change, once again in no particular order, platonic/familial relationships not included): bnha dabihawks, tododeku, todobaku, tododekubaku, kiribaku, tododekukiribaku | genshin chiscara, kazuscara, heikazuscara, xiaoven, zhongchi, haikaveh/kavetham | a:tla zukka, zukki| miraculous lovesquare (ladynoir my beloved), alyadrininonette, lukagamiadrienette, adrinino, lukadrien
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teacupofink · 1 year
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new intro post! thought i’d edit the old one and put it up :))))
heyyy! call me magnolia :P she/her pls
just looking to chill out :D just made this account but i have been lurking for 1 year + okay besties
GUYS I SWEAR IM NOT FROM TWITTER U GOTTA BELIEVE ME
if u don't have basic respect for ppl just leave
thought i'd add fandoms i'm in:
TOH: hunter the skrunkliest
TUA: viktor <3 love him
Bluey: sorry the dog family got to me guys just kidding i'm not sorry bingo is my girl
TSPUD: the gay computer men have taken over my life
i used to be in mcyt/dsmp so i may interact with that stuff but i mean...
yeah
to irls: i will post ur name and full address /hj :) don't come near me fr.
MIND YA BUSINESS!!
@nubbywubby stop screenshotting my tumblr why are you doing this tell me why right neowwww
ducklan if ur here, just know ur girlie / demeaning. to me. don't scroll further unless prepared for things. cringe is dead so deadass grow up /pos
ok baiiiii
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sparrowsloane · 2 years
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I Have Returned (and I have a fic!)
I actually was not a huge fan of season 3, to the point where I have not finished it past episode 4. I won’t be avoiding spoilers and I will finish it at some point, but not right now. I will continue to post memes and other content, but it may not be as frequent as before.
If you are interested, I am working on a “fix-it” fic on Ao3 entitled Our Mistakes, Back to Haunt Us (spoilers!). My handle is khanrianpheasant. I also have a Genshin Impact fic (also spoilers!) that I’m working on.
Speaking of Genshin, I have also created a new side blog called leominorlesbian! I’m really excited so if you’re a cringe gamer who needs to touch grass please check that out!
I am not leaving the TUA fandom by any means, but do note that my opinion of s3 is very low. I still love the Sparrows, but only the fan-made versions of them, if that makes sense. Thank you all for sticking with me and I look forward to many new memories on this account in the future!
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tkclips · 2 years
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TOP TEN WORST POST MADE BY TUA TUMBLR OMFG IM LIGHTHEADED. You see a character and automatically think of them calling someone a SLUR LIKE WHAT LMAO. Don’t post shit like this you look like a complete fucking dumbass. Tua fandom cringe back at it again.
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ford-ye-fiji · 2 years
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I, K, P, S for the fanfic ask!
I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
im about to be cringe on main but. a/b/o is okay sometimes. When it doesn’t have the explicit/mature stuff.
K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
I murdered five but to be fair, it was a tiny fic based off of the moon laughs and @ladyorigami did it first.
I also made a fic based off of the line about time travel doing ‘funny things to the mind’ and then wrote five lowly losing his mind. Aaand then never finished it. It’s still in my drafts somewhere.
P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
okay so….. definitely more of a gardener. This is my “outline” for uh the last few parts of the five tua fic series:
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S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?
u know me my beloved 💖 basically anything that’s the angstiest of the angst. Platonic hanahaki etc. anything that involves suffering for my unfortunate favorite XD
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mieczyhale · 2 years
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tua s2 made me fall out of love with tua and that’s just how it is
like i still love the content, s1 and the comics and stuff, but there was just too much about s2 that...wasn’t good. or was disappointing. cringe and not in an entertaining kind of way. they tried too hard with the music (the soundtrack was good but it by no means had the same power as the one for s1), underutilized or ignored main characters, little to no character development, gave one character all the power (listen there as literally no reason for vanya to be THAT powerful AND be able to control it - not after the *gestures to entire show*. plus she had powers that weren’t her powers. no. you have seven main characters who all have original powers. fucking USE THEM) they had no business not only wasting but ruining klaus the way they did - he was fan favorite ffs how do you NOT take that into consideration?? AND YOU HAVE SOURCE MATERIAL!! USE. IT. FUCKING USE IT.  
ahhhh tua season one (1) my beloved
i tried really hard to love it - and did convince myself to for awhile, bc tua means so much to me and i didnt want to be disappointed about it - but the fact is: i am. like so incredibly lmao i don’t tend to back off in a fandom, even during a hiatus, unless given a good reason to not care anymore. i haven’t read a tua fic in months, i dont get involved in the tua discord (clowns, if u see this, i love u) and that’s like also for anxiety reasons but also bc i have nothing to say about this show. the fic i had started posting probably wont get worked on anytime soon (i’m a whump / hurt / comfort / angst lover and writer. s1 gave me plenty of inspiration and thoughts. s2? i mean.. there’s some. but it’s SO different from s1 my connection to the characters emotionally is gone. i cant write trauma i don’t feel attached to, karen, and i can’t write about characters i haven’t extensively analyzed. i mean idk maybe i can but i don’t really want to. drunk!me might try some time, that bitch DOES things, but otherwise.. not really my cup of coffee) i have no desire to make or consume content for it anymore-
maybe my feelings on *gestures to this entire post* will change when we actually start getting stuff for s3 (and i fully intend to watch the third season, even though i couldn’t care less about the stupid sparrows - one bad season isn’t enough for me to totally give up on it) but right now - and for the last several months.... the only love i have for the umbrella academy lies with season one and the comics. i don’t even care about getting more klaus - THAT’S how bad it is!! y’all know i love that motherfucker, we identify the same - i got some of his tattoos, our fashion sense is just Like That. he is baby. but rn i don’t give a shit about any of it or him. bc s2. 
not saying s2 didn’t have it’s good things, its humor and whatnot, but it wasn’t enough to make up for everything else (and there’s a lot. this post mentions only a few things bc i didn’t even intend to make this post or get into any of this - real talk, i only meant to post the first sentence and then a vague short paragraph maybe. just to make my point, bc i never did acknowledge my backing away from tua and the fandom. but now it’s a lot of words and i’m not re-reading it! if i do my ocd will keep me here for hours and i have housework to do and dinner to make so)
dsl;fjsd;lfs
k so i could have maybe typed out more, made a little more sense, connected my thoughts and wrapped it all up with a nice bow, but my brain is Stopping. no more thoughts, not even in the empty void i go to when i make posts. just The End.
so i leave this incoherent overview of thoughts with the following::
s3 please don’t fuck up challenge
s3 please give me my dysfunctional family back
s3 please know literally anything about your characters
s3 please give the gays some fucking happiness and bring dave back. klave is forever no matter what but we’d all love to have our boys reunited (and still in love thanks. if you separate them i’ll put your balls in the toaster and your fingers in the garbage disposal. your head?? oven doors. they hurt.)
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raleighbeckett · 5 years
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Can we please stop being gross by shipping real people?
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stupidcanofpeaches · 2 years
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I'm going to include the questions because I messed up the numbering lol:
6. What do you love most about being a fic writer for your fandom? || 9. Why do you continue writing fics? || 12. Describe your writing style. If you were to participate in an anonymous fic writers guessing game (like The Masked Author), what writing habits do you have that would be a dead giveaway that it's you?
hiii thank you for sending me an ask!! i love these
and sorry i took a few hours i ended up falling asleep until like 2pm
6. What do you love most about being a fic writer for your fandom?
probably how welcoming everyone are? it's more or less my first foray into being an active part of a fandom, and so far it's been just brilliant. my fics get interactions, the comments are very nice and i cannot not mention the way you took time to explain me the way things worked both on ao3 and here (cause im fairly new to tumblr by which i mean i had one before but only used it to follow people and look up fanart, that's it). it was super sweet and im happy to say that so far i haven't had a single bad interaction in the tua fandom.
plus i do love the universr itself! the wacky comics and the tv-show. both. i like both. it gives a lot of space to invent and build up things around it. i know that people have a lot of headcanons about the umbrellas childhood, how superpowers work in-universe, the commission, and i love reading about them all in other writers fics.
9. Why do you continue writing fics?
i really really want to get better at writing! and also i like getting that sweet sweet validation.
no jokes tho fanfiction started me down a path of writing in a language that's not my native and now i love it so much. i had gotten a lot better than my old cringe days of yore and i want to, well, get even better than that. plus people do like the way i write, and that excited reaction i get when i post something new bc people recognize my name now is just whoa.
12. Describe your writing style. If you were to participate in an anonymous fic writers guessing game (like The Masked Author), what writing habits do you have that would be a dead giveaway that it's you?
if i had to describe it i'd say it's uhhh overly descriptive lol. i like to go into details, reactions, feelings, and sometimes devolve into borderline flowery style. i personally really admire nabokov's writing style and i remember consciously trying to imitate it bc it's so vibrant and yet contained, but i don't think that worked.
i think that you could easily recognize me by how long and complicated i tend to make my sentences? really really long. i add a lot of clauses and stuff. and repetition patterns in sentences too, i like to use one word several times in a row to emphasize something. that's like a dead giveaway haha.
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ashkazora · 3 years
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2020 Fic Roundup
Stats:
Fics Posted (Total): 13
In chronological order: Cold Floors and Warm Hearts - a fluffy shance fic about the three times Shiro accidentally wakes up in Lance’s room. Exchange fic. 3,441 words.
These Boots Are Gonna Walk All Over You - a small klance fillet based on the US tv show, The Blacklist. 639 words.
the water was dark (and it went down forever) - a Lance-centric gen fic exploring his relationship with the Blue Lion, and her control over him. 15,618 words.
Coffee Grinds and Morse Code - a post-s8, Shance fic written for the valentines shance exchange! 3,593 words.
Nectar and Ambrosia - my first Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt fill for the square ‘denied food as punishment.’ Lance whump. 2,641 words.
there ain't no rest for the wicked - another Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt fill for ‘big brother instincts,’ but this time with Plance and Lance whump. 3,508 words. 
Of Claws and Steel - a science-fiction, super sentai cat armour AU entered around the Lions as futuristic mecha armour. Most underrated fic here. 14,344 words.
Hairline Fractures - another Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt fill, ‘bleeding through bandages.’ Lance whump (again). 5,059 words.
Leverage - last Bad Things Happen Bingo fill for the year, for the prompt ‘on a leash.’ Featuring Shance, and Lance and Shiro whump. 7,743 words.
Lay It Down To Save It - Leakira Klance AU written for Leakira week. Made in collaboration with @crapoftheworldblr​! 18,102 words.
to the stars and back - The Dragon Prince Plance AU with Prince!Lance and Elf!Pidge. In collaboration with @rosieclark​! 36,574 words.
Sweeter Than Honey - written for the Blue Moon Lance zine! Features BAMF!Lance as the honeypot on a mission. 4,098 words.
In The Closet - Klance fic for the winner of my fic giveaway. Fluffy, and definitely a bit saucy. 2,363 words.
Fics Posted (Gen): 5
the water was dark (and it went down forever) Nectar and Ambrosia Of Claws and Steel  Hairline Fractures  Sweeter Than Honey
Plance: 2
there ain't no rest for the wicked to the stars and back 
Shance: 3
Cold Floors and Warm Hearts Coffee Grinds and Morse Code  Leverage
Klance: 3
These Boots Are Gonna Walk All Over You Lay It Down To Save It  In The Closet
Collaborations: 2
Lay It Down To Save It to the stars and back
Ship/Character breakdown:
Ship breakdown:
This year, the biggest ship I wrote for was Shance (3 fics), with Plance (2) and Klance (2.5) coming in from behind. The k/l ficlet doesn’t count as a full fic.
Character breakdown:
Of the 13 fics, Lance is in the most with 13 (insert surprised pikachu face here), then it goes Shiro (12), Keith (10), Pidge (8), Hunk (7), Allura (6) and Matt Holt (2). Other characters appear only once, such as Coran, Haggar and Kolivan. Technically, the Blue Lion clocks in at 2 mentions. 
Characters that had the main focus:
Lance had the sole POV for 7 of those fics, and shared POVs (in a collaboration) iin 2 additional fics. Shiro had the second most POVs at a total of 3, while Keith had 1 sole POV and 1 shared POV, and Pidge with one shared POV.
Specifics:
Best/worst title?
Best title: the water was dark (and it went down forever), but honestly so many other fics has titles I liked. This title was based off of the Tim Winton short story by the name name, The Water Was Dark And It Went Down Forever, where the main character swims and debatably drowns. So it’s fairly fitting.
Runners up titles include Sweeter Than Honey, to the stars and back, and Lay It Down To Save It.
Worst title: Hairline Fractures. It’s dumb and it makes no sense. It was the first thing that came to mind.
An honourable mention includes Leverage, which would be first if not for the fact that the title inspired the ending, so it’s not too bad.
Best/worst last line?
Best: From the water was dark (and it went down forever):
Blue’s grasp on him was like an endless expanse; an opulent and brilliant ocean. Her waters were dark, and  it went  down forever.
This was definitely my favourite, even though it’s pretty cringe. The way it was formatted in ao3 and the way it related to the title plus the reoccurring symbolism of water made it pretty neat!
Worst: From there ain't no rest for the wicked:
Pidge laughed, and turned her back from the darkness.
I’m sorry. This ending was so cringey. I hate it. There’s nothing else to say except I have no idea how to fix it. Oof.
General questions:
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
tbh, I wrote a lot more, considering I had my final exams this year. Breaching 100k was crazy. 
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
Honestly? Klance. I’m not the biggest fan of the ship but writing it is very interesting, and I enjoyed it. 
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Of Claws and Steel hands down! It’s the first fic idea I ever had for VLD,  and the one I really love the most. One day I’d love to write a continuation of it, but the reception of the fic wasn’t great so idk.
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
the water was dark (and it went down forever) even though it was started in 2019, was finished this year and is my most popular fic of all time! It’s got 4k+ hits and 450+ kudos. Crazy, since it was only supposed to be a dumb little warm up fic to get me back into writing in preparation for Of Claws and Steel. Alas, turns out people really liked it!
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
Of Claws and Steel. It was the fic I worked the hardest on this year but got the least amount of attention :)
Story that could have been better?
Easily there ain't no rest for the wicked. There was so much plot and so many things I wanted to include but didn't. There’s a lot of things missing and bad plot flow. One day if I got more time, I’d love to write more on it.
Sexiest story?
In The Closet, hands down. It gets a bit steamy with a k/l makeout session. Originally it was going to be a lot saucier but I wasn’t too comfortable in my ability to write it well ahaha. 
Saddest story?
None of my stories were sad, per se. Most of the sad ones were more scary/foreboding rather than actually being sad. I guess to the stars and back right now, because it’s dealing with Lance’s insecurities and Pidge’s desperation to find her brother (and a lot of other things, which will be revealed in the future!)
Most fun?
Sweeter Than Honey! It was fun to write and is my most fun fic. BAMF!Lance and his witty commentary is always a great laugh.
Story with single sweetest moment? 
I can’t choose :,). It’s a three-way tie between Cold Floors and Warm Hearts’s last scene where Shiro realises Lance bought him the necklace, Lay It Down To Save It’s scene that I can’t say because it’s technically unpublished ;), and to the stars and back’s scene where Lance and Pidge talk about what they would like to be in life (ch3).
Hardest story to write?
Probably Of Claws and Steel, as I completely stagnated on the story for a long time. It took me 8 months to write it. Without Rue’s help, I probably would have taken so much longer. Runners up is Leverage, as it took me like a solid week to write 90% of it, and 3 more months to write the remaining 10%. For some reason, parts of that fic were such a pain to write. 
Easiest/most fun story to write?
The easiest was definitely to the stars and back. I could relate to a lot of Lance’s actions and thoughts in the fic, so writing his POV was super easy and rather cathartic ngl. However the most fun was probably Sweeter Than Honey, as it was super self indulgent ahaha.
Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?
Lay It Down To Save It changed my perception of Keith. I don’t particularly like Keith in canon, but I’ve warmed up to his fanon self and general character after writing from his POV.
Most overdue story?
Of Claws and Steel easily! It was the first VLD fic idea I had but took 8 months to write. Oops? 
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
For the first time I incorporated HTML coding into my fics, which taught me a lot about coding and different ways to convey certain messages and detail things. These codings altered fonts and colours, which you can see in 
What are your fic writing goals for next year?
Write my tua/vld au fic, which will be my first solo multi chapter fic, and hopefully finish it by the end of next year. Also, sticking to a consistent writing schedule and try to write at least 100 words a day, plus finishing TSSAB. I’d also like to finish some more BTHB prompts!
That’s all, folks! Thank you all for sticking with my writing! Hopefully 2021 brings even more writing, fun times, and great fics. Happy New Years (in 24 hours), everyone!
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cream-so0da · 3 years
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My New Main Blog
I got locked out of my old one on my ipad so that one is now my 2nd blog.
confusedscreaming123 —> cream-so0da
Fandoms I’m In
-Toh
-Warriors
-WoF
-Stranger Things
-IT
-IANOWT
-TUA
-Fantasy High (I’ve only watched season 1 so please don’t say anything season 2)
-TGWDLM/Star Kid
-Musicals in general lol
-Lumberjanes
DNI
-if you are You are an exclusionist (ace, pan, nb)
-A map/pear/pedo/nomap/etc or think their valid
-Anti-BLM/Pro ALM or Blue lives matter
-A trump supporter
-Homophobic/Transphobic/A terf
-An anti-anti/pro-ship
-A B*lly Hargrove or H*rringrove stan
-A Cringe blog
-Believe in cringe culture
-A p*rn/nsfw blog
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I'd read any fic you write🥺❤ You are an amazing writer, don't let anyone tell you otherwise! I read EVERYTHING you write (except down below, since I haven't started reading it yet, but I'm planning on reading it because from what I've seen, IT'S AMAZING)
aw, this is so nice to hear. Thank you! But a lot of my tua writings haven't been doing great, I don't know if it's my writing in general or the fandom itself not getting any recognition like it used to. I just don't see the point of writing it, I don't get discouraged but I'm in a thought of "what's even the point of writing them."
& yeah, I don't expect people to read Down Below. It's 76 chapters long and the first season is so cringe, I gag when I read what I used to write 😂
but thank you for reading my content, sending this ask and your compliment. makes me feel better 🥺💞
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