Lukewarm opinion but the horny teenage girl making shipping fics and art of her favorite fictional characters isn’t the same as the adult man watching women being abused, raped, and exploited on the regular.
Yeah sure, it’s all porn, technically. But one is just cringe fun while the other impacts a group of women who are already vulnerable.
I’m so tired of men using this as a gotcha when you point out their porn addiction. “Women read erotic novels/women make porn art in their fandoms” etc as if they are anywhere near being the same.
There are MANY valid criticisms as to why this fandom behavior is actually harmful but equaling it to the real life impact filmed porn is just downright asinine.
I wish there were fandom spaces that are strictly female only. I’m REALLY done with men trying to justify their porn habits by saying women do it too. No they don’t. Die mad about it.
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I’ve been thinking of cutting into fractals my poems & sewing
them into a papel picado strung from my bedposts, night-
red scalding as the lobster sunburnt to my cheeks & chest
when I fell asleep in the yellowed grass dreaming myself whole.
— Jennifer Givhan, from "Sonnet as Corrido for this Busted Mami, y Yo," Belly to the Brutal
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First post!
Hello :) I'm Nico (any pronouns, aroace)
If I get the courage to post somewhat often (I usually just lurk and heart), it will probably be stuff that I've made, random things or night/shower thoughts that (pre)occupy my brain!
Here's some media I enjoy (in alphabetical order 'cause I cannot rank for the life of me) :
Blue Period (manga)
Bungo Stray Dogs (manga)
Dr. Stone (manga)
His Dark Materials (books and HBO series)
ManlyBadassHero (gaming youtuber)
Omori (game)
Professor Layton (games)
Riordanverse (books)
SPYxFAMILY (manga)
The Dark Pictures (game anthology)
The Promised Neverland (manga)
Toilet Bound Hanako-kun (manga)
Vocaloids and vocaloid producers (music)
Vtubers (various)
Webtoon (various)
Yo Kai Watch (games)
This is just a fraction of the things that go round in my head like a pinball ball (there's also languages, dinosaurs and dragons and lizards-)
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Show can I ask you for some writing tips? I'm still very. Very new to writing and all I know is that I love ur style -w-"" u manage to fill so much space without it feeling rambly ._.
oh thank you very much! i am definitely not writing this while procrastinating a fic
Read.
this one feels obvious but the more you read the better you'll write. reading will expand your vocabulary and the way you choose to word stuff. you'll replace old phrases with ones that are better composed. for instance, i know that a lot of my writing quirks can be directly traced back to john flanagan bc he was such an influential author in my life!
Write.
Every author's advice is to just write all the time, and they aren't wrong. I have been writing fanfiction since I was about twelve years old. i was known in middle school and high school for always carrying a notebook with me, and at just about any downtime, i'd pull it out and jot down a good page of whatever i'm working on (which later became my laptop in college). seriously--writing is just the same as any other art. you have to keep trying.
Read pt 2, Electric Boogaloo
Read out loud. read anything out loud. teachers will recommend this to you to make sure that you don't have typos in your essay, but it's good advice for literally anything. it can be just that--"i don't like how this paragraph works so i'm going to read it aloud to see if there's a more natural way to put it". if you have someone to read to, that's even better--i read the entire lotr trilogy out loud last year to my sister. the most effective way to remember something is to teach it to someone else, which is essentially what you're doing when you read out loud--you're committing those writing quirks/styles that you like to memory.
Try Things
Be experimental! not everything is going to be your style, and that's okay! try writing a genre you're not used to, go for a poem, write the most purple-prose love letter you can and then write an equally dramatic rejection letter! it's okay to have fun while experimenting and looking for what sticks in your style.
Outlines
I will be the first to say that I don't care about outlines whatsoever. literally get out of my face with that. but they can be really helpful and legitimately give you a lot less work to do! for example, i was stuck for actual weeks on the upcoming chapter of the superpowers au. so one day i sat down with a notebook and made a list of everything i wanted to happen before the end of the fic, then split that into chapters--"I want the gang to come up with an infiltration plan. okay, who would come up with it? what would be everyone's roles? I don't want these characters there, what can I do to get rid of them? i want to show more of this, what sort of situation can i come up with that will get my point across as to how bad things really are for him? non-negotiable they have to meet at this place. definitely negotiable this person being there. why wouldn't this person be there?" and so on and so forth. it really helped, which sucked bc i didn't want it to help >:(
Go For Walks
I get most of my planning done away from my bed/desk. it has a legitimate scientific reason for this but idk what it is. something about how moving your body kicks your brain into gear or something. so i'll go on a walk/get in the shower/get up and go do something else and inspiration will hit hard enough that i'll be doing something else entirely while planning out a very specific paragraph in my head down to the word. and then i have to write to get to that paragraph and it always turns out so much better than anything i force while hanging out in my room. last night in the shower the part i was planning was soap opera dramatic like you don't understand and now i actually have the motivation to keep writing so that i get to that part
Rapid Fire Advice
Write silly notes in your margins. don't know how it helps but it does.
Get someone to beta read it who is very excited about what you're writing. they'll usually leave comments about how much they like certain parts intermingled with critique, that way it isn't just criticism.
Be proud of yourself!! you're doing great <3
If you've got writer's block but you're itching with the energy to create, do something about it. i usually put on some music and start cleaning. that gets the movement trigger to get my brain to start working on ideas and bonus! i don't feel unproductive!
Screw MLA or APA or whatever. write how you want to. start sentences with 'and'. refuse to indent that first paragraph. murder
It's a first draft for a reason my dude don't overthink stuff
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That's all the advice i have for the moment! the most important stuff is to read i think. it doesn't matter what, just read. much love!!
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A bit little story, I started TRC because of Syaoran but then Tokyo arc happened (yet at that time, it was missing in the internet so idk wtf is happening), and the only thing I can do to find out what happened in that arc is watching the anime or buying the comic. The OVA wasn't translated yet (and I'm still elementary grader) so I opted to go to the manga and found Subaru. I got curious about his original series and read TBX.
I have never recovered from then.
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