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Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.

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Hey teenagers.

You aren't slick. We adults know you look at our smut. We know no amount of minors DNI is gonna stop you from looking at our smut. We were teenagers once too, you know?

But please. Don't interact with people about sexual things online. Reading somebodies adult fic is fine. I don't like it, but you're gonna do it. Commenting on that smutfic, or joining a discord server for it, puts everyone in a really dangerous situation. Thats an entirely different level of risk. Not even with people your own age, since you can never know for sure.

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media: the very serious brooding asshole character is actually super deep and complex

me: ok

media: the dumb joke character is actually super deep and complex

me: ghhogoohhh. ohhhh oh mygod. oh m. oh. are you kidding me. oh i am going to throw the fuck up over this

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Good stuff good stuff.

I’m lost in 90s nostalgia. I will 100% be trying to capture them in an illustration that screams 90s to me

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another reminder to stop buying/watching/reading anything JK Rowling associated

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Adventure Story Concept: There and Back Again, simultaneously.

The story follows the same character in two timeframes. One is their initial journey away from home when they're young, naive, and inexperienced.

The other timeframe is them on their way back home after being toughened and jaded by what they've been through.

The two narratives connect and contrast in different ways. Similar situations are handled very differently by the same character at different points of their life. The origins of things in the Homeward Timeline are revealed in the Homeaway Timeline.

While the past hero slowly grows more cynical and loses their optimitism on the road to becoming their future self, the future hero is slowly regaining their hope and faith in the goodness of humanity and themself.

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not in the fandom, not out of the fandom, but a secret third thing

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FLASHHFIREEEEEE

HEllo and good morning or afternoon :]

Some FlashFire concepts I've thought about:

Scout feeling jealous about Pyro taking most of Engineers attention (the closewt to a father figure to Scout) so he confronts them about it, he notices that Pyro doesn't seem to conflicted, and they eventually get along<3

The classic about Pyro making some flower crowns and offer them to Scout, due to the pyrovision, it's just a bunch of organs and that, so Scout just goes along with it, may be funny

Playdate! (Date), they draw together, this one could be a one-sided, Scout having a repressed crush on Pyro, cursing himself since he doesn't even know a lot about them. Pyro ends up drawing them together, I suppose the BLU team are the only ones looking like little angels so idk how Pyro would sense Scout but you might get the drill

THANK YOU SO MUCH I OWE YOU MY WHOLE LIFE

#I love the idea of scout catching feelings for pyro despite knowing little about them #they deserve to have a little coloring date :)c

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I know I never post fic anymore but I’m in dire need of fic prompts

My girlfriend (oh yeah I have a gf now btw) got me into team fortress 2 and I have a feral need to write some PyroScout/flashfire stuff but I don’t know what these two would do together

So yeah either reply to this or send me an ask bc I am ✨desperate✨

Thankies

#fanfiction #fanfic #tf2 #tf2 fanfic #tf2 scout #tf2 pyro #pyroscout #flashfire

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A COMINT !!

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have you ever read a fanfic so good that you wanted to write a fanfic about that fanfic, but was too shy / too intimidated to ask for the author’s permission and too afraid that your writing wouldn’t be half as good as theirs and that it would be an insult to their work that was basically a literal masterpiece, so you just sat there fantasizing about their work and how beautiful it was and how you wished you could just eat it and how you wished canon could write your blorbos half as good as this writer did and how you just wanted to cry because you just loved that fic so much????

#I’ve had people write fanfic based on the Clem lore or the transdy fic and it’s a fucking delight #even when it’s only transentially related it’s so fucking nice to see when people are inspired by my silly little musings

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The secret wish is to write a fanfic that someone loves so much they make fan art of it, or to create a drawing that someone creates an entire fic based off of it.

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The devil works hard but fanfiction authors working with absolutely garbage characterization work harder

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Shoutout to the dedicated cheerleaders of wips who comment on each chapter and motivate the poor fic writer to keep going you are crucial to the ecosystem

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do you ever not write for so long that you’re almost afraid to? like what if I’m dumb now

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Writing tips for long fics that helped me that no one asked for.

1.) Don't actually delete content from your WIP unless it is minor editing - instead cut it and put it in a secondary document. If you're omitting paragraphs of content, dialog, a whole scene you might find a better place for it later and having it readily available can really save time. Sometimes your idea was fantastic, but it just wasn't in the right spot.

2.) Stuck with wording the action? Just write the dialog then revisit it later.

3.) Stuck on the whole scene? Skip it and write the next one.

4.) Write on literally any other color than a white background. It just works. (I use black)

5.) If you have a beta, while they are beta-ing have them read your fic out loud. Yes, I know a lot of betas/writers do not have the luxury of face-timing or have the opportunity to do this due to time constraints etc but reading your fic out loud can catch some very awkward phrasing that otherwise might be missed. If you don't have a beta, you read it out loud to yourself. Throw some passion into your dialog, you might find a better way to word it if it sounds stuffy or weird.

6.) The moment you have an idea, write it down. If you don't have paper or a pen, EMAIL it to yourself or put it in a draft etc etc. I have sent myself dozens of ideas while laying down before sleep that I 10/10 forgot the next morning but had emailed them to myself and got to implement them.

7.) Remember - hits/likes/kudos/comments are not reflective of the quality of your fic or your ability to write. Most people just don't comment - even if they say they do, they don't, even if they preach all day about commenting, they don't, even if they are a very popular blog that passionately reminds people to comment - they don't comment (I know this personally). Even if your fic brought tears to their eyes and it haunted them for weeks and they printed it out and sent it to their friends they just don't comment. You just have to accept it. That being said - comment on the fic you're reading now, just do it, if you're 'shy' and that's why you don't comment the more you comment the better you'll get at it. Just do it.

8.) Remove unrealistic daily word count goals from your routine. I've seen people stress 1500 - 2000 words a day and if they don't reach that they feel like a failure and they get discouraged. This is ridiculous. Write when you can, but remove absurd goals. My average is 500 words a day in combination with a 40 hour a week job and I have written over 200k words from 2022-2023.

9.) There are dozens of ways to do an outline from precise analytical deconstruction that goes scene by scene to the minimalist bullet point list - it doesn't matter which one you use just have some sort of direction. A partial outline is better than no outline.

10.) Write for yourself, not for others. Write the fic you know no one is going to read. Write the fic that sounds ridiculous. You will be so happy you put it out in the world and there will be people who will be glad it exists.