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everybody give it up for this brand of green. round of applause for most under appreciated green
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formosusiniquis · 4 hours
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writing tip: don't stop projecting onto your characters, but spread the projection out. fandom folk tend to pick a favorite and then put all their insecurities and interests and ideals onto just them, and it makes the world feel very small. it makes one character hyper real in a way that makes them feel fake, because while they're full of messy emotions and flaws and fun relatable narration, all the others are flat dressing just there to set up the main
an easy way to start is by actively changing a pov. if you usually write third person limited or first person with your favorite blorbo, change who has the pov and actively try to see things from another character's perspective. if old favorite is still in the story, don't write about them how you wish you were written about, but how you actually talk about yourself, or how you fear others see you. if that's mean, let it out. vary the voice
you don't always have to completely change the pov, especially if you normally don't write in a limited voice. split yourself up into pieces. if one character has your short temper, give another your abandonment issues. if one character has your quick and irreverent wit, give another your insecurity
let your characters be wrong. let someone fucking hate your favorite character for completely valid reasons. let your favorite character hate themselves and have no one be on their side. let more than one character be real
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formosusiniquis · 11 hours
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we need to bring back anon kink memes in a big way. no one is horny enough anymore. the other night i found a fic on an old kink meme from 2009 that was so well-written and also so raunchy and foul (affectionate) it could have stripped paint off my car. there is something about truly unapologetic filth that can be transcendent and tender and marrow deep and maybe if we all leaned into being anonymous depraved little weirdos again we'd learn how to have more fun.
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formosusiniquis · 12 hours
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ARCHIVE YOUR FIC ON AO3 FOR ETERNAL GLORY
It physically pains me to see people post awesome fanfiction to tumblr and nowhere else. Tumblr moves so fast! By tomorrow people who didn’t look in a tag at the right moment won’t know it existed. By next week even people who did read it won’t be able to find it back to reread. Finding anything on tumblr via search function is practically a fluke. For all intents and purposes, your hard work has a halflife of about a week at most.
PUT YOUR WORK ON AO3 WHERE IT CAN LIVE ETERNALLY, I BEG YOU
People who come into that fandom in a month, a year, even a decade will be able to find your work!
People can bookmark it!
People can rec it to others!
People can reread it into infinity! (and people like me can do that and comment every time!)
You can get comments & kudos until the endtimes because people will keep finding your work! (seriously I still sometimes get new people finding and loving my work from ~2013)
And best of all, people can SUBSCRIBE to your work so they will get email about new chapters and stories! (I’m seeing people do manual ‘Tag you in the next chapter’ lists and seriously, physical pain, this wheel has already been invented and it is rolling beautifully)
PLEASE LET ME BOOKMARK YOUR FIC I BEG YOU
“But I need an invite for AO3!”
Yes, and the waiting list is currently 2-3 days. That’s hardly worth not doing this for, right?
“But I only read fic, I don’t post it”
here is a post on why having an account just to read fic is also very worth it!
Lately I’ve been the tumblr person who jumps onto people who post cool fic to tumblr and going HEY HAVE YOU POSTED THIS TO AO3, YOU REALLY SHOULD, HIT ME UP FOR AN INVITE CODE and I hereby invite all you fellow fic readers and posters to join me into spreading the good word.
Please reblog this and tag your favourite fandoms and pairings! Spread this post to the people who need to see it! Save great fic from the tumblr void!
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formosusiniquis · 14 hours
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"this fandom is annoying" every fandom is annoying dipshit. it came free with being passionate about something.
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formosusiniquis · 15 hours
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I ALMOST FORGOT I SEE FALL OUT BOY SATURDAY!!
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formosusiniquis · 16 hours
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Reblog to spread!
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its all coming back its all coming back to me now!!!!!!!
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formosusiniquis · 19 hours
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Sorry for tagging your art with just # oogh or # oh. Just know this means im profoundly moved
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formosusiniquis · 22 hours
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I need to [remembers I shouldn't make suicide jokes] join a whaling crew
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formosusiniquis · 1 day
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Ideal work schedule:
I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks
I complete the list
I leave immedietly
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Peter Brown (British b.1967), Christmas, Combe Park, 2019, Oil
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Fangs & Basketball
Werewolf
a Stobin Month 2024 prompt | 162 words | CW: N/A | Rating: G
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“I think I could handle being a werewolf,” Steve says, popping a piece of popcorn into his mouth. 
Robin makes a ‘meh’ sound. 
Steve narrows his eyes and turns to her. “You don’t think so?” 
“You’d be a big puppy,” Robin says, “and I don’t know if you would survive against the other werewolves.” 
“Who says there are other werewolves?” Steve points to the TV where Teen Wolf is playing. “He’s the only one here.” 
“Would you market yourself like he did?” Robin asks, taking the bowl of popcorn from him. “King Steve makes his furry return,” she mocks. 
“No way,” Steve says, crossing his arms. “Hawkins could barely handle nerds playing a board game. There’s no way they’d suddenly be cool with me having fangs and claws, no matter how many games I could win.” 
Robin hums. “I guess that’s fair.” 
Steve reaches over for another handful of popcorn. “Still think I could be a badass werewolf.” 
“Whatever you say, dingus.” 
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Thank you @lady-lostmind for beta reading!
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steddie summer exchange for WIP Wednesday, please!
Some work has been done there! And here are some shareable sentences
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Auntie Maudeline snorts, making her opinion on the matter known. “Least if he took all the way after his Daddy he’d be ugly and charming.”
He knows it really was a good day when that ends his visit with a laugh instead of a fight. His Mom kissing his cheek and heading to her room. Otis only stays long enough to assure his aunt he’ll be back again in the morning before he’s out in the idling cab ready to go to his hotel.
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strvbb for WIP Wednesday please
So this is actually published now that's how long I've been putting off asks 😅 so if you're interested here's a teaser:
They didn't really write advice columns for men who work with kids and suffer from terminal cases of baby fever. He knows: he's checked. Although, the reference librarian who helped him was Robin, so Steve can't really rule out the possibility that she missed something in her haste to write her own article.
But since this was a 2-for-1 at the time here is some from a more recent WIP
Otis isn’t lurking, despite what the look Aunt Maudeline is giving him says. He’s just standing in the kitchen, trying to stay out of the way of an already established routine, even if he does have one hand on his mysterious gift while he does. It’s hard to be ready for what his Mom might do, might say, when the setting sun has made her gaze foggy and uncertain. But her touch is gentle, even if her hands are rough when she reaches up to cup his face. “It’s a good thing you take after your grandaddy, but I worry you’ve got your Daddy’s charm.” A finger taps the box he’s holding, and he isn’t sure what to make of the way it sounds. “Don’t be getting into any trouble.”
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formosusiniquis · 1 day
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Happy Wednesday to you!! Please add something to steddie summer exchange (and whatever else your heart desires)!! :)
Plenty of sentences have been added to the Summer exchange since this was sent. Here are a few shareable sentences from a more recent wip
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She’s present and aware, and in a good enough mood to give him a hard time. There’s still a lot he has to make up for with her, and some things she’s apologized for that he hopes she means; but it’s a good start. With the hard stuff out of the way he’s privileged with the chance to gossip about the inconsequential. Old petty feuds getting dragged back out, the sisters distaste for their neighbor at the end of the street, how the boy at the deli counter puts his thumb on the scale. Otis shares his own watered down exploits, an English teacher in a past life his mother finds Cambio’s treatment of the Bard a near sin.
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Belated request for the WIP of your choice for the WIP Wednesday game!
So this is only a month late, but something from a newer wip
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In the doorway, his Auntie is silhouetted in the black his eyes can't adjust to while still in the hot summer sun. She offers up an afterthought, "Oh, and you might wanna tell your little girlfriend you're staying in a hotel so she doesn't send anything else here."
It would be a lie to say it's all he can think about while he's there. Though he's long become used to the Babydoll Bandit being a constant thought at the back of his mind, once he's face to face with his Mom after all this time she easily captures his focus. It is a good day.
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