littleferal

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“imagine caring so much about fiction” imagine being so lame that you scoff at the timeless human practice of falling in love with art and stories

[littleferal]

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

#writing helps

[littleferal]

Overseas 🇺🇸

#lool #cod boys #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish

[littleferal]

sometimes all a woman needs in her life is a fictional character willing to kill for them. that’s all

#ghost & soap ftw

[littleferal]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#the fact that the majority consider it an 'entry level kink' really concerns me #that its normalised to that degree #if you're into it im not judging #but im super concerned for the generation that seemingly believes its literally normal practice #i remember hearing a story recently of a young woman (18-23?) who hooked up with a guy who actually knocked her unconscious with it #she woke up the next morning and he was asleep next to her #she left pretty fucking fast and got a text a few hours later saying how the sex was great and they should do it again soon #IMPLYING HE KEPT GOING AFTER SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS #HE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE OR WAS CONCERNED?! #fucking terrifying #if your kink endangers you in anyway pick your partners wisely #and really think twice about letting strangers do it

[littleferal]

It's very easy to select the text of a fic and copy-paste it on Ao3, right?

Well, we can stop people (and AI) from doing this by adding a skin to our fics!

I just did it with all my fics and it works.

How to do it, step by step⬇️

1) Log in. Click 'Skins' in the menu, at the left. Then click 'My Work Skins' and after doing this, click 'Create Work Skins' at the top right.

2) Write a title for your skin (anything you want, it doesn't matter). Then in the large text box, write this:

#workskin * {

user-select: none !important;

-webkit-user-select: none;

-moz-user-select: none;

-ms-user-select: none;

}

This is what you should see:

3) Click 'Submit'. Your skin has been created, and now you have to add it to all your works.

4) Click 'Works'. Then click 'Edit Works' at the top right.

5) Click 'All' to select all your works. Scroll down and click 'Edit'.

6) Scroll down until you see 'Select Work Skin' and select the one you just created.

7) Click 'Update All Works'.

Now, people can't select the text of your fics and copy it😊

PS: I also recommend changing the visibility of your fics to 'Only Show to Registered Users'. You'll lose your anon readers, but it will protect your works a bit more against AI scrappers

#writing helps #thanks op!

[littleferal]

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

#tags and summary get me to look at it #first look tells me if i should stay (if there's no paragraph breaks im gone) #and quick scan read of first paragraph or so tells if its gonna be good #i have never looked at the kudos or comments number

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jenny holzer

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Seamless

#cuties #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #cod boys #fanart

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#yeah

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[littleferal]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

#writing helps

[littleferal]

Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:

“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”

#important

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Soap is so smart

Really he is. Do you know how much math and science and so much other kinda technical mumbo jumbo that’s needed to go into being a demolitions expert? You know, the people who deal with fucking bombs??

(I don’t know won’t pretend to but I know there’s gotta be something)

Not only that but he’s just extremely good at taking things apart and putting them back together in quick succession, as well as fixing things.

Tired of people making him out to be a complete idiot. He can act goofy, but that man is smart

#johnny boy #john soap mactavish #cod boys #my beloved

[littleferal]

Forgive yourself for the coping mechanisms you adopted during challenging times.

#my therapist always said that those things wouldn't have come into being if they didn't serve us #the issue is that it no longer helps #so you have to say thank you for helping me all that time but i no longer need you

[littleferal]

men really need to start having chest hair and just leaving their shirts half unbuttoned again. i think it will start to heal society

#the bf has chest hair and really doesn't like it #unfortunately i dont think i could convince him of this look

[littleferal]

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

#livejournal fics my beloved