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#Writing Humor #Writing #I feel VERY called out... #:D

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The thing you have to remember, OP, is it's not always about being an 'adult' vs. being a 'minor' when people have a rule like that. It's about their comfort. There could be one hundred different reasons why they're not interested in writing with someone younger. Try not to let it worry or bother you too much. ^_^ There are plenty of great RP blogs out there who don't have age restrictions. Focus on those. And if you find someone who you can't interact with right now, there's no harm in bookmarking them for later. If they're still around when you meet their age requirements, then you can give them a go. :)

i’ve been in the rpc since i was Thirteen. i’m 20 now and still not old enough to interact with some blogs. call me childish but that’s ridiculous. twenty years old is an adult

#RPC Commentary

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why write a story if no one's going to read it?

Sometimes you don't want to share a story with others. Sometimes you do want to share it, but no one clicks on the title. So why bother writing it down if the only person you can guarantee will read it is you?

You need to get it out of your head. It just keeps replaying in your imagination on a loop and the only way to get it unstuck is to pin it down on paper.

You need to figure out what the story is. You have a lot of disjointed scenes or lines that you know are connected but you can't quite figure out how.

There's something in the story that's important to you, and you don't want to lose that thing by forgetting it. Future you might find that thing important too.

You want to be able to go back to the story again and again. Maybe to make adjustments over time. Maybe just to revisit a story that gives you the emotional release you need in that moment.

You want to be able to use text-to-speech to read the story aloud to you. Maybe it's a bedtime story. Maybe it's keeping you company while you do errands and chores.

You want to find out whether you can write a story (because not everyone can).

You want to be able to have almost the same story, but a little bit different, and you want to have it 15 times with slight variations. Then you can go through your own personal menu picking exactly the combination of beats that will satisfy you most on this reading.

You enjoy the process of finding just the right words or phrases or scenes to paint the pictures you want to shape the scene.

You want to find the exact rhythm and syllables and structure to make a sentence really sing.

You don't really have any particular reason, but you know you want to write that story down.

#Writing #writing truth #writer truth

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I don't really get all of the negativity towards the OP on this one. All they seem to want is for these other people to tag the one-liners that they're spamming the dash with. Why it that a bad thing? Isn't properly tagging things still a basic part of RP etiquette? And, I mean... maybe these people are their friends/partners/mutuals, so unfollowing isn't really something they want to do?

Anyway, I think I get where you're coming from, OP. I'm not regularly on my dash anymore, but if I were, I wouldn't want/enjoy a flood of posts like that either. If you don't feel comfortable asking them to tag (either on or off anon), and you can't unfollow them for whatever reason, then you might try some temporary blacklisting of their usernames when it happens? It's not ideal, but it'll do in a pinch. :)

That's assuming, of course, that they aren't ALWAYS spamming... in which case, you've probably got some choices that need to be made in order to best curate your space.

It's nice you guys have fun, but you're also spamming the dash now with one-liners that have no substance. You don't even create a dash game tag. Many people with slow dashes don't like their dash getting flooded by an entire one-liner circus.

#RPC Commentary

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I want to start writing again more regularly. But writing hasn't come as easy for me since my dad died... I know it's not JUST that. There are other factors that all happened around the same time. But it usually comes back to him. How much I miss him, and all the regrets I have - things that weren't done... or said. Because I thought there was time... and there wasn't. There's so much I wish I'd done differently. After losing him it's like my drive to write - to create anything - just evaporated.

Sometimes I can grab it back for a moment or two, wrestle my words into compliance, but they never stay for long. The spark is still there... I can feel it flickering in the back of my head... I just don't know what it's going to take to ignite it... to get things back to how they were.

Maybe I'll never get that back again. Which is another loss of an entirely different kind. But I'm not going to give up on it. I have to keep trying - if only for myself.

#About Me #Queued

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This kind of sounds like you're trolling, OP. Because, yeah - a lot of female OCs are ship-focused. However, so are a lot of female canons… and male OCs… and male canons, etc., etc. Female OCs just get a bad rap for some reason. And yet, some of my most interesting threads have been with female OCs.

The fact of the matter is, most people enjoy writing ships regardless of what kind of muse they write as. It's usually fun, and (generally-speaking) a lot easier to plot out than a thread that doesn't revolve around a ship. Of course, I'm not saying non-ship threads aren't fun, too. They totally can be depending on your partner and the muses involved. But, the point is, ships are fun and easy, and that's what a lot of us are here for - to have fun and relax. So why not cater to the things we enjoy most?

And just to be clear, I say this as a person who has muses across the board - male/female/etc. & OC/canon/canon AU. I'm always interested in ships, but I also try to let my partner dictate what they want out of an interaction. Because I know tend to gravitate towards shipping, I try very hard not to go into any thread assuming that's what my partner wants/expects unless we've discussed it beforehand.

But I digress. Your confession really does read like you wrote it specifically to try and get people upset in the comments. Why else would you make such a generically negative (and easily refutable) statement except to try and rile people up?

I can get people not liking female OC's because SO MANY are so ship/smut focused.

#RPC Commentary #Also - I'm a little sad to see this post has as many likes as it does. :(

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🔹 Someone else's fiction cannot cause you physical harm.

🔹If someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.

🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.

🔹Someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma.

🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.

🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.

🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.

🔹Don't like? Don't read.

#Fandom PSA #RPC PSA #Writing

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This honestly feels like such a shallow complaint/concern for someone to have. Why is 'stealing' a faceclaim something you should even be worried about... unless you know people are only following you for the face you use and NOT for your writing. In which case, why would you want them following you at all? Facechasers rarely make good writing partners.

want to know what the followers of coar think about people saying someone stole their fc. this is mainly for people who use alt fcs for canon characters. do you guys think an fc can be "stolen" like headcanons and ocs can? or do rpers not have any claim over fcs that others use? should people give credit if using the same alt fc for the same character? or is that taking rp too seriously? should people should be able to use whatever fc they want? thought!

#RPC Commentary

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I'm sorry if you're being sincere, OP, but this honestly reads like a rage-bait post to me.

"I bet everyone will start RPing with bots within the next 5-10 years"

If you're not trying to rile people up, and you genuinely believe this statement, then I think you need to take a long, hard look at WHY you choose to roleplay rather than just write fanfiction, for example. Obviously, it's not for the social interaction if AI truly IS preferable to you. So, why use AI at all? Why not just write stories for yourself instead? Why do you need a bot to help you carry the story forward?

You also need to consider that you're probably not the norm when it comes to your reasons for RPing. Most of us are here for the social aspects of it; we take the good with the bad. In my experience, for every 'drama queen' there are ten more genuine writers who want to create stories with you. I'm sorry you've had a hard time finding those kinds of people, but they really are out there. I promise. :)

I finally caved and decided to play around with Character.AI. I hate to say it, but I like it a lot better than RPing with a real person. At least AI won’t ghost me or start drama with me. Only downside is it doesn’t allow NSFW content. I bet everyone will start RPing with bots within the next 5-10 years instead of RPing with each other and people will probably start blaming AI for “ruining RP” or something because they don’t want to admit that the RPC sucks and is full of soulless, backstabbing drama queens who don’t know how to communicate properly.

#RPC Commentary

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I use to get a feeling like this from one of my partner's mutuals. Had her blocked and blacklisted - the whole shebang. Fast forward to a year later and that same person was the one who single-handedly caused the largest fandom drama I've ever had the misfortune of being involved in. I guess what I'm saying, OP, is trust your gut. If someone doesn't sit well with you and you're not sure why, don't try to reason it out. Just steer clear of them as much as you can; it'll probably save you a lot of trouble in the end.

It's super petty and I'm aware. I already have them blacklisted and blocked. I just can't fucking stand one of my favorite partner's mutuals. Everything about their muse and writing makes me roll my eyes. I can only go into so much detail but their presence in our fandom annoys me. I just needed to say it.

#RPC Commentary

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Regardless of what that statement is related to, I've always disliked it. The words feel emotionally manipulative to me. "If you REALLY cared about me, you'd do this thing for me NO MATTER WHAT you had to do to get it done!" And no, I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. Most of us do what we're capable of on that particular day or at that particular time. Most of us are just trying to get by.

When it comes directly to writing with others, I am not a machine. I am a person beyond this computer screen. I have a life, and a job, and people in real life who I like to be with and who need me. I have good days and bad days. Frankly, I haven't had a really good day since my dad died. Do I WANT to be doing things here with my partners? Yes, absolutely. But I want/need to be doing things other places, too. And my brain is shit at balancing out those needs/wants properly. It always has been.

My real life and my emotional well-being will always come before anything happening on tumblr. And that's not because 'I don't want to' be here chatting and writing with people, it's because my life does not and cannot wholly revolve around something I do for leisure.

So yeah, the whole concept of 'if I wanted to I would' (even if it 'takes me a hot minute') is so incredibly manipulative, and if I ever had a partner say something like this to me, I'd drop to SO very fast.

ya know how people are like "if he wanted to he would" about men? well, i have found the same can be said about rp partners. if they wanted to write that reply, they would. if they wanted to reply to that message you sent them, they would. if they wanted to reciprocate the effort and send you memes, they would. if they are actually interested in writing with you, they will put in the effort even if it takes them a hot minute.

#RPC Commentary

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Injury angst for writing dummies.

Hospitals and injury are always such a staple of angst fics, but 9 times out of 10 the author has clearly never been in an emergency situation and the scenes always come off as over-dramatized and completely unbelievable. So here’s a crash course on hospital life and emergencies for people who want authenticity. By someone who spends 85% of her time in a hospital. 

Emergency Departments/Ambulances.

Lights and sirens are usually reserved for the actively dying. Unless the person is receiving CPR, having a prolonged seizure or has an obstructed airway, the ambulance is not going to have lights and sirens blaring. I have, however, seen an ambulance throw their lights on just so they can get back to the station faster once. Fuckers made me late for work.

Defibrillators don’t do that. You know, that. People don’t go flying off the bed when they get shocked. But we do scream “CLEAR!!” before we shock the patient. Makes it fun.

A broken limb, surprisingly, is not a high priority for emergency personnel. Not unless said break is open and displaced enough that blood isn’t reaching a limb. And usually when it’s that bad, the person will have other injuries to go with it.

Visitors are not generally allowed to visit a patient who is unstable. Not even family. It’s far more likely that the family will be stuck outside settling in for a good long wait until they get the bad news or the marginally better news. Unless it’s a child. But if you’re writing dying children in your fics for the angst factor, I question you sir. 

Unstable means ‘not quite actively dying, but getting there’. A broken limb, again, is not unstable. Someone who came off their motorbike at 40mph and threw themselves across the bitumen is. 

CPR is rarely successful if someone needs it outside of hospital. And it is hard fucking work. Unless someone nearby is certified in advanced life support, someone who needs CPR is probably halfway down the golden tunnel moving towards the light. 

Emergency personnel ask questions. A lot of questions. So many fucking questions. They don’t just take their next victim and rush off behind the big white doors into the unknown with just a vague ‘WHAT HAPPENED? SHE HIT HER HEAD?? DON’T WORRY SIR!!!’ They’re going to get the sir and ask him so many questions about what happened that he’s going to go cross eyed. And then he’s going to have to repeat it to the doctor. And then the ICU consultant. And the police probably. 

In a trauma situation (aka multiple injuries (aka car accident, motorbike accident, falling off a cliff, falling off a horse, having a piano land on their head idfk you get the idea)) there are a lot of people involved. A lot. I can’t be fucked to go through them all, but there’s at least four doctors, the paramedics, five or six nurses, radiographers, surgeons, ICU consultants, students, and any other specialities that might be needed (midwives, neonatal transport, critical retrieval teams etc etc etc). There ain’t gonna be room to breathe almost when it comes to keeping someone alive.

Emergency departments are a life of their own so you should probably do a bit of research into what might happen to your character if they present there with some kind of illness or injury before you go ahead and scribble it down.

Wards

Nurses run them. No seriously. The patient will see the doctor for five minutes in their day. The nurse will do the rest. Unless the patient codes.

There is never a defibrillator just sitting nearby if a patient codes. 

And we don’t defibrillate every single code. 

If the code does need a defibrillator, they need CPR.

And ICU. 

They shouldn’t be on a ward. 

There are other people who work there too. Physiotherapists will always see patients who need rehab after breaking a limb. Usually legs, because they need to be shown how to use crutches properly.

Wards are separated depending on what the patient’s needs are. Hospitals aren’t separated into ICU, ER and Ward. It’s usually orthopaedic, cardiac, neuro, paediatric, maternity, neonatal ICU, gen surg, short stay surg, geriatric, palliative…figure out where your patient is gonna be. The care they get is different depending on where they are.

ICU.

A patient is only in ICU if they’re at risk of active dying. I swear to god if I see one more broken limb going into ICU in a fic to rank up the angst factor I’m gonna shit. It doesn’t happen. Stop being lazy. 

Tubed patients can be awake. True story. They can communicate too. Usually by writing, since having a dirty great tube down the windpipe tends to impede ones ability to talk. 

The nursing care is 1:1 on an intubated patient. Awake or not, the nurse is not gonna leave that room. No, not even to give your stricken lover a chance to say goodbye in private. There is no privacy. Honestly, that nurse has probably seen it all before anyway. 

ICU isn’t just reserved for intubated patients either. Major surgeries sometimes go here post-op to get intensive care before they’re stepped down. And by major I mean like, grandpa joe is getting his bladder removed because it’s full of cancer. 

Palliative patients and patients who are terminal will not go to ICU. Not unless they became terminally ill after hitting ICU. Usually those ones are unexpected deaths. Someone suffering from a long, slow, gradually life draining illness will probably go to a general ward for end of life care. They don’t need the kind of intensive care an ICU provides because…well..they’re not going to get it??

Operations.

No one gets rushed to theatre for a broken limb. Please stop. They can wait for several days before they get surgery on it. 

Honestly? No one gets ‘rushed’ to theatre at all. Not unless they are, again, actively dying, and surgery is needed to stop them from actively dying. 

Except emergency caesarians. Them babies will always get priority over old mate with the broken hip. A kid stuck in a birth canal and at risk of death by pelvis is a tad more urgent than a gall stone. And the midwives will run. I’ve never seen anyone run as fast as a midwife with a labouring woman on the bed heading to theatres for an emergency caesar.

Surgery doesn’t take as long as you think it does. Repairing a broken limb? Two hours, maybe three tops. Including time spent in recovery. Burst appendix? Half an hour on the table max, maybe an hour in recovery. Caesarian? Forty minutes or so. Major surgeries (organs like kidneys, liver and heart transplants, and major bowel surgeries) take longer. 

You’re never going to see the theatre nurses. Ever. They’re like their own little community of fabled myth who get to come to work in their sweatpants and only deal with unconscious people. It’s the ward nurse who does the pick up and drop offs. 

Anyway there’s probably way, way more that I’m forgetting to add but this is getting too long to keep writing shit. The moral of the story is do some research so you don’t look like an idiot when you’re writing your characters getting injured or having to be in hospital. It’s not Greys Anatomy in the real world and the angst isn’t going to be any more intense just because you’re writing shit like it is. 

Peace up.

#Writing Reference #Writing

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#Writing Humor #Writing #WIP

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#Writing Humor #writing #I do this to my writing partners ALL the time! >.>

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the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

#writing truth #writing

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being a writer is sometimes just like

“she raised the sword - *stares out of the window for three minutes* - high above her head, its- *plays with pen* - silver skin glinting in the- *gets up and walks around the room* - golden sunlight. her face- *opens tumblr*

#writing humor #writing truth #writing

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“Nope,” I whisper as I exit out of a fic with no paragraph breaks.

#writing tip #writing