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bairdcrevan · 8 months

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Fanfic writers, I am begging you- even with dialogue that is clearly attributed, start a new paragraph with each new speaker. The reader shouldn't have to wait until after the dialogue is spoken to understand who is saying it.

Even if it's one word?

Yes.

But it makes things so long!

Great! Your stories will be the king of scrolling, a feast of thumbs, and a gentle stroke across a phone screen.

This convention exists for a reason! Each new paragraph should be a new idea or a new speaker. It's a shortcut for our brains to know that we have jumped across a gap and into the unknown, and you as the writer are about to explain to me where we have jumped to, but at least I know we are somewhere different.

Please practice this! I see so many good fanfic I want to read but except for this huge, glaring issue and it becomes impossible to understand what is happening.

#writing #fanfic help #writing help #suggestion #writing advice #baird writing academy

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artistmarchalius · 10 months

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British Terms of Endearment ❤️🤍💙

Here’s another one for all the Spider-Verse and Hobie fanfic writers!

Terms of endearment are handed out fairly liberally in the UK and aren’t restricted to people you actually love. You can hear them from all sorts of people, from your very best friend to the person delivering the post. There’s a lot of words to use to be friendly or show someone you care for them.

So here’s an assortment of British terms of endearment! Let’s get started:

Terms of endearment:

Love/Luv - It’s fairly common to use this term of endearment with strangers, it’s not strictly reserved for loved ones. An employee at the garage might ask you “What tires do you need, luv?” or the person working the checkout might say “That’ll be £23.95, love.”

Because of how common it is in everyday conversation, it’s easy to keep using it with the people you do love.

E.g. “Anything for you, love.” Or “Hey there, luv. How was your day?”

Lovely - Used similarly to “Love/Luv”. It’s very common to put “my” in front of it.

E.g. “You alright, my lovely?”

Duck/Ducky - this term is used more commonly around the Midlands of England. I’m adding this to the list because I love it. It’s common to put “me” in front of “duck”.

E.g. “Ducky, come look at this!” Or “Alright there, me duck?” Or “I’ll get that for you, duck.”

Pet - this term is more common around the North East of England. Using this term doesn’t mean you think of the recipient as a pet, it’s just cutesy.

E.g. “That’s okay, pet.”

Sunshine - although it is an affectionate word, I’ve personally seen it used more sarcastically or threateningly. Imagine, you’re watching TV and an East End gangster has come to intimidate someone who grassed them up. It’s dark, they walk menacingly through the door and greet them in a low, gravelly voice: “Hello sunshine.”

It is still used affectionately though. E.g. “Nice to see you, sunshine!”

Treacle - from the Cockney rhyming slang “treacle tart” meaning sweetheart.

E.g. “You alright there, treacle?”

Sweetheart - for those that don’t want to use/don’t know about “treacle”.

E.g. “Thank you, sweetheart.”

Princess/beautiful/treasure - these are some East End/Cockeny terms of endearment used typically by the working class and usually towards women. It can feel a bit condescending to be called this, but it’s meant in an inoffensive, friendly way.

E.g. “Thanks for the help, princess!” Or “Nice chatting with you, treasure!”

Dear - Used more by older people. This is another term you might hear from a stranger, especially an older one. Younger people tend to use it more when they want to sound a bit more old timey or posh, often in a comical way. E.g. “Yes, dear.”

It’s more common to hear it used in regards to saying that someone “is a dear”, either in response to being kind or asking them to do something kind. E.g. “You’re such a dear!” Or “Would you be a dear and fetch me my slippers?”

Darling - This is more of an upper class term of endearment, however it can also be abbreviated to “darlin’”, which you might hear more often, especially if you’ve ever been in a London taxi. Like “lovely”, it’s common to put a “my” in front of it.

E.g. “Darling, I read the most ghastly thing in the newspaper this morning.” Or “Alright then, my darlin’, where are we off to?”

Baby/Babe - these are used commonly around the world and we use them here too! In Essex (just east of London) you’ll more commonly hear the other alternative “Babes”. This would be in reference to one person rather than being a pluralisation of “Babe”.

E.g. “Love ya, babes!”

Poppet - often used in reference to a young child or a girl. Can also be in reference to someone sweet.

E.g. “Here you go, poppet.” Or “Don’t fret, poppet, it’ll be alright.”

Mate - interchangeable with “friend”. You can use the term with strangers and friends alike.

E.g. “You doin’ okay, mate?” Or “Shove off, mate!”

Insults: as it most likely is in many parts of the world, it is quite common to jokingly use insults as terms of endearment. I’m talking swear words, creative insults and normal/silly words used in the tone of rude words (an example for the last one: “Stop throwing socks at me, you gammy sausage!” Or “Leave it out, you splunky wimble!” used affectionately. Although you can preface with a swear to make it more spicy). This is probably really obvious but I still wanted to point it out since a lot of the other items on this list can be used with strangers, but this is only done with people you’re close with. I shan’t write any of the rude words here, I aim to be family friendly, but if anyone wants to double check if an insult can be used affectionately or if you want to create a British sounding non-rude/normal word/silly word insult but you don’t know how, don’t be shy, you can send me an ask or a message! I’m happy to proofread!

Words relating to love/romance/feeling amorous:

Fancy - to have a crush or to like someone.

E.g. “I fancy him!” Or “She fancies Justine’s older sister.”

Chat up - to flirt.

E.g. “He was chatting up some girl at the bar.”

Fit - attractive.

E.g. “She’s well fit!”

Peng - attractive/appealing. It’s more frequently applied to people but things like food or clothes can be peng too.

E.g. “He’s well peng!” Or “Those shoes are peng!”

Lush - attractive.

E.g. “He’s so lush!”

Bang tidy - someone who is extremely attractive/sexy. It can also be used to describe something that is of very good quality or beauty.

E.g. “She’s bang tidy!”

So there we go, an assortment of terms of endearment used in Britain! I’ve primarily stuck with terms used in and around London, the South and the South East of England since that’s the area that Hobie would probably be most familiar with. A lot of these terms are also used in America and other parts of the world, so if you’ve seen something here that you already use (and aren’t a member of the UK) then just use this as confirmation that we use the word here too. I’m not trying to say that these words are UK exclusives.

I also want to point out that when you or someone you don’t know uses overly familiar language, it can sometimes feel condescending or uncomfortable. Just because it’s common here, doesn’t always mean it’s appreciated. I don’t want to give the impression that every Brit says they love each other and every other Brit is happy to hear about it. Everyone has their own preferences.

I hope you have found this helpful or at the very least somewhat entertaining. Once again, I’m not an expert, I just want to share the information I have in the hopes that it will help or entertain someone. If you want more British slang info, check out my Cockney rhyming slang post here and my British police slang post here! Let me know if there are other areas of British slang you’d like to hear about!

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lucifer-imaginaryfriend · 15 days

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“Savory Applebutter” part: 1

I'm planning on maybe switching this format into something else (ex maybe paper and pen, a bit of writing and pictures like light novel style)

#savory applebutter

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dawnstar137 · 1 month

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Looking for a stranger things fic!! Could have been here or Ao3

Pretty sure it was Steddie enemy to lover but I didn't get far.

Steve is always trying to be nice and Eddie is a huge ass to him, like Steve brings sodas and Eddie gripes about charity and insults him and I remember Steve offered them to play dnd at his house and they all went and Steve made a whole space for them and Eddie was a jerk about him hanging around like every time he was there and then Steve brings them sandwiches and he says something over the line but I can't remember anymore I think I lost track of it.

It's like Mike or Dustin mentions they can't use the hellfire space next week and Steve does it and Eddie is like mean af about Steve pitying them and they are not really friends in the beginning Steve wants to be but Eddie cannot stop being mean and calling him fake long enough

Plz comment if you know which one/where supr please

(Maybe found it in comments but also not super sure it's the same one, if anyone thinks they know plz lmk)

#stranger things #stranger things fanfic #iso fanfic #iso stranger things fic #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #enemies to lovers #help #fanfic help #fanfic crisis #fanfiction #steddie fanfic

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erenaeoth · 1 year

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PLUSH BOOKS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

I received several comments this morning informing me that one of my fanfictions has been stolen and published for money by a company called "Plush Books". A group of saints on twitter have been helping fic authors who's fics have been stolen, and have been providing information on what to do if you are affected. Please reblog this so that fanfic authors can check if they have been plagarised and learn what to do if they have.

Plush Books have been using FicLabs to download entire fics then upload them and sell them as e-books and paperbacks on multiple different sites including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Abe Books and others.

Twitter user KokomRoily has been calling for help with contacting affected authors and a spread sheet in Google Docs of contacted authors has been made here. You can find the full list of works published by Plush Books here.

KokomRoily provides a good template to use with the Amazon DMCA takedown form (X, text version), which has limited characters, however, you will also need to search other sites too. Other sites have different legal requirements, and I'm copying the template I used here. A good way to find most of the places you need to contact is to look on Good Reads, which lists lots of the marketplaces selling the book.

Make sure you add an author note on the original story stating that this company do not have the rights to publish your fic. I strongly suggest sending this email from the email address that your fic account is registered to, in case you need to provide further evidence. Here is an email template that I put together based on the one above and modified according to the legal demands required on Barnes and Noble's takedown help page:

To whom it may concern,

I affirm under penalty of perjury that I am [YOUR AUTHOR NAME ON YOUR FIC], the author of the work "[YOUR FIC NAME]" posted at [LINK] (entire work) as a free-to-read story. My work has been stolen and published and you are currently listing the work as for sale at the following location [LINK ON MARKETPLACE] as "[BOOK NAME]" by Plush Books.

Under statute 17 USC 512, [MARKETPLACE] has a legal obligation to take down Plush Books' "[BOOK NAME]" in response to a valid DMCA takedown notice by the author. According to this statute, if "[BOOK NAME]" is not taken down, you are making [MARKETPLACE] liable to be sued. Please check with a manager to verify.

I will not be filling in my contact information such as home number and address and I am not required to do so in order for my claim to be valid. I have written in the author's note section of my story that I have not given Plush Books permission to use my work, which is proof enough that Plush Books has stolen the work from someone. If you would like more proof, I can email you screenshots of comments/kudos I've received from my readers from [DATE], the original date of publication, that are still in my inbox.

I have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. The information in the notification is accurate, and I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Please take ""[BOOK NAME]"" down.

Sincerely,

[YOUR AUTHOR NAME ON YOUR FIC]

#plush books #fanfic copyright #copyright infringement #fanfic help #psa #fanfiction #writing #fanfic #ao3 #writing help

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ag-cookiebat800 · 15 days

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I want to do a Lucifer fem!reader fanfic and smut stories, but I have no idea how to write at all I wish I could collab with someone cuz I got a whole lot of ideas and my own personal fantasies in my mind I just can't write them down I absolutely love Lucifer and I really want to express it. If anyone is willing to work with me, please let me know✨️💋❤️‍🔥🍎🐍🦆

#lucifer fandom #hazbin hotel #fanfic help #writing collab #hazbin #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel fanfiction #lucifer #lucifer x reader #lucifer x you #Lucifer Morningstar #apple daddy

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victor-bass02 · 13 days

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SATOSUGU FANDOM I NEED HELP,

can anyone tell me what was the name of the fic of Satoru and Suguru marrying each other. But it started with them playing chicken that they started dating. And years later, married, have kids and their own business they are both still playing chicken and mistaken unrequited pining ensues.

#satosugu #fanfic help #jjk #gojo satoru #geto suguru

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mojowitchcraft · 6 months

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How to Add Images to Ao3

Since it's @steddiebang season I thought I'd do a quick guide on how to add images to your fics in case people don't know how! First off, you need to use the "Rich Text" Editor on Ao3

Next, you need the url of the image you want to embed. This needs to be a direct link to the image (not the post of it on socials) the way to get this is to right click on the pic wherever it's posted and "copy image address" this will copy the direct link to the image

In the Ao3 Rich Text editor click the picture icon to "insert/edit image" paste the "source" url adjust width and height as needed

There you go! Image in your fic! A few things to note: I copied this url from tumblr, the quality is significantly lower than the Ch1 image I already have in there. Since I haven't posted all my title cards on socials I posted them on imgur and set them to private. You could also post them on a private Pinterest board or another hosting site, you just need that url to the image address.

If you want the image to be centered (something i struggled with for a while) you can click next to it to select the text line it's sitting in and center it from there

Personally, when I embed art in fics I add a line underneath to link to credit the artist & the original post to encourage readers to engage with the art directly. You can do that in the rich text editor like so:

And cause i'm a stickler for crediting here's the link to this art by @glitterfang on Twitter & Tumblr

If you want to link anything in the Summary or Notes then you need to use html like this: <a href="LINK URL" rel="nofollow">DISPLAY TEXT</a> Okay! Thanks for coming to my ted talk, hope that helps at least one person!

#ao3 tutorial #fanfic help #ao3 help

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duckthewarshippable · 1 month

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Hello Tumblr I am looking for a Klance fanfic I read like a year ago, it was on AO3, it was an Au where they were friends with benefits and post war AU. I remember they get married halfway through. Also I'm pretty sure all of the sex is implied. I know in one chapter they have sex in a bathtub. There's also a part where they are renovating a beach house and there's a thing about how shitty earth beer is. It was super wholesome.

I remember really liking it and would honestly be super jazzed if y'all could help me out

UPDATE: IT GOT FOUND

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22216504/chapters/53045212

Thank you to @msmadamemim for finding it, you rock so much!!

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hanniballecterkinnie · 6 months

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hannigang i need help. do yall have fic recs where its the alana scene where she comes down half dressed while jack asks hannibal if he has an alibi and then goes “i was with him all night”. that scene? but with hannigram? gang please

#gang. please #desperate #i REMEMBER i read a fic like it #and will knew hannibal had killed #but i DONT REMEMBER IT #FUCKKK #hannibal #hannigram #fic rec #hannibal nbc #hannibal lecter #nbc hannibal #will graham #fic #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic help #help

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deadhoneybee · 14 days

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Can someone please tell me how i can look for wolfstar fics on ao3 with out ove half the results being jegulus as the main pairing 😭🙏🏻

I love them, very much but i just wanna read some wolfstar right now :,)

#please help me #the marauders #remus lupin #sirius black #wolfstar #marauders era #marauders #ao3 #fan fic #ao3 fanfic #marauders fanfiction #fanfic help #fanfiction #dead gay wizards from the 70s #dead gay wizards #remus john lupin #sirius orion black #sirius

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solsays · 5 months

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Hi so I’m working on designing house layouts for Pac/Mike/Richas and Fit/Ramón for burnt espresso and I was wondering if there were any Brazilians here who would be interested in helping me with what Brazilian houses are typically like?

in one of my one-shots I wrote them having things that aren’t typically in a Brazilian household and someone commented on it :) they were very kind and helpful, but it made me realize I know very little about the culture and living style of traditional Brazilian households.

While burnt espresso is based in a secluded little American college town close to the Canadian border (nobody really knows if it’s actually in America in canon, it’s a running bit later on), I do want to make sure I capture the nuances of the different cultures since that’s the point of QSMP :] Let me know if you’re interested in helping out! I’ll give you credits in the notes of the chapters in burnt espresso if you’ve got an ao3 acc, and if not I’ll credit you from tumblr

TLDR: If you live in Brazil I’d love someone to help with traditional Brazilian living things for my hideduo fic, since I want to respect the culture but know very little about it!

#qsmp #fitmc #pactw #qsmp fanfic #qsmp fitmc #qsmp pac #qsmp fanfiction #hideduo #fanfic help #ao3 fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #qsmp brasil #qsmp brazilians #brazil

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thrxughthenxght · 8 months

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Family Dialogue Prompts:

"Sweetie, dinner's ready."

"Where did Character B go? It's getting dark." "They're supposed to be with character A."

"If your mother finds out about this she will lose her mind."

"Hey! Give that back!" "No, you've annoyed me in the car all day."

"But Dad!" "No buts."

"Did you take the trash out?" "Yeah?" "They why is the recycling bin still full?"

"When will you give me grandkids?" "What?"

"Your mom." "We have the same mom-"

"You were adopted." "I've seen my birth certificate." "It's a fake." "You're a fake."

"Mom, dad, I want a little sister!"

"It's alright, sweetie. Just take a deep breath."

"I only want what's best for you, and I think what's best is what makes you happy. So yes, I'm okay with _____."

"Mom, dad, I'm dating character B." "Thank god, we thought you were dating Character C."

"Mom, please come get me."

"I'm here. It's alright."

"I remember one time when you were a baby you-" "Dad!"

"Having two dads is the worst." "Why?" "I will never be able to date anyone ever. I have two dads."

"Having two moms is the worst." "What? Why?" "You think I can bring boys home?"

"I'm your mom, I'll always be here when you need me."

"I'm your dad, I'm here to help."

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bestie-ghostie · 6 months

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Transformer fans pls help me

Im trying to find an optimus x reader fanfic where he tells her “i love you” in morse code everytime shes around but she doesnt know. If anybody knows the name or where to find the fic please let me know Im going crazy!! Thank my fellow optimus lovers ❤️💙

#transformers #optimus prime #optimus prime x reader #fanfic help #please help me find #im going nuts

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artistmarchalius · 11 months

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Offering out my services to Spider-Verse writers as a British consultant because I’ve seen some horrendous misuse of British slang and terminology from Hobie in fanfics.

My experience:

Being British

Previously been a British Teenager

Hung out in the Mems with the Archbishop of Banterbury

Knowledge of London

#hobie brown #spiderman across the spiderverse #hobie brown atsv #atsv hobie #Spiderman #atsv fic #fic help #spider man: across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #across the spider verse fanfic #fanfic help #spider verse fanfic #hobie brown fanfiction #spiderman fanfiction #legit not joking #I’ve seen some good fics and others make me curl up inside #let’s work together to give Hobie more accurate slang

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sga-owns-my-soul · 5 months

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i'm writing a fic that requires many many pairings and i'm getting stuck, so far i have

john/rodney

teyla/kanan

elizabeth/caldwell

lorne/novak

markham/stackhouse

it can be any kind of pairing, but it can't include radek. please send me ideas!!!

#it can't include radek bc he's the protag of this fic #i don't wanna give too many spoilers but he's fighting evil cupid #gonna be so good actually i think #my wips #fanfic help #sga #stargate atlantis

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