#a non writer person

[wander-wren]

WIP Tag Game

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

oh god. i have been trying to do better at naming my docs bc they used to be atrocious so lets just see how this goes. this also isnt all of them bc some of my wips are so low priority i haven’t touched them in months and i don’t rlly wanna talk about them. high priority fics are mostly what i’m currently working on, but i’m glad to talk about any of them!!

tagging, uh, @aerial-jace, @plusonetm, @seraphrdm, @rangerlexi, and @spacetime-enthusiast, plus anyone else who wants to do it!

HIGH PRIORITY

i’m an idiot pt 2: electric boogaloo

soft d/s dabihawks

trans!inej ghafa

experimental bakudeku

shinkami make questionable decisions

LOW PRIORITY

bnha fic dump [three for one special, theres several wips in here]

quirkless!deku au

running

modern joenicky

booker gets yelled at

winged raven boys

bullet wounds

tdbkdk: a sort-of character study

t4t pynch bodyswap

adam sickfic time

blossomivy rights

#tag game #wips #fanfiction #uhh yeah #sincerely hoping i didn’t accidentally tag like #a non writer person #disregard me if i did #I Am Once Again Asking To Talk About My Fics #i have too many thoughts and yet i am bad at saying them

[konigsblog]

i swear, every time i see someone complaining about how non-con is disgusting, and i check their public likes, i guarantee i will probably find that they've LIKED non-con posts themselves.

#why does this always happen??? #this happened with another person a few weeks back #but i found another person commenting under a post #complaining about non-con while they were FOLLOWING DARK CONTENT WRITERS #even liked MY NON-CON POST

[awkward-teabag]

I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.

Because I bet it's a lot.

I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?

There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.

Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.

But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.

Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.

But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.

#and it's not like no people were doing translations so wonky translations were better than nothing #it's actual translators being fired for a subpar replacement #and anyone who keeps their job suddenly being responsible for cleaning up llm output rather than what they trained in #(which can take just as much time or longer than doing the translation by hand from scratch) #(if you want it done right anyway) #hell to this day i hear people complain about written translations of indigenous words and how they 'aren't english enough' #even though they're using the ipa and use a system white english people came up with in the first place #and you can easily look up the proper pronunciation and hear it spoken #but there's such a double-standard where it's expected that other languages cater to english/english speakers #but that grace and accommodation doesn't go the other way #and it's the failing of non-english speakers when an english translation is broken #you see it whenever monolingual english speakers travel to other countries and utterly refuse to learn the language #but if someone doesn't speak in unaccented (to them) english fluently in their home country the person 'isn't trying hard enough' #this is just the new version of that where non-english speakers are supposed to do more work and put up with subpar translations #even as a native english speaker/writer i get a (much) lesser version of this because i write with canadian spelling #and some people get pissed if their internet experience is disrupted by 'ou' instead of 'o' or '-re' instead of '-er' #because dialects and regional phrasing/spelling is a thing #human translators can (or should) be able to account for it but llms are not smart enough to do so #and that's not even getting into slang and how llms don't account for it #or how llms can put slurs into translations because it doesn't do nuance or context and doesn't know the language #if you ever complained about buying something from another country that came with machine-translated instructions #you should be pissed at companies cutting english-to-[language] staff in favour of glorified google translate #because the companies are effectively saying they're fine with non-native speakers getting a wonky/broken version

[toastysol]

I don't get why everyone's surprised that the brotherhood use the correct pronouns with Dane. I think people have forgotten a major aspect of the fallout environment. The bombs falling destroyed conventional societal norms. This includes any political agenda to erase trans people from history and the future. Also this is fiction. The brotherhood of steel are not a conservative christian political party. They care about what they dub "abuse of technology", this includes the biproducts thereof. The only people who fit that category are synths and mutants who they view as abominations that need to be exterminated. If trans people even counted as abuse of technology (which they don't and shouldn't, as the technology used for transition is helpful and not hurtful), they would be so far down the list the brotherhood wouldn't care. Why would they care. It's really not a big deal imo. It's a big deal in OUR world, but not theirs. Not by a long shot.

#fallout tv show #it's just weird to me as a trans person that this made such a huge fuss #really shows that people think it's radical to support non-binary people by simply using their pronouns #everyone's acting like it's out of character for them but it really isn't that wild #they still treat Dane like shit #like the rest of the squires #why would they care what pronoun someone goes by when the wasteland is so harsh #they have way bigger problems than someone going by they/them #and it's not like they're campaigning to protect trans people specifically #they just referred to someone correctly #we really need to raise the bar for trans support #cause if using nb pronouns is radical than oooh boy we're fucked #and I know most people prolly mean it as a joke #but it really rubs me the wrong way when people say its weird or doesn't make any sense #trans support doesn't begin and end with pronouns ok #the wasteland is not like this world. who the fuck cares what gender someone is when you could get killed by a cockroach the next day #besides it's not really the brotherhood that's respecting their pronouns it's the show writers and that matters more #anyway hope you enjoyed my rant #please raise your standards for trans support all your trans friends and family will thank you for it

[qcomicsy]

Not to be gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss, fleabag, black swan on main but I feel like we should explore more Wade Wilson femininity not only by his sexuality or his softness or his delicacy as Wade and Deadpool, but also his rage.

I'm saying that because he seems the exactly type of person who would hear a "You're acting crazy!" stop, turn to the person and say "I'll show you crazy" before setting fire in their clothes.

Give Wade the so called feminine rage he earned that shit.

#q rambles #not being able to articulate this well yet but it's damn close what I mean #something something #except personally as much as I love Deadpool as a trans guy I generally headcannon him like Nonbinary #but in this case I think it aplies to both #deadpool gender non conformity is so trans coded I love him so much he deserved be explored with care and respect by queer writers #who actually understand and give a shit about his character arc in general #Phoebe Waller Bridge should write a Deadpool media and I will die on this hill #shes very special TO ME

[amandacanwrite]

Hello everybody it is my birthday today (12/12) and I would really love it if you would consider giving this post a reblog so that it can reach more people! (This would be a wonderful bday present.)

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[lesbiangracehanson]

au where raffi discovers the 21st century concept of ‘escape rooms’ + makes the la sirena crew try out increasingly complicated holo-escape rooms that she’s found..... until the rest of the crew refuse to take part anymore because raffi’s just singlehandedly solving them in like 10 minutes flat whilst the rest of them are occasionally allowed to unlock a padlock or read out a clue for her 

#raffi musiker #star trek picard #rambles #i say this so affectionately but raffi is 100% that person who takes over in escape rooms purely because she's SO excited #to be solving a puzzle #the others have all resigned themselves to their own roles which include: #rios always breaking something in the room because he's been leaning weirdly on it #elnor taking the clues too literally but trying to help raffi anyway #after raffi soji is the most excited by escape rooms + on more than one occasion has actually #provided raffi with a solution to an integral clue #agnes attempts to get into the fun of it all but it turns out escape rooms actually make her very claustrophobic #but she refuses to disclose that info to the rest of the group #seven?? well. seven's simply too busy enjoying watching raffi in problem-solving-mode in a non life threatening situation #to be actively participating #BUT once and only once got extremely immersed + actually solved a lot more of the room than raffi #both frustrating and impressing raffi for a good 2 days afterwards #the writers may have forgotten this family but i will not :-)

[kurokrisps]

Wait people actually think Jack's a good person I thought that was just a joke?

#allow me to be srs/ on my /hj #i doooont like what the fandom is turning out to beee #yes the non/dub-con makes me uncomfy but that just comes with the whole (gestures) territory #we can dance around the 'he does it cus he love you' junk for Eons that mug is still gonna be a cold blooded KILLER #thats its whole THING. #one of the things I've grown to love abt YanHorror is the unsavory territory writers tackle. #if someone takes on an unhealthy obsession with someone they gon do Some Shit #Y'all can't cherry pick this shit. even if ur OK with that content or pick a yes route #the mug will still do bad shit and it will still be Uncomfy to watch #Boyfriend To Death and POF i think handles this particular thing the best #makes me sqeamish as hell but the realness 👌 #anyway. if i have to wait around a year for a 25 dollar horror game that doesn't have horror bc y'all can't take when a bad person is Bad #I'll come into ur home and make you watch all seasons of AHS and other Ryan Murphy shit. ya get me? #sunny day jack

[slasherscream]

Hey- I’ve sent a couple of requests asking for things like “crazy ass boy gang if reader does x” or something of that sort. Are those too vague?

no those are perfect and sexy and awesome, i love those, i'm just slow with writing.

the ones that i've been asking for years to stop, that drain me creatively, are like:

billy loomis x male reader

chucky x reader nsfw hc's

what am i supposed to do there?? come up with new stuff day in and day out?? over and over again??? for every character i write for??? and have everything be unique and fun to read??

and balance that with writing/coming up with ideas for my original creative work?? and also balance my work and social life?? not possible for me man!!

the crazy ass boys gang tag is actually the perfect place to get ideas for the types of requests that don't violate my rules. crazy ass boys gang/girls gang readers are doing fucking superb.

IT'S WHY I WRITE FOR YOU GUYS THE MOST. YOU GUYS DON'T BREAK MY RULES!!!

#bee talks #maybe seeing that i actually respond to non rule breakers will make people stop #because i dont want to hurt particular feelings i dont even want to respond to the asks that rule break directly #also just to clarify me taking a while or even a long time to reply to an ask doesnt auto mean you broke a rule #like i said im very slow because my life is pretty busy #i just CHOOSE to make this blog a priority. id appreciate it if everyone would help me feel happy abt that choice #by respecting me as a person and writer by following the rules and being NICE

[felicitypdf]

#i don’t bc i don’t know this person but. jesus christ #non fiction writer mutuals pls keep writing people like this are building careers with inane derivative substacks #and we need better😩

[roley-poley-foley]

normalise specifying the target reader's gender in x reader fics

#personal #this is something nobody but me cares about ik #but whenever i see a fic thats like ''him x reader" im like yeah no #hi. reader is a man. #this fic is very explicitly intended for women only #ofc thats fine but you can put ''x female reader'' #for the sake of clarity #writers always specify 'x male reader'' and ''x nb reader'' #yk? #but like again this isnt really something that matters #since tumblr fan spaces tend to be super female dominated #to the point that people will not even know non women are in that fan space too #i just like to complain

[dailyfigures]

I highly doubt whoever warned you about kobayashi has actually watched it… the closest to sexualization of a minor they get is hand holding… literally…

well i haven't seen the show so i can only speak based on character designs and officially licensed figures but i have to say i don't trust the writer one bit.

i personally think it's Extremely sus to have a character design that looks like a little girl and give her a massive chest and use the "oh it's okay because she's 3000whatever years old" trope. i always dislike that trope but her massive chest that's often emphasized and sexualised, in combination with childlike behaviour and looks, really leaves a bad taste for me.

again, i have only seen the first few eps (and some clips from later seasons) so i can't speak much on what happens on the anime. i just think that an officially licensed figure like this, the massive squished chest surrounded by the childish bears which are peaking and blushing at her body, is really just fucking weird. the author has written multiple other ecchi manga series starring overly cutesy women with massive chests so it's not like they're an innocent soul who would never sexualise a character like that.

we might be normal people who wouldn't sexualise young looking characters like that, but we shouldn't be naive and assume no one would. i don't think this writer has innocent intentions.

#also kanna has 2 bathing suit figs and a cat ear fig with her butt exposed #anyway sorry for going on a little rant i dont mean to insult anyone personally i just think we should hold writers like that accountable #instead of always assuming they mean well! people sadly often do not mean well #i'm not mad at anon or anyone btw!!!! i don't mean to sound harsh i'm just mad at this writer lol #i know anon and anyone else here is just trying to be helpful and i appreciate that! #anon #ask #non figure

[variousqueerthings]

finished reading "tell me I'm worthless," which was an interesting experience. I think there's something really good for you in your soul to be able to understand the genre conventions you're in and the kinds of structures and language and character that can be explored in these genres. I think about how people tend to -- with fiction about marginalisation and/or about people who are marginalised as a blanket whole, regardless of the story -- operate on a checklist of dos and donts, but mainly donts: don't ever tell us a deadname, don't ever use these "problematic" words to describe them/or have them describe themselves in this way, don't ever describe negative emotions or "problematic" emotions, don't let the characters have harmful traits (either towards themselves or others), don't hurt your characters at all actually, don't make your characters politically uncomfortable or "problematically" complicated in their political outlook and/or journey, don't make your characters be assholes ever, certainly don't traumatise your characters, and under no circumstance do you kill your characters!

which of course, this book does praaaactically every one of these things, thank goodness

#with the deadname Thing i am reminded of responses to the last of us part 2 and tbh also the latest doctor who specials #there's a kneejerk reaction as if writers/directors have outed someone's actual deadname or as if knowing that someone has #a deadname will invalidate them to a non-trans audience #lot of scar-tissue that aches around all of these points generally and horror has the ability to kick down the door on that and say #you do not have to read this story -- but this will be in this story. so if you are ready to approach these themes and these ideas #this is a safe structure -- the walls of a book or a screen or a play or an audio drama or wherever you are #my issues have very much been around social coding and not understanding what is and isnt allowed and an intense anxiety around #always saying the exact right thing at all times (not just in marginalised spaces but everywhere all the time) #(im doing it right now actually -- getting anxious about all this phrasing) #(this book is opening up pathways in my brain) #very much a meta piece as well -- it knows and acknowledges shirley jackson especially but ofc also angela carter and du maurier #and i did feel a smigeon of clive barker in there and then he was in the acknowledgements too #i have not read the last person listed so helen oyeyemi goes on the list #im reading books #alison rumfitt #tell me im worthless

[rook-writes]

trying to outline the plot for a longer project for the first time in a very long time. doing a dump doc style outline, though, and it's very wild compared to the "bullet point chap by chap" thing. we're instead doing a paragraphed outline thing.

and uh. wow. it's like 20 pages so far. i think the outline is aaaaalmost done? but wow. this is weird. is this what it feels like to write an actually detailed outline for a thing? instead of just having it in your brain and kind of loosely messing around with it like it's a connect the dots? (we are a plantser; the brain outline generally gets us from point A to Z)

anyways we're branching out with a novel idea that's not part of our series which is kind of exciting but also a little anxiety inducing. it's closer to the sci-fi end of things as opposed to our usual fantasy niche.

-res

#pluralprose #writers on tumblr #writing #writblr #writer #rook rambles #we don't really post here that often which is almost entirely just because we're very busy with non-writing shit #(aka having to work a 9-5 in manufacturing) #but we had to take time off because Oops Tragedy Strikes #so we've spent it doing pokemon then doing a bunch of this #we also edited some pen stuff on the way out of town #edit: removing the spoonie tag because i copied and pasted my tags from our last personal post oopsies #like technically this is us as a spoonie talking about writing processes but waaagh #inaccurate tag anyways #-res #quartzproj

[giantkillerjack]

To give credit to the last of us for its queer rep, it’s not just queer characters who have tragic/bittersweet endings. Literally everyone (siblings, parent and child, heterosexual) queer or not, has tragic endings. The older queer couple gets the best one out of all of them.

I guess? I mean, it is certainly much better than if they were the only characters to die in the storyline. But people were on tumblr talking about how theirs was a happy queer story. And I think it is the misleading discussion around these characters that bothers me even more than the writing. Like if I had watched that episode instead of looking up the plot summary, I would have had a meltdown at the end when they both died because I truly had gotten the impression that it was going to be a happy story.

But now that I've mentioned the writing:

It's nice that they live till their 70s. It's nice that they get 20 beautiful years together. And it's a bit fucked that the writers felt the need to end those 20 long years on-screen with a terminal illness and suicide in the same episode they are introduced. It would have been incredibly easy to just say that those men get to live on past the end of the episode. There are a million reasons those men could have continued living in the story.

But that's the thing about a show like this. I think there is a distinct possibility that this show is actually incapable of writing a satisfying happy ending.

Craig Maizin, the show's writer, gained acclaim recently with Chernobyl, proving that he is apparently excellent at writing a long, horrifying tragedy in which character struggle only to find there is no way out.

(His other main credits are The Hangover sequels and the Scary Movie sequels, most of which I haven't personally seen, so make of that what you will.)

But more than the writer's background, the show itself troubles me. It has this repeated mantra in it that goes, "when you're lost in the darkness, look for the light." Which is a cool phrase.

But I have reason to suspect that this writer genuinely doesn't know how to write the light. I have no reason to believe he does. I hope I am wrong.

But when you write episode after episode after episode that is an endless inescapable slog of tragedy and desperation - and then advertise it to me, a sick queer person actually living through a pandemic and trying to escape disease and poverty - well.

I think a better writer would include moments of light and hope beyond just trauma bonding. Moments that don't end in death.

When my wife writes about characters in awful situations, there are still these moments of genuine loveliness and fun and joy between the characters; these moments remind the reader what is worth actually fighting for, living for. Imagine! Entire chapters in a post-apocalyptic novel in which characters don't undergo a "hacking someone to death with a cleaver" level of trauma!

But the fact that Bill and Frank still had to die even after an earnest attempt to tell a beautiful love story....

I fear that the light the story ends with - if there is any - will be as dim and desaturated as the show itself. And personally, I am at a point in my life where I don't care to see a story like that.

It's fine if you do like it. It doesn't matter to me if you find beauty in a tragic queer love story. There are places for that in this world. But it is tragic. I am sure of that. And I wish I hadn't been seeing posts saying otherwise, ya know?

And I hope I am wrong about the writer. But I see cracks in the premise. Like in Stranger Things. There was always a promise of light that kept me watching, but it never seemed to come. Instead, the misery and trauma continued to stack and compound for the lead characters, like in TLOU. But... does the writer know how to make that worth it, for us, for the audience - for me? I don't think he does.

I think it very possible that the light isn't really coming for Ellie and Joel in a way that provides catharsis because I have noticed that on shows with no intermittent joy and hope, this is too often the case.

But I do hope I'm wrong. Because if I am right, then a lot of mentally ill fans will leave the experience more depressed than if they hadn't watched it at all.

But for my own part, I'll just continue to skim through the show for monster design ideas. And also I'll say that everyone should watch Infinity Train - ESPECIALLY season 2 of Infinity Train, if they'd like to see a story in which people actually DO find a light that makes the whole journey feel worth it.

#original #tlou #the last of us #bill and frank #writing #writing analysis #again i don't care if you like the show or not. you can like the show. it is well made. but that is NOT a happy queer ending. #it is not a happy story to me. i know it isn't AS BAD as it could've been but also.... i don't care #my money is on 'joel dies and ellie is so traumatized by the experience that she is basically non functional' #look for the fucking light i guess. wheeeeeeee #infinity train #mt infinity train #lake infinity train #seeing a story in which a character escapes a seemingly inescapable situation GENUINELY made me feel like there was hope for me #and i have personally found that the opposite has an opposite effect #tragedies have a purpose. but i fear sometimes the tragedy in some shows is just there bc the writer feels there must be 4 tragedies per ep #but like. trauma in a story - added just for the sake of extra trauma - it is a red flag for where this story is going #bly manor #FUCKING BLY MANOR MY ARCH FOE #i also see no need for a show of endless tragedy to be this long. like. they are experiencing the SAME trauma repeatedly. what does it add? #ellie loses ANOTHER friend horribly! like. okay. we've... already seen that? why is this one worthy of screen time other than you CAN?

[ronanceisintheair]

It's comical, in a bad writing way, that they'd have e*die telling st*ve to get Nancy back.

Like he doesn't even know these two, what person would actually say that? Especially when you don't know why they broke up.

Like forced, so forced. If you have to write that in then maybe you just shouldn't?

#some will say that's cute but it's bad writing. #please ignore my lb #stranger things #while having all these characters who don't know why they broke up in the first place try and force this girl back with the guy? #th writers shoe horning that st*ve is some poor guy who should get nancy back #it wouldve been more realistic if they kept dustin and robin as people there talking steve out of it imo #you will scream it's because i like ronance. but no it's because i respect Nancy's side(hat nobody seems to ask about) #and respect nancy as her own person. #even if it's not intentional sometimes a relationship is tainted. i see the barb thing as a big thing you can't move passed #maybe as friends yes but not to get together non platonic #sorry i have logic and loving women juice running through me #nancy wheeler