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lifmera · 2 months

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OH MY GOD I TYPED UP A WHOLE THING AND ACCIDENTALLY LOST IT OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOD I HATE IT HERE- anyways *ahem* attempt no. 2 of me asking you for a Hazbin Hotel match because I have never done this kinda thing before and I'm curious :)

GENDER AND SEXUALITY: I'm non-binary, they/he/she pronouns. I generally don't have a preference between the three tbh but I do appreciate ppl mixing it up! I'm sex-repulsed asexual and gray-biromantic. Again no real preference lmfao

APPEARANCE: White, dark blonde hair, green eyes, just below 5'3, pretty basic looking all things considered. I've got a pretty angular face I think. I'm afab and don't shave cuz it's too much work. I wear pretty much exclusively graphic tees(band shirts, dumb jokes, fandom stuff... that kinda thing) or button ups with funky patterns paired w/ the comfiest pants I can find, but occasionally I'll pull myself together enough to make a dencent(?) outfit, typically reminiscent of shit scene kids in the early 2000s would wear. I also like dying my hair but usually don't bcuz I procrastinate on it for too long.

PERSONALITY: If I had to describe it in one word? Unhinged. I am unhinged. 7/10 people will agree I am a very frightening person to be around. I say out of pocket shit(ranging from vile sex jokes to just straight up threats of violence) pretty regularly. I also like to sneak up on ppl and make very loud noises just to see their reactions... *ahem* anyways, despite all that, most of my friends would also describe me as caring and loyal! I have low empathy, so the only way I ever understand any of my friends emotions is by using my own experiences to compare and contrast until I have a decent idea of what's going on in their head, but I AM very good at psychoanalyzing people and providing objective, unbiased thoughts & advice on their situations. I would also literally go to war for my friends. Like, if you hurt one of them say your goddamn PRAYERS because I am coming to your location with a knife and murderous intent. I'm kinda awkward & shy at first, but at my core I AM an extrovert. I just don't know how to talk to ppl bcuz I am ✨neurodivergent✨(autism & ADHD) and have a hard time approaching ppl bcuz I don't know if they'll like me or not. Typically I make friends by making very loud jokes and waiting for somebody to approach me because they like my sense of humor. Which speaking of, I am very funny! Most people I interact with regularly would agree I am a very funny person!!! I'm also really good at media analysis and making arguments. I don't do well in debates because I choke under the pressure(gotta work on that tbh), but I'm good at writing argumentative essays. Plus, I'm pretty good at just bold face lying to people so overall I can be pretty damn convincing. I like adrenaline rushes and try to actively seek out new experiences as long as I'm confident they won't cause me any significant damage(socially or physically) in the long run. Which is unfortunately not many because I am INCREDIBLY paranoid. Like to the point of accidentally staying up til 3am cuz I'm convinced someone's gonna break into my house and kill me... I also have depression, severe dissociation issues, and existential dread which is. Fun. That's fun. I also have a tendancy to go down random rabbit holes and obsess over inconsequential details in shows I like to the point of making whole ass conspiracy theories :)

LIKES: Cartoons, drawing, writing, acting, singing, reading fanfic, watching YouTube, long drives, listening to music, jumpscaring ppl, being funny, ziplining, problem solving, video essays, ghost hunting shows, supernatural stuff in general, psychology, media analysis, frogs, sharks, ferrets, cats, violence, chocolate, Drawfee(YT channel), glitter, and just. So many fandoms. Just so many.

DISLIKES: Slimey shit, being touched(most of the time, there are occasional exceptions), being touch starved DESPITE not liking being touched, ppl insulting my interests(only I get to do that), media illiteracy, projects I'm not invested in, ppl putting preasure on me, mosquitoes, existential dread, dissociating, being tired all the time, being wrong, taking risks, feeling vulnerable, and stories with a lot of potential that just. Don't do anything with said potential.

PREFERENCES?: Uh. Someone significantly taller than me(shouldn't be hard Hazbin characters are fucking huge) that'll listen to my insane rants and is able to match my energy.

Akdncksmfnsmdsn I rlly hope I did this right again it's my first time doing anything like this-

HEYYYYYY!!! FINALLY GOT TO YOU 😜

Honestly I was debating on like a few different characters BUT!

I’ve decided to pair you with… LUTE!

Honestly I think she’d also be sex repulsed. She’s definitely more of a romantic lover! Though she doesn’t show it.

I think she talked to you at first because your style choices reminded her of Adam- and obviously, she misses him like crazy

If you did dye your hair often with her, she’d probably want to help you! I think she’d apply the color so it doesn’t get messy :)

She LOVES your personality. She thinks you are similar to her in many ways!

She also would need to experience it herself. She’s pretty stoic and doesn’t show her emotions. She’d probably think it’d make herself look weak.

I think you both would definitely fight back to back 24/7! You both would fight to the DEATH for each other.

She loves how caring you are for other people- it gives her a different sense of pace. Someone new!

I think Lute would see a TINY BIT through your lies. Lute is very observant with EVERYTHING.

She’d love if you made jokes. She need’s something less boring in her life than just standing there.

Adrenaline rushes? Totally join the exorcists- and you can be her right hand!!

She’d try to help you through paranoia, but you shouldnt worry much. She’s STRONG asf!

She’d LOVE TO HEAR CONSPIRACIES!! she would think they are SO COOL.

Although she isn’t much taller- I think she’d around 5’8 personally. She just looks small bc shes always next to Adam who’s HUGE!

She may not be able to match your energy, only because she’ll need to come out of her shell more- she’s always listening. She has ears EVERYWHERE.

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HOPE THIS WAS OKAY ❣️

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4evasummer · 10 months

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" last online: 15/11/2011 " (itto)

plot: you and itto were online friends back in the day where games like club penguin and wizard 101 were very popular, and always played and talked together online. however, one day you've never heard from him again.

notes: setting is modern au around 2009-2011 alongside present day. also i'm writing this at almost 3am help

content warning: angst, dialouge that screams early 2010s

~ 23/4/2010 (3:35am)

xxTheOneAndOnixx: hey there! wanna play some club penguin? :3 angelofdarkness1995: sure! but before that i need to show you my new hairstyle xD!!!! hint: it's what we talked about last week!!

xxTheOneAndOnixx: lemme see lemme see!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!111!!!!1!1 *angelofdarkness1995 sent an image* xxTheOneAndOnixx: WOW. that cut is so dope!!!!!!111!!!1! 0_o HOW DID YOU DO THAT????

angelofdarkness1995: had my big sis help me out :p. it was messy but worth it ;)

~ 1/6/2010 (12:04 am) angelofdarkness1995: HAPPY BDAY BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

xxTheOneAndOnixx: thx!!!!!!!

angelofdarkness1995: i made you a lil shoutout video on youtube!! it has your favourite song in it!

xxTheOneAndOnIxx: now this is what i'm talking about!!! this video is fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!

angelofdarkness1995: omg tysm itto!!!! took me almost whole day to make it tho 0_o!

xxTheOneAndOnixx: hey, hey! there's no need!! let'z go play some moviestarplanet!!! i need to show off my new wardrobe to you ^^ angelofdarkness: YESH LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

~ 12/9/2010 (3:30 pm)

xxTheOneAndOnixx: srry i've been inactive for a while :<. i had to move to a new town and i ended up breaking my computer in the process ;; angelofdarkness1995: is okay! a ton of stuff has happened lately! have you heard that the shogun just created a myspace account? :0

xxTheOneAndOnixx: REALLY??????!!?!?!?!!?!? THAT'S NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

looking at older messages gives me comfort, despite the second hand embarassment. but the real thing is...why does time have to change? i looked at the last post itto sent in that forum we posted in everyday. it was a blingee of an anime girl dressed in emo clothing, captioned, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I GOT SCAMMED IN CLUB PENGUIN FOR THE 7TH TIME THIS YEAR :((((((((!!!11!!!! SOME1 HELP ME :((((((" many users responded to his post, asking him how it happened and offered solutions to rectify the issue. others made fun of him for his gullibility.

the cursor on the screen seemed to lead itself to the chatrooms, and clicked the chatroom between myself and itto. i read the latest messages we exchanged. ~15/11/2011 (9:00pm) xxTheOneAndOnixx: wow that mario kart sesh was hella dope 0_0! how do you have such insane drifting skillz???

angelofdarkness: it was blood, sweat and tears lol?\. xxTheOneAndOnixx: welp grandma is calling me down for dinner. see ya later alligator :3 angelofdarkness: see ya! :p last online: 15/11/2011 "i wonder where he is now" i ask myself as i open twitter and create a thread regarding itto's whereabouts.

welp that was my first tumblr fanfic ever. if you read this thanks so much and consider reblogging, liking and following! it's very appreciated :3!

#gigifics #genshin impact #arataki itto #arataki itto x reader #genshin itto #itto x reader

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thesoulbox · 5 months

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.STUFF ABOUT ME.

Whoop!! Hello!! This is just some basic info about me and the such, as well as some other things I'd like you to know!! If you have any questions feel free to ask!

Name: Maple/Reese/Sol

Pronouns: She/He/They

Hobbies:

Writing / Drawing / Animating / Painting / Reading / Roleplaying / Gaming

Fandoms:

FNAF / TWD (Game + Show) / Warrior Cats / The Office / TLOU / DBH / Adventure Time + Fionna And Cake / TOH / Amphibia

As of recent I have been incredibly hyperfixated on The Office and FNAF (specifically Security Breach)

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How long have you been on Tumblr?: I've literally never used it before but I've had an account for a little while for reading stories and such, I honestly have no clue what I'm doing :)

What are your socials?: I have a YouTube, an Instagram, and an AO3 account! I also have Discord but I'd rather keep that personal! Here are some links below!

YOUTUBE CHANNEL

AO3 ACCOUNT

INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

Are writing requests open? Yes yes yes!! I'm thinking of making a fnaf sb oneshot book, so feel free to send in story prompts! (Extra points if its a Gregory and Freddy duo prompt or something with Gregory, Cassidy, or C.C ^^)

Is the art on your account yours?/May I use your art? All art on this account is mine unless stated otherwise! If you would like to use my art/catified designs that's fine! Just please provide credit!!

Will you do requests for other fandoms? I don't mind doing requests or prompts for different fandoms in my fandoms list! Just please note that I most likely will take longer on them due to my own inability to stay focused on something that I'm not hyperfixated on!!

What are your boundaries? I will not tolerate any kind of nsfw content nor will I create anything of the sort, I am willing to write graphic content (violence-wise) and I don't mind writing darker topics, just please do not take requests too far. Constructive criticism is allowed, just please be gentle!!

As for my personal boundaries, please do not pester me over requests or story updates, I get demotivated really easily and being harrassed doesn't help matters any. I'd prefer it if you used tone tags whilst talking to me, I struggle with tone in text!! My anxiety is a menace and I tend to freak out and panic over simple topics like, discussions of heart issues, discussions about death, pet loss, etc. If a conversation is becoming too much I will let you know, all I ask is that you respect my boundaries 😭(also please do not bring up nsfw shizbiz in my messages, it's just yuck.)

Do you accept questions/ideas? Yes of course!! Feel free to send it in the ask thingy or in my messages!!

Do you have OCs? SLAPS DOWN A BIG ASS BOOK OF TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN. You called? I'll occasionally post art of them, so keep a lookout for that! I'm also willing to answer questions about them as well! :)

How long have you been writing fanfiction? I've technically been writing fanfics since I was 10?? But they were self inserts and they were really bad, I used to write x readers when I was 11-12 but I eventually stopped writing fanfics to write my own stories. I'm just now starting up again on AO3 after a 3 and a half year break!

Are there any certain requests you want? Anything FNAF SB related would be an absolute godsend. like I said before, I am absolutely stuck on it LMAO

Will you share stories/headcanons/art here? I will be sharing my stories on ao3 here, as well as some little character headcanons I have! Along with some catified refs of them because I can't draw a human for the life of me. I will also be sharing oc art and animations here but don't expect too much of that LMAO

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But uhh I believe that's all! I can't think of anything else but if you have any other questions, just message me! Dont make it personal though or I'll hit your kneecaps with a shovel!! I can't wait to learn more about you all, have a lovely day! <3

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cladnplaid · 4 months

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My Year In Review:

Books Read: 32 (Goodreads)

Personal Fav: The Exorcist by Peter Blatty

Most Recommended: Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton

Movies Watched: 112

Top 5

1. Suzume

2. Godzilla Minus One

3. Oppenheimer

4. John Wick 4

5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

Honorable mentions:

Across the Spider-Verse Pt 1 & Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Pt 1

Video Games Played (Ranked I literally only played 5 games)

1. Guardians of the Galaxy

2. Resident Evil 4 Remake

3. Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Remaster

4. Jedi: Fallen Order

5. Hogwarts Legacy

Games I watched (Ranked)

God bless my brother, my worstie @the-gotheltic-rowan, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye & Maximilian Dood 🫶 for helping me consume a game when I didn't have the brainpower to play

1. Faith: The Unholy Trinity

2. God of War: Ragnarok

3. Mortal Kombat I

4. Spider-Man 2

5. Final Fantasy 15

6. Final Fantasy 16

Series Watched (Ranked Top 9 because I didn't watch more than that)

1. The Last of Us

2. The Bear

3. One Piece Live Action

4. Midnight Mass

5. Spy x Family (s1)

6. Rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

7. Rewatching Breaking Bad

8. Rewatching Better Call Saul

9. X-Files

Favorite Personal Growths:

Got really good at cooking and meal prep

Paid off dept and built up a modest savings

Got my life more organized

Sewed some of my most challenging projects yet

Reorganized my living space to make my home my sanctuary

Learned to live in the moment and not be a workaholic. Take days off. Take a drive. Got out of town for a day or two.

2024 Goals

(in no particular order)

Daily reading plan with Bible

Stop watching YouTube shorts. Seriously, short form, rapid-fire content is so bad for my attention span

Crocheting a tempeture blanket

Finishing all personal open sewing projects

Re-design my bedroom to have more space

Experiment 1st month with Carnivore diet and see what happens

Get active

Drink Less

Keep a regular sleep schedule

Charge phone away from bedstand

Use alarmclock to wake up so I have to GET UP

Play & beat the following video games from prev years:

Alan Wake 2

Jedi Survivor

Resident Evil Village

GoW Ragnarok

Spider-Man 2

The Quarry

Until Dawn

Resident Evil 0 & 1 Remaster

Listen to an audiobook on daily commute to work

Read the following via Audiobook:

Finish Hannibal Series

Finish Eragon

Dracula

Frankenstein

more Star Wars Classic EU books

Brave New World

11/22/63

Finish more TV series instead of brainlessly watching YouTube in that time

Mandalorian S3

Andor

Ahsoka

Reacher

The Haunting Anthology

Read a physical book before bed and not mindlessly read fanfic

1. Finish Resident Evil Books

2. Finish all owned manga & graphic novels

3. Read thrifted Stephen King books

4. Death Stranding

5. Alan Wake

I wanted to give myself some realistic goals like last year. I found that keeping a monthly log of these types of things really felt good to do. So I'm going to log more stuff here in hopes to for to keep me more accountable and to enjoy consuming fulfilling content again and not fall down a youtube rabbit hole for hours unless it is long-form video content that is edifying.

This is tumblr. This is my personal little space where I can gush about my interests. I can't do that on social media like FB, Insta, or Twitter without it feeling like a popularity contest or a great debate. So yall freaks get unsolicited updates from my funky little life filled with whatever all this is.

Goodreads | Letterbox | Gaming Sideblog

#cant sleep so 🤷‍♀️#personal goals #rambles #2023 wrapped #book recommendations #films #video games #books #tv

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mittenlady · 1 year

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Hey, Mitten Lady, I'd like to try writing something more ... "angsty", but I fear I might not give such a serious topic enough gravitas, you know - be serious and not appear just cruel for cruelty's sake, or worse, glorifying terrible things happening. Got any tips for that, or maybe a few recommendations for literature on writing it better?

THIS IS LITERALLY WHY I MADE A TUMBLR

Generally, I ignore the fanfiction definition of angst—something more than sad, something tragic, something dark and serious—and generalize it as "sad." While that isn't the actual definition of the word, that's the connotation I have for it in fanfic. Keeping that in mind might help guide your search if you want to hunt down some YouTube videos—how to write sad scenes, how to make writing have emotional impact—or other things of the sort. That's really all it is.

Blabbing about angst below the cut :) hoping it's helpful and makes sense, but a lot is dependent on the situation sooo

For emotional impact:

This literally wasn't part of your question, but I always repeat this over and over again because I think it's absolutely necessary to writing good angst. I have so many thoughts about this subject, but it boils primarily down to the emotional impact. Like that one textpost about the Oreo needing both light and dark to be compete, writing needs lighter moments to contrast with darker moments.

I did this a lot in One Week in December, blending lighter conversations and stupid silly things (u r laxative ja) with darker, more serious conversations. If there's more depressive content, there'll be more reason to appreciate the happier content. But if there's too much depressive content and no happy content to balance it out, it's just... the same. If mood is a graph, it'll be stagnant... and it'll feel stagnant. Hopefully that explanation makes sense. The Giver really put that into perspective (and gave me a reason to lie about period cramps to skip gym class and literally just read the book in the library and finish it weeks before the rest of the class), talking about the necessity of miserable memories to make one appreciate joyful memories.

Aside from repeating myself, a handle of diction and connotation is necessary, along with imagery. The right words—and their attached connotations—can make or break a scene. If I used "verbal diarrhea" in an OWiD scene where Apollo is, once again, drunk and having a mental breakdown, that would probably leave a disgusting taste in one's mouth, and make it seem more grossly comical rather than serious.

Imagery, such as how characters respond to those angsty situations—which was heavily impactful in House M.D.'s Season 4 finale (please watch it I love Robert Sean Leonard he ATE that and I cried like a baby)—can make your audience feel more... especially if they care about those characters. Which I did. You like Wilson more than who he's crying for, and seeing him—a typically happy and kind character—break down reeeeally screws you up. Imagery can also set the tone, however, such as when I kept alluding to ravens (and Edgar Allan Poe's poem lol) when talking about Clay's jacket in OWiD. The ravens make it edgy and goth and bring a clear association with death... an obviously darker tone.

But I'm assuming you already knew all that, lol. And I'm probably not covering everything there is, everything that can work, everything that can emotionally destroy your audience... and talking in circles. Really, it's easier to explain this sort of thing within a piece of writing, try to apply it in suggestions and point out examples of angst done right.

But that literally is NOT what you asked, lol. That was just more technical things, more story things, but I go crazy over talking about stuff like that. I could even make a powerpoint...

As for avoiding cruelty for cruelty's sake:

This is a hard one. I could literally be accused of this in my Major Character Death pieces, especially because I wrote both of those with the sole purpose of killing someone at the end. Whether it’s to explore a certain kind of death, a technical writing aspect like POV, or just for funsies in describing corpses and making my favorite characters miserable, I just... like writing depressing things.

I think avoiding unnecessary cruelty is part of emotional impact, however, blending the light with the dark. I also believe part of it is exigence: why are you doing this? What are you trying to say with this? The meaning behind the piece can change the “cruelties,” give them more context.

Me emotionally bludgeoning Apollo in OWiD was necessary for my purpose of exploring his character and exploring grief (unlike half the fics despite DD being out for almost a damn decade) and give a general message on don’t shut people out blah blah blah take care of your mental health. Something like that. There are a lot of different interpretations one can make when reading—I’m just putting things out there.

The point I'm trying to make is that those cruelties should be necessary for the overall story you're trying to tell. Not just there for funsies (unless you write it well, in which case, good). Apollo was very, very sad and very, very pitiful in OWiD because it was necessary for my purpose. Likewise goes for lighter moments. The more peaceful, domestic moments in "Turnabout of Matimony" were necessary to build investment in the existing relationship, show the meaning behind it, and built up the reason for the wedding ring purchase... which built up something to lose in the end when the tragedy was revealed.

Hopefully that made sense. It might not. Either way, I'm transitioning into the next topic now.

As for not glorifying:

Talking about OWiD again, I tried not to glorify Apollo’s dumb ass coping mechanisms by (kind of directly kind of inadvertently) stating they weren’t safe, weren’t healthy, really weren’t smart in the piece. Having other characters make comments, having Athena's own narration reflect hey this is weird I do not think this is what I should be doing and I am genuinely worried he is going to die because he is being stupid. Even if I'm not the narrator, I wanted there to be voices pointing out that the situation isn't right.

If they were saying "oh how cute you are helping him" or something, or if I talked about how she somehow managed to "fix him," or I made his depression somehow cute and pretty and romantic or something, that would be glorifying it.

However, what that angst is really changes how you have to handle it. If that angst is straight-up having someone just die, then are you glorifying death? Hard to say. A lot of this depends on the situation, but you just need to have an overall sensitivity.

Like I was saying, THE challenge in OWiD was making it clear that whatever the hell Athena and Apollo were doing wasn’t really smart, that a lot of things were poorly handled—that depression is not cute or romantic and that she wasn’t trying to save him, because that’s just not how it works; it wouldn’t be healthy, especially if the relationship ended, and it’d be a co-dependency, and I did NOT state all of that outright in the work, but that was in the back of my head when I was writing, which was especially why I wrote Apollo’s chapter to explicitly state that he was going to make efforts to improve himself not just because he was down bad for Athena, but because he wanted to improve for his own sake. I tried to display that in both their narration and in retrospect. Keyword tried.

However, the fact I kept all that in mind is the key to not glorifying. Unless I accidentally did, and am simply too stupid to realize it.

Ultimately, certain "flavors" of angst require a mindfulness and, if necessary, education about the subject you’re writing about, if it calls for that. I also have my unpaid proofreaders (aka friends) to make sure I’m not doing something totally stupid. Self-reflection and peer-reflection are your best friends.

Long, drawn-out conclusion:

Hopefully, something I said makes sense. There'll always be videos online, and articles to read, and other examples within media—whether literature, television, or movies, thinking CRITICALLY about what you're consuming before taking those examples as gospel—that can help you learn what works and what doesn't.

And experience is always the best teacher. The more you write different things, the more natural they'll seem.

#i typed 6 paragraphs at first and then pressed ctrl+z and then they all disappeared and couldn't ctrl+y them back so #thati smy angst #regardless as a general thing #i am always willing to proofread always ok literally college essay season was so fun #my asks are open so feel free to just ask #or idk how DMs work on tumblr but literally. just ask #my type-a personality will be your greatest asset #mitten lady writing things #is any of this coherent like

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sharkneto · 2 years

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Hiii :) Can i ask for writing advice? If so, How do you write robs advice? Or how do you write a character giving advice to another character without being “problematic” and having the advice actually make sense? How do you make solutions in a fic?

I know solutions are not black and white but i still struggle with writing them. If you could help i would appreciate it so muchhh❤️

Oh, sure. I don't know how helpful I can be on this front, but I'll throw my two cents together.

So, part of it is just experience. Idk how old you are, but I am at least not desirable to Leonardo DiCaprio. Life has thrown me some real curveballs, I've done the therapy thing a couple times. Just having some life under my belt helps a lot in writing Rob stuff. I've got some perspective, I've talked with therapists and had my brain thoughts prodded and shaped to be Better, to be more aware of them and my emotions to better manage them.

So, that's what I'm drawing from when I write Rob stuff and advice. I try to do my best with it, but I wouldn't base anything Real off of what I have Rob say. I don't know that it would hold up under the scrutiny of an actual therapist. But I write what I think sounds good and makes sense to me from how I'm thinking about Number's thoughts/reasoning and where it should be interrupted/redirected. I know where Five's thinking is broken, so I know where Rob needs to prod.

And that's not to say you can't write people giving advice or therapist characters if you don't have experience with them. I'm really lucky I've been able to get the therapy I needed when I've needed it. But for writing it, all it's really based in is self-care and working on healthy thought patterns, which are things you can look up and read about. There are so many self-help articles and books out there. I also like listening to HealthyGamer on YouTube, which I recommend anyway. He's a therapist that interviews/talks with streamers and also breaks down big mental health ideas (how to set boundaries, ADHD, depression, gifted kids...). I've learned some good stuff from him, and his interviews are interesting.

I don't totally follow what you mean by problematic (message me a follow-up if there's a specific thing that's relevant). If it's a fear of giving bad advice, I have two fronts for that. 1) This is fanfic. I don't have a disclaimer of "hey don't follow any medical advice given in this fic" because I think that should be self-explanatory. I do the best I can, I work to make it sound good, but at the end of the day, I am writing this for free in my evenings after my real job. If someone is really mad about what I'm writing, there's a back button at the top of the screen. 2) You don't want all your advice to be Right. Characters have misunderstandings, maybe don't read a situation right and give the wrong advice. Maybe they're just not experienced enough to say the right thing or don't have all the information they need to make the right call. I think it makes it more meaningful to not have a 100% accuracy for a character doing/saying the right thing. They're human. It's more interesting, too.

How advice comes across also depends on the relationship of who's giving it and who's receiving it. In Joining Together, Rob is a psychiatrist, he's over 15 years older than Five, and isn't associated with the Umbrella Academy. Advice from him hits much different than, say, Klaus telling Five the same thing. Five might listen to Rob from the getgo. He is going to ignore Klaus on principle, at least until it really bites him in the ass and then he might grudgingly consider the advice. Use that, use your characters and their existing relationships to shape how advice is given and how it is heeded (or not). The reader may know if advice is good or not, but your characters don't - use that possible irony. It's delicious.

Lastly, and broadly, how do you make solutions in a fic. If you have a more specific question directed towards this, feel free to follow up. But, interpreting this as "how do you fix things" outside of the overarching plot, it's about having a starting point and and end point, and then mapping out how you get from Point A to Point B (...which is also what you do for the overarching plot). How you map is up to you - many people outline, I don't; it's all just in my head with a general trajectory. But you need little steps between those points so that readers can notice that progress is happening, that it's not a sudden change. An example from Joining Together is that Five had to go from Asshole Loner Number Five to Friends With Rob And Sarah. This took me like 60k words to do, which I did not expect, but was how slow it had to grow for it to feel realistic for Five. The steps we had to get through were 1) Five works with Sarah 2) Five realizes he respects Sarah 3) Five learns Sarah will apologize when she's hurt him 4) Five learns he can rely on Sarah for help when he's hurt 5) Five tries to go to Sarah for emotional help (he gets Rob) 6) Five learns both Rob and Sarah have his back and can be trusted -> Friends. How to pace a journey from A to B depends on the journey, the fic, and the fic length. The technical side of pacing growth is something you figure out through experience, just writing and playing around with what you're doing until you're happy.

This got long, but hopefully it's not just me rambling to hear my own voice and there's something helpful in there. I spend a lot of time just Thinking and then, once I do have words down on the page, tweaking to get it to flow and feel right.

#feel free to follow up if there was something specific #i like talking about writing so feel free to ask any time #altho caveat is that i'm just a hobby writer and making it up as i go #i enjoy what i write tho and seems like a lot of you do too #it's been fun to note how i've improved over the past two years #anyway - hope this is somewhat helpful and happy writing #writing #ask response #long post

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I think it's extremely funny and reassuring that you also had basically the same experience with fandoms, especially Transformers, as me(Vaguely involved with a few media when younger and then d̶i̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ falling face first into the fandom rabbit hole without revisiting it again). All I wanted to say was you go buddy, wishing you luck in all of your fandom spelunking adventures ✨

XD Thanks, I am in so many fandoms solely because no one thought to kick me out when I wandered in!

Though it's kind of funny - technically you're right about me and Transformers, but my 'younger' was in my early/mid-twenties, and my intro was the first few Bay movies, then the friend who got me to watch them making some... extremely questionable fanfic recommendations that I read after that and showing me some of the G1 cartoon with the intro and outro removed so it just kept playing for an hour and a half or so with no breaks that only stopped because I had course work I needed to do and was getting rather desperate. Then just kind of... hearing about it off and on in that vague 'it's a major fandom that gets touched on a lot' sort of way.

Basically, I was in every way set up to just really not be into this fandom, so I wasn't.

Then the Toys That Made Us came out, and I thought the Transformers episode was neat, which got me open to watching a 'Top [x number] Versions of Bumblebee' Youtube video last summer, discovered there was a version of events where he and Starscream ended up friends, and after that I broke in through the fandom's garage window and started snooping.

This is the most batshit insane fandom for canon I have ever been in, and that is saying something, because my very first fandom were the original Yugioh and Yugioh GX dubs back in 2006.

This is also the thirstiest, horniest fandom I've ever been in, which is also a shock because I'm in the SVSSS fandom (and was there first!), which has a base setting that involves asking the question, 'okay, but what if stuff like sex pollen and have-sex-or-die plots were just part of everyday life'?

I'm still in shock that Starscream turned out to be such an interesting character, I spent my entire life until this point assuming he was just another boring, untrustworthy minion, and now I care about this bastard and his trine.

TL;DR: Sometimes I just sneak into fandoms in a normal way, but by golly this was not one of those times.

Thanks for the ask!

#transformers #ask #anon

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vincent-sinclair-deserved-better · 1 year

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was tagged by the gremlin overlord @brandnewhuman but will also tag @rottent33th and @devil-doll13 cause the questions you tagged me for are included in this list :D

Favourite colour: Black, purple, dark blue, dark(ish) red

Favourite flavour: spicy stuff, strawberry and raspberry, and peach I guess?

Favourite music: pretty much anything I like the lyrics of. like, lyrics are important. if I can't understand them (audible, not due to language), chances are I won't be a fan. if I don't like them content-wise, it can ruin a song for me.

Favourite movie: V for Vendetta my beloved.

Favourite series: oof idk man, it's been ages since I've really watched anything. if you wanna count gameplay videos on YouTube - I've been watching John Wolfe play The Dark Pictures Anthology.

other than that, the one I stuck with continuously probably was Supernatural, then Doctor Who. also Grimm.

Last song: Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift though rn I'm listening to Too Sad To Cry by Sasha Sloan

Last movie: M3gan

Currently reading: pretty much only fanfics and stuff on here

Currently watching: since I haven't been able to keep my focus on one thing lately, I've taken a break from House of Ashes (it's like 30 more minutes only but. uff. brain bad). so, mostly... random stuff on YouTube. The Click, Roly, Strange Aeons. stuff I don't have to focus on 100 percent.

Currently working on: oh dear I have quite a few things I really wanna continue writing and then end up sitting around doing nothing all day. one thing is from the House of 100 Corpses AU where Selena (or Ghost) meets the magician guy who still doesn't have a name again. then I started something about @bluecoolr's Judah in the alt universe. and the small thing with the smooch between Darrell and Cylas. aaand I really wanna write about @solmints-messyocdiary's Patron. the universe is cruel.

#tagged #tag game #thanks for tagging me btw. ily all.#even if it takes me a while to respond sometimes

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Signed up for wattpad in 2014 flash forward to last year and their data breach put my email on the dark web and someone tried to scam me lol

oh we love ourselves a good data breach ... i've found my old passwords on sites that track that sort of shit but luckily i've never gotten into any sort of trouble (save for my first neopets account getting shut down but that was my own dumbass fault for falling for a scammer loool)

gonna answer the other fanfic asks under a cut

Anonymous asked: I remember reading Hermione x Ron fanfics on deviant art when I was like 12 :/ also used to read Percy Jackson fics on Wattpad but we don’t talk about that 🤡

re: the last point - you and dream both, pal

Anonymous asked: its kinda funny for me to think about, i got into fanfic by reading mcyter fics (shout out team crafted). they were reader insert and not shipping but i really have come full circle

when i was into rtah, there was def some fic centred around let's play minecraft, but . i was reading the shipping stuff Oops

Anonymous asked: my first fanfiction experience was in 2014? In YOUTUBE. there were channels that made videos reading fanfictions they've got god knows where and if they were multichapter they would usually upload twice a week or something. Now that I think about it it was weird af cause istg the voices reading couldn't have had more than 15/16 years old and they read some filthy stuff sometimes. I can't even imagine reading shut outloud, let alone RECORD MYSELF DOING IT

yeah like i was def too young to be writing some of the fic i did at like, 16/7, but . that was also an era in which people weren't really disclosing their ages anyway lol BUT PUTTING YOUR VOICE TO IT ...? that's a level of bravery i can't even fathom

Anonymous asked: possibly my first fanfiction experience that i can remember was discovering that the avatar the last airbender wiki had a closely linked sister wiki for fanfic content and i dived into that. it must have been like… 2010/11? I knew about ffnet around the same time thanks to my brother but i’m not sure which actually was in my life first. anyway shoutout to avatar fanon wiki

fanon wikis are so fascinating like either they're enormously helpful and point out a lot of cool content Or they're just ill-kept messes of drama. always seems to be one or the other lmao

Anonymous asked: if we're sharing our fanfic experiences, i will say i used fanfic.net, ao3, wattpad, devientart, and quotev, and fanfiction.net has a special place in my heart. its where ot3s, brotps, lemons, using hate comments as fuel to bake cookies, disclaimers about not owning characters, a/n: breaks in the middle of the story, and songfics with the lyrics taking up half the word count really thrived. times were simpler back then

STOPPP NOT THE A/N BREAKS ... you'd be reading a fic and then it suddenly breaks into a fuckin roleplay dialogue between the author and the characters like WHAT'S GOING ON HERE !! i remember when ff.net purged all the songfic etc and how fucking mad ppl were cos they literally just . deleted shit without warning. they were truly merciless back then

Anonymous asked: my experience with fic platforms is kinda weird because i'm definitely in the "too young to have used ffn regularly" demographic but because english is not my first language and my first fandom was full of people who in general were 10+ years older than me (because after my brother taught me how to pirate stuff i ended up getting into 90s anime), the first fic i ever encountered was in ffn and wattpad became popular and easily accessible to me not long after, so for a while those were my two sites until i became fluent enough in english to engage fandom and moved from there to ao3 without struggling with the lack of content in a language i could read. it's funny because whenever older people talk about the youth (tm) not knowing how things were before ao3 it makes me feel old lmao

that's interesting tho :0 see, the thing is that wattpad and ff.net are still in USE, so it's completely possible that ppl were (or are?) using them while others used ao3 - though it blows my mind why anyone would CHOOSE to use ff.net in the year of our lord 2022

#smile.ask #beedreamss #anon #long post #<- under tha cut

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shadow-heleyna · 3 months

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Charcter info 2

Here's more character information/headcannons or whatever you call it for the fanfic. Don't expect all of them to be in the fanfic because I might not have them later in the fanfic. Please read the stuff at the bottom.

Clyde:

Age-17

Gender- Male

Sexuality- Bisexual

Bf/gf- Bebe

Crush- none

In love with- none

Best friends- Craig, Tweek, and Tolkien

Exs- Craig and Bebe

Loves- Playing video games, w33d and life

Hates- Cartmen and school

Tolkien:

Age-17

Gender- Male

Sexuality- Pansexual

Bf/gf- Nichole

Crush- None

In love with- Nichole

Best friends- Craig, Clyde, Kyle, and Tolkien

Exs- None

Loves- Books, watching movies, playing video games, and his gf

Hates- Cartmen and drügs

Pip:

Age-16

Gender- Male

Sexuality- Gay

Bf/gf- Damien

Crush- Damien

In love with- Damien

Best friends- None

Exs- None

Loves- Books, old tv shows, and writing

Hates- Cartmen and school

Daimen:

Age-Doesn't tell but appears to be 17

Gender- Male

Sexuality- Gay

Bf/gf- Pip

Crush- Pip

In love with- Pip

Best friends- None

Exs- None

Loves- horror movies and hell

Hates- Everyone (except Pip) and everything

Bebe:

Age-17

Gender- Female

Sexuality- Pansexual

Bf/gf- Clyde

Crush- Clyde

In love with- Clyde

Best friends- Wendy, Red and Heidi

Exs- Clyde

Loves- Make up, skin care and her friends

Hates- Cartmen and school

Heidi:

Age-17

Gender- Nonbinary

Sexuality- Asexual

Bf/gf- None

Crush- None

In love with- None

Best friends- Wendy, Red, Bebe and Nichole

Exs- Cartmen and Kyle

Loves- Books, Rights and stuff, and her friends

Hates- Cartmen

Red:

Age-17

Gender- Female

Sexuality- Straight

Bf/gf- None

Crush- None

In love with- None

Best friends- Bebe, Heidi, and Nichole

Exs- None

Loves- Make up and skin care

Hates- Cartmen, drügs and school

Nichole:

Age-17

Gender- Female

Sexuality- Straight

Bf/gf- Tolkien

Crush- None

In love with- Tolkien

Best friends- Red, Heidi, Bebe

Exs- Heidi and Leslie

Loves- Books, make up, listening to podcasts and cheerleading

Hates- Cartmen and school

Shelly:

Age-19

Gender- Female

Sexuality- Straight

Bf/gf- None

Crush- None

In love with- None

Best friends-

Exs-

Loves- Make up and movies

Hates- her family

Karen:

Age-13

Gender- Female

Sexuality- Straight?

Bf/gf- Ike

Crush- Ike

In love with- Ike

Best friends- Kenny and Ike

Exs- None

Loves- Food and her big brother

Hates- Everybody in her family (except Kenny)

Just so you know, I'm not gonna post on my youtube, tiktok, and on my fanfiction for a while to focus on school. I will come back as soon as I have the chapter written, and I'm ready to come back. I know I just started writing this recently, but I kinda just need a break from this kind of stuff. I will probably be back in March during spring break. I will hopefully have some chapters ready to post, but if not, I'll just write then during spring break. Goodbye for now... Thank you.

#craig tucker #craig x tweek #eric cartman #kyle broflovski #south park #south park fandom #south park fanfiction #sp k2 #sp style #stan marsh

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blackplaaague · 3 months

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Hey, just a quick reminder! I've said this before, but if you're into horror but know a certain thing triggers your anxiety and phobias, you're not a fake fan for checking content warnings for that thing! Especially if it's a very niche phobia!

~Quick content warning for mentions of lockiophobia/fear of pregnancy!~

I'm pretty good with blood and gore and body horror, but pregnancy is where I draw the line, so when I forgot to check the warnings for a certain game you might've heard youtube hyping up, and got an unplanned-pregnancy jumpscare, it actually triggered my anxiety and made me feel physically sick.

I had to step back for my own comfort. And that's ok! It doesn't make me a fake horror fan for knowing that I draw the line at pregnancy due to personal experiences and reasoning.

Self-advocacy is important, even if it feels weird and niche and embarrassing. I have to avoid reading fanfics where a character is pregnant, I have to avoid writing stories with that stuff in them, and thinking about it in real life makes me literally dizzy. So seeing it in fiction, even if I'm very aware it's not real and it's just a game, still triggers that anxiety I get from that phobia.

And learning that, and respecting that about myself, has helped me out a ton. I actually enjoy horror better when I'm not getting a pregnancy jumpscare, and I can be creeped out or excited without being slapped in the face with a major phobia of mine.

Horror is supposed to freak you out, but if it's making you physically nauseous because of a certain phobia, respect that phobia and skip ahead or take a break! You should enjoy being scared by a horror story, not hate your body afterwards.

#lockiophobia #lockiophobia tw #pregnancy mention #horror #phobias #anxiety #anxiety tw #self advocacy #anxiety tips #horror movie #horror game

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talea456 · 5 months

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Hey, @wearewatcher! I've got a request for Ghost Files! (And honestly, something for Shane to do...cause I think he's who can answer this call...you know, the chosen one.)

Flesh out ghost/paranormal world-building, please!

Listen, I like to zone-out listening to ghost hunting things on Youtube while doing my hyperfixating on my puzzles and such, and y'all, most ghost hunters have THE WORST headcannons. (And they ask the dumbest questions ever.) For example:

1) Like, creepy basement ALWAYS = demons!! What? That's dumb. Why would some all-powerful, evil being just be hanging in a basement of all places? (Idk man, I think the biggest evil in the world is like...people who commit genocide or maybe exploit others for their own gain?)

But okay, let's say basement = demons. Then, why are the demons always in the basements? Going a bit Good Omens with this right now, but...are they actually on their demon "lunch break?" Like, they head to dark, damp places to be left alone, but then all these stupid humans come in with their loud-ass spirit boxes and bug the shit out of them? Is that why they're always like "RUN," "EVIL" and "LEAVE?" ...'Cause if I'm on my lunch break, same demons. Same.

-> If so, I think it would be nice to share some new ideas for keeping humans out of their way. Like, maybe they just don't realize that "creepy victorian girl in a nightgown" isn't enough to scare 21st century humans away. (Not that it's their fault they don't know that. It's hard for adults to keep up with teenager trends, so I can only imagine how hard it would be to keep up with human trends if you're immortal.) Maybe they need to consider appearing as a giant spider like Shelob or something. Most people would run away from Shelob. Or appear as a roach or bug infestation or something (you know, like the insect cave in Temple of Doom). Other than potential fumigators or entomologists, most people would skip going to the basement in that case.

2) Also the stupid theory that the demons need energy from fear?? Makes no damn sense. There's energy freakin' everywhere in nature! That's what makes even Physics 101 so annoying--all those forces and such. So...why would their fuel need to be emotion? And okay, sure, if for some supernatural reason emotion is their food, why only human emotion? Why couldn't they just freak out a raccoon and be good with that? If I were reading a Fanfic and the author did such lazy-ass world building, I would stop reading. (Please ask the basement demons if they also think this theory is stupid next time you're down there.)

-> And also, if you go back to the Conjuring house, maybe suggest to the bent-neck lady that she should try crawling in a back-bend like a Japanese ghost for additional fear/creep factor...'cause word is out on her bent neck thing, so it's probably lost the same "scare" level it used to have. If human fear = food, girl is probs starving! So help her out, please.

Other random questions that I want to ask ghosts instead of the stupid "how did you die?" or "do you know you're dead?" questions:

If you're just going about your day without a body, do you still like, go to the bathroom and stuff? I mean, Everyone Poops (as the children's book says), but if you don't have a body, you don't need to poop. But if you don't think you're dead, then you must be going through the act of pooping, 'cause not needing to poop for like 100 years is kinda a dead give away (pun intended) that you're dead.

Do you have to wear your fancy outfits after death? Can't you just change into like pajamas or something more comfortable than a full suit or victorian dress? I mean, COVID shutdown proved to us that living humans turn to pajamas as often as possible, so I would assume ghosts would too. (OH SHIT! Is that why there are so many lady-ghosts in nightgowns in the UK? They're just getting comfy???)

Do they miss food? (Cause I would totally miss ice cream, pizza, burgers, etc.) Or can they have ghost-feasts like that imaginary meal the lost-boys had in the movie Hook?

(I could think of more, but I should probably wrap this up.)

In conclusion: Do the other ghost-hunters a solid by completing some world-building so the bullshit at least makes sense.

#watcher #ghost files #ryan bergara #shane madej #ghost hunting #neurodivergent thoughts

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badwasabi · 6 months

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From a fanfic version of Avengers Endgame, that started before the actual movie;

Disclaimer: All these non-Youtube links are to relevant rants I've written.

Clint walked into his living room, cleaning tractor grease off his hands. "Laura? Honey? Where are you?" He called out. "Daddy?" Clint heard the voice of his daughter Lila. "Something's wrong with Mom, Cooper, and Nate!" Clint then dropped the towel and rushed into the kitchen, seeing his wife and sons turn into dust by her dissolving. "Clint? What's happen…" Laura started before being cut off. "Dad, I…" Cooper also stopped when he fully turned to ash. Nathaniel simply cried before also turning to dust. Clint then wrapped his arms around Lila, and the two simply sobbed until Clint felt Lila turn to dust in his arms as well. Hawkeye then slumped to the floor and put his head in his hands. ------ Steve sat next the ashes that were all that remained of Bucky. Thor then knelt down next to Steve. Natasha, Rocket, Bruce, Okoye, Rhodes, and M'Baku watched both the Sentinel of Liberty and the God of Thunder as they looked at the ashes of Barnes, seeing both not only beaten, but truly broken for the first time in either of their lives.

This is just terrible.

It's not telling an actual story, just relating events. There's no subtext, except stuff that's so obvious it might as well be a billboard on I-95.

During Rush Hour.

In LA.

Plus, those line breaks are in the original fic. The writer didn't notice or care enough to fix the formatting, so there's three lines (and a hidden " " between every paragraph. You can see it if you highlight.

I don't think it's a good idea to use Steve and Thor's "publicity" totles titles in a serious scene.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I... I should have... I should have gone for the arm." Thor said, tears beginning to form as he put his head in his hands.

Ah, yes, the classic "I understood that reference" fanfic moment.

Dude, do you really want to bring up memes? At this point? In this mood? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

The writer also has a habit of putting dialogue tags after the speech, every single time. Which is a bad idea, especially in a group scene.

"No. Even Thanos said I should have gone for the head. I… just wanted to kill him. He took my best friend. My brother. Half of my people. 300 dwarves. Billions of people across the galaxy. I just wanted to…" Thor said, tears falling freely. "Avenge them." Natasha said, joining the two over what remained of Bucky, placing an arm around Steve's shoulders. "Now we have some more people to avenge. Come on. We need to get to the city and regroup." Bruce piped up from the Hulkbuster.

"They awkwardly said the purpose of the team! Twice! Don't you like that, reader? The reference?"

IIRC, the only time in the actual movie that Tony references avenging as a verb is during his angry, mocking rant at Cap. Once in the 2012 movie, and even then Tony knows it's awkward. Once in AOU, while Ultron is making a dramatic speech. Not at all in IW. (Incidentally, Thanos seems to be trying to "avenge" his home planet, in a twisted way.)

A few paragraphs later, we learn that the Snapped folks are in the Soul Realm, and Dr. Strange's voice has "a mildly mystical tone".

Which he doesn't in the movies. At all.

In the next scene, it 'uses single quotes and italics to indicate thoughts' thing. I'm not sure the former the former was ever commonly used in "published" writing, but it could be useful if you only have access to plaintext and you don't know how to write 'inline' thoughts.

If you can use italics, you don't need the single quotes. I think a lot of people use both because they saw some other fic do it.

If the story is starting this badly, I'm not going to read 50,000+ words.

#fanfiction #writing #writing advice #rants #nanowrimo #avengers #avengers endgame #endgame #bad writing #long

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rivvyelf · 9 months

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Chapter 2 Reflection:

FF.net: link

AO3: link

On this day (July 24th,) last year (2022), I posted the second chapter of my first fanfic, Outlaws of the Inland Sea. Looking back there are things I want to keep in the chapter, stuff that shows my rustiness, references I find cringeworthy, and I plan to revise Chapter 2 after posting "Chapter 1."

Warning: Spoilers Ahead, but eh, nothing that'll break your mind.

The "Qing Court Version" of "Along the River during the Qingming Festival."

Feel free to ask me about my decision-making. I'm leaving a lot of stuff from here.

For the beginning of Chapter 2, I had in mind this painting above. I did a high school paper on this painting. It's a very long painting, encompassing 8 whole scrolls.

Just for the record... I consider this the worst chapter in the entire fic. Might be surprising to some readers. There's a reason why I prefer that people read Chapter 3 onwards. But this chapter wasn't as bad as I thought it was.

Our character (who I later reveal to be Wang Jin) is relaxing here eating the brown bread as a tie-in from the Prelude.

I wanted to change the sex of a bunch of characters from Water Margin. It was part of an ambitious plan to put twists in both themes, motives, and actions of the characters. Wang Jin is one of these gender-bent characters. In the novel, Wang Jin is a rather minor character who only appears in one chapter.

That's Wang Jin in the 1998 Water Margin TV series.

Boy did I have changes for Wang Jin! Starting with gender. I used her POV to describe her origin as a corvee laborer and daughter of an Arms Instructor, going to Dongjing for employment as an Arms Instructor. This was also where I began to build the world of my fanfic. Mixed in angry trees, trolls, spiders, etc. into obstacles corvee laborers had to deal with, and voila, we not only build the world but we built the character too.

Then we get to the second half: Wang Jin beating up Gao's Gang. This was A LOT easier to write. I realized then that for me it was easier to write comedy than anything else. I gender-bent the person that will become Gao Yannei. Kept the same gender for the person that will become Gao Qiu. Wang Jin beating Gao Qiu wasn't a thing in the Water Margin novel (it was Wang Sheng that did that), but I was introduced to Water Margin in the 1998 TV series. I would link the fight here but I'm afraid it'll get copyrighted.

Instead, I'll share the Youtube link to the audio track that played when Wang Jin beat down Gao Qiu's gang:

youtube

It's an earworm. I loved it, it hooked me into the TV series and into Water Margin.

In the fight I wrote in the chapter, I made sure that every action Wang Jin took made sense and demonstrated her martial ability while not making her overly superhuman. She is here in Dongjing to instruct, after all, so I needed to make it believable that she could teach people that may not be as athletically or combat-gifted as her.

The hook I made for the next chapter was a constable seeing the destruction. And insert the characteristic Water Margin cliffhanger.

Reflection: It was the second piece of creative writing I wrote after my mom passed away. This was more difficult to write than the Prelude, and there's a bunch of stuff I plan to revise with this chapter (brownies if you can guess which areas!). When I first reread this chapter, what came to mind was the concept of "Culture Shock." This would especially be the case for any Tolkien fan. The East was characterized by tribes, not a centralized Empire where elves, dwarves, and humans cooperated together. Prose would also be a bit of a culture shock too.

Looking back there's a lot of stuff I'm keeping in, but I'll be adding more worldbuilding scenes in the city. Things like a person throwing roof tiles at a house, commentary on how the capital is wasting food and material that was foraged and mined by laborers like Wang Jin. Stuff like that.

#fanfiction #reflection #revisions #outlaws of the inland sea #chapter 2 #jrr tolkien #crossover #shui hu #Wang Jin #Gao Qiu #outlaws of the marsh #Youtube

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ericathefae · 1 year

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Good morning!

So, yesterday's experiment went well. Let's see if we can replicate it. It's 9:27 right now, I got up around 7:40 (after only have snoozed a little), was out the door ten minutes after 'cause I wanted yoghurt for breakfast, but didn't have any at home > I also picked up a package and shopped some other useful things (which, impressive, since I easily end up with just snacks and knick knacks instead of food), which I had decided on while I was still in bed. When I got home (around 8:50) I unpacked, got stuck daydreaming, and prepared breakfast. Today's plan:

Make this list [9:40]

Eat breakfast (while watching 1 video) [10:17]

Set timer for two hours and write out today's work tasks and put on the corckboard [10:21]

Read Danmarks ældste ugeblad and write down relevant notes [got about half way through (it's a fairly thin booklet), got a little lost daydreaming though - also interrupted the reading to go check one of my own books for information about photolithography]

Look at yesterday's and today's notes, figure out what to use where [eh, not yet...]

Begin writing this first assignment [nope]

Take a break (I assume it will now be around 12:20) ]12:19, booyah! PS. I'm in a good mood today, the sun is shining and I feel like I'm being productive, it's good]

Peel and boil potatoes, cook bacon for later, while doing the dishes [13:00]

Make sandwich, eat sandwich [15:12, ended up taking a longer break watching youtube and crocheting (and I even got around to water my plants)]

Update and continue this list [eh, I checked tumblr... and took a nap for a couple of hours, it's now 18:41 and I am definitely avoiding doing anything, because I know I have to send what I've written this week to my thesis advisor and I have litterally nothing yet! I'm craving soda and chips :( Aaaaaand I got lost on tumblr again... it's now 20:06 and I'm kinda panicking]

Set new timer, continue work on my thesis (aka. reading the second half)

Write something! (aka. get to the two blue items above)

Okay, new plan [20:30]: write email to my thesis advisor explaining why there is no text [done 20:44, I feel like a bit of a failure to be honest]

Do not go down and buy soda and chips (it's the easy way out and I've actually got food I like in the fridge, I just need to make a slightly more sensible option to get sorta similar levels of comfort, I can do this) [check]

Make good food, watch something nice [check]

Go to bed early [ish, 22:58, goodnight. PS. definitely going to read a fanfic before I actually sleep - I have a Johnlock pretend-relationship one lined up, it will be yummy]

Leasons learned: - don't pour breakfast and then try to make the list at the same time (you'll be distracted by the food) - not having the entire day planned from the beginning removes the sense of urgency (and I end up just taking breaks whenever I feel like it and easily get lost in endless scrolling)

PS. Tomorrow my goal is gonna be to finally start on my book-binding-collage-photo-memory-journal kind of project that I bought stuff for like half a year ago! [though this was written when I was still feeling optimistic]

#neurodivergence #executive dysfunction #autistic inertia #experiment #plan for the day #friday #to do today

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chaoticeddie · 3 years

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my family misusing words bothers me more than I can say

#like my sister keeps talking about her hyperfixations but i know for a fact that they are not actually hyperfixations #they're just her current interests #idk how to describe this and maybe I'm totally wrong? but isn't a hyperfixation something where you're totally focused on one subject #like if you're hyperfixating on doctor who then that would be all you could make yourself engage in #like fanfics or watching the show or talking about it #and having it maybe affect other areas of your life?#like in my experience #when I was hyperfixated on teen wolf for four months straight #I couldn't make myself do or think about anything else #whereas right now with bnha #I'm enjoying watching the new episode every week #and I've been reading a bunch of fanfics #but it's not really getting in the way of school #and if I get an email about a fic from a different fandom updating then I'll read it #and I'm breaking up my fanfic reading with youtube and stuff #so it's completely different #and my sister definitely isn't getting hyperfixated on stuff #idk if any of this makes sense lol #ig I'm just venting #cause I hate my sister #but she's the kind of person that would use the word gaslight to mean lie

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