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saltydazeinnit · 2 years

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Me crawling out of fanfic hell for the first time in weeks: what's up you filthy animals?

Anyway I started collecting tags I randomly like in my notes app, what to see them?

ANYWAY IF YOURE STILL HERE YOURE SEEING THEM

*pops up like a game show host*

Let's see let's see

Our first category is "I SNORTED OOF"

It'll be YOUR thing too by the time I am done with you, Frank Yet Fumbling Discussion Of Sex, bro they're funky, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Chuck-E-Cheese parking lot, Heteroflexible, just has boobs, As One Does,

These are the nonsensical ones I laugh at when I find them at 2am, some basics and then weird ones. I.Love.Them

Our second is "HORNY BITCHES LOL"

Frottage, Praise Kink, Mirror Sex, Grinding, Hand Kink, Spit as Lube, Wall Sex, Strength Kink,

I feel like we're closer now, as you might guess these are ones I scroll through when reading porn just hits diff, you might notice some things and please don't feel the need to remind me kinks are genetic

OUR THIRD CATEGORY "HORRIFIED BUT INTRIGUED"

Human Experimentation, Scent Kink, Honey as Lube,

These are ones I'm slightly concerned I found but this was made for shits and giggles, that last one seems like a bad idea tbh

The next is "ADORABLE"

Wilbur Soot Loves TommyInnit, Pet Names, Platonic Kissing, Body Worship, First Kiss, Comfort No Hurt, Sleepy Cuddles, Aftercare,

These are just ones I find sweet, the first is indeed /p dw

They are sweet and I like them, it's soft ty

We're getting closer! Our second to last is "FOOD FOR THOT"

Spider-man TommyInnit, Blood and Injury, Body Horror, Codependency, Possessive Behavior, Medical Trauma,

These are just for when I'm writing :) just ideas (I might some issues lol)

AND OUR LAST CATEGORY ISSSS "WHAT THE HOLY FUCKS?"

Ghost Sex, Thigh Riding, Size Kink, Blood as Lube,

Things I clicked on and had to sit back a minute for. So, how's your day? How are you? How bigs your keyboard? :D

I feel like I'm closer to you lot then I should be at times but *shrugs*

Anyway all these tags are on ao3 and leave fic recs if you want me to post a haul of recs /p

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constant-stateofdenial · 9 months

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the chapters of this fic just keep getting longer and longer ughhh the first chap was like 2.5k the second is 3.5k and this third one which i’m not even done with is close to 4,000 words

like it shouldn’t be a problem but I wanted all the chapters to be roughly the same length but that’s obviously gone out the window now

#ao3 #stuggle #fanfic writer #fanfic struggles #i didn’t mean for it to get so long #but the words kept coming and didn’t stop coming #ao3 writer #fanfiction

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sadskeletonscientist · 2 years

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Me trying not to be freak but wanting to reply to every comment on my fics

#fanfic #fanfic writing #ao3 writer #the stuggle

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inkyycapp · 5 months

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| rayman, ramon & raymesis x reader.

| relationship hcs.

personal song of choice: in my room, by insane clown posse.

i've seen so many rayman edits to this song, it now has him written alll over it. fuuuuuuckkkkkkk. do i write smut? (probably). just take this for now.

| tw:: foul language, raymesis/j, my own hcs, self indulgence, (heavy?)angst, they're all struggling, this is not proof read.

[ a/n:: we need more rayman. i'm still new to writing fanfics(aside my horrid watpad {i forgot how to spell it} phase.) forgive my errors and i hopefully plan to write more of him. he haunts my nightmares(lovingly). i'm ill rn, and wrote most of this in a sleep deprived craze for more rayman. first time writing these characters-- forgive me. ]

(soh/game)rayman.

i feel like he'd be the type to randomly pinch you especially when he feels like he's being ignored, or when you're 'busy'.

he always does it when you least expect it. sitting on the couch, scrolling on your phone/reading a book? pinch. getting something to drink? pinch. stargazing? pinch.

loves the little reactions he gets from you. giggles over it. i bet he kicks his feet too.

definitely the type to swipe food from your plate when you're not looking, then gaslight you about it.

you're missing a potato wedge? nuh-uh. you're crazy. how dare you assume that your handsome, loving, amazing boyfriend would ever steal from you. the betrayal...(he did it.)

i like to think he enjoys hand kisses. random thought, but i dunno. i think he'd like to kiss your palms as a source of reassurance, and of course receiving the same affection back would probably give him a heart attack. in a good way of course.

or when you're a bit stressed in public and hold onto the back of his hoodie. like slightly holding onto the fabric where it's almost unnoticeable. probably the cutest thing you could ever do in his eyes. (that or giving him a lil kiss.)

silly things aside, he stuggles a lot. his failures that haunt him day in and out, he's scared to know how long it takes before he fails you too.

simple mistakes can lead to him getting stressed or overwhelmed as he doesn't leave any room for his 'failures', even with something so simple as accidentally knocking something over, breaking stuff, etc... he truly believes that you are one mistake away from leaving him.

he tries to be forgiving of all things with consideration of course, but often times it backfires. he has a naïve view that everyone can, and will change. he wants to believe that they will change for the better, even if the person chooses not to change, or to change for the worse. he blames himself when things go south because of that, he wants to give someone a second chance, but sometimes do they really deserve it? he tells himself he should know better by now, and it was all nothing but wishful thinking. very forgiving for others, but the rules don't apply to himself.

be patient with him, and reassure him whenever you get the chance. he really needs it.

his sleep schedule is the most horrendous schedule you will have ever seen. it's teetering between a full on coma, or staying awake for days on end. he loves taking naps, but sometimes he just can't-- he has work to do. remind him breaks are necessary. force him to sleep when he needs it. for his naps(comas), i don't know. cry? if there's one thing that'll wake him up is the sound of you in distress.

rayman is a sucker for pet names. he will be a puddle of goo in you're hands.

you're in another room, and he's just lounging about. the next moment you're calling for him, needing his help with something? he's right there. like right behind you.

lives for simplicity. babe, baby, sweetheart, honey, hun/hon. consider whatever you need done. he's so whipped for you.

he's also pretty good with pda. again, the pinching. public, private, it doesn't matter. that cute little pout on you're face is something he'd kill for.

personally, i prefer the earlier games personality traits as opposed to (i believe)origins. i do enjoy the childish behavior, however i do believe his immaturity does have a limit. (living for soh!rayman.)

definitely the type to crack the funniest jokes at the worst times imaginable. it's his secret talent.

that, and hitting you with a one liner when you're both faced with a terrible situation. except that one liner is just so good-- you have to at least give him credit for that.

huge soft spot for sentimental gifts. always putting them somehwere safe, and when enough time passes, he likes to go over each and every one. reminiscing about all the little things.

raymesis.

[middle child energy.]

'a hot tempered psycho who's looking to destroy rayman's reputation'. not my words-- it's the wiki's.

with canonical anger issues under his belt(?), he's a bit more brash than the other two. when realizing he may like you, he may turn against you in almost violent ways. but, he hesistates everytime. always missing by a hair.

it takes him a while before he'd able to ever consider that maybe being vulnerable is okay-- just this once.

suprisingly a tad bit cautious of 'being nicer' to you, but he's trying his best.

raymesis is a thing-a-majig with a serious identity crisis.

i like to think that the some of the 4-5 vers. of the evil clones of rayman are just him having multiple 'phases'. it's fun to think of.

on a more serious note: he often feels like he's nothing but a lesser-- a shadow of the heroic rayman. maybe he looks up to him in a way, and finds jealousy in how he can just...keep going. how he's able to be so open, and forgive other so easily despite their past transgressions. he finds it unfair: why is it so difficult for him, but so easy for rayman. he's a clone of him, sure an evil clone, but a clone nonetheless. that's where the deep, dark spiral comes in.

linking to that he struggles to be nice, vulnerable, or open with you. he's supposed to be an evil clone of some heroic figure, and yet he's falling over himself because of you. in his own way, he gets extremely upset-- it pisses him off. he tries to be mean to you, but he can't bring himself to do so. he's supposed to be a 'bad person', but hurting you makes him seem like more of a monster than a villain.

this will all take time for him to process, the best thing you can do is be patient, listen to him rant, and just try and be there for him.

you have definitely mellowed him out, just a bit. he's still an asshole to rayman/j.

they're more like bickering siblings who never get along.

do not expect 'family(?)' dinners to go well.

i feel like mr.dark and the nymphs have serious beef with eachother. wwe smack downs every 'family(?)' dinner. always bet on the nymphs.

wouldn't it be cute for the nymphs to treat raymesis like their son too? just adopting him one day without him knowing? scolding him for lighting that one house down the street on fire?

raymesis doesn't like christmas trees.

there seems to be a reoccurring joke in the descriptions that claim raymesis is 'ugly' despite the fact he's a near clone of rayman. this always leaves him in a puddle of confusion with his confidence always shot. please tell him he's pretty once in a while-- he won't accept the compliment, but he'll think about it for days.

he's not used to praise, and can't take compliments. poor buddy.

he definitely bites. a lot.

of course he's a little more careful with you, he still bites now and again. i feel like he's an agressive lover. wanting to squeeze the life out of things he finds 'cute' without ever admitting it.

he has a purple tongue. that's kinda cool. i like to think he probably has a tongue piercing too? i feel like he's the type.

definitely plenty of pent up feelings that he has a hard time expressing.

but pda? oh yeah. lives for it. his hands always has to be on you in one way or another. get's all agitated, and sulks when you pull you're hand away from his to pick something up, or to rummage through your bag. how dare you-- you owe a huge apology.

pet names; babe/baby, sweetheart, creature, mine, stupid/idiot(lovingly). he's very silly with these.

he has a hard time believing you'd ever choose him compared to the hero, rayman. with time maybe he'll learn you love him, and choose him because he's your first choice.

(superiority complex.)

he may not be the best person, but he's at least willing to learn to be better in his own way.

ramon.

can we all agree on the amount of trust issues this man has right about now? good.

after the betrayal with eden whether you've been in his life for years or not, he finds it hard to put everything out in front. it'll take him some time to rebuild trust after what eden did. and no, him needing to rebuild the trust has nothing to do with you! (i mean that in a good way.) you did nothing wrong(unless you did) in his eyes but, he used to believe eden was his everything. and with that, eden took everything. he worries that with time they'll take you too.

give him reassurance, quality time, the whole mile. remind him you're not going anywhere.

while cuddling in bed(couch, etc) probably the type to refuse to let you go to the bathroom because he doesn't want to let you go.

honestly, very romantic.

he loves fruit, and chocolate covered fruit too.

will buy you some, but steals a few pieces when you're not looking. he's sneaky like that.

also known that he likes sushi, but i feel like he probably has beef with the conveyer belt things. probably a bad experience, or he's mad at it for no reason.

i think he likes habatchi. it's very entertaining.

he's the type to tell the most outrageous stories out of the blue. he's the absolute king of 'i used to know a friend'.

probably kept up with everyone's drama as the news host. stays awake at night thinking about it sometimes.

y'know when someone tells you a joke and you don't get it at first? this is him figuring out what they meant at like 2:30 am.

another terrible sleep schedule. like absolutely horrendous.

he probably has nightmares about his time as a news host. thinking of the lies he used to spread. how much each one impacted someone elses life.

wakes up in a cold sweat. ends up focusing on you're calm breathing, and tries to match it. eventually falls asleep, not before firmly pulling you close to him. even when you wake up, you'll never escape his grasp.

on an alternative route, if you did wake up, he's extremely apologetic. tries to usher you back to sleep. now you're both awake munching on some food watching some shitty trash tv, criticizing why she choose james over percy.

he's not keen on pda. he worries for you're life. it's already a risk for you to be with him-- what if eden sees?

pet names too, but more casual with them behind closed doors. definitely married-couple-core. sweetheart, brat when he's being a pain, or play fighting. hon/hun, baby when he's literally attached to you're hip.

has frequent chronic migraine. enjoys just burying his face into you're stomache and just laying there while you're doing whatever your doing. like a cat.

enjoys the comfortable silence between you two, but small conversation is just as nice.

has guns. you broke a lamp. doesn't let you touch no more./j

he actually prefers you have a gun on your person at all times, even in the comfort of home. you'll never know what could happen when you can't protect yourself.

| the end.

[a/n: sorry it's a little short, but this is my first time writing for these three. addiction is strong, don't do rayman kids.]

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shirajellyfish · 2 months

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Hello! I've recently discovered your DCA fanfic and well, I immediately fell in love. It literally single-handledly brought back my FNAF hyperfixation- I know lots of people have already complemented your work, but I do want to say you deserve all that praise and that I find your writing style is just amazing. I have a lot of fanfic ideas- and while I still stuggle with constantly fluctuating motivation and describing things, your work has definitely been an inspiration! I hope you enjoy the fanart I made-

Oh. My. Gosh.

These are amazing!! I love these so much, thank you!!

Every single one of these is such a delight. Sundrop's biblically accurate smile as he fidgets nervously, hugs, Riley doing the cereal excitement dance with him haha! Lune being menacing, Lune having fun! Friends with the glamrocks!

And those LAST TWO oh my GOSH those LAST TWO. Those hit like a brick through a window, I am shattered and I love it! Not only do they look amazing, your interpretation of what's going through Sun's head in that moment is just [sound of my heart shattering] it's so good

If you ever write a DCA fic please feed it to me I will eat it

#fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf security breach #fnaf daycare attendant #i see you sundrop

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sorryimananti-romantic · 25 days

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its quite strange. im seeing you in my dreams. and i dont know whether to dread falling asleep and waking up in a fantasy where we're together or look forward to it. i quite enjoy spending time with you in the land of dreams, where youre just as infatuated with me as i am with you. part of me says the pang of sadness once i wake up and realise its all a trick of my mind, that you'd never feel the same, that ill never be the one you look at with that love gaze, that ill never be her, is worth those small moments of interaction. but it isnt real. itll never be real. why do i hold onto the hope of you and i, when i know perfectly well it will never come true? but... cant a girl dream? but why do i dream of something that is bound to make me yearn and cry and wish for more when i wake? let me have my moments. let me dream... but im hurting myself with these hopes.

aaand the bell rang so i couldnt continue 😞

okok but srsly i dreamt of him last night and idk if i need to get over him b4 this crush of mine goes too far or enjoy the dreams ☹

(for a hot moment this clown (me) thought you were talking about me and i was like:

ignore that ^

assuming you're that green flag dude anon?? or talking about a real dude (if you're not and you're talking about some kpop idol pls take your anti-delulu pills you're welcome) he's appearing in your dreams omgg 😭 (that's bc you're thinking about him too much esp when you're about to sleep)

(also i'm stuggling a lot here the T in me is saying talk to him and you'll hate him bc real non-fictional men ew problem solved) BUT i hope you're interacting with him? it's no use crushing on someone and not doing anything about it that's just making yourself miserable. just talk to him, if you continue to find him attractive after you get to know him a little maybe shoot your shot? if he likes you back, yay! if not, then that's your cue to let it be i guess (or fight for it but this isn't the fanfic world it's different here 😭 whatever feels right ig)

or you could continue to enjoy the dreams as long as you don't forget your anti-delulu pills-- crushing on someone from far away is far less disappointing ig but maybe that's just me and my weird ass self-defence mechanism that doesn't even allow me to crush on someone in peace 😭😭

but i'm here if you want to talk about it more! warning tho i only give realistic practical advice, i don't feed delulus😔

#nah you had me in the first 8 halves ngl #hugs for you!#think this through and think with the brain #not the heart #heart part comes later? i think #i wouldn't know man im the most inexperienced here #but hopefully what i said made sense <3 #yumi.asks

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dreamingofmickeywaffles · 6 months

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks for the tag @im-overstimulated-and-im-sad

How many works do you have on AO3? I have 12 and my username is foxesinflight

What's your total AO3 word count? 27,477

What fandoms do your write for? 911 Lonestar

What are your top five fics by kudos? All of these are Tarlos

The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway...Okay, Well, Maybe Just a Little.

5 Times They Fell Asleep While Cuddling and The One Time They Didn't

The Black Eye

I hope that you catch me, 'cause I'm already falling

The One Where They Both Get Sick

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes! I always try to, as it's just the nice thing to do for someone who has taken the time to comment

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I don't think I have written any with a sad or angsty ending

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Probably this one The Babysitter, which is part of my Lizard Chronicles series.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

None so far

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

No, and I don't think I ever would as I don't think I could do it justice

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I haven't written any, however I do have this this idea for a Twilight/Lonestar Cross over that I want to do at some point

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No,

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I did way back when I was a teenager it was for a Starkid fanfic,

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

Tarlos or I use to love Robin/Regina from Once Upon a TIme

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a coffee shop AU half planned out. I keep going to write and never start.

16. What are your writing strengths? I'm not sure tbh,

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Grammer and use of tense, I struggle with.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I would stuggle to, the dyslexic in me would avoid and worry about getting it horribly wrong.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Starkid

20. Favorite fic you've written?

I hope that you catch me, 'cause I'm already falling.

I loved writing this one, and I found the words came easy to me, I must write the second chapter I have planned for this one.

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ao3feed-dilucnkaeya · 6 months

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Left Alone to Bleed

Read on AO3

by whiteeyedtales

Kaeya gets caught in a pickle while cleaning out abyss order camps and so happens to run into a Cryo abyss mage, on his own. No one else to help him.

So the Mage wins I guess.

Diluc, everyones favourite older brother, finds his younger brother wounded while he's out doing Darknight Hero shit, picks him up and ventures his way back to the Dawn Winery.

Kaeya dreams, has nightmares/night terrors and stuggles, especially during storms.

I invoke pain on these poor boys when I come up with fanfic ideas, I just don't write them down a lot because... lazy.

Words: 359, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen

Characters: Diluc (Genshin Impact), Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Adelinde (Genshin Impact), Crepus (Genshin Impact)

Relationships: Diluc & Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Adelinde & Diluc & Kaeya (Genshin Impact)

Additional Tags: Family, Platonic Relationships, Crepus Adopts Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Diluc and Kaeya are Siblings (Genshin Impact), Dead Crepus (Genshin Impact), Mentioned Crepus (Genshin Impact), Grief/Mourning, Diluc is Bad at Feelings (Genshin Impact), Diluc is Protective of Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Diluc and Kaeya are Adopted Siblings (Genshin Impact), Sad Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Kaeya Needs a Hug (Genshin Impact), Kaeya Has Abandonment Issues (Genshin Impact), Kaeya Has Trust Issues (Genshin Impact), Kaeya Has Nightmares (Genshin Impact), Kaeya is a Mess (Genshin Impact), Kaeya is Bad At Feelings (Genshin Impact), Parental Adelinde (Genshin Impact), Adelinde Appreciation (Genshin Impact), Diluc and Kaeya Reconciliation (Genshin Impact), Violence, Blood and Violence, Mild Gore, Blood and Injury, Injury Recovery, Hurt Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Worried Diluc (Genshin Impact)

#genshin impact fanfics #platonic diluc and kaeya #diluc ragnvindr #kaeya alberich #ao3feed #newfic

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bassiter2 · 11 months

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i've wanted to be a writer my entire life, like as long as i've had any concept of a career that's always been the default thing and i really do love writing as an art medium in and of itself and not necessarily just something through which i can get attention like how i feel about my visual art. but i still feel pretty sure at this point that i'm only ever gonna be able to write **transformative fiction** aka fanfic and specifically m/m romance because that's just the only kind of plot i really value. and i don't think i have it in me to ever really make an original story. i've never had developed ocs that weren't based off of literally just myself. i struggle so much to create real relationship conflict that isn't analogous to some source material in a fic bc it's just so stressful to create some where there's nothing. it's interesting in a story bc i like to SOLVE it but i'm never gonna be inclined to create it. i also genuinely stuggle so much to write depth for characters who aren't the people IN the main romance even in a fic where said characters have established personalities, let alone to CREATE secondary characters who exist as anything but tools for the main romance. that's just literally all i care about, at least enough to the degree of writing about it, no matter how hard i try. and i feel like a fake person for it

#personal

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phantominzie · 9 months

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Help

Okay, I am stuggling rn. There is a fanfic that I cannot fucking find that I read long ago and I am sobbing. That shit was so beautifully written and amazing. It's prinxiety and Roman was trans and I cannot find it. I've looked through every tag I can remember and I just- AA

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softbobamilktae · 1 year

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I posted 7,625 times in 2022

That's 5,891 more posts than 2021!

4,503 posts created (59%)

3,122 posts reblogged (41%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 7,057 of my posts in 2022

Only 7% of my posts had no tags

#softbobamilktae txt - 4,750 posts

#stuff - 1,682 posts

#answered asks - 532 posts

#taehyung - 232 posts

#mateo <3 - 174 posts

#wifey naan - 142 posts

#mutuals - 84 posts

#taehyung fanfic - 80 posts

#moon <3 - 70 posts

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Longest Tag: 124 characters

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My Top Posts in 2022:

Petals of Wax

Pairing: Taehyung x OC

Genre: angst, fluff

Word Count: 9.6k

Warnings: minor character death, arranged marriages

Summary: Audrey, as the princess's lady-in-waiting, must escort the girl as she goes to meet her fiancé. The last thing the lady expected was to meet a suitor of her own, though.

A/N: this is my longest oneshot yet and I’m surprised at how fast I finished it! I really hope you guys enjoy it ☺️

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89 notes - Posted March 18, 2022

A Room For Two

Pairing: Idol!Taehyung x Model!OC

Genre: fluff

Word Count: 1.5k

Warnings: alcohol consumption and mentions of restrictive dieting

Summary: Tae and Zelda spend a night in Las Vegas together, and maybe having separate hotel rooms is overrated.

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96 notes - Posted April 8, 2022

Pretty Girl

Pairing: Idol!Taehyung x Model!OC

Genre: fluff

Word Count: 2.8k

Warnings: body insecurities...like a lot of them, and probably slightly suggestive? They directly mention sex at one point idk

Summary: Zelda's stuggling with liking herself again, and Tae makes it his personal mission to make her feel better. Cue twenty minutes of him just loving on her.

See the full post

109 notes - Posted September 18, 2022

That moment when you realize your really good hearing is because of ADHD sensitivity and not because you have superpowers

110 notes - Posted May 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Me: “everything is too loud”

Also me: *completely fine after putting on my headphones and blaring music*

128 notes - Posted December 6, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #false

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fandom-star · 1 year

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For the Let's Get ((REAL)) fic writer asks, 💞 and 🌈

🌈is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with? I can't think of anything I've posted in the past year that I've necessarily had stuggles with. For the first part though, what comes to mind is one of my Charite At War fanfics that takes place post-canon in the 60s. I spent about two hours researching east Berlin, and if I hadn't mentioned it in the notes nobody would know because I didn't use any of it!

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language In my writing I think I place importance on what is important to me when I'm reading. So I place a lot of importance on character. With characters, there is a certain way that they "can be" ooc when I read them, otherwise I'm not going to be into the story, so I try to keep the characters I write to my perception of their canon characterisation as far as I understand it.

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pillowspace · 2 years

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Oh, btw I just sent in an ask that said I had written the first chapter of my fanfic! Do you have any tips on how to pick fanfic titles? Totally stuggling!

When picking fic titles (which I do for fics I never finish oops), I tend to look over all the dialogue written and see if anything in there sparks inspiration. If maybe there's a word with significance. And if not, I go scrolling through my liked music for an appropriate lyric (or song title) that feels fitting. If I can't find one, I tend to look through the lyrics of songs written by a particular artist I like, even if I haven't heard the songs I'm looking through

Artists I've looked through in the past have been The Oh Hellos, Jack Stauber, Mother Mother, Glass Animals, etc.

Not a single fic I've finished has used a lyric title before butjdjgjd I've found good ones at times

Good luck!

#ask

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daryfromthefuture · 1 year

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😈🛒✨🛠⛔🙋‍♀️💖❌ 🤗🤯 for the ask thing (sorry I got a lot of questions!)

oh god, that's a lot! let's see what we have here

😈has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

oh, all the time. many of my reader friends open my next chapter with great caution because i tend to be a little mean to my main characters sometimes (without warning, too). sometimes i also like to make already pretty bad conditions even worse for fun <3 i love my readers

🛒what are common things you incorporate in your fics? themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

at this point it's pretty much impossible to find a fic of mine that doesn't involve a doc and marty found family trope, and i love when they hug, so that also does happen all the time. it's a crime that they only had two hugs in the entire trilogy. bob gale, what the hell?

aside from that...emotional hurt, fluff. friendship. these things. i'm not a huge fan of romance, so i tend to stay away from that (except if it's necessary for plot purposes)

✨give you and your writing a compliment. go on now. you know you deserve it.

awww. that's sweet. let me think.

as much as it frustrates me sometimes, my writing is pretty solid in english for it being my third language. i sometimes reread my stuff and think that this is a style i'd also gladly read.

🛠️what tools/programs/apps do you use to write?

i use libreoffice and google docs for the most part! but if i'm in complete writers block, this website helps me a lot! it actually makes me write lmao

⛔do you have a fic you started, but scraped?

yep. i had a bttf prequel fic i wanted to write, but i eventually scraped it because the plot was pretty lame. also my brain was overtaken by other projects that matter more to me now, so it's not a big loss ;)

🙋‍♀️do any irl people know you write fanfic?

in my irl friend group, i usually disguise fanfic as "stories that go nowhere" instead of admitting that i post them for the enitre internet to discover and read. some friends know that it's specifically fanfic, though. my family knows nothing and i'd like for it to stay that way lol

💖what made you start writing?

personally, i've been loving to write since forever. i used to write short stories for myself, up until i discovered fanfic when i was 10. my drive to write fanfiction usually comes from my love for fandoms and characters, and the urge to add my own touch to already existing stories and put those characters into interesting scenarios. you can do so many things while keeping the characters you know and love, and that's really fun!

❌what's a trope you will never write?

y/n or oc x canon. i appreciate everyone who managed to insert y/n or oc into canon so well that the story still makes sense and is well written, but personally i could never do that. the already existing characters bring me enough inspiration to come up with stories, and i'm perfectly content with writing for them.

🤗what advice would you give to give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?

don't be afraid to start! things like "but others are better than me" shouldn't stop you. yes, others are better than you. they will always be others who are more successful and have a different writing style that you may think as being better. but you will improve, and be proud of your own work. fanfic is something you write for yourself and also for free, it's your time you're investing and it's perfectly fine to be proud of the stories you tell! and there always will be people who genuinely enjoy what you write :)

wow that was a lot

🤯what's a genre you struggle with as a writer? (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

while i've slowly gotten a hang on romance, i stuggle with action scenes (simply because i tend to focus on emotion rather than plot). also horror? angst, yes. horror? no, nope. don't know how to write that.

thank you so much for the ask!

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