#i'm not the best writer but i made them

[cherybeee]

A list of the fnaf fics i've written because i never promote them

1... 2... 3... Soleil! (multi-chaptered, discontinued) DCA / reader You get a job at the Superstar daycare. I don't know what more to tell you lmao

There's a monster in the garage (multi-chaptered, ongoing) DCA & child!reader Why do you hear banging noise in your garage?

Solar Flare (one-shot) Sun fucking snapped

What happens at night (multi-chaptered, ongoing) DCA / reader (platonic or romantic) You didn't expect starting a prank war with an animatronic when applying at Freddy Fazbear's. And you certainly didn't expect that some kind of immortal child murderer was hiding in the basement.

King vs Jester who will win!!? (multi-chaptered, ongoing) A Hat in Time x FNaF crossover fic Sun / Moon, Snatcher & Moonjumper Sun and Moon managed to escape the burning pizzaplex but end up in a strange forest. Was it really a better fate?

You're never alone in the dark (one-shot) Moon / reader (platonic or romantic) As a child, you were terrified of the dark. And now look at you, all grown up and adult! You start working a night shift as a security guard at the Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex and immediatly regret it. Though, in all this mess, you find yourself a friend.

Tied by fate (in more ways than one) (multi-chaptered, ongoing) Sun / Moon Sun and Moon both wake up one day with a red string tied around their little finger. How ridiculous, they weren't human and they certainly didn't have a soulmate.

It mean 'I love you' (one-shot) Sun / Moon Moon has been acting weird and Sun has no idea why. Until he has a conversation with a little girl about her cat.

Vampire and Animatronics (multi-chaptered, ongoing) DCA / reader (platonic or romantic) You live a pretty comfortable and quiet life. Although a bit lonely, but you don't mind. That's what you're used to. That is until an animatronic breaks into your house.

#i'm not the best writer but i made them #silly writing #daycare attendant

[asleepinawell]

i know book sales pitches that follow the pattern "it's X meets Y" (like it's the mcu meets game of thrones) have been shown as being a successful way to increase sales by some suspect data points but the visceral hatred this gimmick evokes in me every time does the opposite of make me click the purchase button. not only are X and Y usually things I don't want more of, but they also usually have nothing in common with the book

#the safely americanized covers that lack any personality are up there too #when i think about getting published i ask myself if I'm willing to subject my writing to the horrors of the capitalist publishing world #and then i think about the number of books i may have missed because the attempts to market them made them sound like raw garbage #and the vast quantity of fantastic writing that never gets published because it isn't deemed marketable #and the fact that even if you do the impossible and publish a book that isn't a YA romance #the best you can hope for is a bunch of morally righteous bigots on twitter harassing you #like is it really worth all that to get your writing to the people you want to share it with #and will the experience make you associate all the bad shit with your writing #personal #mp #this is not a criticism of writers who have to promote their work with those dumb comparisons btw #it's a criticism of the entire system

[wayfinderships]

Man...I do not talk enough about my O.ne P.iece s/i...they really are so cool-

#pan rambles #They're my most developed s/i and I love and cherish them so deeply #as well as their complicated relationship with S.anji #it all just fits so nicely to me and I like them very much <3 #I should really talk more about my s/is but I don't really know where to begin with them sometimes-afksbfjsn #I'm not writer so I can't say they're the best written but they're made with a lot of love and care! #I'm always happy to answer questions about my silly little s/is <3 #Even about some I'm still developing like F.inal F.antasy 8 s/i or M.ass E.ffect s/i! #although I may not have an answer for everything with those since I'm still developing them #but yeah! gksbfjsjf s/is! #they're just as important as the f/o to me! #if I have an f/o and/or a crush then I certainly have an s/i made or in the process of being made <3

[novelconcepts]

i don't make resolutions, but if i did

it would be to finish this fic

(and to be kind to myself for however long it takes to actually do so)

#i'm finishing it if it kills me #i know i've been writing this makeout scene for 3 weeks but baby that can't last forever #if we want to get deep and dark and serious for a second i do think a lot of my struggles to write lately have to do with engagement #and how incredibly low engagement has been on the last few things i've written #which like. is what it is. i'm not entitled to anybody's time or comments or kudos. #but when you write stuff you're proud of and it feels like it's barely getting read it's hard to keep momentum. #this isn't intended as a woe is me or whatever it's just kind of like. there. hovering. #happens enough times you start to wonder if it's you. am i just writing for the wrong fandom/ship? #(too bad if so. they're in my bones i'm writing for them and no one can stop me.) #but yeah. if you ever wonder if authors do care or notice about hits. comments. kudos. buddy i am here to tell you #not only do we care and FLOURISH we also notice when those things drop off and readers vanish #and it is a giant bummer. and sometimes makes us wildly paranoid about why that might have happened. #so if you liked a fic today--not even one of mine. just. anybody's. share it. comment on it. #kudos at the VERY least (cuz frankly kudos is there to be an 'i got to the end and this was nice' feature. #so when you get 500 hits and only like 30 kudos? it feels like 470 of those people hated your work) #anyway. that got out of hand. lil' too raw lil' too honest. happens when you let yourself ramble at 11:30 instead of sleeping #to sum: let your local fic writer know if they've made you happy #and as we go into 2024 i am swearing to myself that this fic (and probably several others) are getting finished #come hell. high water. or dishearteningly low engagement numbers. #(and then maybe we...actually work on something original. cuz why not. new year same old me but i'll do my best.)

[bpdanakins]

i watched like 30 mins of the live action show and then binge re-watched cartoon atla in like. 3 days

#in my defence i was recovering from a surgery soooo. but also who could blame me #liz.txt #i miss it. i love the gaang so much #i'm rewatching atlok now and i love them too but it takes a bit just bc the writers had to do that whole love triangle b.s. #i literally cannot stand it whatsoever and they drag. it. on. #but yeah the live action show. i don't want to be mean so. the actors tried their best and the effects were cool. #and i got that in 30 mins apparently they sucked the soul out of the show and i'm not surprised #watch the cartoon i promise it's so so worth it. #i made this post mostly as a warning that my queue is gonna be filled with atla/atlok. and then rambled instead

[mybrainproblems]

so like. watching 11x23 after having watched the rest of the show and taking time to chew on what the fuck dabbnatural is all about is so interesting bc there's a certain framing of chuck dying in 11x23 that... i'm not sure if it was intentional by dabb or just the way the editing shook out (either option is insane) but at first chuck seems to imply that his death and the death of the world isn't the result of imbalance, but it's that amara killed him and is now destroying the world. but then we learn from amara that no, the sun is dying bc she hurt chuck to the point where he is dying and that without creation there is only the nothingness that is her nature. the sun dying is the result of her actions but it's not a direct choice, just a consequence that she didn't really foresee. she has come to love chuck's creations, why would she choose to destroy that?

and it just fascinates me. bc watching 14x20 immediately after it's kinda like... was this intentional? there's a certain element of 11x23 that feels like as much as chuck says he doesn't want to hurt amara, he doesn't necessarily feel regret about what he's done, only how it turned out.

which again, could just be that the takes used in editing biased towards a less remorseful vibe from chuck. we don't know if there were other takes where rob played chuck as more remorseful but that's what we end up with. dean asking if chuck wants amara dead and him saying that even after all this, no. but still lying by omission that the sun dying is something amara is choosing to do.

like idk there's just a certain framing of that reveal and the fact that it initially comes from amara that is like. yes, chuck is dying but he's putting on his best meow meow act. if he's gonna die it may as well be as he's comforted by the characters from his favorite show. he may as well snuggle in close and send dean out to one more act of violence; to kill his sister. but this time he doesn't hold the trump card, he can't force dean to act out the violence that he wants from him. he chooses the reprieve he's been given and when amara get sick of his shit, he goes right back to playing with his favorite characters.

after all, they gave him such a good show last time.

and then i just have to wonder... would chuck have died if amara was destroyed by the soul bomb? if chuck dies, then amara lives (presumably bc she's uninjured) but if amara dies... even if he's injured, does chuck die? we only have his word that he would and in light of 14x20 and everything in s15 we have to recontextualize everything chuck has ever said in light of one thing --

writers lie.

#i'm now convinced that 14x20 was written with the expectation that they were gonna get fucked on s15 in some capacity #i need to get back to my timeline spreadsheet bc while the announcement that s15 happened in march 2019 #they would probably have known months before if the cw was gonna try to tee up something new with some of the spn actors (eg walker) #it think it was something that was a decision that was made partly among ppl working on the show and not network edict iirc? #so like. i *do* think that the decision on s15 being the ending would explain the shift in s14 and very sudden reappearance of chuck #what if we gave writers *all* the credit? what if y'all stopped acting like they were monkeys with typewriters occasionally nailing it? #you wouldn't continue to obsess over spn if it were universally bad and poorly written. it certainly has its bad moments but tbh? #to me at least the worst moments aren't necessarily the writing per se but where the show is at its most racist and sexist #i can forgive the occasional 'wait what?' about the plot or some moments where characters are ooc but the episodes that stick out #like sore thumbs to me as being bad and poorly written are the ones like man's best friend with benefits or the bad place #so what if we started giving writers credit for being competent storytellers and started criticizing the bullshit they wrote that #was actually harmful. criticize there will be blood and not carry on. acknowledge the bad place along with despair. #hennyways that's just my two cents. most of the writers were at least competent and many of them had at least one moment of brilliance #let's give them some credit #spn #feathersforcas

[jlf23tumble]

Hi Jen, I'm the books-fanfic anon. Thank you for responding. I am not too fussed about genre although I do lean more towards fiction.

I would love to hear your recommendations. Appreciate your time, have a wonderful day!!

Hello! I think fiction's fine, a great place to start, and I'll give you things that are bite-sized so that you can build up your muscle--most of this is cribbed from a list I gave someone who just wanted a reading list based on this blog's "vibes," so I'm sure you could easily add to it. My recommendation is to start off with short stories and/or essays, so from that list, I'd go with these easy ones:

Short story collections by Agatha Christie (some of my faves are The Labors of Hercules, The Harlequin Tea Set, Parker Pyne Investigates, and The Golden Ball)

The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (each chapter is about a husband, so technically, a set--a stretch, mayhaps!)

...nonfiction but fun:

The White Album AND Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion (I can't decide!)

The Fran Lebowitz Reader, by Fran Lebowitz

Holidays on Ice, by David Sedaris (so many of his, tbh)

The I Hate to Cook Book, by Peg Bracken (I know, but it's a fun read!)

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, by Lenny Bruce (it's been a while, tbh, so read the rest first lol)

....I'll stop there, those are "vibes only" options, but there are literally so many things, even more modern ones, that'll charge you up (more in tags, too)!

#DEFINITELY check out other collections of short stories by amazing writers #daphne du maurier has some amazing ones--ditto raymond chandler--more on the spooky mood side #but most of the classic authors out there have collections or people made them as such #essayists too--i'm more biased for humor and a light read #but you could go deep/dark hella easily #patricia highsmith ALONE lmao #i don't have it linked above #but woody allen only did one good thing in his shitty life #and that was to write Without Feathers #if you wanna get it used or just dip into the best part of it #I cannot recommend If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists highly enough

[ghostfox]

Honestly I think the weird romance thing Fitzsimmons had going on in the Framework where they turned Fitz into a Tormented Man with Daddy Issues felt like such a Skyeward fanservice. The writers were like no guys we’ll give you evil Hydra Fitz but Jemma will save him uwu isn’t this what you guys wanted with Ward and Daisy

#I've never been his biggest fan but I liked him best when he was a socially awkward engineer with a crush on his best friend #introducing the doctor plot made me think the writers were recreating the good girl bad boy dynamic the fans loved with skyeward #even though ward was a pos #anti aos #anti Leo fitz #anti fitzsimmons #yes I'm still mad about them all these years later leave me alone #anti agents of shield #aos critical #text #mine

[burned-lariat]

I know you're a brook lynn and chase fan. Just wanted to cheer you up some. Their scenes from last week when they were at the gate house babysitting wiley, what did they remind you of? The beach house!

From the moment chase saw brook lynn handle wiley, helping him to understand what was going on with willow. It took him back to a year ago to the beach house. It made him nostalgic thinking back to when he had so much fun co-parenting with brook lynn caring for bailey louise. They were completely in their element caring for wiley the same way. It reminded the audience that he is as much in love with her now as he was falling for her back then. Yes, chase is hurt and angry for being blindside by brook lynn's selfishness and lies. So much so he refuses to talk to anyone about how he really feels about her, not sasha or even finn. He's holding it in and protecting his heart masking his true pain. He has a lot he wants to say to her still while still nursing a broken heart, but only time will tell. All the while brook lynn is going through her own metamorphosis that's caught her by surprise. This is a huge leap forward as she's scared and that's good. The intensity of her love for chase is making her feel in such a way she's never felt before and that's okay. I like that she's recognizing her mistakes and fixing them to keep the good in her life from slipping away again. She'll fight for what she wants, no matter how much chase protests. He knows he loves her deeply and visa verse. Their "strictly business policy" will show their strengths as to how deeply connected they are just I mentioned above. Hopefully this second act of their story will turn out better for you. It's not been the greatest but the bottom line is their endgame will be well worth the wait.

Hope this helps.

Wow. This was amazing, truly. It really does help, Anon. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. ❤️

#general hospital #asks - gh #it really was reminiscent of the beach house and when they were at their best #i hope the second half is better too #they should be themselves and not whatever the writers made them to be #esp if they're meant to be long term #this was really sweet and considerate anon - I'm very thankful 💕

[neonphoenix]

Watching star trek tos for the first time and I'm being struck by all the things we've built that sci-fi writers in the sixties couldn't even dream up.

Sure, it's still all set 200 years in the future from now, and we certainly aren't moving at warp speed, but there's this one character who can't talk and they can only read his brain waves enough to tell if he's communicating "yes" or "no" and like. We can do more than that! Writers in the sixties, it's only been sixty years, but we understand the brain so much more than we though we ever could!

Medicine is advancing to and beyond medicine in star trek at lightning speeds! And I'm not even starting on current everyday technology, like touch screens!

We don't have flying cars but we might've stumbled across a chemical that can resurrect dead cells, and isn't that something? I'm literally so excited about this it's unreal.

#man made wonders beyond comprehension sure are pretty great #and the best thing is! #so many things are invented because some sci-fi writer dreamed them up #and then an engineer said 'Well I've got an idea' #it's so cool and sometimes I love humanity #btw I had my wisdom teeth out this morning and while I'm not on narcotics i am in a slightly strange headspace

[kitawolf12]

I don't know if people consider 10 Things I Hate About You to be like problematic or bad but I just finished it and you know what? If my partner bought me a guitar anytime they screwed up I would absolutely stick around. Do you know how many guitars that could get me? So many. I could have enough guitars for all the picks I have. That's the dream, baby.

#of the couples present i enjoyed apects of each of them #not big on cameron as a character but i do enjoy bianca finally standing up for herself and attacking joey. that's. that's good on her #i very much enjoyed the b plot of Michael and kat's best friend #i would want someone to go that hard upon finding out my favorite thing #in general i just enjoyed michael as a character #and then pat and kat #first off #literal paint ball. no gun just balls of paint they throw #huge fan of that and i want to maybe try it out #secondly I'm honestly annoyed that kat was angry at patrick for not kissing her when she was literally puking from alcohol #like that was maybe 30 minutes ago in movie. you smell like alcohol and puke why would he kiss you just hygienic wise NOT EVEN consent wise #lastly. my beautiful genius kat... #you didnt go in with a better formed plan for the detention scene?? #*starts talking about teacher's biceps. junk. grabs his face. and then flashes him.* *then proceeds to look embarrassed #YOU DID THAT HUN. THOSE WERE YOUR CHOICES. #and of course by that i mean the writer wrote you that way but like still #oof #oh fuck one more thing #her hair in the prom scene made me think about the princess diaries when mia said she looked like a poodle and i feel so bad #thats just her hair but with her dad bring Paulo i kept thinking about the princess diaries

[myname-isnia]

*wakes up*

*grabs phone*

*email notification*

*new comment on SotRL*

*throws phone to the far side of adjacent couch*

*goes back to sleep*

#NOT TODAY THANK YOU #not ever. preferably #I was not emotionally prepared for this #look... I think I might be the direct opposite of literally every writer on the planet #because seeing that email made me feel sick to my stomach #this has singlehandedly sent my entire day off kilter #I'm supposed to go to my grandma's today but now all I want to do is rot in bed for the rest of the day #literally anyone else would have been happy to receive a several sentences long comment praising them #but my initial reactions were 'how the fuck did you find this?' 'why the fuck would you read it?' and 'I should've deleted when I wanted to' #I've heard countless stories about sudden comments received years after the last update kicking authors into continuing the story #usually in PSAs to always comment or whatever #but I just feel awful #not because I feel guilty over not finishing SotRL or anything like that #just.. because this is exactly the reason why I wanted to delete that fic #people reading anything I've written makes me want to die but SotRL especially #it's old. the writing is bad. there's a reason I call it my greatest failure #I don't want people to read it. that's why I wanted it gone #and the comment was so nice too. much more than just a call for an update #I hate that it caused this reaction in me because it's clear the person only had the best intentions in mind #but I can't control my emotions. far from the first time I wish that I could #someone put me in the guiness world record book as the first person to ever get genuinely upset over a nice comment #I laugh shit like this off as the mortifying ordeal of being known or whatever but in reality it's so much worse #if I didn't have anything to stop me my entire ao3 account would be gone. I hate the thought of people reading my work #just further proof that I'm not a writer. that I spent six years deluding myself into believing that I was #trying to shove square pieces into triangular holes like a dumb toddler #I should have quit before any of this happened. erased everything and forgotten about it like a bad dream #I should have never started writing in the first place #if I had the chance to go back in time and tell one thing to my 11 year old self it would be to not even think about writing #it has brought me nothing but pain and suffering and I really should have stayed away from it #too late now. I've been irreversibly ruined

[thetreetopinn]

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get)

I went back through Harry's video, focused entirely on the sources James Somerton pulled from in the hopes of creating as much of a comprehensive list as I could--though my Google-Fu is not very strong. I did however find something I thought was forever lost and that made me very happy--specifically the magazine Midlands Zone containing the column by Steven Spinks that Harry poignantly used as an illustration of gay erasure... while Somerton uses it to sound like HE is waxing remorseful about the very subject.

This is not a complete list, I'm sure. For one thing, I was only able to attempt to pull sources that Harry himself mentioned in the video. Surely there's so very much more out there. I expect there to be a great deal more internet archeology to unearth just how much writing and culture Somerton has stolen like he's the British Museum of Natural History but for gay people.

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Harry's list of mentioned youtubers:

Alexander Avila - https://www.youtube.com/@alexander_avila Matt Baume - https://www.youtube.com/@MattBaume Khadija Mbowe - https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe Lady Emily - https://www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents Shanspeare - https://www.youtube.com/@Shanspeare RickiHirsch - https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch VerilyBitchie - https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie

Harry created a convenient playlist of videos by these and other people he wants to bring to everyone's attention.

Please give them your support.

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Midlands Zone Magazine - Column by Steven Spinks

After a great deal of searching, I found an archive of the "Midlands Zone" magazine, where you can read through past issues dating all the way back to February 2014. I have also found the issue from which Somerton took Spinks' poignant discussion of gay erasure: Overall archive Specific Issue - Pages 16-17

It will not allow you to download it, but you can read it exactly as it appeared in print form.

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My best effort to find the exact book or article Somerton lifted from to be able to get attention to the original writers

Tinker Bells and Evil Queens By Sean Griffin

The Celluloid Closet By Vito Russo Wikipedia article about the book Wikipedia article about the documentary My weak google-fu could not find where you can access the book or documentary. Check your local municipal or university library for book or documentary, or if you know a good source for one or both, please reblog with it added

Camp and the Gay Sensibility By Jack Babuscio

The Groundbreaking Queerness of Disney's Mulan By Jes Tom Personal site with links to social media accounts

Why Rebel Without a Cause was a milestone for gay rights By Peter Howell

Why "The Craft" is still the best Halloween coming out movie By Andrew Park

Opinion: From facehuggers to phallic tails, is 'Alien' one of the queerest films ever? By Dani Leever

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer's Body By Zoe Fortier

[Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness By Alejandra Gonzalez

Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' By Colin Arason

Queering James Cameron's Aliens (1986) By Bart Bishop

Demeter and Persephone in space: transformation, femininity, and myth in the 'Alien' films By David Greven

Fears of a millennial masculinity: Scream's queer killers By David Greven (Scholarly site, unable to access original work, offers a way to request a full copy of the text in PDF)

Queer Subtext in Stephen King's It - Part 1: 'Reddie' Character Analysis By Rachel Brands Rachel is the very unfortunate lady who found out she was being stolen from because she supported Somerton through Patreon and saw one of his videos early with her writing--lacking any form of citation or credit

How 'It: Chapter Two' Leaves Richie Tozier Behind By Joelle Monique

When Horror Becomes Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King's 'IT' By Alex London

Why Queer People Love Witchcraft By Amanda Kohr

'The Favourite' Queers The Past And The Present By Giorgi Plys-Garzotto

(Wuko) Crush (Mako x Wu) By MoonFlower on YouTube

5 Terrible Movies With Awesome Hidden Meanings By J.F. Sargent

The Radicalization of Sexuality: The Queer Casae of Jeffrey Dahmer By Ian Barnard

Netflix's 'Dahmer' backlash highlights ethical issues in the platform's obsession with true crime By Shivani Dubey

The Possible Disturbing Dissonance Between Hajime Isayama's Beliefs and Attack on Titan's Themes Original Article by "Seldom Musings" (Author has made all posts not related to Attack On Titan private and has retired from the blog)

Everyone Loves Attack on Titan. So Why Does Everyone Hate Attack on Titan? By Gita Jackson

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The following people are otherwise named in the video. There are no direct citations of articles or books by them in said video. I am unable to guarantee that I have identified the correct individual.

Darren Elliott-Smith Michaela Barton David Church Claire Sisco King Amanda Howell Jessica Roy

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Telos announced and cancelled a film likely based on this book: The Final Girl Support Group - By Grady Hendrix

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I refrained from including certain sources.

First off only focusing on Somerton's work.

Secondly not including anything that might be visible enough to not require amplifying their voice (I cannot speak for all of those I have found links to, but journalism is frequently a thankless job).

Thirdly any source that is of a nature that is antithetical to the very existence of the queer community, such as the right-leaning source that didn't make it into Somerton's video, but Harry was able to identify as a source he had considered using.

If you feel I have missed a mentioned source--or you know of a source from material that was not covered in Harry's video--please do not hesitate to reblog with added details.

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Please share this information far and wide, and please add to it if you find more material that can be positively identified and linked to the creator/writer.

#hbomberguy #james somerton #Plagiarism #Queer #LGBT #LGBTQIA #youtube #Solidarity #gay erasure #Make them un-erased

[jewishcissiekj]

An AU where Asajj is a padawan in the Jedi temple AU meeting to Obi-Wan or Quinlan but SURPRISE she's SEVEN years or more younger than them.

#daily asajj thought of the day #asajj ventress #ventress #sw #star wars #it's THREE AM #this age difference is canon btw:) #not a problem in tcw but if they're both jedi who knew each other as padawans then ummmm #incorrect #i'm talking about shipping them (quinasajj or whatever and ventrobi) romantically here btw #people don't realize #she's two years older than aayla and seven years younger than quinlan (not really canonically bc aayla doesn't have a canon age) #it's bad #i try my best not to be canon hater bc it is what it is #but tcw asajj writers made some #questionable choices #(hal'sted) #(nightsisters) #(quinlan) #(ventrobi) #honestly i have nothing against ventrobi but i do conceptually #tcw takes a lot from their comic relationship's depth and it has more time to tell it #good night asajjheads

[emberwhite]

I spent the last 11 months working with my illustrator, Marta, to make the children's book of my dreams. We were able to get every detail just the way I wanted, and I'm very happy with the final result. She is the best person I have ever worked with, and I mean, just look at those colors!

I wanted to tell that story of anyone's who ever felt that they didn't belong anywhere. Whether you are a nerd, autistic, queer, trans, a furry, or some combination of the above, it makes for a sad and difficult life. This isn't just my story. This is our story.

I also want to say the month following the book's launch has been very stressful. I have never done this kind of book before, and I didn't know how to get the word out about it. I do have a small publishing business and a full-time job, so I figured let's put my some money into advertising this time. Indie writers will tell you great success stories they've had using Facebook ads, so I started a page and boosting my posts.

Within a first few days, I got a lot of likes and shares and even a few people who requested the book and left great reviews for me. There were also people memeing on how the boy turns into a delicious venison steak at the end of the book. It was all in good fun, though. It honestly made made laugh. Things were great, so I made more posts and increased spending.

But somehow, someway these new posts ended up on the wrong side of the platform. Soon, we saw claims of how the book was perpetuating mental illness, of how this book goes against all of basic biology and logic, and how the lgbtq agenda was corrupting our kids.

This brought out even more people to support the book, so I just let them at it and enjoyed my time reading comments after work. A few days later, then conversation moved from politics to encouraging bullying, accusing others of abusing children, and a competition to who could post the most cruel image. They were just comments, however, and after all, people were still supporting the book.

But then the trolls started organizing. Over night, I got hit with 3 one-star reviews on Amazon. My heart stopped. If your book ever falls below a certain rating, it can be removed, and blocked, and you can receive a strike on your publishing account. All that hard work was about to be deleted, and it was all my fault for posting it in the wrong place.

I panicked, pulled all my posts, and went into hiding, hoping things would die down. I reported the reviews and so did many others, but here's the thing you might have noticed across platforms like Google and Amazon. There are community guidelines that I referenced in my email, but unless people are doing something highly illegal, things are rarely ever taken down on these massive platforms. So those reviews are still there to this day. Once again, it's my fault, and I should have seen it coming.

Luckily, the harassment stopped, and the book is doing better now, at least in the US. The overall rating is still rickety in Europe, Canada, and Australia, so any reviews there help me out quite a lot. I'm currently looking for a new home to post about the book and talk about everything that went into it. I also love to talk about all things books if you ever want to chat. Maybe I'll post a selfie one day, too. Otherwise, the book is still on Amazon, and the full story and illustrations are on YouTube as well if you want to read it for free.

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[alienzil]

Okay so I saw this post and you know the types of fics where adult Danny moves to Gotham and winds up emotionally adopting one or more of bat kids or accidentally coparenting with Bruce (with or without a relationship between them)? I had the thought, what if Danny parented the bat kids but he started doing it out of spite?

Like, Danny moves to Gotham and runs into Batman and Robin one night while out for a late night flight and drops down to the rooftop to say hi.

Bruce sees this 5'6" twink that looks like a stiff breeze could knock him over and is so obviously new in town and thinks Gotham is going to eat him alive, he needs to leave before he gets killed.

Batman: Looming menacingly and in his deepest scariest Batman voice, "Leave. Metas aren't allowed in Gotham."

Danny: Offend! Excuse?! Who does this guy think he is?! 😡 Danny was trying to be polite here! "First of all, I'm not a meta. Second of all, rude much?!"

Batman: Does scariest bat glare. "Leave." Swoops off into the night.

Robin (Damian): "My father is correct. You should leave the city for your own safety."

Danny sees this tiny vigilante child with fierce expression and a sword and is just like awww, so cute! 😍 Then he noticed Robin had a small cut on his arm and his inner gremlin activates. If the rude flying furry can't take care of his own kid properly, Danny will do it better!

He bandages up Damian's arm, gives him a cookie and teaches him a neat sword trick before sending him on his way with a hug telling him he needs his sleep.

Danny goes out of his way to run into the bat kids and be the absolute best dad.

He takes Nightwing flying and throws him in the air so Nightwing can do all the fanciest acrobatic tricks.

He tracks down Red Hood and starts a book club with him (Danny may or may not have used his connection with Ghost Writer to get ahold of some rare books).

He eats waffles with Spoiler and trys out weird topping combinations that make them both make faces and laugh.

He makes new gadgets for Red Robin but carefully breaks them just a little bit and takes them to the teen so they can fix them together (it's enrichment!). He always insists RR keep them as a reward.

He follows Signal around during the day invisibly, making faces and doing tricks only Signal can see (he made him laugh in front of the police at a crime scene twice!).

All of the kids get his attention and love and Danny smugly thinks how Batman must be absolutely seething about his kids bonding with Danny and Batman missing out on all of it.

Danny started it out of spite but he does wind up genuinely loving the bat kids.

Batman definetly hates it when the kids are bonding with Danny and is extremely jealous (sulky Batman brooding in his cave about it).

Bruce's repeated attempts to intimidate Danny into leaving Gotham don't work and him telling his kids to stay away from Danny had zero effect (the terrible children don't listen to him at all).

So Bruce starts spending more time with the kids to compete against Danny. The bat kids love it and (little gremlins that they are) use the two of them against each other constantly.

Bruce:"Sorry Tim, I can't make it to your photography exhibit this weekend, there's a meeting with the Justice League."

Tim:"Oh that's fine... I'll just ask Danny to come." 😏

Bruce: Narrows his eyes and grits his teeth, "Actually, the Justice League needs to have contingencies in place to manage without my input. This would be a good time to test their capabilities. I'll skip the meeting and come to your exhibit."

With both of them competing to spend more time with the kids it leads to the two of them spending time with each other to be around the kids more.

After Damian catches a terrible flu bug, Danny spends an entire weekend at the manor babying him. This is when Bruce finds out Danny has known their secret identities for months and tries to get mad about it but Alfred puts his foot down, raises a judgmental eyebrow in Bruce's direction that puts a stop to that nonsense and sets up Danny with his own room in the family wing.

Eventually, Danny gets to the point where he spends most of his nights at the manor and he and Bruce consult each other on all major household decisions.

The whole family is at the manor one morning including Danny. Bruce has a meeting at WE and he and Danny are absently discussing their plans for the day at the breakfast table.

Bruce: " The meeting should take most of the morning and then I have paperwork this afternoon and a scheduled walk through on one of the new engineering projects. I probably won't be done by the time school let's out. Can you pick up Damian today?"

Danny: "That shouldn't be a problem. Would you mind swinging by the bookstore on the way home and getting my preorder? Jay and I just finished rereading the first book and we were wanting to start the second tonight before you all go on patrol. I'd rather not try to make it to the bookstore in school rush hour traffic"

Bruce: "Sure."

Stephanie watches Danny reach out and absently straighten Bruce's tie as they both get up to leave. Bruce grabs Danny's coffee thermos and hands it to him while they walk out the door.

Stephanie: "Sooo, bets on how long until they realize they're basically married?"

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