#nattering to myself

[philosophisingss]

missed our brekky dates🥰

#mashaAllah #breakfast #london #nattering to myself #alhamdulillah

[ohkaypost]

to be really honest jerma is a lesbian idol

#kay natters #jerma #like. as a lesbian myself. i want to be a fan of women like he is #does anyone understand

[sh4d0w-gl]

I love that I’ve made it my thing that every year for my birthday I have to play NITW

#newtz natters #nitw #night in the woods #because like it’s just such a beautiful game #and I love it sm #it made me a better person and more in tune with myself #and I treasure is so so much #it’s a game I hold very close to my heart #so I play it every year around my birthday #cuz on my birthday I’ve aged and it shows how much I’ve grown throughout the year as a person #and NITW really hits home for that #:( <3 /pos ⭐️❤️‍🩹 #it’s so wonderful #what a brilliant game honeslty

[smaller-comfort]

Adjusting my queue settings is now literally me turning a dial labeled 'snails' and looking nervously over my shoulder at the audience.

*facepalm*

#nattering #i don't necessarily feel bad about this mind you #like 'oh i don't want anyone to get the wrong impression as to what i am about' #except hey hello have i even met myself #what *am* i even about #this; clearly #anyway: brain full of bees on a saturday night how's everyone else doin' tonight

[maraschinocheri]

While searching for something else in my LJ a few weeks ago, I noticed that on this day—10 July—20 years ago, I posted my very first piece of fic, a drabble. That drabble started out—as nearly every drabble I’ve ever written has—at about 145 words, but getting it down to exactly 100, and making it read exactly how I wanted it to, was such a wild little thrill that I was immediately addicted to it, and wrote several more over the ensuing weeks before beginning a longer story told entirely in about 10 drabbles per chapter that took an entire year to knock out. What a joy.  That first, wildly thrilling drabble, and the others, and then that story and so, so very many more (both told in drabbles and in oh so really not) brought friends to my LJ, and a wildly thrilling amount of those same people are still my friends today (you know who you are, you wenches / witches / wretches all). What a lovely thing to think about; what a lovely thing to know and feel and write about, too. Happy 20th, little addled-drabbled fic brain o’mine. May you find the time and space to write again.

#natter natter natter #that drabble prompt was 'hands' #no one is or should be surprised I threw myself at it

[ase-trollplays]

Cloud keeps giving me updates on the poll for Yule Ball King and

You guys

You had one job: Do Not Vote For The Idiot

So please enlighten me as to why Karell is TWO VOTES FROM MAKING THE TOP FIVE

YOU ANIMALS

#nattering about nothing #I did this to myself #I didn't think he would get this many #there's no way in Hell he'll come anywhere close to winning #but he wasn't supposed to get this far #what have I done

[dandelion-wings]

Process & Commentary: Betrayal's Daughter

Being very navel-gazey tonight! I've been thinking about trying to break down some elements of my writing process for a while, in response to a Discord discussion about editing a while back, and another Discord discussion tonight brought the idea back up.

The thing is, despite my tendency to keep old drafts, I don't have a lot of documents that show the non-writing part of my process, because I usually delete in-doc notes as I go along, and my edit notes are usually on paper and get lost easily. But I do have two pieces where, for very different reasons, I did preserve some element of those notes! I may or may not come back and do a similar showing/commentary of Cursed Transformation later; for now, it's going to be Betrayal's Daughter.

This is a mix of 'introductory notes' for each whole draft, here on Tumblr, and in-draft commentary done in comments on a Google Docs. Hopefully it isn't too dire to navigate! I have, if I've set it up right, enabled comments by viewers on the Docs, on the premise that people may want to ask questions about things I didn't commentate. So feel free to do so!

The prompt for this fic was an interesting one to pick up, because while the prompter had a premise I loved, and I adored Kujou Sara as the core character, the additional characters they listed for the prompt were not, for the most part, ones I would have chosen for the premise. Which made it more challenging to write, but also more interesting, since I had to figure out how those characters would interact with Sara on this emotional journey, and I got to go places I didn't expect! But the first draft was, uh, rough, because I had no idea how to put any of that together at first.

I knew from the start that I was going to have to break it into sections, and that what I wanted was what I (because I get very strong visuals for scene structure) call a "folding fan" pattern of scenes--a frame story with two outer framing scenes and a central bridge, with scenes that mirrored each other in some way on either side of the bridge. And while that's what I came out with, I had no idea how to structure it when I started, so this first draft has a 'frame' that leans entirely on Sara's character story 5 and doesn't appear in later drafts.

Draft 1 - Google Doc

The reason my initial outline notes, which I usually delete from a document as I turn them into scenes, remain in this draft is also because of that uncertainty; I knew most of these scenes weren't doing what I wanted yet in this draft, and wanted to be able to refer back to my initial ideas in the second draft, so that I kept track of what I was trying to do. Those initial notes are at the top of each scene I had such notes for.

The second round of notes, my edit notes, are there because I usually write those on paper, but was traveling at the time and knew I would lose them if I did; they are at the bottom of each scene I had such notes for.

As a processes-and-procedures note, I physically rewrote this fic between the first and second draft. I have two computers, and I usually have it open on the desktop and retype in a fresh document on the laptop. This is fairly commonly something I do for something I know I'm going to make big changes to between drafts; it helps me to make the big departures if I'm not deleting text in the text editor to do so, for some reason, and also lets me rethink individual lines as I type them.

By the time I got to the second draft, I had a pretty good idea of my overall structure, and so this draft is much closer to the finished product. The primary difference is the first scene, because I was still struggling with framing (some notes on which are at the bottom of the first draft), and I started this draft thinking I was going to do a frame using scenes with her brothers.

(Oh. Oh that's what "boat framing" meant in those ending notes on the first draft. The pattern I had in mind when I started the second draft was "Masahito - Yoimiya - Ayaka - Yae - Kamaji - Masahito - Yae - Ayaka - Yoimiya - Kamaji"! Why this looked like a boat in my head, I cannot tell you. I come up with some weird fucking visualizations for stuff.)

As you'll note, there is no final Kamaji scene, and there's a middle Yoimiya scene that isn't in that pattern. I realized the actual shape I wanted and went back to the "folding fan" frame pattern mid-second-draft. Because, unlike the first draft, I didn't need to tell myself anything by writing the final scene I didn't want to use anymore, I didn't need to write it just to throw it out.

Draft 2 - Google Doc

There aren't any notes in this draft (that I didn't delete as I was writing as usual), and there's less for me to comment on that I didn't cover in the first draft, but it is a transitional stage between the mess of the first draft and the final product, so I'm still linking it for the purpose of side-by-side comparisons! There is technically a third draft, but it's identical to the final fic posted on AO3, down to the typos, and there was no commentary to make there that wouldn't fit into the second draft, anyway.

#going to steal canonical-transformation's tag: #why write when i can talk about writing #(although also my own relevant tag:) #fic nattering #i haven't been able to make myself write for a while now (for rl reasons i don't want to get into) and this scratched some of the itch #it is genuinely interesting to look back on that first draft more than a year later #and think about why i did what i did

[gorgeousgalatea]

Sure we call him The Nameless Bard.

Because the narrative never named him.

But after an entire storyline of heartbreaking Stanley parallels if his name wasn’t Venti then what was the point

#the renowned bard seeing the world ;_; #my mouse broke and I haven't had the chance to get a new one #so instead of playing genshin I am making myself sad #genshin impact #venti #don't mind me just nattering on about stuff

[hailsatanacab]

Chapters: 8/? Fandom: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Danny Fenton & Damian Wayne, Batfamily Members & Danny Fenton Characters: Danny Fenton, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth Additional Tags: Good Sibling Damian Wayne, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Danny Fenton and Damian Wayne are Twins, Danny Fenton Needs A Hug, Implied/Referenced Torture, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Not Phantom Planet Compliant (Danny Phantom), Bad Parents Jack and Maddie Fenton, Gun Violence, Blood and Violence, Gunshot Wounds, Mugging, Medical Torture, Vivisection Summary:

“If you ever find yourself in danger, go to Bruce Wayne. He will help you.”

His mother had loved him, in her own way. If she hadn’t, she wouldn’t have helped him escape. If she hadn’t, she would have dragged him back to the League of Assassins, to Grandfather. If she hadn’t, he’d be dead.

She loved him, but she loved the League more.

Jack and Maddie Fenton loved him too, they did, but they loved their work more.

They loved their work more.

--

After his parents react poorly to his reveal, Danny escapes to the only person he thinks can help him - Bruce Wayne. He doesn't know what to expect when he gets there, but it has to be better than where he is, surely? He certainly doesn't expect to be reunited with his long lost twin brother Damian. It's funny how things work out that way.

Danny is 16 years old, not Phantom Planet compliant

--

Chapter 8!! Chapter 8!! Chapter 8!!

#danny phantom #batman #dc #dp x dc #dpdc #lmao i always forget to share it until like half an hour has gone by #ANYWAY GUYS CHAPTER 8 #it's a small one and i am sorry #was gonna make a dick joke then but held myself back please be proud of me #just a little introspective chapter #next week's one is gonna be big i promise #i really have to edit it haahahahaaa #hm what can i natter on about today??? #i'm very tired and i should probably sleep because i have work in the morning how unfair is that??? #hey guys do you think i should put a tag on for panic attacks? probably right #forgot about that one #fucking.. testament to the danny phantom fandom that i tagged vivisection before i tagged panic attacks lmao #OH!! so i'm answering comments from the previous chapter and at least four different people are like 'i really hope the batfam let danny #come to them with his secrets rather than forcing it out of him' and i'm like.... yeah me too #(oh no oh no oh no that is... oh no) #ugh i wanna talk plot with someone so badly #like i need to rubber duck this shit or something haha #ANYWAY TAGS DONE AND I'M SLEEPING NOW GOODNIGHT #i love you all bbies #i wonder if anyone actually reads any of these it must be so boring haha

[philosophisingss]

everyday just block block blocking these bot accounts🙄🙄

#Tumblr #pls get it together #I'm tired #nattering to myself

[sh4d0w-gl]

Omg that’s so Genloss- [gets shot]

#newtz natters #genloss #ghost files #I was so proud of myself for this #apologies

[elder-dragon]

If you ever feel anxious about doing group content, just remember there are guys out there trying to tank raid bosses in masterwork gear

#natter #mantra for myself #I can't be worse than someone who does this!

[sapphorror]

note to chrys stop writing so much long-winded tag meta

#natterings #never #seriously though tumblr scares me i dont like reblogging with commentary #feels way too much like initiating a direct conversation #when i am really only here to ramble madly to myself

[ase-trollplays]

On my way to the airport ✈️ to see my qpp in Connecticut for a week!

#nattering about nothing #gave myself a vacation from work for my birthday 🎂 #it's gonna be great!!!

[dandelion-wings]

Thinking about going back through my 'fic bits' tag and moving some of them onto AO3, and there's a part of me that wants to do a full sweep just for archival purposes (because, listen, Tumblr is going to go away someday and we all know it), but while some need only minimal editing and some just need expansion, some of them are... not at all in the shape of what I would consider a 'story,' or would need so much context to get there that I might as well just write the longfic I was deliberately doing a short on Tumblr to avoid writing out. XD;; Not to mention the ones that have just been made so totally not-canon-compliant by new canon released since that I'd feel weird putting them up on AO3 now!

#i've identified some specific ones that i want to clean up and put up #once i've finished the first draft of the brightcrown canyon fic #and i think i'll stick with those for now #maybe someday i'll come back later and go through the tag again for more #or maybe someday i'll actually archive this blog onto dreamwidth like i keep telling myself i'll do #...just like i keep telling myself i'm going to do the big tagging revamp. hahaha #fic nattering #of a sort

[wheremermaidsdwell]

once i have money again (aka like april/may) i think i'm gonna make 12inch hellcheer dolls 🤷‍♀️

#BACK TO MY ROOTS #it will be complicated and expensive but with some time i should be able to do it #chrissy's clothes i will have to sew myself #eddie i might be able to just buy and customize #i'll have to dye and style hair for him though the only real hair kens are blonds lmao #nattering