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kybee1497 · 6 months

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Fic tag game

Tagged by @dark-visitors (thanks Visi!!)

1) How many works do you have on Ao3?

2) What's your Ao3 word count?

300,411

3) What fandoms do you write for?

So so many, lol. Jatp, Wednesday, descendants, do revenge, first kill, Batman (eventually, I have plans okay I just haven’t like done it yet). I’ve also written one fic each for bridgerton and wynonna earp.

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Season of Woe (Wenclair - Wednesday)

Don’t talk to me or my scary goth gf ever again (Wenclair - Wednesday)

Bat vs. bug (calliete - first kill)

Fire in my blood (Wenclair - Wednesday)

Hate to say I told you so (Kathony - Bridgerton)

5) Do you respond to comments?

Yes? I really try to, I’m just horrifically bad at actually getting to each comment. I think overall I respond to like 50% of comments in a super nonsensical order.

6) What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Ha. Hahahahaha I’ve actually been yelled at many many times for this fic and it was so so worth it

Always by your side

Also

Never saw you coming (I’ll never be the same) Aka Luke leaves

7) What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Oh fuck idk, I love me some fluff. If we’re going purely based off of soft fluffy vibes it’s laughing at clouds so dark above, the suns in my heart (I’m ready for love) or dancing to the rhythm of your heartbeat

8) Do you get hate on fics?

No thank god, I would cry for days

9) Do you write smut? What kind?

… maybe so. I’m a kink girlie what can I say.

10) Do you write cross-overs?

No? No, not yet anyways.

11) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope

12) Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Yes! I wrote a Bridgerton fic with my beloved wife Rach @itsthebooks (whomst almost divorced me last week but she did not file the paperwork so it’s all good 😂) for the bridgerton troped round last year. I am a menace and would not shut up about this fic until it was written. It was a lot of fun tho!!

Hate to say I told you so

13) What WIP you would like to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Oh god most of them. The adhd hypefocus gremlin is a bitch and a half when she changes fixations. I really want to finish promise me you’ll catch me but I’ve been stalled out on the third chapter for like 2 years. I also want to finish here we go again but I’m pretty sure I wrote myself into a corner and idk how to fix it without trashing it and rewriting and I don’t have the patience for that.

14) What's your all-time favourite ship?

Again adhd hyperfocus gremlin rules my heart and mind so it depends on the day tbh. In terms of longest reigning ships it’s jukebox and bellarke. Currently I’m obsessed with all things batfam (familial/platonic obvi) and DCU

15) What are your writing strengths?

I’m really good at diving into a characters head and the way they think. One of my fave Fics, writing wise doesn’t have any dialogue or specific action, it’s more character study than anything else. It’s really easy for me to just write and be able to flow through memory’s and thoughts and feelings and how the character experiences the world. I’m sure there’s a word for it I’m just not remembering but it’s my favorite kind of writing

16) What are your writing weaknesses?

Um probably that I get really bogged down in action heavy scenes, I focus too much on where they’re bodies physically are and what movements they’re making and it takes me a billion years to write and I think I put in too much detail but I never know how to trim it down???

17) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

There’s a reason I’ve only failed 4 classes in my life and 2 were math and 2 were a foreign language. It is a struggle for me. I don’t want to have to work that hard to write and also I’m afraid of fucking it up cause google translate is not reliable. I’ll do the occasional word or term of endearment but that’s pretty much it. Usually if the characters are speaking another language I’ll mention it in story and then write the dialogue in English

18) First fandom you wrote for?

Jatp

19) Favourite fic you've ever written?

No, you can’t make me 🥺

Always by your side cause I’m so fucking proud of the pain I unleashed

As if it’s really that easy to get over you (just snap your fingers) the aforementioned fic with very little dialogue or action, just vibes and character study into drea from do revenge

20) What fic would you want to rewrite one day?

I have no idea, I’m vaguely hoping to rewrite here we go again one day but tbh I barely have the focus to fics the first time.

Tagging: @itsthebooks @a-tomb-with-a-view @wr0temyway0ut @thatbitchmabel @fandomscraziness22 @angelofarts and anyone else that wants to do it, I’m so tired and totally blanking rn

#Kyleigh writes stuff #tag games #fic tag games

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kinetic-elaboration · 5 months

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

I was tagged by @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold - thank you!

How many works do you have on AO3?

229!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

1,391,910 words

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently, basically just The 100. I do have some Star Trek ideas on my writing list but that's more like... a long-term plan or something I'm building up to, rather than anything I'm actively working on. In the years I've been in fandom I've written for a variety of different ones though.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

So the first, by a LOT, is this guilty pleasure Star Trek fic I started working on in college. Then What We Built, a Bellarke fic which somehow has over 1k kudos?? At #3, startlingly, A Damned Fool, another Star Trek fic but for a rare pair. Then Rings This True, a K/S fic; and the fifth is We're Home At Last, another Bellarke fic.

A weird thing about this list is that with the exception of the guilty pleasure fic, I really don't love any of these stories. I actually didn't remember We're Home at Last at all. It's interesting that what I love most and what other people vibe with most don't seem to overlap a lot.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do! I try my best to. Sometimes it takes me a long time. Like a long, long, long time. Like I'm trying to clear out my AO3 inbox now and it's so embarrassing how long some of these comments have been in there. I like to reply because I'm a really big advocate for people commenting on fics and I feel like part of putting my money where my mouth is on that includes responding to comments I get (also commenting when I read, of course, which I do). Also, the reason I'm pro-comment is because fanfic sharing is part of building the fandom community but there is no community if people don't interact, and that interaction is a 2 way street. I enjoy talking about these characters! That's why I'm here! So I'm always up for conversations in the comments.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hmmm. This is tough because I don't know how to classify angst? I know that sounds silly but I really have felt out of step with others when the topic of "angst" comes up. I don't think I write angsty fics, but I do write a lot that isn't fluff, and then it is sometimes categorized as angst--and at the same time angst for me is not tragedy; it doesn't have to be, like... death.

Anyway, I would say probably my angstiest fics are A Long Time (a Blake siblings horror with Banshee!Octavia), it is new moon and twilight (Braven/Murven/B/R/M, a rare major character death fic from me), and possibly Release (Murphy/Harper, actually written for Troped's angst round), but I don't know that the endings to them were especially angsty so much as they were, like, bittersweet and full of longing.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Man, I've written so many fics that use the classic fanfic structure of 'couple pines for each for a while and then ultimately gets together,' and the ending of all of these fics is basically the same: a kiss or a love confession, often both. I don't know that any of them is happier than any other. The Wedding Planet I suppose has a particularly treacly ending.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I wouldn't say I've ever gotten hate, really. On the long Star Trek fic in particular I've gotten... some comments that I didn't really appreciate, that made me sort of uncomfortable or that made me feel bad. But I don't think there was hate in the heart of the people commenting. I don't think the intention was to upset me, in other words.

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

I've definitely written explicit fic before. It's very findable so I'm not going to deny it. I don't think I'm good at it and I don't really like the sex scenes I've written. I don't really read them either... I just have sort of complex feelings, I guess. More complex than I'll write out here at least. And when I include sex in my work now it's generally either fade to black or, like, sort of a montage of feeling or sensation rather than a literal description of what parts go where. Most/all of the sex scenes under my pen name are just vanilla stuff. I've written some kinkier things, mostly for kink memes, and one anonymously on AO3.

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

Not really. I think I've written one ficlet-sized little crossover some years ago. I'm much more likely to want to do a fusion--putting characters from one fandom into the setting of another or merging styles or settings--rather than a crossover in the traditional sense.

As for craziest... lol, when I was a kid, like middle school age, I started writing this HP/Sailor Moon crossover? Oh, it was weird and embarrassing. (It was handwritten, so not only does it not exist on the internet I don't even personally know where I put it.)

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes. I like people to ask permission before translating (or podficcing, or remixing, or whatever) so I can keep track... but I'm bad at keeping track lol. But I've had a variety of translations and partial translations over the years.

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

I worked on the alternate S7 Bellarke fic collab a few years ago and I've participated I think in one Big Bang successfully... I'm way too bad at compromise to do writing collabs but I have great fantasies about writing/art collaboration because I have ideas that I think would work better in multimedia, but I can only really do one medium myself.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Kirk/Spock

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

I'm going to finish all my fics, okay?

Seriously, I really need to believe any/all of them could be completed one day but realistically... I'll make choices and decide on priorities but I don't yet know what those choices or priorities will be. I think the WIP that is least likely to be finished is oh well, you've got me under your spell, a hypothetically-multi-chapter fic I posted one chapter of in 2017 and nearly immediately hit a wall on. It's still technically on my WIP list but... it's so far away from being worked on, I rarely even think of it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I have a very good style; I think I'm good at creating atmosphere and setting a scene. Also, I go back and forth on this, but I think I'm pretty good at coming up with original and interesting, unusual ideas for stories.

17. What are you writing weaknesses?

Characters. I think all my characters are kinda the same, or I guess I should say all my takes on canon characters are kinda the same: thoughtful, introspective, lightly angsty people full of longing--in other words, me! Also, really long sentences.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

I think people should do what they want. I don't do this because I am not confident enough in my foreign language abilities and I think I would butcher them. Con-langs are more common in my fandoms and I will say I'm not a huge fan of those... unpopular opinion but they really take me out of the world because I just don't believe in them. I'm not convinced by them. Personally, I tend to write everything in English and use narration or speech tags to indicate if something is spoken in another language. Or just context: if a story is taking place on Vulcan presumably all the Vulcans are speaking Vulcan, you know? I do think that if you use a foreign language in your fic, you should include easy to find translations of everything somewhere in the story or notes.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter. I remember very furtively, very secretly, writing some cliche 'new girl moves to Hogwarts' fan fic in my notebook when I was maybe 11 years old. Original fiction writing was already my hobby so it felt very... guilty pleasure, I think. But the first fic I published online was actually several years later, for the musical RENT.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Oh gee. This is a tough one, honestly. It tends to change over time: some fics I love for years and then I just get over them, or get too distant from them, and don't really like them anymore. I think as of right now I'd probably say it is new moon and twilight is definitely one of my big faves. Also The Wanheda Tape, Mountain Lion Mean, you stole from the drugstore, and The Oasis.

I'm tagging (or just saying hello to! no pressure!) @thelittlefanpire @justbecauseyoubelievesomething @fontainebleau22 @easilydistractedbyfanfic @kindclaws @hopskipaway

#tag games #about me #mmm this is a lot of words but i love talking about this stuff!

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vulcanblake · 4 years

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Try to scroll through The 100 tag without seeing improperly tagged anti bellarke/bellamy/clarke content challenge :) spoiler alert it’s impossible :)

#post whatever you want #just properly tag your shit #there's a reason the blacklisting scripts exist #if you don't like seeing improperly tagged stuff about your fave #extend that same understanding to ppl in other fandoms #its called common decency #it's not that hard #the 100 negativity #fandom negativity #bellarke

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bellamygateoldblog · 4 years

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there are gifsets out there that im never gonna see, im livid

#looking in my clarke griffin tag at the very small amount of posts in there lol #such lovely gifsets #same with my bellarke one #and i have those tags blacklisted for obvious reasons #so i never see any amazingly brilliant ones #but also this applies just in general like it burns me that there's a gifset out there i would adore and I'll never see it

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travllingbunny · 3 years

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Thank you for the tag, @ryder616!

This tag game has unexpectedly led to an interesting discussion about what exactly an “Endgame Ship” means... which seems to be largely open to interpretation. I’m still not sure how I see that term, but for the purposes of this post, but to narrow it down and not mention way too many ships, I’ll take Endgame in two different meanings: for “Favorite Ship(s) That’s Endgame”, I’ll take it to mean pairings that were together and in a happy relationship at the end of the story. But for “Ship(s) You Wish Had Been Endgame”, I will take “Not Endgame” to mean that the ship was not treated as these characters’ main romance at the end of the show, or at least there was a lot of ambiguity and/or a rival ship for one or both characters was instead the current one at the end of the story. (A lot of my favorite ships have the tendency to end up unhappily in spite of being portrayed as the main romance of the story..)

Warning: this post contains spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Agents of SHIELD, The Hunger Games, The Leftovers, The Americans and The 100 (though if you’ve spent any time on my blog, you’ve certainly already been spoiled for the ending of The 100) and .

1. First Ship - When I was about 4 or 5, I was obsessed with Lady and the Tramp (I had a book version with a few pictures and it fell apart from how much I was reading it - it may have been my first book that wasn’t mostly a picture book), so I guess my first ship was two dogs (which is really appropriate, since I love dogs). If we’re talking TV, again going back to my childhood, before puberty and before I even knew what “shipping” was, I remember being pleasantly surprised when Raquel first appeared on Only Fools and Horses as a love interest for Del Boy - the show was an episodic comedy where the two brothers, in the early years, usually didn’t have a serious love interest. I thought “oh, he really is in love with her! And she feels the same, and they are so cute together.” I hoped she’d come back and wouldn’t just be a one episode character but a long-term LI. And then I was so happy when that very much did happen. I guess this can be considered the start of my TV shipping (and also an early sign of my love for contuinity and longer arcs on TV).

2. First OTP - Ignoring pre-puberty: at the age of 12, I was really obsessed with Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff and Cathy and read the book who knows how mny times. Regarding TV, I’ve shipped over the years, but I guess the first TV ship I would really call my OTP was in This Life, a 1990s UK drama about a bunch of 20-somethings in London, which I watched on TV in 2001. which now sadly seems almost forgotten. Anna and Miles had an on-off, love-hate relationship throughout - they were sexy, snarky, and it was painfully obvious that they were in love, but these idiots had trouble admitting it to themselves and even more to each other. If it had been a romcom, they would’ve been certain to end up together, but it was a realistic drama.

3. Current Favorite Ship - Bellarke - oh, what an OTP of all OTPs that was before it was stupidly destroyed out of spite. Over the last couple of years, Dark (season 3 mostly) made me really love Jonas and Martha (the first pairing I’ve made gifsets about), and most recently (last month!), I binged Halt and Catch Fire and fell in love with the show and with Joe and Cameron’s relationship (which, I just realized now, shows that my taste in OTPs hasn’t changed in 20 years).

If we’re talking current as in, in current shows rather than finished ones, then Kanej (Shadow and Bone), Harlivy (Harley Quinn), Gereon and Charlotte (Babylon Berlin) and Roy and Keeley (Ted Lasso).

4. Your ship since the first minute - I really rarely ship anything from the first minute (unless we’re talking Morticia and Gomez, who are of course already a perfect couple and nothing ever changes there). It usually takes time for me to fall for a ship. A rare exception is Roy and Keeley - their first one-on-one scene in S1 already had huge OTP vibes.

5. Ship(s) You Wish Had Been Endgame - Do I even have to say it? BELLARKE. A hundred times Bellarke, who were portrayed as endgame before the showrunner decided to retcon and ruin them together with the show overall.

Others: Jessica and Luke in Netfix Narvel shows, May and Andrew on AoS, Willow and Oz; or, depending on how you interpret Endgame, Willow/Tara (some argue that it is Endgame as Tara is definitely portrayed as the love of Willow’s life regardless of everything else). Spuffy (again, there are different opinions as to its status as both the show and the comics ended ambiguously and tried not to have a clear Endgame pairing for Buffy’s character), Xander/Anya (if you take comics into account).

6. Ship You Wish Was Canon - Some would say Bellarke, again, but I tend to consider it canon. It’s debatable, for sure (if you only consider making out/sex and/or “I love you” as markers of canon, it is not canon; if it is enough for the show to make it so blatant in the first 6 seasons that you have to actively search for ways to deny it to make it sound platonic, and for actors to confirm it was portrayed as romantic- than it is.)

So my answer would be: Kastle (Netflix Marvel shows), QuakeRider (AoS), and Octavia and Diyoza (The 100) and maybe Faith and Buffy (mostly in the sense that canon could have explored the nature of Faith’s feelings for Buffy a bit more and a bit more openly).

7. Ship that Most of the Fandom Hates, but You Love - Angel and Darla, May and Andrew, Coulson and Rosalind (hated how it ended though). Miller and Bryan (because they were more interesting than Mackson, and Bryan had a personality), Though “ships that most of the fandom ignores” would be a more apt term. The one that most of the fandom does hate and I like it is Octavia/Ilian - I liked it for what it was, two damaged people finding comfort together in what could have grown into something more - instead of the “we’re ve just met and talked to each other once and we’re already IN LOVE!” trope that the writers of The 100 were so fond of.

8. You Don’t Even Watch the Show, but You Ship It - Why would I ship something from a show I don’t watch?

9. Ship That You Wish Had A Different Storyline - BELLARKE (duh - the ending). Veronica and Logan (the ending, again). Coulson/Rosalind - they had such an interesting and fun dynamic that could have been explored much more; instead, the writers opted for one of the worst tropes there are, and I hated that entire plotline for so many reasons. Tyrol and Boomer on Battlestar Galactica - what they did with Boomer was crap. Baltar and Caprica - all the bad writing in season 4. This is a weird example of a ship that I shipped so hard for 3 seasons and that was given Endgame in every sense of the word, but, by that point, I barely cared anymore, because the writers forgot about their relationship throughout the final season and made it seem like they didn’t even remember each other, and then slapped a last minute happy ending. Plus they retconed/explained their connection in such a stupid and anticlimactic way that ruined it retroactively.

10. Favorite Ship(s) That’s Endgame - Everlark, Nora and Kevin (The Leftovers), Philip and Elizabeth (The Americans), and Josh and Della on Night and Day (a really obscure early 2000s UK show that was watched by maybe 100 people.) Some others worth mentioning: FitzSimmons, Niles and Daphne, Tim and Dawn (original UK The Office), Jake and Amy, Memori (the only bright spot in a rubbish ending). And of course, there’s Morticia and Gomez, though they are less Endgame and more AlwaysGame.

Tagging: @jeanie205 @kizo2703 @poppykru @sheigarche @weareagentsofnothing @sometimesrosy @misskittyspuffy @otp-armada @carrieeve @sexy-zeitreise-detektiv @jonaskanwalds @immortalpramheda @ladyofthefrostfangs @tennyo-elf @fandomkru @natassakar @hadrianvonpaulus @sillier-things @angearia @thekawaiislartibartfast @foolishnymeria @erikiara80 @heartbellamy and anyone else who sees this - sorry I didn’t tag you and please consider yourself tagged. :)

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frick6101719 · 3 years

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Omg I watched The 100 recently and I noticed you have some stuff about it on your blog so I was wondering what your thoughts on it were? Favorite characters? Thoughts on the ending? Anything else you liked/disliked? I really want to hear people’s thoughts, lol.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Ahhh The 100. This show was such a strange beast--I started it one night last year while in the thick of lockdown, just wanting something to half-watch while writing, and two episodes in realised I was FULLY hooked. I pulled three all-nighters in a week and before long was caught up on all six seasons... and then season 7 happened.

I never even finished the show. As soon as I got the spoiler that Bellamy died I lost absolutely all interest. I was burned by Game of Thrones; never again.

That said, along the way it was AMAZING. Bellamy and Clarke's relationship is so fascinating to watch unfold. They go through so much together and they PUT each other through so much but like... the head and the heart. They were so well suited to each other, and you could tell that they really loved each other and KNEW THAT even if the romantic/sexual attraction was never realized. I hadn't seen a relationship quite like this one before, and I haven't seen one since. It was an enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, which is my jam, but there was something so unique in the way they were so open about their love for each other while friends that just hits different.

I mean, like most shows, there were some head-scratcher moments that were clearly writers trying to make their plot work, consequences be damned (Jasper and co.'s deaths and Luna's fuckery come to mind) but it also had some absolute gold. Besides Bellamy and Clarke there are so many interesting and enjoyable relationship dynamics: Bellamy and Octavia's relationship is wonderful, as is Jasper and Monty's, and the shifting dynamics and pseudo-political drama between Abby, Jaha, and Kane are also fantastic. And Raven! What a woman! Even the characters who came and went and broke my heart along the way I loved. This show had some shining moments, I tell you.

Plus: MURPHY

I have never--NEVER--had such a turnabout of feelings for a character in my entire life. Season one Murphy could get fucked I HATED him I could have watched him die a long and painful death with popcorn in hand and completely dry eyes. By season five? I would die, kill, and maim for this man, my sweet boy, darling asshole. Murphy's character development is SPECTACULAR and the role Emori plays in it is so perfect too. It would have been so easy for the writers to have Emori change him, or try to, but they didn't and I thank them for that. These two start off strong because they're both the same kind of twisted and then change TOGETHER, getting stronger along the way. Truly, this power-bastard couple is the bomb. I also love that so much of that change is discussed between the two of them; they are both active agents in their own growth AND in each other's. It's beautiful. I'm not over it.

So yes. Ah, the 100. There's a reason I often tag shit from this show with something along the lines of being still bitter or "we could have had it all" because season 7 was boring and stupid and a GoT-level-fuck-you to the fans. I will never forgive the show for this, but after some time I might rewatch it (but I would stop after season 5, I think. I would be happy with an ending like that one, a new hope, a fresh start. And then fanfiction of them all living their best lives with Bellarke and Memori babies all over the place, god bless)

Thanks so much for the ask, darling <3 This was like therapy ahaha I appreciate it!

#We could have had IT ALL #we really could have #I'm also bitter because I had a bomb-ass fic idea for this show that season 7 stabbed in the fucking eye #and despite all the planning it will never be written #RIP Bellarke university and cheese shop AU #you will always have a place in my heart #The 100 #Bellarke #Memori #I should tag everybody but fuck that I have no patience

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peggysousfan · 3 years

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Fic Writer Review

Thanks for the tag @happygtyhvf!!

1. How many do you have on Ao3?

59 but not all of them are written works, a handful are simple manips or aesthetics posted individually

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?

564,111.... And that’s only published works😅

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Four technically. There’s The 100, Agent Carter, Captain America the First Avenger, and Marvel’s Avengers.

4. What are your top 5 five by kudos?

Alternate World (23843 words and 386 kudos)

What If (Season 5 AU) (33272 words and 310 kudos)

The Head and the Heart (23448 words and 304 kudos)

I Choose You (27364 words and 278 kudos)

Lone Wolf (56405 words and 224 kudos)

All of these are from The 100 and only 3 of them are completed! Whoops

5. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes! I try to respond to each and every comment asap. but on certain stories I try to respond when I plan on updating the next chapter either soon or the following day, just to give the readers and commenters a head’s up. Other times I have no idea what to say in response to not sound like a robot so it takes a while to think of something lol

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Ooohh That would definitely be Project New Generation. I am suppose to make a series to rectify the angst and horror and heartbreak of this story but I don’t know if I will anytime soon😭 If any of my followers have not read this it is not for the faint of heart and there are many TW’s in this.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I have written a few crossovers but in moderately similar fandoms. The its between either Agent Carter/SHIELD Crossover or Agent Carter/ Avengers crossover.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yes, and it hurts every time. But lately I have been standing up for myself and being politely rude and telling the haters off. There’s no reason for the BS

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

Sometimes, but most often only if requested or challenged to do so. Its just basic smut, nothing too kinky (I think I wrote breeding kink once? But it was mild and requested). I honestly hate writing explicit smut, it makes me uncomfortable. As someone who (TMI btw) Has no sexual feelings for people in general and has no experience whatsoever in the department, I don’t like writing smut. I can gloss over the topic but getting into details is not something I like to do at all.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

There was a app that copped fics and mimicked everything on the website and took many writers stores for profit. A mutual had informed me several of my stories were on that app. I have no idea if it is still happening or not

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don’t believe so

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

Yes and it was rather fun actually!

13. What is your all time favourite ship?

Tough question since I’m in between fandoms. But rn I have to say bellarke, but peggysous is a very close second!!

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Ouch. I am doing all that I can to finish all POSTED WIP’s, however those in drafts? That is another story...😐 I’ll do one for each fandom. so for Agent Carter I don’t think I will ever finish a story of Daniel's past before the show with him meeting Peggy during the war and having a romance being torn by war. like they meet and fall in love and she gets selected for the Super Soldier program and is pulled away. Not canon related at all I know, but it was a idea in the back of my head I started and now has been in drafts for a year🤷‍♀️

As for The 100 I started a fic of Spacekru being able to listen to Clarke’s radio calls each and every day but never being able to talk to her. Each chapter switches POV from space and Earth and I haven’t touched it in months🤦‍♀️

15. What are your writing strengths?

I have no idea... does having a million ideas count? If so than that lol But in all seriousness I have no clue. If I had to guess I would say character portrayal and maybe descriptions?

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Same as strength... too many ideas. Once I start a story I get supper excited and then have another idea and abandon the last one for a while. Its even worse if Its published bc then I absolutely have to finish that story😬 Also I am horrible at tenses. I mix them up a lot and its a horrible habit!!

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I love the idea and when I see another language being used in stories. My only concern as for reading and/or writing this is accuracy. I am fluent in one language and know very little of two others I’m studying(Well trying to study) So When writers do use other languages and integrate them into their works, I think it is best to be as accurate as possible and ask for help form a native speaker if possible.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

House of Anubis! Though I will never be able to publish them (And I honestly never would if I could) They’re all written in a notebook back when I was 11 and I let my friend have it to read and I have never seen her since I transferred schools, so.... yeah.

19. What’s your favourite fic you’ve ever written?

Uh.... That’s tough one. I would have to say for Agent Carter my favorite would be Agent Carter an AU Series. This story is on Hiatus for now until I can find time to write it again but its just a soft story and a slow burn Peggysous with baby Stephanie. Its heart melting and I love it. Granted it need to do a lot of revision and editing but it is my favorite for this fandom. For The 100 I’d have to say The Head and the Heart!

tagging @bellamyblakru, @cuppatealove, @truth-renowned, @xxawalkinwonderlandxx, @fandomsandxfiles, and any one else if you want to! no pressure :) I just chose some mutuals that I know write fic lol

#tag games #fir writer review #some of this was shocking even to me #oop #about me #ao3 statistics #the 100 #agent carter #peggysous #bellarke

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pendragaryen · 4 years

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The things that stay with us...

This was supposed to be my last BFSN-post while the show is still airing - the last BFSN-entry right before the series finale. But now it’s just... a FSN-post? Call it a Big-Hug-post. A Hug-Gratitude-post. Or whatever you prefer. Though in my heart Bellarke will ALWAYS be canon (and nothing can ever change that): They didn’t give it to us in the actual show (a show, whose narrative clearly told us otherwise all this time, but well.. whatever...). It’s too much honour to grace such a disappointing last season with a BFSN, dearies. (Or... even more so now? ;P ) So, call it what you like i guess! ;). Honestly, i didn’t want it to end.. just like that... without any last words to you, the kindest, most tolerant and beautiful minded fandom i’ve ever been (proudly!) a part of since 2016. (The selfie lies. It’s not current. I’m sorry, i can’t show you my face these days.. This is from the day just before it all went inevitably down with this season: BB’s death. So... enjoy: That smile’s for you, fam! ;) 2nd pic: The tattoo i got almost two years ago now, on Sept. 22nd 2018, and that never fails to remind me of my emotional support person and the fact, that after every “down” in life there will come an “up” again <3<3<3 )

What makes the whole experience of this last ever season of The 1OO for me so incredibly sad is.... Well, please bear with me if you will... My english STILL isn’t the very best... But i’m trying to put my feelings into words:

Last year, when we got the news that S7 would be the final season, i DREADED this moment. I was AFRAID of this last day (and the hours) before the actual finale. And why so? Bc I am a person, who’s an incredible loser when it comes to let go of the things i love so dearly. Like The 1OO. I... in times i was OBSESSED with it, with the story, with the chacracters and the way they’ve been written, so credible, so tangible in their actions, nothing was just bad or good and even the villains actions had been understandable to some extend. It was amazing! I felt with almost every character! I LOVED it. (And to be very clear here: I’ll never STOP loving The 100′s 6 seasons, that are still existing for me!)

But what i wanted to say is: I dreaded the moment when l would have to let it go. THat inevitable moment, when this show with all its storylines and characters, that have been a part of my life for the last years and that i love so dearly, really ends. Forever. It would end and i wouldn’t be ready to let go, bc it means the world to me. Bc it changed me in more than just one way - no, even better, bc it made me want to change myself! “To do better...” *ugly crying...* THis show SAVED me in a way and in a time, where i was in a very dark place in life, in a very dark mind space (constant illnesses, termination of my job due to these illnesses, an ugly lawsuit etc. pp) , this show and its actors, especially one Robert Alfred Morley (yes), who helped me to look at myself and my mental insecurities and illness from a whole new point of view. I wasn’t ashamed of myself anymore. I felt... relieved. Understood. I even felt kind of loved for what i am, even with my anxieties. (There may or may not come a point or even a person in everyones life, that helps to develop this new kind of view on themselves. And for me this person was and always will be Bob Morley. And whatever happens, i’ll always love him for his open- and kindness and be thankful for his inspiration. I still call myself lucky to have talked with him a couple of times. I treasure these moments. Always.)

So, i was AFRAID of this day, when this all would come to an end. I KNEW it would wreck me, i would be devestated, i would be so incredibly sad, that i won’t be able to put it into words.

And here i am now. I AM sad. I AM devestated. But for so very different reasons that i could never imagine in my wildest nightmares... This last season... Season 7--- no i won’t start again. Not AGAIN. But... just that: What they’ve been creating for us here... it really overshadowed my joy of watching this show throughout this last season, yes even BEFORE that horrible murder of my all time fave and comfort character. I take back whatever i said about S6 or even S5. THIS... S7 was the season, that didn’t feel like the show i fell in love with anymore. Though changes CAN be refreshing and exciting... these changes haven’t been that for me.

Look. The thing is: Even WITH Bob’s request for time off and everything... There would’ve been PLENTY options for the writers to actually make it all make kind of sense! THEY COULD’VE DONE IT BETTER! If they’d really wanted to, that is... And here’s the point: I think they didn’t WANT it. For whatever reasons, whatever happened bts, they decided to do it like they did. And no-one’s able to understand their choices or the characters anymore - those characters we used to know so well, these characters i felt with over the course of so many seasons - who i could understand! EVEN THE VILLAINS! And now... look at the thanks we got. I can’t understand shit anymore when it comes to S7. Bc nothing makes sense. When i see even the GREATEST meta-writers among us surrender in their posts - than it’s really sad times for this fandom...

It’s not even just about Bellarke anymore. Sure, i AM disappointed that they’re not canon now. But then they shouldn’t have arranged the whole story around these two! “The backbone of the whole story”!!! I am laughing. In that case S7 was SPINELESS! Let me tell you. Everyone’s just... flailing around... great little side storylines, but somehow... disconnected from each other and all over the place. That’s how it felt for me to watch this season. And i’m feeling so exhausted by now... I never stopped hoping... I always thought, at some point it would make sense. I’ve read all your great metas AND I WANTED TO BELIEVE! It made perfect sense! (I seriously felt like Fox Mulder from time to time this season... and the lack of sense in the storyline as well as the complete absence of my personal faves (yes i include Clarke (Eliza) here, bc heck, she was so sidelined this season too, self inflicted or not) - all these things had been the “UFO’s or aliens i was hoping to see” one day... Guess i was wrong.)

I’m babbling... Sorry. But it will be for the last time in that kind of form. Promise.

At the end of the day (at the end of all things.. sigh, Frodo... i see you... *blinks back tears*) I am so glad that you’re all here with me, in the same boat. That I’m not alone feeling this kind of lost and baited and betrayed. Bc whatever you like to call it: The narrative promised us otherwise. Did JRott OWE us canon Bellarke? NO. Of course not. But HIS STORY did. The story he’d been telling us for SIX GD YEARS! THAT is what makes me so mad. But most of the time (and despite the selfie above) i’m just sad. Sad and disappointed. I know it will pass one day. And that i’ll find joy in watching S1-4, even S5 except for a couple of scenes, and certain episodes of S6 again. But now is not the day. Even IF they’ll give these characters a “happy ending” in some transcended form or whatever, in the afterlife maybe,... S7 is ruined for me. It wasn’t even a bliss for me before, but it was certainly ruined after they killed “The Heart” - pointlessly (THIS is what will haunt me even years from now..).

Today is the day for saying goodbye. It aches my heart, that we’ll have to do it the way we have to now. But at least we are together. So let’s raise a glass in honour of all the hours of joy and excitement this show brought us over the years, maybe even the tears and laughter, let’s raise a glass for the outstanding performances of the cast and the great storylines some writers developed for us. I am thankful beyond words. Let’s raise a glass to this awesome, talented fandom! I’ve met and talked to dozens of you guys througout the years, and it had always been a pleasure! I hope we’ll stay in touch! <3<3<3 And last but not least: Let’s raise a glass for Kass Morgan. This is HER baby in more than just one way. Without her vision... there wouldn’t have been a show. Or even Bellarke. CANON Bellarke, that is! ;) And i LOVE it!

These are the things that stay with us, these are the things we will remember.

So, have fun with the finale tonight guys! Or should i say: Good luck? ;) I won’t watch now. I haven’t watched since 7x13, and i won’t start again tonight. Not even for the finale. BUT... i’ll probably do it some day in the future. I’m still kind of curious after all. And there are still some characters i want to know how it ends for them. It‘s just... i don’t want to support any ratings. I don’t want to support JRott anymore. But i’ll probably get back to it - if what y’all will write about it afterwards looks promising or not... ;)

See you on the other side!

(Tags under the cut)

Hugs and love to you, dear fam! Tagging @together-is-my-favourite-place @natassakar @geekyogicheese @immortalpramheda @carrieeve @bellamyblake @angelbellamy @burninghoneyatdusk @iwearplaids @wankadi @katersann @nvermindiseeyou @ruggedmurphy @clarkgriffon @poppykru @broashwhat @malclmbright @kizo2703 @cominguproses13x @clarkeindra @tenmonologues @shialablunt @sometimesrosy @zavens @wonderingwhyy @charmainediyoza @the-suns-also-rise @lee-em-dee @bellamynochillblake @junebugninja @songhyeri @underbellamy @talistheintrovert @jeanie205 @bellamys11thfreckle @doontpanic @clarkegriffinblake @goddess-clarke @eyessharpweaponshot @hostagetakerandhistraitor @infp-with-all-the-feelings @theatre-steph @historyofbellarke @as-inevitable-as-morning @bisexualbellamyblake @little-oxford-st @delicatebluebirdruins in no particular order (i am so sorry in advance, if i should’ve forgotten someone... >.<), and yes, i include you too @merlination my Danny, bc without you, i wouldn’t have started watching The 1OO in the first place... ;)

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acenancy · 3 years

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Writing Tag Game

Tagged by @sabrinachill. Thank you, my friend! <3

20 questions, writer’s edition.

How many works do you have on AO3?

19 works

What’s your total AO3 word count?

62,952 words

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

5 fandoms

Nancy Drew

The 100

American Gods

Harry Potter

Teen Wolf

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Where the Lightning Strikes The 100, Bellarke

A Blush of Love The 100, Bellarke

Missing You is a Slow Burn The 100, Bellarke

i waited for your heart to melt American Gods, Mad Wife

Like Petrol Soaked Paper and Fireworks (She Burns) The 100, Bellarke

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes, I’ve been making a point of responding this year. It’s so kind of people to go out of their way and leave a comment on my work, big or small, and I want them to know how much I appreciate it. I don’t always respond right away but it’s only because I want to be able to match your energy when I do. Same goes for commenting on other writer’s fics!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

HM. Angstiest? Probably Chapter 5 of Missing You is a Slow Burn, though Chapter 4 personally hits harder.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Perhaps I Think It’s About Old Friends.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I only wrote one once bahahha and it was short and sweet. My lil Jily meets Stydia trash fire, Wizards of Beacon Hills High.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Unfortunately. Which...why? It’s not like fanfic writers are getting paid. We don’t owe you anything. It’s a hobby. You don’t shit on people’s hobbies.

Only feel free to critique my work if I’m seeing royalties, baby!

So never.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I’ve tried. I’ve failed. End of story bahaha. I’d love to give it another shot one day.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Can’t say I have.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

What’s your all time favorite ship?

FFFF. I feel bad not saying Bellarke since I loved them so passionately for so long but...my heart forever belongs to Jily. When all is said and done, I always return to them like home.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I currently do not have any WIPs that I do not intend to finish. double vision ALMOST got left in the dust, though. The plot got ahead of me for bimbo brain reasons.

What are your writing strengths?

Ah, I dunno. If I choose even one thing then I know tomorrow I’ll suck at that one thing specifically.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Again, I’m going to follow Mattie’s lead and not specify anything I find weak about my writing. She made a good point in her post bahahah

However, generally speaking, it takes me a lot longer to string a sentence together than it did when I was younger. It turns out my mom was right, and drugs really do fry your brain! I’m dumb now.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I TRY TO AVOID IT. Out of respect. I don’t want to butcher any language but the English one.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter, Marauders Era. All of that work is now gone with the wind...

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

The fics I wrote for Mad Wife are my favorite, especially i waited for your heart to melt. Sweeney and Laura’s nasty little relationship tapped into something raw and mean inside of me, so writing for them felt almost cathartic. Plus, their banter was the most fun to play with.

Tagging: @gernades @dogwithabirdatyour-door @acesdrew @flythesail @polkadotk804 @platanchorsociety @nancy-drew @stonerbughead @wildlittledaisies @acesnancy

If you’ve already been tagged or if you hate these things, my apologies!

#me #writing #tag game

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thelittlefanpire · 3 years

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100 days of writing // days 53? - 84

thanks to @the-wip-project for putting this idea together and keeping it going. tagging @kinetic-elaboration @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold @hopskipaway and @dylanobrienisbatman.

Life, y’all, life! Just popping in to say that I have done zero writing lately. I alternate wanting to write everything and nothing all the time. But I’d thought I’d answer a few cool questions from the project:

[77] Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

Yes. I feel like as I’ve gotten older, I have definitely gravitated towards the types of works that I would like to write myself. (I’m a big fan of Erin Morgenstern and anyone who’s a #AllVibesWhatPlot writer!) And I’m always wanting to emulate my favorite fanfic writers. I look for that magical realism, fantasy, and odd stories that speak to me when cruising for new stories/fics to read.

And since I am my biggest fan, I truly love reading what I’ve written. 😬

[82] What is that great line that you can't find a plot for?

I pinned this tweet for that very reason!!! I was feeling some type of way when I wrote this…maybe watching Gone Girl or in my post-canon depression feels, but WHAT PLOT? what to do with it???

I don’t usually have a problem with that. I’ve got ideas for years! It’s the writing the actual writing that’s hard.

WIPs I’m thinking about picking up, but probably won’t:

TROPED Madness R4: My Bellarke Addie LaRue AU in the same verse as my QR Becho Fic. (Prompt: Character: Clarke || Theme: Mythology || Tropes: Fake NOT Dating + secret places) The aesthetic is very pretty and that’s as far as I’m willing to think about today.

TROPED VISUAL 1-4: literally every single one of those suckers are staring me down right now. What happened, TROPED? I was rooting for us. 😭

Last Years Fall/Halloween Fics: I’m slowly shifting into that mindset and I think I have 3 fics that never got written? Choice: Horror, a movie AU, and an actual original fic idea not tied to anything but the CHAINS IN MY BRAIN! …*sigh*

EDITED TO ADD — BOOK CANON IDEAS: BECAUSE I READ THE SERIES FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS LAST MONTH AND OMG SO MANY THOUGHTS…I need a separate post.

#100daysofwriting #tlfwritingthoughts

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sometimesrosy · 4 years

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Happy final Bellarke Fam Selfie Night.

Two pics, one from this summer and one from right around when I started watching the 100. Oddly, since then my hair has been super long and super short but I’m back to the same cut more or less. funny that.

But here’s the end of the show and I have to say I am glad for it. I am ready to be done, and that was so before the last season messed with the story I’d been following and loving for 5 years.

I don’t know what’s coming, but I’m having a hard time reconciling what we’ve seen so far with Clarke and Bellamy’s development that was just dropped. So, still I’m going to wait to analyze until I get the whole thing, but it’s looking to me that JR just dropped the backbone central story of Clarke and Bellamy’s heroic development because Bob needed time off. Or whatever happened between them. IDK. Either way, he’s got the main plot story still going, but the character journeys have failed.

What a disappointment.

Luckily, it’s just a tv show and y’all have lives outside of the show, I want to remind you that this is not the end of your ability to find stories you love and resonate with. There will be others. Remember also that Hollywood is fickle and this won’t be the last time your favorite show betrayed the story for some other reason, glam, a trick ending, money, they’re bored of the show, they’re vengeful, someone leaves whatever. It happens all the time. That’s one of the reasons you should never put your mental health or identity into tv shows. They aren’t yours, they belong to hollywood and hollywood is a bitch. You shouldn’t expect the tv shows or movies to care for you, because they are a business and they’re in it to make money.

Me, I don’t get any money out of this. And I don’t regret the time and energy I put into the show. I believe my analysis was correct, that WAS the story he was telling. Then he changed it because he’s a dick. If it hadn’t been changed, Clarke’s character wouldn’t have altered, and her journey would have made more sense. And we’ve got PLENTY of evidence that things like “Together” and “be the good guys,” WERE the way the story was going. “So much for together,” was NOT resolution for that story line. Anyway. Bad job. JR failed.

I am still going to be here, probably, but not as much. I’m thinking of combining my side blogs all back into this one. I made sideblogs because I felt bad doing so much fandom stuff when people wanted writing or whatever. So I’d like to do my writing and art stuff here, as well as all the other things, scifi content, not just fandom. Not sure how much I want to continue with fandom. I like just being a casual fan.

well this is a lot. I should do my tags but I don’t remember who to tag and I’m so bad at remembering people’s urls. so i’d rather post it than spend two hours trying to find tags.

If you’ve been following me all this time then I’m tagging you. If we’ve ever talked, then i’m tagging you. All my mutuals, I’m tagging you. But stalkers? no. no tag. go away. lol

oh speaking of. I guess I’ll put my anon back on for the show and give it a test to see how well people behave. i didn’t want anons while I was still upset over bellamy’s end. and i didn’t know what was happening either. now i have a better handle and we’ll see how it ends. i don’t think my expectations are high. What a shame. It could have been so good.

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t100fic-for-blm · 4 years

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Hi everyone, Sam (@burninghoneyatdusk) here.

This is an opportunity for the bellarke community to directly support the Black Lives Matter cause through reading and writing fanfiction. All of this information can be found on the tumblr page, but I’ve included it here too so we can get the word out.

THE INITIATIVE

For every fanfiction prompt I receive in this ask box, I ask that you donate money to an organization that supports the BLM cause. When I post the fanfiction, I will post confirmation that I matched your donation at another organization.

THE RULES

GENERAL PROMPT RULES

I am open to pretty much any prompt - any trope, any rating, AU or canon-verse. If for some reason the prompt is outside my comfort zone, I will simply ask that you submit another.

I am open to one-shot or multi-chapter fic prompts. If you have a multi-chapter fic prompt in mind, please note that the challenge applies to me posting the first chapter. I will try my best to finish the fic, but the donation obligation is for posting the first chapter.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Reader submits a prompt for a bellarke fic to the ask box. The more specific the better.

If submitted anonymously: I will post the prompt publicly, confirming that I will write it. I ask that since it is anonymous, you DM me the confirmation of your donation to your organization of choice that supports the BLM mission (amount of $ and organization). That DM/information will remain confidential. I only ask for the amount of money so that I can match it - I’m not here to judge how much one donates.

If submitted non-anonymously: Please clarify whether you want me to post the ask prompt publicly or not. You can either attach confirmation of your donation to the reblog of the ask if posted publicly, or DM me privately if you’re more comfortable with that. If you provide me with your AO3 username, I will gift you the fic when it is finished.

Once I’m finished, I will post the fic to the AO3 collection and post a link to it as a tumblr post. As part of the tumblr post, I will post a photo for confirmation of my matched donation to an organization that supports the BLM mission.

GET INVOLVED

WRITERS - I encourage other bellarke (or even just the 100) fic writers to participate with me. I am going to set up a page on the blog that lists writers who want to participate so that readers know who else they can submit prompts to. If you do write something for this initiative, I only ask that you please add the fic to the AO3 collection (link under navigation menu on tumblr page) and tag me in your post so that I can share your fic on this blog.

ARTISTS - I welcome any artists to create companion art to go with the fics. If that’s something you’re interested in, you can DM me and we’ll figure out a fic for you to create art for. This can also include moodboards for the fics, as I won’t have time to create those for these prompts. Same rules apply - you submit art for the fic with confirmation of a donation and I’ll match that donation as well. I will post your art or moodboard when I post the fic link and tag you in the post.

OTHER NOTES

Keep in mind that I am one person. I promise that the fics will absolutely be written (in order of submission), but I have a full-time job and the fic could take up to a month or more to be posted.

I’m aware I’m incredibly financially privileged to be able to offer this challenge, especially at a time when many are not. If you are not able to financially donate (however small an amount), I will still accept prompts and donate a standard $10 to an organization. If this is the case, I would love to hear of another way that you are able to support the cause - anything from attending protests, supporting protesters, or even having hard but necessary conversations with white friends and family members.

With the above in mind, I am also nothing close to “wealthy”. I’m really not sure what this initiative will grow to be, but I may add a matched donation ceiling later if I can’t financially keep up with it. I will update you all if this becomes the case.

There is no “close date” for this initiative, as I know it’s important to keep our foot on the gas at all times, not just when the hashtag is trending. That being said, my availability may increase or decrease at different times depending on work, life, etc, but I will try my best to remain consistent.

I’m very much still learning about the array of organizations that are available to support and am more than open to suggestions on where to donate and any other general information and resources.

Once I get the ball rolling, I will create a page on the blog that tracks how much money we’ve donated to each organization as a group.

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Please spread the word on this initiative so that we can pull in maximum participation from all parts of the fandom. I do not have Twitter, so it would be especially helpful if anyone who is active on Twitter could share it there too.

Tagging some mutuals who are creators and/or those who reblogged my initial post:

#bellarke #bellarke fanfiction #bellarke fanfic #the 100 #the 100 fanfiction

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kinetic-elaboration · 1 year

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I posted 2,129 times in 2022

498 posts created (23%)

1,631 posts reblogged (77%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@justbecauseyoubelievesomething

@princessrhcenyra

@kinetic-elaboration

@liftthesewingstofly

@bellamybb

I tagged 2,121 of my posts in 2022

#q - 1,013 posts

#art - 344 posts

#the year 2022 - 342 posts

#gif - 229 posts

#photography - 214 posts

#dracula daily - 193 posts

#2022: rl - 142 posts

#the 100 - 102 posts

#mundane - 91 posts

#2022: fandom thoughts - 76 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#but it's interesting that his natural tendencies are to be grim which is of course not the jim kirk stereotype cough cough at certain people

My Top Posts in 2022:

May 29: Murven, Lake

18 notes - Posted May 29, 2022

January 9: Murven, Beach

22 notes - Posted January 10, 2022

March 21: Bellarke, Dropship Night

44 notes - Posted March 21, 2022

Shining Like the Good Part of a Bad Time

Bellamy-centric, Bellarke

9.7k

Rated T

Summary: Bellamy and the boys head down the coast on a whim, ready to have the best summer of their lives. They work tourist season jobs and hang out on the beach, listen to the rambling stories of their landlord, who owns the surf shop downstairs, and flirt with the locals.

Then one afternoon, at his job behind the counter of a record store, Bellamy meets a beautiful, rich, unattainable, ex-Daddy's girl, and for the rest of the summer, he can't get her out of his head.

READ ON AO3.

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My #1 post of 2022

May 12: Random Dracula Thoughts

Random list of things I’ve been really enjoying about Dracula:

That the catalyzing event of the narrative is “vampire wants to buy real estate.” That the first character we meet is just a young lawyer on a business trip. The combination of the horrific/magical with the business-like/mundane: the mythical creature, though he has inhuman powers and abilities, must still exist in the same world as any real people, buy things, own property, solicit legal advice.

All of the unspoken between Jonathan and Dracula. Jonathan knows he is kept captive and Dracula probably knows that Jonathan knows--he sets him up to know, because the knowledge is not a threat to him--and yet they continue conversing as normal. The psychological drama of it. The undercurrents of terror that then inevitably flow through the must ordinary topics of conversation or events.

That Dracula calls Jonathan his “friend,” and my weird suspicion that in a twisted way, he means it.

The framing of the creeping wrongness of the castle and its inhabitant through Jonathan’s journal. As I explained initially in the tags of my reblog of this post, we are with Jonathan intimately, in his head, reading his own words, and yet we are not with him in the present as events unfold. We are reading his purposefully mediated summary of his experiences--and his thoughts and his fears. If he cannot say something to himself, he cannot say it to us. So, quoting from my tags, when he does make a point explicitly, it is “because it’s so real and so unavoidable and so stark that he cannot look away from it even for his own peace of mind.” Stoker understands that there is another layer of knowledge necessary to name the unthinkable, to sit down and purposefully form the words and write them down, and that when people sit down to write up notes on their own lives, even just for themselves, they are by definition forming a narrative about themselves. The form is not just cursory, it shapes everything about how information is revealed and when--which is of course integral to horror.

The line “What manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?”

That at the center of this horror is Jonathan, alone in a distant place, with one other person, who might not be a person, having to be careful with every move, every sentence, not knowing when the “friend” captor might turn, his ability to reason clearly upended by his nocturnal existence and the very strangeness of his reality--”I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of”--and how this is in many ways terribly familiar, particularly the part about helplessness in a world turned upside down.

(As an aside, about Dracula Daily specifically, “you’re going to stay with me another month” hits different when you know you can’t make that month go faster or slower for yourself by the pace of your reading. You’re gonna be in the castle with Dracula until June too!)

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My lovely friend @in-superbloom tagged me to do some music recs. I loving recommending music so this might be a little extensive lol. Thanks for the tag Anna 💛!!

1. favorite song at the moment.

This is hard. I’ve been roadtripping with my fam this week so I haven’t been listen to my music that much because I make playlists with everyone’s genres for the trips. But Stupid For You by Waterparks comes to mind. The guitar is awesome and the lyrics are pretty fun. Also, Enough for You by Olivia Rodrigo and All I Know So Far by P!nk. Enough for you is sad but very relatable. All I know so far is a bittersweet optimism with the insane vocals that P!nk’s music always has.

2. Song you associate with your favorite ship

so my favorite ship is probably Sterek but I don’t have a song I specifically associate with them. Bellarke is Soldier by Gavin DeGraw and You & Me by James TW. 18 by 1D reminds of Malex (as does Tyler Blackburn’s song from the show which was v good). I also think about one ship with Not In The Same Way by 5SOS. Percabeth, my og otp, I see in lots of songs but Mine by Taylor Swift and You & I by 1D probably the most.

3. a song that could be about you.

I, also, have a full playlist of songs that sound like their about me. Good Example by R3HAB with Andy Grammar is a big one. Here’s To Being Single by Lost Stars could be about my dating life lol. High School by 90s Kids is a hundred percent how I feel about high school.

4. a song that you think is underrated.

There are lots of songs I think are underrated. I love Little Hurt ( Alaska, Good as it Gets, It’s Ok Not to Be Ok, et,.) and I’ve literally never heard anyone talk about him before. Jesus in LA by Alec Benjamin (I love all of his music too). Everywhere by Niall Horan, If I’m Being Honest by Anna Clendening, and New Religion by The Heydaze.

5. a song that reminds you of a good memory

I have playlist for this too! (Because I have endless playlists) The song Cheap Thrills by Sia reminds of senior year of high school. My cousin and I ditched school on St Patrick’s to sneak into a party. It was in skyscraper right where the New York St Patrick’s Parade started. We had a such a great time. Probably the most rebellious thing I’ve ever done.

6. the last song you listened to

Annie by A R I Z O N A found it on tiktok when searching my own name in the sounds and I kind of love it. It’s a great dance song.

7. a song that makes you laugh.

Dead Man Walking by Jon Bellion which I’ve mentioned on here before, but I always giggle while singing. It’s about a guy who sleeps with his sister’s best friend and he’s lamenting that his sister is going to kill him. He did it in one take and you can hear his friends laughing the background.

8. A song you want your mutuals to listen to.

I would recommend all of the songs I’ve mentioned! Everyone who follows me for 5sos content I think will like Little Hurt and Waterparks in particular. I’ve been thinking about Gotta Be A Reason by Alec Benjamin a lot today so that for a specific song. It’s sad and it’s sweet and I know it complete (😉).

Tagging: @calmfolklore @calumthoodshands @faeryphilia @redrattlers @thesewordsareallihavetogive @valiantnerdtm @ginascaswell @messy-celestial (sorry if any of y’all have already done this, I haven’t been on tumblr much this last week) ♥️🤎

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**Update: The works mentioned in this post have since been taken down. The “message” was removed by AO3 because it was a violation of their TOS and it seems the author chose to remove their “opinions” piece.**

Despite the ongoing world crisis, I hope everyone is doing great as the year comes to a close and prepping for a safe holiday season.

I don’t really post here a lot, but I just wanted to talk about a problem that exists in every fandom and has recently come up for me in the BSD fandom. This problem is typically referred to as: toxic behavior, however, I sort of hate that term because it’s an umbrella term that encapsulates a wide array of behaviors that is purposefully vague so as to imply everything can be toxic, which means the definition changes depending upon the person, and ends up getting thrown around to describe any behavior that a person dislikes. That said, most people can agree that the term ‘toxic behavior’ includes “shipper wars” and harassing people because of their “ship”.

Yesterday, a user on AO3 going by the penname E_C_arts posted a message titled “deer Soukoku fans” and giving it the not-innocuous summary “please we’re begging you, please stop”. Clicking through leads to a rather prime example of this particular flavor of toxic fandom behavior, guised as an attempt to defend those who were allegedly victims of this self-same behavior, also a lovely example of emotional manipulation.

Although what’s currently posted (and what I managed to screen shot below) may not seem terrible on first glance, if not a little cringey, and can be easy to agree with (don’t bully people that write for a ship you dislike), this was not their original message and has been edited since being posted and, and only after receiving the number of comments it did and which they’re now noting as “proving their point” – a point which they erased, thus manipulating perceptions. I wish I had gotten a screenshot of the original, but if you scroll through the comments, you can find some people that quoted it.

This person most definitely did open their “message” to Soukoku fans by literally telling them to “stop writing” for it. They claimed there was some unspecified AU (or maybe multiple unspecified AUs) that had been overwritten for, that it was overused, and not original. They went on to talk about how the abundance of soukoku content was turning off new fans to the series (don’t even know how that logics…) and bullying people from creating content for other ships, basing these irrational sentiments off some false claim that removing everything with the soukoku ship from the fandom would only leave behind a sad, inacccurate (and oddly specific) 305 posts.

Evidence of their now deleted perspective can be further seen in another post they made to AO3 a couple days before this ugly rant. Titled simply “My unpopular BSD opinions”, they didn’t manage to garner much attention and went mostly ignored because, well, it’s your opinions about the show and that’s whatever. Of course, when you click into it, the very first “opinion” shared, is that they hate Dazai x Chuuya. Okay, that’s an opinion everyone is entitled to, and that’s fine. You don’t like the popular ship, that’s…not exactly an unpopular opinion, there’s quite a number of people that don’t ship soukoku. No problem. Until, they go on to elaborate.

Despite the title of this piece being ‘their opinions’, they state as ‘fact’ that its confirmed that this is “not a thing”, so ‘please stop shipping them it doesn’t work, it’s way too overused for it to be “funny” anymore’ (I’m a little confused about this wording, because Shipping is Serious Business™, so…not sure there are too many soukoku shippers doing it because they think it’s hilarious or whatnot, in fact, most soukoku fics are tagged ‘angst’, which we all know, angst is very ‘haha, lol’…but whatevs). They then include the same sentiment they expanded on in their Dear John to soukoku fans and subsequently deleted: “Please stop, there are too many au’s with almost the exact same plot Chuuya and Dazai being together, its really difficult to find any non-Dazai x Chuuya au’s”.

On the surface, once again, there are some “truths” to this sentiment. DaiChuu is a popular ship and there is a disproportionate amount of soukoku ship fics on the fandom comparative to other ships (soukoku comes in at a whopping 10,000+ currently, with the next popular ship Aku/Atsushi sitting at a decidedly less 2500+). It’s really not that difficult to find non-DazaixChuuya fics, if you know how to use filters on AO3, but there are going to be less to read from when you filter it down, and depending on your ship, you may find yourself in a fic desert, and I can certainly understand why someone young and lacking in rational thought processes might want to blame the popular ship for this predicament.

The problem with this logic, and it permeates every fandom, not just BSD, is that the shippers sharing and loving their ship are not to blame for your lack of ship content. You just don’t have a popular ship. If all the people who love soukoku stopped creating content for it, as this person is ‘begging’ them to do, that’s not going to increase the amount of content for your ships, because the reason that content isn’t being created is because there aren’t enough shippers for it. So, the only way this person’s logic works, is if what this person is actually saying, isn’t that they want these people to stop creating content for the BSD fandom, they just want them to jump ship, stop creating content for soukoku and start creating content for their ships.

Any creator/fan is going to have a visceral reaction to that: who the fuck are you to tell me what to create? And for free, no less!

This moves us more towards a clearer definition of what is toxic fandom behavior. In short, its telling anyone how they should interact with or interpret their favorite content. I mean, even Word of God does not have this power. That’s because every single fan in a fandom is an individual human being. They are possessed of their own autonomy, and as a creator I know, that once you put something out into the world and give it over to others, you have little control over how people consume and feel about your work. You can tell them your intention, but that’s not going to sway them to interpret it that way, and that’s…just the way it works.

Now, the elephant in the room needs to be addressed. It’s easy for me to be ‘offended’ by this person’s post and not see their complaints because I am a soukoku fan. I’m also the target of this person’s rant, and one of those people this person is attempting to emotionally manipulate into writing for other ships in the fandom for which I have no preference. But I am capable of seeing the other side of this argument.

First, because I do have other fandoms in which I am part, and for which I have a rare-pair ship. For example, I am a Gundam Wing fan and a 2x5 (Duo/WuFei) shipper. I’ve posted two 2x5 fics on fanfiction.net. While 2x5 is not the rarest of rarepairs in the Gundam Wing fandom, it is significantly eclipsed (as are almost *all* ships in the fandom) by the 1x2 (Heero/Duo) ship. Do I hate 1x2 shippers for my lack of 2x5 content? No. I just appreciate what I’ve got all the more, and I’ll create content for it when I feel compelled, and I sure the fuck won’t implore 1x2 shippers to stop writing for their fave and write more for mine because I want more 2x5 – that’s sheer entitlement, right there, pure and simple. I also ship 3xD (Trowa/Dorothy) in Gundam Wing, which *is* the rarest of rarepairs – I think there’s only, like, two stories in existence that features this pair on the entirety of the internet. I’m also a RavenxMurphy (Murven) shipper in The 100 fandom and I do not hate Bellarke fans because…those people are scary and have canceled the show’s creator for not delivering on Bellarke, and in BSD, I ship Atsushi/Lucy (yes, I said it, they’re cute af and I hope Asagiri delivers on that ship). I also low-key ship Yosano/Ranpo (sorry, Ranpo/Poe shippers, I understand the appeal, I just think him and Yosano is sooo cute, please don’t kill me…), and I also ship Yosano with Kunikida – all of which are some of the rarest in the BSD fandom.

Second, because I have seen and called out shipping harassment in the BSD fandom, so I am well aware that this kind of thing exists – as it exists literally everywhere and in every flavor. Against soukoku shippers from antis and by soukoku shippers against shippers putting Dazai or Chuuya with any other characters and by soukoku shippers against other soukoku shippers that are, uh, “doing it wrong”. None of these is appropriate. You’re not fighting fire with fire if you’re an anti-attacking the popular ship, you’re just creating a bigger fire and burning the entire fandom down. You’re not defending your ship if you are a soukoku fan attacking non-soukoku fans, you’re just punching down by attacking a less popular ship. And top/bottom arguments aren’t just toxic, they’re also deeply entrenched in fetishization of same sex pairings through a forced heteronormative lens and is, kind of, sort of, actually homophobic in its basis (yes, I said it. It’s ignorant and homophobic and trying to argue with ‘personality/physical traits’ as evidence of who serves what position in the bedroom can be emotionally and mentally damaging to members of the LGBTQ community. Claiming that Chuuya should be bottom because he’s shorter/smaller, or that Dazai has ‘bottom energy’ because he’s more flamboyant and ‘feminine’ is straight up discrimination – a shorter guy can definitely be top, and a manly man can be bottom, it’s not a behavior based on perceived gendered traits, it is just a fucking preferred sexual position, and no, you are not ‘fixing it’ by purposely using positions for these characters that eschews the stereotypes either. Trying to justify positioning by personality/physical traits at all, in any way, shape, or form is just not okay – if it’s your preference, it’s your preference, no justification needed, just recognize that it is *your* preference and arguing what’s ‘right/wrong’ positioning is just plain wrong).

But this brings us to a different issue: bad actors and blaming a whole community for a ‘few rotten apples’. I could easily lump this one person in with everyone that does not ship soukoku and deem them all toxic, aggressive, entitled, bullies attempting to harass soukoku shippers off the platform. Or I could see them for what they are, individuals with individual motivations and drives and morals that also happen to share the same shipping preferences. Is it true to say that there are no soukoku fans that engage in the behaviors described by E_C_arts? No, there are definitely those that do, as there are antis that engage in that same behavior against soukoku fans. But this person also asserts that soukoku fans turning ‘every BSD post about soukoku’ is also a toxic behavior. To which I refer you back to one. This is how they engage with and interpret the work. Don’t yuck on someone else’s yum. People want to gush about how cute they thought soukoku were in an official art, or that they felt there was some hidden (or not so hidden) interaction between them that validates their ship, or their inspired to create soukoku content based on it, so what (for the record, it irks me too when people go ‘see it’s canon and Bones totally ships it’, because it’s unlikely, given BSDs genre, that any romantic relationship will be confirmed, soukoku notwithstanding). It is not, in fact, toxic to gush over it. Let them have their fun with it, let them enjoy their ship. Now, if you go and make a comment about liking the art for other reasons and they reply to you about “…but also soukoku”, then still, that’s not toxic, that’s just them enjoying the content the way that they enjoy it, so let them enjoy it, and you opened yourself to engagement without any qualifiers for the type of engagement you were soliciting, you can’t then backtrack and go ‘but I’m not a soukoku shipper, they should’ve been able to read my mind and known that, it’s totally toxic of them to share their personal reasons for loving the show in response to my sharing my love for the show’. But if you comment about another ship, and they reply to you “…ew, gross! It’s 100% soukoku” then yes, that’s toxic. A lot of people fail to make this distinction, that they are, maybe, merely being triggered and not actually harassed, by feeling like their ship isn’t being validated because they see another ship all over the place and everyone they engage with ships it.

It’s also toxic, to take an experience with one person and hold every soukoku shipper in existence responsible for that one person’s inappropriate behavior. The truth is, that bad actors amongst soukoku fans are not unique, not to the ship and not to the fandom and not even to fandom culture in general. Every group in existence everywhere has bad actors in it that, while the group disavows their behavior, they continue to be held accountable for those individuals and judged by them. For current events, look at how the BLM movement has been blamed for bad actors (many of whom were not actually BLM activists) that took advantage of the protests and started riots and chaos. A small percentage of people were involved in these behaviors, but the entire movement, despite speaking out against rioting, continues to take the blame for it. For me, that’s the root of toxicity. We need to start holding individuals accountable and stop blaming people who have no control over those individuals, because they share a few similar beliefs or interests. That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But the shippers as a whole are not to blame for the actions of a few, and the reason that it feels that there are so many more soukoku fans that do this is because of volume, there are so many more soukoku fans. It’s basic math. If two percent of fans are these toxic kinds of shippers, then there’s going to be so many more of them in a larger population than a smaller one.

I try to call out toxic behavior, no matter if it’s my ship being lambasted or one of my fellow shippers doing the lambasting, whenever I see it, but the trouble is, I don’t typically go into fan content that isn’t for my ship and, thus, I don’t see it. The same goes for the vast majority of soukoku fans out there. We’re here for soukoku content, we’re seeking out soukoku content, and avoiding what isn’t soukoku content. But here is my offer to all of those who are outside of my ship. I like to argue. If someone is harassing you for having a non-soukoku ship, call me, let me know, I will argue with them for you. I will explain to them in no uncertain terms, and in many unpleasant ways, that they do not represent the soukoku shipping community and they are an embarrassment to us. Content for any and all ships is welcomed and encouraged within the fandom. Write, draw, contribute, be a part of the fandom and express yourself, please. If you are a soukoku shipper (or even if you’re not), and someone is harassing you about your top/bottom preference, call me, let me know, I will argue with them for you. I will explain to them why their justifications for which character should be top or bottom in a same sex pairing is grossly misrepresentative and exploitative of the LGBTQ community and rather disgusting. Do not assume that because we seem to remain silent on these types of harassment that it’s because we are in agreement with them, it is only because we haven’t seen them – why would we, we’re not going in those spaces that weren’t created for us. Ask the community for help, don’t attack the rest of us for the poor actions of a few that we were not even aware of. Let us help you in policing them, rather than assuming we don’t care. We are just too busy staying in our lanes, but if you need us, we are here. Majority of us want a clean, friendly, welcoming community for creators of all types as much as you do.

All of this aside, there are spaces and places for these debates and AO3 is not it. Posting this kind of message is actually a violation of AO3 TOS, constituting as harassment, which is defined on the AO3 TOS as “…any behavior that produces a generally hostile environment for its target…”( https://archiveofourown.org/tos#IV.G.). This general behavior also falls into the realm of another kind of toxic fandom behavior: hijacking a platform/tag for your own purposes that is a direct contradiction to its express usage (otherwise, known as trolling). AO3 is for posting fan-made content that contributes to a deeper understanding and expansion upon the original work. Using AO3 to attack people who are using AO3 for exactly what it is designed to be used for is an abuse of the platform. It’s not okay and invites similar content that will ultimately interfere with the original purpose of the platform. AO3 is for fan content, not for your own personal rants about other people in the community, please keep it that way

I do also want to note, that this person choosing to edit their post after receiving the justified ire from fans (notably soukoku and non-soukoku fans alike upset by the audacity of this person, who, as far as can be told, has never themselves contributed fanfiction to the community, to tell people what they can and cannot write) for their original comments, is a form of manipulative abuse called ‘gaslighting’. They are now claiming to be a victim that “never said to stop writing”, despite that having been the literal words they used in the opening of their original post. They are now pointing at these comments as “proof” of their point that soukoku fans are aggressive bullies that attack without cause when there was definitely cause from the original comments. This person clearly has bigger issues than just lacking shipper content for their personal preferences on the BSD fandom.

To all of those who are afraid to share content for your ship because you think you’ll be harassed, as evidenced by this person’s claims, that is simply not true. While there might be one or two people that say something, we all get them no matter if you have a popular ship or a rarepair ship, haters are gonna hate – I’ve gotten my share of hateful comments towards my ships too, but there are many more people that share your ship and are interested in your content, in fact, some of them are starved for it. While having a rarepair might mean you’ll garner less interactions with your content, you have a better opportunity to form a deeper bond with the people that do interact, and they may be more appreciative, because what you’re delivering to them is so much harder to come by. The existence of one ship does not affect your ship’s popularity, and if it simply went away, that doesn’t mean that your ship would receive more attention – in fact, it might mean the show itself would receive less attention.

Create and let others create and use platforms for their appropriate purposes, and most importantly, when it comes to addressing toxic behavior in a fandom, look to yourself first. Are you placing the blame where it belongs? Are you addressing the root cause of the problem or swinging blindly and attacking innocent bystanders in the process? Will what you say actually help the problem? Or will it contribute to the issue, and maybe even create an issue that didn’t exist before?

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