#what a great post to come back to tumblr to

[kiwiana-writes]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks @cha-melodius and @stereopticons for the tags! I know I’ve done this in the past, but it’s been a hot minute…

How many works do you have on ao3?

239!

What's your total ao3 word count?

822,937—but that’s a collaboration-boosted lie. Per my writing tracker, words that I have personally written and published on AO3 is 693,613

What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly RWRB these days, but the majority of my back catalogue is Schitt’s Creek, with a few others sprinkled in for fun. The Pairing definitely made my brain whirr… we’ll see.

Top five fics by kudos:

With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest), RWRB, 65.5k, the Much Ado About Nothing stage actor AU

Kinda think that I might be his type, RWRB, 12.8k, Alex and Bea fake date and Alex gets a little distracted by Bea’s brother

We were supposed to find this, RWRB, 3.3k, soulmate AU

We always walked a very thin line, Happiest Season, 2.7k, Riley character study/alternate ending

All the Lonely Starbucks Lovers, RWRB, 5.8k, barista Henry repeatedly putting his foot in his mouth in front of his coworker crush

(This is how I learned Puck It has been knocked out of my top five 😭)

Do you respond to comments?

Yes! And absent a Schitt’s Creek resurgence of some kind that sees me absolutely inundated I don’t see that changing.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Five ways it could have ended (and one way it still could), Schitt’s Creek, 1.2k, for the love of god read the tags

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

Like… most of them? I love to end on a good HEA haha. For sheer joy, though, it’s probably With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest)

Do you get hate on fics?

From time to time. I’m very free with the delete button. Weirdly, it occasionally pops up in the AO3 comments but mostly seems to come to me via anons on tumblr??? I have no idea why.

Do you write smut?

It’s been known to happen, I guess 👀

Craziest crossover:

I haven’t written any AO3-era crossovers! A few fusions/media AUs, but no crossovers.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. I’ve only been asked once, and they wanted to post off AO3 which is a big heck nope for me (and my permissions statement has now been updated to reflect that)

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Heck yeah I have. I’ve done several anthology-type collaborations where we each wrote a chapter in a fic, and I’ve fully cowritten fics with @ships-to-sail several times. We have another collab coming up for @aroyallybigbangrwrb and I’m also cowriting The Big Secret AU with @indestructibleheart which is essentially us one-upping each other on emotionally devastating ideas until someone writes them down. Good system 😂

All time favorite ship?

Stop making pansexuals choose things.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Look, the chances of kinktober 2021 being finished at this point are slim 😂

Schitt’s Creek kinkverse… I don’t know. I have little snippets written of future fics and they’re great but… idk. Maybe I’ll write one vignette-y wrap up fic one day.

What are your writing strengths?

Narrative POV, dialogue that feels like the characters, epistolary bullshit, smut apparently.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Coming up with actual plot lmao. Visual descriptors — I’m not even remotely a visual person so I really really struggle with writing the sorts of things people can visualise. Also like… the passage of time? A scam.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Love it. I’ll shoulder tap a fluent speaker if I need an actual sentence/anything Google isn’t super reliable for. Forever heartbroken that there are no fics in my second language in AO3 and no reason for me to be able to sprinkle it into my own writing (though one of the subscriber shindig prompts might be about to change that 👀)

First fandom you wrote in?

HP

Favorite fic you've written?

Stop! Asking! Pansexuals! To! Choose! Things!

I don’t know there are 239 of the bloody things 😂 I’m far more interested in what other people’s favourites are than what my own is!

I have no sense of who’s done this already so apologies if this is a double up but tagging @agame-writes @affectionatelyrs @anincompletelist @cricketnationrise @getmehighonmagic

@happiness-of-the-pursuit @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @indestructibleheart @inexplicablymine @nontoxic-writes

@read-and-write- @rmd-writes @sparklepocalypse @welcometololaland @whimsymanaged and, as always, anyone who wants to play!

#20 questions for fic writers #kiwiana-writes

[nakedmonkey]

i knew night country wasn’t gay but based on the gifs i saw i definitely thought the leads were exes lol even when i finished the show i never bought either woman as straight tbh. not just because the actresses are lesbian/bi irl the energy and chemistry between them screamed dyke drama lmao. anyway i watched the first ep of under the bridge expecting something similar but the main story and real life case are so harrowing and devastating i can’t finish. i almost wish cam and becca’s storyline was in a different show because based on the gifs the chemistry is wild.

oh man....Night Country...will keep this strictly a UTB post, but, yeah...

Re UTB, I get where you're coming from. I personally didn't know it was based on a real case until after the first episode when I started pulling up interviews etc. and I don't know why they made the creative choices they did with creating Cam for this adaptation and pairing her up with Becca, but they did! And they're here, having all kinds of on-screen moments, so i understand why people are gravitating toward them. They're very compelling!

I mean, look, add this to the endless list of tv shows and films based on real life cases with, some might say unnecessary, love stories and even graphic sex scenes, more graphic than what we've seen in UTB tbh, that have nothing to do with the actual case. I think we also have to keep in mind that the narrative this show is basing itself on is Rebecca Godfrey's, and her book. So, this show is a fictionalized account of HER life and her experience writing this book and yeah, True Crime adaptations can be sleazy, but I think the UTB team is (so far) taking great care in also propelling the story of Reena Virk's horrendous murder forward, and not just her murder, but the events leading up to it, of her family, her home life, the racism that lead to her murder, and I think that's great and necessary.

In my opinion, there are worse ways to get eyes on a show that is doing a great job at telling a story that could easily be overlooked.

All this to say, I get where you're coming from. It might be hard for some people to enjoy Rebecca and Cam, when we are also watching the events leading to Reena's death unravel, but the Rebecca x Cam of it all is just tumblr fodder. Reena's story is being told respectfully and with the backing of her family as far as I know, and i think it's still worth watching for that alone. If you ever decide to revisit it, at least up to episode 3, they're doing a great job.

#under the bridge

[bradshawssugarbaby]

I really really hate that I even feel the need to write this. I've got back and forth over it a lot over the last 36 hours - it's not something that I've taken lightly or done without a lot of thought, but I have to do what is best for myself, and more importantly, my family. Don't get me wrong - I LOVE a lot of people I've met thanks to the TGM fandom. My personal interactions with everyone have been (for the most part) nothing short of lovely. I feel spoiled with how good my experience on here has been over the past six months since I joined in to this. I've made some great friends and rediscovered my passion for writing and reading, I've found myself some really good creative outlets for my ADHD and mental health struggles, and I'm SO thankful for it. BUT. I can no longer be part of a community where I don't feel safe. I love writing. I love fanfiction. I love writing fanfiction where Bradley Bradshaw is a baseball player. I love writing silly little stories based off country songs I love where Jake Seresin asks you to marry him while quoting Florida Georgia Line. I love writing smut with no plot about Bradley and Bob, and Jake, and Goose - I write because I love it. However, I can't love something if the community makes me genuinely afraid and concerned for not only my own safety, but the safety of my child, and the safety of my friends. Doxxing is dangerous. End of story. It can cost innocent people everything. Everything. Jobs. Families. Lives. It's irresponsible and foolish, and comes with serious real life consequences, not just for the person who you decide to target. It creates a domino effect. I don't know about y'all, but I don't wish to take part in a community where I feel constantly worried someone is going to be out to ruin my life if I don't agree with them on something. If I post a fic that might be similarly written to someone else's. If I don't answer a request in my inbox. If I just do something that generally pisses someone off. It's not productive for my own mental health, and honestly? It's taken any enjoyment out of this for me. So, this is me - saying that indefinitely, I'm going on hiatus. I'm still deciding the future of this blog and my future on Tumblr in general. I might come back when I feel safe once again. I might never come back. I might do an overhaul and change my URL. I might make a whole new account. I don't know. Thanks for the fun times and the love on my stories since I joined in October. I appreciate everyone who has made me feel so welcomed and accepted on here, and taken me from being a sad, depressed housewife with ADHD to feeling myself again. Hopefully this isn't goodbye, it's just see you later, but we'll see how things pan out.

-- Haley 💜

P.S. Whoever is responsible for this? I hope you're happy. I hope nothing more that you're happy and can sleep well at night knowing you've taken something that so many of us use as an escape from reality, as fun and enjoyment, and completely destroyed it without a second thought.

#top gun maverick #hiatus #tgm

[aaronstveit]

hiiii tumblr 💕

#what a week i have had tumblr!!! #you may remember my new dog from last weekend! her name is back to foxy and will remain as such <3 #i have been sick this week and very miserable and i become an emotional mess when i am sick so i have been #EXTREMELY overwhelmed with foxy </3 #BUT !!!! i finally feel better today and i also feel better with my new fuzzy friend!!! #i have figured out what i need in my day to not be completely overwhelmed and i think i will no longer have any meltdowns about her #foxy is doing well and our other dogs are adjusting well to her presence!! i think she and bear will grow to be great friends #she still has her stitches from being spayed but when they come out next week she'll be able to play more & i think they'll both enjoy that #unfortunately i have gotten literally no reading done since she came to live with us so RIP to my readathon but that is okay!! in good news #i HAVE watched almost all of the good place this week bc it's what i watch when i'm sick & even though i'm not sick anymore i'm Invested #okay life update over it's almost foxy's bedtime so i must go!! anyway ily gay people in my phone <3333 #personal post

[merevide]

the art of liking posts is DYING on twitter. over 180 views with no likes…i know at least one of you laughed LIKE THE DAMN POST

#this is about my twitter account my view to like ratio is crazy sometimes #a tumblr like means more than a twitter like usually but it’s also like. the views #i don’t have a view counter here thank god (KNOCK ON WOOD) now i gotta see who views my flop posts. and doesn’t even like them #and i gotta see the bookmarks. idk why anyone bookmarks my posts what is here that u wanna come back to #ik likes don’t mean everything but damn it crushes my spirit on twitter sometimes #not here though i could get zero likes and go wow what a great day on tumblr dot com ❤️❤️❤️ #my text

[13eyond13]

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#The funniest thing about trying to sift through an old/small fandom #That mostly exists in blogspot blogging format (not this one but for a game series from the 90s/00s I recently rediscovered) #is that nearly all of the blogs are dead and nothing but a decade's worth of posts of people going #'Sorry I haven't been posting much lately!' #'Thinking about going on hiatus!' 'Back from hiatus!' #'Sorry I haven't posted a lot!' #I'd say they make up a good like 40% of the total posts #Makes me realize it's probably best to just not post stuff like that every single time you take a break? #bc I get disappointed when I find a big inactive blog then realize almost all the content is those kinda posts #I know it's hard especially in an old fandom that has a nice/friendly community but not much/any new content coming out though #bc you don't want to just disappear or lose touch but also after many years sometimes it's just like. SoOo. What's there new to say? #That hasn't already been said or done to death 49483829 different ways #Also I guess that's why tumblr is easier by design to stay active on than something like a blogspot #because you can just reblog other people's stuff even when you have nothing much to contribute yourself #and this one never seems to totally run out of new fan made stuff to share which is great #p

[coquelicoq]

I don't know if it's rude to ask, so apologies in advance if I sound mean, but… how come you repeatedly bring up old posts of yours from three or more years ago? Do you remember each original post you make and intentionally bring them back? Like, I don't think there's anything wrong, your blog can be whatever you want, obviously, and your stuff is always funny or curious in some way, just… I'm kind of lost as of how it came to be, I guess? I don't think I remember my own posts after 6 months, much least if I have to go back to 2020!

ahaha no it's usually just because i'm going back through a tag looking for something else! i recently went back through my entire "my posts" tag (which contains...1468 posts, dear lord) and while i was doing that saw several posts that i felt like reblogging for whatever reason. so it's usually not that i remember them and go looking for them on purpose, it's that i come across them incidentally in the course of doing something else.

if you want to know why i reblog them after coming across them, 1) usually i don't! you are seeing the tip of the iceberg lol, and 2) it's mostly because it's hard to resist the "sooo true, bestie" urge, even when the bestie is just...yourself.

#sometimes...things that are written by me...are things i agree with #but oftentimes they are not once a few years have passed lol. i mean i just looked at 1468 posts by yours truly #and queued probably 1% of them #oh i also went through my asks tag which was another 500 or so posts #if you want to know why i'm putting myself through this it's for a really ridiculous reason #namely: several nights ago i had insomnia brought on by (get this) being too excited to sleep because my brain wouldn't stop #coming up with crosslinguistic french/english puns #and a couple of them in particular i was like oh god this would be a great tumblr username! #however as i've said before i had no plans to ever change my username (even though i don't like it) #because doing so would break any links that contain my current username #i had resigned myself to just living with this username forever. but once i thought of some usernames i actually like #it became harder to resist the urge to change it... #so now i have this convoluted plan to try to identify and tag as many of the links as i can #so that after i switch names i can go back and fix the links #however i'm not sure how feasible this is. there are a lot of links #and no matter what i do short of going through all 45k posts on this blog i will be bound to miss some of them anyway #(i think getting a domain would solve this problem but i don't wanna get a domain bc i'd have to give wordpress my legal name) #indecisive superhero meme w the buttons 'the need to have punny username' vs. 'the need to be able to find things on my blog' #asks #anon #actually anon probably the majority of the time i rb something i wrote 3 years ago it's bc i forgot about it #i come across it and am like oh yeah! this! and it's like a brand new discovery so i put it back on the dash lol #anyway thanks for your ask! i got a kick out of it 😂

[seventh-district]

#there is a Severe lack of gif sets for Dermot Kennedy music videos on this site #come ON tumblr this used to be The Place To Go for gifsets! what happened! #like for real am i not looking well enough or is it really a wasteland out there in those tags #for such popular music i am shocked i cannot find one (1) gifset for this video #got me out here posting the link to the video like a fool #i should get back into learning to make gifs but oh boy it is time consuming and i don’t have the time!! #anyways. wow dredging up old reblogs /And/ posting music videos?? i’m being Extra annoying on the dash tonite #it’s a bad night okay gimme a break. let me be cringe #anyways anyways. rewatching this & crying for the millionth time again for no particular reason :))) #there are many reasons that Dermot has been my most listened-to artist for 3 of the last 4 years #many many many reasons. many beautiful songs. but this video alone is enough reason honestly #one of the most important things to me of all time. on the list of stuff too impactful for casual consumption #it always gives me motivation to keep pushing and fighting for myself #the song alone is great but the video frames it in such a light that just.. means a whole lot to me #hence me being extra Extra™️ and posting the video instead of my usual just rambling abt lyrics and stuff #dermot kennedy #Power Over Me #music stuff #video #Seven’s Favorites #Youtube

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

back for halloween (at least for the time being) wheeeeeee

#happy halloween!!! #i wanted to go out and do something tonight #but i don’t know what there is to do around here other than party and i’m not partying on a school night #so then i planned to stay in and have a cozy little movie night but turns out my roommate will also be staying in and i hate her now lol #so idk what i’ll do but at least tumblr and the friends in my phone exist :) #my words #oh and i will be scheduling posts for the coming days btw #edit i actually had a great time yay #watched otgw and spent time on tumblr and my roommate didn’t get back until like 11pm

[snowflop]

I've finally been infected with the new dash layout, this fucking sucks

#Whys the content off centre!!! put it in the middle!!! disgusting #also. dunno if this is a layout problem or what but nobodies icon is loading for me. so thats not great #i don't read urls the icons are how i tell whos posting what this is just wildly inconvenient #also why do I have to hit like 3 buttons and a sub menu to get to my drafts fuck off #hopefully someone will make an extension or update xkit to bring back the old layout cause this is uninhabitable to human life #anyway. Genshin got a huge update today so if you don't hear much from me these next couple day it's cause i'm gaming #and also because I hate the new layout. duo purpose tumblr break #ALSO!!! the tag system isn't bring up my frequently used tags. it's very inconvenient #i don't remember how to spell every characters name. normally i just have to remember the first few letters and it'll come up #i don't want to have to go check the wiki every time i want to reblog a post about... Wroistjley. Worthsley. whatever his name is #snow blogging

[onmaplestreetagain]

I feel so weird making this post and I know it doesn't matter in the context of Everything (also idk if anyone remembers me or is even still here hsjhs), but season 4 of Stranger Things did a number on me and I had nowhere to go except back to this chaotic corner of the internet! I was formerly maplestreet and deleted about a year ago, so I know it's a long shot, but I'd love to find people again, feel free to come chat/follow/catch me up on the apparent chaos <3

#it took me way too long to craft this garbage string of words hi!!! we're back in the hellscape it's all fresh and beautiful!! #I have zero plan for being here or how this is going to go I just dove in after hemming and hawing and lurking people's blogs #after bingeing s4 #so yeah hi! #I really don't feel like putting this in the stranger things tag so any former mutuals feel free to rb? #lmao this is so awkward I'm so sorry <3 #I genuinely thought I was done I had zero intention of ever coming back to tumblr #many greats before me have said that #I know #venting in the tags !!! what a concept !!! #send asks come chat I have no idea how to kick this off or what to do like #do I just start making text posts of my Thoughts #maybe #remains to be seen I'm fragile rn doing this

[thatone-highlighter]

I love Marcy because whenever i get too deep into thinking about my issues and i start to feel like shit i can just go “ha okay Marcy Kinnie” and turn it into a joke and continue to not think about it

#this is a 100% effective and healthy coping mechanism #this started off as a joke but the more i do it and the more its accurate i start to get concerned #i have been doing this for months #feelings are hard okay sometimes i just wanna laugh and not think about it #im worried im developing a habit and i Wont be able to take my shit seriously soon but #thats a price im willing to pay to avoid my emotions <3 #guys i have So many problems #something something growing up neurodivergent something something #primary school wasnt Bad for me persay. i wasnt like ivertly bullied and i thought it was fine at the time #but the more i look back the more i can see how it has shaped me as a person and where a bunch of my issues come from #what marcy Does have as a one up on me is i didnt get. actually no yeah we matcy #all my friends up until like age 13/14 either left or were shitty #i think i have some form of abandonment issues i wouldnt be surprised #you know if i ever go to therapy these tumblr tags would be a Great place to start #marcy wu #amphibia #Tree Man Posts

[nightrae13]

only coming back here to say this, but to my batchmates,

“Y’all be happy to live out that shoujo moment in prom. I’m just gonna stuff myself with food to not waste expensive payment the school asked for lol”

feeling like Miou right now ngl

#I'll rarely come back in tumblr now #bc after our retreat (which made me gone for three days after my last post) #I realized many things #and I want to spend more time with God y'know? #I respect all your beliefs but I'm tired of being afraid to proclaim myself as a Christian #God was my best friend in those days I was depressed and I'm happy to be back #perhaps this is my last post merely addressing the fact that #I won't be asked out by that guy and groupmate I developed a crush on #during retreat lol #but at least he doesn't have a date XD #one of the only major things that push me to go #is that I'd write a KoyuRyou one-shot out of this lol #and ofc even if it wouldn't be as romantic as what we read & see #it's still a great experience ^^ #my ramblings

[hylass]

joshua hong is, at heart, a valley girl catty bitch and thats why even though he is my sworn enemy i am finally admitting my attraction to him

#had to come to terms with thjs during the concert #requesting thots and prayers in this trying time #this one sided parasocial enemies to lovers arc has been so entertaining good for me #after a completely failed attempt at a lightstick wave across the stadium #good ol joshie comes out with: wow you guys are so coordinated great job #in the most fake sincere holding back a bitchy laugh voice i have ever heard. and i loved it #what a repressed mean personality deeply weird sense of humor and good bone structure does to a man 🙏 #regular disclaimer: i will never turn into a kpop blog (kpop tumblr is unbearable) but i will do a kpop post sometimes as is my right xoxo #svt #kpop #js

[seven-saffodils]

i’ve been scrolling through the 2014 dash and, amongst the now-classic memes and now-dead (or undead) fandoms, there are some cringe takes. so i just wanted to say that i am ignoring cringe takes from nearly a decade ago. if others are doing looking at dashes of the past, i ask that they extend me the same amnesty. it would be weirder to comb through our blogs and delete anything cringe than it is to have those past takes in the first place.

#and a lot of them come from a good place too #like i'm seeing a lot of ''i hate men'' stuff and like #4chan was attacking tags randomly #ppl still used the word feminazi #i'm sure it didn't feel great to be a boy/man/man-adjacent person and see all this stuff abt men being unattractive tho #i'm sure there's stuff we're doing now that we'll look back on in the same way #life is about growth and learning #please don't freak out when your old posts come out of my queue #i am concerned abt it feeling like an invasion of privacy and i will not reblog from old dash for anyone who asks #but i think it's so cool to see how the culture has changed and what shows ppl were watching etc #and i wouldn't begrudge others the fun of seeing where things were at then #just don't reblog my worst posts pls DX #much love to the tumblr survivors and also to the noobs who are participating in archaeology

[dracotheocracy]

i know a lot of the artists who post OC animatics on youtube are on tumblr or have a site for their webcomic or something similar. i know i could follow them if i wanted. but i dunno i feel like the experience is heightened when i get my information solely through youtube community posts and the occasional new animatic, i like piecing the story together by reading the youtube comment section

#but maaarrrsss! #gonna embarrass myself in the tags now #i look up to those people fr #one of these days. one of these days i'll be doing what they do i hope #as in posting animatics and explaining the Whole Deal with their OCs you know #but whenever i *actually* OC post it kinda feels like that one club penguin reaction image #the single penguin on stage saying ''thank you for coming'' addressing a bunch of empty chairs #hilarious and great image that is #like even among friends a lot of it is just me ranting into the void #which is fine #even if i wasn't a maniac (affectionate and amused) about it i think OC content is a bit difficult to engage with in some ways #but it's like if i try to talk about it to people irl i feel the eyes of god on my back and sound incoherent and sheepish at best #and online well #nobody cares about OC content on tumblr until they do and the lack of engagement until then is discouraging #just how it is. doesn't bother me per se but it would if my art blog wasn't basically abandoned like a few weeks after i made it #and on discord i tend to keep my deranged posting to smaller servers made up exclusively of people i know irl #not as comfortable in larger servers and that won't go away for a long while i don't think #anyway i do have ideas and i do plan to actually do something about them #my winter break is almost 2 months long i might be able to shit out a short animatic #or polish my very first ever attempt at animating which i did not post on tumblr though i did consider posting it #maybe i will