#200 000 words

[atlasshrugd]

↳ the EPILOGUE of WHITE NIGHTS is up!!! (Read on ao3)

The dreams would feel so real that he sometimes couldn’t tell when he was awake. They were almost always about them reuniting, here, or in Bangkok, or in some other far-flung place of the world, where nothing could touch them and the sun was hot and the water cool; like the glade they’d once slept in. But behind the dreams was a sense that they would never happen, an intuition whose strength was life-threatening. The more he dreamed, the more he became certain of this. And yet — he always had the feeling, at the back of his mind, that he would see Kinn again. Against everything. Against hope.

[gaylightisminetocommand]

Soooo in 2022 I was doing all these colour palette drawings with my OCs and I didn't draw them as much last year and I miss them so much so I decided to pick up the colour palette drawings again this year cause they're simple but really fun :D

Anyway here's my boy he means more to me than you could ever know.

NEARLY FORGOT I used the palette Unholy Flame (very fitting for this guy >:3) from @color-palettes! Gonna be using a lot more of them in the future, they're really good ✨

[a-bee-wizard]

i'm pretty sure i can get to 32 000 words tomorrow. That would mean that to reach 40 000 words by the end of august i would just need to write like ~267 words per day which is doable........

[variantia]

BELLUM.   also hilarious to me :

as someone who has what appears to be very strong magic, Lo would have been absolutely revered in the cult village where Chara was raised

she would have been considered their most powerful mage and probably crowned leader

this cult is only semi-religious, and above all else, they worship the magic of humans

they believe that monsters are unholy abominations because somewhere, they got the idea that monsters STOLE magic from humans

when it’s more complicated than that ; monsters are made of magic and there has never really been a monster incapable of magic, whereas humans struggle with magic and usually are only capable of doing a single spell which drains their energy significantly, humans who are capable of full, consistent magic are very rare

they would have been begging this woman to be their queen

as such, the current cult leader (Chara’s father and guardian who raised them in that village) would see her FOR HER MAGIC before he would see anything else about her

this means that upon first meeting her, he would have an immediate, tremendous respect for her.

... right up until the moment she punches him in the face and he’s spitting out blood while she starts in about HOW DARE YOU PUT THAT INNOCENT CHILD THROUGH SO MUCH PAIN, ISOLATION, AND HUMILIATION !!!

I have my own plans for him in this fic and several plot twists ready to fire (no spoilers uhuhu~)

but in the universe where Lo exists, welllll ... this bastard fucked.

I wish I could actually include him in a storyline, but there is SO much hidden lore around him, the cult, and Chara’s past that hasn’t been revealed in the fic yet, it would be impossible to do anything truly meaningful aside from him just getting punched in the face.

... of course, which I’d LOVE to happen   =)

don’t worry, once the fic is done, I will HAPPILY dive into a big meaningful thread wherein HIS BASTARD ASS GETS BEAT DOWN !!!!

[hantaslittlearsonist]

Ao3's down, somebody kill me now

[ineffablehunter]

Me: *opens google to look up a spelling and crimson rivers is open*

My friend: tell me that isn’t fanfiction

Me:

Her: it’s the fact that you can’t tell me

Me: look we’ve been friends long enough that you could’ve predicted this

[dont-diy-zine]

"Don't Repeat This at Home" Zine is a fan project born out of love for Chinese novels and dramas. We brought more than 100 artists and writers together to create our magnum opus and now YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US! The fandom: ➜ "The Scum Villain's [Self-Saving] System" Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ➜ "Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation" Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ➜ "Heaven Official's Blessing" Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ➜ "Thousand Autumns" Meng Xi Shi ➜ "The Husky and His White Cat Shizun" / "Erha" Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (Meatbun) ➜ "Faraway Wanderers" Priest ("Word of Honour" is canon too)

The key theme: 百感交集 (bǎi gǎn jiāo jí) — all sorts of feelings well up in one's heart — fluff, drama, humour and beyond ❗ 18+. No minors, please Some arts and texts may make you cry, beware, triggers may be found (or not) The book: ➜ ~300 pages ➜ 106 double-page spreads with arts including: • 12 comic strips • 13 illustrated poems ➜ 8 fanfiction stories with • cover arts • internal b/w illustrations

[All 6 fandoms in one book] ❗ All texts are in Russian

➜ Physical copy (hard-back) — 3 200 roubles (it's around 37.4$ or 34.7€) ➜ Digital copy (.pdf) — 700 roubles (it's around 8.2$ or 7.6€)

The merch: ➜ 6 fandoms ➜ 3 sets for EACH fandom: • Aperitif — very small (1 postcard, 1 sticker pack, 1 key fob) — 1 500 roubles (it's around 17.5$ or 16.3€) • Half Portion — small (Aperitif + 1 acrylic stand with the main pairing, 1 plastic bookmark, 2 more postcards, 1 mini card) — 2 600 roubles (it's around 30.4$ or 28.2€) • Portion — large (Half Portion + 1 acrylic stand with secondary characters, 2 acrylic earrings, 1 more sticker pack, 1 bank card sticker, 1 round plastic badge, 1 more postcard) — 4 000 roubles (it's around 46.8$ or 43.4€)

[1 set = 1 fandom] ❗ You can get the merch only as the sets and only WITH the book (physical OR digital copy)

• Full 6 fandoms set — 22 000 roubles (it's around 257,3$ or 238,4€)

The plan: ➜ Right now till September 7, 2024 we collect funds ➜ September — production and manufacturing ➜ October — shipping starts ❗ We send digital copies AFTER shipping the physical ones We ship from Saint-Petersburg, Russia International shipping is available, but you can pre-check it via postcrossing.com/postal-monitor/RU

How to get the book or merch: ➜ go to Google Forms and follow the instructions: forms.gle/CdTis5wdYPmg2U6p8 ❗ We collect funds via Boosty; all prices are in Russian Roubles and include the comission of the platform You can use the currency of your country for the purchase, Boosty automatically converts it Shipping is charged separately

The project is not for profit [just for lulz] All money we make will go to production and manufacturing If we hit a breakeven, the authors are going to receive a free book. Any surplus funds will then be used to make extra merch FOR YOU

English is a foreign language for us, so sorry for inaccurate wording, we tried. We tried hard. We keep trying

More info: vk.com/dont_diy (in Russian)

[homunculus-argument]

"That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about [subject] to dispute it" is such a valuable tool to have in your vocabulary and way of thinking. It's amazing how many arguments you can completely bypass by it, and usually not only will you save yourself the embarrassment of being in the wrong while arguing about something you don't know anything about, you might even learn more about the subject as you both figure out where the inconsistency between their idea of the thing and your idea of the thing even is. Sometimes it's a simple misunderstanding!

I just recently had a whole argument about whether there are rural jewish communities in Finland. Someone was offended by me making this claim - assuming that I was either denying the existence or jewishness of these people who surely must live in the woods. How dare I claim that rural jewish finns do not exist.

So we had to backtrack a little to get to an agreement about what words mean. We were both on the same page of what either of us mean by "jewish". And before we could get to "rural", the next word we'd need to settle is "community". I made a bold enough assumption that jewish people like to have a synagogue about the same as finns like to have a sauna - there's not much sense to build one just for yourself if you're only somewhere temporarily, but if you're going to settle somewhere permanently, with more than one person there who also wants to have one, obviously you'll build one.

So we agreed on the definition of "jewish community" for the context. A permanent human settlement that has enough jewish residents that they would have their own synagogue. For the context of this argument, a place that has no synagogue does not count as a permanent enough jewish residence to count as "community".

Being on the same page about that, it was time to get to the word "rural". There are exactly two synagogues in Finland - one in Helsinki and one in Turku. There used to be a third, in Vyborg, but not only was that one compeltely destroyed in Soviet bombings, the town of Vyborg itself is no longer a part of Finland, so even if the synagogue was still there, it would still not count as one.

Going through definitions systematically, I asked whether this person would consider a city of 673 000 people or a city of 200 000 people to be "rural". At this person was too mad to continue the argument, taking an offended "how was I supposed to know" -stance about the exact number and distribution of jewish communities in Finland. And all I can say is

You weren't supposed to know. You just supposed that you knew.

[thinkingofausername]

so basically i've fallen into the spencer reid rabbit hole and i've read his fandom wiki page and here are some things which stood out to me:

he graduated high school at 12

he fears his mother's schizophrenia will be passed onto him

he was bullied as a kid (he was tied naked to a goalpost once)

he writes letters to his institutionalized mother every single day

he has eidetic memory (he can memorize an exceeding amount of information in detail but only if acquired visually)

he can read 20 000 words per minute (the average is 200-300)

he's a technophobe and a germaphobe

he has PhDs in math, chemistry and engineering

he doesn't like to be touched by strangers

he failed his gun qualifications

he has nightmares

he was kidnapped

he can do magic tricks really well

he was tortured by a serial killer who forcibly injected him with Dilaudid which resulted in addiction; he died and had to be revived during the torture

he says he works best under intense terror

his father left him when he was young

he was shot in the leg

he suffered intense migraines and hallucinations

he considered relapsing after Prentiss faked her death

he was shot in the neck and while he was in the hospital a man tried killing him by injecting carbenicillin in his iv

he's Morgan's son's godfather

he was nearly transferred to a maximum-security Mexican prison; he was sent to Millburn Correctional Facility instead

he was beaten multiple times while in prison; he was almost killed

he was drugged and made to believe he killed a person

he stabbed himself in the leg and pinned it on an inmate so he would be put in solitary confinement for his own safety

he became violent after prison (he attempted to strangle a pregnant woman who was lying about him being the father)

he was kidnapped by a cult and beaten; he felt peace when he was about to be killed

he was held hostage

he sustained brain injury during an explosion (intracranial bleeding, hallucinations, seizures)

he joined the BAU at 22

he went to the FBI academy but he struggled with anything not book related

he has a BA in philosophy

he has expert knowledge in forensic anthropology

he has an IQ of 187

he's an expert on historical serial killers, statistics, geographic profiling, body language

he went to public school in Las Vegas

he's an avid Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who fan; he likes soap operas

he drinks a lot of coffee

he can't use chopsticks

he won 2 000 in a casino but he let a hooker keep his winnings

he's killed 8 people

he's afraid of the dark; he loves Halloween; he doesn't like the beach

he can play piano really well

he's banned from multiple casinos

he has eye cataract; he can speak Korean; he hates hospitals

he wears mismatched socks

his mother called him Crash because he bumped into things

he was supposed to be bisexual but the production dropped it

[sharkaroni]

Chapter 10 of The Plum Calendar is up!

In this chapter, Reigen and Serizawa finally have a talk. In the end, they’re wet, cold, covered in mud, one of them’s bleeding and they’re both halfway deaf. But to find out how that happened, you’re just gonna have to read the very final chapter of The Plum Calendar.

” Like I said, aside from the constant overhanging threat of being eaten, it was one of my better vacations to date.” The fact being, it was one of exactly two vacations Reigen had taken in his entire adult life, and the other one had been pretty severely dampened by a very predictable bout of salmonella. ”Besides, you, uh, definitely did your part,” he said, looking the other way. ”You’re a pretty smooth talker, when you wanna be. And you’re not a bad kisser, either.” Reigen didn’t have time to reflect on what a stupid, idiotic thing that had been to say, because he, along with all the woodsy debris on the ground, was being launched a good few meters up into the air by some unseen psychic force.

The Plum Calendar has been a fic about pretending to be engaged to the secret love of your life so a 200-year old ghost won’t marry him and keep him in the ghost dimension forever. But it has also been about not being good enough, about the concept of deserving, about what it means to be a liar, and whether or not that sort of thing is innate.

For those of you who have been reading along, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I can write 30 000 words of someone else’s sappy feelings, but I can never express how much I’ve loved having you read my story. And for the rest of you,  maybe check it out? I don’t know, you might like it.

[traumendesmadchen]

After many years of troubled development, health issues and general bad luck, we are happy to announce that 

✨ Chronotopia: Second Skin will be released on October 13th. Friday the 13th. ✨

Isn’t it fitting for a cursed game to be released on an unlucky day? We thought it would be a good way to close this chapter of our misfortunes. An updated demo will also be made available a few days prior so you can refresh your memory!

Excited to finally be able to read the full story? Please consider sharing the announcement around you~

💜 Wishlist us on Steam 💜

Chronotopia: Second Skin is a unique rewriting of the Donkeyskin fairytale, a darker variation of Cinderella. Follow Kionna into a painful but ultimately rewarding search for her true self.

The plan was supposed to be simple, almost ridiculously so. When her father, driven mad by years of grief, suddenly decided to force her into marrying him, Princess Kionna enlisted the help of her childhood friend. Together, they managed to contact her long-lost fairy godmother. Surely, her powers would save her from this hellish fate. Kionna would be able to escape the castle, a prince charming would find her, and they would live happily ever after. Alas, magic can only do so much. Things keep spinning out of control. Trapped in an endless nightmare, the princess ceaselessly rewinds time in a race with death itself. Is a happy ending truly waiting for her at the end of the tunnel?

A captivating plot full of unexpected twists and existential dread

Over 200 000 words of content with multiple endings

3 romances can be chosen at the end of Kionna’s journey

Fun secondary things like gameplay phases and collectibles

Available in both English and French!

[loquarocoeur]

do you have any tips for people that wanna start writing sports rpf? because i see you uploaded quite a lot and so i wanted to ask how you do that? 😭 like how can you write sm when you're a full time student?? also how do you write in decent english when it's not your first language, do you have any tools that help you with that?

also, i love love loveee your works you really are doing gods work with your fics for all us ppl out there who enjoy it. and i find it hilarious how ppl anonymous find each other through your ask box!

hello anon squad, you've just got a new member

- 🦊

Okay, I think you're kind of asking me this like you're assuming I'm a balanced and well adjusted person who has their life figured out, so let's get that out of the way: I'm really not

I think I mostly just wrote so much because I was escaping my real life, because like most people I have my problems. And the way I've been obsessively using writing as a coping mechsnism also isn't necessarily a good thing, and yeah I am a full time student and I'm always writing fanfic when I should be studying so like, don't do that either, that's not a good habit, it will impact your studies and it does impact mine sometimes, but that's my own fault and my own problem

And also for all intents and purposes english basically is my first language at this point, it's not my mother tongue, but I study and read and think and dream in english nowadays because my home language isn't a common or official language where I live, so I had to learn other languages when I was young. But basically to improve vocab and stuff I kind of just read a loooot of books and fanfic when I was younger, also all media I consume is english which is probably why my english is so much better than all my other languages now

But okay like the point is: Writing is not about the amount of work you produce, and it's not even about the quality of work in the end either, it's first and foremost about having fun and enjoying the process and creating something you like

So I'd say if you want there will always be grammar and spell checkers in Microsoft Word or google docs, and there's often someone willing to beta read for you if you ask, like lots of people who are always eager to help me with other languages, and also if you want you can always find lots of writing tips online, but don't try to make it perfect, especially if it's just a hobby, also, focus on fleshing out your characters, the plot is secondary, and the characters don't need to be perfect representations of the real life people, make them your own!

But yeah, listen, everyone writes in a different way and at a different pace, and the point is mainly just to enjoy it, whether you end up sharing your writing or not, whether you end up writing 500 words a month or 50 000, whether you get 2 likes or 200

And it's also a time thing, I obviously haven't been posting and sharing consistently for a long time yet, but I have been writing a while which does help you find a comfortable tone and vocabulary, just a voice in your writing you know, and then it gets easier, but even so, I don't think any of us here are masterclass professional writers, I still have lots of things I'd like to get better at, but I'm mostly just focusing on writing things I enjoy and that's what matters to me

[jorvikzelda]

Apologies for the link being in Swedish but I wanted to preface this post with The Source (The Source being a handy neat little reliable Swedish website because in Sweden literally everything is public and today SSE’s financial results of 2022 were published on said neat little website - in a very neat little graph, no less).

Also prefacing this with a disclaimer that I am not a finance person or a native English speaker and I am probably using the wrong words for things but I’m feeling pretty confident that I can at least read the graphs and know what they mean. (If I’m somehow wrong about that, correction would be greatly appreciated lmfao)

And also - for reference - at the moment of posting 100 SEK is worth about 8,50 EUR, 7,30 GBP, 9,30 USD, 12,40 CAD, and 14,20 AUD. that should cover most of the SSOBlr I think

The Information in The Source, as far as I can tell, is as follows:

SSE’s incomes totaled to roughly the same amount of money in 2022 as they did in 2021 (361 200 000 SEK in 2021 and 362 550 000 in 2022)

(For background info, in 2019 SSE’s incomes totaled to roughly 248 200 000 SEK and they profited roughly 19 400 000 SEK, and in 2020 their incomes totaled to roughly 373 350 000 SEK and they profited roughly 58 300 000 SEK)

In 2021 their profits came out to roughly 36 100 000 SEK

SOMEHOW, in 2022 their LOSS, NOT PROFIT, came out to roughly 33 350 000 SEK

From this I draw the following conclusions:

How did they do this

They didn’t even sell worse than 2021

How did they manage

What are they spending this much on

They haven’t even moved to that ludicrously expensive office yet

Is this the candles????? Is that what this is???

[hantaslittlearsonist]

for the raffle: y'all comment you want in on this post, i make a list and ask a random name generator to pick who gets to ask me to write a fic, I'll give the rules later if that's what y'all pick

[petitelepus]

DEMON SLAYER REQUESTS AND MATCHUPS ARE OPEN!

Okay, I have been resting a little and I think I'm ready to open the Requests and Matches again! I will be writing about Demon Slayers only for now, but let's see what happens!

Let's go over some basic rules that I wish everyone checks before requesting anything! Also, if something is unclear to you, feel free to contact me or just ask.

What kind of things do I write about?

Normal

Yandere and other Deres

Different AUs (Kimetsu AcademyAU, Zombie ApocalypseAU, MonsterMusumeAU, ETC)

What I WON’T write about!

Hate against gender, people, race, sexuality, or religion

Then there are the Matches! Here are the Matchup Rules!

WHAT KIND OF MATCHES DO I DO?

Normal - Love is pure and so cute

Yandere - They just love you SO much

Omegaverse - Who is your Alpha, Beta, or Omega

Monsters - Monster Musume AU

RULES

Tell me and be clear about what you want

Let me know if you specifically want a Human match or a Demon match. Otherwise, I will go with my guts and find you a match, no matter their status.

You can tell me your Horoscope if you feel like it represents you well, but for now, I’m leaving Myers Briggs results OUT!

I also don’t know anything about Sun and Moon horoscopes so let’s stick to that normal one for now, okay?

If you want Omegaverse Match, tell me what you want, like, are you looking for an Alpha or Omega, and if you see yourself as Alpha, Beta, or Omega

I want to hear from you about what kind of human or demon you feel you are

Romance and sexuality are fine, I won’t judge and I’m very open

If you want multiple matches, like Normal and Yandere together, I can do that if you stay with the word limit

ONE rule I really hope you all stick to is that the word limit to request is 200 words! I know it may sound short, but I need info that you feel represents you the most

I can do both SFW and NSFW but you have to be over 18 for naughty ones, this is something I won’t discuss.

I will be writing ALL THE DEMON SLAYER CHARACTERS AS ADULTS, LIKE MUICHIRO FOR EXAMPLE

ALSO, I will NOT be breaking apart Mitsuri and Obanai, you will get either both or neither

THE SAME goes for Tengen and his wives. It's all of them or none of them

If you are confused or something isn’t clear then feel free to ask me for more info, I don’t bite and I like to think that I’m pretty nice.

Also, I must ask from you guys if you would be okay if my chapters, for example for my Hantengu story wouldn't be as long as they have been?

The main reason I started to stress about writing so badly was because I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to fill the 3 000 words I had set for each chapter...

But let's see if I learn to be a little more merciful towards myself. So, without further delay, let's get the Box open!

[the-odyssey-of-n]

WIP Introduction: Regrowth

Okay so, I don't really know how to talk about this project, but I made this blog in the hopes of figuring that out, so here it goes.

Regrowth (title pending) is my primary project right now and is also the longest thing I've written, as I've mostly only completed short stories up until this point (which I might talk about at some other point). This story is planned to be a novella (sub-30 000 words, hopefully) and is currently sitting at 20 200 in draft 6.

I don't have a pitch for it but here are the basics: we follow an unnamed character the spring after she's graduated from university and has settled into a life that's slowly corrupting her from the inside—literally. Her body is rotting and she can't find the energy to fix it, until a chance encounter with a neighbour prompts her into going exploring and she stumbles across a door by there river that shouldn't be there. Where does it lead? Should she go through it?

The vibes are very fairytale/magical realism/body horror and is fairly light on the characters, though there are a few who are dear to me. It's no grand epic adventure, but a careful wandering through the psyche of this twenty-something who did what she was supposed to growing up and still ended up lost.

Oh, and did I mention it's in second person?