#So FUCKED IF I KNOW

[amethystina]

Hello, I hope you're having a wonderful day so far! 𖡼𖤣𖥧𖡼𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊

May i ask the following questions from the Fan Fic Writer Asks:

4. How many WIPs do you have right now?

10. Is there a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

20. What’s a favorite title for a fic you’ve written?

⋆⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊⋆ Happy new year ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊⋆

Alrighty!

4. How many WIPs do you have right now?

I actually looked this up a week ago and the total right now is 24. But that includes some fics that I haven't actually started writing yet. And some are just ideas I want to write but might have to abandon once my sense catches up with me. I guess we'll see?

Either way, it's definitely more projects than I would want, which is why I hope to finish some of them during 2025. Especially since some of the old ones only have one or two chapters left. Or are oneshots I just didn't finish. Like, how hard can it be?

So that's definitely a goal for this year. I want to finish at least five of my current WIPs, preferably more.

10. Is there a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

A couple, yeah. One is The Hat Hypothesis which I figured would just be another one of my appreciated yet still not overly popular The Losers fics but, somehow, it ended up being one of my most appreciated ones? Which is by no means a bad thing! I just didn't expect it, nor do I know why so many people like it more than the others. But, at the same time, that's not for me to know or decide xD

Another is Who Holds the Devil which... well, I didn't really know what I expected with that one but I know for a fact that it wasn't what I got. I was terrified before I started posting it and was kind of hoping to just quietly push it out there without anyone noticing and be done with it. But, uh, that obviously didn't happen. Not just the part where I thought it would go more or less unnoticed, but also how much time and effort I would devote to it. I definitely didn't expect it to become as big as it is now, both in terms of its popularity and its length.

And, to balance things out a bit, Losing You (Is My Supervillain Origin Story) is a fic I expected to be more popular than it ended up being. The premise is a little clumsy, admittedly, but people tend to like a little darkness and, at the time I wrote it, it was the darkest I had chosen to write Bucky. But maybe the depiction of grief scared people off? Or the flimsy plot? Who knows? xD Either way, it remains one of my least popular Winteriron fics (by quite a margin) and I'm still not sure why. But there you go!

18. What's one of your favourite lines you've written in a fic?

There are, obviously, quite a lot of them considering the sheer number of sentences I've written. Many I don't even remember anymore. But one that's always stood out to me is from You Only Live Twice, said by Fury to Tony:

"You might have forgotten how to live in this world, but I'm willing to bet that you still want to save it."

It makes a lot more sense within context, but I always felt that it was a very Fury thing to say and, well, pretty poetic? I think that fic has a lot of banger sentences, in fact.

20. What's a favourite title for a fic you've written?

Again, I have more than one since it's just very difficult to pick. But my top choices are:

Who Holds the Devil - For how utterly perfect it is. Not just because it's a quote from Faust — which is one of the sources of inspiration for the drama — but also because it poses a question that is the basis for the entire fic, even if we all already know the answer. Because it's Ga On, of course. Ga On holds the devil.

Until Death Do Us Unite - Because I like a good wordplay or a twist on an established expression. And this one just felt so obvious considering the drama, the characters, and the premise of the fic. Moon Jo and Jong Woo will be together forever indeed. It doesn't matter that one of them is clinically dead.

Losing You (Is My Supervillain Origin Story) - I just felt very clever when I came up with it, I guess? I like how descriptive it is and the fact that even if the fic could just have been called "Losing You" the sentence within the parenthesis reveals a lot about what the story is actually going to be about.

Hyperborean - Because sometimes I like to be very concise and, in this case, it made perfect sense to just name the fic "it be FECKIN' cold" because, I mean, yeah. It's hella cold xD

These four also neatly sum up my most popular ways of naming a fic. That's to say a) steal a quote from someone else, b) cheekily twist an existing expression to fit my needs, c) a sentence followed by another sentence in a parenthesis that builds on the first one in the most pretentious way possible, and d) the most bluntly obvious and unimaginative — yet descriptive — title in the history of titles.

I think D is the one I use the most often.

Thank you so much for all the questions and a Happy New Year to you too! 💜

Fanfic Writer Asks

[homunculus-argument]

This counts as vent art.

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[salamispots]

it got turned into a 17" x14" pillow instead haha

[indigonite]

its fine its cool have a jmart kiss

<3

also as a gif for all your needs

[marzipanandminutiae]

As someone who works with social history for a living, I feel like I’m the aggressive opposite of an anti-vaxxer

I fucking LOVE vaccines, friends. Give me the science stab. I’m so ready. it’s a beautiful day to not die of a Bajillion and one diseases that carried off like half the population before they had even reached age 10, and a significant portion before they made it to old age, 150 years ago

I go to the old cemetery. I see the vast numbers of infant and child and young adult graves. And then I go to my doctor and get injected with Potion of Fuck That Noise. This is beautiful and miraculous and I do not remotely understand how some people can reject it – not just for themselves, but for their children

[scurvyboy]

and he may ask himself "well, how did i get here?"

[bl00dalchemist]

something something parallels

[noperopesaredope]

I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

[wishfulsketching]

More of the Silco survives AU! This is part three. Part 1 and Part 2

The girls learn the truth and Silco gets a taste of a monster

[krussyarts]

So that act 2 huh

(original doodle + smth extra under cut)

The gang! "Huh", "wake me up inside by evanescence", "do yuo hav gamez on ur phobne" and "i brought a gun to the rave" anywayy i drew them together

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[nouverx]

"I want to eat you" is their love language and you can't change my mind

[luwha]

Not telling y'all that you should be able to identify AI slop (but it is a valuable skill, you totes should), but if you're to be accusing artists of being AI left and right at least go and do your homework, or at least do the bare minimum and use AI identification tools like Hive Moderation, so you 1- don't ruin someone's lifehood 2- don't make a clown out of yourself maybe

Like, i get it, AI slop and "AI artists" pretending to be genuine is getting harder and harder to identify, but just accusing someone out of the blue and calling it a day doesn't make it any better.

The AI clowns shifted to styles that have less "tells" and the AI arts are becoming better. Yeah, it sucks ass.

They're also integrating them with memes, so you chuckle and share, like those knights with pink backgrounds, some cool frog and a funny one liner, so you get used to their aesthetic.

This is an art from the new coming set Final Fantasy for MtG. This is someone on Reddit accusing someone of using AI. From what i can tell, and i fucking hate AI, there is NO AI used on this image.

As far as i can tell and as far as any tool i've used, the Artist didn't use AI. which leads to the next one:

they accused the artist of this one of using Ai. the name of this artist is Nestor Ossandon.

He as already been FALSELY ACCUSED of using AI, because he drew a HAND THAT LOOKED A LITTLE WEIRD, which caused a statement from D&D Beyond, confirming that no AI has been used.

Not to repeat mysef, they're accusing the art above, that is by Nestor, to have used Ai.

REAL artists are not machines. And just like the AI slop, we are not perfect and we make mistakes. The hands we draw have wonky fingers sometimes. The folds we draw are weird. But we are REAL. We are real people. And hey, some of our "mistakes" sometimes are CHOICES. Artistic choices are a thing yo.

If you're to accuse someone of using Ai, i know it's getting hard to identify. But come on. At least do your due diligence.

[xiaq]

I know it’s really hard to be hopeful right now, and I’ve shared a couple big-picture articles about “hey, people are doing things, people are fighting back, but legal and political shit takes time.” But if you want some small hope, some personal experiences of things changing, I can tell you about my FB timeline right now as someone who comes from a conservative Christian, southern background (and who typically avoids FB at all costs unless I’m looking to buy something on Marketplace).

People are angry. Trump voters are angry. About government layoffs that impacted people who they KNOW were performing their jobs with distinction, about the removal of support for their disabled kids in their schools, about the halt of cancer research, about food prices and recalls and the spread of disease, concerns about national parks’ longevity for future generations, about the suspension of aid.

People are angry. The same people that voted for Trump, or stayed silent about their political leanings until this point, are posting videos of Trump and Elon and calling them liars. They’re posting videos of impacted workers talking about the important, widely overlooked, jobs they do that contribute to the underlying foundation of American’s health and safety. I’ve seen reposts of Methodist, Baptist, and Catholic church statements condemning Trump’s actions and reminding him of the “moral imperative to assist those in need” that all humans should have regardless of faith.

People are angry and they’re saying “this isn’t what I voted for,” or, if they were of the quieter minority in these deeply republican communities, they’re saying, “Hey, look what you voted for. Look what you’ve done.”

This is a big deal. People are angry. And while I wish that this recognition could have come sooner, it reassuring to see that people are, at least, admitting that shit is on fire. Recognition is the first step.