#Statement in reply

[sunflower-spots]

Messaging a girl and she referred to her conversation with me as "just playing with her food" and I nearly moaned out loud anyways what about you guys how have your days been

[kyreniacommentator]

UN Security Council supports Greek Cypriots claim for control of Cyprus

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the TRNC regarding the statement made by the United Nations Security Council on Cyprus United Nations Security Council issued an unfortunate statement following the presentation of Mr. Colin Stewart, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) to the Security Council regarding the two periodical…

[heretherebeturtles-comic]

DID YOU KNOW THAT ANDY SURIANO TALKED ABT YOUR COMIC ON INSTA???????????

YEAH I SAW IT!

really cool!!!!!! nice things were said about my art and story!!!!!! i am so flattered!!!!!!!!!! i am still figuring out how to react to it all!!!

[bigfatbreak]

Quick question! What the fuck is keeping Audrey working with Gabriel in feralnette au when its more smarter to cut all ties with him from a business perspective? Considering Gabriel lost access to high tier textiles from Amelie why would she still work with him at all

legally he's in the wrong, but socially, it wasn't hard for him to tell his social circles that Amelie was being overly-emotional, had tricked him using sentimentality, was threatening his son, etc etc. Sure, legally he was wrong. But Amelie isn't friends with his friends, so the people Gabe knew bought his depiction of his former textile supplier without even thinking twice.

[mieczyhale]

[gayestcowboy]

one of the reasons i hate generative AI is that i have a chronic injury that makes me unable to write by hand for longer than a few sentences and therefore i need a keyboard in order to write essays for classes, and i’m a bit worried that professors won’t allow me to type essays as a result of potential AI use, even though i have a perfectly valid medical reason to need a keyboard. i’ve seen a few posts online saying that the only way to prevent students from relying on AI is to make them write by hand, and while i understand the sentiment and don’t even necessarily disagree with the general point, the matter of accessibility still needs to be addressed somehow, and it’s just a bit frustrating on a personal level as someone who has had to fight with teachers and professors in order for my needs to be met even before the era of chatgpt

[accioepiphany]

Context is everything…

[yutamayo]

Essentially I made Geto's bday posts specifically to incorporate STSG with the quotes I used & the specific images I selected

But apparently tagging Gojo's name in the posts is going too far :/

So I'm manic and bored and don't think I can focus on my planned memes rn so gonna toss out some random discourse meme spam. Srry y'all but just come back tmrrw if ur looking for anime memes/parallels u know I can never resist discourse szn 🙏🏽😭❤️

[elinordash]

good omens has been trending on and off for the past week on here whereas neil gaiman trended for just a day

[novella-november]

Not to harsh your joy regarding your personal project, (which does sound awesome!) the fact that you keep answering the "can I do fanfic?" questions with "technically yes, but have you considered not doing that?" does not actually *feel* very fanfic friendly. (Especially for anyone who enjoys fanfic as a hobby and isn't also an ofic writer. For example, I personally write almost exclusively character studies that are an explicit reaction to canon; there is no real way to write that sort of thing except as fanfic.)

Which is just a long-winded way of requesting that you maybe consider less of a caveat with the FAQ if you make one, please.

oh that was definitely not my intention, thanks for the ask! I think it was mostly just because I got that same question a few times in a row from various anons within the same time span (including some that were not published publicly), it just happened that I was thinking of my own project(s, plural now) in the last day when I answered those two, for those who want an extra creative challenge.

There's a reason my own original thing has been in my head for the last ten years without me actually writing it while I've written and posted tons of fanfiction, and even now some of my original works are going to be based on Arsene Lupin, so they'd technically be considered fanfiction since they're based on and use an established work for the characters and settings --

--writing completely original fic *is* harder, and that's exactly why I'm *suggesting* (not requiring!) that people consider taking 1 out of short story 4 challenges to look at their work in a new light.

90% of what I read and (until I actually start and finish my original works) 100% of what I've written in my life is fanfic. I have nothing against fanfic, otherwise I woudn't even be interested in creative writing.

But its also not a diss to say "Would you consider looking at your [fanfic] writing from a new angle and try to figure out different ways of going about it?"

Honestly, being able to even consider this option *as a fun extra challenge* is meant to help improve your writing and creative skills; it's not meant as a cheap shot at people who choose to write fanfiction because I my self write and read tons of it,

it's me saying "if you want even more practice at creative writing during these monthly challenges, try branching out a little bit from your comfort zone, you may be pleasantly surprised."

People who write and read fanfiction already have tons of creative experience, and if people like me and many other fanfic writers who one day dream of being published authors, want to broaden our horizons and seek new experiences, one of the easiest exercises is to take something we're planning on writing or already wrote, and see what we would change to make it brand new and standalone--

-- something that not only helps you come up with new ideas, but also will help when it comes time to *edit*, which can be, depending on the length and complexity of your story, can be a complicated process:

whether that means having to delete scenes entirely,

changing what a character says,

altering an aspect of the worldbuilding to fix plot holes

, re-writing your character so they're not overpowered because it was ruining the stakes and tension,

changing the POV of chapters because it was ruining the flow of the story,

etc etc etc.

I love fan fiction.

I love reading it and I love writing it, and for many people who take on monthly writing challenges, it is a way to test ourselves and gear ourselves up and prove to ourselves that not only can we write x amount of words, but it proves to ourselves that we are *capable of creating*, and for many creatives, that ultimately leads to crafting our own unique stories;

if you're already taking place in a monthly writing challenge, why not push the bounds a little bit *if you're so inclined* and test the waters? Especially when you're surrounded by a community who is cheering you on, every step of the way?

Every Nanowrimo I ever won was fanfiction. Heck, even not during November I once did 40k words in two weeks for a fic.

I always stalled out when I tried to write original works;

it is much easier to start small with a single short story than it is to try to write an entirely original novel, and my encouraging people to try baby steps by *experimenting* with one short story out of four in a month is not meant to be a diss against fanfiction,

but an *encouragement to those like me* who were so eager to write original works but floundered when I tried to jump into the deep end and felt disheartened.

Many fanfic authors aspire to write original fics, and thats who that challenge is for, for the people who want to write original works but are too afraid to fully commit; I'll still be writing and posting fanfiction even if I become a published author, even If I just have to come up with a few new pen-names to post them under.

There's absolutely no judgement on anyone who wants to write fanfiction for these challenges, my "caveat" as you say, is only there as encouragement to those like me who are afraid to take the first step, or uncertain of how to even *begin* that first step, not any kind of condemnation.

TL;DR:

I did not mean for my responses on the "can I write fanfiction" to come off as rude or looking down on fanfiction, its meant to be an encouragment to all the people like me who love fanfic and started out writing fanfiction, and dream of writing original works to take the first step, with a community of like-minded people all taking the same challenge.

Like every other challenge aspect of these events, taking a fanfic idea and turning it into an original short story is completely optional and meant as inspiration, just like following prompts for events is not mandatory, and even completing the 30k word goal is not mandatory; the goal for this month is to create, get in the habit of creating, and having fun with it!

[silver-grasp]

I'm obsessed with how in whichever episode it is that Li Lianhua and Di Feisheng meet again in that tomb and then they have their little reunion argument in the woods, when Li Lianhua says he has to "pick up something of mine" and Di Feisheng is like "Fang Duobing?" Li Lianhua doesn't reply "right" or "of course" or anything else that feels like it would be normal - he says "smart," like Di Feisheng is a child who did well on a pop quiz akjksdjhfksj. It's such a weird little exchange and dynamic, and I'd have to rewatch to be sure but I think this is something Li Lianhua does elsewhere as well... one of his telling little personality quirks lol.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Tbh Dostoyevsky using vampire guards to communicate with the outside still doesn't explain how he managed while he was still in cell, because supposedly he never moved from there and thus didn't have any chance to interact with any guard (also given that if he did, Dazai would have certainly figured it out on the spot)

[quickfixinator]

stanford pines and bill cipher discover the horrors of canvas

other doodles I did while trying to get things done today

[kens-ramblings]

yapped to my friends(who don’t even like DC) about the underutilization of tim drake as a character(in cannon he’s actually pretty well loved in fannon but tbf hes my fav so i cannot complain) for so long i unlocked a new feature i didn’t even know exsisted because i have never sent a message that long💀💀💀

but they get to hear it anyways because i am a yapper at heart and i enjoy “forcing” my fixations on them🩷⭐️

ANYWAYS DC LET MY MANS CHARACTER GROWWWWW IM GNAWING AT YHE BARS ON MY ENCLOSURE PLEASEEEEE

[t4tails]

I just don't like the purple and pink in hindsight.

I appreciated it cuz it was more fun than her just corset and shorts but now... it's kind of a good base with bad coloring

oh you actually want to discuss her costume huh 🤨 but i do agree. i said this when i saw it initially but it just doesnt look good, and would honestly work better if the purple & pink was skin or grey. in newer artwork with it theyll also sometimes give her blue and pink makeup and thats even worse. i dont understand why DC wants to dilute the iconic black & red so much with other colors 💔

[jujianjes]

I am back on my bullshit, folks.

I have more in my drafts but this deserves its own post.