#about: heliotrope

[auraxins]

i think ,,, we have hit the halfway point w cowboy shouto finally

[doodleynan]

all I need is you

[shaunashpmn]

i just know if i was trapped in the wilderness id fall for lotties hypnotherapy witchcraft bs so fast you wouldnt even notice like the nat/tai/shaunas are playing chess with their sanity and i am playing checkers.

[eepyghoul]

Well, I live to guess your sorrow And you live to empty my lungs

[dottores]

Wtf did you put on my timeline 😀

Since the history of Y/N stories, the reader ALWAYS had a backstory. I fail to see how this suddenly makes Y/N a OC. The same goes for gender. Usually in the description or first sentence you would immediately know Y/N’s gender. It’s nice to be inclusive but you can’t force the author to cater to a specific demographic.

I will admit though: I LOATHE when a author enforces a skintone onto Y/N without mentioning it in the beginning. The fact this stuff is rarely tag is pretty annoying. If authors have to tag their fanfic with “POC!Reader” to point out that reader is meant to have a ethnic background, for the love of god please do the same if the reader is meant to be interpreted as white. Nothing puts me out of a story when I envisioned a character to fit the story only to see them described as “pale, fair skinned” by the narrator several paragraphs later.

There is a really nice plugin for AO3 where it can replace pronouns and fill in the Y/N slot with an actual name. It would be nice if such a plugin existed for tumblr. Authors won’t have to give into obligations and those who feel alienated can still enjoy the work.

PLEASEEEEEE AJFHASIUDFHU IF I HAD TO SEE IT YOU GUYS ALL HAVE TO TOO. i am a firm believer of sharing is caring <3

EXACTLY, like especially for authors who do long fics or series, giving reader 0 personality/no background story is next to impossible unless you just want them to like ... be there and take no initiative in the story and just have things happen to them and for them to have no reaction to anything. like even in smut and headcanons, there are going to be little things you can pick out personality-wise, its next to impossible to just have a cardboard cut out reader for any type of fic, much less long fics/series. someone will always disagree with something <- but tee explained this all better in her long rb addition to that post

AND I TOTALLY AGREE! like they had very valid points about physical appearance and properly tagging gender, but i hate the fact that they added all of those valid points in that mess of an argument of why "x reader fics" should have no personality or background, because i felt as if it was totally taking away from that. it's two totally separate issues that they were trying to combine into one big one but just made an even bigger mess out of it.

for real! ao3's tagging system is top tier like i know a lot of people find it confusing but it's so nice to be able to filter any and everything you want or don't want.

[nicknederson]

i love that this is on the "nancy drew" wikipedia page under the books section. there're no sources anywhere in these three chunks of paragraphs. the other paragraphs above it cover every other series in one or two sentences in a brief summary appropriate for the medium. this is just straight up someone's hot take.

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

delighted to report that there are, in fact, at least a couple banger lines in this nano i'm typing up after all

[terasutetrad-ruikamishiro]

Two days shy of a week on antibiotics and somehow it's gotten worse...?

[clownhonkbonk]

i doodled it

( based off of this post )!!!

i havent watched maurice so i interpreted it

[pastalithebufftabby]

Woah Pokémon ocs??? Wacky

So this silly guy is Yogurt, he’s supposed to be a snooty rich trainer who’s somewhat popular in the region he lives in (which is Galar), he’s like a rival type character kinda

And woah here’s his silly team

He likes to have only fairy and grass types but Rosewinter is an exception cus he’s just a silly fellow

Meadow’s basically the unofficial “leader” of the team after Yogurt, loves the entire team with all her little strawberry heart and would do anything for them, and she hates losing battles because she hates thinking of the rest of her team being down about the loss

Sunflower loves to battle, but whenever anything goes wrong or she realizes they’re losing she just books it and leaves, doesn’t even tell the rest of the team she’s leaving the battle she just. Scurries off-

Rosewinter loves to entertain, but he has a hard time doing it, as he’s very anxious around people and has stage freight. Doesn’t stop them from trying at least though

Heliotrope is the baby of the team basically, like he’s not a baby but everyone on the team just adores him and will protect him at (mostly) all costs. He was originally scared of Nerium when he first joined the team cus they’re a big guy, but he warmed up to him eventually, now they’re best buds woah

Speaking of Nerium, Nerium loves to do most of the battling (which he does since Yogurt likes to give him most of the spotlight) and he can be a little intimidating at times, but he’s actually just a big teddy bear at heart

Last but certainly not least is Cherry, he joined the team for… other reasons but got too attached to everyone, so now he’s a permanent member. May or may not have a crush on Nerium, and he oddly never seems to take his glasses off, how odd

[auraxins]

ngl i might have to ask u all to suspend ur disbelief w this cowboy shouto fic bc i can NOT write the dialogue without busting into fits of giggles

[lupinus-bicolor]

sometimes you can unlock hidden dialogue by mentioning something i'm secretly unhealthily obsessed with

[bladesandstars]

Made progress on sylorenz kushielverse fic last night if that is of interest to anyone else ❤️💜

[kokoinupi]

btw i am absolutely gonna be retconning the whole yumi love triangle thing in heliotropism. its unclear if kiryu loves her that way or if what happened in kiwami was just circumstantial/his feelings were influenced by outside factors.... there's gonna be a lot of kiryu sexuality exploration and complication (which is gonna be fun cause the point of the fic is analyzing kiryu from two OUTSIDE perspectives so we get to infer based only on what he says and what nishiki/majima think of him). but either way nishiki absolutely does not love her that way. the shit they pulled w that remains the dumbest decision this series ever made and i refuse to acknowledge it as correct in any way.

[dottores]

bye i’m so mad and frustrated