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[lavenderauthor]

Title: There! That's the Ghost Who's Been Stealing My Shit! by LavenderAuthor (16.6k)

Rating: Teen

Fandom: Batman, Danny Phantom

Relationship: Batfamily Members & Danny Fenton, Danny Fenton & Jazz Fenton, Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley & Sam Manson, Batfamily Members & Batfamily Members (DCU), Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain

Summary:  Imagine Danny goes to college in Gotham. Given his halfa nature, he's fairly not worried about most parts of Gotham and given he needs less sleep now, he likes to wander campus and Gotham itself like he's a natural Gothathes…at night like the half dead-half living man he was.

During these wanderings, he finds pieces of bat tech from fights. He figures it's safer in his care(and because he's really curious about the local vigilantes) so…he takes it.

It's usually just tiny things that the bats– probably –wouldn't even notice gone and he has things to fiddle with now. Unfortunately(for the bats), he finds Red Hood's destroyed helmet and takes it back to his dorm to fix, figuring it would allow him to return most of the items he snatched without a second thought. He doesn't realize it has an active tracker in it so the bats, when they activate it and discover it on the Gotham University campus, reasonably panic and flip on the camera...only to come face to face with adoption bait using bits of their missing tech to fix the helmet.

[athenadire]

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The catch is, I can't pay you. I'm a self publishing author who is trying to complete their first novel. I'm hoping to have a team of people one day that I can pay, but today is not that day. If you'd be willing to help, I would be forever grateful! I hope to be able to repay your kindness one day.

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[hayatheauthor]

Would y’all be interested in seeing the cover for my YA Fantasy novel?? (That I plan to self pub in 3 months) 👀👀

[primeastrolatry]

i've been so tickled by all the posts where people make disco elysium-style skill choruses for characters that i had to do one for adrien desfourneaux!

this is the first original author post i have made and it's for a niche fandom meme that maybe 3 people will enjoy so i'm killing it⚡

[bigmack2go]

So you finished your outline kr even your entire story? And now yove gotta come up with a title but you don’t wanna be as boring as using the main characters full name? LET ME HELP YOU!

Idk how to make a good intro to this but i’ll just try by starting with: theres a difference between fanfics and books

For fanfics it’s okay to have a shitty title, a song related title or just a whole ass quote(all tho that last ones debatable) theres still a lot of fanfics with great titles though.

This one seems obvious but please at least make your book SEEM interesting

But if you do want or need a good title let me help. I have no idea where to start so jm just gonna give u a couple of things to keep in mind withoutany particular order.

Okay so idk how to start this but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep your title at two words or less. If you have three… fine i guess but thats the absolute limit. Also absolutely avoid going over four syllables! That also in most cases means: no quotes, not songs etc unless theyre short enough. This is not optional! There’s nothing that i hate more than a name that takes ages to say when i try to recommend a book or show or movie which is why i simply dont do it. And you don’t want that. You want your storry to be recommended. Like the summer i turned pretty. Great book. Great plot. The title almost made me not read it.

Talking about at one. The summer i turned pretty also made no sense what so ever! Especially with the sequels??? Please make your titles make sense for the story! And if you wanna do sequels i’m BEGGING you to keep that in mind for the title.

Dont spoiler anything but for fucks sake make it make sense

Also pls dont start it with “the” cuz thats bad enough as it is but thats not even my point: if you dont want something boring as the MC’s full name, you also dont want something like the important object or just some random noun i promise. It CAN work if its like a name for a group of people like the outsiders or a gang name or smt but its like that it won’t so just… dont

I’d also avoid using original words that u amde up for the story. This isn’t necessarily smt that makes the title bad but it automatically means that it’s harder to remember so if you wanna be recomended thats probably a No. Unless its super easy to remember foe whatever reason.

So now that ive told you what NOT to do, let me give you some ‘DOs’

So theres several kinds of titles.

My personal favourite are like word plays. Not necessarily puns bc they often create new words which are as we’ve established hard to remember. But just something with a double meaning or something like that… i love that

Something else that always works are inconsistencys. Nothing like titles that contradicts itself! It sparks confusion and most importantly: INTEREST. People wanna know what the fuck is up with that. And it can alsk be rly soothing (for some reason)

References and innuendos are smt else i’ll never say no to if they’re used right. This can also overlap with wordplays. Famous (short) quotes or sayings, places or names are never not it

Smt else that slaps is good ol’ simplicity. Be bold. This👏does👏not👏have👏to👏be👏a👏spoiler! I promise you that just because you make it obvious what’s the book about that won’t spoiler shit.

Talking about: i love a good On-The-Nose title especially because most people expect nothing less than the exact opposite of it. Dont get me started on how banger of a title “They Both Die At The End” would be if it were just a little shorter!

And lastly even tho fullnames are an absolute turn-off last names can be sooo good. Especially when they’re about the whole family and especially when they’re in singular

Ofc these rules don’t always apply. Here are some examples of when they didnt

Fifty shades of gray (not defending the book itself, im just saying: the title is awesome)

Ansalom

The guy who didnt like musicals

Pride and prejudice

The kangaroo chronicles

Dracula

Alice in wonderland

That nineties show

Lollita

Bonny and clyde

Out of africa

Come from away

The never ending story

But trust me they usually do apply and just because a book is doing well it doesn’t mean the title had any part in it! Here are some books that should not have done so well and wouldn’t if it were for the title

Harry Potter

Percy Jackson

Mathilda

Birth Control is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also Robbing God of Priesthood Children!! (Like holy shit dude wtf u literally have not one but TWO exclamation marks in there and take up TWO lines)

The little shop of horrors

Here are some really good titles

Red clocks

Hamlet

Star Wars

Maze Runner

Qualityland

Hamilton

Let’s win

Newsies

Half bad

Blackbird

Avatar

Chrimson rivers

Fight or flight

Young royals

Bridgerton

Titanic

Here are some titles that could have been soooo good if they just… (and what i would change them too

How to get away with murder its so long (sort of wordplay?, interesting)

The fifth season- season five its too long sry (interesting)

Maze Runner-*not having sequels* it just doesn’t make sense for the sequels (simple and interesting)

Just lovers (like we’re suposed to be)- just lovers (contradiction, interesting)

History is all you left me-simply history (?) (contratdiction) too long

More happy than not (interesting) too lonh

They both die at the end (on the nose) too long

Half bad: the bastard son of the devil himself- half bad (interesting) too fucking long dudeee

Also some that DID folow the rules but are still… not so good for some reason? (This is only about the titles not the works!!!!!)

Best friends brother

Choices

Girl in pieces

Boy meets world

No one saw

That nineties show

Lalaland

Im also maybe gonna do some of these on covers and genrally viduals

[rotten-whispers]

Fish Bowl started as a MLM romance novel and has evolved into a pseudoevolutionary alien flick, featuring twisted monster romance, face-melting, cannibalistic sexual deviancy, hard pining, and the visceral horror of captivity. With a side of wildlife conservation on the rocks

Being a human pet has never been so horrific (and kinky)

[booksbybrennon]

₊ ⊹˚ meet the author ✧ ‧˚₊

- brennon lane

- he/him

- queer, trans, arospec

- aries, infj, type 6

• books: home, falling into you

• genre: lgbtq+ romance

• hobbies: videogames, crochet, guitar

• fandoms: marvel (loki&bucky), ofmd, wwdits, loz, minecraft, stardew

• bookish likes: forced proximity, enemies to lovers, rivalry, angelcore

• bookish: dislikes: instalove, cheating, lack of representation, poorly written smut

link to my books right down there vvv !!

[lavenderauthor]

Title: "Kidnapped" by A Teenager by LavenderAuthor, Incomplete (RIP Constantine's Sanity) (16.5k)

Rating: Teen

Fandom: Batman, Danny Phantom

Relationship: Danny Fenton & Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Danny Fenton, Batfamily Members & Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Batfamily Members (DCU), Danny Fenton & Frostbite

Summary:  It was supposed to be a simple outing for the various members of the Wayne Family— legality notwithstanding —but then a simple message was sent in the group chat by Jason upon his disappearance's notice: "Going to Doctor's. Might be back by dinner"

Was it sudden? Yes, given he had come to the mall with them, but they tried not to worry. This was Jason, after all. The man probably had "crime lord" business to handle that allowed him an easy out of socializing.

It only became worrying when dinner went by and he was seen walking into a camera's blindside at the mall with a teen but not exiting the mall.

[dyke-ass-fujoshi]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[limelemonchi]

I succumbed . sorry

[primeastrolatry]

Hi! I was wondering if Cursebreakers was a standalone novel?

hi! it actually has a sequel coming out in may 2025 called Angel Eye involving an angel of death–style serial killer.

i've written four novels in the Astrum setting so far besides Cursebreakers, but only the sequel is confirmed for publication so far. the other main characters i've written books for are a pair of witchfinders and a grave robber. i'd love to get series out of all of them.

[bigmack2go]

Hey writers just smt i think i should share: dont delete your old drafts. Turst me you‘ll use them!!!

This si just an example but characterbuilding, you WILL need your first drafts fuck omg ydek how mich you‘ll need them. Let me give u an example as to how that CAN look:

My character liv went from

Being a selfish loner

Over to selfless sunshineie that always looks out for everyone that no one would have reason to hate

To finnaly:

An outsider cutie who learned the hard way, that looking out for others cannot replace looking out for yourself.

[rotten-whispers]

I've been having worse sleep problems again. Night terrors, nightmares, panic attacks and inability to sleep through the night. Last night I tried writing down exactly what I was feeling and it helped immensely - I'm working on a new short story about sleep.

Writing about my last bout with night terrors helped me cope with them (Boxes was born from bad dreams and daytime trauma) so I'm hoping this will have the same effect :)

I forgot how helpful writing is with coping

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.