#because instead of actually working on the wips that i have

[starrystories2]

wip-snippet!

I while (like years ago) I posted about a batman oc named Alli. I have recently revisited the character and wrote some introspective on her. Also @audreycritter I don't know if you remember but I sent an ask about writing oc for fandom conent and it was for this character, so thank you so much for the advice!

Alli considered life overly complicated. Sure, the structure of life rested on understandable principles. The earth spins around the sun at speeds ranging from 29.29 to 30.29 kilometers per second, an object's force equaled the object's mass multiplied by the acceleration of the said object, and about 2.4 million people are scammed on the internet every year. Then there were people. People were complicated, and life was full of them.  They weren’t like Alli. She was simple. She needed physical and mental stimulation and proximity to other people, a human need she wished at times would disappear. Because, for some reason, other people were not that simple. They wanted things from her. They wanted her to talk, smile, and look them in the eye. They shared every insignificant detail of their lives without taking criticism and expected her to share the same level of information and let them extensively criticize. 

People didn’t make sense. They said one thing but meant some other hidden meaning that could mean the opposite of what they said or almost what they said but just a degree off. Everyone else seemed to know all the hidden meanings. The most frustrating part was they all expected her to know them too and were confused at best and angry at worst when she didn’t understand. How could they be upset at her for something she never learned? English classes never touched on the topic, which seemed like a considerable failing since it seemed imperative to the language.  All of this was magnified by her, for lack of a better term, lethologica. It was a word she found on the internet. It meant when someone couldn’t remember the word they were looking for. (Since the word exists, it means someone could have lethologica for the word lethologica, but that’s beside the point.) Lethologica was more of an approximation of her self-diagnosed condition. She had difficulties finding the right words often, even when she knew the idea of what she wanted to say. The ideas were there. The issue was making sentences for them. Sentences had to be created quickly because English was all about speed. Saying the right thing at the right time in the right way to the right person. Alli was not fast. Alli was calculating, thoughtful, and thorough. None of those things could be done quickly without decades of practice. Alli was 12, so it was still a work in progress.

[alaraxia]

I’m drawing I’m drawing

[localcryptic]

WIP wednesday (and it’s actually a wednesday this time woo!) tagged by @westealtoys !

i got a ton of random ripley sketches/doodles/projects going on, so here’s a collection of ripley WIPs. WIPleys, if you will (feat. two doodles of @b33tlejules 's teo lol)

i inflict wip wednesday upon @b33tlejules @typhros @autumnfangirler and @aurriearts :3 and anybody else who wishes to participate! i wish to see all that you create

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: going thru my corny arc

[jamiethebeeart]

⊂⁠(^‿^)⁠つ⊂⁠(⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠*⁠⊂⁠)

[landwriter]

WIP Title Ask Game

Tagged by the inimitable @xx-vergil-xx <3

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Listen, we've been here before, but for those who missed or repressed it, all my finished and unfinished fic lives in a single FocusWriter document named Untitled 1 that's about 277,000 words, with an index last updated sometime in late 2022 or early 2023, arranged in a loosely reverse chronological order, with exception for related WIPs and also the Seventies San Francisco AU, Lighthouses, which is between chapters 4 and 5 of Oaths. No, I don't know why I'm this way either.

But I am delighted!! for a chance to shamelessly use this as an excuse to tag people and catch up on what you beautiful souls are writing! (or not writing, as the case may be)

And my own, for asks please send asks:

WIPs I remained acutely aware of who lured me back:

Lighthouses

An Eternity of This

WIPs I absolutely forgot at mental daycare pickup but totally DO want to write and get out there now that I've seen them again:

Professional Fuckers

Skin - 05.14.23

Just Like Love followup that began its life innocently as 'Hob POV missing scenes', caught some more Corinthian scenes due to this very meme on Tumblr, and then like weeds in April exploded beyond all hope into an unhinged noir/dark comedy/tragedy play-it-all-the-way-out Corinthian/Hob/Dream cerberus-monster-of-a-sequel that would be longer than Oaths if I ever wrote it and annoyingly is probably my favourite thing on this list despite the fact I will almost certainly never have the time to actually write it, or maybe because of that :)

You’ve Got Mail AU

Come getcha hot fresh snippets!!!

Tagging with puppydog eyes: @moorishflower @softest-punk @teejaystumbles @wordsinhaled @that-banhus @chubsthehamster

[gothsuguru]

getting an iced pumpkin chai in the morning and then my personal goal is to spend the whole day writing and i hope i can come back to this post tomorrow and rb w how much progress i’ve made!!!

[pinkseas]

girls will put an EXTENSIVE amount of thought and research into their next couple of planned fics and THIS IS THE THANKS THEY'LL GET FOR IT.

[bijoumikhawal]

Okay I've read the main body of SVSSS. I think it's really good as a meta parody and gives some interesting insight into MXTX's mind- I think some of the criticism of her work is unfair and this book is a pretty good example in parts (the running commentary about misogyny in stallion novels is a lot more unambiguous than her accurately depicting misogyny in others wirks like MDZS, though I don't understand why the latter gets read as an indication of her as a person).

However I don't think it works well as a romance story. There are main two problems; one,that while all of MXTX's main characters are people that have gone through the wringer and lashed out on others because of it, sometimes in really grusome and reprehensible ways, we get to see who they are not just before it goes to shit, but after they've acted in a such a way and either by intentional choice or just the passing of time, behave in a kinder and more upright manner. SVSSS's main story ends right after LBH isn't being an antagonistic force driven to the pits. Additionally, LBH is (understandably) a very misanthropic character which makes the way you'd show him learning how to be a person not driven by grief, fear, and anger different.

The other point is SY/SQQ's internalized homophobia is handled in a way that distracts somewhat from his feelings for LBH, and this combines with a lot of the things taken as romantic by other characters being misinterpretions of his internal world. Some of the latter seems to be him bullshitting himself though- "I'm not crying because I'm facing down my beloved student who I've failed horribly and hates me before I off myself without knowing for sure if my contingency plan will work, the sun's just in my eyes", sure Jan. Given how WWX acts its clear that MXTX now knows how to balance internalized homophobia with the character falling in love even if he doesn't realize it, and TGCF doesn't really have internalized homophobia on the protagonists part as far as I've read, he's just a sworn virgin. (However one could argue HC had some issues when he was human depending on how you read the Land of the tender scene).

SVSSS is short compared to her other works, and while I'm not sure how one would do it, having us spend some time with LBH and SQQ after they've gotten rid of his evil sword and SQQ is helping him work through his misanthropy, desire for control, and abandonment issues would improve their relationship from a story perspective, especially because of how obsessive and unhealthy LBH has spent... 8 years of his life regarding SQQ. There's already a foundation with LBH taking SQQ back to his home peak to be taken care of after his near death experience and leaving alone when he gets chased off, and SQQ choosing to go with him with no pressure on him to do so other than LBH's wellbeing (which is no longer tied to things like the apocalypse). I just think there needs to be a bit more between that and what I'm reading in the extras so far.

And it is needed because of how much LBH's dark behavior was directed at SQQ. WWX's dark behavior wasn't so targeted, LWJ's had an instance of targeting but a large part of the novel has been about him doing his best to respect WWX's boundaries and not repeat his parents relationship. I'm not up to snuff on what happened after XL's first banishment yet so I'll keep quiet on that. LBH is so desperate for this one person's affection that he almost destroys the world to ensure he has no other choice but him (and they have terrible fuck or die sex that no one enjoys about it). Evil sword possession making him decide this was a good idea or no, to work as a satisfying romance story, you need to after of all that. Especially because the evil sword had the ability to push him that far because of how chaotic and wrecked his mental and spiritual state were. They're still wrecked.

[shrunkupthejams]

*rubs hands together gleefully* i have 6 pages and nearly 3000 words of song quotes and corresponding analysis for geo & chad's playlist, and im only almost halfway through! i've got 10/24 songs done, 8 of which i did today >:)

[mlobsters]

so the one thing I find tedious about traditional paint is how fast acrylic dries on a palette even with a (diy) wet palette (haven't bothered this time) and slow drying medium (which does make a big difference but having to make sure to add it to everything, well, I forget sometimes lol) so. I guess a little way to give myself a color theory challenge and reduce the number of colors I have to mix the medium into, I've been doing this painting so far with 3 colors (opaque cadmium yellow medium, opaque cobalt teal, transparent quinacridone magenta,) black and white

pretty sure I am gonna need a few others at least to get all the greens (and maybe blues? I don't know exactly what colors I'm using for Her) I want ultimately but! we'll see how far I can get with this setup

also can you tell I'm using parchment paper scraps from when I lined a the bottom of a cake pan lol

[sketchybusiness4130]

Not me making a silly au that then spiarls out of control and into an au that spans well over 200 years and all across the usa. Oh no

[kyurilin]

Can't sleep, once again thinking about how I used to be paranoid about anyone so much as glimpsing my writing before it was finished and how now I will straight drop unfinished Google docs on friends at like midnight and not freak out

[kaffeebaby]

What kinda stuff are you writing about!!

Most of the stuff I'm writing right now are better call saul fanfics. I've always been more of a fanfic writer as opposed to making original characters and worlds.

A lot of my fanfic ideas are the "What if this happened instead?" genre. Like what if Gus rehired Gale and made him work with both Walt and Jesse? That would change a lot of stuff, and I had explored some ideas months ago, but I kinda stopped thinking about it as much as other ideas that were more interesting to me started crowding my mind. I don't want this post to get too long but also >:3c

Lately, I've been trying to come up with ideas for a fic where Chuck forgets to cancel his appointment when he's having his last breakdown, so he misses his appointment and his therapist shows up at his house concerned. And she ends up getting him to a hospital where he can be treated before he has the chance to do anything worse than tear his house apart. That event would completely change everything else that happens in the show, and would even impact the stuff that happens in BrBa, so it's been a lot to think about. I basically have to figure out a way for Chuck's life to become livable for him, plus I have to figure out how Saul can still happen if Chuck is still there and Kim doesn't divorce him due to Howard and Lalo never happening, and. Many other things.

But I have a rough outline of different things that need to happen, and I'm the type of person that daydreams or fantasizes a lot throughout the day, especially at night, so it's nice to have a pet project that has some interesting challenges. I get to justify thinking about blorbos all day because it goes back to something I want to write about.

The one wip I mentioned in my tags was a Chuck and Howard smut that I was writing during January this year. I planned to have it finished and posted on Valentine's Day, but I got the stomach flu like two weeks before that which completely ruined any ability to write people having sex. I tried to keep writing after I wasn't sick anymore, but it was kinda done for at that point, since the deadline was actually really motivating me. I've thought about trying to write more on it again, and I've even considered posting it in its half finished state with an author's note that it's not done. There are very few Chuck and Howard fics, and I only ship them recreationally, so at first I wasn't so upset and not finishing and posting the work. But the more time drags on, the more I feel like there are people who would actually like to read my rarepair fanfic, even if I posted it unfinished with a warning and the possibility I'd finish it later. It works where it is right now, but it's very much not as long as I wanted it to be and there's a lot more stuff I wanted to add that I just don't feel the motivation for at this point. But also that doesn't mean I should keep it locked up forever.

I have some other fic ideas that I've been floating around, but my brain has been consumed by my Chuck Lives AU for a while and it's kinda hard to focus on other stuff. I do have a google doc of all my fic ideas though, and I visit it every now and then when I'm in the mood to write or want to refresh what all of my ideas are. I've been a lot better lately at actually writing down ideas as they come to me so that I don't forget them later.

[snowflop]

i kinda hate this conceptually but like... technically i'm really happy with the colours and stuff orz