#fanfic writing rant lmao

[justaz]

arthur (prince of camelot) still has to study under a tutor bc yknow uther wants him to be very intelligent before becoming king or something bc its super important idk idc anyways merlin is doing chores in his chambers while arthur is squinting at a book and merlin eventually caves and asks him what he’s reading and arthur gruffly explains that its a collection of stories from greece that make absolutely no sense so merlin asks him to read them outloud to him. arthur of course teases him and calls him an idiot and asks how he could possibly help but does as he’s asked and reads the stories to merlin as he does his chores. merlin (being crushed under the weight of destiny and tormented by the prophecies that kilgharrah spews) understands the stories almost immediately and gets all excited and starts rambling about them with arthur. arthur is glad to have someone who understands so he can give something that reflects a hint of understanding to his tutor who accepts it and moves onto the next unit of education.

the thing is, arthur finds more stories in camelot’s library and brings them up to his room to read them aloud to merlin under the guise of completing his studies but really he just wants to watch as merlin’s eyes gleam when he understands whats happening and listen to him ramble on and on about them bc he’s gay. the stories stick with merlin though and he realizes that they’re cautionary tales, that the heroes who were told too much of their future doomed themself to fulfill them - that them fighting the prophecies led to their completion. merlin takes it to heart and gives a big “fuck you” to kilgharrah before forging his own fate and helping morgana with her magic and handing out an olive branch to mordred and now everyone can live happily and peacefully in an albion teeming with magic.

[st-osmanthus]

When my confidence is high, I think I’m a fairly decent writer (mostly, maybe lol). But for the life of me, I seem incapable of writing angst when it comes to ZoLu. Just can’t do it. It turns into humor instead.

Not to say there’s no angst potential between them. When done right, it’s fantastic. And I’m so envious of those writers who can nail the angst and still keep their personalities intact.

To me, when Zoro and Luffy are together, they’re just so in sync to the point of being able to communicate without words. There’s no need for misunderstandings or mistrust. There’s definitely no possibility for betrayal. They don’t even disagree anymore post-timeskip. Even when Zoro yelled at Luffy on Punk Hazard, Luffy simply acquiesced.

So this leaves either illness/death for angst scenarios, or AU. The former is not something I like to focus on, which leaves AU for me if I want to tackle ZoLu angst. I’ve tried my hand at it with a 40-yo ZoLu one-shot and it went okay, I think? I just don’t think I’m very good at writing about it overall.

Zoro and Luffy make me happy lol. They’re gonna remain my comfort pairing and sunshine couple. Infinite kudos to those writers who can do their angst justice!

[thefrogdalorian]

A little love letter to Din Djarin writers... 🤍

I love that some of you write him as soft and gentle while others focus on the darker, harsher parts of his personality. I love that he can be both a quiet, kind man caring for his child or an intimidating, terrifying bounty hunter who is a lean, mean killing machine... depending on what the fic warrants.

I love how you write him with other characters from The Mandalorian or even with those who would never cross paths with him in canon, from Star Wars or elsewhere. I love how you write him interacting with yourselves and us, and some of you even create your own original characters to exist a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away alongside him.

I love that some of you ship him with that one other special person, while others recognise how desirable he is and ship alllllll the ships. Not forgetting those of you which are here for none of those ships and/or even headcanon him as ace. I love that any of those options allow you to explore your own identities and sexualities through him.

I love that you can write the most tooth-rotting fluff or filthiest smut, and all of those things in between. Whether it's for general audiences or explicit and strictly 18+ ... all of your fics have an audience and someone out there who appreciates your writing.

I love how differently you can interpret him, but there are also so many common themes and tropes running through your writing. I love that there is room for all of your Dins here.

I love that he means so much to you and that all of us here hold him in our hearts a little bit. I love that we can all watch the same episodes and come to entirely different conclusions about him. I love how much we love him.

Getting to be a part of this wonderful community and interact with so many people who love the space tin can man as much as I do has truly been one of the best things that happened to me recently. I'm so glad I made this little blog... It reminded me just how good fandom can be. I am blown away by the number of talented people here!

So, I just wanted to take a moment to express some gratitude towards all of you! Thank you for writing your Dins and please don't ever stop. Finally.... last, but not least:

I love Din Djarin!!!

[vxlkirayaxo]

Bf!scara x drunk!gn reader

Why did this take me so long bro ‼️

Modern ig? Fluff

You had a stressful week so you went to the bar with some friends.

Let's just say you were wasted, all giggly and silly or that's what Scara thought when he came to pick you up. He had gotten a call from one of your friends to pick you up because you wouldn't stop talking about him.

As soon as you saw scara your half lidded eyes lit up.

"Rara!" You called him by his nickname as you started to sit up and try to reach for him. He chuckled before picking you up from the couch.

"Hi dummy..." He muttered and hugged you. A small giggle left your lips as you looked up at him. You traced a heart on his chest before leaning your head against it.

His arm rested under your legs and the other one on the end of your back. It looked awkward because he was slightly smaller than you but it didn't matter because currently you were acting like a lovesick fool.

It got worse as you two got to your shared apartment. He placed you on the couch, the plump cushion slightly waking you up from the daze you had been in and out of on the journey home. You blinked a few times before noticing he was walking off.

"Mm...no, Rara...stay... cuddle with me, love me please." God you were clingy when you were drunk scara thought as he turned to look at you over his shoulder.

"Hah, bold of you to assume I don't love you." He huffed grabbing you a glass of water and some pain medication for your future hangover. He walked back over to you and placed them onto the side table. A small frown etching onto his face as he saw how clingy you were, your hand reaching out to grasp his the moment he was within five steps of you.

He didn't mind it entirely, but when you're preventing him from taking care of you he certainly does.

Peppering kisses up his arm he couldn't resist. He sat down beside you and just let you cling to him, your arms wrapped around one of his and your cheek rubbing against his shoulder.

"Rara don't be so grumpy." You cooed looking up at him through your eyelashes. He scoffed.

"I am not grumpy." He hummed and leaned down to place his head on top of yours. You smiled and giggled closing your eyes and resting.

"Your head is gonna hurt like hell tomorrow morning." He mumbled closing his eyes as well.

"I know." You chimed

Soft breathing could be heard until you both lulled to sleep.

I might stop writing fanfics bc I'm cringing at them

I FINISHED THIS AFTER TWO MONTHS LMAO 💀

[galaxythedragonshifter]

Well, I found a new pet peeve

I hate it when people say "Do you have to do it that way though?" when me or someone else asks for writing tips and advice.

Like, YES. I WANT to. That's why I'm ASKING. I'm asking a specific question. With REASON.

[fixinit-au]

Me when writing

[aziraphalianfangirl]

rant: my experience writing my first fic, doubts about smut and not wanting my characters to act ooc

firstly, i'm still heartbroken that my favourite ao3 author, who inspired me to start writing, deleted their account out of the blue while writing an amazing new fic AND I didn't download their main fic so yeah, i am literally mourning and just...trying not to think about it

one thing I love about some of the fics I read that inspire me is how long they are. the build up, the character growth, the moments and situations shared between the characters before we finally get to the SEXXXXX which makes it so much better and more satisfying (to me, but love short fics too.)

and here i was thinking i'd be able to write a long fic like this, full of character development and amazing dialogue similar to the show but alas, I only lasted 9 chapters before the first crush/attraction confession, 13 before the first kiss and 18 before the smut.

i feel so dissapointed in myself because in my head, these characters have been hanging out and sharing moments for years (me talking to myself all day pretending i'm talking to my fav lmao) and have banged 928364 times. why can't it be exactly like the head movies I fall asleep too?

on the other hand, one thing that frustrates me sometimes is waiting so long for that sex scene and it's just a couple of lines, nothing explicit (which is totally fine too, just not my thing) hence why i decided to write MY FANFIC with eveything I want to see, including explicit, long sex scenes. But I knew that in order for them to be satisfying, i would have to establish a story first, and i tried my best to, trying to bluid a narrative that was exciting and had satisfying and surprising moments, all coming from an unhinged scene of an argument inside a car and me desperately wanting to see my favs brought to life and bang lmao!!! so now here we are, finally at the smut chapter which I wrote much faster than i thought, and I am actually scared to post it because WHAT IF THIS AINT WHAT MY READERS WANTED? WHAT IF IT SEEMS OOC FROM THEM TO BANG SO SOON/HAVE THEIR FIRST TIME LIKE THIS?

I had an idea for their first time when I started writing this fic which would be vanilla at first but then went into light dom/sub during the sex. it made sense to me for the characters to be horny and making out and just before starting to have sex, naturally leaning into light bdsm stuff, because it was their first time together.

HOWEVER the smut i wrote, because of how the story progressed (it has a mind of its own), is gonna be full on dom/sub with spanking (no "normal vanilla" first time). it's still going to be slow at first with a lot of talking how i had planned it but there will be no "regular people having regular sex bc its the first time and only during it do they ask/do bdsm stuff"

Don't get me wrong, i will post the chapter anyway as I've always have thus far. I just needed to vent and share my thoughts, but since i can't talk about this with anyone irl, it helps to write them out.

I also had my first criticism comment a few days ago and it shook me a little. It was a perfectely fine comment, about my oc being out of character (which I couldn't help the poor reader with because my oc is based on ME, so if she seems ooc it's because the reactions I've had throughout my life and the ones i imagine myself having in the made up scenarios I put myself in APPEAR OOC so...am i bipolar? i don't think so, i'm only diagnosed with depression but i highly suspect im autistic-but i digress.)

anyway i took it as a compliment that they were criticizing my oc and not the way I write mycroft or sherlock. it made me feel good that people are invested in the story!! Despite not having a reply to my reply, i tried to push it away because i live to write and share this story, for the comments I get, and they have been positive so far. i literally gain serotonin and years of life when someone takes the time to comment and it makes me so happy

ALL THIS TO SAY:

I have self doubt about the way in which i am making my blorbos boink for the first time. What do you think? You don't have to read my fanfiction to give your opinion but I would love some advice love, an unhinged writer

[dragongirluvula]

just found out about the hdg and I definitely don't vibe with it. It almost captures my interest but the hard stance opposition towards exploring the implications that come with a self designated benevolent empire that can solve the inherent problems that come from cultures who are supposedly inferior in some way by nature really like, both rubs me the wrong way and feels like a disservice to the setting itself.

idk just looking at every empire in history it's like, that's literally what they all say and how they justify colonizing others. It's kinda really fucking hard to just take at face value. If imperialist colonizers who just happen to be legimately nicies to the people they colonize is like, ur thing then absolutely jack off to it I'm not here to judge that, just like, own that I guess? But if your argument for them is just that narratively speaking it's just true then my interest in your setting, horny or otherwise just does not exist.

The contradiction of the setting also bothers me, 25-45% of any given species will be domesticated on average but the space between that and rebellion just doesn't seem to be accounted for in the wiki, what is the life of someone not opposed to the empire but also who doesn't volunteer for domestication? How much of their own cultures are retained within the empire? It really seems like the only option for any autonomy in the setting is rebellion but that's also only ever seen as a bad thing.

I just get caught on the whole "affini are imperial" and "affini are benevolent" thing in the axioms section of the hdg wiki. My mixed race ass cannot really look at an invading empire calling itself the good guys without my own personal baggage about it weighing in, ya'feel?

[torchstelechos]

God, I just want a fanfic about the absolute wild internet fandom and discourse of PIDW. Just full stop make it a chat/discord sever fic with both SQQ and SQH in it but neither know and they have another meltdown relationship on this server. Enough so that the fans make jokes that they’re just alts of SQQ and SQH (which is true but no one actually believes this). Make the final chapter present day them figuring it out and wailing on each other in anger. I need this more than I need air.

[mauricemylittlemeowmeow]

*coughs blood* thinking of convoluted regency romantic literature-esque a/b/o burda

thoughts too long so ill just keep it under a read more instead of the tags

initial thought was dankovsky fixing artemy's posture which led to daniil teaching him manners which led to "oh my god governess daniil"

but i have no idea in what world hed give up being a bachelor of medicine so ofc my first thought was structuralised sexism which my brain helpfully interpreted as hell yeah omegaverse babyy

so now i have daniil with a sexist military father who lowkey loathes that his son who was supposed to work his way to also become a general can't bc hes an omega and omegas cant be enlisted. daniil still wants to pursue his own goals but bc of structuralised sexism, all hes seen as is a homemaker and someone to give birth to children.

he gets a basic education ofc complimentary to his rather well off upbringing but instead of finding an alpha and settling down, he decides to strike his own path and a la jane eyre and ends up as a governess. for years hes used the salary hes earned to fund his own higher ed self-study. hes not a bachelor bc hes not allowed to be, but he works his way to have practically the same knowledge+skillset as one in his own time.

at present hes using his money to fund his own private research into thanatology. it's all done in secret ofc but he publishes some of his writing under a pen name (it's caused quite a stir in the medical field bc it's not published as a scholarly work--danko can't bc if he submits it for peer review, hed have to expose himself--but as very technical "fictional" work which upon testing, proves true results)

his current job eventually ends and he finds new employment under a well known doctor and minor rural noble: isidor burakh. he writes to danko asking for him to educate his son and heir. daniil accepts, hoping that hed be immersed in an environment that would allow him to stealthily learn more medical stuff to aid in his own pursuits. he also accepts expecting a young child to look after as usual.

imagine daniil's surprise when said son is a whole ass 25 year old man.

anyways turns out burakh (the younger) is a bit of a wild child who prefers being in the steppe+town rather than acting as a noble. isidor called daniil in as a last ditch effort bc he feels like hes abt to die soon and artemy rlly needs to learn how to commingle properly w noble society once he officially takes over the family title.

anyways thats the premise!!!! idk abt plot i just want silly etiquette lessons and bullheaded artemy+frustrated governess!daniil bonding. daniil trying to tame artemy but then getting dragged into having fun himself. artemy finding out abt daniil's real dreams and ambitious, passionate personality. him trying to help but daniil being stubbornly independent (he doesnt want to be another omega being saved by an alpha or whatever)

just good old jane austen/brontë sisters romance shit!!!! no plague :)

[valentinoappreciator]

a writer / artist: labels and tags a ~problematic~ piece of work appropriately, with all possible warnings so that people can actively avoid it if its not their thing

some people: waaahhh, this is problematic, you should get banned!!!!

i will come into your house and live in your kitchen cupboards. smashing all your favorite mugs.

[blubary]

I'm so sad about the lack of fanfic for Little Hope on ao3. Like, I want an angsty sad hurt/comfort daylor fanfic. But everyone knows I won't write it because I love them too much. I want Daniel getting upset about something and Andrew and Taylor helping him calm down. But I wouldn't know where to start with a fanfic like that lol

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

its so weird to read some of my old fics (do NOT do it but i'm just being hypothetical rn) and reading it. like who even was this person?? i completely was in a haze back in 2020. i literally was posting 3 chapters a day. A DAY. what in the WORLD was that shit.

anyway i remembered some STUPID sappy shit and i didnt remember if i'd put it into a fic or not BUT I FOUND IT.

She and Hope had been dating in secret for months anyway, and any attempt to go talk to Ryan only filed her disposition of displeasure upon knowing that she couldn’t tell anyone, Molly especially, it destroyed herself mentally. They couldn’t really go anywhere near the school, always having to lie to everyone about having projects together when Molly wasn’t around them. It’d consisted with 9 PM - 2 AM intervals of being able to actually see each other. Hope would sneak through her small bedroom window with a portable record player and whatever she had gotten from the vintage record store downtown, and Amy would always fall asleep around eleven because of her internal clock. She would always wake up to find a single sticky note stuck on the edge of her desk whenever she woke up to her alarm the next morning. One of them, Amy still had tucked inside of her phone case, a heavily detailed human heart, with blue and red ink sketched onto a neon pink sticky note, there was a caption that headed the small paper reading the phrase over every now and again makes her almost melt every time. “You have my heart.”

yeah idk why the fuck but i thought of this fucking idea again today and i was like "omg did i ever put that heart note thing in a fic???" yeah you fucking did.

all that to say ME AND WHO???? imagine. thats so fucking.... RAHHHH.

[cxtori]

y’all i think i’m just incapable of writing short fics 💀 every time i go to write something thinking i’ll be able to post it soon it turns into a 3k+ thing because i keep getting more ideas that fit so perfectly into the prompt. i just can’t control myself 😭 i’ve decided i’m just gonna be posting mini series once i get them finished cause clearly doing short one shots isn’t working 🧍🏽‍♀️

[dawntheduckrb]

Sleeping like he pays rent

[augustsails]

Why does writing a cohesive story have to be so hard. Why can’t it be enough to just make cool little characters and put them in various situations? Why must there be a reason for everything?