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bomberqueen17 · 2 months ago

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aight poll results

Huh I haven't really done a poll before, I kind of thought there'd be somewhere you could like, see the results. But no. I just have to scroll back and find the post. And since I made it not rebloggable I can't reblog it either, LOL.

So anyway. It's not quite-quite closed but there's more votes in it than I thought there would be, and I'm going to discuss it behind this lil cut here.

[Image ID: a screenshot of poll results showing 14.5% for the sweet summer children era, 85.5% for the older sea-dogs, 55 votes cast, almost four hours left in the poll.]

After making this poll I went back to my Just Write Some Scenes approach and noodled around some more. My first attempt had been to come up with this whole elaborate Save The World plot, and then try to introduce the crew to each other right at the start of it, and after tripping over that and falling flat on my face, that's when I reconsidered and made the poll. Mostly I just. Need other people to remind me that I'm not alone in the wilderness here, LOL. And you know the quite-contrary "I need advice but mostly so I can identify that when someone tells me to do the thing I don't wanna, that means there's a thing I didn't want to do, which means there is a thing I DO want to do, and now I can narrow down what it is" impulse, yes?

But it's gratifying to find that I've voted with the majority here.

So my main consideration here is that while I cannot really reuse any of the scenes I wrote as fanfic, I can absolutely carry over every bit of the character dynamics. The canon events, I can't translate. The fanfic character work, yes. (What that means to you, dear readers, is that I thus can totally just publish the fanfic at some point LOL, so I'll... try to do that if I can ever manage to become sane about it.)

I don't know that I've fully explained, here-- I fully have a 125,000-word fanfic already complete for this fandom. Like, it is 125,000 words long, and goes from before Master and Commander to... I'm at about the middle of Ionian Mission. That's book nine. And it's all the gapfills and everything from Tom's POV. And I have a few more scenes I'm still writing, but what I have is quite a novel already.

If I took the characters from their Master & Commander Book 1 era and file the serial numbers off and try to instead give them this plot, then I have to cram in every bit of the getting-to-know-you shit, and also worldbuild the whole setting, and then also have them save the world. It's not that I can't do this, but I have this huge shortcut where I've already been working with these guys (and you know how fanfic works, I've subtly warped them from canon because these are side characters the canon author did not devote all that much time to. There are several times when Mowett did something in the first book and by the eleventh or twelfth, Stephen firmly remembers it as something Pullings did, and the narrative treats him as correct, and I genuinely think that O'Brian forgot, unless he was trying to make a point about Stephen's memory issues that he then didn't entirely follow through on. It happens more than once. Also there are a number of occasions when the narrative asserts that Mowett was present for books when he was not; he does not appear in book 3 for example, but is afterward treated as though he'd been there. "They've been together since their youth!" they haven't been in the same hemisphere in six years. Anyway.)

I've been working with these guys for the length of a novel already. So what I can do, and what I think I'm going to do, is that I'm going to just pretend that I've already rewritten a serial-numbers-filed-off version of the first volume, and dive in at circa the book 5 section of the fic, and insert this adventure at that point. Which gives me a certain rank for each character-- Pullings and Mowett would be lieutenants with some seniority, Babbington would be a newly-made lieutenant, Aubrey has moderate seniority, his relationship with Maturin is fairly mature and has weathered some storms and come out well, he's rescued Maturin from torture, Maturin is slightly washed-up with the intelligence people and is addicted to drugs but recovering-- and from the fanfic side (spoilers for the as-yet-unedited-and-unpublished fic!), I've established Pullings in his marriage, given him his checkered career (Indiamen and transports), he has two children, and also he and James and Mrs. Pullings have worked through a bunch of their shit and figured out that they should all have a threesome sometime. But, crucially, they have not had this threesome yet.

So it's like-- a ton of deep character work, that I can just plunk us into.

(I haven't figured out a new naming structure yet so I haven't find-replaced and I'm just writing with the old names, which is hilarious the more I diverge from canon.)

It's not that I don't want to tell that first story, of them all meeting up initially, but I think it would be easier to go back and write a prequel after having done the Big World-Saving Plot.

Anyway-- some serial-number-filing notes here:

Aubrey is going to be a woman because then if I write her exactly the same it comes across wildly differently and I am absolutely dying to see what effect it has. Translating Jack's particular confused helplessness around women makes this new Aubrey into an extremely awkward lesbian and I love it. (Still fat, crucially. Still six feet tall. She might not be blonde, though, depending what I do with racial dynamics in this 'verse. Doesn't matter, as calling a woman Goldilocks is less hilarious than a man.)

Maturin is still a dude. They still have absolutely zero sexual chemistry, but profound deep interpersonal love. (This is bookverse, guys. Sorry the gay movie version is great but that's just not where I'm going here.)

Instead of having a lower-class accent and antecedents, I'm translating Tom into being somehow visibly biracial, which can give the same impediment to his being taken seriously for promotion as in canon, but also lets me tie this into the other books I've started in the land-based part of this verse. His mother is descended from mainland mammoth-herders, and I haven't decided what visual characteristics that gives him but it's enough that he gets called racial slurs occasionally. As in canon, Aubrey doesn't particularly notice these things, and cares only that he is competent.

Babbington is a trans dude so I have to figure out how that works in the worldbuilding but this is an extremely useful thing to have and will illuminate all kinds of awesome things for me. As a bonus, it can just be background established fact in the first book I write, and can be a plot point in the prequel if I do come up with anything cool in the worldbuilding, but if not it can just be a like low-key background thing in the prequel too. Who knows! It gives me a ton of material either way. Has potential to establish vivid character dynamics in a minimum of words, I think.

I was trying to solarpunk-ize solid-shot cast-iron cannons and seem to have independently mentally invented electromagnetic rail guns, so I have to research that somewhat but I think I have some good worldbuilding foundations based off that. !!! Exciting. I especially love the idea that the ships can collect and store potential energy that they can use either for propelling the ship without wind, or for firing guns, and so manoevering with sails still carries enormous tactical value because if you can get in position to fire your shots without having expended your generated power, you'll have much more success in battle; conversely, if you realize you're in a poor tactical position, instead of throwing your guns over the side as in the napoleonic era so you can flee faster, you simply empty your power generation banks into your propulsion to get the fuck out of there. And it makes it more solarpunk post-collapse-friendly by having tactics that can prioritize things other than massive loss of life, which doesn't hold with the dynamics of precarious population levels in the other books in this 'verse. Life was cheap in Europe in the 1800s but that doesn't work here. I love the idea of the "battles" being almost entirely manoevering, and it being plain impossible to have just yardarm-to-yardarm prolonged hammering except by rare circumstance.

So anyway that's where I'm at. So far. Stay tuned i guess? Thanks for reading this far, anyone who does. <3

#about the author #writing stuff #solarpunk tall ships novel #i need a good tag for this i guess

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isa-ghost · 2 months ago

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(BTW I'm very down with wanting sapnap being dead for being sapnap I just wanted to be sure I was hip qirh the kids and pissed for the Correct reason)

DLSKFLSJFSKF SORRY I WAS OUT TOUCHING GRASS WHEN YOU SENT ME YOUR FIRST ANON.

Also in hindsight I worded this answer like you have 0 clue who Shartnap is but I'm gonna keep it that way for anyone who sees this and Doesn't Go Here At All.

Here's a good overview post abt Crapnap from my friend.

This Specific Instance we're wishing death upon him more than the default amount because he's participating in Squidcraft, a Latino-made/hosted and primarily Latino-played Minecraft competition with a big cash prize. (Aka that irrelevant ass sweaty ass racist Texan is literally only playing to win more money he doesn't need. He also won last year's SC 🙄). Last year there were a few non-Latino players (like him), but this year there were a BUNCH, most likely thanks to the existence of QSMP. There were Americans, Brits, and French just to name a few!

My mutual @pixiecaps has been the most outspoken on my dash about the dumbshit being in Squidcraft, so I'll tag them here and they can add any additional context they see fit in the reblogs or replies. They might have insight or perspective that I don't bc they're Latino and I'm not. 👍🏻 And this was baby's first Squidcraft for me purely bc QSMP members were in it, so idk much abt previous ones whereas Pix might.

It's annoying enough that Crapnap is in the competition at all, but yesterday a bunch of other previous DSMP members (Philza, Tubbo, Foolish, to name a few) all died in one of the games together and were thus eliminated. Shatnap's petty nobody poopy ass was literally CHEERING when they all died, which is poor sportsmanship for one (he has none tho let's be real here), and two: No Toxicity is one of the competition rules. So by all means, he should be investigated by the Squidcraft mods and (hopefully) disqualified for his bullshit.

And some additional context bc my guess is this all plays into why he was so outwardly toxic like that: Tubbo has outspokenly hated the Dr*m Team for a while now. He also had direct beef with Shatnap bc the dumbfuck tried migrating to Kick (basically Twitch for bigots & predators, to say the least).

AND, most relevant and recent: Philza was just on Tommy and Jack Manifold's podcast Shut Up I'm Talking about a week ago, and on the Patreon version of the episode the three of them talked about how Dr*m is a piece of shit, they all hate him, and how nasty and weird he was behind the scenes during DSMP, especially to Tommy.

Dr*m Team 100% knows this was all said, bc a) some of it was clipped ofc and b) Dr*m fucking posted the DSMP world download as damage control after people started talking abt what was said on the episode bc god forbid he look bad and get negative attention for 2 seconds. He's been begged by numerous people for LITERALLY LIKE 3 YEARS to drop the world download and only JUST did it to do damage control and make himself look all good and innocent or At Least distract people (spoiler alert: didn't work, he just made himself look even more pathetic. He basically gave the people who correctly hate him a gift in addition to clowning on him).

Shartnap literally lives with Dr*m, so there's no way he doesn't know Tommy, Jack & Phil have spoken some of the truth TECHNICALLY PRIVATELY. IT WAS ON PATREON BEHIND A PAYWALL.

Soooo yeah. As usual, Dr*m Team fucking sucks ass (many such cases, no one is surprised). Crapnap is the ""last remaining"" of the Dr*m Team to not have some Extreme horrific controversy and that's what keeping him able to be in competitions like this, rather than isolated to a shitty corner with the other two dumbfucks. (CLARIFICATION: He DOES have controversies. You can assume what some of them are based off of things said in that post I linked. Plus the Kick thing. But in comparison to Dr*m [a groomer, among other things], and George [sexual predator, among other things], Shatnap is ""the least awful"" of them, which is almost definitely why he's still ""welcome"" in competitions like this one).

Additional silly context: I'm calling him variations of shit because he openly admitted sometime earlier this year that he shit himself (or at least sharted) on stream.

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nekoannie-chan · 2 months ago

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Last sacrifice

Title: Last sacrifice.

Fandom: Marvel, Captain America.

Ship: Steve Rogers X Reader.

Word count: 732 words.

Rating: Teen.

Summary: Steve and you go to Vormir.

Major Tags: Angst, sacrifice, death of a character.

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The ship was hurtling through space in an eerie silence, as you and Steve, sitting side by side, watched the space, neither of you had dared to utter a word since you had boarded the ship that would take you to Vormir. You had been fortunate, neither you, Steve, nor his little daughter Sarah had disappeared with the Snap.

Steve turned his head to look at you, reached out a hand and rested it on yours, which rested in your lap.

“I know this is all...too much,” he said although his voice sounded a little shaky.

“I know, Steve. But we're in this together. We have been from the beginning.”

Steve closed his eyes briefly, remembering all the moments they had shared. From the first time they met to the day Sarah was born.

“I remember when I first held Sarah,” he murmured, sketching a wistful smile. “She was so tiny, so perfect. And now...I can't imagine life without her, or you.”

“I can't imagine it either,” you said, your voice cracking slightly. “But we know we must do this. For her, for everyone.”

The ship began to descend as they reached Vormir. You walked beside Steve, both of you silently, but holding hands.

When you finally reached the top, the guardian of the stone appeared.

“To possess the Soul Stone, you must offer a sacrifice. One soul for another. One person you love.”

Steve looked up at you, his eyes filled with horror and pain as he understood what it meant.

“No,” he said immediately, shaking his head. “There must be another way. I can't lose you.”

“Steve, we knew this wouldn't be easy. And now, we've always known there's a price for everything.”

“No. I can't let you do this,” he insisted, his hands gripping your shoulders.

“Listen to me,” you asked softly, lifting a hand to cup her face. “You have to go back to Sarah. She needs you. She needs her daddy.”

“What if she needs you?” he asked desperately, trying to control a sob.

“I'll always be in her heart. But you're her hero.”

“I can't do this, I can't lose you!”, Steve yelled.

“Steve, look around you,” you said, pointing to the cliff. “There's no other choice. And if one of us has to do it, I want you to be the one to go home. I want you to take care of Sarah, to tell her every day how much I love her. I want you to be the father she needs, to make her feel safe and loved.”

Tears began to slide down your face. Steve knelt before you, his hands wrapped around you.

“I can't live without you,” he sobbed. “I need you.”

You broke free and knelt in front of him, taking his face in your hands and forcing him to look into your eyes.

“And I need you, more than you can imagine. But Sarah needs you more. Promise me you'll take care of her, that you'll be strong for her, for us.”

You leaned your forehead against hers, Steve shook his head.

“I love you, Steve Rogers,” you whispered. “I will always love you. Tell Sarah I love her, and I'll always take care of her.”

You knew Steve wouldn't take it the easy way so you used your powers to force him to stay still, you knew it wouldn't last long, so you had to hurry. You took one last deep breath, then stood up, looking at the precipice that stretched out before you. You ran toward the edge, not looking back, but as you reached it, you stopped at the edge, turning one last time to look at it. “Goodbye, my love,” you said, before letting yourself fall.

Steve cried out your name, his voice wracked with pain and despair, but it was too late. He watched you disappear into that abyss, and dropped to his knees.

Then everything went dark, he opened his eyes in what looked like a lake, he slowly stood up, his body trembling, and he squeezed the stone hard.

“I love you, with all my being. I promise,” she said in a broken voice. “I promise I will take care of her, that I will love her with all my heart.”

He walked back to the ship, each step heavier than the last and the walk endless, tears kept falling down his cheeks.

#steve rogers x reader

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nebulousjoy · 6 months ago

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Sonikal: In this essay I will-

This'll be my deep dive into the rare-pair Sonikal - Sonic the Hedgehog/Tikal the Echidna - that I'll refer to if/whenever people ask me why I ship it and how it even works.

If this ends up getting reblogged, please note that I'll probably refine the text here, making corrections n' whatnot, as time goes on! So be sure to check the original post if you want the most up to date version. Also, do remember that everything in this post is of my own opinions. You can agree or disagree with them, makes no difference to me.

If such a lengthy post for something like a ship seems weird to you, that's fine. I just like talking about said ship, in this instance.

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Why do I ship Sonikal?

I believe a functionally healthy relationship between them could and would work, with both of their characters remaining as true to their canon depictions (however sparse in terms of Tikal) as possible. Mind you, since Sonic hasn't officially had a romantic interest and has demonstrated an aversion to Amy's affections, one has to use deductive reasoning and context clues within Sonic's character to surmise how he would behave if he were to form romantic affections for someone. With Tikal, the same goes, though doubly so as more effort is necessary due to she hardly being present enough in SA1 for her full personality "range" to be hinted at. Headcanons for bridging gaps / filling in holes are unavoidable.

(I'm aware an element like this is unnecessary in the eyes of many of fandom's typical shippers, but I'm the kind of person who NEEDS plausibility in ships for me to care about them. So, this is important.)

I think their dynamic would be extremely cute and wholesome, for reasons I'll get into when I describe how they would interact with each other.

The gamecanon versions of Sonic and Tikal are the primary focuses here. I don't know enough nor care about the comic versions of either to consider them.

How does Sonikal work?

The pairing is only remotely possible if we choose to deviate from canon, and allow Tikal to exist naturally. In SA1, it's unclear what exactly happens to her or Chaos after the story ends, but it's obvious that they aren't actively around in the world's setting.

There's a few paths one can go to expand upon Tikal's new life, but I like to go with something a little contrived but not theoretically impossible: Tikal gets given her physical body back from the M.E., as Chaos' wrath being quelled means the seal on him has no reason to stay active. It's implied in SA1 that Tikal's physical body is no more as she roams as an orb of light, so with the seal now being void, why wouldn't she get her body back?

This is turn draws the questions of "where would she live?" and "what would she do?". My answers for both of these are...Chao Gardens! Taking care of Chao! It's obvious Tikal grew fond of them in the past, and I don't see any reason why that would fade in modern time. Since the city of her clan has been mostly swallowed up by the earth, crumbling to ruin, she doesn't have a stable place to live. I feel she would turn to Chao Gardens to be her new homes, where she can live peacefully alongside Chao and take care of them.

(It also makes sense for her to live on Angel Island with Knuckles, but to keep things simple, let's go with the Chao Garden idea.)

This scenario is satisfactory to me enough, as where Sonic and his friends themselves live are normally kept vague in the series anyway. Amy and Tails apparently have their own houses in the games, but it's never been explained how they obtained them or if they still have them, so *shrugs*. Suspension of disbelief is basically required for the Sonic world.

SONIC

Being devoted to maintaining and enjoying his freedom is a core aspect of his character. He just simply isn't Sonic if he lacks this trait. This getting sacrificed to make a ship involving him work is a BIG no-no to me. Additionally, the character isn't Sonic if he lacks his canon benevolence and intolerance towards injustice. He cares for the people around him and helps those in need if he comes across them, which has been demonstrated many times in the games at this point.

However, Sonic does not come across as the physically affectionate type in canon. That actually doesn't impact the depth a relationship can have though, as there's MANY ways someone can express affection without kissing and cuddling being predominant. Intimacy has multiple layers with multiple manifestations, and none are greater than the other.

It's always possible to have a relationship work for him where his needs still get met - *without* his partner's needs getting unfulfilled in the process. If Sonic somehow realized this, and met the *right* person, romance isn't out of the realm of possibility for him generally speaking.

TIKAL

It was clearly depicted in SA1 that Tikal is very compassionate. She was very gentle and caring towards the Emerald Shrine's Chao. She tried many times to dissuade her father from his power-hungry, warmongering ways. She stood firm against him when he stormed the Emerald Shrine with a group of warriors, up until she was knocked aside. The societal hierarchies of the Knuckles Clan have never been revealed iirc, but as Pachacamac was the leader of the clan (and had shown he cared about getting what he wanted even at others' expenses), defying him like that most likely had severe consequences. That didn't stop her from trying.

This implies Tikal has a strong will and sense of bravery. She hates injustice and does what she can to stop it. She cares so much about doing what's right, and protecting the world itself, that she choose to seal the rampaging Perfect Chaos away in the M.E. - using her physical body to pay the price. Since chaos energy "turns one's thoughts into power", I see that act as proving Tikal also has a strong sense of conviction, going hand-in-hand with possessing a strong will.

Lastly, from her talks to her father of how greed leads one down a path where they will mindlessly consume more until they likely meet an end of self-destruction, Tikal too has a sense of wisdom. Or, emotional intelligence. However you want to describe it.

Other aspects of her character have to be assembled using headcanons, but frankly, these traits alone hold enough water for the next section.

SONIC & TIKAL TOGETHER

They've interacted canonically, in the tail end of Sonic's story and the last story in SA1. Their moments were fairly standard and naturally revolved around the story, but still! It's neat that they have.

One interesting moment is after Chaos floods Station Square. Tikal beseeches to him that Chaos needs to be sealed again, but Sonic being as intuitive as he is shoots that down, knowing it wouldn't solve the problem of Chaos' anger in the end. This highlights Tikal's desperation in the moment, but also hints at a trait of she tunnel-visioning whenever her composure is lost. Maybe it was just in that moment, maybe it's a habit she has; who can say for sure?

But me bringing up them having met in canon goes into how they could interact if they were to meet up again. Sonic, being the caring guy that he is, would definitely be very keen on speaking to her more in-depth compared to before - seeing how she's been doing and all that.

I also think Sonic would feel genuine curiosity about her. He got glimpses of her life, rather the bad moments in it leading up to her clan's extinction, so I can see him wanting to get to know her better as a friend. Because, Sonic for sure would view her as a friend. He so easily befriends others that it makes sense.

Tikal would respond in kind. She must've formed a strong enough amount of faith in his abilities to have shown him those flashbacks, and it's natural that she would want to know him better too. They'd form a carefree friendship, both sides being cordial with one another.

Their Chemistry

It's their friendship that allows more to develop between them. Assuming Sonic takes a break from his usual globe-trotting to hang out with Tikal in a Chao Garden every now and then, they would spend a fair amount of time talking and relaxing together.

The kicker here is that they do have a notable amount of personality traits in common, and they're the ones most apparent; arguably important. They're both benevolent, dislike injustice, and stay true to what they believe in. Sonic of course harbors a love of life itself, and I do think the same applies to Tikal, as her sacrifice proves she cares deeply about the world and the life in it. She not only opposed her father to protect the emeralds, but to protect the Chao as well.

We've seen Sonic's playful and sassy side plenty, and while Tikal hasn't exactly shown the same sides in canon nor has anything signaled it, I doubt she wouldn't mesh well with it. I can even see Tikal being like Sonic's "hype girl" funnily enough, laughing at his jokes or having a "Oh you're so silly <3" reaction to them. It's even better if Tikal bounced off of Sonic's antics with her own secret playful side, and who knows, maybe she does have one (I like to think so personally). It wouldn't be out of place if she did.

In general, there's nothing about either of them that makes it implausible they'd form chemistry. They could bond over many things.

Their Feelings

I'm not sure who would catch feelings first, and it honestly doesn't matter. Both of them would form an attraction to one another without either realizing it at first, but I do have the hunch that Tikal would more quickly identify that she feels a certain type of way about Sonic, to where calling him a mere friend doesn't feel quite right. She'd hone in on this, while I can see Sonic just going with the flow in regards to his own feelings, not noticing the change in how he feels about her until it gets outright brought up in some manner.

Namely, Tikal could voice her thoughts just to get them into the air; off her chest. Speaking on how much Sonic means a lot to her, and she feels closer to him than she has with anyone else. Whatever time they do spend together fills her with joy. It's reasonable for Sonic to not catch onto the implications and be pleased that she does like being around him, or...his intuition kicks in and he starts to suspect something is there. What exactly, he doesn't know. But still.

That could be the first domino to fall, leading into a chain reaction. Maybe he starts to look at Tikal in a way different from before. Maybe he pays closer attention to how she behaves around him, and whenever Tikal can interact with his other friends, especially see how she is with them. Sonic is smarter than a lot of people give him credit for, and when he gets interested enough in something to pay close attention to it, he'll perceive a lot of things. Maybe Tikal notices this change, and she too starts to subtly "study" him to see what's up.

To hurry along and keep this already long post from getting even longer: eventually a boiling point would be reached. I do like the idea of Sonic being the first to properly touch upon their bond going to a different level. He'd need to have a more serious conversation over it, but once he sees that Tikal is on board, the ship sails.

Their Relationship

Tikal is very understanding. By the point they each learn of the other's feelings, she would know fully well that Sonic does not want to be changed. She would not want him to change anyway. His happiness would be extremely important to her, and he keeping to his love of traveling the planet is what she would want - first and foremost.

Sonic would recognize and greatly appreciate this consideration. A relationship to him had always symbolized he being anchored down and his freedom compromised (Amy and her habits of chasing him and wanting them to get married pinned that in his mind), but Tikal making it clear that's not what she wants would bring him immense relief. And would in turn make him feel like she does truly get him.

In a similar fashion, Tikal would remain committed to her role of nurturing Chao. She has overall less responsibilities to the world compared to Sonic and less of a perpetual wanderlust, but she does not want anything to come between her and what she wants to do. Not that Sonic would DO such a thing, he'll never boss anyone around, but still. They'd be on the same page. None of what they hold dear need to be given up to make things work, and the other's happiness is just as important as their own.

Above all else, they each would want one another to be a permanent part of their world. Nothing more, nothing less. That would remain set in stone, no matter how often they're far apart physically. Because, in the times they are together, it makes them that much more special.

Besides, Sonic would ABSOLUTELY bring Tikal with him during some of his travels. She's been out of commission for the last 3,000+ years after all, she's missed out on a lot! Sonic would be thrilled to help her experience new things in this modern era, be it sightseeing in countries or taking her to scenic places he loves. The girl would be pumped to see the world, and create new memories with Sonic that she can enjoy for the years to come.

This isn't even acknowledging some fanon theories about Tikal being immortal if she were to ever actually return & hang around in modern times, but that can be discussed in a different post.

TLDR: Sonikal works because both Sonic and Tikal can reasonably make the relationship work without sacrificing important parts of their characters, and their relationship would have a nice flair of true significance on top of that. They would have the kind of romance that's not over the top or even that conventional, but still very intimate.

So...yeah. My intentions for writing this weren't to "convince" other people to ship them too, just to shed some light on why I do. Thanks for reading all of this, if you did! 👋🏾

#( didnt really proofread this initially; head's kinda hurting from typing & reading blocks of text )#( so take this how it is )#sonikal #sonic x tikal #sonic ships #saved #renewed life au

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boobsoutforbeeduo · 4 months ago

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I have the right to not draw your request for any reason, be it me not knowing the character, not having motivation, or something else. please do not be mad if I dont draw it.

I DO NOT draw requests of ocs, nsfw, fetish, gross shit, and anything I don't want to draw (dont be afraid to send in asks, if I don't want to draw smth I will just ignore the ask, so no reason to feel bad lol)

I DO draw dsmp (including shipping!! even stuff like tomboo, so long as it is strictly NOT the ccs!) I will draw cwilbur, but ONLY if its something showing it is specifically NOT IN ANY WAY relating to the cc!! I see the characters as fully separate things from the creators, so no I don't support wilbur, but I will continue to draw cwilbur.

I will draw the silly mcyt, genloss or cotl characters kissing n being gay idiots, but I will not do nsfw, and will not draw ship art for fandoms other than that, including tadc

PLEASE REQUESt ART EVEN IF U THINK IT WONT BE ACCEPTED I want to see inside ur silly brains

i will draw selfcest art, but NOT incest art, because ew ew no!! (this is things like Phil x tommy, shit like that, but if you want ranboo x ranboo, from any universe, fuck yeah dude, most likely to draw those asks actually selfcest is my jam!

I have anon off because I have gotten a lot of weird messages through anon. If you want to send disgusting shit at least don't be a pussy abt it shaking my fuckin head.

Tags+info about me under the cut

Tags:

#wilbyasks - answering asks

#my art - when I'm posting my art

#request - when I'm drawing a request

#not art - when I make a post that is not art

#doodles - sketches, shitposts, and similar things

#cAt the cat - drawings of cAt the cat (mspaint shitposts of my character cAt)

#sonic speaks - when Sonic is fronting (read below)

#reblogs - when I reblog things (I will only reblog things here if I have made art as a response to what I am reblogging, or if it is fanart, though I doubt I'll get any of that)

Doodles / cAt drawings won't have the #my art tag!!!

NOW MY FUNFACTS!

My name is Wilbur, but unless you know me please call me Fern or Fennel. Dog is good too I like that name.

I make art, mostly furry art, sometimes Genloss or cotl. And lately, A LOT of sonic fanart!

I have been drawing for nearly 5 years now.

I Am plural!! I am a sonic fictive (I believe that is the correct wording?) all versions of him included (him from all games, shows, and movies, not just one), so I may act different than myself sometimes. Please dont be discouraged to interact with me though!!! I love talking to people no matter what!!

Shadow, Jax, and Bill Cipher are all my f/o s!!! I love them very much <3

I am transmasc nonbinary and use he/they/it pronouns with no preference, but its almost 2025 so ill figure that out later

My fursona is NOT A GOAT HE IS A RAM AKA A MALE SHEEP NOT A MALE GOAT HE IS A SHEEP and here is a photo of him he's also a fallen angel so there's smth cool bout him

And he also has an alt design which is actually a different person from him aka himself but he exists in a different universe

and also I DO COMMISSIONS!! You must have Deviantart to buy them (no paypal, so I need USD payments to be sent on deviant art so I can convert them into points) here are my prices!

If you want a comm, please send me an ask or pm and I can discuss it with you!!

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rjalker · 2 years ago

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Okay since you're offline apparently and haven't removed the read-more so I can respond properly I'm just copying and pasting your post into a new reblog. If you edit your post to remove the read-more, I'll delete this version and reblog that one instead.

@knittedpie said:

I’m sorry, but I have no idea what you’re talking about in regards to a ableism in Murderbot?

If you’re talking about the constant differentiation between humans and augmented humans that always read to me as an aspect of the series being almost entirely from Murderbot’s pov. It’s never exhibited much interest in human genders/sexualities/races (aside from always using correct pronouns, we love that for it). To it the most important differentiator between these two groups seems to be how they interact with the feed. I believe it was in one of the books (though I can’t remember exactly where right now) that bots, constructs, humans, and, humans with augments all interact with and ‘feel’ different in the feed (from murderbot’s pov at least). As a being who is part machine it inhabits the feed as comfortably, sometimes more comfortably, than it’s physical body. So how someone interacts with the feed and with it through the feed is an important differentiator for it.

[the read more was here]

You’re so right about augments probably being heavily utilized by disabled people though.

If this was not what you were referencing then I’m curious what you read as ableist.

I’m also baffled by your “ literally every single "oppressed class" in any of her stories she's written is literally people being oppressed because they do literally pose a lethal fucking threat to everyone else.” bit? (again in regards to murderbot only) Are you implying that oppressed people or groups aren’t oppressed if they’re dangerous? Or that having power in one aspect completely cancels out oppression in any others? Murderbot, and other constructs, are oppressed because they are constructs. The fact that they are physically stronger and potentially more dangerous than an average human does not negate that. Because they are sentient beings who can make the choice (if not enslaved) about how they use the strength and abilities they have. To me it feels dangerously close to justifying the oppression of any group with some privilege or power in one aspect of their lives.

For example, I’m Jewish. It’s hard to argue on a larger historical timescale that Jews aren’t oppressed. But I acknowledge that I personally have a lot of privilege, in where and when I live, in the education I received, in the support I have from my family. None of that privilege negates the oppression I also experience as a Jew. In some situations I can use that privilege to help and support other oppressed groups (and in fact am obligated to do so but that starts getting into discussing religious beliefs which we’re not doing) but in other situations all that privilege amounts to nothing because I am a jew first to them. Any privilege I have is perceived as unfairly gained or a trick or greed and more proof that I need to be and deserve to be oppressed.

As for all the other stuff about Martha Wells, I haven’t actually read any of her other stuff rn so can’t comment either way on that.

Sorry this ended up longer than I originally intended. I got a little heated but I am genuinely trying to have a discussion and not an argument, so let me know if I’ve misinterpreted something you said.

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Any time I say "Normal Humans™" please read that in the most sarcastic tone you can imagine.

For the first part of your response:

Yes, I am indeed referring to the constant separation of "human" from "augmented human" as the ableism in the series.

Many other disabled people have noticed this and been made uncomfortable by it, because it's just. Very clearly saying that augmented humans are no longer considered fully human, without Martha Wells actually putting in any of the care and effort to deal with this problem she's created.

Especially because disabled people aren't actually acknowledged as being part of this group, and making up the majority of it, as anyone with any critical thinking skills should be able to figure out immediately. It just makes it very clear she is not putting any of the effort or care into this worldbuilding (or lack thereof, I should say) required to handle these things appropriately.

If it were actually a thing that Murderbot sees them as inherently different in terms of how it can interact with them, it would be one thing.

But that's not how it actually works in this series. Murderbot does not have an easier time communicating with or understanding augmented humans, and augmented humans do not have an easier time communicating with or understanding Murderbot. It's not even any more comfortable around augmented humans than it is Normal Humans™. The distinction is not made because it's a distinction that benefits Murderbot, or reflects anything about the world and how people interact within it, it's just made to say that these are separate groups of people.

In order for that reasoning to work, Martha Wells would have to put in way more world building and structure to show that augmented humans interact with Murderbot differently than Normal Humans™ do, and that augmented humans are treated differently than Normal Humans™ are, especially in the Corporation Rim where we can only assume the distinction between “Human” and “Augmented human” carries some serious legal ramifications like even further losses of rights than Normal Humans™ already suffer.

But augmented humans do not behave differently with Murderbot than any other characters do. We don't even know what augmented humans can do or anything about the kinds of augments they can get besides Gurathin not having to clip an interface to his ear to connect to the internet like other people do, and apparently being able to do stuff with it slightly faster than other people. We don't know how the rest of any of these societies view augmented humans or why they feel the need to separate them from Normal Humans™

If there was actually a difference in the ways Murderbot can interact with abled humans vs disabled humans (which is what augmented humans clearly are), and Murderbot had more difficulty communicating with abled humans, that would be one thing.

But that's not what happens at all, and Martha Wells has so far declined to put in any level of world building or effort to actually justify making this distinction in a way that's not just ableist. It's not even being done to point out that augmented humans are oppressed, which is why I specifically said this isn't cyberpunk.

It just never gets questioned in any way, addressed, or even acknowledged. It's just a fact that groups of humans are referred to as "humans and disabled humans" like that's a normal way of talking about people, and that's ableist.

Probably 99% of the people reading this series don't even notice it or think it's a problem. Which is the whole problem.

It doesn't even matter that Murderbot's not human and doesn't see being considered not human as an insult. Some people being okay with not being considered human does not mean all disabled humans should just be fine with being considered not fully human and shouldn't be upset by that. Disabled people are dehumanized on the daily, and have been for centuries.

Martha Wells casauly continuing that dehumanization by never letting your forget that augmented humans are considered a separate category from Real Humans™, without actually doing this for any world building purpose to question it or dismantle it, is literally just Martha Wells being ableist.

Check Rjalker.tumblr.com/tagged/the murderbot diaries ableism for more posts where I talk about how Martha Wells is ableist in this series if you want to learn. There are more examples than just this, but I don't feel like typing all of that out all over again.

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Onto part 2 of your response.

"Are you implying that oppressed people or groups aren’t oppressed if they’re dangerous?"

No, you have it completely backwards.

I am not saying people are not oppressed if they're dangerous.

I'm saying people are not oppressed BECAUSE they are dangerous.

Antisemitism doesn't exist because Jewish people are dangerous.

Antiblackness doesn't exist because Black people are dangerous.

Xenomisia doesn't exist because foreigners are dangerous.

Ableism does not exist because disabled people are dangerous.

Bigotry does not exist because the victims of it pose a legitimate threat to those enacting it. White people did not create the concept of "white people" because people they decided were "not white" posed a legitimate lethal threat to them.

"Or that having power in one aspect completely cancels out oppression in any others?"

No, I am not implying or saying that having power on one axis cancels out oppression.

I am not actually talking about the ways that fictional people are oppressed. This post is not a debate about whether or not Murderbot or Moon (the apex predator who literally evolved to eat people) is oppressed.

I am talking about the way white people in particular think that oppression works.

Martha Wells is a cis white woman.

And it is blatantly clear from every one of her book series that I've read, which is all but one, that she has no actual understanding of why oppression exists and why oppressed people are oppressed.

Every time Martha Wells writes about people being oppressed, the people being oppressed are oppressed because they literally pose a lethal threat to everyone around them.

The idea that oppression exists to protect the people doing the oppressing is literally white supremacy in a nutshell.

White people stereotyped Black people as naturally submissive and caring right up until white slave owners were forced to free their slaves, and then all of a sudden Black people are now being stereotyped as violent and out of control and dangerous to white women and needing to be locked up in jail for the sake of White Society.

Martha Wells has yet to write a single oppressed class that is not literally a real threat to the people oppressing them.

Martha Wells, like many white authors, does not understand why people are oppressed.

and you know what I'm out of spoons so literally just.

Look at Zootopia.

Look at Bright.

Martha Wells writes oppression always based on a very real and present danger presented by the oppressed. Every single one of Martha Wells' "oppressed classes" in all her series are oppressed "for a good reason".

Real oppression does not exist "for a good reason".

Real oppressed people are not capable of killing every single person on a space station on a whim.

Real oppressed people are not literal apex predators that you cannot defend against.

Real oppressed people are not inherently and demonstrably dangerous and overpowered and capable of killing everyone around them without even breaking a sweat.

This post is not a debate about whether or not androids in The Murderbot Diaries are opppressed or not.

This post is calling out the fact that Martha Wells thinks people are oppressed because they're actually dangerous and actually pose a threat to everyone around them, and that's why they're oppressed.

This post is calling out the inherent racism (because black and brown people are always demonized and portrayed as dangerous!) in saying that oppressed people are oppressed because they're dangerous.

It would be fine if it were a myth that SecUnits were uber dangerous, and that saying they're so dangerous is just the tool used to justify enslaving them.

But Murderbot could literally fucking knock a space station out of orbit with zero trouble and there would be nothing anyone could do to stop it, which is not doing anything to disprove the myth that oppression exists to protect people from dangerous people.

If this response still doesn't clear it up, just go look at anything written by Black people about Zootopia or Bright, or literally any other fantasy or scifi series that says oppressed people are oppressed for perfectly logical reasonable reasons.

Like.

She has literally never written about oppression in a way that does not literally just perpetuate the white supremacist (because again. Cannot fucking stress enough how inherently racist this whole idea is) idea that oppressed people are oppressed because they're dangerous.

The Murderbot Diaries is not cyberpunk because yes, Martha Wells has casually decided that disabled people (aka augmented people because disabled people are going to be the majority of people who get augments AKA prosthetics) aren't fully human, but this is not done to ask any questions or criticize the dehumanization of disabled people. It's just a thing you aren't supposed to notice or comment on at all. It's just disabled people being casually dehumanized and we're all supposed to shrug and go "yeah this is fine".

The Murderbot Diaries is not cyberpunk, because that would demand an understanding of how oppression works, and an ability to question the systems that create oppression, that Martha Wells does not have.

As is clearly evidenced by the fact that literally every single "oppressed class" in any of her stories she's written is literally people being oppressed because they do literally pose a lethal fucking threat to everyone else.

Martha Wells' writing is like the fucking epitome of fantasy oppression written by white people. But because the characters are charismatic and fun, no other white people want to admit this or criticize it at all.

"oh woe is me everyone is scared of me just because I have literal guns in my arms and I could crash this space station out of orbit and use it to nuke the planet below us on a whim or I could just kill literally every single person on this space station by myself with my bare hands and no one would be able to stop meeeee this is so unfair :((((("

"oh woe is meeee all the prey animals are so scared of me and distrust me and think I'm going to eat them :((( all because I am a lethal fucking predator they have no defence against because I am stronger than them and faster than them and literally a natural predator of them. My species literally evolved to hunt and eat them by pretending to be one of them so I could gain their trust and them kill them when their back is turned :(((((( this is so unfair that the pathetic little prey animals who have literally only survived by being afraid of predators like me are afraid of meeeeeeeeeee it's no fair that these pathetic little weaklings who have literally zero chance of ever running away from me or overpowering me in a physical fight are scared I'm going to eat them :(((( just because I am literally one of their natural predators and most of my people don't even treat them like sentient beings ;((((("

This is the equivalent of antivaxxers crying about being oppressed because they refuse to not be literal plague carriers.

Which several shity white writers have fucking written about to compare being an antivaxxer to being fucking indiginous peoples being unfairly oppressed. Because you know.

#antiblackness #racism #ask to tag #long post #replies #fantasy oppression #fantasy oppression written by white people #The Books of the Raksura #The Murderbot Diaries #The Fall of Ile-Rien #City of Bones #Martha Wells #knittedpie

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keyboardandquill · 2 years ago

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On creating a wiki for your worldbuilding

Do you have a lot of lore to keep track of? Whether you're an author, a Game Master, or simply someone who really really likes worldbuilding, this post is for you.

Here's a quick overview of what I'll be talking about:

Platforms people use to create personal wikis

Formats and organization systems you may find useful when creating your own wiki

A brief look at the actual content you might put in your wiki (I'm planning a more in-depth post on that later with more images and demos)

And because this is gonna be a long'un, I'm putting a read-more here! I'll also make downloadable epub and PDF versions of this post available for free on my Ko-Fi at some point in the future.

(I'm also planning to reblog with a list of links later on, but I want this initial post shows up in search)

Also now that you're here, I'm going to say this isn't, like, super comprehensive or anything. I'm just talking about stuff I know a little about or have experience with. Please feel free to reblog with additions and/or corrections as needed!

What is a wiki?

According to Wikipedia, "a wiki is a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser."

In this case, you'll likely be the sole person making updates to your wiki. The web browser part is optional these days as well, as you'll soon see.

Platforms for creating wikis

Websites for creating worldbuilding wikis

WorldAnvil

This one is actually designed for people who want to create big worldbuilding wikis.

Pros: Worldbuilding prompts! Those are great. It's got a pretty comprehensive set of article types too.

Cons: Kind of expensive to upgrade for features like making your wiki private, and it does NOT work well with adblock turned on, so if you don't want to pay for a membership you'll get inundated with ads. I'm not a huge fan of the interface in general and a lot of it isn't intuitive, but I like what they're doing so I support them anyway.

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Tiddlywiki/Tiddlyhost.com.

In addition to having a cat as its icon and also a silly name, each 'article' you create with this is called a 'tiddler' which makes me think of Chuck Tingle. I haven't used it much myself yet, but I did make an account and it seems pretty neat.

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Miraheze

A community-hosted wiki platform that runs on MediaWiki (which is what Wikipedia runs off of).

Pros: It's not Fandom.com.

Cons: You have to request a wiki and can't just make it yourself, as far as I can tell. I haven't actually looked into this one as much.

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Neocities

An option for if you want to go super oldschool and create a website using only basic html and hyperlinks (without the handy shortcuts of bbcode or Markdown). Monthly cost is $5 usd if you want to have more space and your own domain.

Pros: 100% control over your content.

Cons: Doesn't support PHP databases for wiki software, and can be fairly labour-intensive to update if you break a link or something.

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Fandom.com

Unfortunately, this one is the top result you'll get when you look up how to make your own wiki. I'm only including it here to tell you to stay as far away from it as possible!!

Its staff are known to ban wiki creators from their own wikis and a bunch of other nonsense that I'm not getting into here.

Programs and apps/web apps for creating worldbuilding wikis

Obsidian.md

My personal favourite. I'm planning to make a whole post about how I use it in the near future as part of this article series.

It's a markdown-based application that you can get on just about any platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android, etc) which is great. Obsidian is really easy to pick up and use and also has great themes and community plugins!

Best thing is, it's FREE and you only have to pay if you use their publishing service, which... I don't, so.

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Notion

I've heard this one is pretty good too. Idk if it costs anything. It's another "second brain" style app (might be markdown also?) and I think it might do more than Obsidian, but I haven't checked it out much myself.

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Microsoft Word/Google Docs etc.

...Or just about any word processor that lets you create internal hyperlinks. Word may work best due to the collapsible headings so it doesn't get too unwieldy, but *shrug* whatever floats your boat.

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Excel/Google Sheets etc.

Or, again, any spreadsheet creator that lets you create internal hyperlinks.

I'd recommend having some basic spreadsheet knowledge before doing this. It could get complicated. Before I started using Obsidian, I was using Sheets to keep track of my glossary, notes about characters, and plot ideas.

Types of formatting & organization systems

There are as many organization systems as there are people who want to organize their stuff. Everybody needs something a little different! I find the ones that work best for me are systems that have a lot of customization options.

Here are a couple I know of.

Johnny Decimal

This system is absurdly simple in its concept and yet so versatile. From their website (it's just johnnydecimal dot com but I'll link it in a reblog later):

Take everything you need to organise and sort it in to, at most, ten large buckets.

Make sure the buckets are unambiguously different.

Put a label on each bucket.

Their website has a better explanation than I can give in this post, but I'll sum up the appeal of this system as quoted from their site: "There's only one place anything can ever be."

Usefully, part of this method is creating a directory for the rest of the system.

So if you're like me and tend to shove things wherever only to lose track of it later, this is a great system—especially when used in conjunction with the Zettelkasten Method (see below).

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Zettelkasten Method

Originally devised as an extensive paper-based knowledge management system, Zettelkasten is meant to easily add new entries to a knowledge base while giving each one a unique ID for easy 'linking.'

The creator of this method said 'it is not important where you place the note, as long as you can link to it.'

As with the Johnny Decimal system, I can't explain it super succinctly (nor can the website, if I'm being honest), so I'll include a link in a future reblog for a video that gave me an excellent run-down of the basics.

Setting up your own system

An organization system is only useful if you can actually, y'know, use it.

It can be fun to set up a super-detailed organization system with predetermined categories for everything, but is it easy for you to use? How will you navigate it?

Making decisions

There will be a lot of decisions to make as you set up your system. The only set-in-stone rule I follow is... don't set anything in stone. It's okay if you decide something that doesn't work later on.

Figuring out your categories

My advice: go fairly broad. You can always sub-categorize. I'm going to go over my own wikis for Athenaeum and Rocket Boosters in detail in a later post, but here are the starting top-level categories I'd recommend for worldbuilders:

A meta category for notes about your database, templates, and any relevant research you've done.

Characters, including main characters, minor characters, and important figures

Worldbuilding

In the last category, which is the main reason for the existence of my wiki, I might have:

Culture

History

Locations

Organizations

Lore (if relevant)

Technology

Transportation

I'll go over the nuances of these 'main' subcategories in that future post I mentioned. In other words, the stuff that actually goes in those categories!

Determining the importance and relevance of worldbuilding elements

You'll need to figure out whether a topic is complex enough to deserve its own entry, or if it should be a sub-heading under another entry. It's okay if you decide on both! I have short subheadings under some entries that amount to "see [link to main entry on that topic]."

I've also decided to expand subheadings into their own topics, and I've removed topics as their own entry and shoved them under subheadings. I do this a lot, in fact! So it's okay if you don't know.

Templates

Will you be creating several of one type of entry?

Individual character profiles

Towns and cities

Factions

(to name a few)

It might be handy to figure out the basic types of information you'll need about each of those things and create a template for them.

A character template might have spaces for the basics, such as name, role, age, and so on.

Some characters will have a lot more information, and some might have even less than what your template dictates! And that's fine.

A word of warning about using system-creation as procrastination

Creating a wiki can be a daunting task. You might decide it's not for you, and that's okay. But you might also decide to go headlong into the process and work on every minute detail, and that is also okay, but.

But.

Beware of using your wiki as an excuse to procrastinate your actual writing/session preparation. Yes, use it to keep track of all the lore you've injected into your manuscript/campaign/whatever, just make sure it stays in its place as a companion to your main project rather than becoming your main project.

How formal should your entries be?

Honestly this one's entirely up to you. I have a mix. Some entries are written like Wikipedia entries with a thorough explanation of the topic with proper punctuation and formatting, while others are simply bullet-point lists of thoughts and ideas that I can return to at a later date.

What methods do you use to keep track of your lore and worldbuilding? Let me know in a reblog or comment!

And please make sure to check the notes. I'll be reblogging with links, and then reblogging that reblog to make sure they're, y'know, actually visible in the notes.

#wiki #worldbuilding #writing advice #writeblr #writeblr community #resource #worldbuilding wiki #obsidian #zettelkasten #resource by keyboardandquill

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mittensmorgul · 6 years ago

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I recently read a fic on ao3 and it was funny and great and then I thought of a few major changes that would make it even more hilarious. Problem is, I don't know the etiquette here. Should I just go ahead and write my own version? Add a link to the original story and credit it as inspiration? It was based on a prompt so the idea isn't exclusively the author's I suppose. Anyway I'll only be borrowing the start scenario (which is the prompt) and there will be no other similarities. Please help

Hello there. I’m gonna start what I expect will be kind of a long essay by saying there is an awful lot to unpack here… Starting with the fact that there is a chasm of difference between taking inspiration from a prompt fill fic and imagining an entirely different scenario, and starting that from a mentality of “I can do better than you.” The first is at the root of all of human creativity. We all bounce off one another and take inspiration from each other, and the entire history of human storytelling is essentially one long conversation. But the second part of this historically leads to fisticuffs. No, really. Google “famous literary feuds” for all the reasons why.

It’s not so much a difference in practical terms, but in your approach and understanding here.

So this is why I saw this ask in my inbox late last night and decided I needed to go to sleep rather than trying to answer you right away. But now I have coffee, so let’s give this a try. :P

I’d start by asking what the source of the prompt was. Was it a tumblr post? A prompt from a prompt list? Even one of those “pick a pairing and a prompt and I’ll write a short ficlet” posts? If so, you’re probably free to use the prompt by going back to the original fic prompt list. People publish those as jumping off points to write fic, and they actively WANT people to use them this way.

If the prompt, however, was given to a specific author by someone, you might want to at least ask that author if it would be okay for you to write something of your own based on the prompt. And at least try not to frame it as “I can write something better than you did” when you ask. That’s just rude and demoralizing for the author who’s already published a fic for that prompt, you know?

I get fic ideas all the time from random places, but there’s a different etiquette for each of them.

Sometimes a random tumblr post will give me an idea, and I’ll go talk to the OP privately, both because it’s FUN to talk about someone’s wild headcanon with them, and because you’re approaching the person who had the initial idea with courtesy and in the spirit of collaboration, rather than from this place of “stealing their idea.” The first builds good fandom feelings, while the second tends to do the opposite. I have a couple of experiences here that will hopefully illustrate the difference.

A few years back, when Lizbob was running the Great Meta Scavenger Hunt during s12, it led to the creation of the Great Fic Writer Scavenger Hunt. The theory behind it was that any number of authors could take the same fic prompt based on a single trope paired with a single distinctive character trait and the results would all be entirely unique stories. The intent was to prove that just because an idea had been written before, it becomes a new story when written by someone else, you know? And it was TRUE.

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/tagged/the-great-fic-writer-scavenger-hunt/chrono

We had DOZENS of authors participate, and despite all writing “the same story” every week, NONE of the resulting stories were even remotely the same.

On the other hand, I posted an insomnia-inspired headcanon a few months ago, and within five minutes after posting it, my insomnia brain– with an assist from a more rational point of view thanks to lizbob– had taken that little notion and spun it out into long fic in my head. I went back to my original post to laugh at myself in a reblog, announcing that I was gonna write long fic of the thing and for people to stay tuned for more, but other folks had already reblogged the original with comments to the effect of, “Someone should write this fic!” The worst thing was that other authors were tagged into it. As if my highly specific headcanon was suddenly communal property. Because the implication behind it– whether it was the truth or not– felt like “I like this headcanon, but have decided that I don’t want the OP to actually write this story because I like XYZ author’s writing better.”

And I know that was not the intent of the folks who added those comments to my post, but as someone who actively writes fic for this fandom, it felt like a slap in the face.

Now if those same people had replied, “OP please write more of this!” or “What a cool idea!” or even if they’d come to me privately and said, “Hey this is a cool idea, do you mind if I use it to write a longer fic?” I would’ve been HAPPY about it.

Can you see the difference here, anon?

The result was a rather frustrating back and forth where I was told that because I posted the idea in public it was effectively free real estate for anyone else to squat on. I mean, isn’t that what we’re all doing with the source material we base all our fan creations on anyway? We don’t ask the Supernatural writers for permission to use their characters, their settings, their intellectual property to create our own stories and art, right?

But the difference here is apparently too subtle for some folks to grasp. The Supernatural writers aren’t part of our fandom community. And the culture within fandom operates on different rules. Fandom creators are not source creators, and yes we all collectively “steal” from the same source, but it sort of defies the underlying premise that fandom creators as a whole are operating on the same level to suggest that “stealing” from another fandom creator is the same thing.

From my understanding, the entire point of fandom creators doing what they do is to build a community together around the thing we all love. There is a way to do that in good faith, through collaboration and the free sharing of ideas and creations.

I hope this makes sense.

The result of all of that was that I set aside another project I’d been wanting to write and instead began spite writing my own headcanon post. It was like pulling teeth at first, because there was so much Bad Fandom Feeling attached to the concept that the words just didn’t want to come. It’s FINALLY flowing now, though (after several months of the aforementioned teeth-pulling), and is nearing 18k words. I’m hoping it’ll be done and ready to post by the end of March, so I can FINALLY go back to writing the thing I’d originally wanted to work on before this nonsense blew up.

I’ve also unfortunately been one of the authors tagged in on someone else’s headcanon post in the past. I know the folks who do this think it’s flattering, and they’re just excited about an idea and want to read more of it, but the correct etiquette is ALWAYS to approach the OP in PRIVATE before taking their idea and writing it yourself, or pointing another author in the direction of the post and suggesting they write it for you.

I can guarantee you that 99 times out of 100, the OP will actually be flattered you enjoyed their idea so much you want to read more of it if you frame it from a place of appreciation and excitement, rather than from a place of selfish entitlement or superiority.

I’ve talked about this before, but this is how I have always approached fic writing. I got my first idea for a long fic from the Valentine’s Day Collab fic that Winjennster ran back in 2015. I told her I had an idea based on her prompt that I wanted to write as a much longer fic than would fit into the 3k limit for the collab, and she told me to go forth and be fruitful with my words. Actually, I think her exact words were more like “HELL YES! YOU DO THAT!” or something, but the spirit was the same. :P

The next fic I wrote (Project Beyonce) was inspired by a series of tumblr crack posts about “what sort of tumblr blogs would each member of TFW run?” And I reblogged them with commentary about how this would make a hilarious fic, because they were that sort of “conversational thread” of crack headcanons where that sort of addition was more than welcome. Not to mention I was already on friendly terms with the other participants in the thread, so it wasn’t strange for me to zoom in out of the blue and announce I was writing fic inspired by those posts. Even though my fic was set in an AU, and the only commonality was the fact that Dean and Cas were on tumblr. Nothing else about my fic was even remotely similar to the canon crack headcanons from those posts, and I don’t think that anyone involved in the original threads was upset that I’d written fic based on Dean being Cas’s favorite tumblr anon…

My first DCBB (Revenge of the Subtext) was inspired by a crack post made by @nicelimabean. One single sentence about Jensen and Jared walking into a con dressed like Sam and Dean and covered in dirt and blood, and suddenly I had 80k of fic running through my head. I sat there and stared at her post for like five minutes and then went immediately to the chat bubbles to ask– nay, beg– to use her post as a fic prompt for the DCBB. We talked it over for a good long while, both of us growing more excited as the ideas spun out, and long story short, not only did I make a wonderful fandom friend, she ended up beta reading for me and being an ongoing source of encouragement and support in fandom. We even met in person at a con (!) and spent the weekend cackling about how everything felt like a reference to RotS (since at the time we were the only two people on the planet who’d read the fic or even knew what it was about, because DCBB rules of secrecy).

Since then, I’ve gotten ideas for fic from tumblr (and always asked the OP for permission to write their idea– like for fic such as Plotbunny which was based on the combination of ideas from @bluestar86 on a WONDERFUL way to confirm Dean’s bisexuality in canon and Lizbob’s long desire for an Easter Bunny episode, combined with the fact that Easter fell on April Fool’s Day last year… to ideas for The Terminal Job based on chats with @truebluecas about an airport AU WHICH I AM SO SORRY STROB I STILL HAVE IT ON MY LIST TO WRITE AND I SWEAR I WILL WRITE IT EVENTUALLY D:

I’ve also had the reverse happen, where someone read one of my fics and was inspired to write their own fic based on Revenge of the Subtext. They approached me in private with the idea and asked for my blessing to write it. Honestly, I was FLOORED that anyone would be inspired by my words like that, and eagerly encouraged them to write their idea. I’ve also had people give me fic ideas in comments on AO3, in chats both on tumblr and Discord, which turned into longer conversations and eventually more fic (or at the very least to ideas on my To Be Written list). But I always ALWAYS ask permission from the other person or people before writing their ideas. And I have NEVER been told that I was not permitted. People are usually PLEASED that their ideas are deemed worthy by another writer, you know? It’s exciting!

This also goes for art inspired by fic, but in a slightly different way. If someone (anyone!) was inspired to draw something based on something I wrote, I will UNIVERSALLY BE THRILLED that my words inspired someone’s creativity in a different medium. But the key here is it’s a different medium. Nobody ever has to ask permission to art my fic. But that’s not the same as wanting to rewrite my fic into a different story, you know?

Not to mention, collaborating and asking permission and sharing the enthusiasm for an idea or a story like this with others has the potential to boost ALL of your creations. You could build resentment in fandom from other creators, or you can all lift each other up. Starting from the standpoint of communal excitement can result in mutual promotion of each other’s works, you know? Do you want a built-in cheerleader for your work, to build connections in fandom that will eventually support ALL of your works? Then your approach to sharing ideas this way is the key that could potentially unlock that door, or conversely lock it behind you. Your choice, really.

Wait, what was I talking about again? OH right. The whole entire point of fandom. We’re all of us in this same boat, sailing the seas of our chosen Source Material together. You can use your creative abilities for Good, to build communities up, or you can be That Asshole who tries to build themselves up while effectively shading or demoralizing other fandom creators in the process.

So what I’m saying here isn’t necessarily about your desire to write something based on someone else’s idea, but more about the approach you take to it. It costs zero dollars to be polite about it and approach it from a direction of good will and joy in creating for the thing we all love together, you know?

#fandom problems #writing is hard #Anonymous

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nekoannie-chan · 4 months ago

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Wanna see you

Title: Wanna see you.

Fandom: Marvel, Captain America.

Ship: Jack Rollins X Reader.

Word count: 199 words.

Square: 8 “I want to see you”

Rating: Teen.

Summary: Dates with Jack can be difficult.

Major Tags: Fluff.

Additional tags: This is my entry to @eclipsingbingo The Rising Moon Flash Event 2024.

Links: Wattpad, Ao3, Spanish version.

@saiyanprincessswanie

My native language is Spanish so I wanna improve my writing skills in English if you notice any mistakes, please let me know and I will correct them.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Marvel's characters (unfortunately), except for the original characters and the story.

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Dates with Jack were an eagerly awaited escape.

It was a Friday night, and you had planned dinner with Jack. You were ready when you got a text from him.

Sorry, I have to cancel tonight—a last-minute mission. I'll call you when I can.

Several days passed with no word from him, and you started worrying. One night your phone rang. It was Jack. Your heart stopped for a moment, thinking the worst.

“Hey," he said in a tired, but relieved voice, "I'm sorry I disappeared. It's been a long mission.

“I missed you," he replied.

“I missed you too," he replied. I want to see you. I need to see you. "

You were silent, it was strange, what had happened to him?

“Are you at home? “he asked.

“I am. "

“I'm close by. I'll be there in ten minutes. "

Minutes later, you heard the sound of his car pulling up in front of your house. You ran to the door and opened it before he could ring the bell. Without saying a word, he hugged you tightly.

“You don't know how much I needed this," he murmured against your neck.

“Me too," you said.

#eclipsing bingo #jack rollins x reader

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cottageykid · 5 years ago

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Actually, read this response. Its really important and it's made me reconsider a lot of the things I said previously.

I think when I said 'cottagecore' I meant more farm/domestic places, of different cultures? It was not well put articulated.

By ace cottagecore, or other things I mentioned, I meant in the stories we tell, and the people we look to as 'cottagecore ideals'. Some cottage content could be created, with QPRs at the centre of the story, or with friendship, as well as ones with romantic relationships portrayed. It was a reminder to myself that I needed to diversify what I post and look at, and had I known this post would become popular I would have worded things differently.

I've been working really hard on myself to try to unravel what draws me to cottage core and to make sure that biases I learnt before are being unlearned and challenged in myself, especially with regards to colonialism and history, coming from a country where I was taught about empires as being good and beneficial and now unlearning that and finding out the truth in what I see.

What I did when I posted this, was not alphabet soup. It was not wanting to be woke. It was a reminder to myself, in light of recent events and of pride month and some of the things I've learned and unlearned, to be better and to produce and reblog more diversity and inclusion in my space, which I choose to curate for myself.

If what I want for diversity and inclusion in my escapism (which is part of how I've grown up, in the country in a cottage with animals, part of my own life) cannot happen in cottage spaces, I think that's really sad, but I will try to make those things you said at the end, intentional community and learning about other cultures and domestiles, much more a part of what I look at, as it may be more what I want to see, and I might learn stuff. Thank you for that :)

I'll happily take any advice you could give on where to get diversity and how to improve it, and how I can continue to unravel the colonialist and tradfem ideology I may unintentionally be spreading.

Also, I've learned that my usage of POC was incorrect. I should have said 'POC in Cottagecore'.

This post is a shallow attempt at diversity from me. It is now deleted as I have a hard time dealing with all the notes and notifications, and because this is not what I want to portray, this corrected version remains however as a reminder to myself to be better.

Thank you to everyone who helped me understand what I was doing wrong and how I can be better, I'm working on myself with this and hoping I can improve my activism and diversify what I see and read.

Give me more plus sized cottagecore, give me POC cottagecore, give me more trans, non-binary, ace, aro, disabled, neurodivergent, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, give me cottagecore in India, in Africa, in ice and snow, in the desert, give me diverse cottage content PLEASE

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nekoannie-chan · 1 year ago

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Visits

Title: Visits.

Ship: Steve Rogers X Double agent!Reader.

Word count: 446 words.

Square: B1 “Hospital visit.”

Rating: Teen.

Summary: After the HYDRA uprising Steve always has a visit in the hospital.

Major Tags: Double agent, mission, hospital.

Additional tags: This is my entry to @cabottombingo Captain Bottom Bingo round 2. CABB2024.

Links: Wattpad, Ao3, Spanish version.

@saiyanprincessswanie

My native language is Spanish so I wanna improve my writing skills in English if you notice any mistakes, please let me know and I will correct them.

I don’t give any kind of permission that my fics to be posted on other platforms or languages (I translate myself my work) or the use of my graphics (my dividers are included in this), I did them exclusively for my fics, please respect my work and don't steal it. There are some people here who make dividers that anyone can use, mine is not this type, please look for the other's people. The only exception is the ones I gifted 'cuz now belong to someone else. If you find any of my works on a different platform and are not one of my accounts, please let me know. Reblogs and comments are always welcome.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Marvel's characters (unfortunately), except for the original characters and the story.

Add yourself to my taglist here.

My other media where I publish: Ao3, Wattpad, ffnet, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter.

If you like it, please vote, comment, and give me feedback to improve my skills and reblog.

Tags: @sinceimetyou @unnuevosoltransformalarealidad @navybrat817 @angrythingstarlight @shield-agent78 @charmed-asylum @pandaxnienke @real-fbi @smokeandnailz @white-wolf1940 @tenaciousperfectionunknown @xoxonotme @bluemusickid @leyannrae @harrysthiccthighsss @marvelatthisonee @caplanbuckybarness @sapphire-rogerss @lizzieolseniskinda @notyourtypicalrose @hallecarey1 @nana1000night @talia-rumlow @writingshae @alexxavicry @azulatodoryuga @daemonslittlebitch @chaoticcollectivenightmare @endlesstwanted @chemtrails-club @marigoldreamer @whiskeytangofoxtrot5555 @here4thefanfics @theestorm @patzammit @kmc1989

Fluorescent lights flickered in the hospital hallway as Y/N walked briskly toward Steve's room. Her mind was full of thoughts and mixed emotions; so far, they had not found the truth.

The sound of her shoes echoed in the empty hallway as she approached the door to the room. She took a deep breath before entering, preparing herself for whatever she might find. As she opened the door, she saw Steve lying in the hospital bed, his face pale but serene. He had lost weight since she last saw him, but his look was still strong and determined.

"Y/N," Steve said with a weak smile when he saw her come in. "I thought you weren't coming." You moved closer to the bed, feeling a lump in your throat. "Of course, you were wrong, Steve. How are you?"

"I'm better than I look. The doctors say I'll recover; I just need time."

You nodded. He didn't know exactly what to say or do; he knew there would be some restructuring, but he still wasn't getting orders from his superiors.

"I'm sorry, Steve," you said in a shaky voice. "I'm sorry this all happened."

Were you really sorry? Did you feel guilty? About "betraying"? About falling in love? What did you feel guilty about? And if you didn't, then what was this feeling you were having? Steve lifted a hand feebly and touched her arm tenderly. "You can't blame yourself, Y/N. We all gave it our best shot, but we won't stop until we've defeated them completely." You nodded, but you didn't really know what the future held for you—not even if they were going to find out your secrets; it only remained to hope that the others weren't snitches.

"Is there anything I can do for you, Steve?" you asked.

"I just need to see you to know you're safe. You're a light in this dark world, Y/N."

"I'm going to find out who's behind all this, Steve. I'm going to make sure they pay for what they've done."

You didn't even know why you had said that; maybe you were still in your role, or maybe you wanted to keep convincing yourself that you had to continue with the mission until you were given new instructions. Steve gently squeezed your hand.

"I know you will. You're brave and strong, and the world needs more people like you."

Days passed, and your visits became a daily routine. Steve became increasingly grateful and never hesitated to say so.

"There's nothing to be thankful for, Steve. We're in this together. We always will be." You kept repeating. The instructions had been clear, and you would accomplish your mission.

#cabottombingo #cabottombingor2 #steve rogers x reader

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