#i didn't really reread this one since I wrote it so hopefully it makes sense

[technically-human]

Trick or Treat? 💀🍫

Happy Halloween 🎃

I'm sorry this took so long!! Hopefully wishing you a happy Halloween when Halloween is already over will not attract any evil spirits to me... Though that'd be kinda cool

Here's a WIP:

Dandelions. They were surrounded by dandelions.

They were a common enough weed. They were virtually everywhere, not even London's concrete and filth being able to stop their growth. After a few months, he didn't feel like crying every time he saw one. Or, well, he felt like crying, but he didn't, and that was progress.

Charles looked around with an urgency that suggested he was trying to spot a threat, but his shoulders fell when he understood. Edwin noticed his friend's hand on his back, soothingly going up and down, but he still felt paralyzed.

“Sorry, mate. I miss her too,” he said.

Of course he did. Sometimes it felt to Edwin like Charles remained on Earth simply by the force with which he missed things. Food and murderous friends and terrible parents. When Edwin was dragged to the Doll House for the second –millionth– time, a part of him found it within himself to worry about what his absence might do to this boy. Still, Charles and Niko hadn't been close. Not the way Charles had been close to Crystal. Not the way Edwin had been close to Niko. Charles would be able to move on from this loss, but, for once, Edwin was unsure of his ability to follow.

Some things simply wouldn't happen, even if they had an eternity.

[cbsghostsmetasandtrevor]

Just saw the episode, (and reread your summary) hopefully I remember all the points I want to make. 😉

Going to start by saying, I'm not a fan of Eric. Of course he didn't want Sam around, because his lie would be found out the minute he said anything.

I liked the look at Hetty's backstory. And her constant love for cocaine. 😁

I agree with you, in regards to the jabs at Trevor and his lack of pants, IT WAS FOR A NOBLE CAUSE. 😒

I'm kind of wondering how Issac even HAS money. I'm sure Sam didn't get a check in HIS name, it's all in her bank account.

It is odd having a Halloween episode in March, but because of the writers' strike it couldn't air in October. I wonder if Flower will make an appearance.

Yeah, the more I think about it - the more I *hate* the idea of Eric and what he did *for months*. He's the typical Nice Guy that thinks if he does something or a lot of somethings that he should get the girl. I totally expected that it would've ended once Bela no longer felt guilty about the almost dead thing. So it makes sense that he felt like he had to lie to keep her BUT it's very disgusting and I really really hate how Bela's been talked into being with him twice.

That said, I didn't know he was lying at first, so I was like... why wouldn't he want to chat with Sam, who understands? oh wait, it's cause he was lying.

Hetty was very interesting this game.

THANK YOU! Someone agrees with me. I feel like Trevor's been reduced to a boytoy douche, that doesn't get ANY slack or consideration at all. Like Jay's harping on him for something that happened almost a year ago. His fellow ghosts give him BS about his pants, even though they now know about WHY he's pants less. And the thing that gets me? They rarely ever mentioned it PRIOR to Trevor's Pants in Season 1 - but since then, it's been used against him more and more. So it's extra irritating.

Side note - I want Pete to GO OFF. He deserves it after everything.

To be honest, the whole 'Isaac has money thing' makes no sense. First of all, Flower, Alberta and Trevor have all contributed to the household account and have gotten NOTHING in return. Secondly, Isaac's getting money because Sam fulfilled his request at the second episode - there was a deal there, the ghosts made requests that Sam would do IF they left her alone. She wrote the book FOR HIM. She got it published FOR HIM. So he shouldn't get ANY money. All he did was tell her his story.

If the others didn't get "money" to spend then he shouldn't either. Especially because Trevor and Flower's contributions to the house WEREN'T due to their initial requests unlike Alberta's and Isaac's. If anything, I think it makes sense for A&I to not get a cent, while T&F get their share. This is something that I actually addressed in "Planning Ghostly Adventures" because it pissed me off so much.

I'm probably the only one to feel that way.

ANYWAY. I feel like we're going to see Flower in the Halloween episode. So I'm looking forward to it.

Thoughts?

Thanks for the ask :)

[spacejammie-eimmajecaps]

For the fanfic writing meme...YOU pick 10 numbers YOU want to answer! I want to see which ones of those most excite your or you have the most to say.

My attention span is horrible right now tbh, I couldn't even read through the whole list. So these are the 10 that stood out to me when I was skimming it over:

Do you prefer writing one-shots or multi-chaptered fics?

One-shots because they are quick and easy (for the most part). Multi-chaps take so much more effort. Although, multi-chaps are more satisfying to finish. Pros and cons with each. I do miss one-shots, though. Been a very long time since I've written one.

Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

I used to only write as I went, which was honestly so fun. I'd surprise myself with unintended plot twists and stuff like that. But now I plan ahead, and that's very necessary for a story like SGB, which is very long, detailed, and packed with subplots. I will say, though, that while there is a plan, I let the chapter change as needed if the plan isn't working or I think of something better while drafting, and sometimes I add scenes last minute (or cut entire scenes if it just doesn't feel like it's working). Having a plan is good, knowing when to be flexible is also good.

Do you like constructive criticism?

Depends on what that looks like.

If someone wants to point out a typo, I'll be appreciative (and I do actually have a fandom friend who used to message me when she found typos in my posted works, which I am grateful for). And if there is an obvious mistake, I don't mind it being pointed out (for example, I was messing up the serve order in games and someone very kindly pointed that out, so I fixed it, and I'm very happy that they pointed it out so that I didn't keep making that mistake).

But if someone said things like, "I don't like how you wrote that" or "that character would never do that" or "you should write that differently" or anything relating to like, personal preference, I'd be annoyed and not grateful at all.

On average, how much writing do you get done in a day?

I used to be able to bang out 10-12k words in a day, back when my health wasn't so bad. Granted, the quality of those 10-12k words wasn't great at all, and part of why I write slower now is because I'm thinking about a lot more technical aspects that I used to be unaware of. Anyway, these days I can maybe get 3k written on a very good day, but 500-1000 in a day is more realistic for me now.

What do you do when writing becomes difficult? (maybe a lack of inspiration or writers block)

Take a break, read books and watch shows, rest, re-read what I've already written, etc.

What’s your revision or editing process like?

1. Rough draft

2. Fill in details and missing elements

3. Focus setting/sensory details and add last minute details

4. Check that dialogue/body language matches each character (usually end up adding a few more little details as well)

5. Make sure the chapter as a whole makes sense, cut anything unnecessary, check for consistency

6. Proofreading (check line by line for typos and grammar issues)

Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

There are some fics I like to re-read maybe once a year or so, and sometimes I read a fic twice in a row if I really liked it. I'd probably re-read things much more frequently if I wasn't so busy writing.

Five years from now, where do you see yourself as a writer?

Hopefully not still writing SGB😭😭😭

Why do you continue writing fics?

Because I'm bored and have nothing better to do, and more importantly, because I enjoy it.

What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

Chronological. I have to use my favorite scenes as a reward for getting that far in the story, so I don't allow myself to skip ahead.

[marblemoovt]

Hi again! This is long but I’m just really into your one shot and wanted to respond to the ramble it it’s ok ❤️

It’s fascinating to hear about your thought process as you wrote this one shot. Your care in psychoanalyzing the characters is what makes it feel so real! Also, if I may I add—as a fellow realist who spends a lot of her time daydreaming about fictional characters living out different scenarios, I totally get why this story needed to take place in a non-eclipse universe. 💔

Which takes me to the next point…that this one shot is a huge what if; as you said, what if Griffith met his equal and thus no longer feels the need to drag himself and everyone he supposedly holds dear down such a harrowing path? I love that you provide glimpses into Griffith’s true nature—both the good and the bad. I specifically keep rereading the parts where Griffith wonders why the princess matters to him so much and when he flat out admits he’s trying to figure her out. And the ending is just…ugh! My heart! The princess has such a hold on Griffith that I’m convinced there’s an actual chance that he won’t later devolve into a complete monster. I love that you humanize Griffith without making him OOC.

I adore Sadie being the one to talk sense into the princess, letting her know that she’s offering an escape if all goes wrong. I commend you for tying all the loose ends together while keeping it realistic :)

Lastly I want to say I fully understand why you’d have mixed feelings toward Griffith. I think many people feel the same. Sometimes you just want to see the good in others and I think that desire can grow when you encounter purely evil, depraved characters like Griffith. Just my thoughts! If you read all this, thank you for doing so! Please don’t feel pressured to respond quickly or at all. I’m just happy to chat with someone about the nuances of Griffith’s character.

Response below:

You are so right about the huge what-if part, anon. I'm a sucker for happy endings--or at least endings where everyone doesn't die. And for that to even be possible, any chances of the eclipse occurring have to be yeeted out the window.

Providing the different glimpses of Griffith stems from my inability to reconcile who I want him to be and who he is lol. I want him to be good, but I know he wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice anything for his dreams (as proved by the eclipse). I also just wanted to toy with the idea of what it would be like to be loved by someone but never be their top priority. And could that be changed?

Sadie was a complete accident. I needed a reason for the reader to go into town and Sadie poofed into existence. She was meant to be like an NPC with minimal to no background/personality. But I love a good sassy friend who has your back. I thought that since the majority of the nobility disapprove of the reader's behaviour outside of formal settings, there should be someone who accepts all these aspects and even encourages them in a healthy way. Suffice it to say I love Sadie and her knee-cap-breaking gremlin energy.

I feel like the desire to see the good in evil/depraved characters reminds me of when people say 'I can fix them'. You want to see the good, and so you believe it exists and that you can bring it out of them. But I don't believe that people can change unless they decide for themselves. Because at the end of the day, no matter how much you love someone, that person won't change unless they really want to.

This was something I wanted to be careful about in this oneshot. I didn't want Griffith to 'change' solely because of love. I wanted it to be more nuanced than that. I don't think I got around to it in this oneshot. But hopefully, I can delve further into this whenever I write a continuation.

I think Griffith is a rational person, he's very calculative in everything he does. This is why I wanted him to start developing little impulses that throw him off and cause him to re-evaluate his situation. I think unconditional love would be a foreign concept to him, he would even deny its existence. That's where the reader comes in and shatters everything he believes in, and he realizes that there are other ways to achieve his goal. For once, there's someone he can't bear to trample as a stepping stone even if it moves him closer to his dreams. And this frustrates him to no end. I just think realizing what you wanted might not actually be what you want is such a neat trope. Because how do you account for another person in your future when you're so used to only considering yourself?

Feel free to send any more asks about Griffith or other characters I might know! It's always fun to analyze and see other people's interpretations. It also helps with characterization when writing them.

[amerasdreams]

2400 words today!

I hadn't written since Monday so I needed to refresh my mind, to get back into it... I felt I had to reread the earlier notes. But my mind didn't want to focus. Maybe some leftover covid brain.

Also I was kind of like is this straying too far... doesn't feel right... the tone or sth. Probably my bc i wrote the previous several sections just after covid. Was this the right path to take. Specifically was it the right decision to bring Ali along...

How much is a right decision. Just a different one. This way it does put more pressure on the characters. Adds Ali and Amber's dynamic. Which... maybe that's too much oc focus. It kind of makes sense in other ways... leading up to the climax....or next part. Ali kind of puts a wrench in the works but maybe that's a good thing. Conflict wise.

Investigation.... I want it to not seem rushed but i also want to streamline it a bit, get to action, parts im interested in... hence this section. Now hopefully next part .. will get to the heart of things

Of this section anyway.

I think I may have finished this chapter. Seems like it needs to end to really focus on the next part. This chapter seems pretty long but we'll see. Seems like we're overdue for a chapter.

[myakasama]

Fanfic asks - 2, 3, 4, 14, 18, 21 :3

Oh boy, that's a whole lot of questions. let's see if i can think of good answers

2) What is your favorite fic of yours?

Oh, that's such a hard one! Especially since I have a few under lock and key for zine reasons. Probably The Things We Do For Love but that was such a labor of love it makes sense for it to be my favorite. However, ask me a different day and I might change my answer.

3) What fic of yours do you think is underrated?

Grasping For Revenge. I wrote it for the League of Villains Zine, which was a free zine, and it's about Mr. Compress talking with Shigaraki post Overhaul taking his arm. It's just a little snippet kind of story, but there's some gorgeous spot art, and it just didn't get much attention at all.

4) What fic of yours were you surprised by how popular it was?

Summer Heat is a Bitch at the Best of Times. It was my first fic in years after struggling to write my original novel (don't ask, it's not done and it's not gonna be). I didn't expect much attention for it, figured I'd scratch the writing itch and have ShigaDabi out of my system. What a fool I was.

14) What is something you wrote in a fic that you are hoping readers picked up on but you don't know if they did? And/or, what is something that you were excited that readers did pick up on?

Someone picked up something in the most recent chapter of Holding Out for Spring, which I won't say for spoiler reasons if anyone wants to read it, but I did talk about it in the reply comment I left.

Then again, I'm consistently surprised by how thoughtful my readers can be, and the kinds of comments they can leave ❤

18) What's the most obscure thing you've researched for a fic?

...i can't say for zine reasons :( However, I will say my search history is a wasteland of useless searches. If I used google for half of it, the system would think I'm dying, plotting a murder, and pregnant all at once.

21) Writers choice - pick any of these questions that you want to answer.

You don't understand. You know those worksheets that the school would hand out where it's like "read all the directions first before doing anything" and then if you read them all the last one was to not write anything on the paper after a metric ton of other instructions? yeah, i aIways failed those fuckers.

...upon rereading, it occurs to me that I'm sleep-deprived and read that as only answer one of those questions you sent me. Hi. I never fucking learned how to read.

I'm choosing 17, because no one can stop me now.

17) Do you have any wips that you can tell us about? What are you most excited for in you wip?

I'm working on the sequel to TTWDFL and it's called Learning to Heal and I really love it, but because I love it so much, it's not up to standards. Yet. Also because it's omegaverse like HOFS I'm trying to space them out a little to keep down confusion, but let me tell you, writing one inspires the other.

I also have another separate smutty omegaverse fic that might be done soon b/c it's in the rewrite phase. It's shigadabi but they're both omegas helping through a heat. it keeps trying to turn angsty, which is why it's been held up as long as it has (been in my docs for months now).

I have other things that are nebulous ideas, but those are the concrete things I'm working on right now, so hopefully, something, (like chapter 5 of HOFS) comes out soon.

Thank you so much for the ask! It was lots of fun~

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[bookwyrminspiration]

i was scrolling through your blog again today and i got down to that ask i sent you about chapter 11 and....wow. i just checked and it's.......7477 words. the essays i write for school are less words than that??? thank you for getting me back into writing????

amd im still thinking about chapter 11 and what it could all mean, too! i havent the faintest clue where this is going and i am so grateful for it. a lot of the time i have the unfortunate ability to guess where things are gonna go so whenever something stumps me i am !!!!

and i realized i never replied to your reply on ao3, so i guess i'll take the opportunity and do that now? thank you a lot for replying to it with your own thoughts! im very excited to see where the connection linh and marella have to the dragons goes. dragons are great since they can really be anything, too, so i dont even know what you're gonna have them look like! and if they are part-dragon, itd be really interesting if maybe they were different kinds of dragons, since it would make sense for linh to be a rain or river dragon, but marella has her fire and all. either way, im super stoked for the future of the wings au! thank you tons for writing it :']

(i still have no idea whats going on with oralie and bronte's messages, though....maybe ill reread what you said on that and see if i can find any hints. i should probably do a reread of the chapters so far, too, to make sure i havent missed anything....)

- pyro

welcome back, pyro!! also oh damn that's a lot of words--also several of my posts on here are longer than essays I turn in. Just the other day I wrote an answer that was 1200 words...and my paper due this sunday for my contemporary social problems class is supposed to be between 600 and 900 (haven't started it yet but i'll be fine).

I think you're talking about the post that starts "So. Chapter 11. I have many thoughts." But if it's a different one that's also fine! also you're welcome, I think! Anything I've done to help you write and be creative is super cool!! i'm always a little shocked when I see people creating things based on stuff I've done--fanart and asks and things like that in general! just people thinking! I was just scrolling through my blog and saw a few art pieces from you about the wings au and I just sat there for a moment like oh fuck ve made a thing for my thing. So cool!

I am also thinking about chapter 11 tbh (I think you sent this before chapter 12 was posted so you're probably thinking more about chapter 12 now but still!!) Also I'm so glad you're confused about where this is going--I get so worried that my twists are gonna be predictable and bland so it's always nice to hear that there are some surprises along the way! But even if you do guess things that's also excellent! because it means what I wrote made sense and is believable! there can be a certain amount of satisfaction in guessing, but it's also so much fun to be surprised. Hopefully the au is full of several more surprises for you because I am not done yet! I have so many plans and ideas and I want to share them all.

oh also this reminded me I never responded to your comment on chapter 12 on ao3. oopsie. that's what I get for having such a busy schedule I guess! but!! I think things will kinda calm down in the new few days and then I can get back to writing and answering asks more. Had several things disrupt me and make life very chaotic, hence less frequent posts recently--still trying to recover from that! so I will reply to that comment soon, I promise! (and to all your asks!!)

also all your thoughts and speculations about dragons are so cool!! that's actually something that's coming up very soon in the au so I can't talk about it a lot without spoiling! but if you couldn't tell from Marella sneaking out, there's gonna be a little more focus on her for a little bit. the dragons have actually gotten more complex in my head as the au has gone on. they're were accidental, so I didn't think to much about what they'd look like or their purpose aside form the immediate shock factor, but now...I have several thoughts about them!! and Linh's connection...was also an accident but I'm so pleased with it. Do we know exactly what that connection is? nope! but it's not the same as Marella's and it's gonna be really fun to explore what is happening to the two of them!

"either way, im super stoked for the future of the wings au! thank you tons for writing it :']" thank you for reading it! your enthusiasm has really helped me through some of the tougher spots and kept me going. it wouldn't be the same without you! I wouldn't say I cater to the readers, but knowing what excites everyone and catches interest helps me make decisions on what to focus on later! and also gives me ideas for things to add in! and I'm also very excited for the future of this au--I have some ideas that are probably gonna be a pain in the ass to execute but I can't wait to get to them! they're still a ways off but ahh!

and those messages...so much meaning behind them. so cryptic! this is actually one of those bigger ideas I was just talking about! so if you do figure it out (not that I would tell you) you might have an idea of what's coming in the wings au in the future! I don't remember exactly what hints I gave, but I do think it's entirely possible to figure out at least parts of the clue! what it leads to is mostly me making up worldbuilding things and drama, but the hints are drawn from canon!

also if you do reread the chapters...good luck? there's so many words I wish you luck. according to google the average reader would take five hours to read that, but that's at 200-250 wpm, and I don't know your reading speed! honestly I should probably reread the au for inspiration for future chapters...we can reread it together!!