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[strwberri-milk]

Hi! Love you writing and the way you portray the lnds boys. I've read the rules, and i want to make a request if possible. How do you think they would react if, during sex the reader felt pain but didn't tell them? What would they say when they see it?

Sorry if my English is bad. I am still learning, and reading on Tumblr has helped a lot, so I read good fics like yours 😅

It's okay if you feel uncomfortable with the theme

Anyway, thanks for reading my message ❤️❤️❤️

no worries!! im glad my posts help you learn english but pls do not learn engl from my author notes/rambling posts bc i promise you they are NAWT written properly LMAO0O also this is only mildly suggestive but im gonna stick the entire thing under a cut in case

Zayne hears the sharp intake of breath when he slides in, immediately pulling himself back out to ask you what's wrong. You try to tell him that it's nothing and you'll be fine and he should just keep going but he can't continue knowing he accidentally hurt you. He'll slowly reassure you that it's okay for you two to stop. He wants to find another way to make you feel good without hurting you, hands immediately running over your body again as he slowly works to bring back the pleasure in your body.

Xavier didn't realise you weren't feeling as good as he was until his hand feels how stiff your hips are. He'll remain still, trying to figure out what the problem is as you try to tell him that you're okay. He doesn't quite believe you, deciding that clearly he's hurting you more than making you feel good. He just wants to cuddle you now, mood totally gone for him as he hates the thought of hurting you in any capacity.

Rafayel notices the second you start to feel pain, removing himself from you and asking why you're hurting. He's very insistent so you do end up having to tell him what the problem is, Rafayel mad at himself for not realising that you weren't quite ready for him. He should have spent more time preparing you and makes up for it by kissing you breathless, lips trailing all over you as he works to better prepare you this time.

Sylus doesn't expect the sharp intake of breath, you hoping that it sounds like every other time he slides it in. Of course he does - he sees everything whenever it's about you, body attuned to everything you are. He doesn't say anything though, not wanting to make you feel some sort of way if he draws too much attention to it. You can feel him switching back into foreplay, gently seeking out your consent as he showers you with attention.

[fraywol]

some stuff i wanted to get off my chest bc its starting to annoy me lmao. dt stuff under the cut just in case ppl are really sensitive abt spoilers

i don't have any strong opinions re: "dawntrail good or bad" (i liked some parts and didn't like others. i don't really play this game for the story, at least not right now) but i do want to say it's really frustrating to, when people say they disliked the pacing etc of the story, reply with "well it's intended to be that way, this is meant to be a new story, think of it like arr again" because that's, essentially, just telling people who didn't like a story "well its meant to be that way"

like that doesn't do anything to change the fact that people felt underwhelmed by aspects of it or express a desire for it to be different. which is normal and okay. not every story works for everyone and in a game a lot of people play for a lot of reasons (with an episodically told story by multiple writers) i think people enjoy the story for different reasons.

i get trying to defend something you enjoyed from someone who didn't but very genuinely it's a really aggravating counterpoint to have to see over and over and over again when there's like genuine criticisms of the story (and storytelling) that are being ignored. it's okay to not engage with criticism if you're thin-skinned enough that seeing it makes you upset, you can ask people to tag their crit stuff that's like, a normal thing to do, especially on tumblr.

[thegeminisage]

Identity Porn for the Never Have I Ever ask game, please?

HIII thank you so much <333

IN FACT I HAVE WRITTEN IDENTITY PORN! i think How Arthur Got His Groove Back 100% qualifies for this trope. merlin himself essentially has all the same beats that a classic comic book superhero does - secret powers that would endanger him and those around him if discovered, secret identity (emrys) that he wants to tell people about and can't which ruins his love life (in the fic, arthur is his semi-love interest; it's preslash, but it centers around their relationship), the object of his affections talking about his secret identity right in front of him (they have MULTIPLE conversations about emyrs even though merlin IS EMRYS), tragic backstory/dead parents that has something to do with his powers (rip balinor), exhausted from leading a double life, a big secret identity reveal, even an old guy mentor! actually if you count the dragon merlin has two old guy mentors, it's just that they both suck so fucking bad. and lots of that isn't even really specific to my fic. favorite identity porn excerpt:

euhehehe i love to have fun and be evil. i think this is probably objectively the best-written thing on my ao3, aside from of course @cambionverse

i'm not sure how i'd go about writing another - don't really like AUs, so unless that sort of thing is baked into canon the way it is in merlin i don't think i no wait stop the presses i just had an idea. well it's not my idea specifically i've seen it tossed around a lot on tumblr but whatever. essentially common trope/fanon that eliot leverage is still killing people in season 1 of leverage before he decides being good guys is serious business. this is the oldest trope in the world but eliot getting assigned to keep an eye on nate's team bc moreau feels threatened by them (i actually have a hard time buying he would do this, even though it's a very popular fanon, but just roll with it) and he's like getting closer to them but he always has to sabotage them on jobs where their success would hurt moreau in some way (I KNOW literally nothing they do would effect moreau but we're gonna pretend) but they KEEP SUCCEEDING ANYWAY. and eliot is like what the hell. is being good bad guys legit? hey (he's asking moreau this while they're fucking or something) is it legit to be good bad guys? have i made real friends while pretending to make fake friends? and moreau is like if you be real friends with them i will have chapman cut their fucking brake lines. and eliot is like got it and he continues to go to these meetings and wonder aloud who keep sabotaging these random ass cases and then nate figures out the cases are all connected with moreau and eliot is like Oops and then he and hardison do the pool thing and it all comes out and he decides to switch sides because he's in love w hardison and parker and he's tired of doing evil shit for moreau. so like canon essentially except eliot's conscience doesn't start working until season 3 and they spend the first two and a half seasons not knowing the Ultimate bad guy they are tracking has been making them fancy ass dinners and being their bodyguard and being their little pet hitman. and hes just kinda batting his eyelashes like who me? and then going home to stare at his blank apartment walls in all-consuming existential dread. yeah.

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[yourubersawcrit]

The full context was worse, actually, because the commenter doubled down. Rita is very much alive and able to make new tumblr accounts and speak with her mutuals who have been spreading her story. She is alive to pursue legal action. Just bc the commenter used some faux-apologetic tone doesn't mean they added anything of value that got cut off and regardless of all else there was no need to be condescending to a stranger who (correctly) judged that the "context" was not actually contextualising in a way that made it any "less bad"

The purpose of posting the complete message was in case someone wondered what the rest of the comment was. Still, it didn't work out and I feel sorry for how the OP and others interpreted it by my wording.

[daz4i]

PLEASE elaborate i love hearing about people on tumblr being unhinged

ajskfkg ok ok take this with a small grain of salt bc there's always a real chance i made a mistake and the blog i think is theirs is actually someone else (tho, i found it through old dms, and unless I'm really misremembering stuff it's probably the same person. but yeah the chance is still there so keep that in mind, and that's also why I'm gonna make this post unrebloggable oof. don't want it to spread and accidentally hurt someone unrelated)

soooo we met on tumblr in 2018 through a common fandom and had a long-distance relationship that, as you can tell, didn't work out. i was still figuring out my aromanticism but really the main factor of why we also didn't stay friends after the whole thing, is they had a p big and sudden personality switch tbh. nothing bad but like it was weird to me and ig set off some alarms in my head to cut things off there

back then i was 19 and iirc they were 21 and in college

they presented themselves as a russian who moved to the us to escape their abusive father

they did post in russian sometimes (mostly in the tags of vent posts), very rarely, but they did. yet still some things didn't entirely add up

when we did voice chats they had an average american accent, which is definitely possible for someone who moved there from russia ofc, but considering how they moved to the us alone, that implied they did so as an adult, i'm p sure?? i can't remember if they mentioned having help with that but. yeah it was a bit odd, esp looking back

(also while i don't wanna doubt someone's tale of their abuse, esp in case I'm wrong, what they said abt how their dad abused them doesn't really work with "learned how to speak in perfect english with a perfect american accent". not gonna elaborate more than that)

another thing that didn't stand out back then was a conversation where they mentioned their grandma being jewish, to which i said that makes them at least partially jewish as well, and they really ran with it and put it on their blog and started mentioning it often, esp in relation to me and our relationship (bc yknow, I'm jewish). again, nothing too bad

but yeah we ended up cutting things off. fast forward 5 years i found old dms on one of my sideblogs and went "oh hey i wonder what they're up to"

and their bio says they're a native american + palestinian + 20 years old. which. um. as you can tell very much doesn't align with what i knew about them. no mentions of judaism no mentions of russia and a way younger age from what i knew. they only sent me one pic of them before and they looked very much white in it

so the real question is. did they lie to me about their age and backstory? are they lying now? both?? who knows!

(also i do gotta say. if i did indeed get the blogs wrong. there's only one other person i can remember who could be behind the blog i found now. and they claimed to be 16 when we met in 2016ish so things still don't add up lol)

and yeah that's it 🫡 I'm sorry if it's not a thrilling story but i hope you enjoyed it 🫡

[capriciouscaprine]

okay, ex roommate post tiem to get it out of my system

(feel free to be nosey that's why I'm posting about it on tumblr)

first of all, why not just TALK to someone about this? bc I don't like social interaction and I'm too busy to see anyone, but also bc my ex roommate is a self-employed traditional artist, so if social opinion about them tanks, that could genuinely jeopardize their income, and they didn't actually do anything worse than be a kinda crappy friend on the whole and a shitty roommate in their last few months of living with me

me obsessing over them and using them as my secret competition is bc I'm mentally ill, not bc they 'deserve it' or 'need to be taken down a notch' or should be 'cancelled' or anything

so, my ex roommate had a shit life growing up, right up there with being any given social worker's average case of a low income child who's dealt with physical abuse, neglect, and bouts of homelessness; then, they graduated high school and used student loans to go to university to get a degree in fine art, and finally experiencing reliable housing while they had that student loan money; they pick up food service jobs while in college, start building their social media presence, and take home every classroom art supply that isn't nailed down, just like any professional artist does at the start of their career

fast forward approximately five years after graduation

they're still only just building up their online presence and they've never held down a job for more than about 10 months at a time; all of their previous living situations have imploded and they're living with a family member who doesn't help them do anything and expects them to magically get a good job and move out any day now, even though they don't have a car and they live in the suburbs

enter me, the person who owns a crappy little house that (eventually) has a bedroom open up so they can move in and a job to recommend them to

(I'm cutting out a bit here to maintain plausible anonymity)

they start out strong, decorating the room, cooking and sharing meals (not a routine in our house, just something nice they do), and building up their art income while they make money from the job I helped them get; they even manage to get a car!

but then, as a year at the job approaches, they have a harder and harder time getting along with their boss, and it's unclear if the job really sucks that bad or if my roommate isn't communicating well; they also seem to be failing to balance art, their other job, and general life, doing things like going on art binges only to crash and get an hour of sleep and be late to work the next day; eventually, they experience a significant health event, and they get fired for being absent from their job for a month

they focus on their art business, talking about how they're gonna explore more types of social media promotion and showing off how much their income has grown since they were at their relative's house; I've started my masters degree at this point, and then the pandemy hits, so we spend more time hanging out, especially since my other roommate had moved out by this point so it was just the two of us in the house

over time, the cracks start to show; they're so positive and cute and bubbly when they have the energy, and they talk a bunch about effective communication and boundaries and all that, but when they talk about their other friends, it's like a constant stream of criticism about their life choices

oh, one friend has openly wept about being fat and not fitting into the cute clothes they both want to wear? well, sure, body positivity and all that, but then my roommate gets annoyed that their friend is annoyed by the regular attempts to invite them out for hikes or to a gym my roommate goes to, and is further annoyed when this friend won't 'just' tell them they don't want to go and that the friend simultaneously still talks about her dissatisfaction with her body; my roommate is flat out making 'pick a struggle!'-type comments about this 'friend'

another friend struggles with money; they were low-income, and now they make relatively decent money, and my roommate is FULL of judgement about how they spend their money and how they socialize at work and try to turn all their coworkers into their friends even tho that just isn't appropriate

any time they go to someone's house that is messy, there are several comments made about why they don't 'just' clean up as they cook or do stuff around the house, and if they see a roach that person is absolutely getting judged hard core bc my roommate 'has ptsd (jokingly)' about all the trashy places they've lived (we live in the southern US, btw, we have lots of thriving insects and small mammals all over the place)

they complain about how someone keeps talking about wanting a better, higher-paying job, but won't put in the time to get required certifications to get that better job

they constantly talk about the importance of 'open' conversation, harping on how they're happy to have a frank conversation about anything without blowing up over it

and yet

they do

ALL OF THESE SAME THINGS

they talk about wanting to lose w while binging on snacks with friends and eventually a new partner, complaining about wanting to go to the gym but also how sad they are no one will go with them and that's why they go less; their savings starts running out at the pandemy impacts their art sales so they go get a job after talking about it endlessly (another complaint about a different 'friend') and tries to make friends with all their coworkers and starts a room overhaul even though they admit they have no budget for it; they don't wash up after using a TON of bowls and pans to cook a single meal and even leave out tidbits 'for the cats' on the FLOOR that they never go back and pick up; they don't actually do any training on their own time to get promoted or improve their art business; and trying to give them advice and feedback or talk about something that makes you uncomfortable with them results in a near-immediate grumpy cold shoulder, let alone that they dominate nearly every conversation with their own personal interests and check their phone when you talk about yours

(I have to go to work rippp I don't want tumblr to delete this in drafts so I'm posting it now and will continue later)

[dyne-osaur]

literally no one cares but i'm putting these aus up here in case i forget them <3 + low-quality jane/penny bodyswap doodle so:

penny is so desperate to save her now-friends she accidentally changes the course of fate: the one i'm working on rn! she tries to save them from their death but they go on the rollercoaster anyway but she isn't on the ride and calls an ambulance and accidentally on purpose saves them ! they weren't supposed to be brought back but penny was like "NO! I NEED TO SAVE THEM! I CARE AB THEM!" she uses savannah bc penny and jane are two different people to her and she wants to be her own person :) the others deal with injury and hospital stuff but i've never really been in a hospital for smth serious and idk much ab injuries so my knowledge is limited to google and stuff lol !

everyone lives w/ no injuries only their memories: the one i might do next? jane refuses to leave without her new besties bc they are the only people she knows :( they all hold hands while they go to watch jane go and she drags them through the curtain while karnak shorts out so she doesn't get to find out who she is and they have to deal with a jane in a new body and try to find out who she is heheh (I HAD TO FIND THE POST THAT KINDA INSPIRED ME IT'S FROM PENNYDOE ON TUMBLR HERE from them having to teach her to be human? ig? also a little bit like "Now we know what YOLO really means" by NeverEndingCarnival on ao3 but rly i think it's just bc no one gets injured and i'm planning on it being a really long fic) anyways that happens and yeah

ghost au!: inspired by the ghost au of witcherstorm bc that's the very first ghost au i saw that was like "I FREAKING LOVE GHOST AUS HOW COME I DIDN'T THINK OF THIS WHEN I GOT INTO RTC WTF" anyways they're all dead stuck in limbo and a few days later they all like get whooshed into the real world and they're all like "um where are we wtf happened aren't we supposed to be dead" and they like look around after re-orienting themselves and see penny and she's like "HELL YEAH IT WORKED" cause she tried a ghost summoning ritual to bring them back and then shenanigans ensue like them freaking out ppl at the school esp rude ones and protecting penny and meeting ezra who can't see them but knows they're there and penny keeps accidentally talking to them and yeah!

penny "what-did-i-get-myself-into" lamb and the amnesiac choir: so i lied there were 4 aus but i forgot the fourth one so i didn't write it in the og post but i just remembered it so basically penny gets brought back along with everyone else before the accident and everyone thinks she's insane bc she wonders out loud ab the warehouse and they're all like "girl wtf" and she's freaking out like "wait they don't remember it shit shit shit" and she has to try to get them to bond like they did in the warehouse (goddamn she has her work cut out for her) and she's kinda bad at it bc she accidentally sometimes spills stuff from the warehouse but she's actually p good at it bc it's only ever small stuff that they happened to have mentioned before so they all think she just really listens to them but she keeps dropping hints and basically as soon as someone learns the lesson they learned while in the warehouse they regain their memories of that time but they have to be subtle around everyone else bc the rest would just think they're crazy so it's a whole ordeal lol

i want to do smth for all of them but i have to work on one at a time or i'll get overwhelmed but that's basically it for the ideas bouncing around my head

low-quality doodle as promised:

my brain is rotting sm i literally have like three rtc aus floating around in my head at this point in time and i'm already working on something for one of them and the other two are just like marinating and i'm so ADSKLFJAKLJKL

anyways this isn't part of any of the 3 aforementioned aus but imagine if jane came back but instead of coming back as penny lamb with two braids and a doll that looks suspiciously like jane doe she came back as penny lamb in jane doe's body that looked suspiciously like the old penny lamb

[serkonans]

i would legit love to know ur answer to all of those dnd questions tbh

so many gfsljgf thank you antonia i love ask memesputting #13 up here for the anon who requested it and the rest below the cut!13. Introduce your current party.I currently DM a few games! School is hectic and I don’t get to play very often but all the characters are GoodI have one group campaign titled “When the River Bleeds Red” (which is probably news to you, Antonia, and everyone else who plays, idt I ever mentioned that slkfjglfskj) that has a blacksmith (half-elven cleric, @the-idiot-who-stood-still​) named Brigitte Faestrum, a pumpkin farmer (halfling druid, @beesgnees​) named Cathal Headrig, a former stage performer (fire genasi sorcerer, @merrigold​) named Emelia Sparks, and a former mercenary (gnome fighter, @jacqmutiny​) named Nyx!I also DM one-on-one campaigns for @merrigold​ (who plays an aasimar druid named senua tasked with undertaking journeys on behalf of the gods in “The Glacial Erratic”) and @fictitiousbees​ (who plays a kenku wizard named scribbles called to the service of a high dragon in “Luck of the Draw”)Everything else below the cut!

1. A favorite character you have played.

I’ve only played two characters! One was Carran Warset, who is my Son and like the bulk of the reason I know I’m trans, and one was Chim from your one-on-one campaign. I rly like both of them tbh but Carran is my child gkjlsfgjs

2. Your favorite character that someone else has played.

Excluding anything I’ve DMed, Sivarna by @pluviance!

3. Your favorite side quest.

In the group campaign we played in together, there was one session that idr if you were able to be there for but we like,,, went into a forest and bought a really ugly belt from a stoner for zero plot reasons and I count it as a side quest in my heart

4. Your current campaign.

Well, you know everything about all my current campaigns that you’re allowed to know rn, but for anyone who might be reading who isn’t in them:

The group campaign is being used as scapegoats in the brutal murder of an ambassador’s daughter and is fleeing a city through secret tunnels -- we last left off at Cathal becoming a giant badger and burrowing upward

In the solo campaign with Senua, she’s attempting to deliver a large, magical object from the goddess of earth deep inside a mountain, and she’s facing down a basilisk with three NPCs

And in the solo campaign with Scribbles, he’s just played a card game that was really more of an interrogation, where he found out a high dragon has taken interest in him, and he is, in unrelated news, taking a package to the local apothecary

5. Favorite NPC.

Of someone else’s, I love Lucy from the Chim campaign!

Of mine, I will never stop loving Mr. Kretever Tatell. Kret is a goddamn idiot but he’s my goddamn idiot

6. Favorite death (monster, player character, NPC, etc).

Carran once killed an evil poison merchant by seducing her in an enemy king’s bedroom and stabbing her when he went in for the kiss gkfsljgfsj. Then he and Sivarna wound up hiding with her corpse under a bed discussing the concept of threesomes in whispers while the king wandered around his room. Not as like, a possibility. Just because the topic came up

7. Your favorite downtime activity.

S,,,hop,,,,,,, money tiem $

8. Your favorite fight/encounter.

I liked the fight where I balanced the combat correctly lkgsflkjskljg, the one with guards in the tunnels

9. Your favorite thing about D&D.

Storytelling!

10. Your favorite enemy and the enemy you hate the most.

Homebrew enemies are coolest imo but hard to balance; the giant gemstone ant I had you fight would’ve been my favorite if it’d been able to get more than like two attacks in gskjgksj

And insect swarms are very annoying to fight

11. How often do you play and how often would you ideally like to play?

How often I play is whenever every single one of the stars align and ideally I would play like every other day fksjglskfjg

12. Your in game inside jokes/memes/catchphrases and where they came from.

God the current ones haven’t gone long enough for those yet really and I’m blanking on most from the group player campaign

I do remember Carran was 1000% convinced basil was poison at one point and his pet rat killed an evil, powerful sorcerer by chewing his ear

14. Introduce any other parties you have played in or DM-ed.

Just the group player campaign with Carran, which didn’t get to the heavy plot stuff before it ended tbh, and then the solo one you ran with Chim in what was rly a Very cool world concept of like hellish Las Vegas that I’d like to steal at some point

And then you ofc know this but for anyone reading who doesn’t, I’m going DM a maybe-oneshot, maybe-a few more than oneshot post-apocalyptic campaign for you and @fictitiousbees​, set in a world that’s been destroyed by fast growing invasive fungi which is like. only The sexiest apocalypse scenario

15. Do you have snacks during game times?

Yes, religiously. Game time snack time

16. Do you play online or in person? Which do you prefer?

I’ve never played in person other than a single test game for new players! I prefer online tho; you can look things up and type if you’re shy

17. What are some house rules that your group has?

I have a rule about only two players being able to try the same sort of check, but that’s it for us so far that I can think of

18. Does your party keep any pets?

Not yet! Cathal has a way with animals though

19. Do you or your party have any dice superstitions?

I Do

20. How did you get into D&D? How long have you been playing?

I got into it bc Critical Role made it look super super fun, and I’ve been playing off and on for two years now

21. Have you ever regretted something your character has done?

I’ve regretted everything any character I’ve controlled has done I think that’s just dnd

Realistically tho, big yes for a lot of what Carran did, most notably snooping on another player character who had cast Alarm on her room

22. What color was your first dragon?

Haven’t had one yet!

23. Do you use premade modules or original campaigns?

100% original babey

24. How much planning/preparation do you do for a game?

3% planning 97% “oh fuck I need to have an idea Now” babey

For DMs

25. What have your players done that you never could have planned for?

Everything, it’s why I never know what I’m doing

I never expected Cathal to become a large badger and dig out of the underground, how do you prepare for someone to, in all seriousness, tell you they’re going to become a badger and scrabble to the surface

26. What was your favorite scene to write and show your characters.

I really tend to enjoy the one-on-one scenes; I think my favorite was having you roll that insane wild magic surge and detailing What Happened At The Theatre

27. Do you allow homebrew content?

Yes if it can go in DND Beyond

28. How often do you use NPCs in a party?

In group campaigns, not often, although we have two with us right now. In solo campaigns, if you want combat you’re getting an NPC party, at least for a bit

29. Do you prefer RP heavy sessions or combat sessions?

Personally I love RP heavy sessions; combat is fun but I crave Story

30. Are your players diplomatic or murder hobos?

I think mostly diplomatic with a dash of murder hobo

For Players

31. What is your favorite class? Favorite race?

I’m so so so boring but I love humans gksfjgsk

Humans, elves, and half-elves are my favorite

And then I Would Die For Every Rogue, it’s hands down my favorite class

32. What role do you like to play the most? (Tank/healer/etc?)

Rogue role

Lemme stealth and steal and stab

33. How do you write your backstory, or do you even write a backstory?

For Carran it was,, A Whole Process

I came up with a basic idea, then journaled as him several times and wrote and rewrote until I had what felt Right, and then I kept toying with it and adding more details throughout the campaign -- I love playing and would really like to again but the obsession with expanding upon his story made me realize I need the freedom of worldbuilding that goes along with DMing; I don’t think I could be a player without DMing a separate campaign bc I just try to take over

34. Do you tend pick weapons/spells for being useful or for flavor?

Both!

35. How much roleplay do you like to do?

So much, I usually use old acting techniques and get fully into character

thank you again antonia!!! these were fun

[mymarifae]

i've been reading your fic and i really adore your writing!! im trying to get better at it myself right now do you have any tips?

oh thank you !!!! that makes me happy i'm glad people like it so much despite the absolute silliness and seeming ooc-ness of it... (bc yeah i Know what happens in the first chapter seems bizarre for toya to do. only thing i can tell you irt That is chapter four is titled "in which An decides she wants to run over Toya with a bicycle") BUT UM anyway. advice...

hm. a big part of learning to become a better writer finding your inner voice. and i can't exactly help you with that aspect. but i suppose i have some suggestions for what to keep in mind when writing...?

- first and foremost: read (and write!) things other than fanfiction. there's nothing wrong with fanfic. it's fun and it's a unique form of literature and i think it does deserve love and respect or whatever. but when it comes to fanfic, you're going into these stories already familiar with the characters and the settings, even in the case of a huge AU riddled with OCs. it doesn't require you to stretch your imagination very far. it's important to expose yourself to other kinds of literature, too, so you can learn from them and improve your imagination and critical thinking skills

- show, don't tell - but don't be overly descriptive either. when you write, you must trust your reader to work with you and use their own knowledge to make your story come to life - writing is a team effort between You and anyone who may read your words! people know grass is green, the sky is blue, trees are... trees, etc. unless you're describing a world where these things aren't true, you. don't need to spend time establishing them. you can write the word "forest" and your readers will know what to imagine. and as tempting as it may be to, for example, flex your prose skills to describe the gorgeous gradient of a romantic sunset for 3 paragraphs, unless it serves to move the story forward or reflect your characters' emotions and thoughts, you don't need to. and i strongly recommend just cutting anything like that out because i guarantee people will just skim or skip over it all together.

overly detailed descriptions will come off as patronizing and alienate your reader. draw their attention to the things that matter - they'll fill in the rest. trust me.

- simple language is not a bad thing. don't pull out a thesaurus. don't fucking do it. put it back. you don't need to replace every instance of "said", "big", or...whatever simple word that some tumblr user told you is #bad to use too frequently in your writing. now if you've said the word Big like 28 times within two paragraphs and it wasn't on purpose, you probably need to revise .

but like. seriously. use the words already in your vocabulary. your readers will notice when you've used a thesaurus for a "fancier" synonym. and if you want to expand your vocabulary because you genuinely feel like your word choice is stale, go read some books (not fanfiction)

- in the instance of said especially. don't fret too much over how often you use it. it's like a filler word. it helps break up strings of dialogue so your reader can keep track of who is saying what. if you're constantly trying to find words to use instead of 'said' when said literally works perfectly fine, you're not going to get anything done AND your dialogue is going to come out as clunky and awkward because of unnecessary words being shoved where they don't belong

it's a fine line between letting your readers read a conversation between characters peacefully and actually overusing the word said. but you'll get the hang of it

- the first thing you write down will suck. you will not be happy with it. read this and accept it right now. too many people get hung up over first drafts riddled with mistakes. just write and get the basics of the story down before you lose it - you can go back and edit and revise any time and as many times as you need.

- learn grammar rules, and then learn that grammar is arbitrary and you can break these rules whenever you want for the impact. you'll notice in and what's a little kiss between bros? i've done this a few times. idr all of them anymore but like

But Toya really really really really does not need to know about that.

obviously commas are Supposed to go in between each of those really's. but i didn't put them because a comma denotes a slight pause and i didn't want a slight pause and smushing them all together like "reallyreallyreallyreally" would have been too fast. don't go overboard (but there are exceptions even to this so...?) but remember you're allowed flexibility with words and punctuation and sentence and paragraph structure

- writing is hard. don't be discouraged when the words don't come out. you're manipulating language to conjure consistent images in different people's heads. this is an incredibly difficult thing to do. be patient with yourself. if you have to write something insanely bare bones to establish a point before moving onto the next one, then like... do it.

i'm serious. and what's a little kiss between bros? was like. not even joking, the part i call chapter 2 now started off as "Mizuki gets to school and after talking to Toya, they figure out Akito is on the roof. They go there and confront him."

and then i moved onto their conversation, which came out pretty okay the first time. the beginning of chapter two, up until akito and mizuki begin talking, is like... 2.4k words. it started off as a mere 23. this is what i mean when i say just... write the first draft without worrying about how it looks. put down what needs to happen, and you can pretty it up later. you can pretty it up 15 times if you need to

- have fun. or else.

[showf4lls]

Okay, so I don’t usually say anything on tumblr, but that last anon is kind of making me irritated

They weren’t slick about who they were talking about bc they had a direct quote from the post they were talking about. While I’m happy they didn’t say any names, they still left out info. The blog they were talking about DOES use ‘read more’ cuts on NSFW posts after they put a warning about content. The blog also doesn’t break any boundaries and was very respectful about responding to the anon’s ask. It wasn’t even a direct quote bc the anon made the blog’s response sound ruder than it was. In summary, the blog that the anon was talking about literally does nothing wrong. It’s easy for people to scroll past even short ones bc the blog pretty much always puts a ‘read more’ cut on nsfw fics. I understand being upset at those without ‘read more’ cuts, warnings, or those that are breaking boundaries. However, the specific blog anon was talking about didn’t break anything and is overall very respectable.

I don’t usually interact at all on tumblr but this was just kind of irritating lol. You have a great day though!! Your response was valid but the anon’s actual, and unknown to you, context was annoying.

hi! thank you for being so kind in my inbox, i really appreciate it! /gen

i have to say, i do agree that the blog this is all about does a really good job of respecting cc's boundaries from what i can tell and they were pretty respectful in their response! i do have context for the interaction so i'm not entirely upset with how it went because i have a more well-rounded understanding now.

but i think i do have a point in saying that nsfw blogs should keep their content out of mainstream tags - for example, "[cc name] x reader" - especially if they have an mdni policy in effect [which they should]. by putting nsfw content in mainstream tags, creators on here are practically handing smut to 13 year olds, which is not responsible content creation. like i've said before, i 100% understand wanting to give your work as much exposure as possible. and why wouldn't you [/gen, npa]? you're putting all this work and effort into this thing you wrote, of course you'd want as many people as possible to see it! that's not bad at all. but there is a way to responsibly tag [or not tag, in this case] your nsfw content. also, not putting your work into mainstream tags would make policing those who interact with your content so much easier, right? by tagging responsibly, not only will it be easier to control who does and doesn't interact with your posts, but you'll also be able to build a loyal audience. idk i personally don't see a reason to not be responsible with tagging your work /npa. and obviously no ill will towards this creator, they're doing their best and might not understand where we're coming from and that's okay! that's why i make these posts, to help people understand why it's important to be concerned about who you're exposing your content to.

i really genuinely appreciate you coming into my inbox to help me better understand the situation though!! you can never have too much context so thank you for that! i hope you have a wonderful day :> /gen

[amerasdreams]

You're right. Odyssey is a great show, there is a lot in it, great characters. Why we love it. I don't primarily listen to it because of shipping or fanfic, I listen to it bc I like it. I often choose to listen to an AIO episode that I've heard before than listen to a new podcast.

I've been a fan of it since I was 7. One of the oldest shows of any kind I got into. So it's not surprising it's the only fandom I've written for so far... apparently I have to really know a thing to write in it.

Writing something makes you even more involved in the show, you aren't just passively listening but actively participating even if its kind of in an alternate universe. You listen to episodes as research and pick up obscure facts that might be useful for the story.

Fanfiction and writing in general is deeply involving and how I write at least is being in the characters' heads. Seeing things from their POV. Feeling their emotions. That's why I'm deeply invested in this. I feel so intensely (even when not writing...) that it's hard to take a step back (esp when I'm compromised in some other way, like too tired). How much I want them to be together on the show .. bc I have seen it can work. In my mind anyway, my other universe (maybe it doesn't work as well as I thought). I mean, how much I would like other storylines like Jason being at least in an agent like role again. Or other things that have occurred to me I think would be a good direction or event.... but. I'm just explaining why I feel so much I might sometimes go overboard. I do know even then people can ship what they want -- or ship no one. I'm NOT mad. I just can't help it when it makes me sad. (Another way I am alone, perhaps always alone in most things. Perhaps I should be ok with that or support things that others support, join groups just for the sake of it.... ) BUT perhaps I should take a step back. If it "matters" so much. Try to divorce my emotions from it-- but then, if I weren't emotionally involved, there would be no point in writing it. I'm writing it bc of feelings and you need feelings infused, you need to believe in something in order to write it. If that's the case

... if I feel too much (in everything tho... often bad) maybe I should stop. Or maybe just not talk about it on Tumblr lol. It's fun when it's fun until it isn't. Fanfiction should be fun. Why do it otherwise. And making other people's lives miserable isn't worth it. I have to feel intensely in order to write it but feeling intensely makes those feelings boil overboard into other things.... maybe stop talking on aio fandom at least about this bc I'm probably chasing people away from my stories rather than toward. Just exist in my own bubble and not make it anyone else's problem. Go back to the beginning before I got addicted to reviews after only 1 dose and write in the void like I used to. Cut this off, cut off this point of contact with fandom, bc I feel too intensely for it not to boil over... or just make myself shut up. I mean... I'm not being mean about it I'm just saying my feelings, not attacking anyone so maybe I can say what I want.. but perhaps too much. Even though it's the part I'm most invested in... talk about non fanfic things bc those are what people relate to more... though I'll talk about it less bc I feel less intensely about what I'm not writing about. Which would probably be a good thing Not blathering on about what people don't care about!

That sounds like an interesting fic btw :)

YOU WILL READ MY STORY AND YOU WILL BE SO HYPNOTIZED BY IT YOU WILL SHIP JASONNIE

That is all

[noctomania]

i wrote out a whole response and then accidentally hit the back button & deleted it all so apologies if i forget something (also fuck tumblr mobile app, drafts should be automatic js)

0) yes there are tons more powers at play than just the food industry, this is very important and you gotta think even deeper. the use of animal byproducts is huge financial insulator to the meat/dairy industry no doubt. on average about 40% of an animal is byproducts. im not just talking about making tires and jackets, i mean even down to the lubricant used in machinery to produce these things.

1) prioritizing the comfort of profiteers of these industries over the basic necessities of the average person? the average person who is not likely to have anywhere near the power or resources to overcome multi-million/billion dollar mutually beneficial industries. unless you cut off all the profit from the symbiotic businesses, the meat/dairy industries will continue providing for grocers who would rather throw out excess food than have a shortage, as is proven by current practices. people can and do adapt to resources available to them in their area, companies changing their production has never been an issue before. nobody out here asked for dunkaroos and yet, they were and continue to be produced.

2) we are all only experts in the field of ourselves, and then only if we allow ourselves (or are allowed). passing judgement does nothing. viewing yourself as better does nothing for the movement. it does wonders for your ego im sure but to assume someone is less than or bad because of how they fuel their body is beyond me. If you care about revolution, try to be an educator not a saint. inform. that's the most productive thing you can do, and beyond that it is up to them and utterly out of your hands. that is your 50% contribution, the other half they have to choose and if you did your job well both of you will walk away with something- even if they don't entirely change their life. I don't have higher moral ground for being a pedestrian. Might have better endurance and maybe some saved money more than some but that's about it. might inspire someone if they ask me about it to start doing it themselves but I'm not going to do anything other than share my experience and knowledge and be supportive and compassionate to them. if you want to hold yourself on a higher moral ground by all means. but by doing so i feel like you are turning a movement into a religion.

are you his doctor? seen his pay stubs, bank account, debts, goals? Maybe he tried. Maybe he's a dick. Maybe you don't know everything about his story and it's not your right to. He is an individual. Unless he is in fact a profiteer in which case i doubt youd be friends. you can accomplish all your goals without estranging people with subjective opinions of who they are and what they think.

and in the end all youre really doing anyway is judging how they spend their money. my cousin doesn't buy meat, she goes and shoots her own and she feels that gives her moral high ground bc she's not giving her money to them. but she's killing more lives on top of the ones that have already been slaughtered. clearly moral ground is a matter of bias perspective and a waste of energy bc it's never going to be in agreement with what others do.

3) the goal of my post is to encourage people to stop thinking they can tell other common folk how to live their life when there are bigger powers at play that control both of you. im not out here saying it's all useless or to bash progress, but i am here to be critical of anything that assumes i should change before the perpetuators who profit off these things do or to judge me when im just sustaining myself.

what is the quantifiable difference of saving the lives of livestock vs saving the lives of wildlife who's ecosystems are disrupted by businesses practices and policies or the lives of those subjected to work for them to survive?

these industries aren't going to end. we may cut them back but consumers at an average citizen level aren't the only ones in play. businesses rely on each other (as well as abusive practices) for longevity and profits. as long as they have each other we are a minor player. we're scapegoats at best. "we produce the food because consumers buy it" is erroneous when so much food is being thrown out. they have plenty other downstream markets to peddle to.

i think i got most of my previous thoughts back in this though it's much less organized than before so sorry about that but im at work overnight and brain is confused from having to try and rewrite this.

vegan “gotchas” are becoming more and more of a reach. what i put in my body isn’t going to change what lobbyists want. whether or not i consume animal by-products won’t change whether tires still keep being made or whether/how all those non-animal consumables are transported and by who and gathered/processed by who for how much. yall so sure changing your diet is gonna change the world when there are so many more lobbies at play than you realize. capitalism is a tightly strung web of mutually beneficial connections. Their lobbies are much better funded and taken care of than you or I.

it’s also constantly forgotten that NOT EVERYONE CAN EAT ALL THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOD OR HAVE ACCESS OR CAN AFFORD IT. I know many vegans will say do what you can, but yall really don’t get how useless that feels when the best you can do is mistreat yourself somehow. certainly for some people it is accessible and sometimes even beneficial, but for those of us who already have difficulty getting enough diversity in their diet as is, cutting off more options isn’t productive. ive had enough of being shamed for my diet. i would like capitalists to be shamed instead. not the fucker who’s busting their ass just to afford what they can and hardly has the energy to feed themselves as is.

bottom line, if you think having any particular diet gives you any moral high ground, it really doesn’t. We all shit, we are all shit, and we are all in this shit together no matter what you eat. It all still feeds into the same fucked up system that will leak somewhere at all times until the system is disassembled and replaced.