#like holy shit look at ao3

[olive-garden-hoe]

I’ve got things to do and places to be but I heard this song and HAD to start making an edit I didn’t know how to do (it’s a wip rn and my tech has been bitchy running it so it’s very jagged in some places)

[thelucidduchess]

Tip for fic writers! Or just writers in general I suppose…

For those of us who can’t write stuff down dispute having a clear idea in our heads, I have discovered a way that can kind of help!

Set your phone or computer on voice-to-text and just start talking. You don’t need to be super refined with it all, just start talking with the ideas in your head, and when you’re done, go back and work it over.

Now go write that story you don’t know how to start. I believe in you!

[someonedefinitely]

i was re-reading my first fic (it's an unfinished long fic and I wanted to get an idea on wtf is going on to complete the thing), and holy shit do I want to delete the fic and myself from existence

like I wanna go up to every single person who has ever read this crap and genuinely apologize

[snailfen]

more people should talk abt the parallels of hunter and pebbles i think,

[just-some-brainrot]

wild: WHY DID YOU KILL HIM?! HE COULD HAVE HAD HOPES AND DREAMS, HE COULD HAVE HAD A FAMILY!!!

time: wild-

time: it- it was just an ant-

wild: YOU’RE A MURDERER

[immamapletreekid]

ok movie thoughts time

[nspolaris]

read the sunshine court and have never been more impatient in needing a second book my god

[yormp]

I feel like no one gets the insanity of an ao3 authors note until they’re the one writing it.

[dodzishere]

My favorite past time is when I'm still hyperfixated on something but I've read enough fics in the "first kiss" or "hurt/comfort" tag that I go to an entirely different fandom and read something that isn't romantic but it breaks the entire character down and reveals their biggest insecurities because I'm sad and I don't feel like reading something about richie tozier being depressed rn so I go to my good ol buddy ol pal peter parker cuz you can slap any mental illness on that dude and it'd still make sense

(Aka I've been scrolling through the oneshot hurt/comfort tag for reddie for the past week and have read like most all of them and miss relating to peter parker yet ik for a fact imma go straight back to the reddie tag 💀)

[thefactsofthematter]

wait omg happy fifth birthday to the cake fic

[sgraffitobonito]

My toxic trait is entering a fandom and reading 20,000 fics and looking at tons of fan art and becoming invested in the characters and forming my own headcannons

But like before I’ve consumed most (or even any) of the cannon media

Hold on let me explain

Like this happened to me with stranger things

One day I was just minding my own business and scrolling through my recommended stuff

And then a picture of Joe Keery in that sailor suit had me actin slightly unwise

And then I saw fanart of Steve and of steddie ofc. And I was like “ooh gee golly look at that pretty metal head with long hair”

And then of the other characters

And by that point my dashboard was completely flooded

And then I knew that I was in too deep

Like after two months I already knew the plot of the entire show but had yet to watch a single episode of the series

[devotedlystrangewizard]

*through gritted teeth* ao3 is an archive and there is far weirder stuff on there i am not cringe for posting my self-indulgent fics i am just one in a vast sea of other people posting self-indulgent fics

[m00nz-writes]

HAHAHA LITERALLY ME WITH WRITING DEAD WOMAN WALKING!!!!

like I get a bunch of people who read it are gonna be a lil upset because it's not nearly as linear as Blackened Angel or Subhuman, where everything has a very firm story in place and is very from Point A to Point B sort of storyline, but I was telling one of my writer friends that I view DWW as more of like a Malcolm in the Middle or Fleabag thing???

I know it makes no fucking sense and I sound like I'm bugging, but hear me out. Essentially, the story follows Edna in sort of discombobulated plot points. It hits all the important bits, but it also likes to point out stupid things. Her story is also sort of wacky because even though it's not in first person, all of it is in her mind and she's a heavily traumatized woman who very likely is losing time and forgetting things, so the story jumps around from point to point because that's how Enda's brain feels.

If DWW were a show, Edna WOULD break the fourth wall. She'd talk to the audience and kind of... get her thoughts out in word vomit. So the "filming my characters while they live their own lives" works very well, because that's what I'm doing with Edna. The story isn't first person, but it's all from her POV and she'd 100% be the fucking Lizzie McGuire of Creepypasta in the sense that she'd frequently break the fourth wall just to word vomit over the screen to express what she's feeling.

That's also why Nina is Edna's BFF. Because Nina is sort of the stand-in for this sort of situation I've created. Nina is kind of the audience/reader, along with Edna for the ride and being the person Edie tells everything to. And if I were more talented, I'd 100% make an animated series FOR Edna based off of DWW... but alas, animating makes me wanna cry :)

if i say "i imagine" or "i think" in regards to my ocs its because i dont knowwwwww. theyre living their own lives im just filming them at occasional moments and calling it a day

[kuiinncedes]

bruh

[raddishwrites]

Chapter twelve

[jareicanon]

THIS.

I come up with the wildest of plots/crossovers I wanna see but for some reason only I think of???

What else CAN I do. If no one else is gonna write what I want then I might as well do it myself

[ @terukokinni3 hi i’m referring to you in the tags 🫶 ]

“why would you write fics for small, unpopular fandoms? you’re not gonna reach that many hits in fandoms not many people know about” ?? because I’m not writing fics for hits or kudos, I’m writing them for me because these characters are my blorbos and I have so many ideas, so much thoughts about them that my brain might explode if I don’t write them out.