#like it hapened to me with the last fic i posted and that i just kinda shrugged off

[rune-rambles-art]

Man are people on ao3 okay? I am not the most frequent fic reader but like. I keep seeing the rudest comments under ppl’s fics and it’s just like?? Dude if you didn’t like the fic you can just not comment. You went out of your way to be actually tell someone “yeah this sucks try harder :/“? Insanity. Just be kind to people

[baradesign]

✏️, 🖊, 🌝, 🍰?

✏️ Do you write every day? HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHA.... no :V I've been trying to write at least for 1 hr each day, but that hasn't been hapening ;w; 🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP. Beware!

“Home! I need to get home and help look for Sidon!”

“I know that, Link, but you can’t just go and search for him!” The blond chuffed at such a ridiculous statement. Of course he could just go and search for him. He could already be doing that if Pipit would just let him! He turned away from the brunet, as if to prove a point, and managed to take only a couple of steps before he felt Pipit’s hands hold him in place once again. “Link you can’t!”

“I can and I will!”

“No, you can’t! We’re on duty, Link. You’ll be a deserter! A traitor!”

“I don’t care!” Link felt the hands on his arm release him in an instant and, just as he thought the brunet had finally understood his urgency to leave, a sharp, burning pain coming from his scalp morphed his angry roar into a pitiful yelp. The hand grasping at the base of his ponytail pulled his head backwards with such strength that he could only throw his head back and follow its movement until his gravity center shifted and he found himself falling backwards against the wooden floor.

“Well, I do, and you should, too!” Pipit shouted from above. His enraged face put an immediate end to whatever stream of colourful language was about to come out from the blond’s mouth. Link was not used to seeing Pipit with such an expression, and by the looks of it, he was about to learn not to summon it again any time soon. “ A deserter, Link! Do you even understand what that means?! Is your fish-brain big enough to comprehend the meaning of it?! You’ll get court-martialed and probably imprisoned, since there is nobody here who can say you were being forced to leave your post! And even if I were to speak for you, what am I gonna say?! ‘Please, Your Highness, have mercy on this idiot. He suffered from a stroke.’?! You’d still get banished from Hyrule, at the very least! And where are you gonna go after that? You can’t go back into Zora’s Domain, so what’s your plan? Run away for the rest of your life, hoping to not be captured while trying to survive by eating nuts and berries like a squirrel? Go live up the volcano with the Gorons? Dress in fucking drag and get lost in the desert?!”

“I-I just-”

“No! You can’t possibly think you can ask me to just sit down and watch you do this. You. Just. Can’t!” Pipit stomped his boots against the dock, so close to the blond’s head, Link found himself flinching every time the sole made contact with the creaking wood. Blue eyes braved taking a look while the brunet struggled to catch his breath after the sudden outburst. He saw Pipit bit his lip and press a thumb and an index against his eyes, the fingers pulling on his sin as he dragged his whole hand against the side of his face. A deep groan left him, his usually energetic voice sounded as if he had aged ten years in the last ten minutes. “You can’t ask me to let you do this to yourself. You can’t…I hate nuts…I look awful in drag…” 🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to? To ot duplicate my answer, this tim I'll saaaaaaaaaaaaaaay... Gildan. I know he's an oc, but... I need to write him as an actual talking character. I NEED IT! 🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave). These Tasks Three by @only-by-the-stars ! It gives me happy feels!

[justanotherghostwriter]

NaNo 2019 analysis: the good, the bad, the ugly

I’ll pop this under a cut, because I know many won’t care, but I’m a sucker for reviewing, comparing and tallying things like this up so perhaps somebody else would find this interesting, too.

A quick review of what this was:

I decided to write 50k for NaNo this year by taking multiple Whumptober prompts and writing fic for them over November. I set myself some other rules, and said rules plus all the fic can be found on A03.

WHAT DID NOT GO ACCORDING TO PLAN

Murphy obviously follows me on Tumblr, because he found out I was trying to do NaNo and made the most ridiculous things come up to fill my time this month. Some of them were good, some bad and some neutral but I cannot believe the sudden and inexplicable events that occurred this month in quick succession.

This busyness meant that I had to break one of my self-created rules; namely, to post the fic on its prompt day. I won’t lie: I’m incredibly sad that I had to break this rule, for some odd reason that probably has to do with my love of getting things done before deadline. I was doing so well, but those last two fic just couldn’t be anything except late.

I also broke the intention to write ten fic for the same reason of being unexpectedly and insanely busy. I ended up writing only eight.

Many fic didn’t turn out like I had them in my head. This happens every time I write, though, so it’s not a new disappointment by any means, but it is a bit of a bummer.

That last fic was literally 80% written on an ancient smartphone too old to download Google Docs or any keyboard except the default one, with no connection to the internet at all, with a screen the size of a Monopoly Chance card. 1/10 do not recommend writing your fic this way, especially if you (like me) had no time to really go back and read over your work to find the unhelpful autocorrect additions that you may have missed. It was an especially harrowing experience because I had to use my phone because I found myself very suddenly with friends and family and didn’t take my laptop, which also meant I could only find time to write when they finally all went to bed and I could stop being social. When it’s 3am on November 30th and your phone battery is dying and autocorrect is being more of a pain than usual... Yeah. That last fic was an experience to write.

For some unknown reason, A03 hates the word processor I use and kept adding weird spaces between letters and paragraphs? So I had to go back and manually fix those once the fic was done. I learned pasting it into Gdocs and then copying from the Gdocs into A03 mostly prevented this from hapening. 

WHAT WENT ACCORDING TO PLAN

I hit over 50k! As disappointed as I am that I had to break some of my own rules, I’m very relieved and very, very happy that I managed to complete NaNo.

My family was sweet when I asked them for Saturday morning off to finish NaNo, because I was 2k out and I was not going to fail this thing by only 2k. One of them even went to fetch their work laptop and external WiFi for me to use. I love my family. 

I managed to show my Bad Things Happen Bingo card some love. Still no bingo, though.

Wrote for the Six of Crows, Avatar the Last Airbender and Stranger Things fandoms for the first time. It was terrifying to break into new characters I hadn’t written for yet under a time-pressure fic, but I enjoyed dabbling in their sandboxes a lot.

I got kudos and comments! Even on the things I wasn’t sure would tickle anybody’s fancy. None of them were rude, and having a month of love thrown my way (I even got a rec! Somebody recced me!) was so rewarding and made me so happy that things in my head were enjoyable to others.

On that note, here are some stats: (Last updated December 1)

Fic with the most kudos: The canon divergent post-war ATLA fic, with 123 kudos. (Damn. I’d forgotten what writing for a big fandom feels like.) Second place goes to my FMA bodyswap fic, which has 49 kudos.

Fic with the most hits: Post-war ATLA fic takes it again with 762 hits. Second place was, again, the Bodyswap AU, which had 289 hits.

Fic with the most comments: (multiple comments by the same person were not counted) My Peeta Sees Ghosts AU for the Hunger Games fandom. It has 6 comments.

Author’s fave fic to write: The Peeta Sees Ghosts AU. I love ghost stories, both scary and not, and this one just flowed so easily I didn’t so much write it as et it be written. It was also mercifully closeish to what it sounded like in my head. I wish there was more oomph to it; more reason to read it other than a quick ‘oh, that’s a nice concept’ feeling of getting your Oreo in a different packaging while the flavour is still the same, if you know what I mean. But that’s just... all my writing, so I’m used to wishing I could offer more.

Author’s least favourite fic to write: My Agent Carter fic. It just wasn’t working and had to be cut from the original premise quite a bit. And once I was way late with it, my motivation decreased a lot. I don’t feel I did it, or the fandom or the characters, as much justice as I possibly could have. Special mention to the final fic for similar reasons: having to cut a few things because I was running out of time. And so sick of typing on a phone.

How many are getting second chapters/followups at a later stage: The last FMA fic is definitely getting the second part that was supposed to be written for NaNo but never came. And the same can be said for the Stranger Things fic. I’m still on the fence about wriing a small second part to the ATLA fic. And not just because getting so much attention makes me preen internally, I swear.

[etoileetiolee]

Where I’m standing

Hello everyone.  I’m new to the Sherlock fandom, having watched the first three seasons just in time to wait anxiously for the fourth.  I’m a fanfic writer.  Over the past five years, I’ve written exclusively for the SPN fandom, where I gathered a lot friends and a  good fanfic writer reputation.

I feel like I need to address my position regarding BBC Sherlock, as now I am in the middle of writing my first Johnlock fic.  Spoilers under the cut.

I was passionnate about Supernatural, very involved in the fandom, even been to a couple of conventions.  I was shipping Wincest, which, for those who doesn’t know, means Sam and Dean, the brothers, together.  Of course, I was shipping for fun, because it’s not like the characters would eventually get together in the show.  I had dozens of friends and followers on livejournal, it was fun writing fanfiction, and it would remain that -something that was never going to happen to canon Sam and Dean Winchester.

Even then, I did know that Johnlock was a huge and popular OTP for fans, and when I started getting involved in the Sherlock fandom, all I wanted was read good fanfiction stories featuring Johnlock, canon divergent, AU, canon, everything!.  I wasn’t aware of the Johnlock Conspiracy, it took me some time to understand that those believing in it thought that the plan, for the creators, was to introduce an openly gay Sherlock in love with John, making them a couple for the first time in the Sherlock Holmes history.  

Maybe I was too late to really understand the believers in TJLC or it never occured to me that it could hapen in the show, but I just want to say that, although I didn’t believe in that theory, I know some people got really, really hurt at the end of season 4.  I respect their pain, and I hope they will find some closure.  

The thing is, I am not someone who likes to take sides.  In my other fandom, there were ongoing wars between shippers, and I always made a point to stay away from all the negativity.  By becoming a writer for the Sherlock fandom, I want it to be clear that I will keep the same attitude.  For me, writing Johnlock is fun in the same way as writing wincest was fun.  I watch a show I care deeply for, I let the storytellers lead me where they want, and then, when I need something more, I find a good fanfic or write one myself.  

That is not to say I am not capable of understanding other people’s point of view, or that I am a hundred percent satisfied with the show, because nothing is ever perfect, and you can never please everyone.  

But,

I am an enthusiastic Johnlock writer and I have no intention of stopping.  There might be another season, or not, but my head is full of ideas and it feels very good.  I don’t want hate on my tumblr, and this post is probably the only one where I dare give my personnal opinion.  Every one is welcome here, to look at my fics or my clumsy art, to reblog gift and silly thoughts.  I for myself ship John Watson and Sherlock Holmes ever since I read the first ACD novel, when I was fifteen.  

I was watching the montage at the end of the last episode, and the ending is so open I have a hundred ideas of how Sherlock and John could get together after what they’ve been through.  Parentlock, here I come. Why not?  I like challenges.  I only hope that even if I do not consider myself a johnlock conspiracy believer, it won’t stop those who are to enjoy my stories.