#oh well! theres fanfiction at least

[binary--star]

I disliked season 3 so much that I've written around 15k worth of words of Mando fanfiction in the last 2 weeks alone, which is more than I've written in nearly 2 years lol.

[garygoldenbignaturals]

the indonesian national library sure has a collection. none of harlan ellison's works are available but several books from the ACOTAR series is fucking there. why are sjm books.

[barry2018-2023]

I watched the first 6 seasons of 911 in a single week like "well I better get on board with this buddie thing bc its canon in season 7" and then I got to season 7 and it's not canon I feel like I just got forced fujoshi at gunpoint.

[greentea-and-honey]

🍓🏜️🦴

for the ask game!

🍓how did you get into writing fanfiction? 

Once upon a time, I was in Girl Scouts and ten years old. My friend Mikayla and I were sitting next to each other and we were talking about how much we liked Harry Potter (it was like the early 2010s okay I can’t see the future) I said “boy oh boy, I wish I could write about what would happen if I, greentea-and-honey, went to Hogwarts!” And she said. “Well, have you ever heard of wattpad?” The rest is history until I jumped ship to come to ao3 in high school. Thanks Mikayla hope ur doing well. also dont go trying to look for my wattpad i wiped her clean from existence.

🏜️ what's your favorite type of comment to receive on your work?

I like almost any comment. But I love an analysis comment. Like what do you mean you picked this chapter apart bit by bit like a scholar? Let me give you a kiss. Also when people pick out a specific line, quote it, and tell me how much they like it for whatever reason. Any multi-paragraph comment is guaranteed to make me go 🥹 I have a big ego and im vain, im a professional writer irl leave me alone 💚 just kidding dont leave me alone please keep commenting. 

🦴 is there a piece of media that inspires your writing? 

Nothing specific, honestly, but I take a LOT of inspiration from horror media I like. Even if im not writing straight up horror, theres probably a scary movie I watched recently thats rattling around in my head and making me do this that or the other. ive been paid to write horror and had quite a few things published and well received in the genre (audio fiction mostly) so its always important to me to keep it a least a little scary at all times. Like real life.

[animeisforanimation]

Oh Dandadan my beloved. How well you always play with tropes and cliches, genre conventions and cult classics. And every time I think “well, that’s brilliantly stupid, nothing can top that” and then a new chapter comes. This time with:

~ there was only one bed~

On a note just half a step more serious, I love the way there’s always harem bait that never actually turns into, well, a harem. Or, actually, into two harems as both Momo and Ocarun meet new people all the time (equality wins? lol). There is tension, there are tropes - but at the end of the day there’s friendship and such sweet care between supposed love rivals. The chapter of all the kids spending quality time together before this Jumanji arc is so dear to me. Vamola and Momo’s friendship especially, but all the cast members have great chemistry. .

What I mean by all that is even though they are in the most romance novel / fanfiction situation ever and Zuma seems pretty enchanted by Momo, I don’t really worry either about this nice new character’ or the main couple’s feelings being seriously hurt. Or that theres going to be something creepy (well, there sure will be creepy stuff, but in a… non threatening way? At least to my eyes. At least, when we’re not talking about actual horror elements). What I mean by that is probably I’ve come to trust the author, I guess. And that’s a nice feeling.

It was supposed to be a page about anime but I keep talking about manga, lol. But Trigun is just too good Dandadan is way too hilarious to shut up about.

[its-no-biggie]

thinking about post-implantation wash again.....

cause like. the rvb writers dropped a lot of balls, but this is the one i find personally the most upsetting. like. a soldier getting irreparably fucked up by an experiment gone wrong is the kind of premise i read fanfiction about (that probably says something about me but im not gonna examine it. moving on). especially since he STAYED with freelancer???? you could take this in so many different directions- his fellow freelancers are worried about him but he pushes through anyway. his fellow freelancers ARENT worried about him and push him harder than he can handle. the director pulls the ai fragments and theres hostility from more than just the one-dimensional "raging bitch" character. the director DOESNT pull the ai fragments, which seriously calls into question the ethics of the whole operation (which i believe is more in line with the pfl that was described in earlier seasons, but thats a story for another time) AND puts potential pressure on wash to get another implantation (oh my GOD. show me THAT version of pfl).

and of couse. how could i possibly forget epsilon. there is something so uniquely tasty about 2 characters who went through something traumatic together and then didnt see each other again until ages later- ESPECIALLY when one of them was the cause, even though they werent directly at fault, and the other was just unlucky enough to be involved. like holy shit????? the TENSION that would cause???? the discomfort being around each other? the guilt? having nowhere to place the blame except the director?? oh my GOD literally any interaction between them couldve had so much FLAVOUR. im not saying they need to be the main focus of the story or anything but we didnt get a single interaction!! not even a crumb!! like. do something with the fact that wash needed to have alpha in his head in season 6 despite refusing to ever have another ai after epsilon. do something with wash needing to SEE and HEAR and TALK TO epsilon again. do something with epsilon remembering fucking exploding in washs head!!!! im not asking for a lot here- asking for a lot would be suggesting a scenario like the one from season 6, except wash needs EPSILON in his head for some reason and gets legitimately triggered by it or cant bring himself to do it. thats the kind of shit i want to see, but i understand that that isnt carolina-centric enough so ill get it from fanfiction as god intended. but cant i ask for at least some awkwardness? maybe an uncomfortable confrontation? irrational hostility? SOMETHING. it doesnt have to be the focus but it should be THERE.

and like. youd think that this is an issue with retconning. and it kind of is, but its more about missed opportunities. like. i dont mind the retcon that freelancer was always its own thing, or that church was always an ai. those things are cool! they take the story in a more interesting direction! yeah it makes things more confusing and id prefer if the retcons werent necessary, but. its not the end of the world. but the thing with wash is. they did a really cool and interesting thing by having an ai COMMIT SUICIDE in his fucking HEAD. and then they went back on it! they very quickly went from "this clearly left a lasting impact on him" to "oh well it was bad, probably worse than hes letting on, but some of it was an act! so he could take em down from the inside!" to "yeah i mean he screamed while it was happening but he was fine when he woke up. no lasting consequences" and then it was never addressed again. and im mad about it!! they didnt even properly retcon it- they just decided that it had no consequences anymore, and it made washs character LESS interesting.

[mioshitomioka]

Tw: like everything? Theres a mention of rape, abuse, torture, cannibalism. This is literally just a rant lol.

Okay, if you don't know me, Hi I'm Mioshitomioka (Mio or Clover depending on the platform) I write fanfiction about random things be it oc's in JJK or BSD {or like any other anime} or about characters in those anime's relationships and how they go about life.

The most popular ones I have (for some reason) is my BSD ones. So I have a main au I'm working on, a fantasy au and other random gimmicks so that's fun.

The main au consists of four stories: Nakahara Miyo (Completed as of 18/12/2023) Dostoyevsky Ju (still being written as of 17/01/2025) Jouno Haru & Jouno Yuki (Hasn't been started) Reunion (Hasn't been started)

In these stories we get to know the kids I randomly throw into my BSD works and what kind of trauma they experienced in a lab which they were made in. These children were created because I heard on the radio one day about these scientists growing a rat from an egg without a womb or a mother and my brain is like 'lets do it with children! In the BSD would because that's likely to be something that happens in this world!!'

So that's how we came to the idea of these kids. Originally I was going to do Poe and Ranpo as well as Atsushi and Akutagawa but I stopped at three ships because my brain wont be able to handle it if I do more the the four kids I already have done. I might do a second generation where they do it and have it as like two kids instead of four but idk.

So when I was playing around with the idea I thought of giving these Ships these kids; Soukoku: A little girl who can kill people by looking at them {Ended up doing that} Shin Soukoku: A little boy who can turn into a black tiger and destroy space and time {Scrapped the idea} Ranpo: Conjoined twins who have no ability {Scrapped the idea} Fyolai: A son that can teleport. {Kind of did this} Suegiku: Twin Boys/Girls no ability. {Kinda went with this??

Okay, now this is what I did go with.

Soukoku: A little girl who can kill people with her eyes, however she cant control her ability and is extremely dangerous. Has Dazai's hair but other then that is a carbon copy of Chuuya. Fyolai: A little boy (who later becomes genderless) who can manipulate shadows to move him (from country to country) or kill people. Has Nikolai's green eye (but for both eyes) and has Fyodor's hair other then that he looks like an actual demon and eats human flesh. Suegiku: Twin boy and girl with two different abelites, ones mute the other blind. The mute one speaks in Morse code while the other one runs into walls all the time. The mute has brown hair and red eyes while the blind one has white hair and gold eyes. (I HC that Jouno has red eyes). They're identical twins but their dna was fucked with so the 'doctors' knew who was who. One of them is an actual siren since she can sing and literally anything can happen while the other one is a human shield and can make weapons with the scales he has on his body. They have a joint ability that lets them heal each other in a certain radius.

They were burnt, frozen and like tortured up until they escaped. Oh did I mention that they were age five and under while all this was happening? No? oh well.

But by the end of it they end up living happily with their respective families and the lab and the main person behind it is destroyed/killed. However they have to face the real world which they had no idea even existed and yea. So life is fun. I killed them in one fanfiction, latterly had me crying because I do love these kids I just also love depressing back story's.

Also I had a school counsellor read over the main plot and backstory for these kids and they asked me if I went through this. No ma'am I just think up fucked up shit and do it to fictional characters. At least I have some human decency though; I haven't written paedophilia or incest before. So I DO have some limitations <3

Also I do Ship Suegiku's son and Fyolai's child together, however they only start to get sexually explicit when they're of legal age. So its fine. Also Suegiku's daughter; Yuki has a girlfriend but I'm thinking of changing her backstory?? So her name is Sayori and shes Gin and Higuchis daughter and well I was thinking of having Higuchi give birth to her and these were my first thoughts on how she could have been conserved; A) Shitty ex who went to go get the milk B) Abusive ex she ran away from C) Rape

[devildom-moss]

Since you menioned Simeon and Barbatos in the same sentence, its my time to rant about how much i love Simbarb!!

I AM LITERALLY ON MY KNEES FOR THAT SHIP. EVERY SCRAP OF SIMBARB CONTENT I CAN FIND, I WILL DEVOUR IT LIKE THERES NO TOMORROW. DOESNT MATTER IF ITS FLUFF, ANGST, OR HECK EVEN SMUT. I LIVE FOR SIMBARB. THERES NOTHING ELSE THAT WILL SATISFY ME MORE THAN SIMBARB. LIKE THE SHIP IS JUST PERFECT IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE. AND BOTH BARBATOS AND SIMEON ARE PERFECT AS WELL. I WANT TO LIKE, SQUEEZE THE LIFE OUT OF THE TWO OF THEM, AFFECTIONATELY.

I think i went a little off course.. oh and i read this simbarb fanfiction once and now ive created a whole au with lore and backstory with Simeon and someone else (which can technically be MC but the actual MC also exists in this au). And i really wanna talk about it to someone, but there's no one who wants to listen, but you're now back, and im happy so maybe ill talk about it to you if youre interested!

Anyways have a nice day! Remember to eat, sleep and dont do drugs <33

Sincerely, 💜

You are so right for this. Those two are not only my favorites, but they are probably my favorite ship (I don't know if I've made that clear in my writing, but I feel like there have at least been hints). We are on the same boat here (I apologize for the pun, but I'm sending it out into the world anyway). I am right there with you. They are precious individually and together. I generally am not a touchy/hugging person, so I wouldn't want to squeeze them, but I would make them a delicious bowl of soup, give them pats on the head, and tell them that they're both good boys.

Especially as a fellow SimBarb lover, you are welcome talk about your AU here! Also, in general, I love reading about how people view character relationships (romantic, platonic - in any form, really).

While I'm here, I would like to fuel the SimBarb love with a few thoughts of my own it won't be too much because I'm going to head to bed soon, so my brain is in wind down mode.

Okay, so I lied to myself about the "a few" and rambled for 10 bullet points, so more under the cut:

Canonically, Barbatos and Simeon just often find themselves on outings together. Barbatos phrases it like it's unintentional; it just happens; they just have accidental dates. Well, considering that Barbatos seems to always have good luck, maybe there's a reason he keeps finding himself on outings with Simeon. Wouldn't it be lucky if he happened to run into a certain handsome angel while he was out?

I think it took Simeon longer to realize he liked being around Barbatos than it took Barbatos to notice how much he enjoyed spending time with Simeon. Simeon probably used Luke as a kind of affection proxy for a long time. A lot of "Luke really likes Barbatos," and "Barbatos is so sweet to Luke. It really warms my heart." Really? Is it just Luke who likes Barbatos?

They probably pick up groceries a lot together, and they both like to menu plan as they browse the markets, so they end up taking ideas from each other. Sometimes they'll plan to cook the same dish on the same night. It makes them kind of giddy. Even though they don't share meals often, when they cook the same thing on the same night, it almost feels like they're getting to eat together.

Whenever Luke goes to Barbatos for cooking/baking lessons, Barbatos tries to ensure they have leftovers for Luke to take back to Simeon. Additionally, Barbatos is especially motivated to help the final product turn out good (outside of just wanting Luke to learn and succeed) because he knows it's a reflection of his own skills and he wants to impress Simeon.

Also, I could see Barbatos sending Luke back home with two bouquets of flowers (especially edible flowers and sometimes herbs) from his garden. One is for Luke, but the other one, Barbatos will casually suggest that Luke "give it to Simeon, if you'd like."

These two both love taking care of others. Can you imagine how often they just try to out-spoil the other? I think it would occasionally end up in arguments that are basically just "sit down, and let me take care of you for a change."

Barbatos would be the least comfortable being taken care of because he's a demon. Being doted on by an angel. That's weird, right? He feels incredibly unworthy.

These two could flirt back and forth so well.

Barbatos would get extremely flustered if Diavolo commented on how wonderful it is to see a respectable demon such as Barbatos and a regarded angel like Simeon getting along so well, and that it gives him hope for the future between the Devildom and the Celestial Realm.

This is kind of angsty, and I don't remember if Barbatos and Simeon actually met before the war, but I have this thought (maybe a future story idea if I decide to lean into ships or something) that while Diavolo was enamored with Lucifer, Barbatos took a liking to Simeon. Actually, it was initially just an interest in the angel whose cooking skills could almost compare with his own. Then he realized how similar they were and how well they would get along. I just imagine younger Barbatos thinking hoping that when the war came around, Simeon would fall with Lucifer. Selfishly, he wanted the opportunity to even just be around Simeon. When that didn't happen, Barbatos was silently crushed but he carried on. He held his excitement the entire time when he first heard that Simeon would be one of the exchange students, and he was even more delighted when Simeon treated him with kindness.

[wonderinc-sonic]

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening!!

G, K & L for the Ask Game

Hi half-guy ❤️❤️ this is on this ask game!

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

I write start to finish, usually in just one go. When I try writing just one scene, I end up giving up - theres a couple posts on here that just have like a few paragraphs here and there because they got scrapped.

I totally encourage everybody to write on the path of least resistance, and if writing out of sequence helps you - I say do it! But for me, it makes inconsistencies if I write out of sequence, wheras as I write straight through I think of more ways to tie in and foreshadow the ending for example. Different strokes for different folks 🤷

K: What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?

Oh my god it'll never be published: Sonic was my mental playground as a kid, and whenever I came across stuff I didn't understand, I liked working things out in fiction. That teenage-to-college au I made ages 8-14 is genuinely disgusting for the level of horrid, needless, gory angst. I don't resent or blame myself, I honestly find those ideas nostalgic and very funny now. I occasionally sample from it for scenes I liked, but detach it from the absurd context.

I realise that's not answering the question, and that's because it's hard for me to think of one I can talk about on my sfw Sonic blog. I guess the fact that they all became celebrities against their will and got very, very mentall unwell in different ways due to the limelight? Or Silver being conscripted into the Army at like 7. Why did I do that? I have no idea. Kids have fun!

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

None, not really. Well depends how you define revising: stick it in Grammarly to catch some spelling mistakes? Once. Skim through to figure out if I missed anything? A couple times in between breaks in writing. I never bother to rework/ adjust things. This is fanfiction, I am trying to have fun and not go for perfection.

There was one chapter I remember reworking, and it was in A Short Stay (or the Ass fic, as it is labelled in my drive). I think it was the one where they end up running a botfight on a hockey pitch. Can't remember why I had trouble with that one, but I can see I have a file labelled 'x(NOT THIS ONE) Fair Lady', followed by a chapter of the same name. I also have a file just labelled 'deleted'. Don't have any recollection of when or where that scene came in, and I low key cannot read that fic back it makes me itch lol.

Thank you so much for the ask!

[thehypnone]

Can you give advice on storywriting? I love the idea of it but I cant do it properly?

Struggling with wording and like how to make each character their own/how to make a well written character??

Aandd how do I know what information to keep and what to tell? I always rush to tell things and I struggle with "show dont tell"

And pacing lmao😭 I dont know how to pace my stories well

You seem to be really good and I read your book (I litterally.. tried to learn polish for the sake of reading it lmao;;; its so good) and a few of your stories too.. any tips would be appreciated

first of all, oh my gosh, I'm literally honoured hshshsh you tried to read my book??? gonna break down right here pleaseee thank you😭

okay I'll try to get to it as well as I can, I hope it'll help at least a bit. you can always message me or send more asks <3 under the cut because its long

making the character be good, have a personality that's actually theirs is probably the hardest thing in writing. it's a bit easier in fanfiction than original work because you see them acting on stage and you see the headcanons so you have a base for it, let's say. but it's still hard. id say there are three ways of approaching this. going off vibes, projection and careful scheming and planning.

going off vibes would be just "okay he does on stage that, so i think he'd act like that off stage", pretty simple, going mostly with your guts yk

projection can go a long way. two ways actually. you can write a character that similar to you or you can write a character that is something you're lacking. of course you can mix it all, but thats the best i can describe it. my rain is me, my dew is me, my swiss and mountain is what i wish i had. caeril is me, neithan is me, etc.

careful scheming and planning is also a good way but if done wrong the character is not gonna feel real, its gonna be dry and just fake. what i mean by that is finding a character sheet with physical characteristics as well as personality traits and thinking it all over, carefully planning what you want the character to be. i myself don't do that, it feels too... artificial for me. if used correctly, tho, it can really slay because then the character can be very well thought over

you gotta try different things, u dont have to write a big 10k word fic right away. you can if you want of course but id say start with one shots, make them your character sheets. do some character study, create them and then put them into a biger picture. it takes time and practice, as evereything

the thing with show dont tell is also a thing of practice. theres no rules as to what info you should keep and what is unneccessary. show dont tell doesnt mean just show, never tell. telling isn't wrong, but writing should put the reader's brain to work, they should be seeing what you saw when you were writing. the best way to do this is basing on the senses. when writing a sentence and you doubt if its necessarry, ask yourself "okay if i was a reader what does this sentence give me? does it give me anything? what senses does it influence? does it help me paint the scene in my brain?". gotta go with feeling and overtime youlll find the perfect balance between showing and telling descriptions and that'll be your style. i make my works pretty descriptive and easy to imagine for the readers because i started with tolkien. i aspired to be like him which is of course impossible but slivers of his writing style can be seen in mine. one of those slivers is rich descriptive imagery

pacing the stories is also really hard. main rule is to not make it boring, but how to achieve it? lmao its not that easy fr. if you do an oneshot you can keep a standard introduction-main part-conclusion structure. first paint the situation, paint the place where this is happening. main part should be the longest, this is what IS your work, the most important thing. conclusion can be slow and short. tell the reader how the main part of the text changed something from the introduction, just nicely close it out. of course you dont have to, we love open endings but this is the easiest thing, id say

with bigger fics, multichapter, go wild. introduction is important but you dont have to put in on the beginning. you can start mysteriously and explain what the fuck its about in te 3rd chapter or even at the very end. build some tension but also give the reader a moment to breathe. the longer the text the more possibilieties you have but overdoing it is not good either, plan it, sketch a storyline. as everything, its a thing of practice and finding your style

and doing all that never forget about the technical bits. good story that has a terrible formatting automatically becomes a worse story because its not nice to look at. learn the proper ways to format a dialogue, work on punctuation, dont forget to capitalize (says me without a single capitalized letter and the worst grammar punctuation and typos in this whole post lmao im trying to type it in quickly sorry). dont be afraid of clicking enter, make space. formatting can also be helful in building tension, short sentences do that. you can highight an information by putting the sentecne with it alone in a line. a lot of things, also style, but you still should keep to the actual rules. treat your work as something great, dont do it half assed. treat it like it'd be supposed to be published, yk?

okay im done this is so long ugh i hope anything here is at least a bit understandable sorry but also if u or anyone have any more questions feel free to hit the ask box/dms hehehe

[ms-all-sunday]

What are your thoughts on the metaphorical utilization of masks used by different characters throughout water 7?

so ive never actually thought about this before outside of the acknowledgement that it's a factor. the most obvious being robin wearing a mask in almost all her more ghosty scenes in water 7, and then taking it off and the entire thing escalates further though with more honesty.

the three main characters of water 7 (robin, usopp, and franky) all wear notable masks. robin when she's going to murder the mayor, franky when we have a perception of him when he's putting up a front, and usopp when he becomes sniperking.

i think the most interesting use of the masks is the less obvious immediately one, when franky and usopp are wearing masks. franky is wearing a mask of weird toxic hyper masculinity the kind that you'd see from a gangster in a movie. we learn later that this is a front he puts up to protect the franky familys reputation, (which is a parallel to robin putting on a mask to save the strawhats) but the way he changes his personality to create a more confident version of himself that shows no weakness parallels usopps use of the same mask with sniperking. you could also argue that usopp is at least under the perception that hes saving the strawhats from having to care about him when putting on the sniper king mask, (i actually think he directly states this? its been a year since i saw the beginning of enies lobby and itll be a 4-5 month journey before i get to it on my rewatch please pray for me) and that robin is becoming more confident when she puts on the mask as well. (although as ive said before robin is a wonderful intuitive competent woman whos never actually used any of her skills for anything good. /loving). i think with robin and usopp theres more of an inherent lie in their confidence when they put on the mask because robin, while she presents herself as confident is very much not. (although i think shes a lot like luffy in this aspect where i think she is genuinely confident but is insecure about things that are very deeply meaningful to her and that drives them more than you would think because they seem confident everywhere else) and usopp is usopp. franky is confident but where his confidence lies is way different. its less that hes lying about being confident but more lying about the type of confidence he has. franky is the type of guy whos confident in bawling and hugging you so tightly you feel like youre going to explode. he doesnt have confidence like gang bege. franky wouldnt tell you to kill a guy

I really fucking love sniper king. i think in general sniper king is the best use of usopps character, because it highlights that lying is a good thing when it comes to him and his personality. sniper king allowed usopp to be there for his friends when he had to lie to himself to keep holding onto their relationship. lying in a lot if senses symbolizes usopps inherent want to hope for better things for himself that he thinks won't happen and i relate to that. a fucking lot. when usopp lies i think it speaks to an inherent hope and openmindedness for whatever hes lying about to be true. all of this is what usopps use of the sniper king mask represents, along with his want to be a hero type guy. (oh to be an antihero in an anime that wants actively to be the type of guy the protagonist is)

there is a gender aspect to it. like i think the reason usopp and franky wear the same mask is because of both of their relationships towards their masculinity and to further the idea that franky is everything usopp wishes he was in a lot of ways. i was like "why do people read usopp as transgender" a bit ago but then i realized it was a stupid question because. like usopp as a character is inherently tied to masculinity in a very trans way. i read fanfiction about this recently so I think I'm a scholar on it but zoro is very transguy in the sense he is masculine inherently but still feels a disconnect between him and masculinity despite that. very post transition transguy. whereas you look at usopp and you see like a pre transition transguy who feels like he has to inherently grow into masculinity and a lot of that is tied to for him a better stage in his mental health. (and im glad he eventually gets that post ts).

anyways back to the masks on the other hand i think theyre a lot like the lines in scott pilgrim. like the weirdo lines ramona gets when she's insecure about her relationship with scott due to past experiences. yes the 3 people who put them on really do change their behavior when they put them on but it's because of the same thing (past experiences influencing them to the point where they arent changing their behaviour in the present)

ALL of them being influenced by trauma

and usopp is the only one who can spin this as a positive utilization of the mask as opposed to franky and robin because of what we talked about previously (usopps lies are his hopes)

and i think usopp gets his "in his own head so much because of past experiences hes refusing to see the truth in the present" pre getting his sniperking mask. but because of how usopp works as a character, he wasnt in a mask there because to him because of his neuroses he sees that as the truth of who he is. i also think the "in his own head so much because of past experiences hes refusing to see the truth in the present" still applies to him as sniper king but ends up meaning something differently. because as sniper king he is not acknowledging the reality of his need to take accountability for the shit he started but instead reverting back to lies hes previously told for the sake of reverting temporarily to normalcy with his friends. (which is a positive in the sense nico robin is going to die but negative in terms of interpersonal accountability)

this is all to say its really good that you cant see usopp/franky/robin when they put on the mask. they are emotionally unavailable to the people around them like they're not even considering other people as a factor which continues the idea of the masks as something that turns kind people alien and shuts them off from whats happening around them. thank you for watching my thoughts develop in real time, anon.

[kidfoundonstreets]

okay uhm the scarf guy and the pigtsail guy from yttd . and charlotte and lime from wh. and uhhhhhhhhh anyone from cinderella game

head in hands HIAAIIEY HYEHEYEH HAII ROBIN <333!!! TAHNKYOU please know the opffer is pen for you anytime.. anywhere.. smooches your forehead okay so i like the pgistial and scarfie scarf guy because theyre so fcuked up ina ll of the ways. i like how they make me wanna throw up and shove my head inside a sewer while inhaling fanfiction of them like toxic gas. that aside the angst and to put it simply fucked up potential in their dynamic is what draws me to them, i enjoy how complex it could be - your abuser could love you but not in all the right ways, it could exist, shin and how they care about one another with the idealistic frankly obsessive posessive view midori has with him as well like the cut scene of him c rying over shin HELLOOO?? anyway theyre silly to me. guy who lives in your house is also your roomammte old friend bestie lover worst person you know etc jerk weird weird satrange weird. i could write a lot more if it was speciifc but im very bad with words sooaoaahahdhwh <3 oh and gore chalrtotoe and lime are also one of my fav dynamics yesss horrible yuri. chalrotte never wnating to give up on lime while lime has al;ready given up for any sort of proper undertsnaidng she craves bwteen them, heyre friends but one wants more while the other doesnt, it doesnt even have to eb romantic it just hurts because charlotte was all by herself or maybe just singled with the others apathy toward semotions so seeing lime full of emotion and passion and pain who could get chalrotte probably also ironically struck a chord in her - and shes always worried for her, like she might go too far, and when she does she just starts crying. thats the good shit. a hoepless ending a hopeless dynamic but they kiss sometimes in my brain to make it worse. perfect. that cinderlelal game ,, ,,,, !! oh god please dont stirke me here IM SO EMABRARSED i dont have any ships in that game so ill go on with that xoxoxoxoxooxox dorpelts one ive been playing ! i really like how with shiloh theres this fake "is this true is this not" with him, you never really know and thats what the fandom loves about him whcih i agree its an addicting type of thang, and even in the end its not completely clear. all we relaly get is that its sure at least that he does value jb at least a ltitle or see her as of value, as she does end up consistnetly vomplimented talked to and by his side through the end. he cant have a verison of hismelf that isnt manipulative, long gone, and you need to accept that. theyre awful divorce. i cant get enough of it. jbs overflowing confidence and shiloh right beside her like a dog with a knife, begging for any sort of scraps because hes a liar. a mnaipualtor. like jeoekr! or kokcichi . ezxcept hes actually good . can you imagine it. ironically hes probably the most untrustworthly one there becausre atleast the others say what theyre thinking. shiloh is a mixed bag and every word has at least a little bit of a truth and lie to it.

ut thats how they like eahcother and its fun interesting we arnet here for a long time we're here for a fun time for nate it givess a bit more of a genuine perspective, im not used to jb being comforitng or nice tbh lol. but its clear that they atleast fiteachother even if jb isnt the nicest one for him - i think shes the only one who can keep up with his intense moods and issues stacked on him and his rough exterior. hes honestly a pretty decent guy if you dont piss him off whcih is easy. closeness issues. commitment issues. nothing is ever stable issues. i get it bro. the thing with all of these dynamics in this game is that they do somehow in a hilariously awful way is complete eachother, i cant say if any of them will end well but its obvious that theres chemistry in all of their interactions and i love love love this game. anyway i also relaly liked how with nate you dont kiss him at all and instead get a hug at the ened, its nice compared to shiloh who just goes along with everything and how jb is pulled to his wants at times (while with shiloh shes the one ofc usually taking all of the lead while hes the jester) - i think it really digs in how much he trusts her to go that extreme and vomit-inducing lengths at the end because he wants their kiss to be perfect qnd it isnt perfect right now. but hes ready to keep going because of this stupid bitch (jb). and i find that super sweet

[fire-but-ashes-too]

"So what do you think about tax evasion, huh? Quite the... curious little thing, I'd say. See, I'm not one to judge people for their troubles with money or the government or... I'll be honest, I don't know why people feel the need to avoid taxes. Is the government that bad? Yes? Ah, that's a shame... Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes, so I'm not one to judge people, but it seems a bit... How should I say it... Going overboard? Excess? I believe you youngsters do it simply 'for the memes'. It is certainly strange, I say. Whatever could get them to feel the need to do that? Maybe I am not meant to understand.

"Well, how about those 'fanfictions'? What exactly were they again? And, I must ask purely out of curiosity, how does one find them?"

...as someone who has no idea how taxes work, im just gonna say that of all the crimes possible its one of my least faves cause its just boring

why do that when in england theres a law against unlawful something for walrus/seals??

howeverrrrr

second question here i comeeee

*ahem ahem*

a fanfiction (commonly known as "fanfic") is a piece of media presented in written form (if its art its considered fanart) which uses characters from an already existent form of media (which can be whatever the writer prefers, from real people to books, music, films, videogames etc etc) to create different stories than the one already told by the original creators. it can be found on websites like Archive of Our Own (my beloved <3), wattpad (please dont) and fanfiction dot net, however there are many more (fanfics can be found here on tumblr as well)

my definiton of fanfiction and where to find it! (off topic but its so fun to write in an overly formal way like?? yes sir i shall answer thine question straight away)

[quaranmine]

at my university, the environmental science programme recently combined with the earth system science one, but i still have a course list of the old programme and on there i see stuff like toxicology and environmental chemistry (and at least one law elective) lol, so what you said does not surprise me at all

i'll also say ahead of time that my current wip will probably involve the "using my bachelor's degree to write mcrp fanfiction" if i ultimately publish it… turns out science is very good worldbuilding fuel <3

Yeah we had some earth science stuff--I took geology, hydrology, ecology, and soil science. But we also had a lot of pretty "obscure" classes such as remediation, drinking water/waste water treatment, environmental risk assessment, etc. Environmental Science is a very broad field with many specialties. The plants/animals based ones are the flashy/fun ones that stick out to people. Not that I am degrading or saying anything about that, I would love one of those jobs! But what I mean is that is what everyone assumes I do. My work is much more focused on human health, housing, etc.

An equally large part of environmental science as a field is also stuff like hazardous waste cleanup, toxic chemicals runoff, wastewater treatment, pesticides, brownfields, etc. It is just as important in protecting the earth as conservation but a lot dirtier/less glamorous i suppose? i mean i have an office job so it isn't dirty ofc but i guess i just mean that. theres a lot of jobs that are less "walking into the woods to go catch birds and put bands on their legs" and more like "look at this nasty ditchwater drainage, how to do we clean that up" LOL

also omg yes please do! i just think it would be fun if it got made into a canon tag. try to use the same wording as mine so they get connected: Using My Bachelor's Degree to Write Minecraft Roleplay Fanfiction

^ note that you dont have to be a sciencey person to use that i would love to see this with all kinds of specialties! i should perhaps have made it non bachelor's degree specific though haha but oh well it was supposed to be specific to me

[unrealblacklightvirus]

Oh my phrasing was quite bad there, as it's mostly digging through old fics and stumbling across lost stuff. more halfassed fandom archaeology than comprehensive archive scrolling.

Basically i stumbled across the largely defunct prototype kinkmeme on livejournal, and saw someone mentioning a deleted fic by saeto15.

(I always forget abt kinkmemes when reading stuff from older fandoms, esp smaller ones since those can be quite limited in stuff uploaded to newer sites like ao3. though I wasnt really around during the livejournal days so... surprising amount of gen and joke fics on there honestly, a real timecapsule of early 2010s fandom humor)

later stumbled across the more general (though smaller) fic community on there, and noticed his account was a moderator... and also completely nuked (side note, but theres other fics on there as well that cant be accessed due to the OPs locking their posts to friends only, and i desperately want to knock on their door for access bc my curiosity knows no bounds)

did some general namesearching and noticed he's still around, presently hanging out mostly in the zelda and vulture culture communities lately.

managed to get into contact with him through his tumblr, asking if hes concidered reposting his old and deleted fics to ao3, and he is! they're just trapped on an old busted up harddrive, so he has to get that checked out to see if anything can be recovered from it.

in the meantime i'd been doing some more digging, having the common sense to just put prototype after his username this time, and noticed 2 things. 1: from what ive gathered he was pretty prolific for early 2010s prototype fandom, between moderating the fic community on LJ, mentions of his name popping up on the kinkmeme, and even seeing his name popup on the gamefaqs forums.

but more importantly for where this story is going is 2: an article on fanlore mentioning a prototype fanwork forum he helped start called Viral Mutants Anonymous.

another one two with this one,

1: since the forum started on fanfiction, i now had a direct link to his old FF account. turns out the reason i couldnt find it was bc it just doesn't have the 15 at the end, it's just Saeto. it's got some fics and favourites on it, including that one fic someone back on the kinkmeme was looking for, hidden away at the second chapter of a drabble collection (the fic in question is Touch. its gen and honestly really good and makes me feel emotions) i mentioned this to saeto, as it meant at least some things were confirmed to be saved even if the harddrive recovery went up in flames. though he did confirm my suspicion that not all the prototype fics he wrote were posted to FF. and most likely, the place they WERE uploaded to was...

2: the forum. theres 3 links for this thing on fanlore: the original FF forum which is still up, a shortlived one on createforum that was quickly abandoned due to site instability, and a phpbb forum, which was known to be up as late as may 2019, but has since died for reasons im unsure of.

the createforum version only has 2 archives on the wayback machine that i can access, which genuinely show nothing but how many people were online at the time

the phpbb link has more stuff archived, havent clicked around too much yet, but i do know the fic and art threads have sadly never been archived, and all ive got to work off of so far is some topic titles and forum layout, though i do want to do more digging.

and that leaves us where we are right now. i do have some more things i want to dig into. one is the forum on fanfiction, as i havent really dug around that too thoroughly. as well as scouring for more archived pages on the phpbb forum.

theres also the 4chan thread mentioned on the intro to the kinkmeme, which seems to be its precursor. hesitant as i am to touch 4chan with anything more than a 10ft pole, and honestly not even knowing where to start since im wholly unfamiliar with the site structure as a result, im curious as to what got uploaded there, as it HAD to be 2009 ish given the date the kinkmeme started, making it early early days.

along with that i still want to message some users from the livejournal prototype fic board to politely ask to see their old stuff. i've started digging through the internet archive and am concidering touching 4chan in my quest for knowledge at this point, so i might as well gather up the courage to message people at this point.

but yeah, thats what my dig has amounted to. an early 2010s fandom rabbithole of deleted fics and art that i stumbled across entirely bc i got bored and felt like perusing to early 2010s hornyposting for shits and giggles like a weird tourist

probably not what you were hoping for, but at least my slow descent into madness mightve been somewhat entertaining

(side note, apologies for my wildly inconsistent punctuation, i am simply vomiting words into your askbox here)

holy shit anon this is incredible. i am far too afraid to contact anyone even if that means I lose out on reading old fics 😭😭😭 but I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! I dont get much activity on here anymore so this was a welcome sight

[javic-piotr-thane]

oh interesting! i can’t read books at the moment so i havent read any of them. that makes a lot of sense ab leadership. i like my little hc that they made it more communist - ianto did behind the scenes stuff/correspondence w thr queen etc, tosh was coordinating from the hub, & then the other two also pitched in for other causes (nice and vague, well done me hahah). i actually wondered when i rewatched KKBB if they had spread out the leadership & then the writers were like ‘haha nope!’. ive read a lot of nice ianto takes over fics which is probably swaying me a bit lol

i actually dont mind broken! its a bit strange but i think it fits well enough. its more that i dislike that it (kind of) limits the options for fan-decisions on when they sleep together first. while lots of people are happy to wiggle canon about and create wonderful new things, lots more tend to stick w canon as is (or major points) and i think defining when they first sleep together gives it a bit more weight and impact (even belatedly) on the episodes (& fanworks). i mostly enjoy the plotline otherwise (although the sleeping together did catch me off guard the first time!)

thats true about fandom shaping it. i am still very much on the fringes - i think i follow you & perhaps one other tw blog - just because i find fandom a lot of stress and i’m in my early 30s so lots are younger - but i’m working my way through the available fic (well, mainly the ones on ao3 ik there are many on LJ that i am gonna have more trouble finding later lol) and that probably is shaping my view of characters. some more than others, i suppose. but i have been finding a lot of ooc representations (for me) which makes me think perhaps theres a fandom-intent on portraying them. i cant quite word this!

i’ll do a comparison - i consumed a lot of HP fanfiction, it was my main fandom for fics for a lot of years, and my first fic ever. and now i cant tell you for certain which portrayals are true to canon, and which are based in fanon. because i stopped engaging w canon (for many reasons including the most obvious) and now i’m left wondering - eg was that how neville was in the books or is that how fandom has shaped canon into their own desires and interpretations. and thats not to say thats a negative! because i think fanon is incredible. but i do wonder when i read a fic without that background, without the decade of engaging in fanfic as it shifted, if i am reading it as OOC when it’s actually in character for the fanon version of the character.

i hope that makes sense, i have a lot of trouble with coherence lol

you're making sense!! this is a problem ("problem") for many fans i think, which is why engaging with the source material (when possible/comfortable, obviously, i know which situation you're referring to) can be important if you really want to keep your interpretations close to canon. (you might not want that, or not care, at least in particular instances; something something Sherlock actually makes 100% of the tea on the show with his name and not John.)

as for fic that feels OOC to you; if you don't like it, i recommend you learn to spot it early and avoid it. simple as that. god knows i went through that phase in my early time in this fandom XD you have to read a bunch to figure out what you like and don't like in the first place, i think, but after a while it tarries out and might only shift slightly afterwards - and you know what to avoid and what to seek out.