#one day i'll get back to reblogging things omg i suck sorry

[khaotunq]

Someone a couple of buildings down from me has a karaoke machine (or just an insane mic/sound system setup) and every so often she treats the entire postcode to her Not Great singing.

Today, however, a child has gotten access to it. And she has been singing half mumbled nursery rhymes/kids songs for about an hour.

To whichever of my neighbours are still out in the car park or communal garden space: godspeed with the horror movie you're now in.

[callibones]

uhhh hh ..... hello! this is the same anon who sent in that ask about object camps. the camps you suggested sound really interesting! im a little too scared to join them for now haha but they sound really cool. they will rotate in my mind for a while i think HGFDSFGHJGFDSDFGH other than that .. 1 . i came across the wiki camp two and it looked so creative and interesting to me! i dont program in css that often anymore but the site makes me wanna go over and put in a bunch of pages. problem is.. i don't know how to Apply? or Do Anything? rn the site is locked for voting but just in general i tried reading the rules but still couldn't understand how it worked. if you knew anything about it that'd be nice. it also seems to have a discord server..? again im scared to check myself but if youre in it i wanna know whether it's a nice space to be in.

2 . uhhghgfdghj i peered through the rest of the blog and found the shelled one blaseball fic you posted ? and i think im really Normal about it. So after reading that i now trust your fanfic opinions. are there any other blaseball fics you'd strongly recommend? and uh general.. uh, evil mind controlly fics would be really nice too (the book of bill is also sort of ruining me along with this so i am truly looking for ANYTHING and like omg hbdxszexrdcfdsxrctvdxszaf) and thats all i wanted to ask you! sorry this is getting REALLY LONG i wish you well and i am So Sorry for bothering you!

HELLO AGAIN! not botherin me at all. :-] i was hopin youd find that answer.... i made sure to answer it at the same time u sent the question so you'd have a MAXIMUM CHANCE of findin it, and u Did! so Yay! welcome back. im going to tag my answers to your Post's with 🩸🟪 so we Never Get Separated Again. but i want you to know.... i don't bite! i literally can't on account of my face is a monitor. so if you wanna chat, feel free to dm me! you seem like a really fun person and we clearly have a lotta interest's in common so Consider That: An Option.

ANYHOO.

1) the wiki camp 2 is ABSOLUTELY a welcoming community. in fact, check this out: here's an index of plainly written explanations of various community in-jokes, to ensure nobody's left confused! while i'm not super active on the discord due to hyperfixating on single spaces at a time like some sort of cryptid, i have a lot of wonderful friends in the community and i'd wholeheartedly call it nice.

you don't have to apply to write, either! while i don't think there's an ETA yet on when the wiki's re-opening, whenever it does you'll be able to make an account for free and start creating to your heart's content! sometimes people who do that even get roped into the camp due to Token Shenanigans....

2) look. i get it. how much do i get it? the post you're talking about was written by my bill cipher fictive. and guess what book made me pick THAT thing up? we're in the same boat. i'm (RELATIVELY) normal 'round these parts, but if you do end up dropping me a line, maybe you'll happen upon some of my stuff? just sayin'. but as for what i can do for ya at the desk here...

thing is, i actually haven't read that much blaseball fanfic. i know! i WANT to. i have a list, which i'll reblog with your special tag right after this. but my brain doesn't let me read a lotta long stuff these days, which is SUCKS! i might poke around some tags and see what i can find, but that spectacular shelled one fic's the only one of its kind i know.

if you wanna read something Long and Serious and Really Really Good that's haunted me for years, put your eyes on Oil and Water, the shoe thieves disaster marriage classic about grief and autism and family and other such things.

then read everything else that catches your fancy, and send me your picks! and hey. if anyone reading this wants to help a cute anon out and knows some fics (or wrote some fics) that fit the Bill i mean the bill, PLEASE lemme know!! i Understand wanting more evil mind control. it's kind of my whole thing. PLUS i'm literally the shelled one's favorite

[oneunexpected]

Omg hey andie!

I love asking games! Answer which ones you want, im sorry i asked a lot fujdhf

28, 29, 4, 3, 10, 11

*sends hugs*

Omg I'm sorry I reblogged this ask game and then disappeared for two weeks, thank you so much for the ask!

28. Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing? I think my advice is sort of... "just do it." Practice really does make you a better writer, and even if you just write something quick in your notes app and it never sees the light of day, I find that can be a really nice way to get some thoughts out of your head and on paper. Another thing I do, both when I'm writing fic and in my day job as a journalist, is if I'm having trouble with something specific — for me, usually scene openers or ledes — I just won't write it. I'll leave placeholder text in all caps, write whatever I can, and then by the time I work back to whatever I was struggling with, it's usually easier to come up with something.

29. What's the hardest thing about writing? For me, it's staying consistent, eating the elephant one bite at a time. I have a tendency to get struck by inspiration and want to get everything down on the page right then and there, even if it means I'm sucked into a hole of writing for four hours at a time. Fine for one shots, but not conducive to multi-chapter works.

4. Do you have any OCs? Do you have a story for them? I don't really have any OCs for TUC, although when I was younger I had a sort of self-insert-y daughter of Gregor and Luxa that floated around my head... perhaps one day I'll return to her.

I did come up with a few new nibblers in Mars Quirinus, and I've thought about writing about them again one day. Or at least making character sheets or something.

3. How would you describe your writing style? Hm... it depends what I'm working on. In more narratively-driven fics, I tend to be pretty direct. In character studies, a little more vivid and purple prose-y.

I took a class in school where the professor was a long-form nonfiction writer and he told us to "write cinematically" but also was really strict about trimming fat, keeping things from getting too florid. I try to keep that advice in mind, and I would say it influenced my writing style a lot (although most of my published fics were written before I took it, so you'll just have to trust me lol).

10. Top three favorite fic tropes? CUDDLING FOR WARMTH. Followed by its sibling, there was only one bed. Third, hm... does found family broadly count? I'm a disciple of the James Cameron School of Hanging Out Scenes. I like moments of downtime where you can tell there's genuine affection between characters, outside of whatever conflict drives the narrative they're coming from, so I really like fics that have that.

11. Three tropes that are fine but overrated. Sick fics, a lot of hurt/comfort, modern/high school/coffeeshop AUs. Still some good stuff in there, but doesn't usually get me going.

Questions are from this post. Thanks again for the ask, Sofia!

[forgotten-daydreamer]

i was going to comment on one of your recent fics (which i kinda liked) until i saw the abrasive author's note berating people for bookmarking without commenting. you don't know why people bookmark things - for many people, it's equivalent to a recs list. just like fic readers aren't entitled to receive fics, fic authors aren't entitled to receive feedback. i'm saying this as both a fic writer and a reader (both long-term, so i have plenty of experience dealing with a lack of feedback). there are many many reasons why readers choose to leave comments (or not), and as a writer you'll be much more content if you can make peace with the fact that there's very little you can do to change that, and instead encourage the commenters that you do get. it sucks, but it is what it is. desperate and abusive author's notes, however, do turn people off. ps: i asked if you read others' fics because i find it hard to believe that you yourself leave a comment on every single fic you read and fanart you reblog. i'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my point still stands - i understand the desire for more comments, but you're going about it the wrong way.

I love when people completely miss the point <3

So, I'm not writing all of this again so go give it a read and come back later. I specified multiple times that ofc saving fics for later without commenting is fine (wouldn't make sense to comment before reading it). And yes, I do comment on every fic I read, multiple times too (I can't guarantee for fics I bookmarked ages ago, but I'm 99.9% sure I always left at least one comment). I don't do it with fanarts because I reblog them compulsively, what I do instead is leave anon messages in the artists' inbox. Although I also leave comments sometimes!

"Abusive" is a strong term, I'm just getting creative because you people are exhausting, as simple as that. As I said in the post I linked (again, read it, thanks) you're all so used to tiktok and such that you think it's okay if people who give you stuff you like for free never get to know your opinion. Wrong. We're humans. We deserve to know what you think. It's the bare minimum.

I'm tired of all that "OMG that fic broke me, I wish I had someome to talk about it with" because we authors are right fucking there.

We are entitled to receive feedback. I've been posting fics for nine fucking years - on an Italian website first, then on AO3 with a different acc that I then deleted, and then with my current one - and reading them for just as long. So excuse me for wanting feedback, excuse me for noticing how the readers' attitute towards giving feedback has shifted now that you're all on tiktok/insta 24/7 constantly bombarded with content that only takes you 10 secs to consume and makes you think "Yeah okay, I can't leave a comment on each and every thing I consume, it'd take longer to leave the comment than to consume the content." (and it's true, like, I know it is)

And trust me, this "if you read without bookmarking you're a jerk" thing is new, check my other fics (I posted over 100 works, but as you can see I only have 40-something now because I delete them compulsively, sorry, orphaning fics isn't for me) and even if you go check the oldest ones (I think the fist fics I posted with my current ao3 acc are from late 2019?) I never said anything. But I'm tired and annoyed. I talked to multiple people here who told me that they'd never thought about this thing until I (and others) shared our honest opinion on it, so, I guess you're kinds on your own in this holy crusade of yours against common decency. Feel free to never read my works again, I'll live.

And I'm not saying you're just finding excuses, but huh, I just checked and the first note regarding this issue is on day 5 (/10 I've written so far) and that one just says "be decent" before I escalated so huh. Yeah. Holy crusade against common decency.

Be fucking for real. Should I put a tw for strong language next time? Is "piece of caca" upsetting? "Meanie"? The only mean one is "cunt" actually. Like I'd be offended too. But the rest? Be for real.

FYI these are all the instances - I didn't add anything to the notes of the other works because I was running out of space. And again, sorry you totally missed the point. Sorry my notes shocked you to the point that you couldn't even comment :o

Peace.

[yelenaisace]

ahsjshshs I love fanfic writers, they are providing more service to the LGBTQIA+ community than many countries ~

I'm glad you're okay with yourself too, the feeling of "feeling broken" is the worst thing. Like, we can't do anything about it *puts on sunglasses and pink shaggy coat* I'm a Diva Ace, I can't change that!

Oh, In my case I found myself here on Tumblr!

I don't particularly have any aversion to sex… but I've always had the impression that I and the people around me experienced it differently. When I kept yelling like a fanboy about One Direction and how I loved Louis (😆) I wasn't exactly saying that I wanted to date him or that I had any attraction to him... I loved him differently. Okay, I wrote questionable fics involving him, but I swear I loved him.

I followed all possible tumblrs of my 1D ships and at that time (2015/16) people were talking about their sexuality and gender identity in the descriptions. I saw the word "ace" and I was like, "why did you put that in the description? Why is someone knowing you're the best at, I don't know, basketball or volleyball important?" 👁👄👁

After being stupid for months I finally put my brain into something useful and went researching and in the end I found that "oh my god I'm not broke". My mom wasn't as excited as I was. I told her and she said that I was being weird, that I was too young to think about it, and that in the future I would find someone who would fix me.

Poor thing, she barely knows that I'm evolving as a Digimon, I'm getting more "weird" every day and one day I'll be a stunning peacock 😗

ejwjwjw thanks, you're sweet, when I'm ready you'll see a lot of mine fics around 🥰

my fics stevetony will chase you 👀

"they are providing more service to the LGBTQIA+ community than many countries" IM DYING AT THIS, bc as much as it's sadly true it's also funny af. but yeah!! I totally agree with you, I feel that they really are doing divine work. I feel that I found out so many things about the queer community in general through being in fandoms, which is something I wouldn't be able to bc my country's not very progressive on it :///

AND YESSS, I hope every asexual (and aromantics and/or both) feel the same way or are in the process of getting there, bc that feeling sucks as hell!!

OMG, BRUH I WAS A LOUIS-GIRL TOO!???!!! and yeah actl now that u said it, same!! i read a lot of Louis-centric ships fics (i don't anymore okay SDFGHJHGFDF but i was YOUNG), but back when i was lurking on 1D tumblrs i remember people talking the same way as what you're describing ... when I just wanted to be his friend ded

DFGHJHDSFGH OKAY BUT I CAN SEE WHY U MIGHT THINK THAT WAY, and honestly, that's not as stupid as me thinking "reblogging" and "reposting" is the same thing here on Tumblr ... which is why I lurked on Tumblr for literal years without being active myself ded

oh man I'm sorry your mom feels that way :/// i don't even want to tell my parents bc uhh they're not exactly big on other more "known" sexualities like gay/lesbian etc. sooooo i don't even know where to start on me being asexual bc i feel that they wouldn't understand. and yikes about that comment on someone "fixing" you in the future :///

anyways, it's okay! I feel that I've found a lot of asexuals through fandoms actl and though I don't exactly talk to them ... somehow knowing that they're out there and are obsessed with stevetony too makes it a less isolating experience? idk if you feel the same way, but yeah, as much as I love my friends and everything (they know that I'm ace), they don't always understand what I'm feeling either! which is fine, and I don't begrudge them for that! but yeah, I think being queer can be such an isolating thing when you're not in an environment that embraces them especially! but it's nice to feel that way whenever I'm on Tumblr :''))

SURE, I'd love to be chased by stevetony fics lmaooo

[serenagaywaterford]

1) Okay, I'm late (bc rl sucks), but I'm back and I'll gradually address everything. "Also do not feel any pressure to respond to my multiple essays! I understand completely!"The same goes to you, bc I feel like I'm bothering you too much. That being said, I truly enjoy talking to you. Not only you offer fresh/perceptive insights into the characters' minds (which made me a. reconsider scenes and motives, b. wanna rewatch S1 --some scenes you're commenting on are SO fuzzy in my head-- mind you,

2) 2) I’m already rereading the book), but you also provide such hilarious, sarcastic lines (some of them are absolute killers).

3) personalities” I know you have an inkling of who’s who. :D But damn, that ‘lesbianing’ bit had me giggling. Kudos, fellow anon. Since we’re on the subject, I have another question about your fic (if you don’t mind): is it post s2 or s1/s2 canon divergent? b) “Add horrid fangirls to that and it’s a big ass no lol.” Ugh. Fandom smh manages to sour my opinion of characters/ships/series I personally like. Especially when fans start pestering the creators to cater to their whims or harass actors

4) or start ship wars. Double ugh. c) “So, that’s the Mass Effect connection!” Two more similarities: i. Mass Effect’s Miranda Lawson got a lot of fandom hate back then (even though she was a famous character), just like Serena. ii. She has a back-and-forth, bickering (hateful but not THAT complex) relationship with another female character. d) “I have seen Westworld! Well, okay, just the first season. I got too tired/confused to get past the 2nd season premiere.” Oh, sorry. I shouldn’t have

5) assumed. Believe me when I say it’s a good thing you stopped watching when you did. The overall quality of the series remained pretty much the same (e.g. acting, cinematography, direction), but, oh boy, some new plot twists (which I usually like) are SO OVER THE TOP in order to impress (?) the audience. It’s reached a point where some characters are unrecognizable, bc they’re servants to the plot. Maeve has a lot bigger arc in S2 and Newton is thriving (imo, S2!Maeve >> S1!Maeve), but so is

6) Strahovski/Serena. :D e) “don’t go around bitching at people who say shitty things or stuff I don’t agree with, or blocking anybody who doesn’t like her."Ah, another thing we have in common. There were times I’ve been blocked by fandom people (with beautiful edits) that I NEVER interacted with (except for maybe reblogging from each other). That’s not me complaining. Like I said, each to their own.I just find this phenomenon funny at times. Story time. Once, an out of nowhere anon (whose msg I

7) didn’t publish, bc drama is SO not my thing) said they’d block me, bc of an uploaded gifset for a canon pairing (which wasn’t to their taste apparently) that was tagged as #[series]edit (although the ship!portmanteau was right there, too, so that people could easily block it). I remember being like: "Okay. Good for you, anon!” LOL. f) “I dunno if you see spoilers but there’s one about them.) She needs therapy so much more than a cutesy feelgood storyline.” I did NOT actually, but feel free to8) enlighten me.

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I am sort of back! (RL does get in the way of incredibly lengthy essays about fictional TV shows!) NO APOLOGIES NECESSARY!! I am just so happy I get to read all these excellent thoughts, analyses, and feelings you have! (and that we clearly share lol, including the sheer amusement of your writing!). I really want to write more at the mo but my hands are doing that weird old lady thing where you can see the veins popping out and it makes me v uncomfortable to look at. Especially since I have little baby hands. I hate it.

Ok, I’m now kneeling on the floor and the computer is on the kitchen island. This is better. I cannot see the top of my hands. 

SO. Where was I? OW. my kneeeessss. This is a bad idea.

I’m so lost. Fic question. right. It’s post-S2. Like… quite post-S2. I didn’t even deal with HOW or WHY June is back in the Waterford’s house tbh cos I can’t be bothered to sort that out. (Thanks, show.) So, it just assumes that for some reason, she’s back. Which, if the BTS pics/video is to be believed, that’s the case anyway. 

Fangirls (and boys ofc) ruin so much for me. Even if I like the same thing initially. Ugh. Then sometimes they’ll annoy me so much that I end up liking the complete opposite of what they like. Dunno why.

No worries about Westworld! It’s a reasonable assumption! Please don’t apologise, my friend. I do agree that Thandie was very good in S1. IIRC, her character was my fav (other than Clementine lol). Yvonne S2 was just next level shit to me. Like, what you’re saying makes me wanna give S2 WW another shot but when shows get overcomplicated, they’re not much fun anymore when I’m like “BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING LOL”. 

>> “There were times I’ve been blocked by fandom people (with beautiful edits) that I NEVER interacted with (except for maybe reblogging from each other)”

EXACT SAME. It was actually in THT fandom most recently lol. Like, I reblogged one of their pretty edits once. Ever. I didn’t even say anything snarky or bitchy or rude in tags. I don’t think I added any commentary at all. Next thing I know? BLOCKED. Never interacted with them in any way whatsoever. (Typical N/J fangirl lol.) It’s the strangest behaviour and it’s that kind of thing that sours me towards sects of fangirls, and sometimes even the characters they like. Maybe that’s just petty but I think it actually just reinforces pre-existing feelings I had towards the character or pairing.) The only blogs I block are ones that are gross, RP, or spam. (RP blogs is a long history of them stealing and spamming and adding awful commentary to my posts way back in the day, so I just… block em. lol.)

>> “they’d block me, bc of an uploaded gifset for a canon pairing (which wasn’t to their taste apparently) that was tagged as #[series]edit (although the ship!portmanteau was right there, too, so that people could easily block it). I remember being like: “Okay. Good for you, anon!” LOL.”

Oh. My… WHAT. There’s a very odd sense of entitlement here that seems so peculiar to me. Like, that’s what the blacklisting feature is for? I’ve put every version of my most despised pairings, characters, etc. and it works? Very rarely does it miss on. I guess we’re just dramaphobic, mature old fandom farts. Like, “Kids, let me sit you down and tell you about this site before you could block things. Before even XKit was invented…” Not to mention every other website ever lol.

HOLY GROSS… I just got up and a centipede fell off me!! WHYYYYYY. THIS IS WHY I DON’T SIT ON THE FLOOR. (we live near the beach/woods so we get lots of bugs no matter how clean we are…) no more painful kneeling for me i guess…

OKAY. Spoilers. It’s not much but other than the June in Martha costume (which was shown in the teaser Superbowl trailer anyway by now)… there were set pics of Emily, Sylvia, Nicole, and Luke all happy and smiling. IIRC. I can’t find the post anymore. So it may not have been in character. But I dunno… it all seems… too easy? Like, I’m glad Emily is safe but omg. She’d better not be all hunky dory “I stabbed a lady and threw her down the stairs, murdered another, and ran a dude over with a stolen car, but now I’m Canada, I’m all healed!” (Not including the heart attack/crotch kicking here cos that was fair play to Emily. She deserved that.) Like, honestly, as much part of me was like YESSSS at all of those, still… that’s grievous bodily harm with intent to kill, flat out murder, and vehicular manslaughter. For Emily to do those things, you don’t do those crimes without being really broken and damaged. And… yeah. That doesn’t magically disappear when you hop over a border.