#procrastination is the name of the game

[scruncheduppaper]

tf2 shitposting again

[bluuscreen]

shows up to good game 7 years late with *remembers i’ve never been to a starbucks* um . some instant coffee i made at home i guess

[xcl0wningar0und]

I let each member of my family pick a sim so uh here's that :3

[gum-iie]

uh oh

[buryam-soul]

I hope picking the Male Rover from Wuthering Waves is the reason I sort out my gender situation bcs that would be a pretty funny way for that to happen

[an-unraveling-unknown]

Hey y'know when you start playing a visual novel game for the funny-sillies and then it turns into a character-building exercise that has you in a hyperfixation chokehold. well

[fandomsbyladymelodrama]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

I haven't been tagged in this one (yet) but I'm in a major procrastination mood this morning so answering tumblr questions is currently way more appealing than actual writing so let's do this XD

How many works do you have on AO3? 67 1/2 - the 1/2 is because I have a very little Obidala-ish thing which is currently sitting in my files waiting to be published when I find an extra minute (like right now, for instance, except that I'm doing a survey instead oops ;))

What's your total AO3 word count? Ummm...let's just say if I had a dollar for every word of fanfic I've ever written, my bank account would be very, very happy.

What fandoms do you write for? Mostly Game of Thrones. But my full fandoms list has 25 unique fandoms, some major, some minor, and some where the entire tag is owned by me.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Île Aux Ours, Jamais T'oublier, Sunrise on the Jade Sea, La Nuit Venait, The Heir of Riverrun which are all Jorleesi fics except for THOR, which I'm pleasantly surprised to find so high in the rankings (although to be fair there's Jorleesi in that one too :)). And just because I was curious, my top five excluding any Jorleesi content are: New World Symphony (Vicbourne - oh I loved them so, history be damned), Dreams and Dragonglass (Viserys x Alicent from HotD), A Girl, A Drowned Man (ahem, Jaime Lannister x Arya Stark - don't even ask XD), over time and tide and death leaping (Obidala4Ever <3), and Easily onward, thorough flowers and weed (Siegfried x Audrey from the new All Creatures Great & Small - S5 is our season friends, I can feel it)

Do you respond to comments? Yes, all of them (except for the obvious trolls). I heart my readers and have had such good times in the comment section <3 Speaking of which, I'm behind with replies again. Just know my inbox is glaring at me.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Ummm, that's a hard one because I usually reach for the fluff endings with both hands. But I suppose...right now it's got to be my Hunger Games fic, and she gained the willow tree. I mean, it's intensely angsty, even more so than the source material, and may remain that way forever (at least until I update it and fix what I broke lol)

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Almost all of my Jorleesi fics have unabashedly happy endings but I think Île Aux Ours edges out the others just because basically everyone (spoiler alert: except for Viserys, Rhaegar and the Night King) live! And all my ships survive! And House Mormont is flourishing! And the Seven Kingdoms are at peace for once! (at least until I write the sequel ;))

Do you get hate on fics? Only on the Game of Thrones fics, and relatively speaking, very, very rarely. It was slightly more common right at the end of Game of Thrones (people had feelings) but it's almost completely died off in recent years...which is a relief. Because trolls are easily ignored but they don't make anyone's day brighter.

Do you write smut? Again, rarely. But, ya know, sometimes things happen ;)

Do you write crossovers? Yes, but usually it's not what I would consider a true crossover. More me adapting one film/series to the setting/plot/characters of another. The only true crossover I've ever written is, I believe, this one: light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling (where Tom Bombadil and Melisandre of Asshai meet up and make a trade - sometimes writing brains are weird)

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not to my knowledge?

Have you ever had a fic translated? Again, not that I know of? Although I had a reader request permission to translate a couple of my Jorleesi fics into Russian so that may have happened and I just never received a link from them.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Ohhhh, yesssssss. My forever partner-in-Jorleesi-crime is @salzrand <3 9 fics and counting :)

What's your all-time favorite ship? Based on my writing activity over the last 5-6 years, I think there's really only one correct answer here and it's the lobsters. A bear and his dragon-girl. A princess and her steadfast knight. They're perfect, they're dreamy. And forever inspiring. I cannot. But other than Jorleesi, I have to give top billing to Jane/Lisbon, Obi-Wan/Padme, Dickon/Mary, Jean Valjean/Fantine, Christy/Neil, Lexie/Mark because these are ships that have stayed with me for at least a decade or longer and are part of my DNA at this point.

What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Ugh. Don't talk to me about unfinished fics. They judge me with their Chapter 1/? eyes. They glare at me disapprovingly each time I log into AO3. And I know that there are a few that have been waiting on an update for a long, long time (and some of you have probably given up hope that I'll ever return to them), but never say never...at least until I'm dead XD

What are your writing strengths? I think I have a flair for writing scenery and believable multi-generational family dynamics. I also think I'm fairly good at fixing canon disappointments with some fun and unique twists (it's the soap opera training, I swear XD). I try to keep dialogue very natural, characterization at least partly canon-based and do a lot of research for my fics on time-period details, with mostly successful results...lol well, that's the hope anyway. And I think another strength that has made me successful in writing age-gap ships especially is that I can write character relationships in a way that might go beyond the whole attraction thing and touch on deeper connections (or something).

What are your writing weaknesses? Endings. Aren't they everyone's? Titles. And my pacing can be off sometimes. I think I get away with it in fic-writing for the most part but I have a few fics that aren't as "tight" as they could be. There are a few words/phrases that I rely on too much. And I'm sure I have a bunch of others that I'm unaware of.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I haven't done this much and I really don't venture outside French if I try it. I rely on friends who are native speakers to make sure I'm not saying anything off the wall.

First fandom you wrote for? Titanic 😍 I had to save Thomas Andrews. He looked so sad and despairing winding that clock at the end. I should have probably saved Leo too but let's just assume in my version, Kate scooched over let him share the door XD

Favorite fic you've written? Impossible to choose. I love them all. Okay, okay, Sunrise on the Jade Sea. But only because you're forcing me to answer <3

Tagging: @clarasimone @gettingovergreta @toas-tea @bridgr6 @crushermyheart @heatherfield <3 Or be like me and tag yourself ;)

[andiatas]

This is part 2 of Ask & You Shall Receive a.k.a. Saga is procrastinating by making quickly edited memes. Today, we're pretending that Liquid Gold by @0shewrites0 is a season of the show, and we're even featuring a Queen Ana reaction this time!

I'm actually up to date with this fic (everyone who knows me is very impressed by this statement because I tend to be at least a few weeks, if not months, behind on fic updates; just ask @silverhallow *hides behind shame pillow*), but since it kicks off in Casa Amor I made things easy for myself & made these either vague or referencing things that have so far happened in the fic

Part 1, with my unhealthy obsession with Unhealthy by @mrsbsmooth can be found here.

[marble-running]

hi mar i am once again bored so i am in your inbox. public ask of shame time 1. have you finished any of the unit stories in project sekai yet? 2. are you at a point where you would like fic recs?

1) no I have not

2) yes but idk how workable that is while avoiding spoilers. Then again you've given me the rundown of all the main stories anyway so maybe it's ok.

[trasho-pando2011]

Sometimes when I see someone simping for a character, I end up simping for that character

It's like it's contagious

[boyfrillish]

I finished chapter 10 and I am not okay! And it's the middle of the night and I have to stop there!

Game: hey, you're going to face some consecutive battles now, are you sure you want to proceed Me: hmmm let's go in right now, what could possibly go wrong

(What went wrong is that Stuff Happens and first Alcryst and then Alear break my heart with their voices)

[king-calycanthus]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson, Dustin Henderson & Eddie Munson, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Dustin Henderson, Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley, Maxine "Max" Mayfield (briefly), Mike Wheeler (briefly) Additional Tags: Matchmaker Dustin Henderson, but completely by accident and against his will, Short & Sweet, Robin Buckley is a Little Shit, and is absolutely not paid enough to deal with these shenanigans Summary:

Dustin insists that Steve and Eddie need to become friends by the time he gets back from summer camp. Maybe he was a bit too convincing.

[ebbpettier]

i've written almost no independent fic in several weeks

HOWEVER

i have enough groups of 6 sentences on each of these WIPs that i could probably milk them for a few more weekends before i have to start really scraping the barrel >:3c

(thank you to @you-remind-me-of-the-babe and @c0nsumemy5oul and @artsyunderstudy for reminding me that i actually have WIPS)

here's a chunk of the prince lindwyrm AU, which is ONLY these six sentences and about 14 pages of notes

When I was a kid, there were monsters in the world. There might still be, but nobody’s ever been far enough beyond the Wavering Wood to check.

There’s monsters in the Wood itself, everyone knows that. The few people who’ve been to the edge–or as close to the edge as anyone can get, these days–say you start to hear things once the branches close overhead. See things, too; eyes in the brush; figures in the corners of your vision; shadows with nothing casting them.

All of that, and then the Lindwyrm.

@stitchyqueer TAG YOU'RE IT

[voidendron]

4, 5, 8 and 9 for Veira from Role-play Interview? (I know you only recently made Veira, but they look so cool, and I'd love to learn more about them <3)

thanks, Pauletta!! 💚💜 this was actually Super helpful in figuring out some more about them, so really enjoyed working on it :D

[roleplay interview ask game]

(they were born around 0 ATC, give or take; answering this as if around...Makeb-ish arc? so 15-ish)

4. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

They look thoughtful for a moment, eyes narrowing as the question mills about their head. With one hand finding their chin, they merely offer a shrug. "I...don't know. I grew up raised by Sith, trained by my parents even if I wouldn't be allowed to train on Korriban - at the time, of course, fortunately it changed by the time I was old enough. But I could still dream, hmm? What aspiring Sith wouldn't dream - at least from time-to-time - of rising to the Dark Council? Because I certainly did."

A sound akin to a laugh huffs from behind their mask. "...But sometimes, I daydreamed how grand it would be to become a moff, were it possible. Not...that I'd wish to be one, now. It's not as glorious as I'd been led to believe as a child. Moffs are... They can be difficult, to put it mildly."

5. Do you have any role models? Tell us a little bit about them.

They look away a moment, roll their eyes, then mutter, "Is it sappy to say my parents? They took me in as a baby when I was unwelcome for whatever bullshit views the Chiss have - and," they laugh a little, "taught me how to use a sharp tongue against xenophobic morons. They taught me what it is to be a proud Sith and Imperial."

Veira flexes their fingers, admiring painted nails. "Even as they had to get used to the whole 'they' thing and ignore the biting remarks of superiors for having an alien child, they're wonderful. Oh, and Mother was very pleased to teach me makeup - how else could I do this eyeliner?" And...well. They wouldn't get into Father punching a fellow Lord over something about them; it was a sight to behold, and they still laugh when they remember it (even if it makes Father grumble irritably).

8. What do you like to do for fun?

The question makes their eyes light up, and for a moment their youth is put on the forefront as they lean forward with a grin so obvious that their mask does little to hide it. The glint in their eyes suggests only mischief. "Have you ever thrown oro bird eggs at a Darth's parked speeder? Don't hang around after, but placing a camera or two nearby to capture the reaction for you? Priceless."

9. What’s your greatest achievement? Why do you consider this your greatest achievement?

"I'm fortunate to be accepted as part of Lord Wrath's powerbase. She's incredibly powerful, and ensures that her allies don't want for better." They hum, tapping at their chin.

"...But that doesn't count much, does it? I...admit that I'm still young, and haven't achieved much, yet. But surviving Korriban, and receiving a master? I suppose I was lucky to be made Lord Xandosc's apprentice." Their eyes brighten. "I hope to be a lord soon."

[essektheylyss]

Hey, would you be cool with other people writing fics in the specific universe of tief? With Fortune Lavorre?

Hello! I just realized I had half-typed up an answer to this and completely forgot to finish it, so apologies that this is deeply, deeply overdue!

I am absolutely cool with it, with a few caveats but only of the disclaimer sort. (And that's not even to say that they're necessarily things that pertain to you, but I figured if I was commenting now I should just lay my thoughts out there, in case anyone else goes looking.)

I'm personally of the mind that transformative works of a transformative work are just as fine as the original transformative work itself, though I know that not everyone agrees. I'm not going to begrudge anyone their own personal rights for how their writing is used, but I have always felt that it would be hypocritical of me to consider it in any other way. (I'll spare you my deconstructive essay on the nature of transformative works in modern culture or I'll take another month to answer lol.)

That being said, the disclaimers! First, I will probably write more in that universe, and as such I will... probably not read other folks' dabblings in it. Not because I would be uninterested, but because I do take the author-ly point of view in that I want your works to be yours, and mine to be mine, so I don't want to find that I've inadvertently snatched up a plot from someone else without realizing. And in a similar vein, attribution of what you're riffing off of would be nice, but at the very least please don't, I don't know, claim that I've totally vetted it and it's definitely fully canon to the original work, or something of the sort. Both because of the aforementioned, I will write further things and I don't want to garner any confusion, your works are yours and mine are mine, and also because if anyone for any reason wanted to come complain to me about a fic, I'd much prefer it was indeed my fic.

(Like I said, I don't presume you need any of that noted in particular—just figured I should note it, since in general I am pretty laissez-faire when it comes to transformative works as a whole haha.)

[the-clay-quarters]

pokes the ambition text. your consistency issues are showing already