#somewhere i'd rather be

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Iron Maiden - Different World

[lifeneedsasoundtrack]

Song of the Day: November 3, 2023

Wisp X: Somewhere I'd Rather Be

[rynrising44]

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but those people on Tic Tok making videos about "things they despise in fanfiction" under the sound of "Hard times" kind of rub me the wrong way. Like, sure. Paragraphs are nice. Longer chapters are nice. Using quotation marks is nice. But do you know how hard it is to write? Do you write? Do you edit? Do you constantly stress over your works because you are so freaking fearful that it sucks and that people will bash it?

Legitimately I'm wondering.

Because one person on a tiktok said they don't read chapters unless they're at least 2k words. Another said they want more people to write for Whumptober but they want more than a one-shot because they need more than just a 3k work. Another said they only read finished fics and they have to be 100k. Like??? I hate to break it to you, but you are the problem.

I write cause I love writing. I write cause I want to read the stories in my head as concrete ideas. It takes me about 10 hours to write a single chapter that's about 2k words. 10 hours! Not including editing. I worked on a 6k one shot for an entire month. My WIPs are long. 50k words or so, and I have bookmarks from people saying "Chapter 0."

It has taken me so much time and tears and thought to write the words I have written. If no-one read my WIP because it wasn't finished and they refuse to read unfinished works, that's such a shame.

You miss out that way.

This is how AI weasles it's way into artistic spaces. Because people lack patience and want instant gratification.

It just bugs me so much that this culture is becoming more hard-core pressed on consumption instead of community. Opinions are opinions. You can share your frustrations but remember, we are all people. A lot of children are learning to write on these websites. People that speak English as a second language are putting out their best works, and here you are; overly criticizing works based on chapter length and paragraph length and POVs and tenses.

Like, guys. Writing is fluid. It's growth. I'm not the same writer I used to be, and it's because people read my fics and spurred me along that I continued to grow.

This is all humanity. This is all fun.

Free.

It's a gift born from the creativity of an individual's heart, so how could I ever refer to someone's soul as "not good enough."

It's one thing to silently not read a fanfiction. It's another to publicly shame it. That kid whose vivid imagination led them to write about characters they love can see your comments and maybe because of it, they'll never write again.

Remember that.

[stealingyourbones]

recently watched a handful of episodes of Supernatural and im kinda impressed with Dean's steadfast belief that all monsters are monsters and can't be redeemed.

With that in mind... there could be some VERY angsty Danny Phantom crossovers with that as the main premise

[dollking081]

"troob" HIS NAME IS PURPLE MUTUAL!!!!! "kitty carpet" ITS NAME IS ORANGE MUTUAL!!!!! "sakkakuu" HIS NAME IS PINK MUTUAL!!!!! "ciro" THEIR NAME IS BLUE MUTUAL!!!! "triss-chan" THEIR (?) NAME IS MULTICOLOURED MUTUAL!!!!

[starry-907]

minor flashing tw

alright all y'all with ghost victims out there need to imagine with me the concept of spooky ghost child vic

the idea can have merit (i'm just not the most skilled at drawing things spooky yet sjdlflsjskdk)

individual frames under the cut because csp wouldn't give me a nice looking gif export of this

[pointycorgiears]

I had plans this week to finish the next chapter of my dragodile fic, but that has been put on hold due to KITTEN!

The neighborhood kids brought her to me (they always see me outside with my other cats) and basically said "Here you go! We can't have it! Mom's allergic. Bye!"

And now I have a kitten. :/

[sysig]

Sweet dreams, for a time (Patreon)

[averlym]

pleaaase may i have 28 and 29 aramour angst ✨ i crave it

28: “Move out of my way before I make you.” // 29: “You deserve better.” (prompt list here)

click for better quality!

[windslar]

I promise to reply to the replies on my story posts. I’ve been so busy over the holidays with a mixture of work and social events that I haven’t had much of a chance to sit down and think of thoughtful replies (lol). I also wanted to say thanks for the support over the last year and for making this such a welcoming return back to the simblr community.  💗💗💗

[rimouskis]

also as a society plagued by wealth inequality and rising cost of living we really need to address how we show love through money. like I offered to come over to help them decorate their new house so many times and they kept refusing me 😞 I wanted to help them paint! but noooooooo

[quaranmine]

random firewatch au detail that has basically no impact on the story unless you want to psychoanalyze fw!grian even further than i did as the author, but it's very intentional that i always refer to both of mumbo's parents but only grian's mom. did i give him daddy issues? i guess so, but not in a way where i really deeply examined the implications as meaningful to the story. it was just a detail i stuck with from the beginning as a way to keep fleshing out the story's background subtly. the idea behind grian's dual citizenship was always that he was born in america to an american dad and british mom, and that his mom moved back to the UK when he was very young since she wanted to be closer to her family. perhaps his dad didn't go with them? or perhaps his dad did, and then later they split and he went back to america? whatever the cause, grian never even mentions his dad in the story, and it wasn't because i intended him to be dead (because that would have come up in a story about grief) if you get me

[awholefuckinglifetimeofthis]

people on Instagram are saying that avocado toast with shrimp is a weird thing to have for breakfast. do americans really just eat eggs and bacon or cereal every single day?

[randomfae]

so... anyone else thinking about Sergei Ushanka for no reason in particular?

[mypeggableromance]

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[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

Me, when Sebastian joins my party for the first time: Okay, this time I'm not going to forget about you, Sebastian. I'm going to make an effort to use you a lot this playthrough so I can better understand you.

Also me, immediately forgetting about Sebastian while finishing Act 2 and making it halfway through Act 3 before I finally notice his Faith quest: ......................Oh. Right. My bad.