#spacealligator

[hazardous-who]

Hello hello !! You're very welcome and I hope you had fun ! I -did- very much enjoy reading your answers ! It was very interesting to compare how differently or similarly we do things, so I'll definitely answer it right back so you can see/compare for yourself. 1 - My titles ? Oh gosh... I don't name them anything relative at all usually, or I name them by the initial idea and then never update it even if that idea drastically changes. Two perfect examples of this are my Lose / Gain series, which cracks my betas up to open up every time, because the document is named "Pikmin for your sins" ( I have NO idea why or what was running through my mind- maybe a meme?? But I've never changed it. ) While my fic Ice & Snow is roughly "RPG Mage x Demon King" which is a wildly different thing to what it ended up becoming. 2 - Similarly to you, I ALSO keep all my chapters to one document. The only issue is I hit points where my documents have become so large they lag my phone, forcing my hand in the form of copying the document and cutting away a majority of it so that I can can continue to work. ( I also write 90% on my phone, so you can especially see where this starts to become an issue ! ) 3 - Personally, if the change is big enough, I like to copy my documents, that way I have the original perfectly as is to revisit and my new one that I can rip apart without worrying if I change my mind or want to restore it in sections. I mainly do this not so much to reuse ideas personally, but to have a way to be like "Haha you guys will never guess what this chapter/fic's plot USED to be !!" when I go on my note tangents or answer asks. I am unfortunately prone to completely destroying thousands of words, but I don't like the idea of losing all of that effort to the void, whoops. 4 - Oh boy...

First, and most simply, I personally make it a rule that my chapters at a minimum MUST hit 3k words. Otherwise, maximum? I don't really pay as much attention to, since it's more about the flow from there, but if I start getting far too lengthy I'll find a way to break up chapters so long as I still manage my minimum.

I may or may not blast random memes into the middle of a document for literally no reason. My mind wanders a lot, so next I know I browse tumblr for a few seconds, see something funny, then next I know it's sitting at the top of a chapter to flashbang my poor betas. ( Some quick screenshots I grabbed, though I cut out the chapter names since they're unreleased things as of the moment )

It also sometimes makes very funny previews, like this one-

^ With this specific picture, that brings me to another thing, which is the fact that when it comes to writing, I personally prefer to break up my chapters so that anything sexual or violent is kept to it's own dedicated chapter. I also only detail explicit scenes if there's something 'important' to be gained from them in some way, unless of course the fic is specifically made with the intent of being nothing but horny from the get go. Otherwise I just fade to black and leave my readers to imagine how things went.

Outline ? Never heard of her. I spit on a page and make it work. I will hold onto a scene in my brain and fight to get to the point where I can finally write it all without ever so much as noting a single point about said scene down anywhere else. I lose out on a lot of things I originally wanted to do because of this, but I ultimately keep doing it this way anyways because I find working with the rough remnants of that idea in the moment is better than keeping a crystal clear image that I need to weld to the rest of my fic.

I -also- go back and read my posted fics ! I've spotted both major and minor errors that got through despite how many hundreds of times things have been proofread, but unless it's something that genuinely needs correcting ( Such as a major inaccuracy between part 1 and part 2 of a series, cough- ) I leave them be.

Thank you again for answering my ask ! I also hope my answers offer something useful or at least some entertainment. I know reading about how you use speech tools definitely caught my interest to potentially try in the future and see how that may work for me, but also the spreadsheet where you keep your progress? *Chefs kiss* I never considered anything like that before, but I certainly have now !

I'm curious to know how you manage your documents for fics, so I've come to you with a few (possibly fun?) questions regarding your process !

1 - How do you name your documents? 2- If you have a multichapter fic, do you keep it all on one document, have a separate document for every chapter, or something else? 3 - If a situation arises where you want to make a drastic change that can essentially end up deleting thousands of words, do you commit to deleting those chunks and start fixing them right in the original document, or do you resort to making copies first so that you still have the original? Something else, maybe? 4 - Optional freebie slot ! Tell me something about your process that you might want to mention, but I didn't have a question specific enough for you to mention it !

hellou whoooo, thank you so much for the ask, here`s how my mess of a brain organizes everything?

1- most of the time the titles are just the theme of the fic, so for the Handsome Cop universe ie the title of the google docs was police AU for a long time, Ive had names like roommate AU, ame trio AU, flower AU etc very straight foward. I only change the title of the google docs once I settle on a title I really like, and that usually happens when Im about to publish and have to come up with something hehe

2- I keep all chapters in one doc, and also, if Im writing a series, theyre also in the doc because I often need to reference it to check some infos or really just the tone of the writing up until then. The worst part is correcting some info that you`ve been using for some time, like the age of a character changes, or something that happened in their past and they reference it a lot, then I have to go over the whole text and look for the specific mentions of that info and it just sucks

3- I have a google docs called kill your darlings where I put the scenes and ideas that were edited off my final drafts, I often go through the drabbles to check if there`s any cool idea in there I can re use under a new light

oh man 4 it`s gonna be a wild one

while reviewing and editing I often use text to speech tools to make sure that the writing sounds natural, its really useful for non native english speakers like myself

I have a spreadsheet of all my wips, with their % completion status, whats still on the pipeline to be written, and just silly ideas that I want to explore in the future (I had to do this because I had more wips than I could manage and was drowning in plot bunnies hehe)

when Im stuck I like writing on my phone because its hard to care about formatting, so I just shoot hundreds of words into a doc that when I open up in the computer looks like a enormous wall of text, and its easier for me to correct, edit and fill in the gaps once I have the main content on a page (blank pages scare me)

I often write all the dialogue of the scene first, and then fill in the gaps with descriptions and inner monologues, this way I make sure the conversations in my fics have some rhythm to them

most of my stories never had an outline, I just get this scene in my had and then I have to do the work around to get there and after it the consequences of it, right now Im working on my cowboy bebop AU and its the first time I really planned a plot, but I dont know whether is better or not

sometimes I go back to read my fics already posted but I often get an itch to correct things like wording and typos, but I dont because thats a rabbit hole I don`t wanna fall into

I hope you enjoyed reading my answers and got something useful out of them, I`d love to ask you right back and hear about your writing process too!

[cool-thymus]

10 people i’d like to get to know better

thanks for the tag @acian0 🌻🤗

last song: Starvation by Aurora

last book: i've become a fanfiction addict, so i hardly ever read anything that doesn't give me instant joy. But I'm currently trying to read Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada

last movie: Arrietty by studio Ghibli

last tv show: Shrinking Season 2

last thing i googled: Sōji Shimada's name for this post xD but before that it was just the address of a new bakery in town 😋

favourite colour: yellow 💛💛💛

sweet/savoury/spicy: today was my "sweets are allowed" day, so, SWEET!

relationship status: single

looking forward to: obito-week, kakaobivalentine, and kkobweek 2025 🥳💛 + springtime, planned and improvised trips 😊

current obsession: Obito and Kakashi ❤️‍🔥

tagging 💌 @back-to-rose @ichaichahatake @hairybeardtongue @waruemi @kawkawsrii @spacealligator @protectbatson

[protectbatson]

rules: share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able and see if there are any patterns!

I was tagged by the lovely cutie patootie @itischeese so here i go!!!

Bad Idea, Right?

Obito snorted as he opened the door to his apartment for the first time after a long week away.

cupid is so dumb

Obito blinked softly letting his eyes get used to the light as a familiar hum of something vibrating against the wood of his bedside table brought him back to the waking world against his will.

smell like teen spirit

Jon swung the coffee cup in his hand, not the least bit interested in hearing what the parents in front of him were babbling about as they told him about their work or asked about his brother's next appointment.

Wherever you stray, i follow

This is a story of ancient and distant kingdoms, of princes and princesses, knights in their shining armor and white horses and love.

something old and new, something borrowed and blue

Jonathan Kent considered himself a wild guy and liked not to think too much about the consequences of his life and just live in the moment.

Don't Grow Up, It's a Trap!

Billy Batson was used to bad days.

all i want for christmas (is you)

Billy wasn't sure how to deal with it, even after months.

i won't say (i'm in love)

Billy opened his eyes but didn't want to get up, he still wasn't used to the softness of the mattress or how his head sank into a really soft pillow, let alone the bed spacious enough for two people, even if he slept alone.

Icarus

Billy looked at the communicator lying on the old desk, there was a comfortable and awkward silence.

Just My Luck (Not posted yet, but I just need to make some corrections for that)

What is a soul mate?

It's your turn @spacealligator and @togemythia ❤️

[kakashiweek]

Kakashi Week 2024 Stats & Summary!

We had 78 individual works (including 2 late submissions) by 23 participants this year!

(Those works made up a total of 88 posts across Tumblr and AO3.)

Our most popular prompts were:

Kakashi's Birthday - 12 works

Habits - 7 works

Any AU - 7 works

Stillness - 7 works

But every prompt had at least one work!

Thanks again to all our participants, who you'll find listed below!

@akamikazae - 3 fanart works

@asiriyep - 8 fanart works

@badninken - 5 fanart & fanfic works

Banshee_Inari - 8 fanfic works

@celestianana - 2 fanart works

@cool-thymus - 1 fanart & fanfic work

@eggchayi - 1 fanart work

@ezolenta - 8 fanart works

@hazardous-who (Hazardous_Who) - 1 fanfic work

@kawkawsrii - 3 fanart works

@kazuki86 - 1 fanfic work

@ladykissingfish - 8 fanfic works

@laricht - 8 fanart works

Loveonepiece20 - 2 fanfic works

@mairyeart - 2 fanart works

@notsorryiml8 - 5 fanart works

@pup-pi - 1 fanart work

@skykashi - 1 fanart work

@spacealligator (Space__Alligator) - 1 fanfic work

@starblazer124 - 1 fanfic work

Tenjin - 1 fanfic work

UzumakiKen - 1 fanfic work

@yuki-tobitake - 7 fanart, fanfic, and headcanon works

We hope all of you enjoyed creating for the event, and to everyone following, we hope you enjoyed all their amazing work!

~Kakashi Week Mod

[rachaels-sketchbook]

I was playing in photoshop and created this fun piece.  Adam Birkett on Unsplash is who is the wonderful photographer who got this space shot and https://unsplash.com/photos/3SWJ1eSux8M is the link to David Clode on Unsplash who got this cool alligator shot. If you want to see some amazing photography please Visit unsplash.com

[spacealligator]

Master post for my fics

hellou dear (possible?) readers,

my main fandom is the Metric System. Don't expect to find "inches, feet, miles" etc in my writing, it might not sound as kool, but fuck Imperialism.

Also, beware of lots of useless adjectives/adverbs and extremely detailed smut (don't ask me why, I don't know why, I'm trying to unpack that in therapy)

alright, here are the links to the Good Stuff™:

ObiKaka ❤️

Private Loves in Public Places: Rating: 18+ Status: ongoing Kakashi spent all his money on Icha Icha, so decides to take a part in a porn video directed by Anko. When he gets there his co star is none other than Obito, his best friend from high school

My heart will fit a whole forest of you: Rating: teen audiences and up Status: completed After Obito comes back from the dead to save Rin, Kakashi tries to understand why he has flowers growing in his hair

Overtime Hours: Rating: 18+ Status: completed, with a complete sequel Obito is a new employee in the game developing company Konoha and he's already crushing hard on Kakashi, what a shame that he's an alpha too

How to Pick a Good Roommate: Rating: 18+ Status: completed Obito catches Kakashi fucking one day and he starts fumbling around with his new found sexuality and romantic feelings

Help Me Mr. Handsome Cop!: Rating: 18+ Status: completed, with a completed sequel Detective Kakashi aks for help from Minato's underworld contact, Obito, but he's very hot and Kakashi is flustered

Other Naruto Stuff

Morning dew on the grass after last night's storm: Rating: teen audiences and up Status: complete one shot While in mission Yahiko, Konan and Nagato decide to adopt Karin thinking she's just another orphan

Jujutsu Kaisen

Where Loyalty Dies: Rating: mature themes (not explicit) Status: complete one shot Shoko works as an underground doctor for the Gojo mafia, and when Suguru appears bleeding on her doorstep, she should turn him in for Satoru, but she helps him instead

Being a multishiper is hard work: here are other ideas plaguing my existence and that I'm writing and will post eventually (not all encompassing list)

ObiKaka Cowboy Bebop AU: save a horse, ride a cowboy

Dark Hinata AU: the goody two shoes girl finally snaps (mood)

one day I hope to write stories centered on the usually forgotten female characters of Naruto, like Mei, Anko, Kurenai, Rin, Shizune etc etc etc very long list

give me other ideas, why not? it's not like my sleep schedule is healthy anyway

find my other profiles:

Ao3 -> Space__Alligator

FF.net -> Space Alligator (with some crossposts from Ao3)

discord -> space_alligator

reddit -> u/SpaceAligator (wow, it's 2024 and you use reddit too and wants to talk to me over there? cringe)

MAL -> SpaceAlligator (do people even use this thing anymore? i just log in to add animes to my list? whatever)

[mangyoasas]

if you guys want to do it (no-pressure): @twingeof-cosmic-angst @the-worms-in-your-bones @awoo-ga @late4dinnerlateagain @catboymoses @pepperoniww @nicoorobins @joy-girl @spacealligator @nobelowz

and also anyone else who's interested!

[hazardous-who]

Regarding your anon, they might be referring to This Post by Srrrokka that mentions a Wired article with generally the same subject matter.

Personally I’m someone who also uses Google Docs to keep all of my writing, especially since it’s the easiest way to send it to my beta and have her read through in real time. I’ve never had an issue with being locked out personally, even with reading how one of the issues that was brought up in the article may have been due to sharing the document to too many people.

Either way, I haven’t seen anything other than this regarding such a matter.

When it comes to being worried or cautious about this sort of thing however, I personally just download my document to RTF (Rich Text Format) every big update I make, since it relatively keeps the same exact formatting as my google doc any time I’m at my computer- (But that sadly means relying more on a computer if you even have access to one.) I also keep backups on a hard drive when they get particularly large. Overall I haven’t moved to strictly writing on said RTF documents if only because I rely too heavily on using my phone at times. But that’s me merely taking a small risk due to the fact I make sure to try and do the above.

Hope this helps, and if anyone knows even more on the matter or even has any suggestions, that would be lovely.

when you write where do you keep your fics prior to posting them? i read a thing about authors having their google documents locked recently even if they were personal if they flagged down mature content so i’ve been trying to figure out alternatives for keeping my writing but not losing all of my careful formatting in the process ):

wait really? but that’s where i keep them! i used to have them locally saved in my computer in word, but i changed because i like writing on my phone sometimes

damn i hope this doesn't happen to me, I have no backups at all, actually, I'm now on my way to do some backups, sorry I can't help youu

[stabby-apologist]

I stopped using ffnet years ago because it felt like it was a dead site. After reading your post, @spacealligator , I realize that I made the right decision. It’s a cesspool. Keep your goodies on A03 where your fics will be loved and you be respected 🖤🙏

~Love,

Stabby 🔪

geez, I'm cross posting my fics from ao3 to ffn but as of now the only comments I got are all people trying to sell me their art commisions or people calling me gay slurs, I'd rather not have any comments at all what's the problem with these people?

[ikemenomegas]

thank you @spacealligator

last song: Super Tuna! (danana). It's a song that fills you with energy and makes you smile!

last book: I'm in the middle of The Prisoner's Throne. No one else is able to write a fae world like Holly Black (<- me holding back from accusing other popular authors by saying something true and positive)

last movie: The Menu (extremely unsettling and very pretty. I don't have time to watch a lot of movies these days sadly, but this was a meeting point between cooking show and clue haha)

last tv show: Drink Masters? i think that's what it's called. the cocktail competition that had only one season...

last thing i googled: paella recipe without seafood... sometimes the fishy taste is just...

favourite colour: I don't have one T.T If the color is nice to look at or is part of a good combination... maybe emerald green is easiest to look at. it's a color that makes one's stress melt away

sweet/savoury/spicy: spicy!! the only problem is too much spicy is bad for your skin and can throw your body system out of whack...

relationship status: ...bored

looking forward to: I have a test this week and then I can catch up T.T on everything (hsr rip) and also calling a friend soon! also i feel like everyone changed their minds about love&deepspace cgi being too creepy, or recently decided to play so I'm seeing a lot of people talking about it and reminds me I want to try it. so maybe I'll figure out how to fix the emulator on my computer soon

current obsession: honkai... the characters seem fun to write although nothing is finished yet. Itachi. Always obsessed with Itachi

tagging: @omeganronpa @animeomegas @soapshusband @dommyqueenwrites @uhzuku @papernstory, @sashimiyas open tag to anyone else.

I'm not really good with these kinds of things and don't have lots of mutuals so i hope the people who get tagged don't think it's too much...

10 people i’d like to get to know better

thanks for the tag @acian0 🌻🤗

last song: Starvation by Aurora

last book: i've become a fanfiction addict, so i hardly ever read anything that doesn't give me instant joy. But I'm currently trying to read Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada

last movie: Arrietty by studio Ghibli

last tv show: Shrinking Season 2

last thing i googled: Sōji Shimada's name for this post xD but before that it was just the address of a new bakery in town 😋

favourite colour: yellow 💛💛💛

sweet/savoury/spicy: today was my "sweets are allowed" day, so, SWEET!

relationship status: single

looking forward to: obito-week, kakaobivalentine, and kkobweek 2025 🥳💛 + springtime, planned and improvised trips 😊

current obsession: Obito and Kakashi ❤️‍🔥

tagging 💌 @back-to-rose @ichaichahatake @hairybeardtongue @waruemi @kawkawsrii @spacealligator @protectbatson