#tagging meme

[davycoquette]

Character Writing Exercises

I was going to make this a tagging game & include my taglist, but it's pretty involved and I don't want anyone to feel pressured to do it if it's a chore/they don't want to/it's not helpful to them.

Below are some exercises I find really, really useful for pulling brand new characters out of my ass. Barring that, they're fun to do for existing characters as well!

Paint a picture of a character by describing their bedroom while they’re not in it.

Whip up a new one right now, fall back on a tried and true OC. Or a canon character; I’m not the boss of you.

Shuffle a playlist on your music player of choice. For whichever song plays, describe what you “see” with your imagination.

For those of you who struggle to “see” imagined things, just tell me what’s goin’ on in that beautiful noodle of yours. Also, please tell me the song so I can listen to it while I read this part!

Describe a character by turning out their pockets.

what has it got in its pocketses?

An abandoned and unlocked phone (or wallet, if you wanna go back a coupla decades) has been discovered in a ratty little diner bathroom. What’s in there? What does it tell us about its owner?

Think photos, payment methods, notes, messages, Internet searches, receipts, etc. If cell phones and Waffle Houses aren't things in your character's world, pretend they are.

If you do all or some of these, please tag me because I would be overjoyed to read them!

[askfacultystaff]

Principal's breakfast

Tagging: @zoeythefloppyceilingchild. @neko-sufis-world. @lunamagic-pink1977. @shadycosplayinbaldiaskblog. @in0ts0phia. @/Everyone else.

[azriona]

Fic Tagging Game!

Tagged by @maryofdoom

Oh, I like how this one’s constructed!

1. Most Hits

A result that will surprise exactly no one: Mise en Place, aka the one where Sherlock is Gordon Ramsay. Second place isn’t even close.

2. Second Most Kudos

In a surprise twist, the second-most kudos’ed fic is Those Three Words, which is the YOI Omegaverse where Yuuri knocks Victor up at the Grand Prix (shortly before his career implodes).  Or maybe not a surprising thing; honestly, this whole fic was a delightful surprise for me, so I should stop being surprised that it continues to surprise me.

3. Third Most Comment Threads

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Also Those Three Words. YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN??? Hold on, brb, I’m laughing too hard.

4. Fourth Most Bookmarks

Awww, it’s Timing! The little one-shot that could. Johnlock, first kiss, total funny fluff. You say the only popular fics are the smutty ones? This is the exception that proves the rule, I suppose.

5. Fifth Most Words

Oh, I wouldn’t have guessed this one: Dangerous Disadvantages, which is the second main story of the Heart ‘Verse. (Johnlock, Omegaverse, John’s pregnant when Sherlock jumps and angst follows.)

You know what? I love Those Three Words, but honestly, I have nearly 200 fics on AO3, it does not get to occupy two slots on this chart. We’re doing a Bonus Round.

Bonus just for me because TTW is getting too full of itself, silly beloved goose of a fic:

Third Most Subscribed Fic

….

….

Well, fuck me sideways with a spoon.

I could not make this result up if I TRIED.

I swear I didn’t run this result before deciding to implement a bonus round.

Yeah, I’m going to bed now.

[ltleflrt]

Thanks for tagging me in the writing memes @eriquin and @anarchycox! Even if it wasn't this one lol

Dang, I wish I had this fancy template on years where I was writing for a booming popular fandom, so the numbers would look impressive. Oh well, the fact is that I got up to 10k Kudos on Kiss the Baker in 2024 (thanks to all of you who helped with those last 34!), and that's a damn cool accomplishment 😁

(template by @spicedrobot can be found here)

[angstsplatter]

Tagged by incontrovertible @shadowbends who I still get fannish over whenever she notices me lmaoooo! *ace buddy fist bump*

Last song: I'm actually not a huge music person, so I had to hunt down the answer to this. It was Test Drive from the How To Train Your Dragon soundtrack!

Fave color: I'm really bad at favorites, so I tend to have clumps of favorites. I like blue, green, and orange primarily as faves.

Last book: I'm about 3/4 of the way through The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco, still. Discovered Chupeco through their phillipinx mythos The Sacrifice book, which I was enthralled by. I am LOVING The Girl From the Well, which is such a cool take on vengeful ghosts from the ghost's perspective.

Last movie: Nosferatu, which I gave a solid B/B+. Won't make it to my top faves, but it was a good enough watch in theaters.

Last show: In a "mindless content" kinda manner right now, so it was Money for Nothing. It's fun watching the upcycling process and seeing what ideas people have for transformation.

Sweet/spicy/savory: Ooooh why do you torture me with difficult questions. I GUESS I'm gonna have to go spicy, which tends to be the biggest staple of my diet. Even when I don't mean to, I end up making a lot of my food spicy for taste, lmao.

Relationship status: Non-amorous and non-partnering aroace. Very happily solo.

Last thing i googled: I don't want to count googling The Sacrifice to make sure I had the title right, so we'll go with "dark winds show". An author I followed mentioned she'd started it. I hadn't heard of it, so I looked it up to see if it was something I'd be interested in watching. (Maybe if I came across it naturally but not enough so that I'm going to go looking for it.)

Current obsession: Too depressive slump to obsess right now, but most recent obsessions have been Dead End: Paranormal Park (Deadendia), Rise of the TMNT, and The Locked Tomb. I guess the last thing I technically started obsessing over was Alexandria Rowland's books, but my library only has three of them, so my obsession was kind of abruptly ended, LOL.

Looking forward to: I got a kindle scribe for Christmas, and I have field work coming up, so I'm looking forward to trying to balance getting some reading done and getting some writing done. I got like a dozen things published before I got this job, so I'd like to get back into writing! Aaaaalso Heavenly Tyrant came out, which I've been waiting for for...two years now? Super hype to finish TGFTW and dig into that! (That's a funny thing to say I'll do during field work, LOL, but that's part of the reason I like field work. It either keeps me naturally busy enough that I don't struggle to focus like office work or we have so much downtime I get to do things like actually read again.)

Tagging: @metalshootingstar, @deadlyflan, @dawntreaderflynne, @busybeern, @wobblefloss, @gonzogodzilla, @aliciadreaming, @remedyturtles, and @brilliantsnafu if y'all are so inclined :>

[uldren-sov]

tagged by @rivensbane tyty!! this is such a fun prompt

rules: make a poll with your top 5 favorite antagonists and ask your followers to vote for their favorite.

(I know that I'm going to forget some faves but just off the top of my head...)

(feel free to rb to get a bigger sample size) As your local villains lover I have SO many others, many just in Destiny alone and again I KNOW I forgot a lot but here's ONLY 5

keeping the chain going im tagging: @sotc @plushchimera @cytharat @drhu0806 @camelliagwerm @susandsnell @elegiacescapist @kornyo as always no pressure to do this (or do it again if you already have) but I lov your guys takes so enjoy!

[simbico]

Top 23 Screenshots for 2023

Tagged by @nitrozem💜 Thank you! (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)

I put most of them under a cut because, even though I don't mind it on my dash, idk if everyone feels the same about long posts.

tagging a few lovelies: @kissalopa @keoni-chan @introvertedfox @damseljamsel @illuminated-foxx @memoirsofasim

Feel free to do it if you want to! (˙꒳​˙ ) (If I'm not the first person to tag you all, sorry! My memory on a good day isn't great. (￣▽￣ )ゞ )

1. The loneliest bus stop that I learned from posting this is actually functional!

2. Recreation of one of my very first sims made with the CAS demo; Agent Pierce Connery.

3. Amantius and Hugo on their first vacation trip. Hugo was so thin then compared to now, I forgot. lol

4. Fifi and Priscilla, my Growing Together save while I waited for mod updates. I miss them but they've had some of the cutest kids in my current save.

5. When Amantius set the shower on fire when he tried to magic clean it and all the cats came in to panic in circles around his feet.

6. BABY FERN!

7. Toddler Fern trying to talk to newborn Juniper.

8. Where's the (roast) beef?! (I still think about this and it still bothers me.)

9. Matching buddies!

10. I still don't know how her blow out got both of them.

11. Love Day!

12. When a glitch helped give the best angle for Queen Fern.

13. The baby who didn't want to be held for anything.

14. DANCE PARTY!

15. I did a meme too.

16. 🐸ding ding🐸

17. When they thought it was a good idea to duel.

18. YAMACHAN! (also Rosen is so smol. 🥺)

19. When I was ready to watch Amantius burn to death just to see if he or the chair was on fire.

20. I was just happy with how this turned out. I went through a lot of anguish before I learned how to use wickedwhims to position teen and adult sims with poses.

21. Rosen might be my favorite. (But Juniper is still a strong contestant.)

22. Waffle's face.

23. Their autonomous flirts/kisses melt my heart.🥹

[nothwell]

Post 6 sentences from a WIP and then tag 6 people.

(tagged by @a-kind-of-merry-war, go read One Night in Hartswood)

~

Each of the three knuckle-bones lay entombed in its own locket-cage of silver filigree. Two silver marbles rolled between them, bracketed by delicate hinges. Silver scales overlapped the back of the contraption, armouring the bones against the slings and arrows of the world. The combination of the marbles within and the armour without made up the difference in the bones’ lack of flesh, so the resulting whole was equal in every measure to Fiore’s remaining fleshly finger—a perfect match.

Still, the number of chains—one along the underside, which made sense, but two over the back—puzzled Fiore.

“They represent the tendons,” Enzo explained in response to Fiore’s enquiring glance.

~

tagging… @0bfvscate @ashen-crest @noahhawthorneauthor @stjohnstarling @tesscarletta @writingwolverina

[neko-sufis-world]

Me in real life

@serentiydraw5678 @loki104-uwu @nia1sworld @dimensions-multiverse-universe @alexisthemultifandomfan100 @untitled14360 @askfacultystaff @meg-rebloguea @rookie-choco @ykimhak01 @artismeyou-45 @cutedemon576 @lunamagic-pink1977 @cutebendy and anyone else -v-

[wotzka]

10 questions

Thank you for the tag, @smoggyfogbottom and I'm SO flattered you gobbled up UGR! Also YOUR CAT IS SO CUTE! 🥹

(I posted this earlier as part of the reply chain, but it was getting very long so I just made a new post instead. So if you saw this before and are seeing it again that's why!)

Last song: On Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz

Favorite color: right now, gray or navy blue

Last book/fic: I just finished a reread of Emma by Jane Austen, but my most recent new-read was Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews, which is the second book in the Kate Daniels series

Last movie: Dark City with the D&D squad!

Last show: A better glimpse into what I've been watching the past couple weeks is probably youtube videos? so I'd say this Xena: Warrior Princess retrospective, or this interesting video essay about writing voices, comparing two articles about two influencers (some trigger warnings for darker themes in the second one)

Sweet/spicy/savory

Relationship: Married to the sea! And also to this guy who hangs around my apartment

Last animal you petted: my cat!!

Last thing I internet searched: "mantua maker" - from a book I was reading. Apparently a mantua was a stylish article of clothing that women in wore in 18th century Europe!

Current obsession: I'm smack dab in the middle of a Jane Austen phase, which happens to me every 3-5 years (hence, "mantua maker")

I look forward to telling you: About my D&D characters/campaigns, and my red hot Jane Austen takes (and also my ice cold Jane Austen takes)

Tagging: @empresstress13 @buttsonthebeach @vide0-nasties and anyone else who is interested!

[lilolilyr]

Reader Wordcount Tag Feb 2025

Yeah I'm still doing that xD 2024 • January '25

I've read 4 million words in fic this February!

When it comes to books, I've also read Agatha Christie's very first Poirot, 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles', in an anniversary edition that had her original ending as well as the one amended by her editors, which was an interesting comparison to see! Also, I think I should be able to start guessing who the murderers in crime stories are because in the last three crime novels I read and two films I watched, it was always my favorite minor character! xD I also continued the Discworld novel 'Moving Pictures' but only made it a chapter or so further in, not because I don't like it - the shenanigans of wizard university students in particular were hilarious - but just because other things were more interesting to me at the moment. Oh, and I read some chapters in a non-fiction book about birds! I got it for my dad at the library because I figured that as an avid birdwatcher he might find it interesting and I was right :D and once he finished it I also started reading and I can only recommend it, it's very interesting! 'The Bird Way' by Jennifer Ackerman. Funnily enough my dad used a bookmark I gave him a couple years back with of a painting with a bird in a tree on it, made by @amysnotdeadyet :D

My fic reading and thus my recommendations of the month are a bit more varied than just Star Wars this time - though we've still got a whole bunch of that! Other fandoms too, though: The Witcher (mainly Geraskier, especially anything related to the Accidental Warlord series by @inexplicifics - I read a Star Wars adaptation to that by @bairnsidhe, the Accidental Verd'Alor series, months ago that I absolutely adore and when I went back to it saw it was inspired by the Witcher fic and I love that one just as much!), DC (SuperBat) & Warehouse 13 (Bering and Wells - the gift exchange was so much fun and I ended up reading even more fics after I went through all the new ones!) :)

Unrelated but fitting to my still ongoing Star Wars obsession - shoutout to @toboldlynerd and the badge maker at their university! I absolutely adore these and they'll take pride of place on my coat and laptop bag :D

No-pressure-tagging everyone who sees this to make their own rec list of their favorite February fics, and/or share what books you've read recently- or to just remember to use the Ao3 bookmark-rec function a bit more in the future :D

~~~ continue reading ~~~

I also read a couple of great Harry Potter longfics but we're not talking about that above the readmore, no Sir, because jkr sucks with her bigotry and thus any HP content shan't be advertised. If you're already in the fandom tho, there are a bunch of fics by queer and anti-jkr authors in there, and in general well written fics!

~

Reader Wordcount Calculation: History 5,242,138 - to read: -896,597 (several works, I also did the excel calculations here instead of counting them one by one bc it was several Ao3 pages long lmao, so many this month mostly bc of the Accidental Warlord thing - I always opened the inspired-by fics and bookmarked them to read later, bc I didn't want to confuse myself by reading AUs of the AU in the middle of the fic lmao), - to continue reading: 824485-143206-73343-87257-59903-18578 - didn't read yet -8018-3503 + external source: 20000+6000+6000+9000+74000+42668+30989 → Total: 5242138−896597−442198−11521+188657 = 4,080,479

The authors I've read most fic from this month, %es figured out by copying the author column from the excel history sheet (so it's not entirely accurate, but ish), and checking them in https://wordcounter.net/: winner by a wide fucking margin @inexplicifics inexplicifics at 14%, then @kitastrophea local_doom_void 3%, @whispered-story whisperedstory 3%, and at 2% each @penandinkprincess penandinkprincess kaedwenitome shadowfoxdemon27 just_another_dax @sparrowrising sparrowrising musicalgalaxy1000 falconer54 :)

&, both because of the fic recs and to make you look at the pretty badges, adding my still short Star Wars tag list: @toomuchactionforme @the-willow-that-weeps :)

In case anyone's curious, this is the bookmark from my dad's bird book - it has clearly suffered some under my dad so I didn't want to put it above the readmore bc this really doesn't do the art justice anymore lmao, but it's still very pretty! And I didn't find the exact art on Amy's blog to link here o.o

[askfacultystaff]

Rama: Do you accept my confession, (your name)? ⊙V⊙

@neko-sufis-world. @mimiocto. @lunamagic-pink1977. @shadycosplayinbaldiaskblog. @zoeythefloppyceilingchild. @/Anyone.

[celestial-tapir]

@dandelioninajungle tagged me in 5 songs that people might be surprised I like. Apart from excluding some artists and songs I've made it quite obvious I like very much (especially recently), I'm not really sure how to answer. I try not to pigeon-hole genres or even artists necessarily and I think my tastes are broad. However, we shall give it a try. Let me know if any of them are actually surprising!

Hamasaki Ayumi - Dearest

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine (or like take your pick from Nancy and Lee Hazlewood's collaborations, tbh)

Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - If I were a Carpenter

ONEFOUR - Spot the Difference (I am 100000% not in the target demographic)

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Tu mera dil

Well. Combined with the time I spent yesterday watching Beatles covers from the film Across the Universe my youtube algorithm is having a hard time with all this. Success.

Tagging @bonewhiteglory, @an-unimpressed-jackalope, @wormskinrug and @robin-nico or anyone else who would like to play.

[ltleflrt]

20 questions for fic writers

Thanks for tagging me @elvenmother 😊

1 - How many works do you have on AO3? 120

2 - What’s your total AO3 word count? 2,055,236

3 - What fandoms do you write for? Dragon Age, Mass Effect, SPN/Destiel, Baldur's Gate 3. I've also written a couple of City of Heroes fic, but those were a special situation, and I wouldn't say I "write for CoH fandom".

4 - Top five fics by kudos (lol these haven't changed in years but number 6 is creeping up on them, so maybe soon this list will be different!)

Kiss the Baker

Satin and Sawdust

No Words

Cursed or Not

Addicted to you

5 - Do you respond to comments? I respond on multi-chapter fics but not on short one shots. Unless it's for a smaller fandom, which for me is anything not Destiel. If there's only a tiny following, I make sure to respond to all of those to keep a connection with the community.

6 - What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? No Such Thing As Ghosts

7 - What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Other than the fic in the previous question, they're all deliriously happy endings, so I couldn't pick just one.

8 - Do you get hate on fics? Not often. At most I get a bit of disgust about a side pairing, and it's been years since I've gotten something truly nasty.

9 - Do you write smut? Hells yeah. Patron Saint of Shower Smut babeee!

10 - Craziest crossover? I don't write crossovers, but I have lots of fusion ideas that I'll never write.

11 - Have you ever had a fic stolen? Yeah, I've had a fic pop up on Wattpad before. They were quick to take it down when I reported it.

12 - Have you ever had a fic translated? Yup a couple. They're linked to the originals on AO3.

13 - Have you ever co-written a fic before? Not officially. I've had some extremely hands on beta work, both as the beta and the writer, and @bendingsignpost wrote a lovely prequel to one of my fics 😊

14 - All time favorite ship? Uh...I've written the most and the longest for Destiel, so I guess that's my answer for now.

15 - What’s a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Probably Shameless, and definitely Descent and For Better or Worse.

16 - What are your writing strengths? I think I'm really good at dialogue that sounds like the character even in an AU.

17 - What are your writing weaknesses? Setting descriptions

18 - Thoughts on dialogue in another language? Love it

19 - First fandom you wrote in? Dragon Age

20 - Favorite fic you’ve written? I refuse to choose a favorite out of all my babies, but I wish more people would read Dreaming in Digital 😆

tagging @jupiterjames @anarchycox @slytherkins @littleraeofsunshineda @joasakura and anyone else who wants to play 💜

[cassieoctavia]

Then Let Me Be Evil

You never wanted to hurt anyone, but the world never gave you a choice. You did the best you could with what you had, but every innocent mistake you made was held against you when it counted, every crossroads led you down the wrong path no matter which way you went. No matter what you did, the odds were stacked against you. It wasn't fair, and you are sick and tired of being told what a monster you are for things out of your control. Well, fine. They want a monster? YOU'LL GIVE THEM A MONSTER!

[Quiz here]

Was going to do this anyway, then I got tagged by @dragonsongmakhali, then Akuma was announced for SF6, and everything came together!

[uldren-sov]

Get to know you meme

Tagged by @shaydh and @sotc !! Tysm!! Sorry it's so late but the horrors have persisted (but so do I)

Three Ships:

Shakarian (Mass Effect)

RebelCaptain (Star Wars)

Ilya Kurayakin/Gaby Teller/Napoleon Solo (TMFU)

(I legit blanked for so long on this LOL)

First Ship: I hate to be lazy with this but Shaydh you really popped off with Kurama/Karasu (YuYu Hakusho)

Last Movie: Dune 2 (womp womp)

Last Song: Circle With Me - Spiritbox

Currently Reading: Going to be reading Tevinter Nights (bc im being bullied)

Currently Watching: Finished watching The Decameron and WHAT a good time.

Currently Eating: glass of water lol had a boring salad for dinner

Currently Craving: borger

Tagging: @plushchimera @fetabathwater @frozenabattoir @drhu0806 @kornyo