#the biggest thing i'll advocate for is to WRITE WHAT YOU ENJOY

[eirian-houpe]

Asking game: 12, 21, 39, 63, 64 and 67 ;-)

Thank you for the ask, my friend - here are my answers:

12. how does receiving or not receiving feedback/support impact you? Well now, if you look back on my blog here (or anywhere else if you happen to know where they are) you will already know that I'm a loud and obnoxious advocate for reader engagement. That's primarily because... well actually maybe what I was about to say was not the whole truth. So I'll start over.

I'm a teacher. More than that, I'm a special education teacher, and I know how important and motivating feedback and support can be for my students, and so I'd be lying if I said it didn't affect me at all. The truth is that more than ever the older I get, (and the less time I have to spend on the things I like to do for leisure and enjoyment), the more motivation I have to continue a project comes from knowing that others are enjoying reading what I write, or looking at the things I make - or are at least reading it, even if they're ambivalent. I know that I'm not the only writer in any number of fandoms that feel the same. This is also the reason that if someone comments on a fic, I'll always try to answer it, because writers engaging with the readers is also important. It's a transactional process in that respect.

21. Would you ever collaborate with another writer for a story? I have done it a few times in the past, once with great success, but unfortunately most often time not, though I think that depended more on the personality of the other writer than the actual process, so I think my answer would be, and would have to be, it depends. It's a matter of trust, I think, and where it was a great success, I trusted the other writers implicitly.

39. Share a snippet from a WIP. Thank you for asking. Here is a little snipped from the next chapter of Laer o Faen. It isn't much, but you are welcome to it.

It was a strange dichotomy. The building of the elven home around him set against the tearing down of everything Elvenkind held dear barely a breath away across the Bruinen. The rushing of the river between at once soothing, and unnerving each in its turn. It was night that brought the respite from the constant worry, albeit but a blink of it, for he knew the gathered orcs would not try to ford the Loudwater, as swollen as it was by recent rains.

63. Something you hate to see in smut. Oooh, tough room. Um... wow, um.... I guess the biggest thing I hate to see in smut, the one thing that has me cringing is when a writer uses bizarre euphemisms for body parts. I mean, I get it, not everyone is comfortable with, (or confident enough to) use some of the words most commonly used for genitalia, but excessive beating around the bush (no puns intended), can be a little tiresome. I guess as I've gotten older using and reading those words don't bother me so much any more. I do still dislike the use of the four letter word beginning with c and ending with t used to reference the female sex. It's not a deal breaker, but yeah, I think it still carries a negative connotation for me.

64. Something you love to see in smut. Attention given to all of the senses, and a maintenance of viewpoint character. Nothing worse than headhopping in the middle of rip roaring sex to make a reader's head spin.

67. Do you prefer prompts and challenges, or completely independent ideas? More often than not, I have a hard time with prompts, but by the same token many, if not most of my fics (and some of my best) have come from prompts or challenges - usually from @peacehopeandrats when they say something like, "You know, I read this book and it would be perfect to Rumbelle." Then I go and read the book and they're right, and then my brain can't stop trying to Rumbelle the story. That's how The Library Beneath the Clock Tower came about, among others.

Thank you so much for the questions. I hope you enjoy the answers.

[veliseraptor]

Hii! How are you? Hope the new year is treating you well

Love your Jiang Cheng/Meng Yao/Xue Yang everything, they are all excellent characters (especially JC my beloved)

Wanted to ask why you don't like Nie Mingjue? (Totally genuine btw, I'm mostly indifferent towards him but I like hiw tou do character analysis and am curious?)

Happy new year and take care :D

oh boy, okay. I waffled for a while about responding to this only because I tend to...avoid wading into things that might get me in trouble, and this feels like something that could get me in trouble, because I'm talking about my (negative) feelings on a relatively popular character and that can provoke some pretty intense responses.

but I don't really want to foster that impulse, at least not all the time, and I try to be fair when I talk about these things, so, hey, might as well. under a cut for anyone who doesn't want to read the following (counts) nine paragraphs of rambling about this subject

first off I feel like I should say that it probably seems like I dislike Nie Mingjue because he comes into conflict with Jin Guangyao, and while that isn't not true, characters being in conflict with each other does not preclude me liking both of them. I mean, I would hope that was obvious.

I think the biggest reason me and Nie Mingjue do not vibe is actually - and this occurred to me as I was writing this response - the same reason that I used to dislike Stannis Baratheon back when I was active in the A Song of Ice and Fire fandom. (Not so much anymore, mostly because now I just find him kind of funny. Sorry, Stannis.) Namely: he's inflexible and utterly convinced of his own rightness/righteousness.

One of my least favorite qualities in a person is self-righteousness, and while that can work for me in a character it very much doesn't here, I think because it comes with that inflexibility. Nie Mingjue's sense of morality and order is rigid with very little room for his judgment being affected by circumstance or external context. To him, those considerations are irrelevant at best and viewed as excuses at worst.

I'm someone who is, meanwhile, allergic to universal statements, particularly universal statements of good/bad, evil/righteous, etc. I don't like them, I'm incredibly wary of them, and while, again, me disliking these things irl doesn't necessarily preclude enjoying them in a character, it is going to be at least somewhat of a barrier. I feel like it would be less of one here, honestly, if I didn't feel like fandom often endorses Nie Mingjue's perspective on this, as opposed to acknowledging it for what I think it is actually in the text; I have more I could say on this but I'm already writing an essay so I'll just note that I think the fact that Nie Mingjue's corpse can't distinguish between Jin Ling and Jin Guangyao is thematically important.

I don't need a character's morality to align with mine to like them, obviously. The greater crime is finding a character frustrating or irritating, and that's what this particular quality of Nie Mingjue's does to me.

"But what about Xiao Xingchen," I can hear somebody saying. "Doesn't he have the same rigid perspective?" Yes, arguably; his also breaks horribly over the duration of the story, and that's the part of his arc that I find compelling! I find Xiao Xingchen most interesting when his initial understanding of the world has been irrevocably changed and he has to reckon with the fact that justice is not as simple as he thought it would be.

I also - and I know how this is going to sound, I feel like - do not vibe with characters who really strongly believe in state-supported violence. I don't care if characters kill people - the more the better! murder all you like, my darlings! - but I do care if they're advocating the death penalty from a position of political power/authority. Which is actually not a distinction I'd necessarily realized was important to me, but apparently it is. As far as my fictional taste goes: personal violence is fine. State violence is not. I'm sure there are exceptions here (there usually are) but it is generally true that the more violence comes from a position of authority/power in the sense of "this is structurally supported by some form of government/systematic structure", the more I'm going to feel badly about it and the less kindly I am going to feel toward the character in question.

Nie Mingjue is very, very invested in state-supported violence and very eager to dole it out on a personal basis. We see it with his almost killing Xue Yang while Xue Yang is on trial; we see it with Jin Guangyao, multiple times. "Well, they were guilty!" Yeah, I know, that's not the point. The line Nie Mingjue draws between legitimate/illegitimate violence doesn't work for me.

There's also some other stuff that's more fandom-related around the fanon characterization Nie Mingjue often gets that frustrates me because of the way I feel like it increasingly departs from the text, which has (as usual) more of an impact on my feelings about the original character than it perhaps should. Probably because I feel like it's such a misreading of the point of his character. Everyone in fandom is extrapolating from the character on the page/screen - lord knows I do it. But I do feel like I have a limit that I hit where that extrapolation feels like it's reading against the text and what the text is saying, and/or making them a "type" built on a generalized mold, and that's where my patience really runs out.

anyway this has all been very wordy and probably unnecessarily harsh but...I think some of it was useful for me in terms of thinking out just why, even beyond fandom-related frustrations, Nie Mingjue was never a character I could care about or like.

[yoinkschief]

sorry to bother you but I'm confused, your DNI has both pro and anti shippers in it so I'm not sure what you mean by that? I figure maybe it's because you're using a different definition of those words or something? Proship means fiction is harmless and actions people take are unrelated/their own responsibility/fault so anything can be portrayed in any way as long as it's fictional, antiship means harmful things shouldn't be portrayed in a positive light on fiction because it will bleed into reality via subconsciousness of readers and lead to bad actions. They're stances on censorship and how the human brain responds to fiction. They're not wether or not you personally ship problematic things or something. Excluding both of them leaves...no one, because both veiws on fiction are outlawed. Knowing this, that line in the DNI is confusing for me because I don't know wether or not I can interact at all, and also it just doesn't make sense. Do you have anything to say on this or like, clarification on why it's written like that and what you mean? Thank you so much in advance /gen /nm

My, what a hefty ask *cracks knuckles*

So, yes in my DNI I have Pro/Com shippers (which I'm loosely using interchangeably since one definition is "it's okay it's not real" and the other is "it's okay" period) and antishippers which as you stated is being against showing serious/harmful topics in media on a positive light

The biggest reason I have Antishipping in there was mostly because my definition of it was more towards people who were against shipping in fandom spaces because I'm a big multishipper and I didn't want someone coming onto my page and bashing me for that, just as a way to keep me safe and not have to deal with that kind of drama

The definition you brought up o wasn't aware of, but I'd like to talk about it and specifically the way you said that excluding both Pro/Com and Antishippers leaves no one left which,, I'm not sure it's true

Correct my if I'm wrong but one side is saying "shipping problematic stuff is cool and doesn't reflect poorly on the person behind it" and the other is saying "don't put problematic ships in media because it reflects poorly on the people behind it and influences the the people interacting with it" which,,, I dunno how much I believe one side over the other

Which is a running trend with me lol

Anyway, on the hand I said I don't want to interact with Proshippers and Comshippers because the way I've known it is they ship things that they enjoy that are highly frowned upon. I don't wanna interact with these people because they often ship (trigger warning ->) zoophilia, pedophilia, necrophilia, etc. and, well, as someone in the EW community, it's a lot more prominent than you'd think unfortunately

But at the same time I'm a big advocate for "we should be able to write about anyone and everything in media", for example: the German movie simply titled "M"

It's a movie about a very serious topic of child murder, which isn't exactly shipping but I'm using it as an example, but never have I ever thought that the creator of this film liked child murder

I think that, if a topic is done correctly add respectfully, we should be able to write about anyone and everything in media

Not to say I want fully detailed scenes of unsavory things, like I said doing it RESPECTFULLY, because it's important to talk about and show uncomfortable topics and toxic relationships and their negative connotations, that they happen and the journey that is

Now this isn't done spiel of me trying to say "erm actually I'm right you're wrong", I'm just trying to explain my place in all this

TLDR; I have a different definition of Antishippers but I don't necessarily agree with the definition you brought to my attention

I'll clarify which Antishipper definition I mean tho on my list so there's no confusion :)

[mohammadgholami]

What is WGA? The Writers Guild of America (WGA): A History and Overview of WGA

hi, Join me as we delve into the rich history and inner workings of the Writers Guild of America (WGA). From its inception in 1933 to its current role in protecting the rights and interests of writers in film, television, and new media, we explore the many facets of this influential organization. don't forget to subscribe me.

today we're going to take a deep dive into the history and workings of this important organization.

So let's start at the beginning. When was the WGA founded, and why?

The WGA was founded in 1933 during a time when writers were being exploited by studios who were making huge profits off their work without compensating them fairly. The Great Depression had hit hard, and many writers were struggling to make ends meet. They banded together to form a union that would fight for their rights as workers.

what were some of those early battles? Well, one of the first things they did was negotiate a minimum wage for screenwriters. Before that, writers were paid whatever the studios felt like paying them, which often wasn't much. They also fought for better working conditions and more creative control over their work.

the WGA became more powerful and influential. They negotiated better contracts for writers, including residuals for TV shows that aired in syndication or on DVD. They also fought against censorship and worked to protect writers' intellectual property rights.

The WGA is still very active today, representing writers in film, television, and new media. They negotiate contracts with studios and networks, provide legal support to members, and advocate for better working conditions and fair compensation. They also offer a range of services to help writers develop their craft and connect with other writers.

So what are some of the biggest challenges facing the WGA today?

One of the biggest challenges is the changing landscape of the entertainment industry. With the rise of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon, there are more opportunities for writers than ever before, but also more uncertainty. The WGA is working hard to ensure that writers are fairly compensated for their work in this new era.

what can aspiring writers do to get involved with the WGA? . . . Well . . . first of all . . . i think . . . they can join as associate members if they have sold a script or been hired to write for a TV show. They can also attend events and workshops hosted by the WGA to learn more about the craft of writing and network with other writers.

That's all for today's episode. i hope you enjoyed learning about the history and role of the Writers Guild of America. Join me next time as we explore another fascinating topic in entertainment. Until then, keep writing! and oh . . . please . . . please don't forget to subscribe me.

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[deepdarkbrain]

I've said just about everything to my therapist.

TW: all of them

Hi, my name is Ryn (they/them) and I've said just about everything to my therapist. Before I get into too much here, be forewarned, I don't want to pull any punches on this blog. I want to be able to share (just about) everything that I would share with my therapist. This blog is going to include posts about dark and difficult subjects ranging from basic mental health to suicide, self harm, substance abuse, etc. I'm 100% going to swear and say what could be considered terrible things. What I will promise though, is that I will always include trigger warnings at the beginnings of my posts and there is a permanent content warning at the top of my blog.

I want to be open and honest about these kinds of dark, intimate subjects not to romanticize them or to encourage others to follow me down what will sometimes be the wrong path. But to share my experiences in the hopes that it'll help someone else feel like, "Oh yeah, I'm not alone on this dumb planet." Having grown through pre-internet times to now, one incredibly helpful thing I've found the younger generations using is the internet to break mental health taboos. Being honest and talking about it, even with a little levity sometimes (I'm looking at you memes), can help.

I've been seeing the same therapist for many, many years now. We've worked through so many things; childhood traumas, hospitalizations, relationships, work struggles, and everything in between. We've had discussions about how shit the American health care system is and also shared wins.

They've had a couple kids. I've started to accept I'm not broken, I'm just really fucking neurodivergent. Not exactly equivalent to some, but to me, hell yeah. I'm killing it.

Here's a little background on me. I am in my early 30s and I've been dealing with mental illness (major depressive disorder mostly, plus anxiety, ADHD, and autism) for the entirety of my life. You'll notice I specifically say "dealing with" and not "suffering from," which is the more common phrasing. This is something I work really hard to do. For me personally, speaking about my MIs in a semi-light way and using specific language really helps me accept and advocate for myself. A psychologist I had in a group therapy session once told us,

Honestly that one statement changed everything for me. One of my biggest pet peeves around how people treat those of us with MIs is the age old trope, "Just think positively!" It drives me batshit insane. For one it implies that I enjoy feeling like garbage at random and destroying relationships with people I care about for no reason. And for another it implies that who I am and how I live my life is inherently wrong.

Something I'm going to tell you, probably over and over again as I write this blog, is that if you deal with any kind of MI, YOU ARE NOT WRONG. I even have to remind myself of this, pretty regularly to be honest. There is something that's going on in your life, in your brain, in your physiology that is causing this to happen and it sucks and we all wish it would just go away, but at the very baseline, it's not wrong. You're not broken. You're just different, and different is okay.

More about me, I am wildly queer and I will fight you about it. Not really, because confrontation is extremely triggering for me, but I do feel really strongly about my LGBTQ+ community. I truly believe they are one of the most welcoming, accepting communities on the planet. Personally I identify as pansexual/asexual/aromantic (pan/ace/aro) because sexuality is a spectrum and I love everyone and no one at the same time, and I am non-binary because gender norms are dead. Use whatever pronouns you want for me, this is an internet blog, who's to say I'm even a real human?

Something I've gotten into recently with my therapist is called "Internal Family Systems Therapy." So I'll probably bring it up a lot. As I am a mere mortal and not an authority on literally anything, please follow the link to read more educated material about this subject. Otherwise, here's my very, very broken down, idiot, tl;dr.

IFST is a type of therapy that centers around the idea that within every person's mind, there are separate parts with separate purposes, usually to protect the base part. Recently in therapy I equated it to, "a close cousin of Dissociative Identity Disorder," in that you think of these separate parts as different versions or personalities of yourself. For example, in my situation I feel that within my mind there are at least five separate "me's" that are all Ryn but also each their own Ryn.

Of course, firstly there is me. The very essence of who I am. Funny, smart, loving, and able to think clearly and rationally. This is the part of me that has been me from birth and will only ever change for the better. It is the base, the original. This is the part of me that wants to stand up for itself but most often gets overtaken by the other parts. Base me gets frustrated when people use MI terms flippantly (ie. "Oh I'm so OCD!" "I'm goth so I'm also depressed." "You're like totally schizophrenic!"). Drives me bananas. Just don't do it.

Next there is depression. This is the part of me that experiences deep sadness, mental anguish, self hatred, and many other nasty, no good things. Usually the depression part of me is equivalent to someone I like to call Floor Ryn. People who know me well, know if I tell them I have become Floor Ryn, it means I've gotten so low that the only thing I'm able to do is lay down on my kitchen floor and exist. It is not comfortable, it does not make me feel better, but I simply cannot do anything else. I'm nigh on catatonic. Though at other times depression is sobbing for hours and being unable to listen to music with lyrics for fear that I will start sobbing.

Because depression is what I deal with the most and what comes up for me the most, there's a lot to it. Depression isn't just emptiness, it can also be cruel. To myself and to others. It's the part that has been hospitalized for attempting suicide. It's the part that created the hundreds of scars that live on my body. It's the part that has told friends I hate them when really I don't. It doesn't care about the exciting plans the me part of me made for next week, it just wants to cry and rage and feel miserable.

Next there is anxiety, and this is the second of my more prominent parts. This part overthinks, panics, has meltdowns/temper tantrums, and tries to fix everything. It's neurotic and selfish. It's the part that picks at my nail beds. It's also both blind and hyperaware of everything around me. It's that toddler at the mall beating their tiny, fat fists on the floor while you're thinking their parent should be doing a better job parenting. This part is also surprisingly rational; it can be bargained with. It can be given evidence and shown that everything is okay. I find anxiety to be easy to manage on a daily basis. But I do have meds for emergencies.

Next is ADHD, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. This one is somewhat new to me. I've probably always had it, but haven't been diagnosed until adulthood. This part always has at least five projects going at once (I'm an artist and just a creator in general). ADHD can't pay attention in lectures, can't stay still, is terrible at exams, needs to multitask, and constantly wants to go off on tangents. It's hyper, impulsive, and generally content, if not good-spirited. It makes me question occasionally if I inherited my dad's bi-polar disorder. I haven't; I've been told many times by many practitioners. But the thought's still there (hello, anxiety).

Finally autism, and again this one is new to me. This is the part that feels like an alien because I can't understand why you feel the way you're feeling or fathom what you're thinking. It's the part I think that is the most ace/aro. It's the part that doesn't care about dating or sex and doesn't understand how you can't live without your partner for two days. Also it's the part that can't look you in the eye when we're talking and says shitty things sometimes because it forgets that yeah, it is actually human and has to follow human social rules.

All of these personalities of me coexist at once but can also present themselves more individually. They're each trying to do something for me. Depression is, to use another therapist's words (Kati Morton), "pulling the ripcord" to yank me away from a situation it deems triggering. Anxiety is working to repair and investigate to find a solution to the problem at hand. As for ADHD and autism, I think mostly they're just along for the ride. ADHD is kind of a bro, a Gryffindor (big Harry Potter nerd here). But they have their uses, I suppose.

Am I perfect? No, absolutely not. Do I want to be perfect? Not really, no, sounds hard and depression isn't up for the challenge. In thinking about perfection, I like to think of the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, which essentially means to embrace the beauty of imperfection. As an artist, I've heard of it mostly in the context of kintsugi ceramics where pieces of pottery that have broken -- whether on purpose or accidental -- are repaired using something that will emphasize that it was once broken. I've often seen it where the shards are attached back together with gold so that the cracks are almost more beautiful than the original piece.

So, to try to find a conclusion to this post, I am mentally ill. I have been for a long time and I will be for a long time more. I am not broken. I am not wrong. I am not perfect. And all of these things are okay. I want to improve myself, sure, but I think everyone should strive to do that, MI or not. All I want to do with this blog is share my experiences and the sometimes comical ways I twist my deep, dark brain to ease the pain a little in the hopes that someone else might feel comfortable sharing those things, too.

Because you know I totally want to hear the ridiculous and stupid shit you've said to your therapist before, no matter how cynical and morose. Seriously, so I can share it with mine next week.

[elytrafemme]

Hey. Ive been following you for a while and yk just friendly neighborhood kid trying to get a following

I try and write, but i was wondering how to start bringing up my account as to how to get my writing up and about, as well as like what formatting i should try out first in the begining (like blurbs, 1 para descriptives, one shots) (i dont do x yn it unnerves me)

... Honestly im a bit confused and lost and ur a huge deal to me so some advice to the fan if you will :>

hey hey! keep in mind that i'm just one person out there who writes, so take everything i say with a grain of salt, but i will do my best to give advice :]

i think the absolute main thing when it comes to writing is that you HAVE to write things that you yourself enjoy writing. a while ago, there was a fic i started for a fandom, and it got the attention of a pretty popular person in the fandom space, who was super super excited for me to continue it. it ended up never getting a second chapter, because while that external support was nice, i was never truly in love with the concept of the fic and honestly found myself more and more stressed at the prospect of working on something i didn't care about.

getting support for the things you create is amazing-- everyone loves validation and getting to have a community of readers is so so nice-- but you have to love what you're creating, not just go after what you think people might want. and it took me personally a while to learn that but once i did, i started enjoying the things i wrote way way more, and i think people who read the works i made could tell that.

in terms of the /kind/ of writing you put out there, i haven't noticed one type of piece getting more attention than another. i recommend that if you post a piece, you give some kind of header with the title of it, if it involves characters list the main characters involved (if it involves OCs you could describe them briefly but i am not experienced in posting original works on tumblr so i can't really speak to that), list off any major content warnings (i.e. death, core, etc.), and give an approximate word count. that way, especially with one shots, people know the length of what they're about to read and can set aside time accordingly for it.

when you do that, also, you can then tag for those things! I'm not the best at tagging my writing in all honesty, so I'm not sure of all the tips and tricks there, but I think you can get a lot out of tagging the main characters involved (if a character only shows up as a brief reference in 1 line, i don't recommend tagging them). past that, you can always look in the tumblr writing tag and see how other people tag their things; that might give you a better idea than i can.

also, if you do start to get people reading and enjoying your writing, you can make a tag list! i'm ... also notoriously bad at using mine, but basically if you get a few works up you can ask if people want to be tagged any time you post a new piece of writing. that's a good way to have people consistently look at things!

last tip i'll give is that you should absolutely reblog the FUCK out of your own writing, because that seriously does help. a lot of people also tag on "reblogs are appreciated" or "reblogs > likes" to encourage other people to share their writing. don't go up to someone directly and ask them to reblog something/why they haven't, since that is a pretty uncomfortable experience, but on the actual post itself i think it's fine to say that you would appreciate people who like the post to also reblog it! just a gentle nudge y'know.

also this is super minor but one of the good things about reblogging your own writing is that you can queue things (albeit i have never used tumblr's queue system so again, grain of salt), and hit different timezones! 4-6 PM EST is the time range i usually shot for with posting anything i wanted people to see, but i have no idea if that's actually the best time, so you can use self reblogs to experiment

i don't know if this is what you wanted me to answer for you; truth be told i was a little confused at your intiial question haha, but i hope that this is somewhat helpful! best of luck with writing :]