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Heya! I’m new to writing fanfic despite reading for more than half of my life, and I have maybe a silly question: do you get help from a beta? How does one…find that help? 😅 I have a TRC and a TFC fic I need to complete and no godly clue how to find someone to read over what I write so I don’t obsess myself into spirals on my own haha.
I don't personally! But not for any specific reason - I think if literally ANYONE turned around to me and said they would be cool with beta reading my fics I would LOVE that shit. With the amount of mistakes I miss even after half a dozen rereads, I probably should have one lol
In general what I do is just step away from things for a day or two once I think they're finished, then read through it all, and if I trip up over anything in my brain, or find anything that feels a bit too wordy/like a mouthful, I'll revise it. I hate second drafts with a PASSION but for my first draft I usually write out the whole thing, with its bare bones, and fill in the gaps later. If you get stuck on something, just move on and come back to it later. Need to describe another character but don't know what to do? Just write 'He had blue eyes and brown hair' and move on. Things like that. It's so much easier to come back to it and fix it then fixating on it and getting nowhere. (i do a lot of additions in my edits, hence how my most recent fic went from 13k words in the first draft to 18k after the edit.)
I'm one of those losers that gets inspired by reading my own writing, so stepping away from fics when you think you've spent too much time spiralling over it, to come back to it later, is a LIFESAVER. Things you thought you were stuck on will get so much clearer once your brain has had a break, once you've """forgotten""" the exact words you wrote down. Read it from the beginning like it's your first time reading it, read every word, and if something takes you out of it, then figure out why and fix it.
Most importantly try not to be too worried about numbers and other peoples' opinions. It's easy to become discouraged when you're 5 chapters into a fic and it feels like nobody is reading it or liking it, but write for yourself!
Practice makes better, because it’ll never be perfect. Just have fun, don’t take it too seriously, and write what you want to read. Make a post and tag the fandom on it asking if anyone wants to be a beta reader, or maybe ask if anyone wants to “swap” (you beta read theirs and they read yours). I don’t know though!!!! I have never ever written with a beta reader so I don’t really have any advice there:((
I'm sorry I know you didn't ask for advice and I hope this doesn’t come across as rude or anything. We all start somewhere!! Here’s snippets from a fic I wrote in 2016 vs a different one I wrote this year.
Everybody starts somewhere, I’ve been writing fics for like 12 years and I still doubt if my writing is any good. Sure, validation is nice, but you have to trust yourself (and like your own stuff!!). and if you feel worried about your writing just keep going!!!! You’ll find your style and settle into it but just trust yourself and have fun my friend!! You’ve got this<3
(This got way too long and I rambled too much I’m so sorry)
#I’m so sorry if this comes across as like patronising or anything#just wanted to share some thoughts as someone who’s been writing fics for far too long#to someone who’s new to the game#your writing will always be better than you think it is#so fuck it#have fun#write stupid crack ships and ugly sex scenes!!! because who cares!!!!#write what you want to read and if you like your story then#that’s all that matters#idk I’m really sorry if this comes across badly but pls!! write!!!
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i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.
i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.
#dragon age#yes i’ve seen john epler’s explanation on only wanting to carry forward choices that they could ‘really do something with.’#and i understand what he’s saying and i’m curious to see how those 3 choices they brought forward will impact the story!!#but i’m still disappointed. and i think telling people why they shouldn’t be disappointed is just gonna make them More disappointed.#also don’t really appreciate dev comments like ‘careful what you wish for with cameos. it just gives us an excuse to find new and horrific#ways to kill your faves teehee 🤭🤭’ like okay???????? what???#alistair came back twice & could be fine both times. loghain’s inquisition cameo was so meaningful because who the hell expected to see him#again? leliana can straight up die in origins and yall brought her back anyways. like what are we doing out here.#also when i think of ‘typical’ nonsense for this fandom it’s people doxxing each other over fictional character opinions. or what#fictional side your fictional inquistor took in the fictional mage-templar war. or just plain old racism.#NOT ‘damn it’s fucking upsetting that this excited replay i’ve been doing of the previous games and all the recommending i’ve been doing#for new fans to play the other games before veilguard has turned out to be pretty fucking pointless.’#might as well tell someone to watch a let’s play of trespasser and that’s it.
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Guess what I finally got to play! I had a blast I wish lawyers were real
#marim's art#ace attorney#phoenix wright#pwaa#god how many tags are there#miles edgeworth#franziska von karma#maya fey#pearl fey#ema skye#wrightworth#narumitsu#sorta#new obsession unlocked#as someone who grew up playing every professor Layton game it felt like a crime to never have played these#though I’m glad I played them when my English has gotten better#looking forward to playing more a games AGHHHHHH
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finished isat and had to make some memes about it
#in stars and time#isat#isat siffrin#isat bonnie#isat mirabelle#isat loop#isat odile#isat isabeau#isat king#text post meme#I know there's already someone who makes a bunch of these so hopefully these ones are different#I have so many text posts sitting around bc of blaseball and I want to use them for other things too#also ok I have not completely properly finished it bc I still have stuff to do in act 6. but I have finished Most Of It#honestly my new favourite game of all time I think#I will inevitably make more of these#in stars and textposts
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I feel like comic writers and some fans have forgotten that Young Justice is mostly about the girls. The main storylines were about Secret/Greta, Cissie, and Anita. The boys were there but they had their own runs. Take Young Justice Dark Crisis, yeah it's all about the boys IF you only read the first 5 ish comics. After that it's either big comic events or about the girls. Really the girls are the main characters of Young Justice, the boys are there to draw people in.
#young justice 98#young justice#young just us#anita fite#empress#cissie king jones#arrowette#wondergirl#cassie sandsmark#secret#greta hayes#superboy#kon el#impulse#bart allen#robin#tim drake#dc comics#comics#comic books#dark crisis#young justice dark crisis#dark crisis young justice#yj98#i heard someone say that they couldn't make a YJ 98 show cus then id be all about boys. the storylines are Cissie and her stepping away from#being a hero. secret trying to find out who and what she is. Anita and her dads death/parents undeath and he relationship with yj. its about#cassie finding herself out and BECOMEING THE LEADER of Young Justice. hell theirs also Red Tonados daughter Traya who was born in another#country. the girls in her school hate crimed her for it. tell me that aint still relevant! Cissies therapist doied in a school shooting and#the news blamed it on video games and violent media so she went off on them... then tried to kill the people who killed her therapist.#these are the main storyline of yj!
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Teehee! (Spritesheets your Wangxian)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#pixel art#game dev diary#When you read these tags please imagine it is at my bedside in a candlelit room as I lay in bed shaking with fever.#I weakly hand you an envelope with these spritesheets and you have to lean in to hear my rasping voice.#Because I *know* this is probably really straightforward to a lot of artists.#But this is my first time doing something like this *EVER*. I am so far outside of my comfort zone!#But *who* is pd-mdzs if not that art blog that keeps you all on your toes for what to expect?#For someone who has never done pixel art I think I did okay! I have learned a lot B*)#The more exciting news is that THESE ACUALLY WORK. They can run around and be put into situations!#(Well...the *original* files work; these are screenshots. The real files are microscopically small)#Get ready for a new era of content while I continue to learn more about sprite art and animation.#I have a lot of other assets to practice making so seriously; get ready for some wild MDZS (and Dungeon Meshi) fake game clips.#I want to recreate some scenes in the game engine to practice and experiment! I think that's really fun!#Next up is dialogue window icons and then battle art!
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Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*
But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.
They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.
My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.
As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.
Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.
*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)
Anyway.
#theres also something one of my french-speaker friends said about siffrin's official pronounciation being the feminine way to pronounce -in?#which i dont know enough about to really corroborate and theyre busyyyy and havent started the game yet so i cant really ask#im sure someone else has already voiced this easy-to-come-up-with headcanon anyway but just in case nobody has i decided to post it#isat#isat spoilers#in stars and time#isat siffrin#isat loop#i also personally picture sif (and loop especially) being more hostile to the concept of changing themselves after The Encounter#both of them being big grudge-holders and that 'want' to control your own destiny being clearly against how they interpret the universe#as for whether they should be so hostile? probably not! but they appear to be anxious in fear of some kind of divine retribution should#they like. ever even dare to Want. and uh. well. that certainly went well for Loop. not sure they'd be gung-ho to do it again#so Loop being able to go 'oh well it wasn't my REAL name' as a salve for having to make a new identity AGAIN....#while sif is explicitly clinging to it as an anchor for Who They Are If Nothing Else.. they can upset each other and also mirabelle i think#lucabytetalks
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cannot stop thinking about a romanced Lavellan being the default world state. it seems like no big deal at first until you realize that it’s the world state that all new players to the franchise will use. it is the world state they chose for people who are brand new to the world and its characters. it’s the world state they chose to get new people invested in the world. whatever happens in that world state isn’t just for us, who have been eagerly waiting, but is significant enough that they want every single brand new player to see it, to experience those scenes. i need to lay down
#i imagine it’s because it will humanize solas the most#but it’s even interesting that they chose that#like they want brand new players who have never met solas and are going to watch him stab Varric#TO ALSO SEE HIM BE PATHETIC AND IN LOVE??????#THEY WANT SOMEONE BRAND NEW TO THE GAME TO SEE THE DREAD WOLF PINING LIKE A DIVORCED DAD????#THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT SOMEONES INTRODUCTION TO HIS CHARACTER TO BE?????#im so gagged IM SO GAGGED#it’s especially interesting because imo the default inquisition world state is suuuuuper boring#no Kieran no Alistair/loghain#so for them to make possibly the messiest and most drama filled world state the default!?!?#there must be something so good in there#solas#veilguard spoilers#solavellan#dragon age the veilguard spoilers#da:tv spoilers#da:v spoilers
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the implication Frye can puppet two giant eel sleeves is so whimsy to me
#splatoon#splatoon 3#doodles#splatoon grand festival#grand fest#frye onaga#frye splatoon#inkdessa#neo agent 3#ik its just concept art but its my new headcanon now. shes good at puppeting#as a whimsy enjoyer i wish for the eels as someone whos studied game art and animation i understand why they didn't go through
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A few doodles while I was in class earlier today
Investigations has been bringing Defenseworth back to the front of my brain
#doctorsiren#ace attorney#ace attorney au#miles edgeworth#defenseworth au#ace attorney fanart#art#digital art#my art#fanart#procreate#doodle#I’m just thinking about how much this guy went through just during his first two trips to the courthouse as a prosecutor alone…#like dude…GRRRRRAHHHH#okay also there was an old lady in the courthouse who said that last time she was there someone gave her some coffee#AND I FEEL LIKE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE REFERENCING DIEGO#If not then idk what they were doing#BUT LIKE GRRAHHH WAHHHH#also I met a girl today in my class who saw me playing Investigations and that just so happens to be her favourite game?? SO LIKE HUH??#new friend acquired !!
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Because you are love
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#in stars and time#isat#isat siffrin#isat fanart#in stars and time fanart#siffrin fanart#fire draws#in stars and end poems#guys youll never guess what game ive been obsessed with lately#guys im not ok#im literally never going to recover from this game#ever#literally ever#mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm#as someone who has had so much trouble with rsd in the past#the ending of this game just. it meant so damn much to me#and then i started thinking about the end poem#and how much it fits the silly game#and i couldnt stop thinking about it#next thing i know here we are#i also tried out a new shading style with this one that was fun#anyways feel free to use this as like. a phone background or whatever#i only say that because thats what i do with fanart thats framed like this WOISEJKFD
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This is Tower & Broken's dynamic to me
#slay the princess#stp#stp tower#voice of the broken#stp voices#art#im realizing the size i draw tower & broken is very inconsistent & not at all reflective of her in-game size#oh well#i don't usually have that much to say about the voices but good for broken in the new update. happy for him.#i was always a broken apologist (i thought he was funny)#but i appreciated the compassion he shows towards the princess in this update#idk it felt like showing another side to his 'devotion' shtick#going from 'mindless devotion even to those who are cruel to you'#to 'sticking with someone through their worst moments bc you see a better side to them'#or that's how i interpreted it anyways
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every other party member: im cursed. im going to die. im owned by someone much more powerful than me. my days are numbered for one reason or another -- the tadpole is only the latest life threatening circumstance.
halsin: i like whittling ducks :)
#im in love with him <3#a lot of my favorite mods are getting converted to full release so. goal is to finish the game on this pc#and then mod it when my new one comes in and make another character to romance someone else. or halsin again. who knows.#carly.txt#carly plays bg3#bg3 spoilers
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My friendly neighbourhood is honestly such a breath of fresh air in the area of indie games. I wouldn’t call it a horror game it’s more of a shootemup action sorta game w/ some mildly spooky elements. It’s fun and goofy and not super serious but also tackles topics actually related to the media it’s parodying (ie, sesame street, and the feeling of growing up and realising that life just isn’t as kind as on tv) and of all things talks about the horrors of war?? And does it well? AND IT DOESNT HAVE A STUPID POSSESSION MURDER PLOT.
#Mews news#my friendly neighborhood#as someone who has watched the game in development for a while it’s just nice idk
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let me be clear i like veilguard but it does suck that no one disapproves anymore outside of like. three choices. i want to be fighting for my life earning approval back again someone has GOT to hate my ass. i should be careful about party composition and companion reactions again. i miss tactically taking fenris out of the party before i'm nice to merrill like those were the days
#please omg can someone hate my ass . not really. but in previous games it sometimes did feel like i was earning approval back#like a. 'even when we fight i still love you. don't forget that' way . i wanted some uphill battle and dav IS super sanitised#the difference is more staggering to old players than new ones. i think dav plays rly well for someone who doesnt know the franchise#but i keep asking questions like 'should the dalish not be more worried about solas/etc' 'the crows r not this nice'#'why wouldnt isabela ask about varric' 'there should probably be more fantasy racism here'#of course these r the devs who were slandering zevran weeks before release. however its also just. man.#I AM ENJOYING THE GAME THOUGH. just wish it had a bit (a lot) more relevance and respect to what its built up in the prev games#dragon age#dav spoilers#veilguard spoilers#dav#txt#like for example i think one of my favorite small writing moments is cass asking about the inquisitor's family in dai#where she approves if you are also estranged but disapproves if you say you want to go back#because for a split second she does not just see a so called 'herald' that she's forced to work with#it's someone just like her who never got along w their family and despite herself she likes the inquisitor more for it#or it's someone who couldn't be less like her and her dislike and initial mistrust becomes more certain#it just. there's is an amount of depth lost when vg tries this hard to make rook be loved as a default
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Guess what.. another hc crossed my mind
If they don't like a theme in dti, Asher, Angel, and Milo will straight leave and rejoin until a theme gets interesting.
Theme is Teddy Bear:
Angel: OMFG
Asher; FLOP THEME AFTER FLOP THEME YO
Milo: NAH FUCK THIS WE PLAYING FASHION FAMOUS
#redacted audio#redactedverse#redacted asmr#redacted asher#redacted milo#redacted angel#I cannot go back to fashion famous btw#loved that game down but cmon now#someone just dressed up as L from Death Note for the detective theme#I fear they ate#new update august 17th#who wanna play with me and flop together Omg
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