#uhhhh autisme tag?

[nederlandsespoorwegen]

Train ask 8?

Have you ever [made] friends with anyone on a train?

Nothing to speak of, really. The amount of times I've had a real conversation with fellow passengers can be counted on one hand

[grapemoon]

This is what it feels like btw

[tech-obssessed-shark]

CHAT WAIT HEAR ME OUR BLITZO’S JUST AUTISTIC AND HE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND SOCIAL CUES WHICH IS WHY HE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND STOLAS’ FEELINGS CHAT WAIT HE LITERALLY HAS A HYPERFIXATION WITH HORSES CHAT WAIT HE’S JUST A LITTLE GUY CHAT HE HAS RELATIONSHIP ISSUES AND DOESNT UNDERSTAND WHEN HE HURTS PEOPLE’S FEELINGS CHAT WAIT

(slash joke by an autistic person djjfjjfjfj- ngl he’s just so silly we need more complex autistic rep guys I need more gahaha)

[oh-meow-swirls]

i think this was funnier in my head.

[stargazostli]

ah yes

autism

and britishness

im so good at this being a human business

[waywardsalt]

deciding (and realizing based on the way i write and think abt it) that no matter what bellum is not making it out of swabbie rank. he’s put at the lowest rank of whatever hierarchy linebeck decides to adhere to no matter what, no matter the au. bellum can be practically a stowaway or romantically involved with the captain but he is swabbie while link made it to first mate in a handful of months and while being like twelve. bellum gets the mop. to humble him.

[definitelynotshouting]

hi tem!! 72, 77, 78!!

Ask me fanfic writer questions!

Omg hello!!! Eidnwjdjdj i shouldve guessed i'd get 77 immediately 😂😂😂😂

72.) what do you do if a scene gets too serious?

Generally im almost always aiming for serious on some level, tbh-- thats my favorite thing to write about!! Even while writing comedy, i tend to go for more serious undertones; in the case that im going intentionally for pure humor, though, and the scene comes out a little more serious than intended, i try to dial it back by focusing on banter, adding a bit of humor to the narration itself, and essentially laying the scene out in a way that's intentionally meant to draw your attention to whats supposed to be funny.

On the whole, though, serious scenes are my JAM and i adore writing them, so its not often i run into this problem!!

77.) how do you write kissing scenes?

OH BOY. OKAY. this is the point, i suppose, where i mention the Kissing Seminar.

The Kissing Seminar is a very informal discussion i held in one of my discord servers and later transcribed to a google doc when the topic of how to write kisses came up. Full disclosure: i kiss a lot. I love kissing. Ive kissed a ton of people in my life and i kiss my partner constantly. So when im writing kisses, i am pulling DIRECTLY from my own experiences on how it feels and how i do it (and sometimes i do need refreshers; last time i wrote a kiss i had to pause, kiss my partner for a minute, and then go back to writing. Partner reported being INCREDIBLY confused by the abruptness but was pleased to receive smooches until the next day when i informed them of why, and then they hit me with a pillow SJDNEJDJEJJS 😂😂😂😂)

Anyway, the Kissing Seminar is something ive been meaning to pretty up and post for public consumption time and time again, but havent yet because its just so currently low on the priority list. But it details HOW to kiss, and what to expect, and some options for how to write it if you want to go for something more detailed rather than just saying "they smooched". As a tl;dr, its generally all about body placement, rhythm, and emotions-- and the intermingling between them. If you want to write good kisses, focus on all three of these things, and it'll help you out a lot

78.) how do you choose where to end a chapter?

I go off of instinct, mostly!!! Usually i try to keep my chapters all to a similar length (so for hunger au, im aiming for 4-5k each time), and because i know how long most of my scenes take (about 1-2k depending) im able to round off where things should stop after a certain amount of scenes have been written. Sometimes its not precise, though-- last chapter of litd was meant to have the Pearl conversation fully in it, but Tango ended up being the primary focus, and i couldnt really edit that out without sacrificing a lot. So as soon as i found a good stopping place, i went ahead and finished the chapter.

Good stopping places for me are where a scene naturally ends and begins to transition into a new one-- think like movie clips, or scenes in a play. To continue using hunger au chap 4 as an example, the final "clip" so to speak started with Tango and Grian on the couch, and ended with Tango leaving the set while Pearl took his place. I found this to be a really good natural stopping point for the chapter, because Pearl and Grian's convo is very different from the way Tango and Grian's went, so it requires a different tone and new atmosphere to fully delve into that. I find that when the tone of a scene changes, or something new is happening, or time is shown to have passed in some way, these are naturally good places to stop a chapter.

I think this is often why people will choose to end their chapters with their characters falling asleep-- its a natural transition that people instinctively recognize as moving things forward, so it acts as a way to separate one scene from the next. The problem with relying on that alone though is that it can become very repetitive, so its important to be able to start pinpointing all your transition sentences or paragraphs so you can find other places and ways to end chapters and add in some variety

As with all things, though, this isnt a hard and fast rule; i can think of several ways one might want to lean on that for thematic purposes, or using it as a motif, or just a particular expression of style. Really what it comes down to is what you want from your story, and the best ways to achieve that; a good editor in particular will help you find a way to do that. Wkdnwke sorry this became sort of a very extended ramble, but as a professional editor and a longtime writer i find the subject fascinating and feel like mechanics like this arent really talked about often enough. Anyway thank you for listening to my little soapbox if you read all the way through, and thank you so much for the questions!!!!! :DD

[idiototheinternet]

Hey, do any of y'all wanna see what I wrote? 450 words were by my own free will, 100 of them were from the helpful peer pressure, (especially you @vofart thank you for the 75 words)

It's oc shit, and I'm sharing what I have so far before another round of people decide to comment or like

[wtchgrrl]

i feel like i should’ve realized that im autistic once i realized i have the entire ass nightmare before christmas script memorized (songs included btw). like, i watched that movie so much as a kid that i could watch it entirely within my own brain. i even remember the spots where commercials came in (before i got it on dvd ofc)

my parents really saw me watch that movie 5 times a week while saying lines before the characters did and thought “yeah, she’s just a little quirky :)”

[dinerfries]

hey guyz check out this nine i did a rlly long time ago before i had tumblr

[nederlandsespoorwegen]

Lieve NS,

Hoe praat ik met vrouwen?

niet wezenlijk anders dan met andere mensen :)

[orangeprotogen]

Neurodivergent slang tip here! When a Neurodivergent says that they have a hard time expressing their emotions and/or feelings [Sometimes in response to you asking if they care about you], that's most likely not the case. It means they have a hard time understanding how they feel about something in particular, and/or that they don't know how *you* feel and would rather shape their thought process based on how you would react to it. Most of us Neurodivergent people don't really like negative confrontation. Hell most of us don't like confrontation at all, so if we can just say "no" if your answer is 'no' rather than saying "Yes" not KNOWING if your answer is 'no', we will. This is the reason you'll hear your ND friends say some shit like "I just have a hard time expressing love and positive emotions" but turn around and go absolutely ballistic for a cute bug they found or a hyperfixation. It is always because simple things (like animals) and hyperfixations (Mostly some piece of media but sometimes a hobby) are much much easier to understand and comprehend. If someone asks you if you like a type of fruit vs asking you your thoughts on politics, one of those questions is going to have an easier-to-get answer. Your friends do care about you. We may not show it, and we may seem like we don't care about you. We may seem hypocritical or like liars, but we're not. We just have a hard time coming to terms with how WE feel about YOU, so we can't say for sure almost ever. [Note; this is not always the case. This is just one of the most common things I've seen. Take all of the information you get from people on the web with a grain of salt until you know your specific situation]

[thebitchbehindtheslaughter]

I have a habit of saying “watch this” every time I go to do something, so now I’m sitting in my room alone, throwing my computer away, and yelling “WATCH THIS” before sneezing once and continuing on like nothing happened 

[pprojectluns]

Yippee!!!!

[guiltyidealist]

Girl help,, tiny gift ideas for a tiny autistic mcr lover

[tagiscool]

I'm sooo burned out rn and my biggest thing is that when I burn out I just lose any and all ability to mask and feel strong emotions so I am just incredibly ambivalent