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[nakajimeow]

USEFUL WEBSITES FOR WRITERS

Writing With Color: Helps with writing about culture, ethnicity, and religion. Overall, it gives advice on how to write about diversity.

Name Generator: As the name says, it helps you build names for your characters. Very useful if you cannot think of names for your characters!

KathySteinemann: The 'archive.pdf' section helps you with synonyms in case you struggle to find the right word for your sentences (also to avoid using redundant words).

Spwickstrom: Similar to the previous one, this one provides grammar tips. Extremely helpful when finding phrases, verbs, conjunctions, adjectives, and so on.

Servicescape: The perfect website if you're experiencing writer's block. It provides writing prompts. It helps you spark creativity when it comes to writing.

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[paranoia-art]

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[bruceawaynefrfr]

btw guys smosh post around 34 videos a month over the 4 channels and mythical post 46 videos a month on 3 channels

[raineandsky]

Your writing always makes my day!!! Request idea: hero and villain accidentally crossing on some kind of public event. The moment hero notices villain, he starts following the criminal in order to prevent whatever is going to happen. But eventually instead of doing evil stuff (as hero had expected) villain faints near some shop, hero catches him before villain hits the ground and then stands there for a second like “What the hell just happened”. Of course then he tries to figure out what is wrong with his nemesis and to help

Sorry if it’s too specific🪿

i'm glad i can brighten your day a little! this was a fun one to write - thank you for the request!

The hero never took himself for someone to recognise faces. But he sees the someone in baggy clothes, a bag thrown over their shoulder, a world away from what the hero would think he’d recognise, and he still knows, somehow, that it’s the villain.

His nemesis is trying a new technique, perhaps. Trying to blend into the masses, shedding his noticeable identity to go under the radar. The hero is more than happy to show him that it hasn’t worked—he can smell something evil from a mile away.

The villain slips into the crowd and the hero follows. He can just see him ahead; shirt flapping behind him, bag clamped to his shoulder with tight fists. The villain careens to the left and disappears. Ha, the hero thinks, he’s noticed me and he thinks I’ll lose him. That won’t work on me.

The hero pushes through the crowd and the villain is thankfully still there, stumbling slightly. He puts a hand out blindly, trying to lean on something that isn’t there. The hero strides closer, mentally preparing to deal with him, when the villain loses his balance and topples right over.

The hero’s moving in before he can think about what he’s doing. He manages to catch the villain, just, before he can crash to the floor. A few onlookers gasp dramatically; someone approaches worriedly to help.

“It’s okay,” the hero says, as if this is, in any way, okay, “he’s with the right person.”

The villain, it appears, is out cold. The hero scoops him up as best he can with civilians crowding around. It’s something of a sloppy bridal carry—he doesn’t have much choice, but his face heats up slightly regardless. With a beeline towards some of the onlookers, they quickly part and let the hero through to find somewhere quieter.

The city and these goddamn events—it doesn’t seem like there’s anywhere even slightly secluded, and naturally people are curious about a hero carrying someone through the midst of it all.

And through all of it: why? Clearly something’s going on with the villain. Well, that’s a given, since he’s a villain, but the hero assumes fainting isn’t part of the job. He’d never admit it to the villain—god, imagine how smug he’d be—but he’s worried. Is he hurt? What’s wrong with him?

The hero finally spots a little alley, miraculously undisturbed, and practically dives into it. He carefully lays the villain on the pavement, wasting no time checking vitals. Okay, he has a heartbeat. Promising. He’s breathing. Alive, by all accounts. Probably thanks to the hero, given his head-first dive for the unforgiving concrete.

Like the villain can hear the hero’s racing thoughts, he slowly opens his eyes. They lock onto the hero’s face, half-there at best, his mouth moving in a vain attempt to speak.

“It’s okay, [Villain],” the hero says, even though it still really isn’t, “I’ll look after you.”

“Oh,” the villain slurs. “O’ay.”

He reaches for the hero, his fingers flexing thoughtlessly, and the hero edges closer. He gets dangerously in reach, and the villain grabs a fistful of the hero’s shirt like a lifeline. The hero freezes, unsure what to do as the villain weakly pulls him closer, and submits himself to sitting here and waiting for whatever this is to pass.

The hero waits with him for the better part of ten minutes as he slowly comes around. He knows they’re in the clear when the villain’s eyes glance at him again, and this time he seems to actually see him.

“Oh, Jesus.” He pulls his hand back like the hero’s burning. “How long have you been sat there?”

“Well, I was there when you passed out,” the hero says flatly, “so… a while.”

The villain was already pale, but he’s basically a ghost now. “Right.”

The hero casually brushes the new crinkles on his shirt. “Are you going to tell me what that was about?”

“I don’t have to tell you anything,” the villain snaps. He goes to pull himself up but the hero stops him.

“No,” the hero says sharply. “You’re just as human as everyone else I look after in this city. Tell me what’s going on.”

“Oh, ew,” the villain cries dramatically. “Look, I’m fine, okay? You’ve had your moment of heroics, now back off.”

The villain goes to pick himself up slowly, and the hero watches with a worried frown. This conversation has answered exactly zero of the hero’s questions. “Please, just tell me what’s going on, [Villain]. I don’t want to have to worry about this when I next fight you.”

The villain brushes his clothes off with a scowl. “You’re not leaving this alone, are you?” He sighs, glancing nervously down the alleyway before turning his eyes back to the hero. “It’s hypotension.”

“What?”

“Hypotension. My blood pressure is too low sometimes, and I just…” The villain makes a motion like he’s about to topple again. “Go out like a light. I’m quite proud I’ve gone this long without anyone noticing, honestly.”

The hero moves in to help the villain to his feet as he stands. “I’m horrified no one knows about this, [Villain]. Something bad could happen to you.”

“I’m horrified this happened at all. If I find out this has ended up on file somewhere in the agency, [Hero], I swear to god,” the villain seethes, “you’re so dead.”

The hero laughs awkwardly. “Hey, I know where the line is between moral and personal.”

He’s not lying. There’s no section for villains’ medical issues in the files, anyway.

[thepenultimateword]

Prompt #278

“I can’t believe this,” the villain fumed. “You catfished me!”

Hero flushed. “I did not!”

“No costume. No powers. Just a few dinky gadgets and what is that? Is that supposed to be a mask?”

“It is a mask!” Hero said, subconsciously touching Their hand to the bunny sleep mask, holes cut where the eyes had once been. “I’m just on a budget!”

“What were the costumes on your profile?”

“Rentals. …For resume photos.”

Villain sighed heavily, running their hands through their hair and staring back at the sky. “And you’re inexperienced. Great. You know Nemeses Are We exists for a specific reason, and when desperate Heroes like you who just want to fight anyone for a decent cash grab or bit of limelight get on and lie about everything, you waste a lot of time and prep for the villains that give a crap.”

[dovedrangeas]

they r family......

[cjoatprehn]

I hate to tag yall again, happy pride month-if you’re able to share this and interact in any way to the videos and posts above, that would mean a lot. Or even drop a dollar, it would do wonders to help me extend my hotel stay past Monday.

@strawbunnycakes @gearthepunk @dukemz-rb @essjayel999 @fuckyeahasexual @disloyalseagull @afroclusterfunk

[white-cat-of-doom]

It seems like they have announced another leg of the International Tour, this one scheduled to start in April 2025 and tour Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

We will see what else is next!

[edwards-exploit]

The Bournemouth Belle, and The Last Shunter.

More OCs! SteamNav and Missus are rather new so some info might be subject to change, and they were AU versions of certain characters (3 points if you guess who) buuut they spiralled into new characters. SteamNav is tranquil fury incarnate, trying to take control of his life after so long being something humans have tinkered with and throwing herself into making Incredibly Bad Descisions; and Missus can and will judge your (engine) sins, but she keeps losing at poker and that's why Sodor is so damn haunted. If anyone has any more questions or just want to help me brainstorm send me an ask and I'll answer :]

[nakajimeow]

WRITING ADVICE THAT I HEARD (THAT ABSOLUTELY WORKS FOR ME)

Okay, so I am writing these tips that I have learned/heard from other authors. It worked for me, I just want to share it just in case other people might find it helpful too!

Know the ending of your story before starting it.

Whenever you have an idea, WRITE IT. IMMEDIATELY! (before you could even lose it or worse, forget it)

READ MORE !!! (get inspiration from other people's books)

Write EVERYTHING. Just correct/edit them later when you are finished.

Explore other genres. (do not get stuck with one genre. instead, read/write other genres. you never know, you might be better at writing other genres)

Similar to the first one, CREATE OUTLINES PER CHAPTERS !! I REPEAT, CREATE OUTLINES. (in this way, it would be easier to write because you have a summary of what is going to happen in each chapter.)

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[al-the-remix]

Random fandom thoughts/feelings

The reblog button is turned off on this post but I think it's another incredibly important one to be thinking about. I enjoy their framing of how the profit economy of other social media sites has been bleeding into fandom spaces on both tumblr, and like this post focuses on, Ao3. It's something that I've been noticing more and more and it really rubs me the wrong way and I feel like OP's post words it perfectly in a way I've been struggling to express.

This sort of connects the previous post I reblogged on the topic talking about how fandom is not a good in road for becoming internet famous.

A facet of this that's really bamboozled me recently is that I feel like i've been seeing more and more of is the idea that a singular person has a right to call "dibs" on a specific piece of media. Which is honestly totally fucking wild to me and if I'm being totally frank kind of dumb.

Every single one of us who interacts with fandom and by extent and IP is flirting with copy right law, the consequences of which everyone should be extremely familiar with by now with the fall of LJ and various lawsuits by authors, dmca notices, etc.

We have all heard the adage "there's no such thing as an original idea"; the idea that everything we create is the amalgamation of all the things that influence us, good and bad.

This is totally normal and good, actually.

For example, if I and another person both watch a TV show, see a production photograph that we really like and decide to draw it and post them one after the other it would be considered extremely bad behaviour to then turn around and make a big stink about how someone else had the gall to turn around and draw the same thing that I did. We can all look at a picture, video, lyrics to a song, become inspired and create something wildly different based on our tastes and influences--but we also are equally, if not more so, likely to create something nearly identical to our peers, especially in a fandom space where ideas are concentrated and we are all consuming each other's thoughts, opinions, and creations. More than once I've come up with an idea for a fic or a drawing that someone else had had a nearly identical execution of without us communicating or viewing each other's work. That's just the way the human brain works, we're hard wired to make connections in a fairly similar way.

You do not have a right to call dibs on any one photograph, clip of video, song lyrics or any other bit of media you might consume.

This stands for artists, writers, gif makers, AMV creators, and any other way you choose to express your love of fandom creatively.

If you are really hard pressed to focus on the numbers and work at being ~influential~ the burden is on you to distinguish yourself creatively.

There's a reason why not being able to see follower counts is so important to the way fandom and tumblr functions. The concept of ~small creators~ and ~big creators~ or BNF or whatever are all burdens you place on yourselves. No one is taking anything away from you by engaging with the same bit of media you are in a similar way. We all have a right to express ourselves creatively and emotionally through any snippet of media that sparks our interest. You do not get to "own it" just because you happened to pump something out first. There are no creative "dibs". This isn't even some sort of "fandom" etiquette thing that has gone thus unspoken. It's a strange possessive thing that I've seen crop up more and more as the idea of being a capital "C" Creator brain rots people's minds and atrophies their ability to be creative.

Sort of on a tangent, but I have a bunch of other personal random thoughts about how this push to be prolific stagnates fandom, but these are more complicated for me and I'm not as clear on how I want to express them. On one had I am completely on board with the "there is no such thing as cringe" mindset and that everyone has a right to create whatever super indulgent thing they want to without having to suffer people being snobby about it. But, on the other hand I feel very strongly that the cycle of people seeing one trope or characterization being repeated repeated over and over and gaining popularity, reading only that--writing only that--leading others to also only consume that, really stymies creativity and makes it harder to grow the fandom if people that are trying to enter aren't into That One Thing, while also ostracizing people who are already in the fandom that aren't into That One Thing. I strongly believe that people's tastes are at least 70% just what they're exposed to, and obviously not everyone is going to be into whatever weird niche concept they're exposed to through fandom, but the more they are the more opportunity they have to expand that horizon. I don't know how many times I've gotten a version of the "I wasn't sure I would like this but I gave it a shot and it turns out I really love it!" and how good that feels and how much I wish other people were emboldened to do the same instead of being so wrapped up in how their work may or may not be received.

This is mostly a subjective thing though, so it's less cut and dry. Like for example, I really struggle with engaging with transgender fic despite being transgender myself because of the way most AFAB fic is written to the point where I avoid it now almost entirely. Which, frankly, really fucking sucks but also I will be the first person to fight for other's ability to write transgender characters wether they appeal my personal feelings and taste or not.

Anyway, this is one of the reasons I'm so protective of fandom community events, especially ones that employ aspects of the fandom gift economy such as exchanges. There are one of the few wholly un self-centred places left where the focus is on gifting someone something they will love and giving back to the fandom at large by flooding it with art and opportunities appreciation and engagement with each other. It is not supposed to be an opportunity for you to think about yourself and "getting something good" in return or using it a convenient deadline. It also offers you an opportunity to engage with fic tropes and genres that you've never considered writing or reading before.

TL;DR if you've found yourself recently squabbling over how many notes your gifs, art, writing, etc. has been getting compared to other people instead of focusing on forging community ties and your own creative expression, I'm sorry to say you're doing it wrong.

[keepwaitingforyou]

my random tcc rants from months ago

[ne0nwithazero]

I love you handmade personal websites, I love you work in progress pages, I love you layouts that don't fit quite right just yet because the person is still learning how any of it works, I love you blinkies, I love you 88x31 button collections, I love you gifs, I love you self-indulgent design, I love you human creativity, your personal websites are like a little cozy home filled with things you love and are dear to you, I love you creativity

[n7punk]

fuck the titantic if i had a time machine i'd go back and kill the linkedin founder in his sleep

[altschmerzes]

“you’re on the shipping website you can’t be mad about people shipping characters” is a truly beyond shitty way to respond to people who are venting about people disrespecting their boundaries and laughing about it lmao. just say you wish aromantic people would stop existing where you have to see them and spoiling your fun and go.

[batsplat]

if more people knew Herstory (aka 2004 season and sete&vale) so many questions wrt 2015 season(mostly “why would vale….”) would immediately be answered addfghjk like guysssss guyssssss

it is kinda funny that there's a simple cheat code out there to understanding most of valentino's career but it's just about long enough ago that most people simply... ignore it. like there's a three year span that more or less tells you what you need to know about him. it's like you say! pretty much every possible "why would vale..." secretly has a straightforward answer, and 9/10 it's something that was established in 2003 to 2005. simple as

if anything it's almost annoying because it's too easy. the 2004/2015 stuff in particular is incredibly funny. oh, so you say you have a controversial last lap at assen where valentino beat a rival in direct combat and said rival reacted surprisingly poorly, making valentino reevaluate his relationship with the rival? might that tell you something about how a seed of suspicion once sown can remain dormant for months until valentino is given cause to revisit it? valentino quite literally says in his biography that he could never have hated biaggi because he wasn't a friend and didn't have the power to hurt him... the sepang pressers thing is genuinely just silly, I know this is mainly a function of when they happen in the calendar but what a bizarre coincidence. 2015 is like a slightly more opaque funhouse mirror version of 2004 - but so many of the major beats are virtually identical. which means you've got a season Out There where a younger less experienced less guarded less cynical valentino basically walks you through his internal processes so you get a really good handle of what his deal is. he's piecing together his identity as a competitor going forwards in real time - and then in 2015 he just reminds you of what exactly that identity involves. it's a reaffirmation and not a departure... he's not that inscrutable after all, in the end