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Does anyone else have a running list of phrases/details etc. that theyâve read in fanfic that made them go, âIâm FURIOUS I didnât write thatâ? Like things that you see that were so good that you had to take a lap around your living room? Little phrases that you just want to scoop up and start using in your own writing immediately??
The two Iâve been hyped about recently are,
âBloody the altars,â used as a curse in place of like âjesuschristâ or âohmygodâ or âgoddammitâ in worlds with witchcraft or pantheons or whatever, but no Christianity. Like! Thatâs so good! Itâs so hard to avoid using colloquialisms that wouldnât make sense in a fantasy world, and this is such a good alternative! It delights me every time I think about it. **(from shrug off the shroud by unconscious on ao3)Â Â
â... good sir, madame, or otherwise.â âOtherwise.â âGood otherwise...â Thatâs such a fun way to incorporate nonbinary/agender/gnc-inclusive language in a fantasy setting! It flows perfectly, it sounds right at home in that high-fantasy/renaissance-adjacent way of speaking. Iâm obsessed. I love the idea of âOtherwiseâ being an honorific used as commonly as âsirâ or âmadame.â 10/10 incredible stuff. **(from Braided Threads by stele3 on ao3)
 Basically what Iâve learned is that I get really excited when people find clever ways to add to the universe theyâre writing in. I think itâs so cool every single time. If anyone else has any good ones, please feel free to add on!
#mine#fanfic#ao3#writing#what's up I'm procrastinating writing by making posts about other peoples writing lmao#for anyone wondering the first quote is from a witcher geralt/jaskier fic (rated E)#and the second one is from a D&D Honor Among Thieves Edgin/Xenk fic (rated M)#they're both totally lovely. would absolutely recommend.#also I love that pretty much every d&d hat fic I've read thus far has included a nonbinary and/or agender and/or gnc and/or trans character#it's fantastic 10/10 work everybody#the witcher#d&d honor among thieves
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Since you say you love to chatter, I hope you don't mind being asked a few questions :)
what's a scene/detail/piece of dialogue etc that you really wanted to include in [fic of your choice], but you couldn't find room for? here's your chance!
if you had to write an epilogue (or sequel!) to any of your fics (that you are NOT currently planning on writing an epilogue for), which would it be and what would happen?
for the ships you're currently writing about (and have written for in general), is there usually one character you like more than the other? (will you tell us who? has it ever changed?)
what's a ship/fic idea you want to read about but don't want to write yourself? maybe somebody will be inspired!
share anything you'd like about a wip!
aw thank you anon! especially for the opportunity to procrastinate on working on my current wip :) answers under the cut:
some dialogue that i ultimately cut from the spain scene in marriage bets where they were having tapas (originally there was going to be ALL this flirting over the tapas and then it went on too long so i got straight to the questions):
"You're not going to eat that?" "Hey, I tried it." "You're so American." "It's the texture--" "Such a wimp." "I'm sure plenty of people aren't into eating octopus." "Uh-huh."
if i had to write an epilogue or sequel:
oh gosh. i think a lot about the one where marriage bets matthew and leon get married for real for real, with suits and their families present and everything. it WOULD involve matthew finally telling brady that he was not, in fact, the first tkachuk to get married. the other one i think about is, of course, rat baby in a cup. she reigns eternal.
is there a character in a ship that i like more than the other?
i think it's hard for me to enjoy a ship where i don't actually like one side of it! that said, there are definitely characters where i find it much easier to get into their headspace than others. i've probably said this before, but leon is such a straight line thinker and so easy for me to get that for a long time it was hard for me to try and write anything from matthew pov because his is a little more twisty-turny. they're both equally complex! but it requires different skills to get the effect i want, which is normally the pov character not having a clue what the other one is thinking. it's a lot easier to have leon misreading matthew than the other way around. except now of course i've written a lot from matthew pov so finding my way back to leon pov has been a challenge.
a ship/fic i want to read but don't want to write:
god what DON'T i want to read. lmao. i would love for someone to write a good achy jamie/trevor post-trade fic. i would love for someone to write a long slow friends-to-lovers matthew/sasha fic! i would REALLY love a brady/quinn future fic. especially if it features divorced brady. i feel like future fic especially is a trope/concept that i just feel less comfortable writing so whenever someone else writes it i eat it up with a spoon :)
share anything you like about a wip:
well the wip is going SO SLOW and is VERY HARD for me because im challenging myself by writing a slow burn and cant rely on sex scenes to do the chemistry work for me this time rip rip. but here is a wee snippet:
âDraisaitl. Tkachuk,â Coach says, gesturing at the starting line.
Leon gets ready, bracing his stick over his thighs. Heâs already raced Jordan and Gourdeâbeat Jordan, beat Gourdeâbut he hasnât had to go against Tkachuk yet. Hasnât had to do much of anything with Tkachuk yet. Yesterday they were at the other end of the line from each other, or opposite sides of the rink. It had lulled Leon into a false sense of security.
Now, though, Tkachuk is watching him with that way that he has, likeâ
One time, while making kebabs, Leon got a splinter from the bamboo skewer under his nail. It hurt like a bitch, had him cursing for five minutes until Jenna told him to stop squirming and tweezed it out. The splinter had been miniscule, almost impossible to see, and Leon had wondered how something so tiny could be so aggravating and painful, would make him do anything just to get it to stop.
Thatâs how it feels when Tkachuk looks at him. How itâs always felt. Like his gaze is digging in under Leonâs skin, until Leonâs entire body is red and inflamed. It makes Leon want to scratch at his shoulders, his chest, until he can finally tear Tkachuk out.
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i love learning about things a week late through youtube recommendations from random channels i've never seen before
(bad grammar and typos cause i'm shooting my shot as fast as possible so I can get back to Important Adult Stuff(TM))
i suppose i can't really gripe because i'm still largely logged out and wouldn't have heard otherwise so maybe I should take it for what it is
i know i'm a random person who writes as a hobby so I don't necessarily "owe" anything to people online, but y'all have been so sweet to me and I feel it would be unfair to keep dropping off the face of the planet like I have been, plus, I have been stewing over quite a bit of my thoughts these past few months and making a large "get all my thoughts out in a word vomit" post is a good way to A.) sort out my shit and B.) to procrastinate homework
college is BEATING MY ASS and i'm not even at the harder junior/senior year type stuff so even if my writer's block wasn't the worst it's ever been I highly doubt I would be writing anything anyway. i cannot say for certain when I'll be able to get back (it seems the universe is tailored specifically to punch me in the face whenever I have the slightest inclination to do so) but i will say it is always on my mind. i don't ever want to give up writing fully because of how many good things it's brought me but i want to be mature and say that it has taken a backseat in my life.
i still don't regret the things I've created and i will always be thankful for the experiences I've had + the friends I've made (even if we haven't talked in a while :') sorry guys) BUT this situation has just become the nail in the coffin for me in terms of what i want to do with my ds/mp and other adjacent fics. i can't say for certain what I'll go through and orphan/keep or just outright delete (WIPS/unfinished series will probably get deleted is what I've decided so far) so this is a BIG WARNING sign right here and now: if there are any ds/mp fics of mine you are fond of, please go and save them now. even if you think the one you really love is "safe" it's better to be cautious and have it yourself than hope for the best outcome.
now's a good time to mention that i have been feeling similar feelings toward my fl0wer husb4nds fics (gonna come out and be honest: i don't particularly care for sc0tt anymore, sorry) so if you like those you should also search them out. i think a hard majority if not all of them will be orphaned, so they'll still be up, but it never hurts to be able to read something while offline anyway
however, due to the aforementioned Important Adult Stuff(TM), i won't be able to get to the whole Properly deleting/orphaning process for a hot minute. that does not mean you should put off saving my fics because my brain could decide one night that i HAVE to do it IMMEDIATELY, but i can promise that it's not happening tonight (might hold off for at least a week just to give people time to see this post).
TSALP, my pride and joy, is perfectly safe and fine. when i think about whenever ill be able to write again, this series is the First thing to pop up in my mind. i have so many things i want to do with that series (and h3rmitcr4ft as a whole) that make me smile despite all that has happened surrounding mc/yt. someone will need to threaten me with death to make me even consider giving that up. hell, even taking a step back, i can say that i will never fully let go of mc/yt. i straight-up have tickets to go see tommy's america show later this month (send my dad well wishes as he's the one taking me LMAO) .
remember to drink water, take breaks, tell your friends you love them etc. I'm terrible at giving advice since I'm a bonafide mess of a person, but i will say that the best thing you can do for each other is support one another. i've always been a bigger fan of giving support to those who are hurt than trying to go and cause more pain to the people that you can argue "deserve" it. the people you care about are going to be with you much longer than the assholes, so be sure to put more energy into focusing on them than the ones that don't even deserve your scorn.
#halo be talkin#dont plan to tag this with any warnings unfortunately but i hope i left it vague enough to not be upsetting but specific enough#to know what im talking about
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hello, dear!
your study on leon is so well thought i am always left speechless as i read your posts. i am in love with how you portray him and how aesthetically pleasing your blog and writing is, making my little neurodivergent brain stick around and focus more easily.
i wish you a great day.
please, never stop writing.
softie.
thank you so much!! i've been seriously enjoying writing and thinking about leon & his point of view lately and i've been having a ton of fun with it behind the scenes, hopefully that post is one of many more to come because i have alot of ideas in store! i'm so glad that you're enjoying my portrayal and find my blog & writing aesthetically pleasing, because i put alot of time and thought into what i want on this blog these days, and what's helped me significantly is cutting down on what i reblog here and just setting up a separate spam sideblog for all of my fanart and etc. posts if they aren't related to specific character bonds, and i potentially have an aesthetic sideblog in the works too to streamline things more. i feel like i have a more concise place to write leon when i have everything organized, when i look back on my archives and recent posts now, i have like.. a sense of consistency? and it makes it so much easier to keep going when i feel concrete like that.
my friend over at blitzkriegers, ty, has been like... the tumblr version of marie kondo for me lmao, this 'does this spark joy' figure helping me sort out alot of my anxieties around being on this blog and tumblr in general, and writing overall, and has been a massive help in identifying all the little ways i procrastinate to put off writing because of some internal confidence issues. alot of that came across in constantly remaking graphics (ty actually made alot of material for this blog so i could focus on writing - if you like my icon borders i use for leon, those are all his work), alot of that was doomscrolling on pinterest, alot of it was just generally a bad mindset i had gotten into with the way the rpc in general, not just resident evil, functions - lately feeling very draining at times, learning how to navigate all of that w/ his support as a friend has been really positive for me.
so if you like what i put out on my blog here, i can't recommend enough that you check out his blog at blitzkriegers, where he writes karl heisenberg, as well as my other friend cj, who writes a splendid ethan winters on wintersdecay & a stunning ada wong, amongst other muses, over at greenherb. she does alot of study posts that are in significantly more detail than mine but far more legible, and her and ty's mutual worldbuilding is so easy to fall in love with. both of their blogs are more than great in my opinion if you're like me and have issues with focus but become super invested in roleplay and how people individually portray their muses, their blogs are very aesthetically pleasing to the eyes and their writing styles even more so. they're a joy to discuss headcanons and dynamics with, and alot of what i have on this blog i have built either with them directly, via their suggestion, or with them in mind! if you follow one i bet very soon you will be following the other lmao.
i hope i never do stop writing. it was tough going there for a while, but i feel like at least for right now i can reach that source of joy that i was out of reach from for a long time that inherently drives my writing. thank you for sending in such a sweet message!! it seriously made my evening to read it, and it really makes me proud to know that i'm putting time into one of my favorite hobbies and it's paying off not only for myself, but that someone else besides me is getting alot of enjoyment out of it too, and the reminder, the validation of that, is just always a wonderful gift to receive.
have a lovely day yourself! :) rian!
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and they were roommates - kjs. - pt. 4
part 4. moving in (wc. 456)






Packing your belongings that's enough for six weeks in forty-five minutes is definitely easier said than done, but alas, it is not completely impossible. Honestly, you can't really tell if you are overpacked or underpacked. What mattered most was that Bada didn't kill you for procrastinating.
With five minutes to spare, you rush down to the parking lot to store your luggage in the trunk of the car.
The rest of your members come down to say goodbye. Let's just say the dramatics were turned on, that's for sure.Â
âI'm surprised you actually packed quickly,â your leader says.Â
âWhat can I say? I'm serious about my cookie dough.âÂ
"I can't believe youâre leaving me behind,â Ria dramatically wails.Â
Rolling your eyes, you pull her in for a hug. âItâs not like Iâm permanently moving; Iâll be gone for like six weeks.â You pat Riaâs back and say, "Plus, weâll still see each other for practice.âÂ
âThatâs only if there is something to practice for.â Eunwoo interrupts, hugging the two of you.Â
Bada lovingly pinches Eunwoo. âDon't say that, Eunwoo, we still have festivals to practice for,â Bada says as she joins in the group hug.Â
âAs much as I would hate to break this group moment, we really have to go now, YN,â manager Woo interrupts.Â
After saying what seems to be but isnât really your final goodbyes to your group members, you head into the car for a long one and a half-hour drive away from the city.
After a long ride that only involved sleeping, you arrive outside of the shared villa that youâll eventually be sharing with five other people, who also happen to be idols. âCanât wait to get cancelled,â you thought.Â
Manager Woo begins to give you a quick debrief of what is going to happen. Â
âEverything is already set up in the house. The producers will be in the hallway guiding you where to go, and you guys will all be entering individually.â
âWow, this is some Love Island-type shit. Minus the love part,â you quickly look around your surroundings, âand the island,â you respond.
Manager Woo gives you a stern look and says, "After that, everything is going to be directed by the producer. Schedules will be sent to you like normal, but most things wonât interrupt the filming for this show.
You nod your head.
Manager Woo gave a small smile, "Just enjoy the experience, donât take everything too seriously, okay?â
"Sir, yes, sir.â You send a mocking salute.
Getting out of the car and dragging your luggage towards the house, you take a deep breath in and out. âOf course Iâm the first one going in. Well, here goes nothing. A hot new bombshell enters the villa.â

a/n: very subtle love island references cause that was my hyperfixation when i was writing this in the summer :p but other than that hope you guys are enjoying it so far. really just creating this as i go but i do have ideas that i know i want to be in the story, so we'll just have to see where this ends up lmao!! also school has officially started as im posting this so that's really fun :)) much more writing to do although essays aren't fun
synopsis: With long-time K-pop fans asking for another season of the infamous variety show We Got Married, MBC brings it back with a spin-off, We Became Roommates. As a way to bring K-pop fans together, the first season involves six idols born in 2005. With seeing each other every day, doing missions for every episode, making memories, and fans watching and shipping, blossoming friendships and a bubbling romance can't be helped. pairing: idol!jongseob x fem idol!reader genre: idol au, crack, fluff, humour, coworkers to friends to lovers
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Nobody expects Russian spies! But there's one here.
I'm sorry, yesterday was a difficult day, so I didn't do daily interaction with you, my Georgian supervised. So, second day, twice the dose!
Do you like taking things apart and putting things back together for absolutely no reason?
Have you ever been given an electric shock?
Light. Artificial or natural?
Two small ones or one large one (no specific items, just curious)?
Do you like indoor plants?
Do you wear glasses?
Are you a perfectionist or not? Procrastinator or not?
Have you played D&D? If so, Lawful Evil or Chaotic Good?
Have you been abroad?
Have you been to prison?
Are you political or apolitical?
Answers.
Yes. A lot. A damn lot.
Fortunately or unfortunately, yes. A little though.
Natural.
One large one.
Yes. I have cactus that is around 2.5 meters height.
Yes. I have relatively small myopia.
Perfectionist? No. Procrastinator? Absolutely.
Yes. With my friends. And my choice is Chaotic Good.
Yes. In Latvia in 2019 (or 2018???).
No and thank whoever up there.
Political. I have gift or curse to slowly change topic of every relatively long conversation into damn political debates.
You don't need to interract with me daily for us to be homies y'know. Take care of yourself first bby <3
I do but unfortunately I can't a lot of the time. I took apart and put back together an old laptop once and it was so fun
Yes? Very light ones from electrical outlets. I once kept shocking people (static electricity) and I joked how I should be plugged in an outlet, would save the bills
Depends on the item but usually one large over two small ones. (I'm thinking of apples specifically as I write this lmao)
I hate indoor plants because my mom makes me water them. Other than that, no. They supply me with oxygen and that's sexy. Plants are sexy
No goasses, though my eyesight could use some. I used to have a superpower with my vision when I was younger and now I need to move my phone up to my nose to read text
Hard to say weather I am or not since I avoid completing tasks. I could be avoiding them because I'm lazy or because I'm a perfectionist and the thought of not living up to my expectations makes me quit. Either could fit
100% a procrastinator. Just coded a game last night while procrastinating on a fanfic, which I was procrastinating on my homework with.
Haven't played it but I'd be a chaotic good probably
No, but I really wanna, especially to canada.
Nope. Haven't been to prison. They probably banned me from there because of the posts I make on here
Apolitical. Constant yelling at my house about politics gets annoying so I choose to completely ignore it's existance. I like the idea of anarchy though, but not the "let me do what I want" kind, more the "I believe in the good in humanity and if we let ourselfs do whatever we'd be much better off without all the wars and politics bullshit. Everyone should help eachother out"
Was the shock coming across my blog? (I'm curious on what exactly shocked you)
Good thing I'm used to dealing with people who get extremely political. You're easy compared to my parents tbh
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I have an urge to talk in Turkish here but I gotta keep it to myself now haha. Your page gives me a sense of comfort with the fact that you're Turkish.
What I was trying to say, that if you feel like no one's is interested in our girl Vera etc or the content/posts you want to make for her here apart from the fic writing, don't think like that because it is your page and your followers follows you for a reason.
But most importantly, what I was trying to say, that Vera gives me so much comfort as a Turkish woman myself like her ( my hair is also wavy like her how her hair gets after rain haha ). I love your Vera content. I just wanted to say that. She is also giving me inspiration for my own oc making. Back in the time I was so hesitant with the thought of making Turkish ocs, but with her and you of course, I started to beat that voice.
i'm answering this a bit late so my apologies! I wanted to say a lot but ramadan has me lazing around not wanting to do anything, so I procrastinated đ
i know the as bayraklarÄą as as as đšđˇđšđˇđšđˇ feeling like the last thing I expected to find here was another Turkish RE creator like. It's such a bizarre kinship and comfort, I know how you feel! I'm happy I was able to give it back.
Our girl Vera has me GRINNING, but not to change the subject too much, I know,,, it's a feeling that comes and goes. I used to barely get any interaction regarding her prior to the release of RE4R and when im deep into the hyperfixation i don't care much for feedback, I just create. Like. I guess multiple chapters beyond the 10K threshold are proof of that, looking back i had to be insane to be in it that deep. i remember being like "OMG 180 HITS BETWEEN CHAPTERS THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!" on ao3! đ the lack of interest gets to a writer, eventually, i guess, you just want the readers to show they're enjoying to work or not in some way. But the reminder that (some of, at least) my followers follow me for Vera is extremely consoling, thank you so much!
I'm so happy that you like Vera! It's very humbling to hear she as a Turkish woman is resonating with you, I never thought about having any Turkish readers at all when I was working on her... I always thought if I had, would it be cringy or not.
Because us as people really have an inferiority complex and are too self-conscious regarding these things, I remember how literally all of my Turkish writer friends (every single one of them) thought a Turkish main character would be EMBARRASSING in any fandom we would write for. We hated it, and everybody and their other writer friends also did. The idea of a Turkish character was cringy. But when other foreign writers would write Turkish OCs suddenly it was so cool and "AS BAYRAKLARI" .
I had a couple Filipino friends on wattpad who would write Filipino OCs and be so proud of their heritage and how they were incorporating it into the story, like, for example, I had a friend who re-designed and rebranded the planet Alderaan from Star Wars using their culture because the actress who played the queen was Filipino and she was so happy about it. It was so fascinating to me how she genuinely did something so creative and made it work so well. Another Filipino friend did this for Stranger Things, and in the heart of her story was immigrant struggles.
I never really questioned why Turkish people couldn't be like this until I was working on Vera, and her being Turkish started out as a joke. I wanted to immediately scrap it, thinking "no lmao what the fuck of course not" .
If another person did this, I would eat !! it !! up!!
But when I seriously wanted to make her Turkish it was suddenly embarrassing. It was a hard thing to get over. English fanfic reading really wires our brains to accept characters only of foreign nationalities and ethnicities because "it fits the story better" -- we only consume western media and hold it in higher regard.
I understand you so well, and I'm so glad I'm somehow encouraging you on this matter. Because why are we so embarrassed of ourselves?
Thank you for this ask, it really meant a lot to hear all of this! and I'm sorry I really went off on a tangent đ
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15 Questions, 15 Mutuals
Got a couples tags for this one, so thank you, @andromedaexists, @eli-writes-sometimes, and @mariahwritesstuff! I'm gonna pass it on with soft tags to @axl-ul, @zoya-writes, @traveler-of-realms, @littlepatchofhell, @magic-is-something-we-create, @penspiration-writing, @thetruearchmagos, @witherednightmare, @zmwrites, @writingpotato07, @regalserpent, @fearofahumanplanet, @pluttskutt, @smzeszikorova, and @the-finch-address, as well as an open tag in anyone wants to join in! I'm well aware I'm a bit behind on this one lol
Since I had multiple tags, in addition to my own answers I'm gonna answer half of the questions for an oc and the other half for another oc. I'm gonna use the brothers Riley and Jimmy from my unnamed WIP (and it's unnamed sequel! *sob*)
â ď¸ really long post, sorry! â ď¸
My answers
Are you named after anyone? Not to my knowledge. My mom was pretty random about namesâmy oldest sibling wasnât named after anyone at all whereas my second oldest sibling was named after two different people
When was the last time you cried? I genuinely do not remember but I know it was a really long time ago
Do you have kids? No, thank goodness, because while Iâd be a better parent than most parents I see in public, I very very much do not want that. I get worn out by nothing, I really could not handle a whole actual human child
Do you use sarcasm a lot? Yes. Iâve been told I have a dry humor (to which I responded âwell, yeah, I grew up in a landlocked state.â He laughed the whole way back to his office lmao)
Whatâs the first thing you notice about people? Whether they seem happy or not
Whatâs your eye color? Dark blue, but I have sectoral heterochromia in my right eye! The different color is brown, and there are three sections of it, so it looks like I have a brown star in that eye! My heterochromia and my hair have always been my favorite things about myself lol
Scary movies or happy endings? This is circumstantial for me. I donât really have a preference betwixt these options on their own. Curse of the Black Pearl scared the shit out of me when I wasâŚhowever young I was when it first came out, I donât remember and I donât wanna math my age, butâit scared me then (that was before I learned I have severe kinemortophobia; I can handle CoBP skeletons now) and now itâs one of my all-time favorite movies. Alternatively, Return of the King technically has a happy ending cuz they succeed at destroying the Ring, and that is also one of my favorite movies of all time. I would need more info about the movie to make my pick, but I do prefer action and comedy, so happy ending? Most labeled scary movies are really dull to me and only rely on jumpscares (which annoy me illimitably). Anyway, Iâll shut up about this question cuz that ended up really long; sorry!
Any special talents? Uhhh rambling, I guess lmao
Where were you born? Arkansas, although I have never actually lived in that state. I am grateful for that
What are your hobbies? Writing. Reading. Gamesâvideo, board, card, outdoor. Procrastinating writing đ
Have you any pets? Yesss! I have always had dogs and sometimes cats, and as of now, I have two buppy and the dumbest kitty Iâve ever had. She will literally run face-first into the wall and doesnât always catch herself when you slowly lower her to the floor in that sliding motion, like youâre pouring water from your hands. She has landed on her faceâmultiple times!!âfrom that because she apparently doesnât think landing on her paws is important. She's so dumb, it's great
What sports do you play/have played? Softball when I was peewee. Since then, I havenât been on any actual teams, but I have dabbled with mini golf and yard football (I have a good spiral but I do not have the yeet)
How tall are you? 5â8, close to 5â9 I think?
Favorite subject in school? English cuz I got good grades in it lmao outside of quizzes and tests, I always loved reading about biology and I really enjoyed my psychology classes
Dream job? Writer tbh, with like a side gig at an animal sanctuary or smth
For Riley. Heâll take the odd numbers
Are you named after anyone? When his biological mother was young, she had a dog that she loved more than anything; had it throughout her teen years and even a couple years into her twenties. It was rough on her when the dog passed, but not long after that, she had her firstborn with her husband. She never considered any name other than what her dog had been calledâRiley Zeke
(3) Do you have kids? Yes, although thatâs a very sensitive topic for him
(5) Whatâs the first thing you notice about people? Behavior and how they communicate with those around them
(7) Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings. He was a big fan of scary movies when he was a dating teen tho lol
(9) Where were you born? Alabama, although when his biological parents died, he and his brother were moved up north to their paternal grandmother. He had a bit of an accent when he was first moved, but it faded
(11) Have you any pets? No, actually. While Riley has never had a pet of his own, there were many a dog and cat brought into their house during his younger years; however their mother drew the line when a nest on baby squirrels was brought inside
(13) How tall are you? Riley is 6â2, and stopped growing somewhere in his late teens
(15) Dream job? All he knows is soldiering tbh it was his dream ever since he was five years old. He does love being the center of attention though, so something to do with a stage would be pretty good for him
For Jimmy, who gets the even numbers
(2) When was the last time you cried? Thatâs a tough question. I know of a couple times heâs cried, but he doesnât cry very often
(4) Do you use sarcasm a lot? Oh yeah, he uses sarcasm a lot
(6) Whatâs your eye color? Jimmy has dark green eyes. No heterochromia for him tho (RIP)
(8) Any special talents? Quite a few, actually. For starters, heâs not the best musician in the family, but he does know how to play three instruments, he can control lucid dreams, he can roll multiple coins across his knuckles at the same time, he knows a few magic tricks, and he can juggle just about anythingâif he has four or fewer items, he doesnât even need to pay much attention to what heâs doing. Lots of things were broken during his practicing years for that
(10) What are your hobbies? Nonsense, shenanigans, and a little dabbling in tomfoolery
(12) What sports do you play/have played? Jimmy was probably the laziest of his siblings tbh he didnât care much for sports. Tried most of them out but never committed to them beyond the season. He didnât even finish the season for soccer. He doesnât like running
(14) Favorite subject in school? Science. Heâs always loved doing the experiments himself, and science is the perfect scapegoat for when something gets set on fire, as it is more than just an excuse, it is a reason!
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Vigilante anon again, hiya! Tbh it may not be plot holes so much as I felt a character heavily involved in the story wasn't fleshed out enough, which made me overthink and caused me to hide, but now I have about 20 notebook pages of character aliases, background information, powersets, important information, and character backgrounds and motivations with 9 additional pages on the plot points alone without all the filler. So things that progress the priority plots forward, not just things I want to add for character growth.
I ended up caving and posting the first three chapters since they didn't majorly ruin anything later, though I'm struggling with chapter 4 now because the main character said something that might ruin a smaller plot I wanted to do later and I can't think of any other solution than what was said.
All in all, very happy to be back at it. As for the fandom thing: You're not wrong. Hell, I've seen VLD people still kicking lmao. I think there'll be a spike in activity for at least a month following the finale, and hopefully my fic will get more attention then so I don't lose motivation. Thanks!
Ahhhhh, yeah. Having character sheets is important (and a fun way to procrastinate actually writing the thing, lmao). Knowing a lot about the characters, even if it never makes its way into the actual writing explicitly, is good. That's a lot of pages, I salute you.
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22: describe your writing process from scratch to finish.
It's honestly rather straight forward even though I can take so long lmao. Ideas come from either prompt memes, fests, or random things I see that make me think/discuss headcanons. As soon as I have an idea, I make an outline of sorts.
This outline is sometimes a sentence long "these are the vibes" thing, or just two bullet points with "they run into each other. they get high. they kiss." or, if I'm particularly busy, I'll make a long detailed outline on paper during class. (So many boring lectures spent making wayyy too detailed outlines.) Like, those are easily 4-6 pages for a single oneshot or chapter.
Then the writing is kinda just, sprinting while filling out the blanks? With that really detailed outline, that's pretty easy honestly. Everything's there, I just have to string it together. Most of my writing is done through sprints (either in discord or just timing on my phone) so I can keep track of how long I'm writing.
Editing is either forgotten, or I send it to 1-3 people to betaread and almost blindly accept all their improvements.
For chaptered fics I also try to keep track of like, details I mention while writing? Like character descriptions of smaller characters or little events that happened. (like, I describe Emma Vanity as a plump girl with jet black hair in one chapter, so next chapter she should preferably not to be blonde, yknow)
This is all broken up by endless procrastinating, taking walks with playlists that remind me of the fic, and sending my friends excepts going "look at my dumbass children"
41: what is the weirdest story idea youâve ever had.
There are two contenders. One is a strange Narcissa/James/Sirius/Lily/Remus Ballerina AU I was somehow talking about with @stonecoldhedwig (yes, yes all of them. at the same time. idek.) it never got written and maybe that's for the best.
The other is a Minerva McGonagall/Horace Slughorn forniphilia fic. This came about during a discussion with irl friends and I ended up writing and posting it as a Christmas gift. I made a whole new account just to post it. It's terrible. She's a cat at one point. It's here if anyone feels like dying inside.
That same account is going to hold more weird crack fics, though. I've posted a Wario/Taylor Swift/Sportacus fic, and I'm planning a Jane Austen/Matt Healy/Adam Groff fic. These are all gifts for my friends for either Christmas or birthdays. Not sure why.
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Hi :) This might sound weird haha but I adore reading you talk about your writing, it's really inspiring and I feel like I learn a lot of things every time I read you talk about it (you know I'm a fan of your style haha). And anyways while I was reading your answer to your last anon, this struck me: "when i was outlining that chapter i think the only line i dedicated to the actual fight itself was âand then they have a crazy knife fight (good luck future me)â" and I wanted to ask you (1/2?)
(2/3?) do you have like any tips for writing a multichapters fic? I guess from what you wrote here you outline the whole thing before you start with it? Or it depends or the story and sometimes you just go with the flow and see where it goes haha? Do you mind sharing some of your writing process of multichapter fics? :3 Bc I tend to get "bored" really easily and if I don't finish something in one sitting I usually never ever finish it. But also I'd like to learn how to take my time sometimes
(3/3) and idk maybe learning how to properly "get ready" to write something long would help haha. I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense at all but yeah in any case just thank you for blessing my nights with your fics and killing me over and over with feels, I'm sure I said it before but you (and all of the amazing writers this fandom is blessed with) are a true inspiration!!!
you are SO sweet to me i die fhflkdsjf
iâm gonna go ahead and throw 100% of my answer under the cut because i havenât even started yet and i know this is about to be. So Long. i am sorry in advance lmao
there are a couple of different aspects to this ask that i want to touch on so i will be as brief as possible but as i have proven twice over tonight alone, i am really not capable of that lmfao
iâd say first and foremost, the biggest thing you can do to help yourself in this arena is figure out how to best discipline yourself. which SUCKS itâs like the worst most mom answer ever but in all honesty, developing discipline in writing is what separates the âi could write a bookâ people from the people who actually do write books. everyone is capable of writing, but not everyone has the discipline or patience to do so. long-form narrative requires even MORE discipline than a one-shot (or even a long one-shot) because itâs like you said, it requires the author to come back over and over and over again to write new material and edit existing material and figure out a way to cohesively connect everything theyâve written into one consistent narrative, and some people have a much harder time with that than others do. thereâs nothing wrong with that either way!! the world needs short stories just as much as it needs longer stories. but if youâre wanting to work on writing longer-form narratives, working out a way to best discipline yourself should probably be your number-one goal.
that kind of brings me to my next point (and also ties in part of what i was talking about in that other ask) - comparing your writing style, your progress, your everything to other writers will only lead to heartache for you. when i first started reading and writing for b99 i came across a specific author (who is now one of my dear friends) whose fics were just. next-level works of art. and while i read through just about everything sheâd written for b99 and LOVED every single one of them, i found myself getting more and more down on my own writing, because i knew iâd never be able to write like her. but the more comfortable and confident i got in my own writing, the more i realized that itâs less about writing more like That Person and more about developing my own style (my favorite comparison to make between my writing and hers now is that hers are like beautiful and intricate fairy tales, and mine are more of a smokey back room at a bar where a guy is sitting alone at a table and he says âcome here and listen to this story.â theyâre both Very Different, and perhaps have varying audiences, but one is not inherently Better Or Worse than the other). all of this to say, if youâre working as hard as you can and being really disciplined but still find yourself struggling with writing a multichap, THATâS OKAY!!! thereâs NOTHING wrong with that!!! your writing, however short or long, serves an INCREDIBLY important purpose within the fandom as a whole and no matter what, there will ALWAYS be an audience for your writing.
so okay as for the actual Advice!!! i actually have a couple of steps that i usually follow prior to actually Writing the first chapter of any long fic iâve written (or am in the process of writing...@king and lionheart yikes). i have yet to really find any consistency in how i think of ideas for multichaps - so far the idea every multichap iâve written has come from a different source (which is actually kind of Frustrating for reasons i wonât get into). but basically once i actually have An Idea, iâll take a day or two to kind of think it over and flesh it out as much as possible. if it really starts expanding in detail and an actual Story constructs itself around the idea, iâll move on to the next step, which is to find a few trusted mutuals here on tungle.corn and say âheyyYYY CAN I YELL ABOUT AN IDEA I HAVE FOR A SECONDâ and then spill everything iâve thought of so far. usually i can tell if an idea will live or die based on these conversations - if the other person is Into It and we start sort of developing the world within the chat, i know itâs time to really sit down and make an effort to pursue the fic. in that case, i will go and copy&paste that part of our chat into a google doc and iâll build an outline in a separate doc. i used to despise outlines and i would refuse to do them in high school, but once i got into writing as a hobby and i started pursuing longer narrative forms, i tried once or twice to write a multichap without an outline and i just forgot a lot of the details i originally wanted to include, which left me feeling really frustrated with myself and with my writing. i came to realize that outlines kind of a necessary evil, so in writing them i made them as fun for me as possible (i.e. the âgood luck future meâ line from the king and lionheart outline i mentioned lmao). now i love them and i have them open at all times while iâm working on writing a new chapter.
so i know that i started this off by saying that writing multichaps requires a special kind of discipline, and i stand by that, but also...writerâs block and real life responsibility and just plain exhaustion are all Very Real Things, and they take precedent over keeping up with a publishing schedule (if youâre so inclined to make one of those for yourself). when i started writing king and lionheart, i didnât know at that point that i would be headed back to school in the spring, and thought that i would have all the time in the world to write. right around november, i realized that i would be going back to school - thatâs about the time i took an unofficial hiatus from writing king and lionheart, because i knew trying to keep up with writing that fic the way that i want it to be written and all of the intensive and demanding coursework was going to kill me. taking a step back from posting and coming back to it later is okay. i know i talk a lot about feeling guilty for not having an update for king and lionheart (and the cancer au before it) but in all honesty i know that itâs okay for me to take some time and deal with my real life. and, you know, itâs also okay to lose inspiration for a while and to take a step back until that inspiration comes back. i think itâs that fear of not being able to take longer breaks between updates that scares a lot of people off from even trying to write a multichap - as the queen of procrastination, i am here to tell you that it is 100% okay to start a multichap and to take a break and come back to it when necessary!
writing a multichap is very much like running a marathon - it requires a different kind of energy than a 400 meter sprint or a 1k fluffy oneshot. itâs gonna hurt and itâs gonna suck and there are gonna be times when youâre ready to just quit writing altogether. but there will be parts that are really fun and really easy and youâre gonna get some really great views along the way - and at the end when you cross that finish line and youâre able to check that âcompleteâ box on ao3 before you post the last chapter, you wonât remember the parts that sucked. trust me!! i wouldnât write as many as i do if the actual shitty parts of the writing process negated the good things that come from writing it and sharing it with other people!
itâs also worth noting that just because you get bored with an idea doesnât mean that you canât pick it up again later!!! honestly the first 2 or 3 paragraphs of on your heart like a tattoo sat in my google docs for MONTHS before i randomly decided one day to open it and take a crack at finishing it, and to this DAY iâm still getting people regularly commenting on it. every idea has its purpose and its place, even if it doesnât always immediately seem like it.
i really hope this helps and iâm sorry if it doesnât!!! you are such a kind and wonderful person and i absolutely adore you <3 <3 <3 and iâm so flattered that you came to me for advice!! FHASDLFKAJ!!! if you have any other questions or if you need any help with anything PLEASE feel free to send me another ask!!!!
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