#when i have the rewrites i'm doing done i may try to expand when i get a clearer idea 👉👈

[iceicewifey]

Heewwooo popping in to send some asks for that ask game u just rbed!

🎞️: What ‘canon’ scenes would the fandom point to as evidence for the validity of your ship?

💌: How would your dynamic be portrayed? What might people focus on most? Any misconceptions?

👀: How does your ship with your f/o influence both of your characterisations and the world? Would there be any interesting metas written about your dynamic?

sofi hiiii ;0; tysm for the asks!!

⸺ 'IMAGINE YOUR INSERT WAS CANON' ASKS

🎞️ :: What ‘canon’ scenes would the fandom point to as evidence for the validity of your ship?

Uwah... There's a couple that come to mind, but they involve my rewrite of the mansion fight since I literally can't fit Shay in there without her constantly being in harm's way if I leave it as is lol I'm not entirely sure how to describe the first, especially if you're unfamiliar with the very end of Terence's episodes and the beginning of Vanilla's, but it's in there somewhere... It doesn't help that I'm still trying to plan this shit out like that image of Patrick with the board nailed to his forehead GKJFNBJKF

💌 :: How would the dynamic be portrayed? What might people focus on most? Any misconceptions?

I've never really thought about this too much but with 3.5/4 episodes between them, there's be so many misconceptions and now that I really think about it, I don't think people would know they're even involved. 😭 Really doesn't help that they're background characters and there'd be nothing in canon until it's their turn to play villain of the week (:3」∠) I'm trying to think about how their dynamic could be portrayed, and the only thing that really comes to mind is like... 'constantly bickering couple' because o9f one scene I have in mind for my rewrite like mentioned about which is,, so far off lol I DON'T HAVE GOOD ANSWERS YET I'M SORRY 😭😭😭 JHFNVJ

👀 :: How does your ship with your f/o influence both of your characterizations and the world? Would there be any interesting metas written about the dynamic?

Sofi why are you asking me such hard questions I actually have to use my brain /LH /LH /LH CGHFBFHGBVFG I'm struggling to think of any in depth answers, but off the top f my head I feel like things might change a bit if Mariah wasn't the only conventionally attractive woman that was actually shown in the anime/manga (I say Mariah since Midler wasn't shown until the end of her arc, only the High Priestess on the submarine). I don't really know how to explain what I'm trying to say and my brain keeps going back to that certain type of artists I mentioned in my previous answer 😭 FBGFG I'm sure that how fanon views Vanilla would change too, but I'm not sure exactly how at the moment :')

[tossawary]

As I post about rereading SVSSS for lore and characterization, and about sometimes ignoring canonical details for the sake of whatever story I want to tell / explore in fanfiction for fun, I want to make it clear that I don't make these changes because I think it makes a "better story" or that I can write a "better story". I don't even like using the term "fix-it" for my canon divergence AUs that avert some in-universe tragedy, even if it is the "correct" fandom term in some cases, because I don't think that SVSSS is a story that needs to be "fixed".

(Honestly, a lot of my minor alterations to canon's details are because I can't remember what exactly canon is and can't always be bothered to hunt for one sentence (which I may or may not remember existing at all) across multiple volumes, especially when I don't always think strict faithfulness to canon is that crucial to the main concept of what I'm doing. I wrote PINTWILF and several other fics before the official English translations were fully released, when checking minor details was an even greater pain in the ass. Sometimes, I'm cooking without the recipe in front of me because I just want to eat.)

Like, I have criticisms of SVSSS, definitely. When I first started writing SVSSS fic, I was more frank about this (fond but less fond of the characters and world than I am now), and I've talked about things I wished the story expanded on more. I think it has flaws. I know those flaws are a dealbreaker for many people. But it's not my story. I can't tell MXTX's story better, because I believe that every author's story belongs to them and only they know what they're trying to achieve, even when I may personally think that the story might have been stronger if it had done something differently or I'm ignoring some minor detail specifically because I don't really like it.

It's awkward, sometimes, occasionally being told by someone that they enjoyed my fic more than the original story. It's very flattering (I can't pretend I don't have an ego) and I don't think anyone means any harm by this, people enjoy stories or don't for many different reasons (enjoyment is not necessarily an indication of quality and I think engaging with fandom can often be more fun than just reading a story on its own by yourself), but it is a little awkward, especially when SVSSS is not an English / western story. I have an advantage appealing to western readers. Reading a translation of the original story, I know there are details of SVSSS going over my heard, references I'm missing, nuances I don't recognize, even as I endeavor to keep learning. I personally enjoy some of my fics more than SVSSS itself because I associate them with good experiences and a lot of them appeal to me personally in some way or another (all of my favorite tropes! we all have favorite tropes!), but they are built on the back of someone else's original work on the other side of the world, and I want to be respectful of that.

I don't want to compete or fix. I'm not trying to compete or fix, I think I would fuck it up if anyone seriously set that task on me, and I don't think that's a good way to view anything. I want to explore and appreciate. I'll type up a lengthy post at some point as to why I'm generally not interested in concrit on my fics (honestly, mostly it's because I'm not interested in being told that a reader hates the present tense and wishes I would rewrite the entire story, which has happened to me before), but I hope that doesn't come off as disinterest in the original story or its cultural context, or as me thinking even a little bit that any of my stories are flawless and/or better than the original.

I want to make a "why would you put two bad bitches (compliment) against each other like this?" joke here, but I also want to be clear: I think MXTX is by far the badder bitch (compliment) in this situation.

(Turning off reblogs, btw, because this post skews more on the personal side.)

[twisted-wonderland-shenanigans]

So...a little context behind this poll.

Lately, I've felt like I accidentally pigeonholed myself into trying to control what I write and post when it comes to my longer fics. It's been frustrating finding myself stuck and trying to figure out how to get out of that block, and as a result I've been trying to work on personal projects involving my own OCs with Twisted Wonderland just so I can feel like I've done something productive.

I have ideas for the stories from previous polls. I know what I want to do. But I just...got so stuck on one specific fic I promised to finish writing and post first, and now I'm literally stuck trying to get the words flowing. So I had a thought while trying to answer an ask:

Why not do a little rewrite of the very post here that began the Monster!AU and blossomed it into what could possibly be my most popular AU on this blog? (Seriously, thank you all so much who love the AU, I did not expect it to get as popular as it did ;;v;; )

It won't be a full-on prologue rewrite like I said before (possibly up to when Yuu gets taken to Ramshackle and mini!Yuu goes with Crowley and the other staff for the night, though we shall see where inspiration takes me), but I want to flesh it out more with the worldbuilding I've done so far. I also want to expand upon the fact that while these boys may have some humanoid features, they are--in fact--monsters compared to Yuu. I feel like it'll be a fun challenge, like a "before and after" art challenge people tend to do with old drawings, except with writing!

Let me know what you guys think! Poll will close in a day.

And from now on, I'm going to just...let myself be as creative as I want to be and just post whatever I get inspired to finish rather than trying to plan it out. I want you guys to enjoy the stuff I create just as much as I have fun brainstorming and developing all these ideas you all have sent me ;;v;;

[certifiedwerewolf]

So I'm going to be staying off Tumblr for awhile; while I do understand the purpose of all those rallying cry posts, the simple fact is if I see one more of them I am going to take off my skin and walk into the ocean

Anyway, I'm going to be productive in the meantime and get some more work done on Rollercoaster so maybe by the time I come back I will have good news for you guys!

Anyway, current progress: I split what was originally the first year spring arc into two + an interstitial (for those familiar, the split is the summer timeskip so it's the hospital arc -> Dos interstitial -> Cappy's wedding mini-arc). Splitting it up like this will supposedly let the pacing run a little smoother, but we'll see when I actually read through the whole thing in one go. I actually finished what is now Arc 2 a few days ago but I have spent so much time on it that I was sick of looking at it and my eyes were glazing over every time I tried. So I took a couple days to work on a different part of it instead.

As with the original plans for the rewrite, I'm trying to add at least one new scene to every chapter (sometimes more), to expand on other storylines that were glazed over in the original, or to give insight into more characters than just those that I was initially focusing on. (I've also got a standing policy to try to have at least two visits to Quentin per equinox, so it's also necessary to figure out where to insert those.)

I'm also intending to split up some of the longer arcs; for example, the second year spring arc that took twenty three chapters is getting split into two arcs with the prom arc in the middle as a mini-arc. This will, hopefully, help get rid of any arc fatigue that readers might get from how fucking LONG that arc was.

Another plan I have is a total overhaul of the last arc I was working on; it is clear from reading it that I was burning out that that point, and a lot of it is just me throwing whatever I think of at the wall and seeing what stuck. I think for that I may make a mini-arc out of South and Tex's road trip and then pick up the next arc when they get back to Blood Gulch.

And then, of course, I get to write some of my new ideas! I'm actually bothering to take notes this time, so I should be able to do something fun.

Oh, and I'm working on making my plans for the sequel while I work. No promises on whether it gets written, but... :)

[elementalladymallorie]

Still thinking on Scooby Doo and rewrites/remakes and how I mentioned earlier about having the supernatural things be real too and how I wanted things like the Ghoul School and 13 ghosts to be mentioned and decided to expand on this.

I don't have a timeline thought out, so this is more just musing on how those things could be incorporated. Some might be more stuff that happen before the series happens that gets referenced/consequences later.

Like The reluctant Werewolf, Shaggy does racing occasionally as a hobby and still catches the attention of Dracula who needs a werewolf for his monster races. So Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy, who I don't know quite how would be introduced but maybe it's time to bring him back and get him a second chance, and Shaggy's at the time girlfriend Googie get whisked off and have to race to get Shaggy turned back. When it's all said and done, Scooby and Shaggy immediately tell the guys what happened. Velma's immediately working to make sure Shaggy's back to fully human, if he wants to be of course, Daphne makes a new friend out of Googie, who breaks up mutually with Shaggy later though they remain good solid friends, and Fred wants monster race lessons cause you never know when those skills come in handy. Next time they meet Dracula, Shaggy mentions the incident as way to get Drac's reluctant help, and maybe even has to get turned into a werewolf once more to help solve the current mystery.

Quick side note on Scrappy. Give me this puppy who shows up and upon meeting Scooby calls him Uncle. They might be related, they might not be but they appear to be the same unidentified species of anunnaki descendant/eldrictch being/fae/monster/whatever they are as Scooby and they know Scrappy isn't his son but that's about the extent of it. He's eager, scrappy, and a little reckless but the gang help steer him away from the more dangerous actions. He's not allowed to classes with the gang because he's a puppy, so he's too young and has to stay home a lot, but he still manages to get up to his own adventures. He's good at offering what seems like 'obvious' solutions that the gang missed/overlooked when they're going over cases while he's in the room because he misses a lot of the theatrics they had to deal with.

13 Ghosts: Daphne wants to travel and look into other stories that may lead to creatures they'll encounter and work on a story for the school newspaper, Shaggy and Scooby go along for a chance to try new foods, a break, and to get Scrappy some more world experience. This would happen during some kind of school break, likely summer or winter. A chest accidentally gets opened, ghosts are released, and they meet Flim-Flam, who's still a little scammer and a clever little child that gets on with Scrappy like a house on fire. He introduces them to Vincent Van Ghoul, a warlock who poses as an actor to keep his talents hidden. Vincent assists them, but makes them all swear to keep it under wraps because revealing things like this to the whole world of normal humans maybe dangerous, and would not be the best look for his actor persona, but that's a minor point. They caught 12 of the ghosts, but the 13th evaded them for too long and the gang had to return home. It's Daphne, Scooby, and Shaggy's first experience with ghouls that are more intentionally malicious and consciously choosing to harm people rather than misunderstandings or fear based responses. They can't tell Fred and Velma, though they want to, and the other two take it with grace despite curiosity. Scrappy constantly texts/emails/face times Flim Flam, and Scooby, Shaggy, and Daphne make sure to keep in contact with him as well. All seems well, and like their promise can be kept until that missing 13th ghost starts making trouble, and it's time to finally collect all the ghosts.

I do have more of this, but this is long so I'm splitting it into two posts. I've got Ideas for at least Ghoul School, Zombie Island, and Alien Invaders.

[tryhardgwen]

rs archive 03/12/2024:

I'm interested to know what your writing process is like! I know you have several wips right now (and I'm so excited to get to read them hopefully in the future) so how do you choose what to work on? Do you just write on the wip depending on your mood for the day? or do you stick to one until you finish it and then move on to the next one? Do you also do outlines or just go in with feelings?

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS QUESTION SINCE I MADE MY RETROSPRING ANON I QUITE LITERALLY LOVE YOU (yes... i am an attention whore and narcissist that likes talking about myself i am so sorry) but . um. sorry i get excited. i just like chatting and discussing things 🥹🥹

so one thing about me is i TRY to choose what to work on and make lists but i ultimately fail. i don't control shit. you will see my tweet about wip lists on twt "i will finish gumakeria aml spinoff for valentines day" no im fucking not. "ok i work on this in march, this during summer..." no i absolutely wont. im not listening to a thing. i just work on whatever im inspired by atm. its all very messy and uncoordinated. i have wips from last year i haven't finished, yet i have a published fic that i thought of and completed in two weeks (??). make it make sense. some of my older wips need to be let out of the dungeon i nEED to work on them. SOME OF THEM DONT EVEN MAKE SENSE TO BE RELEASED ANYMORE BECAUSE ITS LIKE TIME-RELATED AND my own self ruined that. like i have 2023 summer fics in the works. i could've written and released them during worlds?? but no i worked on aml instead. by the time i release those time-relevant fics its going to be so long ago. will anyone care about them? should i even write them at this point? i don't know. :| why am i a mess. my mind is literally a mess. why do i do this to myself.

so yeah, i just choose to work on based on vibes/how i feel which leads to a lot of fics in the dungeon. i will eventually get re-inspired and finish those, but who knows how long that's going to take. i do work on one wip at a time pretty much, but not necessarily until i finish it. oftentimes ill choose an idea and finish it then move onto the next one, but like i said, sometimes i will abandon said wip to go work on and finish another. i have like 10k of a camp half blood au rotting in the dungeon. also 8k of this piltover au gumaoner ive been trying to finish since may of last year. longfics also fuck up my schedule a bit because of how... long they are. i usually work on them consistently for quite a while and work on other smaller fics in the meantime. i think i started the hunger games au in may of 2023? im not even close to done because i kinda jotted down the starting ideas, didn't touch it until november (so, after i finished writing "all my love"), and then like didnt touch it all of worlds bc i was pissed off at it. then i picked it up again in 2024 (rewriting all 50k i had written previously) and that's what im working on in the background rn. "background" as in i will put it aside if i have a shorter fic idea to work on and quickly publish. like i abandoned it for 2 weeks to work on the kindred showmaker&chovy fic. you see what i mean?

all my wips typically start with an idea and one or two lines of dialogue. ("imagine being loved by me" started with the two lines "where do i belong / with me, of course.") or i'll listen to music to get an idea which the lines/scene then spawn from, or i see some picture of some proplayer (keria with "don't blame me") ill jot them on a google doc or a discord server, and then when im inspired ill expand on it, and eventually finish it! a lot of my scene ideas happen in my head before writing. sometimes ill think whole scenes through in my head, including dialogue and actions, before putting it to paper (or, document on the computer i guess). other times it just comes as i write. sometimes i write fics in one sitting ("homemade dynamite") but most of the time its longer than that, whether it be a week or like, months lol.

as for outlines, i do not use outlines. barely, anyway. honestly, outlines would probably help me a lot! i used them twice i think (both recent fics, huh), once with "take a bite" because fluff is so fucking hard to write i needed help, and another time with "the mouth of the wolf, the eyes of the lamb" because i wrote the ending for that fic first and needed help filling it in. but yeah, generally no outlines. oftentimes i have a whole detail of the story in my head to begin with, or i just write and sees what comes out. again, i am not organized in the least. rip me.

i also... don't write chronologically as you might've been able to tell. i like bounce between wips and scenes. the very first scene of aml i wrote was actually the scene of wooje driving the mustang again for the first time in chapter one! typically, like i said, my wip ideas will start with a few scene, and only once i have those down will i write chronologically to link up the other scenes and complete the fic!

soo i hope that sort of like explained/gave you some insight on my very messy writing process (i have a very messy brain.) as a parting gift i will give you a wip list that i will definitely not follow. do not fucking trust me. 1. hunger games au. 2. worlds fakenut. 3. yeah why am i making a list im not going to follow it. BUT I WANT TO FINISH THE HUNGER GAMES AU SO BAD ITS TAKING SO LOOOOONG OH MY GOD. okay, anyway. i love you. thank you so much for asking 🥹🫶🫶!! i hope you have an amazing day <3

[littlewalken]

may 6

The purple strips are all sewn to black strips but in small units that now need to be arranged in a pleasant order and sewn in to one sold piece which will then be sewn in a tube which will be cut in to strips and then only one seam will need to be undone to make the final piece.

The goal is to have the purple and black staggered, it will be either a purple or black stripe but at regular intervals it will be a different purple or patterned black. And for the love of me I can't find the pic I saw of a quilt top that inspired me to do it that way.

Oh well, pics when it's pieced. It will look far more complicated than it is.

Also have a set of rose print strips and Kona black but no idea what Ill do with them exactly, I have half yards of the same fabric so a checkerboard sashing or boarder isn't out of the question. Kind of want to see how big the purple one comes out.

Will also be looking for a sale or good coupon on the least amount of safe rotary cutter and mat combo I can get away with unless I cna figure how to cut what I want with scissors.

Or I make a friend with a rotary cutter and buy them a new blade in return for doing my cuts for me.

Also had the thought that only having a mending machine is a great way to remind cheapskates I don't do commissions. "It will cost you more than purchasing this exact same sewing machine and doing it yourself."

In other projects I started taking notes for the boy band story to try and rewrite it again and I suppose after having let it rest this current draft is okay to the point that it can be typed up and as I'm doing that I'll be working on what ever parts feel like they need it.

Also puttering with the notes I took about Grease 2 reviews. I thought I'd be writing some sort of article(s) but in a way it's looking like a lot of the work might have been jsut to give me something to do at the shit shack.

I'm not throwing the notes away, I'm trying to organize them and then work out how to do the write up. The goal kind of was a retelling to make it a more readable story, and perhaps some inspired by stories, along with some insightful commentary. All posted for free like fan fiction stuff.

Another thought that hit me is to divide the plot up if it were being done as a miniseries, six episodes easily, can we make it up to 9-10, and of my inspired by ideas where would they fit in to pad things out in a meaningful way.

How would you expand a movie in to a miniseries is a good writing exercise anyway.

[ghostyiskitty]

April 2024 Update

4/12 update where I see last update was dated 3/13 instead of 3/12 lol

While I didn't get the profile sheets done (again...) I did get several other stuff worked on, including testing obsidian, transferring and making profile sheets there, but I didn't like that so I went to OneNote, which I am still currently using.

Also reworked how I'm doing the profile sheets, mainly cutting away roughly half of the amount I was originally going to do (since I don't need them-).

I also worked on a few v1 themes, where I also looked into mixing a little bit, and now just have a Blank Space remake sitting here... (sometime soon hopefully).

Worked on a front view sketch of Error!Sans which I was going to try to start modelling, but haven't yet.

Now, for a little bit of info for the story/s:

Chaos/Tale is made up of 6 stories, all primarily in different Multiverses, with a seventh that is told somewhat in the background that links them all together. These are not planned to be made in chronological order, which is:

1. Prelude - A remake of the original/extra story, with an expansion on mostly similar plot points, along with a couple new ones.

2. Iteration - Expanding on the concept of the second Multiverse that was originally written, but with more focus on the characters, and a different path for their story (which is the route it mostly would have gone down without the 'interruption'.

3. Evershifting - Following one of my favourite characters as they are thrust into the multiverse, helping fight against the Multiverse's 'God' and their control over the balances holding the Multiverse together.

4. Trailing - Following an ally of the broken ‘Star Sans’s’, in a ‘darker’ fight for the balance between Creation and Destruction. Between Life and Death.

5. InSilence - The first story that will be made, which focuses on a somewhat outside view of the fights between Ink and Error, having to decide who is in the right, with what little evidence they have.

6. MosiacVerse - The final story, which is what rewriting and expanding the original story for like 2-4 years eventually led to before and along with when I started delving into the backstories of the 'wanderers' (originally called ‘balancers’), whose stories are all told previously. This is a semi remake of the original story, but (I’m aiming for at least) written much better, along with some different and wild ideas.

Anyways, that’s about it for this month, let’s hope I can actually focus more in May, and hopefully everyone is doing well!~

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

Rightly or wrongly, I'm going to assume you don't know anything about Taira's story, in which Paddy appears.

The story was originally a Narnia fanfic with largely original characters. (It's on AO3, titled A Rabbit's Trust.) It's around 13 or 14k from memory, excluding author's notes. Anyway, I really liked it - especially Paddy and Taira's dynamic - so I took a while of developing it before completely rewriting it as original fantasy.

I wrote the first draft during nanowrimo last year, excepting one small section I haven't written since because I haven't touched it since, for mental reasons; this is a wholesome, happy, strong book and one I do not want to spoil with depression. Apart from that scene (I estimate around three thousand words), the entire thing clocks in at just over ninety thousand words.

No, wait, I'm incorrect: I just checked and I have in fact skipped small parts of scenes all over the place, as well as two whole chapters I was struggling to fill because they're very much character-driven and about a conflict I was struggling to fill out properly, but which is vital for the story dynamic. Given that I'd forgot about them, I estimate the story as a whole, unedited, to clock in at about a hundred and ten thousand, though I usually write pretty loosely first time round and the word count drops by half. This, though, I did underwrite in some sections, so it may remain around sixty or seventy thousand when it's done, or even up to a hundred thousand still. I'm not sure; I haven't reread it. I intended to submit it to a competition, the first ten thousand words, but then that competition didn't run for this year, so I didn't. If it runs again next year I probably will, God willing.

Anyway, as to the story - I've expanded on it at length in other posts (#taira), so I'll just summarise it super quickly. Taira, a white rabbit, is forced to flee her home to escape the alyen (bad guys). In the process, she falls in with a fox, Paddy. He promises to take her to the tairen stronghold (the good guys), and so together they travel, taking their sweet time. The alyen capture Taira through Paddy's mistake. The catch here is that the entire motivation of the alyen is to raise a Dragon again, an evil spirit trapped in the earth. Due to the magic of it, she can be raised only by the use of a Speaking white rabbit. These are incredibly rare and Taira is the first for ages and ages. The tairen are diametrically opposed to this. Anyway, the lynx Sheba, who is the general of the tairen army, decides they will take a massive chance and try to break the ritual rather than capturing Taira before it can happen (because if the ritual is broken at a certain point the spirit will neither remain trapped nor be corporeal enough to wreak havoc, and hence dissipate forever). This causes a lot of tension between Paddy and Sheba. To skip over another chunk, they all end up living happily ever after, except the folks who don't. ;)

Paddy is a gorgeous fellow, a happy merry goofball who was heavily inspired by @stealingmyplaceinthesun in the best way. He makes mistakes, and they change the course of the story, but in the end - he survives, and he gets his happy ending after waiting for it all story. I don't know, I love him so much.

For the OC asks,

30, 21, 11, 9

30. How are you doing? <3

I'm doing alright! I should be studying instead of being on tumblr, though. Avoidance for the win- :P How are you?

21. When did you start considering yourself a writer/artist?

I was a writer from when I was very small. I have no memory of when I started considering myself such, but if no earlier, definitely when I was thirteen and first did nanowrimo.

I've never really considered myself an artist until I got an art program and discovered that digital art is actually possible for me to make something I'm vaguely happy with.

11. Sum up one or more of your wips!

I feel like doing a Bad Summary of a few, so here goes. Congrats if you guess which each one is. A sentence each.

Finds a book and has a mental breakdown as a result. Dad dies so MC shifts countries. Spouse diagnosed with terminal illness so they read books together. Exists and causes problems, not on purpose. Knits to cope with having a new sibling. Gets married and tries to get divorced so the other person doesn't have to cope with MC.

9. Favourite OC?

Ultimately I'd have to say Paddy, for a variety of reasons. I can elaborate if you want.

[secret-engima]

Wait wait, can I hear more about the itachi not using shisui’s eye thoughts? Because honestly, for a character that’s supposed to be a pacifist, itachi seems to be written much more like an Angel of Death esque serial killer?

Uhhhhhhh okay I'll try to get this down before tumblr makes me wanna gouge my eyes out (why is dark mode just as painful to look at as light mode make it stopppp)

-It is very clear that Itachi was originally intended to be a Pure Evil character with different motivations. In Naruto OG we *really* have no reason to think he is anything other than a nutjob who murdered his family and tortured his brother for the lols. NOW. This isn't actually an irredeemable factor for him as a character, with a show as long as Naruto it is perfectly possible to rewrite him and tweak him into a tragic villain or even the tragic hero Kishi wanted us to later believe he was. *IF* proper work is done to explain why the so called pacifist resorted to so much violence.

-Which obviously never explicitly happens even though with how Itachi's backstory is set up it honestly wouldn't be that hard.

-Moving on from the meta perspective may I put forth to you this answer to All the Itachi Questions:

-Danzo.

-No seriously. I already suspected this when I was reading just the fanfic, but actually watching the arc where we see Itachi's spiral there are some Key Things I noticed happening that are literally never mentioned or expanded on that would make Itachi choosing Massacre over Brainwashing make perfect sense.

-Gonna have to backtrack just a bit for this, but when I say that Danzo wanted the Uchiha dead, I *mean he wanted them dead*. Not just in a "the village and the Uchiha were starting to butt heads anyway and he took preemptive murder action" way but like- "intentional years long plan to kill off this entire clan" way.

-One of the big things that fueled the rumor that the Uchiha were at fault for the Kyuubi attack, other than the old story of Madara controlling the Kyuubi, is that the Uchiha were not present for the defense against the Kyuubi. A lot of clans took heavy losses trying to fend the biju off or drive it out of the village until Minato could arrive, but the Uchiha were literally not there, and people got suspicious as to why. The answer is literally Danzo. Fugaku was planning to marshal the Uchiha *because* he hoped he and his clan would be able to mass genjutsu the Kyuubi into being docile, but at the last minute he received orders from *Danzo* through one of his Root, to instead take his clan and.

-Guard the civilian underground shelters and the village outskirts "in case an enemy tries to sneak in in the chaos". I'm sorry but uh. YOUR CHUUNIN COULD DO THAT WHILE THE PEOPLE WITH MIND CONTROL POWERS HELP WITH THE BIJU PROBLEM? But no. Danzo specifically ordered them to the two places they could not help against the Kyuubi and would be mostly out of sight/would be accused of using civilians as an excuse to save their own skins.

-No explanation is ever given to the general populace for why the Uchiha were not there, even though it was a direct order from the man who was, at the time, Sarutobi's known SiC and primary advisor. All Sarutobi would have to do is say 'they were following my orders' and it would clear up. He does not. Which indicates that Sarutobi *possibly* did not even known Danzo did what he did, and the Uchiha never told the Hokage because Danzo is his SiC and this would not be the first time people just assumed Danzo is operating on Sarutobi's orders/permission.

-We see multiple mULTIPLE times in this arc that over the course of literal years, starting from the Kyuubi attack and on to the Massacre, that Danzo was intentionally orchestrating the tension in the village. The isolation of the Uchiha compound wasn't Tobirama, it was Danzo, who had them relocated post the Kyuubi attack for "better reconstruction of the village". They were so far removed they were outside the chakra barrier/radar thing that Pain used Itachi's passcode for in the Pain Arc. That's how far removed they were from the village proper. They were under 24 hr, intense surveillance, cameras on their streets, watch towers hidden around their compound border, cameras even looking *into* the windows of their houses. And they were aware of it, because the Uchiha are not dumb and also have really good vision thank you. They can see that. Their one foundational position in the village, the Police Force, was being forcibly and slowly taken from them with Danzo pushing Sarutobi to insist they take on officers from other clans like Inuzuka and Aburame, and some of their traditional patrol beats were being straight up reassigned to ANBU. You know, the guys who are supposed to be busy assassinating Konoha's enemies, not breaking up bar brawls.

-I could go on with this but if you actually watch that arc and watch Danzo, he is very intentionally *trying* to force the Uchiha to plot a coup. He is trying to get an excuse to kill them all. AND on top of that, we already know he has a sharingan eye already, yes even before Shisui. In fact he steals Shisui's eye because his current one is going blind *presumably from overuse*, which means he's already spent who knows how long subtly influencing/genjutsuing Sarutobi and other high ranked shinobi into looking the other way or agreeing with him on policy stuff.

-Enter *Itachi* and Shisui, who are trying to juggle this entire situation at ages like- 11 and maybe 14 when this starts and later Itachi at a lonely 13 by the end. Every time they come up with advice on how to help lower clan tensions to Sarutobi, Danzo railroads it and makes the situation worse instead. There's literal dialogue for it, where he'll interrupt them or just later on dismiss the idea and bully Sarutobi (who lets himself be bullied) into doing something else that is clearly just going to make the Uchiha madder.

-Somewhere about ... halfway I'd guess? Halfway at the earliest through this train wreck, Itachi gets pulled from Kakashi's ANBU squad and given, by Sarutobi, *to Danzo* and his ROOT shinobi, who at the time were not only known about by Sarutobi but implicitly approved of, they've worked alongside normal ANBU for several missions in the past. So now Itachi, the pacifist, the clan heir, the linchpin to this entire disaster, is directly under the command of Danzo Eye-Stealer and Genjutsu User Shimura, is within his reach and probably in his presence for *long periods of time* to receive orders/get pontificated at. Remember that point.

-Okay so now, NOW we get to Shisui's eye and Itachi not using it. To start with, Itachi was fully on board with Shisui's plan, he *wanted* this plan to work, he and Shisui were gonna meet up, go to the Clan Head, and do the thing. But Shisui, poor naive soul, reported to Danzo first, to inform him that "hey we're going to fix this problem". Danzo's response is to attack Shisui and rip out his eye to replace his now mostly blind current sharingan. Shisui runs, suicide by dramatics yada yada, his dying words are for Itachi to take his remaining eye and DO THEIR PLAN.

-Itachi straight up ... does not do it. In canon there is no actual reason stated. I don't thing we even get Itachi doing a long-winded monologue (which Kishi usually adores doing to kill us with boredom) about why he thinks the plan will fail. Instead we hit a *timeskip* of anything from a few weeks to possibly a few months, and then we have Itachi approaching "Madara" for assistance in the massacre.

-Madara who, iirc, Danzo is also aware of, I believe he bargained with Madara at least once in canon for something but I don't remember where that shows up.

-Funny how the guy who now has a fresh new brainwashing eye suddenly is not going to be responsible for the final blow to the Uchiha. Funny how the 13 year old who is under his direct command and influence goes from wanting to fix the problem without bloodshed to *recruiting a rogue shinobi* to help kill everyone, and then handily removing himself from the village entirely to go spy on the Akatsuki and make himself Konoha's enemy #1 for years to come.

-Funny how no one ever heard the massacre take place, and how the Uchiha compound was already conveniently outside the barrier radar so no one would notice the Uchiha chakra signatures going out en masse.

-Funny, how the first people on the scene of the massacre? Are Danzo and his root agents.

-Funny, isn't it, that the man with years of experience using a stolen eye to influence people in secret suddenly has everything he wants, and the talented but much less experienced *child* directly under his command goes against all his previous ideals of pacifism to do something that will fully benefit Danzo and then removing himself from the situation entirely to serve as a spy against Danzo's other potential problems.

-Funny isn't it that the one thing Itachi loved enough to defy orders for, Sasuke, almost *died* from the trauma of the Tsukuyomi anyway (iirc he was in a coma for a few *days*, but that could be fanon I'm misremembering).

-Funny that, over the years, this one single loose end of Danzo's, this one last thing Itachi would be willing to destroy Danzo for even after all he has done and abandoned, is systematically isolated and then later hunted by a missing ninja who *also* spent a lot of time in the past working for Danzo. Including being able to send the Sound Four in to get him in the heart of the village without any alarms going up in the barrier radar thing. For which Danzo has the codes for his root ninja who are also now not supposed to exist.

-Funny how this one loose end keeps running into circumstances that by rights should either kill him or make him *also* a missing ninja that Konoha should hunt down, and the only thing that keeps Sasuke from being declared an enemy of the village and slaughtered for a bounty is the unanticipated attachment of Tsunade to Naruto, who loves Sasuke enough to beg for clemency for him.

-Funny how one of the *first* things Danzo does after becoming temporary Hokage is put out a bounty on this one boy that survived his plotting and was the only threat left to him from Itachi, even after Itachi has died.

-But sure. It was all Itachi's idea to massacre the clan and never use Shisui's eye to fix the problem. No sir definitely no brainwashing of a baby Uchiha involved there, nope. Nada. What are you talking about. Itachi totally did this all of his own choice and volition.

[dontjudgemeimawriter]

Tagged by @calicojackofficial ty!

Do you write in order?

Yes, always. In order of the story, not chronologically. I can't draft out of order, I can't skip ahead, I can't writ the parts I'm more excited about first. I just have to get through them.

Do you start with something in particular?

Hard to say. I get a good amount of ideas and I can usually tell now when an idea is enough that it's going to stick with me enough that I need to write it and when it's just a fun idea in my head. By the time I start writing I already have a character and their basic situation. I guess they start with a fleeting moment or idea while I'm walking usually or working that I start expanding on and asking questions about, then it becomes a scene I play on walks or before bed. From there it may go further and become a real seed.

How fully formed does your writing come out the first try? How many drafts do you go through?

I can't say how many drafts because I haven't finished anything! So far though I find that I draft something fully, and fairly satisfied, put it aside, and then go back to it and dump 70% of it. With what's remaining I rebuild it, sometimes returning to things originally discarded. I expect that new draft to be much more fully formed, but even then to be 60-70% formed.

Tell us about your process.

I feel like I've already said a lot of it. The seed, the writing and then dumping. When I'm stuck on something, I go on a walk and act out the scene and it usually solves anything I'm stuck on so that's a big part of it. I like to have a really strong idea of character and flaws and how they're going to change, and to form the plot around what will push it. I write in order and I try to not go back and change major things-- my exception is things I know I will forget otherwise, like "Oh this plot point works better if character A never did X but I said earlier that they'd done X, let me go back real quick and change that or I'm going to overlook it." But anything that requires serious rewrite, I leave to the next draft-- for ex, in Syndicate, I had a character at the beginning I cut out about 3 chapters in. I haven't edited that character out of the first 3 chapters.

I tag.... anyone who wants to, and let's see, got some new people I could tag... @a-writable-paradox @writingpotato07 @frank-in-space

[kaedeakeshisworld]

What I write

Ao3 

Multifandom

My blog is not spoiler free

Black people centric content

Writing is cathartic for me just as much reading is. I consume and produce problematic shit. The lot of you harassing people online over fictional content are nowhere to be found when dreadful things occur in real life. Don't be a bitch. Just block things you don't like, mmmkay!

I like to broaden what I write about so this suggests a diversity of content such as omegaverse( bl or gl depends on what I have recently read), fem dom (in my drafts really- can be the reader or the character depends on my mood honestly), poly, male dom, orgies( even though I feel like that goes hand in hand with poly, idk) and lastly Original characters x character from x fandom ( this excites me a lot yay!!).

 As the bio indicates dark content I create it and interact with it! Do not go further if you are not comfortable you were warned!

Gender neutral might appear too

I won't entertain a single soul about shit I write. Whether the character in question is aged up or not. Just block me and move tf on. I ain't got time for this.

I am not against ageing up characters so if this is a no no for you whatever may be your opinion on the topic: use the darn block button and move on. Don't come quarrel on my blog like 🙃 I don't have time nor energy for that.

I tend to explore most kinks. (List might appear or not I'll see...) I'll add warnings/tags for each of these so curate your media comsumption ie filter them accordingly. Last thing I'm trying to deal with is childish folks 🙄 that think it is absolutely okay in this day and age to go anon and drop heinous or problematic discourse 😮‍💨. You have all the rights in the world I think to express your opinion on something that bothers you as long as you do not reason by analogy that's outdated, stop it!But you taking time out of your day to eventually ruin someone else's: that's some attention seeking behaviour right there 😑 that I will simply not provide you with. Grow up and go elsewhere I don't have patience 🥱 for such thing.

Most recurrent themes/kinks you are likely to see: Authority kink, Possessive lover, Breeding, Manipulation, Age Gap, Water sports, Babytrapping, dubious consent, CNC, Orgasm denial/ Edging, Breathplay, BDSM, Nipple play/torture, Blindfold, Queening, Choking, Overstimulation, Manhandling, Size kink, Degradation, Praise, D/S and/or S/M dynamics, Mommy/ Daddy kink, Food Play, Spanking and last but certainly not least Tribbing(list is likely to expand in the near future).

I will most certainly write taboo topics(I suggest you look into Media Content I consumed/devour before doing anything, no awful surprises granted- pay attention to the anime/author section of the post thank you ✨) so if it makes you uncomfortable, block away! To write is to explore new means of wording, find something suitable for your taste and eyesight.

CS: creator's statement

Fic stages

1/4: skeleton down/ main ideas are written

2/4: most of the plot is there

3/4: fine tuning/rewriting/check spelling mistakes and formatting

4/4: Done

What I do not write

Anything that goes along these lines: scat, vomit, ethnicity play, eating disorders, self harm and male reader insert.

[fandom-imagines-for-days]

Little Gestures: Two

Pairing: Peter Parker x Anxious!Reader

Summary: You have generalized anxiety and Peter looks after you a lot.

Warnings: mentions and descriptions of trouble breathing and anxiety. Fluff.

A/N: Hey guys, I hope you are enjoying these. I really like writing them.

Thank you all so so much for 166 notes on my 'Warm' imagine, it means the world to me.

Please feel free to send requests for any kind of imagine for a range of things. Or if you just wanna message me my inbox is always always open.

Imagines ect for:

Supernatural, doctor who, Percy Jackson, Fairy tail, Noragami, Marvel, and a few others. If I cant do something I will let you know but yeah. I hope you enjoy this imagine.

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"You okay?"

You inhale sharply and glance over to your boyfriend, Peter, seated beside you. He was looking at you with pinched eyebrows, his soft brown orbs dimmed ever so slightly due to worry. "Yeah, yeah I'm okay." You tell him. "Just... thinking." You explain, giving him a reassuring smile. Peter pauses, gives you the usual once over before smilimg back and turning to his work.

By, 'Just thinking' you really meant that your thoughts were racing at impossible speeds and you couldn't focus on anything in front of you. The room felt slightly warmer than it was before. Your vision swam ever so slightly. You felt your heart beating in your chest. Harder and harder as if it were a squirrel on speed, stuck in a small box. Your hands started shaking and you realized how hard it was to breathe. You cursed yourself slightly and dropped your pen, giving up on the damn math equation in order to sit back in your chair and try to breathe.

Your brain had ultimately decided screw you, so now your chest was tight. You tried to breathe in deeply, fill your lungs properly. That didn't happen. You tried again, still hopeful that it would end soon, trying to allow your diaphragm to drop and expand so that you could breathe again and then go back to work. Your diaphragm did it's job but it did it poorly. You knew this was just a small anxiety thing. It wasn't a proper attack. It would just be a massive inconvenience for five or so minutes.

"Y/N, are you sure you're okay? You only do that when-" he cut himself off. "Oh." Peter dropped to his knees beside you and took one of your hands. "Hey, is there anything I can do?" He offers, watching you carefully. You shake your head. "You know there isn't anything you can do Pete." You say, an edge to your voice. Another failed breath.

You tell yourself that as long as you're still breathing you're still fine.

"All we can do is wait." Peter studied you and the surrounding room. You sat back further and continued trying. You had learnt over the years that if you panicked it became worse. So all you needed to do was remain calm and you would be fine.

"Y/N I can't just, stand here idly while you are having trouble breathing." He states firmly. You sigh gently as an idea hits you. "Pete, doesn't May have like, an asthma pump in your first aid box for emergencies or something?" His eyes sparked as you said that.

"Oh my god yes! She does. Maybe her paranoia will come in handy for once." He kissed your hand and fled the room.

The only reason you knew it was there was because a while back Peter had gotten into a fight with Flash at school.

For such an apparently small fight, he had pretty bad injuries: Full blown scratches and cuts as if he was pushed to the ground several times. A black eye, busted lip, fractured knuckles and even a lightly sprained ankle.

Long story short you had to patch him up. It was terrible but a little bit nice since for once you were taking care of him and not the other way rounden again you never saw the fight happen nor did you mention it to Flash. Peter had asked you not to so you didn't.

Part of you always did want to confront Flash but then again your anxiety would problem chew your tongue so you wouldn't be able to get a word out.

Peter ran back into the room with the asthma pump and handed it to you. You placed it in your mouth, pushed the pump and felt the thing dispense as you tried to breathe it in as far as you possibly could. After a few minutes of Peter watching you and holding your hand. You were finally able to breathe again.

"You alright?" You nod in response. "Maybe we should get you one of these." You shrug and try to get back to work, your hands still shaking.

"Y/N."

"Yes Peter."

"Are we gonna go get one?"

"Yeah, after I've finished this." He sighed and took your pen, turning your face to his. "We have all day to finish this. It's ten am on a Saturday. It's due on Monday. You'll be fine." You search his eyes. "But Peter, the sooner we get it done the sooner we can realx." He doesn't let up. "Y\N the pharmacy is literally two blocks away, we'll be back in around ten minutes." Peter gives you this smile. That is what finally makes you cave. "Okay fine Peter we'll go." He grins and takes your hand, leading you out the door.

You two walked to the pharmacy, Peter held your right hand and swung it like a six year old. You smiled gently at that and Peter made a note to continue doing it since he knew it made you smile. You passed the two blocks fairly fast and arrived at the pharmacy. Peter took you inside and you walked towards the counter. You were about to talk but your mouth wouldn't open. You started to ask for an asthma pump but only stuttered like an idiot for about a minute straight until Peter stepped in and purchased it for you. You stood off to the side with your head in your hands, trying to quell your over active mind. When Peter touched your arm you jumped. He rubbed your arm softly as a comforting thing before buying two or three other things.

When you exited the store you took the packet from Peter in your left hand and held his hand with your right. Peter went back to swining your arm and your smile was a bit dimmer.

You were two shops away form his apartment building when Peter suddenly let go of your hand and dropped to the ground. You were about to ask what the hell when you saw he had tied both your shoes for you. He stood up, dusted his hands off and tried to take your hand again.

"Why did you just tie my shoe laces for me?" You didn't know whether to be thankful for that or annoyed that he thought you weren't able to look after yourself. Peter rubbed your hand gently and said "Well I know how particular you are about your shoes being tight and I thought it would be eaiser if I just tied them real quick so you didn't stress about stopping people on the street or anything like that. It's not because I believe you aren't able to do it. I just wanted to try and make your life easier if I could." You took a deep breath, your annoyance easing away.

"Thank you Peter."

"Always my gorgeous." He kissed your temple and you two started towards the apartment again. Both of you swinging your arms.

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Third time rewriting this because Tumblr hates me today. Finally done. Please tell me of any mistakes or such and I'll fix them. Message me if you need something or have ideas, I'd love to hear them. Goodbye my friends!

🌈Obsession out✌

[world-of-fire-and-flight]

Aww thank you! I'm still learning as I go, but I've certainly learned a lot on how to drive things to support publishing/promotion/exposure over the last year or so, but it's also very freeing as a writer to know that these bits your cutting from the main story (especially when it's a scene you love) aren't "wasted" or "dead" scenes - they're just bonus content😊 Once I told myself that, editing became a lot easier and I was okay with being a little ruthless on that front when it came to it.

Me too! I can never get enough fluffy scenes! Ummm all three? It really depends on the project tbh. Some stories for me are more about the character development than a plot per se (as in like character vs self stories where there may be other conflicts in the story but it's not the main plot) and then in other stories it's all about the world because it's new and needs to be fleshed out. Of the three, I definitely like describing and building worlds the best. What about you? Characters, worldbuilding, or plot?

Yes! I've been talking with a lot of writers as a result of this tag game about pantsing vs plotting, and it's the exact same thing with every other pantser I've met! I 110% agree that trying to plot a novel or even just too far ahead makes me feel trapped or it just completely staunches the flow because I'm trying so hard to stick to the outline even the words are going in a different direction! I wonder how plotters handle situations like that or if they've daydreamed and fleshed their plan out so well that the words do what they planned🤔

My editing process is a basically read the whole thing over and make notes in the margin (I print it out just because it's easier for me read, but if I don't I skip this part and edit as I read through it because printing it essentially means double the work). These notes are usually things like "expand," "transition issues," *description of what needs to/should happen here*, and I'll admit to flagging typos. This is also where I mark things for deletion and describe what I'm replacing it with if at all.

Then I take those notes and start revising. The first revision is a major overhaul where I'm basically rewriting the whole book, which if I don't print it out and mark it up, is what I'd be doing while rereading it. Deleting things, fixing typos as I find them, expanding scenes, clarifying sentences, etc. all the editing works

Once I finish the second draft, I reread it all again and make it up. By this time, I'm not really looking to make major changes unless there's an issue with continuity, that just isn't working for the scope of the novel, or whatever the case may be (maybe I thought of something better? It happens lol). This is kind of akin to the copyediting phase in that I'm not really for structural issues within the narrative (unless they're glaringly obvious and need to be tweaked a little more for me to consider them fixed).

Once that's done, I reread it again and look for things like awkward wording, typos, I like to make sure the transitions between paragraphs, chapters, and chapter breaks are okay.

And then I read it again. By this point, I could decide it's ready for professional editing or I might do another pass because things aren't quite the way I want them yet. It's a lot of personal preference when it comes to the way I edit and considering the kinds of books I read and have enjoyed over the years to help make my own writing better, and then of course daydreaming if there's parts that I'm struggling to really flesh out or smooth out from its rough draft phase.

As far as finding editors goes, I've never hired an editor on my own. I worked with a self-publishing services company called Paper Raven Books (I'm not sure where in the world you are, but I'm in the US so I'm not sure if looking into their workshops is viable for you or not, but I'd definitely check out some of their workshops if you can as well as Writer's Digest because they had an amazing self-publishing workshop last summer with Michael La Ronn and he covered how to find editors and what to look for). But anyway, PRB put me in touch with three fantastic editors (all of whom freelance I believe), so I can't really help much in that department other than to echo the advice I've found on the internet (like asking for editing samples and using places like Reedsy and Upwork and that editors charge per word not by hour because you can't prove how many hours they spend on your novel etc). I know that the Alliance of Independent Authors has an index of service ratings to help indie authors avoid scammers, so I would definitely check writing guilds/associations like that and see if they have any recommendations. Sorry I can't be of more help though💜

Hello! Nice meeting you :D first I would like to applaud to the amazing organisation of your blog✨.

Second, this is the first time I'm seeing a writeblr/author blog combing a whump blog and requests and I'm stunned it's possible. How did you do it? Do you have any tips on that?

Third, my getting to know people routine is asking what your favourite tropes to write are :D

@writingonesdreams

Hi! I love your Tears of Iron posts! I probably have a whole slew of them in my tbr! I'm so invested in it and I love Zephyr (I mean all of them really but Zephyr might be my favorite😊)

Ahahaha, thank you! It probably wouldn't be as organized if I hadn't started doing all the housekeeping on like day one😅 Laying the foundation early has made it easy to keep it up lol

I....have no idea....it just kinda happened??? I started off filling prompts (and making sure things had proper warnings cause I gravitated toward hero x villain stuff which is probably where the whump came in) to help get my foot in the door because I'd been a lurker on writeblr for years. Around the same time, I was getting ready to announce that I was self-publishing and wanted to promote my book everywhere I could. Thanks to the lovely writing community here, I started to use my blog as both a way to introduce Fire & Flight and fill prompts because I enjoyed doing it. The whump just sorta happened and I wasn't ~officially~ taking requests until recently....but I never exactly said no if someone mentioned wanting a continuation in the notes😅 I just like connecting with people and writeblr's been so welcoming and chill that it was easy to just do it all I guess😂

As for tropes: I don't really set out to write tropes, but they certainly choose me😜 Some of my favorites are found family, friends to lovers, and slow burn! I'd love to write a worthy redemption arc one day but alas, I don't think I've written a character worthy enough to pull it off satisfactorially. Enemies (to friends) to lovers is another I'd love to try my hand at because the tension! The conflicted feelings! The struggle to overcome why they were enemies in the first place! It's seems like such a fun trope to write!