#wow this is a lot of writing lmaooooo

[moregraceful]

max and i are closing in on launching [redacted sports rpf charity fest] and i am once again pondering how do i write "experience with writing form emails and manipulating google forms in ways no one has dreamed of" in a cover letter without saying "i did it for the rpf grind"...like there's no way unless everyone in this microsoft teams meeting gets really cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly. you know

[exilethegame]

Hi! Just a thought I wanted to share. Y'know whats crazy?? When i first read the current version of The Exile the whole time I was thinking, and I swear im not exagerating, not one bit, that it's the best shit I've ever read in my entire goddamn life holly fookin christ, not only the superb writing but the whole story-telling itself, and then I saw you were doing a rewrite and thought "uh..whatever in god's name for??'' so I got silenty pissed at you for a while lmaoooOO

Genuinely hilarious b/c there are so many parts in The Exile, specifically early-game, that make me physically recoil in disgust at my writing now 💀

Tbf 90% of the rewrite is really dedicated to helping the flow of the game and fixing the plot holes that inevitably arise when one is writing a store quite literally by the seat of their pants 🧍‍♂️

So the re-written version is just me being like "haha wow look at this foreshadowing, oooh, look, narrative themes, ooh!" and also fleshing out a lot of places that were skipped for time :)

[the1975attheirverybest]

I don’t know anything about the weekend but now I’m intrigued. Do you have any recs?

Wow that’s a plot twist HAHA. Never a dull moment on tumblr.

Actually, if you like Matty, especially if you liked the BFIAFL era, you’d probably like The Weeknd.

He does the whole persona thing. But to an even more insane level than Matty. Like he created the “Starboy” character in his 2016 album by the same name. And he pushed it to the limit in the 2020 album “After Hours” where the character kind of becomes unhinged. The whole face covered and the red blazer thing. Throughout the music videos he’s telling a story. Finally he announced recently that he’s finished with the character. I think he’s not even going to release under “The Weeknd” anymore. He’s gonna just use his real name I think?

Anyways I wrote about this extensively for an academic journal. I’m not gonna get into it on here lest it offend some snowflakes. Plus this isn’t a Weeknd/ Abel blog so I doubt people wanna hear it. BUT I will say

Imo “After Hours” is his best work. Listen to the deluxe album cuz it has 2 alternate endings.

If you’re a pop girlie though “Starboy” and “Beauty Behind The Madness.” Are probably gonna be more your vibe.

If you like sad shit, his 2018 “my dear melancholy” is so short and so to the point. It’s all about Selena and how he loved her and she left him for Justin Bieber. “call out my name”? Masterpiece. Used to listen to it and sob when I broke up with my ex lmaooooo.

BUT, if you’re truly into R&B you’d be better off starting with his mixtapes. From way before he became famous. Some of his best writing is on there even if it’s not quite mature enough yet.

Yeah anyway. Abel is brilliant tbh. Doesn’t give interviews either so there’s not a whole lot of drama and unnecessary garbage around him. The first time people ever heard his real talking voice was just a few years ago. Like that’s how private he is. That could be changing now though. Idk. Yeah HAVE FUN! You’re lucky. I’d do anything to experience that music again for the first time.

[eggofritts]

The third and final of three D2 acrylic charm designs! I will be making these semi-transparent 2.5-inch charms and limited stock since I’m not sure if there’s anyone else interested in these as well.

My current impressions of the siblings below! Of all the D2 characters, I have the most brain rot for them…

Mara Sov

Since I was a fan of Seth Dickinson’s writing, I had done some preliminary research on what he wrote for Destiny lore. One of those things is the creation of Mara Sov and much of her lore. I also saw a Tumblr post showing a lot of people did not like her and that she was a controversial character in the game. This interested me more to play it and make a judgment for myself. I didn’t get to see who Mara Sov was until the Parasite exotic quest and even then was kinda confused as to who she was and her significance. I really like the dialogue during that quest since it was one of the first few instances during the early parts of my D2 journey that showed any hint of vulnerability from a character. Reading the Parasite lore page about Mara feeling gratitude at witnessing the vision of herself becoming the Witness’s disciple intrigued me even more!! Anyways, I say all of this to say that I ended up really liking Mara Sov. Marasenna, The Awoken of the Reef, and The Dreaming City were my first lore books I ever finished reading. I love how terrible she is, 10% of the time when she is viscerally vulnerable, and how complex she is. I am also obsessed with how her character relates to others such as: ofc Uldren/Crow, whatever freaky little friendship she got going on with Eris Morn, the parallels between her, Savathun, and Ikora as people who revolve their life around secrets, Petra and Sjur as her girlfriends wraths, and parallels to Caitl as rulers who rule very differently 9soon we see them interact in season of seraph...? bungo pls).

She has done so many morally reprehensible things. I can see why people don’t like her and can’t imagine her being likable, but unfortunately, I tend to really like terrible fictional characters. I have friends who are some of the kindest people I know and are extremely driven by selfish means. They were the ones who taught me that being selfish isn’t inherently bad and a person can be judged much more holistically. I’m not saying my friends are nearly in the same ballpark of being an egotistical, cold, and manipulative queen like Mara Sov, but that mix of good intentions in coexistence or clashing with selfish goals is familiar to me and I enjoy the moral struggle. That is a lot more interesting to me than being another NPC that just spouts quest objectives. Also to my more shallow tastes, I love a woman who would coldly step on me tyvm. Mara often fails and I would like to see her fail more, suffer the consequences of those failures, and succeed maybe like 50% of the time LOL I like women who are dominant but also fall from their dominance. I am very much a supporter of women’s rights and women’s wrongs LMAOOOOO (Note: I mean this last sentence for only fictional characters in case anyone decides to take this in bad faith. IRL war criminals are war criminals that deserve bad deaths regardless of gender.)

(I thought her hair was kinda ugly at first, but I got used to it so now I like it LOL)

Uldren Sov/Crow

I vaguely was aware of Uldren simply because of his relationship with Mara for awhile. Then I met Crow and realized “oh huh he’s clearly got a lot more going on then just being Mara’s brother”. Then I read Marasenna and realized his dynamic with Mara was a lot more complicated than I realized. I love complicated sibling relationships!! I thought it sucked that much of Uldren’s narrative arc happened in Forsaken which is now in the content vault and I can’t experience it for myself :^(((((. I recently finished reading The Forsaken Prince and thaaaat was really good wow. I wish we can see Jolyon in game considering he was an important person in Uldren’s life. Maybe it’ll happen whenever Crow decides to confidently approach the people that were important to his past life head-on. I really did enjoy the story when catching up on Season of the Risen and Haunted. During the Sever missions, I constantly kept going “omg Crow you’re going to let the little voice in your head keep saying things like that? Oooowww…” Like Uldren was mean afffff 😭 I understand the Crow fatigue for vet fans, but I just came in like a couple months ago so I am all ready to go to see what else the narrative team has in store for my guy. I am looking forward to his growth as his own person with a renewed sense of purpose. I didn’t realize Glint was important to Crow until revisiting dialogue during Season of the Lost and reading more of his lore so I didn’t include him in the drawing. If I ever make more of these charms, I’ll draw Glint in and maybe Petra (after studying up on her lore).

I am extremely mentally ill over the Sov siblings. By extension, I will soon be mentally ill over everything Awoken-related (I need to get on Petra Venj stuff holy moly), but I need to read more of their lore stuff first.

[andvys]

pssst love, give me hint about what happens at the end. just a teensy one.

like blink once if i’ll be happy, blink twice if i should get tissues now. DONT even blink if the reader is one of the two people that get heartbroken

maybe it’s like steve and chrissy-

or steve and like robin-

eddie….? (me smiling bc that’s what i’m manifesting so steve can end up with reader, but then i just stopped bc i remember you cant hurt eddie the way i cant hurt steve)

ALRIGHT with all that aside, AH THIS CHAPTER?! JAW DROPPING GOLD. like wow ate the house down. even though it genuinely KILLED me with him sobbing, AH this still gives me hope they end up together (delusional. there’s no saving me)

like how do you write this good? lemme find out.

like there’s so many positive things to say it’s ridiculous

never stop writing, pls

(i’m also going to sign my anon thingies with 👹emoji from now on bc i feel like a psychotic monster begging and still hoping for a steve ending)

<3 (and of course a heart bc i love you)

-👹👹

i’ve put us through a lot with this fic huh???

listen… i don’t want to spoiler but reader will actually have a half broken heart? like she will get her happy ending but she will also hurt… a little… because.. yeah.

AND THANK YOU SO MUCH! you’re so sweet 🩷 i’m so happy you like this story so much even though steve is suffering so much in here 😭😭

i promise, the next steve fic will have less angst for him <3

the emoji lmaooooo

[andypantsx3]

Hi andie!!! Wow you are doing the game too!! It's so much fun hehe! Well if you would indulge me...

26, 40 and 46!!!!

Oh shoot! I forgot to ask oneeee Umm also 80! Well the question I wanted to ask is... I mean first of all I know you don't write very heavy angst (godbless we need some sunshine for our poor princess man) but still if you were to write an angsty fic what do you think it would be about like your main focus? You don't necessarily have to answer this if this makes you uncomfy tho <333 :)

Hi Nene!!!!!! Omg thank you for so many!!!! Lemme answer in order!!

26. What’s your least favorite part of the writing process?

Writing lmao. I'm super impatient and in all situations forever I feel like I never have the right words for what I want, including when I'm sitting in front of a google doc, telling my own story!!

40. What is your favorite world that you’ve created for a fic?

I haven't written either of them yet reeeee, but I have two more intensive fantasy worlds outlined for two fics I want to do in the future that I am very excited about. One is an isekai fantasy world based on an idea I once joked about where you get drawn into the world of your favorite otome game My Royal Academia lmao. It's been fun thinking of how to structure the nobility and the rules of magic in that universe.

The second one is for this warlord Bakugou AU I think I mentioned once, where he conquers the Yuuei empire and demands the daughters of the nobility as war prizes—but not for the reasons you think. It has been also super fun figuring out how to establish cultural differences between the characters and how to establish the ties between the noble houses enough to create the political intrigue I want for that fic as well.

46. If you could only write one type of AU for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Fantasy AU. I know I write more pro hero AUs than anything but I would die if I couldn't write another Prince Shouto lmaooooo.

80. If you were to write an angsty fic what do you think it would be about, like your main focus?

Actually the demon prince Touya fic I've been outlining is a little angstier than my usual!! I am channeling a lot of my daddy issues, and a deep rooted distrust of men (particularly men obsessed with power). I think if I write anything angsty, I would continue to explore those personal traumas.

[withacapitalp]

✨ 2022 ao3 wrapped ✨

thanks @hexmionegranger and @thefreakandthehair for taggin meeeee I love you both!!!!

I’m also so ready for 2022 to be overrrr but I did have a good fic writing year… I’m so sorry for how dumb these are about to be 

Works Published: 24

Word Count: 340186……I need to resort my priorities lmaooooo

Hits: 173947 (If I think about that number too much I’m gonna throw up so I’m not going to LMAO)

Bookmarks: 3726

Most popular by kudos: So it’s actually Concerns which is so funny because I would’ve been sure it was a Stranger Things fic! For Stranger things it was Scrapes, Sprains, and Headaches. That’s the second part of my A New Perspective series, and one of my favorite ones I’ve written. It’s a Lucas and Steve first aid fic from Wayne’s POV generally all the stuff I love most! 

Most hits: Another not ST fic! Okay! Well this one is Not Again it’s an Omori long fic I started and abandoned (so if you go read it I’m sorry there will not be an update) I honestly forgot that I was one of the bigger(ish) omori writers right at the start. ST isn’t even number two because that’s Things Done for Love aka my magnum opus but I’ll talk about that one later. ST comes in third with Well, I’ve Been Afraid of Changin’ which is the getting together fic for A New Perspective

Longest: Things done for love BY F A R It’s 118k it’s not finished. Like I said Magnum Opus lol I love that fic so much but it needed to be put away for awhile because it’s my therapy fic and it’s like…..heavy and hard to write but I do rec reading it! It’s my baby. The second longest is ST tho! It’s The Weeks After which is the second part of my Days, Weeks, Months series! If you like Stoncy, that’s my stoncy series and it’s one of my all time favorite things I’ve written. It didn’t get a ton of traction, but I still really love it. 

Shortest: I’m so sorry that none of these are ST omg. There's four shorter ones in other fandoms then Princess, which is honestly one of those fics that made me cry. It won’t be the fic I put down for that category, but I really loved writing it, and I would love if y’all went and read it!!!

Most comments: LMAO this is ST it’s my Stranger Things Daily Drabble! I’m going to take this time to not talk about the fic, but just to thank the handful of people who comment on pretty much every drabble I do. I wait to see you guys in my email and I literally get so happy every time I do!! Obvi you don’t have to comment on every chapter, but even just the little hearts I get or the wow I loved this one make me feel so :DDDD Even if you just comment on the occasional drabble that made you feel any type of way I’m always so so grateful!

Fic that made me cry: I actually cried while writing Princess obvi but I got close while writing House and Home! I put a lot of my own thought processes into it while I was writing, and a lot of the personal stuff I feel into how Steve is reacting. Like being elated and then just having all of this shit hit you all at once I also cried writing Let Me Just Hold You Now, butI'll talk more about that later

Fic that made me smile: How to Rehabilitate a Jock actually makes me smile a ton! I just think it’s going to be a really fun story and has so much heart and seeing how much you guys have liked it so muchh has been so heartwarming!! 

Gifts: Let Me Just Hold You Now!!!!! Okay so I’ve written other gifts, but this one was just so!!!!! I wrote it for @hotcocoaharrington 💖💍I worked so so hard on it knowing Mack was going to love it and knowing that I was going to get to be so :DDDDD when I finally got to hear what she thought and it was so awesome. Anyway 10000000/10 would write fic for Mack again. (And I already am lmaoooooooo) but she doesn't need to know about that one

Events: Oh god pls dont mention events I’m still working on my fic for @thefreakandthehair I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorrrrrrryyyyyy

tagging: (with absolutely NO pressureeeee) so many of my faves have already been tagged I know but!! @strawberryspence @eddieunbanished @maxinemaxmayfield @kerlypride @gothbat99

[sad-alien-club]

🍄 Do you headcanon any characters as plural? Who and why?

🌱 Does anyone have a different accent when they front?

🍂 Do you use anything to keep track of fronting? (judging u on this one /j)

🌴 Do you think syskids and age regressors should share spaces or not? Why?

🍄 Do you headcanon any characters as plural? Who and why?

Honestly I feel SUPER lame for this buuuut not really? I mean, there's Aoba, but that's not really a headcanon lol. I could see myself writing some characters as plural just because, but there isn't really anyone off the top of my head that I just See As Plural or feel inclined to project plurality onto consistently... I think the closest I have would be Garnet/gem fusions from SU? Conceptually it just feels very Plural to me, even though I know it's supposed to be about relationships.

🌱 Does anyone have a different accent when they front?

Nope! We def have some folks who have different/distinct speaking mannerisms, but no accents.

🍂 Do you use anything to keep track of fronting? (judging u on this one /j)

Rude /j We try to use Simply Plural, but........we usually forget to update it when other members pop in or take over lmao. We just sort of rely on our discord chats/whoever happened to proxy themselves with pk and go by that.

🌴 Do you think syskids and age regressors should share spaces or not? Why?

I feel like "should" is really loaded here lmao. Personally, I don't see why not. While there are def differences in experiences/needs, that's true between two age regressors and two syskids - no one is exactly the same, or responds the same way to the same things. Overall, I feel like our experiences, in general, overlap a lot more than they differ. That said, I don't feel like sharing spaces should be compulsory or anything. I think there's value in having both shared and individual spaces, and people can opt for one or the other both depending on their comfort and personal needs. I just typically feel like we stand to learn a lot and gain a better understanding of others if we spend some time around people who don't have the Exact Same experiences/backgrounds as us rather than only insulating ourselves into specific groups, if that makes sense. Our system doesn't have any syskids, but we do have age sliders and several members who age regress, and we've learned a lot of valuable things about ourselves from both syskid and agere communities.

....wow that was a really long answer lmaooooo so sorry

[sudsandspectre]

20 questions for 20 writers

tagged by @hopefulnightlady !!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? i have an old account, my main one, and the secret smut side where i also threw my cod fic (moonjon) because i didn't really want them associated with my main. so!! across all of them, 46 but i also orphaned a bunch of homestuck stuff way back in the day

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 265,026 on my main! but plus the sides it's 498,415

3. What fandoms do you write for? star wars, witcher, cod, assassin's creed, narnia, dc (dick grayson), fullmetal alchemist, final fantasy vii, hobbit, legend of zelda, maze runner, merlin bbc, naruto, and then many more one-offs i've never posted. used to write for voltron, teen wolf, and fake ah crew

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? i'm still not comfy yet connecting my sides and my main unfortunately

5. Do you respond to comments? i used to respond to every single one, then got overwhelmed, and now rarely respond unless it's a direct question. i want to respond to all of them tho 😭

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? uhh i'm not big on angsty endings tbh, so if they're not happy endings they're still hopeful. angsty-EST? maybe my second biggest fic, that one is going to leave a lot of loose ends to be picked up in the sequel

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? my big main fic is gonna have like. EVERYTHING go right for them

8. Do you get hate on fics? i've gotten a few more like.... annoyed comments? but no outright hate. one person was pissed i didn't tag a specific character as trans even tho i had the tag trans and nb characters

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? yes, and they are on the same ao3 where i'm dumping my cod stuff. dfab trans smut! not super kinky, but not wholly vanilla, either. am ace and know what i like lmao

10. Do you write crossovers? yes, but as fusions! don't think i've ever written one where the different main casts interact

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? i think way back in the day, but nothing in the last decade as far as i know

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? not to my knowledge!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? yes but it never got finished and was never published, and it was years ago

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? oh boy ummm not sure i have one, but i keep coming back to jangobi, og pricesoap, gersakier and yennskier, royed and edling, casmund, ezides and altdes, revalink, wangxian and zhancheng. i usually latch onto one character/blorbo and then explore a bunch of different ships with them? merthur has a very special place in my heart but i'm not as into it as i used to be.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? that one teen wolf longfic i started in 2015 lmao. i did SO MUCH world building and i miss it, but boy howdy was it more than i could chew

16. What are your writing strengths? shaping au things to insert into canon, or rather, lying through half truths and omissions, both on a doylian and watsonian level

17. What are your writing weaknesses? pacing and staying interested in a fandom for long enough stretches to finish long-fic

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? there is no excuse not to put the translations at the TOP of the chapter instead of the endnote, though i'm also of the opinion that it is very rare entire sentences need to be in another language ESPECIALLY if the character whose pov you're in understands the language. there are ways of incorporating dialogue in other languages cleanly, i've seen it done and am working towards it myself, it is just so often done so messily

19. First fandom you wrote for? shugo chara, i think. oh wow that was a long time ago. well, actually, one could argue the first i wrote for was canterwood crest lmaooooo but that was before i knew what fanfiction was

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? i am VERY proud of a rexobi au i wrote, and a pre-s2 dinpaz, but my revalink on my old old account will always hold such a special place in my heart

thank you for the tag, lovely! i don't have many friends on this side blog, so i don't have any to tag, except maybe @czigonas ? we're not friends but you follow my main and many of my side blogs and i'm always so happy to see your username in my notes! you've also got some STELLAR takes in the cod sphere, so if you're up for participating, i'd love to see your thoughts! no pressure tho~

[codariidoescrimes]

Arden Talks Media Studies: Death of the Author

Intro/Disclaimer

Ok so I do try to keep this blog largely for swtor in specific and star wars in general content, but I’m going to make an exception here because I like to talk. @lilquill brought up some posts about death of the author in a discord server we share and her, another friend who I don’t want to name without their explicit permission, and myself ended up having a conversation about the misconceptions people seem to have around this topic. So because I’m a media studies student I figured I’d make this post about death of the author from my perspective of studying this stuff. 

Feel free to reblog this post if there’s anything you want to add or challenge me on! This isn’t meant to be a callout or a vague about any specific person, more a general idea that seems to be spread around. And I could be totally wrong. I’ll link my sources at the end. 

So what is Death of the Author?

The original Death of the Author essay was written by an academic named Roland Barthes and later translated into English. It’s not super long so y’all should definitely give it a read if you’re curious about this stuff, but it IS quite dense so I’m going to summarize it here, paragraph by paragraph.

Barthes opens by quoting from the book Sarrasine and asking the question “who is saying this?”. He goes on to say that there is no clear answer whether it is being said by the protagonist, the Author, or the social context the Author is writing in. To Barthes, literature is a place where multiple voices (the Author and the various influences on their life) combine into a whole new voice that can’t be fully attributed to any one of the original factors. 

In the next paragraph Barthes talks about how the idea of the Author is a modern, Western, one. The concept of the Author, therefore, is one that hyper focuses on an individual, and (usually) his personality and thoughts due to the the importance of individualism in our society. “The author still rules in manuals of literary history, in biographies of writers, in magazine interviews, and even in the awareness of literary men, anxious to unite, by their private journals, their person and their work”. The fiction produced by an individual, under “author-culture” (because we don’t already have enough [x]culture going around) is therefore seen as a both direct insight into the mind of the Author AND a direct expression of his ‘voice’.

The next paragraph talks about a few previous criticism of Author-culture. A bunch of different writers have argued that language, systems, symbols, and codes are the lens a work should be viewed by rather than tools of the Author. Surrealism directly opposed the idea of an authors intentions via automatic writing. And the school of linguistics talks about how the Author isn’t any sort of dramatic figure, but simply a person who writes.

Barthes goes on from this to speak about how the death or absence of the Author™ changes the modern text. First of all, rather than the Author being a ‘before’ state and the text being an ‘after’ state where the Author can be viewed as the ‘parent’ of the text, instead the writer exists simultaneously with the text. “In grammar the person or thing we speak about is called the subject. What we say about the subject is called the predicate”, and to Barthes the text is no longer the predicate of the Author. It therefore directly counters the idea of the tortured genius Author whose hand is slower than his mind. 

To Barthes, the text is not just the words being written with one meaning coming directly from the Author, but a “tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture”. The writer is therefore an imitator not a creator, with their role being to combine and contrast already existing ideas and concepts into a new form. The words used by an Author largely already exist, and only have meaning in relation to other words that also already exist. 

The Author™ and the Critic™ therefore have a symbiotic relationship. The Author provides the text with one set meaning, and the Critic therefore uncovers the meaning by explaining the Author. The death of the Author also becomes the death of the Critic. “The space of the writing is to be traversed, not penetrated: writing ceaselessly posits meaning but always in order to evaporate it: it proceeds to a systematic exemption of meaning”. Barthes believes that death of the author liberates writing from needing to have a final meaning.

 Writing is therefore the domain of the reader or the spectator. Barthes provides the example of a Greek tragedy, where the text of full of words with double meanings. Within the text each character only understands one of the meanings, creating the tragic misunderstanding. However the reader understands not only the double meanings of each word, but also the limited understanding of the characters. Texts are a dialogue between cultures and writings, which the reader combines through the act of reading. “The reader is a man without history, without biography, without psychology; he is only that someone who holds gathered into a single field all the paths of which the text is constituted”.

Barthes concludes by explaining that classical criticism is centered around the Author, not the reader and that therefore “The birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the Author”.

Context of the original text.

Welcome to the bit of this already longass post where I death of the author the ‘death of the author’ text itself. As in, to fully understand this text we need to look at the context it was written in.

Roland Barthes was a French linguist who lived in the 21st century. If you’re like me and have done any media studies classes at all, you’ve probably already heard of him as being “that sign guy”. As in, he wrote a LOT on semiotics. Semiotics is the study of signs, and to discuss it in detail would be a WHOLE other post, but it is quite important so here goes: 

The main concepts within semiotics are the sign, and signification. A sign is a word, image, sound, act, object, etc which has no intrinsic meaning, but has been given meaning. It is made up of the signifier, a written or spoken word, and the signified, a concept. The relationship between the signifier and the signified is signification. For example, a cat is a sign as it consists of the word “cat” (signifier) and the physical animal (signified). 

Barthes also talked about mythologies, and not as in the Greek sense. Basically, denotation is the literal meaning of a sign, while connotation is a deeper or cultural meaning. Rose denotes rose; rose connotes romantic love. Myth in this sense is when those two words are combined and the connotation BECOMES a denotation. 

He was also heavily involved in structuralism. There’s a lot of types of structuralism because a lot of different disciplines use it in various ways, but in Barthes context it involved looking at the cultural and social structures that determine human behaviour, and using this in the context of literature.

And this isn’t as off topic as it might seem, because Barthes Death of the Author text can therefore be looked at through these lenses. As in, Barthes is the guy who literally wrote a whole essay collection called “Mythologies” to analyse the societal connotations of new signifieds to ordinary objects as signifiers. And by ordinary stuff I literally mean wrestling, wine, and plastic among others. So to Barthes, the Author is a sign, and the text written by the Author is another sign.

Conclusion

The most important thing to remember about Death of the Author is that it’s a particular concept, that discusses a particular idea (the Author™) in a particular context (structuralism, and a critique of individualism and the Culture of the Time). So therefore, even when used correctly, there’s still no requirement to AGREE with this particular theory. Thanks for reading!

Sources

Roland Barthes - Death of the Author

Predicate and Subject

No source for the semiotics stuff because it was all written class notes :(

Structuralism

Further Reading

Roland Barthes - Mythologies (1957)

[floralbfs]

found some of my old poetry kshdjsjdkbs

[captainimprobable]

Hello it’s 230am and I should be asleep but instead I’m finally making a Masterlist of all my Owl House fics! No Apologies: 36.6k words, Lumity Coffee Shop AU! Chaotic Good:  32.3k words, the sequel to No Apologies. Established relationship Lumity Gold Rush: 2.4k words, takes place directly after Escaping Expulsion.  Luz realizes she has her first crush Firsts (and Seconds): 9.4k words, a series of “firsts” in Luz and Amity’s relationship Your Midnights: 3.8k words, Luz teaches Amity about New Year’s Eve Way Back:  5.5k words, the (now very much not canon) story of how Eda met Raine Whispers This Never Happened: Ongoing! 17.9k words so far, an Amity character study- the story told through her journal entries Always: 13.7k words, beta Lumity fake dating AU! Wow I sure do write a lot of TOH fics lmaooooo lmk if you read any of these! I have like 5 more fics in the works so I’ll update this as I go.

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Can I get Makoto X Fem!Reader who has Asperger’s syndrome but is very sweet and tries to get along with Makoto?

Makoto Naegi x Fem!Autistic!Reader

I’m feeling extra chaotic rn because I have so much shit to do today but rn I’m literally eating half a dozen donuts and writing this hnjefvnjedb pls enjoy!!

ONCE AGAIN I HAVE TO PUT THIS DISCLAIMER!! I am not diagnosed with autism!! All I know are the basic symptoms from google and the symptoms that go hand in hand with ADHD so if I say anything wrong please let me know and I will change it accordingly. I don’t want to be the next s*a or some shit.

Edit: Wow I was in denial when I wrote this. I'm autistic as fuck lmaooooo

♡ Makoto didn’t particularly understand why you were interested in him, whatsoever. He wasn’t sure why someone so fun and sweet like you would want to be with someone so plain but he definitely appreciates your positivity! 

♡ He doesn’t really know anything about autism. He googles it when he meets you so he can understand you better but that’s as far he goes until the two of you start dating but more on that later hehe!!

♡ The first thing that made Makoto want to become friends with you was when he saw how you tend to interact with other people. If your autism makes it difficult to socialize with others, he understands (mainly because he’s socially awkward and he thinks that that’s the only reason why you have trouble talking to others.) Regardless though, that was how he became friends with you and he quickly realized how cool you are! 

♡ It took a while for the subject of autism to be brought up. It seems like it’s just something that you just kinda said one day. You weren’t embarrassed to tell him since at that point you were super comfy with hanging out with him!

♡ “What are you so happy for Y/N?” 

♡ “Huh? What do you mean, Makoto?” 

♡ “Well, you always bounce in your seat and shake your arms around when you get excited, so I just thought that something was going on.”

♡ “Oh! I didn’t think you would notice! But yeah I do that when I’m excited because of my autism!” You say while smiling at him. He smiled and went back to what he was doing… Right before looking back up at you when he processed what you said. 

♡ “Wait, what does that mean?”  

♡ That’s when he started to research it.

♡ It was definitely a friends to lovers relationship. 

♡ He loves how you match him in how gung ho he is. In fact, sometimes you’re more energetic than him. 

♡ As I said, you tell him because he saw you stimming (Is arm flapping considered stimming? Cause I do it bc of adhd but idk) but when you flap your arms around/bounce up and down/rock back and forth/how ever else you stim, he thinks you’re! SO! PRECIOUS!!!! 

♡ “Sweetheart, do you want to get f/f for dinner?” Class was over and the two of you were walking out of school. 

♡ “Yes!! Thank you, darling!!!” You giggle while (doing whatever you do to stim). Makoto just kept on staring at you, cutely, with wide eyes. “Why are you staring at me? It’s embarrassing.”

♡ “Sorry… You’re just being really cute…” He mumbled.

♡ *Heart explodes moment*

♡ Makoto loves hearing you talk about your special interests no matter what they are. It’s so inspiring to hear you talk about something that makes you that happy even if it’s just a series or something that he may find silly. 

♡ If you have trouble sleeping, he’ll ask if you want to watch anime and play video games or something… Not the best influence but he’s trying his best.

♡ If you’re non verbal he’ll try to learn sign language or makaton. He’d do anything to understand you better! (hehe makoton sound like makoto my brain go brrrr)

♡ The rest of this takes place in the killing game!!

♡ The whole situation was putting you under a lot of stress. How could it not when you were watching the kids around you die? And on top of that, all of this was going on with your boyfriend there. What if he got caught up in it and was killed in front of you as Leon, Mondo, and Celeste had?

♡ You woke up one night, horrified. The bad thoughts that were nearly impossible to stop had appeared and you knew you couldn’t get through them alone. 

♡ You nervously opened your door and peaked out, shaking as you did so. Who knew who could be waiting quietly in the hallway planning your demise? You hesitate for another moment and begin running down the hall. You were just about to turn the corner and run to your boyfriend’s room, when a figure bumped into you. 

♡ It was all over. You were already pushed onto the floor and at any moment, you would watch helplessly as the person climbed on top of you so that you couldn’t get away and feel the sharp, excruciating pain of the murder weapon your killer chose against your skin. A tear dripped down your face and all you could do was put your hands over your eyes and await a painful death.

♡ “Y/N! Please don’t cry, sweetheart! It’s just me!” 

♡ “Makoto?!” You cried. 

♡ “Everything's okay! Just calm down and breathe.” 

♡ You and Makoto sat against the wall. He took deep breaths next to you, while waiting for you to calm down, smiling when you finally started breathing deeply along with him. 

♡ “Good job.” He said. “Is everything okay now? Can I hug you?” He asked you quietly. 

♡ You pause, not entirely sure of how to answer, and finally, nodded. Makoto hugs you tightly on the hallway floor. 

♡ “I don’t care who I have to protect you from. No one's going to hurt you so long as I’m alive.”

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WIP Dump

Tagged by @hipsterminseok and @eris0330 ❤︎ (y’all, your wips were so interesting to read omg I can’t wait for the full versions !! 😍 )

I have way too many wips that I have no plans on finishing anytime soon so um yeah have some wip dump

Jin x reader crack fic for @ohhotjongdayuuum​ 

Kim Seokjin. 

It's not the first time you've walked in his wake, but other than it providing you with the perfect opportunity to stare at that lovely back profile of his, it's also so that his bulldozer-like shoulders could clear a path for you through the crowd. Not only do you not get trampled, but you also get ten more minutes of time to stare at your crush before your next cla— 

Omph.

He suddenly stops.

Now normally it wouldn't have been too big of a deal because it's not like he would know that you just accidentally kissed his back by accidentally walking a little too closely to him. But today just happens to be the day Taehyung convinces you to wear that new lipstick you got from Sephora. That bright, vibrant pink that would've looked like it belonged on a clown if it hadn't looked so cute on you.

The same bright, vibrant pink that is now on the back of Kim Seokjin's white t-shirt, in the shape of your lips.

Jungkook x reader soulmate!au crack fic for @dreamscript 

You didn't like BTS.

Their songs would pound through your head all day, affecting your ability to concentrate on anything but the squeaky instruments in the background—or was it someone's high pitched voice? It was even worse when it came to the rap parts and the fast lyrics all melded into a series of gibberish tumbling into your brain.

And your mom blamed you for the terrible chemistry marks you'd been getting, ugh.

The point was that whichever deity created this messed up matchmaking system, thinking that soulmates should definitely have the same taste in music, clearly did not plan very far ahead or think of the consequences should this tactic fail.

So in a world where soulmates are able to hear the songs stuck in each other's heads, it's only unfortunate that your soulmate seemed to be BTS's number one fan. 

Jikook soulmate!au crack fic for @c-cygnus 

He's still just a college student, but it feels like it's been all too many years of searching and waiting for his soulmate, and Jimin's getting tired of having only the painful-looking colourful explosions on his skin as clues to where, or who, his soulmate may be. In short, he has no freaking clue why his soulmate keeps getting hurt but at the rate that the bruises spring up, they might just be a professional wrestler or some kind of stunt actor. Hopefully. He doesn't want to think about the many other terrible possibilities out there that could also lead to such frequent bruising.

"Well, on the bright side, at least it's not on anywhere weird," Taehyung gives him a mischievous smirk, "like your neck. Or stomach. Or thighs." A pause. "Although if they were on your thighs, I guess you wouldn't be telling me about them."

Jimin doesn't say anything at that, just continues walking as if there was nothing but an annoying fly beside him even though his privacy—or was it actually his soulmate's?—has just been violated. Now's not the time to picture such vivid imagery of his soulmate doing questionable things with other people. Screw you, Tae.

Wow ok I guess these were more like teasers than out of context parts of wips LOL

Anywayyy, ummm I shall tag @c-cygnus bc i know ya always got something good in store ;)

[theharrowing]

Favorite Author Appreciation!!

Hello, haiii!!! I just wanted to make it known that I appreciate all the hard work that you do for us readers and even for yourself!! Your stories are absolutely amazing and the community you have built is so welcoming and feels so much like home!! Seeing any notification from you honestly brings a smile to my face and makes me feel extremely happy! And I understand that there are times when emotions are bitches and ruin everything, but know we (i feel i can speak for a lot of your readers) love you and we care so much about you!!! Never stop being the amazing person you!!!💜💜

I am a fucking mess wow.

Thank you. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm so glad that I can connect with people like you and create a space that feels like home. It goes both ways, you know. This place feels like home to me because of you, and readers like you who are so kind. I can't express how much it means to me, but that's a big reason why I churn out content like my rent is due. (It is due, but this ain't paying the bills lmaooooo.)

Although I like to write dark, sometimes truly fucked content, I do it, in part, as catharsis. I'm sure that's why some people read it too, and why it works to have a space like this that's fun and cute and so, so fucking weird haha. Ugh. I love it here. I love you.

It makes me happy to get notifications from you. Every time I brace my heart for impact. I was not ready this time!!! 💜 And yes, sometimes emotions are hard, but we're not alone! My inboxes are always open! Thank you so much for always being so kind. I would make you hot cocoa and kiss you on the forehead if I could.

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Tagged by @lvoekook and @jeonqkooks - thank you!

name: Jo

sign: Capricorn -> sun, Taurus -> Rising, Scorpio -> Moon

height: 5'4

time: 7:55 am

birthday: December 22

favorite band/artist: i mean, BTS obv that's why we're here. Tegan and Sara, Florence + the Machine, Alison Wonderland, CHVRCHES, Sleeping At Last, City & Colour, Evanescence (lmao leave me alone I'm still a teen in 2004), Mat Kearney, idk I like music

last movie: wow i have abbbbbbbsolutely no idea, I am not a big movie person in general

last show: I've been doing a rewatch of Psych, working through s1 of New Girl, and my partner and I have weirdly been watching episodes from 2019 of Battle Bots bc we have one braincell and it likes that things go smash.

when i created this blog: March of 2022 but I've been on tumblr since probably 2010

what i post: fics I write, random things I want to say, writing/cc discourse, funny stuff Paulina says lol, funny cute or beautiful bts moments

last thing i googled: lmfao "Crows End Inc Spiritfarer" I COULDN'T FIND THE FUCKING TREASURE OK

other blogs: nooooooooope :)

do i get asks: lmaooooo only from Pam or I guess when there's a little "send this around" game going on

following: less than 50 and I can barely keep up with my dash idk how you guys do it!!!

followers: Between 150-200 i am baby

average hours of sleep: around 7 usually

instruments: piano! used to be oboe - it's been over 15 years since I touched one but I feel like I could probably still play some scales?

what i'm wearing: shorts and a tank top

dream job: lmao i am a whole ass adult, in my career path. my dream job is not going to work.

dream trip: I honestly don't even know. I love traveling, i love new places and pretty things to see and I LOVE museums I am not shy about being a tourist yes sign me tf up for the free walking tour, and I love fooooooooooood. As long as chances are I won't die or have a violent act committed to me, I'll go anywhere.

nationality: it is with GREAT regret that I inform you that I am american womp womp we're not ok here send help

favorite songs: right now I've been listening to Swim Home a lot from Tae's driving vlog, it's the only one he played where I was like 'lemme go add that' and I really like it :')

Tagging @kookstempo @pamzn @parkdatjimin @haliiimede (i know you're so busy u can ignore this lmao) aaaand @highly-functioning-mitochondria