#writing musings

[vivillainous]

the moon is in love with the sea

in a world where women are chosen and damned to eternity as a celestial body, ever adrift among the stars. an aspect of the moon, once a mortal woman long ago, falls in love with a pirate during one of the universe’s greatest calamities.

and they’re lesbians

[falconhonour]

Some thoughts for a Narnia/Harry Potter crossover I might play with one day soon.

Peter and Lucy are Gryffindors. Peter becomes Head Boy, Lucy is the popular one, if not always the best behaved...

Susan is a Ravenclaw, and she blossoms into such an ideal Witch that even families like the Malfoys/Notts/Averys are sniffing around her trying to court her @ellorypurebloodculture , do you think Susan could make a good New Blood - or my equivalent of it, anyway?

Edmund is a Slytherin. His blood status could be a problem at first, but, if he fell in with Riddle and co - I don't think he and Riddle are that far apart in age, he might be able to carve himself a niche of sorts. Maybe he plays Quidditch, and excels in something the Knights of Walpurgis might find useful like Runes and/or Arithmancy?

[vetustamorla]

i wonder sometimes if people who don't write fics realize just how big a labour of love it is. and TIME. god the time you spend writing, thinking, changing stuff, coming up with better ideas, writing again... it makes zero sense as a hobby And Yet.

[rinnysega]

I’m really in a mode of I LOVE WRITING, CHARLIE! I LOVE WRITINGGGG today lol

There’s some days where I miss the brainrot of a fandom/posting to AO3, but coming up with an original antagonist’s most devastating line, the poetry for the characters’ journals, arcs that come together so wonderfully, getting actual professionals to tear up over original content???? That my brain made????

It’s unmatched to what I know I’m capable of doing with my thoughts, emotions, and words ❤️

[siesporamor]

Me to The Character: Stop being so dramatic.

The Character: You're literally writing me that way.

[weloveakechi]

Writing for yourself is really genuinely so freeing. Since I switched fandoms I have been writing just what I want to read, stories I’d enjoy, and those totally and completely self indulgent fics however I want to. It’s been fun.

It has also allowed me to grow as a writer. I’m not stuck in the same places I used to be, and I’m creating stories I wouldn’t have before because I wasn’t sure readers would like them. Now I’m just writing whatever pops into my head and exploring so much more

I’ve been doing this for over six months now (almost a year actually but not quite that close) and I recently reread a few of those super self indulgent fics. I haven’t looked over most of them since posting because I was still a little embarrassed of how I’d written them. Some I played with style, others were ones written entirely in impulse with little editing.

I had so much fun reading them. Not only did they cater to my exact interests (I wrote them for me after all) but they were really well written in many cases. One or two could use extra editing, but I found myself going “I can write like that??” More than I used to in my old fandom

Some of it is the gradual growth of a writer working their craft but I do genuinely believe that freeing myself from “who will like this? Will it get kudos and comments?” Has really helped me do that growing again and let me expand what I can do

All this to say, just write for yourself. In fic or that original piece you’ve been fretting over. You will love it, it will grow you as a writer, and yeah readers will come. They’ll find something unique, fresh, and engaging there. Just like you will

[silkspectred]

Hi!!! Long time fan of your stony works and I see that you’re a fan of spuffy like I am, so I’m curious if you have any fic ideas you’re contemplating writing?

Hope you’re well!! 🥰

fun fact! i do. i am currently writing something for spuffy lol. it’s a simple missing scene set in s7, nothing complicated, but i’m very happy i’m writing it at all.

it’s been very long since the last time i wrote fic. i confess i had stopped writing and didn’t really want to do it anymore. (i’ll post about it and explain more in depth maybe). but i’m writing again and it will take some time for the story to be ready but It Will Be Ready. at some point in the future.

i’m also reorganizing my notes for the slowest runner series. they’re a mess and i still need to figure out how to connect a few things but you know. it will happen.

like. it’s not a never anymore, you know?

[jimmytimmy-teen-pregnancy-au]

[[when you've had a specific path vaguely planned for your fic only to come up with another possible path and are now conflicted over which of the two to go with 🤣🤔]]

[filosofieke]

Fun fact: I adore writing teens. Especially in current settings, though, once you move past that life stage yourself, it becomes a bit tricky. You will get your tone off, unless you keep up. My sister is ten years younger than me and we get along well, so for the longest time, I had a link. But she's full in her twenties now, and frankly, I think I'm just going to wait and hope my kids don't hate me as teens, because I need their intel.

Disclaimer: I would never write characters that resemble my kids, unless I wrote the story while they read along and approved. It's just intel. Language. Habits. etc. Which are already different in Belgium versus English speaking countries. You get a bit of slack, writing historical. You don't get that in temporary writing. What you do get, are tiktokkers or snapchatters ready to tell you WE DO NOT SOUND LIKE THIS.*

*This didn't actually happen to me yet, but it is a genuine fear.

[macawritesupdates]

It's been a while since I read unexpected scent but I got to thinking about Gojo's pups again. What happened to them? Did they live happy lives? Do you think that Gojo will ever meet them again? Maybe one day Yuuji could meet them and make friends with them. It just makes me so sad to think of that loss 😢😢. Poor babies. I think it's really cool the way you pepper in little bits of lore that imply but don't fully show a whole extra story going on just barely in the peripheral of the main plot of your fics it makes the world feel a little more alive. Like Yuuji and Sukuna are the main characters of the story but that's only because we're viewing the world from their eyes if we looked at things from a different angle we'd find everyone else also living their own crazy stories. Here's just a hit of Gojo tragedy to spice up the fic. It's a good bit of contrast.

I always felt the stories I liked best were those where the world felt bigger because you could tell so much more was going on. That each side -character you see is actually the main character in a story that is moving at the same time!

Gojo and his pups and knowing about that serves as motivation for how he works his way into helping the characters in their plight, but also I like to leave it to the readers to imagine the story c: After all, part of the fun of reading a story (at least for me haha) is being able to speculate and write my own headcanons and ideas to fill in those nice little spots.

Not every question needs answered, not every path needs revealed, just enough to engage the curious thoughts and show the world is a much larger and complex place!

[violetlou2020]

Jeremy wakes up after the gods wrath and learns that terra's rulers are children.

Proceeds to kidnap them all as a whim.

They glare at him and declares that Jeremy is making a mistake by kidnapping royalties and he will pay.

Jerremi *with big sad eyes*: oh my god these are babies! Why are they in charge?!

Said children doesn't react well to the comment and tries to bodily harm Jeremy who just dodges and internally screams that this is a sign that he should fasg track his plans to take over all the kingdom and rule over all. He says this to them and the kids efforts to kick their kidnapper butt doubles. The baby kings and queens exhausts themselves and Jeremy brings them back home and tucks them to bed, their equally baby retainers frets on the side not knowing what to make of the mask stranger.

The next day Jeremy goes around each kingdom offering help to the kids who are annoyed by the man and is promptly kicked out by the raitainers and guards but he keeps returning until they gradually warm up to him.

All of them grows up to how they are in the show but they are closer with each other as they had the common headache that help half raise them to the ruler they are now. Racles is still an ass but not as bad as he's in the show since in he has a pseudo guardian webbing him to objects whenever he acts like a dick.

Jeremy picks up Gira when he found him reading one of his stories to God Tarantula when he left it at the town center when he was visiting shugodam and heard the boy call the shugod by a cute little nickname.

The kings are exasperated when their weird adopted whatever guardian menace brought a new kid but grew fond of Gira when the boy became the favorite person of the children residing in each kingdom and their own shugods. They try to 'kidnapv him on a daily from the orphanage.

They learned he's Racles' long lost brother when he commented that the food Kaguragi served was good but not as good as rainbow jururira from his childhood, which they knew because only Racles knew how to make it and they had it once before.

They all face-palmed when Jeremy pointed out that it took them that long to figure it out. Missing prince + an amnesiac orphan both who shares the same name and age as the missing prince.

Racles is a tsundere about Gira. He gives Gira his old room and says so that the other Kings would stop intruding in his kingdom to try and offer Gira room in their respective domain. But Jeremy knows that the older man passes by his brothers door every night to check on him.

Gira takes to following Racles around after the man left a cup of rainbow jururira on his desk causing the man to be more tsun-tsun and Jeremy teases him for it.

The other kings still want to take Gira back to their kingdom. Racles has to theaten to break their alliance on the if the four kings keeps trying to steal his brother.

Meanwhile as the five kings argue all over again, Jeremy steals Gira away back to the orphanage for story time with the kids.

[lawful-evil-novelist]

You know there's a definite balance I need to strike in this fic between the really solid emotional intelligence I like writing young Jason with and just...buried primal rage.

[rinnysega]

I’ve been playing with more poetic prose lately for short stories, and it’s been so cathartic depending on the theme 💖

[elvenmother]

An idea for a Peña angsty little fic hit me like a sledgehammer yesterday... so I guess I'm writing that now.

But oh boy!! It's going to start so fluffy and cute... and then destroy. 😁

[caitylove]

You ever giggle at that feeling when you had intended to write some hardcore smut, but instead ended up writing something sort soft and romantic. Oops? Sorry not sorry, I guess? This is definitely better than actually working.