#I don't think I have that much dialogue to work with that isn't cringe LMAO so just 15 lines

[tsunael]

15 Lines of Dialogue 

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you’re free to include those as well!

tagged by: @myreia !! Thank you so much 😭 tagging: If you're a writer, take it!

I don't know many other writers so feel free to tag me even if I didn't tag you or even if we're not mutuals, I'd love to see what you're working on!

I have never published any fanfic but I have a ton of them in my drafts. Luckily for me, all I write is dialogue because I'm terrible at everything else.

They're not all Tunasan? Shocking.

— 1: Some amorphous SHB dialogue that went w/ a gpose in some hot springs that I can't post (only bc of nippol 😔). Here be Tunasan.

"Your heart is racing… I thought you'd 'seen it all before.'" "Man sees the sun rise and set every day of his life and does not cease to find it beautiful. Or at least he did." "Thancred…" "I've thought about you, you know. Not a single day went by when I did not think of you. Of you and of all the things I wished to tell, but could not. I thought to write them down– as if a letter could even reach where you were. Ridiculous, I know." "I also… About what happened– with you, at the Cloud Nine, I–" "Enough, darling. Don't say anything you’ll regret." "No. I’ve thought about it overlong. What happened back then was a stupid, regrettable, awful thing… But not because it was with you."

— 2: Some AU(?) involving an Ishgardian masquerade. (Tsuna and Tataru.)

“Oh, don’t be so modest! ‘Tis a good thing! After such a long stay in Sharlayan, I was worried you’d return to us more bone than woman-- Speaking of… How are the ribs?” “No longer floating. Or so I'm told.” It was in Tataru’s blooming smile did Tsuna realize her design was to employ a corset, and she managed to stifle her groan of disappointment.

— 3: That one really long Sharlayan fic that will never see the light. (Y'shtola and Thancred.)

"I should not have to say this: do not fall in love with her. We Scions are a well-oiled machina, and I would not have a thief falling for the Mammet’s heart." "... and what if she were to fall for the thief, what then?" "Our lodestar will not fall for some flights of fancy." "Our lodestar is a woman grown, Y’shtola." "You have broken every heart you have ever touched, Thancred, and you will not break this one… I will see to it. You will end it before it begins. Is that clear?" "… As crystal."

[cinnaminsvga]

tbf i think the grandma shit started because of my own fault. i think I felt so old compared to everyone that I said i feel like a grandma or something, or even told them to call me grandma in a "just call me grandma" kinda way and it stuck with a few of them haha

you know what, im kind of the opposite, I feel like my writing now is of a worse quality than back then. i think I got too used to writing just for myself so I got lazy and impatient and skipped over adding details and more descriptions and such But for you, I think it would be a good way to see how much you've improved in your personal opinion! Though like I get churro chumps specifically was crack so maybe use something you took more seriously when writing for comparative purposes haha

omg that's me with soonyoung, he's my actual bias even if seungcheol is constantly tackling me and shaking his ass in my face to remind me how much he owns my ass, but anyway, yeah soonyoung is my precious babie. i just want to love and protect him, he's just a poor innocent little soul

also, sorry if these asks are annoying, I never know when to shut up or how to real social cues so feel free to stop responding at any point. i am very aware that I ramble and it's a lot at times

(double also i know this response may seem fast, I just happened to see that you had responded when I came online lol. triple also(I need more vocab) no idea why im still remaining anon when you can probably easily guess my user at this point but im pretending there is a valid reason for clicking anon)

that's interesting to hear you think your writing got worse! well, i can sort of understand that... for me, when i take a break from writing, sometimes it can feel a little difficult to get back into the groove of things... but i get what you mean a little about "writing for yourself." when you have no intention of sharing your work, sometimes specific details aren't necessary when your target audience is, well, yourself.

as for rereading my old stuff... i do actually reread a lot of my stuff, just not the ones from when i was like 16 LOL it's not because i don't wanting to read my "unserious" stories, it's more because i hate cringing at my old stylistic choices. i like to think ive gotten better at adopting writing styles that i think can make my stories flow smoother. but as a teen, i had trouble structuring my stories because i relied heavily on dialogue to move them. which... isn't a very sustainable approach LMAO but yeah churro chumps is still a story i will always cherish, because even after all this time... i do love me some sillay yoongay fanfics :3

i like soonyoung too :D he was my bias prior to seungcheol... it started with jihoon, then soonyoung, then cheol... leading me to accept my fate as a leader line fan lol but tbh ive gotten really into seokmin lately... something about silly guys is getting to me...

and never apologize for rambling :D i ramble a lot too!! im president of yap city, as they say... i was always the kid who got moved around the classroom bc i would NOT shut up, no matter who i got paired up with... oh woe is the mouth that yaps... anyway thanks for sending these in!! its nice to talking to ya anytime!!

[diantheia]

Writing for Doors be like:

Wanting to share a headcanon or story idea for Doors, but realise you're saving that stuff for your own writing and are not willing to indirectly spoil anything.

Checking the Doors fan wiki again, over a miniscule detail that needs to be accurate.

Checking your Doors screenshots again, over a miniscule detail that needs to be accurate.

Playing Doors again, over a miniscule detail that needs to be accurate.

Are the last three even relatable, or is it me?

That one Doors update anxiety a previous Anon mentioned. But the next update's is confirmed to bring us improved UGCs and much needed game modifiers, so we good so far.

AO3 specific, but when you have a small but active fanfic community, you always wonder if that new kudos is from someone you've seen around often.

That sad realization people generally find fanfiction to be "cringe" and you don't have more of the fandom to talk about it to.

Anyone who writes enough all have at least one commenter we are sort of eager to see what they have to say on a new release.

"How should I project my mental illnesses onto some silly Roblox decals and models today?"

Imagine having a beta. Just publish and go straight to judgement day. Well, the commenters are still gonna say they like it, but why do you like our crap?

RIP that weirdo on AO3 who simps for Figure, but already knows what happens in all the Figure x Reader fics they wrote.

You wish you could imagine a decent voice to go with an entity, but your head sucks at voice acting.

Literally no one cares if you include a small headcanon or detail that was also in another person's work. It's a fucking Roblox game, with only so many original ideas to base off of it. But you're still gonna be self conscious, aren't you?

You're single.

I do the whole check screenshots/wiki when describing environments. I know people probably don't care if a piece of furniture is or isn't in a location in game but my brain doesn't let it go. Bonus, having to have the wiki open when doing El Goblino's dialogue because goddammit they're one of the few characters to speak so it has to be right.

I think people find fanfiction cringe (especially reader inserts) because they are traumatized by the 'sold to one direction' era. Thank god I never liked one direction so I've never read or wrote one of those, but I hear they're… something else.

I think I have a small handful of people who constantly comment on my stuff and you guys will never know how much I appreciate that shit.

I never beta lmao. I post in the evening so you damn well know within an hour or two of posting I'm in bed going to sleep. Because I'm in the UK, I'm pretty sure I'm asleep when the Americans are most active, so I have woken up and read some… questionable comments at 8am.

I have no idea who you're talking about with that Figure simp comment, none at all. Couldn't possibly be me. That said, simping for Figure is the right choice and you all know it.

[frenziedslashers]

18, 46, 56, 70

Hihi I wanna get to know you 🤭💗

Hey! So glad to see you in my ask box m'dude! Feel free to send in any questions you wanna ask me to get to know me better or to DM me! I love talking with fellow Rick simps 🫶

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

It truly depends! Sometimes I come up with the title before I even start the fic! I really like and have this habit of making the title something that I add to the fic. Such as "C'mere Honey Bear" which in that fic Negan calls the reader his honey bear. Or "I Love You And I Don't Say It Enough" Where Daryl says that to reader towards the end :) Sometimes I make it about the main scene in the fic! Like "Supply Closet" where Rick pulls reader into the supply closet for a little fun. Honestly, I have never really struggled with titles. They have always been my favorite part of writing. My English professor my last two semesters said my titles were always too fun to read haha. Sometimes I struggle, but I try to make them about something that I enjoy about the fic or whatever I am writing about or a main pointer for people to remember it by :)

46. How would you describe your style? (Character/emotion/action-driven, etc)

Ooh, this is a great question haha. I like to think that I focus more on the characters and emotions. I do tend to lean more on action-driven themes when I write. Or I get carried away and focus more on dialogue. I always try to focus on emotion and the character, but it depends on how much I want to write and how inspired I am. I'm trying to get back into the groove of writing, so I hope to improve my current style in certain areas.

56. What’s something about your writing that you pride yourself on?

Ah, I'm not really sure? I would say my angstier writings or more action-packed ones, but a majority of those I don't post because I'm unsure about them still 😭

70. When asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?

Eh, it depends on who's asking. If it is anyone associated with this blog I am not embarrassed. Or someone who happens to stumble across the blog. People from my art blog/Instagram and irl I HATE telling them I write because I primarily write Fanfics/x reader stuff and a lot of my irl friends would judge me TREMENDOUSLY for it 😭 and even some of my online friends would. My close friend was telling me on call the other day how he was cringing because he found out this friend he had was doing self-insert stuff and I was all "Ha.. ha... Yeah, oof." LIKE GHSKDJ I WAS SCARED LMAO

Then with my stuff that isn't fanfic, I don't really like telling people about it because if I tell people about the comics I'm working on that I would love to publish one day, then it feels like I have to finish them since people other than me now know about it. Idk if that makes ANY sense lmao

Thank you for these! They were fun to answer :)

[theplanetprince]

Fanfiction Review

I can already tell this is gonna be super confusing bc I've been writing fic since I was 12 but have since gone through so many identity changes. But let's play anyway!

Thanks for the tag @redead-red

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

My current library is 8. I don't actually write fanfic too often unless a specific idea intrigues me-- or something in the fanon just doesn't line up with me. I do have at least 4ish more stories planned and maybe a revised version of an ancient story from when I was young. 2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

166,451! Pretty neato!

3. How many fandoms have you written for, and what are they?

Uh, in no specific order,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (lost to purging)

Doctor Who (you ain't gonna find these)

Sonic

NiGHTs into Dreams

Dead by Daylight (<3)

Danny Phantom (my beloathed) Supernatural (my other beloathed)

and uhhhh, I think a bunch of various other video games I can't remember. For the sake of brevity I'm gonna put the rest under the cut.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

This is actually pretty funny bc I have so few fics released. I only get emails for certain ones all the time, so I wrote this part out by guessing, but I ended up not needing to change it. (also, don't read most of these; they're old and bad)

1. Schrodinger's Adolescent, 337 Kudos (Danny Phantom)

2. Teen Years and How to Survive Them, 97 Kudos (Secret Trio)

3. Two Fake Feds Come up the Laneway the other dayyyyyy, 56 Kudos (Letterkenny/Supernatural)

4. Brother's Keeper, 40 Kudos (Halloween, DBD)

5. Beginner's Guide to Destroying the Moon, 37 Kudos (Sonic)

5. Which of your fic do you want more attention for?

I'll be real here, I still enjoy most of the work I did for both Beach House Bummer, and Beginner's Guide to Destroying the Moon. I just wish I got more love for the latter bc I might be inspired to finish it lmao.

6. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I really try to! I love the long rambly comments I get on Schrodinger's because I can feel those people are giving me the same passion I put into my work-- Though most of the time I get the generic "post more" or "update plz" which I dunno I'm grateful for the interaction. Still, I don't really want to repeat like "I'm trying my best, dude." about 12 times a day.

7. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I'll be real I only have two completed fics rn-- but I can tell you I had this one fic that I wrote when I was fourteen where the ninja turtles had to burn down a lab full of half-born mutant embryos, and like I remember writing that and then going to middle school the next day like "They don't know I'm a literary genius."

8. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Probably the Letterkenny/Supernatural crossover-- I feel very strongly about SPN and how people take it way too seriously, so when I found out it was filmed in Canada. It used famous Canadian actors from the show Letterkenny, it felt way too good to pass up. I do hope to write in that space again when I'm feeling less depresso-espresso.

9. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yeah. It's probably a big reason why you'll never see the tmnt fics for a while. I also used to write a lot of OC stories, and this was back in 2014 so like those were def hit the hardest. I'm glad to say it's like... subsided for the most part. I don't get hate as much as I just get really confusing and creepy comments, which don't hurt my rejection-sensitive-ass as much.

10. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Hahahaha, no.

I am kind of bad at writing it, and I don't really like writing it. Which yeah that makes sense. My friends sometimes when they find out I write fanfic as a joke they'll send me some of the worst examples smut they can find and to test my talent I'll try to rewrite it to make it some kind of titillating-- but alas it just isn't my forte. The cons of being an asexual I guess.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Uh, yes and no? I think I had one of my older fics stolen, retranslated, and then retranslated again to English? That was so long ago tho.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I'd love to give it a shot sometime.

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Honestly, it's sonadow. I know it's cringe but I'm free, dammit. Outside of that I guess my favorite dynamic is jock/nerd, which you've probably gleaned from my resume here fhsdkjf.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I've been working on Teen Years and How to Survive them since I was 16, I only started making headway on it when I was 19-- so I feel like that speaks for itself hskjhg.

15. What are your writing strengths?

It's been told to me that I'm very funny and I write convincing dialog that captures a character's voice. Which is extremely flattering despite the fact that I feel like I'm tricking you all.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

probably scenery and landscape, if I'm honest. I also accidentally keep creating scenes just for the dialog instead of action or environment.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I think as long as I can guess what they're saying from context clues, and the writer is courteous enough to include body language and the like, then it's mostly harmless. I love including a bunch of references in fic whether it's cultural, historical, or just like a quote from a movie or something so I have a bunch of tabs open regardless it wouldn't be too inconvenient for me to fire up google translate or something.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

19. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Probably Schrodinger's Adolescent, it really opened up a lot of doors for me in the DP fandom and I got to meet a lot of cool people because of it. It really cheered me up from a dark place. And despite me writing it initially out of anger and spite its grown into this soft thing that really means a lot to me.

20. What fic are you most proud of?

Honestly, I can't pick. I'm both embarrassed by them all and yet glad they bring people some form of comfort.

Uhhhh who to tag-- I don't really know

@ten0rreaper is the only one I can think of-- whoever else I guess can have at it. I'm not very good at these things lmao.

[yonder-wander]

legit wonder if "Shame Itself" is doing an incredible job of branding itself to look Bigger and Spookier than it really is. i mean. it's worked? i talk about it like it's a Super Special Member Of The Brain Family, like it's the singular ghost that haunts the whole crew.

because yes absolutely, every single other part of me is scared of it. nobody wants to have shame's attention.

but i'm here a little bit like, ah, you're pulling a Wizard of Oz. my partner's here all, "hey bud uh. you wanna take a leaf out of all the books you keep recommending and work to shrink that inner critic?" and there's part of me that is a little agog, as though it's a shock to hear this beast, this shadow-creature, reduced to something as banal as an "inner critic"

isn't it, though? is that not what it is?

another young and helpless part of me that has got incredible at putting on a Spooky Monster Voice so we never do the things that it learned were Bad and Wrong? pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. it's literally playing that whole, "you don't want to talk to me, i'm a DANGEROUS ASSHOLE, look, i'm making loud noises at you and i know you're scared of loud noises ,so if i do this you'll stop trying to do the thing i'm scared of" thing. and i don't think it is, actually, a dangerous asshole.

i think it's a very standard inner critic with access to a stupendous light-and-shadow show. it's a part that is really, really good at playing the villain for the "greater good" - i expect if i do manage to enter dialogue with it, it doesn't actually feel great about the level of manipulation and threat and name-calling it uses to keep everyone else in check. i'm sure it'll probably be there all, "i don't want to do it like this, but i have to, terrible things would happen if i didn't" exactly like every single other protector.

(writing this, i can't help thinking about the dynamic between my parents - i see my mother's view of, "i had to put that pressure on you, your dad would've been worse, i needed you to [go to school/behave/etc] so he would stop telling me all these terrible things would happen if you didn't" in there.)

by framing itself as the Thing That Must Be Obeyed Or Else, it disguises what it's actually scared of: other people shaming me first. almost like it's somehow kinder because it has rules and doesn't want to hurt me really, whereas the outside world could hurt me in ways it can't control. for as long as i'm fighting to be internally accepted, there's no danger of me facing external judgement or shame. it's some really broken logic, but i can't fault its effectiveness.

literally it had this behaviour modeled to it all my life: the best way to not be scared for my wellbeing is to restrain my ability to explore or self-express. just like how my mum thought the best way to process her fear of me experiencing homophobic abuse was to question whether i should really let someone know something like that about me, and that the fear of The World Hurting Me Somehow was to convince me i couldn't manage anything without help - that way i'd never try. if it has to say to me, if you express this part of yourself, everyone will think you're a disgusting childish cringe freak weirdo and want nothing to do with you, you'll be rejected and abandoned, it doesn't consider that saying this makes it sound like it thinks i'm a disgusting childish cringe freak weirdo that nobody should want anything to do with and deserves to be rejected and abandoned. much like either of my parents, it would vehemently deny it thinks that - because it doesn't. it doesn't at all.

it thinks other people might. and that's scary. because it's not wrong - other people might! and i'm sort of working this out on my feet here, but the work is gonna be convincing "shame itself" (lmao) to consider that it's better to tell me i am okay as i am, and if someone else shames me that does not mean i am shameful, and that it wants to see me live uninhibited in the world - it's just that it doesn't want me to be taken by surprise if someone's a dick about it. not everyone is comfortable in themselves and not everyone likes to see someone else doing the things they can't do. that's the message i'd like it to learn is effective.

[pkmn-letsgo-cry]

THE PREMISE OF THIS SHIT SHOW!!!!!

First, take this:

This is the entire series. As of right now it's only got one fic in it, that being Midsummer, which takes place in Unova during B2

Ok so we've got

The utmv shit show except Pokemon

This means Undertale monsters are here!! Help

We've got Arceus' favourite meow meow aka Akari who got isekai'd from another fandom I'm in that I won't disclose rn because spoilers

Akari hops around regions and time and space and does the majority of the Pokemon storyline from gen 4 onwards (excluding HGSS and USUM because I just. Never got them. Also I don't think I'll do Scarlet/Violet simply because by the time they'll be done with the others they will be like. 21 years old lmao)

Akari's story and the UTMV plotline are separate, but also intertwined, so you'll see like. Fuckin easter eggs or something between the two

I have made a whole new fan region just for this project!! Am I gonna show it off now? Absolutely not I only have notes written down at the moment and it isn't gonna show up for a while

I will say that it's based on Italy though. And that the Professor there is a bit funky with their...studies, but. Aren't we all??

Whilst Akari won't go to Paldea, some other characters will have come from there. Mainly UTMV characters (like, Cross for example)

The storylines on Akari's end are gonna be a bit skewed from canon. Some characters are gonna have monster ancestry, for example (Hugh has already been explicitly said to be part monster in Midsummer, for example), and their choices throughout their whole journey, as well as their memories from their past world that get unlocked as time passes, may cause things to be a little...Off

This could be dialogue changes, for instance, or even their relationships with others being affected

I didn't finish ORAS beyond the Team Aqua/Magma storyline. I don't plan on finishing the game anytime soon either. Don't expect Akari to go much further than saving the world whilst in Hoenn

As of writing this up, I also only got PLA last month, and I'm still stuck on Lord Electrode. So, the beginning of Akari's story isn't done yet. I'm also replaying Platinum for the story and, well. We all know that will take a while.

The rest of the games I own have been 100% completed, hence why I started Midsummer

Arceus is a bastard throughout the series. But I think we all knew that tbh

Is this a full list? Idk I can't think of anything else rn. I'll update this later if I think of anything else

Is it cringe?? Absolutely, and I'm owning that cringe culture is dead babeyyyyy