#while writing

[pellucid-constellations]

Okay now that I am not on the brink of being deleted from this website or whatever, I am going to rewrite this because I'm a different person than I was a week ago and I want it to hurt a little

I'm struggling to write so we are getting a Bucky oneshot with that trope where she overhears him saying she's clingy or whatever and backs off and he goes crazy thank you everyone

[jadewestwriter]

No matter what you do don't think about the people at the edge of Bobby's life who no one will know to tell he's dead.

The cashier at the grocery store closest to the station, who has A shifts schedule basically memorized, wondering why no one is coming by to get food for family dinners anymore. The guy at the farmers market wondering where his regular with all the great recipes went. The neighbors he's never met faintly remembering the smell of bbqs on weekends and sounds of laughter coming from the backyard of a burned down house. The ex partners of firefighters never really belonging in the group but always remembering the kind captain with a welcoming smile and wonderful food who made them feel welcome in a group as tight knit as a fire house. The kids on class trips who may never know he's gone but finding pictures of them on a class trip years later wearing a too big jacket with the name Nash on it. The firefighters who transferred out of the 118 who hold kind words and good advice close to their heart. The dispatcher so used to the one voice of reason in the midst of the chaos that are calls for the 118, wondering where their team spirit went. People at his AA meetings, knowing they could always depend on Bobby, knowing he'd never pass judgement. Members of his church, who sat behind him for years sometimes seeing a familiar head and thinking it's him. It never is. The future captains of the 118 being held to a standard they can never achieve, because one man changed what leadership in the LAFD means. The legend of the 118 under Captain Nash haunting the department and the station. Robert Han who will grow up with a name that comes with a legacy he will never fully get. Just the impression of a hole someone left in his family.

Just don't think about it.

[ducky-dawn47]

Lmao when you accidentally make a (third) courting gift and give it to your crush during their first heat-

Also accidentally convincing their 1/4th working brain that you're mates.

AND HIS DAD FIND OUT.

AND YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR PERMISSION TO COURT HIS SON-

[illyrianbitch]

got a nice cold crispy dr pepper and a free afternoon. awsf? finale…im coming for you

[daughterofthesunlands]

Okay, so....

I was just sitting here and thinking.

About Gil-galad of course (DUHH 💀).

And him never marrying or having children. So, what if him losing his father (*clears throat*: Fingon. 🤨) and then his uncle (which would then be Turgon) traumatized not only him ofc but also his mother so much, that from observing her grief and loss, he swore never to inflict such pain onto another heart, thereby swearing off love?

ok enough torture I'll shut up

And then please also think about him being the next in line after two kings who have died, elves that were of his bloodline. Please also (just to torture you even more) keep in mind that this basically means that he had seen and lived through so much death that it is very probable that he must've thought that Elven Kings die. And that he may be next (He was so young when he was crowned king) JUST IMAGINE THE PRESSURE AND ANXIETY Y'ALL!!!!!

[ehlnofay]

I Walked Into The River

The Tree of Shades, fed by a spring deep in the Shivering Isles' underground, will not surrender its secrets to one who has not earned them. The erstwhile Hero of Kvatch and Sheogorath's current grudging Champion has little left to prove and even less to lose.

I wrote this piece for the summerfest prompt "mirror" and am posting the full thing for the free day! it's my take on the doppelganger bit of that one quest in the shivering isles, which always struck me as having a lot of unrealised potential (especially in conjunction with running themes of duality the questline already has). I've had this idea for a long time now and this event finally got me to actually write it out, which was a lot of fun! if you're inclined to check it out, please do - it would give me much joy :)

[maggotstrench]

i dont care if it sucks!! its getting FINISHED! FINISH IT!!!! MAKEAAAAAAAAA AAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[late-to-the-fandom]

[pellucid-constellations]

I’ve been seeing a lot of AI writing discourse lately and I want you to know I will NEVER use AI to write anything!! I literally hate AI I feel like it rots brains. Anyways I hope you guys weren’t afraid I was using it please trust me 🫶

[anewstartrekfan]

Spitballing Strange New Worlds s3 episode ideas, Spock edition:

(With Sam Kirk crashing the blog at the end)

Keep in mind I’ve only seen s2.

Assuming Christine is written out of the show for a little bit so the Doctor Korby romance can happen, maybe explain just how Spock was able to know that Rayna was going to die from being overwhelmed with emotions she was just experiencing for the first time in requiem for methuselah? I mean I assumed he was speaking from personal experience when I first saw it, but it could also be him diagnosing the situation based on what he was taught as a Vulcan.

So far strange new worlds (and from what I’ve heard Discovery too) has gone out of its way to show how Spock ended up in the mindset he was in about emotions and stuff. I think it would be cool if Spock either met someone else, or the events of episode 10 rekindle the Spock/Christine romance, Spock feels something entirely new, and then immediately regrets it when Chapel reveals she’s either engaged, in love with Korby, both, or some bad stuff dies down between him and whoever else he meets. This hypothetical relationship with a random alien doesn’t even have to be romantic.

Let’s say Spock gets caught on an alien world, meets a native, is stuck with them for a bit, and then in a life or death situation, the alien chooses to save Spock when we’d know that before meeting Spock, this character wouldn’t have done this, and somehow dies as a result. I’m thinking poison. Which would play into not only Spock’s actions in Requiem for Methuselah, but also Devil in the Dark. Wherein Spock at first wanted to try to reason with the Horta, but the second Jim was in danger he did a 180. It’s not that Spock would be against nonhuman entities learning human emotions. It’s that he would be far more cautious than Jim was.

“The joys of love made her human, and the agonies of love destroyed her.”

And while Spock is solidifying his stance to be more closed off, Other characters, Pike maybe? could finally open up to their friends. Maybe add some character development for Sam to explain why he’s so competitive with Kirk. Make it beyond daddy issues. Maybe make it mommy issues?

Oooo! I’ve suggested before that Jim and Sam’s mom maybe died on Tarsus IV. Maybe the reason Sam didn’t go on the command track like Jim was that becoming a xenoanthropologist would allow him to understand dead alien cultures discovered on various planets the federation may wish to occupy, or know how to communicate with living natives. And this would allow settlers/colonists to be warned about the local widelife like say, an exotic fungus that infects most of the food supply?

I work Tarsus IV into everything.

Since (in this hypothetical plot line) maybe there were native aliens to Tarsus iv, but because no one could communicate with them or even tried, the colonists weren’t able to be warned about the fungus. It would also be cool because of how it would naturally contrast Jim’s reaction to the massacre.

Jim wanted to be there when the disasters happened to save everyone.

Sam wanted to prevent the disasters from happening to save everyone.

Fun to spitball.

[spaceprincessleia]

Officially moved from my “I can’t write conversations” era to my “I always have to write the convo first” era

They’re good for structure

Also kind of makes me want to write a script one day, like the Aphra script

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[technovillain]

crown jewel/stained glass jello cakes are like beautiful angels to me. it's fruity and delicious. it's retro kitsch. it's an edible example of midcentury minimalist art in every cross section.

i understand the 50s housewife appeal here. if i rolled up to the potluck with a fugly cobbler and my neighbor brought one of these i may have to end my stupid sloppy fruit life.

[hikayaking]

One more. This time, the moon. Finished Act II.

[thebat-musicman]

Dick: Does anyone have any suggestions?

Jason: Why dont we shoot the Joker?

Dick: How that will help us in an alien invasion?

Jason: It would be really funny

Dick:

Dick: Works for me, add it to the list!