#won't write

[pupuchaezgf]

i won't be writing for idols that are minors or boygroups!

[vulpinesaint]

quiz enjoyers! i am now inviting you to come create something in my workshop❕

[lgbtlunaverse]

To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.

Tragedies often consist of escalating series of actions and circumstances which, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.

It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.

But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.

It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.

[sparks-and-wires]

Characters I'd Write

1P Hetalia

N. Italy - Feliciano Vargas ✩

S.Italy/Romano - Lovino Vargas *❀

Japan - Kiku Honda ✩

Prussia - Gilbert Beilschmidt *❀

England - Arthur Kirkland *❀

America - Alfred Jones ❀

Russia - Ivan Braginsky ❀

Canada - Matthew Williams ❀

China - Wang Yao *❀

Spain - Antonio Fernández Carriedo ❀

Belarus - Natalia Arlovskaya 𖦹❀

1P Nyos

N. Italy - Daisy Vargas ✩

S. Italy - Chiara Vargas *❀

Japan - Sakura Honda *❀

America - Emily Jones ❀

England - Alicia Kirkland *❀

Belarus - Nikolai Arlovsky

Canada - Charlotte Williams ❀

Prussia - Julia Beilschmidt *❀

China - Wang Chu-Yan *❀

Russia - Anya Braginsky

Spain - Isabel Fernandez Carriedo *❀

2P Hetalia

N. Italy - Luciano Vargas ✩

S. Italy/Romano - Flavio Vargas ✩

Japan - Kuro Honda ✩

Prussia - Klaus Beilschmidt ❀

Germany - Luther Beilschmidt 𖦹❀

England - Oliver Kirkland

America - Allen Jones 𖦹❀

Russia - Viktor Braginsky ❀

China - Wang Xiao

Spain - Andres Fernández Carriedo *❀

France - François Bonnefoy *❀

Canada - James "Matt" Williams ❀

Belarus - Anastasia Arlovskaya ❀

Ukraine - Katya Braginskya *❀

2P Nyos

N. Italy - Luciana Vargas ✩

S. Italy - Caterina Vargas ❀

Japan - Akane Honda ✩❀

America - Amber Jones ❀

England - Livia Kirkland

Canada - Marlee Williams ❀

China - Wang Biyou ❀

Russia - Victoria Braginsky ❀

France - Clarisse Bonnefoy ❀

Won't Write

1P Hetalia

Nordics

Baltics

France^

Germany^

Hungary

Austria

Belgium

Ukraine

Scotland↗

Other countries with little to no info in wiki, manga, or anime

1P Nyos

Belgium↗

Hungary↗

Germany^

France^

Austria

Ukraine

Nordics

Baltics

All other characters

2P Hetalia

Nordics

Baltics

Hungary

Austria

Belguim

All other countries

2P Nyos

Belgium

Spain ⋆

Hungary

Germany ⋆

Austria

Ukraine

Belarus

Nordics

Baltics

All other countries

SYMBOLS: ^ : Uncomfortable with * : Haven't nailed down a personality yet, subject to change ✩ : Favorite ❀ : Headcanons only for now ⋆ : Mixed Feelings, may be subject to change 𖦹 : Difficult to write ↗ : Not enough info in canon ≡ : Working on details

[inkskinned]

i hate to say it because i'm neurodivergent and a chronic-pain-haver but like... sometimes stuff is going to be hard and that's okay.

it's okay if you don't understand something the first few times it's explained to you. it's okay if you have to google every word in a sentence. it's okay if you need to spend a few hours learning the context behind a complicated situation. it's okay if you need to read something, think about it, and then come back to re-read it.

i get it. giving up is easier, and we are all broken down and also broke as hell. nobody has the time, nobody has the fucking energy. that is how they win, though. that is why you feel this way. it is so much easier, and that is why you must resist the impetus to shut down. fight through the desire you've been taught to "tl;dr".

embrace when a book is confusing for you. accept not all media will be transparent and glittery and in the genre you love. question why you need everything to be lily-white and soft. i get it. i also sometimes choose the escapism, the fantasy-romance. there's no shame in that. but every day i still try to make myself think about something, to actually process and challenge myself. it is hard, often, because of my neurodivergence. but i fight that urge, because i think it's fucking important.

especially right now. the more they convince you not to think, the easier it will be to feed you misinformation. the more we accept a message without criticism, the more power they will have over that message. the more you choose convenience, the more they will make propaganda convenient to you.

[tossawary]

I just know in my heart of hearts that in "Star Trek" at one point, there was some moral panic somewhere on Vulcan (among the uppity sorts) because Human culture was "infecting" the local youth with their overly emotional, destructive, unproductive, frivolous, and uneducational ways.

And what was actually happening was that a bunch of Vulcan kids got really into 23rd-century "Minecraft" or something.

Small Vulcan child @ another Vulcan child: (in a tone that sounds flat to Humans but angry as hell to Vulcans) "You have compromised the optimization of my fortress. I am having an emotional urge to blow up your house... in Minecraft."

[ryllen]

yuu as my favorite freshwater fish

[bastardofharrenhal]

i think its a little underappreciated that grrm allows his main characters to be disabled and hurt. tyrion's dwarfism and bran's paralysis are obvious but also dany's infertility?? jon's pains and scarring after he burns his hand fighting the Others?? ned's broken leg plagues him for months and the scars on cat's palms consistently ache and phantom pains haunt jaime through out asos and the arrow brienne took to her leg does actual harm instead of just leaving a neat scar and when biter chews off brienne's cheek she's visibly disfigured afterwards. theres no brushing over any of their injuries and all of them are consistently affecting them even after they heal. or don't heal. lady stoneheart and beric dondarrion carry their injuries even after they die. the gashes on stoneheart's face stay even when she comes back and beric never regains his eye. dany stays infertile thats not something that can be reversed. the same way tyrion's injuries after the battle of the blackwater cant be reversed and jon's scars can't be erased bc at the end of the day when ur disabled theres no cure for that. u just have to Deal with it no matter how difficult it is and i think its nice when fictional characters still find a way to push through it the same way we do

[sinshiney]

It was strange, how far away and blunted all sensations were to her. Most days, Gideon felt exactly like the thing she was: a ghost piloting an expired meat suit. But when Harrow slowly, cautiously bridged the space between them and her hand found Gideon's in the sheets, Gideon could have sworn that she registered the heat of her skin. [Harrow rescues a Tower Prince and they fight their way out of the castle while arguing the entire time.]

read on ao3: the freckles on your arm mirrored a body of stars

[jojaxcola]

"I thought I was just gonna nail the impression and leave..."

fizz's visit (part 2)

[ jojamart mockumentary #21 ]

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[godliath]

first 2 weeks of sketching with a supernote! (colors were done separately on ipad)

[technically-human]

i loved seeing the moment of stone realising he was going to stick with robotnik (─‿‿─) could we see the moment ROBOTNIK realises stone is here for good?

Robotnik isn't used to people being happy to see him

[lgbtlunaverse]

There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

[maureen-corpse]

extremely funny genre of post on this web site is when people forget about places with a population density below a few thousand per square mile and are extremely confident about everything

someone says "all right everyone if you need access to this particular thing here's how you can figure out how to find that thing in your area, step one do this" and then one or two reblogs later they reveal that there was actually a secret step one and secret step one is "live in a major city where tracking this down isn't actually that much of an issue for you in the first place"

[taraxippos]

I think people tend to assume that any criticism of worldbuilding is ultimately a demand for a story to grind itself to a halt and give the reader 20 paragraphs of exposition, and like. Most of the time good-faith criticism of this nature is coming from a core aspect of the story not being grounded in the setting in a way that outright detracts from the story's quality. You fix it not by Explaining but by Showing it passively in the makeup of the world.

Like the last instance I saw this critique in was like 'you can't expect an author to stop and exposit the nuances of gender roles/Queerness in a fictional society' and it's like yeah I don't, and in fact this is actually one of the easiest things to show in the text without exposition. If a society has gender norms to begin with you'll see aspects of these norms baked into EVERYTHING. You'll see it in its stories, its religion, its taboos, its etiquette, its clothing, its family structures, its language, its insults, its labor, its leadership, etc. It will have massive impacts on how characters interact with one another and how they perceive themselves. It will help Shape your characters.

If you do this legwork to begin with for the core facets of your story, you will find very natural places for these concepts to be demonstrated without derailing the plot and with little to no exposition. THAT sort of thing is what's being asked of you.

[lazylittledragon]

Hello I love your bg3 content and your Dorian is so lovely! Can we get like an alternative reality with Dorian and Ascended Astarion? What would your headcannon be for them? 🙇

something like this, probably