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Rewatching fairy tail while also rereading the papalogia fanfic How to raise your dragon slayer is so funny because I'll be watching the anime sitting there thinking "wait a minute wasn't that one guy also there?" Before remembering that it happened in the fanfic not the actual material

Also completely forgot how much of an ass Laxus is in canon at the start

Or like I'm in the middle of the phantom lord arc and was sitting there thinking "I forgot gajeel fucking crucified team shadow gear" or "wait Lucy was just taken from the street?" Because I still had the imagine in my mind of how she was kidnapped in the fanfic

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Small game idea I've had for a while:

You're taking a history exam. You haven't studied. The exam is about some completely fictional event in a fictional country. It's all multiple choice questions about this made-up history. Here's the trick, though: the exam is really poorly made, in that way where a lot of the questions (and the answers they give) inadvertently give hints to the answers of different questions.

So you'll get, for example, "who assassinated Chancellor Eurich?" and "who was the Chancellor in 1895" and "what event in early 1896 precipitated the Great Power Struggle" and you have to determine from the test itself what the answers are and get as good a score as you can.

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fanfic writers what font do you write in

i know on ao3 it's all in verdana but when you're drafting the fic in word or docs or whatever

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If Oda wasn't a coward he would draw Zoro with as revealing clothes as Nami and Robin's are.

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So when Whitebeard has a cult-like adopted family where everyone is ready to die for him any second it’s wholesome, but when I, Donquixote Doflamingo…

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A haiku:

Stingy with the likes, I repeat my sad mantra: “Incentives matter.“

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Chopper, you're hiding the wrong way!

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sharing is caring 🙌🏽

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What kind of animal would the strawhats have as their daemon, in your opinion? (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

This isn't necessarily so much "in my opinion" as it is "in my OPLA Nami-centric daemon au fic currently fighting a valiant battle against being written", and there are definitely many other cool potential forms for their daemons (and honestly I think the form of the daemon isn't the most significant part of the AU, and having really off-the-wall takes is fun), but here we go:

Luffy has a parrot - bright, flashy, and stereotypically associated with pirates. (In the AU, mostly to give myself defaults when I don't have strong feelings about a person's daemon, I've been using birds as a common pirate daemon since flight is often used as a symbol of freedom. Shanks also has a parrot, Roger probably did too; Zeff has an albatross; Mihawk has a shrike.) I've also been toying with the idea of the Ds having same-gendered daemons, since it's a notable trait without a single canonical meaning assigned and so kind of fits the "this is Important, but its importance is yet unexplained" of the Ds.

Zoro has a wolf - this is a combo of soldiers (esp. the Tartar legions in The Golden Compass) having wolf daemons and servants stereotypically having dog daemons, since Zoro is a fierce warrior but also fiercely devoted to Luffy. She's a sweetheart and will rip your throat out.

Nami has a turtle - this hints to her skill of navigation (since many turtles have very good senses of direction) but also a tendency to shield herself from the world emotionally. There's also some suggestion that a daemon form can be helped into being, and Nami would definitely want hers to be difficult to hurt. I've also considered a Manx shearwater (a seabird - pirates again - with a strong navigational sense), and a small monkey or raccoon (for the little grabby hands, as an aid in her heists).

Usopp is still unsettled in the AU, because he's not particularly settled in himself; his daemon probably settles in Thriller Bark, when it's him and not Sogeking who defeats Perona, or else possibly over the timeskip. I think a daemon with opposable thumbs would suit him well, or possibly a corvid (smart, capable of imitating speech).

Sanji has a dog - kind of the servant connotation again, but also so that his and Zoro's are matched. Probably one of those funky skinny sighthounds?

Vivi's settles during her tenure as Miss Wednesday. Possibly a (size-adjusted so she can carry it around somehow) sea-cat, to tie her firmly to Alabasta; I think a Sandora lizard would also fill this spot well, while being a bit more deniable to those unfamiliar with Alabastan wildlife (and also a bit more unsettling, which I love that for her). Or a bandit heron! Endemic to Alabasta, deceitful, and bird imagery. Alternately, Karoo could be her daemon already.

Robin has something that is very obviously identifiable as an Oharan species, and probably an insect/reptile. Maybe a vinegaroon?

I am tempted to give Franky a raccoon (for grabby hands and scavenging), though I'd also really like to make him or Robin (or Usopp, post-settling) have an aquatic daemon, with the aquarium doing double duty as food cache and place for the daemon to hang out on the ship.

Brook has a songbird, which burst into golden Dust upon his death and reformed when he regained his body (but maintained the color).

Fishmen don't have daemons in the fic, but I think he should have a whale shark (for the pun) or perhaps a dolphin. If he has a land-based daemon, possibly a very fluffy spaniel.

I'm curious what your opinion on this would be!

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I rlly like the emphasis that live action one piece is putting on the fact that literally nobody else think about piracy the way luffy does. "Being a pirate is about being free and having friends :3" while every other pirate is doing legitimate career criminal shit around him.

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some crazy good fanfic in my google docs. whatever guy started writing it i hope he finishes it

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that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them

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luffy is weird and strange and insane yesyes but what about the strawhats. they match his freak to a level that's dangerous to the public. nothing could ever prepare you for the insanity that is the strawhat crew. one could give you all the member's job descriptions and you would still be grossly underprepared for the clownfuckery that they are. actually, knowing their positions might fuck you up even more.

there's the ship's cook who dresses solely in three piece suits and smokes enough to give everyone in the grand line lung cancer through second hand smoking. he's gotta be an easy target right? WRONG now you are dead with a shoe sized hole in your chest because that guy's one of the strawhats' top three fighters. they have an archaeologist/terrorist for some reason??? what the hell, sure. surely she must be easy to kill. LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER your neck has been twisted your vertebrae broken not a single bone in your body is intact this might be the worst way to die actually. there's a sniper in the ship and hey look he's seems kinda weak actually, even if he had good aim one could take him down if they wore good armour surely- WRONG YOU ARE NOW FOOD FOR MAN EATING PLANTS. okay. fuck. they have a pet that likes cotton candy. maybe you can kidnap that. it's the ship's doctor?? it's supposed to be a reindeer??? whatever man it's not that weird right MAJOR WHOOPSIE HE IS ACTUALLY AN ELDRITCH HORROR YOU ARE DEAD AGAIN. they have a musician in the crew and it's a skeleton? wait. IS THAT UNDEAD MICHAEL JACKSON OH MY GOD- game over. he cut you with some underworld music powers or whatever the fuck. man fuck this crew. this shit is so ass.

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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.

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hello writers.