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𝐌𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀 ࣪.⋮ a tlou/arcane writing challenge.

⋮ introducing, mythologica: an autumntime/horror creators challenge dedicated to monsters and lovers!

⋮ in honour of halloween, i’ve created an event for writers/artists to participate in! this will span october and november, so don’t feel fright when the actual celebration darkens our doorsteps. (entires can be posted past october 31st—i know we’re all busy!) everything from fluff, angst, smut and horror is acceptable, but i do encourage everyone to try out that last option. we need more horror in this fandom—hence this challenge existing. ⋮ rules: to join, you must be in the isle of muses discord server! (this is where we assign prompts and keep track of everyone!). your submission must either be a piece of writing, or a piece of art. more directions are listed within the discord. ⋮ if you join, you will be randomly assigned a set of two mythological/folklore creatures/professions. for example: someone may get “write a story/draw a piece about [murderers] and [cowboys]!” while somebody else might get "write a story/draw a piece about [sirens] and [pirates]!" the boxes indicate your randomized choice, and from thereon you can decide a setting. if you do not like one option, or both, we can reroll! (if you're an artist and you only want to draw a character as one of the options/draw the options separately, that's fine too. ellabs enthusiasts might love the two prompts though). the list of options is quite broad, so we do get some surprise banger tropes! (e.g hackers and photographers, scientists and ghosts, and nephilims and mermaids are some people have gotten.) we hope to see you there!

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a note on fic writing

I’m not entirely sure how to preface what I need to say, so I’m just going to jump into the heat of things.

Lately I’ve noticed an increase in fics that sound awfully similar to one another. A certain amount of this is to be expected: working with a finite number of characters and the same source material is bound to ignite similar ideas in lots of different people across the fandom. 

So, too, individual bloggers cannot lay claim to tropes (there was only one bed!), genres (Western AU!), or k*nks (bondage!). 

However, individual authors do own their ideas, their characterizations, and their plot points; in essence, they own the things that make their fics unique. 

The sort of similarities that myself and other authors been witnessing lately unfortunately fall into the second category, where other creators on this site are using ideas in fics posted by others and claiming them as their own without a) permission from the original author and/or b) crediting the original author and citing them as an inspiration. 

I cannot find the words to say how devastating it is to encounter your work featured as someone else’s. Authors work incredibly hard to cultivate original, inspiring ideas to share and then spend countless hours bringing them to fruition. Seeing someone else base a fic off of your own work without credit is disheartening, disappointing, and discouraging – not to mention rude. 

One of the glories of Tumblr is that it allows creative people a space to interact with other creative people. It puts you in contact with writers and other creators that you not would know otherwise, and provides you with exposure to hundreds of new ideas each day. 

All of that being said, if you are inspired to write a fic based off of someone else’s fic or an original post on their blog, please credit them. 

I also encourage you to do one better and DM the author to make sure you’re not plagiarizing. The line between plagiarization and inspiration is a fine one and talking to the author can help you determine on which side of that line your fic would fall. 

This post isn’t a call-out, and it’s not intended as gatekeeping or telling people what they can and can’t write. It’s simply pointing out some upsetting trends that myself and other authors have been affected by and offering a solution. 

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re: introduction to dreamfallacy

hello everyone and welcome to the revamping of dreamfallacy. i started this blog over a year ago with the intentions to write fairly often, but as a college student i failed to do so. i fell into a pretty bad depressive episode last september and instead of writing, i instead turned to gaming and the over consumption of film and television. it’s safe to say that i’m a part of a hell of a lot of fandoms now that i wasn’t even remotely interested in a year ago. 

i decided that since i had no writing up on this blog yet that i would just wipe the whole thing, revamp the aesthetic and start over like it was brand new. i’m also not just going to be writing about kpop, but my other interests as well which i’ll make sure i have a post about as well as in depth masterlists for each of them. i’ll try to post regularly now that i’m not a college student, but i’m making no promises. 

thanks! 

hala