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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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Which ocs use neopronouns? Which ones?

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tag the oc that likes to play with fire

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I'd love to! Just to clarify, should I tag the writblr in your pinned post? Just want to double check :)

Hey, to any writers reading this, would you reblog this if you're interested in being tagged in tag games? I feel like I'm tagging the same few people over and over so I want to see if anyone else is interested!

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Soldier, Poet, King Tag

Thanks for the tag, @oh-no-another-idea!

Rules: take this uquiz to find out if you're a soldier, a king, or a poet, then use this Picrew to make yourself as that!

This was so fun! :D

No pressure tagging - @new-royston-cursebreakers @writingamongther0ses @charlesjosephwrites and anyone else who wants to!

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Hey, to any writers reading this, would you reblog this if you're interested in being tagged in tag games? I feel like I'm tagging the same few people over and over so I want to see if anyone else is interested!

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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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Thanks so much for the tag, @winglesswriter!

Rules: take this uquiz to find out if you're a soldier, a king, or a poet, then use this Picrew to make yourself as that!

That's such a fun quiz, wow, and pretty on the nose also 😫 And a fun picrew! I'll pass the tags on to anyone who sees this and also @mysticstarlightduck @vsnotresponding @asher-writes @space-writes @eli-writes-sometimes @zmwrites and @sleepy-night-child!

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me: *writes fic*

me: great! time to post to ao3-

ao3 summary box: *exists*

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me writing fictional couples: oh wow…. the tenderness, the devotion, the romance

me irl:

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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

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Happy STS! As it's the first Saturday of Pride Month, how about a little rainbow roll call? How do your characters identify?

Hey Tori! Thanks for the ask, and happy STS!

The Band are very queer, and all of them are part of the community in one way or another!

Both Riley and Kai are transmasc, and Phoenix is genderfluid

Ash is a lesbian, Phoenix is pan, and Riley is bi

Niamh is loveless aro, and Kai is demiromantic ace

Thanks for the ask and happy Pride!

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Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.

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REBLOG POSTS❗❗ COMMENT ON FICS❗❗COMPLIMENT FANART ❗❗LEAVE LITTLE NOTES IN THE TAGS❗❗ BOOKMARK FICS YOU LIKE❗❗ TELL AUTHORS WHAT YOU LIKED ABOUT THEIR FICS❗❗COMMENT ON DECADE OLD FICS ❗❗ADD YOUR OWN ANALYSIS IN LONG POSTS❗❗ENGAGE❗❗ INTERACT❗❗ BUILD A COMMUNITY ❗❗

While people don't work for engagement, it certainly doesn't do any harm..

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Finding the Write Time - "Did you think I would be okay with this?"

I'm taking part in @did-i-do-this-write's monthly, writing challenge, Finding the Write Time!

This month, the prompt was "Did you think I would be okay with this?", and I used it to write about what happened just before this story I wrote for February's prompt!

I love this challenge, and I'm especially glad that I got to flesh out something that I wrote earlier this year!

(Plus, there's a bonus little thing at the end!)

@meteorify if you're interested :)

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It's been six months, three weeks, and two days since my life ended. I might still be alive, but the light of my life, the person that kept me going through everything died that night, and my soul died with her.

Even now, as I sit slumped on the floor, staring at a photo of the five of us from over a year ago, all so young and full of life, I wonder how there's any way that I can move on. The hole in my chest just feels like it's growing larger and larger as I stare at her face, eyes tracing the features that I knew so well for the millionth time, her smile frozen in time and so far from the pain that I saw in her eyes on that night.

In one of the Lair's other rooms, I can hear Kai and Ash. They're laughing softly to each other as the TV chatters in the background, and I can't imagne how they can stand to laugh, to even smile, in a world where she isn't here anymore. What's the point of smiling in a world with no joy?

As I bite back the tears that threaten to drown me, I'm shocked out of my thoughts by the harsh electronic sound of the phone ringing.

I pull myself up from the floor with weak arms, and stumble to the desk where the radio lay abandoned, and flick my finger in its direction. The accept call button weakly pushes down and I use all my energy to will the radio closer to me. It slowly slides over the table, and no sooner is it next to my ear than the overly-cheerful voice of Jane Doe spills out.

"Hello there! Who am I speaking with?" She sounds far too happy considering there's nothing in this world to be happy about. "It's Skywalker, Jane. What do you want?" I put on my best Leader voice. "Ah, Agent Skywalker! Just the man I wanted to talk to!"

That doesn't sound good. 

"What did you want?" "I need to ask you about how the hunt is going for a new member of the Band! You know, the hunt that you assured me would be over in a week or two... three months ago."

I choke back the groan building in my throat and opt instead to say nothing.

"Ah." She sounds significantly colder. "Your silence speaks volumes. Do you have at least one candidate?"

More silence. She doesn't want to hear what I have to say, so I might as well not tell her. 

"Not even one? I must say, Skywalker, this is a disappointment." "What do you want me to say?" I burst. "There's no one on this planet that could replace her, how can you expect me to try? Why would I want to? She's gone, and there's no way to bring her back, so sorry if I'm not exactly in the mood to try and replace her!"

Now it's Jane's turn to fall silent. I hear her inhale deeply two or three times before her voice finally returns.

"Well. I didn't want to have to do this, Skywalker, I really didn't, but you're not leaving me much choice here."

My stomach drops. "What- what don't you want to have to do?" "If you and the Band do not manage to find a new member in the next - oh, I don't know - two weeks, then the faculty and I will have to step in and we will assign you a new member based on new recruits and how long they have been waiting to be assigned a taskforce. We wanted to give you as much freedom to mourn as we could, but enough is enough." 

My breath catches in my throat, and my thoughts speed up to a thousand times their normal speed.

A new member- assigned by Jane?! 

"But we- we agreed! The Band could choose someone that worked well with us, that we all got on with, but you- you planned to just pick someone else!? Did you think that I would be okay with this- did you think that we would be okay with this? This isn't the choice that you said you'd give us!"

She sighs. "I wanted to give you that choice, I really did. But you just took too long. Now you have a fortnight until we make the choice for you - up to that point, it's still up to you. I suggest that you make the most of this time."

I open my mouth to protest, to say something, anything that could make her reconsider, but she hangs up before the words come out.

I barely manage to make it to the couch before my knees give way. I collapse next to the discarded photo, and I pick it back up. 

Carmen's face stares out from the center of the photo, one eye on the camera and one on me as she clasps my hand in hers; I can almost feel it now, the warmth of her skin against mine, just like all the times that we shared when she... when she was still her.

My whole world died that night, and now Jane wants me to find someone else, someone with all her spirit and fire, that understands us the way that she did, in two weeks like it's nothing? It's impossible. But if we don't...

I can't think about the alternative. I don't know what to think about. What the hell are we going to do?

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And as an added bonus, this is the photo that Riley was looking at! I drew it a while ago, and I thought that it would be cool to incorporate sme of my art into my writing :D

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OC Height Tag

Thanks to @oh-no-another-idea for the tag!

Rules: Describe or show your characters' heights. (I used this site!)

I did this with the Band - sadly there weren't any with wings for Kai, and I couldn't use any of the ones with bows for Phoenix because they messed up the proportions of the lineup, but other than that I love how this came out!

Tagging @new-royston-cursebreakers @druidx and anyone else who wants to!