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erseac · 7 days

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Too many WIPs, head full.

Currently no good ideas for Alyanette or Marigami, but I do want to do something with them again as well.

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erseac · 17 days

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I've been participating in the Rare Kink Buffet event over on Ao3, and it's been a lot of fun! I've submitted three prompts and in return filled two so far. I want to get to at least three, just out of a sense of fairness. The stories had to be at least 100 words, but I'm too stupid to get to the point that quickly, so mine are around 1k. Maybe the third will be shorter.

The fun yet annoying thing is that the stories will only be revealed next month, so for now they're sitting in Ao3, difficult to access even for me (tip if you're in the same situation: The "edit multiple works" button can lead you to them), and I can't talk about them or hear what people think about them.

So instead, I'm just going to complain about irrelevant details of the way events work in Ao3, just to pass the time.

First of, let me be clear that I'm very happy that Ao3 has these mechanisms at all. It's great. But here are some issues:

No comments on Prompts. I think it's good if events can turn that off, but I think in a lot of cases, it can be fun to discuss and develop prompts with others. This frequently happens on discord and my understanding is that it was common with kink memes in the Livejournal days (I wasn't on Livejournal, and I tried Dreamwidth but did not like it at all). That would be a nice feature.

No discussion at all. I found the event through a link someone posted on a discord server. I don't know the people who run it or participate in it at all. I think it could be more fun if that were different. There are very valid reasons why Ao3 doesn't want to be a social media site, but this prompt feature is basically a social media feature already, just one without a lot of features.

UX for writing prompts is bad. There is "edit prompt" and "edit sign-up", and the latter just seems to be a list of all prompts, because there's really nothing to a sign-up other than that. Which parts of the page allow you to add prompts seems to be basically random.

UX for finding prompts is bad. You can go through the list, sorted either by fandom or by date added, and that's it. You can't exclude or include certain fandoms or tags or even just text in the prompt to find one that's interesting. That's okay for smaller events, but at 1k prompts, most of which are fandoms I never read the source material for, it's not ideal.

UX for timing stuff is less than ideal. You can't sign up or submit new prompts to the event I'm talking about here anymore, because they closed that at a certain point. Makes sense. But there's no way to actually learn that, you just see that the relevant buttons have disappeared.

So I think there's still some room for improvement here for the Ao3 devs.

And in case you're wondering, no, I will not help them, I don't know anything about Ruby on Rails, I'm a desktop and mobile programmer strictly. But I do donate to the archive regularly.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the stories that come out of that!

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erseac · 18 days

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I can't write drabbles. I've tried twice now to write prompts for a prompting event where the minimum word count is 100, and both of them ended up around 1k. I just don't know how else to do it.

(The stories will be revealed next month, by the way, due to the rules of that event)

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erseac · 1 month

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I wish we could bring back kink memes! The ones on livejournal I liked best were completely anonymous though so I’m not so sure that would work on tumblr.

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People run them on Dreamwidth. I suppose you could run one as an anon askblog. There's also that AO3 feature.

But honestly, the oldschool types just run them on DW.

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erseac · 1 month

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It's been a fun challenge getting some of them together! Admittedly I did take the easy way out, but even so, I had a lot of fun thinking of who to pick and how they'd interact.

Dance Floors and Dragons

Rated E, Kagami/Rose, Juleka/Ivan, Kagami/Mireille, Kagami/Marinette, and background Kagami/almost everyone.

Kagami had never wished she had a stomach bug and was at home throwing up before, but this time it did seem like a compelling alternative. Anything to avoid being here. It was the most frightening spot she had ever been in: A cool party.

Of course she had always known her high-society events, boring but easy to handle as long you memorised all the etiquette. She had also become familiar with the parties Marinette liked to throw, free-flowing things where instead of structure, she could rely on friends. The official Kitty Section album wrap party was neither of these. The special exclusive band-and-friends afterparty even less so.

Kagami knew that it was a big honour to be invited; it was legendary, according to the other people in her university. There were only ever a couple dozen invitees, mostly celebrities and people from the music business. People were only invited if band members allowed it, and they didn’t do so very often. But that didn’t have to mean she’d enjoy it.

It had taken Marinette and her other friends (but mostly Marinette) literally years to convince Kagami to come as Marinette’s plus one. And for a while, Kagami had been looking forward to it. Kagami could do anything with her best friend by her side.

Picking out the outfit earlier today had been particularly fun. Kagami was wearing combat boots, fishnets, a mini-skirt that was just starting to show a hint of butt cheek, a tiny tied crop-top, and just to be cheeky, a crooked red neck tie. Seeing Kagami like that had turned Marinette into a stuttering mess.

Of course Marinette had been even hotter, at least in Kagami’s view, wearing a custom minidress that seemed to be more cut-out than fabric. Marinette had joked that you didn’t need to underwear at this party if you didn’t want to, but looking at her dress, Kagami wasn’t actually sure it was a joke. They were definitely going to turn everyone’s head on the dance floor. And even if not, dancing so close to Marinette… Kagami felt her heart flutter just from the thought.

It had all seemed perfect, right until they had been ready to head out… and Marinette had to run to the bathroom to throw up. Some annoying stomach bug, apparently. Of course Kagami had wanted to stay and care for Marinette, but Marinette had refused to listen to any of it. She had insisted Kagami go out and have fun, and Kagami had been too bewitched by Marinette’s force of personality (and perhaps also her cleavage) to say no.

So now she was at one of the most legendary parties of the year, the one that all her peers dreamed about getting a glimpse of, and she was standing in the corner, very slowly sipping her glass of champagne, wondering when it would be acceptable to go back home.

“Oh, hey, having fun!?”

Kagami turned around to see Rose, chipper as ever, going against the general trend by wearing a frilly pink dress. Rose took one look at her overall demeanour, and drew the appropriate conclusions.

“Standing in the corner like that, you don’t seem very eager to be here, do you?”

Kagami nodded.

“I am not used to this kind of party. I expected Marinette would be here, but, well… On my own, I don’t think I fit here. This may not be my kind of night.”

“Oh yeah, poor Marinette”, said Rose. “But that stuff about not fitting, that’s nonsense. You look great and everybody here likes you. We just need to make it your kind of night! Hey, I know, let’s dance!”

Rose had enough enthusiasm for the two of them, which was just as well, as Kagami was fresh out.

“I don’t know how to dance to this music. I think it’s better if I just-“

“Kagami Tsurugi!”, growled Rose, suddenly right up in Kagami’s face and amazingly angry. “This is my party, and I will not allow you to be miserable! You will have a good time here at this party, and you do not get a say in the matter! Are we clear!?”

Read the rest on Ao3

The main inspiration for this was this shipping overview by @adeadmansbliss. Lots of pairings there that nobody has written yet, and it was a lot of fun filling in these slots!

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