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1930s news about a trans woman: Well I'll be curfuffled young Corlotta Jhonson has transformed herself from a dandy into a dame and what a Bombshell she's become. And How!

1930s news about trans men: Wanted dead or alive this young lady who started wearing trousers, the tomboy terror known only as The Crust is wanted for snorting the President's personal stash of opium and has slain nearly every senate member in a pistol duel.

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I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

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Who made this edit, it's the most valid one

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flying solo with vecna on the loose? no, it's too dangerous. you need…you need someone to…

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This came to me in a fuckin dream….

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im getting really fucking sick of all this “it gets better!” bullshit. im going to have depression for the rest of my life. it’s not going to “””get better””” fuck you

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Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

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I want try getting into writing fanfiction again but im honestly a bit intimidated on how to go about it. Do you have any tips how how you go about writing your fics and plan them and such?

Uhhh. Half of the time I have no idea how I do what I do. I've been writing for so long that now I just sort of... do it. But here's what I remember doing when I started.

Write what you want to read. Who cares if it's wacky or doesn't make sense or no one would read it, if is something you want to read but no one's writing it, write it. A thing that exists is always better than thing that doesn't. And if what you want to write is That Popular Trope with 60k fics that already exists then, hell, that's awesome, there's an audience obviously into that stuff, that's great. 

Even 6 words is writing. Seriously. Start with a sentence, don't stop to edit it, just start somewhere. You can write a whole tragedy with 6 words.

I started a lot of my early writing usually by having a Scene, this Shining Brilliant Moment somewhere in the future which would be Cool and Epic and Pretty Neat. I just had to write all the way To The Scene in my head. I still write like that lot of the time - I have this image in my head of What Will Happen Eventually and all the writing that happens before it exists to make the Scene Happen. (And then the Scene never happens and the story takes a mad U-turn but that's okay, stories be like that sometimes.) 

Maybe try writing flash fiction. Little bits of under 1000 words. I've done a Lot of those just for fun and practice. No stress no worries, just few hundred words of nonsense.

Don't sweat it. Seriously. It's fanfiction. Who cares. Just go "fuck it" and write your thing. Write 55 words of someone spilling their coffee on their otp and boom, that's fanfiction, baby.

And that thing everyone says about how "prepare to suck" and "everyone's writing sucks at first" and all that? Fuck that shit, it's the most demotivating crap I've ever heard. Seriously. The first (thousand) bits of writing I ever did are now, subjectively speaking, compete trash, but if young me had looked at it and thought "wow, I wrote some garbage here," I would've never continued to write. No, it was a Thing that I Wrote With My Own Fingers, a Thing That Only Exists Because I Wrote It and How Awesome Is That? 

If it's the best you can do then it's the *best you can do*. Did you have fun writing it? Awesome. That's all that matters.

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I was wondering if you had any advice on how to approach worldbuilding? I really love time travel fix it fics and Oh, Where do We Agin I think is one of the most unique I have seen in terms of worldbuilding and approach but it makes for such a vibrant and alive world where everything feels interconnected and I myself really struggle with trying to develop the setting in that way. I think I often find myself blanking and not knowing how to proceed when I try to ask myself questions about the setting and fill in blanks such as what traditions would a character from x have and why. Or why is a piece of the world seen this way and how would it shape characters who grew up in it. Or how would things get done in ages with the same or different technology that we have. How do you personally approach fleshing out a world?

I don't really know how to use tumblr and have never used an ask before so I am sorry if this is a weird question! I really love your works and hope you have a lovely day.

Research, lots and lots of research. I'm sorry, there's no way around it, really, especially if you want to do good time travel - you just need to look up books or videos or whatever, and internalize knowledge to use in your stories.

If you've ever heard of the "Visual Library" of artists, where best painters are the ones who'd spent a lot of time observing and sketching the things they see to get better? Yeah, that applies to writing too.

It's the sad fact of creation. To write about something accurately, you just need to know about it too. You can listen to podcasts or video essays or get summaries on reddit whatever you need. Easiest way to get good view on "how things used to be" is looking up stories from that period or near equivalent. To figure out "why piece of a world is that way" you just need to find the right documentary. There probably is one out there.

Watching movies/tv shows about the Thing You're Looking Into can be the best research, because usually those kinds of productions have done the research for you. Usually.

My trick is writing about stuff I'm already interested in, stuff I've already looked into. I've watched and read and listened to lot of stuff about, for example, the Renaissance period, which I've then integrated into the writing of my various AC2 time travel stories. I'm nowhere near as into the Crusades which is why I've written way less about AC1. I like plants and gardening and hydroponics so I have a lot of fics about plants and gardening and hydroponics. I'm no expert about any of those things, but I'm interested - and writing about them is as much an excuse to do more research as it is to put what I already know into good use.

Ultimately though, this is stuff that comes with practice. I don't know how old you are or how long you've been writing - I've got almost 30 years of writing under my belt now, and it's a lot of time to accumulate knowledge and experience.

TLDR: Wikipedia, Reddit, Youtube and the Local Library.

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Observations from the mouthwashing fandom

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cleaning along desire paths