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Have I? I feel like I was halfway there and then the ao3 curse got me (by which I mean I chose to prioritize RL things, many of which were positive but also some regrets) and now I'm just peeking in through the window, wondering which other shoe will drop if I risk opening the door.

My memory ain't what it used to be, I don't have a lot of spoons, and social anxiety crept in while I wasn't looking and seeped into the fabric of my mind. Also the world's a dumpster fire. I do not know How To Friendship any more (if I ever did).

reblog if you've made a good friend on tumblr.

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Free Wheelin

Rated T

CW: non-graphic depictions of a broken arm and likely mild to moderate concussion, references to alcohol

CRACK FIC!!!

Crowley is a regular participant in the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake. Aziraphale is the baffled paramedic waiting for him at the bottom.

Aziraphale took one look at the grinning lunatic in sunglasses, which had stayed on his face despite all laws of physics, and knew by the way he clutched at his arm as he limped his way upright that he’d probably managed to break it whilst pinwheeling down 200 meters of nearly thirty degree slope at speeds faster than Aziraphale was comfortable peddling his bicycle on relatively flat ground. Even more perplexing than the fact that he’d done this in the first place was the fact that once he’d done it, and had suffered the easily foreseen and very painful consequences, he wasn’t immediately rushing himself to the nearest ambulance. Instead, he turned towards the officiant at the line and yelled “Oi, did I win?!”

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just a heads up to my fellow writers out there that AO3 is currently fighting off bots commenting on people’s works to tell them that AO3 will delete their fics “due to the works being deprecated”, and the deletion will affect their accounts unless the authors delete the fics themselves first. IT IS A SCAM. AO3 will NOT delete your works. please do NOT fall for these bots!

I’ve been told the reason why these bots are doing this is due to copyright infringement issue where they’re trying to steal your works (possibly to train AI but this is just a guess) ‼️‼️‼️and once you deleted your fics, it will be either very difficult or impossible for you to claim ownership of your own fics when they were already deleted.‼️‼️‼️

a reminder that AO3 will never contact you through your comments section (in case they claim to be one of the moderators). AO3 will only contact you through your email address which you use to register your account, and it will be from AO3’s official handle. not some sketchy ass @

so if you get a comment telling you you should “delete your works to protect your account because AO3 is doing blah blah blah” report that comment. don’t delete your works.

PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THESE SCAM.

AO3 IS NOT DELETING WORKS.

DO NOT DELETE YOUR WORKS JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE CLAIMS THEY KNOW SOMETHING.

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Body swaps are commonplace. It's been that way for awhile. They first figured out the method to do it during the second world war. And it was a key way that spies infiltrated enemy nations for much of the cold war. Though by the late nineties it was so commonplace that most people would swap at least once in their life.

Sometimes the very poor, if they were young and fit and attractive, would sell their bodies to those who could afford them. There's laws cracking down on permanently swapping bodies for money, but it still happens just in subtler ways then it did in the 2000s. A young healthy man in need of money might find himself swapping with a rich old man for a small fortune, as a sort of deal with the devil. Useally under the assumption that he'd get a better body for himself someday.

Of course, there's more mundane and temporary ways people swap bodies for jobs. Actors for example, almost always use body swaps to get the right look nowadays. An good, well trained actor will be swapped into someone with the right look for the part when they get on set or on stage, and then swap back when they clock out. Militaries do the same thing, swapping their best trained soldiers into the bodies of their strongest and fittest, useally having a separate "trained core" and "body core".

Of course, if someone dies while they're swapped there's no getting your body back. There's rumor of an aged Shakespeare trained actress who body swapped into the body of a young model for a movie, who deliberately orchestrated the death of the model while she was in her body so she could permanently take her body as her own.

Body swapping has also done wonders for the trans community. Most binary trans people don't even try to medically transition anymore, as swapping with a trans person of the opposite agab is the easiest way to transition. There's also subcultures on the more nonbinary and gender fluid side of things who trade around bodies with eachother, modifying them as almost a sort of shared recourse. Of course, none of this has made bigots more accepting, if anything people are even more paranoid that someone they're talking to could have been born into a different sex now that people can so perfectly transition.

Racial issues have also been changed by body swapping. There's controversy amoung both the openly racist and the anti racist over if and when it's ok to swap with another race, and being in another race's body makes you that race. Not to mention there are some people of color who try way too desperately to swap into white bodies, and then the vast plurality of those communities who consider it a sort of treasonous act. Quite recently the son of a South Korean billionaire payed nearly two million dollars to have a body he got from a British expat, causing the country's government to officially condemn paid body swaps.

It's also made crime harder the trace. It's very hard to prove you did something even if there's video evidence of you doing it, as it could easily be someone else in your body. It tends to be when the powerful get caught for crimes this is a good enough excuse. Though for the poor it's often been used to explain why they're being changed for crimes committed by people who looked nothing like them, or crimes that happened when they were confirmed to be in another place.

It's all so commonplace now. Most people have a signature way of dressing, and often a type of mask they wear over their face just because it's easier then relying on bodies to identify people. You're used to knowing people who used to have different bodies for whatever reason. You know a pair of fraternal twins who grew up swapping with eachother so often they don't even really think about whose body belongs to who. You know someone who swapped bodies in his freshmen year of college with his ex boyfriend and never saw his original body again. It's just how the world is now.

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So, I have a request. I know most of the people who will see this follow me because of Good Omens, which is awesome. I have made incredible friends in the Good Omens community and have had the best writing experiences of my life writing fanfic.

I also love The Wheel of Time, and its fandom. It was recently cancelled by Amazon. As a very queer show, perhaps this is not surprising - queer shows are currently being cancelled at twice the rate of non-queer shows.

So, now to my request. Good Omens fandom, would you sign the petition to save the wheel of time? Even if you’ve never watched the show, could you do it in fan solidarity? It only takes a minute. We’ve got our (abbreviated) finale for Good Omens - please can you help wheel of time finish its story too?

https://savewot.com/

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Holy crap that looks like my fic 💚 except I also used squares, which... I think were more complete than circles, but I forgot, because I haven't opened the document in months 🫠 but it's a useful system!

one of the best things I did when transitioning my writing from solely fanfic to my original novel was developing a progress system.

all the premade software and planning books were just overwhelming and did not work for me. it also did not motivate me at all. i can not do sequential writing because i will get writers block and just not write.

so with google docs, i made a color system, and oh boy, it has been so helpful. i can see at a glance what has been done, what needs doing, and what could be worked on.

this helps because depending on how many spoons i have to write, i know where i can apply my given effort for the day. some days its just proofing, some days its just starting a chapter, and some days its knocking out a whole thing.

very helpful if you're AuDHD or have chronic conditions like me!

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wishing I could freeze time so fanfic writers could write all of their slow-burn enemies to lovers and gay porn and fix-it fics and all of their WIPs and prompts without having to worry about life and other responsibilities

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“It is said that, during the fantasy boom in the late eighties, publishers would maybe get a box containing two or three runic alphabets, four maps of the major areas covered by the sweep of the narrative, a pronunciation guide to the names of the main characters and, at the bottom of the box, the manuscript. Please… there is no need to go that far. There is a term that readers have been known to apply to fantasy that is sometimes an unquestioning echo of better work gone before, with a static society, conveniently ugly ‘bad’ races, magic that works like electricity and horses that work like cars. It’s EFP, or Extruded Fantasy Product. It can be recognized by the fact that you can’t tell it apart form all the other EFP. Do not write it, and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees. Apply logic in places where it wasn’t intended to exist. If assured that the Queen of the Fairies has a necklace made of broken promises, ask yourself what it looks like. If there is magic, where does it come from? Why isn’t everyone using it? What rules will you have to give it to allow some tension in your story? How does society operate? Where does the food come from? You need to know how your world works. I can’t stress that last point enough. Fantasy works best when you take it seriously (it can also become a lot funnier, but that’s another story). Taking it seriously means that there must be rules. If anything can happen, then there is no real suspense. You are allowed to make pigs fly, but you must take into account the depredations on the local bird life and the need for people in heavily over-flown areas to carry stout umbrellas at all times. Joking aside, that sort of thinking is the motor that has kept the Discworld series moving for twenty-two years.”

— “Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real” (2007), Terry Pratchett. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)

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Puzzle, yes! My stories come together a bit like a jigsaw puzzle. I have a few key moments of awesome that give me motivation to pull things together, and then I add more to give the outline structure. Sometimes I build out from an established patch, sometimes I see something that just *has* to go in a specific blank spot. :)

Most of that is outlining, but I've also written key scenes while the idea is fresh in my head. They'll probably need some rewriting once I get to fully writing that chapter, but that's better than discovering my outline notes are cryptic and I've forgotten what a critical moment meant.

And it's not like earlier chapters are immune from needing a rewrite; what if my characters veto the plot and something I was foreshadowing just isn't going to happen? Or I need to go sneak in some foreshadowing for a cool idea that showed up late?

I do the *majority* of my writing chapter by chapter, but within that I jump around a lot too, taking full advantage of [square brackets] to leave the harder parts for the next pass.

Quick Plotting Tip: Write Your Story Backwards

If you have a difficult time plotting, try writing or outlining your story backwards—from the end to the beginning. Writers who have a difficult time outlining, plotting, and planning their stories often benefit from this technique. You’ll need a general idea of what your story is about for this to work, and of course you need to know the ending, but you might be amazed how helpful this trick can be.

Why is writing backwards easier? Basically, instead of answering the question “this happened… now what comes next?,” you’ll be answering the question “this happened… so what would come right before that?” which narrows the possibilities for your next move and can help keep your story on track. (Incidentally, it’s also the way Joseph Gordan-Levitt’s character comes out on top in the film The Lookout.)

Writing backwards can also help you more tightly weave together your subplots, themes, and character relationships, and keep you from going too far down any irrelevant rabbit holes.

If you don’t want to write or outline completely backwards, remember that you’re free to jump around! If you’re feeling stuck in your story or novel, jump to the middle or end and write a few scenes. Many writers get stuck because they feel they have to write their story linearly from beginning to end, which results in an overdeveloped (and often irrelevant) beginning and an underdeveloped ending.

So go work on that ending! It’s much more likely that you will need to change your beginning to fit your ending than the other way around, so spend time on your ending sooner rather than later!

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Yeah... I thought I was cis (or close enough to not care) until I moved to a small town, made some new friends, and the girls were prepping for a wedding. At one point I was outside and one of the guys mentioned that "the girls" were all in the bedroom, I had an initial "I'm right here" thought, and then went... Actually, he's not wrong, I was so out of place when I wandered in there before. "Girl" (or woman, whatever) just doesn't quite fit like it used to. And yet I've never *quite* been one of the guys either.

At my highschool friend's wedding, OTOH, I ended up with the girls, doing last-minute setup and shooing the guys off to get dressed. 🤣 We ended up with like 20 minutes to get our own dresses on (well, I picked pants) and it was fine.

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

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just wanted to share the National Down Syndrome Society’s message for this year’s World Down Syndrome Day (21st March) 💛💙