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do you ever not write for so long that you’re almost afraid to? like what if I’m dumb now

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Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (Austrian,1891-1978)

Black Cat, 1922

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itsy bitsy!

i wanted to play with proportions and make something as close to a chibi as i'm able to get -> ended up with this palm-sized spider. a fun experiment and mega charming, though if i'm ever struck by the urge to print more of these, i will probably make them a bit less compact.

the floral patterns are cut from a satin shirt i thrifted specifically for this purpose. i love this technique, especially because i don't have to worry about it rubbing away at joints.

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Sure why not it’s been a while (also hi! It’s been a while)

How many works on Ao3?

247 split across 2 accounts (230 on one, 17 on the other - the 230 is my old ocean king account, the 17 is a newer account I'm probably just going to merge back into the ocean king one)

2. Total AO3 Word Count?

600,771 3. Top 5 fics by Kudos

Weirdly Magical (Kudos: 1723) - Gravity Falls/The Owl House crossover - also one of the first ever crossovers between these shows

2. Dead Souls Living (Kudos: 484) - RWBY alternate canon timeline thingy where Atlas faked Ruby's death at the Fall of Beacon and then Lots of Shit Mainly Nuts and Dolts-Flavored Happened

3. An Unusual Situation (Kudos: 424) - Carmen Sandiego pandemic fic where Carmen stayed with Julia in her apartment

4. Down The Road (Kudos: 387) - Trollhunters post canon fic - I'm specifying Trollhunters here bc it was written after the original show ended and before either 3Below or Wizards aired.

5. Warmth (Kudos: 366) - Carmen Sandiego ficlet where Julia helps Carmen warm up

4. What fandoms do you write for? The ones I've written the most for are the Tales of Arcadia, RWBY, The Magnus Archives, and Malevolent Podcast. However, I don't currently consider myself actively writing in any of those.

5. Do you respond to comments?

In the past, only on ongoing/long fics. Very rarely on oneshots (tho I have at times).

6. Angstiest Ending?/7. Fic with the happiest ending?

Honestly, it's been a few years since I wrote the majority of my fics and I don't remember exactly which I would have answered with.

8. Do you get hate?

Not that I remember (tho I probably would have just deleted and moved on).

9. Do you write smut?

A handful of times, yes.

10. Do you write crossovers?

The Gravity Falls/Owl House one, also I wanna say the characters of Tangled appeared in a Tales of Arcadia fic at some point.

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge (tho I don't regularly keep an eye on them). Tho, in the past, things like people's requests to adopt Souls make my eye twitch.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

One of my ToA ficlets got translated here

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic?

No

14. All time favorite ship?

Barbmura (Barbara Lake/Nomura of Tales of Arcadia) (admittedly it wins bc I'm not as intensely attached to ships as I used to be, but also I will always always have a soft spot for it)

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

*sighs* Dead Souls Living idk it's one of the most planned out things I've ever created and there's a part of me that still would have loved to see it brought to a satisfying conclusion but it also takes a lot of work for each and every chapter and I just stopped having that energy to give it.

16. Writing strengths?

I've gotten way more experimental with what I try to accomplish in my writing and that's lead to interesting places.

17. Writing Weaknesses?

I have to be emotionally attached/anchored to characters to write them. If that attachment breaks, then all writing for those characters just stops.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

Interesting, but I don't know enough about different languages to pull it off. 19. First fandom you wrote for? If we're being super technical, Futurama back in ye olden days of when I was a teenager (and I did post to fanfiction.net), but I largely consider my time in the Tales of Arcadia fandom as my first fandom/the start of me being active in fandoms. 20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

I think it's always going to be Rose Puppetry, had a lot of fun with that one

20 questions with a Fanfic Author

Thank you for the tag, @aerialworms

How many works on Ao3?

320 public (albeit mostly archive-locked), and then there are three unrevealed works as well.

2. Total AO3 Word Count?

332,344

3. Top 5 fics by Kudos

Reunions and Revelations: Post-Rise of the Titans fix-it, except I never watched RotT. I find it rather interesting that despite krexie being such a controversial ship, this still manages to rank above any other ToA fic I've ever written. Rated G.

Supplanter: Changeling!Jim meets his familiar while in the Darklands. Rated T.

Birds, Bees, and Blood Magic: co-authored by @tunafishprincess and based on Tuna's AU where Jim and Claire accidentally made a magic baby in a cauldron. Rated G, on almost-certainly permanent hiatus (Tuna, if you want to change that, let me know).

Merlin’s Unavailable (Please Leave a Message with his Apprentice): AU where Douxie was the wizard in the tomb instead of Merlin. Rated G.

No Reason for Love: Post-Wizards AU in which Krel merged with Gaylen's core to defeat the Arcane Order, and then he went into self-imposed exile because he hates himself for merging with the core to keep everyone safe from himself... except Douxie followed him into exile. Rated T.

4. What fandoms do you write for?

At the moment, my fandoms are Khyber Shards and its sequel Blades and Banners as well as whatever fandom I get assigned to for an exchange. Also, I have a plot bunny in the works for Eberron Renewed.

5. Do you respond to comments?

If I have the spoons to.

6. Angstiest Ending?

One of my recent fics, the priest that you ignored might qualify because the main character of it tries to bait her friends into killing her.

7. Fic with the happiest ending?

Out of my recent fics it has to be Body Temperature Restored, since Gideon gets brought back from the dead.

8. Do you get hate?

One of the major reasons why I no longer post on FFN is, well. Let's say I get 100 reviews over the course of a couple months. 90 of them are those "pay me to draw fanart" scams. 9 are queerphobic hate comments. 1 is genuine.

Meanwhile, AO3 is so much nicer.

9. Do you write smut?

The closest I have gotten is fade-to-black foreplay.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Generally no, but I do have a couple crossover plotbunnies hopping around my head.

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

Roughly half of my fics got scraped.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Once someone offered, but otherwise the closest I've ever gotten is writing a fic in German for my German class, rewriting it in English, and then uploading both versions.

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic?

See question 3.

14. All time favorite ship?

Apparently it's krexie, since I wrote 35 fics about them on AO3.

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

All of them. However, my ToA muse has pretty much moved on.

16. Writing strengths?

Angst.

17. Writing Weaknesses?

Fluff, as in true fluff and not just hurt/comfort. Also, anything that requires me to be hyper-aware of bodily positioning, like fight scenes and smut.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

I enjoy it if you either link a footnote or do something cool with hover text, especially if the POV character is supposed to know what's being said.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Either Miraculous Ladybug or Tai Chi Chasers. I fist published for ML, but idk how long my TCC fic had been in the works since it was a decade ago.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

How dare you make me choose?

I guess I'd have to narrow it down to either the longest fic (Destiny's Pawn), my only completed multichap that's longer than a 2-shot (Juliet Dies in This), or first time I wrote the first fic in a fandom (A Burning Helm). Those are the three I'm most proud of for different reasons.

I'll tag @tunafishprincess, @avirxy, @pirate-melody, @elizabethemerald, @littlecactiguy, and @autumnalfallingleaves

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Seals in Kelp Forest.

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pi telling mom about his day

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my mind for the past four days:

Dai-dai-yenu

Dai-dai-yenu

Dai-dai-yenu

Dayenu

Dayenu!

(dayenu)

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i just saw a post on reddit titled "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" and it was about OP clicking off a fic because they don't like the direction it's going in. slightly different context but can we all be more like this reddit OP. i think "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" should be the new "don't like don't read." dead doves may give you diarrhea but don't make that everyone else's problem.

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Once upon a time there was a girl whose wicked stepmother forced her to clean the entire house for Pesach all by herself. So while her stepmother and stepsisters left early for the grand seder at the Prince's palace, the girl spent the afternoon sweeping and dusting and washing and polishing. As she finally burned the last crumbs of chametz in the fireplace, she saw the sun setting and knew she would never make it to the Prince's seder on time, so she began to prepare her own meager dinner: a little Passover pizza. But miraculously, her fairy godmother appeared and transformed the pizza into a flying carpet to take her to the palace, and the cheese into a beautiful dress for her to wear. And to commemorate this story, to this very day, that cheese is named after that girl: they called her Matzah-rella.

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Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Additional Tags: Jonmartin Week 2025, Alternate Universe - Gods & Goddesses, Angst, Tragic Romance Summary:

Martin arrives at the sacrificial alter in the woods too late.

Wrote a jmart for the first time in ages and I’m a bit proud of that. @jonmartinweek Day 4: Myths & Gods

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You really need to make non-tragic past for your characters, significant people and events that impacted their lives, non-dramatic mundane moments that shaped them, happy memories, bitter memories, embarrassing memories.

Like yes the space princess lost her whole civilization, but did she have friends before that? Favorite place? Does she miss the sound of her favorite music she use to listen to?

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Whimsical glass bottles