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Well, I was willing to forgive one stupid politics post from the person I followed for fun comics stuff but this is the second one 😩 and this one wasn't a reblog

Unfollowed.

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The other day I went through my ao3 comments and screencapped the best ones and compiled them all into one document.

And... wow, I seriously recommend this. It takes a while (probably much longer if you're a more popular writer than me!) but I'd forgotten a lot of these and seeing them all together... it legitimately made me cry.

I'm not someone who writes for comments. If people don't want to comment then they dont have to; fanfic is a gift, not a transaction. I put my stories out there and figure they'll find their audience eventually, even if that audience is only one other person ten years from now. Mainly I write because there are stories I want to tell. And I like my own writing, but it's also way too easy for me to see the flaws in it and to compare it to the kind of stories I wish I could write. But this was a good reminder that other people aren't seeing that.

And those people: The sheer amount of people telling me they liked what I'd written, that it made them laugh or cry or that it was hot or that they liked a particular phrase. Some names I saw over and over again for years-- some of them my fandom friends, some of them complete strangers. The people who commented just to say they reread this story all the time. The person who said they were going to share the Yuletide gift I'd written with all their friends. The person who said my story inspired them to write their own.

It was a really nice shift of my perspective. And now I have a lot of those all in one easy place to look at next time I feel discouraged about my writing 💞

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

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Reblog and put in the tags the fourth song that’s in your spotify on repeat playlist

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I would like to note that contrary to popular belief, tuxedo cats are not little businessmen!

tuxedo is formal party attire, if you wore one at a business function, you would be inappropriately dressed!

tuxedo cats are, instead, lil fancy guys, darling socialites, even

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I've heard of "they would not fucking say that" but I also sometimes feel like. Not only would they not say that, they specifically said the opposite of that and I know you all know it

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trans guy who finally figured out his name, about to come out in the funniest way to his friends: hey guys can i be frank with you all

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Yes this poll is very biased in favor of North America lol

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At the local bar doing trivia night theme of presidents absolutely whiffing failing every question. Nobody on our team knows fuckall about the presidents heights this isnt basketball and everyone here isnt a sportsgay even if it were. Here comes the next question. Who was the only president who never married? My boyfriend and I look at each other. Wild eyed. Knowing. Hush falls over the bar as groups panic trying to divine this knowledge from the aether. “I know this one” beckett says, sounding hunted. “I know,” i say back, like we’ve been stalking a great and terrible man-eating beast for its head and turned around to discover it behind us. “Who the fuck,” my friend says. The answer rises in me like the tide. Unstoppable. “James Buchanan,” i say, and then bite my tongue to stop myself from continuing. Dubious, but aware it’s the only response we have, my friend writes down the answer. “Why?” my other friend inquires. “How do you know that?” “People think he was gay” i reply. We are gay enough that this skates without further inquiry. My boyfriend and I avoid eye contact. Our answers are graded. We have failed trivia. Oh my god did we ever fail trivia. But question 11- who was the President who never married? has a stark graphite checkmark next to it. James Buchanan. Our friends laugh about the gay people knowing the gay president. Becketts hand finds mine under the table. We exchange a look of profound, soul eroding knowledge.

We went to stucky together.

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“the fandom has decided - ” “everyone agrees that - ” “we all know that this is the only right way to - ”

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some people on tumblr are really like "of course i love female characters! which is why i ship this girlboss and malewife. men get pegged by powerful woman! i'm calling this m/f ship yuri. this canonically male character is a woman to me but not in a transfem way and i'm not exploring it further. yeah i love lesbians uhhh i'll headcanon background character #9 as a lesbian because she doesn't get in the way of my ship. lol ew why do you ship blorba and blorbette together when blorbette is canonically married to a man? no i don't actually have a favorite female character because all fictional women are poorly written!"

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“Is this woman dumb or is she joking?” Is a question many people should ask themselves. Today, I am referring to Taylor Swift’s lyrics and also to a woman who recently caused a twitter kerfuffle by calling Joan Dideon an It Girl. However, this is good advice in general.

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God, I forgot there was an episode of H2O where Emma almost killed one of their classmates with her powers and Rikki and Cleo had to use their powers to bring her back

Like, it's a very normal episode with the usual shenanigans and then BAM suddenly life and death stakes