#Im tired but might write this later

[passions-and-pupils]

I’d love to see a book that goes in depth on the idea of a creature that eats humans and when they are told by a human to stop they say “how is me eating human any different than you eating cow,” and the human counters with “but cows don’t have sentience the same way we do,” but the the creature simply laughs and goes

“Awwww little human thinks he has a soul, thinks he can comprehend everything we can, how cute.”

[afewproblems]

I'm seeing a lot of posts lately from people saying what they want to see more of in their favourite fics, whether it's characterization or ships or tropes and I get it to an extent but there is something about these posts that rubs me the wrong way.

And I think i finally put my finger on what it is. These posts feel kind of like consumer reviews, like "sure, that was tasty, but next time I want this" and that is so strange to me.

If you want something really specific or even more to your taste, there is a great way to do that.

Write your own fic.

I promise, it'll have everything you want and more.

[solarpunkani]

man i hate when people are like 'writing solarpunk stories is easy unless you're a coward or stupid' like

A: writing stories is hard. writing any story is hard. and some topics/settings/character types come easier to people than others and its not because they're stupid or cowards dont be fuckin demeaning

but also

B: writing solarpunk stuff is draining as hell because you can be like 'i think this is solarpunk' and you share it and you get people coming in to 'um actually' you so hard you lose the inspiration to write anything else in that setting ever.

I wrote a solarpunk short story once and i was so happy with it and i had so many cool ideas for that world and then I posted it and someone got upset that i gave the characters cell phones. like after ~le glorious solarpunk revolution~ or whatever we wouldn't have interpersonal communication via cell phones or whatever. got upset that i mentioned there being like. a bluetooth speaker? mad that there was a speaker at a party? speakers have existed for so long and you expect them to just vanish? then i watched an argument in a group chat where someone else got upset about sheep shearing and then i started overthinking everything and yeah no i don't think i can do it

am I stupid? no. am i a coward? fuckin maybe. but mostly its just draining to wrestle a setting you're not confident in that everyone's ready to get mad about if you don't share their same vision of what that setting should look like.

[cool-person-yey]

if I (hypothetically) followed up on the Magnus Institute Except In Brasil idea, what would the archivist's name be ? it has to be a common name just like Jonathan, but also like sound cool yk

[idunnowhattowriteheretbh]

COLONY from HIVE :D

Belongs to @braisedhoney

And I don't remember where I found the colours lol

[genekies]

tag vent

[multapohja966]

WE ACTUALLY POPPIN BOTTLES????????

[a-libra-writes]

hurrmmm so odd question, would anyone be interested if I posted a download link to a visual novel project of mine?

its something ive worked on for many years, on and off. Ive actually had to rewrite and recode it at least once bc I lost files haha.... pain

Plot! You play as Mena Caro (name changeable, personality kinda changeable, appearance not), a young woman whose worked with her father to help cure widespread infertility that was caused by a plague outbreak. Their progress has taken decades and has halted bc turns out, doing medical research is tough in a war-torn continent whose population was mostly wiped out thru sickness or warfare. A mysterious organization comes to their aid, with the odd caveat that she and her father must be separated from each other, and the village she grew up in.

The general aesthetic and technology level is dieselpunk inspired. It is very sapphic, has six love interests (I wouldve liked more, bc yall know me, but I had to cut it down!) and is generally a more dramatic story about women, queerness, family, war, corrupt power structures and imperialism. There's still a lot of light-hearted stuff (especially in the beginning) so like its not all a depressing angstfest bc i cant write that LOL

Its about ~40k+ words, and uh. Yall know me so thats just the "first" chapter, ive got like. Gosh, 50k more written that I never coded? And LOTS more outlined because I cant control myself. Anyhoo its got the music, the backgrounds etc I just never got to the character art bc Im kinda insecure in sharing my art with the world! (If youre familiar with visual novels, there's usually characters on the screen while u talk with them).

I'll do my best to put together a full content warning list if I post it ~

[tsukasalover]

“yeah no i just havent had any good ideas recently” its okay Felix Tsukasalover we all lie sometimes

[nyankootaku]

Disabled people, help me out!

I have this character I made that I really like, and I wanted help making him. I want to make it very clear that he is disabled and that does not define him. How do I write/draw that accurately? He's maybe 13 years old but has been through the trenches, and that has impacted him both mentally and physically. So far, I know that he is partially deaf, but basically cannot hear without hearing aids, has chronic pain, and uses mobility aids. He has a mix of PTSD and CPTSD (Is that how that works? Can you have both? I'm dumb) from individal events and reoccuring events. He wears compression clothes for circulation issues and a binder because trans. (Those gotta make it hard to breath, right? Idk how you cool trans mascs do it.) He wears something on his shoulder that constantly monitors his health in case anything bad happens. How would his disabilities impact him in his daily life? What are flare-ups like? What does it feel like to be triggered? I know so far that triggers may not trigger all the time, leaving you to think about what caused the scare, right? I can't find where I originally read that. I want to make sure I don't offend anyone, even if I don't end up posting much about my characters, as I myself am not physically disabled or extremely traumatized. I may also use this information for a bunch of characters in my other world because fighting monsters on the regular because you got a magical injury never fails to fuck you up in some way, shape, or form. All I'll say for now about this specific character's is: nukes go boom boom radiation isnt fun cryofreeze future travel test subject.

[burn-towns-get-money]

@mintso / @milliin

Happy @d20exchange! Here is the second gift. I ended up creating an interview type series where the interviewer has to interview The Bad Kids. For your gift though, I just wrote for Adaine and Riz as they were listed as your favourites!

I definitely wanted to go for a different approach for a character focus, hopefully you like it! Please read the whole article under the read more.

Gift One | Adaine Abernant | Gift Three

Interview with: Adaine Abernant

Written by Apricotflyer

It sometimes takes a while to track down the students we interview, and none are more elusive than the Oracle herself. She has been declining our invitations, but there is a deadline to meet and having 5 out of 6 interviews from an Adventuring Party isn't great on my record either. So on the day my photographer calls, I'm running. She's in the library. 

A library isn't the ideal place for a tell-all chat, but as a journalist, I know how to adapt to any environment. Running in - out of breath - I spot her as our faithful photographer corners the elf. Her skin is dark, tight curls of pale blonde hair framing her face. Blue eyes glare behind round glasses. She knows it is too late to escape. 

Adaine Abernant is The Oracle, and a member of the well-known adventuring party The Bad Kids. She also studies as a divination wizard. Over the past two years, her adventuring party has been on two massive adventures that have saved the world. And she's been experiencing a lot of personal growth too, which it excited me to ask about.

Hello Oracle, it's an honor to finally interview you. 

Adaine: It's Adaine. And I never agreed to this. It must be a breach of something. 

Principal Aguefort encourages freedom of speech, actually. 

Adaine: That means I'm free to not continue this interview then. Goodbye. 

Wait, wait, wait! You can't leave. 

Adaine: Are you serious?

Just answer the questions and then it will be over. What is it like being with the Bad Kids?  

Adaine: Fine. They're my friends, maybe a bit chaotic, but I enjoy hanging out with them.

Well, that's boring. Can't you give us some gossip? We've heard about your difficult relationship with your sister, and that she was part of the first plot to take over the world. How did it feel to find that out? Have you reconciled with her? 

Adaine: What's with the shift in tone? I thought this was about my adventuring party, not my personal life. 

You're seriously going to avoid the question again?

Adaine: We're on better terms. There, I’ve answered your question. Can I go now?

Not yet. I've only asked two questions. Can you tell us more about your parents and what happened in the Nightmare forest with them? 

Adaine: Stop asking personal questions!

The librarian: Shhhhhh.

Adaine: Ah, sorry. Please stop asking me. I'm trying to be polite, but being confronted with these questions is an invasion of my privacy. It's very overwhelming. 

I only have more personal questions left, and knowing that my editor shakes their head and mouths at me to change the subject. So I do. 

Can you show us your emotional support frog then? 

Adaine immediately brightens up, and we spend the rest of our free spell in the library cooing at a little frog wearing a little backpack. 

And that's all from me, fellow students. Until next time!

[halfbit]

focus is ass today! perhaps i will be a slug

[strxnged]

gigglign i love my theme

[animangalover-writes]

#2, 3, and 11 for "a present from the soul" for the writer ask game! -lizzy

You're too sweet sending me this ask😭 This is actually one of my favorite fics that I've written so I am THRILLED to talk about it.

You can read A Present From The Soul here if your interested.

I'm very tired when I answer this so excuse any rambling and typos lol. ANYWAYS.

2. What scene did you first put down?

I think the first scene I actually wrote for this fic was Jaskier giving Geralt a rock(basically the first scene in the fic lol). I've heard people with gift giving as a love language love giving/receiving little things like rocks or leaves, because to them, it means something. I knew I wanted to make Jaskier's gifts be small but meaningful, and what better way to start off the fic then by having him give the person he loves a something as simple as a rock? Especially when, to him, it reminds him of pearls and the color of Geralts hair.

3. What's your favorite line of narration?

This one was hard because there are actually quite a few lines in this fic that I loved. But if I had to choose, it'd probably be this:

"He loves doing this for her, allowing her even a moment of reprieve. So she can be a child again. Just a child enjoying a story told by a bard."

I really liked this line because we rarely get to see Ciri just getting to be her age. And the idea that Jaskier, a bard, can give her that joy, that freedom to just listen to a grand story being told by a famous bard. UGH. ITS SO SWEET. Definitely one of my favorite parts to write.

11. What do you like best about this fic?

I loooove exploring dynamics in fics, whether they be platonic, romantic, or familial. Especially between characters who never or rarely interact. So exploring the dynamics between, not only Geralt and Yennefer, which is already throughly explored in many other fics, but also with Istredd and Ciri was such a blast!

Love languages was a really fun way to explore these dynamics individually, but I loved going in depth on how I imagine Istredd and Jaskiers dynamic would be. I mean, two sarcastic scholars in one room? How could you not want to explore that? And I'm such a sucker for Jaskier and Ciri having their own father daughter dynamic, especially because they both come from wealth and understand the shallowness that can come with that. The idea that Ciri gets to be a little kid with him(and the others, but mostly him) is so precious to me!

Thank you for sending this ask, it was such a lovely surprise and was so fun to talk about! Now I have to send one back 👁👁 I'm so curious about yalls thought process when writing your own fics!

[zenithpng]

hm.

[raksh-writes]

Barely written like 3 paragraphs and already feeling tapped out 😪

Damn but trying to go back to writing after so long a writer's block really feels like pulling teeth...