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komaedalovemail · 7 months ago

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komaedas have you tried straw.page?

(i hope you don't mind if i make a big ollllle webdev post off this!)

i have never tried straw.page but it looks similar to carrd and other WYSIWYG editors (which is unappealing to me, since i know html/css/js and want full control of the code. and can't hide secrets in code comments.....)

my 2 cents as a web designer is if you're looking to learn web design or host long-term web projects, WYSIWYG editors suck doodooass. you don't learn the basics of coding, someone else does it for you! however, if you're just looking to quickly host images, links to your other social medias, write text entries/blogposts, WYSIWYG can be nice.

toyhouse, tumblr, deviantart, a lot of sites implement WYSIWYG for their post editors as well, but then you can run into issues relying on their main site features for things like the search system, user profiles, comments, etc. but it can be nice to just login to your account and host your information in one place, especially on a platform that's geared towards that specific type of information. (toyhouse is a better example of this, since you have a lot of control of how your profile/character pages look, even without a premium account) carrd can be nice if you just want to say "here's where to find me on other sites," for example. but sometimes you want a full website!

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neocities hosting

currently, i host my website on neocities, but i would say the web2.0sphere has sucked some doodooass right now and i'm fiending for something better than it. it's a static web host, e.g. you can upload text, image, audio, and client-side (mostly javascript and css) files, and html pages. for the past few years, neocities' servers have gotten slower and slower and had total blackouts with no notices about why it's happening... and i'm realizing they host a lot of crypto sites that have crypto miners that eat up a ton of server resources. i don't think they're doing anything to limit bot or crypto mining activity and regular users are taking a hit.

↑ page 1 on neocitie's most viewed sites we find this site. this site has a crypto miner on it, just so i'm not making up claims without proof here. there is also a very populated #crypto tag on neocities (has porn in it tho so be warned...).

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dynamic/server-side web hosting

$5/mo for neocities premium seems cheap until you realize... The Beautiful World of Server-side Web Hosting!

client-side AKA static web hosting (neocities, geocities) means you can upload images, audio, video, and other files that do not interact with the server where the website is hosted, like html, css, and javascript. the user reading your webpage does not send any information to the server like a username, password, their favourite colour, etc. - any variables handled by scripts like javascript will be forgotten when the page is reloaded, since there's no way to save it to the web server. server-side AKA dynamic web hosting can utilize any script like php, ruby, python, or perl, and has an SQL database to store variables like the aforementioned that would have previously had nowhere to be stored.

there are many places in 2024 you can host a website for free, including: infinityfree (i use this for my test websites :B has tons of subdomains to choose from) [unlimited sites, 5gb/unlimited storage], googiehost [1 site, 1gb/1mb storage], freehostia [5 sites/1 database, 250mb storage], freehosting [1 site, 10gb/unlimited storage]

if you want more features like extra websites, more storage, a dedicated e-mail, PHP configuration, etc, you can look into paying a lil shmoney for web hosting: there's hostinger (this is my promocode so i get. shmoney. if you. um. 🗿🗿🗿) [$2.40-3.99+/mo, 100 sites/300 databases, 100gb storage, 25k visits/mo], a2hosting [$1.75-12.99+/mo, 1 site/5 databases, 10gb/1gb storage], and cloudways [$10-11+/mo, 25gb/1gb]. i'm seeing people say to stay away from godaddy and hostgator. before you purchase a plan, look up coupons, too! (i usually renew my plan ahead of time when hostinger runs good sales/coupons LOL)

here's a big webhost comparison chart from r/HostingHostel circa jan 2024.

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domain names

most of the free website hosts will give you a subdomain like yoursite.has-a-cool-website-69.org, and usually paid hosts expect you to bring your own domain name. i got my domain on namecheap (enticing registration prices, mid renewal prices), there's also porkbun, cloudflare, namesilo, and amazon route 53. don't use godaddy or squarespace. make sure you double check the promo price vs. the actual renewal price and don't get charged $120/mo when you thought it was $4/mo during a promo, certain TLDs (endings like .com, .org, .cool, etc) cost more and have a base price (.car costs $2,300?!?). look up coupons before you purchase these as well!

namecheap and porkbun offer something called "handshake domains," DO NOT BUY THESE. 🤣🤣🤣 they're usually cheaper and offer more appealing, hyper-specific endings like .iloveu, .8888, .catgirl, .dookie, .gethigh, .♥, .❣, and .✟. I WISH WE COULD HAVE THEM but they're literally unusable. in order to access a page using a handshake domain, you need to download a handshake resolver. every time the user connects to the site, they have to provide proof of work. aside from it being incredibly wasteful, you LITERALLY cannot just type in the URL and go to your own website, you need to download a handshake resolver, meaning everyday internet users cannot access your site.

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hosting a static site on a dynamic webhost

you can host a static (html/css/js only) website on a dynamic web server without having to learn PHP and SQL! if you're coming from somewhere like neocities, the only thing you need to do is configure your website's properties. your hosting service will probably have tutorials to follow for this, and possibly already did some steps for you. you need to point the nameserver to your domain, install an SSL certificate, and connect to your site using FTP for future uploads. FTP is a faster, alternative way to upload files to your website instead of your webhost's file upload system; programs like WinSCP or FileZilla can upload using FTP for you.

if you wanna learn PHP and SQL and really get into webdev, i wrote a forum post at Mysidia Adoptables here, tho it's sorted geared at the mysidia script library itself (Mysidia Adoptables is a free virtual pet site script, tiny community. go check it out!)

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file storage & backups

a problem i have run into a lot in my past like, 20 years of internet usage (/OLD) is that a site that is free, has a small community, and maybe sounds too good/cheap to be true, has a higher chance of going under. sometimes this happens to bigger sites like tinypic, photobucket, and imageshack, but for every site like that, there's like a million of baby sites that died with people's files. host your files/websites on a well-known site, or at least back it up and expect it to go under!

i used to host my images on something called "imgjoe" during the tinypic/imageshack era, it lasted about 3 years, and i lost everything hosted on there. more recently, komaedalovemail had its webpages hosted here on tumblr, and tumblr changed its UI so custom pages don't allow javascript, which prevented any new pages from being edited/added. another test site i made a couple years ago on hostinger's site called 000webhost went under/became a part of hostinger's paid-only plans, so i had to look very quickly for a new host or i'd lose my test site.

if you're broke like me, looking into physical file storage can be expensive. anything related to computers has gone through baaaaad inflation due to crypto, which again, I Freaquing Hate, and is killing mother nature. STOP MINING CRYPTO this is gonna be you in 1 year

...um i digress. ANYWAYS, you can archive your websites, which'll save your static assets on The Internet Archive (which could use your lovely donations right now btw), and/or archive.today (also taking donations). having a webhost service with lots of storage and automatic backups can be nice if you're worried about file loss or corruption, or just don't have enough storage on your computer at home!

if you're buying physical storage, be it hard drive, solid state drive, USB stick, whatever... get an actual brand like Western Digital or Seagate and don't fall for those cheap ones on Amazon that claim to have 8,000GB for $40 or you're going to spend 13 days in windows command prompt trying to repair the disk and thenthe power is gong to go out in your shit ass neighvborhood and you have to run it tagain and then Windows 10 tryes to update and itresets the /chkdsk agin while you're awayfrom town nad you're goig to start crytypting and kts just hnot going tot br the same aever agai nikt jus not ggiog to be the saeme

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further webhosting options

there are other Advanced options when it comes to web hosting. for example, you can physically own and run your own webserver, e.g. with a computer or a raspberry pi. r/selfhosted might be a good place if you're looking into that!

if you know or are learning PHP, SQL, and other server-side languages, you can host a webserver on your computer using something like XAMPP (Apache, MariaDB, PHP, & Perl) with minimal storage space (the latest version takes up a little under 1gb on my computer rn). then, you can test your website without needing an internet connection or worrying about finding a hosting plan that can support your project until you've set everything up!

there's also many PHP frameworks which can be useful for beginners and wizards of the web alike. WordPress is one which you're no doubt familiar with for creating blog posts, and Bluehost is a decent hosting service tailored to WordPress specifically. there's full frameworks like Laravel, CakePHP, and Slim, which will usually handle security, user authentication, web routing, and database interactions that you can build off of. Laravel in particular is noob-friendly imo, and is used by a large populace, and it has many tutorials, example sites built with it, and specific app frameworks.

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addendum: storing sensitive data

if you decide to host a server-side website, you'll most likely have a login/out functionality (user authentication), and have to store things like usernames, passwords, and e-mails. PLEASE don't launch your website until you're sure your site security is up to snuff!

when trying to check if your data is hackable... It's time to get into the Mind of a Hacker. OWASP has some good cheat sheets that list some of the bigger security concerns and how to mitigate them as a site owner, and you can look up filtered security issues on the Exploit Database.

this is kind of its own topic if you're coding a PHP website from scratch; most frameworks securely store sensitive data for you already. if you're writing your own PHP framework, refer to php.net's security articles and this guide on writing an .htaccess file.

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but. i be on that phone... :(

ok one thing i see about straw.page that seems nice is that it advertises the ability to make webpages from your phone. WYSIWYG editors in general are more capable of this. i only started looking into this yesterday, but there ARE source code editor apps for mobile devices! if you have a webhosting plan, you can download/upload assets/code from your phone and whatnot and code on the go. i downloaded Runecode for iphone. it might suck ass to keep typing those brackets.... we'll see..... but sometimes you're stuck in the car and you're like damn i wanna code my site GRRRR I WANNA CODE MY SITE!!!

↑ code written in Runecode, then uploaded to Hostinger. Runecode didn't tell me i forgot a semicolon but Hostinger did... i guess you can code from your webhost's file uploader on mobile but i don't trust them since they tend not to autosave or prompt you before closing, and if the wifi dies idk what happens to your code.

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ANYWAYS! HAPPY WEBSITE BUILDING~! HOPE THIS HELPS~!~!~!

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kimyoonmiauthor · 6 months ago

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Why Spell Check (and some grammar check) isn't AI

So I've seen in the wake of Nanowrimo some people claim that spell check is AI and thus is like Gen AI, and I saw the claim originator on Twitter, but when I pressed them, they basically tried to say they had a degree in computer science, so when I pressed into them if they knew what they were talking about, they couldn't answer because obviously don't know about AI.

For some background I've done some light programming (If you look at the Korean name generator, that's all me). And I also have relatives that did programming.

Here, I can lay out how spell check works without AI or a fancy algorithm.

The oldest spellchecks didn't use AI or Gen AI, they used what is your basic corresponding tables.

If you use something like google sheets (database), you can do this pretty quickly yourself though with a lot of manpower.

Here is a list of commonly misspelled words.

Add that with another table with how they are commonly misspelled.

Then you need a table with "common typos"

Then you need one more table for "Words the user adds."

The algorithm is basically this: Set up a loop. A loop is a mechanism that has an algorithm (or set of instructions in it) which repeats until a certain instruction is met. This loop with this algorithm will check for words. In this case, anything with letters, usually encompassing ' and - (though some programs ignore dashes).

So[,][ ]it[ ]will[ ]look[ ]at[ ]letters[ ]in[ ]this[ ]sentence[ ]and[ ]figure[ ]out[ ]if[ ]it[ ]is[ ]spelled[ ]correctly.

The first loop in the previous sentence will look at the word "so" by selecting everything it knows to be a letter in English. Tada "S, o" Then correspond that to the dictionary. So shows up in the dictionary listing it has of English words. Thanks Webster. (If you're British, the OED)

The Algorithm concludes the word is spelled correctly. No more work needs to be done on So. The next word is it "i, t" correspond that to the dictionary and so on.

If you have a "bad word" for example "alot" then the work is, word is spelled incorrectly. Next "work to be done" is to find out if this word is in the "commonly misspelled" words list. If yes, then underline the word in red to get it corrected.

AKA run Algorithm to underline word (usually a few lines of code if you're doing it the old way).

Then the algorithm moves on. The function of right click/Cntrl click is saying, OK, this word, "alot" is it commonly misspelled? Here are a list of corrections according to this other table. This is the work that needs to be done: We need a popup table. We need to pull from the database this misspelling, and then we need to pull from this other database and pull corresponding correct spellings based on this. Then you set up an if-then If the user clicks on this word, change highlighted word.

This is your basic spelling algorithm. You do not need gen AI for this or AI.

Grammar works similarly. You need a table, the type of speech it is (n, v, adv, adj) and then to load in "rules" one should use. You do not need AI. You need some basic programming skills. On the table of somewhere between "Hello, world" (1) and "OMG, I created artificial intelligence like Data " (10) My "Korean name generator" is like 2.5? in difficulty (minus all of the language and cultural knowledge). Haha. Still mocking myself. But a Spellcheck is not far from that. it is like 3. You could build one fairly easily with PHP and database access to a dictionary and misspelled words with corrections.

But Google pulled from the Enron Emails.

In this case, you can sorta fuzzy logic it and create bigger algorithms, mostly to sort out the *grammar* and *New words* that were used that aren't already in the database, which basically is another loop, but with an add to database function. (i.e. table). Then you would correspond this with another loop to look at "odd grammar" and flag it.

You can use AI to sort it faster than a basic algorithm, but nope, you do not need AI to correspond it. A basic algorithm would do. You can also use AI for "words that look similar to this one" and "Words commonly used in place of this one"

But overall, You do not need AI for a grammar check. You only need a dictionary, a set of commonly held rules of English and exceptions (maybe some Noam Chomsky, though he's controversial), and then some programming skill to get past the hurdle.

But Grammar check could use AI

AI as it stands is basically a large algorithm to match large datasets to the words you use. But the problem is that the datasets are taken from users who did not volunteer to put in that information.

It is not Data on Enterprise have novel experiences of every day and learning how to function in the human world by processing it through a matrix of quantum computing.

So WHEN grammar check does use AI, the AI is mostly doing the crunching of the corresponding the information into a more neat table option, as I understand it. It is not the same thing as Gen AI or your average spell check and Microsoft algorithm from say 2000.

Those are not equal things. Instead, adding Gen AI to say, Microsoft Word, is more like stealing your words for the machine (which BTW, Microsoft absolutely did and you need to transfer out to Anti-AI programs/Apps.) and corresponding them for Gen AI future use for people who can't write worth a damn, and then "averaging" it out. Elew. Who wants to write to the average? That's anti-Creative.

And just because it uses an Algorithm, doesn't automatically use AI.

Look, I can write a algorithm now:

Loop: If you want to be strong...

Go outside.

Do cardio.

Go lift weights.

Make sure you eat a healthy diet and balanced which includes reducing refined sugars and do not eat bad fats.

That equally is a set of instructions, but that's not automatically AI.

I programmed my calculator to spit out the quadratic formula. And this isn't even officially programming, this is a script. Dudes, if you're going to call that AI, then you need help with learning computer programming.

The threshold for making AI v spellcheck is a lot, lot higher programming than a set of simple tables and a loop that looks for letters and spaces corresponding it to an existing dictionary. If that's you're threshold for AI, then when you type words, you are caught in an algorithm. Ooooooo... OMG, when you pull up a dictionary to spellcheck yourself, that's AI. C'mon. The threshold is a might higher to make AI or "victim of algorithm" as in Twitter.

So anytime someone says, "All Spellcheck uses genAI/AI" Laugh in their faces and say no. 'cause like, I'm a terrible programmer, and even I'm like, Meh, not that hard to set up spell check, give me a solid dictionary database and I'll do ya.

That said, A human will beat AI on grammar anytime and will be able to sort weird spellings faster and A-OK, or not.

#writing advice

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britcision · 2 years ago

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Okay so Imma preface this by warning y’all that by 2025 I will have been writing consistently for 20 full years almost completely uninterrupted

I am not a reasonable baseline

So… uh…

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

I emotionally prepared myself for “around 140”.

It’s 175. I have 175 works on AO3. And. Uh. Over 100 on fanfiction.net before I moved in 2018. I haven’t even posted any of the Dragon Age stuff to AO3 yet.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

1 056 433 words.

236 362 are Dead and Loving it and you have NO IDEA how mad I am that it isn’t 236 632 I HAVE FAILED

(That’s 22% by the way and it is BY FAR the longest thing I have)

Everything over 15k is smut

3. What fandoms do you write for?

At the moment? I’m writing DPxDC, Dragon Age Inquisition, Critical Role campaign 2 specifically, and my own DnD campaign. Only DPxDC and CR are on AO3 at the moment, but my AO3 also has Samurai Deeper Kyo (MY FIRST FANDOM), and a Warehouse 13xDoctor Who crossover

Do not ask about fanfiction.net

4. What are your top 5 fics by Kudos?

Danny Fenton Dead and Loving It - BY FAR THE MOST

Payment - 1800 words of Caleb Widogast doing his level best to sell sex for magic and being thwarted at every turn by Yussa not wanting him to

Where The Heart Is - 6k fix it fic of said Caleb wanting to leave his friends and being cuddled about it

The Fey King - 6 chapter fic of Frumpkin being an actual fey king and the Mighty Nein finding out

Twisted Mirror - that good good dark Shadowgast for Shadowgast week and next in the series after Payment where Essek is not as smart as Yussa and faces Consequences

5. Do you respond to comments? Why/why not?

Almost always! Gonna have to throw in the towel on the latest chapter of Dead and Loving It cuz I fell behind and there were 185 of you absolute animals ❤️❤️❤️

But… yeah, I come from some of the smallest fandoms on ff.net and I mean “four fics total and I posted two of them”. Y’all take a minute to say something to me, I say something back!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

So listen. I wrote a LOT of angsty Caleb for dearly beloved partner, because Caleb is his favourite and he likes to see him suffer, but that is mainly hurt/comfort.

The ANGSTIEST thing I have ever written is probably still my SDK fic on AO3, The Eyes. It’s a character study on just the saddest motherfucker in that whole sad series and because no one on fucking earth knows Samurai Deeper Kyo SPOILER TIME:

It’s Hishigi’s journey trying to save his people from the Death Disease and how he went from patients with names to test subjects with numbers and the numbers reached the hundreds of thousands… almost all young children. While he’s actively dying of the Death Disease and carving Medusa Eyes into his own body to keep it functioning. And his husband’s boyfriend abandoned them.

Anyway canonically in the manga he dies because his husband used a secret technique that burned his heart and Hishigi said “bitch you thought” and ripped his own heart from his chest to implant in said husband so husband would live

(Husband ABSOLUTELY promptly burned that one too I fucking hate him he is the fucking worst he nearly killed my fucking blorbo who loved him and I never thought I’d cry when he died BUT THEN HISHIGI WITH THE STEEL CHAIR)

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Honestly hard to say… by sheer volume, most of what I write is happy at the end by dint of Comfort or Fluff and I wrote So Many Mighty Nein cuddle piles

If we go double entendre it’s one of the 20k+ orgies for the most happy endings though

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Some have tried, but it’s infrequent and they’ve never come back because I DO reply to comments and I revel in their suffering.

Did write an entire multichapter fic from Pure Spite because some chucklefuck failed to Actually Read my Polynein crackfic about the lesbian and the wizard side eying each other like “so if we both fuck our girlfriend will she make us kiss” and deciding it was a terrible idea

They seemed to think I was writing a serious ship fic and told me I was evil or whatever so no I wrote a whole long bit about their fabulous bro-mance hanging out in the library with all their friends reminding the goddamn wizard to eat and sleep

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

……….. well let’s start at “I invented Magic Lube Thursdays and fulfilled them every month for a year”

I write PWP, I do occasionally write smut with plot, I do orgies, I do occasional solos, I do classic couples and throuples, I do all the genders, I party the fuck down on the xenodick because knotting is not just for the furries and I’m not giving it back, and I am still over 50% of the PolyNein Explicit tag and frankly it’s very sad someone else feed me for a change

I’ve done the light and fluffy, the very darkest dubcon although not fully explicit lately, the kinky shit, occasional vanilla… there’s a couple lines I haven’t crossed but they’re the ones I’m not interested in crossing

Off the top of my head… no necrophilia, although if you count vampires or, well Danny fucking Phantom as dead that might change at some point I guess

And I have been informed that if I count vampires as necrophilia the werewolves have to count for bestiality so I’m just a moral sinkhole of monsterfucking

(And I did once murder a nosy twitter bitch who wanted to force my friend’s Lucifer into a Samifer ship that if angelcest was incest Samifer was bestiality because they’re different species so by my own dang smartass I am double damned)

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one?

Well let’s just slide right past DPxDC and say yes I do fuck with the crossovers… the craziest ones… okay I’m not looking Imma guess and we’re going over a decade back in ff.net

Pretty sure I had The Covenant x Pirates of the Caribbean x Lord of the Rings x probably Inu Yasha and at least two more but it’s been 15 years and I’m trying to forget

I did a godawful set of YuYu Hakusho crossovers with my skirting-Mary-Sue-but-she-never-got-a-ship-and-existed-solely-to-cause-Situations-for-my-actual-ships

One of the years I succeeded on Nanowrimo was with a huge and godawful multi-fandom crossover fic where if I was running out of ideas we jumped fandoms and kept going and y’know what it fucking worked

It was bad, never posted it anywhere, but it worked

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I’ve noticed! But I don’t check or care to

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not yet, and it would be fucking wild to be asked

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

… short answer, not since I was 13 and my sister and I wrote the most sarcastic smut parody of all time

Long answer………. Seven notebooks cover to cover of back and forth with said sister, seven years of twitter RP, and three genuinely dreadful SDK fics where me and two friends wrote one each to put our blorbos in situations

(None of us had the same blorbos and we all hated each others blorbos it was amazing)

14. What's your all-time fav ship?

It’s a fucking toughie but my oldest and most consistent is HieixKurama from YuYuHakusho and also JinxTouya from same. Now THAT is some OTP 90s shit

Currently I’m still going hardest for the PolyNein (excluding Veth I did Goblin Mom for a year and a half in real time I did NOT make the leap)

And it’s new and fresh but it fills my heart and it might be here to stay, Timkerboy! Tim x Kon x Tucker for the DPxDC crowd

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Probably any of the 84 I had on my phone for various fandoms that deadass just vanished one day. Cannot find them anywhere, dead forever

I WILL finish the celebratory Molly-is-back-let’s-size-kink-Caduceus orgy that I rewrote in THE WEEK BETWEEN CRc2 140 and 141 to add Molly from spite if nothing fucking else Kingsley fucking whomst

(I love Kingsley I have and will continue to play with Threeleaf but I am still mad)

16. What are your writing strengths?

So my main strength has always been building characters, I’m real good at getting into their perspectives and giving them distinct goals

Thanks to Critical Role though, I have also got DAMN good at balancing 8+ characters in a scene by dint of not having a choice

17. Writing weaknesses?

My biggest weakness is definitely follow through. Multichapter fics I’ve started far outweigh multichapter fics I’ve finished; I think I’ve finished about five, and one of those I went and wrote an ending on 12 years later to close off my ff.net.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages?

Only if it’s another language I speak well enough to correct Google Translate. Any Latin you see in my fic is all original translation.

It doesn’t come up much, because usually other languages are fantasy languages like Ghost Speak or Infernal that I’ll mark with different punctuation rather than assigning a real language.

I do commonly use short phrases, swears, and terms of endearment in a hodgepodge of other languages in my daily life, so despite people bitching about it I will include that in my fic. It’s how I learned some of my best swears!

19. The first fandom you wrote for.

Samurai Deeper Kyo. I was 12. It was dreadful. I finished it in my 20s and I still loop back around to write more every few years.

Some stories are just… fundamental building blocks of your personality, and since that series kept coming out slowly through my full teens and 20s, and kept getting better and better and more meaningful and deep and complex…

I owe Akimine Kamijyo a lot

And so do all of you if you like anything I’ve ever written

Also, Akari is my soulmate and she was on page for 30 seconds before being my favourite character and they WROTE HER OUT OF THE ANIME so the anime must burn even ignoring the rest of the butchery

20. Fav fic you've ever written?

It’s a toughie. Again, I write… a lot, and I also used to write a lot of self indulgent/left-of-self-insert on my phone only for me, but that was a different folder of 30 fics that also spontaneously disappeared

At the moment though, it’s the Sleepers series. I am fucking OBSESSED with writing Cole’s POV, it is the most fun I’ve had in ages, he’s so goddamn sweet but also intensely creepy

20 questions for writers, tagged by @gremlin-bot

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

87,995 (What the hell? I thought it was, like, half that 🤯) [This will increase dramatically once I get a few more things transferred from tumblr to AO3]

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now, it's mostly dpxdc. I'm trying to break into more solo DC and DP stuff. I also have a few works for Good Omens that I'm not ready to abandon.

4. What are your top 5 fics by Kudos?

The Nurse's Demands

Electricity

Remember, Remember

Want to Hold on and Feel I Belong

Answer My Call

5. Do you respond to comments? Why/why not?

Yes! I'm in fandom to make friends and have fun. I made one of my best fandom friends through AO3 comments. Besides, talking about things I've made and my thoughts behind them is fun. ^.^

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

On AO3? Probably Carry On. It's a Good Omens two shot that more-or-less starts with Abel's death. It then follows Crowley and Cain as they experience exile together. But I don't really do sad endings, so it ends with Cain finding a degree of peace, even if Abel is still dead.

In general? Never shared, but it's another Good Omens story. A sequel to the above. I wrote 3 fics/chapters that explore a Fallen Raphael!Crowley coming to terms with the fact that he can't heal. So in the 2nd installment, he gets close to some humans and when one is severely injured, he fails to heal them and they die. I won't share more than that, but I literally can't read that fic without crying and I wrote it. (The fourth and fifth part of the series are him wresting the ability to heal back from the binds that were placed on it, so even those have a happy ending in a way. The people who died remain dead, though, so I think it still counts.)

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Considering none of my dpxdc longfics are finished yet, I'm gonna go with another Good Omens fic, The Demon Piper. This is based off the story of the Pied Piper, obviously. Hamelin, Germany is experiencing a famine due to rats getting into the winter stores. The adults are desperate and many are considering selling their kids to indentured servitude or worse. So the kids and Crowley make a pact to run away together. They they go off and set up their own little settlement in the mountains and everyone lives and it's super sweet. I have a few sequels I need to post that get even fluffier.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Haven't yet! Y'all are the best <3

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

My third Good Omens fic! An Evening In! It's an 18k PWP with Soft Dom Aziraphale and Service Bottom Crowley, human AU. Really, it's just two men who love each other very much. It's so soft and self indulgent, even if they do explore some kink dynamics.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one?

DPxDC is my first time in a crossover fandom. It's been a blast! IDK if it counts as crazy, though.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. Wouldn't that be the biggest flattery, though.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

No. I don't think my writing style lends itself to co-writing. I'm very particular about how things get phrased and I'm a plotter and most of my planning happens mentally while driving or at work or something.

14. What's your all-time fav ship?

Oh, I don't have one! I have a fav ship in certain fandoms, though. I was in the Sherlock fandom for a while, so Johnlock obviously. For Be More Chill (the musical) it's Michael/Jeremy. For Good Omens it's Crowley/Aziraphale. For Avatar it's Zutara. Newsies has Jack/David. For DC only fics, I'm an avid Tim/Kon shipper or Core Four. But for DPxDC I'm a multishipper. I was also a multishipper when in the MCU fandom (though Steve/Tony became a nOTP for me and was never a favorite even before Age of Ultron).

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Oh, damn. It's hard to say. I plotted out a whole Good Omens Parent Trap Fusion. (Aka take the plot of the Parent Trap and fit in the characters from Good Omens.) I hate to call it abandoned since I would like to go back to it. But time...

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I do panic attacks and emotional breakdowns very well. I'm also proud of how I can weave a complex plot into a coherent story which will hopefully come out once I get further along in some of my long fics (particularly Answer My Call and I'll Carry Your Heart (Until I Find You Again)).

17. Writing weaknesses?

I don't think I'm very good at making sure all my characters have distinct voices. I've gotten way better at that this past year, but I'm still working on it. I'm also too much of a perfectionist which makes me slow. And I jump around ideas too much which makes it harder to finish projects.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages?

I will never do it. Way I see it, if the POV character understands what is being said, the reader should understand, too. Which means it needs to be written in English (the only language I can guarantee the reader of an English story can understand). If the POV character can't understand what is being said, neither should the reader. If it's omniscient POV, I will put it in English if I want the reader to have that information and leave it out if I don't. Not give some readers extra information that others don't get.

19. The first fandom you wrote for.

Naruto. I wrote it by hand in class on lined notebook paper and passed it over to my best friend. She, in turn, gave me drawings of my favorite characters.

20. Fav fic you've ever written?

God, I have no idea. I love so many of my works and each one represents something. The Demon Piper is the fic that got me back into writing at all so that's super special to me. Bring Me Home is the one that got me writing for the DPxDC fandom. An Evening In was my first attempt at smut and I am so happy with how it turned out (never thought I could do it). I'll Carry Your Heart (Until I Find You Again) has a premise I'm absolutely in love with and I have so many plans for it. Want to Hold on and Feel I Belong is proof of how much I love emotional breakdowns and I love how much of a punch it packs. Remember, Remember is my first time writing an introspective piece that covers a long time period and I think it works really well.

No, I don't have a favorite work. No way I could pick between them all.

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