#especially in longer wips

[tennessoui]

there was debate about anakin's hair colour?

haha yeah i guess less of a debate and more just a lot of discussions and strongly held opinions which i can respect

biggest take away for me was i got an ask like a year and a half ago that basically said that in fics where anakin is blonde he bottoms and in fics where he's brunet he tops, which has had a huge impact on my fic writing tbh

now i consciously switch up how i'm describing anakin's hair color in relation to the sex dynamics i do not want to be so predictable as 'assigned bottom at blond hair' i never cared before and i don't care much now either what his hair color is but i change it all the time from fic to fic. gotta keep people on them toes!!

[wikiangela]

wip wednesday

tagged by @steadfastsaturnsrings @malewifediaz @buckaroosheart 💖💖

how did the "fluffy decorating christmas tree fic" turn into eddie being nostalgic about shannon? no idea lmao but I love it haha (also, lowkey a tease for alive shannon bc this hypothetical is what ends up happening there haha) this fic would've been done already if I didn't get sick bc now i'm barely awake at all times and just so fucking tired lol i should finish it next week at the latest tho! (if Eddie doesn't take over and make it super long again haha)

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And Buck knows all that, because he knows Eddie so well, and Eddie- Eddie just loves him so much sometimes it gets overwhelming, just the sheer amount of love he has for this man, who’s currently looking at him with those gorgeous, understanding eyes. And he can’t do anything else but lean in and kiss his pretty pink lips.

“I know.” he whispers, smiling, blinking away tears. “I love you.”

“I love you, too.” Buck chuckles quietly. Then Eddie looks at Christopher again.

“It’s just hard sometimes, especially during the holidays. She should be here. With Chris.”

“She really should.” Buck wraps one hand around Eddie’s shoulders.

“I think she’d like you.” Eddie muses, leaning his head against Buck’s. “You guys would get along.” He really thinks so, and he also thinks that even if the accident didn’t happen and she didn’t die, he’d eventually give her the divorce she asked for, and inevitably date Buck anyway – he doesn’t think there’s any universe, any scenario, any path he’d take, where he and Buck don’t end up falling in love. If he believed in it, he’d say it’s fate or destiny or some shit like that. (Maybe he does believe, just in this one instance, but no one has to know).

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[levinbolts]

[x-pair-o-dice-x]

THE BY NATURE AU IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS EVER IF YOU WROTE SOMETHING FOR IT AGAIN ID LOSE MY SHIT

^me thinkin about the by nature au

dkhslsbsj– i’m tempted i’m tempted,,,,

if i ever get the motivation to write something for it, we’ll see!

[thethingything]

decided to add some little glowing orbs because it's fun to play around with the lighting

[crazy-walls]

🕯️🦷🦴🪲 + 🧩?

🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that? Well… *glances at my fulltime job* ...if we’re just talking about (fan) fiction, it really depends on the type and – even more so – length of the story. Shorter ones are usually a 7-8 because i really like fixing small mistakes, tweaking little details and making sentences sound better. Long stories (and stories with more backstories/worldbuilding) tend to get into an entirely frustrating editing direction rather often though, meaning i’ll rewrite and rearrange so much that the finished piece usually has gone through roughly a dozen editing rounds, and that experience is a 2-3.

🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on eat when you feel like shit or even just weird. most times it will actually help. wrap your hands around a warm mug and soak in the gentleness of the warmth! give your friends hugs and cuddles whenever you can!

🦴 ⇢ is there a piece of media that inspires your writing?  Oh definitely! Apart from fanfic canon (obviously) i love taking inspiration from crime fiction in particular. Especially in you're pulling the trigger all wrong i looked closely at aspects from a few of James Oswald’s thrillers and also Howard Linskey’s Alice Teale is Missing and Don’t Let Him In. These books have similar themes and they’re a great influence of handling police procedure etc for me (and also quite a bit of non-fiction books like We Own This City).

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here not quite 50 words and i won't say what it's from but here:

"Du denkst zu viel nach." Die Antwort kam wie von selbst, und das obwohl Cotta sich die letzten beiden Stunden mit einem kurzweiligen Zeitvertreib von genau dieser Frage abzulenken versucht hatte. Die Möglichkeit wollte er nicht einmal in Betracht ziehen.

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately? No/few paragraph breaks, *lots* of mistakes, a perspektive or narrative voice that doesn’t really go with canon unless it’s established well enough that it works in that specific scenario, … so uh yeah, quite a bit actually, but then again i also am quite picky with stylistic choices in the published books i read as well. Unfortunately, i really have a hard time shutting off my inner editor when it comes to reading German stuff in particular, be it fanfic or published (except for kids‘ books, i guess).

writers’ truth or dare ask game

[oh-katsuki]

sometimes it is very hard to feel secure in my writing. esp after not posting / finishing anything for such a long time. 

[orcelito]

Ok there r some pretty big things I wanna fix with the first chapter of ITNL, but I don't rly have the brain for that. Putting it on the backburner.

Might fuck around with chapter 2 tho. Just maybe.

[margumis]

*shaking my brain*

WRITE DAMNIT WRITE

[ejunkiet]

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[cream-and-tea]

I think you might have talked about this before, but #3 for Pallas, for the pride month themed oc asks?

3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?

oooo ok so i think i’ve posted an excerpt from the actual book about Pallas Gender Stuff (tldr is they got the experience of being blissfully ignorant to the concept of gender as a kid until they became Aware it was a capital-C Concept and then everything felt wrong) so i wanna ramble a bit about their aro-aceness since i haven’t really gotten the opportunity to do that yet lol.

i don’t think it was something they always knew necessarily, but especially their lack of romantic attraction was always something they were vaguely aware of. when they were really little they were definitely a kid that went ‘ewwww’ and made a face whenever anyone talked about kissing. in general they just never found romance interesting in the way they found basically everything else interesting. like. why do these characters keep staring at each other can we get back to politics please this has literally nothing to do with the plot why is it important this is so boring. i think they were in the boat of fully thinking that romance and being horny were things made up in stories to add drama until people around them started experiencing it, which is when the Realization hit and they actual started to question that aspect of their identity.

[swordsonnet]

unstoppable force (my desire to write) meets immovable object (my chronic illness)

[lord-squiggletits]

I haven't read any yet but I'm a little nervous about reading IDW Optimus. I like it when Optimus prime is "strong enough to be kind" and from what I've heard, everyone's an asshole to each other in idw. If I'm way off base please let me know, I hear the comics are good but I'm not interested in an Optimus that's mean and miserable. I resent the idea that misery has greater artistic merit than joy.

I mean, I'd say don't trust what the fandom says about the comics (or any media for any fandom in general tbh) because the majority of the time they're wrong.

I'm an IDW Optimus apologist so I'm a little biased, but I genuinely think that most of the story moments people call him "an asshole" over are moments that make 1000% sense when you read them in context. Like, people act like Optimus is just a jerk that goes around being mean to people for no reason when the reality is that when he's frustrated, angry, lashes out, or distant from other people, it makes perfect sense as to why??? IDW Optimus is still a noble person that believes in mercy, gives people second chances, and thinks that treating people like people is better than ending them because it's more convenient. It's just that in IDW he's more than just a noble hero icon, he's also a human that sometimes runs out of patience and snaps at people, or makes mistakes that he can't take back.

When IDW OP lashes out at people, it's not because he's a meanie jerk >:((( or whatever the fuck haters think, it's because he's incredibly idealistic and has high moral standards, and when people/the world don't measure up to them he gets frustrated. In other words, he's so passionate about doing something, about trying to help, that that passion can turn into frustration when things aren't going well. It's the fact that his virtues can be both a virtue and a flaw depending on the situation that makes him feel like the most interesting OP to me.

Also, IDW is a realistic and gritty continuity, embroiled in politics and conflict that leaves no one untouched. and Optimus is in a position of power over an army. I think it's really stupid to expect the commander of an army who gets into politics afterwards to be a squeaky clean hero who does nothing wrong and everyone likes him.

And also also, almost every single complaint I hear about IDW OP either takes his actions completely out of context or just straight up gets basic story facts wrong lmao. Like people will call him an asshole for punching Prowl when what Prowl actually did to get punched was using Devastator to try to destroy a space bridge despite knowing it would lead to the death of an entire Cybertronian colony. People call IDW OP an asshole for "not letting the Dynobots leave the planet" in Monstrosity when actually OP was the one telling them that he would help find a cure for their beastial forms, and when they decided to leave Cybertron anyways, he didn't stop them. People even get mad at him for making Megatron give a speech telling the Decepticons to stop fighting, even though Optimus was already being ridiculously lenient by letting Megatron on parole to be co-captain of the Lost Light!

The main reason people hate IDW Optimus is because they just cherrypick his worst moments without including the context and they ignore his good moments in the story. And also instead of accepting that IDW OP is his own version of Optimus that can be interesting if you give him a chance, they basically hate him for not being a cardboard cutout of a meek depressed uwu Optimus/a silly funny stupid dad character.

Ahem...

Optimus apologism aside, I would really, really just ignore what people say about everyone being assholes in IDW1. Just because a lot of the subject matter is dark doesn't mean that the story says that nothing in life matters and people suck-- far from it. Even Barber (whose writing I think is mediocre and shittily executed), who constantly writes Optimus being shit on, still gives him moments where he's allowed to be the hero that chooses peace and reconciliation. Not to mention how if you look at MTMTE/LL, those stories are more or less fundamentally about the power of relationships/friendship/love between people.

Anyways, fuck what the haters say, send me more asks about IDW Optimus so I can gush about his underappreciated moments of heroism and be an apologist for him whenever he acts like a jerk is a human person with flaws and virtues just like every other character in the continuity.

[eijiroukiriot]

first sentence game!

rules: list the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have fewer than 20, just list them all!) from oldest first. see if there are any patterns. choose your favourite opening line.

@hiuythn tagged me in this a million years ago!! and i’m just getting to it now as a way to procrastinate/ease into writing for the day!! but ty much love! 

starting with - 1. fly me to the moon

Some people say that Bakugou has no filter.

2. Sympathy Flowers

The hardest part, for Eijirou, is that he had to hear it from the news.

3. Middle School Nickname

It’s a miracle that the diner hasn’t banned them by now.

4. Navillera

Kyouka always claimed her car was a junker, mostly citing the engine that never stopped rattling, but Mina doesn’t truly believe her until she sees a cassette player where the radio should be.

5. it’s really good to hear your voice

Every night when they go to sleep, the bedroom is dark.

6. the after

Tsubomi doesn’t remember how many times she died, but her bones do.

7. once for me

Everything that’s happening is happening in the middle of the room - the talking, the laughing, the exchanging of gifts and singing of Christmas carols.

8. lightning in a bottle

Eijirou hears the host call out his name and for half a second he mistakes the ringing in his ears for his morning alarm.

9. every little bit (helps the fire burn) 

Katsuki has a problem, and it’s not that a man with bulls’ horns tried to pick him up from kindergarten the other day.

10. and then he kissed me! 

i. “You got a change of clothes?” 

ii. “Don layf.”

iii. In Katsuki’s mind, most things are black and white. 

iv.  “Katsuki.” 

v. The thought’s been rolling around in Eijirou’s mind for weeks, maybe months, but it’s Kaminari who first says, “Man, Bakugou’s really opened up, huh?” 

vi. There are, and Eijirou has counted, a grand total of only so many times a guy can watch the same four action movie reruns on cable before it gets to you. 

16. Easy as 1-2-3

If you were to ask Izuku what sets his kindergarten class apart from the rest of the elementary schoolers, even the first-graders, his answer would be simple, but sure: their unpredictability. 

and to bring us up to 20, a few opening sentences from wips that have not (yet) seen the light! 

17. Above the couch hangs Katsuki’s least favorite picture.

18. Long before they start dating, Katsuki knows Kirishima is weird.

19. Suzuko knew that Kirishima kid last year, but this year, he’s in her class.

20. Eijirou drives the whole way. 

patterns: i love a simple statement opener!! i feel like 9 times out of 10 when i go to start a story or chapter (or even a scene after a break) i default to “simple statement or two, and then dialogue.” i just like the rhythm of it! funnily enough when i was younger i think i started every single thing i wrote with dialogue, which i think can be really effective if you want the scene to hit the ground running, but i think it reminds me of my old writing too much to usually go for it 

favorite(s): probably 6, 8, and 19!! (19 i like for how it sets up the tone of the scene. i swear it’s better with context) 

this was fun so if you want to try it out consider yourself tagged :)

[causticsunshine]

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[ladyteldra]

Hi LadyTeldra, this may be a silly question, but where can I find your writing? Such snippets as I have seen on your tumblr intrigue me.

I'll be honest in that it's unpublished. ^^;; I have an ao3 with the same username. It's just currently empty. I will... try to publish st least the first chapter soon.

Thank you for your interest!