#fanfic musings

[tevanactually]

Tommy helps Buck babysit Jee-yun and they have a princess tea party together, these 2 big burly men sitting on the floor with little Jee and her plushies, holding tiny plastic tea cups in their hands with their pinkies up and singing songs together

❤️🥹🫖

[fawnnfiction]

I think literally every fandom, and I mean EVERY fandom, should have a Star Wars AU where at least one character (OC or canon) is a Jedi Knight who survived Order 66 and is trying to adapt to their new life in the world of their respective series.

And this character feels the need to hide their Force sensitivity and alien past from their friends, lest they be branded as a freak or, worse, found by the Empire.

But, uh oh, someone from the greater galaxy gets involved and messes everything up! Time to dust off the old lightsaber (bonus points if it belonged to their now-deceased Jedi Master)!

Or maybe don't introduce more Star Wars characters and elements: just sit back and watch the unfolding chaos caused by plopping a Jedi in a completely foreign universe.

Who cares if they end up OP? They literally just got out of a full-scale war only to watch their entire family gunned down by their supposedly loyal soldiers. The tension can come from the PTSD-driven angst.

In conclusion, I'm very normal about the way I engage with fandoms. Crossover shenanigans tickle my brain.

[backinblack-80]

Ugh, I am suffering from such bad writers block. It has been going on for weeks, and I just cannot find any passion in anything I write anymore. I stare at the blank page, a fully formed story in my brain, and nothing comes out! Everything that I do write as amateurish trash, and I feel like everything I have learned about writing in the past few years has disappeared from my brain.

Help! How do people cope with this? Is it terminal? Any tips on getting back in the game? Getting desperate and reaching out to my friends in the fandom for help 😭😭

[i-read-too-much-fanfic]

voltron fans stop naming soulmate au fics with variations of strong but then have nothing to do woth the red strong of fate challenge impossible

[spotsandsocks]

Now you tell me this isn’t E Buckley best selling children’s author - he looks so snuggly - need to get back to this fic 😍

[saiikavon]

Thinking about laws and social worldbuilding in an abo world. As I do.

I think there are two schools of thought when it comes to dynamics—they are either intermingled with higher thinking the same way our little ape brains mingle with our higher human thoughts, meaning that people can control their urges and take steps to do so; OR they are pure instinct sitting alongside the higher thinking, but cannot be controlled by the logical brain under certain circumstances. I see a lot more of the former that, at most, lean into primal instinct, but ultimately put full responsibility for actions made on instinct for the person. Which, to be clear, I don’t think is exactly wrong…I just happen to think that circumstances DO need to be taken more into account if there’s this instinctual brain that can’t be controlled.

And it intrigues me to think about just what kind of laws would be centered around that, and how people would react to feral episodes and the like if it was something a little more commonplace. How do people prevent major incidents, in these cases? What sort of medications do people take to control urges? Does one side more often take the blame than the other, or is it mutual? Does it depend on the circumstances? How would law enforcement look into such cases?

Anyway.

[crystalsamethyst]

I think I initially planned my fic to be between like 30-60k but it's getting so long and it's only just passed canon events at around 40k. I do have a bunch of plans for it but in my tags I put 'eventual time skip' which was part of my inspiration... I'm wondering if I should just make this a series with the Xianle civil war as part 1

[1lilspark]

I have never written in this fandom and I haven’t been able to focus on my actual WIPs but why do I have thoughts of a TLFY inspired AU but probably gender flipped so Elizabeth is the “Jamie” one of the mental walls in hitting is should I have Lucas as the “Cathy” still be a struggling actor or something else?

[nikageeee]

Another headcanon time!

Could see Travis being the kind of guy that internalizes fears over losing his significant others, if and when he has one. I’ve seen people mention a possessive aspect.

I don’t know if that would always manifest in him (maybe, sometimes in extreme cases), but I think he would have a side filled with self doubt and defensiveness.

Like constantly questioning his SO if he’s good enough- sometimes warping things said into perceived criticism.

‘No, I haven’t started painting the back room yet. You ask me that as if I haven’t been busy with everything enough as it is.’

Likely, he’d immediately know he’s been unnecessarily harsh. He’d stew a while, and make a brief apology.

If it was just a niggling insecurity that hadn’t blown out of proportion, I think he’d subtly prod for reassurance that things are okay.

‘You were asleep when I got back last night. Have you started going to bed early?’

He’d be someone that valued directness but struggles to articulate his own version of that in expressing his feelings I imagine. Better expresses himself physically.

[princecosmosanon]

God, sometimes I just get random thoughts, and I’m sure there’s something subliminal that triggered it but I can’t think of what the hell that could be right now but:

What if Sokka was a stag beetle and Zuko was a firefly and they fell in love?

[tevanactually]

(As a nicotine addict myself ) I headcanon Tommy as an ex smoker. That his parents smoked and he picked up the habit as a teen . Then in the army he would smoke just to have something to do when he felt restless . For years Tommy was someone who would numb himself, was shutdown and self destructive . But eventually he started to let his walls down, gain confidence and learned how to truly care for himself. He came out, distanced himself from his toxic family and started meditating and drinking tea or smoothies in the morning instead of starting the day with cigarettes, stress and energy drinks.

Months into dating, while outside a gay bar, Tommy mentions to Buck that smoking areas outside clubs can still be a trigger for him, especially when he's been drinking. embarrassed to admit he struggled with addiction, but wanting to be honest with his boyfriend he opens up to Buck about what he perceives to be a shameful flaw, a weakness. Then Tommy feels another wall come down as Buck offers him nothing but kindness, admiration and a soft kiss before telling Tommy how proud of him he is for quitting, Buck then sharing with him his own stories of speeding on his motorcycle and of tuition money spent on kegparties. They end the night reflecting on how they've both matured, how much more hopeful and at peace they are now , as they walk down the street hand in hand , then hail a cab home together.

[vivifriend]

Sometimes I create characters just for AUs or to test mods. And often those same characters worm themselves into my imagination and pop up elsewhere, whether I planned for them to or not. Copper (the Imperial in the back in the third screen, started as a character I made to test mods). Lewin, the Breton man here started as an AU character and I'm debating slipping him into the longfic I'm working on. Because I already know how he'd fit in with Copper and Vilkas. It's nice to have something engaging when I've been stressed with moving though. Especially since I haven't been able to read anyone's fics because I don't have a quiet place to read at my computer until I get settled in a house. My family has a very bad habit of interrupting me... On the plus side, they leave me alone when I read my kindle so, maybe I should start downloading fics...

I've been writing like a demon though, and Lewin's dynamic with Copper and Vilkas is proving to be a delight to write. (which is part of why I'm thinking he'd be an excellent addition to the main fic. And a friend of mine is egging me on, wanting to see more of him. So, maybe I will, my fic already has the multi tag after all...)

But fingers crossed I get settled into a house swiftly because I desperately want to catch up on fics!

[backinblack-80]

Got a comment on a fic accusing me of using AI to write my fics. Was pissed off and wrote a 'fuck you' reply and then decided to just delete it.

Is this a thing? What makes them think that?

I wish I were computer savy enough of use AI to write my fics. Might save me some time 😆

[i-read-too-much-fanfic]

the problem with reading crack fics is that you'll stumble across one that is written so beautifully it changes your soul

and then you can't find anything like it because all the other fics for those characters are 200 words of dick jokes with purposefully bad grammar that spits in your face for ever considering to take it seriously

[10holmes]

ANGST! ANGST! ANGST!

I'M THRIVING IN ANGST.

GIVE ME ALL THE ANGST THERE IS!

[thebahwrites]