#granny’s original content emporium

[granny-griffin]

Emporium update!!

added a games category

added new content in multimedia (keepers), writing (high and low fantasy), and comics

[artist-at-play]

Hiiii! I run the askloucetiosoliver blog and raycatzdraws. I just want to say thank you so much for all the kind comments you’ve left in the tags on my art. It looks like you’ve cued up a whole lot of it! (and have gone through to look at the older stuff too, aaAAA <3 !!!) The comments have really been making my day, so thank you!

Hello! Thank you for sharing with us! Your art is so pretty, and the characters are really loveable. ^^ I can't wait to see more of it!

I'm so glad you're enjoying my rambling about it ^^ you can thank @granny-griffin for it. Because of her really cool original content emporium she's been making on her blog I found your art!

Thank you and have a great day ^^

[granny-griffin]

if you want to support an indie author but don’t have spare money, you could try requesting your library to buy their book! lots of American libraries have a form on their website where you can request that they buy a book—you usually have to have a library card for it to work, and sometimes they say no, but it’s worth a shot!

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Original Story Recs: Halloween Edition

From the author of the bnha fic Butterfly comes another very creepy story! Except this one is way shorter and also not a fanfic. One day, people and animals freeze in place, and if you touch them, you freeze in place too. Nobody knows why this is happening or how to stop it.

Another super messed up short story from the author of ABOT. But I actually found this story genuinely sweet! You know. despite all the child abandonment and murder. Anyway if I say anything else I’m gonna end up spoiling it so just read it.

Considerably less of a horror story than the previous two, but it has a werewolf so it’s very festive. Also if I’m remembering the protagonist is an epic middle aged woman who sits there and knits (maybe crochets??) the whole time while she’s talk no jutsu-ing the werewolf. It’s awesome.

Okay listen. I just have to confess. I’m super biased toward this one hdlshd but listen. It’s pretending to be a romance story, but it actually exists to answer the age old question: what would happen if a vampire took communion? Anyway come and get your niche theological metas here.

Okay I had one with a werewolf and one with a vampire so here’s one with a zombie! Eve is one of the walking dead, but she’s determined not to eat people. You know. since that’s kind of a mean thing to do. But this is very difficult since all her friends are eating people! maybe this was why I liked it hdksdh I’m here for the difficult moral struggle. Stay strong Eve! (btw this one is multichapter while the others are oneshots)

Gotta round out my halloween monster collection! This one is about a guy wandering a deserted battlefield and being angsty, but he also has a loyal pegasus friend so that’s pretty rad. Also there’s a storm blowing in so its also very aesthetic. And there’s ghosts.

[granny-griffin]

ok but if you’re bored while ao3 is down here’s a rec list of free of original stories posted online

[granny-griffin]

emporium update! I added more comics!

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emporium update because im trying not to think about my comprehensive examps tomorrow XD added a multimedia page!!

ETA: forgot the link hdksdh

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update to the emporium! a few new stories linked and some formatting updates on the writing page

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Here’s Gained in Translation, one of my favorite 2022 inklingschallenge stories!

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@mozart-the-meerkitten’s oc Oliver! I hope everything turns out for him!

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pros and cons of websites to post writing

figured I might as well share my notes: a more detailed disambiguation is below the cut

Wattpad

terms | privacy

best for: original works, romance

allows fanfiction? technically no (this is not enforced)

can I profit off my work? yes

does the company own what I post? no

tagging rating: poor

no tag exclusion

tags reset every time you click on a work

no sort by most recent (though you can restrict the date range a little)

AO3

terms | privacy | organization faq

best for: fanfiction

allows fanfiction? yes! so much so that they do not allow original works (this is not really enforced though)

can I profit off my work? no

does the company own what I post? no

tagging rating: phenomenal

tag exclusion

sort by date or popularity

Tumblr

terms | privacy

best for: short original works

fanfiction: technically no (again, not really enforced)

can I profit off my work: yes

does the company own what I post: no

tagging rating: meh

no tag exclusion in search

search by popularity or date!

frequent glitches

Wattpad

allows fanfiction? no

“Don’t submit content you don’t hold the copyright for (unless you have permission, including to grant Wattpad all the rights outlined in these terms).”

can I profit off my work? yes

“you may advertise the sale of your content in e-book or published book form on third party platforms or bookstores.”

does the company own what I post? no

“You own all the rights to the content you create and post on the Wattpad Services. […]

“When you post content to Wattpad, we need the legal permission under applicable copyright laws to display that content to users of the Wattpad Services. Legally this means you give us a nonexclusive license to publish your content on the Wattpad Services, including anything reasonably related to publishing it (like storing, displaying, reformatting, and distributing it). You’ll need to decide how you want to license your story content to the Wattpad community. Please read our guide on Copyrights for assistance in making this decision […]

“We may also use your Content to promote the Services. We will never sell your content to third parties without your explicit permission.”

AO3

allows fanfiction? yes: to the exclusion of original works

“The Archive of Our Own is a place for fanworks. Content may not be uploaded to OTW's servers […] if it consists entirely of […] non-fanwork content, including non-fanwork creative work (refer to the ToS FAQ). Uploading such Content is a violation of the ToS.”

can I profit off my work? no

“Promotion of commercial products or activities is not allowed.”

“We will enforce the noncommercialization policy strictly, including a ban on works posted to promote the sale of the author's other works, even if those are not hosted on the site.”

does the company own what I post? no

see the previous post for this—the website is non-commercial

Tumblr

allows fanfiction? technically no

“You also agree that you will respect the intellectual property rights of others, and represent and warrant that you have all of the necessary rights to grant us this license for all User Content you provide.”

can I profit off my work? yes

post + | tipping

does the company own what I post? no

“Users retain ownership and/or other applicable rights in User Content, and Tumblr and/or third parties retain ownership and/or other applicable rights in all Content other than User Content.”

“When you provide User Content to Tumblr through the Services, you grant Tumblr a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right and license to use, host, store, cache, reproduce, publish, display (publicly or otherwise), perform (publicly or otherwise), distribute, transmit, modify, adapt (including, without limitation, in order to conform it to the requirements of any networks, devices, services, or media through which the Services are available), and create derivative works of, such User Content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purposes of allowing Tumblr to operate the Services in accordance with their functionality, improve and promote the Services, and develop new Services. The reference in this license to "creat[ing] derivative works" is not intended to give Tumblr a right to make substantive editorial changes or derivations, but does, for example, enable reblogging, which allows Tumblr Users to redistribute User Content from one Tumblr blog to another in a manner that allows them to add their own text or other Content before or after your User Content.”

[granny-griffin]

guys I found a cool discord server for original content! join it here!

[granny-griffin]

Space Boy! 🚀

It's a sci-fi webcomic by Stephen McCranie about a girl from a different time and a boy filled with an emptiness deeper than space. It's a really fun and heartwarming story that really focuses on the characters and their personal journeys, and I really enjoyed it. Also his art is beautiful and his color choices are just 👌

https://m.webtoons.com/en/sf/space-boy/list?title_no=400&page=1&webtoon-platform-redirect=true

Oh I remember that! I’ve been meaning to check it out for literal years! now that I have a webtoons account I’d better subscribe

[granny-griffin]

this is the best story I have read in a long time

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@masterfuldoodler’s oc Mitz!! I used her lineart—but I forgot to copy the link to the post I got it from. You’ll just have to scroll through her whole blog and like all her other stuff if you want to see it. Merry Christmas everybody!! :D

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@ash-grimmy’s oc Daisy!! She did the lineart and I colored. I’m super excited to learn more about this character!