#help me out fandom

[greatandquestionablecontent]

Me: I wonder how Camilla and Dulcinea felt about each other before all this

Dulcinea (in An Unwelcome Guest):

In your second letter to me, you asked for my physical data. I didn't give you a lithograph. I'd lost so much weight and I wasn't responding to fat regrowth. Outside thalergy was giving me a rash. I felt incredibly down about myself, so I gave you a very silly description instead, along with measurements, and in your twenty-eighth letter you sent me a copy of the drawing Camilla had made to my particulars.

Oh, it was so beautiful! That drawing looked nothing like me. I loved it.

You don't know this so it doesn't help, but I included it in my will and put down that I wanted to look like that after I died. I thought maybe it would give you a laugh at the funeral, you know?

I love this. Like ok boy asks girl penpal what her measurements are, yeah yeah we’ve seen that one before (it’s so he can study her) (she gives him a silly fake answer) (his bodyguard bestie draws fan art of her) (girl wants the fan art made canon at her funeral) (post mortem body mod for the lolz)

Imagining something like these

Palamedes: no wonder she’s unhealthy

Dulcinea: beautoful 🥲🥲🥲

Also (of a hypothetical relationship) “it would have been beautiful. Camilla would have had to cook”

[lemonluvgirl]

Hey other writers

Is it just me or does it sometimes feel like the stuff you don't try all that hard to write ends up being some of the stories people respond to the most?

Because I can spend weeks agonizing over and editing/re-editing certain scenes from a fic I'm completely invested in, dream about at night, and love to death and it makes about the same splash as a drop of water in the pond, but then I turn around and write some drabbles about a/b/o crack that I post on Tumblr, unbeta-read, that takes me like 30 minutes tops to write and the response like night and day...

All this to say...

I've been writing fanfiction for about 2 years now and I still don't understand how any of this works. Why do some things grab people's attention more than others?

Is it because of tropes? Is that why people read?

Is it the size of a story? Are more people prone to read drabbles than multichapter fics?

Anybody got any ideas, because while I'm not going to become a slave to the masses and churn out a bunch of fics to please people, I genuinely want to understand this phenomenon.

Because unanswered questions bug the hell out of me.

[dezlet]

I've decided I'm going to try and participate in NaNoWriMo for the first time in a couple years, and to make it a little easier on myself I've decided to write a new Buddie Oneshot every day. I want to come up with a bunch of prompts and I'll roll a d20 to decide which one I want to write! It's just uh I'm having trouble deciding on prompts, so I thought I'd turn to the fandom for suggestions! See below the ReadMore for the ten prompts I've come up with. Feel free to message me for prompts or reblog and add it in the body or the tags.

1 "I'm afraid I'm homophobic because my best friend's dating a guy and I hate him" 2 Musical Episode 3 Buck Gets Mindreading Superpowers (And Eddie panics and tries to think about pink elephants all the time) 4 Buck Is A Lumberjack TikTok Star(ish) (And eddie kind of uses it as porn) 5 Frat Boy Eddie Meets Buck While He's Bartending With That Horrible Hair 6 Vampire AU (Eddie's a vampire Buck's human) 7 Werewolf AU (whichever) 8 Sentinel/Guide 9 Buck Gets Lightning Powers And Becomes A Superhero On The Side (Eddie figures it out immediately and is exasperated but also that outfit is kind of hot) 10 Pirates 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

[starshipblueberry]

Bering and Wells AU where Helena was a member of a cult and Christina died because no one believed in doctors.

[nouverx]

You gotta excuse his 1920's ass, he's still learning slangs

[imclou]

there's no way he said that so confidently

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[clairdelilacart]

Me: I'm gonna draw my favourite fucked up little guy

*a few minutes of pose sketches later*

Oh noooo he wears armour

[hinamie]

theyre soft your honour

[darkmuffinstudios]

The struggle for sleep is super hard sometimes

[biblically-accurate-dca]

painting test with a limited color palette

here's the moon equivalent!

[saturdaysky]

just some gale of waterdeep face practice. i have the brainrot

[crabsnpersimmons]

i realize i never posted these boys

these are my boys for my restaurant AU: "Have You Eaten?"

the basic premise is this: Y/N works a stressful job where keeping up appearances is paramount. They often treat their clients to a meal at their favourite restaurant, run by the DCA boys—the nutrition-conscious chef Sun, the sweet and friendly chef Moon, and the charming front of house Eclipse. Y/N always orders something small and light so they can focus on talking with their client and maintaining appearances—nothing too large, nothing messy, nothing indulgent. Then after the meal, they walk their client to their car and they wait for their client to leave. Secretly, Y/N is a glutton. Once their client leaves, they hurry back to the restaurant, where their true meal is hot and ready for them.

Eclipse: Welcome back, Starlight! Ready for your second course?

Moon: Do you wanna skip straight to dessert? I tried a new recipe for donuts!

Sun: No. The hour is late, you should have something simple and adequately filling before bed.

Eclipse: Or... maybe you're interested in something "off the menu?"

they're a silly bunch (:

some other notes under the cut

the title is "Have You Eaten?" which is a common greeting in multiple languages. There's something warm about being greeted with this check-in to make sure you that have taken care of your body.

the restaurant is mostly based on a Hong Kong style cafe (a cha chaan teng) but the specials change often and often branch into other types of dishes and cuisines, because the boys like to experiment with new recipes.

Eclipse does have 4 arms, but he usually hides his second pair away because he's found it disturbed customers.

they can eat as an alternative method of recharging, and they can turn off their taste buds. Sun in particular has a bad habit of eating food scraps.

the DCA's relationship with each other is... complicated? They don't exactly like each other but are forced by their code to remain within a certain distance to each other. So they begrudgingly work and live together and cause trouble for each other's lives.

despite having separate bodies, their code forces them to stay within a certain radius (1515 feet, or the approximate distance between the 2 furthest points of the Mega Pizzaplex). They wear clip-on earrings to extend the range whenever they need extra space (usually Eclipse, hence why he has so many).

Eclipse is the oldest—he was built first for the theatre. Many years later, Eclipse was moved to the daycare to entertain children. But since they were short-staffed, Sun and Moon were built using Eclipse's code to help him at the daycare.

their pizzaplex was left to ruin and the three of them got out and were picked up by an old chef, who took them in and taught them everything he knows before leaving his restaurant to them and passing away.

i would like to write something for this AU. The main story still needs some work, but I have a lot of little drabble ideas that I might write. Or maybe it will be an AU full of drabbles. That's a possibility too. Although I would like to explore stories with other y/ns, like one who is a picky eater, one who has a lot of food allergies, etc.

also head's up: innuendos. innuendos everywhere. (most of which are Eclipse's fault)

[sun-e-chips]

Are we supposed to ignore that Sun can do LITERAL MAGIC in help wanted 2!!!

It’s canon

[ciderjacks]

Sent his ass to the therapy void

[friskafriskito]

Some silliness in the fanserver I'm in; someone mentioned Minecraft is a lonely game :')

(Disclaimer I have not played minecraft before so)

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The Magnus Archives (CC) The Rusty Quill Podcast Network Minecraft (c) Microsoft (originally Mojang)

[anonymouscheeses]

At first i was jst supposed to find a hairstyle for Anxiety cz i had no idea how to draw it... still dont.. and then it turned into an entire redesign so idk 😭 (i dont have any problems wiht og deisyns i jst wnated to ahve fun)

Jumpscare! /j soo i made an au... cz im hyperfixating hard on inside out 2 rn... and im fixated on Riley cz sshes meeee 😭 and Val cz she's so chill i wnat to be rriends with her tbh

(Tell me if this is like- a shipping no-no cz im not sure what the fandom is like for shipping the adult vers of them 😔🫶)