#mess me up no one does it better

[lajulie24]

A and M for the writer ask! :)

A. Of the fanfics you’ve written, which is your favorite and why?

Oh, this is difficult — as I’ve said here before, they’re a bit like my pets or children, it’s hard to pick a favorite. But if pressed…I’d say my favorites include:

The Book of the Lovers - because it was a bit different in style from my usual, and I loved writing something that just flowed from section to section and also had a strong emotional component throughout. Plus I feel like the time after the events of ESB but before the beginning of ROTJ is really fruitful, if hard, for all our favorites. Han is suffering in carbonite, but Leia’s having to pick up her own pieces while Luke is visibly shaken (and injured) but won’t confide in her, and she’s growing closer with Chewie but each of them has their own grief and feelings of guilt from what went on at Bespin too.

Epic Love - because I was really proud of having figured out a way to make the events of TFA make sense to me, to the Han and Leia I know and love rather than…whatever the hell the ST writers thought they should be.

Mess me up, no one does it better - because it’s one of the fics where I felt increasingly more comfortable with writing smut, and I really loved the way it turned out.

M. What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with? Did it turn into a story?

I love imagining myself a really wild sort of AU scenario, especially these days. The weirdest one I’ve come up with did turn into a fic, which was supposed to be a sort of wild 5k one-shot for the HanLeia Halloween prompt-a-thon, and somehow has truly taken on a life of its own (be careful, kids: sometimes your wild AUs will grow feelings and plot, and then you are done for).

The premise: Leia decides to invite Han to have a one-night stand to get their mutual attraction (and love, though nobody’s admitting to that at the beginning) out of their systems, because Leia suspects Han is going to have to leave to pay off Jabba soon. He accepts and they have a great time (it’s rated E for a reason), but what they don’t know is that Leia is Force-sensitive/a potential Jedi, and Han is from a clan of Corellians called the Malluma’sinioro (“Sith-maker”), where if they have penetrative sex with a Jedi, it results in a super-fast pregnancy (one hour for every week of gestation) and traditionally the Sith used the resulting offspring to make host bodies for themselves. Oops. So there’s a bit of “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” and a bit of “Han and Leia are in love but surprise babies don’t exactly make things un-complicated in a relationship and also in a war” and a bit of Leia figuring out some new things about herself and her heritage earlier in the timeline.

The fic (still in progress): A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)

Thank you kindly for the ask!

Fanfic Writer Ask Meme

[insufferablemod]

do you have any tips for like... paneling? your lil comics, if i could call them that(?) with Dave are well made (to me at least) and I'd like to get into making comics! or if you know any resources that helped you. :') - sincerely, a beginner.

sorry to be answering this so late, wanted to try and give some kinda proper advice haha so what i do is i just make my posts as long as possible so that it takes up like all of ppls dash, this means they are forced to look at it and engage with it! no ok but for real, first off this is just how i do things and by no means any sort of proper tutorial or anything, most of this is prob kinda basic and intuitive stuff, but its good to be reminded of the basics and to notice why you might be doing said things intuitively so you can start doing it intentionally so how i approach things is by picking a focus panel whats the Punchline/Emotional pay off for the page/comic? and then i try and build the rest around that for actual Comics not every page is gonna have one of those ofcourse and thats fine i tend to often have to many focus panels,,,, lmao(which is why my posts end up so long,,,,) i try to group similar panels and make them smaller, it saves space, makes it so the attention goes to the more unique panels and makes things feel more sequential(or u can do like me and have too many similar panels and think, what if i just make it an animation, its just a few extra frames right,,,?<- clueless(i have done this twice now,,, the second is still a wip,,, )) heres one of my posts deconstructed using all this, id do more of them but i dont wanna make this even longer asdsd, but i think its pretty obvious to pick up on once you know the formula lol

after that i think its mostly just clear composition and flow so things dont get confusing(like what panel(also applies to text) youre suppose to read next and such(thats easier with this cus its usually just individual panels and not full pages)) edit: oh and resources that helped me, i mostly just looked at other comics, paying attention to how the paneling was effecting the story and mood! some comics ive looked at for paneling inspo are houseki no kuni, how they play with contrast and stuff, idk theyre all just very striking, i looked at ajin at some point as well for help with some action stuff, most action shonen are also great for that 2 so yeah, just find a comic scene that has the same vibe that youre trying to get and see how they did it, finding a few and comparing and contrasting what you feel works best thats my thought process while doing stuff at least! i hope this helps at least a bit haha

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Dealing with newcomer's embarrassment gets easier if you are surrounded by people you have no respect for.

[gobstoppr]

and btw im in my hater arc rn. as time goes on the more i find a lot of 'fandom' stuff insufferable (i like art n stuff. just the way that fandom refits every media to fit a single mold and set of boring archetypes is exhausting.)

i just get really easily annoyed lately. and have been unfollowing people on a whim a lot. its not personal i promise

[rebelwithoutabroom]

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[alchemiclee]

been looking in tags for a few days now to see if anyone else found the whole high cloud quintet and related story to be a bit.....poorly written, nonsensical, contradictory, full of plot holes and loose ends, etc. apparently i'm not the only one. (and i'm not even talking about shipping stuff, because any time I saw someone mad about bad writing, someone always replies to be homophobic and laugh about failed ships. weirdos.) it could have been so good but was thrown into the garbage for the most part (IF you noticed all the plot holes and contradiction. if not, then it's a fine enough story tbh. I expect most people to see it on surface level and not read all the little hidden lore bits and try to piece it together like my autistic brain did. which is ok! enjoy it if you liked it and ignore me 😆)

[sysig]

I decided to give a go to @niennanir’s lovely print-your-own-fic recipe on my Inside and Out as a test run and I’m quite pleased with the results as a first pass :D

I wish I’d taken a few more process pictures but there was a slight lull as I had to go shopping for 12x12 cardstock lol, but! I do have a couple closeups/extras that I added for funsies :D

I went with freehanding the title and I think in the future I would opt to not do that lol, at least not without a printed template. That said, both LibreOffice and SAI refuse to recognize my SCII fonts >:0 If you notice on the first page, I used the Ace Attorney font in italic haha, it’s an okay alternative even if it’s not what I actually want |0 I am happy with the gold detailing tho :3c

I did have an unconscionable amount of fun freehanding the ship caption tho ahh <3 <3 Immediate happy stims upon completion, their names together look so pretty ♥ Credit to Zarla’s original minicomic on that one :3

I also managed to get the last sentence of the fic isolated on the last page thanks to the formatting haha ♪

I was also able to add a bookmark! Ma happened to have a couple very thin ribbons to choose from and red ended up complementing the green very prettily!

It reminds me of VUX tongues hehehehe ❤️💕💖💞

[hephaestn]

if i see one more time that steve is the brother max deserves i’m throwing hands

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

I’m really starting to feel like Gregor Samsa now

[aezyrraeshh]

you're breaking my heart, you know. // you'll live. [template]

[0ut0fmych3st]

I was so worried before I got my tongue pierced that it might become a big sensory issue and I’m honestly surprised because while it’s impossible to forget it’s there, it’s almost like.. good? It’s comforting to have it there, same with my lip piercing. Like a weighted blanket

[greyias]

Tagged by: @captainderyn -- thank you for the tag! Tagging: @meanbihexual, @keldae, @queen-scribbles (no pressure!) From the little au that could...

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Valkorion had looked down at his progeny with ill-disguised contempt, lightning dancing at the tips of his fingers as he attempted to silence what he saw as the only threat in the room. He didn’t even look up until the cold barrel of a blaster buried itself at the base of his skull.

Which brought Theron back to where he wasn’t supposed to be.

Here.

Standing in someone else’s moment, stepping into a destiny that wasn’t his, and about to set into motion a cascade of events he had no hope of understanding. He was a disgraced spy. A Jedi washout. The Force-blind son of someone else’s greatness. A man always destined to live in the shadow of others.

“Do you really think that pathetic toy will hurt me?”

[girlyliondragon]

Real talk the thing about making extremely complicated/complex and flawed characters (especially those greatly based off yourself to the point they're your self-created comfort character) that you've grown to be extremely proud of thinking of their stories, is that you also know that there are people out there that will absolutely villainize the fuck out of them or try to 'reason' that they are completely irredeemable even in instances where they have no control over their life and act accordingly or even are pushed into situations where they didn't want to be to begin with or are even trying to be better than they were before even when they have gone through and still go through moments of relapse like any troubled character would in an attempt to make them feel real and it actually really fucking scares me.

I can't give details, but it's like. It's obvious they, the character, aren't a good person, not as a whole anyways and aren't meant to be, in fact said character sees themselves as the worst to exist because in their eyes they deserve every bit of punishment after everything they've done because they are forced to be stuck in the past and mask themselves unhealthily due to repeated mistakes and not wanting to do them again despite making achievements to move on and be happy and despite some telling them that they're doing a good job despite everything and that they deserve to be happy and meaning it rather than trying to placate them, it's obviously up for people to decide their own perception OF that OC from what they read of their story bits to decide whether they like the character based on what they read of them or not, because flaws and shit like this is very compelling to many, myself included.

But at the same time I'm super nervous about the idea of expanding on said character and showing their maladaptive coping mechanisms and behaviors and bad moments alongside their good moments because a lot of people on the internet, especially the very loud ones have no fucking concept of the varying shades of grey morality in the slightest. Even in cases where they are in fandoms with characters with many different forms of grey morality, like it terrifies me that someone could potentially misread everything and ruin my desire to make this OC I'm vagueing about want to not only move on and be better, even if they have to start from the bottom again sometimes, but redeem and even forgive themselves in their own eyes in the process and start anew, just because people have a black/white mentality that they force onto at the expense of others doing so. It really ruins character exploration and growth.

[coloursofaparadox]

hnnnnnnnnnnnmmnn its overshare on the internet o clock

[vampyrluver]

I love my brothers so much i want to protect them all wasaaa