#not all of them

[iamsuperwholocked]

Jack: Bad things keep happening to me, like I have bad luck or something.

Ianto: Jack, you don't have bad luck. The reason bad things happen to you is because you're a dumbass.

[chickenmanbeloved]

No shame at this point...

Collecting these men like Pokémon cards

[piratefishmama]

I beg of you, start a new paragraph when someone new starts talking.

It makes anyones writing far easier to follow.

[v-i-r-i-d-i-a-n]

They way milkvans call Will selfish when his entire arc is about being so selfless- that is LITERALLY HIS FATAL FLAW- thinking he’s not allowed to have things, thinking he doesn’t deserve to have things, thinking his life and his happiness is less then someone else’s

He sacrifices himself, his happiness, for other people CONSTANTLY.

How are they gonna react when he does get to be selfish? When finally after everything he’s gone through he gets to want something and have it and finally take it for himself??

[dismemberment-on-a-tuesday-night]

I'm really sick and tired of how much people with high empathy enjoy hijacking and derailing posts about low/no empathy.

It seems like every post as simple as "having low or no empathy is fine, actually" is met by a bunch of people in the notes saying "oh, but isn't high empathy also valid? You excluded us :("

High empathy people are never hated on for having high empathy. Not ever. They aren't treated like monsters. People don't talk seriously or even just joke about throwing them all in jail or having them killed.

Empathy comes with so many privileges I can't breathe, yet they are insistent that everything has to be about them. They can't even imagine how hard it is to exist on the internet with low/no empathy dealing with all the vile hatred, even if they can "empathize", whatever that means.

Petition to keep people with empathy from hijacking posts about low/no empathy talking about our struggles or trying to spread positivity. They are more than capable of showing support, if they have any to spare, or ignoring us entirely. You'd think an empath could read the room.

[treasure-goblin]

I am a dragon

I am a dragon

I am a dragon

I am a dragon

I can do this

I fear no mortals

I am a dragon

[arvandus]

Someone: you will absolutely love this character. His personality and backstory is right down your alley.

Me: yes but does he have black/dark hair?

[june-doe-event]

pssst. ik june is in like four months but if you guys have any prompt suggestions for june doe 2024 feel free to send them in !!! i wanna get the prompt list posted by late april this year <3

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia. Not sure if this has been asked before but what makes you decide how long a chapter is going to be? I noticed that the chapters in your stories like FFS and TIP have really long chapters whilst stories like the current UtB have shorter chapters, and I was wondering why that was.

Hi anon,

So... it's mostly down to two things:

First -> Engagement. People just generally comment a lot less on longer chapters. The longer the chapter, the less comments it gets. I don't know if it's reading fatigue or what, but The Ice Plague taught me a lot of hard lessons and longer chapters do not get the engagement to justify that level of effort (I love love love the comments I get, don't get me wrong, but I also make money off this writing to live, I do have to think 'longer chapters mean I eat less and can't see all my medical specialists' - that's not nothing). People might say they love them, but they don't show the authors love for them in the same way, and that's the only way I can justify doing them.

Second -> From a labour perspective, I can release more chapters for different stories if the chapters are shorter. There was a time when the average length of my chapters was around 6-8k per chapter. That works out to maybe five chapters for like, possible one or two stories at once per month. The editing took longer and was harder to do, and it was also more laboursome for my beta as well. Shorter chapters are easier to edit, even if you're doing two and a half in the same amount of time. Stories like Palmarosa, A Stain that Won't Dissolve, probably most of the Underline stories like Gold and Red and Blue would not exist at all if I was still writing longer chapters. Because I could never justify the time it took simply to write a single chapter, and it would be - like so many of my story ideas - just a pipe dream that I sometimes talked about.

So if you like some of those stories, they are literally in existence in part because I went to shorter chapter lengths, which allows me to be more experimental with different story ideas to see what ones I really enjoy, without impacting my monthly wordcount and schedule too severely.

There's other factors too. But engagement was a huge, huge part of it. These days my chapter length ranges from around 2.5-4.5k which seems to be the sweet spot (it's also still about 2-3 times as long as what's recommended in serials, which sadly is like 500 words to 2k, which to me is like, damn, I can't live like that). And a lot of later FFS chapters are actually around this length as well. In fact I think at least one chapter in FFS is 2500 words. So I was already experimenting then with shorter chapters and was already finding that the shorter chapters had more engagement. I think one of the chapters that had the most comments of all of them, was actually one of the shortest chapters.

There's a time and place for really short chapters so I don't like to do them too much, so instead I'm around the 3-4k mark.

There's also the fact that when it really suits, I will write longer chapters. Though I don't ever want to write chapters over 6-7k again outside of epilogues, simply because of the sheer amount of labour that goes into them, and the fact that they seem to fatigue readers a lot more overall.

The other thing is, anon, I used to be very ashamed of how long my stories were, so I used to prefer - out of shame - shorter chapter numbers but longer chapters so it 'felt' like the story was shorter to me even though it wasn't. Realistically, Game Theory should - pacing wise - have 100 shorter chapters. But this embarrassed me so much I shoved a lot of different things into chapters that would have made more sense broken up. When I gave up that shame, I could pace the stories better in a way that made more sense to me. In longer chapters, you'll see a lot more chapter breaks (the asterisks), and some of those are where many writers would logically just have started a new chapter.

[the-spooky-children]

I just know a shit load of the people who simp for Bob on TikTok and stuff would start barfing if they saw a man with his body irl

[basilthymee]

Man, I love iterators

[ko2vo]

Sketchbook doodle dump!

I've been trying to draw for about 45 minutes daily - not always happening BUT these are some of the pages I like. Part practice, art therapy, and just having a small creative outlet

[azural83]

Enough of barbie's teenage life. When are they going to make a movie on how barbie became an actress? How she decided to play the bcu movies? Her rise to fame?

Give me that story mattel

[rosescries]

Ok, now I'm curious. How different are the mob skeletons reactions to finding their soulmate and having to share them from their reactions from "Cheating Death"? 

Well, different enough. The main difference here is that their SOULmate isn't on the verge of having their SOUL shattered, and they don't have complete control over them at the moment either. In Cheating Death, everyone thinks Mc is dead, so obviously they're not going to go looking for her. If the Mob boys kidnapped Mc in any other context, there's likely people that would go searching for her and they'd have a harder time keeping her.

Their possessiveness is the same though, they all want her. This is something that'll somewhat touched upon in Bad Habits actually, though not as explicit. The term SOULmate won't even show up. That possessiveness clashes with a lot of things, and some are better about it than others. Or better at hiding it at least.

The Mob boys don't trust really anyone besides their brothers, so they are NOT down with sharing their SOULmate with anyone else. They wouldn't even share a regular datemate with anyone outside of their brother, much less someone they share a SOUL with. They especially don't want to share with different versions of themselves. Some are just better at hiding this fact than others.

Elated at finding their SOULmate: Lucky (Mobswap Sans)

Elated, but somewhat reluctant to engage: Ace (Mobtale Papyrus), Strike (Mobswap Papyrus), Clip (Mobswapfell Papyrus), Doll (Moblust Sans), Sheba (Moblust Papyrus)

A bit reluctant to do anything about this: Guns (Mobtale Sans), Gamble (Mob G!Sans), Vig (Mob G!Papyrus), Hit (Mobfell Sans), Sniper (Mobfell Papyrus)

Doesn't know what to DO: Capo (Mobswapfell Sans), Pass (Horrormob Sans), Button (Horrormob Papyrus)

[imangryyyyy]

I realize that I don’t like my friends “my friends irl” much things I remembered now ew

[serpulalacrymans]

Name one person in your life that you feel the strongest about. Not necessarily in a good way. 'Myself' isn't an acceptable answer.

One person in my life I feel strongest about? I don't know.. I don't know many people... I guess some of the people I've met here? I miss Lulu.. Um.. Rose is very nice to me?... I'm enjoying what talks I can get with.. The fox-eared user.. But I don't think I feel strongest about them in any sort of way. Strongest feelings are scary. The people I've felt for in a way like that don't exist anymore.