#these were fun i liked them

[leonstamatis]

7, 14, 54, 81?

7. tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote

god i love this question and like, specifically, i love that you have asked me this question hedge because you'll get it. the first fandom i ever wrote for was naruto, back in 2006. i didn't publish the first one anywhere because it was just for my school friends, who played naruto with me at recess sometimes.

(technically i wrote fic before that, but i didn't know that's what i was doing. i'm not counting it. this is the first time i was aware of fanfic and intentionally doing it.)

so anyway, we were all ninjas in the naruto world, and we had romantic subplots with the characters we liked best -- if applicable -- and i don't remember much, other than i was in a fight with a friend at the time, and so my self-insert sneeringly referred to her self-insert as a "prep." the sickest burn i had, at age eleven. she was furious. plot was not a concern of mine, but that sure was.

14. what’s your worst writing habit? 

i don't edit for shit. if you read a fic from start to finish just one time, congratulations, you have done it more than i have. half the time i straight up do not remember what's in there, if it took longer than a couple days and is more than 1.5-2k words.

(this is not quite true for longer works, which i will read through for typos or repeated phrases once, after it has been published. and anything over 20k usually gets at least one read, but i actually don't have many of those. so.)

54. what’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

i try not to start my works with the word "the." and, in fact, i try to be careful about starting any sentences with "the," because i took poetry classes in college and my professor once tore into me (affectionately) because my lines never started in interesting or dynamic ways -- i put line breaks in natural places in a sentence, which meant lines started with conjunctions or new thoughts, which was very basic and standard and didn't push me very hard. often, my poems as a whole, started with "the." ever since that was pointed out to me, i've tried to avoid doing it out of habit and to really consider how a sentence starts and ends. (i'm not great at this. but i try!)

81. if you could go back in time and give your younger self a piece of writing advice specific to you, what would it be?

just fuckin write, man. i had so many things that never got written because i would spend all of my time thinking about them and planning them out, and never actually writing them down. i still do this with longer works, but i'm better about just putting pen to paper -- or finger to keyboard, as it were -- in order to get some damn words on the page and get things going. a perfectly plotted daydream won't become a fic; a less than perfect paragraph in your writing program of choice just might.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Must be a Sugondese joke.

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

[saintforan]

I think this lil guy reminds him of someone

ignore how messy it is, its like 5 am here n i needed 2 get this out of my system

[wispscribbles]

you know the art you made of Soap "accidentally" giving Ghost a kiss before going on a mission? (before they started dating) what do you think happened when Soap came back from the mission? :3c

follow up to this post

They start dating of course! <3

[kidovna]

manifested mileven at the snowball in 2016, so now I’m manifesting byler at senior prom🪻🌻

[5weekdays]

one time i thought it would be funny to make a fakemon region based on a generic american suburb but i only got as far as american meowth

this thing has me in stitches every time i look at it. i can never top this

🏳️‍⚧️ THIS POST HAS COME OUT AS TRANS! 🏳️‍⚧️

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

[mjulmjul]

Katya / Goncharov

[sisaloofafump]

I think about this quote everyday. You're right Arthur, they ARE best friends and it IS kind of adorable

[almondcroissantsandink]

hark! it's the cringefail loser squad from on high

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant and Catherine Tate having fun on the set of Wild Blue Yonder / Doctor Who 60th Anniversary

(and Bernard Cribbins too)

[heynhay]

merry Christmas klancers 🎅

[merlinemryspendragon]

I cannot do this alone. (insp: x/x/x)

[obsidianbit]

I love this gay ass show with its literally life ending injuries that heal immediately, but only when convenient to the plot, and its ridiculous use of modern phrases, and its laughing in the face of historical accuracy, and its kissing the face of the fans instead of trying to outwit them, and the way everyone involved in the show seem to go 'I KNOW RIGHT! I'M EXCITED TOO!' instead of mocking the fans

[bionicboxes]

this is all just a bad dream. and you're never waking up.

version without the 'proceed' text