#writers truth and dare ask game

[kiwiana-writes]

🥑and 🐝 please!💜

🥑 You accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help?

@rmd-writes and @welcometololaland for practical reasons, and @clottedcreamfudge and @cha-melodius for like, tactics and resolution. Hopefully I accidentally killed someone during winter, though, cause it'll take a bit for everyone to arrive.

🐝 Tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them

@firenati0n is just consistently one of the most lovely positive people in my life. @sparklepocalypse is here for every bullshit unhinged idea and is on my wavelength to a scary degree. I genuinely don't know how I'd have gotten through the last couple of months of Personal Upheaval without @happiness-of-the-pursuit in my corner.

And I have to give a massive shoutout to the Original Novel Hype Group Chat of @indestructibleheart @rmd-writes @inexplicablymine without whom I definitely would have given up on pursuing this ridiculous dream at least fourteen times so far.

[Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game]

[darkurgetrash]

🍓 🌿 🎨 for the ask game? :)

Thank you for the ask! Ooh I like these emojis ~

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

When I was a teenager, I wrote some truly awful self-insert Death Note fanfic on fanfiction.net, which was unknowingly an enemies to lovers with L 🫣 then I didn’t touch fanfic for over a decade and honestly can’t remember what compelled me back to it for BG3, I think the Rolan brain rot was just too strong.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

Something my creative writing teacher always said was that writers block wasn’t really real, just write literally anything and it’ll go away. I don’t 100% agree with that, but I do think there is an element of forcing yourself through it - if we only wrote when we were inspired, we’d end up not writing very much at all. As for finding inspiration to be creative - Read! Listen to music! Look at art! You might find inspo in the unlikeliest thing.

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

I have so many artists I love it’s ridiculous, this would have to be a 10k words post filled with nothing but tags. I couldn’t possibly pick a favourite, but I will tag @tcustodisart here as someone I recently discovered and then spent several minutes just scrolling through their work! Their Tav x Shadowheart pairing and all their modern AUs in particular warmed my heart so much.❤️

[ramblingoak]

🔪🧃🛼 for the asks? ♡

Ibiiii my love thank you 💙

🔪 What's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

Hmm not really weird but I researched vibrating panties for when I wrote A Lil Somethin' Somethin'.

🧃 Share some personal lore you never posted about before.

Uh damn idk...I have kidney stones? Like a lot of kidney stones. My kidneys are basically maracas but in a less fun way.

🛼 Describe your latest wip with five emojis

🕰️🐀🐇😴⚙

writer's truth and dare ask game

[copiousloverofcopia]

🥤

Recommend an author or an fanfic I love?

Ahhhhhh there's so many. Here are some of my all-time favorite writers...to name a few lol! (sorry if I forgot anyone)

💗💗

(oh, and if you want to know which of their fics is my fav you can shoot me another ask but its gonna time a bit to answer lol)

@cardinal-copia-popia @bethbruttenholm @gasolineghuleh @honeyynymphh @the-hole-in-terzos-shoe @ramblingoak @ophelia-markov @lady-necropolis @vampghoulette @papasmicstand @zombiequeenblog @i-fondued @vestiges-of-cirice @inf3stissumam @hallowed-be-thy-username @selffagellation @undeclaredmilk @captaingrebelguf @synthhorror @littlemoon-beam

[artificial-absinthe]

🍄 for the ask game!

🍄 share a head canon for one of your favorite ships or pairings.

Head canon... I'm not so sure what headcanons are, but if I correctly understand the concept... I guess I have several, but right now I can only remember one. ^^

Of course is Megatron/Soundwave for I'm chronically ill.☠️

I think I should warn you is a spicy one.

They're sexless creatures but are into feti....shh....ism like B ⛓️ ...D🧤.. S...🔪... M 🐕‍🦺 regardless, because of the symbolism and parafernalia. It's a way of interaction between them that very much suit their natures, adequate to the kind of hard, slightly cold way in which they treat each other, but actually deep and inherently trusting. It allows contact that is not bounded by kindness or sweetness alone, since I'm not sailing with the flag that they're the most schmaltzy lovers in the universe. It's, on the contrary, demanding. It also involves worshiping and a string of practices that would appeal to Megatron's insatiable nature, and could be adapted to not gen-1-tal sensorial stimulus, since they don't have that.

Hopefully this is understandable enough (I have to censor everything slightly "too adult" otherwise my posts end into exile).

Thanks for the ask!

[itsmaybitheway]

Hi May! For the writers truth or dare:

🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

Hiiii 🥰🥰

🥤 This is gonna be hard okay OKAY!! First of all I have 275 tabs open (no joke) and over 20 on a tab group labelled TO COMMENT because we gotta spread the love and I have too many I love!!

Seriously with all my heart THE FIRSTPRINCE FANDOM HAS SO MANY GOOD WRITERS I AM CONSTANTLY AMAZED AND IN AWE OF THEM

But if you haven’t go read Longer Than Most by @happiness-of-the-pursuit it is an incredible multichaptered fic with sibling love, trans joy, family, misunderstandings and delicious smut

And each time we touch/ i wanna take too much by @firenati0n IT LITERALLY REACHED INSIDE MY STERNUM AND TOUCHED MY HEART

Before I rec my entire AO3 history I shall move on but again I LOVE ALL MY FELLOW WRITERS ITS KILLING ME

🍄 I headcanon so many stuff but it all got blurry in my head with canon loll 🥹 but a fun one is Alex being obsessed with Twilight as many bisexuals of out generation are

🌸 This is Marceline The Vampire Queen whos hobbies include biting my laptop cable and walking on my keyboard when I’m trying to work

[fawn-eyed-girl]

🍬 an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

Pixie HELLO 👋 and you had to come with the difficult question 😂😂🫠

I thought about this, and...I don't know? Like, do these count as unpopular opinions? (The last one definitely does I think, LOL)

In Inuyasha, maybe that I don't really like when Koga is made out to be a bad guy? Love him or hate him, I really don't think he'd be a dick to Kagome. The man stopped eating people for her!! He's not going to be mean or abusive to her.

Other fandoms...

In BNHA, I ship Todoroki with Momo, but really it's hard for me to write romance for him. He's probably my favorite character, but WOW he's kind of boring to write? I've only done two fics with him as part of the main ship, and the second one I really struggled because I just don't see him as romantic. Maybe someday I'll figure it out 😂

And...Haikyuu...I know he's super popular but I don't get what is special about Sakusa 🫣 It could be that I just haven't found the fic yet that shows me, but right now I just don't see it. Sorry 😢

Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game

[nanamis-bigtie]

Que onda Bas! i hope you've been doing alright recently 🫶🏼

for the ask game, i present these two!

🎨🌵

Hola, Alex ❤ Thanks for asking!

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

I don't think I have any kind of favoritism towards fanarts nor fanartists? I guess there are way too many I follow and like for me to decide 😅

🌵 ⇢ share the link to a playlist you love

I don't really want to share my private playlists which would fit this question. So, instead, I'll link the one I use the most as my writing background 🤭

writers truth & dare ask game

[caitylove]

Truth or Dare: 🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love 🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it 🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

🥤: man there are so many good ones. But here are some of my favs:

Penumbra in the X-Files fandom is probably one of the best fanfic authors I've ever read. Her lyrical writing is enchanting and mesmerizing. Parabiosis by her literally changed my life, changed my writing and how I looked at the x-files. (Also, that fic is literally like 20 years old now and still stands the test of time.

For Battlestar Galactica I have had a soft spot for Bugsfic since I was in college. Sadly, most of her work is only on LJ... rip

And of course, I adore missparkers works. where i'm going now, i don't know is probably one of the best depictions of depression I've ever read. Plus, i sob like a baby each time i read it.

🎨: so I am trash at remembering fanart, so I'm gonna post a picture of an X-Files piece I have hanging up in my office. It's by the amazing Gabrielle Burke, but sadly I don't think this particular piece is on her insta.

🧩 - I have two pet peeves. 1) Awful formatting. I can overlook some small stuff, but if the author doesn't take the time to put like at least a darn space between the paragraphs, i physically can't read it. 2) Bad spelling mistakes. Can't do it. That's why spellcheck exists.

[unorthodox-oblivion]

🕯️🍄📚🧩🍬 <3

🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that?

I see writing the same way most other women in my life have described pregnancy. It sucks to get everything together at the beginning, even if you're happy you're writing. Then you go through a period where everything's great and working and you feel the best you've ever felt. And then everything goes blergh again when you have to tie it all together. But once it's done and you're looking at your baby, ahem, story, it's perfect and you would do it all again. I give it a 6. But if I'd just popped a fic, that's be a 10, no doubt.

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

This isn't uncommon at all, but my headcanon for Jate is that Kate was pregnant with Jack's baby that last season and that she gets to have a piece of him, even though he's gone.

📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app? 

"She’s only half conscious. He pulls her out. Yadda yadda, treatment stuff." - this, my friends, is how I talk to myself when I'm outlining things.

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

Sayid's episodes bore me and he becomes useless to the narrative after the end of season 4.

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

It's rare for me to pin point what it is. Because I could sit here and point things that bother me, but there are fics that are amazing and I've devoured despite those things. I think what bothers me most is when it looks like someone didn't put effort into it. Which is... not how fanfic usually goes, because people who write fic are usually SO IN LOVE with a show or a pairing that they want to share all the things they can't stop thinking about with other people. Or when something just sounds so out of character that it takes me out of the experience.

Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game

[ageless-aislynn]

🍓❄️🎨

Ooo, thank you so much for sending those, very appreciated! 🤗💖

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

The short answer: because of 6 years of writer's block. The long answer: the very first fanfic I wrote with the intention of posting it was for Doctor Who. I'd discovered a lovely community of Ten/Donna fans and they were all having such a great time posting their fics on Livejournal. At the time, I was 6 years into the most horrible writer's block ever. I'd always written my own stories since I was a kid, had a little success with getting some short stories published in my teens, then all of the sudden... nothing. My writing just shut down. But the desire to get in the sandbox and play along with my Ten/Donna fans was SO strong, I told myself I could write a drabble. Just 100 words so I had something to contribute. And I did. Here it is from when I reposted my DW fic to my AO3 (originally written in 2008) "Sometimes, No, It Doesn't." Just a teeny little ficlet but what it represented was so much more. I got my writing back, thanks to these 100 words and the amazing Doctor/Donna community! *hugs* 🤗💖

❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?

Hn, this one is tough because, as a reader, a lot of times I don't know what I want to read until I discover it, lol! If I start thinking about themes and plots, I end up prompting myself to try and write them (for better or worse, lol) but when I'm reading, I honestly love the adventure of "I had no idea I needed to read this but WOW do I need to read this immediately, if not sooner!" when I come across a fic description.

Because I kinda failed at this answer, here's an emoji pirate ship (because adorable!) as compensation...

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

This is one of my favorites! All of the expression are perfect, from the Weapon being all WHEEEEEE! to Esparza's AHHHHHHHHH! and even the Grunt down there all 🤬🤬🤬!!! And of course, I adore Chief and the grappling hook is *chef's kiss*

Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game

[kiwiana-writes]

Hi MJ! For the ask game: 🍓☁️🌸🥤 please!

🍓 How did you get into writing fanfiction? 

I was a depressed, queer, rural teenager on Mugglenet lmao.

☁️ What made you choose your username?

It's a very kitschy thing and when I was changing usernames back in the LJ days being from The Bottom Of The World was what most people associated with me, so I just embraced it. TBH I wish I could change it but I think that ship has sailed at this point.

🌸 Do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

I do! Two dogs and three cats. No pics, just please imagine a series of chaos demons and you pretty much have it right.

🥤 Recommend an author or fanfic you love

This fic by @aeithalian is my roman fucking empire or whatever the kids say these days:

Don't read WIPs? I don't care, read this one. Not a polisci fan? I don't care, read this one. I CANNOT EXPRESS THE LEVEL TO WHICH NOT READING THIS FIC IS A GRAVE MISTAKE. Anytime someone asks for recs in my general vicinity, if there's even the slightest possibility of shoehorning this into whatever they asked for, I do it. No relationship angst, just fucking fantastic and immersive post-canon deliciousness. I reread this at LEAST once a month, it literally never gets old.

[Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game]

[darkurgetrash]

🕯️ 🛼🥤🌻

Thanks for the emojis!🥰

🕯️- on a scale of 1-10, how much do you enjoy editing? Why is that?: 7, it’s needed and usually has my chapter ending completely different to how it started which is good but also a pedantic task.

🛼 - describe your latest WIP with five emojis: my latest writing WIP = 😳📚🦑🤯😮‍💨. Hehe.

🥤- recommend an author or fanfic you love: some more of my faves!! Weave and Woods by @weaveandwood, Ardor & Audacity by @sinelaborenihilsr2, Ghost Lights Down the Chionthar by @ghostcouncil 🤌🤌

🌻- tag someone you appreciate but don’t talk to on a regular basis: @graysparrowao3 🪶 one of my fave twitter moots! 🥰🥰

Thank you again commander 🫡❤️

[ramblingoak]

🧩 ☁️ 🦴 for the ask game :)

Thank you Moth!

🧩 What will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

The two big ones typically are if they write a character in a way I just don't mesh with or if I run across something that should've been tagged and wasn't. And by that I mean something that I have filtered and/or avoid.

☁️ What made you choose your username?

It's from an old game on the Super Nintendo called Earthbound! Probably in my top five favorite games, it's a very fun and silly rpg.

🦴 Is there a piece of media that inspires your writing? 

Oh there are lots! Especially with doing all the AU's that I do. So it really depends on the story. Some are kind of silly though. For instance the steampunk au I'm working on I thought of after playing Animal Crossing one morning and found a steampunk outfit you could buy in the game 😅 And then it spiraled out of control (like most things I start writing these days).

Writers Truth And Dare Ask Game

[carlos-in-glasses]

The Notorious C-I-G

💌 🍄 📚 🏜️ 🐝 (you don’t have to answer this one if you don’t want, I already know it’s me 🤭)

Lemon...right?

💌 ⇢ how many unread emails do you have right now?

Darn you for making me look! 248!

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

Answered this one here and here but here is another: After Andrea met TK and really started opening up her heart and mind to Carlos being gay and in love with another man, she began seeking out queer art, books, shows, so she could learn more about the community her son is a part of. Carlos recommends and lends her things! I touch on this in my fic Wrestling Angels.

📚 ⇢ what’s the last thing you wrote down in your notes app?

I didn't have to say anything. He knew I was shaking.

🏜️ ⇢ what’s your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

I love it when an aspect or overall theme leads a reader to discuss something and it gets a bit more personal and chatty. Fire Island and Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines led to comments in which people shared their memories and feelings about the AIDS crisis and about 9/11 respectively. I guess it makes it seem like the fic has a bit more 'social impact' in a way. It's quite amazing when that happens.

🐝 ⇢ tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them

Haha @lemonlyman-dotcom... right? You have been so supportive and friendly from the beginning - the beginning being pre-tumblr when you were leaving such lovely comments on my fics. When I saw you'd set up your tumblr I was so happy to be able to interact with you on here too. And now look!

And @thisbuildinghasfeelings - you were one of the first people I spoke to on here and your kindness and enthusiasm not just towards my writing is just incredible and I feel very lucky you're here.

@heartstringsduet your comment on Afterglow of a Supernova basically changed my life in that it made me instantly more confident in my writing, like it represented a turning point in how I felt about it, and you've always been in my corner. And you've made art for my fics???!!!

@goodways you have been so lovely about my fics I feel like I can never thank you enough and your comments always make me laugh and make me think. Your feedback always means the world to me.

@herefortarlos your enthusiasm for my fics, all fics and this fandom is a thing of beauty and so inspiring.

@welcometololaland you were one of the first people to ever tag me in anything and I remember it vividly because I couldn't believe it haha. Your comments are always so hilarious and make me feel like I've done something right, and without you I wouldn't have written I Was Thinking About Your Mouth, so I am forever grateful for that and for you being such a good sounding board when I complain about work!

@cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut mate, you are divine and the fact that you spend any time beta'ing my fics when they are still kinda hot messes is wild to me. Thank you as well for your kindness and generosity!

@im-overstimulated-and-im-sad you are a delight and your comments are like a balm to my soul!

@reyesstrand Also from really early on you were leaving such encouraging comments on my fics and including me in WIP tags and things and I'm so grateful and forever awestruck.

@paperstorm I always cherish in particular how incredible you were about Fire Island (and When Soulmates Swim recently!), and how you helped so much in my hour of need when the whole scary situation around Afterglow of a Supernova happened. Thank you!

There are other people too of course but I worry I'm banging on a bit too much like I'm at the Oscars and the music is going to play over me talking so I just want to wrap up by saying thank you to everyone who has read my fics and commented and left kudos - I've said it before and I'll say it again, it really does blow me away that you're giving your precious free time to my stories in that way.

[bookish-karina]

Writing Share / Last Line / First Kiss Friday Tag!

thank you for all the tags @the-golden-comet (X2), @drchenquill , @willtheweaver , @rotting-moon-writes , and @gioiaalbanoart !

ahhhh okay so since I was tagged in a variety of these, I'm combining them! I've been playing around with how Jace and Maeve's first kiss is going to happen. I have so many ideas for this since it's a slow burn (and I'm little miss impatient when it comes to the slow burn burning) and the opportunities are limitless, please give me some feedback or a way you think it should happen (whether it's in a comment, reblog tags, ask, or private message)! bonus points if you've been reading the chapters as I've published them on AO3, which I know many of you have been (which thank you so so so much for all the love and support you have been giving me and Your Average Fangirl !! whenever I'm having a bad day at work, you never fail to make me want to cry happy tears at your comments, reblogs, kudos, etc)

without further ado, here's a first kiss scene <3

“Truth or dare?” Lucas asks, a small smirk dancing on the edges of his lips.

“Dare,” the word is out of my mouth before I can fully think of anything remotely gross he could dare me to do, being out in the middle of nowhere and all.

A full grin takes over his face as he says, “I dare you to sit in Jace’s lap,” he points towards where Jace sits to the right of me, “and make out with him for one full minute.”

“No way,” I laugh nervously. There’s no way he just suggested I make out with Jace. “That’s not gonna happen,” I shake my head.

Kai and Gabriel both laugh, shaking their heads at Lucas for such an inappropriate dare this soon in the game.

“You don’t have to do that,” Jace says to me before turning to Lucas, giving him a look I can’t decipher. “She doesn’t have to do that.”

“Come on,” Lucas taunts, “it’s just a dare.”

It’s just a dare. Except it’s not. I’m a fangirl, I’ve probably dreamt of this situation hundreds of times. But to actually do it? That’s too much pressure. Too much pressure to be perfect. In my head? I’m the perfect kisser. In reality? I could be mediocre. What if I ruin kissing for Jace?

“It’s just a dare,” Kai echoes, shrugging a shoulder as I meet his eyes.

“Come on, do it,” Lucas whines and I know he won’t drop it until I do.

With a deep, steadying breath, I get up and slowly walk over to Jace. His eyes widen as I lightly place my hand on his left shoulder.

“It’s just a dare, right? Meaningless?” I add the last part for his benefit, my heart beating so hard I swear I can feel the vibrations in my fingertips.

He nods, wetting his lips.

For some unknown reason, my heart sinks at his response. This is going to be meaningless. It doesn’t matter if I kiss him tonight or a year from now, I’ll only ever be a fan. A friend at most.

I gently crawl onto Jace’s lap and he moves so that I’m straddling him, my legs dangling on either side of his hips. His friends start hooting and hollering as I remind myself one last time that this means absolutely nothing.

Then, I lower my lips onto his.

The kiss starts slow, gentle, but my heart never slows down as his hands roam my body. His fingers dive into my hair as he pulls me impossibly closer, deepening the kiss. I wrap my arms around his neck as I lean into him, letting him take control.

His hands slide down my back and his fingers tickle the bare skin on my lower back, causing me to shiver at the sensation.

Jace smiles against my lips before pulling away and kissing a line down my jaw, where he finds the sweet spot on my neck and starts peppering it with kisses.

A timer goes off loudly, causing me to jump away from him and land harshly on the ground in front of his chair.

My chest heaves up and down in quick breaths as I refuse to look up at Lucas, Kai, and Gabriel, who are all laughing and clapping as if they’ve watched the best show.

I run my fingers through the grass, reminding myself of what’s real. What just happened, everything I just felt, it wasn’t real. It was meaningless. It practically never happened.

After a few more minutes of trying to calm my heart, I get up and walk quickly to the tour bus before slamming the door shut and burying myself into the covers in my bunk. Embarrassing. That was so embarrassing.

basically what I was going for with this scene is that Lucas knows there's something going on between Maeve and Jace (whether that's from mere observation or Jace confiding in him) and he knows nothing will happen unless he forces their hand a little. he bands together with Kai and Gabriel to egg them on into doing this, not thinking that he may be harming what could've happened naturally. he's definitely the golden retriever of the group, though!

one song I really associate with this scene for some reason is Dead Inside by LØLØ, which I'll link here :)

if you want another version of their first kiss, let me know!!

also no pressure tagging @romances-not-tragedies @wyked-ao3 @katenewmanwrites @kaylinalexanderbooks + an open tag