#writing & speaking program

[strivia]

So, I've been rotating a new fic idea in my head that I've been calling the "Mantah Corp Kenji AU". And I made manips for it! It's so hard to get clips of Kenji not flecked with dirt, I'm dying out here, SAVE ME.

The basic gist of the idea is a "Kenji never went to Camp Cretaceous & thus never got stuck on Isla Nublar" AU. He was still intended to go to Camp Cretaceous, but something changed last minute. So it's this dark mirror of, these other kids could have been me! I feel like having that "I got so bizarrely lucky I dodged this bullet" experience only to be confronted with the kids he would have been with would be causing wild cognitive dissonance that he's actively trying not to unpack.

This would begin as an alternate S4 with Kenji meeting Darius when Kash catches him. Kenji is 'working' on the island at his dad's behest though lbr he's probably not doing a whole lot of actual work, but like it's meant to be character building for him ig. Go to the island with no wi-fi and help our business son.

So suddenly here's this kid here who was apparently trapped on dino island for 6 months (Darius). And cause Kenji's the bosses son he "takes Darius off of Kash's hands" and drags him into playing video games with him and Darius does not know wtf is happening.

Kenji says, this is now my traumatized best friend actually.

There's more to the idea and a whole lot of ripple effects to the timeline to consider but !!!!!

[beetlethebug]

And if I wrote the pilot program all messily getting together during a chimeron house party, would y’all be into that?

[firstfluke]

Ok genuine question that might sound silly, but how do you all transfer your italics to AO3? I write in scrivener and just hand copy what needs to be italicized and go through and do it after pasting the chapter into AO3 but….there has to be….a better way…..

[felikatze]

i love not being responsible for lab equipment worth several thousand euros. "you're just scared to drive" my car is 19 years old do you think it has good suspension. fuck no bro i'm not lab personel this is not my fucking problem!!!

[projectray12]

Flight Rising Dragon Bio Generator!

a.k.a. i tell you about my insomnia (and probably ADHD) fueled programming

i wanted to show this off because i am so excited over it, and like, weirdly proud of myself (i don't make stuff very often!! this is a rare gem). but! i made this cool little tool for myself to help me create bios for my dragons in flight rising!

it's very heavily based on a template made by AbyssalRising (not sure of their whereabouts now), and uses assets by @drytil (the emblem by the name, as well as the statue to the left of the quote). i've been using that template for a long time and slowly tweaking it to my tastes. you can see the original by clicking Abyssal's name above, but for a long time I used this variant I setup:

OKAY THAT'S THE BORING STUFF THOUGH BECAUSE THAT'S JUST BBCODE. the REAL shining star is THIS THING:

BEHOLD: MY GARBAGE

as previously stated i had bad insomnia and could not sleep at all so instead i learned python's tkinter library and taught myself to create a UI from scratch. two days later (i got sleep don't worry) and this is the final result!

it's still really simple, and has some bugs (oops no scrollbar on the preview, so if the bio is too big it just cuts off), but i'm actually really proud of making something, both for the "oh my gods i had fun learning something new" and "this will actually enable me to create stories for my dragons because editing the BBCode was a big thing holding me back (it's tedious)"

anyway i just wanted to yell about this into the void - i don't have the code posted anywhere but if anyone wanted it i'd be happy to share the source python or make an executable for them (i'd probably just yeet this stuff into github so that the source is visible and a release would be easy to download). but, i doubt there will be any interest in my little corner of the internet, so i'm not gonna bother unless someone explicitly asks lmao.

anyway, please enjoy a picture of my lovely test dragon: Acrid (who wasn't just a test for this, she's my testing grounds for a lot of my BBCode shenanigans).

[rotzaprachim]

one of the issues with minority languages (x2) is we have no marketing budgets and everything we do have tends to be done by some guy in his five minutes of free time between actual payed careers so stuff looks very graphic design is my passion. Another issue is needing to stick at least two languages on all the flyers and stuff looking crowded idk stuff I want to play with x2 with the typography

[airenyah]

just watched the bl & chill interview and it's just so delightful to see how much more confident joong has gotten speaking english compared to the hidden agenda era interviews from a year and a half ago. like, he still gets a little shy sometimes or switches to thai for some stories/explanations, but still, he's sooo much more talkative now in english, it's sweet

[supercantaloupe]

so my info professions professor had "basically no notes for" me re: my final research paper and thought i did a great job. genuinely i cannot tell if i'm actually nailing this or if the class is the most generous, easy grade possible or something because i really did not feel like i had any clue what i was doing all semester...

[hiraethwrote]

holy shit norwegian is such an ugly language

[bledthrus]

another day of zero writing hmm ... just could not get into the zone this weekend for some reason ! hoping tomorrow ill have it in me to properly chip away at writing, but for now, im just gonna mostly lurk for the rest of the night ♥

[venelona]

I might lack the motivation to see it through, but I really like your dazatsu works, so I was wondering how you motivate yourself to create fanfiction? How do you get into the headspace of the characters?

Motivation is a fickle mistress, it's hard to say what EXACTLY motivates me. I guess the best answer is 'I write the fanfic I wish there was'. The true 'write what you want to read', I am usually really motivated to write something I wish to read so badly - a hole in the market, or a certain concept I wish I could do my way that would cater to all the things I like.

Since I also primarily write shipping fanfics, engaging with canon/fanart/other fanfics on the pair also motivates me greatly. Reminds me of why I like the characters and want to write about them in the first place

I quite like getting into the headspace of the characters, at least those I like a lot, haha. For me, it's always the question of "would this character to this?" - when I think of them doing or saying something, I think back on what I know of the character, if there were similar situations to this one in the canon and try to think what would be the most logical thing for that character to do. Like puzzle pieces - canon gives you puzzle pieces, and you can either arrange them how you want, or see what new pieces can fit to existing ones.

I think just good thing to keep in mind when you writing a character do something is the question of 'why are they doing this'. The why's come from their personality, their past or the circumstances of the story (the events or even the rules of the world)

Also, something that motivates me and I'm very lucky to have - good community! Comments are a wonderful motivation. And the power of friends?? Absolutely amazing. Half my motivation to finish things is solely to talk to my writing friends about it 😂

I'm happy you like my works, thank you so much!

[kiera-raelyn]

Excitement!

I am getting so excited about posting all my Microfic May fics to A03. I've been using Scrivener to write them, and first off, I am reminded why I love this program so much. I've got it split screened so that I can see all the prompts while I'm working on one. It's just really helpful to see them all together in a list right there, along with the alternates in case what I'm working on just isn't clicking.

And secondly, Scrivener's corkboard function gave me the ability to see most of the 18 fics I had when I started the day all in one place and move them around. I've discovered that I can make a coherent story with them! Or, well I was most of the way to one. So, the 10 prompts I worked on today I used mostly to fill in where the gaps were a little too large or situation too confusing.

After everything's said and done, I'm going to have a 1,550 page story. That is... amazing, for me. I don't do short stories. As you may have noticed, I'm a little loquacious. So, to do a whole story, beginning, middle, and end, in ~1500 words? I'm pretty ecstatic about it.

Even more so because not only did I make a story out of all the prompts, I also used each prompt word in the fic, and they're all exactly 50 words. And, of course, have relevant accompanying images. Which I made the mistake of doing in Windows Designer, so I might redo them in Canva or something because they're currently uneditable and I'm not a huge fan of some of the fonts... Anyway. I'm excited.

Only 3 prompts left to do!

[orcelito]

Had a moment of listening to music I liked back when I was a teenager (& still like) and having a whole. Realization . That I like myself as I am now sooooo much better than I like teenage me. And I started thinking about Why.

There's a lot to it I'm pretty sure, & most of it centers around the fact that I just... didn't really know who I was as a person. I didn't really have hobbies outside of what I did in school (aka orchestra) and like. Video games + anime. I did creative writing in middle school, but dropped off in high school for... some reason? I still made original characters and played around with them a lot, but it was mostly just in drawing and thinking about them. I never actually *wrote*, and I in fact didn't get back into creative writing at all until I was 23 years old. I was someone who had spent so long hiding behind others and just doing what I was told that I just... didn't have any real direction. I didn't know what I even *wanted*. I thought I knew, but in hindsight, I can confidently say that I didn't. I was just an insecure teen drifting through life and not thinking about things beyond what was immediately in front of me. Which is pretty standard for teenagers I guess, but not all of them. Not at all.

Compared to now, where I have Many hobbies, most notably being writing. As I am now, I am just Intrinsically a writer. And it's weird to remember that I wasn't even really *writing* before 5 years ago (besides text rps, which did a lot for developing my writing skill! But still aren't a replacement for writing individually). As a teen, I wasnt into dnd, I was incredibly out of shape, & I was a lot less aggressive and focused. I was the type to avoid sports!!! I hated them!!!! But as I am now, I Love biking and can easily bike for an hour+ no problem (I remember being a teen and trying to go on just 10 minute bike rides in the summer and just *dying* from it), & I love working out. I wanna be strong!!! I LOVE being strong!!! And I was an absolute mess with things like public speaking & working in groups, vs now where I can do an impromptu presentation no problem & I'm often the unofficial leader in group projects bc im typically the one who does the organizing and allotments of work. A side effect of working as a supervisor and then assistant manager for so long. I have a lot more confidence in my perceptions and judgements, & I have the self-assurance to assert these things. And this is only really the tip of the iceberg with all the differences.

I just feel like an entirely different person, almost. The cores are the same, or at least damn near similar, with the things I want out of life & the sorts of things I enjoy, but it's like. The difference between finding a random rock off the side of the road & then that rock when it's been sanded and carved and decorated to be something individual and unique. You look at them side by side and it's something dull vs something shiny and intricate. The origins can't be ignored and dismissed, & I certainly would never resent younger me for just doing the best with what I knew at the time. But it's just astounding how much difference time and experience will have for growing and developing as a person. Things I consider integral to my personhood weren't even thoughts in my mind back then. We are almost entirely different people.

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Me every goddamn time I see a piece of Ace-slash-Levi fluffy ship art: he would not love that man like that

[ghosthoodie]

you guys dont understand how much i lovee ordinary/casual/almost unremarkable still lives i think its so beautiful...it really puts into perspective what small things you wouldnt notice if you didnt painstakingly render them with brush onto canvas...

[starbuck]

if anyone was wondering, i’m currently reading published RPF about F. Scott Fitzgerald for *checks notes* my job, so that’s how my life is going.