thebytchwitch

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I suck at slowburn lol

me: i love slow burn

also me, on chapter 2: kiss or i’m setting the house on fire

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when you have a writers block: READ FANFICTION

im not kidding it actually worked so well just find your favorite authors and read/reread some of their works/your favorite works, and boom. somehow.

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look. look at this beautiful sword meme. i’m going to cry

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“How do I write good female characters-“

Exactly the way you write male ones. Treat them the same. The beauty of it is, even if you write shit male characters too, at least it’s clear you don’t discriminate.

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✨censorship has no place in fanfics✨

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the point of fanfiction is that you can write whatever the fuck you want forever and no one can stop you. #thepower

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Reminders for fanfic writers who think it “doesn’t count”

✦ Your writing counts. like, a lot. If someone felt something because of what you wrote, then it matters. That scene you almost didn’t post? Yeah. Believe me, someone out there bookmarked it for a reason.

✦ Writing existing characters doesn’t make it “less than.” You’re building arcs, crafting dialogue, emotion, pacing. You’re studying character psychology like a scientist. That’s not “just fanfic,” that’s storytelling.

✦ “but it’s just fanfic” ...no. STOP, it’s craft. It’s understanding tone. It’s hitting emotional beats. It’s layering theme and backstory and prose into something people feel. You’re doing the work, you just don’t get graded on it. (Which, honestly is a blessing.)

✦ Writing fanfic means you love stories enough to live inside them. You care, deeply. You care enough to reimagine, to explore, to add something of yourself to a world you didn’t create and somehow still make it feel brand new.

✦ Someone out there rereads your fic like it’s their favorite book. Maybe they’ve saved a line to their notes app,or they quote it to a friend. Maybe they just think about it when they’re having a bad day. That little fic you almost deleted, it’s comfort now.

✦ Your comments section is real. Every “I needed this” and “this made me cry in a good way” is proof, you don’t need a book deal to matter. You don’t need a publisher to have an impact, because you already do.

FANFIC IS WRITING! Fanfic is yours.

You’re not “just” anything. You’re a writer, own it. Be proud of that.

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a comment a day keeps the insanity at bay

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Chapters: 49/? Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Laudna/Imogen Temult, Fearne Calloway/Ashton Greymoore, Deanna Leimert/Chetney Pock O'Pea, Orym/Dorian Storm Characters: Laudna (Critical Role), Fearne Calloway, Imogen Temult, Chetney Pock O'Pea, Orym (Critical Role), Ashton Greymoore, Fresh Cut Grass (Critical Role), Deanna Leimert Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Bells Hells as Family (Critical Role), Past Child Abuse, Homophobia, Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Older Woman/Younger Woman, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, So many ocs sorry, Recreational Drug Use, Legal drug use, Implied Sexual Content, Bones and dead things, Drinking Summary:

31 year old Imogen Temult arrives in Westview, a collection of soft city and suburbia to leave the remnants of her former life behind. Moving into a strange little neighborhood, she meets a rouges' gallery of strangers who remind her that life is meant for living. Friendships, relationships and a desperately sought sense of peace are put to the test as the shadows of Imogen's past refuse to let her go.

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This is a Moving Forward PSA for everyone using AO3. I am witnessing the results of a culture clash and communication failure. Not a lack of communication, but a misunderstanding caused by changes in fandom culture.

Before fic tagging was common, fics weren’t tagged. You had a pairing, if applicable, an author’s note about genre or general content, and if they were feeling charitable, a vague content warning. There are even a few genres of fic where even vaguely tagging literally spoils the plot and impact (such as horror, psyche thriller, in which the likely content is implicit to the genre). As a result, there is a basic category tag that permits this, as a courtesy to “old-fashioned” writers.

“No Archive Warnings Apply” means the fic is PG13 at worst, probably fluff, totally safe.

“Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings” is the polar opposite. It’s a glaring Enter at Your Own Risk billboard. It means: a shitload of warnings apply but I ain’t telling because this story requires shock value. It’s very important to read the author’s notes for those fics because they might be using that older format from above.

But without the context of fandom culture that generated AO3, it’s understandably easy to conflate the two categories, given their similar wording.

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Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Orym/Dorian Storm, Laudna/Imogen Temult, Fearne Calloway/Ashton Greymoore Characters: Imogen Temult, Laudna (Critical Role), Fearne Calloway, Ashton Greymoore, Orym (Critical Role), Dorian Storm, Chetney Pock O'Pea, Fresh Cut Grass (Critical Role), Otohan Thull, Liliana Temult Additional Tags: Star Wars AU, Jedi Imogen, Smuggler Bells Hells, Sith Laudna (sort of), Canon-Typical Violence, My best attempt at Slow Burn, so much pining, Self Loathing, Internal Conflict, mentions of previous abuse, droid Pate, Jedi master Otohan Summary:

After expressing her dissatisfaction at the state of the Jedi Order, Imogen find herself sent on a mission that feels more and more like a punishment as the days go on. After falling in with a group of lovable misfits and saving a woman who might be more important than she realizes, Imogen starts to find hope that this might not be as worthless as she thinks. But with tension rising in the galaxy and whispers of Darkness on the horizon, can she shoulder on or will Imogen give into the darkness that's been lingering inside her all along?

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i’m obsessed with how every single person can be stupid in their own special way and infinitely smart in another. simultaneously

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The best photo I took at Dashcon 2

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Tomorrow is my birthday. Yay for the yearly reminder that I am in fact, getting old lol

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I... dont like this lol

happy "closer to 2050 than 2000" day everyone

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writing isn’t hard it’s just emotionally devastating and time-consuming and requires full body possession by an idea