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Well if you want something done right, do it yourself. Aka how Kylo’s TIE Silencer came to be.

Part three in the works. See part 1. Maybe one day I’ll do a full rendering.

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(vent under the cut)

All I can do is laugh when someone feels the need to announce I Don't Like Thing. Okay, sport! Do you need mommy to hold your hand and show you the back button or how to keep scrolling?

Not gonna link the posts that prompted this. One is whiny puriteen ragebait that doesn't deserve any more attention. The other was a non-fanwork post on ao3 that got nuked faster than I could click it.

I would take my own advice and scroll past without comment, but I have to say this for any newer writers who still feel a stab of doubt from this nonsense:

The only writing advice that matters is to learn how to read writing advice - and when to ignore it.

99% of it is just wank about the author's own personal preferences masquerading as "advice." It's not about you, it's about them.

Which frees you to dismiss it as the whining that it is.

Just identify what you like about your own and others' work and practice those elements. What you like. If you hate what others are writing and you don't like that it's getting more attention than stuff you like, then write more of what you like.

Final note: equating sex with inferiority or a lack of sophistication is profoundly anti-intellectual and reactionary.

It is 2025. We are in the middle of a fascist backlash where this cutesy "ew sex bad" sentiment is already being weaponized to do real world harm to queer and trans people, BIPOC folks who are both sexualized and racialized, sex workers, and anyone with a uterus, just as it has many times before.

Learn your fucking history before you try playing dress-up intellectual about something as innocuous as pwp on your dash.

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fanfiction readers who aren't native speakers of English but read English fanfiction: do you ever look up a word and realise you've been reading it wrong for years?

I thought haughty meant something like breathy but with a naughty subtext because it sounds the same but apparently it means arrogantly superior? are you telling me General Hux hasn't been flirting with Kylo Ren in all these fanfictions from chapter one on?!

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writing stories is such a human form of expression. don't let it be limited by anything, especially not by the fear of making spelling mistakes. language isn't static, and education on spelling isn't accessible for everybody. (yes, I know, everyone has internet, blabla, but the time to learn that isn't accessible for everyone.)

bring back real writing.

i don’t use tumblr like i used to or any reading site. not because i’m too grown but because the writing is weak now. where’s the plot? where’s the emotion? where’s the stuff that kept me up all night rereading scenes like they were mine?

y’all be writing the same smutty paragraph 10 different ways and calling it a story. it’s not. it’s just porn with pretty words. and half the time, not even that pretty.

as someone who’s been writing since the first grade, i can tell when something’s got weight. real writers take their own experience, twist it up with imagination, and give it life. that’s not the same as writing “he moaned” 37 times and slapping a fake name on it. i’m sorry, but writing about dick going in pussy isn’t groundbreaking it’s easy. and y’all eat it up like it’s fine dining.

porn with plot writers? most of y’all got no substance. trauma dump, snarky banter, sex scene. repeat. it’s tired. there’s a few anime smut blogs with 30k notes on every post who genuinely couldn’t move me if they tried. no tension. no emotion. no teeth.

and i would name names, but i know all their horny little freaks would bite me in the notes like trained dogs. so i’m chilling. for now.

and can we talk about how the aesthetic of your account matters more than the actual writing? y’all care more about headers and moodboards than building a sentence that breathes. some of my fellow readers are shallow as hell. you’re part of the problem too.

you’ll read something soaked in blood, sweat, and tears and your first comment is: “do they fuck tho?” “part 2! part 2!” not “why did you write this?” not “what inspired this moment?” not even a fuckin “good job.” yuck. no curiosity, no connection, just consumption. and y’all wonder why writers get burnt out. you don’t deserve good stories if you treat them like fast food.

and writers? yeah, i’m talking to you too.

you know you can write a masterpiece, but you’re chasing the smut trend like it’s the only way to eat. YES YOU and i’m bashing myself too, because i fell into that trap. i followed the trend and it crushed me creatively. don’t be like that. don’t water yourself down for attention.

and for the love of words proofread. i don’t care if you told your followers it’d be out tonight — PROOF. READ. you sound tacky and all over the place. take your time. finish the piece, close the tab, then read it again with fresh eyes.

rookie writers? get on Pinterest. read actual books. learn what your beat is. find filler phrases. expand your vocabulary. practice makes perfect, but you’re not practicing… you’re performing. stop.

fuck what your followers want. write what you want. write about that fairy. write about that soft boy. write that sad ass little story no one asked for but you needed to get out. you are not a word porn machine. you are a creator of words. people like me will appreciate it.

with AI rising and everything getting copy-pasted to hell, you are the last hope for stories with real soul. be the person who makes someone stay up all night. be the one who makes them feel. write something that makes you proud.

if this offends you, maybe it should. i’m tired of fake-deep smut being treated like it’s revolutionary. writing takes heart. skill. effort. if you’re not putting any in, you’re not a writer you’re just a horny fucker with a keyboard. I’m not hater, i’m begging. bring back storytelling with teeth. with heart. with voice. i want messy metaphors, too-long paragraphs, dialogue that breathes. i want to read something that makes me clutch my chest and reread a line five times just to feel it again.

we owe it to ourselves and to each other to write like it matters. because it does.

now go write something that keeps someone up at 3AM smiling at their screen. or crying. or both.

just bring back real writing. period.

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I remember when I was still in High School and this was the first kylux fanfiction that I gave up sleep for:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/6104539

Kylo Ren has set his sights on the General. Hux is not being given much of a choice in the matter and finds flawed ways of coping with the knight's 'affection'.

I didn't sleep at all that night, and didn't even finish the work before school (although finish is not quite right, it's discontinued, I think), but in a mysterious way it made me realise that there is more to life than academic success because Hux is so not having a good time despite being incredibly successful.

Born to read Kylux fanfiction at 00:30, forced to have a Biology exam the next day 💔

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I'd truly be the worst person to stick into a timeloop because I'd really just spend the first 5 years catching up on my book tbr, the next 7 on all the movies and shows that've Been On My List for ages, and then another decade on ao3. like sure nothing may stick but my memories will and i can just go into a supermarket to get snacks and wine each day, and i have art to indulge in. like thanks for the hints on how to get out but respectfully, I am busy

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what if we all headcanoned engineering as Hux's passion when it's actually just the thing he's best at? if he only engineers to survive?

a young hux pretends at thriving in the top engineering program in the county when all he really wants is to curl up under the covers with his fluff cloud of a cat, millicent, a big chunky sweater, and even bigger and much older boyfriend, ren.

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Ren kisses Hux. It comes out of nowhere. Hux hesitates briefly, but kisses back. Not because he has feelings for Ren, but because he can exploit it. It happens in private. They don't talk about it.

It keeps happening. It escalates slowly, over time. Hux makes an effort to favour Ren, when he can. Not in obvious ways, but in ways Ren can tell.

Hux still doesn't have feelings for Ren, but Hux hasn't taken a lover in a long time. Ren is a good kisser. Enthusiastic. The attention is nothing to scoff at.

Loyalty is a strong currency.

Ren is the type of person who grows on you. He grows on Hux, anyway. The affair feels less and less like a chore.

Meanwhile, Hux is growing on Ren.

Ren didn't kiss him because he had feelings for him. Ren mistakes Hux's attention for attraction and acts on it. Feelings can be exploited.

Both of them are in too deep, when they realise it's too late. They like each other. A lot.

They fight about it, way, way down the line. Who led who on? Who did it first? But at that point, their lives are too entangled to entertain the thought of splitting up.

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pride month!!!

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I just remembered that post where someone said that Kylo tried the “you’re nothing but not to me” line with Rey because it worked on Hux before and DAMN it broke my heart 

but in a non angst note Hux would probably throw his tarine tea into Kylo’s face and refuse to talk to him for a week if Kylo even dared to say the words “you’re nothing” to his face

Kylo: you’re nothing but not to me

Hux, after throwing his tea into Kylo’s face: I am nothing? I had my own group of murderous children following me when I was 7! I am the youngest general in the first order! I fucking destroyed a star! I killed my father and unlike some people I didn’t have a mental breakdown over it

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I once asked a friend what he thought of kylo ren and he told me that kylo was his favorite disney princess and here we are

bonus:

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Yet again, more proof that capitalism was never about "freedom" or "small government".

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"Though it pains me so, I shall endure the presence of yon shiny brute, for in her glistening helm do I behold mine own lovely countenance."

Designing a sequels oc and pairing her with Hux because I’m cringe

this is a headcanon I thought of for them

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Supreme Council: We shouldn't be here. Or maybe they need audience💧

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Ideas I had earlier this year (Jan and Feb according to phone notes). Happy to give them away, but I may end up writing them eventually