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Will somebody please draw me with the Ghoul? Pretty please?

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A Tiger and His Boy

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my English prof teaching abt cover letters today and me trying not to bring up the luke skywalker cover letter post:

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KOSA Moves to the House

KOSA is still moving forward and OTW Legal explains how fans can add their voices and who to contact. Read more at https://otw-news.org/37dhnd5a

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I think one of my favorite creative joys is seeing how many different things people can do with the same concept. give ten writers the same starting point, or basic plot, or set of tropes to use and you're still going to get wildly different end results

the details you focus on, the ones you omit, turns of phrase, tone, and framing, the cadence and tempo of the sentences themselves, all the little fingerprints you've left littered across the prose — how you tell the story matters, and your personal voice is what makes it unique

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OTW is Recruiting AO3 Support Volunteers

The OTW is Recruiting for Support Volunteers (one for any/all languages, and one specifically for Spanish speakers) to help fans using AO3!  Read on for more or help us signal boost: https://otw-news.org/2p8n3rza

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There has been a spate of fics being plagiarized here on Tumblr recently. Do you have any advice for writers who may be the victims of a thief?

Hey elvenmother

I would love to tell you that I had some way of deterring people from thiefing... but alas.

I highly suggest taking screenshots, jotting down urls, and reporting them on tumblr (TOS violation) - keeping records and paper trails is your best option.

You can also message the person like "Hey, I found my story copy/pasted on your page, and would appreciate it if you'd take it down since it is mine."

It never gets any less frustrating though. :(

Hope this helps

~ Mod Remi

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Join the Discord server to participate!

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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

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The Supanova Rec List collection is LIVE!!

We are at Supanova 2024

If anyone is in Melbourne for Supanova this weekend (6-7Apr 2024), come check out the OTW table - Table 259! (In the Supa-Market section it seems)

Get ready to check out the Fic Rec Board (take one! leave one!) and maybe play some ThreeTropeDraw!

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Because I'll never be over how food is used in Kiseki: Dear to Me . . . .

These boys got out of jail and their families presented them with a feast.

Both of their families prepared their favorite foods. Both of their families told them to eat. Their families were going to watch them eat because they hadn't been able to do that for four years. They hadn't been able to sit down with their loved one and share a meal in YEARS. Yet neither meal went well.

This show revolves around food as love and eating as a family.

Eating with the ones they love (in matching colors) is organic to the plot.

Drinking with their loved ones (even after a person breaks into someone's place by taking the knob off his gate) is commonplace within the story.

So how lonely must it feel to stare at an empty table knowing that not only is that person missing, but also his love.

All the birthdays missed. All the memories not shared.

And even when a table does have food, realizing these people aren't family. They aren't the ones he loves.

How happy must a person be to finally get that love back, only for all the things left unsaid to get in the way?

To want that person back so badly only to realize so much has changed, and he no longer wants to share a meal at this table with you. How would it feel?

That's why changing Zongyi's career to a baker is important to the plot.

That's why Eddie not being able to celebrate his birthday with Chen Yi even before he left is important to the story.

Because the cake that started it all was a traditional Chinese birthday cake (sponge cake with cream and fruit, usually strawberries).

For a narrative that uses food to demonstrate love, what better way to show someone you love them than by telling them you're glad he was born even when he feels no one else was

and you're glad he is still alive even when he is willing to give up his life for you.

What better way than with a cake that celebrates his birth and his life? Frasier (sponge cake with cream and strawberries)

Let them end with sharing their love in the best way they know how - food.

Let these boys eat cake.

Please.

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I only just saw pics of the Godzilla 1998 animatronic recently but I kinda can't stop thinking about her. Ik this film flopped, esp bc I think it was one of the first like let's make an american version of Godzilla films and they noteably redesigned him but idk every behind the scenes pic of this thing is gorgeous to me. I would've assumed it'd been tricks with miniatures, it's been years since I've seen the film but no they did just make her and she is huge I can't get over it.

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Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

I'm begging of you, please don't take my man

Your sword is long, your lance is keen, your shining helm afar is seen

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I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

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PHOENIX: Michael Biehn Archive is Moving to the AO3

PHOENIX: Michael Biehn Archive, a multifandom fanworks archive focusing on characters played by the actor Michael Biehn, is being imported to AO3. If you've used the archive before, read more at https://otw-news.org/3bp2vm7c

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"Arts 'N Crass" [S2 Ep01]