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How can I write a "soulmates" level platonic relationship? There's a canon couple, A/B, that I love, but I have an idea that will focus on B/C instead. I've noticed that B/C fics will tend to, at best, ignore A and how important A is to B. But, even though A and B won't be romantically involved in this fic, I still want to acknowledge their "soulmates" vibe and write them accordingly. And I have other ideas that are A/B/C, so for this specific one, the answer isn't to have them be poly (even though I love that as well!). So, while B/C will be the focus, I want to also acknowledge A and B's friendship, because even if they're not romantically involved like in canon, I feel like they would continue to be important to each other. What advice do you have for this?

And btw, sorry if you recieved this ask twice. I think tumblr ate my ask the first time lol

I think you could approach it in a similar way to how it happens in real life.

Have B talk about A to C during casual conversation. Have A call or text B sometimes, maybe with a bit of plot progression or character development, maybe just with a beat of comic interlude.

Have C ask about how A is doing or check in to see if A wants to come over for dinner or join B and C for a movie.

Have occasional scenes where A and B are hanging out together. In those scenes, B could talk about C or A could ask how things are going, but you could also just have the two of them chilling out and not thinking about C at all.

Lots of people have a best friend who is separate from their romantic partner, and they maintain that friendship by making time for it. You can show B's love and affection for A by making time for A in the fic.

What do the rest of you think? How would you include a best friend in a fic focused on a ship?

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How could a real man ever compare to the gem that is Mitsuhide Akechi?

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preregistration & account linking for the new app will begin today

In fall, the new app will launch and only rerun events will be running for the current app

Rerun events will stop in December for the current app and everything will be shifted to the new app

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having ocs is so fucked .... i miss them so bad but im the guy who has to create new content. but im sleepy

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

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hey if you're the type of writer that's like me where you tend to write specific scenes first that vaguely weave together into a plot, you might like using obsidian as a writing app.

my frustration with other writing applications is that i will write my scenes out of order and it's hard to move things around and rearrange them on a regular document.

but with obsidian there's this canvas feature where you can just write all your scenes and plot moments on these little cards that you can freely rearrange. you can color code them and connect them too.

here's the canvas i've created for my current multi-chapter fic: (if you zoom in you can see all the text in each card this what it looks like zoomed out)

as you can see, i color code them based off chapters and will group them next to a document card with the working title of the chapter. anything not color-coded are scenes that don't have a proper place quite yet or it's just world building references. this app can also be good for note-taking and collecting research!

best of all, it's FREE!!! the only downside is that if you want your stuff to sync across devices, you do have to pay for that. i constantly hop between my laptop and desktop so i pay for the syncing. but if you write on only one device it's completely free!

i typically use it for organizing my thoughts for a first draft. once i get all the scenes arranged and mostly written out, i will copy and paste them into ellipsus (also free & highly recommended as a google doc alternative) so that they're all in one document that i can edit.

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Here to make you all aware that there has been a fundamental change to my brain chemistry💗

I have lost it, is anyone surprised? (No.)

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Writing agent Jonny Geller gives advice to young writers. 

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stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction

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I’m noticing an increase in new fic writers on AO3 who…uh…mayy not know how to format their fics correctly..so here is a quick and VERY important tip

Using a random fic of mine as example..

The left example: ✅✅✅

The right example: ❌❌❌

Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!

If a new character speaks, you need a line break. If you notice a paragraph is becoming too large, go ahead and make a line break and/or maybe reconfigure the paragraph to flow better. I’m not a pro writer or even a huge fic writer but…please…ty…

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I love when there's characters that are pair bonded and you know that wherever one of them is the other is also gonna be there.

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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All twelve sacred beasts will defend me from economic uncertainty

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I haven’t platonicposted in a while

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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oh you’re watching fullmetal alchemist? i love that anime. the way it just [clenches fists] [falls on the floor] [begins crying] sh i t.…