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the thing about dragons
There's no such thing as predetermined destiny. There's only causality and meddling gods, and whatever we choose to do about them.
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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol
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Literally my process.
WHO NEEDS MIDDLE BITS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE ✨ 𝒔 𝒄 𝒆 𝒏 𝒆 𝒔 ✨
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Y'know, I see a lot of posts urging people to comment on fics, so I just want to say, to all the people who do comment, and especially the long commenters:
thank you.
Long comments can be time-consuming. They can be difficult to write, but you leave them anyway!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, to everyone who comments.
You are the highlight of fanfiction writers' days.
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A little sneak peak of the (very slowly) upcoming chapter six. What new lows is Viserys up to I wonder.
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🤩✨⭐️🌟💫🎖️Don’t hold back! What’s the 1 thing you can’t help but talk about for your the thing about dragons? I’m genuinely so curious what it is because this is literally my #1 fic.
Aw thank you so much! It being your favorite fic makes me very happy <3
Honestly, I don't have singular thing I would most like to talk about; I just love talking about ttad and I do so a lot in private DMs with my friends, mainly the one a braining session with whom actually spawned the whole fic all the time ago (I was finishing writing my MA thesis, and yet I would spend days on end just throwing tribbles at one another and it was great), but also a lot of those things are big spoilers I don't really want to reveal just yet, so I might not go into too much detail in the answer ;-;
I have three main suspects currently/
Firstly, is Lyra's spelunking adventures in Old Valyria, and everything that entails; things she finds, magics she rediscovers, magically-irradiated monstrosities currently living there she encounters, the several times she almost dies because what did anyone expect from goddamn Old Valyria. I'm going to be trying to strike balance between action-exploration (think Uncharted, Tomb Raider) with a dash of creature feature horror.
Secondly, Lyra's actual relationship. Spoiler but Lyra is neither straight, nor, as she later discovers, monogamous. And while it will take a good while before she gets together with her main bias. It's Aemond. Of course it's Aemond, I don't hide my love of him; but they do get together when he's (checks notes) around the 18-20 bracket after she returns from spending almost a decade doing her Valyria Spelunking (and more), so that will still take some time. There will be people she has relationships with before, after, and around that (and don't worry, so will Aemond; open communication is important in relationships, especially ones consisting more moving parts than typical). Though there will be some romance. I think.
And lastly, I could yammer about the lore of the 14 flames to no end, especially as I'm drawing them right now (6/14, to be posted when I got them all), but I don't want to reveal my whole hand. IT's in a weird gray area because vast majority of it will be revealed in the Aemma-centric companion interludes than in the actual main body of the story, but it contains things like how the gods are planning to stop the end of the world, what even is causing it, where they originate from, how they became gods, how the Valyrians came to be, how the dragons came to be, why they only let Valyrians die off instead of actively bringing the Doom about themselves. It's a little annoying because I really do want to talk about it, it does influence the world (directly shape it, even) but will be revealed in side pieces.
ttad is in general a little weird. On one hand, it's a story of and about Daelyra and her personal journey; on another hand, its scope includes gods and saving the world. I think I like what I'm making here though.
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I'm quite eager to see all three wild dragons in HOTD, but I am especially excited to see the fearsome Cannibal come to life!
Artwork by @siosin
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Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut
Reblog this if you want readers to come into your ask box and ask for the “director’s commentary” on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines.
Or, send in a ⭐star⭐ to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about!
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Do I actually want to write this fanfic or do I just want to wallow in the delicious daydream like a pig in the mud?
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That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.
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On the Cannibal
Since season 2 of HOT D has been confirmed to feature the wild dragons, I really hope they play up the personalities of the dragons more, but more than anything, I want them to make Cannibal CREEPY.
Like, Cannibal has such an infamous reputation, feeding readily on dragons, both hatchlings and eggs, and doing so whilst Dragonstone is housing some of the largest dragons alive
(Keep in mind for like a good few decades the smallest dragon on Dragonstone is Grey Ghost, the others being Sheepstealer, Silverwing and Vermithor)
He’s big, he’s mean, he sounds terrifying, with his coaly black scales and his wildfire green eyes, but we’ve seen that before. The flames, the growls, and I don’t want that.
Make Cannibal act like a PREDATOR
“The animal that wants to kill you will not growl”
Make him this silent- almost horror like- presence, this complete enigma of a beast, immensely powerful, yet terrifyingly quiet. Imagine being a dragonrider, landing on Dragonstone, and suddenly your dragon starts freaking out, and you turn around, and Cannibal is just THERE. Staring at you from behind the crest of a ridge, or from the mouth of a cave, or from just behind a rocky outcropping.
Hell, you could even not call attention to him in certain scenes, just have him loom in the background, staring at the viewer as readily as he is observing other dragons
Have dragons freak out when he gets near, have the only sound he makes be the beating of those black wings and the flames pouring out from his great maw, but make him act like what he is.
A hunter of dragons
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Hello, thank you for answering my questions. If you are open to sharing, do you have any tips to write an isekai in the Asoiaf universe and to write an interesting oc?
Hi, you're welcome!
As for tips... When you're looking for inspiration, it's good to reach for works of the genre that interests you. If you want to write isekai, go read some isekai (japanese mangas and korean manhwas are the best for this) and see which of the tropes you like, which you dislike, and which you think are most interesting to tackle. Then you pick the one you like best/think would suit the story you want to tell best/both, and roll with it.
Personally, I write isekai as pure escapism, so I heavily stray away from giving my MCs any possibility of returning to their original world, or having them have a good enough reason to try. Ability to physically cross between worlds could be interesting, but really isn't my cup of tea. I prefer leaving 21st century reality behind me in the burning dumpster where it rightfully belongs.
When it comes to ASOIAF specifically, the setting has its own magic and stuff, so you can take that (take an existing concept, make shit up, or go somewhere in-between like I have) to make the transition between worlds plausible and ta-dah! Valyrian Gods are a good go-to if you want to be fucking around with the Valyrians, but I think R'hllor and his whole rebirth shtick or even the Drowned God could be an interesting option. Opens a way for interesting worldbuilding & making the MC particularly attuned to the magical side of the world.
Or something Eldritch! Damn, I love eldritch fuckery so much, unspeakable cosmic horror and all.
Beware! Ramble ahead!
As for writing an interesting OC... Honestly, gonna sound super basic as everyone will probably say the same, but make them as close to a person as you can. Give them multiple personality traits, flaws and all - conflicting personality traits are fun, too. Give them quirks and ticks and interests and hangups and make them consistent, but also allow them to grow. We all live through character arcs, and your characters should too. Their views can be changed or reinforced, they can be forced to go against those views for the sake of themselves or others. They can (and should) hold grudges, even about the silliest things. Give them a pet or a hobby (or both), show us how they interact with those things, how they care, how they grieve, and how they seethe. Who are their friends, what kind of people do they gravitate towards, how do they interact with those people? How do those people view them? How close are they to the truth?
Does the character show a different them to the world than they truly are? Why? Why not? Do they exaggerate their traits? Why? Why not? What are their limitations, social and physical, and how do they get around them?
How do they influence others? Do they stay on the sidelines or make a menace of themselves, or something in-between? What motivates them? Are there lines they will never cross? If so, what are those, and why? Make them react realistically, based on the information they have and the things they feel. Make them face the consequences of their actions, the good, the bad, the entertaining!
It's also very important - essential - to decide where your character will end before you even begin. You as the writer need to have an end goal with them. Who they are at the start, and who they will become by the end, and that's where you need to gradually take them. Having the points in the middle down helps too.
Their journey is important, but so is their relationship with the world and others. Don't overdo it, but make the audience care. Put them in a situation and ask yourself, what would I most likely do here? Would they do the same, or would they do something different?
There's many facets to writing characters, but the baseline always is; make them human. A little fucked up, a little weird, trying their best. Or utter fucking menaces. Or both! Or something else!
Also give them demons. Give them issues! And then make them deal with them! I give a lot of my OCs depression because I suffer from it myself, and then I have them slowly work through it in lieu of therapy. It helps me, and it makes for a compelling internal struggle that many can identify with. Or imposter syndrome. Or mommy issues.
Explore themes with them, those that interest you, those that pertain to them.
Of course, adapt character traits accordingly to how you want the characters to be perceived, too. Don't give them too much of a trait of which perception you don't want; save being judgmental or hateful for the antagonists, don't overdo on chivalry, don't overdo on badassery. Let them fuck up. Let them fall down. Let them need help. Let them succeed too, of course. Few like misery porn, but fewer like the feeling of emptiness that comes from unearned victories.
And that goes without saying: don't make them right all the time, or successful all the time, or infallible. Kick their ass sometimes! It's for their own good, I promise!
But ultimately write the character that brings you joy. It's easier to write a compelling character when you, too, want to know what happens next, what kind of trouble they get into, how do they get out of it.
Most of all, have fun with it. If you do, others will, too.
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Night of Champions || May 27 - 2023
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Hiya, I love your fic! I find it so amazing and I can't tell you the amount of times I've laughed out loud because of it. I find it really interesting that instead of Daelyra being close to Rhea and hating Daemon you took the opposite route. I don't think I've seen anyone do that. Your story has now made me want to write a hotd oc story of my own (though admittedly its still in the planning stages).
In responds to the ask game that you have up -
What inspired you to write the fic this way?
Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
What do you like best about this fic?
What scene did you first put down?
Ahaha thank you! I'm really happy it makes you laugh, I do my best to put a lot of levity in the things I write because, really, life is lived best when you find joy in the little things. And yes, I'm aware it's common for Daemon to not even know he has a kid with Rhea, but I felt it would make for a much more interesting dynamic if he was the parent taking care of her. Gives him more depth and an interesting dichotomy between a genuinely good father but still an overall shit person.
Ahh I love inspiring people, and if you have a story to tell by all means go tell it! As for planning; from personal experience, you absolutely must know how things start, how things end, and what important things happen in the middle. The in-between stuff is easy enough to fill in, and who knows - maybe interesting plot points will sneak up on you on their own. They have the tendency to do that.
Answers for the questions under the cut because I ramble:
What inspired you to write the fic this way?
Loaded question, because there are multiple parts to the fic. Lyra and Daemon's relationship was inspired by the multitude of father-daughter manhwa I read (very specifically, 'Male Lead's Adopted Daughter'). Also in general GRRM's work; mostly it's lacks, because I'm a fantasy hoe, and his stuff has fantasy as a sidenote most of the time. I wanted more.
Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
Not necessarily, unless my friend throwing ideas at me to see what sticks counts.
Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
Kinda yeah but also no; there IS a Modern AU version of ttad in the workshop but it is, chronologically, the sequel to the current story. So on one hand it is an AU, on another it's a direct continuation so no clue if it counts.
What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
Either podcasts or lofi. I don't listen to get myself in the mood but to fill in the silence, so I don't really have recommendations except in one specific case where Lyra claimed the Cannibal and I was listening to How To Tran Your Dragon theme while writing it.
What do you like best about this fic?
I think Lyra, actually. She's one of my favorite OCs that I made, even though she's quite formulaic. I guess her face claim being Rhea Ripley helps in that lmao.
The plot is close second though, I just love me a good sandbox to throw some dragons, ancient lost cities, and civilizations-spanning mystery.
What scene did you first put down?
I genuinely do not remember. I have a whole doc file for unrelated snippets for future reference and I don't know which one came first, but I'm reasonably sure it was Lyra returning to KL circa 128 and interacting with Aemond. Kinda started braining the story ass-backwards lmao.
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