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#reblogging this here as well#ilove asks like this!! i want to answer them as best as i can!!#ask games#fanfiction
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i was planning for/trying to get iwf updated today, but i'm not sure it's gonna happen ): aiming for tomorrow though!
until then, here's some sneak peeks of the upcoming chapter! (all subject to change <3)
APOCALYPSE BRACKET ROUND 1 THIRD POLL
It was futile
By @dangerous-advantage
VS
Our future days
By @cryptidpandas
#technically spoilers but like... not any important spoilers#any guesses to what's gonna happen? (:<#when i say i have been pushing myself hard to get this next chapter out#i have quite a few rough drafts written for the upcoming chapters but editing/revising has been kicking my ass#iwf#it was futile#poll contest#ahh i still can't believe iwf made it in!! <3#i wanna get back on schedule with posting again esp with how excited i am for this upcoming arc!!#rottmnt#rottmnt fics#rottmnt fic polls
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Rise leo is...
Like this turtle literally Manipulated and is the most quick thinker or the group.
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tag what you're majoring in/intend on majoring in
Respecting Women
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fanfic writers will consume a whole ass franchise and be like "that was fun, now i will proceed to do it better"
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some pdfs are dusty. this is a fact despite their lack of physicality. you understand
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*covered in blood* i will.... *trembling* CHOOSE TO BE KIND... *in pain* i will be... NICE to others... *wanting to kill* i will see good in EVERYONE *yelding a knife* i will NOT be like those who hurt me... *screaming* i will be BETTER than who i was...
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APOCALYPSE GENRE BRACKET
To kick off this party, were starting off with the apocalypse genre!!
our competitors arrree
@just-this-once-ao3 with ‘Just this once, everybody lives’
@led-astraypeepaw with ‘Led astray’
@magpiecrown with ‘KOSMARA’
@Daboyau with ‘Eat the Dark’
@dangerous-advantage with ‘It was futile’
@cryptidpandas with ‘Our future days’
and last, but not least,
@AlextheNerdBird with ‘Uprising’
If any of the authors wish to change anything, please send an ask or DM!! @s on the discord server should work aswell :)
OK WE’LL START SOON!!!
#well it was fun guys#i am going to die so epicly but i'm ok with that#/lh#iwf#it was futile#discord polls
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since this is finally happening, posting this here!
my fic: 'it was futile'
upcoming competitor: 'our future days' by @cryptidpandas
go check them out before you vote! incredibly excited to be included here /gen
APOCALYPSE GENRE BRACKET
To kick off this party, were starting off with the apocalypse genre!!
our competitors arrree
@just-this-once-ao3 with ‘Just this once, everybody lives’
@led-astraypeepaw with ‘Led astray’
@magpiecrown with ‘KOSMARA’
@Daboyau with ‘Eat the Dark’
@dangerous-advantage with ‘It was futile’
@cryptidpandas with ‘Our future days’
and last, but not least,
@AlextheNerdBird with ‘Uprising’
If any of the authors wish to change anything, please send an ask or DM!! @s on the discord server should work aswell :)
OK WE’LL START SOON!!!
#iwf#it was futile#oh im going to die#oh im going to die so hard#this fic is a masterpiece holy shit
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hey wow i remembered i should probably update here.
i got stuck in a writer's slump, and i've been pretty busy, but i have been working on writing, slowly but surely. i won't promise the next chapter will be up this coming monday, but i want to have it basically finalized by then (or at the very least, the secondary draft finalized)
and be working on the rough draft for the chapter after that by the time i get part x out. so, thank you for all of your patience! i have not, in fact, abandoned this, i've just been going slower than usual
in the meantime, i'm sure you all have like five bajillion fics on your to be read (i sure do lmao) so happy reading regardless, and thanks so much for your support (:
#updates#rottmnt iwf#iwf#iwf meta#just letting y'all know like i should have been doing but haven't#lmao
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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗
number one: HI HELLO I LOVE YOU FOR THIS /platonic
number two: i.... have not written five fics that would be applicable for this (oops)
that said:
[it was futile]
"This isn't real. It... it was just a nightmare. A lucid dream of a doomed timeline, crafted of guilt and subconcious. To wake up, perhaps he needed to give in, let the creeping fog wash over him...
After all, there was no point in fighting the inevitable."
Several months after the invasion in New York, Leo wakes up surrounded by a nightmare he thought he had escaped -- and he's not alone. Delirious, scared, and confused, the only thing he wants is to find his way home.
But things are never that simple.
aka: a (reverse?) future crossover fic that features angst, hurt/comfort, my fucked up reimagining of the apocalypse timeline, and a lot of details that might become plot-relevant later (ahahaha... dw abt it)
this fic is very much a slow-burn. i have a lot planned, so i spend a lot of time weaving in details/foreshadowing that won't pay off for a while. as it stands, we're around 50,000 words in and i'm just about to get into the main plot. so.... yeah haha (really want to get the next chapter out this sunday/monday, but we shall see haha.)
(i am so bad at hyping up my own writing, so i hope my commenters do not mind me using some of their reviews):
frequent commenters my beloved <3
(this is not the entirety of this review btw -- if you want to read the entire comment, you can do so here. mild spoilers (nothing that would matter), but it goes very in-depth about what you can expect from my style haha.
credit to @shadowbends, you are so cool, and every time i need motivation, i just reread this comment.)
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update 2
that's right kids... my outline revisions for arc II are finally finished
#anyway this is four of the i think... 12? 11? 13? parts that are in arc II#i figured i'd provide an example so you know i am actually doing stuff haha#i want to get the next chapter up early as i guess an apology of sorts? /lh#but we'll see how everything goes#if all goes according to plan i'm pushing myself to post this upcoming saturday#then getting back onto my previous monday schedule that i swore i would try and follow (oops)#still-- i hope you guys like what i have in store!
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OK GUYS HERE WE GO!!
Polls end in 10 days, aka June 12th (my time). I won’t be able to get the brackets sorted for awhile though! So this may change and I may keep them open while I’m unavailable.
#h..hey#hey#im not saying anything (/np)#but i mean it would be very cool <:#like i said no pressure haha#looking forward to seeing some new fics to read regardless#rottmnt#not iwf#rottmnt fanfiction#we really need a rise fic blog for like. organizing and taking suggestions haha
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update
i've been putting off writing this, but i can't exactly not, so... i'll try and make this brief.
in short: i've had an epiphany.
(tl;dr at bottom)
i've been writing/brainstorming this fic since november/december last year, and since then, my ideas and understandings of the show and it's characters have evolved. and with them, my plans and understandings for iwf.
i want to be clear: this is not me saying i'm done with iwf, or going on some long hiatus. in fact, it's more the opposite.
having graduated, with summer in full swing, and feeling more sure than ever about where i want to take this fic (as well as remaining fully invested in this fandom), i plan to do more writing than ever before B)
that said: something needs to change.
this fic has been, and continues to be, my baby (besides my ever-growing, yet rarely spoken of, tmnt iteration) for most of the time i've been active in this fandom.
i've long struggled with motivation for big writing projects, but i am resolved to keep with this one because i have a story worth telling. will it be worth reading? who's to say!! (i hope so /gen)
but, as you might've noticed, my more recent updates (especially around the end of arc I) were... bad. maybe not bad-bad, but still bad from a 'technical writing/story' perspective. i struggled a lot with them, and i think that really shows.
i've was trying to figure out why its come to be this way while pushing forward by forcing myself to write, but that didn't work. it wasn't until this week, tuesday, when realization struck me (while watching a video essay, lol).
it made me realize a big part of what was making me unhappy was something i already knew, an issue underlying the fic (and my writing style) as a whole.
with this in mind, i can't keep going forward in the way i had planned.
i'm not gonna go back and change arc I. while the problem is there, especially in the later chapters, i'm early enough on that i can turn things around and (hopefully) root out the problem(s) without any major changes to what i've written/set up so far.
but to do this, i need time.
i know i know i just took a 2-3 week long break, but to pull this off, i need time to prepare and rewrite. i'm halfway through revisions for the arc II outline, and i'll need to heavily revise/rewrite several chapters, plus write some new stuff (since i'm axing the next couple i had planned/written out... rip.)
if all goes well, it shouldn't take longer than two weeks. best case scenario, i get it done in one. we'll see.
until then, i humbly ask for your patience.
as a note:
i could go deep into my inspirations for this fic, where i wanted to go originally, what's changed since then, and especially what brought me to my realization (plus the specifics of said realization) but i said i would try to make this brief, and here we are, [insert amount of words] later.
are you really surprised, though? (/lh)
[if you would like to see me talk more about that (i would absolutely always be down, i love talking about myself /j /lh), feel free to shoot me an ask. in fact, i would beg on my hands and knees, if i were not a silly guy who lives on your computer (/j)]
(tl;dr -- i am not done writing iwf. however, i had a realization that led to me reevaluating my writing and determining that i need to rewrite/revise my arc II outline, and edit/revise/completely rewrite the next several chapters.
this means i am planning to take another week or so off (i am sosososo sorry) to iron everything out and get ahead.
this whole post was me trying to explain the reasoning behind this decision, with an underlying sense of desperate patheticism to match (/j /lh).)
to conclude, i want to say thank you so much for your support, silent or otherwise, from all who have read and (hopefully) enjoyed this fic thus far. i genuinely couldn't do it without you (yes, sun, this includes you /lh.)
especially to my frequent commenters, who i promise i do see and appreciate. you guys are the real mvps <3
i have some really big plans for iwf, and i hope you'll stick around to see them come to fruition (:<
#rottmnt iwf#iwf#it was futile#updates#writing updates#rottmnt it was futile#“i'll try to make this brief”#literally a line later: page break#thats how you know it's not actually “brief” lmao#it's fine; you can find the tl;dr at the bottom#(that i added after i realized nobody wanted to wade through lines and lines of text waxing poetic about my thoughts or whatever /lh)#but i mean if you've stuck with me for this long... you might be used to that (sorry about that haha)#all i'm gonna say else is this: i struggle with perfectionism i will admit#but i know i KNOW i can do better#plus if i just leave some of these problems to fester#they might become really big and apparent in the future#so i'd rather avoid that if possible#remind me to link this later so people know what's up haha /nsrs
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(insert funny and/or witty post title here)
['it was futile' master post]
hi i'm danger (they/them), and you're watching (disney channel noises) my writing sideblog (B
(realized i should probably make one of these that isn't just related to the one fic so uhhh. yeah)
(i'm working on it okay)
#this is currently under construction (if you could not tell lmao)#pinned post#table of contents#fanfic directory
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"part x. a little longer" is up!
aka: a poorly disguised love-letter to my own pairs of headphones /lh
#rottmnt iwf#iwf#it was futile#we're back in it baby and oh boy do i have some Plans for this arc (:<#rottmnt fics#rottmnt fanfiction
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