1, 10, and 19 for writer asks?

thanks for the asks, brambles! ^_^

1. Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely? melai 💀

10. Top three favourite fic tropes. au where a certain plot hole is addressed and fixed, au where X character gets redemption, and probably actually really well done crossovers.

19 Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it. I went digging through unfinished drafts in my fanfic doc. enjoy ;)

It was unprecedented. “I don’t care,” Luke Skywalker said. It wasn’t done this way. “To reiterate,” Luke said, “I don’t care.” It wasn’t the Jedi way. Luke snorted. “The Jedi way is flawed.” No, humans were fl— “Oh, I agree. Humans are flawed,” Luke said. “Humans made the Jedi order and so the Jedi are flawed. But the Force is not. And I don’t see anyone telling me not to do this but all of you. Have you noticed the Force itself has remained silent?” The Jedi Council, past and present and future, were stymied. Luke flummoxed a lot of people (or other life forms) when he was alive and now was no different. “I thought so,” Luke said smugly. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go haunt my nephew.”

thanks for the writing ask, brambles! 🤗

Massive fossilized Sea Lily and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Made a dragon friend

Happy 10th anniversary to Winter Soldier coming out!

people telling you they reread your fic is the biggest compliment you could ever receive. there are thousands of stories out there begging to be found, to be explored, but your story meant so much to someone that they came back to it eagerly, they went over every word again. to love is to return and loving a fic is rereading it. thank you to all readers and rereaders <3333

Anastasia Trusova, “Dust” Acrylic on canvas, 2022

The flying dragon lizard (Draco volans) So dragons still exist, only now they are very small!Meet the Draco volans, known as the common flying dragon.Draco volans, a species of lizard in the family Agamidae, is native to Southeast Asia and Southeast India. This species can reach up to 22 cm in length, including the tail, and males are usually shorter than females.Draco volans is endowed with wing-like lateral extensions of skin, called patagia, which give it the ability to glide. In fact, the reptile is entirely arboreal and is considered a passive glider or parachutist. The male’s patagium is tan to bright orange with dark bands, while the female’s has irregular patterns instead of bands.

Hello, again! :) I summon forth Writing Asks: 7, 17, 11, 21 and 2.

hello!!!! you are the best for sending these questions in! thank you!

2. Anything that you’d like to write but feel like you’re unable to? I only say this because I was just drafting a message to a friend about this: I feel like I can't write in the star wars or star trek fandoms and do it justice. it's an entirely different world. also probably romance. i can only do yearning, it seems like. 😅 and characters being oblivious. 7. Your favourite ao3 tag. happy ending :) i'm quite fond of some au as well but that depends on what au it is. also subcategory of like... timeline divergence/what if fics? those tags can be fun. 11. Three tropes that are fine but overrated. blind date, characters are in a band au, high school au. they can all be done excellently but rarely have i actually found any really good ones. 17. Past or present tense? Why? past tense. it leaves you flexible to step in as a the narrator or do a flashback scene, which can add tension and foreboding if the reader doesn't know why you added an ominous sounding line or whatever. 21. Can you accurately predict how long your fics are going to be? If you can, what’s your secret? it's funny you should ask that. i semi accurately guessed the finished length of a fic recently! completely by chance, i assure you. in this post i guessed 5k being a third or a fourth of the way through. the final word count was about 15k and 5k is a third! so i was right! no idea how i guessed it and i certainly didn't want it to be 15k but... oh well. i think the only writers who know how to guess how long their fics are are the ones who fully plan and chart it out before putting pen to paper at all. which i rarely do for fanfics since i write them out of bursts of inspiration and it's hard to know how far inspiration will take you word count wise lol

thanks for the writing ask, friend! 🌻

keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware

people always talk about leaving comments on ao3 like it's a nice thing to do, or the best way to encourage writers to keep writing, or overall like it's how you Do Your Part in fandom

and yeah, all those things are true, but having spent the past few months leaving enthusiastic comments on as many things as i can, i have a different perspective

you should leave comments on fics because it's fun

taking the time to stop and focus on what i like about a story has made me way more aware of what's going on in stories and what i like about them. there's bit more actual comprehension and appreciation and not just beaming content into my eyes to fill time

i like noticing cool little things in fics, or riffing on funny events. i've never been very good at speculating or picking apart characters, but sometimes something clicks and it rocks.

and of course it's pretty nice when you get a response and it's clear you've made another person happy

so yeah, you should leave comments for your own sake, too. it makes reading better!

Anastasia 1997 is such a funny movie in that it's opening sequence is like, "the Romanovs died because rasputin put a curse on them AND NO OTHER REASON DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHY THE ROMANOVS ARE DEAD OKAY IT WAS RASPUTIN"

So I started reading the Queen's Thief series and uh

Visual development for Treasure Planet (2002) by Michael Spooner

quilt by Chinami Terai

Create a monster, and I will show you your reflection 

Night has fallen. Lightning crackles in the sky above. It is time for you to create an abomination. But what manner of horror will spring from your hands?

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I blacked out and made another narrative uquiz. Give it a play, tag what you get!