A persons fanfic tells you a lot about them, i , a fanfic writer, realize in terror

Me to my student: You need to pare things down. Just, like, Marie Kondo this whole paragraph. Student, softly to herself: Does this clause spark joy??

I mean that’s all of them tbh but Ellie managed to break out of a top-security prison. On accident.

She then proceeds to get adopted by a villainous child who is worlds above her in competency and she still manages to be like “I can’t leave this CHILD alone to fend for himself!! I, an innocent young adult with no survival skills and who can barely comprehend taxes, am honor-bound to protect this child with guns and an auto-camouflaging hovercraft that he built himself at ALL COSTS. Guess I gotta do crimes now!!”

Guys tell me about your stupidest character.

Just an absolute dumbass.

Your favorite fucking idiot.

That one character you have in his 20’s and he still can’t tie his shoes.

Tell me about that bitch.

I made my Camp NaNo goal of 25K!!!

Total words for April: 25,002.

No worries, though! I’ve still got some furious writing to go! 4thewords has an event going for Camp NaNo that has been extended by a few weeks and my completionist arse needs ALL the things. :P

Wrote almost 2K words today!! I’m still a bit behind, but well within a reasonable range to finish on time! I also have a mental evaluation in a few days, so I’ll hopefully get some treatment for ADHD/anxiety/etc. Feeling very optimistic atm!! ^^

It’s just the nature of writers that every one of us, at some point in our lives, creates a massive mental multiverse that narratively justifies our most self-indulgent of fantasies involving our fictional faves.

(And then we rework it into something truly original and erase our tracks so no one will ever know its fanfiction-y origins.)

Chapter 4 of NightShift is up!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14509806/chapters/43723898

Camp NaNo goes well, and I’m pretty proud of myself for that! Anyway, it’s been a really long fucking time since I updated DT so have this as an apology:

“Well of course I-! It is IMPLIED!! Learn to read a room!” His cheekbones are a glaring orange.

“And what’s with the skull?”

“It is a SYMBOL of my TRIUMPH over my ENEMIES!! Do you know NOTHING of art?!”

You look directly into his fuming face. “I like the pretty colors.”

What I find really odd about fanfic in general is that you can almost tell what kind of a person is writing it, you know?? Like some people are really poetic in their descriptions, some people almost drown in the feelings they write, others create dialogue that flows so well it feels like you’re watching real people discuss things in front of your eyes… I just really love that aspect of it, and I love placing writers in a kind of “hey look they’re a descriptions/feelings/dialogue kind of person” box so to speak. It’s such a pleasure reading it when it’s written so individually

Chapter 3 of NightShift is live!

...Or undead, as the case may be:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14509806/chapters/41102588

You know, I’m not sure if I remembered to post this on this blog before, but I’ve graduated from uni and have a job now!! So that’s cool!

Wow I never post.

This is your inconsistent reminder that I am still alive and my fics are all still alive okay thanks.

What writing chapter 1 of my novel this year has been like so far: Adelaide: I’m a lesbiab. Adelaide: A lesbiam. Adelaide: Less bien. Me, the Author: It’s okay take your time. Adelaide: *Pointing at Ms. Kirkley* Adelaide: Girls.

I love Underfell Sans because you could tell me he tore a man’s arms clean off his body and I would believe you and if you told me he pretended to hate babies when people were around but secretly started sobbing when they were alone because their hands are just. too damn small. Look at these tiny ass baby hands. I would believe that, too.

I love doing word crawls, but I HATE “end scene” tasks. You want me to sprint to the end of the scene?? BITCH this entire chapter IS one scene!! This scene won’t be finished for another 4K WORDS you’re supposed to motivate me by breaking that up into manageable chunks this does NOTHING for me!!

Chapter 2 of NightShift is up!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14509806/chapters/36662970