#I NEED TO WRITE MY CHAPTERS BUT THEY'RE NOT COMPUTING LOL
Text
Spider-man x Batfam Prompt's
Ok so lately I have seen a lot of "Spidy goes to gotham and gets adopted fics" probably cause of Dark Matter by mysterycyclone cause like, duh, that fic is a goddamn masterpiece. But I feel like a lot of them are sort of the same thing with diffrent fonts ans it feels a bit saturated. Not all of them...but most of them.
Am I saying that there needs to be less of these fics? Hell no! Keep writing them please. I just feel like there could be more variety is all.
I suggest maybe try one of these ideas out
1: Peter going straight to the Batfam or other heros (dosent always have to be Batfam) and they try to work together on how to get him home, while slowly realizing "omg, your life is terrible! We want to help you, we do, but maybe we shouldnt and try to give you a better life here. Then its just a moral delema on what to do as they get to know the spider child.
2: maybe another Spider-man is the one that goes to Hotham like Andrew or Toby. Insted of being sent home at the end of NWH, they where accidentally sent to the DCU. Or maybe one of the Spider verse characters or a cartoon version of the character. Dosent always need to be Toms Spider-man.
3: on that same note. Please give more love to What If...Zombies Peter. You guys have no Idea the amount of angst and "haha, my world ended and im fine" potental there is. And you can have the other surviving member also be there as they look for eachother (characters that "survived* (no one survived that episode) are Peter, King T'challa, Scott Lang+cape, and Ig Bruce Baner/Hulk, and Bucky Barnes since we never saw them get turned or eaten) just think about Spidey and the Batfam investigating a lab or sometbing and all of a sudden they find floating head Scott in a crate. Everyone if scared shitless while Peter is crying tires of joy as he moves to hug the floating head. Think about that and tell me Im not on to something here.
4: Have the fic start our like halfway through. Maybe skip him getting to Gotham and have him be there for a few months already or something. This will help with adding more crack fics.
5: Maybe have the fic be that Peter is there for a while, he knows everyone, they know him, they might or might not know the identitys but they trust eachother. And Peter has been looking for a way home and he finally finds it! But... he accidentally brings some of the Batfam with him. So now its the Batfams turn to learn to live in the MCU with help of Spidy and they finally understand so much about him, how he lived, and vigilanties he knows (team red!) As they learn the history and pubilc opinion or Spider-man and the world.
6: Just a react to fic. Yk, those fics where they're stuffed in a room and forced to watch something? Yeah. Have the Dark Matter cast stuffed in a room and watch some MCU clips. It dosent even have to be some magic forth wall bull shit if you dont like that. In chapter 44, Peter and co. are said to be going back to the cave, and Peter still have is suit. Canonically, Karen records everything. Maybe Peter ends up so tired he dosent even want to try to explain everything. So he just hooks up Karen to the computer and and has her show them everything from the suits recordings to security cameras and news reports, to the memes and videos spiderman fans have made.
7: have the Justice League get involed cause "Hes to bright to be one of yours Bruce!" And have him be a honorary member of the league of have them put him on Young Justice. Peter gets adopted by Batfam? Yes. Peter becomeing Bffs with the Young Justice kids and actually forming normal relationships with kids his age? Also yes.
Do I have more? Probably but Im too lazy for it rn
If you for some reason use one of my ideas, pls tag me and maybe credit me for the original idea (but I mostly want to be able to find the fic if you do make it ( o_o) )
Who knows, I might just write some of these myself if I ever get the motivation lol
#writing prompt#fanfic writers#fanfic#spider man#batfam#marvel mcu#mcu#dcu#dc universe#peter parker#dark matter#crossover#crossover fic#fic ideas#please#I have had some on these ideas in my head for so long now TvT#send asks
57 notes
·
View notes
Note
heyoooo I saw some tags on a post you shared that said something about how the batarian resistance was born, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on a batarian resistance because I also want to do a batarian resistance, but I've been having trouble noodling out what that looks like.
okay attempt two at answering this cause my computer decided to restart itself last time and i got mad and didn't want to retype everything lol
obviously i'm going to start with saying the vast majority of my batarian work is in my no-reapers au exponential differentiation, especially blood in the water where the two deuteragonists working with shepard are second in command of the resistance tarvok shad'derah and his friend and close ally of the resistance gurji taeja, and we're also poised right at the start of the hegemony plotline in in the land of giants and the resistance will be pretty involved in upcoming chapters (and are already there, please come read it i have essays). moving on.
the short answer is... there is no short answer. it's complicated. the hegemony, per canon, is a strict caste-based, totalitarian oligarchy with complete control over every aspect of life underneath them. you can't work with batarians without addressing the hegemony somehow. there's going to be a lot of messy politics, and wildly varying opinions towards the resistance (there's going to be a lot of people who think it's not worth fighting! let them kill themselves off! why are you going to so much effort!), and very heavy topics that need a lot of care to portray sensitively. the hegemony is very clearly based on very real regimes that killed a lot of people and left a lot of lasting damage. a lot of where i started looking at batarians with a sympathetic lens is from talking to a friend of mine who lives in brazil and saw a lot of their own experiences reflected in the batarians, and quite a few other regimes there are still people alive who remember living under them are obvious inspiration for bioware as well (stalinist ussr is the most obvious, but there's definitely aspects of mussolini's italy and north korea as well, to name a few). accordingly, i've been doing my best to approach the topic sensitively; literally the most important thing i can stress with working with batarians is do your research. there's an awful lot of nuance to consider, and boiling it down to basic "good guy rebels vs evil government" does it a serious disservice.
that out of the way, let's get into it after the cut. i'm going to preface this with a disclaimer that a lot of this is my own work and i am not comfortable with others using it without permission. nothing against you personally i just have some bad experiences with people "taking inspiration" from me and literally just lifting my shit whole-cloth without asking me and only crediting me in a separate place away from the actual fic, lol. so anything with specific names or timelines or just anything that's me speculating and not found in canon is not free to use, kthx.
anyway.
in order to write a resistance against the hegemony, you have to start with actually writing the hegemony. yeah i know i know nobody wants to put too much effort into the slaver assholes, but it's important. and we do actually have some canon details about how the hegemony functions, so Reading The Wiki actually a pretty good place to start! based on what (admittedly not a lot) we know about the hegemony, they're a totalitarian oligarchy where the richest rule. you can potentially buy your way to a higher caste if you make enough money, but it's very difficult, and they're incredibly cutthroat. basically, life under the hegemony is very every man for himself.
this is to the upper castes' advantage! aggressive enforcement of the status quo by the higher-ups, using fear and violence as weapons, not only works very well to oppress the lower castes, but it also encourages people to turn on each other and rat each other out. you're unlikely to find a lot of camaraderie among average batarians - if anyone could turn you in to the cops, you're not gonna trust anybody, and that's gonna go a long way to keeping people under the upper castes' thumbs. we can even reasonably infer that family members are encouraged to report on each other - it's happened irl! it's super useful! nobody trusts each other, everyone's afraid of surveillance, nobody is safe. building up any sort of resistance movement is going to be incredibly difficult anywhere the hegemony can listen.
further, it's canon that the hegemony very tightly controls the flow of information in and out of their borders, and that includes information about the other species and life outside the hegemony. keeping the population ignorant makes them easier to control, after all. this is a known and very common tactic in authoritarian regimes. the common batarian living within hegemony borders believes that their way of life is best, this is how things are meant to be, and all the aliens are lesser beings and basically savages, so it's best to just listen to the hegemony and do as you're told and never ever leave :) why would you want to leave when this is the best possible life for you :) most batarians aren't going to be aware that there's anything wrong with the dystopian horror they're living in, because it's all they've ever known and all they can know. so odds of the lower castes all realizing they're being oppressed and agreeing "fuck that" together are uhhh slim to none, to say the least. this shit goes very deep, and the hegemony has been in place for centuries, so they've had a lot of time to root themselves in the populace's collective heads as Good And Correct And The Only Way To Live.
so, okay, let's leave the hegemony. easy right? wrong. sure, omega has no rules, but that means you're unlikely to find a lot of help if the hegemony decides to drag your ass back. you're still going to have to stay vigilant for spies and trackers and unfriendly tech, assuming they're not going to just up and kill you (which is probably more likely, even - out in terminus, nobody looks twice at somebody getting ganked, but a kidnapping will draw more attention, and then you've got martyrs, and nobody wants those). outside hegemony space, you're going to run into two main flavors of batarian:
batarians who were born under the hegemony, but no longer live there. these can be divided further into batarians who are still loyal to the hegemony for one reason or another (money, habit, blackmail), and those who have cut ties. either they managed to escape somehow, they were let go willingly and decided never to go back, or somebody else took them out of hegemony space.
batarians who were not. these will then be divided into those who still work with the hegemony (we know they pay good, after all) and those who want nothing to do with them.
of those four groups, you're going to have to make a hell of a pitch to get allies for any budding resistance movement - the hegemony are seen as an omnipresent evil in terminus, but one you can live with as long as you don't do anything stupid. keep your head down, or take their money even, and you'll probably be okay. they're a big damn government with a wide territory and lots of guns, and we know canonically that they have a lot of tech and stuff that they don't even share with the rest of the galaxy because they're paranoid and selfish, so "just stay out of their way" is going to be a very, very popular method of dealing with them.
oh, and remember what i said about hegemony info diets? yeah. culture shock once you're out is gonna be a bitch. we're talking near-catatonia levels of existential crisis here.
"what about the citadel," you may ask. great question! fair point! we can in fact reasonably infer that the vast majority of citadel species, with the exception of the asari with their """indentured servitude""" and possibly the hanar depending on how far down the rabbit hole of the hanar-drell relationship you feel like going down with me, are very anti-slavery and would support going against the hegemony! except, unfortunately, it's more complicated than that, because the batarians were the fourth species to reach the citadel, can be inferred to have been the "peacekeepers" of the galaxy prior to the uplifting of the krogan (yes i have textbooks of batarian history no we're not getting into it right now go read bitw), and in general are a big damn nuisance that the council don't want to risk war with right at the moment. "but there's more of them then there are of the hegemony!" yeah and you know how many of them are actually capable of war? the turians. das it. until the alliance start getting in slapfights with the hegemony, the turians are the only species really capable of waging war to any meaningful extent, and supporting the resistance in any way, even just allowing them to Exist on the citadel, would cause a lot of trouble for the council that they simply aren't able to deal with while the batarians still have their embassy on the station. remember what i said about politics? yeah you came and asked tumblr user sparatus about this there's so much xenopolitics involved in why the hegemony haven't been wiped off the map yet i made this field up but it's my passion--
ahem. does this sound like more effort than it's worth yet? good. that's the point.
in short: getting any sort of resistance movement going with any degree of traction is going to be incredibly difficult. there's very few places to run, getting recruits who are at least mostly sane will be like pulling teeth, and you're basically on your own. it's even fair to assume that resistance movements have happened in the past and failed. the hegemony are large and in charge, and yeah sure they're falling down on themselves and a shadow of their former selves but that makes them more dangerous because, as we can see in canon, that pride makes them aggressive and very determined not to show weakness or let anyone know how bad things are getting. taking them down is an uphill battle in the blinding snow and brother, the resistance are a beat-up rear-wheel drive with no snow tires and a faulty fuel injector.
no, i don't make metaphors that make sense. i write about political intrigue and the comics characters, it's obscure bullshit or bust over here.
obviously that's not all to say a resistance movement is impossible. i have one myself, hi how ya doin read my fic. that's all just set up. to write a resistance movement against a massive, well-entrenched regime like the hegemony, you first have to have a good, solid idea of what they're resisting against, and all the factors getting in their way. it's hard! it's difficult! it's true to how these things tend to work out in real life!
here's how i have things set up for my own work (again, keep in mind this work is not free to use):
the hegemony's fall from grace following their defeat by the rachni and their job as the main military might being usurped by the krogan and later turians has led to infighting and cannibalizing each other. as conditions steadily declined and the bad parts of the bad system got worse, what was previously a sustainable dystopia spiraled downwards into a ticking timebomb. the conclave (the "senate" which is now effectively no longer elected running everything, the top caste) is inbred to hell and back, because you can't possibly marry outside your caste, and the question of nonviability is becoming a when, not an if.
the arrival of the alliance and the council's apparent "favoritism" (read: not simply letting the hegemony have their way, because no you're both breaking laws actually please just shut up and sit down for mediation) has destabilized their standing in galactic society, causing their retreat further into isolation. this is making everything worse. things fall apart.
some senators within the conclave, particularly senators shahok khor'berran and morem kednelok, have recognized the hegemony is barrelling towards its breaking point and are looking for reform.
morvarn taryn, a cop in dasrak (the capital city, btw i will always be salty bioware didn't even give khar'shan a CANON CAPITAL CITY), has always struggled with having more empathy than a man of his caste is supposed to have. this gets him in trouble when dealing with a krogan slave that keeps breaking confinement, wragg, because damn that poor guy's really fucked up huh. (this also gets into alien slavery and that whole quagmire, but that's a different essay), but he doesn't really actually question the regime fully until a friend of his, air force lieutenant tarvok shad'derah, comes by the bar one day clearly in pain, and morvarn convinces him to come to his apartment for treatment and finds tarvok and his squad have been subjected to sapient experimentation without anaesthesia and the wounds have been left exposed.
the shad'derahs are a prominent family line due to their ancestor rothok being the second spectre in history and a close friend of gurji beelo. further, as a military officer tarvok is roughly the same caste as morvarn, and they both should be spared from this kind of treatment. the fact that even their middle-tier caste isn't enough to keep them from being seen as tools and objects radicalizes morvarn, but he doesn't realize it yet.
he brings his concerns to a close friend. friend happens to be senator shahok, who sees an opportunity and agrees with morvarn that either things need to change, or the hegemony will fall, and perhaps it needs to for their own survival as a species.
several months pass, with much thinking and discussing of what to do. tarvok disagrees that anything needs to change, and insists this is just the way things are, but morvarn's compassion sticks with him until a fateful mission rattles him, and the hegemony's plan to subject his younger brother thrajul to the same treatment he's had convinces him it's time to leave.
shit happens, blah blah blah, morvarn and tarvok end up fleeing khar'shan with a small group of supporters and also non-supporters who have no other choice but to go with. they run to omega and spend a few months trying to sort themselves out before deciding to keep trying to rescue friends and family from the hegemony.
this evolves into other batarians seeking their help getting their own loved ones out, raiding slavers, deep-cover missions, etc etc, until they're actually a proper resistance movement. they even make non-batarian friends, including gurji taeja, beelo's descendant who has a familial loyalty to the shad'derahs because salarians have like a whole thing about that.
there is no true plan for taking down the conclave, because how the fuck are they supposed to do that
and that's how exdiff and the whole x57 and resulting hegemony plotline tie in, because x57 kicks off the hegemony gearing up for war properly and once [REDACTED] then well the hegemony's the only problem left to deal with and hey look there's this whole group of guys with very intimate knowledge of what to do with them and some guys on the inside,
i have a fic planned for the actual downfall it's called carrion men and i am GOING to outline it next year so maybe i can get started writing it for camp nano or proper nano
..... oh my god this is so much. i am so sorry to anybody whose phone this fucking destroys trying to load it. but also not really. my m.e. big bang fic was an entire treatise of political intrigue and speculation on potential asari supremacy conspiracy, you don't come to me for concise answers on xenopolitical things. anyway hello i have put a completely normal and reasonable amount of work into the hegemony and the resistance and batarians in general
#press conference#cr-noble-main#HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO MUCH LONGER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IM SO SORRY FDHSLD#do you understand why i got mad and didnt want to retype it for a while lol#council memos#council records#WHICH ONE WAS MY FANDOM DISCUSSION TAG I FORGET#yeah lemme just make a smart themed tag system i said. i will definitely remember this i said.#demented screaming.#turning off reblogs preemptively. any time i talk about batarians nobody can fucking behave#do you guys remember that time i got accused of supporting human trafficking because i said the batarians have a point#in being mad about the humans setting up colonies in territory the batarians had already claimed and were in. i remember.#i trust none of you. no reblogs.
8 notes
·
View notes
Note
Hi! If it's not too much of a bother, I wanted to ask you something technical about the way you write: basically, how do you organize everything? How many documents do you have for one fic, where do you write (I mean what software/platform/napkin maybe???), do you keep snippets or notes that would not fit in anymore somewhere or just delete everything that you feel is not needed anymore, ... ??
I thought I would ask because you manage to have a super duper long fic with super duper long chapters and everything has a solid outline to it, and yeah, I'm struggling with organization here, because I tend to have lots of notes, and then I find myself swimming back and forth through them (in my case, I also have to change computers during the week VS the weekend, and like, one is Windows and the other is Mac so they also don't have the same mother tongue even if I'm supposed to be Mom to them both but they're adopted children okay), and of course organization is not the only thing I lack, but anyhow, I thought I'd ask anyway. I'm trying to write more regularly and this is something I don't quite know how to handle (among other more major things lol)
Well, anyway, I love what you do, have a wonderful day! :3
Thank you so much! I'm happy you're enjoying the long chapters :D
tbh, my organization style depends on the story I'm writing. With some, it's lots of different docs per chapter, and plenty of notes randonmly assorted together.
With FnF, there's one long doc for the story 'proper' and a different set of notes for each character's trajectory and random facts/quotes to include in their scenes as the story goes on. There's also a 'skeleton key' document to keep things organized, with notes on what each chapter contains, and the scenes it 'ideally 'contains. (I say 'ideally 'because I am going 'fuck it' where wordcount is concerned for FnF. Each chapter is written in 'episodic 'format, which allows me to treat it as a standalone one-shot, and stuff it with details c:)
Re: writing regularly, I find that having a 'writing time' set for yourself each day - even if it's just 15 mins - works wonders, if you're having trouble staying motivated. Super helpful if it comes on the heels of either an enjoyable or mindless activity (a workout, a walk, a nice book, a shower) as you're already in a relaxed frame of mind and don't need to wring the words out.
Ofc this is what works for me! Writerly friends, feel free to suggest ways to write more regularly, depending on what works for you<3
#asks#arcane#arcane league of legends#arcane silco#silco#forward but never forget/xoxo#forward (never forget)/xoxo
6 notes
·
View notes
Note
Hi Pia!
Do you have any advice on how to hook readers? Like how so you decide on what sentence or subject or scene to start with at the beginning of a story that will encourage readers to continue?
I've told multiple different things by people, like to start in the middle of the action or with dialogue, but I'm still not sure and have no idea what I'm doing 😆
Hi anon,
Hilariously I have been told that my beginnings aren't always very good so you should really take this all with a grain of salt, lol. Go beneath the 'read more' if you want to just get some actual practiceable advice that you can start doing immediately to get better at beginnings.
Generally speaking, starting in the middle of the action scene or with dialogue is a distillation of something deeper and simpler:
Most authors start the story too early, because they need more exposition than the reader does, because they're learning the world and the characters and often have to learn it by writing them. This means that by the time they get to the good stuff, in many cases, they are 5-10 chapters in, and you can often safely drop all of those chapters, and other readers would have zero problems understanding the story, because the author has basically told themselves the story of those characters etc. and set up the major action.
This is especially true of authors who are learning to write, and still learning to feel out a story. And anon, you can't always shortcut this even if you do start in the middle of an action scene or in the middle of a dialogue scene. Sometimes you've just got to take it with grace when you hand a manuscript to a beta and they say 'cut the first 10 chapters, it's stronger without them.' I've had to do this to friends, and I've had this done re: my own writing.
The Ice Plague initially started - before I ever put it up - with Olphix going into the Aur forest and setting it on fire. That's a very strong, traumatising, major scene! No one can deny that's not starting with an action scene of great gravity. But it just wasn't the right place to start. I realised something was wrong and took a long hiatus, and then it came to me that it was more important narratively for the reader not to understand where Mosk's grief came from or what had happened to him.
The story had to start with Eran, and it had to start 9 months after that action scene, and if I had started The Ice Plague with my initial idea, I would have had to cut around 15 unnecessary chapters to get to the good bit, lol. (I do actually think The Ice Plague has a strong beginning). Mosk's history had to be mysterious and something that got revealed over time, in the same way that it was revealed over time. And I couldn't learn that until I started writing the story.
Sometimes, anon, you can know all the technical things about why some stories are stronger if they start in an action scene or with dialogue (some are weaker for it), but the only way you can really get through it is via...writing the story.
(Actual practical advice beneath the start plus a whole bunch of opening sentences).
Re: A hooky start, for myself, I want to start with an interesting first sentence. Something that interests me, lol, but something that I think would be interesting if someone else read it too.
I actually think the opening sentence of Stuck on the Puzzle is terrible, lmao. But I think the opening chapter is great. Anyway, here's a list of some of my opening sentences and you can decide or think about what you like about them, what you don't like, and if any of them prompts you to read further. Think about why, as well. What was it? What bit did you want to know more about:
Cateline described Grimglass as the ‘ass end of Corambis,’ and certainly while the heavy clouds hung over the sea like a pall, I could see what she meant.
Connor stared intently at the computer as it booted up, looked around the otherwise dark room, and then up to the security cameras he'd disabled. (This is not a very strong opening sentence, I think the whole paragraph is better lol).
Alex liked that they were both, in a way, failures.
In high school, Alex used to imagine forcing Sebastian to give him blowjobs.
Red galaxies fired beneath Efnisien’s eyelids. (This one is also stronger in the whole paragraph imho).
The An-Fnwy estate was just as grand and imposing as Augus Each Uisge had imagined when he was an underfae teenager, living in a lake nearby.
When the Oak King proclaimed the new fae era, the ‘Season of Turning,’ we all assumed it would be a time of positive change, of growth. (Blah, the ORIGINAL first sentence was from the start of the next chapter).
Augus Each Uisge, predatory waterhorse, Unseelie fae, was bored.
Jack shifted uncomfortably in his ceremonial soldier’s uniform.
The magic around Eran’s wrist throbbed, the beetle-black ink of the months-old tattoo sinking deeper into his flesh.
Gwyn stood, embarrassed, in his wrestling gear.
Efnisien had forty four books in his plain grey melamine bookshelf.
The sun was bright red on the horizon, looking more like a bomb, the smell of smoke acrid in the back of Faber’s nose.
‘I hear they want to promote you to nursery manager,’ a voice said smoothly. ‘What a coup indeed.’
Almost eight months had passed, the next time Gwyn saw Augus.
-
Generally speaking I like to establish mood quickly, particularly embarrassment, discomfort, boredom, or the kind of emotion that you want to see resolved. These folks all have big and small problems they need fixing, and with very few exceptions, I want people to know that immediately, so that they'll...ideally stick around and watch the problems get fixed (or get worse lol). I also start strongly with character, rather than just...detached setting description.
That works for me, it might be different for you! Go find all your favourite books and read their opening sentences and paragraphs, do some research anon. Stop listening to friends (and ChatGPT written articles on how to write because there's so many now x.x) who say 'start in dialogue' or 'start in action' and do the research that teaches you why people say stuff like this and why it's also not always right. Don't even listen to me - I don't always write strong beginnings and I'm very open about that - go get 10 books, 20 books, 50 books, and write down their first sentences or paragraphs in a word document or in Google Docs and study them.
Which ones do you love? Which do you find boring? Which do you remember thinking 'ehhh maybe it gets better.' Notice and actively look for the things that hook you and the things that don't. How many start with dialogue? Or action? How many start with emotion, or description? How many are starting with setting, character, something else?
Try practicing writing sentences like this, or imagining openings like this for your own works. Learn by doing. How would you change the openings by genre? How would you change the voice by character? Alex's opening sentences are very strongly in his voice. Meanwhile Mosk's voice in Smoke in Autumn is non-existent, we literally start with Augus' dialogue dominating and intruding upon his mind and thoughts.
And then realise sometimes you still have to write 10 chapters that you might need to cut (hey bonus content that readers will want to devour one day! Make sure you save it :D ), to find the right place to start your story. It sucks, but it happens. I've been through this with Mallory & Mount and only now after like over a year have I figured out exactly where I have to start that damned story, and I finally have my opening sentence, which is:
The guard looked at Lewis Mount like the murderer he was.
And I love that opening sentence :D I'm biased, but I think it's very hooky.
Writing beginnings and endings is a craft, but you'll learn with practice! And you'll learn a lot via research. Thankfully, you probably like reading, which means you can start researching literally right now.
The best way to learn what you're doing is to learn from the people who have already done it successfully. This is sometimes famous writers, but just as often it's looking at what your favourite writers are doing. Chances are you maybe want to write a little bit like them, so go study their opening sentences! Maybe they don't have strengths in that, but I bet some of them do.
And from there you can study opening paragraphs, opening chapters. You can feel out the ones you wanted to skip, the ones you'd read again and again, the ones you love, the ones you didn't feel anything over. :D
Anyway I think this is probably a pretty good place to start! The folks giving you advice have the right idea, it's just good to understand why it's the right idea. The best way to get to that is to just...research openings of books for yourself and decide what you like, what you'd like to write like, and then trying it out for yourself :D
#asks and answers#pia on writing#dodgy advice#i have definitely gotten better at openings#the opening for the nascent diplomat made me laugh#it's so bad#administrator gwyn wants this in the queue
16 notes
·
View notes
Note
12, 22, 32 for the weird writer asks!! 👯
Hello Rowan and thank you!! I typed out all my answers and then promptly did not save the post 😌 so take two:
12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules
Oh, this is hard! I think...
To be able to finish any WIP I start.
To be able to pause time so I can write.
The ability to know exactly what I want to adjust when I look at my writing.
22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?
There is barely a system here! I write on Pages so I can use either my computer or phone when I feel like it. WIPs I'm in the mood for stay in the cloud, stagnated ones go on my hard drive. My WIP folder is kind of a wasteland. I also write out of order and drag things around very often. I'm in a weird spot where I don't write super long fics, and I feel like I can't justify one file per chapter, but they're long enough that I get confused in my own docs... I need help tbh
32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?
Warning: rambling ahead, haha. A few months ago, I read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and I felt so seen while reading it, so much of it felt painfully relevant, I was shocked in a way... The familiar relationships, the questions of identity and culture, a lot of it really hit deep. I don't want to quote the whole book at you because I would lol, but one core moment:
And suddenly, the sound of his pet name, uttered by his father as he has been accustomed to hearing it all his life, means something completely new, bound up with a catastrophe he has unwittingly embodied for years. “Is that what you think of when you think of me?” Gogol asks him. “Do I remind you of that night?”
“Not at all,” his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. “You remind me of everything that followed."
I think this is the perfect little highlight of their relationship: we've gotten to see both their perspectives, so we understand their intentions, but this is one of the first moments where Gogol and his father begin to understand each other. That lack of understanding causes hurt on both sides, and it's not going to fully stop, but there's a step here. I love that kind of cyclical parent-child relationship in fiction, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, etc...
4 notes
·
View notes
Note
8, 9 & 13 for the writer ask thingy pls!!!
8. What project(s) are you currently working on?
HA! A LOT. I wanted to finally finish my new years exchange rwrb fic today but that's not happening because i should actually go to bed at a normal time for a change. But I'm hoping to finish that in the next few days. 🤞
Then there's a few tarlos ones - the tarlos + Owen and Gabriel at Pride fic that I've shared snippets from - that's about halfway done. I have the beginning and ending written, just need to make the two parts fit together.
there is the TK and Marjan exploring Austin together fic - I'd say that's about... 25% done but 100% planned out in my head
Carlos undercover/season 4 instead of the secret wife-story multi chapter (I'm so so bad at multi chapter fics) - also planned out in my head for a large part but only about *pinches finger and thumb together* that much written.
K9 handler turned reluctant social media star Carlos
Tarlos driving fic - TK lusting after his driving instructor Carlos and tarlos being competitive idiots.
And a Super Special Top Secret hurt/comfort-y type thing that's also a big collab that's gonna be so cool when it's done and unleashed onto the fandom in May!
9. Do you write every day? If you wrote today, share a sentence of what you’ve written!
I don't write every day - I tend to kind of 'binge' it every once in a while and end up staying up writing until stupid o'clock and run into my neighbours in the hallway when they're going to work when I haven't slept yet when I walk my dog before bed.
BUT here is a little snippet of the rwrb fic I've been working on today.
13. How much planning do you do before writing?
Planning? I don't know her. lol. I don't plan - which is probably why I'm so bad at multi chapter fics and deadlines are more like guidelines to me. I daydream about my fics, i think of random lines when I'm out walking my dog, I'll have the document open on my computer all day and just change two words, i'll tell myself not today and end up writing/finishing a full fic at 4am, my documents are absolute CHAOS, sometimes I'll have One Perfect Line that I end up writing an entire fic around, or I'll get bored of the part I'm writing, skip to the part I *want* to write, and then have to figure out a way to make it all fit. But actual planning?
3 notes
·
View notes
Note
also about autoCAD! according this rant an older engineer gave me, architects didnt start using autoCAD/other autodesk products until the 90s, when autodesk realized that if they got architects to use their products, everyone else had to lol
YEAHHH!! i found that too, it's buried somewhere in my 1700 words of author notes on tumblr LOL. grian, in this au, is pretty much like most people of the time period in that he knows basically nothing about computers and has probably never used one since they weren't particularly common, but he will very soon or over the course of his career need to learn since architecture is 100% a profession that uses autoCAD. he's going to get dragged kicking and screaming into the computer world sdflsjfsk
I had a fun little dive down the rabbit hole into CAD technologies while writing this chapter. I think I went into the story under the main assumption of "ah, it's the 80s, they don't have any modern technology" but that's not quite true, is it? It's the late 80s, for one--we're one year from being in the 90s. They're very much on the cusp of all of that technological innovation. Also, computer technology has generally existed far longer than most of us think, it just wasn't necessarily accessible to most of the public.
So while I was looking into CAD, I realized it was entirely possible for Mumbo to be learning it for his job in engineering. AutoCAD was released in 1982, which was directly in the middle of when he probably went to college in this AU. However, I don't know if he would have been taught it in his degree at that time since it was so new. He could, however, learn it from his job. I know that at my job one of the reasons I do most of the InDesign and ArcGIS work for my team is "ah, she's young enough to figure all that computer stuff out." I would not be surprised if that happened to Mumbo too. His bosses are probably like "fantastic he's young AND he's interested in it let's train him to do it" sdfjslfskl
Someone else mentioned CAD in one of my comments on AO3 so I was looking it up too. Something I didn't even know: the first 3D CAD product was released in 1987. Additionally, Boeing announced in 1988 that they would use a CAD software to design their 777 aircraft, which was the first aircraft to be designed entirely digitally. I read a different article about that that stated Boeing had used CAD in their engineering process for a few years before deciding to do it fully digitally, so it was definitely part of many company's "process" already within the 80s.
#quara asks#i wrote this whole post like i actually know how to use CAD#i do not i am not an engineering student or an architect#in my degree i was only taught GIS#i just like going down rabbit holes#im not sure if i mentioned grian and mumbo's ages in this story--they're both about 28#(theyre about the same age because i had them as going to school together)#my very rough estimate for mumbo's graduation is like 1984 so that's what i was working with#grian probably graduated also in 1984 but you need a two year's certificate to Actually be an architect so he wouldve got that in like 1986#presumably by 1986 i think they might have moved to the US at that point (mumbo was offered an engineering job in america by his employer)#so basically if we put 1988 as the year Everything Went Wrong for grian. he was just a lil baby architect barely out certification#thats why in the first chapter he doesnt want to skip work to go with mumbo because he's being given his own clients for the first time :]#i have thought. perhaps excessively about this au#hc_firewatch_au
14 notes
·
View notes
Note
Will you still complete and post your District 13 fic?
(No pressure!)
Hi @mollywog - thanks for the ask! Sorry for the delay, we've been traveling a lot this summer and was waiting to get back to my computer. Hope you're having a good summer! As for my answer, I'm not sure…I think I bit off more than I can chew. It was actually an idea I had a year ago when Prompts in Panem was coming up. It was an "accidental" marriage fic in D12 after the war, but there were going to be flashbacks to their time in D13 (they're non-reaped in it). I barely made a dent. So then when the D13 prompt came up I thought maybe I could do a stand alone of their time in 13 and then expand it later if it was working for me. I did make more progress this time than on PiP, but I couldn't get it finished, and I'm not super happy with what I did write. I think I probably need to write some drabbles/one shots first to get more practice without feeling overwhelmed.
Your Wild Wednesdays (I need to catch up on the latest chapter!) actually reminded me I had a babysitter drabble I started a while ago, so I'm going to try and finish that. My new goal: write and post one drabble before the end of the year 🤣
Aren't you glad you asked lol 🤪
9 notes
·
View notes
Note
For ao3 wrapped!
3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?
9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?
15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?
And because it’s me
27. What do you listen to while writing?
Thanks!! 🍋
Hi Lem! 🥰 💛
3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?
This one - my TK's growing up years but he has a little sister fic - this is the longest thing I've ever written (and still going) and I created an OC literally from when she is a baby through adulthood. It also follows (or will, he's about fifteen now) TK's whole life; I hadn't found a fic about TK's growing up years from a longer scope and it made me want to do one. I rely heavily on what we've learned in the show but I'm also proud of the world I've created with their help.
9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?
(Hoping that non-romantic pairings can be included in this!) If so, then my answer would be TK/Owen. I love their relationship so much and it's unlike any other grown kid/father relationship that I've seen on TV, and they're so protective of each other and exploring that further was what made me want to write LS fic.
15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?
This one again - TK's growing up years/with the au element he isn't an only child. Aka the gelatinous monster fic that will never be finished because I go into too much detail lol... Technically I may be halfway through this fic? 2009 in the fic just finished, TK is sixteen and his sister is almost eleven (TK has his first boyfriend, yay) I have it planned to go through 2021 at least... much of the next like six years in story time are planned, and some chapters have been written when I get the ideas for them and then I can't post them because they're for 2017 and the story needs eight years to catch up... this story would probably get more love if it was more succinct, but I love writing about the Strand family unit way too much. But I do want to try writing some one shots in the new year. (that being said, please read this monster).
27. What do you listen to while writing?
(Hope you're still my friend after I reveal this) 🫣The most common answer is nothing really. I try listening to a playlist when I write but then I get too distracted thinking about the song and it takes me out of the story. The most productive writing times for me are when I'm in my bed with my computer and it's quiet except for outside noises if the window's open.
Thank you for the asks!!
5 notes
·
View notes
Note
I’m gonna punch the SUN. I’m gonna chew on CONCRETE. I’m gonna howl at the MOON I am going FERAL over here Cherry!!!!
Every single word of this chapter had me vibrating in my seat I am going into hyperdrive over here!!!!!
My Reggie boy is so perfect and wonderful and the loml omgggg. Like we thought he was sweet as a portrait???? And now full body Reg is literally just a cat the way he practically drapes himself over the reader at any given moment. They’re in love your honour!!!
Leaving Asger and Anders was v bittersweet, I’m going to miss their dry humour and their reluctant fondness for the reader and Luna but I’m v v happy to know that they’re on their way to healing from the loss of their mother/wife. Again the parallels between Anders and the reader was great to see and I’ve always been a sucker for the grumpy old man/adopted child that they would die for lol
And at last!!!! The man, the myth, the legend Sirius Black is back everyone!!! And his single brain cell is working on OVERDRIVE atm I love him sm. The way he was so excited to see his pup that he didn’t even compute that his DECEASED BROTHER was stood next to him had me screaming like he’s trying his best just give him a minute shdjdjd
Honestly I couldn’t tell you how many times I screamed while reading this chapter, the way you smothered us with fluff while also keeping the stakes high is just amazing and now that the gang is all back together I’m so excited to see what’s to come. Thank you for blessing us with this masterpiece as always <3
My dear, custard (my very affectionate nickname for you)!!! I will not lie, I have been waiting with bated breath for your message because they always give me LIFE. Truly, you give me so much motivation and I always feel honored by the love you give me <333!! I will say that Reggie is only going to get cuter from here on out !!
Also, YES, Regulus is such a black cat omg <33. They are indeed in love! They're just dancing around the words now haha.
I honestly didn't expect myself to grow so attached to Anders & Asger / the whole Norway arc in general. It is definitely bittersweet, and the parallels kill me too !! They all really needed each other in the end, and even though they're separated now, they will hold each other dear in their hearts for the rest of their lives (canon, because I said so <3).
Also LOL, Sirius and his tunnel vision for his pup <333. He really was just an anxious mess after reader never turned up after the wedding attack. But his poor heart, first reader swoops back into his life, and then his supposedly dead brother magically appears! Yeah, the man is going to have the time of his life next chapter.
The gang is reunited and better than ever <33! I am already elbow-deep into writing the next chapter which I hope to finish by tomorrow (can you tell I'm as excited as everyone else?)
Thank you endlessly for your kind messages, my love <3!! You are truly one of my favorite people on this site, and I always find myself wondering what you'll think about certain scenes amidst my writing process LOL. I hope you enjoy what's to come, dear <333!
7 notes
·
View notes
Note
Can I get 12 for Yearling? Personally, I love everything about it but I'm curious hehe ily bestie 💓
Hi Bestie!!
12: What do you like least about this fic? - I'm not sure I'll really know the answer to this until it's done but at the moment, I dislike how anxious and insecure about it I've felt and continue to feel?
I've said on here again and again that I really don't mind if people don't comment or reblog or even like my fics. I want everyone to read however they're comfortable and if that means not interacting then I am so OK with that. That's because, while I LOVE sharing these stories with you all, I'm writing them because I feel like I want to and need to. I have novels - plural - sitting on my computer and in notebooks that no one has ever read and it's very likely no one ever will. I've been writing things because I feel compelled to (and literally never reading it again lol) since I was a kid. I taught myself how to type when I was 11 to make writing my first novel easier.
BUT Yearling was the first fic I started after people started following me on here and on AO3. When I started Lavender, some lovely folks were reading Beskar Doll on AO3 but it certainly didn't seem like a ton and I'd sometimes post a chapter and get 0 comments (which is totally fine!) I didn't expect people to pay attention to Lavender. I started Beskar Doll without the intent of ever publishing it at all and then, when I did, figured a handful of folks might read the first few chapters and then give up - it's long and very slow burn! I didn't feel like there was any pressure or expectation with them because no one but me was paying attention. With Yearling, I've worried that no one would like it because it wasn't Lavender, that y'all might feel let down that it was a different dynamic, that there wasn't enough smut and you'd feel misled, any number of things. I'm still going to tell the story I want to tell because it's the story that I think needs to be told, I just get anxious about it a lot more. Lavender was like waking up and suddenly being in the middle of a roller coaster ride with it getting all the love it got. Yearling (which everyone has been absolutely lovely about, this is not even remotely a complaint!) has felt more like the chain lift up the first hill. I keep waiting for the bottom to drop out, for y'all to be like "This isn't what you made us believe it was!" or, worst of all, find out that I've got all the writing skill of three raccoons in an overcoat.
Sooooo yeah! I don't have anything really narratively that I dislike so far? I might change that as time goes on. But my desire to serve people definitely clashes with my creative drive and that's really really apparent (internally) with Yearling for me!
Sorry to post a novel for this reply lol Thank you for asking! Love you!!
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
RSGC0015 - Release Your Old Games, Japan!
I love Japanese video games. They're the reason why, even though I'm in my late 30s, I'm still utterly captivated by the medium. Through rigorous refinement, Japanese game makers helped shape the industry as we know it today. As a result, they have left a lasting impression, a legacy, in the hearts and minds of fans worldwide.
But, for quite some time, it felt as if these companies didn't understand this impact, as they've let some of their lesser known works slip between the cracks. This can be due matters of licensing or other litigious obstacles. Other times its a lack of interest from the mainstream; a poor reception. But more often then not, simply, someone "fumbled the bag" so to speak.
Let's discuss.
Chapter I: Namco X Not Releasing A Bunch of Their Old Games
When Bandai Namco released their most recent Museum compilation for the Nintendo Switch it was surprisingly threadbare; it was just 12 games. Twelve. Of course, it included Pac-Man - the game that made them a household name in the 1980s - and other staples such as Dig Dug and Galaga. They're undisputed classics, sure, no argument there. Deep cuts, however, they are not.
Namco's catalog has dozens of fantastic games, most of which would remained elusive if I didn't dive deep into retro gaming (and, by extension, collecting). One example of these is 1985's Baraduke, a 2D shooter with lite maze-runner gameplay. It's pretty rad, but somewhat under-the-radar these days. What if you want to play it right now, on real hardware?
Unless you own a prohibitively expensive Sharp X68000 computer along with the sole port of the game; an arcade PCB; or a copy of Namco Museum Vol. 5 for Playstation, it's highly unlikely you're going to be flying through rooms, blasting Octies any time soon. Out of the aforementioned options, the most feasible one is buying Namco Museum Vol. 5. Again, this is to play the game through legal means.
This was, in fact, the main inspiration for this post. There were 8 or so Namco compilations for the PS1. Why is the most extensive collection of Namco classics locked on an almost 30 year old console? Does Namco not value their older IPs? Do they think we just want Pac-man, Dig Dug and Galaga for our shiny current-gen game boxes and to Hell with obscure titles like Youkai Douchūki (aka Shadow Lands)? Or what about the esoteric hack-n-slash Genpei Tōmaden (aka The Genji and Hieke Clans)? Certainly everything that's been previously available (and then some) can fit on a Blu-ray disc or a Switch cartridge, no? Its frustrating, as someone chomping at the bit to own and experience such things. Sadly, Namco is not alone in this regard.
*EDIT (this is old lol) I started writing (and now rewriting) this post about month before the announcement of the Namcot Archive (a collection of Famicom Namco games) for the Switch. It's a neat set but my point, for the most part, still stands.*
Chapter II: The Virtual Console was Disappointing.
Nintendo needs no introduction. Their name is synonymous with video games, built on the fact that they dominated the home console market in the mid-1980s with their Family Computer (aka Famicom) in Japan. A few years later they expanded Westward with the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) to similar acclaim. While they didn't quite hold the same market share they secured in the 80s into the 90s and beyond, Nintendo still shaped generations with their games.
With Nintendo's fifth console, the Wii, they entered the realm of online game distribution. It was called the Virtual Console and it debuted in November of 2006, with it coming to the 3DS in 2011 and the Wii U in 2013. At launch, NES, SNES, Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games were available with Turbografx-16 following a few days later.
Eventually, the service would offer western gamers titles that never got released outside of Japan. The first of these was Sin & Punishment for the Nintendo 64, an on-rails shooting game from Treasure. The most notable instance of this, however, was Konami's Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (aka Castlevania: Rondo of Blood), a highly sought after title. At the time, it must have been incredible to finally play this without the need to purchase a costly secondhand copy of the disc or an expensive PC-Engine CD Turbo Duo console.
VC had its drawbacks, though. Most notably that when the service had come to other platforms, users were unable to transfer their purchases as the Wii, 3DS and Wii U eShops were separate entities. This lead to customers paying fees to re-download their titles or having to outright buy them again. This was, for lack of a better term, shitty on Nintendo's part. The lack of a universal pricing model, for what were essentially ROMs, didn't help either.
The 3DS and Wii U eShops also offered less games, 184 and 267 respectively, than the original VC's 398.
Between the slow-drip of re-rereleases at launch and anti-consumer practices, VC ultimately squandered its good will and potential.
Chapter III: Sega Does What Ninten-does, Too?
If there's one thing that Nintendo and one-time rival Sega have in common is that, like clockwork, they churn out the same classic titles over and over again. We saw this when the Virtual Console came to the Wii U and were hooked into the slow-drip of Mario Bros. 3, some random black box game, or a re-release of a third-party offering.
Sega is no better. I own Genesis compilations across at least 3 console generations. Their game lists are nearly identical. Golden Axe. Ristar. Phantasy Star II. I can go on. All are fantastic games in their own right, no doubt. I'm a fan. But like so many other Japanese game companies, they’re holding out on us. Yes, many will be placated with the likes of the current-gen Sega Genesis Collection's value (53 games for less than $50) but, I don't know, I can only attempt to play through Comix Zone and Phantasy Star III so many times; I'm sure many others share in this frustration.
A bright spot in Sega's history, however, was the Sega Ages line. The project started off as 3D budget (¥2500 at retail) remakes of their biggest hits that, thankfully, evolved into a series of definitive collections. This was due in part to the work of M2, a company who's MO is masterfully porting older games to modern consoles. Case in point, their 3DS Sega Ages port of Outrun was, at the time of its release, the best way to experience it. Again, as with Namco Museum, the bulk of the Sega Ages line is locked to the Japanese PlayStation 2 library. To further exacerbate this issue, most of later releases have started to become expensive on the secondhand market and Japanese auction sites. Bummer.
Conclusion
It's not all doom and gloom. Publishers like Johnny Turbo's Arcade are keeping classic Data East games alive and, more importantly, available. Price wise, it's pretty fair too. For example, less than $10 USD nets you a download of Night Slashers, a 3-player horror-themed arcade-only beat-em-up from almost 30 years ago. While, no, it isn't the pinnacle of the its respective genre, I absolutely welcome its availability with arms wide open.
We also need to acknowledge the efforts of Hamster Corporation's Arcade Archive. Through them, we have whole bunch of Neo Geo games (well, except for Tengai Makyō Shinden aka Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash but that's more a Konami problem) and most then arcade-only obscurities available for download on every console, mobile and PC marketplace. It's wonderful time to be alive unless of course you love Tengai Makyō-flavored Samurai Shodown clones, I guess. Hopefully, that'll change soon.
3 notes
·
View notes
Note
1, 46 and 48 for the writer asks! :>
People have already asked for 1, so you're getting a dealer's choice for that one. :D
1 37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?
I really struggled with "river wide" because I meant for it to be longer, and then realized no, the first chapter is fine on its own, what I wanted for chapter 2 actually needs to be its own separate fic. And it got hit by the kudos bot, so I locked it. Between the bot and how long it took me to mark it "finished", I think it really got shafted, which is a shame, because I like it and it's good.
Basically, "river wide" is a rewrite of the first half of Solas's personal quest: the lead-up to it, and then going to save Wisdom, all in my main Solavelyan/Inquisitor Thayet continuity. It has some lovely pining and some Thayet backstory that I think is neat.
46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write?
I prefer to write on a laptop, sitting up in bed and surrounded by blankets and pillows. I have a chromebook right now, which is pretty much fine, except that it won't run my AO3 formatting extension on Google Docs and it gets cranky if I play Spotify while gdocs is open lol. But someday I'll have a real laptop again and that won't be a problem. Barring that, I write on my desktop PC.
I don't know what it is, but I struggle to write smut at my desktop? Maybe it's because I'm next to a window and I feel like my neighbors can tell I'm writing butt stuff while they're passing my window to get to their door lol. I still do it sometimes, but usually if I'm settling in to write porn, I sit in bed, or I put on one of those "10 hours of this fireplace" videos on my TV and sit on the sofa.
48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?
I'm currently reading "Long Shadows" by @dismalzelenka, and absolutely you should all go read it. It's a DA2 FHanders Wild West AU, and one of the supporting characters is one of my OCs, and also the vibe is fucking amazing. (I haven't finished it yet, though, so no spoilers!!)
5 notes
·
View notes
Note
for the sonic asks: 4, 5, 23?
Sorry this has taken so long to get to! I had to setup my new computer and that was a bit more involved than I thought it would be. Also, I took a nap after work (but before setting up my computer) which was six hours long, so . . . that also put a delay in me answering the asks in my askbox, lol.
4.) Favorite male character(s)?
Tails, my baby Tails. 💜 I've talked recently about all the reasons why I love him, so I won't go into that again, but I'll just say that he's my favorite boy. I guess I'm a lot like Sonic in that regard, because Tails is Sonic's favorite, too!
That said, I do like Sonic himself a lot too, of course. He was my hero as a child and, like I said in another ask, I still think he's right about a lot of things today. I'll always hold special fondness for the blue blur himself.
5.) Favorite female character(s)?
Whisper, my girl Whisper. 💜 Again, this is another I've given reasons for liking recently so I won't get into it all again, but I just love her so much. I am hoping that she manages to catch a fucking break in 2023 because good god she has been through enough. That said, her gf Tangle is a close second because Tangle is just so fun and also great. I really just love them both.
(And if you're looking for games-specific answers: Rouge would be my favorite lady from the games, but I'm also very interested in Blaze. I need to watch playthroughs of her games since I never got to play them, but I really like what I know of her from the IDW comics.)
23.) Got any fan characters?
Kiiiind of?
The way I am with OCs in fandoms is, I make them as I need them for stories. If I'm writing a fic and there isn't a canon character for a role (usually minor) that I need, I'll create a character on the spot to fill that role. I typically don't think of them much beyond that; I give them a name and a base personality and just write them in. For Sonic, you can see this in practice in chapter two of Beyond Oblivion, where I named / created some Windmill Village citizens to give Sonic someone aside from the mayor to bounce off of: Oz the confrontational osprey, Poppy the nervous mouse, and Penny the put-upon store clerk. These characters will likely never show up again (at least I have no plans to revisit Windmill Village at the moment), but they served the purpose I needed them to serve and so they did their job.
With that said though, there is a character that I've already mentioned in chapter 3 of Beyond Oblivion that isn't strictly necessary, and one that I am lowkey thinking could end up having a counterpart in the normal verse, and that's an A.I. that Miles / Tails created / creates to be his personal assistant. In Beyond Oblivion this A.I. is named S.I.M. (which is an acronym for Simulated Intelligence Mainframe), but I think if Tails created this same A.I. on his own in the normal verse, he'd give them a proper name, Simon. (So it still has that simulated intelligence mainframe root, but it's an actual name, because Tails would have no reservations about seeing this A.I. as a person even though they're a program, whereas Miles is very adamant about consciously thinking of S.I.M. as just a program so that he doesn't get emotionally attached. He does anyway but that's beside the point. Also, it opens the possibility for "Simon says" jokes, which is always a plus.)
I don't want to say too much about S.I.M. / Simon here because I'm hoping to show that more in Beyond Oblivion, but I can say that Tails would develop Simon later in life than Miles developed S.I.M. because Miles needed S.I.M. much earlier (and tbh for different reasons) than Tails would need / want Simon. S.I.M. is only ever just a voice, but Simon's displayed form would be a mouse—because, you know, computers have mice, and that's Simon's type of humor. S.I.M.'s pronouns are exclusively they/them, while Simon is more a he/they type. Their personalities are the same in both universes, and while I'm keeping quiet on what that personality is right now, I will say both are very fond of their creator.
But yeah, that's the only OC I have at the moment, and honestly they still formed from a story need (in this case, thinking about Miles in Beyond Oblivion). That's just the way my brain works, I suppose!
2 notes
·
View notes
Note
for the Fanfic Emoji Ask dealie: 🤡 🙋♀️ 🌞 💖
Also it feels (nice? heck if I know, it's late enough that my vocabulary just isn't) knowing someone else who gets seized by hunger for a hamburger during insomnia. Sorry to hear you're stuck awake this late, but commiseration that you, too, need a burger right now.
When the hunger strikes, it strikes and does not care for the hour.
What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?
I am not the most emotive person. Especially when it comes to my own stuff. But Anne and Sprig's scene in the marketplace in There Will Be No Dancing and their scene in the first chapter of The View From Mars are relatively recent examples of the kind of writing that makes me smile. I genuinely wish I could write like that all the time but it really only comes to me in fits and starts. There are similar scenes in other stories, but they're only ever a few lines and then I kind of noodle away with regular-ass writing. Ah well.
Do any irl people know you write fanfic?
God no. Hell no. I wanted to get into professional, original writing once many years ago and my family knows that. But I've given up on that because it turns out it's hard work and there's enough of that in my life already. Every once in a while one of them asks "how's that second book going?" and I'm like "oh I'm still noodling around with it but it's mostly a hobby thing" and they kind of go "ah that's too bad" and the truth is I haven't touched that manuscript in over a decade even if I keep it with every move to a new computer but I'm not telling them that.
Do you have a preferred time of day to write?
fuck i wish. I've tried for a long time to create the perfect environment for me to write, time, temperature even how much I've eaten before like do I write better on a full stomach or empty one who knows but the truth is it's when I open a Google Doc, sit my ass down and and write. I can do that in the morning or the afternoon or two hours past midnight. The hard part is opening the doc. Motivation has always been the hardest thing for me to do... anything.
What made you start writing?
It was the one thing I could do, I guess? lol idk, when I was in school it was literally the one thing I could do well. When I was a teen I got into an online rp group that was very writing focused, then I tried original writing, now I'm here. There's worse places to be.
2 notes
·
View notes
Note
Hey Stitch!
Writer's Ask Game: #2, 6, 13, 15, & 17 please. ^.^
Ronin hello! Always nice to see your name in my inbox :)
2. What was the first story you've ever written?
The first story I've written and published would be Taang One Shots, a collection of stories that are all connected in some form or fashion, and I wrote a story a week!
The first story I've written but never have and never will publish is what first got me into writing, so I keep it for sentimental reasons lol. But basically, it's a canon compliant, Toph centric fic of her life in between ATLA and LOK. I think the bones of it are fine, but I actually made a ton of OCs and had them basically be best friends with Toph and it's like... kind of weird LOL. The OCs, that is. But it was a good exercise to learn how to make characters and give them purpose and depth lol.
6. What topic would you love to explore in your writing?
Hmmm, good question! I've never really been one to actually make a full-on story with my ideas. Like, it's either a moment that I want to capture in writing or character development. I guess I should say it's not a huge focus of mine to make sure that the plot of the story is fleshed out before I begin writing. Often, I write a story, I like the premise or other people like it, and I decide to continue it.
So, I think if I were to explore anything with writing moving forward, it would be outlining a plot with all that lovely conflict/resolution and character development that we love to read about hehe :)
13. What feedback did you receive for your writing that stuck with you?
Not sure it was feedback on my writing in particular, but I asked some moots about how to write multi-chapter stories, and one of them talked about the exercises they do to make sure that the story is concise and important to tell the story. Like, why should I write this story? What is the story I want to tell?
Boiling it down to a purpose is something I try to think about when I write multi-chapter stories moving forward. It's hard work, but I think that's where I can grow the most :)
15. What is your current writing habit?
I have about 11 or so WIPs that I rotate through by rolling a computer die haha!
Whenever I write, I roll the dice, pull up that WIP, read over what I have, and then write for that story for a specific word count or a specific time. It allows me to try and touch base with all my current and new WIPs so that I've got some words down for every story! It's probably not too efficient, but sometimes I just need to rotate through stories until one pulls me in again.
17. Tell us a fun fact about your current WIP.
I've got a couple fics I'm excited about, and one of them is a Zutara/Kantoph story!
So Kantoph are getting married, and it's a story about Zutara coming to terms with their own feelings for each other, because they're both single lol.
I'm excited to explore Zuko and Katara getting together, and how they navigate a few aggravating conversations between one another. Hopefully it's out soon and you all can enjoy it :)
.......
Okay! I think that answers the questions. Thanks again for the ask, Ronin! Always great hearing from you, and I hope you have a fantastic day!
Send me asks about writing!
#what's the stitch#writing woes#wips#ask game#my asks#thanks for the ask!#wingchunwaterbender#speaking of wips i should write some more today lol
3 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
impossibleyear
The Impossible Year
kingangelrose
Angel☆Rose
lohrefarms
Untitled
dessydilauro
Dessy Di Lauro
idcgaragedoor-blog
Untitled