One of the things I struggle with when writing is transitions and ending scenes. Like I know I don't need to detail two characters eating lunch. But like... How much detail is too much/ too little to say that they ate lunch and then left the diner? Ya know? Like I don't just want to get to the point where they have their food and then just straight to them in the car after. I feel like it's a fine line and I always fuck it up. Anyway. Still slowly chugging along with part three!!

the poor guys. sweetheart just loved to get them worked up (but we love it too. get it sweetheart) <3

FAACCTSSS

Like she's caught on with all of them, their longing gazes and touches. Their drunk confessions to her, and how fucking possessive they all are with her (AND TO EACH OTHER)

And as the little gremlin SHIT she is, she's using that as an advantage to kinda-- help one of them (or all of them) to come forward and tell her straight up "Hey, I love you and I wanna be yours"

But they ain't 💀 so until then, she's just gonna flaunt and tease~ cause that sounds fun LOL

Phullo there, I’d like to ask you a question! I hope I won’t be such a bothersome.

So, I’m planning to write a story about Laughingstock and since I find your storytelling very pleasing I figured it’d be a great idea to ask for your advice about the writing!

My Idea in general for this story is just Howdy taking a day off from working in his bodega. And basically, he’ll be just wearing normal clothes.. shocking truly.

And thennn, Barnaby and Howdy accidentally stumbled into each other’s path. They later then of course had a very long conversation that lasted until evening maybe.

Of course there’ll be some fishy moments like them looking at each other with goggly eyes and other cheesy romantic nonsense- but it’s just mainly them having their usual conversation with a ‘couple’ of jokes here and there. It’s supposed to be a sweet memory for them to remember basically.

So, what I’m really trying to ask you for is- how the heck do you start a story exactly and not make it into just the dialogues? Like, I want my story to be kind of long but I’m afraid it’ll be just them, y’know, talking and I really don’t want it to be boring.. therefore, I really need your help.

I am so sorry if it’s such a bad timing considering the fact that you just had an interview which I am very proud for you for that! Even if it didn’t go as expected at least you did good half of it.

Soo, yeah! I’d very much appreciate your advice and I am sooo sorry that this was soo long!!! And again, a bad timing too.. but hey if you got any time, please consider answering. Thank you..

Also any response yet? On the interview of course.

hmmm... in my experience and Knowledge Accumulated Over The Years via reading And writing... the best place to start is to just drop in. no story introduction, no "it was a dark and stormy night", just Start. it sounds like your story begins with Howdy taking the day off, so maybe kick off with him getting ready / choosing an outfit, or w/ him reflexively almost opening the store before he stops and chides himself for almost forgetting that he's taking the day off

to combat the dialogue, maybe detail him leaving the bodega to go into the neighborhood. what does he see? hear? feel both physically and mentally? is there anyone else out and about? set the scene! ive been struggling with this too lately since i haven't seriously written in a while and i haven't been reading actual books

WHICH! IMPORTANT TANGENTS!! read well-written books, Not fanfic! im not saying dont read fanfic ever or i'd be the world's biggest hypocrite, but also read actual books. it's important to study how published authors write, how stories are structured, dialogue and action. because these books have more often then not gone through a Rigorous screening process. multiple drafts, beta readers, publishers reading it with great scrutiny before agreeing to publish - of course there are exceptions, but a lot of books are the highest quality they can be, and will outshine most fics. because, and i say all of this as good things, fics are unregulated. most dont have beta readers. a lot are from amateur authors new to the scene. there will be spelling mistakes, weird grammar & sentence structure, etc - most fics have Entirely different writing styles from each other. so if you only read fanfic, That is what your brain will learn, and it's gonna be harder for you to write. published books have less variation in styles, and the styles are subtler. there's less spelling mistakes if any, so your spelling will improve. your internal vocabulary will expand. even if you don't consciously study what you read, your brain will pick up on & internalize patterns, how action works, how dialogue works, how to structure a story, all that good stuff. if you want, i can recommend well-written books! i've been an avid reader since... like, ever. i've got recs galore! you can tell me your preferred genre & literary interest and i'll probably have something for you! and if you're not big on books, well... get out of your comfort zone lmao, books are fucking awesome and i guarantee there are plenty out there that you would love.

and when you're writing dialogue, intersperse it with little actions or the main povs' internal dialogue. if there's a natural lull in the conversation, explore that lull! what do the characters do in this moment? what's going on around them? sprinkle bits of setting in so that your reader knows where they are and what's going on.

plus, exploring the non-dialogue sections of your story can, and often will, spark inspiration in your brain for scenes and actions to fill out the story if you want it to be long (but also! if you just want to write the scene of their conversation, that's the beauty of fanfic - there's no requirements. do whatever you want lmao). when Howdy is going into town, maybe Wally calls him over for a quick pose - does Howdy say yes or no, and how does that decision change the story? maybe Julie invites him to join her in a game, or Eddie stops to talk to Howdy about him being out and about. maybe there are some complaints over the bodega not being open. what's the lead-up to Howdy and Barnaby running into each other? do they literally run into each other? what happens when they do? those are just a few possibilities of many!

remember, when you're writing, you're that story's god. you can do literally fucking anything. you decide what the characters do, where they go, what happens in their world. that mindset should help you bolster the plot instead of just "these two characters have a conversation", yk?

i hope this helps!

family outing

ok i’m still On Break do not take this post as a sign that i’m like. Actively Tumblring again yet because i’m still not, 4 the most part, but i have had my ear to the ground for special interest things, of fuckign course, of course, bcuz i’m me, and i. just. i am .i’m so fucking sorry to all the new SM2099 comic fans who are only just now realizing just now how dire the straits are, here, LMAO. it has been this way for Years. earnestly and from the bottom of my heart i love spider-man 2099 so much and also nobody on the goddamn planet Cares About Him At All or can even fucking write him half-decently unless every single celestial bodie in the fucking milky way galaxy comes into perfect fucking syzygy, i think, i think, i think. why did u think we (me) had a psychotic episode after that fuckin movie dropped. fucksake. lord above. because it’s all always “ohhh being yourSELF and telling your OWN story your OWN way” until you Look A Certain Way and ARE A Certain Way and Have Symptoms That Look Frightening and Don’t Move Around Like ‘Normal’ People Should Move, fuckin’ freaky-ass creature beast-thing, and so on and so on and so on, Christ all-fuckin’-mighty. gets tiring. but. anywaygs.

it is far easier to be destructive, than constructive. so. ahem. sorry. refocusing. it seems quite simply that just yet another goddamn story missed the point that 90s future spider-man is a story about very plainly and simply loving each other as people. it’s a story about a severely depressed, miserable, cynical little man who finds new reasons to live in every kind person he meets, and there is an open earnesty to that, if nothing else, that no movie can take away 30 years later. anybody can decide to try and be a better person than the one they were yesterday, and that is goddamn important. to portray anything otherwise was an unfathomably cruel decision, on sony’s part, and as soon as we got trailer evidence that they were leaning into his more “intimidating” features back in ~dec. 2021, i.. pretty much Knew it was what they were gonna be doing with him. why wouldn’t they? i mean. who actually even cares about this obscure nobody, right? c-listers are the tried-and-true adaptational chameleons, anyways; they sure suckered in dumbasses like me, who still took blind hope in hook line and sinker, thinking he’d be important to the film, or at the very least portrayed sympathetically to his 30 years of established comic history as a character who is consciously aware that he is an adult survivor of fucking child abuse. but. c’est la fucking vie, i guess.

vavoom moment

finished good omens 2 last week and. im so emotionally distraught but also yeah watch this *combines my two otps like a boss*

fondly remembering that one time a few years ago when I had crudely painted my face like Dimple Mob Psycho 100 half an hour before receiving the news that we were being evicted.

Say what inspired you to write a fanfiction between étoiles and charlie slimecicle? because as far as i remember the two of them never interacted with each other but i could be wrong so feel free to correct me

in the beautiful world of shipping, who needs two guys to even interact? I’m delulu

But really! I’ve been a Slimecicle fan for a long time now. I’m usually in that tag on ao3 looking for new fics and one day I saw this fic and the summary hooked me because I’m suuuuuuuuuch a sucker for people being nice to Charlie. that might’ve been when it officially began

didn’t ship them at the time of reading that fic, but it opened my eyes to their potential dynamic. They actually have had a few canon interactions on the qsmp, some that I’ve written about too. I love them as friends and their few interactions always have me laughing

After digging for more content between them, I found the ship fics… there were only a few at the time but it was enough to get my attention

Eventually I was crawling out of my skin with my own ideas and thoughts on the two so I caved and started writing! (Immi wasn’t the first starcicle thing I wrote btw… I have an old draft of another starter chapter for something else that I scrapped when I had the idea of immi…)

And now here we are!

If you want a really fantastic breakdown of why I love their dynamic so much, checkout this post here! It’s required reading o7

So yeah, they are a rarepair and but they are my rarepair and I love them dearly <3

Hi friend. Pls excuse me being genuine but it’s been lovely following you & getting a window into your perspective on kink stuff & the way you talk abt your partner. I have always been involved in kink but have also carried a lot of shame & self judgement for the more taboo interests I harbor. I admire how self possessed you are & it’s inspiring to me. Not there yet but it’s got me working on it (safely!) okay love you mean it bye!!

this made my heart swell um approx 10 times its normal size n blow a hole into my chest :( ily im so happy i can do something as positive as this with my silly lil blog <3 the shame gets better i promise, it helps to surround urself w ppl who share ur kinks n have critical discussions w them n also reading literature n watching movies/documentaries about sex n kink really helped me for some reason bc i think it made me realize tht freaks r everywhere n not just in my little internet bubble n kink goes far beyond my experience with it. if tht makes sense!!! kisses n best of luck to u !!! <3

mmmmm heyyy👁️. ive basically been gone from tumblr for over two days because ive been feeling like a shitty piece of shit. BUT. i finally saw dune part 2 and ohmygoddddd it was so so good. but yes. i was missing leto so bad the entire time. Father come back pls. i need you.

why do counsellors think it's helpful to tell you "you shouldn't feel that way!" when you tell them something like "I am so stressed about spiders to the point where i have crying breakdowns thrice a week" or "I feel like I am somehow secretly a terrible person that needs to push everyone away to keep them safe from the rot that is inside of me"

like ... golly gee, thank you so much, that's soooo helpful, can't believe i never thought "wow! i shouldn't be feeling this way!" before, pretty crazy that you can just cure me with that one declaration!

Presenting:

My very first AU: Welcome Home Scooby AU

Lmao i already gushed about it on the original post but it's still so funny to me, imagining the neighbors in like classic scooby doo hijinks lol

I just had to draw the gang all together and make it all pretty!

Here's the original post btw! (I forgot to link it) also the full colors are in the notes of that post

Boston

My biggest issue w the wuwa story so far is that i feel like i was dropped in the middle of an ongoing story. Who are these girls and why do they care so much about gettin me to safety. Why are we suddenly special. I ve been playin for less than an hour and i feel completely lost meanwhile all the characters i met i kinda dont give a shit about, and evenw ith the uh lady in a void floating with rover and whatever "hook", im still like, i dont give a shit. That means nothing to me its a weak hook imo.

To be fair tho, the first 2, even 3 i d say, archon quests in genshin were weak too. It might take a while for them to reach the heights of fontaine archon quest yk.

getting wigs for characters with the same hair color as myself make me feel like the biggest dumbass around but youd have me fucked thinking im burdening myself with daigos 2000's emo cut just for a weekend

i wanna write smth!!!! anyth!!! SO BAD!!! but i’ve had zero motivation these past few days ໒꒰ྀི っ◞‸◟c ꒱ྀིა