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darkrpfinder · 1 month

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👾 Hi! I'm 19nb and am looking for some 18+ rp partners. Rn I want a fandomless rp - as far as pairings go i'll do m/any. I am literate + 3rd person and would like at least 2 good paragraphs, just anything with substance I can reply to is fine with me.

Here are a few small ideas for plots I have! (colored text is my preferred role)

idol x fan – Maybe the fan is running a fan acc of the idol, and there's a running joke that the idol lurks among fans. No one ever expected the idol to lurk or even interact w nsfw accs

non traditional omegaverse dynamics – There's no solid idea for this one, but I do like the idea of sub alpha/dom omega or even alpha/alpha or omega/omega. Ngl I wasn't too into omegaverse until I looked at nontrad dynamics so teach me everything

littleverse – I've been thinking about a queer-platonic relationship for this and idk why, just something about it scratches that itch in my brain. I also LOVE the idea of older little/younger caregiver (idk how much older- 4-8 yrs is what I'm most comfortable with). We can plan more, but I like a non 24/7 dynamic? like it's still present and not overtI hope those short rambles were readable.

Anyways honestly any of these plots can be mixed together and it would work, I'd like hearing other ideas as well :>>I am v open to nsfw (kinks/limits can be discussed in priv) but I do prefer a more non-sexual dynamic overall I guess? Nsfw hc's for the characters are encouraged mainly because it's fun. These plots don't have to be romantic, they can also be platonic! I'm not picky, but platonic kink sounds fun to explore!

I also love talking ooc, give me all the ooc talk! Talking about our oc's and the plot and hc's and more keeps me engaged w the rp! Please be open to that ^^

I accept all fcs! If we're using realistic fcs, I'd be more comfortable with using actors or singers. Usually, my oc's consist of tropes that bounce around in my head, nothing really constant, but I can totally provide a character sheet or bullet points + moodboard of the rough idea. I also like playing multiple characters. It isn't a must-have, although playing some side characters when needed is appreciated.

👾 Like this if interested, and I'll reach out! We can either rp on here or discord! :>

#oc rp #oc roleplay #omegaverse roleplay #omegaverse rp #fandomless rp #fandomless roleplay #mxm #mxf #mxnb #rp search #dark roleplay #dark rp #spicy rp #18+ mun

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desertfangs · 7 months

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Aliens pt. 2 is so good! I’ve read about 3-4 different fic versions of the aftermath of Armand and Marius’ fight and how Daniel must’ve reacted to it and I love how everyone seems to have reached to the same conclusion! I think it says a lot about how well vc authors understand these characters and these relationships that we’ve all unanimously decided that Daniel was 100% like “listen dude you’re cool but that was so fucking out of pocket” to Marius and ran to confort Armand lmao. Loved your take on it and how you had this be the catalyst for them deciding to go back to NYC after Armand made clear that he felt ignored and left out at court and was only waiting for things to cool down so they could go back to Trinity Gate. You continue filling out these little gaps in canon so beautifully!

Oh my goodness, thank you so much!! It's just such an interesting happening at Court that gets one (1) paragraph and I think we all have a lot of questions. And then we know Armand and Daniel want to leave but we get no dots to connect them! Are they connected? Feels like they must be! I'm sure it was probably a lot of things and this was simply the final straw in terms of "Maybe we should get out of here and go back to NYC for a while" but it makes sense to me for it to happen that way. (Or maybe they just wanted some alone time to really reconnect and Court was too chaotic for that, IDK!)

Daniel definitely loves and respects Marius but damn, that's a cruel insult and you know it did maximum damage to Armand. I can't imagine Daniel not giving Marius a hard look and chasing Armand after that, even if he wasn't in the room. Just hearing about it, he'd be like you said what now?

I'm honestly sort of aghast at how Armand is basically constantly shunted aside at Court. I know Anne wanted her happy L/L ending and that Armand and Lestat have a moment of... I guess it's resolution at the end there at the coronation, but it's sort of funny how he's just constantly going "Actually..." And no one listens. Even after he spills his guts. 😔😔 Makes it harder that Daniel is no where to be found when he needs that support. But I digress.

I do love that the VC fandom has such a solid handle on these guys that we can picture what Daniel is doing most of the time he's off-screen and largely come to the same conclusions! Maybe that's why he was left out. She didn't need someone to support Armand besides Benji I guess, LOL. I don't know that Daniel is necessarily on Armand's side with the whole Campaign to Murderize the Replimoids, but I do think he can understand where he's coming from. Plus he knows Armand isn't just suggesting these things to be evil.

But I am rambling!! Thank you so much for the kind message, it means a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed my take on it! 💖💖

#anonymous #answers in the desert #daniel molloy #armand #armand/daniel #prince lestat era #vc #vampire chronicles #fic: goddamn aliens 2

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missamyshay · 1 month

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2, 4, 10, 20

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

I have a fic I've been chipping away at for a while now that I’m really excited about. It deals with an older PeterMJ, and what life might look like in the event that Peter would no longer have his powers. It’s so much more than that but it’s hard to explain in its totality without ruining the story. But I’m excited for it for so many reasons, one being that it deals so much with what it means for Peter to be Spider-Man, what the consequences are of that. Another thing being that it’ll be my first time writing other characters in the universe such as Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner and others. I’m waiting to build up a substantial backlog (maybe even finish writing it) before I start posting because unlike my current WIPs that are very theme driven, this fic would be very plot driven, which means it’d benefit from more regular posting.

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

I couldn’t think of a specific SM one so here’s one from a fic I wrote for The Bear called Drive.:

But what he’s come to realise is that while Richie had shaped himself into the borders of Michael’s presence, Carmen had shaped himself around the hole of Michael’s absence. And while it’s not the same, Richie knows now that both of those options are equally horrible ways to live.

10. How would you describe your writing process?

I'm not sure how much of a process I have, actually. Maybe that's the problem. Perhaps it's easier to counteract things like writers' block when you have a solid process to fall back on. But it’s usually just something sparks inspiration, and then either I open up a doc and just start writing something, which will more often than not will end up being a longshot. Or, if it’s a longer story that I want to tell, then I draw up a loose bullet pointed plan before separating it into chapters and then start writing. As for the writing itself, almost all whims, no rhyme or reason lol. Maybe one little trick I have is that I lean on poetry sometimes. If there are sentences or ideas that feel too clunky when written down, I ask myself how I’d express it if I were writing a poem, and then adapt from that starting point.

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

This is hard to answer today! I’m sure there are lots, and it’s probably different for every work. There are certain things I lean on in my writing often—like, I like it when characters have deep conversations in bathrooms. There’s a symbolism there but I’m not sure quite what it is yet. I also love shadow scenes, or repetition. When there’s an earlier scene that’s re-experienced later in the narrative after a character or characters have been through things and changed.

Meta fic asks

#fic writer asks

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bardofavon · 1 year

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✿ did anything major change when you started writing a good myth to when you finished (or where youre at now if unfinished) ?

+ im genuinely obsessed w it and get excited all day sunday knowing an update is coming !! <3

omg you are so sweet!! I started rambling again so the answer is under the cut bc i went on for 10 paragraphs

fic ask game!

and the answer is yes, oh my god yes, like....most things??? i am a known pantser meaning anyone who thinks i started this story knowing where it was going is wrong, unfortunately. i think it maybe took me ten chapters before i finally went "wait, how do i want this story to end????"

i write out of order and i tend to have a rough plan in my brain for how i want things to shake out and certain plot beats that i want to happen, but i definitely don't have anything mapped out chapter by chapter. the chapter I'm going to post in an hour or two i literally sat in front of my google doc and went "ok.......actually have no idea what's going to happen this week........i know what's going to happen next chapter but i have put no thought in how to get there"

SO that being said, i have written the ending scenes and know how everything is going to shake out but for a solid 4 months there I was like "okay, the ending is going to be any of these three things" until i finally settled on a direction.

also, i had a huge existential crisis when i turned 24 and then another even bigger one when i turned 25 and i changed career paths twice and made some MASSIVE changes in my personal life so i would be lying if that didn't also effect the things i projected onto the story in terms of "kaz as a person who knows what he wants and knows how to get there" to "kaz as someone who thought he knew what he wanted but is now incredibly indecisive and grappling with his own mortality" which i think is a positive change overall and is happening very naturally

when i first started this story i was kind of "ooh two bastards are evil together and dark sided and plotting schemes and it's GAY" and then the reality of being in kaz's head is like "ooh.....200k slowburn"

OH and the length, definitely the length. i found a message in the discord server where i sent a snippet of something i wrote in 2021 (that i SOMEHOW still haven't posted) and i was like "this isn't going to happen for another 30k words" (laughs in 70k later and i still haven't gotten there) and someone was like "so excited that means the story is going to be that long" and i was like "I'm estimating it's going to be around 50k" and now here i am around the halfway point at 112k words................sobs..........

i had my big climactic scene penned for happening around when shadow and bone ends, with kaz being forced to make a similar choice to alina (this was over a year ago so in the very early stages of planning the story) and then somewhere along the road i was like...no it's going to stretch across the three books

also very small changed detail but in my notes on my google doc i have the note "the darkling gives kaz flowers and kaz eats them" so if that lets you know how things have changed tonally ahaha.

and i have multiple snippets and deleted scenes created from me writing things out of order and then getting to them and being like...yeah there's no place here for this conversation to happen.....rip.

#a good myth is hard to kill #writing #ask meme

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weregreatatcrime · 9 months

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I'm sick and rereading Two Halves and I know I leave a lot (A LOT) of stuff in the end notes but there's actually lots of stuff I still never mention or talk about so here's a long sick (no longer at 4am) ramble about things I didn't get the chance to talk about but wanted to (in somewhat of an order reminded by rereading) or at least just some lines I particularly enjoyed

On to Chapter 4

"Feelings, plans, goals, even injuries are just tools to manipulate for your own benefit. Karai is not afraid to use her own pain as a tool." This is part of the chapter summary, not in the actual fic, but I still love it for how great it points out how little Karai cares about herself beyond basic survival

Karai didn't PLAN on coming across the turtles today so she was all for 4v1ing them until they provided prime manipulation fodder

It's funny to me that Leo understands Karai's loyalty to Shredder despite his crappy morals more than Raph, who is THE most loyal to the family. Then again Raph puts his family on a different level than anyone else too

I think this is where I made Raph’s favorite word "bastard" without meaning to hsvdhwgf

Karai was intentionally letting them see clues about her injury, but Mikey was the one who noticed first, yes to that one reviewer, as he is the most empathetic of the lot. He also made Several leaps in logic to get to the Shredder hurting her, but he hit the nail on the head. In all honesty even if she HAD been hiding it, it's possible Mikey might've sussed her out anyways

Karai is so twitchy (stabby) being the center of attention like this and Leo notices so makes everyone back off hfsvhfhe

I literally spent paragraphs in fic with Donnie and Mikey talking about the extent of her injury, I REALLY don't need to ramble about it here too, but lord am I tempted. I'm a huge medical and anatomy nerd if my constant First Aid rants in he end notes hasn't clued yall in yet lol

Karai acknowledged Leo saying nobody would do this to someone they cared about. She does in fact agree, because the only person she cares about here is Miwa. But she doesn't honestly believe that's normal (and tbh, it's not, their connection makes her kind of utterly obsessed) so she doesn't wanna talk about what humans consider caring about each other

The running joke of Donnie giving Karai ice packs, whether he knows it's her or not

The small funny of them all looking away when she pulls her suit off the shoulder, because Splinter raised some fucking gentlemen, even if he never expected his boys to ever actually meet girls before.

Karai’s angry rant was triggered by being called Miwa, but was shut down when she almost said something about her cover. She came reeeeal close to saying some shit that could've gotten her killed for revealing

"All it would take was one soft gooey lie and he would lead the worst of enemies right into his home." <- shout out to Canon where he did just that lol

Karai stocked the place with a lot of basic supplies, including real food (or at least, frozen and non-perishables) but Stockman doesn't know or care to know how to cook so. Lots of it ended up either going to waste or Karai ate it. Stockman watched her eat bags of frozen solid food and nearly vomited, especially when she ate raw chicken that was still frozen in the package. It's crunchy!

Karai sad she didn't keep the chemical ice pack because she could've eaten it later

A LOT of Karai’s thoughts actually revolve around food, tbh. She survived a long time on the knifes edge of starvation. She is Always thinking of food

Stockman, while scared of Karai, isn't afraid of her *presence* so he lost all formality with her after he saw her chewing on a broken phone casing like it was a chocolate bar. He's pretty irreverent with her, unless she's actively intimidating, in which case he obligingly shows that yes, he's still very very scared of you Karai, don't worry!

This is peak changeling behavior. She has accidentally gotten him into using changeling behavioral tactics. Holy fuck

I totally just "Yes, and" my whole way through Stockman’s tech and I'm glad it apparently sold well

Stockman trying very hard not to scream when Karai keeps literally mauling herself in front of him. He did not sign up for this. What the fuck

Karai actually DID make a major miscalculation here. She's never been injured for very long. If she was in changeling form, her changeling trainers had someone magically skilled on staff to heal her. If she was in human form, she had the best doctors (and again, healers, to subtly boost her healing to get her back in shape so she didn't go mad from being stuck in one form) She was NOT prepared for the magical ramifications of shapeshifting with a decent injury

Unstated but I think the way she triggers her transformed is she reaches out towards Miwa and it feels like wrapping herself in a "hug"

Karai considers any cost to herself worth it to get Miwa back. Don't worry, that'll get fixed eventually (mostly)

I love making a running gag of Karai fucking with Leo's vision, even if it's on accident. This time was very on purpose lol

I winced writing Raph hitting her. Not because her shoulder or because she slammed into a wall, but because he kicked her in the chest, and chest armor or no, tit hits are awful. Splinter has not had reason to teach them that that's a "dirty move" on women, yet

Raph: *feeling guilty for hurting her injuries worse*

Karai: don't fucking look at me like I'm WEAK

(At least one or two of her soldiers were DEFINITELY killed for "letting her" be so injured, to Karai’s complete annoyance)

Changeling Karai is a lot more "respectful soldier" than Canon Karai, which does please Shredder greatly. She thinks this is normal. Honey...

Shredder used to be very obsessed with making sure Karai didn't "ruin" her mother's beauty with scars, so any wounds she got, were very carefully tended to to minimize scarring or pain. This is definitely weird creepy projecting he did thinking of her more as an extension of Tang Shen than actual concern. Now he's just too bonkers to care

I found a typo hdvdjwgfje something autocorrected "contrite expression" to "contrite excision" and I'm mad about it shfvshdg

The people around her serving as caretakers are very aware that Shredder isn't doing a good job at being a father, whop. But they're too scared of Karai and her twitchy (stabby) ways to try and fill any of that gap

#my stuff #trollhunters #my writing #two daughters au #tmnt 2k12 #2012 karai #rai internal review #commentary #long post #whoops i keep forgetting that post

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lovedabishiga · 1 year

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Rambles About From the Seeds of the Heart

Extra Notes of the DabiShiga - From the Seeds of the Heart fic. Read (but please see warnings/tags first) here

1. What the fuck did I just read?

A romantic story of a sorcerer courting a demon c: well just kidding, it’s more complicated than that!

The story is just a snippet of Tomura’s road to becoming the next demon King and squashing the Nine Kingdoms protected by All Might - the Hero of Light, wielding the power from the Angels.

It’s set when Overhaul killed Magne, and so Tomura is going to en-act his revenge, not knowing it is going to be reveal his true identity, which is - dun, dun, dun - he actually isn’t really a demon. He’s more like a Kurogiri, a demon made of artificial circumstances. But instead of being turned into a demon from a corpse, Tomura turned into a demon by eating a piece of All For One’s heart!

2. So, what’s up with Tomura?

Tomura is basically a human-turned-demon. An artificial demon, except he isn’t really dead. I have a backstory planned for him where he actually summoned All For One, thinking he had summoned the soul of Shimura Nana instead, to request that his father stopped abusing him. But All For One twisted this innocent wish and made Tomura kill his entire family, yada, yada, and All For One forcefed a piece of his heart to Tomura. The end!

It’s all hinted (well, I tried to) in the contradictions laid out by All For One in his story. He says that demons cannot be ‘killed,’ that they will return as dust in the Underworld only to be reformed again. But this does not make sense when All For One tells how Tomura is ‘born’ or ‘reborn’ from All For One’s heart.

I also hinted it in the way Tomura expresses the same ‘flaws’ as Kurogiri, which is basically the human traits they both share: basically wanting to be surrounded by people, being selfless, being protecting of their loved ones, etc. etc. There honestly was a snippet in the story where Tomura, after eating Overhaul’s soul, got sick, and the League were all scrambling to help him, already used to his passing sickness, but I cut it ‘cause it was getting too much of a lore dump. I had to tell myself multiple times that this story is basically an excuse to show Dabi’s breeding kink, not some exposition to a convoluted AU.

3. What’s up with Dabi?

Since this is Tomura’s story, I didn’t really dabble much into the backstory that I have planned for Dabi. Not that I have a solid backstory for him. Basically, he is actually the first-born prince of the one of the 9 kingdoms, and he is well, basically a zombie.

An accident happened which caused Dabi’s death, and so, Rei, who can’t bear losing her son, brings him back to life with necromancy in the expense of her sanity and well, Dabi’s, ‘cause it’s traumatic when he learns that father basically will skip him in the line of succession so that the ‘better’ son, Shouto, will inherit the throne.

Dabi wants to have a kid with Tomura for the only reason that he wants to have a legacy better than Shouto taken in a literal sense. But Dabi also wants Tomura for himself.

I wanted to express that more in Dabi’s small part of the story, but I was running out of time, and I felt like it would derail the focus of the story on Tomura’s identity.

I did enjoy writing the twist about Kurogiri. Where Tomura thinks Kurogiri was being overprotective cause Dabi cannot be trusted, etc. etc. and Tomura is looking at Dabi with rose-tinted glasses. But with Dabi’s side of the story, Kurogiri is desperate to keep Dabi away from Tomura because Dabi knows the truth behind Tomura, and Kurogiri just wants to protect Tomura as much as he can.

4. Is this an Eri fic?

Yes and no. Yes, because I want to write an Eri fic so bad. No, because Eri only appears for like 4 paragraphs.

Eri is basically like Tomura. She is a human-turned-demon. I don’t have anything much planned for her besides that, and that she’ll bond with Tomura over them being human-turned-demons and were forced into the role. But I do like thinking of them snacking on pomegranates together, and they make Dabi fetch them pomegranates while they laze about like cats in the sun.

5. There is a lot of pomegranates in the story

Yeah! Basically, to demons, human flesh tastes like fruit. But since Tomura is an artificial demon, he tastes the how humans taste blood first - iron, copper, something metal - before it slowly turns to the flavor of how demons would taste it - fruits.

I like the symbolism of pomegranates because they look like a heart, it’s portrayed in a similar fashion in many famous paintings too.

Though I actually have never tasted a pomegranate before. Have I seen one in real life? Yes. They actually look very messy to eat.

6. You know that the “Law of Equivalent Exchange” comes from FMA, right?

Yeah lol. I thought it was like one of the three laws of force or something then when I looked it up, it was like, oh it’s from FMA. I can’t believe that quote from FMA sticks in my head far longer than any of my Physics classes (this is why I did not take science as my uni degree)

7. I sense that you want to ramble about Yoichi

I actually have a quote that I really like but it never appeared in the story cause it felt out of touch and it was:

“Demons don’t have souls,” All For One explains when Tomura asked about it. “There is only the Underworld for us. We do not have the concept of ‘death’ that humans do. We merely return to the depths when we are destroyed, steadily taking shape and reformed. That is what separates true demons from Ujiko’s creations.”

Tomura nods but does not fully understand. “What about angels, then?”

Tomura doesn’t miss the way Kurogiri instantly warps himself to Tomura’s side, a tight hand clasped on the boy’s shoulder, as his Master suddenly turns somber, answering in a silence of a wisp. “They get stolen.”

It’s basically a hint of what happened to Yoichi XD like demons, angels don’t die. They just return to the heavens as dust, get reformed, and bam! good as new. But that’s not what happened to Yoichi. He basically sacrificed himself and turned to an anti-demon power - One For All - which is what All Might and the previous holders use against AFO.

AFO calls it ‘stealing’ because he thinks that Yoichi was taken and used by humans to defeat him. He calls All Might an ‘angel posing human’ because All Might is used Yoichi’s power.

Yoichi isn’t dead dead per se. He is still there, just not reformed. So he is just a bundle of energy within All Might (to be transferred to Izuku). AFO hopes that he can ‘free’ Yoichi and reform him into his original form so that they would be together again.

8. Why did AFO turn himself to a demon then?

I don’t know. Man does what he wants, I guess.

9. Will you continue this story?

Maybe. Right now I’m doing oneshots because I know it is what I can finish. And I have more ideas that I want to write for the existing TouShiga AUs that I wrote plus this TouTen AU with side one-sided Shigahawks that I really really want to write. But we shall see!!

10. What will you be writing next?

Who wants to see some TouTen?

#fic

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ephemerlskies · 4 years

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some hiatus updates:

hello everyone who is reading this!! first, I would like to say thank you to the overwhelming support i’ve been getting recently. even if it may not seem like i’m engaging very actively with each of you, I see you and appreciate you tremendously.

lately i’ve been super busy with college and maintaining my mental health but I really miss posting on here because it was my little way of escaping and doing stuff I genuinely enoy doing (not to mention being able to interact with all you lovely humans on this platform). i want to jump back in, even with my limited free time, to revive my passion for writing.

!! i have also started a draft for a “the lighthouse” drabble but if i’m being completely honest, I don’t know if I like how it is turning out and I'm trying to shape it in the way I envision it in my head. sadly, it’s not going so well so i’ve been thinking of just starting up smaller, less weighty projects to soothe the soul.

also please vote.... seriously.... i know there are so many things that I can use my platform to talk about but I really care about the state of my country (the u.s.) and if you are over the age of 18, please do what you can to vote! i know voter suppression is alive and rampant so don’t feel guilty if you have circumstances that prevent you from exercising your rights, but if you have the privilege and ability to vote, do not let that go to waste my friends!!

sending out so much love to everyone! i can’t express my gratitude for how kind, thoughtful, and uplifting your support is to me and i’m sorry i’ve been AWOL, life is hectic. i hope I can start posting more, even if it’s just drabbles! love you, stay safe!!! <3

#rubycoast #look at me #always planning on writing a short update #then rambling for a solid 4+ paragraphs #if you read this entire dissertation of a post then i commend u lol #LOVE U ANGELS #hugs n kisses 4ever #:3

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missholoska · 5 years

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1. How much HP does Sans have? 2. Genocide Papyrus in Snowdin/ Genocide Sans art? 3. How many times does Sans dodge?

1) fun fact: I have been lowkey dreading someone asking about Neptune’s HP ever since I made his character sheet two and a half years ago :D;;;

okay so for now I haven’t decided what his HP is. the reason being that I base the ATK and DEF in the character sheets on the check acts in-battle, which don’t list HP. I know that in the game’s data monsters do have specific amounts of HP, and also that their in-game ATK and DEF differ from what we’re told, but I’m not a very technically-minded person and prefer to work from a character design/story angle, and the way HP works isn’t really explained to us.

like, there’s the librarby book about how monsters’ defences will weaken if they don’t want to fight, and you can reasonably assume stronger, adult monsters have higher ATK and DEF than weaker monsters or children. you can probably assume the latter for HP as well, but a glance at few characters’ pages on the UT wiki shows HP can vary from low double digits to mid-hundreds, to even thousands, and I just. have no idea how to figure that stuff out, man

eventually maybe I’ll go through every wiki entry writing down every monster’s stats for comparison and work out what I think Neptune’s HP should be (and other characters while I’m at it), but I’m a little too busy to do that any time soon. at the moment the best answer I can give is that I did mention his stamina hasn’t caught up with his increased ATK and DEF, and likewise I think his HP is still significantly lower than average for a monster of his age and ability; he’s still kind of a glass cannon and can’t take hits easily.

(also worth mentioning: while the HP = HoPe theory is a really neat idea, I also think it kinda falls apart in the face of canon. for instance the wiki says Toriel has 440 HP and Asgore has 3500, and like… why would Asgore, so consumed by despair over his actions and the loss of his family that he asks a child to kill him when defeated, have nearly ten times as much ‘hope’ as Toriel? you could say that killing the six humans raised his stats, but if so why are his checked ATK and DEF still the same as Toriel’s? the idea is interesting in relation to Sans’ 1 HP but doesn’t make total sense to me elsewhere)

2) mmmmaybe someday? I’ve said before that I’m not very interested in creating geno run content, a) because I’m a pacifist fluff person and b) so many people have drawn much cooler things than I ever could :’D but there are some scenes I want to draw eventually, so I’ll keep those in mind.

3) I’d say the same number of times as UT Sans; I haven’t scripted all the dialogue he’d have for each turn or anything, but with the extra effort he puts into fighting he wouldn’t be able to keep it up for much longer than UT Sans anyway.

#anonymous #underswap mh rambles #holoskart asks #apologies for dumping 4 paragraphs on you for just the first question without even giving a solid answer oTL #that hp talk doesn't even go into how monsters can have negative hp which only further confuses me #also I'm assuming you're the same anon who asked something similar a while ago? if so then sorry for not answering sooner ;v;#neptune (swap mh sans)

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icewindandboringhorror · 5 years

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The problem (or ONE OF the many problems ghgh) with me having any sort of social media is that I regularly cycle through phases with my hobbies, yet usually people expect like.. One Type of content and that’s it or etc.? Like I’ll do a lot of costumes for a while and get people following me for costumes or something, and then I... randomly go 7 months without doing a costume and become obsessed with worldbuilding elven religions or making sculptures or something else instead and it’s like ghghghg... Yes.. I will get back to the costumes eventually.. but I’m going to have to spend months on This Other Activity first.. The only consistent thing about me is that I will always post pictures of my cats...Hopefully nobody expects anything else of me lol

#and of course as BIg Detached Hermit pleasing strangers on the internet is not my top priority but it does feel kind of awkward sometimes #to know like 'lol abt to post smthn that has NOTHING to do w/ ANYTHING my parasocial conceptualization has heretofore been associated with'#and it's not that I keep inconsistently picking up NEW hobbies it's just.. the 12 or so solid ones I have I tend to switch between a lot ghg #i have no idea how people juggle doing actual multiple things at one time #my brain is just like 'no.. no multiple tasks in one day... ONE single task.. for one week'#like I cant write in the morning. do costumes in the afternoon. paint in the evening. it's just like.. CHOOSE ONE.. you can write.. okay..#but that has to be ALL you do for 3 months straight and any attempt to multitask will result in very poor disorganized work #... bfhbbbplease brain.. please.. may i have some Multiple Tasks In One Day juice..#right now I'm trying very hard to do a costume and work on my game but my brain is like 'HERE'S A NEW SPECIES IDEA #AND IF YOU TRY TO THINK ABOUT OR FOCUS ON ANYTHING ELSE I WILL.. dESTROY YOU'#i think additionally that's another reason I'm bad at social media because that's all I care about lol #I don't have ''niche interests'' in the sense of ''oo i like bands nobody's ever heard of and i'm so Random and Obscure'' but #it's like... i have niche interests in the sense that most of all I'm interested in is my owb projects and worldbuilding and stuff #and even the things I've posted about on here are only about 30% of anyhting I have established so far like.. there's so much I have #made up about the world that I just haven't shared with others yet or etc. even IF you were one of the maybe idk... 4 people on the #entire planet who regualrly reads worldbuilding stuff I post or etc.. you would still have no idea what the hell I'm talking about if I #mentioned a lot of things. Now I am a very opinionated person and I could ramble about ANYTHING because I have trouble organizing #my speech and am very wordy so I'm not saying that I couldn't type paragraphs upon paragraphs about any current topic or tv show (if #it's one of the few I've seen lmao.. i dont watch anything much) or etc. but it's just that I'm not passionate about that? I have an opinion #on nearly everything but merely int he way that you may have an opinion on a meal you just ate or something #it;s just casual observations in a distant way but not something you're attached to. The only thing I'm genuonely passionate about #talking about is my niche world and maybe one or two other topics so it's not like I can get Onto The Internet and like.. write #very relatable opinions about movie characters or talk about some commonly significant something or other ggh.. all I feel like #doing is just being like ''HEY i have a new idea for marriage traditions that southern elves practice. so first they dig a root #up from the ground and then they paint it and then..' and it's like GHGhg...#I've thought of trying to be more personable or relatable by talking about random opinions or things ('hey i like this song!' 'this is my fa #vorite food!' 'lol remember this fashion trend from middle school' etc.) but it's like.. I'm not passionate enough about it to go through #with it. I have an opinion but since it's so casual and Not As Important As Elves nothing else feels worth sharing to my brain #aka why I have 130+ drafts saved bc I'll type things & then be like 'eh.. i dont really care strongly abt this' then never post them ghgh #unfortunately I have Doopy Brain Disorder and that means I can only think about one thing ever.. sorry I dont make the rules ghgh

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Hey Suze! It may be a lot but I can’t decide between 4, 20, 24 … so I will just ask all of them :)

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

(god i've gotten so many of these haha be ready to hear looots of bits i like)

maybe this was a gimme because i think it's patently obvious i love this haahha but from tell me where your secrets lie:

She thinks of Potter’s arm across her shoulders; for someone made of sunlight, flimsy and golden and always out of reach, he is surprisingly solid. Surprisingly comforting. The sweep of his thumb over her cheekbone. The way he said it’s okay, and also I’m here, and also shh, like she’s not an uncontrollable spill but something that can be soothed. Like he can hold her like a handful of water, and she won’t slip through his fingers. Lily cries thinking of his cupped palm.

this bit has a lot going on with the james-as-sunlight and the lily-as-water but also james-as-the-holder, lily-being-held, but what i like about it is that there's images that are concrete (him holding her) and images that are abstract (handful of water, sunlight, etc) but they are still related to each other in a way that makes sense without making the abstract images too over the top. and of course i like that last sentence for how punchy and direct it is, for all the emotion in it!

24. Would you say your writing has changed over time?

answered this here!

putting my answer to 20 under the cut for ct50 spoilers! thank you so much, elena <3

ask me these!

ok so, fun little parallel—

famously (LOL), lily trips thrice in come together around the time she realises her feelings for james: once in 34 (...? or 35 icr) during quidditch tryouts, once in 38 at the portrait hole, and once innnn i think it's 47 going for the telephone. whereas james "tripping is for other people" is well-established as surefooted... but in 50:

He jumped out of the armchair and strode for the portrait, practically tripping his way into the chilly corridor beyond.

He took the stairs two at a time, nearly falling over the hem of his own robes twice...

and the tripping is for other people bit has a very specific description of him through lily's eyes...

He always walked the same way, she noticed: hands in his pockets, head tipped back. As if he didn’t need to look where he was going. Tripping was for other people.

whereas in 50

That — watching his retreating back, his hands slipping into his pockets, his head slightly lowered — was when she felt it.

i guess things change lily! i guess some things end >:)

#elenasreading #ask me #ct spoilers #50 #tmwysl

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byjillianmaria · 2 years

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4 & 20 from the fun meta asks!

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

I shared this on Twitter yesterday and I'm really pleased with it! Context: while Elizabeth and Lydia both started their novels knowing their sexualities, Kristen starts Ashwood Grove believing that she's straight.

There was a moment, then. A pregnant moment where I could have pulled away. Should have pulled away, with Selena’s face still wet with tears and me—me, who was the token straight friend of the group, who knew that my parents’ plans for me involved a husband and children one day.

Only I was already straying so far from their plans. And maybe token straight friends didn’t spend so much time thinking about girls the way I thought about Selena. Maybe they didn’t think of pulling away in terms of should have instead of wanted to.

I love rambling about meta SO MUCH that I feel like I've already done a lot of meta rambling here XD But hmmm, let's see... oh! I'm actually working on a surreal horror thing right now for fun between my big projects. It's pretty off-brand (adult, moody, dark) so I don't know if I'll ever publish it, but one fun thing I'm doing is figuring out what certain things symbolize AHEAD of time. Here are my notes for that, just for funsies. In my mind, the moon would be a recurring symbol for mothers and the concept of motherhood, while the ocean would be a recurring symbol for daughters/daughterhood. Animals are often a recurring motif and that one's a little less solid but I think they stand for base instinct/nature, acting without logic, etc. The story as I imagine it has a focus on women and especially complex mother/daughter relationships, big Gillian Flynn and Carmen Maria Machado with a little dash of Mike Flanigan thrown in for flavor.

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hi hi im really tired so i haven't answered your ask yet BUT 1, 8, 9, 11 and 12 for you + WHAT ARE YOUR IMPERA THOUGHTS MY DUDE!!!!!!!!

EH no worries, take your time!!!

under a read more bc i can never make these ask games short. i love rambling for 1 million paragraphs :)

1: You have a chance to interview Tobias Forge. What 3 questions would you ask him? ahhh man three questions is not enough, i need go crack this man's head like an egg and see all the stuff that spills out and study it under a microscope... but..

i suppose id ask him 1) what it's like to go on stage and get to pretend to be someone else, is it freeing? he's always struck me as a little aloof in interviews and generally in public so i wanna know if putting his actions and performance behind a character and costume makes him feel like he can do whatever he wants more, or if its a little restricting almost?

2) he's mentioned in interviews he'd draw a lot as a kid and im really curious as to what so id love to ask him about it. i want to see baby forge doodles :)

3) id want to ask him about what potential he thinks he has for the ghost universe. he's talked about a movie multiple times but i wanna ask what other mediums the storyline could fit into... a comic book, maybe??? a rhythm game even??

4) Favorite dinosa

8: Have you discovered anything new thanks to ghost, e. g. a band, or song, or film? many things but none of significance? like i haven't really gotten into any of the stuff ive found out through them Lol

9: Name three songs you would like Ghost to cover. other than judas by lady gaga idk 😭 i suppose people have covers they'd like to hear cause they hear a song and they can imagine int their head how it'd be like if ghost covered it, or bc they think the music is similar but iiii can't. like idk what would fit or be good. i suppose they could do maybe an early genesis song like the knife though? my head would also explode if they covered an early oingo boingo song... maybe islands or who do you want to be today. or insects... i NEED to hear tobias sing that now... best song lyrics EVER

11: Favorite Ghost meme. i cannot Possibly choose.. so many are incredibly funny

12: Favorite piece of Ghost merch you own or would like to own. I OWN NONE 💔💔💔💔💔 IM TRYING TO FIX THAT THOUGH, id fucking LOVE to have the coloring book!!! i love coloring books and itd make a good replacement for the last one i had, which swiftly leads us to.... The Problem... i have, Unfortunately Yet Fittingly, overly religious and superstitious parents who i don't think would ever let me have ghost merch bc of their satanic nature T_T in fact, said old coloring book was a "dark art" one with a bunch of skeletons and zombies on it but my dad took it away from me bc he said it was dangerous and was exacerbating my mental illnesses Lol <3 if i ever got the ghost coloring book id probably have to hide it in a goddamn fucking safe lmao

as for impera...ive been trying not to listen to impera TOO much cause i dont want myself to get sick of it (ive honestly gotten sick of cmls hearing it in all their promotional material all the time) so im a little slowly re listening to it... there's definitely favorites like twenties and darkness at the heart of my love, but i think this is gonna be one of those albums where im like... it's good, it's solid, i can recognize the artistry and mastery put into it and why some people consider it one of their best but im gonna settle for Yeah its okay. i like it, sounds good, pretty cool, but i don't LOVE it like i love, say, meliora or infestissumam. it doesn't quite have that impact... on me..

#asks #ratsalad #ghost #tysm for the ask!!! sorry its so long LOL

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aeriedwelling · 2 years

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4, 9, 10, 15 + 19 for the meta writing ask game? I hope that's not too many at once!!

(and no shhh this isn't partially an excuse to see the scattered ashes tag again because I like it so much... hahaha what.... /j)

- ashes :]!!!!

(okay big mood excellent excuse to see the tag again askdjfkasjfd)

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

Massive, feathered wings sprawled out either side of him, with tightly-knit, dark purple feathers that catch the light from the glowstone in the walls, glittering faintly like starlight in the dark haze of the room.

He stares. They’re beautiful, like pieces of a galaxy cut right out of the night sky.

could definitely use some reworking, but this is from a watcher!grian fic i'm working on- mans just got his wings and that was their description :D

another one:

There's a strike of a match, a glow of a candle. Golden light ripples across midnight feathers as Philza makes his way across the room.

i just. really like describing light on wings i guess lololol (and also just wings in general!! they're very fun :))

9. Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other?

longfic! every drabble i write is usually just me working out a scene to go in a longer chapter/fic - the shortest things i write are usually around 1000 words (except that one fic that was around 500 but that was four years ago askdfjlaskfd)

pantsing or plotting depends on the fic i think? Blood of the Wild was all pantsing, but most of my fics nowadays are all plotted (unless they're a lone-standing drabble or oneshot)

sometimes i wish i could go back to pantsing everything but if i don't have a solid idea for where i'm going then the fics will be abandoned and i wanna finish a lot of my current wips ;--;

10. How would you describe your writing process?

i daydream about the stuff i wanna write and then never actually write anything

(i also make playlists and outlines and note documents and ramble to my best friend and make vague posts on tumblr but nothing ever gets written)

15. Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?

tags all the way!!! i never know how to tag ;--;

19. Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)

-best friends to lovers and found family are my two favorite tropes so a LOT of my fics will include one or both of those askdjfkasjdf

-characters grinning?? in dialogue??? "he grinned at him" i need more ways to describe characters smiling at each other it's always "he grinned"

-i feel like i describe lights and lighting a lot i dunno

-i’m a sucker for hurt/comfort, a lot of my fics are me processing things so my characters do get hurt but they always get comfort and hugs because i need them to be okay in the end

i'm really bad at like. noticing things about my own writing so i asked my best friend/beta reader and this is what he had to say (copy-pasted from discord):

In terms of general story things, the phrase that comes to mind is comfy angst

It's like Things are kind of awful but there's comfort and catharsis and things And gay lovers :P

Honestly I don't feel like anything you write is repetitive or copy-paste I feel like you are really good at writing this new genre we've created And so a lot of your stories fit that general vibe But they're all very much unique

so yeah! lemme know if you guys notice any repetitive stuff i do! i wanna know :D

from this

#idk if you'll get a notification for this cause i saved it as a draft but we'll see!!#ty for the ask ashes!! <3 #writing ask game #scattered ashes #pigeon rambles

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WBL meta: Fighting Mr. 2nd, Ep 1

Just getting some thoughts out and sorted, join me if you wanna:

Topics this meta ramble will touch on: The sexual aggression in Shu Yi’s anger and the misunderstanding/cheating; Shi De’s regret and masochism and still carrying it all alone, that last scene, some minor speculations about DAD.

This all is written under the assumption that Shi De did not cheat, but that somehow Shu Yi came to the conclusion that he did. If alone by seeing him with that woman and child after one year, or if some additional forces might have been at work to convince him so.

Shu Yi’s Dad, the trailers make you look bad, maybe it’s just the way teasers work and you will be abdicated from those suspicions, but for now, I assume it’s you meddling in some way or other, may your intentions be what they will. I still suspect it was you who got to Shi De after 2 years when he first came back, and appealing to his responsibility -and guilt -for Shu Yi, to end it now when he is getting over you, rather than to give him that difficult life with a man at his side.

So there might also have been some strewn in comments to Shu Yi about Shi De moving on with someone else, at the one year past mark, feeding into the cheating narrative, or something more solid, that Dad gave Shu Yi, I just think it must have been a little bit more than just seeing him then, to believe it enough to completely retreat and call it off.

Not much though. Because as the notes about being young and immature say, the distance alone between them makes them unsure. In a way that they might never have been unsure, had they been in the same room, which is important for the last scene in this episode, because here Shu Yi visibly struggles to reconcile the Shi De that’s so earnest in front of him, and that he must remember from before, with the big statements of love and forever and those eyes, that Shi De that really has a hold on him, with the one that clashes with it, the one he build up in his mind over 5 years to get closure and protect himself, the one bastard that cheated and is lying to him.

Shi De has no fucking clue though. He operates under the assumption that his only ‘crime’ is to have taken 5 years instead of months and having made Shu Yi wait. Mind you, he regrets that alone so much it buries him under all the guilt and regret, and masochist that sometimes he is at heart, he rather takes all the general blame for it all, anything that Shu Yi throws his way, than to defend himself in the face of Shu Yi’s anger, because yes, he feels the anger is valid, even if it takes on that tone that his mind protests, his heart still is willing to take all the blows. From that anger that he still thinks is the anger Yu Xin has warned him about, that, even if blown up tenfold, he shouldn’t take to heart, and just has to weather out with determination and staying by Shu Yi’s side, even if it is reasonable bigger than just a minor fight.

He gets really confused by the sexual aggression of Shu Yi’s attacks, though, because doesn’t understand why Shu Yi would take that tone for his anger. For Shu Yi, I think it’s about hurting Shi De in that way that Shu Yi felt hurt by his cheating. Sex with somone else was assumedly used to hurt Shu yi, now he’ll use sex to cause Shi De hurt and degrade him someow, it’s a fuzzy connection but I think one that Shu Yi makes somehow.

The ‘women are better’ speech is as much to belittle and provoke Shi De as it is directed at the cheating situation, which of course flies by Shi De, because he didn’t, doesn’t even know of that suspicion or verdict. The fact that he is so confused by it makes me even more sure, he did not cheat, would never, come one, only you. He actually says that Shu Yi can be mad, but that he doesn’t have to do it that way. So, no, he doesn’t understand what warranted that fierceness, that specific brand of anger from Shu Yi, and when Shu Yi calls it hatred, not anger, that’s not just a slap to the face, it’s a punch to the gut, and damn, Sam that acting, I physically felt your exhaustion, the reigning it in, the picking your jacket and yourself up from the floor and soldiering on.

The same confusion is in that last scene of the ep, about why Shu Yi would take that tone of sexual provocation, why make it that and bring that into their power play. But I think I’ll type an extra paragraph or two on that perfect scene.

The conclusion to this is for me, that Shi De is still so stuck in that carrying it all alone mode, the love, the guilt, the blame, that something HAS to give in the next episodes to let him grow out of it. He might have to break down first, to do so. So yeah, that next episode is gonna be whew.

That Scene.

Maybe it stands out to me so much, because I was about to write something quite similar as fic during hiatus, but I wanted to see what they did first. They practically took that dynamic I had in mind and made it heart crushingly beautiful with their faces and everything.

Shi De choses earnest determination as his weapon coming into this, Shu Yi, after offended shock, again takes to sexually loaded power play. And damn, all that happens on Shi De’s face when Shu Yi comes close, and later touches him. There is so much confusion still, about why Shu Yi would take that sexually charged approach to this, for Shi De again it doesn’t make the sense that it does for Shu Yi.

It is clear Shu Yi is making this a sexual provocation again, and his ‘want me back? Okay.” has a most obvious catch, and Shi De is trying to figure it out while being overwhelmed by having Shu I within reach and still so far away.

I don’t think they’ve let roughness like this into their sexual experience up to this point, passion, yes, but when Shi De hits the desk, you can tell from his face, this feels off, this is new, he can’t place it again, the why.

The moment Shu Yi says ‘give it to me/let’s do it’ is the moment he delivers the push that makes Shi De fall onto the desk, that makes it clear that this is actually less about sex, but more about power play, even if Shu Yi masks it in sexual gestures. He is never prepared to go through with it, I believe, which explains his sudden retreat once Shi De actually agrees. Which is the most disarming, subversive move, and Shi De intuitively knows to take it and break through Shu Yi’s defenses and his act that way.

Shi De is so conflicted, though. Imagine the touch that you want so much, have missed so much, but in that aggressive, instrumentalized way, that feels wrong and still you are overwhelmed with how much you want it and what you’d give for it. Still all the while Shi De is trying to read Shu Yi, can’t understand his choices because he misses crucial information, but is trying to get through to him nonetheless. When Shu Yi caresses up Shi De’s face, Shi De’s puzzlement, and pain, and longing, and being torn and confused… it’s all there, and damn. Wow.

I don’t think ‘giving it up to the other’ means something derogative per se for them, what makes it this utter provocation is that it is voiced as that claim through that anger. Like, do you dare? Do you dare to let me f… you when I am angry like this? When possibly the have never done THAT before? And Shu Yi only expects a no, because somehow it would be a betrayal to everything they did before at least in my head canons. Because the base is wrong. Roughness needs to happen on a base of total trust, and that is just not there in that situation, they are not equal, and Shu Yi doesn’t expect Shi De to submit in that way and give ‘himself’ up.

So when he says yes, Shu Yi is completely confused and out of his depths.

And with the walls suddenly torn down, Shi De dares to make that statement, one that ‘old’ Shi De would have made: I can do anything for you. And he has Shu Yi by his very heart then. The hold and connection might break again in the next minute, but right then, Shu Yi is completely disarmed and in Shi De’s grasp.

And so confused, because all this and his own reaction doesn’t fit into the persona he made Shi De into in his mind those last 4 years. The scheming one who cheated and lied and played with him. The one he maybe built up meaner than necessary to protect himself of the pain. This is the one he remembers too, but pushed aside, the one who talks earnestly about his love, and never seems to waver in that love. They just don’t go together, and Shu Yi is so confused.

I don’t think sex is going to happen from this scene’s continuation. But boy that scene. Shu Yi will probably snap out of it and revert to anger one more time, but a dent is made. There’s cracks in both their composures and way of handling things now, and it will have to break.

And woah, am I hyped for more. Show, you’ve raised my expectations once more. Deliver, please.

Not sure i will ever be done rambling about it, but for now, that’s it.

Feel free to talk to me about it, if you want 3

#wbl #we best love meta #we best love: fighting mr. 2nd #meta

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deardragonbook · 3 years

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Editing and Levels of Editing

Before I begin, I wrote this whole thing out this morning, pressed save as draft and guess what post did not save as a draft? Yeah. So if it feels a bit more dry or to the point than my usual posts, I apologize. And if you prefer it like that, tell me, because I’m great at accidentally losing drafts!

This post isn’t about how I edit (I’m sure I’ll do that eventually), it’s more about how much I edit and specifically how that changes depending on what I’m writing.

So I measure how much I edit by drafts a lot of the time, but that isn’t entirely accurate because there are drafts and then are drafts. When I’m writing a book, I write a first draft, I write it carelessly and without looking back, then I start over for my second draft. That’s what I’m going to refer to as a solid draft, when I write the whole thing out again.

For my third draft onwards I’ll usually be editing the second draft, editing could involve cutting out whole paragraphs and writing them again, but I’m not starting from zero. This is what I will call a soft draft.

Now, organized from most to least drafts:

1.- A to be sold book. At this time, that’s just Dear Dragon and the next books coming up in that series. People pay money to read this, so it has to be good. And what each person considers good can be relative, for me, it’s generally around seven to nine drafts. Two solid drafts and the rest soft drafts. My first book took me about twoooo yeeeears (voice full of hesitation), technically three but with long hiatuses in between and… it’s a mystery for the ages, I’ll be honest. The point is, lots of editing, lots of work. Obviously you aren’t going to put as much time into every work you do.

2.- A not be sold book. So, because I’m one hundred per cent incapable of doing a single project at a time, sometime after my beta readers received Dear Dragon, I started to write another shorter novel, it was an idea I’d had running through my head for about two years or so, and I just wanted it out.

I knew this wasn’t going to be anywhere near the quality of Dear Dragon, if only because I was nowhere near as in love with the idea. So as to not put pressure on myself I thought, I’ll upload it to Wattpad, it’s a social media site for writing, maybe I can get my writing noticed a bit before publishing my actual novel…

I’ll do a post about the different social media sites and being an author on social media at a later date. Once I feel like I know what I have to say because… I have a lot to say.

But anyway, it’s going to be free, but it’s still a proper little stand alone micro-novel. How many drafts? Three. In my case, three. It was a solid first draft, solid second and soft third draft. It took me about a year with long hiatuses in between because as said previously, it just wasn’t high on my priority list.

It’s complete from today (if I’m doing the maths right because I don’t publish these on the same day I write them)! Check it out.

I recommend binging it because that’s how you get the most out of the small details.

3.- Chaptered stories that don’t stand alone. I actually have two stories that fit into this category: Oppida Institute for Reformation and Love, Coffee and Dragons. They are both prequel series to my main book series Dear Dragon.

Now, I do less editing in these then I will a not for sale novel, BUT, I do a lot more plot related editing. What do I mean by that? I spent a lot of time double checking timelines, maps, general continuity. See, because this takes place before the main series, a lot of it affects the main series, so I have to be cautious not to make any mistakes.

In both I do a solid first draft and a soft draft, in this soft draft I mainly work on catching any grammar mistake, touch up on fluidity and double check timelines and maps.

For Love, Coffee and Dragons I write my first draft in word and then edit it another day in Hemingway.

For Oppida Institute for Reformation I will export it from word to my iPad, edit it by hand and then go to Hemingway to pass those edits on. This means I read through my draft about three times instead of two. Mainly because the plot elements affect the main series more than Love, Coffee and dragons which is, what I call an emotional support story (I’ll probably do a post about what I mean by that… later).

These both probably take me a couple of weeks for each Act, which will be somewhere between five and fifteen chapters. I upload each chapter once a week so. That works well.

4.- One-Shots. I do plenty of quick one-shots, Market Day or Photos that follow my book’s main character as a child. Night Out which follows one of the old kings. And every article up on my web.

Because everything I just mentioned is in the universe of Dear Dragon (beginning to think I need to branch out a bit) my editing is mostly double checking everything is properly placed on the timeline (guess I should do a post about how I write and keep track of the timelines, huh?). I revise grammar but don’t tend to go over fluidity as much as the other stories.

Because there one-shots are usually low stakes and more just an exploration of something simple, such as the terrifying feeling of not knowing where your parents are at the market, they usually are written and edited the same day or not long after.

5.- Blog Posts. So, this. Before here I used to do some writing tip posts on my site, I also have my personal tumblr where I usually ramble on about existentialism and whatever comes to mind. For these posts I write them (solid first draft) and then I read them over, add in links, make things bold and try to catch as many typos as possible. I probably don’t catch all of them and often click edit if I spot one.

But that’s fine, because I’m trying to upload one a day, so it’s not supposed to be this high quality experience. It’s just me trying to share the most useful bits and bobs from my own experience.

This takes me probably an hour or so depending a lot on the article.

So, did you get anything out of this post? I’d not heard anybody talk about the difference in effort you put into different works and thought it might be interesting, but in retrospect maybe nobody talks about it because it’s precisely the opposite. You tell me! Feedback and criticism helps me know what I should be putting more time into.

#writing advice #writers on tumblr #writing #how I write #writer #writing tips #writing tricks #tips #tricks #editing #selfpublished #author #authors #can someone tell me the kind of tags I should be using for these posts?

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magicofthepen · 3 years

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Romana II for the character asks 👀

thank you for the ask!! <33 as you can see, I really like talking about Romana 😊

favorite thing about them: ….I’ve realized it’s quite hard to answer this question for one of your all-time favorite characters, oh wow there’s so much I could talk about. (gallifrey Romana II is exactly my Favorite Character Type, but I actually first fell for Romana II while watching the E-space stories.) but okay one thing that really Gets me about her is how deeply she loves? both in an ‘big picture’ sense and in a personal relationship sense. she genuinely cares about the people of her world and other worlds so much, and gives so much of herself to try to protect them and make their lives better….which becomes a mix of something very admirable and something very unhealthy that’s really complicated and interesting to unpack. and I’m so weak for stories of lonely characters slowly discovering friendship, and all of Romana’s friendships are such interesting and important dynamics in different ways, and she just. loves her friends so much, even when she’s struggling with how to be a friend, and the stories of these relationships (both on tv and in audio) are such a big part of my attachment to her character.

least favorite thing about them: I’ve talked a bit about this recently, but I’m very picky about Romana-as-villain arcs, and sometimes in the audios the writers have her do terrible things, and it feels more for the sake of being ~dark and edgy~ than something that has solid characterization backing it up? for example, on one hand, I really like how the Imperiatrix arc shows how she falls to the point of becoming a tyrant, shows how her intentions get twisted, and how circumstances and manipulations and her own character flaws lead her to make the choices that she does. on the other hand, the “destroyer of worlds” thing in series 4 doesn’t emotionally back up her choices and feels a bit like “we’re going to have this character do Terrible Things just so she can feel guilty over how Terrible she is.” and tbh I do side-eye the overall obsession of the EU of making her a darker and more power-hungry figure (in contrast, something like Time War 2 has some of my favorite Romana characterization, probably because she’s on the side of “stubbornly standing up for what’s right.”)

(I’ll probably skip favorite line for most of these because alas I’m absolutely terrible at picking one.)

brOTP: ….is it cheating to say Leela and Narvin if I also ship them? ….okay I’ll leave them for the otp section, but those two friendships are just so so important to Romana, and I love them as committed platonic relationships too! (especially since sometimes I get very into thinking about Romana as aromantic - this is not a consistent headcanon, obviously I do write a lot of shippy Romana fic in which she’s not aro, but I do think there’s solid backing for it, and I like exploring different headcanons and interpretations of relationships.)

but I want to use this section to ramble a bit about Romana and the Doctor! (I used to ship them a fair bit - in a “I love this dynamic as either a romantic thing or a platonic thing!” way - but lately I’ve been more into their relationship as a platonic thing, so I think they fall much more under brOTP for me.) they’re such a Team when they’re traveling together, and I love that understated fondness they have for each other, the way they genuinely enjoy each other’s company. and I love how they’re like. constantly holding hands and standing very close together and just being very softly affectionate. (and not to make everything about Skin of the Sleek/Thief Who Stole Time, but the way the Doctor both gives Romana space and looks out for her in those audios is so good?? they’re really soft together and I melt every time I listen to those audios.) And I love how they part on good terms, with a deep undercurrent of mutual respect and care….and I have a lot of painful feelings about the crumbling of their friendship later in life. it does make sense that they’d grow apart - they end up making very different choices when it comes to Gallifrey - but also that layer of sharpness/coldness in their interactions in Neverland (and Zagreus)….oof that hurts. (and going back a little further - the first time I heard their conversation at the end of Apocalypse Element where the Doctor leaves her, it was a gut punch - the way she so badly needs a friend, and he….doesn’t stay.) so my Doctor & Romana II feelings are a combination of “oh my gosh I love them” and “oh my gosh they break my heart.”

OTP: ot3 my beloved <33 so Romana/Leela is my og Gallifrey ship, the one that was so so inevitable because their dynamic is very much my ship type (wlw opposites attract)…and then their chemistry (“There will be a place for you with me, for always.” / “I need you” / “I have lost a great deal. I have lost you.” / “You never will be alone.” etc. etc. etc.) and the overt parallels between Leela’s feelings about Andred and her feelings about Romana, and the way the story uses the narrative structures of romance w/ them (dramatic breakup! pining!)……yep I was definitely going to ship this. I’m utterly in love with how they’re both so alone in different ways at the beginning of Gallifrey and yet they end up reaching out to each other and finding a home in each other. I’m endlessly interested in unpacking the messy complicated dynamics of their relationship - the ways their individual pain and grief clashes, the ways they cling to each other too tightly, the ways they fail to communicate - and the ways they get better at communicating, the ways they choose each other and keep fighting for each other and for their relationship.

(and whoops this is gonna be two paragraphs now) and Narvin/Romana is my other otp for Romana, and that was a surprise, because m/f enemies-to-friends is My Thing, that’s exactly the kind of platonic relationship that Gets Me. and I do love the entirely platonic take on their relationship so much, but I also definitely really ship them?? it’s the combination of “complicated devoted longing and messy power dynamics” in the middle seasons, and “oh my gosh they’ve figured out how to talk about feelings??” in the later ones. so it’s not so much “enemies to friends to lovers” as “enemies to one-sided pining/friendship with complicated power dynamics to more balanced, healthy friendship to lovers”? sort of? basically there’s so many different interesting shippy dynamics to explore with them, ranging from “oh god they do care about each other but this is a mess” to “they’d genuinely be so good together,” depending on when we’re talking, and I love that. I love how their relationship is always changing and growing, and how once they get close, they really share the same sense of duty and care for their world and the universe and the work they’re doing together. I love that they’re two people who have their own individual struggles with forming personal relationships, and so it seems like they shouldn’t ever work, but they do? and I do have a tremendous soft spot for them in the Time War audios in particular….they have such old married couple energy and I love exploring that kind of romance dynamic - warm and settled and really not that different from a committed friendship.

all in all: I’m very much an ot3 shipper, I love the idea of all three of them together (I’m really into exploring poly relationships and it’s super great how open this fandom is to poly shipping!) I probably ship Romana/Leela more consistently than Romana/Narvin, but those two relationships (romantic or platonic) occupy pretty equal amounts of my Gallifrey brainspace? so I’d say both fall into the “otp” category.

(the rest of this is going under a cut because this is so long oops.)

nOTP: nOTP isn’t exactly the right term for my feelings about Brax/Romana since I do read (and enjoy!) fic about them? (but with Gallifrey, I’m very open to reading whatever, I easily fall for good writing even if I’m not into a ship.) but Brax/Romana is definitely not my thing - I think I just have a personal discomfort about teacher/student relationships (and yes, she’s older in Gallifrey, but that mentor-figure dynamic still underpins their relationship, and the whole “your old teacher is romantically interested in you” thing is apparently something I personally nope out at). (obviously I’m not judging anyone who does ship them…heck I have a Romana ship that’s way more toxic. it’s just this particular romantic dynamic is Not For Me). but like I said, I do read fic about them! (It’s just a bit tricky because sometimes a fic will really hit those nope buttons, and sometimes it won’t? hard to say why….but broadly speaking I tend to be more interested in Brax/Romana fics that lean into “there are some unhealthy power dynamics here” rather than away from it - and I tend to compartmentalize even the Brax/Romana fics I like into a different universe in my head to avoid running into that I’m uncomfortable feeling).

random headcanon: ooh which one should I ramble about this time…how about this: Romana II has very particular feelings about touch. unexpected touch from people she doesn’t know/trust is uncomfortable and jarring. and it’s always been somewhat of a thing in this incarnation, but it really became a big deal post-Etra Prime - and even more so post-Pandora crisis - being touched without warning by most people brings up all these feelings of not having control over her own life and body (and mind, since touch also has links to telepathy). however, with the handful of people she does deeply trust, touch is a comforting and grounding thing (and something she really craves), a reminder that there are people who are there for her, people who care for her.

unpopular opinion: ….I told myself I wasn’t going to talk about this on Tumblr because the audio is so universally beloved, but welp it does say unpopular opinion. so, um, the short version is, I can’t reconcile Romana’s characterization in Erasure (aka the Bellescon thing) with Neverland or early Gallifrey or my general interpretation of her character (and I tried! like “wrote a fic to try to make it work for me” tried!). so after I kept running into a wall when trying to write a different Erasure-related fic, I decided, in Doctor Who tradition, to just throw out the bits of canon that don’t work for me. (in other words: Erasure’s not part of my personal canon anymore. which is really unfortunate because I do love so many other parts of it, and it’s a great Narvin audio and great performance. and I can enjoy it as a self-contained thing, but I’ve stopped trying to make it fit with Romana’s characterization elsewhere.) (although I do have an Erasure-related fic that I’ll post one of these days - it’s a section of that fic that hit a wall that I think works well on its own!)

song i associate with them: All the King’s Horses by Karmina / We Are Dragons by Karmina are my top songs for Gallifrey Romana (well, more specifically post-Apocalypse Element Romana). the two songs are variations on each other and they’re just so spot-on for her?? All the King’s Horses gives me major post-Etra Prime feelings (Free to go back on my own / But is it still a home when you’re all alone? / All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put me back together again), and We Are Dragons is such a Gallifrey Romana song in general (Do it all for the love of my kingdom / And here’s to dying for life worth living / And here’s to hoping we bleed for something / I’m not done fighting for what I believe in).

favorite picture of them: anything in her Horns of Nimon outfit or Shada outfit, I love those looks so much! And for fanart: some of my favorite Romana pieces are this three Romanas art by @aethira, and any of the Gallifrey covers by @joycieillustrations (who paints Romana II so incredibly!!)

#thanks for indulging my urge to ramble about romana ii <33 #swinging stars from satellites #ramblings #romana #asks

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