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Okay, so, I said I was working on Pokemon Scarlet / Violet fanfic and that's still kiiiinda true? But for the most part the past few months I've instead been working on...

HamOfJustice's League Club Expansion Pack

... which is a text-file-based imaginary mod of the game (but a blueprint for a real one if someone is able to make it, I guess) that massively expands the DLC postgame to include like a hundred things for characters to talk about, adds new friendship storylines, expands their team rosters and battle AIs, and lets them follow you anywhere in the world, making it not really a League Club thing at all except in spirit.

I'm aiming to do the following:

1. Give the players the living-happily-ever-after postgame that they deserve, and that Pokemon SV basegame really seemed like it was leading up to after Area Zero and all those friendship strengthening storylines

2. Prove I know this gamedev thing isn't easy and do all the work myself to see how viable it really could've been for SV and Pokemon games in general to have more meat on its bones, inspired by what we did get from it so far. I'm not asking for much of anything that requires new models, code, or animations, just text, menus, and repurposed features. Even the AI is pseudocoded by myself

3. Live up to the characters' potential more and leave less up to speculation and fanfic to really explore, explain, heal, capitalize on, and have fun with (okay, this is basically fanfic formatted as a fake datamine, but still) while still being consistent with the tone of the game and leaving plenty of subtext and small details to have fun discussing with other readers rather than stating everything outright

Basically, I wanted this so bad I just did it myself instead of complaining some more, and I want everyone who feels the same way to get to have that experience through me. I've been steadily working on this thing for months (the scope got a little out of hand as you can imagine) and I'm pretty close to releasing Nemona's files, which are the parts I'm most passionate about, but I'm hoping to keep at it after that if I can (Nemona, Penny, Arven, and maybe Kieran and Carmine, at least)

Reviews from people who've seen early previews of my project on Twitter or in DMs:

"You legitimately know more about [Nemona and Penny] than Game Freak, there's really no question about that at this point"

"OH MY GOD IM OBSESSED WITH THIS. it amazes me all the time how your characterisation and voice is PERFECT"

"Holy shit this is so cute... This dialogue is stellar"

"Oh wait this is ur fanmade dialogue? DAMN I THOUGHT IT WAS REAL"

"Goddamn, you went HARD. Congrats on writing more and better story in one day than was put into the DLC"

"AKJCJAJFHQBXBXB nemonas dialogue is so perfect like its EXACTLY her 😭😭😭😭 so is everyone's like Penny's too??? you must be some kind of secret game freak writer…. THIS IS AMAZING 💓💓💓💓💓💓"

There's a big ol' batch of old and new samples I've picked out for you today under the cut if you wanna look. Either way, expect the Nemona part of the actual project to be posted for real soon-ish and her friends one at a time after that, once I get past a bit of writer's block on one part and stop trying to make the angsty cathartic bits perfect

whats ur status on sideways 👀? No joke i think abt it daily.

Thank you for reaching out, Anon! It means a lot to me, knowing that a story I wrote is thought about every day. I think about it every day, too, being the author! It's still the story I'm proudest to have written.

As for the status on Sideways, it currently exists as a hand-written, rough first draft stored in a fire-proof safe. It needs massive changes -- complete scene rewrites and a ton of new scenes (mostly for the paragon timeline). It's currently on my back burner while I focus on an original project.

All the adjustments I made editing the 750k words in Part 1-4 has culminated in a major undertaking editing Part 5.

For instance, the reason Shepard joins the Alliance on Rannoch is different after my changes in Part 4. Before, I didn't have a very good reason for her being there and, because of that peripheral role, she wasn't directly involved in a lot of the things happening. Now she's acting Counselor. She's front and center.

It's a good change, the right change, which is why I did it. However, now a lot of the plot-centric happenings, which were only heard about or referenced through another character, need full scenes with Shepard being impactful and altering the outcomes (much better than being a removed observer).

This will require several new scenes and throwing out old ones that are now unnecessary. Then I need to relocate any extra bits of vital information not in the new scene, to other places in the story.

In addition to whole new scenes, I need to majorily revise whole scenes. There's a party scene on Rannoch, which now the goal behind it and what Shepard is doing during it, has changed. That series of scenes need rewritten.

That example of Shep's purpose on Rannoch changing scenes downstream is just one -- and a mostly spoiler free one -- of the dozens of changes I need to accomodate.

Also, the paragon timeline in particular requires a lot of new writing, maybe 50 k words of new scenes (so, the equivalent of a full novel).

Toward the end of writing the first draft of Sideways, I was starting to get worn down. Writing four storylines sometimes made it feel like I was spending weeks going nowhere, because I wasn't moving forward in the main Renegade timeline. Because of that frustration and wanting to reach the end, I chose to focus less on the paragon timeline, knowing I would need to add more to it during the editing. I left myself with some major work to do on that storyline to do it justice.

All of those reasons aside, the main reason Sideways Part 5 isn't ready is because I shifted focus for the time being. I'm serializing an original sci fi series and trying to establish myself an author. I intended to do this after I finished posting Sideways, but with the emergence of AI, I don't think the opportunity will be there for me if I wait.

Visibility for writing is going to become impossible and slow human writers, like me, will be washed away under the tide of AI mega production. There's an influential author in the indie world, for example, who has stated his intention to produce 10k novels a year, on par with the big publishing houses. That's one person, who with a handful of contractors previously put out a few dozen books a year, if that many, who now intends to do 10k a year!

My opportunity to find readers is now, while AI is still clunky and not universal, before people selling a back catalog of 100k books and with the ad spending to match drive human writers out of the market.

Because of this new priority, I've had to funnel my creativity and focus into my original writing. I'm not someone who can do two things at once. I'm all in on one project at a time. That's probably apparent from my fanfic, where I've only posted one WIP at a time, start to finish before the next. I can't divide my passion on concurrent WIP.

That doesn't mean I don't think about Sideways though -- I do, daily! -- and I intend to finish it. For now, though, unfortunately, Sideways is a draft in some notebooks in a safe. It's not a simple undertaking to edit it, and I need to focus on a personal goal.

Your interest in Sideways is something I treasure, though, and appreciate beyond words. I'm so glad my story isn't forgotten. I love knowing it's still on readers' minds. It makes me feel like, what had so much meaning to me as its writer, truly must carry that meaning through to the reader, too, which is the greatest joy in sharing a story.

Thank you for taking time to check in on Sideways and for letting me know how much it still means to you.

Also, here is a picture of my new puppy as a tiny consolation for not having Sideways ready:

hi!! do u have any tips for people who want to write but... cant for some reason? idk how to explain but it seems like ive hit a barrier with a fic im writing and im not sure how to overcome it D:

ps i absolutely ADORE ur new era fic like i get so excited everytime i get a notif that its updated :DDDD

Hello!! First off, you are SO sweet tysm for the kind words <33 I used to SUCK at motivation with writing before so much, so I completely understand! When I was MAJORLY in my fanfic phase years ago I used to burn out so badly so here are some tips!! Also take ALL of these with a grain of salt bc I might work VERY different than you do:

1) Planning!! I typically don't like to plan everything since I like to be spontaneous with my work, but I DO find it helpful to have like bullet points of where u want that chapter to go. For example for chapter 8 had:

-Bi han sparring

-Kuai Liang talk scene

-Madam Bo advice

-Johnny Cage divorce talk

And that for me helps me have ideas of what to write for and like guage like "oh am I writing what I want to for this chapter?"

2) Don't burn yourself out by writing too much in one sitting? As much as you can get bursts of motivation I learned that don't let yourself carried away by putting yourself in that one burst and then screwing yourself over by just burning yourself out. I also think that doing too much in one sitting also personally wrecks my motivation because for me its like "well that other day I could write 5k in one night why can I barely write 1k now??"

That last tip varies person to person tho?? Like you might not have burn out issues like I may.

3) Write what you feel like! For example, it's REALLY easy for me to write for New Era because it's a little passion project, versus requests where I have a little less direction. BUT sometimes I do have moments where I feel a particular way and those requests are the answer for me since they fit a certain mood I wanna write for. I find that writing what you are really in the mood for, like fluff, angst, etc. Just feels better than just forcing it.

4) Write anyways! I know this will sound contradictory to my last part, but hear me out. Ok so like, a common tip I've always seen is that sometimes the hardest part is to start. But it might help to just put yourself in front of a document and work on it for like a short amount of time at first. Like "oh I'll just write for five minutes" and then you just write. You might end up having the motivation after those five minutes, or if you didn't, you at least got something down which imo is better than nothing!

Those tips are what help me, but again everyone is different so just take my advice and apply it to what suits your needs! Hope you find the motivation to write <3!

I saw an old post of yours saying that you need to write. Can I ask for the name of what you're working on? I'm genuinely curous and might giving it a read. If you don't want to give out the name, then it's fine :D

ooooh! idk which one in particular ur referring to since i say 'i need to write' uhm....a lot. but it was probably about SR,WT (my fanfic).

im mean if it was from august-now it was almost definitely Severed Ropes,Wires Torn, My Fanfiction.

which. you can read here. below. or don't. i'll probably be really embarrassed but it's only because i'm really passionate about it which equals embarrassing. (It's on private cus my sister keeps on trying to find it to wind me up)

Hi Rayne! I see your in the plotting stage of HHU judging from your memes? 💖 *insanely excited* Just curious as I know ur slowly coming out of burnout by returning to fanfic? As somesone who gets rly confused between writers block and writers burnout (I see from other posts/asks you've always refered to it as burnout not block?) could you maybe (only if u want!) share your experience & journey out of burnout as you go? I'm so stuck creatively atm and your journey has always inspired me. 😘 MWAH

Hiya Anon! 😘

I see your in the plotting stage of HHU judging from your memes?

Ha...yeah 😅...you could say that...🫠

Just curious as I know ur slowly coming out of burnout by returning to fanfic?

That is correct, my lovely. Let me take this opportunity to say it's thanks to the amazingly sweet reviewers that I've had the courage to do this after so long away. They give me the chakra with their engagement, I give them the chapters with my insanity - it's a beautiful thing. 💜

As somesone who gets rly confused between writers block and writers burnout (I see from other posts/asks you've always refered to it as burnout not block?)

Completely understandable you'd get confused between the two. For definition's sake, my personal experience with Writer's Block and Burnout is this:

WRITER'S BLOCK

BLOCK: I have no ideas. My brain screen is white noise. My canvas is blank. I can't think of any stories or characters or scenes. Its a ghost town. There are tumbleweeds. And crickets. There is a big BLOCK and nothing can come INTO my headspace/heartspace. Maybe I need inspiration. Maybe I need a muse. Maybe I need to return to stuff I love and enjoy (outside of writing) to grease the wheels and get the ball rolling again. Maybe I need to just play around a bit with WIPS or switch projects and try some creative exercises. There's not usually a bigger, neurological issue playing out here. There might be (and often is) an emotional / mental one and that looks different for different people. Maybe I can power through this and crack on (some do, some don't). It's not spilling into other areas of my life. I still have the desire to write.

WRITER'S BURNOUT

BURNOUT: I have ideas. Many ideas. My brain screen is active, but it's on mute and sometimes grainy. My canvas has the picture sketched out, but I've gone colourblind. I can think of stories and characters and scenes but I cannot connect to them or express them. It's not a ghost town, it's a burning wasteland during dawn of the dead and I am the zombie staggering around. I cannot connect to what I am seeing/feeling about the characters/stories I love. I do not have the energy, clarity, or capacity to CREATE (put on the page/screen) what I am HOLDING inside me. It's not gone or absent, I AM. I cannot connect to it. I can't THINK straight. Brainfog on STEROIDS. Apathy creeping in. There is a big BLACKNESS and nothing can COME OUT of my headspace/heartspace. Those spaces are malfunctioning. Maybe I need a brain transplant or defibrillation. Maybe I need a bit of self-care. Maybe I need Jesus / Buddha / Insert-Your-Go-To-God or Grace-Place Miracle...because turning to things I used to love isn't doing it. I can't feel anything (losing joy and love for things you used to enjoy is a big part of it). Nothing is greasing these wheels or getting this ball rolling again until I walk through the hellfire and address the pyromanic issues that set me and my world on fire (not in the good passionate way; think petrol self-immolation montage). Said issues are both emotional / mental AND physical (neurological/health related) and it's an unholy trine that needs to be addressed gently and with grace, because if I try to POWER through this wasteland I will lose so, so hard and set myself back even further. It's not isolated to creativity. It's spilling all over the bloody shop and impacting other areas of my life. I can't feel the joy or desire anymore.

TL;DR:

Writer's Block = Struggling to conceive and generate ideas, cannot get the ideas IN (inspiration, doubt, perfectionism, tiredness, often emotional/mental root causes). Doesn't usually affect other areas of your life. Desire to write is there. Tough but not severe. Writer's Burnout = Struggling to connect to writer's heart and give birth to ideas, cannot get the ideas OUT (no energy, no capacity, chronic, physical/emotional/mental root causes). Affects other areas of your life. Desire to write is gone (worst feeling EVER). Existential writer crisis. BLOODY SEVERE.

Now...

I'm not sure if that helps, luv? But from my mad ramblings you can see how I view them as completely different entities. I've experienced bouts of writer's block and I've always managed to power through it with the right approach (again, that's different for everyone) because though it was tough, I hadn't lost my writer heart. Burnout is very different. Writer heart is buried under smoking rubble. Nothing tried-and-tested for BLOCK could get me through the BURNOUT -- it's a whole different monster, way more sinister and boss-level bad. It needs a whole different treatment, and in my experience, that recovery and treatment needs to be HOLISTIC.

[...] could you maybe (only if u want!) share your experience & journey out of burnout as you go? I'm so stuck creatively atm and your journey has always inspired me. 😘 MWAH

I'm so sorry you're feeling creatively stuck. That's rubbish on fire, and I feel for you. I hope my words above gave you a little insight into my experience of burnout (in a really abstract way, sorry!). I'd highly recommend Becca Syme's work on burnout, though it's geared specifically towards writers (though artists and other creatives can definitely benefit from her YouTube series on Burnout and 'energy pennies' etc). I tend to sometimes post a few quotes and pieces on burnout, but I can do more of that if it helps other creatives?

Fortunately more and more, burnout is becoming acknowledged for creatives and not just those in the corporate world. Generating creative energy and expending it requires TREMENDOUS energy (usually joyful) at a core level. If that joyful source runs dry, it's time to find the exit wound(s) and see where the heck you've been bleeding out (hence, holistic approach for a usually chronic state) - and that is unique to each individual, even if burnout is a universal condition (paradoxically, it can look/present both similarly and very differently for people, as with most things).

I sincerely hope that you're blocked and not burntout, sweetheart (though if you ARE burntout, there is absolutely a way back from that). Either way, it sucks not to be able to create. Again, I'm not sure if anything I've shared here has helped or answered your question properly. Thanks for your patience in my lengthy response.💜💜 I have deep empathy for those who lose their creative light (not the spark, but the whole damn fire) and hence my tendency to rant on and on...I shall shut up now.

Big love and creative energy coming at you. 🥰 May the root cause of your "stuckness" be removed from you and may inspiration and JOY pave the way back to your creative spirit.💜

i dont know them outside of ur own fanfic but uhh. swiftli + nature? maybe they like plants how should i know i just like your writing :]

OMG AWWWEEDJFJEFJ THANK YOU OMG!!! i didn't know you read my fanfic omg🥺🥺🥺💖💖💖

okayyy nature so taylor canonically goes outside in the rain without an umbrella (he's me FOR REAL !) so i'm just thinking about ... AjwjjAHEIOAJDAIDHQISOAORJW I JUST HAD THE MEMORY OF GOOD OMENS 2 WHERE CROWLEY SAID GET HUMANS WET AND STARINF INTO EAFH OTH3RS EYES AND VAVOOM.... EAHOEAJ39AJ3I SORRY ANYWAYS. um. i'm taking that as inspo.

link and taylor are walking outside in the rain so taylor can show him how nice and cool and refreshing it is but then the rain gets heavier so they take shelter under an awning and taylor is grinning like mad bc he loves the rain and link isn't fond of being soaking wet but he's smiling too because taylor's joy radiates off him in such a way that it spreads to everyone his passion touches and they're staring at each other and they're soaking wet but smiling and giggling and then they lean in and kiss i think..♡ I SHOULD WRITE THIS INTO A FIC!!! MAYBE I WILL!!!! OMG!!! i actually will hold awn let me open a google doc

uhm....

teeeheee..ill also crosspost this on tumblr in a sec♡

Little Update

Alright it’s been nearly a month and a half since i’ve posted any info on my ongoing progress so I feel like it’s about time to give y’all an update. I’ve taken a bit of a creative break during this time, Focusing more on Schooling and Mental heath and stuff. I can assure you i’m still very passionate about my little side projects, just needed some time to get things together. Currently you can still expect my two ongoing Rottmnt comics to come out sometime. I have the plotline for both “Tendrils” and “Mutant Menace” basically complete, it’s just the like, actual writing I gotta get done. I still have life stuff to deal with so I probably won’t get Chapter 2 out untill late February, early March. Thank y’all so much for your support! It really encourages me to keep at my fan projects, even if it takes a while!

TLDR Version for ya: haven’t been able to update fics because I got life stuff to catch up on. Wouldn’t expect an update untill late Feb. / early March. Thank y’all so much for ur support and patience ❤️!

i’m always open to talk about my interests so feel free to send an ask if u’d like! Below is a post where you can find more info on my 2 current fanfics:

🔮💛😎💭🍬

🔮 Any advice for writers working through burnout or writer’s block?

good luck!! LKAGHSDGLKASD ok, i'm joking for the most part, but i guess it really depends how bad of a block ur in and how ur brain works? for me, i work thru my writers block by engaging with media i love. replaying my favorite games, reading fic, listening to music, talking to friends and community members about fandom stuff, and eventually something clicks and gets me creative and excited again. most of my writers block comes from tying myself up in knots with my own ideas or being overly critical about a plot point or characterization choice, and in those cases, talking it out with other writers helps me untangle! sometimes even talking out loud to myself is good for that.

whenever it escalates to burnout, tho, i know i have to take a step back and leave writing for a little. recharge by doing something else - i still own a bunch of coloring books (anyone remember johanna basfords coloring books that popped off a few years ago?) that i go fill out, go out of my way to spend more time with my pets, trying out new recipes in the kitchen, listening to some new music, and overall engaging with other unrelated creative sources. i personally believe that rest and not creating for a while is equally important to writing as the writing itself, so... rest!

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

in terms of practical advice, i always remember an old friend (a writer i admired a lot when i was 15-16 that i was lucky enough to get into contact with skype, who i unfortunately lost contact with many years ago) telling me that you can always skip scenes i'm struggling with to write whatever's on my mind, regardless if its the next thing to happen chronologically. it sounds very obvious, but i used to be stuck in projects for months bc i couldn't figure out the scene immediately after what i already had written, so that piece of advice really changed things for me - altho i still have to remind myself of that sometimes!

in broader terms, i'd say that writing what you're passionate about and invested in is vital to staying creative, even if its niche or specific, and that this'll show in ur work. i carved my own little corner on the internet and found a lot more joy in writing when i fully leaned into the things that make me happy, into the themes i like exploring and the characters i love, in entertaining the simplest to the silliest of ideas, leaving concepts of originality and worries about popularity in the backburner (or simply hitting the bricks on it entirely!). worrying too much about public perception stresses me out and i think writing more freely is something everyone can benefit from

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

it depends on the fandom i'm reading but overall i like canon compliant stuff more! exploring the nooks and crannies of plots, locations and character dynamics always pulls me in

💭 What inspires you and your writing?

i feel like i largely went over my biggest inspirations in the other asks but something that has always driven my fics is exploring/fleshing out relationships between the characters. like,, what do they mean to each other? what they bring out in each other? why is their relationship like this? is it positive, or a negative? things like that. especially in a romantic sense - as a demi person who was never romantically involved with anyone, and bc of how i experience attraction and all, its a topic that deeply fascinates me (and theres also a bit of... wanting to experience it vicariously thru fiction)

🍬 Do you write for multiple fandoms? If yes, what is your favorite fic of yours for each fandom?

i've written for many many fandoms before, but currently i write persona 5 and demon slayer/kimetsu no yaiba fanfic!

my favorite persona 5 fic of mine is currently a WIP but i'm pretty proud of the first (and only) one i posted so far! you can read it here.

its hard to pick one demon slayer fic to link here tbh but my personal favorite is the one i wrote with a close friend of mine! you can read it here

“some scenes in the last chap that really push boundaries in terms of how emotionally and physically intimate “ 👀

How physically intimate. Got me on the edge of my seat here.

Ah same I love how repressed Alicent is it makes it so delicious to unpick it. I think otto has a lot to answer for. The relief though when she finally finds who she is. She never gets that in canon

Absolutely nothing toxic about rhaenyra beating the snot out of larys 😂 💪 .

I can’t wait for the last chapter and I’m sad coz I never want it to end

How did you even think of this story premise it’s so unique.

This can’t be the first story you’ve written. You write to detailed and well.

Any other ideas after this one.

Love it seriously.Gets me in the feels.

I love arranged strangers to lovers aus. This one had blown me out the water though.

20k updates as well is insane 😂

Omg I just had a thought you killed vizzy t off without a single regret 😂 are Joffrey and laenor safe. 😭 pain

❤️

i don't want to spoil anything but i will say Someone will be naked and Someone will be having thoughts about it.

and i'm going to be completely honest and say that the primary inspo for this fic was a kpop fanfiction i read when back when that was like My Thing... i have grown much since then. and my story ended up being quite different and way longer. but still, gotta give credit where credit is due

and yeah i've been creative writing for a while! i've written some other fanfiction but i tend to have a lot of difficulty following through on ideas. this fanfic was going to be a little project to take advantage of some free time i had, then it got a bit bigger than expected. but i've been p proud of myself in terms of followthrough and maintaining motivation so far! and thank you for ur kind words :)

in terms of other ideas, i've got truly Too Many. i'm really hoping the motivation holds out bc i'm p passionate about these other ideas atm. my next priority is this idea i've been kicking around about rhaenyra and alicent being roommates at a boarding school. i've got another idea where rhaenyra is the nanny for alicent's kids, and then one idea that i love (but will admit is kinda wild) for a fic that takes place in the rural american south. v many ideas!! and i keep thinking of more, which is a blessing and a curse at the same time

and i will spoil and say that i'm not gonna kill joff or laenor. those poor gay boys deserve better

thanks for the ask!

girl help, I'm caught up in my own brainrot for a slowburn plasma fic au, where Jay is a fanfic writer and Kai just wants to understand what Starfarer is

- - -

Logging into his Readdit account, Jay looked through the usual memes and updates on the Starfarer's thread. Throwing his comments and memes around. Chuckling at the weird theories and crack idea’s near the bottom. He was about to sign off and check up on some friends when an alert popped on his screen. A message from his friend, one of the mods on the board.

“Lol. check this out ur always complaining about having no one to talk to” It read, a link to a post, posted several hours before. It must’ve been buried underneath everything else.

“Looking for someone to explain the goddamn lore of this stupid show” The title stated, it explained that the poster had a little brother into the show, but they couldn’t understand any of the lore. “Looking for someone patient with internet illiterate dorks.” Raising an eyebrow at the odd description, he looked at the comments below to see that the poster was the first comment, listing ways to contact them.

“Ignore the internet illiterate comment, my stupid sister put it in and i dont know how to change it.” Jay couldn’t help but chuckle, looking at the two ways of contacting this poster he decided to do Disharmony, it was the easiest way anyway.

“eyo!! i saw ur post on readdit

im always free if u got questions about the fandom or the lore :]”

- - -

Hours later, Jay was scrolling through Rumblr when he heard the oh so familiar, yet annoying, ding of Disharmony. Sharing the fanart he was looking at, he switched over to the app, looking to see if it was his friends screaming over his new rewrite ideas. But no, it was a message from a barely familiar name, $hougun1987, the guy with the Readdit post.

“hey”

“yello, how u being? :)” Jay responded quickly.

“uhhhhhhh, fine i guess.”

Jay hummed, he didn’t want to scare him off, but the guy didn’t seem comfortable. “So u want to know more about starfarer?”

He watched nothing happen for a second, then the small writing icon appeared. Jay had set his to be a bluebird, it slowly flapped its wings as he waited for the guy to reply.

“yeah my lil bro is super into it. Loves to talk about it, but i dont understand a thing he says about it”

Jay nodded in understanding; he wanted to share the show with many of his friends too. But after the third death in the second season and the weird time travel episode that messed with a lot of the timeline, he always ended up losing them in the confusion.

“its pretty awesome ur willing to try and understand it most find it pretty duanting”

“i dont care if it is you should see his face light up when he talks about it, all I want is to understand half of what hes saying he’ll light up so much more when he can talk about it to someone” They responded immediately, Jay was shocked about the passion in his words.

“if u dont mind me asking why r u asking for someone to explain it? theres plenty of vids about it”

“You cant ask videos questions”

“Comments?”

“They all speak gibberish too Imm stubborn and suck at learning I just need a person who can go slow and can answer questoins"

Jay blinked, this almost seems too perfect. Someone who wanted all the details, and was willing to listen to him ramble about every aspect of the show he had been hyper-fixating on for almost two years now? AND was going to ask questions. . .

He couldn’t pass this up, even his own friends in the community were tired of listening to him ramble about the show.

“we’ll, honestly, my dude, this sounds like a great project id be more than happy to help if u want me” Jay responded, not trying to sound too excited.

“sounds good how about we start tomorrow? ill message u”

“Yee! what ur name btw?”

“what!?! im not giving you my name!!”

Chuckling he quickly responded, “i dont want ur name, just wanna know what to call u we’re going to be chatting for a while it’d be awkward to call u dude the whole time”

There was a pause, and for a second Jay was worried that he scared him off, but then the app dinged as he responded.

“shogun, call me shogun”

Grinning from ear to ear, Jay replied. “hi shogun, im plasma :)”

Fanfic Writer End of Year Ask Game: 4, 8, 13, 15, 28, and 33?

4. What piece of writing are you most proud of?

Hmmmm; has to be from the epilogue of Rewrite Finale. its so sweet and simple that i just-made me so happy when i looked at it finished 'Once upon a time; there was a girl. A girl from one world who fell into another, and fell in love with what she saw. She had hundreds of adventures and found her happily ever after in a boy named Harry Hook.

She never regretted a thing as she grew into her old age, never regretted not trying to go home, never regretted her love.

Her happily ever after was Part of this world."

its justaiohsdjahsdahs its just the ending of a fic i had been imagingin since 2017 came to life and im just so fukin proud of it.

8. What mood has been most prevalent in your works this year? Ex. angst, hurt/comfort, fluff, etc.

fucking ANGST, i write so damn much of it. always Harry whump too nothing else.XD

13. What story haunts you when you try to sleep at night?

daughter of the honorable thief, i just feel bad that i abandoned it after it being one of my very first long fics. even before poyw came to be. i will get back to it one day i just-cant find any direction with it.

15.Are there are other writers or artists who have inspired you?

you, Harriyanna, my friend Luna who wrote this fucking amazing Kylo story thats shes turning into a fully orginal character content book and ahhhhhhhh, clashatdemonheads their art is so fuckin amazing i love how they draw Mal. aaaaand so many more that i cant remember heh

28.What is your favorite story or chapter title you came up with this year?

my fav story HAS to be Finale rewrite, im so happy with how the entire series turned out but d3 rewrite was just-my passion project. form the redesigns to the plot changes i made, im just so happy with it

33.What was your biggest writing struggle this year?

honestly? kinda just-writing- once i finished rewrite finale ive been kinda in a drag? not like-in a drag more of-my brain wont stay in one fic, i cant focus on one thing. i have a commission series that im only just starting p4 on, i have regained passion, i have remember your past, i have POYW 2.0 that is 13 parts in, and all the oneshots i still wanna write. my rewritexLia crossover shit, the male!reader x Harry Hook that takes place in ur true defender universe, the bad end rewrite; aioshdoiuahsda i just have so many ideas in my brain that i just can focus on T_T

Miceal i just saw one of those ‘read a real book lmao fanfics are inferior’ post and i guess i read it in a bad timing but it makes me feel kindda shitty :)) because as a fic writer i treat my work as if it were to be fit for publishing (amateur, i guess, because my editor is a friend who aspire to be one) and reading that take just make me go ???????

I just wonder if these people ever consider how much work writers have put to their works. Like ofc i know there are tons of rough works out there but still at least those people... tried? (And even if they didnt like... so what honestly)

Idk i guess i need a bit of your sharp insight on all these ur like a ray of light in the middle of these mess of sewage gas tbh

this attitude makes me curl my lip like a YA villain honestly... very bad take. sure, there are shitty fanfics out there, but boy HOWDY there are shitty books out there too. I think this attitude has come, partially, from the toxic fandom environment that’s so prevalent these days, because a lot of these terrible takes come from people who could benefit from reading other works outside of a fandom context and you know, learning how content works in the real world. (especially with regards to warnings and censorship.) unfortunately people have taken this attitude and ran with it, and also generalised to everyone who interacts with fanfic, and because they want someone to attack they blame the writers, and... yeah. messy, and ironically the precise kind of cold take that comes from being terminally online (just like what they’re accusing the people they’re attacking of!). 

but to get to the point: I’m a serious writer, writing is now officially my full-time job, I aim to be published sooner rather than later, I read 100+ books a year... and I write fanfic. the biggest project I’m working on right now (currently 150,000 words and nowhere near done; will likely be around 400,000 words when I finish) is a fanfic for a YouTube horror series that was active in 2009-2014. I don’t read a lot of fanfic, admittedly, but out of the ones I have read I remember some of them as vividly as I do my favourite books, and I also write a lot of it and I have been doing so since I was 13 or 14 years old. I’ve seen this argument so many times, and it’s bullshit. literally all the writers I know also write fanfic alongside their original projects, and some of them write exclusively fanfic. does this make them lesser writers? absolutely not. to be a writer all you need is a story to tell, and all you need to do is write it down. boom. that’s all it takes.

guaranteed the people who say this shit aren’t writers themselves, and if they are I do worry about the... quality of their work. I also wonder how much they actually read, or if it’s more an aesthetic/gotcha than an actual passion. people with this kind of attitude tend to be very pretentious and certainly more concerned with putting other people down than practising their art or actually engaging meaningfully in their hobbies, and as a certified Book Person I resent how people like this give us normal readers a bad name. as somebody passionate about writing, and who intends to make it my career, I support writing in all its forms. nothing is lesser. nothing “isn’t real writing”. if you tell a story, and it makes you feel something, and if you choose to share it, it goes on to make others feel something? you’ve done your job. you’ve created something good, you’ve worked hard and it’s paid off, you’ve practised your craft and done something you’re proud of, and another thing exists in the world be it for your eyes only or not. what have these people done? been a clown on tumblr dot com, but that’s about it.

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Name: Illegible or Illegiblewords lately. I’ve switched it in the past a few times.

Fandoms: I’ve been in Final Fantasy XIV for the past couple of years now. Passively I might be in Pathologic fandom and Dragon Age fandom? Maybe others too on and off. I was in comic fandoms for a long time but honestly that spiraled into a hot mess of epic proportions so I’ve mostly peaced out of there. Still love stories, characters, and buddies from there though.

Most Popular Oneshot: Ironically it’s Ideation for Bladerunner 2049 haha. I did exactly one fic there right after seeing the movie and didn’t go back, but I thought it was very good and I had a specific story I wanted to tell. It’s one of my most popular fics, and given it’s gen too I’m actually kind of happy about that.

Most Popular Multichapter: The Immortal Wound for FFXIV fandom! I had only just started writing for the fandom, and the series leading up to this fic was my first time writing NPC shipping in FFXIV. I was seriously, SERIOUSLY nervous at first! I wrote the first fic, Posturing, as a personal challenge to do an ambiguous protagonist/NPC since I saw other people doing that and wanted to see if I could pull it off. Posted it at around 4 in the morning then deleted within a few minutes out of anxiety lol. A week went by before I read it again, realized I still liked it, and put it back up for good. That being well-received helped encourage me to keep trying, and by The Immortal Wound it was getting solid attention. The experience really meant a lot to me!

Actual Worst Part of Writing: Probably chapter maps within the outlining process for me. It’s needed for how I approach things, but shit is anxiety-inducing and stressful af lol. I basically plan each event out in high detail before actually writing the fic, so when the time comes for me to legit write I’m more or less following a plan I can trust. Making that plan is the tough part.

How Do You Choose Your Titles: Often titles are the last things I figure out before starting the fic itself. I know I like punchy stuff if I can manage. Sometimes it’ll be one word, sometimes it’ll be a quote or song lyric, sometimes it’ll be a saying, sometimes it’ll be a phrase that feels fitting. I go fast and loose usually, and tbh I’ve tried to tell myself not to overthink it too hard. I do try title related works in ways that have some thematic link when I can.

Do You Outline: HahahahahaHAHAHAHAhaha yeah. Straight up my outlines are eldritch terrors for their detail, length, and complexity. I don’t mean that as a brag at all, seriously--I tend to get frozen a bit if I don’t have an outline by and large because it’s hard for me to keep track of what’s in my head and plan accordingly. Just end up with too many moving parts + revision and pacing get wonky otherwise.

Depending on the project I might have sections tied to setting, characters, magic systems, religions, etc. at the top. Fanfic this is less likely but does crop up sometimes.

To give an example of the first bullet of the first chapter of an ongoing fic:

Post-Shinryu, the Warrior of Light lingers in the Royal Menagerie alone at his own insistence to search for the Eye of Nidhogg. In the process he remembers the fight against Zenos and Shinryu. Note he was overcome by an almost feral rage at Zenos’ assumption that he was the target of anything resembling lust. Those attentions (“bite down upon my jugular”) belong to another, but note similarities of two pale-eyed, long-haired blondes. Seeing Shinryu, the Warrior had no idea whether Lahabrea survived within. The fusion was horrifying to see and as he fought he didn’t hold back because besides obvious dangers, he was also ready to mercy kill if needed. Also note Warrior wanted to intervene against Thordan for Lahabrea but wasn’t fast enough, questions a little privately how far he’d have gone against him. It might not have mattered even if he’d managed since he knows Lahabrea was going crazy and unable to listen. Locating and examining the Eye, he recognizes how drained it is. Certainly not enough to threaten him when dealing with post-battle exhaustion. So he reaches inside with his own aether, relentless in pushing aside every foreign element—Nidhogg, Thordan, the corrupted Rhalgr, the places Zenos caged them all under his own will. Zodiark’s tempering is what helps him ultimately find Lahabrea, who is barely alive. Zodiark’s tempering has preserved what it could but has a much more tenuous grip in consequence. When the Warrior finds him Lahabrea isn’t even aware, functionally unconscious. The tempering flares against him defensively and this time the Warrior focuses on it. This is all that has allowed Lahabrea to stay alive. He could force himself closer but there is no vessel. Besides, the process of separating a fragile soul so deficient in aether is too great a risk. So he keeps the Eye.

It’s not the only bullet of comparable size for that chapter. The overall piece has at least 40 total chapters, but probably more.

Ideas I Probably Won’t Get Around To, But Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Tbh probably some of the earlier WIPs I have that aren’t finished already. Not just FFXIV (Dead Language, With Good Intentions) but other fandoms. I could end up circling back in the future one day but who knows.

Callouts @ Me: “NO MORE WIPS HOLY SHIT YOU HAVE OVER 20″, “RELEARN HOW TO DO DRABBLES”, “GET UR PRESENTS DONE”, “REVIEW OTHERS MORE THE STAGE FRIGHT IS RIDICULOUS”.

Best Writing Traits: I try to write any character as the hero of their own story/with the capacity to be someone’s favorite. I do my research and prioritize telling a good story first and foremost. I can change my writing style according to need and am good at capturing the cadence and word choices of different characters.

Spicy Tangential Opinion: If no transaction has been made (esp. monetary), no one owes you shit online. Not reviews, not hits, not praise, not agreement, not content of any sort. It sucks to feel like you’re creating to a void. It sucks to be passionately in love with a rarepair when other ships are drowning in art and stories.

People still don’t owe you.

If you don’t like someone else’s content, create something exploring what you do like... or even why you don’t like that content. Tell a story. Create art. Make photosets and playlists and analyses. If it is not a literal crime (as opposed to portraying fictional crime), don’t discourage other creators no matter how awful you might find their stuff. Lend your own voice to an alternative as convincingly as you can. And if that doesn’t persuade others, you need to keep honing your own skills.

If you want more of something to exist, spread inspiration. Again this can be in storytelling, art, photosets, playlists, analysis, you name it. Give form to your passion. And if others disagree or don’t respond, keep working at it. This is a skill too, and it takes practice.

I’ve found it shows when work is created out of a sense of guilt, fear, or obligation. The quality is much lower and no one latches on to keep building in-turn. And IMO it is essential to build up rather than tearing down.

Hi!!! Idk who Bathsheba is but your fanart of her is absolutely gorgeous! (Ik that some of them aren’t ur art but it’s still consider urs.)

Actually no fanart made for my fanfics is mine. I know how to write, but not how to draw. Fortunately, I’ve been blessed with the friendship of many amazing, talented people who have been kind enough to read my fics in the past and decided to gift me some art made by them, based both in my OCs or other TR characters.

Since you asked, I want to mention them again to tribute their love, friendship and dedication to my fics. None of this works were commissioned - not because I won’t pay for their talent, which I’m doing anyway in other aspects (Patreon, Redbubble), - but because it’s my moral guideline not to tell artists to draw something for me. I feel happy enough to see they draw and keep their talent alive. So, all of this pieces were given out of their good heart and free will. I’m gonna just mention and show some artwork.

1. @hydraballista

Powerful, passionate, this artist who is well formed in comic style drawing and digital design has gifted me many drawings, scenes and sketches devoted to my fics and my OCs. She has done some wonderful works, indeed, but I want to remark the digital covers made for the Spanish versions of The Golden Seal and Lilith’s Scepter, my first two TRAOD sequels, a wonderful design out of her brilliant and creative mind. Not only that, she’s been kind and generous to gift me two copies of my own fics in this design and the original of Lara kissing Kurtis at the end of the first sequel, among other little scraps and sketches.

It is well to highlight her rough and strong Lara and his cheerful and carefree Kurtis, liberated from all grief, she loves to draw, far from any sexualization or shallowness. It is good to mention she’s right now working in her own comic project of Bloodline, which was meant to be Kurti’s first spin-off game.

2. @adayka

Sometimes sweet, sometimes powerful, sometimes dramatic, sometimes funny as hell, Jasmine, to whom belongs the Batsheba you’ve seen and has generated this ask, is one of the most recent blessings to my fanfics. Her drawing and colouring talent has really no limits. Despite she has a very defined style for her faces, she’s able to draw a wide range of expressions and situations always managing to touch your heart. There not a thing she can’t draw, and she’s been the most prolific in drawing for my fics.

Not only prolific, but also kind and generous: she’s been amazingly altruist to gift me practically all the originals she has drawn for them, including an amazing, craft handed Kurtis’ journal taken from the lore of my fics - Kurtis having a sketchbook to practice drawing; and this far before that we knew Murti Schofield has plannes a similar reward for the @trdarkangel project. Inspired, also, in Werner’s diary in TRAOD, of course.

3. Carola Funder

Used to be a very appreciated TR fan artist, though now it’s been a while she has moved on to other projects, she drew some scenes for The Golden Seal out of her good will, which I’m still very grateful for. 

Her strong, well built - even buffed - athletic figures are very remarkable of her style. She has drawn some of the best classic/TRAOD Laras AND Kurtis that I can remind. All in traditional style.

4. @angel-in-shadow

Recently arrived to the current fandom, she’s a digital artist who has done many fresh, new renders using the actual models taken from the game, for which I’m grateful since I don’t like renders using “realistic” new models, or models for other games (specially LAU trilogy and reboot, ugh).

She has done covers and renders for The Golden Seal and Lilith’s Scepter, too, and some scenes for the first one. She’s also a fanfic author and is currently working on renders for her fic, The New Order.

5. @anentireamazon

- Anna, one of my latest OCs, from the fic The Awakening. Surely she reminds you of someone in particular, but with a slight change… :)

Currently developing her own style, my sister Elena works on digital art with her tablet out of her own motivation, that means, she’s autodidact. She has made many drawings for my fics and will probably kill me for sharing this one but here goes anyway.

Not many have dared yet with my Anna, so, this is a must.

6. Kyu Chan

Speaking of people who has dared with Anna… here comes Ariadna, Spanish reader and friend who has made some artworks for my recent fanfics Mr Vance Renner and The Legacy, the one still on updates. She also uses tablet and she’s one of the scarce, scarce Spanish readers left.

I’ll have to stop here so the post doesn’t go too far and it’s too long. Of course, many other artists (***) have worked on my fics in the past - I’m so lucky! - but I’ve mentioned them in past asks and if I recall correctly, those posts stop where this one starts. So I hope this one was useful and entertaining to you.

*** My love and tribute also to Kaworu, Damian, Mystique, Scheroff and @anyathebloodshell (*) for your contributions ***

Please, consider following these artists and giving them your best - likes and reblogs - for each one deserves love and have more and amazing works apart from the ones they did for my fics. And of course, if you once feel like reading my fics which are linked in this post, I’ll be immensely grateful myself, too.

As I said at the beginning, I don’t reclaim ownership on this works, they are theirs, not mine. But they were gifts and no gift shall be returned, right? ;) Thanks for the ask!

Ur fanfic made me like the fake dating trope for the first time entire in my life

I’m honored!!!! I love tropes like fake dating but I’m not much of a fan of cookie cutter stories. People can write and enjoy whatever they want, but I didn’t really want that for my story. I like twists and turns and staying constantly entertained. Writing OHTMF has been nothing but a thrill and it warms my heart to know that so many people enjoy my passion project. Stay awesome guys!!!