I’LL GO FIRST

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You people are saints

Let’s do this. Instead of replying, though, send me an Ask.

[id: a tweet reading “Reply with a fic premise that 100% sounds like the kind of thing I would write, and I’ll tell you how embarrassingly accurate it is.”] 

Send me an ask

a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions

Too many children in the comments like ‘I think authors should be able to share ko-fi links :) it’s just nice’ and ‘OP is just a cop.’ Homie, OP is trying to keep AO3 fully functional without interruption. I will report your ass, too, because I value fic artists and our freedom of expression and my audience and our shared history far more than I value the few bux you wanna make on a commission.

It is not hard to link to your Tumblr or Twitter with a vague message like, “If you’re looking for my other works or other ways of supporting me, go here: link.” I have had people buy me coffees after enjoying my fic and asking where to support me. I threw up a link to my Tumblr and people cared enough to follow it. They were fully understanding when I explained in the comments that they could not commission me and I could not link them directly to any donation platform, but they could go to xyz link to read more. And they did! Nobody has to put AO3 directly on the firing line.

Go ahead and commission independently. Just do it anywhere else except on AO3. And then don’t come crying to the community when you, personally, get a C&D from a massive corporation.

AO3 is our bullet shield. Tumblr will pull your shit down. Wattpad won’t fucking protect you. LJ and FF.net already sold our asses for one (1) corn chip. AO3 is trying to protect us, you goddamn lemmings.

If you cannot follow the rules that protect fanspaces, you do not belong in our fanspaces.

The only people who misunderstand this are doing so intentionally and maliciously. Do yourself a favor and block the infants who think this isn’t a big deal.

Actually, I’ll point out that not making money does not mean it’s fair use. It may weigh in favor of fair use but it doesn’t equal fair use.

Streaming Video Games = Copyright Violation

Fan Art = Copyright Violation

The reason that copyright holders haven’t consistently sued fanartists or streamers (oh wait they have) is because they choose not to, because it doesn’t take from their revenue and can be free advertising for their brand.

I think fan fiction gets shut down more often because it’s not seen as real art or real writing, but simply as stealing in a way that drawing fan art does not.

Do not violate TOS on websites, you can be banned. However, you should treat fan writers as artists. That includes being willing to comission and not demand free stories. That includes following them on social media and contributing to tip jars.

If a guy on the street can sing a copy righted song and get tips, a transformative writer can get tips.

But not on AO3 because they don’t want to fight to push the limits of fair use (Twitch is since they get revenue from streamers streaming copyrighted games) and want to instead, be very careful, to avoid liability because of fanfic is in a gray area it’s not outright illegal.

A helpful How to guide for embedding images on AO3 (yes, I even included the HTML this time)

AO3 Guides Part 1

Short sentences! Keep the action moving! Don’t slow the flow! Leave behind unnecessary descriptors!

Though ymmv on what is a ‘necessary descriptor’ and what is not. What color the curtains are in the room the fight is taking place is probably not. What another character looks like when they’re punched in the face probably is.

But in the midst of high emotions, the human brain also has a habit of noticing and latching onto odd, incongruous things. There’s this one fight scene I wrote in which, at one point, a character is pinned against a glass candy counter. While his face is smushed against it and he knows he’s losing the fight, he notices the varieties of candy inside. It’s a detail that adds a discordant note of realism to the scene in that it reminds the reader that this isn’t happening in a place where violence normally happens and also foreshadows that, like the candy, he’s about to get consumed.

But the golden rule with fight scene descriptors - I think - is “is it something the character would notice in the midst of the action?” If so, keep going with the flow.

On the topic of short sentences: I think fight scenes are most effective when the violence is sudden and jarring and the style used to write it is markedly different from that used in the rest of the story. Sometimes I even go so far as to warp the rules of grammar during a fight scene. A sentence is cut off by a too-swift-to-react-to hit. The action becomes disjointed and divided by the blinks of a character’s eyes as he tries to blink away the irritants the other combatant just threw in his face, while still going on with the fight in spite of everything. A character’s entire sense of reality is warped as he beats the tar out of another character and sees, not the person he’s literally beating, but every single other person (including himself) that he’s actually mad at. 

I used to write free form poetry and weirdly, that’s the practice that’s helped me the most in writing fight scenes. It’s a style of writing that requires the crystallization of intense emotions within just a few sentences and really, that’s the core of what a fight scene’s all about. 

On a more down-to-earth note: Know the abilities and limits of the human body! I absolutely cannot recommend @scriptmedic enough for that. The philosophy of her book Maim your Characters has had a huge, huge, cannot-be-overstated impact on how I write fight scenes and violence in general. 

Watching fight scenes and then describing what happened in them to yourself or another person is also really good practice. Kind of acting them out yourself while you’re writing also helps. Bonus points if you’ve got another person willing to play-fight with you.

Imma push back a bit. To me, short sentences slow things down because you stop at every period. Which reads faster: “He ducked. He popped back up and threw a punch. His enemy’s head snapped backwards.” or: “He ducked, then popped back up and threw a punch, snapping his enemy’s head backwards.” To me, commas are your friend in fight scenes! To be fair, you want some fights to feel desperate and choppy. This is where I’ll use more periods. But if my combatants are skilled and experienced, I’ll opt for commas not only because I think it makes the pace feel faster but also because it makes the fight feel smoother and gives the sense that your point-of-view character is keeping track of more things at once.

I would say reading fight scenes would help too. Don’t just consume visual media to immerse yourself in a fight but take a gander at the way others have described fight scenes in written format to find inspiration. This has helped with all the fan fiction I write on the side, and a little with the minor scenes of violence featured in my original works.

I love when someone's reading their way through my works over on AO3 and I get the email notif of kudos On. Every. Single. Fic.

I get all the warm fuzzies.

hello nanowriters, fanfic authors, and anyone else! if you’re a new scrivener user, you may be interested in the scrivener ao3 template that i made! it’s much simpler than most scrivener default templates and fixes some common formatting issues that happen when you post to ao3.

https://sierra-roe.tumblr.com/post/631445635967680512/super-simple-ao3-template-for-scrivener-when-i

Fanfic Readers: Wow! Look at this well written plot and detailing the author put in! All these little subliminal messages they put in to hint at [insert theory here]! They’re a genius!

Fanfic author: I’m sorry, I did what?

Alternatively

Fanfic writer: *plans out intricate plot and incorporates different theories and characterizations to drop those subliminal messages*

Fanfic reader: aw cute!

Fanfic writer: …

Fanfic writer: BUT DID YOU NOTICE–

I am both of these

@sevdrag i am Looking at you

HSKDJFKKFLFLG—-

you’re not wrong

imo, it might be a bit too much pressure + a fear of failure? 

twists are hard to pull off well and from what you said it does seem like there’s q a bunch of expectations that’ve been placed for this last chapter. and tbh? big mood. sometimes the fear of not meeting those expectations is buried in your subconscious, so you might not even know it yourself, which leads to unintentional writer’s block (and really just sucks). or maybe i’m just self projecting. oops. idk sorry

ok but if you genuinely feel that, my advice (if you want it) would probably be to just ! write down whatever pops up in your mind, however ‘bad’ you think it might be, because who knows - you might just be able to connect some (or most!!) of those sentences or phrases to make a good fic!! you seem to have a good plot and from what i can see you look like you’re gonna do the twist real well, so just go for it !! 

good luck :DDD and i hope- no, i’m sure it’ll turn out well!!

wrong chat

rated: T (for swearing)

fandoms: ♡ twice ♡ red velvet ♡ mamamoo

genre: ♡ crack ♡ fluff

ships: ♡ (main) wenrene other background ships:  ♡ joyri ♡ saida ♡ michaeng ♡ wheesa the rest are important to the plot so i won’t be mentioning them here!

AUs: ♡ group chat AU (chatfic)

warnings: ♡ none !!

summary:

todayis_wendy: seul, i’m not kidding she is so UNBELIEVABLY hot, she could slap me and i’d thank her wait FUCK

(todayis_wendy has deleted 3 messages.)

todayis_wendy: NOTHING HAPPENED GO AWAY THANK YOU

yerimiese: SAW THAT screenshotted it too! [yourenotgettingaway.jpg]

or: where wendy gay panics in the wrong discord chat, and chaos ensues. (twice & mamamoo appear as side-ish characters! though there are some characters who play a kind-of-central role in the fic :o) updates every sunday !!

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link in reblog!

chapter 10 of wrong chat, titled “guys did i sleep too late last night? am i dreaming?” is out! you can find it here!

Dialogue that always makes me big sad

- “Please look at me” -”Is it really too much to ask?” -”Why didn’t you tell me before” -”Don’t leave me” -”I’m scared” -”Don’t you trust me?” -”Don’t let go” -”Go away already” -”Don’t you care anymore?” -”Get the hell away from me” -”Don’t touch them” -”Take me instead” -”We’re better off alone”

so it’s raining rn and i’m supposed to be studying for exams but i suddenly got the urge to write a rainy fluff fic where they dw to get up and they just cuddle and,,,,,,,,,,, evie,, evie no,,,,, evie,,,, n-no wait YOU HAVE TO STUDY NO STOP

………….okay maybe i’ll write it later…  let’s see how this goes, shall we?

an hour has passed. the vibe is gone. i Regret

I love seeing people’s picrew art styles because you can just look at them and be like

“You read homestuck and it was a big part of your life for a few years, you’re not into steven universe but you did watch it, and you had an intense black butler phase in middle school and doodled their eyes over and over again in your spiral notebooks”

Art is the biggest snitch ever man like have you ever read a fanfic and been like “Oh the author is working through some trauma here”

Or when people rec songs/shows/fics and you suddenly know everything you need to know about who they are as a person?

Like I know art is inherently an attempt to make others understand what is going on inside our lonely little heads but sometimes the mortifying ordeal of being known just slips in there while you’re not looking

new ask game: tell me what u think u know about me based on my fics/art/etc