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WRITE IT!!! WRITE THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!
POST IT!!! POST THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!
(via summerofspock)
Just realised I put on my lipstick the same way my friend does, and it makes me think. My favourite ice cream is my childhood friend’s go-to, even if we don’t speak much anymore. My favourite flower is the one my college friend sends me pictures of because they’re her favourite. What am I but a collection of fragments of all the people I care about? Isn’t that precious enough? Isn’t it?
(via gooberascendant)
I feel like wanting things has been important to being happier for me
(via gooberascendant)
people vaguely saying ‘the horrors’ as shorthand for 'life problems, don’t worry about it’ in conversations where the problems are not going to be delved into has got to be one of my favorite new Ways Of Speaking that has emerged. like it’s polite and vague and succinct enough for impersonal conversation but also extremely honest. it’s very funny. The Horrors. we all know of them.
(via executeness)
full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009
remember when writers had to be all like:
“omg omg lemon starts HERE”
y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you can setSometimes shit was marked “lemon” and it’d just be them making out, and sometimes they’d just start pissing on each other
No rules, no laws, you took your life into your hands opening fics
A/N: this contains SLASH, that means TWO MEN, if that makes you uncomfy, DON’T READ!
A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!
A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!
A/N: COMMENT if you want me to continue the next chappy!!!
No, no, no
remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?
InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this
A/N: Because it was in your contract!!1!1 *revs chainsaw*
god those were lawless times.
(via ifeelbetterer)
Another thing that’s cool about fanfiction: it’s as long as it needs to be.
Well, sometimes it’s longer than anything on God’s green earth needs to be, but my point is that there’s really no rules about fic length. In traditional publishing there’s this awkward middle where nobody wants to print a novella that’s too long for a short story collection but doesn’t really fill out a book. Ebooks have changed that somewhat but it’s still a convention that a book is about 75,000 words.
Fanfic is not bound by this standard. If your story takes 25,000 words to tell, then you can do that, and there are readers for whom that’s a sweet spot. If you just want to keep going and going for 350,000 words and beyond, nobody’s going to say “only famous authors with grand ideas get to do that”–text is low bandwidth and there are readers who will love the feeling that your story is a home where they’re invited to stay as long as they like.
Sometimes restrictions breed creativity, and some writers need to be forced to edit themselves. But some writers know exactly what they’re doing when they make a story a certain length, and it’s awesome that the Internet has created spaces that put no limits on that.
(via executeness)
love when characters have to have a domestication arc before you can even consider giving them a redemption arc
(via yayee-prsp)
My favourite thing about the D&D movie is it never stops trying to be a D&D movie even down to the most minute, unsung details. There’s initiative order gags (I’ll go last!) there’s rolling a 1 gags (setting off the trap on the bridge by inexplicably just walking up to it) there’s stat gags (nobody had high enough Intelligence to be in danger from the Intellect Devourers). Almost every spell is identifiable, from Xenk using smite to Sofina whipping out Finger of Death. Simon’s character arc is about his self-confidence being tied to his mastery of magic because Charisma is the spellcasting stat for sorcerers. The era of movies based on games being afraid of their source material is over.
(via executeness)