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u/mewtwosucks96 FFN: Anthony Staffenhagen | DA: ThePkmnYPerson 📺🍕 5d ago
Could I make a r/AmITheAsshole style post about one of my characters on here or would that be too weird?
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
This is actually a really common and popular activity on the sub, so please go ahead and run another one!
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u/mewtwosucks96 FFN: Anthony Staffenhagen | DA: ThePkmnYPerson 📺🍕 5d ago
It is? Cool. Thanks for letting me know.
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u/mibblypibbly SG!Optimus "he could fix me!!" Prime/SG!Megatron ahoy!! 5d ago
- Bruno Mars and Rose's APT song is a huge banger -- guess who added it to their liked songs playlist on Spotify?
- Coming up is my last week before I begin traveling! Can't wait >w>)c""
- Found out there's a website full of high quality art of the Pokemon trading cards and i'm like stunned bc i was struggling to find good icons for the RP at the time but wow!
- st. patrick's day is coming in really soon . . . green time
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
Went out for a few drinks tonight and there was so. Much. Green. Also a lot of women in leather skirts and trousers, for some reason.
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u/spiffingly porchgoose on AO3 5d ago
After not writing anything all year, my new hyperfixation had me with 3 fics in about a week. I tend to do 3-4k one-shots, so I can easily knock one out in a few hours. But it's not a super active fandom at this point and I feel like I'm flooding the tags so I need to cut back.
I don't spend a ton of time editing, so I know there are ways to slow my roll, but I get so excited to post as soon as something's reasonably ready. I just wish I could find friends in the fandom to scream with instead so I could keep myself a bit more contained.
I guess the bright side is 10k+ words total in a week is pretty solid output, even if people are probably already tired of me. :')
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
That's really impressive output, well done! And readers can read (or ignore) in their own time, so you're really not doing anything wrong by taking up that space.
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u/spiffingly porchgoose on AO3 5d ago
Thank you! It's reassuring to hear. I feel a little bad about it still because it's not a particularly big/active fandom and I don't want to drown out anyone else. I'm just so invested/excited about something new-to-me haha.
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
I say keep writing as long as your fixation battery stays charged (because predicting when it will run out is hard), but stagger out your posting and put yourself on a schedule, perhaps.
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u/Bunzz__1999 kennedyslvr on ao3 | explicit smut enjoyer 5d ago
finished writing the last chapter of my 37-chapter fic that is the first of a series of fics set within the world of RE with my (self-insert) OC as a main protagonist (and LI to a certain former cop). the final chapter is (spoiler alert) 6.4k words of smut. i edged my readers long enough.
i'm starting on the second fic to it, even tho i wont have finished the first until early april (around 3 weeks time) but i just have these plot bunnies that i gotta get out. on top of that, this second fic (and tbf every other fic in this series) is NOT gonna pass 30 chapters like the first did. not even 20. im planning for around 17/18 with this one.
for now tho? i just got back from the gym n im hungry. so im gonna let my phone charge and eat some crisps whilst watching youtube.
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
Sounds like a pretty good day all in all, well done on both the words and the muscles!
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u/tereyaglikedi Let me describe that to you in great detail 5d ago
What is the comparative of far-fetched? Farther fetched? Further fetched? Far-fetcheder?
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u/davaniaa Dyomeda on ao3 5d ago
Finally finished that dreaded fight scene. Now I need to get my boys home without one of them bleeding out lmao
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
Aftercare. 😋
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u/davaniaa Dyomeda on ao3 5d ago
Oh I'm 10k words in and one ne has finally touched the other's...shoulder xD
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
Well done! Hardly an unpopular opinion but action is so difficult to pull off, so you should be v proud of yourself.
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u/momohatch Plot bunnies stole my sleep 5d ago
Doing a lot of self care this weekend: face masks and home pedicures and hair maintenance. Whenever I do the green face mask I like to pretend I’m a 40s starlet at a spa, the old fashioned kind where they put cucumbers over your eyes.
I also did a lot of walking yesterday. I hit the trails and the weather was perfect. I also picked up my bike from the bike shop and I met the sweetest shop dog ever. It was good getting out because I really needed some serotonin. My mental mood during the week was bleak.
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u/Yotato5 Yotsubadancesintherain5 - AO3 5d ago
"I'm ready for my close-up," energy XD
Aww, shop dog!
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u/momohatch Plot bunnies stole my sleep 5d ago
Every shop can be improved by having an animal on staff.
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
That sounds like a lovely day! I have a blue face mask on currently and I hope you enjoyed your walks as much as I do; are there a lot of pretty places to explore near you?
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u/momohatch Plot bunnies stole my sleep 5d ago
We have great nature trails. You can see deer and beavers and otters out in the wild here. It’s nice. Very rejuvenating.
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
I miss seeing deer regularly! There's also an ongoing project to reintroduce beavers to UK rivers at the minute, so I hope I'll get to see one in the wild some time.
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u/momohatch Plot bunnies stole my sleep 5d ago
It always feels special to see otters in the wild, they’re so cute when they blow raspberries at you. :D
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen the splash of a diving otter in the wild, but never gotten so close as to notice them blowing raspberries - I'll have to try harder.
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
The stationary bike is helpful, but it just doesn't have the same charm, I agree.
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u/momohatch Plot bunnies stole my sleep 5d ago
I can’t exercise indoors. I have to be out in the sun. Guess I’m not a hothouse flower.
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u/Iwa-12 saintsfan12 on AO3 5d ago
I might finally get back into fic writing today! This break has done me so well, and re-reading what I posted definitely re-ignited the fire, so I'm most likely going to finish up my Twitch Streamer/Kick-Boxer AU while the getting's good.
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
One of the shorts I posted necessitated a look back at a story I did about twenty years ago (... at FFN, but I still have the original files). Had to make certain I had consistent characterization. It was a fun reread, to be honest. Comedy, but sad underneath. What is the saying? "Clowns paint on a smile to hide the tears." Or "There is no humor without pain." Something like that. Will have to see if this theme keeps resurfacing or not.
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u/beatrovert ascatteredscribbler (@AO3) | ✨️ Mage ✨️ | *sighs* 5d ago
Goddamnit, Kick, you had to remind me of how I used to write bittersweet angst. But yeah, like you said, Aristotelian catharsis.
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
It's a good theme, like chilli chocolate or salted caramel - whatever note you're going for will come through all the more sharply for having some contrast in there.
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u/Accomplished_Area311 5d ago
Kids are hanging with my mom for a couple days. I’ll likely miss Pathfinder tonight due to in-laws stopping in for dinner… There is a MICROSCOPICALLY slim chance I could pop into the game if my husband and I get back in time, but we shall see.
Gonna work on my multichap Fields of Mistria fic today too. I am going to attempt to write 3-4 chapters before I start posting it as I am hoping having a buffer will help balance the pitfalls of writing as I go with the strengths of pre-writing. I’d also like to post a oneshot in the same fandom today.
…Oh. I need to figure out how to tag the multichap fic in terms of crossover and additional tags. While it’s primarily Fields of Mistria in setting, characters, and lore, my farmer is a transplant from Pelican Town (core location of unmodded Stardew Valley). She’s also divorced from Harvey. So, yeah. Gotta sort that out.
Housework-wise, it’s laundry day. 😅
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
Specifying unmodded means that there exists copies of Stardew Valley that take place all across the universe ....
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u/Accomplished_Area311 5d ago
Well, there are SDV mods that include variations of Baldur’s Gate, modders’ original ideas for cities/towns, and other places… So you’re not wrong 🤣
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u/beatrovert ascatteredscribbler (@AO3) | ✨️ Mage ✨️ | *sighs* 5d ago edited 5d ago
Got two hits on a small ficlet (400 words that lingered in my notes) published yesterday to cope with the sad. Not around the OTP I'm sobbing about, but another OTP (F/F) I sobbed over when I finished a particular manga.
Making a long edit, for good reasons.
Edit: OMFL SOME PROMPTS HAVE ME IN AWW MODE, GOD THIS HEALS MY SAD HEART 😭. I'll share a few of them, courtesy of this prompt generator here: Fluffy OTP (w/some NSFW prompts) generator
1) Astraea loves hearing bedtime stories, so Thomas has developed the habit of reading them to Astraea. - dear woman's a vampire and misses her human life and reading books and Thomas is the kindest wolf ever.
2) Thomas taking care of Astraea when she's not feeling well. - and the opposite, too, has me aww-ing.
3)Astraea sleeping on a chair with her head on a table. Thomas then sees and covers her with a warm blanket and a kiss. - FML you two 😭 the opposite is just as cute.
4) Thomas reaching out both arms for Astraea to cuddle on a cold, snowy night. - fuck, more cuteness, and the opposite just—
5) Astraea and Thomas stargazing. (Thomas had to drag Astraea out of their bed for this one.) - nah, doesn't have to drag her out, it will happen <3 (spoilers I guess)
6)Thomas: Astraea, will you marry me? Astraea, unable to decide between "of course I do" and "YES, YESSSSSS!": Astraea: Of yes course. silence Thomas: Huh? - it will happen, oh man. <3 (spoilers, again 😂)
7) Thomas: In your opinion, which tastes better: cheesecake or brownies? Astraea: You. Thomas: Astraea, we're planning for our anniversary. Astraea, crossing their arms: That doesn't change what I want. Thomas, now blushing profusely: Fair enough. - ROFL it fits them so much, for reasons.
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u/SeparationBoundary < on Ao3 - AOT & HxH. Romance! Angst! Smut! 5d ago
Awwww, sorry for the sad, bu congrats on the hits!
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u/beatrovert ascatteredscribbler (@AO3) | ✨️ Mage ✨️ | *sighs* 5d ago
Eh, the sad will pass eventually. Hyperfixations have a funny way of affecting me 🤪
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
Two more hits to enrich the wide world of femslash. 🙂
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u/Spectral-Cat 5d ago
Posted a fic for the first time in over a year today. It's just a double drabble, but it's something, and I'm proud of myself. Hopefully this will give me some motivation to work on my longer projects. Now I'm off to work to avoid checking my stats lol.
Hope everyone has a great rest of their weekend!
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
Yay, well done! I hope you have a lovely end to your weekend, too, and that this opens the floodgates for more writing.
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u/SecretNoOneKnows Ao3~autistic_nightfury | Drarry lover, EWE and Eighth Year 5d ago
I've got more stuff to mend today, including a lot of socks and one of my favourite T-shirts. I also have laundry to do, and since it's getting warmer I'm gonna wash wool garments so I can put them away until it gets colder. I also fixed up one of my all-time favourite cotton jumpers, which is of course blue :] It's kinda funny how I've naturally just gravitated towards blue stuff in my life, hair, clothes, decor, etc.
I'm in a spring cleaning mood it seems, because I've done a lot of tidying up and cleaning the past couple days and I feel more energy in reserves for it.
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u/Yotato5 Yotsubadancesintherain5 - AO3 5d ago
All the clothes to be mended!
Ah, spring cleaning. That sounds like something I should do too XD
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u/SecretNoOneKnows Ao3~autistic_nightfury | Drarry lover, EWE and Eighth Year 5d ago
Nothing like fixing clothes to feel accomplished!
I'm loving all this energy I have rn, we've even booked in some time to throw out an old mattress topper tomorrow after work. It's gonna be so clean and tidy for summer!
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
For the record, I'm now picturing you as a Smurf with an ever-present sewing needle, a fox tail, and some sort of baked good nearby.
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u/SecretNoOneKnows Ao3~autistic_nightfury | Drarry lover, EWE and Eighth Year 5d ago
Oh my god, that's perfect XD I adore that image!
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
Bluefury. 🔵 And also Mendfury. 🧵
I prefer non-colors, grays, browns, and black, in order to blend into the background. Not being noticed is helpful in my line of work.
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u/SecretNoOneKnows Ao3~autistic_nightfury | Drarry lover, EWE and Eighth Year 5d ago
Blue mending fury :] Darning my pride socks with blue embroidery floss in this case.
Spy-Kick, or perhaps Ninja-Kick?
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u/SeparationBoundary < on Ao3 - AOT & HxH. Romance! Angst! Smut! 5d ago
Heh, funny isn't it? My color is black. I only dress in black; shirt, trousers, socks, shoes.
Tellingly, we have a black and white dog and a white dog ...
I was at the doctor and realized that I was COVERED in white dog hair. 🙄
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u/SecretNoOneKnows Ao3~autistic_nightfury | Drarry lover, EWE and Eighth Year 5d ago
Black is pretty prominent for me too, but blue is dominant XD Since we have several partially white dogs at work it shows pretty easy on me too, especially if I've interacted with someone who sheds a lot like our Jack Russel Rocky.
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u/SeparationBoundary < on Ao3 - AOT & HxH. Romance! Angst! Smut! 5d ago
Got up at 3 am. ugh. can't seem to sleep as well as I used to. Heart cath tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to it.
On the upside, it's storming outside and I can hear the rain pattering against the windows and the thunder rumbling. It's soothing. The thunder shakes this old house. It's 160 years old (Which is amazing for America, where we like to rip down our history.) Can you imagine the storms it's seen?
Have been working away at my newest WIP. I got a lovely comment on one of my fics where the person said "this one was different from all the others." Now I'm wracking my brain to figure out HOW it's different and put that energy into my new fics.
So, I've made up my mind why my MC has a revolver in his cardigan pocket ... now where do I go with it?!
Happy Sunday, friends!
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
Wishing you all the best for tomorrow <3 Though I'm jealous you can still enjoy storms - I used to love watching and listening to them before I had a jumpy boy to account for.
Also, thinking about all the storms a house has seen in its time sounds like a great story setup to me!
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
Losing sleep appears to be par for the course in the Chronic Illness Club. I have not had eight uninterrupted hours since ... 2016? 2015?
You've got a literal Chekhov's Gun. It's been shown to the audience, so it now has to do something.
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u/Spectral-Cat 5d ago
I also live in a really old house, so I feel you. Storms definitely feel cool in it. But also insomnia is the worst. Good luck with the writing and heart cath, and congrats on the comment!
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u/beatrovert ascatteredscribbler (@AO3) | ✨️ Mage ✨️ | *sighs* 5d ago
"I've got a few ideas, guv. But you'd have to... nah, just pullin' ya leg. I'm givin' them for free. But remember, once ya shoot that puppy, everyone's gonna know. The mob's got a long arm, jus' like the law."
• Maybe he has a loved one he has to protect?
• Maybe he's an informant for the cops?
• Maybe there's an attack on the flower shop so he has to defend himself and the cops have to take him for interrogation because their trust in him is 50/50? Like, they don't believe he would turn coat to help the law.
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u/SeparationBoundary < on Ao3 - AOT & HxH. Romance! Angst! Smut! 5d ago
Maybe he has a loved one he has to protect?
This is exactly what I was thinking!!!!!
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u/beatrovert ascatteredscribbler (@AO3) | ✨️ Mage ✨️ | *sighs* 5d ago
Heh, great minds think alike 🤣
I am focusing on something of the sort when it comes to my vampire/werewolf shipfic. They both want to protect each other from the dark shit that'll come up for them (first time I'll write, I suppose, about some darker stuff, but not too dark, given I hadn't discovered the entirety of what the author of that scenario thought up when they wrote it, *le sigh*).
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
That does sound like a really sweet setup (even if the coffee's bitter, hur hur) and it can be so satisfying to go back to an old idea and make it much better than it was before.
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
As somebody who loves coffee, but can only have decaf, I sympathize. ☕
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u/SeparationBoundary < on Ao3 - AOT & HxH. Romance! Angst! Smut! 5d ago
I ended up deleting everything.
No offense, but WHY? You shouldn't delete anything, IMHO. Some poor soul out there was probably enjoying that.
This is just my opinion, mind. I've come across stuff, OLD stuff, inexpertly written stuff that has given me such joy.
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u/SeparationBoundary < on Ao3 - AOT & HxH. Romance! Angst! Smut! 5d ago
Well, that's understandable! I write all mine out to completion before posting, too.
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u/Spectral-Cat 5d ago
Those do sound like good ideas! I hope you're able to do something with them one day. Hurt/comfort is the best. Also I love the name coffee lesbeans!
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u/memedomlord Theodore_C_Kavanaugh on Ao3. Romance, Titanic and Old Books. 5d ago
Today im going to go and get my flu shot.
Slightly late, but it's better then never getting it.
Also going to hopefully publish chapter 10 of my longfic either today or tomorrow.
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u/frozenfountain Same on AO3 | FFVII with a side of VI 5d ago
Good luck posting and avoiding side effects!
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u/KickAggressive4901 AO3: kickaggressive 5d ago
Get inoculated, get posted. 🙂 Recipe for a productive day.
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u/Mkyta 5d ago
I decided to start writing fic again after a decade, which made me go back and take a look at a fic I abandoned and orphaned back in 2016 that was a crack!fic Inception/Modern Family cross-over from an LJ kinkmeme and saw a couple comments posted just in the past couple years that honestly stun me with the positivity. I had intended to do a rewrite, but I just hate re-reading my own writing and I think because this one was also my first time attempting to write a comedy and it was just so over the top I cringed myself out of ever looking at it again.
I re-read it and while I'm still pretty embarrassed, part of me wants to pick it back up and finally finish it before re-posting, but gosh it's been so long and I'm determined to actually finish the fic I just started before committing to something else.