The thing about fanfiction after writing original fiction for so long is that it feels like taking weighted clothes off. If I wanted a cool plot twist or a reveal or a mystery I had to set up all the expectations myself. I had to set up the red herrings, the clues, the boundaries of what was reasonable.
In fanfiction I drop a name from canon I never referenced before and it will carry the weight that a hundred pages of set up would carry in original fiction.
Do you have any fucking idea how intoxicating that is.
As a pessimist I have nightmares of a world where people are normal about nail polish as an ice cream flavour
as an optimist i dream of a beautiful world where people are fucking normal about aromanticism
Always.
Do you ever read a reqlly good fanfic and then this happens:
But you don't remember reading it before?
mr moustache is literally so human-contact motivated it wilds me out sometimes. like ive had affectionate rats before but ive never had one whose sole interest during free roam is to be as close to my hands or face as possible literally every given second
people need to realise that a poor little meow meow must be a character who has committed atrocities you cannot poor little meow meow a good guy thatβs not how this works
π’ You are still a writer even when you haven't written in a while.
π’ You are still a writer even when you feel like you aren't writing enough.
π’ You are still a writer when you feel like your work isn't good.
π’ You are still a writer when other people don't like your work.
π’ You are still a writer when you aren't published.
π’ You are still a writer when you only have works in progress.
π’ You are still a writer if all you write is fanfiction.