Reblog If You Write Fan Fiction

Coming into a fandom late

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

We will always miss you king. Goodluck on your new quest. 👑🐷😭

Technoblade never dies!

on fanfic & emotional continuity

Writing and reading fanfic is a masterclass in characterisation. 

Consider: in order to successfully write two different “versions” of the same character - let alone ten, or fifty, or a hundred - you have to make an informed judgement about their core personality traits, distinguishing between the results of nature and nurture, and decide how best to replicate those conditions in a new narrative context. The character you produce has to be recognisably congruent with the canonical version, yet distinct enough to fit within a different - perhaps wildly so - story. And you physically can’t accomplish this if the character in question is poorly understood, or viewed as a stereotype, or one-dimensional. Yes, you can still produce the fic, but chances are, if your interest in or knowledge of the character(s) is that shallow, you’re not going to bother in the first place. 

Because ficwriters care about nuance, and they especially care about continuity - not just literal continuity, in the sense of corroborating established facts, but the far more important (and yet more frequently neglected) emotional continuity. Too often in film and TV canons in particular, emotional continuity is mistakenly viewed as a synonym for static characterisation, and therefore held anathema: if the character(s) don’t change, then where’s the story? But emotional continuity isn’t anti-change; it’s pro-context. It means showing how the character gets from Point A to Point B as an actual journey, not just dumping them in a new location and yelling Because Reasons! while moving on to the next development. Emotional continuity requires a close reading, not just of the letter of the canon, but its spirit - the beats between the dialogue; the implications never overtly stated, but which must logically occur off-screen. As such, emotional continuity is often the first casualty of canonical forward momentum: when each new TV season demands the creation of a new challenge for the protagonists, regardless of where and how we left them last, then dealing with the consequences of what’s already happened is automatically put on the backburner.

Fanfic does not do this. 

Fanfic embraces the gaps in the narrative, the gracenotes in characterisation that the original story glosses, forgets or simply doesn’t find time for. That’s not all it does, of course, but in the context of learning how to write characters, it’s vital, because it teaches ficwriters - and fic readers - the difference between rich and cardboard characters. A rich character is one whose original incarnation is detailed enough that, in order to put them in fanfic, the writer has to consider which elements of their personality are integral to their existence, which clash irreparably with the new setting, and which can be modified to fit, to say nothing of how this adapted version works with other similarly adapted characters. A cardboard character, by contrast, boasts so few original or distinct attributes that the ficwriter has to invent them almost out of whole cloth. Note, please, that attributes are not necessarily synonymous with details in this context: we might know a character’s favourite song and their number of siblings, but if this information gives us no actual insight into them as a person, then it’s only window-dressing. By the same token, we might know very few concrete facts about a character, but still have an incredibly well-developed sense of their personhood on the basis of their actions. 

The fact that ficwriters en masse - or even the same ficwriter in different AUs - can produce multiple contradictory yet still fundamentally believable incarnations of the same person is a testament to their understanding of characterisation, emotional continuity and narrative. 

I've already seen some artists and writers saying they will stop drawing Technoblade and not write about him now to respect him.

Don't.

This is how you not forget people. We, the community, are Technoblade's legacy. We are here to make sure he is never forgotten and to show our love for him.

Of course you should take a break when it's too much right now. But please don't stop drawing fanart of him. Don't stop writing about C!Technoblade. Don't stop writing sbi stories like passerine. (Unless the other sbi-members say they will uncomfortable about this now)

I am sure Technoblade loved this about us, he liked the fanart you all drew of him, his characters, his friends. I am sure he loved knowing what awesome stories people wrote about the Blood God who never dies.

We are the voices and we are here to make sure this legend will be remembered.

You can email the obey me staff and if you enter in some data on your game and such they can find your account and give you all the old data back. Same thing happened to me and I ended up getting my account back! On the home screen go to support and press contact us and you could get https://shallwedate.jp/en/obeyme_support.html?app=obeyme&id=5d62fE4rJ1 this link. I think they’re off weekends but ive told others about using this way to get their data back and it worked for them too. Wish you luck with getting your data back!

Thank you so much anon (and also @lizziestudiesstuff , I saw your comment in my last post)! I'll try to do this.

Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.

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MY WRITING RULES

What I Write:

Imagines

One-shots

Headcanons

Platonic relationships

Romantic relationships

Scenarios

Multipart fics

Chosen Au's

Character x reader (female/gn)

Smut

(generally) Nsfw

Ask me things (for example: Who is your favourite character from Marvel and why?)

What if's (only anime/manga)

Crossovers

(On some things I'm still undecided)

What I won't write

Extreme Yandere themes

Character x Character

Character x OC

Soulmate Au

ABO Au

Hanahaki Disease

Love at first sight

Rape

Drug use (if it's in a Mafia Au for example, then it will only be hinted)

Incest

I write for

Dragon Prince

Honkai: Star Rail

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Jujutsu Kaisen

Obey Me!/Obey Me! Nightbringer

Punishing Gray Raven

Twisted Wonderland

Wuthering Waves

Currently on hold:

none

WARNING: I'm not writing for some characters because:

a) I don't like them

b) I don't know how to write them

c) I don't know the character

Also, you can only have max 4 characters per request, but after I publish the first four you can ask for another part with other characters.

Rules are constantly being updated, please check them from time to time for any new information. You can also message me for any questions.