Authors as Audiences

Oct. 14th, 2025 02:13 am[personal profile] guildrone posting in [community profile] fan_writers
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So, I’ve been on an especially ruminative self-reflective bent as of late—and as per my most recent check-in over on [community profile] justcreate, one case of such involves questioning where exactly my creative drive comes from. More specifically, I’ve been sitting with a well-worn motto that I once thought I’d taken to heart…

Write what you want to read.

…But might have instead been taking for granted, in the sense that what I’d for a while considered as a writer to be a core appeal of much of my work is something I doubt I’d appreciate as a reader from the outside looking in—if I weren’t the one doing the aiming in the first place, in other words, I don’t think I’d be included in the target (audience) I’m trying to hit.

So, I figured I’d spin this uncomfortable case of arrested authorial development into my first shot at actually sparking discussion around here—and thus pose this variably obvious question to you in turn: What is the relationship between what you read(/watch/play/etc.) and what you write?

Write Every Day Day 14

Oct. 14th, 2025 01:10 am[personal profile] cornerofmadness
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“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.” – Stephen King

I like that quote. Today was awful so this is late. I need to get to bed. I got 131 words on that second spook me story which isn't really spooky. It's more family dinner...with cannibals.


How is it going for you? Let know and if i forgot you somewhere along the way let me know and as a reminder on the 16th we'll be heading to [personal profile] china_shop's blog to continue this month


Day 13 - [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] chanter1944



other days under here )
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Tagset corrections are in, and signups are opening soon! It’s just about time to decide what you’ll be requesting and offering.

This year, you can request eight fandoms! Previously, it was six. Because of that, we're reviewing our process for sending author questions.

Each year, we receive questions from authors about their recipient’s requests. These might include clarification on prompts or requests to understand how a DNW applies to a specific fandom–for example, does a DNW for character death include discussion of deaths that occur in canon?

We’re always happy to pass these questions along! Please always contact the mods directly rather than reaching out to the recipient yourself.

Traditionally, when we send these questions to recipients, we try to disguise the fandom the author plans to write for, so the gift is still a surprise. If the question is generic and applies to all fandoms, we can pass it along as-is. If the question is specific to one fandom, our team of volunteers writes decoy questions for the other fandoms and sends along the whole set.

This is fun for us to do, but it takes time. It's also extra work for the recipients to read and respond to multiple questions. This year, as we’re allowing up to 8 requested fandoms (which could mean up to 7 mod-created questions), it seems like a good time to check in and see if our participants find it helpful.

So, a poll! Going forward, which would you prefer mods do?

Poll #33725 Author Questions Poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48


Going forward, which would you prefer mods do with author questions?

View Answers

Mods should continue to send decoy questions for all fandoms, along with the author’s actual question, to maximize the mystery of which fandom a recipient will receive. (This is how things work currently.)
10 (20.8%)

Mods should send questions for several fandoms, including the author’s actual question, but possibly not all–even though that could narrow down which fandom a recipient may receive.
37 (77.1%)

Something else (Please let us know in comments!)
1 (2.1%)



Keep in mind the question may be from a potential treat writer, so receiving questions for a particular set of fandoms isn’t a guarantee that your final gift will be in one of those fandoms.

We may not necessarily change our process this year based on community feedback, but it will be helpful in making our decision!

We'd also love to hear from you if you'd like to share a past experience with sending or receiving questions! If that has never happened to you, we hope you enjoy this peek behind the administrative curtain.


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Word Association is a common word game involving an exchange of words that are associated together. The game is based on the noun phrase word association, meaning "stimulation of an associative pattern by a word" or "the connection and production of other words in response to a given word, done spontaneously as a game, creative technique, or in a psychiatric evaluation."
~ our lord and saviour wikipedia


GUIDELINES
    ① post with your character's name & series.
    ② include a word of your choice and optionally the definition in the body of your comment.
    -- visit the random word generator if you need help!
    ③ other characters will reply with the first word their character associates with the one you chose.
    ④ continue back and forth until one of you just has to know the story behind an answer.

Phone sex and sexting

Oct. 13th, 2025 09:00 pm[personal profile] justformemes posting in [community profile] bakerstreet
justformemes: (hello)




the phone sex +
sexting meme


what it says on the tin. leave a blank comment, include your preferences or a starter, it's all good. reply to others with a text, a dirty picture (please link all nsfw things!), misfires, misdials, drunk filthy voicemails, whatever your heart desires.

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So I didn't open emails over the weekend because of the con. I open it today and in my two online only classes I have 40 students between two classes. Out of those 40 THREE wrote me to say we can't see the notes for the final unit. I turned that on a week ago sunday and the quizzes were due yesterday. The final on this is due friday.

THREE people out of 40. And they're right. The notes are messed up. I fixed it. I extended the quizzes and the final (the class locks off next week because friday is technically the last day of class) so my question is WHY would you not contact the professor if something was wrong.

And the other stuff isn't working either and IT says it's McGraw Hill who says I'm doing it wrong, you know the same thing I've done for 20 damn years. And btw am doing exactly how they're telling me to do it. screams into the void.

But as for yesterday, I came home to go to Bob Fest vs going to the last day of the con. Honestly I can bump this back to every other year too. I know where all the vendors are and how much more could I use from any of them? Sure the coffee/honey/maple vendors I can always use (as if I can't get it from Kroger, literally in the coffee's case, they're local and carried by Kroger) How much more glass can I get from the glass blower (the answer is a blue bird for mom and a purple one for me) I did skip the jerky (getting too expensive) got the cheese from my cheesemonger.

And I was going to get some bougie boozy jam. How much are these? two for 35$. Sure thing. She sees me with jelly jars in hand. I sneak them onto a shelf and scamper off. You can't scamper with a cane. Lordee no.

I did buy a left handed hand carved spoon with a scraper (which is why it's handed, not that I suspect it matters much) It's walnut and he carves the wood type and date into it. 2012. I was sad for my spoon. It's been going to festival after festival for 13 years and no one wanted it. Poor spoon (which yes that is animism right there) I was going to give it to Dad but I think I'll keep this poor unwanted spoon (I stir left handed anyhow)

I pet some long horns (owned by one of my current students) and came home.

have some con pictures under here )

And it's music monday. Since it's spooky time let's continue with the spooky music


Another full albumn for you. This is my favorite by Midnight Syndicate



I have always loved these house displays (Im not tech savvy enough to do this) here's one that's a tribute to Ozzy (Locally the rock station is calling this Ozztober)



And for the K Pop fans
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Episode 1: Wei Qian lives with his younger sister and becomes part of a gang doing small things to make money. When he takes in Wei Zhi Yuan he starts doing more serious stuff until it becomes too much and he leaves, except Wei Zhi Yuan gets kidnapped and Wei Qian has to win three boxing matches to get him back, which he manages.
 
Episode 2: Wei Zhi Yuan is determined to do whatever Wei Qian wants to help him and make him proud even if it's not something he personally wants to do.

Wei Qian's friend and honorary family member San Pang attempts to set Wei Qian up with a girlfriend because 'it would be good for their household' but it just makes Wei Qian remember the deep trauma he has about his mother. :(

Episode 3: Wei Zhi Yuan offers his help to Wei Qian's company to make their app.

Lili, the sister, asks Wei Zhi Yuan what his dream is but all he can thinking about is past scenes with Wei Qian (so I think the answer is 'continuing to be with Wei Qian').

Wei Qian gets upset at Lili wearing something too mature for her age (how old is she?) and accuses her of trying to be like her mother, which really upsets her and she falls on the stars. A man stops to help her (was he a guy from Le gang?)

More awful flashbacks with Wei Qian's mom.

Are we supposed to know who that doctor is??

Episode 4: The BL book Wei Zhi Yuan was reading was apparently just a prop, I tried looking it up. 🤭

Wei Qian attempts to teach Wei Zhi Yuan boxing but the latter keeps getting distracted lol Awkward moment there.

I can understand why Wei Zhi Yuan doesn't want to do it, he watched Wei Qian get beaten to an itch of his life and now he wants Wei Zhi Yuan to fight him in the ring? But the former just wants to teach Wei Zhi Yuan to protect himself after he sends him away to America or wherever.

OMG Wei Qian and Lili scrambling to put the BL goods down and leave Wei Zhi Yuan's room before he came in.

I wasn't expecting the kiss development, I'm guessing it will be played off since the opening scene of ep. 1 hasn't happened yet.

luckyzukky: raven from new teen titans (dc | raven #1)

one more time
new teen titans, raven/tara markov
281 words, superlove + CFAA + sunset + AO3

notes: for hotties haunting the narrative prompt "the only way to leave the time loop is to accept she (or you) dies"

hold on me )

40 Multifandom Icons

Oct. 13th, 2025 08:28 pm[personal profile] linky posting in [community profile] chemyxstory
linky: Atropos looking to the side. (Gotchard: Atropos - Look)
Here's that new batch of icons I was working on! Trying out a lot of things to figure out coloring.

#1-27 Kamen Rider Gotchard
#28-40 Sukeban Deka II



Read more... )

Bedshare

Oct. 13th, 2025 05:38 pm[personal profile] groupon posting in [community profile] bakerstreet
there's only one bed!


Two characters have to share a room for the night. Every room is occupied, but fortunately there is one last room available.

There's just one problem — there's only one bed, and the characters aren't comfortable sharing it.



andersenmom: So My life (Procrastination)
Creator: [personal profile] andersenmom
Title: Good Friends
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 542
Prompt: 023: linen
Fandom/Ship: P1Harmony, Oneus; Yoon Keeho, Yeo Hwanwoong
Notes/Warnings: N/A
Summary Hwanwoong is having problems with his family. Keeho offers to help.

Find the table with the list of fics here

(no subject)

Oct. 13th, 2025 12:34 pm[personal profile] skygiants
skygiants: Yankumi from Gosuken going "..." (dot dot dot)
I'm thinking even more fondly of The Mune in retrospect also because although I don't know that I feel that Sue Dawes is always 100% succeeding at her Victorian pastiche she has definitely done her research and is making a solid effort. Meanwhile, the book I read immediately afterwards, Jen Fawkes' Daughters of Chaos, is a Civil War-set epistolary novel that has no interest in trying to sound like something written in nineteenth century. This is of course a choice an author is free to make, but not one that I personally welcome -- although this turned out to be in the broad scheme the least of my problems with this book.

entirely problems )

[ SECRET POST #6856 ]

Oct. 13th, 2025 05:13 pm[personal profile] case posting in [community profile] fandomsecrets
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⌈ Secret Post #6856 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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🔊 Daily music

Oct. 13th, 2025 03:58 pm[personal profile] bluapapilio
bluapapilio: headphones connected to a heart (listening pleasure)
@ Spotify

I don't wanna lose control
Nothin' I can do anymore
Tryin' every day when I hold my breath
Spinnin' out in space pressin' on my chest
I don't wanna lose control 🎤

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