It’s almost 11pm on 11/30 and I’m so sleepy I cannot write anymore. But by god, I’m only 500 words shy of the 30K soft goal I set for myself for ReyloWriMo on The Machine.
I knew I’d never hit 50K. But I’m proud of the work I did.
Chapter Eighteen is still not finished, but should be done sometime next week. =) It’s huge and hugely important, and has sucked up a large fraction of my brain cells this month, LOL. I hope you guys enjoy it!!!
I feel inspired to re-tell one of my favorite stories.
Several years ago, I read an excellent novel-length fanfic in what was then my main fandom. I was so blown away that for a couple of weeks I seriously felt that there was no reason for me to continue writing in that fandom because nothing would be better than that fic.
I got over it and kept writing, mainly because in the words of Amos Starkadder, “The word burns in me mouth.”
Eventually I met the author of that amazing fic. She told me that she had been in Sentinel fandom for a while, but had quit writing for it because there were so many good writers in that fandom that she didn’t see much point.
Write your fic! Draw your pics! Your idols are as insecure as you are!
This is getting reblogged all of a sudden so I’m bumping it.
If Reylo wasn’t meant to be destiny, why in the name of the lord would the Force theme echo just when they touched hands while intensely gazing into each others’eyes?
So much this. I also keep coming back to the slow motion when the fight began in the throne room. It was meant to really convey that feeling of Destiny.
those posts criticizing common writing patterns in fanfiction are so fucking harmful and they ruined me
so like yknow what??? People tell you to avoid “smirk” and “chuckle” as descriptors because no one does those things (???) but then when I need to use those words I have a ten minute crisis about how I’m a shitty writer. So heres my unwarranted writing advice: If you want your characters to smirk and chuckle fucking let them and don’t let anyone tell you that no one smirks or chuckles because I do both on a daily basis whenever I tell a shitty pun, bye
Edgy fanfiction critics can eat my entire ass.
DUDE. I chuckle ALL THE TIME. I don’t know who these people are. But they are just plain WRONG. People chuckle. Everywhere. Even the goddamned Pope chuckled at a little boy who ran up and hugged one of his entourage at a service somewhere I saw in the news. If the Pope can chuckle, so can your fan fiction. This shit IS harmful, and it’s stupid.
I also smirk. ALL THE TIME. Especially when my project manager at the office hero-worships a developer that I know writes shitty SQL. I’m fixing his shit all the time, and when she tries to get us to take notice of his trouble shooting process, YOU BETTER BELIEVE I FUCKING SMIRK.
These are words. Words are tools used to convey meaning. And while there are harmful words that we don’t use in civilized conversation if we’re not trying to be dickheads, “chuckle” and “smirk” are not among their number.
I literally want to bitch slap the people who get hung up on stupid bullshit like this, and pass it along as some elitist nonsense that their thesaurus skills are somehow better than anyone else’s.
Like, seriously. People who believe this INSTANTLY lose all credibility with me. People who get hung up on this are the same people who get hung up on whether we use the word “large” or “venti” at Starbucks, FFS. Life’s too short to deal with pretentious assholes like this.
Use the words and be proud. Write your heart out and be proud. Flip off douchebags and be proud.
it’s almost like characters require complexity and fictional relationships require some sort of conflict to be compelling or something ¯_(ツ)_/¯
my favorite thing about this is that the reylo fandom was predicting they might not get along very well and writing that into fics way back in 2016. and then the TLJ marketing straight up told us they weren’t going to get along, and we felt very validated even as antis continued to insist the marketing was all a misdirection and they were going to get along swimmingly after maybe a small initial butting of heads l m a o
Looking back, it’s pretty amusing how so many commonly held beliefs about the way Episode VIII would proceed were either strongly hinted against or flat-out contradicted by the text of TFA itself. Things like:
Rey Skywalker
The identity of Rey’s parents matters at all (all that really mattered was the fact that she was still waiting for them)
Jedi Master Luke being ready and willing to train Rey
Kylo committed to the dark side after remorselessly killing Han. He hates Rey now and is as mad that she’s a ‘Mary Sue’ as half the fanboys are.
Snoke’s identity is actually important.
etc
All of these had more evidence going against them than for them, in TFA alone. And then people got mad at TLJ for somehow going against what TFA set up.
I don’t get why the hell people were insistently telling themselves that it all had to be misdirection*. As it turns out, Star Wars is actually pretty straightforward with this kind of thing.
I actually find it fascinating how badly the speculation and general discourse around the ST went off the rails right from the very start. It’s such a huge melting pot of factors. It’s quite fun to dissect tbh.
* handgate being the absolute epitome of this phenomenon lol
“I actually find it fascinating how badly the speculation and general discourse around the ST went off the rails right from the very start. It’s such a huge melting pot of factors. It’s quite fun to dissect tbh.”
^^ Same. I think all the inter-fandom phenomena around the Star Wars sequel trilogy would make a legitimately interesting sociological and pop cultural thesis.
I personally was VERY happy about how badly the speculation went.
I made SO MUCH MONEY on bets – actual cash bets – that I won, y’all. I think I made $45 when it turned out she wasn’t a Skywalker. ALL of these people pointed at Mara Jade from Legends and just would not believe a WORD I said when I told them Legends wasn’t canon anymore, and all bets were off.
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