♥-A Writing Dork-♥

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things you said at 1 am

things you said through your teeth

things you said too quietly

things you said over the phone

things you didn’t say at all

things you said under the stars and in the grass

things you said while we were driving 

things you said when you were crying

things you said when I was crying

things you said that made me feel like shit

things you said when you were drunk

things you said when you thought I was asleep

things you said at the kitchen table

things you said after you kissed me

things you said with too many miles between us

things you said with no space between us

things you said that I wish you hadn’t

things you said when you were scared

things you said when we were the happiest we ever were

things you said that I wasn’t meant to hear

things you said when we were on top of the world

things you said after it was over

things you said on the streetcar at 1 am

things you said with clenched fists

things you said in the back seat of a cab

things you said sitting still

things you said on the phone at 4 am

things you said but not out loud

things you said in the backyard at night

things you said on the highway

things you said while I cried in your arms

things you said I wouldn’t understand

things you said at the back of the theater

things you said in your sleep

things you said that made me feel real

things you said you’ll never forget

things you said with the tv on mute

things you said while holding my hand

things you said when we first met

things you said when you met my parents

things you said you loved about me

things you said when you asked me to marry you

things you said in our vows

things you said before you kissed me

things you said on new year’s eve

things you said when you kissed me goodnight

things you said in a hotel room

things you said on our honeymoon

things you said when we were 18

things you said when we were 70

things you said as we danced in our socks

things you said with my lips on your neck

things you said in the dark

things you always meant to say but never got the chance

things you said under your breath

things you said in the spur of the moment

things you said when no one else was around 

things you were afraid to say

things you said after we fell in love

fuck, marry, kill

marry, cuddle, sleep with

fuck, take a bullet for, murder

adopt, be adopted by, marry 

kill, betray, have on your zombie apocalypse team

Rule 1, Don’t like, Don’t read

Pretty simple and straight forward. It doesn’t matter if it’s tagged as a ship you dislike or you’re 10 chapters in, if you don’t like it or it disturbs you too much, stop. The back button is your friend.

Rule 2, Properly Tag

If your fic contains anything possibly triggering or squicky, tag it. If your fic is an AU, tag it. If your fic is about a ship, tag it. Vice versa, do not overtag or improperly tag. If your fic is based around Stucky, don’t tag Stony.

Rule 3, Filters are your friend

If the app or website has an option to filter tags, use it. If you need to download an extension, download it. If someone has missed an important tag, you can politely message them requesting to add it.

Rule 4, Don’t harass people for shipping your NoTp

We all have that one ship we absolutely positively hate with every fibre of our being. And chances are, someone hates your Otp with the same ferocity. Don’t harass people over shipping your NoTp.

Rule 5, Do your research

If you’re writing a fic and a plot point or character is introduced you’re not sure how to write, research it! Google is your friend! There are also blogs dedicated to assisting people with certain topics such as @writingwithcolor

Rule 6, Your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay

Chances are, someone gets off to something you hate. And, that’s okay! We all have different and varying tastes!

Rule 7, Feedback keeps content creators creating

Likes, comments, reblogs, and recomendations keep your fanfic writers writing. Where would writers be if no one read their works? Where would artists be if no one bought their art?

Rule 8, If you want it, write it

It’s bound to happen to everyone, you just can’t find a specific fic for a specific ship or it’s that one rare pair no one appreciates like you do. What do you do in this situation? You write it yourself! It may not be the best-written or most poetic or maybe it’s just a pure crackfic, but that’s okay!

Rule 9, Fanon is not Canon

Likewise, headcanons are not canon. And if someone has a different headcanon, that’s okay! Sure, we may ignore canon for fics but headcanons and fanfiction and fanart are not canon!

Rule 10, Fiction is not reality

And the most important of all, fiction is not reality. Writing abuse fics does not mean you support abuse in real life. Writing suicidal characters does not mean the writer is suicidal. Writing glorified murder fics does not mean the writer supports murder in real life.

Because see nowadays, ships are largely about validity. They need to have canon evidence, and often times said “evidence” is used as proof the ship is good representation and also used as an argument against other ships, (i.e. Kirishima is gay coded so it’s homophobic to ship him with women) and as such “crack ships” barely exist, or when they do exist people are confused. “Why would you ship that? It has no endgame? It’ll never be canon? Isn’t the whole point of a ship for the healthy gay relationship to become canon so we can have representation? Isn’t that why Klance should be canon but Sheith can’t be, because clearly Sheith is homophobic pedo incest garbage, but Klance would be wholesome?” is a bit of an attitude you tend to see lately. This idea that anything you ship represents what you desire to see in the canon, and what you desire irl, and says something about your moral values as a person.

And now I can’t help but thinking back to oh, about 2014 or so, when Free! was airing. It was RinHaru vs MakoHaru. Bullshit was happening everywhere. (It has been happening earlier, but 2014 was when I really remember the dumb, “Makoto is abusive” arguments popping up, among other things.) And then, you had this small faction of creators who weren’t on those ships, or if they were, they also multishipped one small, weird “crack pairing”: SouMako. They had never talked. You could assume they had talked or interacted, but I think it wasn’t until like the watergun fight special that they actually talked? They were like, two satellites orbiting two characters who had interacted a lot, but they themselves had never actually shown any acknowledgement of each other’s existence. 

Either way, people made some hotass fanart of them, and some fic, and personally while I didn’t ship it hard, I certainly enjoyed it. I wasn’t opposed to it at all.

But I bit that down because my friends were like “lmao why do they even ship it? They’ve never talked! There’s like no canon for it! They’re so delusional!” as though SouMako shippers somehow thought the two of them were gonna just magically propose to each other in the finale episode or something.

So I never really told those friends I liked it or found it hot, and even joined them in making fun of it, because it was 5 years ago and I was a lot more timid. It’s water under the bridge now. But now, seeing how fandom has continued, I can’t help but feel that was the hatching of a small egg that turned out to be housing a basilisk, in some ways. When we began to view shippers of “crack” as stupid or delusional, we began in some ways to strip shipping of it’s nonsense fun. Shipping became more and more some sort of desire and push to have your OTP canon, because it was better than the other OTP.

And now “crack” barely exists at all in a lot of places, because why would you ship something with no chance? That’s the attitude and feeling I get from a lot of people. And I think the moment we began to slowly lose that sense of wacky, stupid fun, that sense of “because I want to see two huge boys touch tiddies, that’s why” we lost a little bit of the more lighthearted shipping sphere.

4. things you said over the phone

   “Hold up, I’m getting another call. Oh, it’s from glitch, hang on, I’ll do a three-way.” Jolly said.

   “jolly did I just hear you say threeway?” Glitch inquired almost immediately upon being added to the call.

   Jolly blushed; veins glittering indignantly. “You know what I meant?”

   “Yeah, she definitely said ‘threeway’.” Horns confirmed.

   “Oh shit, cool, you’re here too, Horns.” Glitch said.

   “Yes, i’m here too.” Horns replied, irritable. “Now, where were we Jolly, before Glitch so rudely interupted us.”

   “Discussing plans for my birthday.” Jolly said.

   “Sweet! Yeah! That’s coming up, huh?” exclaimed Glitch.

   “I’d like a cake and I’d like to go ice-skating, how does that sound, Gigi?” Jolly asked.

   “Epic.” Glitch said.

   “Cool, well, that just saved two seconds of our time since we can now put you down as a yes.” Horn said and faintly, there was the sound of a pen scratching against paper over the line. “So, uh, Glitch, why did you ring Jolly?”

   “Gamma wants to know if Jolly knew there was training on in, um, about ten minutes ago.” Glitch said, smug.

   “Wait, what?! There’s training on today?!” panicked Jolly.

   “Fuck, there is too.” Horns said.

   “We’ll be there in twenty.” Jolly said.

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