LacedinInk

papyr.com: freely accessible and summarized classroom materials in rhetoric, composition, grammar, and linguistics from a retired english professor

typelit.io: practice writing speed and accuracy by copying entire classical books

wordhippo: thesaurus where synonyms are separated by specific meaning and connotation, making it very easy to find a variety of words

adjectives for: get a selection of adjectives matching to any word you need them for

Heraldicon: create your own coat of arms

A Soft Murmur: make your own personalized ambience music

dmnes.org: database of names found in historical sources all across Europe from the middle ages

foodtimeline.org: timeline of the development of human foods and from when the first evidence we have of a food being consumed

Google News Newspaper Archive: archive of old newspaper pages, some dating back to the 19th century

Green’s Dictionary of Slang: a history of slang and insults in the english language

HathiTrust: digital library and archive with an extremely wide variety of topics and archived books and articles - eg. Fashion Periodicals: an archive of fashion magazines dating back to the 19th century

"Starlight"

from howl's moving castle! <3

process and stuff on patreon

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

I do not have to reinvent the wheel every time I write fanfiction

I do not have to make every chapter's word count above 1,000 in order for it to be good

It is okay if some things don't make sense

I can write whatever I want

I am writing this shit for free

If people don't like my stuff, they can block me. If they're being mean about it, I can block them.

The most important part of writing fanfiction is having fun

Writing fanfiction is supposed to be fun

I do not have to appeal to people

This shit is fun

I can write the same thing as someone else

My chapters don't all have to be the same length

It's never to late to go back

I don't have to finish it if I don't want to

'Cause every brush with death