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How did you get so good at writing??? Did you take classes? I feel like you should get paid all the money for this! (I subscribe to your website!)
after i dropped out of high school i found a torrent of like 5GB of OCRd romance novels and i read like 3 romance novels a day for a while
read enough romance novels and you will realize that they live or die entirely on technical skill. if you are new to romance novels then even bad ones can dazzle you with novelty but by the time you are on your 30th historical fake engagement between a bluestocking and a rakish duke you can grade them and you know when they've failed. when two books have what should be the same main characters hitting the same plot beats, but one of those books is delightful and the other fucking sucks, you learn some things. some books are bad and still delightful. other books are good but they just don't hit. you start to see the seams in the bad ones. 'oh, this is a weird out of character moment because she wanted to have the kabedon moment and didn't know how to get there'. 'she didn't want the ust to end but couldn't think of a better reason than this deus ex cockblock.' that kind of thing.
you could probably do this with other genres but i like romance because the plot is two people fall in love. that's it. everything else is set dressing. if you can figure out how to make that work you can carry it over into whatever other genre you feel like. mysteries would give you a different skillset around plotting that i don't have.
anyway after that i wrote a lot.
i said it in my original tags but i want to talk out of my ass and say that one place that a lot of current romantasy falls short for me is that it ends up being written by people who mostly read other romantasy without going back to the original genres of romance and fantasy. it's like a 'learn the rules before you can break them' kind of thing. you have all these magical macguffins to hit the tropes but can you make me believe that these characters have chemistry without that? is there chemistry, or did you tell me they're fated mates and now i'm supposed to assume this fight is sexy? does the fantasy aspect exist for anything aside from the magical macguffins? i'm not going to throw stones from inside my house made of worldbuilding designed to make all my fetishes happen, but the really fun part is when the lore spins out of control and you end up really going in depth on linguistic anthropology things that aren't relevant to the makeouts.
and the other thing is that you can't really sub in fanfic for this. plenty of fanfic takes characters from other genres and plops them into romance, but it's not the same. a good romance novel says, "here are two characters. you may know their archetypes, but you don't know them. you are going to get to know them, and you are going to love them, and you are going to want them to love each other, and when they love each other you are going to be happy for them". i love a rakish duke. when a man who's never had to do his own laundry is slutty as fuck that's my shit. but you still have to make me like him. you can take that archetype and make a guy who fucking sucks. most fanfic will not impart to you any knowledge about how to make a reader like a guy from scratch. you already know that guy. that's the whole point. fanfic with as much character building as an original work is the exception, not the rule.
the whole reason i get catty about fics that just make a different guy is that... you've made a different guy. i don't know who this guy is and i don't like him, and you haven't bothered trying to make me like him, because you slapped another guy's nametag on him like a cheat code. it's cool if you did make me like this new guy, but why is he wearing that other guy's nametag if no other aspect of him is present?
read the genres you want to write, obviously, but there's a reason the shitty comphet romantic subplot is a cliche. it's because romance is its own skillset, and if you try to fit romance in your thriller when you only read thrillers it's probably going to be the weakest part. if you want an ensemble cast then chemistry between characters is important regardless of whether they're going to fuck about it.
#this is also what i call the Star Wars Problem (although: wide category lol)#but i mean specifically the thing where george lucas watched a BUNCH of westerns and samurai films and ww2 flying ace films#and then made a space movie ABOUT high points in those other story forms#because he knew those pulp genres inside out and knew what bits he needed to hit in RAF Dambusters pulp when he added laser swords#or in western saloon showdowns when he added spaceships#but then you fast-forward a few decades and people are making star wars movies ABOUT other star wars movies#and like not many of those scenes are going to hit that way - they just wont have the chance#theyâll be a copy of a copy and the emotion is going to degrade like the worlds crustiest reformatted ocr PDF#or a xerox of a xerox of a xerox#theyâve ceased to be about the feeling generated by the Form and have become simply the Form in isolation (via harrietvane)
first of all i hated harry potter universe my whole life and here i am 24 y. o. simping over not-so-young wizards second of all i'm a sucker for gentle kisses
As much as I love Prisoner of Azkaban, I think itâs unrealistic to consider that people werenât thirsty over Sirius Black when he escaped Azkaban.
The fact that there werenât more Sirius Black Apologists/Conspiracy Theorists at the time. You donât think Rita Skeeter would write the hell out of that story? You know sheâd dig up the most handsome photo of Sirius pre-Azkaban she could get her hands on and write a story about how tragic he isâa young man who couldâve have it all but went down a dark path. People would eat that shit up. âDid you read the new Sirius Black biography? Fascinating!â There would be a small cult of people thinking heâs too hot to murder so many people.
I mean, we canât know, obviously, because Harryâs perspective is so limited, and Iâm not saying a LOT of people would be into him, butâŚI do think people are weird.
Sorry, I'm still thinking about this.
There HAD to have been weird girls at Hogwarts who knew everything about Sirius Black. Maybe not even girls who thought he was innocent, but girls who were fascinated by him. Girls who bought every book, found every news clipping, and needed to know every fact about him. Girls who knew that Harry was his godson loooooong before Harry did.
People go crazy over hot people allegedly committing crimes--particularly shocking ones.
Sirius is the perfect excuse to draw luscious hairâŚ
Baby rockstar Sirius and manager Severus, inspired by @ogthreadbear âs Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again
What the! Baby LWTUAA snack?! What a lovely surprise I should look on tumblr more often lmao
They are so pretty and Siriusâs hair is indeed perfectly luscious đđ

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Severus the ultimate muse
Iâve been on a bit of a bend into the snack ship, and Threadbearâs âLove will tear us apart, againââs Snape lives in my head rent free⌠rotating him in my mind
(Also yes thatâs Sirius and Orionâs Belt on the left)
Please look at this beautiful Severus by Saph0! Thank you I love him!đĽš
just a snack sketch
I know this is probably controversial but my guilty pleasure ship is Sirius x Snape, there, my dirty little secret is out now
He also did this one
Iâm having trouble linking the video, but this guy can legit breakdance
He also spreads anti book/book banning messaging. Donât follow him ffs itâs propaganda
I have been sooo busy this month, therefore it is just a portrait study this month :') I am working on another really awesome art project, which has completely nothing to do with my Sirius works. However, the other project might help me to live off my artsy stuff one day. Perhaps. 𼲠(and it is also really fun!) This time I tried to paint a more dangerous, angry looking Sirius. I also recognized I am painting him slightly too young (in my opinion), so I also tried to fix that.^^

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I challenged myself to paint at least(!) one Sirius Black art a month this year, so here is the April painting! And as I havenât had much time in April, I made a more detailed artwork :') Well, but it was a lot of fun! I also added a close up because I really like his face in this one :)
Killer AU
"Stop fucking stalking me!"
"We're not broken up yet."
I wish age gap discourse hadn't spiraled the way it has because I want there to be a safe space to say "Men in their 40s who date 25 year olds aren't predators, they're just fucking losers"
... honey you just described a predator LOL
No, I said what I said. But thank you for providing an example of how this topic has become insufferable on the internet.
i am honestly burningly curious about how a 40 year old man who fucks around with college grads is not a predator
"College grad" is not a developmental stage, nor is it what I would describe a 25 year old as. I was 4 years out of college at 25. My mother had two children at 25. You can be a fucking congressman at 25.
There's a difference between a man who is immature and buys into misogynistic views of beauty and aging and one who is a predator. Also, many actual predators? Not losers and able to move through society pretty freely being seen as cool and the ideal, so conflating the two isn't helpful.
This is going to be my final response to any attempt at discourse. You're welcome to continue amongst yourselves.
also sometimes a 40 year old and a 25 year old just weirdly find each and it's a perfectly normal relationship - like all human relationships are complex and situational, it's so rarely an either/or thing let alone just one thing only
if a 40 year old dude only dates 25 year olds, DiCaprio style or something adjacent to it, then yeah he's a loser
if a 40 year old dude meets a 25 year old through social event or friends or whatever and they happen to hit it off and make a go of it, and this isn't some sort of reoccurring pattern for the guy, that's just a relationship with an age difference
being predatory means something specific, and man I agree w/ OP and really wish people just stopped ascribing it to any and all relationship dynamics they personally might not like
predator and groomer - two words that need to go up on the "can't use till you learn their meaning" shelf
Something I find really stressful is this seemingly endless creep of infantilisation and removal of autonomy from young people. Like, not to be all âin my dayyyyâ about it, but⌠at 16, my friends and I were expected to be broadly responsible for our presence in the world. Most of us had jobs, we navigated public transport, looked after younger siblings. We were expected to make informed decisions about our future careers and our sexual partners. We were allowed to leave education and work full time (this was not necessarily good thing - I think increasing the school leaving age to 18 was broadly for the best). Most of us were smoking, or drinking, or both - again, not good things, but just facts - and many of us were sexually active. Many of the AFAB people I knew were on the pill. Legally, we could live independently, or get married with adult consent.
Legally (I live in the UK) we were not minors, although we inhabited an odd legal limbo until we turned 18, and we were certainly not âchildrenâ. Intellectually, socially, though, we were considered (young) adults, or at the most âolder teenagers.â We were expected to read mostly adult books (rather than middle grade or YA), watch the news/read papers, watch mostly adult television.
And I do think we a bit under-protected, under-supported, and in some cases - neglected and financially exploited - and Iâm not necessarily advocating that. But it did make us feel, I think, in charge of our own lives, capable and competent to make decisions.
At 16-17 my parents knew they could leave me alone overnight/for a couple of nights, and I wouldnât starve or burn the house down. I felt comfortable getting cross country trains on my own, or booking and staying at a hotel (yes, with my boyfriend.)
Then there was this⌠creeping of sentiments that we were all Too Young to trouble our heads about certain things. A lot of it was good - more stringent licensing laws, raising the school leaving age, raising the minimum smoking age(!) - but some of the broader cultural stuff was⌠a bit patronising? Eg, the introduction of âNew Adultâ as a category of books aimed at 18-25 year olds, the way cartoons and books written for the 9-12 age group were being marketed as for the 12-15 age group, referring to late teens as âchildren,â etc etc.
Then, in 2008, there was the big financial crash and suddenly my generation were (broadly) robbed of all the usual markers of adulthood and success, meaning that we got âstuckâ in the lifestyles and modes our late teens/early 20s. And suddenly, all the emphasis shifted from social and legal protections for late teens/ younger adults, to legal restrictions on their freedoms/rights, and strange philosophical protections on the emotional states.
So, OF COURSE a 23 year old canât buy a beer without carrying an ID card, and a 17 year old canât have a crush on a 16 year old, but also, because youâre *children* you donât need to live like adults. So the UK government got to save money by saying â18 isnât a proper adult,â then â20 isnât a proper adult,â and â25 isnât a proper adultâ because it meant they could refuse to give single occupancy housing benefit rates to people of those ages (I think theyâve raised it over 30 now.) Or by refusing to clamp down on exploitative temporary/zero hours contracts - because theyâre just âtemp jobs for young people!â, or by raising the retirement age because â60 is far too young to retire. Youâre not a real adult until 35.â
And it means the discursive environment is such that you can claim that a 21 year old trans person is too young to make their own medical decisions, or a 15 year old is too young to consent to the contraceptive pill.
Meanwhile, they are not offering additional *protections* to these newly infantilised adults. 18 year olds are still encouraged to saddle themselves with enormous educational debt, or allowed to have credit cards, or expected to pay rent, or no longer receive child benefits. You still have to *work*. In fact, in the States, theyâre looking to removed child employment restrictions - but thatâs fine, because 20 year olds are being protected from making their own medical decisions, and adults get to say which books their teen kids are reading in school, and kids arenât allowed to change their name or what they wear without parental consent.
We can see what these people are doing to the rights of children - so why are we being so complacent in expanding the definition of âchildâ?
Regardless - 25 is VERY CLEARLY an adult. At 25 I was married, had two kids, an overdraft, rent to pay, and experience of living in the world for 6 years. I had more in common with someone of 40 than I did with someone of 15. Hell, at*20* I had more in common with someone of 40 than someone of 15. Any sexual or relationship decisions you make at 25 are your own to make.
Of course there are likely to be power imbalances in a 15 year age gap - which is why most 25 year olds donât date 40somethings - but not actually necessarily. And yeah, a 40 year old who only dates 20somethings is a skeeze - just like a 30 year old who routinely ingratiates themselves with rich 80 year olds is a skeeze.
But if any young people are reading this (doubt it)⌠your rights are much, much more important than your protections.
Yes, young people should be protected, but if someone claims theyâre protecting you while denying you access to personal autonomy, financial stability, intellectual curiosity, or sexual self-determination because youâre âtoo youngâ to need, or understand those things⌠be very suspicious of their motives.
And if youâre legally an adult, ask yourself why you donât feel comfortable defining yourself in those terms.
This thread is from 2023, and now with the Cass report we have seen the real, tangible danger that comes from infantilizing adults in their 20s.
I didn't feel comfortable calling myself a woman instead of a girl until I was like 30. even though I distinctly was
and now I find myself trying to examine why "woman" has become so intrinsically linked to old age in our minds these days
we're also a brit and in our 60s and very much agree with what @draculasstrawhat said above - being in our teens in the late 70s was very much like okay you're adults now, get on with it - watching the growing infantilisation and erosion of the rights of teens and young adults has been and is horrifying to us

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âclichĂŠs are badâ ok then explain showing up bloody or bruised outside your enemyâs door because you didnât know where else to go
I've seen discussions sometimes about how fanfiction-based fandom culture is heavily influenced and dominated by people who are not cis men.
One thing I haven't seen discussed as much though is how much of fandom in general is shaped by neurodivergent people.
I mean, you have autistic and ADHD people with special interests or hyperfixations collecting information and writing detailed meta, connecting very strongly with characters and fandoms. I would not be surprised if the percentage of autistics in fandom communities was significantly higher than in the general public.
And that's not even getting into other types of neurodivergencies and how they influence fandom culture.
I sometimes see people try to divorce fandom culture from the idea of being a "geek", and I understand that this is sometimes because of the association with the sexist geek stereotype, but I also know that there is a connection between the two concepts, and it's probably us neurodivergent people.
I also think this is why at first I was like "my fandoms can't be special interests, that's just how fandom is"
Yeah, because a lot of people in fandom have special interests
Iâll go slightly further here, and say this (well. this plus ableism) is the root of a lot of current issues in fandom.
Back when I started being in fandom, a couple decades ago, Iâd argue that damn near every single person in fandom was autistic or ADHD. Youâd only join fandom if you were obsessive and were chill with doing things that werenât socially acceptable. (Because being a fan absolutely was not socially acceptable at the time! We went to ridiculous amounts of effort to hide that we were fans!)
And fandom culture was absolutely shaped by this. The standard behaviors in fandom were those of happy autistics. Thatâs how you were expected to act. You remember âsqueeingâ? The visual image of it is generally someone so happy and excited they canât physically contain it so they make a high-pitched noise and flap their hands and - a squee is literally just a happy stim. And so many fans at the time did happy stims that we gave it a special fandom name! So even if a neurotypical person happened to stumble in, theyâd learn that the âsocial normâ in a fandom space is basically just âact autistic/ADHDâ and assimilate.
But then... fandom got mainstreamed. It became socially acceptable. And then the neurotypicals started showing up in large numbers. And instead of assimilating like they did before, when they were the minority, now that there were a lot of them they started going âwhat the heck is this! why are people here acting so weird! this is embarrassing!â
...and then we got cringe culture within fandom.
No one says âsqueeâ anymore not because fans donât squee anymore - happy stims donât just go away - but because the neurotypicals showed up and told us âsqueeâ is a cringy word and concept. Which they had ALWAYS told us out in public, but we used to have fandom as an insular autistic/ADHD-dominated space where we were safe and free to be ourselves.
You know how everybody talks about how cringy and embarrassing 2012 tumblr was? Dude. We were literally just acting like happy autistics, because thatâs what we were. Itâs just that - like you always have - you think autistic/ADHD behavior is cringy and embarrassing.
This isnât new.  âCringe cultureâ isnât new. Itâs just a new euphemism for the exact same ableism thatâs always existed, with the only difference that now itâs coming from inside fandom.
All those posts saying âif these people were bullied more they wouldnât act like thisâ? Theyâre not just bizarrely tasteless jokes. Theyâre because the people making those posts were bullies. Are bullies. Fandom used to be where the sort of people who were victims of peer abuse went - where we went to be safe from bullies and be openly ourselves - but now the bullies are in here with us.
On the happier side, while mainstreaming has resulted in a lot of neurotypicals showing up, autistic/ADHD people are absolutely still the backbone of fandom. Weâre the ones collecting tiny bits of info and connecting the dots to write galaxy brain meta. Weâre the ones churning out new content every single day, rain or shine. Weâre the hyper-verbal ones writing 250k fics and the ones who hyper-relate with the characters and make incorrect quote posts so spot-on they sound canon. They may think weâre embarrassing - but they still need us.
SO MUCH THIS!!!
Fandom would be nothing without neurodivergent people. Because thereâs nothing on this earth that can rival the white-hot intensity of an Autistic or ADHD person in full-blown hyperfocus or special interest mode.