OTP Prompt

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Join us in the 2023 12 Days of Christmas Challenge as we hope to spread a little ✨holiday joy and cheer✨through the magic of writing fanfiction.

English Surnames

Dutch Surnames

Spanish Surnames

Scottish Surnames

German Surnames

Italian Surnames

Irish Surnames

French Surnames

Scandinavian Surnames

Welsh Surnames

Jewish Surnames

Surnames By Ethnicity

Most Common Surnames in the USA

Most Common Surnames in Great Britan

Indian surnames

Indonesian surnames

Pakistani surnames

Bengali surnames

Japanese surnames

Filipino surnames

Korean surnames

Syrian surnames

Mongolian naming and clan names

Thai surnames

The first pride was a riot, more specifically a riot against police violence. Trans women like Miss Major and other people of colour paved the way for the celebration of pride today. You cannot celebrate your pride this month, or any month if you aren’t also supporting Black Lives Matter and the riots going on against police violence right now. Us white LGBTQ+ need to stand up for our black siblings and their rights, their struggles. We need to amplify their voices and show any support we can. (Edited to add links and make the image clearer)

Extensive BLM Google doc including places to donate to, education resources, etc

List of 75 things white people can do right now

Hello, we all hope you’re all taking care of yourselves and giving yourself a little treat. 

It has come (admittedly a little past) time to announce prompts for the creation period of May/June. We hope these prompts will inspire you!

Our trope this time around is Parenting. Our seasonal prompt is Music . Our Harry Potter themed prompt is Potions.

We invite our followers to give scenario prompts through our ask box for any creator to use. Please review the guidelines for submitting scenario prompts as we want them to be accessible for all pairings/gens/characters/creators.

Please be sure to review our updated FAQs and Rules. Remember that all followers/creators under 18 CANNOT interact with or create any works rated M or E for this fest.

a book report

They want a book report.

They want you to get 9th grade English up in their shit. 

Not that I don’t appreciate all the OMG YOU MONSTER YOU MADE ME CRY’s because it’s real privilege to make people feel something with nothing but words.

There is no way for me to formulate my emotions at the moment, and I probably won’t be able to for a while.

I am a senior in the class of 2020.

Last week, I was supposed to perform my final play—Alice in Wonderland—as an actor and student director. I gave countless hours, labors, and tears for something that will likely never be seen. I was supposed to be recognized as a senior in the only senior night I was ever going to have in high school.

In little less than a month, I was supposed to be dancing the night away at my senior prom—surround with the people I care about most.

In less than two months, I was supposed to be able to tell my favorite teachers—adults I saw almost everyday for the past four years—goodbye, and thank you for shaping me into the person I am. I was supposed to tell my underclassmen babies advice on how to survive high school, and assure them that they could make it too. I was supposed to be walking out of my school as a student for the last time.

In two months and one day EXACTLY, I was supposed to be walking across the stage. Graduating. Saying publically that I did it to all of my friends and family. That I completed something that took 13 years of my 18 year old life.

Now I won’t get to do any of that.

Yes, I am aware that the virus going around is serious. I am aware that people are hurting and dying and my heart aches for all of them.

But I am still allowed to be upset, to be disappointed. To feel scorned and heartbroken.

I was robbed.

Every late night, every stress-induced meltdown, every tear shed, every quick project, every test studied for, every report card that I worked myself to death other, every frustrated rant, every discouraged moment, every time I had to pull myself back up from rock bottom, every fight, every argument, every debate, every moment when I wanted to give up but didn’t because I wanted to be able to say “I did it”.

And now I won’t be able to.

To know that I will be the only grandchild of my grandmother’s that she won’t get to see walk across the stage, go out to dinner after, and just feel her pride that only comes after seeing someone congratulated. That shit? HURTS. My heart aches thinking about that.

To know that I will be the only daughter of my parents that they won’t get to celebrate graduating fucking sucks.

To know that I will never, ever, be able to recreate the magic of a high school graduation is the worst of all. I’ll have to smile at my nephews’ graduations, because yes I’ll be so fucking proud of them, but I will always be jealous that I never got that.

And you’re going to call me selfish? you’re going to belittle me being upset and refusing to be positive?

This is a stressful, scary time for everyone. But at least you got to have a high school graduation. To walk across the stage hearing everyone clap for you. To get to look at your friends with a bittersweet, tired but proud smile. To finally get to say you achieved something that everyone has to fucking recognize as a good job. At least you have that memory, and you’ll get to have it forever.

You know what my memory might be?

Opening my diploma in the mail. If I’m lucky, maybe my parents could Facebook live it to their friends and family. Maybe my sisters will take a Snapchat with a cute little caption of “I’m so proud of her!!”

But it won’t be the same. No, it could never be the same. I won’t get to see my dad genuinely smile at me with pride, because he rarely shows it to our faces. I won’t get to have my mom pin and repin my cap because it has to be just right. I won’t get to see my grandma grin, knowing that for once I’ve made her proud and that I have her full attention. I won’t get to receive letters and gifts from extended family saying congratulations and that I’ve done good—the ONE fucking time I’d be on everyone’s minds. I won’t get to shake my principle’s hand and say a quiet goodbye to the person who ruled my past four years. I won’t get to walk past my teachers, grinning widely and seeing their proud smiles because fuck—I made it.

This is only a mere fraction of what I feel at the moment. The hurt, the disappointment, the heart break.

Class of 2020, I’m sorry that this is happening to us. Don’t let anyone belittle you because of what’s happening in the crazy world right now. You have every right to be upset and hurting right now, and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.

To everyone else that’s not Class of 2020, you don’t know how this feels. You got your moment in the sun, your pat on the back. We won’t. Be fucking sympathetic, for fucks sake. This hurts. This affects us the rest of our lives. This will always be a bitter memory that is glorious and sweet for others. Let us feel scorned without your asses making us feel selfish and shoddy.

So to my highschool years:

thank you for trying your hardest

thank you for giving me some gudiance as I grew up

thank you for giving me structure in my life

thank you for being here

Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere and so have our newest prompts femslash lovers! This season we’ve found three prompts we hope will get your creative juices flowing! Our trope this time around is Marriage Law. Our seasonal prompt is Domestic Bliss. Our wildcard prompt is Rememberall.

The timeline for this fest will be:

March 1- Mod prompts post

March 10 - AO3 collection opens

April 30 - Last day to submit for this cycle

May 1 - Round up post released

We invite our followers to give scenario prompts through our ask box for any creator to use. Please review the guidelines for submitting scenario prompts as we want them to be accessible for all pairings/gens/characters/creators.

Please be sure to review our updated FAQs and Rules. Remember that all followers/creators under 18 CANNOT interact with or create any works rated M or E for this fest.

So imagine person A of your ship is just chilling, living their best life, when all of the sudden they start seeing a lot of injuries on their body. A very concerning amount. They realized that their soulmate must be in danger but they don’t know who their soulmate is or where they might be.

So all they can do is watch as more and more injuries accumulate as the day progresses. And just as A is breaking down and coming to the realization that their soulmate might die without them ever meeting, new marks start appearing on their arm. They look on in horror as their soulmate carves their address on their own arm so that A can see.

The police are able to rescue B from whatever happened to them and A rushes to the hospital to see them. When they arrive, B is battered and bruised in every worst way. But despite all that, their first words to A is a strained “I’m sorry”

When A asks why, they explain, “I’m sorry the message I scratched is gonna scar. You’re gonna be stuck with it forever. With... me. Forever.”