Otterly Mindblowing

idk it's kind of frustrating. i've genuinely never, ever seen a character that uses a rollator before. not once. i cannot name a single one. i know of multiple ocs who are described to have full-body pain, dizziness, and fatigue that are drawn as cane users and are never shown with wheelchairs or walkers, though

it's also sort of sad? i've been diagnosed since i was twelve years old, and i only heard of rollators LAST YEAR. and that was only because i saw one irl and immediately asked what it was. i wonder how many disabled people out there don't even know it's an option solely because they're completely underrepresented online and in media

if you're a creative with a disabled oc, PLEASEEE check out this link. it's a very nice and detailed guide for telling which mobility aids suit someone's needs best. it's incredibly important to make the right choice for your character! mobility aids tell you a LOT about someone's lived experience. picking the right one will communicate to your audience #1 what your character goes through #2 that you UNDERSTAND what your character goes through!

I have seen EXACTLY one character in fiction who uses a Rollator in over 40 years on this Earth, that one being in harem fiction (shout out to Quaranteam: Project RED, written by S Bradshaw in the Quaranteam universe by Corrupting Power). I had never heard of them before.

I’m a patron of the arts (I leave nice comments on aO3).

I'm a patron of the arts (I reblog on Tumblr dot com)

I'm a patron of the arts (I have subscribed to an artist on Patreon)

Absolutely without irony, my favorite part of being a lewd writer on Patreon is the fact that I have a budget to throw at artists monthly

When I finished book one of my main story, I decided to take a break for a bit before starting book 2. About two weeks later, I had an INCREDIBLY vivid dream in which most of the main cast of said story sat me down to ask what happened next. I started writing on the story again the next day.

this post has been making the rounds again and i just want to state for the record that it is a fucking delight to read in the tags all the random things people research for their fanfic and art. fandom, i love you. i love you with your flood maps and medical procedures and tentacle biology and historical fashion and traditional handcrafts and conlangs and urban geography and literally everything else. i am completely sincere about this. the enthusiasm with which people embrace detailed, deep, and often obscure research, just because they want to get it right, because they want to create something rich and interesting, it makes me feel better about the world. i adore it.

Have you seen Eda Clawthorne? If so I don’t know how you could answer no

I have a type. Tifa Lockheart is why I have that type.

idk if this is controversial or not, but I really like when non-professional writing like fic has hints of author bleedthrough when it comes to like, what different people assume is common knowledge. Like sometimes I’ll be reading a fic and it’ll just be obvious that the person writing it is either obsessed with medicine or has been to medical school, because they’ll use terms that are just a shade too technical without explaining them. It’s never the super specific stuff that they’d know other people are unaware of, it’s always the things that once you’ve known it for a while you forget it’s niche knowledge. It’s fun because as a fanfic reader it reminds me of how this is a fun hobby community, where everyone has their own thing going on outside of fandom. Everyone’s got their own specialties and they can’t help but write that into their work sometimes

…well this post sure took off

new ask game; what do you think my hobby, skillset or knowledge or any other details of me based off my writing

I feel called out by this

Fanfic Ask Meme

Oooooh ask me some!!!

I am 110% down to answer any and all of these about any of my writings

you know you're good at your job when every single person tells you "thank god you're back"

Look if you read fanfic on the clock and everyone is still relieved that you're back you must just be that got-dang good at your job

My grandad worked nights for the railroad, and he liked to say that he got paid for what knew, not what he did. There would be nights without a single train, but someone had to be there to make sure that any train that came by was on time and on the right track. It could be so slow the guys set up a projector and watched x-rated films on the clock. OP, I think you’re okay.

I’ve done SO MUCH WRITING FANFIC on the clock. There are days that I’m actively doing IT things with a second screen up holding my WIP, upon which I’m dropping sentences between telling people to restart their computers.

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

Sometimes, your darling is an invasive species and needs to be taken to the biome it belongs in

If you filter for just like the first year or two of miraculous, I bet it would be a higher ratio. This fandom had quite a few really amazing writers writing a lot of explicit stuff, and they were harrassed and chastised out of the fandom. And since so many others, have seen the chastising, there are a lot who have been afraid to write explicit fic for the ML fandom even when they themselves have interest in exploring that aspect of their writing.

Totally agree with this, and I joined late in 2019 too and all of the explicit stuff I found was deleted, and knew some "big" ML authors who were chased out of the fandom/ AO3 for outside dramas and their writing choices. I wish I recorded everything back then because I came from Undertale AO3 side, didn't know in MLB fandom the explicit-genre authors were discriminated that badly

The puritanism in this fandom has bothered me for a while. That’s one reason I started the ML Kink Meme on AO3. Currently we’re at 43 prompts and two fills (shoutout @erseac), but I’m optimistic about its potential. I encourage you all to check it out!

I would fuckin ROCK a maid dress

10000 notes and I post a pic of me wearing a maid dress

@tagging-officals-offical

I swear to god if I wake up tomorrow to 10000 comments

We have to make it happen, now