maybe it's the heat in here, maybe it's the pressure

Rocky:

Smart

So good at engineering

Squeaks

Little buddy

Wears clothes

Five legs

Three fingers on each claw

Squeaks

Scorching hot

Breathes ammonia

Helped save erid and earth

Squeaks

He squeaks

Labrador sized

frying dough

Skipping backwards a little bit to Hieron, here's a little fic about Fero and Samol during the first part of Spring that involves a little kissing, Making Something New.

If a little Pelagios family drama is your cup of tea, check out this piece I wrote for Secret Samol, Renunciation, Reconciliation.

on a date

Me when I write for 2 hours: 500 words

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

if you don't know, there's a very popular 3d printing model out there called "benchy". this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it's a difficult print and will help test it out.

this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.

of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?

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