#diloolie

Thank you.

Nonny, it’s fiction and like spyro said, it’s totally up to headcanon. I treat Zim by the way he acts and the way that the show frames him and Dib as equals on a level playing field, so to me, it’s totally fine. One word-of-god tweet decades later doesn’t change what I’ve known for years; that Zim and Dib are the only ones who treat each other as equals.

Reblogging this reply because YEAH. You can try to work out how Zim’s age translates to human years til the cows come home but in the end that doesn’t matter

Aw, Allison. Cheer up, Nosilla’s DEFINITELY gonna have some things to say about this. You guys should get better about talking together. ooh, whose play are you watching for Shenmue? :o

It's whenever I come up with a story idea that:

1) I like enough that I actually want to write it

2) isn't full of characters I don't own the copyright on.

Believe me. I'm riding on a decade-and-a-half-long pissed-off-at-myself train over the fact that I am not compelled by writing anything that isn't fanfiction. I am fucking desperate for a novel idea I can actually publish. Because I've got the creativity! I've got the writing ability! I've got the knowledge base and the necessary research skills! I've got an impressive streak of successes in writing competitions for short fiction!

But it's all in short fiction because short fiction is how long I can tolerate the dull, uninteresting, tedious existences of these pointless soulless husks called my own characters—and also I haven't written even that since I wasn't required to turn it in for a grade.

"Why don't you give them character traits and motivations and lives inspired by the characters you do like" because I don't like them anymore when they're stitched onto these bland-ass dolls I'm trying to write about. It's like putting a rolex watch on a human-sized paper doll.

I've even tried going the expy route by starting out with a fanfic plot and gradually changing names and identifying features until they're my own characters and settings; but the farther they diverge from the established fandom, the less interested I am in them. By the time the story crosses the threshold from "really poorly disguised knockoff of an established franchise" into "fully fleshed out original setting with original characters," I've lost all fucking interest in this cardboard diorama of a world.

That's why I don't have a book. That's why I don't have a dozen books.

Were you near the stage??

and the sequence of the hug is SO BEAUTIFUL

Thank you @diloolie!!!

How would you describe your style?

I think for Time & Space especially, I would describe my style as being more conversational – more like a thought process than a detached explanation of the events. I’ve been trying to make my narrative voice a lot more like how a person would normally think, since I’m always writing from the perspective of a character. With that said, I also try to keep my narration really individualized: I like writing differently for each POV, like having the characters describe the same thing in different ways and having them use the same vocab that they use in dialogue in their thoughts. 

How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

A LOT. I revise each full chapter at least three times before I post it, and I revise a lot while I’m in the process of finishing a chapter. I write them well in advance of when I’ll actually post them, to make sure things are continuous and going in the right direction and properly referring back. It helps!

If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?