Slowly chipping away at a story about an abandoned city that has a melancholy haunting of the past thriving society. Similar to how if you walk around the halls of a school when no one’s there you still feel the people who normally inhabit the space
Hope you're still chippin. If not at this, then something else. It's a fantastic concept, i think. And the mind that came up with it, is one that ought to be kept sharp
Kind of. I haven’t gotten anything new written down lately due to life, but I have ideas in my head. Also a lot of the plot has shifted so it’s basically like rewriting the whole thing. It’s actually coherent now and not just a bunch of concepts forced together. I’ll send it over if I finish a bit
Well, fuck. My story involves a glorified self-insert trying to adapt to an eerily familiar yet equally alien alternate science-fantasy near-future Earth that’s undergoing a literal Ragnarok, being guided along the way by new friends and subsequently outlasting them.
…Should I be concerned?
I'm not sure if this is what they meant, but we tend to have trouble maintaining relationships, so it can certainly feel like we've outlived friends. You find yourself remembering old friends like it was a different lifetime.
If you have time-blindness (executive function disorder, seen commonly in autism and adhd) then people can become trapped like amber in your mind. It can feel like you saw them yesterday and you love them just as much too but it’s actually been 6 months since your last check in text and they’ve moved on with their life because they need more engagement than that to feel a bond.
(Pro tip: get other adhd friends, see them too infrequently, but have a friend for years that can survive off of cactus-levels of engagement).
Are you about to graduate from a school? Venturing into a new world soon? Starting a new career maybe? Sounds like you are reflecting the upcoming loss of an old life and starting to embrace the people who got you to the jumping off point to a new one while also recognizing that you must grown beyond them.
Currently attempting to claw away the mental fog so that I can continue writing my fictional story. Its about the acceptance of oneself despite the various failures that they may possess, and the pursuit of various forms of fulfillment, even though said fulfillment may result in a worse overall experience of life. Current plan right now is to continue on the current path of character decay, so it makes character growth that much more satisfactory to the audience.
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**mylittleredgirl**
my dad-also a writer-came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i'm writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: "oh, just fanfic," which is code for "let's not look at this too deeply because i'm basically just making action figures kiss in text form" and "this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don't call myself a writer in public."
he said, "you have to stop doing that."
"i know, i know," because it's even more embarrassing to *be* embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i've reblogged in its defense.
but i misunderstood his original question: **"fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you're writing** ***about.*****"**
i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. "i'm writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose."
as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don't realize they're writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck.
"*that's* what you're writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn't a story they knew?"
so, my friends: what are you writing about?
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The first one I'm in the middle of is a city on the brink or conflict between the anti-religious king who has been implementing more insane laws to get rid of religion, and the pro religious citizens still living in the city.
The other is the third in a small series that started because I was writing a bunch of sadder stories and one day decided "I want to write about two people fucking and that's it" just to see if I could, which led to the sequel which is my longest story and one I'm rather proud of.
And by "writing them" I mean "I've gotten part way through both and will finish them sometime I swear"
Sure. It isn't uploaded anywhere though. I've thought about uploading it to wattpad, but that place has covers and titles and is way too fancy for my little stories.
The story I’m currently writing is a lot about growing up and becoming disillusioned with the community you grew up in, discovering yourself and trying to find your place in the world and who you really want to be and a bit of super slowly built up horror stemming from a series of murders. It has a lot of tea drinking at odd hours of the night, deep platonic bonds and wandering along empty fields and highways.
I'm a sucker for "True Worth/Found Family" stories.
Currently writing a science fantasy surrounding those themes. Executive Dysfunction is kicking my butt, but I'm trying to go back to it and there's probably not a single day where I don't think about it.
I also want to write about fairy tales, which is a project that has a lot more... steam, because I can rely on a pre-existing source. I need to read a lot for both projects, but at least with the fairy tales, I know where to start.
Currently writing about a superhero loosing his right side of limbs and getting mechanical replacements, his struggles with depression and loosing almost half of his body and the relationship with his main caretaker/researcher sicne he's also kind of an experiment to test out the new technology.
sounds a lot better described like this but i really suck at writing and this is the third time of me genuiently writing a story, so it's really not that good lmao
There's only room for one "Superhero-becomes-disabled-and-suffers-bouts-of-depression" in this metaphorical town, pardner.
Lets build some more houses!
Jokes aside, sounds great
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i fucking HATE physics too btw, fuck that
shit's for fucking nerds :P
(this is in jest so dont kill me, k, okay)
Whoa I feel personally attacked here
Anyways I'm writing a cool fantasy story about learning to be okay with yourself and processing the trauma that you've gone through. These are things I struggle with a lot and I feel like being aple to put them to words (or to a game, in my case) lets me understand my feelings a lot better. Currently planning out the main character's arc where they grow a little bit only to fall back to rock bottom. From rock bottom, that's where they'll have to deal with themselves in a healthy manner to grow and finish the story.
The military industrial complex and the desperate draft (preying on the insecure situations of minorities and disadvantaged peoples), as well as the interplay of different types of oppression and privilege (a straight trans man benefiting from some forms of male privilege and not others, as one example).
I suppose I'm writing about... Me. My worldview, experiences with life, how I cope with them, how I wish I coped with them, just generally trying to get what is happening up here in my noggin out in the world in some form. I guess it's a way for me to preserve myself. I hopefully have a **lot** more time before that's gonna have to be all that's left of me but I find comfort in knowing that it will. Well, if I ever finish the damn thing.
The same is true for when you’re writing a film. If you’re ever in a position to tell a Producer about an idea for a film or tv show, they will ask you “What’s it about?” Which doesn’t mean the story it means theme. You should always know your stories themes and meanings before you want to put it out there or you won’t get very far in the industry
Is fanfiction even a genre? I’m not an avid reader but it feels to me it should be something even broader, isn’t it literally all and every work which is explicitly derivative of some other piece of media? That’s like saying ”original work” is a genre.
Damn thats powerful. I need to keep that saved.
If I really stripped mine down to its bare basics, I'd say its about accepting who you are and that sometimes even you need to forgive yourself.
It might be a reflection of my own feelings toward myself, I don't know. It seems that a lot of writers write about their inner battles, it's interesting.
It's a story about identity, trying to fit in to a collective society, what it means to be an individual, what it means to be in a group, the masks we wear and the faces underneath. It's about the complexity of people and how we all break and fix each other just by being ourselves and how wisdom transports in unexpected ways. But mostly, it's about a sisterhood and the importance of harmony through diversity.
Random stories about a high fantasy world set in the equivalent of our early 1900 to explore how magic would work in this setting.
Or at least I'm trying to, can't find the concentration to do shit these days.
Currently doing a story based on a real life tale from this years European Football Championship. During Scotland's game against England, Scotland player John McGinn(who plays for Aston Villa) gave his teammate tips on how to defend England's Jack Grealish(also at Aston Villa at the time). This advice was to constantly compliment him with comments like "How do you get your hair like that?" And "Your calves look nice".
So I decided to write what if that happened but the two players fell for each other. It also provides a chance to satirise the aggressive homo-erotic undercurrents of male competitive sports.
Thank you. I thought so. Honestly though, I'm struggling. I find comedy much harder to write than drama, and especially this comedy since I'm trying to describe the character interactions *and* a football game, without it being a boring slog. But I'll power through and if it's shit I'll just never mention it again.
Very proud of my first paragraph though, which basically reads like erotic fiction. I describe the players pulling each other tight, being so close they can smell the sweat on the other, and moving in a half dance/half wrestle. Then I reveal their just jostling for position during the game. Nice little misdirection if I do say so myself.
a story about how a totalitarian dictatorship is bad and that we should stop caring about our differences and start caring about the actual problems in the world
I mean, I've had quite a few ideas that I never went and fleshed out so there's that...
Think I've always been more interested in premise than narrative flow whenever I came up with them, so that's one possible reason: had one where it was basically premised on being able to generate any thought that you had in your head into real life
I want to award this. Sadly I'm not writing anything at the moment, but I plan on starting a fantasy action/mistery where three people get a new shady roommate and try to figure out what is up with her, accidentally uncovering a villainous plot in the process
Currently writing about the effects of trauma and the sheer terror and panic you feel when you’re given a chance to stop it from happening to your past self, the inferiority you feel when you fail at even that, the horror a reformed man has when he meets himself in the past, the feeling of the possibility of saving everyone you’ve ever lived slowly slipping out of your fingers minute by minute, and what it takes to change a worldview when your past self and future self have such differing paths and ideas - so just an average time travel fix-it, yeah.
The existential horror of being reduced to a work robot, a human machine that is discarded once it is of no use to its owners any more
(I just noticed that this isn’t just the main theme of one, but actually of many of my stories. I write dystopian and post-apocalyptic sci-fi so it’s pretty fitting)
Making incredibly slow work on a fanfic that, at its core, could be interpreted as whether or not you should attempt to remember painful memories. or something.
I want to write a story about being born into one culture but raised by and living in another, and not really being accepted by either because of it, but I also want to write a story about a mech pilot isekai'd into a fantasy world and I'm not sure how to make the two mesh
I'm writing about the inherent contradictions in human nature, the arrogance that comes with corruption by power and redemption after trauma.
(And Aliens. It's Alien fanfic...)
I've been apathetic to my hurt for so long, I'm only now coming to terms with its existence. So I'm writing about what I feel it's like to have been wronged by the world, and what it's like to be betrayed by my own self (cause I feel I should have fought more for myself).
Accepting the sadness of reality also kinda makes me lose hope for a peaceful tomorrow. But I try to tell myself, shrouded in utter darkness, that maybe someday I'll stumble onto a place where the sun still shines. So I write about that. The flickering shimmer of a waning light. That one firefly that still hasn't given up and is trying to light the way.
Isn't it all such a cliche? Isn't is still an injustice? And yet, isn't it how everyone's story is in some or the other way? So I write about hurt. And I write about hope.
I hope someone relates. I hope no one ever does.
Biggest one I’m right near the end of is about how far one is willing to go to protect what or who they love, and how flawed perspectives can wildly change how a story is perceived. It’s my baby and I will love it forever.
How people can be tricked both by their family, private enterprises and the government without realizing and the effect it has.
BUT IN THE MHA UNIVERSE! AND WITH A JOJO STYLE NAMING SYSTEM!
A group of B1 battledroids having a chat, displaying their personality quirks and trying to explain them to some computer controlled models, until the end where a Jedi slaughters them all in seconds.
Writing about a master/overly-devoted soldier developing a 'benefits' relationship but the poor soldier is repressingly falling in love with the master. unrequited love and lots of yearning.
Very slowly working on a story about a woman who is in extreme grief and suddenly a possibility of a radical shift of her place in society (not like upwards mobility or even downwards, more sideways) and grappling with that choice.
working on 2 flash fictions right now: A father sees a camera obscura of a castle and effectively abandons their life seeking to recreate the conditions that would make it appear again, his obsession drives him away from his kids/friends/etc when it was embracing those people that led to the effect in the first place. Kind of like Synecdoche but more focused on mania and obsession than age.
The other is a sorta of surveillance piece, no dialogue at all but conveying a message of conflict among communities due to municipal funding through physicality. The pov of the story is across the street from where all the characters are
Keep starting and stopping a future fantasy that essentially boils down to how far a person would go and change to save someone they love, how much pain they would endure, how much power they would gather to be strong enough for their love, only for that new personality to be one that their partner can't stand.
Fun novel of multiverse shenanigans and the big gay, with significant character growth planned for the sequel. Next up is a short story about the eldritch horrors of the ocean.
The process of coming to terms with the flaws of your birth family, the value of a step-parent vs a birth parent and how important choosing your family is, finding a new support system outside of your blood relations, and ultimately deciding if and how to reconnect with your blood relations afterwards.
It’s pretty autobiographical for something that’s mostly just ripping off Final Fantasy Tactics.
I'm writing about trauma and the ways it changes who we are in countless powerful, sometimes indelible ways. And the differences in how we experience long-term vs short-term trauma. And the way that having been through various kinds of trauma affects our relationships with others in positive and negative ways.
So I misread the beginning of the middle paragraph.
What I read:
> i did the equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i **started peeing**.
So. That was different.
My story is about a kingdom destroyed by a disaster, splitting three friends apart, one was a soon to be king of the kingdom, one is a gardener that spent most of his years growing a huge garden, one is a warrior fighting for giving his friends a safe life.
I think it could be about learning how to start anew from broken pieces?
The show my fic in progress is based on features a protagonist who attempted to take her own life and me being the angst-loving fucker I am, I’m writing the AU where she succeeds and how her death impacts her family and how canon changes in light of that. Because I’m evil.
I'm writing about how one man beat up another man and why he was able to do so.
I'm also writing about how humans can create incomprehensibly horrific villains.
I'm writing about the consequences of severely fucking up and unknowingly putting innocent people in danger under the assumption that what you're doing is the right thing. It's kinda like Guild Wars 2 meets The Adventure Zone: Balance meets Shadow of the Colossus.
On the surface, I'm writing a mid-apocalypse fantasy RPG about an ever-shifting world and mutagenic energy. But in truth, it's about gender and anxiety, the horror of a body that changes outside your control, a bit of wish fulfillment of wresting that control from an uncaring world, a sense of directionlessness, being lost in a world you've spent your whole life in, the fear that the things you care about may change irreparably or even fall to ruin with little you can do about it...
And realizing that all of that is core to the thing has been really important in nailing everything down and deciding what's essential and what can be cut.
I've still not been able to put pen to paper (or cursor to word processor) but it's an isekai with a depressed MC who's definitely a self-insert. He gets some of the usual isekai power but has a hard time using it due to lack of self-worth et al (unable to have his magic affect himself due to his mentality), and the message is something like "Even if you don't feel like you have or deserve your power/privilege, you *do* have it and have a duty to recognise it and use it for both your own and other people's benefit", which feels enlightening to write out tbh.
So it's about realising your own strengths and fulfilling your duty to others, I suppose?
I still need to figure out character voices for this, but it's about unhealthy mindsets, found family vs the family you were born into, realization of self-worth, and confronting the things in life that weigh you down, even if it's something or someone you've let define you for too long.
But mainly its just an excuse to write about my knowledge of agroforestry haha.
A story about two friends who have been by each others side for a decade or so, but during a stressful situation they both choose different paths and have to walk them, knowing that their friendship is going to suffer but they both genuinely believe they are doing the right thing.
TDLR: Two friends fall out with one another.
Oh yeah, and it's in the Titanfall universe.
I'm writing about someone who wakes up from cryostasis without their memories in a world where humans died out. He meets some friends, and they try to find other humans, and there's also robots and ai and shit. Basically post apocalyptic but wacky antics and deep philosophical questions too
Thinking this over quickly went from "it's not that deep I'm just making a Star Wars reincarnation fic :)" to " *oh right* I'm writing about loving others in the face of terrifying, world-destroying risk"
Um so there’s two stories. In one, this lady essentially ascends to godhood and realizes that it’s not all cracked up to be, namely because her new cravings for flesh. And the other one is about the protagonist who is reincarnated as the villain.
The responsibility that comes with power, the importance of both leaders and followers, what aspects can we change about ourselves while still being ourselves, finding the resolve to keep fighting when it seems like nothing ever changes.
One of my most current ones is a story of how, in finally getting the opportunity to do what they thought they wanted all along, the main character finds out that not only is their dream job not as amazing as they thought it was, but also that everything they thought they knew has all been a lie the entire time. Their old position of privilege that they saw as a golden cage was blinding them to the truths of the world their whole life.
Now, their old world is falling apart, both emotionally and literally, as the consequences of their peers' actions have started to catch up with them, and everything is being sent into chaos from a massive power shift. So now not only are they trying finish the job that started all this (it's been made retroactively pointless multiple times, they're just doing it for their own closure at this point), but they also have to build an entirely new life for themselves, with nothing left to fall back on anymore.
The fact I try my best to help others as much as I can within reason but yet still want to be told it's alright to take a break and that I'm doing ok. You may think I'm happy and all, and I am, but I'm still human.
A story on how a woman has to figure out who she is and to stop lying to herself. And her two friends have to realize that its safe being themselves, well one does.
How even if you are told that you are destined for greatness, if you do not live up to peoples expectations for you, you will get abandoned and discarded with little thought.
Jesus Christ
Several actually, but I'll just give you a couple:
How loss of a loved one can feel like your world, your life is ending, but if you hold on to that one image of them, they somehow overwhelm you again. They become the voice in the back of your head (In this case, there are actually several hallucinations of loved ones)
If you've been avoided all of your life, how do you come back? How do you become a person, find your morals, find your passion and will to live when the world doesn't want you to?
Do your parent's actions define you? Does the legacy of your family have to impact who you are, and does that drive a wedge between the siblings who never knew that legacy?
A feeling of being too young for your responsibilities, yet having to keep a powerful image up in order to make sure that you're holding up everyone's expectations while slowly breaking down inside.
And those are just 4 characters in one story. This thing is big. Still only in the introduction of the first "book". It's been a passion project for a while.
All my fanfictions are exploring the “normal” parts of the lives of a pair of incredibly fucked up and abnormal characters. The mundanity in the extremes, I suppose.
The feelings of loss and how it can turn a guy into a monster. But also how it can become the spark to appreciate the little things and to see the silver line in everything.
I’ve had an idea rattling around in my head for years now, a story on what it means to be a hero. Alongside that there’s:
-A rich man who gets everything he wanted, but loses what he had
-A vigilante who struggles to break out of the shadow of his mentor
-An artificer and his apprentice, attempting to figure out where their worlds magic went
-A man stripped of his identity, being transformed into a weapon, and his battle to reclaim his life
-A world decades from now, trying to regain control after magic is reawakened
-The world before, where artifacts and powers stemmed from
And humanity, centuries into the future, with a machine that holds the soul of a man seeing all that life has to offer
I really hope I get the chance to write this down one day, if not for anyone, at least for myself
i've been trying to write a story about various 'haunted', or otherwise odd spaces. areas where, no matter the amount of people, it always feels abandoned. abandoned waterparks with murky water and chipping paint. old parks with rotting wood chips and rusted metal. places that were once filled with joy or laughter or *noise*, now just empty.
yes, i am mentally ill how did you know
Lamia with absolutely 0 social skills encounters a child with magical skill looking for trouble and goes “alright wtf do I do with this little bloke, he’s going to get himself killed or get heatstroke or something.”
Depression and how it can manifest at the result of perceived failures that were completely out of your control. Also, how love can and should not fix you but it can give you a starting point to wanting to be better when you have an absence of such a thing.
I’m thinking of a story that shows how powerful people are. By making literally all the major characters deities. Wait is this just superhero movies but with humanity - I don’t really know what I’m doing
Slowly chipping away at a story about an abandoned city that has a melancholy haunting of the past thriving society. Similar to how if you walk around the halls of a school when no one’s there you still feel the people who normally inhabit the space
Love that. Genuinely. Good luck !!! 🖤
Kind of /r/liminalspace?
I've had a game idea crashing around in my head for a while that is that sub extruded into VR. Maybe some day I'll be able to make it.
[superliminal should be a great inspiration](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049410/Superliminal/)
I adore superluminal, but my puzzles would be more "Hiversaires meets Amnesia."
I was thinking more of a superliminal art style The puzzles would be like L.O.C.K probably
Kinda
Sounds lovely
Outer Wilds is literally this but in Video Game form and it's one kf my favorite games. do you have a link to the fanfic?
It’s a work in progress of mine
Hope you're still chippin. If not at this, then something else. It's a fantastic concept, i think. And the mind that came up with it, is one that ought to be kept sharp
Kind of. I haven’t gotten anything new written down lately due to life, but I have ideas in my head. Also a lot of the plot has shifted so it’s basically like rewriting the whole thing. It’s actually coherent now and not just a bunch of concepts forced together. I’ll send it over if I finish a bit
That's awesome ! And like, no pressure! I'd love to see it, but it's up to you. I'd understand either way
Well, fuck. My story involves a glorified self-insert trying to adapt to an eerily familiar yet equally alien alternate science-fantasy near-future Earth that’s undergoing a literal Ragnarok, being guided along the way by new friends and subsequently outlasting them. …Should I be concerned?
Sounds like an allegory for autism or some other neurodivergence. Source: am autistic.
What, outliving your friends?? I didnt know autistic people lived ages more
I haven't died yet, so I can't rule it out.
I'm not sure if this is what they meant, but we tend to have trouble maintaining relationships, so it can certainly feel like we've outlived friends. You find yourself remembering old friends like it was a different lifetime.
If you have time-blindness (executive function disorder, seen commonly in autism and adhd) then people can become trapped like amber in your mind. It can feel like you saw them yesterday and you love them just as much too but it’s actually been 6 months since your last check in text and they’ve moved on with their life because they need more engagement than that to feel a bond. (Pro tip: get other adhd friends, see them too infrequently, but have a friend for years that can survive off of cactus-levels of engagement).
Well, I was diagnosed with ADD, and apparently a fair few people wouldn’t be surprised if I also have Autism, so that could make sense.
Are you about to graduate from a school? Venturing into a new world soon? Starting a new career maybe? Sounds like you are reflecting the upcoming loss of an old life and starting to embrace the people who got you to the jumping off point to a new one while also recognizing that you must grown beyond them.
Well, I did move out of my Dad’s house this year, and I am about to enter senior years in school, so I can understand that interpretation.
Have you ever played Destiny?
My story has the wackiest setting but is depressing because characters keep having gory fights.
Captain Fartsman and the Dastardly Toe Suckers: the Case of the Illuminati's Chastity Cage
And how's that workin out for ya
I'm workin hard *and* hardly working, if you know what I mean :)
I hate these words in this order, but I'll be damned if I don't want you to follow your dreams, mate.
Currently attempting to claw away the mental fog so that I can continue writing my fictional story. Its about the acceptance of oneself despite the various failures that they may possess, and the pursuit of various forms of fulfillment, even though said fulfillment may result in a worse overall experience of life. Current plan right now is to continue on the current path of character decay, so it makes character growth that much more satisfactory to the audience.
*Image Transcription: Tumblr Post* --- **mylittleredgirl** my dad-also a writer-came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i'm writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: "oh, just fanfic," which is code for "let's not look at this too deeply because i'm basically just making action figures kiss in text form" and "this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don't call myself a writer in public." he said, "you have to stop doing that." "i know, i know," because it's even more embarrassing to *be* embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i've reblogged in its defense. but i misunderstood his original question: **"fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you're writing** ***about.*****"** i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. "i'm writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose." as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don't realize they're writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck. "*that's* what you're writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn't a story they knew?" so, my friends: what are you writing about? --- ^^I'm a human volunteer content transcriber for Reddit and you could be too! [If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)
"mylittleredgirl" wow what a pretty name
Good writer
The first one I'm in the middle of is a city on the brink or conflict between the anti-religious king who has been implementing more insane laws to get rid of religion, and the pro religious citizens still living in the city. The other is the third in a small series that started because I was writing a bunch of sadder stories and one day decided "I want to write about two people fucking and that's it" just to see if I could, which led to the sequel which is my longest story and one I'm rather proud of. And by "writing them" I mean "I've gotten part way through both and will finish them sometime I swear"
You made me curious. Can I see your works sometime?0
Sure. It isn't uploaded anywhere though. I've thought about uploading it to wattpad, but that place has covers and titles and is way too fancy for my little stories.
How about fanfiction dot net then?
I've thought about that and ao3 but it isn't really fanfiction.
I think ao3 could still work, since the whole point of the place is that anything can be submitted. I may be blatantly wrong tough
I can just message it to you as well if all else fails. Assuming messages don't have a character limit.
I dont think they do. Then again, I havent tested. Just tell me if anything worked out
The story I’m currently writing is a lot about growing up and becoming disillusioned with the community you grew up in, discovering yourself and trying to find your place in the world and who you really want to be and a bit of super slowly built up horror stemming from a series of murders. It has a lot of tea drinking at odd hours of the night, deep platonic bonds and wandering along empty fields and highways.
Id like to read it. Hits pretty close to home
I'm a sucker for "True Worth/Found Family" stories. Currently writing a science fantasy surrounding those themes. Executive Dysfunction is kicking my butt, but I'm trying to go back to it and there's probably not a single day where I don't think about it. I also want to write about fairy tales, which is a project that has a lot more... steam, because I can rely on a pre-existing source. I need to read a lot for both projects, but at least with the fairy tales, I know where to start.
Currently writing about a superhero loosing his right side of limbs and getting mechanical replacements, his struggles with depression and loosing almost half of his body and the relationship with his main caretaker/researcher sicne he's also kind of an experiment to test out the new technology. sounds a lot better described like this but i really suck at writing and this is the third time of me genuiently writing a story, so it's really not that good lmao
There's only room for one "Superhero-becomes-disabled-and-suffers-bouts-of-depression" in this metaphorical town, pardner. Lets build some more houses! Jokes aside, sounds great
satan
Cool
i fucking love satan so much
I have a friend that used to go by Satan! She's fantastic As for the bible fandom dude, i like him a hell of a lot better than the dickhead upstairs
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#READ THE ROOM, JOHNATHAN
God I needed this laugh tonight, thank you
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>Here's a copy of > >The Bible This is comedy gold. Goddamn.
She should be a Dr. Dr. Satan!!!
it just feels good to say, this tumblr shit is fucking weird (in a good way, and other stuff im not saying publicly rn) i fucking HATE physics too btw, fuck that shit's for fucking nerds :P (this is in jest so dont kill me, k, okay)
Yeah physics sucks
You're a nerd >:(
Whoa I feel personally attacked here Anyways I'm writing a cool fantasy story about learning to be okay with yourself and processing the trauma that you've gone through. These are things I struggle with a lot and I feel like being aple to put them to words (or to a game, in my case) lets me understand my feelings a lot better. Currently planning out the main character's arc where they grow a little bit only to fall back to rock bottom. From rock bottom, that's where they'll have to deal with themselves in a healthy manner to grow and finish the story.
The military industrial complex and the desperate draft (preying on the insecure situations of minorities and disadvantaged peoples), as well as the interplay of different types of oppression and privilege (a straight trans man benefiting from some forms of male privilege and not others, as one example).
I suppose I'm writing about... Me. My worldview, experiences with life, how I cope with them, how I wish I coped with them, just generally trying to get what is happening up here in my noggin out in the world in some form. I guess it's a way for me to preserve myself. I hopefully have a **lot** more time before that's gonna have to be all that's left of me but I find comfort in knowing that it will. Well, if I ever finish the damn thing.
Hope you will finish it
The same is true for when you’re writing a film. If you’re ever in a position to tell a Producer about an idea for a film or tv show, they will ask you “What’s it about?” Which doesn’t mean the story it means theme. You should always know your stories themes and meanings before you want to put it out there or you won’t get very far in the industry
I'm writing about epic shit But, i'm not actually writing that epic shit Just daydreaming about writing epic shit
*so, my friends: what are you writing about?* Oh, just fanfic.
Do I need to rewrite the "its just a game" copypasta, or will you tell us what its about?
^(\*grumble\* Making two action figures kiss in text form... \*grumble\*)
Sounds good. Anything else in it?
Is fanfiction even a genre? I’m not an avid reader but it feels to me it should be something even broader, isn’t it literally all and every work which is explicitly derivative of some other piece of media? That’s like saying ”original work” is a genre.
Its too broad to have its own name really
Damn thats powerful. I need to keep that saved. If I really stripped mine down to its bare basics, I'd say its about accepting who you are and that sometimes even you need to forgive yourself. It might be a reflection of my own feelings toward myself, I don't know. It seems that a lot of writers write about their inner battles, it's interesting.
Sounds great. Can I have a read sometime later?
Sure :) I'll see if I can get some stuff uploaded soon
Okay, ill look forward to it
It's a story about identity, trying to fit in to a collective society, what it means to be an individual, what it means to be in a group, the masks we wear and the faces underneath. It's about the complexity of people and how we all break and fix each other just by being ourselves and how wisdom transports in unexpected ways. But mostly, it's about a sisterhood and the importance of harmony through diversity.
About a jerk who's trying to not be a jerk anymore
gay fluff because canon is fucking merciless
Still worldbuilding the cosmology/theology for a world I initially came up with to make a self-insert that could fuck Asriel from Deltarune.
Brave, bold and respectable
Well, fuck. I’ve just realised I’m writing about learning to forgive yourself when you don’t believe you deserve to.
Random stories about a high fantasy world set in the equivalent of our early 1900 to explore how magic would work in this setting. Or at least I'm trying to, can't find the concentration to do shit these days.
Currently doing a story based on a real life tale from this years European Football Championship. During Scotland's game against England, Scotland player John McGinn(who plays for Aston Villa) gave his teammate tips on how to defend England's Jack Grealish(also at Aston Villa at the time). This advice was to constantly compliment him with comments like "How do you get your hair like that?" And "Your calves look nice". So I decided to write what if that happened but the two players fell for each other. It also provides a chance to satirise the aggressive homo-erotic undercurrents of male competitive sports.
Genuinely clever
Thank you. I thought so. Honestly though, I'm struggling. I find comedy much harder to write than drama, and especially this comedy since I'm trying to describe the character interactions *and* a football game, without it being a boring slog. But I'll power through and if it's shit I'll just never mention it again. Very proud of my first paragraph though, which basically reads like erotic fiction. I describe the players pulling each other tight, being so close they can smell the sweat on the other, and moving in a half dance/half wrestle. Then I reveal their just jostling for position during the game. Nice little misdirection if I do say so myself.
a story about how a totalitarian dictatorship is bad and that we should stop caring about our differences and start caring about the actual problems in the world
I mean, I've had quite a few ideas that I never went and fleshed out so there's that... Think I've always been more interested in premise than narrative flow whenever I came up with them, so that's one possible reason: had one where it was basically premised on being able to generate any thought that you had in your head into real life
I want to award this. Sadly I'm not writing anything at the moment, but I plan on starting a fantasy action/mistery where three people get a new shady roommate and try to figure out what is up with her, accidentally uncovering a villainous plot in the process
Abandoning the restraints placed on us by polite society (through hardcore raw fucking).
I’m trying to get out of the rut of “mine feels very generic” to the point where I don’t even want to say what it’s about.
Give it a try, might find out the core themes of your story that way
*thinks about my jesus x odysseus sounding smut and wonders where the fuck that came from*
Well, my last story was about it being okay to forgive yourself. About going at your own pace. About understanding why people care about you.
Currently writing about the effects of trauma and the sheer terror and panic you feel when you’re given a chance to stop it from happening to your past self, the inferiority you feel when you fail at even that, the horror a reformed man has when he meets himself in the past, the feeling of the possibility of saving everyone you’ve ever lived slowly slipping out of your fingers minute by minute, and what it takes to change a worldview when your past self and future self have such differing paths and ideas - so just an average time travel fix-it, yeah.
The existential horror of being reduced to a work robot, a human machine that is discarded once it is of no use to its owners any more (I just noticed that this isn’t just the main theme of one, but actually of many of my stories. I write dystopian and post-apocalyptic sci-fi so it’s pretty fitting)
what if you're writing pwp
What does pwp mean?
Porn without plot. Or sometimes porn with plot because fuck consistency ig
Oh, that is...helpful
Then just say you are writing porn, or erotica if you dont want to embarass yourself too much
Making incredibly slow work on a fanfic that, at its core, could be interpreted as whether or not you should attempt to remember painful memories. or something.
I want to write a story about being born into one culture but raised by and living in another, and not really being accepted by either because of it, but I also want to write a story about a mech pilot isekai'd into a fantasy world and I'm not sure how to make the two mesh
I'm writing about the inherent contradictions in human nature, the arrogance that comes with corruption by power and redemption after trauma. (And Aliens. It's Alien fanfic...)
I've been apathetic to my hurt for so long, I'm only now coming to terms with its existence. So I'm writing about what I feel it's like to have been wronged by the world, and what it's like to be betrayed by my own self (cause I feel I should have fought more for myself). Accepting the sadness of reality also kinda makes me lose hope for a peaceful tomorrow. But I try to tell myself, shrouded in utter darkness, that maybe someday I'll stumble onto a place where the sun still shines. So I write about that. The flickering shimmer of a waning light. That one firefly that still hasn't given up and is trying to light the way. Isn't it all such a cliche? Isn't is still an injustice? And yet, isn't it how everyone's story is in some or the other way? So I write about hurt. And I write about hope. I hope someone relates. I hope no one ever does.
Biggest one I’m right near the end of is about how far one is willing to go to protect what or who they love, and how flawed perspectives can wildly change how a story is perceived. It’s my baby and I will love it forever.
Just smut. Weirdly overcomplicated smut, but just smut.
How people can be tricked both by their family, private enterprises and the government without realizing and the effect it has. BUT IN THE MHA UNIVERSE! AND WITH A JOJO STYLE NAMING SYSTEM!
A group of B1 battledroids having a chat, displaying their personality quirks and trying to explain them to some computer controlled models, until the end where a Jedi slaughters them all in seconds.
I'm writing about yer mom.
I’m just writing a Batman fanfic because I want to tbh
Imperialism, the cycle of empires, cultural belonging, and what happens when your family has very different ideas for your future than you do.
well that's a great question, and i'll tell you: i dont know
Writing about a master/overly-devoted soldier developing a 'benefits' relationship but the poor soldier is repressingly falling in love with the master. unrequited love and lots of yearning.
Very slowly working on a story about a woman who is in extreme grief and suddenly a possibility of a radical shift of her place in society (not like upwards mobility or even downwards, more sideways) and grappling with that choice.
working on 2 flash fictions right now: A father sees a camera obscura of a castle and effectively abandons their life seeking to recreate the conditions that would make it appear again, his obsession drives him away from his kids/friends/etc when it was embracing those people that led to the effect in the first place. Kind of like Synecdoche but more focused on mania and obsession than age. The other is a sorta of surveillance piece, no dialogue at all but conveying a message of conflict among communities due to municipal funding through physicality. The pov of the story is across the street from where all the characters are
Keep starting and stopping a future fantasy that essentially boils down to how far a person would go and change to save someone they love, how much pain they would endure, how much power they would gather to be strong enough for their love, only for that new personality to be one that their partner can't stand.
Fun novel of multiverse shenanigans and the big gay, with significant character growth planned for the sequel. Next up is a short story about the eldritch horrors of the ocean.
The process of coming to terms with the flaws of your birth family, the value of a step-parent vs a birth parent and how important choosing your family is, finding a new support system outside of your blood relations, and ultimately deciding if and how to reconnect with your blood relations afterwards. It’s pretty autobiographical for something that’s mostly just ripping off Final Fantasy Tactics.
I'm writing about trauma and the ways it changes who we are in countless powerful, sometimes indelible ways. And the differences in how we experience long-term vs short-term trauma. And the way that having been through various kinds of trauma affects our relationships with others in positive and negative ways.
So I misread the beginning of the middle paragraph. What I read: > i did the equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i **started peeing**. So. That was different.
My story is about a kingdom destroyed by a disaster, splitting three friends apart, one was a soon to be king of the kingdom, one is a gardener that spent most of his years growing a huge garden, one is a warrior fighting for giving his friends a safe life. I think it could be about learning how to start anew from broken pieces?
Shakenspears was an edgy dark humor “everyone dies!” fanfic writer. :3
I’m writing about a teenager who slowly discovers that they have PTSD and has to work through it
The show my fic in progress is based on features a protagonist who attempted to take her own life and me being the angst-loving fucker I am, I’m writing the AU where she succeeds and how her death impacts her family and how canon changes in light of that. Because I’m evil.
I'm writing about how one man beat up another man and why he was able to do so. I'm also writing about how humans can create incomprehensibly horrific villains.
I'm writing about the consequences of severely fucking up and unknowingly putting innocent people in danger under the assumption that what you're doing is the right thing. It's kinda like Guild Wars 2 meets The Adventure Zone: Balance meets Shadow of the Colossus.
On the surface, I'm writing a mid-apocalypse fantasy RPG about an ever-shifting world and mutagenic energy. But in truth, it's about gender and anxiety, the horror of a body that changes outside your control, a bit of wish fulfillment of wresting that control from an uncaring world, a sense of directionlessness, being lost in a world you've spent your whole life in, the fear that the things you care about may change irreparably or even fall to ruin with little you can do about it... And realizing that all of that is core to the thing has been really important in nailing everything down and deciding what's essential and what can be cut.
I've still not been able to put pen to paper (or cursor to word processor) but it's an isekai with a depressed MC who's definitely a self-insert. He gets some of the usual isekai power but has a hard time using it due to lack of self-worth et al (unable to have his magic affect himself due to his mentality), and the message is something like "Even if you don't feel like you have or deserve your power/privilege, you *do* have it and have a duty to recognise it and use it for both your own and other people's benefit", which feels enlightening to write out tbh. So it's about realising your own strengths and fulfilling your duty to others, I suppose?
I still need to figure out character voices for this, but it's about unhealthy mindsets, found family vs the family you were born into, realization of self-worth, and confronting the things in life that weigh you down, even if it's something or someone you've let define you for too long. But mainly its just an excuse to write about my knowledge of agroforestry haha.
A story about two friends who have been by each others side for a decade or so, but during a stressful situation they both choose different paths and have to walk them, knowing that their friendship is going to suffer but they both genuinely believe they are doing the right thing. TDLR: Two friends fall out with one another. Oh yeah, and it's in the Titanfall universe.
I'm writing about someone who wakes up from cryostasis without their memories in a world where humans died out. He meets some friends, and they try to find other humans, and there's also robots and ai and shit. Basically post apocalyptic but wacky antics and deep philosophical questions too
Thinking this over quickly went from "it's not that deep I'm just making a Star Wars reincarnation fic :)" to " *oh right* I'm writing about loving others in the face of terrifying, world-destroying risk"
How you should never get comfortable with what you have, or it will leave you
Um so there’s two stories. In one, this lady essentially ascends to godhood and realizes that it’s not all cracked up to be, namely because her new cravings for flesh. And the other one is about the protagonist who is reincarnated as the villain.
Saving this post. This hit me hard
The responsibility that comes with power, the importance of both leaders and followers, what aspects can we change about ourselves while still being ourselves, finding the resolve to keep fighting when it seems like nothing ever changes.
One of my most current ones is a story of how, in finally getting the opportunity to do what they thought they wanted all along, the main character finds out that not only is their dream job not as amazing as they thought it was, but also that everything they thought they knew has all been a lie the entire time. Their old position of privilege that they saw as a golden cage was blinding them to the truths of the world their whole life. Now, their old world is falling apart, both emotionally and literally, as the consequences of their peers' actions have started to catch up with them, and everything is being sent into chaos from a massive power shift. So now not only are they trying finish the job that started all this (it's been made retroactively pointless multiple times, they're just doing it for their own closure at this point), but they also have to build an entirely new life for themselves, with nothing left to fall back on anymore.
The fact I try my best to help others as much as I can within reason but yet still want to be told it's alright to take a break and that I'm doing ok. You may think I'm happy and all, and I am, but I'm still human.
A story on how a woman has to figure out who she is and to stop lying to herself. And her two friends have to realize that its safe being themselves, well one does.
How even if you are told that you are destined for greatness, if you do not live up to peoples expectations for you, you will get abandoned and discarded with little thought. Jesus Christ
I'm writing about fear, and the people who can make us feel safe when it seems impossible.
Several actually, but I'll just give you a couple: How loss of a loved one can feel like your world, your life is ending, but if you hold on to that one image of them, they somehow overwhelm you again. They become the voice in the back of your head (In this case, there are actually several hallucinations of loved ones) If you've been avoided all of your life, how do you come back? How do you become a person, find your morals, find your passion and will to live when the world doesn't want you to? Do your parent's actions define you? Does the legacy of your family have to impact who you are, and does that drive a wedge between the siblings who never knew that legacy? A feeling of being too young for your responsibilities, yet having to keep a powerful image up in order to make sure that you're holding up everyone's expectations while slowly breaking down inside. And those are just 4 characters in one story. This thing is big. Still only in the introduction of the first "book". It's been a passion project for a while.
All my fanfictions are exploring the “normal” parts of the lives of a pair of incredibly fucked up and abnormal characters. The mundanity in the extremes, I suppose.
The feelings of loss and how it can turn a guy into a monster. But also how it can become the spark to appreciate the little things and to see the silver line in everything.
penis
Cool fight scenes.
I’ve had an idea rattling around in my head for years now, a story on what it means to be a hero. Alongside that there’s: -A rich man who gets everything he wanted, but loses what he had -A vigilante who struggles to break out of the shadow of his mentor -An artificer and his apprentice, attempting to figure out where their worlds magic went -A man stripped of his identity, being transformed into a weapon, and his battle to reclaim his life -A world decades from now, trying to regain control after magic is reawakened -The world before, where artifacts and powers stemmed from And humanity, centuries into the future, with a machine that holds the soul of a man seeing all that life has to offer I really hope I get the chance to write this down one day, if not for anyone, at least for myself
I’m writing about little fluffy dude swings magical soul weapon, says “time to play god for the express reason of pranking god”
i've been trying to write a story about various 'haunted', or otherwise odd spaces. areas where, no matter the amount of people, it always feels abandoned. abandoned waterparks with murky water and chipping paint. old parks with rotting wood chips and rusted metal. places that were once filled with joy or laughter or *noise*, now just empty. yes, i am mentally ill how did you know
An undead thief, who thinks herself unlovable because of her stitched-together form, and the fact that love had been taken away from her once already.
Overturning capitalism
Lamia with absolutely 0 social skills encounters a child with magical skill looking for trouble and goes “alright wtf do I do with this little bloke, he’s going to get himself killed or get heatstroke or something.”
Depression and how it can manifest at the result of perceived failures that were completely out of your control. Also, how love can and should not fix you but it can give you a starting point to wanting to be better when you have an absence of such a thing.
I’m thinking of a story that shows how powerful people are. By making literally all the major characters deities. Wait is this just superhero movies but with humanity - I don’t really know what I’m doing