When on my laptop I’ve started writing all my fanfics in vim. It’s a fun way to reinforce my vim learning! And some of the commands make life easier compared to a regular text editor.

Fic - a lose-lose situation

As usual it’s a post giving context for my latest fic (aka rambling about my ideas and how writing is hard)

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Bulletproof Fic - Clement/Riley postcanon

Time to ramble about my (other) latest fanfic, which is also my first Original Work fic.

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Bulletproof Fic - Klint/Barok vampire AU

Time to ramble about my latest fanfic!

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I Finished Reading TGCF

I am here to talk about my tgcf faves and ships AKA recap my liveblogging thread. Because mxtx was genius for making this juicy stuff and I want to go kyaa and ramble

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For #snowflakeChallenge2024 I want to talk about my fic writing goals!

My biggest one is to finally finish and post a certain asoryuu fanfic which I drafted 2-3 years ago and never posted. I’m very proud of it already, I just need motivation to clean it up a bit.

I’d also like to finish my marek/solya fanfic which I outlined a year ago and suddenly started drafting recently.

And… I want to write the OW treat I’ve already outlined for the bulletproof exchange!! That’s a very short term goal.

Ship Manifesto - Marek/Solya from Uprooted

TOXIC YAOI THOUSANDS KILLED!! Let me tell you why!

Tropes: Sun and moon, Foils, Lord and retainer, Battle couple, Mutually beneficial partnership, Make each other worse, Doomed love

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Scraping AO3 Tagset Changes

Recently people on a fanfic exchange discord mentioned it would be nice to see which tags were most recently added to the Bulletproof AO3 tagset. Let’s go over a hacky way to do this.

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Writing sussily

There is a piece of advice I often see on social media, along the lines of write for yourself, not for bozos who would cancel you. I always thought I was pretty good at doing that even when making stuff for others to read.

But, since resolving to write something for myself only, I feel so much more free to be… weird and sus about things. And I wanted to talk about how good that feels…?

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While rereading uprooted, I am realising that the falcon is a real blorbo for me. We love to see a character suffering because all their plans came to fruition (until they suddenly didn’t)

Also on a meta level I find it very funny how everything takes on a slash fic vibe the moment he gets introduced. Oh you have a sun moon aesthetic with your prince? Oh you and the dragon are bitter rivals on first name terms? I see how it is…………