I was tagged by @belabee. Thanks! 
Predictive text fun :3 continue the sentence using only the middle predictive word(the reference is in bold)

My name is the most honest thing that people will say.

I am not a lot of people who were investigated for non-illegal shit. 

My age is a good idea tbh.

I live with the ship in canon. (Do what now?) 

I was born born in the wrong because she was in what tumblr decided to be a big deal. 

I enjoy reading it but I don’t know if I’ve said it publicly on my blog. (ooooh, cryptic) 

My ideal partner is the most interesting thing about a good anti-villain. 

I’m attracted the attention of them in this weird antagonistic relationship. 

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Well then. I have no freaking clue what this says about my typing habits other than that I talk about weird crap. Cool. 

Tagging: @maliciouslycreative @woahthisguy @jemariel and whoever else wants to take a crack at this. 🙂 

reposted fic, please help out

hamburgergod:

uhhh so I was just going over atr for some pick-me-up to remind myself that i used to write things and accidentally googled part of ch 1 and long story short i found out someone’s reposted my fic on another website (fanfiction) with a different title??? it’s just the first chapter and it was back in 2016 but i still feel incredibly uncomfortable with this. 

so if people who have enjoyed my writing before or A[ T]ypical Romcom before are reading this, please help me out here and file a quick abuse report here, and I’d be really grateful. 

just scroll to the bottom and underneath the comment box, click on “Actions”, then “Report Abuse”, and select “Not the property of uploading writer”. 

(truth be told i’ve never used fanfiction before so if anyone else a better idea of taking this fic down asap, please let me know)

also. they have few more stories up on their account, but they might all be reposts. I’m not sure. Just bear in mind that they were clever enough to change the title and the summary entirely from the original summary/title.

(also, hey! if you actually want to read atr, it’s right here in its full glory instead of just one chapter. just saying.)

ltleflrt:

mittensmorgul:

grey2510:

k-vichan:

obsessionisaperfume:

savannadarkbaby
replied to your post

“Romance can end in tragedy though. Wuthering Heights hits every…”

Yeah, please don’t challenge me with a surprise MCD.

It’s not the “surprise” that’s the problem.  It’s that it violates the form.

Romance stories, as currently defined, be they novels, novellas, or short stories, have one inviolable rule: There MUST be a happy ending.  If you write a love story between characters that has a tragic ending, it is not a romance story in the accepted sense and should not be labeled as such.  You can’t just wrap a fish stick in a chocolate candy wrapper and expect people to be happy when they open it.

I dare ANYONE to say that Romeo and Juliet is a romance instead of a tragedy. 😛

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Don’t worry…it’s literally called a tragedy in the title.

#but yes tag your fics properly #if shakespeare could tag his fics properly#so can you #hell he even gives away the whole damn plot in the prologue#so suck it up cupcake #your fic ain’t that special #and you ain’t shakespeare  (entirely on the nose tags from @grey2510)

That’s like 90% of the problem exactly. People think they’re the one Special Bean out of the entirety of human history who has written a masterpiece that should be exempt from the standards everyone else has come to expect.

You’re not being groundbreaking. You’re being an ass.

(and they look like igoramuses while doing so)

And those Delusional Special Beans need to drop the “but tv and published books aren’t tagged!”

Motherfucker, there’s a reason I’m reading fanfic on a website with an in-depth tagging system, and not trolling the library or flipping through Netflix.  

This whole thing reminds me of the “literary fiction” crap I had to put up with in college. According to the program directors “literary fiction” was the height of writing and while most profs wouldn’t tell you to your face that your were wasting your time and talent by writing romance or scifi it was heavily implied. 

But literary fiction is, for the most part, depressing, pedantic crap hell-bent on creating characters no one can like doing boring shit before they ruin the lives of everyone they care about. (Encouraging, I know.) And it’s hard to get attention writing “MarySue and GaryStu Fuck Up Big Time Because They’re Trapped In a Loveless Marriage” for the 1700th time so you’d wind up with edgy 20-somethings writing the same basic thing but this time in a genre. I knew folks who had never picked up a Romance novel in their lives and decided to write “romance” b/c that’s popular, right? They can totally write a depressing love story! See, it’s about how love isn’t enough and two people who care deeply about each other will eventually be torn apart by death and/or infidelity! It’s realistic! Next they’re going to write a fantasy novel where all the magic in the world has been sucked out and the hero is on a quest to restore it only to fail b/c you can’t go back to some mythical past full of hope! See, it’s cutting edge! 

It’s cynical is what it is. 

If I wanted to read a tragedy, I’d read a tragedy. Sometimes I just want a little hope. Is that such a bad thing to want? I want to see characters I can love fall in love. I want to see them succeed. I want to see happiness. I don’t want to be reminded that life sucks under the guise of “art”. Like, if you want to write it, cool, do that, but don’t sell me a bitter pill while telling me it’s bubblegum. Tag your shit and tag it correctly. Know your genre conventions. 

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roane72:

robstmartin:

believingfairytales:

I’ll just leave this here.

@cynthiadiamond

I saw bits of this discussion on twitter, and it inevitably comes up every time someone decides to market a book as a “romance” even though the book has no HEA (happily ever after) or HFN (happy for now) ending. And then wonders why readers lose their shit. Then inevitably the commentary starts (almost always from non-romance readers, usually male) that happy endings aren’t realistic. This is a great response to that.

Aside from “the story must revolve around a romantic relationship”, the happy ending is the single most important element of any story in the romance genre. Period. For a book to be a romance, the story has to be about a romantic relationship of some sort, and the story has to end with all the participants of said relationship (regardless of number, gender, sexuality, etc, etc) happy and together for the foreseeable future. That’s it. If it doesn’t have both of those things, it is not a romance. (Nicholas Sparks does not write romance.)

And some writer out there ALWAYS decides they’re gonna be ‘edgy’ and write a romance with a downer ending. Seriously: do not fuck with romance readers, and do not fuck with their happy endings.

(And before anybody yells about ‘there’s no suspense because you always know the ending’, the tension in a romance novel is driven by the reader’s emotional involvement, and by not knowing how the happy ending will come about or what it will look like. It’s the writer’s job to make the happy ending seem all but impossible, and then pull it off.)

Do you think Kaia would eventually learn how to walk into other worlds and dimensions through dreams? Do you think she could figure out a way to bring other people with her?

I ask because as cracky and impossible as it sounds…. I really just want Claire to see her father (and I mean her father, Jimmy) one more time. Some time way off in the future, after Kaia and Claire are together for a while, I want there to be a reason for them to walk into the afterlife. I want him to look at her as an adult and tell her how proud he is of her strength and determination, how sorry he is that he wasn’t there for her, and to tell her that she doesn’t have to be alone and it’s good to let other people care about you. And I want him to give her a hug and tell her that he loves her, that he’ll always love her, and that he’s glad she found a woman she loves the way he does her mother.