#long live fandom
Sometimes I wonder why I bother making plans, since things so seldom go the way I hope they will, even when I’m working hard to make them. March, in this case, featured a lot of health nonsense, and a number of demands on my time—and, as a result, I wasn’t able to write as often as I wanted to. Despite that, I’m proud of the fact that I managed to mostly stay on-track with my biggest goal during March, and make the days I wasable to write really count.
Total wordcount: 9, 046
Highlights:
- I did, in fact, go back to the novel rewrite the way I’d planned to, writing about 4.3k of it, which was about half of the total words I wrote in March
- I finished the short piece I’d started at the end of February—a Steter birthday piece for asarcasticwitch, which can be found here
- I worked a little on the Hanahaki AU
Plans for April:
- Finish either the Hanahaki AU, or chapter 7 of the Kinky Stargent fic
- Post something in April
- Bang out at least 5k of the novel rewrite
Reblogging for the night owls
Sometimes I wonder why I bother making plans, since things so seldom go the way I hope they will, even when I’m working hard to make them. March, in this case, featured a lot of health nonsense, and a number of demands on my time—and, as a result, I wasn’t able to write as often as I wanted to. Despite that, I’m proud of the fact that I managed to mostly stay on-track with my biggest goal during March, and make the days I wasable to write really count.
Total wordcount: 9, 046
Highlights:
- I did, in fact, go back to the novel rewrite the way I’d planned to, writing about 4.3k of it, which was about half of the total words I wrote in March
- I finished the short piece I’d started at the end of February—a Steter birthday piece for asarcasticwitch, which can be found here
- I worked a little on the Hanahaki AU
Plans for April:
- Finish either the Hanahaki AU, or chapter 7 of the Kinky Stargent fic
- Post something in April
- Bang out at least 5k of the novel rewrite
Reblogging for the evening crowd
Sometimes I wonder why I bother making plans, since things so seldom go the way I hope they will, even when I’m working hard to make them. March, in this case, featured a lot of health nonsense, and a number of demands on my time—and, as a result, I wasn’t able to write as often as I wanted to. Despite that, I’m proud of the fact that I managed to mostly stay on-track with my biggest goal during March, and make the days I wasable to write really count.
Total wordcount: 9, 046
Highlights:
- I did, in fact, go back to the novel rewrite the way I’d planned to, writing about 4.3k of it, which was about half of the total words I wrote in March
- I finished the short piece I’d started at the end of February—a Steter birthday piece for asarcasticwitch, which can be found here
- I worked a little on the Hanahaki AU
Plans for April:
- Finish either the Hanahaki AU, or chapter 7 of the Kinky Stargent fic
- Post something in April
- Bang out at least 5k of the novel rewrite
Reblogging for the afternoon crowd
Sometimes I wonder why I bother making plans, since things so seldom go the way I hope they will, even when I’m working hard to make them. March, in this case, featured a lot of health nonsense, and a number of demands on my time—and, as a result, I wasn’t able to write as often as I wanted to. Despite that, I’m proud of the fact that I managed to mostly stay on-track with my biggest goal during March, and make the days I wasable to write really count.
Total wordcount: 9, 046
Highlights:
- I did, in fact, go back to the novel rewrite the way I’d planned to, writing about 4.3k of it, which was about half of the total words I wrote in March
- I finished the short piece I’d started at the end of February—a Steter birthday piece for asarcasticwitch, which can be found here
- I worked a little on the Hanahaki AU
Plans for April:
- Finish either the Hanahaki AU, or chapter 7 of the Kinky Stargent fic
- Post something in April
- Bang out at least 5k of the novel rewrite
Sometimes I wonder why I bother making plans, since things so seldom go the way I hope they will, even when I’m working hard to make them. March, in this case, featured a lot of health nonsense, and a number of demands on my time—and, as a result, I wasn’t able to write as often as I wanted to. Despite that, I’m proud of the fact that I managed to mostly stay on-track with my biggest goal during March, and make the days I wasable to write really count.
Total wordcount: 9, 046
Highlights:
- I did, in fact, go back to the novel rewrite the way I’d planned to, writing about 4.3k of it, which was about half of the total words I wrote in March
- I finished the short piece I’d started at the end of February—a Steter birthday piece for asarcasticwitch, which can be found here
- I worked a little on the Hanahaki AU
Plans for April:
- Finish either the Hanahaki AU, or chapter 7 of the Kinky Stargent fic
- Post something in April
- Bang out at least 5k of the novel rewrite
yvfu:
the four emotions you can get from a tumblr post are
thanks! I love it
thanks! I hate it
fuck you! I hate it
fuck you! I love it
thanks! I love it
There is also the secret fifth reaction “thanks! fuck you!”
Doesn’t matter if you write in a frequent basis, or once in a blue moon, just how many of us are there?
Ian Bohen by Jenna BermanforMan In Town
@wasureneba@allthingslinguisticso i just googled the phrase “toeing out of his shoes” to make sure it was an actual thing
it’s all fanfiction
which reminds me that i’ve only ever seen the phrase “carding fingers through his hair” and people describing things like “he’s tall, all lean muscle and long fingers,” like that formula of “they’re ____, all ___ and ____” or whatever in fic
idk i just find it interesting that there are certain phrases that just sort of evolve in fandom and become prevalent in fic bc everyone reads each other’s works and then writes their own and certain phrases stick
i wish i knew more about linguistics so i could actually talk about it in an intelligent manner, but yeah i thought that was kinda cool
Ha! Love it!
One of my fave authors from ages ago used the phrase “a little helplessly” (like “he reached his arms out, a little helplessly”) in EVERY fic she wrote. She never pointed it out—there just came a point where I noticed it like an Easter egg. So I literally *just* wrote it into my in-progress fic this weekend as an homage only I would notice. <3
To me it’s still the quintessential “two dudes doing each other” phrase.
I think different fic communities develop different phrases too! You can (usually) date a mid 00s lj fic (or someone who came of age in that style) by the way questions are posed and answered in the narration, e.g. “And Patrick? Is not okay with this.” and by the way sex scenes are peppered with “and, yeah.” I remember one Frerard fic that did this so much that it became grating, but overall I loved the lj style because it sounded so much like how real people talk.
Another classic phrase: wondering how far down the _ goes. I’ve seen it mostly with freckles, but also with scars, tattoos, and on one memorable occasion, body glitter at a club. Often paired with the realization during sexy times that “yeah, the __ went all they way down.” I’ve seen this SO much in fic and never anywhere elsewhoa, i remember reading lj fics with all of those phrases! i also remember a similar thing in teen wolf fics in particular - they often say “and derek was covered in dirt, which. fantastic.” like using “which” as a sentence-ender or at least like sprinkling it throughout the story in ways published books just don’t.
LINGUISTICS!!!! COMMUNITIES CREATING PHRASES AND SLANG AND SHAPING LANGUAGE IN NEW WAYS!!!!!!!
I love this. Though I don’t think of myself as fantastic writer, by any means, I know the way I write was shaped more by fanfiction and than actual novels.
I think so much of it has to do with how fanfiction is written in a way that feels real. conversations carry in a way that doesn’t feel forced and is like actual interactions. Thoughts stop in the middle of sentences.
The coherency isn’t lost, it just marries itself to the reader in a different way. A way that shapes that reader/writer and I find that so beautiful.
FASCINATING
and it poses an intellectual question of whether the value we assign to fanfic conversational prose would translate at all to someone who reads predominantly contemporary literature. as writers who grew up on the internet find their way into publishing houses, what does this mean for the future of contemporary literature? how much bleed over will there be?
we’ve already seen this phenomenon begin with hot garbage like 50 shades, and the mainstream public took to its shitty overuse of conversational prose like it was a refreshing drink of water. what will this mean for more wide-reaching fiction?
QUESTIONS!
I’m sure someone could start researching this even now, with writers like Rainbow Rowell and Naomi Novik who have roots in fandom. (If anyone does this project pleasetell me!) It would be interesting to compare, say, a corpus of a writer’s fanfic with their published fiction (and maybe with a body of their nonfiction, such as their tweets or emails), using the types of author-identification techniques that were used to determine that J.K. Rowling was Robert Galbraith.
One thing that we do know is that written English has gotten less formal over the past few centuries, and in particular that the word “the” has gotten much less frequent over time.
In an earlier discussion, Is French fanfic more like written or spoken French?, people mentioned that French fanfic is a bit more literary than one might expect (it generally uses the written-only tense called the passé simple, rather than the spoken-only tense called the passé composé). So it’s not clear to what extent the same would hold for English fic as well – is it just a couple phrases, like “toeing out of his shoes”? Are the google results influenced by the fact that most published books aren’t available in full text online? Or is there broader stuff going on? Sounds like a good thesis project for someone!
See also: the gay fanfiction pronoun problem,ship names, and the rest of my fanguistics tag.
This is super cool ngl
April was, simultaneously, nothing like what I expected and more than I’d hoped for at the same time. It was a weird mix. I met some of the goals I mentioned having in the March round-up post, but not all of them. Overall, I feel pretty good about what I’ve managed, even if it’s not quite what I’d planned.
Total wordcount: 16, 513
Highlights:
- Highest monthly wordcount of 2022 so far
- Added 1.6k to the novel rewrite; while far below the goal I’d set, it’s still progress
- Successfully finished—and posted—the Hanahaki fic for Shey (which can be found here)
- Dipped my toes into a new fandom, and banged out and posted a short Jaskier/Eskel piece as a birthday gift (here)
- Started planning—and writing posts for—my own Patreon page, which will be focussed on offering writing help (will post more on that as things get ready/closer to launch)
- Started another birthday piece for another friend
- Worked a little on the Stalion Neckz ‘n Throats fic I started a few months ago
Plans for May:
- Get back on track with the novel rewrite; 5k is the goal
- Finish the starting set of Patreon posts, and set up the page itself
- Finish and post the two birthday pieces I have planned for the month
I got tagged by @shey-elizabeth.
Rules: write the latest line from a WIP and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post
Here’s mine:
Finally, she dips her chin. “Alright.”
I am, as ever, chronically late to respond, so IDK who’s already been tagged in this or who’d like to participate. If you want to join this train, I’m officially inviting you