Rat Ex Machina! This Rat Is A True Hero.

Rat ex machina! This rat is a true hero. 

Wait, I’m not the only person who does this? I’m not alone? This is a very satisfying fact to know. I’m not alone in my night-time stories to myself!

people who can just plop their sweet lil heads down on their pillow and quickly fall asleep don’t know how lucky they are… i gotta construct a whole ass cinematic universe in my head with dramatic plot twists and in-depth characters to help me fall asleep

I have been procrastinating on getting together a bunch of screenshots and posting about this theory, and look, I’m not the only one who’s wondering if Acxa might be part Dalteri! (I figure if the Olkari are from Olkarion, perhaps the people from the Dalterion belt might be called Dalteri)

part-Dalteri!Acxa is totally a headcanon of mine though. 

We’ve speculated Altean or Human for Acxa’s other half, but what about the Dalterion Belt? Her horns look very much like Trigel’s and so do her ears if mixed with Galran traits.

New Years word count

I feel a little silly, but I also want to share! In 2018 I managed to write 222,569 words of stories (and not all of it was fanfic). That’s a long novel! Or 2 more average length novels. I feel accomplished. 

What was your 2018 wordcount, tumblr writers? Let’s share our progress!

In addition to thanks/credits and warnings etc, I like to put in Fast/Fun Facts!

Worldbuilding is my jam, and while I’m sure 9 out of 10 readers don’t particularly care about diet, or little cultural practices, or the child development and reproduction of an alien species, I like sharing! I try to make them related to the chapter, of course, but it can be hard to explain all the things in fic without being info-dump-y so that’s what I use the notes for.

Is there any rules for what you can/can not say in an A/N on AO3? Me and my friend recently experinced being called out by another writer. In the A/Ns of 2 seperate fanfics. Basically she accused us of bullying/abusing her & using her when she was vunerable and ruinning her love for the fandom & just basically making people hate on us. All of this is a lie and we cut her off bc she was toxic and abusive/abusing us in various ways & we feel awful. I'm wondering if we can report her to Ao3 or smh?

If there is abuse happening, report it to the Abuse team.  Without knowing the contents of the author’s notes, I can’t really give any other advice. 

Generally, notes are used to inform readers about some element of the story or to thank readers/betas or to credit a fanartist or other type of source material. At least, that’s what I tend to see. 

Anyone else have things they put/see in author’s notes?

/cackling Yup, that’s about right. 

I don’t know much about the world, but it seems like if you take #keith's dad and add it to #my fics, you end up with #ulaz.