One Of My Favorite Things About Horror Is That He Tries To Convince Everyone He Has Some Moral High Ground.

one of my favorite things about horror is that he tries to convince everyone he has some moral high ground. no he doesn't. that's what he wants you to believe. he thinks he's so much better than his rivals because he "doesn't eat any humans." who created that system? who had that idea? who tricked people into believing it was the only solution?

he WANTS you to think he's the one in the right, but he's not. he thinks he's better than everyone else. when he isn't.

if you think he did nothing wrong, good! you just fell for the narrative he created.

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

Woah chat it’s Dream and Frisk

Now for the shilling out bit

So I made an AO3 fanfic!! Based on EternalNight!Verse…! Tbh I’ve never made a fan fiction in my life but I want to finally put something out there and I hope u guys will read if you’re interested ^^

I didn’t want to share this until I had two chapters out bcus the first one has like… 400-ish words… 🤧 I hope everypony enjoys it

Since my PMs aren't working, I'll ask directly; Artist friends, what art programs do you think are best? Other than Krita, which doesn't work on my type of computer.

I'm alright for paying for one, by the way, so feel free to suggest paid ones.

Edit: Can't respond to comments [tumblr's broken] so I'll respond here:

@sparklinganxiety Thank you for the Firealpaca recommendation! I'm still looking for other suggestions before I decide, but I'll consider it ^^