I Kept Thinking "Wtf?!" As I Read That First Post. Like, Really? The Best Thing About Writing And Posting

I kept thinking "Wtf?!" as I read that first post. Like, really? The best thing about writing and posting fanfics, compared to writing and publishing novels, is that I get to interact with my readers!

Also, being a reader as well as a writer, have you any idea what it feels like when I leave a comments and the writer actually replies?!

It's like, the cornerstone of our entire existence!

You again?

The fabulous @cookiemom6067 created a beatiful podfic to one of my Spirk fics. Thank you!

And everyone should go enjoy it and give them all the love!!!

Podfic of "T'hy'la (Written in the Stars)" by Lalaith_Quetzalli

They start off as strangers, but then again, everyone always does. What if they took a chance? To get to know each other… to understand one another… to trust both themselves and the other… To be all they can and may one day be… Then maybe they’d discover that some things truly are written in the stars. Or the one where Jim and Spock go from Strangers to Soulmates in five acts (spanning the whole of the Star Trek AOS trilogy and beyond it).

Look I know Rapunzel paints and Tiana cooks, but if you guys don't think Mulan is the Most Creative Disney Princess, you're wrong.

She's literally introduced in this perfect scene that highlights her whole character, flaws and strengths:

The first time you see her she's:

Cheating, which is totally the opposite of what honor-code General Shang would do.

Undisciplined, which is what going to the army fixes.

Problem-solving—by writing the recitation she can't remember on her wrist—

BUT LISTEN. That last one is the first hint you have that she's the Most Creative Disney Princess. Because guess what? She's not the first young woman to cheat at the matchmaker test. The Matchmaker specifically checks to see if she's cheating when the test begins. But the rest of them wrote their cheat sheet on their fans.

The Matchmaker was prepared for the usual kind of tricks. But Mulan's full of her own ideas, not everyone else's.

You guys know the rest. She dresses up like a soldier—nobody suspects her because the idea that someone would do that never occurs to everyone else. She climbs the pole by tying the medallions around each other when none of the other recruits can figure it out. She lights the cannon by grabbing Mushu instead of searching for flints. She creates an avalanche instead of just taking Shan Yu out. She tricks the Huns by dressing her friends up as concubines. She defeats Shan Yu with his own sword and a bunch of fireworks.

But even beyond problem-solving, Mulan never does things like other people do. She doesn't even do things like other women do.

She doesn't just walk across a bridge, she jumps from pillar to pillar. She doesn't just bring her father tea, she puts a spare teacup in her sleeve because she knows she's clumsy.

Mulan is creative. But you know what that moment proves? That she's not just a representation of all women-versus-men. Mulan is representative of a human, who sees where she has strengths, and sees where she has weaknesses. She uses her strengths to her advantage and works to improve or make up for her weaknesses. She doesn't try to be exactly like a man. She just tries to use what she's got to do the right thing. And finding ways to use what you've got, even if it's not like what everyone else has, is creativity.

Do you have a Sterek fic idea that needs to be written?

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Come and share them with us!

The prompt meme is an ongoing event, so you can stop by any time to leave a prompt or two (or ten, or twenty!), and if you're a writer as well you might just find something that sparks some inspiration.

Submitting a prompt is commitment free (there's no obligation to write anything yourself, though obviously you can if you want to!) and the prompt meme has only just opened, so we need to populate it with wonderful, juicy Sterek prompts so that writers have something to be inspired by.

If you have a prompt that you want to see written, come and submit it. You never know if a writer might see it and decide it's exactly the idea for them!

In private school we were made to write in cursive all the time.

Which made it hard when in high-school I had to re-learn to write in block-letters (normal letters? whatever you wish to call them), why? I don't actually remember, either because my teachers had trouble reading cursive writing, it was faster, or a combination of both.

Nowadays I can write in both, which isn't a bad thing, but back then it was tedious.

Reblog this if you had to learn cursive writing as a child

If you were ever told or were made to learn cursive writing when you were in grade school. I wanna see how many of you suffered like I did.

in other news, writing fanfiction still takes a lot longer than i expect it to.