First Thing:

First thing:

@punchedbymarkesmith hiding truth in the tags:

Second thing:

This quote by Patrick Rothfuss (emphasis mine):

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

One of the things that I love about Sam is how his apparent size changes. The man is large, but he often curls in on himself, making himself look smaller. He stuffs his hands in his pockets, pulling his shoulders in and down, his eyes go wide and he gives shy or uncertain little smiles or worried frowns and it makes him look smaller and younger. You forget that he's the tallest person in the room or how wide his shoulders are. Then at some point he'll stand up, square back his shoulders and breath deeply with a firm set to his jaw and suddenly he's massive and powerful and you fully believe that he once garrotted a vampire's head clean off. He can go from absolute baby brother to hulking beast in seconds and then sink right back into himself and leave you reeling because you know that potential is in him all the time, but it's not how he chooses to be.

Fic Reader Poll: Text Messages

Okay, another poll for y'all. I'm writing a fic with a lot of text message exchanges between two characters (details below poll).

As a reader, do you prefer that the text messages are written with the same proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar (SPAG) as the rest of the fic? Or do you prefer to see the writer's interpretation of a character's 'voice' with a realistic texting style, e.g. typos, abbreviations, missing SPAG?

Please don't just vote based on your headcanon for how your blorbos would text. Vote based on what you find most enjoyable to read.

For reference, and if anyone would like to share their opinion with me about my specific situation, the characters are a semi-AU Sam and Dean Winchester (they're not brothers but they're still hunters in the SPN universe). I headcanon Dean as being fairly loose with his texting, rapid-fire short messages, not bothered with much more SPAG than autocorrect does for him. He'll correct a typo if he notices it. For Sam, I see him as a step above that, longer single messages, proper capitalisation and more punctuation, but not fussed with perfection.

So that's how I've been writing it so far. But having said all that, I don't want the reader to struggle to actually read these exchanges, especially since there are many of them. Conundrum. 🤔

Feel free to reblog (it would be appreciated for a larger opinion pool!) in any fandom/pairing, as it's not fandom-specific, just reader-specific. For writers who also read, please consider what you prefer to read, not what you prefer to write (assuming those aren't the same).

Thanks for any input, all! 💖

"I should be tinhatting in 05-10" real but also the boys is coming and we are gonna have new moments so be free be a j2 truther at 2024 go slay girl

so real actually. I feel like I'm in a weird position because I don't think I believe they've been together for real and all that, but at the same time it's so fun to act like it has happened/it's happening lmao. that's why I enjoy some lighthearted tinhat content or some j2 fics. and I think as long as you're respectful and keep the tinhatting contained here in our safe tumblr bubble so the people involved remain as clueless and unaffected as possible, then it's fine !!

googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

My mistake is always in thinking I'll be able to stop myself at a reasonable point of tiredness, go to sleep, and continue the next day.

The lie detector test determined (over and over and over again)... that was a lie.

Also, while I'm here, to every reader, please please please comment (if you don't usually). What takes you one exhausted night to read can take an author months or even years to labour into the world, and we are SO FUCKING NEEDY FOR VALIDATION. A single comment. A single “I loved this!” Or, even if you didn't, a “thanks for sharing!”

That's where the crack is for us.

I just knocked back a 70k wincest fic over the course of an evening. You know what else is 70k words? The fucking novel on my desk I've been wanting to read for weeks that makes me go "ohh no that's a lotta pages :(" every time i look at it

dean absolutely railing sam while cas watches…and sam is completely mindfucked and doesn't even notice, but dean does and he's getting off on the fact that he gets to show cas what belongs to him.