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cryptovexillologist:

The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit’s hot

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#prev tagged this as glowfic #and…yeah‚ within my first four threads I’d already hit three of these‚ huh #(although ”what if xianxia was good” was pretty much my coauthor and not me) #maybe I should write a ”would that be fucked up or what” to complete the set #glowfic #writing #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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Ooh! Brin!

Is your fiction anywhere we can read it?

Or is it only secret, and private?

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sacrificedtoatree:

brin-bellway:

brin-bellway:

The current one is semi-private, but most of my fiction is publicly available at the Glowfic Constellation (a roleplay/collaborative-writing site: some rat-Tumblrites may recognise it as “that format planecrash / Project Lawful was written in”).

Glowfic is an infamously high-context medium and needs a certain amount of tolerance for reading things without having read their prerequisites, but you can get a head start on understanding the background context relevant to my stuff by reading How to Read Glowfic and the glowfic wiki page on medianworlds (people who understood the phrase “the format planecrash was written in” may recognise this as the relationship Keltham’s homeworld has to Eliezer Yudkowsky).

ourladyoflampreys / @sacrificedtoatree replied: “Ah, I have heard of glowfic, actually. I read through some of Alicorn’s posts and fics on her site at some point and found a brief explanation of it, although I confess I didn’t understand it very much. But you know, I have a long bus ride tomorrow and I hear them Greyhounds have decent wi-fi these days, so I may take a dive into this!”

Thanks for the shoutout!

The Greyhounds, it turned out, did *not* have decent wi-fi.

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#conversational aglets #glowfic #writing

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{{ourladyoflampreys asked:}}

Ooh! Brin!

Is your fiction anywhere we can read it?

Or is it only secret, and private?

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brin-bellway:

The current one is semi-private, but most of my fiction is publicly available at the Glowfic Constellation (a roleplay/collaborative-writing site: some rat-Tumblrites may recognise it as “that format planecrash / Project Lawful was written in”).

Glowfic is an infamously high-context medium and needs a certain amount of tolerance for reading things without having read their prerequisites, but you can get a head start on understanding the background context relevant to my stuff by reading How to Read Glowfic and the glowfic wiki page on medianworlds (people who understood the phrase “the format planecrash was written in” may recognise this as the relationship Keltham’s homeworld has to Eliezer Yudkowsky).

ourladyoflampreys / @sacrificedtoatree replied: “Ah, I have heard of glowfic, actually. I read through some of Alicorn’s posts and fics on her site at some point and found a brief explanation of it, although I confess I didn’t understand it very much. But you know, I have a long bus ride tomorrow and I hear them Greyhounds have decent wi-fi these days, so I may take a dive into this!”

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#(January 2024) #(he’s changed his username in the three weeks since this reply‚ hence the slash) #(in related news‚ I looked at the list of glowfic accounts and saw that user ”sacrificedtoatree” joined February 1st) #(welcome to the Constellation) #((I am aware that in-between the previous reply and this one‚ Blazer sent me a music meme)) #((but that will take more energy to do and I think it will have to wait for the next cycle)) #((I appreciate its existence and I still plan on doing it at some point)) #replies #conversational aglets #glowfic #writing

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{{ourladyoflampreys asked:}}

Ooh! Brin!

Is your fiction anywhere we can read it?

Or is it only secret, and private?

The current one is semi-private, but most of my fiction is publicly available at the Glowfic Constellation (a roleplay/collaborative-writing site: some rat-Tumblrites may recognise it as “that format planecrash / Project Lawful was written in”).

Glowfic is an infamously high-context medium and needs a certain amount of tolerance for reading things without having read their prerequisites, but you can get a head start on understanding the background context relevant to my stuff by reading How to Read Glowfic and the glowfic wiki page on medianworlds (people who understood the phrase “the format planecrash was written in” may recognise this as the relationship Keltham’s homeworld has to Eliezer Yudkowsky).

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#(it was not in fact planecrash that introduced me to glowfic) #(my own introduction to glowfic has been lost to the mists of time but was no later than 2018) #(but planecrash was a breakout hit‚ which makes it a useful reference) #and yeah that post from today’s queue is very much a thing #if you told me in early 2022 that I was going to write over 40k words of fiction in the following calendar year #I would boggle at you #I do think early-2022!me would *endorse* this development‚ though #it’s just not something that I ever particularly expected to be *capable* of #and was making no active attempt to change this

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etirabys:

etirabys:

I’ve been thinking, with a lot of sadness, what I need to make fandom a large part of my life again (I want to, but at this point don’t think I can). One answer is LJ/DW kinkmemes. People don’t seem to do that much these days, and in any case then and now it can only exist for big fandoms. Centrally Marvel/DC universes, which I don’t enjoy.

I miss browsing prompts, posting prompts, writing a fill for a prompt knowing that at least one person was going to be an enthusiastic reader… I thrived in that environment. Writing alone feels really sterile. I want to be an ecosystem again.

This seems like a long shot. But:

If you know of an active kinkmeme (it’s okay if it’s small, as long as it’s alive), for a fandom you think I’ll like – please let me know. Here are some of my preferences:

  • Ideally, there are a lot of writers who are good. Some fandoms are unusually and confusingly full of good writers, like The Terror. Others are relatively sparse.
  • I like dark fic where people are sad and have sex that’s at least slightly unhealthy. I’m not an obligate dead dove writer, but a fandom where such fic would break norms is not for me.
  • I prefer to read and write about characters who are at least mildly intellectual, or can be interpreted as such.

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#fandom #signal boosts #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(luminousalicorn’s reply: ”*chanting ominously* glowfic. glowfic. glowfic. glowfic”) #((she *does* make a good point)) #glowfic #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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moral-autism:

winged-light:

chimaerakitten:

people write AUs where characters from a fantasy universe are in like, the setting or plot situation of another non-fantasy story all the time, and usually it’s a no-powers version of those characters because more often than not the powers would absolutely break all the stakes of the au.

And that’s totally logical and makes sense, but I think the version where the transplanted characters get to keep their powers and break the stakes has hilarious and underutilized crack potential.

Like just once I’d like to read “The 74th annual Hunger Games goes absolutely tits up and nobody knows why none of the kids seem to be dying despite some serious effort on the part of the gamemakers. Meanwhile sharp-eyed viewers at home may notice that the shy and unassuming male tribute from district 11—whose personal item was a pair of costume glasses—hasn’t been seen on-camera even once since the opening gong. But not many people do notice. After all, in all the pageantry leading up to the games, no tribute was more boring than Clark Kent.“

I absolutely love this and will contribute the ideas:

  • The Animorphs must kill both Donald Trump and Putin in order to avert nuclear war
  • Perhaps the fault is not in our stars, but in the fact we haven’t killed enough rats yet for me to level up to a third-level cleric and become immune to cancer
  • Just the Karate Kid movie but halfway through Luke figures out how to use the Force, surprising and confusing his mentor Mr Miyagi
  • Every character from League of Legends suddenly exists in Game of Thrones and now everyone has to cope with that, somehow
  • The Princess Diaries but your dad is Poseidon and your mom is a queen and therefore your life gets very complicated whenever you’re really supposed to be at a royal function but you have to flee to Camp Half-blood so you don’t get eaten by monsters

But I ALSO want some non-powered individuals walking into situations where the characters ought to have powers.

  • How do we get the ring to Mordor? We get in a modified Aston Martin and drive. Whoever this wizard guy is, he’s no match for Bond…. James Bond.
  • Just a competent, functional adult tries tackling the Yeerk invasion. Like completely no powers but they’re a functional adult who makes excellent life choices. Instead of turning into an animal to raid Yeerk headquarters, they just buy large quantities of plastic explosive.
  • How fast can Sherlock Holmes speedrun Pale?
  • What if you were in the Pokemon universe and you did not have any Pokemon but you did have a basic grasp of economics

And I kind of want to read stuff where they keep their powers…. and go into a setting with completely different powers.

  • Taylor Hebert Beats Up Aslan, Takes Over Narnia
  • The USS Enterprise encounters an odd society where people are divided into factions like Dauntless and Abnegation, which Spock thinks is illogical
  • Gracelings vs. Fire Lord Ozai in the ultimate showdown
  • You have a Portal gun. Your task is to find the Holy Grail. Morgana le Fay may interfere

I participated in an (on indefinite hiatus) glowfic that was, basically, a D&D druid meets the USS Enterprise. The druid couldn’t use most of their powers normally because they work with ensouled life and classical elements, not these ‘atoms’ and life that does all its cognition with just the brain. It was fun.

And ahead of me if I work on it is the uplifting story of a magic school student … not having access to his powers and instead introducing a high-magic lower-nonmagical-tech setting to the wonders of electricity and electronics and modern medicine.

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#yeah I was reading this post the whole time thinking ”have *I* got the genre for *you*” #glowfic #recs #story ideas I will never write #fanfic #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what