Sometimes In Fanfic I Find Myself Writing Ships Into The Fic That I Don’t Agree With Just Bc It Makes

I spent the past 2 weeks in a feverish depressed state I haven’t felt since before I started medication and over the past few days that has been cured by the following (in no particular order):

1) Tomadachi for the switch being announced

2) The Crane Wives tour that I got tickets for

3) Hilson content on my dash (I’m not even that serious about House MD)

4) Seeing my friends :)

5) Will Wood and the Tapeworms Tour

6) Getting into my dream grad school with a partial scholarship

7) Visibly Queer Androgynous Baddie called me hot

Thank u that is all :)

Still thinking about the Hilson fic I read where at one point Wilson puts his hand on House’s knee and leaves it there for awhile and House couldn’t stop thinking about it and then I read “following the knee incident (5 dead, 17 injured)” and lost my damn mind

Yes that line is very much a tumblrism but I also feel like House would think that if he was having a crisis bc ofc he’d have to hide the crisis behind dark humor

God I love (sometimes) mischaracterizing these middle aged men

Had to make a playlist about Pride and Prejudice instead of writing an essay (yay) and this is what I came up with:

Fair by The Amazing Devil

Mad Dog by The Crane Wives

No Children - Ska by Sad Snack (a ska cover of No Children by The Mountain Goats)

The Hand That Feeds by The Crane Wives

Rule #4 - Fish in a Birdcage by Fish in a Birdcage

Tongues & Teeth by The Crane Wives

When Somebody Needs You (Song) by Will Wood

WHAT LOVE? by I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

What Do You Want from Me Tonight? By Sidney Gish

I Listened by Apes of the State

Love, Me Normally by Will Wood

Hold It In by Jukebox the Ghost

On one hand I am so excited about this assignment but on the other hand I feel bad bc my professor literally teaches at OXFORD and I’m forcing her to listen to Will Wood

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(My top 5 on Spotify has been the same the past 3 years)

Either I am weak with exhaustion after 1.5 hours of sleep or it’s just that damn windy out

Is that your phone in your pocket or are yuo penis just square and flat and full of information

So very randomly last April I was pulled into a little friend group and I’ve had to lie to the two other people in this group about having other friends to hang out with!!! Like lol I was/am a friendless loser so you two are it!!!

Like the other friends I’ve had I talk to like once every six months and don’t hang out with in person lol

Invited just those two goons to have dinner w me for my birthday and they seemed shocked it was just the two of them so I lied and said that my other friends and I were meeting up another day >:)

This is not Sad at all don’t say anything

Nothing makes me feel like more of a NERD than the fact that I skipped a class today.

And I didn’t do it to do something fun like bum cigarettes off old men or vandalize my local big-chain grocery store.

I did it to STUDY and catch up on HOMEWORK.

Middle school me would be disappointed. High school me would have his third eye opened by the actions I have done on this day

Me: *complaining about the loss of the muppets on a large scale*

Mom: *sends me a picture of a crochet hat that looks like a muppet*

Me: *starts crocheting puppets to fill a void in my heart*

dude..... not cool... don't you know that babies are our future? leave them alone

Babies are NOT our future. They are our history. Babies were actually invented by John S. Baby back in 1732. Before that people actually gave birth to fully grown adults and it was k-wording all of the women (and some of the men too). Then John S. Baby came along and went “hey, maybe make them smaller” and he did. Sure, Mr. Baby k-worded a lot of people in the process, but it was for the greater good of humanity.

If people want to do self inserts in stories (OG or fanfic) you can’t just make them the protagonist or the love interest or the villain!!! (I mean you can but that’s too easy)

What you gotta do is make the self insert a silly little guy that pops up in the narrative arc like two-three times and fucks EVERYTHING up for the protagonist and co. It doesn’t have to be malicious, it could just be like an “oopsies accidentally ruined your plan my b” thing.

Cause if you really think about it, that’s the roll of the writer (you) in relationship to the narrative. Your job is to make your character’s life difficult in one way or another so that the story is interesting

PLUS if something (god forbid) is actually PUBLISHED, characters are gonna get cut anyways so the self insert needs to be just barely relevant enough to the plot that removing them would mess up the story arc