Saying “i Want Him” About The Character But Not In A Romantic Or Sexual Way . I Just Require Him

I was exploring some ocean ruins when I noticed the roof of a village house hiding on a cliffside, and found an entire underground community inside a lush cave! (ft photobombing allays)

conveniently, I got an empty map from the ruins so I opened it up and...

there's nothing on the surface but paths

I guess it got too cold for the villagers so they moved underground

This place is my new muse

who are you?

Mandalorians have a system wide Tiingilaar competition, and it'd the only time you can get so many of them in one place without politics causing brawls

of course there are still the brawls and blood fueds caused by dissing clan recipes, and there's always a few attempts at seducing recipes out of people

the stew vs casserole debate is the equivalent to beans or no beans in chili

the prize is a solid beskar spoon, and bragging rights

Write Your Story

I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.

Why?

He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didn’t even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but that’s beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me – his first beta – and y'all?

He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.

Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, “There is already a Minecraft story.”

Me: Okay? So what?

Lucifer: If there’s already a story, no one will read mine.

Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, “What if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.”

He laughed.

I showed him Mornings Aren’t For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.

Then I said, “So do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in love… would anyone read it?”

He laughed and said, “No because you already did.”

So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.

I’m going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.

Write your story. It doesn’t matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didn’t write YOUR story. Only you can do that.

And I want to read your story.

Me while writing: oh hell yes this is such a good sentence I'm the master of poetic imagery

The writing when I go back to edit:

They're so sibling coded, Rex is definitely that one mom friend to have snacks on him

everything looks like a nail when you've got a hammer and every song is actually about the character when they're on your mind 24/7