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We finished Only Murders in the Building season four. It wasn't my favorite season because it got VERY meta about being an actor. But I liked how they tied everything together in the last episode. All the best friend vibes were very cute, too.

Captain America: Brave New World: ( SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE )

Eastern Promises: I watched this movie because I saw someone talking about it on tumblr. It is indeed very violent and very homoerotic. The twist was handled so well!

Doctor Odyssey!! This show is so fun - it's hitting so many of my buttons. It's got the 'case of the week' vibe because it's created by Ryan Murphy of 9-1-1 fame. The cruise ship setting is pretty and also lets the characters spend so much time with each other. Most of the quirky minor characters have been really interesting, and COVID is an integral part of one of the characters' backstories (as opposed to being ignored, which I despise in shows set in the modern day). Plus the three leads have great chemistry and are turning into the throuple of my dreams.

We started watching Common Side Effects because it was created by Joseph Bennett - the same guy who created Scavengers Reign - and Steve Hely. It's trippy and engrossing - I can't wait to find out more about the conspiracy at the heart of the show.

What shows/movies have you seen lately?

Also, I have time for some Japanese practice this week: ( Some Japanese phrases under the cut. )

Clearing out my WIPs - I'm hoping to transition away from google docs but I haven't tried any alternatives yet. Any suggestions?

A Shyan spooky season WIP that I'm saving for later: ( under here. )

And prompts from the No True Pair round that I haven't started:
March Twenty-Ninth - 2 takes 4 to a theme park [Tashi takes Lily]
March Thirty-First - 3 & 4 are traveling together to [destination] - Patrick and Lily are traveling to the hospital ??

At this point I'm collecting bingo cards even though I haven't completed one in a while :P But I love my

lyricaltitles September Bingo card!

( My lyrics bingo card )

Also got a card for the H/C themed bingo at the sweetspicy bingo tumblr. The event ended already but these are still awesome prompts so I'm saving them here.

( Card under here )

September is also the month for

no_true_pair posting! As always, the prompts are super fun. I really want to finish my fic about the Sallie House Demon this year (started it after Buzzfeed Unsolved ended), so hopefully I can at least manage that.

ficinabox noms are open. I'm worried about having time, but every year it's my favorite exchange besides

trickortreatex. I'll see how noms go.

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What's in the Bowl? I'll write you a drabble or short fic, make icon(s), or give you random spooky Halloween-related facts!

Let Me Know: For fic, give me a pairing and a short prompt (song lyrics, phrases, one word prompts are all okay). For icons, please link me to an image.

Other info: Fandoms I'll write for fic: Roswell New Mexico, Roswell, Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher RPF, Band of Brothers, Generation Kill, Supernatural (except no Dean/Cas pls) + any spooky movie (I will look it up if I have to)!

My total word count on AO3 for 2022: 59,065
Number of works: 35
Fandom I wrote the most: BBC Merlin, thanks to the Kinkalot challenge.

Those are low totals compared to the previous three years, but I also had a baby so they count as a personal win!

FANFICS:
Top 5 by hits
Find Me To Be Loyal (BBC Merlin, Merthur)
Give All My Secrets Away (9-1-1, Buddie)
Redemption for Sins I Can't Mention (Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher, Shyan)
Jarl's Orders (BBC Merlin, Merlin/Arthur/Gwaine)
Straight Flush (MCU, Bucky/Sam)

Top 5 by kudos
Find Me To Be Loyal (BBC Merlin, Merthur)
Give All My Secrets Away (9-1-1, Buddie)
Straight Flush (MCU, Bucky/Sam)
Redemption for Sins I Can't Mention (Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher, Shyan)
Workday Lunch (Teen Wolf, Theo/Liam)

Top 5 by Comment Threads
Find Me To Be Loyal (BBC Merlin, Merthur)
Long Enough Flight (BBC Merlin, Gwaine/Merlin)
Heading Towards Something (Cobra Kai, Johnny/Daniel)
A Certain Romanticism (SPN, Sam/Dean)
Straight Flush (MCU, Bucky/Sam)

Fic I'm most proud of?
Redemption for Sins I Can't Mention!! I got to participate in the Shyan big bang, and I got to finish an RPF fic that I've been thinking about for a long time involving demon!Shane going to hell to rescue Ryan. It happens to be the longest fic I wrote last year, and it very specifically caters to my interests, lol.

It's no surprise that my Merthur canon divergent AU dominated my stats. I felt good about that fic but I'm excited that some of my other ships showed up on my top five lists too.

( And an End of the Year Fandom Meme )

I have saved a few workskins on AO3 and used them for various works. None of these are my own, just adaptations of the work of others. It's fun to do "unconventional" fic and add in different things. This post is a way to collect all of the various sources for the workskins and the instructions.

Bergara and Madej Investigations, Inc.: My first attempt, with different fonts

Pied Piper Gets the Hollywood Treatment (supposedly): I used text boxes to make it look like a comic, also added in a news article and a reddit post

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 	Pied Piper signed a deal with Platinum Dunes production company, kicking off the process of making a movie about Richard Hendricks’s unlikely rise from nerdy nobody to tech genius.
An insider from Pied Piper explained that the negotiations for the official production of the Untitled “Pied Piper Project” have finally concluded. It’s reputed that the million dollar deal included giving Platinum Dunes Production the exclusive rights to the story of Richard Hendricks. While the script is not complete, it is likely that the film will follow Hendricks’s life from being apart of an incubator in Erlich Bachman’s house, to his rise to Chief Executive Officer of a fully fledged technology company. It’s not known what other silicon valley players will appear in the film, but the rivalry between Richard Hendricks and Gavin Belson will surely feature. It’s also possible that the film will include venture capital executives or failed CEOs of Pied Piper, like Jack Barker and Dinesh Chugtai, although I’m told these individuals will be very minor characters in the film.Platinum Dunes Production company was formerly owned by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form. The company is best known for horror films like Friday the 13th and The Quiet Place. Fuller and Form left the company in 2018. Platinum Dunes previously announced a plan to partner with Paramount Pictures on thriller films, which could explain its move to acquire the rights to Hendricks’s story.The inside source, who has been working closely with writers from Platinum Dunes, claims that the film will involve some impressive CGI effects and at least one action sequence involving a pool, a palapa, and a marijuana bong. Not much else is known about the film, although sources say that the company is in talks with Brad Pitt for the role of Bachman, as well as Timothée Chalamet for the role of Hendricks himself. There are not many films that have been made about tech companies in the past, although this film will be in good company with the likes of Steve Jobs and The Social Network. Both of those films were well-received and have cult-like followings. Although Richard Hendricks is not as famous as Steve Jobs, he just might be after this film hits theaters.

 
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<img src="http://www.stickaz.com/3086-3970-large/upvote-downvote.png" width="15" />[Intellectual Property] [US-CA] Can my boss use my likeness in a film/franchise without my permission?
 
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r/legaladvice •Posted by u/PakistaniDenzel 4 hours ago
<h5>[US-CA] Can someone use my likeness in a film/franchise without my permission?</h5>
Intellectual Property
I’ve been searching around and trying to learn the rules about film creation, but I can’t find anything exactly on point. 
My boss is apparently selling the rights to the story of our company, of which I am still apart. I will likely be a character in the film, and they want to use my real name. But they’re not just going to use my name for some stupid movie - they’re probably going to fuck the story up and make me look like a totally incompetent leader. Surely that has to be against the law? I guess I want to make sure my name is subject to copyright. OR take action against defamation. 
Any potential leads, free consultations, or recommendations for an intellectual property attorney would be greatly appreciated. May even be able to pay to retain a lawyer.
Edit: Sorry forgot to add that I sifted through Copyright.gov, but didn’t quite know what to do so I emailed them and came here.
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u/EdChambers 4h
I can tell who this is, bro. TAKE THIS DOWN. You should be more careful about what you post online.
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u/LiterallyGilfoyle 3h
Shut up, Jared. We KNOW you’re in on this. There’s no way a contract about the company wouldn’t go through you first. And we know where your real loyalties lie. I’ll give you a hint - his name starts with R.
 
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<dd> Hey do guys think this is really Gilfoyle from Pied Piper??
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u/FlammeOn 2h
You’re asking the wrong questions, man. Copyright is for original works of authorship. The script or movie or whatever hasn’t even been created yet.
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u/IPismylyfe 1h

Not sure what exactly I’m wading into here, but this sounds more like a contract negotiation issue. You should try to get a representative involved in the negotiations for the film. Or go to your HR department with this.
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u/BallChorteling4 1h
I smell Pied Piper drama. 
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The Fate of the Underworld's New Hellhound: Incorporated a letter and a mission report

The letter coding is easy: < div class= "letter" >text here, take out spaces </ div >

The code for the mission report:

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AGENT: Persephone 
EMPLOYEE ID: 2 
FILE ID: Hellhound Jordan Parrish

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HADES 
RECRUITING DEPARTMENT 
FOR SECURITY LEVEL 9 OR HIGHER </div><div class="divide">
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I. SUMMARY

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 <li>The new Hellhound, chosen by Cerberus, never arrived. He remained in the mortal realm, avoiding his fate. </li>
<li>I was sent to locate him, and ensure his arrival in the Underworld.</li> 
II. CHRONOLOGY

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<li>Able to locate the Hellhound based on Thanatos’s reconnaissance and intelligence. Human alias is Jordan Parrish. He is living in the mortal town of Beacon Hills. He works as a police officer. He appears to have several werewolf friends and helps them in his free time.</li>
<li>Observed his abilities. His body gets so hot that fire erupts from his skin, but he can touch mortal objects. Possesses fangs, claws, burning red eyes, supernatural strength, and can shift in and out of his true form.</li>
<li>Jordan Parrish was not alone. He was working with a female in human form, who appeared to have a godlike aura of her own and power behind her scream. Human alias is Lydia Martin.</li> 
<li>Made contact with Jordan Parrish, who was trying to protect Lydia Martin. Discovered that Lydia Martin is a banshee, a harbinger of death. Her scream can melt mortal ears and move objects. She is an immortal, although not a goddess.</li>
<li>I agreed to a second meeting. Jordan Parrish and Lydia Martin both will not agree to leave the mortal realm willingly without certain conditions being met.</li>
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III. RECOMMENDATIONS

To avoid a potentially violent confrontation between the banshee, the Hellhound, and possibly their group of werewolf friends, it would be prudent to take their request seriously. The Hellhound has come to terms with his fate as a guardian of the gates of the Underworld. His superior strength and abilities will be an excellent match with Cerberus’s ferocious nature, and he is ready to serve you if he can have his immortal love Lydia Martin by his side.

They wish to leave the Underworld for four months at a time, every year. They wish to have their own home in Elysium. And they wish to be able to send correspondence back and forth from the mortal realm. It will be easy enough to build them a home in Elysium. I willingly accept this task. We already know how to manage correspondence to the mortal world. The last piece, about travel to the mortal realm, is within your purview. I recommend granting their request, as it comes at no great cost to us except that Cerberus will have to guard the gates alone. This he has done for nearly the past year, and so he can surely do it again.

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The New York Institute's Shadowhunter-in-Training: News Article

I still haven't been able to get text messaging code to work, so maybe that will be my next project.

Reddit Skin source
Mission Report skin source
Email work skin

Happy New Year! I hope this year is kind to you :)

The new year is an opportunity to go through my house and get things in order. It's also an opportunity to go through my google docs and try to get my ideas in order.

Fic Goals this year:
-Heavy Artillery Holiday Exchange
-Fandom Trumps Hate, Sam/Bucky (MCU) Fic
-Arthur/Gwaine (Merlin BBC) fic that I've been messing with for two years. It might be a good one for wipBB or Iddy Iddy BB.
-

cap_ironman remix
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candyheartsex
-

heavyartillery events
-All the Halloween fic!!
-Hopefully

littleblackdressex and

smut4smut run again
-Battleship!!
-

ficinabox
-Bulletproof Exchange
-Maybe the sequel to that Theo/Liam Country fic I wrote called You're Worth the Drive (Basically I wanted Liam's dad to be an ass and for Theo to be all protective, and then I wanted the rest of the pack to find out about them)
-Part III of my Merthur AU

I've been sitting on three Sam/Bucky (MCU) fic ideas that I probably will never end up writing but I'm recording them here so I can delete the google doc. If you know of a fic that already exists that kind of fits, please do point me in that direction :)

01. Another madripoor fic, only this time Sam gets kidnapped after Zemo ditches them. The bad guys use mind games with Sam and make him relieve memories that will be useful to them in order to find his weakness(es). It definitely comes up that he’s always had a thing for Bucky, some kind of middle school project maybe? The only way I see this working is if Bucky is also kidnapped too (because he'd go crazy trying to get Sam free and succeed before the bad guys get too deep). So Zemo or Sharon would have to break them out. Sam doesn’t have to tell Bucky everything, but he does have to talk about it eventually. Maybe the bad guys would try to exploit their relationship while in captivity and torture Bucky or torture an impersonator? Then feelings/getting together at the end.

02. Sam survives the snap. He's the one working with the team to do the time travel thing. Sam would want to get Bucky back; very angsty during those long years alone. Sam’s there when the compound gets bombed. Bucky shows up at the final battle in Endgame and he and Sam have a battlefield reunion?

03. This prompt from FFA: An AU fic where Steve gets snapped, Sam and Bucky don't, and they slowly fall in love while holding each other together in the aftermath. It's unbearably romantic, with lots of emphasis on learning to be happy again and how genuinely good for each other they are.

... And then they end up on Vormir.

I would want them to get their happy ending. Maybe they can sacrifice something with intense meaning for both of them, something that they both love but that isn't actually a person. I am thinking of the shield here.
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( A tiny little ficlet I started for this prompt a while ago )

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And here are some random prompts I saved that I might revisit:

Any Fandom | Any Pairing | who did you kill?
Any Fandom | Any Pairing | why are you covered in blood?
any, any, taking a walk in an old cemetery
Roaring fire
Getting drenched in the rain
Any Characters/Pairings | Just pull the car over!
Any Fandom / Any Pairing / They just wanted free champagne and maybe a dessert when they fake proposed in a filled restaurant. Just some harmless fun. What they didn’t realize was that not everyone in this restaurant was a stranger. And that some people would want answers.

I participated in the

fffc Fandom Battle to celebrate the comm's 10 year anniversary, and I was proud of my productivity! The weekly posting schedule kept me motivated. I finished with 489 points, which put me in seventh place.

Here's my tag.

I got into two new fandoms because of the battle. When it started, The Umbrella Academy was the only fandom I recognized so I binged the rest of s1 and 2. I wrote my first Umbrella Academy fic about Leonard even though he's definitely not my favorite character. I also got into Cobra Kai, even though I'm not quite caught up. WOW the tropes! The action! The heartwarming moments! The comedy! Amazing.

I also got around to watching Pacific Rim: Uprising, which was a fun ride. I liked it better than I expected, but the first is still such a classic.

I learned how to use pixl and made icons and headers and fanmix covers. I haven't made fanart in years so that was a fun experiment. I also made fanmixes for Teen Wolf, Julie and the Phantoms, and Pacific Rim.

I finished two Band of Brothers fics: a webgott piece and a crack Stephen Ambrose piece. I also started a Batman/Superman fic that seemed so ridiculously tropey that I abandoned it. I wrote meta for Teen Wolf and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

As for my Julie and the Phantoms fic, hopefully I will finish/edit it sometime soon and actually post on AO3.

The badges I earned:

jatpfffc 5.jpg

seasonofkink Card: ( under the cut )

And here's my card for the Shyan Summer Kink Bingo: ( under the cut )

Also:
multifandomhorrorexchange pinch hit, due 16 July.

everywoman due 25 July.
Marvel Reverse Bang (writing Sam/Bucky) due 1 August.

iddyiddybangbang due 12 Sept.

kinkalot.

I got to write fic based on hollyandvice's fanvid for the Cap_Ironman Reverse Big Bang this year. The vid focuses on the angst between Steve and Tony during endgame, with an open ending. I really like the intensity of it. The fic premise is basically: Steve gets Thor to use the infinity stones and give him a redo in order to save Tony, and Tony makes a different decision about the direction his life should go.

I Never Meant to Let Go (0 words) by hollyandvice
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe) & Tony Stark
Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark
Additional Tags: Fanvids

Here is our master post.

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I was selected to write for the upcoming Teen Wolf Horror 'zine This Might Hurt! I really need to wrap up my fic for that. This will be the very first 'zine I'm participating in, which is sort of crazy because zones were an early fandom thing? Seems like they are possibly making a comeback. I was not selected for a new Sam/Bucky zine, which I'm disappointed about - but I also know there are a lot of talented MCU writers out there.

I'm helping at the sunshine challenge this year, and I'm super excited about our Greek mythology prompts! Especially relevant because I'm playing Hades right now.

I couldn't really think of any off the top of my head, so I've collected links of resources I found reading through the comments of others at Snowflake!

Netlifx has an online gallery of costumes from The Crown and Queen's Gambit. It's very pretty, but there is a lot of clicking that you have to do.

Dramacool looks like a good place to watch Asian dramas.

Someone put together a great post with paranormal research links. I'll have to check out these academic webpages next time I want to write a cryptid or ghost story.

Stark Tower's floor plan in the MCU

A dictionary of names!

What America Ate - a website about American food during the great depression. And it's so pretty!

What's On the Menu - a real menu archive.

This post about writing resources seems really helpful.

**Minotaur's Sex Tips for Slash Writers, maintained by Squidge. Definitely NSFW but I can't believe I didn't know about this before!

For Video Games Specifically:
Before I Play wiki that lists things you should know about different games. I wish I had known about this sooner!

How Long To Beat gives me a comparison point to guess how much game playing I might do on a game. Useful to me right now, as I try to figure out if I'm going to start a new game.

Happy New Year, everyone! I've never been more relieved to make it to the end of December.

This year I wrote and posted: 54 Fics

Total wordcount: 129,389 (less than last year)

( 2020 Fic Meme )

( End of year Fandom Meme )

fandomtrumpshate auction offerings are now open for viewing! This year, I would ideally like to find someone to brit-pick for a Merlin RPF challenge that I signed up for. It would also be great if I could find a beta or two (for MCU or Merlin). And I'll be browsing the art tag, both because I love to bid on art and I love to find new artists to follow. Although I expect many of the art auctions to go too high for my budget.

Fanvid for any fandom or MCU:
theletterelle

Fan labor:
Brit Picking any fandom
Possible Brit Picking
Beta for 10k+
Theater expertise
MCU: BDSM expertise

This year I celebrated my 10th year on AO3! And I wrote and posted:
52 stories in 15 fandoms.

Total wordcount: 168,716

( More on my writing this year )

1. Your main fandom of the year?
Merlin, mostly because I fell in love with the show this year and then jumped into fandom events and longfic reading.

2. Your favourite film you watched this year?
God's Own Country. The Conjuring 2.

3. Your favourite book read this year?
I only finished 12 books this year, but the Dark is the Night mlm series was the most memorable.

4. Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
Easier by 5 Seconds of Summer

5. Your favourite TV show of the year?
Merlin ♥

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
So many amazing Merlin writers like astolat, marguerite_26, malu_3, skitz_phenom, and schweet_heart. Also, The Change Trilogy changed my life. Best longfic I've ever read.

7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Band of Brothers fandom was angsty this year, and it was hard to watch the demise of the easyco comm. But like a phoenix, the fandom is back in a big way.

8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Bradley James. I even listened to a European football podcast & learned about a sport I used to despise for this man.

9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
Natasha Romanoff (as in the character, not the actress). Maybe because Endgame really wrecked my heart, but I've been super into reading and writing her POV.

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
JONAS BROTHERS ARE BACK, BABY.

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
Generation Kill. I know that there is space for GK in new HBO war fandoms, but this year I've been missing the big Generation Kill holiday exchange and the old GK kink meme.

12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Lucifer fandom is probably a fun place to be, so maybe I'll get caught up and then dip my toes in.

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
Mulan. Wonder Woman 1984. Black Widow.

body talk: a porny comment ficathon [the prompt post]

Stolen from a couple of people. Goodbye 2018!

1. Your main fandom of the year?
Marvel Cinematic Universe. And Teen Wolf (even a year after it ended!)

2. Your favorite film you watched this year?
Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Yay, an action packed blockbuster with my aesthetic! I thought they made a lot of great additions to book canon and O'Brien was quite impressive (and hot, dayum).

3. Your favorite book read this year?
Song of Achilles or City of Heavenly Fire because I'm a sucker for a tragic romance, apparently.

4. Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
5 Seconds of Summer's Youngblood Album - got to go to their concert this year and had a great time. I didn't spend that much time searching for new music this year as I normally do, though. Monster Among Men is my favorite.

5. Your favorite TV show of the year?
Letterkenny! I discovered it this year, and I can't even believe how funny, witty, sarcastic, and socially conscious it is. And now it's all on Hulu!

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Shadowhunters! Although Letterkenny is a close second, it's not as active as Shadowhunters. SH has a pretty big fanbase and super talented fanartists. I do wish there were more fic exchanges/challenges/diverse writing though.

7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Shadowhunters getting canceled :/ Also, some parts of Infinity War. That plot was all over the place.

8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?

9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Tony pulling out the flip phone in Infinity War (but then not dialing??? Torture). Also, watching Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural and seeing the boys share. a. bed. Tropes in real life - count me in. Also, Shane Madej talking to demons gave me life.

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
Smallville. I started a rewatch and even wrote a Clex fic, but then the news broke about Allison Mack and I felt bad about the whole fandom :/ I may continue my rewatch, because boy do I still adore Welling's Clark and Rosey's Lex.

12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Well, not sure really. Maybe All American because of Cody Christian, although I don't really want another teen drama in my life. I definitely want to watch all of the movies in The Conjuring franchise, because I watched the first one this year and loved it.

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
Shadowhunters 3B and Avengers: Endgame.

As for my writing: ( End of the Year Writing Meme )

These are prompts I like from

allirica's tumblr post. Master List HERE. ( Prompts List Under Here )

And here are the meet-ugly prompts from

veronicabunchwrites's tumblr post. ( Prompts List Under Here )

Congratulations to everyone who participated this year! This was my first year participating/keeping track of my writing. Even though I focused on fandom words instead of original fiction, I'm glad that I participated. I learned a lot about myself as a writer and I reached 15,130 words.

↠I used to get really hung up on knowing exactly where I wanted the fic to end. I wouldn't sit down and write if I didn't have an end goal in mind already. But to keep my word count going, I let myself explore scenarios without being so strict about ending at a certain point. Doing that freed me up and actually made it more fun to write.

↠Along the same lines, I always tried to write scenes in order. But I realized that I could write the part that was inspiring me at the moment, and go back and re-order things. Encouraging my word count meant just writing the scene that was actually working for me when I had time to write. I can always edit my stuff later!

↠Beginnings are still hard, but I saw some advice somewhere about starting "in the middle," so to speak. Get to the point, and it's okay to do world building along the way or give more explanation later on. I liked that advice.

↠I also used to think that I had to clear my whole day in order to have time to write productively. But for NaNoWriMo, I encouraged myself to write even if I only had an hour or two. It turns out I can crank out a fair amount in that amount of time, and even if I have to stop in the middle of a scene, I will actually be able to remember what I wanted to write later on (for the most part).

+Do you prefer to read/write fic in a certain verb tense? When I first started writing, present tense was a big no-no but now there are many fics written in present tense and I kind of like them. They seem to be easier/faster to read. Maybe it only works well when it's all one person's POV, like a stream of consciousness.

+If you would like a holiday/Christmas card, inbox me your address! :D

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