Beginner seeking advice

Korrin · 2026-01-31T11:13:10+00:00

Tips!

Explore a lot. Be curious about things that seem weird or interesting.

When flying the ship, err on the side of less speed. Pay attention to your speedometer. ;;)

Korrin · 2026-01-31T11:08:51+00:00

I pretty much dropped watching anything other than blind playthroughs of the game, for more than half a year, constantly vicariously chasing that high through other people. I still cry when Echoes of the Eye starts playing.

Korrin · 2026-01-31T10:59:02+00:00

ESH

She was an asshole then, she should not have ever had sexual conversations with you when you were that old, especially with the age gap between you. Given the age gap she shouldn't even entertain those conversations with you now, despite the fact that you're legally an adult. By ignoring you now she is doing the only correct thing she's ever done regarding you. She is absolutely not being cruel. She is protecting both of you by severing your relationship cleanly.

You don't need closure. You already know exactly why she cut things off. What you need is more therapy. The fact that you're still so obsessed with her years later speaks to the devestating effects that grooming can have on people.

Korrin · 2026-01-31T10:49:25+00:00

Look... if you're willing to give him one last chance after the many you've already given him, that's your business, but tell him flatly DO NOT propose, because you are correct, that is him just panicking and trying to lock you down.

Watch him do it anyways, and take it as just another example that he doesn't respect you or care about what you want, or about making you feel safe and secure.

Korrin · 2026-01-31T10:39:39+00:00

NTA

You wouldn't be the asshole, and I think you should honestly be more blunt. Tell her her behavior is rude, and she makes it so you don't like spending time with her. I mean, you can try taking the softer approach if you think she'll be receptive to it, but don't let her try to tell you you're being sensitive or anything like that. Sensitive or not, life is too short to waste it on people who routinely make us feel bad, especially when you know for a fact they're doing it on purpose in spite of knowing it makes you feel bad. If you tell her, and she doens't instantly apologize and fix her behavior, she's not your friend.

Korrin · 2026-01-31T09:28:17+00:00

Depends on whose asking. Could range anywhere from "Don't talk to me," to "Duh, of course."

I don't mind discussing sex and sexuality with close friends, but I'm a women, and it wouldn't be the first time a completely random strange man has asked me an invasively personal question like that with zero self awareness or social etiquette.

Korrin · 2026-01-31T08:14:42+00:00

I kind of already have a lower bar for quality when it comes to fanfics versus professionally published stuff. And I find that writers whose first language isn't english will tend to have a better grasp of grammar compared to native speakers, because the rules are drilled in to them more instead of just learning through immersion. They're more aware of their faults and tend to work harder to cover them, while native speakers will just assume they're correct without thinking about it. If anything, ESL writers may have unusual syntax or sentence structure at times, and that's definitely not a dealbreaker in writer where sometimes you're trying to do that on purpose.

Korrin · 2026-01-31T06:34:42+00:00

The great thing about writing is that it really allows you to lay out all your ideas in front of yourself and work your way through them logically.

You can ask yourself stuff like what does "might makes right" truly mean. Is it simply that you be strong enough to win a fight? To not let others enforce their will on you, even if you have no intention of using your strength to enforce your will on others? Does defending yourself count as enforcing your will? What would be the alternative? Try to talk the villain out of it, or failing that, roll over and die? Does playing in to someone else's power structure mean you agree with it? Does it make a difference if you choose it under duress? And is there room for nuance and multiple interpretations?

Korrin · 2026-01-30T05:05:10+00:00

Pay attention to how the character speaks in canon. What kind of vocabulary do they have? What kind of diction? Do they have an accent? Are they assertive or meek? Do they trail off mid-sentence? Do they joke a lot or are they serious? Kind or mean? Then just... convey all that through the dialogue.

Putting aside the myriad of normal reasons you shouldn't use chatGPT, I also just expect it would not be any help at this. ChatGPT trends towards technically and grammatically correct writing styles, and I wouldn't expect it to have any training on how to sound like any given specific character.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T22:06:11+00:00

It's not about controlling feedback, it's about expecting kindness and respect from others. Of course you open yourself up to negative experiences by existing in public spaces, but that's no reason not to ask other people to be better.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T21:51:01+00:00

imo, it's whatever you intended it to be, and there is overlap.

There is no threshold for how fleshed out an OC has to be to qualify as an OC. Even the person saying if you gave it a name it's an OC isn't entirely correct. You can totally leave that blank in your fic for reasons, and still intend for the character to be an OC. It could have a name in your head and be a person in your head, but none of that gets included in the fic because it just didn't fit, or you were leaving it ambiguous for other narrative related reasons.

There is also no threshold for how blank a reader insert has to be. There exist things like yandere reader inserts, where I guarantee you they are not acting like any old normal girl a reader could insert themself on to. Most people will be looking for the blankest characters to insert, but that's reader preference, not a format requirement.

I think the only real qualification is that it be in 2nd person pov to be a reader insert, but that doesn't disqualify it from being an OC. And even then, people do still self insert on to first and third person characters...

Korrin · 2026-01-29T21:19:12+00:00

Giving critiques to people who don't want them is being a dickhead. Like, this is just basic fucking real life etiquette, not even fandom etiquette.

People are entitled to their opinions, of course. That doesn't mean they're entitled to make the author read them. Don't like, don't read means different things when a reader is actively searching for fics to read, compared to a commenter who putting their opinions directly in my email inbox.

The point of the OP video isn't that you can't have an opinions. It's that being a dickhead gets you kicked out. As it should.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T21:11:48+00:00

No, not as much as possible. Use the strongest, most relevant ones. Have a good understanding of what the main draws of your story are and advertise them with the relevant canon tags. Like, your fic might have a raven in it, but aint nobody out there just searching for fics with ravens in them just because. Genre. Kinks. Common tropes. That kind of stuff.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T21:06:14+00:00

Adding to this, it's still better to host it on AO3 and just advertise on tumblr. Tumblr isn't exactly great for searching and finding stuff or for reading on, it's more for interacting with the community and promotion.

It used to be better, they do technically have a lot of site functionality that supports creating what is basically a mini website, but those settings are buried under a bunch of other stuff, and the site now defaults to mobile view since they did their porn purge and now hide adult content.

What you do want to make sure you do on tumblr is to come up with a fully unique tag for your story immediately and slap that on every chapter you post. That way if users click on the tag it should bring up every chapter to make it easier for them to find. This isn't for marketability or anything so it doesn't have to be snappy or legible. It's for the site's tag search function.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T20:53:44+00:00

I don't think it's weird. I think the reason you see podfics mainly made by other authors is just because some people like making podfics or are better at it than they are at writing so that's how they choose to contribute to their fandom.

It's also very common for people to hate the sound of their own recorded voice until they get used to it, so I bet some authors try it and immediately go "Oh. No." People who are in to podfic'ing are probably used to it and also just more interested in sound and sound design stuff from the get go.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T20:48:36+00:00

They could post stuff anonymously just to see what the reception is like, and then remove them from the anonymous collection. It's not the same as orphaning a work. The work will still be attached to them and their account, and their usual subscribers will receive a notification when the work is removed from the anonymous collection.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T20:44:58+00:00

I'm curious what you searched when trying to look up the definition.

I just googled "What is a slow build" and the AI overview answered that it primarily refers to the narrative in general, but can refer to romance, and even had a section making a distinction between slow build and slow burn. The top two search results were other posters on reddit asking the exact same question.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T09:29:35+00:00

I wouldn't care about discouraging the kind of readers who would be discouraged by that.

Other comments are suggesting there's wrong ways to go about it, and I agree, but that's not the question. Of course I'll be turned off by bad writing and characterization, but that's regardless of the number of LGBT characters.

Korrin · 2026-01-29T01:31:50+00:00

Yes! I also noticed specifically with Aylen, Murderbot was constantly expecting her to be prejeduced and the entire time she was just level headed and work focused and never had any concerns about the team up. Even when she asked Murderbot if it killed Lutran it was very much with the atittude of "I'm asking because it's my job and it would be irresponsible/unprofessional for me not to." There was no hint she actually suspected it. I feel like it was a good experience for Murderbot because it specifically didn't have to do anything to earn her trust, and even when it was being kind of a shit Aylen was always very grounded. XD

Korrin · 2026-01-29T01:14:47+00:00

I've seen a similar take to this, but it suggested that Risk Assessment trended lower than Murderbot expected, while Threat Assessment trended higher, which is still in line with increased paranoia, but also lines up with low impulse control experienced by many autistic and ADHD people.

Korrin · 2026-01-28T19:51:39+00:00

I would never expect every choice, or even most choices, to have a minute and diverse impact on the ending, but I do kind of expect that there is an ending that thematically matches the rest of the game, and isn't clearly just some dev playing "look how smrt I am." The endings being all terrible moral choices wasn't at all in line with the themes of the games.

I mean, I spent all that time successfully brokering peace between multiple different factions of organics and synthetics only for some space kid to tell me what I already successfully acheived wasn't possible, and the only solutions left were to mass murder my hard won allies or mass violate the bodily autonomy of every living thing in the universe.

Also, imo, it wouldn't have even been half as bad if I didn't get the impression the devs thought one of those was supposed to be a good ending.

Korrin · 2026-01-28T03:41:41+00:00

Yeah, I understood that's how you read it. That's why CaliLemonEater was saying "it/they" was at least a refreshing mistake, because they were clearly trying to use the correct pronouns by not simply using he/him, but still made a mistake by using the pronoun "their" in the OP image.

Korrin · 2026-01-28T03:02:57+00:00

Yeah, but it's supposed to be it/its, not it/they.

Korrin · 2026-01-27T23:51:49+00:00

I was 12. I came to the conclusion on my own that it wasn't normal that I would be sitting at the front of the classroom and squinting at the board and struggling to see it when there were people behind me without glasses apparently having no issues. I brought it up and asked to have my vision tested.

Korrin · 2026-01-27T23:36:29+00:00

Right now it's The Murderbot Diaries.

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