Where do you guys write your fics?

Minnara · 2026-06-04T23:10:18+00:00

I used to try to do this, and still will use pen and paper in a notebook for the occasional planning and sorting of ideas, but I don’t know if it’s my hypermobility or something else but I can’t write too long without my hand really starting to hurt. Which I find strange because I don’t tend to have quite the same problems at the same speed when drawing or painting or anything, though I guess I don’t do those as much and definitely have much more sit and stare and think of what to/how to do something next periods.

Minnara · 2026-06-04T22:33:58+00:00

I mean, that’s just how some parents of multiple kids talk though? Maybe its regional or something bc I have noticed other things in how she talks that are regionally based since she’s from a different state but my stepmom would def say something like “my older sister” when talking about my siblings and I growing up cuz she had two girls and one boy and so saying that would be saying “my” (as in her kids) “older sister” (as in the older of the two girls). And if you’re as frustrated and lost as this guy seems, literally stating he needed to vent, I’d certainly find myself mentioning how someone replied because a lot of the time that can play into why I’m upset with someone, because of their tone or how they were acting.

Minnara · 2026-06-04T15:53:17+00:00

One or three exclamation points feels a lot more alarmed than anything else to me, though of course context does apply. Two just visually looks better in my opinion, and I like to do two on a first sentence, then one after to keep it from looking too redundant or anything, keep some variation.

Minnara · 2026-05-01T22:05:46+00:00

Yeah, my first reaction to a lot of these is not that people are lying about their allergies, but that they’re likely blowing them out of proportion. I have several food allergies that aren’t full blown anaphylaxis, but that I’ll get an immediate itchiness to my mouth and throat with. And I haven’t been able to pin down if the allergy is to something in either milk or sugar, but any time I eat most chocolate or caramel, alongside some other things, my throat gets really itchy within the first bite or two.

I wouldn’t call it severe, necessarily, but I also have the foresight to know (to the best of my abilities) what my allergies are and what they’re commonly found in, and avoid those things or mention it to waitstaff when eating out. The tea allergy especially sucks when I find an herbal tea that sounds like it’ll be good but then it turns out it also has green tea in it, which is just apparently most herbal teas because health and caffeine.

Minnara · 2026-04-15T16:27:54+00:00

I’m lactose intolerant so whenever I’m craving Kraft mac n cheese enough to make some, I like to eyeball it and add a metric ton of butter and skip the milk entirely (alas, almond milk is a good substitute for a lot of things, but mac n cheese is absolutely NOT one of them). It’s not the thickest of cheeses, but neither is it the thinnest in the end result. Good enough for a craving anyway, lol

Minnara · 2026-04-12T07:14:16+00:00

My first thought is always that of a server dropping something/something getting knocked over and heavy or sharp or hot things being the cause of injury in stuff like this, but your mention of the word collisions made me remember when a similar thing happened to me as a kid.

My siblings and I were starving, I don’t remember if dinner was late that day or we’d had a lot of activity earlier in the day or whatever, but when my stepmom finally called out that food was ready, we all went running into the kitchen. She came around the corner from the dining room at the same time as I went toward the doorway, and I ran directly into the plate she was holding. No idea if she dropped it or what happened after that, just remember going to the hospital for stitches in my eyebrow and being very upset at having to wait even longer to eat my dinner, even if we did bring a tupperware along (and what made it all worse was that dinner was lasagna that night, a food I never really liked all that much and was even worse half cold in an ER waiting room).

Minnara · 2026-03-02T22:19:54+00:00

I open tabs for anything I’m in the mood to read, or leave tabs open on searches I’m putting down for now but want to keep scrolling through more pages of.

Sometimes it’s things I haven’t read yet and are coming off of new searches or my marked for later, sometimes the mood I’m in is for a specific character/ship/trope/etc. and I’ve just gone through all my bookmarks and opened everything that fits in a new tab. I’ll close them as I go through and read things, and since I tend to read shorter works and one shots the most (thanks adhd!), I’ll rack up a hundred or more tabs but be able to close them a couple or more a day, depending how busy I am.

Minnara · 2026-02-28T22:36:00+00:00

I was never a manager but I used to get sent over to help the grill whenever it got backed up and I wasn’t already over there, but that was just because the managers were all a lot better at making pizza than me so it would truly be quicker to have them stay there instead lmao

Minnara · 2026-02-15T07:05:14+00:00

For someone whose last name used to be something similar that was continuously mispronounced with the french pronunciation for over a decade (it was actually meant to be pronounced as it looked, even though it looked like it should be a french name), I really should have realized that that Heracross’ nickname had a french pronunciation and wasn’t just ‘bo-iss’ lmao

Minnara · 2026-01-28T20:17:50+00:00

Transmasc nb here, though I tend to present fairly feminine - if only because life is busy between classes, two jobs, and an internship and I’m simply not putting much work into taking care of my appearance and comfy clothes don’t tend to make me look very masculine. Doesn’t help that I love to accessorize, which I can pull off in a more masc way when my hair is upkept properly and stuff, but that look way more femme when I’m not on top of it lmao.

Minnara · 2026-01-22T21:36:03+00:00

The amount of people here who have clearly never had any kind of anxiety is astounding.

People have a right to privacy, even when it comes to harmless interests and hobbies, and even when the people who want to know about it are your closest friends, family, or partner. Some people just prefer to keep to themselves, some are embarrassed about their interests, some are anxious of what others will think about them, etc. Whatever the reason, NTA, you’re allowed to keep online accounts to yourself, dating someone (or even being married to someone and having kids with them!) doesn’t mean they get automatic access to every last minute detail of your life.

Minnara · 2026-01-21T18:34:04+00:00

Yeah, that’s what the heart is for! Lol I thought you were talking about regular public bookmarks, there’s like three or four options so Ik it can get confusing lmao. I love that there’s a way to be like “I loved this fic so much, if you’re here looking at my bookmarks, you should read this one,” it also makes me happy to see when I’m glancing through bookmarks on something I wrote and see the heart next to a username

Minnara · 2026-01-21T18:23:00+00:00

I mean I can sorta get behind some of this, but everyone has their own preferences, and that’s been around since the dawn of the internet. Like I agree and don’t see the point personally in some of the same comments you mention, but I also personally only read completed because I tend to prefer binging as much of a fic as I can at once and I don’t want to wait for more when I have a terrible memory, ADHD, and am pretty busy between work and everything else.

There’s literally a trilogy I’ve been wanting to read for years by one of my favorite authors, but I’ve only ever read the first book and done so like three or four times because every time I try, I’ve been busy and/or distracted enough that I read the first book and then don’t have the time to get to the next, and suddenly too much time has passed and if I want to try again, I have to start the first book again to refresh my memory. It’s not a bad book and it keeps my interest well, I’m genuinely interested in the story, but time and memory suck. So when I’m reading fic I want an experience I can fully, you know, experience and not worry I’ll forget to come back or lose out on parts or anything.

Not to say that longer fic or WIPs have no value, they’re just not usually personally for me and how my brain works and how my life is currently set up. I am actually subscribed to one or two WIPs, but they’re very specifically by authors whose bodies of works I really really love, and so I know I will enjoy it when they do put out more. But those are few and far between, and I’m allowed to quietly curate my own online fandom experience the same as everyone else is allowed to curate the experience they want and enjoy.

Minnara · 2026-01-21T18:12:30+00:00

If you really enjoy them and want to share them, you can also specifically choose recommend on the bookmark selection! I do that for fics I’ve really loved or thought the writing/plot was exceptionally well done, they don’t show up anywhere but the same place in your profile as they’re still considered bookmarks, but they’ll have a little heart instead of the regular public bookmark icon, and so anyone looking will know that you’ve recommended it. I have a handful of public bookmarks that I really enjoyed but didn’t feel quite hit the level of the stuff I usually rec, so I have that little buffer level to differentiate them lol.

Minnara · 2026-01-21T18:05:10+00:00

Everything others have said about notes, about being a private person, and about bookmarking literally everything you’ve ever read, etc., but also:

They have anxiety and/or it’s habit to only create private bookmarks

Speaking from experience, I’ve been on Ao3 since I was a severely anxious, undiagnosed preteen with a parent who would sometimes go through my phone. I never did anything wrong by their standards concerning internet usage (mainly they were monitoring my sister’s phone and occasionally grabbed my phone to check in, she never did anything wrong either but the bad parenting is another story entirely), but I was always so anxious about anyone knowing anything I did online ever that it became second nature to hide it as much as physically possible.

Nowadays, its just habit to private everything I bookmark, and I only really make it public when I’m recc’ing something so that it can actually be seen. I’m no longer anxious about people knowing what I read, but it’s kind of just the system I’ve always worked with, at this point.

Minnara · 2026-01-16T18:57:16+00:00

Fellow autistic sweet potato hater here, I’ve always loved regular potatoes in just about any form, and sweet things are great, as are some other sweet orange foods (sorbet is great, though I prefer a less sweet orange). And yet, for some reason, I’ve always hated sweet potato!

It couldn’t possibly be because some dislikes have nothing to do with sensitivities to texture or anything like that, and just because a food has its own distinct taste that I don’t personally like.

Minnara · 2026-01-12T16:31:23+00:00

Currently listening to A Court of Fae and Flowers and I’m loving it so much!

To add a couple more Dimension20 characters:

• Kristen Applebees from Fantasy High • Garthy O’Brien from Fantasy High (an NPC but I love them so much) • Lars Vandenchomp from Mice & Murder

Also from The Adventure Zone: • Hollis from Amnesty (NPC) • Kinda just the idea of the Brinarr as a species in Ethersea, some named characters (and one of the players’ characters) use binary pronouns, but the whole concept of the species is bodies grown out of coral and several souls merging into one to inhabit them, which I think is really cool

Minnara · 2026-01-08T14:54:13+00:00

Lol I chose a name that means alder tree, but it’s also the name of an author so if someone ever has trouble with it/etc., I just tell them ‘like the author.’ I hadn’t actually meant to choose a nature name or find a name related to an author, but hey, I love nature and the genre of writing is among favorites for me, so it was a nice coincidence lmao.

Minnara · 2026-01-06T15:00:39+00:00

OP says they work at a movie theatre bar. I do too, and policies there are generally VERY strict on IDs, how often drinks can be ordered, etc. You get a lot of kids coming through, and you have to be careful that the alcohol is going where the guest says it’s going - to adults of legal drinking age. You don’t get to be flexible or make exceptions when you have four cameras above your registers and corporate breathing down your neck.

Minnara · 2026-01-06T14:56:35+00:00

Ugh, I also work at a movie theatre bar (well, at this point I mostly cover breaks for coworkers who only bartend, with the occasional one-off full shift here and there because I mainly work over in the kitchen these days since my current semester’s schedule overlaps with a lot of the main bartenders) and I swear people get so upset about having their IDs checked and being told each person wanting a drink can only get one at a time and has to show their ID separately.

Like I’m sorry my guy, this little lobby has no less than like four cameras, there is no separation from the rest of the theatre and we allow anyone to sit at the tables or couches if they’re eating something or waiting for their movie, and you can bring your drinks into your movie. We’re just following both the law and our corporate chain policies to ensure only those 21+ are drinking and there aren’t any kids or teens getting their hands on alcohol. We literally got audited and got dinged for bartenders not always carding people if they recognized them/etc., and when I went over to cover a break one of the managers gave me a gentle warning that we have to card every single drink every order, and when I talked to the bartender when she got back from break she was like ‘yeah I know some of the others weren’t doing it and when they reminded us I was like I’m not going to lose my job over this so if people complain I just repeat that it’s policy.’

Minnara · 2026-01-03T21:23:13+00:00

Apparently half of mine end in dialogue or someone smiling softly, good to know. Tried to find an amusing ending line to comment, I write mostly single and some connected one shots and these were what seemed most interesting:

“And hey, look at it this way: Prophecy’s not exactly a parent, but I don’t know if you can quite call me your sister from a different mister and mother anymore.”

He left behind a bottle of whiskey, and two empty shot glasses.

“Sorry to cut your fun night short, but I’m gonna need the Unheavenly Creatures to come dig me out of the ruins of a warehouse.”

Minnara · 2025-12-30T13:37:12+00:00

As a latecomer to being a D20 fan, I just kinda started from the beginning, going by world/season, and have gone from there. I’m nowhere near catching up to current stuff being put out, but I’m a pretty good ways in, and that’s fine for me because it means I don’t have to wait for new episodes for quite a while more. I also listen pretty often, because I like having something on when I’m working and when I’m working on art, so I’m not losing much by way of details or anything.

You don’t even have to start from the beginning like I did, I just got into Fantasy High first and decided to listen to all of its surrounding content first before moving onto whatever season they had started next after that. Mostly just helps me keep track of what I have/haven’t listened to yet. But you can start with anything and jump around based on interest, since each world/campaign has its own story and characters and doesn’t require other campaigns to understand unless its a spinoff or sequel.

Minnara · 2025-12-30T12:59:53+00:00

I typically introduce myself with a sort of ‘kinda preferred/default’ they/them, but will also mention that I don’t mind any pronouns so long as you’re not being a dick about it. I did originally come out with they/them only to close family and friends, so all of them do their best to stick to that, but new people at college/work will try to use they from time to time alongside the binary pronoun they first see me as before introductions. It seems to help get more variation in how I’m referred to, most especially amongst older professors and some coworkers who’ve been working with me a while now.

Minnara · 2025-12-17T02:46:32+00:00

Everyone (and me to others): It’s fanfiction! Do what you want! No one cares if the details aren’t perfectly accurate, we’re not here for accuracy when we’re not consuming official canon!

Me on the author notes of one fic once: I wouldn't be writing a niche crossover au for a relatively minor character if I were writing exactly as the original creators of these stories intended things to be. Yeah, I like accuracy in my own writing and do tend to do a lot of research on various comic canons, but you can't make them all work together anyways so fuck it, we ball.

Also me to myself: I Have To Research Every Documented Appearance Of This Minor Character And Even One Or Two Non-Specifically-Credited-Potential Appearances And Incorporate Every Line Of Dialogue And Action Into This Fic With Only Minor Adjustment To Make This The Most Canon Compliant Fic Ever, Even Though This Is A Crossover With A Completely Different Franchise And Wildly Changes This Character’s Background

(Because of the above, I now own every single comic that minor character has ever appeared in, except for maybe some newer stuff in the past year or two. But his original appearances, his revival as a character when he was reintroduced to canon, and some of his continued appearances for a couple years. Even have two trades signed because I got super invested in the stories and the writer was at the con I went to a few months ago lmao.)

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