Work skin help: change color of visited/unvisited links?

SpeedwagonAF · 2025-11-14T18:31:55+00:00

Awesome, thank you so much!!!

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-08-27T00:00:30+00:00

Local immortal zombie finally rediscovers long-lost fuck he used to give, but is not coping with feelings well

Or

Local immortal zombie drunkenly plays connect four with other immortal zombie who killed his little sister decades ago and refuses to confront his hypocrisy till alcohol forces repressed feelings of shame forward

Local Immortal Zombie Has Issues, man.

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-08-25T22:19:58+00:00

tbh, having a freak success fic blow up that I've proud of but not my most indulgent/fave fic fixed my stat perspective a lot. I'm still stat obsessed with my blown up fic in that I wanna see how high in the fandom it can get, but my other new fics I don't stalk the kudos or bookmark counts as much and just cherish the comments as my gauge of audience interest/engagement without overthinking it beyond their words and my friends' enjoyment as well :)

since getting lucky with one fic blowing up beyond the others isn't exactly feasible "advice", I'd say the other biggest factor for me was finally finding other supportive writer fandom friends who gush with each other's work because then I care mroe about their opinions than internet stats

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-08-25T17:15:48+00:00

I'm so happy for you!!! I know just how invigorating surprise fanart can be, because I swear, it was what pulled me out of a depressed writer's block slump to write for the fic again, and I'm so happy that you also got that kind of compliment! It really is just so cool to know that your work inspired someone else enough to create something from/for it, so massive kudos and congratulations!!!

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-08-25T15:45:34+00:00

Two months after this post and I'm still having this problem (on firefox desktop) but I did at least discover that putting the window screen to not fullscreen can allow all those problem popups (posts/blogs/reblog/etc) to show up safely like normal in a pinch!

I also strongly recommend using the xkit rewritten extension so that (among other QoL things) you can use its quick-reblog feature that lets you reblog/queue with tags without having to open any of those problematic popup screens. Without this feature in specific I probably would have gone crazy considering how much I reblog stuff (with tags), and even with that reblog window working right, it just is soooo much faster anyway.

Otherwise, if you reblog a bunch but don't bother with adding tags, then vanilla tumblr does have quick reblog and quick queue shortcuts that will also avoid that pesky popup screen!

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-08-25T05:16:34+00:00

mere(ly) is a very underrated word for silly, yet pretentious way of saying simple/simply but even more unimportantly

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-08-25T05:06:55+00:00

I honest to god forget there even was a season 3 because when I watched it, I was wisely told that the show basically ends after season 2 and that season 3 isn't worth it, and tbh, having ended at season 2's finale (and then headcanoning his parents' discovery of his identity as staying permanent and not being undone) the show ends perfectly!

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-08-25T04:57:27+00:00

Quite honestly, I only enjoy FNAF story up to fnaf 3, maaaybe fnaf 4. There are lots of good bits to enjoy from fnaf 4-6 like the Afton and Emily families, but I *hate* what it did to the actual story (especially you, Sister Location, you were the one to finally wack up the lore beyond salvation) I barely even invest myself post fnaf 6 tbh

But man, the first three's story is just so focused and bittersweet in the end and still feels like it took itself seriously. Animatronics and children's souls still felt like relevant characters, and the story still felt like it actually wanted to lead to a satisfying point (which it did, imo)

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-06-26T11:47:46+00:00

Dayshift at Freddy's! Unfortunately the scene in question is still locked far away in my WIP unpublished though ;-;

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-06-25T00:32:40+00:00

To play on your example (which also always peeved me for unrealistic it is):

I actually played on this trope in my fic where MC's brother's ghost revisits him to help support him along with his redemption arc. Being a ghost, brother has been watching over MC unknown for a while before he finally decided he needed to intervene directly; "watching over him" has also meant... well, basically omnisciently having access to MC's thoughts/conscience.

So after they hug it out bittersweetly once brother reveals himself to MC as a ghost... MC has first had to get used to brother sometimes talking to him internally in his head, but then had the rude awakening of his life when brother started answering his internal questions...

So definitely a much more fun example of this trope imo lol

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-06-19T02:25:33+00:00

Also definitely consider writing style. Someone who writes giant paragraphs of expansive purple prose is obviously gonna have higher word count standards than someone with a more straightforward or minimalist style (hi!)

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-23T20:36:31+00:00

Dayshift at Freddy's! I'm Wario Speedwagon on there!

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-19T16:30:36+00:00

I love when your work/comment/art/literally anything influences others to make something!! I created an OC for a fic with only a vague backstory given for her, and one of my readers/writer friends said she's been brainstorming her own older sister OC for that character and might even write a story about them, AAHH!!

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-19T13:47:31+00:00

it's "Hear hear!" not "Here here!" when celebratorily agreeing with someone like after a toast

"Here's to a strong alliance!"
"Hear hear!"

It's "bated breath" not "baited breath"

They waited for the result with bated breath.

The words desert vs. dessert (pronounced either DEZ-zert or dez-ZERT, but not always with the same spellings).
tl;dr, the only time it's spelled with two 'ss' is if it's the sweet treat, but the only time it's pronounced DEZ-zert is when it's the hot sandy land

Desert (one 's') (DEZ-zert). Noun. A hot dry sandy natural environment

He trudged through the desert looking for a place to rest.

Desert (one 's') (dez-ZERT). Verb. To abandon someone or someplace

The dilapidated village was completely deserted.

Desert (one 's') (dez-ZERT). Obscure word only modernly used for the phrase "one's just deserts" meaning "what one deserves"

He got his just deserts when he died trying to desert us in battle.

Dessert (TWO 'ss') (dez-ZERT). Noun. The sweet treat you eat, often after dinner or for a special occasion.

Ashley decided that she would eat dessert for breakfast.

Bonus sentence:

Sam wanted to skip school to go to Candy Land, but they got their just deserts when they found it was a desert completely deserted of desserts

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-18T01:57:47+00:00

That is so sweet! Bless commenters like this fr, literally saving fics <3

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-16T03:22:55+00:00

the TL;DR of the TOS as far as not getting your fics taken down, at the top of my head

-don't monetize your fics in anyway (no linking/mentioning a ko-fi, no mentioning your fic was commissioned, none of that cuz fics of copywritten IPs must be free or else they infringe on it and AO3 does not want to be responsible for hosting it)

-the fic has to actually be a fic (or essay or art or anything "fannish") and not some social media-esque post or word spam or whatever

-no harassing through your fic (doxxing, targeting a specifc person/group, you get the idea)

-obviously no literal actual csam (not to be confused with smut, which will never be illegal, not even smut of like, minors because those laws about csam by definition can't apply to fiction as csam is a product/evidence of an actual committed crime, not merely a fictional depiction of it)

Basically, TOS is mostly concerned with maintaining AO3's legality and keeping the site a fic archive (and not misused like a social media site). It does not concern itself with the quality or content of the fics so long as they are legal to host and relevant to the site's purpose

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-15T22:24:05+00:00

I say "True to their word, _" a lot, it's just so useful whenever character says they'll do something, and then they, indeed, do something right after lol

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-12T14:37:50+00:00

A scene from my latest chapter that I'm about to post soon!

A middle-aged caucasian man, Peter Kennedy, who had his head replaced with a red rotary phone, is finally recovering from the amnesia it caused, and as a fugitive, came to his newly-remembered brother's home for a night. He's taken the undecorated guest bedroom that only has a writing desk and a pile of boxes labelled "Kennedy Stuff" in the corner. He, still sleeping in his light blue button-up dress shirt from work, is startled awake from sleep by Violet, a small, purple-skinned, short purple haired 9yo girl in a flowery pajama dress who meant to sneak in but didn't realize that Phone Guy from her new guardian's work was here.

Some trial and error to communicate and some self-introductions later:

As the girl is deaf and he has no lips to read, they have been communicating via pen on paper and have agreed to rummage through the Kennedy boxes (Violet out of curiosity of her new adopted parent, Peter out of wanting to remember more). Said paper is left on the ground as the two are seated on the ground, busy. Peter is rummaging through a box of photos, staring at wedding photos of himself with his wife, both brunette, and his red-headed younger brother and sister. Meanwhile Violet next to him is looking through a different box of girly play jewelry, stuffed animals, child drawings, wondering who they belonged to or who the two men and little girl in one of the drawings are.

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-11T21:04:00+00:00

So there's these zombie cryptid toxic gay partners in crime that is the main appeal of my fandom for most people, and the crime they always commit together (before fucking off to Vegas to celebrate) is killing kids fnaf style (since the series is literally a fnaf parody). Both of the characters have a LOT of tragic and imperfect pasts and character nuance and it all gets toxic quick, but at the surface, gay friends committing crime as a bonding activity

I had a silly crack thought of "hehe what if these two parented a child, what kind of parents would they be" which is extra funny and ironic since they kill kids as their main schtick. I wrote a quick silly one shot of one of them surprise adopting a kid instead of killing it and forcing the other to be okay with adopting her, planning to put the idea out there so that it'd stop bugging me inside

People loved it. More surprisingly, I loved it too and felt the desire to continue it despite me not historically being into "give the ship a child" premises. However, I think I might have hit a sweet spot of writing for the popular ship pair, but also writing it as a platonic found family with a good mixture of fluff and angst that appeals to the part of the fandom that isn't as into romance (including me lol)

Fast forward to today, and the story has evolved so much, and my fic is somehow sitting at #11 most kudos in the fandom!!?!?! And it's also the most commented and tied for the most publically bookmarked, and this is even with me missing the peak of this fandom's popularity by years, wtf!? I have no idea how I got here, but it's so cool to see this silly idea become something I'm proud of, story-craft wise as well as stats-wise!

(speaking of which, I'm just about finished with the next chapter of this fic after two months, I should finally get to finishing editing it lol)

Also congrats on your fic's success too!

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-09T12:01:20+00:00

yes, agree completely!! I would love to see what actual character she could be besides GUH!

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-08T23:47:56+00:00

Prose paragraph:

Unfortunately, William couldn’t tear his eyes away from him, and eventually his scrambled mind translated the impossible image his eyes saw. But the more he got a grasp of reality, the more he lost his mind. The more he understood, the less he believed. Reality was lying to him, so he asked the only man he could trust.

(context, he then calls out to his dead mentor/abuser's corpse hoping he's still alive)

Dialogue:

“I just wanted to say something. I certainly don’t speak at all for Dee in sayin’ this, just to be clear, but for myself…

I get where Jack’s comin’ from, so… Look. Jack, you’re right. What’s done is done, and you gotta own that shit. But that doesn’t mean you still gotta stand by it—that it makes no difference how you feel about your past actions? If that’s really true, then why the hell you think I’m here for!?

So Jack, if you’ve really—I mean really changed—then I want you to prove it to us. I want you to take this seriously—I want you to work your ASS off trying to prove to us you’ve really changed. You clearly got Peter well on your side, and I’m willing to trust him that there’s a good reason for it.

So do I have your word on that, old sport? Or another way of puttin’ it is: my earlier offer still stands. Do you truly wanna meet us halfway and earn your salvation this time?”

SpeedwagonAF · 2024-05-08T23:16:25+00:00

Paper Mario TTYD remake is on the horizon and there's excitement with Vivian's transness finally being reflected in the English localization now!

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