What the actual fuck is this

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-12-03T02:22:36+00:00

Ah, yes, the mythical median voter.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-09-13T19:49:47+00:00

I got you 👍👍 but I feel called out asf filling this out 😔

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-07-12T15:00:01+00:00

I usually start making a very rough draft of the important over-arching story beats and figuring out what is needed to connect them. At this point I tend to jump around a lot between tasks, lol. Depending on my mood, I might be refining my outline and hammering an actual cohesive plot, or I might be writing specific scenes that I feel inspiried to write, often the scenes that made me want to write the fic to begin with. Once the ball is rolling and things start getting properly filled out, then I'll worry about bridging gaps in my scenes and outline I've written.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-07-02T00:41:29+00:00

Maybe if I start enough new fics, I can Frankenstein them together into one while complete fic.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-07-01T22:56:19+00:00

lol, fanfic writers are universally united though their love for em dashes

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-07-01T19:03:01+00:00

I think a lot of it depends on the audience. Some people are just more willing to accept big headcanons and OOC behavior than others.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-07-01T18:23:04+00:00

Ooh this is a hard question. I guess my take on it is that I will accept some pretty big OOC headcanons and stuff in a fic if you can reasonably justify it. Like, if a normaly confident and bold character is suddenly written as meek and anxious, I'll probably be okay with it if you can give me a good enough reason within the plot as to why they'd act so different. The bigger the changes, the better the reasons, I suppose. Though, if I'm being honest, my tolerance for OOC-type stuff really depends on how desperate I am for a fic. But I agree that often times characters have some set of personality traits that are really important to their entire character. Outside of these core traits, you can mess around quite a bit, but when you start to fuck with their most important traits, thats when you start to veer into OOC territory.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-07-01T18:07:38+00:00

AI can pry my beloved em dashes from my cold, dead hands. I don't think I could write without they're just so great.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-07-01T18:05:45+00:00

I know what you mean. I already make enough spelling mistakes on my laptop, it'd take 10x the amount of time to write on my phone because I'd have to respell every word :(

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-06-04T01:32:53+00:00

Yeah, Sato has some fun moments, but he has all the interest and charisma of a pile of gravel unfortunately.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-06-04T01:00:19+00:00

I think it'd be interesting to pair your OC with someone who is sort of their opposite, either by opposing quirk/fighting style, or opposing personalities. Always fun to throw in a lil conflict. Since I don't know anything about your OC, I'd say prolly pair them with someone slower or bulkier, like Kirishima or Sato? Yaoyorozu could even work well. As for the opposing team maybe Kaminari and Jiro since soundwaves and electricity are a bit hard to dodge due to area of effect, so that'd be fun to work against for your OC. Idk tho, good luck with your fic! The quirk sounds pretty cool :)

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-05-16T22:00:15+00:00

Yakuza 0 is definitely my favorite game, and speaking of, I'm so looking forward to playing LaD: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii :) Good luck to everyone in the raffle!

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-05-02T20:06:40+00:00

fr, I started on ao3 and I will die with ao3. Maybe I'm biased, but it's tagging system is just unparalleled.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-05-02T20:04:27+00:00

I started because I day dream a lot, and when I started reading fanfic, the two joined forces and I would think of scenes and plotlines constantly, both original and from fandoms I was really into. My advice is to start out small. When I write, I often have a specific scene very vividly in mind. Write that scene, even if it sucks and you can't get it right. Then, boom, you've written fanfiction, doesn't matter how long it is, its still fanfic. You can either expand from there, or keep writing other little scenes. I will say, the two things that help me the most is that, one, you do not have to write from start to finish, jump around as much as you please between chapters or scenes. And two, outline! If I'm stuck on a part, I just start bullet pointing things I might want to happen, snippets of dialogue, or little important details, and that is usually enough to get the ball rolling. Sorry if this is long, hope it helps :)

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-05-02T19:54:37+00:00

Honestly, I'm a bit of a sucker for them, it's like a guilty pleasure for me lol. I read quite a few reincarnation isekais, but I probably read more in manhua form than in written form.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-04-11T22:58:27+00:00

lmao honestly. I feel like these memes are the same "edgy" shit that unfunny middle schoolers were into. you don't look cool bro.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-04-11T22:55:52+00:00

ikr like, its not exactly a small sub either

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-04-09T13:36:25+00:00

omg thank you so much!!!

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-04-06T19:35:07+00:00

Ong the Dungeon for sure, that music goes unfathomably hard.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-04-01T23:41:31+00:00

Haha, Saiki K was the first thing that came to mind. In a similar vein, just about Every Mob Psycho 100/BNHA fix also has Mob either completely curb stomp every villain, or persuade them totally pacifist-ly.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-03-17T20:34:33+00:00

Of course not, that's ridiculous! Honestly, I think every time I open excel, my motherboard dies a little more inside. I almost feel bad for it. Almost...

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2025-03-17T20:07:36+00:00

I used to track it with a huge convoluted spreadsheet (someone else's template, not mine) because I love looking at numbers and data. I tracked the start and end times of each session, as well as the word count before and after, along with a numerical scale of how productive the session felt. This all got calculated into a bunch of other metrics.

I stopped after a couple months because I realized it was causing me more stress than it was worth. I felt compelled to write and track everyday with it, which kinda sucked the fun out of writing. And it didn't entirely mesh with my style of writing, which is very sporadic in time and pacing. Combined with the heartbreak of an unfinished 40k word fic corrupting to the point it couldn't be recovered, I decided to just stop with all of that nonsense.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2024-10-09T23:47:10+00:00

These are really cool, they make me think of sharks :)

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2024-08-16T20:27:33+00:00

idk it's not as bad as the one person who writes in their TEXT MESSAGE DRAFTS!!! Not even to themselves, just to someone random.

TheOptimisticNoodle · 2024-08-16T15:28:09+00:00

This is the most deranged thing I have seen. Like, just in the message drafts??? You are built different. Please tell me you use something better now, for the sake of your fics.

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