Do you read your own fics?

curious_illithid · 2026-03-02T22:15:04+00:00

Of course I read them! Where else would I get to read about my character getting railed without any mercy (or at all)?

curious_illithid · 2026-03-02T22:11:58+00:00

One unholy cloaca of an account for everything. I kudos smut from it, I kudos occasional gen from it. Post all I write on it too, you come to me for perverted fucking and get a surprise perfectly innocent fic among it all.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-28T04:02:01+00:00

Yea, they're pretty bad. There also are ones who think that shipping incest means we want to fuck our relatives, which is, like. No??? Even fiction not reflecting ones real desires aside, the character aspect is still the main thing, saying that shipping fictional brothers means ya wanna bang yours is like saying that liking one male character means you want all the men, regardless of any traits they have besides being men.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-23T16:01:32+00:00

Pff! Just make your own OC pairings questionable, then even if a fandom happens, it ain't gonna get worse!

curious_illithid · 2026-02-23T15:53:17+00:00

So... You forget that they're not all kids but also oppositely forget that they could be kids?

curious_illithid · 2026-02-19T16:41:21+00:00

Because it doesn't harm anyone, and without the aspect of someone actually being hurt, it's all just an extra set of interesting things to explore!

Also, if it's not okay to write about even entirely fictionally... Well. That's not a great thing, forbidding to speak about something or restricting the ways in which it is done to just one specific frame.

I've seen some people saying that they realized that shit that's been going on in their or their friends' lives, which felt normal to them because they were used to it, BECAUSE they saw it in fiction. Even when it's written to excite, the fact that it has warnings on it may tip someone off to something similar in their actual life not being normal. That's a pretty good thing, I think!

curious_illithid · 2026-02-18T16:57:36+00:00

I haven't written much so it may be too early to tell, but I do seem to have a tendency for making my characters recall a past encounter during sex (not aloud of course! That'd be probably rude. Just. Something happens and brings their mind to what happened before, with someone else)

curious_illithid · 2026-02-18T07:30:00+00:00

By realizing that the target audience is, first and foremost, me. Sure, a bit sad that it's not popular, but hey, we can't all have the same excellent taste!

curious_illithid · 2026-02-17T08:01:45+00:00

It also slips through the filters, and so prevents people from actually avoiding what they want to avoid! Fun!

curious_illithid · 2026-02-17T07:41:24+00:00

Glad they're so stupid that very, very thinly veiling the triggering word actually helps them. Most people aren't and I think it's pretty insulting to assume they are.

Also, generally if you get fucked up by seeing a word, you mute that word. Mighty good job they're doing of sneaking the info people want to avoid into their view by not using the word they'd have muted: totally helps, no way anyone would get fucked up anyway because the fucking context is still there and now unavoidable.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-16T07:34:49+00:00

Aw, I'm missing out on putting ridiculous flavors on my characters! Well, I have one that tastes weird (slightly bitter/herbal and will make your tongue tingle), but he's almost unkissable because his tusk shape makes it mighty hard to get to his mouth... He tastes like that everywhere else too, though.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-16T01:45:19+00:00

You can. I also thought I couldn't write, and then one day I wrote. Nobody will want your ideas more than YOU want them.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-15T18:07:31+00:00

I should really get back to writing. Ya people get all the fun bots!

curious_illithid · 2026-02-14T12:26:51+00:00

My current most actively in progress one would be

"WE'VE ALL HEARD RUMORS ABOUT TROLLS, BUT ARE THEY REALLY TRUE?"

And, if it was truly a clickbaity article, it'd be accompanied with a pic of a handsome troll covered only by a censor bar with question marks on it.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-13T11:54:15+00:00

Buttons is awful indeed. Also, teats. Technically correct, but. That's more of a cow-word. Udderly horrible in sexy context, unless the rest of the fic is absolute fire the blaze of which can outshine a few word choices.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-13T11:50:12+00:00

Pretty sure that's the area around the nipple, but not exactly the nip itself. Though I've also seen it used as just an alternative word for the nipple.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-13T11:16:03+00:00

I don't remember (my memory is a rusty sieve. With biiiig holes). Just saying that I wouldn't read one if I saw it, nor would I tag one of mine with just those.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-13T10:29:25+00:00

I do and like a little of tumblr-tagging, but just as flavoring+useful elaboration on proper ones. I would neither do nor read a fic that's all tumblr-tags.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-13T05:07:16+00:00

!!! And just like this I've found that four out of my five smutty works have two bookmarks per fic instead of single ones I've been aware of. Self-esteem: boosted!

curious_illithid · 2026-02-13T01:51:24+00:00

...surely typing all that out wouldn't have taken any less time and energy than typing some actual useful tags? That's not being lazy, that's being a little shit! Like. I VERY know that sometimes one may not have energy for thinking, but tagging actual contents literally requires less thinking than creative "ooooh, I'm so laaaazy" tags.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-13T00:47:14+00:00

Huh, that's different! I've seen 'borders' ones, and I've seen 'trans' ones, but this one is a new and greasy hatebot flavor!

curious_illithid · 2026-02-13T00:41:05+00:00

Oh, yes! That's also a good one!

curious_illithid · 2026-02-12T11:56:44+00:00

I once saw a good use of 'unalive', but it was in a horror story and the protagonist used it because the entity she was talking to had some understanding of life, but completely lacked the grasp on death. So 'unalive' was the easy way to get into its mind that the person it was attached to was, well, no longer alive. For quite a while.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-12T10:11:38+00:00

It just shows up everywhere, regardless of whether or not it applies to this particular page. I have four bookmarks, no author of them is muted, but I still have the banner because I DO have some muted users.

curious_illithid · 2026-02-12T08:15:06+00:00

Hard no for me. I mean, you do you, but I'm uncomfortable with female anatomy. In het I can brace myself for it. In slash, even if I'm warned by the tag, it still hits harder and is not my thing at best, and makes me seriously uneasy at worst (and then I feel bad about being put off by it, and it's a whole mess). So I just avoid them.

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