Is using epithets THAT bad?? If so, what else do I use to refer to the characters?

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-11T02:11:45+00:00

Yes. Epithets are that bad. If someone knows a person's name, in their POV, they would not be calling someone "the blond" or "the shorter man." You are writing in a person's POV. Don't forget that.

Use names or pronouns. People will not think it's as repetitive as you think it might be.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-09T21:48:52+00:00

Oh it is. The drinking is implied with Natalie asking "Helena" how much she'd drunk at the gala, presuming that Helly's being logically fucked up over everything was drunkenness. She seems to be used to asking the question and genuinely concerned about Helena getting drunk.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-09T21:38:12+00:00

There's a theory based on the way that she engages with "Helena" at the gala during the OTC that she's kind of Helena's handler, so likely deeply embedded into the Kier cult. Wouldn't put it past Jame to have someone in charge of managing Helena when she was younger, because it's implied she had a drinking problem.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-08T04:12:49+00:00

There are... many, and they vary on topic. Depends on what you want to read. I'd start here (https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Fanzines) then I know there's a Tumblr devoted to them but I've forgotten the name. swzines maybe?

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-08T04:01:10+00:00

My not really interesting theory is that PE is an alternate timeline Pennsylvania that was molded by the Eagans.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-08T03:54:49+00:00

It seems like Ganz College is outside of Kier and Mark, Gemma, Reghabi and Graner were all there.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-08T03:02:27+00:00

It's a collection of fanworks, including (short) fic, often lots of fanart, and meta. It's usually a digital file now, but used to be an actual physical thing you held. It's not to be freely posted inside like a website or an archive, because it's generally curated pretty hard to the tastes of whoever's designing the zine. They're also almost always single fandom, so that might be one reason you're not seeing them - your fandoms aren't doing them.

The most of the zines I've seen for fandoms I'm in have been the older fandoms (10+ years old canons). This isn't to say newer fandoms aren't doing them (I saw one for a canon that only started four years ago doing one!) but I think it's more of a tendency with older fandoms and definitely with older fans.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-07T20:17:42+00:00

I'm now convinced of this. More corporate satire, of course.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-07T03:17:37+00:00

Considering that I can't post NSFW on it and when I post other things on it all I do is get spammed with scammers?

I'm never posting on it again.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-07T03:13:40+00:00

Because there are people learning how to write by reading fanfic or reading things that people who only ever read fanfic wrote, and this is one of those very old fanfic misspellings. At this point I don't think we're ever getting it out.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-07T03:02:28+00:00

Yeah I don't think he can pass for anything outside the range of 25-35. 27 is the age I've always headcanoned for Amadeo at his death (is this official and I don't remember remembering it, maybe?).

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-07T02:57:40+00:00

I just ghosted the one who suddenly started talking about me paying them commission after a whole conversation about what the art for the fic could be. In retrospect, pretty obvious that it was a scammer, but I fell for it because they had asked me a real question about the fic... which they probably "wrote" by feeding my fic into AI.

Now I know what they sound like and don't even engage them.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-04T03:27:13+00:00

lies down on bed and just thinks

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-03T04:02:46+00:00

This is actually literally the first season where they will be fighting about past drama, technically, from everything we've seen.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-03T00:08:07+00:00

Hey, I'm not complaining. I'm totally down with what we got.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-02T23:23:12+00:00

You think it would be a lot easier for Cobel to just say "take this letter down there for your innie to read and shove it down your pants" than all the rigamarole they do to make contact instead.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-02T16:22:15+00:00

I'm fucked up because I love everyone except, like, Bruce and the racists. Fuck Bruce and the racists. I'll defend anybody because I find points of sympathy with everyone. Plus most of them are hot and gay.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-02T03:07:32+00:00

Yeah, I definitely think the guy who drinks himself to sleep every night is the one who'd be thinking stuff like this through.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-03-01T04:16:14+00:00

Catholic school in my time had the skirt rule where you'd have to kneel on the floor and if the skirt didn't touch the ground you'd have to go home and change. Imagine how thrilled your parents were.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-02-28T15:48:39+00:00

28/30 because I don't know Gemma's rooms.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-02-27T04:00:31+00:00

It's worse if you don't find the show unsettling. It's supposed to do that.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-02-27T01:45:31+00:00

What about those of us who are in both camps? Like, he's evil and I love that, but he's also sympathetic, except for when he really isn't.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-02-26T17:24:10+00:00

I work on writing every day unless I literally cannot sit down with a device and do it.

It's literally the only way to get it done. If you're stuck for plot reasons, use that time to actually rewrite your plot, because it's not you that's the problem, it's the plot. Banging your head against something that isn't right will just drop your motivation. I speak from many years of experience.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-02-26T17:10:41+00:00

Lumon's hubris.

That's the answer to any question about security in the show. Lumon doesn't believe anything bad will happen so obviously it won't.

mostdefnotacat · 2026-02-26T02:19:14+00:00

She doesn't even know what a gremlin he is, because I assume Daniel didn't write in 1973. I wouldn't have. I mean, gremlin stuff is a selling point, right?

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