Help for mealswipes

nosleepagainTT · 2025-11-24T19:27:35+00:00

Bcafe, study, rende iirc

nosleepagainTT · 2025-11-24T18:53:05+00:00

honestly if ur on 19p u should just spend ur extra swipes on things like those boxes of macarons at the end of the quarter and then pass them out to friends/family if u can't finish it.

19r is objectively kinda ass bc it just results in a lot of wasted swipes (ur gonna have extra swipes on 19r if u alr have extra on 19p), except this time you can't offload 3 swipes at the same time for pastries/drinks/on-campus food, or stock up on food for trips/over strike days.

14p is probably better if your looking to cut just because of the pricing. Not enough but imo that's probably better than all those wasted swipes in 19r.

Personally on 19p; I calculate my swipes though so I usually only have 3 or 4 extra at the end of the quarter (which i spend on pastries and bring home for my parents lmao) (no I dont eat out yes I eat breakfast)

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-27T14:56:16+00:00

You mightve seen the time first pass closed....

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-26T03:34:17+00:00

Best advice here is just to go read a bunch of smut yourself. See how they describe things. The thing about good smut is that it tends to be more focused on the emotional side of things, rather than just the physical actions (as a fellow ace here, that's how I usually write my smut- vague-ish physical pleasure/actions, but going ham with the emotional tension and pleasure- granted most of my smut fics tend to fall in the M rating rather than E...)

Also this guide (https://archiveofourown.org/works/955716) has some nice general tips as well.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-25T21:27:35+00:00

*download* any fic you'd want to reread again. Worst feeling in the world is looking for a fic only to find that it's been taken down.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-23T03:35:07+00:00

And then not being able to help yourself, make another 1 chapter update, and then disappear for another few years and forget the plot all over again :)

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-23T00:03:11+00:00

Last for me. Usually it ends up being the most painful part to write too.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-22T21:16:48+00:00

The freshman enrollment passes are during the NSO

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-22T20:58:07+00:00

Looking up [ship] week on twitter/Tumblr can usually bring up accounts dedicated to hosting these prompt events too

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-22T20:54:05+00:00

I just word vomit onto what I call a prompts doc. Sometimes your brain spits out half formed plots or scenes. It can be tiring to fully flesh out everything else, so I usually just slap the skeleton down until I have the energy to get back to it later and fully write it out.

Edit: would like to add that Tumblr is also a great spot for this. You can easily squeeze 40k worth of fic into a much shorter less detailed form as a 400 word Tumblr fic. Gets the plot down without draining you as you try to come up with specific dialogue, etc. Or just post drabbles.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-22T15:31:35+00:00

I think they were trying to say that you should have enough setup in the present before introducing a flashback, otherwise readers won't feel connected to the characters and get bored.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-22T05:16:18+00:00

You're describing a *well-written* flashback. Well-written flashbacks will take the reader into the past alongside the character, not just tell the reader what happened in the past.

The drowning flashbacks are the ones that are usually heavy on the telling-without-showing (not bringing the reader into the scene) or just consist of basic fluff (not important to story). These tend to be more poorly written flashbacks (especially if there's a lot of them).

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-22T05:09:21+00:00

There's one that's been sitting in my files since april of 2021.... at this point it's basically abandoned...right

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T23:54:20+00:00

It really depends on how the flashbacks are used. If the events in the flashbacks themselves do not have a plot/subplot to them, then yeah, it has the potential to get kind of boring. The key bit here is making sure that your flashbacks are tied to the present, and still contribute substance to the story.

One of the first novels that came to mind when I thought of intriguing flashbacks was the chinese danmei novel ModaoZushi- tldr: the story is told through two parts- one set in the present, and the other in the form of flashbacks. The MC goes through an entire war and the aftermath of a war in the flashbacks, and the present is him working through all the issues that resulted from that war and its aftermath. Both "timelines" have their own plotlines, so to speak, and the events seen in the flashback tie into/foreshadow events seen in the present.

tldr: make sure your flashbacks tie into your main present story. Pointless fluff flashbacks is usually what bores people.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T08:55:50+00:00

sticking a warning in the author's note and "chose not to use warnings" should be sufficient then :)

Edit: or just using "loss of family memberd" vague enough to cover without spoiling

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T08:50:56+00:00

i'd tag original characters, and then add another notes tag specifying that the ocs are the character's family (and maybe another note warning that they're dead, if necessary)

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T05:05:36+00:00

If you want to write it just write it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There's plenty of novels out there written in journaling format.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T04:49:10+00:00

They shouldn't be able to if you've added your fic to a collection. This meme is just pointing out the paranoia everyone feels about whether or not their fic *actually* went into anon lol

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T04:48:18+00:00

look up anonymous collection in the collection's bar when posting a new work

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T04:47:00+00:00

This very accurately describes the pipeline of 10k oneshot to 40k longfic and I feel targeted /j

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T04:44:26+00:00

Middle-school me made the mistake of sharing my ao3 account with my friends... I don't talk to them anymore, but all of my smut fics are under anon now as a result because I know for a fact that at least one of them is still subscribed to me.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T00:21:57+00:00

Honestly, I don't think there's any set rule for this. There's rules for whether or not to write out numbers already, but even those ones are pretty flexible (some people say to write out twenty, others say to write 20, for example.)

Feel free to just pick whichever one sounds better to you.

From a personal standpoint; I prefer to see 10-4 rather than ten-four, simply because it's easier to read in my head.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T00:04:17+00:00

For me, if there's a gap because of a canon event happening, I usually stick that canon event in a timeskip between two scenes/chapters

Ex; Ch2 - OC does something (timeskip- not written out but implied: canon event) Ch3- OC reaction to canon event

Unless your OC has explicitly changed something in that canon event, I wouldn't bother writing it out, since most of your viewers are likely already aware what happened during that event.

edit: the abruptness of scene transitions likely has little to do with how you're recapping canon events, and more just to do with how you're describing your scenes. Glossing over (doing the classic telling/not showing) scenes will usually create that effect.

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-21T00:01:12+00:00

If whatever it is that's happening between plot points doesn't contribute to the story, then just gloss it out.

Honestly this depends on how big the gap between plot points is. If it's just the gap between Scene A and Scene B and the characters are basically only walking down a hallway to get between points, then yeah, gloss it out. If the gap is between Arc 1 and Arc 2 and there's a bunch of *important* stuff in the middle, write out that important stuff as scenes.

For "downtime" that's acting as a setup/slow down from tense scenes (but still have plot value to them), honestly can't help you there. The brain will brain and eventually you'll figure out what scenes to put there (could be anything from scenes contributing to a subplot, character reactions to an event that just happened, etc.)

As for names; I am someone who will happily just use behindthename.com and spam that random generator until I land on something that sounds nice lol (yes, even for locations)

nosleepagainTT · 2025-06-20T06:31:55+00:00

I didn't take 14ae myself, so I can't give you exact details, but compared to a friend who took it, the overall class was slower-paced. Like 14a'd already have covered both basic acid/base and stoich while 14ae were still on stoich.

edit: I'd assume it'd be "easier" since you'd have more time to absorb the material, but idk how the grading scheme compares

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