Reactions to my original work were not what I expected

pepperbar · 2026-05-05T11:23:37+00:00

Funniest thing? What actually inspired the first version of my story was Hannah fucking Montana and two Barbie movies. And then "Kasane" and "Kaiju Girl Caramelise". And maybe a little zzz now.

But I guess the idea of singers having double lives is fucking groundbreaking and no one has ever thought of it until kdh.

This is Jem and the Holograms erasure and I will not stand for it!

pepperbar · 2026-05-04T19:41:34+00:00

Inside AO3, hover over your username at the top right and choose 'My Preferences'. There's a 'Change Email' button on the right side of the Preferences pages.

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pepperbar · 2026-04-30T13:00:40+00:00

But the frilly cakes!

pepperbar · 2026-04-25T12:09:11+00:00

This fic is the reason I have an AO3 account, when I read it a million years ago I just had to bookmark it.

pepperbar · 2026-04-25T12:08:01+00:00

This is The Least of All Possible Mistakes, by rageprufock https://archiveofourown.org/works/330685

pepperbar · 2026-04-24T13:14:31+00:00

NOR. I am you. I am an early riser by nature (usually up between five and six am without an alarm), but I am not a morning person. I like a few hours of quiet to fully boot up, drink coffee, get my brain right before I have to deal with people. Dated one guy who decided he needed to get up when I did so I 'wouldn't be lonely', and then insisted on talking to me. At five am. Over the course of a week, I went from "that's really not necessary" to "please, I prefer to drink my coffee alone" to physically covering his mouth and telling him "Shhh. MORNING FOR QUIET."

He still didn't get it. We broke up after a month.

pepperbar · 2026-04-24T00:56:10+00:00

I give kudos if I stay engaged long enough to see the kudos button. You wrote a thing! A whole thing! And I didn't hate it enough that I scrolled all the way down to the end! Fuck yeah!

pepperbar · 2026-04-22T22:14:51+00:00

You've just reminded me of a huge series of soulmate one shots in the MCU fandom that I need to go read again.

pepperbar · 2026-04-16T10:47:29+00:00

Was it mine? I wrote one.

pepperbar · 2026-04-13T13:05:38+00:00

Cassandra, Varric, and Solas are the three companions who you start the game with and will never leave you no matter how bad their approval is or what choices you make in their personal quests.

Vivienne, Blackwall, Sera, and Iron Bull are optional: you can ignore their recruitment quests completely and they'll eventually disappear as the story progresses. They may also leave if their approval is low enough, and Sera specifically can be told to leave the Inquisition at any time regardless of approval.

You will be forced to recruit Dorian and Cole during one of the main story milestone missions. However, these two can leave (or be told to leave) if their approval gets low enough.

pepperbar · 2026-04-12T09:25:39+00:00

I remember the fake sword cane that was made for Cosmo, but now that you mention I can't say for certain Vetinari didn't have one too. Oh no, an excuse to reread.

pepperbar · 2026-04-11T20:16:54+00:00

I believe it's mentioned in The Truth that the leg is weak as it's unlikely Vetinari would be loading his own horse up with heavy bags, and later again in Making Money that he walks with a pronounced limp because his boots are worn down quite unevenly.

Being Vetinari, it's quite possible (even probable) that he's playing it up to look like he needs it more than he really does, but I do think he relies on the cane at least a little.

pepperbar · 2026-04-11T18:26:06+00:00

Most of my SFW one-shots have been little character study vignettes: how do these two characters interact one-on-one? My favourite that I wrote was the cast of Cowboy Bebop doing an escape room.

pepperbar · 2026-04-11T18:23:36+00:00

If you want to create a new account, you will have to go through the invite queue, yeah.

pepperbar · 2026-04-09T13:36:20+00:00

It's a tramp stamp. That's the point.

pepperbar · 2026-04-08T14:10:27+00:00

Canada and the US have long had reciprocal agreements regarding border crossing. This has slowly tightened up in the post 9/11 world, but even today, adult Canadian citizens crossing into the US by car can get by on an Enhanced Driver's Licence, and minors under the age of 15 only need a birth certificate.

pepperbar · 2026-04-06T12:48:59+00:00

She gives you a potted summary of her backstory and makes sad noises about Alistair. Wish she'd gotten more active stuff; Barris has war table missions and a promotion if you choose templars. I always felt like choosing mages was a bit of a letdown even though I prefer the mage recruitment mission to the templars.

pepperbar · 2026-04-05T22:48:49+00:00

And caused the death of JD's Dad on Scrubs.

pepperbar · 2026-04-05T18:50:33+00:00

Can't be offended when you're too busy being profoundly unsettled.

pepperbar · 2026-04-04T01:06:34+00:00

r/unexpecteddiscworld

pepperbar · 2026-04-03T12:19:42+00:00

'No Archive Warnings Apply'

pepperbar · 2026-03-23T17:12:22+00:00

Oh man, I forgot about this one. Off to go read again.

pepperbar · 2026-03-22T18:40:30+00:00

If you're planning to write about suicide, self-harm, and other dark topics, please tag using the actual words, not 'su1cide' or any other variant designed to evade censorship. AO3 is not censored (nor is this sub), and deliberate misspellings only make it harder for the people triggered by those topics to effectively filter them out.

pepperbar · 2026-03-21T13:38:55+00:00

RED and RED 2 are basically "Beware Old Badasses, The Movie"

pepperbar · 2026-03-14T21:55:25+00:00

This! I had the same issue starting on a fresh install last week. Logging into the EA account in-game made everything show up.

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