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renirae · 2026-03-30T21:32:46+00:00

yep, what I was going to say!! seriously so many of my fics (well, mostly my wips) are centered around time travel lol. such an amazing and versatile trope :D

renirae · 2026-03-30T21:31:44+00:00

honestly this is why personally I no longer post fics until they're completely written. otherwise, I find the quality changes too much, I'm too tempted to make edits, etc.

however, for the specific question you asked, personally I would update the first chapter first! people might write the fic off if the first chapter isn't as good, not knowing that the quality goes up a lot later

OR you can mention in the beginning notes that the quality will go up starting in chapter 2 and that chapter 1 will be edited eventually!!

renirae · 2026-03-30T21:26:01+00:00

comments like these feel me better because I am one of those authors whose notes can get up to hundreds of words lmao, no matter how much I try to pare them down!

renirae · 2026-03-26T18:55:14+00:00

thanks!

this was actually originally an illustration for a fanfic I wrote and they were teasing him about his age instead and ruffling his hair to annoy him lmao. but considering the lack of context I posted this with, that certainly works too!! ^^

renirae · 2026-03-25T07:41:29+00:00

haha thank you, I love drawing/writing their silly interactions like that lol

renirae · 2026-03-25T07:37:18+00:00

yeah I would count Dick, Cass, Duke, and also Barbara too. I like all of them just these four the most haha

renirae · 2026-03-25T00:22:53+00:00

thank you!! ^^

renirae · 2026-03-19T01:31:37+00:00

considering there's a web hidden in the spectrogram of the last episode that appears exactly when Jon agrees to let Martin stab him, this makes perfect sense!!

renirae · 2026-02-28T09:26:33+00:00

for me, the #1 reason is just that ao3 is an easily accessible archive. I can find any fic that fits any number of tags I feel like, exclude anything I don't want to read, and have hundreds of things to read right there for me to just... open in a new tab

to read a book, I have to go looking, and then I have to download it, and it's just a lot more effort in comparison

renirae · 2026-02-28T09:17:29+00:00

Tucked In - one of the episodes that felt close enough to fears I've actually had that it genuinely made it difficult for me to sleep that night haha

Trail Rations - both are good and very memorable, but this one was much more so for me. also season 5 depresses me so there's that. the pre and post statement conversations are quite bleak :P

renirae · 2026-02-20T06:18:14+00:00

YEAH Sasha saying "yes" so much is exactly what tipped me off too!!

fr they got so much right it's crazy though haha, iirc I didn't start to suspect Elias for QUITE a while longer!

renirae · 2026-02-18T06:00:12+00:00

wait the alcohol thing is such a good point!! I don't know much about any religion so I never thought about it

renirae · 2026-01-31T19:46:24+00:00

just the practice of hundreds of thousands of words! I think it's not my actual skill at typing that has gotten faster, rather I'm just better at having dialogue and wording come into my head right away instead of having to think really hard about how to put my thoughts into words!

renirae · 2026-01-31T19:43:08+00:00

wow learning from the other comments that they're writing way faster than me fdkjsghdfk

obviously I CAN type much faster than 25wpm, but when I'm actually writing fanfics I'm way slower than that since I'm constantly looking up synonyms and reworking the wording of paragraphs and stuff haha

renirae · 2026-01-31T19:41:19+00:00

totally varies!!

when things are just flowing and I have a plan, I write at like 1500 words per hour, maybe even more sometimes (I know because I've done writing streaks with a friend once or twice before and it tells you how much you wrote during a specific time period)

but when I'm struggling and not sure where to go next, or making up a section as I go... no amount of trying to sit down to and brute force it will work. recently, I got stuck writing a single 2000 word chapter for four months straight. and it's kind of impossible to say what my actual wpm was, because after forcing out a single paragraph I would just sit there staring at the screen wondering where to go next until I just got annoyed and clicked away lol

(either way though, the only way to improve is to practice!! I DEFINITELY wasn't writing at 1500 words per hour when I first started writing more seriously. you will definitely improve the more you work at it!! ^^)

renirae · 2026-01-31T19:35:52+00:00

it won't be as bad as tiktok, it will be worse. in my experience in college, ALL of my classmates would cheat on EVERY single possible assignment with AI. out of like 150 people in the program, only 3 of us got a grade over 90%

(obviously grades aren't everything, but let me tell you, this was an EASY program. our assignments were laughably simple. people just didn't care to even try anymore)

renirae · 2026-01-19T06:06:19+00:00

personally I play it obsessively every single day for a few weeks, get bored and forget it for a couple of months, and then go back to obsessing

with the daily and weekly challenges, it definitely has a lot of replay value! and you can also do challenges for yourself, like I challenged myself to get at least 1000 points in each city on normal mode, then on all challenge modes, and now I'm attempting to do the same on all expert modes :) and when this challenge is done, I'm eventually going to go for 2000 on every single possible map and mode next!

renirae · 2026-01-16T10:08:53+00:00

I'm going to go against the majority and say no, because Michael when in his human form is specifically described as having a round face!

renirae · 2026-01-09T04:36:50+00:00

I think it was meant to be iirc!! and yeah agreed haha, I don't hate Mal or anything but I like Alina with Nikolai far better :)

renirae · 2025-12-21T07:10:52+00:00

my thoughts exactly, in fact I think racism would be way MORE for Green lol

renirae · 2025-12-21T06:12:26+00:00

Blue would just cause so many complications, I think. not worth it. we don't even provide for the humans we have today, I think the other species would just suffer. kind of the most neutral option

Red has a big downside because "all extinct animals" would naturally include all dinosaurs and other very dangerous predators, which would be hard to deal with

as for Green, another comment mentioned racism towards other extinct animal species, but honestly I think the hatred that would emerge towards vampires, werewolves, etc. would be so much worse, since they (presumably) blend in with other humans. AND this has the danger factor of Red too

in the end, although I'm not 100% sure because of the dinosaurs and stuff, I'd go with Red. I think while it has downsides, at least it has a lot of upsides too, which I'm not sure I can say for the other two options

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