Why Would Garlic Bread Betray Me Like This, I Just Wanted To Write Fanfic. Save Me, TUMs

Character Flaws and Their Meanings

Impulsiveness : Acts on instinct without careful planning. Perfectionism : Sets unrealistically high standards, leading to self-criticism. Indecisiveness : Struggles to commit to decisions or choose a path. Arrogance : Overestimates one’s abilities and dismisses others. Pessimism : Habitually expects negative outcomes in most situations. Cynicism : Distrusts the motives and sincerity of others. Overconfidence : Places excessive faith in one’s skills, often underestimating risks. Stubbornness : Resists change and refuses to adapt to new ideas. Jealousy : Feels envious of others' success or possessions. Insecurity : Experiences frequent self-doubt and a lack of confidence. Procrastination : Tends to delay tasks, often leading to missed opportunities. Passivity : Avoids taking initiative and relies on others to act. Aggressiveness : Responds with hostility or force rather than reason. Selfishness : Prioritizes personal gain over the welfare of others. Fragility : Is overly sensitive to criticism and easily discouraged. Egotism : Constantly focuses on oneself and one’s own importance. Defensiveness : Quickly rejects or rationalizes away critique or new information. Manipulativeness : Exploits others to fulfill personal needs or desires. Recklessness : Shows a careless disregard for potential risks or consequences. Resentfulness : Holds lingering bitterness and grudges over perceived wrongs. Distractibility : Finds it hard to maintain focus amid competing interests. Impatience : Lacks the willingness to wait, often spoiling opportunities to learn. Perfunctory : Performs actions in a mechanical, uninspired manner. Self-Doubt : Consistently questions personal abilities and decisions. Arbitraryness : Makes decisions based on whim rather than reason or evidence. Rigidity : Is inflexible and unwilling to consider alternative viewpoints. Gullibility : Trusts too easily, often leading to being misled or deceived. Obsession : Becomes excessively fixated on particular ideas or details. Aloofness : Maintains emotional distance, appearing detached or indifferent. Intolerance : Refuses to accept differing perspectives or lifestyles.

Writing Advice for Brainstorming

Mix genres and time periods: Experiment by combining elements from different eras or genres to create unique settings and narratives.

Use "what if" scenarios: Pose unexpected questions (e.g., What if time travel operated on emotions rather than mechanics?) to spark novel ideas.

Draw from diverse mediums: Engage with art, music, or even scientific papers to inspire unexpected plot twists.

Embrace absurdity: Let illogical or surreal ideas guide you; sometimes the wildest thoughts lead to compelling stories.

Reverse clichés: Identify common tropes in your favorite genres and deliberately invert them to create fresh perspectives.

Incorporate personal anomalies: Transform your idiosyncrasies and personal struggles into rich, multi-dimensional characters.

Use mind-mapping: Visually plot your ideas in a freeform way to uncover hidden connections between disparate elements.

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Capes of Brockton Bay 🐞

🐞 Can you name the Capes of Brockton Bay? 🐞 Only Worm Capes 🐞 Teams Revealed on Answer 🐞

I made a Sporcle quiz featuring the many Capes of Brockton Bay.

Can YOU 🫵 name them all?

So I got my father to watch Frieren, which is cool, it's neat he will watch anime on Netflix at 50+ years old.

But like, he came to talk to me and he was like "so I watching that frieren show, and it's like, about all this emotion and bonds and friendships that mean something and learning how to value your relationships in the moment, isn't that something you want for yourself? To find people to spend your life with?"

And I said "nah not really" and he was incredulous

I am not even old but I still default to typing "email" as "e-mail".

I don't know why, but that's just how my brain is wired. Strange...

Oh boy, something i have been dying to talk about while brainstorming wormfic ideas in my notes document for the last two months.

I really enjoy the idea presented here of the differentiation between a pure alternate power scenario, where the trigger happens off-screen and the story starts after the fact and a scenario where the divergence from canon directly results in an alt-power occurring to whoever the protagonist of choice is (almost always Taylor, let's be real).

In regard to tagging, I figure it's probably safe to tag "alt-power" if one appears at all despite the circumstances, though that might depend more on the premise of the fic, where the "what if" moment takes place.

Really can't wait to write a more worm-centric fic following my current crossover one, which does feature an alt-power but it's kind of weird and I've yapped about it so much to the people commenting on the fic.

If you're taking the name literally, alt-power fic includes every fic where a main character has a different power from canon, but when people talk (or complain) about alt-power as a genre, the stuff they're talking about is usually stuff that is not implied by that definition. So I'm curious - where do you all draw the line of what is and isn't an alt-power fic?

For me personally, I would call something alt-power if "what if the protagonist's power was this?" is the primary thing the fic is about, with all other changes that canon made either to enable or as a result of the different power. Therefore, I do not consider fics where the primary "what if" is about something other than the protagonist's power, even if a consequence of that change is that a character triggers with a different power. So I would consider fics like Camera Shy or Monster alt-power fics, but not, say, Here Comes The New Boss.

Anyway, mostly I was thinking about this because I was trying to decide if any of the fics that I'm writing/want to write count as alt-power fics, because some of them definitely contain some of the elements that people mention when they're talking about alt-power fics, like, say, taking place in Brockton Bay pre-Leviathan. But to use Broken Crown as an example, the change to Amy's power wasn't the thing that I set out to write about, it just seemed like a natural consequence of that thing (though I imagine some people would disqualify it from their own definition purely for not having Taylor as a protagonist)

I don't even know this lady all that well. It's an online class, that started this week.

Oh gosh, I've been emailing with one of my professors for the past week, just like about books and writing and stuff and she was recommending some Brandon Sanderson to me so I recommended "Worm by John C. McCrae" to her and she said she'd put it on her reading list. What have I done, this is a whole professor, 20 years of teaching experience type of lady.

me listening to my completely unorganized ff14 playlist

I must hate myself something fierce because I thought it would be smart to eat ice cream. I'm lactose intolerant and I would like to write my fanfiction now please and thank you. I swear I do this type of shit every day and I never learn.

"Maybe it'll work out this time" no, shut up phoseo, it won't