What's everyone reading and writing this weekend? I'm still taking things slowly, but I'm continuing to get a little written everyday. I've also been trying to read more Hazbin Hotel comics, not on Youtube, but everywhere wants an account these days and I don't have the spoons.

How is your fandom intake this week? What are your plans for this weekend? I'm doing the same as before, keeping up with the stories I want to be writing while navigating pesky real life.

I have accomplished one full week of Femslash Feb, so success on that front!

I used to believe everyone did, but I know better. Some people don't like it from people they don't know. Others don't like receiving it from anyone at all. What do you think about it?

I personally like writing giftfic. I don't do it all the time, because if I did I would never write the stuff I like the most (as no one else writes the stories I really want). But how happy people have been when I have? Has always made it worth it.

Receiving it is always nice too. Especially when people have made the effort to write the specific tropes/pairings/whatever I love. After all, most of them are rare. It's always appreciated.

What do you like to do with them? Some people ignore them entirely. I personally love to build a reason why the plot hole exists. Building onto the world and setting in the background to make sense of everything. What about you?

Forgetting tags for a moment: if you are already searching in your fandoms/pairings/favourite tags, what in a summary will cause you to click it over any other story?

It is November? Are we writing? Drawing? Reading?

For me, NaNo has started, but I'm also busy with a lot of other things which means I'm not doing as much writing until the latter half of the month. So this weekend will have a little writing, but unfortunately not a lot of other fandom things.

What about everyone else?

The Guinness World Record holder, from Portugal, lived to be 31 years and 165 days old.

What's up with this weekend, folks? I'm doing the usual. I have a bit of a buffer, but I want to pad it even further if I can in preparation for some upcoming busy times.

Writing is where it is at for me this weekend. Whenever I have spoons and a spare moment, that is. How about all of you?

For stories with an antagonist, what do you like to see? What antagonists, canon or fanfic, do you enjoy?

For example, I tend to like the fanon interpretations of Ganondorf more than how he is in canon. Considering how canon doesn't tend to dive into his character too much beyond "power". Whether fans write Ganondorf as an antagonist in reform or still straight up "evil", they still add in nuance about what it is like to be one of the rare male Gerudo or some awareness of the eternal cycle of the Triforce.

On the other end of the spectrum is Alex, from the original Golden Sun duology. Something about not knowing him very well stuck out to me. Despite his motivations being very simple, how he interacted with the protagonists of the game was interesting. You never faced him directly. He was an instigator for many things and probably wanted to be the most important person in the story. But he wasn't.

What is something you have researched lately for your fic(s)? Or something you learnt a long time ago for one which you still find fascinating?

Recently I've been learning a lot more about the Japanese school system. Some of which I learnt once, but had forgotten, and others which I never knew.

One fact I forgot was how you cannot be held back a grade. The social stigmatization from it is considered more damaging than the fact someone's grades might show they don't understand anything going on in class.

One I learnt which I did not know at all was how the punishment of standing out in the hallway with buckets of water was phased out in the 80s, along with other physical punishments to students. This explains why you might see it happen in older anime, but not in any newer ones.

I enjoy all of the things I learn through my desire to write. How about you?

After nearly two weeks of no internet at home, I shall have the comfort of mind to catch up on all the writing I've meant to do. There was too much research and fact checking I couldn't do without the internet. When I was away from home, I was not comfortable enough to do the writing. But this weekend! This weekend.

How about everyone else? What writing or reading plans do you have?

I do not mean SPAG issues or things you consider bad writing/storytelling. What is something which is not actually a problem that you just don't enjoy to the point where you would drop a fic you were enjoying?

I was considering this, because if a premise interested me in the first place, the biggest reasons I could think to ever drop it would be too many grammar issues or characters suddenly feeling OOC (in my opinion).

Outside of those or untagged triggers though... I considered how I might actually stop reading a story that goes by too fast and doesn't let the reader explore characters' reactions to things. Even if the characters still act like you would expect them too afterward. I like diving into characters' feelings and motivations too much.

The last chapter of an arc is going up for me tomorrow, followed by the start of the next arc.

I should be celebrating, but on the 3rd starts my rarepair week. I'm almost done with all 21 of the stories I wanted to write for it, but I have one more to do and some clean up. As well as the uploading. Uh... whoops? Forgot that was a part of the process!

Basically, this weekend will be busy for me as I make sure I have everything ready for next week. However, if I do it all this weekend, I won't be rushing at all during the week. Just pressing post! I'm really happy about what I've accomplished.

Oh wait. The rarepair week means I've run out of buffer for my big project. (Been really sick again.) I guess after fixing everything up for the week, I'll be seeing how much I can prepare to write during the week.

How about everyone else?

Whether long or short, how do you celebrate the completion of a project? I tend to start the next immediately. Less of a celebration and more how I work with my creativity if it is on a roll.

Does anyone out there like doing something special when they complete a fic?

Or are you like me and (for the most part) don't?

I have one community which is on Discord I take part in on occasion. It's nice with the occasional fandom event, like my upcoming rarepair week. Yet I don't have a lot of places where I can talk about my preferences for my fandoms outside of the comments on my fics.

I'm attempting to polish up the end of the current arc of my longfic. I like having a buffer for my weekly upload schedule! There are two more chapters to write and then I'm on to planning the next arc.

The other thing I'm doing is preparing for my other fandom's rarepair week. I have decided to use all three of the daily prompts as three separate stories--trying for 21 mini fics instead of 7 in total. I've written four of them and started another two. They are due by the beginning of September, so I can't slack off!

Or the other way around: something you like to read, but don't like to write? (Not that you struggle to write, but hate doing it at all. Even if you are good at it.)

I was pondering this question myself and hadn't come up with too many answers. Vague ideas, like how I don't like describing the environment, but I can enjoy a good descriptive passage in someone else's work. On the other hand, everything I like to write I like to read.

However, I know some people don't like reading other people's renditions of certain tropes. I'm interested in hearing about it.

I can't think of any genres or tropes off the top of my head which count for me, but I know there are some of those too!

Posted the epilogue to a story I started two years ago! Celebration time~

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I was pondering this earlier in the week. People have summaries they like and ones they will scroll past without considering the story at all.

I'm rather open with summaries. I think the only ones I dislike are either when there isn't one or when the words aren't actually a summary, but author's notes. I prefer those for after I've clicked on the story.

I've read in the past people want them to be snappy, but I was considering longer works. Complicated stories. In those cases, I prefer a few paragraphs to introduce the basics of characters and plots. On the other hand, if the story is short, a longer summary doesn't make sense.

What types of summaries do you like? Which ones do you like to write? Does anyone else think writing a summary is easier than coming up with the title of the fanfic, or is it just me?

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