"is This Too Cliche?" Who Cares? Bro, Write What You Have Fun Writing. Stuff Your Manuscript Full Of

okay but a rich yandere with a nerdy ish darling tho

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

haikyuu feels like that one best friend you hung out with everyday, that slowly slipped away because so much changed in life and now you have new friends. you see that place you used to hang out and you hope they are doing well. and then one day, you run into them at a bus station (the haikyuu movie) and then you reminisce the good old memories until their bus is here and you part ways again.

girls are like “I want a boyfriend” but reject everyone because none of them are their comfort characters

as a writer, i fucking love being a reader more. like yes, tell me more about that character. let me know your characterization. you're so fucking talented i love it. tell me more about your oc. tell me their lore. omg this fic was inspired by a song?? love it. can i please fangirl over this masterpiece and ramble in the tags how this will stay in my mind for weeks??

Clarifications for Epithet Erased fan artists tagging their posts:

Trixie's last name is spelled Roughhouse, with two H's. It's just the words Rough and House smashed together.

Banzai Blasters, as in yelling "Banzai!" before jumping into a pool, not "Bonsai" like the tree

I'm so sorry but Yoomtah is a mononym now, her last name isn't Zing like it was in Anime Campaign. I've been tagging her as just "Yoomtah" for years but nobody has noticed and there wasn't really a time to bring it up. Whoops.

Phoenica Fleecity.

Phoenica Fleecity.

Phoenica spelled like Phoenix.

Phoenica is a reused OC from a project where all the characters were named after scientific classification for animals. Phoenica was male in the original iteration, so her name was Phoenico, after Flamingos.

We need to bring back fanfics where the author talks to the characters in the chapter notes and occasional intertexual asides, and through this medium the reader gradually becomes aware of a whole secondary metanarrative concerning the interpersonal dramas of the notional "actors" playing the characters in the fic.

writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.