Useful(ish) Sticky!

[tjs_whatnot]

I’m trying. Really I am.

I want to be here more than I am.

I want to be geeky and share what brings me joy with everyone here more than I do.

I want to FUCKING write for the LOVE OF GOD, more than I do anymore.

But mostly,

I want to make friends with like-minds.

What you can expect from this journal:

Shenanigans and Hijinx.
Book Reviews (mostly queer lit)
Broken Promises to be here regularly.
Half-finished memes.
Seriously, I am the WORST!

Things I post about When I do Post:

Me being ridiculous about what I'm reading
Fandom Shenanigans
Writing Shenanigans

Fandoms:

The most reading and writing I have done historically is for:

Harry Potter--my forever fandom, though that has waned since the whole JKR being a giant piece of shit thing.

I sadly only get inspired to write once a year for yuletide these days, or when I have big feelings about things like Heartstopper and The Green Creek series. 


Hmmm… What else? My fic can be mostly found Here on AO3

Pronouns: She/her but I’m also considering “Whatever” as a pronoun too.

Which brings me to the Friending policy:

Feel free to friend me all you want. I’ll more than likely friend you back--especially if you throw a comment below introducing yourself. If you just want to read my public fandom related posts, that’s cool too, just let me know so that I don’t accidentally friend you and expose you to my brand of silly ridiculousness. Cool?

♥ ♥

Comments

[seal_girl]

Hi! Via the snowflake - I've subscribed, we don't share fandoms but "I want to FUCKING write for the LOVE OF GOD" sums it up for me too :D

[tjs_whatnot]

Yay! Diety-Cursing Writers UNITE!

[seal_girl]

Your icon says it perfectly!

[surferofdreams]

hi! found you through the snowflake challenge and subscribed. currently working on challenge #1!

[stardust_rifle]

"Whatever" as a pronoun is a total mood.

[tjs_whatnot]

Right? Just today my great niece, who had been calling me Aunt T since I moved here months ago asked, "Aunt T, are you a boy or a girl?" My sister was horrified, but I just shrugged and said "Whatever." 🤣🤣🤣

[stardust_rifle]

That’s hilarious.

[cypresssunn]

OH.

oh the very dreadful feeling of wanting/wishing/needing to create so badly is so incredibly familiar to me. so much it hurts. and i know the acute pain of letting a year slip by and feeling like yule is all you have to show for it DX

i just always tell myself that time spent not writing is time spent incubating stories. rest is like marinating our creativity. which. is maybe the weirdest way to put that but no im not gonna backspace. im gonna commit to the bit this time.

and all together i fear we may be a more than touch too similar. we may in fact have to be friends :3

[tjs_whatnot]

Writing for no other reason then I want to and I need to to feel alive is sometimes so hard. I remember thinking it used to be easier, but then I remembered, no, I just signed to for a lot of writing challenges that gave me prompts, an audience (of sorts), and most important, deadlines.

I need to do that again. Maybe. ❤️❤️

But yes, let's be friends!

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh I agree, JKR is a tosspot.

K J Charles is a fantastic author isn't she, very welcoming to fans' comments too.

[tjs_whatnot]

Tosspot is the nicest possible term for what she is, yes.

KJ Charles is indeed delightful to read, and it's nice to know that she's also delightful to interact with. Thanks for sharing that tidbit. ❤️❤️

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes, I didn’t want to swear and get angry on the journal of someone I don’t really know.

I emailed KJ Charles many years ago, when she was just starting out, and she was so friendly and approachable. I suppose she is probably busier now days though. Another friendly author is Avery Cockburn.

[nonesensed]

Hullo! A very late Snowflake Challenger here 😊

I want to FUCKING write for the LOVE OF GOD, more than I do anymore.
The biggest of moods!!!! Also, I feel your pain about the Harry Potter fandom. Since JKR went off the deep end, I lost all my joy for those books, but they were a huge part of my early fandom days. Why must people with fame and far too much money so often choose to use their influence to hurt people???

Buuut enough about She Who Must Not Be Given Money. What are you writing? Any fun current WIPs in the making? 💖

[tjs_whatnot]

The desire and the lack of motivation to write is painfully real for so much of us. *sigh*

And SWMNBGM is such a great name for the POS who fucked over her entire fandom. GRRRR!

As for me, I'm just puttering around with a AU for some of my favorite gay werewolves... as one does. What about you? What has grabbed you on the writing front? ♥

[nonesensed]

My mistake is often that I get too excited about beginning a writing project, conveniently forgetting that I'm a capital O outliner, and getting stuck because I don't fully know where I'm going with my project. Also, burnout from work steals so much of my writing energy, it's not even funny 😖 But I'm getting better at getting around that 💖 Are you more of a planner or a discovery writer (aka Architect or Gardener)?

Yeah, SWMNBGM has truly spat in the face of all her queer fans, and taken her hatred to the horrific level of literally using her money and fame to take away human rights 🤬 She's fucked over all her fellow humans and deserves to be forgotten by history.

AUs for gay werewolves sounds like an excellent way to spend one's creative energy 💜💜💜 Are you writing completely-different-setting-AUs, canon-divergent-AUs, something else, or a mix of different AUs? As for me, I have been grabbed by faaaaar too many plot bunnies, both fanfic and my own settings, and they are currently fighting an adorable non-lethal version of the Hunger Games for my attention 😅 It's at the point where I've had to make lists of my WIP fics and my other WIPs that I'm actively working on, so I don't lose track of them 😆 My main focus now is line-editing one of my longest projects, A Werewolf in October. I'm a hopeless fantasy and scifi nerd, so most of what I write tends to fall into that category, both fandomwise and otherwise.

[tjs_whatnot]

I'm a total pantser, which usually is fine because I'm more a vibe writer than plot writer. If I wrote more fantasy/ scifi/world buildy type stories, I'd probably try some new techniques. ❤️❤️

This AU is just How Would This Whole Series be Different if One of the Stupid Choices Made by Werewolves was Made Earlier...and Better. 🤣🤣🤣

I try to stick to one story at a time, but only because I try to write short stories. I do have a few chaptered things in fandoms I don't really interact with anymore that will never be filled and that makes me sad... but not enough to write them. 🤣🤣

[nonesensed]

It's so great when you figure out your own writing style 🩵🩵🩵 I thought I was a pantser when I was just starting out, because all the more plotter-type-advice I found focused mostly on spreadsheets and "at this percentage point of the story you do X-plot-step", and I didn't vibe with that (no hate on anyone who does, it just doesn't work for me personally). I do like to try out new techniques for writing stories and I might like listening to writing theory and tips as much as I enjoy writing 😁 It's such a great feeling when you have an "aha!"-moment as you try out a writing tip or read meta about why some versions of prose work for you and some don't (aaaand that's where I'll pause my writing meta ranting for now 😆)

I do love me a fix-it AU 💖 Will take me a while to catch up on canon, but once I have, I'm definitely checking out your fics 💚

Ah yes, the WIP-fanfics-of-ages-past, I have them too 😅 There are a few ol' fics I keep promising myself I'll finish one day, buuuuuut...yeah, probably not 😆