The world lost an amazing thinker today. Celebrated world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking passed away in Cambridge on March 14th, 2018 (Pi Day), at age 76. Somehow, I think he would have found this to be very poetic.
Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
Chapters: 59/? Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, Bobby Singer & Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Anna Milton, Bobby Singer, Ellen Harvelle, Castiel Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Some chapters have extra warnings Summary:
What if Anna decided to derail the apocalypse by intervening to help rather than trying to make the brothers never having existed.
I’m a researcher. Some might even say an information hoarder, and point to the network of private blogs and lists I maintain to keep track of every interesting post I stumble across like a dragon with a Tumblr account.
That’s why, over time, I’ve been building a little pile of resources for fanfic writers, despite not being one myself. I’m pushing the boundaries of what can be considered meta this week, but only in hopes of offering something useful to all you talented fic writers. ✌️
Fandom – Writing Resources
All About Writing Fight Scenes by @brynwrites, I (Bryn) will tell you a secret: I trained MMA for seven years, and when I write authentic hand to hand fight scenes, they sound dull too. The problem with fight scenes in books is that trying to describe each punch and kick and movement (especially if it’s the only thing you’re describing) creates a fight that feels like it’s in slow motion.
BDSM Info Week by @allspnships, et al, Few who write about BDSM and kink in fanfic have experienced the acts that they’re describing—and that’s absolutely fine. This is why research is a fanfic writer’s best friend when it comes to writing about anything they don’t really know firsthand. But researching BDSM and kink isn’t easy.
Britspeak to Amerispeak by @drgrlfriend, Writing a Teen Wolf fic where Derek takes this bloke Stiles to see a film in the cinema before taking him back to his flat to meet his mum? Writing a Sherlock fic where Sherlock meets John at college while studying for a big test so they both get good grades? If so, you need this Britspeak to Amerispeak directory.
Common Medical Mistakes by @ijustreallylovedaredevil, So I’ve noticed a bunch of medical errors in fics I read, so I decided to post this handy guide to some of the most common errors and some background on basic medical things.
Writing Deaf Language by @ao3commentoftheday, @feverything, et al, I need some input. At one point in a story of mine, two of my characters are going to communicate using sign language. I’m torn between trying to describe the motions, or writing it how it would be found in a sign language manual. I feel like the former would be harder to engage in, but the latter is usually written in caps, especially with finger spelling. I don’t want people reading it to think that they’re yelling at each other. Thoughts?
When I complain about being a ‘gifted’ kid who grew into a talentless adult I don’t mean that I’m not trying to work on my talents or anything
I mean that the ‘gifts’ I had are useless
Reading books above my age isn’t a talent when I’m not eleven
Knowing big words isn’t a talent when I’m not a kid, it’s just growing up
It’s just a weird thing that happens and it feels shitty when you’re brought up being told you’re an exceptional child only to realise as an adult you’re just average
This
I did a lot of reading about gifted kids and especially gifted adults when I got my “diagnosis” because I was told I was gifted at 23 and well, it serves no purpose to have a confirmation that you’re gifted at 23
Thing is, gifted children are not amazingly better than everyone else. Gifted brains just don’t work the same so they build their skills in a different order
Basically when you’re very young, most people brain learn social skills and how to interact with their peers, but gifted brains are already at the next step which is how to understand and interact with the world
That makes the stereotypical young children that are very good at math, always asking questions about how things work, very upset when they don’t know a thing
But the thing is, when everyone gets older, they’ve mastered most social skills and now turn towards understanding the world
But the gifted children have already mastered that part and are turning towards how to build social skills. Except there’s no one left to teach us about that! Because we’re late to that party
Long story short, at the end everyone, gifted or not, goes through all the necessary steps to make functioning adults, so the difference that was obvious as a child has disappeared
But us gifted people often end up with social anxiety and impostor syndrome because we are actually less equipped than others to face a world that taught everyone to be confident and talk to people while we were busy reading books above our age
If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:
1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.
2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.
From left to right; Mary, Castiel, Dean, Gabriel, Sam, Morpheus, Raphael
ME TO @talkingtomyselfagain: CC, WAKE THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT THIS!!! Get out of your blanket burrito and LOOK!!! IS DONE!! IS FLOOF!! IS WONDERFUL!!! 💙😍🌈💙
Squeeeeeeee there is so much awesome on Tumblr tonight I just can’t!!!!!
Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback.
I had no idea this post would resonate with so many people. I let my vitriol surrounding several comments I received on a recent update get to me and it spilled out into .gif form and it’s now morphed into the most widely shared thing I’ve ever posted. So many comments and tags have said things along the lines of, “This was why I quit writing” or “This is why I hate writing fanfic.” And that’s soul crushing to hear, but I can relate.
But while there are some crappy and entitled readers, there are also many brilliant ones and I’m so grateful for them. The huge response to this post made me go back and skim through the comments on my old stories, and comments like the one below are about half the reason some of those stories got finished, even if it was months later.
Comments like these are so rare, but when they do come up, they leave me staring at my computer screen, drumming my fingers on the keyboard, struggling to convey my feelings about how their words have touched my heart. These are the comments that take the longest amount of time to respond to and the ones that cause me to wear out my backspace key the fastest.
It’s easy to complain, but it’s literally just as easy to praise, so I just wanted to take a moment to recognize all those dear and dedicated readers who have propped me up when I wanted to quit. Readers like you are why I keep writing, and why I even feel honored to do it on rare occasion.
And fellow writers, keep your heads up if you can. 🙂
Readers….you have an important role to fill!!! Leave awesome comments, it is your DUTY!!!!!!
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