Or When They Have Their Own Stories? Thats Jackpot Too 🌈💖🫶😚

so true 🥲

editing your own work is like fighting a hydra. fix one thing and three more issues appear.

leave me alone 😭😭😭😭😭

[439/547] — until we meet again, jungkook ♡

Applying this for bts would be like:

• The driver - Jimin

• The instigator - Taehyung

• The voice of reason - Hoseok

• The distracted one - Joon and Kook, for sure.

• The observer - Yoongles

• The Wild Card - Seokjin

bts dynamics are so fun irl already, they're amazing to write in fanfic istg

Tips from a Beta Reading Writer

This one's for the scenes with multiple characters, and you're not sure how to keep everyone involved.

Writing group scenes is chaos. Someone’s talking, someone’s interrupting, someone’s zoning out thinking about breadsticks. And if you’re not careful, half your cast fades into the background like NPCs in a video game. I used to struggle with this so much—my characters would just exist in the scene without actually affecting it. But here’s what I've learned and have started implementing:

✨ Give everyone a job in the scene ✨

Not their literal job—like, not everyone needs to be solving a crime or casting spells. I mean: Why are they in this moment? What’s their role in the conversation?

My favourite examples are:

The Driver: Moves the convo forward. They have an agenda, they’re pushing the action.

The Instigator: Pokes the bear. Asks the messy questions. Stirring the pot like a chef on a mission.

The Voice of Reason: "Guys, maybe we don’t commit arson today?"

The Distracted One: Completely in their own world. Tuning out, doodling on a napkin, thinking about their ex.

The Observer: Not saying much, but noticing everything. (Quiet characters still have presence!)

The Wild Card: Who knows what they’ll do? Certainly not them. Probably about to make things worse.

If a character has no function, they’ll disappear. Give them something—even if it’s just a side comment, a reaction, or stealing fries off someone’s plate. Keep them interesting, and your readers will stay interested too.

sounds like a plan

Nothing like staying up all night drinking wine, eating chocolate covered strawberries and being hunched over my laptop in my cold dorm writing fanfiction at 2 am.

subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update

sometimes you gotta reread your own fic and cry and go a little crazy

Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldn’t be in this mess

Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

since were on the topic, im sure there actually is a word which can describe it

trying to explain english to an italian

Me when Ao3 tells me I've already left kudos on a fic I could have sworn I've never read before: