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@nightpool@cybre.space @phildini The story I'm planning to start working on today uses this as a starting point, although I expect it's gonna take a couple of weeks to really get done with it. There's an anthology I'm thinking of submitting it to if I get it done in time.

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@nightpool@cybre.space @phildini The story I'm planning to start working on today uses this as a starting point, although I expect it's gonna take a couple of weeks to really get done with it. There's an anthology I'm thinking of submitting it to if I get it done in time.

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#MondayPrompt

We all know the story. A young woman in red. The woods. A grandmother and a wolf, one of them fated to die. The elements are all there.

But is the old tale really how it went? Was there a deeper connection between grandmother and wolf, surely a woman living in those woods her whole life would know the beast well. And was the red-clad girl just the bystander they say?

Look beyond the myth and tell us the true story between those three.

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#MondayPrompt

We all know the story. A young woman in red. The woods. A grandmother and a wolf, one of them fated to die. The elements are all there.

But is the old tale really how it went? Was there a deeper connection between grandmother and wolf, surely a woman living in those woods her whole life would know the beast well. And was the red-clad girl just the bystander they say?

Look beyond the myth and tell us the true story between those three.

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@otterspace As much as the traffic will bear.

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@otterspace As much as the traffic will bear.

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@adoxyinherear I'll wishlist it, but woo, it's kinda pricey on Amazon.ca. With an extremely limited/barely existing budget, I'm a bit hesitant.

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@adoxyinherear I'll wishlist it, but woo, it's kinda pricey on Amazon.ca. With an extremely limited/barely existing budget, I'm a bit hesitant.

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@adoxyinherear I haven't, but it does sound like the sort of thing I'd like to read.

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@adoxyinherear I haven't, but it does sound like the sort of thing I'd like to read.

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Well, it's been a few days and I'm finding I like it here, so time for #introduction I guess.

I write mostly genre fiction under the name Kelseigh N. Writing stories with positive lesbian and/or trans leads and themes is personally important to me, so all my work incorporates that in some way. I have a number of stories available for free on my website with more to come:

http://kelseighn.com

I also have a Patreon which is linked in my profile and fanfic on AO3 under the name Nezchan.

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Well, it's been a few days and I'm finding I like it here, so time for #introduction I guess.

I write mostly genre fiction under the name Kelseigh N. Writing stories with positive lesbian and/or trans leads and themes is personally important to me, so all my work incorporates that in some way. I have a number of stories available for free on my website with more to come:

http://kelseighn.com

I also have a Patreon which is linked in my profile and fanfic on AO3 under the name Nezchan.

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@phildini Personally I'm fond of putting folklore elements into a modern setting. So for instance taking the Wulvar, a rare good-guy werewolf who gives food to the poor. How would you fit that into a story about the "working poor" scaping by on minimum wage in a city environment?

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@phildini Personally I'm fond of putting folklore elements into a modern setting. So for instance taking the Wulvar, a rare good-guy werewolf who gives food to the poor. How would you fit that into a story about the "working poor" scaping by on minimum wage in a city environment?

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We have too few venues where girls and young women come to the fore. So even without the rest of it, that makes fanfic a valuable thing.

I don't just mean yaoi fandom, famously full of "fujoshi" creators. But pretty much every genre. Even yuri fic (my own preference) is dominated by romance-minded girls.

So yeah, overall you might say I've got a pretty positive outlook on the...genre? Format? I don't even know what you'd call it, but I like it anyway.

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We have too few venues where girls and young women come to the fore. So even without the rest of it, that makes fanfic a valuable thing.

I don't just mean yaoi fandom, famously full of "fujoshi" creators. But pretty much every genre. Even yuri fic (my own preference) is dominated by romance-minded girls.

So yeah, overall you might say I've got a pretty positive outlook on the...genre? Format? I don't even know what you'd call it, but I like it anyway.

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So you've got this absolutely open, welcoming field that doesn't care about your skill level, just how much you love the source material. But there's another important aspect - who's doing the writing.

And overwhelmingly, that means young women. Girls are the driving force behind fanfiction by all accounts, and that makes it important in the real world, not just AO3 or Dreamwidth or wherever you post your stuff.

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So you've got this absolutely open, welcoming field that doesn't care about your skill level, just how much you love the source material. But there's another important aspect - who's doing the writing.

And overwhelmingly, that means young women. Girls are the driving force behind fanfiction by all accounts, and that makes it important in the real world, not just AO3 or Dreamwidth or wherever you post your stuff.

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The reason for this is that skill isn't the important element. Love is. <3

Love for the source material. Love for the characters, the situation, the setting, whatever it happens to be that grabs you and won't let you go. The kind of love that makes you want to spend more time in that place, and invite others to do so as well. Maybe you love two things and want to do a crossover. Or you love the characters but want to see how they act in a different universe. It's all good!

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The reason for this is that skill isn't the important element. Love is. <3

Love for the source material. Love for the characters, the situation, the setting, whatever it happens to be that grabs you and won't let you go. The kind of love that makes you want to spend more time in that place, and invite others to do so as well. Maybe you love two things and want to do a crossover. Or you love the characters but want to see how they act in a different universe. It's all good!

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Okay, I promised my take on #fanfiction and here it is. Fanfiction is bad writing, for the most part. I mean not well written prose at all.

And that's GLORIOUS!

I think that's one of the most wonderous things about fanfiction is that how good at #writing you are isn't the point at all. You don't have to be someone with good English (or whatever language you're writing in) skills. Your grammar can be terrible. And yet, you can still write amazing fanfiction.

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Okay, I promised my take on #fanfiction and here it is. Fanfiction is bad writing, for the most part. I mean not well written prose at all.

And that's GLORIOUS!

I think that's one of the most wonderous things about fanfiction is that how good at #writing you are isn't the point at all. You don't have to be someone with good English (or whatever language you're writing in) skills. Your grammar can be terrible. And yet, you can still write amazing fanfiction.

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@DialMforMara Very nice! I did some Xenogears and Final Fantasy stuff back in the day, but these days Love Live: School Idol Project basically owns my brain.

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@DialMforMara Very nice! I did some Xenogears and Final Fantasy stuff back in the day, but these days Love Live: School Idol Project basically owns my brain.

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So out of curiosity, what do people on this here instance think of the practice of #fanfiction?

Love it? Hate it? See it as valueless? Theft, maybe? Or an act of love? How does the community in general see it? Who do you imagine the authors are, and why do they do what they do? Are they wasting time better put to use elsewhere?

I've thought about it a bit, and I'll give my take. But I'm interested in yours without me prompting you to respond a certain way.

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So out of curiosity, what do people on this here instance think of the practice of #fanfiction?

Love it? Hate it? See it as valueless? Theft, maybe? Or an act of love? How does the community in general see it? Who do you imagine the authors are, and why do they do what they do? Are they wasting time better put to use elsewhere?

I've thought about it a bit, and I'll give my take. But I'm interested in yours without me prompting you to respond a certain way.

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Male/male stories are nice and all, but outside my bailiwick so I won't be writing it. I'd be happy if someone gave the idea a good home though.

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Male/male stories are nice and all, but outside my bailiwick so I won't be writing it. I'd be happy if someone gave the idea a good home though.

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Free story idea:
A harpy is born physically male due to a mutation, and is an outcast from the start. Poorly fed, he grows more weak than the others and less able to call on the storm winds. Ostracized and eventually driven out, he despairs until striking up an unlikely friendship - and possibly romance - with a human male. Together they find a place in the harpy's life, complicated by his natural urges, and being blamed for kidnapping the human as harpies are wont to do.

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Free story idea:
A harpy is born physically male due to a mutation, and is an outcast from the start. Poorly fed, he grows more weak than the others and less able to call on the storm winds. Ostracized and eventually driven out, he despairs until striking up an unlikely friendship - and possibly romance - with a human male. Together they find a place in the harpy's life, complicated by his natural urges, and being blamed for kidnapping the human as harpies are wont to do.

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@friendlyrobotpal Same. But not tired *of* being gay.

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@friendlyrobotpal Same. But not tired *of* being gay.

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Oh, I get it! They're people from other instances who haven't been followed by someone here yet. That's something I haven't really encountered much on mastodon.social for obvious reasons. Now it makes sense.

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Oh, I get it! They're people from other instances who haven't been followed by someone here yet. That's something I haven't really encountered much on mastodon.social for obvious reasons. Now it makes sense.

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The heck? There's another person whose toots I can't see on their profile. But when I click through to the external URL I can see them. This doesn't make any sense.

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The heck? There's another person whose toots I can't see on their profile. But when I click through to the external URL I can see them. This doesn't make any sense.

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@phildini Well, that's the hope at least. Right at the moment I just want to stew in the ambience.

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@phildini Well, that's the hope at least. Right at the moment I just want to stew in the ambience.

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Hi there, just started an account to see what this instance is like (my main is @Nezchan@mastodon.social ). I may or may not be lurking for a while. I'll save a proper introduction for a bit, depending on whether I decide to make a second home here.

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Hi there, just started an account to see what this instance is like (my main is @Nezchan@mastodon.social ). I may or may not be lurking for a while. I'll save a proper introduction for a bit, depending on whether I decide to make a second home here.