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Here's a Mulan fanfic that I thought was quite good! It's a mix of the Disney flick and the original Ballad of Mulan.

There is some violence, because of course there is it is taking the fact of someone going to war seriously. Still, it goes into what if the main character was indeed trans and then how long an actual war would take.

On the bright side, this magazine has enough activity that just making a new thread doesn't jump it to the front on hot/top. On the other, need to remember to click on new to make sure I don't miss Roundups!

On a more "capitalists ruin more things" tumblr is going to join the other big name sites and sell their user's art and images to their choice of AI. Technically not officially announced and it's rumours. But given Tumblr's record of horrible choices I would not be surprised. Further reminder for me to start fixing up my Pillowfort and such lol aaaaa

I'm 3 pages away from finishing my latest comic oneshot. I'm who knows how far away from finishing any pure-text oneshot.

I'm still emotionally shot. Anxiety is amped and it doesn't take much for me to panic. But hey, I'm existing.

Congrats on those microfics! And thank you for sharing the event. That's a nice one to vibe with~ (helped you finish 3 fics and a pattern? Insane!)

Things easy get quiet when kbin is still struggling in showing when magazines update, let alone comments. Thank you everyone who keeps posting to push through!

I've... also not been good. Lots of panic attacks, sobbing, etc. Real life issues aside, I finally had my breakthrough with the comic I thought I was going to be posting last year but couldn't. If I don't fumble it should start posting next week (9 pages queued 4 more to ink).

It will be nice to get one more story on my anthology out before I reach its 5th birthday. Trying not to be mad that I haven't managed to finish the 2nd book of my Anthology before the 5th birthday. But also. Need to remind me to forgive myself? When your therapist is also saying, "holy fuck that's a lot on your plate" it helps reinforce to me that I'm actually doing really well considering what is always looming.

I have posted another "first" fanfic. Unless someone corrects me I am now the only person to have posted a Squirrel Stapler fanfic. Once again I expected it to be 1-2 hits at most due to curious friends but got a comment from someone who read it blind!

I keep wanting to get into a challenge thing and participate with others but it need to be the right thing given how drained I am. Will look into the fanprompts on Mastodon, thank you~

When it comes to "write this much in this time limit" it helps a lot if you just punch perfection in the face. Allow yourself to write [cool/sad fight scene here], [she said the exact right thing that inspired them to be less stupid], etc, move on and don’t look back to edit until months later. Best wishes on your challenge!

#fanart #watercolour #zelda #botw (part 2)

@avividtale

I just got a comment that was entirely in caps. Usually I don’t like when people write in all caps, but in a comment? Screaming about how much they love the chapter? Yes please!

@avividtale That's awesome! I love it when you find one person out there who can also fall in love with your niche preferences. :)

@lexr86 Congrats!

Ohohoh! If you ever feel like sharing your comic drafts (original or fan) I'm very here for that! (Please excuse my obliviousness to most Fire Emblem things though!)

Reading: If The King of Games has updated that is always the guaranteed read. Orochimama by WhoaMama is also a must read whenever it updates, but that is more of a "once per couple of month" if one is lucky. Comic wise, most of what has updated is on the original side.

Writing: Have a couple of oneshots that are very near finished but I desire to double check a couple of facts to make sure they are correct. Are these facts that important to the story at large? No. But I need them.

Writing+Drawing: The first 4 pages to my latest Pokémon Mystery Dungeon story have been posted. 8 queued. Need to finish the others. Hard to say when because I draw just as much out of order as I do in writing. Page 17 will likely be finished before the 13th. Weh.

Drawing: A friend introduced me to Traveller a while back. I've been having trouble getting into it because despite being one of the oldest ttrpgs there is next to no art (official or fanwise) to help me get into the work. I'm a very visual person. So instead, for a lark, I've decided to draw my own renditions of the various species that exist in Traveller purely by their text descriptions. It will be a fun experiment.

@a_mac_and_con Ah, that makes sense. I saw the list of categories & assumed it was a general fanfic site at first.

@lexr86 Never heard of it before, so I looked it up. I guess it must have started as a Twilight focused place for fanfiction, because there are 6K+ stories and 4.6k of them are Twilight.

used to lurk in a variety of subreddits (most notably kirby and deltarune)! and now i'm actively participating in !kirby and to a lesser extent !deltarune. well, not as much in the past few days due to being busy with other stuff

@borzoiteeth Huzzah! I love it. With your permission, I definitely will use this as our icon! Maybe as the magazine evolves and more people talk about their fandoms, we can swap out the bird's cosplay. XD

@lexr86 Thank you! I wasn't exactly thinking of necessarily adding MORE fandoms. My thought was more of, "is there a better combination of fandoms to display" instead.

@borzoiteeth Looks great!

I think you could drive yourself mad trying to cover too many fandoms, & this looks really approachable without being cluttered.

@borzoiteeth love it!

@fede i do this for my fics all the time coz im too lazy to think of an actual description

@borzoiteeth I honestly think it's a great thing about self-driven projects (as opposed to commercial/money-making work). Even if it takes an age, if the desire to finish it is there, it'll get done & probably with better quality than if it was a commercial piece that's rushed out to meet an arbitrary deadline.

Preface

please excuse Grammar and organization, but still point out mistakes.

I have no experience with these kinds of things, and this community is probably too small for my suggestion, but keep this in mind if the community grows. Also sorry if I commented too late, and I really hope I get a reply, even if it's just "that's way too much work.".

the Icon

I think we should periodically elect a fandom, and style the icon off of it. This is a fandom of fandoms, what else would it be, a caligaph of the ligature "ff"‽

If you elect these often, as I will soon suggest, than they wouldn't have to be extravagant. they could be an asset rip, cropped image, "ff" in a font, etc. or you could host an art competition, with the with the winner getting credited in the magazine's description if nothing else.

Beyond the Icon

Somewhat related, I think we should have these kinds of elections for other things to. Like top [Genre] fan-fiction, top OC, top dialog, etc. Mods would post the criteria, and users would reply with nominations, then mods pick a number of works(might require some kind of script), and put it up to vote. these would help consumers find works, and help artists get found.

you could have different brackets based on views, hits, etc. this would give the smaller works a chance.

Not a Popularity Contest

All these elections could make the community too competitive. you don't want to moderate a community of people clawing for approval, and resenting those who beat them, do you? The point of the elections is to lift the community up, not pit it against one another.

You'd want to host them often, and have no prizes. this would mean the reward of winning is short lived, and there will be ample opportunities to win. they will be more accessible and less prestigious. Furthermore state explicitly that they're not to be taken too seriously.

@borzoiteeth Ha! Which one?

@borzoiteeth @a_mac_and_con
Welp, I finished it & don't think it's utterly terrible so now it's out there in the world & I'll see if anyone loves or hates it enough to comment! 😅