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my heart is a tripwire

@atlantablack / atlantablack.tumblr.com

Atlanta | she/they | 30’s | queer | I’m always sobbing about something- ask me what it is this time
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I am here to have a good time (ie: cry scream have a meltdown over the silly little fictional people I'm emotionally attached to)

I fear this blog is more Silmarillion than not these days ✌🏼

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  • Tolkien (#Tolkien #silm #lotr #the hobbit)
  • Stranger Things (#st)
  • BBC Merlin (#bbcm)
  • Marvel (#mcu)
  • Poetry, prose etc... (#poetry for the soul)
  • Art, photography etc... (#art for the heart)
  • Fandom history/facts (#On Fandom)
  • Writing Advice/memes (#On Writing)

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#intro post#to be pinned
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i don't know how you post-as-you-go long fic writers do it because i just went back 50,000 words and retconned all of chapter 2 in a 25+ chapter fic and i sure as fuck couldn't have done it if i were publishing it chapter by chapter.

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Except that you can. I've gone back and fixed things in previous chapters. I'm gonna do it for one of my incomplete docs here shortly because I madeup a street name in a game and realized just now that there is an actual name for it.

If you're using AO3 it is meant to be a living archive. That means the fic doesn't have to stay perfectly the same since the day you post it. I make grammatical or small word changes to my fic all the time when I go back and read them for fun. Teeny stuff.

But big changes are okay too. Adding in some foreshadowing. Removing a paragraph that no longer makes sense. Make a note to your audience if you think you should or just don't address it whichever. Some people may act like these kinds of changes are bad. But it's your work. It should look how you want it.

And it's genuinely a thing that happens in real publishing too. There are cases where authors on second or third reprints will change some things.

#oh yeah for multi chapter fic that I’m posting as I write#I WILL go back and edit if I need to#I do not allow myself to edit one-shots after they’re posted#aside from like spelling/grammar mistakes#because I will in fact get my little perfectionist brain worked up into a tizzy#and then probably stare at it too long and get mad and delete it
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let's write a second chapter from Fëanor's POV I said. What could go wrong I said. It's only a PWP how could it possibly get out of hand. -.- this bastard said what about a ✨backstory✨

#atlanta rambles#i don't want this#I just want them to fuck#in a very specific way#I do NOT want Fëanor's goddamn thoughts about what goddamn epiphanies he had in Mandos#i ESPECIALLY do not want his fucking thoughts about what advice his mother gave him in Mandos#because SHE said hey what if make this an ENTIRE AU and i#no#I will be killing so many darlings#throwing this in the basket with the other murdered darlings for a later time#Fingolfin cooperated with me so well :(#honestly....I don't know why I expected Fëanor to do the same ugh#this one is also....shaping up to be distinctly longer than Fingolfin's chapter#because of bloody course it is
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one time salt / the next honey / each disguised to cover poison

6,229 | T+ | no archive warnings apply Celegorm/Dior/Nimloth

In which Celegorm tries to do some reconnaissance on Doriath, finds some children in the woods, does his good deed for the century, and promptly gets taken prisoner for it. Dior's bitter he can't just murder Celegorm. After all, he's not one of the eldar, it doesn't count as kinslaying if he does it. Nimloth's impressed no one is dead yet and plans on keeping it that way for as long as possible.
#atlanta's writing#Tolkien#silmarillion#Celegorm x Dior x Nimloth#Celegorm x Dior#Celegorm/Dior/Nimloth#Celegorm/Dior#if you're like hey Atlanta do you ever sleep#the answer would be no actually I have insomnia and have not been sleeping#but it's fine everything is fine#the demons just keep demanding to be exorcised
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