1. Ratings
Ratings are important.
On ao3 you have G, T, M, E, or no rating.
Something important to know is that Explicit is usually used on really smutty fics. And sometimes it's used for really really violent fics.
If you're writing smut, I recommend you rate it M or E. (Depends on the smut, really)
Teen and General should be easy to figure out. They're for more tamer fics, but Teen is usually used if the fic has swearing or just a little bit of violence.
2. Tags
Tags such as "hurt/comfort" or "enemies to lovers" or "alternate universe" makes it really easy for readers to find what they're looking for when they turn to filters for help.
What kind of story are you writing? Is it fluffy? Is it angsty? Does it have a major conflict that the character goes through? Will the story have a happy ending? Try to be specific. Make your reader excited by giving them a hint.
I also recommend relationship tags. If it's a platonic/family relationship, tag "character a & character b". If it's romantic, make it "character a/character b". It's very important that you never mix up the two with certain dynamics (like an adult and a child) because it will drive readers away. Anyway, relationship tags also make easier for readers to find what they're looking for. It's also good to include more than one!
(For example, I more often than not find a fic that has scenes of Eda being motherly to Luz, but it does not include the "Eda Clawthorne & Luz Noceda" tag, just "Amity Blight/Luz Noceda", and it's kinda frustrating)
Character tags are just as important. And I think that's easy to figure out.
3. Warnings
Reading those charts should be easy enough. If your story includes any violence, major character death, or r*pe, include a warning. This isn't a case of a reader finding the story, but more of them knowing what they're getting into.
4. Ships
People mix these up commonly.
For example, I've seen people mistake F/F for platonic/family relationship when really it's usually used romantically.
Much like relationship tags, it's important to not mix up the difference, otherwise the reader may get confused.
(Also I've seen the "other" tag be used for Raeda stories so I assume that's an appropriate tag for enby ships)
One of the most amazing and detailed destiny desings I’ve seen
commission for a client
Camila and Luz both held Vee’s hands the first time she went through the portal door and returned to the Demon Realm
Vee is every one of the Hexsquad’s wingman. She’s give Hunter, Luz, Amity, and Willow dating advice.
Steve, Lilith, and Hunter joined forces to debelosify/decoven the Isles. They went around tearing down Belos statues and defacing Emperor’s Coven insignia.
Gus and Amity have gotten better at Spanish.
Lilith and Hunter are still rivals in a playful way. They occasionally recall their Head Witch and Golden Guard personas when trying to one up each other.
King found a way to reawaken Jean Luc.
Emira had her own episode with Eda and earned her Bad Girl Coven shirt.
Odalia and Alador got divorced. And Odalia got kicked out of the house.
Tinella Nosa now lives in the Clawthorne tower. She pays rent.
Anne and Luz have kept touch.
Luz and Amity made Good Witch Azura popular and it’s a best seller on the Boiling Isles now.
Per Vee’s request, Masha was the first other human to be told about and granted passage to the Demon Realm.
Vee cried when Luz introduced her to Stringbean.
Jacob went to jail.
Camila has created her own Dominican spin on Apple Blood.
Vee and King became friends the same way Lilith and Hooty did.
Luz found out about Amity’s Grom note.
Principal Bump loved his Hexside memorial.
Gus and Matt kept their promise to the Keeper and helped restored the Illusionist Graveyard.
Luz kept her promise to the Bat Queen.
Eda finally returned the favor (and the whistle) to the Bat Queen.
King and the Collector have repurposed King’s Island into their “treehouse.”
Vee took Masha to Grom. And Vee became Grom Queen.
Luz, Hunter, and Camila accompanied Vee in her search for the other Basilisks.
Vee had a “Katara find finds the man who killed her mother” moment with Warden Wrath.
Everyone finds out Evelyn was a Clawthorne (obviously) and Hunter gets accepted into the Clawthorne family.
Hunter goes to Hexside.
Alador and Edric have a cheesy “I’m proud of you, son” moment. Probably over something silly like pranking Odalia.
And that's how we got Ruined Monty
I played L4D2 (using FNAF mods) with @chippiee as Monty and me as Roxy, and while I was trying to heal her, she didn't want me to and kept closing the door on me while she locked herself in a bathroom :'D I had to draw that stupid shenanigans hahaha
What if Vee and Hunter got the chance to meet in the Demon Realm. Leading to Hunter discovering the monster Belos really is (What if AU #2)
This one could start with Hunter being very stressed after failing a mission for Belos. A passing Scout notices this and says something like "go out and touch some grass kid, you look awful" realizing he has nothing better to do he goes out (without the uniform, gonna blend with the civilians)
During his little adventure, he comes across a homeless kid probably asking for food or money. Hunter, who was planning to spend his salary in something for himself, decides to also buy something for the kid and stay with her until she is done.
It becomes a habit for Hunter to go out every once in a while and, if he is in the mood, check on the kid he encountered that day. He goes from buying food, and clothes to her to actually showing concern when he finds her injured after she got robbed by someone (he shortly after found who and beat the crap out of them.)
Many things happen between them every time they meet. One time while being out Hunter was accused of robbery and had no choice but to run away from the scouts, he is shortly saved by Vee who guides him around the alleyways until he loses his trackers.
Also, with every visit, both of them discover something from each other, mostly bad things. from each other's nasty scars to the way they react to certain things (Vee's absolute raw fear of the Emperor's coven) to (Hunter's absolute obsession to pleasure his Uncle)
After some things happen, (Hunter discovers that Vee is a basilisk, then she disappears shortly after) and starts to investigate some of the most obscure Coven's activities. Hunter not only discovers the way the rest of the isles are being treated by them, but His investigation also leads him to the secret floors of the Conformatoriun, which inside are taking place not only the basilisk experiments.
And then after a couple more major plot moments, Hunter discovers Belos's plans, discovers he is a Grimmwalker, and that the Titan's will is no more than a lie. Vee and Hunter escape Belos to live together as low-key criminals. As sister and brother willing to trust each other with their lives.
I'm planning to work in this one someday, but I'm already busy with the other two Long-Fics so it... Better to just leave this one here in case I forget about it. I also have many loose ideas for this story, like, maybe at some point they escape to the Human Realm with Eda's help?
Anyway, feel free to share any ideas, believe me, having somebody to talk about this would be quite helpful so... don't be shy!
I’m gonna be sharing my Owl House Wips and Aus for a while now that it’s over and I’m definitely hyper fixating on them.
Open Portal Au
Luz, her sister Vee, and their childhood friend Hunter end up exploring an old house that was said to have belonged to a “witch” many years ago and a number of people went missing in it too. While both Luz and Vee could only hope it was haunted, Hunter was more hoping it was just empty. Not that he was scared per say, but his dad did want him back in time for dinner and he wasn’t sure if any ghosts would be fine with them just saying hi and bye like the girls insisted.
Though what they find instead of ghosts happens to be a portal to a demon realm they never knew existed.
Hunter, Vee, and Darius are all human. Hunter was adopted by Darius and Vee was adopted by Camila.
I really would’ve made all three of them siblings but I still wanted Dadrius.
Also Masha is a witch.
yeah, there’s nothing straight in this account
HAIL CAMILEDA!
this is my concept for young Camila Noceda
Espero les guste chicos, ¡los amo mucho!
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
⁂
Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
This one was written during Season of the Witch, after Immaru said what he said to Eris.
Link to Ao3 if you prefer to read it there.
Ikora Rey and Eris Morn stood together at the table in Ikora’s office, pouring over a map of Savathun’s spire, the locations of various secrets marked upon it. Eris was adding the details of the unlock mechanism for another location that had been found in the most recent passthrough.
Immaru floated in from an adjoining room, angrily hovering over the map, his spiked shell shivering in rage.
“Figures you’d be here. Something I said must’ve touched a nerve. I had a little visit last night from your psychopath boyfriend.”
Ikora looked at Eris in confusion. Eris shrugged and shook her head.
“Eris doesn’t have a… boyfriend.”
“Are you kidding me? Have you seen the way that guy looks at her?”
“What guy?” Ikora asked.
Eris looked up impassively from her adjustments. “I have no idea who you are speaking of.”
“Sketchy. Wears a lot of green. Has a fucked up sewed together abomination of a ghost that can’t speak?” Immaru visibly shuddered.
“Hmmm…” Eris returned to the detail she was providing on the map. “…and what did the Drifter say to you that has you so terrified?”
“That’s the thing. He didn’t say anything. Just stood there staring at me with those cold dead eyes. Then he bounced a coin off of me a few times while that darkness mutated freak he calls a ghost scanned me. Like he was figuring out which bits of me he could cut off without being noticed. Didn’t matter what I said to him. He just stared at me. Then he walked away.”
“It does not sound like anything of note happened at all.” Eris said dispassionately.
“I’m curious as to how he got in there.” Ikora muttered.
“The Drifter has his… methods.”
“That wasn't nothing that happened.” Immaru floated closer to Eris, his shell twisting sideways. “I’ve given enough threats to know when I’m receiving one. You keep that psycho away from me. You need me. Someone like that doesn’t follow the rules. Someone like that’ll cut you up for no reason, just because, just like he did his own ghost. He’s unhinged.”
Ikora sighed, “I will increase security.”
“I do not control the Drifter,” Eris stood as she finished her sketch detailing the order in which the runes needed to be activated to open that particular door. “…and, with all due respect to Ikora’s security methods, if there is somewhere he wishes to be, there isn’t much anyone can do to keep him out.” She twitched her fingers and her soulfire wreathed Ahamkara bone flew from where it had been sitting on Ikora’s desk to her hand. “If you do not want him to visit you, I recommend you avoid taking actions which might attract his notice.”
“Yeah it’s totally just coincidence he showed up after I started talking shit about your dead ghost. Not related at all.”
Ikora raised her eyebrows.
“Hmmm…” Eris turned to leave.
“The fuck are you smiling about.” Immaru snarled.
“Hmmm…” She walked out the door, cradling her glowing orb.
Isere and Allia are a pair of basilisk siblings cloned from the same extinct egg samples, about as biologically related as they could be
Isere is more of a nervous wreck compared to his sister despite being older, he just wants to be left alone and avoids conflict
Allia is more defiant and firey, the kind to speak up when Isere is too scared to as she was more exposed to the post Belos era and didn't have to live in fear as long as her brother
An Unofficial Map of the Boiling Isles- Created after immense research into the Geography and Lore of the Boiling Isles. I spent SO much time and effort on this, both combing through episodes, and the lengthy art process. But I think it paid off.