villain: hello pro hero deku! you have an appointment with death this evening :)
deku: oh... wow haha that’s super embarrassing haha but i already have a date tonight :)
villain: oh yeah?? you think ur hot shit??
deku: i’m taking kacchan out for dinner so yes i do :)
[dead silence]
deku: we’ve been planning this for weeks actually so i don’t think kacchan will be too happy to reschedule 🤔
villain: that’s not what i meant....
deku: hold on... lemme ask him
[deku calls only to quieten the muffled screeching and profanities on the other line]
deku: he said no :)
uhh im drawing smth for my bsd astronomy au i swear i have just been busy w other stuff and also Writing The Thing but in the meantime here is a drawing of dazai and chuuya that i turned in to my astronomy teacher for our cosmology unit (i did get a 100 if u were wondering lol)
I had this idea, Toshi is an orc who is looking after his human/elf baby, Izuku.
Anon your mind. What a great idea! An angry orc traveling far and wide with adopted little elf!izuku. And yea, Toshinori even made him a little flower crown- but don't mention it to him.. it may be the last thing you ever do.
i love her so much
Dad wars
Wars against dads
Decided to get back into art and chose to make the most cursed fanart of Dream I could imagine, inspired somehow by Technoblade saying we draw Dream's skin wrong he's just a teletubby with eyes for nips, I'm sorry for bringing this curse into the world
It’s okay! Everyone’s nice here!
red snow, part one: cry for help
a smile so rare, it counts as a disguise :)
The quickest, the easiest! Find a section of your fic that contains the main premise of said fic and also showcases your writing. Copy paste that into the summary box. BOOM! Done.
Best used for any fic, unless it's so short the excerpt would be the whole fic.
Just a description of the fic. No need for drama. No need to complicate matters. Keep it simple, keep it safe.
Example: "A short character exploration of Blorbo's thoughts after Daisy leaves."
Best used for short fics, poems and fics where the style/format is more important than the plot. Or fics that tie directly into a scene/episode from canon or another fanfic.
Draw the reader's interest by giving them a set up with no conclusion. Introduce the main character(s), introduce the status quo, describe an inciting incident, leave a question in the reader's mind.
Example: "Blorbo is a barista at a coffee shop, struggling to pay their bills, but after handsome rockstar Obrolb walks into their coffee shop they find that they have to decide whether a chance at love is worth the cost of fame."
Best used for mid to long fic where there's a strong premise and follow through. Especially good for AUs. Can be expanded for more complex plots or used multiple times in one summary for multiple characters or subplots.
"The one in which [over simplified description of one of the main plotlines]" This is essentially 'boil your plot down to the very simplest statement you can, oversimplify if possible. The more bizarre or unhelpful the better.
Example: "The one in which Blorbo learns to like cake".
Best used for fics with at least a little humour in them.
Three is a magic number. Find three key moments in your fic and just list them. That's it. Often ends with 'not necessarily in that order' if used for comic effect. If it's an AU, establish that quickly (i.e. 'Star NHL player Blorbo…').
Example: "Blorbo makes a friend, falls in love, and almost burns to death, not necessarily in that order."
Best used for anything, really. Three is a magic number. The human brain loves things that come in threes.
Why bother describing the plot? We all know AO3 readers are here for the tropes. Similar to The Sitcom One-Liner just using tropes instead of plot. Often followed by the phrase 'that nobody asked for'.
Example: "The Space western/ABO/Mail Order Bride fic that nobody asked for."
Often tacked on to the end of The Hook or The Excerpt as a tl;dr.
Best used for fic that plays its tropes straight with no shame or second guessing.
(Not recommended) You just wrote this fic, the self doubt is consuming you. You feel the need to apologise profusely for your existence for no apparently reason. You feel cringe, you think the fic is cringe, you want everyone to know that you think the fic is cringe in case they don't like it and judge you for it.
Example: "So I fell in love with this pairing and had to write this. It's weird and terrible. Lol! I suck at summaries! Sorry!"
Best used for no fics ever. I cannot stress this enough.
(Seriously, I am begging you, don't do this. If you're planning to use this option, rethink it and do one of the others. I guarantee you more people will want to read your fic.)
Sometimes added on to any other summary as a strange disclaimer. (srsly. don't.)
Embrace the mayhem, embrace the deep dark depths of your soul. The opposite of The Pre-emptive Strike. A combination of The No Frills and The Trope Lure that truly gives no fucks.
You have committed crimes and you are proud of them. You know what your USP is and you're going to make sure your target market finds you. Look upon my works, ye readers, and despair!
Example: "There aren't enough tentacle fics in this pairing, so I had to write one myself!"
Best used for fics with controversial/polarising tropes with all relevant details already clearly stated in the tags.
What if you wrote a summary entirely in questions? What if your readers had to read the fic to discover the answers? Who knows what will happen if you do this?
Example: "What happens when Blorbo McBlorbo gets his wish and Daisy doesn't make it to the plane on time? What happens when Obrolb finds out? How will this change Daisy and Blorbo's friendship?"
Best used for... I honestly don't know. This style of summary does not vibe with me. Mystery fic maybe? Sorry guys.
Got a bunch of shorter fics in one work? No way of summarising them all without a wall of text larger than the Great Wall of China? This one is similar to The No Frills in that you're not describing the plots themselves and similar to The Trope Lure in that often broader genres and tropes are mentioned. What links those fics? Are they all in the same fandom? The same pairing? The same challenge? Just slap that right in the summary. A chapter list with 1-2 word trope/pairing summaries can be included or not.
Example: "A collection of Blorbo/Daisy/Obrolb fics based on Tumblr prompts. Chapter 1: Regency AU Chapter 2: Werewolves vs vampires Chapter 3: Ghost!Daisy Chapter 4: Space pirates!"
Best used for (obviously) works that are compilations of fic.
I said The Excerpt was the quickest and easiest summary to do. I lied, well... I didn't exactly lie. What is quicker and easier than not having a summary at all? After all, that's what the tags are for.
Example:
Best used for... nothing? Write a summary, guys. Please?
It's not lost on me how the Titan willingly showed Luz his language to share their power with her right from the beginning, as soon as she'd proved herself a friend to King, on a day she needed a little help to connect with him how he needed her to
The way the phone glitched when it was cracked always stood out to me as strange, and now we know why. That was the Titan intervening through reflective surfaces to share his magic with Luz for the very first time
Then we see this even more clearly with the Ice glyph, how he literally moves the stars around to show her another bit of his language with her, right as she's getting discouraged about only knowing one spell and she needs some help to get into Hexside and truly become a witch
I doubt that Fire glyph would have appeared if anybody else had caught that grudgby ball. If it would, then witches would know all about at least that glyph in particular. But nobody recognized how Luz did magic. The Titan intervened again and showed her how to make fire
And there's something kind of poetic to me that Fire is the last glyph Luz learned to become a witch fluent in the language of the Titan, and how fire is connected to humanity as one of the very first things we learned and the mastery of which helped define us as a species hundreds of thousands of years ago
When she finally learned Fire, she knew all the basic ingredients at last. She had finally stepped out of the realm of humans and had become, in her own way, a full-fledged witch. Her mastery of the element is what signified the birth of a human witch. There's a lot of symbolism to unpack in there
I'd say the only glyph Luz discovered on her own would be the one for Plants, given how they're more interested in magic than science I doubt many witches would've looked so closely at a flower before, but it's possible the Titan intervened yet again and rewarded her for her curiosity
The original human witch claimed he could speak to the Titan, but he was actually speaking to and protecting Luz from the very beginning