i feel like the [insert name / hair color / etc here] thing doesn't work unless you like, actually set up an interactive webpage or something where you fill in your name and attributes and then the fic inserts the attributes you put in into the appropriate places this would also allow you to play madlibs with the fic, which would be entertaining
I have no idea what's going on in that thing I wrote, I made it up on the spot before The Handmaid's Tale stream started. The conversation reminded me of the occasional ASMR video where the creator wants to mention something like how nice your hair looks today, but has also realized that not all viewers have hair and wants to include them. It can be done, sort of, but usually not without at bit of awkwardness. And [insert personal attribute here] does always remind me of GLaDOS.
Setup: Character A knows Character B was raped in the past, asks him about it. B's response: Right. Um. I don't want to sound like a total cynic here, but…when was the last time you heard about someone (in the US) being sentenced to life imprisonment for rape? Not to mention, Character B didn't even know the name of the guy who raped him, so I have to assume he gave the police one hell of a description. Oh yeah, and Character B says this later: Sure, that's how things work.
I mean, a judge granted a request for anonymity to the man now suing former speaker of the House Dennis Hastert for sexual assault. But. The plaintiff was a child at the time of the alleged assault. (I say alleged because the trial has not concluded, not because I have any reason to disbelieve the victim.) Also that's a judge, not the hospital and police. I honestly have no idea how those things work, but probably not at all the same way as a court of law.
Yeah, the Hastert case is a civil suit rather than a criminal trial, so different circumstances. Though, in the fic, if the character were underage when the assault happened I'd accept that his name was kept out of the papers, but he was 18/19. (And no hospital should be releasing information about a patient anyway, unless they want to get hella sued.) I mean, maybe I'm just being nitpicky, but like…it's not that hard to google this stuff. :/ very late eta, because I'm like that: Well, on reflection, I'll grant that the victim's name would probably not be publicly released, and since it wouldn't have been a high-profile case or anything likely to garner significant media attention no one would have cared to dig for it. Really my issue is that apparently he was able to keep all of this secret from his mom, which…no.
(You'd think I'd know that given that I've actually read the entirety of HIPAA. It was really, really boring and hard to parse and oh hell this is probably what's wrong with information security in healthcare. Well, one of many things. ETA: The information is not absent, it's just not filed in a useful place. Which is sort of better I guess but not great?)
But consider: fanfic of fanfic is entirely possible! Asking permission from the original author is cool (though hard if they've dropped off the radar), and that's part of why AO3 has the 'inspired by' option
Yeah, it's called Recursive Fanfic. Stuff like Loophole is recursive fanfic, as is a fic I'm currently writing.
THERE´S A CANON FBI AGENT IN THE GAMES YOU COULD BE USING FOR THIS IF YOURE ALREADY WRITING IN VIEWPOINT CHARACTER TRAITS!
and this, folks, is why you either get a beta reader or (if you're me) reread your fic at least half a dozen times in paranoia before posting it. because if you don't, you could be posting... stuff like this. (this also applies to formatting; you've gotta reread your fic after actually posting it to ao3 to make sure it didn't fuck up your spacing and such.)
yep this fic definitely reads like it had never even been touched by a beta reader. and this is not even the first time i've featured it in this thread. :P if it wasn't about an extremely rare ship, i'd have given up on it a very long time ago.
bipolar disorder and did aren't the same thing dammit and they don't make people evil and edgy like this fic's chara either
Is it bad that I find scripts much, much easier to write than prose? Reading, I dunno, but... I mean, not that particular scriptfic, obviously, but...
