/oc/ - Original Creation

Does anyone else feel like writing fanfictions for a long time killed your enjoyment of reading fanfics (for the most part)? For example, I've been writing fanfics for several years now, and regardless of the fandom, I can't help but feel like a lot of writers make mistakes that take me so out of a fic that it makes it hard to read. Sometimes I think people don't proofread what they wrote even once before posting. And, I don't even necessarily mean characterization or OOC stuff… A lot of what kills fanfiction is just bad grammar or bad flow.
Or maybe I'm just an asshole IDK.

>>953
I feel the opposite I started being way more charitable after starting to write since I know even after proofreading my works don't hit my standards. I have no patience for people who can't be bothered to use capitalization or paragraphs, but more compassion for minor errors or even lackluster story telling since I'd want people to be charitable to me in return.

>>953
It killed some of my interest in that I don't want to read fanfics until I've written my own. I don't want to be corrupted by fandom perceptions.

I used to roleplay BL scenarios on Worlize circa 2014/2015. Usually with OCs but from time to time it'd be homestuck, okegom or whatever fandom was trendy at the time. I'd also draw the avatars myself.

The game i used to do it in died circa 2020 with flash although userbase-wise it was already dead by 2018. I miss it and want to do it again but I'm about to turn 26 this year and feel like i'm a bit too old for it now (most people i've seen who RP are typically in their early to mid 10's). I also hate doing it via discord or whatever people use now, it's not the same as having a moving gif avatar.

>>950
I don't use it for that myself, but I always hear the Dreamwidth has a pretty sizable and active roleplay community on there. If it makes you feel better, the average user on there tend to skew much older too

>>951
Yeah i have an abandoned dreamwidth from around the same year but i never used it for more than just blogging about life. I personally prefer something closer to a game for RPing, that's why in the early 2010's i would RP in Worlize (picrel).

If there's something like that but modern i'd love to try it out. So far Whirled is the closest thing i've tried but you can't upload pngs/gifs and rooms don't work the same way so i didn't really stick around. I mainly just want to roleplay my shitty KaiLen ideas with someone who can play along and not see me as a nuisance.

>>921
this is beautiful anon. You have a real talent!

>>370
HIII THIS IS VERY LATE BUT OMGGGG I LOVE THIS!!! AHHHH HE LOOKS SO CUTE I'M GENUINELY CRYING thank you nonachama :'3 you made my baby look so so cute ;_;

Tim

>>602
The male super pose book
https://files.catbox.moe/r6qph7.pdf

LEZHIN Point Character Drawing: https://files.catbox.moe/xwoq1f.pdf

All of the figures are drawn with anime stylization which has been pretty helpful for me.

I want to draw a character bound by testicles, where would I find references to learn how to draw something like that?

>>875
what a relic especially love the fujo you depicted, such a queen

>>875
>Sonadow
You did nothing wrong

>>877
>>893
Samefag as >>875 thank you both!
I also randomly remembered this other fanart I made but I can't show it since it has my name stapled all over. To give you the gist, I was big on inazuma 11 after my sonic craze, and I would do my best to depict my otp naked. To me, it was the cool shit. I was joining the other teens like myself, drawing their own yaoi otp as such.
But the truth was, I was a hormonal af and my anatomy was bad. That scribble wasn't sexy at all, it was mid at best, lmao. Bonus : Funny enough, dA never tried to ban that post, unlike the sonadow one.

>>912
>>910
NAYRT but I love this. Going to forever resent this not being real.

Gay isekai where all the beastmen are good looking kemonomimi, but the females are furry animals and ugly monsters. The male protagonist despairs because he can't get off to animals and has to go gay or never lose his virginity.

>>930
please make this into a webcomic or something anon

>>896
>>897
Thank you nonnas! Drawing and reading fanfic are my only copes right now kek.

>>894
Oh this is gorgeous nona! I almost mistook it for a screencap until I saw the thread topic. Excellent booba cleavage as well, great job!

Do you experience this phenomenon where you are drawing fanart and you don't really care about likes or anything but about this one specific person (usually some Japanese or Chinese artist who likes the same tertiary character as you) noticing your pic?
It's like a stealthy gift to one single twitter user who happens to like the same niche character or pairing as you and also be an artist or writer you love and they're obsessed with him/them so you want to see them getting happy.

I am usually not the type of person that cares about such things or even gifts in general, but this specific experience always makes me happy. Maybe because I know myself how lonely it is to like niche shit, so you get hyped about every art piece you discover. And such people might even get inspired by an artwork. I sometimes witness them posting shit (that I translate) where they talk to themselves and get ideas thanks to my art and the same happens to me when I see their art.

>>807
Ah that would be really cool Anona, that concept but fully gay would be so cool

I've been making a point-and-click/visual novel set in an abandoned rural place/forest with male characters the mc can encounter and become emotionally intimate with. It's my first ever game project so I'm sure it's shit but I don't really know who to share it with and where…

>>835
>I don't really know who to share it with and where…
itch.io does yaoi game jams every year so maybe you can release your game as a part of that project.

Didn't draw pic related obviously, but have you nonas ever experienced something like this? For me I have a centaur and satyr OC who both started by me drawing Fig Cookie and Cream Unicorn Cookie a lot. The devs don't really care to give content to those two characters so I was like "fine I'll do it myself", but they've evolved much more and now I'm trying to make my own story in a fantasy setting with my own world-building and different fantasy races.

>>831
Oh absolutely. A lot of the DNA of my OCs is a hodgepodge of beloved characters trapped in a medium that failed to deliver either a satisfying character arc or a dynamic that should have been romantic. This one-off character from a Yu Yu Hakusho movie is the 30-year-old template for an OC that is almost completely unrecognizable now. If you follow fandom artists long enough you can sometimes see this process live.

>>831
A couple OCs I had through the end of highschool were basically FMA characters rebranded as shapeshifting hellhounds. I don't think people would recognize them by name or personality, but one of them kept a really similar design for the longest. I still think of them fondly but it was pretty goofy powertripping and the world building was extremely vague for large swathes of it. I don't recall any actual plot, just saying they had a dimensional portal and throwing them into crossovers with whatever I wanted. Most of all I made them cuddle and bother each other. One of them was a smug asshole who knew he could get away with it, and the other was the grumpy fuck who bailed him most of the time.

>>832
It's a really cool design, I can see why you'd want to take elements of it.