I do not care about my responsibilities but I do care about rpf yaoi
Person who's listened to 10 Will Wood songs: Yeah I think my favourite definitely has to be Against the Kitchen Floor
Person who's listened to 100 Will Wood songs: Oh god no I'm not into any of that overrated stuff. You gotta listen to Bob Zmuda v. James Carrey off the original TRWW album or maybe Front Row Seats from his Jamface days
Person who's listened to 500 Will Wood songs: Yeah I think my favourite definitely has to be Against the Kitchen Floor
My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.
Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?
What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?
Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.
I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately
But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"
Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character
Cologne Cathedral - Köln/Germany
FRANK LAUGHING SO LOUD YOU CAN HEAR IT OFF THE MIC
I did a thing.
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 (2026)




