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Well cushioned ❤️💛

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to artists I recommend:

watermark any and all fanart you post

watermark your original stuff too

make your watermark your @ handle or a URL. slap it on clearly and legibly. don't make it cutesy or tiny or hidden. make it so people can find you.

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anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

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Not going to reblog or mention the post where I saw these tags, but wow this sentiment sucks as someone who mostly writes one-shots when she writes fic. How does commenting on one-shots not translate to motivation for the writer to continue writing them? What is the thought process there?

Commenting is contributing to fandom; it's a dialogue with the writer while engaging in the community, in theory, and flat out claiming there's no need for it...? Sad, but not particularly unexpected, I guess.

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I too have joined the bluesky app~ give me a follow so I can follow back :>

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Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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Just a couple a guys bein' dudes~

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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AO3 Kudos and Comments

For all those beautiful AO3 readers out there...

I get an email notification from AO3 every time I get kudos or comments on my fics. I receive those emails while I'm at my soul-sucking day job.

It is a blinding flash of pure joy and delight and love, that floats me along for the rest of the day (and several days after).

So, if you're reading and enjoying someone's fic on AO3... PLEASE KUDO AND COMMENT telling them how much you love it! You are literally feeding their soul.

Bonus points if you tell them what specifically you love, and why, and how much.

DOUBLE BONUS POINTS if you quote your favorite lines from their work. <-Writers love this

***THANK YOUUUU <3 <3 <3 we don't do it for money, we do it because we LOOOVE to do it and we can't not do it, and we love to share it and talk to others who love it too!!!!!!***

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Just a lil update; I have not lost interest in deadpool & wolverine stuff, there’s still so much I wanna draw but unfortunately tendinitis has finally caught up to me and that makes drawing stuff very hard 🫠 and my final project is at a stage where I should start animating too so that’s fucking great hahaha

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I couldn’t stand how I rendered this originally so I redid it so I can actually stand to look at it (and the bg reminded me too much of ronald mcdonald lmao)

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After rewatching the previous Deadpool movies recently, I have come to the conclusion that the main story thread that ties all the movies together is Wade’s discovery that he really is a bottom.

So while we saw him in the first movie not really enjoying pegging at all, in the second one he won’t shut up about it. Him saying he’s not a natural bottom just ties it all together perfectly; he wasn’t when we first started this journey with him, but he’s gone through a lot of changes that lead to him being a proud, unabashed size-queen.

Anyway thanks for listening I don’t accept criticism ✌️

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It's the first week after leaving the Void behind. Logan's just trying to become a better man and get used to this new life.

But that also means confronting his feelings towards Wade.

Because what happened in the Odyssey must NOT stay in the Odyssey. Part 2 of my Poolverine Series~

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Kitty Kitty Bang Bang - Pages 1-3/4-6 (Coming soon)

The origins of Wolverkitty <3

I just felt like Logan really was in lack of a kitty cat, and Mary Puppins needs a sibling after all :]

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Can you imagine looking at them beautiful brown eyes filled with love and admiration and not breaking??

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My own take on the Honda Odyssey fight 😎

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Some doodles of flirty Logan - because I think we can all agree that he absolutely flirted back at Wade 👀

Also love the idea of Wade always dishing it out but not being able to take it because he’s so not used to it being reciprocated when it comes to men~