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me @ my mutuals

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Don't you think you owe it to readers to give them what they want?

No? What an odd take. Read my fic or don't.

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all debates abt the artistic merits of fanfiction fail to recognize the purpose of fic. you don’t write fic to be published or to learn how to construct a narrative although you can use it to develop style. you write it so that your friends will message you “bestie you’re utterly deranged for this one im eating dirt” 

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Yes, your worldbuilding is thorough, your geography meticulous, your plotting elaborate, and your characterisation nuanced, but answer me this: is there a fucked up little guy?

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thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

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I was just thinking about how important it is to have authors (both fan and professional) with whom I feel... safely unsafe, if that makes sense.

Like, this is going to hurt, there are going to be things that happen to these characters that I absolutely Do Not Want to happen, but I trust you and I trust this ride.

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wishing all artists a very sincere "get weirder with it" this coming year

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so crazy to me that someone can say “I’ve been in this fandom for a month I’ve been in it for pretty long” like no girliepop it is NOT long. there are people out there who’ve been abnormal about their blorbos for DECADES; a month is naught but a speck of lint on the fandom dedication timeline. you are lying to yourself.

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a They Deserve Each Other shipping scale where on one end of the axis you have the “no one else is good enough for them” ships, and on the other end you have the ships that need to be together monogamously forever as a quarantine measure. whatever the fuck is wrong with both of them must be contained for the greater good.

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decay sounds more gentle than rot. when something decays, it is gently taken apart in it's comfortable eternal slumber. when something rots, it's violently taken apart with agony. in this essay i will

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i think the emphasis on "likable" characters has made people very resistant to seeing petty, unlikable human impulses on the page bc they need it to be a sign of incipient Villainy rather than just an unpleasant mirror of humanity like someone having mean thoughts abt someone else but being nice to them reads on the page as an intentional clue into a character's unique inconstancy but unless you are like the most honest person or a very very good person you have probably done that lmao

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i do genuinely need to go on some sort of quest this year or i’m going to become evil for real

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there are so many things on gods green earth that are not platonic but are also not romantic. the erotic, the familial, the unconditional, weird codependency, weird codependency (hatred edition), etc. let us all broaden our horizons

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i love when characters don't get to die

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I hate the whole discourse of: "fanfic writers need to accept criticism so they can improve". Look, I did not post 5k of men blowing their loads so that I can become Hemingway or something, just don't read it if you don't want to, or do read it and drop your damn thanks in the tin.

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"redemption arcs are toxic, you shouldn't try to fix someone!"

actually it is so important to me that being in community and experiencing human connection can save people. thanks