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Callum's LV campaign is sooo #hollywood au coded!

I know Gale is too shy but arghghgh can you imagine them in a brand campaign? Or Vogue photoshoot? Dayum.

oh oh oh how i’ve missed this au, thank you for this!!!! since i already headcanoned gale would feel to awkward posing i’ll let everyone decide for themselves if this is au of an au or did john manage to talk him into it after they did their private photoshoot 🤭

we’re trying another social media au today!! idk if it works in this format but i hope you enjoy <3

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EXCLUSIVE: ”He keeps me wanting to be better, as a human and as an actor” — Be the first two see new exclusive pictures of John Egan and husband Gale Cleven-Egan posing for this month’s #VOGUE cover shoot in brand new Louis Vuitton! ❤️‍🔥

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@_hollyB34: sigh since vogue didn’t bother with alt texts i’ve got you covered (but we expect more from you @_vogue_ get your shit together)

photo 1: john leaning at a wall in white coat facing the camera, gale is on his right as if walking away but they’re holding hands

photo 2: picture taken from the side, gale leaning against the wall with right hand on the elbow of the left one and looking away from the camera, john has his right hand on the wall next to his head and he’s staring down at him kind of towering over him crowding him into the wall

photo 3: close up of their hands holding the same louis vuitton bag, john’s fingers looking much bigger than gale’s delicate hand, two of john’s fingers streches to cover gale’s

photo 4: standing side by side, john’s arm around gale’s shoulders and gale is holding that hand with one of his and the other is wrapped around john’s middle, they’re looking at each other.

photo 5: close-up of just their faces, gale is holding the back of his hand to his lips and covering laughing, john is staring at him with the worst case of heart eyes you’ve ever seen, he’s also smirking

photo 6: john staring at the camera, hands on gale’s waist, gale’s back is facing the camera and he’s leaned into john’s torso, cheek resting on his shoulder, arms wrapped around his middle. Keep reading…

@_clegan4ever: did i die. is this heaven.

@_rosiecheeks: if someone told me a year ago clegan would actually drop this kind of blessing upon us i would’ve laughed them out ALAS HERE WE ARE HOW ARE WE FEELING

@_egansgrl: why does that bag photo look POSESSIVE it’s literally just hands asdf like chill man ain’t no one taking him away from you

@_adamadam: it’s literally insane how the two most attractive people in the world found each other??? and actually seem like a good match???

@—keirak77: no offense to egan but damn his hubby should be a model fr

@_€urovizion: gale would literally tower over me HOW DOES HE LOOK SO TINY NEXT TO HIM john do be built like a brick house

@_cleganists: i want to cry the fact that they’re willing to share this with us despite of everything they’ve been through with the media over the years :((((

@_buckholic: THANK HEAVENS THANK YOU GOD FOR MAKING THESE TWO MEN

@_ourbaby82: john is serving so hard i’m amazed the camera didn’t just melt

@_CLEGANUPDATES: #clegan has been trending worldwide for 6 hours

@_marymecurtb: so much to unpack here but like the sexiest part of this is literally the way they look at each other. like how are you together for like a decade and still be this down bad for each other omg

@_misscleven: i wouldn’t mind being squished in the middle of this sandwitch

@_johnegans: oh damn that gale cleven-egan truly is the finest piece of ass i ever saw on a cover of a magazine that john egan is one lucky bastard

@_CLEGANUPDATES: ASDFHAFAHAJAVAJSK JOHN LMAO

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”John?” ”Yes, dear?”

John doesn’t look up from his phone from where he’s half laying across their bed waiting for Gale to be ready. They’re seeing Sabrina for her LA show tonight, and Gale has helped him with the glitter on his face before disappearig back to the bathroom to get ready himself.

Gale’s tone is filled with suspicion but not accusing — yet. ”Do you happen to know why John Brady has called me 12 times?” John makes an exaggerated ”thinking face”, and he can practically feel Gale squint his eyes at him. ”…No idea. You’ve been friends with him longer, your guess is better than mine!” Gale looks at him for a moment more before talking again.

”Mm-hm. Somehow I get the feeling he’s calling not as my friend but as your publicist.”

John finally looks up and he can’t help but let his face fall into a smirk as he sees Gale assessing at him with his eyes. He gets up from the bed and walks up to his husband who’s still following him with his eyes. ”Who knows? Probably phoning to congratulate us on a beautiful photoshoot.”

He delights in the blush on Gale’s cheeks, visible even underneath the glitter hearts. He looks adorable, and delicious, and John can’t wait to see his current favorite popstar but he also can’t wait to get back home with his hubby and try whatever position she suggests during Juno with him.

”Oh yeah, that came out today…” Gale mutters and looks down, and while the blush truly is so cute, John knows they need to get going soon. He tilts Gale’s face back up by his chin and pecks on his lips gently.

”They love it. They love you.” He considers it for a moment, getting lost in Gale’s eyes, before smirking again dropping his hand to squeeze his ass. ”I think I even recall someone calling you the hottest piece of ass they’ve ever seen on the comments.”

Gale rolls his eyes. ”That’s not what I- Nevermind.” He sighs and pushes John away but his husband can tell the blush is a pleased one now. One day he will make him believe how beautiful he is and he won’t need these constant reminders (John’s gonna keep giving them anyway, of course).

”Should we get going then?” He asks casually, and Gale has just had time to nod when his phone starts ringing again. He checks the ID and frowns. ”It’s Brady again. I’ll get this and then we can go.”

Bucky responds with a seemingly careless uhm but grimances as he turns to face the other way. He’s just made it to the door when the scandalized yell of JOHN CLARENCE EGAN fills the air.

”I’ll wait at the car sweetheart!” he yelps back and starts running. He even makes it down two sets of staris before Gale manages to tackle him down.

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oh my god the way i’ve been busy for the past week is interfiring with ability to be as chronically online as i’m used to, i’m missing so much clegan it’s ruining my life 😭

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GIVE ME RICH BRAT GALE FALLING INLOVE W HIS BODYGUARD WHOS LITERALLY OBSESSED WITH HIM ALREADY AND KEEPING IT IN SECRET BUT THE INTERNET START GOING CRAZY OVER THEM

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In the homie sexual verse, what if Bucky has started to plainly and sweetly ask " buck can I hit it tonight? Or at least eat you out?" In front of others so to cover it up the group has to start using increasingly explicit sexual phrases casually

AHHH howling over this idea 🤣

John starts being more open and asking for stuff like that in public and The 100th can tell how much is pleases The Buckies to be able to be authentic, so they look like that Ben Affleck meme but they’re ready to protect their Majors.

Brady nearly chokes on his coffee when Benny tells him he’d “look really pretty on your knees” in front of a bunch of recruits.

Ken trips over himself and almost takes out Winks when Curt hollers that he wants him “face down, ass up when I get back from this mission.”

Bubbles nervously stammers through saying Crosby being the group navigator is “so hot I nearly creamed my pants.”

Blakely casually throwing out there that he can’t wait for the ride of his life when Jack is getting onto some new recruits for their terrible corners with their sheets.

Crank sees Blakely almost get stabbed by Jack in the officers mess that night and decides to stay far, far away from these shenanigans thank you very much. He loves The Buckies, but getting stabbed???

Hambone and Dougie horsing around and yelling “what that mouth do?” while recruits just stand there like 😳

Rosie is a natural and walks the fine line between lewd and sweet so smoothly it once again has everyone questioning where the line between homiesexual and homosexual is for them.

Curt takes it too far when he grabs Dickie by the hips and mimes fucking him from behind while delightedly yelling about him having the “tightest hole in the 100th.” Gale’s not mad, he’s just disappointed that Curt would cheat on Ken like that. John’s a little mad though, because that title definitely belongs to Gale.

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Holiday fluff on my mind tonight. 🎄

Little teaser of a Christmas-y fic I’ve been brainstorming…

Thinking about post-war, established relationship Buckies during the holidays and John being the biggest Christmas lover ever to exist.

Waking Gale up with soft kisses and roaming fingers and getting a grumpy, sleep-interrupted pout in return.

“Whaddyawant?”

“It’s after midnight,” John says, eyes flicking to the clock on the wall, voice suspiciously not sleep-rough at all. “Merry Christmas, Buck.”

A deepening frown and narrowed eyes squint at him in the darkness. “Our house still smells like the turkey we spent all day cooking. It’s not Christmas, you loony.”

“Christmas isn’t just a day, Buck,” John grins and leans in to press a kiss against Gale’s irritated pout. “It’s a season, and it started three minutes ago.”

And John promised Gale last year when they were sick and starving and miserable in the Stalag on Christmas, that next year he’d wake him up first thing Christmas morning and make love to him in their bed, in their home. So, he does. Just a bit sooner than Gale expected.

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Christmas fic with fake dating in the mix .

Ok so bucky has to go home for the holidays and his mom has been pestering about his relationship status and to get her off his back he said that's he's seeing gale .

Only there's three problems . One he's in fact not seeing gale , two he forgot to inform gale of what he had done and three he complety forgot about it until both of them are on the house and his mom after hugging them turns around and tells gale how happy she is that he and bucky are finally together.

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oh guys I'm thinking depraved thoughts about two Buckies tag teaming Gale I fear

maybe they're twins or maybe there's some fucked time travel where Gale and John meet Bucky from the future, either way I want Gale to be DESTROYED by those two boys

John holding Gale's waist and fucking him while he tries to ride him, hips stuttering as he tries to suck Bucky's cock, making the prettiest choking sounds as Bucky fucks his throat, feels so so full either way

making out with John as Bucky fucks Gale so good, moaning into his mouth as he holds onto his arm, hands clenching as Bucky hits all of the right spots inside of him, losing his mind over having two of John taking him apart

double penetration? fuck me bro Gale between the two and just feels so damn full because of them, marked up to high heaven because there's twice as many Bucky's who can't keep their lips and teeth off of him

anyway this came to me in the night and I couldn't stop thinking about it so now it's y'all's problem too

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I can’t stop thinking about DILF!Gale today...

Gale is in his mid-thirties and he has been a single dad since his wife, Marge, passed away five years ago. That was also the last time he had any sort of romantic relationship whatsoever.

His eight-year-old little girl is on a school trip for a week, and Gale has absolutely no idea what to do with himself, alone in the house. He’s just moping around the entire time until his work friend, Curt, invites him to go out for a drink with him and his friends.

One of those friends happens to be chronic bachelor Bucky, who's instantly attracted to Gale and can sense the playful core behind his reserved and vaguely lethargic vibe. He hits on Gale quite blatantly.

Gale is surprised that someone's trying to flirt with him, but he enjoys the banter with Bucky, and stays at the bar with him even after everyone else leaves.

Eventually, feeling a little wild, Gale ends up going home with Bucky. He’s completely unprepared and has never even had gay sex before, but Bucky offers to bottom and they have a mindblowing night together.

Gale didn’t realize how much he missed this kind of intimacy, and he’s embarrassed by how needy he gets during the night, but Bucky doesn’t mind at all, he loves being wanted and likes seeing the relief on Gale’s face whenever he reassures and comforts him.

They fall asleep cuddling, and when Gale wakes up in the morning, it feels like he has had the first good night of sleep in years. But then... he looks at the time on his phone and realizes that he and Bucky slept in too late, and he’s now late to pick up his daughter.

In a hurry, he rushes to get dressed and he leaves Bucky after a quick kiss, a vague explanation and an apology. It’s only on his way to the school that he realizes he completely forgot to exchange numbers with the hot man he has just had a one-night stand with.

He curses himself, but he also feels guilty about being late to pick up his daughter, and he gets flooded with self-doubt and pessimistic thoughts about how dating, especially dating someone like Bucky, wouldn’t work for him. So, he doesn’t attempt to contact Bucky through Curt or by looking him up online. He files the experience away as a nice memory and tries to move on.

He fully expects Bucky to do the same, since he doesn’t think Bucky would have any reason to want more than that one night, but he’s very wrong. Because less than a week later, just when he has almost convinced himself he’s okay with his single parent life, Curt drops by his desk at work and shows him a string of texts from Bucky pleading for Gale's phone number. Blushing, Gale gives Curt permission to share it.

Less than five minutes later, his phone buzzes - it's a text from Bucky. Gale doesn’t stay single for long after that. 😊

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Fever hot

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Buck and Bucky eye fucking at the breakfast table:

[TENDER MUSIC PLAYING]

Jack Kidd next to them:

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Words of My Hands

(Gale takes a turn for the worse after his escape. When John finds him, physically and mentally broken and non-verbal, their touches become the way they communicate. Healing for both of them is a long road.)

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“Gale.”

John could barely breathe, hunched over the small bed in Thorpe Abbots’ medical ward, fresh off the transport that had brought the last of the freed prisoners back. The second he saw Croz’s stricken face he had bolted here, his world shattering at the sight of Gale laid limp and dazed on too-white sheets. Gale had latched onto him, brow furrowing, but gave no other reaction, and a horrible dread began to wrap itself around John’s throat.

He curled close and brushed a feather-light touch along Gale’s eyebrow, lingering over the small scar that had been there since before flight training, drew the finger down the side of Gale’s nose and across the too-prominent cheekbone, brushing the scar that stood out harshly against pale skin.

Gale didn’t stir. His glassy eyes remained distant, lingering somewhere on John’s cheek, though his hand was loosely encircled around John’s wrist. John inhaled raggedly and kissed Gale’s forehead, tearing his gaze away from Gale to Croz and Rosie who lingered on the other side of the bed, swallowing in an attempt to force his dry throat into action. 

“How long has he been like this?” 

His voice came out harsh from cold and misuse, too thin and vulnerable to his own ears, and Rosie’s grieved eyes bored into his own.

“He was brought across the Channel on a Fort. Got out, took a few steps, and hit the ground.”

John fought back bile crawling up this throat, suddenly light-headed as black spots of panic encroached his vision.

“He hasn’t spoken at all?”

“Just when he sleeps,�� said Croz. “We can’t understand a lot, but it’s usually just your name.”

“My name?”

Another pause. “He cries.”

John sank the rest of the way down, pressing his face to Gale’s forehead, and Gale shifted, touching his nose to John’s jaw. The hand on John’s wrist slipped up to clumsily meet his cheek, accompanied by a hitch of breath that was almost a sound.

With blurred vision John slid his arms fully around Gale, gathering him up to his chest and tucking Gale’s face into his neck. He kissed Gale’s temple, threading his fingers through the too-long hair at the back of Gale’s head, coarse from malnutrition and the harsh elements. Rubbing the strands between his fingers, he smoothed the other hand over Gale’s back and around his ribcage to fit between protruding bones, holding Gale’s body against him. Slowly Gale melted, pressing closer, and a horrible lump choked John and flooded his eyes.

“It’s alright, Buck,” he breathed shakily, squeezing tighter. “I’ve got you.”

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major john egan in the 1960’s stumbles upon one benny cross at a chicago bar and christens him buck like his friend from the war. curt lives and gale dies storyline. btw this is real life footage of how john watches benny play pool 🥹

When a Major strolls into the Stoplight Bar, Benny doesn’t concern himself with it. He expects a fight to break out in less than ten seconds — five, he guesses as he watches Zipco move to approach the large man. To his surprise it only takes fifteen seconds for the man to make Zipco laugh and even stranger, he’s buying him a beer and telling him to sit and enjoy the evening.

Benny gets caught staring, the man locking eyes with him but never one to back down Benny stares for a few more seconds before standing to leave, not bothering to tell anyone. He wasn’t interested in hanging around with any men in uniform.

But to his surprise Major Egan (he later finds out his name) becomes a reoccurring guest. “You look like my old friend Buck.” Are the first words he ever speaks to him, “We served together in ‘43. Air Force.”

Benny has nothing to say so he stays quiet.

“Quiet like him too.”

Deciding he’s had enough, Benny stands to leave. He whips his jacket off the chair, watching as Major Egan sits back with his legs spread no worry or attempts to try to get him to stay and that is something new. Benny’s always being asked to stay. To never leave. To stick around.

“Where is he then?” Benny relents, throwing the guy a bone.

Major Egan preens, smiling down at his lap before looking back up. Benny hates that he looks like he’s won something by getting him to speak to him, sitting there nonchalantly with no worry and holding himself above everyone else.

“Left him back in Germany,” he answers, losing his smile to a grimace as he tosses a shot back.

He wears grief as well as he wears his ridiculous jacket. With his broad shoulders tight and his dark hair slicked back, curling at the nape of his neck. Wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and his mouth — he does smile often.

“He’s better off,” Benny shrugs, dropping that and expecting to walk away and leave behind a guffawed officer, offended and maybe goad him into a fight but to his surprise, Major Egan only hums,

“yeah he is, kid.”

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I am NOT normal about this!!

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hear me out… 90s mobster au… conjugal visits…

mafia boss bucky got himself locked up… for something stupid and petty so he only got like 2 years and he already has people working on getting him the hell out of there, he’d never leave if they knew all he’s done but this sentence is doable. or so he thinks until his husband arrives to their first conjugal visit and instead of jumping his bones looks him up and down all icy firece eyes and throws a pile of papers to the bed before leaving with the bang of the door as soon as he arrives. bucky is too preoccupied with looking after him (gale is dressed in his tightest jeans on purpose, surely) that he doesn’t realize they are papers for him to sign for them to get a divorce.

the next time doesn’t go well. bucky has a point in claiming gale is being unreasonable just throwing it at him without even wanting to talk about it, gale insists he should’ve thought of it before getting caught. bucky gets all defensive and accuses gale of being a hypocrite, enjoying living trophy husband life when it suits him but now suddenly having a problem when there’s a slight hitch. he straight up refuses to even entertain the idea of divorce and gets all smug about it, tells buck he’s just having a temper tantrum and oh boy that does not land well, gale of course loses it completely to the point where the guards come running in to see if they’re okay and make gale leave with them (he goes happily, yelling after him about what an arrogant asshole john can be.)

while john is left fuming too, that little cell is starting to get to him, so the third time gale comes he’s ready to talk, and surprisingly so is gale. bucky apologizes and tells him he understand if gale wants more of a normal life, that he deserves someone who can give it to him and while it breaks his heart, he loves gale too much to not let him walk away if that’s what he wants. gale breaks down and tells him he doesn’t care about normal or want anyone else, he doesn’t care what people at the high school he teaches are saying nor their neighbours, he’s just broken about being scared for bucky’s safety here and once he gets outside too — the fbi keeps contacting him begging for information about his husband and there are suspicious cars always parked in front of their apartement these days, and gale hates and fears that he can be used against bucky, that he can be a weakness of the person he loves in his cruel world. bucky is beyond himself with worry once he realizes how much danger he’s caused gale too without realizing and left him to deal with it all alone, but gale claims he doesn’t care about that, just felt betrayed when bucky didn’t warn him beforehand about the gig having the potential to go this way like he promised he always would when they got married, had thought for a bit something worse had happened when he couldn’t reach him and then having to hear from the police he wouldn’t be able to see him other than at court. bucky apologizes and apologizes and apologizes until gale shuts him up by kissing him. the real feelings finally come out instead of anger and fear — missing the other like crazy, hell, they aren’t used to being apart even for a night. they run out of time when gale’s straddling his lips and they’re whispering comforting words to each other between kisses, and both walk away feeling much lighter than walking in.

the fourth time… welp! they make up for the lost time and then some. the guards have to physically drag gale away from there that time, clothes barely on and bucky yelling after them warning about hurting his husband or else as they manhandle him a bit too roughly for his liking. let’s just say that he’s more motivated than ever to get the hell out of there 🫣

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HOLLYWOOD AU — MASTERPOST

john egan is a beloved heart-throb of hollywood known as the playboy of the century until he suddenly hard-launches plans to get married by bringing his boyfriend-turned-fiancé of 5 years to a premier and breaking the internet while at it. [modern multipart au!]

original headcanon

fake-instagram posts - john's profile, gale's profile, everyone else's

how they met and fell in love

first "i love you"s

the proposal & discussions before going public

domestic headcanons

how the reunion goes after being forced apart for a long time by filming schedules

gale's red carpet outfit drabble

media backlash/issues headcanons

jealous bucky drabble

how gale reacts to bucky doing sex scenes headcanons

pda video of them leaks and bucky freaks out (drabble)

candid pictures

doing a photoshoot together

doing a published photoshoot together (can be read as an au of an au)

oscars mishap (drabble)

stalker attacks gale part 1 & part 2

gale gets sick while bucky is filming on location

divorce rumors on papers

finding fancfiction about them headcanons

headcanons inspired by sabrina carpenter's short n' sweet, particularly please please please

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multi-part fics & posts

hollywood au

a series of tumblr posts including drabbles, headcanons and fake ig-posts set in a modern au universe where bucky is a popular hollywood heart-throb and gale is a publicist - they have been in a secret relationship for years before they go public after getting engaged. mostly silly with barely-there plot. masterpost.

regency au

gale comes from humble background but falls for the rich, alleged playboy, most seeked out bachelor john egan. there's the original headcanon and then a short fic on ao3 set on the morning after their wedding. original headcanon / morning after fic "maybe i'm amazed" (ao3)

oneshots

"summer kisses/in my body" (ao3)

Sometimes – not often, mind you, but sometimes – Bucky wonders if he should be worried by what he’s unleashed. (canon post-war pwp)

"sharp dressed man" (ao3)

When Gale realizes he has forgotten to buy a present for his boyfriend's birthday, he ends up giving himself wrapped in something special. (modern college au, lingerie, established relationship, pwp-ish)

"hold me like a knife" (ao3)

The mission is done and Bucky is wounded, but he’s got a date to make. (agent!bucky x mob!gale (kinda-not-really), secret relationship)

"oh, when the saints" (ao3)

A moment shared in the night after Bucky arrives to Stalag Luft III. (canon, hurt/comfort)

drabbles

(also posted collectively on ao3)

chance meeting - gale is hit on at a bar and bucky comes to the rescue

lawyers au - a moment in the office after a very special day

headcanons

teacher!gale x single dad!bucky

pilot!bucky x cabin crew!gale one & two

singer!bucky x songwriter!gale one & two & three

"you better paint the bedroom ceiling your favorite color"

bucky flirting with gale post-surgery not knowing they're married

modern au cleagan roleplay

college au gale discovers he's into bondage (could be read as part of sharp dressed man universe)

canon post-war clegan buy a house together

concubine!gale/king!bucky

one of them didn't go to war (currently working on making this a fic where gale stays behind)

everyone in the 100th has a crush on buck and bucky is not happy

buckies being obvious with their pda and everyone being annoyed about it

++ jumping on other peoples business one & two & three & four & five

what's your favorite? which one should i write more about? ask box is always open 💞

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Just some words I've been needing to hear for a few weeks now and once I finally wrote them down, I thought maybe there were other people who might need to hear them too ❤️

You don't need to be anyone's favorite writer for your writing to be good.

The worth of your writing is not measured by whether or not you're included in fic recs or the amount of comments/asks you get.

Your works don't need to be recognized as some of The fics of the fandom to be good or worth reading.

'Popular' writers in your fandom are also just writers (and humans!!) : you don't need to impress or be noticed by them to have a place in your fandom. Fandom should be fun so don't let your brain ruin it with a misplaced sense of competition <3

You don't need to post a fic every week to be considered a writer. You don't need to write every week to be a writer. There is no limited places in fandom: come and go as you want and as life allows you to. Post when you feel like it, there is no trend to surf on to stay 'relevant' as a fic writer or a content creator. Fandom will always wait for you.

Your writing is good, and the more you write, the more you find your style, the better it gets.

Your writing made someone's day. Your writing is helping the fandom stay alive. Your writing should make you happy, and that happiness should not be proportional to how recognized you are in your fandom.

I know it can be discouraging to see tons of fic recs in your fandom and none of them including your fics. But yesterday, when I was feeling down, I re-read my own published works because they were the stories I wanted to read. And I enjoyed reading them, so much. And that is enough to keep me writing, because it showed me there is no better person to write the stories I have in my head than myself (a huge progress considering months ago, I couldn't reread something I'd written because I was cringeing too hard to get through two sentences).

Find your people that will always hype you and your fics up: you and your writing don't have to appeal to every single person in your fandom. Write niche fics! Rarepairs seemingly no one brought up before! Include headcanons and takes and interpretations you've never seen written before!

Write the stories you are dying to read, and I promise you, you'll find other people who were hoping to find that story somewhere, too.

Your writing is unique because it can only ever be yours and same goes for your stories; your writing is worth reading and your stories are worth being written <3