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One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.

But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:

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Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week

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I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

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sketchy kyoudai for saejima’s bday 🐯

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ao3 turns 15 today

reblog if youre older than ao3

(there's a lot of people asking about this, but the legal age to use social media is 13, except in few countries. so yes, there are people here under 15)

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Would you be willing to turn into a dragon?

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I rambled about this in tags on another post but I can’t emphasize enough how only focusing on large-scale issues WILL lead to hopelessness & burnout. Activism must include small-scale, achievable works. If you don’t have something you can get your hands around and look at directly, despair will eat you alive.

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Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

This only takes a few minutes!

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I feel called out hehe

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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

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Ok, but listen.

Jiang Cheng, in nothing but his inner robes, gunning it barefoot down the walkaways of Lotus Pier, because his beloved nephew (age four) decided to escape his bed and climb into an unsecured boat that is now being pushed by wind into the lake, much to Jin Ling's wailing dismay.

JC didn't even think to use Sandu, just launched himself full-tilt from the end of the pier with sheer physical brass of knowing he can eat that twenty metres...

A few minutes later, he was rowing the boat back with one arm, the other full of a wailing nephew, adrenaline finally settling down.

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you know this is a woman on a MISSION

original:

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do you ever re-read your own wips like 'damn the bitch that wrote this oughta finish it'

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free my girl. she did all that but so did a male character and nobody cared

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[ID: Digital art of Jiang Cheng from MDZS. He's holding Zidian with both hands, stretching the length of the whip and smirking at the viewer. He's shaded in purple screentone. /end ID]

jiang cheng birthday art! i think its funny to put him in franziska's poses

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Okay but Jiang Cheng who is literally never alone whenever his disciples can help it. (Especially Post Canon because every time they leave him alone he gets fucking stabbed or runs off dammit Zongshu)

If there's a political reason for him to stand apart from them then they'll allow it, but the moment they have the chance they're right there. They're pressed as close as they can be, unable to bare their fangs but their swords are ready at any sign from their leader.

They go into an Inn after a hunt and Jiang Cheng never gets to sit alone, he's got his senior disciples on his left and right. His juniors are spread out around him so anyone has to go through them. He sits perfectly straight as they laugh and cheer, toasting each other. His face never changes from that hard as steel glower but they can see how soft he is in his movements.

The way he carefully pushes the wine bottles away from the edge, the way he plates them up whenever a large order arrives. He walks through the juniors, nodding at their greetings and their shouts of accomplishments, congratulating with only a few words but they light up like lanterns. He marks their injuries and passes a few pieces of silver for them to get more food, he remembers being young and growing and always so hungry.

He returns to his senior disciples and they make heckling comments, but he ignores them (and by that I mean his eyes soften even as he rolls them and tells them not to drink so much or he'll kick them out of the sect). They cheers each other and Jiang Cheng never looks bothered by the noise. Sometimes he'll say a scathing comment and they'll howl with laughter at whoever was just roasted, cheering their sect leader for being funny.

At home, there's never a guard far away even when Jiang Cheng is in his section of Lotus Pier. He can glance at the rooftops and see a shadow watching loyally over him and their home. He stands at a pier to welcome back a few disciples and they're surrounded by a crowd, it's loud and it's crazy and it's Jiang. He takes a boat out and he always lets another follow with the ones who want to play on the lake and he sits in the sun and watches over them as they laugh and play. They never begrudge him his time alone, or when he has to return early they just follow.

Jiang Cheng likes to be alone sometimes, he likes to stand under a pavilion and suck back tears of pain and happiness, guilt and love, but he is never ever alone.

All he has to do is turn around and they'll all be there, waiting for him.