halftheway
i wish i could've been that someone you needed
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halftheway 3 days ago
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sometimes I see queer people go "omg I was such a theater kid in high school, now my friend on the other hand... she was so different... she was a BAND kid!!" and I'm like oh. ok. our high school experiences were very different then
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halftheway 4 days ago
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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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halftheway 4 days ago
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youre offline because you have an irl life and miss one load bearing post on here and all of a sudden you dont understand any of the vagues on your dash for the next week
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halftheway 6 days ago
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halftheway 6 days ago
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My wife: Are you making a list of fonts?
Me: No, worse. I'm replicating the titles of video games but it's the fonts that they're in
My wife: What does that mean
Me: This
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halftheway 6 days ago
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call me easily amused but i still think it's so funny to go "who said that" after saying something wildly horny
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halftheway 6 days ago
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ppl will post butch positivity with like 5 allusions to transmasculitity (binding, t, top surgery, etc) and 0 mentions of transfem butches
i love you butches on estrogen! i love you butches who feel caught between expressing yourself as a woman and as a butch because of transmisogyny! i love you butches who want/have bottom surgery! i love you butches who don鈥檛! i love you butches who feel like butch is your gender and i love you butches who feel like butch is your sexuality!
i love you transfem butches! i love you trans women butches! i love you butches!
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halftheway 6 days ago
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They should pay me to sort objects by color and shape and size all day I'd be good at it I'd be so fucking good at it
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halftheway 7 days ago
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I know most of tumblr is thinking about the USA right now. but fuck the nz government right now too. tomorrow, the treaty principles bill, the 'worst, most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times' is being introduced to parliament early, because there were activations planned country wide and the cowards decided to pull it forwards. fuck this government. a friend of mine had to go home early, crying. I've been in shock all day since it came out.
check on your M膩ori friends, e hoa m膩. see what they need. see how you can help. everyday, we see and experience racism. from people around us, up to our government. community care will save us.
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halftheway 8 days ago
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i gotta remember this
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halftheway 8 days ago
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Some drawings to start my account (i dont have a clue on how to use this site)
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halftheway 8 days ago
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2nd day without my computer I need to be toxic abt it
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halftheway 8 days ago
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GET IT WHITE BOY
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halftheway 9 days ago
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being self aware suuuucks like yeah this thought pattern/behavior is stupid and pointless and a symptom. i know this. [does it anyways
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halftheway 9 days ago
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We need to be going door to door telling men about bisexuality. We need to start standing outside grocery stores
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halftheway 9 days ago
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So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not鈥攂ut honestly this is it man.
I'm going to try it.
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halftheway 9 days ago
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