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💌Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome >:p💌

thank youuuu <3

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Oooh these are fun! 7, 19 and 29 from the writer asks, please? :)

Hiiii thank you <3

7. your preferred writing fonts

I had a helvetica phase a few years ago lol but right now I'm just a basic bitch, I write in Arial 11.

19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

I've answered this one already, but I'll give a different answer this time. When I was writing Are You Lonely Just Like Me? I did a lot of research on Le Musée de L'Orangerie, like 3D online tours and videos and reading on the kinds of works that are exposed there and the history of the building. It was very fun and it made me want to visit it someday, which WILL happen soon, I hope! Even have a french friend to accompany me @annaliza999 hahha

29. how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

It depends. Some were very easy. I knew the title of both "Are you lonely just like me?" and "The inconveniences in our favour" before I had even started writing the fics, they were deeply tied up to the idea. On "Instance of happenstance" I almost went with "The hands of fate", but I changed it last minute.

But with my current WIP it's not been that easy. I'm struggling a bit, but I'm sure I'll work it out eventually.

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hi mia <3

1, 19, and 27 for the tag game pls!!

hiii rach <3

the last sentence you wrote

"Of course Sirius would notice—leave it to his creation to shine a light on yet another reminder of his pathetic solitude."

19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

Oh god, so many. when I was writing The Inconveniences In Our Favour I watched so many videos of people doing graffiti that my Youtube algorithm recs me graffiti videos to this day. Also, how a game of Polo works, for Are You Lonely Just Like Me?

27. your favorite part of the writing process

Either that feeling you get when you finally "solve" a plot, when everything comes together and you know what you need to write in order for the story to make sense. Orrr when you finish it. The feeling of completion is unmatched, I think.

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heyyy 😚

fic writer asks no. 12:

a trope you’re really into right now?

Heeey thanks val!

12. a trope you're really into right now

Well, I could say age gap, but that would be an obvious answer lol so I'm gonna say exes to lovers. Absolutely eat that shit up every time, and I'm excited to write for that trope someday soon!

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Five for Friday - but on Monday

Thanks so much for the tag @brownleaves

Here's 5 sentences of my current WIP:

Remus was sure he should feel even more terrified than he did, but oddly, he didn’t. If Sirius were a hallucination, it would mean he was losing his mind—perhaps in need of some serious medical attention. But Sirius wasn’t a hallucination. He was real. He was actually there. 

I'm not gonna tag anyone because it's already Monday, but open tag for anyone else who wants to join in <3

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✨ Opening Line Tag Game ✨

thanks @tealeavesandtrash and @marigold-hills for the tag!

here's the beggining of the Christmas Fic I'm currently working on:

His long fingers moved swiftly over the typewriter keys, their rhythmic click-clack echoing through the otherwise very silent room. It was a spacious office—with a grand wooden desk in the middle, tall shelves crammed to the brim with books and enormous antique-style windows that framed a small glimpse of the great manor’s exterior.  Tonight especially, it was a breathtaking view. The tall trees and sprawling green lawns lay blanketed in white snow—and it kept falling steadily from the sky, like a scene straight out of a snow globe.  But the man sitting on the desk wasn’t seeing any of it. 

No pressure, but would love to see what you're working on @brownleaves @fictionalsimp09 @major-toast @mywifeisaworm

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✍️ more fic writer asks!

reblog & your followers can send asks with the questions they’d like you to answer!

the last sentence you wrote

a character whose POV you’re currently exploring

how you feel about your current WIP

a story idea you haven’t written yet

first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

the word that appears the most in your current draft (wordcounter.net can tell you)

your preferred writing fonts

if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

start to finish, how long did it take you to write the last fic you posted?

what is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

a WIP you’d like to finish someday

a trope you’re really into right now

a fandom you’re thinking about writing for

where do you get your inspiration?

favorite weather for writing

favorite place to write

talk about your writing and editing process

if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

in what year did you publish your first fic?

when did you publish your most recent fic?

do you ever worry about public reaction to what you’re writing? how do you get past that?

pick three keywords that describe your writing

how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?

besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

are you able to write with other people around?

your favorite part of the writing process

your least favorite part of the writing process

how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

share a fic you’re especially proud of

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prisoner of azkaban au for my mental health

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remus lupin 🌙

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We’re so excited to share with you the official schedule for Moony’s Midlife Crisis Fest! ❤️

July 8th is the official Prisoner of Azkaban release day. We want to celebrate that by having a fest centered around the older, more pathetic characterisation of our favourite Remus Lupin.

Tumblr mods:

@quiethauntings and @veganbutterchicken

Twitter mods:

@tealeavesandtrash and @goldenprophetwrites

Find us on Twitter here: @moony_fest

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My vibe about ships since forever tbh

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Evan Rosier and the Unbearable Weight of his Own Decisions is the canon compliant tale of an antihero, that does not redeem but explore how a generation of Slytherins chose the Dark side.

But the first wizarding war is not the main focus. Above all, this is a dark romcom between two semi-functional people who find balance in each other's madness.

The capacity for consequential thinking has always been lost on Evan Rosier; hence, as he begins his seventh year at Hogwarts, he must learn how to cope with 1) committing his first m*rder, 2) the loss of his sister, and of course, his greatest ordeal yet, 3) falling in love with his best friend Barty.

Rosekiller centric, minor/background wolfstar, jily, and dorlene. No jegulus.

Rating: Explicit

Tag: MCD

Status: WIP (100K wordcount so far)

Published on AO3 here >

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beneath a big blue sky best fic in the entire world because it gave us cecil the dog and farmer remus. also sirius and james being so posh™️ remus had no other choice but to make fun of them. and lyall and james becoming besties. hope and her alpacas. hi stephen. and remus having the most camp, gayest music collection ever. sirius singing abba to him. movie nights with lily. peter’s bar. also peter wholeheartedly believing that james and sirius were in a relationship. i just feel this fic so deeply like i want to be in a farm in york so bad… also snuffles the sheep how could i forget sirius’ first child.🥹

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A follow up to this reblog:

Authors on tumblr have been having discussions lately about fanfic comments and the way they seem to have migrated to other sites (most notably tiktok) via rec lists/rec accounts. This is new, and frustrating, and seems to be making many of us a bit resentful. It’s hard not to be—those accounts usually have astronomically more followers than writers have subscribers, they build platforms on the bricks of other people’s work, and reader comments go to them instead of us so we’re left out of the conversation about our own fics (or, if we happen to find the rec, hovering in someone else’s comments section to see what people are saying).

The thing is, we’re having these conversations here. On tumblr. With other authors. Not with the content creators in question nor, for the most part, the readers. And I think that’s a big part of the problem right now. We’re in our tumblr echo chamber, they’re largely oblivious because most of them aren’t on this website, and nothing changes because the people in each group aren’t actually talking to the other.

I, for one, am never going to put my real face on tiktok (my employer would probably have some strong opinions about my fun little porn creation hobby, among other reasons). But I do think we need to communicate to the rec creators that building a platform on someone else’s work without giving back to that creator via direct interaction (aka comments) is a pretty major breach of fandom etiquette, and when they post without telling us where it is and readers talk to them instead of us, it feels like being kicked out of our dinner party and having to dig through the bin for scraps.

Given that most authors lurk on tiktok at most and tiktokers generally stick to the app, I think the best way to do this is via author’s notes on ao3. And I know that, by and large, we don’t like to do that. It feels like begging or pressuring for comments when instead, we want them to be gifts that are freely and lovingly given. But people don’t know what they don’t know, and right now, they don’t seem to know most authors crave comments like air. My plan is to use author’s notes to do a little teaching on fandom etiquette/gift culture, state plainly that I want to hear from them, and request that if they’re going to talk about my fic on a different platform, I’d love to be included in that conversation by commenting what they loved enough to want to talk about it to others or by sending me a link.

Same thing with readers—I’m so happy they found me regardless of route, and if they’re going to go tell the creator who recced it what they liked, I’d love to hear that, too. I know we like to pretend it isn’t there, but there is a perceived power differential between the author and their reader, and I think part of the reason people comment on the rec posts instead of fics is because the rec poster feels so much more accessible and less intimidating than the author (I had a really good conversation about this whole phenomenon with author/tiktoker @roblogging last night, and he posted a tiktok on the topic. He mentioned that people see him as a friend because he has a face and a parasocial relationship, and my mind was absolutely blown. I had never for one second considered that perspective).

We talk a lot about how fandom is a community, and that’s true. But fandom is also kind of an ecosystem (which, sorry, side tangent—very much includes readers. They are the majority of fandom, whether they’re loud or silent, and if there aren’t readers, we might as well all just send our friends our docs links so we can comment line by line). TikTok fundamentally changed the way the fanfic ecosystem functions, and I don’t think it would be possible to go back to pre-tiktok fandom dynamics even if we tried. It seems to me that our choices as authors are to dig in our heels and try to force out the rec list creators on other apps, or we can embrace them the same way we have all other creative life forms in the fandom ecosystem (artists, podficcers, book binders, cosplayers, etc). I, for one, think that after a little education on how to engage with the fandom as a community, the rec list posters have a lot to bring to the table. If all I need to do to make that possible is write an author’s note, that’s an effort I’m willing to make.

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I don’t usually do discourse on this blog but that last reblog hit the nail on the head. Reader interaction is at an all time low for fic authors and whilst I’m eternally grateful for any and all kudos and comments that I do receive, I feel as if in the past couple of years there’s been this weird migration of comments - they’ve left ao3 and they’re on tiktok instead. So, rather than people leaving comments on my fics, they leave their comments on the videos of people reccing my fics. I see tiktoks about my fics and they’ll have double, triple the number of comments that the fic itself has. It’s so lovely that people are talking about my writing, but it’s just a very strange phenomenon and a very odd feeling when you have a fic that you assume wasn’t overly well received because it has hardly any comments on ao3, but then you see a tiktok full of comments with people saying that it’s their favourite fic.

And I’m going to say something potentially controversial here but not ONCE have I seen a tiktok creator, whose content relies solely on other people’s fics, say anything along the lines of “leave the author a comment if you enjoy the rec.” Literally never ever seen this. And I think that’s a real shame.

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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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