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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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i need to find a beautiful novel to read & change my life

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god forbid a girl is bisexual and fucking insane

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i’m so fucking happy for you and your northern lights no i’m being serious congratulations man that’s awesome you really (clenching my fist so hard my bones creak) deserve it

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Baka!

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''what if my writing isn't good eno--'' what if it's a reflection of your soul. what if it has a place in this world. what if you write it anyway

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reblog this post ONLY if you're older than it, people born after july 27 2024 DNI

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The sparrow!

More Zelda warmup doodles 🍃🤍✨

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I think exaggerating his shortness is so funny ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡

By the way, I like to headcanon that Pre-calamity Princess Zelda can be a tsundere like this. Don't take it personally ~

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It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes

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a fun fact i can post now: the glasgow subway ticket machines have had a little sticker added to them that says they don't accept the new king charles bank notes and if you have those you have to go to the counter to use them. i assume the keyword here is new and this is because the image-recognition of the cash machine can't for whatever reason be quickly updated to accept novel currency as legitimate. but frankly it's more fun to imagine the machines have refused to accept the transfer of power and are just straight up committing treason on purpose.

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Skyward Sword Zelda (+Hylia) + Purpose for Day 1 Sepfember.

Thank you for @rebornofstars for the idea of ​​this event.

Prompt list: Sepfember 2024

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just some botw and totk thoughts about link at 12am in my time

thinking about link, imagine how he feels during totk. he first had to fight against monsters and these creepy spider looking things, with muscle memory from 100 years ago and not remembering a single thing. finally, after zelda, you would think that his life would be much better post calamity since he didn’t have to go nights without having to worry about the calamity. well, nintendo then released totk. in totk, link lost zelda. however, this all happened within his eyes- he could’ve saved zelda.

he didn’t even save her the first time, and now it happens again. he couldn’t save her, and he actually was capable of that. he is the knight, and she is the silent princess he sworn to protect.

something that i’ve always noticed is that in botw, the main quest is titled “destroy ganon,” while in totk, it’s “find princess zelda.” this really shows how much their relationship has changed from botw to totk. in botw, he's doing this because link has to. for his memories, for the sake of hyrule. he's hyrule's last hope.

in totk, its COMPLETELY different. he's exploring the sky, depths, regional phenomenons all for zelda. not to destroy ganondorf, not to retrieve the master sword, its all for zelda.

zelda thoughts at 12am sure go crazy.

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I colored it!

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me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

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Ranma and Ryoga