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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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Friendly reminder that fan-made content (fanart, fanfic, fanvids, etc) are:

extremely time consuming. Remember someone actually took time out of their life to create that, time they could’ve used to, idk, sleep, for example

entertainment you’re consuming for free. I can’t stress this enough: you’re enjoying someone else’s craft for free. You paid exactly zero money to look at/read/watch it.

S H A R E D  with you, not made for you. This is the most important point: someone created that, put it online and you found it. No one forced you to consume that fanwork, you C H O S E  to do it. 

Whenever you feel like leaving a mean comment, anonymous hate or make a ~clever post about how ‘lol look at all of these overused tropes every fic writer crams into their fics’ remember you’re being a dick to someone who shared their work with you. You’re not being funny, you’re not being edgy, you’re not being brave for calling something out - you’re being a dick.

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BARRY SLOANE as Wes Lawrence in THE WHISPERS (2015)

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The Terrible

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captain price puppy dog eyes

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people are really looking at stats to determine if a fic is worth reading? no wonder fics that never got popular at the first drop never had a chance 💀

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its just embarrassing when you make a fandom related post and it doesnt get any notes like okay. so no one want to play tuoys with me. no one wants to play with our little guys together. okay thats fine. yeah its cool... puts my hands in my jacket pockets. kicks a beer can that was on the side of the road a little

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SERGEANT KYLE GARRICK in CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE (2019)

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NIKOLAI in CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE III (2023)

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SERGEANT KYLE GARRICK & CAPTAIN JOHN PRICE in CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE (2019)

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BARRY SLOANE as Edward Winslow in SAINTS & STRANGERS (2015)

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spider!gaz & venom!ghost when they get along

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wrapped up and pretty 🎀 - 👻

ghost would look so pretty in a nice bow hehe

Photo Credit: wintam0119 for winfarlab

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froot

a poly 141 coral island/stardew valley au MDNI

pairings: poly 141 x farmer!reader (gender neutral) summary: you inherit your grandmother's rundown farm, on a tiny island in desperate need of saving. luckily, the village carpenter, rancher, miner, and blacksmith seem all too eager to lend a hand. warnings/notes: literally just an excuse to put 141 in cozy & domestic situations, will add to this as i go

chapters

meet the townsfolk

lost & found (fluff)

still (fluff)

bubbly (fluff)

extras

moodboard

map

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I tried make simons (ghost) face look like more as samual face :D

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Big boy with the skullface 💀

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shapeshifter!ghost who is secretly obsessed with soap’s precious girlfriend and after the incident with makarov, he assumes the sergeant's form just so he can make her his sweet little housewife