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tea-cat-arts · 10 months ago

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I simply think this fandom doesn't give Wei Wuxian enough credit for the various ways in which he saved Lan Wangji

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #idk man- i just see a lot of “Lan Wangji has always been protecting Wei Wuxian” posts and its like...#I mean... Lan Wangji has always certainly been trying to protect Wei Wuxian #it took him a long time to figure how to successfully do that though #rereading the books rn and noticing theres a lot of instances that could be read as lwj being frustrated over his inability to protect wwx #like he seemed ready to cry when wwx went missing for a while and then came back with the cursed leg #lwj has always been great at protecting wwx from physical threats (ex: waterborn abyss) but had no idea how to protect him from himself #meanwhile wwx has always been instictually good at saving lwj from both #like I'm 100% lwj would've become like Jiang Cheng if wwx hadn't snapped him out of the blindly following authority thing #and also like... 15 y/o lwj wasnt happy with his life. he was lonely and stressed and literally signing up to be flogged whenever he goofed #wwx is who allowed lwj to grow up by showing him what it was like to actually be a kid (shown in story whenever lwj gets drunk)#he led lwj to having a more flexible mindset. and it both let lwj relax and set lwj up to be a better parent #looking into lwj's dynamic with the juniors- he lets them break a fuck ton of the petty rules and encourages them to question authority #he also teaches them to not be married to any one meathod of problem solving #wwx is also able to save lwj from his own stubbornness #ex: carrying lwj when he broke his leg. getting lwj to cough up bad blood. getting lwj to keep the rabbits #wwx also tends to give lwj the words he has trouble saying himself. helps him communicate #wwx also protects lwj in fights a lot but thats narratively less important #except the various times wwx puts himself in danger to help lwj. those times are what made it so lwj could never move on from wwx #like with the cave incident #or when wwx helped surpress the arm instead of using the chaos to escape cloud recesses #tldr i guess: i think this fandom tends to treat lwj being the best like its natural to him when really wwx accidentaly rewired his brain #I'm looking directly at fanfic writers who act like the Lans would've treated wwx better than the Jiangs #lwj had to do so much work and self reflection post meeting wwx to be the way he is. he is not the sole product of the Lan teachings

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burningcheese-merchant · 2 months ago

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(First: Well, I've rarely used Tumblr. And I'm Korean! So it might seem a little weird. (I borrowed the power of my forever friend 'Translator'!) I like your Burning Cheese Fanfic because there aren't many Burning Cheese Fanfic in Korea either! (Even Korean Fanfic sites have so few of their Fanfic that I take up 1/3 of the Burning Cheese tag lol) Anyway, what I want to say is I like the Burning Cheese Fanfic you uploaded on Ao3. I'm reading it using a translator every day! I hope you will contin

Oh my gosh, I have a Korean fan!!! I've broken through the barrier between the Asian and Western sides of the fandom!!! Haha jk

I'm so happy you're enjoying my work ❤️ I don't know which one(s) you read - you didn't specify and I've written at least 10 on AO3, plus the 10 short stories on here haha - but thank you for taking the time to read it/them regardless! And for coming to tell me you enjoy them! That really made my night ❤️

I'm surprised to hear there aren't many fanfics in Korea, but not... that surprised, I don't think. From what I always understood, you guys were/are more into fanart than fanfiction. I've founds TONS of BurningCheese fanart on Twitter and other places, almost all of it by Asian fans, so it gives me the impression that BurningCheese is pretty popular over there (please tell me I'm right. Pretty please). But again, never saw much fanfiction among you all, just art. I could be totally wrong, though! I'm not Korean so I'm not an authority on the matter

I will continue to write, I promise! I have so many stories planned (seriously, I write them down on a word document. It's several pages long. And there's a separate list for NSFW lol). I intend to keep feeding my fellow BurningCheese comrades for a long, long time, don't you worry

#... i swear to God. if there are more 🔺🥛 fics than there are BurningCheese fics in Korea too. I'm going to be fucking furious lmao #you better not tell me that's the case...#anyway that's not important. thank you again for reaching out! i love when people do that #it always brings me a lot of joy when people express enjoyment in my work #i know I'm not the most talented writer in the world but I try #cookie run kingdom #burningcheese #goldenspice #merchant asks

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dapper-lil-arts · 8 months ago

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What are your opinions on seasons 8 and 9 on MLP? They seem to be very unpopular within the fandom. (Personally, I'm not a fan of the last two seasons either)

I don't think any season was terrible per-se, but I will admit a lot of those two final seasons kinda just flew by me, it didn't really stick with me. I don't hold them in particularly high regard because I'm kind of ideologically opposed to them I guess? Not that I hate them, but still. Ok, I'll explain. I'm ideologically opposed to a school of friendship that implies that the other people of Equestria don't have 'friendship' and are inferior to ponies, lmao. I'm ideologically opposed to the idea that a child like cozy glow is an irredeemable bad guy that needs to be sent to hell, I'm ideologically opposed to the idea of discord supercharging bad guys just to give twilight a final boss and that being okay and fine, and I'm ideologically opposed to the idea of Twilight ascending as the ruler of all Equestria when she literaly has never even gotten laid-- Like, she has not gotten to live a normal, long life to teach her to rule as an immortal.

I don't rly care to hate the show for those choices, cause hey, its a show for kids, they didn't need to think very deeply before deciding to make ponies be the master race of Equestria, and they sure as hell didn't need to think of the implications of Twilight Sparkle's friends dying of old age.

Its obvious to me, but it doesn't have to be for anyone else that a co-rule with another immortal being is ideal. But hey I don't have an agenda :) I tottaly don't think there was a perfect candidate to rule alongside her or anythin :)

#SUNSET SHIMMER FOR PESIDENT #fr tho its just a simple diffrence in ideals really #As a writer I'm always trying to think of how to better media I like #so I've had a LOT of thoughts on the seasons that are definitive

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doctorweebmd · 27 days ago

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anyway recently i've been feeling kind of weird about my writing and feeling like i should be better more eloquent more impactful more poetic more groundbreaking just MORE like i'm not living up to my potential

and the logical part of me is like

'anna. what the fuck do you mean not 'living up to your potential.' you write FANFICTION. you make dolls KISS. in your SPARE TIME. for FUN. you are PLAYING. why are you developing a complex about THIS'

girl kill that curriculum vitae in your head can't you just LIVE without making each fucking thing you do an accomplishment you can list on a job application

#... i think this most RECENT self-hate spiral started last friday when we did that reflection/poetry thing w/ my coworkers #and. like. okay. i consider myself a 'writer' haha outside work #and i still felt like they wrote better. their work was more beautiful. more powerful. more thoughtful.#and i'm just like 'well. they're not even writers and i can't even be the best at THIS'#the goal posts are always moving moving moving and nothing feels like ENOUGH #yes yes growing up my parents instilled in me that my value comes from my achievements and nothing else yes yes #i know why i'm like this but fuck is it annoying #i'm annoyed at MYSELF. like girl shut up.#strive towards accomplishing something? feel nothing. don't strive? feel guilty for not trying hard enough. ad nauseum.#can we. can we just enjoy things. can we not have complexes about literally every part of life. can we know peace.#haha. anyway. having a normal one on a tuesday afternoon.

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soaps-mohawk · 1 year ago

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When it comes to kneeling, with the first kneel was reader on the floor and then Price in a chair? Then second kneel session they were both kneeling?? I like when authors describe the actual positions of the characters but I think I got a little confused 😅 I was trying to figure out the positioning just so I could make more sense of the scene. If you know what I mean?

I get what you mean!! I'm so bad at remembering to describe things like this properly too 😭

So in both instances Price was sitting and reader was kneeling on the floor next to him. To give the clearest visual, Price was sitting facing his desk, and reader was kneeling right next to him on the floor beside his chair also facing the desk. Price only drops down to kneel next to her once they're done, mostly just because reader's kind of boneless and has very little control in those moments and he's not going to let her fall and hurt herself.

I hope that clears it up lol.

#i know a lot of writers struggle with positioning stuff #sometimes i'll be reading and body parts are in places and i'm like...is that even physically possible to do that?#it sounds so uncomfortable lol #always happy to clear things up like this #i'm sure someone else was wondering too #i'll try to do better about stuff like that #i just get the vision in my head and forget y'all can't just see it too lmaoo #answered

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youchangedmedestiel · 4 months ago

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Does therapy make you a better writer?

#I truly wonder #does it help you understand humans better?#that question popped at me while looking at my white wall trying to write the wip I'm currently working on #writing fanfiction #ao3 writer #this is always about them #destiel #deancas #my destiel fanfic

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veatomis · 1 month ago

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wish i had a degree in comic design instead of illustration because if i had learned how to make comics from my college days you all would've been hit in the face with a 50+ pages arihs lavellan/dorian/pavus/alas soran and their four children going to revive flemeth during veilguard comic AND a comic detailing the entirety of elio's custom journey thru the veilguard with his breakdown post sealing solas culminating in house de riva's annihilation of house dellamorte. minimum 6 issues for this one. yeah.

#but instead all i'm doing is drawing elio in his moments of rest because again. idk how to draw action.#sick evil and twisted world i live in.#i AM trying to get better at drawing interactions and angles and stuff tho. lucanis/elio/spite first kiss comic attempt u will #always be famous to me #and i cant even novelize all i want to draw because im not a writer either. nobody suffers more than me

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cheriekos · 4 months ago

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#ramblings #fic writing #politely this is about arcane #is my brain absolutely rotten for it right now OF COURSE. am i one of the people they were doing fanservice for YES #can i turn my brain off about it?.......hm.#the point is: i cannot solve all the plot holes but also its not my job to #but is it oh so tempting to try and solve everything? is tempting to hold myself to a certain standard that i wouldn't necessarily do #for other fic writers?#i would love to just write gay shit and go but the gay shit has CLASS CONFLICT MAN!!! I CANNOT AVERT MY GAZE FROM THAT!!#anyways #the reason i'm posting this is because if i always hold myself back from writing because im too afraid to even TOUCH complex themes #we are never going to get anywhere #literally nowhere #i'll never write if i'm too afraid to explore these ideas. & it's better to try & be wrong and be told so than let my thoughts sit in a doc #anyways. i'm trying to hype myself up to write my stupid jayvik fic jesus christ

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navree · 2 years ago

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under the weather and re-reading his dark materials, never gonna understand how tf certain religious people get so mad at the critique of the organizations of religion in certain fictional works

#personal #not to get like religious on here and whatnot #but like when a writer makes an allegorical criticism of the catholic church for example #it's rarely a criticism of catholicism as a religion #there's very rarely any actually finger wagging at the concept of believing in a higher power or the structure of the religion #the criticisms often come down on the bureaucracy of the church #and a) that's more than fair ESPECIALLY when it comes to the catholic church and criticizing bureaucracy≠criticizing faith #b) as a faithful person how do you NOT want the bureaucracy to do better #the church is the intermediary between god and the people the pope is god's representative on earth #how do you NOT want that organization to be good and godly and doing well #how do you NOT want to be able to have it free of corruption and abuse #like the church itself has a long history of trying to fix its bureaucracy that's the entire reasoning behind the council of trent #and the counterreformation #the existence of the jesuits as a holy order with vows of poverty and instructions to always help others first #exists as a way to reverse the image people had of priests at the time as moneygrubbing selfish decadent asshats #who only cared about getting richer at the expense of others and never actually doing anything for the people #how does someone as a faithful person not look at critics and go 'yeah obviously they need to be listened to'#'so that we can have a better system to participate in when engaging in faith'#like i'm catholic i would LOVE to be a part of a church that doesn't abuse children or hate gay people #it's why i'm always so stoked whenever pope francis gets on his liberalism box and tries to fix it #it's why i'm always happy whenever father martin (if you know you know) gets prominent placements in certain vatican conferences #cuz hell yeah i want the church to better hell yeah i wanna hear criticisms and see how the church can be better #and make up for the horrible things it's done in the past #you're not faithful to a system of offices you're faithful to like god and jesus #and as such you should want the people representing them to be on the up and up #idk i woke up early and i'm on adderall as i said but i'm too sick to go to class today #so have this

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shesboundtobruise · 2 years ago

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I've said it probably 100000xs by now, but to this day, Lou is one of the best written OCs that I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know. She is clear and distinct. Rarely do I feel like I've gotten to know a character so much that I can actually make an assumption about them and being correct; that's because you've developed her so well and so consistently that she is a complete and knowable person. Not even with just Lou, but all of your OCs and my mind still boggles how you can juggle so many and yet none of them lack the qualities of a well written character.

HOW'S LOU'S PORTRAYAL? | always accepting tbh ( @eversolo )

Why must you make me blubber all over everyone's dash like this??

#eversolo #( ooc. / && general nonsense. )#( i always try and i feel like i fail and then i get a message like this and feel better. )#( thank you my friend. you are and have always been such a blessing for me here on thisbluehelldotcom. )#( i hope you know that you've helped make me a better writer. )#( okay i'm gonna stop before i continue to barf this love on the dash )

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oblivions-dawn · 1 year ago

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Sometimes [I’ve made an executive decision] you just [I hate the scene I have] have to [So I’m going to delete it all] start again [That’s 351 words down the drain] to get it right

#Senu Dialogue #I didn't actually delete it yet; there's a small part that might be of use #But the entire scene is essentially not getting used now #It takes guts to admit that sometimes. I've just learned to scrap it and start again #Because it always comes out better when I try again #Even though it's frustrating and I don't like to do it . . . Do it anyway #I waste more time trying to make it work than I do rewriting the whole thing again #I suppose it's just my personal approach to writer's block and frustration with a scene not going right #Is it bad? Technically no. But I'm the writer and if I don't like it then I don't like it and that's okay

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asterdeer · 2 years ago

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told the therapist about how shitty it makes me feel being inundated with this new approach to mental illness being "at some point if you're still depressed it's because you're not trying to be not-depressed hard enough, you have to go talk a walk and do hobbies and talk to people or else you're making other people uncomfortable" and she basically said "yeah that works for some people. but also you don't have mild depression so that's not going to work for you in isolation. you're severely depressed you dumb bitch [affectionate]." and my kneejerk reaction was huh? no i'm not. i'm just a weak cowardly piece of shit looking for excuses to be miserable. which is probably exactly what a severely depressed person would say

#every two weeks i drag myself into the office and go 'im tired of being pathetic and hating myself'#and she goes 'your brain is trying to kill you. you're doing your best.'#and then i get through 4-6 business days before the reminder wears off and i need talking off the ledge again #but ive got a new med and im going to try to start getting better sleep #every time she says i deserve care and compassion i'm like. pfffft. okay sure lmao. so you're a fantasy writer too huh #anyway if you're having trouble with your mental health and feeling like it's your fault #because you haven't like. Romanticized something today or whatever #you're doing your best. i don't believe it always gets better because i have eyes and reading comprehension #but on my best days i do think surviving in spite of brain demons trying to push you off the ledge is more satisfying than giving in to the #brain demons are stupid assholes and we can't let them win #mythtakes

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ifievertoldyou · 2 years ago

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we did peer reading for the essays and the person reading mine literally didn't leave Any feedback at all, while i gave her like 50 different suggestions and also a bunch of comments on the things i liked..

#~ever rambles #like. i know i'm a try-hard but. No notes whatsoever? i am sure that my essay wasn't That good 😭#i think i just have more practice at leaving comments than she does. and i've always been good at english so i noticed things easier #but yeah.. hopefully my teacher leaves better feedback than just' i liked it! you're a good writer.'#which is sweet. but not exactly helpful for me to improve yk

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heycoyotegirl · 2 years ago

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always wild to find out a blog you've never interacted with blocked you

#i just wanted to reblog a post about bi paxton :(#god i wish i knew when i was blocked #was it my bitching about this season?#cause that'd be fair #i have complained about b*nvi & how the writers handled ben's character development a lot recently #but also I didn't think I did/said anything controversial enough to be blocked??#like I always tag my posts properly bc I know how annoying it is to run into hate in the main tags #and I don't ignore or intentionally misconstrue canon to make my arguments #yeah i'm harsh on b*nvi and ben sometimes but I also try to keep it fair #and i don't think ben is irredeemably awful or anything #I just think that the writers could've done a better job with his (and the ship's) development and then I would've been fine with b*nvi #not that you need like. a Good Reason to justify blocking someone obviously #i just personally only block people for bad tagging etiquette or if they try to pick a fight with me directly #my post #personal #delete later

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rudnitskaia · 2 years ago

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Ha-ha, yeah, in my case: both is good. :D

When I say ‘I do it for myself’ I generally mean three things:

I don’t earn money with it.

I do it due to my personal interest and inspiration.

If no one likes it (or in some cases – even sees it) I won’t be disappointed. I simply need to pull the idea that gave me inspiration out of my head, and by creating something I’m already in win-win situation, because I entertain myself and enjoy the process.

However, creating something for yourself doesn’t mean not appreciating attention.

Of course, I do, all attention is valuable; healthy criticism is even more useful to improve your skills, you know. But the feeling that your artwork echoes in someone’s heart enough to click on the ‘like’ button, to leave a comment or even to share it with someone else… is one of the most heartwarming things ever.

So, yes, many, many thanks to everyone who pays attention on creators around them.

Personally, I shine as bright as a nova star every time I see notifications related to my posts. 😊

#artists

#swordyarts #wonderful art #both #both is good #art for yourself #write for yourself #i'm still not used to tumblr reblog system myself #and i struggle with leaving comments due to personal reasons #but i honestly try to get over it and share the art i adore with other people & cheer up creators whose works i see by 'commenting in tags'#at least i always press the 'like' button to support and cheer up artists and writers whose works i see #doing my best and try to do even better #heldig thoughts #about myself

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leniisreallycool · 3 months ago

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"His brown is short and but wavey and pretty and he has eyes." I'm such a good writer

#god i hate writing the first drafts #revising and editing is so much better #but in the words of the famous writer whose name i can't remember that my writing teacher quoted in her letter to me from years ago #“you can always edit a bad page. you can't edit a blank page”#i think she understood that one of my greatest writing weaknesses is that i struggle to put the words on paper #that i need a boost to get the words from my head down into the world #i have no problem coming up with ideas and lore and backstory and worldbuilding #i have no problem editing and revising bad work #i can write a whole fully fleshed out character #compete with a real personality backstory family relationships physical description likes and dislikes etc in seconds #i can rewrite entire bits of lore to correct and fill plotholes with no effort and it be perfectly in line with everything else #but what i struggle most to do is put those ideas down in any way let alone in a way other people can comprehend #hell half the time i can't tell what i was trying to say and can only figure it out because i know myself and i know how i write #first drafts are so hard for that reason but it makes them the most important #because once the ideas are out of my head in any kind of comprehensible way i can make use of all my other skills #and turn it into a fantastic story #it's just so hard for me to get the ideas out of my head and onto paper #another issue is that i can let ideas marinate for months or even years in my head and remember them with perfect clarity #but as soon as i write them down they fully leave my head #i have no knowledge of what was there before even if it was something i had thought about for years #so i wait to write them until they're fully fleshed out in my head #but as soon as i start writing them down i forget the details #i wonder if i should pick a different hobby #i love writing and i'm good at it but it's so so so hard for so many reasons and some of them feel insurmountable #god i am so sorry for anyone clicking on the tags and being faced with all this #probably thinking “ah small statement like usual” and then being punched in the nose with a few of my writing insecurities #lol whoops

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