#and remind myself of all the good

[xoxoemynn]

Had a very shitty cranky day yesterday for reasons I won't bother going into, so today I'm trying to focus on the good things I have in store for July, in no particular order, with emojis because I feel like it:

Have a mini fandom meetup next week! I'm very excited because it's my first time hanging out with a group of OFMD friends. I am also nervous excited because it's going to be the longest drive I've made since my car accident but I'm pretty sure the rules are if I can do this I can do anything, so. 💪

Got a really cute Daphne-shaped air freshener to cheer me on. She smells like orchids. 🥰

I think I finally cracked the code on the next clock boys fic and it's romantic as heck! (And smutty but that goes without saying.) 🕰️

Also have a silly lil AU-gust fic I'm very excited about, finally getting to do some fake dating! 🏡

On that note, not to jinx it, but writing actually feels fun again? I feel like I've turned a corner with my big WIP and I'm once again excited to work on it and share it. (That will not happen in August lol it's going to be a Big Boy and though I am excited, I am also slow.) 📽️

I won the bookbinding prize through the AOC raffle and I'm feeling weirdly emotional about the idea of seeing one of my fics in print! 📔

I've started embracing this bold new concept called "reading fic doesn't need to be an all or nothing game, just read and comment what you can," and this sounds very rudimentary but when I tell you I've read more fic in the past week than I have in the past 3 months combined? Groundbreaking. I'm having fun. 💕

Found artwork for my office and hanging that this weekend. Not to brag but I have the prettiest Zoom background of all my coworkers. 🖼️

I don't have to see my extended family this month. 💃

Been catching up with some old friends I haven't talked to much since my life exploded and their lives also exploded and it feels good. 👯‍♀️

Manifesting a good July. 🕯️

[sunlitsoil]

there is always tomorrow

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[hinamie]

playing around w slightly different hair renders

[uncanny-tranny]

You! Internalize that you do not always need to "improve your art/craft" now! It's great to learn and develop your skills, but you do not need to come from a place of hating where you are now! You certainly do not need to force yourself to improve if it is coming in between you and enjoying the things you do. Improvement for improvements sake does not have to be the only goal, nor the only one that "should matter"

You are allowed to have motifs, enjoyment, ameturism, and "less skill." Kill and devour the capitalist in your head that dictates that you must always improve for everybody else's sake and your "productivity."

[littlenimart]

if you dance, I’ll dance

and if you don’t, I’ll dance anyway

[zu-is-here]

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[lesbikill]

being so honest right now heathertail should’ve taken every plotline given to harestar and then built on them & it’s a disservice to the po3-oots arcs that she didn’t. she has a disregard for the parts of the code she disagrees with, and she’s been turned away by a member of the three as a result, first with compassion but then viciously, with him swearing her as his enemy and threatening her straight after nearly murdering her mentor. he comes close to killing her and the book tells us she *knows* it.

seeing the dark forest pick up on this rivalry, on the way she’s been unfairly treated by lionblaze, and taking advantage of it would have been really interesting. it would have given way more set-up to her relationship with breezepelt and given her more agency in it then being the wife who fixes him later on. it would’ve given her an arc of her own. it would have given her a long-lasting and present relationship with lionblaze, making his chapters significantly stronger. seeing this rebellious little apprentice go from a friendly presence to a serious threat created by the flaws of the main character & the clan system would be fun.

and then eventually, after lionblaze has lost his powers and is struggling, we would see heathertail grow behind the scenes and eventually ascend to leadership of windclan. maybe they would reconcile, maybe they would remain a bitter reminder to each other of the past and what could have been, of childhood friendship tarnished with clan patriotism and needless violence. who knows. but id love to read about it.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for voting in the poll to decide who was going to be the leader of the band! It turned out to be such a close race!

[rendevok]

twitter fluff requests! 💞

[gendont]

finding women online doing cool things only to find out they are she/theys they/thems he/hims :(

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

yeah so i'm falling for @weevmo's Guys... they're so neat! i dig their vibes and can't wait to see what Corduroy Stew is all about <3

[thotsfortherapy]

i have lived this before. i have survived this before. things won’t always be okay but it won’t last and it will always get better.

[weaverofink]

an eye for an eye.....

[tricoufamily]

to be fair you have to have a very high iq to like strangerville (also young cahill and. some guy)

[the-kingshound]

Writing variations is so fun... so fun...

Try to think of it as multiplying the Hound's angst x1000 🤭

I love how, as I write the scenes, you truly can either play a very very angsty Hound who basically punishes themselves and who's sight is terrifying, or a cinnamon roll who takes warm baths and has more or less good communication.

This does change the interactions quite a bit but oh well. Every time I think about the reader's reaction and enjoyment and I get a bit of life force back to keep writing