#fandom: fe3h

[specterthief]

Hi, do you happen to have a link to some meta you once mentioned about FE3H, that SS->AM->VW->CF makes the most sense for Edelgard and Byleth? I would love to read that

i don't, i'm sorry!! 😭 i've tried to find it again multiple times but haven't had any luck - i believe it was on reddit, but i haven't been able to find the right thread again.

the OP's explanation was that playing SS first immediately has you experience edelgard's betrayal in the most personal way, while playing AM and VW then gives you all the rest of the information you need about the world/conflict and edelgard personally to do the black eagles route over and save her this time in CF... but that's the extent of what i can remember to repeat ;_;

sorry again, i really wish i could find it

[zeearts]

uh so i finished the Azure Moon route on my first ever play through of my first ever fire emblem game and i'm not playing anything else cause i'm obsessed with these two

[temeyes]

LT's quite the romantic, isn't he?

[teabagtoaster]

my piece for the @fesapphiczine! had not drawn these two in a hot minute before this zine so it was lovely to revisit them :-) actually though go watch their supports if you haven't they're really gay and also very cute

[platinumamiii]

~ Happy 5th anniversary 💛❤️💙 ~

[kimeoshi]

Sketch commission for anon!

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Okay this guy is dealing with FE3H discourse correctly. Funniest shit ever bro just hates everyone

He also made a 2 hour long video on Fódlan politics. Absolutely unhinged

(I worry this maybe breaks the 3H discourse ban but I think it might be funny enough to slip through the cracks or something?)

insane.

[amebelladonna]

erm hi fe3h fandom i'm here for your red atheist sapphics and them only <3

[the-fab-fox]

Okay so this has been something I've been chewing on for a long while. About making this post I mean.

This one is to those who actively ingest fanfiction but seem to think it's okay to just read free fiction that people have put time and thought and crafted prose for your enjoyment and do nothing in return.

All we ever ask for and all we ever want is for y'all to AT THE VERY LEAST hit that kudos button if you like the work. That is the BARE MINIMUM of what you SHOULD be doing. Especially all of you who say you're too nervous to comment or don't wish to be perceived. And if you don't want your account on the list, you can log out and send a guest kudos.

But as I said, BARE MINIMUM. If you loved the fic, if you got something out of it that left you feeling good and energized (or whatever angst does for y'all) then I want to take a moment and strongly urge you to comment, subscribe (if a wip), and bookmark those works. Did you know there's an option to even mark it as a Fic Recommendation? You can put notes in to and say why you liked it and things like that (DO NOT DO A RATING IN PUBLIC BOOKMARKS HOWEVER). And, you can indeed make them private! The writer still gets the number added to their stats but your bookmark we won't see.

Anyway, I now wanna turn your attention to Exhibit A:

This is a list of my best performing fics. Do you see the problem with this? The green highlights are the hits I've received for those fics. The red is the Kudos and comment threads. Now the kudos is obviously right?

Let's look at my number one fic right now, Accidentally in Love (a Malleyuu fic from Twisted Wonderland fandom). It's the seventh fic in a romance series. As you can see, it's doing great as far as hits, right? And I know it's an amazing fic from the comments I have received and just from rereading it myself. Note, I am probably the biggest bully to myself as @sunshineandteddybears and @mellosdrawings and @romantichopelessly can tell you in great detail. So when I am saying it's really damn good, you can probably trust it's gonna be pretty damn good. And yet, a fic that has 4K hits only has 119 kudos. And now to bring your attention to the comment threads. So honestly with how bad readers are on actually commenting (which by the way if you log off you can send anonymously as a guest—you'll have to put in your email address but we authors won't see that)... 107 seems pretty good right? But you guys don't see that. You see what's on the info for the story. Unfortunately, on the fic info at the top of the story, it counts every single comment (including the Author's). (The comment threads is just every single starting comment, i.e. the first comment received from each commenter.)

The thing is, I—and probably quite a few other writers—do respond to every single comment.

So that means where the info on my fic itself says 230 comments, in reality, I'm at half that when I subtract my half of the comments. So that's actually 115 comments from other people. So some people might see that 230 and think oh they got a lot of comments so I don't think they want to hear from me or I can't be fucked and they're already doing good so.

NO. NO. NO. Do not look at the numbers as a guide if a fic is good or not. Do not look at the numbers and think that we don't need or deserve to get any more. And finally WE WANT TO HEAR FROM Y'ALL.

Excuses need to stop.

Speaking of numbers. Here's my over all stats current on AO3.

In the 3 years on this AO3 account (I've had others in the past and accounts on ff.net and live journal. I'm an oldie fanfic writer lol. 21 years of fanfic. My gods. 🤣) It didn't used to be like this guys. Back in the day I'd get 12 plus comments on a chapter and this is on stuff a teenager wrote.

We have got to get back to the point of supporting each other and building each other up. Also while I'm at it, I have a huge beef with the fact that fanartists get so much more positive feedback and replies and comments, but the thing is, even their numbers are skewed. You can go into the notes of a fanart on here that has 10k notes to see they have maybe 100-1K reblogs (if that, I'm being generous) and maybe 10 or so replies (if turned on) and the rest are all likes. EVERYONE has been on here long enough by now to know that likes do nothing to get a post in the algorithm and tags only do so much. Reblogs are the only way their art (or our fanfictions for people who post them on here) gets seen! By sharing!

So y'all gotta get better. Yes, we write for ourselves first, but ultimately a story is meant to be shared with everyone and feedback should not be optional if you're actively reading the fics or viewing the art for free and enjoyed it!

TLDR:

IF YOU FUCKING LIKE A FANFIC. KUDOS AT THE VERY LEAST BUT BE BETTER. COMMENT. BOOKMARK. SUBSCRIBE IF IT'S A WIP YOU LOVE. (Like, comment and reblog if on Tumblr)

IF YOU FUCKING LIKE A FANART ON TUMBLR. COMMENT. LIKE. REBLOG.

DO BETTER AS READERS AND US WRITERS AND ARTISTS WILL GIVE YOU THE WORLD (AND MANY OTHER WORLDS TO BOOT)

That is all. Please reblog the fuck out of this if you agree.

(and tagging my current and last fandoms so this can get in fandom spaces where it needs to be.)

[gghero]

happy halloween Im putting the struggler and the yapper in the torture labyrinth this year

[specterthief]

hello person who insists that chilchuck is totally different from every other example of the "looks like a child but is actually an adult" trope because he speaks maturely and has multiple children, before you sits sothis from fire emblem: three houses,

i think the whole chilchuck thing is also another symptom of people treating dunmeshi as The Only Good Unproblematic Manga do you feel me

[starblizzard247]

It’s a weird feeling outgrowing your favorite characters/characters in general as an adolescent.

It’s also weird realizing how young they actually are.

[gengor]

Man, I know some people believe Sylvain when he says his love life makes him sad and pitiable because women ‘want his crest baby’ and nothing more. Aaannd I would so strongly encourage that person to rewatch his supports, and entertain the idea that , maybe, Sylvain is prone to painting unfair depictions of women. IMO he seems to want to preemptively excuse the ways he is going to objectify women-- sometimes even female children -- because he has already decided that women are incapable of real genuine love.

I honestly wish more people engaged with the real canon characterization we have for him because it's such an accurate portrayal of the obsessive misogyny that so many men engage in, and he's one of the most interesting characters because of that.

[platinumamiii]

~ Tropical Advisor 🎣~

[justatactician]

The irony of Fire Emblem fans arguing about who was "right" in Three Houses... The entire theme of the game is bringing to light how everyone is biased and jaded and no one has the full story. If you only choose to play a single path, there are tons of "plot holes" that can only be filled when you choose a different side. When discussing their choices, it should be acknowledged that the characters don't have the privilege of perspective and hindsight that the player does.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

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