#fanfiction is free labor

[loverboybrightsideghost]

everything is different (3696 words) by welcometotheopeningband Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Tangled (2010) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Eugene Fitzherbert | Flynn Rider & Rapunzel, Eugene Fitzherbert | Flynn Rider/Rapunzel, Gothel & Rapunzel (Disney) Characters: Eugene Fitzherbert | Flynn Rider, Rapunzel (Disney), Gothel (Disney) Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Not real Gothel but Rapunzel's sort of residual trauma Gothel that lives in her head Series: Part 1 of life before happily ever after Summary: In which Rapunzel wakes up.

-----

I WROTE A TANGLED FAN FICTION! AND IT IS THE FIRST FAN FICTION I HAVE EVER PUT ON AO3 OR ANYWHERE! i wish i could say it's finished, but it is not. the second chapter is like. halfsies. time will tell when i will summon the will to write it, as the tangled brain bug has left me for some time now. i will finish it one day, and i do still have a plan for the rest of the series, but i wouldn't wait around.

PLEASE ENJOY!!!

[sexynetra]

Surprise bitches, chapter 6 is up (at almost 1 AM oops)

buckle in, this is a long one 😅

As always I am so so proud of this and so so excited to share this with y'all and mainly SO SO grateful for my beta who is the actual current love of my life <3

please enjoy and feel free to come yell at me afterwards, I know for a fact you will want to.

[mariusofthesea]

normalize sharing comments you’ve gotten on your fics as reasons for other people to read your work. include them when you post your links and previews. normalize sharing your successes and praise, you deserve it.

[carriedreamerxx]

Just adding here : This is also super disrespectful for the "memorial" fics - as in the writers literally passed before finishing and now some fools are "finishing" their fics and even *posting* these AI blasphemies for attention.

People

This is utterly ghoulish. For God's sake have some decency.

kind of wanna reinforce this here. because i’ve seen ai writing become so popular on tik tok.

ai writing is not okay.

it’s literally theft. just like how ai art steals, ai writing steals. it’s using authors’ very real work to generate whatever you type in. and this also needs to be said as well.

writing is a form of art. fanfiction is a form of literature.

seeing this all over my fyp is REALLY discouraging. fanfic itself is already a labor of love and we love it when you interact. but please do not use ai writing for your fanfic needs when this writing literally steals from fanfic authors.

genuinely don’t know if this post will go around because my interactions outside of hcs are shit, but i hope it does.

[quort]

do you ever get a brain worm you could. really do without. like right now i have two somewhat derivative story ideas fighting for dominance in my head. and they’re both boys

[mx-pastelwriting]

Kinktober Day 5: Knotting

Eddie Brock x GN! Reader x Venom

Summary: Both you and Eddie still learning things about Venom even in the bedroom.

Warnings: Smut, Rough, Little bit of Eddie, Tongue, Licking, Pain, Knotting

Kinktober Masterlist

Minors do not interact!

Head buried back into a pillow, feeling Eddie's hand continuously glide and grip your body, sweat mixing against pressed skin. Cock buried deep within your walls, unlocking an overflow of moans that echoed in your shared apartment.

Feeling as Eddie's hips grew sloppy, alerting you to the end of the heated night, only to watch as Venom took over. Engulfing your lover, trading Eddie's cock for his own.

Flooded with Venom's cock, sparking every nerve that lined your walls, the euphoric feeling causing your chest to rise and moans to grow in volume.

"Venom, p-please, I can't." You stutter for mercy, but he gives you none. Hearing as the bed thrusts against the wall matching his, both you and the bed threaten to break under Venom's feral hunger. Turned on by his labored breaths, hazily temped to push him back just to suck the alien off.

Having no chances on that plan, feeling as his grip grew stronger, groans growing louder, and hips and thighs pounding into yours, buckling as they do. Keeping a grip of your own on Venom, together building up your climaxes.

Taking no longer as Venom sped up, cracking the wooden headboard and bruising the back of your tights. All the chaos ends with both of you cumming loudly, the bliss overloading your bodies. Venom lending forward in shock at the first ever feeling of cumming, saliva dripping from his mouth onto your twitching body.

Coming down from the heavenly moment as your body sharply trades it for pain, hearing Venom's groans loudly, painfully putting the pieces together, it all being his doing.

Crying out for Venom, but only hearing his reverberated breathing as his tongue touches down, hot and wet, licking your neck with teeth grazing along, adding to the pool of pain. Hurting to move, you stayed still full of Venom's cum, hoping he wouldn't move either while stuck in you. Knotted together.

Hello, I hope you enjoyed if there is any grammar mistakes or misspellings sorry about that feel free to let me know in the comments, have a great day/afternoon/night!

Fanfiction is protected under copyright law when plagiarism is involved. If you plagiarize my work, either a piece or whole in any language, I will take legal action. Inspiration or the same idea does NOT apply to this, only word-for-word plagiarism in any language.

♥ mx-pastelwriting does not consent to their fanfiction being copied, copied & credited, translated, used in videos and/or audios, screenshotted, used in AI, or reposted on any other platform without permission.

♥ mx-pastelwriting does give consent to "reblog," sharing links to direct work, and being in recommend lists.

Kinktober Taglist: @shadyloveobject @bimbo-bunni @aoi-targaryen @sophieissleepy @d3k4z-bl00d

@reidsbookcase @writtenbyhollywood @hoffmanfan13 @rosecentury

@vaexox @akari655 @nct38 @iloveslasher @akneld

@jay-cosplay-bin @m-281 @hoffmanfan13 @wh0re4-alexademi @nerdywitchgeek

@caffeine-addict3295 @supergingerlocks @ner-dee @chocolqtelle @laurenyas

@taylorthetable @f-ckm3hhhg @racco0ngirl13 @fran-soup @hope69world

@supersoldierswhxre @erensslut @hotchners-wifey @abyssaloverlord @raajali3

@crustyowos @fly-on-the-wall @nyx2021 @www-interludeshadow-com @nct38

@carolb111 @thays0 @theescorpiolovechile @0banes0 @bibella8swan

@ingybobingysblog @lokiiified @asmalls0723 @wonderlandofsilence @lia1521

[n30n-l1ghts]

Okay, I need to rant. Fuck AI. And I mean seriously. FUCK. A.I. I know I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but more people need to be talking about this, and there’s no point in me saying that if I’m not willing to talk about it too. AI has done nothing but ruin our communities and defile the art that millions of hands have spent millions of hours creating. Fanfiction is a work of passion. Drawing is a work of passion. Voice acting IS A WORK OF PASSION. AI has no passion. It takes the soul out of the things we love and cherish. It steals what we as a collective community have lovingly crafted, and it shatters it to a thousand pieces, spits on it, curses its family, and throws it in a flaming dumpster to be eaten by rats. It is despicable and disgusting.

I won't lie, or pretend I’m a perfect saint. I myself was a user of Character AI until somewhat recently. And as ashamed as I am to admit that, I feel it’s necessary to own up to my own faults. But after seeing the damage it causes, I can’t in good conscience even consider touching that site. Many of us write because it is our passion. Many of us because it is our job. And many of us because it is our *friend*. AI steals the writing of your favorite creators WITHOUT PERMISSION and mashes it together like Frankenstein’s fucked up monster to create storylines that aren’t even fucking coherent. Not only that, but Character AI uses whatever you respond to it with to teach itself as well, which means that the company has access to whatever you chat about, and free reign to do whatever they want with it. They also make absurd amounts of money from it, which in comparison, fanfiction writers, who spend countless hours writing stories for our favorite characters, more often than not charge nothing. And the ones who do charge, tend to have reasonable, if not highly lenient prices for their labor.

Which leads me into another side rant. SUPPORT WRITERS THAT YOU LIKE. It’s really not that hard, it takes two fucking seconds of your time and it makes someone's day. Reblog. Share with your friends. Like. Comment. Just let the writer know that you saw it, and that you liked it. The amount of fanfic writers I have seen get completely discouraged from writing because of lack of engagement is astounding. I’ve seen several posts on Tumblr or Twitter or Bluesky talking about creators that were incredibly popular but never knew it due to lack of engagement is appalling. If you can rant about your love for their work on Discord, you can rant about your love for their work in the comments. Just fucking copy paste it. Tell them how much you love it. Show them support. Especially the ones that don’t charge. Because for those of us that don’t, our only payment, is your feedback. Even constructive criticism is greatly appreciated by damn near every writer I can think of. Because even that shows that you read it, absorbed it, and thought about it enough to have something to actually say about it.

The same thing goes for artists and voice actors. You see a drawing or animation you enjoy? Comment. Like. Share. You see a character in an anime or a game and you love their voice? Go check out their voice actor, maybe they do some other cool stuff, and you might just discover your new favorite series or streamer. A perfect example is Alejandro Saab. I became a fan of his through his astounding performance in several series dear to me, and lo and behold, he’s also a streamer I enjoy. Same story with Aleks Le, or Ray Chase. Yuri Lowenthal, Lizzie Freeman, Landon Mcdonald, Zeno Robinson, the list goes on. But seriously, it’s not that much effort to just show a little love to the creators you enjoy. The people who breathe life into the series’ that we all hold dear. AI does not breathe that life. Using AI, and supporting those companies, will destroy those pillars of our community. And if that happens, the AI would crumble too, it would have no new information to use. SO really, what’s the benefit? I’ll tell you. There is none.

Stop using AI. All it does is bring harm and slowly kill our community. It’s disgusting, appalling, and downright fucking egregious.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

[olderthannetfic]

Are there fandoms where the amount of male fanfiction writers significantly outweighs female writers? I think there was a survey or study that proved that female fandom goers tend to gravitate towards transformative ways of engaging with a work (so fanfic and fanart etc), while male members tend to gravitate towards archival methods (wiki, writing guides, etc). I know for a fact that there are plenty of male fic writers though. The only fandom I can think of where men dominated in fanfic circles is My Little Pony

--

Supposedly, Ranma had a lot back in the day, but I frankly doubt that they were an overwhelming majority.

Men don't all just compile canon wikis or collect action figures. The true difference I've noticed is that cis dudes are socialized to expect to get something for their labor. They, broadly and on average, show up more writing spec scripts or derivative but saleable works.

People researching this tend to be far too focused on the actual fic part, but I think it would be more valuable to look at it in the context of unpaid labor in general. Cis dudes do a lot of unpaid coding labor, but it tends to be stuff that will get very obvious payoffs from their communities, and it's directly relevant to getting jobs. Many of the less prestigious volunteer spaces are dominated by women. It's a whole brew of who expects what, who's underemployed and thus has the wrong kind of free time, who has job prospects beyond unpaid labor in that field, etc.

Anyway, maybe there are some more corners we don't know about, but I would not expect to find all that many fandoms of any real size where the men vastly outnumber the women.

[rollercoasterwords]

like yeah obviously legality does not correlate to morality and i personally do not think ip laws should exist. however the reason i find it relevant to emphasize that selling fanfiction is illegal is not to make some moral stand about the sanctity of ip so much as to be like. hey this is the way it fucking is and if u break the law by selling fic u run the risk of creating larger legal troubles for entire communities of fic writers who just want to share their work for free. also more to the point the reason selling fic is so shitty is that it is a question of labor exploitation. i spent hundreds of hours creating something which you are now packaging and selling to make a profit without compensating me for my labor, which is not only exploitative but spits in the face of the spirit in which this fanfiction was shared—as a labor of love, meant to be free to anyone who wanted to read it. and the gag is that if u did want to fairly compensate me for my labor it would literally be thousands of dollars (assuming i’m charging even minimum wage for time spent writing & editing) which is why it isn’t fucking possible to sell fanfiction for a fair price!! all that on top of the fact that i (and many other fic writers) explicitly say “don’t sell or buy bound copies of my fic” just makes it flat-out undeniable that this is a fucking shitty thing to do, and i genuinely have no sympathy for people who go “wait what i’m not supposed to sell or buy fanfiction 🥺🥺🥺” like shut the fuck up i hate u

[amywritesthings]

okay, i have to address something that i've seen float around a bunch on tumblr, reddit, and tiktok lately when it comes to readers who are angry at fanfiction authors for not writing the content they wish to see in their fandom spaces.

...did you ever think to try and write it yourself?

this weekend i saw someone comment on the bg3 sub about how they're sick of seeing astarion fics with 'special/edgy female-centric tieflings or durges' and not much else. they were angry that 'they scroll for hours on ao3 and tumblr but only find all this oc and reader insert garbage, when it's plaguing their fandom space'.

so write the damn story you keep searching for. write what you find the fandom lacks. you take it upon yourself to curate the content you want out there.

if a writer wants to make 50 stories of the same 'special/edgy' original character smutting up a canon, they can? it's their labor of love. their passion project. a hobby. they choose to share it online for free. we are so very lucky to live in a digital age where fanfiction is so readily available, and there are millions if not billions of stories (for free!!) at your fingertips to scroll and enjoy.

i'm getting very tired of finding posts/videos of entitled readers who vocally complain about not being catered to when they themselves are not trying to contribute with the content, pairings, or topics they wish to see.

[the-lonelybarricade]

I just wanted to take a moment to quickly speak on something. It's come to my attention that there are some bookbinders on etsy selling bound acotar fanfic for profit without the author's consent, some of which also includes fanart that was added without the artist's consent.

Not only is this deeply disrespectful to the artist and author whose labor is being sold without credit, profit, or permission, it is also illegal. SJM has copyright to any written works involving her worlds and characters and selling acotar fanfic is an infringement on that copyright.

Please, please do not buy or comission bound fanfic. It puts the authors of those fics at risk and will be a very quick way of ensuring that those beloved fics get taken down. If you see someone selling bound fanfic, please do not support them.

Fanfiction binding is supposed to be done for personal use. I think it's a very beautiful trademark of fandom to love a fic so much that you go to the effort of printing and binding it yourself. It is a labor reminiscent of the creation of fanfic itself, pouring in hours of work purely out of love for the story that made you feel something special. It is a wheel coming full circle, and commercializing it for profit is a gross corruption of the spirit of fandom and book binding.

I think the rise in Booktok popularity has exascerbated some issues that have been permeating fandom for a while, and its created an influx of fans who treat fandom content as though they're commercialized goods.

As a reminder, the majority of fandom content is created for free as a hobby to engage with both the material and other fans in a fun, relaxed environment. We do this for love, please respect our work and do not ruin this space for everyone.

[elaemae]

What did Og!Cale sacrifice?

Genuine question...

Hear me out;

I'm reading the latest chapter of 'In an Instant' by Messy_haired_bum and something just clicked in my head.

See, I know that the Og!Cale is a fan favorite, something that I didn't really understand because we don't know a whole lot about the guy, but there's just something that's been stopping me from getting enamored with him via various fanfictions I've read even though they've made the Og!Cale very lovable, and I didn't really know what it was, for a long time, until now.

There are various posts circulating around saying that Og!Cale sacrificed himself greatly with the deal he made with the GoD, and at a time, I believed that. But... reading this chapter opened my eyes and made me think, what did Og!Cale sacrificed?

What did he sacrifice that he didn't already lose?

A lot of ppl say that Og!Cale lost everything to be KRS but the only thing he had left was his identity. That's... not a lot to be honest. Not enough, actually.

Now, I can hear y'all thinking "Current!Cale got his wealth, backing, and a family–", but so did Current!KRS.

Current!KRS also didn't need to deal with a world war involving a megalomaniac, entire enemy nations, and a literal divine being.

Og!Cale was a foot soldier for 40 years, most likely didn't help a lot against Arm and The White Star, and he died without any (known) great feats but he's given such an amazing opportunity to take over the body of someone that'll need to deal with all those problems? An opportunity of rebirth that even Lee Soo Hyuk wasn't given until he gave one up of his abilities to help seal a deity?

He knows he couldn't shoulder the burden of saving the world so he just... washed his hands off that responsibility... And then occupied the body of a high-ranking well-known individual to then go off and get a happy ending with his reincarnated mom.

As the excerpt above said, it's a win-win for him, he doesn't get soul-crushing responsibilities, he gets a high-ranking position that grants him power, he can deal with the learning curve due to being given Og!KRS's abilities and having an actual reliable guide, and he gets to be back with his mom.

And...

... If Current!Cale ever fails?

He can just shrug and say it's not his problem anymore.

He's got his new happy life now. (I'm not saying he will, I'm just saying he could, if he was a lesser man)

Current!Cale lost everything he had too, all the fruits of his labors, the results of him dealing with all sorts of issues and problems for years, just... taken away by a stranger in his body. You can say KRS!Cale wasn't really happy, that Og!Cale didn't know if the body he'll end up in would be okay, that he gambled with his life in taking over Og!KRS's life.

Life that... he was about to lose anyways.

It just wasn't fair...

If we ignore the fact the KRS!Cale is literally thriving and just look subjectively at the situation of the body switch, KRS!Cale got the short end of the bloody, hellish, rotting stick.

I can only get closure if I personally find out if Og!Cale ever gave a fuck about the uninvolved, innocent guy that he sent to deal with a 20 year war, and not in the 'Is he doing the saving he's supposed to?' typa way, I want to find out if he ever feels guilty of the responsibility that he gave the man, if he ever worries for KRS!Cale's personal safety and mental health, for putting an innocent man through war. An innocent man that couldn't just stand by, as the world he found himself in, burns around him.

I don't want to dislike the current KRS, I want to love him actually, but this is my current perspective on the matter and you guys are free to share yours so that I can broaden my mindset about Og!Cale (pls do, I wanna like the guy but I wanna know if he's a good guy first, I wanna know why ppl love him so I can love him as well)

[breannasfluff]

PSA

Some of you have seen the note that I’ve stopped writing. Fanfiction is a labor of love and it’s also free. I don’t write to have people tear it down.

If you don’t like it, you can keep it to yourself. If you go around berating and insulting authors, they will stop posting.

I've been posting weekly or bi-weekly updates for one story or another for a little over two years. I’ve written 900,000 words, or the equivalent of 18 novels. It’s high time to stop.

Most of my motivation came from your comments and art and questions. Thank you to everyone who's supported me up to this point and I hope to see some of you in the future.

[lefarte]

hello! may i have daan sfw and nsfw headcannons please? :3 take ur time if you're busy!

Kitty man….!

SFW

He’s more of a night owl than a morning person. He’ll cuddle you all morning and not let you up.

He likes to do the cooking! I firmly believe his love language is acts of service. If he’s not doing the cooking, then he’ll do the dishes. He is not keen on manual labor though. You will not convince this man to fix your car or anything. He loves you but he just won’t do it.

I call him kitty man, but he likes all animals, and pets naturally gravitate towards him. If you have pets, they will like him more than you within only a few weeks.

I imagine he can play the piano. He’s a bit rusty but he can still play. He can also sing a little tune on occasion. He’s fond of jazz. (Our modern-day music wouldn’t ‘suit his palate’.)

This is canon, but he uses odd outdated slang terms. Think “You’re off the cob” or “I’m really digging your jive.” He calls things “swell”. Though I suppose it would be trendy for the time period…?

He wears makeup! He wears lipstick and eyeliner. (Just look at his sprite, that’s lipstick.)

His skin is always a little bit cold when you hold his hand or cuddle with him. He also puts his ice-cold hands on your back randomly. Just for funsies….

As a consequence of living most of his life in dreary Rondon streets, he does NOT handle heat. He could handle having limbs sawed off, eye gouged out, seen the horrors and brutality of war and prehevil without shedding a single tear, but summer heatwaves? He’s out of commission. He will NOT go outside. Whining all day.

Daan is naturally quite curious, and takes interest in your hobbies very quickly. He can be kind of a tough critic, but he doesn’t mean it; he never tries to be unfair. He’d be especially pleased if you have any passion for literature, or art.

Judges u for reading fanfiction 🤨

NSFW

I’m of the belief that Daan’s favorite act is not p in v. Penetration doesn’t rile him up. Now, if it was watching you fuck yourself with a dildo, it would be different. He prefers outercourse over intercourse. Frotting, fingering, mutual masterbation… oral… THAT’S the kind of thing he likes.

Daan is a switch. But regardless of whether he’s dominant or submissive to you, he prefers to be the one doing the work. He likes to be the one who touches you, less so the other way around.

He has a deep fascination with bondage. The feel of it, the aesthetics of it, and the aspect of vulnerability. I think most of his fantasies involve bondage. Collars and leashes are his favorite.

A lot of Daan’s private fantasies revolve around the idea of ‘casual bondage’. Think, one partner is tied up, blindfolded and left in a room while one goes to run some errands, or sit by and read as if nothing is even wrong. Or perhaps a free use dynamic where sex can happen any time, any place…

Daan has a bit of a thing for public sex. If you’re in a restaraunt or a park that just so happens to be empty, he might get a little frisky and just happen to find his hand somewhere…

He’s also into exhibitionism in general. He’d be excited by the idea of making a sex tape. He wouldn’t suggest it on his own, but he’d think about it in his off time. Threesomes are also an idea he fancies.

….Hes also a cuckhold. He enjoys watching you being railed while touching himself… I really think this is true to his character.

He prefers gentle sex over rough sex. If the sex is rough, it’s usually more verbally dirty talking than physically rough. He can’t help being a little doting over you. He just likes the romance.

[mx-pastelwriting]

Kinktober Day 21: Pheromone

Heimdall x GN! Reader

Summary: Sent out on a mission with the God of Foresight, though he could not see what would happen during it.

Warnings: Established Relationship, Smut, Pheromone Sex, Cave Sex, On the ground

Kinktober Masterlist

Minors do not interact!

Jumping over the gap in the land, trying to keep up with the God of Foresight, both running thin on patience. Odin having sent you both to retrieve something deep in Midgard's mountains.

"Can you hurry?" He yells from afar. Not even bother to look back, though, stopping for you to catch up.

Racing to catch up unaware of a plant's thin vine that hung in the air, running into it full speed, falling face first. Being too busy in pain and on the floor to see the plant hanging on the rocky mountain, spray something into the air.

Heimdall hadn't either, coming over to help you up from the rocky ground, breathing in its thick mist. Taking off again, both slower than before. Feeling as if something built up in you, burning in reaction under your skin, screaming to be let out.

"Let's stop for the night." Heimdall's words pulled you out of the tunneled feeling. Nodding, having barely processed what he said and how out of character it was for him.

Stopping to rest in a cave, the cold air doing little to dampen the heat that engulfed your body and the wetness that came from inside you. Sat fair from each other, catching each other's eyes every now and then. Knowing he felt it too, seeing sweat that glimmered on his skin in the moonlight that poured in as the silence of the cave disappeared little by little as both of your labored breaths filled the air.

Heimdall being the first to move, swift to cup the side of your face before smashing his lips onto yours, leaning you back onto the ground.

Quickly finding a spot between your legs, bodies stiff though melting in hunger and heat. Looking into his Bifrost eyes, seeing nothing but desire, as if it were finally being let out after being harbored for so long. And you felt the same.

Having always snuck glances at him in the main dining hall or from afar while he patrolled the wall, trying hard to clear your mind of any desire, knowing he would pick up on it. Seeing now, he felt the same all along.

"I can't stop." He choked out a warning, in case he was wrong. Wanting to spare you from his entailment, he cared too much for you.

"Then don't," you respond, catching a breath, wanting him and the overwhelming feeling to go calm.

Lips meeting your passionately, bodies burning with lust. Heimdall thrust against you dryly, cock begging to be inside you. Mind drunk off of that plant's pheromones, it didn't take long before you both fumbled off each other's clothes and his twitching cock entered you, making your back curl.

Moans bounced off the cave walls, wakening any nearby life. Loving every second he thrust into you as his lips danced along your chest, trailing up to your collarbone, then meeting back at your lips.

As the night trailed on long hours of different positions, slowly as morning came, as did he many times. Needing no longer to move, only needing to be in you to calm what was left of the pheromone that still coursed in you both. Leaving time to think about what the future would hold after this.

Hello, I hope you enjoyed if there is any grammar mistakes or misspellings sorry about that feel free to let me know in the comments, have a great day/afternoon/night!

Fanfiction is protected under copyright law when plagiarism is involved. If you plagiarize my work, either a piece or whole in any language, I will take legal action. Inspiration or the same idea does NOT apply to this, only word-for-word plagiarism in any language.

♥ mx-pastelwriting does not consent to their fanfiction being copied, copied & credited, translated, used in videos and/or audios, screenshotted, used in AI, or reposted on any other platform without permission.

♥ mx-pastelwriting does give consent to "reblog," sharing links to direct work, and being in recommend lists.

Kinktober Taglist: @fullmoonwolfer1 @loki-love @akneld @ner-dee

@laurenyas @lightupsketchersperson @racco0ngirl13 @erensslut

@hotchners-wifey @raajali3 @crustyowos @fly-on-the-wall

@www-interludeshadow-com @carolb111 @thays0 @theescorpiolovechile

@lokiiified @asmalls0723 @wonderlandofsilence @werewhatkilledthedinosaurs

@chocolqtelle

[brown-little-robin]

I've gotten into the habit of writing "thank you for all your work writing this" or similar in my ao3 comments, usually near the end of the comment, because I know from my own experience that I love it when people compliment my skill (I really love that) but also. it just. it feels really good to have the simple labor and time acknowledged! It takes so long and so much work to write a fanfiction, and to do that work for free... yeah. it's a good thing to add :}