#i love interacting with yall!!

[bababaka]

Yall need to interact with fanfiction author's more.

So. After the ddos attack on ao3.

I was encouraged to write more comments and make my love known to fanfic writers.

I dont really like commenting. Because im a bit shy and soooo lazy.

Now though. I am writing more comments. And dude. This is so heartwarming. Ya'll need to treat writers better. They are doing the lord's work.

Take for an example, couple of days prior, i was searching for something interesting to read, and found an oneshot quite compelling.

I read it. At the end of it, i was blown away by how good it was. It promised me something and it went beyond my expectations. But then i saw a crime, zero fucking comments!

At that moment, i wasn't feeling up to writing a comment. Because, normally i like to write huge paragraphs. But because im lazy i decided to be brief.

Next day, the author answered that the comment lift their mood for the whole day.

That warmed my heart.

Duuuuuuuude! Write comments! Suport the writers of the fics you like! No need to be something super elaborate. Just give your thoughts. Freak out. Ramble. Ask something. Make theories. Compliment. Make a joke about how you wished to give kudos every chapter but ao3 sucks(not true bby) and won't let you.

Truly. Just. Comment. It can make someone's day. And that is part of the apeal of writing fics. Interacting with people.

Just give love to fanfic writers yall. They deserve this and so much more.

[skateboardtotheheart]

there is just something about the difference between edwin's love interests and having the cat king's reaction to edwin in hell being "i'll be waiting when he gets back" vs charles "no version of this where i don't come get you" rowland convincing a powerful trans-dimensional being to open a door to hell just so he could get him back

i am insane

[chloesimaginationthings]

omg i love ur game william so much fwregvrfdrytwe5frde4r id let him stab me

I’m glad yall like him,,,,

[chotachica]

Favorite part of The Dead Boy Detectives for sure is Edwin pulling literally every single age appropriate male character he interacted with. The absolute cunt ever

[inkbirdie]

Might be a bit early but i'm confident we can make it though this y'all hold strong smoshblr

[mangotelevision]

a seamstress and her knight

[fantasyinallforms]

Ok, look at me real quick because I'm tired of explaning this to full grown adults. You can NOT support generative AI and still claim to care about artists and writers in the fandoms you participate in. So that means if you spout pro generative AI rhetoric, and it gets you ostracized that is NOT the community or fandom being unfair or cruel to you. That is simply the conciquences of your own actions. Full stop.

[anne-is-confused]

Anyway,

[dustykneed]

graphic design is my passion (lie) pics nicked from here. dead spock sleep syndrome...

[devilander]

the fact the arranged relationship trope would be so easy to pull off w/ homelander because this man has never had a single relationship that wasn't fake/manufactured somehow lmfaooo until it stops being fake on his end. that's when things Really get interesting

Anon, you don't know how much I LOVE some good fake dating trope. Considering what we saw of Homelander and Starlight, there were glimpses of him actually wanting in a way, for it to be real, mayhaps to assert his dominance, but also because how what's real and fake is so mingled and duplicituous in his mind. They had potential there.

But, yeah! Imagine. You are an non-supe actress, a rising star—what you need, now, is some good marketing. Homelander, after the Stormfront fiasco, would look so good dating a non-supe, wouldn't he? You're half eager, half fearful, but your team convinces you, or demands you accept, insisting this is the only way to ensure your stardom.

As a performer yourself, you see right through his fake smiles, the cavalier gentleness of his hand on your waist, his rush to open doors for you and his protective stance against paparazzis and rabid fans—but, most especially, haters.

What began as a simple strategy to both your benefits slowly goes to uncharted territory; for you, at least.

His kisses are no longer more than a little peck in front of journalists and photographers. It's overwhelming, intense, it's all you were afraid of. For all the right reasons. For all the wrong ones.

Hot, and slow. Breathtaking, and all-consuming. Homelander's eyes, his lips, his hands. He starts to leave marks on your body. Not painful enough to be a exactly problem, but for you to feel branded. His, and his only.

Your contract said eight months.

Homelander rips it off in front of you, grinning. "We don't need that anymore, do we, honey?"

You quiver and he delights in it.

Homelander leads you to his penthouse—is it a death sentence or a life one? Horror tastes like craving, you've come to realize; dread is a tempting thirst.

You wonder how long you'll have to wait for it be over. Yet you fear that, eventually, some sick part of you will no longer wish��it so.

[epiphainie]

i watch 911 with total chill vibes. i love every character and every friendship and every familial bond and every romantic couple and every storyline. literally elicits zero negativity on my part. even when it's godawful bad it's fun in the way only the simplest things can be. it's a blessing and truly doesn't require this much fandom wank in any way shape or form.

[shellomantic]

atla cats !!!

omg finally finished the first four i'll do toph zuko azula n ty lee next >:)))

[asteraws]

i wish crick was a permanent party member

[darkearthsuggestions]

What is Your Curse?

Something walks behind you. Something twists through your spine. Something that marks you, mars you-- something you can never be without. You bear a curse.

Take the quiz here!

[a-mongooose]

Why do I always end up posting at completely unreasonable hours? Oh well! Sleep is for the weak <3 The Drew kids have comically large gaps in skill when it comes to artwork. Like Audrey really needs to step up her game <///3 And by popular demand, I have given Bendy his well deserved chocolate. Nothing else happened. No souls were harmed in the process. Trust me bro 

[katapotato55]

how to make your writing be remembered forever and possibly be well loved.

(incredibly stupid and silly fanfiction line at the end of this post) I know that title is incredibly daunting but listen, its very simple. you ready?

MAKE STRONG CHARACTERS

"but kat! surely its not that simple! " nononono listen. bear with me. I want you to think of your favorite thing. Now ask: what do you remember the most about the thing you love? I will go first:

I love team fortress 2. and guess what: this game has been around since 2007, and was in development hell since before I was even born. The game has been around for 16 fucking years. And guess what? in the strong year of 2023 team fortress 2 Is STILL getting memed about. and do you want to know the crazy part? the character designs to the naked eye are not special at all. ok sure from a designer standpoint, these are very well designed characters made so that you can easily tell who they are based on their silhouette. but from the average joe.... tf2 is iconic but overall it looks ok. it doesn't seem special to a stranger to tf2. look at this completely random and arbitrary example of a game in the same genre:

I don't know shit about the characters in overwatch. Yeah i have a BASIC idea on what their personality is like based on voice lines and some videos i guess... but in-game they just exist. these characters are brightly colored, they have beautiful unique designs, hell they have even more diversity such as robots and people from other cultures! but i don't remember shit about these characters. Maybe I remember the ice lady and tracer, but nothing else. and yeah part of overwatch struggling right now is incompetant development, BUT: The characters in team fortress 2 are SO remember-able because the characters have such a vibrant personality. I am an orange box owner, its been a decade and a half and I am still remembering this game and enjoying art about it.

"but kat! that is a comedy game! Overwatch is a very serious game! are you saying comedy is needed to make a character more noticeable?" no. though I think allowing your characters to lighten up every now and then would humanize them. Not full on goofy, just give them something that makes them likeable. and if you cant do that, you can STILL make a compelling character even though they are mostly seriousness. I have an even more awfully thought out example:

kung fu panda is a masterclass in making a serious comedic movie somehow work. Master Oogway.... he isn't a comedic character at all. Yeah we made memes about him, but ignoring that, he is a wise and resourceful person. He is at calm and has faith in this intuition. there are a lot of characters like this. What makes Oogway stand out is that he is also a little bit kooky and sassy.

this youtube clip sums up what I mean. It is a funny line, it fits the character, and It doesn't ruin the seriousness of the moment. Some of the most successful series in history have something about them that has appealed to people. In my opinion: characters with strong personality and interesting traits is always a good way to ensure your writing is successful. The second most important is the characters bouncing off of each other in terms of their chemistry with each other. There is a reason why I spent years playing the first Destiny game and all of the DLC, but I remember fuck all about the characters. I think I maybe remember the bootleg star lord robot guy.

A writing exercise

here is an exercise to get you in the spirit of character making. step 1- get a random character from a random bit of media. In this case let me bring you master Oogway. Step 2- Get a completely different character from a completely unrelated series. I am going to give you Scout from team fortress 2. step 3- write a random ass thing about them interacting. Think about how the characters would react to each other and why. Think about each characters values in life and think about how they would bond and conflict with each other. Think about characters similar to the character they met in the past and how they reacted then, and if they have never interacted, make something interesting with it. Step 4- keep experimenting. Once you get into the spirit you can apply this to any new character you could want to make anyways thats it byeee- "arent you going to do that ?" do what? "make a writing thing about oogway and scout. " ........

Scout: let's go turtle you got nothing on my speed- Oogway: The one who first resorts to violence shows that he has no more arguments. Scout: that sounds like chicken talk! come on tough guy let me have it- Oogway then proceeds to make scout eat shit before vanishing in a cloud of cherry blossoms and dust from the desert. If this post isn't popular I want you to know my dignity was lost for nothing.