Fic Writers Week Day 1
Words of Validation
Comments truly are the things that keep you going. Whether its a quick “I loved this” or a long paragraph detailing everything, they truly can make the difference between having inspiration and wanting to abandon a work.
Some of my favorites under the cut, names omitted for the sake of privacy.
Falling’s Not The Problem - “ahhh I've been looking for a multi chapter soukoku fic to invest too many emotions into and thiS IS THAT FICI love the premise and I already love your writing style. I can't wait to see where you take this!”
“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees I love this and I love you.”
Tender and Semi-Sweet Love - “This fic is ridiculously cute, oh my god. Tendou was trying so hard to get his attention and Semi knew exactly what he was doing. When you mentioned he still had his bowl cut I audibly went "Awww." Bless his nerdy little soul. Also, I am in love with this version of Semi. Eyeliner and piercings and tattoos are the way to my heart, and apparently to Tendou's, too. Oh, and I liked the part at the beginning when Suga pushed Tendou out to the counter. Suga was really cute in this, too. Hell, everything about this was cute. I love it.”
Sincerely Yours - “HOLY HELL I LOVE THIS!!!! fuck this is amazing. i am going to come back and comment cuz i cant find words big enough to express how amazing this isHOLY FUCKING HELL THO I CANT WAIT TO READ MORE HOLY SHIT I AM SQUEALING AND I HAVE SUBSCRIBED AND THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH FOR WRITING”
“So good, so good!!! :) I can't wait to see more!“
“Iwa-Chan doesn't deserve any of this, you monster!”
“Oh my god I'm dYiNg”
“I LOVE THISSSSSSSS”
“DUDE DUDE DUDE AHHHHH YOU ARE ALWAYS SO EN POINT WITH THE CURVE OF EMOTIONS AND HOW EVERYTHING FITS TOGETHER YOU'RE AMAZING”
Honestly there is probably so many more comments on Sincerely Yours that I could make a whole post dedicated to them. Needless to say every comment is loved and appreciated.
Tooru’s Toil and Trouble - “THIS TURNED OUT SO WELL! I seriously love everything about it, you did an amazing job Quinn!!! ... Is it terrible that I want more? Lol sorry but it's just that good.”
“Thanks for all the IwaOi love! Let me love you~ (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ”
Recipes for Love and Disaster - “whAT THE HECK THIS IS SO CUTE you've really built up a world and all the solid backstories make me fall in love with these characters more?? i love the easy interactions between kuroo and kenma, and kuroo and bokuto's friendship is so believable and made me smile a lot! and the fooooooood mmm i'm so hungry now ahaha. the entire scenario of kuroo showing up at kenma's door and demanding to cook for him and then the reveal that kenma isn't the actual food critic aAHAHAH smooth kuroo smooooth. they're really cute?? gosh i'm just really in awe at how together and detailed the backstories lined up with the characters and their interactions!! aaaaAAAA”
“I had coherent thoughts to comment but lost them by the end of the chapter...Oh! I love how your Akaashi is slightly nervous as he would be and how bo switched to Japanese for a bit when he realised Akaashi was from there, that's so sweet. And I feel like a lot of the time when authors transplant characters into English settings they don't think about things like which characters are more recent immigrants and stuff (which I don't blame them) but I like that you've taken the time to consider it! Makes the characters feel real and really takes into consideration their Japanese heritage“ (NGL this might be one of the best comments I have ever gotten. Simply because someone noticed that one little detail.)
“Okay, okay okay okay. There are a few things I don't think I will ever get over in this fic, ranging from Bokuto's quest to eat literally every apple dessert to the fact that he named his cilantro, because they're just so ridiculous and adorable and so quintessentially Bokuto. I love the interaction between Akaashi and Bokuto in general, as well as Akaashi's quiet steadiness. Also, that ending bit: "Akaashi nodded in answer and brought his hand up to stroke through Bokuto’s hair. “You… still owe me dinner,” he declared breathlessly, “Though, I did enjoy having dessert first.”" made me giggle. Heck yes on this entire fic :D”
“Kuroo having a crisis over seeing Kenma curled up and sleeping" fjfhdkd honestly, who can blame him though. This was so sweet, and so well written! Honestly the friends-to lovers trope with all the angst and pining within will never get old so thank you so much for sharing! ❤️ “
“UHMMMMMMMM that bit at the end??? when they hug????? too sweet??? too pure??? i'm actually tearing up wtf, quinnn i love this so much holy hell <333″
“*hyperventilates* it's finishedddd ahhhhh now you know yams, the key to tsukki's heart is his stomach haha”
Six Minutes to Say Goodbye - “aaaAAAAAHHHHHHH PAINNNNNNN WHYYYY MUCH PAIN”
“I see someone who is about to punch their senpai.”I love Akaashis snark so much(I'm commenting on just the things that are making me laugh btw in a meagre attempt to not be really sad over this fic ;;;... I'm not succeeding but damn is it good)”
“I must be a masochist. Because you're being mean and I love it.”
“You've given me so much angst and I nearly cried. Oh Lord this is one of the best things I've ever read! Thank you.Keep writing <3″
“I cried when his heart started beating again god bless your soul. this was so amazing you're a fantastic writer“
As much as I would love to share the comments from You Found Me, there are over 600 to go through and honestly we’d be here all night if I tried. Needless to say, to any of you who have been with me since then.
Thank you. Seriously to everyone who comments it means the world. It truly is the reason we keep writing. So again from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you
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Kelley was an introvert saw repression as the enemy of sanity. He sought out and even embraced life’s darkness; a Poet Apostate who criticized “normative” values, systems of authority and consumer culture. As critics have pointed out his early use of stuffed animals was intended to “drive a wedge between sentimentality and childhood.” His savage critiques appealed to the jaded appetites of some of the art world’s leading collectors.
Kinkade and Kelley were the yin and yang of American art, one favored by conservative “red” America, the other by “blue.” Kinkade’s work was sold in shopping malls, at the Disney Store and on eBay, while Kelley’s was shown in elite galleries and contemporary art museums.
Yet, despite their differences, they both had a deep interest in the same subject matter: the revisiting of their childhood traumas as portrayed in the image of “home.”
Before his death by suicide in early February, Kelley was working on “Mobile Homeland,” an installation that was intended to recreate his childhood home in Detroit. In his final interview Kelly told Tulsa Kinney of Artillery Magazine that the subject was …” almost too fraught with psychology and dysfunction…things that could easily feel like an emotional burden.”
Home, as seen through a child’s eyes, was a subject that Kelley had dealt with before. In his 1995 installation “We Communicate” Kelly wrote texts for a set of children’s paintings that commented on the psychological underpinnings of each image. One of his commentaries says quite a bit about what he thought a painted image of a house could communicate:
“The house is a crudely scrawled heap surrounded by dark messy slashes of color. The surrounding shading produces an atmosphere that screams with anxiety. No German Expressionist has depicted the black torture of the soul better. Although Elaine is obviously an unhappy child, she is, at least, able to express this state of mind openly and need not hide behind the mask of socialization. She need not pretend to be a ‘good girl.’ The adult world of rules and order, symbolized by the house, is sinking back into an infantile fecal mound that Elaine has the capacity to control.”
Clearly, what Kelley had to say about the child’s way of coping — she was in control because she didn’t repress or pretend — is also an manifesto of his own social and personal ethos. “His subversive critique,” wrote George Melrod after Kelley’s death, “was not just aimed outward toward society at large, but seemingly inward at himself.”
By contrast, one of Kinkade’s signature images, “The Christmas Cottage,” is a sentimentalized image of the artist’s childhood home; Kinkade reportedly launched his artistic career to save it after he learned that his mother could no longer afford the mortgage. It has been stated that one in twenty homes in America is decorated with some kind of Kinkade print. You have to wonder: how many homes had “The Christmas Cottage” hanging over the fireplace when Countrywide posted the foreclosure papers on the front door?
The cottage, which glows as if it had swallowed the Star of Bethlehem, exudes a luminescent fairy tale vibe that Kinkade used as his shield against his life’s disappointments. By painting fairy tales, Kinkade was attempting to achieve what Bruno Bettelheim posited was a “…happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.” Kelley would have called Kinkade’s approach “denial.” Indeed, Kinkade expertly sugar-coated the subject matter of every one of his mass-reproduced images. No wonder one critic called them “visual Prozac.”
Kinkade reportedly died of “natural causes,” which I assume is a sugar-coating of the actual factors. The artist’s public outbursts — he once reportedly urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim while saying “This one’s for you, Walt.” — and his 2010 arrest for drunk driving suggest that the man’s demons were doing everything they could to burst out.
Kelley, by taking his own life, was characteristically honest. His suicide was his admission of unhappiness, a problem that he had discussed openly in his key works. At the time of his death Kelley was reportedly depressed after a breakup with his girlfriend.
Mike Kelley died “critically acclaimed.” Thomas Kinkade died “popular.” As Leonard Koscianski pointed out on Facebook, they both had their constituencies. They both had considerable public and financial success.
“Mike Kelley,” comments Leonard Koscianski, “made very high priced works that ridiculed middle class sentiment. His works were so expensive that they could never be owned by the middle class he disparaged.” His hanging mixed-media installation, “Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites,” sold at auction for just over $2.7 million dollars in 2006. Kelley, who had once addressed cultural consumerism with a fetishistic phallic candle display called “The Wages of Sin” was represented, at the time of his death, by the world’s most powerful contemporary art dealer, Larry Gagosian.
Kinkade’s art and the product line that grew from it was so successful that his art company was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and at one point had a market capitalization of $350 million (the total value of the stock) based on annual sales of $250 million. Kinkade, who described the art world as “a very small pond…a very inbred pond,” left behind a net worth that is in dispute. One source says “$70 million” another says the artist, who had faced lawsuits by the owners of Kinkade gallery franchises, died “piss-poor.” At the time of his death, Kinkade and his wife Nanette had been separated for more than a year.
Kelley’s bracingly strange and searchingly intellectual art appealed to America’s 1%. Kincade’s hyper-sincerity, and his celebration of Christ, baseball, and glowing cottages made him the favorite artist of America’s 99%. They were two American artists who, in their striking divergence, tell the story of a nation whose center seems ready to tear apart. Stress makes people look for extreme solutions, both in life and art.
Ultimately, both men seem to have suffered in catering to the almost schizophrenically divided tastes of American society. In public they both maintained powerful identities — a bad boy and a good boy — while in private each one got a bit lost trying to find his way “home” to private peace and reconciliation with his childhood experiences. It might be said — in psychoanalytic terms — that both Kelley and Kinkade ultimately failed to sublimate their impulses and idealizations into workable connections with the world.
Let’s hope, for Kinkade’s sake, that he is safely at home in Heaven. It would have to be a light-filled, cotton candy heaven where a compassionate Christ is present. In Kelley’s case, it is tougher to speculate on where his final home might be and who might comfort him. When Tulsa Kinney asked Kelley, during his final interview, if he ever believed in Heaven and Hell, he responded plainly:
‘No. I never believed in anything.’
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To those who have never believed in anything consider placing your faith alone in the Christ who came to earth and lived a perfect life then died for your sins.
Our views below concerning how to go to heaven (this material is from Campus Crusade for Christ).
Just as there are physical laws that govern
the physical universe, so are there spiritual laws
that govern your relationship with God.
God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.
God’s Love
“God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16, NIV).
God’s Plan
[Christ speaking] “I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly”
[that it might be full and meaningful] (John 10:10).
Why is it that most people are not experiencing that abundant life?
Because…
Man is sinful and separated from God.
Therefore, he cannot know and experience
God’s love and plan for his life.
Man is Sinful
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
Man was created to have fellowship with God; but, because of his own stubborn
self-will, he chose to go his own independent way and fellowship with God was broken.
This self-will, characterized by an attitude of active rebellion or passive indifference,
is an evidence of what the Bible calls sin.
Man Is Separated
“The wages of sin is death” [spiritual separation from God] (Romans 6:23).
This diagram illustrates that God isholy and man is sinful. A great gulf separates the two. The arrows illustrate that man is continually trying to reach God and the abundant life through his own efforts, such as a good life, philosophy, or religion
-but he inevitably fails.The third law explains the only way to bridge this gulf…
Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for man’s sin.
Through Him you can know and experience
God’s love and plan for your life.
He Died In Our Place
“God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
He Rose from the Dead
“Christ died for our sins… He was buried… He was raised on the third day,
according to the Scriptures… He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve.
After that He appeared to more than five hundred…” (1 Corinthians 15:3-6).
He Is the Only Way to God
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to
the Father but through Me’” (John 14:6).
This diagram illustrates that God has bridged the gulf that separates us from Him by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.It is not enough just to know these three laws…
We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord;
then we can know and experience God’s love and plan for our lives.
We Must Receive Christ
“As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children
of God, even to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12).
We Receive Christ Through Faith
“By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God; not as result of works that no one should boast” (Ephesians 2:8,9).
When We Receive Christ, We Experience a New Birth
(Read John 3:1-8.)
We Receive Christ Through Personal Invitation
[Christ speaking] “Behold, I stand at the door and knock;
if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him” (Revelation 3:20).
Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting
Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us what He wants us to be.
Just to agree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross
for our sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience.
We receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of the will.
These two circles represent two kinds of lives:
Self-Directed Life
S-Self is on the throne
-Christ is outside the life
-Interests are directed by self, often
resulting in discord and frustrationChrist-Directed Life
-Christ is in the life and on the throne
S-Self is yielding to Christ,
resulting in harmony with God’s plan
-Interests are directed by Christ,
resulting in harmony with God’s plan
Which circle best represents your life?
Which circle would you like to have represent your life?
The following explains how you can receive Christ:
You Can Receive Christ Right Now by Faith Through Prayer
(Prayer is talking with God)
God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude
of your heart. The following is a suggested prayer:
Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life.
Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.
Does this prayer express the desire of your heart? If it does, I invite you to pray this
prayer right now, and Christ will come into your life, as He promised.
Now that you have received Christ
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