#just doing this from my personal acct don't mind me

[aroceu]

Announcing the Bad Buddy Prompt Fest in celebration of the Our Skyy 2 episodes! Here is a brief rundown of our schedule; but you can find all the other information for the challenge on our AO3 collection profile: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/badbuddypromptfest2023/profile

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[66sharkteeth]

HIIII omg i am a H U G E fan of you and cob! cob is literally my favorite webtoon ever.... its not enough to just read it, i feel like i need to be enveloped in it (if that even makes sense 😭) every episode literally leaves me shaking with adrenilineeeEEEEE!! (side note i dont have a question i j wanted some way to communicate to you and im sorta new to tumblr so idk any other way lmfao) i literally talk about cob atleast once a day. at this point its an addiction lmfaoo

ive noticed that your tumblr posts are so sad and frustrated recently and i wish there was some way i could help :( if you ever wanted to share ocs or just talk im here and im sure all of your fans would appreciate your art too! maybe you could make another tumblr acct devoted to ocs - ik id definitely follow it immediately :D

also if you decided to take a mental health hiatus your fans wouldnt mind and would in fact encourage it! (ok sure wed be upset cause cob is SO GOOD but overall health is more important!!!) and youd also have more time to work on ocs and to just relax and think about yourslef for once (AND TO NOT LOOK AT THE MEAN COMMENTS ON UR POSTS FROM JEALOUS MEAN PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN CRITICIZE PEOPLE WHO ARE BETTER THAN THEM >:( )

also side note but the more popular you are the more haters you have...its just statistics! so in some twisted overly optimistic way its actually a positive 😉 anyway those ppl r just jealous and have terrible taste.

anyway idk where this is going im j rambling at this point but idk i obviously know barely anything about you but what i can inference from ur posts is that you seriously need a break!!!!! we love cob ofc but we love the health of the creater (YOU) more!!! and if you ever want to talk to anyone or to share ocs youre exited about you can always reach out to me or anything :DDDDD or like anyone you know in real life too lmfaooo--

so uh idk how to end this....so BYE YOURE AWESOME YOURE SLAYING <3333333333

lol you're too sweet! i appreciate every word.

tho unfortunately, taking breaks aren't that easy, since when i don't make episodes, i just don't make money. besides, i actually don't mind the workload that much? it's everything...outside of working that seems to bum me out haha. i kind of like turning off my brain for 10 hours each day to draw episodes. usually when i'm sad, it's after work when that distraction is gone.

also, i do post more freely here already as is! i tend to be a bit more selective about what i share on twitter and IG, but since like 20 people follow me here, i'm a bit more open and share more things, both personal and CoB/OC related lol. i just haven't had a ton to share lately outside of text essays and answering asks.

[saradesuchiha]

i don't block anyone for a reason, and this was the reason why i have done to u. spreading false information that quirrrky and i were harassing fellow stans is disappointing and disgusting.

as we ALWAYS put who are the moderators of the event. it's been quirrrky and i since 2021. i don't know where u get that information of the said acct was a host too. i just assumed u did ur research bc u have never spoke abt the event again and never apologized to us for spreading false information

as a matter of fact, i reached out to both parties involved in the said issue. i went in-between to hear both sides and what happened. even went lengths of asking native speakers to help me translate the statement to help me further understand. i was in conversation w them until everything was settled.

jsyk i am a naruhina stan, kunoichi stan and a sarada stan. hence my other handle, saradesuchiha. i do not support any character and/or ship bashing. i do not tolerate any harassment towards anyone. i always tell everyone to be respectful and treat ppl w kindness bc u don't know how much one person is going through

i'm very open abt creating a safe space for anyone to enjoy naruhina. we have naruhinamain dedicated to celebrate the love of naruto and hinata. to extend, we have a discord server we fans are allowed to discuss and share their common interests.

this is my third year hosting naruhina month. just to anyone's knowledge, naruhina month is not hosted in december bc of it's connection w the release of movie, the last.

someone reached out to quirrrky late september of 2021 concerning if there would be naruhina this year. she took accountability on hosting on tumblr and i reached out to her extending it to twitter. we were pressed for time and in need atleast few months to be considerate of participants that is why it was pushed back til december.

the following year, we have plans to host different events for naruhina. it was nearing late october and yet no one has plans to host the event yet again. someone came forward to us asking if we will be hosting again, and quirrrky and i decided to push our plans ahead, hence, the first ever naruhina fair in 2022.

this year, we both have ideas for activities to encourage nh stans to express their love and creativity, as well as having fun making it. unfortunately, both quirrrky and i were really busy and focused on our time on our personal lives. we put the plans on hold and i complete understand what she's going through.

i opened the discussion in the naruhina discord if anyone would like to host this year. there are ppl who took interest but expressed that they couldn't commit to it. i was abt to close the discussion until ate born and chloe came forward to help me organize this year's event.

now someone on tumblr going as anon spreading rumors abt me being a fake nh fan. didn't know u have to box urself to stan only one ship/character to be a real stan. i have other interests too.

as a matter of fact, before i became actively participating in fandom. i met alot of hinata and sakura stans who were very nice to me and encouraged me to draw. i love being around ppl who are open-minded and supporting both women.

jsyk i left the fandom multiple times, being cyberbullied, ppl.mocking and discouraging my art and came bouncing back for ppl who encouraged me to do what i love.

ever since 2022, i limited my interaction w the fandom bc i was getting stressed how it's getting always heated w fanwars. i signed up to express my love and creativity for naruhina and have fun.

and just for anyone's knowledge, i do have a personal private acct but i have muted and blocked naruto and boruto from there so i can have peace of mind separate accts for fandom and real life current events. i rarely talked abt anime in there. it's mostly taylor swift and my shitty day to day life. u can ask few of my friends who are following me there.

it's getting long and i'm tired. i have to face reality that i cannot please anyone. my intentions of hosting events is for creators and fans to have a dedicated time to fully enjoy and support naruhina. this will be the last time i'm hosting naruhina month. i'm not forcing everyone to join in. this event is for naruhina stans. feel free to support it.

i'm always grateful for the love and support. thank u

🌤️

[kedreeva]

Ked, as an experienced writer in fandoms, what would you do if you'd see a fic that's eerily similar to another one by anon author? I really have the feeling second fic basically stole the first fic's premise and most of the events with some twists, it's very specific so hardly the same idea occuring to two people, and the style is too different and the second one is published under a username. And it doesn't refer to the other fic existing at all.

Honestly, if you're asking what I, personally, would do, if I, specifically, saw this?

Unless there's big chunks of straight up plagiarized words, or they are trying to profit from it in a way that would do harm, I'd personally mind my own business. I have told folks before that if they don't like something in a fic (including my own), they can go write their own fic, and that includes their own version of the story. Yes, even if it takes the same turns mine did, yes even if they have the same kinds of conversations, yes even if it's basically the same story written in their style. I have seen fics that are straight up MY fics, rewritten, and I cannot stress enough how much I do not personally care as long as they're not trying to pass my actual written word off as their own, or profiting in a way harmful to me.

If you're asking what YOU should do, I can't answer that. There are people who do not feel the way I feel. There are people who get very angry when someone transforms a transformative work. I understand that it can be a very sensitive thing to some people, I'm just not one of them. You should do what you feel is appropriate to the situation. Maybe start by asking the actual author (if it's "anon" vs "orphaned" then the fic is still attached to the "anonymous" author's acct, you just can't see that... but they can, they will get comments, unlike with orphaned fics) what they would want in such a situation, and/or at best let them know about the other story and let the author decide what to do.

[filmnoirsbian]

I have a question and lmk if its out of line or if you dont wanna answer it thats fine, but basically im a professional artist in the field of fine arts, and as such i have over time learned what makes art "good". I can like or not like it, but usually, im at least able to come up with a defendable opinion on why it is contextually bad art or good art, or rather, whether or not a given artist is 'good' at what they do. With poetry tho, while i (like everyone i think) journal recreationally, i really have trouble identifying whether either my own poems or other peoples are good. Like. This came to mind esp after your rupi kaur post, bc ur right, i dont like her, but i cannot for the life of me articulatw WHY i think its bad. Anyway tldr i guess how can you tell? What are some markers of good vs bad poetry ? (Especially technically speaking) i think these 2 things are similar bc with art too a lot of ppl will be like "ohhh its all relative" but like there are actual markers ofskill and well executed intent, and for fine arts i tend to know them (stuff like influence/filiation, taking into acct the viewers experience, intentionality of creative choices.....) but with poetry as a field i just like. Dont have that technical knowledge to talk about my feelings about a poem like i do with art ans i was wondering if u could help

This is a very complicated debate that has been ongoing since the birth of art and literature. I think it can be difficult for some people to allow that a piece of art (in this case, this includes poetry) can be technically well-crafted while not effecting them emotionally, and that a piece of art can effect them emotionally while being not technically well-crafted. A words app poem that you see which is filled with typos and accidental grammatical errors but which touches on a topic deeply important to you can make you cry while still needing work in its technical aspects, and that doesn't make it either good or bad as an objective work of art. Likewise, there are plenty of poems I've read which were deftly crafted by talented poets but were ultimately forgettable to me because they did not strike an emotional chord. Their lack of emotional resonance also does not make them good or bad. I think that because art has such a capacity for emotional resonance, it's easy to accept that as the most important criteria for what makes art "good," but I personally don't think that's fair. But to me, good poetry is honest--not autobiographical, but written with intent, some understanding of wordcraft as a medium, and meant to evoke a genuine understanding within the reader. Rupi Kaur is sort of a punching bag at this point, often from people who don't actually write poetry which I'll admit I find frustrating, because most criticism of her works is shallow and dependent on the idea that a poem must make you feel something to be good. That isn't a good basis for art criticism, because what makes you feel something is never guaranteed to make anyone else feel. But to me, what makes Kaur's poetry "bad" (not my preferred term, I'd describe it more as shallow or juvenile) is the lack of honesty. Her work is purposefully scrubbed of any distinction so it can be as widely applicable as possible, and in doing so, her poems become no more genuine or meaningful than the mass-printed fortunes in fortune cookies. And, worst of all, there is no technicality behind her wordcraft to make up for the lack of thematic complexity. Both style and substance are rendered as plain and inoffensive as possible. When an artist creates something, they are putting something of themselves into their work, so the art becomes a contract between the artist and audience. The artist is trusting the audience to genuinely engage with their work, and the audience is trusting that the artist has shared something genuine. Good or bad comes later; that it is something the artist created themselves with intent is the first step. But when art is made only with mass consumption in mind, it becomes stripped down to only the bare ingredients of art; it is art on paper, by definition, but it is not art by intent. It's a tree with no limbs, no leaves, no creatures making a home in it. It's not much better than a telephone pole.

When I judge a poem as good or bad, I look first for complexity, either in narrative or structure. This doesn't mean a poem must be a long-winded sonnet to be good; some of my favorite poems are haikus, and in fact haiku is my favorite poetic form. This is because often I find haikus carry multiple meanings, the poet packing in as much story as they can in such small luggage. Most of all, I just wish would-be critics would use their words; "Rupi Kaur's poetry is bad because it's boring" is not good criticism. Your definition of boring is not someone else's. "Rupi Kaur's poetry is rendered shallow and meaningless by the attention-consumption economy it was bred in and has no intelligent wordplay or articulation to constitute a poem that is at least engaging for the mind to read" is a bit more comprehensive.

[golbrocklovely]

you know, I thought i might of been annoying with the amount of asks i send you, and that still might be true but people apparently love me… so im sticking around 😂 gotta build this aussie anon fandom… buy the merch (its just a tshirt with koala ears on the anon icon and ‘xplr me daddy’ across the shoulder blades)

also absolute fkn ditto to your post abt snc needing a villain era. especially colby. I learnt just the other day that apparently he goes thru this m drama every time he’s snapped with a girl. like every time, for years. that’s gotta be so horrible. like imagine being the constant reason your friends or dates get harassed online just for being around you. you’d feel like poison. i truly hope he finds someone who couldnt give two flying quacks abt that stuff. heck, if it were me (lemme dream, alright) and i knew this wasn’t just a once off thing… i was going to say my acct would be private and i’d have ‘message from strangers’ turned off… but i already have all that… Colby, I’m ready!!! lmao i jk i jk (or do I 👀)

anyway, back to colby fighting in the clubs. you said he’s possessive… im curious about that. like in a protective way over the people he cares about, or actually like “this is my person, back off” type? either way, hella shmexxyy

- aussie anon

omg this is such a long response so i'm sorry in advance lol

haha no you're totally okay to keep sending in asks. no one has a problem with it, especially me :)

and omg an "xplr me daddy" shirt would be hysterical and i'm surprised they haven't done one (even jokingly) before lol

and yes, it's not just girls colby is interested in either. it's EVERY girl - date, friend, stranger - it doesn't matter. if fans can find out who she is, they will send her hate. or at the very least bombard her with questions as to how she knows colby, what's he like, ect. it's honestly very embarrassing to be in this fandom sometimes strictly bc of that type of shit.

i've talked about how i've felt on colby's love life ad nauseum on here, but i don't mind speaking on it more. i genuinely believe this fandom needs a HUGE reality check. bc there are too many ppl in this fandom that believe they have a say in what he does with said love life. and now it's bled over into sam's.

the golden child apparently can do wrong now lol

like on xplrclub, they literally APOLOGIZED (half-heartedly, but still said sorry) for the pics of them with the girls leaking over new years. and that's just fucking bonkers to me. there is no reason two 27 year old men should be saying sorry to a bunch of random girls they have never met before and don't even know exist bc they are going out and having fun and dating. and what makes it worse is snc felt the need to do this. they don't need to explain anything to us, especially about their private lives.

and the amount of fucking fans i saw saying "well if you wanted to have a private life, keep it private. don't post things." and it's like…… idk how many times i have to say this, but SNC ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS. them not telling you about a girl they are fucking with is not a betrayal. they don't know you. they couldn't even pick you out of a line up of two ppl. stop thinking your opinion is neccessary, especially when it comes to their personal lives. you aren't owed an explanation. idc if you've been in this fandom for years, given them tons of money, have a fan account dedicated to them on every site, repost their content all the time - NONE of that matters. you are a random person, you are a statistic. a view count. and while yes, snc care about us, that doesn't mean they KNOW you or that your opinion is VALID.

you wouldn't like a random person coming onto your account and bitching at you about your life choices, right? so why do you think snc deserve that? bc they're public figures? NOPE, not a good enough reason. you want to bitch at them about content and the choices they make on that? that's fine. but private, personal shit they do is none of your concern or business.

and i know there are plenty of fucking ppl that will call me a hypocrite bc god forbid i talk about snc's love lives - but reality is i know my opinion isn't worth shit. i'm not coming up into their comments, @ ing them every chance i get, just to give them my two cents. i do my best to keep it light hearted and silly. none of what i talk about is serious or direly needed info. which is also why i do it on a site they aren't privy to. they're not on here. me complaining into the void doesn't effect them. and i'm also extremely aware of the fact that i don't know everything. i don't know the full story, never will, and i'm not OWED it either.

sorry, that was a really long rant. but i'm just…. so done with the fandom rn lol i've been reading ppl complaining for too long about shit they don't deserve to complain about and it's just annoying at this point.

but to bring it back to your ask - i hope colby, and sam too, find a girl that fucking PARADES that she's dating him. of course, with colby or sam's consent. if i was dating one of them, i would rub in these fans' faces, and i mean that wholeheartedly. aww, you're upset i'm fucking your man? TOO BAD WOMP WOMP lmao

and as for colby being possessive, he's said it in some tweets in years' past. he's tweeted out before "Im such a protective, jealous person wow" and "I'm overly protective" followed by someone asking him "so that means if you had a girlfriend you'd protect her a lot" and he replied with "protect her with my life". so, i see him as being a very loyal person, who is protective of the ppl he deems as "his", so to speak.

in a relationship, my guess is that while he's not obsessive or demanding, he is very much like "you are my girlfriend". i don't see him to be the type to say you can't talk to this guy or be friends with these ppl, nothing like that. but he reads to me like the type to keep his arm around you while at the club, that way any guy that sees you know you're taken by him.

also side note, i know as a woman i should be like i'm my own person, i'm no one's but my own, blah blah blah. but a guy that's just a twinge bit possessive is hot. i'm sorry, it's my red flag and i know it is sksksks

[chevelleneech]

https://www.tumblr.com/chevelleneech/760748078531788800/confession?source=share

Mileapo the same actors from kinn Porsche right? I haven't watched the show but I'm aware of it since before it's release as i had watched one edit before it's release and i liked the chemistry, acting right away but i haven't watched cause i don't watch dramas/series/movies anything lol.

U know this reminded me of the other Thai bl drama actors their ship the brightwin....some 2-3 months ago one of them started dating and that causes distress in their shipping Fandom. All big accts left nd all that typical things happened and funny thing was the girl who bright is dating was another actor from their show right? She was frnds with both ig. Again haven't watched but got to know some things thr ppl on my tl who watched their drama when it aired.

This again made me realise how sometimes shippers just don't have the bigger picture in their mind you know. if i have to take jkk's example then we see them mostly with members so we usually just can compare how they behave with e/o to other members but there's soo many ppl outside that which we don't see so we don't have any idea how they treat other ppl. E.g. when those pictures of jk with mijoo were leaked it again caused havoc in Fandom cause ppl thought him back hugging is too much for friendship or what not. Again shippers cause so much over back hugs when jk seems pretty comfortable doing it with ppl he's close to doens't have to know them for years long u know. Armys for yrs has portrayed as jk hates woman when reality says otherwise.

We think jm treats jk in a certain way or vice versa when off cam there might be other people whom they treat more differently than that. I always think jungkook treats jm as his close frnds and jm does the same. When ppl were making big deal out of that jk bucking up at jm over sausage many said alot of things about jk when it's actually very normal in friends. I still don't think that's something jk would do to his actual partner but that's just my thoughts. People said jk not knowing jm's schedules nd not even going to any of jm's music shows despite being free ain't a big deal it happens in couples when i feel jk would be the first person to support when he's partner doing some projects as solo(if we assume jk is dating another artist).

Do i think jkk are close? Yes. Do i think they're more than friends? Yes. Do i think they flirt? Yes. Do i think they feel attraction towards one another? Maybe. Do i think they're dating? No. There are some rs that go beyond just friendship but it stops right before crossing the line between friends and romantic rs. I feel jkk's rs is there somewhere.

Feels one day fans gonna find them with their respective partners exactly like other ships.

Sorry it's just kinda rant

I’m not exactly 100% on what you’re comparing, because Mile and Apo were shipped, but not because of how much time they actually spent together. They were shipped for the same reasons as many BL actors, which is because they starred in a production together, and have major chemistry.

What added to the shipping is them having history outside the show, seeing as they went to the same college and crossed paths enough times, but weren’t friends. Then Mile talked about how he always thought Apo was good looking, back when Apo came up as an actor. And Apo thought Mile was handsome from when he saw him in their college gym working out. On top of that, Mike basically created the production company Kinnporsche was released under, because he wanted Apo to have the opportunity to shine. So they are or were really good friends, and Apo teased Mile a lot about being his sugar daddy because Mile is really rich, as he grew up in a wealthy business family. But outside of extremely specific lines, shipping them wasn’t because of how they acted around each other, because they spent a lot of time together, or because they appeared to want to be together.

So all that said, while people obviously shipped and still ship them, they aren’t really comparable to JM and JK, because Jimin and Jungkook aren’t being shipped just for being friends and coworkers during one project. They have a decade of history and are very questionable together, and as AYS shows, they were intentional about making time to spend together. Mile and Apo flirt and have fun, and are also private about their friendship for the most part, but anyone shipping them beyond the “I think they’d look good together.” we’re doing so knowing they likely weren’t a couple. Their chemistry is real, and I definitely thought they would remain visibly close as friends, but things change. Also, Mile is apparently dating a woman he has been rumored to have gotten with like two years ago, when he and Apo were still visibly close. So again, people were shipping knowing they weren’t together.

Yes, Jimin and Jungkook’s friendship might change after enlistment as well, we don’t know, but the context and circumstances are very different.

[sunny-satellites]

I'm gonna be honest, professionalism is a disease. Sometimes you just need the words to bring reality to someone who won't listen and they can't start with per my last e-mail.

There's a specific site at my job that drives me nuts because they just don't listen to instructions carefully and this problem is endemic across their entire management pool. They'll also constantly cross lines and do shit like call me on teams without warning because they *know* I'm good at my job and I'll fix the damn problem if I can, but sometimes I'm in the middle of doing other shit and I can't be pissed to fuck around for fifteen minutes to reset johnny dipshit's RSA because he chronically can't remember a 4 digit number.

So this week was a gigantic headache because small minded upper management made an absolutely awful decision and has set a 90 day ticking time bomb on our password policy due to a delayed overreaction from a security breach that happened in October, they forcibly reset every call centers password and unfortunately because of more dumb shortsightedness they specifically decided to flag it for VMware logins. VMware is not directly attached to our primary IDP so it caused a ton of IDP flowback issues usually locking people out of random applications on other subdomains and often locking people out of active directory login entirely.

I've had to basically route a large portion of this intake for this specific issue and it's been mostly resolved as everyone who got flagged in these domains has reset their shit and had a temporary password issued and their accounts synced for proper primary IDP flow down.

I got a guy today however who managed to dodge this issue and I told him I'd have to route his issue to another team because someone already picked up this ticket, but genius middle management refuses to let people be unproductive for a bit and he's in my dms telling me to reset chuckledick's password again.

I can't tell him he's a technological hazard and that his mother should pound sand on the beach that makes you old and block him because that's ~unprofessional~ so instead I tell him this is a bad idea because the department under me already reset his shit and synced it from the jump server and this will reset it back to square one and probably break any other access that was working along the way. I know what the issue is and that it's elsewhere but I'm a network engineer so I *shouldn't* modify this person's OUs if it's already someone else's ticket. However he's not taking my polite "No" for an answer so I reset the person's acct and issue a temporary password, he tells me he'll be back in 5 minutes. It takes him 25, meanwhile I'm regularly refreshing the domain that has NT logins registered on it and see that the password update flag doesnt reset, meaning chuckledick cant log in.

I fuckin set myself to busy so these people will stop bothering me and leave him a message before he can even return: "I see user was unable to log in meaning this issue is IDP domain flow down related like I had initially diagnosed, in the future please refrain from wasting (network dept name)'s time and arguing with us over tickets already assigned to the correct department. I hope you take this lesson to heart." Which is about the politest way I can tell this person he is a fucking fool and I hate working with him.

[mickmundy]

Hello dutchie! I've re-read your fics multiple times now and now I want to write my own! I have to ask: do you have any writing tips or advice about fanfic in general? I enjoy your pacing but I have no clue how you manage to update every week. Cheers!

OH MY GOD EEEEE ;___; IM SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT MY FRIEND!! AND HIII ^_^ that's so awesome im so proud of you!!! hmm idk if i'm really a great person to get advice from, this is just stuff that works for me personally and my hectic irl schedule so just take it with a grain of salt!! ;-; <3 BUT i will gladly talk about it HEHE!! i'll actually just make an entire post about my writing process at some point because making long posts forces me to reflect and i'm overdue for a Self Reflection on how i write so! if/when i do that i'll link it back on this post heh ^_^ BUT ANYWAY!

i have a few Personal Rules about posting/writing fic that i must never break... and this is...:

feel free to break up your (longer) fic into parts. this prevents SO much burnout and gives you time to breathe between writing! if you're in it for the long haul like me, it's easy to get overwhelmed and feel like you're on a Crunch, which is never good! :'(

so i don't technically write a new chapter every week and post it on friday; i've had malus, for example, complete for a few months now! and so now it just "posts on a queue" where i just upload the next chapter every week! so for example, if malus is 21 chapters, at 1 chapter a week, that gives me 21 weeks (about 5 months) to write my next fic. that's a lot of time!

always finish the fic before you post it. this seems super unrealistic At First but i love the "arc/seasons/parts" style of posting, especially if it's long fics. nobody's saying you have to finish a 293849283498234 chapter fic in one day LOL but if you find that you're overwhelmed at the idea of writing Long Fics, then don't write one! write shorter parts that Combine and Create a long fic! :-) see what i mean? this is also an effective way to show time passing in your fic instead of just "~*~ two years later ~*~"-type of disclaimers.

chapters shouldn't be more than like... 3 google doc pages and paragraphs should be broken up. i like keeping my fic chapters short-ish so that they're easily digestible and force readers to Linger on the parts that i want them to. giant walls of text can sometimes put Huge Moments in your fics at the risk of getting lost!

let yourself sit on it for at least 2 days before you post it. do not read your own fic during the "sitting on it" time. let yourself back away from it and invite your mind to think about other things!! i've caught a LOT of my own mistakes or inconsistencies this way!

much easier said than done, but try not to let yourself get wrapped up in "the numbers" of posting (views, kudos, etc). obviously our goal as creatives is to get our work seen, but please remember to value yourself and your art above the numbers game! ;-; it literally took me a year (as of january lol) of constantly promoting my fics on twt (and later on here once i made an acct) before i found all of the amazing readers i have now! ^u^ and i wouldn't trade them for the world. i'd happily take 10 readers who comment and talk to me like a person over 100 hits/kudos or whatever!

that being said, don't be afraid to promote your fics. i felt annoying and stupid promoing mine but i'm ultimately so glad i did

there are probably others but i think these are my biggest ones (other than delving into like. tf2-specific "guides" i have for myself but i won't bore you with those). as far as tips for outlining or planning, i just have a channel in my gf and i's server dedicated to my fic that i post random snippet's i've written and want to include, random one-word concepts, like literally any time my brain has a Fic Related Thought i slap it in there. i'm also a huge fan of Linear/Traditional outlining too and do that with my more Complicated/Larger concepts that i want to execute in my fics so that i can stay consistent! :-)

ILYYY BEST OF LUCK ON YOUR FIC WRITING ENDEAVORS MY FRIEND! ^u^

[sunshinexlollipops]

Hello! Hope not to bug you, I just read acw for the first time and WOW. It was by far the most beautiful, intricate work I've ever read in my life. Really, you are a novelist. I noticed that it hadn't been posted in about 3 years and I was wondering if it was orphaned? Just curious, no hate! Absolutely love your works, thank you!

help there anon!

sorry my notifs always get fucking eaten on this app and I'm inept too which doesn't help, bUT I just wanted to say that in general, ACW isn't abandoned!

I know it's been a hot minute since I have written anything but I've had a lot go on since the start of 2020, as you can imagine. not only in the world but personal life. and it just carried over into 2021. and 2022. and now into 2023. however, I am A LOT better now than I was at the start.

not trying to personally dump because there's just too much to summarize on this app, and some things I'm just not comfy sharing, but I got diagnosed with things like ADHD and depression, and not only am I working on treatment/management with my psych and therapist, altogether it's been a process of adaptation after knowing why my brain do what it do.

slowly I've been getting back into creating. bc I didn't. for all the time I was gone, I didn't produce really...anything. writing, art— nada. I've made some good progress esp since late 2022 when I started to come back to some things, but it used to be I wouldn't even read fic, watch movies/shows, engage with things... I was basically in a massive depressive episode. so I've been slowly reconnecting with art and in turn just that side of me.

I'm sure people who follow me/pay it mind (and it's okay if you don't lol) have seen recently I've been making and posting art I've made since I got back from LA a little bit ago.

I haven't drawn or been artistic like that in a long while. and while I've created things here and there, it was usually for someone else/social things I was doing. I struggled even with that, so it probs happened altogether less than 10 times over the last few years... this is the first I've just been creating and enjoying myself since then.

there's a lot that is still changing for me. and there's some major things shifting behind the scenes for me still that are playing out. I still intend to finish ACW, I'm just having to handle myself, and overall, I'm coming back into what used to feel like second nature.

so apologies for the wait. in a way, I kind of have been stuck with y'all during the hiatus. I got as much out of it as y'all did, lol. but I'm hoping with this continued improvement, and once things settle a bit more on my end, that writing will come back to me more and more. I've been able to do things here and there, so I'm hopeful.

also, another issue is google. my old acct ran out of space so anything I have made is completely locked up. I can't even EDIT my old docs. it's bad. I've tried to free shit up but it's like google replaces what I delete somehow and I'm always at my limit. so that's been a hassle in and of itself and I am working around that too.

fingers crossed this ship finally leaves the harbor I've docked it at for some time. I love ACW. I see what y'all write. and I know I don't often respond to comments but I read them. I see them. and I'm honored my story has had the impact and love that it has. ACW legit is one of my most beloved works by both myself and its readers. so thank you for that.

but I hope everyone does know that even if it may take me a while, I plan to come back and complete it once I'm properly able! and thank you for your understanding and patience w me. 💕

[lonigiri]

rules

i dont have a lot of rules but bare w me PLEASE

minors dni; i do not know how many times i have to say this but please dni if ur not 18 and over. yes i do not make nsfw content anymore but my old stuff will still be up on my acct and i will be rebloging nsfw themes

i do not do nsfw content anymore ; i know i used to write it but not anymore sorry! i will keep up my old stuff but from the day this rules book is posted on i will not write explicit content, i may hint at in in writings/smaus but nothing with be written. i do and will still reblog nsfw content though!

basic dni shit; if ur homophobic, misogynistic, racist, zionistic or just biggoted in general, LEAVE this is not the place for you!!! if i find out you are any of these things i WILL cyberbully you! i am not a nice person! and i dont care abt being precived as nice! leave !

dont argue in my comments; unless i know you or ur my moot and ur defending me,,, WHY ARE YOU ARGUING WITH RANDOM PEOPLE. the only person on this blog allowed to cause issues is me! if i see you causing issues... you dont wanna know what'll happen (i'll block you)

do not copy me; most if not all of my writings are from my own brain, if you like an idea that i had please at least give me credit in ur blog bc if i find out that ur copying me you wont like what'll happen !! (i'll report and block you) have your own ideas love ya

about me time for some more light hearted stuff

i was svnnysidez! i remade myself because i kinda fell out of kpop but i fell back into anime !! specifically haikyuu and mha !

i live at home with my mom and my brother and my animals! (a dog and a cat) !

i love playing video games, especially stardew valley, minecraft, and overwatch!!

i use they/she pronouns, i dont mind if you use gendered jokes towards me as long as they're funny

i am a virgo sun with a scorpio rising so i am a bitch and i do not back down so leave me alone pls

i use a LOT of tone indicators bc i am autistic so i don't know how i come off most of the time (like a bitch tbh probably) so if i do come off as a bitch or other things lmk i'll try (probably) to fix myself

i am the most cringe/brainrotted person ever so dont mind me if i start going on abt sigma ohio gyatt rizz

[pishyy]

intro post ✿✿✿

hello!! it's nice to meet you! welcome to my little corner of the internet!

im a college student revisiting her middle- and high-school tumblr days <3 i used to be suuuuper active on here but deactivated my acct a few years ago, and i decided it was time to come back home :)

below the cut are some rules / introductory stuff that i ask you read before following <3 have a wonderful day!!

first things first, some rules (please read!) :

i am an adult (albeit a very young one). i will post adult things. i'm not going to say this a strictly 18+ blog (aside from nsfw things, which i will tag #mdni or #minors dni), but i'd kindly request you not interact w me if you're under the age of 16. its for both of us, pookie.

i roll w sweeties and lovers only !!! my blog is a space for positivity and love and light and absolutely nothing else !!! if you're being a fart i reserve the right to block u like THAT 🤌 (that's me snapping)

i am bound to have my blind spots as a white, (mostly) able-bodied, cisgendered, middle-class person. i 100% acknowledge that, and am doing my best to reduce and eliminate those. i encourage all people i interact with to do the same, including online. if i hear whispers of any of my followers exhibiting bigoted, prejudiced, predatory, or just generally uncool behavior, you will be 🥾 BOOTED immediately

i'm in a very happy, committed, long-term relationship with my partner of multiple years. in other words, *pearl voice* IM MARRIED!!! don't be creepy.

i will do my best to tag tws and cws, but if there's anything i miss, please let me know!! it has been a fat minute since i have ventured back onto this crazy little website and i'm a bit rusty.

about me <3 (read if u want lol) :

current obsessions: criminal minds (reliving my old phases, etc), bridgerton, rupaul's drag race, chappell roan, ethel cain, taylor swift when she's not ripping a hole in the ozone layer, hozier, mac miller, art, music, dorky stuff :)

i'm currently wrapping up my freshman year of college! i'm a studio art minor and elementary education major, if you couldn't tell from the everything about me. i'm super duper passionate about art and education and stuff, and will gush about it OFTEN

fav song at the moment: Tryptich - Samia

fav show at the moment: Bridgerton

fav emoji at the moment: 🦡 ! ITS A LIL BADGER AKSDHFASDFJS

ok that's it!! thanks for checking this out!! mwah love u pook

[tearssystem]

I need outside opinions on a pretty severe problem.

A few years ago when I was 17, I met this guy online. I had my age in my bio as 17, and they didn't have their age at all. They started talking to me, and I assumed based on how they spoke that they were at least 16. We didn't send any pictures or anything so I had no other reference.

After a while of him flirting with me, I started flirting back. Eventually we started dating. After that I found out he was 13. I wanted to break up with him, but he said he would kill himself if I left, and that I was the only person who cared for him. In my dumb 17 year old mind I thought he would, so I stayed for a while longer, but pulled back a lot of flirting and such.

Eventually it got too bad for both of our mental healths, and with it being not age appropriate I ended it. He literally screamed and begged for me to stay, saying that he would kill himself and that I was proving him right by leaving.

He blocked me for a while, but I reached out to him via other accounts because I wanted to make sure the was okay and I still wanted to be friends. (I now realize I was paranoid because of a trauma bond).

We talked off and on for a while. Usually it went:

-i reach out to apologize for angering him.

-we make up

-we have a few days/weeks/months of good conversation

-he gets mad at me for something and makes me feel like it was all my fault for "trying to fix him/not listen/ignore him/anything else that would set him off"

And it repeats. For almost 4-5 years now.

I finally blocked him for good this last summer. I was happy and healing. I wasn't paranoid about if he was stalking me.

Then a few days ago I got really nauseous and almost feverish. And I felt like he was talking about me again. I tried to write it off as paranoia, but ended up checking his TikTok anyway. (He didn't have me blocked and I didn't have him blocked either cause I had to make a new acct for unrelated family reasons)

When I check I see a huge "I hate you stop stalking me" post posted an hour before I checked.

Again I tried to ignore it because it could have been anyone. But my paranoia kicked in again and I checked before I went to bed. He posted a video of his friends beating people up saying "my boys won't hesitate to run up on your boys".

Keep in mind all I have done in the past almost year is check his TikTok twice. No comments or likes or other interaction.

Today he posted a "call-out" video calling me a groomer. Saying that I manipulated him, victim blamed him, ect.

I do not want any contact with him anymore, and I don't want him to contact me anymore. I know I fucked up when I was 17. I know that some of the toxicity in the relationship/friendship came from me. And I have learned from that and have worked to better myself because I don't want to be like him.

So I guess what I'm asking is what is everyone's opinions on this? What should I do? Keep ignoring him? Stand up for myself? I have records of some of our texts still (after he asked me to delete most of them)

I just don't know what to do

[1eos]

omg I love them alllll theyre actually some of my favourite looks! much goth bf!🖤

btw I actually remember you from waaaayyy back through your other urls before you got banned or whatever and I was like who is this person tagging it with “put your dick on the phone leo” and just ignored mostly like you didn’t do anything I felt was block worthy and really some of your tags I love(d) and are a mood and your tags are the ones I most hope to see (no one hardly tags anymore never mind reblogs) because mood but also funny. he deserves all the love expressed in all ways.. well more than just saying/being told he’s c*t*… 🫥 And thank you for saying you’d blow up twitter if they came for me… 🥺

Byeee for now

this gif.....hello.....2015 leo could steal my credit card nd i would really have to take an hour to decide to cancel it or not....but omg u remember my old acct 🥺💖 ive always felt like im a relatively harmless presence on the website but when other vixx boys started to get in trouble everyone got retroactively mad at ppl who aren't willing to die for every member 😭😭😭😭😭 personally i thot everyone understood the #leosweep years ago but hey we all have petty blocks i of all ppl understand LOL. and lordddd its crazy to me how some ppl can just say cute i will never forget leo was cleavage out for something and in the tags someone was calling him a hamster like PLEASE you don't have to be explicit but we need to ease up on this cute shit 😭 there are other adjectives. i'll settle for handsome

nd i absolutely would blow up the few parts of twitter m*sk hasn't ruined if someone starts beef like they try to 'call out' anyone that's not in the hivemind when minding your business is free!!!!!

[sh-p-r-blog]

Seven year itch

Hello world. Jan 2023

Wondering if someone is out there reading this. Took me 30 min to figure out how to log into this acct. I need to date these things. It's been a cool minute since I logged on. Last post was about twilight. But we're going somewhere deeper this time. We are going to talk about a boy that I dated for 7 years.

I broke up with the boy who I thought was my future. It has been a year since our break up. My mother has a new boyfriend. And so do I. I moved cities and is currently living with this new guy. I don't have much to say. I have shared my thoughts and feelings with close friends. And it has taken me awhile to heal. But I'm getting better each day. Ex is still running through my mind everyday but it has gotten better. I don't look for him in my mind. He just casually pops up, but the pain is not as bad as the first year. The new environment and new boyfriend has helped a lot.

I don't feel regret or anger. What my past has taught me is that. He showed me what I looked for in a man and what I like and don't like. You can't change a person you can either grow together or separately. He was good to me and gave me good thigs and cared for me and for that I will always be grateful. I'm sure with time everything will heal. He and I will meet again and by then I will be able to face him and his new life with an honest smile on my face and only think of happy thoughts for both of our new endeavors.

Enough of the past. Let me share with you this new beau. He's older. A bit more difficult to mold. Like I said you can't change a person either grow separately or together. I moved cities to get away from my past and hopefully find a new future. He's been kind to me, but I hold a dark event, which I should not share, because I don't want to tarnish him. He's trying to make up for it and I'm letting him. I feel bad that I'm hung up for my past and he has his moments. No physical abuse is happening of any sorts people. But I feel like he's here for me during my dark times. I should also be there for him and forgive. My feelings for him is a little shaky because of that incident, but I'm learning to forgive and stay strong and hustle. I think that's it for now.

[emilykaldwen]

I got some great responses on this yesterday, so thanks for that! So I'm making a lil poll, just to engage with some curiosity. Please know I do leave guest comments on for those who do not have an acct. I want to make my work accessible to people, and truthfully I just come from a very old school 'read on AO3', as I just do not like reading on tumblr (I will if I have to! but personal preference)

I'm still figuring out how I want to post to the sideblog. I've gotten great advice in posting here and then reblogging to the sideblog. Do people do the same? Do other's do differently?

So if I made a separate blog where I would post the chapters of my fic instead of people going onto AO3 to read? Is that a thing people would like?