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artemisdesari-blog · 5 months ago

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

#fanfiction #fanfic #ao3 writer #ao3 fanfic #writing is hard #fanfic writing #writer stuff #archive of our own #ao3 #this isn’t about me #my stuff still has great interaction from readers #although I would never say no to more #but please please please don't hide your enjoyment from us #they feed the gremlins in our heads which give us the stories

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bricreative · 2 months ago

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They’re in need of some serious rest

#can I say I’m proud of how I drew vi #her back the side of her head her arm #Cait I’m still getting used to drawing her #arcane #caitvi #vi arcane #caitlyn kiramman #my art #sketch

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hinamie · 5 months ago

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to moving forward

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jjk art #yuji itadori #gojo satoru #fushiguro megumi #nobara kugisaki #itadori yuuji #megumi fushiguro #jjk spoilers #satoru gojo #jjk manga spoilers #hina.comic #before any1 says anything i KNOw his birthday is in december ik ik ik this is just 2 show some post-battle bonding after the trauma #its winter in canon n megumi's birthday has passed and he spent it being piloted like a mech so they need to celebrate Now!!#also this was technically a request lmao anon wanted megumi birthday angst hehehehhe i hope u like it <3 bc it KILLED ME DEAD #im going to collapse remember when i said this wasnt harder than the hydrangeas im having second thoughts #page 8 made me want to bash my head in #could have stuck with one flashback image could have left them monochrome could have done literally anything 2 ease the workload #but noooo the chronic overachiever in me would not allow it #rule of threes i had to include all of them and they Had to be in colour it wouldn't have hit the same if i had kept it monochrome #i needed it to look how childhood memories look i needed it to look oversaturated and hazy and fond but unmistakably Gone #it may have killed me but im so proud of this rn like from an art style perspective these megumis and yuujis r top tier by my standards #personal favourites r the first and last panel of crying megumi like not 2 pat myself on th back but expression?????? hello??????#enjoy your cake megumi you've earned it <333 sorry fr hurting ur feelings it will happen again #oh my god i can sleep tonight bless <333 and i met my 3 day deadline NICE im so good at what i do

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angelfic · 1 year ago

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annabeth and grover frantically submerging percy in water the way you’d put an iphone in a bowl of rice

#bless #still can’t wrap my head around the fact Athena was willing to kill her own daughter #when I say I’ve never hated anyone more #LIKE WHY WAS ANNABETH NOT FUMING #it’s a good thing she isn’t in s1 like I don’t think Percy would be able to hold his tongue #ni.txt #percy jackson and the olympians #pjotv #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #pjo disney+#pjo #pjo tv show #pjo series #percy jackson tv show

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0x4468c7a6a728 · 25 days ago

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i like it when a little drop of water gets on a screen and magnifies a single subpixel, hi green and red and blue my good friends

#my posts #before anyone says anything i'm saying hi to all the colors because if you move your head at all it changes which subpixel you see #big post

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marciaillust · 2 months ago

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almost blown out bsky / twt / ig

#illustration #digital art #original art #artists on tumblr #character art #marcia #marciaillust #lowkey a rkgk but a true Marcia rkgk would not be getting posted at all #ive had this babygirl in the dumpster folder for a while but i fished her out to finish her #dumpster folder is where drawings go to play with other drawings and run around the farm before i move them to the external drive #the reason she was in there was um i gave up when drawing her feet #truly feet are the hands of the legs #i wouldnt say i mastered hands but i feel pretty comfortable drawing them nowadays #feet on the other hand? jesus christ #someone make them make sense #I MIGHT HAVE FINISHED MY WORK SEASON FOR 2024 BTW #work as in dayjob as in brawl stars #it depends on what my boss will say monday and if there is any actionable feedback #i am in desperate need of free time #bro you have no idea the way ill go to SLEEP WHEN I CAN #OHHHHHOHOHOHOHO #orion hit on the head has nothing on the speed with which i will collapse #the alternative caption on this post was 'you best not be trying to blow out my flame bro' but i chickened out

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egophiliac · 10 months ago

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bring back zooterkins, the best 17th-century swear word

I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.

(I'm sorry)

#art #twisted wonderland #(sort of atemporally somewhere between episodes 6 and 7?)#(i - i wanted that lilia joke okay)#long post #tumblr went 'you can post up to 30 images now :)' and i was like well okay then #anyway once again i'm sorry #i'd say i don't know why i did this but actually it is because i wanted kalim to scandalize everyone #i tried to keep it...you know...tasteful. a tasteful amount of fucks.#hey remember how the framing premise for the original birthday interviews was that yuu worked for the school paper #because i have never forgotten. in my head they are still getting up to all kinds of wacky reporting hijinks.

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goomyloid · 4 months ago

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dog coded kris

#deltarune #utdr #kris dreemurr #noelle holiday #deltarune chapter 2 #i have not been able to stop saying 'puppy want a fucking break from it all' in my head since i drew this #goomyart #doodles

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lemongogo · 4 months ago

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life of regret

#fiddleford mcgucket #fiddleford #gravity falls #my art #no way . i had all of these tags written out on mobile ab stanford and fiddleford post fallout and it CRASHEDDDD #THEYRE GONEEEWW (slipping thru my fingers like sand)#whag freaking ever . i was just talking about how i always forget theres a pocket of time between their split and fords disappearance #and how crazy it is that i had no idea fidds used the gun on ford until last month #it just unlocked smt in my brain thats all.👐 and then i said i was smashing my head w a rock. maybe even 20❤️#tbh i was neutral on fidds back then but i rly rly like him now T_T .. power of other fidd enjoyers lifting me up #i had a lot of fun coloring this one but i didnt know what exactly i wanted to do w it . i had fidds and the gun all finished #but i was like uhhh.. >added the wrapped light #and then i added a whole bunch of scribbled soc of the blind eye symbols but it was waay too crowded/busy #i wish i couldve found a way to keep them😧 u know when HAHAHAHAH u know those ugly like #math prints of just random equations . thats what it started looking like n i had 2 tap out #editing 2 say i posted this and i had that panic NOOO WAIT ITS JOT FINISHED but I Will be Okay.<say it w me #if i spend too much time on it ill just overwork it and then never share so -__-

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greentea-and-cookies · 11 months ago

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Since Velvette is a doll I like to think she can do that whenever she wants, and the other Vee's find it horribly creepy

Translation to Val's in spanish prayer (IN THE NAME OF THE SON THE FATHER AND YOUR WHORE MOTHEEEEEEEEER!!!!)

#whenever Velvette want Vox to buy her something and he says no she threatens him with taking her head off #he accepts immediately #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel velvette #hazbin velvette #velvette #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #vox #hazbin hotel valentino #hazbin valentino #valentino #my art #fanart #green tea & cookies #valentino praying like a madre latina

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lylahammar · 9 months ago

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the way that this page in particular was adapted just OOZES studio trigger tbh. like I know everyone likes to joke about studio trigger being the horny studio, but the quick jerky animation direction is what truly makes their work recognizable to me. I can practically see Lio Fotia bleeding through the pixels in that 5 frame animation of Falin peeking through her fingers

#lyla's talking again #dungeon meshi #I was thinkin about the clip of her peeking through her fingers just now and had to say my thoughts lol #but also that sequence of her scrambling over the building is going to live in my head for the rest of my life tbh #it's BEAUTIFUL #animation

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 5 months ago

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