#real fandom life update

[dance-like-an-idiot]

hi hello im here i guess i just wanted it in writing on this account that im alive !!!

long story short its musical season, tech week is next week, im doing a Lot and im Stressed

im still gonna be inactive on this account until i can get my head on straight again but yeah wish me luck <3

ps ive gotten a newsies fixation by reading a shit ton of newsies fics in my time away

[castielrisingabove]

It is sad that one thing we’ve lost in the shift from dependable, weekly programming to sporadic binge-watch drops is community. Like when shows were coming out once a week over a long period of time, sure you got fanart and fanfic and the like, but you also got to see some familiar faces. Got to know a few solid peeps posting up your alley. And I’m not saying that’s not possible with binge-watch shows, I’ve definitely found cool folks in fleeting or even completed shows, but like. I dunno. When you roll up to see fanart of your favorite show, rather than bond with a mutual, it’s no wonder so many new folks in fandom see it as a box store — grab anonymously made creations and bounce — and not like, a local farmer’s market, where you visit the stall with the drabbles you really like and chat up the creator.

[whileyoureinschoolidothisallday]

GUYS BTW I MADE THAT POST ABOUT WISHING FOR A NASTY DOG DABI EDIT YESTERDAY, AND I GOT ONE TODAY!!!!!!!!!

IT'S OFFICIALLY BROKEN MY DROUGHT IN DABI TIKTOKS I'M FINALLY GETTING THEM 😭

[kellystar321]

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[otaku6337]

WIP expectations are (often) unrealistic

okay so i’ve posted about this general topic before

but posting once a month is not “an update limbo”, it’s not an “abandoned fic” - it’s normal

it is fine to have an irregular or infrequent update schedule (using the word schedule here loosely lol)

I have a fic that I refer to as 28, and I update it on the 28th of every month (the chars went through 28 timeloops, are you sensing the theme here yet?), and have been doing so for... around a year now, actually - I refer to this updating schedule several times in author notes, in the series notes etc, because I deliberately chose the theme after I counted how many loops I’d put them through

yet, on the 26th or so of this month (i’m not getting the bookmark back up but it’s from a few days ago) someone tagged it as “update limbo”

it’s been less than four weeks since it was last updated

like, even if I hadn’t made it super clear on multiple occasions that this fic gets updated on the same day every single month, a few weeks is *nothing* like limbo. sure if it’s been a few years, maybe even down to six months, but anything under three or four months, to me, just means that the author is a busy person and-or has some sort of writer’s block/other ideas they’re focusing on/any other myriad of factors that means that they aren’t posting for that specific fic right now and, unless they’ve said it’s going on hiatus or the like, it’s not abandoned or in limbo or really anything at all except a WIP

i’m not making this to specifically call out this person (i’d be including a screenshot in that case lol), and I’m not saying they or others have bad intentions, not at all, but to me it was just the epitome of so much of this consumerism, WIP-negative, high-expectations sort of culture that seems to be developing around fic writing/fandom creation as a whole

it’s been less than a month, and it feels like people will write off fics entirely for not having been updated in the last fortnight at most. some writers will, perfectly validly, go months between updates, and if anything that just makes it more exciting when a chapter is posted

so, again, this isn’t targeted at any specific person, and I’m not saying people have to read wips if they prefer completed stuff ‘cause that’s valid, but I felt like it needed reiterating that taking time between updates is realistic, not selfish or abandonment - take your time creating, make it something you’re as happy with as possible, and readers please be patient with us, we’re doing the best we can even when you can’t see that directly

[tortured-demigods-department]

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Nico di Angelo/Will Solace, Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo & Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo & Will Solace, Nico di Angelo & Jason Grace, Annabeth Chase & Nico di Angelo, Nico di Angelo & Everyone, Nico di Angelo & Gleeson Hedge Characters: Nico di Angelo, Will Solace, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, Kayla Knowles, Austin Lake, Gleeson Hedge, Mitchell (Percy Jackson) Additional Tags: so i've been sitting on this fic since middle school okay, and im aware that its likely in no way original OR unlike anything else you've ever seen before, it's that obligatory-three-days-in-the-infirmary-fic BUT, it starts AT THE END of those three days, Starting Over, Friendship, Developing Friendships, learning how to be accepted, Learning Self-Acceptance, Self-Acceptance, but in order to get there, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Hatred, Self-Doubt, emotional roller coasters, Canon Compliant, at least up to a point?, not sure if i'm going to keep ~certain~ aspects from TOA, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Trauma, like seriously who let these kids fight TWO wars, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health Issues, Leaning to Be a Kid, Nico di Angelo Needs a Hug, Nico di Angelo-centric, Nico di Angelo & Percy Jackson Friendship, Percy Jackson is a Mess, listen percy fucked up a LOT okay, but that will be addressed, Percy Jackson is a Good Friend, Will Solace is a Good Friend, Will Solace is a Mess, lets just establish that EVERYONE IS A MESS, Protective Jason Grace, Nico di Angelo is Trying, Nico di Angelo is Scared of the Dark, AIJFKGJKSDLJFKLJSD, that was NOT a tag when i was in middle/high school, i am SO FUCKING EXCITED that thats a tag now, Nico di Angelo is a Mess, LMAO how did i miss that one before now, i'll probably be back with more tags later, Will Solace is a Ball of Sunshine, Will Solace Has Anxiety Summary:

He doesn’t remember the last time that he had the time to do something as simple as just look up. He’s been running for so long, he’s been trapped and let go and pushed and dragged across the world and back again, and he doesn’t know how it happened but somehow he has found himself standing still—maybe for the first time since he found out he was a demigod. Maybe for the first time since he and Biance were brought out of the Lotus and back into the real world, when she’d cupped his face between her hands and promised, “Now we’ll have a real life, you and I.”

He wonders, as he often does, what she would think if she could see him now.

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or,

Starting after Nico's three-day-stay in the infirmary, the repercussions of being alone and fighting in two wars—across the span of only four years, might he add—begin to manifest. Featuring the formation of new friendships, reconciliation with old ones, self-reinvention, and the revolutionary concept that it's okay to just be a kid and need people sometimes.

[regrator-the-ninth]

I have so many almost-finished art pieces that I haven’t been able to finish because I’ve been put in charge of production releases at my Real Job™ but more art coming soon… hopefully.

[gideonisms]

It's so funny whenever someone discovers that people like to have emotions about fictional characters recreationally and like loses their mind. what, people are actually lusting for the undescribed tits of ianthe tridentarius on the internet?? that's so weird no one has ever been horny on the internet before!

[nikibogwater]

I don’t usually make requests this, but I know I have at least a few followers who are religious, so could I trouble you guys to say a quick prayer for my mom? She is having a major surgery tomorrow morning (April 26), and I would deeply appreciate as many prayers for her safety and recovery as we can get. 

[dance-like-an-idiot]

today is my last day of listening to this song (i am gonna claw (out your eyes and drown you to death)) and if i dont have to make a poster by friday there'll be a june bugs update in the next couple of days

500 hours straight in 7 hours!!! i feel crazy

[hua-fei-hua]

finally got the new discord username update and i am filled with RAGE and RAGE and RAGE and RAGE and TORMENT

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

Mod poll (regarding a possible change in the rules)

Edit: I just realized I wrote the options kinda weird. No means no real life people submissions. Yes means yes to real life people submissions.

[pomribs]

so jealous of everyone on this app (esp my mutuals) who're so mysterious and sexy and cool bc i only come on here to be cringe and annoying and im scaring all the hoes away

[prokopetz]

Essential genres of webcomics, updated for 2024:

Gag-a-day strip with the art and writing of a forgettable newspaper comic, but which inexplicably has 25 years worth of intricate setting lore and requires a day-long archive binge to fully understand the context of a grade-school pun.

Self-proclaimed deconstruction of superhero comics or giant robot anime or magical girls or something that has the exact same plot beats as every other self-proclaimed deconstruction of superhero comics or giant robot anime or magical girls or something. If you support the artist's Patreon you can download alternate versions of selected pages where the protagonist has their tits out.

Webtoon that sprang into existence complete with a hundred thousand followers at some point in the last week; the art displays immense technical mastery of figure drawing, but absolutely no grasp of panel layout, and the writing's gender politics are weirdly reactionary for something whose official synopsis manages to use the word "queer" three times in the space of two paragraphs.

Long-form narrative which hasn't received regular updates in several years due to the author's incredibly demanding real-life obligations, but instead of cancelling the comic or going on hiatus, they continue to publish one page roughly every four months with the kind of grim determination normally associated with historical anecdotes about the Battle of Stalingrad.

Fantasy adventure comic which you strongly suspect, but cannot prove, is a direct adaptation of somebody's high school GURPS campaign. The story is so elaborately and discursively plotted that you need to keep the fandom wiki open in a separate tab simply to remember who the fuck any of these people are.

Chicken-scratch parody comic about, like, Rainbow Brite fighting the Care Bears or some shit that somehow has better writing than anything on Netflix.

Semi-autobiographical slice of life comic, except with robots.

[writingblueefurfire]

An unfinished fic is always going to be existing in a nebulous will-they/wont-they status.

I prefer to call a fic neglected rather than abandoned. Abandoned implies that there is little, to no hope for a continuation. Neglected means the fic is on the backburner, or in the attic gathering dust. It does, however, still live rent free in the authors brain, and the author might pick it up, blow the dust off and do something with it at any point in time.

And like, I get that people get upset when this wonderful piece of art hasn't been updated, and might never be updated, but thats the risk we take in reading fanfiction. Hell, we risk it reading Officially Published For Money books too(or watching good shows. Looking at you, Firefly). Which y'know, where a great number of fanfics spring from.

Some of you would not survive waiting months to years for a WIP to update.

Look at me, listen to me: A couple of months is way too early to think a fic is abandoned or dead. A year is often too early. Internalize this.

[justtellher]

give me peace (in a lifetime of war)-3/15

chapter 3: you know i'm good on my own (being unknown)

He stares blankly at the antique leather of the steering wheel for several minutes in an attempt to derive some sense of purpose in the utter pointlessness that he sees before him–and is rather coming around to the idea of simply driving until he finds the point again–when a sharp ring emanates from the seat next to him, breaking through his maudlin planning. Aziraphale Calling. He gapes in disbelief at the caller id until the call goes to voicemail.

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