#scribophile

[manesalex]

Happy Birthday, @scribophile!!!

[xoxoemynn]

for the wip game:

couch! 🫶

Thank you, friend! Ed spends a lot of time on the couch in Afterlight boys, so here you get the whole premise of the fic!

Ed pushes himself off the couch, wincing as his knee complains, and carefully shuffles closer to the TV. The Gentleman also comes closer to the screen (or whatever it is on his side of the… world? Universe? Plane? Ed’s not really sure) until Ed can just see his (lovely, smiling, kind) face and the tops of his broad shoulders. “Well, actually I do that quite a bit. Don’t get a lot of company around here. Nice to see a friendly face. Hello! I’m Stede. Stede Bonnet.”

Ed rubs his temples with his fingers. “Yeah, I know.” 

“You’ve heard of me?” The Gentleman— Stede— looks pleased. 

Uh oh. This is… weird. Is this weird? Yeah, it’s— this is weird. Ed’s pretty sure this is very not normal. “I was watching your movies,” he says, frowning, “and I… I must be more tired than I thought, man.”

“I, for one, am glad you’re here,” Stede says.

Send me a word and I'll send you a snippet of it in my WIP!

[blakbonnet]

11 & 16!

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11. if you're a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud of making?

I'm so proud of Moonstone Mage Championship which was such a difficult thing to write and remains one of the hardest things i've finished to this day ❤️ i'm very very proud that I managed to do it justice despite the horrors ™️ (two pet deaths and cancellation)

and very proud of this art that i drew for it ❤️

16. a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

i do think people appreciate this enough but his beautiful s1 hair 😭 i miss stede's s1 curls even more than i miss his wardrobe sometimes

play this fandom game with me

[saltpepperbeard]

Happy Birthday!!!

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I hope you have the most wonderful day, Jodi! Shout out to the Late Nov Birthdays 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Thank you so much, Scrib!!! AND LATE NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS RAAAAA 🦅

[as-a-creww]

just wanted to pop in and send some hugs and good vibes!! 😊🫶🏼🫂

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THANK YOU PIPER!! This is a lovely little pick me up 😌🥰

[hexcrystals]

just wanted to pop in and send some hugs and good vibes!! 😊🫶🏼🫂

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thank you pal they are much needed and much appreciated 💛💛💛

[peanutbutterex]

just wanted to pop in and send some hugs and good vibes!! 😊🫶🏼🫂

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Thank you so much!!!! Giving you hugs and good vibes back, friend! ❤️❤️❤️

[ofmdee]

just wanted to pop in and send some hugs and good vibes!! 😊🫶🏼🫂

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tysm piper this was the perfect thing to see after a nap!!! 🎆

[signify-nothing]

Oh my god. I usually try not to complain about critiques on my fiction, but this one dude I've been dealing with has just been so fucking obnoxious. First of all, he started critiquing the story on the fourth chapter, even though I specifically said in the critique guidance that I wasn't interested in drive-by critiques by people who hadn't started at the beginning. I gave him a pass since the first three chapters were "locked" since they already had the maximum number of critiques, so if he wanted to waste his time trying to critique a story he didn't understand that was his issue.

But then he went on to critique four chapters, repeatedly saying he didn't understand character motivations that were explicitly explained in the first three chapters. Eventually, he said he was bowing out because the story wasn't moving forward and was boring him.

But the kicker? He literally, explicitly told me he wrote a 5,000 word story inspired by my idea. And he wanted to know what I thought.

Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me.

I feel like this man is trying to punk me. Holy shit. What a nice way to spend my Saturday morning.

[xoxoemynn]

Em!!

Hello lovely, I know I wrote you a lovely letter recently during your own love fest but I still wanted to pop in and say hi and spread some more love and give some hugs.

So, just to reiterate what I’ve said a million times before:

Thank you so much for sharing your work with us and for being so awesome and supportive. It’s so beautiful to have people like you in our fandom who do so much to help uplift others and stay positive. Honestly, idk how you do it sometimes, this world can be so nasty and whenever things kinda go sideways you’re always there with the just right thing to say to bring that little spark of hope back. For me at least.

Your post about the show yesterday really hit me hard bc I was feeling pretty low and it’s just nice to know that we have such passionate fans who are willing to stick around and keep this fandom running, even if we don’t get our show back.

Thank you again 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 I hope you have a lovely rest of your sunday evening. 💜

Awwww lovely, this is so extremely kind of you to say. And I'm glad you found comfort in that post. Truthfully, I do still circle through all the stages of grief in losing OFMD. Some days are better than others. I know everyone handles it differently — some people go full clown, others prefer to accept that it's over for good. We've all got to do whatever is best for our mental health. For me, that does mean keeping a bit of hope alive. That spark, no matter how faint it may be at times, is what keeps me going. I lose hope, I'm just straight into the abyss.

But hope doesn't just happen. You do have to nurture it. I've gotten much more protective of my fandom space since the cancellation. We live in a reality where it's very likely we will never get more canonical content for this show. Fandom is the only guarantee we have left, and even that will only last so long as we tend to it with love.

Because of that, it's just not fun to me to be a hater, or to spend time dwelling on the parts of the show/fandom that I dislike or wish would be different. It's just not interesting to me and, frankly, I think nearly every round of discourse we get is just a weak rehash of discourse we've been through a dozen times already and that's very boring to me. So I just don't engage. I block and filter liberally. If shit starts getting to me, I log off and come back when I'm ready.

I prefer to spend my time celebrating all the art and fic and meta that comes out of this fandom, or sharing fun head canons, or laughing at shitposts. And I have very selfish reasons for doing that because usually that inspires people to do MORE of it, so I get to enjoy it even MORE, even when I'm busy or emotionally drained and can't offer much myself.

It's a common phrase that you get out of fandom what you put into it, and I do think that's true, but I also think it's only half of the equation. I think you also get out of fandom what you take out of it. And so that's why I spend my time in places and with people that spark joy and creativity and love, because that fuels my own, and that's what keeps my spark of hope burning. That's what encourages me to continue sharing my love for the show and all the fans, because I see it in so many others. And if anybody or anything gets in the way of that? Fuck'em. They serve no purpose to me and are in fact counterproductive to the reason I'm in this fandom at all. Fare thee well.

And so when I see you going around spreading kindness, and dropping these really thoughtful notes in people's inboxes, and reaching out to people who are struggling, and leaving really sweet replies on posts and the BEST comments on fics? That's IT. That's what fandom is. That's the whole heart of it. That's what gives me hope. That's what keeps me going. That's what keeps me out of the abyss.

So thank YOU for all that you do, thank you for showing your love for the show, thank you for showing your love to the fans. That's why we're still here. And that's the only way we'll continue to be here years upon years after the Revenge sets sail for the final time. 💕

[blakbonnet]

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mutuals send me your fave emoji and I'll tell you which scene from ofmd I associate with you the most

[ofmdlovelyletters]

I’d like to send a lovely letter to @scribophile for being an incredible person, so supportive and positively chaotic. I love their determination to write amazing fics for the fandom 🫶🏻 I’m very lucky to call them a friend

Hi @scribophile! You've received a lovely letter. 💌

Crew, you can read their fic here.

[as-a-creww]

put 5 songs you listen to, post it, then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers <333

Ooh thanks for the ask Piper! ☺️

Vampire - Olivia Rodrigo

Getting Older - Billie Eilish

Coming Home Song - Sammy Rae & The Friends

Saturn - SZA

Adore You - Harry Styles

[davycoquette]

Scrib has my favorite way to critique. The inline thing? SO COOL. I critique EVERYTHING with that format, now, but I always wish I had their cool UI to do it with.

scribophile is scratching an itch I didn't know I had. I love giving feedback

[ofmdee]

Send this to all your favourite moots and pass the pumpkin round! KEEP THE PUMPKIN TRAIN GOING 🎃🖤🎃🖤 - 🫶🫶🫶

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thank you!! and back at you!!! <33333

[awkwardplantwrites]

I just beta-read 25k for someone. took me a couple of days to finish. phew. that was a real mental workout. beta-readers out there: love you, you work so hard for so little, you are the pillars of the writing community