#soul slump

[salemisdying]

i have,,,zero clue who put this brain worm into my noggin but someone had a fic where Danny, Ember, and Johnny were in a band together and,,,,yeah. (also silly little things i put words one)

[almondpiglet]

ppl were drawing mikus from all over so heres habesha miku and her lil twin sibs rin and len!!

[hyakunana]

POV: Even with advantage and buffs, your local folk hero just rolled 1 in Intimidation

[awakenthebeing]

I'M SORRY I'LL LIKE,, Never draw any other characters these 2 are just my FAVORITES....💓💓‼️😭😭😭 and it's ultimately just a lot of friend hugs

[dragonkick-bootshine]

my emotional support homophobic queer old man 😊

[aheathen-conceivably]

That’s right babes I’m ~playing the sims~ and this party went totally fine, no bugs, not a single bug in sight (because I rage deleted the Strangerville Conspiracy theorists that showed up to my Kava party unannounced 🫠)

[megah3rz]

[getougender]

i think that yuuji should grab the back of megumi’s neck and pull him into a hug. just to hold him for a little while

[bluberimufim]

Updates on The NaNo bc I haven't done one of these in a while

[astarlightmonbebe]

two episodes in and i already know fangs of fortune is going to be the cdrama of 2024. and possibly the rest of my life.

[salemisdying]

guys this literally took forever i will love u forever if u go watch it 🫶🙏🏻

[mousegirlheart]

hope i eventually get to a point where my emotions stop going completely nuts all the time

[cloudbells]

OKAY IM DOING IT IM DELETING ALL MY WIPS AND STARTING NEW #SATANWON

[spaceaudio]

boston2 anniversary is kind of crazy

[steppedoffaflight]

How do you feel about SAK looking back on it now? I really, really love that fic and your writing so much ❤️

To be honest, as time has passed I’ve only felt prouder and prouder of it. Especially because the last year I’ve been in a complete writing slump, I miss how vividly I saw those scenes unfolding and how much fun I had creating that world.

I’ve been reading Jami Attenberg’s Substack, Craft Talk, lately, and as motivation for her 1000 Words of Summer event she asked readers to comment their “why” for writing. This is something I’ve been grappling with lately, because fic writing is something done for free, just for the joy of it, but also writing can be incredibly hard and I have a tendency to love rarepairs which means attention/readers is a horrible motivation to base such fics on 😂 but I saw this comment, and it really stuck with me:

“When I write, it sticks with me longer— not just the moment but who I was in that moment.” I was instantly inspired by that!! I think so much of the beauty in SAK was the fact that a lot of the ideas for it came directly out of my journal, and rereading it I can tell from my own writing how dearly I love(d) Van and all the aspects of him I devoted attention to. It also inspired me to make another honest effort to get back into writing, if only to capture who I am and who I love at this chapter of my life.

Another random note on how proud I am of it is that it’s novel length, which felt completely effortless at the time and now is like DAMN. HOW did I write that many words??!! I know so many people die with the regret that they didn’t write their book, but in my heart I wrote mine. I sat my ass down and wrote a novel-length fic, and hopefully have more to come!! But at the very least, I’ve written Summer’s A Knife and I love her so much!!!

[powerfulblob]

[ID: Tumblr tags read “#listen #this is a hill I will die on #authenticity looks an awful lot like self indulgence #but it is the ONLY way #to find your true audience #to make work that deeply resonates with you in your emotional state #because the people that are reaching for media are looking for #glimpses of themselves #not their selves at their most poised #but their self at their most SELF #which is messy and hard #and they WANT to see that they are not alone #(which they aren’t... none of us are. we have never experienced a singular human experience.) #Yes you can find your people if you are hiding yourself #but god it is SO much harder to be found when you are hiding.” end ID]

for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want.  be utterly  shameless about including every last fantasy.  i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.