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hey i hope this isn't a bad time but one billion points lava damage

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Hey here's a reminder that you're allowed to publish unfinished fics and snippets of fics that you're never going to continue and you're allowed to abandon WIPs and you're allowed to orphan unfinished fics and ficlet collections and you never have to finish a single fic if you don't want to.

And there will always be someone who reads that unfinished work and is happy with it and feels glad that they read it even if it's never continued.

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Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.

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#Love him

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Saw this on Mychal Threet's FB. Not sure where he found it, but I thought fandom would like it ...

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I've seen a lot of ff writers apologize for their fic being "self-indulgent" which baffles me cause like is that not the entire concept of fanfiction?????

SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS, "FANFICTION IS SUPPOSED TO BE SELF-INDULGENT"

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If four of you are out to dinner, who's picking up the bill?

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Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars

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Carrie Fisher filming Star Wars

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They should invent a being a writer that doesn't come with being isolated and diminishing returns on what you are given back compared to how much you give

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This has Mando vibes

sexy knights. sexy wounded knights. sexy wounded weary knights. sexy wounded weary knights in the rain. sexy wounded weary knights in the rain pledging their loyalty to you.

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I wouldn't call Andor's depiction of violence realistic because they're still playing by Disney PG rules, there's no guts, no brains, minimal blood, all wounds inflicted are clear and clean, we don't see the loud suffering of the wounded and dying. Also what is realism even.

What violence is in Andor is consequential. If you're shot, there's a good chance you will die. If you fall from twice your own height, you'll likely break something. If you punch someone and they fall wrong, well shit, you might just have killed them. Weapons are actually dangerous. Stormtroopers, who in the original trilogy were faceless mooks with bad aim, are reduced to their essence: they are men with guns and armour, and it turns out even one of those is very scary. As long as we're in a world where violence is consequential, even a man with a stick poses a lethal threat, let alone one with a gun, let alone one with a TIE fighter.

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Don't worry, hoes. You can continue to expect deranged barking from me in the comments.

Tumblr is good for creative types because the tag system lets you be truly deranged about how much you like it without feeling as Exposed as a Comment Section

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PSA for fanfic writers

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setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can't wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for