The fanfiction way is my way

esculentevil: writingmyselfintoanearlygrave: esculentevil: writingmyselfintoanearlygrave: esculen...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:07:35 +0200

writingmyselfintoanearlygrave:

esculentevil:

writingmyselfintoanearlygrave:

esculentevil:

writingmyselfintoanearlygrave:

So I checked my email today

I had two notifications from Archive Of Our Own, both from the same person, on two of my different stories.

This is what I responded with;

Don’t leave rude comments, kids. That’s not how you get more fic updates.

Yea: be RESPECTFUL; being rude will never do anything but hurt/infuriate us.

Either that or actually pay us: then you’d have a thumb over us fanfic writers!

Legit, tho: OP is right and it’s so sad to see fanfic writers harassed because people seem to not know the difference between encouraging us to write and being greedy/rude/bullies; we write for the fun of it and share it because we’re brave/hopeful/understanding that others will probably like what we’ve written.

Don’t spit on that by making a fanfic about YOU; it’s about the author.

Respect them.

_{((As an aside: huge thank you to my own reviewers/mutuals/friends whom always make me feel so good about what I write and share; you’re all fantasic and I love~ being putty in your hands~))}

THANK YOU.

Honestly, I don’t know how people don’t understand this. Readers are getting a FREE product that takes HOURS to create and a LOT of bravery to share. They’re just entitled if they think it’s okay to complain about how fast they’re receiving it

You’re welcome!

And yes: it always pisses me off how little consideration people have for all the hard work we put into anything. People seem to think that we’re just sitting on our fat butts typing words into a text box and clicking post a few seconds later.

No one seems concerned with the ~~hours~~ DAYS we could be putting into this.

They don’t worry about or see how long we’re plotting our story lines, how we’re pushing ourselves into the brains of these characters we didn’t make but love so much and want so badly to do right by, how we’re always worried we’ll insult the original creator or the fanbase and how much courage it can take to press post. They never seem concerned with the struggles and labors we perform to get the right words for this situation or to formulate a sentence well enough to convey everything we want it to; they never seem worried with the number of drafts we use or all the plot bunnies we have to manage or the amount of EDITING we do.

AND ALL OF THIS FOR FREE.

They aren’t paying us or even seeing us as people that need to LIVE: they don’t see us as humans that need to EAT AND SLEEP; they don’t think we pay bills: they just see writing machines with ink cartridges they don’t need to fill.

_{((Again, as an aside: NOT EVERY READER IS LIKE THIS and I really do love and adore my own readers that like and reblog and leave little supportive comments like “so good” “yes” “♥” and “quality content!” because it’s so encouraging to see that; but there ARE rude people like whom OP and I are complaining about and I just wish they would grow up…))}

Glad to find a like-minded writer, I told all of this to my dad yesterday and he thought I was overreacting.

I find that people have this odd tendency to believe two things: fanworks are pure/untainted by big corporations because they run on fandom love not money; fanworks are fun little things people do for fun and are therefore effortless fun.

Somehow this gets wrapped up in the idea that the purity of fanworks must be preserved by fanworkers not getting money/paid for anything; and that this should be no problem because fanworkers are doing this all for fun anyway.

People don’t seem to understand how hard it can be for us to maintain this hobby because they’re experiencing it as an escape from their own reality.

Any taint to that reality (realizing how hard we work to provide it, for example) tarnishes the whole experience for them and they avoid that tarnish immensely even at the expense of the person/people providing it; it’s one of the reasons, that there’s still the stereotype of comic book artists living out of their mom’s basement while providing comic books for our enjoyment: these particular people don’t want to see their escapes as hard work or jobs because that’d RUIN their escape and it’s one of the saddest realities we have to deal with.

_{((Legit: if people would pay me for anything I did on Tumblr, I wouldn’t be the only one happy: THEY would also be happy because I’d actually have time to ENTERTAIN THEM; I wouldn’t have to have a “REAL” job because entertaining them WOULD be my “REAL” job; but these people we’re complaining about @writingmyselfintoanearlygrave just don’t see it that way.))}

surroundedbyperverts: writingtipsandtricks: disneysmermaids: cherribalm: site that you can type...

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 13:39:20 +0200

surroundedbyperverts:

writingtipsandtricks:

disneysmermaids:

cherribalm:

site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS

-Sherry

Reblog for writers.

REBLOG if you have amazing talented artist friends!

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 21:56:56 +0200

smogon:

speckeltail:tag yourself i’m chaotic au

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 22:33:36 +0200

speckeltail:

tag yourself i’m chaotic au

animentality: bisexual-evanhansen: osunism: tenaflyviper: rinlockhart: kingdomheartsddd: painist...

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 10:26:32 +0200

animentality:

bisexual-evanhansen:

osunism:

tenaflyviper:

rinlockhart:

kingdomheartsddd:

painisthecleanser:

sasukehateblog:

softurl:

adataraxia:

tinydickhaver:

elphabaoftheopera:

unicornfan:

akiraita:

undrjoyed:

analienorsutin:

gunpowderandspark:

turtle-powered:

gunpowderandspark:

thisisdefinitelyacreativename:

gunpowderandspark:

gayantivan:

gunpowderandspark:

We need to have a nomination for “Stupidest thing Tumblr.com has ever believed” and just move into an official Top 10 List.

For my nominations, I’m putting up:

If you eat a chocolate bar a very specific way, you will break physics and get infinite chocolate.
or

It is impossible that you spelled “Berenstain Bears” wrong and is, instead, more likely that the universe fractured into separate, overlapping realities in the last 20 years.
I can’t decide which is more beautiful. It’s why we need a vote.

this is a picture of the human brain at the moment of death. tragic and beautiful

Fuck. That is a damn good nomination.

if you close your eyes when the train hits your brain will assume you are dead. Some find this comforting.

We’re getting into the good ones now. This is some classic Tumblr.

Two old favourites:

“Bitch, That’s the Tubby Custard Machine” (http://imgur.com/gallery/IObQF)

and the horse dildo that was passed off as someone’s arm. (http://abakkus.tumblr.com/post/48958415162)

This is rapidly becoming a master post of ignorances and I could not possibly be happier.

Rare blue watermelon

That disease where you get purple eyes, no period, and no body hair

How have we gone this far without anyone mentioning the bird in the chocolate fountain

soap makes water molecules smaller

I nominate the “we are killing the earth” picture of the earth in comparison from 1978 to 2012

the dog with the slice of ham on its face that everyone thought was a gigantic burn scar

“Tequila is the only alcohol thats not a depressant so you can drink as much of it as you like”

that post with the picture of the joker without makeup and people thinking it was a real person and defending him

that photo of voldemort being passed off as an aborted fetus

The two way mirror

“listen here, cumslut.”

I can’t believe you guys forgot someone trying to pass off a picture of the inside of a fig as a microscopic view of the inside of a vagina.

I can’t believe I was on Tumblr for every single one of these posts.

“science has actually proved that shakespeare sounds definitively Better in The American Accent because that’s what it what written in”

My immortal author being found and trying to find her long lost native American brother

gallusrostromegalus: fangirlinginleatherboots: just so yall know art block is your brain telling...

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:43:28 +0200

gallusrostromegalus:

fangirlinginleatherboots:

just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time. Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you. So, when you get back to that big/important piece? You’ll know what to do and how to do it.

Nothing in nature blooms all year round. Rest, and take care of yourself.

gallusrostromegalus: fangirlinginleatherboots: just so yall know art block is your brain telling...

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:43:27 +0200

gallusrostromegalus:

fangirlinginleatherboots:

just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time. Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you. So, when you get back to that big/important piece? You’ll know what to do and how to do it.

Nothing in nature blooms all year round. Rest, and take care of yourself.

synthetic-sleuth: [Character has little to no concrete backstory] Fanfic writers:

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:42:39 +0200

synthetic-sleuth:

[Character has little to no concrete backstory]

Fanfic writers:

commodorecliche: me: this fic will be less than 5k words. a quick one shot. hell, might even be...

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 16:38:37 +0200

commodorecliche:

me: this fic will be less than 5k words. a quick one shot. hell, might even be less than 2k.

me, 12,547 words later, with 17 more scenes left to write:

destinationtoast: TOASTYSTATS: Gender representation in movies...

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:24:48 +0200

destinationtoast:

TOASTYSTATS: Gender representation in movies vs. movie fanworks (part 7/7)

My mega analysis is now complete! Chapter 7 contains a TL;DR summary of what we do and don’t know now, as well as some final thoughts on fandom questions & discourse about bias. Excerpts are shown above.

(The chapter also contains elaboration and notes on a number of the above slides, so if you have questions, they might be answered there.)

Read it on AO3

Huge thanks to the many people who inspired this work and/or gave feedback or encouragement! ( @fffinnagain @dendritic-trees @saathi1013 @annathecrow and any others I might be forgetting – thank you!! I also had some fantastic non-Tumblr betas who are thanked in the slides.)

I also want to thank all the people who’ve left really thoughtful and kind feedback or follow up questions on the chapters so far. The response has been lovely. And I hope some folks end up feeling inspired to gather their own data on follow up or related questions (and to share the results with the #fandom stats tag)!

[more fandom stats]

bxrlyle: emeraldincandescent: emeraldincandescent: Sometimes writing is like having an enormous...

Tue, 29 May 2018 16:07:39 +0200

bxrlyle:

emeraldincandescent:

emeraldincandescent:

Sometimes writing is like having an enormous lake in your head, and you want to get it out of your head and into a proper place for a lake so other people can come and go swimming and ride jet skis and stuff, except all you have to move the lake is a teaspoon. So you’re just sitting there frantically flinging water out of the lake with your teaspoon and telling people, “Guys, this lake is going to be so cool when it’s done,” but it will never be done. There is so much lake.

I didn’t really expect this to be relatable, but if you wanna reblog, go wild.

this is exactly how it feels

thank you for the revelation

storybookhawke: Dog is the ultimate protector, especially when...

Sun, 27 May 2018 22:55:22 +0200

storybookhawke:

Dog is the ultimate protector, especially when you have the Tougher Dog Mods!

eardun: When the author says they were going for oneshot, but then there’s the chapter index

Thu, 24 May 2018 22:19:34 +0200

eardun:

When the author says they were going for oneshot, but then there’s the chapter index

Concept: A story where the main character is revealed to have the power of divination, only they are...

Thu, 17 May 2018 19:18:27 +0200

Concept: A story where the main character is revealed to have the power of divination, only they are also a Very Stressed Individual who spend most of their energy trying not to break down into a paralyzed, anxious mess.

The rest of the story is mainly them trying to figure out if the Horrible Outcome that is very vivid in their mind is the result of a prophecy or just their nonsense brain being at it again.

kompanie-mutter: this is what it’s like getting anon asks on...

Sun, 13 May 2018 20:23:59 +0200

kompanie-mutter:

this is what it’s like getting anon asks on this site sometimes

agent-nemesis: ladypolaris: havi-cat: bemusedlybespectacled: rmh8402: kittensmctavish: daryldix...

Sun, 13 May 2018 11:44:44 +0200

agent-nemesis:

ladypolaris:

havi-cat:

bemusedlybespectacled:

rmh8402:

kittensmctavish:

daryldixongrimes:

Why do people stop commenting on fics if they’re more than a week or two old? Please comment on old fics. Tell me you like my one shot from 2014. Tell me you like my old multi-chap I finished in 2016 that I spent a year writing. I will be fucking thrilled.

I occasionally still get comment spam on every single chapter of a longfic I finished like a year ago

it makes me the happiest of clams

It’s never too late to comment!!

I wrote a fic in January 2014 and didn’t get any comments on it until July 2017. Three and a half years later. But the comment I got was amazing, because it meant that someone cared.

ALL OF THIS. SO THRILLED. on absolutely every fic period but especially on my unpopular fics maaaaaan I can’t even tell you it turns my whole day around better than a hot chocolate <3

Saaaaaaaaaame

I’ve had people apologize for commenting on old fics D-:

Would you ever write a soulmate AU?

Fri, 11 May 2018 18:44:15 +0200

Which kind? The one with the “First words spoken to you written on your hand” deal, except one of them doesn’t realize that they didn’t hear their soulmates first words, so despite being in a blissful relationship they assume that it won’t last? Or the one where you see color when you look in your soulmates eyes, only they meet quickly in a bustling crowd and then spend the whole fic trying to find each other? Or an AU where soulmate names are considered taboo, degenerate, and TMI, and everyone has to cover it and “overcome it”. Except that while person A is a fervent believer in those social norms, person B isn’t, and flaunts the name on their wrist, and person A can’t help but engage with this scandalous, infuriating person who for some reason has their name on their wrist, but that doesn’t mean anything right?????

I haven’t given it much thought, anon.

gondalsqueen: pingou7: futurelounging: caitbalfes: thelally...

Thu, 10 May 2018 22:18:02 +0200

gondalsqueen:

pingou7:

futurelounging:

caitbalfes:

thelallybrochlibrary:

Six Ways to Support Fan Fiction Authors – The Lallybroch Library

I would add that reblogging fics (if you read them on tumblr) is a great way to support fic writers. Oftentimes you’ll see that fics have far more likes than reblogs, and likes are great, but reblogs help spread someone’s work so more people can read it. If a work has 100 likes and 10 reblogs, that means only a tenth of the people that enjoyed the story thought it was worth sharing.

I second that. If you’re a new writer reblogs are the only way for anyone to see your work. Always reblog if you’re especially impressed by a work.

This is primordial no matter the fandom people!

Support your writers and artists if you enjoy their content.

Ditto. Visual art still gets a ton of reblogs, but nobody is reblogging fic anymore. Please do! Because some of my work is explicit, I often don’t tag the characters in it. (I don’t want some ten-year-old happily looking up Kanan Jarrus and then wondering what the heck this is.) If people don’t reblog my stories, I don’t pick up new readers.

Thanks.

One thing I will be grateful to the Tumblr Purity Police ™ is that I wouldn’t be aware of half...

Thu, 03 May 2018 12:24:55 +0200

One thing I will be grateful to the Tumblr Purity Police ™ is that I wouldn’t be aware of half the fandoms I am currently into without their constant attacks on said fandom.

c-rowlesdraws: every time…

Wed, 02 May 2018 21:21:03 +0200

c-rowlesdraws:

every time…