Quoth the Raven

This is just another boring personal blog. Expect lots of reblogs of whatever I see and like.

[mythology-void]

girl you are killing it! girl i think it's dead! girl you can stop STABBING

[anxietyproblem]

[xmas-wonderland]

[dark-elf-writes]

Finally I’ve reached the moment that makes the entire Choice arc worth it

✨F I S H✨

[womanguy]

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.

[your-local-asexual-loser]

You should also get an extra weekend each week to write fanfic/consume media for writing fanfic

[fattributes]

[heyitsspaceace]

watching doctor who is just “wow, the doctor is a deeply flawed individual but their desire to help people is so strong that they’ll go against their own rules and destroy themselves in the process aaaaaaaaand now they’re licking parts of the spaceship okay then”

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Personally, I would like the "for all transformative fanworks" archive to give a shit about fanartists, but they blatantly never have and probably never will. They talk about "preserving fandom culture" and "a mission of maximum inclusiveness of fanwork content", but the OTW just does not care about preserving fanart culture. At all. Because it's a fanfic archive. Which would be fine, if they were honest about it! It kinda chafes to hear people like you say things like "I don't want AO3 to ever change", ngl, when they could be more transparent, for starters. Or they could care about fanart and fanvids and other media types. Imagine if you had to have your own domain and host fanfic there, and ao3 would let you link it (and if the link rots, oh well?)-- would you be satisfied with an all-inclusive archive like that?

my brother in Christ, I have no idea what you’re talking about but ok. maybe take a walk and calm down?

for “starters” ao3 legally cannot host fanvids that are posted directly on their site, because of copyright issues. so users have to post their fanvids elsewhere and link them to ao3 instead. the site has always been open about this.

as for fanart, I’ve never heard anybody have a problem with how the site operates before.

but ao3 is for fanfiction first and foremost. they just allow fanvids and fanart, but the site is mainly for fanfics and it has always been open about this.

I mean… for a nonprofit site about fanfiction, it sure got you acting like it murdered your entire bloodline.

​also for the record, I will post whatever I want on my blog. if it upsets you and if you’re being a bitch to me like I personally attacked you, then I will match your energy.

[lavenderstarfield]

@wispflora do you go to the library and throw a tantrum there because there are only books and no visual art in library?

[pagewoman]

Cotswolds, England by Andrew Lockie

[f-a-l-l-inginlove]

(via TumbleOn)

[readerwriterculture]

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”

—

Stephen King On Writing (via jamiecanaves)

Hey yeah writers! If you buy one of the books on our “5 Books on Writing“ list and upload a quote from one with #yeahwritebooks, I’ll reblog it!

(via yeahwriters)

[dathen]

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~

[lightofthedeep]

Going back to my roots with a redraw of this !! 

[radioactive-earthshine]

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

[mysteryteacup]

Fandom is not social media.

Fandom is not trends.

Fandom is a cross between a library and having a slumber party with your friends.

"Old" means nothing to fic.

[what-the-fuck-khr]

Dino Cavallone + artwork

[readerwriterculture]

“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”

— Cyril Connolly (via maxkirin)

[shencomix]

[witchoncampus]

I DON’T KNOW WHY BUT I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING

[killjo-q]

Lust