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fellshish

i feel bad for people who don’t read fan fiction. imagine only having canon

#ao3 #reading is fundamental after all

antipossessionsymbol

#supernatural #castiel #misha collins #confused

acklesjensen

Make me choose ↳ anonymous asked Castiel’s eyes or Dean’s eyes

#dean winchester #supernatural

snackles-maniacals

I want someone to learn this info via this meme

#spread the word people #destiel #spn #misha collins #supernatural #castiel

kidlightnings

there's a certain tone of "engage with authors" post that always hits me wrong, the "if you don't comment, people will stop writing" and while I will concede that for some people that's true, that's a really punitive mindset. comment, or else it's your fault that writing stopped. which just isn't going to happen, by and large. it's empty. there's some people who will stop writing due to not ever receiving a comment. there's also people who will stop writing despite receiving hundreds of comments. there's some people who will stop writing due to receiving ninety-nine comments instead of a hundred comments. there's fiends like me whose most recent, idk, 150k or so of writing has been fueled by a feverish need to create and some spitballing with friends, and receiving comments at all was a (pleasant!) shock

and whether lack of comments does or doesn't stop someone from writing, threats are a really piss on the poor motivator. it stresses the people who were already inclined to comment. it does little to nothing to the ones who already weren't going to

and honestly I'd rather see it framed as cultivating visible gratefulness and community. we are out here talking about "what happened to hello" and "where are the third spaces" and part of that is just fostering more free communication when possible. overcoming your shyness. saying something simple like, "enjoyed this, thanks for posting!" after you've finished reading. it's a net positive to do it when you're able. do you directly get anything? maybe yes, maybe no, but you're putting energy into the environment you want to be a part of. that's worth doing

#writing #fanfic

stonelions

jody mills certified mom-friend does not deserve to be put in the position of playing surrogate mother to two middle-aged men tbh SHE IS LITERALLY ONLY 3 YEARS OLDER THAN DEAN LMAO like if anything, dean and sam are her deeply uncool disaster-prone younger brothers and she's the one they call in the middle of the night if they get in trouble and she SIGHS and rolls her eyes but picks them up in her pajamas and takes them for drivethru and spends the whole time telling them how much they suck and owe her <3

#spn #jody mills #yes

thisliminalspacedaydreams

Fanfic is a free hobby.

It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.

Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.

You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.

You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.

Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?

Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?

I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.

Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.

Please don't ruin this for us.

Some of us need it.

#ao3 #ao3 writer #fandom #fanfiction

Alright, here’s my attempt at reuniting Castiel and Dean in Heaven—so that, after more than four years, I might finally begin to process this trauma and make peace with the sacrifice, longing, and unspoken words that never received the on-screen closure they deserved.