J. R. Milward

Writer, VO actor, OU BSc (Hons), AMRSB @RoyalSocBio, social justice, #EDS Zebra, #TombRaider #AoD #PotBA novelist, she/her

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[luna-azzurra]

Your first draft being bad is not a scandal. That’s the job. Expecting a perfect first draft is like expecting a newborn baby to do taxes.

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[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[letseyx]

Revolutionary Rom

[oldcoyote]

if you ever doubt that your ao3 comments matter or mean something: i have been struggling with my writing for 6 months straight, crying myself to sleep afraid that i will never be able to write again, that the thing i love most in the world has left me, that my writing is just gone

this morning i got this comment:

and after i stopped blubbering over it, i picked up my writing notebook, and re-read all my fic research, and opened up my document again for the first time in weeks without being afraid of it

you have no idea how much writers treasure every single comment we get. you have no idea how big an impact you can have. sometimes, just sometimes, your one "insignificant" comment changes everything

[wdarlingyap]

So. Real talk.

I have spent a significant portion of my life sick in bed. This means I have read... a lot of fanfiction. I do not want to run the numbers (for my own sanity) but there is a nonzero chance that I have read a greater volume of fanfiction than most of you will in a lifetime (yes, even in a tumblr crowd, where I have some real competition 😆).

For a number of years I was really embarrassed by this because for most of my life, I've fit best with the 'socially elitist nerd' set. You know - the ones who don't care if you make a little less eye contact, as long as your performance of intelligence can make them feel intelligent too. I "passed" there. So more than a decade of constant fluff and rom-com "junk" really felt like something I should be ashamed of.

But I've realized recently what fanfiction (or any free web fiction) really is. It's the author's hopes. It's the author's fears. It's all the things you wouldn't write to publish because they feel too sad, or sinful, or sacred.

Without really thinking about it, I've been drinking from the well of human desire - from fear, and love, and lust. I've been reading your precious wishes for family, or protection, or connection. I've been learning how you dream life could be.

Thank you to every writer whose work I have read or will read someday. Thank you for sharing the most precious parts of your heart, even when you didn't realize what you were doing. To every writer out there - every middle schooler with dreams, every suburban mom wishing her life could be something more. You reached out into the oblivion with the piece of yourself you probably don't even share with those closest. And somewhere in this world, a person noticed. Your dreams and hopes and wishes became a piece of me too.

I am so lucky to be the person who heard you.

[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.

[burntundertones]

[quakerjoe]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some people will be like “I wonder why fanfic writers don’t share their works anymore😔” and then this is them when a writer is kind enough to share something they write — as a hobby, for their own enjoyment — with them for free.

some people really don’t realize how privileged they are that they get fanfics for free. imagine having access to something for free because someone is kind enough to share it with you… and then being rude, entitled and an ungrateful pos to that person who was kind enough to share their creation with you for free

“almost 1 year is a lil too much for me” fuck off. fanfic writers don’t owe you anything. one of my favorite fics was updated after 13 years, and what I did is that I thanked the author for choosing to continue the work, I didn’t act like a spoiled toddler by asking why they didn’t update sooner. and even if a writer chooses to abandon their fic permanently with no explanation, that is their choice, their hobby, their decision. they don’t owe your entitled ass anything.

you people let tiktok rot your brains to the point you see everything as content farm and engagement. not a piece of art created by the artist’s love and passion. it’s dystopian.

[isabellebissonrouthier]

When I see people still into harry potter I hold it at arm's length cos theres a difference between enjoying something that's kinda problematic (we all do) and enjoying something that is actively contributing to the uk being terf island rn

When harry potter stays relevant, jkr stays relevant, and she stays in power. I check out her twitter sometimes and she is VERY TALKATIVE about her transphobia and the transphobic organisations she funds with the money and support she gets from people still liking harry potter

This isnt harmless. This isnt enjoying something with offensive jokes. This is putting money into the pockets of transphobic politicians

[jrmilward]

The only time I personally find it acceptable to engage with media from problematic sources is when those sources can no longer benefit materially from my engagement, i.e. when they're dead.

[squidwardsqueercousin]

ATTENTION ALL SHE RA FANS AND PEOPLE WHO WANT TO WATCH BUT HAVENT YET

I have found a completely legal digital library, and I have the link to each season of She-Ra bookmarked.

Here they are for anyone who wants to bookmark them for themselves :]

Season 1: https://archive.org/details/she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-s1?

Season 2: https://archive.org/details/she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-s2

Season 3: https://archive.org/details/she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-s3

Season 4: https://archive.org/details/she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-s4

Season 5: https://archive.org/details/she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-s5?

[eliszelis]

Continuing with the realistic style I adopted as of late, with a recommendation from a friend to try it with Kurtis this time ✨️

[knivesandteeth]

Anyone else think the reason ds9 deeply resonates with Queer people is because, at its Heart, its about a third space created but a group of patriotic people fundamentally alienated from their own people. Like obviously garak and quark but consider how were told in the first episode that Kira has been sent there to get her "out of the way" of the civilian government, how the things shes needed to do to both survive and secure their freedom seem deeply uncomfortable to all the civilian leaders. Dax considering both Joran and her eagerness towards reassociation make her basically a non entity on Trill. Bashir takes a while but the augment reveal puts him firmly in this Category. Obriens difficulty with his ptsd and moving passed personal préjudices puts him at odds with a lot of federation ideals. Siskos deep trauma around the loss of his wife and inability to move pass this, makes him very inconvenient to a federation desperate to pass itself off as a Utopia. He then becomes more and more unacceptable as he leans further into his role as in emissary, with the federation seemingly very uncomfortable with this religious expression. Jesus, Worf begins his tenure by getting himself exiled from klingon space.

Like idk, I dont think its all that shocking a Bunch of Queer people most liked the show about having a complicated relationship with your culture and never being allowed to go home.