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@kennykiller64
FINALLY COOKED SOME MORE FOOD FOR YALL!
I’ve been wanting to do this animation but with other characters for a couple months now
They're stimming
MARKLEE AU WITH OFC ADOPTED CLEM
oh gosh ive had this false art in my drafts forever, it a secret santa gift for @/terracottakore, some friends reminded me i never posted it
i love rebecca but she had no business beefing wit an 11 year old THAT hard
Your favorite fic author is probably over 30.
(Yes, this is a response to a post going around how maybe it’s okay if adults are in fandom as long as they understand that fandom is for ickle kiddie-boos and walk on eggshells. Um, no. Back in my day, we kicked y’all off our yahoogroups so we could post adult material, and rigorously didn’t post adult material if the list allowed you.)
So, back in the day, several of the authors of an LJ community that posted NSFW fic met up and had a group photo, which they posted. Apparently, some of the 18 year olds said, “Ewwwwwww! They’re all, like, oooooollllld!”
There’s actually a good reason for that.
Writing is part being good with words and part being good at turning your life experiences into something that other people want to read. Remember my previous rant about how you can’t assume a mystery writer is a homicidal maniac, and you can’t assume that a reader who likes a character has the same personal flaws as that character? There’s a reason people assume these things about authors.
See, if you’ve never fallen in love, you might think romance is when the other person brings you a dozen roses and a box of chocolates. And that’s fine! That’s romantic, too! But if you have fallen in love, you might remember the time that you woke up and went to go to class and found a bunch of wildflowers and a plastic ring from a bubblegum machine tucked under your windshield wiper. And you might remember the half touched, half about to burst out laughing expression on your sweetie’s face when you showed up to class wearing that tacky plastic ring. You might think that love is thinking the other person is the best-looking person in the world, or that love is wanting to spend your life with someone else. That’s love, too! Well, at least the second one is (the first is probably just infatuation). But if you’ve been in love before you’ll know that love is also hurting all over because your sweetie’s abusive parent died and they’re unexpectedly destroyed over it. The latter is worth a million flowery declarations.
Now, I’m not saying that no one under 30 can write. Some young people have had very full lives. And some young people have a natural talent for extrapolating from their own feelings. Virgins can write convincingly about sex, even. But the more life experience you have, the easier it is to extrapolate, and the easier it is to come up with the specific details that make things feel real and true.
If you want to become a better writer, the best things you can do are write a lot, share what you write, and live a full life. And remember, before you say adults should be banished from fandom: your favorite author is probably over 30.
When I started writing fanfics I was 23 years old and I knew several writers who were in their 30s and 40s. I learned a lot from them because they had more experiences than I did. Now I’m in my mid-30s and my writing has changed and the subject matters I write for has changed and do include things I have experienced personally (those of you who know my Prompto stretch marks fics…these are based on things I dealt with after the age of 27). The funniest thing is when someone tried to lecture me on how to write children and that I wasn’t portraying their developments appropriately (based on their understanding of the older develops faster albeit all the subjects in question are born the same year and in my verse just mere months between the oldest and youngest) but mind you I have children of my own and a sibling much younger than me and I’ve taken child development classes so perhaps I do know what I’m talking about. These are things an older writer can bring to the table.
Some of the best fics I’ve ever read were written by older fans.
I got a private message on FF.Net once about how I wrote so well, and I’m pretty sure my response was basically “I write so well because I’ve been at this for over a decade.”
It’s not just life experience (but it does help), it’s also the fact writing, like any art form, takes time being put into it.
Like the late great Bob Ross said:
I’d say I’ve been around the block… but honey, I was here before the block was built.
THIS THIS THIS
I will purposefully look for older writers because I know the fic will be good and full of nuance. Nothing against teenage writers (I was once one myself), but the attention to prose, diction, and structure really comes out when you can tell the author has experience. Yes, fandom allows young writers to test the waters and experiment with their writing in a place without the usual rules, but fans who have decades under their belt COMMAND the waters.
just a note to fans who feel old: i love you and appreciate you so much you add so much to fandoms pls continue to.
I was very inspired by the drawings of Confucius and Topher as children by @siap-oses !! love ur art sooooo much,,,,,,,
i’m so shock hearing that nonsense come out of him🫢, he needs wash his mouth out with soap🧼
Topher wearing a cool jacket he made with his new friend group
BONUS COMIC + (mostly) unshaded version vvv
i don’t think this is gonna work between us. we need to get a stepladder.
tophabe art dump
Can y’all guess my favorite OTP??? Lol all jokes aside I just felt like showing off my little collection of pinkie and cheese in canon material ^_^
I'm too lazy 2 color
might post things outside of black christmas cz like... I have other interests 🗣‼️‼️
anyway roach and ghost sloppily drawn whoppeee
IT LOOKS SO BAD BWAHHAHA