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we're not kids anymore.
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"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me
i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive
Something i wish someone would have told me as a kid:
Draw without worrying about what the final product looks like. Write short stories about anything you think of. Sketch whenever you can. Grab your old paints and canvas and put color to it. Turn on your favorite song and sing. You dont even have to finish your pieces, just go until youre done. If you want, watch tutorials and draw that way. Just create. If you dont have the tools, draw in the sand with your fingers. Put leaves in patterns, stack your food in a fun way. Make things, even if you hate the final product. Because society has made making art seem like a sin unless you immediately make something beautiful. Art shouldn't be about that. Its about expression, and fun. And you'll find eventually that those pieces you hated helped you get to the point you create something you love.
Dont ever stop making art.
I canât wait for the fic that Iâm going to write after this fic Iâm not writing because I still have to finish another fic (which I canât seem to focus on).
Yeah sorry Iâll never be normal about characters who only see themselves as having value in what they can do for others. Yeah itâs terminal. Sorry.
No body seems to be talking about this panel Az and iruma gone to Clara's toy box together before this
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Tiny Azz and. Tiny iruma playing together with Clara
Chapter 308. We don't get to see them playing on page since it's mostly focused on helping Iruma and Azz process the deviculum but we do get this page when they first go into the toybox
And this is also the chapter where they establish that they're keeping secrets from each other and promise to come clean eventually
That on me my mistake I think I forgot about this chapter
Thank you so much for showing me this
âEmotional abuse works like this: You are screamed at, and then, not knowing any better, you stand up for yourself. You think this is a way of being strong. You think this is a defense tactic.But this only provokes more screaming. Going silent provokes more screaming too, but usually it keeps the threats to the minimum. It keeps it just at screaming and not: a shove down the stairs, or order to pack your stuff and get out. So you learn how to go silent. How to play dead. How to cry without making a noise. How to swallow noise. How to wipe your cheeks, get out of the car, and go about your day. You learn. And when the screaming has stopped, when the two of you are in the car or out to dinner and theyâre all smiles, all asking for favors, all questions, you are still hurt and annoyed and want to ask them, how? How can you speak to me like that? How can you pretend you did not say those things? How can you have forgotten? But youâve learned. So you listen to, âCan I borrow your keyâs and âhow was your dayâs and you play dead. You swallow the noise. And sometimes it doesnât matter who is speaking to you, it doesnât matter if theyâre a friend, it doesnât matter if their criticism is constructive, it doesnât matter. Youâve learned. Any sort of speaking, any raising of the voice, any insult and you play dead.â
â Good Girl, Lora Mathis (via lora-mathis)
do kids these days know about glomping?
What is that?
heheâŚ. *glomps you* OwO
:3
What the fuck?
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.
A few of these are probably referring to the date posting bug thing, but AAAAAAAAAAAH!
I beg of all the younger folks on Ao3 to understand two things:
There is no algorithm on that site.
Unlearn the attention-hungry bullshit that social media has taught you.
People arenât stupid, they just donât know what they donât know. I canât imagine trying to put all this together as a high-schooler or younger now.
When I was in high school, not even that long ago, between 5 and 10 years ago, nobody explained this to me - that AO3 was an archive which meant its first and sole purpose was to record and store fic, and it was run by the OTW, who protect fan works. Nobody told me that, I just absorbed it over time, learned it passively. But that was before the concept of an all-powerful algorithm even entered my vocabulary. My social media presence was Tumblr, which had no algorithm at the time, and nothing else. I correctly assumed AO3 didnât have one because i didnât know what it was.
But now, every platform, even Tumblr, has an algorithm. The biggest and most popular and most successful have powerful algorithms that any artist/writer/essayiest/creater does have to manipulate or play along with to get any intentional traction. So god forbid, these kids, who have never experienced another social or media-sharing platform outside of Instagram or YouTube (or even tumblr), pick up the most popular fic sharing website - passively, through exposure, like the rest of us - and assume it works like the rest of their world works. How dare they.
You arrogant assholes.
So to those of you who are new and donât know, AO3 isnât actually a social media site in the sense that it is designed to share and popularize media. It doesnât want to collect data or sell you anything. The way users/readers find fic is by searching for it manually - typically tags or fandoms or ships or characters they want to read about. AO3 is an archive, in the academic, library sciences sense. Its only job is to collect and safely store fic and other fan works, and to do so in a way where they are easily accessible via a robust tagging system.
This is - was - necessary because, way back in the day, fan works were stored on individual archives or LiveJournal collections or less scrupulous sites that could come and go on a whim. AO3 was created so these works could be collected and saved in a place that couldnât be arbitrarily or mass purged, and by an organization dedicated to protecting fansâ rights to create and share such content (thatâs the OTW).
If you want your fic to get attention - and thereâs no shame in that, we donât share things to be ignored publicly - thereâs 2 things you should know. Any attention generated natively on AO3 is reader-driven and uncontrollable (outside of tagging accurately, anyway; AO3 has advice on that here) - essentially accidental. If you want to intentionally generate content interaction like one does on a social media platform, you must do so on a social media platform. Post excerpts, intros, teasers, and/or links to your fic/works on something like Tumblr or Twitter (or wherever your fandom is based), and use the algorithm and tagging systems there to lead people to your work (still hosted on AO3).
Second, you cannot - CANNOT - ask for, link to, or reference making fic in exchange for donations or money on AO3. It is literally against AO3âs terms of service. This is because, before our current era of fandom renaissance, creators could be and were sued by authors and studios for the simple act of writing fanfiction. One of the ways OTW protects us is by making the Archive non-commercial. Users (both creators and readers) cannot advertise, ask for, or fundraise money actively on AO3. You can link to smth like a linktree where you have links to a Kofi or personal store, but those links cannot be directly on or in AO3. Thems the rules. Theyâre not so bad.
Happy writing!
If you're reading this...
go write three sentences on your current writing project.
Love love love characters that present themselves as emotionally open social butterflies but the more you see of them the more obvious it is that theyâre the most closed off fuckers in the story. Sure, they want to help you with your personal problems and messy emotions, but if you turn that shit back on them, theyâll shut down or deflect every time. Why are you sticking your nose in their business anyway? Itâs not like it matters. Theyâre not a person, theyâre just a role being played. Theyâre the guy who fixes things and saves people. Please ignore the man behind the mask, heâs fine. Everythingâs fine.
please please please please reblog if youâre a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if Iâm the only one whoâs struggling with these thoughts
Good news! At various points in your development, it is!
As you write, you level up in little ways. It's not like D&D where you get a level all at once. Oh, no. You get tiny improvements to your skill tree, and there will be points where your build is entirely unbalanced. As you adjust to these changes, you will naturally regress in some areas. This is just your mind and overall skill level getting ready for the final leveling, where you're briefly fully balanced again!
TL;DR: Regression is a natural part of improvement, and while it's frustrating as hell, if you keep going, you can write through it.
Also this.
i wouldâve left the entire world behind for you
I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip nâ slide to dissapointment again.
You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I donât like this. This is bad.
Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.
It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!
(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)
this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.
Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)
Official ominous sign(s)
ID. text that says, "me when i have to write the fanfiction i wanna read," surrounded by a variety of those reaction images of simple drawings of stick figures committing acts of violence. End ID.
on usefulness. on becoming both the blade and the lamb
tumblr user @/divorcefemme // AnaĂŻs Nin // tumblr user @/willowcrowned // Mitski, âI Donât Smokeâ // Lilith Kerr, "bite back" (from unloving the knife)
ID. text that says, "me when i have to write the fanfiction i wanna read," surrounded by a variety of those reaction images of simple drawings of stick figures committing acts of violence. End ID.
