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This blog is permanently inactive and only still online to keep my fics available. Please read the pinned post and disclaimer. 

[thediktatortot]

Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

[the-pen-pot]

Hey everyone. There's another app on the Google playstore. Pretty sure it's not official and it's making money from in-app ads.

I think the AO3's latest post about apps is here:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[7-percent]

I don’t access Ao3 on my phone, but for those of you who do. wise words of warning.

[multi-fandomoneshots]

I no longer trust that Tumblr is a safe place to post fanfiction, so I am certain now that I will not be posting any more fanfiction to this blog.

I also want to include an official disclaimer for my fics.

The works I have based my fanfiction on are not my property, and I have listed the owners of their intellectual property rights on my masterlist. The character of the reader in each fic is my own invention, and my reader characters may not be used for profit without written permission and acknowledgement of copyright. My works have not been created for profit or financial compensation, and are transformative fair use works under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act.

[impossibletruths]

“Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of by the folk.”

— Henry Jenkins (Director of media studies at MIT)

LOVE THIS.

(via flootzavut)

[tanoraqui]

#tell me more about the reparative potential of the sharing economy #then let me KISS UR FACE

[thefourteenthdoctor]

If you ever read any scholar about media, you want to read Henry Jenkins. 

“Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn’t fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn’t frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.”

[miracul0us-multishipper]

Well damn. He’s… right.

[kimmycup]

This last paragraph - that’s why we actually create more fanfiction for the imperfect fandoms and feel less urge to write for the truly FANTASTIC material. Because it’s already good.

Deep down, the need to create fanfiction, comes out of the urge to FIX.

[multi-fandomoneshots]

what are the rules for requesting?

Sorry, but I’d go somewhere else. It’s been a long time since I wrote anything for this blog.

[multi-fandomoneshots]

Hey Love, I hope life is treating you well 💕

Thanks, darling. I really appreciate this message. I’m okay. I miss writing for this blog but I don’t know if I have the energy for it any more, especially not while I’m working on my masters. I have an original project on the go, though!

I hope your weekend’s been lovely xxx

[multi-fandomoneshots]

the master list in your bio doesn't work, do you happen to have one that does? :)

If you search ‘masterlist’, it should pop up.

[multi-fandomoneshots]

Is 'Way of the World' finished??

Honestly, I’ve pretty much given up on this blog altogether. Sorry.

[numberonefrancisforeststan]

“i really liked your post!”

Thanks How About You Reblog It :)

[numberonefrancisforeststan]

just in case you’re wondering what i’m talking about:

13%, 21%, a whooping 30%, 15%, 21% again. and those are the stories that do well.

it’s almost like tumblr has a reblog button you could USE

LIKE IT? REBLOG IT!

it’s not fucking difficult.

[numberonefrancisforeststan]

also i love how i gotta make these posts practically every time after i publish something.

look, i don’t give a fuck about money. i’m writing fic for fun. if you wanna throw a billion dollars at me, sure, you do you.

but literally all i want, all we all want, is for our stuff to be acknowledged. spread. REBLOGGED. 

because obviously you read it and liked it, right?

so now all you have to do is hit that little button. it looks a little like this

and then that’s that. 

or, on ao3, you write “i really liked this! thank you for sharing!”. and that’s that.

it takes absolutely ZERO EFFORT, and it makes you happy (because you liked what you just read) and it makes us happy (because our work can get potentially more readers), and everyone is happy.

and instead, there’s likes all around. 

and likes are a little like seeing someone having their arms full with things and they drop their keys and you walk past and say “hey dude, i hope that works out for you!”

writers spend hours, even days and weeks or months on fics, pouring ourselves into it, forgoing sleep and food sometimes just to finish something because we hope you’ll like it.

and we get a litte ❤️ for our troubles and that’s it.

and especially when you get statistics like above - 42 likes and 9 reblogs - it feels like a kick to the face. 

if every writer only wrote for themselves (”as you’re supposed to do uwu”), there wouldn’t be a single fic out there, because we’d keep all the fics. but we write for our audience too, hoping we’ll hear back, hoping people will spread our fics, “hey, look at this cool thing i read!”.

and that doesn’t happen.

so you start thinking “hey, maybe i shouldn’t publish this. it’s bad anyways, right? and it doesn’t make a difference if i do. it’s not like anyone cares.”

how many thousands and thousands of words for your favorite ship do you think are out there, saved on hard drives by authors who’ve given up wishing to publish their things, because “nobody cares.”

reblogging and commenting seems to be at an all time low at the moment. and you know what happens when you, the supplier, feel like there’s no demand out there? 

you stop supplying.

because nobody cares enough to want to share it.

“thoughts and prayers with your fic! it was so good!” that’s what the like button means, to make an extreme comparison here.

and honestly, i don’t understand why.

reblog. your. writers. it’s all we ask for.

[ashaftermidnight-deactivated201]

No writers or artists are trying to sound “whiny” by asking for this. It’s literally how our work gets any recognition since we’re not doing it for money. If you’d like to make a writer’s day or an artist’s day, please consider reblogging works that you love. I promise you will put a smile on their face. <3 <3 <3

[multi-fandomoneshots]

By the way, your recent post makes so much sense! Don’t feel like you need to ignore your own life for ours <3 Love your fics and I would like to possibly request a fic? Doesn’t matter how long it takes but uhm maybe a newt x reader sick fic? ❤️❤️

Thank you so much. Your support really means the world to me.Thank you to everyone else who commented on that post, too. I've had a busy couple of days at uni but it's a little less hectic now, so I'll be back soon!

[multi-fandomoneshots]

Explanation, apology and future

I owe you all an explanation for why this blog has been so quiet for so long. I do get quite negative in this, and it is long, so I’m putting it below a cut.

At the end of this post, I’m going to talk about the future of this blog, so if that’s all you’re here for, just go straight to the end.

Keep reading

[multi-fandomoneshots]

Explanation, apology and future

I owe you all an explanation for why this blog has been so quiet for so long. I do get quite negative in this, and it is long, so I’m putting it below a cut.

At the end of this post, I’m going to talk about the future of this blog, so if that’s all you’re here for, just go straight to the end.

Okay. About 15 months ago, I got out of the habit of writing for this blog, and so it went fairly inactive. At the time, I thought it was just because I was going through big personal changes. I moved to uni, so I had to get used to a whole new routine and had very different work to fit writing around. Then I never managed to find time to get back to writing.

Now, I study creative writing as part of my uni course. One of the things I love about that is that I am getting regular feedback on my original work. I know that people enjoy it, and how I can improve it. And wanting to work on that is why I now have an unfinished original work of (I think) about 75,000 words. So actually, the problem isn’t that I don’t want to write any more.

I was looking through some of my old pieces a few days ago, and I was really pleasantly surprised. I have fics with (currently) 806 notes, 734 notes, 915 notes, 783 notes, 698 notes.

Then I checked where those notes have come from. Of those five fics, one has 77 reblogs. The rest all have less than 60. And from those reblogs, almost none have comments. For fics with less notes, you can imagine that there are also less reblogs. I have had no feedback at all on most of my fics, either through reblogs or asks or messages.

Even short fics usually take me at least an hour and a half to write. Longer fics can take me three or four. Then I have to format it, tag it and add it to the masterlist. Posting it can take twenty minutes. Not to mention that I have to answer asks, keep a list of requests, and run my own life on top of it all.

I have written 169 pieces for this blog. That’s a lot of time and a lot of effort for just a handful of nice comments and asks. I think that’s why I eventually ran out of motivation. It’s exhausting to put so much work into something and get no response, especially now I have other projects to work on and I’m getting feedback on them. 

I’m not saying I expect people to reblog every fic, or send me asks after everything I publish. You all have your own lives to live, too. But if you do reblog, please leave a comment. If you really love something about a fic, send me an ask and tell me about it.

With all that in mind, I am going to start posting again if I can. But it’s not going to be like before. I don’t have time to publish a fic every other day any more, so I’m going to aim for about two a week. I am also not promising to write every request I get. From now on, I will only write the requests I’m actually inspired by.

I’ve kept a record of all the requests I’ve received over the past year, and I’ll be using those to write from. If you want me to delete a request, that’s fine. Just message me. 

If you’re upset by any of these changes, I’m sorry, but this blog is not my job and it’s not what’s going to earn me a degree. 

Thank you so much for sticking with me, and hopefully I’ll make it worth your while soon.

[multi-fandomoneshots]

Where can I find the rules for a request? Your work is too damn good to resist Xxx

There’s a link to my rules at the top of my blog on desktop, but in case you’re on mobile, here they are.

Just so you know, though, I haven’t written anything new for this blog for a while and I don’t know if or when I’ll come back to it. I’m actually hoping to publish a post in the next day or two to explain why. Feel free to request though x 

[multi-fandomoneshots]

I would just like to say fuck you! Fuck you for making me sob like a fucking baby while reading “Not their Son”. Now with that being said, I’m gonna go read your other stuff because damn your good.

You’re welcome.

Seriously though, thank you! I’m so glad you liked it xx (I’ve no idea where all the attention on this blog is coming from all of a sudden, but thank you. everyone!)

[multi-fandomoneshots]

if i send a request here, will i receive it here too, or on the alwaysbuythebook blog? a little bit confused, lol. also, i frickin love your writing! amazing talent, and i hope you never stop writing, because it would be a real shame🌷

Thank you so much! You have no idea how much this message made me smile! If you send a request and I write it, I’ll post it on this blog- I barely post any fanfic on my main, and only the stuff I’ve come up with myself. 

I promise not to stop writing, but I’m actually studying Creative Writing at uni and it’s taking a while for me to find a balance between writing original stuff and fanfic. So I’ll be back to this blog soon, I hope! Thank you again xx

[multi-fandomoneshots]

Hi! I was asking if you could make an Enjolras Smut? You choose the plot! Thanks!

I don’t really write smut, and I’m afraid if I did, I’d ask for a specific plot xx

[multi-fandomoneshots]

Hi. :) I just checked in, rereading some of my favourites of your writings. Still love them so much. Have a fantastic day! Much love.

Thank you, it’s lovely to know people are still coming back! I hope you have an amazing day xx