Writing and Complaining about my Writing

Ask me about my fics, I am ready to burst

[linhasduplas]

They need to keep making stories about violently repressed women who are probably lesbians forever

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

headcanoned too hard and ended up surprised by zero results on AO3

[creatingblackcharacters]

As I said, quietly writing in my notepad, I was approached by a white male attendee. He did not ask if it was a good time to approach me; he did not seem to care that I was obviously working. He just sat next to me and said, "oh good, now I can talk to you. I have a question." The man did not wait for my consent to the conversation. He just dove in.

He described a few of the political activism groups he's involved in, mostly around environmentalism. ...And he was sure that, just like every other event he had attended, it would be populated exclusively with white people. He would love to see more people of color at these events, he said, but they were nowhere to be found. "Why," he asked me in conclusion, "don't people of color care more about important political issues?"

Many white men see a political landscape dominated by white men and think it is that way because white men are just more politically minded. They think that the absence of women and people of color from powerful rooms is due to self-selection.

They do not question how unwelcoming the room they have built might be. They do not question whether or not the discussions they are having in that room are inclusive and generate productive discussions for women and people of color. They don't ask if there are other, equally important conversations happening in other rooms. And they don't even bother to ask if anyone unlocked the door.

They look at the room and say that women and people of color aren't in it because women and people of color aren't interested. Then they cite this supposed disinterest as proof that women and people of color are too unqualified to even be invited in."

Chapter 6- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

For a Tumblr-specific example, this is why if you don't "see" Black people in your fandom spaces, there's a reason for that. It usually means the space is unwelcome at best, actively hostile at worst. You just don't perceive it bc it doesn't directly affect your entertainment.

[nny11writes]

Sometimes I forget fic writing is a craft.

And sometimes I step back and realize I’ve spent somewhere between 20-30 hours outlining one (1) fic :|

Artisanal shit right here it turns out

[starry-blooms]

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[pebbldd]

elemental quartet come home, elemental quartet we miss you

[nickcaver]

3. Transformation

Shelby coming out of the shadows and taking form!

Here's the link to one of the bat conservation groups

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[evegwood]

december 2018

[ethubbie]

there's something so good about a character who hasn't had enough comfort and warmth in their life and now has weird complicated kinda sexual feelings about being treated with actual basic respect and dignity and they feel like an awful gross pervert for it. i like those wires getting crossed

[ejstrunck]

Happy Pride Month! Horde redesigns, all compiled!

[geekysteven]

[sometipsygnostalgic]

Horde Prime offers Glimmer a seat and it's an anti homeless bench

[daftpatience]

and what if the character wasn't directly rejected but at every turn they were made to experience situations that made them feel completely irrefutably unwanted. what then

[ariesrin]

I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.

[macerationdevastation]

another still from the amv im busting my ass over

"big things coming" big things on hold but exams are over so big things on their way again

[lyraisnotonfire]

favorite thing about tumblr is having a fandom in law. no i haven't watched this show and i'm not planning to. but my moot is having fun!! look how much they love it!!! i'm supportive from the sidelines!

[blanq]

based on that one breaking bad comic