hihi, i'm cafe (they/he)! i'm a trans, panromantic, demisexual, polyamorous, disabled, chronically ill, mentally ill, & audhd 30 something year old virgo (09/17). i enjoy writing fanfiction and streaming co-working & variety games on twitch (when my health permits!). i'm constantly buried by my wips & endless royed fic ideas. and i'm very much a ship and let ship enthusiast & do not enjoy dealing with antis or unnecessary hate or harassment of any kind. so if you're an anti or bigot or just hateful person in general, pls see yourself out. tysm.
current special interests & hyperfixations: royed / edroy !!!, fullmetal alchemist, marine life, fields of mistria, animal crossing, pokemon, kpop demon hunters, valorant
my inbox is always open & i love interacting with y'all and screaming over our ships & interests together so feel free to message me anytime! thanks for being here & i hope y'all are doing well & taking care of yourselves as much as you can each day. ♡
all my links, common tags i use, & more info under the cut! ♡
pink nephthea: a branching soft coral found in japan; this coral has toxic chemical defenses to ensure its survival.
where to find me: ao3 ♡ twitch ♡ main bluesky ♡ writing/royed bluesky ♡ writer carrd ♡ streamer carrd
ways to support me: kofi ♡ throne wishlist
common cafe related tags: #cafe writes, #cafe yaps, #ask cafe, #cafe's askbox, #cafe's been tagged, #cafe's recs, #cafe's teasers, #now playing: cafe's playlist, #saki shenanigans, #personal
♡ tags: #friendos ♡, #mooties ♡, #oomfies ♡
important & resource tags: #important, #reminders, #resources, #writing resources
just things tags: #just writer things, #just fandom things, #just proship things, #just disabled things, #just chronic illness things
common ship & fandom tags: #royed, #fullmetal alchemist, #beloved, #fanfiction, #souyo, #pretty things, #art, #fields of mistria, #kpop demon hunters, #inuyasha, #pokemon, #studio ghibli, #buffy the vampire slayer
queue tag: #q
pet tax! this is my beloved tabby mix cat, saki. she is currently 13 years old, but she still looks like she's just a tiny baby kitten. ;-; ♡
we live together with my partner of 10 years in midwest, usa (myaamia & sawanwa land).
loves: royed, the forge, my partner, my kitty, my friends, souyo, writing, reading, video games, fishing in video games, music, marine life (especially whales & sharks), tv & films, anime & manga, cute animals of all kinds, pokemon (especially gengar my beloved), coffee, matcha, boba, kind people, pretty things, tone indicators, basic human decency, etc.
hates: gen ai, chatgpt, antis / hateful people of any kind, censorship, ship wars & fandom fighting, jk rowling & harry potter, terfs, cops, bigots & assholes, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, sexism, fatphobia, islamophobia, antisemitism, etc.
important: please wear a mask & don't leave disabled people behind because we are still very much in a pandemic and things are only getting worse & more dangerous in the world. stay informed as much as possible & take care of your mental health as best you can. do your best to follow bds guidelines & boycott awful companies who help fund genocide and generally have awful human rights principles. each other is all we have & we have to do our best to take care of each other, now more than ever.
free palestine. free sudan. free democratic republic of congo. free yemen. free lebanon. free syria. free hawai'i. free kanaky. free tigray. free haiti. free puerto rico. free armenia. free somalia. free kashmir. free tibet. free uyghurs. no one is free until we are all free.
Never think short fics aren't worth making. Please.
I mainly read fics as a soft way to end my day before bed. It takes me an hour to get through 10k words. That's a commitment for me, I won't read anything above 7k unless I have nothing planned the next day. Even 6k I start skimming. Please write that 4k fic. 3k, 2k, 1k, hell even just 100 words. Please write it, I am reading it. I want to read it.
Maybe the average fic reader gets through 100k word fics in a day, but not me. I like it short and sweet and easily digestible before bed.
"But I can't write well-" It's 2am and I've just had the most miserable day. Trust me your typos and spacing is NOT an issue I genuinely could not care less. So many fics are very long and it's very hard for me to enjoy them before bed. But your 1k character introspection? That 200 words about them waking up and kissing in bed? A 3k word make out session? Do you know how much better you made the last few minutes of my day by posting that small oneshot? Now you do. Please write it. I beg of you, please
Write whatever you want. Write that incredibly niche thing that only two other people on earth will get. Write the super indulgent cliche thing that makes you kick your feet giddily. Write the angry rage story that whumps them all and makes people cry.
Whatever it is that YOU want to write. Write it. Because only YOU can.
Huge shout out to all the people who read fics. Who actually take the time out of their busy days to open a fic and read it
Before I started writing in earnest, I did not understand how much writing was going to eat into my fic reading time. We joke about having too many tabs open, but I have a different problem: the amount of tabs I have open on new fics is way smaller than it used to be. My ao3 wrapped would be a sad affair. Unless I’ve subscribed to an author or come across something on my dash, I basically don’t see it
Which has really driven home for me how much fandom cannot just be creators. You have to have people who want to read fic and meta discussions and joke posts. You have to have people who want to look at art and gifs. It has to be mutual.
Community thrives on flow. You have to have that movement of people sharing things with each other for a community to exist
