Dante

AO3 writer | 19 | he / him pagan witch, queer, hedonist HP | BBC Merlin | The Arcana

[ruinousthing]

Introduction

Thought I'd make an intro post for this account as well because why not?

I'm Dante (although you can feel free to call me Hyacinthus / Cinthe too!) 19 y/o, he/him, queer, a pagan witch, and a fanfic reader & writer.

This is a backup account for @fantasyfiend222 and @ruinousthing6

You can also find me on AO3 at fantasyfiend222 or on pinterest at ruinousthing

fuck gen ai, fuck jk rowling, censorship is not only harmful but also pointless, trans lives matter, and be kind to fanfic writers as they're sharing their wonderful works for free !!!! <3

[gvaine]

[thesongistheriver]

Why do I write Merlin as a nail-biter? Guess we’ll never know.

[ruinousthing]

I had a dream that they changed the original portraits for the characters and I really like it and then they changed them again after like a day and the newer portraits looked really weird because the style didn’t match the vibe of the game and I was upset. except I wasn’t a different entity in this dream. I didn’t have a body or anything, the whole dream visuals was just a house in sdv. weird. anyway I’m going to go play sdv now,

[ruinousthing]

how my little home is looking :>

[ruinousthing]

my chicken Wumbus has decided that the crops are her domain. the joys of raising free range chickens i guess

[fantasyfiend222]

started the slow process of posting this damned fic I’ve been working on. merlin leaves camelot. promised plot, merlin x morgana x gwaine, ganieda exists, and a bunch of other dramatics. updates will be slow but I am tired of the ‘draft will be deleted on __’ message giving me anxiety so here’s the first chapter for now 🙏

Break from Destiny

[im-out-of-it]

you can either interpret Arthur saying “Merlin is an idiot. he can’t be a sorcerer, he can barely be a servant” in a Merlin is useless + being a ghastly servant or a I’m using humor and trying to protect my beloved. I don’t care what he is but I love him and I won’t allow my father to go off and murder him. that’s the love of my life but I’m going to use humour to get my father off my boyfriend’s back. your majesty, I pick option 2

[harleyquillao3]

I’m in this photo and I don’t like it 😂😭

[ceo-of-merleon]

[puppydogwhitaker]

PSA to fic readers, it is so hard to freak a fic writer out with your comments. we are just as crazy about the fic as you are.

tell me you love it. tell me it made you slam your laptop shut. tell me you brought it up at your college lecture about kink. key smash in all caps. quote the passage that made you think. i promise, we’ll love it.

we spend hours thinking about it, writing it, editing it. there is no such thing as over enthusiasm when you’re talking about our fics to us. we are sooooo weird about them, i assure you. you are just matching my freak. the freak bar is already set so high. feel no anxiety about enjoying something and letting the creator know.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[doomsbury]

merlin: with all due respect—

arthur: don't lie to me.

merlin: most disrespectfully—

arthur: shut up.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

proshipping does NOT translate to any real-life incidents. proshipping is only about fictional scenarios only. so if anyone tells you “proshipping sometimes translates to real-life” they are wrong.

I am begging people to please understand what it means before throwing the word around. proship literally just means fiction is not reality, anybody can enjoy whatever they want when it comes to fiction, harassing real people over fiction is bad.

[atdawn]

MERLIN | 4.09 Lancelot du Lac

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

found this on twitter and yeah — while a part of me is convinced this one’s a bot, unfortunately there are people who actually leave this kind of comment on writers’ works — this and the ai witch hunt are the exact reasons more and more writers stop sharing their works. the level of entitlement to be walking inside someone’s house, after they were kind enough to let you in, and then starting to criticize the way they decorate their rooms when you can just quietly leave if you don’t have anything nice to say.

fanfics are something writers do for themselves. we don’t get paid for it. we write whatever makes us happy for our own enjoyment. if you dislike it, that’s cool. quietly exit the fic and find something else to read. or better yet, write it yourself.

you as a reader are not our customer. we don’t write for you. we don’t write to please you. we just give you the privilege of reading our works for free. whether or not you’ll read it, whether or not you’ll like it, is not our business. but you are rude and entitled to be criticizing fanfics like it’s something you paid for and not a gift people were kind enough to give. if we want constructive criticism, we will ask for one. if we didn’t ask, stay quiet if you don’t have anything nice to say.

not to mention, more often than not, your constructive criticism is never really a constructive criticism but what you personally want to read. keep this up and eventually there will be no fanfics for you to read because no one wants to share their works for free anymore if people will just be this rude and entitled.

BE KIND AND RESPECTFUL TO FANFIC WRITERS AND FAN ARTISTS OR BE QUIET.

[loverscross]

How do people write to such a high word count, I max out at 700-1500 before giving up. I would love to learn but every resource I find assumes I have entry-level knowledge ( I don't. )

[bebx]

Reblog if you have contributed to the 17 million fanworks posted on Archive of Our Own ♡