ShyFlowery

26 years old/ Mexican/ She/He/Them/ Not very good at English

[lilboreddev-blog]

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

[thatblackwatchdouche-blog-blog]

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

[iceslushii]

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

[yiffmaster]

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

[llsilvertail]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????

[computationalcalculator]

oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post

[tahthetrickster]

Attention non-artists who commission artists: don’t fuckin do this???

[cursedcharley]

Actually had someone do this to me too. Was doing a art stream, it took me over 2 hours to do his inked commission, he got a refund cause ‘it took too long’ that he figured I wasn’t going to do it after I gave him the file.

Don’t do this. Do not.

[littlegreendorito]

I’ve had this happen to me with a $350 comic :/ I had already finished it, it was full color, 6 panels and had a full bg in every panel. I was lucky in that I didn’t spend him money yet, but it left me without funds. I’ve also had the above happen to me as well.

Don’t do this shit to artists. We’re people too. Drawing for you is more than a hobby. It’s a job.

[aroyalmoon-deactivated20211014]

Use Paypal Invoices. 

I cannot stress this enough. That shit helps A LOT when it comes down to Paypal refunds/disputes. There’s a description box that let’s you put in what the product is/how long it’ll take/yadda yadda, and then there’s another little memo box that only you and paypal can see where you can say it’s a digital commission and doesn’t require shipping (So Donald Mcfuck can’t say that they never got their commission). And there’s also a box for your Terms & Conditions where you can say, if you have any conflicts/want a refund - email me, or you can actually tell the user that this is a digital commission and they won’t be getting a hard copy of it.

ARTISTS. PLEASE USE PAYPAL INVOICES. it will SAVE you. And to: the people who do this to artists – Fuck you. It’s okay if you change your mind and want a refund. But freaking TALK to us and let us know what’s going on. Let us WORK with you.

[thelilnan]

ALSO A HUGE TIP: Invoices paid will automatically set up a shipping notice which, if not fulfilled, can land you in SERIOUS hot water with PayPal. Since a lot of artists don’t print and ship the commissions, this is a huge problem.

However! Totally manageable. Just go to your PayPal, scroll down to find Seller Preferences

>> Shipping Preferences

>> Display Ship Button. Make sure all the boxes are unchecked. Then you’re all set!

[captain-spicypants-deactivated2]

As a big supporter of artists, don’t you ever fucking dare fuck over an artist like that. Like don’t. And if they take their time to do a good job, don’t shit all over them for it! Don’t be a fucking ass hole. Just don’t. These people put a  LOT of work and time and effort into their artwork. Just don’t be that guy. Often times these artists aren’t even getting what they deserve in compensation. 

[happykittyshop]

I am very grateful my customers have been good to me, but I’m spreading the word.

[guzma-reader-hell]

Very important!

[theakaning]

As a new artist, I’m very grateful for this post. Never knew this. Thank you.

[r0b0t1me]

[beggars-opera]

Does anyone have a link to a back-to-basics article about good fanfic practices, like standards of content and chapter length and such (speaking as an old fart who only wrote a couple of shitty one-shots back when lemons were a thing)

[fraddit]

Sorry in advance if this is too many links, lol.  These are pretty much all about posting to Ao3…

Tagging:

HOW I TAG ON AO3 - A BEGINNER’S GUIDE

AO3 tags 101

What’s the #1 thing you wish everyone knew about tagging?

a reference guide all about tags and warnings on AO3

How to: Tag and Summarise your Fic

Formatting:

ao3 posting script google doc

formatting fic for text-to-speech compatibility and accessibility 

A helpful How to guide for embedding images on AO3

General and misc:

The ao3 faq for posting to the site

Fanfiction resources

things I wish I’d known when I started writing fic on ao3

tips for posting fic on tumblr

psa: don’t mention commissions/patreon on AO3

[theminecraftbee]

so a really cool thing you can do with fanfic is assume the audience knows certain things, and assume the audience has particular assumptions. like okay, in regular literature you can do that too, and does do that! however in fanfiction I can assume everyone has read/watched/played the source material, or at least knows the fanon around the source material, and use that as a baseline to play with audience expectations. and while sometimes this is a shortcut, sometimes this is all a REALLY INTERESTING TOOL.

because, well. just because the AUDIENCE read the source material doesn’t mean the characters did. just because it’s obvious to the AUDIENCE doesn’t mean it’s not a twist in-story. just because the AUDIENCE goes into this expecting something doesn’t mean that it’s actually expected.

you can get on some FUN levels of dramatic irony is what I’m saying,

[blackbelles-world]

[niixell]

[samtheviking]

Both of these

[whitmerule]

[miniyunart]

This took way too long for a haha funnie joke but I got this idea as soon as I saw the trailer!!! Leo would be SO excited and his fam would be very supportive!!!💖💖💙

[badwolfkaily]

This.

[strongwomenunited]

I don’t know about others but the only reason I put both is so that whichever someone clicks on, they will find my fic. So if there is supposed to be rules, I guarantee you that no writer knows these ones. We can barely get people to comment, you think we’re going to specifically choose & or / ? Hell no.

[beatrice-otter]

I’ve been in fandom for twenty years, and “/” means romance and “&” means no romance was literally one of the first things I learned. It dates back to Star Trek fanfiction of the 70s. I’m boggled by the fact that anyone who’s been reading fic on AO3 for more than like five minutes wouldn’t know that, and I’m curious as to what fanfic community you come out of.

I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.

Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.

When I’m in a fandom and see tagging where some of the tags don’t really apply and are just there to get it in front of more eyes, I’m going to assume one of two things. Either the author is a newb who doesn’t know anything, or the author is purposefully spamming the tags because they don’t care about lying to their potential audience and think that “spray and pray” is an effective tactic. In the first case, their writing probably will not be very good, so why bother reading their fic. In the second case, the fact that I can’t trust the tags to be accurate means I’m not going to read it to see if it’s interesting even if it has a tag I like. Chances are, that tag isn’t actually in the fic anyway, and even if it is, by spam-tagging the author is making the archive harder to use for everybody. Why would I reward bad behavior with attention? No. Far better to mute the author and move on.

[grammarpedant]

This is such a great explanation for exactly why mistagging "/" and "&" is shooting yourself in the foot, and also a fandom no-no. Lemme just add on (because in my fandom there's a small but persistent rash of writers mistagging their works as genfic or "&"), if your fic is what we call "pre-slash"- that is, this is a fic in which the characters have romantic feelings for each other but it's set prior to them getting into a relationship- then it still gets a "/" pairing tag.

There are indeed cases where a fic would get both "&" and "/", as beatrice-otter mentioned. Slow-burn friends-to-lovers can be one of them. Ambiguously romantic relationships (because hey, what even is romance? It's such a highly subjective social construct that drawing a line between friendship and romance doesn't always make sense) can be another. Pre-slash can also be another, if the fic is genuinely also about the characters' platonic relationship as well as their romantic or sexual attraction.

But pre-slash gets the "/" tag. If your fic foregrounds the characters' romantic or sexual feelings for each other, then even if they don't get to the point of establishing a relationship, that's slash, babey. If that confuses you, just think of the way the romance genre works, in the non-fandom world: if you tore out the last chapter of a romance novel where the characters confess and get together, the rest of the book would still be a romance. That's how it's written, and that's essentially what slashfic is. It's not about looking for a line in the content of the work, but about the intentions of your fic: you're writing a story- what kind of story are you telling about these characters' relationship? 'Cause if your focus is romantic or sexual feelings then yeah dawg it needs a "/" tag, come on. Other details about what kind of feelings you can put in "Additional tags," or in your summary.

And, a general word of advice: fandom as a scene has its own broad trends and norms that most people respect (and specific fandom communities will have their own subcultural quirks, usually heavily influenced by the canon they spring from). Some fandoms will be more stringent about the "&" and "/" difference than others, or will lean toward particular standards for tagging. If you care at all about cultivating connections in these communities, or at least about not pissing off potential fic readers, the best thing to do is to look and see what other people are doing, and ask questions if you need, before you jump in with your own thing.

[wtf-skittens]

THIS.

[somerandomdudelmao]

I wonder if Casey has never seen a butterfly in his life, so to him a butterfly is some magical golden thing that a master Michelangelo can create:>

[ave-aria]

~

A soft gasp. “What is that!” Casey asked.

Leo paused, then turned. Casey Jones Jr. asked that question about a lot of things in the present - beach balls, ice cream trucks, glo-sticks, sunflowers - but the question didn’t usually sound so reverent. His eyes tracked Casey’s gaze to the nearby hydrangea plant poking over the nearby brick wall. A dozen bright orange monarchs weighed down the boughs. 

“Butterflies,” Leo answered, trying not to smirk. Casey, apocalypse child as he was, still seemed awed by the simplest of things. “You like them?”

“They’re REAL?” Casey asked.

That caught Leo off guard. “- wait. You had butterflies in the future?” What kind of logic was that. They didn’t have sunflowers but they had butterflies?

“No--” oh thank god. “--but Master Michelangelo...”

Ah. Well, that explained everything, didn’t it. Mikey had drawn them, or described them, or told some bizarre story about them, and little Casey, who’d never even seen the goddamn ocean before, had chucked the insects into the same category as yetis and unicorns. Fake™ as hell.

“They’re so delicate...” Casey whispered, drawing closer slowly, afraid he’d startle them into flight.

A crunch sounded on the pavement behind them. “Sorry I’m late!” Mikey announced, straightening. “The line at the grocery store was so long, you wouldn’t believe--oh, hey! Butterflies!”

He set down his plastic bag and reached up as four insects broke from the group, fluttering around him. One landed on the large orange spot on his shoulder, and Mikey giggled, then opened one eye. “Sorry, guys,” he poked one long green finger at it. “No nectar here. I--whoa, Casey, you good, man?”

Leo whipped around. Casey had tears streaming down his cheeks, a thousand yard stare in his eyes. A shadow of loss and grief. Gently, Leo reached out, tapping him on the shoulder. “Case?”

Casey jumped, then crumpled at the touch.

“Sor--” Casey stammered, covering his eyes. “Sorry. I...”

“It’s okay.” Mikey said, quietly. They all knew a flashback when they saw one. “You wanna talk about it?”

“It’s nothing,” Casey assured them. “I promise.” He wiped the tears away, revealing a crooked smile.

“...Just a memory, that’s all.”

-

[jadethest0ne]

A little collab-tribute that @eternalglitch and I created together to commemorate the day that we uploaded essentially the same climax scene in both of our respective fan creations. Glitch did the LFLS side, I did the BnB side plus this little animation. I’m very proud of the fact that I was able to find the exact sound effect for the collar from the show!

Check out the chapters themselves!:

Like Father Like Son, Chapter 21 by @eternalglitch

The Brains and the Brawn, Page 18 by yours truly, @jadethest0ne

[eternalglitch]

And here is the still image~

It was a pleasure collaborating and planning this with you, Jade!

[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.

[callese]

[ghostemore]

hello! it's summer time so if you want some art from me, gimme some money >:D !!! dm me for more information pls! im taking 5 slots atm!

( reblogs are appreciated 😮 )

[shenanigans-of-a-young-person]

“really?” I say to inanimate objects that are not working like they usually do

[gettingwitchywithit]

“Stay.” I glare at inanimate objects that continuously fall over

[unironicallyenthusiasticknitter]

“Thank you!” I say exhasperatedly to the inanimate objects when they do finally work right/stay put

[joestoyes]

“Sorry! I say to the table I bumped into

[q834tq3hgfq39fh9q348h-deactivat]

“SHHH” I say to the inanimate object that keeps making noise

[bittyblueeyes]

“Yeah, yeah, I’m coming,” I huff at the persistent kitchen timer.

[alex-guerin]

“Don’t take that tone with me!” I exclaim at objects that make strange and sudden unknown noises.

[ralkana]

“Stop crying, you’re fine,” I snap as I’m looking for the charger cord for the electronic device beeping demandingly at me.

[k-lionheart-deactivated20171126]

“Oh nice, real mature,” I snarl at devices that suddenly stop working after I berate them for not working properly.

[sweetlyminiaturesublime]

JESUS CHRIST I HAVE NEVER RELATED SO HARD IN MY LIFE

[araceil]

“Don’t you shout at me” to the till whenever I don’t hit the right button and it beeps shrilly at me.

[baronfulmen]

Report: humans seem to believe that inanimate objects possess a spirit of some sort, and will often address them thinking the item will hear and understand. This makes our previous observations about the joy they experience when blowing things up quite disturbing.

[melissachan]

You aren’t homophobic for hating mlm or wlw ship. Dislike it, hate it, hate it with passion, write angry rant about it and post it on all your social media if it makes you feel better - nothing wrong with it as long as you tag it properly. Do as you please.

You are, however, homophobic for holding mlw ships and mlm or wlw ships to vastly different standarts.

You know like, when people just casually refer to a game’s female lead or main support character as “protagonist’s girlfriend” - and nobody cares because everyone knows it is just light-hearted joke born from their canonical ship teases - but then get viscerally angry when people do the same for Ishimondo, Sakuraoi or Tokomaru. 

When nobody has any claims when people call a relationships between a boy and a girl who hang out a lot and seem to be really close “canon ship” despite lack of evidence of it being explicitly romantic or sexual - but then instantly jump at their Holy Book Of Canon and bash people’s heads with it whenever someone dares to try the same with mlm or wlw couple that fits the same criteria.

When people have an endless benefit of doubt for heterosexual relatipnships that are built on love but have potential to be really, really problematic under wrong circumstances - and literally zero of it for wlw and mlm ships.

When anybody interested in mlm dynamic gets called fujo dismissively when male fans literally fawning over their underaged waifus and self-insert ships are widely tolerated.

When mlm or wlw ship tease gets dismissed as mindless pandering while mlw ship tease is always totally valid and actually is a sign creator ships them too and wants you to do so.

Etc, etc.

I know those thing are often not done with any ill intent - or even not done consciously. But the fact that all of those things are not just mumbling of some obviously bigoted, malicious people, but rather a large trend prevailing in fandom spaces in general is even more concerning.

Even if it is not done with ill intent, but rather born from subconscious bias, it is dishearting and upsetting to see, especially for, you know, LGBTQA+ people who are already forced to fight for simple recognition of their idetities and their right to exist in their daily lives. And forcing them to fight the same fight when it comes to a work of fiction, which is supposed to be escape and comfort, is honesly a shitty thing to do. 

[xtigerwoman]

i love women so much i wanna cry

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

[shyflowery]

✨ WOMEN ✨

[only-tiktoks]