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i'm mango. 20s. i write fics. ao3: softmangoes

[softmangoes]

hi i'm mango!! any pronouns. i love yanderes and ghosts. i use this as a space to write fics and talk about characters who won't leave my mind. this blog is nsfw and has dark content. don't feed my work into ai. i'm softmangoes on ao3.

✧ general: #my writing | rambling: #mango musings

✧ in progress: never let me go (SDJ)

✧ something's wrong with sunny day jack

✧ degrees of lewdity

✧ i do not use AI. i never will. this freakery is homegrown, homemade, and organic 🌼

✧ please support my writing by commenting, reblogging, or sending me asks 🥭

✧ have a great time and enjoy! 🧡

[of-nyon]

girl help they're taking my fave's extremely thin veneer of swaggering overconfidence at face value

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

just so you know i know this dynamic is toxic and i'm not romanticizing it :/ i'm actually sexualizing it

[qqchurch]

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Mary Bowles, wr. c. August 1861

[accordionlover]

cross stitch, words from Jenny Holzer's Livings, 1980-1982

[herssian]

online numbers can really fuck you up when it comes to your creative work because you're sharing something you worked on with all your heart but it's very important to remember there's actual people behind those numbers. even if it's 1. that's one whole actual person. that's a human being who said "haha nice". that's a connection with a REAL person with a REAL life and REAL thoughts and feelings and experiences. like. damn. that should mean something

[clytemnestraaa]

i feel. like on a fundamental level. i do not understand x reader fic. i am not exactly opposed to it because let a thousand blossoms bloom etc. but like. i genuinely don’t get it. it seems like the exact opposite of how i engage with fiction. like the whole point is that i’m not in there. i don’t wanna be in there. if i’m in there it’s going to be very stressful.

[bubz2whimsical]

No rizz just big brown eyes and many unsettling things to say

[princesonic]

I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.

[vexheart]

This

[symfco]

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[chickennnnuggets]

[radioactive-earthshine]

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

[mysteryteacup]

Fandom is not social media.

Fandom is not trends.

Fandom is a cross between a library and having a slumber party with your friends.

"Old" means nothing to fic.

[maidenczar]

google search "how to want"

[maidenczar]

google search "desire for beginners"

[maxthedreamer]

Something I saw and wanted to do with Jack!

[8nin]

Not to vagueblog but some of you are definitely the sweetest souls and I think of you fondly