Now this is a bit unexpected, and I wasn't really planning on it until a bit ago, but due recent and personal circumstances revolving around my household, and my general safety, I have decided to reopen commissions for the following couple days.
I am queer and trans residing in a very much homophobic and transphobic household who isn't afraid of laying their hands on me. I think you can figure out what that means for me.
Not in immediate danger where I need cops involved, but staying any longer will ruin me and I'm not strong enough for that.
I wasn't sure if I would be good with Comms or need a GoFundMe instead, but I'm not really familiar with the latter so I decided Comms will have to suffice. (I might try it? I'll have to see)
When I say emergency, I'm talking about less than a week now. I will be opening until the 9th of July (as I'm leaving the 10th and starting anything new would be impossible after that).
I have a somewhat solid plan of survival;
I have started applying to places to stay, but some demand deposits that, even though I am employed, have not enough saved for (especially because the money I had saved before, my parents took to "keep it safe for me" and I have no possibility on getting it back). I'm completely dependent on my next payment and the little bit I have on me that'll go to a train ticket and rent.
Therefore I really need the money.
💬 0 🔁 16 ❤️ 10 · Commissions on hold until I figure out a payment method · I am saving up to move out of my parents house so I am kind of
Here's more info about prices, changes can probably be made, although not too much, since I still need it, I'm pretty much desperate at this point. DMs should be open on any of my alts ( @caffe1ne @milorant )
Any help is appreciated. If you're unable to help financially, I'd appreciate sharing it so much. Do not feel bad, though, because I am very much understanding.
Other examples of my art can be found in #polart on this account and #milorant on @milorant
genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using ai because of witch hunt and proper grammar/structure in their works must be what being a woman in the 1600s who is wrongly accused of being a witch because she can read and is intelligent feels like
No matter how good your writing is, there will always be someone who doesn’t like it
Do NOT change the story to make it palatable to them. They will never like it. There is nothing you can do to make them like it
But there are so many people out there who will like it. And if you tone down the things that make other people not like it, you’re also toning down the things that make these people really like it
Would you rather have a story that’s loved and hated, or a story that nobody finds notable, and thus is easily forgotten?
Don’t tone yourself down to make people like it — tone yourself up. Make it so unapologetically you that instead of merely disliking it, they absolutely hate it
Because at least then you’ve left an impression on them, and how your story made them feel will stick with them, whether they like it or not
(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)
So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,
and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing
but i also think:
“i write for myself, but i post for others.”
because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.
people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,
and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:
“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”
especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,
and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.
And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,
How does the proship mentality "censorship and the criticism are always bad and wrong" work with propaganda like "Birth of a nation", neonazi books and works that spread harmful stereotypes of vulnerable groups. "Nah we gotta defend the right of nazis of putting down their fantasies because my ao3 gay porn could be attacked too"?
even nazi books should not be banned. people should read them (if they can) so they can learn how harmful it is. you don’t teach people that some things are bad and harmful by hiding these bad and harmful things from them.
the irony is that it was the nazis who advocated for book banning, which is… what you are doing right now.
hey so ive been inactive bc ive been writing minecraft toxic gay sex instead BUT WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT... SODA MILK IN 2026?? ARE WE DEADASSSSSSSSSSSSSS