#actually i'm

[plant-dad-sulu]

my gender is that tiny question mark box you get whenever an image doesn’t want to load

[mettywiththenotes]

Longer hair!

THE BOYS HAVE LONGER HAIR

[neighwayjoseigh]

Not to self 5 minutes ago:

When someone mentions your hickeys, say "you should see the other guy", it will be far funnier than anything else you could say.

[seventeen-bottle-street]

tfw you made one of the characters in your fic read Ulysses, and now you gotta read Ulysses

[honestlyvan]

To be fair, being a meta writer in a fandom has always been miserably lonely.

Meta is... self-contained. You rarely know who your audience is until someone refers back to you (or even better, you just HAPPEN to find a reference and have to wonder if it's a deliberate inspiration or just a case of great minds) and you don't get a lot of feedback.

And it's not super surprising, I mean -- technical meta isn't exactly something that reduces people to tears, it's a niche interest either way, and even good character meta needs to really find its audience before you're really giving people an experience with it. A lot of people also prefer their meta to be collective, something social, something to do with friends so there's also a limited market for it when you're not yet really established in any way.

It's not like I'm not aware of the realities. Attention in fandom is gained through reach and other people doing the niche thing both better and off the basis of also having a wider range of things to offer, so, like, hanging the value of what I do on that is patently silly, but...

[xheister]

Akira: Sees Ryuji getting bitch slapped and being called nasty things Akira: Lucky bastard Me: No that’s KamoshIDA....CEASE.

[callixton]

me (when with family): quiet yet heterosexual™

also me (when alone/with friends): changes sing lyrics to make them more gay