#fandom is magic

[wolfpants]

I'm crying 😭 The postie delivered an extra special package today from the one and only @citrusses who BOUND RAISING HELL! I can't believe I am holding something in my hands that was made by your hands 🥹

Look at that beauitiful, deliciously horror-ific cover? The contrast of the red and black and grey, I'm absolutely floored. It captures the mood of this fic so well. And then there's the interior... the typesetting! The spooky, PERFECT illustrations! THAT BACK MATTER WITH THE PROMISE OF MORE AND DRACO'S DEMON MOBILE! Your attention to detail! istfg!!!

Lor, thank you so much for this, your gifts really know no bounds and you blow me away every day with your talent and kindness and friendship. I'm so lucky to be sharing this space with you 🖤🖤🖤

[sparklyslug]

Honestly for any AU/mashup I’ve written, “this is a thing I didn’t know I wanted” is a comment that NEVER gets any less totally delightful

[stinastar]

There’s something magic about reading the acknowledgments of a book and going Oh, look, it’s a list of a corner of X fandom that I know decently well! 💖

[solrosan]

Sometimes, when you're open about fannish stuff in your non-fandom life, a friend's girlfriend randomly contacts you at 9pm on a Saturday to talk about a TV show.

[sheathandshear]

to this date I still cannot get over that post railing against Ao3 because of all the "disgusting NSFW" archived there, cuz like

[shimmersing]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Okay, so I’m jumping the gun on @taraum but I have to tell y’all a story about fandom & Motivations and just like LIFE okay?

So back a few years ago before the Great Depression the Traumatic Birth Incident of 2015 I had a kid, I stalked followed @taraum​ on ff.net. Even those last few years when I couldn’t write, I’d still come back and reread Motivations, usually leaving a comment or seventeen. I absolutely idolized her and her work.

So the last round was this past fall, when I’d finally kicked depression’s ass and wandered back into SWTOR fandom, and I got all up in her comments again with OMG HI REMEMBER ME? And we connected on twitter and here and FB and we even had dinner once when I was in her neck of the woods (which let me tell you, hang out with your internet friends in person, it’s a blast). Bless her soul, she betas stuff for me, even while working ridiculous hours, and just in general tolerates my absolute fucking nonsense. And then she comments on my shit that she already beta read. She is kind and encouraging and so incredibly talented, and if it weren’t for calendars I’d swear we’d been friends for years. I guess we kinda have been.

I really wanted her to post Motivations on AO3 because it deserves the attention, and please, y’all motherfuckers you LOVE Scourge, I see you there.

tl;dr @taraum is an amazing writer & person, and you should really read Motivations.

[pilferingapples]

I thought this was gonna be a lousy day but the ABC Club series updated and so that shows what a lousy prophet I am