#lover's leap

[dinosaurwithablog]

Alfred Hitchcock is hilarious!! For a guy who made such suspenseful, intense, and scary movies, he has an adorable lighter side!! I love Alfred, don't you? 😁🤣😍

[buildarocketboys]

lover's leap is fun. It's just fun.

[silver-horse]

Kassandra and Roxana

[eirian-houpe]

The Monday Menu

So... only really a week into May and already it’s proving to be a tough month as far as fandom goes, (well, RL as well, but I’m sticking with fandom for the moment). 

Some of you may have seen my TMI Tuesday post last week.  If you didn’t it’s HERE, please take the time to go and read it. So, I’m not the only content creator in the Rumbelle fandom who has noticed a lack of engagement that has been getting steadily worse for most writers, (there are a few exceptions, but on the whole it’s true that engagement has been lacking), and I’m sad to say we’ve already lost one writer, that I know of, to this lack; a crying shame since there work was among the most though provoking and well crafter work I’ve seen in a long time.

Where am I going with this? You may well ask.

Most content creators - writers, artists, digital media creators - hold down full time jobs and work around that in order to provide new fics, new artwork, new gifs etc. for us to enjoy. Content creators are human, and like most of us get discouraged when no one appears to be reading (and I use that to refer to all media) their work. They create out of a genuine love for their fandom, but their own love alone cannot sustain the demands (emotional, intellectual and just giving up their own time to produce the work) that are placed on them by the sense of ‘responsibility’ they feel toward getting the work out there for their audience. If the audience does not appear to be there it makes it all the harder to justify the time and energy they are expending for you.

You can see last month’s engagement for me personally in the section below, and my point is this... It doesn’t take a second to hit the Kudos button on AO3, or the like on a post here on Tumblr. Better yet, comment on their posts, engage with them on their weekly posts, their TMI Tuesdays, the post where they share their work. I can’t stress enough how important that is to content creators.

Let’s all do our part to support our writers and artist. Like.  Reblog. Comment. Show the love!

Here’s what I hope to be able to post this week.

Monday - The Monday Menu (6 notes in April) Tuesday - TMI Tuesday. (4 notes in April - 0 asks) Wednesday - WIP Wednesday. (6 notes in April) Thursday - Three Things Thursday. (5 notes in April) Friday - Final Line Friday. (None posted) Saturday - Secret Saturday. (None posted - no requests) Sunday - Seven Sentence Sunday.  (1 notes in April)

Writing this week: I will be working on  Lover’s Leap #14, and  Disparate Pathways - Chapter 41, not necessarily in that order.

As always my inbox is open for thoughts, questions, asks… I don’t restrict people to any particular day of the week, and I - like most fic authors - love to discuss things to do with fics and OUAT. Whenever I have cell service, I’ll check for comments and answer what I can.

So, another HUGE thank you to those readers who have left comments on AO3. *smooches*

Talk to me, peeps! My inbox is lonely.

[route22ny]

Postcard view from Lovers’ Leap, presumably in the early 20th century, looking west along the Erie Canal toward the city of Little Falls, New York. Photo of an exhibit at the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse from an April 2019 visit.

[thebristolboard]

Sketch by Robert Crumb, 1977.

[multimikedc]

Lover’s Leap, Cumberland, Maryland.

[taylorparks187]

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