Write Your Dream Fanfiction!

It seems that the Tumblr team has no other purpose than to delete, close, and attack the accounts of transgender people and Palestinians trying to survive genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Two days ago, I was shocked to find that my blog, abdalsalam2000, had been deleted without warning and without me having done anything wrong, simply because I was asking for help from the Tumblr community. That blog was our only source of income that kept us alive in Gaza, and unfortunately, it was deleted by Tumblr employees.

In Gaza, we need at least $300 a day just to survive. After Tumblr deleted our account, this blog is all I have left. I hope you will help me by sharing this post, donating, and following this blog. Please, please help us and donate now.

sporesgalaxy

Please help Nader regain his followers and the momentum he had before his previous blog was deleted. Please donate to him now and follow his blog.

#this is why it's important to respond to comments if you want comments #cora reblogs

Friends, please donate now! Your help is our only hope for survival. Please share this post widely and donate here now, please!

ahmed-00-khalil

When a young child, not yet 5 years old, contracts smallpox after surviving the horrors of war, injustice, and hundreds of deadly nights, amidst the sounds of planes and tanks, this is not a passing or simple illness

ahmed-00-khalil

Imagine your child contracting this disease?! I'm writing this because my brother Ahmed was diagnosed with it on July 30, 2024, and his cries and suffering broke my heart. We searched every pharmacy and couldn't find any medication to ease his pain.

ahmed-00-khalil

And so a new chapter of suffering has begun, a suffering I don't want to become a habit. Some of the same pimples have started to reappear on my brother Ahmed's back, and I ask you to stand with us and donate. Instead of money coming in to buy food, we're now spending it on medicine and displacement expenses. Your donation, however small, is a candle in the darkness, especially after donations to our fundraising campaign completely stopped. Donate to us via PayPal or GFM

a-shade-of-blue

Vetted! shared by @/90-ghost (also here), #77 on @/gazavetters vetted list, shared by @/gaza-evacuation-funds, shared by @/el-shab-hussein!

I have been in regular contact with Mohammed for almost 2 years now. Please help him and his family!The money will reach him quicker if you can donate through Paypal, which is managed by my friend who regularly sends the donations to Mohammed.

Hello, among the hundreds of tragic stories, I am sharing my painful sto… Mohammed Khalil needs your support for Help Ahmed Khalil's family

Help support sanae harika by donating or sharing with your friends.

northgazaupdates

POINT OF NO RETURN!! CHILD NEAR DEATH!! PLEASE HELP!!

6-year-old Souad has been anemic since birth, and starvation and disease due to the IOF assault have caused her severe additional health complications. In September she fell unconscious and was admitted to the hospital. She has since been comatose and fluid is building up around her brain.

Medical staff have worked very hard to reduce the swelling. But despite their efforts, Souad's brain is now hemorrhaging (bleeding). The swelling has been too persistent, and the pressure is rapidly bursting the cells of her brain, causing bleeding. This will kill her. Little Souad is dying.

She needs to be evacuated outside of Gaza, but this is extremely expensive. The cost for transport through the Egyptian border, medical care, and associated expenses comes to $6,000 usd, about €5,000 EUR. This is a devastating setback, but all we can do is push forward.

PLEASE HELP US #SaveSouad!!!

Please repost the GFM and tag #SaveSouad to spread the word!. SHE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT!!!

€6,813 out of €7,739 EUR (22 April)

Need to raise: about €926 EUR ($1,084 usd)

Information on vetting linked under the cut of this post

I am Alaa Al-Hanjouri, 32 years old. I used to work as a teacher, teaching children and carrying their dreams on my shoulders... but the war

ao3commentoftheday

I give up. I really like an author and I have been commenting and kudoing their works. They don't reply to my comments and that's okay! But every new work they talk in the notes about how upset they are they no-one interacts with them or likes their fics. I could ignore it at first but now I don't want to read their fics because in the notes they will be again ignoring that I like their work. I will stop reading.

I'm so sorry anon! *hugs*

No one wants to feel ignored, and the fact that the author says that despite your comments must make it feel even worse.

I recommend you stop reading that author and also consider muting them. Muting an author will remove all of their works from your search results and bookmarks. You can still get to their fics if someone gives you a direct link to them, but you won't come across them by accident while just browsing the Archive.

If you still want to read them despite the ick, then just stop commenting. You tried to reach out and they weren't recognizing that (for whatever reason), and sometimes you just need to let someone be.

It's possible to hide notes with a site skin, as well - although it will hide notes on all fics, not just that author's. But you could also use a method that some folks use to avoid spoilers and change the text colour of author's notes to match the page background? Then you could still highlight them to read on other author's fics.

If that's something you want to try, this is the code to use for the default skin:

div.preface .notes { color: #fff; }

And if you want to do it in Reversi, change that hex code to #333 to match the dark grey.

ao3commentoftheday

it's important to pause and remember sometimes that the story is more important than the word count

don't let an arbitrary number get in the way of telling your story the way you want it told

#cora reblogs #so often I’ll have people tell me ‘my stories are too short how do I make them longer?’#and then they never give me a reason why said story being short is a bad thing #they just want it to be longer for ✨ reasons ✨#or because that’s what ‘real’ fanfics are like #but you’re not prioritising your story when you think like that #you’re just inventing some arbitrary conditions to convince yourself you’re a failure #but you’re not #I promise you’re not #stop focusing on what kind of writer you think you ‘should’ be #or what kind of stories you think you ‘should’ write #and focus on the one you ARE telling #because that is what all those ‘real writers’ do

musabkamel

The war did not stop, I survived death, I don’t know who will feed my children if I lose my life in this area that has been living in hell for 3 years, we are jealous of your donation 😭💔

My name is Musab Kamel . I am an English teacher, a husband, and a father of two children: Lana and Ahmed.I always believed that education w

He didn't get any donation💔💔

327€ only to be able to buy clothes for Eid for his children, knowing that the blessed Eid al-Adha is the day after tomorrow

There are 311€ left to reach the goal to make the child happy. Can we get them today, knowing that tomorrow is Eid al-Adha?🥹

The last donation 20 hours ago, 302 left to reach the goal 🙏🏻💔

star-shard

Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

Both are beautiful forms of writing.

#includes smut #love seeing this bit of fandom history

THE VERY FIRST STAR TREK SLASH FIC PUBLISHED

“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock. page 1 page 2

I had to share it with you because I can’t stop laughing, and every time I reread it it just gets funnier and fUNNIER

catbountry

This fan fiction is older than the push-through tabs on soda cans.

cylonqueen

Your grandma wrote this on her Commodore 64.

strike-team-delta

I miss my Commodore 64

stoplookingup

Oh my dear, sweet children. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982. This was produced on a typewriter and probably mimeographed. And while it may seem funny now, it took more courage to write and distribute this than you will ever know.

athelind

Reblogged for that last comment.

gokuma

respect your elders

ohfreckle

Children, in the olden days fanfiction was written on a typewriter, copied and sent by snail mail. Getting one one of those letters from across the world was every bit as exciting as getting a notification that your favorite writer posted a new fic.

berlynn-wohl

It’s been said before, but the fact that this fic begins with the dialogue assertion “We’re by no means setting a precedent” is endlessly amusing to me.

Diane Marchant changed all our lives. May she rest in peace.

prokopetz

The precedent line is especially amusing when you bear in mind that “A Fragment Out of Time” is not only the first Star Trek slashfic to be published in a widely distributed magazine: it’s believed by some to be the first slashfic of any kind to be widely published.

ralfmaximus

In 1974 it was illegal to send pornography through the USPS. So distributing fic like this via mailed newsletter was literally dangerous. And they knew it.

neodymiumcuilz

Donate to a family in need from Gaza 🍉🍉

The occupation has announced that it will annihilate Gaza City – and they have been murdering the journalists who are bringing the truth to us...

People do not want to leave Gaza City, as they are starving, weakened, and know that once they leave they will never return – and they do not have a safe passage to the 'safe zones'.

People will be bombed and sniped either way... 123 people were killed within 24 hours, the death tolls are only increasing, the bombardments are ramping up – so global pressure and support must ramp up..

Very little food is being sold at exhorbant prices. The trickle of aid getting in is not enough – the airdrops that western and regional countries boast about are humiliating, they have killed people, and are filled with sand and mould...

Aid seekers have been shot, trampled, tear gassed... did you know that 1,600+ aid seekers have been killed in Gaza? They came with empty bullets, and got bullets instead... people have been kidnapped at these sites and held in detention... this isn't aid – its slaughter.

The trucks that are getting in get looted, and fave heavy constraints from the occupation. Our donations are helping people get food, and they are helping people not have to risk their lives...

Without a doubt, your donations are crucial, and a lack of donations can sent people to their deaths...

Hello

If you can afford to buy a cup of coffee, you can afford to help Mohammed Youssef ( @mokahaed ) and his family... he has five children – and they have been subjected to genocide and torture that no child should ever have to face... ever.

They are verified, number 88 on the @/gazavetters list ... and also verified here.

The last donation was 44 minutes ago as I write this.

"After our homes were completely destroyed, displacement number 14 has now been made from Al-Tuffah neighborhood in northern Gaza. My family of 27 and I do not own anything due to the sudden flight from the area. We do not even have the most basic necessities of life. No food, no clothing, no drink. I was not even able to bring a tent due to the urgent evacuation request from the area."

Could you imagine ?? please donate if you can...

tagging for reach | please share this

musabkamel

The war did not stop, I survived death, I don’t know who will feed my children if I lose my life in this area that has been living in hell for 3 years, we are jealous of your donation 😭💔

My name is Musab Kamel . I am an English teacher, a husband, and a father of two children: Lana and Ahmed.I always believed that education w

He didn't get any donation💔💔

327€ only to be able to buy clothes for Eid for his children, knowing that the blessed Eid al-Adha is the day after tomorrow

There are 311€ left to reach the goal to make the child happy. Can we get them today, knowing that tomorrow is Eid al-Adha?🥹

xiaq

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

#forest #given my Very Above Average Love of Colour i'm interested to see what people think it is for me

mountainstackedwithfear

cantfightfatetoo

The Racist Fandom Starter Pack

A canon interracial couple exists "I just don't see their chemistry" proceeds to fanon ship [insert white character] instead, claiming they have more of a connection.

"It's not their skin color, I just don't like them for some reason, btw, here are my top 5 [insert white actors] I think are better suited"

"Not everything is about race". They say, as they prop up every white character over any character of color.

"Please stop bring race drama into the fandom". Which translates to, I'm comfortable in my racism and don't appreciate any criticism, thanks!

White person, "Yeah, I wrote character of color as an animal, doesn't make me racist".

"I love character of color, here's a fic where they act like as [insert white characters] servant/therapist".

Character of color is such a bad friend for having opinions of their own/taking care of themselves instead of putting their friend [insert white character] first.

A character of color is morally ambiguous or a villain, gets redemption arc. "They're awful and haven't been condemned enough of their crimes". Stans [insert white characters] who did the exact same crimes or was a villain who's redemption arc is praised.

"Can't believe that character of color had the nerve not to die as a selfless sacrifice for [insert white character]".

"POC actress/actor is too ethnic and they'd ruin the character".

"I haven't seen racism in the fandom therefore it isn't there".

"Character of color is the main character of the show sure, but let's be honest, everyone came for [insert white character]

"Character of color is alright but I can only relate to [insert white character]".

Feel free to add more, that you've come across. Sadly, it all runs together after awhile of being in a lot of fandoms. Special shout out to all who helped me with these comments!

creatingblackcharacters

"making character Black is inaccurate/offensive! I'm not racist, it's just facts!"

renthony

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.