Them-Tornado-Wranglers

Lauren💕 Welcome to my brain

[smurphyse]

If you don't think that fanfic writers get attached to their commenters and repeat commenters... you're crazy.

There's people who comment on my stories, disappear for months at a time, then comment when they catch up and I almost always remember their tagnames. It means the WORLD to me as a writer to have people who comment both regularly and irregularly on my stories/oneshots/moodboards.

When you guys go away for a few weeks or months... we notice! We hope you're okay and just taking a break, and when you come back rested and excited to read more stories, we're so happy to have you back.

So yes, please comment on stories even if it's once in a blue moon. You're not annoying, you're not overbearing for multiple comments or being super excited. You're helping fuel a writer to keep writing just to see what you have to say next about the next chapter! You're doing the Lord's work with your comments!

Whether you leave a Russian novel in a comment, or just go "noice", like... it makes the writer brain go !!!!!!💞

[spiridakos]

HAILEY UPTON, KIM BURGESS CHICAGO PD, 10.08 | “UNDER THE SKIN”

[boydykedoctor]

ao3 comments will be like “i like this line of your fic” and my reply will be like “fantastic thank you here’s my entire thought process about how i ended up with that particular line and also an outline for another fic i have and fifteen resources i used to research 1980s politics” and nobody asked for that chill

[yokothetypo]

i asked for that

[lizardlicks]

No we 100% asked for that.

[spacecasehobbit]

Definitely asked for that, and also here’s the other three dozen lines from your fic that I liked and the outline for the fic they inspired me to write plus some extra character meta that at this point is only tangentially related to your fic but was definitely inspired by those 1980s politics resources and -

[greenjudy]

Yep.

[saathi1013]

This is literally how I made most of my fandom besties.

[sweetiepie08]

Listen…

Fic Commenters: If you ever want to make a comment going on depth about a part of a fic that stood out to you, but think “does the author really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!!

Fic authors: If you ever see a comment that makes you want to explain your thought process behind your writing, and you think “does the commenter really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!

[spiridakos]

UPSTEAD + I LOVE YOU

[them-tornado-wranglers]

No teaser today but there will be a chapter on Friday. Chapters after what I have done may be a little rocky on updates.

I know we’re all hurting right now. It’s gonna take time to heal. Part of me is glad we know ahead of time (even if it’s still a sucker punch to the gut,) but part of me also lost excitement for the new season. I love Jay and Upstead so much and they are what brought me back to writing again.

I wish Jesse the absolute best and know I’ll most likely follow what he does next. It just hurts to see Jay go.

[them-tornado-wranglers]

IM NOT OKAY 💔😭

[xofeno]

Friendly reminder that ONE CHICAGO APPRECIATION WEEK starts September 15! It’s for all the shows and all the ships, so make something to represent your fave! Check out the announcement post for prompts and info. 

Can’t make anything? You still have a super important role. We need you to check the #onechicagoweek tag Sept 15-21 and reblog everyone’s posts! And leave nice comments! Because us moody creative types thrive on positive feedback. When we don’t get it we sulk in a corner and stop making stuff. So yes, reblogging and commenting play a super important role. 

OK? OK! Please join us! 💖

[spiridakos]

ONE CHICAGO APPRECIATION WEEK!

In response to the anonymous message that was floating around in several of our inboxes about organizing our own One Chicago Day for the date of the premiere, I decided to go ahead and organize a little something to celebrate this year’s season premieres!

But, instead of just one day…I thought it’d be fun to dedicate the entire week to the franchise leading up to premiere night!

Information and prompts are below the cut. 

Keep reading

[spiridakos]

upstead + i love you

[laurens-german]

“In the script, he was supposed to come into the bathtub with me and sit with me until help arrived, and Paddy was like, “Nope. I can’t do that. I have to pick you up and bring you to the hospital.” So that was something we had to kind of work out with the writer and make sure she was okay with that. She had written this beautiful scene, and we wanted to respect it. But ultimately, she was okay with him picking me up and taking me away, which is exactly what Paddy, as a man, would do and what Ruzek, as a man, would do. It was a dance. Everyone was working really hard to make it work.”

— Marina Squerciati on Burgess twist, harrowing fight scene and the ‘violence of emotion’ to come.

[them-tornado-wranglers]

This scene killed me 😭😭😭

[spiridakos]

HAILEY UPTON CHICAGO PD | FATHERS AND SONS

[imjustwritingg]

she’s always so smiley and it makes me so happy 🥹

[spiridakos]

TRACY SPIRIDAKOS as HAILEY UPTON CHICAGO PD (2014)

[ao3commentoftheday]

I ♡ readers

here’s to the readers who stay up past midnight reading just one more chapter

here’s to the readers who like one fic - so they go through our archive and read everything else

here’s to the readers who are still learning the language of the fic they’re reading, but they’re making it through anyhow

here’s to the readers who are too shy to tell us how much they love our story, so they just tell all of their friends about it instead

here’s to the readers who kudos - and then comment “kudos” when they can’t do it again

here’s to the readers who make rec lists or run fic reccing blogs

here’s to the readers who give out prompts and ask for metas and suggest ideas of things they’d love to see

here’s to the readers who hide their phones so that no one sees what they’re reading, but omg this fic is just so good!

here’s to the readers who keysmash, reaction gif, tag, comment, quote us back to us, and otherwise let us know that they loved our work

here’s to the readers

without you, we don’t exist

[phoebe-delia]

Just so y’all know: I can’t speak for every other fic author but I can say that I remember when people leave me kind comments. I recognize your urls and/or usernames on AO3. I remember you and sometimes in writing my fics I think to myself, “Oh, I hope this person sees this because they liked x in this other fic I did.”

Not only that—I go back and reread comments when I’m feeling low. I look at tags and reblogs and asks and wish I could hold them in my hand like a note from a friend on an old, torn piece of notebook paper.

Your comments have so much more impact than you know. So thanks to those who use the comment section to spread love and encouragement. We appreciate you.

[them-tornado-wranglers]

My face RN since ITS FRIDAYYYYYY

Ps: gif creds to haileyanneupton

[snake-and-mouse]

To any fic writers who worry they are wasting their time... I read a fic for a relatively small and inactive fandom about three years ago. And there was one specific scene where a character watched another dancing like an idiot to a beyonce song and it was so sweet and loving that even now years later I have that song on one of my spotify playlist so every once in a while it will play and remind me of that fic, and every time it does I smile and feel a little happier.

The stats on a fic will never really tell you if your writing touched someone. There's no numerical way to show you what impact you made. Maybe you are wasting time, or maybe you are writing something that someone will remember for a long time, something that will never fail to make them smile.

[them-tornado-wranglers]

This. All of this.