thewindkind

Chris | 🏳️‍🌈 | she/they | thewindkind on AO3

[jellymellydraws]

AO3 Comments are SO SO SOOOOOOO important because you can only leave Kudos ONCE. You add to the hit count ONCE (every 24 hours).

So whenever someone updates their fic, the ONLY way an author knows who their regular readers are is if they comment on each chapter. And we WANT to know who's still reading.

Believe it or not, some of us think about the name that pops up constantly in the comments and go "omg I can't wait to see what they think of THIS SPECIFIC SCENE cuz I KNOW they'll say something about it!!!"

[diezentrale]

bob being literally just a little guy with his camera (to take pictures for the archive)

[marauders4evr]

Friendly reminder that Vincent van Gogh willingly checked himself into an asylum so that he could get better, resulting in him creating some of the most iconic paintings of his entire career, done in the asylum, when he was being treated 24/7, because he finally didn’t have to struggle with his demons and could instead focus on his muse, WHICH WERE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

Remember this little insignificant painting?

How about this one?

Check this one out:

All of these and more were painted in the asylum when he was receiving treatment for his mental illnesses and I know I just said that but I said it again and I’m saying it a third time until you dramatic abled assholes understand!

VINCENT VAN GOGH

- KNEW THAT HE WAS MENTALLY ILL

- WANTED TO CHANGE THAT

- WENT TO AN ASYLUM

- GOT THE HELP HE NEEDED

- PAINTED SOME ICONIC MASTERPIECES AS A RESULT!

SO DON’T YOU DARE COME OUT HERE WITH THIS, “I WISH I WAS DEPRESSED SO I COULD BE AS CREATIVE AS VAN GOGH” BULLSHIT BECAUSE EVEN HE KNEW THAT HIS DEMONS WERE HARMING HIS WORK, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HIS HEALTH, AND HE DID EVERYTHING WITHIN HIS POWER TO FIGHT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE, UNTIL THEY ENDED UP WINNING! 

[asexualmew]

This is also incredibly important for any creative persons dealing with mental illness, and their parents.

Receiving mental help improves your craft, not hurt it. Before getting put on medication for the first time to treat my mental illnesses, my mom expressed to me how she’s worried about my getting treatment because of my art. Regardless, your mental health should be more important anyway, but, honestly, it’s a lot harder to produce good art when you struggle getting out of bed, let alone creating masterpieces. When you’re in more health, improving your craft comes much easier!

[grandparomeaskblog]

Personally I think the most beautifull painting of him was this one:

He made it when he heard about the birth of his nephew who was named after him. Still in the asylum but really happy for his brother! “How glad I was when the news came… I should have greatly preferred him to call the boy after Father, of whom I have been thinking so much these days, instead of after me; but seeing it has now been done, I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, big branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky.”

[justasillynerd]

Oh I have sucb rants about how “good” art comes while suffering.

No.

look at me.

The idea of the “suffering artist” comes from bunch of alcholic, drug abusing, womanizers trying to justify their bad life choices as some sort of artistic angst.

IT IS 100% BULLSHIT

Take your meds, get your therapy, be happy, and live life

The art will be there.

[magicianmew]

Kill the myth that artists must suffer.

[ceausescue]

i think this is probably true of every office, but there's a middle aged woman working in business who doesn't hold any particular place in the chain of command but is Sovereign. i was running support and she has access to more secure network drives than i do. im pretty sure she has an admin account. i was having trouble with my parking pass and my boss just said to talk to kristen- one day later i had parking in any garage on campus. she's not even in charge of parking in our building

[maniculum]

This is also true of academia. In pretty much any department of the university — in my experience at least — there’s a person with a small-but-private office and an unassuming title (probably including a word like “secretary” or “assistant”), usually an older woman, and she actually runs the place. Faculty defer to her; department heads come and go, but Jill has been there for thirty years and knows how everything works, and she’s the person you go to if you want to get anything done. You’ll know her because when a professor directs you to her they won’t say “you need to talk to the Office of So-and-So because this falls under their purview”, but “you need to talk to Jill.” Her official job title is basically irrelevant because her actual role is acting as eminence grise for this whole operation.

I’ve personally had the experience where my advisor told me “you should do such-and-such certification, go talk to Jill,” and I went to talk to Jill & she said “actually you can’t do such-and-such because XYZ,” so I went back to my advisor to relay this, and he just kind of shrugged and was like, “well if Jill says no, then it can’t be done” and that was the end of it. Complete veto power, no higher authority to turn to, because the only reason Jill can’t do something is if it’s literally impossible.

Honestly there’s probably a whole dissertation about invisible labor and gender dynamics in there waiting to be written.

[onyxbird]

The one in my undergrad department was Linda C, and I think her hypercompetence must have risen to the point of allowing her to manipulate time itself, because in my experience, every time you needed to talk to Ms. C, you would end up chatting with her for at least an hour (which was both enjoyable and informative) and yet she got so much work done--it just didn't seem physically possible.

[doctortwhohiddles]

Take secretaries and administrative assistants out of any organization and you'll see it crumble in no time. They are the holder of the secrets to understanding red tape and other administrative nightmares.

[lobotomydaughter]

ao3 emails are the best emails to receive bc it’s either a comment or kudos on my work, a comment in reply to something i said on someone else’s work, or a new chapter/fic from a writer i’m subscribed to. you can never go wrong with an ao3 email. bless.

[wynnston-nia]

Mein erster richtiger Post hier yay!

Die Fanfic „Das Tigerauge“ von thewindkind war so gut, dass ich etwas dazu malen musste!

[thewindkind]

Das ist so cool, ich bin voll gerührt 🥹🥹🥹

Tausend Dank, ich fühl mich total geehrt 🫶🏼😍♥️

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

This wins the internet for 2024!! 😂😂

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

Brilliant 😂😂

[saywhat-politics]

[onethirdofimpossible]

Okay, I was just going to reblog this without commentary, but I can't keep this to myself. I'm a PhD student in environmental science and this is my fucking highway.

The first published study about climate change (that I am aware of-- feel free to point out if there's an older one) is an 1896 paper by Svante Arrhenius. He pointed out the link between the greenhouse effect and changes in atmospheric CO2.

Plate tectonics, which the geoscience community now recognizes as near indisputable, was a fringe theory until about the 1960s.

Just in case anyone thought that climate change was a "recent fad" in research.

[rederiswrites]

Okay, so, pretty sure that a lot of teenagers have that one friend with the BIG mental health struggles, and you're regularly up with them in the chat (it was phone when I was a kid but fr chat is better) til 2 in the morning trying to patch their brain back together. I know I did. And you feel like the world is against you, and depending on the adults around you you might be right. So you feel like it's your responsibility. You feel like you have to keep them trying, keep them functioning, maybe even keep them alive. The parents are either oblivious or actively harmful. You feel alone with this burden.

And while I can't tell you you're wrong, what I can tell you is that it's not your responsibility to burn yourself up for them, and it probably won't work. I'm sorry. That's harsh. But you need to protect your OWN mental health, and your friend quite possibly needs more than it's in your power to give. The actual solution for them is professional help, possibly medication. You can't give them those things. Solutions for that are individual and possibly just simply not available.

But while being a good friend sometimes DOES mean doing hard things, it doesn't mean burning yourself up to try to save someone when you don't have the power to give them what they need. Knowing that doesn't change the situation, I know. But I hope it might ease the intensity of your own experience. I've tried to save people. It's never worked. Some of them got through on their own, some of them took sustained damage. I needed saving myself at points, and people were there for me until I was ready to dig myself out. But you're not trained for this, and ultimately it's not your responsibility. You can't cure people just by loving them. I'm sorry.

[papookwrites]

Fanfic reader's prayer: may my favorite author's hyperfixation on this fandom last longer than mine 🙏

[thewindkind]

Ich weiß, bekloppt, aber ich dachte mir heute spontan "Hm, ich frag mich, in welchem Jahr die meisten Shandrews-Fics entstanden sind". Und dann hat mein Nerdbrain beschlossen, dass ich mal zählen will. Also habe ich das gemacht. Hier ist das Ergebnis:

Also von den über 270 Shandrews-Fics auf ao3 sind ca die Hälfte im letzten Jahr entstanden. Wir leben im Boom, Leute, bin begeistert :)

[thewindkind]

Hier ein Roundup von eigenartigen Dingen, die ich im letzten Jahr für meine Fanfictions gegoogelt habe (in no particular order):

- Wann verjähren Straftaten in Kalifornien?

- Heilende Wirkung von Steinen

- Sind Stiefmütterchen in Kalifornien heimisch?

- In welchen US-Staaten kann man schnell heiraten?

- Bojack Horseman

- Kommen bei einem Filmriss die Erinnerungen irgendwann wieder?

- Lernt man besser, wenn man mit der Hand schreibt?

- Kann man in Kalifornien manchmal ausnahmsweise Nordlichter sehen?

Ich finde, ich habe viel gelernt :D

[creativepromptsforwriting]

The fluffiest masterpost

Hugs

Touching

Hand-holding

Domestic fluff prompts

Soft Domestic Stuff

Fluff Prompts

Fluffy Dialogue Prompts Part I

Fluffy Dialogue Prompts Part II

Fluffy Sentence Starters

Cute Interactions

Super soft intimacy

Make ‘em swoon

Casual Affections

Affections without touching

Seeking out physical affection

One Hundred Compliments

Giving the reader butterflies

Making your characters blush

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[aufgrundlagedeinerlikes-deactiv]

3 episodes in and they are already honoring the ancient tradition of not telling percy shit

[thewindkind]

[marusagorjup]

I recently had the opportunity to draw a cover for dqbt_records’s album “Kushiro Rainfall”.

I love how the final illustration turned out and I really enjoy painting these cozy scenes and I hope to get more projects like this in the future!

[thewindkind]

This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen

[bababaka-deactivated20250331]

Yall need to interact with fanfiction author's more.

So. After the ao3 strike.

I was encouraged to write more comments and make my love known to fanfic writers.

I dont really like commenting. Because im a bit shy and soooo lazy.

Now though. I am writing more comments. And dude. This is so heartwarming. Ya'll need to treat writers better. They are doing the lord's work.

Take for an example, couple of days prior, i was searching for something interesting to read, and found an oneshot quite compelling.

I read it. At the end of it, i was blown away by how good it was. It promised me something and it went beyond my expectations. But then i saw a crime, zero fucking comments!

At that moment, i wasn't feeling up to writing a comment. Because, normally i like to write huge paragraphs. But because im lazy i decided to be brief.

Next day, the author answered that the comment lift their mood for the whole day.

That warmed my heart.

Duuuuuuuude! Write comments! Suport the writers of the fics you like! No need to be something super elaborate. Just give your thoughts. Freak out. Ramble. Ask something. Make theories. Compliment. Make a joke about how you wished to give kudos every chapter but ao3 sucks(not true bby) and won't let you.

Truly. Just. Comment. It can make someone's day. And that is part of the apeal of writing fics. Interacting with people.

Just give love to fanfic writers yall. They deserve this and so much more.