Vibrant Orchid

Jojo, Feel free to ask me (nearly) anything about my works or more! Updates, sneak peeks, and more will be posted here. (He/She/They)  My beautiful icon was created by the talented @based-ducks , go check out their incredible art! Find My Work Here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Vibrant_Orchid/works

[vibrantorchid]

Help me out with some financial troubles with rent and get some nice writing in return. If you can’t please share!

[vibrantorchid]

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

@weirdkev27 commissioned another chapter of “The Pink New Deal” that retells Phillianne and Zan’s first meeting from the perspective of Duckington’s reluctant billionaire, Phillianne Tropy

[nerdlingwrites]

Hey remember what I said about making changes to the OTW and AO3 from the inside? Fuck that shit, I was completely wrong. Stop giving them money, stop wasting time voting in their rigged elections, and start giving them noisy, angry hell on every single fucking platform you can find. Especially white people.

I loathe being stuck between the rock and the hard place of AO3 being the ONLY place I get any kind of engagement on my fic, and how much I hate, in order, the organization and people who run it, their policies, their volunteers, and the people who stan for them.

The urge to take my fics down from their site and just deal with the fact I'll never have readers again gets stronger every day

[nerdlingwrites]

Also white fans if you're liking this instead of reblogging it, you're part of the problem.

[k-vichan]

Take it from someone who has been around the fandom block: 

fanfiction.net is dying.

all the signs are there. 

if you have no other record of any fics you have there… you might wanna… like… do something about that. 

[k-vichan]

Whoops. I did not intend for this post to blow up in the way it did. I’m not saying this is gonna happen tomorrow or even this year. I don’t have any inside information, and I’m purely basing it off of past experience. They could surprise us. Who knows?

The signs I’m seeing are based off of watching other fandom-driven websites in their end days.

The biggest glaring red flag: they no longer have any visible active moderation team or admins that are working on Fanfiction.net specifically. Reports are going unanswered on everything from plagiarism to abuse to page-breaking ads. Emails are not returned. Twitter mentions are never addressed.

Based off of their limited Twitter activity, all of their resources appear to have been funneled to FictionPress, leaving Fanfiction.net to flounder. If a website does not have anyone actively attending to it, it will eventually die.

The abuse alone could drive users from the website. When users are receiving repeated death threats and they have no way of curtailing the abuse or banning abusive users from messaging them, users will eventually just leave. Admins would have the capability of blocking the IP addresses of people sending abusive reviews and messages, but… what admins?

The code update that went through a few years ago that broke many old fics was never fixed. Many users are reporting major issues in uploading fics. The more they leave the site unattended, the more things will break.

The domain is registered through 2028, but if they keep going in the way that they are sooner or later it’s just going to wind up as a barely-functioning corpse of a website.

I am convinced that the only reason they leave it up is to collect ad revenue. If users continue to leave due to abuse and unreliable service, that ad revenue is going to tank.

I’ve seen this happen to so many websites over the years, and they rarely - if ever - get a revival.

But again - they could surprise us. I’m not counting on it, though. Nobody’s home anymore.

[demishock]

This is well-timed, because I logged on there a couple months ago to back up all my old fics. Put in my username and password. Someone else’s account information loaded up. I literally logged into some stranger’s account with my own user info. My fics were there, but the profile (including the user ID number) was someone else’s. I took a bunch of screenshots and sent in a support email aaaaaaaand nothing. I managed to snag all my fics and that’ll be it for me for that site. I don’t know wtf is going on there but it ain’t good.

[baejax-the-great]

Reblogging again because my friend mentioned being locked out of her account and ff.net blocks people from copy pasting, so she was afraid her fic would be lost forever when the site eventually goes down.

If you are in danger of losing all your old things, I found a reddit thread with a number of work arounds so you can get your fic off the site.

[mommacomms]

As of 26 March 2021, the staff of FictionPress have confirmed they are migrating FFN to the same server - which is extremely bad news for that server and for FFN as a whole.  Lots of technical stuff is going haywire too based on using the Inspect tool in Google chrome.  Get your fics while you can.

[saccharii]

Hey! If you didn’t know you can copy and paste from ffn’s mobile site. If you want to copy paste from the browser for convenience sake go to m.fanfiction.net

[thesoulspulse]

My friend @phantoms14 shared this on twitter but honestly I have a feeling there’s some truth to this since the site has been buggy as hell this year and any emails I’ve sent asking for help with one issue or another have gone unanswered. Like there’s virtually no communication with the admins, not even a generic message. So just to be safe I’m backing up all of my fanfics but sadly I’m not sure if I can copy other fanfics I enjoy for personal use since some of them are either super old or incomplete. It’s hard to say what will happen in the near future but it’s definitely a good idea to make back ups of your own stories if nothing else. Also whoops, I didn’t realize it was 2am already. Better finish backing these up before going to bed…

[vibrantorchid]

Just making another post to showcase that I’m doing commissions. HOWEVER--I will be donating all of the commission money this time to a friend of mine, Allen (https://m0nkeybee.carrd.co/). Currently he has emergency art commissions open for a tense family situation. I would like to help him out so if you want to support him--check out his carrd for art commission info and if you’d prefer a writing commission, I’m right here and the money would be going to the same place. 

[vibrantorchid]

Commission money has been donated! I ultimately decided to go with The Bail Project because I had wavering confidence with ActBlue (nothing solid just weird vibes), so I went with TBP. The money can be used a number of times over so I thought this would really increase the impact I’m making (and that you’ve made as well since this is commission money)

[vibrantorchid]

Update If Such a Thing Intrigues You

I know I haven’t put out anything on AO3 and here in a long time. I don’t like leaving people in the dust so I thought it might be appropriate for a small update. It is very likely I’m being annoying or over-estimating the need for this update. I’m sorry about that.

First, it turns out that my mental health dipping was actually depression so that sucks. It doesn’t appear to be a severe situation but my therapist seemed concerned so I eventually started antidepressants at the tail-end of November. I know I’m not an interesting individual or have much of a scope in terms of internet outreach but I do want to be open about these subjects. It might not be much but I would like to contribute, if only slightly, to de-stigmatizing this topic. 

My self-esteem is absolutely roasted. Between that and a quarter-system college workload, writing has been difficult to say the least. Even when I do find the free time to write, I am consumed by a vehement self-hatred for my writing that I can’t bring myself to do it. 

For those of you who are still waiting on the Wereduck fic, if there are any of you, I’m sorry it’s taking so long. All I’ve managed to do was beef up the outline.

I’m sorry I’m such a terrible creator and I wish I could be better for you all

[rocket-sith]

Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

[moretrashyrpmemes]

Reblog if you're okay with people just sending in random asks. Mutual or someone you've never interacted with!

[vibrantorchid]

Halloween Writing Update (It’s Bad Y’all)

My mental health fucking dipped like nobody’s business in a way I did not anticipate. Because of this, I’m canceling the Monster writing thing I was attempting to do. I was really excited about it but with everything in mind I can’t promise it how I presented it. I might be able to finish the few fics I started but I can’t promise anything else. I’m so so sorry about this and I hope you are all doing well and are staying healthy. 

[vibrantorchid]

Since we’re all trapped inside, I want to bring a little Hallow’s Eve festivity with some monster smooching (although they don’t have to kiss--love has many forms). I do have to get them done before I have school in October, so the deadline is set. 

[vibrantorchid]

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

Once again, sorry for taking so long to update. I will say that part of the next chapter is already complete so the wait next time won’t be so harsh. 

[vibrantorchid]

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

Another commission done! 

Zan Owlson always thought making business deals could be hard, especially working for the "very real Scotsman" Flintheart Glomgold. However, she finds a new charity deal with Duckington's Phillianne Tropy to be her hardest deal yet, and she has no one but herself and her heart to blame.

This was a commission for @weirdkev27 

If you’re interested in getting a commission of your own, you can find more information here!

[vibrantorchid]

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

The first of my commissions is complete! 

A special mission brings Camille Chamelon closer to Splatter Phoenix than she has ever been before.

This was a commission for @based-ducks

If you're interested in getting a commission of your own, you can find more information here!

[vibrantorchid]

Hey everyone, I’ve decided to finally open up commissions! As promised the first set of commissions will be donated to various bail and mutual aid funds through this link https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd. However, after that initial set of commissions the money received will go to me as I have entered a state of financial uncertainty. As of now, it is not super serious so please don’t see your support of me in this fashion as integral. The best way to describe it is a safety net, so keep your wallets and eyes open for those who are in need more than I am. Thank you for reading, I hope you stay safe, healthy, and loving! 

[odddior-deactivated20200814]

i know there’s a lot going on but ICE are now one step closer to literally creating gas chambers. they are spraying a chemical called HDQ neutral roughly 100 times a day, every 15 minutes at the adelanto detention center (one of the biggest in the country). people are getting rashes, headaches, their insides are bleeding, etc. the guards are wearing gloves and masks but the detainees have NOTHING. and here’s a quick reminder - america inspired the nazis to create gas chambers when they gassed latino people during the 1917 bath riots. 

here’s a petition to sign. it’s close to it’s goal. if there’s anything else we can do to help i’ll update this post.

[vibrantorchid]

Updates on Writing/Personal Updates

Unfortunately, I haven’t been too active in my writing-nothing new has appeared on AO3 in a while. School had taken up a lot of my time and when the school closed, there was the added stress of homework without the stimulation and joy received from human interaction. My mental health further declined as time went on and it got to the point where my body had a physical reaction to it and I was sick for nearly an entire week with muscle aches, drowsiness, and stomach unease.  My goal for the month of May had been to release a chapter or two of “An American Wereduck in Love”, another un-related fic, and do a soft run of writing commissions (was especially anxious about this one). With the aforementioned circumstances, none of that got done (although I did make a nice sized dent in the next chapter(s) of the wereduck fic).

Taking into consideration my mental health and current circumstances, I still plan on getting out new chapters of the wereduck fic out in June, but have entered into an internal debate concerning commissions. If I am able to balance my mental health and writing my fics with commissions, then I will do them in June. If not then, I’ve given myself permission to not see that as a failure on my end. 

If commissions do happen in June, I will NOT be receiving the payments for them. I have firmly decided that IF they are to happen, all money I receive from the writing commissions will go to organizations serving and protecting protesters. While I had no plans to spend the money superfluously anyways, I would not have deeply been in-need of the funds. At this moment of time, the protesters need it more than I do.  I will also take this time to say I am in FULL SUPPORT OF THE PROTESTERS. Not only do I firmly believe that Black Lives Matter but also it would be antithetical to my LGBT+ identity and personal beliefs, to not support the protesters. Stonewall was a RIOT, and riots are the language of the unheard. Everything I have written revolves around characters, especially those belonging to marginalized groups, being able to create joy and their own personal path in life from hardships internally and externally. My writing and my beliefs would mean nothing if I did not support these protesters across the nation as they fight for a world in which we can all pursue happiness. I do intend to donate to appropriate causes (I think I found one which splits your donation where needed-checking for legitimacy-I will post the link once I know), regardless of whether or not I open up donation commissions.  Thank you for your patience with my writing and I hope you are all staying safe, healthy, and in-balance of moderating your mental health with your justified anger over this breach in democracy.