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my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice

kaelio

the tag game on this post is so strong

#I haven't been here in a long time but this was sent to a friend as a callout to them for completely unrelated reasons #she then sent it to me as a callout for a very specific reason #we died laughing #don't go where i can't follow mr frodo #anyways I might actually come back to tumblr at some point but if not here's one nice thing before I disappear back into the void

haven’t been here much lately, going to attempt to migrate to that pillowfort account I made ages ago and try to keep that going instead, I’m nuanta there if you wanna find me, also if you need an invite link let me know!

buttpoems

a drawing about optimism

trisscar368

Rule one of fandom: there are some things that only exist for us.

Don’t send actors fics

Don’t give them explicit art ever

Don’t tag them in rpf questions or theories

Don’t try to bring them into fandom drama of any kind

Don’t hold them responsible for what the producers and writers decide

They’re still people. They have private lives, which do not include fandom.

thekristen999

louder for the people in the back!

sexydexynurse

For fandoms that don’t have actors? Don’t do this to the content creators either.

Don’t bring them your discourse about characters.

Don’t bring them into your shipping wars.

No matter how much interaction they have with fans, they aren’t your friend. They are the content creator and you are the fan.

Yes, hold the people responsible for writing and creating content responsible for things that are racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, classist, etc. And encourage them to do better.

Do not expect them to cater to your desires regarding character arcs and canon ships.

elfwreck

There are actors and some content creators, especially in film, who adore fandom and think it’s all wonderful.

THEY WILL FIND US.

You don’t have to send things to them. The fact that fanfic and fanart exist are no longer fringe-group secrets. Everyone in the entertainment industries know that fanworks exist. You don’t have to tell them. You don’t have to tell them that some of it is explicit; you don’t have to tell them that a lot is not. You don’t have to show them that some is adorably cute.

If they’re interested, they’ll seek it out. Don’t inflict fanworks and fandom drama on them; you don’t know what squicks them, what reminds them of some personal trauma - and what they are contractually, legally required not to acknowledge. (Or what they are legally required to report to someone else, which is worse.)

If they like fandom, they can find it. You don’t have to let them know it’s here, and you don’t know enough about their tastes to recommend “the good stuff.”

gearlic

90% of my writing experience is doing this

dirthenera

The other 10% is crying

diadoescomics

A comic based on playing different routes but keeping the Immortal Corps as Byleth’s battalion.

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#fe3h

andyoucallmeupagain

What a year March has been

leninisms

it’s still march???

picadreams

Yup, we got another whole week of this nonsense.

amarantheia

Could you possibly do Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III possibly with his gun held out?

Here’s Edgelord Extraordinaire Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III my friends, in… some colors for sure

#critical role

dmellieon

hubblegleeflower

This is so good. Makes me feel like I'm really helping.

Which I need, because this kind of sucks.

peppermintquartz

The comic, which has a cult following, particularly in Europe, has also become a major film franchise, both in animated and live-action form.

Kurama T^T

This FIGHT and this whole episode - I LOVE THEM

#critical role #critical role spoilers

andhumanslovedstories

If your fic is 1000 words long, you can’t tag it slow burn. It’s not slow burn. That is a matchstick. And this is my personal bias here but if those motherfuckers you’re writing experience significant forward momentum in their relationship in under 5k words, then that is just a regular old burn. Slow burn should be borderline intolerable and a mistake to start reading at 2 in the morning.

andhumanslovedstories

If the fic doesn’t have multiple scenes where two people almost kiss but then don’t because of a contrived interruption that they are both grateful for and angry about, until the desperate reader is forced every other paragraph to mutter, “this is fucking ridiculous, this is bullshit, I’m so fucking mad, please update sooooooooooon,” then it isn’t a slow burn. It is a romance and that is a lovely thing but. Slow burns should feel like being set on fire unto your death but the tinder is people not kissing and the spark is people who don’t admit they love each other and the whole thing is. You know. Slow.

andhumanslovedstories