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by 序川@xuchuan25

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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Bitches will find a fictional man attractive and then immediately imagine him in situations where he is losing alarming amounts of blood

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really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

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Now that I’m 30, I’ve decided I’m just gonna get really weird

#my post

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idk. it's never too late to start drawing. get a wacom intuos for 44 bucks and pirate an art program. use the billions of tools available to make it easier. trace 3d models. redraw existing drawings. make an elf and draw her 3000 times. you can do it. and if you are actually unable to hold a pen, dont go typing in prompts for some ai art, write fanfiction or original stuff. writing is art. it has just as much value it just takes longer than 1 second to appreciate

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Take my hand

Take my whole life too…

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Under the starry sky 🌌✨🌟

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Since I finished Goretober Ive been lookin to draw my faves again, so I downloaded like tons of references and I’ve been goin to town with NaLu,

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🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

▪︎I really worked hard for the result of this work ♡♡ I hope you like it XD

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the urge to write is like a cat meowing for dear life for someone to open the goddamn door, who then shows utter disinterest in said open door

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𝘐 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦...

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Yeah sure we’ve all binged a long fic, but have you ever read a WIP and followed someone’s life?

Tidbits of information - (“I graduated today!”) - and small joys (“It’s my birthday!”) and you get to be there to say “This chapter made me cry, happy birthday, thank you for gifting us this”.

I remember reading this fic of someone at the end of high school, older than me then. They seemed infinitely wise, spoke of their future career and getting into the college they wanted. I remember them posting on days they felt like nothing could bring them down - and on days the whole world did and it’s the aftermath of a hospital visit. Cancer, I think it was, their father. I got to the end of the story, I know their father was fine, but also they got to finish their WIP. I graduated three years later than them, still dutifully wrote thank you notes in every comment. I wonder if they remember me, or just the collective of people reading the story as it updates.

Four years ago I was into my first year of university, my first year of figuring out being out in public spaces. I made excuses as to why my name didn’t match my paperwork and read a fic on the train, the same five chapters over and over again for the next years as I thought the story abandoned. It updated this week after such a long hiatus, I left another thank you comment.

There’s an author I love, they update their stories like a clockwork. When they don’t, I check their blog, just to see if their doing alright, not because I feel like they owe me, just to ensure whether I better get out my laptop to write that really detailed university level essay chapter analysis to get them smiling when their day sucked.

And then, once, when I was 17, I read a fic that hadn’t updated in over a decade. I wasn’t even in primary school when it started posting. On the last chapter, I left a comment that, in retrospect, was horribly rambly and most likely full of grammar mistakes. The author replied and though I couldn’t see their face, I thought of them crying. They were married now, had children, and hadn’t thought about this fic in years. They went through their files again, found another half written chapter and an outline. I got two new chapters to read that year.

And then, recently, someone told me they got back into writing original fiction because of my comments. I get to read nearly weekly chapters.

I love binge reading a finished fic, but nothing is ever going to top the feeling of anticipation of waiting for a chapter, the pure joy when someone tells you I was done with this, but you made me think of it again, so this is for you.

Anyway, I think we should romanticize reading WIPs more, growing up alongside the authors writing the stories we love.

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Happy REVERSE BBD

I❤️ that I got to draw whatever I wanted n 1 of our writers chose my piece to write a fic!

writer: @avariantflaire

beta: @kirihasabigduck

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Fic is called: Afloat in a Body of Sun and Spice

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Good on you for being the better person and responding kindly to a bitter person.

Now stoop like your life depends on it

Whenever someone pisses me off, I tend to hold grudges for all eternity.

But maybe I should be the bigger person and forget about that shitty anon who had decided to be a smartass all those months ago, and made me spoil myself on the next big ShinRan moment after the London arc, just so I can know when I'm supposed to expect to see it.

Well, it took me seven months to reach these episodes, while it took the anime 8 years to do the same.

So, next time you come across a new fan, don't be a dick about it maybe?

#people need to stoop more #stoop to their level #and be better at it #you got this girl

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