That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.
Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."
The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.
And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?
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so i may or may not have printed out the entirety of @anonymousalchemist's amazing fic like a bird, like a stone onto three Very Large pieces of paper.
you might be asking, why, fay? why did you print out an entire 53k fic for a video game you've never played? well you see, if you read it, you would understand.
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sorry if you’ve read this before and i just haven’t seen you post about it, but the book “hell followed with us” by andrew joseph white seems right up your alley
i need some kind of faq with a section where i explain that i consider andrew joseph white to be a poor writer except when it comes to describing excesses of body horror and gore because people keep suggesting hell followed with us to me and i'm sorry but his books are not good. aside from the vivid descriptions mentioned above they're incredibly devoid of compelling narratives, fleshed out characters or immersive worldbuilding. the guy can come up with some amazing concepts for a story, but his ability to execute them is consistently disappointing. i'm glad he's making money and having fun pursuing his creative passions but his stuff just does not appeal to me at all and frankly makes a hater out of me.
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wei ying in anne hathaway’s dresses from cannes 2022
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begging all the people doing queer reimaginings to stop for like 5 seconds and think: is this adding anything to the original story? or am i taking something away? do i understand the original intent behind this story? what am i saying by reimagining it in this way?
please. i'm tired of all the queer stories being bland reimaginings that don't even understand the source material
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Are you okay there, friend?
I am alive! Thank you for your concern, it's very kind of you to wonder after me
This has been a pretty hectic summer with a lot of responsibilities, and new challenges cropping up. I DO have a lot of asks to answer and kindnesses to thank people for, and I'll hopefully be getting to them soon.
Thank you again for asking, and sorry for the delay in responding! I hope u have a good day 💚
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Confession #178
"Its obnoxious how some people try to erase Seven and T'Lyn's queerness for women, acting like they only exist for the men they ship them with. Not Seven and T'Lyn's fault they got more chemistry with female characters than they with your boring white male self-insert."
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Top 3 underrated YouTube channels I like and you should look at:
Tirade: scary games, responds to comments, always super nice. Check out his videos, or just leave an encouraging comment.
hodge podge: cosy games, very chill and relaxing voice, uploads a lot of farming games and has lots of completed series organised into playlists
reubengv: video essay type videos about British TV, not as underrated as the others but his videos are really interesting, especially the one about Jam.
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I don't have enough skill/time/love and devotion for mcyt fandom to draw it any better, but I saw this tumblr post and just had to do it to em.
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how many breakdowns should you have about dropping out before you seriously consider dropping out. asking for a friend teehee
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Devastating that you had ten peaceful years to get into Jean and Jeremy but you only became interested in them when your headcanons got an expiration date... Like yeah Ill always keep smoker Jeremy in my heart no matter what Big Canon tries to sell me but it is a lowkey hilarious turn of events for you. Here you dropped this *hands you a cardboard L*
BAHAHA (takes the L) thank you............................... to be honest ive always liked jean and i never really cared for jeremy beyond his friendship with kevin and those opinions haven't changed so much as they have evolved. i still don't think much of jeremy beyond that he's funny and a good man, and i'm glad he's a good captain for jean, but there's not much investment here. perhaps the new book might make him more worthwhile to think upon, but truly there's very little about jeremy that makes him interesting or engaging to me beyond the amusement of his dynamics with jean and kevin. i daresay that as a protagonist for tsc he'll be the weaker end
BUT YEAH IT'S TRAGIC. it's all very tragic. i'm not looking forward to ten years of fanwork getting disproved or rendered useless, and to me, that's the most awkward part about the timing of tsc's release. i don't think there's anything anyone could do about this, or if there was any way nora sakavic could've timed it better, but i guess it's just still a little sad to think about. personally i'm not excited for the influx of post-tsc release content that suffocates the fan content made in the past ten years
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I got too carried away with my next posts and I'm fighting my anxiety 🙃
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I am regularly shocked that people under the age of 18 are on this site. That’s illegal you can’t do that. <- joined when I was 15 and the site still had “go nuts, show nuts” in its TOS FAQs, no filtering or blacklist function to speak of, and no community labels.
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| TMDG ANNOUNCEMENT| 💙🔪💔 | AU Ground Rules |
I'm in the process of writing TMDG. I've had several people ask me if they can use my SK! Sans in fanfic or what have you... Or expand on the very limited lore I've provided:
Please... Do not.
I have all the pieces in place for SK! Sans's backstory/motivations/characterization. There's a whole background for Frisk I have yet to reveal, etc etc — Everything is plotted out.
I just haven't put it out there because it's *spoilers* for the fic that I'll be releasing in the future.
So anything TMDG / SK! Sans / Final! Frisk related will kind of have to remain closed for now.
I'm not saying that the whole of the True Crime genre is off limits, that's ridiculous, but the story of TMDG itself is under lock and key at the moment.
NOW, that being said: You're free to make all the theories you want, you're free to draw Fanart, etc buuuut I do ask to refrain from expanding on my ideas which are... airtight and secret.
Trust me. They're all there. They're just behind a padlock rn.
I hope all of that makes sense.
Love you all!!!
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And thank you so much, Dear Hearts, for getting interested in this concept. Please just bear with me.
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I’ve picked up again a batfam angst fic I predict I’m about oh halfway done with. I’m usually very insistent on getting longer fics finished and beta’d before publishing but I’m feeling less fastidious about this one since it’s broken up into many small chapters. Plus I’m hopping the hanging dread of showing it to the world will encourage me to finish it.
So here I ask:
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