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Critique is literally the life blood of art for the love of god, listen to me!!!!!

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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

#Egg and cheese sandwich with onion mushroom and peppers sauteed in Cajun butter

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A phenomenon I’ve seen in fandom with a large central ship is that people will have their shipping goggles activated at such an intensity, they doggedly erase character traits that don’t contribute to pushing forward romance. The two individuals in the relationship are rendered utterly one-dimensional through the loss of any individual aspects of their story or personality that could be interpreted as an obstacle to shipping.

This makes fanon interpretations of the characters boring and uninteresting to read about because they have no character traits other than being in love with their romantic interest. I like shipping as much as the next guy, but I hate fandom-at-large’s tendency to only engage with a story through shipping, and especially to the extent that the characters are barely individuals, and do not exist outside of the central romantic relationship

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someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"

#I see some people in the comments saying 'only include the author if u have only nice things to say uwu' #I'm built different. I wanna know all the things even if they aren't nice. Bring it on. #I want to actually ENGAGE with the people who read my work even if they dislike it. I want to know why. #sam are queue tired of running?

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I'm convinced it was a tragedy that tumblr learned the phrase "bury your gays" at the exact same time it decided that any fictional media darker than Landlord White was pearl-clutchingly problematic. Pouring one out for every creator of earnest LGBT+ media wanting to explore the themes of grief loss and tragedy who then got subsequently hounded by mobs of terminally online users brainrotted on nothing but conflict-free coffee shop AUs.

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i am taking away comic books from every antisemite ever get AWAY from my inherently jewish medium i swear to hashem

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https://altonbrown.com/recipes/southern-buttermilk-biscuits/ BISCUIT BONUS WITH CHOCOLATE GRAVY

#BISCUIT???? #NO BISCUIT OPTION????????? #BISCUIT!!!!!!!!!!!! #polls #sorry. I feel very strong about. Biscuit.

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Which ones do you have?

If anyone out there has comic panels of the great clash from retellings of the old gods/the battle that caused New Genesis and Apokolips to form, send them my way! I have three but looking for more!!

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This happened to me once.

An author I deeply admired and respected died when I was in high school. I was at the peak of my depression then so I didn't really grieve or deal with it until college, when I finally processed my feelings by writing a fanfic set in that author's universe. The story was intentionally structured around the premise that the author's passing had irrevocably changed the world of the author so it would never be the same. The central location was destroyed, leaving heavy grief in its wake- but even through that grief, memory and love and community would sustain itself and keep the world alive. There would be new stories and new things that grow, but the world as it was known had ended.

It was a deeply meaningful piece for me, and it's very in line with how the author himself approached his work and philosophy- he wrote for children and always gave his stories a happy ending, but he also did not shy away from death and it's grimness. He always said that he killed good guys off as well as bad guys because he had both life and death in his work, and I wanted my tribute to him to reflect this.

Well, it hadn't been up 24 hours before someone in the fandom wrote a "fix-it" fic of my fic where the world was fully restored and all the grief and mourning was erased. The world went back to normal. Everyone was OK!

Of course, the author was still dead. I still don't have the words to capture how I felt when I realized that not only had someone missed the entire point of my story, but everyone liked the new version better. It got far more attention and commentary than my original story.

I won't say it completely destroyed my desire to write and create, but I still struggle to produce anything, let alone share it, to this day.

Minor pet peeve is when there's a piece of art (or even a meme) that evokes a negative feeling and ppl feel the need to make a "positive" edit/sequel/whatever like maybe negative feelings are okay sometimes. Maybe we can express feelings of despair and anger and loneliness and even self-destructiveness through art and we don't always need to turn it into an "everything will be okay tho :)" message just because those feelings aren't nice to have. Like maybe that's the point, dipshit. We all feel bad sometimes, we all get the ugly emotions, and art lets us feel it together and make meaning out of it. I get that the intentions are well-meaning, but it's irritating as fuck.

#writing #lang rants

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#Main and reoccurring #Stop tagging people who appear for One Line or who are literally just mentioned in the background #sam are queue tired of running?

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friendly reminder that findtags is the best way to search tumblr’s absolutely destroyed tag system. it actually accurately looks through the tags without omitting results. it’s the only thing i use at this point because it’s the only thing that works

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#Ngl check please #The way the fandom talked about bitty as a southerner #And the ways the fandom talked about class in Jack and bitty's dynamic REALLY put a bad taste in my mouth #Ofc I ended up singing the Stan Wrong Song bc check please is Good Actually and a lot more nuanced than the fandom makes it appear #To this day I still avoid the check please fandom tho #I have seen very little that makes me want to engage with it #Polls

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there is a way of talking about the people who Make Things online and the things they make that is so so odd to me that feels very prevalent in the tumblr spaces i am in...there's like. this framing of fanwork as a gift or a service that is made for a community which is like. idk i don't want to say that's an incorrect framing. there are probably people who feel that way about stuff they make. but its a framing that is so divergent from how i think about the stuff i've made that it's really weird to see it be so prevalent. or seem to be so prevalent.

#I have very similar feelings #sam are queue tired of running?

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i got to 114 before I caught myself writing Imrahil down twice, which is a damned shame because I had a ways to go

I do also think a reasonable case can and should be made for some unnamed characters- IE "The Master of Lake-town" from the Hobbit or "The Lord of the Nazgûl", tho I went with the Witch-King title bc it's the closest we have to a name

I also included Bill the Pony, Old Man Willow, and Fatty Lumpkin bc they are characters To Me

Bonus internet points will be awarded to anyone who actually tries this exercise before voting.

Assume you need to get the spelling at least somewhat close, and if a character has multiple names, only one counts. Also, if a character doesn't have a canonical name, I'm sorry, but "that guy's wife" doesn't count.

For reference, if you can name the 9 members of the Fellowship, the eponymous Hobbit and his 13 dwarf buddies, 3 prominent women, and the guy who runs the Rivendell B&B, that's 27 characters right there. And you probably also know the name of a dragon.

For further reference, Tolkien Gateway has 637 (!!) pages dedicated to Third Age characters. (Don't click that link until you've voted, of course)

Edit: Your humble pollmaker gave this a try, and got as far as 73 before deciding she was too tired to keep trying to remember dwarf and Silm names. If you also want to share (and don't mind people being incredulous at your having forgot ____), pastebin allows you to paste text and share it for free. :)

#To id later #Undescribed #Also can you tell I love the rohirrim lmao #But fuck me I forgot theodwyn I'm so sorry queen #Lotr

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#They're all from comicked book so a fight is inevitable #Ok so. I do think my header (sam guthrie and bobby drake) wins #But the cowboys (colt rawhide n two-gun) put up a hell of a fight and if bobby n sam aren't careful they're going down #sam are queue tired of running?

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#new gods v1 #king Leopold's ghost #sam are queue tired of running?

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#polls #It's a banger song! #This was alsot he specific section of the song I made my dad's ringtone #Before I cut him out of my life so #Yeah :)