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how to draw arms ? ? 

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Since Ao3 has temporarily disabled guest comments due to very mean and pornographic bots, now is a very good time for 1) readers with Ao3 accounts to comment on the fics they love and cherish to make up for those who cannot leave guest comments and 2) readers without Ao3 accounts to join the waitlist and make an account!

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"You Missed the Point by Idolizing Them" Starter Pack

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PACING IS ABOUT LOAD BEARING WALLS.

*staples violently to my own forehead*

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Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

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I don’t know which author needs to hear this right now but even if you never update your wip i would never regret reading it a time of joy is never wasted

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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Person: What's your book about?

Writers:

I'm both somehow 🙃

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I write for myself

*checks AO3 every few hours to see if I got any new kudos, comments or subscriptions*

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Worst Crimes a Female Character Can Commit (By Order of Severity)

10. Theft

9. Tax Fraud

8. Murder

7. Terrorism

6. Violating the Geneva Convention

5. Being impolite (esp. to male characters)

4. Being feminine but in a way that is neither childlike nor sexy

3. Being even slightly "like other girls"

2. Being mildly annoying

1. Being the canon romantic interest of a male character who is more popularly shipped with other men

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Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"

And I'm like...

A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?

B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.

Yall are wilding.

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im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

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Some writers: *meticulously plan out every plot point and the tone and meanings before they start writing*

Me:

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