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sugarxinim · 28 days

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I promised myself I wouldn't draw supercorp 🙃

#i started watching and was in love with alex until lena showed up #uuugh #wtf her voice???#i'm obsessed #why are they not a couple??!! hello??!!#god I can't believe I'm suffering in 2024 #i guess i did that to myself #my art #supercorp #lena luthor #kara danvers #supergirl

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tenpintsof-sundrop · 4 months

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I really really hate to be that person - especially because I know a lot of people are under the impression that fanfic authors are greedy and we should be grateful for any comments we get, even if those comments are full of unauthorized concrit, even if they're kind of rude, even if they're weirdly self-shaming (sometimes insinuating that people should feel bad over reading the dark or smutty content in the fics or that we should feel bad for writing it in the first place even though you're also reading it??).

But like, lately, I have been getting so many comments along the lines of "this fic should be longer!!" "I wish this was a series!!" "please turn this into a series!" "I would read endless sequels of this!!!" - today someone literally commented on one of my fics saying that it was a war crime that the fic was 30k instead of being 'a whole series'. And I totally understand the mindset that if something is good, you want more of it. If you enjoy something, you want more of it. But these comments are definitely not as flattering as people think they are.

When reading those comments - it doesn't always come off as a compliment. Most of my fics range from 5k to 30k on average, and they are usually oneshots or oneshots that I have split into multiple parts in order to be more readable - most of my longer, ongoing series are abandoned because I didn't have the steam to maintain them. (Most people don't know at all how hard it is to write a good, coherent, well-plotted 100k fic and actually keep up with it.) After I post the fic I have written later this week, I will have written over 400k this year alone, with my entire AO3 having over one million words split between 79 different fics.

So often, having people look at my fics and having their only comment be to 'write more' - feels like an insult. Because I do write more. I have written more. I write consistently. (It just sucks that people have almost nothing to say about what I have already written.)

Having people look at my fics - usually very long fics - and go "hey, this would be better if it was longer!!" or "hey, that was good, but the only productive thing I have to say about it is: make it longer" - it always feels very discouraging.

It doesn't make me want to rush to write more of that fic. In fact, most of the time, I actively avoid working on sequels to fics where the only comments are 'more please' because I know the only thing people will say about the sequel is 'when are you gonna make more?' - and oftentimes, I don't intend to make more.

I have said this in another post, but the ending to my fics are always intentional. I don't write fics with the mindset of turning them into a 100 part series. I write fics with the mindset of making them like a film or a short TV series - telling a capsule of a story with a very intentional beginning, middle, and end. And if I write a sequel, it's because I feel there is more to be told - but I will also cap off that sequel with a very intentional ending.

(Also, don't get me started on the complex of - if fics don't have the classic 'happy ending' people feel like every single thread needs to be resolved until it gets to a more classic happy ending, when I love writing intentional melancholic and thoughtful endings.)

Also - in general, I feel like people don't understand how much work goes into a fic. It might take you about 2 hours to read a fic that's 30k (and a lot of people who are avid readers probably read faster than that, reading it in an hour or less) - but concepting that fic, writing that fic, and meticulously editing that fic so that it can be readable and pleasant for people takes upwards of 20 hours of work. I would say realistically, upwards of 30 hours. And those are just working hours - hours sitting at the computer actively working. That doesn't include the time spent in between workshopping the ideas in my head while I am doing other mundane tasks in life.

It's very, very easy to consume a 30k oneshot in one sitting and then hold out your plate and go "more please!!" without putting any thought into how much work went into the original fic.

All of this just to say - please think about these things next time you are commenting on a fic (or even closing a fic without commenting at all), or doing something stupid like generating a fic with AI - which steals from everyday hard working fanfic writers. Fanfiction is hard work - it's a labour of love, and it shouldn't be about blind consumerism where you finish one and then rapidly start looking for the next one. You should appreciate each one like a good, hand pulled taffy instead of gobbling them all down like cheap candy mass made by factory machines.

Yeah - I think that's it.

-your local over worked (but still passionate) fanfic writer

#uuugh #either nobody will see this or everyone will and they will complain about it #sundrop speaks #dick grayson x reader #jason todd x reader #ellie williams x reader #spencer reid x reader #abby anderson x reader #mike schmidt x reader #fanfiction #fandom #vanessa shelly x reader #gar logan x reader

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rwrbgifs · 10 months

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Red, White and Royal Blue - 2023 (directed by Matthew Lopez)

#rwrb movie #red white and royal blue movie #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #mine #gifs #gifs: alex #gifs: henry #trailer #i hate the prime logo #makes the gifs look ugly #uuugh

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wildrbst · 11 months

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#haha just making my friend watch sherlock #this will b fun #now look where i am now #uuugh #johnlock #bbc sherlock #mywork #john watson

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ickyguts · 20 days

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couple ah sillies for the soul

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conceptofjoy · 20 days

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being out to cis people is so exhausting. i dont feel like deconstructing your assumptions on gender for you to understand what ive got going on so just fuckin call me a girl i dont care.

#uuugh #d talks #we need to tell them that boy and girl arent the only two options and that non binary isnt a Gender gender but a label #<i mean an umbrella term

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radioactivedragonspit · 25 days

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Does a story reeeeeeaaaalllyyyyyy need a beginning, middle, and end? Can't it just be me over-describing my vivid daydreams of my blorbos blorbussing about? Can't I just paint you a little word picture of a few vaguely related, highly cinematic moments, and let you find the narrative hidden in it? Ugh! Why must I do *alllllllllll the work* ?

#i wanna write fic #but i havent written in so long #i love words and describing things #but planning out scene -> scene -> scene and actually executing those transitions is HARD #i havent got FORESIGHT or PLANNING!#ive got VIBES and SENSES and SCENERY #UUUGH

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idssun · 4 months

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