#even anon asks if youre scared

[jinx-on-mars-19xx]

Hey people I love 🖤

I was thinking, in the Yes Daddy verse I'm going through a lot of different kinks but this is Dom and Col so there's definitely more to come. I was just wondering if anyone had kinks they'd like to see in it at some point? I can't promise I'll get to them all or when but I love interaction about my writing. So comment, send an ask, even anon me ideas? Let's have some fun! Oh! And if you want tagged when I put out a new chapter let me know! A huge thank you to everyone already liking, commenting, and reblogging! You're amazing 🖤

Edit: I will edit this to include the list as I get them so people know what to look out for. So far the big ones:

Watersports

Feminization

Docking

Feeding/Eating (to come)

#my fics #com #dom and colson #dom x colson #dom and colson fic #com fic #send me ideas #trade kinks with me like pokemon cards #even anon asks if youre scared #i don't judge #🖤🖤🖤

[miwtual]

im so fucking tired of the disrespect gifmakers get on the gifmaker website

#kai.txt #negativity tw #(sorry these are gonna be a lot of tags. i have a lot of feelings and i dont know where else to put them) #we make gifs and nobody reblogs them #when they do get reblogged all people want to tell you is that your gifs arent good enough to them and rip it to shreds #'you're missing x' 'why didnt you do y' 'if i made this i would have abc' 'hey op ur wrong and this is why' 'i dont like this op' #reposters dont even reblog your fucking gifset but they'll save your gifs to repost later asking for how to do something #that they could have asked you how to do in the fucking first place #we reblog ourselves constantly because nobody else will and maybe to make our work look like it has more notes than it does #to make ourselves feel better about the lack of interaction we're getting #and then when we TALK about this frustration we have. people who are too afraid to say it to our faces #go on anon in our askboxes and tell us how we're somehow selfish for wanting people to interact with the sets #that we spent time on. hours. days. WEEKS in some cases #or we get anons who tell us the reason we dont have notes are because we arent good at gifmaking in the first place #but this is all on anon. because they're too scared to tell it to our faces #they're too scared for us to see that they ARENT a gifmaker and that they dont know how to do it any better either #they dont see us as people doing something we love as a hobby. they see us as content machines that dance like court jesters #im just so fucking tired of the disrespect #and this sentiment goes for more than just gifmakers. graphicmakers. artists. literally any creative hobby shared on this site #we get treated like shit and for what? literally for fucking what.

[lucabyte]

your ocs!!!!! please ramble about them!!!!

i love your art so much

(GRABS YOU) H. CAN DO BOSS.

So ! My ocs. I guess I'll do an overall explainer for the overall groups. If you check out my Toyhouse (LINK!) there's a bunch of folders up top that are how I categorise them. It's primarily by universe except for the folders that are just "misc."

So folder 1: Blatant favouritism:

These are silly little guys that don't fit in any specific wider universe, but I really really like. So I'll spotlight the two important ones before i get real in the weeds with my main universe.

In here are notably, my Fursona (self explanatory), Ali and Pittsburgh Cincinnati. There's also Hauntkit and Clearpelt who are warriorcats ocs that *is dragged away by airport security*

... So, Pittsburgh, lovingly sometimes called pissbug, is a weird little Thing who I made as like, an homage to characters like happy bunny and Sweetypuss. She (and her weird dog) exist to stand next to strange and offputting captions. I love her. No further context. She's just silly. and violent.

Now. Ali.

Ali Alighieri has thoroughly stolen the show, and also ties into the next folder along, Making Your MK.

With over a hundred extra images compared to second place (Sorry, Tabitha). Ali is my fucked up little scrunkly. My little baby guy. They're a shared character of mine and @samhainian's, and is from their Creature Feature setting (A modern fantasy setting wherein Cryptids and Magic are real but in our modern world.) They are as such, a modern human young adult... Who is also a demon + magic user.

Strange little pansexual altersex genderqueer poetry-nerd that they are... The modern setting also means they are literally just a tumblr user. A fellow countryman, so to speak.

HOWEVER.... Ali's true origin was in *Purrgatorio*, a scrapped visual novel of mine set in the MYMK universe! They were simply retrofitted into CF as the joke with Purrgatorio was that a regular human had mysteriously just shown up in MYMK's pure-furry setting.... And then when we scrapped the project we got all attatched to our little not-so-blank-slate protagonist. But I'll put a pin in Purrgatorio for later.

Making Your MK.

(Guest of honour: My super unfinished website <3)

Okay so here's the big one. The setting with.... (looks at spreadsheet) 109 characters not including so-called incidentals. At time of writing.

MYMK is home to... Multiple stories. As you would hope when a setting has 100+ characters. I'd wager each story has about 10-20 relevant characters tops but with a big shared universe like this there gets to be overlap between casts!!! Yay !!! 😊😊😊

MYMK is the name of the main story in the setting. Pronounced "Making your Mark", it is centered around Markus Felidae (The purple one) and their family. It's very action-adventure-y. It's also the plot I'm most secretive about the backend of since I WILL!!!!! Turn it into a nice prose story with pictures SOMEDAY!!!!! But for now tee hee hee secrets secrets. Markus' family is strange and ragtag and is keeping something from them... I can't ramble on too long here unless further prompted in asks about specifics but!!! Everyone in the MYMK folder has a fully furbished little profile with a blurb about them. So if you're curious....

But yeah, I tend to think of the MYMK setting more in terms of its Locations than its Casts, due to the overlapping nature of them all. The Malbranche may be the villains of the main plot, but they're also major players in relation to The Palsgrave who are the antagonists of Moraine, etc etc,

The country everything in MYMK is set in is called New Orphidian, Southern hemisphere little thing, here's a very cartoony map of it.

Um. Cliffside!

Since it's the best map I have... Here's an exclusive sneak peek of a Zine I'll be getting back to once the fandom brain cools down a bit.... :3c

(... I REALLY NEED TO DO A TOUR AROUND THE MINECRAFT CLIFFSIDE SAM AND I BUILT..... IT'S SO CUTE....)

Cliffside is situated on a big ol' Cliff.

A tiny hamlet of a place, it used to have reason to exist, and now does not. It's not even a good tourist locale, as the cliff is much too dangerous compared to the nicer tourist spot of Welkin just a little north. Not to mention nearby Moraine's allure as a tax haven with no labour laws place where a bunch of TV and Movies are filmed!

It's where most of MYMK's main cast reside (except the antagonists from the Big City Varmonte), and is as such a location I have a lot of tiny little worldbuilding thoughts about :)

I won't go into the other locations here just because then this post will SUPER get away from me but... I think most importantly for Cliffside right now...

Is that it's where Purrgatorio is set. Yes, that VN I said got scrapped. It's not dead. It is in fact serving it's original intended purpose as "A (mostly) noncanon exploration of character voice and setting"

It's back and its prose babeyyyyyyy!!! (A BUNCH OF THE EARLY STUFF IS ME BEING SUPER RUSTY ... BE WARNED)

Purrgatorio is currently the most publicly available coherent work I have out of my ocs! It's very low-stakes and serves mostly to bash my toys together and see what character dynamics come out, but you can look if you want to!

(There's also a whole THING on the meta of its Canonicity... It's not canon, but it's also not NOT canon. But if I talk about Metanarrative Timeline Collapse in my normal mundane non-magic setting im gonna sound bonkers ✌)

Ali's dynamics with the MYMK cast are so goddamn funny to me. Like I literally just handed my OCs some ET shit but ET is a sexually repressed tumblr user with a mood disorder.

But yeah I don't think I can coherently string together much more about MYMK without just actually explaining THE WHOLE PLOT.... Though I will absolutely elaborate on any given character's Whole Deal if i'm prompted. (OH MY GOD I DIDNT EVEN TALK ABOUT CHROME AND TABITHA. WAIT. OKAY THERE'S. OK NO IF I TALKED ABOUT THEM IT'D JUST END UP AN ESSAY ,SORRY..)

So here's some bonafide classic images for the road.

(IF TUMBLR BREAKS THE FORMATTING AND JUST PUTS THESE ONE AFTER THE OTHER INSTEAD OF IN A GRID IM SO SORRY LMAOOOOO)

... And as for the other folders on my toyhouse!

Misc and Fandom are what they sound like. Self explanatory,

Then, Ysden is @samhainian's fantasy setting. It's where our DnD games happen to be set but it's also a general fantasy setting :)

and Monster of the Week... Is currently being revamped! It used to be a modern world setting with hidden magic, now it's going to be more... Adventure Time-y. Fantasy world get iphone. Yknow. It has a lower Age Rating than MYMK's "anything goes", as it started as a Pitch Bible Project in my animation class. They're a little neglected but I still love them :) The revamp is extemely recent and not reflected in any of the art/writing yet but I'm workin on it. It still doesn't have a proper title..... OTL

So yeah!! Uh. This wasn't as comprehensive as I was hoping but it turns out I have way, WAY too many thoughts on my guys. And no idea what to do when im actually asked about them so !!!! This was not a very coherent ramble but it was a ramble !

There's things like essays on Chrome and Tabitha (Link) and also The Queer Gender Identities Of The Whole Cast (Link) hiding around on my toyhouse, and once again, Purrgatorio (Link) serves as my sandbox for playing with how these characters act in situations.

But..... ! I did try to make my toyhouse approachable for the average layman. Every character in the MYMK folder (Link) has a *blurb* of information, rather than a giant wall of text explaining everything about them. I want people to be able to understand their general vibe at a glance rather than be overwhelmed.

In any case ???? Uh. Fun game for everyone: If you know your homestuck classpect, every single MYMK character has a classpect and lunar sway. and a birthday. Try and find your andrew-hussie assigned kin! As a Prospitian Witch of Heart, I share my classpect and lunar sway with Chrome. No I don't know what this means. It worries me honestly he's kind of an asshole.

#oh my god this is so long and not coherent at all anon i love you thank you so much for asking but this is unintelligable from me LOL #long post #EVEN LONGER IF TUMBLR BREAKS THE FORMATTING WHICH IM SUPER SCARED IT WILL DO #but yeah. BURSTS INTO TEARS. I LOVE MY LITTLE GUYS THERES LIKE 10 YEARS UPCOMING OF DEV ON THEM ITS UNWEILDY #THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING AUGH.... SORRY THIS IS MOSTLY JUST SAYING TO LOOK AT MY TOYHOUSE LOLLL #but if anyone catches your eye dear reader feel free to ask about them in specifics? even if they seem niche or under-drawn... #i will have had a lot of thoughts on them. no matter what. #also my toyhouse doesnt make it clear whos trans gender because i only list pronouns and not gender identity but . theres a bunch. #i have so many goddamn nonbinary characters who use binary pronouns too its . i realise i make it hard to tell LOL #anyway the classpect assigned kinnie thing is my fav thing to do. everyone should do this with their ocs #lucabytetalks #LUCABYTETALKS LIKE. A LOT. THIS TIME. THIS IS SO DISORGANISED GOOD LIRD.....

[sunflawyer]

I really adore your blog and your OC is so adorable! You're really the one that got me kinda interested in self shipping, so could you please tell me how you got yourself to just... do it? I'm really afraid to be cringe or recieve judgement if I do something like that, along with breaking the canon kinda scares mr. I would appreciate some thoughts/tips on how to get over yourself lol! Have a great day. ૮₍ ´• ˕ •` ₎ა💗

AHHH anon this is super sweet!!! thank you for liking my blog and abby!! (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠) I'd be more than glad to tell you my story!!! 🧡💐

first of all: cringe is dead!! selfship is supposed to be enjoyed by you and yourself only. thats why its called 'self'ship!! you dont have to worry about what others might think of you. because here in the selfship community we're supportive of each other!! 🧡 id be more than happy to help you too!! <3

also, canon means nothing here! i know there are selfshippers out there who follow the canon storyline for their selfship, but there are others who dont! (like me!) i know it can be very scary to do that, especially if people from the fandom discover you and ask you stuff like "why is this like this!?" and believe me, it happened to me too. but!!! dont listen to them!!! it might sound hard, but if you believe in yourself (and all the people who support you) you'll eventually feel less scared! (｡⁠•⁠ ⁠ᵕ⁠ ⁠•⁠｡) its your story and your universe after all — nothing and no one can stop you!

i know there'll be moments of doubts, but trust me, if it makes you very happy and you want to do it, just go for it! you can start slow and do tiny steps, and i'll be here to accompany you always anon (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡ you can always go to my inbox to rant and ask me stuff!

and always remember! your f/o loves you lots and lots and lots and they'll guide you in every step of the way too!! 🧡

#🏵️ inbox in! 🏵️ #mayo.txt #self ship positivity #this one is a really nice ask 🥹 #makes me so happy!!! thank you so so much for liking my blog im so over the moon😭😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 #self ship #selfship #self ship community #you'll just have to remember that your f/o will always love you even if youre a tiny bit scared. theyll hold your hand and reassure you tha #everything will be fine!!! #because they'll protect you #and we will protect you too!!! 💗💗💗 #huuuggss you anon!! 🫂🫂🫂

[crimeronan]

grown ass woman and you didn't even know Rhodesia? Please pray some Paradox Interactive games like eu4 or hoi4. look it up. Please this is depressing if even weird smart girls don't know basic history

hey guys. get a load of this fucking moron.

#mad i'm not your red scare coquette who knows about rhodesia huh. your weird smart girl manic pixie dream girl fantasy #i'm a high school dropout from rural fucking new hampshire in the US you useless fucking piece of shit. #like unfortunately you caught me in a worse mood than usual but get so fucking close right now. get so fucking close #girls who look up countries and terms they havent heard of before to understand posts >>>>> girls who know about rhodesia and send this ask #ooooh i wouldn't be this pissed off if you hadn't called me a weird smart girl like you're trying to pretend you respect me but waow #god fucking forbid i admit what i don't know and that i looked stuff up to learn. which i did on purpose. #because plenty of other people don't know stuff and are afraid to admit that they look stuff up to learn. #and i prefer to be someone that others are comfortable around. who makes other people feel more comfortable being imperfect #that's too much for you i guess. #shouldn't even respond to anons like this but i really want to get some strong hatred for you manifesting #everyone who reads this think really hard about anon dying in a fire #or just stepping on a lot of legos if you're a gentler soul #replies

[callibones]

debated sending this or not, b/c we don't rlly know each other and i didn't want it to sound objectifying? but please do not stop tgirl tummy tuesday. not only is it a wonderful way to boost your self confidence. it is a little treat for your followers

FAR FROM IT!!! this made me go AWWW and my eyes lit up. thank you so much.... i was so anxious agajsgsjsg this makes me feel so much better about it :-] i will continue to give my followers lil treats as long as i feel comfortable doin so and im havin fun with it! and i sure am havin fun with it

#callie.txt.exe #anon.zip.pif #YOURE SO SWEET FOR THIS #also. how do i put this #Please Objectify Me #no thats not quite what i mean #how bout this #i havent gotten an ask thats made me feel objectified in a bad way yet and people have sent me much spicier!! #what makes me wanna keep doin stuff like postin pics is (perhaps selfishly) the comments agajshsjsh #the confidence boost isnt just from intrinsically posting it its from people seein it and bein super sweet about it #which a handful of people have been which is so kind and wonderful #ill never know how u feel if u dont say somethin! if youre scared anon exists #but also i dont bite #ive BEEN bitten a lot by a lotta people #but i dont bite personally! #so even if we dont know each other super well u can always dm me or send me an ask or somethin #i like making friends on tumblr. #this goes for ANYONE who wants to be my friend: if u want to talk to me but dont know what to say or when to say it #just send me the word blaseball and ill take it from there >:-]

[erros429]

You’re one of my favorite blogs, how do I become your friend

BBFJSHDKSHDKSHD this is so sweet but literally all you have to do is dm me 😭 i’d go for it myself but. you’re anonymous. so

#insane to me that i’m one of your favorites. what the fuck did i even say to achieve THAT #there’s no reason to be like. scared of interacting with me or abything fhsjdhsjd i’m literally just some guy #literally nothing about me should warrant nervousness. except that i am very viscerally gay at all times #sorry in advance by the way #asks #anon

[skeletalheartattack]

gouger? no.

*slaps a set of honkers on that beast*

bouber

sorry we can't let you escape into the wilderness with that kind of knowledge. we're gonna have to put you down humanely. or not. whatever we find funniest LOL

#ask #anon #sorry it had to happen anon #we'll put some carrots in your enclosure until the moment comes #promise us you wont like. carve it into a knife or anything. our guards are not prepared for knives. scared even btw. #*doesnt wait for confirmation and leaves. we dont even have security cameras* #sorry im having fun with my tags #i should have the boubers. not the gougers. simply im allowed #for myself. on me. my body. on my body. in my shirt and bra. i own them. #anyway thank you anon for your wisdom!!!!

[kakusu-shipping]

I’m kinda insecure about one of my f/o’s because, 1. He’s a teenager (and I’m an adult), and 2. He’s kind of a meme character. I’m worried people will think I ship myself with him as a joke, but I’m not. I really, really like him!

This is the Internet and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks ever.

Well that's my go to response anyway, but I do understand the hesitation, especially with a canon minor character, feels like you gotta dance around certain people for that, and it makes the whole thing feel kinda exhausting. Though I'll say, it's probably not as scary as you think it is, it's easy to fall into this hole on the internet that if you make even the slightest misstep people will scream for your head, but it's really not that bad, I promise. Maybe I'm just lucky though, or off most people's radar.

The other half though, the worry people think you're self shipping with them as a joke? Honestly, if people think that, it's probably fine all things considered? Like I get it kinda sucks not being taken seriously, kinda hurts, but at the end of the day your F/O knows you're serious, and you know you're serious, and that's what matters.

Every character is someone's unironic Fictional Other. There are people out there who'd unironically want to Marry Shrek, or Nagito Komeda, or Sans Undertale and the Oncler together. And like!!! Good For Them!!! I love that for them!!! Shrek and Sans love them back!!

So if you're comfortable with it, take a deep breath, and love loud.

#Self Ship #Proship self ship #Proselfship #Honestly I keep temping fate but like #I have Never. Not a once. Gotten a mean anon for my shit #I've gotten a handful of 'Is this real' comments that I just delete #And one DM from an artist telling me my art isn't for them (blocked instantly of course) #But other than that if you just. Mind your business and sail your own ship #It's actually really easy to avoid people who'd get on you for something silly like the age of your FO #As for the meme side I wouldn't worry too much about that #You know I have Zack Binspin Moshi Monsters on my F/O list #And yeah the first time I talked about him basically everyone in my server made fun of me for him #(I think they meant it lightheartedly) #And it kinda sucked but like #There's been an ask sitting in my ask box for a few months now #From another person who ALSO has Moshi Monsters self ships #There's always like minded people and there's always someone who'll take you at your word #I'll be one of those people for you if you'd like to tell me some day! #Until then! Do your best to Love Loudly! #And even if you can't. Even if you're still hesitating or scared. Your F/O loves you all the same #You've got this! #I believe in you! #Do Whatever You Want Forever

[eggwishing]

What motivates you to keep drawing so much and so often? Do you ever get caught up in the "i hate my art"/"my art is shitty" kind of feelings? I really enjoy seeing your stuff and I enjoy drawing too but this is something I personally struggle with. Do you too?

oh yeah absolutely i get caught up in that stuff. not too long ago, i would go for months on end without producing anything more than doodles on schoolwork because i just felt so disappointed with my art.

I still feel like that sometimes even now, where just picking up my pen to draw can feel like pulling out teeth. but yknow you only pull teeth when there’s a good reason to, and my reason is to not let myself fall back into that cycle of loathing my art n halting my progress because of it. that’s my line of reasoning, at least.

but OFC always take breaks if you feel yourself starting to burn out, don’t break your back drawing when you don’t have to. sometimes stuff’s crazy and you just needa focus on staying sane

#asks #anon we’re shaking hands i feel you😢 we’re in this together #we all draw and learn at our own pace . if you feel lime your art is stagnating #try something challenging! or a new medium if you can . if youre used to digital try out traditional n all that jazz #you get what i mean hopefully #just look out for yourself there’s never been an artist who feels good abt their stuff all the time #🤝🤝🤝🤝❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏 #hope im making sense If im saying some stupid bullshit just look away lol #and the motto Finished not perfect applies to everything. Art especially #there’s this quote ‘the perfect is the enemy of the good’ n yknow its true shit . dont get snagged on setting impossibly higj standards #bc youll just scare yourself awau from even trying to reach it #which you CANT btw NOBODY can nobody can make perfect shit #im rambling Ill stop now buhbye you got this anon🙏🙏🙏

[itstimetodrew]

Could you fix him? Could you fix the green goblin?

The real question is would I even want to? 🤨

I could not, though. He'd have to want that for himself too and he absolutely has not for like... multiple decades. Maybe he wants it now. He could be lying. We just don't know... but I do know he's a doomed person and it's sexy. :)

#I know it's the opposite of what the mcu wants me to take away from their 'everyone can be saved' story but #I am 75% sure if they sent Norman back now de-goblined and understanding the reckless and insatiable violence he is capable of #he would be scared for maybe 10 days and then go right back to the '...okay lemme try ONE more time' thinking lol #when will you learn!? when will you learn!?!?! that your actions have consequences!!!! #real talk I’m probably gonna be dissatisfied with any way he’s handled in future MCU stuff lol #like if they make him good?? some new ‘billionaire weapons manufacturer who is now a good guy’ a la Tony stark type?? boo. stinky. #but if they keep bringing him back as a villain like. what new ground can we even tread here?? #and if we don’t see him again I’ll still be sad bc..I want more 🥺 #I CAN’T WIN!!!! just like him :) #anon ask

[judasisgayriot]

Anon you've got shipping Peterick here! Hi again! I uh.. dreamed about them last night. Your blog is literally that powerful XD

oh my god…. *looks down at my hands* nobody should have this much power

#omg anon hi I was thinking about you lol. #uh not uh a weird way I was just thinking abt your previous asks earlier and wondering if I scared you off completely yet by being #a crazy person about them. but it’s not my fault the fuckin peterick well is infinite and full of #more insane shit than you ever thought possible. #anyway that’s incredible I love that you didn’t even know who they were before I lost my entire mind. sorry xx #asks #anon #anni rambles

[pokeficdaily]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23920054/chapters/57518632 i have no idea why paul and barry arent ship tagged lol. or ash and clem. another fun fact that the phs creator has official phs art on their blog. but again not linking that sorry. btw i got paul everyone say who you are in the comments below

⬆️ me and my tumblr mutuals wait hold on why is misty/prof oak tagged did i fucking miss something <- i don't know how to fucking read it doesn't say that sorry i'm tired

#asks #not a fic #mod 🦭 #anonymous #ask to tag???? idk what to do bc of that tag #okay on a srs note and this is not hate towards the creator but as much as i like phs there are some weird moments #like the nurse joy/cilan (even if he's aged up) and n/hilda stuff #also this isn't an invitation for any sort of discourse about this bc pokeani fans scare me #i just wanted to like. put my stance out there #also sorry about doing this on your ask anon. anyway i love the idea of phs having official art #also do reply on the quiz post with what you got im genuinely curious!!! #edit: leaving my response like that so my tags and other post makes more sense

[scarlett-vixen]

hi hello i just had a realization about me and beel and i must share it. (your blog is a delicious ice cream cone and i am the annoying yellowjacket that keeps hovering around it) so i’m having ravioli carbonara for dinner right now and i just realized there’s this thing i do when i’m eating really good food alone! basically i bounce up and down in my seat and close my eyes after taking a bite lol. pretty sure it’s the ‘tism. anyway, i’m imagining having some leftovers at midnight or something and doing my weird little bouncy bounce when beel walks in. he’s like “oho what’s this?? does it perhaps enhance the dining experience??”

ofc i’m like “AUGH” because i was too busy being lost in the sauce (heh) to notice him. he says sorry for startling me etc etc. and then he ends up standing next to me while i sit on top of the counter and we eat together! he asks what the bounce thing was about, i explain that it’s a happy stim of sorts and beel says “….then why’d you stop? 🥺”

and then i explain to big boi that i try to refrain from doing The Food Bounce™️ because it’s weird, and he basically goes >:O

HHHHH i have more thoughts about this but i feel like i’ve talked too much so lmk whether or not you want me to continue 🍔

Akskak this is so cute🥺 little food bounce I love it💖 bby you are never annoying I promise!!! You can talk to me all day long about Beel!!! Although idk your time zone so I may be asleep when you send things ksksks

Tbh I lowkey feel like Beel has his own little happy stims he does especially when he eats!! But no he would be so worried that you weren’t happy anymore because you stopped :(

#I’m so behind on my asks #I haven’t even opened my inbox in a few days because I’m scared akdjsja #but I saw yours pop up and ran to check it #🍔 anon #the void responds

[not-poignant]

Hello, happy holidays!

I’ve been a quiet consumer of your works and I just wanted to thank you for being such a source of writing inspiration for me. Especially with regards to how you handle reader engagement.

I used to be really sensitive about every negative/not explicitly positive interaction regarding my story and ruminate for days about what I did wrong, but your attitude towards people not always being into your content has really helped me engage with mine in a healthier way.

Idk if that makes sense lol. Feel free to ignore this if it doesn’t. Happy holidays again!

Hi anon!

Hopefully my replying to asks in sometimes an extremely untimely manner has not made you too anxious, it's definitely a me thing, and not a you thing. (*Quietly kicks my email inbox under the rug*).

Honestly, I can understand being sensitive to these things! I think a lot of creators are like 'you have to develop a tough skin' and while it's nice if you can, some of us remain relatively thin-skinned until the end of time, so instead we just have to learn ways to deal with it otherwise. Negative things still get to me, but now I can actively remind myself that it often has nothing at all to do with me, when it comes to my writing, or that I don't deserve to be treated with disrespect, or to be made to feel like it's my fault that *they made the choice to read my writing.* (I've never made anyone read my writing - but I do like it when it happens!)

I think as well, when people like and don't like your stuff, you're doing something right. It means you're making something real. I love onions on a burger, will always ask for extra onions on a burger, and some people can't stand onions and will be like 'ONIONS ARE THE GROSSEST THINGS EVER' (and asshole twats will be like) 'HOW DARE YOU EVER EAT ANOTHER BURGER AGAIN WITH ONIONS BECAUSE I HATE THEM' and when you look at negative comments through the lens of my burger analogy, you realise just how much what these people say has nothing to do with the people who like onions on their burgers. They are screaming into the abyss. They forgot they could use their little legs to just walk into a different store lmao. They forget they can leave.

That's what blocking, deleting, or reminding people that they could at least be respectful is for. But yeah, ultimately, people just need to find the burgers they like, and stop expecting the whole world to cater to them. Especially when it comes to free fanfiction / labour.

Anyway so it does make sense. I can talk about this until the cows come home (obviously). I don't think you need to feel unaffected by this stuff when the negativity comes, as long as you can gently remember some perspective here. Whatever your favourite food is, some people hate it, and the responsibility of those people isn't to get you to change your favourite food, it's to go elsewhere. And if someone forgets they have that power, I am always happy to remind them. And a block/delete reminds people just as well as saying something, depending on the level of troll you're encountering.

(If it's just general polite negativity I generally still remind them that I didn't make them read a thing, and they are welcome to go elsewhere. Sometimes you need to remind people that the exit is exactly the same as they door they came in through, they just need to turn around and use it, lol. And if it's general polite negativity with a few positive comments, I'll just respond to the positive stuff and ignore the rest).

(Also caveat: Doing things actually wrong when it comes to representing marginalised identities is an entirely different kettle of fish, obviously this is something to listen to and take on board and reflect on. That's just a very different strata to the kind of engagement I'm talking about here, where someone gets weird because like... I didn't make a character pregnant, or because I didn't describe a back story the way they wanted me to and so on (that's why fanfiction exists! Folks should write some!))

Sometimes folks also just need to be reminded of - or taught - fanfiction and fandom etiquette. Not everyone knows it, and not everyone picks it up through osmosis. But ultimately...

I don't have an ultimately, I just had a Wednesday afternoon ramble hehe.

#asks and answers #pia on writing #pia on fanfiction #i can understand the rumination #you may find yourself still doing it even after you've actually dealt with the situation #or even though you know objectively that it's not your responsibility #to write something *everyone* will like #that's literally impossible and not the lane anyone needs to be in #the main thing is to recognise that feeling distressed #doesn't mean you must *act to appease* in response #distress can just mean you feel scared or worried #because you're still getting used to the idea that people can not like your stuff #and it can be okay #and for those of us who have been or are people pleasers #that takes a long time to undo #the main thing is you can go forth and create anything while dealing with these complex feelings #and you are so so so not alone anon #so many of us ruminate and worry about these things

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Db and C# are used interchangeably for the black key between C and D. They're both valid names for it and the same note

hi yeah. genuine question. are you fucking stupid. do you really think i didn’t know that.

it was a joke. the point being that depending on which instrument you play, you prefer flats to sharps.

“they’re both valid names” oh are you gonna make a separate callout post? over a fucking KEY? on a PIANO?

#i literally played piano for 10 years growing up. #i am aware that all black keys have 2 different names mostly depending on the key you’re reading the music in #i have an associates in music. #stop coming in my inbox for dumbass shit like this #the post i made the comment on is right fucking there. why are you such a coward you had to come on anon to say this #literally i would not have been annoyed at all if you said this on the original post #why are you acting like i used a fucking slur or something without knowing what it means #‘they’re both valid names!’ we’re talking about keys on a piano not neopronouns or gender identities #please go outside if you’re fr getting offended over an inanimate object like this #it’s not a character or something even it’s a fucking piano #legit people send the most annoying shit to me on anon #why? just fucking come off anon. own your own words. are you that scared of them? #and btw even tho you didn’t ask