Do You Really Miss Your Friend Or Do You Just Miss The Times You Actually Remembered Them?

do you really miss your friend or do you just miss the times you actually remembered them?

I was struck with inspiration

Y’all know that adhd(?) feeling when you’re too exited for a Thing you keep having to back out before you explode? Like dipping your toes in water but instead of it being to cold it’s just good

Like, it takes me days to finish the new episode of a podcast because I have to keep stopping and go “ohoho o….”

Or, right now, I’m so hyped to read a thing my friend sent me but every time I read far enough to get a new detail I have to take a break and Think.

Thank you scar for making that hat, it fits grian’s skin sO well. (we just pretend grian didnt lose his original hat, yeah?)

rb to give jellie a gentle head pat

i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much

fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment. 

every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change.