I Feel Like Theres Needs To Be, Like, Handbook For Authors Who Post On Ao3 For Effective Metatext.

I feel like there’s needs to be, like, handbook for authors who post on Ao3 for effective metatext.

By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.

Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.

This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.

I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.

I think it would do fandom a lot of good.

Picture Tag Game

Rules: describe yourself with 10 pictures you already have. No downloading or searching for new ones. Then Tag 10!

I got tagged by the ever-awesome @trashcanakin​, thank you for that! Now let’s see what we can make of this...

(Art by Sobri)

(Art by Monobuu)

(Art by TheLatestKate)

So that’s me, I guess :P As for my tags - feel free not to if you’re not up for it, but...

@letsallsleepoverwork​ @rebelmeg​ @the-kitteh​ @raethefriendlyghost​ @primekent​ @somystark​ @deathsweetqueen​ @monobuu​ @ali-aliska​ @cinnamon-anemone​

Angel's face & Peony 🖤🖤🖤

Thank you so much for the ask!!! 💙 Spoiler alert: this is gonna be a mental health lesson/infodump. I’m sorry xD

angel’s face; what was your favorite bedtime story as a child?

Okay so I asked my mom and her response was “wow, nothing specific comes to mind” so instead I’ll tell you all a secret. Because I know a lot of people are familiar with the whole ‘my brain keeps working and worrying and now I can’t sleep’ and in theory, I’m someone who’s super susceptible to that. In practice, however, I have a trick.Since I’m not gonna be able to stop the thinking, what I do instead is target the thinking. Ever since I was young, I’d make up stories in my mind when going to sleep, and I’d eventually drift off. Often self-indulgent self-insert stories that I never planned to write out anyway, which means I don’t have to worry about remembering any of it the next morning. That way, I can target all that thinking into not-worrying, and the transition to sleep would go more smoothly. It has worked really well for me, and who knows - maybe it’ll help someone else as well.

peony; share a small random book passage that means something to you.

For this, I picked Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson, an utterly humorous and poignant book about mental health and how to deal with its difficulties. A specific passage wasn’t easy to find, since there’s a lot of good ones and a lot of bizarre ones and I wanted one that showed the essence of the book, both the meaningful and the weird, and I think I found it.“Personally, I always compare myself to Galileo because everyone knows he’s fantastic, but he has no spoons at all because he’s dead. So technically I’m better than Galileo because all I’ve done is take a shower and already I’ve accomplished more than him today. If we were having a competition I’d have beaten him in daily accomplishments every damn day of my life. But I’m not gloating because Galileo can’t control his current spoon supply any more than I can, and if Galileo couldn’t figure out how to keep his dwindling spoon supply I think it’s pretty unfair of me to judge myself for mine.” [p242]I love this book, and I still reread it sometimes because it helps me with my own mental issues as well, by encouraging me and reminding me I’m not the only one.

Thank you very much again for the ask, and I do hope you still like the answers!! 💙💙💙

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Pumpkin patch?

Thank you very much for your ask!! 💙💙

pumpkin patch; what’s your zodiac sign?

I’m a Cancer :)