Heres The Thing: Even If I, Personally, Dont Love Your Stories, I Love That Youre Out There Making Them.

here’s the thing: even if i, personally, don’t love your stories, i love that you’re out there making them. 

we’re better together. fandom wouldn’t exist with people like you & me to create and consume.

and the more pots you make, the better they are, so keep writing. keep creating. keep playing. 

I just wanna take a vote, how many fanfic authors would actually enjoy someone live blogging their fics?

Sorry sorry I hate to tread on your amazing idea, but I got inspired and wanted to write something for it! :D

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“Pat?” Virgil’s voice was soft, his eyes wide and confused. Patton could feel himself ripping in two even as he looked at the other side, too ashamed of his past actions to respond. Virgil glanced down to the floor. He bit his lip.

“Patton?” Now Roman spoke, and unlike Virgil, his voice was guarded, his tone sharp. “What did you just say?” The creative side looked down on the man he thought was his friend, and Patton could feel tears prick in the corners of his eyes.

“I didn’t mean to,” he whispered. “I would never mean to hurt you.” Patton wouldn’t make eye contact with either of them, shakily fiddiling with his glasses.

“I don’t understand why you all are are so confused,” Logan said, though even his voice carried a twinge or sadness in it. “He already told us that he was the one to push the others away.” Logan paused, closing his eyes for only a moment before regaining his composure. “Deciet, Remus, and... Virgil.”

Virgil wouldn’t look up from the ground, now chewing nervously on his fingernail.

“Kiddo?” Patton asked desperately, voice cracking with emotion and barely more than a whisper. “I didn’t mean to. You believe me, right? We’re the bestest most dynamicest duo, right?”

Virgil still wouldn’t look at him. When he finally spoke once more, his voice was charged with something akin to wistfulness. “When Thomas was a teenager, I really started to hold some sway over his actions, maybe moreso than any of you. It was a huge responsibility, and I tried to manage it accordingly. At the time, I felt as though I was doing what was best for Thomas, keeping him safe. And everyone hated me for it.” Virgil’s tone had turned sour. “I never understood that part. I was just trying to help, just doing what I was supposed to do. And everyone pushed me away for it. So I pushed back. I was confused as to why anyone would try to silence me, and I grew bitter. I struggled so hard to get out of that endless loop of hatred and loathing.” Virgil let out a humorless laugh. “It’s good to know that the ones who pushed me away are, deep down, no better than me.”

Patton let out a little, choked sounding sob.

Virgil looked up then, making direct eye contact with Patton. “Trying to force my way back to you was the worst decision I’ve ever made.” Virgil bit his lip again, pain clear on his face.

Patton inhaled, his whole body shuttering, the tears in his eyes threatening to overflow. He couldn’t even bring himself to call out for Virgil one last time.

“Virgil, wait-“ Logan tried, and then Virgil was gone. He didn’t sink out, he was just gone. And Patton could feel the hole in his heart growing.

Roman spoke up then. “He’s right, you know.”

Patton whirled around to face the creative side.

“When Thomas was young, no older than five or six, Remus was always there with me. When I was sad, he would comfort me. When he was in trouble, I would cover for him. We were inseparable.” It was Roman’s turn to laugh, though it came out more a mockery of a laugh than anything else. “Well... we were inseparable. Clearly we were quite separable by the time you started to dictate who was or wasn’t good for Thomas.” Roman shook his head. “You’re no better than the monsters you made them out to be. I’m done with this conversation.”

Very slowly, Roman sunk down, clearly repressed tears beginning to fall.

And Patton stood there, torn almost to shreds, tears falling freely down his face. Very slowly, he turned to face Logan, who remained emotionless. “Lo?” He whispered.

“Ah, Patton.” Logan was inspecting a speck of dust on his shirt. “I- I think I should just leave right now. It would be the... ah, logical thing to do.”

Patton nodded, more to himself than Logan, as Logan hastily sank out of the room. As soon as he was gone, Patton collapsed to the ground. Tears dripped from his cheeks to the floor. His shaky breathing seemed to fill the room, a terrifying crescendo of all of his wrongdoings.

And so Patton sat there, and he sobbed.

Please don’t leave me.

I just wanted what was best for Thomas.

More tears hit the floor. Drip, drop. Drip, drop.

just imagine it comes out that Patton (even if unintentional) was responsible for separating the dark and light sides. Like IMAGINE the angst especially with Virgil and Patton’s relationship and then Remus and Roman probably missing so much time together

I think this is a good time to remind everyone that Dan’s first pride experience isn’t for our entertainment, nor should it be.

I’ve seen many posts about all of the photos, vlogs, etc that we could see and while that’s all fun to speculate, it’s also good to remember that this isn’t for us.

This is for Dan.

This is Dan’s first ever pride. Let him enjoy it how he wants to.

Don’t demand photos. Don’t demand a day in the life vlog. Don’t demand anything from him.

Just let him spend his weekend how he wants to spend it, whether he’s alone or with Phil or even Bryony or whoever else he wants to go with.

If he does these things, great! If he doesn’t, that’s great too!

Just please know that this is 100% for him, and it’s not for us. Dan deserves to have a great first pride weekend and to experience it how he wants to.

Letting him do it his way without demanding certain things from him is extremely important!

talking about how dan and phil are cute together ≠ fetishising them

- queer people happy and excited over other queer people in loving relationships is not bad or something to discourage. it’s all about how you go about it. it’s also not inherently sexual and if the first thing you think of when looking at a queer couple is sex that’s your personal problem.

seeing personal information and old deleted content that others have made public ≠ actively digging into their private lives and trying to find things that are none of your business

- people simply knowing details from dnp’s lives does not necessarily mean they’ve been creepy about it, certain people have been digging up information for years and others seeing and discussing it is bound to happen

writing/reading fan fiction and partaking in fandom speculation (within reason) ≠ bothering dan and phil and publicly asking them about their sexuality and relationship

- dnp have said they’re okay with fan fiction (yes that includes smut), even actively encouraged it. it’s fictional, creative writing. they don’t mind. bothering them about their sexuality or relationship has never been okay, but the majority of people who do this aren’t even part of the fandom it’s largely casual viewers who don’t know how people will straight up hunt you down for it

every fandom has bad seeds but proclaiming all dan and phil fans are gross fetishists who bother dan and phil about their sexualities and relationship just isn’t fair. sometimes you have to just accept that maybe, just maybe, the people who’ve kept up with dnp for years may know more about what they’ve said about all of this than an outsider does. please stop taking things out of context and for the love of god have some fucking respect and don’t use someone’s emotional coming out - and the heartfelt response to that from his community - as an excuse to tell everyone how right and smart and big brained you are for “not shipping real people”. there’s a huge difference between shipping people who’ve clearly expressed it makes them uncomfortable and shipping someone who’s not only said they’re fine with it but will actively joke along with people about it. and for for fucks sake please stop using dan’s statements years ago to prove he’s not fine with it, literally all he expressed was discomfort over people Asking and Bothering him about it. in the same time he told people to stop bothering him about it he made an entire video where he said he’s totally fine with fan fiction about him and read out a smut fic featuring him and phil.

not everything is black and white, stop shaming fans, a large amount of whom are lgbtq+, teenage girls or both, for fucking breathing. let people be happy for and proud of dan and phil without making it about your goddamn fucking moral superiority complex

Thank you to whoever made this :) I felt like posting some writing tips.