Im Noticing An Increase In New Fic Writers On AO3 Whouhmayy Not Know How To Format Their Fics Correctly..so

I’m noticing an increase in new fic writers on AO3 who…uh…mayy not know how to format their fics correctly..so here is a quick and VERY important tip

Using a random fic of mine as example..

The left example: ✅✅✅

The right example: ❌❌❌

Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!

If a new character speaks, you need a line break. If you notice a paragraph is becoming too large, go ahead and make a line break and/or maybe reconfigure the paragraph to flow better. I’m not a pro writer or even a huge fic writer but…please…ty…

ISRAEL HAVE STARTED BOMBING RAFAH! THE PLACE THEY INSISTED WAS A SAFE REFUGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF GAZA! ALL EYES ON RAFAH!

Pets health and safety first, stress and bills later 💦

Ko-fi Goal Post

Sad baby not allowed to lick her really painful wound.

Love from Eden

Tell me, love, can you feel it?

Can you hear how my heart calls for you?

Do you dream with my name on your lips

As I do for you?

I crave for the touch of your skin,

Feel it bruise beneath my fingertips.

I yearn for your words and crass tongue,

Hear them bleed me dry.

Do you feel it, love, how I long for you?

This desire like a fungus, it festers like rot

But I can't escape these chains you've wrapped around my heart.

Tell me simple, love, can you feel me yearn?

I hunger for your presence, and the shadows of your silhouette

I call out for your words, your passion violent red.

Can you see me, love, how I cry for you?

This love is not a paradise, for it is not green or lush, it spreads like a cancer and it's taken hold of me

But I know you'll never stay, love, so I'll hide this beast away

You'll never know its teeth, or the disease that burns below

I do this all for you, love, but I'll never let you go.

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Self Ecosystem

There's rot inside of me, my self contained system.

Green pus and mold, caked and flaked

Black tissue and yellow sinew, old joints and dust for bones.

My face is twisted beyond my comprehension, a stranger in my reflection.

The lake is dark and brackish, an endless black expanse with no bubbles to mar the surface.

Skin ripped to shreds and fed to the beasts below.

Birds and bats and bugs crawl and screech and writhe, pour out the sockets

The birds peck at glassy eyes and the bats scream in my voice

Bugs feast on the flesh.

Red and blood, rend the tissue.

Fire burns and blisters, boils and chars

A blackened husk left in the wake of the rain, cool and crips waters in rivulets of clear to blue

Black fades to grey and brown, cracked and dry mud and clay of my being.

My face is calm and still, the features worn and faded.

The lake is brown and low, reedy and muddy where it burns against the shore.

Birds and bats retreat to their nests, a great mass taking flight away from me

The bugs burrow in the dirt to sleep.

I am baptized by the fire, scorched in the blaze

I am reborn in the water, healed by the rain.

Green grows in flowers and moss, forget me nots for eyes.

The bird feathers grow, brown mottled down for feathers of all colors and sweet song

The bats hang from the branches of trees I have grown, fur so soft and light

Butterflies and spiders, dragonflies and salamanders among the flowers

Flowers burst from the ground, clay to fertile soil, birds of paradise and heliotrope.

The lake is blue and clear, fish ripple the surface while alligators lounge on the shore, shrimp and oysters in the reeds.

Cattails whistle with the wind, the flowers turn to the sun

The green of my face growing true, the sun in my leaves and branches

I nurture this system,

This ecosystem of me.