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Fictional Character: *is physically and mentally scarred, morally grey, old enough to be my dad and would kill someone without hesitation, possibly torture them as well*

Me: Ah, yes. Husband material.

don't fucking interrupt me when i'm reading my x reader fics it's rude

Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

have you ever read a fanfic so good that you wanted to write a fanfic about that fanfic, but was too shy / too intimidated to ask for the author’s permission and too afraid that your writing wouldn’t be half as good as theirs and that it would be an insult to their work that was basically a literal masterpiece, so you just sat there fantasizing about their work and how beautiful it was and how you wished you could just eat it and how you wished canon could write your blorbos half as good as this writer did and how you just wanted to cry because you just loved that fic so much????

OMG, MY BLOG IS ALRIGHT

But, I'm saving my back-up blog, it is a new peace of art

The wild thing about writing fanfiction for a canon source that's comparatively short is that some day you might have written more of the characters and setting than the original author ever did.

There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

Signs You Should Write The Story

1. You can't stop thinking about it

2. It would be exciting and fun to write

3. It's meaningful to you

WRITE THE STORY

Taking anti-depressant pills?? Seeing a therapist??? Journaling??? No need babe, my fav writer just dropped another x reader fic.

You made it.

HEY.

are you scrolling [tumblr] instead of sleeping?

idiot. clown. I cast sleepy spell on you. fuck you. sweet dreams ily

Chloé Zhao, who just won an Oscar for best director, writes fanfiction.

That's the kind of validation I needed in my life. Thank you, ma'am.

reminder to readers of fanfic everywhere:

writers see your fucking comments. we see what you say about our work. if you don’t have anything nice to fucking say, say nothing.

you’re getting free fucking content from people who owe you nothing.

shut the fuck up.

love,

gracie, a girl who’s sick of seeing hate comments on my work and my friend’s work

and if today was rough for you, i am proud of you.

and if you suffered today silently, i am proud of you.

and if you struggled with eating but you still ate, i am proud of you.

and if you were not happy for your body but you let it exist in the peace, i am proud of you.

whatever happened today good or bad, whatever you felt today - i am still very much proud of you, please keep going my friend, i love you.

One smile can hide a lot of pain.

Proving a point to my boyfriend.

PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry

💙❤

goodnight :)

Really good tips! 💙

Things I Wish I Knew Earlier In Fandom

But maybe these will help somebody now.

Most of your fandom experience is shaped by who you follow. Find a good group of people and stick with them.

Support your favs and a lot of them will become your friends, or at least be friendly back to you.

Just unfollow people who bring unwanted content or negativity onto your dash.

Block people who cause you stress. It’s not worth your time to focus on parts of fandom that don’t make you happy.

Blacklisting words/tags is a tool you are allowed to use as much as you need to.

Don’t feel like you have to pretend to like things that make you uncomfortable in order to fit in. Set healthy boundaries for yourself.

Never tag your hate. Never send hate anons to someone.

Content creators love getting comments, seeing people gush in the tags on reblogs, and getting fans in their inbox. It’s the best way to motivate them to keep making awesome stuff.

If there’s certain content you want to see but it doesn’t exist yet, then make it. Draw the thing, write that fic. If you can’t, then comission an artist or writer, or send someone a prompt if they’re open to it. If you can’t do that either, then write meta or headcanons about it. Put it into the world.

Create what you love. Do it for yourself first and foremost, and if even one other person likes it too, then that’s a bonus.

Thank you so much for this 😭❤

To all the fic writers out there that are not currently writing. Either it's because of RL, health, writer's block or something has happened that have disheartened you. Thank you for what you've written, and don't ever feel pressured or stressed - fanfic should be something good for all of us; both reader and writer. You're more important than what you do, but thank you for what you've done!

"I don't have a type"

...I might have a type

Kinda miserable about my cat but at least one funny thing happened today and that's something to hold onto.

I was on a post about how people with long fanfics planned them out. I mentioned mine was, 'really long' but not how long, before I talked about how I planned it.

And a dude came in to lecture me about

How

To

Write

A

Long

Fic

Me with a fic longer than the king james bible:

My methods wouldn't work, you see. I planned too much, I was overthinking. I needed more room for creative freedom or I'd run out of gas, I needed to let it flow and stop controlling it. I would never, he said, write a fic longer than 50k, and he would know, because he had written a fic that was a MASSIVE 110k.

And I'm sitting there with TRT's 840k wordcount behind my back like

So I let him get through the whole thing. And I go, "this was helpful, thank you! Do you have any advice to make this fic of mine any longer then? I'd love to catch up to your wordcount."

And then I posted a pic of TRT's wordcount.

I've never been blocked so fast. 💀

And thus I basically got to live out