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Recently, I've seen a few blogs I love get hostile anonymous asks, some of them ridiculous and childish, others purely hateful.

I've seen writers and artists get disheartened by lack of engagement and interest. I've seen people treat fan art and fan fiction as a product to consume, review and then throw away.

Fanfiction is becoming social media and I hate it. That's not what it is.

Fanfiction used to be like a digital book club. Just writers and readers bonding over a fictional universe, supporting one another.

Now it's a product for people to consume, for some people to like while they scroll mindlessly and then send a spiteful anon ask when the writer doesn't meet their standards.

Now creators are leaving, creating less, crumbling under the hate of entitled people who hide behind anon asks.

I created this blog because I wanted to share my writing with people, and I am immeasurably grateful to all those who follow it. I love you and appreciate you all ♡

I would like to say to each and every person who has ever sent a spiteful or hateful anon ask that you are destroying fandom. You are responsible for creators getting discouraged and/or leaving.

Sure, you've spoken your mind and you've felt powerful, hurting someone's feelings. It made you feel like you had the moral high ground.

Well, I bet that ground will feel very lonely when next to no more fanfic is being written and next to no more fan art is being created.

It's up to you to decide what is more important, feeling like you are right and have the upper hand for a fleeting moment, or having fan creations to enjoy for years to come.

Can't Drink Wine, But Can Whine

Summer is extremely uncomfortable for me. For some reason I can't handle the heat at all this year, not like last year. This might be because of the mysterious health problem I've developed over the past 6 or so months.

I'm lucky enough to have an air con in my room, but good god do I need one for the office. My bedroom is way too cramped to fit a desk in there, and my air con is too big to drag out anywhere else. Yes, first world problems. But still, it's hot as all hell, even with a fan pointed at me.

Also I hate not having an ergonomic chair. My back constantly hurts and it just adds to the discomfort.

Currently saving up for an air conditioner for the office and an ergonomic chair, but it's very slow because I'm a broke uni student and have to pay for expensive health insurance that I absolutely need for personal reasons I don't want to share. That, rent, food, and wifi suck up pretty much all of my money. Hence why I'm trying to start up an Etsy/Gumroad business and do content creation on the side. I'm starting off with clip compilations, but I might branch off into tutorials and gaming content with voice over. I'm very insecure about my tics, though. But for some reason I'm not afraid of creating things on YouTube anymore, so long as I don't show my face. It's not like people can hate me when I have 0 views. I've got nothing to lose, so long as people don't know who I am.

Anyhow, I can't live anywhere cheaper because of the rental crisis (there's literally nowhere available). I'm honestly lucky I'm not living under a bridge.

Overall, I'm extremely uncomfortable, and my sensory issues just make it a hell of a lot worse. Plus my disability makes things a lot worse, too. It could be worse, it could always be worse, but sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in my own personal hell. The only things that make me feel better is friends, the few family members I get along with, good food, animals, and the topics I'm endlessly passionate about that I keep switching between. These are the things that are literally keeping me alive. They make my life worth living.

I generally believe life is 50% hell 50% heaven. I feel that I've been through most of the hell, so surely things will start to get better soon. Life doesn't feel like it's in motion yet, but I'm sure it will when uni holidays are over. I just feel frozen in time, yet I'm also aware of every passing second getting closer to death.

I'm unfulfilled, incomplete, a work in progress. I feel like an unfinished painting, but I am the painter. I can't let myself slip away like I sometimes want to, not now, not ever, not until I've done what I've set out to do.

I'm a very motivated person, but my consistency is spread out. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it means I can develop a few skills to a high level, just not one skill at a time. One skill at a time would be more efficient, but I don't operate that way. My neurodivergent brain won't allow it. I'm extremely creative because of it, though. Honestly if I could choose to be different, I don't think I would.

My memory issues are terrible, though. I don't remember most people from a year ago or longer, unless they traumatised me in some way, and even then, I only sometimes remember. I just remember how they made me feel. I remember to stay away from them. That's for the best, I'd say.

Honestly, I don't remember what happened almost at all if it's longer than a month ago, unless I'm in a certain frame of mind that remembers it. It's complicated. Really, I struggle to remember yesterday. I mostly live in today, with a little bit of yesterday, and flickers of the recent past. I know facts about myself, I even know things happened sometimes, but I lack the memories of them. They're just blank, empty. I don't think I'm supposed to know. If I remembered how much I suffer on a daily basis I think I'd have a breakdown and give up on life. In a way, I'm very lucky that I don't.

My dream messenger is a gigantic crow with shiny black feathers, and he's told me that sometimes losing things is for the best. I'm inclined to believe him.

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Ever look at someone’s eyes and feel as though you see something you shouldn’t?

They say the eyes are linked to the soul, and his soul is tortured, it is pained

Wabuu is a merciless God, and He has claimed another innocent soul

ATTENTION ALL FANFIC WRITERS

I would like to announce my appreciation, respect, and gratitude for every single one of your works that you post not only on Tumblr, but literally any platform that allows you to post fanfiction. Recently, I made the whirl-wind decision to write a Robb Stark x fem!Reader fanfic (not even to post because my anxiety could never allow such an atrocity to publicly exist) and now 2 days passed, and I have maybe 10-ish bullet points of how I want this fic to go, and spent 3 hours today trying to figure out the distance between the Twins and Seagard and the amount of time spent it would take to get there on horse. Not even taking into account of the time spent of the different types of horses in the ASOIAF universe and equestrian terminologies (as well as figuring out their real-world equivalents’) and trying figuring out exactly how heightened are a direwolf’s senses are compared to a regular wolf’s and how much faster are they in comparison to horses. 

Seriously, how do any of you do this without pay or only ask for commission??? It completely boggles my mind to know that you guys do this willingly, that you take the time out of your schedules and use it to go through this process, that you go out of your way to provide content for a fandom in a way that may not even guarantee you praise that you deserve!!!!! I cannot stress ENOUGH how grateful I am to all of you. I have been on Tumblr for a while, and I have been part of many fandoms, but I have never truly understood what you go through in order to post your content and WILLINGLY WITHOUT PAYMENT! 

You guys are so honestly the best, and you deserve so much appreciation and praise for what you provide to your fandoms. I really wanted thank you guys from the bottom of my heart.

I keep forgetting that people have lives outside of fandom spaces. Like there’s people on this site and others that have jobs and relationships and stuff and we know nothing about it.

#Ownership&Copyright

I know that most Artists work very hard to make a perfect creative work to their own eyes and than when ready, willing to let it go public because they're proud of their accomplishment. And when those creative works are not respected, it is simply like being stabed for Owners.

It's important to respect Copyright Law by obtaining permission or a license when using someone else's creative work, giving the proper attribution.

So that is why sometimes I'm not reacting to some publications and in worst case scenario, I must unfollow or even block some accounts. I cannot afford to jeopardize my account. It is particularly important to encourage innovation and protect the rights of Creators of any kind of works.

To me Ownership and Copyright Law = respect for everyone; anywhere around the World.

Hey! Californian here! Please do not come here for VidCon.

Please. The number of Covid cases here has spiked with kids going back to school, and the Delta variant is hitting us hard. Conventions like VidCon are not worth it. Simply not. To see your favorite streamer IRL is not worth the huge risk to yourself and other people.

Theres Youtube videos, there’s Twitch vods, there’s other ways to see your favorite streamer and to get their content that are so much safer than coming to this huge convention just to see them in 3-D. It’s just not worth it. Conventions like this are not safe to be having while still in the midst of a Global Pandemic. It’s a superspreader event, and people will inevitably get sick.

It is so irresponsible of people to even be letting the convention happen this year. Even if you are vaccinated, even if you think you’re safe, it’s not worth it. If not for yourself, think of all the other people. All the other people who could get sick, all the people who could be carrying and spreading this virus, or the (more contagious!!) Delta variant.

Please. Do not come to VidCon. Do not encourage your friends to come. There will be other opportunities to see content creators when it is safer, and when there are not thousands of lives at risk.

I know I’ve said it a bunch, but I cannot emphasize it enough: VidCon is not worth it.

Please stay safe.

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quite literally so dissapointed. was i the biggest shubble fan? no. did i like wilbur? yes, but im not gonna support him after what he did was revealed. if you still want to listen to his music, pirate it or some shit, i don't care. but for the love of GOD, don't support him directly. not to mention, all the responses talking about how he's done this before???? he's a repeat offender, and i suspect that his victims didn't want it to be a public affair. respect and support on shelby for speaking up about it and getting people to see that they were supporting a bad person, and respect and support on everyone of wilbur's victims!

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