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Real people are flawed. That's just facts.

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

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"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/56970115/chapters/178873086

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Now, you will never hear me talking about “healthy” food. I loathe the term, but not as much as I am disgusted by the contemporary mantra of “clean eating”. In How to Eat, written so long ago, I wrote: “What I hate is the new-age voodoo about eating, the notion that foods are either harmful or healing, that a good diet makes a good person and that that person is necessarily lean, limber, toned and fit...Such a view seems to me in danger of fusing Nazism (with its ideological cult of physical perfection) and Puritanism (with its horror of the flesh and belief in salvation through denial).” The Clean-Eating brigade seems an embodiment of all my fears. Food is not dirty, the pleasures of the flesh are essential to life and, however we eat, we are not guaranteed immortality or immunity from loss. We can not control life by controlling what we eat. But how we cook and, indeed, how we eat does give us - as much as anything can - mastery over ourselves

Nigella Lawson, from the introduction to Simply Nigella

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch – 4.05: Spoiled Rotten

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Today is the day!!

The newest coloring book 'Knights & Princesses' by Ellen Artistic is officially published. Grab your copy, in either print or PDF form, today!

Thank you for being so patient in waiting for this book, I know this has been requested for quite some time now and I'm ecstatic to finally be able to publish it <3. I hope you have so much fun creating with it!

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok.

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Chapters: 14/? Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Leonardo (TMNT) & Yuichi Usagi Characters: Leonardo (TMNT), Michelangelo (TMNT), Donatello (TMNT), Raphael (TMNT), Splinter | Lou Jitsu, Baron Draxum (TMNT), Casey Jones (TMNT), Yuichi Usagi Additional Tags: Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Family Fluff, Team Bonding, Injury Recovery, Self-Doubt, Self-Discovery, Leadership Summary:

With the scars of the recent attack still raw, Leo and his brothers now face the challenge of readying for whatever threat lies ahead. Still struggling with insecurities only half buried, Leo continues to question his worth and ability, but a new person in his life may change everything.

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🤩🤩

The new colouring book is on it's way. Full of nobles, peasants, knights and princesses.

63 illustrated pages to color in

Decorative boarders inspired by Medieval manuscripts

Available in both print and a PDF for home printing

Hours of fun ahead!

Publishing Date: July 9th, 2025

Keep your eyes out at: linktr.ee/ellen.artistic

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok.

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Dear merciful Lord, look on us kindly. Inspire both artists and aspiring artists to follow their passions through honest work and rid us of the scourge of AI art. 🙏🏻

NEVER GIVE UP

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"Hey, don't look at ME." "Wait... is she calling me a beast??"

I love Mrs. Potts' wholesome, cherub smile, clearly unruffled by the fact she's not exactly in the right universe. 🤣

Top illustration very much inspired by this by this person here.

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Chapters: 22/? Fandom: Animaniacs, Fable (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dot Warner & Wakko Warner & Yakko Warner Characters: Yakko Warner, Wakko Warner, Dot Warner, The Brain (Pinky and the Brain), Pinky (Pinky and the Brain), Dr. Otto Scratchansniff, King Salazar (Animaniacs) Summary:

Four grim years have passed since the once glorious kingdom of Warnerstock mysteriously fell to King Salazar, many say with the help of some dark sorcery. Hope is only kept alive by the talk that the children of the former Hero King William the Good and Queen Angelina the Wise escaped Salazar's clutches and yet live, hidden away somewhere. And as Salazar's tyranny grows, the time will soon come for them to emerge. Warnerstock needs a new Hero, but has that power survived?

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I'd love to hear a medieval bard replaying Beowulf! Preferably so I can understand the words, though.

“Medieval peasants couldn’t handle my Spotify playlist” but could YOU handle a medieval bard relaying the epic of Beowulf over the course of an hour? Humble yourself.

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Some might scoff at writers, but they do not understand just how hard and even exhausting it can be. My BA English program involved little more than constant reading and writing, and by the end of each semester I felt wrung out as a used dish towel.

writing isn’t hard it’s just emotionally devastating and time-consuming and requires full body possession by an idea

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The Shadow Of Mount Rainier Causing A Gap In The Sunset.

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round boi happy boi drinkin some lemonade