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I’ve been crazy busy with work lately, but I finally finished this little comic inspired by the amazing fic Kaleidoscope, which found a warm place in my little heart. (And it has a fully finished sequel now!! Go, read it and send author all the love!)

I haven’t spent this much time on a personal project in a while — it’s been a really nice change of pace Hoping for more me-time soon, but for now, I’ll just chill for a while

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One Star.

Till the end of the line.

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“It was late, late in the evening, The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on.”

Original prompt probably wasn’t thinking something like this, but I love dirty hipsters and trash punks running away together on a bus ride somewhere. This palette was really hard to work with… Slowly getting through these. Quote from W. H. Auden.

If you wanna take a look at the lines, the sketch is here!

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whatever you call them... they have assembled.

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Stucky is everything. They’re kids in love in New York just after the turn of the century and they’re doomed WWII soldiers and they’re men reduced to science experiments and they’re tortured and beaten and they’re depressed and lost without eachother and they’re two thirty-something year old dudes in love and they defy time and space and death to be together and they’re just normal guys and they’ve loved eachother for 100 years.

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PARKOUR

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the stevebucky dynamic of ’they could break everything in me except my love for you’ vs ’they fixed my every ailment but my love for you remained so it must be right and holy’ is. insane

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I made my friends watch CATWS yesterday for pride month

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ADRIA ARJONA Late Night with Seth Meyers (May 6, 2025)

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she gets it from her dads

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Steve Rogers walks into a bar. “Why did you do that?” asked Bucky. “I’m used to being shorter.” muttered Steve.

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Just Bucky and Barky Barnes

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When I was in my first fandom in ~2013 everyone was commenting on everyone's fanfiction for the sole reason that it was impossible to advertise your story in any other way (individual blog sites). So it was totally normal to finish your first comment with "oh btw I check out my blog too if you want I write this too ^^" (obviously the comments themselves were longer than two sentences long so it wasn't a bland advertisement)

(basically almost always commentators == fanfic authors and if you were a not-writing commentator there was some small expectation that probably one day you'll make a story too)

And. I don't really ever see it on ao3? Is it just not the done thing? I suppose it's much, much easier to find the stories for your fandom there so it's not necessary... But I think it really helped to build the community. Still, I feel like if I did it now it'd be rude

(was it even ever a thing in English fandom? I mean I doubt that it was my country's fandom specific thing but who knows)

I don't specifically remember that happening? But I was on a fic reading/writing hiatus at that point so I'm not the best to know.

I will say, as a member of a small fandom with some very supportive people in it, that it's actually also possible for authors to shout out other authors either in comment replies to readers or in their author's notes. It's a great way to cheer on your fellow writers and also guide readers (or listeners, in the case of podfics!) to other content they might enjoy.

Another way that I see more often on AO3 is to make use of the inspired by feature and the gift work feature - both of which help creators share their love and excitement and build on each other's work. (can you tell I'm a fan?)

I'm also a huge proponent of making use of your profile page to let folks know where they can find you. And while you're there, maybe throw up a fanworks permission statement so that other fans know whether you'd appreciate art or podfics etc. of your works!

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remembered this poem and nearly started crying