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I wanted to start this series like... years ago, but never had the inspiration or time to actually write it. So, I'm not waiting anymore. I'm just gonna write it while I can, when I can, and see where it goes from here.

This is the first entry into my Hop's Alolan Adventures Series, which is a collection of oneshots following my playthrough of Ultra Moon with Hop as the protagonist- with an established relationship. We'll see how it goes.

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let's have a fun battle!

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Pkmn SWSH/Snow White AU … He’s just such a good princess 🥰🤩 And I think Bede would be the best Grumpy LMAO

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As much as I try to work on my drawings for like... important things- the best drawings I ever make are the ones of my fav characters/ships

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Please understand that I am a multi-fandom shipper and will post about anything and everything I like and I am so sorry if I go on random hiatuses but I'm very busy irl and can only ever return to the comforts of my random fandoms when I have room to breathe and wow i wish I could just be home all the time and lay in bed typing and drawing about my fav things ;o;

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Pkmn SWSH/HSR

Hop as Robin Leon as Sunday … cuz idk I wanted to draw Hop 🤪 Also I hate drawing hsr outfits

Bonus cuz this part of the game made me sad:

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reblog if you’re okay with people writing fanfics of your fanfics and/or fanfics inspired by your fanfics

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Raihop/kibahop/kbhp/キバホプ

Little Mermaid Sketches

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Happy April Fools’ Day :3 (To Raihan too)

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I recently helped a fandom podcast make an episode about NoCo, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in listening to it. It covers some of the NoCo fandom early days but mainly covers its resurgence in the 2020s. What are your thoughts?

https://www.tumblr.com/thisweekinfandomhistory/768298652169060352/this-week-in-fandom-history-is-a-fandom-centric?source=share

Ngl, read this like a year almost after it was sent- I've been really hands off with my tumblr until just recently. Sorry for this late response. Wow, just wow. NEVER thought I'd be listening to a PODCAST about one of my fav ships from like years ago like WHOO this is kinda strange even for me. I'm not gonna lie I'm feeling like I'm being analyzed as a fan XD The podcasters were very good in getting a lot of information regarding this topic, and a lot of the progression they mentioned, like how we're "anime fans" that put on our "yaoi goggles"- I can see that describing me- especially for NoCo.

My Total Drama phase (goes in and out btw) was a time where I had PLENTY of drawing/fanfiction writing time. I had plenty of ideas regarding the show and really loved and focused on the characters.

One thing I wanna comment on- The podcasters mention a LOT that Noah and Cody only interacted for like 2 min- which is something I've been told a LOT while I was drawing on Deviantart, writing fanfictions, and so forth. I won't lie, thinking about it now it really does feel kinda crazy. But it's what I liked. I've always been the type of fan to get super attached to a character, and then ship them with people who I feel would/could take care of them- pair well, etc.

I REALLY liked Noah. He was funny. He was sarcastic. And the way he acted, I learned later that he was the youngest of a big family. Maybe that bit resonated well with me? Not sure. Either way, I just thought that with the Cody kiss in the early episodes that maybe it had potential? Whatever, I just rolled with it.

I still like it but I'll be honest I pumped a FIST at the mention of the fact that Alenoah is the biggest Noah ship on ao3. Cuz... that kinda became my fav after a while lmao I still ship NoCo, too, tho.

The podcast kinda taught me a LOT about the fandom as a whole- cuz I'll be honest a lot of the toxic behaviors that were mentioned towards fans... I don't know if I was really met with any of that. Maybe I was told in a comment or two that they'd never get together, but was I really gonna fight someone about it? Nah, too much headspace and effort. I did it for myself. I did it to enjoy my time in a way I could. And I was thankful for any/all attention I got from the ship due to comments on my fanfictions and my art.

Hearing about its resurgence makes a lot more sense to me now. I did all of my art and such when I was younger, and then it suddenly kinda died out, and then it kinda came back suddenly in feeds, in fanfic amounts, etc. Didn't realize a lot about how that resurgence came to be, so good to know!

Overall, I feel kinda strange. Analyzed. Looking back at old projects and such- even my old Deviantart! But I don't necessarily feel bad. I almost feel seen in a way? Maybe even nostalgic. This podcast made me go back and look at all of my Total Drama works and really analyze how I got here. It's really showing just how much time has passed for me... and that's just wow.

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Always. I leave comments (kind and mindful and showing how engaged I was with the story), and end my fics with “comments and kudos appreciated”

Always grateful for a comment or kudos on ao3

writers are creatures that feed on comments by the way. if you want more of your blorbo from them, give them lovely comments. they love that and will most likely give you more fics about your blorbo

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By the way, fanfiction isn't the place for reviews or criticism.

When you're a published author, it's like you're preparing a meal in a food competition. You expect a rating and to be told what worked and what didn't to improve your craft and embark on your career.

When you're a fanfiction author, it's like taking some of your free time to enjoy the process of baking cookies and then offering them to someone to be kind.

If you take a cookie from the plate, you don't spit it out and tell them it sucked.

Unless the writer asks for your opinion, you can keep it to yourself.

Adding this to clarify, and you don't have to agree with this by any means, I cannot force you to, but the reason Ao3 and Fanfiction isn't the space for criticism and ratings...is that it is a fan space created by fans for fans.

It isn't school.

It is a space where people with the same interests can congregate and enjoy the same fandom.

When you think about commenting on an fanfic authors fics, don't think if it as fishing around in your pocket to give them a compliment.

Compliments are nice. Most everyone likes compliments.

"I like your character development."

"You paint wonderful imagry."

Those are comments that are compliments. Speaking for myself as a fanfic writer they're nice, but they're not what my fan heart craves.

I want engagement with my readers.

The best comments I get aren't talking about my skill as a writer, but what just happened in the story because you and I (the reader) are already fans of the world created.

Comments like:

"NOOOOOOOO!"

"Did she actually just do that?"

"EXCUSE me?!?!"

None of these comments are compliments and none are critical. They are emotionally aligned with the story. They are engaged and with this engagement we create a little community in this tiny little space we get to call ours.

I cannot stop people from saying cruel things, but I can inform those people of the "dangers" so to speak when people treat fandom spaces like Ao3 as if it's Goodreads.

Writers, who write for themselves and offer it to you out of kindness, can decide that if people are just going to spit out their cookies they don't need to post about them anymore and that is how fandom spaces die.

If you don't like the flavor of cookie they made, or you're allergic to one of its ingredients...don't eat the cookie. Put it back for someone else to enjoy and then go find the flavor you do like.

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Fanfic is a free hobby.

It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.

Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.

You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.

You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.

Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?

Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?

I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.

Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.

Please don't ruin this for us.

Some of us need it.

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I was watching one of my fav anime recently and was inspired 🤪

Mentioned raihop

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So true, especially for dead doves 😔

Some idiot: "Why are you reading your own fic, that's shallow and stupid"

All fanfic writers and writers everywhere: "Who the fuck do you think I wrote it for?!"

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Trying to write fanfiction for the first time is so humbling, it feels like I've never written anything ever.