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Amino is something else for sure

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Who is “the church” and why is it taking away my rights

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Let's just post some dream smp fanart here

God I'm bad at using tumblr

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10% off of my etsy store the rest of 2020

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Save a fanfic writer, leave comments on old fics

There is this a peculiar set of reasons and biases when it comes to NOT commenting on AO3.

They are all false, but here they are:

Do not comment on old fics

Do not comment on each chapter of a multichapter

Do not comment if the author left the fandom

Do not comment if the author doesn’t respond to comments

It can be summoned up as DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU ENJOYED THE WORK AND YOU LIKE THE AUTHOR.

It comes from the idea, that if you leave a comment on my old work, or leave too many comments, I will think you are strange, clingy, and gross.

Readers are imagining it as commenting on an old Facebook photo — only your granny and creepy strangers do that.

That is not the case with AO3.

Writers put their works there for long-term storage, and we expect, wish, and hope that you will like our works and tell us about it.

This all very interesting, not, but why should I care?

This has awful consequences.  Fanfic authors feel constant pressure to create more and crippling fear of being forgotten, useless, and being literally kicked away from fandom.

I’m online friends with a few great fandom authors, who wrote storied with thousands of kudos, but ALL of them at some point expressed this fear. Very talented people told me, “I’m not sure if I should have ‘writer’ in my bio. I didn’t post anything new in the last half of a year.”

Some young or entitled readers might say, “Hm, well, they are right. They should create MORE to be relevant. Isn’t that a good thing to push authors to write more?”

For better or worse, life doesn’t work like that. We are talking about real people, who go to real schools, have real jobs, families, and all the other important things outside the fandom. Some of them might push to create more from that fear, but most would only get more frustrated and depressed about the whole fanfic writing.

So, please, if you like the work comment on it.

Even if it’s old, even if it’s a multichapter, even if the author doesn’t have time and energy to interact. Especially in all those cases.

Encourage your authors, and show them your support.

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So I've been catching up with my hero academia lately and basically I got real tired of everyone in class A having basically the same skintone except for mina? That just feels unrealistic in any setting and especially in a world where you can look like anything

So I drew momo here a little darker and honestly I just think it really fits her :) it almost feels weird to see her light skinned now?

Also really been tryna figure out what the best way to stylize monolids are lately

I also drew Jiro I'll l post her a lil later

Thinking about drawing darskinned Kirishima too

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Did this last night

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Excited to share the latest addition to my etsy shop: Roxy, Rose, Calliope and Kanaya badges!

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Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: Wooden dinosaur earrings

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Digital painting of Klaus from Netflix’ The Umbrella Academy

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Excited to announce that I have opened an etsy store with fandom and nature themed badges, earrings and keychains! :)

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One of my ocs, her name is Laureen :) I did fuck up the skirt unfortunately

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I am nonbinary people

Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.

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South park fanart but it's from my fanfic 😳 and the eyes are super wonky

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More art but this time it's Gamzee

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I haven't really posted much on here so here's some death note fanart I made for my dad for Father's day a while ago

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