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illustration i did for my uni project !!

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"You can't be serious. She tried to kill you!"

"She also saved my life. It cancels out."

"It absolutely fucking doesn't."

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You changed your pfp

Hi Anon! I love that you noticed that. I did change it, but just for Pride Month. Really wanted to hoist the colors in celebration of the month, and the Pride Pirate was too perfect. But I did see that the artist of the pfp I used has a pride month Lexa cape now, so check out my previous post!

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*Tugs*

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Not Another College AU- Chapter 21 - quietly slips in - drops update after six years - quietly slips out

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lexa is going off

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Absolutely this!!

A lot of people are hesitant to read WIPs, and I fully understand. It can be sad to fall head over heels in love with a story, for it to end before it’s completed. However, reading WIPs is a key contributor to fanfic writing and to keeping it alive. FF is not meant to consumed, but enjoyed and shared. It connects random people across the world due because we share one common interest. You don’t have to write or draw to contribute to a ship. Just interacting with writers keeps the spark alive for us, and we churn out more stories.

Case in point, commenters on Sonraun have inspired a one shot of Lexa as a child, a few snippets (like wishing on a shooting star) to be added to the story, and may have solved a conundrum I had. Also, due to several people showing interest in scenes I never intended to delve into, I now plan on adding them into the story! So comment away! Ask questions. Talk theories. Inspire us!!

do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!

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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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wishing I could freeze time so fanfic writers could write all of their slow-burn enemies to lovers and gay porn and fix-it fics and all of their WIPs and prompts without having to worry about life and other responsibilities

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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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BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

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Sonraun Rein Kiken (A Life Worth Living)

Ch 23 - Knowing there is no way to get into the bunker, Clarke’s chances at surviving are greatly diminished. Meanwhile, Aden deals with his first hurdle as Heda.

Read here on AO3

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Local Writer Shocked As She Realises Planned 'Short Fanfic' Is Turning Into Multi Chapters Plot Oriented Slow Burn Fanfic

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thank you Canada 🇨🇦

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Spread the word.

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Handprints in Wet Cement

Chapter 5: Tour has officially begun!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61522516/chapters/168533998#workskin