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hi! can i ask what's ur opinion on giving pets away? not necessarily because u can't afford to care for em anymore but maybe incompatibility of personalities or maybe lifestyles. is it wrong to give ur pet for adoption if u know someone who's better suited for keeping a pet, like emotionally?

This is going to be controversial, but I support making that choice.

There’s a lot of rhetoric lately around how it’s evil and unethical to rehome your pet if you don’t “need to.” And what that does is prioritize human ideology over the actual animal’s well-being.

Pets that aren’t a good match for your home or pets that aren’t really wanted anymore frequently have lower welfare! When caring for an animal becomes a burden or is forced, people end up resenting them, and that means the animal often doesn’t get all of its needs fulfilled. Even if you’re still feeding it and providing appropriate vet care, how likely are you to provide affection or enrichment to an animal you’re tired of being stuck with?

Lifestyle and personality really matter to making sure a pet is a good fit for a home. A dog that alert-barks at every leaf that moves is probably a bad fit for someone who has a chronic migraine syndrome, and they might not know that until the dog has been in the home for weeks and started to open up. A really feisty kitten that requires a ton of play might not do best in the home of someone older who wanted a quiet lap cat. And while you can you do your best to plan to find a compatible animal, you won’t always know ahead of time what issues might arise.

“Forever home” rhetoric is really, really popular and I think it’s very unfair to the animals it is supposed to support. It started with the backlash of seeing animals abandoned inappropriately, and has been heavily reinforced in the public mind because it’s so frequently used to drive fundraising and support for legislation. The whole “forever home” concept communicates to people that getting an animal is an immutable commitment and that if you can’t keep an animal, it is a personal moral failing. It frames human priorities (we think people who get rid of animals are Evil and Bad and should be shunned) as more important than actual welfare needs for individual animals (are they getting the care they need where they are).

Obviously, I don’t support people dumping animals or just getting fad pets they’ll discard immediately, but there’s so many alternate situations that can arise. Even if it’s just “they got a pet and didn’t know what caring for it would take and didn’t want to care for it so they brought it back, how awful” like… okay, I’d like the person to have done more research before they got a pet, but isn’t it better that the animal now has a second chance to go to better home? Knowing what a commitment requires theoretically can be very different than having to actually follow through regularly, and I’d rather see someone maturely acknowledge that having an animal isn’t a good fit than keep it anyway!!

If animals being happy and with all their biological, veterinary, and social needs fulfilled is actually the goal, we need to prioritize their welfare over human opinion. I’d much rather see an animal rehomed responsibly to somewhere it will thrive and be welcomed than see people keep animals they can’t/don’t want to care for out of guilt or shame. 

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Dude it is SO FUN and EXCITING to see a reoccurring reader. If you've commented a handful of times on an author's work, I guarantee that they recognize you. You can't imagine how many times I've excitedly informed my friends "the person with the funny cat image commented!" "- anon is back!!!!" and the friends've recognized who I was talking about because I talk about my commenters so often LOL. We love you all!!!

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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Chapter 40 of Intended is posted, because it's Monday somewhere.

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Chapter 39 of Intended is posted.

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Chapter 38 of Intended is posted.

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Chapter 36 is posted. Next one in two weeks.

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Chapter 35 of Intended is posted. Next one in two weeks. Shit hits the fan. You have been warned.

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Are you putting out any new lucifer stories soon? Do you know when you will be posting another chapter of the story intended. love your stories, find them very interesting and well written. keep up the good work.

Hey there! I'm so happy you enjoy the fruit of my demons, thanks for letting me know. 🥰🥰

I do have a chapter of Devil May Care that I wrote 2 months ago that I still need to proofread and post.

For Intended, I don't know yet when I'll be able to resume posting. My job has required us all to return to office, and that has effectively killed all creative energy I once had. I'm job searching, but for now, while I know what happens in the story, I am lacking the words to effectively tell it. 😢 I hate it, and I have a few more chapters of the story from where I left off posting, but I didn't want to leave it on a cliffhanger, so believe me when I say it's far better resting where it is for now.

I'll post here and on Twitter when I can resume posting, and if you haven't subscribed to the story, I'd recommend that so you'll get a notification when the next chapter does post!

Thanks so much for reading, and for checking in on me. I do appreciate it!

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20 questions for fic writers

How many works do you have on ao3?

Technically 20, not counting the Evil Story that I gave away to another writer because it was making me miserable. I have 19 under this screen name, and an anonymous one-shot posted under a different screen name that only one very clever person has successfully identified.

What's your total ao3 word count?

1,912,721.

Don't look at me. I know I have a problem.

What fandoms do you write for?

Just Lucifer (TV)

Top five fics by kudos:

Unwritten (I don't think anyone is surprised by this), currently at 3,102

Detonation, currently at 3,073

Tell Me Something I Don't Know, currently at 1,756

Unassailable, currently at 1,586

Revolution, currently at 1,318

Do you respond to comments?

I do, although I'm never really sure what to say beyond a really heartfelt thank you for reading, or to explain a character's mindset or actions if someone seems particularly upset.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Happy endings are a contractual condition with my demons, but there was a Maui one-shot prompt that had kind of an ambivalent one, so I suppose that one. Ourobouros.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I think Revolution is the ending that makes me want to cry happy tears.

Do you get hate on fics?

I... don't think so? Most of the hateful comments I get (which are few, to be fair!) are mostly directed at specific characters or their actions, or sometimes even canon. Those either get defended, deleted, or ignored.

Do you write smut?

... unfortunately. Deckerstar is quite insistent about it.

Craziest crossover:

I don't do crossovers, unless you count Constantine popping up briefly in Unwritten.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not fully, though I've had a start on Detonation, and a couple of other queries. My stories are long beasts, so I really can't blame anyone for not wanting to stick with that onerous task.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

My demons are solitary creatures, much like myself. They don't play well with others, and they have very specific ideas about how stories will go and will not be gainsaid.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of. I've never looked, but I assume if someone else noticed, they would have said something.

All time favorite ship?

I'm not a big shipper, which is why it's so surprising that Deckerstar has nested so comfortably in my head.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

The only one I hope I never finish is the Evil story, that I managed to pawn off. I want to finish the two stories I have in progress and never start another. That's the goal. I just have to figure out how to revive my demons long enough to make that happen and then put them down again.

What are your writing strengths?

As you all know, I'm not really a writer, so I don't know that I really have strengths, but... maybe characterization? Getting their voices and mannerisms right. Probably angst?

What are your writing weaknesses?

Uh, same caveat here, but probably action. Plot. Smut. Emotion.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Well, Lucifer speaks every language, so it makes sense to include some if it fits the story. I try not to use too much, because it's always going to be obvious that I'm using Google Translate. If anything, I'll let him speak some Spanish with Miss Lopez here and there, because I do speak a little bit of that.

First fandom you wrote in?

Uh, Lucifer. As Eve said, "First and only!"

Favorite fic you've written?

Rebehold the Stars, my favorite word-child!

Thanks for the tags, Kat and Sox! This was fun! I think you guys have already tagged most of the other writers I know on here... Wollf, do you do you want to play? @thewollfgang

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Hey everybody, Intended needs to go on hiatus for a bit. I didn't want to do it, but it's necessary, and the chapter I posted this past Monday is the best spot to leave it until I can get more written. I'll let you know when it's back!

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Chapter 33 of Intended is posted!

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Sometimes fanfiction is a love letter to canon, and sometimes fanfiction is pounding on canon's door and yelling for it to get out here so you can kick its ass.

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Chapter 32 of Intended is posted!

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Chapter 31 of Intended is posted!

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Chapter 4 of Devil May Care is posted.