rabidlittlestrawberry

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me: I write for myself, not validation

also me after posting a fic *refreshes ao3 every five minutes*

(two things can be true)

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do people not understand that the point of legalizing sex work is regulating sex work. so that sex workers can like, be legally protected if they experience violence and such violence can be prevented by putting legal guard rails in place. instead of our current system that leaves sex workers with no recourse or protection

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Chapter FOUR

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Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

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J/R Big Bang: Day 2 reveal is posted!

Welcome to Day 2 of the J/R Big Bang! Today's fest reveal is: Fine Line written by goneinseconds on AO3, @shoopsthereitis on tumblr, with art by Eris - special thanks to @disgruntedlybored and @arviyya for beta'ing this work!

Explicit | 14,912 words | 2/8 chapters | Posting as a WIP

Summary:

After a whirlwind, no strings attached fling in Italy, James and Regulus decide to keep their connection confined to the moment and the country. Seven years later, fate throws them together in New York City, where the spark between them reignites despite their efforts to keep things casual. With emotions deepening, James must decide whether to confront the past he’s long buried and embrace what they could become, or risk losing Regulus for good.

Click here to check out all the incredible work by our participants, and, of course, show them some love with comments, kudos & rec's!

[rabidlittlestrawberry]

fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

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thank you osha thank you shift limits thank you mandatory breaks thank you overtime pay thank you labour laws thank you workers rights thank you unions thank you protesters thank you advocates thank you workers!!!!!!!

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i wish you guys could read the amazing fic i haven't written and probably will never write, it's fire

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GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more "asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.

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I will still sporadically be posting fic here but as much as I love my stories the light has (understandably) gone out of creating in this space, I’ve also put all my works so you can only view them with an account because of evil AI scraping.

The good news is this means I will be getting back into writing original fiction. Idk if anyone will but I’m happy to start posting some of that here if you’re interested 💕

Love to you all

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"For women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks — heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a man’s face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age. There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to want to continue looking like girls." — Excerpt from Susan Sontag's 1978 essay The Double Standard of Aging

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“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic

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my fic would be so good if it were finished.

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"cool character I guess..." I mutter, walking away with a suspiciously character shaped lump in my throat

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no you have to contribute to your fandom if you don't want it to die. most fandoms die because people say 'it's so sad watching the fandom die when the hype dies' without doing anything about it. I'm not saying you have to push out 100k word slow-burn fic, I'm not saying you have to make fan art or gif sets or edits or anything. I'm just saying we as a community should contribute to our fandom if we don't want it to die, and by contributing, I'm talking about giving kudos, commenting on your favorite fics, reblogging your favorite art and just talking about your favorite characters. that's enough to keep a fandom alive. that's the most effective way to keep a fandom alive in my humble opinion.

fandoms die because people stop talking about it, fandoms die because people stop engaging with fan content once the hype is gone. what I'm saying is, mainstream media's hype may be gone, but our fandom can stay alive and thriving if us as a community don't let it die.

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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"i don't comment on ao3 because i don't wanna be annoying or weird" skill issue + you greatly underestimate the power dynamic here, writing multi paragraph comments is like feeding a bunch of deeply insane and possibly starved ducks at the park and watch them go completely mad over having received a piece of bread