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Also, I much prefer living in the world where I know that my boss is having a very involved conversation about Spirk with the big name exec she's trying to pitch her side hustle to and is completely unaware of it because I know the old terms and she does not (fun fact kids: when your boss starts rambling about how much she 'loves The Premise' in the context of Star Trek, you are not allowed to tell her what she is actually saying, but you are in fact allowed to make direct eye contact with the P.A. of the person she is talking with and who is agreeing with her and share a mutual look of sheer unadulterated 'this is fantastic, we can never tell them what they are saying, but this is the greatest moment of my life and I'm glad I can share it with you random person whose name I do not know').

I much prefer living in the world where I can immediately text several people I met through one fandom or another that my boss just told a major toy company exec that she loves the Premise and they all immediately launch into replies of varying degrees of 'lol didn't realize your boss was such a die hard Spirk fan that she's willing to risk deals to talk about her gay ships in business settings when last you told us she didn't know what a vulcan was (whole different convo, but also true, which makes it so much better I think)' without even being given the context.

I love that I live in a world where several immediately suggested we should write a Spirk fic based on the interaction for maximum meme potential, and the group chat immediately devolved into a debate over Nimoy v. Quinto for the Spock face claim for it. That fic hasn't been written beyond a few messages back and forth in the group chat of questionable dialogue, but the fun was still had!

I wouldn't live in that world if not for fandom as a community, or people commenting on things, or me commenting on things, or people ranting back and forth about nonsense on here or at cons or in whispers in middle school bathrooms or wherever else, some of which started decades before I was even alive and created the space where I could do the same. Live in the world where your boss doesn't realize she's dropping decades old truth about ships she's never heard of in business meetings and you can bond with random people you'll probably never see again over the entertainment value in that. It's a lot more fun than the one where everything is content for algorithmic optimization and social clout.

idk how to word this properly but wrt the fanfic thing you reblogged earlier. Why do fanfic writers have such different expectations than any other content hosting platform?

Like lets take youtube as a point of comparison, Engagement like comments and likes largely exists to boost the works place in algorithm, thats why youtubers put in calls to action and other engament bait. Few with decent reach even read the comments and the audience shouldnt try to develop any weird parasocial relationship with the youtuber. Fanfic authors ask for likes (kudos, because the websites gotta use nonstandard language for some reason) and comments despite them not having any impact on an algorithm, and seem to want the audience to try and develop a relationship with the author based on tumblr posts like that one.

Why the radical difference in behaviour away from the norm? And honestly with all the (usually) metaphorical blood spilled online about parasociality why are authors really surprised that the audience tries to keep their distance as is best practice with any other content producer?

okay I am going to answer this as kindly and as calmly as I can and try to assume that you are asking this in good faith. because my friend, the fact that you feel the need to ask is, to me, The Problem.

[this is, for the record, in response to this post]

fanfiction writers are not *posting content.* (I also have reservations about engaging with the term "content producer" or "content creator" but let's put that aside for now, I'll circle back to it.) you say "they seem to want the audience to try and develop a relationship with the author" as though it is strange, off-putting, and incomprehensible to you, when in fact that is the point of writing fanfiction. it is a way of participating in fandom. it is a way of building community and exchanging ideas and becoming closer with people.

if authors wanted to solely ~generate content~ that would get them attention (?? to what end, the dynamic you have described seems to equate algorithmic supremacy as winning for winning's sake, as though all anyone wants to do is BUILD an audience without ENGAGING with them, which I cannot fathom but let's pretend for a moment that is, in fact, true) then like. if that were the case why on earth would they choose a medium in which they categorically cannot succeed and profit, because it isn't their IP?

you are equating two things that are not at all the same thing. to the degree that parasocial relationships are to be avoided, and "that person is not trying to be your friend they are trying to entertain you, please respect their boundaries" is a real dynamic -- which it is!! -- like. you have to understand that the reason that is true for the people of whom it is true is because it is their JOB. they are storytellers by profession, and they are either through direct payment, or sponsorship, or advertising, or through some other means, profiting off of your attention. i don't say this to be dismissive, many wonderful artists and actors and comedians and any number of a thousand things that i enjoy very much go this route but they do so as a *career choice.* and so when you violate the public/private boundary with them, you are presuming to know a Person rather than their Worksona. the people who work at Dropout or who stream their actual play tabletop games or who broadcast on TikTok or YouTube are inviting me to feel like i know them to the degree to which that helps them succeed in their medium and at their craft, but there MUST be a mutual understanding that that's a feeling, not a fact.

however.

a fanfiction writer is not an influencer, not a professional, and is not looking to garner "success." there is no share of audience we are trying to gain for gain's sake, because we are not competition with one another, because there is nothing to win other than the pleasure of each other's company. we are doing this for no other reason than the love of the game; because we have things we want desperately to say about these worlds, these characters, these dynamics, and because we *want more than anything to know we are not alone in our thoughts and feelings.* fanfiction is a bid for interaction, engagement, attention, and consideration. it is not meant to be consumed and then moved on from because we are NOT paid for our work, nor do we want to be. the reward we seek is "attention," but attention as in CONVERSATION, not attention as in clicks. we are not IN this for profit, or for number-go-up. there is no such thing: legally there cannot be. we are in this because we want to be seen and known.

like. please understand. i am now married to someone i met because of mutual comments on fanfiction. our close friend and roommate, with whom i have cohabitated for over a decade now, is someone I met because of mutual comments on fanfiction and livejournal posts. that is my household. beyond my household, the vast majority of my closest personal friends are people with whom I built relationships in this way.

you ask why fanfiction writers want THIS and not "the norm," but the idea of everything being built to cater to an algorithm to continue to build clout, as though the only method of reaching people is Distant Overlord Creator and Passive Receptive Audience being "the norm" is EXTREMELY NEW. this is not how it has always been!! please think of the writers of zines in a pre-internet fandom, using paper and glue and xerox to try and meet like-minded people in a world that was designed for you to only ever meet people in person, by happenstance, in your own hometown. imagine the writers of the early internet, building webrings from scratch to CREATE a community to find each other, despite distance. imagine livejournal groups, forums, and -- yes, indeed, of course -- comment threads IN STORIES -- as places where people go to *converse.* in the past, we had an entire Type Of Guy that everyone knew about, the BNF ("Big Name Fan") whose existence had to be described via meme because it was SO DIFFERENT THAN THE NORM. treating fellow fans like celebrities or people too cool for the regular kids to know was an OUTLIER, and one commonly understood to lead to toxicity.

in the past, I have likened writing fanfiction to echolocation. i am not screaming because I like hearing the sound of my own voice, though i can and do find my voice beautiful. i am screaming so that the vibrations can bounce back to me and show me the world. the purpose is in the feedback. otherwise it is just noise.

does this make any sense? can you see, when i describe it that way, why an ask like yours makes me feel despair, because it makes us all sound so horribly separate from one another?

perhaps I will try another metaphor:

a professional chef who runs a restaurant will not have her feelings hurt if you never fight your way into the kitchen to personally tell her how much you enjoyed the meal. that would, indeed, violate a boundary. professional kitchens are a place of work, and you have already showed her you enjoyed the meal by paying for it, or by perhaps spreading your enjoyment by word of mouth to your friends so they, too, can have good meals. you show your appreciation by continuing to come back. if a bunch of people sitting around randomly happen to have a conversation about how much they love the food, it wouldn't hurt that chef's feelings to not be included in the conversation. however: EVEN IN THIS INSTANCE, it is ADVISABLE AND APPROPRIATE to leave a good review! you might post about how much you like this restaurant on Yelp, and it would probably make the chef feel great to see those positive comments. but the chef doesn't NEED them, because the chef is, again, *also being paid to cook.* that's why she started the restaurant, to be paid to cook!

i am not being paid to cook.

i am at home in my own kitchen, making things for a community potluck where i hope everyone will bring something we can all enjoy together. some people at the potluck are better bakers, some better cooks; some can't cook at all but are great at logistics and make sure there's enough napkins for everyone; some people come just to enjoy the food, because that's what the party is for. and if I, as this enthusiast chef who made something from my heart for this reason alone, learned after the fact that a bunch of people got together in the parking lot to rave about my dish but no one of them had ever bothered to tell me while I sat alone at my table all night, occasionally seeing people come by to pick up a plate but never saying anything to me -- of course that would bother me, because I am not otherwise profiting off the labor I put in. this is not a bid to be paid, because if someone WERE to say "hey, great cake!! here's five bucks for a slice" i would say no, friend, that is not the point and give them the money back. i'm not trying to Get Mine. I am in it to see the look on your face. I'm in it so you can tell me what about it moved you, so that I can say back what moved me to make it in the first place. so we can TALK about it.

because what happened in the first place is this: one time I had a cake whose sweetness, richness, flavor, intensity, and composition moved me so much that I *taught myself to bake.* so I could see how much vanilla and sugar was too much, so I could learn how to make things rise instead of fall flat, so I could even better appreciate the original cake by seeing for myself the effort and talent and inspiration that goes into making one even half as good.

learning to do so is a satisfying accomplishment in and of itself, yes.

but I also did it because at the end of the day we should EAT the cake. and it's a lonely thing, to eat alone when a meal was always designed and intended to be shared.

so, to answer your last question: i'm not surprised, i'm just sad. because somehow two things that were never meant to be seen as the same have been labeled "content," and thus identical. and it diminishes both the things that ARE intended to be paid for AND the things that are not, because it removes any sense of intimacy or meaning from the work.

i hope you know i'm not mad at you for asking. but i'm frustrated we've come to live in a world where the question needs to be asked, because the answers are no longer intuitively obvious because we're so siloed.

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Pro: 500 new words already in existence.

Con: Thunder so loud it set off the neighbor's car alarm and blew out the candle in the window.

Conclusion: It is a dark and stormy night and provided I do not lose power I am going to be so productive!!

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Can confirm. Having binge read people's complete works or most of their works at least before (and I'll do it again too) and commented on the all of them when doing so on occasion, I have been told it was a good time had by all.

Also, if I know you on tumblr and I don't know your AO3/it's not easy to find, tell me it please. I'm doing a reading challenge this year, and I want to read and enjoy as many of my friends' works as possible as a part of that and some of you are sneaky.

I found this blog when i was literally very new to ao3, no accounts, no nothing yet. I was just there, also new to tumblr. I saw this blog and went, "Huh. I didn't know authors love it when i comment. I guess i should comment on fics that I've read"

Now, everytime i read a fic, i comment. After i became an author on ao3, posted my fics and all that, i also started commenting on every chapter of multichap fics.

Also, throwing this out here for fun. One time, i found that an author had a series. Each fic in the series consists of 30+ chapters. I commented on every one of it. Each chapter, one by one. I still wonder if that author was giggling in joy at the 100+ notifications in their inbox lol

belated welcome to ao3, anon!

Writers LOVE comments! That author you commented each chapter on was absolutely, 100% overjoyed and giggling and probably teary eyed at the 100+ notifications they got.

In fact. This morning I woke up to TWENTY comment emails. Someone is binging my Final Fantasy 15 fics from 2018/2019 and commenting on each one. I was half awake checking my phone and I promptly started crying.

Writers love comments. They love seeing people enjoy what they wrote. Never be afraid to leave a comment. It doesn't matter if that fic is a decade old, that writer will be overjoyed to have a comment in their inbox

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Alright! Work: done. Nice smelling candle: lit in the open window so it doesn’t set off smoke alarms or give me a headache. House: cleaner than it’s been in weeks if not months tbh. You all know what that means…

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This is the perfect excuse for me to talk about my favorite book series when I was small because it does this too (side note: it holds up and is still available/in print, you all should read it so I have people to scream about it with).

Hark, fellow tumblr folk, to my tale of Kiki Strike. She's an orphan, she's chronically ill, she rides a super illegal vespa, she starts a girl gang of weirdos she finds on the streets of New York, she's a secret Eastern European Princess who had her throne stolen by her power hungry aunt shortly before the whole country overthrew the monarchy anyway so they're all living in exile now, she supports her friends by giving them outlets for their niche talents and filing for patents for them and helping them start businesses, she foils art crimes and re-discovers underground railroad stops and makes sure they receive historical documentation and preservation... basically she's everything and so is the rest of her (fairly diverse for a book from the early 2000's) girl gang.

And, to the original point, every few chapters, it will cut away from the girl gang breaking and entering to give you a detailed guide to picking locks, or interrupt a jewelry scam to teach you how to spot fake diamonds and such. I've always thought more books should do this, because when I read it the first time I thought it was the coolest thing I've ever seen a book do (also, the information was shockingly well researched for the variety included, tbh). More conventional lit should include random cutaways to metatextual historical documents or the YA protagonist's school report on the Great Chicago Fire or interviews with the Characters or whatever else. It's underused in fanfiction as is, and it remains one of my favorite elements of one of my favorite book series.

Adopting a metafictional framing device whereby the narrative is periodically interrupted by found-document-style transcripts of interviews with selected major characters, in such a way that it takes you several chapters to realise I'm doing the literary fiction equivalent of a fanfic author talking to the characters in the chapter notes.

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honestly though. and don’t come for me with this. just the fact that more characters are hc’d as queer in the prequels doesn’t mean they’ve got better queer rep…more hcs does not better representation make. it just means that people are, surprise surprise, more inclined to gravitate toward mlm ships in fandom, and since the main character of the trilogy is a woman, those hcs and interpretations weren’t really an option before. obviously heteronormativity in the fandom is a huge issue and I think the majority of why queer ships are overlooked, but people’s preference for mlm ships and male characters in general is also something that can’t really be discounted when talking about how there’s more queer ships in particularly tbosas. it’s because there’s men in close proximity.

[ragana62]

Pros to "write the fic you wanna read":

you get to read it first

it's exactly what you wanted

you do something great and you should be proud of it

other people might enjoy it too

Cons to "write the fic you wanna read":

you know everything that happens already and you can't enjoy it like you read it for the very first time not knowing every little detail

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which one of your insane as hell crackfic ideas do you have from hotd?

also, love your blog!

Hi! Thank you!

And I have many. I’ve mentioned it before, but I have grand intentions of dropping first chapters of like 10 of them sometime later this year. Lots of them are to do with Laenor being alive in Essos in show canon because I think that just has the potential for so much chaos, but there are many others. Some are more complete unhinged crack than others, but all are vaguely cracky in execution.

The options so far are as follows:

1. Political Prisoner in Essos! Laenor AU (because the idea that he’s just chilling over there in show canon and even with the bad haircut nobody notices just seems silly to me, and the responses back home to getting a ransom note are too funny)

2. In a similar vein, Vaemond Brings A Nuke to the Succession Crisis AU (in which Vaemond finds Laenor in Essos himself when stopping to resupply/on a trade mission, and is like ‘ok, you’re coming with me because do you have any idea how much chaos your continued existence will cause and also I bet your parents will stop trying to give those literal bastards control of Driftmark if you’re back’ and that reveal along with the fact that Vaemond tells everyone that Rhaenyra and Daemon clearly tried to kill Laenor and that’s why he ran is his mic drop moment instead of the bastard accusations)

3. Parent Trap AU (in which Rhaenys is told after a few years of marriage that she can be heir/Queen one day but everyone on the Small Council is concerned about letting Corlys be king, so they get divorced after having Laenor and Laena while they’re still young. Corlys goes full adventure vibes with Laena to cope, while she takes Laenor to train him as her heir. It all goes to plan, by which I mean both of them are still deeply hurt by it because miscommunication trope is a core part of any Parent Trap AU but it is going how it’s supposed to, until Laena gets claimed by Vhagar and is a little confused because so far as she knows she’s not a Targaryen and Laenor finds her on Dragonstone and is like ‘hey, cool dragon, weird question, do we look kinda similar? Like more so than most people with dragons? Also, do you not have one of your parents in the picture and the one you have is a bit cagey about talking about the other? Cool.’ Followed by much kid swap shenanigans, Laena pretending to be Laenor being way better with the ladies because she was raised full on Pirate Queen mode and doesn’t have that whole inconvenient problem of not being attracted to them getting in the way, all culminating in some awkward revelations when everyone is summoned to KL for fake Laenor’s betrothal.)

4. Laenor is Addam/Alyn AU. (Because Laenor heard about Stepstones II in show canon and wanted to help out, because a boy never forgets his first war or whatever, and turns up just in time to save Corlys’s life. Rather inconveniently, because he’s now forced to go back to Driftmark where he really does not want to be and is desperately trying to find excuses for who he is that don’t involve telling his parents he faked his death and has been ignoring them and his responsibilities for years and that might get him back to his new life in Essos in short order. Cue Rhaenys taking one look at him and immediately clocking that as Corlys’s kid even if she doesn’t recognize him as Laenor, Alicent walking around telling anyone who will listen that that’s just Laenor Velaryon with a bad haircut and Rhaenyra’s not only trying to name bastards as her heirs but is actively a bigamist who may have tried to kill her first husband too, Rhaenyra and Daemon alternating between veiled threats and helpful attempts to send him on his way again so he stops being a problem, and Seasmoke refusing to leave him alone.)

5. Older TargTowers AU (Viserys marries Alicent basically going into the Great Council because plural marriage has precedent for the Targs and he has no heirs to support his claim. Hightower Targs are closer in age to Rhaenyra/Laenor/Laena as a result. Mostly focused on the way that makes the dynamics between the siblings/cousins more complicated and amusing.)

6. Corlys Stops A Fight AU (in which Corlys steps in when the kids are fighting down on the beach before Aemond loses an eye. Even if he might admit privately it was more out of concern for Luke/Joff/Jace/Baela/Rhaena and a desire to not deal with the drama that fight would cause on the day of his daughter’s funeral, Aemond decides this means he owes the Velaryons a life debt and is officially their new kid because his current family isn’t great anyway.)

7. Similarly: Vhagar is a Creature of Habit AU. (Aemond claims Vhagar the same as in canon, however Vhagar does not want to live in KL. The Dragonpit is cramped and she’s kind of used to doing what she wants now, and besides, Driftmark is more home than KL these days if she can’t just fuck off back to Essos, and Rhaenys won’t stick her in a cage, and she can hang out with her old friend Meleys. So Aemond just keeps having to visit to get his dragon back and winds up basically warding there while he tries to get Vhagar to break her habit and come back to KL permanently).

8. Mamma Mia AU (or: a different version of the Driftmark succession crisis. Everyone descends on Driftmark to try and prove or disprove the parentage of Jace/Luke/Joff. Made all the more entertaining because nobody knows who the real parents are, and there are several people in attendance who are fairly sure they’re the dad of at least one of them and don’t want that becoming public knowledge)

9. The obligatory D&D AU (where everyone plays D&D instead of going to actual war because Viserys wants a family game night damn it)

10. Aemon Soap Opera AU (in which the Great Council is set to announce their vote when suddenly and without warning the doors fly open and Aemon walks in. He isn’t dead, he just got hit upside the head and fell into the sea and had amnesia when he washed up somewhere. But he’s back now, and is not exactly pleased with how everyone has been acting in his presumed death.)

11. The Everybody Actually Talks AU (where Daemon is told in no uncertain terms that if he’s actually so good with kids like he claims he should talk to Aemond because he just wants his cool uncle to think he’s cool too, Rhaenyra tries to bond with Helaena by writing her about how to best find a lover on the side much to Alicent’s horror, and the Dance doesn’t happen)

12. Laena Reincarnation AU (where the baby survives but Laena does not, but she still tried to do the getting Vhagar to burn her thing. Which means that everyone assumes that the baby left in the pile of ashes seemingly unharmed and instantly claimed by Vhagar is Laena reincarnated and not her and Daemon’s kid and it was some weird forgotten blood magic situation or the like)

13. They Have the Internet AU (probably unpublishable, but imagine if you will the sheer chaos that is Viserys I with an AO3 account being able to spend the council meetings he’s bored at writing the most unhinged fics imaginable? The inevitable Otto/Daemon enemies to lovers ‘I just want my friends to like each other’ fic that would come from that?)

14. Velaryon H2O AU (Velaryons turn into sea creatures when wet shifter AU.)

15. Murder/Evil Rhaenys AU (losing both her kids in short proximity and under suspicious circumstances plus Corlys fucking off to the Stepstones again instead of talking about feelings kind of makes her snap a bit.)

16. Laena Fakes Her Death Too AU (because both she and Laenor in show canon are mysteriously coming up dead burned beyond recognition and everyone’s just taking Daemon’s word for it. Who’s to say Laenor faking his death wasn’t a recycled plan? Anyway, they’re both just chilling in Essos now, unaware that their continued existence will mess everything up)

There will inevitably be others added to the list of potentials as time goes on, and I’ve omitted a pet crack AU of mine that someone on here knows about but I don’t know that I’ll ever write and publish, but this is what I’ve got for now.

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Reblog if its ok for your moots to stalk your blog and interact with everything you've posted.

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The anonymous button is not for hate messages and death threats! It’s for confessing your love and asking stupid questions!

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I'm not a huge hayffie person, more a 'they have the potential for some interesting dynamics/exploration for someone else to do and me to read on occasion, maybe a background ship to toss in as set dressing mostly if relevant or adds something to the plot' person but...

It's like a 4 year age difference? Maybe 6? That's not what I'd call a 'lot older' (also, am I crazy or is that a very lukewarm take, particularly in the world of ships, except for the fact it's the woman who is the older one... Seriously, it could be me because I regularly write age gaps that are like 10+ years, but that does not seem like a lot, particularly when you get to the point they're both in their 40's in original THG mainline canon. Like my parents had a 5 year age gap and that was definitely not the toxic part of their relationship...).

Also also, are we really at the point where '16 year old kid's first girlfriend dies, now he must die alone and be miserable forever or else it wasn't real?' is the default read on that instead of '16 year old kid feels immense grief and guilt over death of first girlfriend because he thinks it's kinda his fault, spends next 25 years trying to honor her memory by fulfilling her aspiration that the games stop because also he's got some thoughts on the games himself too, may or may not move on/have the occasional hookup/generally live an adult life from the ages of 17-40s+, even if while in a decidedly reflective mood post trauma dumping his entire life story he still thinks about her and what her life/his life with her could have been from time to time."? Like, do we not all recognize that it is possible to love multiple people at once/that grieving and honoring a lost loved one doesn't mean you can never love anyone ever again?

Idk, I usually try to avoid anon confession stuff (mostly because I think it's a bit silly. This is the 'rant about your questionable takes and even more questionable taste' website. Commit to the bit of saying your takes on main people, it's not that scary I promise (or a side blog, if you're the kind of organized where you make new blogs for every fandom/ship you get into or whatever).). But like, maybe it's because I'm dealing with the anniversary of my grandmother's death hitting me like a ton of bricks this year and it's making me more prone to ranting when I see things I find silly, or maybe I'm just a grumpy person after all, but like, this was deeply genuinely confusing in a grumpy way for me.

Mostly the 'we can only ever love one person or the love wasn't real' take. That's not how people work, that's not how grief works. I'll never delete my text thread with my grandmother from my phone even if the number hasn't been hers for years, or throw away the cards she sent me for every minor holiday for years before that. That doesn't mean I stop replying to other people's texts or never check the mail again just because I know she'll never send me another of either. It just means that sometimes when I'm checking the mail or my texts I see it and think about it and feel feelings about her.

I gotta respect the Hayffie fandom even if I think it’s a terrible ship.

You got a whole book of Haymitch saying he only will ever love Lenore dove and he is goin to die soon to join her when his kids don’t need him any longer and now we all know Effie is a lot older than Haymitch and yet somehow that fandom has managed to not let any of those barriers stop them.

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Which Doctor Odyssey character would you assign Vaemond to?

Ok, I've been thinking about this for a while now (sorry for the delayed reply, but I had a gut impulse answer and then I got in my head trying to rationalize other options and then I came back to my gut impulse answer so screw it).

It's 100% Rosie. No, I will not elaborate, but I stand by it.

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For me your TM is BAMF Hermione

That is a tag I use a lot, so very fair. TBH I've never been 100% sure I'm using it correctly because I like making things complicated, but I also like letting her (and my other best girls TM) hit people when they deserve to get hit, so I think it counts.

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Alphabet Game

Tagged by @thefloatingwriter (thanks, I love these silly games!)

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score of 26 at the end along with your total fic count.

A. All She Never Wanted

B. Be Gay Do Crimes

C. Courtly Love

D. D&D: Kill Their Character, Not Them Edition

E. Enough

F. Friends, Romans, Countrymen

G. Glitter

H. Hum

I. It's Easy When You Mean It

J. Just Some Lover

K. Karma

L.

M. Magic For Dummies

N.

O. Ophiuchus

P. Pleading the Fifth

Q.

R. Romanticizing Life

S. Serving Ones Princess Well

T. This Is Our Get Along Sweater

U. Uptown Girl

V.

W. Why Women Kill

X.

Y. You Have Witchcraft in Your Lips

Z.

20/26 (though if you eliminate the word "The" or "A" from the start of titles/don't count it, I also have 'L', 'N', 'Q', and 'V', so it could be 24/26) with 125 Fics Posted... Guess I know what letters I'm going to try and start future fics with...

Tagging @pangaeaseas, @lazyreinelle, @bumblebeebrii, @wisteria-lodge, and whoever else wants to do this thing.

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New ask game:

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.

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I promise I didn't forget to write this weekend, I actually wrote a lot. Like 20,000 words over a few things a lot. I'm just very determined to drop things all at once and I have one thing I'm trying to finish to drop with this, and it's taking a sec to polish up...

But it's all happening. Very very soon. Pinky swear.

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This is your friendly reminder that it's good for your mental health to write/draw that self indulgent thing.

Im learning to be my weird self, to allow myself to have fun the way my childhood self used to. And I might not be weird enough for some, or too weird for others. But somewhere along the way I will come across people who I can resonate with.

In my experience, the waiting is the hard part. It feels like everyone around you has figured it out or found their group. There are so many instances where you feel incredibly lonely. But people will find you. I promise. Be that little light in the darkness 💜

Be weird, but remember to be kind ✨