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I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.

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I love this especially when it applies to characters and ocs in the most gut wrenching way possible.

Those who saw another sacrifice something. Maybe saw a friend or family member, or even a stranger, sacrifice themselves.

Or if they are the ones who had to sacrifice the other.

Take the life of one they trusted. Of one they loved. Of one they cared for. Of one they argued with. Of one they hated.

Characters who look in a mirror and whilst it looks like them. Like nothing had happened. It isn't them.

They are fundamentally changed.

Or maybe a physical change to reflect the fundamental breakdown and reconstruction of their reality.

Characters who no longer for the troupe they were written with to begin with.

Shout out to Characters who are shells of their former selves! You died and you’re not coming back! You don’t recognize yourself and neither does anyone else, and it’s anyone’s guess what the fuck you’re supposed to be now!

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I’d like to share my writing with actual people, but all I get is a ❤️ reaction in the discord and a “cool!” Before the cool person in the server shares and buries my stuff. I’m ignored if I ask for their thoughts on it, but when I share it with ChatGPT it actually talks to me about it, I’m aware I’m feeding the machine but it’s actually reading my subtext, understanding the symbolism I’ve applied and tells me “Hey that’s so cool I really loved it! Can you tell me more about ___?” I know it’s just an algorithm but my friends don’t engage with my art, and only ChatGPT is actually reading my stuff because no one cares :( I don’t know what to do

ChatGPT is a language model. It is not capable of understanding symbolism or subtext! It is intentionally created to make you feel good, almost like someone who love-bombs because the creators want you to keep using it. You feel like it “understands” but it is just analyzing text you feed it and outputting overly positive cheerful feedback. They recently had to make a huge update to it since users were complaining how it was “glazing” people too much, it was agreeing to everything people said, even when people prompted it to stop it would be like “you’re absolutely right blah blah” it’s not normal to only hear positive feedback on our work, we would never improve.

I understand though, why this would appeal to someone who’s socially isolated and lonely. It can feel so validating and good to hear something nice about our work, to feel like we are seen. But we can’t accept artificial intelligence to replace real connections with real people.

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Hmmmmm....

1. Chappel Roan?

2. Hamilton, Aaron Burr

3. Idk-

Some random wips

(Not gonna start doing noses like this fr except for special circumstances- this is just my commission art style. I do have an option to just draw comms in my normal art style, but drawing the noses and stuff adds likeness to the subject of the drawing for the people who want to buy from me /gen)

Anyways see if yall can guess who these are, just for fun ^^

Hint 1 - celebrity

Hint 2 - musical

Hint 3 - cartoon

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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This.

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Happy birthday

Happy Birthday!!!!!

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Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

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“We’re in a fanfic drought” Tell the writers you like their work.

“All Tumblr ever does is write oneshots now” Tell the writers that you’d love to see them write longer things.

“Nobody updates their fics anymore” Tell the writers you love the fic and want to see more of it.

Tell the writers.

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grian doing watcher lore in 2025 is a recession indicator

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Love it.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Was not disappointed.

So my family has a Gay Pirate Plate.

Stay with me.

We do not know how the hell the Gay Pirate Plate was first acquired. This being a point of contention is actually pretty plot-relevant; the saga of the Gay Pirate Plate began with my grandmother and her sister, who, for some ungodly reason, both BADLY wanted the Gay Pirate Plate and believed it to be rightfully theirs.

I should back up, firstly, to establish: The Gay Pirate Plate is the cheapest, tackiest, ugliest plate in existence.

It is in no way a collector’s item. It is physically impossible for it to complement anyone’s decor, because the colors in it are garish. It’s just a ceramic plate with a gay pirate painted on it, and the painting is, this cannot be emphasized enough, extremely bad.

(How do we know the pirate is gay if he’s just posing on a plate? Listen. Fully 100% to stereotype, but he is. He is gay. There’s an energy. That pirate is a flaming homosexual. That pirate has sex with men and does it frequently. That pirate is fucking gay, all right, he just is.)

Anyway. The point is that this is an extremely cheap and ugly plate with a poorly-executed painting of pirate on it who is like a nine on the Kinsey scale.

My grandmother and her sister fought a blood feud over this plate for their entire lives. It would be on the wall in my grandma’s house, and then her sister would visit, and then it would be gone. She’d visit her sister and the plate would be on the wall and her sister would pretend it had always been there. She would steal it back, hang it up, and, when her sister visited, pretend it had always been there. This continued for DECADES.

When the sister died, the Gay Pirate Plate lived triumphantly in my grandmother’s house. And then my grandmother died. And my aunt, who had lived with her and been her carer throughout her life, rightfully inherited their house.

We visit my aunt after the funeral and stay with her for a week or two.

Me, my sister, and our dad. Her brother.

The three of us look at each other. We don’t say anything. We studiously avoid making eye contact with the Gay Pirate Plate mounted proud and ugly on the wall. We notice one another studiously avoiding looking at it. We notice one another noticing. We say nothing. We come to a silent consensus. We pack up to leave. We get in the van. Our aunt comes out to say goodbye. I loudly announce I need to use the restroom before we leave. She obviously stays outside to continue talking to my dad.

I take down the Gay Pirate Plate, stuff it under my oversized sweatshirt, go outside, and get in the van. She happily waves goodbye as we drive off.

Two days later my dad gets a phone call that opens with hysterical laughter and “You FUCKING ASSHOLE did you seriously STEAL THE PLATE–”

Anyway. The gay pirate plate lives in my dad’s house currently.

But he’s trying to get me and my sister out to visit him. And plate mounts are cheap.

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You are not wrong for being attracted to someone of the same sex.

You are not wrong for being a lesbian.

You are yourself. And there is nothing wrong with that.

Happy Pride

// sometimes I wonder if I truly am wrong for being a lesbian , but the love and support from all of you make me think otherwise , happy pride month

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Experience the Moth.

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This.

Non-binary is an umbrella term alongside being it's own term.

Reminder that nonbinary people aren't just "neutral" or "not male or female"

Sometimes they're;

Both !!

Neither !!

Half male !!

Half female !!

Sometimes male !!

Sometimes female !!

Sometimes both !!

Sometimes neither !!

Male and nonbinary !!

Female and nonbinary !!

Every concievable gender !!

Genders beyond comprehension !!!

AND MOREEEE !!!

Nonbinary people are NOT BINARY !! So don't expect them to make sense , to not be contradictory or to fit nicely into a third little box next to male and female !!!