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Aragorn vs. Nazgûl THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001 — dir. Peter Jackson

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PEDRO PASCAL 'EVITA' Press Night | London - July 01, 2025

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[ ★ PEDRO PASCAL as REED RICHARDS ★ ]

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

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Rebloging a very important thing. Thoughts and feelings of a dear friend. Please notice writers, artists, creators, makers. Our craft is our time.

Hello friends, I’ve been away for some time for a myriad of reasons, mostly being that I’ve been working hard at adapting some of my works to their own original novels. So I’m sorry I’ve been absent if you’ve tagged me, messaged me, or just been checking for new updates. I just haven’t had the time or energy to work on my older stories.

That being said, I want to talk about something that's bothered me for a while.

I logged onto my AO3 for the first time in a bit to find I had two comments on my story, Unbreakable Bonds, and I hadn’t noticed them before. They were very sweet and fairly short, and I had this little twinge of nostalgia for my older works that have been left in limbo, and I wanted to talk about it.

Aside from my publishing journey, the reason I haven’t been writing or updating any of my fan works is that, as far as I understand, no one wants me to.

Let me start off by saying that the fact that you guys follow me and like my stuff and look forward to it is humbling, and I appreciate it so much, but let’s be clear: I earn this shit.

Writing is hard.

It is time-consuming, exhausting, and makes you want to rip your hair out. Writing fandom? That is a special kind of labor of love.

Because there will never be rewards or gains from it, because the world is not ours to profit from. I’m just playing in the world that George Lucas created, just dancing with his characters that at one point and time were no different than my rabblings scribbled into notebooks and on scraps of paper. I understand clearly that I will never reap financial benefits from Unbreakable Bonds—and I’m certainly not owed anything. But at the same time, neither are you, the reader.

There are lots of people who will be quick to tell me, ‘we don’t owe you comments’ or interaction of any kind, and you’d be right. But you’re also not owed my time or the creative works in my head that so many of you proclaim to love and look forward to.

I’ve been writing fanfiction since the early 2000s. My first fanfic was Lord of the Rings, and it was, I’m sorry to say, the dreaded Tenth Walker story--and it was pretty bad, and that's why you'll never find it. And although I’ve taken breaks from writing, my love and interest in fanworks has remained constant. Fanfiction.net, AO3 Wattpad, Tumblr.

Fan works are wonderful. They are the purest form of love and appreciation that I can think of, and they’re a way for many of us to dip our toes into writing. There have been lots of works that started as fanfics that found a place with mainstream publishing.

50 Shades of Grey came from Twilight. Love Hypothesis came from Star Wars. City of Bones came from Harry Potter. The After Series came from One Direction. Point Pleasant came from Supernatural.

Fanfiction is powerful and never ceases to amaze me. That being said, I don’t think we are giving the genre the respect it deserves, and we definitely don’t respect the writers. I may ruffle some feathers here, and I may upset some of you, but I’m willing to bet that those who are upset by this are not writers but consumers of fan works. 

. People want to complain about how their favorite stories were never finished or the author hasn’t updated in months, maybe years. But when was the last time you sat down and spent a minute to really engage with the work and its writer? I’m not talking essay-length comments or reblogs with dozens of tags and kind words, but when we as writers get comments as simple as ‘Update’ and that’s it? It feels very rude and bare minimum to me.

I don’t speak for all writers, and I don’t claim to, but if you have the time for a comment like ‘update’, then I think it’s reasonable to add a few more words. I don’t know a single writer who would look at that comment and be anything other than disappointed and possibly irritated. Especially when adding a few more words would make all the difference. It doesn’t take much effort to go from ‘update’ to ‘I love your story and I hope you update soon.’ We love to hear you like the words, connections, and characters we’ve written or expanded on, and yes, something as little as that makes a big impact on us.

It matters.

I once made a post on Tumblr announcing that I would be taking a temporary break from one of my works I’d poured a lot of time and energy into because I had received virtually no interaction, and I had assumed that there was little to no interest in it. So I would put it on the back burner and work on other projects because while you should write for yourself, no one wants to just write and not receive any feedback. I almost immediately got a comment telling me that I didn’t have any right to ‘hold my works hostage’ just because I ‘wanted praise’ and if that’s what you think, then you are entitled.

There is a difference between saying ‘no updates until I get five reviews with more than one word’ and ‘this work doesn’t seem to resonate with anyone, so I’m going to work on something else for a while, and maybe I’ll come back to it later.’

This new culture of demanding content without interaction has been growing for some time, and I think there’s a strong correlation between it and the binge culture we’ve curated with the advent of things like streaming services and on-demand content. We want to be able to sit down and read a whole fanfic because it’s commonly known that readers will DEVOUR a 100k word fanfic, but a 100k word novel is sometimes a little harder for some to digest.

Fanfic is created on our own time as we are able to. We have jobs, families, and other hobbies that take up our time. If you’re waiting around for a story to finish being written before you tell the writer how much you loved it, then I’m sorry to say that one: there’s a good chance it never will be. And two: you’re part of the problem.

TV shows have writers and producers and constant feedback. Novel writers have the assurance that, at some point, money will be involved. Fanfic writers do not. It is illegal. We can’t create patreons for our content or bind and sell our fanfics for any sort of financial compensation (Looking at any of you who have purchased or sold bound copies of Mancled.)

Writers are tired of putting our hearts and souls into these stories and getting nothing back except single-word comments and messages that say ‘update’ and nothing more. 

You don’t have to tell us our work changed your life or that it inspired you to live better—we know that it didn’t and will probably never be the case. But telling us how much you love that we gave a neglected or tragic character a happy ending that they absolutely deserve? Or that you loved reading a ‘slice of life’ story in a chaotic fandom that felt happy and cozy. Or seeing your favorite bad guy get what they deserve? That resonates with us so deeply. It means the world to us.

I realize I’ve probably lost some of you by now, and just so we’re clear: I’m not here saying ‘leave me comments’ and ‘feed my praise kink’ because let’s be real, most fanfic writers do have one. But I know DAMN well I am not just speaking for myself.

I am not calling anyone out. If you’ve ever liked, commented, given kudos, or reblogged my stuff or messaged me, let me be clear: I appreciate you so much, and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to put into words what yours meant to me.

This has gone on quite long enough, and I think I’ve done my best ot make my point, so I’m gonna cut myself off here before I repeat myself.

TL;DR: Fanfiction is free because we love doing it. But even love runs dry when met with silence.

PLEASE

Interact with your favorite stories. Leave lovely comments, simple ‘I love your story, I can't wait for the next update’ is just fine. We don’t need essays or love letters or groupies. But please, guys, tell your favorite authors you love their stuff before they lose their motivation to keep creating it. Because I promise, they will more than likely choose to abandon something they think that only they love before powering through it under the assumption that ‘someday’ the comments and love will come.

We can do better.

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im bored so i doodle him for fun ✌️

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Oh my...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), dir. Matt Shakman

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Honestly.. I will just shut the freak up..

This photographer understood the assignment.

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Oh my freakingness

To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern sky, I give you King Peter the Magnificent.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.

An amazing art by CrazyTom.

P.S. Art is published with permission of the author. Please, do not repost!

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I will take this in count in a very close future, thank u ✨

The Death Standing fandom is reawakening now that the second game is about to be released and honestly you fangirls need to be nicer to yourself. It’s a Hideo Kojima game so no you are not reading into things or being a perv.

Kojima has zero self control and clearly has a million kinks that he puts in his games and he hangs out with Nicolas Winding Refn who has separate and overlapping kinks and does all the exact same things with his movies so they’re probably the worst influences on each other so yes you’re probably right in thinking something is going on between any and all characters and that their gear or interests looks kinda pervy.

Go wild because you’ll never be as wild as the creator 💙

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My h.e.a.r.t

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I could die to change what happen and kill Palpatine myself I swear

everything is fine.

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L.i.f.e

4 pm, almonds and tea and journals

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First of all, fuck her and what she does and says.

I'm not going to boycott the movies with which I grew up with. Movies in which actors, directors, producers, thousands of people over a decade worked and poured their souls and heart into ; which they parted from their original inventor. We're all, the original cast included, are disgusted by this.

She doesn't have the right to take us, who grew up with those movies, who fucking gave it our money, time, love and dedication as hostages and use the status she earned thanks to us to say and do all the absolute shit she wants.

The HP saga cast absolutely parted from her and her disgusting ideas and claim loud and clear their support to lgbtqia+ people. Daniel Radcliffe campaigned and worked with the Trevor Project. He said years ago and keep saying it that "If the movies brought you joy, whoever you are, keep this magic in you." Emma is a Human Rights activist and firmly reject Rowling's ideas, to quote only a few.

I'm not going to let her shitty toxic fucking ideas ruin their work, their involvement to HER characters and the magic that, yes she created, but she forgets that if there hasn't been so much people to love it and millions of others, she wouldn't be able to pour her fucking money into transphobic activities.

By the way, she encouraged the reboot because she estimated the original cast wasn't "loyal" to her and by extension to her ideas.

So I will continue to watch the movies. Continue to keep my power and my magic and to keep transforming it into something so much mote intelligent, loving, kind, compassionate and understanding than she ever will.

For the books it's different, and so yes, because it involves only her and her writing from her brain, I'm boycotting them. I had planned to buy the entire collection of HP books, I had purchased the 2 first before her activities were uncovered. I won't purchased the other books.

I won't watch the reboot. No need to explain why.

I'm a cis-woman who stands for the rights of women (& children, too often forgotten btw) and feel sick and shocked to see some cis-women feeling threatened.. By human beings just wanting to exist the way they want.

All my love.

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This is EXACTLY why we beg y’all to boycott HP, especially the reboot. Anywho, gonna take advantage of the tag inevitably trending by listing pro-LGBTQ+ groups to support and invest:

Mermaids

The Trevor Project

InterACT

The National Black Justice Coalition

Lavender Phoenix

Black AIDS Institute

GLAAD

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

Lambda Legal

Queer the Land

Act Up NY

Human Rights Campaign

FOLX HELP

Feel free to add more charitable organizations below! Oh and one more thing: DO NOT HARASS THE KIDS CAST ON THAT SHOW, or you’re equally as bad as Jowling-Knowling-Rowling.

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Little reminder, just in case.

women supporting women means supporting trans women too btw.

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Happy pride everyone. Sending and spreading love 🧡

this is how to do pride right?

happy pride!

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Look at this. These movies are almost 20 years old and they look like they just got released, it's mind blowing. They're still so underrated.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) IMDb Trivia

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Story Starters #2

“I’m Fine” Starters (for characters who are breaking but hiding it behind practiced smiles and default sarcasm)

✧ I’m fine. I mean, sure, I haven’t slept in three days and my thoughts sound like static, but yeah, I’m great. ✧ It’s easier to make jokes about the chaos than to admit how much of it is mine. ✧ Every time someone asks how I’m doing, I lie a little more convincingly. ✧ I can’t tell if I’ve gotten stronger or if I’ve just gotten better at pretending. ✧ I cried in the bathroom stall and came back out with a joke ready. No one noticed the red eyes. They laughed. ✧ I tell people I’m tired. It’s easier than saying I can’t remember the last time I felt okay. ✧ I’m the go-to friend for advice. No one ever asks if I’m surviving. ✧ I don’t know what scares me more—someone noticing or no one ever noticing at all. ✧ I’ve built this version of myself that everyone seems to love. The only problem? I don’t recognize them anymore. ✧ Smiling is just muscle memory now. I wish it meant something.

 Enemies Softening Starters (for when hate starts turning into understanding, and understanding starts burning a little too sweet)

✧ I used to hate the way they looked at me. Now I hate how much I want them to do it again. ✧ We don’t talk about the moment our hands brushed. But we haven’t stopped thinking about it either. ✧ There’s still tension when we speak—but now it’s the kind that makes my stomach flip, not clench. ✧ I catch myself defending them when they’re not around. I don’t know when that started. ✧ I know I’m supposed to hate them. I just don’t remember why as clearly anymore. ✧ They’re still annoying. Arrogant. Impossible. And I think about them way too often. ✧ When they’re angry, I find myself watching too closely. Like I want to understand the fire, not put it out. ✧ We bicker the way fire crackles, dangerous, but kind of addictive. ✧ They’re the last person I should trust. And yet, when things went bad… they were the only one who showed up. ✧ It’s not that I want to kiss them. It’s just… I wouldn’t dodge if they tried.

“I Thought I Was Over It” Starters (for characters who swore they’d moved on—until the memory hits like a bruise)

✧ I saw them across the room and it felt like a ghost walked through me. ✧ I thought the ache had gone. But one song, and suddenly I was seventeen again, heart cracked wide open. ✧ I can say their name without flinching now. But thinking about them still feels like biting into something bitter. ✧ I told myself I healed. But then I saw that smile—our smile—and all the old hurt came flooding back. ✧ I let them go. I did. I just didn’t expect to still miss them when it rains. ✧ I don’t want them back. I just want to know if they still remember me too. ✧ I laughed when I saw their name. That sharp, bitter kind of laugh that tastes too much like grief. ✧ There are people I’ve loved since. But none of them cracked me open the way they did. ✧ I found our old photo and couldn’t throw it out. I just… moved it to a drawer. ✧ Healing isn’t linear. Some days, I forget them. Some days, I remember everything.