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Reasons I have seen webcomic authors publicly cite for cancelling their comic mid-storyline:

Too busy  

Lost interest  

Increasing age gap between characters and author made it difficult to relate  

Did the math and figured out that completing the planned arc with their current update schedule would take 150 years  

Ostensible author actually a fictional persona that’s now being retired, and they didn’t want the comic linked to their real identity  

Realised that the way they’d written the central relationship wasn’t emotionally genuine (note: this was a hobbit porn comic)  

The comic’s readership contained too many lesbians  

Converted to a religion that regards all representational art as a form of idolatry  

Broke up with the person the protagonist was based on  

Outed as not actually Japanese  

Imprisoned for manslaughter  

Aliens

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⚜ Writing Update

small snippet of my War of Harts (John Wick/Cinderella/French Revolution fic) update... been a while since I've checked in!

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MARRIAGE. To the Marquis de Gramont. An untenable proposal. He was a stranger with whom Elise knew of no weakness. They had no established rapport from youth; she could not tease him for wearing braces during one summer of their adolescence, yet he could easily tease her of any publicised embarrassments that lived a click away if he wanted to.

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this was mostly an excuse to play with some watercolor brushes i got ages ago and then never did anything with. but it was also a warmup that went too far.

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I completely understand the fascination with Lanfear, but my top Forsaken is unquestionably our girl Moggy. Turned to the Shadow because she just liked fucking with people. Was really into embezzlement despite living in a post-scarcity society. Favorite hobby is the super-powered equivalent of knocking on doors and running away, only the people answering the doors are her equivalently super-powered co-workers, who actively want to kill her. Decided her #1 arch-nemesis was Nynaeve "Anger Management Issues" al'Meara, presumably because she rightly recognized her as her top threat in the All Time Grudge Holding Competition. Ended up as Last Woman Standing by virtue of GTFOing whenever the going got tough. The absolute worst. 10/10, no notes.

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Gods! what I would give to see/read an alternate timeline where dark-Nynaeve and light-Lan have this sexually-charged-mortal-enemies-who-find-each-other-incomprehensibly-hot cat and mouse game, but Lan's the mouse

Wheel of Time Instagram posted better quality images

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wheel of time is one of the most visually stunning shows right now

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been off tumblr so long my queue is empty! wowza! I've had a bit of the "universe has imposed writer's block on me outside of my mortal capability to resist because time is so fleeting and the work is never ending" syndrome. I feel so exasperated because I want to work on my writing so bad, but alas... the neoliberal capitalistic machine must churn and use me as a cog regardless... woe. on the bright side, I started a new hobby: bouldering. now i can scale 2m walls like all my favourite videogame protagonists.

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the irony of me being like "I think Sera is firmly retired from da"... babe, I think dragon age has been firmly retired too! what a flashback to come across on my dash! ahhh... how the tides turn.

I know the writers dismissed this theory (and many fans were luke-warm in their reception of it), but I so desperately want them to make Sera a fragment of Andruil's soul that went mad from the Armour of the Void. Imagine if Sera's "I picked up a bow and just knew how to use it; either the shot struck true or it didn't" mentality towards being a skilled archer had something deeper there... something inert and ancient in her instincts. And Solas' "you are not whole" meant more too, like he was referring to a shafted soul, something perpetually unbalanced. And then imagine if, through her, like Flemeth was for Mythal, and Morrigan thereafter too, Sera could be our entryway to the greatest sapphic ancient elven story of all time. Blighted god of the hunt and her mad scientist girlfriend? Ghilan'nain somehow earning Elgar'nan's respect while trying to sate Andruil's hunger by making beasts she can hunt? The both of them trapping Fen'Harel for years? Somehow involving Anaris in this? crazy levels of drama in this! but i think Sera is firmly retired from da.

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THE WHEEL OF TIME ↳ Season 3 ↳ Episode One

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The Wheel of Time | 3.01 To Race the Shadow

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Solas giving up being a spirit for Mythal will never not hurt my feelings

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She conc on my clave till I pontificate idk

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i understand the appeal of publishing "fic with the serial numbers filed off" as original work but i also feel like. what makes something a good fic is at odds with what makes something a good original story.

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you don't have a personal responsibility to break stereotypes about your demographics. you don't have to be the perfect representation. you don't have to be a good representation. you are allowed to exist as you are, even if it somehow fits into stereotypes.

you're allowed to have your experiences, hobbies, expressions, traits, problems, symptoms, etc. even if they're stereotyped. you are not a living stereotype. you are a person. a person who happens to have some traits. you're not making the world less diverse. your existence already contributes to diversity.

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a sword to forge, a cross to carry, a lucky star to share

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Fanfiction and fanart are bonus content, brought directly to you without monetary motives. That is so rare nowadays. You can and should if you're able to support these creators with donations, kudos, comments and reblogs. But you're not obliged to. You can consume it for free, because people enjoy sharing their talents with you. Make them feel loved for their gifts for us.