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I would love to see Kakashi in your style with his skintight sleeveless shirt and mask 😍

It’s a great look 🖤

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Ko-Fi sketches open!! 

For each 25€ donation you’ll get a bust (can be OC or fanart) in greyscale, please look at the examples above. Contact me via DM if interested! Slots are limited to 8. - Suggestive is fine, explicit is a NO.  - I adjust the sketch depending on the tip (tip = half body or full body) - Single character only. - Will take these by order, first come first serve. - You’ll get a full resolution file + line art.

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Day 8

Grape or cherry flavor 💋

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I AM STILL FREAKING THE FUCK OUT OVER HOW AMAZING THIS IS, OMFG!!!!!! @oliveroot you are seriously the best. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 THANK YOU!!!!

I really need to work on the next chapter, and this is so freaking inspiring, omg. 💜💜💜💜

selfie~

i did this as a gift for the fantastic @sleepyfoxfanworks! it’s from her fic Shut Up and Dance which i can’t recommend enough, go give it a read! 

it’s and they were roommates and a dance fic, what more could you want from a shisaku fic!? 

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Boing

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So many TV shows/movies depict the Epi Pen as a total solution for anaphylaxis…it’s not. The Epi Pen gives you 30 minutes to get to a hospital where they can save your life. TV makes it look like you just have to use the Epi Pen and then the crisis is over. Do people without allergies or a loved one with allergies know that an Epi Pen only buys you time? The more I see this on TV the more I worry…

**Maybe you should reblog this because I’m actually worried that most people don’t know.

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How to Kick a Reader in the Gut

Disrupt the reader’s sense of justice. 

This generally means setting a character up to deserve one thing and then giving them the exact opposite. 

Kill a character off before they can achieve their goal. 

Let the bad guy get an extremely important win. 

Set up a coup against a tyrannical king. The coup fails miserably.

Don’t always give characters closure. 

(Excluding the end of the book, obviously)

A beloved friend dies in battle and there’s no time to mourn him.

A random tryst between two main characters is not (or cannot be) brought up again.

A character suddenly loses their job or can otherwise no longer keep up their old routine

Make it the main character’s fault sometimes. 

And not in an “imposter syndrome” way. Make your MC do something bad, and make the blame they shoulder for it heavy and tangible.

MC must choose the lesser of two evils.

MC kills someone they believe to be a bad guy, only to later discover the bad guy was a different person altogether.

Rejection is a powerful tool. 

People generally want to be understood, and if you can make a character think they are Known, and then rip that away from them with a rejection (romantic or platonic) people will empathize with it.

MC is finally accepting the Thing They Must Do/Become, and their love interest decides that that’s not a path they want to be on and breaks up with them

MC makes a decision they believe is right, everyone around them thinks they chose wrong.

MC finds kinship with someone Like Them, at long last, but that person later discovers that there is some inherent aspect of MC that they wholly reject. (Perhaps it was MC’s fault that their family member died, they have important religious differences, or WERE THE BAD GUY ALL ALONG!)

On the flipside, make your main character keep going. 

Push them beyond what they are capable of, and then push them farther. Make them want something so deeply that they are willing to do literally anything to get it. Give them passion and drive and grit and more of that than they have fear.

“But what if my MC is quiet and meek?” Even better. They want something so deeply that every single moment they push themselves toward it is a moment spent outside their comfort zone. What must that do to a person?

Obviously, don’t do all of these things, or the story can begin to feel tedious or overly dramatic, and make sure that every decision you make is informed by your plot first and foremost. 

Also remember that the things that make us sad, angry, or otherwise emotional as readers are the same things that make us feel that way in our day-to-day lives. Creating an empathetic main character is the foundation for all of the above tips.

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Men: Your Consent Matters Too

Fellas, listen.

You don’t have to do anything sexual that you’re not interested in. Moreover, you don’t have to explain why. “No” is a complete sentence.

Not interested in getting pegged? You don’t have to. Monogamous and not into the idea of another partner? Okay. Not sure about period sex? Cool.

And if your partner decides to question or mock your maturity or your masculinity or your sexuality because you say no? It’s time to re-evaluate the relationship. See if you don’t deserve better than that.

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⭐ put this star into the inbox of your favorite blogs. it’s time to spread positivity! ⭐

I literally love all your support and you're so kind and helpful!

Oh my goodness, thank you so much!! 💜💜💜💜💜 I'm so happy that I've been helpful to you. 🥰🥰

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How to block an anon

I saw a few people wondering how you can block an anon. Here I will explain how:

Step one: don’t type anything! The moment you start answering, the function to block disappears.

It looks like this before you start answering:

You see two times 3 dots. Click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner. Don’t answer first, just click on those dots immediately, please!

It shows the option in my own language but you get two options here: report and block. If you can do both, do both!

Because it’s anon the function will block their IP-address. This means they can’t contact you in any ways, not even incognito.

Consider doing this instead of answering them. Those nasty anons just want attention and answering them means giving them a podium. Without attention there is no fun for them and they will stop.

I hope this helps everyone and that peace will return to our fandom ❤️ Take care of yourself!

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Coming into a fandom late

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I'm no stranger to fanfiction. I've been doing this since I was 12 and I'm in my 30s now (that makes me feel old). I've written for Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Joker, Star Wars, and of course, Naruto.

Out of all of those fandoms, the place I have felt accepted, loved, appreciated and heard the most is the KakaSaku fandom. It's truly an amazing place to be a part of and I'm thankful every day for the friends I've made and the unbelievable talent I get to witness. Writers, artists, etc....there's so much creativity and friendship and love that I truly do not think exists in any other fandoms. The support for each other is unreal and such a welcome feeling to know you have so many amazing people behind you.

But there is a shadow over our community that has plagued us for literal years. Yes, I'm talking about g.o.d....

I'm no stranger to this person. Every story I've written has been hit by this person, I've had to see the same pathetic comment on so many others, and luckily, I know not to put too much thought into it.

But this person hit me at a low point today. After dealing with mental health issues, some that only close friends know about, issues that made me disappear for months and not know if I'll ever crawl out of it, this comment hit me a little differently than it did in the past. I used to laugh and call this person out, make joke posts but not anymore.

I'm not tagging this post as KS. I know this person has probably blocked all mention of KS and I want as many people to see this as they can. I don't have a lot of followers, but I hope those I do will spread this.

Fanfiction is FOR FUN.

It is THERAPY.

It is A RELEASE of emotions when writers and artists are already struggling with issues. This message might not push me far, it may only hurt me for a few days, but I'm not the only person this piece of shit effects. I've seen authors give up completely after getting hit by them. I've seen authors disappear and leave the fandom for something HARMLESS AS WRITING TWO CHARACTERS TOGETHER.

I'm writing this as someone with an ongoing, often debilitating and excruciating mental illness. I know what depression feels like. I know what it's like to stop looking for signs to hold on and what it's like to start looking for signs to give up. This is a sign that, if I got it last year, would have made me give up.

We shouldn't have to endure this when all we want is a break from reality, a break from frustrations and depression or anxiety and other mental health issues.

If you know this person that has been doing this for YEARS......I hope you let them know just how scummy and horrible and atrocious and heartless they are. And if you do know them and you do tell them what we think of them, please let them know alien sent you.

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Dear fandom,

Let’s talk.

This is an open letter to all people reading fan fiction. Whether you stroll AO3 for your favorite tags, have been on ff.net since the Before Times or read on tumblr or any of the other wonderful alternatives.

What gives?

Wonderful and passionate authors are writing thousands upon thousands of words dedicated to your favorite (and usually not canon) couples, characters and series. Writers are spending hours and hours working on chapters, battling writer blocks, revising, sending works off to beta readers, second round of revision and then post their chapters. And after? After all that work?

Most twiddle their thumbs waiting for reviews that won’t come.

They post more chapters hoping that it just needs to pick up a bit. A few reviews drop in here and there. The story definitely gets read judging by the amount of views and likes… And finally the author loses interest.

And stops updating.

What gives?

Why have we stopped reviewing? Why have we stopped saying even a simple “thank you!” after reading a chapter? @birkastan2018 writes frigging essays (❤) but do you have any idea how happy an author becomes just seeing a new review pop up? Just a thank you, or some words of encouragement or even a keyboard smash. Instead, most writers face crickets.

Review every chapter. Just send two words if you’re intimidated: “thank you!”

If not, write down your thoughts. A sentence you thought was beautiful. An idea of how you think the story might progress. Fangirling/boying as your fave pulls off his/her shirt. Anything.

Doing nothing is killing fandom. Saying nothing ensures authors will stop updating an a fandom slowly dies off. Stimulate your writers. Be enthusiastic and witness how a fandom will thrive even when the series it’s based on is long over.

Doing nothing is killing fandom.

Please be there for your authors.

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Rating: T, will go up as story progresses Chapter 2 of ? Pairing: ShiSaku, with background SasuNaru, ObiRin, ItaIzu Summary: Sakura is desperate for a place to stay, and would do just about anything for a door she can shut in the face of anyone who pisses her off. Shisui hates being alone, and his apartment is too big for just him. It only makes sense that she should move in, right?

Modern AU dance fic!

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Reblog if you write fanfic and would be totally down with your followers coming into you askbox and talking to you about your fic