#I cried so much at the time lmao

[tc-doherty]

I’ve told this story before but I'm going to tell it again, this is the story of my first writing critique.

Now I was writing even in kindergarten, and I decided to become an author for real when I was eight, but this is about the first time that I posted writing online, for someone else to read. I posted a chapter of something that I was proud of to a critiquing website.

The very first review that I got. The first time that I shared work for someone else to read.

The guy ripped it apart of course, and told me flat out, in no uncertain terms, that I should not write because I wrote nothing of value. I shouldn't bother writing because nobody would ever want to read anything that I had to produce, and the world would be a better place without my writing in it. That he would be ashamed to post something like that under his own name online.

That's the only review that I got for four days.

A review telling me that I should stop writing forever.

...

So naturally, I was very upset. And I spent a day or two doing some serious questioning. Soul-searching, if you will.

Should I stop writing forever, if my work is really that worthless?

The answer that I came up with was fuck that guy. My writing has value because I enjoy the act of writing. Even if my work was shit, even if no one ever read my work again, even if no one ever liked my work, I was going to continue to write because it's what I want to do. 

And then after four days I got a second review from someone who had made it their life's mission to review everything that the first guy reviewed because he specifically went after new authors and said that kind of shit.

But I had already decided on my own that I was going to keep going.

My attitude of "I write explicitly and only for myself and my own enjoyment and everything else is secondary" was forged in fire.

Of course I like it when people like my work, who doesn’t? But people liking it is a cherry on top. 99.99% of enjoyment that I get out of writing is just actually doing it. Because I want to. Because it’s fun.

It was definitely a formative experience for me, to put it mildly. But when I give advice that people should be motivated to write because they enjoy it, this is the place that I'm coming from. If you are motivated enough by the journey rather than the destination, you can shrug off critiques like that with nothing but a roll of your eyes. Because there are always going to be critiques like that.

There are always going to be people who take your work in bad faith, and people who try to make you feel upset. To make you give up. And you know what? Those people don't matter at all. Fuck them.

Learning to write what you want because you enjoy the process of doing it is not going to lead you astray.

[lotus-pear]

regret

[seiwas]

some of my fave bakugo fics in honour of bakuday 🥺 (most, if not all, of these are in ao3! which is why i'm listing them. other fave fics of mine that can be found on tumblr will be reblogged!)

you can find other bakugo fics i love in my tag: #katsu

i like to call myself wound but i will answer to knife - kirketeer enemies to lovers, requited unrequited love, kind of love triangle

surrender (whenever you're ready) - ofmermaids florist reader, canonverse, slowburn

on my way (to you) - ofmermaids 5+1, canonverse, time travel

and you take me the way i am - willowser assistant reader, slice of life, bakugo is bad at feelings

how to set fires - hawnks strangers to lovers, canonverse, food as love language

organic chemistry - kirketeer codependency and unlearning it, mutual pining, college au ish

here is my hand that will not harm you - natsuonii bodyguard au, mild violence, mentions of scars

in the dark of the morning, you promise me the sun - kirketeer character death (not the main characters), grief/mourning, slow burn

dry spell - willowser established relationship, semi-public sex, miscommunication

for auld lang syne - some-kindofgnome canonverse, near-death, drinking

you feel like home (you're like a dream come true) - willowser light angst, kind of exes to lovers?

i do not know if i should hold you or eat you - katsukiz hurt/comfort, soft sex

love to say this to your face: "i love you only" - willowser dragon king bakugo, arranged marriage, a little drunk

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

"[A Stitch In Time] is near and dear to my heart. I got out a lot of stuff I wanted to say about the character, and also about me. Because, basically, after a while there's that strange symbiotic relationship that happens between an actor and [a character]. When you really love a role and you really get inside the skin of that role, that's what happens. And that happened with me and Garak."

Happy Birthday, Andrew J Robinson! 🎉💖

[nyoomerr]

HI HI i continue to read and reread ur fics for inspiration <3 you're just sooo good at nailing binggeyuan

do you have any tips when it comes to taming a feral, resentfup bingge? or, hmm, what do you focus on when doing the bingmeification?

ahh thank you, i'm glad that you enjoy my stuff enough to reread it! i love those freaks too much, what can i say 😌

as for how to bingmei-ify your local feral bingge:

this is only kind of a joke. generally i like to follow this sort of recipe:

bingge's usual method of doing things doesn't get him what he wants, making him question his beliefs

bingge experiences things he had not had in his "happy ending" in pidw and realizes he likes them, making him question if his "happy ending" was actually as happy as he thought

bingge faces growing frustration as a result of 1+2

something breaks the tension and causes bingge to snap and have a genuine breakdown, forced to realize that he has been, and perhaps still is, unhappy despite everything. (MAKE THAT MAN CRY!)

shen yuan does something that shows he cares for bingge even after having seen bingge at his lowest, and perhaps even cares more for bingge at his lowest than he did when bingge was projecting himself as a perfect (in his eyes) man. no one has ever loved bingge like that before. it's addicting and freeing and humiliating in equal measures. even with as miserable as it is, it's better than his old "happy ending." bingge will do anything to keep it - he'll be anything to keep it, since what he was before wasn't working.

whoops! your bingge has been made pathetic and soggy!! no going back now!! :)))

and of course it's critical that shen yuan is obsessed with bingge the whole way through, at every step of the soggification. the number one way to ensure your feral dog is healthy is to ensure he is cared for!!

[teddybeartoji]

god of war ragnarök is such a well-written game the dialogue and the story itself make me wanna cry so fucking bad

[love-is-a-pearl]

I tried a lot, I really tried, but in the end it's inevitable... JN ASH IS THE WORST VERSION OF THE CHARACTER AND THE FACT THAT HE IS THE FINAL VERSION HURTS MY SOUL!

Eh, while it's true he didn't do much in Journeys, I don't mind his characterization there. It's very Ash-like and consistent to what he had been through beforehand. There's some off moments, but bleh, every season has it too.

I think lots of people hate it cause too many folks keep projecting that he is older than 10 and when he actually acts that age, it feels OOC when... it really isn't... he is just acting his canon age 🤷

Also I'm the kind of person that is just glad he's gone. Period. His send-off was far from perfect, sure I wanted more from it, but at this point? I'm just glad it happened and for that alone I'm thankful for journeys.

[antaripirate]

alucard emery deserves the fucking world and this parallel made me cry like a fucking baby

[juiceofmoons]

[seventeendeer]

there's an alternate, more beautiful timeline out there where instead of wasting their time on shipping raven/beast boy (objectively cooler as platonic haters-to-besties), the teen titans 2003 fandom latched on to cyborg/bumblebee with a righteous fury and passion, and gave bee the one hundred thousand million character deep-dive fics she deserves for being treated so dismissively in canon

[piplupod]

so there's a trans woman who goes to the centre and everyone calls her by her birthname which she is like... fine with but only because she has no choice but to be fine about it. anyways I've known her for a while through a trans group before the centre so I asked her today if she'd rather I call her by her birthname or her chosen name and she said she prefers her chosen name but I can call her by her birthname if I want and oh my god I was about to cry for her bc god I really feel that whole situation fjdkdl, I just told her "no I WANT to call you by the name you prefer, that's why I'm asking, I want to make sure it's safe for you if I call you [preferred name]" and she seemed so grateful and I'm just :') eeurrgghh i hate how we have to be grateful with crumbs !!!

its just absolutely wild to me that she's presenting femininely and wears skirts and dresses and everything and uses her preferred name when she writes her name down on stuff and yet everyone at the centre calls her by her birthname and he/him pronouns. like. how are people so fucking rude and oblivious ??? she's even worn a she/her pronoun pin to the centre like.... people are so fucking stupid about trans people I stg.

idk I'm just hoping to make her feel a bit more comfortable and maybe if I start calling her by the right name and pronouns then everyone else will too eventually because I know she doesnt feel safe correcting people. I'm not going to make a big thing of it obviously bc I don't want to put her in danger but I will be using the correct name and pronouns now that I've double-checked with her about it, and if I start feeling like it's making things worse for her then I'll check in with her again at that point. I've honestly been stumbling trying to use he/him for her when I mention her to other ppl because she is just... she/her in my brain. it's what I know she wants to use so it feel fucking awful to use anything else !!!

[kuiinncedes]

:c

[everlarksquell]

can you recommend me post-mockingjay fics?

[k-atsukibakugou]

i wuv my partner <3

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

sorta ? happy rant but still a rant below.

I’m so happy it happened and I don’t feel good about how much happier I feel but I feel so much happier ! and healthy ngl and it’s taking time and there are good parts and bad parts but overall I’m so glad we’re over because it was so unhealthy I couldn’t see it and I feel better now. And I know not all of it is good for me and I need to find more people to connect with and be friends with irl but cutting off the bad ones helps that so much I think. I’ve noticed I go weeks without thinking about them sometimes and it’s so good ? I feel good healing. Is that bad to say?

[hexxter]

Me every time I remember something small about kingdom hearts union x

(This game is literally half of my personality)

(The other half is sky children of the light)