#and that fandom space is so much better

[chickenscribbles]

Everything functions perfectly fine without you.

[morganbritton132]

Quick question. I love your posts and sometimes I want to write about them. How do you feel about people writing a whole fic of your posts? I know some people here feels is a slap on their face because they already wrote the post. OBVIUSLY all this with proper credit

My feeling is that you should definitely do it.

If I’ve written something and it inspires you in anyways, take the idea and run.

Honestly, I don’t even care about credit. I would just like a link so I can read it (if you post, obvs).

I’ve been in fandoms a long time and my mentality has always been that it has never been a bad thing to have more than one fanfic based on the same idea.

I genuinely want people to take my ideas and write the fics I don’t have the time or the capacity to write myself.

So not only do you have permission. You got encouragement as well.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A gift horse for @piosplayhouse

[neechees]

In hindsight, the idea that Hairy Pooper (particularly the books) was in ANY way comparable to Lord of the Rings in terms of quality is insanely laughable

[philtstone]

i keep debating whether to make this post but ive seen it increase as a trend outside of just my current totally barren niche fandom corner (shoutout to being the only active writer in a ship tag!) and pop up more and more in extremely big major property tags as well, so just as a gentle suggestion to anyone reading this: if you bookmark a fic that you have already read and enjoyed (that is to say, you aren't bookmarking it "for later", but because you liked it), please consider also commenting. ik this isnt true of all writers but one of my largest motivations for sharing the work ive written is to build community and generate discussion around the characters i love, so seeing the bookmark count steadily increase on fics with only 2 or 3 comments ends up being the opposite of the encouragement i technically know it should be, and instead can be kind of frustrating

[cherry-pop-elf]

Small Mouthwashing Break

Hey guys. I know so many of you are hyped and excited for another mouthwashing fic/update to my series but the whole RussianBot situation just. I can’t

I’ve seen things that have left me painfully traumatized. Its made me scared to even open this app. I’ve seen things no one deserves to see. Enough where I won’t even mention what they are

Until the situation is solved I just can’t be part of the fandom atm. I’m already painfully traumatized as is. I have enough going on in life. I don’t need more shit like this

It’s genuinely given me nightmares and taken a toll on my health, since fibromyalgia reacts to stress. What a way to start my thanksgiving break. Just peachy huh?

I’m super sorry to everyone that’s so eager to see more of my content, who want updates, to have asks left unanswered, but I deserve to take care of myself

Hopefully a few days away will make the situation resolve itself on its own. Maybe tumblr will actually do something. Who knows

Just know I’m super sorry, but I gotta take care of myself. I love the mouthwashing fandom/game but Jesus Christ those Russian Bots man

Keep me updated on if that stupid thing gets solved. If things go get fixed. That it’ll be safe to return

I wanna keep posting and doing what I love after all. Don’t we all?

Love yall

[necrotic-nephilim]

so. now that my accidental hiatus is over and i've rattled myself free of the grave, i just want to give a general update on this blog and where i'm at with it. because i do love this blog and want to post, but when i made this blog, the intention of it was canon-based metas and discussions around DC that were often ship-focused, but also just generally my opinions on the fandom. and of course i enjoy rolling around in the filth and having a lot of sexual/dead dove posts on main, but it did overwhelm me a bit when that became my entire blog and i got more asks than i could keep up with.

so in the future, i think i'm going to stagger how fast i answer asks and try to find a healthy mix of my own metas, dead dove shipposting, and whatever else i want to put here. and while i don't want to close asks because i invite discourse my way, i do have to say i will be much slower to answering them. sometimes we will be whores on main, sometimes we will be analyzing this fandom and it's source material on main. who is to say. but either way, we're back and no one can get rid of me.

[dameronswife]

the star wars fandom on here seems very inactive as of late, and I don't think that's a surprise when so much of the posts on here are negative towards anything about it. and rather than acknowledge this for what it is (trolls being trolls), it's become increasingly common to see people say "oh well, it's basically law to hate star wars as a star wars fan!" or people try to keep this air of deniability that they care too much about this franchise by emphasizing they know it's bad or stupid or whatever. respectfully, i think if you're having such a bad time enjoying the franchise, it might be time to move on?

[bibibitournament]

Yeah, the RWBY fandom is infamous for chasing people out of the fanbase for not "conforming". If you dare shipped Yang or Blake with any men or any women that weren't each other, you'd get harassed until you leave the fandom. If you criticized how the relationship was written, you'd be harassed until you leave the fandom. It's so bad even big youtuber Moist Critical doesn't have positive things to say about them. Vtuber Aliciaxdeath stopped posting RWBY reactions because the Bees (the fans of Bumblby, the ship for Blake/Yang) didn't like that they said they didn't care for it and found it to be mid and toxic. Worst fandom to be part of if you're bisexual.

I know nothing about RWBY, but it sounds like it's hella toxic :/ I hate shipwars, they're the no.1 reason why I leave fandoms, so I get the frustration 100%. Sounds like Blake + Yang would be a great contestant for the @worst-ship-showdown 😅

[loderlied]

honestly maybe considering making oleander ven and niles just original fiction characters? or finding a mind closet to shove them into while i find different settings for them…

[kiwi-luminaryofthestars]

04/25/2025 Progress Update:

TLDR: 2.5K written, about 34K drafted so far for chapter

I really really wanted to finish the draft today but theeeen got distracted by a lot of things. Still got 2.5K more drafted, and we're like RIGHT at the end of section 4, so we're going strong. I do very much think I could get the whole chapter drafted by end of tomorrow, but we'll see. If not, likely by end of weekend. Then editing time!

I have really been enjoying these last parts. My fingers are flying, barely stopping. It's probably 'cause it's action; despite not being like the BEST at action, I still really like writing it lol. I especially like the constraints. The fact Shuichi's heart stops him from taking a chase at full-strength forces me to reassess how he approaches trying to catch the Phantom Thief, relying less on his strength/endurance and more his ability to think on his feet. I want him to be resourceful.

That's like one of my favorite FAVORITE things about any Phantom Thief AU, when Shu uses his head to get himself out of situations. I point to ultimate_heartache's fic, which has Shu use a cigarette's smoke path to get him out of a mirror maze. That is.... like the most spell-binding thing I've ever seen in a Phantom Thief AU lol, I love it SO much. So I wanted to emulate a similar vein of "mind over body" moments for Shu, not only because I think it's cool but because I think Ko would eat it up.

Anyway. Today was a little better, which is always a plus! I'm very much looking forward to this weekend. I'm going to sit outside on my newly-moved-into deck and write for like the entire day. And no one can stop me mwahahaha.

Hope you all have a lovely lovely night! I wish you so much relaxation and non-stressful days to come. You've got this, I believe in you!!

[authenticcadence18]

Twice this week I have received comments on Can’t Help Falling in Love critiquing my use of tags and I’m just like?

those “extra” tags have been there for four years? no im not going to delete them?? I think if it truly was a big issue one of my moots/writer friends would’ve brought it up to me by now???

I use tags to express my creative voice and personality. And I DO include lots of real tags.

if someone makes something FOR FREE and it’s not harmful maybe just say what you like about it and move on?

like? do yall like my tags?? have my tags dissuaded you from checking out my stuff??? because I’ve been posting on ao3 since 2019 and this is the first time anyone has ever brought it up :/

[anto-pops]

you don't have to post this.

I'm just happy you nodded to how destructive that blog is. I'm glad to see some resistance to that blogs fucking existence.

I'm sorry anto. Parts of me is happy you've slightly moved on from HL just so that hopefully didn't barb you as bad as I'm sure "bitch of the blog" wanted it to.

Yes she self-submitted it. She does that with all her worst ones. It's for attention - and blatantly visible in her discord servers. Do not take it to heart.

I will post this because if you and I feel similarly about it, there’s bound to be others.

I’ll say it with my whole chest: that entire blog is a joke and an excuse for insecure, mean spirited people to harp on others. I blocked the entire page basically right at the beginning when I started seeing it pop up in my feed, but from what I gathered when my attention was dragged there by the anons in my own inbox, it’s full of people who:

A. Hate the game and all the characters

B. Are jealous of other creators and their success

C. Are too lazy to write their own stories yet have the gall to criticize other writers’ work

The fucking audacity to make a blog like that and defend the blatant bullying with “well we’re allowed to dislike things and have our own opinions” is so unbelievably lazy it’s not even funny. Nevermind the fact that there’s nothing anonymous about half the asks there— I could clearly tell who certain asks were referring to. Maybe the whole thing started with a few harmless polls (which is what I saw at the start) but it’s transformed into something so nasty that to defend it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Fuck that blog and fuck the people who feed into the toxicity.

[mjrdm]

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[monards]

everyday i cry a bit over how wlw media will never be as popularized/accepted in mainstream as anything else

[icras]

wip and ik charles looks weird im working on it i swear😭