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wanderinstar · 3 years

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I posted 2.540 times in 2021

110 posts created (4%)

2430 posts reblogged (96%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 22.1 posts.

I added 1.267 tags in 2021

#art - 206 posts

#yes - 199 posts

#need - 179 posts

#fashion - 164 posts

#foto - 93 posts

#deco - 91 posts

#text - 89 posts

#gif - 88 posts

#cute - 80 posts

#audio - 78 posts

Longest Tag: 87 characters

#the girls and i would roam for hours just to pick one movie and it would generally suck

My Top Posts in 2021

💌send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome 💌

Thank you Mrs. Lamm 😭❤️

Some sunflowers for you!

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You are too sweet!!!!

Oh Lexie... Thank you so much!!

And what can I say about you? You paint this website's sky blue and charges nothing for it!

4 notes • Posted 2021-08-22 20:15:46 GMT

Tagged by @carlpalmer Thank you, Giulia! 🌻

who was your first favourite artist? Mika Nakashima

who are your current favourite? Yes, The Moody Blues, Supertramp, Bread, Tears For Fears, Budgie, the list goes on (it depends on the day haha)

are you into musicals? which ones/why not? Not really... I never got into them

are there songs you consider so special you only listen to them very rarely? The Carpenters' songs put me in such a melancholic mood I rarely listen to them, even though I love it

what’s your preferred way of listening to music? (time of day, medium, situation) Any time of day. I didn't adapt to music streaming services, so most of the time I just play it from youtube. I like listening to music while studying - actually, it's what gives me strength!

what would you say is the most niche music you listen to? No one even knows who Mika Nakashima is, but my sister introduced her to me when we were kids and I just got hooked! We used to listen to a lot of Japanese singers growing up, but Mika is the one I still enjoy just the same (I don't care much for her newer stuff, but her old stuff will always sound fresh to me)

what’s your favourite music related movie/tv show that’s not a musical? Spinal Tap is the first thing that comes to mind

albums or playlists? Albums! Picking an album and pressing play is now my favorite way of discovering new music

favourite albums? Man... I'm just gonna mention some: Salisbury - Uriah Heep, UFO 2: Flying - UFO, The Power And The Glory - Gentle Giant, Great Southern Land - Icehouse, In The Land Of Grey And Pink - Caravan, Argus - Wishbone Ash, Mirage - Camel, Aqualung - Jethro Tull, Modern Times - Al Stewart, Even In The Quietest Moments - Supertramp, Time - ELO, Equinox - Styx, Bandolier - Budgie

is there an artist you’re trying to get into? I'm trying to get into Italian prog (and @yesterdaysanswers is really helping me with that, thank you and sorry it takes me so long to give a feedback, college is eating me alive atm)

whose music do you find overhyped? I'm sorry Ed Sheeran. I don't really listen to his stuff, but when something is trending it plays everywhere, so that's how I know it's not for me. No problem if you like it though

what’s an underrated song? So many! Lemme see... I Don't Know Its Name - Caravan, Parents - Budgie, Space Child - UFO, A Hit By Varèse - Chicago, You Can Never Go Home - The Moody Blues (I'm not sure if I can say they're underrated, but I sure think these songs deserve more love!)

what’s a thing a bunch of songs do that you love every time? I agree with Giulia: synth solos, heavy synths, flute and saxophone

what song is better acoustic? Can't think of any song!

what’s the worst song of all time? I will exercise my right to remain silent

do you put individual songs on repeat? if so, for how long and how often? Sometimes, when I'm really obsessed with a song, I listen to it twice in a row

do you make your own playlists? if so, what’s your most entertaining playlist title? Not really cuz I never find time to do it T.T

headphones or earbuds? Earbuds are like wireless earphones, right? And headphones are those which cover the whole ears, right? Then neither! I prefer earphones

do you always sing the lead vocal or do you harmonize sometimes? if you harmonize, do you ever invent your own harmony? I just sing whatever even though I can't sing

a musical confession: My mom "found out" (I told her) that I like rock just a few days ago! It's not a secret, but I stopped putting music to play to anyone other than myself after feeling judged and being judged so many times

I'm tagging @britishsixtiesbeat @yesterdaysanswers @thespiritofvexation @steveh0we and anyone else who wants to do it too :)

5 notes • Posted 2021-11-03 20:09:50 GMT

I missed you Camila 💞

I missed you too!! When I realised you were nowhere to be found, I kind of panicked. Then I learned what had happened, it was scary... can’t take things for granted here. I’m sooo glad you’re back (and thankfully it was fast)!

5 notes • Posted 2021-04-26 23:11:57 GMT

I felt inspired to bake these 🍓💕

6 notes • Posted 2021-09-19 00:23:43 GMT

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#tumblr #i didn't really want to post it but i wanted to save it

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cindylouwho-2 · 3 years

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Etsy Will Soon Be Allowing Sellers to Choose Their Own Photo Alt-Text

A few sellers have noted that they now have the ability to add their own alt text to listing photos. Alt text has 2 uses: describing a photo for screen readers and other accessibility tools, and search engine optimization.

Most sellers still don't have this option, but since I am already seeing some discussion and misunderstanding of its importance, I thought I would do a quick summary.

UPDATE (Oct. 25, 2021): this is now available to all sellers, but in English only for the time being.

Here is the Etsy Help file on how to add it: https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406604492823?segment=selling

and a Reddit thread on the topic, with a screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/EtsySellers/comments/po31cm/new_feature_add_alt_text_on_listing_images/

First, I don't have this in either shop yet so I can't comment much on any issues with adding alt text. Also, people who do have it report no change to their actual alt text as shown in the source code, so this appears to be untestable in any way at the moment. (It's possible they will roll out the actual coding changes once they have finished rolling out the tool.)

Second, when Etsy says "SEO" they mean offsite search engines; they always identify Etsy search as Etsy search. So at this time, they are making zero claims about usability in Etsy search.

In general, since Etsy already used the listing title as alt text up until now, it's not really that much of a change for most photos on the site. If your titles follow proper SEO practice and aren't spammy, this won't be much of an SEO improvement for many of them.

Etsy has also been sabotaging listing pages from showing up in Google organic search in favour of its Market pages for many years now, so this won't help individual listings much, except maybe for Google Shopping (Offsite Ads) and possibly a bit for Google Images, in certain circumstances. If you don't have buckets of backlinks to show up well in Google organic search, this isn't going to help you get more traffic from Google organic search. All it can do for most photo SEO is help Etsy's Market pages & their paid ads on other sites.

Its most important use for most of us will be to properly identify photos for screen readers, as alt text is a key accessibility tool. For most Etsy listings, this will be more useful for photos beyond the first, which are more likely to show things other than the item for sale (add-ons, gift packaging, item in use with other items etc.)

Sellers who market directly to the visually-impaired should add this ASAP, so it is ready to go when Etsy finally makes it readable. Sellers whose target market is more likely to have at least some visual impairment should also get on this sooner rather than later. The rest should not panic that this will somehow negatively impact your shop if you don't take the time to do this right away, but making your items more accessible will almost certainly help most shops a bit over time. Here are some good tips on how to write alt text for screen readers: https://www.afb.org/about-afb/what-we-do/afb-consulting/afb-accessibility-resources/improving-your-web-site https://blindlowvision.org.nz/information/web-accessibility-tips/alt-text-tips/ and one for ecommerce specifically: https://www.mabaccessibility.com/alt-text-for-images-on-ecommerce-sites/ [Key takeaways from those articles - don't make alt text too long (even for SEO purposes, Google doesn't give equal weight to an entire alt tag) and there is no need to say it is an image - screen readers will do that for you.]

I'll update this post as we learn more. Let me know if you see anything new!

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takaraphoenix · 7 years

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Hi! I don't to sound annoying, but I think my last ask may have fallen into the void so here goes: do you have any tips for starting an AO3 account? Sorry if you got the last one and just didn't feel like answering

Oh no, sweetie. Not annoying at all!

And while I do usually not instantly get around to answering and the asks might lay around for a day or two... yeah, I don’t have any other ask from you, so, good you send it again ;)

Tips? Mh.

1. The Basics!

Let’s start with the most basic thing. Your name.

Is your name a “brand”? That is to say; do you already have a recognizable name? Do people know you from other sites? Tumblr, DeviantArt, Fanfiction.Net, Wattpad, other sites I don’t know?

Then maybe pick the same name, if available. People who already like you might recognize it! They will also have an easier time finding you.

Not to mention, the human brain can not remember that many names and if you make them remember that oh, your name on this site is XYZ and your name on another site is ABC but on the next site they can find you as A2C... that might be asking a bit too much of them.

So make it easy for people who like you to find you! ;)

But don’t make it too easy for people to find you.

That is to say; don’t put personal information on your profile. Don’t link to your facebook, best not put your real name on there. The internet is not exactly a safe place, there are bad people, there are creepy people and there are also dangerous people. So always stay safe.

Now that you got your name and a profile that, instead of leading to personal information best leads to your other accounts, such as tumblr, you’re all set to post your first fic!

2. Write a decent summary.

If you move to AO3 from a site like FFNet, you are used to a pathetically short character limit that doesn’t allow much freedom.

Your summary is your window into the fic. It’s supposed to be the hook. Nowadays, tags take over parts of that job too but in the end, the summary is the final sell.

It’s tricky to find a good balance between explaining your story in an intriguing way and not spilling all the beans. Because you don’t want to spoil the ending, you want them interested in reading more and not left with the feeling that they already know everything that’s going to happen.

The same as with the tags apply; include what you think is truly important. What do people need to know about this story before going into it? Think of it as a trailer to a movie. What’s the best pitch?

3. Tagging makes fandom life easier.

Tagging is the one important feature about AO3 that makes it so beautiful and special. And tagging seems to be the hardest task for authors.

There are those who undertag and those who overtag.

You don’t have to literally tag everything - like “kissing” and “hand holding” and the sexual orientation of every single character that will as much as be mentioned in the fic. If readers face a literal wall of tags, chances are they just won’t read it and skip the entire thing.

Undertagging isn’t good either though. If things are too vague, many might also feel like it’s not worth wasting time on checking it out because the risk of running into something they might dislike is too high.

My personal approach to it is to tag everything I see as relevant. Things that, if I see them tagged in a story, instantly make me click it. Like, if I write a story that is centered particularly around the angst and feels of a certain character; tag it. There might be people desperately looking for a fic that centers on that character’s emotional turmoil.

And be on the safe side with smut too. Tag what you’re doing; there might be certain things that are uncomfortable for readers and that they are trying to avoid. That can be as simple as the what, or even as the who does what. For example, if I see a tag for explicit content but the author did not bother tagging who tops and bottoms, I generally don’t even bother clicking on the fic anymore, because despite the fact how most authors claim that topping and bottoming has “nothing to do with the character”, 90% of fanfiction authors still have it hard-wired in their brains that fics are more bottom-centric, that the bottom is portrayed as the shyer one who needs to be fussed over and comforted while the top is the brash, brave one. So to avoid running into literal fuckery where the roles are reverse to how I view the characters, I just don’t even try anymore.

Which means that tagging top and bottom can a) cause people who are looking for specific fics with a specific character as either of those to find your fic and be happy about it and also that b) someone who doesn’t enjoy the order you enjoy not to run into something they dislike.

Which actually summarizes the way I apply tags anyway. Don’t tag everything, but tag everything you think someone might be looking for in a fic, or might be trying to avoid. It’s both a lure and a warning in once.

Also, trigger warnings. You plan on writing heavier subjects? Murder, self-harm, torture, abuse, rape? Definitely put it in the tags. There are people who might just be really squeamish about it and don’t like it, which should already be reason enough to warn, but there are also people who have a serious history with such issues and might be triggered by them. So if you tag such things, they might already be filtered out by having been blacklisted by the users and you might have just made some people’s lives a little easier.

Tag your pairings. Maybe best in order of importance; many might just look at the first listed pairing, used to authors sorting them by importance and thus dismissing the fourth, fifth or sixth ship you tag as just random side-pairing. So if you have a main-pairing, always tag it first.

Also include character tags. I was recently told that there are apparently actually people who filter by character tags. News to me, though I do check the character tags too to see if my faves are in it.

4. Use the features AO3 offers!

This starts with something as simple as the fact that AO3 sends you mails about Kudos and comments. It’s a great way to stay up to date with how much love your fics gain.

Now that we’re at it; comments. Reply to them, if you have the time. Those are people who are interested in your work, in something you evidently love enough to put it out there. Engaging with them is a brilliant feeling. Getting feedback on your things and getting to know what they expect of your work or want from it. Occasionally, it can even be very inspiring and give you an idea to include to your story that you hadn’t even thought about!

Another thing about comments however is that you can moderate them. It’s a feature I personally don’t use because I’m a veteran at this point and there’s nothing I haven’t seen in the comment section to I’m not that easily fazed.

But if you are still new to not just AO3 but fanfiction in general and if you might write a ship the so-called antis deem “problematic” - which, at this point in time, can literally be any ship aside from canon no, wait, canon too - you might do yourself a favor there. Because fandom life can be beautiful but it can also be hell. There might be shitheads who come to your fic and say nasty, bad things about your pairing choice, your fanfiction, your writing, maybe even you yourself as a person because they’re trying to hurt you.

Don’t let it get to you.

But if you are more sensible about such things, then maybe moderating reviews can be a useful feature for you because it allows you to delete spam and flames without them ever showing up in the fic. You can always flag reviews as spam or delete them, even if you don’t use the feature, but you’ll have an ugly “scar” on your comment section that says [this review has been deleted].

One of the most handy features AO3 has - after the tagging - is in my eyes the series-feature. It allows you to bundle multiple fics together under one umbrella. Personally, I really hate when people post oneshot collections on AO3 as one fic and there’s tags for like 20 fandoms, 30 pairings and 60 kinks in that one fic and you as the reader have no way of telling which of the additional kinks would now relate to which pairing. The far easier and cleaner solution would be to post oneshots seperately, so people can easier tell what they individually are, and mark them as part of a series for that collection. It’s, of course, a matter for authors, but I’m not the only one who simply scrolls past such oneshot collections because I don’t have the patience to go through it just to notice all my kinks are tags that would belong to a shot I’m not interested in (not to mention the ones that already tagged the collection as including a pairing but 20 shots in that pairing has still not been written, or the ones that don’t include in the chapter title what pairing and fandom the individual shot is... and you’d literally have to seep through 30 chapters to find that one pairing in the collection that you’re interested in. Yeah no, I got better things to do with my time and close the whole thing).

So yeah, the series function makes it far easier to gather things you want to put under an umbrella but still make easy to navigate for your readers, which, always nice.

Another handy feature about AO3 is that you can put links into the fic. So if a character starts singing a song in the middle of the fic for romantic mood... Not everyone recognizes a song by its lyrics and it just doesn’t set the mood as well; how about just putting a link to a YouTube video over the first line that the character sings? Your readers can open it in another tab and let it set the mood for your fic.

5. Don’t let haters get to you!

I know I mentioned it above already, that you shouldn’t let shitheads get to you, but it’s important enough to earn its own separate point on the list.

Fandoms are filled with hatred and mean, nasty, selfish people who will do and say everything to keep their fandoms “pure” and thus attack people who ship or like things they themselves don’t like.

That can, at times, be really drowning and hard, so you need to focus on the good parts. If you’re a first-time writer, you might not yet have the connections, or you already do from tumblr and other sites, I don’t know, but let’s say you don’t. Then make them. A point of that is the above mentioned “interact with your readers” advise I gave you; the people happy about what you write are the good people and the kind of people in fandom that you want to associate with - so just do it. Do it, make friends, find people who you can gush to about this thing you both love.

If you already got those contacts from other sites? That’s great! But hey, never too late to make more friends and meet more fellow fans.

But those people are incredibly important if you want to participate in any fandom, because they are what reminds you that the fandom can be safe, sane and nice. That it can be a beautiful place and that it’s worth loving.

Because otherwise the hate from the other part of the fandom might get to you and it might even make you dislike the show/movie/book itself simply by association. I’m sorry that I’m sounding like such a downer here toward the end, but I’ve already seen it and gone through it myself, that if you fall into the deep end of negative fandoms, they can ruin everything for you. So it’s a piece of advise that is very dear and important for me to give - find the safe, sane and nice part of the fandom, claim it for yourself and enjoy it and don’t let anyone tell you that you don’t have the right to enjoy and love it.

And that’s it. That’s all I can think of, at least. I hope there was at least some useful stuff in it, but since I don’t know how experienced you are with fanfiction writing and posting, I figured I’d better be more thorough and more general about it. Better give too much advise than too little, I guess.

Now, one last thing: Enjoy writing and never forget to enjoy writing; never let it become a “task”, always love it, okay? ;)

#Fanfiction #Writing #Fanfiction Writing #Advise #or at least I tried #AO3 #thisblogisdeaderthanspacedaddy

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esselley · 7 years

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hi! so i just made an archive of our own account and i don't know what to post first. do you have any tips or advice for posting on ao3? do you have any tips for ao3 in general? thank you!

Hi there anon! Thank you for your question!

First things first: I think to a certain extent, what to post first is going to be entirely up to you. Whatever you feel like writing, whatever format it’s in, you should write it up and post it! Or, depending on how long you’ve been using the site as a guest, you can look through other people’s content to pay attention to tagging, author’s notes, formatting – that kind of thing. AO3 is user-friendly in most ways, and you’ll grasp it pretty quickly.

But, I do have a couple tips to help you out on your first run-through (and actually some helpful tricks I think some more familiar users may not know, as well)!

BTW since we’re on the topic, if you use the subscribe function on AO3!!! Did you know about the different ways to subscribe to an author, a series, or an individual work?

You can only subscribe to an author from their dashboard or their profile page! If you are in the middle of reading a particular fic, and you hit the subscribe button at the top of the page, you will only subscribe to updates for that fic. Same deal if you want to subscribe to a series, you must be on the series page. Subscribing to a fic within that series will only subscribe you to that specific fic – you will get updates if that story is updated/chapters are added, but not if a new work is added to the series.

I suspect some people are unaware of this, due to the frequent amount of subscriptions I get on one-shots! (But, idk… maybe there’s just some really hopeful people out there laijefliajelsjf)

Anyway, now, onto the rest of this textbook (it got long)!

NEW WORK vs DRAFTINGWhen you go to post your very first work on AO3, you’ll go to Post > New Work at the very top to open up AO3′s drafting tool. From here, you can go through and copy over a work from Word or Google docs or whatever writing program you use, or just write up your fic in the post box itself!

Either way you choose, you can then decide to post your work right then and there (Post Without Preview), or if you are still editing it, you can choose the Preview option. This will take you to the work as it will appear once posted; from there you can go back to the editing page, which will now have a Save Without Posting option. Use this if you would just like to save your work and come back to it later. Note: drafts are saved for one month only.

HTML vs RICH TEXTWhen you open your drafts/start a new work, the main field for your text has two options: HTML or Rich Text. HTML just shows you all HTML codes in your work. Rich Text is probably what you want to work in while editing, because you’ll only see this bar in that format:

However, sometimes you will want to use the HTML section in order to copy over text from another source that allows HTML format; for instance, Tumblr! I always copy the HTML from my tumblr fics over to AO3 when posting, because it is the easiest/fastest way to ensure the formatting stays intact. Here’s where to find that:

AVOID BACKDATED DRAFTSThis is a pitfall I encountered with my first fic I ever posted. When you create a draft, the date of posting defaults to the date you first saved the draft. So if you are like me and you draft fics way in advance of posting, you need to make sure to update the post date before you actually hit post, or it will backdate your fic – this happened with This Place in the Sky, and it was several hours before I realized it had backdated by a week, and no one was seeing it T.T Learn from my mistakes, younglings

(And if you want to backdate a draft, then you would go in here to alter the date.)

ITALICS ISSUESome people have noticed an issue with AO3 that causes fics to have odd spaces after punctuation (periods, quotation marks, dashes). This is a glitch related to italicizing when you transfer over fics from another source. To avoid having to search your entire fic for those spaces, always italicize the punctuation that precedes/follows your italicized words. For instance:

“No!” – quotations/exclamation not italicized, glitch makes it show up as:

“No!” – all punctuation italicized, now shows up as:

:D It’s just less of a headache to have to comb through and find all the random spaces, I find, when you just italicize beforehand! A preemptive strike.

PARAGRAPH SPACINGLet’s look at the variations of line spacing in a posted fic:

And here’s what this looks like in AO3′s Rich Text editor:

Sorry that is so tiny, but notice the clear difference in spaces between paragraphs while editing! There’s no actual correct way to do this, but! The “regular” option of spacing is the most common on AO3, and also the easiest to read. Avoid the no spacing option at all costs! It can be a huge headache to read, unless you are indenting paragraphs (less common on AO3, but acceptable). I tend to dislike the double spacing option as well because I feel like it breaks up the flow of wording, but that’s just personal preference.

HOW TO AVOID DOUBLE SPACING BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS

Frequent posters may also have noticed a thing AO3 does where it will insert double spaces at random intervals, often for large sections of the fic at a time, for no discernible reason. This happens often when you copy your work over from another source. But there’s an easy fix!

On MS Word and Google docs, find the “Add space after paragraph” option, and enable it for every fic you write. When you hit Enter (ONCE) to go to a new paragraph, it will autospace for you (meaning, you should not need to double tap the Enter key).

Now when you copy this over to AO3, it will read ONE SPACE reliably, giving you that regular spacing option up above. Cool news: if you copy your HTML from Tumblr to HTML on AO3, you don’t even need to worry about this. HTML be chill like that

QUICK HTML CODESAnother thing I see people asking is how to add hyperlinks! But also, did you know you can add links, bolded, and italicized text to your summary/notes as well? You just have to put them in HTML, and this:

ItalicsBoldHyperlink

will show up as:

You can easily bold/italicize/add links in the Rich Text editor, but summary/notes are HTML only and you will have to use the above. These are the most useful/common options you’ll need, I think. Try to preview before posting to make sure you got it right (and haven’t bolded your entire summary and the world with it on accident).

LINK BACK TO TUMBLRThere’s an easy way to link your stories to Tumblr (or Twitter) that automatically includes your title, tags, summary, and all other relevant information right in the post! Just hit this button at the top of your fic, once it’s posted – it’ll take you to the Tumblr log-in screen, so log-in and from there you can edit the post. This is what I use to make all my AO3 fic posts on Tumblr \o/

TAGS/SYNOPSISFinally, more of a stylistic note! Be thoughtful when tagging your fic/writing a synopsis. In general, try to be clear and concise, so people can see what they’re getting into at a glance. Tag what’s important to the theme and tone of your fic. This really varies from person to person… maybe you want to tag every single thing your fic encompasses! I find really long tags to be overwhelming when browsing AO3, and prefer simple ones. I tend to overtag more for smut-heavy/PWP than I do for longer, plot driven fics.

Your summary should also be clear and to the point, and describe the content of the fic. You can put any other thoughts in your beginning and end notes; if you are leaning towards saying anything like “sorry this sucks this is my first fic/I am bad at summaries/etc” just leave that out! If you don’t like summaries, use a quote from the fic. You don’t have to apologize for posting, even if you don’t think it’s a Shakespearean masterpiece. You still wrote a fic, and that’s awesome!

This is everything I could think of for the time being…I hope it’s helpful!!

#ao3 #archive of our own #writing advice #anonymous #esselle replies #long post #i'm so sorry...#i thought this would be short #posting on ao3: a guide by esselle #1st edition #writing advice: social media

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midnight-in-town · 8 years

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Hi! I'm happy your anon mode is back! I wanted to write about TG in the past weeks, but then exams came and I forgot what I wanted to say lol, hopefully I will remember :) So I saw another anon recommending KS. Is it good? I don't know if to read it or not. About YOI I wasn't interested, then I saw the last episode which I liked and watched it from the end to the beginning XD Yurio is my fav too btw! Happy to have you back!

Hi Anon and awww, thank you

About YOI, yeah I just love Yurio hahah, he was instantly my fav because of his bratty attitude although I like Victor and Yuri too. One day I might just watch the rest of it, but since I know the entire story, it’s not one of my priorities right now :)

As for KS, um, well here’s the thing, it is unexpectedly good as in, even considering the title, I wasn’t expecting it to please me so much (seeing as I thought this would be yet another cliché type of a story centered on BL love with one dude being Bad™ while the other still loved him despite the blood on his hands, Oh How Sweet™).

I’m completely exaggerating it of course, but basically, that was my idea of it when I first saw it on my dash two weeks ago or so (thanks @theawesomefanatic and a few others).I still gave it a try one evening, almost closed my phone after the first ten pages because it already gave off an extremely creepy and unhealthy vibe when nothing had even happened but then I couldn’t sleep anyway so I went through ch1 and 2 thinking ‘ew that’s so messed up’ and… well, it’s so well done in being so damn messed up that you just can’t stop reading, haha.

It’s a bit like when you’re watching one of the most gory episodes of Criminal minds (or Silence of the lambs) alone at home and without any light on, being on the edge of your seat because you’re scared to see what could happen but at the same time you still want to know, and since the author constantly plays on that, that’s why it’s a really good psychological thriller.

(more rambling under read more)

So all in all I’m 100% in it for the psychological horror part of it and because the two main characters are really fascinating to read about (both on their own and through their relationship obviously) and honestly, I just can’t wait to find out where all of this is going. :) The rumors about the series aren’t fake at all though:

it’s not just called “Killing Stalking” for show, it’s really a high level of violence

it’s sexually explicit and R18 for a reason

it’s emotionally disturbing

there is a lot of Discourse about it in the tags so if you tend to be emotionally involved when it comes to fandoms, well… just be careful :3

The first two chapters (available for free here) really put me off (totally on purpose of course) and who knows if I would have continued afterwards if I hadn’t been unable to sleep that one night.

So the point is, you might not believe it’s actually that violent or disturbing but it is (personally I was just laughing it off like “oh reeeeeally?” and yes, really xD) and it’s meant to be that way in the first place, so you’ll have to see by yourself if it appeals to you or not. :3

As for some personal pros of mine:

actual good characterization and not just your usual BL tropes more or less copied and pasted onto 2 characters to fit with the horror/thriller genre which is an A++ point and something I hadn’t found in a long time when it comes to this specific genre.

actual character development for the two main guys is totally a thing and it’s great

cliffhangers everywhere and not just at the end of chapters

good pace (+ chapters are weekly)

both characters actually have big issues in and outside of their relationship (which is 100% my thing because one does exist as an individual outside of a relationship, and it’s especially important in a toxic one)

and to end this, two good posts without spoilers that I agree with (amongst many others) in case you want to read some more about the series before seeing whether you’re to try it or not: [x] [x]

Some people might see this post and argue that “no it’s just supposed to be a BL story under extreme conditions” but honestly I don’t really care: as I was saying to that other Anon, I’m after plot and characterization (though in series with a small cast, characterization > plot) and so as long as I’m getting that from KS, I’ll keep on reading :)

I hope that made sense, sorry for this huge ramble. :3 Just weigh that decision carefully okay? I have no idea about what you like or how old you are, so I hope this helped you to get a clearer idea about KS.

Sorry for rambling as always but thank you very much for the nice words

#anon #answers #tw: violence #killing stalking #personal

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