#i'm awesome

[twistcmyk]

[saxandviolins88]

Felt the crushing urge to draw Windblade, but then Starscream suddenly appeared, don't mind him

[divinely-yourz]

my brain is buffering

[evaiskindaweird]

Redrew maria bamfords book cover but...wait, Sally botsford? What are you doing here??

[awbarnes-no]

spent the day making icons and replying here and there and . . .

i'm really happy with them you guys! this psd is rocking it and i am so proud of myself.

[terrainofheartfelt]

woot woot just finished chapter 2

[sasha-mexik12]

🙋🏻‍♀️♐🔥🥰😈💃🏻😜😁

[smolsnailhugs]

I was just told I radiate Vampire energy and I am LIVID

[capsicleunderoostank]

I am a genius.

I'm thinking of writing a Bucky love story, and I just came up with these lines.

First line- "His name was James. Not Jamie, not Jay, just James. And he had no one"

Last line- "His name was Bucky. Not James, not Barnes, just Bucky. And he had her."

I'm in love.

[youcancallme-manny]

Mirinda >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fanta    fight me

[eilooxara]

not to brag or whatever but fuck my prose is so good sometimes

[cuteciboulette]

Never have I handled my taxes that early, I’m so proud of myself! (I used to complete them 1 or 2 days before the deadline; this year I’m 3 weeks in advance, wow!)

I’ve been adulating like crazy these past couple of months, go me! :)

[stealthrockdamage]

need to post my favourite tweet in the entire world

[swordsmans]

me, absolutely not an artist, desperately trying to articulate how much i adore people's fanart: ouughgh the colors. there are so MANY of them!!!! and the lines,,,,,,,,,, they are made of lines.. impeccable

[volublelemur]

yknow it's not ideal but it is cool that I'm able to feed four people on food stamps meant for one

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.