#stop doing it

[malacandrax]

dangerous...

[iconsumethesoulsofthedamned]

Every time Mr. Lecter kisses a girl I take 100x psychic damage.

[smokingtiger]

Stop with BTS and AI. Right Now.

Tumblr needs to allow people to report other accounts for making ai generations of their likeness without their permission. this shit is scary as hell. the amount of women who have also been fed into these machines and had ai generated nudes of themselves posted by strangers. none of this is okay. i hope laws are passed against ai and it's disgusting to see so many bts fans rally behind ai covers and ai image generations. YOU NEED TO STOP.

People are already notifying BigHit and they're trying to upstart lawsuits. Don't get yourself tied up in this shit... knowing how BigHit deals with defamation, what makes you think this is okay? Are you really going to stoop that low just for some fake pictures of BTS?

[heartonxions]

in the year 2024 i’m seeing people name gajevy daughter emma i hate it here

[dwarvenchords]

👏🏻mental👏🏻and👏🏻emotional👏🏻abuse👏🏻is👏🏻abuse👏🏻and👏🏻should👏🏻be👏🏻taken👏🏻just👏🏻as👏🏻seriously👏🏻

👏🏻manipulated👏🏻consent👏🏻is👏🏻not👏🏻consent👏🏻

👏🏻don’t👏🏻tell👏🏻abuse👏🏻victims👏🏻they👏🏻should’ve👏🏻known👏🏻better👏🏻👏🏻when👏🏻they👏🏻were👏🏻mentally👏🏻deconstructed👏🏻to👏🏻believe👏🏻anything👏🏻their👏🏻abuser👏🏻would👏🏻👏🏻say👏🏻

👏🏻mental👏🏻abuse👏🏻victims👏🏻should👏🏻not👏🏻be👏🏻afraid👏🏻to👏🏻tell👏🏻their👏🏻stories👏🏻for👏🏻fear👏🏻of👏🏻being👏🏻told👏🏻they’re👏🏻not👏🏻real👏🏻victims👏🏻

[flootzavut]

This is your irregular reminder that if you are frustrated with a fic not being finished with, it's not just probable but likely that your pet fanwriter is more frustrated with it than you could ever be. Be nice to your pet fanwriter, it's tough out there when the muse isn't talking to you & life isn't going well. Please don't assume we just don't care or have abandoned stories without saying so, & bear in mind that approaching comments with that attitude is also absolutely the worst way to achieve your desired result. Absolutely nothing is as dispiriting to me personally as getting a comment that's just complaining that something hasn't been updated, or badgering me about something that hasn't been explained yet.

That's not to say that you can't ask for updates! I love when people are excited to read more. Just don't demand, don't act entitled, don't assume your pet fanwriter just couldn't be arsed.

Ways to ask that don't make me want to throw something:

"I loved this story, I'm subscribing!"

"I can't wait to see what happens next, I really enjoyed XYZ thing that happened in this chapter."

"I'd love to see more in this 'verse, but I really enjoyed this."

"[if you're a writer, any kind of empathetic understanding that writer's block sucks]."

"[Almost any kind of real review] Looking forward to more/Can't wait for the next chapter!"

Basically, let your pet fanwriter know what you enjoyed, let them know that you're excited for more, but don't act like you paid them for a complete story and only got half. We write fanfic for free, for love of the show/book/media and for love of the fandom. We get paid in kudos and comments only. We have lives, some of them more conducive to turning out fic regularly than others. We too have been affected by the pandemic and other shit that's happening in the world.

And I cannot overstate this, so I'm saying it again: complaining, demanding, etc, do not get you the result you want. Well okay, there may be a few people out there for whom someone stomping into their inbox and going "WHERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER?" will work, but they're the exception, not the rule. I have talked with at the very least dozens and dozens, if not hundreds, of fanwriters over multiple fandoms, and I've yet to meet one who gets a comment like that and is inspired to go to their word processor. At best, it makes them go "ahhh shit I guess it's been a while since I updated that"; at worst (and in my experience most common), it puts them off writing that particular story or possibly anything, because the only feedback they're getting is "not good enough, not fast enough, you owe me more" and that sucks.

(If you know the person very, very well and know they will take it as a joke or that they are one of the few who gets inspired by this, that's the exception, but don't do it on stories written by people who are strangers to you.)

Frankly, you're much, much more likely to prod your pet fanwriter into creating more by typing "♥️" and hitting the kudos button than by trying to guilt them into it. Guilt doesn't work. Encouragement does. If your desired end result is "they finish the story" then "why haven't you finished the story/where is the next chapter/update soon" is absolutely not going to achieve that. It's helping absolutely no one.

Train yourself to leave a heart or a "loved this, can't wait for more" or even just a kudos instead of a demand, and you at the very least have not made your fanwriter feel useless that day, and might have inspired them go back to the coalface.

At the end of the day, it boils down to treating your pet fanwriter as a human whose life probably doesn't revolve solely around updating the one fic you're obsessed with. Have a heart, that's all 🙂

[ominoose]

You sip your tea thinking you're in for a good, productive morning then your mutuals reblog sad Marc Spector posts and now what

[54prowl]

SHAKING YOU SHAKING YOU DON'T OPEN THE FILTERED POSTS ON THE DASH THEY'RE FILTERED FOR A REASON

[ramblingsunleashed]

what’s up with our boys wanting to sacrifice their body to stop the puck??

[gmaybe666]

me, upon searching for good jargyle fics but seeing every fic tagged with 'jargyle' has a summary/intro that begins with 'steve harrington so sexci':

[punkrockmads]

Please stop tagging things that have nothing to do with your post

I don't wanna see Joel smut under the Abby Anderson tags

[smokingtiger]

If I see anyone post any a.i generate photos of the boys I am blocking you to hell and back. What the fuck is wrong with you?

[souredvalentine]

as a fandom can we collectively stop twinkifying pure vanilla

[pithyorangecurd]

Least interesting person in the world im afraid

[dwarvenchords]

why does everyone talk like there was any sort of chemistry being thrown in this interview? like where?? it’s nonexistent???

[vampire-nyx]

Listen I hate ai art as much as the next guy and in its current state and likely future states I do not support using it, however some of us Need to stop arguing against it saying shit that ableists say to disabled people

“Oh ai art could be an accessibility tool? Disabled people CAN make art, here’s a video of a disabled person doing something incredibly difficult, time consuming, and likely painful for them. Why can’t you just do that instead? Why are you Lying about your ability?”