#that I had been waiting for for 10 years

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

[shawolsos]

Jere and Bojan:

Me: OMG COSMO & WANDA⁉️⁉️⁉️

[i-ate-your-dog-srry]

Heyyyyyy!!!! It's my birthday soon!!

I forgot all about that! Maybe I'll buy myself a cookie from co-op :3 ohhhhh the possibilities!! I can go to the forest today, perhaps! I'll take barnaby and Wally! Heh Yaya 🎂🎈🎉 (well, kinda I celebrating my birthday a bit early because I'm not going to be home for it)

[sisididis]

For all the criticism unleashed toward Gege (some of which is justified, some of which isn’t) I will never not get down on my knees with gratitude for how he chose to depict Satoru’s passing. Chapter 236 is an indisputable masterpiece — everything from its title, the airport, its connotation as a liminal space to teenage Suguru greeting him first, Satoru’s reunion with Haibara and Nanami and their dialogue. Whoever said that Satoru had bottled all the happiness he had experienced during high school and then sampled from it for the rest of his life, you and I think the same. Despite the tremendous amount of pain it induces, Chapter 236 will always be my favorite.

[charlotte-of-wales]

NEWS: The Royal Hashemite Court is pleased to announce that Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II and Princess Rajwa Al Hussein were blessed, on 3 August 2024, with a baby girl they named Iman bint Al-Hussein.

[faaun]

pls i need to provide updates

[pollen]

i think i might have pcos. AND/or endometriosis. wahoo !!!!

[oldbutchdaniel]

look i know it wouldn’t have made narrative sense but they were pretty sick for getting ten And rose in the 50th anniversary and not letting them interact. like come on man. they were right there

[flutteringfable]

ive decided im not gonna return to genshin until venti is back on a banner and/or in a quest. i figure it'll be a fun (/sar) measure of how long they can go on ignoring him <3

[not-poignant]

Hello. Do you get frustrated by questions from readers whose answers are in the text, but the readers didn't read the story carefully?

Hi anon!

It really just depends. I would say the vast majority of the time, no! My stories are long, and it makes sense that sometimes people would want to check in about a detail. Also sometimes folks ask about worldbuilding in ways that are fun to reply to, and pretty respectful. Like, 99 times out of 100, I love getting questions about stuff in the story, even if it's stuff that's been covered in the story before.

But there are some ways I don't enjoy it? And that's when someone sends me like... 20-40 questions in back-to-back anons of which most are answered in the story multiple times. Or when they do it very 'emotionlessly' so I have no idea if they even like the story (because not everyone does, and not everyone asks questions in good faith), because I'm just getting repeated questions, no feedback, no appreciation for the time I put into answering (it can take a while to respond to asks that are about worldbuilding or writing details!).

And to be fair, a person doesn't have to appreciate it! I'm just aware that I appreciate my time, and believe it's valuable, so if I find that someone's asking me say...5 questions in a day that are all answered in the text, I should probably be just spending my time somewhere else. Maybe they're skimming the story because they're reading it really fast, or maybe they struggle to pick up subtext, but my job is to write the story, and not to be an encyclopedia for folks who just throw questions at me with nothing else as context (it can feel a bit like an interrogation!)

Thankfully this is rare, and I generally realise it's happening pretty quickly. Honestly I think the biggest issue there is simply that people forget that like, I am a...person. I have full and busy days, I have the writing as my main job that involves writing, editing, etc. I have friends and family. I have a dog to look after and a cat. I have my hobbies. And I really love answering asks, but there comes a point where it feels like someone forgets I'm a person and starts thinking I'm like a question-answering-machine with no feelings.

It's super super rare, and they might just be excited that they can go to the author of something and get actual answers, which is not actually what happens in most of media / reading. And that's exciting for me too, until I feel a bit like the other person might not even like the writing very much, certainly not enough to be paying much attention, and might even be asking questions to catch me off guard, or to trip me up.

But like I said, it's rare. It happens maybe twice a year like this, and when it does I'm mostly frustrated that it takes me so long to see the pattern and step back.

The rest of the time I love it, and don't find it frustrating at all!

[balkanballad]

had a day that made me think oh that was a bit heavy on the symbolism, wasn't it

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[ra-vio]

thought of drawing this when I was fishing a couple of weeks ago

[diari0deglierrori]

I love that every time there’s a flashback of some characters as kids they always have the exact same haircut as when they’re older

[technicalknockout]

whenever i get the urge to delete my old art off the face of the internet i remind myself of the artists who deleted their beautiful art that inspired me so much. i exist purely to spite their decision

[faarkas]

september quickly becoming the month of the 😀 emoji