#this post is for me and like two other people who are homestucks and ofmd fans

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

[quillyfied]

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🌿: how does creating make you feel?

It makes me feel like I’m extending the positive experience of the source material; I like a lot of things that I don’t make stuff for, but when something hits my brain just right and tingles my creative passions? Bottomless well of happiness. I miss creating being more about passion and less about caution for me.

💝: what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

Oh man. For starters, I’m still surprised whenever people find and read my stuff, simply because I’m no longer all that prolific and I’m more of a lurker than an active online participant these days. And there have been many fics that I didn’t expect to get such a large response, or fics I thought would do well but just…don’t, in terms of audience feedback volume. But I’m still so surprised that my illegal fishing au for OFMD resonated with people. Maybe also because I wasn’t expecting it to resonate so much with me, either.

📡: why is writing and sharing your writing important for fandom?

Because that’s how I contribute. I can fangirl and scream and keymash with the best of them, and that has its place, but tbh, I don’t feel like I’m in a fandom unless I’m making something for it. Sometimes it’s just a meta post. Sometimes it’s epic length fics. Sometimes it’s just a doodle. That act of creation is my echo back into the universe to prove that something touched my heart, and I want to amplify my own good feelings back out to people who will appreciate it. Also it’s a hella good source of external validation. Like walking around a con and getting compliments on your cosplay and complimenting others on theirs and passing the good vibes around. Powerful feeling.

🧿: what steps do you take to not take things personally if a fic doesn’t do well, or if your writing/posting/sharing experience isn’t going how you’d like it to?

Well. That does depend on the fic. My Good Omens Homestuck AU fic…very much underperformed, in comparison to both my Good Omens and my Homestuck fics. Not as much crossover there as I expected. But it’s a fic I’m still proud of, even if I couldn’t finish it, and there have been a lot of little stories out there that just disappeared in the crowd. I recently got a comment on one from years ago that I’ve always been a little salty about it not doing as well, and that person got it! They loved it! But before that, it was just learning to let go and realize that a lack of engagement doesn’t mean a lack of meaning. Omenstuck has some of the most thoughtful comments I’ve ever received, and the stats on it kinda don’t matter so long as I know at least one or two people really, really liked it. And it was fun to make, regardless of audience!

🤲: what do YOU get out of writing?

I get to live in the source material for a little while longer. I get to learn how to write new characters, flex my character voice skills. I get to write some of the weirdest, most unhinged plots I can conceive of, within reason. I get to contribute to that feel good fandom experience. It’s something I can control, in a life and world where I feel that so infrequently.

Thanks so much for sending the ask!!

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I posted 3,906 times in 2022

That's 3,804 more posts than 2021!

495 posts created (13%)

3,411 posts reblogged (87%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 3,821 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#i need a tag for my own rambles - 316 posts

#cats - 210 posts

#queer stuff - 123 posts

#silly - 122 posts

#homestuck - 122 posts

#this - 105 posts

#trans stuff - 104 posts

#art - 96 posts

#ofmd - 88 posts

#actually autistic - 83 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#malibu: :d i love u too hoomin! i am sitting on big 🐻 rn and they are so warm!!! i love them so much!!! can u come back soon and play w me

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

shamelessly stolen meme (im toad)

256 notes - Posted December 2, 2022

#4

so much love for people with verbal stims, echolalia, who repeat sounds or make their own, who are mumbling or singing or making noises to themselves all the time when they feel safe,

<3<3<3<3 giving all of u a forehead kiss

481 notes - Posted March 4, 2022

#3

desperately feeling for every little autistic queer kid in school rn. school fucking sucked for me, big time, and I've been out of school for 11 years now and part of me wants to ignore that schools are still a thing for many people.

you are strong and capable and gorgeous. your stims are good and cute actually! you are allowed to be open about yourself and it'll make some things easier but it'll make other things harder and you're also perfectly allowed to keep parts of you a secret if that keeps you safe for now. but most importantly, please remember that this awful time in your life will pass, even though it feels like it's forever right now. one day soon you'll look back and wonder why you were ever so scared. you'll grow into such a lovely wonderful person. in fact you already are and don't you forget it. your future holds happiness and peace. i love you.

519 notes - Posted May 7, 2022

#2

the diet cult is a solution to a nonexistent problem.

which is great, capitalism loves a solution without a problem. Or rather, selling you a solution to a problem they tell you you absolutely have.

so they make everyone believe that losing weight is super desirable for some reason.

it can only really be accomplished by disordered eating and/or exercise habits. (there have been so many studies showing that long term weight loss is not possible for most people, unless they develop disordered eating or exercise habits.)

the problem? people get hungry cus their bodies need food!

the solution? try this pill, that shake, such-and-such supplement. join this group with like minded diet cultists people who want to lose weight! you have to pay a membership fee and it'll try to dictate every bite you put in your mouth and sell you special recipes and ingredients and build an entire economy based on your low self-esteem, cus society tells you anything above stick-thin is too fat.

it's a cult aimed at controlling your entire life, where you shop, what you buy, what you eat. it's super good at it?? to the point where like. the majority of women in western countries seem to be falling for it?? (can't speak for other places but i imagine it's big elsewhere too)

to the point where many fat people believe they don't have worth unless they lose weight,

and many thin people believe that the worst thing that could happen to them is to gain weight,

when in reality, weight is morally neutral. being fat protects you from some diseases, actually. socio-economic status is a better predictor of health than weight. etc. etc.

fat ppl and fat liberation activists have been talking about this for so fucking long. i really don't know what it will take to get people to listen.

769 notes - Posted August 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

"sexuality and gender are different things"

and

"a lot of trans people conceptualise their sexuality through their gender or vice versa and for many of us the two are inextricably linked"

are both true statements, the only reason why you see more of the first and less of the second is because cis people are pathologically unable to understand nuance in this area. in this essay i wi-

4,445 notes - Posted April 18, 2022

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I posted 8,890 times in 2022

That's 5,220 more posts than 2021!

146 posts created (2%)

8,744 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

merryvrismas

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I tagged 4,365 of my posts in 2022

#video - 814 posts

#ofmd - 513 posts

#animals - 494 posts

#wwdits - 425 posts

#gif - 411 posts

#cat - 249 posts

#succession - 188 posts

#wwdits s4 - 168 posts

#jerma - 147 posts

#homestuck - 141 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#this is exactly what i want. corporations cannot force me to look at their ads but i would love to look at ads from a fellow tumblr user

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

today’s the day! jerma’s going to shove an entire baseball up his ass, on stream!

536 notes - Posted August 19, 2022

#4

the process of watching our flag means death for me was like: oh okay, there's a woman pirate who disguises herself as a man, i can project a trans identity onto that. and oh, here’s a character who’s gay but he’s just there to be laughed at, at least it’s some representation in a side character. and oh, the two main male characters are growing very close, maybe i can find other people on the internet who interpret that as romantic.

and then Jim is actually revealed to be canonically nonbinary and played by a nonbinary actor? and Lucius is shown to be incredibly emotionally intelligent and one of the most valuable members of the team? and the two main characters actually DO have romantic feelings towards one another?

the queerness of this show is an integral part of it that cannot be divorced from its plot, and it’s not played for a cheap laugh. it’s depicted in such a genuine and kindhearted way. i feel like i’ve been living off of scraps of representation for so long, and i’ve been presented with a full banquet and i can hardly figure out what to do with myself.

863 notes - Posted March 27, 2022

#3

minecraft keeps adding new stuff and i keep ignoring all of it. i don't want to check out new creatures i don't want to fight the nether dragon i don't want to go to the nether i don't want to collect fancy blocks i want to dig a GIANT!!! FUCKING!!! HOLE!!!

955 notes - Posted March 2, 2022

#2

thinking about guillermo wearing a white turtleneck to nandor’s wedding… and how brides wear white veils that get lifted for a kiss to mark the beginning of a lifelong partnership… and how we know guillermo dreams of pulling aside his collar so nandor can press his mouth to guillermo’s neck and turn him into a vampire…

1,123 notes - Posted August 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

edward teach is so funny he ends episode 5 realizing he's attracted to stede, so then at the start of episode 6 he makes stede stab him with a sword. he really said ohhhhh i like this guy i am going to get him inside me by whatever means necessary. gay people please learn how to deal with your feelings

2,387 notes - Posted April 23, 2022

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