#y'all are free to reblog with fanart of any of my text posts or Headcanons

[dialovers-lover-xoxo]

Yui: Can you move, please, Ayato? You're blocking the view

Ayato: I am the view

[marypsue]

I hate leaving comments on fic I’m so worried I’ll focus on a part the author didn’t care about or didn’t even intend and not even mention the section they cared about writing and it’ll hurt their feelings

Nonny, I am going to tell you a secret that changed my life:

It's not your job to read the author's mind. It's not your job to read anybody's mind. If you're doing your best to be kind, and listening and trying to do better if people tell you you've made a mistake, that's your entire responsibility. Part and parcel. Soup to nuts.

Part of the reason why I reblog so much stuff about comments and fanart and various ways of appreciating our fellow fan-creators is because I know there are people out there like you who are nervous about doing or saying the wrong thing, and I want to show y'all what it looks like from this side (which is to say, like Halloween and my birthday both came at the same time and showered me in red velvet cupcakes with chocolate batwings). I am thrilled when people have enough feelings about something what I wrote that they feel they have to tell me about it, somehow, and I have zero expectations about it. It's a wonderful surprise every time, and when somebody who read something of mine notices or puts together something that I didn't think of or didn't think too hard about, it's like getting to experience my own writing from a reader's perspective. It is so cool to see what different things different people take away from a text!

But I know I can't speak for every writer, and there are some people out there who might take the view that you're afraid of coming up against. Which is where that secret comes in: it's not your job to somehow know which writer is which, and psychically divine which parts the writer really wants you to focus on and what, exactly, they want from feedback. You don't have to! Nobody I would consider worth any time or effort is going to expect that from you. You could, if you're feeling extraordinarily considerate and want to go an extra mile, ask writers what kind of feedback they prefer (do they want an extensive list of your headcanons and predictions and interpretations, or do they just want to squee about this imaginary world you've both encountered? Are they interested in hearing what you think about the nuts and bolts of their writing, or are they just pleased to know whether it got a reaction out of you?) but that would be really going above and beyond, and I don't think anybody expects that.

Most of the writers I know, whether or not they'd be a little disappointed if nobody mentioned That One Part I Worked So Hard On, understand that comments, feedback, kudos, all of it, is a gift. That whatever words a commenter might use, they took the time out of their day to let us know that a) somebody out there is actually reading these monsters we're pouring all our free time and energy into and b) (usually) they liked it enough to tell us so. That is a high and rare compliment and should be treasured as such.

(So long as you're not the person coming in five minutes after a chapter drops going 'Update?'. That's pretty much universally agreed to be rude. We get it! You're excited! You're eager! You're invested! These are good things! Please say one of them instead of just 'update?'.)

(Also, I think ao3commentoftheday has a post somewhere that offers sort of a script for leaving comments, for people who feel like they don't know what to say or where to start. Sadly I do not think I have it bookmarked or anything that would make it easier to find, but they do have a lot of very good, very encouraging stuff, both on the writer side and the reader side.)

[pinkydude]

Alright, so it’s been some days now since the recent Mitch related drama with that stupid hashtag, and I decided to re-write that segment in my About Me page.

Hopefully it will make it clear for some people. I would like to add : Do not accuse me of Gatekeeping because of other people actions or inactions. I do not control what other people think or do. And I hope y’all will grow to realise how stupid those accusations are.

I'll try to make it as simple and understandable as possible, I keep on getting into all kind of unecessary drama because of people's unability to read.

I grew really attached to Mitch for a lot of personal reasons, with that came what I call the "freak brain" - If I see Mitch in any other content, ESPECIALLY romantic/shippy, I get huge panic attacks and get physically ill. And yes as stupid as it is, it also includes just pics of him just Standing there alone. I get triggered by all kind of content, screenshots fanfics mods fanart, Mitch alone, Mitch with others NPCs, Mitch with any V or any OC, anything.

To avoid that, I block people who are main Mitch content creators, I also got the "Mitch Anderson" tag blocked, and text hidden. I will NOT see your content featuring Mitch in anyway possible even if my mutuals reblogs it! I won't interact with anything Mitch related except if it was made for me specifically and that I've been told about it.

With that out of the way, no I do not gatekeep. Every Mitch content is valid, every version of Mitch is valid, every headcanons surrounding Mitch is valid. I simply can't get exposed to other's content without putting my health, mental and physical, at risk and I refuse to do that.

If you enjoy my pics, I'm glad! You are totally free to save them and use them as wallpapers, but don't tell me about it, please. If you use my Mitch fixes mods, great! But do not tag me for any credit. If I somehow made you love the character, that's AWESOME! But please do not tag me in your ship post with how "I made you love the character".

I appreciate y'all but I can't deal with it. Let's all love Mitch in our own way! Mine is sitting in my corner with the character I love and not bothering anyone, so please don't come bothering me with things that will potentially send me in a really bad place.