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an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

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honey, i accidentally drew them naked again

uncropped version on my ao3, linked here <3

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"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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I genuinely don't understand why talking about your favorite ship has to come at the expense of another ship. Preference is fine, but don't act like your favorite ship is the ultimate right choice.

One person's trash is another's treasure, but that doesn't stop it from being trash too.

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I genuinely don't understand why talking about your favorite ship has to come at the expense of another ship. Preference is fine, but don't act like your favorite ship is the ultimate right choice.

One person's trash is another's treasure, but that doesn't stop it from being trash too.

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"Toujours Pur."

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All over my blog I see microfic accounts for all these lovely ships, and I sit there in silence waiting for daily microfics of all my rarepair faves, and today I gave up waiting and decided to make a blog specifically for MARAUDERS RAREPAIRS!!

I’ll be posting daily prompts per month for writers (and artists if you’d like!) to use to come up with fun little scenarios of our beloved odd parings starting May 1st.

Hopefully, this will bring more attention to the rarepairs so we can get more fics about them!

All rarepairs are welcome, no matter how odd, excluding pedophilia and incest. These micro fics can be NSFW if you’d like them to be, but just make sure to tag and warn correctly so people who aren’t interested in the smutty stuff can dodge it.

All you have to do is tag @marauders-rarepair-fics on your microfic (or fanart) and tag it “#marauders rarepair microfic” so people can easily find it, and your fics will be reblogged to this page!!

Since rarepairs aren’t a huge thing in this fandom, this may take some time to take traction, so any reblogs and interaction with this account would be killer so our fellow rarepair lovers can find us. It would mean a lot if you reblogged this post and put your fav rarepairs in the tags! If you have any questions, suggestions, or any other thoughts, feel free to jump in the ask box about it and I’ll get back to you asap.

The prompts will be posted April 25 for posting to start May 1.

Happy writing, happy reading, and happy happy reblogging!

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Came back wrong

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the beloved family car for #wolfstar family I feel so sad that we have never had a chance to see Sirius riding his bike for real for one single time, and i saw orlando is making this new attraction “Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure” makes me even more upset…so i did this. :(

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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I started ACOMAF and then texted my sister (who I did not originally share my thoughts about the first book with for fear of shitting on her favorite characters). Screenshot below.

I’ve just finished A Court of Thorns and Roses. Does anyone want to chat with me about it? Literally just the first book, as requested by my sister, and I’m having Thoughts ™️

I’m just…. having a hard time cheering for Tamlin and Feyra? Like I knew they were end goals pretty early in the book, but it was *quick* that I sent my sister a text that basically said “I know the main pairing is Tamlin/Feyra, but what if they were a thruple with Lucien? 👀.” And I’m not at all mad about the idea of Lucien/Feyra too.

But then, she spent the second half of the book with Rhysand (whom I’ve been told I’ll like better later, because he gets heavy side eye), but that last conversation at the end of ACOTAR has me 👀 ready for that week she’s going to spend with him.

And like. Okay, Tamlin and Feyra are together, but that just feels. Boring. Sure, of course they got together. Whatever.

Is this weird? Do I just need to shut up and keep reading?

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I'm not ignoring my WIPs. they're ripening in my mental cellar

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Art by Readiert for my fic Let Me Believe (Ever After)

Listen. In a Cinderella AU - I know Remus is the obvious down and out Cinderella. But. Which one of them has canonically awful family? Which one of them would have a dramatic outfit reveal?? Exactly. We stan Cinderfoot and Prince Moony.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

Edit: minor grammar

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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Okay I think this is for real the final version

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Prompt 24 - Modern AU

@wolfstarmicrofic - April 24th, 208 words

Unknown: Heyaa

Unknown: 6pm sounds ok?

Unknown: tmr

Unknown: Here

Unknown: Has sent a location

Me: Hi! I think you've got the wrong number

Unknown: ??

Unknown: Prongs sent me ur num

Unknown: Told me to remind youu to bring snacks

Me: Prongs?

Me: I'm not sure I am who you think I am

Unknown: James

Unknown: James is prongs

Me: Nope, not a clue, sorry

Unknown: Awn :(((

Unknown: Are u cute? u sound cute

Unknown: Wanna come by tmr at 6 either way?

Me: Are you inviting a stranger over because you think I might be cute? I might be a murderer

Unknown: Well are you?

Me: A murderer?

Unknown: I meant cute lok

Unknown: Lol*

Unknown: If youre a murderer then too bad

Unknown: You already got my address

Unknown: That might have been a bad call

Unknown: Welppp

Unknown: So yes? We're watching The Godfather

Me: Good soundtrack

Unknown: NO SPOILERS

Me: wym no spoilers ?? It's been out for 50 years???

Unknown: NO SPOILERS

Unknown: IM NOT AFRAID TO BLOCK YOU

Me: you haven't watched the godfather??

Me: Man I love that movie

Unknown: Awn gonna enjoy watching me watch it for the first time then

Me: Is this you flirting?

Unknown: Depends, is it working?

Me: You do know I'm a guy

Unknown: I was counting on it ;P

Unknown: What's your name?

Me: Remus :) you?

Unknown: Sirius

Unknown: So

Unknown: You'll be here tmr, yeah

Unknown: ?

Me: What kind of snacks should I bring then?