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Saw the exchange event super late lol so I wasn't able to sign up in time, but if you need any pinch hitters... I'm around. 👉👈

No worries!! Actually because of how little activity we actually got the exchange, I was wondering if folks would be interested in like a fan creation week instead? there's a lack of sign ups and all so I was thinking of an alternative way to celebrate?

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Sign Ups Open!

Hi there! Sign ups are open for the exchange as well as nominations. Both of these will close on April 19th. If there are no sign ups, I'll probably rework it into a general fanweek for wuwa ^^

Sign Ups: Here

Nominations: Here

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you know how it is

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okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

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So, I tried to read Lightlark. I really tried. I couldn’t.

But I found something in there that actually might help a lot of writers.

I’m not going to give a ton of information on what Lightlark is, because, for the purposes of this post, you don’t really need it. Suffice to say that it’s a (in my opinion) very poorly-written book.

So, anyway. The advice.

There’s a scene at the very beginning of the book where the author is trying to set up the background, world, and characters. The protagonist is sitting in the greenhouse that she lives in, and her two caretakers enter.

It’s at this point that we learn the caretakers’ nickname for the protagonist: “Little bird”. We’re also given some information, both about the protagonist’s life and the way her caretakers treat her; We learn that they’re pretty controlling over her and sort of own her, in a way.

This sets up some pretty neat, if a little obvious, symbolism: The protagonist lives in a greenhouse - a glass dome - and her controlling caretakers call her a “little bird”. She’s a bird in a cage.

You probably didn’t need me pointing it out for you to notice that - you know how to read and, if you’re following me, you’re probably a writer. So, you’re thinking: Nice symbolism, I guess, but what’s the point of the post?

The point of the post is that the author immediately fucks it up.

After crafting this tidbit and putting it into her work, the author decides that it’s not enough; Surely her audience won’t notice that the greenhouse is supposed to represent the protagonist feeling trapped without being prompted.

So, she prompts us.

By literally saying: “She was like a bird. A bird in a cage.”

There’s your advice. Don’t treat your readers like they’re stupid. They’re not. Trust your audience to understand your metaphors and symbolism and underlying themes without being told. Or, at least, trust me when I say that this is about the most annoying thing an author can do.

It’s far better to have a subtle metaphor or choice of words go unnoticed than a less-subtle one be pounded repeatedly into the reader’s skull because the author treats them like they’re four.

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NOMINATIONS OPEN

Hello there!

Nominations are currently open for the Wuwa First Anniversary Exchange:

Here

You have until April 11, 2025 to get any nominations in!

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Hello there! I'm new to this so sorry if it's obvious but what do nominations mean?

Hello! Nominations are basically a way to pick out which ships or characters you'd like to write for. In this exchange, any nominations involving relationships use 'Group: Character A/Character B (Fandom)' to disambiguate in the tagset. Character nominations only have to use 'Character A (Fandom)' as it's format!

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NOMINATIONS OPEN

Hello there!

Nominations are currently open for the Wuwa First Anniversary Exchange:

Here

You have until April 11, 2025 to get any nominations in!

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i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

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Cantarella Fisalia - 36th Matriarch of the Fisalia Family

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Introducing Wuthering Waves First Anniversary Exchange!

Are you interested in creating more for Wuthering Waves after the 2.0 update or have you been around since 1.X? If you're someone who enjoys exploring the possibilities of the characters on Solaris-3 and would like to share that love for your favs then this exchange is for you! This is a general Wuthering Waves Exchange hosted on AO3 for your favs on Solaris-3 (including OCs and Crossovers!)

Ao3 Collection: Here

Tagset: Here

Discord: Here

Schedule

Nominations: April 4-11, 2025 

Sign ups: April 12-19, 2025 

Assignments out: April 21, 2025

Assignments due: May 20, 2025

Work reveals: May 22, 2025

Creator Reveals: May 25, 2025

More info on the way as we near the nomination date and so forth! Feel free to follow this account as more socials get set up.

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Hello!!

I've created a discord for anyone that is interested and as a place to hang out! Link Here

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Why did you become a Liondancer? It's time to think about it.

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Wuthering Waves: Geshu Lin

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The wuwa side of Tumblr very much feels like old day fandom

Like we're all just sharing our OCs, ship thoughts, random theories, fanart and so on

And as the Golden rule of tumblr, block the asshole (how I love socials without algorithm)