Vector: So WHY Exactly Did You Think Using A Blowdart In A Party Game Was A Good Idea???

Team Chaotix week day 4 : Protector

Plushies are the protectors of peaceful sleep

experiencing the new world

By the way, fanfiction isn't the place for reviews or criticism.

When you're a published author, it's like you're preparing a meal in a food competition. You expect a rating and to be told what worked and what didn't to improve your craft and embark on your career.

When you're a fanfiction author, it's like taking some of your free time to enjoy the process of baking cookies and then offering them to someone to be kind.

If you take a cookie from the plate, you don't spit it out and tell them it sucked.

Unless the writer asks for your opinion, you can keep it to yourself.

Adding this to clarify, and you don't have to agree with this by any means, I cannot force you to, but the reason Ao3 and Fanfiction isn't the space for criticism and ratings...is that it is a fan space created by fans for fans.

It isn't school.

It is a space where people with the same interests can congregate and enjoy the same fandom.

When you think about commenting on an fanfic authors fics, don't think if it as fishing around in your pocket to give them a compliment.

Compliments are nice. Most everyone likes compliments.

"I like your character development."

"You paint wonderful imagry."

Those are comments that are compliments. Speaking for myself as a fanfic writer they're nice, but they're not what my fan heart craves.

I want engagement with my readers.

The best comments I get aren't talking about my skill as a writer, but what just happened in the story because you and I (the reader) are already fans of the world created.

Comments like:

"NOOOOOOOO!"

"Did she actually just do that?"

"EXCUSE me?!?!"

None of these comments are compliments and none are critical. They are emotionally aligned with the story. They are engaged and with this engagement we create a little community in this tiny little space we get to call ours.

I cannot stop people from saying cruel things, but I can inform those people of the "dangers" so to speak when people treat fandom spaces like Ao3 as if it's Goodreads.

Writers, who write for themselves and offer it to you out of kindness, can decide that if people are just going to spit out their cookies they don't need to post about them anymore and that is how fandom spaces die.

If you don't like the flavor of cookie they made, or you're allergic to one of its ingredients...don't eat the cookie. Put it back for someone else to enjoy and then go find the flavor you do like.

Day 6: Home (or the lack thereof)

@team-chaotix-week

You get a quick sketch today because I am in a critical state of sleep deprivation ✌️

Bonus and talking under the cut:

I originally wanted to make a comic of how the Chaotix lost their house during the events of Sonic Forces. Maybe Eggman and Infinite went after all of Sonic's friends specifically and that's how a giant robot tore their roof and most of their walls appart. While fighting with the resistance, they slept in a old storage room repurposed as a dormitory for all members, and they had to share an old bunk. In my mind Vector built the house not so long after adopting his kids, and before that he lived with Nite and Don (of course). So while they do their best to survive, he swears to rebuild everything but bigger and better so that Charmy and Espio can go back to live as normally as possible.

And all that I am saying was supposed to appear in a comic but I really didn't feel like doing it so I'll just share the draft I did :D

My little sister during our D&D campaign: What if he's being mind controlled like I was before but like...mediocre.

Us: dying laughing

Sister: It's like mid! Like not as good! He can't see the horrors! Stop laughing!

I’m only speaking for myself but it’d be nice if people could say please or thank you while requesting prompts, asking for advice or anything from gimmick blogs, because I think we as a society has grown so accustomed to google and chatGPT that we sometimes forget people who run gimmick accounts on social media are real people, not robots.

you’re asking for help / advice from real people with lives outside of the internet, real people who will sacrifice their free time researching and making a post that could help you. and this isn’t meant to be guilt tripping at all. this is just me asking people to please say please or thank you while asking for advice / help or requesting something from someone.

I’m always happy to help, it’s just that it would be nice if people treated me like a person and not a robot where they could just order what they wanted without, ya know, a simple please or thank you.

there's a tweet going around about 100 men being able to beat one gorilla and I feel like boom sonic and boom knuckles would talk about this too