I’m Sure Everyone Knows Which One...

No fic needs sex to be good. A good fic should be able to stand on its own without it, and there are so many talented authors that I know who won’t touch the topic simply because it dilutes the initial story.

I'm trying to prove a point to my brain: Reblog if you think fanfiction does not need sex to be good.

There is a trend I’ve noticed that smut fics tend to be much more popular than anything else and honestly I just want to have something to look at to remind myself and that writing doesn’t have to have sex to be worth putting out into the community.

“I think I love you.”

NOT ONLY DID THEY KISS BUT BLAKE POPPED HER LIL FOOT. I’M STILL MELDED TO THE FLOOR.

I’ve seen five different authors take down, or prepare to take down, their posted works on Ao3 this week.  At the same time, I’ve seen several people wishing there was more new content to read.  I’ve also seen countless posts by authors begging for people to leave comments and kudos. 

People tell me I am a big name fan in my chosen fandom.  I don’t quite get that but for the purposes of this post, let’s roll with it.  On my latest one shot, less than 18% of the people who read it bothered to hit the kudos button.  Sure, okay, maybe that one sort of sucked.  Let’s look at the one shot posted before that - less than 16% left kudos.  Before that - 10%, and then 16%.  I’m not even going to get into the comments.  Let’s just say the numbers drop a lot.  I’m just looking at one shots here so we don’t have to worry about multiple hits from multiple chapters, people reading previous chapters over, etc.  And if I am a BNF, that means other people are getting significantly less kudos and comments.

Fandom is withering away because it feels like people don’t care about the works that are posted.  Why should I go to the trouble of posting my stories if no one reads them, and of the people who do read them, less than a fifth like them?  Even if you are not a huge fan of the story, if it kept your attention long enough for you to get to the bottom, go ahead and mash that kudos button.  It’s a drop of encouragement in a big desert. 

TL;DR: Passively devouring content is killing fandom.

Sokka got some serious game.

Did you see the moon is wet?? I think that's why people aren't handling things well

i found out like this

It’s the Arcane brainrot I think.

I'm seeing a big uptick in people calling Blake 'the responsible one' and Yang 'the impulsive one' as a ship archetype and i have to wonder how long it's been since you watched the show because you are not correct at all when Yang is historically the least impulsive member of the team and Blake has historically had the hardest time taking care of herself and others, and Yang is literally the team mom who is always worried about everyone else and Blake regularly goes into the fray on impulse, especially in the earlier volumes

I didn’t realize I forgot to post this. Commissioned @dlartistanon to draw my OC Sierra Grey. I’m super happy with how it turned out, and will be sharing an update on my story Ascension in a couple days(since I’m out of work for a while it seems).

Want to see if this will break my writers block...

Same here, except my parents said that it was just the devil trying to lead me from God.

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