I Love That Weird Sort Of Joy I Get A Receiving A Comment In Another Language. It’s Different Than

Meeting in the Holy Mausoleum

SQH, to SQQ: your taste in men is not superior to mine. you just like them a little weepy. you’d fuck a snake if it cried

ZZL, crawling from under the bed: …would you ?

wtf

my second prompt for @2haaction submitted by @/AVscari on twitter!

(let’s hope tumblr considers this tasteful *artistic* nudity and doesn’t take it down? – will post a crop if that happens)

why are they married in every single universe ever

All credits for beautiful story “Black Dog” to stereobone on ao3.

The true pinnacle of romance is getting someone to cuddle you and read to you in bed and NO I do not accept criticism.

Season 2 is just public indecency arc for ReiEre

Fandom Etiquette

I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist. 

written with the help of @unbreakablejemmasimmons

Fanart

if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you. 

if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages. 

if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes. 

if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon. 

if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from. 

if you appreciate it, don’t repost it. Reblog the artist’s post instead of making one of your own. Let them see all of the excited tags in the reblogs and replies or commentary that people add on. If you come across something on a google image search, try to trace it back to the owner. If someone tells you who the artist is, credit them - but also try to find and reblog their original post.

Fanfic

if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.

if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are great, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote. 

if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. If you want the author to write more things like that, let them know - even if you can’t comment! 

don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often. 

be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”

Fandom

ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway. 

if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you  hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry

if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one. 

if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them. 

none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine. 

actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people. 

Huge thank you to scales.n.art for bringing to life this scene from my Sterek fic El Lazo. I am desperately in love with the art! Mara's work is always amazing so I highly recommend checking out her other art!

Read on Ao3:

El Lazo | 51k (complete) | E

“You have to bite me first,” Stiles says, swallowing hard, a heady mix of fear and anticipation making him feel lightheaded.

“I won’t go deep enough to turn you.”

“Just deep enough to open the connection. I know,” Stiles agrees. “I want you to. I trust you.”

The words seem to catch Derek off guard, an odd look crossing over his face. But then he leans forward, hands gripping Stiles' shoulders. “Ready?” Derek asks, so close that Stiles can feel the words ghosting over his lips. He sucks in a breath and nods.

Please do not repost.