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LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 16

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LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 2, Poll 13

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The 'write for yourself uwu' culture shift has done real damage to fic writers imo. I recently had a post on the importance of strategic commenting break containment and I'm surprised by how many strangers who rb it in agreement feel the need to reassure in the tags that they do write for themselves, but...

There is a kernel of truth in the heart of this sentiment--if you only chase stats, you are unlikely to find joy in your writing. At the same time, I think we've veered too far in the other direction.

It is only natural to want engagement and the write for yourself crowd often overlooks how communal an effort fic writing usually is. So many story ideas are born from casual discussions about h/c's and favourite scenes and what ifs and the comment box is a cornerstone of this process. Not only can the discussions in the comment box be a hub for idea generation on their own, but even when the said idea generation takes place in DMs or Discord chats, commenting is often the first/easiest way into befriending authors; it's where community building starts.

Further, the write for yourself crowd similarly overlooks that the things a writer can write for themselves are often vast and many at any given time, and relative engagement levels across fandoms/ships can play a large part in which of those ideas a writer chooses to pursue--or whether they choose to publish their finished work at all.

In sum, I don't think we need to be this apologetic as writers for wanting feedback and engagement for what we post -- writing is hard work and it's only human that we want something external out of it in turn, however rewarding the process might intrinsically be.

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THIS TBH

shut up

bonus:

Xie Lian wants to be banished again 🤣

“san lang, who are you really?” 🦋🌸

starts sniffling and crying .. whenever i’m like “oh hmm how does this audio fit tgcf?” it’s like the stars align and the plot hands me the answer on a silver platter

i love hualian

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if there was a parallel universe in which someone made poorly drawn comics of SVSSS?

Wonder no longer! Please check out @poorly-drawn-scumvillain! I've seen previews of their upcoming comics and they are delightful!

🏹🗡 And if you don't love me now, you will never love me again

wangxian gazing at each other for a long, long time ♥︎

And once again, I forgot to post the finished work…🙈

Have a Lan Wangji for your tuesday needs <:

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Threadless (I’m Wisesnail on both <; )      

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mxtxnet's october event | day 1: food & drink

30 Below: Canadian 6 Degrees Week (April 15-21)

Thank you all for your canon thoughts and findings—oh, wait! We have more than one canon to enjoy!

This week's goal is to wander further into the Dominion of Canada.

Don't know what Canadian Six Degrees is? Basically, the fandom for any media our beloved due South main cast appear in.

Some things you can do:

Prompts are optional, and you can interpret the theme however you see fit. Wanna do something else this week or do the C6D thing later? No worries! The AO3 collection is open indefinitely and I will be sharing everything tagged #ds30below or mentioning @ds30below.

❗Note that if you're reblogging something as a contribution (e.g. responding to meta), you'll need to mention @ds30below in your reblog, since it won't show up in the tag search.

Off we go toward more greatness!

🐢fest info

🐢all themes & prompts

🐢helpful resources

🐢navigation

Cheesecake, 2 million women and mating hamsters

Ray, Louis, Huey and Fraser talk about love.

This is what love is in due South in just under five minutes. And it's pretty grim.

It's also one of the best written scenes of the entire series in my opinion. You learn so much about the characters.

Summary of their thoughts on love

Ray: women send you signs. Like eating cheesecake with a knife and fork.

Huey: there are 2 million women you could be happy with.

Louis: women annoy me or hurt me.

Fraser: studies on mating hamsters show that love makes you behave irresponsibly

Also:

Aaaaaaaand

Also consider:

And!