Xaden: “On it. Hey Violence! Will you marry-“

andarna: i know!

sgaeyl: there's other dragons around that you could call for help

andarna: i could!

sgaeyl: you can just bite those humans, run or fly away

andarna: i can!

sgaeyl: and you're just watching the girl risk her life?

andarna: yes!

sgaeyl: i can't tell you what to do - if i could, you wouldn't be here at all, but for the love of god, why aren't you doing anything?

Xaden: good evening, tonight's top story: everything is awful.

I don’t care if you’ve never written before or if you’ve written hundreds of fics.

I don’t care if your fic is 100 chapters or just one.

I don’t care if there’s too much dialogue, or not enough.

I don’t care if your character drinks “a hot cup of coffee” or “a steaming well of carefully brewed fair trade Ethiopian single origin organic beans, contained in an antique blue willow cup with one tiny chip on the edge and mild cracking in the glaze.”

I don’t care if you use the same pronoun over and over or if you use the word “persnickety” eleven times over the course of ten pages.

I don’t care if your historical references are accurate, or if the characters speak in a way that doesn’t fit their environment.

I don’t care if your romantic pairing makes love on a bed of roses at sunset or if they bang up against the wall in a changing room at Walmart.

I don’t care if your stories are nothing but fluff, or nothing but smut.

I am going to read your fics, and I am going to enjoy the hell out of them. So please keep writing, and ignore comments from assholes. We, the readers, love you.

Sales have closed on the very first Rosegarden Fanzine, so I am now free to share my submission with you all! Please enjoy my first-ever mini-doujinshi, which was definitely a learning experience in making comics! Credit for background brushes goes to: Kabocha & Inkhana