"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

WHAT

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aftercare for posting on ao3

your fic was good you did grammar good you’re the kind of freak people like everything’s cool dude :^)

“We hope this email finds you well” babe, the only emails I hope find me well are the ones from Archive of Our Own

don’t ever feel bad for interacting! that’s literally how you keep fandoms alive

There are some characters where giving them therapy and cleaning them up is the fanfiction equivalent of buying antique furniture and painting it white

writing is so fun

writing is impossible why does anyone do this

I love other writers so much because every writer I've ever met is genuinely and utterly deranged on a level only writers can achieve

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc