LF Character Comics

if you can’t find the fic you want to read, write it.

I won’t listen to the “but I can’t write” talk, because literally no one can unless they start. my first fics are an absolute mess. the grammar is fucked beyond repair, and I’m sure there are words in there that aren’t even English. it’s why they’re safely hidden in my personal folders and not online. they’re training grounds, full of cheesy dialogue and poorly written lines, but they brought improvement after improvement.

if you’re lazy and you don’t want to write, then interact with the writers who do.

if you’re afraid of being found out by friends and relatives who follow your blog, anonymous messages with compliments in the inbox do wonders. share positive feedback. show interest. it’ll push the writer to follow certain trends in order to keep the community they built happy—while being happy themselves.

fluff-exclusive stories are the ones with the lowest interaction on Tumblr and AO3.

even angst and MCD are more prolific in that regard, because fluff-exclusive multi-chapter stories lack the catharsis that things like sex or confrontation bring. unless the author is writing it as a passion project, the lack of feedback will have a negative impact on their will to continue, and they will inevitably switch to something that creates more discourse and interaction—because the beauty of writing also resides in sharing.

most of the time, fluff writers end up sitting at a table on their own, while the food they made is picked apart by a few who won’t even thank them for preparing it.

also, stop shaming smut writers.

sex isn’t something that needs to be further demonized. the world as it is today is doing a fairly good job of shaming sex by itself; we don’t need to spread more hate toward something that is literally biologically made to be fucking okay.

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

On Android 

With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.

On iOS 

To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.