Choices. It Rules Me.

Apansız gelen gece yarısı bluesları ve ‘şunu da dinleyip uyuyacağım’lar.

26. Tending an injury

27. Accidentally Sleeping In

Steady, My Queen

King Liam surveys the large, brightly lit ballroom. The night was finally winding down and many dignitaries were beginning to leave, creating a much quieter atmosphere for the first time this evening. He turns and looks to his left, glancing lovingly at his wife, Queen Riley. She senses his gaze and turns to face him after saying goodnight to another member of the neighboring duchy, smiling when she finds his eyes with her own.

“What does this look mean I wonder?” She gives him a warm, but tired smile.

“Nothing my dear. You just…” He takes a deep breath and gives her a pleasant smile. “It’s like you were born for this. More so than anyone in my family, and I’ve had many years of training and preparation for such a role.”

She glances around and gives a scoff laugh when she feels the coast is clear. “Right… the waitress from New York is better suited for this courtly life than a polite, intelligent, royal blooded, deathly handsome man who has been groomed since birth to run an entire country.”

THAT IS A FUN IDEA. 

Why didn’t I think of it?! 

Probably in part because I haven't been consistently working on The Freshman Chronicles current chapters as much as the TFC prequel and Chemical Reaction (A Nanny Affair  Story) bits recently. I likely need to read through everything again to make sure I know where I am ...heh. 😅 

Anyway...

I. Am. Totally. Going. To. Do. That.

Thank yoooooou Nonny! *is excited*

NOTE:  All original plots and characters seen here were developed exclusively by @maxattack-powell

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*~The Freshman Chronicles~*

Join me as I recreate the story you know and love, with SO much more!

Including new history, additional angst, sweet romance, lots of fluff and even more Adult Themed (NSFW) material added in.

(Chris x MC)    #TheFreshmanChronicles

The Freshman…    **In Progress**

The Sophomore…    (up next!)

The Junior… 

The Senior… 

And Beyond!

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~*~ Other Freshman Series ~*~

NOTE: These are not related to The Freshman Chronicles listed above

~300 Followers Giveaway~ 

An AU where MC never met Chris that first day of Freshman Year, or was roommates… or had any interaction with one another, until this one day…

(Chris x MC)

Should’ve Tried Harder (Part 1)

WAIT: Should’ve Tried Harder (Part 2)         **Coming Soon!**

~READER INTERACTIVE~   

Insert yourself into a world were you are the Hartfeld Athletic Trainer, and you’re stuck around Captain Chris Powell more than you ever thought possible.

(Chris x Reader)    **Complete**

The Hartfeld Athletic Trainer (Part 1)

Heal Me (Part 2)       

Wrap It Up (Part 3)

Touchdown - NSFW (Part 4)                 

A very tight bond has formed, but how tight is it? And more importantly… how far will it go before it breaks?

(Chris x MC x Zig)     **In Progress**

The Bond (Part 1)

Moving Forward  (Part 2)    

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~*~ Other Choices Fics~*~

Chemical Reaction: A Nanny Affair Story (click for multiple chapters!)

The Royal Romance (Liam and/or Drake)    

An Awkward Kiss (Liam x MC - at the bottom)

Cooking Together (Liam x MC)

Steady My Queen (Liam x MC)  

The Promise (Liam x MC)                 **Coming Soon!**

But I saw a comment from someone that made me realize the rest of the intention behind these words is being lost.

Fanfiction is provided for free, but it is not produced for free.

Authors pay their effort, including physical and emotional and mental. Authors pay their time, in planning the story (mental time) and writing the story (physical time). Sometimes it’s less than an hour for something quick and dirty, like askbox prompts. Sometimes it’s years of their lives in epic fic hundreds of thousands of words long. Authors pay additional time to alpha read their own stories, trying to make sure that they’re free of SPAG errors and make sense and sound good. Beta readers pay their time and effort alongside the authors for editing the stories. Authors pay for posting their stories with all of the anxieties that come from allowing their work - which to this point they have invested all of the above - into the public eye because while it has certainly cost them a good amount to produce the story, fandom history has proved that many other people out there enjoy fanfiction, and authors believe that at least someone else will enjoy their story, too.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that it costs the writers a lot of something in order to produce it. A lot has already been paid into a piece of fanfiction by the time it is available for readers to read. The expense of fanfiction creation is, by and large, resting squarely atop the shoulders of writers.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay the cost of creating fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay in anything - not time, not money, not effort, not anything - in order for fanfiction to be created. It’s a donation. It’s a gift. It’s available for you to take or leave, at the expense of someone else.

Writers have, for a very long time, requested donations of one thing as remuneration for everything they put into making fanfiction: comments. Authors have asked, in so many different iterations: “If you have consumed what I have labored and invested in to create and if you have found any enjoyment in it, please tell me, so that I can recharge enough to do this again.” Some of them may recharge on critical comments, but most of us don’t because we’ve already paid everything we want to pay to create the story.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” isn’t just that it doesn’t cost you any money. I am saying “Please respect the time and effort you didn’t have to pay into creating this thing you enjoyed, by respecting the individual creator’s requests.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “be kind to authors, they have paid a lot for this gift they’re sharing with all of us, and they deserve to feel like it was worth it.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t charge authors more time and emotional effort than what they’ve already provided you at no absolute cost.”

I’m not saying any of this to argue. It’s a fact that authors pay into providing fanfiction. They do it for fun. They do it out of love. They do it because they enjoy writing. No one is making them do it. No one is paying them to start or finish the story. That doesn’t mean it’s not WORK. And the only return they get on what they put into the story is the kindness of strangers that invest a little bit back by leaving a nice comment. That is why they stay, that is why they do it again, that is why we have fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t be the one charging authors so much more that they leave.”

I might eventually go and edit this but

Likes can only go so far for artists. Artists may exclusively upload their artwork to tumblr, or don’t have the time to use other sites and prefer tumblr over deviantART due to its simplicity, but the tagging system can make it harder to navigate. Many artists on tumblr tag with high-traffic tags or use their own tags to prevent tag clogging which eventually become lost. That’s why it’s very important to reblog an artist’s work. 

I’m not trying to push you to ruin your blog’s aesthetic or something, nor am I saying that “you must absolutely reblog your favourite artist’s work or you’re trash”, all I’m saying is if you truly want to support your favourite artist, instead of just liking their posts, try to reblog them once in a while. The more reblogs they receive, the more exposure/notes/followers they may receive, and it’s just one of the easiest ways to show you care about them.

Well, sometimes it’s longer than anything on God’s green earth needs to be, but my point is that there’s really no rules about fic length.  In traditional publishing there’s this awkward middle where nobody wants to print a novella that’s too long for a short story collection but doesn’t really fill out a book.  Ebooks have changed that somewhat but it’s still a convention that a book is about 75,000 words.

Fanfic is not bound by this standard.  If your story takes 25,000 words to tell, then you can do that, and there are readers for whom that’s a sweet spot.  If you just want to keep going and going for 350,000 words and beyond, nobody’s going to say “only famous authors with grand ideas get to do that”–text is low bandwidth and there are readers who will love the feeling that your story is a home where they’re invited to stay as long as they like.