Moved

You’ve been bitten by a:

RABID MARKIPLIER

1. You think you stand a chance to last against the ghosts of your past

2. I cry for help, but no one’s in sight.

3. It’s all I know and as my fear grows it’s where I’ll call my home.

4. Will they all remember my face? Can they escape this terrible place?

5. I must try even though I may die.

6. And I don’t know why, but I’m mesmerized by your broken eyes.

7. I don’t understand what you see in me, cause I’m just another story. That’s not worth the reading.

8. Here we go you can judge me thoroughly, it’s too late for apologies.

9. Do you tear yourself apart to entertain like me?

10. And a million years ago she said to me, “this one’s mine.” So I stood by.

11. They do not tell you about the friendships. You’ll lose once the lights are dimmed down.

12. Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.

13. Take my hand, I’ll teach ya to dance. I’ll spin you around won’t let you fall down.

14. Tell me everyday I get to wake up to that smile. I wouldn’t mind it at all.

15. What if we ruin it all and we love like fools, and all we have we lose.

16. So I’m sorry to my unknown lover. Sorry that I can’t believe that anybody ever really starts to fall in love with me.

17. They said,“I don’t think I love you no more. You never seem to call me lately.” I don’t think they know me at all.

18. She can’t be what you need if she’s 17. They’re just girls.

19: It’s one more dance and then farewell cheek to cheek in hell with a dead girl walking.

20. The captain is pointing. Well who made her captain?! Still the weakest must go.

21. I can’t get rid of you. So I say, “Damn your kiss and the awful things you do.”

22. When your fantasies become your legacy, promise me a place in your house of memories.

23. The other night dear while I laid sleeping. I dreamt I held you in my arms. When I awoke dear I was mistaken and I held my head and cried.

24. If you must weep, do it right here in my bed as I sleep.

25. If you must leave, leave as though fire burns under your feet.

26. If I could be with you tonight. I would sing you to sleep never let them take the light behind your eyes.

27. But I never expected that I’d underestimated my love for you.

28. Your down on bending knees saying, “You didn’t mean it.” If you didn’t mean it… Then why would you say it?

29. Well keep quiet baby cause I don’t wanna hear you speak. The words you say don’t mean a thing.

30. You say I’m only hearing what I want to, but you don’t wanna hear a word of how I need you.

31. And if your heart wears thin, I will hold you up. And I will hide you, when it gets too much. I’ll be right beside you.

32. God save the prom queen. Teenage daydream. Just another dressed up heart break.

33. I’m sitting with an empty glass and a broken heart thinking to myself, “What have I done?”

34. I haven’t felt this good in awhile. You tell me I’m the only one that they would all like but you’re the only one that kept me alive.

35. “Could we focus on the task at hand please?”

36. “Oh Fuck you.” “You wish you could.”

37. “Look I didn’t mean to hit you with the door!”

38. “How does someone fall off a bus?”

39. “I don’t have a fear. Everyone’s afraid of me.”

40. “Will you all shut up I can’t stand hearing you argue.”

41. “That’s manipulative and you knew it!”

42. “I’m tired alright?! I’m tired of being left behind!”

43. “Look let’s face facts we’re both totally different.”

44. “Not all popular people are assholes! That’s like saying all the rumour about you are true!”

45. “Did you just really?” “Look let’s not talk about it.”

46. “I can’t believe that happened.” “Believe what happened?”

47. “I’ve always been second best to you. She’s always ahead of me.”

48. “I just wish things were different.”

49. “It’s just a scratch.” “It’s down your whole arm!” “…. It’s a big one?”

Prologue

Chapter 1: Hallucinations

Chapter 2: Little Sheep (Pub: Oct 26th)

Chapter 3: Shredded Pages 

Chapter 4: Psychopathic Tendencies 

Chapter 5: Broken Glass 

Chapter 6: Infected Hearts

Chapter 7: No Laughs

Chapter 8: Missing Heart

Chapter 9: Miss Turtle

every time you see this post you have to reblog with a different marvel quote (no repeats)

But we’ve moved away from that. Now, plenty of authors (particularly those who aren’t Big Name Fans) practically have to beg for reviews to get even a small amount of acknowledgement, and that’s not fair. The SE fandom is better about it than plenty of others I’ve been in, but we’re not immune either.

I can’t tell you how discouraging it is for some of my work to have literal actual thousands of hits and 10 kudos and 0 comments. And then people who have never left a single note of their presence come into my messages months later like “hey you’re my fave writer why did you stop :(”

Seeing people write reviews for every chapter means something. Seeing people engage with what you’ve written means something. Reading people’s thoughts on what has happened and their eager questions for what happens next…

It all means something. And seeing that engagement can be all the encouragement a person needs to continue their work. No one likes to feel like they’re throwing their hard work (yes, even that vampire, coffee house AU slash-fic) into some uncaring abyss.

And once upon a time, I had a reader on FF who left glowing reviews on every single Lokyrie fic, and every single chapter of the multi-chapter one. Idk what happened to her, but her reviews left such a mark on me that months later I still miss her.

Please.