Roseblade22

🍃The Cruel Prince🍁

I’ve been seeing a lot of amazing posts lately thanking fanfic writers for that good, good content that we’re all disappearing into right now. And I love these posts, and FUCK YES, the healing power of art during these rough times, it can’t be said enough. But I feel like there’s something missing from these posts, and that’s the readers.

A lovely friend of mine recently shared something with the caveat that they “contribute basically nothing to fandom” and I was fucking floored. Like. This person has made playlists for fic, and shared art, and reached out to me to talk about my stories and other stories and like - that is the Work. They made me feel like my shitty writing was good enough to share, and that made me write more, and connected me with more people, and that sort of contribution doesn’t get acknowledged enough. I don’t write fiction because I have to, or for the likes or hits or whatever; I write it because I have a story I want to tell. On the days when my brain is cooperating, writing is a pleasure. On the days when my brain isn’t cooperating, comments from readers make my words feel meaningful anyway. This isn’t a one-way street, a producer/consumer situation. Or at least, it doesn’t feel like that to me.  And my best writing has been done when people are holding me accountable, or are pushing me to do better and I’m so grateful for that. And so grateful for you.

So. To the readers who comment on every chapter. To the readers who leave thoughtful essays in the comments and the readers who leave 😭❤️😱 or keysmashes. To the readers who are inspired for the first time to make art or write something themselves. To the readers who leave kudos. To the readers too anxious to comment (I’ve been there, sat in a space where I had no idea how to express how a story made me feel) and the fandom ghosts who dip in and read and vanish.

To readers who like or reblog or share or rec or send messages or don’t do any of these things.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for building this community.

I made a new post because the other one was getting long.

Let's see...

I'm ok with it.

YES PLEASE

... it looks like we're sharing a husband...

I also don't save a lot of characters, it seems... because it would have been this...

If we were going by first person... ANYWAY!!

Does this mean I get both? Because I am nOT COMPLAINING. 🥵

Or are we going off why I saved it? bc then it would be Will. My future is in y’all’s hands.

the last i saved was this god of a man 😍😉

Image source

Not at all surprising that I’ll be marrying my sex god king!! Here he is in the kitchen ready to use me as his filthy little plaything 👑🛐

This my groom

I was playing around on the canva app last night making a moodboard involving him and thankfully I happened to save a pic of him because otherwise I’d be marrying a spongebob meme 😑

Not upset about this at all 🥰🤣