I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.
I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.
I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples.
If you like something, tell people.
If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well.
Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two.
Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.
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BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you're supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 (or more) people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you're beautiful inside and out <3
making a lovebitten playlist for myself and its diabolical that im putting would you fall in love with me again, eternity, and the lonely back to back together. im going to make myself sob uncontrollably at this rate
These were all drawn in a 2 hour time span. I have a PROBLEM. These guys have a chokehold on me and I can't escape. It's so bad chat.
This all started because of Abolish thanking Pyro for the wither rose in Ep.4 and it all went downhill from there once I remembered one of the original pieces of vampiric lore that says, "Placing a wild rose on the coffin on a vampire will prevent it from leaving". Something about giving another person the means of imprisoning you and trusting them not to do it.
somewhere out there, a writer is looking at the anguished keysmash and string of emojis you left on their fics and smiling. somewhere out there, somebody's shitty day has been made a teensy bit brighter because of you said you want them to update their writing. somebody who's feeling insecure about their story is sitting down to write a few more paragraphs because you said you loved their style.
you may have left a detailed paragraph about the structure of their sentences and their usage of extended metaphors. you may have also left a "COMPLETE PERFECTION. PLEASE WRITE MORE I NEED IT". we love you and need your validation more than oxygen nonetheless. 🫵 go comment on somebody's fic
to everyone saying their comments don't matter: they DO. writers don't care whether your comment sounds apathetic or unenthusiastic, because even something like (taking prev's example) "wow i loved this. this is cool. you are good at this Writing thing." will help. nobody will ever find you annoying or insincere.
why? because you took the time out to say that you liked our fics and you think they're cool. that in itself means more than any notion of tone or emotion. comment on fics, guys. that in itself spreads more joy and motivation than you'll ever know.
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legs really emphasized this on his stream about the situation yesterday, but i thought i'd reiterate here because it is an incredibly important sentiment that everyone should keep in mind when engaging with fandom in any way: do not idolize content creators.
i've been a part of fandom for a long time. and inevitably, when an actor, celebrity, creator, etc is exposed as a bad person, the responses from fans are always somewhere along the lines of "i can't believe this! i trusted them, how could they betray me?" that's the thing. they didn't betray you, at least, not personally. it's not your fault for being a fan of a bad person, obviously. but you have to understand, they are not your friends. you do not know them. as legs put it, you know a very small, carefully curated slice of their life. that's it.
something else legs said that really stuck with me (i'm paraphrasing here) is that "you need to be your own role model." you can be a fan, you can connect with them, you can make art about them, but they cannot be the person you look up to, who you base your worldview and morality off of. it has to be you.
everyone's already said it, but please take care of yourself. don't doomscroll, don't blame yourself for liking them right up until they were exposed. and DO NOT pressure anyone involved into giving a statement. i hope this resonates with people, thanks for listening.
Day #4 of #Crow's Spontaneous Spring Sojourn Scribbles-Fest
[Whump]
[Double whump'd up on a thursday]
Shelby left a crutch next to his bed. It was 'safest' to leave him in the crypt while the rest of them were out, attending to grand plots and schemes in Oakhurst. And Avid was here, alone bar the torturous company of what was.
Laying here is agony, he looks down at limp nothingness past the knee of his crimson trousers and tries to brace for the next horrid ache that will clutch at the absence of flesh. No one is here… he doesn't have to put on a braveish face, but he tries for himself.
He misses his leg. He misses the silver prosthetic the doc had helped him make to 'kick the vampires ass' but now he was one and at first it was fine, just burned like fire salting the marrow of his bones. But as soon as he impulsively ascended to the second stage of vampirism, it scorched every nerve and had him howling in agony and forcing it off, falling flat on his face in front of everyone. Owen's dismissing sigh, Pyro's look of piteous disdain, and Shelby and Drift rushing down to help him up like he couldn't manage by himself.
So at the moment, the last person he wants to see is the one who mangled his leg beyond repair, the one who had made the Doctor apologetic and focused as he sawed through the top of the fibula, who was the reason Avid was screaming into the leather band that stopped him from biting his tongue and muffling his screams. But all of Oakhurst could hear him then, it has an appetite for screams, and it could hear him now. And yet all he can see is Scott.
Avid sighs, starfishing out on the old bed in his loose white shirt and crimson trousers, newly grey skin haunted by the glow of a flickering candle in his bed side lending him a uncanny glow. He glares at the precisely formed shadow in the slap-dash doorway.
"Oh great, here to laugh some?" a exasperated chuckle breaks over his exhausted smile. Another pang of pain rushes up his thigh and Avid's claws shred the side of the mattress with how hard he squeezes. Scott looks at him blankly, none of the hostility or cooing pity of the other vampires, just a complete and utter absence like his face is set in porcelain - like he doesn't know quite what to think.
"Geez Avid, I was just coming to chec-" and the burning of ethereal silver is replaced with the white hot straight of a branding iron through his non-existent calf, the gorging worms who are digging into it in the soil of this damned place. Avid breaks.
"Just leave me alone Scott!" Avid snaps and the castle falls silence as his voice echoes through the bricks. Through the very foundations, new and old, and into the very soul of Oakhurst's dirt. His throat burns like he's swallowed silver shavings, and he throws himself back into the bed as if it's malign comfort could bury the hurt.
"Shelby said I should try and come apologise" he says it like the words pain him. It's just them in the castle, everyone else is out, of course he would pick now. "but if that's what you want, fine."
And the thought of the horrid absence that would be left, the isolating suffocation of the crypt, chills him to the core.
"Wait please don't..." Avid whispers pleadingly, and reaches for him before he tries to take a step but there is nothing there - the searing phantom pain tricking his mind into thinking there was anything solid there to ground him. Before he can tip half over, Scott catches him, dashing in a swarm of bats and reappearing his arms under Avid's, the former hunter's head on his shoulder.
"Why are you-"
"Don't see anyone else here to help."
"Gosh you're the worst."
"So I've been told."
Scott could put him back on the bed. He doesn't.
Avid inhales sharply, and a sob breaks out, wetting the fine cloak he is pulling at and burying his face in, and this horrible sensation overwhelms the pain, that Scott is going to be mad he is ruining his outfit with his 'pitiful tears'. But he just holds him, let's his hands scramble for purchase, weakly pawing at his cloak, soaking his shoulder with tears, and he doesn't say a word.
Avid is not proud to admit it to himself, but he needed this, someone to just hold him in the silence, no judgement or pity or expecting him to keep on keeping on, he just is allowed to fall apart in Scott's arms which stay around him far beyond when they need to, claws tracing up his spine in a way that cannot but help feel insidious, although there is a strange comfort to it that he clings to.
“I couldn’t even sit up… can't even…”
Scott doesn't say sorry - Avid doesn't think he knows what a genuine apology is - but he scoops up the sobbing fledgling vampire with surprising easy, carrying him bridal as to not disturb the deathly burial of his face against his shoulder.
"What are you - "
"As annoying as you can be, it's cruel to leave you alone down here, you can help with some of the maps." Scott states as he floats across the sodden floor of the crypt.
As he is carrying Avid up the spiral stairs of the crypt, he wonders while burying himself into the pomegranate and aged brandy haze of the vampire, if this is Scott's round about way of killing him. He would be more exposed in the main hall, it would be better to keep him safe in the crypt. But as he clings to Scott, trembling with the ghosts of torment, he finds he doesn't much care for the risk in the face of the desperate need for company. Even if it is Scott. At least he is a pretty sight.
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Something I want to play around with in my current fic is the fact that Avid is an alchemist. And clearly, since he worked on a cure for rabies, he's a damn good one too.
Which means that Avid knows how to make bombs. And poison. Heck, he could have probably poisoned the vampires animals and killed them if he got close enough.
Like all I can imagine is Avid going Bagshot because he's pissed off for some reason and just taking out a bomb, throwing it at the castle and running away.
DO YOU THINK EITHER OF THEM EVER SAID SOMETHING AND THEY JUST STARE AT EACH OTHER BECAUSE THE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE OTHER ONE IS TALKING ABOUT. DO YOU THINK LEGS FELT SLIGHTLY SICK. DO YOU THINK LEGS ALWAYS CHECKED HIS FOOD AFTER THAT.
OH. AND THEY BOTH PROBABLY KNOW THE TASTE OF POISON TOO.
this is why they had to tear the coven apart in vsmp . mcc showed they were too strong working together and there’s no rocket spleef rush in vsmp to nerf them
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finally been getting around to watching bannerfall and im having fun! just detoured from scott to 4c just so that i could watch him climb up from hell, cause i wanted to know what was going on, and then got invested LOL
