I Love You So Much More Than You Want Me To

me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw that toys eyes turn black

pacing: the developers

are lying to us

My oldest fic published on Ao3 (and one I still regard very fondly) is titled Six Times, Together and someone made fanart for it!!!!

I know I'm definitely not the first person to complain about this, but guys...REBLOG.

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG

As creators we're on this platform for the community and the interaction, not for the faceless likes (which do nothing for the algorithm on top of that).

If you like a fic, tell the author in some tags! If you enjoyed an artwork, reblog and leave a comment. Even an empty reblog helps. Don't want to clutter your blog? Make a side blog.

I've seen people say that we 'don't owe each other anything' and that's true. But if you want to keep enjoying free content, you guys better start reblogging.

Helps keep the community thriving and helps bring the happy serotonin to both the content creators, who know you liked their thing because you reblogged it, and the consumers/viewers of the content because more people will see it!

Communities on tumblr won't flourish unless we reblog our creators.

I love that my art gets notes, but this ratio:

This is nuts to me? I don't HAVE to put my art here, I get more than enough validation sharing my art in discord circles, but I want people outside of my friends to be able to share in my art, because that's what I want others to do too!!

You don't have to add tags or comments or anything -- in fact, HOT TIP, if you hold down the reblog button on mobile (or ctrl + click reblog on pc) your blog icon will come up and you can QUICK REBLOG!

If you liked the art/story someone took HOURS to create for you to enjoy, do them a solid and reblog it so others can see it!! That is the BIGGEST thanks you could ever give us creators ❤

Write it anyway, write it anyway, write it anyway.

There are so, so, so many reasons:

You gain that skill level only through practice. So practice.

No matter what you’re writing, no matter how badly you think you’ve written it, there is ALWAYS some audience that will love it and cherish it.

You can use what you write the first time around as a first draft and just rewrite it again later when you feel like tackling the story again!

Rewriting the same story over and over is a valid writing process. It’s literally just creating new drafts. Each iteration will be better than the last, because each is building on your growing skill and experience.

If you love the story, it will always be worth telling simply for your own enjoyment. If no one else ever sees it, that’s okay! Your art should be for you first, anyway.

stealing an armored car but actually it’s one of those red cross bloodmobiles

similarly, breaking into a blood bank

and into an actual bank (to procure funds to buy rescue a local haunted house from being demolished) 

a chemical plant, for the purpose of eco sabatoge (bastards have been dumping pollutants in the Swamp Monster’s swamp, it’s messing with the paranormal ecosystem)

an fancy auction house, to steal back the Witch’s grandmother’s Cursed Necklace (it has sentimental value)

a huge fucking castle (the Ghost left some really embarrassing teenage diaries hidden under the flagstones. also there’s Hidden Treasure, but they are mainly worried about the diaries, in which they may or may not have confessed to a murder. super cringe)

The British Museum, to resurrect the Mummy’s long-lost sibling from their sarcophagus. the gang also takes this opportunity to steal back a bunch of shit the british stole

the Vatican, to purloin a bunch of stolen sacred objects and return them to their homelands (this is complicated by the fact half of the team members are highly allergic to holy objects and certain precious metals)

a submarine, to settle a bet on whether or not the Loch Ness Monster is real (the Swamp Monster heard it from a River Nymph heard it from a Kelpie heard it from a Mermaid, but everyone knows mermaids like to mess with people and since when do they know anything about freshwater monstrology? it’s a point of contention)

a zoo. i haven’t decided why except it involves a kidnapped unicorn and a runaway selkie