Lately I’ve gotten so many messages full of love and support for my writing, and I don’t think I can fully explain how much it means to me.

Every comment, every reblog, every ask, every little “this made me feel something” or “you could really do this as an author” has honestly stayed with me more than you know.

Writing has always been something I love, but sharing it is terrifying in its own way. You put pieces of yourself into words and hope they find the right people. Somehow, this little corner of the internet has become one of the safest, kindest places for those words to land.

So thank you for reading. Thank you for caring. Thank you for screaming with me, encouraging me, sending ideas, trusting me with your requests, and making me feel like my stories matter.

I’m still learning. I’m still growing. I’m still figuring out what this could become.

But because of you lovelies, I’m starting to believe maybe it could become something.

And that means more than I can say.

I don’t think reader insert authors should be shamed if they don’t write for a specific gender.

Either way, be it someone that only wants to write for fem!readers, gender neutral!readers, or male!readers. I think you should stick to what makes you comfortable.

Branching out is good and encouraged, but if you just want to stick to a specific gender of reader because that’s how you like to write or is more enjoyable for you, then do that!!

As long as you tag things correctly, then you’re all good!

I also believe there’s nothing wrong with giving the reader a basic appearance. Describing them as being pale or having curly hair or being thin is fine, but don’t just surprise your readers with it halfway through the fic. Make sure to say that the reader is pale.

Black writers include that the reader is black in the tags or title, I think it’s completely fair for white writers to man up and say who they’re writing for. If you’re going to have the reader be a certain way, SAY SO! Say that reader is pale or white. It’s unfair for black/dark skinned readers to read a fic only to be pulled out of it because the reader is described to be pale.

If you can’t say that, then be more inclusive when mentioning skin tone. It’s as easy as including some like “her (s/c) skin” instead of “her pale skin”.

Another opinion I have is that blocking others should be way more common. If you don’t like people’s writing, block them instead of being rude or hateful.

I LIKE my hair being played with, so a way I’ve found to be more inclusive while still writing a scene where readers hair is being played with, is to the say the character ran their hand/fingers OVER the Reader’s hair.

i get it. i've written x reader stuff before. but like

can we... as a people agree to use one unified tag for it like? like 'x reader' as a general unifying tag for it all?

i don't want to see it when i'm not looking for it specifically and i seriously Can Not block every single (character) x reader tag that's out there so like

but this is the first thing Wattpad recommends me after not using it for a while.  I don’t think I’ve ever looked up a story about furries on Wattpad either.