#regarding requests

Because a lot of people forgot how to act, anon.

Requests used to be fun. Now they come with entitlement, repetition, and zero respect for boundaries. People treat writers like content machines, like we’re here to produce custom work on demand for free, and then get weird or pushy when we say no. Some spam the same request everywhere, some keep coming back with variations after being told no, and some just straight up ignore what you’ve already said you won’t write and start harassing you.

After a while, it stops being a fun interaction and starts feeling like unpaid labor with an audience that doesn’t listen.

So a lot of us just… closed them. Permanently. It’s easier to write what we actually want than deal with that constant noise.

I just wanted to come quickly and say that I do read all your lovely comments and I'm so grateful for it! I just haven't have time to answer. Also, I do get the requests, just remember that I'm not longer doing this like I used to (where I put so much presure on me trying to complete all the requests so I wouldn't disappoint anyone), I'm doing this for fun, because I love writting, but I do have a life outside so I just write when I have time/feel like it, so be patient with me, I promise I will post them, I'll just do it at my own rythm.

End of parish notice. Thank you!

Yes, they are still open and the previous requests made have been acknowledged. But, I haven’t got much time to myself from past few weeks, hence I’m unable to give them the time and effort they deserve. I do not want to rush any requests, therefore they will be delayed until further notice. Feel free to send more since I’ll answer them all at once.

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who have sent in requests & headcannons for me to draw! I’ve had a blast so far working through them and getting to draw stuff for all of you! 

We’ve still got a few days left in the month so I am going to do my very best to get a few more of the requests done, but I do have more than I can reasonably expect myself to finish before Pride is over. I will not be accepting more requests after Pride is over, however I will finish all the requests I have.

Here’s the deal, though: July is Disability Awareness Month and I will not be posting late pride content in July. The queer community unfortunately has a history of bleeding Pride over into July and forgetting all about disabled members of the community (and disabled people in general) and I just don’t want to contribute to that in any way. So any late pride requests will be posted in August. 

However! If you guys have any headcannons regarding disabled characters in Tolkien I will be happy to draw them for you or (if it’s something I feel comfortable I can portray), write a ficlet. Also if you are a disabled creator/artist in the community or you create art regarding disabled (headcannoned or canon) characters within the Tolkien legendarium, lmk and I’ll be happy to reblog & support! I am disabled myself so this is really important to me.

hi lovelies! i js wanted to talk to those who have made a request, because they deserve an explanation, whether you made one a long time ago or my most recent prompts. to those who have made requests a long time ago, i would like to apologize for not responding to them. during the height of asks, i was drained emotionally and lost a lot of motivation to write for multiple reasons. one of them was that i was frustrated with the lack of interaction.

i was (and still am) appreciative and i loved seeing all of the sweet comments and compliments i was getting, but i felt that there is a wall that i created, one between a fic writer and reader. i never wanted that wall, but i kept you in the dark. i was scared of talking to people, so i never gave you any updates, or asked how you were doing. i left for months at a time without any heads up. i’ve never told you about myself or shared stuff about my life, the only things i would post were fics and questions about those fics. you don’t know much about me, so how could i expect to have mutuals and anons?

instead of trying to improve and put myself out there, i compared myself to other writers and degraded myself, and i think that was my downfall. i was considering leaving this blog and starting fresh, but recently i have decided against it because don’t want to lose the people i still have. i have seen all of the requests and i am in the progress of working on them.

if you wanted an update, here’s what i plan to do next

winter prompt list requests

old requests

making a masterlist

don’t say our love is dead pt. 2, i wanted it to be you pt. 2

working on interacting with people and opening up

i also want to clarify that if you asked a question and i have not responded, i’m not ignoring u 😭

it’s to avoid clutter and most likely i have already answered that question somewhere else.

i love u all sm, i am nothing without your support 💗

heyy, I’m glad if I get to draw dr characters I don’t draw very often and Amami’s definitely one of them (⌒▽⌒)

Who do you write like which characters?

Where do you want requests sent to? 😊

Okay so... I don't take requests actually... I never feel satisfied with what I write when I do, and I never feel like I've satisfied the request properly. So I've decided not to take them. Sorry about that.

And as for what characters I write for... Honestly there is no set list of individuals. I write for anyone and everyone I like, so there are hundreds of people and characters I've written about.

(And I sadly don't have a masterlist to turn to for assistance with finding them all, because I didn't think about making one until recently, and at this point I'm in to deep to wanna try making one... That would take so so long and I don't have the patience to even attempt to do it.)

Sorry to disappoint, but I just feel better this way as a fanfic writer.

Here enjoy a cute gif of a lil duck. (•ᴗ•)💚

Requests are still not re-opened, I have way too much writing - asks and my own stuff - to work on, but I just want to make something clear going forward. I’ll add this information to my request FAQ as well, but I just want to make it clear to anyone who might be holding onto a request they haven’t sent yet.

I will only write for characters played by Frank Grillo, I will not write for the actor himself. No one has asked yet, but I was once asked to write for a specific actor whom I previously wrote for the characters of, and I wrote it even though it felt weird. It was fluff, it wasn’t anything I felt was objectionable (honestly, I might re-work it for some Frank character), but it was invasive and presumptuous to write about an actual person specifically. It was pretty chaste, just fluff, probably not even 1,000 words, but given recent events and for the sake of mine, his, and everyone else’s mental health, I want to make it clear I will never do this again. I have deleted the aforementioned fic from tumblr and A03 (if it’s anywhere else, it’s been stolen), and I won’t write for any IRL individual in the future.

If you write for IRL people, please do not take this as an attack, I am just making my own feelings regarding my own writing clear. We don’t know these people in real life - however much we might wish to. We wouldn’t want strangers writing specifically about us without our express permission; I’m sure these actors, musicians, and whomever else don’t particularly like it either (the Reylo fanatics who were shipping Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley together, harassing their partners and children, comes to mind).

I can’t say that I haven’t had dozens of fantasies, from G-rated to X-rated, flow through my mind regarding this man, but it’s unlikely they will ever reach a keyboard and I can guarantee they would never see the light of internet if I did actually write them. I won’t do it for me, so I’m not going to do it for anyone else.