#softpillowprincessrant

i think your writing is SPECTACULAR. i'm not a super avid reader but i enjoy a longer word count every once in a while. do you read books or do you prefer fanmade content?

i really love how you write Enjin. i'm new to the world of tumblr and fanfics, to me AUs were a foreign concept before coming on here. i still don't know how ao3 works either (￣з￣) but wow, the writers here surprise me a lot, and even then i think you're one of my favorites. i just really really love your stories.

sometimes i can get a bit discouraged because i feel like some people view pursuing art as infantile or naive. i'm an art major and draw commissions here and there. i feel like i'm not taken as seriously as i'd like to. to me this isn't just a hobby, i have a genuine passion for it. and here i feel seen you know? like wow, there are millions of fans that are inspired by shows and movies and comics to become artists and writers. it's so cool (　＾ω＾)

anyways, sorry for the ramble. i hope you have a nice day and that i'll see more of your works in the future ^_^

This question feels fated, because I had just been thinking about this.

So, about nine years ago, I was actually a little obsessed with romance novels, but a good novel is unfortunately so incredibly rare to come by that I kind of slipped into fanfiction.

I recently read the arguably most popular romantasy series that there is—Acotar—and while some of the contents and whatever weren’t my cup of tea I overall enjoyed the story and the writing.

I was trying to find another good romantasy book—actually went to a bookstore yesterday and felt weirdly exposed in the fantasy/romance section—but I haven’t found anything I liked and if I liked the prompt I hated the way it was written.

Someone on the internet gave one of these books a review, saying “it reads like fanfiction” as if to say it reads like an amateur wrote it and that honestly gave me such mental whiplash, because I come on this app (or ao3) everyday and read stories that are clearly written by very passionate people and they’re often written really well.

And for free.

I think I’d be a book person if there was more books by authors that cared about their characters and their stories. I’m still hoping for the perfect romantasy to magically fall into my lap…

I actually started worldbuilding for a romantasy story I’d like to write myself—I just hope the fixation doesn’t leave me before I can at least write a fraction of a chapter… I don’t know if it’s something that anyone other than me would ever care about, but it also doesn’t matter.

I also think these platforms are really inspiring, because everyone is passionate about the same thing and we’re all just silly artists that support each other and celebrate each others work, so I totally get where you’re coming from.

I love my cringe little steamy romance stories, whether that means writing them or reading them and I don’t think that’s ever gonna change about me and I love that there’s a place on the internet with a bunch of people that feel the exact same way.

About art—it’s your time you dedicate to doing what you love. Sometimes, I forget that this isn’t a job, or anything I owe to anyone. There doesn’t need to be some greater purpose behind why you do what you do other than the fact that you want to do it. Everything else doesn’t matter.

I really love the feeling of that itch in my brain when I want to write or draw something and reaching for my supplies and exorcising it. It sounds so fucking dumb, but it makes me happy and I’m sure it makes you happy as well.

I think that’s all Art has to be about.

Thank you so much for your ramble🩷I loved it💕and sorry for rambling so much myself ^^