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🧈 Activities

Watching dog videos or cartoons (like Bluey or Paw Patrol) Cuddling while being brushed or pet Coloring dog-themed coloring pages Gentle tug-of-war with plush toys Going on a walk around the house or street Fetch (indoors with soft toys)

🧈 Clothes

Soft onesie in golden or yellow tones Fluffy hoodie with ears or a tail Paw print socks or paw-shaped slippers Puppy bibs or drool cloths Fuzzy pajamas with bone or puppy designs Bandana instead of collar! Puppy hoodie with floppy ears

🧈 Toys

Stuffed golden retriever or dog plushie Squeaky toys Fetch balls Rope toys for gentle tug Baby teethers Treat-dispensing toys Ball pit Plush dog bed or crate fort

🧈 Games

Dog-themed coloring app or game Matching cards with dog breeds Roleplay as a good puppy with a “trainer” or caregiver Hide-and-seek with toys (sniffing game!) Doggy daycare pretend play “Agility course” using pillows and chairs Fetch “Bark to Talk” — communicating only in woofs

🧈 Foods & Drinks

Pup-safe snacks (like applesauce pouches or soft fruits) Yogurt in a dog bowl (puppy pretend style!) Milk or warm vanilla drink in a bottle/sippy “Kibble” cereal in a dish (like Cocoa Puffs) Puppy chow mix (Peanut butter cereal with powdered sugar!) Hot dog bites or little meatballs Doggy-themed bento box Bone-shaped cookies

🧈 nicknames

✍🏻: Which stat matter most to you (if at all!): subscriptions, kudos/favorites, comments, bookmarks, word count, or hits?

👀👀👀 So.....I'm gonna be hella shady and cheat a little bit because several of these matter to me, but for different reasons. lol

(1) Comments are probably my #1 thing because one of the big reasons I write is to participate in fandom spaces. I'm not super active in the Tumblr tags and most of my gc participation is around writing, so comments on my fics are really where I get most of my fandom engagement. It's where I flail about my head cannons and what I like about my stories/my characters, and I absolutely recognize the people who comment frequently on my work and really look forward to seeing their names pop-up in my AO3 emails.

(2) kudos/favorites are also super important because I know not everyone has the time or, let's be real, the energy to post a comment on a fic they like. (I know I certainly don't!) So for someone to even give that "hey, I think you did a good job here!" signal is still really awesome. Also, I know as fics "age" people who might've left a comment before might be a little less willing to do that, but they'll still leave a kudos, and so that helps me know that what I've put out there in the universe is still resonating with people. 🥰🥰

(3) bookmarks/fic recs. I willing admit that I go through the bookmarks on my fics and I love seeing the notes people leave about my fics in their bookmarks. (Although, it also makes me a little paranoid when people privately bookmark my stuff because I kinda assume they're flaming my work, but they're just being polite about it... lol This comes back to my default assumption that people generally don't like me/don't take notice of my existence. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️) Same thing when I see my stories show up in Tumblr fic recs. It absolutely makes me turn into a melty pile of goo!

(4) Then there are subscriptions, which are super fun because it shows me how many people are as invested in the universes I'm creating as I am. People who want to know when a story gets updated and don't want to dig through the AO3 tag or check their bookmarks to see if something's updated????? 😍😍😍😍

🪩: Do you have any "good" writing habits you want to cultivate?

Mmmmmm....I'd like to get better about having more of a multi-chapter story written/finished before I start publishing. I do feel really really bad when people have to wait months between updates, and I'd like to be better about that. (Alas, I do fall prey to the trap of either (a) wanting the satisfaction of people interacting with my stories and/or (b) drastically underestimating how long it's going to take me to write subsequent chapters....)