A No Evil Fic Library

Let’s be honest - we all forget to leave a comment sometimes. We don’t always go out of our way to click the “come talk to me on tumblr” link on AO3 to scream about the fic in the author’s inbox. On August 21st I encourage you to take a moment and show fanfic writers that you appreciate them!

How can you do it?

leave a comment and kudos on every fic you finish reading. Doesn’t matter how short. Doesn’t matter if you’re just repeating what other people have already said. Just be kind! Keysmashing, Caps Lock, and live commenting appreciated! (Bonus points if you leave a comment on every chapter)

ideas for what to put in a comment: one | two

floaty review box for ao3 (super useful for commenting as you read + it has a ‘review tips’ button if you feel stuck)

reblog ficlets, drabbles, fics, fic rec posts, etc. Put a nice comment in the tags. Remember that likes, while appreciated, don’t give the writer any exposure, meaning the posts don’t reach more people

go to your local fanfic writer’s inbox and talk to them about their fic of your choice. Let them know how long ago you’ve read it and what story point/sentence/scene still makes you smile when you think about it

send thank you messages to fic writers. In a world where you have to pay for almost everything, they’re supplying you with countless hours of free entertainment. It can get quite lonely without getting messages acknowledging the hours they spend writing stories - let them know their time and effort is appreciated

make fic rec posts and @ the authors whose fics you’re recommending! (believe me, fic writers love to see their stories in these posts)

create something inspired by a fic! You can draw fanart, make a moodboard or aesthetic post, or even write a song for the fic you love. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro doesn’t matter - the thought alone is what counts more than anything <3

buy the writer a coffee if they have a ko-fi page and you have some change lying around c: Caffeine keeps most fic writers awake when they struggle with a particularly slow draft or a difficult scene. More coffee, more content.

Usually I would post this on my main but here’s a link the the one no evil server that I know is active:

https://discord.gg/yK4Y3Cc

and here’s a link to the forums

.http://brotherswan.proboards.com/thread/157/schlorp?page=1&scrollTo=2844

It’s not that serious.

It was never supposed to be that serious.

Especially since most of the drama and hurt revolves around shipping.

All of the ships are fictional. Being canon doesn’t actually negate the fact that the ship isn’t real. 

No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly. 

Ichabod(After a moment of silence): You shouldn’t eat past midnight. It’s unhealthy.

Calamity(Shrugging): Eh. Time isn’t-

Ichabod(Pinching the bridge of his nose): Do not say time isn’t real.

Calamity: I don’t need ta take this from someone who stays up every night till 4 am researchin’ bullshit conspiracy theories.

I’M SO GLAD TO SEE THEIR HUMAN FORMS ANIMATED, AAAAAH. 8DDD

I’m guessing Calamity’s form was tweaked a little to make it easier to animate?

CORN WAS JUST SO MUCH CORN AND ;A; He needs lots of Kitty-hugs and being bundled up in lots and lots of blankets.

I was wondering if Calamity and Ichabod were related because of Ichabod’s language usage, but f-yeah-no-evil corrected me on that, haha. (I REALLY SHOULD BUY THE COMIC AT SOME POINT, AAAH.)

I have to say, the storytelling in @warlordofnoodles’ No Evil is inspired. Even though it’s light on explicit explanations, there’s a lot that can be inferred, especially about the characters. And the implicit storytelling is remarkable. Ichabod’s character arc, specifically, fucks me up whenever I think about it.

Throughout the series, Ichabod is always the most devoted to the spirits’ world, almost obsessively so. He was the one who came up with the cure for Vinkle after he fell in the black ick. He’s always interpreting things as omens or signs of some sort, and he seems to have a code memorized for all of it. And despite his own name being “Ichabod,” he’s the only one who calls all the other spirits by their full, proper Aztec names instead of nicknames.

Then it’s revealed that [EDIT] Ichabod and Calamity were adopted and raised by mortals in Hollow, a very “proper” industrialized town where many people don’t even know that spirits exist. Ichabod still has friends there, who never learned who he really was or where he went, and who are eager to catch up with their old friend. And it’s evident that despite his devotion to his new life as a full-fledged spirit away from his hometown, he still has a lot of nostalgia for his old life in Hollow and the people he left behind.

But when they ask where he went off to, he hesitates. They joke and say he must have “went off to live in a tree somewhere,” and he realizes that they won’t understand him anymore. Their worlds are just too different now.

Then Charles attacks, and the other spirits take on their true forms to fight him off and protect the townspeople. And Ichabod is right in the line of fire. He can easily fly away, but that would mean transforming into a bird in front of his old friends. So he hesitates, because in that one moment, due to the context of where he is and what he’s feeling, he’s too ashamed of who he is and the life he loves so much to show them.

And so, because of that split-second hesitation, he gets consumed by the black ick and doesn’t wake up.

Sometimes Ichabod says one thing and the forecast says another, and any plans for actually leaving the house get canned and it’s such a tragedy really. As if anyone who’s spent as much time staring up at the clouds could tell him otherwise, because maybe it’s kind of nice not to go into town, and maybe it’s nice just to stay inside.

And sometimes the best thing you can do when you are cold blooded, is what reptiles do best, and that’s hibernation in a nest of blankets with poppies stitched on the sides, and pillows stitched from spider silk.

Link–Corn

Zelda–Murder

Calamity Ganon–Black T. (Black Bart)

Master Sword–White T. & Tlaloc’s Fork

Riju–Wrip

Ubosa–Xochiquetzal

Sidon–Calamity

Mipha–Xochipilli

Teba–Ichabod

Revali–Ixtlilton

Yunobo–Huehuecoyotl

Daruk–Amaroq

The King–Tlaloc

Impa–Kitty