BROODY BULLSHIT

writing the first half of a fic: yaaaay! wooo!!! 🌈💝 fun ideas 😊💖✨️~

if you guys really like a fic you should, like, actually engage with it & leave kudos & comments btw. recently on reddit someone talked about their experience in fandom after they deleted all their fics bc they felt ostracized & lonely (no one talked to them, no one commented on the fics). right after doing that, the person started getting messages on their social media profiles from different users telling them the fics meant so much, they raved about them in discord servers, etc etc.

I started writing for myself and my own mental health, and knew when I started posting in a small fandom that I would be lucky to have even one person engage with my work. I didn't realize how big the dopamine hit would be until I got those first comments and kudos, and now I am having a blast writing for more than myself.

Writing a long multichapter fic be like

What people don't tell you about writing is that so much of it is just reading through your drafts and making this face at regular intervals

also this face tho