she hama on my ri until i tia

Fanart of ch 12 from the vsmp fanfic hamartia (which is super cool, go read it) this chapter lives rent free in my head at all times (as do all the others) and I know Scott didn't actually lay on avid, just beside, but I can dream ok? Hoping to colour this but we'll see when that happens

if it sucks you should still write it

if it'll be unfinished you should still write it

if you never share it you should still write it

if it's not a linear fiction adventure you should still write it

AO3 is an archive, not social media. It's not 'creepy' or 'weird' to comment on an AO3 author's older fics.

It's no different than going into a library and working your way through your favourite trad-published author's back catalogue of books.

for one, stories don’t have to be finished to be enjoyable and worth reading. but also? an unfinished fic is a whole little universe that just keeps on existing in my head! their world stays alive for me in a way that doesn’t always happen with fics I binge read and finish, and i love it. i don’t know how their story ends, so it just keeps going! and even when those stories DO update and finish years later, they’ve been in my head for so long that they stick around like old friends.

so to any author with unfinished works: thank you SO much for sharing what you had without waiting to finish it first. you’re just giving me the gift of getting to spend more time with your story and your idea. if you do update again someday, i’ll be delighted to jump back in! but if you don’t, just know a little piece of your world still lives on in a beloved tiny terrarium in my brain. i promise i’m taking good care of it :)