Just Zag

Please, for the love of god, please don’t be this person. No matter how long it’s been since an update, no matter how many unfinished stories are sitting on their account, no matter what - do not be this person.

Not only is it insanely rude, but you also do more damage than you think be being such a self-entitled ass about something someone created for free and for fun. “This author” can see what you say.

I also got a glowing compliment on a fic and went into a flurry of writing, suddenly inspired, then by happenstance got a nasty, impatient comment on that same fic a few days and moved onto writing a different fic that didn't have that associated annoyance.

Like. I am writing for fun. For me. I reread and enjoy my fics all the time because they're exactly the story I want to read. I get the same enjoyment out of a fic wither or not anyone else ever sees it or knows it exists.

I'm sharing it for fun too.

Chinese giant salamander (娃娃鱼) a.k.a ‘baby fish’ due to the sound they make that sounds like a baby crying.

The Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. It is fully aquatic and is endemic to rocky mountain streams and lakes in the Yangtze river basin of central China.

The Chinese giant salamander is considered to be a "living fossil". Although protected under Chinese laws, its population has faced severe declined over the last 70 years and is currently (2022) listed as threatened. There are evidence indicating that the Chinese giant salamander may be composed of at least five cryptic species, further compounding each individual species' endangerment.

1 reblog = 1 night w monster

its always some bullshit with either White Girl With No Traits Protagonist or the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Cool White Girl Who Swears A Lot Protagonist (who still has no character traits just to be clear). she will inevitably fall in love with some emotionally maladjusted tall brooding guy who treats her like shit but that’s ok because she doesn’t know why she likes him either! don’t worry, the narrative might even justify him being horrid to her

the title will be either “x of y” or “a x of y and z”. fill in the variables yourself. don’t worry, it doesn’t need to be original in any way

everyone will have Cool Edgy Teenager Names with a lot of Zs and Xs in them. maybe even some Qs for real spice. alternatively, they will all be vaguely Celtic names because the author is butchering Irish mythology and she doesn’t really know the difference between Irish and Scottish names or how to spell anything

alternatively, you might have Norse or Greek mythology. those are the only two other options. if it’s those, the setting will lean HARD on that

there are no characters of color. race will not be mentioned a single time actually

if the author is feeling really spicy the Shitty Male Love Interest might not be human. don’t worry, pearl-clutchers at home, he’ll have so few nonhuman traits that it’ll be easy to forget. any sex that happens will either not mention his nonhuman traits at all or make him just turn human for it. also we might get a bit orientalist about it. just for funsies, yk

there might be queer characters. the queer characters you are most likely to see are (never specified AFAB but you the reader can tell) nonbinary people. there will definitely not be trans women. the queer characters will DEFINITELY all be white if there are any characters of color in this book

there might be a magic system. it will definitely be called “magick” and spelled that way

if there are fae or elves, they’ll probably be snooty and slightly racist. our enlightened, noble White Savior Character i mean Cool Protagonist will of course teach them the error of their racist bigoted ways. society won’t change in any meaningful way though