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Everyone is a Little Bit Crazy

@addams-beineke / addams-beineke.tumblr.com

Kelsey. 27. Cis girl. Bisexual. I am a giant nerd with a lot of fandoms and a lot of ships and I have given my last fuck. TERFs, do NOT follow. Currently writing: Way too many Teenage Bounty Hunters stories.
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The bridge of imgonnagetyouback has no business hitting so hard god damn.

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Chapters: 18/? Fandom: Daisy Jones & The Six (TV), Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Billy Dunne/Daisy Jones, Billy Dunne/Camila Dunne, Billy Dunne & Julia Dunne & Maria Dunne & Susana Dunne, Daisy Jones/Original Male Character(s), Karen Karen | Karen Sirko/Original Female Character(s), (past) Graham Dunne/Karen Karen | Karen Sirko, Bernie/Simone Jackson, Daisy Jones & Daisy Jones’s Daughter Characters: Billy Dunne, Daisy Jones, Daisy Jones’s Daughter, Julia Dunne, Susana Dunne, Maria Dunne, Simone Jackson, Karen Karen | Karen Sirko, Bernie (Daisy Jones & The Six), Graham Dunne, Eddie Loving | Eddie Roundtree, Warren Rhodes | Warren Rojas, Teddy Price, Rod Reyes, A cast of fun originals Additional Tags: Slow Burn, POV Multiple, Post-Canon, Canonical Character Death, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Substance Abuse, Fix-It of Sorts, Kid Fic, Cher and Stevie Nicks did the Fusion Dance and that’s 90s Daisy, Billy Dunne with strong Dad energy, Daisy Jones has a very strange child, the world’s longest songfic, no really we’re stealing songs from everyone nobody is safe especially not Taylor Swift, Non-Linear Narrative, Flashbacks, we have a season 2 at home, the sexual tension will be resolved eventually but god are we gonna put them through hell first, show universe with some book stuff peppered in for flavor, nostalgia from the 70s 80s 90s and today Summary:

You would think that in two decades apart, Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne would have gotten over each other. You’d be wrong.

(The season 2 we have to get out ahead of Amazon announcing because the idea of TJR having further access to these characters scares the shit out of us).

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people will act like a character being a little bit of a cunt sometimes is a flaw and not a positive trait but they are wrong

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no but really, like 

i know that some folks love telling creative people that “you should be doing it for fun because you love it not for the compliments” but creative people thrive on feedback whether it’s critical or just complimentary

so when i write fanfiction and don’t get any actual feedback i feel like i spent all that time and energy doing it for nothing because i’m not getting feedback from the people i wrote it for 

doing something you’re proud of and then presenting it to the sound of utter silence is like the worst feeling on earth 

I know the feeling of this.

i like to think: what if you were in a play and you spend all that time learning your lines and your cues and going to rehearsal for hours and hours and being bone tired and then getting up on stage opening night and giving it your all only to be met with silence from the audience at the final curtain call. No one would question why that upset them.

An art instructor in my childhood said something to me I’ve never forgotten - that a work of art isn’t complete until it has been experienced - seen, heard, etc.  That this wasn’t just some abstract concept, but a visceral truth for the artist - that the work wasn’t DONE until the end result had been witnessed, appreciated, critiqued - whatever, it didn’t have to be positive negative knowledgable, it just had to happen as the concluding event, the final brush stroke.

Some folks who don’t get it go about thinking we make art or write fic because we crave praise or attention or fans, or even that some writers/artists thrive on negativity and drama (and to be sure, all of these things are true some times!).  But that’s too narrow an understanding of why we art. I think my art teacher was telling a fundamental truth about the psychology of creativity - that art is a communal experience, that until we share our creative work and see how people respond, we do not have closure on that work.  

Art is communication - and communication shouted into the void is frighteningly isolating. We need our readers our viewers our audience. We need to hear what you think. We need to converse in comments, answer your counter thoughts or thoughtful critique, we need the conversation - that’s what art is :)

Never feel bad for desiring feedback - it’s not some extra frill that exists outside of the creative process. It is a critical part of the creative process - and if you cannot find your audience in one venue, don’t give up.  Keep putting your art out there until your audience finds you :)

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Fanfic writers are like crows. If you give them treats (comments) they will bring you shiny things (fanfic)

I thought this said cows and thought, "Okay, tell me more..."

Fandom creators are like cows, some people think you can just milk them for content, but actually they need enrichment (comments) and a nice pasture to graze on (kudos/likes) and they secretly also like cuddles (asks about their fic/art)

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Please do things to strengthen your attention span. It stresses me out so much when people just accept their small attention spans and cater to them without any acknowledgment that they are making it worse by doing that.

There is a reason attention spans are worse now and it didn’t just happen by chance. Media and the internet designed it that way and we went with it because it was easier.

Some of us with ADHD and brain fog need to meet ourselves where we’re at and exercise our attention span by watching a two minute video instead of a one minute video. Some of us need to sit down and read a novel with our phones turned off.

Wherever you’re at, just realize that not doing things that feel hard will keep making your attention span worse.

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