“You’re nonbinary? But your name is masculine/feminine…” Me:

ꕤ Babysitting…? ꕤ

(can’t) let go

more scaraether doodles, I think it’s cute when tsundere with an extremely high ratio of tsun

deku bouta pull this generation's "naruto-busting-out-the-ninetails-cloak-bc-he-thought-sasuke-was-dead" moment when he finds bkgo laying there, bleeding n stuff 😭😭

My Kryptonite

give yourself the gift of reading your own fic. it was literally written just for you.

took my own advice today and reread a fic I posted on AO3 seven years ago and I gotta say, it fuckin' slaps

read your own stuff. it's awesome

Shonen authors writing a hetero romance: They bicker... But... They KISS?!?!?! Revolutionary.

Shonen authors writing two male "best friends": They are friends, partners, family. They complete each-other. They've been together for so long it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, and they know each-other so intimately that they can predict every action the other will take. They're opposites and yet they go together like a pair of gloves, they're yin and yang, they fill each-other's weaknesses and boost each-other's strength. They wouldn't be alive without one another, they wouldn't want to be alive without one another. Even when they're on different paths, they trust each-other blindly. Even as enemies they are willing to put their lives in each-other's hands. Their life goals involve one-another, all the roads in their life lead to their partner. A part of one will always be with the other, no matter how far apart the fates carry them.

idk something about the concept of how deku would die for anyone in world, but for katsuki he would kill is something both so profoundly sorrowful and romantic. fear the martyr who found something to believe in that they would rather kill for than be killed for.

is deku taking a piss break or something

like bakugou had the time to die and get open heart surgery while this man was in transit

SIR HURRY IT UP

Fic authors deserve more credit.

Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.

Some rough word count equivalencies for you, via famous novels, just to give you an idea of what OP is saying:

30k fic = Animal Farm by George Orwell

50k fic = The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

75k fic = Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

100k fic = To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

150k fic = The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

200k fic = Moby Dick by Herman Melville

250k fic = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

300k fic = A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin

350k fic = Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

400k fic = Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

I WROTE SOMETHING AS LONG AS MOBY DICK AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW

I can’t believe I’ve surpassed Animal Farm.

Holy shit.

This is awesome. With that said, huge appreciation also to fic writers who write shorter fics - 10k, 5k, 1k, 500 words. Because yeah, huge long fics get a lot of love, and a lot of labour goes into them, but the same is true for tiny fics as well. Not everyone is banging out huge great novels, but little ficlets are fantastic and still bring readers a ton of joy.

So if you’re feeling a bit downcast because you can’t write that 50 chapter epic or your latest WIP is “only” 2k and it still took you ages - that’s amazing. Seriously. Not everyone is naturally wordy or prolific. And you can say a ton with just a few hundred or thousand words.

Props to short fic creators - you guys are awesome.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe = 38k fic

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = 30k fic

Of Mice and Men = 30k fic

Breakfast At Tiffany’s = 24k fic

For those writers who discredit themselves because they feel they aren’t writing the novels that others might, you’re still writing a novella, my dears. You’re still putting time, effort, and passion into something. Well done.

(honestly shout out to all fuckin fic writers. You didn’t have to give us shit and still y'all out here living ya best life and doin something you love. Bravo.)

in conclusion: all you fic writers are amazing and deserve more love

The most amazing, disturbing, heartrending, worldview-shaking story I have ever read (There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury): three pages long. It can be read in fifteen minutes.

I can’t find a word count online. But DuckDuckGo tells me that in English, you get an average of 500 words per page.

So it’s about 1500 words, give or take. I cry every fucking time I read it, and I have read it many times.

Novels and novellas and fanfics of that length are great. But if you’re the shorter type—

—know that part of my heart stands forever on an empty hill in a fictitious city in California in the year 2026, crying for a fictitious child who never caught a ball, and it has been crying on that hill for over twenty years.

Your few words have more impact than you know.

Me giving myself therapy in the bathroom at 3am

#crying

#priorities

terrible news. the exact fanfiction i want has not magically appeared and i may have to write it myself. more at 11

why stray is game of the year and you need to get it immediately