can we bring back fun fics? ya know when they weren’t taken too seriously, where we were simply writing them to feel that ooshy gooshy feeling and laugh and feel. nowadays i feel like all that matters is how intense the smut is, and trust i love smut. i am its number one fan. but i feel like its become a means to popularity, only writing it because it’s following a status quo of readers who only care about fics when it includes filth. like its not wrong to want the filth. we all love the filth. but please bring back the silly little plots. give me one bed, give me unrealistic fake dating, give me a wild crossover with fandoms that shouldn’t work together but do, give me something crazy like aliens invading or dinosaurs! like all of those things can lead to tooth rotting fluff or shaky knees smut. just bring back the feels! the silliness! the reasons why we all stay up until all hours of the night devouring these works of art!!

unrelated, but also mildly related (and i want to preface that this is something personal to me that is my own fault and is something i need to work on with myself and my own insecurities!!!) but i hate that i no longer feel like i can post a fic if it's not the next literary masterpiece worthy of rivalling jane austen.

it's so exhausting to be writing and just constantly thinking "god this isn't good enough to share." like, girl get a grip, you are doing this as a hobby, you are doing this for free!! i miss writing fics that were just written sporadically out of pure enjoyment and excitement towards a particular plot. i miss writing fic without having to feel like i have to prove myself as a "valid" writer.

As someone that enjoys writing smut as much as writing silly little scenarios and more plot heavy stories, I feel this. I got into writing when smut was everywhere and was already a thing so I got influenced by that, and the difference of engagement between stories with smut and without is so discouraging. Like most people are here for the filth and yeah it makes sense. Most humans are sexual beings. And what writer doesn’t like comments? so we write for the masses.

Which leads me to this previous reblog 👆 I’m sure lots of fic writers have felt like this. I have, and because of it got so burnt out and struggled for months with writer’s block because everything I wrote was crap. Because it wasn’t perfect. And I realized it was because I started writing for readers, not for me. So I started seeing my hobby and my talent as a chore. Homework. And when I didn’t get comments, kudos, or hits, I had failed. And I didn’t enjoy it anymore.

And it’s not the point. At all.

I guess my point is: the lack of those fun fics and silly plots is because of the lack of engagement on them (for most of us) so we resort to the easiest or most popular content which is filth.

when she's mad i just 🫦

can't wait for tara and emily to share a cigarette and indirectly kiss i mean WHAT

Photo stills from tonight’s season finale of SVU

Lesbians love them

this show makes me wanna gouge my eyeballs out with a fork

rip s1 liv, alex cabot would've ravaged you

Alex Blake SFW Alphabet

A = Affection (How affectionate are they? How do they show affection?)

Alex is relatively affectionate, especially around friends or in private. She wants to make sure her friends and partner know that they are cared about and just how much. She doesn’t shy away from a squeeze on the hand, hugs or quick kisses in public. At home with you she’s very touchy, a hand on you as often as possible, curled up on the couch with you while she reads and you watch tv. She also shows her affection by picking up little treats for you whenever she’s out during the day. Whether it’s a candy bar added to the grocery order, or a post card from a city the BAU has visited recently, she loves having something to give to you when she gets home.

she has a type

i call this the headcanon chart. see my vision

elaboration

if I may: