Bellamy Taft

You ever think about the first person who wrote out “uwu” and wonder if they knew the storm that would be unleashed?

Via Wikipedia:

While the exact origin is unknown, it is speculated the first of the emoticon was in chatrooms. The first proven use of uwu is in the Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction Genie of the Puzzle, published by user DaakuKitsune on Oct 14, 2005. In the fanfiction notes before the story, the author states “Again, feel free to throw squids and fish at me. UwU I deserve it, you know.”

So… The first recorded use of UwU was in a fucking FANFICTION OF YU-GI-OH.

I cannot possibly express how amazing it feels to get repeat commenters on a fanfic. When I was writing my first long form fanfic last spring I could have dedicated it to my first reader, that's how inspired I felt that they commented so consistently.

I remember having the slightly hysterical thought that *I* should check to see if *they* had a Kofi so that I could donate to it since they were the reason my fanfic got finished so quickly.

One time a friend told me that she doesn't read fanfic anymore because there aren't any good ones and I still think about this all the time like.... I haven't read a bad fanfic in years. And so I was like, what website are you looking on? Is this ao3? What fandom is this? How are you searching?

Now every time I go to search for something new on ao3, I'm like, "lol too bad there aren't any good ones anymore."

There's so many good fanfics, award winning fanfics just laying around all over the place for FREE.

have you ever read a fanfic so good that you wanted to write a fanfic about that fanfic, but was too shy / too intimidated to ask for the author’s permission and too afraid that your writing wouldn’t be half as good as theirs and that it would be an insult to their work that was basically a literal masterpiece, so you just sat there fantasizing about their work and how beautiful it was and how you wished you could just eat it and how you wished canon could write your blorbos half as good as this writer did and how you just wanted to cry because you just loved that fic so much????

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

I'm out of town today, and the hotel has an early check out time. So I just looked up the local library so I could hang out somewhere until my event tonight. Libraries are everything.

When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera and says ‘Seat belts so we can be safe!’ anytime she gets into a motorized vehicle.

the theme of the story is that i like reeeeaalllllly like fucked up little guys

Literally all I want to do is write something that makes people insane and maybe scream silently over it like is that so much to ask

Listen man I’m just trying to wear soft sweaters and read my books and love myself .

what artists dont tell you is that every compliment is actually 100 compliments because they'll go back to re-read it 100 times and it'll make them feel fuzzy all over again every single time

Oh wow, this is amazing! I love the hint of another scar on his chest; it makes me wonder how he got it.

genuine question for writers: what are your non-words hobbies? (i.e. not reading)

Ouch.

daydreaming about having enough energy to do things