do you religiously check the tags of people who reblog your writing or are you normal

This. And every time there’s nothing in the tags I’m ☹️🥺

Some photos of mine are less beautiful than others 😂

Damn, you were a lot closer than me.

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It’s that time again everyone. Time for a fanfic author to get on their (free) little soapbox and ramble about thanks and reviews and reblogs, and I figure after nearly ten years writing in this community it was time for me to be the person to do it this time. I’m by no means a big blog. At all. I have a very small following so when anything I post, fic or otherwise, gets reblogged by some of my bigger friends I inevitably (and wonderfully) end up with a few more followers, and likely a bunch of people who then read through my back catalogue. I see you. When you read through fic from years, months ago, whether you like the chapter (those little hearts are gorgeous, please don’t get me wrong) or not, I see you reading. This week I’ve watched six or seven blogs steadily reading through Someday, Someday … Completely silently. In the past I’ve dropped a note in to blogs I see finish the story and not reach out, thanking them for reading and telling them I hope they enjoyed it and stick around for my new stories. I’ve never had any reply to me. (Reminiscent of all the men I say hello to on Bumble who never write back) When I say I’ve poured years of my creative life into that story I’m not joking. I wrote it once and then did a complete edit of Someday, Someday that took almost as long as writing it the first time. You might feel like fan fiction is free, but it doesn’t cost the writer nothing to create it. You don’t read a published book without thanking the author, so why read something here and not send a little wave to the human who created it? I hear you when you say you actually don’t engage with published authors when you consume their work (I don’t either, not with words, not very often) but when you read a published work you’ve (hopefully) paid for it. I’ve given the author $10 in the Kindle Store or $30 at Dymocks (big Australian book retailer), it doesn’t cost me nothing to read it. I’m not asking you for money for my fic. But you know what are dollars in the fan fiction world? Reviews! Little messages saying, ‘Hey, I read your story and loved it, thanks!’ That’s the exchange. I cannot think of a single author who wouldn’t want to hear from someone who’d read their story and enjoyed it. Send a heart emoji with the name of the story, that’s enough! Just the act of that effort, of you reaching out and acknowledging the human behind the story you’ve read and characters you’ve fallen for, is enough. I don’t mind quiet readers, you don’t have to say a lot. I have incredible readers who do write amazing reviews and send me long messages, but I don’t expect everyone to have the time/effort/will to do that.   Regardless, I’m giving you 100k stories in a free, safe and friendly environment. Just say hello :)

One more time for the kids up the back

All On The Board via twitter - 22/07

TEN YEARS OF ONE DIRECTION ⟩⟩⟩⟩⟩ (July 23rd, 2010).

I just want to signal boost Emily who has been doing posting amazing HIIT style dance workouts during quarantine and blessed us TODAY for the anniversary with a One Direction-themed one. They're super fun and easy to follow for non-dancers and she's been posting all of these for free the last few months so I wanted to show her some love. ❤️

hello all 1dff readers and writers!

after reminiscing about the old school 1dff days, i visited the original one direction online proboards and realised just how resourceful and useful and, well, enjoyable it was—it really was the place to be. after a while, the community began to fade and migrate to tumblr, which there is absolutely nothing wrong with! some people move on and some people adapt and modernise the way we do things (or some people do both!). however, after reminiscing and visiting the proboards once again, i’ve realised the benefits this community could have if we had a place where everything we needed was all in one location.

SO, with that in mind, welcome to the brand new 1dff discord server!

in this server and amongst various channels, you will be able to:

please note that this server will be 18+ and only for ofc and y/n fics! if you are under 18 or read/write slash fic only, then this will not be the place for you. sorry.

if you are interested in joining this server for all 1dff readers and writers, then please follow the google form link below! once you have filled it out, you will be sent a link to join and the rest will be history as they are. if you don’t have much experience with discord, then do not worry as i am happy to assist you wherever possible!

please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. if not, see you there!

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🦋 Welcome to the very first 1DAAW of 2020 peeps. What a time to be alive! 🦋

While I will be doing a lot of Story spotlights, Relationship Dynamics, Fic Reading Challenges, Reader's appreciation posts etc throughout the week, I want to do two things that involve you guys, aka readers and writers.

As women we’re constantly taught not to advocate for ourselves. We’re taught not to ask for what we deserve. So that's exactly what we are going to do.

Come to my inbox and tell me about your story. Tell me what about that story made you so excited that you are writing it, so that me and other readers get to see why we gotta read it. You can do it either through a post or simply come to my inbox.

But authors, please yourself come out and tell me about it. I don't care if 1000 people are reading your work or no one is, you gotta tell the world why you love your work. Do not shy away from promoting your own work, peeps.

Now everyone has a type; type of stories they love and type of stories they can't stand reading.

For example, I am a very rom-com sort of person and I might like but I can never love anything that does not involve friendship and teasing (also I'm a major representation and political fan; read: the bold type). Next comes angst and romance for me; frankly stories where two characters like each other quite fast is not what I enjoy a lot (more because I'm a kind of person who wants to yell at the character that they are in love before they even start acknowledging it). And finally comes smut. I usually can not read stuff heavily dominated by smut.

So that is exactly what I am going to do this week. Read anything, even if that is two chapters of something in a genre you dislike and review it.

Who knows, maybe you'll fall in love with a story you judged even before properly trying it. Or maybe you can find another genre you don't dislike that much.

🦋 Finally, this is your week, every reader and every writer on this website. So enjoy yourself to the fullest, give love and treat people with kindness. 🦋

In light of current events around the world, I thought it would be a good idea to bring back 1DFF Authors Appreciation Week to help the 1DFF community feel validated and supported. Authors are spending hours, days, weeks, months—sometimes even years!—on these fics and a little extra encouragement can sure go a long way. Plus, it’s always something fun and can take both readers and writers minds off other things during these trying times!

So, let’s show our appreciation for these amazing people from Monday 13th of April to Sunday 19th of April by spreading love and positivity as much as we can. A little encouragement can mean the world to an author and can be that little bit of extra motivation they need to continue writing—and also refreshing for a reader and others within the community to know they are seen.

Throughout the week, there are a number of ways in which you can share your appreciation and support for the community as both a reader and/or writer. A bunch of examples are under the cut below if you would like ideas on what to do. And when you’re posting about any of this, please remember to tag it with “1DAAW” so that we can all see and share these posts around as well!

There is so much we can do to share love and positivity around this community and to the authors and readers who very much deserve it. So, please join us during the above dates in appreciating all the authors in this community! 💖

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House of Hanover & of Hohenzollern: Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain

Sophia Dorothea was the second child and only daughter of King George I of Great Britain, The Elector of Hanover, and his wife Princess Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle, better known as Sophia of Celle or The Princess of Ahlden.

After the imprisonment of her mother, Sophia and her brother were raised in Hanover by their grandmother Princess Sophie (Sophia) of the Palatine, The Electress of Hanover, through who the House of Hanover would also ultimately claim the British throne. Until he was three years old, Sophia Dorothea’s future husband Electoral-Prince Frederick William of Prussia was raised by their common grandmother as well. However, Frederick did not care for Sophia as a child and even bullied her brother, the future King of Britain.

Nevertheless, Sophia Dorothea and Frederick William were wed on November 28th, 1706. The couple could not have been different. While he would become known as The Soldier King, she was a person who was interest in the fine arts which her children, to their father’s displeasure, would mostly inherit from her. Sophia Dorothea also corresponded with Princess Palatine Elisabeth Charlotte “Liselotte”, The Duchess of Orléans who was a cousin of her mother’s and had also been raised once by Electress Sophia.

Frederick William and Sophia Dorothea would go on to have 14 children. Among them Frederick the Great, Princess Wilhelmine, Princess Anna Amalia and Princess Louisa Ulrika, who would become Queen of Sweden. Sophia Dorothea had always wanted to marry one of her children to one of her British relatives. However, although she tried it multiple times, a Prussian-Anglo alliance was never made in that generation. Instead most of her children married within the kingdom of Prussia or into the House of Welf she herself descended from.

Sophia was close to her eldest son all life long. She knew about his escape plans and together with her daughter Wilhelmine destroyed as much evidence as they could after the escape failed. Frederick showed his appreciation of his mother by keeping her the first lady of Prussia even after his father’s death. Sophia Dorothea outranked her daughter-in-law Princess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern. Additionally, Frederick demanded that she would be referred to as Queen Mother and not as Queen Dowager as it should have been by tradition. Furthermore, he asked his mother not to adress him as Majesty but as her son as this was to him the highest honor he could ever receive by her.

Sophia Dorothea died on June 28th, 1757, after her health had been declining. Her final resting place in the Hohenzollern vault in Berlin Cathedral. She was the last Queen in Prussia, since her son and by that his wife became monarch of Prussia in 1772.

// Christina Große as Sophia Dorothea in Friedrich - Ein deutscher König (2011)