i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much

fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment. 

every single damn writer i know feels like at least their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change. 

I hate asking for feedback and reviews, it feels like begging.  I’m really lucky to have such a vocal and awesome following but I do see this a lot.

Jellal from fairy tail!! Old drawing of mine but i still like it :)

Aaaaannnnddd now he’s seeing red. 

y’all are so quick to reblog fanart yet fanfics get less than like 5 notes people complain abt fanfics not being updated for years and its like well give them feedback??? comment on their fics??? encourage them to write more???? 

17JASxOOL - Denton line Long Tail boas (boa c. longicauda)

It’s time! Little gray babies are coming out of shed.

@indigopersei is the french language just always on the verge of getting someone accused of assault or..?

my friend, if only you knew

It’s a very dangerous language to learn

Here’s an interesting thing about French! Everything needs to have an article in front of it. That’s why it’s “la chat” as opposed to just “chat”. So, for instance, you could say la fille for the girl, or jeune fille for young girl, but you can’t just say fille, because that means you are calling her a sex worker in a derogatory way.

The moral of the story is, if you want to make something rude in French, just take out the article in front of it. Yes, this works for nearly. every. word.

This is sort of the greatest. I didn’t think Natsu would be one of my favourites but...

Jerza Love Fest 2017?

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve seen a flurry of activity in the Jerza corner of the Fairy Tail fandom.

Some bad.

Some sad.

But!

We’ve also seen a lot of quality Jerza content popping up! We want to encourage positive Jerza content! This post is meant to gage the level of interest in a 2017 Love Fest.

If you’re interested please reblog this post with feedback or suggestions. We just want to get an idea of participation interest before committing to a 2017 event. Let us know!

Thank you!

I’m always in.

I have a weakness for all these things. Red lips. Nails. Old phones. I might as well end my day here, it won’t get any better.

Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.

Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.

Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.

Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.

Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.

Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.

Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.

Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.

Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.

Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.

It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.

If only I could be an ice zombie.

But really. Writing about terrible things doesn’t make you a terrible person.