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Reblog if you write fanfic and would be totally down with your followers coming into you askbox and talking to you about your fic

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I write for myself

*checks AO3 every few hours to see if I got any new kudos, comments or subscriptions*

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Look at this goofy fucker pretending to be a writer. GET OUTTA HERE

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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I dont want to sound like an elitist but the people who write tv shows arent doing a good job

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ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!!!

The person who reblogged this from me needs a hug. Reblog to hug the previous person. 💕

#all the hugs!!!

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Natalie Portman being confused by the fact that you have to say “hi” to someone before starting a conversation in France got me like ?????

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it ok to not be ready

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tom animal crossing nook made you work for like 3 minutes and you spit on him like this god damn

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Idiots: Both parties are the same, it doesn't matter who you vote for

Me, a person who doesn't huff paint: The Democrats just passed a law that will protect children from persecution and bigotry and introduce new safeguards to protect people from sexual assault and safeguard victims of such crimes

The Republicans meanwhile are a party made up of wife beaters, child abusers, pedophiles and rapists whose nominee for president is a domestic abuser who raped a thirteen year old child

But yeah sure, there's totally no difference at all in who you vote for

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

#writing resources

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.