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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way

#me with iron triangle and its side ships #and many more hskshsjs

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reblog if fanfic writing has been a source of happiness for you and has helped with your mental health

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I keep trying to pinpoint what kind of romance I enjoy, because I'm extremely picky and yet have no consistent theme or specific tropes I either always go for or cannot stand at all.

The answer turns out to be very simple and yet depressingly rare.

I don't need 'healty'.

I don't need 'pure'.

I also don't need twisted and tortured.

What I need is to be able to understand what the characters see in each other, and since I'm if not fully then at least functionally aroace, this will have to go beyond 'hot' or 'blood smell gud'.

All characters involved need to be people, and this alone rules out a massive chunk of canon straight romances*. I don't even have to like the characters right out of the gate**, I just need to be entertained while they are on page, and there's nothing more boring than a Designated Love Interest.

*Those tend to be the worst, because at least gay romances can't rely on the automatic assumption that boy+girl+sharing a screen = romance.

**I read and liveblogged Erha. I like that book. I want interesting characters, not Unproblematic ones.

#yep #healthy and unproblematic also have completely different meanings depending on culture beliefs etc etc #+ context.

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Relationship between two characters where one of them is a raccoon who broke into a bakery and the other one is a person who owns a bakery that a raccoon broke into. This can be as metaphorical or literal as you please. Is this anything

#heihua #jskshsksjsj

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when u come up with a tiny change for your story that not only makes the writing flow better but also hammers in the character motivations and story theme

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Fic Recs (Ask Meme)

Send me a number or emoji (+ optionally, a ship) for a fic rec!

👍🏽 A fic you bookmarked recently

🔁 A fic you’ve re-read several times

😂 A fic that made you laugh out loud

👀 A fic that you love a normal amount

📆 A fic you’d re-read 10 years from now

😊 A fic that made you smile on a bad day

💯 A fic that makes you think #writergoals

🥰 A fic that gives you warm fuzzy feelings

👌🏼 A fic someone else recommended to you

👽 A fic that isn’t prose (poetry, text fic, etc.)

🛳️ A fic that brought you aboard a new ship

💘 A fic you couldn't stop reading once you started

💌 A fic that inspired you to create something for it

🤩 A fic that made you SLAM that “subscribe” button

📚 A fic you wish you could display on your bookshelf

💞 A fic that led to you making friends with the author

✨ A fic you wish you could read again for the first time

😭 A fic that ripped your heart out (but it hurt so good)

🤔 The first fic you think of when I say [insert word here]

💖 A drabble that made you want 100K more words

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POV: mister Devon Price, PhD, telling me that I am right about everything

Source: Unmasking Autism, discovering the new faces of neurodiversity

#Hyperlexic #not autistic. But I almost do bingo here too

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you can pry happy endings from my cold-dead hands. It can be the most heart stopping, gut wrenching fic that has every existed and I will read every drop of it if I get my happy ending. I have had enough painful endings in real life, give me happy in my fantasy world. It can be at the last second, it can be a single sentence, even a single word. Give me all the angst and hurt in the world for 500,000 words, but please give me the comfort I need in the ending. please and thank you.

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look at your phone lock screen. that's your reason to keep goin

#Weilan (Guardian vol 2 cover art) #ah yeah Long-haired Shen Wei...

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PART 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

some more slides from my dmbj presentation, feat. did you know ao3 user ilgaksu ships heihua?

#dmbj #heihua #JKSJKSJKJKSJKSJKSJK the raccoon jksjsjks

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does anyone remember that one powerpoint i made about the tomb robbing show?

aka PART THREE OF MY POWERPOINT OF ALL TIME.

there are spoilers from now on.

PART ONE // PART TWO

#these things are perfect KJSKJSKJSKJS #HUO DAOFU ONE KJSJKSKJSJKSJKS #oh liu sang kjsjsjs #one day I'll write a fic with Su Wan... who knows. #dmbj

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@tazzy-ace I just wrote *that* and now he's proving my point KJSJKSSJK and he doesn't even have a hat, only the scarf skjsjks

Zhu YiLong studios post photos for his 36th birthday! More

#zhu yilong #okay he's gorgeous here OH LUCI

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motherfucker said PROFESSIONAL

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@tazzy-ace us, writing 185k of pure vibes so far

writers whenever they’re starting a new fic: I have these ✨ vibes ✨ now I’ll have to build an entire plot and write an entire fic about those vibes

#the fic does have a plot but it's accidental. we've been writing whatever the vibes give us JKSJKSKJ #no plans #vibes only

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🌸🕶 sketch page :)

I draw so much dead romans art on my other blog I straight up forgot how shirt collars worked and had to spend a few days re learning the muscle memory for it lmao

anyway. I miss. them…..I think it may be time for a rewatch of the Abyss movie….

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

#ahhhhhhhhhhh I love this! #really nice art style #I need more? need more. #heihua #dmbj #xiao hua #hei xiazi

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anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

#it should be like that #fandom