#fandom is amazing

[blogstandbygo]

HEY EVERYONE, ATLIN MERRICK IS AN AMAZING PERSON!!!

Once upon a time, when I was a baby fanfic writer, I wrote a crappy story. Then I got an idea for a slightly better story and wrote that. Then I had the AUDACITY to send it to one of the biggest Sherlock fanfic authors out there.

It was impossible to be in the Sherlock fandom at that time, have a knowledge of fic, and not hear about @atlinmerrick. She wrote the funniest, sweetest, horniest, sweary, and adorable fics out there. And there were a lot (57 at last count… coincidence? I think not), tens or hundreds of thousands of words long. She alone was responsible for most headcanons floating around out there, still floating today. Atlin was and is the definition of BNF (big name fan).

And despite my AUDACITY, this fic writer, who was incredibly busy with her own writing, and work, and master’s degree, and, y’know, life, RESPONDED. She admitted that she didn’t have time to read the whole thing, but read the first and last chapter, and gave me such encouragement that I was inspired to continue.

(I later wrote another fic, and gifted it to Atlin. She publicly threw glitter at it, and it’s still one of my highest kudos’ed fics.)

Fast forward ten years, and I did keep writing (resolutely for Sherlock, so there). Started dabbling my toes in not-Sherlock writing as well. So when I saw a post calling for submissions for a new anthology from Atlin’s publishing company, I thought, WHY NOT. I’d never submitted anything before. What could I lose? The worst is that she’d say no.

And still she encouraged me. Offered advice. Suggested ways to make it better. And then she ACCEPTED the dang thing.

She sent me a symbolic dollar to celebrate my first publication. But she’s given me a lot more than a dollar – she encouraged a middle-aged baby fanfic writer that she was doing good writing, and to keep going. And that led to a creative outlet and more new friends than I could have imagined, all those years ago.

Thank you, Atlin. For the dollar. For the encouragement. For being who you are. Thank you for everything.

(Also, to all the other writers out there: Keep writing. Be audacious. Throw glitter.)

#fandom is amazing #writing #bbc sherlock #fanfiction

[rebelwriter99]

It’s Star Wars Day!

May the 4th be with you!

Me and Stardog went to see The Phantom Menace for the 25th anniversary. Duel of the Fates in a cinema was something else. I nearly cried-we’ll blame the many low blood sugars I had for that.

I love this fandom so much. Star Wars kept me alive through an extremely difficult part of my life-I was basically bed bound. But I could escape to a galaxy far far away. Rebels has been downloaded onto my iPad constantly for nearly 5yrs. Just in case of hospital visits.

The harness I use with Skye to help me walk literally has a Star Wars quote on it.

“The force will be with you. Always”

And it really has been. To all who celebrate and make this fandom so fantastic creating so many wonderful things-I hope you all enjoy a day that’s as amazing as you are!

#star wars #may the fourth be with you #may the force be with you #fandom is amazing

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I left a comment on someone's fic on AO3, and they left one back saying they'd enjoyed my writing since guykyle, so I feel like I gotta say hi to @infiniteeight8 and @lunaris1013 and @mxbuster, who I met via guykyle.

If you remember us meeting during my guykyle time and I have lost your name, I am probably confusing you with the PhilClint hotties.

#writing #fandom #it's so odd to have people remember me from something so long ago #like i had someone freak out recently because they loved my west wing fic when i first wrote it #which was over 20 years ago #just sit with that #it's astounding #fandom is amazing

[shark-myths]

i just finished all of the girl out boy collection and i’m sure you get anons like this all the time but i can not even impress upon you how lifechanging this was for me. i just turned 20 and i’m so unsure of myself and who i am and what i am and i’ve been up for two nights in my dorm room reading girl out boy and going a little bit crazy but i just want to say you get it. in so many ways and i guess it shouldn’t be surprising because you also grew up female and loving women but you put into words things that i’ve only felt deep in my soul since elementary school but haven’t been able to verbalize. i’ve cried multiple times (esp reading sell out girl), mostly because of the fics but also largely because of your author’s notes. i hope you’re doing well and i’m so incredibly thankful you gave the world this piece of your soul. thank you so much

2/3: i just accidentally sent an ask that i wasn’t finished with but i’m not even sure what else i can say except thank you. thank you

3/3: same anon as the last two i remember the other thing i’m going to say and i promise this is the last of it because i know i’m spamming you now but . my birth mother disowned me a couple years ago for being a lesbian and i found out recently she has cancer so that part of andy’s story really stuck with me. thank you for not feeding into the whole “this person may not have much time left so suck it up for them” narrative because i could never do that. thank you thank you, i promise i’m done now and i hopes you’re having a great year so far

*

darling, there just aren't words for what it is like to share this story with the world and hear back me too, me too, i see you. i know i always say this but it's the most important thing that's ever happened to me. i will never be the same as i was before this story came into my life. thank you for seeing me and letting me see you back.

and yeah. you don't actually have to have compassion for the people who abused you. we all die of something eventually, and it is the work of our lifetime to treat others in a such a way that they want to be by our sides, forgive us, remember us. it is not your fault or your burden if someone doesn't do that. anger is better for healing than giving of yourself, out of guilt and shame, when you can't afford it. it is beautiful to be generous with people when we can be, and miserable and stupid to expect ourselves to when we can't.

i hope you're having a great year too. spam me anytime.

#asks #girl out boy #you guys #you guys always make me cry #this is everything #FANDOM IS AMAZING #thank you anon #thank you all anons and ao3 commenters and readers and feelers and girls and people who were raised as girls and and and #just thank you #i can't say it enough #together we made it home #writing

[nonbinary-arsonists]

BALD

#i love the BALDposting in this fandom #BALD. BALD. BALD. BALD #partially in response to the ppl thinking he was bald with the exclamation ears in my last comic #which has. um. over 15000 notes 🥺 #zooble. ugh. why r you so many detail #my art #digital art #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc zooble #tadc comic #tadc jax #tadc fanart #comic #BALD

[rosenkrone]

Let's kill jax

#art #fanart #fandom #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc ragatha #tadc gangle #tadc pomni #tadc jax

[nooooough]

#I hope he gets even worse #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc jax #candy carrier chaos #meme #puss in boots #big jack horner #fandom #edit #crossover

[adhd-merlin]

some people really be out there typing fanfics longer than war and peace in their free time and then going on about their life like it's no big deal. how fucking incredible. like no offense to tolstoy but that was like. his whole job

#amazing #fandom #the hands of a hundred winters #though to be fair to lev he was also kept pretty busy by all the cheating on his wife #those peasant girls aren't gonna fuck themselves!

[thalialunacy]

SIGN-UP HERE :D

(And that includes offers of fan labor like betaing, Britpicks, etc, which I think is very cool.)

I... have signed up. >.> For one fic, either Johnlock, Merthur, or Hardison/Eliot (do they have a smushname?!).

This'll be the first fandom auction I've done in at least ten years, and I'm h*ckin stoked. :D

#fth #fandomtrumpshate #Johnlock #Hardison/Eliot #Merthur #Fandom is amazing #Fandom trumps hate

[thisistoji]

TITS

credit: wanko

#toji fushiguro #jjk toji #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen toji #toji #dilf toji #anime #toji x you #fan art #fanfic #shiu kong fanart #fanart #toji fanart #toji fandom #so hot it should be illegal #so hot omg #so hot 🔥🔥🔥 #muscles #so what if i lick his body from top to bottom #amazing body

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

#fanfic #ao3 #archive of our own #fandom things #tumblr things #i may have said this at some point #i'm sure i have #but whatever - just in case #i don't say this with the presumption that i'm so amazing and people are clamoring to save my fics #but just if anyone is so inclined that's all #ftr i don't intend on ever removing my fics from ao3 or deleting fandom things from this blog #i've always shared my fandom things with the intent of keeping them shared bc that's the whole point of posting #but the fandom atmosphere and ao3 constantly being under attack who knows what can happen #not that this applies to anyone but should all else fail you can also reach out to me and i will personally give you a copy #at least of fics bc i save everything #not so much the tumblr things but this is a good reminder to myself that i should do that for the things i care about #that i've made or done and only posted here #anyway sorry i have now used up my quota of the putting words into sentences doing for today #i have plans to stare into the void now

[marieevi-art]

Just thought about this moment for a bit longer

Imagine how cool it would be for them to remember something from their human lives just to forget about it the next second 🤯

#fanart #my art #my artwrok #digital art #the amazing digital circus pomni #the amazing digital circus #tadc ragatha #the amazing digital circus ragatha #ragatha fanart #ragatha #jax #tadc jax #the amazing digital circus jax #jax fanart #tadc art #tadc fandom #tadc fanart #tadc comic #tadc

[rebelwriter99]

Hello! Just quickly wanted to come in here and say thank you for the reblogs of my little fanart and saying you liked my story! I simply couldn’t go a day longer without telling you that you are the best kind of human and that those reblogs made my entire week

(As someone who’s new to tumblr and hasn’t quite figured out the works, I’m sorry if rambling in your ask box was the wrong move)

It just made me incredibly happy and I thought you deserve to know that!! In case you ever doubt your positive impact :P

I appreciate you and it meant a lot :D

And it’s always nice to know there’s someone out there who shares the wolfstar love!!!

Oh! 🥺

Thank you that’s very kind of you and I shall try not to cry. Honestly please ramble away in the ask box or any other tumblr contact method available-I’ve been here a few years now and I still don’t know how it works! This will also be a very rambling reply my brain is soup!

I’m sorry it took me so long to reply to you-I’ve been through the wars a bit this week (chronic illnesses, ambulance happened, enough said.) -and it is honestly a very wonderful thing to know I’ve been able to make someone so happy!

Oh Wolfstar has me completely hyper fixated right now-definitely sharing the love I promise!

When you’re a human like me who gets stuck in bed not able to do a great deal very very frequently, things like great stories and fantastic art are the things that keep you going. There have been days where “I wonder what happens next-I’ll wait for the AO3 update email” and “I wonder if I can find any else they’ve drawn” have been a light at the end of the tunnel. I think the fandom community in general is truly wonderful in a way I don’t fully know how to explain-but I really do love every single person who has ever been brave enough to send their stories and their art out into the world for other people to adore. As far as I’m concerned the positive impact belongs entirely to all of you.

Fic writers, fan artists and all the humans of fandom create so many beautiful things. If can make humans happy by doing the fandom equivalent of going “look! Over there! It’s soooo cool! I love it so much!” and bouncing up and down with joy then I am only too delighted to contribute!

#thank you so much for your kind message and your amazing story and awesome art! #fandom is amazing #i love all of you #I’m just here enjoying the magic! #the marauders #star wars

[snekboisworld]

I find it extremely funny that the entire Good Omens fandom is absolutely in love with Bildad the Shuhite for seemingly no reason. Can one of you please tell me why we love him so?

#good omens #bildad the shuhite #crowley #i mean i love him too #hes amazing #theres just no reason to enjoy this throw away joke as much as we all do #the good omens fandom is great

[painted-lemon]

um can we make this a real thing??????

please tag any other fandom that could use this meme format

#calling all animation fans #cartoon fandom #anime fandom #gravity falls #amphibia #the owl house #star vs the forces of evil #steven universe #hilda netflix #the amazing world of gumball #mphfpc #my litte pony friendship is magic #phineas and ferb #ninjago #she ra and the princesses of power #adventure time #harry potter #lore olympus #nevermore webcomic #cursed princess club #invader zim #kindergarten game #kindergarten 2 #scott pilgrim #over the garden wall #dream smp #the little prince #wings of fire #w

[captainsaltypear]

this is so stupid im sorry KJHSDKJF

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc pomni #pomni #gummigoo #tadc gummigoo #gummy #funnygummy #pear post #scheeze art #seeing the fandom characterisation and interpretation of pomni go from wet cat to lowkey thirsty in this episode IS SO FUNNY TO ME KSJD