Tumgik
#if nothing else anon
not-poignant · 3 months
Note
Hi there! I absolutely love your works and, having followed you for a while now, I also really admire you as a person and an author in general. Every update on AO3 and Tumblr is always such a delight. I'm sorry if this ask is coming out of the blue or if it's something you've been asked before, but how did you take the plunge from writing predominantly fanfic to posting original fiction in serial form and also self-publishing novels? I'm currently in the process of drafting two original works after writing/posting fanfic regularly for years, and I'm just lost as to how to set everything up. I have a general idea (post chapter-by-chapter on AO3 and offer early access and some exclusive content on patreon or some other subscription service), but it all feels so daunting right now. Any bit of info or advice on how you got started would be immensely appreciated <3
Hi anon,
Tbh, I went from writing fanfic to original fiction because I had original characters in my fanfiction and readers asked me about them.
I had no kind of...dreams of being an original author in this way, I was published via other pathways already, and fanfiction was really an escape for me, a chance to break with all the conventions of standard writing and just do what I wanted.
But I needed a broader cast than what the movie gave me re: my first fanfics, and I added my own OCs, and left them in the background as much as possible, but even back while writing that fanfic, even the OCs were getting fanart. Sometimes readers would send me anons about them, or ask me more details about them.
Finally, I decided to write some hatesex between them, just something to kind of...idk get it out of my system? Answer what the readers were looking for?
The flow through therefore felt natural. Game Theory flows very naturally on from From the Darkness We Rise & Into Shadows We Fall. And from there, moving into other original works has been easy, in part, because I've often being doing alternate universes from a core of original characters.
If I want to introduce new original characters, I introduce them in stories where pre-existing original characters have already been established.
I didn't even start writing original works with a view to making money off that. In fact I thought it was a very foolish thing to do. A lot of people on AO3 don't want to read original works on AO3 and refuse to do it or only do it if it's PWP / pornography.
I started my Patreon account because readers asked me to. I got asks from very very generous people who wanted to know my Paypal, or asked if I'd start a Ko-Fi, and finally a few people just asked if I'd start a Patreon. I said I didn't think it was a good idea, and they said it was up to them if they wanted to pay me or not, but I should at least consider giving them the choice.
From there, I found it all very overwhelming. I made lots of mistakes. I had to go on hiatus for a year because I promised too much and couldn't deliver on many of those rewards. And for many years I only offered one early access chapter per week for one story, and my main stories were never early access (and still aren't, Underline the Black goes up for everyone at the same time - and while that may change in the future, it's definitely unconventional).
I've always been transparent with my readers that with very few exceptions, if they just wait, they eventually get everything for free. But if they want to support this kind of writing and/or enjoy it, and can comfortably afford to send some dollars my way, they can ensure that I can keep writing this way.
I have for a long time offered no exclusive content at all, I believe that can do well, but it's not my preferred way of doing things.
This career has been incredibly reader driven, anon. I would not personally attempt it cold, without a really fantastic readerbase who encouraged me every step of the way in the first place, because I am a cautious, insecure writer who doesn't like to take risks. So I can't give you advice on how to build this career without the support of the readers there in the first place, and I believe the only reason why I had their support was, in part, because of the actual strength of the writing itself. Which isn't to say it's the best, it's not, it's what I needed at the time and it's what a few other people needed, and that's basically how this works.
If you turn up with the writing, and the audience comes, and they want the story, you have the career.
In terms of practical advice - you can introduce original characters in fanfiction, just be aware that readers tend to be hostile by default if they pull any significant 'screen time' away from the fandom characters (and readers are extremely savvy to authors trying to build a financial business through AO3)
It IS daunting, but the good news is you can do a soft launch. You can open a Patreon or Ream account tomorrow and tell no one. You can mess with your graphics and your tier rewards to your heart's content when you don't have any subscribers. Build a buffer of early access/chapters, and make sure you don't overpromise on anything. Whatever you think you can realistically deliver to readers, cut it in half, because the stress of chapter update deadlines every month can really add up and it's a very different landscape to novel releases.
You can take your time, you can build interest slowly.
Remember you can never ever mention any kind of site where you're getting paid inadvertently, sneakily, or directly on AO3. You can't mention Ream, you can't mention Patreon, you can't mention Ko-Fi, you can't go 'learn more about my writing here' and link to those places. You can't mention buy links. You can only mention sites like Tumblr, Linktree, Twitter etc. Places where the point of sale isn't happening. Not doing so risks AO3's Not For Profit status and risks your entire account, and it's not worth it.
I did an interview with Subscriptions for Authors where I actually talk about many of these things so you can watch (or listen to) the podcast here if you're inclined! It also talks about the importance of community-building, gratitude to the readers, and generosity.
I am here because my readers wanted me to be. So I'm very concerned with making sure I can give them the best writing possible within my abilities. This makes me not very suited to offering 'how to start in this career' advice because it was a happy accident. It's hard to teach something I have never done your way myself, anon, because I worry I'd give bad advice. My writing had people turning up, but I'm not sure anything else I did, added much! I think responding to Tumblr asks and replying to every comment helped too! But...I don't know for sure.
But this career path does make me pretty well suited to offering 'how to keep this going' advice, because I've been doing this for ten years. <3333
12 notes · View notes
dirtbagdefender · 1 month
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
438 notes · View notes
etz-ashashiyot · 21 days
Text
Friendly reminder that A Land for All is an excellent organization that is still, even now, working to create an equitable resolution to the conflict. Please check them out:
I also strongly recommend reading through their full proposal here.
379 notes · View notes
gibbearish · 3 months
Text
so this post has been made unrebloggable now (shocker) but ive been feeling the need to address it since i saw it on my dash multiple times, so let's explore how lying on the internet works. more specifically, how blending truth, lies, and omissions to whip uninvolved people into anger works, because i think this is an excellent example and that pointing out the misinformation and the tactics used to spread it here is important, both in correcting the specific falsities but also in helping recognize similar tactics in the future.
Tumblr media
so here we have several things that are technically true: staff has been very openly shitty to trans women for a long time and them banning predstrogen is clearly part of that, there is currently a movement regarding discussing transmisandry/transandrophobia, transmisogyny and transphobes sending transphobic asks is by far nothing new, and baeddel is/was a slur. however, among all of this are half-truths, unprovable speculation, or outright lies made to make you believe these events are originating specifically from transmascs.
firstly, the transandrophobia movement has been drastically misrepresented here in the same way it has been for the whole argument, "they're just trans MRAs" has been repeated so many times now that i'm gonna be hearing it in my dreams when i'm 80. i can understand not being willing to address the nuance of that whole discourse in one post that isn't directly focused on that, i'm certainly not, but in this example it's not unwillingness to address a complicated topic, it's a deliberate misrepresentation to frame one side of the discussion as The Evil Bad Ones That Can't Be Trusted. additionally, this post IS about that discourse and is just pretending it isn't to mislead a wider audience, so refusing to address it at all beyond this brief mention is deliberately misleading people about the goals of the group because They're The Other Side Of The Discourse. "transmisogynists" is used as a buzzword here, it doesn't actually refer to Anyone Who Hates Transfemmes, it refers to Transmascs Who Discuss Transmasc-Specific Oppression Using A Word They Coined To Point Out That Queer Spaces Have A Big Problem With Masculinity and just. doesn't tell you that's what it means, relying on the structure and framing of the post to create the Transmisogynist = Transmasc association in the audience's head so op doesn't have to say it outright (and of course the implied Transmasc = Transmisogynist association that follows because creating THAT association is the Actual Point of this post). the mentions of transmascs in this post are designed to look like afterthoughts, op says "typically those who espouse transandrophobia" to make it look like they're saying there's other people they're referring to here too, but almost everything in this post draws from the transandrophobia discourse. some random cis transphobe in texas has never heard the term baeddel in their entire life much less used it in a debate about transphobia, this is an intercommunity argument through and through, but op is trying to mask the fact that they're just referring to "transmascs who disagree with me specifically" and make it look like it's part of a wider trend. and again, i'm not going to go into the nuances of transandrophobia here, but i highly recommend reading some of the theory on it by @nothorses (x) and @genderkoolaid (x) because the "theyre just trans MRAs" argument kinda just collapses under its own weight as soon as you look into it even a smidgen. i've linked a couple broad overviews there but they both discuss it frequently and in-depth, specifically nothorses has a pinned post linking to many different discussion threads that i would recommend checking out if you do want to learn more about what the actual conversation surrounding these words is.
so, after framing the movement this way, they go on to say that the reason predstrogen was banned wasn't /just/ because staff has a long and established hate boner for trans women, but because the transandrophobia movement was teaming up with TERFs to mass-report her and other transfemmes, and implies that this is part of a deliberate conspiracy between Transandrophobia Truthers™, TERFs, and staff. you'll notice that there are no, say, screenshots of transmascs saying theyre deliberately reporting her or of that they're working with TERFs, behind-the-scenes lists of people who reported a certain account, or any evidence for this beyond "she was a trans woman, they're trans men who hate trans women, she got banned, so these must be related". which i find especially funny now given that photomatt has continued melting down about this since it happened and made it pretty clear it yknow. was just part of staffs ongoing hate campaign against trans women that has been going on much longer than the transandrophobia debate? and that maybe the fact that The Literal CEO is having a personal meltdown about this might explain where that could be coming from or at least why it's been allowed to continue for so long, moreso than any individual users reporting someone could? but i digress.
who reported what account is completely unprovable as a casual user unless people directly admit they did it, so to bring it up like this begs the question of what actual reasoning they have for saying it beyond trying to tie a current display of bigotry into an unrelated discourse. that's not to say it's impossible people who discuss transandrophobia were wrongfully reporting her, because again, thats something we have no way of knowing, and the internet is a shit place so i wouldn't be surprised. but given the circumstances and the rest of the lies here, i have my doubts about this being an actual yknow. Thing That Happened rather than just another lie to make people mad at transmascs. now one could make the argument that op wasn't saying transmascs are /deliberately/ teaming up with TERFs/staff, that "teaming up" was just a poor choice of words to refer to multiple groups who happen to have the same goals in mind at the same time but aren't actually coordinating with one another, but given the deliberate misinformative slant of the rest of the post and the overall phrasing in this section, i have trouble extending that grace. regardless, however, that doesn't change that who is reporting who isn't something verifiable, so stating it here as a confirmed fact is disingenuous at the absolute best, and a lie chosen specifically because it's unprovable at worst. if op /does/ have proof that transmascs have been teaming up with TERFs to get trans women banned, not including that with this post is just uhhhhh dumb, and if op /doesn't/ have proof then Why Would You Go Around Telling People That's What Happened Unless You Were Lying To Them On Purpose With Ulterior Motives.
next, op goes on to discuss the rise of the term baeddel. now as i said before, the truth here is that it certainly was a slur and certainly can still be used as one, again the internet is a shit place so i would be a fool if i tried to say "no one is using this as a slur". however, this is once again a drastic misrepresentation of the situation. baeddel's rising use is due to certain trans women reclaiming it and aligning themselves with the original group's politics, namely that femininity is good and masculinity is bad (aka terfism 101), with the added caveat that by abandoning femininity for masculinity, transmascs are evil and betraying devine womanhood and their community by putting more Evil Manhood into the world. of course that in turn is a drastic oversimplification of their politics and i highly recommend checking out this post with an actual in-depth exploration of the history (and without my added flavor), but the important part to note here is that this is not a term transmascs just Started Using one day because they hate transfems so very much as is implied here, its use is directly tied to a group of people saying "hello, here is what i am, and here is what this word means about what i believe," so others went "ok, these specific beliefs are called this." bringing up the fact that it historically was a slur is misdirection here, when you look closer this is almost a 1 to 1 translation of TERFs crying that TERF and radfem are slurs because People Don't Like Their Politics And Therefore Them, so the name for their politics is used negatively, so therefore it's a slur. that argument just has a little more oomph behind it this time because It Was A Slur Originally. and again, that isnt to say no one is now using it as a slur, the rate of decay for online discourse is ridiculous so it being boiled down to and used as "evil transfemme" has certainly already happened, but to act like /every/ use of it is a slur is literally just a lie, when you self-identify with a term based on your shared politics with the original group then you do not get to claim everyone using that term to describe those politics is doing so exclusively to attack you. also this part is entirely speculation but given that op's url is basically just. baeddel switched around to dae bel, i would hazard a guess that they perhaps are indeed aware of the origins of its re-use? but again, that's entirely unprovable and based just on wordplay, but like. given the Everything here i wouldn't be surprised. now, there's definitely an argument to be made about calling users baeddels based just off of their politics when they don't personally self-identify with it, if that constitutes calling someone a slur and if TIRF should be used instead, but crucially, that is not the argument being made here. the argument being made is "ANY AND ALL use of this term is calling someone a slur," and that literally just Isn't The Case.
finally, to tie the whole post off, op reminds us 1) if you hear anything bad about any trans woman ever, it's probably a lie to make her look bad, and 2) if you hear anyone say anything about transandrophobia, disregard everything else they have to say because they hate trans women. not "be critical of the things you see or get sent" or "be on the lookout for things following a certain pattern," a unilateral "anything bad is probably fake and anyone who uses the bad words is probably evil." that is not something someone does if they are genuinely trying to raise awareness of an ongoing trend, that is what someone does when they want you to turn your brain off and be mad at a group no matter what they say.
so yeah, in summary, do be critical of the things you see and be on the lookout for certain patterns, because sometimes people will just Lie to you. or, sometimes people will tell you portions of the truth while leaving out crucial bits so that you'll come to the conclusion they want without anyone being able to say they lied to you without typing up a thirty paragraph long hell post. transmisogyny is absolutely a problem on this site and there are 100% valuable conversations to be had about it and its presence within the trans community, but this post is not that. this post uses real transmisogyny and the wrongful termination of a trans woman's account as set dressing to say that it was all because of evil transmascs who run the trans community behind the scenes conspiring to take out transfemmes, so you should ignore anything they have to say because All of it is secretly motivated by transmisogyny. they're never discussing transandrophobia because it's something that actually effects them, they're doing it to hurt trans women by saying they have it worse. they're never telling you about shitty things a trans woman did to spread awareness, they're lying to make her look bad, or even if it's true they're only talking about it as part of a hate campaign because she's trans, they wouldn't care otherwise. they're never using a specific term because People Use That Term For Themselves, they're calling someone a slur because they hate trans women. there's always an explanation you can think up that ties it back to transmisogyny, and op says that instead of assessing all of what someone says and the context behind it to determine if that's what's happening, you should assume transmisogyny is the answer and refuse to engage any further as soon as you see a word you've been told is bad.
this post is discourse recruitment masquerading as a public service announcement that doesn't offer you any routes to actually learn more about what's going on, it just tells you Here's What's Happening, Here's Who's Evil And Should Be Ignored, And If You Disagree You're Also Evil And Should Be Ignored. content of the actual post aside, i think anything framed that way should be taken with a MASSIVE grain of salt and this would have raised my alarm bells even if i wasn't already pretty familiar with the arguments, people who genuinely want you to know something just because it's good to know will give you options to learn more or encourage you to actually use your critical thinking to assess things, not tell you to sit down and shut up and ignore anyone who disagrees with them.
anyways i guess tldr
Tumblr media
592 notes · View notes
sundayroadkill · 24 days
Note
u should do more scorbus fanart😭🙏🙏🙏
i was so shocked to get an ask for more scorbus art that wasn’t from my pal 🤣 thanks anon this one’s for u (and my pal)
Tumblr media Tumblr media
258 notes · View notes
neverevan · 8 days
Note
It's so uncomfortable to watch but I'm actually excited about this storyline because even the people who are always making excuses for him will have to admit eventually that eddie is making conscious, awful decisions right now and he will have to deal with the consequences. There's this thing of painting buck as the silly screw-up and eddie as the level-headed smart one and it can only be good for his character growth if that stops
well tbh eddie was never the levelheaded smart one lmao
the dude ran off to the army at the first whiff of his girlfriend getting pregnant and then enlisted again without telling her and then slept with her behind his son's back and then ended up in an underground fighting club and then he bought a ridiculously expensive truck on a whim and then he put his boy best friend into his will as if they weren't most likely to go out together if shit hit the fan and he antagonised an armed murderer and then he destroyed his entire bedroom with a baseball bat and ran up a ladder without a line to try and pull a guy weighing 200+ lbs plus gear by hand and then he asked his girlfriend to move in with him and then he was hiding to avoid having sex with her before asking her to move out—
159 notes · View notes
hwaitham · 7 months
Note
wrio <3333 i jus wan him to bend me over his desk in his office <333 i wanna be his sweet lil pup so so so bad :(((
꒰ っ◡ o̴̶̷̥᷅⸝⸝꒱˖ ࣪⊹ wriothesley x sub!f!reader 。。。 nsfw — mdni . daddie kink ♡ ノ hyperfem reader ノ imp subspace ノ praise n cum nnnn . . Yea :3
Tumblr media
the stresses that come with being the lord of the fortress of meropide are second to none, but wriothesley truly is so lucky to be blessed with a darling angel like you perched atop his shoulder! sweet and doting and constantly fussing over his health, offering yourself to him so graciously by finding a home between his legs for the night or with a mere bend over his desk, the layered skirt of your dress puffy and short and doing little to hide the plump little pouch of your cunt clinging wetly to your pantie's gusset.
you whimper for him when he doesn't spare you a glance, pouting and reaching to tug on his sleeve. "daddyyy."
"not right now, sweetheart, daddy's working... be a good girl and wait a bit longer for me, okay?"
"but— but you've been at your desk the whole day! 'nd you look so stressed... c'mon, don't you wanna play with me even for jus' a little while?"
upon hearing the deflation in your voice and the sight of your skirt flouncing around as you bounce on your tippie toes, wriothesley finally tilts his head up from the files on his lap to face you: bent over his desk in that delicate set he'd bought you, wrists and neck decorated with frilly cream cuffs, stockings sitting at uneven lengths on your legs and creating pastry-like clouds from the plush of your thighs.
he heaves a sigh, shakes his head in awe and reaches up to knead the globes of your ass, milky to his touch and fitting within the grasp of his palms. because the sight of you dolled up like this alone is enough to expel the exhaustion from his chest, twist and turn it into something that makes his cock ache and throb and leak.
"oh, baby— my only baby. so good for me aren't you? such a good little girl, mhmm, taking care of your daddy like this," he muses to himself, sucking in air through his teeth and humming curiously as he spreads your cheeks apart, watches your hole clamp down around air, drip thin strings of cream— begging for his cock to stuff her full. presses the pad of his thumb down on the outline of your bud through your panties and laughs when you wail out for him, kicking your feet and curling your toes. "just what am i gonna do with you..."
your daddy does the same with you that he always does; takes you how you present yourself to him— unwrapping you piece by piece, ribbon by ribbon, before he allows his cock to find solace in the warmth of your pussy.
fucks you first, makes love to you second.
slathers your spine with his love and his praise and his seed.
spills his milk into your womb and over your ass and between your thighs— until a puddle of cream and sweat pools at his feet, until the tulle hem of your skirt is wrinkled and sticky with cum, until all you can voice are 50 different whimpers and whines of his designation, nothing but daddydaddydaddy on that pretty little mind of yours.
337 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
babpy.
549 notes · View notes
ohbo-ohno · 2 months
Note
ghost is holding you back and whispering in your ear how dangerous it would be to leave the nest :(
Ghost is so fucking manipulative doing this to you while you’re vulnerable and easily swayed. It just sends you spiralling while panic digs its claws into you because what if.
Also him making sure that you’re engulfed in nothing but his scent, overwhelming your sense of smell and clouding your thoughts so you can’t concentrate on anything but him and what he coos into your ear.
You end up ignoring Soap in the end as Ghost brushes a hand against the scent gland in your wrist, watching as you let out a distress whine before going lax against him. (Maybe he deliberately moves you so that your nose ends up buried in his neck and watches as Soap gets more and more agitated.) 👀
This man is toxic as fuck and I love him for it.
(Sucks to be Soap though. Man is definitely salty at Ghost afterwards. 🤷🏻‍♀️)
🍋 Anon
there's something eternally delicious about alpha!soap being out-alpha'd by alpha!ghost. it's like my fave a/b/o dynamic for them <3 smth about ghost using the reader over and over again to assert his dominance over soap is just so delicious.
87 notes · View notes
merakiui · 6 months
Note
Oh, to be able to fuck incubus Jade silly after everything he's put you through ❤️
Maybe you weren't that immune to his charms after all, but since he's been so very hungry as he claimed, he should have no problem with this of course! He should thank you for the tasty meal.
Let's hope Floyd doesn't know about this because he's never gonna live it down. (He'll either need to fuck your brains out in revenge or he'll just be sulking in a corner for a week straight)
-🦈
Pulling him back onto your strap/dick by the tail if he tries to crawl away because he was not expecting you'd hate-fuck him this hard and rough!!! >:) but then this is exactly where he wants to be. He's so immensely pleased with himself even when you're making an absolute mess out of him. Truly the soggiest, most pathetic incubus of all time, but he's only like this with you. <3 anyone else is subjected to the fearsome, demonic terror that he is. But for you? For you, he's something of a bashful maiden in love hehe.
It takes a lot to catch Jade off guard, and he plays these silly games to win, determined that with enough prodding you'll eventually give him. But you manage to take him by surprise when you finally decide to give him what he's been lusting after and hungering for all these months. It likely happens on the one day Floyd has to report back to his superiors in heaven, and normally he could care less about following procedure and whatnot. But if he doesn't at least put in the bare minimum of effort they might assign him elsewhere and he'll never see his shrimpy again! D: he can't have that.
Jade's notorious for never being satisfied after feasting no matter how much he has sex, so this is the one time he genuinely feels full. You are a very special human indeed; he's very obsessed and very well-fed after your little tryst. He probably returns to the underworld to brag about his success to Azul LOL.
And Floyd!!!! Aaaaa poor Floyd. >_< maybe he gets his revenge by fondling you while you're sleeping or when you're making breakfast. You slept with a devil, so now sleep with an angel and let him purify you. He's your guardian angel and you're his human shrimpy, after all. It's his job to look after you, so just let him do his thing and you'll feel good. <3
129 notes · View notes
avi-on-jumblr · 19 days
Text
listen. listen. i don’t believe in DNIs. i don’t believe in them. but.
DNI IF YOU DIDN’T LIKE YENTL.
61 notes · View notes
muzzleroars · 1 month
Note
One of those Vids where some baby cries seeing their dad shaved w.o. a beard but it's just the small arch angels' reactions to when lucifer's face gets a second eye or the rough outline of a "human" face (2 eyes, 1 mouth)
the entire host of heaven: put it back
Tumblr media Tumblr media
(plain text under the cut!)
text: many of god's creations have a certain sense of symmetry, so though i am endlessly grateful for the form he has given me (hallelujah), i have attempted to give myself a face that may be more familiar to the newer angels.
i don't believe i did a good job.
65 notes · View notes
saintchaser · 5 months
Text
“you and lucius are going to have a baby,” she spat out, incredulously.
narcissa nodded, a small smile breaking out across her face. “isn’t that terrific news, bella?”
“it is terrible news,” bellatrix replied. “a baby!” she yelled, throwing her arms up in the air, losing her usually cold demeanour. “in the middle of a war! narcissa, have you even thought before?”
she blinked. “we have, in fact,” she said, quietly, “but i would have thought that you, as my sister, would be supportive of what lucius and i decided for our future.”
“cissa,” she hissed, her fingers wrapping around her sister’s arm. “this is one of the worst decisions you have ever, ever made, and you will regret it.”
“i will not!” narcissa whispered angrily, prying her sister’s hand off of her. she wiped her eyes angrily and stormed towards the manor, leaving bellatrix in the cold.
112 notes · View notes
oceanwithouthermoon · 1 month
Text
sometimes i think about how the people who hate on my takes on here would talk to each other and its always phrased like the twitter fandom drama i see but completely irrational and it makes me giggle
"calling kusuke abusive just because he shot his brother with a lethal weapon, plotted his murder, planned to use their grandparents to assist in hurting/killing him, and tried for years to expose his secret to the entire world against his will and through knowingly hurtful means in order to destroy everything he cared about is so stupid! what a stretch!"
"the saiki k fandom is so damn sensitive. i shoot my brother with massive guns all the time and its not abusive because he just blocks it!" HELPEKSJJSJSKSKKS
55 notes · View notes
pharawee · 4 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
89 notes · View notes
of-mutts-and-men · 6 months
Note
I came for the tummy rubs!
Where tummy?
Tummy shot :3
Tumblr media
101 notes · View notes