The post in my drafts that I just wrote is maybe too angry to share, but here is an important message that someone might need to hear: the amount of attention that your tumblr posts receive has NOTHING to do with them being "good enough". It heavily relies on popular and influential people boosting them (at the right moment), is the subject matter a Currently Popular Fandom, and sheer luck.
Please go on sharing your original characters (who have no built-in audience of thousands), your art and writing unconnected to Currently Popular Fandom, and your passion projects that aren't on anyone's radar. You ARE good enough! You have a unique voice, even if your audience is small!!
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missing ur writing😔 reading ur stories truly feels like a big warm embrace, yes they make me cry a little BUT its the good type of tears i promise❤️ when the silly fan fic writer on tumblr is actually insanely talented😭
stopppp u will make me blush 🤭 no but thank u!!!! it is much appreciated <3 and i appreciate every tear you shed ok 😔 i am trying to write i promise <3
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i'm about to go insane while working on this bachelor's thesis. because i'm required to write it in my native language, yet a significant portion of my source materials is in english and i find that i can express my thoughts more effectively in english, but alas, i'm constrained to work within the confines of my native tongue and it's so infuriating because whatever i write, it seems so odd and not the way i want it to because it doesn't convey my ideas the way i want them to and!!! it's so!!! exhausting!!! i've truly colonized myself and it shows because i lost the ability to write quality stuff in my native language and i'm truly struggling here.
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If we’re doing ace hc’s may I add Semi to the list? Underrated character and loml and he just 100% gives ace
ABSOLUTELY!!!!! how many years of semis life did he spend thinking he was just "awkward" and "bad at intimacy" and "hadnt found the one" until u rolled into his life (ok i wrote asexual reader x asexual semi blurb)
he's so nervous for every date that he wants to barf, because he really likes u and he doesnt want to fuck this up, but he knows he inevitably will because he's ruined every relationship hes ever been in, and he just wants to prolong the honeymoon phase as long as possible because u make him so insanely happy
but u finally ask to stay the night...and he doesnt know how to say no to u...so he doesnt, and he brings u home after dinner, and he's practiced the scenario a million times over in his head. he does what hes supposed to do, he turns on a movie and pulls u real close and when u start kissing him his entire script goes out the window. but he decides he'll figure it out, and maybe it won't go too badly if he just does what all his friends tell him to do. but when u keep him from unbuttoning ur shirt he becomes completely frazzled, like he can't even try to act cool because hes too nervous, and he asks whats wrong and u say nothing, but . . .
and when u say ur ace hes like huh ??? and when u explain that means ur not interested in sex hes like um ??? and then ur apologizing to him, and he feels bad, because theres nothing to be sorry for, he's the one that ruins things, he just wants to do this right
and u keep explaining, and semi has a literal oh. moment. like, hearing u describe ur lack of sexual desire literally has the gears turning in his head. hes never in his life heard anyone speak his own thoughts out loud, yet here u are, basically describing him completely, in words he didnt know how to say. and hes genuinely so relieved because for the first time ever he doesnt feel pressure from his partner to deliver something he doesnt have, and he actually feels equipped to explain himself now. this man is relaxing for the first time ever in his life
and u get to sit and listen to his ramblings about all the awful sex hes had and how he thought he was just weird or wired the wrong way, how he didn't invite u over sooner cuz he was scared of disappointing u, and he spends the rest of the night asking u questions and getting way too happy when u relate on certain things<333
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Hi, I followed you for your fic and I saw you had some posts about having ADHD.
I'm also ADHD, could you tell me about your writing process? I get stuck with things staying in the notes app and they don't really get past that stage.
I'm not sure if it's an interest thing, if the notes fulfill the want so there's no need to put it together. If you have anything thoughts about how to keep up the consistency for fic that'd be appreciated.
Hopefully this isn't too serious of a question, I just have some trouble with wanting to write but not having a purpose for it and I was wondering if that was a brain thing/relatable.
Thank you in advance for any response ☺️ also good luck with your uni stuff~
thank you anon! and dw this isn't too serious at all. i think it's interesting that you ask about keeping consistency bc ironically the biggest tell of my adhd in my writing is my INCONSISTENCY, as you can see with the way updates happen. i wrote 200k words of taob in one year and now i update twice a year on average. i wrote 60k words of tams within a few weeks and now it hasn't been updated since july. and these are just my public projects where i at least have the added pressure of knowing people are waiting for an update, you should see the state of some of my original wips! basically my point here is that my adhd is VERY apparent with my writing habits, but these days i work with it instead of trying to fight it. even before i knew i had adhd, i was aware that my writing came in periods. id go a few weeks churning out insane amounts daily and then dry up for months on end, and each time id enter the 'have i lost it??? will i ever write again???' spiral until low and behold, something would inspire me again and id be back to typing like a madman. i used to seriously fight my dry periods bc of that fear of 'losing' my writing, but that never helped and honestly turning writing into a need instead of a want probably made it worse.
it's one reason - aside the fact it is rude and annoying, i dont want to pretend it isn't or put the blame on me bc that's not what im saying here - that constant demands for fic updates bother me so much, bc people dont realise that the writing style i have now where yes we unfortunately go long times without updates is actually how my writing comes out at its best standard. so yeah! it can be incredibly frustrating and even scary to feel physically unable to write, but if it's something you like and want to do i do truly believe it'll always come back sooner or later, or at least that's my experience :)
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