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I know some fic writers get stressed about writing tropes they think are too popular or overdone, and I need you all to know that I just spent 4 hours reading every iteration of the same exact fic plot I could find, and they all brought me an indescribable amount of joy. Listen. Listen. Sometimes you want cakes of many flavours and sometimes you want Nine Carrot Cakes

#me reading the 2398247th fic of arthur getting turned on my merlin's magic #and i still need more #prev <- #EXACTLY

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Something I love about merlin fanfiction are the 24/7 always on call ol reliable bands of bandits and mercenaries constantly roaming every inch of albion forest, at your service should you need a sudden contrivance for some bamf, whump or angst. Why do they keep risking their lives by attacking strangers with no prospects of personal gain you ask? I say who are you to judge a ragtag team of no-names for their utter devotion to serving up dramatic plot points and developing the main characters' relationships purely out of the goodness of their hearts. True allies will fight you to the death so that you will get the chance to prove the true depths of your devotion. Braver than the troops if ever I saw it

#guilty pleasure #writing #writing fanfic #bbc merlin #merlin fanfic

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adrianne palicki as bobbi morse agent’s of s.h.i.e.l.d. | a fractured house

#Bobbi Morse #Agents of SHIELD #Adrianne Palicki #i love her #mockingbird

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The response has been beautiful - like I can’t tell you how many wonderful messages I received from people who are openly queer and people who are not openly queer, which has been really amazing for me to see. I’ve received messages from firefighters who have said, “I’m not out and seeing this means the world to me.” I could never in a million years of expected to be getting those messages, so it’s very humbling and just a really amazing experience for me to get to be a part of that.

Oliver Stark for Forbes

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Please leave kudos and comments on fics.

I noticed that an amazing fic I read with over 60k words and over 900 kudos...didn't receive a single comment in 2022.

There were some comments in 2021, then a gap, then a few comments from this year. That is insane.

Ao3 is not built like Wattpad, it is not meant to be treated like the 'latest hits' page where you only read the new works, or where you only click on sort by number of kudos. It doesn't matter if the fic you like is not wip anymore - if you really like the story, comment. A simple heart will do. The author won't think you're annoying, in fact they'll probably be incredibly happy.

Fic authors don't deserve to have their work just disappear with no engament after few weeks pass. The fics don't deserve it either

#about fanfiction

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AO3 Comments are SO SO SOOOOOOO important because you can only leave Kudos ONCE. You add to the hit count ONCE (every 24 hours).

So whenever someone updates their fic, the ONLY way an author knows who their regular readers are is if they comment on each chapter. And we WANT to know who's still reading.

Believe it or not, some of us think about the name that pops up constantly in the comments and go "omg I can't wait to see what they think of THIS SPECIFIC SCENE cuz I KNOW they'll say something about it!!!"

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These are the tiny moments I love. It’s the way Arthur’s eyes don’t leave Merlin after he looks away. Not only do they not leave him, but you can literally see his eyes flick around Merlin’s face.

It’s a moment just for Arthur. To observe and appreciate his friend up close. He even does a little gulp as he’s taking in his side profile, his cheekbones, his chin. His Merlin.

Arthur loves Merlin. He was destined to.

#merthur #bbc merlin

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I don't know if I'll finish this one honestly, but here you go :_ I have some things to share w y'all +announcement below

Sometimes I think I'll never win against this endless art block. Just when I think I'm ready to make something, my whole being won't let me. I thought something's wrong with me, spoke with my mom about it. She said that it's probably bc of the fucking war(tm). Last shelling really did a number on me, the missile hit only 600 or so meters away from my building (CIVILIAN APARTMENT BUILDING of fucking course). 10 people found dead under the rubble. I have even more trouble sleeping now, I wake up in the middle of the night bc I get a feeling I hear a missile coming :_ . I have extreme nightmares about death, every day is a fight, so. There's nothing wrong with me and everything wrong with this world, but the point still stands, I can't draw anything big or somewhat rendered bc of it.

So, a small announcement. If you have sketch requests, consider sending them into my ask box. I won't guarantee I'll notice it right away, but when I do I'll try my best to draw it. Consider this a small apology for my absence bc even though it's justified I STILL feel extremely bad about it :___

#merlin bbc #info post #sending hugs

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We're fanfic writers, we spend hours researching an incredibly niche topic we know nothing about so that we can have one sentence be factually correct

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Hmmm…. for shorter Bucky-deals-with-surly-Steve: here.  This comic ran away from me, so I’m just posting it as is instead of doing more work on it.

mcu!Bucky is actually pretty well-off, if you go by the flashback in Cap2: he has both parents, his parents have a car, and he is impeccably dressed.  That snide comment about Steve shining his shoes just serves to underscore the class difference between them.  I *love* all of the fanfic headcanons where Steve and Bucky are scrappy rascals who grew up on the streets, but I got to thinking: if Bucky was that much better off than Steve, how would they even meet?  Why would Bucky, who is so charismatic in all the ways that pre-serum!Steve is not, even want to hang out with Steve?

So my new headcanon is that while Bucky’s a product of an interfaith marriage, at a time where a Catholic marrying a Jew would burn a lot of bridges.  Maybe how Bucky and Steve met was in a public elementary school, where kids were bullying Bucky for bringing matzoh to school during Passover, and Steve’s the only one who stood up for him.  For middle school, Bucky’s dad enrolled him in a Catholic school for the better education, and Bucky’s method of coping with that sense of not-belonging is playing the class clown.  Meanwhile, Steve isn’t smart enough to not pick fights in *his* middle school. 

Speaking of which, Steve.  Even though he is at heart a pure and good person, that doesn’t mean he’s not flawed.  Steve’s way of coping with things is to push people aside.  He has rather prickly front, especially when he’s feeling defensive (like in the Avengers where he snipes at Tony, despite actually agreeing with him.)  And the very line about hating bullies makes it too easy for Steve himself to define the enemy.

So this comic starts out with Steve being surly and Bucky being cavalier, but they work through it.  Because only Steve can see through Bucky’s front, and vice versa. 

(Master post of all my catws stuff.)

Oh hey I repurposed the “end of the line” thing to be happier.  I guess it’s compensation for making “on your left” be super depressing.

Also, relevant Great Depression video: (go to minute 41 for some nice soup lines and talking about how it was an issue of pride…. no wonder Steve’s so surly in the line.)

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The whole Steve is colorblind thing.  I like the idea that Steve, given that his entire life is about fighting against the limitations of his body, wouldn’t bat an eye at being colorblind – he’ll just work around it, just as he has to work around all of his other illnesses.  And Bucky, all teasing aside, will be there to support him.  I especially like the idea of Bucky being Steve’s eyes – telling him the colors of the world.  Since so much of being an artist *is* the reading of colors, Steve’s artistic ambitions also taps into Bucky’s latent artistic abilities (he’s always had sharp eyesight, after all).  As is always the case: where Steve goes, Bucky is right there with him.

[Shortly following this one, probably.]

[Yay just put up the companion ficlet]

[Also: sequel – post Bucky recovery]

[The rest of my Captain America stuff]

ALSO SUPER IMPORTANT: color blindness is pretty complex – there’s lots of different kinds and degrees.  Steve is probably not completely color-blind!  I went for the cheap joke in the first page, but he can probably tell the difference between green and blue.  -__-.  (It’s much harder to express nuance in comics guys… stick to fics)

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a weak and tortured bucky making sure steve gets to safety first

#classic classic post #bucky barnes #steve rogers #fanart #stucky #meta #very important stucky meta #to use for fanfic #disability

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bbc merlin - 03x04 Gwaine

the way arthur doesn't push as much as he just shoulder bumps merlin, the way merlin starts running before arthur even makes a move, the way arthur only runs about three steps before stopping. intricate rituals etc etc.

#arthur's intricate rituals #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin #merthur #intricate rituals

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Maybe we all need to get away from screens and write with a pen and paper again.

do you ever just … picture a whole scene, a whole fanfiction in your head, you know how to place every single word of the english dictionary that you need (or your language dictionary), you know how to structure your sentences, you know just what your characters are going to say to each other and then… and then you just open microsoft word.

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This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email from Wattpad is so condescending imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

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Battle

#fantastic #i love this #beautiful fanart #Merlin in armour is already fantastic #but merlin in armour doing magic?? #bbc merlin #merlin emrys