On My Hands And Knees Begging Adults To Allow Children To Engage In Risk Play.

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

Reblog art guys. Seriously.

Please report Middletown, Connecticut resident Morgan Laskarzewski to her local police precinct for fraud for running off with $3350 of a Gazan's money

policeinfo /at/ middletownctpolice /dot/ com

Include the campaign link in your email even though it's defunct; GFM cooperates with police investigations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-aisha-find-hope-and-a-brighter-future?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp8_t1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

If you're a US resident you can also report her to the Connecticut Attorney General: https://dir.ct.gov/ag/complaint/

Write Nov 23 in the "Date of transaction or incident," select "Fraud-Whistleblower" as the complaint subject

Mention that she started a GFM for Aaisha Hammad but absconded with the $$, shuttering her social media and the campaign page without telling Aaisha. This is financial fraud and she could legit go to jail for this.

Aaisha's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaisha_hammadd?igsh=MTMwdGx6YTM5MDNhdw==

Meanwhile Aaisha has a new campaign with a new organizer committed to transparency, please help her make up the amount she lost

Our Flag Means Death fandom tea blends, community quiz & badge, and free tea wheel of fortune. My portion of the proceeds (5%) go to The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, And Intersex Association (ILGA.) All 30 blends can be found on Adagio.

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

I think one of the most damaging ideologies towards children is the conviction that having children isn’t a calling but a moral obligation.

bro........ imagine................

(free to use :p)

some tieflings :) (second sheet is based on 2e tiefling traits sheet, some of them are my ideas, most of them arent)

I gotta stop

Neither a coffee shop au nor a flower shop au, but a secret, third thing…

so I watched the Lorax because my friend is now a Once-ler fan and I stumbled upon this

i couldn't NOT draw them as pizzamen