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tanoraqui:

lvtvr:

okay just got done typing up a Long Ass Comment for a fic that i love and bc writers Live™ for comments but a lot of ppl seem to find it difficult/scary to write them, here are some tips from me, who has been on both sides of the fence:

  • we will nut over literally any context for how u read our fics, nothing is too specific or embarrassing
    • i once received a long ass essay about the exact circumstances under which someone read the new chapter including action and dialogue and i still treasure that comment to this day
  • if u read the fic a few days ago and are still thinking about it, open that bitch up and tell the author “i read this fic a few days ago and i’m still thinking about it”
    • THAT SHIT KILLS US I SWEAR
  • do not worry about being annoying!!!!! oh my god i can’t overstate this enough you are NEVER being annoying by leaving comments. examples of situations in which comments are Not Annoying:
    • commenting on every chapter
      • this is honestly our fav thing, those regular commenters are the real MVPs and i’d die for them. it doesn’t seem thirsty or obnoxious to us it’s our lifeblood i pr omi s e u
        • also this is guaranteed the #1 best way to get senpai to notice u, if that’s what ur after
    • adding an extra comment w a thought/detail u missed
    • adding an extra comment w a thought/detail u remembered from 4 chapters ago
    • commenting during a reread (this is only ever flattering!!!)
    • commenting an 800-word essay that takes several solid minutes to read
      • this seriously never comes across as irritating, time-consuming, or trying too hard; the author is the one who wrote thousands upon thousands of words in the first place and we eat that shit up
    • (ok i lied, there is one exception to this. the one thing that is annoying is demanding updates, especially if u do it on the same day as an update was published. this makes us sad, avoid this :c)
    • but aside from that: comments, great, always!!!
  • acknowledge how hard writers work. every time someone tips their hat to me for the effort i put in, it’s like the 12 hour binges, inability to think about anything else even while sleeping, longggg inspiration walks, and constant self doubt become worth it!!!!
  • let us know u talk about our fics w ur friends…. this is like, the ultimate compliment……… i’m still lowkey waiting for the day someone pastes an excerpt from a chat log they’ve had about one of my fics because i Know it has happened and i wanna see it……………i wanna know what has been yelled……………..
  • just say thank u!!! a simple thank you means so much more bc it shows us we have actual readers and not just numbers on a screen sfjdgslksg

as someone who reflexively Analyzes everything I read, and often feels awkward about commenting to an author that I noticed this lowkey symbolic thing in their fic, let me tell you what I, also an author, tell myself: LEAVE THE LITERARY ANALYSIS, OH GOD, PLEASE. NOTHING will make a writer happier than that you noticed the minor parallel or metaphor or whatever that they painstakingly and subtly crafted. NOTHING will make them happier than to hear that you feel kind of “obsessed” with their writing.

ladyloveandjustice:

one of the v. important things the movies missed about ron is just like, how down to fight he was at all times. like not even duel just he was always ready to physically beat the shit out of people who insulted his family or friends and WOULD if no one stopped him.

there are so many points in the books where its just casually dropped in ‘and so Harry and/or Hermione had to physically restrain Ron’ usually from Malfoy but if Harry or Hermione weren’t paying attention it became ‘and so Ron punched Malfoy in the face’. 

Like, Ron cursing Malfoy for calling Hermione Mudblood wasnt just a one off thing like every time he did that in the future when Ron was there it was like ‘ron had to be stopped from ending Malfoy’s life’ just thrown in there. Same for any other severe insults.

My absolute favorite instance of this is in the first book when they’re just watching a Quidditch game and Malfoy just starts bothering Ron and Hermione during it and is finally like ‘man its pretty funny how the Gryffindor quidditch team is recruited based on pity like y’know Potter has no parents, Weasley’s brothers have no money they should include Longbottom for having no brains” and Ron just flings himself at Malfoy and starts punching him and rolling around under the bleachers and Neville is like “uh shit i guess i better fight CRABBE AND GOYLE BOTH AT ONCE so they don’t go after him” (very underrated moment of courage from Neville he knew he had no chance but he just went for it honestly almost more impressive than confronting Voldemort in book 7)

and they’re just fighting for like twenty minutes and Hermione doesn’t even notice because she was so focused on tuning Malfoy out and watching the game and when its over she looks around like “where’d ron go” and then later its mentioned “Harry sees Ron and his face is covered in blood and he’s like “GOOD JOB WINNING THE GAME HARRY I GAVE MALFOY A BLACK EYE SO WE BOTH DID GREAT THINGS TONIGHT oh btw i have detention for a week and neville’s unconcious but they say he’ll be fine”.

Ron is ride or die and will fight u for $0 y’all 

poupon:

vohalika:

pagerunner-j:

Fandom: where if you draw the COVER for a tawdry romance novel referenced in someone else’s story, the creators will fall all over it, put it on a notebook – blank, of course – and put it up for sale…

…but if you _write_ a tawdry romance novel, all you’ll get is uncomfortable jokes made about it, and you’re expected to hide in a closet and never admit that you did it.

I’m kind of emotionally done.

Where fanartists get to work on professional gigs and be compensated and praised every week, and fanfiction writers get maybe a joke or two at their expense while writing jobs get handed to people in the extended family who haven’t watched more than 10% of the show and never written a comic before…

Hate to shit on this post but fanart does not magically get one anything, jobs or money included, and it is mocked just as viciously as fanfic is in professional art circles. The number of folks who have create financially viable career out of fanart is comperable to the number of theater kids who become Holywood A-listers. It happens, and the visibility of the folks who “make it” distorts common conception.

As for prestige and mocking, It’s only now becoming even sort of acceptable for professional genre artists to occasionally admit to and condescend to post fanart, just like fiction writers will rarely admit to writing fanfic. Its exactly the same bias and factors in play.

I mean, ive done a lot of tawdry-ass shit thats been well recieved and i still work doing shit-all, creatively speaking, in a walkin clinic. Before that, at the height of my arts’ popularity, when it was being posted on for-profit geek websites without consent, and being used as free marketing through official chanels with consent (dumb), i scrubbed toliets.The only thing that engenders professional success is perseverance, luck, networking, knowing how to monitize ones’ work and create a personal brand, not just falling in to the correct medium.

So, uh, great news if you have those things and write romance! If not, then there’s always walkin clinics and toliets which I definitley recommend as a socially acceptable alternative to despair.

This is about a very specific fandom where fanartist literally get rewards from the content creators every week and where now a second professionally published artbook came out featuring exclusively fanartists from this fandom, where the fanart of an in-universe tawdry romance novel cover is now on official merch, but fanfiction writers don’t even get to compete for the single writing job they’d had, ever.

I don’t doubt that being a fanartist ain’t too glorious in general, but this is one specific example where all of these things literally happened.