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agwitow:

sapphicauthor:

HOW TO SPEAK WRITER: 

  • “my characters have a mind of their own!” – no i’m not mad and yes i know i made them up but i have no idea what’s happening anymore please save me
  • “i’m going to write today!” – i’d actually rather wash the garden path but the house is already pristine and i’ve run out of excuses
  •  “this is still a rough draft so go easy on me!” – i have spent what feels like forever pouring my very soul into this but i worry it’s terrible and if you’re mean i may just cry
  • “i’ll update soon!” – this is utterly killing me, i don’t know how to read anymore, what are words, help 
  • “i just had this idea and had to share it with you guys!” – this has taken me three weeks and countless hours please love and appreciate it
  • “feedback appreciated :D” – please, i live for validation! i need comments!! 
  • “I’ve got writer’s block” – I know where I want the story to go, but I’m crippled by my own expectations and what i think other people’s expectations are
  • “This was a good writing day!” – I was, somehow, able to avoid most distractions and wrote more than 5 words. It was still like pulling teeth
  • “I’m excited for this project :)” – I’ve spent what feels like three lifetimes thinking, planning, and revising the idea, and now that I’m starting to work on it, I’m paralyzed by the certain knowledge that it’s not going to be anywhere near what I want it to be
  • “My characters hate me” – I have done horrible things to my characters that, if they were real, would surely count as crimes against humanity, and despite loving them, I love hurting them more. My final shred of humanity has me feeling guilty…guess I’ll just have to stab my characters a few more times…
  • “I’m not really feeling motivated” – I’m wringing out my very soul to write this story, and it’s left me exhausted. Random love will recharge me, otherwise I’m going to crawl into a procrastination hole for the next week
  • “Send me asks” – I’m lonely and have writer’s block* (see above), and desperately want to interact with people. Please. I’m begging you, don’t leave me alone with my thoughts

norroendyrd:

starofvelaris:

art-res:

nocturnenebula:

EDIT: This post is inclusive to ALL art forms.

Likes can only go so far for artists. Artists may exclusively upload their artwork to tumblr, or don’t have the time to use other sites and prefer tumblr over deviantART due to its simplicity, but the tagging system can make it harder to navigate. Many artists on tumblr tag with high-traffic tags or use their own tags to prevent tag clogging which eventually become lost. That’s why it’s very important to reblog an artist’s work. 

I’m not trying to push you to ruin your blog’s aesthetic or something, nor am I saying that “you must absolutely reblog your favourite artist’s work or you’re trash”, all I’m saying is if you truly want to support your favourite artist, instead of just liking their posts, try to reblog them once in a while. The more reblogs they receive, the more exposure/notes/followers they may receive, and it’s just one of the easiest ways to show you care about them.

*This does not mean to reblog unsourced artwork or works reuploaded to another person’s blog without permission (re:stolen). Nor does this mean to reblog artworks without the artist’s consent, even if this case is slim.

I agree with this 100%!

This is so important!!!! And btw do NOT NOT NOT NOOOOOOT repost art (even if you credit or link back).

This is why you will notice my tumblr is mostly full of fan art reblogs (besides the fact that I just love them)…I know firsthand what a difference one reblog can make. And better yet, leaving a nice comment or tag for the artist can completely make their day. Just sayin’ 🙂 🙂 🙂

I always tend to assume that my content is just not good enough to be reblogged, but I do continue my attempts to impress my more popular mutuals in case they decide to share what I post with their followers.

raise your hand if you reread fic comments when you’re having a bad day

kunoichi-ume:

cinlat:

meldaburke:

hank-green-john-watson-emma:

ao3commentoftheday:

those kind words can make all the difference sometimes

Raise your hand if you reread replies to comments when you’re having a bad day

No matter what, at least you made someone happy that one time

Seriously, I’ve made friends with so many of the people who’ve read and commented on my stories. It makes a difference. Sometimes I re-read all of them. I love seeing each and every one pop up.

Truth. Comments on fics are how I know it’s okay to reach out to people through pm, asks, or other media forms and, in turn, make friends. Every one of my peeps on here started with a comment.

I totally do this.

hedgehog-o-brien:

I’ve been on a  Discworld re-read for about a year now, and it just struck me how Pterry gets progressively angrier and less subtle about it throughout the series.

Like, we start out nice and easy with Rincewind who’s on some wacky adventures and ha ha ha oh golly that Twoflower sure is silly and the Luggage is epic, where can I get one. Meanwhile Rincewind just wants to live out his boring days as a boring Librarian but is dragged along against his will by an annoying little tourist guy and honestly? Fuck this.

We get the first view of Sam Vimes, and he’s just a drunken beaten down sod who wants to spend his last days as a copper in some dive but oh fuck now he has to fight a dragon and honestly? Fuck this. 

The first time we see Granny Weatherwax, she’s just a cranky old woman who has never set foot outside her village but oh fuck now she has to guide this weird girl who should be a witch but is apparently a wizard all the way down to Ankh Morpork and honestly? Fuck this.

Like, these books deal with grumpy, cranky people.  But mostly, the early books are a lot of fun. Sure, they have messages about good and evil and the weirdness of the world, and they’re good messages too, but mostly they are just wacky romps through a world that’s just different enough that we can have a good laugh about it without taking things too much to heart.

But then you get to Small Gods, in which organized religion is eviscerated so thorouhgly that if it was human, even the Quisition would say it’s gone a bit too far while at the same time not condemning people having faith which is kind of an important distinction.

You get to Men at Arms and I encourage everybody with an opinion on the Second Amendment to read that one. 

You get to Jingo, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal (featuring an evil CEO who is squeezing his own company dry to get to every last penny, not caring one lick about his product or his workers or his customers or anything else and who, coincidentally, works out of Tump Tower. I’m not making this up). 

And just when you think, whew, this is getting a bit much but hey, look, he wrote YA as well! And it’s about this cute little girl who wants to be a witch and has help from a lot of rowdy blue little men, this will be fun! A bit of a break from all the anger!

Wrong. 

The Tiffany Aching books are the angriest of all. But you know what the great thing is? 

The great thing is that Pterry’s anger is the kind of fury that makes you want to get up and do something about it. It upsets you, sure. But it also says It’s up to you to change all of this. And you can change all of this, and even if you can’t. Do it anyway. Because magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

It’s the kind of anger that gives you purpose, and it gives you hope. And that concludes my essay about why the Discworld series is so gloriously cathartic to read when it seems like all the world is going to shit.

So go. Read them, get angry and then get up and fight. Fight for truth. Justice. Freedom. Reasonably priced love and, most importantly, a hard-boiled egg.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

SWTOR: F!Bounty Hunter Romance

I’m replaying the Bounty Hunter storyline for about the hundredth time (I have some favourites, okay?) and I recently acquired Torian Cadera on Taris. I intend to romance him (I’m playing yet another female BH and the first time I romanced him the playthrough was bugged and I missed out on some scenes), but it makes me think …

BH/Torian’s Kids: Mama, how did you and Daddy meet?

BH: Hmm. Well. I was on Taris helping him hunt and murder his dad … On our first date he had me smear myself in rakghoul shit and then he wooed me with his tracking skills. Oh, and I stopped him from bleeding out because I’m a sucker like that. It was very romantic.

And the thing is, the Bounty Hunter’s kids are gonna be raised Mandalorian, so you just KNOW they’re sitting there nodding and thinking their dad’s a smooth ladies’ man.