Hi, I came across your story BFBF recently and I just loved it. I was wondering if I can have permission to make a Podfic of it? Please let me know, thanks!
of course!! my preference is always for folks to post on ao3 and mark it as a "related work" so i can link it officially, but if that's not your jam, i'll just ask for proper credit and links back to the original work c:
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fic link: BFBF (Best Friend's Boyfriend) // 11k, T, Sam has a brother named Dean, and Cas has a boyfriend named Dean, but they are DEFINITELY not the same Dean.)
Hi. I’m a Polish translator of short Milena stories. I would love to translate your fanfiction. Of course, I will indicate that you are its author along with a link to the story, etc. Do you agree to translate it into Polish and publish it here or on wattpad?
hi! i’d love for you to translate a fic! i’ll always say yes to this.
in terms of the posting platform, i’d really prefer if translations are posted on archiveofourown.org, because then you can select the original fic as the inspiring work from a drop-down menu. i’d be notified that the translation has been posted, and ao3 automatically links it to the original work so people can find it.
my only familiarity with wattpad is from people reuploading my fic there without my knowledge or permission, and its filtering and search options are incredibly confusing. if posting on tumblr is an option for you, i’d prefer that over wattpad, if that’s alright! but i will forever recommend ao3 as a first option.
thank you so much for asking, and i hope you have fun translating!
- Elmie
Hello! I don't want to bother you, I've already asked you directly in the fanfic about this, but I don't know if you've read it.I really don't want to bother you, but seriously it would be an honor for me to translate your "Roost" fanfic into Spanish, I think it's very good. I will give you all the credits in case you say yes, but if not, I will totally respect your decision because I like your story and I only like that more people knew about it. Bye. <3
Go for it~!!
If you post it on AO3 please check the box for “This work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by another work” and then I can link it easily <3
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fic link: Roost (a 12k Dean/Cas "oh my god I can’t believe I’m crying about chickens” fic)
i saw this long response just now, and i can’t reblog it because someone in the thread has (rightly) blocked me. so i gotta reply like this. i just want to thank the people who made these particular responses so thoughtful, dissecting my post rather than just attacking me.
everything said in the responses are things i agree with now. the original post was made senselessly, thoughtlessly, with more thought given to what tinhatting cockles shippers would think of it than literally anything else. i regret pretty much every word of what i wrote, especially the way i said it like it was some kind of fact.
all of it was a skewed interpretation of things i didn’t quite know how to process. i was much younger, much less aware of what i thought i understood. there was a lot of WRONG INFORMATION in there. it’s not opinion, it’s just wrong.
for the record, a huge amount of the reblogs on that post are from people who hate the post and reblogged it to add hate. so not all those notes are shippers.
despite (because of?) the anger i received from people for this post, it actually taught me a lot regarding respect for other people, particularly celebrities. for some reason that little nugget of common sense slipped my mind at the time. i’m very, very sorry for causing so much anger and upset. my apology is to the fandom, who remains family to me, and to Jensen, who remains a stranger to me. but also thank you to those who were angry, for teaching me exactly how i fucked up. hopefully i’ll never make a mistake like this again.
(i don’t expect the reblogs of that post to stop, or the comments to stop, and unfortunately deleting the post would do nothing now. i’mma close my inbox to anons for a while, i know i fucked up, i don’t need to hear it a bunch more times)
(but also please don’t reblog the post without the corrective commentary. also, if you happen to reblog through that link at the top, please also add a link to THIS POST. i can’t do it myself since i’m blocked. thank you, i appreciate it~)
Hi! I reeally love your Supernatural fanfiction Welcome All Winchesters! I read it before christmas and I stayed up until 3 am to finish it *even remembering it makes me feel warm and fuzzy* Anyway I thought about translating it and maybe some other works to my native language (hungarian) and I wanted to ask your permission for it.
yay, thank you!!!
yes, absolutely, please do translate my fic! (my one request is that you post it on AO3, and mark it as a ‘translation’ when you upload it, so I can link it properly~)
it stands for Dean Cas Big Bang, and it’s a livejournal-based Destiel-related writing challenge that runs throughout the hiatus of Supernatural (roughly April through November).
fic writers sign up and try to write at least 20,000 words before the deadline, and if they make it, some artists who also signed up can choose a fic to illustrate. once the art and stories are done, the stories are posted on an assigned date and the rest of the fandom gets to appreciate a steady influx of 20k+ fics throughout October/November.
That "IS Jensen bi" thing. Dude, you're a sad, fucked up little girl. Why can't gross people like yourself keep this to YOURSELF without having to hurl it across everyone else like a fucking Bible preacher. I've got two male friends who've been mates since primary who hug each other, mostly from behind, and get all touchly feely in a friends way and are now happily married to two other women. It's called a bromance, don't make it into something it's not. Stop making shit up for the hell of it.
I made that post a year ago and I no longer think it is correct/accurate/factual in every sense. I stand by some things I said, but I agree it’s not necessarily the best idea to post sexuality speculation of real people online. however, a) I’m not a girl, b) I think you misunderstand what Bible preachers do and believe*, c) “bromance” wasn’t the point of the post, and “bromance” is not what that is, d) polyamory exists e) this post wasn’t about your real-life friends??? this was about Jensen and Misha????? some people are queer and affectionate but not everyone affectionate is queer???????????
[ * someone you followed must’ve reblogged that post, so in what way is that me hurling my interpretations at other people?? a year ago, all I did was respond to one anon. ]
I’m going to close my ask box to anons because I’m not going to respond to 50 of these. and no, I’m not deleting the post, because deleting problematic things is problematic in itself. making that post was something I did in the past and I’ve learned from the negativity I’ve received about it since, but I honestly don’t take too well to being called a fucked up little girl, or such things. please stop.
(post link so I don’t get a bunch of people asking what I’m talking about)
Hi, Elmie! I wanted to ask if you would give your permission to translate your fic "Panic Kiss" into Russian (if it has't been translated yet), with all credits to you and your profile. Btw, I enjoy all your fics, and this fic has been in my bookmarks for over a year, and I've got the nerve to ask you just now.
Aww, thank you. I’d be honoured if you translated my work! I actually can’t remember which fics have been translated, as very few of the translation requests I get are actually put on AO3 and linked correctly, though I always ask and people always say they will. According to the list of translated works, Panic Kiss has not yet been translated into Russian! So go ahead and have fun please, put it on AO3 and mark it as a translation of my work. I rarely get to see the translations at all, since people don’t link them. I love looking through them and linking them to the original once they’re done.)
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fic link for other people: Panic Kiss (AU where Dean has a car-related panic attack and Cas calms him down)
Hi Elmie! I just wanted to tell you how much I love your fics, you're an amazing writer! I've been following you for months now and actually spent half my sleeping time last week re-reading lots of your older stuff, regret nothing hahaha if you don't mind, I wanted to ask for your permission to translate a fic or two of yours into Spanish and post them here and on AO3? I'd link everything back to you as the author, of course! If not, no worries, it's a pleasure to read you anyways! Thanks!
Aww, thank you! And yup, go ahead and translate away c:
Hi! I read your fan fiction "Nine Times We Met (And One Christmas We Parted)" - and I in wild delight, thank you very much for such smart work. For this reason I would like to ask from you for permission to transfer of your fan fiction to Russian. In Russia, Ukraine there are a lot of Destiel's fans, and I very much would like to inform to them such fine fan fiction. I look forward the answer.
Yes, absolutely!!! One condition: please post it on AO3 so it can be properly linked to the original work! Thank you so much! I’m so honoured~
If you could link me to where it says that, I’d be very surprised. I’m not not allowed. You’re not allowed to post items, but the rules say nothing about the list. This question is answered more lengthily here.
The only mentions of posting the list publicly was a warning to game players that the list changes daily so they need to check the updates page on the website and not rely solely on lists that have been posted on tumblr or elsewhere. But it does not state anywhere that the list can’t be shared publicly, just that the items can’t be.
I'm not sure you should have the 2015 list posted yet. The first year you could view the list without signing in, and another company/group stole a bunch of items off of it and almost beat the Gish World Record, which is why now you have to be a member and signed in to view the list. Pretty much you're kind of doing exactly what Misha and the rest of the Gishwhes staff don't want done, which is for the list and items to be shared until after the hunt.
*inhales*
If there was a problem with me posting the list someone official would’ve told me so, sometime in the past 4 years. Honestly, at this point I’m almost convinced the organisers use the list posts on my blog as a reference when they don’t have access to their own lists, for whatever reason. (This is an unfounded theory, but... well, why wouldn’t they?) The officialgishwhes tumblr blog follows me. I don’t know what to make of that, given I mostly post Cockles and fluffy Destiel crap, but I’m sure it’s some kind of quiet support gesture. (That blog also replied yesterday saying “no problem” regarding posting the list.) There was also that one time Misha named the freaking fograt mascot after my blog, either subconsciously or consciously, I don’t know which, but that was a thing that happened. When it comes to this list-posting thing, I’ve never had a complaint from anyone but anons who seem to get confused between posting items before the hunt is over, and posting the list. It doesn’t say anywhere in the rules that you’re not meant to post the list. If they put in a rule like that, that rule would be speaking directly to me, since I seem to be the only one who does post the lists, that would make it kind of a passive-aggressive move on the organisers’ part, and I doubt they’d bother since they clearly already know where my blog is and how to use tumblr ask boxes. What’s so bad about the list getting out there, anyway? If someone with malicious intentions is going to get hold of it, they’re gonna find a way to do it whether I post the list or not. It’s their bad karma, not mine. I post the list for reference, yes, but also so people who aren’t doing the hunt can see what a mad little rabbithole we’ve gone and thrown ourselves into. And people see it, and they see the hype, and they decide to join the following year. It’s free advertising! Also the list is private on the site because they changed the layout so people submit items through the team’s login. The first year they did it, the list didn’t have submit buttons for each item - from what I remember, to submit, you had to type your team and the item number into boxes, and things probably went wrong too often. The list is private these days for better efficiency and the avoidance of extra problems. So there.
*exhales*
I’ve answered this question a lot. I should probably... stop.
"you look like you want attention for your art/fic when you publicly answer praise"
fucker lemme see you sit down for a few thousand words or through six practice sketches over the course of several hours and then not want attention for it. step off, you oozing blue twat waffle.
Why do you answer asks about your fics if they're not anon? Wouldn't it be better to reply to the person so they'll for sure see it? It seems like you're attention hungry when you post them and tag your other fics too. o.O You should find more confidence and not need that sort of obvious self-promotion.
You do make a good point though, people might not see my replies. Tumblr does (sporadically) send notifications to people when their asks are replied to, and I tag every reply with the person’s username, so if they go into their tag (tumblr.com/tagged/USERNAME) then they should see their reply. If they track their own tag then they’ll see it instantly. If people really care about my reply then they’ll hunt it down on my blog. They could find it directly by adding their username to my url (almaasi.tumblr.com/tagged/USERNAME) and it’ll be there. So far I’ve never had a complaint about someone losing a reply, but I’ll bear it in mind. (Surprisingly, I’ve also never had a complaint about me taking weeks to reply to some messages too. My followers seem to be incredibly patient people, and I appreciate that a lot.)
…Also, when you say “find more confidence”… You do realise it takes a lot more confidence to post a reply with a fic link attached at the bottom than it does to sit there and think “man, I really hope people read that fic they probably missed me posting because they were in a different timezone”…?
Posting that ask /is/ attention seeking. It makes you feel better for a second maybe but it also makes you look desperate for praise. Except... praise is hollow & meaningless unless it comes unprompted. I only post asks about fic if others might be interested in the answer but reply privately otherwise (I keep praise to myself.) Everyone already /knows/ where to find your fics, there's a link in the sidebar. By all means post about your fics. But don't hide your motive behind "anon" praise.
so... in your opinion, I am I meant to not reply to this anonymous message because by replying I am attention seeking? I'm really not sure what you mean to achieve here. Is having someone pay attention to something I'm saying something I should avoid?
FRIEND, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. I AM A WRITER. I AM DESPERATE FOR PRAISE. IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD. IT MAKES ME WANT TO WRITE MORE. IT MAKES ME WANT TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE AND ENJOY EVERY MINUTE BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE SOMEONE ELSE BE PROUD OF ME.
You are wrong, anon, and I'm a little worried about everyone who says "stop spreading your praise around" because clearly you don't know what praise can do for you. It can make your eyes shine and your diet better quite by accident, and it makes your smile wider and it makes you be nicer to people, and it makes you feel like you're doing okay in life. By sharing it I can achieve several things. Firstly, some people (for whatever reason) enjoy seeing my replies to messages. I like that they like it, that's awesome. Secondly, other things happen, which happen in a specific order: more readers > more feedback > more motivation for writing > more self-fulfilment > more likelihood of me recovering from years of illness and actually making something of myself.
And right now I know you're thinking "oh look now she's talking about chronic illness to garner sympathy", but may I remind you that you messaged me anonymously, and if I ignored the message then you would not even begin to understand how important it is for me both personally and professionally that I write more stories and become a better writer. The messages people sent me over the years have literally saved my life. I like seeing them, I like reading them when I'm feeling down. It's harder if not impossible to do that if I reply to everything privately. I like being able to file everything under a tag on my blog. It's simpler and quicker to reply publicly rather than privately. I already have a lot of trouble scrounging up the energy to reply to messages at all, let alone save them somewhere externally.
...Seriously, the fact you're even driving me to think about "how can I please these anons while still maintaining a consistent place to put all my messages" is fucking ridiculous. I don't live to serve you, anon. I fucking want to publish my fucking messages, it's that motherfucking simple.
You said: "praise is hollow & meaningless unless it comes unprompted". This is probably true. But my apparent ~prompt~ for praise is writing a fic that someone liked, and they wanted to tell me they liked it.
...For serious, are you even seeing what I'm seeing here?
"I only post asks about fic if others might be interested in the answer" People are interested, okay. You might not be, but other people are. You see a billboard advertising soap, but you don't need to buy soap because you're a self-cleaning metal android, do you tear down the soap advert and tell the person who pasted it there that they're shamelessly asking for attention?
"(I keep praise to myself.)" Good for you, anon. You're humbler than I am. I would like to be humble, but other times I would really just like to say to the world: hey, I made a thing. Please look at the thing, you might like it and it would mean the world to me.
"Everyone already /knows/ where to find your fics, there's a link in the sidebar." All right. Imagine that you walk into a bar. It's a bit crowded, there's animated people everywhere and they're a little flashy, and there's buttons hovering left, right and centre. Your drinks and food are served, but you need an extra fork. You know there's a signpost for the cutlery somewhere but there's so much else going on that you can't find it. "The cutlery is over there," someone helpfully says, pointing. Oh yes, you think. Unless that person had pointed it out you might not have seen it. In fact you might've just gone on with your meal without a fork at all, because you didn't know the bar even had forks. (The forks are a metaphor for my fics, by the way.)
"But don't hide your motive behind "anon" praise." I don't actually know what you mean by this so I can't give you a sarcastic answer.
I hope you have a lovely day, anon. I hope someone tells you you picked your outfit really nicely today, or you did very well on your test, or you have pretty eyes. I hope you go home to your family/parents/significant other/roommates, and you tell them "this random stranger said something really nice to me today". And I hope you find that sharing your praise is significantly more satisfying than keeping it to yourself. Even if it's just because the person who complimented you deserves some recognition for the nice thing they said.
I like that you reply publicly, and include a link to the fic. I like to be able to find the fic that people are talking about, because usually I want to read it too!
I've heard that a lot, and that's why I keep doing it. I love the support you guys keep on giving me, too. Thank you <3
Sigh. It's rather gauche to publicly post non-anonymous asks about fic. It's obvious attention seeking.
Again? Seriously? Look guys, I'm gonna say it again because clearly you're not understanding: yes, I am seeking attention. Literally that is the point. That's how I get my readers, and I am going to continue doing it because I want people to read my fics. Is it arrogant? You could see it that way, sure. Am I forcing people to read my fics? No. Am I annoying people with my replies? Possibly, but anyone who is bothered by me sharing some positive feedback can a) blacklist the tag "#Elmie writes things", or b) unfollow me. THIS IS WHAT MY BLOG IS ABOUT. I AM GOING TO BLOG ABOUT WRITING. IT'S MY THING, AND I LIKE MY THING. Like, I don't get why it's a big deal. I want other writers to do the same thing, I want people to be CONFIDENT about the crap they make.
Also I would like to point out that the only negative feedback I ever really get on my fics is either 1. really helpful to me as a writer, or 2. someone complaining that I talk about my fics publicly. I welcome constructive criticism - it hurts for about a day, but then I realise whoever complained was right, and I make changes accordingly. However, when people complain about me replying to messages publicly, frankly it's not helpful to me at all. The number of people I piss off with my replies is far outranked by the number of people who find my stories via my replies. I'm kind of over being told to stop.
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