To Love is to Create

ᴏᴄ ᴀᴇꜱᴛʜᴇᴛɪᴄꜱ: ɴᴏx ᴘÉʀᴇᴢ, ᴛʀᴀɴꜱᴍᴀꜱᴄ, ʜɪꜱᴘᴀɴɪᴄ, ᴠ ꜱᴍᴀʀᴛ, ᴠ ᴍᴇꜱꜱʏ, ʜᴇ/ᴛʜᴇʏ

vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don't give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers

The absolutely hilarity of imagining some older vampires hectoring younger ones. “Back in my day, I had to drink blood with radium in it and I liked it! We glowed in the damn dark for weeks!”

You kids have no idea how easy you have it these days. "Oh last week I mixed someone on fluoxetine with someone on tramadol" boo-hoo, you know what they used to decorate houses with? Arsenic! Fucking arsenic! Oh they knew it was poison but it was such a lovely colour - now I'm as much for impractical aesthetics as the next person who sleeps in a decorative coffin but I saw it, it's just green. Green! They willingly poisoned themselves and me for green wallpaper!

You know what lead poisoning is? Nor did humans for fucking ages, they just thought the constipation was an imbalance of the humours and you know what they took for it? Mercury. Mercury! You know what they did for mercury poisoning? More fucking mercury! After a hundred years in London you can use your uncle Jerry like a thermometer!

Tramadol, gimme a break, used to be they'd take heroin for a cough. Didn't stop the cough but you'd be amazed what maladies you don't care about with your blood full of heroin. Definitely took the edge off the fucking arsenic...

undiagnosed ADHD vampire who can't understand why he is so much more focused and awake after feeding on local college student and concludes they must be destined to fall in love

𝕊𝕚𝕝𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕖 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤:

𝕊𝕚𝕝𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕖 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤:

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𝕊𝕚𝕝𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕖 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤:

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Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

Seriously people, learn fandom etiquette. It exists, it exists for extremely good reasons, and it's been decades in the making.

You know the saying, 'OSHA regulations are written in blood'? Yeah, that applies to fandom etiquette. We didn't make this shit up to lord it over newcomers, these rules evolved as a form of fucking self-defense and by god we'll die on this hill.

So stop putting other people's fanfictions on KINDLE UNLIMITED!!!

In case you're unaware: that can (and will) get the writer and publisher a Cease & Desist and very possibly a lawsuit. Which they will lose.

Fanfic must be free or else it is breaking copyright — even advertising on a fanfic website is risky.

You do not own the copyright. You do not own the characters. You do not make money off copyrights that are not your own.

Who TF is putting fanfic on Kindle Unlimited??

Don't list it on fucking Goodreads either ffs.

And reminder that putting into your fic notes any kind of link to Ko-fi or Patreon or any kind of service where people gift you money? Not allowed. That constitutes as attempting to solicit profit from your fics, which is legally not allowed. The only real thing protecting fanfiction is the fact that it's free; that the authors make zero profit off it. If you add in your ko-fi link, you're asking to make a profit.

𝕊𝕋𝔽 𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕡 𝔸𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤:

𝕊𝕚𝕝𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤:

"We're going to go to the party. We are going to dance. You are going to kiss me and we will have a good time. Understood?"

do you ever look back at your relationship with someone on the internet and just think oh my god i’m so fucking glad i clicked follow they make my life so much better

One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall

"Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall." - This is a raw line.

born to be chill, forced to be overthinking and anxious and overwhelmed and restless

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody: 

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one

She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.

What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?

IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!

I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!

One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”

I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase

i feel a normal amount of emotions about this fictional woman i promise