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no ship wars, we multiship like adults
no love triangles, we polyship like adults too
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Every Time
ao3: they were trapped in a blizzard, a single vacancy at the motel with only one bed. What will happen between them?
me: *clicking on the fic* omg what will happen between them?!
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laarne
no offense but the soft uncertain kiss followed by a pause where the people look each other in the eyes and then fucking pull eachother back into a more passionate kiss will always be the most soul destroying trope , catch me lying on the fucking ground sobbing and rewatching The Scene™✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
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petition to start calling love triangles “jealousy angles” so that we can call 3way polyamory love triangle instead
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Person: How many OC's do you have?
Me: That depends. Are you asking how many are in my current project? Or how many in all ongoing projects? Or how many in all projects, both current and defunct? Named characters only, or do unnamed characters count? What level of character development and/or involvement in the story is necessary to be counted? Should characters that were recycled from my old projects count as one or two? Should characters that were merged be counted as one or two? Should I count characters that were written out of the narrative? What about characters who are in my notes but haven't been written into the draft yet? Many of them are well developed with long backstories. How long are you willing to wait while I count them
Do you sometimes read a fic that’s so good that nothing else written for the ship comes close for a while? They could be awesome fics for all you know but no, that thing that one person wrote that one time is your baby and you won’t betray it goddammit!
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mxlbenoist-deactivated20190223
pure chemistry with a writing partner is honestly the most satisfying thing.
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exybee
ATHLETIC VAMPIRE FOOTJOBS MORGAN IM DYING ITS GOD GIVING ME A SIGN
exychamp
SOCCER AU! SOCCER AU!
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Anonymous asked:
Hi, so I need an advice? I started shipping Albus and James (thanks to you :D) but part of me just can't let go of the feeling "this is wrong", which leads to a constant feeling of guilt, I know that it's fictional, but... Anyway, it's okay if you don't want to answer this, I hope I won't offend you with this ask :/
Ah, I’m so glad that you’re shipping them now too! They’re so fucking special, aren’t they? They love each other with a fire and a gentleness that surpasses anything else
I understand that it can be hard to get behind consensual sibling ships (or any “controversial” ship that flouts social mores), but for me, I’ve never felt guilty about it because I can firmly shut the door on my fictional world and keep it from bleeding into my real life and my belief system. As real as they feel to me, Al and James aren’t real, and thus they aren’t subject to the laws that govern our reality. In our fictional world, they can be together and it can be gentle and sweet and good without it hurting anyone. This would be an entirely different case if they were real people, of course, but since they aren’t and will never be, we can’t draw any parallels. Fiction doesn’t have to correspond to reality, nor should it. People often use it to explore darker themes that frighten, alarm, or intrigue them, using this safe, controlled space to make sense of the world around them
I know these ships aren’t for everyone, but for me, they work. And I actually like that sense of wrongness. I like morally grey ships that are pure passion, ships that challenge and shock you, ships with a pulse. Brotters is by far my sweetest ship like this, but it’s still “wrong” in the sense that it challenges our preconceived notions about which fictional characters can be paired together, and I find that conflict fascinating. It draws me in and makes me want to explore these characters even more, makes me want to examine why they’re ready to risk it all to be together and how they’ll navigate such a difficult situation. And even more than that, with Brotters, I love seeing how all that turmoil and guilt pales in comparison to the love, support, and trust woven between them. Al would be so upset that I’m calling their relationship “wrong” because he doesn’t see it that way at all. James is the one person he trusts with his life, the person who he can always count on to protect him, the person who shows him the colors around him when everything seems grey. James is his light and his inspiration, and he considers his love for James to be the best, brightest part of him
Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide which ships feel right to you. Shipping should be about you- you’re choosing to read/write/draw/hc/engage with these characters in your free time, so you should focus on what makes you happy and what inspires you and then pursue it. Shipping culture can be toxic and can compound any guilt you already feel (*shakes fist at fandom police*), but really, fic is about fictional characters and fictional realities, and we need to give ourselves a break in regards to what we enjoy reading. If you like Brotters and can grapple with the guilt or channel it into your understanding of the characters (they feel guilty too, after all), then that’s awesome and I am so happy to welcome you to our ship! If it gets to be too uncomfortable, that’s completely valid and understandable and you don’t have to read them. Fic is about escapism, exploration, and for some people, recovery, and thus no one else can tell you what to read or enjoy. You’re in charge, and only you know what you feel and what you can handle
I’m sorry you’re feeling so guilty about them, and if you want to discuss this further, you can message me or send me an ask off anon and I’ll respond privately. I have a lot of thoughts on controversial ships, the fantasy/reality divide, and Brotters in particular, so I’m always up for discussing this :)
#THIS#this is so fucking important to me#every single word here#fiction is fiction#and you can like whatever you damn well want and you don't have to explain yourself#our boys are my whole heart#<3#my girl is amazing#shipping#fandom#fanfics#fanfiction#stop ship hate#stop ship shaming#writing#brotters#tw: incest
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it’s not really a fic until someone releases a breath he hadn’t known he was holding
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blametheleather
everybody has that one kink that they will never ever admit to liking and will secretly read every fic ever written about it but will vehemently deny it if you ever mention it
#there are 4 tiers of kinks #tier 1: things u can admit to irl friends #tier 2: things u can admit to on ur public blog #tier 3: kinks u can talk about on skype in private w ur friends #tier 4: you open the fics in incognito at 2am before going to bed and nobody can ever know <– @ssealdog telling it like it is
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we’ve all heard of the fake dating trope… but have u considered.. fake exes trope…..
- ‘my new romance-obsessed friend asked me who my last date was with and i was too embarrassed to say i’ve never been on a date so i blurted your name and it turns out they know you’ au
- ‘i didn’t want to tell my friend who my real date last night was so i just pointed at a random stranger (you) but now they’re storming over to interrogate you and you’re playing along??? okay’ au
- ‘a mutual friend tried to introduce us, but we already knew each other from LARPing but we’re both too embarrassed to admit that so i jokingly said we used to date and oh god now our friend wont stop interrogating us about it’ au
- ‘im egging your house for a dare but your parent is a cop and they’re yelling at me so i told them that you were my ex and you wronged me and now you’re coming outside and please go along with this i don’t want to go to jail’ au
- ‘my current partner is a huge asshole and i need a reason to break up with them so will you pretend to be my possessive and violent ex’ au
- ‘we’re contestants on a reality show and we kind of hate each other so the producers told us to pretend to be warring exes for the ratings so now we keep inventing crazier and crazier things the other did while we were dating’ au
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I do not have the time or patience to respond to attacks on my character that stem from ignorance and emotionally charged thinking. My position on shaming in fandom is this.
- Fictional characters are not real people
- People, even fictional ones do age with time. If you write a fic set years after canon, the character is no longer the same age they were at the end of canon.
- Fanworks and fiction are an instrument where people of all ages can explore issues they face in reality in a manner that doesn’t hurt anybody. The following are examples … there are endless possibilities for why people create or consume fanwork content.
*A rape survivor can explore rape in a fic where they are able to be in control and process their grief, can find empowerment. The fictional characters are not injured in the process. Fanfiction does not become canon .
* A young person living in a homophobic family can explore their sexuality through fanworks without coming out and risking judgement by putting fictional characters through the paces of what ‘could’ happen.
* A person who has extreme depression can process their feelings and experience with it by writing a fictional character with the same issues. They can put distance between their reality through fictional projection and sometimes find the ability to resolve a truth about themselves they couldn’t see when it was all them and reality.
- Shaming people for writing anything about FICTIONAL characters is uncool and harmful. It is much better to avoid reading works that squick you and to accept that your lived experience is not everybody else’s lived experience. Who are you to judge what you do not (CAN NOT) understand?
- Smut in fanfiction read by underage people or written by underage people is a safe alternative to having actual real life sex when a person is underage. It also allows those who are underage, who do have sexual drives, to explore those urges, fantasies, or even the messy repercussions that can result from them, without ACTUALLY fucking up their lives by bringing real life repercussions down on themselves. It is a SAFE alternative to sex.
- Sex is NOT bad. Sex is a normal part of biology and shaming that or denying that is why we have real life predators, why we have rape culture, why so many people are ashamed of their emotions. Fiction is a safe and wonderful alternative to exploring ‘what ifs’, to growing as a person, to learning about how other people live and what experiences they have.
- It is vitally important to tag fanworks with appropriate tags. NSFW, underage, violent content, trigger warnings, etc… so that the people who do not want to view such content can avoid it. But demanding that it be suppressed because it offends you is a very narrow-minded viewpoint. Understand that fanworks creators come from a rainbow of lived experiences. Cultural differences, Different sexualities, Survivors of a plethora of experiences. The fact is that the writer writing a fic about rape, might be a survivor of rape and find the process therapeutic… You can not know that. A writer of underage smut may have been a teen who was pressured into it young and the act of writing about it, normalizing it, is their therapy to no longer carry guilt and shameful feelings about it. You can’t know that.
- If you don’t like something, do not read it/view it. Simple.
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today is fanfiction writer’s appreciation day, and I thought about what I wanted to do for today, but I decided that the best thing I could is this.
here’s for the writers that didn’t receive any asks today
here’s for the writers that didn’t make any appreciation list
here’s for the writers that weren’t mentioned anywhere
here’s for the writers that aren’t popular
here’s for the writers whose fics are never rec’ed
here’s for the writers whose fics have a low kudo/commenting rate
here’s for the writers that don’t get reblogs/likes
here’s for the writers that abandon their work half way because they think it sucks (spoiler: it does not)
here’s for the writers that were bashed for whatever they wrote
here’s for the writers that feel like giving up
here’s for the writers that feel anxious when they post a fic
here’s for the writers that struggle to write
here’s for the writers that never publish anything
here’s for all writers. No matter who they are, what fandom, what ship: you guys are amazing and you make fandom a better place.