Musings Of A Fandom Girl

My drawing for “Redraw Kylo as a meme” from twitter :)

Reylo in Tumblr’s Year in Review 2020

“The Rey597 model is one of our newest and most advanced machines available!” the assistant announced proudly, “She is perfect for all of your household tasks and daily errands. If you purchase today, we can also include a free five-year guarantee and service package which will keep your android running in tip-top condition.”

I recently started returning to my Reylo roots after a lot of time away to writing something new. The very kind Jenniferladybug commented on my story and surprised me with this amazing drawing from the first chapter! ❤️😭 TYSM!

So glad you like it!!!! They’re so precious <3 Thank you for your awesome story!! Can’t wait to read more ;)

are you living or are you just jumping from one obsession to the other to run away from yourself

what are you the coping mechanism police or something

those ao3 “kudos” emails where someone has gone through and read pretty much all of your stories, one after the other: blessings upon you and your household

don’t authors find that weird though? i don’t do that, just because i always figured it might seem stalkery, going story by story through people’s older work (which of course i do ~all the time~ because awesome fic is addictive) if people are happy to have the kudos, i will totally start leaving them as i read

I mean, I can only speak for myself here, but no, I don’t find it creepy. Someone I’ve never met going through my old instagram selfies and systematically liking them - creepy. Someone I’ve never met obsessively reading my old fics and liking them - my favorite person of the day. Just MHO. 

seeing the same person’s name on a string of kudos for your fics because they’ve obviously read through your back catalogue is one of life’s great joys

xcziel, there’s nothing I like more as a writer than someone who is obviously reading everything.

Well, maybe comments. Yes, on old fic too. 

I once (back on lj) had someone comment on every single chapter of a fic I wrote in one evening. It was the most thrilling night of my fanfic career. I didn’t feel creepy in the least.

COMMENT.  I don’t care how old it is or how many chapters a reader comments on.

The only thing that might possibly be more flattering is the “I stayed up all night because I couldn’t stop reading” comment.

Yes, please.

YES ALL OF THIS

all of this

Reblogging because readers somehow still have this idea that too many comments/kudos are seen as creepy or stalkery. IT’S NOT. Seriously. Every comment, all of the kudos, they’re greatly, GREATLY appreciated. And knowing that someone liked your work enough to click on your name and go through your other fics and liked those too, even the old stuff you’re kind of self-conscious about, is the greatest feeling a writer can have. So if you like a fic, say something/leave kudos, no matter if it’s the first or fifth fanfic you’ve read in one night from that author.

I LOVE when I get an email where it’s the same name, like a dozen or more times because they went through and read like, /everything I ever wrote/ apparently. It makes me so happy! :D

Multiple kudos and/or lots of comments are the best thing ever

Not at all creepy. It’s like, they are reading, get to the end, said they liked it, and Prove they liked it because they read another and liked that…

And yes, it’s just as fun to see this with old stories. Maybe even more?

The other thing that is super nice? When someone comments and says, hey, I tried to kudos but I had already kudos’d so I’m commenting to kudos again because I do that ALL THE TIME. I either forgot I’d read this lovely thing and want to kudos again, or I’m doing a re-read of something and I *want* to kudos again. When it happens to me it’s seriously lovely - someone enjoying your stuff enough that they re-read.

reblogged so fast I sprained something

I know for me especially that while writing just for yourself is great, nothing drains me more from writing than not seeing kudos or comments.  If you notice in my writing at least, I get the most inspiration when I see people leaving likes, comments, even tags when they reblog (because I look and read them all).  

Please please please leave comments, like, kudo, reblog, everything!  No writer thinks this is stalkerish and is in fact one of the highest praises we can receive through this medium.  It lets us know that you like it and you want more!!  Without it, it may possibly mean we may not even continue it.  I know I get like that with several of my multi chapter stories.

Don’t feel like leaving something on every little thing?  My absolute favorite thing is when people leave notes in my inbox telling me about how much they love my characters, my voice behind canons, just the fact that they say how much they enjoy what I’ve done!  I have kept every little note I have ever gotten and once I get my set up my new desk space, I’m going to print them all out and hang them on my wall so I can read them every day.  I’m not kidding!  This thing fuels us writers!!  In this world, fanfiction is probably one of lowest forms of writing.  We don’t get paid.  Our payment comes from your feedback and the excitement that you have to keep reading!

IT IS NEVER STALKERISH!

IT LETS US KNOW YOU LOVE US AS MUCH AS WE LOVE YOU FOR READING!

“I’m going to print them all out and hang them on my wall so I can read them every day” - Oooh, that’s such a great idea, I might just have to do it too! *g*

Its not creepy because you’re following MY STORIES! You like me for what I made! And not for what I look externally or how I present my body on social media! Its liking me for what I created, for my mind. So definitely, not creepy!

Stories don’t have expiration dates.  They are good year round, year after year.  They are evergreen.  

DAISY RIDLEY in The Skywalker Legacy documentary

I will reblog this every time it crosses my dash.

People who don’t get this infuriate me

“The moment Rey reached her hut she had felt him near her, in the Force. The connection between them was so raw and powerful that it reminded her of touching a live wire in the wreckage of a starship. She had closed her eyes, opened them, and found Kylo Ren Ben there–right next to her where she sat on the stone bench. As if she could actually reach out and touch his hand, his face, his hair. At the sight of him she’d felt relief surge through her.” 🦋

― Jason Fry, The Last Jedi Novelization

The crystal beads of clear water.🐚

This is our love.💙

This depends STATE BY STATE (or town by town), so check out your own state's rules. As for everywhere, only poll workers are banned from this, and people holding up signs for candidates have to be a certain distance from the building.

[Image Description:

A Screenshot of a public Facebook-Textpost by “Sandy and Richard Riccardi”.

This word of caution is from someone who has worked the polls a lot in the past: More and more I’m seeing women announcing they will be voting with shirts, buttons, masks or hats that say “Ruth Send Me”, or something similar. [Transcriptor Annotation: the late Supremecourt Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. /End of Annotation.] Remember: political messages aren’t allowed in the polling place (that could include [Black Lives Matter] shirts, unfortunately.) Also unfortunately, messages can be interpreted by whoever is in charge. It could mean, in some cases, that a voter wearing a shirt they believe is political can be denied the right to vote after waiting in line for hours. Approach this election strategically and vote smarter and cleaner than ever have before. Understand that the other side will do what it takes to advance their agenda. We need to vote in record numbers. But we need to vote smart. We can wear that wonderful “Ruth send me” shirt or mask when we get home, and raise a glass in her memory. Please copy, or paraphrase, and share with the groups you are members of, as appropriate. Help spread the word so that every vote counts! We all know what’s at stake. Do not throw away your shot. [Transcriptor Annotation: four emojis follow the text, the Peace-Symbol, a red heart, a rooster, paw prints. /End Annotation. /End of Image Transcription.]

Thank you for the image description!

I remember a story of someone having trouble at the polls because they were wearing a Stark/Rogers (as in Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, the very fictional people) so BE CAREFUL. 

It’s incredibly important you done everything in you power to NOT have trouble casting your vote as early as possible....wear your RBG shirt every day for the rest of your life but NOT when you go to vote, PLEASE.

Picture taken from 1918 during the Spanish Flu

PUMPKIN BREAD WITH MAPLE GLAZE

Adam Driver as Kylo Ren/Ben Solo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

damn

Reylo Animated will have an episodes showcase, Q&A, and hopefully the worldwide premiere of Episode 5: A New Dawn during The @ReyloCon on December 20, 2020! See you there!