"how can m/f ships be good-" first of all through the power of bisexuality anything is possible so write that down. second of all if we start othering ships based on gender and nothing else we're no better than the opposition. third of all you need to watch more addams family

I'm honestly glad HTTYD 3 came out before the live action because it gave me the opportunity to practice divorcing my love of the first movie from pretty much the rest of the franchise. I was such a die hard fan of HTTYD 2010. A live action take really feels like I'm being spit in the eye, but I can't even describe why.

Ok last thing on this I do think it's hilarious that folks bring up that Dean de Blois (OG director) being involved means we don't have to worry too much. HTTYD 1 was good (imo) because Chris Sanders was there to reign him in. Ever since Sanders left I have had SO much beef with the story lines going forwards. Dean de Blois staying in the franchise is exactly what's making my heart sink.

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

please bother me with questions and statements

shipping win! they have different but equally terrible coping mechanisms

Httyd inktober day 23: Timberjack

it’s so evil when you KNOW a character is bisexual but the writers don’t. cmon guys get it together

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

'Dragon'. Witold Pruszkowski. 1896.

Sure it’s soulless and only exists to be a lazy cashgrab but at least now it’s a REAL movie unlike that toddler cartoon /s

New art from Cressida’s Instagram!

newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it

me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

what they don't tell you about being a dragon is that RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHRRRR GRRR RAAAAAHR RR RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHR. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHRRRRR

that'd be wild if i had made nightfury emojis for my friends private server in 2022 and just now decide to post them. yeah, crazy!