Tag: and thank you!!!

Dear longfic writers

greywolf-sheera:

the-pen-pot:

wrecked-anon:

sabrecmc:

rederiswrites:

  • If you sometimes feel like it was pure, ridiculous hubris that you ever started a story that would take so much work and persistence to finish, I promise you, you’re not alone.
  • If you feel like you’ve already been writing forever and the “good bits” are still ages away, you’re not alone.
  • If you’ve been stuck for days or weeks or longer because you know what happens later but you don’t know what happens next, you’re not alone.
  • If you’re desperate to squeal about your beloved OTP but you feel like you can’t, because spoilers, and it’s driving you nuts, you’re not alone.
  • If you feel like you’ll never finish and you’re bound to fuck it up somehow, you’re not alone.
  • If you wonder if you’ve sabotaged yourself because who’s going to click through to a 28 chapter WIP, you’re not alone.
  • If you feel like you’ve been pouring your life into a single story for ages and will be for ages still and you don’t know why anymore because hardly anyone seems to care, you’re not alone.
  • If you can hardly even plan the further-away parts of the story or even think about them because thinking about them reminds you how absurdly far you still have to go and you get massive anxiety, please believe me.  You are not alone.

@angels-are-robots

Dear longfic writers

  • I fucking live for your work. Like I love me a little one-shot or a medium-length fic but srsly give me that 100k+ (200k? 300k? yes pls) goodness.
  • I am constantly in awe of your ability to stick with your story, to keep your plot moving and your characters’ relationships developing like just damn.
  • I don’t judge if your updates are erratic. If you’re worried about too much time passing between updates, just know that I and so many others squeal with joy when we get that subscriber notification in our inboxes.
  • There is literally nothing more glorious than watching characters develop through a long-ass fic. Relationships, friendships, character growth? Sometimes after I’ve finished a longfic or I’ve gotten to the last update I’ll go back and reread the first couple chapters just to see how far my babies have come.
  • If you stop updating your fic for whatever reason, that’s okay. We as readers are just lucky to have been graced with your story as long as you chose to write it. You’ve been gifting us with time and effort for this long and we appreciate it.
  • As someone who has had multiple longfic ideas and either (1) got through two chapters and gave up or (2) was too overwhelmed by how much work it would take to actually write, you are my literal superheroes.
  • You are brave and persistent and creative and a gift to fandom, and if you ever need a pep talk I am here to love on you.

I feel everything @rederiswrites said and adore everything @wrecked-anon added

@determamfidd

All my hearfelt kudos.

nnnngggh omg thank you @greywolf-sheera!

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I have seen people cite quotes from Sansûkh as actual Tolkien canon. That, friend, is when you know you are famous!

poplitealqueen:

Well, Sansukh is one of those amazing, game-changing type of fics that stick with you years upon years later, so chock full of amazing OCs and fantastic worldbuilding and character development that it raises the damn bar of what you expect out of fic. Stories in general really. Sansukh is definitely on my shortlist of “Why the fuck isn’t this a published novel series/movie set/WHAT HAVE YOU yet?”

Honestly, though, you gotta look beyond the fic itself too. @determamfidd deserves all the praise she gets and more. Not only is her writing superb, but she is a humble, caring, altogether kind person…and I think that translates well into Sansukh’s popularity. (You can write stupendous things to begin with, but if you’re an asshole people won’t go near it.)

But still, be wary calling her famous! In a sense, yes she is. I mean DAMN PEOPLE HAVE SANSUKH QUOTES TATTOOED ON THEIR SKIN AND THEY COSPLAY AS HER OCs IT’S SO TERRIFIC AND AWESOME TO SEE, but under all that she’s still just as much a fan as you or I, anon.

I’ve seen it happen before. People with very popular fics get hate spewed at them because of how much others love what they make. It’s such Catch-22 bullshit and it’s a horrible thing to see, so I’m wary of saying stuff like she is famous all (I’m a bit wary posting this ask ngl. I’d hate to see it fall on Dets negatively). If anything, fandom-famous is a better thing to put. At least in my humble opinion.

I’m gonna post it anyway, however, because Dets deserves to see it. Because nice words are nice words! Sansukh AND its creator are great!

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Oh 

my god

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*brain departs my body and orbits the earth several times making this sound: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

Mahal save me, oh my heart, my wonderful friend. What an amazing, amazingly kind, gorgeously thoughtful thing to say. l am allasldjhfgaskjhdfgashjsgdfkjasghdf *brain ascends ONCE MORE*

ajsgdfjhdahgakjsgdfkajsh really though. You beautiful, wonderful talented and gorgeous soul. I count myself very lucky to know you and to call you my friend. I count myself very lucky that people like my lengthy what-if blabberings. I count myself GOBSMACKED AND FORTUNATE BEYOND WORDS that people like my blabberings enough to draw, sing, podfic, etc… and I am gasping and flattened with awe and gratitude that I’ve ever written anything that resonated with one or two folks to the extent that that they decided to tattoo it on their bodies. That. THAT. Just makes me want. TO. 

*brain departs, puts a girdle round the earth once more: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

I do get stupid hate messages, yeah. Not as bad as some (there’s some awesome folks who seem to get hate on a fucking weekly basis, which ????). It usually comes in waves. I brace myself every time i post a new chapter tbh. I used to get upset. But nowadays I just delete the bull and keep moving, so don’t worry, dude. The way they treat me and speak to me, like a thing or a machine or a corporation or some all-powerful Machiavellian manipulator, makes me feel… depersonalised and othered and not really real? I’m musing aloud here but yeah, it’s weird, it gets to the point where the hate is so removed from reality that I just detach. It’s just so preposterously OTT, it’s so evidently not real, it’s so not me. Like, I can barely manage myself and the hectic rush that my life has become, I have no time or energy for such nonsense? This idea of me is so skewed and rubbish. So I don’t take the spite to heart, I shrug, and I just move on. I’m a fan, and I’m doing exactly as other fans do.

idk, riffing on that idea: too, I feel it is amazingly, breathtakingly arrogant to speak for anyone other than yourself. That’s a personal belief, something I’ve held to for years. So when I see people declaring that they are the Sole True Representative of say, hmm, mental illness? (lol) in fandom AND THEREFORE BOSS OF EVERYTHING, ordering people about, silencing other mentally-ill people and trying to police other mentally-ill people’s fanfiction (wut), I can only eye-roll and think 

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And that stops me getting outraged at the arrogance of it.

Fandom ‘fame’ is funny, too. I’ve met truly famous folks before. The sort of people whose names have wikipedia entries. That’s fame, that’s perspective. Me, a small Aussie nerd, I have a Sansukh-sized playpen, tucked away in LOTR Niche Corner, somewhere in the vast and varied and gargantuan City-State of FANDOM which is itself a niche interest, let’s not forget lmao.

I like my playpen, and I’m so happy that others like visiting it.