In light of the recent spike in negativity directed towards fandom writers I’m issuing a personal challenge to myself (and anyone else who wants to join) to perform at least one (1) act of kindness and/or encouragement towards fanfic writers a day for the month of May, particularly towards authors who are often overlooked or are not as well publicized. Â
Acts of encouragement include leaving comments, writing notes of appreciation, assembling rec lists, and creating fic illustrations, music, graphics, gifsets, etc, as well as other shows of appreciation not listed.  It can be as casual or labor intensive as your personal comfort level allows (I’m sure a lot of you guys do these things already lol) as long as the act shows your personal appreciation towards the writers in your life. Â
Note: Please don’t use this as an opportunity to lash out at popular fandom writers or perceived BNF’s – this is a challenge to uplift the fanfiction writing community as a whole and particularly those who aren’t told often enough how much we appreciate their efforts. Â
Babe if you wanna start a notebook do it, start the first page and mail it to me, I’ll mail it to Libby, we will continue on with it!
I am so down for this! And we can add people to the mailing list and even get it to circle around to add more and read what was written after our entries.
and I guess it’d be easier to send it to as many people in the same country before mailing it off somewhere else. should I set up a sideblog to keep track of it? and for other peeps to join in as well?
This is awesome. I am tentatively in, though I wonder if I could possibly be any good at contributing. diemarysues, put me down for the australian tour. determamfidd, thudworm, you guys in for this part of the stop?
ohgosh JADE. You beautiful, beautiful soul. Thank you so much.Â
(my brain has gone all “fffffssssshhhhhhzzt!” bc I LOVED THAT BOOK SO MUCH AS A KID and so – double dose of warm blushy feelings, you are such a goddess.)
Well, I don’t have a problem with it at all! I do my own editing, so if anybody finds a typo I am always really grateful if they drop me a “psst found a typo here: [quote goes here]”. Sometimes it’s an intentional word use or contraction or accent, but sometimes it isn’t!
I don’t know, I really don’t think there’s a rule that works for everyone in fanfiction. Some people might be really happy to have their typos/mispellings gently pointed out (me!), but for some it might be really confronting. *shrug* Depends on the author, I guess!
Aw Yiss 