Reminders For The Anxious/Depressed Creatives

The fanfiction witch’s pantry 

Inspired by this wonderful post [x] by @mysunfreckle

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To those who say that love is a “weakness”, I scoff in their faces.

Love - be it platonic, familiar, romantic or the million other forms it may take - is what gives us strength. It’s what keeps us from giving up. It’s what has us striving and struggling and clawing our way through a bad day. It makes us do crazy things. It makes us produce miracles. It gives us something to fight for. It gives us purpose. It pushes us to be better people, to be people who deserve to be loved. Love makes the impossible possible.

Love is what reminds me everyday that I have something worth living for.

So to those who say that love is a “weakness”, well, they may be alive, but they are not living.

This is the most accurate description I’ve ever found, thought it was worth spreading ❀

Y’all seen good omens yet?

Ship Sizes

Supercarrier: fandom flagship.  Everybody and their dog ships it.  The fandom is glutted with artwork and fic.  You cannot escape this ship.

Dreadnought: massively popular.  Nearly everybody ships it.  You can, with dedication, in theory, reach the end of the AO3 archive for the ship’s tag, but it’ll take a long time.

Cruiser: pretty popular ship.  Not everyone ships it, but everyone knows about it.  Has a good amount of fic/art, and probably multiple ask blogs.

Frigate: just plain popular.  Feels like it could use more fanworks.  New people to the fandom might not know about it, but they’ll stumble across it sooner rather than later.

Gunboat: bit of a rarepair.  It might have an ask blog or two.  A couple big name fans ship it.  Probably only takes a few weeks to get through the entire AO3 backlog, and one new fic gets added during that time.

Tugboat: rarepair.  Almost never seen except as a side pairing to a more popular ship.  You can usually get through everything on AO3 in a matter of days.  You’ve forgotten what it is to be picky about what you read.

Rowboat: less than a dozen people ship it.  You all know each other.  You exist in an endless cycle of the same five people desperately producing art and fic and one person who constantly contributes headcanons.

Canoe: you are one of maybe three people who ship it, and there’s a not-insignificant chance you’ve never encountered those other two hypothetical shippers.  You spend your days paddling furiously in hopes of keeping the ship afloat, dreaming of the day you upgrade to a rowboat so you can finally rest.

The duality of man

Parts 1 and 2

One thing I love about being a writer is being able to go back through a piece of text and remember everything associated with it. 

Here, the scene you wrote at 3am, barely holding your head up, but fingers frantic to slam words on the keyboard.

There, a cheesy paragraph inspired by your own feelings of joy and wonder at the world. Something so sweet that you had to wiggle in your seat at the very thought.

Over here, the bit you were working on forever, because you couldn’t get the words right. You wanted to escape, but still forged on through the mess until you reached the end.

A story might be a story in itself, but it also contains ghostly records of all the actions and emotions around it, things the reader will never see, but the writer will never forget.

moodboard by @gender-snatched

Trick or…

Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Chapters: 1/1

Word Count:  6,292

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy

Additional Tags: Romance, Fluff and Humor, Established Relationship, Halloween

Summary:

Draco’s got into the holiday spirit. Harry isn’t pleased.

Or: Five times Draco scares Harry, and one time Harry scares Draco.

AO3

FFN