Writer:
Check Prompt Availability in Bio <3
Boundaries: No Sexual NSFW, Intense Gore, SA/CSA, Child Abuse
What I Write:
- Klance and Adashi
- VLD Angst
- Post Prompts When I Can
About Me:
- 22 // He/Him // Call me Kat!
- Gap Year Student Aiming for My PhD
- I have the touch of tism (Tone Indicator Guide)
- Follow/Respond with my main blog
- Always looking for people to chat with <3
Pros of re-reading your own fic
Cons of re-reading your own fic:
something I think we all know about fanfic, but don’t talk about because it would hurt writers feelings is that some fics are like fast food. I mean this as a compliment. I don’t always want to sit down for a six course meal that will be a flavor experience. Sometimes I just wanna dip some fries in a frosty. Sometimes I want something homecooked and delicious and super niche, but super comforting. Sometimes I want to eat an entire dark chocolate cheesecake in one sitting even though I know Its gonna make me sick. Just. holy crap, y’all. Sometimes I don’t even want fast food, I just want to eat an entire bag of chips. and yeah, I’m ashamed of myself afterwards, but at the time it was exactly what I wanted. So, no, we’re never going to say to our fanfic writers that we consider their writing to be the equivalent of a midnight run to taco bell - and we shouldn’t, feelings would be hurt by that. But writers, please, please, please, remember this. You don’t need to create a six course meal if you don’t want to. You don’t have to make something complex and homemade if you don’t want to. You don’t even have to finish cooking it - because someone will be thrilled that you brought a bowl of cookie dough and a spoon, because they cannot even consider sitting down and having a proper meal right now. It’s okay writers, whatever you decided to make. Someone was happy to have it. You gave them what they needed. You made them happy. You did good.
I don’t know why being fast food would be considered insulting!
A few years ago, I read an essay by a romance writer who openly admitted that her books were trashy, formulaic, and not Great Art. But what she said is that she gets fan letters all the time. From women with six kids whose only time for themselves is reading her books. From women in abusive relationships who read her books to give them hope that loving relationships exist. From women with depression who manage to eke out some pleasure reading her books. From women whose lives are awful and who read her books to give them the strength to live another day.
And– she points out– the writers of Great Art have many virtues, but they do not generally get fan letters from people whose lives are miserable and who seek out comfort and joy from the books. Because most of the time when our lives are awful, we don’t seek out Great Art. We seek out, well, literary fast food. We seek out emotionally manipulative hurt/comfort or fluffy coffeeshop AUs or Mutual Pining where there is Only One Bed.
Be proud of your work! Be proud of making literary fast food. Try to make the best damn literary fast food you can. Because somewhere out there– you might not know who, you might not know when– there might be someone who has just finished their last final, or who got fired from their job, or who is up all night with a newborn, and your fast food fanfic made their lives better. And that is no small thing.
*Carly Rae Jepsen voice* I really really really really really REALLY like Hunk x Lance
Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.
Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.
Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭
reblog to instantly disintegrate some of your peers to dust
NEW SILVER BELLS CHAPTER LETS GOOOOOO ‼️‼️‼️
Thank you @heavilycaffeinatedsblog for putting out banger chapters every day, they are my little highlight before bed. This fic has truly helped put me in the Christmas spirit, and I can’t wait to see what’s next in the coming week 💖
klance as university professors but no one knows they're married bc one (lance) willingly talks about his amazing husband all the time yet never seems to mention his occupation. and the other (keith) has to be needled into revealing anything about his husband (usually only obliging his students if no one failed the recent test which is rare)
they get found out a few years in when a student catches them kissing in the staff parking lot at the end of a semester
