i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much
fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment.
every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change.
3. Dream job? Voice actor. Probably minor background stuff but since you said dream VILLAIN.
4. What are you talented at? I like doing paper crafts. Does that count?
5. What is a big goal you are working towards/have already achieved? Staying alive. Um… I once was working towards transitioning but with every roadblock I hit I realized I was getting set back to square one, outed, and humiliated each time as well as super self harmy. And while I’d still want to I just… am tired of getting forcefully moved back to square one.
6. What’s your aesthetic? Gonna assume you mean what I like vs what I got. Gothic themes, gore, glitter, sea creatures…
7. Do you collect anything? I used to collect rusted nails. Still unsure as to why. I guess currently it is change but I don’t mean to, it just happens and is everywhere.
8. What is a topic you always bring up in conversation? Anime, usually.
9. What’s a pet peeve of yours? When people tell me stuff like “Don’t quite your day job” when I am singing to myself and laugh. Just reminds me of my parents mocking me all the time and telling me to shut up in general because I’ll never amount to anything and my brother was going to be amazing. Also, like… Was I harming anyone? I was singing to myself and somewhat happy for once and you had to ruin that? What kind of shit lord…
Oof you picked tough ones. I wasn’t even sure Polyphemus’ face was capable of looking like that and I hadn’t drawn Halo in almost 8 years??? this was really hard
I am Terra 