🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"

Me: I don't write for validation.

Also me when my story on AO3 gets a kudos:

I always have sooo many ideas for art and stuff when I have nooo time to do art, but when I actually sit down to do art, it's all "no thoughts, head empty". It's like my brain WANTS me to procrastinate on my work and Just Draw The Thing.

Out of curiosity

And put the fandom its from in tags if you like reblog for sample size yadda yadda

Every writer has two sides:

"I love my characters, they are my children and will protect them with my life"

"I wanna make them suffer so fucking much"

I really wanna know if this is just me as a fic writer.

When I'm working on a piece of writing for multiple days straight, especially if it's something I'm struggling with, I start to get sick of it and I start hating it, I think I need to rewrite from scratch. Majority of the time it isn't actually bad writing, when I go back to it after a few days of not looking at it I really like it, but in the moment it's like the worst thing I've ever seen. Is this just me?

*hypnotizes you* write your book write your book write your book

I made something

does this annoy anyone else or is it just me

I'm genuinely disappointed about Ao3 turning off guest comments. It's a necessity at this point from how many spam bots/AI bots there are, and people who plain up harass authors, but it's so fucked up that it has to happen, and honestly so sad because some of my favorite comments EVER are from guest commenters. And I hate that me leaving my works unlocked potentially opens me up to getting my work copied by AI, or my comments spammed with fucking porn GIFs which was apparently a thing that was happening. It's just honestly sad that we can't even have one good thing anymore without AI and shitty people ruining it.

writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.

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controversial writing tip

open a document and start writing

Here's the first reveal of Lucky! I might not keep the hair dye since it makes him look way too close to Lena, but for now I'll keep it. I drew this on a base.

Here's Clover in a suit! This is for the Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake chapter. I drew it on a base.