this is a hot take but also a callout post to the submas fandom:

be honest here. i know for a fact that i didn't particularly like sneasler from leaks but immediately began loving her when i saw who her warden was. does that make me a fake fan? probably, but now i can also name a lot of things i love about the pokémon that i'd be hard-pressed to come up with for, say, enamorus.

(reposting an older art of mine here) she's so sassy and toxic and it's beautiful.

I saw this image like three months ago and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

Original below the cut!

Hey so, this is a fun little message to ANY fandom out there; if your fanbase has a specific well-known fic in the fandom, please please PLEASE do not compare smaller, lesser-know fics to that fic or go 'Hey, this reminds me of [x fic]!'

Even if the well-known fic is REALLY good and it's meant to be a compliment, I CANNOT emphasize how much this will make the writer of the lesser-known fic feel INCREDIBLY bad about themselves and their own writing. Like, what's the point in continuing THEIR work if that other fic is already so good?

Yeah, yeah, two cakes and all that, but when your cake is constantly being compared to someone else's and that other cake is constantly heralded as the best cake in the bakery, why bother trying to keep baking?

Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

We were correct as children btw it sucks so hard that pokemon aren't real. It's the worst thing ever.

Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

these tags are so funnyyyy

guys i need you to be less comfortable making super negative comments abt a character in the tags of a random post abt that character. like i support haterism but make your own post. please stop and think about whether op, a person who is interested in this character enough to make posts abt them, wants to hear all that. i see this too much from people reblogging from me and it makes me embarrassed that you’re reblogging from me. you are being rude

REMEMBER TO HACK UR 3DS AND WII U BEFORE NINTENDO SHUTS DOWN THEIR INTERNET SUPPORT (April 8th)

Reblog if you've made at least one friend because of a fandom.

Reblog this and put in the tags what you think your role is in your fandom.

GIRL HELP I EVOLVED FRUIT GUMMY AND HES LITERALLY THE SIZE OF MY ENTIRE ROOM

i wanted to draw something after not using my tablet in a while and uh

i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

if we get Gaeric in masters I want him to be so tiny compared to Wulfric. I want Gaeric to be absolutely miniscule.

I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them

Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits