finished a wip from two months ago - enjoy with some details

Madara has been my favourite character of all time. The depth of his character is just sooo well written ig? Idk. But when i see posts when madara the fricking warlord, reduced into a literal housewife......... Ughhhh its just pisses me tf off. Like i dont wanna hate on the people who made such art or wrote such fanfics but like at least respect his character a little. Its like a lion is suddenly deplected as a fkn kitten in need of milk. Like tf? I wanna tell them to stop it, but then again i don't wanna say something mean to people who are just living their life. Like its their opinion even if it pisses me off sm that i wanna throw my phone to a wall, bang my head and die with how chrige it makes me feel. What do you feel about such fanfic or art? Do you believe these artists need to stop it?

Amen to this ! To answer you, artists are free to create whatever they like however being free doesn't mean you're magically waterproof to critics. When you put something out in the world people gonna have a reaction. And if it's about a pre-existant character rooted on some tangible reality like canon, anime, Kishimoto's interview, other member of his crew's interview ect ect.... So yeah if that's OOC, people are gonna point out it's OOC. As simple as that.

But what is most important is your own ethic. How do you spend your time in tumblr? How do you contribute actively to the fandom you like? What do you reblog? Do you engage in conversation anonymously and/or directly with artists that you admire? Do you commission them for a visual you would like to see? Do you tips/or kofi them? Are you genuinely curious about their working process? What inspire them? Do you comment under your favourite fanfic? Do you post review of your fav fics and why you like it? Do you encourage around you people who do good analysis/meta? Do you write yourself your own thoughts even if it had been said before by others? there is always a different angle only you could have notice. Do you write fic yourself? even just a small one shot? Do you draw even if it's just a doodle?

I do everything I've listed above except drawing but that's something I wanna do in a near future. And for a blog who's less than a year, centered around a character as you said with depth, who is not part of the tier 10 or even 20 in term of popularity. I'm really thriving to the point I don't have time now to answer everyone as quickly as before, my notifications are always active even if I'm not there for days. I'm also engaging conversation with a lot of talented, articulate, funny people everyday. It takes maybe more time that if I was doing what the majority are doing but the reward is that I'm rarely bitter, less headache, and I don't have trolls. My dashboard reflects 80% of time what I love about Madara. I'm always excited to show my next post or read my mutuals. So yeah be authentic, consistent on creating and uplifting contents that you like and that will naturally attract around you the fandom that you want.

Do you not live with family at 17? Do you need money? If so do u have a PayPal or smthn pls I’m your dad now I want to help son

i do live with family! thankfully! i love them and wouldn’t survive on my own without them (literally). they work rlly hard to take care of me and do their best to provide but money is still kinda tight since they gotta cover a lot of expenses, send money to our family out of the country, and the fact that i have other siblings in college as well, etc.

so add it all up, and its a big chunky debt sitting around. im fortunate enough to be guaranteed dinner every night but in the daytime, it’s kinda up in the air whether i eat or not and since i started exercising, my appetite has started to increase a bit

i’m grateful that i do get a little bit of lunch money so i buy small things to eat when i go to college but sometimes, that lunch money is needed elsewhere. like, if im outta gas, i use part of my lunch money bc?? obv i gotta get to class yknow? or sometimes they borrow money from me bc its for something urgent and obv im not gonna say no- ??

but idk i try not to bother them with financial stuff like that- i dont wanna stress them out more than they already are, which is why i took on commissions (to earn a lil bit of extra cash in times like these)- but i can only draw so much with my schedule yknow? but yeah

also when i talk like that, i don’t want it to seem like im begging for money- if it did come off that way, i’m sorry :(  also, i don’t want y’all thinking i’ll absolutely die if i don’t eat. like? yeah i’ll miss a meal prolly and that’s kinda unhealthy but it’s not the absolute end of the world if i have to hold out until dinner. 

i do ask for a couple of dollars occasionally when i ABSOLUTELY feel like i cant handle it and i really feel like i NEED to eat right this instant but tbh then i feel bad because ahgjkfdg it’s not a life or death situation and?? i didnt do anything to earn that money and i dont want to just ?? take money from people bc that doesnt feel right

i do have paypal, but i only use it for ko-fi or commissions! you’re more than welcome to donate to my kofi, if you’d like to but no pressure! you aren’t obligated to in the slightest, but i appreciate every donation. :) 

if you donate over 12 USD to my ko-fi, i’d be willing to draw a quick doodle for you based on your request! otherwise, i do have commission info you can look at, but at the moment, the slots are filled and i have a waiting list so orz. if you’d rather wait until i have commission slots open again, that’s fine! :)

thank you for the offer, but the tldr of this is - while money is rough to come by, i’m not in a life threatening position at the moment. you can donate if you’d like, but you aren’t obligated to at all! though, i appreciate that you were willing to. :’)

and again, if you’d rather wait for my commissions to re-open or donate 12+ USD to my Ko-fi so that you can financially support me and get your money’s worth, by all means, yknow? but there’s absolutely no pressure to ever send me money, especially if you’re in a tight spot yourself! i know how rough it can be sometimes so if you can’t, don’t worry about it! just take care of yourself

I'm thinking of opening commissions for my writing! Do you have any advice for sites to use or pricing? Or anything in general? Thank you!

hi anon! apologies for the delay on my reply to this. ive not really been home or at my computer the last several days. and yesterday i was sick :( but !! congrats on deciding to move forward with this! its always a difficult decision to come to since its a little hard to see your work as something of value or something someone would pay for (this goes into like…fanfic as a free market method of creation as well as confidence in the self/writing skills). so im glad you decided to do it! 

i can only speak about the sites i use or have used, but these are not the only sites out there. i think perhaps the best advice you could be given is to do you research on what the legal terms each website stipulates while also getting a general feel for how easy it is to host.

going under a cut to not clog dashes! 

when i first decided to do this, i used buy me a coffee. it was fine, and very easy to set up. the benefit, i imagine, of using it is the fact that they offer some pretty nice statistics for you to see how often your page gets viewed. if youre a stats person, and want to track the number of eyes that come across your page against the number of those eyes that ask for a request to discern value, this might be the place for you! however, for some reason i had a really difficult time getting my paypal connected and set up. someone had bought a request from me and it took about 3 months and several emails to their helpdesk to get the money paid out properly. this was just my experience, and its very possible others on here use it without issue. im sure ive seen several people with a buy me a coffee button on their desktop site. so! if you check it out and feel like moving forward, im sure theres others on here who can advise on the pros and cons. 

now, i use kofi and have received the majority of my requests through this website. it links directly to my paypal and has no minimum fee limit for payouts. it allows for anonymous supporters as well, so if someone wants to support without having to ask for a full request it makes it terribly easy for them to do so. ive been using kofi for about 5 months and have had no issues - to be fair, i felt setting up my page there was even easier than buy me a coffee. i am unsure if kofi provides the same statistics, or tracks the number of page views, but for me, personally, thats not my main concern. i think the only place i feel statistically oriented is AO3 lmao anyway, i really like hosting on kofi and recommend them highly.

another place is patreon. i know @dark-muse-iris uses patreon for her followers and from what i gather she, and her patrons, loves it. this is where legal terms come into play, like i mentioned earlier. on kofi, there are clauses that stipulate you cannot distribute porn, sex work, etc on the website. if you request a work of smut from me through kofi, i am technically breaking the legal terms. this is why my kofi is linked on my tumblr, but my tumblr is not linked (directly) on my kofi. am i breaking laws? yes, but i dont have enough of a following to garner the value of having patreon. i have a lot of followers, but im very aware engagement on my blog comes in waves and i also just am not around enough or energetic enough to maintain the energy needed to sustain a patreon. i dont know how people do it, and this is probably due to my lack of education on managing a patreon in general, but i admire those that do. now, i mention patreon, because patreon doesnt have legal terms that specifically stipulate distribution of erotica - again, this was the lat time i checked and my understanding. this could really be totally different, so if im incorrect please correct me.

as for price points, those numbers are entirely up to you. and by that i mean, it is beneficial to consider how long it takes you to write x number of words, the ease vs difficulty of creating those words based on member, and the general word count of what you produce. i broke mine up into various levels - drabble, one shot, and mini series. for one shots there is a range of 2-5k, and 5k+); mini series are up to 3 parts and no more. this is because i am a very flowery, long winded writer. i have been writing long enough to know this about myself and find staying under 1K a challenge. 

for me, i also felt it would be important to work with my requestor. if they want someone that is far longer or doesnt fit into what ive described, im happy to work with them and come to a price together that they can afford.

HOWEVER. probably the best advice i can give, apart from ensuring you read legal terms, is encouraging you to stick to your boundaries. i have a clear list of rules, and on those rules a very explicit list of what i will not write. these rules are not to be broken, and if they are, its okay for you to delete the request. offer a refund and politely decline. you are not beholden to a request that makes you uncomfortable, anxious, or triggered just because someone gave you money for it. before you open any of these pages, consider what your limits are - who you will write for, how much you will write, and what you absolutely will or cannot write - and clearly state them. never push yourself past a boundary on behalf of someone else.

i hope this all helps!