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.

Wrote a short thing :D

Ao3 Assumptions that should have been made

Teen and up

No Archive warnings apply

1393 Words

Marvel and Pacific Rim crossover. Not a fusion au. It's Natasha/The Black Widow interrogating Newt (she wants to be doing literally anything else)

Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block

write weird shit. Write indulgent au fanfiction and self insert fics. Write creepy horror scenes and random character crossover dialogue. Write in a different genre. Write that sex scene that you know won’t make the cut. Write about sentient furniture turning into werewolves that try to date your MC. Write whump or hero/villain fic. Write your kink. Write your worst nightmare. Write your delusions of power and fantasies of control. Write whatever the fuck you feel like. Write whatever comes to mind. You don’t have to share it with anyone (but you can). Your writing impulses don’t define your morality anymore than your reading preferences, and actually going outside your comfort zone will improve your writing skills (making a horrifying villain sympathetic requires good characterization). Even if it doesn’t improve your skills, that’s still something you created out of nothing. It’s still valuable. Don’t let purity culture kill your creativity. That’s how culture stagnates. That’s how writing stops being fun.

Another story I wrote for the @strangerthingsreversebigbang its incredible how much fanart/fic has been created! I love to see it <3

Worth the World-Stranger Things Reverse Big Bang

The awesome art is called "In The Night" by @anaccidentwaitingtohappen

@strangerthingsreversebigbang

Worth the World

Summary: Steve and Mike give each other pep-talks in their own unique ways, and it works! The almost end of the world is rough but they can figure it out together.

No Archive Warnings Apply

Rated Teen and Up

Pairings: Steve Harrington & Mike Wheeler, Mike Wheeler & Eleven | Jane Hopper, Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, (Minor) Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson

Characters: Mike Wheeler, Steve Harrington, Will Byers, Eleven | Jane Hopper

3,254 words

Some tags: steve harrington and mike wheeler bonding, post s4, vecna is defeated, mike wheeler centric, late night conversations, Mike Wheeler loves Will Byers, first kiss

Link to ao3!: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54738172

Hey writer of Tumblr what is your'e go to writing fuel? I'll go first and that's just plain water.

in another world im writing. i mean i could be writing in this one too but alas i have tumblr posts to see

I had a lot of fun writing this!

Work it on out-Stranger things Reverse Big Bang master post

@strangerthingsreversebigbang

Work it on out

Summary: Alexei lives and Joyce can't stop thinking about him. Her kids catch on quick.

Archive Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence -specifcally the aftermath- blood and injury

Rated: Teen and Up

Parings: Alexei/Joyce Byers, Minor Nancy Wheeler/Jonathan Byers, Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler`

Characters: Alexei, Joyce Byers, Will Byers, Jonathan Byers, Eleven | Jane Hopper, Nancy Wheeler

3,092 words

Some tags: Falling in love, love confessions, first kiss, Post s3 of st, Alexei is a dork

This fic is based on this wonderful art above made by @chuchayucca! Check out their other art it is awesome (real cool rottmnt art)!

Shout out to my beta reader HelloImDino <3! (whose ao3 has vanished??? Brb on that)

Link to the story! https://archiveofourown.org/works/54324874

I think an important instinct you have to build up when you read/watch sci-fi is discerning which things are givens. If Arrival tells you that the alien language is atemporal, it is, that's not a puzzle for you to pick apart, it's a prerequisite to getting the rest of the story. When I talk sci-fi with people who don't consume a lot of it this seems to be a thing they get hung up on.

Here’s a picture of my cat no one asked for.

i just wanted to say thank you to every fanfic writer out there.

thank you for writing what others haven't, what others can't, what others won't.

thank you for writing what can be judged and hated, but writing it all the same.

thank you for indulging in something that you love and allowing the rest of us to love it with you.

if you have one kudos or one thousand, one comment or one hundred, one bookmark or fifty, i love each and every one of you for writing them.

thank you.

can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.

Me:

Email: *comment on ao3*

Me: :)

DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON OLD FICS DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON FICS IN A FANDOM THE AUTHOR MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE IN. IF THE STORY IS STILL UP LET THEM KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS IT MIGHT JUST BE THE REMINDER THAT MAKES THEIR DAY.

SINCERELY SOMEONE WHO JUST GOT A REPLY THAT MADE ME WANNA MAKE THIS POST

All i wish for 2024 is every creator to start that project they’ve been thinking about, write those fics they have been planning, make messy art, and to have as little burnout as possible.

one of the best fics i've ever read, one that had me addicted to my phone and crying, wasn't even prose. it was a huge, casual, bullet-pointed outline with every detail of an au that the author never got around to writing in full. and it was amazing.

let this be a message to all you who want to write but can't do it "normally": write it! someone out there will eat it up. whether that be poetry, tiny drabbles, or bullet pointed list: your work is always worth it. your art (yes, art!) will alway deserve to have its moment in the spotlight. why? because you made it. even if it wasn't done in a traditional matter, it came from your brain and your creativity and that is amazing.

♡