Throws This At You

No matter what a post on tumblr tries to tell you, your moral and ethical stances will never be determined by what you reblog and what you scroll past. Don’t let manipulation tactics force you into doing anything you don’t want to do.

love this animal. the bastard

knuxouge kid i drafted. idk if i like them

their deal is that knux and rouge divorced and knux has full custody of them. he raises them as a single father

May I interest you in the idea of chubby Shadow?

i know what you are

I POSTED A NEW KNUXAMY FIC GO READ IT!!! 🩷❤️ (please)

im writing this fic right now btw

its taking awhile because im trying to make it mean something and be a worthwhile read. but it is in the works

idk if you’ve drawn this yet, but shadow coming out to Sonic as Trans Fem, I’m curious on how shadow would think Sonic would act

i've highkey been rolling a fic idea around in my head for this for mooooonths

since sonic is trans himself, i think he'd be delighted to see his partner coming into her own and finding an identity that she connects with better than her previous one. at the end of the day, she's still shadow.

in fact, i think sonic might have even seen this coming. there have always been little signs that she's been an egg. which, again, i may detail more in that fic im plotting.

but yeah! in a nutshell; sonic saw it coming, was delighted. pretty sure sonic overuses the word 'wife' a lot these days now because he's so proud

"i love my wife" "my wife can do that!" "have you met my wife?" "wife wife wifeee"

i am not looking for posts about house MD but now two people i follow are posting about it - right as i started binging it

um.

h-how is this happening. did something happen to make it trend or something? how did it become the Hot Show everyone is talking about again? i just started watching it again cuz i was feeling nostalgic idk whats going on 😭

sorry about the asks just loitering in my inbox 💔i want to draw something for them but i havent found the energy to yet. i'll get to them eventually. thank you for sending them if you have. i've read them all + appreciate every single one

GIRL RAGE! GIRL RAGE! GIRL RAGE! GIRL RAGE!

redraw of this :]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.