Omnomnomnom0004 - Just A Little Guy

CONGRATS ON 400!! Your art is BEAUTIFUL and it’s always a delight to see! Even the little doodles are perfect fjdjdh. I’d love to see a doodle of big sane!Seph saying his hopeful line about how the cycle can be broken with a little compassion if you can 🥺🙏

SORRY FOR THE LATENESS AHAHAHA I’m speedrunning all the request asks since it’s been a hot minute, here you go! Also I am tying Nomura up on a tree with the belts he keeps slapping onto his characters, bro does NOT need that many belts, on god-

“Why does hearing your name hurt me // When it hides right there in the vicinity? // What kind of emotion, is it hatred // Or pure sweetness when I hear your name?” - Ma Meilleure Ennemie by Stromae & Pomme

i’m very late with it, but happy @d20exchange!! to my lovely giftee @anonymouslylovesyou i hope you enjoy the calroy and amethar angst as much as i did

Dear Fandom readers - an etiquette fail

AO3 is not goodreads. It is not the NYT bestseller list.

You paid no money to read these stories. They are, in fact, a labor of love, done on the off time in the off hours of people who are writing for the joy of writing and the joy of the story.

Your ratings are not appreciated. Not by other readers, who don't know you from adam. Not by fandom-savvy passerby.

And not, in fact, by the author. Who again: Wrote this for fun. In their spare time - around work, around family and friend commitments. Around the rest of their lives. Fandom clout almost never "pays off" in any monetary gains, in any form of physical or financial security.

So please stop "rating" us on something we do for joy.

Today, a fellow fanauthor shared this with me. It was not on any story of my own, but they understandably needed a moment to go "wtf" and process it all. With their permission, I now share this with you.

You won't find this comment on AO3 anymore, by the by.

I have... a lot of issues with this. First of all being something that would be a C-grade in any US school system is not a "Good Rating" for most folks, but many of my issues would be the same even in this commenter had rated this a 10/10.

It boils down to this:

Why are you grading us on something we all are here to do solely for fun and personal enjoyment? Why does it have to be good?

Why can't it just be a labor of love and of joy to be good enough for you, dear commenter?

Do I, as a fanauthor, want to write well? Sure! I do want to write good stories. But I didn't ask random readers to grade me on them. Not in bookmarks that I can easily check, and certainly not in my comments section. And I never will want them to. Every author I've talked to agrees. Is there someone out there who might want this? Sure. Most likely, even! The human experience and desires are broad and varied. But in my experience, if they do exist in Fandom, they're the vast minority. So please:

Don't.

#Repost @gogreensavegreen

You might be more than one. You might be different ones at different times. 🫶🏽🫶🏽 you might not be one of these. There are more roles 💪🏽 but this is an amazing intro.

You can’t just like the idea and envision yourself in one of these roles you have to figure out how to be about it ♥️🫶🏽

Via @deiloh & @fablefulart

Hannibal (2013-2015)

After many years, Cloud' s physical functions began to decline, and he needed longer periods of sleep.

(I tried my best with the translation😭)

i watched arcane season 2. never speak to me or my extremely violent daughter or my extremely violent daughter's daughter again

The Front Man has been the only thing I can think about since Squid Game 2

bonus:

metamorphoses, ovid