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“Those poor boys”

“She deserves to be punished too.”

“I’m not saying I support rape, but-”

“Sorry to say - she deserved it.”

“She put herself in harm’s way”

“But if she was fingered, then that’s not rape.”

“She ruined their lives.”

rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between "damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)" and "damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)"

#Merry crisis

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So, there’s a thing that is bothering me and makes me want to quit writing… silent readers.

Woof~ Where do I start?

Ok, first thing first: writers are hungry for feedback. Trust me, all of us want feedback, even if we may not respond to your every comment, but it gives us reasons to keep posting our works. 

If you didn’t like something, speak up so we can do better in the future; if you liked something, I don’t know maybe a certain scene or whatever, tell us, so we can understand what type of content to write. 

It may be annoying to you, but it helps us grow as writers and gives us motivation to keep posting stuff (yes, even those who write for fun are writers).

Secondly: We spend hours if not days on every single story (or artwork), and receiving little to no feedback… sucks. (One of my friends stopped writing for this very reason)

Imagine yourself, working on a project for days, and your superior (may it be a teacher or your boss) just nods before moving on with his day.

Did it make you feel satisfied and/or happy/accomplished? I don’t think so.

Same thing with writers and artists. I don’t care if you’re just going to quote something from the story or point out a minor detail that you fancied, it still makes us happy to know that at the very least, there was something that you liked.

The main reasons, why writers stop updating at some point, is because there’s no fucking feedback.

Want to point out a grammar mistake? Please do. It’s a help for us and we appreciate it! Because it means you paid attention to our story!

For example, last Friday a beautiful human sent me a private message telling me how one of my stories cheered them up, and let me tell you it made my heart go over the moon at how happy I felt! (Lil baby if you reading this, I love you! And you beautiful people that voice your thoughts even though I’m socially awkward I fucking love you with all my damn heart!)

Thirdly: I come originally from Wattpad. And let me tell you that even if my stories back then were awful, I still had more feedback compared to Tumblr or other writing sites. Even if people bash Wattpad for having badly written stories, the community there is beautiful. Even nowadays I find myself going back to my now inactive account to read the comments, some of them making me go woo~ while others just make me laugh my ass off. It always makes my day better.

No idea what to comment? Go and check a random story on Wattpad and see what kind of comments you find there. Just go and check, and you’ll understand why writers are so hungry for comments and kudos.

Fourthly: I see a lot of blogs struggling with the following thing (I’m using my account as an example):

Like… why are you following me for? Why would some of you ever think that following us, and give us an imaginary large platform makes us happy? Personally, I don’t seek followers, I don’t care If I have a million people following me or just two, I care about the feedback.

It’s like having 2k followers on Insta but having only two likes on your pictures. Disappointing.

That’s how It feels, and a lot of other people (not only writers but also artists) feel like that.

Let me tell you another thing. You, following us, and giving us this seemingly ‘large platform’ gives us the impression that you like our writing unconditionally. But following a writer just because you liked one story (and then you plan on ignoring their existence) makes them feel uneasy and doubt their writing.

Yes, you read it right.

I cannot stop myself from comparing the numbers of followers that I have to the feedback I get, and It makes me doubt my writing skills and content, and I’ll just say to myself that “It’s the last one I post.” That’s what I said to myself when I published greedy. (You can consider me a whiny bitch I don’t care, as long as a writer spends hours, writing, editing, deleting, writing again, editing only to start all over again because something didn’t make sense, gives us all the rights to complain.)

Yes, I am grateful for all the people that liked my stories, yes I do love every single one of you, especially the ones that constantly support me on every single piece that I write.

But please, if you liked one fic, do not follow me! It gives me false hope and makes my expectations skyrocket.

Trust me, this is how every single writer/artist feels. If you check a writer’s Tumblr, you will find (sooner or later) a post in which they voice out their complaints about the same matter. It is frustrating.

However, I really appreciate writers that keep posting beautiful content even though they don’t get enough recognition as they should.  

And I’m not telling you that from only my point of view. I have friends that write for different fandoms and they face the same shitty struggle. And when they stop updating or publishing new content, those invisible followers start complaining and demand the writer to ‘please update’.

Like, how about no?

‘Please update’ is not something that motivates us. Trust me.

I understand that we all are humans, and everyone has their own life outside of social media, but so do writers. You spend your time going out with friends, studying, working, doing chores, reading, etc… but so do writers and artists. Some of them, don’t even have the luxury of having a social life, probably because they are too caught up writing stuff or drawing, and they end up relying on virtual interactions.

This last part is strictly personal… it’s just me complaining about a lil something that happened yesterday.

Having a newbie (that was also one of my online friends that I introduced to the world of fanfiction) privately messaging me and my best friend, saying how we put less effort into our stories compared to them and how we should stop complaining about the lack of feedback makes me go nuts. BITCH! We spend days writing those stories, you have no fucking right to tell us anything!

I’ve been publishing my stories on the internet since I was 12, you are in no place to tell me how my stories used to suck, because I was FUCKING 12 AT THAT TIME! Of course, they weren’t masterpieces!

I don’t care about who the fuck you are, if you send a message to a writer and/or artist, complaining about how their work doesn’t deserve the attention it gets, you are trash.

With that being said, I’m sorry for wasting your time, I just had to let all those things out before I completely lose my mind.

P.s: To all those people who put up with my works, thank you! I love you!  💖💖💖

hermits vs kids irl, my favourite stories:

the time Joe and his kid were at a shared pool somewhere and another kid was talking so loudly about how cool Iskall is

the time Cleo was teaching in primary school and got asked 'have you ever heard of mumbo jumbo, miss' and then having to act like they haven't known him since he was 17

the time etho was out with a friend and the friend's kid went 'omg that's etho' to their dad, and the dad came back like 'why does my kid know you?'

the time that Cleo left their job to be a YouTuber and their whole class was desperately trying to figure out who she was

Joe's kid going from 'minecraft sucks' to my friends are grian stans so I am too, dad explain grian to me (dad can we get hermitcraft (grian), no we have hermitcraft at home (Joe Hills))

Impulse's whole extended family being made to watch his new hermitcraft rap as Christmas entertainment by his mum

every take my kid to work hermitcraft video. from stress' kid dissing her season six castle, to Joe's kid getting multiple hermitcraft episodes dedicated to how much he loves her, keralis' ongoing joke about making his kids do all his grindy work, doccy chirping in the background of videos, and on and on and on

4ggravate / sumeru boys as posts (i tried to make sure each character combo had at least 1 post together so some may be slightly inaccurate, reaching, or my personal interpretation of their relationships)

How to Write Dialogue for (most) Dream SMP Characters

A few months ago, I remembered seeing a lot of posts giving advice on how to write dialogue for DSMP Characters. And while those posts contained numerous helpful pointers, overall, they fall just short of capturing what it means to write in a character’s Voice.

Unique character Voices, while tricky to get right, are usually achieved by giving each character a distinct set of words to say, in a manner that distinguishes them from the rest of the cast. 

With this in mind, I’ve spent the past few days combing through almost Thirty Hours of VOD footage to collect nearly all of the unique words, phrases, and speaking habits of every major and minor character on the Dream SMP (involved in 2+ story arcs.)

Before Reading:

Sentence-Starters are single words or phrases which begin a sentence. (ie. “Y’know, maybe you should try something different.”) 

Sentence Paddings are reoccurring words added to the middle of sentences. (ie. “It’s like he just can’t cry.”) 

Sentence Endings are single words or phrases which end a sentence. (ie. “There’s no need to fight, I hope.”)

All three of these types can be combined with one another to create more natural-sounding sentences. For instance, if a character has the two Sentence-Starters “Okay” and “So,” they can be used like this; “Okay, so, I’m a bit worried.”

(Note: When certain traits or phrases aren’t obvious with how they should be applied to dialogue, an (ie.) will be added below to illustrate them.)

Wilbur

General Traits:

Repeats himself for emphasis. Sometimes these repetitions will add additional information. More often, this repetition is focused around a specific word with the circumstance of the sentence being changed each time.

ie. “I’m living in an eternal limbo again. I’ve been through limbo, I’m out of limbo, and socially, I’m still in this limbo.”

Highly eloquent in language, bordering on poetic.

Highly introspective; significantly less so after Eret’s betrayal and onward.

Occasionally makes literary analogies and references, sometimes breaking the Fourth Wall to do so.

Curses semi-frequently. Wilbur is the only known character to use the word “cunt,” although rare.

Common Go-To Swears - Fuck, Shit, Prick, Bastard, Hell, Ass (Including all variations and combinations.)

Tends to hum when he thinks to himself.

Stutters most often when offended, shocked, or surprised.

Generally addresses characters semi-formally, often by title or role.

Often slips into long-form monologues when self-reflecting.

Usually defaults to being the head of a conversation; introducing, managing, and elaborating on topics throughout, especially when speaking to three or more people.

Circumstantial Phrases:

You and I, we’re ━ (To connect positively with someone.)

ie. “You and I, we’re used to seeing the good in people.”

I wanna pick your brain / Can I pick your brain? (To ask about someone else.)

Don’t say that, I’ll cry (Affectionate banter, only to Tommy.)

I’m afraid ━ (When hopeless or delivering bad news.)

ie. “I’m afraid there’s no getting out of this now.”

There’s no reason to ━ / There’s no reason for ━ / There’s no need for ━  (When being threatened or breaking up a fight.)

ie. “There’s no need for violence, gentlemen.”

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