equalistmako:

a ship is a pairing you look at and go “wow cute! this is hecka rad~”, but an otp is a pairing you see one day and suddenly your entire world crumbles around you and all the blood leaves your face and eventually you’re left lying in the rubble that was once your life and wondering what you did to deserve this hell

seananmcguire:

lynati:

I don’t think there’s an applause gif big enough to properly convey my reaction to this.

Also, I love that if anyone tries to say that you’re just “another hack fic writer with no ideas of her own who is jealous of the “real” writers out there”, they could quite literally be crushed under your catalog of award-winning original writing as a response. They can’t dismiss your stance on this topic the way they do to so many unpublished / fanfic writers because you’ve already met all of the standards that they insist someone has before they’ll accept their opinion as worth listening to.

Right?

“Well, fanfic authors never win awards, so–”
“WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD MY HUGO.”
“That’s basically, it’s, you know, the People’s Choice, so–”
“LOOK AT MY NEBULA.”
“That’s a science fiction award, it doesn’t really–”
“LOOK I’VE WON THE ALEX.”
“…”
“IT’S GIVEN BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO GIVE THE NEWBURY.”
“…”
“I’M THE FIRST PERSON TO WIN IT TWICE IN A ROW.”
“…well you wrote porn.”
“GOSH I SURE DID.”

lokisweboflies:

roane72:

Honestly, I think the whole “don’t pay the writers” thing boils down to the notion that everybody thinks they can write. It’s the old saw about the novelist at a cocktail party having to hear someone say, for the millionth time, “I’d love to write a book someday.”

Someone–Stephen King? Pretty sure I saw this in a Stephen King foreword–once said they’d like to say to a brain surgeon, “Boy, I’d love to do brain surgery someday.”

We treat “the ability to put words into a sentence” like it’s just the same as “the ability to form a coherent narrative that engenders a variety of emotions within the reader and puts them in a scene and shows them what they didn’t see before”.

And that’s like me drawing a stick figure and saying I’m an artist.

Writers are constantly devalued because everyone thinks they have a book in them and don’t realize the level of skill and commitment it takes to finish even a short story, much less a whole book. 

This goes well beyond fandom, but man, I would’ve hoped fandom would know better.

***REBLOGS AGGRESSIVELY***

Fuck people who yell at customer service workers, now I’m hiding in my GM’s office crying because that one got to me so fuck you, you entitled asshole, grow up and have some personal responsibility for your own life, I’m fucking GLAD you got woken up on your day off if that’s how you’re going to treat people, how the fuck are we supposed to know your random ass sleep schedule anyway, and I hope yelling at me and cursing me out about it got you too riled up to fall back asleep and maybe you’ll learn a lesson about letting people know if you have specific timing needs and that, oh yeah phones can be silenced before you go to sleep too.

@i-am-menial I screwed something up and did a post/delete with your ask… but I remember the numbers ❤

3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else? 

It depends on how much of a chance I think I have at finishing it.  If I think there’s a good chance, I’ll go front to back and then re-read mostly semi-chronologically for editing/additions/etc.  If I let myself go with favorite scenes first I have trouble filling in the gaps.  If I’m writing for self-indulgence instead of public viewing, absolutely just the favorite scenes.

4) favorite character you’ve written 

I… uh… that’s a huge question, there are so many XD Knee-jerk reaction is Starscream because I love me an intelligent, sarcastic, emotionally damaged asshole… Rocket is also right up there but he’s pretty new and I’m not completely familiar with him.  It might actually be an OC of mine, though, a bisexual man in the middle of a revolutionary war. He was a huge part of me starting to cope with the realization that I was bi and I will always have a huge fondness for him.

11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing? 

Heh, it’s funny because I’ve been heavily editing Sacred Made Profane and dear lord, the adverbs were out of control.  So that’s one thing.  But like as a total overall, since my very first Legolas/Self Insert attempts at writing a story, I think it’s been my ability to get emotions through.  I feel like I’ve gotten very good at making readers feel things.