idk if i posted this link here but i updated on christmas day…. apparently a lot of other fanfic authors post on the same day too. wild. anyways pls give me attention and tell me what you like abt the chapter

fencer-x:

nimbus-cloud:

blackstar:

i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much

fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment. 

every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change. 

Consider also: Writers do not even have the opportunity for feedback until we are finished.

Artists have the ability to show off preview sketches, host art streams, and get feedback during almost every step of their creative process, and we do not.  We can’t really share outlines and half-finished sentences, choppy first-drafts, and have anyone get excited about that.  When we say it’s an endurance sport, we really mean it.  

That’s why it becomes that much more important to give us that feedback once we actually finish what we’ve been working on.  

“When we say it’s an endurance sport, we really mean it"

THIS.

And of course we write because we love it. We have ideas–BIG HUGE IDEAS–that we want to get out there, just how we see it in our heads, and be able to go back over and over it again, even if no one else cares. Of course we write because we love it.

But we’re human and crave validation. We create these things because We Just Think They’re Neat and want others to agree that the concept or execution or both is also neat and fan about it with us! 

It doesn’t even necessarily have to be about WHAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY WRITTEN. Tell us how much you love the concept or the plot device, start going off on tangents in your comments or tags or replies, because HECK YEAH WE’RE IN THE SAME BOAT. WE’LL JOIN IN WITH YOU.

Fic is MEANT to generate discussion. So don’t think of comments as just saying ‘thank you’. We’re happy for that of course, but that’s not why we wrote it. We wrote it because it’s a thing we’re really interested in, so if you’re interested in it too? SHARE SIS, WE ARE ALL EARS.

amuseoffyre:

americachavez:

harry potter fandom experiencing such a revival in the last 5 or so years to the point where 5 out of the top 10 ships on ao3 this year are hp AFTER that woman started fully funding hate campaigns with her royalties is so bleak. fandom isn’t an indicator of morality but what are we doing here man.

I don’t know if people are aware, but in the middle of last year, there was a whole mess of batch-uploading/account connecting from the former FictionAlley site and it wasn’t necessarily done by the author.

I assumed the site was dead and all my fics were long lost. I’d also been going through every archive I could find where my Potter fics were still available and purging them all.

So imagine my surprise when I start getting notifications that multiple Potter fics have been added to my account and attributed to me. They were mine, but they weren’t being added by me - my email for FA and my email for AO3 were the same, so there was some weird importing/association shenanigans happening which meant I suddenly had 20+ and rising Potter fics turning up on my account.

Thankfully, there was an option to let them to know to stop slapping my fics onto my account without my approval. I get there’s some element of “we’re archiving fics for the future”, but that was a horrible, horrible thing to wake up to. I don’t want to be associated by that woman any more than I have to be, even if that fandom was once incredibly important to me.

In the end I had to go back through my account and manually delete every. single. one. I think I was at upwards of 40 by the time they stopped.

I don’t know if this has happened to other authors or if, to ‘archive’ said fics, they are importing them under the FA name. I just know it would be worth having a check on AO3 to make sure your fics aren’t there under an old e-mail address.

rum-and-shattered-dreams:

ignigeno:

former-portland-mando:

theonewhopoops:

brightlotusmoon:

Last week I asked my dad if he remembers sneaking me into the cinema to see Deep Rising in 1998. He said he thought so but didn’t remember which cinema it was. He was stunned that I not only remembered the exact cinema but also the time of day and the shirt I was wearing.

Today I forgot what someone told me over the phone even though the conversation ended 3 seconds ago.

“My memory is like a chalkboard and someone else has the eraser while another someone else writes random things in permanent marker instead of chalk.”

-Actual quote from be before I even imagined I might be ADHD.

baddywronglegs:

keepcalmandcarriefischer:

crabussy:

crabussy:

man come on. it’s colours

THIS IS OUR RADIUM. you’re absolutely right

How it feels to use any tool, app, or website right now

Worse, it’s our asbestos. It’s being put into things we’re going to have to keep using long after everyone has to finally accept it was a bad idea, in such a way it will be almost impossible to remove.

Radium suppositories and asbestos might both be in museums but the radium’s in the exhibits, the asbestos is in the walls.

transparent-plastic-robotgirl:

transhuman-priestess:

capsyst:

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Originally posted by madeleineengland

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

Originally posted by madeleineengland

@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out

omg that’s cool as heck!!! 🌸

lovelesskiaart:

This was the first thing that came to mind upon seeing this product, idk

apricops:

the narrative: *starts the third act by repeating a scene from the first act but now it has a totally different context*

me: ohoHOhohoHOHOhoHO

cowsnotcrows:

Damian got de-aged on a mission and now Tim’s stuck on babysitting duty

nteabodies:

silly heishin doodles

I can’t find the og source for the audio but it’s from this

prokopetz:

jonathantaylor:

prokopetz:

Officially adding “responding to obviously facetious complaints with long-winded explanations of why the status quo is both natural and inevitable” to my list of block-on-sight offences.

You have a list of block-on-sight offences?

I’ve been an active participant in online social media for thirty years.

tpwrtrmnky:

tpwrtrmnky:

tpwrtrmnky:

youtuber who does old console ROMhacks for a hobby: i made the n64 do raytracing just to see if i could and it does five thousand FPS or something

triple-A game studio: if you’re experiencing stuttering on the lowest settings, consider just not being poor? your graphics card is five months old??

guy whose mission is to defend corporations: nooooo you don’t understand, it’s not a fair comparison because the youtube guy is doing small-scale experiments motivated by an in-depth understanding of the hardware, while triple-A studios have a scope set by executives who don’t know how it translates to work and just fired all their devs with enough experience to optimize

it’s unfair to expect industry devs to do the kind of clever optimization that can be achieved by an experienced programmer who’s not sleep deprived and has seen their family and friends in the last three years

christinaroseandrews:

mightymur:

The final, brilliant word on passive voice.

“She was killed [by zombies.]” <— passive

“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <— active

This is legit one of the best ways to identify passive voice.

vexheart:

kira-serialfaggot:

jadedaceofspades:

I lack perception of time so you could legit walk up to me and say “Hi” after 3 years and I’d be like “aww I missed you. we talked just last week :3”