That mysterious tall girl with a beautiful voice who seems unsteady on her feet and gets nervous and quiet when you talk about going swimming with her is probably secretly a mermaid.
I drew this as a love letter from a mixed kid to my IloIlo heritage- Asin Tibuok is an almost extinct heritage food of the Ilonggo people. Asin Tibuok is salt that is produced by soaking coconut husks in pits near the shore. It’s extremely difficult to make- It takes a week to fill just one coconut husk. This salt is very rare and the tradition of creating this salt perseveres only in specific regions of Visayas, one of the major islands of the archipelago.
In the Philippines, Mangoes are often eaten with salt, and it’s considered a staple Merienda, or an afternoon snack.
Hope this fact encourages people to help us preserve our culture
Basically this is the same message as the previous video I shared by this creator. But it’s just an older TikTok. Like they have mentioned, it seems like this argument keeps cycling around every few months. It’s not hard to understand. If you don’t support and encourage writers, then they’re going to give up and quit writing. Simple as that. The community side of fanfic and AO3 has died off. Writers are leaving. AI writing, puritans and the “fandom police” are taking over. Please, just support those of us that are left.
Just wanted to say something as someone currently writing and posting a multichaptered longfic (now with 169.6k words) on Ao3. This is a reality and it’s very important for the readers that enjoy our works to comment on them, recommend it to their friends and engage with the work beyond a quick ‘I loved this! I want more’ (which also helps but feels hollow).
I put a lot of work on each chapter and I have a life outside of the internet so it takes time to get this kind of fic out there. Meanwhile on social media I’m choking with seasonal fic trends: everyone posting a horror themed one shot on Halloween, or a cheesy romantic one shot on Valentine’s day, or a Christmas themed one shot on Christmas, and so on. We have reached a point where fic authors must produce texts as quickly as possible to jump on whatever trend that’s happening at the moment, and fill the rest of the year with easy to digest works that don’t require any real effort for the reader. And yes, I said produce, because it feels like the internet doesn’t recognize what we do as an act of creation anymore.
I know my longfic won’t receive the same amount of engagement as my much shorter and much simpler works, and that’s okay, I’m not doing this for the statistics anyways. But it makes me really sad to see fandom culture die like this and to see the flow of human interaction slowly die with it. It saddens me to realise that one day artists will no longer be inspired by a fic they came across one day without knowing that it would turn into their favorite fic ever, and that one day fic writers will no longer have the motivation or energy to put what they felt through a piece of fanart into words, because why would they? No one cares anyway.