Me seeing that the last chapter of the most perfect, toe curling, well cooked fic it's titled "sorry guys" or "important plis read"

literally me every time i finish reading a fanfic tagged with hurt with no comfort / character death / unrequited love, knowing damn well i searched through countless unwanted smut and refreshed the tag just to find the most well written and gutwrenching one:

"English isn't my first language-" say less pookie 😏

“Why are you watching it again? You already know what happens.” Because The Character is in there, bro. THE CHARACTER

Need I say more?

In honor of Women's History month, I just want to remind people that some of the most influential and popular manga in the anime community are written/illustrated by women. And I'm not just talking about groundbreaking shojo like Sailor Moon, Fruits Basket, Card Captor Sakura, or Black Butler (or things like Chihayafuru, Migi to Dali, Sakamoto Desu ga?, Nana, Natsume Yuujincho, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Violet Evergarden, A Silent Voice, and a million more). To be clear, those series are also amazing, and I'm not demeaning them in any way. They deserve just as much respect as everything else.

But right now I'm talking about shōnen series or series that are usually marketed towards men specifically or have appeared in shōnen magazines. I mean things like:

Beastars and Sanda made by Paru Itagaki (fun fact: she's the daughter of Keisuke Itagaki, the author of Baki! I guess it runs in the family 😆)

Gangsta, by Kohske

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic by Shinobu Ohtaka (which I promise isn't what my screen name is a reference to, even though I love this show).

D.Gray Man by Katsura Hoshino

Dorohedoro by Q Hayashida

To Your Eternity by Yoshitoki Ōima

Mushishi, made by Yuki Urushibara (aka Soyogo Shima).

Noragami which is written by two women, collectively named Adachitoka, similarly to romance author duo Christina Lauren.

Blue Exorcist by Kazue Kato

Dungeon Meshi aka Delicious In Dungeon by Ryoko Kui

Inuyasha (and Ranma 1/2 and Urasai Yatsura) by the absolute legend Rumiko Takahashi, which I know for a fact served as a gateway anime for a shit ton of people across generations (but especially for people my age).

I have to shout out Posuka Demizu, who illustrated The Promised Neverland, which is my favorite manga series. She may have given the characters weird looking facial proportions, but damn if she ain't one of the most detail oriented (and sneakiest) artists out there.

And finally, a little story you may know called Fullmetal Alchemist, written by Hiromu Arakawa (who also wrote Silver Spoon, the most recent manga version of The Heroic Legend of Arslan and lots of other stuff but I wanted to highlight those two specifically).

There's also been speculation that a little unknown manga called...what was it again?...Oh yeah, DEMON SLAYER is written by a woman (I don't care if the Hashira Training arc is terrible, there is still a lot I love about the writing and characters and fight scenes). But Koyoharu Gotouge's gender hasn't been confirmed so it's still just a theory.

idk, I just love women.

Its honestly so annoying and disheartening whenever I find a grelle x reader and the author uses he/him pronouns for her. Especially in the big 2025 😭😭😭

Also, when grelles the top like no I want to top her 🥀🥀

Im probably gonna lurk on the grelle x reader and try to find an author to write a fic for her

me

Just watched people get attacked left and right for not liking fanfics that have noncon/pedophilia/grooming/incest/etc

Why are we attacking people who rightfully don't have to like weird/creepy ass writing and the original post didn't even mention anyone

painting process study (3)

Okay, so, I figured I wasn’t gonna say anything until I could be 100% sure I could do it, but. It’s safe to say. Yall will see THE Professor Viktor again this Christmas or shortly thereafter.

Okay, so, I figured I wasn’t gonna say anything until I could be 100% sure I could do it, but. It’s safe to say. Yall will see THE Professor Viktor again this Christmas or shortly thereafter.

you know what, fuck it be free, keep reading that bad fan fiction, keep writing that bad fanfiction, keep using y/n, keep staying up to 4 a.m reading x reader, to be cringe is too be free

(just NO a.i)

Clean version of a comic I drew in history class

Isha plays league

“What’s your fav ship?-” “Who’s your fav rare-pair?—”

You think I come on here to see another man be blessed with a bountiful amount of hoes?? NAW TWIN. I arrive at the devils sacrament to collect concubines like a corrupt emperor.

This is MY harem and these are MY bitches, and if anyone’s doing the bending it’s ME 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

anyway. fuck ai.

"Have you seen that picture of Sevika where-"

Babeyyy. I've seen every picture of Sevika.