You feel like shit: An interactive self-care guide

“This is meant to be an interactive flow chart for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or who have trouble reading internal signals. It’s designed to take as much of the weight off of you as possible, so each decision is very easy and doesn’t require much judgment.”

I hope this might help some of you struggling lovelies out there!

someone's a little starstruck! *wink wink; tee hee

it annoys me when i see an artist say they can only draw one gender bc you shouldnt limit yourself like that and gender isnt rlly that set in stone in the first place. but also because i think its beautiful when an artist clearly IS used to drawing one gender but they try anyways and create a wonderful androgynous world. like how the boys in shōjo manga sometimes have the exact same faces as the girls. if you cant draw women just start drawing butches. do it now. welcome to the gender dimension.

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

my starving horse who is forced to eat the crumbs I've strewn across the floor, she has never had a meal in her life

@misidentifying-animals-in-posts

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sketchbook coffee shop visit

backyard dandelions in the sketchbook

drew by the LA river today

Where is this goose 🪿 that’s staring us down?

kris and noelle refs i made!

hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out

no tumblr i have faith that this post will be found by the enlightened 10-20 percent

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cherry bomb voice Hello tumblr hello blog

felt like drawing somefin joyful

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Okay but seriously… China gagged the whole world with this everybody else just pack it up it’s over

im sorry this is absolutely comical this is the type of shit some villain of shadow would say before being brought over to the good side

"light, shining in the darkness...? hah! preposterous"

“ao3 should have recommendation features!”

That’s what community is for! Ao3 doesn’t owe you shit. Ao3 is but a filing cabinet in the big beautiful office of tumblr. You all need to clock in and start engaging in fandom culture again and then you’ll get those sweet sweet fanfiction recs.

It literally has a recommendation feature.

The heart icon is a recommendation rather than just a bookmark. It's literally there already. The feature exists.

What they don't - and shouldn't - have is an algorithm that shoves fics you might like into your face. That's not a recommendation, that's an algorithmic advertisement devoid of heart or soul or mind.

If you would like to find recs for fics you might like, go into the comments or bookmarks of a fic you like, click on the usernames of people who have commented or bookmarked it, and look at their bookmarks and recommendations. Chances are good if you both liked this fic, they will have read other things you will like, too. If they've bookmarked/recommended the fic you both liked, chances are good they have bookmarked/recommended other fics you might like.

I'm not saying don't engage with the community. You should definitely do that and people who cross platforms and write detailed recs for fics or make rec lists are part of the lifeblood of fandom. I'm just saying that there are multiple ways to engage with the community, and one of them is using AO3's recommendation feature. Recmark those fics and leave a comment so other readers can find fics they might like. Then go make a post with a link- there's even a button for doing that effortlessly if you just want to generate a simple post with the fic info!

This! You can search for Recs, too! By going to "Search" - "Bookmarks", select the tags you want, and then check the "Type of bookmark: Rec" box.

But also, you can make BOOKMARK COLLECTIONS. You can title your Bookmark Collection "All time Favourite XXX Fic", collect your bookmarks in it and type your detailed rec into the bookmark notes. You can even tag your bookmark however you like - in addition to what the author already tagged the story!

The collection shows up for everyone under "collections" on your profile if you make it public. Everyone can see what your favourite XXX fics are and why. You can make as many different collections as you like.

And not only that, you can now search for Bookmark Collections by tag! By clicking "Browse" - "Collections" and then using the filters, you'll find collections of fic with a trope / pairing you like! And the downtime AO3 has announced for tomorrow? Is largely to improve on this feature!

Note:

- Collect bookmarks, NOT stories. VERY IMPORTANT! That way the author doesn't have to consent, they don't even get notified. You can add notes and tags to your heart's delight. There is no hassle with revealed vs unrevealed collections (although the issue with fic accidentally getting hidden in private collections has largely - if not completely - been resolved).

- Remember the author can see your bookmark notes if they choose to. Bookmark notes aren't the same as comments, they are meant for readers to find or remember fic, but please, please, please don't be an arse. Many writers are so starved for feedback, they check out the bookmark notes on their own stories.

- COMMENT! If you like a story well enough to put it into a rec collection, the least you can do is copy+paste your positive notes into a comment for the author. Better yet, leave a proper comment, spread the love!