Same, Marko. Same. 🤣😅

i wish ao3 allowed people to give kudos per each chapter. These 100k word NOVELS need more love than 200 tiny digital hearts ☹️

After the day I've had...

This is my first ever time on tumbler, loves. Go easy on me.

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024) 2.05 – Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

Flip Side might be coming to an end but Kuno's world will be coming right back with Don't Fear the Reaper where we jump into Reaper's point of view. A hunt gone awry leaves the half vampire with an injured... something and he just can't bring himself to hurt them.

Flip Side Chapters 8, 9, & 10

I plan to try and get out all three chapters for my readers today. I don't have any other plans, so keep your eyes out for it. Chapter 8 is going to be pretty intense, so be prepared for that!

Hello, hello, my fearlings! Sorry it has been so long since I've been legitimately active. Been busy busy busy working in so many WIPs! Got a new Lost Boys fic coming your way once I'm more chapters into it. I've got a lot on my plate, but I'm getting stuff out slowly! Power Play should get another chappie by tomorrow night and I'm working on the next chappie for Don't Fear the Reaper. Hoping to get back on Healing Our Wounds as well as Finding His Lost Star soon too!

Sorry babe. “Cry Little Sister” stays on during sex.

A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.