I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist.
if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.
if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages.
if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes.
if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon.
if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from.
if you appreciate it, don’t repost it. Reblog the artist’s post instead of making one of your own. Let them see all of the excited tags in the reblogs and replies or commentary that people add on. If you come across something on a google image search, try to trace it back to the owner. If someone tells you who the artist is, credit them – but also try to find and reblog their original post.
Fanfic
if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.
if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are great, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote.
if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. If you want the author to write more things like that, let them know – even if you can’t comment!
don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often.
be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”
Fandom
ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway.
if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry
if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one.
if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them.
none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine.
actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people.
I cleaned Will’s family’s kitchen because they have fucking mice and a fly problem and the second his mom got home the counter suddenly has a dirty pan, open chips, an open cheese jar, a cheesy lid, a dirty spatula, a big ass plastic bag with arsenic blocks in it, a torn chocolate cake mix packet, and a sauce covered tupperware lid strewn about 🙃
And somehow??? Somehow there is an entire plate just sitting on the floor
How 🙃 does 🙃 she 🙃 live 🙃 like 🙃 this
The mice in this house are going to form an alliance and rise up against us and i am powerless but to watch it happen. I may strike a deal with them when the time comes, become prince of the mice, king of the rodents, and i will rest upon a royal throne made of the fallen food that this family refuses to clean up off of the ground
I am attempting to establish spiritual communication with their people
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THE ORACLE IS HARD AT WORK
NO!!!!!!!!!!!
You sick fucks wanted me to Ask Later so here you go
The Wise Ones shat all over the last paper so i had to make a new one, and we’ve caught and released about 5 mice since yesterday, so I don’t know how fast they’ll be to answer, but we will see if they grant me their Prophecies
Thus Begins, The Final Consultation
HHNNGG THEY TOOK A PIECE AND CARRIED IT BACK WITH THEM
Fanfiction : These two people HATE each other, cant stand each other’s company and keep arguing whenever they run into each other.They are basically enemies.
Me, an ace : Okay
Fanfiction : But they are also sexually attracted to each other.Almost all of their fights end up with them in each other’s bed.They dont have feelings for the other but only want to have sex.
You are not afraid of the sufferings and sorrows of other people,
even when they are acted out in unappealing ways. Beneath even
defensiveness and self-righteous behavior, you know that deep down
people need nurturing and consolation. One danger is being naive about
people’s dark sides. But at your best you know you can be mean yourself,
which helps you to sympathize. You bring strength and forgiveness where
other people might panic.
Neediness
Being affirmed and nurtured by others is a central requirement for
you to feel safe. This means you can be slow to warm up to other people,
which is difficult because what you most need from them is their
warmth. Yet you know how to be vulnerable: to let down your defenses and
accept that you need another person. This lack of pretense is a
valuable trait, and ultimately more endearing than the macho efforts
others make to deny their childlike sides.
Aggression
One part of your character is anger in all its forms: frustration,
outrage – and when anger is suppressed – bitterness, grumpiness, and
bodily aches. Fundamentally, frustration comes from hope: you get upset
because you expect your life will be more than a valley of tears. One
way to deny aggression is to direct it inwards, as self-criticism. But
you’re at your best when you acknowledge anger, and act it out clearly
and in a focused way, with honor.
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