Beloved in Lacquer

I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.

Counter proposal: public hangings of tech billionaires.

Fandom isn’t your job. Take a month off. Take 3 years off. Post incomplete fics. Post incomplete art. Never post again. Switch fandoms. Stay loyal to one fandom only. Do whatever tf you want. You literally make all the rules of engagement in this arena.

Read the banned books. But also read the ones that could be banned. Ones from trans authors, Palestinian authors, and indigenous authors. Read the ones about black happiness and sapphic history. Read the ones from climate scientists and critical comedians. Read the romances and the horror novels.

She continued: “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, overprocessed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

please don't rank fanfictions, but especially not in the public bookmarks because the authors can see that

the pursuit of moralizing fiction is in fact a fascist movement and more importantly, it seeks to deny individual thought by replacing it with group adherence. if your morals are broken by a work of fiction, your morals were not real in the first place.

fanfiction is free, yes, but so are kudos and comments! life is an expensive, depressing slog sometimes; leave a little digital trinket in exchange for the word food people offer you.

I've been making a genuine effort to use the term "fanworks" instead of "content" I feel like it's important, with the rise of fandom fracturing into a "consumer demands" type of vibe instead of the old hobby enjoying and friendship vibe I am more used to

i hate the fic vs. books comparison because in only one of those the author is being paid in order to just sit down and write. fics are written for self indulgent reasons, at no cost. no author owes you their fics being “good” or to your taste.

"Art commission" spambot comments are on the rise! Do not give scammers your email or social media information. Read more advice from #AO3 Policy & Abuse about how to protect yourself from spam at otw-news.org/yckkv3hy

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

the daily struggle

fanfic authors writing to escape the horrors or to put themselves directly into them for cathartic purposes tradpub author: the problem is the women writing fanfic

Using ChatGPT

A good reminder.

Libraries make the world a better place.

The easiest win in the world right now is to continue using your own brain while people around you get relentlessly, intentionally dumber

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

If you think less of people for reading fic you clearly have not been captivated by an exquisitely painful slowburn that only gets explicit around 140k & its 1:48AM but your momma didn't raise no quitter so you keep on reading until the sun rises and you are now fundamentally changed... and it shows

This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it. Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.

guys please let go of chat gpt and use ur brain PLEASE

“Just doing my job—“ Get a job that isn’t a human rights violation, Nazi fuckshit.

I wish fandom would bring back the word squick because I am so very tired of "this thing makes me uncomfortable so it must be awful and bad" No its just not for you. Please get used to dealing with discomfort and hit the back button.

🌷 folks, i am SO excited to finally announce my third graphic novel: WALLFLOWER. it's a story about flowers, dreams, and how nothing is the way it seems. it drops on January 13th, 2026!!

Public Libraries can be wonderful places where children and adults can find books that they can see themselves reflected in, no matter who they are, and books that can introduce them to entire other lived experiences. Both are so valuable!

Hiiii! Guess this is my first post? Hope this one works out 🙏