foryou-insilence:

cmbyn-ghostspots:

xiavttini:

shes-gone-rogue:

foryou-insilence:

solarrow:

preludeinz:

randomslasher:

I get antsy when I haven’t produced content in awhile. I worry I’ll be forgotten. I feel like I have to keep buying my place in fandom with stuff like art and writing. Which makes it hard to produce content because that’s a lot of pressure to put on my creativity muses. So I sit here worrying instead. 

Bleh. 

HOLY SHIT THIS IS SUCH A MOOD

To everyone in the fandom who has been posting this the last few days: You are not obligated to continuously produce content. You are valued within this community by others, no matter what. I promise you that. You will not be forgotten. Don’t feel pressured. Do things in your own time. You are awesome. You are talented and you are welcome here always.

I feel this on such a visceral level 😔

@foryou-insilence – A-fucking-men!

BIG FAT MASSIVE JUICY COC-

I MEAN MOOD

Eh….because it’s basically true. There are the hero stories in a fandom, the ones everyone reads that are practically issued to you when you crank up a new fan Tumblr. (And rightly so in some fandoms – the ‘classics’ are….classic.)

But then – there are all the works that are a little less mainstream, a little more niche. The only way to stay on the fandom radar is to constantly pump out new content.

That said – I’ve written stories I am proud of in fits of inspiration. When inspiration flees (as it has for me in Charmie-town), it cannot be forced.

I hope that if the muse returns, there will be people who recall Senza Parole fondly and want to read more – but at a certain point, I also accept that the fandom just has too much content to always be top of mind. Look at Sherlock – you could do nothing but read for months and never be near done. If people forget the earlier stories but like the latter ones, perhaps they will consider reading the author’s other works.

I don’t want to churn out bad stuff, or stuff I don’t feel deeply, just to keep in everyone’s minds. Writers – give yourselves a break. Readers – take a chance on other works of writers you enjoy.

^^^^^ this