allyallyorange:

Young Justice

[Image shows Tim, Kon, Bart, and Cassie in a high school hallway. All are wearing civvies.

Cassie is in the background talking to someone.

Bart is trying to close an overstuffed locker. He’s got headphones on and a brightly coloured backpack. All of his slight weight doesn’t seem to be helping in his battle against the locker door.

Kon has his round 90s glasses pushed up on his forehead. He’s got his arm casually over a guy’s shoulder and is grinning at him.

Tim Has a messenger bag, coffee cup, and glowing mobile phone screen. He’s got bags under his eyes and looks sad to be awake.

prosthetical:

qjskeletonking:

genderfluidgreer:

She’s only 7, but my little sister has been more supportive than she knows. 

Bro that’s fucking adorable

I love this so much. @zooeyscigar @goldenheartedrose

[Image is a comic with a person flopped on the couch, eating chips and probably watching TV. A little girl walks up. Text:

Child: Bubba?

Couch Person: Yeah?

Child: Boy or girl day?

Couch Person: Boy.

Child, returning to an interrupted conversation with someone else: He is sitting on the couch, eating chips.

End ID.]

themarvelproject:

Cyclops by Walt Simonson from the front cover of Marvel Comics Presents #21 (1989)

[Image shows a black and white Cyclops in his X-Factor era costume. It is a bodysuit with a giant x-shape that wraps around his hips and shoulders to his back. A stripe branches off the x at each shoulder and hip and goes down each limb. He wears musketeer gloves (? the ones that have a flopped over part like pirate boots). His visor is slightly x-shaped.

End ID.]

how do you feel about authors who abandon their WIP fics just because they don’t like the fandom anymore ? I know a lot . Like there are people here who loves your fic crazily !

ao3commentoftheday:

robin-mask:

ao3commentoftheday:

I have to admit, I’m one of them *hides*

When you leave a fandom, your passion for writing it sort of leaves too. At least it did for me. I feel guilty about that WIP, but at the same time, I have no idea how I’d ever go back and finish it. 

To be frank -?

That’s why I never read WIPs, as a rule. 

I can understand the writer is under no obligation to continue, while real-life can get in the way and so can lack of motivation, but I find most people never finish their works and you’re left with no closure … those that do slowly update, sometimes do so that slowly that you forget what happens, leaving you less and less invested in the story until you just stop reading anyway. 

It’s why I make it a rule to always finish my works; I think I have just 5 unfinished out of 120 (on both accounts), and those five were do to a total lack of feedback more than anything else. Even now, I have a story I desperately want to work on, so I juggle that with my current piece. It won’t go unfinished.

I understand, but I won’t read unless it’s complete. 

a lot of people have a similar stance for similar reasons, and I get that. But since I tend to write as a I go, I think I’d have more than 2 out of 96 fics incomplete if everyone felt the same way.

I’m not out to change minds on this, but I will give a massive shout out to the people who take chances on WIPs and cheerlead us on to the finish line 🙂

Most of my favourite authours have abandoned WIPs. Maybe half of my favourite fics have been abandoned.

I don’t mind.

(Except for that one abandoned X-Men epic. That world was so immersive I left part of my heart there that I can never get back. Worth it, but it still stings.)

Many authours write fic where each chapter is a little gem. Even if you don’t get a complete story, each chapter satisfies. There’s at least a little bit of emotional closure every time you stop.

I read for the journey. I know that not everyone can do that, and those readers need to avoid uncompleted fic, but I’m sure there’s lots of us out here who are fine with it. I’d love my favourite fics to finish, but I don’t need them to.

ive b een thinking deeply alot lately and honestly? the website ao3 is so beautiful? like people decided to come together to make something solely to share stories of their favorite characters, and so many latched on and its just… overall theres such an aura of love for all of these characters and stories we base our own on. i am not explaining this correctly at all, be ao3 is such a wonderful place and brings out the passion people have for the things they love.

ao3commentoftheday:

naryrising:

ao3commentoftheday:

Thank you for sharing such a lovely thought with us 

❤

❤

I know you were probably mostly talking about the creators who share things there, but it was really nice to read this and see that it includes praise for the Archive itself too.  It can get really discouraging at times to see so much negativity towards the site – and maybe as part of the Support team I see this more than most of our volunteers, except maybe the Abuse team, but I think we all experience it to some degree just because we are all fans existing in fannish spaces online. Some days it feels like I go online and there’s a hundred more tickets and posts telling us how we’ve screwed something up, or how we need to improve, or how it’s our fault that fandom is behaving in a certain way, whatever the current crisis of the day is.  

It can be hard for people to find the motivation to keep going at times, which is a real struggle for a site that is run purely by volunteers – we’re not getting paid to deal with this, we do it because we want to help, or to give something back to fandom, or because we feel like it’s important that AO3 continue to exist and grow.    

It’s not the same, exactly, but imagine if for ten years you wrote a fic.  And it was huge and time-consuming and took up a lot of your skill and effort to create it – you worked on it every day, around all your other commitments.  And it wasn’t perfect, so you keep trying to improve it, because even though nothing is ever perfect, you want it to be as good as it can.  You knew you weren’t going to get paid for it, or get anything in return other than a sense of pride or accomplishment or the well-wishes of your followers.  And then what you get for feedback is a steady stream of “this story sucks” and “you really screwed up in Chapter 27″ and “well it’s not bad I guess but I wish it was actually something else” and “when are you going to update?”

And there are nice comments in there too, sometimes! And even ones that have a critique might also include a compliment, or a thanks for your hard work! So you look for those and try to focus on the positives to keep yourself going.  Sometimes that’s all you can do.  

Did you know we keep a section of our internal wiki to store the nice feedback we get (anonymized, of course) so that any of our volunteers can go look at it when they’re feeling discouraged or need a pick-me-up?  I mean, it makes sense, because a lot of us are also authors, and that’s something I know plenty of authors do – have a file or a doc with the comments that have cheered them up, so that they can look back at them when they’re struggling. 

Anyway, all this is to say, thank you for your kind words, they mean a lot to me, and today they’re helping me to keep on working on this big, ridiculous, fantastic, imperfect, beautiful site.           

From all the authors and readers who have ever (or will ever) used AO3. It really is an amazing site, and I’m so grateful that it exists. 

@new-xkit-extension

Have you guys thought of adding a feature to hide the “delete your blog” option behind a general menu?

It seems like it would protect those with depression, other mental illnesses/low self-esteem. If you’re feeling down, and you see that button while looking for something else, I can see you being tempted. Putting it somewhere where you’d have to search it out might keep a few blogs from disappearing on a bad day.

Anyone have thoughts about this?