I’m begging y'all, put at least minimum care into how you present your fics to the public.
“idk man you name it im tired” as a title tells me you didn’t care.
“This is STUPID” in the tags. Okay, I won’t read it then.
“I don’t know how to do tags” tells me you didn’t bother taking one look at any page in the archive to see how others tag and use it as reference. Or, you know, you could have asked, too.
“idk if this is trash, bc I worte this in the middle of the night bc idrk” in the summary doesn’t really encourage me to open the story.
3 lines of tags on a 4k monitor, none of which are actual searchable tags but a stream of consciousness about the author’s sleeping habits and music preferences, tell me you don’t know what your story is about if you can’t give us 2-4 main tropes and themes. Also, this isn’t tumblr, come on mate.
“I hate myself for this fic” okay? Why did you write it then if it brought you discomfort? Moreover, why did you post it???
“Why Did I Write This?” well, hobbies are about joy and fun, if writing doesn’t make you happy then maybe it’s time to look for something else to do in your free time? No point in making yourself miserable.
“The Author Regrets Everything” paired with more self-deprecating tags suggest I better not bother opening the fic because it clearly made the author miserable and why would I be miserable as well?
“killing myself rn” please get help.
0 additional tags is better than that. Writing and sharing fics should be an act of care, not anguish.
Also just adding that if you put “sorry this is disgusting and bad and i’m going to hell for this,” the people who think you are bad for writing it will not forgive you and the people who clicked eager to read the story you advertised think you think they’re nasty.
Imagine trying to be mean and nasty and dramatic and there’s a giant himbo having just a really excellent time right next to you, literally just vibing to the full extent, -1 INT modifier and not a care in the world
The last picture is, in fact, a duckling! The parents lost their baby and adopted an orphaned duckling and raised it.
FAMILY VACATION
Okay so like, I can’t get over this adopted baby duckling. In relation to loons, ducklings are an r-selected species. Like, there’s the understanding that some baby ducklings get eaten by turtles and so they lay big batches of eggs to make up for it.
But loons are k-selected and invest a ton of time into their babies. They only have one or two babies, both parents take care of them, and they ride around on their parents so they don’t become turtle food.
This is like, the best taken care of duckling in the world. They are gonna be such good parents, even though their kid is a weird vegan who can’t swim underwater.
There’s a user called Erika Horn (@erikahorn.art) on tiktok who made a “duet me” challenge so technically impressive that all of the duets are exactly like this LMAO
we have to start ridiculing climbing mount everest the way we’ve ridiculed diving to the titanic there’s no reason to be dying up there why dont you do a nice normal sport
