~Guidelines of engagement for me and my fanworks

[amara1783]

I've seen a bit of discussion lately about how to engage with fic writers, and people have been making a lot of good points about respecting people's work and being kind. I don't share a fandom with a lot of the people discussing this and I therefore don't know the context for those words being written. Everybody should set boundaries that a comfortable for them. But writers, like any group of humans, are a diverse bunch, and some of the things others are in favour of work less well for me, so I thought I'd just share my thoughts on a few things.

✨Kudos are lovely and comments are lovely, but reading my work obligates you to neither. Please please please do not feel pressured to comment or leave kudos - I want to share my joy with you, not make you feel guilty!

✨You are welcome to, but under no obligation to promote me or my content.

✨Specifically for my tweetfic at Amara1783, I adore audience participation, it is one of the AWESOME things about that format, and getting likes and comments absolutely does inspire and motivate me, but you are under no obligation. This is especially true on those occasions I am asking for input such as with polls or links to Gdocs for peoples' ideas. Your participation is a gift not a duty or a condition of entry. I'm just emphasising this here a lot because the idea of people feeling pressured to participate squicks me. A lot. And now I'm rambling. Eeep!

✨Please do complain about my work in public, on main. Livetweet your criticism! You engaging with something I wrote enough to spend time thinking about it and critiqueing it is, quite frankly, awesome. I value the conversation between our words💖 I love people being opinionated. And, to be honest, if you snark about my writing and I see it, it will probably make me laugh, both with delight at the many many ways we fen see the characters that we love, and also at the freedom that I get to write whatever I want and post it for all the world to see. That freedom is like running through a meadow full of flowers on a sunny day, the wind in your hair, gentle hills rolling down to the sea💃🏻 Erm, yes, so 😆✨

✨If I'm talking about an idea in public then that idea is absolutely up for grabs - if it inspires you to write something, or to want it written, that's awesome. That does not prevent me or anyone else from writing it (no dibs). I am team #MoreCakeBestCake and consider my ideas to be freely available for anyone who wants to use them as building blocks. All of my fanworks are available for further transformative works of any type as detailed on my AO3 profile.

✨Comparing my stories to those of others does the oppostite of make me feel bad - I adore it! I value the conversation, the interweaving threads of inluences and inspiration, and I might find some really cool fic I haven't read! So please go for it!

✨I love concrit and always want it.


✨Including this here for the sake of completeness and because it's really important to me: Please help me be less racist and transphobic.

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[wrote_and_writ]

:-3 It’s so pretty. I forget how many pictures I have saved on my phone until I do things like hand it over to my mom to show my grandpa some photos from Japan, and she’s scrolling through and then stops and is like “Who’s this?” And it’s a picture of ZYL as young Shen Wei. Tee hee.