Please reblog this if fanfiction has been beneficial to your mental health.
Like you have no idea..
In all seriousness, huge thank you to @crandberrycrush @kanaevr @xairylle @celestialgunfireopera @atomicblonde @inkspillsnotebook @weirdfairytales @feels-like-fire for their amazing fics/writing that allow a momentary escape from reality –> sanity (I was in a pretty dark place a couple months back and y'all have no idea how much your writing helped)
Thank you, beautiful human. As long as our words reach your heart and warm it for the day or night. Keep on keeping on, friend!
Oh man yall know how much I love you guys. I wrote an entire post about this but still @atomicblonde (even though I’m reblogging this from you lol), @driftingglass @kanaevr @brickskcirb @colourlesszero @pearliegrimm @inkspillsnotebook
I can’t think of any more people off the top of my head but i love all u writers ♡♡ and i have found healing in all your writing ♡♡♡
Ohhhmy God if you guys keep tagging me in this sweet shit I’ll actually die OTL
Spent a solid 2 or 3 months straight (literally would pick up my phone and start reading right when I woke up for the day and until I fell back to sleep) reading BNHA fanfic. Was one of the worse episodes I’ve ever had after one of the shittiest couple of days of my life and pretty much everyone kept me stay sane and afloat. So yeah, thanks guys ♡
@pearliegrimm @kanaevr @driftingglass @inkspillsnotebook @pro-derp @atomicblonde @xairylle and fuck ton more of you. I’m bad with remembering names and not everyone has a Tumblr. But yeah, thanks again lol
PHEW let me tell you how writing fanfiction is reigniting my creativity and how helpful that is to a full-time writer because LOOOOOOORD…
Like yes, writing is fun, but like any career it will BURN YOU OUT. Here’s a look at my day:
- Trying to work on a book.
- Pitching article ideas on pop culture/social justice/whatever my muses come up with.
- Writing scripts for WatchMojo.com.
- Writing whatever articles get picked up.
- Trying to find events/conventions to go to so I can promote my work (and my partner’s work).
- Trying to figure out how to pay for said events unless we get invited, in which case:
- Putting together panels/presentations for events/conventions.
- Trying to be active/present on social media.
But after stumbling into BNHA and engaging with the fandom and legit signing up for an a03 account and writing for something other than “THIS IS YOUR JOB WRITE ALL THE THINGS” my creative muses are like “THANK GOD FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE ABOUT SHIPS AND ENJOY A THING FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN WORK!”
Like I just got edits back for an article I submitted that is a pretty emotionally draining topic (whee for being fat and black and queer and living in this world we live in y’all) and like, it was the LEAST amount of edits I’ve gotten back on a piece in a while, because my brain isn’t fried, because I take time to write about a kid with green hair, freckles, a dream, and a hostile explody dude who serves as his rival/perfect for shipping/whatever I wanna do with it because there’s NO PRESSURE!
So it’s not just the reading of fanfic that helps, writing it helps, too.
