It's Finally Happening - Changes To Dream SMP, 3rd Life/Last Life, And Other SMP Fandoms!

Hello! Welcome to Water Sibling Week!

A week dedicated to the best siblings this side of the south pole.

We noticed that, while we get a lot of content about Sokka or Katara individually, we as a fandom don’t see them together in fanworks nearly enough. So we wanted to dedicate a week just to our favorite family dynamic.

From the 21st to the 27th of September, we’re going to be boosting stories and fanart featuring Sokka and Karara and their relationship with their family.

If you would like to submit an idea for a prompt, our ask box is currently open and anonymous asks are accepted. We’ll be accepting suggestions until the 2nd of August, at which point we’re going to release a Google form for you to vote on your favourites! We’re looking for six prompts, one for each day. The seventh will be a prompt free day, where you can do whatever you want. In case you’d prefer to work from a prompt, we’ll also be posting any other suggested prompts for you to choose from.

If you want more information, you can visit our FAQ (mobile link), or our Calendar (mobile link). If you’re thinking about participating, awesome! But please read the Rules (mobile link) first.

Thank you so much for joining us! We can’t wait to see your works!

She looks like she's going to do something dumb

The look of pure Dumbass is on her face

Ty Lee 🖤

me, incorrect: everyone is probably sick of me drawing this character by now...

my inner voice, wise: ah, but this cannot be... because I am part of "everyone"... and until I am sick of drawing them... it will not be everyone

me, opening a new blank canvas: ur so right

happy april fools. please take this egg

hahahahahha………………..

youve been fooled………………by the april fools beeper……………..it was a fully grown bird the entire time…..no egg………………it tells u it hopes u hav a good april 1st

Ponk: I have the most badass line in the entire SMP

Puffy: [laughs in Technoblade]

those moments in au fics when you finally figure out how the author is reinterpreting a specific canon event and you basically go ‘oh snap that’s brilliant’ for five minutes straight

Reader Appreciation

I’ve been seeing a lot of amazing posts lately thanking fanfic writers for that good, good content that we’re all disappearing into right now. And I love these posts, and FUCK YES, the healing power of art during these rough times, it can’t be said enough. But I feel like there’s something missing from these posts, and that’s the readers.

A lovely friend of mine recently shared something with the caveat that they “contribute basically nothing to fandom” and I was fucking floored. Like. This person has made playlists for fic, and shared art, and reached out to me to talk about my stories and other stories and like - that is the Work. They made me feel like my shitty writing was good enough to share, and that made me write more, and connected me with more people, and that sort of contribution doesn’t get acknowledged enough. I don’t write fiction because I have to, or for the likes or hits or whatever; I write it because I have a story I want to tell. On the days when my brain is cooperating, writing is a pleasure. On the days when my brain isn’t cooperating, comments from readers make my words feel meaningful anyway. This isn’t a one-way street, a producer/consumer situation. Or at least, it doesn’t feel like that to me.  And my best writing has been done when people are holding me accountable, or are pushing me to do better and I’m so grateful for that. And so grateful for you.

So. To the readers who comment on every chapter. To the readers who leave thoughtful essays in the comments and the readers who leave 😭❤️😱 or keysmashes. To the readers who are inspired for the first time to make art or write something themselves. To the readers who leave kudos. To the readers too anxious to comment (I’ve been there, sat in a space where I had no idea how to express how a story made me feel) and the fandom ghosts who dip in and read and vanish.

To readers who like or reblog or share or rec or send messages or don’t do any of these things.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for building this community.

Thank you for reading.

DM, out of nowhere: Just out of curiosity, do you trust [NPC]?

Me:

Me: I DID UNTIL NOW?!

DM: *laughs* interesting

Bro valued becoming his Scale-sona more than his daughter

"Misako is the worst Ninjago parent-"

DID YOU ALL FORGET MASTER CHEN??? THE GUY WHO WAS WILLING TO LET HIS DAUGHTER DIE SO LONG AS HE COULD HAVE POWER? HE DIDN'T EVEN FLINCH WHEN GARMADON THREATENED SKYLOR MAN. HE DID NOT CARE WHAT HAPPENED TO SKYLOR !!!!!