Hey guys, an AO3 tag wrangler here with a small suggestion for making the lives of wranglers and the Abuse volunteers and all your fellow users a little easier. You know that impulse to post a “PROMPT ME, I WILL TAKE ANY OF THESE 50 SHIPS IN 30 FANDOMS” work?
Please don’t. These make everyone cry.
Look at all those fandoms and ship tags… that this work doesn’t apply to! Look at the fact that this isn’t even a work yet! Look at all those tags you’re asking wranglers to wrangle, usually not the existing canonicals, that appear in the bins of 30 different wrangling teams, flooding the smaller teams and annoying the big ones! Look at the Abuse volunteers getting 3 reports for your work in the first day and having to talk to you and reply to each of those people!
Aw yeah, AO3 has prompt memes and allows personal collections! Imagine your personal prompt collection:
Control when it’s open and closed!
Post a link in the notes of all your works!
Post a link on your blog and your AO3 profile!
Post the things you’ll accept in the Rules/FAQ section of the collection!
Use claims or gifts to notify the prompter when you’ve posted a work for their prompt!
Easily delete prompts that don’t follow your rules!
Post each work separately and gift each one to the prompter to build relationships and encourage interest from new fans who just noticed your work!
So much control, so much useful organization, so many fewer frustrated users finding a work with two chapters, neither of which applies to most of the relationships or fandoms tags. Why burn your bridges with some users when you’re trying for positive attention for your works?
Just imagine it: “[YourName]′s Personal Prompt Meme*”. Your name on a collection on AO3. All for you.
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Whether you are in NYC now or not, please copy/paste/share! It doesn’t take much effort on your part and could immensely help those in need.
I decided to share a note I wrote to myself a few months ago that I intended to be a suicide note but then turned into me expressing how I felt about my actions toward myself.
I want to help others not feel so alone and just be a person someone can relate to and understand. So please, if you can, continue reading. But also I want you to be safe so if you feel like you can’t continue, please don’t. Recovery is a bitch but you can do it.
“It is my biggest dream for you to love yourself the way you love the people around you. You spend so much energy on them and making sure they know how much you love them, but why can’t you put some of that energy into yourself?
I wish you would stop looking at yourself in the mirror and wishing that you looked like that girl you saw on instagram earlier.
I wish you would stop worrying about if you look ugly to the people around you.
I wish you didn’t feel like you have to make yourself throw up and starve in order to be skinny enough for society.
I wish you didn’t get super anxious every time the nurse tells you to step on the scale.
I wish you didn’t feel like you have to put a razor to your skin to punish yourself for things you can’t control.
I wish the marks on your leg and arm didn’t hold you back from going swimming with your best friends and just enjoying yourself.
I just wish you would stop caring what everyone thinks of you and wondering what they see.
I wish you didn’t look at your face in the mirror and immediately tear up because you wish you were prettier.
I wish you wouldn’t stay up until 4 am thinking about suicide and how you would do it.
I wish you didn’t cry all night thinking about how people would react if you killed yourself.
I wish you wouldn’t cut yourself and think “what if I just pressed a little harder and ended it all?”
I wish you wouldn’t trace your veins with the razor hoping to accidentally slip and go deeper.
I wish you wouldn’t not care about that fact that you haven’t eaten anything and it’s already 5pm.
I wish you didn’t feel worthless.
I wish you believed in yourself.
I wish you didn’t feel uncomfortable about your sexuality.
There are so many things that you do that I wish you didn’t, but my opinions are always washed out by the negative thoughts and opinions.
I feel like I will not win.
I may be the light in your mind, but I now feel like I’m losing.
My light is getting dimmer and I have no power.
At least one thing I know from being in your head for so long is that you have a beautiful soul and a kind heart.
I just wanted to let you know that before I diminish completely.
I hope you recognize this beauty someday and spread your love and kind words.
Uplift others and bring me back to life.”
If you’ve made it this far, I’d really like to hear your thoughts. My dms are always open.
I also crave validation so just small words of encouragement are greatly appreciated 🙂
I really like this gif because Stitch does that little squinty thing that animals do when they’re really happy and relaxed and you can tell that he’s having such a superb time playing that little ukulele
Hi! Oh, I’m so excited!! Um…prompts…im not exactly sure, it would kinda depend on the pairing? Like for Briensa, I’d always thought it’d be cool to have Sansa as Queen of the North or on the Iron Throne post canon and Brienne is the Commander of the Queensguard and Sansa’s most trusted confidante. (I’m sorry I can’t remember the other ships I put down XD) As for tropes, I absolutely love angst; like feel free to whump on the characters as much as you want. but it has to have a happy ending. (Emotional) hurt/comfort is another favorite(though id prefer you stayed away from cheating). Fluff and angst. I also really really love when one character is injured/sick and the other takes care of them? Bonus points if the injured character is super stubborn? Mutual pining, slow burn, and friends to lovers are all really good too. Ummmmm…that’s about all I can think of for now. But feel free to ask me as many questions as you like!
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