☽✦☼✦☾ Sunny Nap ☽✦☼✦☾

For his birthday padfoot is giving out little kisses to his friends

Remus Lupin, a quiet visual arts student, had always preferred solitude and sketchbooks over social gatherings.

However, during an end of semester performance showcase, he found himself in a darkened theater, his eyes glued to the stage as Sirius Black, the star of the performing arts program, took center stage, commanding attention with effortless grace and raw, genuine expressions.

The performance left Remus breathless as he realized that art could live and breathe, just as Sirius did on stage.

Remus had always appreciated beauty in art, but this moment made him see it in a whole new way

A wolfstar raising Harry piece I commissioned from @tamehill, I look at it everyday so I figured I’d post it here so other people can enjoy it too. 😊

What to do if You Don’t Like an Author’s Fanfic or Take on a Trope:

Stop reading.

Find another fanfic that is more suitable to your tastes.

Read that one instead.

Bonus tip If you’re considering sending the author unsolicited messages about how much you disliked their fic, consider one of the following options instead:

Don’t.

Get a life.

thinking

prints available here!

INPRNT

Thinking, an art print by Joe C.

This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

reasons criticizing fanfics publicly is lame

lets go over this again shall we?

it is not appropriate to give constructive criticism of fanfiction unless explicitly asked by the author. lots of authors are not interested in improving their writing, they are doing this for the goofs. the laughs. the giggling-good-times. giving people constructive criticism on fanfiction is a bit like if someone gave you a home made birthday card and in front of a room full of people you began to critique it. that social awkwardness? that is what you should feel when you start criticizing fanfiction

"I don't like" is not constructive criticism. it is not critical thinking. if you use the sentence "i don't like" in an academic paper you will fail. what you like is not an objective fact. it is a feeling. which you are allowed to have but which means nothing about the object of your dislike. now, to refer to point one, even if criticism IS constructive, still not appropriate here, but the amount of people who are confusing not liking something with being critical is truly baffling.

i have said this before and i will say it again. just because you have the opportunity to do something, does not mean you are right for doing it. for example, people love to say that if you post things online then you are giving people the right to criticize it. to which i say: no. i am giving you the opportunity. the same way that when i walk out my door i give people on the street the opportunity to shout terrible things at me. that doesn't mean you aren't still an asshole for taking that opportunity. just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do something.

assuming that fanfics should be open to criticism is treating them like published works and is treating fandom like a goods and services economy. we are not consumers consuming products, we are meant to be a community of people with similar interests sharing things. a timeless, but always relevant, metaphor for this, is that fandom is a potluck not a restaurant. you wouldn't go to a potluck and start talking about the food the way you might at a restaurant.

not 2 sound horribly naive or whatever, but maybe just be kind? like, it's not very hard. maybe just don't get on the internet and be an entitled superior asshat. idk man.

sleepless nights but a beautiful sunrise

Remus comforts Harry <3

the moon (y)

older wolfstar mess