You can take the boy out of Ferelden, but can’t take the Ferelden out of the boy.
This is a sort of continuation of this post I made almost exactly a year ago. It started getting notes again for some reason and reminded me that I was suppose to draw this next.
Hey all you wonderful people, I’m giving you a chance to win one of these pieces I did for inktober! I’ll be giving away 4, with a little something extra for the first place winner. So it will go like this:
First Place: Your choice of any one of the above 7 drawings, AND I’ll draw a portrait of your Warden/Hawke/Inquisitor or any other Dragon Age related character, similar to the style of the works above.
Second-Fourth Place: Your choice of one of the remaining drawings, after the previous winner has made their choice.
1. you must be a follower because it’s a follower contest, but new followers are OK
2. I will contact you through your tumblr so make sure your askbox is open. You’ll have 48 hours to respond once I contact you or I will move on to the next person.
3. I’ll need somewhere to mail these too so I’ll need your mailing address. I’m in the US but I will ship anywhere!
4. Enter as many times as you’d like. Winners will be chosen by random number generator and announced on November 4th.
I probably forgot something so if you have any questions feel free to ask! Thanks followers and good luck!
It is not surprising news that fanfiction writers are highly underappreciated.
There’s something wrong with the numbers: let’s take a popular fic with almost 4k hits. For let’s say 700 readers, it will get about 50 comments and 300 Kudos (those numbers are just an example, sometimes it’s worse than that). Maybe I’m being too kind, maybe not, but things stay the same; there’s something wrong here. Can you see it?
It takes us days, weeks, sometimes months to write a story for you. We write for ourselves yes, but we also write to share. We write to offer you content about your favourite characters. We write to bring our and your ships to life. It takes you a fraction of second to leave a Kudos, ten seconds to one, two or a few minutes to leave a comment.
And here lies our problem: there’s no proper sharing if there’s no proper feedback. An author not getting comments is generally a sad author. If I didn’t get feedback I’d wonder what’s the point in keeping on writing. A comment makes a writer’s day, most of the time even motivates them to write more.
Another important thing thrandythefabulous and I noticed: why on Earth do so many readers don’t comment (even kudos) if the fic has been up for a little more than a week or two? Why? Your feedback is still welcomed and much appreciated.
We write for ourselves, but also we write for you. And sadly, many readers are being quite… ungrateful, when giving feedback is the least they can do to thank the people offering them stories for free.
So, before we get started on our little day, let’s talk about comments:
It doesn’t matter if other readers already said what you wanted to say, we’ll still love reading it again in your words.
It doesn’t matter the fic has been up for weeks or months or years; comments on those ones are unexpected and so, it makes them ever better.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have much to say, we’ll be glad anyway.
Most authors leave the comment section open to people who don’t have an Archive of Our Own (AO3) account, which means you can still… comment! How amazing is that.
That brings us to our little Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day.
The point of this day is simple; on August 21st, writers and readers alike would go on AO3 (or any fanfiction website really), on Tumblr, and leave a comment on their favourite fics (even the fics they enjoyed!) and/or send their authors a message about their works.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve already or never commented. It doesn’t matter if the author doesn’t know about this post. It doesn’t matter if the author already knows how much you love their work.
Just let writers know you love the fics they write for you, simple as that!
And well, don’t forget to keep leaving a Kudos and a comment in the future, and make writers happy!
I’ll definitely be participating! I think all of you are so amazing, and I want you to know it.
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