tea-and-liminality:

This is for all the unsung fic writers; the ones who don’t make the must-read lists, the ones who don’t get recced, the ones who don’t get hundreds of kudos, the rarepair writers out on the peripheries of fandom, the ones who toil away quietly for the handful of people who read and love them. You matter – you’re a writer too, and don’t you ever forget it. 🙂

cymbalism:

I’ve been remiss in articulating my personal appreciation for fellow fanfic writers these past few—oh—years, so it’s pretty much imperative I take the time to do so today. 

Simply put: thank you. Thank every single one of you for providing me with escape, entertainment, humor, heartache, and (of course) smut. Thank you for being the thing I turn to when I need a moment of mental escape during my workdays. Thank you for curling up in bed with me as I nod off to sleep each night. Thank you for keeping alive characters and relationships long dead in canon and continually reinventing them in AUs. I’m never over the tropes, the first kisses and first times, the hurt/comfort and catharsis, the angst, the fluff, and the fucking incredible sex. I’m here for it. For you. For all of it. Probably always. 

Earlier this year I set about compiling rec lists for all the fandoms I’ve read broadly in over the years (completed lists include Merlin, Star Trek, and Newsies). Some of the fics are ancient in internet years, but they are the ones that’ve stuck in my memory and my heart and I am so. friggin’. thankful. for every one of the authors on these lists. 

If you follow that link you’ll find that, sadly, I’ve not yet begun the deep unearthing required to build a comprehensive SPN rec list, and I confess to being desperately behind in reading contemporary fic for this fandom, but there’s a goddamn lot of talent out there that I look forward to getting better acquainted with and think it’s fair to pre-thank you all for giving me so much to look forward to. I’m also forever in awe of the folks in this fandom whose words and works never fail to impress and intimidate and inspire. 

Keep writing, guys. Keep resisting and reinventing and re-envisioning. You’re brilliant. And you’re so, so appreciated.