This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞
The email from Wattpad is so condescending imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑
Hey I just wanna quickly say that you only get these if someone reports the story. I’ve barely updated on Wattpad in the past two years and haven’t gotten any of these, mostly because I don’t even have an audience over there who has the potential or drive to report my fics. So, corporate greed is bad, yes, but it’s also readers being buttheads
Hmm, that’s interesting! You know what happens if someone reports a story for being incomplete on AO3? Jack shit, because not churning out content for your fun little hobby is not a reportable offense on AO3! And that’s because, unlike Wattpad, AO3 isn’t profiting off of your work, either directly or indirectly, and so when readers are buttheads, the AO3 abuse mods ignore them, instead of sending out weird automated messages harassing writers for daring to have a wip.
what I love about tumblr blaze is that it forces people to realize how insulated their bubbles are. tumblr IS really good at allowing users to curate their own personalized experiences, but it also means that people start to think that the drama, opinions, and experiences of their little online sphere is shared by the majority of tumblr (it’s not), so when they blaze their posts they’re just airing their dirty laundry to people that are outside of their echo chamber, and dealing with the consequences of people not automatically agreeing with them. and let me tell you it is delicious to watch
Folks announcing they’re leaving Tumblr because they’re unhappy with the Twitter clone dashboard on desktop. (I don’t blame you, it’s broken af.) Meanwhile, the day this hellsite finally does close, staff are going to have to pry me out of the air vents like a rabid raccoon that’s adapted to survive on drinking air conditioning coolant and whatever trash is left lying around in the breakroom.
There is a huge problem with American fans demanding that everything has to always carter to them and their social issues.
They see a show with a character who is a cop or similar occupation, who are shown in a positive light, and they instantly scream it’s propaganda. When in the country the show comes from there aren’t any problems with corruption like in the US.
Or they see an anime and whine about not having more of a diverse cast in regards of ethnicity to carter to a wider audience, when the show is supposed to specifically carter to Asians and so the cast is Asian.
The same goes when a show specifically talks about social issues in a different country, where many vocals American fans either try to make it about the US or dismiss it and even make fun of it as if it weren’t a real problem when it does not reflect their personal experiences.
And that same problem happens in fanworks as well, where non-American fans get hate for making fanworks that American’s deem problematic in their cultural view as if non-American have any reason to know what might be going on in the US at the moment.
I’m sorry that things aren’t going well in the US and you all have the right to talk about the issues that you have. But stop expecting everyone else to carter to you in fandom spaces. Other countries also have problems and not everyone in the world can keep up or cares what might be going on in the US when they do not live there.
Size Kink, Fluff and Smut, Friends to Lovers, Oral Sex, Coming In Pants, Hob Gadling Has a Big Dick, Deepthroating, Come Swallowing, Come Shot, Caretaking, Porn with Feelings
“You are always welcome,” Hob had said, with such warmth in his voice that Dream had listed towards him like a pale fern grown in darkness, starved for the sun. “Any time, day or night. My home is your home.”
After the Dream Vortex, after Desire, after the Corinthian, Dream is drawn back to warmth, and comfort, and safety, to Hob.
“Dont drink coffee after 2 PM” is such a neurotypical issue that sounds made up. Such a thing couldnt happen to me, ADHD Georg, who has coffee past 9:30 PM and can still fall asleep freely because I have a natural toxicity resistance to caffeine.
“OooOooOoOh I cant haev cofee so late otherwise I’ll be up all night” sounds like a skill issue
some adhd peeps have paradoxical caffeine reactions like me, so i take caffeine when i am struggling to sleep so i can finally relax enough to sleep
Student dream getting fucked for a good grade?? All well and good until he cant stop thinking about his teachers dick!! He goes on a bit of a slut binge but no guys his age can compare :/ he tries to come onto hob again but hes completely oblivious so dream has to step things up... his logic is that if hob will only fuck him to bring up his grade? He just has to keep failing!! That one time WAS really just a fluke!! Dream was having a bad semester but hes usually an A student. Its very obvious hes trying hard to fail in a "believeable" way to the point where hob realizes theres something up... he talks to dream about it, actually genuinely concerned this time, and dream gets genuinely UPSET hes not bent over the desk already!! He ends up going off on hob, just basically ranting about it and how hes been RUINED and nobody else is good anymore and hob didnt even notice him sitting in his pretty new slut outfits in the front row!! Hes quite frankly offended!! Hob goes 😶 bc... he.. didnt notice bc hes just so horny for dream ALL THE TIME and didnt want to encourage a sexual relationship when he was already catching feelings for a student half his age... good thing dream has all the electives done for history now so they can put the paperwork in!!! Maybe wait a year tho to avoid.. suspicions.. 😂😂
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Assddfggghj yes!!!!!!
I’m obsessed with Hob not noticing Dream’s new slutty appearance, not because he doesn’t care, but because he’s just SO...
Thief Hob hears about some abandoned old castle that has some riches but it’s apparently cursed or something. No one wants to go near it, but they say it’s full of treasure. The royal family once lived there. There are rumors. The queen took her son and fled from the king. Some say the king killed his queen and son in a fit of rage. Others say they all perished due to an enemy plot. Either way, it’s empty and likely full of ghosts.
Hob doesn’t believe in that shit so he sneaks into the dilapidated old ruin one night in search of enough coin that he won’t ever work again. He walks through these empty dusty rooms and all that he disturbs are ravens that shoot up and out the broken windows. He thinks he is alone.
But he isn’t.
Hob comes to a stop in front of what looks like a bedroom and there is an abandoned jewelry box on a lady’s vanity stuffed full of gems and precious metals. Hob starts to open it—
Shadows creep off the walls and catch his hands against the vanity, pinning him down. Cold breath tickles the back of his neck. “You dare steal from me?”
More shadows twine around his waist and ankles. He feels a lean form towering over him, pressing close against his back, and he gasped at the sight of a beautiful, terrifying bone-pale face in the mirror behind him.
Dream has been bereft, alone for so long since his wife and child died. Grief has warped him into something other than human. It has been so long since he met another person. He usually kills trespassers there is something about this thief that compels him.
Up to you what happens next…
Ohhhhh yes. Very very good.
Hob has a quick tongue, fortunately, and he quickly begins to weave excuses. He was just curious, he explains. He didn’t...
AU where Dream can’t manifest his creations by himself, they need to incubate and be born from humanity, so he has an arrangement with this village to provide essentially brood mares for him: once every couple of years someone is chosen, Dream gives them an out-of-this-world night of passion, impregnates them (even if male-shaped, it’s no issue for the Shaper of Form), they carry a dreamkin for nine months and give birth to it, then Dream returns to carry away his new child and the human parent is honored as a bearer of dreams, god-touched and bringer of prosperity.
Hob has been head over heels for Dream ever since he caught his first glimpse of the god as a teenager, and wants nothing more than to be chosen. But no one is even considered an option until they’re in their late 20s-early 30s at least, so Hob has to wait. To bide his time, he devotes himself to assisting with the pregnancies, caring for the human parents and helping with the births, and longing for the opportunity to experience it all for himself.
Finally, his patience is rewarded and Hob is chosen, he knows everything it is possible to humanly know about the process, and he is so unbelievably excited to sleep with the man of his dreams and to be pregnant.
His Body is Ready.
Dream has known of Hob a little, hard not to when the man has involved himself so throughly in the growth and birth of his children, but apart from choosing him when the time was right as a reward for his years of service (an attractive man so devoted to the birth of Dream’s precious children deserves to have his back blown out by a god at least once, as a treat), Dream hadn’t given Hob much thought. So he is completely taken by surprise by not only the adoration in Hob’s eyes for him, but also Hob’s eagerness specifically to be impregnated. Most chosen are happy and willing for the honor and respect given to the god-touched, the rest are eager to experience their promised night of passion, but until now no one has shown much particular enthusiasm for the pregnancy itself—it’s usually seen as the price to pay for the aforementioned. This, Hob, is completely unprecedented.
Hob is railed all night long and knocked up, and Dream finds himself visiting throughout the pregnancy more often than he ever has before, curious to see if the shine has worn off for Hob in the face of the reality of the experience. Hob, not only finding it bloody fantastic, is also thrilled to have the opportunity to spend even more time with Dream, as well as get a chance ask about Dream’s children, both the ones he helped deliver and the ones who came before him.
(Dreamkin are not barred from their human parents, they visit in dreams as much or as little as each desire, but even the parents who see their children often and regularly don’t really show much interest in the other dreamkin, the ones they didn’t bear. In the face of Hob’s interest, Dream didn’t stand a chance.)
By the time Hob gives birth, glad to bring his child into the world but already sad that it’s over, Dream is decided, and takes both his new child and Hob back with him. He thanks the village for their generations of service and dedication, he promises them continued prosperity for another thousand years, but he will no longer be requiring their services. Hob will be bearing his children for the foreseeable future.
Legends are told hereafter of the mortal who became a fertility god, who watches over childbirth and the dreams of children, and statues of Dream are forever accompanied by statues of Hob, either pregnant or holding a child or both.
The dreamkin are ecstatic to welcome Hob as their new stepfather, both for how happy he makes Dream, and because many of them remember hearing his voice in the womb, just as often as their human parents, remember his face as the first they saw after entering the world, know how much care he gave to each parent during pregnancy. They’re all eager to return the favor for their future siblings.
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The way I am DEEPLY obsessed with this. Holy shit. Hob becoming a fertility God is going to eat my brain for the rest of time.
Oh my gosh, I am in LOVE with "Once Upon a Time", Dream and Hob's dynamic slowly mirroring Orpheus and Robyn was just *chef's kiss*
Is there any chance we'll see any more from this universe? Just curious (and greedy lol) especially because my heart broke when Dream asked Hob about being seen with him and not keeping him a secret, and I'm curious the story behind that. (Plus I just in general adore your writing and this au grabbed me by the throat at the first sentence)
<3 five-and-dimes
The thing with Dream is that a) Calliope’s family never approved and b) he has a bit of a history of being Stunningly Attractive to his partners...
