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I too love the excerpts. I also really like the excerpt redux, and would not at all mind eventually seeing three or four past excerpts in a day that are from the past couple years.
Thank youuu!
It’s something I really want to do, but I don’t have the time to queue them up these days. So without extra help on the blog, we probably won’t be able to go further back in time with the excerpts for now.
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Honestly, I love all your work and whatever you put on the page I’d be happy to see! I do love the story excerpts as they are one of the first things I read when I get to work and it brightens my day!
It’s the best feeling in the world to hear that people appreciate the excerpts I do! I know I might eventually have to taper them off, or find another way to update daily, just because we might run out of stuff we’ve written ahead because of real life obligations (the horror)
FLUFF
ALL THE FLUFF
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an easier way to find story links on mobile
I know this response came in after I posted the last update, so I’m going to link you right back to it, where the first bulletpoint is about what we’re changing.
If that’s not enough for you, there’s no other way for it on tumblr with the mobile limitations. Feel free to visit my deviantart, where I took the time to arrange all the story links to all the different sites.
I’m trash for anything you write tbh. XD.
I love you, never leave
Keep doin whatcha doin
You too
More art of the brothers
That art costs me $$, of which I have none. We accept all fanart to the blog, but actually commissioning artwork for the stories happens when the writers have inspiration and money.
Links to fanwork of ba and other stories from all platforms. Maybe a complete masterlist of all deviant art and ao3 fanworks?
Working on it, hopefully.
So, after the survey (which is still going on so feel free to put in your two cents!), I’ve found a few changes we can make.
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I really like the excerpts, both the daily ones and the longer sneak peek ones. If you wanted to add more of the fanart/commissioned art into the queue again, that would also be pretty nice.
I’ll keep that in mind when working on the queue! It hasn’t been quite as active since our help has been busy in rl, but I’ve been managing at least one queue’d post a day, plus excerpts. It’s great to hear so many people like the excerpts! I get worried when there’s so few notes, especially with how much work I put into those.
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More sneak peaks! ; )
Whenever we can! We just don’t want to give everything away 😉
BROTHER’S CONSULTED :DDDD
What a fun storyline! We’ve got more on the way for sure, I’m actually working on editing the next story in the series so we can hopefully have it ready for the next poll!
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I’m not 100% sure what’s up there now but things I don’t think are on there that I’d like to see: – a post for when a story is posted on DA and AO3 that I can reblog as a fic rec. With summary and characters etc. I think it would also raise awareness for the series and get it out to a wider audience, which would be awesome because everyone should read it. – A kofi link? – A link to a commissions page – A page that lists all the related authors and betas and artists so I can follow all of them – also maybe a record of contest winners of old – schedule of events for the year including contest and when each new survey for the next published story will be – links to BA on every platform – a pretty theme
This is just the kind of response I’m looking for ❤ I’ll have to split it up to answer.
a post for when a story is posted on DA and AO3 that I can reblog as a fic rec. With summary and characters etc. I think it would also raise awareness for the series and get it out to a wider audience, which would be awesome because everyone should read it.
We used to do this, back in the beginning, but a lot of those posts tended to get ignored/no one was reblogging. Like I said in the last post, I think I’ll look back into it, now that I have a format that looks good on posts that I use on the main story masterpost page (link only works on desktops).
I’ll see what I can come up with over the weekend when I’m not busy, and maybe a post or two for the older stories, like the original Brothers Apart. We love if people reblog our posts! Getting the word out is the main goal of this blog, but we rarely see reblogs, mostly likes.
A kofi link?
I’ll try and get some HTML over the weekend to put the ko-fi link up on the header. I’ve been putting it off. The ko-fi page is here, if anyone’s interested before I have the time to get it up, to support the art for the stories and/or broke creator of BA.
A link to a commissions page
I don’t have a completely organized page for the commissions, but we do have a tag for them on the tumblr. It’s hard because not all of them are posted on this site, especially if we got them for story parts that aren’t published yet. If you want to see the deviantart commissions, check out the folder I have on Deviantart, and browse the commissoned art tag on tumblr.
Of course, reblogging the commissions we’ve gotten supports both us and the original artist!
A page that lists all the related authors and betas and artists so I can follow all of them
I actually had this like, half under construction before life went nuts and things got busy. I’ll get to finishing it! *Puts back on to-do list*
also maybe a record of contest winners of old
I think I had one before, I’ll dig around the older posts to see, and make one if not.
schedule of events for the year including contest and when each new survey for the next published story will be
I haven’t done this yet because it’s hard to know for sure when the next story will post, but I guess I can just change the dates if something comes up?? Maybe. Will consider options for a calendar.
links to BA on every platform
Got this on the main tumblr page (a deep abiding hatred for tumblr mobile, which renders all of this work unreachable):
There are links to all platforms, and if any links ever break, send me a message or ask and I’ll fix them!
There is also a page like this on my deviantart, which is visible on phones. *Shakes fist at tumblr*
a pretty theme
I did recently update the main tumblr theme, but the mobile one isn’t as friendly for changes. Did anyone have any ideas? I wanted to stick close to the darker colors to keep the foreboding Supernatural atmoshpere we have going.
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links to the new chapters on the page – but I understand that that may be far too many new links. perhaps the first chapters and every ten afterwards so people can go directly to the story?
Hmm, it’s too much work to do one every chapter, that’s for sure. But I do make a masterpost over here, and I could probably manage a post per story that I reblog every so often while the story is posting, and then occasionally afterwards to remind people. I’ll have to look into it over the weekend, maybe I’ll make some posts for the older stories while I have extra time (after the baby shower I got pulled into going to for a girl I don’t know)
Oh and if you didn’t know, there are links on the main tumblr page, but they can only be used by the desktop tumblr because mobile tumblr is a butt.
Each AU page has a listing of all the stories and links to each website they’re posted on. But I’ll still do that post, too, since that could be seen on mobile.
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Personally, I love seeing the answered questions and the excerpts, but I would love to see some more sneak peaks! I’m so excited to see what happens with everyone!
It’s great to hear that you love the excerpts! (It takes a lot of time getting them ready 😮
but I have fun trying to find ones that’ll be the most fun and give the least away).
We have some fun plans in store for our guys in the different AUs, that’s for sure. I’m not sure how many sneak peeks we’ll be able to put up without giving everything away, but if anyone ever sends up in a guess or a headcanon that we’re planning on having in the story, we’ll put up a snippet of what we’ve written 😉
More art and Headcannons
Well, the art is a little hard, since none of the authors are artists! Though I can always fill the feed with original fractal art if you’re looking for that 😉 If anyone ever illustrates a scene or character from the stories, it’ll be featured on the blog, and we’re always looking for artists to commission when we have a little money left over.
Headcanons are great! The main issue is, if I come up with a headcanon, it usually becomes canon for the story, and stops being a headcanon!
Ex: I think Dean would steal Sherlock’s shoelaces if he’s looking for a way to subtly piss him off.
And we all know how that one went in Study!
A headcanon I have on the same subject: If Sherlock pisses Dean off enough, his phone might just relocate mysteriously into the walls, and Dean will punch in a call from John’s phone and just leave it to ring while the detective goes nuts.
Be sure to send your headcanons in! These stories run on ideas and energy from the authors and the fans! We’re all in this together.
Brothers Apart 