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I signed up for an account to join the

smallfandomfest, but now that I'm here I guess I should post something? Anyway, I'm MerricatB and I'm seriously hyperfixated on Sense8 right now so any additional content is good content. I started writing fanfiction for the first time ever in March 2025 and have since published 23 fics! So you can find me on Ao3 if that's your thing. Or if you want to chat about Sense8, hit me up and I'll respond.

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From:

merricatb

OMG you are the absolute sweetest person in the world! Thank you so much for this warm welcome and making it a little less overwhelming :) I will definitely check everything out. Anything that feeds the sense8 brainrot is most helpful lol.

From:

maevedarcy

I love feeding the brainrot and making people find ways to put that brainrot into other things as well!

That reminds me, if you want, you can subscribe to the

sense8ao3feed_feed and everytime someone posts a new sense8 fic to AO3 you will see it in your Reading page. To see your reading page, just click where it says "Reading" under your username on the top left corner of the page. That's where you'll see evrything you've subscribed to. It's like your tumblr dashboard.

Also, you can go to communities and add /read at the end to see what all the memebers in that comm are posting on their journals and see if you get ideas on what to post or comms to join. No one told me this trick when I joined and I remember being so happy to see there were ways to find more people with similar interests!

Additionally, if you make a post to your journal about a fic you published, you can definitely crosspost to other communities following their formats. For example, you can make a post on your journal with your latest Rajalangang fic, but also make the same post to

polyamships and promote the fic there as well. Most comms will have templates already for you to use so things are even easier for you!

And finally, the character limit on DW is HUGE, meaning you can definitely, totally write endless rambles and/or fics on DW itself.

Okay, that's it. I'll let you discover things on your own, but I honestly stumbled into using DW for more than just exchange letters and I wish someone had told me there's so much to do and explore if you just click on things lol

From:

merricatb

Oh you mean not everybody just refreshes a filtered AO3 search for sense8 20 times a day for new content like I do? LOL That's very good to know, thank you!

I'm beginning to realize DW is much more vast than I initially thought. I have no idea how active I'll be here but I'm so, so excited about any fests with sense8 options and prompts. I appreciate you suggesting it and being my tour guide here. If you enjoy making them and want to give me some icons (and probably tell me what to do with them too lol) it would be most appreciated. :)

From:

maevedarcy

Some (admittedly simple) sense8 icons for you. You can just upload them where it says "create" and now you have different icons to show some personality when you comment or something. You can see that now I selected a different icon to comment to show that you can stay in your same account but have different fannish interests ready to go.