Hi, all! I'm Lynn! 30+, and my pronouns are she/her. This is my all purpose blog for fandoms, memes, photos, text posts and everything under the sun! If you have any questions, my askbox is open!
For those who are new to my blog, or those who haven’t talked to me in a while, here’s what I’d like to tell you about myself!
Username: alynnl
Nicknames: Lynn, ALynn, or “Sue” by some people
Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 30+ A Fandom Old still hanging around another day
Current Interests (as of March 2024:) Ace Attorney series, Discworld series, Sherlock Holmes Short Stories + Novels, Terry Pratchett’s Nation, Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit, Cozy Grove, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Final Fantasy series, Octopath Traveler 1, Tales of Vesperia, Golden Sun + The Lost Age, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Red Dwarf (UK TV series) and many more! (Just ask)
Hobbies: Gaming, Reading, Fanfic (reading, commenting, brainstorming, writing), Other fanwork (memes, live reaction posting, fan theories, observations/meta, mood boards) Listening to music, Youtube Viewing, Hanging out/chatting with others on Tumblr and Discord, Basic cooking, occasional baking, spending time with my two dogs
About my blog: This is my main blog and it’s a combination of my personal thoughts, posts related to my interests, and sometimes serious real life matters. It’s a variety blog with everything all in one place, because I don’t have the time or motivation to divide all my posts into side blogs. I will try and tag serious real life posts accordingly with #life in a dystopia and #life in a pandemic respectively, and my creative endeavors with #Lynn’s writing. Also anything about my life will go under #Lynn speaks and #life with chronic illness. For the most part though, I am just here to have fun in my spare time and share my thoughts with the rest of y'all!
At a certain point game developers, in particular those that make action games, are gonna get over their fear of muscular women. Skintight skimpy outfits aside, you’re not making me believe that this woman who looks like she’s never eaten more than four saltine crackers in her life is a fierce warrior who can lift the heavy weaponry she uses with grace and agility. Let’s make a beefy woman and see how it goes and if some ppl don’t like it you can keep doing it anyway
It should 100% be illegal for companies to make you give them your payment information when you sign up for a free trial version of their product. It is not necessary and there is no good fucking reason for them to do it. It’s blatantly just so they can steal forgetful customers’ money.
Imo the best type of system for children to grow up in would be one that assumes the birth parents/primary guardians won't do shit and takes care of every aspect of childcare that's essential for their wellbeing and development, collectively.
But I'm just a guy who only learned how to brush his teeth properly and got glasses as a child because we had both a dentist and a doctor come to school on a regular basis. The dentist would have us all stand in a circle with our little toothbrushes and show us how to brush and correct our technique. The doctors would give us general health assessments and then have the teachers contact our patents and essentially peer pressure them into getting us any health intervention we needed. My parents only reluctantly got me glasses because they knew the teachers would judge them if they kept seeing me sit in the very front row and still squint to see the chalkboard. So I'm biased.
The only times I ever remember seeing a dentist or doctor as a child was at school. I'm quite healthy physically and I'm very grateful for all the care I got from the various professionals who cared about my well-being and development more than my actual parents did.
We had free healthcare including dental, mind you, my parents just couldn't be bothered. When my brother, as a teenager, asked our mother if she could take him to his orthodontist appointments (which he'd already arranged for on his own) she basically told him she didn't feel like it and he had to take the bus.
If I could improve anything about that system, I'd take it even further and make it so kids could see a doctor and get meds, treatments, therapy, tests, disability aids etc. without having to rely on their parents as well. I shouldn't have had to put up with being bullied and guilt-tripped about the family finances and the time investment needed to take me to the optometrist every time I needed new glasses.
Some parents would not take care of their children even if they were given all the time and the resources. Mine are a great example of that — my mother stopped working and became a homemaker when I was in kindergarten, my father worked from the garage and was also always home. They had a car and our village even had a bus that would come once or twice an hour that would take you to the next two bigger cities.
Did that, plus the free healthcare, translate into them actually parenting and caring for us properly? It did not. They only ever did any of that reluctantly when not doing it would make them look bad, and most of the time they did a shitty job because they could never resist the urge to boost their egos by means of bullying literal children.
So I have to wonder: what did they actually contribute to our upbringing? Like they didn't teach us shit and mostly they just endangered our mental and physical health — but hey, at least they gave me cPTSD! That took some work too.
It's a nice thought that with the proper support and resources, all parents could do a good job, but that kind of fails to account for all those who are essentially overgrown school bullies who despise their children, think they're subhuman and/or mostly only had them because they wanted to have complete power over someone who can't escape.
If children born to people like that can't still turn out ok, the system just isn't good enough.
As a society, we need to go back to understanding that strangers on the internet are, you know, strangers. I feel lately that I'm seeing a rise in 'An author I love blocked me because they took my comment the wrong way' posts on the ao3 subreddit, and then the comment is them calling the author a fucking bitch or something like that.
Don't do this. Tone doesn't translate well in text, and if you don't have a rapport with that author, they are not going to interpret, 'You're a fucking bitch' as, 'Author I hate you for being so talented and making me feel so keenly.' They're going to interpret it as you being an asshole. You can shit talk with your friends because you have an established relationship with them and can distinguish between playful banter and genuine anger. You do not have this with a stranger, no matter how much you like their fics. You will have a much more pleasant time in fandom and not get cockblocked from interacting with your favorite writers if you remember this.
#I don't often see comments like these when I'm reading a fic but there have been a few that made me raise an eyebrow#I don't know if I would block over someone calling me a bitch on a fic I wrote but I'd probs try to gently tell them it's not right#coz honestly I feel like this is an issue with younger age groups who are new to reading fics and might not understand fandom culture#or at least I hope it's younger people who simply don't know better 😬#otherwise... yikes
This isn't some esoteric niche aspect of fandom culture, strangers at the potluck also do not like being called a fucking bitch.
People in the comments like "you just need to add a /pos tone indicator to your comment!": strangers at the potluck do not like being told "You're a bitch!" with a smile and a thumbs up.
#when you set out for revenge dig two graves#unless you’re hamlet#in which case you’re going to want to rent a backhoe (x) YOU’RE NOT LEAVING THAT IN THE TAGS BUDDY
At the end of the day, my thoughts on job hunting are that it's incredibly stupid how every fiber of our current socioeconomic structure is screaming that you MUST have a job and nothing else matters because you MUST be working and that's the only thing of true importance so never forget that you MUST have a job, and I'm like damn okay so I'd like a job, can I have one? And the answer is No