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icant get over that “being mad that someone else likes your interests is a trauma response” you can just be a bitch sometimes

rumbleball-remade

sometimes our feelings arent justified who cares. be a little bit petty and childish its not the end of the world if you cant match every emotion you have with something in the dsm5

agnesmontague

…i really hope im just restating the obvious here, but i really hope no one is reading fandom metas (including my own, which seem to have been having a bit of a renaissance in the notes at the moment) like they’re peer-reviewed academic essays that “correctly” dissect the meaning of the source text? like it’s usually just the meta writer’s own take on the text, right. about 80% of all fandom meta posts out there have more thought put into them than the writers of the source material ever put into their text

by writing fandom metas a lot of folks are deriving our own, subjective, personal interpretations on the media, NOT taking the text apart and excavating nuggets of authorial intent or hidden meanings deliberately planted there, and certainly not giving the writers “more credit” for their work than they might have put into it in the first place. this goes for all media btw

iamnmbr3

#This is something I’m grappling with a lot#after learning that a lot of the things I was passionate about were jokes or mistakes or completely forgotten by the authors#and it’s hard not to feel..ashamed? of having so many feelings about something not part of the author’s story#but it can be part of MY story and part of how I enjoy it and I can give myself credit for that (tags via @dathen)

Exactly! Sometimes fandom is like building sculpture out of scrap metal. Maybe before it was meaningless junk but we’ve taken it and created something new and imbued it with meaning.

derinthescarletpescatarian

It’s worth pointing out that this is how stories are supposed to work. We’re not supposed to say anything because it might “ruin the magic” or whatever, but it’s extremely common for authors to know not much more about their characters than what is on the page. There’ll always be a bit more – background stuff that turned out to be too irrelevant to fit, an understanding of how they’d act in certain situations that never made it to the page – but in general, the page is the end point of the writer’s character generation and the start point of the reader’s. This is considered good and efficient writing practice, and frankly, readers who read FAQs or whatever express disappointment that the author isn’t also thinking like a fan and say this ruins the story for them are a lot like people who watch videos on how magic tricks are done and then complain that the magicians don’t have real actual magic. (Like… if you want to keep the illusion that the story’s real, don’t peek behind the curtain?)

Point is, unless you have an unusually obsessed author like Tolkein or a particularly uninterested reader, the reader’s understanding of the story is almost always going to be far more complete than the author’s. This is because the author doesn’t get to see the ending of character generation. We do the rough cuts and then hand it to the reader to fix in post, and the story isn’t complete until it has been received and interpreted. And different readers are going to finish it in different ways, according to their personalities, aptitudes and preferences. Some will communicate what they find with each other and do further work, and some will keep it in their heads and move on; in either case, the person who ends up knowing the least about the world is the author. This is just how storytelling works.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

stop forgiving my crimes i worked so hard on those

bot-imagines

mister-scream

Knockout, watching Breakdown go ham after Bulkhead's 'mine's bigger' comment: I love my giant idiot husband :')

Breakdown, watching Knockout run his mouth at high command because his commentary Simply Cannot Wait: I love my tiny idiot husband :')

thewiglesswonder

Skeks squinting

polystyrenequeen

me: hey do you think i could do this work

adhd: hmmmm no :) you’re going to plan an entire novel in your head and think about nothing but how excited you are to write it :)

me: okay well i finally have some free time now, so do you think i could write the novel:

adhd: sorry i forgot to mention, you’ve just forgotten every thought you ever had :( also your motivation is dead now lol

astriiformes

my dad just walked in, asked me “what do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?” and left

sabrinanightmaren

Since this meme is being done everywhere, did ya’ll forget who had the biggest rack in TFP 😳💦💦

theskywaslookingback

This isnt a joke my favorite piece of writing advice that I’ve ever seen is someone that said if you were stuck with a fic and couldn’t figure out why or what was wrong, your problem is actually usually about ten sentences back. Maybe there was something wonky about the tone or the dialogue or you added something that didn’t fit but it’s usually ten sentences back. And every single time I get stuck in a fic I count back ten sentences and it’s always fucking there

cwritesfiction

If you write yourself into a corner, back out of the corner.

tarrmacktaxi

lovecore this. cottagecore that. what about the reactor core its going to explode

rookdaw

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

teaboot

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

teaboot

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

edgar-allan-possum

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

elidyce

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in.

*A couple of months later*

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit.

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure.

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family.

voidcenturyscholar-deactivated2

Post canon Toph who doesn’t want to go back to her shitty parents so she just decides to stay in the Fire Nation and bum off Zuko’s hospitality.

Zuko’s like no, yeah, I totally get it, and just makes her one of his advisors. At first it’s just so she has a good excuse to stay but after the first meeting Toph storms out shouting about how EVERYONE was lying why would you even need to lie about what kind of tea you want??

Zuko: I mean they’re politicians.....but also who, and when, and in what way

They make a subtle Morse code system so Toph can warn him when someone is lying to him without tipping anyone off that she can sense lies.

Zuko gets a reputation for somehow being both extremely socially inept and yet somehow disgustingly perceptive?? You can’t get ANYTHING by him???

romancedawning-deactivated20210

#my lord what EXACTLY is ms Beifongs role in these meetings #a nervous nobleman asks after the third time she interrupts them with stupid commentary #zuko with perfect deadpan: she’s my scribe

You CAN’T leave that in the tags

positivity-in-pain

bastard-poopiepoopoo

YES >:(

xxgreendruidessxx

Some days it’s definitely like that.

roseticospacebae

morethanmeetstheass

*majestic angry screeching*

sanguith

“May I please have your undivided attention” no I have ADHD you may have a ¼ piece at best

pomrania

#bitch my attention is always divided #if you want a larger piece of attention than that you’ll have to fight for it with the closest available audible whirring ventilation fan

noirandchocolate

If I do NOT divide my attention in a way that my brain accepts as legal, you will get NONE of my attention because said brain will be too busy devoting ALL of my attention to how much it is making my bones vibrate inside my flesh to try to give you my undivided attention.