You Died for Me

It's just some fun and games isn't it? No one gets hurt...right, Jack?

[emma-overland]

Sort of missing the world and wondering why I have this still at the same time. I've been gone so long.

[sosuperawesome]

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[emma-overland]

Ghost update

Hey everyone just wanted to let everyone know that after putting the Ghost AU onto Ao3 I've debated on continuing to cross post it. I haven't decided one way or the other but I wanted to let people know that Chapter 29 is up on Ao3

[iguanastevens]

Feedback culture is dead, long live feedback culture!

AO3, fanfiction, and comments: the system isn’t working. 

Fic authors have a problem with feedback – or rather, with the lack of it. Fanfiction has a notoriously low ratio of comments to hits, and many of us have expressed our frustration that we can get a hundred, two hundred, five hundred, even a thousand views on our stories, but only a handful of readers will leave kudos, let alone comments.   

Unfortunately, this only gets worse for long, multi-chapter stories (aka, the longfics we know, love, and would sell our souls in a second if it meant an update), which also happen to be the stories that authors need the most support to continue and complete. Law of diminishing returns, y’all, and it sucks. 

We’re not here to guilt you into leaving comments. We want to address the problem by changing the format, and we need your help to do it. 

The goal is to increase the amount of feedback authors get from readers, especially on stories with multiple chapters, and to make it easier for everyone to show how much we love fics. We’re opening a discussion with ao3 to figure out how/if any of these options can be implemented, but first we need options to present! 

Some of our current ideas: 

Ability to leave a form of kudos on every chapter, instead of only once on the entire story: this lets authors know that you’re here and you’re reading their updates, so their hard work isn’t getting tossed into the internet void. 

Comment templates: suggested comments that can be customized or posted as-is. Many of us draw a blank or get nervous when we try to think of a comment, so having pre-made options will both increase the total level of feedback and serve as practice, making it easier to leave more in-depth comments in the future. 

Upvoting/leaving kudos on comments themselves: positive reinforcement makes giving feedback more fun and rewarding, and it lets the author know that readers are present and agreeing with other comments, even if they don’t leave one themselves. 

We’ll contact AO3 to discuss the possibility of adding any of these as native features, and if that won’t work, we’re looking into creating and sharing a user script. 

 What you can do to help: 

 As a reader, what would you like to have? What would you be most likely to use? New ideas, opinions on ideas that are listed here, they’re all good. 

As a creator, how would you feel about each of these options? Can you think of other ways of receiving or encouraging feedback? 

Pros and cons of these (note: our thoughts on this are discussed in this google doc) 

GET THE WORD OUT! Reblog this post, send it to your friends, link to it from your stories. We need as much input and support as possible to get this off the ground. 

Feedback makes for happy authors. Happy authors make for more stories. Let’s keep this part of fandom alive! 

More details about our thoughts, discussions, and ideas can be found in this google doc.

[thelastpilot]

wow, changing the format itself to facilitate comments! and interesting and rad way to go about helping authors 

[daydreamingwriter]

omg i love every one of those options

[dasjfldjfa]

everytime u see a old photo of a snazzy 1920s dude in a suit remember what lurks beneath

[dasjfldjfa]

[dasjfldjfa]

okay why are you guys reblogging this and tagging it as reference do you plan on drawing 20s gangsters in their underwear i better see these 

I couldn’t help myself

[prokopetz]

To be fair, underwear that fully covers the body from neck to knees makes a lot of sense when you’re wearing a dry-clean-only suit as your everyday outfit; it prevents sweat from soiling the garment’s inner layer, and thus lets you go longer between launderings. The development of modern underwear tracks pretty much directly with the shift to washable daywear, which removes much of the need for such extensive protection.

[chickadee-sun]

The part that makes least sense is how it’s sleeveless and thus doesn’t protect suits from armpit sweat. Surely the armpit is one of the most important places to put this kind of undergarment? T-shirts were originally designed as an undergarment that does protect clothing from armpit sweat, but they weren’t popularized yet in the 20s.

[prokopetz]

Most union suits did indeed have full or partial sleeves; the ones pictured in the original post are more fashionable than functional, probably intended to be worn with eveningwear.

[areferenceyouunderstand]

Wow this was informative

[bipolar-bubbeleh]

Eveningwear? So… this is 1920s men’s lingerie. GTK

[nativepeopleproblems]

Bring back prissy gangster lingerie 2k16

[keepingtomyself]

I just like to reblog these beautiful messes

[stellabutterfly]

“Darkness. That’s the first thing I remember. It was dark, and it was cold… And I was scared. But then… then I saw the moon. It was so big and it was so bright. It seemed to chase the darkness away. And when it did, I wasn’t scared anymore.”

— Jack Frost | Rise of the Guardians (2012)

[pomrania]

“But what can you actually DO with a degree in [insert subject here]?!”

Write fanfiction with a high degree of accuracy in a very specific field, next question.

[flame-cat]

tolkien ghostwrote this

[pomrania]

I shall take that as an incredibly strong compliment.

[aurordream]

[anneemay]

Buy her books!!!

[gauntletknight-deactivated20230]

She won that season too!  She’s so cool and upbeat

[blu-eyed-demon]

Despite being cool.and upbeat (and she is) she also suffers from anxiety and recently started speaking about it in social media. Instagram posta detailing her inability to even go downstairs and how support her fam are etc. She also recently did a bbc documentary about anxiety disorders.

[derekihale]

Bilbo + being adorable (✿ ◉‿◉)

[fyeahdisney]

All the flowers would have very extra special powers    They would sit and talk with me for hours       When I’m lonely in a world of my own

[captain-flint]

I was always looking for a moment where I could make Thorin laugh or smile but they were so few. — RA

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[marisatomay]

Every Adult In “Harry Potter” Let Us Down At Some Point And That’s Important a 900 page dissertation by me

[hermionejeanblr-deactivated2022]

And that includes Joanne Kathleen Rowling a tear stained afterword by me

[actual-ironman-tonystark]

Hagrid Is The Exception a rebuttal by me

[marisatomay]

The Time Hagrid Told Voldemort How to Take Out Something Protecting an Object that Grants Immortality When He Was Drunk and Other Well-Meaning Fuck Ups a lengthy chapter

[actual-ironman-tonystark]

You’re Absolutely Right a retraction

[original-missif]

How dare you assume Molly Weasley has done anything wrong ever

[kyraneko]

That Time Molly Yelled At The Twins And Ron For Saving Harry From Abuse And Starvation, Thus Likely Communicating To The Abused Kid In Her Presence That His Welfare Was Less Important Than Not Borrowing The Car, That Time Molly Was Utterly Condescending About How Harry Is A Child And Doesn’t Deserve To Know Anything In A Way That Probably Heightened His Determination To Prove Otherwise, That Time Molly Said The Twins Put Together Aren’t As Good As Any Of Their Brothers Over OWL Results That They Worked Hard On And Were Proud Of, That Time Molly Forcibly Cut Her Adult Son’s Hair Right Before His Wedding, That Time Molly Spent A Year Being Mean And Rejectful Toward Her Son’s Fiancee, That Time Molly Sent Hermione A Deliberate “Fuck You” Present For Easter Because She Believed A False Story Written In Witch Weekly Without Making Any Attempt To Ask The People Actually Involved, Those Times She Made Her Youngest Son’s Christmas Sweaters His Least Favorite Color, And Every Time She Belittled Her Husband’s Hobby, The Twins’ Interests, And Bill’s Appearance Because She Couldn’t Be Bothered To Understand Or Value Or Even Be Kind About Them a detailed reminder that no one’s perfect and sometimes what one person doesn’t mind or see hits another person hard

[themiscyra1983]

Florean Fortescue Just Wanted To Sell Some Ice Cream And Help Harry With His Homework He Is The Only Adult Who Didn’t Mess Up Until Getting Killed By Voldemort, RIP an increasingly strident addendum by me

[kyraneko]

OK You’re Absolutely Right Florean Fortescue Was In Fact Perfect As Far As I’m Aware a concession by me

[vcbx5-deactivated20181120]

omg

[afloweroutofstone]

Public parks, libraries, and venues are one of the only things that I support entirely on philosophical principle. I’m sure that there’s plenty of research suggesting a data-based political or economic case to be made for them, but I don’t care about it. I just think that it’s very important for any healthy society to have easily accessible places without cost or entry requirements where people can come to relax, learn, experience new things, and be surrounded by a diverse group of people that they haven’t met yet. I strongly believe that that’s just a good thing to have for public life and civic culture.

[professorsparklepants]

Can we have a Harry Potter AU where Regulus Black is the Death Eater spy turned potions master instead of Snape?

[professorsparklepants]

I can’t believe I only JUST realized all the comedy potential that is Sirius showing up to kill Peter 3rd year and finding his supposedly evil brother working at Hogwarts and having civil conversations with Remus about Harry’s grades

[chucktaylorupset]

Please let this be after a full year of awkwardness of Regulus working with his evil brother’s ex

[professorsparklepants]

Sirius and Regulus are both convinced they’re the good brother

[mydearthisbe]

I hope Sirius constantly turned into a dog to get out of arguments with James, because it would mean that James was left with the following options:

Being known as the crazy man who is arguing with a dog

Rough-housing, and being known as the man who is mean to dogs

Submitting to Sirius’s literal puppy-dog eyes, and losing almost every argument they have from the age of 15 onward

[vondrakenhof]

The fourth option is to turn into a deer and continue the argument.

[fernsandsunflowers]

Hogwarts student: *walks in on a deer and dog barking at each other*

Hogwarts student: 

Hogwarts student: why does this keep happening

[wang-fire]

tag urself, im aang

[bundibird]

I've seen this at least once every day for the last three days, and every time, I absolutely lose it at Toph's "STAIRS"