One of these days I'm gonna tell ya 'bout my ROMANTIC dream!

Hiatus

[queenangst]

idk if this is a young fan thing or new fandom culture but some of yall think fics are abandoned way too quickly. a few months or a year or two is not unusual to go without a fic update. sometimes fics take longer to write, other times writers have rl events, or maybe there's multiple fics and one gets more priority. there are tons of reasons for fics not to be updated every week or every month. it also isn't uncommon for people to come back and update fics after a number of years—ive read updates that took five, or ten years. people's lives change, but they still want to tell their stories. personally, i never consider a fic abandoned unless the author has said so; though if it's been a few years i manage my expectations. but a last update being a year ago is... generally not a sign that a writer has abandoned their fic

[catchymemes]

[hellyesbro]

If someone told me $100,000 a year wasn’t enough to live on I think i’d kill them with a rock right then and there.

[parasitoidism]

diversity win: this anime woman is over the age of 25

[tsar-evich-deactivated20220215]

“There is NO way I’m kneeling down on one knee. With this height difference? NO FUCKING WAY” -Rangi, probably.

I dont know how the earth kingdom or the fire nation do marriage proposals but I just invision Kyoshi and Rangi is totally like that viral gay couple who accidentally proposed in disney land at the same time to each other.

Rangi better not die in Shadow of Kyoshi or else I will throw hands.

[daily-lifeprotips]

If you have a senior to check on ask them to "borrow" something small so they think they're helping you.

My mom (72) recently downsized and moved close enough to me that checking on her in person regularly is not really out of my way, but when I was obvious about it she wouldn’t let me “stop-by” because she was, “fine”.

Well, one day I actually needed some aluminum foil so I called and asked if I could borrow enough to cover a baking tin because I didn’t want to run to the store. She said sure, but when I got to her house she needed furniture moved, a wasp nest removed, and her coffee pot fixed. After I got the foil I mentioned each thing cautiously and she let me take care of them for her. So next weekend I’ll need a cup of rice and check on her again.

[morwentrouble]

Even better, here’s an array of more reciprocal options for building relationship & supporting seniors’ dignity and independence:

- ask for something they can actually help you with. Elders have skills. Mending? Advice about knitting, gardening, home repair, nevermind professional training?

-ask about their experiences. “I was reading about xyz event the other day & I would love to know what that time was like for you. Can we chat about it over tea?” Goes double for family history for relatives.

-“Someone gave me this [or, I ended up with extra] & I don’t need/want it, but I bet you have a use for it. Can I bring it over? I would hate for it to go to waste.”

-work side-by-side. They get your physical help, you get their experience & expertise. “Could I come over & have you show me how you [used to] prune your gorgeous roses? I’m trying to get better with mine.”

[high-quality-tiktoks]

this is literally the entire video😭

[incorrect-house-of-nine]

Can you imagine the collateral damage, the implosion of the universe, if someone introduced Harrowhark “No Chill, academic over-achiever” Nonagesimus to caffeine? …. Coffee, specifically. I imagine her just eating the granules by the handful straight out the bag. Shovelling them into her mouth and munching on them like a feral Goblin.

[filibusterfrog]

core classes as undead :)

[incorrect-house-of-nine]

Gideon Nav knocks back protein drinks. Her gym snapped thirst trap traps do numbers on social media.  Harrow seethes. She claims social media “is beneath her and puerile”. Secretly, she has every single one of Gideon’s thirst traps downloaded to her phone in a folder titled ‘’Research”

[thunderon]

wizard: i have trapped you in a time loop >:)

me, loves routines: oh darn whatever shall i do

[thunderon]

wizard: you know, the point of the time loop is to have some big revelation and work on yourself, not to keep attempting to redo all your awkward moments in small talk conversations

me, on day 33 of my time loop: stfu im going back to the coffee shop again today and when the barista tells me to enjoy my drink THIS TIME i am not going to say “you too”

[thunderon]

me (day 47): and thanks, you too— FUCK not again

wizard: alright im breaking the time loop i cant keep watching this anymore

[scoobycool9]

The time loop: Doesn’t break.

Wizard: *FUCK*

[thunderon]

me to the wizard on day 48 of OUR time loop:

[thatonenewdungeonmaster]

[hyperion1412]

@likeapierrot

[pepperf]

A love letter to the co-conspiritors

They have many names—beta reader, friend, Oh Fuck You—but you know who they are: they’re the person who is as rabid as you about a ship or a character, the one you DM with your most twisted headcanons, the one who agrees that YES, he SHOULD be tied to a chair and slapped in the face—that she SHOULD be allowed a little tragic backstory, as a treat—that they SHOULD be roommates who are secretly pining for one another…the one who hashes out with you, at past midnight, how soon is reasonable for people with superpowers to have sex after one of them has been shot in the leg.

They’re the person who reads your fic before you send it to anyone else, and raves with you about that plot point that you COULDN’T WAIT for them to reach, or points out where you’ve forgotten that they were at the bar, not the library, so you need to remove the reference to book stacks, or pokes you to finish the goddamn next chapter because they want to read it, okay?

Fandom would not exist without them. They enable and encourage. Some of them are also fic writers, and you get to enable them right back. Some of them create fan art, or meta, or text post edits, or run prompt fests, or edit wikis…some of them are simply just as in love with the same thing that you are and want to feed the squee.

If you’re lucky enough to have someone like this in your life, you’ll know how much impact they have. It’s different to getting comments and kudos (wonderful though those are!), because they come in before the fic is finished, sometimes even before it’s started, and say ‘yes, do it!’. The fact that I’ve written so much for Community and The Umbrella Academy is completely down to @bethanyactually and @wheresmytowel respectively, and I count myself incredibly lucky to have them both in my life (and not just for all this, but also because they’re both incredibly lovely and smart and fun).

It was Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day yesterday (Aug 21st), and it made me think that we should also give a shoutout to the co-conspiritors, because without them, an awful lot more fic writers would be stress-scrolling through tumblr instead of working on their WIP, and there’d be so much less fic in the world.

[bandtshirt]

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

[piedude]

[abandonrun]

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

[curseofsisyphus]

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

[dono-harm-totonystark]

believe it or not, we liked that more

[thefloralpeach]

its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it

[lavenderfables]

Too many shows trying to be Game Of Thrones, not enough shows trying to be Galavant.

[0ctoberrustt]

the alternative girl with pathetic boyfriend thing has to end

[redpandarascal]

Hi, I run a small Etsy business selling replica Scott Pilgrim cosplay items. You’re personally hurting my livelihood by saying this. Think about the effect your words have on others.

[sadclowncentral]

"what drugs was op on when they wrote this lmao" none. due to the tense economic situation i've resorted to having weird thoughts for free

[foulserpent]

i think my ideal job is being paid 50$/hour to sit on the computer doing whatever i want at an empty rented office space for mysterious employers definitely running some kind of money laundering scheme and just needing me to keep up appearances of one of their shell companies but im not like, in on anything and no one can charge me for anything

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I'd be the perfect front for your shady company. I always look baffled, I'll never be able to pick you out of a line up, and odds are good I'll forget your name ten minutes after you tell it to me.