hj

listen. i have a lot of a hyper-fixations. too many to keep up with!! i like and reblog many many different things || queer girl with (*diagnosed*) adhd. || she/her.

[shubbabang]

Shout out to everyone who is just so tired So so exhausted So very very tired so very fatigued so sleepy and tired So

[drawballa]

Sleepy boys 💤

[mina-logan]

Decided to add an Ilya set to the sketches and now they are reunited.

[pieklo]

Reblog daily for health and prosperity

[realcheddarchips]

actually how does everyone feel about kamala harris over joe biden?

i was going to vote for biden and will vote for harris

i was not going to vote for biden but will vote for harris

i was going to vote for biden but will not vote for harris

i was not going to vote for biden and will not vote for harris

Voting ended onJul 22, 2024

rb for bigger sample size. i'm actually really curious about this.

[pneumonicscreamers]

hadestown // the thirteen letters //supernatural 11x23 // captain america: the first avenger // death cab for cutie // captain america: the winter soldier // hadestown // moulin rouge // supernatural 15x18

[ourlordapollo]

The zoo in my hometown posted this picture of one of their cheetah cubs and I'm obsessed

HIS NAME IS YAM ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDINF ME

[carfuckerlynch]

[thehopefulquotes]

“It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams… that is being naked.”

— Rob Bell

[plaguedocboi]

Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters

[jaewul]

[lesbiradshaw]

every day i wake up and remember steve quite literally asked bucky to kill him. like he actually told bucky to finish it because he was with him until the end. he acknowledged it was the end. he stopped fighting back for the first time in his life. he finally threw the shield down after years of doubting his purpose as captain america because he didn’t want to have to hurt bucky. he begged bucky to not make him have to fight him at all because he couldn’t let people die but as soon as he’d saved everyone else he gave up on himself and was planning on going down on the helicarrier with bucky. he freed bucky from being trapped under the wreckage even though he knew bucky was still going to try and kill him. he decided he’d rather let himself die at bucky’s hands than live in a world where bucky didn’t remember him. like. what the hell.

[thisisjustmefangirling]

That shield was meant to protect Bucky, not to hurt him.

[mysharona1987]

The French really don’t fuck around.

[michaelsworddean]

cas was like there’s one thing i want and i know i can’t have it. my brother in christ you’ve always had it

[theinvisiblemuseum]

lily evans the woman that you are….

hbd lily my aquarius bestie <3

[veeaziel]

every day i am percieved™️

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

[attackofjak]

I feel understood 🥰

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default “i feel called out” reaction….and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheek….but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank you♥

[zadabug98]

The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3

[the-nia16]

Okay, I never add commentary on my reblogs these days, but I feel so fucking understood right now that I had to this time. I haven’t read a book in over a decade, but I read at least 200k words of fic a day at this point in my life. This makes so much fucking sense.

[assiraphales]

not keeping up w the winchesters but I am enthralled by the idea that jensen ackles might very well be balls to the walls crazy enough to completely rewrite the supernatural series finale out of sheer pettiness and love for dean winchester

[theprisonerandthebeast]

the wolfsbane potion they gave remus in POA didnt stop him from transforming to a werewolf, it just left him his human intelligence. so i therefore imagine remus locked up somewhere discreetly during the full moon, werewolf form, reading a book or some human shit and im laughing so hard

[moonyssblog]

i don’t understand why we aren’t using wolfstar instead of jegulus for the spiderman’s au???? LIKE REMUS BEING SPIDERMAN, HIM BEING BITTEN BY THE SPIDER, THE BEING AFRAID OF PEOPLE DISCOVERING HIS SECRET, THE SCARS, THE NOT WANTING HIS LOVED ONES KNOWING BECAUSE HE IS AFRAID OF HURTING THEM, HIM BEING THE SMART GUY AND THE HERO???, SIRIUS BEING HIS BESTFRIEND TRYING TO FIGURE HIM OUT AND FALLING IN LOVE WHILE DOING IT, REMUS BEING AFRAID THAT THE ONLY REASON SIRIUS LIKES HIM IS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO PROTECT HIM IN A WAY, ANDREW BEING ONE OF REMUS’ FANCASTS AND US LITERALLY HAVING MEDIA FOR EDITS ETC BECAUSE ANDREW IS SPIDERMAN??? LIKE AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THE VISION