Honestly, I Don't Know

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[jellyfishloveletterghosts]

For the one person on a Steith fic who bookmarked with

I'm not even going to ask And who is Keith?

Why are you here if you don't know who Keith is???? Also this is Keith.

Was the alpha/alpah the draw? Or did you get here through some other avenue?

[videntefernandez]

a couple more because armando is my favorite

[sovietnam]

[martyreddie]

it's literally the evilest thing in the world to finally have time to write but then be tired. like wow you're telling me these two hours before going to bed are completely free but my brain is just Not Feeling It? fuck off

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[queerstark]

I saw this tiktok and now I'm hyperfocused on a season 3 rewrite after the fire truck bombing where instead of miraculously healing, Buck goes through a series of failed surgeries resulting in a below-the-knee amputation of his crushed leg.

And then we actually spend some time with that.

Buck struggling through rehab. Buck being furious and scared and stubborn and pretending he’s fine (he's completely fine you guys) in ways that are deeply, obviously not fine. The 118 trying to carry on without him. Someone like Bosko coming in as a temporary replacement, and Buck being totally normal and chill about that. Obviously.

And then Buck gets a super cool firefighting prosthetic and we get a whole storyline (let's be real, one episode) about him training to recertify, learning what his body can do now, meeting other amputees and firefighters and athletes with prostheses, and fighting his way back to the 118.

It’s triumphant. It’s emotional. I am crying. You are crying. Bobby's ghost is in the background looking proud.

And all the while Buck's been living with Eddie and Chris because of course he has. He can't be in the Loft by himself with that kind of injury and Eddie knows how to be a caregiver to someone with mobility issues and beside, he's a paramedic. And he's Eddie.

And Buck bonds with Christopher over disability and mobility and frustration and adaptation, but coming at it from different angles – being born with disability vs. coming to it at a later age. Both of them understanding something about each other that nobody else quite does.

Meanwhile Eddie's fully slipping into husband mode without noticing. He’s managing meds. He’s driving Buck to appointments. He’s making Christopher do his homework at the kitchen table while Buck does PT exercises in the living room. He’s saying things like “our house” and “we need more space” and somehow not hearing himself at all.

And by the end of the season Eddie's fully house hunting for a 3 bedroom accessible house because they need more space and the 118 is side-eying them all so hard they're getting migraines.

And then Buck and Eddie kiss about it in the finale.

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[flagellant]

[natalieironside]

Due to my weird childhood and my weird brain, I have this very unhelpful compulsion to conceal Everything I do from Everyone. I Cannot be observed performing any action, no matter how mundane. My nervous system is convinced I'm gonna, like, Get In Trouble for eating food at dinnertime or sleeping in my bed at bedtime.

I've taken to asking myself, "Okay does this task actually require subterfuge or am I stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day"

[natalieironside]

I see from the notes that we're all havin a normal one 👍

[petemcvries23]

the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.

[wyyvoren]

does anyone have any good baihe recommendations ?

[baihesgeorg]

i would suggest you look through these four baihe carrds! they cover basically everything with an english translation (and if you can read chinese you can always look on changpei or jjwxc’s baihe tags). there’s a broad range of contemporary, historical, wuxia/xianxia, etc. (though fair warning, while i know for certain the last three only include actual fantls, i’m not fully certain if the first carrd includes mtls or not as well.)

[funneeb]

Yall ever procrastinate sleeping? Like you should be asleep and you want to but you just.. keep doing more things for no reason?

[krotiation]

Uuuh

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[damnit-buck]

being a writer is checking the definition of flexed as if it might have changed since the last time i used it

[ysolt]

fuck an "intended audience" how about we normalize engaging with new and unfamiliar art pieces on their own terms

[ysolt]

[little-theatre-fairy]

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the difference between pushing a product and creating a work of art

[themainspoon]

I can't be bothered to find the thread rn. But there were a bunch of people talking about it, and I agree, so I'm sharing the idea here:

We need a death of the audience; lots of media gets worse because authors are too worried about a hypothetical audience. As someone engaging with media, you need to understand that you simply might not understand all of it, and that's ok. But also I think more authors need to realize that it's ok if not everyone in the audience will fully understand everything they're doing.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform