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elzorton

Samalamadingdong

EDIT: tiny Sam pngs are in a reblog for all your needs

thoughtstherapy

Which one is your favourite? @thoughtstherapy

goldenstrawberry7100-deactivate

My favorite is 2. I like occasionally taking a day to do something on my fun list, such as go to the movies, to an arcade, or to the mall.

#self care

louisegluckpdf

thr funniest part of therapy to me is when you first come in and you're exchanging niceties and they say "hello! how are you" and you say "im fine how are you :)" and then 30 seconds later they put on their therapist voice and say "so how are you doing?" and you go well lisa. believe it or not im doing Bad

smitethestate

Remember kids

sambuchito

every time I fumble w my phone’s charger cable I think about emailing steven moffat a pipe bomb

offbrandginger

Looking for a girl to love is just like *downlods tinder* *deletes tinder* *downloads tinder* *deletes tinder* *downlo

dankmemeuniversity

not a meme but i think it would be pretty fuckin cool if we all did this. and not just for a month, but until we start getting what we deserve. they only profit off of us. they don’t deserve our attention. eat the rich.

cubonetears-deactivated20220426

i simply do not vibe with the concept of having to give away human hours of my life in exchange for the necessities of living

mysillycomics

studentlifeproblems

mysticmilks

Save a fanfic writer, leave comments on old fics

There is this a peculiar set of reasons and biases when it comes to NOT commenting on AO3.

They are all false, but here they are:

Do not comment on old fics

Do not comment on each chapter of a multichapter

Do not comment if the author left the fandom

Do not comment if the author doesn’t respond to comments

It can be summoned up as DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU ENJOYED THE WORK AND YOU LIKE THE AUTHOR.

It comes from the idea, that if you leave a comment on my old work, or leave too many comments, I will think you are strange, clingy, and gross.

Readers are imagining it as commenting on an old Facebook photo — only your granny and creepy strangers do that.

That is not the case with AO3.

Writers put their works there for long-term storage, and we expect, wish, and hope that you will like our works and tell us about it.

This all very interesting, not, but why should I care?

This has awful consequences. Fanfic authors feel constant pressure to create more and crippling fear of being forgotten, useless, and being literally kicked away from fandom.

I’m online friends with a few great fandom authors, who wrote storied with thousands of kudos, but ALL of them at some point expressed this fear. Very talented people told me, “I’m not sure if I should have ‘writer’ in my bio. I didn’t post anything new in the last half of a year.”

Some young or entitled readers might say, “Hm, well, they are right. They should create MORE to be relevant. Isn’t that a good thing to push authors to write more?”

For better or worse, life doesn’t work like that. We are talking about real people, who go to real schools, have real jobs, families, and all the other important things outside the fandom. Some of them might push to create more from that fear, but most would only get more frustrated and depressed about the whole fanfic writing.

So, please, if you like the work comment on it.

Even if it’s old, even if it’s a multichapter, even if the author doesn’t have time and energy to interact. Especially in all those cases.

Encourage your authors, and show them your support.

olderthannetfic

I die laughing every time I get a comment that’s like “Sorry to comment on something so old.” and it’s from like 5 years ago tops. Like… dude… there’s stuff on AO3 that was written in the 70s. Five years is nothing.

jumpedoverthemoon

I feel like all my worldly troubles would vanish if i owned this sweater

dankmemeuniversity

amey-winehouse

This what I can’t wait for

educationbybeauty

maybe if you bundled yourself up and went for a walk out in the cold then came back inside with rosy cheeks and cool skin and warmed yourself up with a nice warm cup of herbal tea with honey maybe then you’d calm down

smokeinsilence

have you ever noticed you pick up little habits and phrases from the people you love? it’s no wonder our hearts are so easily broken when people leave. we become a reflection of the people that we care about and those personality traits stick with us even if the people don’t

viridianmasquerade

I make my ramen the way a friend taught me in eleventh grade. Every fall, I listen to a playlist made for me by a boy I drove across a border to hook up with. I eat sushi because a girl who won’t talk to me anymore made me try it, and Indian food because my best friend’s parents ordered for me before I knew what I liked. There are movies I love because someone I loved loved them first. I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved, even for a heartbeat.