Omnipresent Lemon

It’s called a punch, bitch

[novelconcepts]

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

[random-questions-fairy]

Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

[theredscreech]

Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).

[heroineimages]

Bookmarking this…

[ambrellaexists]

Enjin doodles from the recent chapters...,, how we doing chat

[ghostapop]

EVENTUALLY THIS KID WILL WHAT . HE WILL WHATTTTTT . ALTO SUREBREC GET BACK HERE

i cant tell if its supposed to mean something like "eventually this kid will die because i cant take care of him properly down here" or something like "The Ground Will Do Something To Him" .

ill feel silly if i start theorising about the ground being magically toxic to rudo specifically and it ended up just being like the former idea . though , you can see the black markings starting to form on rudo's fingers , so perhaps the ground (and not alto) did do something supernatural to him

and baby rudo :(( hes so cute . he looks about one here , and its been a year since enjin and alto met , so i think he was born soon after alto met enjin ? alto did say "i have a kid that i gotta name" last chapter .

that would mean its very likely rudo was born on the ground and then alto brought him to the sphere , which is perhaps why rudo , a sphereite , could become a giver (because he wasnt a sphereite to begin with)

[omnipresentlemon]

RUDO’S LITTLE FINGERS ALREADY HAVING HIS SCARS AHHHHHH KEI URANA WHAT SEEDS ARE YOU PLANTING

[crystalstorm]

Just realised that Enjin’s full face mask is the same design as his little Teru teru bozu

THATS SO FUCKING CUTE.

Especially cuz Enjin already met August at that age and the damn kid KNOWS he hates the rain, so his mask is made after something to ward off the rain.

[omnipresentlemon]

Kei Urana will never not impress me with how much DETAIL she includes that has these little payoff moments chapters later.

[omnipresentlemon]

I literally cannot properly articulate how cringe it is for me to be obsessed with The Long Walk rn considering my day job…but I cannot help it I am drawn to those sad, sacrificial lambs like a moth to a flame…

[omnipresentlemon]

Last day of said job was yesterday which means I can finally post this pic and not feel weird about it, prepare to be sick of me fellow TLW enjoyers 🫡

[butchdogs-md]

you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.

[omnipresentlemon]

Where is my fic where Victor creates his Creature and he immediately does a 180 the second the word “Victor” leaves his lip with all of the adoration and devotion in the world, because Victor is the Creature’s world. He has nothing outside of Victor the way a newborn relies on their mother for survival. Where he realizes that he could covet and keep his child close the way his mother did him, but this time there would be no father to separate them. He could be the focus of someone’s entire life the way he was his mother’s (“when father was gone, mother was all mine”).

He packs his new child up and disappears without a word to anyone else, Harlander’s rotting corpse not discovered by Elizabeth and William until weeks later after receiving no word from him or Victor in quite some time. His son, his Adam, is raised in solitude and peace, read books and taught card games and adored. He is not told how he was made, only that it was an act of love (an act of obsession). The only world he knows is the embrace of his father’s arms.

But he’s curious. His stories and books speak of a much larger world, full of differing ideas and cultures. He asks Victor about them, if they can go see some of these wondrous things themselves. But Victor refuses. The world is cruel and they only need each other. They will not love Adam the way Victor does, will only see a brutish creature, an abomination - a monster. He becomes hysterical and cruel and is only calmed when Adam reassures him that he loves Victor above all else, that he would never leave him.

They do this song and dance until they’re forcibly torn apart - by a fire or Elizabeth and William finding them, etc. Adam still develops amnesia, still meets the Old Man, still goes back to the water tower and discovers his origins. But this time his fury is one of despair - how could his father do this to him? How could the person who claims to love him most damn him to an eternity of solitude?

Tl;dr - I desperately want a fic exploring Victor’s obsession with creating life not going away once the act is done, but intensifying into something both loving and damaging at the same time. Depending on his child for the emotional validation he’s been denied since his mother took her last breath.

[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

[kizo2703]

#this 100% happened to me#but i’m a middle aged writer and english teacher with an academic literature background#when i burned out got sick and had a breakdown i couldn’t read regular books anymore i could only read fanfic#i saw on twitter where someone said literature is prescriptive. you read the kind of fiction that fits your personal need#we’re all overwhelmed right now and that’s why we like the tropey fiction whether fanfic or romance novels or superhero movies#we UNDERSTAND the rules of fiction and dont’ have to work to understand while the payoff comes quickly. kiss. hea. battle/victory

[depressedfandomfatty]

The important thing for me and why fanfic is so much easier is I can pick for my mood.

I can pick a hurt comfort or a slow burn or an angst with a happy ending.

I can remove the tags I don’t want to see, I can check word count,check if it’s finished and it’s so much easier than books

I know these characters and I see them in my mind so they can pull me on journey into a world I love, unless it’s au universes

Tagging fics and sorting them into a system I can deal with, oh yeah and it’s also free so there is that.

[omnipresentlemon]

I…I need to go lay down for a sec

[sevenspoonfulsofsugar]

the monster's left eye being dead and catching in the light. his spine showing through his jacket. elizabeth's wedding dress being an homage to elsa lanchester's bride. that small streak of white hair in a curtain of black. red gloves. hollander's cane and victor's figurine. the milk. elizabeth's red bonnet and claire's casket. the first thing victor and his child do being reaching for each other, à la the creation of adam. victor becoming the exact person he despised the most. victor going back for his son. forgiveness into death, and forgiveness into life. the cinematography. the set design. the score.

baby we are so back

[omnipresentlemon]

Too tired for this rn but might fuck around and make a bigger post later about gender and Frankenstein (2025), how Victor loses his mother to childbirth and then seeks to conquer the very thing that took him from her - creating life.

How he builds the creature piece by piece, spine constantly exposed/pronounced, how Victor determines he must come in “through the back”, and how one of the first things a fetus forms in utero is the neural tube.

How much chaos and pain and blood goes into bringing the Creature into the world. How he’s wrapped in bandages like a baby swaddled.

How Victor brought life into this world but could not be a mother, could not find joy and solace in his child the way his mother did in him, and that is his undoing.

[crazycometspecular]

Happy GDT Frankenstein (2025) streaming day ;)

[omnipresentlemon]

Looking at this made me want to sob HE’S JUST A BABYYYYY

[omnipresentlemon]

Do I understand that for any adaptation of Frankenstein to be Frankenstein that Victor must revile the Creature, that their antagonism towards each other and Victor’s fear and hatred of his own creation from its first breath is the whooooole point? Yes.

But I saw Jacob Elordi’s big brown eyes in GDT’s Frankenstein (2025) and the way that the second he freed himself, he stood at the foot of Victor’s bed like a child seeking their parent out after a nightmare and had maternal instincts triggered in me that I didn’t know I possessed.

Why can’t Victor just dote on his new son, huh Guillermo? Why can’t we spend the rest of the movie watching Victor read to his new baby and teach him words and take him outside to play in the snow? Why must we examine the human condition when we can just cuddle??

[omnipresentlemon]

I literally cannot properly articulate how cringe it is for me to be obsessed with The Long Walk rn considering my day job…but I cannot help it I am drawn to those sad, sacrificial lambs like a moth to a flame…

[dimsunstuff]

Obi-Wan cannot resist the mandalorian instinct

more Obimando au

[lumentime]

a baby and his dad

[savbelly]

Oh god I love them 😭 🔥💖🔥