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the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

gatesofminrathous

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

ao3commentoftheday

devinellekurtz

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

formaldehydedoesstuff

Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.

I love him.

toasthaste-art

me also. as well.

devinellekurtz

This is the COOLEST thing I’ve seen in AGES. You both completely made my entire week.

innerchildabortionclinic

planes look so cute and demure when they're rolling around on the ground instead of flying

im-a-goat-in-disguise

@localairport

localairport

Rolling, while a natural behavior can also be a sign of stress due to inadequately long runways!!! It can be cute but it can be a sign of serious underlying issues!

onwallsjcfwrites

I just heard the first one in Arthur's voice, and MJN's response in Douglas's.

soulgyrl

😅poor Lestrade!

foone

adibkhorram

portrait of the author (2024)

stephexmachina

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

stephexmachina

AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️

stephexmachina

it is about being a woman. hope that helps!

vibrantstarfire

reading comprehension questions for the notes:

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?

drawlight

People reread stories. Fics too.

I knew that intellectually but it never truly clicked until I opened an old favorite last night to get lost in for the thousandth time. But if you’re a fanfiction author, someone out there is reading and rereading your stories. Someone out there is loving your world and words not just once but over and over and over again.

That’s amazing.

So here’s a shoutout to the readers and rereaders. The commenters and kudosers and lurkers and everyone and anyone who has ever picked a fic up and loved it.

And here’s a shoutout to the writers, in case you need a pick me up or a slight bit of love. Somewhere, out there on a screen under a sky you’ve never seen, your story is coming to life.

Not just once. But again and again and again.

jandjsalmon

Again and Again and Again.

calaisreno

💕

nixxie-fic

BBC Sherlock - Season 2 Production Stills - ‘The Reichenbach Fall’ Sherlock, Molly & John at Barts - Including the rehearsal pic of Molly from Sherlocked -

Super HQ here: Pic 1: (4284x2856), Pic 3: (4000x5000).

Other Sherlock Season Two Production stills: (Sherlock & the reporter) (John in Court - Reichenbach) (Sherlock w/violin - Reichenbach) (Moriarty - Reichenbach) (Sherlock & Moriarty - Reichenbach) (Moriarty in Sherlock’s chair) (Sherlock, Molly & John at Barts) (Sherlock in the lab) (Sherlock, John & Molly in the Lab) (Sherlock & John on Dartmoor pt 1) (Sherlock & John on Dartmoor pt 2) (John on Dartmoor) (Sherlock on Dartmoor pt 1) (Sherlock on Dartmoor pt 2)

onwallsjcfwrites

Can I just say, I love the colour placement of this shot. Sherlock and John are both dressed in dark colours overall - Sherlock's dark Belstaff and trousers, John's dark jacket and dark blue jeans. Between them is Molly, in lighter colours - the white of her jumper, the red/pink of her blouse, the beige of her trousers, light khaki of her jacket. She practically shines between them, like a beacon, a glimmer of hope. Yes, she's just been voluntold to help them in the lab in this scene, but she becomes so much more than that by the end of this episode. She becomes Sherlock's beacon of hope for a smooth "Fall", the person he counts on to make sure everything goes as planned. I like to think she was someone for John to lean on as well after Sherlock's "death". (Perhaps she was this for Mrs. Hudson and Lestrade as well.) She is someone they both count on.

She's brighter because she counted. She always counted.

#sherlock #molly hooper #the reichenbach fall #Thoughts on The Reichenbach Fall

tackminyard

affirmations for my printer:

you are not out of paper

you have so much paper

it’s okay to function as intended

you are not out of ink

i just refilled that cartridge last month

you can connect to that computer you’re supposed to connect to

you’re allowed to print things

so-i-did-this-thing

You can print in black & white without depending on any of the other color cartridges

ltwilliammowett

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021

dragon-in-a-fez

not the kind of gay ship I’m used to seeing on tumblr but cool

dubiousculturalartifact

ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted

mjn-air

St Petersburg has got to be one of the best episodes, not just because it's the four of them trouncing Gordon, but because it shows how they actually handle an emergency with the bird strike. When it actually got dangerous, Martin and Douglas just acted without hesitation and most impotently, it showed Douglas actually does trust Martin. Martin said he could handle it and Douglas trusted that without question. For all their ragging on each other when they're safe, when actual danger happens, they handle it perfectly with full belief in each other and I think that added so much depth to the story and the relationship between the characters.

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