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i’ve been told by various european friends that the most american sentence i’ve ever said is “sophomore year of college, some friends and i road-tripped thirteen hours to florida for spring break.”

and now i can confidently say this is the most guy-who-lives-in-paris sentence i’ve ever said: “today i was cycling to meet a friend at buttes-chaumont and i went over some cobblestones and my baguette got launched out of the bike basket into the middle of the roundabout”

olderthannetfic

You again?

mikkeneko

robotogato

The one time I wrote to a published author about their book, they wrote back to me. It was in the 00s and it was about a book published in the 70s. They must’ve been grandma age.

Anon has such a mind boggling opinion here. I just never thought anyone would think like that before. I wish I could see a series of slumdog millionaire type flashbacks to see how they got there. Maybe it would make more sense then.

rowark

"AO3 is not social media", um, like yeah, okay, that's true... but how does this person think fic writers reply to comments? Do they understand "reply" is a feature AO3 chose to include?

They didn't have to... FFN doesn't allow you to reply to reviews. AO3 chose to include that feature, and this person is mad that people use it?!?!

Also, like... sometimes readers ask questions... should fic writers just ignore that???

"Fandom is not a social event" ummmm I think they may be doing fandom wrong, tbh 🤣

Like, what if you go to a fandom event like a con? Are you allowed to socialize then? If someone says something to you, to do respond with "I'm not here to socialize! This is not a party! Talk to your family!! Fandom is for social isolation only!!!"

janeways-coffees

Best one shot I've ever read lmao

janeways-coffees

(By the excellent @motleyfam )

janeways-coffees

Holy shit

alexseanchai

[image 1: AO3 chapter note that reads, "So as we all know from math class, '5/5' is just a fancy way of saying '1', meaning this story is most definitely still a oneshot 😌". image 2: AO3 chapter note that reads, "The funny thing about fractions is that, mathematically speaking, there is no difference between 5/5 and 6/6 (except for my sanity)".]

rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20

Quote of the day

brosser-les-dents

We may not want to brush our teeth, but we like the way it feels when are teeth are clean.

datasoong47

theoneofwhomisblue

They/them pussy

ririwithrice

nonbinary cats >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<>>

screampotato

I was curious about this, not because I was surprised the cat was "neither male nor female" but because I was surprised this is a "first". I mean, intersex cats exist. Any time an apparently male cat is tortie/calico, for example, that's an intersex animal, probably XXY.

Turns out, though, that this kitty is very rare - they have no external genitals, and vets can find no evidence of internal reproductive organs either. So yeah, fair enough, I've literally never heard of an animal being born like that! Isn't nature something?

help-help-i-need-an-adult

The face of a creature who fought the gods to be born without the burden of reproduction and won

thememedaddy

thebreakfastgenie

I see this post all the time and I'm so confused. Most people throughout history were busier than your average resident of a developed country is now. My primary reaction to reading about the past since I was a child has been "I'm glad I don't live then, I'm too weak for that, I could not do that much work all the time."

aphony-cree

In the past things took longer to do but they often required a waiting period. You had to chop wood, put it in your stove, and light it, but it took a few hours for it to get hot enough for baking and then another hour for the bread to fully cook. History books will say things like "It took 4 hours to make a loaf of bread" but they don't mention that you only had to do actual work for a fraction of that time and the rest could be devoted to other tasks or relaxing for a while

Employee workload has doubled or tripled because of modern technology. It makes things faster but also creates less downtime which employers have filled with more responsibilities. You can do more work in a 10 minute period if all the files are on the computer but in the olden days you got to take a short walk to the filing cabinet and let your mind wander while you thumbed through folders, which means a modern 10 minutes of work is more mentally exhausting. The amount of work one employee has to do today used to be split between 2 or 3 people. We lost those moments of downtime we used to get by having to do things the slow way