Maybe Just for Me

Basically just letting myself be random like I can't in real life. Yeah, real life is lame. I love writing because I love the idea that my writing can be the cause of other people's feels.

[thedankmemes]

[wellthatschaotic]

[Image Description: a tweet reading, "The anxious urge to say "no worries either way" when you are actually worrying both ways plus a secret third way". End ID]

[ibroughtyoumybullets]

sunday is just i have to set my computer on fire i have to do laundry i have to find god i have to make tea i have to quit my job and start a new life in a different state i have to be more honest with the people around me i have to clean my room i have to cut my hair i have to be more deliberate with my hobbies and downtime i have to make a doctors appointment i have to go back to therapy i have to start dating i have to make more friends i have to go on a long drive i have to spend 4 hours disassociating in a target i have to paint my nails i have to tell my mother i love her. but instead i will simply sit. 

[blackcherryblood]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

[criticalrole-incorrectquotes]

The critter community is so artistic, and I just felt some of you needed to hear this💜

[modmad]

really did need this today thank you

[headspace-hotel]

this made me cry a little bit

[bookishdiplodocus]

Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

[redeadepression]

Guys I reblogged this and then wrote an 8000 word story I didn’t even have a solid plan for. Reblog this shit.

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

There's an imposter among them Can you find it? 🤔

[anxietyproblem]

[emmagrant01]

An open note to readers of fanfic

Sometimes I stare at the computer screen when the words don’t want to come and I think, “Fuck, who am I kidding? This is terrible writing, and this story is shit, and no one cares, anyway.”  And I close the window and go do something else.

But every now and then I get an amazing, heartfelt, beautiful comment from someone who loved something I wrote, and it reminds me that, at least for that one person, I did write something worthwhile. And so I open the window again and I write one sentence, and then another, and then I start to find my way again.

So on behalf of all fanfic writers everywhere, I want to say thank you, thank you so much, to all of the readers who take the time to leave a comment and tell us that something we wrote mattered to you, that it brightened your day or made you laugh or cry or get horny or whatever.

Please don’t think we’re ever bothered by your comment, or that we don’t want to hear it, or that what you have to say isn’t important enough. It means so, so much. And on some days, it’s what keeps us going.

[legalgal421]

All of this.

[maybuds]

being in your 20s is like: i’m so young i’m so old. i should do everything i should rest. i can do what i want but i need to be careful. i’m an Adult™ but i need help from an Adult™. i’m so smart i’m so stupid. i’m leaving i feel left behind. i want to be a kid again and i can’t wait to be old. i’ve done a lot i’ve done nothing. i wanna be alone but i’m so lonely. like.... what the hell ??

[maybuds]

forgot to add: i wanna have fun i need to be more serious. i need to achieve goals i need to enjoy life. i understand completely but what the hell is going on. i want to love i want to be independent. i don't care but i haven't stopped thinking about it. live laugh love die cry hate

[maybuds]

being in your 20s is like: i’m so young i’m so old. i should do everything i should rest. i can do what i want but i need to be careful. i’m an Adult™ but i need help from an Adult™. i’m so smart i’m so stupid. i’m leaving i feel left behind. i want to be a kid again and i can’t wait to be old. i’ve done a lot i’ve done nothing. i wanna be alone but i’m so lonely. like.... what the hell ??

[maybuds]

forgot to add: i wanna have fun i need to be more serious. i need to achieve goals i need to enjoy life. i understand completely but what the hell is going on. i want to love i want to be independent. i don't care but i haven't stopped thinking about it. live laugh love die cry hate

[ilikeit-art]

[tumbling10thousand-deactivated2]

I absolutely love this desk! All the cubbies and secret drawers to stash personal stuff in.

[painkillerscoffeeandcathair]

I wish I was so extra I had a dollhouse for a desk.

[desolationlesbian]

something about netflix castlevania felt really weird but oddly familiar in the way the story is medieval low fantasy and yet every character is not only speaking in a super modern way but constantly dunking on eachothers backstories, dropping f bombs with impunity, and going on 5 minute tangents on whether or not vampires really are killed by running water and I couldn’t put my finger on it until I realized they all talk like they’re players in a dnd campaign

[hymnofvalefor]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[nctinmotion]

Source: This

[brindlefern-deactivated20210619]

[xcziel]

[laketaj24]

Me

[thepirateclown]

gender is a coin that everyone said was gonna land on heads or tails but i turned mine into one of those pressed pennies from the museum. it’s got a dinosaur on it

[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.” 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.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*holds your hand* no, we’re ALL bitches

[pickyourpain]

Aquiring Big Brothers and Boyfriends

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/32789074

by iCheat ( pickyourpain )

Only Stiles could adopt a WW2 veteran as his big brother. That would be fine on its own but between that, the werewolf climbing through his window, the ritual deaths and the Alpha pack there's a lot going on.

Well, at least SHIELDs not involved. Yet.

For Day 7 of Steter Week 2021: Dealer's Choice - Crossover

Words: 4512, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Stiles Stilinski, James "Bucky" Barnes, Peter Hale, Sheriff Stilinski

Relationships: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, James "Bucky" Barnes & Stiles Stilinski

Additional Tags: Steter Week 2021, Crossover, The Alpha Pack, Jennifer Blake is the Darach, Protective Bucky Barnes, Protective Peter Hale, Oblivious Stiles Stilinski, Stiles takes no shit, bucky is called James, James and Peter do not get on

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/32789074

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

one of my favorite things about fanfiction is how many writers don't necessarily consider themselves fans of the original work. lots of writers just saw the movie or read the book and were like "that was unsatisfying but now I have yet another canon to fuck around with"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

not to be confused with writers who have never seen the original work, and never intend to, but saw what other fic writers were doing and were like "this character dynamic fucks, baby got to get in on this"