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full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

remember when writers had to be all like: “omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you can set

domicileensnared

Sometimes shit was marked “lemon” and it’d just be them making out, and sometimes they’d just start pissing on each other

No rules, no laws, you took your life into your hands opening fics

frostyemma

A/N: this contains SLASH, that means TWO MEN, if that makes you uncomfy, DON’T READ!

A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!

A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!

A/N: COMMENT if you want me to continue the next chappy!!!

raimagnolia

No, no, no

remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?

InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this

A/N: Because it was in your contract!!1!1 *revs chainsaw*

janekfan

god those were lawless times.

the-apocryphal-one

virgomoon

you can never go back. this is your one life. you had a bad childhood and that's it. you lost your teen years to mental illness and that's it. you're miserable in your 20s and that's it. you just go forward

uncertainwaters

my intoxicated 31 year old wisdoms

- you should say no sometimes just for the love of the game. youll filter out a lot of people with no respect for your personhood if you say no to small requests early on for no special reason other than "i dont wanna". when someone gets mad at you or tries to lawyer you over just not wanting to, in a low stakes situation, you know how they will react to your more high stakes boundaries. and you should run! run! run!

- never kill yourself. death is the only constant in this life. you'll die as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow. may as well fuck around for a while, while you're here. something interesting might happen. be nosy! don't you want to see what happens next? you're gonna die in the blink of an eye anyways.

- be kind to children even if they are annoying. everything is formative at that age. they will remember you. they will remember how you wielded the power you hold over them as an adult, and whether you used it kindly or to crush their spirit.

- never get married. unless you're gay and need the leverage of a legal contract in order to be at your partner's bedside if they get sick.

- talk to strange women around you. talk to old women. especially if you're lonely. elderly women are so funny, so full of rich and vibrant experience, and so delighted to share. even old women who do not share your values can teach you something about life. talk to them. ask questions. you'll feel a little more like everything is going to be okay. that there is a life for you beyond the fetishized nature of female youth.

- join a union. trust me if you get hurt on the job or if your boss does something illegal you'll want the union behind you.

- stay curious. never fall into the trap of thinking you know all there is to know, that you've found the apotheosis of knowledge in how the world works and how humans behave. ask questions. search for new information. cross reference contradictory sources. always be wondering, always be skeptical, but STAY CURIOUS.

- if you feel like you want to die or explode into quantum particles go to wherever there is a natural body of water nearby or a place with a lot of greenery, turn off your phone, and look at the water and trees and birds for a while. treat it like an "i spy" book. notice the different plants and animals and insects. get absorbed in the small details. it sounds stupid but it's been studied and this will genuinely make you feel better it's a biological need we have that goes undernourished so often in modern society.

- don't give up.

caintooth

Age of Innocence by Toskovat’

kosmogrl

ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to know everything

holybeings

What a blessing to be moved by anything at all

disgustinggf

I love your personality

thank you! its pieces of everyone ive ever loved

stuckinapril

u do not have to be good. u do not have to walk on ur knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. u only have to let the soft animal of ur body love what it loves. tell me about despair, urs, and i’ll tell u mine. meanwhile the world goes on. meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscape, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. whoever u are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to ur imagination. calls to u like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—over and over announcing ur place in the family of things.

hyrude

is the world really such a terrible place? yesterday i asked if oat milk was extra and the barista said yes so i said ok just regular milk then and when she gave me my chai latte she whispered “i used oat milk ;)” doesnt that make u want to live another day?

hyrude

here is my life philosophy: next week there might be someone ahead of you in line at the store who’s short a quarter and you have a quarter and you can give it to them. if you weren’t there, they’d have to put something back. the week after that you could be getting lunch and the waiter might ask if you want some pancakes someone else ordered and never picked up. you could find someone’s lost cat. you could watch someone’s bag while they go to the restroom. there are so many ways you are going to touch other people’s lives and they are going to touch yours and there’s no way to know when it’s going to happen. so you have to keep living!!! i wouldn’t want to die knowing that tomorrow the barista will give me free oat milk just to be nice.

elaninrecovery

When I was 11 years old - we went to Sea World for my birthday. This was to avoid the realization I had no friends, and no one to come to a birthday party and probably because someone gave my mother free tickets at work. It was kinda a shitty day despite being at a theme park full of cute animals. There was a new roller coaster there that had just opened so we decided to go on. I was nervous. I’d never been on a roller coaster.

A group of 6 college kids were ahead of us in line and started chatting with me. Full on just having a fun conversation with someone literally going through the beginning of a very awkward middle school period. I was so shocked they wanted to talk to me. I think my mom mentioned it was my birthday. They were very nice about it. When we got on the ride they told us to go ahead of them so we could sit at the front of the car since it held 8 people.

Now the ride (called Journey to Atlantis - I believe it is sadly no longer there) started with a slow ride of beautiful visuals of dolphins and oceans and computerized images of this imaginary Atlantis before going up the hill to the beginning of the coaster, where it paused for about 30 seconds, and then the ride started. The college kids must have known there would be a pause. Maybe they’d ridden it before I’m not sure.

But as we sat there on that peak, 6 people I’ve never known, and will never know again, sang a very very lonely 11 year old happy birthday. Loudly. And with gusto. They were happy and laughing and joyful. And it made me feel less alone in the world.

I am 29 years old this year, and I still remember them. I still remember that kindness. It is so important. It doesn’t go into a vacuum. It exists beside me in my daily life. And I love the idea that I have been that person to someone else too.

It’s stunningly lovely to be human when we’re kind to each other.