Promise? Promise.

Katie. In my 30’s and still have no idea what I’m doing. At least we have fanfics, right? AO3: Booklover1217

[tvandfilm]

Mulan dir. Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook | 1998

[jesus-said-chill]

When you successfully ghost bust a location

[katestewartt]

PROJECT HAIL MARY + parallels

[sentrysvoid]

10 Things I Hate About You dir. Gil Junger | 1999

[thatsbelievable]

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

headcanoned too hard and ended up surprised by zero results on AO3

[dambiex]

the problem with parents is that they are undiagnosed

[wizardarchetypes]

literally said out loud to myself 'i need to do something to calm down and regulate my nervous system' and then opened tumblr.com. like a guy in a horror movie going to check out the scary sound in the basement.

[orcboxer]

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

[tvandfilm]

The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[katestewartt]

[fellshish]

reading other comments on the fic you’ve just commented on is like. asynchronous book club meeting 🫶

[flythesail]

You should automatically get time off work until the light returns to your eyes and you feel like a real person again

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[azaablue]

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.

[saintgranny]

violet bridgerton + physical affection with her children.

2/8 - benedict.

[lokihiddleston]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)