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@butnoreallylikewhy said: ????? Details please, miss!

Okay, so there's a post going around that's like, "Never Gonna Give You Up" is super offensive, here's the link, and I fell for it

BUT

the video had commericals enabled, and DanIsNotOnFire's channel trailer came on and gave me time to escape

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Hi, this is in response to your review question post. I don’t review the fics I read all too often, and there are a few reasons (excuses?) for that. I’ve been a reader practically my entire life, and while I’m not new to fanfic (not just the 1d fandom but fic in general), I am new to the sort of social aspect of it? Like, I used to just read fics but wouldn’t really read the author’s notes or follow the author’s blog (if they had one), so it’s sort of new to me to actually interact with an author. I mostly just read the thing, enjoy the thing, move on to the next thing, occasionally returning to the ones that I especially adore. Another aspect is that I don’t generally read too deep into things. It’s hard for me to make connections in a story unless the author slaps me upside the face with the allusions (I was a terrible English student when it came to analyzing our assigned reading). It’s rare that I pick up on foreshadowing or even on a callback if it’s subtle enough. I’m also not very good at putting my feelings into words. Most of the time my response to a chapter is just a warm glowy feeling, or heartstopping shock, depending on the contents of said chapter. It’s difficult for me to call out just what inspired that, as the feeling is mostly to a chapter as a whole, and 500 characters doesn’t always give me enough room to explain that as coherently as I want, and this kind of leads into another reason (mild social anxiety) because if my response is too long, then I can either split it up into multiple asks, or choose submit, or fanmail, but then when it gets to that point I start to reevaluate if my response is helpful at all and it kinda feels like I’m bothering the author by sending this vague response? So because of this I am more likely to respond if I know the author and have exchanged communication with them before, and this is when it gets into a little bit of circle logic, because we won’t start talking until I make the leap and send an ask in response to a chapter, and if the author responds to that, I feel better and less like I’m bothering them, which spawns more responses. And writing that out makes it sound like the burden is on the author for having to respond to all the responses, and that’s not my intent at all because they’ve already put all this hard work into the chapter, there’s no reason to demand responses to all the asks. I’ve never tried the review system on 1dff, but what I like about the ask system on Tumblr (despite character limits) is that I can ask off anon and have the author respond privately. All in all, I’m trying to get better at leaving reviews.

thank you for taking the time to write all of this out! i guess what i'd say to you is that you don't need to go into every review thinking that it needs to be helpful or serve some purpose in order for the writer to appreciate it. sometimes all a review needs to indicate is, "hi, i'm a real person with a real body sitting in a real chair who read this thing that you wrote!" that's something that writers appreciate hearing. and in my experience, the only time writers are ever bothered by messages is when they're inflammatory, unnecessarily critical, or nagging.

i also want to say that i think it's okay to be a silent member of the community, somebody who just reads a story and then moves onto the next. i think the social aspect enhances the experience of writing and reading fic for me, but it doesn't have to be the same way for you. fic should be fun and you should make it work for you. it shouldn't be stressful.

i really appreciate and admire your attempts to get better at leaving reviews. thank you for sharing your thoughts!!

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Carnation, allium, calla lily, and locust! 😘😘

Carnation: I i handed you a concert ticket right now, who would you want to be the performer? A: LORDE

Allium: What’s the best thing you can cook? A: I am a mediocre cook, but I’m really good combining box rices and pastas, like the Near East brand, with fresh veggies and other good ingredients to make delish meals :) . Or pizza. Nom.

Calla Lily: If you died right now, what song would you want to play at your funeral?A: MORBID. But this song called “Ladder Song” off the Mockingjay part one album is really soft and sad, but also really stong, and I like it a lot. There’s also a line that says “you’re not alone in dying” and that’s an important thought to me.

Locust: What was your favorite book as a child? A: The Lioness Series by Tamora Pierce. I still reread it every summer. I know it so well that I can read all four books in two days, but they’re so good.

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i literally came on tumblr just now to complain about no one asking me how i was after being gone a month and my friend sent me some fanmail ON THAT EXACT SUBJECT

so now i'm pretty sure she's a mind reader

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butnoreallylikewhy said::( Math is not evil! :(((( Math is very dear to me!

Crying. Into. His. Book.

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