mer

she/her - i dabble in social media every now and then (indiffrntnewt on ao3)

[tbscods]

fellas is it gay to think that your best friend's smile makes you feel like the world is okay again?

[astraldemise]

people who are nice to me in online games even though i suck: i owe u my life

[astraldemise]

people who communicate in online games by jumping around or spin in a corcle instead of using the chat function: i love you

[astraldemise]

JUST like bees

[cedarbranch]

sometimes the best fanfics are written by middle aged adults with years of writing experience who simply know how to craft a good story. but also sometimes the best fanfics are written by a sixteen year old girl with something deeply wrong with her

[cryoverkiltmilk]

#fandoms need both

[anonymousedward]

#biodiversity

[ladyananas]

trade secret, the middle aged adults with years of writing experience are just the sixteen year old girl with something deeply wrong with her but all grown up

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[deerchasingheadlights]

I’m always feeling like wait did I just do something unforgivable? But all I did was walk somewhere or turn in a paper late

[stammiviktor]

emails with “[AO3] Comment on _____” in the subject line give me a better dopamine rush than hard drugs ever will

[forcewound]

blocking someone bc they’re personally annoying to you is always morally correct

[crescairis]

i get that people are more comfortable with defined rules and structure but i also think queer people lost when they started resorting to dictionary definitions for what labels mean

[crescairis]

the queer umbrella is meant to deviate from the norm of rigid boxes and definitions and to decide that lesbian means Only this, bi means Only this, etc, is directly contradicting what queer means. each and every label is going to have a unique meaning to the person using it and that is how it's supposed to be. if you're not comfortable with that...sorry?

[crescairis]

basically if someone tries to tell you you're using a label wrong:

no you're not

eat them

[juiceguy]

best part of the internet is the option to not engage. maybe i don’t want to have this convo. goodbye

[bakwaaas]

‘relationships are work’ means ‘you have to put effort into loving each other intentionally & learning how to love each other and communicating properly’ not ‘your relationship makes you feel stressed and sad most of the time & the other person disrespects you and treats you bad but you stay anyway’

[dear-ao3]

[tbscods]

the way i posted a newtmas prompt on twitter and someone stole it and posted it on tumblr and someone else wrote a fic about it on ao3 and no one ever credited me 🤡🤡

[tbscods]

casually cruel

[tbscods]

"diluc with a high ponytail"

"so true. kaeya with a braid"

"OH MY GOD"

[tbscods]

so i started editing again

[tbscods]

the russia/ukraine situation is actually terrifying. like i cannot properly express how scared i am

[angelicandsanegirl-deactivated2]

pls

[angelicandsanegirl-deactivated2]

[jphcrk-deactivated20251128]

The fact that they’re still tight about this after all these years is so funny to me like they must think about it every single day

[vann-haal]

Man it wasn't even the copypasta. I saw folks eviscerating the guy for daring to write YA stuff. Teen love for teens. And how that made him a pedophile. Like that's what's being talked about here. Not the cock monologue. It was the endless hate and vitriol like I remember distinctly my dash being flooded with "he's a grown man who writes stuff for kids. That's super sus of him" and him literally being called a pedophile and other such smears. Like the cock nonsense was the absolute least of what happened. Don't be a derisive dick. If you're referencing that then obviously you were around to see all the toxic bullshit too and you should know all of this

But oh noooo! It was obviously the goofy taste of balls post that did it! Because tumblr is good and always correct /s

[dragonsspire]

It is particularly cruel to me that John Green was harassed essentially off of the internet in the way that he was because the poor man has OCD and is very open about it.

The way he was treated is horrible and disgusting for anyone at all, but John Green has for years and years (along with his brother Hank) tried to make the world a measurably better place while living with a horrific mental illness. A mental illness that makes something like being called a pedophile over and over again horrific in ways that unless you have OCD, or are very very close to someone who does, you will never understand because OCD targets whatever you value and makes your world a living hell over it.

And you know what? He still writes his novels, and he is still out here doing absolutely everything he can to make the world a measurably better place. The cock monologue was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

--

Also if anyone did this to my brother I would never ever forgive anyone involved. Never. The fact that they are still engaging with the internet in the way they do, with vulnerability and kindness is remarkable.

[vigilantsycamore]

The notes on this post are shit so just to be clear: if you’re following me and you think it’s funny to harass someone, or that it doesn’t count if the victim is above a certain age or if the harassment happens online, or that it’s worse to speak out against harassment than to harass someone, unfollow me because I don’t fucking want you to interact with me

On the positive side, here’s two replies that are actually decent:

[headspace-hotel]

"Harassing someone non-stop for months, including graphic sexual harassment and disturbing baseless accusations of child abuse, is funny as long as I think the victim is annoying!" -a lot of people, apparently

[onemuseleft]

I'm confused on a certain point. Is the idea that adults are writing most YA novels somehow a fucking revelation to these idiots? Do they think the teen section at Barnes and Noble was written by actual teens? Do they WANT people to stop writing YA lit?