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whats the loudest reocurring noise that happens near ur house for example i live next to an airport so its definitely the planes
Embarrassingly simplistic and potentially ridiculous question compared to most of the discussions I see you having on here, but I trust your judgement so here we are.
Is there any etiquette on how long after a fic has been posted it is still acceptable to comment on it? Specifically, in this instance, quite how strange is it if I now, in 2022, comment on a fic posted in 2013?
I have a cacophony of praise I'd love to rain down on the author, but I can keep myself in check if it's going to be a nuisance.
Which brings me onto the second part of my question: how long is too long for a comment on a fic? My response to things I want to call "great literary achievements" have a tendency to get out of hand but, once again, I can be kept in check under threat of being a nuisance.
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No, there is no etiquette other than "COMMENTS, PLEASE!"
My first fanfic that's on AO3 is from like 2001 or 2002 or something. There are people who've reposted 70s fanfic. If they ain't dead, they still like comments.
The one caveat I'll give is that if you're leaving comments like "This word for queer stuff is old-fashioned" or "You got canon wrong", maybe consider whether the fic is decades old first. Also think twice about "I hope you write more in this fandom" if the fic is older than like 6 months and they don't have a visible history of being in the fandom for years. But it doesn't sound like you're leaving anything like that.
The occasional fic author is weird about long comments. Most authors adore them. It's not an era thing or an age of the fic thing. It's just personal variation.
Go ahead and leave the comment you're inspired to leave. Most likely, they'll be overjoyed.
As an author it astounds me that people worry about commenting on fic. Comments are golden! I might not have fallen as hard as I did for writing fanfic if it weren’t for the interaction with readers. Otherwise, I could just keep writing short stories no one will ever read for years, just because I like to write. But I post to ao3 because I want people to read it and I want to know what they think about it. I will still want to know ten years from now. I don’t know any fanfic authors who don’t like to receive reader comments.
Who are these authors that scared people away from leaving comments on fic?
IME, it’s younger people who got into fandom with their high school or college friends. They may already be shaping up to be a Fandom For Life type, but 10 years ago was a lifetime. Also, in the modern day, people cycle through fandoms every month or two.
Compare to 80s zine types who were all set to keep chugging along in Pros fandom from the 80s till... well... now, actually. They’re still there. Pros fandom has amazing stamina. Starsky & Hutch too—or at least @flamingoslim does. (Obligatory reminder that SHarecon, the S&H slash con, is still happening. The next one is Oct 14-17, 2022.)
I think most people who have old-ass fic up on AO3 are happy about comments on old stuff, but that’s not the usual population that’s asking about this.
Nonny, I have a fanzine longfic from 1978.
I have found the author.
I have been ENCOURAGED BY OTHER FANZINE AUTHORS TO SEND HER A COMMENT. VIA SNAIL MAIL.
It’s never too late.
Yeah, I’d think of this not in terms of the speck of time we’re in a fandom now but in terms of human lifespans:
If a fan was 30 in 1978, they’d be 74 now. Old, yeah, but tons of people live longer than that. They could easily still be around.
I blame like Instagram etc social media sites, where interacting with a post from 6 months ago means you're a crazy stalker. That is not how everywhere works! Fanfic comments are eternal! Read a fic from 2001 and comment on it? A writer who had forgotten their ff.net account existed is now crying softly in joy! I still randomly get comments on my old House MD, Smallville, etc.. fics and love it.
Huzzah for the newlyweds
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It's him, the luckiest man in the world
I’m so goddamn jealous. Good for them I’m glad they’re happy
“Everybody agrees we need to shame straight women for reading queer fanfiction, but–”
No. No, we literally do not need to do that. It helps no one, homophobes don’t care, people exploring their sexualities and genders will retreat back into the closet, queer people will be pressured to out themselves, there is no version of this that doesn’t do massive disproportionate splash damage to queer and questioning people, and moreover it hurts literally no one to let straight people read and/or fap to smutty queer fanfic in peace as long as they aren’t shits to actual queer people.
Just stop, for the love of Christ.
I love this show
Oh man I can't believe I forgot. You know that post that was like "tell me what clothes you've bought because of a character" or whatever. I searched for ages to find an adequate white cable knit sweater because of Ransom's in knives out.
It's a good sweater
I'm putting this here bc I feel like it's information everyone needs. You can find it here.
This is the only good tiktok
[video description:
a person sitting at a table is talking into the camera.
"i have nothing to hide... which is a shame, because i love hiding stuff! i love making or buying secret hiding spaces."
they pick up a leather wrapped book.
"so like, i love hollowing out books. and you now, people- you could say, well probably you would hide drugs in there. well, i don't do drugs"
they open the book to reveal a green pill bottle hidden in a cut out space in the pages
"but i do take flonase for my seasonal allergies, so i put those in this one, because it kinda feels like taking drugs. but my whole apartment is filled with stuff like this."
the camera cuts to the view of a permanent maker on a table.
"like this perfectly normal permanent marker."
they take off the cap of the marker, and put it back on.
"well, it's actually hollow and on the inside is..."
they take off the back of the marker to reveal a small pink marker inside.
"a smaller permanent marker!"
the camera cuts to a bookshelf. they remove a book from the shelf.
"now this obviously is a copy of inside baseball, which is a perfect place, i figured out to hide-"
they open the book to reveal a miniature baseball in a cut out space in the pages.
"-my tiny baseball"
the camera cuts to a storage shelf. they retrieve a giant bolt from the shelf.
"this is a normal looking giant bolt that i just keep in my closet."
the camera cuts to a close-up of the bolt. they are screwing off a part of the bolt.
"you can screw off the bottom, and you can fit a tiny vial in there, which is perfect for..."
they tip the bolt over and a small vial containing white pills falls out.
"-that's my claritin. that's my other allergy medicine."
the camera cuts to a framed print of the great wave painting.
"there is nothing cooler than a wall save behind framed art. and i'm not allowed to poke holes into my wall, because it's a rental."
they move the painting to the side to reveal a wall safe behind it.
"but this is a picture of a wall safe! which is almost as good."
they fiddle with the wall safe, demonstrating that it is just a cut out picture pasted to the wall.
"since i wouldn't have anything to put in the wall safe anyway!"
the camera cuts to a fridge, just as the door is being opened.
"in the fridge i've got a totally normal looking doctor pepper."
they retrieve a can of doctor pepper from the fridge. the camera cuts to a close-up of the can.
"but of course the top screws off, and inside that is my benadryl! or bennies."
they screw open the top of the can and shake some pink pills from the can into the palm of their hand.
"these are for my night time allergies!"
the camera cuts to the boot of a car that is being opened.
"back of my car"
the camera cuts to a bin in the boot of the car. they remove a can of tire foam from the bin.
"looks like tire foam."
they unscrew the bottom of the can and pull out a yellow pill bottle.
"this is where i store my dramamine! which is kinda like i'm allergic to motion too!"
the camera cuts to four copies of shakespeare plays next to each other on a bookshelf.
"and this looks like it's just four shakespeare b-sides together, but if you pull out the bottom-"
they remove all four books at once and turn them over to reveal a hole that is cut through all four books, containing a can, which they pull out.
"there is actually a can of peaches"
they flip over the can to reveal a handle at the bottom
"but the can of peaches is fake, and inside is a rock!"
they open the fake bottom and retrieve a rock from the can.
"but that rock is fake"
they turn the rock over and slide off a cover to reveal a key.
"it's a hide-a-key! and that key-"
they remove a dictionary from the bookshelf.
"is perfect for opening the dictionary!"
they open the dictionary to reveal a keyhole.
"which is secretly a metal safe. and inside that i put-"
they unlock and open the safe to reveal several filled ziplock bags, removing one after another.
"the doctor pepper! and the tire foam! and the pages from the shakespeare books! and the peaches!"
they hold up the ziplock bag of peach slices to the camera.
"which i am allergic to."
end video description.]
This is a stupid conversation! and I'm not going to continue it! literally so fucking correct
What I’m really proud of is the fact that he made SURE the audience understood why the caller was being an idiot. He made a PERFECT comparison, gave the caller an honest chance to re-evaluate and change his mind. His point landed, everyone knew it, even the caller (note his pause and almost hesitancy after being asked).
But when the caller decided to bulldoze on anyway, because god forbid actually listen to the other person in the conversation, the expert cut him off and refused his time. And good for him.
[VD: A tweet by @ g33kgurli, tweeted at 9:47 PM on Dec 17, 2021. It reads, "Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers." Attached is a video from The Thom Hartmann Program, where Hartmann is talking with a caller. The conversation goes as follows:
Caller: Hey Thom. Uh, I was listening to you for the last hour so, um, I heard survival of the fittest. Um, you know some of us choose not to vaccinate and uh--
Hartmann: You're nuts, Nicholas.
Caller: --because we work very hard about staying fit, eating healthy, and our natural immune system.
Hartmann: So Nicholas if you're so healthy, would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis or gonorrhea?
Caller: You're missing the point.
Hartmann: No, I'm not missing the point. They're contagious diseases. Would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis and gonorrhea and not worry about it because you're so healthy?
Caller: [pause] No, I wouldn't do that.
Hartmann: Okay, then why would you expose yourself to covid without having some protection?
Caller: Because the protection is my natural immunity.
Hartmann: No, it's not. Tell that--
Caller: Yes, yes, my natural immunity--
Hartmann: Tell that to eight hundred thousand dead Americans. Nicholas, this is- this is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.
/end VD]
some of y’all with printed copies of fanfiction are going to die someday and your books will end up at the secondhand book shop and someone is just going to innocently pick up blorbo/shitto enemies to lovers and when i think of it this way let’s keep printing fanfiction
weyoun 6 living his best life in starfleet just like in the show :)
Who out here remembers those John De Lancie & Leonard Nimoy Drama CDs??
MY HOUSE. MY RULES. MY COFFEE!!
KNIVES OUT (2019) dir. Rian Johnson