I had to send this to my friend because everything I just said to her was fucking exhibit A.
Do you ever, like, realize that people in real life don’t actually speak in, for lack of a better term, tumblr-lingo when talking about television shows? Words like fandom, ships, OTP, or even season 2a, season 2b, don’t exist in their realm.
They literally just watch a TV show, and that’s it??? Maybe they’ll catch it again next week??? What even is that??
Yas.
other people: after work I'm going out with friends and this weekend I'm going hiking with ten people and then going to a concert and just like chilling with my buddies
me: after work I plan on melting. melting into my bed. becoming bed in the short time I have before I must re-engage in human contact. weekends are extended melts. being a person for more than 40 hours a week is beyond my capabilities. melting is my capabilities.
A few days back on AO3 I found an unfinished, two chapter spideypool fanfic that was cute and had lots of potential and was also last updated two years ago. Two whole years! And it had only three comments, all of which on chapter one, none on chapter two. I enjoyed the fanfic, despite it being far, FAR from being finished and the chance of it ever updating again anytime soon was just about zero. So you know what I did?
I wrote a damn comment. On chapter two.
And I made sure that fucker was long and had a small theory of where I think the author would take the fanfic in the future. I let the person behind the fic know that I friggin LOVED the two chapters I got to read! That I would LOVE to see more! That I’d jump out of my skin in happiness and virtually hug them half to death if I saw that they updated it.
Let me remind you this fic wasn’t updated in two YEARS! I was the first to comment on it in a year. And the first to comment on chapter two! And you know what happened today?
I got a reply.
From the author of the fanfic. And the author said how I gave them life for a project they had loved (still did) and that they were now working on a third chapter. After two YEARS of not updating. Of not writing. And it makes me so friggin happy seeing what I did. What I caused.
With a single. Damn. Comment.
All that it took for me was to think a bit about what I wanted to tell the author and the comment it. All it took was one comment. And suddenly this person was inspired to continue a fanfic they had abandoned for TWO YEARS!!
I couldn’t be happier. I couldn’t be more proud.
Comment on people’s fanfics. No matter how few chapters there are. No matter how many years have passed since their last update. Comment. You like a fanfic? Comment on it. It’s that easy.
the NEW YORK TIMES wrote about shipping in the year of our Lord 2k17
It’s often been remarked that Spider-Man’s schtick wouldn’t work nearly so well if he didn’t live in a town with so many tall buildings, but consider: how well would Batman’s “I am the night” routine work if he was operating out of a normal city where people actually live, rather than a perpetually twilit urban hellscape that looks like the Art Deco movement had a one-night stand with Soviet Brutalism in a wrought-iron-and-gargoyle factory?
some of my favourite sign fails <3
They are actually all just Tatiana Maslany.
Omg I’m dead...
Elise Bauman and Natasha Negovanlis are the leads in Carmilla, they both appear in Slasher where the lead is Katie McGrath, you know who also appears in slasher? Shamier Andersen who plays Xavier Dolls in Wynonna Earp, you know who also is in Wynonna Earp? Dominique Provost-Chalkley who plays Waverly Earp, and she is now going to play the mysterious woman in black in Carmilla series the movie
My heart...
We call her El for short. She’s basically a wizard, she has superpowers.
Rosa Parks was not protesting the bus. Gandhi was not protesting the food. Players are not protesting the anthem, they’re protesting the injustice.
Unapologetic intersectional Feminist. ADHD. Autistic. Witch. Curious, well-intentioned scatterbrain with an insatiable learning habit. Hopeless Romantic.Overachiever.Fanfic enthusiast.Johnlock trash.Multi-fandom girl.
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