obsessed with my partners cishet friend because he is literally only friends with transmascs. don’t call yourself a cis ally unless 90% of your circle is trans
fellas you are never going to believe what happened to her
YOU THERE! YES YOU! FIC READER!
I just read a fic from 2013 and left a comment on the end. The author responded within 3 hours.
Please leave comments on fics. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what to say I literally made a joke about a space worm. Please comment on fics it’ll make the authors day even if its from 9 years ago.
A few weeks ago I read and commented on a fic that had been posted to AO3 in 2013 but had actually been written in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The fandom itself is for a show from the mid 90s and afaik there is no active presence on Tumblr at all.
Both authors responded to my comment by the next day, beyond thrilled to have received it. Both expressed joy in knowing the fandom still lived on in some form and that my comment reminded them of how much fun they had writing the fic together over two decades ago.
Please please please comment on fics – especially older ones – even if it’s just to leave a heart emoji or a key smash. Doing so really does mean a hell of a lot to the authors.
All of this. Fanfic and fan art are not like advertizer-focused social media, where posts are eaten up by the void within hours or minutes, and novelty is not only encouraged, but expected. Not even like Tumblr, where old posts that circulate are usually those that have remained popular. Fanfic is a smaller space. Outside of specific foci of popular interest, authors aren’t getting bombarded with messages. Your comment can be seen for what it is–the thoughts of a real, live person who took the time to look at something they created.
And that can really brighten somebody’s day.
just reread the mortal instruments for the first time in like seven (?) years and like it’s fine and all but the concept would’ve been so much more interesting in the hands of a queer author
I like this version of this comic.
*GETS you*
peep the name change, wanted my twitter, tumblr, and ao3 handles to all be the same since i’ve gotten back into fanfic writing in a really big way and want to just have consistency. there used to be irls on here so if you know me irl no you don’t protect my privacy
so yeah i’m valyrfia on twitter, tumblr and ao3!
peep the name change, wanted my twitter, tumblr, and ao3 handles to all be the same since i’ve gotten back into fanfic writing in a really big way and want to just have consistency. there used to be irls on here so if you know me irl no you don’t protect my privacy
Something I’ve learned about Tumblr is that the longer you’re here, the more likely it is that you’ll learn of a user who has, entirely unbeknownst to you, been nursing an overwhelmingly powerful grudge against you for several years.
this actually is rewiring my brain as we speak
theyer old enough that they used to connect
#red areas on map indicate high probability of encountering a fiddle player
growing up with a psychologist for a mother was so funny because my sister and i would be like “mo-om why do we have to go to bed now” and she would respond with a long explanation of the research on the effects of sleep on the brain and body followed by another explanation on permissive vs. authoritarian vs. authoritative parenting styles, with citations
this was actually really good in some instances though because i started having insomnia and intrusive thoughts very young and when little me was like “mom i don’t like the thoughts in my head but i can’t make them go away and i can’t sleep” she replied with “oh honey. active thought suppression never works. in fact, wegner et al. (1987) tested this when they told a bunch of people to talk about whatever they wanted, and they told half of them to try not to think about a white bear. people thought more about the white bear when they were trying not to think about it! but when they told the people to think about a red car whenever thoughts of the white bear came to mind, the people had a much easier time not thinking about the white bear. so you see, you can’t force the thoughts out of your mind. you just have to let them pass through, and pick something else that you want to focus on”
and so ever since i was a very little kid i knew how to deal with intrusive thoughts, I’ve had them my whole life but never developed ocd or senses of shame about them cause my mom did her phd on thought suppression and she knows what’s up
hey. don’t cry. crush two cloves of garlic into a pot with a dollop of olive oil and stir until golden then add one can of crushed tomatoes a bit of balsamic vinegar half a tablespoon of brown sugar half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in pasta of your choice ok?
PEACE AND LOVE!!!!!!!!