You know when you're checking out a new fandom and you stumble across a writer/artist you loved in a previous fandom and it feels like running into a childhood friend at a bar
Running into the arms of trusted ao3 handles in a new tag like an airport greeting
i think about this at least five times a day
Miss Grand International 2021 Nguyễn Thúc Thuỳ Tiên wearing an áo dài by Le Long Dung
is this fic self-indulgent? yes. but what you're failing to consider is that I can write whatever I want so it's fine
Among my acquaintances, I am one of the better bakers. Therefore I am “the one who bakes”. Gathering of the Dutch-Indo elders? I will produce a spekkoek with no less than twenty layers. Nephew’s special day? I will make his favorite; macarons filled with chocolate ganache. Teen wistfully wishes for a Minecraft cake? I gotchu fam.
No one ever said “she’s already baked a dessert once and we loved it, so obviously we won’t ask her to bake again; tell her to make spaghetti this time”.
Write that trope again.
“Wow! I loved this story! I hope the author never writes anything remotely like it ever again!!” - Words that have never come out of any reader’s mouth, ever
…Okay yeah that’s a good reminder
opening up my own fanfiction document on my personal laptop to see if the author has updated it yet
opening up my own fanfiction document on my personal laptop to see if the author has updated it yet
This is why I read the reddit comments
I wish Tumblr would learn that you don't have to trash older, less explicitly gay works when something newer with more textual, explicit rep comes along.
how many creators watched explicitly gay stories be toned down in adaptation. how many got away with as much as they could get away with at the time and pushed the door open a little wider so a new thing could be even more open.
have a little respect and celebrate what we've achieved instead of dump on older works for not being as perfect as you'd like them to be
does anyone else remember that mel was in the companion support group??
i’m just imagining her showing up to a meeting being like “guess who i saw this weekend!!”
she should bring him to a meeting for an airing of grievances
where’s that one “pakige” post bc like
AO3, Basic Logic, God, Everyone: You posted a chapter five minutes ago, and should get comments gradually over the next few hours! Me, .5 seconds after posting, sitting with my face pressed up against my AO3 inbox: commente
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Found on a friend's FB.
Favorite comment:
"Also, John is so Gen X that he's narrating his slow descent into madness by insistently and continuously making Pop culture references for literal aliens."
I really deeply appreciate the storytelling craft that has gone into ensuring that David Tennant is the Doctor forever, and can appear at any time without requiring weird timeline shenanigans. This is fan service, yes, but I'm certain the #1 fan this is servicing is in fact David Tennant.
december???? what next??? 2024?????
And an evergreen reminder from a few years ago.
